Florida Rep. Michael Waltz weighs on record early voting turnout on 'Fox & Friends'
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San Antonio Steve Early voting
San Antonio Steve early voting
smashing records across the
country, especially in Florida
Democrats, were reportedly ahead
last week in terms of ballots
already cast,
but that edge has narrowed. As of
yesterday,
here with the reason there is
such enthusiasm on the ground
right now, Florida congressman
Colonel Michael Waltz, who joins
us from the d dot c area
colonel good morning to you
good morning,
whats going on in Florida.
Well, every day that goes by
Steve, we are taking huge chunks
out of the Democrats. Vote by
mail lead
that red wave is showing up with
the early voting and absolutely
is going to show up on election
day.
We can see how many high
propensity voters out there
either still have their ballots,
that they are going to drop off
in person or are going to show
up in person and vote. I think at
the end of the day we pull
Florida out for the president.
Of course
the president would like to see.
Everybody show up to vote in
person a week from today,
because- and one of the reasons
is when you vote by mail, there
is not a lot of variables.
I didnt do this right.
Instead, you are signing it. You
hope in the right place, you
thoughts that watt right place
and put it in the mail. There
always the possibility that a
post office, which is really
pretty good at delivering the
mail. Often you know a couple
of percent every out of one hundred
those letters, dont wind up,
getting where they are supposed
to be
thats right.
I think looking back on this, the
Democrats may regret shifting so
much of their voters into vote
by mail early
number one. They may be robbing
from their day of just
cannibalizing that day of voting
and pushing it into vote by
mail
number two, you tend to have much
higher rejection rates, stakes on
the ballot with people doing it
the first time
they dont sign it at all.
They dont sign it the right
way.
They dont get it in the
security envelope.
If you are hovering around five percent to
eight percent rejected ballot, where people
make mistakes, that could be the
difference
and at the end of the day our
voters are coming in to vote by
person.
Look, I want to be clear
if you are a republican voter
out there and you have that
ballot, get it in one way or
another.
If you cant come in by person,
please vote,
but I think as a strategy. The
Democrats may regret that
Steve. There is something else
that people are regretting right
now,
that is, there is an item in the
New York Post that talks about
how currently, according to
Google trends, the question can
I change. My vote is trending
also trending with Hunter Biden.
You have got to do the math and
you figure people might be
thinking. I wish I wouldnt have
voted a certain way.
Of course the requirements vary
state by state,
nonetheless, for people in late
in the game to be thinking. How
do I do it, and apparently it is
possible in certain states
that says something about the
people who are who have already
cast those ballots?
Look, you can change your
mind
if its legal in your state- and
you want to change hour, mind
you can do it
its not in Florida, but it is in
Pennsylvania, Michigan,
Wisconsin Minnesota.
This Hunter Biden thing. This is
not about Hunter. This is Joe
Biden and a family enterprise.
I spent a year on the China Task
force how they are stealing
their way to the top.
What im worried about is yes,
billions of dollars that came in
under the Biden, family control,
but then what it is investing
into and investing into key
technologies that can also be
used by the chinese military and
use those influence or their
influence to get around some of
those safeguards.
So I think there is still a lot
to learn between that story. Amy
Coney, Barrett, the second, the
debate where the president just
truly laid out what he has
gotten done and how much he has
gotten done, that he is an
outsider, getting results
and the rallies. While you know
that the president is doing
three or four a day, while Biden
is sitting in his basement,
I think the president is
bringing the case home and he is
going to stick the landing
Steve Plus. Have you two point, five million
volunteers going to knock on
every door? They possibly can
thats right
real quickly, colonel. Why
are you in Washington, D, DOT c
today?
Have you an election a week from
today
im in d dot c today to honor
and to bury a green beret medal
of Honor Winner, who was on the
presidents secret service,
detail and sadly died of cancer,
but also to get the medal of
honor for cash would be the
first african americacan medal, O
honor winner. Since Vietnam,
we got it passed unanimously out
of the house, and I cant for the
life of me get an answer of why
the Senate wont pass this
thing.
The family has been waiting for
fifteen years.
They shouldnt have to wait
another day
and I hope we can get this done,
get it on the presidents desk
and get this award to the cash k
Floridians he burned alive. While
saving his men in Iraq,
I read his story, he was quite
a hero
extraordinary.
We will see what happens with
the Senate.
I pray its, not somebody
playing politics with
this, because its not the time
or the place for it.
Transcript generated on 2020-10-27.