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Why Republicans Got a Butt-Whooping! · ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes

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  Speaker 1: From Memphis, Tennessee, it's America's favorite gun-toting, Bible-clinging, deplorable American.
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  Speaker 2: That's us, that's right. I love this American ride.
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  Speaker 1: Todd Starr.
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  Speaker 3: You Republican bastards!
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  Speaker 2: My wife was.
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  Speaker 4: So unhappy she started to pack.
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  Speaker 5: But I figured I could get us back on the
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  Speaker 5: right track.
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  Speaker 1: So I give her a weekly allowance, but you fellas
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  Speaker 1: know how that is.
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  Speaker 6: So she spent it before I had a chance to
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  Speaker 6: borrow it back.
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  Speaker 7: All right.
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  Speaker 3: Welcome, everybody. This is the Todd Stearns Radio Show. Great
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  Speaker 3: to have you with us today. Welcome to the age
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  Speaker 3: of deep, dark depression and excessive misery. Folks, we're going
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  Speaker 3: to get through this together. And wow, what an election
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  Speaker 3: last night. What can I tell you? I had hope
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  Speaker 3: going into the final stretch right before the polls closed.
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  Speaker 3: I had hoped that the Republicans were going to pull
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  Speaker 3: this thing out, but unfortunately it got stuck in the wazoo, and, well,
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  Speaker 3: the rest is history. We're going to have a great
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  Speaker 3: show today, and we're going to talk about a lot
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  Speaker 3: of stuff. We're going to take your calls. Very curious
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  Speaker 3: to hear your take on what happened in your state.
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  Speaker 3: There are a lot of different angles and approaches here.
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  Speaker 3: that we can explore today. We have some great guests
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  Speaker 3: as well. We brought back Harry Hurley and Jeff Kant.
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  Speaker 3: Steve Gill, Liz Peek is going to be here. Also,
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  Speaker 3: Michael Wilson from Patriot Talk 920. And we're going to
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  Speaker 3: be talking to congressmen like Charlie Hatcher a little bit
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  Speaker 3: later on. But I really want to hear from you.
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  Speaker 3: Our telephone number, 901-260-5926. That's 901-260-5926. And Dylan, I think
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  Speaker 3: it's important for the listening audience to know, we're going
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  Speaker 3: to be drinking heavily during today's program.
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  Speaker 6: Sweet tea?
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  Speaker 8: Oh.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, no.
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  Speaker 9: That's crispy.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we're going with the Dr.
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  Speaker 10: Pepper.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, it's that kind of day.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a for Dr. Pepper day here on the
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  Speaker 3: Todd Stearns Radio Show. It's going to be one of
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  Speaker 3: those days. So, look, we were up into the wee-wee
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  Speaker 3: hours of the morning and covering the election. And, folks,
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  Speaker 3: it just was not pretty. And I'm not surprised. And
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  Speaker 3: I told you, I promised you that one way or
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  Speaker 3: the other, we were going to have a very frank
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  Speaker 3: conversation about what happened on election night. And we're going
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  Speaker 3: to have that conversation. But I've got to start out
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  Speaker 3: with something the vice president just shared on social media.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm going to tell you right away, and just
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  Speaker 3: so you know where I'm coming from, the Republicans are
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  Speaker 3: solely responsible for what happened yesterday. The Republican Party betrayed
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  Speaker 3: the voters. And there was you-know-what to pay. That's what
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  Speaker 3: happened yesterday. But the White House, too. They bear responsibility
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  Speaker 3: as well, including President Trump. Now, the vice president of
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  Speaker 3: these great United States just mere moments ago posted something
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  Speaker 3: on X. And I want to read this to you.
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  Speaker 3: And it really infuriated me because these people don't get it.
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  Speaker 3: They don't understand that the American people are fed up.
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  Speaker 3: They don't understand that the American people, when we went
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  Speaker 3: to the ballot box in 2024, it was to elect
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  Speaker 3: Donald J. Trump and his agenda. It just so happened
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  Speaker 3: that we had to elect a Republican Congress to get
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  Speaker 3: that agenda through. And so what did we do? We
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  Speaker 3: elected these people, and then they turn around and they
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  Speaker 3: stab us in the back. And I'm talking about Majority
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  Speaker 3: Leader John Thune in the U.S.
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  Speaker 9: Senate.
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  Speaker 3: Slow marching the president's agenda. sabotaging the president's agenda. The
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  Speaker 3: establishment Republicans that are out there trying to sabotage and
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  Speaker 3: destroy the Trump agenda from day one. No doubt about it.
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  Speaker 3: And it angers me that this has been allowed to
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  Speaker 3: go on. It angers me that President Trump did not
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  Speaker 3: demand regime change in the U.S. Senate. It angers me
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  Speaker 3: that you had people like Ted Cruz and Mike Lee
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  Speaker 3: and Bill Hagerty and all of these guys out there.
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  Speaker 3: And they say that they're for the president's agenda, yet
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  Speaker 3: they would not condemn John Thune. They would not remove
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  Speaker 3: that man from power. And you know why? Because ultimately
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  Speaker 3: they supported John Thune more than they supported President Donald J.
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  Speaker 11: Trump.
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  Speaker 3: It angers me that we are in the middle of
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  Speaker 3: a war that we were told was only going to
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  Speaker 3: be five to six weeks long. We've been told at
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  Speaker 3: least five or six times that we have achieved victory
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  Speaker 3: and we are still fighting this war. And there's a
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  Speaker 3: new report that came out yesterday suggesting this war could
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  Speaker 3: go on through President Trump's presidency. It angers me that
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  Speaker 3: the president of the United States went out there and
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  Speaker 3: he told young people in America, young people, 18, 19,
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  Speaker 3: 20 years old, to give the Republicans a chance that
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  Speaker 3: we would be the party that would help them claim
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  Speaker 3: their American dream. And now we've got young people working
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  Speaker 3: two and three jobs and they can't even afford a
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  Speaker 3: down payment on a house. because housing is out of
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  Speaker 3: their reach now. And our response to that is to
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  Speaker 3: belittle and demean these young Americans, Generation Z, and we're
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  Speaker 3: somehow surprised that Gen Z actually went out and voted
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  Speaker 3: for the Democrats? Are we really that stupid, Republicans?
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  Speaker 9: Come on!
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  Speaker 3: This is what angers me about all this, because we
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  Speaker 3: have been preaching this from day one on this radio program.
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  Speaker 3: And look, I know it rubs people the wrong way
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  Speaker 3: when I go after the White House, but ladies and gentlemen,
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  Speaker 3: I don't work off anybody's talking points.
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  Speaker 12: I don't.
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  Speaker 3: I just share what's on my heart, what's on my mind,
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  Speaker 3: what I believe. So when the vice president comes out
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  Speaker 3: and writes what he wrote just a few moments ago,
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  Speaker 3: this enrages me. He said, and I don't want to
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  Speaker 3: read all of this. He goes, our voters did show up.
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  Speaker 3: In Florida, for example, the electorate was nine points more
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  Speaker 3: Republican than Democrat, just a couple of points worse than 2024. Undoubtedly,
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  Speaker 3: there were places we could have done better on turnout.
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  Speaker 3: But the main problem is not turnout. The main problem
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  Speaker 3: is that many people who voted for Trump-Vance in 2024
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  Speaker 3: voted for Democrats in 2026. There will be a lot
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  Speaker 3: of infighting and arguing over what happened and why that is.
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  Speaker 3: One of the pollsters I really respect told me that
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  Speaker 3: our economic messaging was not sharp enough down the stretch.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sure that's true. Well, whose fault is that, Mr.
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  Speaker 3: Vice President?
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  Speaker 13: J.D.
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  Speaker 3: Vance seems to forget that there's a V and a
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  Speaker 3: P right before his name. He seems to forget that
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  Speaker 3: he actually lives in public housing in Washington, D.C. And
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  Speaker 3: why is that? Because he's the number two guy. Unbelievable.
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  Speaker 3: You're telling me that you needed a pollster, an analyst,
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  Speaker 3: to tell you that the economic messaging was not sharp enough?
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  Speaker 3: You've got the President of the United States going out
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  Speaker 3: in front of a crowd and telling them they would
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  Speaker 3: not be able to afford to buy a hamburger at Mar-a-Lago.
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  Speaker 3: They can't even afford to buy a hamburger down at McDonald's.
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  Speaker 3: You've got a Republican lawmaker down in Mississippi who, by
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  Speaker 3: the way, Cindy Hyde-Smith, who may end up losing the U.S.
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  Speaker 3: Senate seat of Mississippi. And you want to know why?
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  Speaker 3: Because her response to the high prices of ground beef
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  Speaker 3: was to tell you people to go find an alternate protein.
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  Speaker 3: She went on to say, those of you who can't
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  Speaker 3: afford to pay gasoline for your car, you ought to
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  Speaker 3: consider getting a bicycle. This is what we're dealing with.
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  Speaker 3: Let me go on and finish reading this. I was
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  Speaker 3: actually in a good mood coming into the show, and
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  Speaker 3: then I read what the vice president wrote here, and
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  Speaker 3: it just set me off. He goes, the real reason
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  Speaker 3: we lost is obvious to almost everyone. Well, clearly it
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  Speaker 3: wasn't obvious to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, sir. Another pollster? What
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  Speaker 3: is up with all these pollsters?
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  Speaker 10: You know what?
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  Speaker 3: I would have been happy to do it for free.
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  Speaker 3: You know they were charging $ 100, 000 for this guidance. I'd
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  Speaker 3: have done it for free. Another pollster, one of the
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  Speaker 3: smartest people I know in politics, told me yesterday we'd
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  Speaker 3: lose the generic ballot by 13 points. I felt negative
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  Speaker 3: going into Tuesday. But even I was shocked by this.
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  Speaker 3: In his polling, he saw that a lot of Trump
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  Speaker 3: 2024 voters were angry and planning to vote for Democrats.
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  Speaker 3: You think that just happened overnight, by the way? No,
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  Speaker 3: of course not. He asked those voters who had abandoned
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  Speaker 3: us what would cause them to come back on our team.
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  Speaker 3: The top four answers, according for nearly all of the responses.
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  Speaker 3: Number one, end the war. Number two, focus on cost
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  Speaker 3: of living inflation. Number three, put America first. Number four,
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  Speaker 3: change our relationship to Israel. I'm sorry, what? I think
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  Speaker 3: they must have interviewed Tucker.
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  Speaker 2: So.
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  Speaker 3: No, I'm serious. That's bizarre. I'm just wondering, all of
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  Speaker 3: you folks out there, are you upset because we support
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  Speaker 3: the nation of Israel, that we support our closest ally
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  Speaker 3: in the Middle East? I guess apparently that's a problem,
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  Speaker 3: according to the vice president of the United States. But
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  Speaker 3: you're telling me, and this is where I'm just livid.
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  Speaker 3: The Vice President of the United States somehow was clueless.
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  Speaker 3: He had no idea that if we just ended the
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  Speaker 3: war and maybe did something about the economy and we
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  Speaker 3: put America first instead of, I don't know, funding Afghanistan,
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  Speaker 3: if we did all of that, that the voters would
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  Speaker 3: come back to the Republican Party. So look, there is
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  Speaker 3: so much to talk about here, and we're going to
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  Speaker 3: get to all of it. All of it. Because we've
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  Speaker 3: got a country to save. Now I want to say this,
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  Speaker 3: and we're going to go to the phones right away.
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  Speaker 3: I want to get to the phones, because many of
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  Speaker 3: you have things to say about this. Don't you dare
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  Speaker 3: get discouraged. Don't you dare throw in the towel. This
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  Speaker 3: is the United States of America, ladies and gentlemen. This
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  Speaker 3: is freedom's last and best chance for hope and change
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  Speaker 3: in this country and the world. We can't go anywhere else.
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  Speaker 3: This is it. So, look, we've been in these rough
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  Speaker 3: patches before, and it is not a pretty thing. It's
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  Speaker 3: not pleasant at all. But we're going to get through this.
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  Speaker 3: We really are. And we're going to, look, we're going
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  Speaker 3: to make it. We're going to make it. But don't
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  Speaker 3: you get discouraged. Let not your heart be troubled, America.
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  Speaker 3: Because God is still in control. God is still on
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  Speaker 3: the throne. And things are going to be okay. We're
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  Speaker 3: going to go through a rough patch, no doubt about it.
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  Speaker 3: The Democrats have already told Republicans to lawyer up. Exact quote,
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  Speaker 3: by the way, lawyer up. That's where we are right now.
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  Speaker 3: All right, 901-260-5926. That's 901-260-5926. How bad is your messaging
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  Speaker 3: that the voters decided communism and wearing a burqa is
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  Speaker 3: the better alternative? How messed up is your messaging? Dylan,
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  Speaker 6: Oh, wow, yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, might as well.
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  Speaker 3: So, you know, the women are going to have to
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  Speaker 3: wear them. That's what the women of America decided. We
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  Speaker 7: Burkend?
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  Speaker 3: Burkend. Oh, my word. You know, also, I'm a little
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  Speaker 3: concerned about my book.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 3: We may need to rename it. How Trump Almost Saved America.
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  Speaker 6: Is there still time to rename it?
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  Speaker 3: You know what? If you buy a Todd Starnes Baptist Burka,
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  Speaker 3: we'll throw in the book half price.
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  Speaker 9: There you go.
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  Speaker 3: How's that?
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  Speaker 9: Oh, jeez.
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  Speaker 3: This is a crappy week. All right. Let's start the
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  Speaker 3: day in Houston, Texas. Steve is on the line. Steve,
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  Speaker 3: what in the world happened in the Lone Star State?
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  Speaker 14: I'll tell you what, Todd, I'm ashamed of Texas right now,
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  Speaker 14: and this is only the second time I have voted
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  Speaker 14: in elections, and my main concern, I didn't even know
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  Speaker 14: who half of the candidates were, but I voted Republican
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  Speaker 14: down the board, and I didn't want to see Greg
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  Speaker 14: Abbott lose office because And Greg Abbott, he's the only
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  Speaker 14: governor I've seen, even when Biden was in office, he
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  Speaker 14: was willing to stand up to Washington and send troops
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  Speaker 14: to the border, National Guard. He was all about Texas,
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  Speaker 14: and I don't know what the hell's going to happen
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  Speaker 14: to Texas now. And I just think that it's a
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  Speaker 14: shame that just because of the current administration, we all
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  Speaker 14: feel let down. I mean, I feel let down. And
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  Speaker 14: the bad thing is when it comes to the next
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  Speaker 14: presidential election, people aren't going to believe the Republicans now
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  Speaker 14: when they, you know, these youngsters, when they say that
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  Speaker 14: things are going to get better under the, you know,
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  Speaker 14: they've played good cop and bad cop with us my
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  Speaker 14: whole life. And, you know, I saw Trump as a
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  Speaker 14: change until this whole war and the economy. And, you know,
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  Speaker 14: it's just like George Bush all over again.
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  Speaker 3: Steve, I hear your concerns, and I think they're all
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  Speaker 3: very valid. I really do. I do have to wonder
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  Speaker 3: if all of the folks moving into Texas from other
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  Speaker 3: states like California, if those folks are changing the dynamic
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  Speaker 3: there when it comes to the ballot box. It used
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  Speaker 3: to be where you guys kept all the liberals down
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  Speaker 3: in Austin, but now they're all over the place.
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  Speaker 14: It's strange you said that because the first thing when
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  Speaker 14: I woke up this morning and I saw the polls,
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  Speaker 14: I said, well, they've done California to our Texas.
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  Speaker 3: There you go. All right, Steve, hang in there. We're
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  Speaker 3: going to get through this together, and we're going to
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  Speaker 3: talk solutions. But today, this is free therapy on the radio.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks a lot, Steve. Real quick, let's go to Ron
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  Speaker 3: in Tennessee listening to us on KWAM. Hi, Ron. What's
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  Speaker 3: on your mind?
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  Speaker 9: Hey, Todd. How are you doing?
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  Speaker 3: I'm well. Thank you for asking.
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  Speaker 15: I was looking at the governor's race because I'm proud
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  Speaker 15: of Tennessee, and they voted in Marcia, you know. And
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  Speaker 15: I was looking into this, and when I get on
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  Speaker 15: the Internet, it's showing that it was a real tight race, right?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, no, it was. They projected she was going to
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  Speaker 3: win by 70 points. I think she won by two.
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  Speaker 15: Well, I looked into it, and I got into doing
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  Speaker 15: breaking down all the counties and the votes that came in.
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  Speaker 15: With Green and with her.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 15: And then I totaled up the total amount of votes.
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  Speaker 15: And you can look into this for yourself if you
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  Speaker 15: want to, you know, because I am going to be wrong.
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  Speaker 15: But Marsha had over 1,185,000 votes. And she had, Green
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  Speaker 15: had 596,000. I'm not sure I'm following you there, Ron. Yes,
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  Speaker 15: I went to the county where they separated all the
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  Speaker 15: county votes, you know, from the counties and what the
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  Speaker 15: vote was for the Republican or Martian, how many votes
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  Speaker 15: were turned in in each county for the.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, so what's your... No, according to the Tennessee Secretary
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  Speaker 3: of State's office, there were only about 50,000 votes that
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  Speaker 3: separated Blackburn from Jerry Green, the Democrat, in the race.
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  Speaker 3: You have evidence of something else?
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  Speaker 15: Well, that's what I'm getting when I get on.
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  Speaker 7: When I get on the internet and I look it
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  Speaker 7: up and I.
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  Speaker 15: Get into the separation of the votes for county.
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  Speaker 3: No, I would, if I were you, I would go
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  Speaker 3: to the Tennessee Secretary of State's office or go to
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  Speaker 3: their website and you'll see all the vote totals there.
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  Speaker 3: It was a very, very close. Marsha won by barely
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  Speaker 3: three points. So they're in that, or I'm sorry, two
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  Speaker 3: and a half, three points in that race. Ron, I've
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  Speaker 3: got to go. Thank you for that call. Hang tight, everybody.
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  Speaker 3: to your calls. 901-260-5926, our telephone number. Speaker Mike Johnson
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  Speaker 3: has announced he will not be seeking a leadership position.
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: He will not be running for minority leader. We understand
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: Jim Jordan and Steve Scalise are throwing their names in
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: the hat. I got to tell you, I think we
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: need fresh, fresh leadership up on Capitol Hill. I'm a
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: big fan of Brandon Gill. um what do you guys
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: think about him as minority leader 901-260-5926 hang tight we're
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: gonna get right back to your calls on the todd stern.
• 19:57
  Speaker 16: Show All the Iran war. You look at the I mean,
• 20:14
  Speaker 16: look at what Trump did today.
• 20:16
  Speaker 17: He came out and said, first of all, on Fox,
• 20:19
  Speaker 17: he said, well, I think people are glad we stopped
• 20:22
  Speaker 17: the nuclear program in Iran.
• 20:24
  Speaker 18: No, they aren't.
• 20:25
  Speaker 17: Nobody was worried about Iranian nukes. And also he apparently,
• 20:29
  Speaker 17: I don't know, said on Truth Social or came out
• 20:31
  Speaker 17: and said, OK, fine, we'll stop giving Israel four billion dollars.
• 20:37
  Speaker 16: He's trying to.
• 20:37
  Speaker 17: Get people to vote for him, and he knows what
• 20:39
  Speaker 17: it's about.
• 20:40
  Speaker 16: It's what the polls show.
• 20:41
  Speaker 17: I mean, if people don't say the Iran war specifically,
• 20:43
  Speaker 17: and a lot of them say the Iran war, they
• 20:46
  Speaker 17: say gas prices. They say cost of living. Well, that's
• 20:50
  Speaker 17: the Iran war. And by the way, I think it's
• 20:52
  Speaker 17: worth pointing that out. And don't let anyone tell you otherwise,
• 20:54
  Speaker 17: because I was just watching, you know, all these Democrats on,
• 20:56
  Speaker 17: I don't know, CNN, MSNBC. And they want to say
• 21:00
  Speaker 17: it's about anything but the Iran war. It's, oh, people
• 21:05
  Speaker 17: hate Trump and it's because of the tariffs and it's
• 21:08
  Speaker 17: because of voter suppression and racism and January 6th.
• 21:12
  Speaker 16: No, it's not. It's the Iran war.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's Ann Coulter, and she is back, and she
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: is really fired up over what happened last night. And
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: I hope you understand the severity of the defeat for
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: the Republicans. This is not something that's going to be
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: fixed in one election cycle. By the way, they're still
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: counting votes. I mean, the numbers are off the charts.
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: You folks in North Carolina, for example, if the current
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: numbers hold, the entire Republican delegation in North Carolina— will
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: have gone down in defeat. That's what we're talking about here.
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: It's just really shocking. Let's go to the phone lines
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  Speaker 3: as promised. 901-260-5926. Jeff in Memphis, Tennessee, listening to us
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  Speaker 3: on KWAM. Jeff, what's your take on what happened yesterday?
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  Speaker 15: Good morning, Todd.
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  Speaker 18: Let me preface what my take would be is And
• 22:10
  Speaker 18: that is that I worked the Shelby County poll yesterday,
• 22:13
  Speaker 18: a Shelby County poll yesterday, first time. And it was
• 22:16
  Speaker 18: exciting to see a steady stream of Americans exercising their
• 22:21
  Speaker 18: rights and privileges as citizens. There was a handful of
• 22:25
  Speaker 18: first-time voters. They were celebrated and applauded because they had
• 22:30
  Speaker 18: begun to enter the fray and exercise their citizenship rights.
• 22:37
  Speaker 18: A couple of thoughts and then a hope. state it,
• 22:41
  Speaker 18: and read it in the scripture, and I'll get off
• 22:43
  Speaker 18: the line. I do think the Iran conflict played a
• 22:48
  Speaker 18: major role because it had a direct bearing on the
• 22:52
  Speaker 18: cost of living. The economy is still spitting and sputtering,
• 22:56
  Speaker 18: and to talk about nuclear bombs and so on while
• 23:00
  Speaker 18: we're involved in another foreign entanglement that has no end
• 23:05
  Speaker 18: in sight, it became a tiresome, tiresome bromide. People are
• 23:10
  Speaker 18: tired of it. Neoconservatives are not. They love hawkish activity,
• 23:15
  Speaker 18: but I think most Americans are tired of endless foreign entanglement.
• 23:21
  Speaker 18: Iran will become, I believe, Trump's no new taxes in
• 23:26
  Speaker 18: his second term. I think people are tired, and I'm
• 23:30
  Speaker 18: a longtime Republican, voted Republican since 1980. I've stated that
• 23:35
  Speaker 18: on your program before. People are tired of do-nothing Republicans.
• 23:38
  Speaker 18: Republicans who promise and do not deliver. It's just more
• 23:42
  Speaker 18: of the same repeal and replace nonsense. And executive action,
• 23:48
  Speaker 18: though sometimes needed, is not a substitute for legislative action.
• 23:53
  Speaker 18: The next president will come in and with the stroke
• 23:56
  Speaker 18: of 10, change back the Gulf of America to the
• 24:00
  Speaker 18: Gulf of Mexico. That's cosmetic buffoonery that does not affect
• 24:05
  Speaker 18: when I purchase groceries as a retiree, Oh, and I
• 24:10
  Speaker 18: pass the pump and see the prices and so on.
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: Well, let me just say this. Let me just say this, Jeff,
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: and you are on to something here. All of the
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: executive orders, and a lot of people forget that the
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: reason why the president has had to do the executive
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: orders is because the Republicans in Congress were not getting
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: those things codified. So every single thing, and you're absolutely right,
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: on day one, a Democrat president will step into that
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: Oval Office saying, and we'll undo every single executive order.
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: Gulf of America goes away. What do we call it?
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: Lake America? Lake America goes away. All of the orders
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: involving regarding sex and gender, all that goes away. It
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: goes away, Jeff. And I think the American people need
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: to understand that the do-nothing Congress was not just some
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: sort of a catchphrase. They literally did nothing.
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  Speaker 18: One final comment, and I'll get off. I appreciate your show.
• 25:13
  Speaker 18: You're even-handed, and I appreciate that. Real hope for America,
• 25:18
  Speaker 18: and one's personal hope, is not tied to a party.
• 25:21
  Speaker 18: It's fun to watch the back and forth. It's fun
• 25:23
  Speaker 18: to analyze and look and so on. But as a
• 25:26
  Speaker 18: voting evangelical believer, I never think when I go in
• 25:30
  Speaker 18: and cast that ballot, and who sits in the Oval Office,
• 25:33
  Speaker 18: or who's in the majority and the center of the House,
• 25:36
  Speaker 18: that my hope is tied to the swings, the vicissitudes
• 25:42
  Speaker 18: of that electoral process. Real hope is rooted in another
• 25:47
  Speaker 18: with a capital A. There's one who sits on a throne.
• 25:51
  Speaker 18: He sat on it on Monday. He is on it
• 25:54
  Speaker 18: on Tuesday. He's on it today. It's a throne that
• 25:57
  Speaker 18: will never be usurped or toppled. He ordains whatsoever comes
• 26:01
  Speaker 18: to pass. That means when we've got a Carter followed
• 26:04
  Speaker 18: by a Reagan, followed by a bush, followed.
• 26:07
  Speaker 9: By a bush.
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  Speaker 3: Jeff, let's get to it. We are about to run
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: out of time here, my friend.
• 26:10
  Speaker 18: Yeah, so that's what my hope is. Meanwhile, I exercise
• 26:15
  Speaker 18: my right. It's Jeremiah 29. We pray for the peace
• 26:19
  Speaker 18: and prosperity of where we live, but we build and plant.
• 26:23
  Speaker 18: We give our sons and daughters in marriage, and we
• 26:26
  Speaker 18: look to another.
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  Speaker 3: All right, Jeff, thank you for that call.
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  Speaker 10: 901-260-5926.
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: It may be a five Dr. Pepper day. I'm just saying.
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: So look, I want to play some more audio here.
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: President Trump and the president, remember what he said that
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: he wanted all of us to imagine that he was
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: that he was on the ballot, right? Remember, that's why
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: we wanted to have the big rally in Dallas, Texas,
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: and the president said, you know, I want to make
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: sure you just, when you go and vote, just think
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: of me on the ballot. Even though I'm not on
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: the ballot, think of me as being on the ballot.
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: Do we all remember when the president said that, right?
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: I don't think I was dreaming that. Cut number 28, please.
• 27:09
  Speaker 16: I'm just wondering, what's your message? What do you think
• 27:11
  Speaker 16: happened with your party tonight?
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: I wasn't on the ballot, and we didn't get the
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: people out, but I wasn't on the ballot. If I
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: was on the ballot, we would have won.
• 27:21
  Speaker 9: We would have won it all very easily.
• 27:22
  Speaker 7: But you know, Mr.
• 27:23
  Speaker 11: President, you told voters that you were on the ballot
• 27:25
  Speaker 11: to go vote as though you were on the ballot.
• 27:27
  Speaker 10: Yeah, I said, say you're on the ballot.
• 27:29
  Speaker 15: Think about me being on the ballot. But they didn't agree,
• 27:32
  Speaker 15: and they didn't like the candidates.
• 27:33
  Speaker 9: In most cases.
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: Just one of those things.
• 27:36
  Speaker 14: There's plenty of people elected, by the way, too, but
• 27:39
  Speaker 14: not enough.
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Well, there you go. President certainly disappointed because he
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: put it all out there. I mean, he did. He
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: left everything on the field, as did Speaker Mike Johnson,
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: who should be– look, I think Speaker Johnson did a
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: fine job. He got everything through the House that needed
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: to get through the House. The Senate is where the
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: bottleneck occurred.
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  Speaker 9: 901-260-5926.
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: Let's go to Larry in Ocala, Florida, WOCA. Larry, what's
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: on your mind?
• 28:09
  Speaker 9: Hey, man, we talked, I guess.
• 28:11
  Speaker 4: What, two weeks ago? And I told you this had
• 28:14
  Speaker 4: nothing to do with Democrats. This had 100% to do
• 28:18
  Speaker 4: with Republicans getting fired. You could almost go back and
• 28:23
  Speaker 4: just the same as we elected Donald Trump the first time.
• 28:27
  Speaker 4: I said this then on the Rush Limbaugh show. that
• 28:31
  Speaker 4: voting for Donald Trump was like sticking your finger in
• 28:34
  Speaker 4: the eye of the Republicans because we were sick and
• 28:37
  Speaker 4: tired of being lied to. And then we got Trump,
• 28:40
  Speaker 4: and then what did we get? We got Phil the Swamp.
• 28:43
  Speaker 4: But I can tell you one thing. Where they went wrong,
• 28:46
  Speaker 4: when it all turned around, is when Donald Trump said,
• 28:49
  Speaker 4: y'all are still talking about that? About those Epstein files.
• 28:54
  Speaker 4: That right there was the breaking point. We were sick
• 28:57
  Speaker 4: and tired. We knew no one was going to be prosecuted.
• 29:00
  Speaker 4: We knew no Democrats were going to be held to account.
• 29:03
  Speaker 4: We knew Fauci wasn't going to be held to account.
• 29:05
  Speaker 4: We got the big, beautiful bill, spin, spin, spin, and
• 29:08
  Speaker 4: now a war. If you think this has anything to
• 29:14
  Speaker 4: do with Democrats, you are delusional. And I watched Fox
• 29:19
  Speaker 4: News last night, and they didn't mention anything about the
• 29:22
  Speaker 4: Epstein files, and they didn't mention anything about a rebellion. Confudiation,
• 29:27
  Speaker 4: I mean an absolute firing of the Republicans.
• 29:31
  Speaker 19: That's what it was about.
• 29:32
  Speaker 15: And, brother, you were wrong.
• 29:35
  Speaker 3: Larry, brother, no, I was not wrong, brother. I was
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: actually right. I've been very vocal on this program about
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: releasing the Epstein files, about delivering on every single campaign
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: promise that was made. And I've been warning the Republicans
• 29:53
  Speaker 3: for the past two years, Larry, two years I've been
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: warning the Republicans to deliver on their campaign promises. Now,
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: do I get behind the microphone and scream until the
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: veins are popping out of my neck? No, because I
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: don't think people want to hear that every single day.
• 30:08
  Speaker 3: But we talk about those issues, Larry. So, yeah, you
• 30:13
  Speaker 3: said I'm wrong. I'm not wrong at all. We've been
• 30:16
  Speaker 3: telling it like it is.
• 30:18
  Speaker 4: You said I was wrong, that that was not the situation,
• 30:22
  Speaker 4: that we weren't just mad about Republicans. But if you
• 30:26
  Speaker 4: listen to everybody that's talking, they're acting like that. And
• 30:30
  Speaker 4: the Democrats can make the same mistake that the Republicans
• 30:33
  Speaker 4: can make, and we should let them. As Republicans, we
• 30:37
  Speaker 4: need to step back and say, OK, what's important? What's
• 30:40
  Speaker 4: important is one thing. Keep your word. If you're not
• 30:43
  Speaker 4: going to do it when you get.
• 30:44
  Speaker 6: Elected, you're not safe.
• 30:47
  Speaker 3: No, you're exactly right, Larry, and that has been the problem.
• 30:52
  Speaker 3: The Republicans have repeatedly lied to the American people. And
• 30:57
  Speaker 3: quite frankly, the administration has lied to the American people.
• 31:01
  Speaker 3: They have promised one thing, but they have not delivered
• 31:04
  Speaker 3: on it. And again, if you didn't want to release
• 31:06
  Speaker 3: the Epstein files, you never should have brought it up
• 31:08
  Speaker 3: and made the promise in the first place. I mean,
• 31:10
  Speaker 3: that's where I stand on those issues. Larry, got to run.
• 31:14
  Speaker 3: Thank you for that.
• 31:15
  Speaker 9: 901-260-5926.
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: Let's go to Eric in Georgia.
• 31:17
  Speaker 9: Hi, Eric.
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: What say you?
• 31:24
  Speaker 8: Oh, it's crazy what's going on. Everybody has their two
• 31:27
  Speaker 8: cents about, oh, everything went wrong because of Epstein and
• 31:31
  Speaker 8: this and that. And it's really, this is just a
• 31:34
  Speaker 8: big game they play every time they go in. One minute, everybody, everybody,
• 31:40
  Speaker 8: it's the end of the world.
• 31:41
  Speaker 14: It's the end of the world.
• 31:42
  Speaker 8: We've got to do something. And nothing ever happened. Republicans
• 31:45
  Speaker 8: had their chance to push through so many bills and
• 31:48
  Speaker 8: did absolutely nothing. never come together. It's just a game
• 31:52
  Speaker 8: they play non-stop, but we all get screwed in the middle.
• 31:56
  Speaker 3: I am stunned, quite frankly, by what happened in Georgia.
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: I thought Rick Jackson was going to be your next governor.
• 32:04
  Speaker 3: That is a crazy, crazy story. And what happened in
• 32:08
  Speaker 3: your state last night?
• 32:09
  Speaker 8: I can't believe it. I don't know how that actually happened.
• 32:12
  Speaker 15: I don't know a.
• 32:13
  Speaker 8: Single person that said they were going to vote for Keisha.
• 32:17
  Speaker 8: So I'm flabbergasted.
• 32:21
  Speaker 9: I don't know.
• 32:22
  Speaker 8: I mean, I don't know how that's possible. I don't
• 32:24
  Speaker 8: know a single person, even my father, who's a lifelong Democrat,
• 32:28
  Speaker 8: said he couldn't vote for her, but somehow 54% of
• 32:31
  Speaker 8: the vote, something doesn't smell right. I'm sorry.
• 32:34
  Speaker 3: Well, I know that we've already got a lot of
• 32:36
  Speaker 3: people on our social media pages suggesting that there were
• 32:39
  Speaker 3: voting shenanigans, and there may have been, but not to
• 32:42
  Speaker 3: this level. And again, what makes us different is that
• 32:46
  Speaker 3: it would have to have been coordinated in every single
• 32:49
  Speaker 3: state separately. This was just a good old-fashioned butt whooping.
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: And the American people, and trust me on this one, Eric,
• 32:56
  Speaker 3: they're not embracing the Democrats. They're just enraged at the
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: Republicans because the Republicans did not live up to their word.
• 33:04
  Speaker 3: And that's a big problem. And I think a lot
• 33:06
  Speaker 3: of people, and we talked about this yesterday, if the
• 33:09
  Speaker 3: Republicans turned out en masse to vote, we would have won.
• 33:14
  Speaker 3: And if they didn't, well, there's a reason for that,
• 33:16
  Speaker 3: because a lot of people are really upset over what
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: the Republicans have not done. Eric, thank you for that call.
• 33:22
  Speaker 3: We're going to take a quick break. 901-260-5926, a line
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  Speaker 3: now open. This is the Todd Stern Show. All right,
• 33:37
  Speaker 3: let's go to Memphis, Tennessee. Andre listening to us on KWAM,
• 33:43
  Speaker 3: our flagship radio station. All right, Andre, what do you
• 33:45
  Speaker 3: think about the election yesterday?
• 33:48
  Speaker 20: Well, first of all, Todd, I want to tell you,
• 33:50
  Speaker 20: be encouraged, man. God is still in control.
• 33:52
  Speaker 19: Be encouraged.
• 33:54
  Speaker 20: I think the election, man, I prayed about it, and
• 33:56
  Speaker 20: I think we've gotten away from one nation under God,
• 33:59
  Speaker 20: and people don't have.
• 34:00
  Speaker 9: A fear of God.
• 34:01
  Speaker 20: You've got people that are sitting around here with, you've
• 34:03
  Speaker 20: got Muslims going to supposed Christian churches, Someone give me
• 34:07
  Speaker 20: your support instead of people being outraged and setting up
• 34:10
  Speaker 20: a flaw in it. You've got people that are pushing
• 34:12
  Speaker 20: these identity politics based on my race and not what
• 34:15
  Speaker 20: the Word of God says. You've got people that are
• 34:18
  Speaker 20: pushing it, that God made some mistake when He made
• 34:21
  Speaker 20: male and female, and people that are supposed to believe
• 34:24
  Speaker 20: with our flaw in this. And it's a great falling
• 34:27
  Speaker 20: away from the church. Like the Bible says, we've gotten
• 34:29
  Speaker 20: away from the fear of God.
• 34:30
  Speaker 9: In this nation.
• 34:33
  Speaker 3: I think there may be something to that, Andre, and
• 34:35
  Speaker 3: I go back to the 2024 platform committee fights within
• 34:39
  Speaker 3: the Republican Party where they actually softened language about abortion,
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: and they softened language about traditional marriage. And you wonder, okay,
• 34:50
  Speaker 3: is the good Lord trying to send us a message here?
• 34:53
  Speaker 20: Yeah, they're compromising, and there are consequences to your choices,
• 34:58
  Speaker 20: and And one thing about it, you can choose to go,
• 35:00
  Speaker 20: if you want the rabbits, God will let you have
• 35:02
  Speaker 20: the rabbits, but be prepared to suffer the consequences of it.
• 35:05
  Speaker 20: I think America as we've known it, they have to change.
• 35:09
  Speaker 3: Pastor Andre, great guidance and great words. Thank you, sir.
• 35:14
  Speaker 3: Let's go to Gary in Daytona Beach, Florida, WOCA. Hi, Gary.
• 35:19
  Speaker 3: What say you?
• 35:21
  Speaker 19: Well, so far, I think out of all your callers,
• 35:24
  Speaker 19: I think everybody offered something a little different and And
• 35:28
  Speaker 19: in some aspects, everybody had a very valid point on
• 35:32
  Speaker 19: some of the points that they made. I've become more
• 35:36
  Speaker 19: selfish in the sense that since COVID, I believe in
• 35:40
  Speaker 19: protecting the state that I live in. I know there's
• 35:45
  Speaker 19: a federal government aware of that, and I'll be really quick,
• 35:48
  Speaker 19: but the way Ron DeSantis took care of Floridians during
• 35:52
  Speaker 19: COVID and rejected a lot of the crazy things that
• 35:56
  Speaker 19: was going on elsewhere, And we've kept Florida red. I mean,
• 36:00
  Speaker 19: we're one of the few states. But with the vote count,
• 36:03
  Speaker 19: when you were talking about it, when your first few callers,
• 36:06
  Speaker 19: we have been, they're the laziest bunch of people. We
• 36:11
  Speaker 19: had 1.4 million, I did a little autopsy on it,
• 36:16
  Speaker 19: about 1.4 million active registered Republican voters that didn't vote
• 36:20
  Speaker 19: in Florida yesterday.
• 36:23
  Speaker 3: Wow. Well, you know, again, Gary, when you don't vote,
• 36:26
  Speaker 3: you vote.
• 36:28
  Speaker 19: Right. But I'm very selfish in protecting Florida. I know
• 36:32
  Speaker 19: it's very important, the presidency and the Senate. But I
• 36:35
  Speaker 19: think Byron Donalds has learned from Ron DeSantis how when
• 36:39
  Speaker 19: crazy stuff comes from the federal government about you're going
• 36:42
  Speaker 19: to close schools and you're going to have DEI, Ron
• 36:46
  Speaker 19: DeSantis put in there, has stood tall. And I think
• 36:49
  Speaker 19: Byron Donalds... No, it was really sad on how close,
• 36:54
  Speaker 19: even though we kept it red, how close it shouldn't
• 36:57
  Speaker 19: have been. And I heard other people say it's a
• 37:00
  Speaker 19: statement that Byron Donalds only won by 100,000. Ron DeSantis
• 37:05
  Speaker 19: barely beat the crack addict, Gillum, by 20 or 30,000.
• 37:09
  Speaker 9: It's true.
• 37:10
  Speaker 3: It's true.
• 37:11
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 37:12
  Speaker 3: Gary, thank you for that. No, you're absolutely right, and
• 37:14
  Speaker 3: it's true. Sorry about the phone connection there, Gary. Let's
• 37:18
  Speaker 3: go to Wayne in Cleveland, Georgia.
• 37:21
  Speaker 9: Hi, Wayne.
• 37:22
  Speaker 3: What's on your mind?
• 37:24
  Speaker 21: Yes, I've been listening to your last two callers and
• 37:28
  Speaker 21: talking about Republicans not keeping their word and so forth. So, again,
• 37:32
  Speaker 21: like you just pointed out, not voting. So now we,
• 37:36
  Speaker 21: by sitting on our hands, have voted in a bunch
• 37:39
  Speaker 21: of people who are ten times worse at saying one
• 37:43
  Speaker 21: thing and doing another. And I don't understand, to save
• 37:47
  Speaker 21: my life, why Republicans want to give every Republican on
• 37:51
  Speaker 21: the ticket a proctology exam, but the Democrats just vote
• 37:55
  Speaker 21: for the D. And the time to handle these things
• 38:00
  Speaker 21: is in the primary, not in general elections. The only
• 38:05
  Speaker 21: bright spot I see is we can change it back
• 38:07
  Speaker 21: in two years if we get off our hands and
• 38:10
  Speaker 21: quit pouting because we didn't win our primary for whoever
• 38:14
  Speaker 21: we wanted to win the primary. And I just don't
• 38:18
  Speaker 21: get it. I don't get people that are otherwise logical
• 38:22
  Speaker 21: that claim to be Republicans can't get that point.
• 38:26
  Speaker 3: Wayne, it's an excellent point you make, and thank you
• 38:29
  Speaker 3: for that. I misunderstood. I thought somebody was giving Republicans
• 38:33
  Speaker 3: a proctology exam. Oh, God, that's all we need, another scandal. Jeez-a-loo.
• 38:38
  Speaker 3: We'll be right back, everybody.
• 38:40
  Speaker 9: Wow.
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: Broadcasting coast to coast and border to border from Memphis, Tennessee.
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: That's us, that's right. I love this American ride.
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: Todd Starks.
• 39:10
  Speaker 3: You know, I was looking at some of the numbers here,
• 39:14
  Speaker 3: and the numbers of evangelicals who voted in the election
• 39:19
  Speaker 3: yesterday only get this, only 17%. of evangelicals voted in
• 39:25
  Speaker 3: the midterm election. Only 17% of registered evangelicals voters turned
• 39:31
  Speaker 3: out yesterday to vote. Now, on the other side, it
• 39:35
  Speaker 3: was projected that about 81% of Muslims.
• 39:40
  Speaker 3: Voted in the midterm elections. So striking numbers, and it's
• 39:46
  Speaker 3: really shocking because, again, if, I mean, evangelicals by sheer numbers,
• 39:50
  Speaker 3: if more than, you know, 40, 50 percent of you
• 39:53
  Speaker 3: turn out to vote, you're going to actually win elections.
• 39:56
  Speaker 3: But when you've got 81 percent of Muslims getting out
• 39:59
  Speaker 3: and voting on election day, All you Baptists, you guys
• 40:03
  Speaker 3: better get ready because soon you're going to be wearing burkas.
• 40:06
  Speaker 3: The Baptist burka. Hello, everybody. Welcome to the Tom Stearns
• 40:10
  Speaker 3: Radio Show. Hour two as we do the post-election autopsy
• 40:15
  Speaker 3: of what in the world happened. We're going to get
• 40:18
  Speaker 3: to your calls in just a moment. I want to
• 40:20
  Speaker 3: go to the Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line. Say hello to
• 40:22
  Speaker 3: our good friend Michael Wilson. He hosts the morning show
• 40:25
  Speaker 3: there on Patriot Talk 920 in Houston. Michael, I'm curious,
• 40:29
  Speaker 3: what is the mood there in the Lone Star State today?
• 40:32
  Speaker 7: You know, Todd, it's difficult to answer you. The mood
• 40:36
  Speaker 7: from probably 90% of people, at least most of my group,
• 40:40
  Speaker 7: is a little bit lower than maybe an average Wednesday.
• 40:44
  Speaker 7: For me, I'm just an optimist all the time. And
• 40:48
  Speaker 7: so for me, I'm already trying to eke out what
• 40:52
  Speaker 7: good news there is and how we can play this
• 40:55
  Speaker 7: as it being a future long-term gain, which I think
• 40:58
  Speaker 7: it will be long-term. So that's my mood, at least.
• 41:01
  Speaker 10: I'm very optimistic.
• 41:02
  Speaker 3: Well, I've had three Dr. Peppers today, so I'm feeling
• 41:04
  Speaker 3: a little bit optimistic now. So I'm doing good. You know,
• 41:08
  Speaker 3: it's interesting. It is going to take multiple election cycles,
• 41:11
  Speaker 3: barring some sort of, you know, Democrats just go over
• 41:15
  Speaker 3: the edge and force all the women in America to
• 41:17
  Speaker 3: wear burqas. I think that it's going to take a
• 41:19
  Speaker 3: couple of election cycles to gain back some of these seats.
• 41:24
  Speaker 3: But I'm just curious about this Senate race. President Trump
• 41:28
  Speaker 3: making no bones about it. He said that Paxton was
• 41:32
  Speaker 3: a bad candidate. Mediaite, you're going to love this. I've
• 41:36
  Speaker 3: got to read this quote to you from Mediaite. So
• 41:38
  Speaker 3: they have a place where people your age go in D.C.
• 41:42
  Speaker 3: called Butterworth's, and they held a big private GOP party there.
• 41:47
  Speaker 3: And someone said, talking about Kim Paxton, I'm not trying
• 41:51
  Speaker 3: to crash out, but we nominated Hitler with Down syndrome,
• 41:55
  Speaker 3: and guess what?
• 41:55
  Speaker 11: He lost.
• 41:57
  Speaker 9: He lost.
• 42:01
  Speaker 15: Oh, that caught me off guard.
• 42:04
  Speaker 7: The frustrating thing, though, for me is that that would
• 42:07
  Speaker 7: make a semblance of sense if we had lost the
• 42:10
  Speaker 7: Senate race and then we had retained most of.
• 42:12
  Speaker 10: Our other statewide races.
• 42:13
  Speaker 7: We lost every single statewide position, and I mean every
• 42:17
  Speaker 7: single one. We lost our governor, our attorney general, our
• 42:20
  Speaker 7: railroad commissioner, our land commissioner, who had the highest approval
• 42:23
  Speaker 7: rating of basically any candidate ever, lost. Like, every single
• 42:26
  Speaker 7: statewide election, we lost to the Democrats. So the whole,
• 42:29
  Speaker 7: it was Ken Paxton's fault doesn't really work for me,
• 42:31
  Speaker 7: just based on the data.
• 42:33
  Speaker 3: What do you make of the losses, though? What were
• 42:36
  Speaker 3: people saying?
• 42:38
  Speaker 7: So from my understanding, and again, this is a little anecdotal,
• 42:41
  Speaker 7: but I think it's fair and it makes sense to me,
• 42:43
  Speaker 7: so I'm going to go with it. I think, and
• 42:46
  Speaker 7: I've heard people say the exact opposite, I don't think
• 42:47
  Speaker 7: it's true, I think that people are really upset by
• 42:51
  Speaker 7: the lack of action. I'll give you a great example.
• 42:53
  Speaker 7: It's Sharia law down here in Texas. We have had
• 42:55
  Speaker 7: a massive influx of Islam, of mosques, of Muslim leaders.
• 43:00
  Speaker 7: For example, we just had a Muslim elected to be
• 43:04
  Speaker 7: county judge of Harris County, one of the largest counties
• 43:06
  Speaker 7: in the country, now has a Muslim county judge running
• 43:09
  Speaker 7: the whole county. People see all of that. And when
• 43:12
  Speaker 7: your response from your main moderate Republican candidates is, well,
• 43:15
  Speaker 7: we need to ban Sharia law, and we say, well,
• 43:17
  Speaker 7: the Constitution in our state's already done that.
• 43:19
  Speaker 10: We're not worried about Sharia.
• 43:20
  Speaker 7: We're worried about how you end up with Sharia anyway,
• 43:23
  Speaker 7: which is through large amounts of influence. But you won't
• 43:25
  Speaker 7: talk about that because that would make you look anti-Muslim,
• 43:28
  Speaker 7: and you rely on Pakistani donors, Muslim donors, and all
• 43:31
  Speaker 7: the rest. People start to say, well, then.
• 43:33
  Speaker 22: You're no better.
• 43:34
  Speaker 7: It's just a slower fade into the same issue. And
• 43:37
  Speaker 7: so people really fed up and said, why would I
• 43:39
  Speaker 7: bother voting for someone that's going to do the same
• 43:41
  Speaker 7: thing at a slower pace? If maybe, and this is
• 43:44
  Speaker 7: where my optimism comes in, I say, maybe there's an
• 43:46
  Speaker 7: opportunity to get a whole new guard of people who
• 43:48
  Speaker 7: are willing to say radical things if it means standing
• 43:51
  Speaker 7: up for our country.
• 43:52
  Speaker 3: You know, that is an interesting way of looking at it.
• 43:54
  Speaker 3: And in all honesty, I know they're getting ready to
• 43:56
  Speaker 3: have leadership votes. And Jim Jordan, Steve Scalise are going
• 44:01
  Speaker 3: to be vying for minority leader. I'd like to see
• 44:03
  Speaker 3: somebody like a Brandon Gill. I think we need to
• 44:06
  Speaker 3: get fresh blood across the board in the Republican Party,
• 44:09
  Speaker 3: and everybody at the RNC headquarters, everybody needs to be fired,
• 44:13
  Speaker 3: because that was really just a complete political abortion is
• 44:17
  Speaker 3: what happened last night.
• 44:19
  Speaker 7: Yeah, and I tell you the whole reason for it
• 44:21
  Speaker 7: is that, again, and I heard you mention it, is
• 44:23
  Speaker 7: that you keep seeing this response. to losing the Democrats,
• 44:28
  Speaker 7: and it's historically always failed, which is, hey, what if
• 44:31
  Speaker 7: we just moderate even more and look more like a
• 44:33
  Speaker 7: Democrat so they vote for us? Instead of, hey, how
• 44:35
  Speaker 7: about we're men of principle and character and integrity and
• 44:38
  Speaker 7: we say what we mean and we mean what we say?
• 44:39
  Speaker 10: Maybe that would win us elections.
• 44:41
  Speaker 7: When you look at all the elections we lost, the
• 44:43
  Speaker 7: vast majority of Republicans don't look different from a Democrat 10,
• 44:47
  Speaker 7: 15 years ago. And everyone recognizes the pattern and goes, well,
• 44:49
  Speaker 7: then what will Republicans look like in 10 or 15
• 44:51
  Speaker 7: years if we don't have a massive change It's not
• 44:55
  Speaker 7: going to look any different than the Democrat Party looks today.
• 44:57
  Speaker 7: So why would I bother voting for that if maybe,
• 45:00
  Speaker 7: even in the short-term losses, it means in eight years,
• 45:02
  Speaker 7: four years, we can come back and say, let's put
• 45:04
  Speaker 7: candidates in who are willing to say things that get
• 45:08
  Speaker 7: them in trouble because those things are true.
• 45:10
  Speaker 3: I have always been surprised by your governor, Greg Abbott.
• 45:14
  Speaker 3: He does not come across as a conservative to me.
• 45:17
  Speaker 4: No.
• 45:18
  Speaker 3: And quite frankly, I was stunned that he just did
• 45:21
  Speaker 3: nothing as the Islamist pretty much took over large swaths
• 45:24
  Speaker 3: of the state.
• 45:26
  Speaker 7: Well, you also have to remember, Todd, that he was
• 45:28
  Speaker 7: really focused because he had to dress up in Diwali attire,
• 45:31
  Speaker 7: Hindu attire during Diwali, to make sure that he represented
• 45:34
  Speaker 7: his Hindu voters. He had to dress up in their clothes,
• 45:36
  Speaker 7: in his wheelchair. And it's so frustrating because, again, we're
• 45:40
  Speaker 7: in Texas, and we're at the point where you look
• 45:42
  Speaker 7: at the Republican leadership and you say, This doesn't look conservative.
• 45:46
  Speaker 7: This doesn't look traditional. And Greg Abbott's never going to
• 45:49
  Speaker 7: say anything that gets him in trouble with anybody. And
• 45:52
  Speaker 7: we need some troublemakers in office if we want to
• 45:55
  Speaker 7: beat the people that are causing trouble in our state.
• 45:57
  Speaker 7: We have a massive influx of both Hinduism and of Islam.
• 46:01
  Speaker 7: If you look in Fort Bend County, one of the
• 46:02
  Speaker 7: big counties right outside Harris County where I'm at, massive
• 46:06
  Speaker 7: influx of Hinduism and the biggest Hindu statue maybe in
• 46:10
  Speaker 7: the country is right there in Fort Bend County. And
• 46:13
  Speaker 7: when you have a governor who's dressing up like them
• 46:15
  Speaker 7: and not taking a stand and saying, no, that's actually
• 46:17
  Speaker 7: really evil and demon worship, you're going to lose because
• 46:20
  Speaker 7: conservatives need someone who's willing to stand up. No pun
• 46:22
  Speaker 7: intended there.
• 46:23
  Speaker 3: You know, it's interesting you brought that up. Of course,
• 46:25
  Speaker 3: Vivek Ramaswamy, I want to switch gears, Ohio, went down
• 46:28
  Speaker 3: in defeat. Are we surprised here? I mean, this is
• 46:31
  Speaker 3: a guy who went out there and would constantly talk
• 46:33
  Speaker 3: about how lazy American workers are. You know, he was
• 46:36
  Speaker 3: bashing America and And I think people said, okay, yeah,
• 46:40
  Speaker 3: this is not my guy. I think we've actually got
• 46:43
  Speaker 3: a job. If Vivek's looking for something, we can get
• 46:45
  Speaker 3: him a job down at FedEx. They're hiring a lot
• 46:49
  Speaker 3: of Indian Americans these days.
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 46:52
  Speaker 7: It's the same absurd stuff.
• 46:56
  Speaker 3: I'm curious about– you mentioned Islam, and I want to
• 47:00
  Speaker 3: play this audio. Michigan, the Senate race, that's another shocker,
• 47:04
  Speaker 3: Abdul El-Sayed. And it was interesting because, you know, he
• 47:07
  Speaker 3: tried to portray himself as just this regular guy, you know,
• 47:11
  Speaker 3: who talks like you and me, Michael. But then last night,
• 47:15
  Speaker 3: after he won, the American people got to see Dr.
• 47:20
  Speaker 3: El-Sayed for who he really is. Take a listen to
• 47:23
  Speaker 3: Cut 32. My name.
• 47:28
  Speaker 5: Is Abdul Rahman Muhammad El-Sayed.
• 47:34
  Speaker 18: Oh, boy.
• 47:36
  Speaker 3: The burka came off. I am so.
• 47:37
  Speaker 5: Proud and honored to stand here as your senator-elect from
• 47:42
  Speaker 5: the great state of Michigan.
• 47:45
  Speaker 3: Okay, we're good.
• 47:47
  Speaker 8: Michael.
• 47:47
  Speaker 7: Can we deport that guy?
• 47:49
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 47:50
  Speaker 7: That's... I'm being dead serious. The frustration for me, and
• 47:54
  Speaker 7: this gets me called a Christian nationalist and far right
• 47:57
  Speaker 7: and whatever other, I mean, terms that... I mean, even
• 47:59
  Speaker 7: the right will call people like us. But the frustration is...
• 48:03
  Speaker 7: that you look back at the founding ideologies of our country,
• 48:05
  Speaker 7: and they always want to point to the Constitution. Well,
• 48:07
  Speaker 7: how about the state constitutions where you had religious tests
• 48:09
  Speaker 7: for office to prevent exactly this? You said, we don't
• 48:11
  Speaker 7: want Muslims running our states, which essentially run our country.
• 48:15
  Speaker 7: Why would we want that?
• 48:16
  Speaker 10: It's negative.
• 48:17
  Speaker 7: It's anti-American ideology at its heart. And it was always
• 48:19
  Speaker 7: inevitable that the whole Nice Guy Act would fall off
• 48:22
  Speaker 7: once he got power. That was the same with James Salarico.
• 48:24
  Speaker 7: Just wait for what James Salarico fights for in the Senate.
• 48:26
  Speaker 7: It's going to be the same thing. And that's the
• 48:28
  Speaker 7: reason why historically we understood, hey, we're actually a Christian nation,
• 48:32
  Speaker 7: and it's really bad when you mass immigrate Muslims, Hindus,
• 48:35
  Speaker 7: and then give them power. That's like maybe the worst
• 48:37
  Speaker 7: decision you could possibly make. And we've been making it
• 48:39
  Speaker 7: since the 1960s. Maybe, hopefully, this will be some sort
• 48:42
  Speaker 7: of a wake-up call.
• 48:44
  Speaker 3: You know, the vice president put out this long, long
• 48:47
  Speaker 3: message on X. which really was a repudiation of his boss,
• 48:52
  Speaker 3: the president. But Vance really– this just irritated me, Michael,
• 48:56
  Speaker 3: because he's talking about how, oh, yeah, the pollsters were
• 48:58
  Speaker 3: telling us that if the voters really want to come
• 49:03
  Speaker 3: back to us, we've got to end the war, focus
• 49:05
  Speaker 3: on cost of living, put America first.
• 49:07
  Speaker 4: Really?
• 49:08
  Speaker 3: You needed pollsters to tell you that?
• 49:11
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I think it's some sort of plausible deniability for
• 49:15
  Speaker 7: a future run. I think it's just politics.
• 49:17
  Speaker 10: The way that he's communicating.
• 49:18
  Speaker 22: But it's absolutely true.
• 49:19
  Speaker 7: You don't need pollsters. You don't even actually need to
• 49:21
  Speaker 7: leave your house. You know it because you look around
• 49:24
  Speaker 7: and we're dealing with it. We are the American people.
• 49:27
  Speaker 7: And so when you look around and you look at
• 49:29
  Speaker 7: the affordability crisis, you look at your friends who are
• 49:31
  Speaker 7: Republicans saying, I don't love what's going on over in
• 49:33
  Speaker 7: the Middle East. I don't love how it seems like
• 49:34
  Speaker 7: maybe we were bullied a little into some of this.
• 49:36
  Speaker 7: I don't like any of this stuff. And it's stuff
• 49:38
  Speaker 7: that we didn't vote for. I don't like that mass
• 49:40
  Speaker 7: deportations are missing the key word mass. And I don't
• 49:44
  Speaker 7: like the way the country's going. Of course, it's repudiation
• 49:46
  Speaker 7: because it's repudiation of the same thing that the Republican
• 49:49
  Speaker 7: Party has been slowly morphing into for the past 20
• 49:51
  Speaker 7: to 30 years. And it needs to be different if
• 49:54
  Speaker 7: we're going to have not only success as a party,
• 49:56
  Speaker 7: but what's the point of success as a party if
• 49:58
  Speaker 7: you're just slowing down the same inevitable decline?
• 50:00
  Speaker 3: Michael Wilson, host of Patriot Talk 920's morning show there
• 50:03
  Speaker 3: in Houston. Michael, real quick here. What was it that
• 50:06
  Speaker 3: cost Ken Paxton specifically the race? Was it the establishment
• 50:11
  Speaker 3: Republicans sitting this out? Something else going on?
• 50:15
  Speaker 7: I think it was a combination of two factors. I
• 50:17
  Speaker 7: certainly think that hurt Paxton's race. I'll say it was
• 50:19
  Speaker 7: three factors. It was the establishment Republicans that refused to
• 50:23
  Speaker 7: actually campaign well and to fight alongside the party. I
• 50:26
  Speaker 7: think that it was James Salarico being an excellent campaigner,
• 50:29
  Speaker 7: despite being a terrible person and a terrible candidate, an
• 50:31
  Speaker 7: excellent campaigner. And I think it was just the fact
• 50:34
  Speaker 7: that it was kind of a perfect storm for him
• 50:36
  Speaker 7: to lose, given the national and statewide losses in literally
• 50:40
  Speaker 7: every other way imaginable.
• 50:42
  Speaker 12: All right.
• 50:43
  Speaker 3: Well, Michael, we really appreciate you hopping on and helping
• 50:45
  Speaker 3: us work through all of this and no doubt some
• 50:48
  Speaker 3: very interesting days ahead for all of us. Thanks a lot.
• 50:52
  Speaker 7: Thank you so much for having me, Todd.
• 50:52
  Speaker 23: Talk to you soon.
• 50:53
  Speaker 18: All right.
• 50:54
  Speaker 3: Michael Wilson, everybody. Patriot Talk 920. We're going to take
• 50:57
  Speaker 3: a break. Going right to the phones when we come back.
• 51:00
  Speaker 3: Charles in North Carolina, you're up on deck. Then Arnaz
• 51:03
  Speaker 3: in Memphis. Hang tight, everybody. 901-260-5926. That's 901-260-5926. As we
• 51:12
  Speaker 3: go to break, we've talked about the House. Should John
• 51:16
  Speaker 3: Thune remain as the leader of the Republicans in the
• 51:20
  Speaker 3: Senate as the minority leader? John Thune. Or does John
• 51:24
  Speaker 3: Thune need to go?
• 51:24
  Speaker 9: 901-260-5926.
• 51:25
  Speaker 3: This is the Todd Stern Show. All right, a little
• 51:45
  Speaker 3: bit of election breakup music. Hello, everybody. Welcome back to
• 51:48
  Speaker 3: the Todd Stearns Radio Show. Is that Taylor Swift? That's
• 51:53
  Speaker 3: Taylor Swift.
• 51:54
  Speaker 6: Oh, wow. No one does a breakup song better than her.
• 51:57
  Speaker 3: Well, you know, she has a hard time keeping a
• 52:00
  Speaker 3: man around.
• 52:01
  Speaker 6: Hey, apparently now she doesn't. She's married.
• 52:03
  Speaker 3: Did she get married to the guy?
• 52:05
  Speaker 6: Travis Kelsey.
• 52:07
  Speaker 3: Oh, I thought it was the Gronk, one of the
• 52:08
  Speaker 3: Gronk guys, but it was Travis.
• 52:10
  Speaker 6: It's a tight end either way. Okay.
• 52:13
  Speaker 3: Well, whatever she likes. It is what it is. So anyway,
• 52:17
  Speaker 3: welcome back, everybody. This is the Todd Starnes Radio Show.
• 52:20
  Speaker 3: Trying to have a little bit of fun after that disaster.
• 52:24
  Speaker 3: You know what I'm really concerned about, Dylan?
• 52:25
  Speaker 9: What's that?
• 52:27
  Speaker 3: We're going to get the knock, and they're going to
• 52:28
  Speaker 3: send us to the gulags. I'm going to be in
• 52:31
  Speaker 3: North Mississippi picking cotton.
• 52:33
  Speaker 6: Yeah. I have soft hands. I can't survive out there.
• 52:37
  Speaker 3: I can't do that. Yeah, my knees aren't good. Especially
• 52:40
  Speaker 3: picking cotton. You've got to tote the bale. It's a
• 52:43
  Speaker 3: hard job. It is a hard job. On the plus side,
• 52:46
  Speaker 3: you get to sing spirituals as you're working in the fields.
• 52:51
  Speaker 6: There's a bright side to everything.
• 52:53
  Speaker 3: They may have crossed the line there.
• 52:58
  Speaker 24: Oh, wow.
• 52:58
  Speaker 3: Let's go to the phones. Charles in North Carolina, WSIC. Charles,
• 53:04
  Speaker 3: help me figure this one out. Is it true your
• 53:07
  Speaker 3: entire Republican congressional delegation may get wiped out?
• 53:12
  Speaker 23: Well, with the exception maybe of Pat Harrigan in the
• 53:17
  Speaker 23: 10th District.
• 53:18
  Speaker 10: Wow.
• 53:18
  Speaker 24: Yes.
• 53:19
  Speaker 23: And the state, you know, Republicans had majorities in the
• 53:23
  Speaker 23: statehouse and now supermajorities. And now the Democrats have taken
• 53:27
  Speaker 23: over the statehouse. We've lost the supermajority in the Senate.
• 53:31
  Speaker 23: I mean, Todd, there's just no way to overstate the
• 53:34
  Speaker 23: fact that what happened last night was a disaster.
• 53:37
  Speaker 16: And.
• 53:38
  Speaker 23: You know, this is all, in my opinion, this is
• 53:41
  Speaker 23: on Donald Trump and Republican leadership for letting the voters
• 53:45
  Speaker 23: down and, as you said, not keeping the campaign promises.
• 53:49
  Speaker 23: And I'll tell you what, if Donald Trump wants to
• 53:51
  Speaker 23: try to regain his base, he can start today by
• 53:54
  Speaker 23: demanding that John Thune resign and have a new Senate leadership.
• 53:59
  Speaker 23: That's one thing. And the second thing is he can
• 54:01
  Speaker 23: say that the war in Iran is over and I'm
• 54:03
  Speaker 23: bringing these carriers back home. We've won and it's done. But, Todd,
• 54:09
  Speaker 23: I mean, there's a lot of reasons the Republicans lost,
• 54:12
  Speaker 23: but I think the main reason has to do with
• 54:14
  Speaker 23: this war in Iran, which caused inflation with high fuel prices,
• 54:19
  Speaker 23: high food prices, everything else. And then, as you talked
• 54:24
  Speaker 23: about over the last couple of years, you've got a
• 54:26
  Speaker 23: do-nothing Congress that just is always in recess. They're on vacation.
• 54:32
  Speaker 23: John Thune wouldn't allow recess appointments, let Trump make recess appointments.
• 54:37
  Speaker 25: And then.
• 54:40
  Speaker 23: The lack of mass deportation that I thought was going
• 54:43
  Speaker 23: to happen over the last couple of years, you don't
• 54:46
  Speaker 23: see that. I mean, Todd, it is just like Donald
• 54:49
  Speaker 23: Trump quit listening to the people that got him elected
• 54:53
  Speaker 23: and got state houses redistricted and everything. He did the
• 54:57
  Speaker 23: groundwork over the last 10 years and just started listening
• 55:00
  Speaker 23: to these political consultants that didn't give a damn about
• 55:03
  Speaker 23: him before 2024. And in many cases, they hated him.
• 55:07
  Speaker 23: And just, I don't know, man.
• 55:09
  Speaker 9: I just.
• 55:11
  Speaker 23: They just completely have blown it. I don't know what
• 55:13
  Speaker 23: else to say.
• 55:13
  Speaker 3: Charles, we were watching the president. We got word he
• 55:16
  Speaker 3: was going to come out and say a few words.
• 55:19
  Speaker 3: And so I thought, I'm with you, I thought he
• 55:21
  Speaker 3: was going to come out and say, okay, you know,
• 55:24
  Speaker 3: it's over. We've got to move ahead. We've got to
• 55:27
  Speaker 3: get rid of John Thune. We need new leadership across
• 55:29
  Speaker 3: the board. Instead, he's standing in the middle of the
• 55:33
  Speaker 3: ballroom construction site talking about all this elaborate marble that
• 55:38
  Speaker 3: he's bringing in. Charles, there is a major disconnect going
• 55:44
  Speaker 3: on right now at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
• 55:48
  Speaker 23: There is, and I'll be honest with you.
• 55:50
  Speaker 9: I'm not sure we're going to be able to recover
• 55:52
  Speaker 9: from this.
• 55:53
  Speaker 23: I mean, I know people want to be optimistic, but,
• 55:56
  Speaker 23: you know, you've heard that once socialists and communists and
• 55:58
  Speaker 23: fascists gained power, they never give it up at the
• 56:01
  Speaker 23: ballot box. And now that Democrats not only control the
• 56:04
  Speaker 23: House and the Senate, but so many state houses, I
• 56:08
  Speaker 23: think they're going to rig the game so that they'll
• 56:13
  Speaker 23: never lose again.
• 56:14
  Speaker 3: Well, it's much more serious than rigging the ballot box.
• 56:20
  Speaker 3: You may not have to. And the reason why is
• 56:22
  Speaker 3: we have not abolished the Department of Education. We have
• 56:25
  Speaker 3: not cracked down on these schools that are teaching socialism
• 56:28
  Speaker 3: and communism from a positive point of view. And if
• 56:32
  Speaker 3: we don't do that, if we do not restore control
• 56:34
  Speaker 3: of our schools back to the local communities, it's over.
• 56:37
  Speaker 3: I mean, that's it for us. So it is a
• 56:41
  Speaker 3: serious situation. And if it's going to be abolished, it's
• 56:45
  Speaker 3: going to have to happen between now and January. And
• 56:48
  Speaker 3: you and I both know that's just not going to work.
• 56:52
  Speaker 3: They will find some other excuse. Charles, I got to run.
• 56:55
  Speaker 3: Good hearing from you. I want to hear from you
• 56:57
  Speaker 3: as well, ladies and gentlemen.
• 56:59
  Speaker 9: 901-260-5926. Again, that number, 901-260-5926.
• 56:59
  Speaker 3: This is the Todd Stern Show.
• 57:10
  Speaker 2: You All right.
• 57:29
  Speaker 6: Welcome back, everybody.
• 57:30
  Speaker 3: This is the Todd Stearns Election Show post-election autopsy. Great
• 57:35
  Speaker 3: to have you with us today. Our telephone number, 901-260-5926.
• 57:39
  Speaker 3: We have a lot of folks waiting. Arnaz in Memphis,
• 57:43
  Speaker 3: you are on deck. But first, we go to the
• 57:45
  Speaker 3: Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line and say hello to our good
• 57:48
  Speaker 3: friend Liz Peek. LizPeek.com is her website. Liz, I have
• 57:54
  Speaker 3: to tell you, I was stunned, literally stunned by the
• 57:58
  Speaker 3: results yesterday.
• 58:01
  Speaker 26: Stunned and horrified. Yeah, I think the whole country was, Todd,
• 58:09
  Speaker 26: and for good reason. Nobody anticipated, I think, that anger
• 58:14
  Speaker 26: at Donald Trump would manifest itself in, you know, basically
• 58:19
  Speaker 26: throwing out of office hundreds, hundreds, literally, of people in Congress,
• 58:25
  Speaker 26: people in governors' mentions, state legislatures, etc. This truly was
• 58:31
  Speaker 26: a blue tsunami, as everybody is saying. And, you know,
• 58:36
  Speaker 26: the consequences are yet to be determined. It's going to
• 58:38
  Speaker 26: be a pretty interesting two years to see Democrats try
• 58:42
  Speaker 26: to bring their party together and get the various factions
• 58:47
  Speaker 26: together to work for the good of the country and
• 58:50
  Speaker 26: to deliver what they promised, which is affordability. And Todd,
• 58:55
  Speaker 26: not one of them has a platform or a program
• 58:59
  Speaker 26: that's going to do that. So I think they're very
• 59:02
  Speaker 26: rocky times ahead for the GOP and for Democrats.
• 59:06
  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I agree. And I think, and you know
• 59:08
  Speaker 3: how the Democrats are, they're going to take every to
• 59:10
  Speaker 3: the extreme. And, you know, Tallarico is saying, oh, this
• 59:12
  Speaker 3: isn't about retribution. Oh, that's exactly what it's going to
• 59:15
  Speaker 3: be about. And they're going to, there will be plenty
• 59:19
  Speaker 3: of missteps. I think the challenge, Liz, and we've covered
• 59:22
  Speaker 3: politics a long time These numbers are so great that
• 59:28
  Speaker 3: this is not something that can be fixed in one
• 59:30
  Speaker 3: election cycle. So I think we're looking at Democrat majorities
• 59:35
  Speaker 3: at least for the next four years or so.
• 59:39
  Speaker 26: Yeah, I think that's particularly true with the Senate. The
• 59:42
  Speaker 26: Senate really doesn't come into play again as a potential
• 59:47
  Speaker 26: win for the GOP until 2032, which is a long
• 59:49
  Speaker 26: way off. I think the House is different. I mean,
• 59:55
  Speaker 26: after all, after all, it just flipped. And it flipped
• 59:59
  Speaker 26: two years ago. I mean, it's pretty astonishing that outrage
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 26: and anger about Donald Trump, which manifested itself, by the way,
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 26: not just amongst Democrats, but also Republicans. Because, Todd, yesterday,
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 26: the big news to me, and I was encouraged by it,
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 26: was the turnout in Republican states. And in places where
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 26: Republicans generally turn up and vote on Election Day, turnout
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 26: was huge. And yet it turned out that they weren't
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 26: coming to vote for Donald Trump and their party, they
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 26: were coming to vote for the other guy. So to
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 26: your point, yes, we're in the wilderness for a while.
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 26: You have to hope like crazy that the GOP puts
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 26: up a better presidential candidate that the Democrats spend two
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 26: years fighting amongst themselves, and that we have a chance
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 26: at winning the Oval Office in 28, because otherwise, you know,
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 26: the Supreme Court is going to be very much in play,
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 26: I imagine. Trump is certainly not going to have any chance,
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 26: even if someone like Clarence Thomas was to, you know,
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 26: resign tomorrow, he's not going to get anybody through the court,
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 26: through the Senate, under the Supreme Court, and that's not
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 26: going to happen for quite a while. So as I
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 26: said earlier, the consequences are far-reaching, and I think we're
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 26: all just beginning to figure it out.
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 3: I think you're right. And again, shocker here in the
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 3: southern states is Mississippi, where they're still counting votes. There
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 3: is a statistical tie. And then, of course, Alaska. You
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 3: could have Democrats with 56 seats in the Senate compared
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 3: to 44 for the Republicans. And on the House side, Liz,
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 3: we were looking at North Carolina, and if the numbers hold,
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 3: the entire Republican delegation there could be obliterated. It's just
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 3: really remarkable.
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 26: Yeah, I mean, as I said on air this morning,
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 26: there was just this sort of vomiting of anti-trump bile
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 26: and it washed over the entire republican party and you
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 26: know some of these people who've lost their jobs are
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 26: really good i mean greg abbott the governor of texas
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 26: has been an outstanding governor on every front uh... it's
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 26: just inconceivable that texans drove him from office uh... And
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 26: I would say the same, you know, people like Mike
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 26: Lawler representing Westchester. There was, you know, monkey business in
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 26: that race. The machines weren't working. But Mike Lawler was
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 26: a very solid and popular candidate. So it wasn't malpractice
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 26: on the part of the individuals who got booted. It
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 26: was malpractice at the top.
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 3: I know the vice president put out a pretty lengthy
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 3: statement on X. I don't know if you've had a
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 3: chance to see it. It's really stunning because it's almost
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 3: a rebuke of his boss. And J.D. Vance is clearly
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 3: setting himself up for some sort of a presidential run.
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 3: But I just found it to be so appalling that
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 3: it took a pollster to tell him, oh, yeah, you know,
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 3: if you guys had just ended the war, focused on
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 3: cost of living and put America first, you would have won.
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 3: Are you kidding me? We could have told him that
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 3: for free, you know, pretty much every day on the
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 3: radio show.
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 26: Well, I don't know if you would agree with this,
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 26: but I think J.D. is very much in call to
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 26: some of the elements in the Republican Party, like Tucker Carlson,
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 26: like Nick, Nicholas Fuentes and others who are anti-Israel, anti-Semitic. And,
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 26: you know, I think J.D. is kind of borderline. And
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 26: by the way, who think that America first definitely does
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 26: not mean supporting Israel or supporting Ukraine. They don't see
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 26: a moral, you know, cause there at all. And I
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 26: think J.D. is kind of in that camp. So maybe
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 26: this is the moment where he begins to sort of
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 26: voice those sentiments. And I got to tell you, Todd,
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 26: I don't think that wins him the nomination.
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 3: No, and I think it's going to alienate, you know,
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 3: Jewish voters to be perfectly blunt about it. So it's
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 3: It's all just very puzzling. Don Jr. responded to that
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 3: with a 100% message. So that is clearly coming from
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 3: that side of the party. I'm curious about Ron DeSantis,
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 3: and I think we sort of knew things were not
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 3: going to be good because DeSantis was already out there saying, hey, look,
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 3: things are going to be bad. What do you think
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 3: about DeSantis and his comments about the election?
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 26: I think there's an opening for him. You know, after all,
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 26: like Greg Abbott, he has been a terrific governor and
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 26: very popular in the state of Florida. Let's face it,
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 26: the only place where you could look at a win
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 26: and say, thank the Lord that one got through was Florida,
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 26: where you did elect a Republican governor and you did
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 26: elect a Republican senator. Now, again, it was a red state,
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 26: but what the heck? Kansas is an ultra-red state. Texas
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 26: is a red state. Those things didn't matter. Those hues were...
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 26: completely unimportant when people went to vote. And Florida sort
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 26: of emerged as a place where Republicans did better, did
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 26: as expected. They certainly didn't do better than expected because
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 26: the victory margin was very narrow. But I think DeSantis,
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 26: with all that, actually will make a pretty good... I
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 26: think he now has a shot at the nomination. And Again,
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 26: I think we're going to see a sort of schism
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 26: here in the party. By the way, I put Marco
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 26: Rubio not in J.D. Vance's camp. I put him in
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 26: the sort of normal conservative bolstering foreign policy, bolstering military
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 26: defense camp, which is not J.D.
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 27: Vance.
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 3: Liz, as we get to the wrap here, is there
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 3: one thing that the Republicans need to do almost immediately
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 3: to start trying to right this ship and get back
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 3: on track?
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 26: It's a really good question. I think obviously the thing
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 26: that Trump could do in the next two years, solve
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 26: the bloody Iran war, bring oil and gas prices down,
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 26: and remind people that we went into Iran for good reason.
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 26: I don't think they handled it well. I don't think
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 26: they had a very good game plan. But that he
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 26: got the message, and the message was, we want out
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 26: of Iran. We want this thing fixed, whether that's through
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 26: increased military action or simply negotiating some sort of peace deal.
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 26: Even if it isn't perfect, he's got to get out
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 26: of Iran.
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 3: All right, good stuff. Liz, we're going to leave it there.
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 3: Appreciate your great analysis. And LizPeak.com, everybody, go and check
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 3: out her great website. Thanks a lot, Liz.
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 26: Thank you for having me on. There will be a
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 26: brighter day in the future.
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 3: Liz, I'm just concerned. You know, we got Abdul El-Sayed
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 3: in the Senate. I don't want Liz Peek having to
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 3: wear a burqa. Come on.
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 26: No kidding. No kidding.
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 18: You laugh.
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 7: I don't. I know.
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 9: I know.
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 4: I know.
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 26: Thank you, Dodd.
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 18: Take care of yourself.
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 3: Take care of you too now. All right. We got
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 3: to watch each other's backs. We're all going to end
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 3: up in the gulags together. It's terrible. All right, 901-260-5926,
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 3: our telephone number. Let's go to the phone lines and
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 3: say hello to Miss Patty in Statesville, North Carolina, WSIC,
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 3: our great affiliate. Hi, Miss Patty.
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 12: Yeah, I just ordered a couple of burgers.
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 11: But you know what?
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 12: They didn't have extra small.
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 3: Well, yeah, those... Those are some full-figured gals, as they say.
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 12: You know what?
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 14: I'm out of luck.
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 12: Me and Nicole, I said, go on Amazon, try to
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 12: get some burgers. And Nicole's like, Mom, it's like extra,
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 12: extra large. It's like, you know what? We're not going
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 12: to be able to wear one.
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 3: Patty.
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 2: Patty.
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 3: You can always, you know, I don't know, take it
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 3: to a seamstress. They could, you know, take it in
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 3: a little bit.
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 17: You know what?
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 12: Hey, Todd, I'm 93 pounds, and Nicole is like 90.
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 12: We're very small. We're very small people, but you know what?
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 17: I don't know.
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 12: I guess the Burke is around. I even told you,
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 12: you know, she's... A manager at Walmart. I can just
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 12: tell Walmart to start ordering burgers. You have to start
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 12: ordering them because you know what? Walmart is definitely extra,
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 12: extra large.
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 3: Oh, you got to put another few X's on that.
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 3: No, I hear you. You know, Patty, what concerns me is,
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 3: you know, we're in Memphis. and we smoke a lot
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 3: of pork butt around here, and I am really concerned
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 3: if they show up and say, all right, you can't
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 3: do the pork anymore.
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 27: Oh, God, no.
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 12: Todd, you know what? I am laughing so hard because
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 12: you know what? Let these idiots have their two years
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 12: of joy because I'm going to tell you something right now.
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 12: In 2028, I believe we're going to take it back.
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 12: I'm going to win the presidency in 2028. You think so?
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 7: Yes.
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 3: Patty, I'm writing this down. Why would you say that, though?
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 12: Because people are going to see what they voted for
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 12: in two years. They're not going to do nothing. The
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 12: only thing they're going to do is impeach, impeach, impeach.
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 12: They're not going to bring gas. Oh, and nothing I
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 12: have to tell you. When I took the call at
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 12: work yesterday, the gas was $ 3.
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 9: 49.
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 12: Guess what it was today, Todd?
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 15: Pretty weird.
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 7: It was $ 3. 25.
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 12: Why did it go down so fast?
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 3: Well, it's a great question. Patty, let me just say this.
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 3: If the president's able to get the war wrapped up
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 3: and we can get back to life as normal, I
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 3: think maybe the general population will sort of ease up.
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 3: But as long as we're at war, I think we're
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 3: going to have problems. If we're still at war by 2028,
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 3: I'm not too sure the Republicans are going to be
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 3: able to pull off a presidential win.
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 12: Look, I'm going to say you one thing before I go.
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 12: I'm going to tell you something. I believe, you know what,
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 12: I like J.D. Vance, but Todd, my heart is with
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 12: Marco Rubio. I think Marco Rubio would make a great president.
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 3: Patty, I'm going to mark you down for that, and
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 3: we will look and see what happens between now and
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 3: when it's time to pick the next presidential nominee. Patty,
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 3: good to hear from you, my friend, and glad to
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 3: know you're doing well. 901-260-5926. This is the Todd Stern Show.
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 3: All right, this story from Maine, where Susan Collins went
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 3: down in defeat yesterday. Dylan, do you like dogs?
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 6: I generally like dogs.
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 3: You like dogs. All right, well, that's good. A Maine
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 3: public school administrator... has raised concerns about allowing dogs inside
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 3: public school classrooms. Dr. Abdullah Ahmed says that they are
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 3: looking at changing classroom pet policies after a teacher's request
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 3: to foster puppies. You know, some teachers like to have
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 3: a pet in the classroom, whether it be, I don't know,
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 3: a parrot or a goldfish, perhaps a lizard. Or in
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 3: some cases, like a dog.
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 6: I'm jealous. None of my teachers ever had any fun pets.
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 3: Cats are mean. I wouldn't put a cat in there. Oh, no.
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 6: You don't want a cat lady.
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 9: No.
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 3: That's true.
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 9: Dr.
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 3: Ahmed says there are problems because some Islamic traditions consider
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 3: dog saliva impure. This is coming from the New York Post.
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 3: Ahmed said he had consulted local Muslim religious leaders who
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 3: opposed keeping dogs as classroom pets. This, again, according to
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 3: the New York Post. The debate began after a teacher
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 3: at Ocean Avenue Elementary School sought permission to foster puppies
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 3: in her classroom, giving students an opportunity to interact with
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 3: animals during reading and playtime. It sounds like a wonderful idea.
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 3: Ahmed says that the dogs should be kept in separate
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 3: rooms to respect students and families with religious objections. So
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 3: there you go, ladies and gentlemen. The Islamification of America.
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  Speaker 3: It's going to happen very, very quickly. It'll be subtle,
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 3: but it's going to happen very quickly. All right, let's
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  Speaker 3: go to the phone lines. Athens, Georgia. Lewis, listening to
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 3: us on WDUN.
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  Speaker 4: Hi, Lewis.
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  Speaker 3: What's on your mind?
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  Speaker 17: Oh, I've got a running.
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 14: Just a minute.
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 11: All right.
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 3: Well, let's put Lewis on hold. Let's go to Scott
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 3: in Athens, Georgia. Hi, Scott. What's on your mind?
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  Speaker 24: Hey, Todd, you don't have to worry about these Democrats
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 24: because once they get into office, the first thing they're
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 24: going to do is they're going to start trying to
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 24: spend money. And if they spend money, this debt is
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 24: at $ 43 trillion. And this is why we have the
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 24: inflation we have. And if they try to spend more money,
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 24: it's just going to rise inflation even more. They're basically
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 24: going to bury themselves in this country alive if they
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 24: do what they did the last time when Pelosi was
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 24: in there.
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  Speaker 3: So you're saying, Scott, and again, I appreciate you helping
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 3: walk me back from the ledge because I'm concerned they're
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 3: going to send me off to the gulags. That's what
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 3: they want to do. And I'm not good working the fields.
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  Speaker 15: Yeah, but they.
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  Speaker 24: You don't understand. The United States is running out of
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 24: countries to borrow money from. And the debt's at $ 40 trillion.
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 24: And the interest rate is just through the roof. And
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 24: the United States is broke. And these Democrats are going
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 24: to come in, and they think they're going to start
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 24: spending money again. And when they start raising that debt
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 24: past $ 40 trillion, when that thing hits $ 50 to $ 60 trillion, man,
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 24: the monetary system's going to collapse, and we're going to
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 24: go into a monstrous depression.
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 22: Right.
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  Speaker 3: Well, Scott, you may be right about that, and the
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 3: Democrats are going to try to do that. Trump, again,
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 3: promising that he's going to be President Vito moving forward. So, well,
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 3: I don't know. We'll see how all that plays out. Scott,
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 3: thank you for that call. Dylan, I've been looking at
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 3: the spirituals, just in case, because I don't know if
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 3: they're going to allow you to bring anything with you,
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 3: so I'm going to have to memorize these things.
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 6: You're telling me you don't have some of them memorized already?
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  Speaker 9: No.
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  Speaker 3: Dim bones. I've got that one. And then What's the
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 3: other one? I want my baby back baby. No, that's not.
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 3: That's baby back. That's spiritual. Is that a spiritual song?
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 6: I think it's Chili's spiritual.
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 3: It's Chili's theme song. Whoops, my bad. Swing low, sweet chariot.
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  Speaker 12: Okay.
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 3: Swing low, sweet chariot.
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 6: I think you're ready for the gulags.
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I could. So sometimes I feel like a motherless child.
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 3: Sometimes I feel like that, actually. Oh, another one, Wade
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 3: in the Water. Oh, that's a good one. So I'll
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 3: have a repertoire as I go off to the fields.
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 3: All right, hang tight, everybody. Hour three of the big
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 3: show coming up.
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  Speaker 22: 901-260-5926.
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  Speaker 3: This is the Todd Starnes Show.
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 1: From Memphis, Tennessee, it's Common Sense Conservative Commentary from Todd Starr.
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 2: All right, I was just checking the Mississippi numbers, and
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 2: it looks like the Democrat in that Senate race got
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 2: column is.
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 3: Pulling ahead again. So, Cindy Hyde-Smith could be going down
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 3: in defeat in the state of Mississippi. Those numbers have
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 3: not been finalized yet. So, hello, everybody. Welcome to Hour
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 3: 3 of The Big Show. Great to have you with us.
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 3: Our telephone number, 901-260-5926.
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 18: That's 901-260-5926.
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  Speaker 3: Last night, I was inside the war room for two
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 3: of our congressional candidates. candidates here in the Memphis area,
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 3: State Senator Brent Taylor and Congressman David Kostoff. And it
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 3: was really fascinating to kind of see everything, how it
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 3: all operates behind the scenes, watching the numbers coming in.
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 3: And there were a couple of moments last night when
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 3: there was great concern that a good many Republicans in
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 3: rock-solid red Tennessee could go down in defeat. The good news,
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 3: of course, is that we managed to eke out victories
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 3: in And now Brent Taylor is congressman-elect, and Congressman David
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 3: Kostoff winning re-election, so congratulations to those gentlemen. Coming up
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 3: a little bit later, we're going to be talking to
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 3: Charlie Hancher, who is the congressman-elect for the 5th Congressional
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 3: District here in Tennessee. Right now, though, I want to
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 3: go to the Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line and say hello
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 3: to our good buddies. who yesterday they brought us a
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 3: little bit of, you know what, Dylan, we're going to
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 3: need that. We've got to have the music. We've got
• 1:17:59
  Speaker 3: to have the doom and gloom music here to introduce
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 3: our two friends, Harry Hurley from WPG Radio in Atlantic City,
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 3: New Jersey, and Jeff Katz, our great affiliate in Richmond, Virginia, WRVA. Gentlemen,
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 3: this song is for you.
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 6: Whoa! Whoa!
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  Speaker 9: All right, thank you very much.
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 3: Gentlemen, you've got your theme song.
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  Speaker 28: Nice you haven't lost your sense of humor, Todd.
• 1:18:44
  Speaker 3: Guys, you can't help but have a sense of humor
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 3: after what we went through yesterday. Harry, let's talk about
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 3: start with you. What surprised you about last night?
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 28: Well, Florida is the best state in the union at
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 28: counting votes fast, and when it took all night for
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 28: Byron Donalds to win the governorship and for Ashley Moody
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 28: to to win the Senate seat. You knew it was
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 28: going to be a long night all over the country.
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 28: So the closeness in Florida is a surprise, but they
• 1:19:14
  Speaker 28: pulled it out. Got to give them credit. My congressman,
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 28: my 40-year friend, Jeff Andrew, losing his seat was just
• 1:19:23
  Speaker 28: an abomination. It was terrible. We lost our sheriff. We
• 1:19:26
  Speaker 28: lost our county clerk. We lost three county commissioners. It
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 28: was an absolute Atlantic County, New Jersey bloodbath.
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  Speaker 10: Wow.
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  Speaker 3: Jeff, how about things there in Virginia?
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  Speaker 10: Well, we lost a longtime friend of mine, Rob Whitman.
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 10: He lost his congressional seat. Jen Kiggins lost her seat.
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  Speaker 10: Here in Hanover County, Virginia, which I guess remains the
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 10: reddest part of Virginia now, we held on to my congressman,
• 1:19:58
  Speaker 10: John McGuire, and we held on to our sheriff, But
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 10: it was neck and neck, neck and tuck all the
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 10: way along in terms of the congressional race. And I
• 1:20:11
  Speaker 10: don't know, Harry did promise me that there was no
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 10: way Texas or South Carolina would go in the wrong direction.
• 1:20:17
  Speaker 28: Man, oh man, oh man. Well, the governor, the governor Wilson, though,
• 1:20:22
  Speaker 28: who will be governor Wilson, did win. So there you
• 1:20:26
  Speaker 28: can prove that it was Darlene Graham was not a
• 1:20:31
  Speaker 28: good enough candidate. 60% of South Carolinians said she's not
• 1:20:37
  Speaker 28: qualified to be senator. That included 40% of Republicans who
• 1:20:42
  Speaker 28: said she was not qualified. Texas, because Abbott also lost,
• 1:20:46
  Speaker 28: and he did nothing but be a great governor. I
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 28: can't blame Paxton as though he's this terrible candidate that
• 1:20:53
  Speaker 28: everybody says. It just was a night where voters around
• 1:20:59
  Speaker 28: the country, Democrats, were very motivated to And unfortunately, a
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 28: convergence of independents that switched over, that had been voting Republican,
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 28: went Democrat. And then you peel off a certain percentage
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 28: of Hispanic voters, particularly in Texas, and African-American voters, and
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 28: you have this horrible recipe, a cauldron for Todd's music,
• 1:21:24
  Speaker 28: her bumper music coming in, a cauldron of just awful,
• 1:21:28
  Speaker 28: which led to what it was. But what I do
• 1:21:30
  Speaker 28: want to offer... It's a sobering assessment. Bill Clinton in
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 28: his first midterm election, 1994, not ancient history, but several
• 1:21:39
  Speaker 28: decades ago, he lost 54 House seats, 8 Senate seats.
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 28: We're not going to lose 54 House seats, and we
• 1:21:47
  Speaker 28: may not lose 8 Senate seats if this Alaska decoy
• 1:21:50
  Speaker 28: dancing can go the way that it should. Obama in 2010,
• 1:21:55
  Speaker 28: his midterm election, he lost 64 seats in the House.
• 1:21:59
  Speaker 28: six Senate seats. We're not going to lose anywhere near
• 1:22:02
  Speaker 28: that many House seats. So they make this, the Democrats,
• 1:22:05
  Speaker 28: with press passes. They're not media. They're just Democrats with
• 1:22:08
  Speaker 28: press passes. They're making this like it is the absolute
• 1:22:12
  Speaker 28: most unheard of, unprecedented thing that's ever happened. Oh, no,
• 1:22:16
  Speaker 28: it's not. And by the way, both Clinton and Obama,
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 28: two years later, both won a second term.
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 3: Jeff, a couple of observations as I was at the
• 1:22:26
  Speaker 3: whole war room thing. You got to be around the
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 3: watch party and First of all, Republicans drink copious amounts
• 1:22:32
  Speaker 3: of alcohol.
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  Speaker 10: Particularly last night.
• 1:22:37
  Speaker 9: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, my God. I've never seen, you know, we talk
• 1:22:40
  Speaker 3: about that deep, dark depression, excessive misery. I saw it
• 1:22:43
  Speaker 3: up close and personal last night. I'm wondering, how do
• 1:22:48
  Speaker 3: we get over this? Because I think the Republicans, if
• 1:22:52
  Speaker 3: they're going to have a shot in 2028, they have
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 3: to start immediately fixing whatever is broken in the party
• 1:22:58
  Speaker 3: right now.
• 1:22:59
  Speaker 10: Yeah, I think there's a lot that's broken in the party,
• 1:23:02
  Speaker 10: in all candor. And with all due respect to my
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 10: friend Harry, I think that Ken Paxton was a terrible candidate.
• 1:23:09
  Speaker 28: I don't think he was great.
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  Speaker 4: I don't think.
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  Speaker 15: He was great.
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  Speaker 10: I'm going further, though. I think he was a terrible candidate.
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 10: Vivek Ramaswamy in Ohio, terrible candidate. Darlene Graham, sweet lady,
• 1:23:22
  Speaker 10: absolutely should have been appointed to finish out the term,
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 10: but this was the not-ready-for-prime-time player. And that was appalling.
• 1:23:31
  Speaker 10: And unfortunately, in each of those cases, it's President Trump
• 1:23:36
  Speaker 10: who went all in on those candidates. And then today
• 1:23:40
  Speaker 10: is saying, well, you know, it's because I wasn't on
• 1:23:42
  Speaker 10: the ballot. But you said a couple of months ago
• 1:23:45
  Speaker 10: in Dallas you were on the ballot. I think Republicans
• 1:23:48
  Speaker 10: are going to win moving forward. They have to figure
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 10: out exactly what they are and who we are. Are
• 1:23:54
  Speaker 10: we a populist party? Are we simply a cult of personality?
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 10: Are we a conservative party with actual values? And I
• 1:24:03
  Speaker 10: hate to say it, but I think there are a
• 1:24:04
  Speaker 10: whole slew of Republicans that really just don't know.
• 1:24:06
  Speaker 3: You know, Harry, to that point, I think you have
• 1:24:11
  Speaker 3: to start looking at the actual republicans in the quality
• 1:24:14
  Speaker 3: of the candidates that were putting on me roger marshall
• 1:24:17
  Speaker 3: the incumbent senator in kansas did not even have a
• 1:24:20
  Speaker 3: campaign staff i mean this is just jaw-dropping.
• 1:24:25
  Speaker 28: Yet malpractice actually uh... and uh... jeff gave a great
• 1:24:29
  Speaker 28: assessment you're absolutely right pot as well but i don't
• 1:24:33
  Speaker 28: want everybody to get like to hysterical around the country
• 1:24:37
  Speaker 28: i know you two are not because what i said
• 1:24:40
  Speaker 28: just two minutes ago Obama recovered and won again just
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 28: two years later. Clinton recovered again and won two years later.
• 1:24:50
  Speaker 28: And after two years of these crazy Democrats, and look,
• 1:24:56
  Speaker 28: the first thing this new incoming chairman of the House
• 1:24:59
  Speaker 28: Oversight Committee, Robert Garcia, the representative, he texted, text messages,
• 1:25:05
  Speaker 28: he social media posts, lawyer up. They're all in for
• 1:25:10
  Speaker 28: their investigations. They're going to be all in for their impeachment,
• 1:25:15
  Speaker 28: and if we haven't learned anything, every time a president
• 1:25:19
  Speaker 28: gets impeached, Clinton or Trump, the poll numbers go up.
• 1:25:24
  Speaker 28: They're going to do what they always do, guys. The
• 1:25:27
  Speaker 28: Democrats are going to go too far. I've heard them
• 1:25:29
  Speaker 28: say it. They think they have a mandate. Americans vote
• 1:25:32
  Speaker 28: for their craziness. They won, okay? They won a midterm
• 1:25:36
  Speaker 28: election that you always win, and you throw the Iran war...
• 1:25:40
  Speaker 28: and the price of energy, and I think I said
• 1:25:42
  Speaker 28: it on your show yesterday, the pump, pantry, and power bills.
• 1:25:49
  Speaker 28: That's what the voters voted on.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, go ahead, Jeff.
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  Speaker 10: To Harry's point, midterm elections, of course, you're going to
• 1:26:00
  Speaker 10: lose stuff. You're going to lose seats. Now, the question becomes,
• 1:26:05
  Speaker 10: what happens over the next two years? Well, We've got,
• 1:26:08
  Speaker 10: at best, gridlock, right? There's nothing of any consequence that
• 1:26:13
  Speaker 10: comes out of the Democrats being in control, except they
• 1:26:16
  Speaker 10: continue their collective temper tantrum. They continue to remind everybody
• 1:26:21
  Speaker 10: how much they hate Trump. And at the same time,
• 1:26:23
  Speaker 10: they're going to remind people, you know, we don't actually
• 1:26:25
  Speaker 10: have any plans. We don't have any policies that are
• 1:26:28
  Speaker 10: going to address energy costs or this issue or that issue.
• 1:26:33
  Speaker 10: And they are deluding themselves if they believe that they
• 1:26:36
  Speaker 10: want to mandate a where they really are going to
• 1:26:40
  Speaker 10: push boys and girls sports. That's going to be their issue.
• 1:26:43
  Speaker 10: People didn't vote for that. They voted against President Trump.
• 1:26:46
  Speaker 10: They voted against Republicans. They took it out, as you're saying,
• 1:26:50
  Speaker 10: in Atlantic County, Harry. My God, anybody with an R
• 1:26:52
  Speaker 10: next to their name received the punishment.
• 1:26:55
  Speaker 28: And they were good people, really good public servants. Yeah,
• 1:27:00
  Speaker 28: they paid for the sins of someone else. But I
• 1:27:04
  Speaker 28: really believe the next two years the Democrats will overplay
• 1:27:07
  Speaker 28: their hand, and the atmosphere will be very good for
• 1:27:11
  Speaker 28: House Republicans to strike back. For Senate, I don't think
• 1:27:15
  Speaker 28: the Senate can be picked up before down seven. I
• 1:27:17
  Speaker 28: don't think we'll pick it up perhaps in one election,
• 1:27:20
  Speaker 28: but we'll gain there, and then we're back in the game.
• 1:27:23
  Speaker 28: I don't think this isn't great. It's terrible, but we've
• 1:27:28
  Speaker 28: seen it before, and the Democrats lost twice as much.
• 1:27:33
  Speaker 28: as what we've lost. I think we're going to be fine.
• 1:27:36
  Speaker 28: But by the way, I do agree. Candidate quality of
• 1:27:40
  Speaker 28: our candidates, we've got to do a better job.
• 1:27:44
  Speaker 3: Yeah, we've got to. Jeff, I want to give you
• 1:27:48
  Speaker 3: the last word here. This is Dr. El-Sayed, who is
• 1:27:52
  Speaker 3: basically on the campaign trail, just a regular Joe, you know,
• 1:27:56
  Speaker 3: whose name happened to be Dr. El-Sayed. But last night,
• 1:27:59
  Speaker 3: he sort of dropped the mask. Let's take a listen
• 1:28:02
  Speaker 3: to Cut 32.
• 1:28:05
  Speaker 6: My name.
• 1:28:08
  Speaker 27: Is Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed.
• 1:28:15
  Speaker 5: And I am so proud and honored to stand here
• 1:28:20
  Speaker 5: as your senator-elect from the great state of Michigan.
• 1:28:22
  Speaker 3: All right, there you go. Jeff Katz, final words there.
• 1:28:27
  Speaker 10: It is amazing to see the emergence of the Red-Green Alliance.
• 1:28:32
  Speaker 10: It's going strong, and there are going to be a
• 1:28:34
  Speaker 10: lot of people who have voted in ways that are
• 1:28:37
  Speaker 10: reminiscent of chickens for KFC.
• 1:28:42
  Speaker 9: Wow.
• 1:28:43
  Speaker 3: Finger-licking nasty. That's what that is.
• 1:28:45
  Speaker 28: Yeah, notice his accent and the way he put the
• 1:28:48
  Speaker 28: other name in, that he hitched. Hillary Rodham Clinton, remember that?
• 1:28:53
  Speaker 28: When she won, all of a sudden, Hillary Rodham Clinton.
• 1:28:56
  Speaker 28: Now he's Abdo Rahman Clinton.
• 1:28:59
  Speaker 10: Yep.
• 1:29:01
  Speaker 3: Mohammed.
• 1:29:03
  Speaker 28: Yeah, we get it.
• 1:29:05
  Speaker 9: All right.
• 1:29:06
  Speaker 3: Yeah, we get it. All right. Jeff Katz, Harry Hurley, gentlemen,
• 1:29:14
  Speaker 3: always good to hear your voices, and thanks for the
• 1:29:17
  Speaker 3: great political analysis.
• 1:29:19
  Speaker 28: God bless America.
• 1:29:20
  Speaker 9: Thank you. All right.
• 1:29:21
  Speaker 3: Amen to that.
• 1:29:22
  Speaker 7: All right.
• 1:29:22
  Speaker 3: There you go.
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  Speaker 6: 901-260-5926.
• 1:29:24
  Speaker 3: Going right to our phones. Got to take a break.
• 1:29:28
  Speaker 3: This is the Todd Stern Show.
• 1:29:39
  Speaker 27: All right.
• 1:29:40
  Speaker 3: Let's go back to the phones. New York. Cindy is
• 1:29:44
  Speaker 3: on the line. Hi, Cindy. What's on your mind today?
• 1:29:48
  Speaker 15: Hey, Todd.
• 1:29:48
  Speaker 29: Thanks for taking my call.
• 1:29:50
  Speaker 9: Sure.
• 1:29:51
  Speaker 29: To say I'm a little bit disappointed in the New
• 1:29:55
  Speaker 29: York election here wouldn't be an understatement. But I think
• 1:30:00
  Speaker 29: in one way it would be a good thing because
• 1:30:03
  Speaker 29: we have another two years to show, you know, what
• 1:30:08
  Speaker 29: those people, like, voted for and to let them see
• 1:30:13
  Speaker 29: what they're going to do. Are they just going to
• 1:30:14
  Speaker 29: keep impeach and just, you know, keep So I think
• 1:30:18
  Speaker 29: it's a good thing. So I'm positive. I'm staying positive.
• 1:30:23
  Speaker 3: Cindy, isn't it interesting that the Democrats won by basically
• 1:30:27
  Speaker 3: hijacking the Republican Party's platform? They were campaigning on the
• 1:30:31
  Speaker 3: very things the Republicans campaigned on years before.
• 1:30:33
  Speaker 27: Oh, right.
• 1:30:35
  Speaker 29: And also in New York, it just went down to
• 1:30:37
  Speaker 29: $ 3. 99 a gallon. And I have to correct myself to
• 1:30:41
  Speaker 29: say Western New York, and I was schooled on this.
• 1:30:45
  Speaker 29: New York is huge. There's upstate New York, and people
• 1:30:49
  Speaker 29: have been arguing, that's not upstate. And I saw a
• 1:30:52
  Speaker 29: red map today, mostly red in New York, except for
• 1:30:56
  Speaker 29: way down in Suffolk County. I'm sure they didn't put
• 1:30:59
  Speaker 29: in there. But the cities, Rochester, Syracuse, Buffalo, all blue.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, boy.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah.
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  Speaker 29: And so we don't really have a voice out here
• 1:31:08
  Speaker 29: in the boondocks. I mean, we kind of do.
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  Speaker 4: Anyway.
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  Speaker 29: I will let them see what they're going to do
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  Speaker 29: and what they promised to do, which they didn't promise anything,
• 1:31:17
  Speaker 29: I don't think, really, except impeaching the president, but stuff
• 1:31:22
  Speaker 29: like that. But anyway, that's all I got to say,
• 1:31:25
  Speaker 29: and I am disappointed, but I'm hopeful.
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  Speaker 3: Cindy, that's a great way to look at it. So
• 1:31:32
  Speaker 3: you've got a positive attitude about all of this. Thank
• 1:31:34
  Speaker 3: you for calling in. Let's go to Germantown, Tennessee. Paul
• 1:31:38
  Speaker 3: is listening to us on KWAM. Hi, Paul. What's on
• 1:31:41
  Speaker 3: your mind?
• 1:31:43
  Speaker 19: Hey, Todd, I just have a question.
• 1:31:48
  Speaker 25: The Islamists and Muslims and communists that won this election
• 1:31:53
  Speaker 25: are going to have to take an oath of office.
• 1:31:57
  Speaker 25: And that oath says to protect and defend the Constitution
• 1:32:03
  Speaker 25: from all enemies, foreign and domestic. And yet they campaigned
• 1:32:08
  Speaker 25: on destroying the Constitution. And they are the domestic enemies.
• 1:32:13
  Speaker 25: So how's that going to work? I wish somebody out
• 1:32:17
  Speaker 25: there could provide an answer. Has anybody even thought about that?
• 1:32:22
  Speaker 3: Well, it's a great question. There have been a lot
• 1:32:24
  Speaker 3: of concern about the text that they would be sworn
• 1:32:28
  Speaker 3: in on. There is no law that says you have
• 1:32:31
  Speaker 3: to be sworn in on a Bible, which surprised me.
• 1:32:34
  Speaker 3: I personally think that they ought to be sworn in
• 1:32:36
  Speaker 3: on a Bible. I believe we're a Christian nation. So
• 1:32:40
  Speaker 3: no doubt there's going to be a big deal made
• 1:32:43
  Speaker 3: about El-Sayed taking the oath of office using the Koran.
• 1:32:48
  Speaker 3: But to your point, can an elected leader be punished
• 1:32:51
  Speaker 3: for violating their oath of office? And I think, honestly, Paul,
• 1:32:55
  Speaker 3: a lot of people just don't take an oath or
• 1:32:59
  Speaker 3: something like that, a compact, I don't think they take
• 1:33:01
  Speaker 3: those seriously anymore.
• 1:33:04
  Speaker 19: Yeah, it looks like it.
• 1:33:05
  Speaker 25: It's kind of like what the marriage vows have turned
• 1:33:07
  Speaker 25: out to be. Is it just a formality? Because even
• 1:33:12
  Speaker 25: if it's the Koran or whatever, they're taking an oath,
• 1:33:16
  Speaker 25: and they've already campaigned on.
• 1:33:19
  Speaker 25: Not doing the oath of the opposite, destroying the Constitution.
• 1:33:24
  Speaker 25: And they are the enemy from within, so we know that.
• 1:33:27
  Speaker 25: So I don't get it.
• 1:33:28
  Speaker 3: Paul, I will say this. It's a crime. I mean,
• 1:33:32
  Speaker 3: it's against the law to violate your oath. If you're
• 1:33:35
  Speaker 3: an elected official and you violate your oath of office,
• 1:33:38
  Speaker 3: you can go to jail over something like that. And again,
• 1:33:40
  Speaker 3: I don't think it's been enforced, at least not in
• 1:33:43
  Speaker 3: modern political history. So maybe that's something we need to
• 1:33:48
  Speaker 3: take a look at.
• 1:33:49
  Speaker 25: Yeah, it doesn't look like it. Yeah, I hope somebody
• 1:33:52
  Speaker 25: listening can maybe provide an answer. I don't know.
• 1:33:55
  Speaker 15: I appreciate it.
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  Speaker 3: Charlie Hatcher is now congressman-elect. winning his race in Tennessee's
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  Speaker 3: 5th Congressional District. Charlie, good to have you with us,
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  Speaker 3: and congratulations.
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  Speaker 27: Good to be on, sir, and thank you for that.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I have to imagine it was a little bit
• 1:35:47
  Speaker 3: of a nail-biter night for Republicans across the nation, even
• 1:35:51
  Speaker 3: here in Tennessee. What was that experience like for you?
• 1:35:55
  Speaker 27: Oh, it was kind of nail-biting. There was a time when...
• 1:36:00
  Speaker 27: Kasmalder was up on me, but we knew why. It
• 1:36:06
  Speaker 27: was when a large part of Shelby County came in.
• 1:36:11
  Speaker 27: As the night progressed, we started to come even and
• 1:36:15
  Speaker 27: gain a lead, and in the end, we prevailed.
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  Speaker 3: No doubt that it was really a good, overall a
• 1:36:24
  Speaker 3: very good night for Republicans in Tennessee. That is certainly
• 1:36:27
  Speaker 3: not the case around the nation. And I'm wondering, you know,
• 1:36:30
  Speaker 3: coming to terms with the fact that Republicans are going
• 1:36:32
  Speaker 3: to be in the minority, what are you being told
• 1:36:35
  Speaker 3: to prepare for when the new Congress convenes?
• 1:36:40
  Speaker 27: Well, I don't know exactly, but, you know, the majority
• 1:36:43
  Speaker 27: party picks the committee chairs, and that's where a lot
• 1:36:47
  Speaker 27: of the work is done. And the makeup of the
• 1:36:50
  Speaker 27: committee is related to which party's majority, which party's minority.
• 1:36:56
  Speaker 27: So that's going to be difficult. But I do think
• 1:36:59
  Speaker 27: There's going to be some things that I can do.
• 1:37:01
  Speaker 27: There's some bipartisan issues I'm interested in that we can
• 1:37:04
  Speaker 27: make some progress on. And I'm absolutely committed to providing
• 1:37:09
  Speaker 27: great constituent services.
• 1:37:12
  Speaker 3: Well, I think that's a huge thing. And I've always
• 1:37:15
  Speaker 3: found that the members of Congress who are taking care
• 1:37:19
  Speaker 3: of the good people back home usually get to spend
• 1:37:21
  Speaker 3: a lot of years up on Capitol Hill. when you
• 1:37:26
  Speaker 3: look at some of the first things you guys are
• 1:37:28
  Speaker 3: going to have to do, we understand Speaker Mike Johnson
• 1:37:31
  Speaker 3: not running for a leadership position, minority leader. Looks like
• 1:37:35
  Speaker 3: either Jim Jordan and or Steve Scalise will be among
• 1:37:39
  Speaker 3: those competing for that. Any favorite? Who do you think
• 1:37:44
  Speaker 3: should lead the Republicans there in the House?
• 1:37:48
  Speaker 27: Well, I'm just trying to get my feet under me.
• 1:37:50
  Speaker 27: I want to get on the ground there and kind
• 1:37:52
  Speaker 27: of see what the environment's like, and hear from the
• 1:37:56
  Speaker 27: candidates and try to get a better feel. I'm not
• 1:38:00
  Speaker 27: really making a commitment at this point, but we do
• 1:38:03
  Speaker 27: need to rally the troops. We'll be the minority party,
• 1:38:06
  Speaker 27: and I still want to try to get something done
• 1:38:09
  Speaker 27: because that's part of the reason for some of these
• 1:38:13
  Speaker 27: election outcomes is because we just work. We didn't get
• 1:38:18
  Speaker 27: many things done in D.C., and I want to change that.
• 1:38:21
  Speaker 3: What do you think the party needs to do to
• 1:38:23
  Speaker 3: turn this thing around?
• 1:38:26
  Speaker 27: Well, we need to address the issues that are important
• 1:38:29
  Speaker 27: to the constituents. And the number one issue in the
• 1:38:32
  Speaker 27: 5th Congressional District, and I heard it everywhere I went,
• 1:38:36
  Speaker 27: and we felt it on the farm, was cost of living,
• 1:38:39
  Speaker 27: cost of production, and cost of diesel. I mean, right
• 1:38:43
  Speaker 27: now we're paying some diesel surcharges on supplies that are
• 1:38:47
  Speaker 27: delivered to the farm. So I know firsthand... It's tough.
• 1:38:51
  Speaker 27: I mean, the economy is not in good shape when
• 1:38:54
  Speaker 27: you look at it from the average person's point of
• 1:38:57
  Speaker 27: view or that small business point of view. We're in
• 1:39:00
  Speaker 27: tough times right now.
• 1:39:02
  Speaker 3: When you look at, you know, again, really almost a
• 1:39:06
  Speaker 3: rebuilding of the party. I mean, these are pretty devastating losses.
• 1:39:08
  Speaker 3: I think in Mississippi, they could end up losing that
• 1:39:12
  Speaker 3: Senate seat down south of Tennessee. What do you think, again, affordability,
• 1:39:19
  Speaker 3: one of them, but what do the Republicans need to
• 1:39:22
  Speaker 3: do to regain the trust and the respect of the
• 1:39:24
  Speaker 3: American people?
• 1:39:27
  Speaker 27: They need to be the people's party. They need to
• 1:39:29
  Speaker 27: listen to the constituents. We need to begin to address
• 1:39:33
  Speaker 27: issues as they come to us, and I don't think
• 1:39:36
  Speaker 27: we've been very effective in doing that. If you ignore
• 1:39:39
  Speaker 27: that basic principle, then this is what happens.
• 1:39:44
  Speaker 3: Charlie Hancher joining us on our Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line.
• 1:39:47
  Speaker 3: He is the congressman-elect for Tennessee's 5th Congressional District. Of course,
• 1:39:53
  Speaker 3: those were redrawn districts, and Congressman David Kostoff winning his race,
• 1:39:58
  Speaker 3: State Senator Brent Taylor winning the 9th Congressional District race.
• 1:40:03
  Speaker 3: How important is it, Charlie, for you guys in the
• 1:40:07
  Speaker 3: Tennessee delegation to work together to really help fix what's
• 1:40:12
  Speaker 3: broken in, for example... places like Memphis, and I know
• 1:40:14
  Speaker 3: you represent a large swath of Memphis.
• 1:40:18
  Speaker 27: Yeah, it's absolutely critical that we work together. I think
• 1:40:21
  Speaker 27: it's going to be one of the best in a
• 1:40:26
  Speaker 27: congressional delegation of any state. So we need to work together,
• 1:40:30
  Speaker 27: and it's my aim, whether people voted for me or not,
• 1:40:33
  Speaker 27: to provide the best constituent services I can and represent people.
• 1:40:38
  Speaker 27: It's called the House of Representatives, and that's what I
• 1:40:41
  Speaker 27: plan on doing. I plan on representing them. Tennessee's fifth
• 1:40:44
  Speaker 27: congressional district to the best of my ability.
• 1:40:47
  Speaker 3: We've been hearing from a lot of people that have
• 1:40:49
  Speaker 3: been talking, and they brought up the economy. They brought
• 1:40:52
  Speaker 3: up issues of affordability. And, of course, the other is
• 1:40:56
  Speaker 3: the Iran war. What is your take on the war,
• 1:40:59
  Speaker 3: and do we need to be wrapping that up?
• 1:41:03
  Speaker 27: Well, I mean, the war is kind of central to
• 1:41:06
  Speaker 27: this whole thing because it's affected the economy. That's what's
• 1:41:09
  Speaker 27: driven the prices up. That's what's driven the fuel prices up.
• 1:41:12
  Speaker 27: So absolutely, we need to close the war down as
• 1:41:16
  Speaker 27: quick as we can if we meet the objectives. And
• 1:41:19
  Speaker 27: the two clear objectives we need to meet is no
• 1:41:22
  Speaker 27: nuclear weapons, and also we've got to somehow reduce this
• 1:41:27
  Speaker 27: stranglehold on the global oil market. And I think we
• 1:41:30
  Speaker 27: can do that if we unleash American independence and we
• 1:41:34
  Speaker 27: also start building some new refineries. The reason we're having
• 1:41:38
  Speaker 27: to import all this Diesel is because we can't refine
• 1:41:41
  Speaker 27: it here in a very rapid manner. So that's the
• 1:41:44
  Speaker 27: crux of the matter. So, yes, we need to close
• 1:41:47
  Speaker 27: war out as soon as practical once we meet those
• 1:41:51
  Speaker 27: two objectives.
• 1:41:52
  Speaker 3: All right. Well, Charlie, before we let you go, I
• 1:41:55
  Speaker 3: hate to break it to you. You know, the party
• 1:41:57
  Speaker 3: in charge, they get the choice office space. So here's
• 1:42:01
  Speaker 3: hoping you don't get stuck in a basement without a window.
• 1:42:04
  Speaker 3: So I hope you at least get a window.
• 1:42:07
  Speaker 27: Well, that would be nice, but, you know, I'm not
• 1:42:09
  Speaker 27: going to be in office much. I might be sleeping there,
• 1:42:12
  Speaker 27: but otherwise I'm going to be working.
• 1:42:14
  Speaker 3: Well, I'm sure that the good people of the 5th
• 1:42:17
  Speaker 3: are going to appreciate that because I think, you know,
• 1:42:20
  Speaker 3: to your point, being back in the district and taking
• 1:42:23
  Speaker 3: care of constituent services, that's the job. And a lot
• 1:42:28
  Speaker 3: of times, you know, folks don't do that and they
• 1:42:31
  Speaker 3: don't get reelected. Absolutely right. All right, Charlie, best of
• 1:42:36
  Speaker 3: luck to you. I know you're probably wiped out. It
• 1:42:39
  Speaker 3: was a long night for a lot of folks around
• 1:42:40
  Speaker 3: the country, and we wish you nothing but the best
• 1:42:43
  Speaker 3: up on Capitol Hill.
• 1:42:44
  Speaker 27: Thank you, sir.
• 1:42:47
  Speaker 3: All right, there you have it, ladies and gentlemen. Charlie Hatcher,
• 1:42:50
  Speaker 3: newly elected to Congress, representing one of the few Republicans
• 1:42:54
  Speaker 3: who won yesterday, winning the 5th Congressional District in Tennessee.
• 1:42:59
  Speaker 3: Let's go to the phones here. Sugar Land, Texas. Melissa,
• 1:43:03
  Speaker 3: listening to us on Patriot Talk 920. Melissa, talk to me.
• 1:43:08
  Speaker 11: Todd, hey, how are you this afternoon?
• 1:43:10
  Speaker 3: Well, I'm on the back end of a six-pack of Dr. Pepper,
• 1:43:13
  Speaker 3: so I'm doing pretty good right now.
• 1:43:17
  Speaker 11: That's maybe what I need to do then. I am
• 1:43:19
  Speaker 11: so devastated and word cannot even do it justice. Born
• 1:43:25
  Speaker 11: and raised in Texas and never in my life did
• 1:43:29
  Speaker 11: I think Texas would flip blue.
• 1:43:32
  Speaker 3: You see, that's what I was curious about. And again,
• 1:43:35
  Speaker 3: it was just so shocking, the magnitude of the losses
• 1:43:38
  Speaker 3: there in Texas.
• 1:43:41
  Speaker 11: Huge, absolutely huge. And it's a scary thing because, you know,
• 1:43:47
  Speaker 11: the Democrats, all they want to do is change everything.
• 1:43:50
  Speaker 11: They're not about America and Americans. They're about everyone who's
• 1:43:53
  Speaker 11: not from America and aren't American. So I have a
• 1:43:57
  Speaker 11: feeling they're really not going to do us justice in
• 1:44:00
  Speaker 11: any sense of the word.
• 1:44:02
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that would be the concern that I see, because
• 1:44:06
  Speaker 3: even Governor Abbott was very hesitant about cracking down on
• 1:44:09
  Speaker 3: these Islamic communities, the giant mosques that are being built.
• 1:44:16
  Speaker 3: It seems as though Republicans just did not want to
• 1:44:19
  Speaker 3: go down that path.
• 1:44:21
  Speaker 11: Well, and I wish they would have. Sugar Land is
• 1:44:24
  Speaker 11: literally like a little Islam, if you will, and there
• 1:44:28
  Speaker 11: are mosques going up everywhere in Sugar Land.
• 1:44:32
  Speaker 3: Is it changing the flavor of the town and the culture,
• 1:44:35
  Speaker 3: the vibe of the town?
• 1:44:37
  Speaker 11: Definitely, in a bad way.
• 1:44:40
  Speaker 3: How so?
• 1:44:42
  Speaker 11: Well, I mean, I think that people who have been
• 1:44:44
  Speaker 11: in Sugar Land for years and years, I was born
• 1:44:48
  Speaker 11: in Houston but came to Sugar Land about 25 years ago,
• 1:44:52
  Speaker 11: and Sugar Land was just the place to go. It's
• 1:44:54
  Speaker 11: a nice little quaint town, a suburb of Houston, if
• 1:44:57
  Speaker 11: you will. And I feel like the people that have
• 1:45:00
  Speaker 11: been here like forever are really scared to continue to
• 1:45:04
  Speaker 11: be here with what's going on.
• 1:45:07
  Speaker 3: Well, Melissa, you hang in there. And look, it's going
• 1:45:11
  Speaker 3: to be tough, but we're going to get through it together.
• 1:45:13
  Speaker 3: And who knows? I think when people finally get a
• 1:45:16
  Speaker 3: taste of what it's like when Sharia is implemented, and
• 1:45:20
  Speaker 3: I have to believe in some of those communities, Sharia
• 1:45:22
  Speaker 3: will be implemented. I think hopefully folks will start waking up.
• 1:45:27
  Speaker 3: I'll give you the last word there.
• 1:45:29
  Speaker 11: I hope so, because if that's the case, I think
• 1:45:32
  Speaker 11: we're all going to go running at top speed.
• 1:45:35
  Speaker 3: Well, come on over to Tennessee. We're still red.
• 1:45:37
  Speaker 11: Well, thanks so much, Todd. Have a great day.
• 1:45:42
  Speaker 3: All right, Melissa, you too. Thanks for calling. Let's stay
• 1:45:46
  Speaker 3: in Texas. Tom is calling from Houston, Patriot Talk 920. Hey, Tom,
• 1:45:50
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• 1:46:08
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• 1:46:18
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  Speaker 22: all hold, I don't think anybody really talks about the
• 1:48:45
  Speaker 22: deficit anymore. We're looking at $ 2 trillion a year from
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  Speaker 22: the big, beautiful bill, and we're just spending more and
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  Speaker 22: more money. And I'm just wondering, what's really the incentive
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  Speaker 22: other than, I don't agree with anything that Democrats do,
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  Speaker 22: but at this point, we're going to bankrupt the country
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  Speaker 22: if we keep voting Republicans.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a fair point you raise, Nathan, and I
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  Speaker 3: think that's one of the discussions we have to have
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  Speaker 3: immediately is what exactly does it mean to be a Republican?
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  Speaker 3: And the spending part of it, and hear me on this, Nathan,
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  Speaker 3: they actually watered down a lot of the culture war
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  Speaker 3: issues on the pro-life issue, traditional marriage, all of that
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  Speaker 3: has been completely watered down. So if we're going to
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  Speaker 3: say that we're going to be tax and spend Republicans, well,
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  Speaker 3: what is the difference between that and a Democrat? That's
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  Speaker 3: a fair point you raise.
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  Speaker 22: And then that's, you know, as far as the war,
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  Speaker 22: I mean, I know everyone's concerned about gas prices, but
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  Speaker 22: I mean, I feel like, you know, everything I know
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  Speaker 22: about economics, I have an economics degree, you know, I mean,
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  Speaker 22: everything I know about it is the more the government
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  Speaker 22: spends and the more they print money, the more inflation happens.
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  Speaker 22: And that's what's really, I think, affecting the cost of living, not,
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  Speaker 22: you know, the war is a bad thing and I
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  Speaker 22: don't love it, but, you know, I think it was
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  Speaker 22: a necessary thing we had to do. But I think
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  Speaker 22: everyone's focused on that when they really should be focusing
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  Speaker 22: on the debt. And I don't think under the Trump
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  Speaker 22: administration that's ever been a concern in both terms.
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  Speaker 3: No, you're absolutely right. It has not. And Nathan, we've
• 1:50:18
  Speaker 3: got to get a handle on that. I appreciate you
• 1:50:21
  Speaker 3: calling in and thank you for the great comments on
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  Speaker 3: our YouTube stream. Give us a holler back one of
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  Speaker 3: these days, Nathan, because I like the way you're thinking.
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  Speaker 3: And party leaders need to hear from folks like Nathan.
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  Speaker 3: to understand, hey, there are people that care, really care,
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  Speaker 3: about what this party stands for. Let's go to Chuck
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  Speaker 3: in Gainesville, Georgia. Hi, Chuck, what's on your mind?
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  Speaker 13: I suggest everybody, God, guns, and gold, Bible, bullets, and beans. Bibles,
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  Speaker 13: buy them in different languages, buy plenty of beans to
• 1:51:01
  Speaker 13: feed people that are not going.
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  Speaker 15: To be ready.
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  Speaker 13: Because it's not that gold and silver is worth so
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  Speaker 13: much more, it's that dollars are worth so much less
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  Speaker 13: because of the pre and counterfeit money. We're in a
• 1:51:14
  Speaker 13: fiat economy. I mean, it's just counterfeit, like Germany was.
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  Speaker 13: And I'm just saying, be ready for whatever may come
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  Speaker 13: because it's going to knock on the door soon.
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  Speaker 9: Always pray.
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  Speaker 13: But buy Bibles in different languages so you can pass
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  Speaker 13: them out.
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  Speaker 3: Chuck, it's great guidance, and you can't go wrong by
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  Speaker 3: reading the good book, I can tell you that much. Chuck,
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  Speaker 3: thank you for that call. Ladies and gentlemen, some final
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  Speaker 3: thoughts here as we wrap up the day. Yeah, look,
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  Speaker 3: it's going to be difficult, no doubt about it. But
• 1:51:53
  Speaker 3: you know what? We've been down this path before. So
• 1:51:56
  Speaker 3: do not despair. Don't get depressed. Don't get downtrodden. We
• 1:52:01
  Speaker 3: know that God is still on the throne, and we
• 1:52:03
  Speaker 3: know that things are going to work out at the end,
• 1:52:08
  Speaker 3: no doubt about it. So I want you to hang
• 1:52:10
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• 1:52:12
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• 1:52:15
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• 1:52:19
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• 1:52:22
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• 1:52:24
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• 1:52:28
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• 1:52:48
  Speaker 3: may have had too much Dr.
• 1:52:49
  Speaker 9: Pepper today.
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  Speaker 18: Ugh.
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  Speaker 3: Jeezaloo. We'll deal with that story after the show. All right, folks,
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