Latest / Sid & Friends In The Morning / Joe Gruters | RNC Chairman | 05-05-26
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Lariat.
- 0:00Speaker 2: Trump is one of my own time favorite people. She's
- 0:02Speaker 2: on this show every week and again She's got my
- 0:05Speaker 2: view nine pm Saturday nights. It's a great show on
- 0:07Speaker 2: Fox News and a podcast as well. I've had the
- 0:10Speaker 2: conversation with you, Alara a couple of times. Now, now
- 0:13Speaker 2: I know what sounds wacky. They said it was wacky
- 0:16Speaker 2: when a TV show host of a reality show was
- 0:20Speaker 2: running for president. They said it was wacky when a
- 0:23Speaker 2: superaction hero was running for government of the state of California,
- 0:26Speaker 2: or an actor was running for governor in the state
- 0:29Speaker 2: of California, or a rapper was running for mayor in
- 0:32Speaker 2: New York. That's why I keep saying to you, I
- 0:34Speaker 2: got a run for mayor in twenty twenty nine because
- 0:37Speaker 2: this guy is going to kill all.
- 0:38Speaker 3: Of us, said, would you please do it? Can we
- 0:41Speaker 3: confirm that right here? Because as you heard that kind
- 0:44Speaker 3: of lead into that whole SoundBite you played there, we
- 0:47Speaker 3: all want New York City to return. This is the
- 0:49Speaker 3: greatest city on Earth. I mean this. I mean figure
- 0:52Speaker 3: out how many people have been made by New York.
- 0:54Speaker 3: You could argue Donald Trump would not be in the
- 0:57Speaker 3: White House right now had it not been for the
- 0:59Speaker 3: city of New York. He changed the skyline, but it
- 1:02Speaker 3: changed him and it made him into the person he
- 1:04Speaker 3: is today, the greatest president of this country has ever seen.
- 1:07Speaker 3: We have to have that city come back, and we
- 1:09Speaker 3: need somebody who understands how to do it. We need
- 1:11Speaker 3: a fighter. Somebody's not going to lay down and roll
- 1:14Speaker 3: over for all the woke lunatics out there, and God knows,
- 1:16Speaker 3: sid we know you wouldn't do it. If they tried,
- 1:19Speaker 3: they could hold your feet to the fire, you wouldn't
- 1:21Speaker 3: have it.
- 1:22Speaker 2: At Samantha Edison earlier today, she talked about the mayoral
- 1:26Speaker 2: candidate in Los Angeles, that lady if we got our
- 1:28Speaker 2: name already, but she's starting to gain some steam up
- 1:31Speaker 2: against people like Karen Bass and Spencer Proud, who admitt
- 1:34Speaker 2: who want to win that race. Anyway, Winning these races
- 1:38Speaker 2: is the future of this country, and you need a
- 1:41Speaker 2: very strong chairman of the RNC. And Laura, of course,
- 1:45Speaker 2: along with Michael Wattley, fixed a lot of stuff that
- 1:47Speaker 2: was broken. It was broken, they fixed it, and we
- 1:50Speaker 2: had a good election in twenty twenty four, which our
- 1:53Speaker 2: guy Trump won. Going away, we can't make that same
- 1:56Speaker 2: argument for twenty twenty we got the guy in place
- 1:59Speaker 2: right now.
- 2:00Speaker 1: He's terrific.
- 2:00Speaker 2: I really liked this guy a lot. Glad to meet
- 2:02Speaker 2: him here in studio this morning. Joe Gruderus, Joe, Welcome
- 2:05Speaker 2: to New York City, buddy.
- 2:06Speaker 1: How are you hey?
- 2:07Speaker 4: I love New York City. I was at the Yankees
- 2:08Speaker 4: game last night and I agree we was. I yeah,
- 2:11Speaker 4: I'm all with Lord Trump. I think you should run
- 2:14Speaker 4: for mayor. She's your first endorsement. I'll be your second.
- 2:17Speaker 4: The party's ready.
- 2:18Speaker 2: I've actually got another endorsement from a guy who as
- 2:20Speaker 2: we speak, Joe is on the way to meet with
- 2:23Speaker 2: President and Trump in the Oval Office this morning. He's
- 2:27Speaker 2: running for governor of New York. He's dying for me
- 2:29Speaker 2: to run for mayor.
- 2:30Speaker 4: Bruce Blateman, Well, we really need him to perform well
- 2:33Speaker 4: here in New York.
- 2:33Speaker 1: We got a couple of.
- 2:34Speaker 4: Big congressional races that are really going to help, you know,
- 2:38Speaker 4: shape the future of the country and the majority in Congress.
- 2:40Speaker 4: But Blakeman, he has a chance to win it. Your
- 2:44Speaker 4: governor is an absolute disaster. Along with Mamdami, you know, basically,
- 2:47Speaker 4: they're they're steering New York further and further to the left.
- 2:50Speaker 4: To wait for the mainstream, and we have a chance
- 2:52Speaker 4: to win these races.
- 2:53Speaker 1: I think we do too. The President of the New
- 2:55Speaker 1: York Yankees, Randy Lavin, is coming on fter you just
- 2:58Speaker 1: so you know. So you were both there last night
- 2:59Speaker 1: for that easy Yankee when you know, I look at
- 3:02Speaker 1: New York, it's a mess. You mentioned, Mo'm Donnie in Hochl.
- 3:04Speaker 2: I look at California, blue city, blue state, sanctuary bess
- 3:08Speaker 2: NWSOB it's a mess. Same thing with Chicago, with Johnson
- 3:11Speaker 2: and Putzko. We can go on and on and look
- 3:13Speaker 2: at your state. I know everybody loves Ron DeSantis. He's
- 3:15Speaker 2: got his lovers and not so much lovers, But who
- 3:18Speaker 2: can argue about the job he does as governor?
- 3:20Speaker 1: Ought to argue?
- 3:21Speaker 2: You look at people like Rick Scott down there, Randy Fine,
- 3:24Speaker 2: one of my old time favorites in Congress. Look at
- 3:27Speaker 2: the way your state is run and now you people
- 3:29Speaker 2: live compared to these blue states.
- 3:31Speaker 4: Well, you know you mentioned Randy Fine. I don't know
- 3:33Speaker 4: if you know this, but he was my roommate in Tallahassee.
- 3:35Speaker 4: My family travels with Randy Fine's family, and he's my
- 3:38Speaker 4: next door neighbor in DC. I gave him the nickname
- 3:41Speaker 4: the Hebrew Hammer because he is one of the strongest
- 3:43Speaker 4: right handed hooks in politics. Gave him the nickname. He
- 3:47Speaker 4: is a one of the smartest guys I know, and
- 3:49Speaker 4: we're so fortunate to have it. But you also mentioned
- 3:52Speaker 4: Governor Rick Scott, who is by far one of the
- 3:55Speaker 4: greatest human beings and one of the champions of that
- 3:59Speaker 4: I would call him the e I'm a champion of
- 4:00Speaker 4: the world. He ran on jobs, jobs, jobs when Florida
- 4:03Speaker 4: was at a low. Now Florida is absolutely screaming, and
- 4:07Speaker 4: you're right, Desantas has given us great conservative leadership. Florida is.
- 4:12Speaker 4: You know, when I became the chairman of the Republican
- 4:14Speaker 4: Party of Florida in twenty eighteen, we were minus four
- 4:17Speaker 4: dun and fifty thousand voter registrations. When I left, we
- 4:20Speaker 4: were at four dred and fifty thousand voter retorations ahead.
- 4:22Speaker 4: And today we're over one point five million voters ahead
- 4:26Speaker 4: of the Democrats, where solid red state. We're never going back.
- 4:30Speaker 4: So happy to be a part of that team down there.
- 4:32Speaker 1: Now.
- 4:32Speaker 2: When I lived there, Rick Scott was my governor, and
- 4:34Speaker 2: now of course he's a senator. He's terrific. He's on
- 4:36Speaker 2: this show quite a bit. And yeah, you guys, you
- 4:39Speaker 2: do it right down there. I mean you gotta get
- 4:40Speaker 2: with a w wassaont schilt at some point. That's all
- 4:42Speaker 2: all the story, but puor Fort Laudadale. But otherwise, you
- 4:46Speaker 2: guys do it right. But look, there's a lot of
- 4:49Speaker 2: fear right now, and I'll use the word fear even
- 4:52Speaker 2: bigger than paranoia, that the Mint terms are going to
- 4:55Speaker 2: crush us and the war is still going on. Okay,
- 4:58Speaker 2: gas prices are still way too high. Sorry, interest rates
- 5:02Speaker 2: warsh will come in and help us, thank god, but
- 5:04Speaker 2: way too high. Cost a living way too high. And
- 5:08Speaker 2: a lot of people that are even Trump supporters like me,
- 5:10Speaker 2: I love the man, are starting to think we're kind
- 5:12Speaker 2: of stuck in Iran.
- 5:13Speaker 1: It was stuck. We're not in a.
- 5:14Speaker 2: Position where we're not doing as well as Pete Hegseth
- 5:18Speaker 2: told you at eight o'clock this morning, and that's going
- 5:20Speaker 2: to affect us come November.
- 5:22Speaker 4: What are your thoughts, Listen, this is going to be
- 5:24Speaker 4: a timporary conflict, and why has no president gone after
- 5:27Speaker 4: this in forty seven years? Because it's high political risk,
- 5:30Speaker 4: low political reward, So why do it. This president's doing
- 5:33Speaker 4: it because he's doing the right thing. He's trying to
- 5:36Speaker 4: make sure America is in a better place, the world's
- 5:38Speaker 4: in a better place, and he's willing to take that risk.
- 5:41Speaker 4: And look, this conflict is temporary. I talked to the
- 5:44Speaker 4: President about it. We're going to get out of here.
- 5:46Speaker 4: But people, they how soon they forget the fact that
- 5:49Speaker 4: under Biden Biden inflation those four years, inflation was at
- 5:53Speaker 4: nine percent, gas prices were the highest they ever worry
- 5:56Speaker 4: and listen, every single day this presence focused on the
- 6:00Speaker 4: average American worker. He's gone to bad for him. He
- 6:02Speaker 4: wants everybody to achieve that American dream. And listen, as
- 6:06Speaker 4: soon as his conflict's over, I know that the nose
- 6:09Speaker 4: is going to come up and he's going to go
- 6:10Speaker 4: back to work for everybody.
- 6:12Speaker 2: Well, he's got to go back to work now very soon,
- 6:15Speaker 2: I should say, and go to all these cities and
- 6:18Speaker 2: states that are very close congressional battles. But we can't
- 6:22Speaker 2: lose the House, and we can't lose the Senate will
- 6:26Speaker 2: be dead.
- 6:26Speaker 1: Dead meat.
- 6:27Speaker 2: So he's got to start really rallying for these people.
- 6:31Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know what you think about a
- 6:32Speaker 2: lot of the folks that are running for us over
- 6:35Speaker 2: the next couple of months, but the latest, the last
- 6:37Speaker 2: couple of elections have not been kind to us.
- 6:40Speaker 4: Well, listen, that's what we're doing. We know forty three
- 6:42Speaker 4: days of the shutdown earlier this year, and they shut
- 6:46Speaker 4: the they basically held the government hostage. We know we
- 6:49Speaker 4: can't allow these guys to win. We have no option
- 6:52Speaker 4: other than to win. And listen what we've done as
- 6:54Speaker 4: a party. Lord Trump started this with Michael Watley. But
- 6:57Speaker 4: what we've done is we've gone out there and recruited
- 6:59Speaker 4: the best can we don't win, We don't need to
- 7:01Speaker 4: win a national popular vote. There's basically thirty five congressional seats,
- 7:05Speaker 4: five US Senate seats. We've gone out and recruited candidates
- 7:08Speaker 4: that could win Rogers in Michigan, for example, so New
- 7:11Speaker 4: New in New Hampshire, right, Wattley North Carolina. We could
- 7:15Speaker 4: win these seats where we have raised a ton of money.
- 7:18Speaker 4: We have the best showman that's ever existed in our
- 7:21Speaker 4: party in Donald J.
- 7:22Speaker 1: Trump.
- 7:22Speaker 4: He is gonna barnstorm the country. We're gonna do things
- 7:25Speaker 4: that's never been done before, like a midterm convention. Why
- 7:28Speaker 4: I tell people. It's gonna be a Trumpet palooza. We're
- 7:30Speaker 4: gonna be able to highlight all the amazing things that
- 7:33Speaker 4: this president has done. We're gonna highlight it, showcase it
- 7:35Speaker 4: to the American people. Then he's gonna be on the
- 7:37Speaker 4: road for sixty days because there's the President's already proved
- 7:41Speaker 4: three times that he can convince these low propensity voters
- 7:44Speaker 4: to show up.
- 7:45Speaker 2: And that's what we're gonna do. Let's stick with the
- 7:46Speaker 2: New York for a second. We thought you're in New
- 7:48Speaker 2: York City right now. Uh, Lolo is gonna win because
- 7:50Speaker 2: he just does doesn't matter. But there's a couple of
- 7:53Speaker 2: races that scare me. One is Long Island. You got Gillen.
- 7:58Speaker 2: She beat my buddy Anthony ds Bezy. She's running again.
- 8:01Speaker 2: I liked DRIs School. She was on the show a
- 8:03Speaker 2: couple of days ago with Peter Kin. I think she
- 8:05Speaker 2: offers Nassau County a lot, but she'll go in as
- 8:08Speaker 2: the underdog. And then you got mike Lepetri with a
- 8:11Speaker 2: second straight time. Joe trying to beat Tom Swaz and
- 8:14Speaker 2: Swase for some reason, I don't know why.
- 8:17Speaker 1: He's very nice to me, Bud. He's pony.
- 8:19Speaker 2: For some reason, he appeals to both Democrats and Republicans
- 8:23Speaker 2: those two specific races on Long Island, those two seats.
- 8:27Speaker 1: Any thoughts on that, Well.
- 8:28Speaker 4: Listen, they're gonna have to run with Mom, Damie and
- 8:30Speaker 4: the record that he's not here in New York City.
- 8:32Speaker 4: And listen, at the end of the day, that may
- 8:34Speaker 4: be the big difference. I think that the President will
- 8:36Speaker 4: visit Long Island. He loves New York. This is ultimately
- 8:39Speaker 4: his home, although I like to claim him home in
- 8:42Speaker 4: flirt in Florida now, but New York is his home also.
- 8:47Speaker 4: And he told me we're going after these Long Island seats.
- 8:49Speaker 4: I think we could win them. I think with the
- 8:51Speaker 4: election here that happened last year, I think it's going
- 8:54Speaker 4: to play a major impact. And listen, we're all in.
- 8:58Speaker 4: We have the resources to fight, We're going to obliterate
- 9:01Speaker 4: our opponents, and we're going to do whatever it takes
- 9:04Speaker 4: to hold this majority. We have to win. There's no excuses,
- 9:08Speaker 4: win at all costs, and that's the end of the day.
- 9:10Speaker 1: I love it.
- 9:10Speaker 2: Joe Joe Gooder, he's a chairman of the RNC. You know,
- 9:14Speaker 2: I was a little kid once in Brooklyn, New York. Okay,
- 9:17Speaker 2: small little town, you may have heard of it. And
- 9:19Speaker 2: I was a Democrat and I love this guy at Kotch.
- 9:22Speaker 1: He was our mayor. I loved them. I even like
- 9:24Speaker 1: Bill Clinton. Not gonna lie to you. I like them.
- 9:27Speaker 1: And now I can't even talk to a Democrat. I
- 9:31Speaker 1: bring her up all the time. I love my sister,
- 9:32Speaker 1: I do. I love her, but you know, I can't believe.
- 9:35Speaker 2: She's a smart girl. She went the Newpoles for teaching.
- 9:38Speaker 2: Her husband is a very smart guy. And I can't
- 9:41Speaker 2: believe they still align themselves with the Democrats. Joe Gudus,
- 9:45Speaker 2: What the hell happened to this party that they are
- 9:49Speaker 2: more concerned about trying to make Donald Trump look bad
- 9:53Speaker 2: than actually service Americans.
- 9:55Speaker 4: Trump arrangement syndrome is real, and the Democrats have and
- 9:58Speaker 4: I blame the mainstream media for all the negative coverage
- 10:01Speaker 4: on the present. No matter what he does, they're against it.
- 10:04Speaker 4: And it's not just Trump derangement syndrome anymore. It's almost
- 10:07Speaker 4: American derangement syndrome, because you're basically rooting against America every
- 10:11Speaker 4: single day. They're not running on any policies, They're just
- 10:14Speaker 4: running on the fact that they want to stop the
- 10:15Speaker 4: momentum this president's doing, and what the President's doing is
- 10:18Speaker 4: is working every single day to make sure the average
- 10:21Speaker 4: American out there can live the American dream and live
- 10:23Speaker 4: in a peaceful world.
- 10:24Speaker 2: Are you starting to think yet, Joe, about who's next?
- 10:28Speaker 2: You know, I had Trump Bond. It was last year,
- 10:31Speaker 2: and I said, at the end of the conversation, I said,
- 10:33Speaker 2: no is this year. And I said, I'm sad, And
- 10:37Speaker 2: he said why, I said, because you're leaving. You know,
- 10:41Speaker 2: I know we like to talk about Alan Dershowitz's new
- 10:44Speaker 2: bulk and one again in twenty eight and Eric Trump
- 10:46Speaker 2: hass all the hats, but you're leaving, and what.
- 10:48Speaker 1: Am I going to do? I love Marco Rubio. He's
- 10:51Speaker 1: my choice, by the way, Joe, not JD. Van's Michael Rubio.
- 10:53Speaker 2: But either way, there's not going to be a Trump
- 10:56Speaker 2: in twenty twenty eight. Have you guys started to think
- 10:59Speaker 2: about that lacency?
- 11:01Speaker 1: Yes, and I'm listen.
- 11:02Speaker 4: I am loyal to the President and his team and
- 11:06Speaker 4: we're trying to do everything we can to support his administration. Yes,
- 11:09Speaker 4: it's very sad to think about the fact that he
- 11:12Speaker 4: is going to be out in twenty twenty eight because
- 11:14Speaker 4: he's been such a champion not only for our party
- 11:16Speaker 4: but for America. Go back to this Iran conflict. Why
- 11:19Speaker 4: would anybody do that. He's doing it because he genuinely
- 11:23Speaker 4: wants to help the country. He genuinely cares about the
- 11:27Speaker 4: average you're talking about empathy, high emotional like you. This
- 11:30Speaker 4: president has it, and he really cares about people. And
- 11:33Speaker 4: he's putting the best interest of the average, everyday American
- 11:37Speaker 4: first and foremost, which in the world of politics you
- 11:39Speaker 4: can't do because you have all these special interest groups.
- 11:42Speaker 4: He's the only one that was elected without any type
- 11:45Speaker 4: of I like to call it barnacles that you collect
- 11:47Speaker 4: as elected official. He's doing the right thing every single day,
- 11:51Speaker 4: and that's why the Democrats can't stand it. They can't
- 11:53Speaker 4: stand it because he's making changes, he's leading with with
- 11:58Speaker 4: the best interests of the American people every single day.
- 12:01Speaker 2: Last one, I still have Republican friends, Joe that they
- 12:05Speaker 2: say this to me.
- 12:06Speaker 1: They go, if I vote, so what I hate when
- 12:08Speaker 1: I do that? I hate that. What do you mean?
- 12:09Speaker 1: So what They're gonna cheat?
- 12:11Speaker 2: Anyway you speak to a lot of Republicans, They're either
- 12:14Speaker 2: going to try to redistrict. But what Virginia just did
- 12:16Speaker 2: was terrible. They're gonna try to jerry mander all they can.
- 12:19Speaker 2: They tried it here in New York. Nicole Malotakis won
- 12:21Speaker 2: a big case with the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court
- 12:24Speaker 2: came up big for us on a federal level last week.
- 12:26Speaker 2: Barack Obama is still smarting. But a lot of Republicans
- 12:29Speaker 2: feel like between what goes on at some of these
- 12:32Speaker 2: polling centers and it still happens in cities across America,
- 12:36Speaker 2: and the jerry mandring and all that that, Democrats still
- 12:39Speaker 2: find a way to cheat and win. How can you
- 12:42Speaker 2: soothe the concerns of the Republican voters?
- 12:44Speaker 4: Well said, you had it right. I mean it's a
- 12:46Speaker 4: New York started the jurymandering fight a couple of years ago.
- 12:49Speaker 4: Virginia is not over. We're I think we have a
- 12:51Speaker 4: chance to win that in the courts. We obviously changed
- 12:53Speaker 4: the maps in Florida. The VRA had a huge difference.
- 12:56Speaker 4: But a lot of people don't know what you know,
- 12:58Speaker 4: Lord Trump, Michael Whally didn't amazing job is a lot
- 13:01Speaker 4: of people don't know because after the twenty twenty cycle,
- 13:04Speaker 4: the President and the party put me in charge of
- 13:06Speaker 4: the election integrity efforts to find out what happened in
- 13:09Speaker 4: twenty twenty. Nobody really knows that. But it wasn't to
- 13:12Speaker 4: overturn the election. It was to make sure what happened
- 13:14Speaker 4: in twenty twenty never happens again. And we've been working
- 13:16Speaker 4: hard every day since, every cycle. We're getting better. Right now,
- 13:20Speaker 4: we have one hundred and thirty two lawsuits thirty two
- 13:22Speaker 4: different states. We're bringing the hammer wherever we gain an advantage,
- 13:26Speaker 4: wherever we can litigate. We're not being proactive. We're not
- 13:29Speaker 4: being reactive. We're being proactive, and we're gonna make sure
- 13:33Speaker 4: we have safe and secure elections because that's what the
- 13:36Speaker 4: President's asked me to do. He said, Act act now,
- 13:39Speaker 4: don't wait, and we're and listen, we're winning. We're on
- 13:43Speaker 4: the custom of our biggest election integrity winever in the
- 13:45Speaker 4: Watson versus RNC case. A lot of people don't know
- 13:48Speaker 4: fourteen states in District Columbia allow absentee ballots to be
- 13:51Speaker 4: counted after election day. I was at the Supreme Quarter
- 13:53Speaker 4: a couple weeks ago. We're expecting this verdict any day now.
- 13:56Speaker 4: And what's going to happen is is now election day
- 13:58Speaker 4: will mean exactly what it means election and so they
- 14:00Speaker 4: can't hold these elections for weeks or months on end
- 14:03Speaker 4: as they go and gather voters. This is our We're
- 14:06Speaker 4: on the custom of our biggest election integrity victory ever.
- 14:08Speaker 4: But we have a lot more election victories that you
- 14:11Speaker 4: don't hear about every day, and it's making a difference
- 14:13Speaker 4: every single cycle. We're getting better. We're keeping our eye
- 14:17Speaker 4: on the ball to make sure that we could deliver
- 14:20Speaker 4: safe and secure and fair elections not only for the
- 14:23Speaker 4: twenty twenty six cycle, but for the twenty twenty eight
- 14:25Speaker 4: and beyond.
- 14:26Speaker 1: You never lost a fight, have you Listen?
- 14:29Speaker 4: I'd like to win.
- 14:30Speaker 1: I want some ass in high school. You've beat a
- 14:32Speaker 1: lot of ads. Let's be honest. Come on, tell you're
- 14:33Speaker 1: a tough guy. I love you. I think you're great.
- 14:35Speaker 1: I don't. And you need a strong guy in that.
- 14:37Speaker 2: Position because our party has been taking advantage job over
- 14:41Speaker 2: the years. Again, Laura and Whatley did a great job,
- 14:44Speaker 2: and this upcoming these elections, the mid terms, the presidential election,
- 14:48Speaker 2: we need somebody strong. You're that guy. It's an honor
- 14:52Speaker 2: to meet you. I'm thrilled you've got this position and
- 14:55Speaker 2: keep kicking ass. We gotta win these elections.
- 14:56Speaker 1: Bottom line, let's crush it said, Let's do it.
- 14:58Speaker 2: Joe Gruder's right there. He is the chairman of the RNCM.
- 15:02Speaker 2: We'll lucky to have him.
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