'This is Crazy and Should Stop!' with Mike DuHaime

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🗓️ 16 November 2020

⏱️ 32 minutes

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While Trump continues to tweet unsubstantiated claims of election fraud, and top Republican officials lie on his behalf, there are still a few Republicans left who aren't willing to play along. One of those is Mike DuHaime, a former Political Director of the Republican National Committee who also served in senior positions for George W. Bush, John McCain, Rudy Giuliani, and Chris Christie. Maybe it's because he's from New Jersey (and New Jerseyans don't let themselves get pushed around) but he's calling out the Republican refusal to accept the election results for what it is: wrong. Steve, David and Mike get into: why so many citizens believe Trump's ridiculous claims, what Republican officials are so afraid of, the psychology behind the politician-for-life mentality, and much, much more.

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0:00.0	I'm David Plough and I'm Steve Schmitt and this is Battleground, a podcast from the
0:05.6	recount and I heart rate it.
0:08.3	This week we're joined by Mike Doohame, Republican strategist who helped Governor Chris Christie
0:12.9	win in the notoriously democratic state of New Jersey, my home state also.
0:18.4	But now he is calling on Republicans to push back on Trump's unsubstantiated and unamerican
0:24.5	claims of fraud.
0:26.1	First David, let's catch up on the latest bullshit emanating from the White House.
0:34.3	So Steve, when we talked last weekend for this podcast, we were reflecting on the election
0:39.4	results. We weren't surprised that Donald Trump was rejecting them and pretending that the
0:44.4	election didn't happen and that he won. But here we are. And maybe I should be surprised.
0:49.6	Maybe I'm just a naive institutionalist, but to have this many Republicans, most of the
0:55.7	Republican party saying, maybe Donald Trump won. I'm shocked. I thought the handities of the
1:02.2	world and the Mike Lee's of the world and maybe even the Lindsey grams of the world and the
1:06.9	Matt Getzes of the world would be singing the Trump playbook. But I thought by this point,
1:11.5	we'd have more people saying, Biden won, don't like it, but we've got to have a transition,
1:17.2	a peaceful, transparent power. It's shocking to me. Maybe I shouldn't be shocked, but what do you
1:21.1	make of it? This is coming to an end in 58, 57 days, whatever it is. But like of all of the things
1:28.9	that he's done. And you know, from my perspective in life, he's done some really bad things. He has
1:35.2	lied about this virus, causing it to rage out of control with no effective response. We got a
1:42.2	quarter million dead people. That's a terrible thing. His child separation policy was a terrible
1:48.2	thing. Stoking a cold civil war in this country, all these things on a range from terrible to
1:55.5	profoundly immoral. But by orders of magnitude, what he's doing right now, refusing to accept the
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