Spencer Deery Holds Narrow Lead as Indiana Election Recount Debate Pulls Diego Morales Into Controversy

We have an update in the Spencer Deery Paula Copenhaver race. This is the race. If somebody ever tells you your vote doesn’t matter, I ask you to show them the vote tally in the Spencer Deery Paula Copenhaver vote. The vote total in that race, it was two votes starting yesterday. Parke County had a hearing on a provisional ballot. Parke County awarded that provisional ballot to Spencer Deery. So Spencer Deery now has a three vote lead. There is one county left remaining, that is Tippecanoe County. They have two provisional ballots to count. So Spencer Deery, at least on the initial count, is declaring victory because even if both of those ballots went to Copenhaver, Deery would still be one vote ahead, which is a possibility. We don’t know who those people voted for. We don’t know if the ballots will be counted. So a lot of times provisional ballots get tossed out. They don’t count. But if they do, we don’t know who they went for yet. Now, Tippecanoe County went 2 to 1 in favor of Deery. So the theory is they’re going to be Deery voters, but you don’t know. We have absolutely no idea. Absolutely no idea.

Spencer Deery Extends Lead as Final Provisional Ballots Remain Outstanding

So that’s where we’re at with this. It is now a three vote lead for Spencer Deery. Two votes left to count. The total as of yesterday, 6337 for Deery, 6334 for Copenhaver. Now Copenhaver has until May the 19th. So doing a little math, today is the 14th, tomorrow is the 15th, 16, 17, that’s Tuesday. She has until Tuesday to file for a verified recount or contest petition. Party chairman, county chairman have until May 22nd. Now we are going to have, or we’re scheduled to have Samantha Dewester on with us Monday. She is one of Spencer Deery’s attorneys. So Monday we will have a full final vote count of the original vote. Now, all these recounts and stuff will still be left to happen, but Samantha’s going to be with us, and this is something only our show can do. We’re going to do a deep dive on elections 101. We’re going to explain to you how a recount would work. We’re going to explain to you how the provisional ballot counts have worked. We’re going to walk through all of the stuff that remains, what the challenges could be, how they might be challenged. We know this. We know Spencer Deery, whether it’s one vote, it could be as little as one, or it could be as much as five, will lead the final original vote tally pending a recount. So you guys, Monday, we’re scheduled to have Samantha with us. And by the way, Samantha was the attorney for Alexander Wilson, and she won that case for Alexander Wilson. So pretty good person to have in your corner if you’re Spencer Deery, to have Samantha Dewester in your corner. She’s working for Spencer Deery on this election case.

Possible Recount Could Place Diego Morales at Center of Election Dispute

Now this gets more interesting because a recount would head over to the Indiana election division, the request for the recount, which means Diego’s going to be involved. And so yesterday, preemptively, Ed Delaney, Democrat representative from Indianapolis, came out and urged Diego to remove himself from any recount involving Deery. And at first I thought this and I was like, okay, well, Diego is an incompetent idiot, so it’d probably be good to have him remove himself from anything involving his office. But then I thought, well, that kind of seems political because the way it works is the board is Diego, a Democrat and a Republican. Diego. But then the more I thought about it, I thought, you know what? There’s some merit to this. Diego openly is now aligned with Turning Point USA. Remember Turning Point USA and the Secretary of State’s office and the governor’s office entered into some nonspecific, vague, undefined partnership.

Turning Point USA Ties Raise Questions About Election Oversight and Neutrality

By the way, speaking of vague, I’ve done a horrible job of staying on the Adam Krupp story. I’m not letting it go. Krupp, I’ll get back to you. Is he still in there as that special adviser to the governor that we don’t know what he does? See, this is what happens with the government. They’re always like, just don’t say anything, it’ll go away. The media loses steam. They go on to the next bright, shiny object. And it works a lot of times. But I caught myself, I caught myself, crap, I’m not done with you yet. I’ll have to get the latest on what’s going on with Adam Krupp over at DCS. But anyway, Diego is openly partnering at a press conference, all this other stuff, with Turning Point USA. Turning Point USA endorsed and supported and was the campaign arm, the campaign driver for Paula Copenhaver. Quote, Delaney said Morales, quote, has deeply involved himself with the branch of Turning Point USA, which endorsed his primary opponent. Diego, that is a fair point, and not just because Diego is a piece of human sludge. Diego has openly, through his government position, endorsed an organization that is the primary driver of a campaign that he would oversee the results of. Diego also offered public support for redistricting, and Paula Copenhaver ran on redistricting and ran on the endorsement of Donald Trump, which they made no bones about, was about redistricting. Does anyone think if push came to shove, if there’s any jump balls, that Diego would be fair? I don’t. I think you’d have a major issue here if there’s any jump balls where the Republican and Democrat on the board see it differently. Now, Diego’s staff got asked about this. And as predicted, anytime Diego gets asked to do something ethical, he immediately tells everyone to smooch his butt cheeks. According to the Capital Chronicle, Secretary of State’s spokeswoman Lindsey Eaton said the secretary, quote, has no intention of stepping away from the constitutional and statutory duties that define his office. Now, look, guys, this does bring it back to something that Greg Ballard has made a part of his campaign. And the importance of it is starting to play out. Ballard has said already, as Secretary of State, I will not endorse anyone running for public office that my office would oversee the potential election of, the campaign of, the election for. And now you see something like where Diego could be a deciding vote on something and you go, well, that’s probably pretty smart because Diego, certainly out there being all about endorsements, support. And this is where it comes back to the job of the Secretary of State is not to be political. It’s not to campaign. It’s not to be Republican or Democrat, quite frankly. I mean, you get elected as one, but it’s to administer the will of General Assembly. It should be a boring, inconspicuous job. I was talking with somebody yesterday about this and they said, you know, think about the Secretary of States and the candidates that you had before now, before 2022. The Republican was almost always some person with great institutional knowledge of Indiana government, like a Connie Lawson before Diego, or a Todd Rokita before Connie. Now in between was Charlie White, who had a wee bit of a problem with the law. But even Charlie White was a local elected official. He had served in local government on the Fishers Town Council at the time. And then you think about, and then on the Democrat side, you know, you always had, it was like a state rep or a state senator who would run. And that was the competition, because it should be a boring administrative position of people who know the laws of our state and enact the will of the General Assembly. That’s it. There’s no campaigning to it. There’s no propaganda, or there shouldn’t be to it.

Indiana Secretary of State Office Faces Scrutiny Over Growing Political Role

Look at 22. It was Diego with no elective experience whatsoever, who had a checkered at best record inside of state government, including paperwork showing he was fired by Todd Rokita. Why will no one ask Rokita why he endorsed a guy that paperwork shows he once fired. Next time somebody does a Rokita presser, why won’t the media just say, hey, why’d you fire Diego? And why are you endorsing him now? Diego is also, paperwork shows, about to be fired by Charlie White’s office before he quit. So you have Diego, who has no government experience outside of a checkered history in state government. By the way, he worked for Mike Pence. I still have no idea what he did for Pence. None. Neither does Pence. That’s perfect. I check on the businesses, I check. And then his opponent was Destiny Wells. I don’t think we need to spend a single second further telling you what a dumpster fire Destiny Wells was. Also, with seemingly no government experience this year, it’s going to be Diego, who is a complete dumpster fire who has used his office as a 24 over seven campaign machine. If indeed Diego is the nominee, and Bowe By, who also has zero governmental experience, I mean, he was a member of the military and God bless him for his service. He was a clerk for the Federal Court of Appeals, but he has no actual elective or, you know, it wasn’t like he served on government boards, commissions in terms of planning commissions, whatever. Right. Wasn’t a city councilor, nothing. And so you see this office starting to change right in front of us, that the politicians use this office as a stepping stone. It’s all political now. And how can we elevate. Now, in fairness, Rokita did that. In fairness, Evan Bayh was elected to Secretary of State and then used that as an elevation to governor in just a couple of years. But we had a long track record then, you know, in between all of that, of people kind of just that were qualified people. What did Connie Lawson do? She retired. Quit in the middle of her term.