The wife of an Iowa Republican has been arrested and now charged with committing
voter fraud over 20 times in fact and that may not be a coincidental number.
It was in the 2020 election.
I don't know if that's a numerology thing but court documents say that Kim Taylor
submitted or caused others to submit dozens of voter registration,
absentee ballot request forms and absentee ballots containing false information.
She is alleged to have visited numerous households within the Vietnamese community
in Woodberry County where she collected absentee ballots for
people who are not present at the time.
She then filled those out, cast the ballots herself.
The indictment alleges quote causing the casting of votes in the names of residents
who had no knowledge of and had not consented to the casting of their ballots.
Taylor is also accused of signing voter registration forms on behalf of residents
who were not present.
I don't know if that's like a long term thing where you planned to then return and
get their ballots when they come just registering doesn't necessarily help you
out in the election.
But anyway, in all, she was charged with 26 counts of providing false information
and registering and voting, three counts of fraudulent registration and
23 counts of fraudulent voting.
Each charge carries a maximum five year prison sentence which I'm just gonna
get out in front of this voter fraud is a serious thing and
I think that it should be taken seriously while also acknowledging that it is very,
very rare and has basically never, ever influenced an election ever.
If she gets like 120 years in prison for what she did, that is utter madness and
it cannot be allowed.
If Alan Weiss Tilburg is spending five months in prison for
a decade and a half of tax fraud.
She cannot go to prison for that long.
But that said her motive seems clear she was trying to help her husband,
republican politician, Jeremy Taylor in his race at that point.
But again, it's a couple of dozen votes,
it doesn't seem like the sort of thing that could necessarily matter.
But anyway, what do you both think about this?
Starting with you Francesca?
>> I mean, look, she did it for love and
I just feel like that that's a good woman, you know what I mean?
You keep her and you hold on tight.
If your partner is willing to commit voter fraud for you.
I mean, soulmates truly, especially if you're a Republican, soul mates.
My God.
No, this is so egregious, I'm glad she got caught.
It's random that it was in Iowa, I'm wondering if it was a primary or
not because I'm like, it certainly wasn't up against Democrat.
And it's interesting because of who she targeted that she seems to have targeted
the Vietnamese community and she herself is Vietnamese.
And so that's sort of I think a little insidious to be like, yeah,
as a member of this community, you don't have a voice or ballot or
you're not gonna vote here is I'm gonna just vote for you.
And I think that's an interesting little tinge of this that I'm sure we're
going to hear about on Fox news tonight, Tucker will dedicate a very long
segment to it and not about your regular scheduled.
Why the Charmin bears are woke now.
>> [LAUGH] >> To Francesca's point.
If you gotta cheat in Iowa to get a Republican elected,
this is not a good candidate.
If it were California or somewhere else like the New York, okay,
the ladies like I gotta cheat, I gotta get you in but to go in Iowa and cheat to get,
I think in, in Iowa you just got to say I'm Republican and you win.
I mean there's no, I think that's how easy it is.
I mean you just, you just go, I'm Republican, LGBTQ community is bad and and
Lord hallelujah, whatever and then you get elected.
I think that's how you do it.
You don't send your wife out to get the ballots from her community and
as you said by the way, John, 20 balots,
[LAUGH] it's like if you're gonna do it, you gotta do it big.
Come on, 20 is like, I wonder if she started out going like I'm gonna get 1000,
2000 and like 20 in she's like this is this is exhausting.
I'm just gonna call it a day.
>> That volunteer work is difficult, I appreciate it.
But seriously, to Kim Taylor,
if you want to D'Souza to make a documentary about you,
it's not going to happen with 20 balance, you gotta mule way more than that.
But anyway, it was in the GOP primary,
he ended up coming in third place, getting about 6400 votes.
So third place, 6400 the 20 didn't seem to have helped very much, but
the point that I want to make about this is and
to some extent maybe is disagreeing a little bit with you Francesca.
I do agree with you that I don't think Tucker Carlson's gonna talk about it, but
I do think that he could, I think that he could.
And actually, I'm gonna explain why in explaining why I don't generally love
talking about topics like this.
I know if you're a right winger, you're thinking you're lying,
you love it because it makes Republicans look bad.
No, I don't, for two different reasons.
One is substantive, it didn't matter,
you're not swaying elections by stuff like this, so is it newsworthy?
We can have a debate about that.
Also she was caught by the way, so if your belief is that insidious voter fraud is
swaying elections, they catch even petty little ones like this,
you think they're not catching someone who's doing 10,000 votes.
That's number two, but number three is there's been a million stories like this
where it was the Republicans who are actually doing voter fraud and
you might think, well, that makes the Republicans look bad, maybe.
But you know what, what narrative it also advances that there's voter fraud.
Like Tucker Carlson could do this, he's not going to, but he could do this and
say, look at what I've been saying.
If you mail people ballots or you mail them registration,
someone can wander up and take it.
I mean, ignore the fact that they got caught.
It had no effect.
It was only 20 ballots, ignore how it is impossible to sway an election like that.
He could use this to advance his narrative.
I don't think they've yet been savvy enough to do that, but
it's not impossible.
What do you think?
>> I think that's a really good point,
that it's mostly a distraction from broader narratives
that are actually happening, which are voter suppression, right?
The fact that people have to wait an incredibly long lines to even exercise
their right to vote, right?
The fact that Rhonda Santis can singlehandedly revoke that states,
allowing of former balance to finally vote, right?
And he's like, no, we're not gonna ballot initiative.
Democracy, no, no.
So we don't believe in that this state because we're anti woke i.e anti
democracy.
So I agree, these stories are meant to grab headlines.
It's definitely not indicative of a broader pattern, but
it is funny that it's always the Republicans who fall into that pattern.
And also hello who have like multiple residences, rich people,
how they have multiple residences and they all vote in Florida funny.
Last thing I'll say though,
Kim Taylor's definitely gonna be on Trump 2024 campaign team like that.
Like I would hire her like all I need is 11,780 votes.
You guys? That's a quote from former president.
>> I know. >> Also, also Tucker Carlson could talk
about her and allude to the fact that she's originally from Vietnam,
that's probably was a communist,
thus antifa it was the Democrats who did the voter fraud.
>> He got us.
At last, he got us.