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- 0:19Speaker 1: Breitbart dot com. Joining us for the first time and
- 0:22Speaker 1: hopefully not the last, Breitbart News political reporter Olivia Rondo. Olivia,
- 0:26Speaker 1: it is a pleasure to have you on the 55
- 0:27Speaker 1: KRC Morning Show. Welcome.
- 0:29Speaker 2: Hey, good morning. Thank you so much for having me.
- 0:31Speaker 2: I appreciate it.
- 0:32Speaker 1: I will admit, and you're more than welcome, I will admit,
- 0:35Speaker 1: and I've got a lot of optimistic listeners. I've got
- 0:38Speaker 1: a lot of optimistic people. The reports are coming in
- 0:40Speaker 1: from our local polling places. Really strong turnout so far
- 0:46Speaker 1: this morning. A lot of people are coming out to vote.
- 0:48Speaker 1: Record early voting here in the state of Ohio, but
- 0:51Speaker 1: I am surrounded by and inundated with messaging all over
- 0:55Speaker 1: the place, not necessarily from Breitbart, but gloom and doom
- 0:57Speaker 1: for Republicans. Blue wave coming your way. I see Democratic
- 1:00Speaker 1: Socialists winning primaries and actually in polls ahead of what
- 1:04Speaker 1: I would argue are saner candidates. And I turn to
- 1:08Speaker 1: the state of Ohio where, to my dismay and absolute disbelief,
- 1:12Speaker 1: if you've been following the Ramaswamy-Acton race here for the
- 1:15Speaker 1: governor of the state of Ohio, she's been polling ahead
- 1:18Speaker 1: of Vivek Ramaswamy since the beginning. And I'm sorry, a
- 1:21Speaker 1: demonstrably incompetent woman failed in her only job, which was
- 1:25Speaker 1: the medical director of the state of Ohio, quit amid
- 1:28Speaker 1: some serious controversy, hasn't kept jobs for very long. And then,
- 1:32Speaker 1: of course, we have this swirling controversy with ad campaigns.
- 1:34Speaker 1: But Ramaswamy is a successful businessman who wants to benefit
- 1:40Speaker 1: the state of Ohio, and I don't understand it. What's
- 1:42Speaker 1: your take on that particular race? Do you think you've
- 1:44Speaker 1: been following it, Olivia?
- 1:45Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, thanks for asking me. It is really hard
- 1:49Speaker 2: to see at this point why the polls are scaring
- 1:52Speaker 2: people so much. And I do understand to have a
- 1:55Speaker 2: knee-jerk reaction to seeing Vivek fall behind in the polling,
- 1:58Speaker 2: but I wouldn't pay attention to that as a voter
- 2:01Speaker 2: in Ohio if I was one. I would pay attention
- 2:03Speaker 2: to getting my fellow Republicans to turn out because the
- 2:07Speaker 2: numbers show. It's just a numbers game. If Republicans turn
- 2:10Speaker 2: out in the numbers that they have in Ohio, then
- 2:12Speaker 2: Vivek will win. If they don't, then he will lose.
- 2:14Speaker 2: So I would say ignore the polls, stay hopeful, stay
- 2:17Speaker 2: in line, stay voting. But there are enough Republicans in
- 2:21Speaker 2: the state of Ohio to win. So it really simply
- 2:23Speaker 2: is a numbers game. And I'm not one of these
- 2:26Speaker 2: people that's not going to acknowledge Vivek's ad that he
- 2:30Speaker 2: admittedly spent $ 4 million to place in an ad spend
- 2:35Speaker 2: that was really not well received by Democrats and by
- 2:39Speaker 2: the general public that featured Amy Acton's mother. But Amy
- 2:42Speaker 2: Acton has way different, worse skeletons in her closet than
- 2:46Speaker 2: trotting out her mother that really should be focused on.
- 2:49Speaker 2: She and her husband got in a fight so bad
- 2:51Speaker 2: a few years ago that the police were called to
- 2:52Speaker 2: her house and she was saying that they were drunk
- 2:54Speaker 2: and she didn't know how much prescription medication she was
- 2:57Speaker 2: on and she broke a mirror and shattered the glass.
- 2:59Speaker 2: It's just like, this person doesn't seem like she's level-headed.
- 3:03Speaker 2: We also need to remember why she jumped from job
- 3:06Speaker 2: to job to job to job. I mean, we could
- 3:09Speaker 2: talk about her terrible record as Ohio's health director, but
- 3:12Speaker 2: we should also point out that she was in that
- 3:13Speaker 2: job for less than 16 months, not even a year
- 3:16Speaker 2: and a half. it was so controversial, her lockdown policies,
- 3:20Speaker 2: that people were protesting outside of her house. I think
- 3:22Speaker 2: that we should not have such a short memory on
- 3:25Speaker 2: this and think, maybe we should not have a COVID
- 3:28Speaker 2: extremist for a governor, even if I didn't like that advertisement.
- 3:32Speaker 1: True. And she wasn't even qualified to make the determinations
- 3:34Speaker 1: that she made. She wasn't a virologist. She didn't do
- 3:36Speaker 1: any research papers or study virology or how diseases are transmitted.
- 3:41Speaker 1: It's laughable. And the other thing that I have been
- 3:43Speaker 1: banging the drum on since day one on this whole
- 3:46Speaker 1: affordability thing. Yeah, the price of gas is up, not
- 3:48Speaker 1: as much as under Biden, but why was it up
- 3:51Speaker 1: under Biden? And what do the Democrats promise? They promised
- 3:53Speaker 1: increase in the price of gasoline by way of legislation
- 3:56Speaker 1: and policy, not because economic forces interfered with it. This
- 4:00Speaker 1: is the gift that they wanted and campaigned on. Higher
- 4:03Speaker 1: price gas means less use, means less carbon dioxide, plant
- 4:07Speaker 1: food in the environment, whatever nonsense they're pursuing. This is
- 4:10Speaker 1: what they will deliver on. I mean, they've already done it.
- 4:16Speaker 2: Exactly. She's a climate extremist. Vivek takes it the completely
- 4:21Speaker 2: opposite direction. In Ohio, does she really think she can
- 4:24Speaker 2: get away with being a climate extremist when Ramaswamy wants
- 4:27Speaker 2: to open up and deregulate natural gas, wants to deregulate fracking,
- 4:31Speaker 2: wants to create jobs for Ohioans, which will ultimately, I think,
- 4:35Speaker 2: lower the price of gasoline. This is just kind of
- 4:38Speaker 2: Two plus two equals four. But the Democrats have rallied
- 4:42Speaker 2: all the support around acting. I mean, she clearly is
- 4:44Speaker 2: a strong candidate for them, but I just don't think
- 4:47Speaker 2: it is well earned. And I think if you look
- 4:49Speaker 2: at her extremist COVID and climate policies, if she decides to,
- 4:54Speaker 2: you know, continue that that that train of thought from 2020.
- 4:59Speaker 2: I think it'll be really negative for Ohio. And I
- 5:01Speaker 2: think she is proving that she will continue her COVID
- 5:03Speaker 2: extremism if another thing like that arises, because she has
- 5:06Speaker 2: defended her actions and saying, well, I shut down the
- 5:10Speaker 2: county fairs because it was going to kill people. And
- 5:13Speaker 2: if she said that with the hindsight, she said that
- 5:15Speaker 2: on the campaign trail, she said that with the hindsight
- 5:18Speaker 2: that COVID is endemic, that people will get it, that
- 5:21Speaker 2: people will transmit it even with vaccinations and boosters. So
- 5:24Speaker 2: she's still justifying that. People are all going to die
- 5:27Speaker 2: if we open up the county fair, if we open
- 5:29Speaker 2: up the public schools because of COVID, even though it's
- 5:31Speaker 2: an endemic viral flu-like disease. And so for her to
- 5:38Speaker 2: continue to defend herself on that when she knew she
- 5:40Speaker 2: had protesters outside of her house that basically forced her
- 5:43Speaker 2: out of office because she was such an extremist, just
- 5:45Speaker 2: such a terrible look, but it's such a gift to
- 5:47Speaker 2: the Republicans for her to admit that she feels like
- 5:49Speaker 2: she did nothing wrong.
- 5:50Speaker 1: Well, and another gift to the Republicans in this race,
- 5:52Speaker 1: instead of everybody's paying attention, Her appearance in Toledo, stumbling around, appearing,
- 5:56Speaker 1: not necessarily drunk, but coming across as if she's drunk.
- 6:00Speaker 1: And with the background that you just reminded my listening
- 6:02Speaker 1: audience about, she has had some run-ins involving liquor in
- 6:05Speaker 1: the past and police. You look at her and you think, okay,
- 6:08Speaker 1: Joe Rogan even commented on this. It made national news,
- 6:10Speaker 1: this pathetic opening. She's stumbling around. And he said, listen,
- 6:14Speaker 1: I've been around drunk people my whole life. I think
- 6:15Speaker 1: his dad owned a bar or something. I know what
- 6:17Speaker 1: they're like. And you can't look at her behavior and
- 6:21Speaker 1: not at least think, think maybe she was impaired. But
- 6:24Speaker 1: he pointed out it's almost worse if she wasn't because
- 6:28Speaker 1: that's the way she comes across and delivers herself. This
- 6:30Speaker 1: is going to be the figurehead for the state of
- 6:33Speaker 1: Ohio on really a global stage since governors of Ohio
- 6:36Speaker 1: have brought in businesses from the four corners of the globe.
- 6:39Speaker 1: It's one of the jobs they do. She's going to
- 6:42Speaker 1: be the figurehead for the state of Ohio with that.
- 6:44Speaker 1: If she's not drunk and she comes across like that,
- 6:46Speaker 1: pick your choice. Both of them are disastrous.
- 6:49Speaker 2: Great point. And to me, it's a little reminiscent of
- 6:53Speaker 2: Kamala Harris's campaign where she was, I mean, I can't
- 6:56Speaker 2: say she was drunk because I didn't breathalyze her, but
- 6:59Speaker 2: was she stumbling? Was she slurring her words? Was she
- 7:01Speaker 2: cackling on stage? I mean, it's almost exactly to a
- 7:04Speaker 2: T what Amy Atkins is doing. And I love your
- 7:06Speaker 2: point that if she was not drunk, that's almost even
- 7:08Speaker 2: worse because that's your natural state. You're just aloof all
- 7:11Speaker 2: the time.
- 7:11Speaker 1: Yeah, it's scary. That one really worries me more than anything.
- 7:15Speaker 1: The other component of the national races, and I think
- 7:18Speaker 1: this Abdul El-Sayed-Haley Stevens fight that broke out. She was
- 7:24Speaker 1: originally endorsing him. Then he told her to stay the
- 7:26Speaker 1: hell away from his campaign. She then went on to
- 7:30Speaker 1: endorse the Republican. And now she's basically been ostracized from
- 7:33Speaker 1: her own party. They've kicked her flat out. That means
- 7:37Speaker 1: the Democrat Party, at least insofar as Michigan and this
- 7:39Speaker 1: particular Senate seat is concerned, is a party of, and
- 7:43Speaker 1: here I'm saying it, anti-Semitism.
- 7:48Speaker 2: And then President Trump did an expert move and invited Ms.
- 7:53Speaker 2: Stevens into the GOP. And so I think this proves
- 7:56Speaker 2: once again that the Republicans are the party of the
- 7:58Speaker 2: big tent and Democrats are really quickly, I think more
- 8:03Speaker 2: quickly than a lot of politicians and politicos have predicted,
- 8:07Speaker 2: but they are being completely taken over by the Democratic
- 8:09Speaker 2: Socialists of America. Even if you don't want to say
- 8:12Speaker 2: they're Democratic Socialists, that's just what the organization is called,
- 8:15Speaker 2: but DSA, Socialist Communism, and you know, Abdul El-Sayed, he
- 8:20Speaker 2: can deny being an anti-Semite and being a bigot and
- 8:22Speaker 2: not being an extremist and all that all he wants,
- 8:24Speaker 2: but his own half-sister said that their family has ties
- 8:27Speaker 2: to the Muslim Brotherhood, and we all know who they
- 8:29Speaker 2: fund and what their connections are to. So for Haley
- 8:32Speaker 2: Stevens to withdraw her endorsement and to give it to
- 8:35Speaker 2: Mike Rogers instead, knowing that they don't agree on many
- 8:38Speaker 2: of the issues, I think it shows maturity, bravery, and
- 8:43Speaker 2: And I'm not saying she necessarily has to join the
- 8:45Speaker 2: Republican Party, but it was a very smart decision for
- 8:48Speaker 2: Trump to invite her to because, I mean, we've seen
- 8:51Speaker 2: this happen with Tulsi Gabbard. We've seen this happen with RFK,
- 8:55Speaker 2: where these moderate Democrats and independents who have a lot
- 8:59Speaker 2: in common with other moderate liberals are forced out of
- 9:02Speaker 2: their party and find a home within the Republican Party
- 9:05Speaker 2: because it is a big tent and they were forced
- 9:08Speaker 2: out by BSA people.
- 9:09Speaker 1: Another one that's grabbed everybody's attention is the shenanigans going
- 9:12Speaker 1: on in Alaska. I mean, illustrating how shameless the Democrats
- 9:15Speaker 1: are in their efforts to, I would say, steal the seat.
- 9:19Speaker 1: They go out into the world and find another guy
- 9:20Speaker 1: named Dan Sullivan who had no interest in running, and
- 9:23Speaker 1: the only reason he said he agreed to run, according
- 9:25Speaker 1: to their own campaign people, they got him to run.
- 9:31Speaker 1: They changed the initial on it. The whole point of
- 9:33Speaker 1: this was to dupe Republican voters into voting for someone
- 9:36Speaker 1: they're not intending to vote for. Whatever happens to this,
- 9:39Speaker 1: legally speaking, it really is, I have to argue, a
- 9:42Speaker 1: very awful look. Not that Republicans' hands over the years
- 9:44Speaker 1: are necessarily completely clean, but this is outright shameless. Olivia,
- 9:48Speaker 1: do you think anybody's going to learn a lesson from
- 9:50Speaker 1: this little exercise?
- 9:51Speaker 2: I'm sitting here laughing. For the listeners who can't see me,
- 9:56Speaker 2: I'm sitting here laughing because this is probably the funniest
- 9:58Speaker 2: story of the midterm election. season. We have Mary Paltola's campaign,
- 10:02Speaker 2: and in the New York Times, it's all revealed that
- 10:04Speaker 2: a staffer was given a task to compile a list
- 10:07Speaker 2: of every single person named Dan Sullivan in the state
- 10:09Speaker 2: of Alaska. This is not a random outside firm that
- 10:13Speaker 2: did this. This was internally within the Mary Paltola campaign,
- 10:17Speaker 2: and she has denied having any knowledge of it, but
- 10:19Speaker 2: it is just so fake, and so many people... gave
- 10:22Speaker 2: testimony to the New York Times, former staffers on her campaign,
- 10:25Speaker 2: and proved it to the opposite, proved that she did
- 10:28Speaker 2: have knowledge of it. For this teacher, Dan Sullivan, I believe,
- 10:34Speaker 2: I'm going to call him the decoy Dan. Decoy Dan
- 10:37Speaker 2: is a retired school teacher who lives in Petersburg, Alaska,
- 10:41Speaker 2: which is only accessible by sea or by plane. This
- 10:46Speaker 2: guy had no intentions of campaigning in Anchorage. This guy
- 10:49Speaker 2: had no intentions of campaigning across Alaska. He has not
- 10:51Speaker 2: produced one piece of literature, not one campaign sign, not
- 10:54Speaker 2: held one campaign event. Nobody in this town takes him seriously.
- 10:58Speaker 2: And so for him to try to act like, oh,
- 11:01Speaker 2: I'm just here running for Senate. I'm just here running.
- 11:04Speaker 2: I'm just here running. It's so illegal. And it's such
- 11:07Speaker 2: a slimy dirtball move. And for Mary Peltola to not
- 11:11Speaker 2: admit that she did this, that her campaign authorized this
- 11:15Speaker 2: and went out of their way to find him and
- 11:17Speaker 2: to you know, hoist him from irrelevancy into the spotlight
- 11:22Speaker 2: that he clearly cannot handle because he has nothing to
- 11:24Speaker 2: say for himself. And it's just dirty and slimy. And
- 11:27Speaker 2: if Alaskans want that type of person in office, then
- 11:29Speaker 2: go for it. But I mean... The real Dan Sullivan
- 11:33Speaker 2: actually called this out in an exclusive interview with Breitbart
- 11:36Speaker 2: News back in like June or something that really never
- 11:39Speaker 2: got picked up by the mainstream media. But he told
- 11:42Speaker 2: our editor in chief, Alex Marlowe, hey, this person named
- 11:45Speaker 2: Dan Sullivan is a decoy. I don't know who's behind this,
- 11:50Speaker 2: but we need to sound the alarm on this. And
- 11:52Speaker 2: then he was completely vindicated last week when the New
- 11:55Speaker 2: York Times posted this article saying, hey, actually, it was
- 11:58Speaker 2: your opponent that did this. Actually, it was her.
- 12:01Speaker 1: And her inside staff was talking, of all things, the
- 12:04Speaker 1: New York Times, not exactly a bastion of right-wing reporting,
- 12:08Speaker 1: that she knew about it and that a lot of
- 12:12Speaker 1: people within the campaign knew about it and they encouraged it.
- 12:14Speaker 1: So that's completely contrary to what the campaign is saying.
- 12:18Speaker 1: So they might find themselves in a bit of hot
- 12:21Speaker 1: water for lying to the feds. At least I've been
- 12:24Speaker 1: led to believe that.
- 12:28Speaker 2: I hope they do. I mean, we've seen this last
- 12:30Speaker 2: couple of years of lawfare against anything MAGA related, anything
- 12:34Speaker 2: Republican related, anything Trump related. But hopefully, hopefully, hopefully this
- 12:39Speaker 2: gets through. I mean, the DOJ has already kind of
- 12:41Speaker 2: been stifled a little bit by a federal judge because
- 12:45Speaker 2: they were trying, you know, the Department of Justice is saying, well, hey,
- 12:48Speaker 2: we cannot certify these election results. if the real Dan
- 12:51Speaker 2: Sullivan loses because of this decoys, Dan, and then, you know,
- 12:55Speaker 2: the federal judge said, well, no, I mean, people should
- 12:57Speaker 2: be able to decide who to vote for the real
- 12:59Speaker 2: Dan Sullivan and the decoy Dan Sullivan. I mean, it's
- 13:01Speaker 2: just ridiculous. We obviously have anti-Republican based lawfare in this country,
- 13:06Speaker 2: but hopefully, hopefully, hopefully the voters of Alaska have seen
- 13:10Speaker 2: the truth and don't want to vote for a candidate
- 13:13Speaker 2: like Mary Peltola, who would go so far as to
- 13:15Speaker 2: recruit a random retired school teacher from a rural, remote
- 13:20Speaker 2: Alaska to pretend to run a campaign.
- 13:23Speaker 1: Well, this has been elevated so far to everybody's attention.
- 13:26Speaker 1: I can't imagine any Alaskan not being aware of it.
- 13:28Speaker 1: And to the extent it's going to have an influence
- 13:30Speaker 1: on the election, if there was a Republican in Alaska
- 13:33Speaker 1: that wasn't inclined to go to the polls, they'd probably
- 13:35Speaker 1: go just because of what the Democrats tried to pull.
- 13:40Speaker 2: Absolutely. I mean, this just leaves such a sour taste
- 13:43Speaker 2: in my mouth. I'm from the D.C., Maryland area. Something
- 13:46Speaker 2: like this happened here. it would motivate me like there's
- 13:49Speaker 2: a fire in my pants to go vote for the
- 13:52Speaker 2: opposite person. So even a Democrat in Alaska, a good,
- 13:58Speaker 2: you know, plenty of good people are Democrats. They should
- 14:00Speaker 2: see that this is a slime ball who has, you know,
- 14:04Speaker 2: bad campaign practices. And the crazy part to me, the
- 14:08Speaker 2: funniest part about the New York times article is like
- 14:10Speaker 2: the way that they were going around trying to recruit
- 14:12Speaker 2: all these Dan Sullivan's was taking them out to the
- 14:14Speaker 2: bar and drinking with them at the bar. So it's like,
- 14:17Speaker 2: this is like so slimy and so weird. You're trying
- 14:19Speaker 2: to get these guys drunk so they can agree to
- 14:23Speaker 2: run for office. And then this, this went all the
- 14:25Speaker 2: way up to the chain. You know, this was approved
- 14:27Speaker 2: by her campaign campaign, lawyers and attorneys and all that stuff.
- 14:30Speaker 2: And so for her to sit here and act like
- 14:32Speaker 2: she didn't know about it when it was literally an
- 14:34Speaker 2: exploratory committee within her own campaign that compiled this list
- 14:38Speaker 2: of all the decoy dance in the state and got
- 14:40Speaker 2: somebody to run because they got beers. It is just
- 14:42Speaker 2: so far out of the realm of normalcy for an
- 14:46Speaker 2: election that I hope Democrats reconsider voting for her. Maybe
- 14:50Speaker 2: just sit it out. But there's no way Democrats should
- 14:53Speaker 2: ever support her if they're if they actually care about
- 14:56Speaker 2: honesty and election integrity.
- 14:58Speaker 1: Breitbart News political reporter Olivia Rondo. We're at Fort Weapart
- 15:01Speaker 1: Company today. What do you sense? A red wave, a
- 15:04Speaker 1: blue wave, kind of a mixed bag. If you had
- 15:06Speaker 1: to guess, and I'm not going to hold you to it,
- 15:08Speaker 1: it is a guess. What do you think, Olivia?
- 15:11Speaker 2: For sure. I think that there's no reason that Republicans
- 15:15Speaker 2: should lose Republican-leaning or Republican-stronghold districts. So I'm not going
- 15:20Speaker 2: to fearmonger about that. But what I will say is
- 15:22Speaker 2: that states like Ohio are it will depend on a
- 15:25Speaker 2: high Republican turnout. Like every Republican has to go out
- 15:28Speaker 2: and vote to win those. I'm not going to sit
- 15:30Speaker 2: here and say it's not going to be super close
- 15:32Speaker 2: or that the polls show that the VEC is winning
- 15:34Speaker 2: because the polls don't show that. But don't pay attention
- 15:35Speaker 2: to the polls. Pay attention to getting your neighbor out
- 15:38Speaker 2: to vote because it's possible if the Republican voter turnout
- 15:40Speaker 2: is what it should be.
- 15:41Speaker 1: Olivia Rondeau from Breitbart. Breitbart.com. Bookmark it. You'll be glad
- 15:44Speaker 1: you did. We'll talk again someday soon. I hope, Olivia,
- 15:47Speaker 1: keep my fingers crossed for tomorrow. And thanks for your
- 15:49Speaker 1: time with my listeners and me today. I appreciate it.
- 15:53Speaker 2: Thank you so much. I appreciate it so much.
- 15:55Speaker 1: Have a great day. 821-55-KRC, the talk station.