Trump Campaign Press Secretary Hogan Gidley on Friday offered the recent story of a dead cat receiving a ballot as a reason for being cautious about the integrity of mail-in voting.
During a discussion on Fox News&#8217; &#8220;<a href="https://video.foxnews.com/v/6177102382001?playlist_id=5588990584001#sp=show-clips" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Outnumbered Overtime</a>,&#8221; Gidley addressed the recent bipartisan pushback against President Donald Trump for repeatedly <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1288932940337090561" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">questioning</a> the trustworthiness of an election that hinges on universal mail-in voting.
&#8220;Universal mail-ins are a disaster,&#8221; Gidley said. &#8220;The president&#8217;s been very clear about that. The data shows that it&#8217;s rife with all types of ways to cheat. It has a potential for fraud that I think would shock any American, and you see this time and time again in report after report.&#8221;
After referencing troubling issues in California and New Jersey, Gidley mentioned, &#8220;There was even one story where someone&#8217;s cat received a ballot to vote. Now, I understand a lot of viewers may like their cat enough and want them to vote, but this cat has another problem – it was also dead for 10 years. So, it&#8217;s pretty clear the government has a systemic problem with issuing votes across the country, because the American people deserve each individual vote to count on its own.&#8221;
According to <a href="https://apnews.com/fbcec393dc652a9ccdb2cc8aacb15895" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Associated Press</a>, Ron and Carol Tims of Atlanta, Georgia, received a ballot in the mail earlier this month addressed to Cody Tims, their cat who died 12 years ago and whose ashes they keep in a green container. Carol described Cody as &#8220;a great cat, indoor and outdoor, loved his family, loved his neighborhood. He was 18 and a half when he passed away.&#8221;
&#8220;There’s a huge push but if they’re trying to register cats, I’m not sure who else they’re trying to register. I’m not sure if they’re trying to register dogs, mice, snakes,&#8221; she added.
The Secretary of State&#8217;s Office blamed third-party groups for the feline ballot, saying, &#8220;Third-party groups all over the country are targeting Georgia to help register qualified individuals. This group makes you wonder what these out-of-town activists are really doing. Make no mistake about it, this office is dedicated to investigating all types of fraud.&#8221;
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Trump catapulted the issue of mail-in voting to the front of the national discourse earlier this week when he tweeted a video of a CBS News investigation that found a sizable portion of mail-in ballots failed to return in a mock election.
As <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cbs-mail-in-voting-experiment-shows-potentially-serious-issue" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Daily Wire</a> reported earlier this week:
<blockquote>[CBS News &#8220;This Morning&#8221; co-host Tony Dokoupil] sent out 100 mock ballots in the Philadelphia area, using the same size envelope, weight, and class of mail to simulate genuine mail-in votes, albeit without the expedited “Election Mail” insignia. After the post office box was set up, 100 more faux ballots were sent out.
“We’re gonna see somewhere between probably 80 and 100 million voters receiving their ballot that way,” a former Arizona election official told Dokoupil.
After a week, 97% of the ballots Dokoupil mailed had been returned. “Three simulated persons, or 3% of voters, were effectively disenfranchised by mail by giving their ballots a week to arrive,” CBS noted. “In a close election, 3% could be pivotal.” Even four days after mailing the second round of fake ballots, 21% of the fake votes had failed to materialize. Almost half of states allow voters to receive ballots less than half-a-week before the election.</blockquote>
At the memorial for late Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) on Thursday, former President Obama <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-obama-takes-trump-shots-during-hyper-political-eulogy-for-john-lewis" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">blasted</a> Trump for allegedly undermining the postal service. &#8220;Even as we sit here, there are those in power who are doing their darndest to discourage people from voting by closing polling locations, and targeting minorities and students with restrictive ID laws, and attacking our voting rights with surgical precision – even undermining the postal service in the run up to an election that’s going to be dependent on mail-in ballots so people don’t get sick,&#8221; he said.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cbs-mail-in-voting-experiment-shows-potentially-serious-issue" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">CBS Mail-In Voting Experiment Shows Potentially Serious Issue</a>

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Trump Campaign Press Secretary Mentions Story Of Dead Cat Allegedly Receiving Ballot To Warn About Mail-In Voting

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On Friday, National Press Secretary for the Trump 2020 campaign Hogan Gidley appeared on “Fox &amp; Friends” to discuss the election. During the segment, Gidley said “most of those are fake,” seemingly in reference to Fox News polls, and co-host Brian Kilmeade pushed back.
Gidley first spoke about the cancellation of the Republican National Convention events that were previously slated to take place in Jacksonville, Florida, then he briefly mentioned the polls.
“You touched on some polls – most of those are fake, I’ll be honest. They oversample Democrats,” the press secretary said.
Gidley proceeded to mock the apparent enthusiasm gap between President Trump and presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden. He claimed that “across our social media platforms,” there have been “more than 1.1 billion views &#8230; for Donald Trump,” while Biden allegedly struggled to get anyone to watch his Q&amp;A.
“The fact is the enthusiasm, the excitement is all on our side, and we know this. Our supporters will stand through rain, sleet, snow, hail, and crawl across broken glass to vote for Donald Trump,” Gidley said. “Joe Biden’s supporters won&#8217;t even click on a link to watch him do a Q&amp;A. It’s absolutely embarrassing. We have the momentum.”
At this point, Kilmeade jumped in, saying: “I know the people that do the polls, they&#8217;re not, they don&#8217;t do a fake, they do a really good job. They might not be accurate in the end, I don&#8217;t know, but they do a great job.”
“Doesn’t accuracy &#8230; I know the people are great, but doesn’t the accuracy determine how great it is?” Gidley replied.
Kilmeade shot back: “I’m not saying they&#8217;re Nostradamus, but I’m just saying they&#8217;re math – and they&#8217;re professional, so just don&#8217;t call the Fox News pollsters fake.”
“Well, the methodology&#8217;s flawed at the very least, how&#8217;s that?” Gidley stated.
As co-host Steve Doocy noted that President Trump has made the same argument about the alleged under-sampling of Republicans in the polls, Kilmeade appeared to quietly say, “In your opinion,” seemingly in response to Gidley’s last remark.
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Let’s examine one example of a Fox News poll that was mentioned by Kilmeade.
In the latest <a href="https://static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2020/07/Fox_July-18-20-2020_Complete_Pennsylvania_Topline_July-23-Release.pdf">Fox News poll</a> for Pennsylvania, which was conducted July 18-20, the sampling was as follows: 48% Democrat, 40% Republican, 12% Independent/Other.
According to the Pennsylvania <a href="https://www.dos.pa.gov/VotingElections/OtherServicesEvents/VotingElectionStatistics/Documents/2020%20Primary%20VR%20Stats%20%20FINAL.pdf">Department of State (DOS) website</a>, as of June 2020, there were 4,092,693 registered Democrats in the state compared to 3,290,944 registered Republicans. Broken down by percentage, registered Democrats represent 47.6% of voters in the state, and registered Republicans represent 38.3% of voters.
14.1% identified with “other parties.”
Given these numbers, and leaving out voting pattern differences such as voter enthusiasm, the Fox poll for the state of Pennsylvania actually seems to over-represent Republicans.
However, Pennsylvania primary results as reported by <a href="https://www.politico.com/2020-election/results/pennsylvania/">Politico</a> do show that for the June 2 primary, President Trump, despite facing no real challengers, pulled in approximately 934,524 votes. Joe Biden pulled in 914,904 votes compared to Sen. Bernie Sanders’ 208,456 votes.
These numbers show that while 28.4% of registered Democrats in the state voted in the June 2 primary, 30.5% of registered Republicans voted even though Trump was a forgone conclusion.

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Speaking on Fox News’ &#8220;<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/shows/americas-newsroom">America’s Newsroom</a>&#8221; on Thursday, Trump campaign spokesman Hogan Gidley responded to Democratic strategist James Carville, who had said Biden would &#8220;trounce&#8221; Trump in a debate, by asserting, &#8220;You’re going to hear interesting comments from Joe Biden, about how children love his leg hair and how he used to coax children up on to the porch with ice cream during quarantines.&#8221;
Carville stated on MSNBC, &#8220;Of course Biden wants to debate Trump. Trump is a doofus-dolt, alright? Biden debated Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders … Cory Booker, Amy Klobuchar. He should debate him without condition anywhere he wants to. Joe Biden would trounce Trump in a debate.”
Gidley replied, &#8220;Well, I love the fact that James Carville would point to the past debates of Joe Biden. Let&#8217;s be clear that&#8217;s why he was last in all of the polls during the debates – it was only South Carolina that saved him. When you&#8217;re on the debate stage, you can&#8217;t reach out like Joe Biden has done so many times and said, &#8216;Please, please, bring me my documents – I need to read off of the fact sheet that my staff has given me. You’re going to hear interesting comments from Joe Biden, about how children love his leg hair and how he used to coax children up on to the porch with ice cream during quarantines and how he doesn’t know the dates of 9/11 and what year.”
Asked who would benefit the most from debates, Gidley answered:
<blockquote>Obviously the president of the United States. Donald Trump. And that’s the point I was trying to make. How many gaffes has Joe Biden had in the last little bit? Just during this campaignalone, forget the last fifty years of politics that he&#8217;s been involved with – he&#8217;s a gaffe machine. Now the problem is, as you well know, 93% negative news coverage against this president as he’s improving the lives of all Americans. And they gloss over, the media does, writ large, over all of the gaffes of Joe Biden.
Nonetheless, the president wants to debate Joe Biden; he wants to give the American people the choice side-by-side. And when you see what Joe Biden has done to the American worker, voting for NAFTA, crushing 850,000 jobs; this president renegotiates the deal, gets rid of it; USNCA was celebrating yesterday with the president of Mexico; that could lead to 600,000 jobs and $235 billion in the GDP. He’s helped the American worker at every turn; Joe Biden has crushed the American worker, and on top of that, Joe Biden is waging a war on the American way of life. Your jobs will not be safe; your family will not be safe; neither will your way of life be if Joe Biden is elected.</blockquote>
Gidley added that the huge ad buy from the Trump campaign was a sign of strength, not weakness, adding, “Those ads simply go out there and point out the difference between the incredible successes of this president and the colossal failures of Joe Biden in the past.”
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Trump Campaign Press Secretary Mentions Story Of Dead Cat Allegedly Receiving Ballot To Warn About Mail-In Voting

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