Rick talks with Election SuperLawyer Mario Nicolais

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🗓️ 23 July 2024

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Rick talks with Lincoln Project Chief Counsel Mario Nicolais about Biden’s withdrawal, the Supreme Court case over eliminating Trump from the Colorado ballot and the implications of the immunity decision. They also discuss the current political landscape and make predictions leading up to the 2024 election. Follow Mario Nicolais on X at @MarioNicolaiEsq and read his columns in the Colorado Sun here: https://coloradosun.com/?s=mario+nicolais Follow Rick Wilson at @TheRickWilson on X and subscribe to his Substack at therickwilson.substack.com. Join the fight with Lincoln Project at www.lincolnproject.us and follow us on X at @ProjectLincoln. And please like, rate and review this podcast, thank you! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	It is July 19th, a beautiful Friday summer day with 109 days to go until the election.
0:05.8	This episode will air on Tuesday, the 23rd, and at that point we will be 105 days before the election.
0:12.6	Your task will not be an easy one.
0:15.6	Your enemy is well trained, well equipped in battle-hard.
0:18.6	There is not a liberal America and a conservative America.
0:22.4	There is the United States of America.
0:27.0	Good night and good luck.
0:29.0	Welcome back to the Lincoln Project Podcast. I am your host as always Rick Wilson. I am
0:33.4	joined today by the great Mario Nikolaius. He is a friend, he is an attorney, he is a
0:37.6	Lincoln Project veteran and a Lincoln Project current general counsel.
0:41.0	He is also one of the smartest election attorneys
0:43.8	out there in the country and I want to talk to about a bunch of things today.
0:46.9	One way you may have heard Mario's name before is aside from his terrific writing
0:52.3	is that he is the attorney who helped bring the case to the Supreme Court trying to invalidate Donald Trump on the 14th Amendment grounds on the Colorado ballot for this year, the Supreme Court.
1:04.6	Shockingly, weirdly said no to that, but Mario, I'm glad you join this today.
1:09.4	I have a bunch of stuff I wanted to run through with you today. And let's start with of the
1:15.0	much of stuff I wanted to run through with the big question that I think a lot of people are
1:17.2	thinking about and worried about in this moment where Joe Biden may get
1:20.8	replaced on the national ticket.
1:24.1	Talk to us about the complexities
1:26.2	of how you transfer all that money he has
1:29.2	in the Biden campaign account out into the world.
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