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Joe Gruters | 06-22-26 · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: With us today is Joe Gruda. He's the GOP chairman
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  Speaker 1: for the whole country and he's gonna give us an
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  Speaker 1: update and what the heck is going on? I mean,
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  Speaker 1: which way is our country going? And Joe, you're on.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, thanks so much, John Man. We got an exciting
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  Speaker 2: primary tomorrow in New York which will hopefully set the stage.
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  Speaker 2: You know, New York is going to be front and center.
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  Speaker 2: We've got a couple of big congressional races. There are
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  Speaker 2: probably four competitive seats. There's only about eighteen in the
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  Speaker 2: whole country. So you saw the VP was over there
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  Speaker 2: on the island last week. He's going to be making
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  Speaker 2: a lot more visits. The President's gonna be there. But
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  Speaker 2: we're excited about our candidates that are emerging, and we're
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  Speaker 2: ready to hit these ds pretty hard.
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  Speaker 3: Well.
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  Speaker 1: In how many primaries do we have tomorrow in the
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  Speaker 1: United States? You have New York and what is he Utah.
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  Speaker 2: That's a good question. The only ones that I'll focus
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  Speaker 2: on right now the ones in New York. They're the
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  Speaker 2: biggest ones.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, well, good? And what's what's the important ones in
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  Speaker 3: New York? Tomorrow?
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  Speaker 2: We have New York, three New York four New York
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  Speaker 2: eighteen with pat Ryan, New York nineteen with Josh Riley,
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  Speaker 2: and four you have Gillan and three you have a swizze.
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  Speaker 3: Understood.
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  Speaker 2: Understood, Yeah, and so listen. And then there's a bunch
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  Speaker 2: of other races. But those are the four races. Those
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  Speaker 2: are the four districts. And if you add.
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  Speaker 3: As the president, has the President endorsed any of them?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if the President's endorsed in any of
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  Speaker 2: the races yet I'm aware of. That's why you know,
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  Speaker 2: we don't we don't really get involved until there's a
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  Speaker 2: primary winner. But once that's announced tomorrow night, you know,
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  Speaker 2: or if it's it's clear there's going to be a winner,
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  Speaker 2: we will carry that banner of that candidate and we'll
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  Speaker 2: make sure that you know we're gonna We've already engaged
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  Speaker 2: to staffers. We've sent staffers up. We're going to be
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  Speaker 2: there to make sure they have the resources they need
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  Speaker 2: and everything else to make sure that we could be
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  Speaker 2: competitive because these seats are critical to us being successful
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  Speaker 2: this midterms.
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  Speaker 3: Judge Chard willing.
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  Speaker 4: Bug, Senator, good to talk to you again. So this
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  Speaker 4: is my problem, and I'm the House Democrat, like mister champman.
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  Speaker 1: Cer, mister the chairman, and the GP for the whole
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  Speaker 1: country is high erupted a state senator in Florida.
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  Speaker 4: Excuse me, I love Florida. So let's go focus again
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  Speaker 4: on New York. Mister Chairman, My problem is is a
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  Speaker 4: House Democrat. You have my DOMI waging war against the
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  Speaker 4: traditional common sense Democrats and he's trying to have a
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  Speaker 4: takeover of the Democratic Party by the Democratic Socialists of America.
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  Speaker 4: So in my view, that's the big fight that's going
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  Speaker 4: on in New York because the traditional Democrats have to
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  Speaker 4: be victorious in this fight, otherwise the Democrat parties can
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  Speaker 4: be lost, which makes it even more important as the
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  Speaker 4: Republicans step up and fight hard to win the House
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  Speaker 4: seats that they can win.
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  Speaker 2: Your thoughts, Oh, you know you're you hit the nail
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  Speaker 2: on the head. And what the Democrats have done this
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  Speaker 2: cycle is and it's because of AOC, It's because of Mamdami,
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  Speaker 2: it's because of Hakem Jeffries. They've inspired a crop of
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  Speaker 2: left wing radicals to run in these primaries across the
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  Speaker 2: country and they're pulling the Democrat Party all the way
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  Speaker 2: to the left. Outside of the mainstream there there. They
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  Speaker 2: lack common sense, they lack reasonableness, and it's giving us
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  Speaker 2: the matchups that we need. That's why, you know, in
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  Speaker 2: these off cycles usually it's usually a very tough situation
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  Speaker 2: for the incumbent party. But because the left has gotten
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  Speaker 2: so radical, people don't want crazy. But that's what the
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  Speaker 2: Democrats are giving us. Crazy candidate after crazy as a candidate,
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  Speaker 2: and in no alternative messaging other than the fact that
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  Speaker 2: they hate the president.
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  Speaker 5: Joe Gruders, I want to I mean, let's be honest
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  Speaker 5: here as a Republican, the RNC chairman, when you look
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  Speaker 5: at some of these crazies running in the Democrat primary,
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  Speaker 5: specifically here in New York twelve, where we have our
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  Speaker 5: Adriano Espayat, who's a very far leftist guy, incredible opponent
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  Speaker 5: of President Trump, but he's the more normal one. He's
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  Speaker 5: up against this dowri Lisa Chevalier, who wants to defund
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  Speaker 5: the police, wants to put murderers and rapists back in
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  Speaker 5: the housing projector she does is talk about Israel, by
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  Speaker 5: the way, when she's not talking about those things secretly.
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  Speaker 5: Would you like to see some of these crazier people
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  Speaker 5: win the Democrat primaries so that it's easier for the
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  Speaker 5: Republican Party to make it clear that they're the same group.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, secretly you're kind of hoping for that.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, we of course, we're hoping that these radicals continue
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  Speaker 2: to win. And they are winning. Look at Platner and Maine,
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  Speaker 2: look at Elsa A. Wadys in Michigan, look at tallafree
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  Speaker 2: Cove in Texas. We're getting the matchups we want. And
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  Speaker 2: as a result, on the Republican side, although we don't
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  Speaker 2: get involved with the primaries, what we do do is
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  Speaker 2: we go out and find the right candidates and then
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  Speaker 2: we take him over to the White House, and if
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  Speaker 2: the President likes him and it's a candidate they can win,
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  Speaker 2: the President will endorse and that's like getting a golden ticket.
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  Speaker 2: And so we have the favorable matchups this cycle because
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  Speaker 2: we've done our work. We're making sure we were bringing
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  Speaker 2: in candidates that can win. They're getting the endorsement, which
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  Speaker 2: is the golden ticket right to the front. And so, yes,
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  Speaker 2: as you know, we hope, we hope they continue to
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  Speaker 2: but it's it's impossible that the montdomine aoci Jefferies that
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  Speaker 2: they they convinced this left you know, the they've inspired
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  Speaker 2: these left wing wackadoos all across the country and it's
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  Speaker 2: pulling the Democrat part Party further and further to the left.
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  Speaker 6: Mister chairman, this is from Anda Matteo and just so
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  Speaker 6: you know, we're very proud to have you as our
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  Speaker 6: as our GOP chairman nation and wide. We know that
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  Speaker 6: you're not only leading the Republican Party, you're helping shape it.
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  Speaker 6: One of the questions that I have for you, that
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  Speaker 6: you know, Republicans like myself wanted answer, is when are
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  Speaker 6: we going to start looking into the Hispanic community?
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  Speaker 3: When is the GOP.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, you're in Florida, so you understand this probably
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  Speaker 6: better than anyone. We need to expand our our way
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  Speaker 6: of thinking, our conservatism into the Hispanic community, and we
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  Speaker 6: have not done that. You know what, what what are
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  Speaker 6: you going to do to bring that voting block over
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  Speaker 6: to the Republican Party.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we need to convince them, and look at we have.
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  Speaker 2: We have people like Marco Ruby, who I've served with
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  Speaker 2: and work with down here in Florida for a long time,
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  Speaker 2: who's a phenomenal UH member of the administration. We have
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  Speaker 2: a lot of other Hispanic leaders Danny prez Or Speaker
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  Speaker 2: of the House here in Florida. Great guy. But here's
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  Speaker 2: the bottom line. We have to do a better job
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  Speaker 2: of communicating that we are the party of the working man.
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  Speaker 2: If you want to be able to achieve the American dream,
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  Speaker 2: regardless of what the race you are, you have the
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  Speaker 2: ability to do that under the Republican administration. The Democrats
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  Speaker 2: and listen, at the end of the day, Democrats and
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  Speaker 2: Republicans elitists in DC, they've sold out the working American
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  Speaker 2: over the last five decades. This president's changed that narrative.
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  Speaker 2: He's gone to bat for the American worker. Look at
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  Speaker 2: the working family tax cuts that he passed, and look
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  Speaker 2: at I mean, look at what he did for New
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  Speaker 2: York and quadrupled the salt deduction when and by the way,
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  Speaker 2: every single Democrat in New York voted against that. Every
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  Speaker 2: single Democrat in the country voted against that. But it's say,
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  Speaker 2: but yes, we have to convince, not to convince, we
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  Speaker 2: have to show them that the Republican Party in that
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  Speaker 2: our party is the party where if you want to
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  Speaker 2: have a better education, if you want to have safe streets,
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  Speaker 2: if you want to have a secure border, that's the
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  Speaker 2: contrast we need to offer and say this is what
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  Speaker 2: we offer, decline as a choice. America can be better.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody has an opportunity under us, and that's the message
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  Speaker 2: we have to get out there.
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  Speaker 1: And the other thing we were talking about the previous
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  Speaker 1: hour or so, mister chairman, is under two thousand and
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  Speaker 1: eight forward, under President Obama, the Democratic Party has gone
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  Speaker 1: to crap. I mean, they this is that's when it
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  Speaker 1: really started, and that was our discussion in two thousand
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  Speaker 1: and eight.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, and lately the Socialist.
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  Speaker 1: Party is taking over the Democratic Party and it seems
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  Speaker 1: that there's nobody in the Democratic Party would courage enough
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  Speaker 1: just to stop it.
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  Speaker 2: Well, listen, you have the new You're gonna have the
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  Speaker 2: new mayor in DC, you have Wilson out in Seattle.
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  Speaker 2: These guys are democrats, socialists of America. You're right, they're
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  Speaker 2: not your average Democrat. They are socialists and they want
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  Speaker 2: to upend things and they you know, they don't. I
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  Speaker 2: still don't understand how you can even get to that point.
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  Speaker 2: But they just have a lack of reality and common sense,
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  Speaker 2: and we have to do a better job of exposing
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  Speaker 2: them for what they are. And uh is eventually the
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  Speaker 2: clock's gonna run out and somebody's gonna be holding the bag.
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  Speaker 2: And so the Republicans are doing a good job of
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  Speaker 2: showing the contrast. But we need to continue to fight.
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  Speaker 1: And mister chairman, the one thing the American people should realize,
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  Speaker 1: we're Americans first and party loyalty second, and it's the
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  Speaker 1: most important thing. And under the Republican Party right now,
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  Speaker 1: nine of the American people are proud of America. And
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  Speaker 1: what happened in the Democratic Party? Who has the numbers?
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  Speaker 3: It went from.
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  Speaker 1: The pre Obama what what are these? What does a
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  Speaker 1: Democratic Party stand for? And I want all our listeners
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  Speaker 1: out there, we may have a million listeners right now
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  Speaker 1: to understand that.
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  Speaker 3: You know, we've got to you know, we.
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  Speaker 2: Need Yes, it's not just Trump derangement syndrome, it's American
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  Speaker 2: derangement syndrome. They want America to fail, they want chaos.
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  Speaker 2: It doesn't make any sense.
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  Speaker 1: That's why there's and President Biden helped by bringing in
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  Speaker 1: an extra.
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  Speaker 3: Ten million migrants, twenty million, twenty Well, who knows what
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  Speaker 3: it was. Well, the truth is, nobody really knows what
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  Speaker 3: the number is.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we we all need to fundamentally change the country
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  Speaker 2: by changing the makeup of the country, and that's the
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  Speaker 2: only way they think they can retain power. It's a
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  Speaker 2: it's a it's it's a terrible situation. But yes, we're
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  Speaker 2: putting us up to it, and I'm glad that we're correct.
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  Speaker 1: President Trump is the only person with the courage to
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  Speaker 1: put a stop to it.
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  Speaker 3: And look what's happening in Europe.
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  Speaker 1: In Europe, my god, I mean, France has been invaded,
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  Speaker 1: Germany has been invaded. Finally they realized in the UK
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  Speaker 1: that they were being invaded, and it took President Trump
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  Speaker 1: along with King Charles to bring back Europe and force
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  Speaker 1: this socialist in the UK to resign.
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  Speaker 6: Today, I think that Obama is leading the charge here
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  Speaker 6: with all of the things that are going on here
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  Speaker 6: in the United States. Obama Obama was really the president
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  Speaker 6: during Biden's administration, but Obama came to New York to
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  Speaker 6: endorse Mondami. You know, he is leading that whole socialist
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  Speaker 6: movement and I'm the current.
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  Speaker 1: You got to remember who is Obama. We never really
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  Speaker 1: found out who Obama was. He went from from a
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  Speaker 1: community organizer to state senator.
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  Speaker 3: The US Senator, the President of the United States. Overnight.
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  Speaker 5: Jenner Rider's a chairman of a Republican National Committee with us.
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  Speaker 5: You mentioned earlier Graham Platner, and I need to ask
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  Speaker 5: you a serious question here, because this, to me is
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  Speaker 5: very very basic. Are the Republicans, both in the leadership
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  Speaker 5: and in the rank and file, prepared to make Grand
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  Speaker 5: Platner the millstone around the Democrat's neck that he should be.
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  Speaker 5: You know, you talk to Democrats today and all they'll
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  Speaker 5: say is Russia January sixth, Russia January sixth. Grand Platiner
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  Speaker 5: needs to be our knee jerk response to any challenge
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  Speaker 5: to Republicans for generations to come that the Democrats willingly
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  Speaker 5: endorsed and promoted a not only someone with the Nazi tattoo.
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  Speaker 5: It's not just the Nazi tattoo, it's the SS tattoo
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  Speaker 5: of the SS unit that murdered my great grandmother.
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  Speaker 3: And her family. Okay, that's who he's wearing and who
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  Speaker 3: has abused women.
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  Speaker 5: And they're saying, now, Rokanna, the congressman Democrat from cal
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  Speaker 5: is admitting that that it must be true, but he's
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  Speaker 5: still supporting him. Are you prepared becase because honestly, if
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  Speaker 5: you're not prepared to make Graham Platner on steroids, the
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  Speaker 5: same thing that the Democrats made January sixth, which is phony,
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  Speaker 5: and Russia Russia, Russia, which is phony.
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  Speaker 3: If you're not prepared to do that, then.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know if you're bringing bricks to a gunfight.
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  Speaker 2: No, listen, you're exactly right. And of course we're gonna
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  Speaker 2: put him front and center. There's so much there's so
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  Speaker 2: much stuff on Platner that it's almost unbelievable. The guy
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  Speaker 2: is discussing he shouldn't be their nominee. But what's more
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  Speaker 2: sickening than him being the nominee is the fact that
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  Speaker 2: seventy four percent of the Democrats that knew about all
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  Speaker 2: this voted for him in the primary just two weeks ago.
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  Speaker 2: That's a bigger problem that we have in America that
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  Speaker 2: they're willing to accept us, that they're willing to accept
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  Speaker 2: a no Nazi. He only changed that tattoo once it
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  Speaker 2: became a campaign issue. All these reports have abused, all
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  Speaker 2: this other crazy nonsense. It's the guy is. You know,
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  Speaker 2: in my area, he couldn't get elected dog catcher. He
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  Speaker 2: would have been walked out of the office. Is a
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  Speaker 2: long time ago. But the fact that he is now
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  Speaker 2: a us cent at nominee and is still pulling. You know,
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  Speaker 2: even with Susan Collins. It just goes to show you
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  Speaker 2: how far from reality the Democrats are.
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  Speaker 1: One more thing before we go off, because we've been
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  Speaker 1: on for almost twenty minutes. I mean, the fact is,
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  Speaker 1: if we don't straighten out this voting in the United
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  Speaker 1: States or America, we're gonna have a problem.
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  Speaker 3: You know, it's gotta be a it's a federal election.
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  Speaker 1: It's gotta be United States citizens only, and it's got
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  Speaker 1: you and you need idea.
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  Speaker 2: One hundred percent. We need to Save America Act. We
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  Speaker 2: need more MAGA warriors. We're gonna We're gonna have that
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  Speaker 2: in this next cycle. We're gonna return the majorities for
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  Speaker 2: the President to make sure we can pass the Save
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  Speaker 2: America Act and other things. I always say, look at Florida.
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  Speaker 2: We have a state of twenty three million people. We
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  Speaker 2: can deliver results within ninety minutes. With Republican Democrat supervisor
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  Speaker 2: of elections. Everybody's you should have full faith and confidence
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  Speaker 2: of the system. When the President asked me to do
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  Speaker 2: this job nine ten months ago, he said, Joe, we
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  Speaker 2: didn't make sure our elections are faith and secure and
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  Speaker 2: you know you got to do it. And so we
• 15:13
  Speaker 2: have one hundred and fifty lawsuits. People say, what do
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  Speaker 2: you do? What do you spend your money on? I
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  Speaker 2: Soon we're dropping the hammer everywhere from coast to coast
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  Speaker 2: to make sure that we can make sure our elections
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  Speaker 2: are safe and secure.
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  Speaker 5: Joe Gruterers, thank you so much.
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  Speaker 3: We're Joe.
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  Speaker 1: We're out of time, but we want you again, you know,
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  Speaker 1: on WABC because you've got to get the truth out.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you so much.
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