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Welcome to the commentary magazine daily podcast today is Wednesday June 9th 2021. I'm John

Pudhord. It's the editor of commentary magazine with me as always executive editor,

A. Greenwald Hyag. Hyjon, associate editor, Noah Rothman. Hi, Noah. Hi, John. And

senior writer Christine Rosen. Hi, Christine. Hi, John. And joining us today, the polymath,

the man who knows more about elections than Brad Raffin's burger. How's that from a trivia

question in about three minutes. He was, of course, the Fox news. What was your title there?

I was the politics editor at Fox. I've been at Fox for 10 years now a contributor to the

dispatch of fellow the American Enterprise Institute and an author at commentary magazine,

Chris Starwalt. Hi, Chris. Thank you for having me again.

So pleased to be here with you guys. We are pleased to have you and we are particularly

pleased because we want to discuss the article that you published in our June issue of which

we are very proud of which you should be proud. The title of which is Republican stop believing

your own election method. It's particularly timely, of course, because this week Joe mentioned

the new Maverick, the true Maverick, Democratic Senator from the great state of West Virginia,

the home state of Chris Starwalt. Amen.

Has put a put a the dagger in the heart of the hopes, wishes, dreams and fantasies of

Democratic politicians, particularly in the House of the passage of the for the people act,

which is this omnibus piece of legislation that it effectively federalize

nationalize elections, which of course for 240 years have been run

in place, manner and time, according to Constitution by the states. And Chris's piece, your piece

goes into the reasons why how basically over the last 20 years both parties have fallen prey

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