The MeidasTouch Podcast - GOP Causes ELECTION EMERGENCY in Ohio…

Episode Date: May 23, 2024

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on how the Ohio Republican Party has removed President Biden from the 2024 General election ballot in that State. Visit https://Smileactives.com/meidas to get this exclusive offer! Visit https://meidastouch.com for more! Join us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/meidastouch Remember to subscribe to ALL the MeidasTouch Network Podcasts: MeidasTouch: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/meidastouch-podcast Legal AF: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/legal-af The PoliticsGirl Podcast: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-politicsgirl-podcast The Influence Continuum: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-influence-continuum-with-dr-steven-hassan Mea Culpa with Michael Cohen: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/mea-culpa-with-michael-cohen The Weekend Show: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-weekend-show Burn the Boats: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/burn-the-boats Majority 54: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/majority-54 Political Beatdown: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/political-beatdown Lights On with Jessica Denson: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/lights-on-with-jessica-denson On Democracy with FP Wellman: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/on-democracy-with-fpwellman Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Republican Party in the state of Ohio is removing President Biden from the November 2024 general election ballot, claiming that President Biden is violating Ohio state law because the Democratic nominating convention takes place after August 7th. It will be taking place August 19th, 2024 through August 22nd, 2024. The Ohio legislature back in 2010 passed a very strange law that states that presidential nominations need to be submitted before 90 days from the general election. And because the nomination would be received right around August of 22nd, not August 7th, Republicans in the state of Ohio are saying that President Biden will be banned. He will be removed from the ballots. Now, in the past, this has been dealt with in a very kind of rational, common sense way,

despite this very odd law that was passed by Ohio in 2010 with this law providing that the nominating convention has to be held 90 days before the general election and the name submitted 90 days before the general election to the Secretary of State. In the past, when it came to Republican candidates or candidates from other political parties, the legislature would simply pass an extension or pass a resolution that would allow for an extension so that a Republican candidate's name could appear on a general election ballot. Also, you could potentially use some sort of provisional ballot process. But there was always workarounds based on this odd law that really nobody in Ohio actually understands how this

became part of Ohio law, this rule that you have to submit the nominee 90 days before. But now the legislature, which is a MAGA Republican-controlled legislature, MAGA Republicans have a super majority in the legislature thanks to the gerrymandering that's occurring in the state of Ohio. The legislature is refusing to provide any extension to allow President Biden to be on the ballot. They are thereby excluding him from the ballot, removing him from the ballot. The ultimate irony here is, whereas Donald Trump engaged in an insurrection that we all observed, and therefore under the 14th Amendment, Section 3 should be banned from running from office based on being an insurrectionist, the MAGA Republicans were claiming, oh, that's so unlawful.

They ended up taking it all the way to the Supreme Court. And the Supreme Court held that Donald Trump would not be allowed to be removed from state ballots, regardless of whether he engaged in insurrection, that Congress would have to pass the law. And you remember MAGA Republicans being so outraged that you're taking Donald Trump's name off. This is unconstitutional. I mean, he was involved in an insurrection and we all read the plain meaning of the 14th Amendment, Section 3. Nonetheless, the United States Supreme Court ruled that Donald Trump would stay on the ballots despite a state Supreme Court ruling in Colorado. But now in the state of Ohio, MAGA Republicans are saying, President Biden, you're off the ballot because you do not meet these very bizarre requirements

where Ohio used to provide just basic matter-of-fact extensions. Therefore, you're banned from being on the ballot in the state of Ohio. They've got a letter that was just written by Frank LaRose, the Secretary of State in Ohio, MAGA Republican. And here's what MAGA Republican Frank LaRose, big Trumper, here's what he had to say to the chairwoman of the Ohio Democratic Party. Dear Chairman Walters, I write to inform you that my office still has not received communication on behalf of the Ohio Democratic Party or the Democratic National Committee that clarifies the party's intent to comply with Ohio's ballot access deadline. Ohio Revised Code requires a political party selecting its presidential and vice presidential candidate by nominating convention to certify the names of those candidates to the Secretary of State honor before the 90th day before the day of the general election. The conflict between the August 7th, 2024 certification deadline and the date of your party's nominating convention. Remember, the nominating convention is

August 19, 2024, is well established. In my correspondence to you dated April 5, 2024, I offered two possible remedies. So here, the MAGA Republican Secretary of State's writing to the Democratic chairwomen of the Ohio Democratic Party and saying, here are the two things that I had offered you. I offered two possible remedies. One, a change in the date by which your party formally nominates the presidential candidate or action by the Ohio General Assembly to create an exception to the statutory requirement. So the two remedies I offered you was one, the MAGA Republican-controlled General Assembly provides an extension. The other is change the date. We want to control when the Democratic Convention takes place.

We, the Ohio Republican Party, want told members of the media there would not be a legislative solution as there is just not the will to do that from the legislature. So you're not exactly offering a remedy where the MAGA Republican Speaker of the Ohio House is saying that there is not the will to put President Biden on the ballot by allowing for a simple extension to take place. The letter goes on to say, with a legislative remedy taken off the table, I must remind you that the deadline is fast approaching and the matter remains unresolved. Unless your party plans to comply with the statutory deadline, I am duty-bound to instruct boards of elections to begin preparing ballots that do not include the Democratic Party's nominees for is in the best interest of the Ohio voters to have a choice between at least the two major party candidates for the nation's highest political office. Unfortunately, however, the Ohio House of Representatives has refused to act and the Democratic Party has so far offered no legally acceptable remedies. The legally acceptable

remedy is put him on the ballot. Put the Democratic, put the president of the United States and the Democratic nominee's name on the ballot. That's the solution right there. But they're trying to ban President Biden from being on the ballot. Have you ever wished that you had a whiter and brighter smile? Well, before you visit a dentist, you should know that their whitening treatments can be very expensive. And it's not just the price. You also have to book the appointment and schedule time away from work or your family to just sit in a dentist's office chair while undergoing the procedure. Look, it's a hassle. Fortunately, now you can try SmileActives at home or anywhere, anytime. SmileActives offers a safe and an affordable alternative to those expensive whitening procedures.

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certification by the statutory deadline simply is not provided for by law, and there is no provision in Ohio's election code that would permit the Secretary to provide the Democratic Party with an alternative process to the one required in the statute. Oh, so our attorney general is also saying the solution that you're providing, which seems very common sense to deal with, and the fact that we've allowed Republican candidates in the past not to deal with this deadline, you can't do that.

That's not a solution. So change the day of the Democratic Convention or you be banned, President Biden, you're banned from the ballot. It goes on to say further, the General Assembly, MAGA Republican controlled, has clearly stated that no public official shall cause an election to be conducted other than in time, place, and manner prescribed by the revised code. The integrity of our elections begins with our citizenry having full faith and confidence that their chief election officer will always follow the law. Oh, so Ohio's saying, and this

is the dystopian Orwellian language that they use, and they say that for election integrity to take place, we're not going to have the president of the United States on the ballot. You're going to be removed unless you want to change the date of the Democratic National Convention. As such, my office seeks a remedy that both upholds the law and serves in the best interest of the voters of our state. I trust that you will act quickly to resolve this conflict so we can move forward with clarity in preparing for the November general election. Thank you for your prompt attention to this matter. Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose, as David Pepper used to lead the Democratic Party in Ohio, says the following. He goes, duty-bound to follow the law guy and his statehouse buddies

pushed to have an election last August on a day that openly violated the law that he had championed. But now they can't even have Ohio hold a presidential election for now. This embarrassing moment in history confirms that no state government is more broken and corrupted in America. David Pepper says last year, Ohio legislators forced a statewide election to crush direct democracy on a day they had banned having elections. This year, they can't even pass. And that was the right of women to reproductive rights. This year, they can't even pass a routine law to let Ohio weigh in on the presidency

of our nation. Talk about a laboratory of autocracy. And as David Pepper says, 49 states can figure it out, not Ohio, from bellwether to broken. Karen Kassler writes, Republican House Speaker Jason Stevens says there won't be a legislative fix to change the 90-day certification deadline to get President Biden on the Ohio ballot. No will among the supermajority Republicans to do it. But he says he's confident that Biden will figure out a way to get on the ballot. And that's basically where we are today. By the way, what the legislature is focused on is a Republican,

the Ohio legislature, a Republican-led bill introduced in the Ohio House would charge teachers and librarians with a felony offense for distributing material deemed obscene. The problem is the bill does not explain what materials would be considered obscene. Here's some commentary from the Ohio Capital Journal that talks about an obscure provision of Ohio law could keep Biden off the ballot in November. And they talk about the law that I described, that the Secretary of State must be notified that presidential candidates have been officially nominated 90 days before the general election to get on the ballot. That's the earliest deadline of any state. The Democratic National Convention that will formally nominate Biden won't open until nearly two weeks after Ohio's August 7th deadline.

The Republican National Convention will wrap up nearly three weeks before the deadline, so Trump won't have a problem getting on. The 90-day deadline has often caused trouble since its adoption in 2010. Only in 2016 did both parties' conventions take place before the Ohio cutoff date. Both conventions took place after the deadline in 2012 and 2020, and legislatures extended the deadlines both times. This is the first time that only one convention comes too late, but again, it says Republicans could well be affected in the future. As long as it's MAGA Republican gerrymandered, they're not going to grant the extension, but they previously have granted the extensions when it was the Republican convention, but now they're not going to grant the extension, but they previously have granted the extensions when

it was the Republican convention, but now they're not granting a routine extension. So what happens next? Well, it looks like there's going to have to be litigation under the 14th Amendment. Ironically, the Supreme Court ruling that says that Donald Trump can't be taken off a ballot by a state for being an insurrectionist. That law may ultimately be used against the precedent by the Supreme Court that's created there, even though the Constitution was pretty clear insurrectionist is the one where you can't be on the ballot. That may be used in a lawsuit, but it seems like there's going to have to be a litigation that's going to be filed against Ohio and Ohio's Secretary of State. But again, laboratory of autocracy, you're seeing it right there. But as of now,

they're taking President Biden's name off the ballot in Ohio. It's outrageous. It's outrageous what these Republicans are doing. Outrageous. And subscribes. We're on our way to 3 million subscribers thanks to your support. Love this video? Make sure you stay up to date on the latest breaking news and all things Midas by signing up to the Midas Touch newsletter at MidasTouch.com slash newsletter.