Chuck DeVore - TPPF, Joins Houston Morning News

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Thinks twenty two is our time here in Houston's Morning News.
I know who I don't love when it comes to
choosing in November. But how hard will it be to
vote in North Carolina, parts of North Carolina, Western North Carolina, Georgia,
and now in the Tampa Sarasota area in Florida. Chuck
de Ar joints is Texas Public Policy Foundation. What do

(00:21):
you think, Chuck? Do you think this is going to
have any impact on the election? Well, I would imagine
one of the things I would expect to see is
somebody calling for more mail in ballots.

Speaker 2 (00:32):
Right exactly. So the first thing that we can see
is we can look at North Carolina, which has the
most interesting or problematic, if you will, partisan effect, because
the thirteen counties that were really slammed in western North
Carolina provided about a quarter million votes margin for former
President Trump in the twenty twenty election, which was well

(00:55):
more than the amount that he won North Carolina by,
which was just under one hundred votes. And so the
question is that if those are individuals in areas where
their precincts were literally washed away, they have no place
to vote, then you know, yeah, that could affect North
Carolina could even flip the state. Now, what's happened is
a few days ago the state election board passed a

(01:19):
series of temporary measures that would help people in those
affected areas vote. Now here's where things get kind of
complicated and interesting. The theory is that democratic election law attorneys,
people like Mark Elias who paid a played a huge
role in twenty twenty using the COVID pandemic as an

(01:40):
excuse to do sue and settle operations in left wing
urban areas, saying hey, you don't want to follow these
election rules, you're going to kill grandma. Right. You have
to have drop boxes, you have to have you know,
relaxed rules on mail and voting. And so what's happened
in North Carolina is that the concern is that the
relaxed rules in the those thirteen counties might be then

(02:02):
applied to the unaffected blue areas of the state to
the east. And in particular, I'm concerned about multi partisan
assistance teams. These teams are designed to go out and
to harvest mail in ballots, and this.

Speaker 1 (02:21):
Is Democrats well, for the most.

Speaker 2 (02:25):
Part, ostensibly right. Ostensibly the rule was made by of
those thirteen counties to the west of the state, and
it hasn't yet been applied to the whole state, but.

Speaker 1 (02:37):
The Democrats are going to try to do it. Is
what you're fear, is is that right?

Speaker 2 (02:41):
Right? Because if you look at twenty twenty, that's what
they did with COVID, right, And so what would happen, presumably,
is there'd be some sort of an equal protection clause
fourteenth Amendment claim said that, hey, you can't have these
rules only in the west, right, that's not fair. You
have to have them apply to the whole state. So
that hasn't happened yet, but we're keeping a very close

(03:04):
eye on it to make sure that it doesn't happen. Honey.

Speaker 1 (03:07):
How they have the money to do.

Speaker 2 (03:08):
That, right? Well, you know, look, this is about power,
and some people are extremely serious about gaining and holding
power because that's what they really care about. So, you know,
elections every couple of years, every four years, they're all
about every bit of leverage you can get for some groups.

Speaker 1 (03:31):
And if money is a problem, mister sorow so, I'm
sure would be glad to write them a check.

Speaker 2 (03:36):
Yeah, yeah. Or as we're beginning to find out even
foreign sources of money has been suspected with entities like
Act Blue that do not properly attribute their donations. As
you may have been following. There are older individuals, some
of whom live in trailer parks, who are now supposedly

(03:56):
donating thousands of times and tens of thousands of dollars,
and people have talked to them and they're like, I
don't know what you're talking about. I haven't given money to.

Speaker 1 (04:04):
Anybody, right, money laundering, Yeah, they're very good at that,
all right. Chuck is always thank you, appreciate your time
from the Texas Public Policy Foundation, Chuck devoriate