How to pronounce “punt”(noun) in English

I mean you have to look at the pattern of mid-term elections here; people just don't show up at mid-term elections and they're a disaster.It's an automatic punt to some radical force that decides to mobilize during that cycle and it skews our politics terribly.Frankly I don't see the argument against doin' away with 'em and just going to a concerted system except that would have to win two-thirds of the states and the Senate etcetera; it'd