Republican Speaker Nominee Tom Emmer Fought to End Electoral College
The Rich Zeoli Show
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🗓️ 24 October 2023
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- Luke Broadwater, of The New York Times, writes: “Representative Tom Emmer of Minnesota, the No. 3 House Republican, on Tuesday secured his divided party’s nomination to be speaker, after five rounds of secret balloting to break a deadlock that has left Congress leaderless and paralyzed for three weeks. But the narrow margin of his victory reflected that House Republicans were still deeply at odds, and a swift backlash from the right, including from former President Donald J. Trump, suggested his candidacy was in peril. Immediately following his nomination, about two dozen right-wing Republicans indicated that they did not intend to vote for Mr. Emmer on the floor, denying him the majority he would need to succeed in a vote of the full House.” Emmer won the internal Republican vote 117 to 97. You can read Broadwater’s full report here: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/10/24/us/house-speaker-vote/house-speaker-election?smid=url-share
- In response to Rep. Tom Emmer (R-MN) winning the Republican nomination for House speaker, Donald Trump posted to his Truth Social account: “I have many wonderful friends wanting to be Speaker of the House, and some are truly great Warriors. RINO Tom Emmer, who I do not know well, is not one of them. He never respected the Power of a Trump Endorsement, or the breadth and scope of MAGA—MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! He fought me all the way, and actually spent more time defending Ilhan Omar, than he did me—He is totally out-of-touch with Republican Voters. I believe he has now learned his lesson, because he is saying that he is Pro-Trump all the way, but who can ever be sure? Has he only changed because that’s what it takes to win? The Republican Party cannot take that chance, because that’s not where the America First Voters are. Voting for a Globalist RINO like Tom Emmer would be a tragic mistake!”
- On Tuesday, House majority whip Tom Emmer was selected as the next Republican nominee for speaker. However, a decade ago, Emmer was an advocate for implementing a national popular vote—ostensibly eliminating the electoral college. Does this past advocacy disqualify him from the speakership? You can watch Emmer advocate for a national popular vote to determine the presidency in an August 2011 interview with Triad Strategies: https://vimeo.com/28012929
- Henry plays horrific return music that gets Rich even more fired up—evidently Rich doesn’t like T.L.C. What terrible return music will be selected next?
- Hans von Spakovsky— Senior Legal Fellow in The Heritage Foundation’s Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies—joins The Rich Zeoli Show to discuss his latest piece in The Daily Signal, “Why is Google Protecting Harvard Defenders of Hamas Terrorism?” You can read the full article here: https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/10/23/why-is-google-protecting-harvard-defenders-of-hamas-terrorism/
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| 0:27.0 | All right, where do we begin with World War III? |
| 0:30.0 | Do we give it the fact that Rhino, Tom, Emmer is now the House Republican Speaker designate? |
| 0:36.4 | Do we begin with the shocking revelations coming out of Glouser School Board? |
| 0:41.8 | I don't know. We can also talk about the Phillies but that's |
| 0:44.2 | probably the most depressing thing we can all talk about today. Welcome back to the |
| 0:47.7 | show. Glad you're here 855 a391210 on Twitter at Rich |
| 0:52.3 | Zioli and obviously we're going to be very optimistic about |
| 0:55.1 | tonight's game and we'll check them with our buddies down at the ballpark shortly |
| 0:59.3 | but I wanted to share this with you. |
| 1:02.5 | Tom Emmer, who was the guy who was behind the push |
| 1:05.3 | to end the Electoral College and have the national popular vote. |
| 1:08.3 | I spent a lot of time on this yesterday. |
| 1:10.1 | I don't know if you were able to listen though, |
| 1:11.2 | because the game was on at five and you may have been listening to the game |
| 1:13.8 | but my advice to you always in these situations is |
| 1:16.9 | turn down the audio on your television and turn up the radio so you don't miss a thing |
| 1:21.0 | but Tom Emmer is now the choice of Republicans to become |
| 1:25.3 | the Speaker of the House of Representatives. Tom Emmer is a total rhino. Tom Emmer is the most |
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