About this episode

The episode discusses President Trump's address on election integrity and various political events including a Democratic debate and allegations against a senator.

RCP Contributor Richard Porter joins Andrew Walworth, Tom Bevan, and Carl Cannon to discuss last night’s address to the nation by President Trump on election integrity, and Thursday’s remarks by Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s on communism at a ministerial level meeting called by The State Department on the resurgence of political terrorism. Then, the guys discuss last night’s Democratic candidate debate in Maine to replace Graham Platner, new polls in the South Carolina GOP race to replace the late Senator Lindsey Graham, and new accusations against Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) involving sexual relations with two congressional staffers. Next, they talk about the U.S. response to a new round of Canadian wildfires, including a move to sanction Canada in the U.S. Senate. And finally, the guys give up their “You Cannot Be Serious” stories for the week. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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Hosts: Andrew Walworth, Tom Bevan, Carl Cannon

Guest: Richard Porter

Topics covered

• Trump's address
• election integrity
• Democratic debate
• polls
• sexual relations allegations
• Canadian wildfires
• political terrorism

Keywords

• Trump
• election integrity
• Democratic debate
• polls
• wildfires
• political terrorism
• Marco Rubio
• Ruben Gallego

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Places: Maine, South Carolina, Canada, U.S.

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