On Background with Susan Crabtree
On Background with Susan Crabtree
Government Accountability Institute
Milwaukee Can't Count: Another Late-Night Ballot Meltdown | Ep. 34
31 minutes Posted Aug 14, 2026 at 3:09 pm.
Intro and primary season chaos 1:02 Wisconsin's shocker: Crowley over Hong 2:16 The five missing jump drives 6:36 Milwaukee's repeat failures 7:47 Why the DOJ skipped Wisconsin 9:05 Pelosi's machine takes on Scott Wiener 11:44 The AI chatbot that backfired 15:43 Pelosi in her own words 20:23 Becerra vs. Hilton for governor 24:11 Medicaid fraud by the numbers ๐“๐ก๐ž ๐‘๐ž๐ฌ๐ž๐š๐ซ๐œ๐ก ๐๐ž๐ก๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐’๐ก๐จ๐ฐ ๐Ÿ‘‡ On Background is produced by the ๐†๐จ๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ๐ง๐ฆ๐ž๐ง๐ญ ๐€๐œ๐œ๐จ๐ฎ๐ง๐ญ๐š๐›๐ข๐ฅ๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ ๐ˆ๐ง๐ฌ๐ญ๐ข๐ญ๐ฎ๐ญ๐ž, a nonpartisan investigative research organization. No anonymous sources. No government funds. We follow the money and publish what it shows. ๐ŸŒ https://accountabilityinstitute.org/ ๐• https://x.com/Govt_Acct_Inst ๐Ÿ“ธ https://www.instagram.com/govt_acct_inst โ–ถ๏ธ https://www.youtube.com/@Govt_Acct_Inst ๐Ÿ“˜ https://www.facebook.com/GovernmentAccountabilityInstitute ๐Ÿ“– More from Peter Schweizer: https://peterschweizer.com ๐Ÿ“– The Invisible Coup: https://theinvisiblecoup.com
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๐’๐ฎ๐ฌ๐š๐ง ๐‚๐ซ๐š๐›๐ญ๐ซ๐ž๐ž ๐š๐ง๐ ๐„๐ซ๐ข๐œ ๐„๐ ๐ ๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ break down a primary night gone sideways. Milwaukee lost five of nine jump drives and held up a razor-thin governor's race until the wee hours of the morning. It fits a pattern the city has repeated for two decades. Then the show turns west: Nancy Pelosi's machine against Scott Wiener, an AI chatbot stunt that collapsed into a racism charge, and Medicaid fraud numbers that expose how little California and Minnesota spend to police their own systems.