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Let's talk about Biden, Ohio, foreign money, and next week....

Belle of the Ranch

Belle of the Ranch

Society & Culture

4.91K Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2024

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Let's talk about Biden, Ohio, foreign money, and next week....

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0:00.0

Well, howdy there internet people, let's bow again. So today we are going to talk about Ohio.

0:07.0

And Biden and the ballot and a potential special legislative session and money and all of the claims that are going on and just kind of run through what's happening up there.

0:22.0

A quick recap of this, greatly oversimplifying it, is that Ohio

0:27.5

state law is broken and it would require Biden to be nominated before the convention so he can be on the ballot.

0:37.0

Okay? It's a mess.

0:40.0

The House and the Senate in Ohio, they were trying to work this out and it kind of fell apart.

0:50.0

The governor appears to be calling a special legislative session for next week to

0:57.6

sort this out and to get Biden on the ballot.

1:03.0

However, there is also the Republican concern of foreign money in Ohio ballot initiatives.

1:17.0

Now to be clear, the Democratic Party

1:19.4

is also against foreign contributions

1:22.3

when it comes to Ohio politics.

1:26.0

However, the Republican stance on it

1:29.7

is a little bit more, let's just say, convoluted than the Democratic parties. It

1:37.2

certainly appears that the Republican Party doesn't really just want to ban contributions from foreign nationals.

1:48.1

They also want to stop money coming from U.S. entities that at some point have received money from

1:56.9

foreign nationals. The example that I was given when talking to somebody

2:01.0

about this was I won't say the person's name but a

2:05.6

billionaire a Swiss billionaire who gave money to a nonprofit in DC that money went into their account. A whole bunch of other money

2:16.1

went into that nonprofit's account. Later that nonprofit gave money to support an Ohio ballot initiative.

2:25.0

It's also worth noting that the Swiss billionaire actually lives in Wyoming

2:31.0

but still maintains this Swiss citizenship.

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