Grounded with Jon Tester and Maritsa Georgiou
Aug 27, 2026 · 1 hr 1 min · 13 segments
Grounded welcomes former Ambassador to Japan and White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, known for his aggressive political style, who kicks things off by reminiscing about trying to recruit Jon…
Rahm EmanuelGuest
Maritsa GeorgiouHost
Jon TesterHost
A judge just ruled that the USPS can move ahead with new rules to restrict mail-in voting, at least for now.
There is a strong chance, of course, that parts of this executive order from President Trump will be blocked at some point, possibly even today.
And that executive order actually calls for the USPS to try track mail-in ballots, and potentially reject certain ballots if the person who submits them is not on this master federal list of eligible voters.
Well, my reaction is, who made up the list? Is this a list of Republican-only or Democratic-only voters that they're going to kick off if they have a chance to vote Democrat? This is, and excuse me, Ron, for saying, this is total bullshit.
The fact of the matter here, if you're going to have elections, you encourage people to vote.
and that's really the bottom line this president is not concerned about the democracy at all and he don't give a about anything but his own bank account that's just my opinion rom i don't know how you feel yeah well
i don't as i've always said there is you know the three qualities that describe this president is chaos cruelty and uh You know, the sense there's a chaos element, there's a cruelty element, and there's a corruption element.
I'd also say, look, the one thing that's the difference between democracies and authoritarian governments is that voters can hold elected officials accountable.
And the president's entire tenure is in every way to make sure that he's never held accountable.
And the Republicans in Congress have done everything in their power to make sure he's never been held accountable by being a rubber stamp.
And so this element of this decision, this executive order on voting is to restrict actually the level of accountability on his corruption.
By restricting voters, he wants his greed and his corruption to continue his chaos and his cruelty to continue.
A judge just ruled that the USPS can move ahead with new rules to restrict mail-in voting, at least for now.
There is a strong chance, of course, that parts of this executive order from President Trump will be blocked at some point, possibly even today.
And that executive order actually calls for the USPS to try track mail-in ballots, and potentially reject certain ballots if the person who submits them is not on this master federal list of eligible voters.
Well, my reaction is, who made up the list? Is this a list of Republican-only or Democratic-only voters that they're going to kick off if they have a chance to vote Democrat? This is, and excuse me, Ron, for saying, this is total bullshit.
The fact of the matter here, if you're going to have elections, you encourage people to vote.
and that's really the bottom line this president is not concerned about the democracy at all and he don't give a about anything but his own bank account that's just my opinion rom i don't know how you feel yeah well
i don't as i've always said there is you know the three qualities that describe this president is chaos cruelty and uh You know, the sense there's a chaos element, there's a cruelty element, and there's a corruption element.
I'd also say, look, the one thing that's the difference between democracies and authoritarian governments is that voters can hold elected officials accountable.
And the president's entire tenure is in every way to make sure that he's never held accountable.
And the Republicans in Congress have done everything in their power to make sure he's never been held accountable by being a rubber stamp.
And so this element of this decision, this executive order on voting is to restrict actually the level of accountability on his corruption.
By restricting voters, he wants his greed and his corruption to continue his chaos and his cruelty to continue.
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