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Mark Simone

Mark Interviews Brittany Shepard

Mark Simone

Mark Simone

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4.4652 Ratings

🗓️ 27 December 2023

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Larry Mendte fills in for Mark Simone. Brittany Shepard from ABC News talked with Larry about the Biden administration blocking Democratic challengers from getting on the 2024 ballot.

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0:00.0

O-O-R. And for Mark, here again is Larry Mendy.

0:06.0

You know, everybody talks about the Republicans trying to suppress the vote, which never turns out to be true.

0:12.2

It's just something they say because the Democrats want to cheat, and they want the rules the way they used to be,

0:20.7

where anybody and everybody

0:22.1

can vote without signing of anything and just dropping off ballots at a mailbox or a drop-off

0:28.4

area which just got to be ridiculous. You know, in Pennsylvania, some of the people dropped

0:34.8

off ballots and they had one name typed in there. It was Joe Biden and they counted those ballots.

0:39.4

So, look, I don't think there's a big mass conspiracy, but certainly there was some funny business.

0:47.4

But it was all legal and it was all legal because of the laws that were passed.

0:52.3

And when the Republicans fought back against those laws,

0:55.5

they were suppressing the vote. No, no, they were just trying to make it the way it was and

1:00.6

make it free and fair election. But I digress. The Democrats this year have been trying to suppress

1:10.8

candidates, allegedly.

1:13.5

That's what they're claiming, the candidates that are running against Joe Biden.

1:16.9

Here to talk about that is Brittany Shepard, ABC News, national politics reporter.

1:22.5

Brittany, thanks so much for being here today.

1:27.4

I don't think because they don't get a lot of coverage,

1:29.7

I don't think most people know who is running against President Biden.

1:34.7

Who are some of the legitimate candidates that maybe should be on the ballot?

1:39.3

So let's start with who's running against President Biden that's complaining they can't get on the ballots.

1:44.7

Yeah, that's right, Larry.

1:46.2

Many Americans have even know that Biden has democratic challengers to begin with.

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