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The Erick Erickson Show

S11 EP80: Hour 1 - Precedent Matters on Disinformation

The Erick Erickson Show

Erick Erickson

News, News Commentary

4.5874 Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Both sides of the political isle are setting bad precedents, Biden sets up a sketchy new government oversight board to handle disinformation and democrats are confusing bad polling for bad messaging not bad policy.

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0:00.0

Well, the show just got shaken up. There's some breaking news I've got to get to immediately out of the gate.

0:06.3

I'll spend more time with it here later. But yeah, this is rather significant. Donald Trump has just thrown David Perdue under the bus.

0:17.8

Down in Georgia, it's one of the most eyed contests in the entire nation.

0:22.9

David Perdue had been backing Brian Kemp, came into the race after much urging from

0:30.0

Donald Trump and has flailed about.

0:32.9

There is new polling out in Georgia that dropped this morning that has Brian Kemp at 56%.

0:42.7

He's also beating Stacey Abrams already at 50%, which for perspective is better polling than he ever generated in 2018.

0:53.4

That polling comes from.

0:56.2

I'm trying to get back to the poll, and it's not good.

1:02.8

Yeah, 11 alive, Georgia gubernatorial poll has Kemp well ahead of Purdue.

1:09.4

It is 56 to 31 and has Kemp ahead of Abrams 50 to 45 with 5% undecided?

1:18.4

Very significant.

1:19.8

Also, it has Brian Kemp winning Hispanic voters.

1:23.1

Now, I've told people, if you listen to this program for a while, if Kemp could win Hispanic voters in Georgia, it prevents the Democrats from winning.

1:32.1

And he's doing that in the polling.

1:34.8

But Donald Trump has given an exclusive interview to the New York Times.

1:39.3

Let me read you the quote.

1:42.1

Remember, you know, my record is unblemished.

1:45.1

The real story should be on the endorsements, not the David Purdue one.

1:52.3

And by the way, no race is over.

1:56.5

He's pretty much recognizing David Purdue is not going to win the race at this point.

2:05.0

We will get more into this later, but we got to, I actually want to start where I wanted to start the show.

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