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The 2022 Midterm Elections Will Shift The Presidential Race
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3 years agoon
We’ve got political expert John Graves with us in the studio today as we discuss the critical races this November, why winning governorships are essential to securing more election integrity, why Hispanics are going to flip the house, and more.
Don’t forget to get your voter guide at millionvoices.org or text MV to 80550
Episode Transcript
Lance: Welcome, welcome to the Lance Wallnau Show. I was driving in today listening to the Beach Boys, (round get around I get around get around get around). And I want to play that song on this show, but I’ve got legal hassles I’ve got to get permission to do it. You have no idea how complicated the world gets. That’s why I have legal counsel and political expert John Gray’s with us for the show today, who will help me figure out how to get the music I want and get the votes that we need in America. This guy’s an expert on every state what’s going on. Going to blow your mind the show we have today. Mercedes Sparks is ready to go. She’s already organizing John that’s a sign that things are working in the right direction. I’m not the object of her particular organizational wrath at the moment.
Now you want to like and subscribe this program. We’re getting terribly suppressed, not to mention I’m stirring up some negative press again. I’m talking about the Atlantic monthly. I’m talking about Rolling Stone. I’m talking about the Liberal Knives are out, because I think there’s who is the most dangerous Christian conservative potential nationalist out there. And they’re zeroing in on us. This is my theory anyway. But my response to that is, I don’t care and so we’re preparing a financial guide for you right now. I want you to think about this. As the midterm elections and the results and the chaos in America and I believe a lot of the violent backlash on the left which they’re going to project over on the right. You’re going to see all kinds of emotions sturdy. You’re going to know financial markets and financial stability is going to be the number one thing you got to think about food supply, security, finances and we’re preparing something for you called the Financial Survival Guide.
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John Graves: Good to be here.
Lance: Man, you got us so stirred up talking about what’s happening. As things are looking at right now, are there any surprises in the map and anything we should be paying special attention to?
John Graves: I think there’s a big momentum shift right now. I think there’s Lance that was if this election would have been in April it had been a red tsunami wave. But it over the summer with all the free handouts and the free debt forgiveness that the presidents not legally allowed to do that he’s done. I think you saw that 2:47 [Inaudible] and turned into almost a blue leveling.But in the last two weeks that has literally turned and as we head into which is the only thing that matters the election. Once people have started voting then what happens is I think this red wave is going to be bigger than people have been thinking for months and months and months.
Lance: And it’s not just in, they’ve been looking at the House races in Congress and then they’re worried about the senate. And it’s been like look at these low expectation projections from McConnell and these guys no less. What’s happening in the senate?
John Graves: The senate is really going to be the tightest one, because a lot of people think it’s a 50/ 50 split right now. There’s 5 Republicans that are leaving that they have to defend Pennsylvania’s been in trouble, but that all changed a couple nights ago during that disastrous debate with Federman where anybody in the right mind who is allowed to see it. Verizon blocked that in the whole state of Pennsylvania. So, all those people didn’t get.
Lance: Verizon blocked teribble debate performance.
John Graves: Yes, well they had a contract thing where people who had Verizon couldn’t watch it in Pennsylvania. So, you got to get the word out. That’s one of my big pushes is you can’t just know this yourself. You got to become the influencer. You got to become the person [INAUDIBLE 3:54].
Lance: Listen, I thought it was sarcasm like when I heard someone say that he was asked a question like an opening statement. And for some reason, he looked at the teleprompter and said thank you and good night or something like that.
John Graves: It was almost foretelling, wasn’t it?
Lance: I mean it’s like a Saturday night live skid couldn’t do that. Like nobody really would do that. Thank you and good night on your opening question.
John Graves: This is over before it began. Yeah, it was sad and on a human level because he’s clearly got some physical limitations like our current president does. And so, you almost feelempathy.
Lance: I said aside John. I’ll never forget the call I had right after Biden went in. And it was with some people who are friends of mine I might add. I won’t mention their name to at this point protect their anonymity. But they were saying, I’m really disturbed about our approach as Christians dealing with Biden. Clearly, he has some cognitive difficulties and he has problems. But I’m just thinking as Christians should we be treating this the way that we’re treating it and pointing it out and hammering on it. And this is like this is the reason why we’re in the shape room folks. We’ve got Christians in war with Al Qaeda playing by the Marcus of Queensbury rules.
John Graves: Yeah.
Lance: And they’re worried about is this appropriate to point out he’s lost his brain.
John Graves: Yeah, I feel the same way and I tried to deal with that I showed last night on Flash Point and we talked about that aspect. I said, but here’s what that can cloud your mind on look at his radical leftist release violent criminals defund the police take away fracking. I mean, he’s against everything that he people in Pennsylvania.
Lance: Remarkably lucid by the way and all the evil that is being unleashed because he’s a sock puppet. It’s not even his agenda. So, it doesn’t matter. The reality is it’s doesn’t matter whether the guy’s brain dead or functional because he’s not as long as like we going to burn as long as somebody else is got control of the agenda. That’s it. Don’t speed me up Mercedes Sparks.
Mercedes: I’m not.
Lance: She gives me these hands single. You want to fast track the trouble with me. Speed me up when I’m talking to own show.
Mercedes: I think you have got 20 minutes.
Lance: Take over. Take over. What do you want to talk about?
Mercedes: Thank you. Welcome to Mercedes Sparks show. So, John tell us what are the critical races. So outside of Pennsylvania which is clearly critical. We’re talking about senate. Let’s do Senate and then let’s do governorships because the whole point of programs right now is a countdown to the election.
John Graves: Yes.
Mercedes: And I want people to understand what’s critical and you brought up a great point. You don’t have to live in these states to hand this information out especially online.
John Graves: That’s exactly right.
Mercedes: So, let’s talk through some of these races.
John Graves: Yeah so, I don’t know if we’ve got the map or we can pull it up and you want me to go to the screen and show it or you want me to walk.
Lance: No, no, no go to the map. I want to do. Listen, we have a full set here people. We never get to utilize it. And this is one of my pet peeves. I’ve got a $250, 000 quarter of a million studio and Ben Shapiro has so much more money than me. He sleeps in a mattress filled with cash. He tells me this. Now, so, this here I am with his glorious set. Shapiro shoots his show in a box, in a box. I’ve got an entire TBN set, but we never use it. So now, we’re going to use some of the great features on this starship. Take it away, John.
John Graves: So, to answer your question, Mercedes, the top Republican defense states are in Georgia, no, I’m sorry, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Ohio, Florida where in North Carolina. But it looks like North Carolina, Ohio, Missouri are pretty safe. Wisconsin is getting more and more safe for the Republicans. The most likely for the Republicans to lose has been Pennsylvania, okay. So that’s to hold the tie of 50/50. That changed in the debate like we just talked about. Now, on the Democrat side, the ones the Republicans are trying to take. Most likely that they take is Nevada, Adam Laxalt out here, that’s the most likely to vote.
Lance: I want to slow down and say the names. Our people don’t know these people.
John Graves: Yeah. Adam Laxalt is the most likely to take it here and then the real bad that’s going to be razor thin that’s trending a little bit but they’ve been trailing is Blake Masters who’s running out in Arizona against Kelly. And then the Hershel Walker race in Georgia against Warnock and then possibly to a lesser extent New Hampshire, okay. So, if Republicans can hold everything including Pennsylvania and they can run the tables, there’s really only 4 max in anabsolute title wave tsunami 6. They would pick up one in Nevada, two in Arizona, 3 in Georgia and then that’d be 5347. And if they can take New Hampshire 54. Now there’s an outside chance it’s a big stretch in Colorado and Washington because those are five or ten points down it would have to be crazy for them to turn that but it’s possible there, okay. So, that’s how the senate is shaping up and the reason that it’s been 50/50 and not really changing is part of the problem is there’s not many of those seats out there that are not safe Democrat or safe Republicans. So,there’s really 5 Republicans are defending but really only one or two of those are in trouble which is Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
Mercedes: Okay.
John Graves: On the Democrat side things are turning over these last couple of weeks.
Mercedes: Meaning what?
John Graves: Meaning what’s happened is Arizona the Democrats were holding Georgia the Democrats were holding and Nevada it was razor thin but the Democrats were in lead. Adam Laxalt is starting to take the lead over there just a little bit.
Mercedes: So, let’s talk about governorships because you had brought something up earlier and I didn’t realize this. But the governor, winning a governorship means securing more election integrity in 2024.
John Graves: That’s right.
Mercedes: And so, I want to talk through that. What are the states we should be watching there?
John Graves: Yeah, this is something thanks for pointing out. Something a lot of people do not understand. If you change the governor in Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania. Now, Minnesota’s within range but also Arizona, Nevada, people don’t understand. Oh, it’s all about the federal government. No, if you change the state governors there, you get fair and secure elections in two years for the presidential election.
Lance: Let’s slow down, because that’s like that’s like when Bannon says you’re burying the lead. The reason why this is important is because the governor’s races determine an election integrity for the presidential election race. Now we got problems for this election. And nobody’s talking about it because none of us in the media end of this want to suppress your enthusiasm. You’ve got to get out there and vote. But we’re already worried about Pennsylvania. Because what makes Pennsylvania a dumpster fire is everybody saw the debate performance of the guy like Biden that they’re propping up in the saddle to run. So, if odds loses, it’ll be because of election theft in Philadelphia. Which never was reformed and which produced some excess of hundreds of thousands of votes that don’t exist.
So, Pennsylvania needs election reform, but it won’t happen with the governor they got it, what happened with the Secretary with the Attorney General they got either. So, we have got to see the governor races flip so that that doesn’t happen in the presidential.
John Graves: And what a lot of people don’t understand is 19 states last year passed 33 laws to strengthen voter integrity. So, this election is going to be not perfect and not totally fair and secure but much more fair and secure than the last one. This year in 2022, many other laws and legislative acts were passed. So, for example Wisconsin which is one of the tightest in the 2016and 2020 presidential and will be again. They the court case struck down the drop boxes.
Mercedes: Wow.
John Graves: They said, this is not constitutional. You can’t do this. That was a huge victory for fair and secure elections. And so that governor race which is literally a tie statistically tied. If they change that, that’s going to now be very different two years. So, you’re not just voting to change things for Wisconsin for the next four years, but you’re also influencing the presidential election before the presidential election even happens.
Mercedes: This reminds me, remember like when a lot of Christians pulled a lever for Trump and we were voting for the Supreme Court. That I think a lot of Christians out there you might not be motivated to go out and vote for somebody’s candidates but what you’re really voting for is election integrity in the states for the 2024.
John Graves: Yeah, and a lot of people don’t understand but Nevada and Arizona, New Mexico, these are all states that have been purple that have been very razor thin for a couple of decades now in presidential elections. The governor race in New Mexico is one that could shock a lot of people that could flip and then be in play and it hasn’t been in play in presidentials. And then Arizona and Nevada, if you pick up Kerry Lake is out here in Arizona, you get these two governors and all of a sudden, it’s going to change how the election go.
Lance: Well, not to mention here. Here’s another factor which is interesting and that is that it’s called the down ticket updraft. Which is when you suddenly have a surge like Jack Kemp in Georgia, is surging ahead of Stacey Abrams. Which means that Herschel Walker gets a bit of the updraft that comes from Kemp.
John Graves: Coattails.
Lance: It’s the Coattail effect and similarly this phenomenon maybe happening with Kerry Lake in Arizona who might be actually helping Matt Blake Masters because of the surge behind her.
John Graves: And another good Coattail story is Pennsylvania the governor has been trailing here on the Republican side by almost double digits. And when this Federman Oz debate flipped like it did, you could have a lot of people. And that could change Pennsylvania which might be at the top of the list for the most shenanigans around election integrity.
Lance: That’s what I’m saying. Now the New York deal up there with that governor’s race.
John Graves: Shocking.
Lance: That’s shocking.
John Graves: Yes, lots of shocks so every one of these red states are what are most critical and where we’ve already got voted.
Lance: How come we don’t have a G up there for New York?
John Graves: Because we weren’t expecting it to be in play, so it’s a little typo on our map.
Lance: No, no, no, but it shows how the map is changing daily.
John Graves: Changing daily.
Lance: How about New Hampshire surprising that that guy that former general retired general is doing as well as he is.
John Graves: He is. A lot of people didn’t think he would do that well, but he is within striking distance. That’s why I say that could be the fourth one that the Republicans flip in New Hampshire. But this I want to go back to what you just said about New York New. York is something that for 30 years nobody on the conservative side or on the Christian side, they just,I’ve close friends there say I just gave up. What can I do? I can never do anything. Well, now the debate also shifted that. The two things she said is she lied about lockdowns and then she literally is like why are you making such a big deal about crime? And everyone else is like because I’m sick and tired of crime. It’s now surpassed inflation if you can believe that crisis. But the same thing’s happening in Oregon.
You can have a Republican in Oregon. And so, you’ve got these bizarre factions where people are so fed up. Because you don’t a blue dog Democrat anymore. The radical Marxist progressive left have taken over and hijacked the Democrat Party. And they’ve gone so far left even some of the people who leaned Democrat. They’re not even swing voters, they’re flipping parties. So, you could literally see these races out here. Colorado’s another example that people thought oh that’s for the last two years no one thought that was in play. It may not flip but because it’s going to be way closer than anybody projected.
Lance: Who’s running against, what the senate race there because that Colorado got taken over by the wealth-funded Democrat blueprint. That was their blueprint to take America.
John Graves: Right.
Lance: And so, who’s running now?
John Graves: I can’t remember the guy’s name. O’Day. It’s O’Day is the guy’s name and he’s running as a construction worker, put himself, dropped out of college, built his company. He’s got hundreds of employees. Everybody thought he didn’t have a chance. He didn’t have a chance. He doesn’t have a chance. He’s now within the margin of Arizona Colorado.
Lance: He’s like that truck driver in New Jersey.
John Graves: That’s exactly. That’s exactly, and in Colorado, some of these states, we down ballots in Colorado. We have seven different state senate guides that are within margin that we’re putting out to people and in churches, working with a lot of partners there in churches to get the voter guides out in Colorado. So, I think here’s what, here’s my prediction Lance, okay. Before this all happens on election night, the people will know they heard it here on your show. Hispanics are going to flip this thing and shift it by over 30% margin and the reason is they’re sick, they’re pro family, they’re conservative. They literally have been duped by the Democrat Party. They’re mad. They’re upset about inflation. They’re upset about crime. They can’t stand that stuff. That’s going to flip. But another shocker. More than Hispanics is going to be females. What’s going to happen with these females Lance? I call them mama bears. Okay?
So, they don’t like crime because they care, they’re maternal and they care about their families. 80% of the people who buy groceries in the home is the woman in the home. They see the inflation that affects them. But they’re sick and tired of their kids and woke indoctrination and all the transgender.
Lance: They are John. Is that working?
John Graves: They are. They really are and it’s going to shock. It’s going to shock people when the election results come in and black men are also trending. Not as much as Hispanics and women, but those are the three trends that are going to shock.
Lance: I heard that it’s just black Latino men that are, no not black Latino. It’s Latino men that are doing not Latino females. Is that true?
John Graves: No, I think it’s both. I think it’s fan. Look at Flores down in down in the border here in 34 and Texas. She won a district that was a 30% Democrat district. Now, a lot of people don’t understand. It’s going to be very, very, very hard. We will have by the time the show airs a voter guide even for her district as well.
Mercedes: Wow.
John Graves: Because somebody like that who’s willing to take on just impossible odds like Washington, Oregon, Colorado, New Mexico, New York. These are not just the purple swing states or battleground states. These people are putting themselves out there. We need to go stand with people who are willing to stand with our values across the country.
Mercedes: So, John, talk to us about the voter guides, because not only do you do this great analysis but you have this website where people in a similar map and you can click on your state.
John Graves: That’s right.
Mercedes: And even in some of these states, your county and get a voter guide.
John Graves: That’s right. So, what we did is we made it as simple as we possibly could and you can go to “MillionVoices.org” and go to the bottom, get the voter guides. But what we’ve done is set up a simple tool where you text your two-digit code. So, let’s say you live in Texas, you just text “TX” to 80550 and boom, you get a digital copy of that guide. In addition, because all the Google and Yahoo, the North Carolina State University research that show they were blocking 80% of conservatives and Christians, you literally now can click to share it with your friends, because you’re the most influential person. The people out there watching us, the people listening to us, they’re the ones that are the most influential because they have equity and relationship with people.
So, even if you don’t live in New Mexico or in Pennsylvania or Michigan, Wisconsin, in Arizona these states that I’m talking about here you can click that code. If you know family there, you know a pastor there, you used to live there, you have friends there. You can click the code, get the voter guide and click it with your friends. So, there’s people at home that listen to your show that I think are strong activists.
Lance: For instance, In Pennsylvania right now there you go, we are trying to mobilize some,I’m going to talk about this probably tomorrow. I’m going to get Coletta Mitchell on this week.Because we want to really put pressure on them, because they are not doing their election integrity diligence to protect the vote. But I’m not in Pennsylvania, but I could go to the Pennsylvania voter guide. I know lots of people that are in Pennsylvania.
John Graves: Exactly right.
Lance: And if I click on, I can send it to them.
John Graves: That’s right. So, you just tell them what to do. But you can just text “PA” to 80550. And when you do you get the Pennsylvania voter guide. Now in states like that you’re going to get the Senate Guide and the Governor Guide. And when you do then you’re going to get a button underneath it that’s click to share. Now I’m not going to know who you shared it with. We’re asking people to share it with ten of their friends. Because out of 10 people, 6 will not vote in a non-presidential election.
Lance: Whoa.
John Graves: 60%. That’s the 40-year average, Lance.
Mercedes: So, I just did it. I did it on my phone and I know John talks fast. But so, there’s two different ways. You can go to “MillionVoices.org” to go through that state map and get your voter guide or you can go and he said you can just text it on your phone and we’ll put it on the screen for you guys and post. But you text 80550 and you’re going to text your state. So, for me it’s a “TX” and then you can see I just got it. So, here’s the little voter guide. And then here’s the section where you can share it. And so, it comes really quick. And I want to tell a quick story I told before. I got started and I was get my hair done before I come to these types of shows. Doesn’t always look this good if you see me out in the wild. And I was talking to my hair girl. And she was like. I was like, ‘Hey, well are you voting’. Because I think these are the conversations we should be having right now leading up to the election. ‘Are you voting?’ ‘Oh yeah, I’m planning to vote. I think it’s so important about who you voting for?’ She’s like, ‘I’m not really sure yet. I really have to go do some research and I was thinking, oh man, I wish I had a voter guide on me so I can hand it to it.’ So, I’m going to bring it to her the next time I go. But these are the types of things we should be doing because what did you say statistically, who who’s trusted for.
John Graves: Number two is a pastor to help a person like that that’s undecided to vote but more important and then a pastor. Statistically, we’ve measured this is a close friend who knows about politics. So, you have a relational equity with her. It’s the same thing that happens in evangelism. Some people get saved in huge crusades but real-life transformation normally happens if you measure it in small settings, in small groups and being disciple. That’s why Jesus had the 12. He had the 3, but he also spoke to 5000. So, we need to do all of those things but what’s most influential is when you reach out. So, the reason we made it digital is you could’ve just shared it with you.
Mercedes: I could text it now that I have it, I could’ve just texted you.
John Graves: You text it to her. She gets it. She text it to her boyfriend or to her other friends.
Lance: Right now, I want you guys to bring back up the of the voter guide itself. You went through it real fast.
John Graves: Yep.
Lance: Just bring it back up. Mister producer I know you’re moving fast to bring it up behind me.
John Graves: There you go.
Mercedes: Oh, on the screen.
Lance: On the screen. Thank you. Now so I’m curious about the Beto and Greg Abbott situation. We got Million Voices there. So, we got soft on crime. Do you agree or disagree? Okay. So, we got an A, on the soft on crime policies. Disagree on the crime policies. Increase domestic drilling to reduce gas prices. Okay, we got the A and the D, parental rights. I have to say that there has to be some subliminal genius behind the fact that it looks like a report card with A’s and Ds because Beto looks like my report card before I got a brain.
John Graves: Yeah.
Lance: Okay. So, parental rights, school, critical race theory, late term election integrity, immigration, border, self-defense protection for churches, lockdowns, government exceeded authority. Did you rank these as the priorities that are in, because it doesn’t look like it was you listed them. Like they’re top of mind concerns. This is kind of like randomly listed.
John Graves: Yeah, what we do is we go into each state and we find as many voters as we can and we ask them what’s the most important issue to you and that obviously changes from year to year, election to election. This inflation, crime, Second Amendment and life are always there.But the parental rights, the whole movement and the kids and the politics in the classroom, that’s really what’s frustrating a lot of parents. So, we don’t necessarily rank them in order and so what we do though is we take the candidate’s position. We call it a Candidate Fact Guide a lot of times and then we footnote where they said it because you read all the commercials like Beto, a classic example is yes, I’m going to, you are dang right, I’m going to take your weapons. And then he says, I don’t want to take from anybody. Well, what is the position?
Lance: It’s like fracking up there with Federman.
John Graves: Joe, with Federman or Biden. They take different positions and so all we do is document it, so that if anybody ever wants to, they can also have a discussion with somebody about no that is not what their position is. Here’s where they said it. In an editorial board or in a video or something like that.
Lance: And what this also reminds me of in our last minute here is when Charlie Kirk says okay Pastor you don’t want to get involved with politics. I get that. Do you still believe in morality?Because what you’re looking at here are all moral issues.
John Graves: That’s right.
Lance: These are not political issues. These are moral issues that express themselves in legislation and litigation that will punish you for your faith or will shape culture that’ll be hostile to your children in the age to come. So, these things are kind of important. I really think that I’d like to get a print out of this current one. This is different than the presidential in 2020.
John Graves: It is. We change it every single cycle. Every them is thoroughly researched and every one of them don’t have. Every senate and governor race is going to be different because we have to find the candidates have a position on this and sometimes they agree, disagree, and you may not agree with every single thing of a candidate Lance. You may agree with 10 out of 12 of the issues that we covered but we cover the facts on these issues.
Lance: How can they get in touch with you again?
John Graves: Okay. So, they can go to “MillionVoices.org”, sign up there. Or they can just text their state code to 80550. If they’re not sure or they live in one of the states that’s not critical, they can text “MV” to 80550 for Million Voices and we’ll send them a code of all the different states that we have. We’re adding them every single day. We’re adding another vote.
Lance: By the way, we’re going to be showing this I think it’s 600,000 homes in Florida and they have like seven or eight races going on right now. we got 20 seconds left here.
John Graves: And there we got the senate guide, the governor god, English, and Spanish.
Lance: So, you want to definitely in Florida want to jump on this. Mercedes, closing comments and close the show.
Mercedes: Get out there and vote. Right now, is the time to be talking to people about Ken candidates about these issues, everybody asked, what can I do? This is one thing you can do right now. Go to “MillionVoices.org”, get a voter guide, start handing them out. And of course, we’ll see you in the next episode.
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