What a Former Bush Spokesman Revealed to Obama Advisor About 2008 Dem Primary Has Jaws Dropping

Former Obama advisor David Axelrod was on a CNN panel talking about the primaries that were going on Tuesday. In the process, the panel spoke about election fraud issues. As our sister site Townhall reported, that's when Pete Seat, a former spokesman for President George W. Bush and the Indiana Republican Party, dropped some news of which many were not aware. Seat explained the problem with how Barack Obama got on the ballot in a county in Indiana.

A Bush White House spokesman drops a bomb on CNN that nobody saw coming: Barack Obama got on the 2008 Indiana primary ballot with FRAUDULENT signatures.

And he says it to Obama’s own strategist, David Axelrod, sitting three feet away.

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Seat explained that Democrats were accused of submitting false ballot petition signatures, including for Obama, and that people were convicted over that. Even a former Democratic governor said his name was put on a petition and he didn't sign it. The signatures helped Obama qualify.

Axelrod asked how they determined there had been a problem? Seat explained that it was finally exposed later.

CNN commentator Adam Kinzinger pooh-poohed it, claiming, "That's not a voting issue." He argued that it was not a "stealing the election" or "illegals are voting issue. "That's an Indiana issue," he bizarrely contended.

Seat disputed that, saying it was still obviously an issue.

The wildest thing there is the reaction, particularly by Kinzinger, because it was an "Indiana issue."

In fact, this shows there are more issues than just a voter voting who shouldn't be voting. How extensive is the ballot question?

Bottom line, we should all want our elections to be as secure as possible to protect the sanctity of our votes. More than 80 percent want voter ID.

A 2025 Pew Research Center survey found 83 percent of Americans support requiring voters to show government-issued photo identification. That included 95 percent of Republicans and Republican-leaning voters and, notably, 71 percent of Democrats and Democratic leaners.
Gallup found an even higher number: 84 percent support requiring photo ID at the polls. Gallup also found 83 percent support requiring proof of citizenship when someone registers to vote for the first time.

Yet as my colleague Kyle Becker reported, not one Democrat in the Senate would vote in favor of the voter ID bill on Saturday, despite what the people want.

Sen. Jon Husted, the Ohio Republican, introduced an untitled bill last week that would have directed states to deny ballots to voters who fail to show photo ID. All present Democrats voted against it, giving conservatives a line of attack against Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, who said earlier this year that his caucus supported "commonsense voter ID."

So they can't credibly argue they care about election integrity when they take such positions. They want to argue that these things don't happen. And yet we see they do.

Editor’s Note: Republicans are fighting for election integrity by requiring proper identification to vote.

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