Ballot Machines

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Ballot Machines

The Truth with Sherwin Hughes · Wed Aug 12, 2026

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Voting results are now in after, quote, human error, caused a delay in Milwaukee Tuesday night into early Wednesday morning.

In an update in the early morning hours Wednesday, Milwaukee County Clerk George Christensen announced the voting results put David Crowley at a total of 65,131 votes.

coming to forty three point zero four percent.

Francesca Hong finished with sixty two thousand seven hundred thirty nine votes coming to forty one point forty six.

When asked about the error that occurred Tuesday night, Christianson said and I quote.

Oh, Georgie.

Well, that happens, you know, no.

Come on, George, you gotta get your head out of your bottom.

Well, that happens, you know, the city of Milwaukee is under a lot of scrutiny always and essentially human error happens.

And I think we should all just take note that these things happen, you know.

And at the end of the day, what's important is that we're transparent, that the results are secure and that we're open and honest.

and that's what the city of Milwaukee elections director did.

She came up here and she explained it, went back, got the results, brought them back to us, and we got everything right.

And that's what's most important.

Now, that's the statement from the Milwaukee County clerk who oversees elections in the county.

If I'm Francesca Hong's campaign, I want that whole thing investigated.

Dude said, well, you know that happens.

Here's what really took place.

A flash drive was, I don't know, misplaced.

Somebody didn't push a button.

Somebody didn't transfer the votes over.

15,000 votes, mostly going to David Crowley from the second and the ninth automatic districts were discovered, giving David Crowley essentially his margin in the county.

Doesn't that sound odd?

And so here's the thing.

I'm not assuming that there's anything malicious because I know human beings.

I know them very well.

Human beings will do something dumb and stupid before they'll do something mean, nasty and malicious.

People make mistakes all the time.

Make stupid mistakes.

I make stupid mistakes.

One of the biggest stupid mistake I make, keep going back to the same damn ex-girlfriend.

Can't help it.

Stupid mistake.

Keep doing it.

Is that real?

Mm-hmm.

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There's a reason why I go back.

Oh, jeez.

There's plenty of other women

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with the good stuff.

Yeah, but you got to sift through.

It's like going through a pile of garbage to find one uneaten cheeseburger.

It's not in my age group and what I prefer.

Like I don't just you know what I need?

I need a woman smarter than me.

Oh yeah.

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I like a smarty pants.

You know that you know the the River West woman was a lot smarter than me.

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River.

Is that the one with the dreadlock?

No, no, no, no, no.

That's the that's the one that's the tatted one.

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Here's the problem with women who live in River West

They'll have dirty feet.

Oh, no, she had clean feet.

Very Oh, yes, you know, I know Clean feet your foot guy like feet.

I like a nice Well-kept foot with you know, nice painted toe nails and yeah, I do like

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feet

No, I

don't want some corns and stuff like that.

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No, no, you don't want that

dead skin

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It's just maybe it's the River Western women that I'm familiar with yeah, just their feet are dirty because they just their barefoot a lot because they're dirty and They don't shave their armpits which hey ladies Sure, body your choice.

They're trying to normalize women hair

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That's cool

a

little hair wouldn't hurt you you know

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it does hurt

it does

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I'm not a fan

I don't know this is a

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matter of personal preference and here's the thing there's gonna be somebody out there oh my god Sherwin you're such a big most of the women shave most women don't even like being hairy because I just assume that when a woman doesn't shave I'm just gonna say legs and armpits that she approaches me to shake my hand hey I'm I'm Stacy nice to meet you

You want to go grab a beer as she pulls out a pack of Newport Kings, which is perfectly fine.

It's just that's not my thing, but also I Don't want to be seen as a person That objectifies women for their bodies.

Yeah,

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and if she has a full beard and hairy armpits

and werewolf legs that I promise you I will see her as a human being and I will treat her as such.

I won't be lusting over her and undressing her with my eyeballs.

I would do no such thing.

I respect

her as a human being.

Yes, respect all body types.

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Some you react to a little differently.

Every so often and I got to get this under control.

I'm a lot Better than I used to be in my old age, but it's still

it's still in

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me every so often It must be jammed cuz jelly don't shake like that sometimes when I see you know I'm saying a woman that has got the curves Oh, yeah, and she got that jiggle like she still is moving even after she stops walking.

You know I'm talking about

I just I can't help it.

It's just something as a man.

Something happens.

And that's why I just can't understand.

Yeah, voluptuous.

I can't understand the gaze.

Like why you would see a

man are disgusting.

We are.

We're not.

Well, a gay might see you coming.

Oh, my God.

Oh, the gays love.

Yeah.

Oh, that beard.

He's has the bald head.

They love me very much.

Yes.

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Hi, Thurwin.

Hi.

Oh, hey, hey there, buddy.

Come here.

No, no, no.

I'm, uh, I'm walking this way.

I'll walk with you.

No, no, no.

I'm cool.

And then they, now I'm jogging.

I'm moving a little faster.

And now he's trotting.

And now I'm sprinting.

And then you don't want to get

caught.

Oh, you wouldn't accept a drink from a friendly gay person that bought you one at a bar?

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Did I see them?

Did I see the bartender make it?

Yeah, you

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did There might be a set of expectations along with that.

Oh look who's calling Quote well that happens, you know the city of Milwaukee is just under a lot of scrutiny always and essentially human error happens This is what George Christianson said.

He is the Milwaukee County clerk who oversees

elections and election results in Milwaukee County.

Look, I get it.

I know that the city of Milwaukee is under scrutiny and unnecessary scrutiny from the Trump administration that believes that we cast a whole bunch of fake votes and we let a bunch of illegal people vote.

So if you know that we're under that kind of scrutiny, like I wonder how do they, do they pressure test our election system to account for things like this?

Because moving forward, and here's the thing, it is to the benefit of every single person in the city of Milwaukee that we can have trust.

In our elections and that the system in the process has integrity because there can't even be any doubt there can't even be even the slightest Appearance of some kind of impropriety because we are under an incredible kind of microscope That calls into question our election results because this is just an old weird stereotype that when Democrats win is because

Illegal people are voting or non-citizens are voting or people are voting twice Which we know is not true and I can tell you I got first-hand experience especially when it comes to the African-American community It's hard as hell to get us to vote once let alone get us to vote twice And so we are We are treated unfairly in that regard when there are high vote totals in the city of Milwaukee, which we know is a democratic stronghold

There's always going to be some skepticism.

And so that is even more reason to make sure that these kinds of errors don't happen.

Because every now and again, ladies and gentlemen, we will get elections that are very, very close to where everybody can raise an eyebrow.

And because these systems do involve human beings and human beings can make errors, we've got to figure out a better way.

And I'm willing and open and available to help however I can.

to make sure that our elections have integrity and that people aren't making these silly and stupid mistakes because at some point it may cost somebody a very close election.

If I'm the Francesca Hall campaign and I read or see the statement made by George Christensen, the Milwaukee County Clerk, I would want a little bit more transparency because the number of votes that David Crowley won by statewide

could be some kind of a clerical error in any one of 72 counties and 1850 different municipalities.

That's a lot of different cities.

That's a whole bunch of different counties.

And that's a whole bunch of people that might have been drunk, high, tired, uninterested or just otherwise not careful.

Let's talk to Al.

You're on one on one seven the truth.

How are you?

I'm

doing fine and congratulations to Mr. Crowley.

I heard you bring up, you know, that white people want to be pro-white.

I think that's wonderful.

But my question is, why is it every time you come to y'all being pro-white or being pro anything, y'all always want to put black people in your business?

Black people are not even effing with y'all like that.

And I just think it's a disease and trauma that y'all have got from your household and your upbringing.

Black people have not lived and have hung.

Black people have not went out their way or took time out their day to hang you from a tree, record raping your children and making videos and bragging about it.

That is your white ass, Ken, folks.

We have not done anything to you, but you keep putting us in your business.

Why you don't go take that up with your mammy and your grandpappy?

It is not black people fault that some of your white king folks don't feel comfortable with their white children around your goddamn daddy.

So if you are so pro-white, be pro-white, but why you gotta put us in your business?

We don't even ask what you like that.

And all your anger, hate, and trauma comes from your goddamn household.

But if you're just that mad,

And that miserable why not put a double bear shotgun in a roof of your mouth and pull the trigger and blow your goddamn brains out?

And you can be all pro-white in peace.

I'm just trying to understand why you keep putting this in your business.

And Al from Sherman Park, I like how you try to pull that trick car on that race car you try to pull.

That's not gonna work with me, boo boo, because I don't praise nobody who look like Burke Reynolds, okay?

So you can take that.

to Lakot when they're doing Tina in the bathroom.

So don't try that with me.

But my question is, why is it when it comes to being pro-white, you keep putting black people in your business?

Why y'all don't do that with the Jews?

They're not even real white and they want to be white.

Black people ain't walking around here wanting to be white.

Yeah, we got a couple of cool ass niggas that want to be like you, but that's not us.

So I'm going to hang up and listen.

Why do you keep putting us?

in your business when we never wanted to be in your business.

I think that's kind of sick.

Love yourself a great day.

Bye-bye.

Sherwin Hughes

Bye-bye.

I don't know.

I can't speak for them, but it seems if a black person becomes successful and a white person doesn't share,

That same level of success maybe just maybe the white person is wondering well It must have been affirmative action or it must have been some kind of a minority quota because how on earth because I think the white culture knows full-on well What it has done structurally and institutionally to marginalize black success They don't like when we drive nice cars and live in big houses.

They don't like it.

They're okay if we have stuff

But just have less than us I Think might be some of the prevailing wisdom and also maybe I'm blowing this whole thing out of proportion Maybe white people aren't racist at all.

Maybe they love us so very much.

They love us a

lot

Sherwin Hughes

You gotta limit how much time you spend thinking about stuff like that cuz it'll mess your brains up There's a different kind of racism that exists in the north that I've become familiar with obviously because I'm from here, but I can contrast it with

The racism that exists in the South In the South I'm talking the former Confederacy.

I'm talking about those deep red states and no matter what Donald Trump is doing He's always gonna have better than a 50% approval rating.

I'm talking about that kind of South Black and white culture in the South is very very similar.

You don't have the same kind of segregation What'll happen is you'll have a poor part of town and you'll have a wealthier part of town and there will be black people and white people live right next door to each other in both segments

of that town, the poor part and the rich part.

And culturally, very similar.

They eat the same foods a lot of times.

It's just that I think in the south, they don't really want black people to have anything.

Just nothing, no kind of success.

But also at the same time, they know that they're powerless to prevent it.

In the north, I think that they're okay with black people being successful, but be successful over there.

Go away or go go stay in your own neighborhood and be successful.

Don't come out here with all that don't come out to River Hills Don't come out to Menominee Falls.

Don't come out to Waukesha Stay on the north side.

Oh, you can have success on the north side.

We just don't want to see it We don't want it near near us.

I think is the difference in Midwestern racism Currently we do not know

Full percentage of voter turnout yet because there are still some marginal amounts of ballots that need to be counted My prediction is we're probably somewhere at 27 to 29% if I had to guess Lady B says I Don't even know why I'm gonna read this First of all, I'm gonna fully disclose to all of you that I don't know this lady from Adam

Or maybe I should say I don't know her from Eve.

I don't know who this lady isn't and she's a frequent listener of the program this and on my YouTube channel Hughes views 414 Oh, and if you haven't subscribed to that go ahead and do it But she says sure when it's so toxic lol and then her next thing she types is That's why I don't want a relationship with him woman.

I don't know you

I mean, you don't want a relationship with me.

I don't want one with you.

Well, it depends what you're talking about, though.

What are you trying to do?

I should know better.

Don't involve yourself with listeners.

What is this?

Professor Hughes, there's plenty of baldy locks out there.

What's baldy locks?

Don't take the cornbread professor Hughes.

What are you talking about?

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Vote counting in Milwaukee was stalled after issues were discovered late Tuesday night, August 11.

Paulina Gutierrez, the executive director of the Milwaukee Election Commission, said audit logs from five machines were downloaded instead of the actual results.

Gutierrez said the issue was caused by, quote, human error.

Now.

Workers need to return those machines and make sure the results are downloaded properly Gutierrez said approximately 15,000 ballots are yet to be counted wait a minute That was at 12 13 a.m.

Okay, so they've been counted already Okay Published at 4 p.m.

August 11th, so yesterday afternoon while the polls were open

Workers at Milwaukee Central Count worked to tally thousands of absentee ballots on Tuesday in Wisconsin's partisan primary election.

Tallying began early and the Milwaukee Election Commission says it was a busy but smooth day overall.

Workers downloaded votes onto a flash drive that was taken to the Milwaukee County Courthouse to be securely uploaded.

100 workers were there on site all day counting more than 26,000 absentee ballots that were returned.

Paulina Gutierrez, the executive director of the Milwaukee Election Commission, says there was low turnout on Tuesday, especially in comparison to the August 2022 primary for governor.

Across the board, we are seeing pretty low turnout in this election.

Gutierrez said I was looking at August 2022 election.

That was about 26%.

That total was 73,000 ballots.

They also implemented a new system with bins so that once a ballot was counted,

It did not move again.

Let's talk to Diana.

You're on one on one seven.

The truth.

How are you?

Good morning, Sherwin.

I'm doing great.

Thank you.

I'm just calling on behalf of the voters that they, you know, were repeatedly saying that we're undecided for the polls.

And I was intentionally undecided because the campaign was so unstable.

You know, people dropping out, you know, it just was unstable.

And I wanted to make sure that by the time I voted, I was going to vote for somebody that was going to stay in the campaign.

And I knew that they would be there and know where they are in the polls.

And also, I liked a lot.

I liked a couple of the candidates.

I liked Joe Brennan.

I was confident in him that he could do a good job.

I felt like he worked very closely with Evers.

And so he knows the process.

and I'm sure that he would adopt some of Evers' processes.

And so I felt good about him, except that no one knew him.

You know, he was well-known in maybe the city circle, but as far as voters, he had a real, very poor campaign, and he just didn't put himself out there.

So people didn't know who he was.

And so I think that's what really hurt him.

As far as Kel Delroy, if I like her, I thought she had some good ideas, but she focused a lot on kids.

And so, you know, but being a lawyer, she was, you know, she works with the good, the bad, the ugly.

She's seen it all.

She's worked with all kinds of people.

So I felt good about that.

However, again, she was not very well known and she ran a real very poor campaign and people didn't know her and didn't know what she was about.

And so.

But I feel like when she knew that she couldn't win, she should have dropped out so that giving those voters over to Hong or Crowley, because I think that the votes that she took on, we lost that.

And then along with the people who voted early, and then those people dropped out.

What I didn't want to do was vote for Mandela Barnes or Crowley.

But getting back to that, Francesca Hong.

I did like her.

I liked her a lot.

I liked her ideas.

However, I did not see them really happening.

I didn't see, you know, that's a new fight.

A lot of things that she was looking for, Amy for, were new fights.

And we are now in a climate where we're trying to stabilize our economy.

We're trying to get people back on track, people lost jobs, people lost health insurance.

We need to stay back on track with what we know we can work with.

and not start new fights with ice and new fights with vouchers and whatnot.

But I did like her ideas.

I wish her the best.

Between her and Crawley, I didn't really care who won.

But the reason why I didn't want Crawley or Mandel Barnes is because they've been in the game too long to not have enough successes.

You know, they they've been working out here for a long time.

They're well known and so like where where's the progress and So I was really afraid that we're gonna have a same old, you know same as usual But um, so I hope quality can you know, I hope he steps up this time

Sherwin Hughes

Does he have your support moving into the general election in November?

He does he does So I hope I hope I hope I've done the right thing

Go

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on 84 days.

Thank you Diana for your very articulate take on being an undecided voter Okay, well, thank you.

That's great.

Thanks.

You too, Diana That was complicated.

She was all over the place at least she could Clearly articulate her thinking as to why she liked Francesca said some positive things about Kelda

Kelda had a lackluster campaign thought that Joel Brennan could have been potentially good as governor, but he never really got off the ground either fascinating stuff The Madison area counties where Roy's candidacy potentially mattered most So as we are doing autopsy on what happened and it's good to know what happened moving forward Where the Crowley campaign is gonna have to move and gonna have to pivot and going to have to embrace at least some of the ideas that move voters toward either

Francesca Hong or Keldor Royce.

Thank Keldor for staying in the race because Keldor Royce supporters, their second choice was Francesca.

And if just five in 100, just 5% of Keldor supporters would have voted for Francesca even though we know a third of them would have, that would have erased David Crowley's entire lead.

So her staying in the race did tremendous benefit to strengthen David Crowley's vote totals.

Look particularly at Dane County and surrounding South Central Wisconsin counties Roy's political identity was strongly associated with Madison and she was explicitly competing in the same progressive space that Hong occupied Wisconsin Public Radio's pre-election reporting described precisely this problem quote Roy's was progressive but Hong occupied the most progressive lane in their home cities

If Roy's accumulated several thousand votes across Dane County and neighboring counties that otherwise might have gone to Hong, those voters became highly consequential when the statewide margin is only 3,200 votes.

La Crosse and Western Wisconsin, this is another area worth examining because Hong's campaign needed to demonstrate that her progressive appeal extended beyond Madison.

Crowley was campaigning as a candidate who could appeal across the state rather than simply to the Democratic base in Madison and Milwaukee.

His campaign explicitly emphasized statewide electability against Republican Tom Tiffany.

The question for Hong wasn't simply, can I win in Madison?

It was, can I win enough Madison type voters outside of Madison to compensate for Milwaukee?

Ultimately, she did not.

Brown and out of gamey counties and the Fox Valley This is another important test of whether Hong could translate her progressive support into votes outside of Madison and Milwaukee the Associated Press identified Brown and out of gamey counties as Democratic vote centers in northeastern Wisconsin for Hong these counties represented the broader question could she build a statewide progressive coalition or Was her support concentrated in Madison?

and other democratic strongholds.

That distinction became extremely important.

So we're going to take a break, come back, we'll talk to Milisand on the other side and get her take on things.

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Your finances low people you need money How much money I'm always curious to how much money people make Let me ask this question Y'all quit arguing in there y'all are arguing I got a question Hey talking to y'all Turn is knit nitties in there too, right?

I Got a question for both y'all how much money y'all make

Interesting,

I don't know

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just in general No, what's okay just like I need a number for what is fully funding public schools I want how much you may need how much your residuals from bow you begin checks you begin royalties build our Wisconsin Is it go platinum All right, okay radio hosting a little cousin, that's fine

Let's talk to Millison.

Hey Millison, how much money do you make?

I don't make no money.

I'm Paul.

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Like hell you Paul.

I'm in social security.

I'm in a fixed income.

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Millison, you got a 401k, a 501k, a 601k?

Not a 501.

No, I

don't have that one.

I got the silver.

Not the 506.

So

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what are your thoughts on the election?

Listen,

I'm glad, I was hoping for all of you men, that's what I was hoping for.

But what I don't want is for us now to get into this behavior of what is she gonna do for us?

What is she gonna do for black people?

How's she gonna make black people better?

If you get into that,

Tom Tiffany is going to show you what's not going to make you better.

So you better just rally around him and vote.

Because if Tom Tiffany gets in there, oh, it's going to be another different kind of horse that we be riding.

So I don't want it just to be like, oh, he's going to get in office.

What are you going to do?

He's going to give us this.

Regardless of what he wants for you, he's going to do better for you than what Tom Tiffany would.

And I think that's where we're at at this point.

Sherwin Hughes

All right, Millison will be watching.

Bye bye.

I have found that people who reduce their political understanding to what is he or she going to do for me?

What am I going to get?

What immediate gratification am I going to receive?

What short-term benefit is going to be put into my hand?

Are people that probably do not vote because they do not have an understanding of how the system actually works?

The only thing that we can do is help shape and create a favorable climate and environment where people can maximize their full potential.

So it is not just fully funding education, whatever that means, but it's lowering prices, lowering costs, making it easier to get into entrepreneurship and lowering and reducing any kind of institutional barriers to people's success, creating a climate that is favorable for more jobs and employers to want to come here, et cetera, et cetera.

So if there are barriers, regardless of your community or your zip code,

to your success and right now one of the biggest barriers that we see is a lackluster education program because that goes to the heart of the kind of workforce that we want and we need in Wisconsin.

If we do not have educated people here then the jobs may come, the companies may come, they're going to hire, but they're going to have to hire people who are from somewhere else and that's problematic.

So one of those core issues is, or one of those questions that you may ask or answer, what is the candidate going to do for me?

Ask how they support education, whether it be K-12, whether it be early childhood education, or even maybe subsidizing to a higher degree if you want to go to trade and tech school, which I believe should be completely and totally free.

And even reducing the cost of...

attending a university, because contrary to popular belief, all of the occupations that we need filled with the baby boomer generation removing themselves from the workforce can't just be filled by being a barber or an esthetician.

We are going to actually need people with master's degrees and PhDs and bachelor of science degrees and bachelor of arts degrees.

They're still a necessary part of our society that needs those kinds of degrees.

Now, it's very expensive.

But the best investment a human being can ever make ever and it's not real estate and the stocks and the bonds and the derivatives and and the options and that's not the best investment.

You can really the best investment you can make is on call.

She betting that David Crowley would win the race.

I know somebody that did that and they're stupid rich.

They came in here smelling like money.

You know how people attitude change when they get money.

They look at you funny.

They look down their nose at you.

I know what that feeling is.

A lot of people look at me like I'm short.

Like, I got money too.

I got a little, I can go out to eat.

I can take a woman on a date.

I got a little money, but I ain't got as much money as some of y'all.

I know somebody came in here today.

They won big money last night.

They came in and they was like, what you looking at?

Who was you?

Do I know you?

Excuse me.

Open this door for me.

Who are you?

Are you the help?

Who are you?

I'm rich.

That's what the person said.

They said it to me.

Sherwin who?

Sherman.

Is that your name?

I don't know you.

I was like, nitty, it's me.

Who?

Security.

And then nitty security.

Nitty got rich.

He didn't tell me how much money he made.

You don't need this little radio gig, Needy.

You don't need this.

This is just something that you just do for fun.

Just be coming here, just be chilling.

You on for a long time today.

He said he does need it.

No, he don't need this.

Needy just, he got so much money.

He was like, I think I'll run for office.

Needy ran against Bob Baumann.

I was right there with him.

I was like, come on, Needy, let's get it.

He cracked me up yesterday.

Needy was like, I would have won my race if it wasn't raining on election day.

I was like word.

I was like, come on, dog.

You know, black people don't be.

What was I not supposed to say that?

It's true.

People was like, I want to vote for Nitty, but I just got my hair done.

He'll win.

He'll he gonna be.

I love him.

Black folks say they don't need my vote.

They gonna be.

I know that's when the blacks lose.

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Kelder Roy's didn't have to win the election to potentially determine who won it.

Kelder Roy's received approximately 59,000 votes, Crowley won by approximately 3,200.

So, only about one out of every 18 Kelder Roy's voters would have had to have chose Hong instead for the outcome to change.

We have polling evidence that says Keldoroy's voters actually lean toward Hong as their second choice.

34% Hong versus 29% for Crowley.

That's why saying Keldoroy's may have been the difference is mathematically accurate.

But we cannot say that Roy's definitely lost or cost Hong the election.

There is no

counterfactual ballot.

Some Roy's voters would have voted Crowley, some would have voted Brennan, some may have voted for one of the other candidates who had withdrawn, some may not have voted at all.

So the intellectually honest conclusion is, you ready for this?

Roy's didn't necessarily cost Hong the election, but she absolutely received enough votes to have changed the election and the available polling suggests that her voters lean more toward Hong than Crowley.

With a statewide margin of only about 3,200 votes, that makes Roy's one of the most important unanswered questions of the entire election.

Francesca Hong didn't lose because she had no constituency.

She received essentially 40% of the Democratic vote.

She lost because she couldn't consolidate the progressive vote enough to overcome Crowley's establishment coalition.

So there you go.

Ladies and gentlemen.

So she's essentially the white Mandela Barnes.

Sherwin Hughes

She's

The white Mandela

hmm.

Yeah She is

just gets in the way messing things up for others

Sherwin Hughes

Yeah, they saw what What probably should have happened was but Kelda has she's very confident and it probably borders on On arrogance and also Kelda is the senator.

She is higher ranking than Francesca

And sometimes pride gets in the way and it can blind you, especially if you're really super ambitious.

Kelda, who is the lawyer, who is the senator, who has been around Wisconsin politics since Francesca was probably 10 years old, was not going to bow out of a race and endorse and support her subordinate, even though that would have better solidified the progressive coalition.

It would have.

And imagine, in the perfect world, what happens is this?

Francesca says, hey, Kelda, I'm going to win.

I'm going to solve the progressive coalition.

You drop out of the race.

You endorse me.

And then I will give you a position in the state government.

I'll make you a secretary of transportation or Department of Administration.

I don't know that Kelda would accept a position in a gubernatorial administration from her subordinate.

There's a pride thing.

And Kelda stayed in the race.

Kelda polled.

Very, very low.

If anything, the Marquette University Law School poll, which needs to be completely discredited.

I don't ever want to see another Marquette poll ever again.

First of all, screw Marquette.

I went to UW Milwaukee.

We'll kick Marquette's ass.

We'll fight you.

Bunch of private school kids.

Talk about I went to Marquette.

Give me your lunch money, ho.

No, Sherwin.

Marquette kids will be having $35,000 in cash for lunch.

Yeah,

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us UWM kids we had We took box lunches.

We had to fight each other for food.

We were like rabbit dogs We used to rob and steal at UW Milwaukee, but we're highly educated just want to let you know We're the streets smart university.

You know what I mean?

Market University got one thing right.

Hilda was in single-digit and she remained I think she ended up getting on about 4% of the boat

But that 4% was very crucial.

But she should have dropped out of the race.

And Doris Francesca had momentum that Kelda could never get.

Kelda's never been able to get that kind of momentum.

Remember, she ran for governor in 2018 and finished in the exact same damn place, single digits.

She also ran for Congress against Mark Polkane, and Mark Polkane is a homosexual gay fellow, right?

So when Kelda was running against Mark Polkane in that primary, Kelda all of a sudden became bisexual.

Oh, I'm a member of the LGBTQ community.

We was like, Kelda, chill.

Girl, you married and got five kids.

Ain't no man, no lesbian about you.

Mark Pokehens, though, gee.

Kelda kissed a girl if she liked it.

She's like, I'm

a lesbian.

I'm going to get the gay vote.

I wonder will the Francesca people rebel against her now?

Will she be, you know, bad, you know, no good, no more in Madison?

Sherwin Hughes

Will the Francesca Hong supporters be angry at Keldon?

Yes.

Oh,

Sherwin Hughes

yeah.

Oh be time.

They should be that's So I got all this information here and a lot of this is mathematical and blah blah blah blah blah she cost Absolutely, she did

well.

Let's make her a pariah now in Madison.

Sherwin Hughes

I'm not gonna do that I don't want to get involved in mouse Madison politics.

That's not my thing I got a whole city Milwaukee worry about Madison is gonna do what Madison does.

I ain't got nothing to do with me Madison is weird

I go there when I have to but it's never like on top of my list of places to go because I'm so familiar with that place and Like the social climate of Madison.

I don't like it.

It's a fake veneer of progressivism and liberalism It is shrouded in the most intense kind of racism you have absolutely ever seen is that that white liberal kind of racism like oh, I know better than you niggers too.

Well, no, we know no, I don't mean it that way like that's

That's the Madison liberal.

No, no, I love niggers.

No, my God.

I love you guys so much.

You guys dance so good.

But here, policy-wise here, I'm going to write the script for you and then you guys just do what we say because we're Madison.

Yuck.

No thanks.

And they don't even think there's anything wrong with that attitude.

And they'll be like, well, look at you niggers.

I mean, no, no, look at how you live.

Come live like us.

We'll help you.

Just vote for our political agenda so we can keep our lead over you.

No thanks.

So I don't get involved in it.

Okay, I'm gonna take a break, come back.

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Sherwin Hughes

Aaron told me to stop pocket watching.

I'm not watching anybody's pocket.

I'm just curious as to how much money people make.

I know the younger generations, they oftentimes share salary information and you know what they have done?

They have eliminated or certainly dramatically reduced pay disparities because when people share how much their salaries are in the same job.

Employers sometimes have a lot of explaining to do.

I know it was common amongst some of my younger colleagues.

They was real open and honest about how much money they made.

I'll be doing that because people will judge you.

I mean, I wouldn't judge anybody if they told me how much money they made.

In fact, the wealthier you are, contrary to popular belief, you're more likely to be a damn democratic socialist.

It's the most unusual phenomenon ever.

When the Democratic Socialists of America did their own internal survey of their members, and they released this information, Democratic Socialists are 85% white.

The Republican Party is 79% white, so Democratic Socialists are actually whiter.

Only 4% of Democratic Socialists work in

blue collar labor type of jobs 96% of them absolutely do not 35% of democratic socialists have at least at least at least a Master's degree or higher a third of them Have master's degrees or higher and another third of them Make better than $100,000 a year.

These are not

poor people that even need Medicare for all.

In fact, I think that their lives are already so on paper complete.

They're high levels of education.

They're higher levels of income.

They might as well ask for more.

They might as well ask for free health insurance.

They might as well ask for reduced college tuition.

They might as well.

That's such an interesting phenomenon, but also

In the grand scheme of things, ladies and gentlemen, I think the last night's election results will prove this accurate.

The African-American vote that is still largely democratic does not do or agree with or even believe the principles of democratic socialism.

And why is that?

It is a Western European modality in majority white countries where majority white people use their money and their taxes to take care of one another, whether it be Bernie Sanders or whether it be Francesca Hong.

They don't have the understanding because their party and their affiliation of being a democratic socialist is conversations that take place amongst white people without including the very specific sentiments of the black community where race is going to play a factor even if.

If you have Medicare for all or Badger care for all, they're still going to find a way to disqualify a large number of African Americans.

It is a European economic and political modality, and I don't know about you, but I don't need any other kind of European influence tainting the lives of non-European people.

Go back to Europe if you want.

Ain't nobody stopping you from going to Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland.

You're welcome to go there.

They got plenty of room, and you can go skiing on snow or cocaine.

Not my problem.

Congratulations to Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley.

Now the real fight begins against the election-denying ultra-conservative MAGA Acolyte Tom Tiffany, who did win his primary last night.

And he is the Republican nominee for governor in the state of Wisconsin.

So let's saddle up.

Roll out.

Thank you for listening.

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