PROCESSING THE VOTE
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 5 November 2020
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Investigative reporter Greg Palast explains why the pollsters were right after all, when you consider the people whose votes were not counted.
Meanwhile, are Republicans trying to get armed poll watchers into vote-counting facilities?.. Is it possible that some of the vote tallies were fudged?.. Did the Post Office slow down the mail in swing states?..
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Hartman program. |
| 0:17.2 | Welcome back, Tom Hartman here with you. |
| 0:18.8 | A lot of people around the country are asking the question, how did this election get so |
| 0:23.2 | close? |
| 0:24.2 | I thought the polls showed that Democrats were way ahead of Republicans all across the |
| 0:29.0 | country and that Joe Biden was walking away with it beating Donald Trump by 10 points. |
| 0:34.8 | What the hell happened? |
| 0:35.8 | It was showing this in Georgia, it was showing this in Nevada, it was showing this all over |
| 0:39.4 | the country. |
| 0:40.4 | What's going on? |
| 0:41.4 | Greg Palist is on the line with this investigative journalist author of How Trump Stole 2020 |
| 0:46.6 | GregPalist.com, P-A-L-A-S-T.com, of course, his website and his Twitter handle like mine |
| 0:51.6 | has got an underscore in it, Greg underscore Palist. |
| 0:54.3 | Greg, welcome back. |
| 0:55.3 | Palist, why is it that in these states where the polls show Democrats winning overwhelmingly, |
| 1:01.7 | the actual vote count is showing a damn tight race? |
| 1:05.7 | Well, because the Democrats did win overwhelmingly, if you count all the votes and let all the |
| 1:11.4 | voters vote. |
| 1:12.4 | So, for example, in Georgia, just looking at the numbers, Trump's ahead by 14,000 votes, |
| 1:17.6 | but 50,000 votes have yet to be counted in Atlanta. |
| 1:22.6 | So, you know, he should be pulling away with it in the end if they don't challenge those |
| 1:27.8 | votes. |
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