Colorado's Open Primary System Is Damaging Electoral Fairness

0:00 Speaker 1 Sunday morning. Well, let’s go to Colorado. What us today is Eric Grossman. He’s the vice chairman of Colorado GOP and we’re calling to get the pulse of the situation. What’s going on in the West Colorado. Eric, give us your pulse of what’s going on overall in Colorado. How do people feel about what’s going on in the country,

0:23 in the world.

0:26 Speaker 2 Well, you know, the enemies on the march and we’re on defense and trying to recruit others to get back on offense. Colorado specifically, we’ve been set up for failure. Going back to twenty sixteen, the establishment wing uniparty got put for or put forth a ballot measure that they convinced the electorate to vote in, which basically created an

0:49 open primary. And what that did was it made party apparatuses irrelevant. Democrat Party and the Republican Party now have to kowtow and playcate to unaffiliated voters, and they now are the majority voting block and hold all the power.

1:05 So during primary season, an unaffiliated voter will get mailed a Republican and a Democrat ballot and they get to choose which one they return. And we’ve got it in court filings and in a public square where even Republicans say that they have to care more about unaffiliated voters and Republicans in their own party. And so what that

1:26 is essentially done is made the party so weak that you see what happened with the socialist candidate getting elected in Colorado, much like what you all are experiencing in New York, is open the door for unaffiliated voters to delve into a party apparatus that they shouldn’t have no business participating in. Have you know different than you know

1:47 asking the Washington Redskins to pick the New York Giants quarterback or the New York Giants coach. And you’re seeing that in politics. And right now these people are on offense. They see blood in the water and they’re attacking.

2:00 Speaker 1 Now, how do they feel? How does it normal people, whether it’s normal Democrats or normal Republicans or normal independents feel about the big issue for President Trump in Congress right now, the voter ID situation.

2:18 Speaker 2 The National Appolling says it, I think it’s what eighty some percentile of citizens of this country definitely agree with voter ID. But there’s a reason why it’s being thought so hard because of the chicanery and shenanigans behind the scenes and the power that those votes give them. It opens the door to cheating. And as the President has said,

2:40 there’s only one reason you don’t want voter id and it’s because you want to cheat. And the cheating is rampant, and it’s the one reason why the majority of the electorate can’t seem to get over the hump. And I think it’s it’s gotten to a point now where a lot of the unaffiliated voters, I think and independents are

2:57 getting so disenfranchised with the mess and government, but they’re not educated enough politically to understand that they’re being played for fools. And there’s a reason why these things keep happening is because the game is rigged.

3:11 Speaker 1 Understood, Now, what are the big races in Colorado that the American people should know about right now?

3:21 Speaker 2 Well, we got an evenly split congressional delegation. Obviously, the President and we all would like to see the Republicans stay, but even unfortunately some of the Republicans are a little weak. And I go back to the Great Russia. Lumball used to talk about it, where you campaign one way and the once you get into office, you suffer the establishment virus.

3:41 And what he used to talk about was people want to be liked by the media. They want to be liked by their constituency, and sometimes you got to make our decisions, which doesn’t make you well liked. But when you worry more about what the media is going to say about you than voting your principles, you end up

3:56 with the situations we have now at the national election electorate level, where you don’t have principal people standing up for principal things like voter ID. They want to playkate to these these these uh, cheating scenarios because I think at the end of the day, it helps them once they get into the Henhouse that is east of the Mississippi,

4:17 which is Washington, d C.

4:19 Speaker 1 Understood. Which is the major race that you’re worried about or or feel good about one one of each?

4:31 Speaker 2 Uh? Probably the governor’s race is tight. It looks to me like they’re going to have to do a recount because the percentage is so low. It’s under a half a percentage point, very hotly contested.

4:43 Speaker 1 Race, and people give us the people that are running.

4:49 Speaker 2 Uh, you’ve got Barbara Kirkmeyer and uh, Victor Marx and the other two front runners that are neck and neck. But as has happened on many national races, including California where Barbara Kirkmeyer was winning, you know, at the might of the polls closing, and then by the time people woke up the next day, all of a sudden, the

5:07 other candidate pulled ahead. And so when you see that on happening and so many different races across the country, it doesn’t give trust in the process. And that’s kind of one of the problems we have here is all these things, going back all the way to TENA peters have sort of given a distaste in the mouth of

5:25 the electorates where I don’t feel like they completely trust the outcome, but so worry and concern on that level, because that’s a big race here.

5:33 Speaker 1 Understood, Well, thank you for coming on this Sunday morning, and maybe we’ll talk again in the near future to give us any updates.

5:41 Speaker 2 Pleasure to be on with you, sir. God bless you, and God bless your radio stations.

5:44 Speaker 1 Then God bless America.