The Mail-In Ballot Ruling and the Butler Evidence: Jim Pfaff on Worldview Tube | Sep 15, 2026
Published: September 15, 2026
Network: Worldview Tube — Washington Report
Analysis: Conservative Caucus President Jim Pfaff
President Trump spent the morning of September 15 on Truth Social attacking a Supreme Court decision on mail-in voting and announcing that new information had surfaced in the Butler, Pennsylvania assassination attempt. On that day’s Washington Report on Worldview Tube, Conservative Caucus President Jim Pfaff took the mail-in ballot ruling apart on the law rather than the politics: there are, by his count, about three separate levels of federal mail fraud that a ballot mailed to someone ineligible to vote would violate. From there: the stalled Save America Act, the new Butler evidence, a North Carolina Democrat’s deleted post wishing for an attack on American soil, and Texas state representative James Talarico’s refusal to rule out calling a parent abusive for not affirming a child’s gender identity.
Topics Covered
- The Mail-In Ballot Ruling and Three Levels of Mail Fraud
- The Social Security Check Test
- Why the Save America Act Has Not Moved
- New Evidence in Butler, Pennsylvania
- A North Carolina Candidate and a Deleted Post
- James Talarico and the Word “Abuse”
- Key Takeaways
The Mail-In Ballot Ruling and Three Levels of Mail Fraud
The host opened by noting the president had been active on Truth Social that morning, posting about a Supreme Court decision and about Butler. Pfaff went straight at the decision.
“The Supreme Court decision is, to me, very odd because the fraud laws of various sorts are like, I think, three different levels of mail fraud that would be violated by having noncitizens sending ballots through the mail.”
— Jim Pfaff, President, The Conservative Caucus
It is, he said, the oddest decision he has ever seen on such obvious law, and one of the big problems this country has — a country he described as full of injustice, and one he hopes God does not completely judge for it. On the mail-in ballot ruling he said he is with President Trump: the objection he presses is that the court did not apply statutes that already exist.
The host then read from the president’s post: Republicans had just gotten another bad decision from the Supreme Court, one the court system took forever to deliver and then blamed in part on there being no time left to implement a solution to what Trump called a totally corrupt and out-of-control mail-in voting disaster.
What the President Posted
Trump called the decision a big loss for Republicans and for America itself, said it makes cheating by the radical left on mail-in ballots much easier, and credited Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas — “legends both” — with the dissent. Pfaff’s answer was statutory: mail fraud penalties are severe, he said, and necessarily severe.
The Social Security Check Test
Pfaff’s argument for why the mail-in ballot ruling matters ran through a comparison anyone can check. Suppose your grandparent gets a letter that looks very official, telling them to do something about their Social Security check, and they act on it — and it is actually a scam to steal that check. The people who commit that fraud go to jail. How, he asked, is that substantively different from an illegal alien, or someone who has moved to another state, receiving a mail ballot and sending it back knowing they are not authorized to vote?
His answer is that the election version is worse. It is not a fiduciary problem, he said, but a far more serious one.
“These are our elections. This is how we determine who’s going to represent us.”
— Jim Pfaff, President, The Conservative Caucus
The stolen check can be fixed. An election cannot. Once ineligible ballots have elected someone, Pfaff said, you cannot unwind it — and there are lots of close races every year around the country. He named the standard answer to this himself: a lot of people think the president is crazy and trying to re-adjudicate 2020. Whatever, he said. The reality is that we run elections in a way we never ran them before roughly five to eight years into this century.
Why the Save America Act Has Not Moved
The host raised the other half of the election-integrity ledger: the Save America Act has not gone anywhere, so there has been no real movement on the election side of things at all. Pfaff did not blame Democrats for that one. The issue, he said, is Republicans who are so feckless and cowardly that they do not even understand what is at stake here — and frankly, some of them may understand and are unwilling to change it. Then he named a senator.
“I would put Lisa Murkowski in that category because she benefits from these fraudulent election methods. It’s absurd. These people need to be called to account.”
— Jim Pfaff, President, The Conservative Caucus
What is missing, he said, is shame in this political environment, because these people are intent on keeping a system going that is not in line with the purposes and intentions behind the creation of this republic. TCC has been making the same accountability argument on the scorecard side all fall, in our coverage of the Heritage Action scorecard and the Save America Act — the bill does not stall on its own, and the members who let it stall have names.
New Evidence in Butler, Pennsylvania
The program turned to the president’s second post: the Biden FBI did not do what it should have on the Butler gunman, by the time he took office most of the information was missing, altered, corrupted or gone, new information had just been found, and Christopher Wray should pay a price for the way he handled the assassination attempt.
Pfaff said the new information he had seen reported was an order for gun parts placed under a different name — a critical piece of information, though he did not overclaim it.
“I don’t know that it goes all the way, but it would not surprise me that there were people who plotted to kill Donald Trump.”
— Jim Pfaff, President, The Conservative Caucus
He said earlier in the hour that he hopes this is what Trump is projecting it to be, a real plot, and that he wants to see clear evidence if that is truly what took place. What he will say now is that Butler never fit the paradigm of a Secret Service that had simply gotten a little bit lax: people were yelling at agents that there was someone on the roof and nothing was done. The entire thing was negligent, he said, and his personal opinion is that there were people in the government who wanted to kill Donald Trump.
His evidence for the broader claim is a piece of tape. He recalled Chuck Schumer, in an interview he placed in 2016 and thought was ABC’s This Week, being asked about Trump criticizing the deep state and answering that you had better not mess with the CIA because of the ways it has to come after you. Pfaff did not claim the wording: “50 ways to Sunday,” he said, “or whatever the precise terminology he used was.” The mere fact that a sitting U.S. senator would say that should alarm everyone that such a thing exists, Pfaff said — and if Schumer believed it, his job was to fix that agency, regardless of party. Pfaff’s second point was that Schumer was hoping for it, and that it is evident from the way he said it.
A North Carolina Candidate and a Deleted Post
Pfaff had already called the Democrat Party a violent group of people and an insurrectionist party, and had gone further: it is also a death cult, one that promotes abortion — tens of millions of babies destroyed in their mothers’ wombs — and then praises a woman who strangled her three children.
“They are a death cult that is also an insurrectionist party, period.”
— Jim Pfaff, President, The Conservative Caucus
The host, saying he had not planned to go there but would since Pfaff had raised it, played a news report on Shelly Headen, a Democrat running for a North Carolina state house seat in the Piedmont. Republicans had circulated a screenshot of her now-deleted Facebook comment from last year: “I think our only hope is an attack on U.S. soil, preferably Alabama, Louisiana, where the stupid people live.” The Guilford County Democratic Party said the posts violate everything the party represents and withdrew all financial, operational and organizational support from her campaign. Police reports also list Headen as the suspect in two simple-assault incidents involving her husband. Filing had closed, so her name stays on the ballot.
Pfaff’s read on the county party’s disavowal was that it came for political reasons, not moral ones. He was careful with the general claim: he does not claim every Democrat is as violent as this woman, and his thumb-in-the-air estimate that 20 to 30 percent are, he infers from what goes on in the streets.
The second point is the one he pressed. Even Democrats who are not personally violent are complicit, he said, because they do not reject people like her wholesale — and he listed the Squad, DSA candidates, Ilhan Omar, Keith Ellison and Tim Walz as figures who promoted the street violence against ICE. There is hardly a Democrat who does not want to abolish ICE or call its agents ill-trained Nazis, he said, when they are among the better-trained policing forces in the country. He ended with an offer: he will publicly debate any Democrat who says he is wrong about that.
James Talarico and the Word “Abuse”
After the break the program played James Talarico, the Texas state representative now running statewide, in a committee exchange about whether a parent’s refusal to affirm a child’s gender identity should be excluded from the definition of abuse. Denying your child’s gender identity is incredibly harmful, Talarico said, it is abusive for sure, and ruling it out as not being abuse is dangerous for some of the state’s most vulnerable kids. The host pointed out what that means in practice — refusing to go along with a five- or six-year-old’s declaration becomes child abuse — and noted that parents had just had children taken from them over exactly this.
Pfaff answered by dividing the question. Adults who self-mutilate because of what he considers a psychological problem are people you can feel sorry for; they did it to themselves. The second group is children who are indoctrinated into thinking they are some gender other than what they are, and are then mutilated by government edict or by the whimsical fashion of their parents. He tied it to the marriage debates, when advocates dismissed slippery-slope arguments as scare tactics: we are in the middle of that slope now.
“The abuse is anything in government that would determine that a parent cannot have their child because the government says that they’re not allowed to say the child’s not trans. That’s abuse. It’s a violation of authority and power.”
— Jim Pfaff, President, The Conservative Caucus
He extended it to any politician who argues for it: Republican, Democrat, whatever you are — if you advocate taking a child from a parent who refuses to go along with what he called this insane ideology, you are “evil at your core,” you have no excuse for yourself, and you are the abuser. The only role of government and schools in parenting is to support the authority of parents over children, and they are doing the opposite. That is the same principle TCC laid out in our analysis of parental rights and government overreach.
The Second Clip
The program ran one more Talarico clip — “What if we ran our world like we run a kindergarten classroom? Because at the end of the day, aren’t we all just really big kindergartners?” Pfaff’s reading: it is not only that he thinks you are stupid, it is that he has no idea of the necessity of maturity in a culture and in a personal life — which is what the schools are doing too.
The host raised a related clip of Abdul El-Sayed on a stream with Hasan Piker, describing a new way of campaigning: the population is stupid, so you just say good things and they will vote for you. On Talarico, Pfaff drew the distinction he says he normally observes: there are many Democrat politicians with whom he simply has political disagreements, and Talarico is not one of them, but a persistent, consistent liar who spouts evil ideas.
Key Takeaways
- The mail-in ballot ruling ignores laws already on the books – Pfaff counts about three levels of federal mail fraud that mailing ballots to ineligible people would violate, and calls it the oddest decision he has ever seen on such obvious law.
- The Social Security test – A scammer who tricks a grandparent into redirecting a Social Security check goes to jail. The ballot version is worse: the stolen check can be made whole and a stolen election cannot.
- The Save America Act is stalled by Republicans – Pfaff calls them feckless and cowardly, says some understand exactly what is at stake and will not change it, and names Lisa Murkowski as a senator who benefits from the current methods.
- Butler does not fit the “lax Secret Service” story – Gun parts ordered under a different name is a critical piece of information. Pfaff will not say it goes all the way, but would not be surprised if people plotted to kill Donald Trump — and points to a Chuck Schumer interview he dates to 2016, warning that you had better not mess with the CIA because of the ways it has to come after you.
- A deleted post and a county party’s calculation – Guilford County Democrats pulled all support from Shelly Headen after her comment about hoping for an attack on U.S. soil resurfaced. Pfaff says the disavowal was political, not moral.
- Parental authority is the line – When a politician will not rule out calling a parent abusive for refusing to affirm a child’s gender identity, Pfaff says the abuse runs the other way: taking a child on those grounds is a violation of authority and power, whoever proposes it.
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Originally broadcast Sep 15, 2026 on Worldview Tube — Washington Report.
Peter J. Thomas is a veteran conservative political strategist and seasoned policy expert dedicated to upholding the principles of the Constitution and democracy. As a founder and the chairman of the Conservative Caucus, he has played a pivotal role in promoting and shaping the conservative agenda across the nation for over half a century.