All right, Billy hunting in the Great American this Monday afternoon in the tri State, getting ready for Red Spaceball tonight. Having swept the Yankees three straight off on Thursday, they get swept by the Tigers, a terrible baseball team, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, And of course I predicted that on Friday, having swept the Yankees, they'll get swept by the Tigers. Seven games until the All Star Break, four against the Rockies and the Fish. The
Marlins are in town Friday, Saturday and Sunday. The Reds must win all seven. But before then Reds Baseball starts about six oh five, six ten tonight, by the way, But until then there's so much fold roll about what's going to happen with the ballot. I listened this morning to Morning Joe so that Frank LeRose would not have to, and Joe Biden called in unimpeded
and simply spoke for about twenty minutes, answering some questions. Did not appear to be the same dere lookt he was during the debate, nor with George Stephanopolis. But many have said, including my producer Tony Bender, how do you get I don't want to get off the ballot in Ohio. If down the road the Democrats decide to get them off the ballot, can that work? Joan you and I now is the chief Elections Officer of the State of
Ohio. Frank Lorose and Frank LeRose, welcome this Monday afternoon in the Bill Cunningham Show. But first of all, can you tell the American people and the mechanics. It's now July the eighth, and the convention is not until the middle of August. I think there's a deadline that you have put in through the legislature. So just tell the American people. How would Joe Biden get on and get off the ballot if a switch is made sometime in August
or September. Well, first of all, thank you for watching that terrible liberal program, so I didn't have this morning, Billy. Bill. It's a state by state process, and I think a lot of people lose track of this. It is a fifty state election. Each state has their own rules. In Ohio, the rule has long been that the party has to choose their candidate by a convention and let us know what that candidate is going
to be president and as presidential candidate ninety days before the election. And I was the one that notified the Democrats a few months ago that they're on track to miss that. They at that time said, well, we're gonna have a virtual convention. We're gonna go ahead and nominate Joe Biden early via a phone call or a zoom meeting or something, which they're free to do. They did that in twenty twenty. Really, whatever mechanism they come up with
as a party to choose their their nominee is fine with me. And you know, then the state legislature, with the governor's urging, decided to step in and and and give them a little bit more time, which has been done in the past, nothing unusual. So they now have until the really the first of September to get this done. And there's no mechanism after that to change things. And so you know, the pressures on for them to
figure out who they want their their their candidate to be. I can tell you this, I think the American people saw plainly why Joe Biden is not fit for the job. And you know, it's a thing that happens to all of us at some point. But he's passed his prime and he's not ready to do this job for another four years. And so between now, you have almost eight weeks between now and September first, and at that point, by September first, the Democrats got to get serious and say yay or
nay. Joe Biden this morning was this adamant. He was attacking the Democratic Party this morning, saying that I got eighty seven percent of the vote in the primary. I dare you to take me on at the convention because that's anti democratic. How can you run a campaign he said, about the threat to democracy that Donald Trump presents, which I don't fully understand, but nonetheless,
how do we run a campaign that we're a threat to democracy? When you tell the candidate that got eighty seven percent of the vote, you can't be the candidate? And I thought, my gosh, that's the first thing cojent that Joe Biden said in a long time. If you get eighty seven percent of the vote, he said, don't let the back room cigar stomping rich folks in the Democratic Party take it away from you. Doesn't it make sense, though, if you get eighty seven percent of the vote you used
to be the nominee. Well again, it's going to be up to him if he chooses to withdraw. Until then, it appears that those delegates are promised to him. I mean, that's the way that works. Each state elects their delegates, those delegates are generally pledged to a candidate. And really, when those delegates, those Democratic Convention delegates show up at the convention, they don't really have much agency to any agency to choose who they want.
They are there specifically to cast their votes for Joe Biden, and so until he decides to drop out of the race, those delegates don't have any choice no matter. But here's the thing. This reminds me of a of a large scale version of what every family has dealt with at some point. We dealt with it with my grandparents and like, hey, listen, guys,
you shouldn't be driving anymore. You're a danger to yourself. And in this case, we're talking about the most important and powerful position on the planet. And I get it. He doesn't want to admit to himself or to others that he's not capable of doing this. I'm not a gerryontologist, I'm not a doctor, but I do have two good ears, and well, at least pretty good after fourteen years as a Green Beret. But pretty good ears
and pretty good eyes. And what I saw on stage of the debate in this interviews that he's been doing and before and since then is a guy that's just not up to the most challenging and demanding job on the planet. He may have good days and bad days, but you need somebody that performs consistently at the top of their game to be the commander in chief of the world's
most legal military. Well, let's play this out a little bit. Let's say he gets the nomination, He's got eighty seven percent of the delegate vote, the balloons come down, the confetti's blown all over the place in Chicago, the rioting is kept a minimum, even though over the weekend in Chicago more than one hundred people got shot. That's a lot more than in Florence,
Kentucky, for example. But nonetheless, let's say that happens, and here we are, Like they say, okay, Frank LeRose, you're the chief elections officer, one of the leaders in the nation when it comes to fair and balloting, and make it easy to vote and hard to cheat. And here's the nominee, and you certify okay, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are the nominees for president and vice president. And here we get to I
don't know, pick a date, September tenth. It is well after the time by which he's on the ballot, and something happens to Joe and he comes to He somersaults down the steps. He can no longer do backflips. He can't read the Bible backwards anymore. And the Democratic Party says he's not going to be the nominee. It's going to be Kamala Harris. How would it work after September first, well after September one, Under Ohio's law, in most dates, it's too late. That's the candidate on the ballot.
Listen, there's logistics to this. We have to print millions of ballots, we have to program hundreds, maybe thousands of voting machines, we have to start sending out overseas mill terry ballots forty six days before the election. And so there's a point in time where it's just too late to make any changes. And listen, we're all tend to be procrastinator from time to time.
That's why deadlines exist, and that's the deadline. If you go past that, his name is still on the ballot and there's nothing you can do about it. Haven't there been in the past those elected to office of one type or another that are dead. I've read somewhere and over the years that somebody about let's say, there's an episode from that old TV show The West Wig
about this exact topic. Yeah, and it can happen, and then it's you know, again, the laws are different in each state, but it's handled like a vacancy, just like when someone exists in the state legislature or in and they die or resign or whatever else, then there's a vacancy to fill, and there's a variety of processes that they go into that Listen, I don't think the nation, I don't think that, you know, hundreds of millions of registered voters in this country are going to vote for a person
who has publicly announced that he doesn't intend to take the job. And so it creates a it creates a really difficult scenario. And this is not a partisan thing. I'm a proud partisan Republican, but we need somebody who's capable
of doing the job. And and and this man's not for my from my opinion, So if something happens after the deadline, it's Biden Harris and uh, Let's say Biden cannot take the oath of office and the electoral College actually votes him the president when he's incapacitated or dead, and then other laws kick in about Kamala Harris, who becomes the who becomes the acting president, and
then she takes the oath? Could all that happen? Could something happen where Joe Biden is the actual person on the ballot, Joe Biden wins come electoral time middle of December, there are pledged to Joe Biden. Let's say he's dead or mentally incapacitated. They vote for Joe Biden. And then come January twentieth, does Kamala Harris take the oath of office? Is she the president even though she was wasn't elected following new you're prole a new ground here.
This is the place that we as a nation in our young two hundred and forty eight years, and this is the definition of a constitutional crisis. It would probably result in some sort of action by Congress. It may result in some sort of action by the US Supreme Court. And let's hope. Let's hope to hell we can avoid that, because this is not good for the civic health of our nation. No, so this is why the right thing
for him to do would be to gracefully bow out at this point. But listen, if he chooses not to, we're going to as a party work hard to beat him. And that's what we do. And so at this point, in one hundred and twenty days, I'm just over one hundred and twenty I'm just under one hundred and twenty days. It's going to be up to the voters to choose the right person for the job. I know who
I'm voting for, and that's Donald. So come November the fifth. Of course, voting starts around the first week in October, and here it is the first week in July, and so you know, we're three months away from actually voting. There is a drop dead date some I hate to use that term, sometime in September that he cannot be changed. But that's up
to the Democrats to determine. I guess we're blessed Frank L. Rose to live in interesting times because I didn't think it was possible that the Democratic president would would verbally assault the leadership of his own party that wants him out. That is unbelievable. It's a remarkable thing that's happening here and well again, as a Republican, I'm just kind of sitting back to watch what the Democrats
decide to do. As the Whigs chief elections officer, I can tell you this, We're going to follow the law in the buck I stayed, and it's the novel idea that I have that we should follow the law. I was attacked for this just a couple of weeks ago when I told the Democrats if they don't certify their candidate on time, he's not going to be on the ballot again. They called it a technical Cincinnati's own David Pepper, who's a detestable son of a dud, said that I'm playing politics and all of
this because it's a technicality. No, it's not a technicality. It's the law. And as Ohio's chief elections officer, you don't want a secretary of State who is unmoored from the rule of law. You want somebody that's going to follow the law as it's written. That's what you can count on me to do. Now, lastly, about a minute remaining Frank Leroe's Secretary of
State. The speculation by my producer Tony Bender and others is that JD Vance, who I text with now and then he's a good man, is likely to be the VP if he's elected as the VP with Donald Trump in the come middle of December. The electors get together and then they get sworn in. There's a vacancy, and one name being mentioned prominently to get the vacancy would be you. If somehow those circumstances happen, which do not appear to
be unlikely. In fact, one might say they're likely, would you accept the job as a sitting US Senator. Well, let's unpack this a little bit. First of all, I think Jade Vance would be an excellent choice. I supported In fact, I was the first state wide office holder to support him in his primary a couple of years ago. He would be a
great running mate and a great vice president for President Trump. Listen, as you know, I ran for the US Senate a couple months ago, and the reason I was running is because we have a country to say, and I think it would be a good thing to have a Green Beret in the US Senate that brings significant combat and special operations experience and brings significant elections administration experience. There are currently zero members of the Senate who still serve in the
armed forces. As you know, I'm still a reservist in the Army. That's unusual. Throughout American history, We've normally had a few members of the Senate who still serve in uniform. That's the case right now that there are zero, And so yeah, this is something I'd absolutely consider. I think that this country is worth serving and fighting for, and I think that the
US Senate would be a great place I could do that. A lot of speculation, a big what if. Right now, I'm enjoying being the Ohio Secretary of State and making sure that it's easy to vote and hard to cheeve. Well, that sounds like a yes to me. But someone's got to tell the national media that Ohio is not going to keep Joe Biden off the ballot. I heard over the weekend again that Ohio is going to try to
keep Joe Biden off the ballot. There's no relationship to that statement in reality, because the legislature, the governor has signed a law giving the Democrats and the Republicans till September first, and after that it's a drop dead date because all these other things have to happen, printing, balance checking machines, etc. We'll see what happens. Based upon this morning's interviewer in Morning, Joe, there's no way Joe Biden's getting out of the race. And if that
occurs, I'm going to lose about fifteen hot fut Sundays. I've bet for a long time he's not going to be the nominee of the Democrat Party. Based upon this morning's conversation, the NATO heads are coming to Washington Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. He'll be in no situations in a campaign next weekend, then the next weekend after that's the Republican Convention in Milwaukee, and away
we go for Frank LeRose. Thanks for clearing things up, and thanks for coming on the Bill Cunningham Show. And Frank, you're a great American. Next time instead of hot fudge Sundays, making a Lorosis pizza, go right, a great week. Thank you, Frank, ought to have the number three four seven, Frank Lorosa. Thank you very much, and we continue. Thank you, Frank, all right, let's continue with more coming up later. Your comments at five, one, three, seven, four,
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