SAVE America Act Advances in Senate, Floor TAKEOVER Underway as Two Republicans BETRAY
Benny Johnson and Carl DeMayo analyze the Save America Act's Senate passage despite bipartisan Republican betrayal by Murkowski and Tillis, alongside mass deportation strategies targeting 15 million illegal aliens. DeMayo details his California voter ID campaign, which secured over 1.4 million signatures to counter Newsom's opposition through a robust legal defense and PIN verification systems. Ultimately, the episode argues that election integrity requires strict citizenship proof and exposes the incompetence of political elites who undermine American democracy. [Automatically generated summary]
Yeah, that procedural vote yesterday launched the Senate into a debate that stretched late into last night, and it could go on that way for weeks.
It is over, of course, the Save America Act, which requires proof of citizenship to register to vote, photo ID when you cast a ballot, and oversight on state voter rolls where non-citizens have been flagged.
Joining all Democrats in opposing opening up this bill for a debate were two Republicans.
That was Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski, she voted no, and Senator Tom Tillis, who is absent for the vote.
For Republican Majority Leader John Thune, the strategy behind this public debate is to force Democrats to publicly display an unwillingness to secure elections.
Now, the other side sees it all as a way to complicate upcoming midterm elections.
And so I said, alas, maybe we should just go enjoy St. Patrick's Day at the White House and do a couple of critical meetings about the Save Act in Washington, D.C. and where we are on something that actually affects the everyday life of American people.
And I think this is like a critical point.
And it's like got me a little bit like, you know, hot onto the collar this morning, Wednesday, March 18th, 2026.
What actually matters?
What matters?
What is the point of all this?
Why are we doing this?
Why are we live right now?
Why are we live every single day?
Why do we work every single weekend?
Why was I at the White House yesterday in meetings?
to try and like effort to get something passed for the American people.
Why is Scott Pressler hitting the bricks in the Senate every single day?
Why are we constantly talking about the SAVE Act?
We took 10 minutes to do a show yesterday.
I was like, get Ron Johnson and we got to hit the brick.
We got to bully the Senate into getting the SAVE Act passed.
Because the American people don't need more podcast wars.
They don't need more egos talking about how important they are or how hurt their feelings are.
Who cares?
They didn't elect you.
We're not electing Piers Morgan or Ben Shapiro or Megan Kelly or Tucker Carlson or Candace Owen.
We're not electing any of them.
None of them were on the ballot.
If you want to say in what's going on, get on the ballot.
Who was on the ballot was Trump.
We elected Trump.
Three times we elected Trump.
The popular vote elected Trump.
77 million people elected Trump.
All seven swing states elected Trump.
All Bellwether counties elected Trump.
He's a president.
And I was at the White House with Trump yesterday because that's how you get things done for the American people.
I'm done with this doomerism.
And I'm also done with taking your eye off the ball.
You know why Charlie's a legend?
You know why Charlie is so memorialized and beloved?
Was because he was a coalition builder to get things done to help the American people to help you and your children and your grandchildren.
Not to just sit there and bitch and whine and piss around all day because you got your feelings hurt.
Who the hell cares?
It doesn't matter.
It's like, check the comment section.
Check the live comments right now on the chat.
It's live comments right now on the chat.
Look, half of them are going to be like talking about how much they hate me, how stupid I am, how dumb I am.
Every conceivable pejorative that could possibly be written about me on the internet has already been written.
And I don't care.
And it doesn't matter.
Because it's not about me.
It's about getting the SAVE Act passed.
It's about doing something good for the country, for like my children to live in a functional nation that's clean and peaceful and orderly.
And I want that.
And I think that like the majority of the American people are sort of sick of Republicans, but then especially like the chattering class of influencers to like not delivering.
I was at the White House all day yesterday.
The vast majority of the day was spent in meetings doing our level-headed best to take the priorities of this audience.
And I'm not going to betray the exact conversations, but let me just tell you, we read the chat and we read the sentiment of this show.
And I was there to deliver on that sentiment.
And the White House tactical team, political teams and legislatures, they actually changed direction on a number of things based on insights that I had from this audience doing the show every single day.
Being online pretty much terminally every single weekend, every single weekday, every single evening, every single morning, like never stop, never stopping.
That's what this is about.
It's not about your ego.
It's not about your hurt feelings.
It's not about somebody who has a big YouTube channel or a big podcast show.
Like Getting butt hurt.
This is about delivering for the American people.
And it's all we ever care about.
That's why I try and keep my nose clean on this stuff.
Speaking of keeping your nose clean, a big sign at the White House, big giant sign as you're checking in.
No marijuana allowed on site.
I was like, dude, how did any of the Biden people get in here?
How did anybody from Biden's family or anybody from Biden's administration get in here?
IRL coced.
I guess there was no sign that said no cocaine.
That's why.
That's the point.
That's why all we've done is yell and do interviews and bully senators, members of Congress on the show until our voice cracked because the point is to deliver for the American people.
That's the point.
There is no other point.
And so, with that, as the main building goal of this show is coalition building, victory, winning, not being a doomer.
America is the greatest country on earth.
America is a blessed nation.
I love this place.
We should colonize the moon.
It should be the 52nd or 53rd state after Greenland and Venezuela.
Whatever.
This is what people are talking about here.
I'm done.
I'm done.
I'm done with the drama.
Okay.
And I was like, I've tried not to like, sometimes speaking, even just speaking about it or like involves you in it, right?
I'm just saying, what's the point?
If you want to be better than the corporate media, if you want to be better than what we are trying to replace, then you have to act better.
You have to show the fruits of actually locking in and delivering.
And so, ladies and gentlemen, that's what we're going to do on this program.
And it's what we're going to be setting our hearts about doing as a constant motivation to stay out of other people's business, stay out of the drama, keep charging, keep moving forward, keep working, because I know that the vast majority of the American people are on my side.
They know that this moment is dire.
They know we're headed towards a thousand years of either light or darkness, depending on how we behave in this moment.
We must behave with courage, bravery, and absolute clarity of mission to save our nation.
Starts with the Save Act.
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I, you know, I just like, you know, it was amazing yesterday because we did a series of, we did a series of meetings and I was kind of like, I was constantly being asked by members of the president's staff.
I was constantly being asked by members of the president's staff, like, why?
Why are you not blackbilling?
It's amazing.
You know, there's been so many historic crash outs.
You know, a lot of the recent news cycle has broken people's brains.
I would argue a lot of people who, of course, were never MAGA before.
Maybe it's time to not let the people who abandon MAGA or weren't ever MAGA in the first place define what MAGA is.
I had a blast.
We met with a number of friends.
We talked strategy with a number of great people.
And then we got to enjoy.
I mean, again, my wife's Irish.
And so I said, you know, St. Patrick's Day at the White House to put on an amazing spread.
It was really fantastic.
Probably wasn't very healthy.
They had like fried fish and chips and corned beef.
And I had Aguinis.
Oh, man.
It was delicious.
It's great.
Green Fountain was beautiful, by the way.
I'm very proud to be an American.
Look at that gorgeous, giant American flag.
Could you imagine the White House without that enormous American flag?
Can we please remember why we're all doing this?
We're not doing this for anybody's hurt or damaged ego.
We're doing this to save America.
We're doing this so that your children and my children can experience the green fountain at the White House powered by the leprechauns.
I did see a leprechaun.
I saw Sean Spicer on my way out.
Yelled at me and came charging at me.
Stay back.
You know, magical.
Go find your pot of gold somewhere.
Remember what we're doing this for.
I do need to lengthen my tie, though.
I'm going to work on that.
It's what happens when you get dressed on the plane.
You know, that's what happens for the entire time on the plane.
We popped in, popped out, talked about the SAVE Act, and we had a wonderful update yesterday on the SAVE Act.
The GOP has officially voted to trigger marathon Senate fight to expose Democrats' opposition to Trump-backed voter ID bill.
So we have a very good bit of news here and a massive update.
Senate Republicans on Tuesday successfully launched their floor takeover to put the Senate Democrats on record against the Trump-backed voter ID legislation.
It's a move to shift the spotlight from the internal GOP divisions over safeguarding America's voter eligibility, something that, of course, 80% of the country or more agree with, who are ultimately withholding the needed votes to pass the bill.
Not a single Democrat will support the SAVE Act.
It is a radical bill, says Chuck Schumer.
And if Republicans try to burn time on this legislation here on the floor, we will oppose them as long as it takes.
Senate Majority Leader Jon Thune, Republican Donald Trump, Conservative Conference, and fervent online campaign against the bill.
What are we doing this for?
We're doing this to deliver for the American people.
That's the point.
If you're not delivering for the American people like actual legitimate wins, then you're not going to have a movement.
You have to deliver for the American people.
That needs to be the only goal.
That needs to be like delivering actual results.
I want my mass deportations.
I want them.
I need them.
I have to have them.
And I want my border wall and I want Greenland and I want voter ID.
These are things that the American public wants.
They want the total and whole focus of the United States government to be on domestic policy.
That is something that I reiterated time and time again yesterday.
Something that I really hope Jon Thune can get across the line.
President Trump said yesterday at the White House.
He gave a wonderful speech.
It's hilarious.
President Trump, totally undeterred by the moment.
So let's go ahead and pop on in and listen to Mikely as an update.
I mean, obviously, Mike D doing updates every single day, must listen to.
Mike Lee doing an update on what happened yesterday with Save Act as they moved to open up debate on the SAVE Act, a critical hurdle that was jumped by only 51 votes.
Tom Tillis and Lisa Murkowski not present for the votes.
So traders in our ranks.
Lisa Murkowski, of course, winning her seat based on very dodgy election laws in Alaska.
I was on the Senate floor late tonight debating the merits of the Safe America Act.
One of the arguments that I've seen and heard made over and over again on the Senate floor and on social media and elsewhere, but including on the Senate floor multiple times today, is this absurd argument that goes something like this.
If the Safe America Act passes, then if you don't have a passport, you're not going to be able to vote.
Or if you can't find your documents and can't afford to spend a lot of money getting those documents, you're not going to be able to vote.
Therefore, it's going to disenfranchise people who don't have their documents on hand and don't have a lot of disposable income to spend on it.
Look, all of this is a lie.
Go to the House-passed bill, the Save America Act, the same bill that we turn to today.
Go to page 12, line 22, and the text that follows from that and onto the next page.
It makes very clear, you don't have to shell out a dime.
You can't find your documents, you never had them, your dog ate them, your house burned down, whatever.
No problem.
We've made accommodation for that.
If you can't, if you've gotten married and you've changed your name to where it's your married last name, we've taken care of that too.
You can handle that by affidavit and put the burden on the state to track down the background documentation without shelling out a dime, even if you don't have any of the documentation because your house burned down, your dog ate it, or you never had it, or whatever.
You've got to stop lying about this, Democrats.
Because the fact is, the more you lie about this, the more it calls into question your other specious arguments, including the fact that voter fraud supposedly never happens or that non-citizens never register to vote and never do vote.
10 million illegal immigrants flooded into our country while Joe Biden was president and the Democrats were in charge in the United States Senate and House.
And now the Democrats want those same illegal immigrants to have an impact on the elections in the United States.
I believe only citizens of the United States should be allowed to vote in American elections.
Like, you never hear Republican leadership like sort of like come out swinging like this, especially soft-spoken doctors.
Okay, let's get Adam Schiff here, and then we're going to bring in Trish McLaughlin to like respond to this, because, of course, these are the same Democrats that have defunded TSA.
I thanked every single TSA agent that I saw yesterday working at the airport.
These people are working without pay.
They can't pay the rent.
It's not their fault, especially at a time when, of course, terrorist threats are at an all-time high right now based on military action throughout the world and terrorist hotspots.
The defund the DHS, when there are credible reports of Iran launching a drone attack off our coast and they defund the Coast Guard, it's malevolent.
They were saying that Iran was going to drone California.
Yet Senator Adam Schiff of California is saying here that what matters the most to him is illegal criminal aliens voting in the election.
Adam Schiff, and I and I quote, the SAVE Act will destroy something precious about our country.
Yeah, the something precious is the reason why you imported so many criminal aliens.
And every single day, by the way, we're tracking this.
The DOJ prosecutes more criminal aliens for voting in our elections.
It's obviously the goal.
This is why mass deportations are completely and totally critical.
Joining us right now, live, is Tricia McLaughlin.
Tricia is a friend of the show, former Assistant Secretary for Homeland Security and Public Affairs.
uh trisha this got to kind of piss you off that we're living in a time where there seems to be like quite active attacks frankly uh against our nation You can count them.
It's like five or six in a week from Islamic extremists.
Well, I think the classification of a mass deportation is if you are in this country illegally, then you need to be arrested and deported.
And that absolutely should be happening.
And I think will continue to happen.
I think we also have to look at our illegal immigration system, which the Joe Biden administration completely plundered.
They completely exploited the parole program.
Temporary protected status, which a lot of your viewers are probably familiar with, really was just a rubber stamp to let these individuals in with no vetting.
So I think that we also, I mean, we did see about 3 million illegal aliens leave the country.
The vast majority of that was from self-deportations, which are a lot cheaper, a lot safer for communities, a lot safer for law enforcement.
But what we saw a lot of, at least during my 13 months there, Benny, was that the more arrests we were making, the more these illegal aliens within the interior of our country were getting the message: hey, if I don't leave now, I'm going to get arrested.
I'm never going to be able to return.
And so I'm hoping under a Mullen tenure, we're going to see more and more of that.
Yeah, I mean, that's obviously a critical question.
If I had a time machine, go back and like tell the founders, you know, please, please make the Second Amendment really, really specific and then say like citizens, not persons when you're counting the census.
But, you know, I don't have a time machine and they're really smart.
And I think we're fine with hopefully amending something that counts just the citizens.
But I guess the point is like, okay, so 15 million and 3 million have either self-deport deported or have been deported.
So one fifth is what we're so it's been one fifth in the first year.
So if you could keep those numbers constant, you could get almost, if you're staying at 3 million deportations or self-deportations per year, then you're almost at the entirety of the illegal population in the country.
But I think, Benny, the other piece of this too, and I mentioned that temporary protective status, those parole programs, Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, Venezuela, CHNV, a lot of your viewers might be familiar with.
I mean, really, again, rubber stamping these people who were not vetted into our country.
It really was an optics play because these programs really started being stood up right around 2023.
The Biden administration saw the optics at the border were abysmal.
They were losing public support.
Border security was becoming a huge national security issue.
And they said, hey, instead of having these massive droves of people come to our border and there being photos and video of that and said, we're just going to let these people in and call it legal.
From the Louisiana governor and the state and local government there, those 287G, which agreements, which basically means that ICE is allowed to deputize state and local government and law enforcement to actually carry out deportation and make immigration arrests.
So, I mean, you saw Florida.
I would think that number would be even higher there, Texas as well, because of those authorities.
So, I mean, those agreements, I mean, they sound very technical, but they're actually incredibly important to the safety of the country.
And then on the other side, you have the Virginians of the world, where under Yunkin, we saw a lot of cooperation.
They were honoring ICE detainers, meaning that if illegally alien was came into state or local custody, that they'd eventually be turned over to ICE once they served their sentence and so that they could be deported.
Now, under Spamberger, we're not having that, even with the most violent criminals.
Like the base, the MAGA base and the American First Movement want mass deportations.
I guess at these numbers, you could almost say that all criminal, I mean, if you stay up at 3 million per year and there's 15 million base and all, then you could say, well, in the first year of the second Trump term, we would get virtually all criminal aliens out of the country as long as you're allowing zero more in.
I think that's like, I think that's good.
I think it's like, I think it's like a good start.
Okay, so Mark Mullen is going to carry the torch here.
Why don't we?
This is your first time on since you've left DHS and since Christy Noam was, I guess, reassigned.
That'd be the right way to say it, to like a different, you know, to a different job.
What's the background story there?
What's your advice to Mark Wayne as he's going through his confirmation this morning?
I think he's going to be really pushed to make different commitments to especially to every senator, but especially the Democrats on the committee.
And they'll push for ending administrative warrants, stop using masks.
They'll push for not going into safe locations.
So what the administration changed was what we saw in past administrations was that Joe Biden said, if you are ICE law enforcement, if you're CBP, you cannot go into a church.
You can't go into a hospital.
You can't go into these so-called safe locations.
What was happening was these criminals then were taking safe harbor in these locations.
That absolutely has to stop.
It puts innocence, of course, in danger and it hampers our law enforcement officers.
So those are commitments that you're going to see Democrats try to force Mark Wayne Mullen to take.
And he really shouldn't take the bait there.
It doesn't parallel our law enforcement.
And he needs to be able to run that agency as he sees fit and talk to these career law enforcement officers who deal with the day-to-day on the ground there.
That the Democrats, I mean, I don't think any of these guys have ever been on an ICE operation.
Benny, you've been on multiple ICE operations and you see what these men and women deal with day-to-day.
There's a reason they wear masks.
There's a reason that they conduct the operations in the way they do.
And that's what they're going to need to be effective.
And obviously, we've seen how radicalized and how violent the left is.
They are truly a paramilitary force, unlike anything I've ever seen.
They behave like ISIS, frankly, in our country and attacking federal law enforcement.
They do worse on a day-to-day basis than anything that ever happened on January 6th to federal law enforcement.
It's totally allowed because of who's in power.
It's incredible how the heel turns as soon as Democrats get in power.
If you were to behave like this against federal law enforcement with Democrats in power, you know, of course, like, you know, it'd be 22 years in solitary confinement.
But they're protecting their own, and we know that they're going to do this.
And it's like something, I guess, like, yeah, I mean, I guess, okay, so Mark Wayne Mullen, I haven't been five.
He's live.
They're live right now.
Do we have a live feed of this, by the way, team?
Like, do we have a do we have a live feed of the confirmation hearing?
Because I think it's like going to be critical.
Mark's been such a great friend of the show.
We did go out with Christy Noam on a number of different trips and do a number of different things.
Obviously, mass deportations is critical to the core of the MA movement.
And it was important to tell that story.
Like what happened there at DHS?
Like what, like, like what was the, what was the big, you know, what, what, what was the reassignment?
Like, what, like, what was the, what's the behind the scenes story?
Many of you might remember it was in February, earlier February.
I had left departed DHS.
I was there for 13 months.
Was supposed to leave in December, really, or excuse me, January.
Really goal for my family and I is to start a family.
And that was going to take precedence, get back to Ohio.
But I stayed on in the wake of the Minnesota shootings and kind of what happened, the events after.
As far as the conversations between the president and Secretary Noam, he makes the best personnel decisions for that moment.
She has an enormous job that is an incredibly difficult job.
There's 23 component agencies underneath the Secretary of Homeland Security, mentioned them before.
TSA FEMA, which by the way, FEMA is a monster in itself.
Sheerly the bureaucracy there, the undermining there.
There's also CISA, a lot of people are not familiar with, but it really hardens our infrastructure, especially we've talked a lot about the Save America Act.
That's essential when it comes to election integrity and safeguarding those systems.
And then, of course, there's CBP, ICE, WMD, weapons of mass destruction.
So it's a huge agency.
She had an incredibly difficult job, worked incredibly hard, but I'm really praying and wishing for her success in this next role that President Trump gave her.
So we have the live shot here of Mark Wayne at the at the hearing.
Based on what you know, and of course, you've been operating at top levels of DHS.
Like you just said, don't let Democrats sort of cow you into some of these niche issues.
DHS is obviously defunded right now.
I presume that like when Mark Wayne comes and is confirmed, and it sounds like he's going to get confirmed.
Democrats are already saying they're going to vote for him.
You know, like, what would be your, beyond like the niche issues, like masks or no masks, like beyond those, like what, like, what's your broad stroke advice to Mark Wayne coming in?
Because obviously like what needs to be said to the base is like, we have, we promise mass deportations, 3 million a year, gets us to the 15 million number.
We have mass deported all criminal aliens in our country.
Like that, that's what the base needs to hear to tick the box.
Yeah, I think that he really has to focus on self-deportations.
How do you make that carrot so appealing to these illegal aliens that they get the heck out of the country and you can make sure that they don't come back?
The most untold story, I think, of this administration has been that border security.
He's got to make sure he keeps an eye on the southern border that doesn't, he doesn't lose sight of that, as well as the northern border, as we were seeing increased activity there in 2025.
Yeah, I mean, all these senators in this hearing, it's three to four hours.
They're going to be trying to get something out of him, some sort of commitment to an investigation or some sort of commitment to their state specifically, whether it be FEMA or TSA or otherwise.
So he's got to stick to the Highline vision.
And also, he can't forget.
There's an audio.
I mean, of course, this audience of this panel of senators who are going to confirm him, but this is President Trump's vision.
This is President Trump's number one issue was mass deportations.
He was partially elected on that issue.
I would say he's largely elected on that issue.
And to your point, Benny, this is going to have huge midterm ramifications.
The base wants and demands mass deportations.
And that's something that has to be delivered, even if, you know, the right of center senators and the leftist media is going to fight every day as they did under Secretary Noam's tenure to prevent us from doing that.
Yeah, like you, like, I actually care a little less about criminal, illegal aliens voting in my country.
I would, I would much rather them just not be in my country.
You know, you're going to get rid of the problem of illegals voting illegally if there's none of them here, if they're not here, if they're gone and back to where they back to where they belong and where they came from.
So it's like, wow, that problem kind of fixes itself.
You just talked about the, you know, I'm asking you to be a little self-reflective here.
Like you just talked, this is a mass, it is a massive organization.
I mean, DHS probably would be like the last place I would want to be in the government just because of how just the enormity of how much, how much structure there was there.
We were at the White House yesterday.
It was like the guy who was in charge of, you know, Sean Curan, you know, was was there.
There were various other function functionaries of federal law enforcement there.
Like, dude, this is like a really tough job.
What is it that you wish you knew going in?
Like, what is the piece of advice you wish you had going in at DHS that maybe we could carry on with Mark Wayne since we text him virtually five times a day, every day?
I think I've done a lot of self-reflection since leaving this job.
I mean, as far as purely priorities, from my perspective, I was dealing with the press each and every day and 80% of the questions we were getting, of course, were on ICE and CBP.
But there were, you know, there's also Coast Guard.
There's also FEMA, which those are going to sneak up on you when there's a massive disaster.
So he needs to know where the president's priorities are, where the president's public priorities are, because that's right.
You have to be in line with the president.
And I think that that's sometimes where there's footfalls there is you need to know on a day-to-day basis, what does the president want you to be saying and where does he want you to be focusing your efforts on?
And so I think he needs to make sure he has those close relationships within the White House, with Stephen Miller, with Tom Holman, make sure he's really fostering those.
That's going to be essential for him as well.
Having great relationships with those 23 component officers, whether it be TSA, CBP, ICE, he's not going to be able to micromanage all of them.
And so he's going to, it's going to be essential.
He's going to be able to upward manage and manage his agency itself and really echoing what the president wants and what the American people voted for the president on.
But like, it wouldn't be necessary if you didn't have so many dandillegals in this country.
Like, because you just assume that all the only people when you and I were born, like I was born in the 80s, it was just kind of like the basic assumption that only Americans voted in our elections.
Ladies and gentlemen, Carl DeMaio is joining us to talk about his own version of the SAVE Act in California.
You know, you could do it on a state level, be a lot easier, actually, than doing it on a federal level.
And there is a man who has actually made this his driving force and his life force.
And his name is Carl DeMayo.
He's joining us in just one second.
He is like the king of voter ID and forcing the state of California through referendum to have voter ID in the state.
Absolutely critical battle.
Now, ladies and gentlemen, to Carl in just one moment.
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The man, the myth, the legend, Carl DeMayo, who's the chairman of Reform California, who has delivered on a massive, massive victory for our nation in the state of California.
Let's jump on over and chat with Carl right now.
Carl, you absolute madman.
You've done it.
You total legend, you.
1,368,000 signatures of Californians verified in order to put voter ID initiative on the ballot.
We have a massive cheer actually for you right now from the chat.
You actually delivered on your California, your own California version of the Save America Act.
But the credit goes to all of the grassroots volunteers who collected signatures, to all of our coalition partners who helped us raise funds, including Julie Lucky and her committee, the Californians for Voter ID, which include Nicole Shanahan, who you had on your podcast.
You brought a lot of national attention to this.
So this was a real team effort.
And it goes to show that even in the blue state of California, when everything is stacked against us, all the money, all the media, all the infrastructure, that the conservatives can actually work together, rise up and do something to move the needle.
And so part of what I'm trying to do by moving voter ID forward in the state of California is send the message to the red and purple states out there.
If we can do this in California, then what the hell are you waiting for?
Enact your own voter ID initiative at the state level.
Don't wait for those sellouts in the Senate to do their damn job.
They never will.
Let's rise up, make this a grassroots rebellion, skate by state by state.
Now, we got the signatures, but we're not out of the woods yet.
We still have to pass it in November.
The polling shows 70% of Californians are in favor of voter ID, but there's a lot of dirty tricks that the Democrats and their friends in the liberal media will pull.
So we've got to work hard between now and November to actually win the vote on Election Day.
And that's what we're up against is that this first election where our initiative is on the ballot, we're doing it without voter ID.
So we have to win by more than 50% plus one.
We have to make this big to rig, which is why when people say, congratulations, you got the signatures.
It's a 70% issue.
This is in the bag.
It's going to pass.
I'm like, no, I do not trust how things go out around California.
They've got all this dark money, all the super PACs, the lying liberal media.
So we've got to make our case.
And this is not going to be easy, but we are going to go district by district, turn out the vote, and win by such an overwhelming margin that they're not going to be able to rig it.
Yes, we had to get 874,000 signatures to put it on the ballot.
But as you note, I don't trust these people.
And that's why I told everyone we have to get more signatures than we are legally required to so that it's so overwhelming.
And Benny, we also did 100% signature verification internally at our campaign.
We have a scanned copy of every single signature so that if Gavin Newsom and the Democrats want to play games and be sneaky and dishonest and say we don't have enough, we will go into a court of law, present that evidence and show that, yes, we do have the signatures.
I'm not leaving anything to chance on this because these people are fundamentally corrupt.
They are dishonest and you must treat them as such and act accordingly.
Look at this, a county by county signature totals, statewide support for California voter ID initiative here on Carl's website, the Reform California website.
You can see every single dude is locked in.
This is why we have Carl on the program.
This is why we're constantly retweeting him.
He is locked in.
He knows it.
And he's going to be able to defeat Gavin Newsom based on the actual rules of the state.
And I just hope that, man, I saw the other day, Stephen Miller was posting about it, how the vast majority of Californians voted against giving illegals state benefits, but then a judge strikes it down, right?
And now you get, you know, state benefits.
How are you going to prevent something like that happening, Carl?
Because, you know, again, it looks like you have, let's just say you have the momentum at your back here, right?
You have a big issue that a lot of people care about that everybody agrees with.
And, you know, just like most Californians agreed with not giving illegals state benefits, but some dirty, corrupt judge goes and strikes it down.
And then here, here, like, here's all the Medicaid fraud in the world, right?
And going into this, we knew that not only did we have to beat them at the ballot box, we have to beat them in the courtroom.
And so I actually filed this constitutional amendment twice before just to smoke them out.
I filed an initiative back in 2021, then again in 2023.
And what I was trying to do was surface their legal arguments against the initiative.
And it was a very helpful process because every time they would write a title and summary and the attorney general would issue an opinion that said what we were doing was flawed or illegal.
I then went back to our team of attorneys, nationwide election lawyers who are top shelf, top-notch.
And I said, let's tighten this up.
We actually hired three law firms.
One firm was in charge of drafting the language.
One firm I hired just to tear it apart.
I said, pretend to be a sneaky Democrat and come up with every single legal trick in the book and throw it at the initiative.
And then the final firm, we had them build what I call implementation architecture.
And that is, we have a whole five-year litigation strategy, Benny, that once we pass this, we're then going to issue demand letters to the Secretary of State and every county registrar of voters saying, look, this is now in our state constitution.
We believe this is plain and simple, but how are you going to implement it?
And as you think about that response, here's how we think you should implement it based on best practices.
And any county registrar who decides not to follow this initiative, we're going to sue them.
We're going to sue them in the local court system.
We're going to sue them in federal court if necessary.
But we feel very confident that not only will this survive any challenge, but we also know that we have to force them to do it step by step, county by county.
And so this is not a one and done thing.
We've got to get it passed, get it in the state constitution, and then litigate it if necessary in the counties where we have registrars that we don't trust.
So we actually broke the challenge into two steps.
Because when you look at elections, people say, well, let's just get voter ID.
That's not enough because in California, they issue driver's licenses to illegal immigrants.
So you need to have more than just voter ID.
You have to start first with cleaning up the voter rolls.
And that's why we require, number one, citizenship verification of anyone registering to vote, as well as an audit of the voter rolls by the independent state auditor.
And that audit will happen every two years on the off year before they use that list to mail out ballots.
We spend a lot of time listening to voters.
We listen to Democrats, Independents, and Republicans.
And while it's frustrating, a lot of the Democrats and the Independents, and even 40% of Republicans, in California, they said they liked the convenience of mail-in ballots.
I don't like mail-in ballots.
I actually like going into the polling center and pulling a paper ballot and casting a vote.
But remember, Benny, we've got to win this at the polls.
And so what we did was we said, okay, if we keep mail-in ballots, how do we make sure that we have an ID requirement to verify that the person who is registered to vote actually mailed that ballot back?
And it's really simple.
You require the last four digits of a government document, a government ID associated with that person as a PIN.
We all know how to use pins on our ATM card and various things throughout life.
So we created a system in our initiative that said, if you don't use a photo ID in person, if you want to use a mail-in ballot, you have to first register with the county registrar of voters and say, here is the document I want to use.
And it could be your license.
It could be a voter card.
It could be your social security card, passport.
But the voter would have to proactively say, this is what I want to use as my PIN.
So anyone who's no longer alive or no longer lives in the state of California, what happens?
They're not going to contact the registrar to proactively select a PIN.
That registration would then be moved on at least a mail-in ballot basis to inactive.
And that's very important because there's a lot of people, 2 million people have left, fled.
The better word is fled, the state of California.
The corruption, the high cost of living in the last six years, 2 million people have moved out of the state.
But guess what?
They still receive ballots to their old address because no one is removed.
Those ballots would basically be rendered inactive.
And then we also require that that PIN match, obviously, before the mail-in ballot is counted.
So the first part of our initiative is tightening up the integrity of who's registered to vote.
Are they a citizen?
And are they actually the person that they say they are when they're casting a mail-in ballot?
The second part, obviously, is the voter ID requirements.
All of these things are best practices.
And when our opponents showed up at our press conference last week, when we turned in our signatures, they showed up with signs that read, voter ID equals racism.
And I said, well, you better tell that to the black and Latino voters because they support voter ID by wide margins, a super majority.
So that dog don't hunt.
The other one was voter ID equals voter suppression.
And on that one, the most important thing to point to is that in states that have enacted voter ID, participation has actually gone up, including amongst minority voters.
If you take a look at Georgia and some of the other states that moved to more robust election integrity requirements, voter participation increased in the election right after those reforms were enacted, including amongst minorities.
And then finally, here in California, in the focus groups, we heard time and time again from women who said, you know, when I registered, it was before I was married.
I don't know what my signature looks like because we have this inadequate, loosey-goosey system of signature verification on mail-in ballots.
We did an audit in 2022 showing that the counties actually do not do signature verification properly or consistently.
But a lot of voters feel as though they can't vote because they don't remember how their signature was 20 years ago, 15 years ago when they first registered, or they've since married.
So the argument that the Democrats are making about married women actually is the opposite.
We are the anecdote.
We actually fixed the problem of low confidence and concerns about signature matches by doing away with that requirement.
Now you don't need to match your signature.
You don't remember whether it was your maiden name or something else.
It's simply the four digit code, last four digits of a government document that you can select.
You can change it at any time.
It's super simple.
So it's the Democrats that are practicing voter suppression and reducing the confidence in our elections.
And we're going to make that case in this campaign.
And for the life of me, I cannot understand why U.S. senators can't be making this case right now on the U.S. Senate floor.
It's as though they don't even want to win the argument on citizenship verification and voter ID.
They're letting the Democrats literally run roughshod on the messaging war on the SAVE Act.
And we have senators on every single show and we just keep badgering them that you're losing the information war here on the easiest issue to win the information war on, because so many people say they're like 77, you owe it to 77 million Trump voters, bro.
This is something that is supported by like 300 million Americans.
Yeah, forget Trump voters like you're looking at numbers here.
In the 85 percentile of all Americans, you're talking hundreds of millions of people support voter id.
Uh, and you know, including the races that you know, including the demographic breakdowns that you talked about, that cut across all sections of society.
You know, when I talk to Democrats who are a little unsure, I say, look, are you sick and tired of the conspiracy theories?
You want to shut up your Republican neighbor?
Well then, give them what they want voter id and then the light goes off and they're like, you know, that's, that's a pretty good, pretty good argument.
So there's almost no one that we will lose in this debate.
Yeah, there's fringe of 20.
That will never, you know, support this.
I don't even think they they they uh support, uh the American Flag.
Uh, don't worry about the 20 fringe.
Focus on the 70 to 80 percent bipartisan consensus.
This should not be hard.
And again I look at the U.s senators and I just want to smack them.
This is dereliction of duty.
This is, you know, and many.
This shows how corrupt and broken our political system is.
When you can't even give the American people an 80 bipartisan consensus, it shows that our system is fundamentally corrupt and dysfunctional and that we need we need to intervene with these elected officials, even many within our own party.
I mean part of what i'm trying to do, and this is a.
I have to hold the Republican Party OF California accountable for its ineptitude and its uh lack of uh courage, lack of principles.
They've sold us out.
For 20 years they haven't organized a fight.
Let me just say this right now, on your on your show, the party chair, Corinne Rankin.
Not only is she inept and incompetent uh, but she actually undermined our voter id initiative.
They didn't lift a finger.
The California Republican Party did not lift a finger to help us with voter id.
This was done despite their efforts to undermine our process.
This was a grassroots rebellion.
And so when people say, well, why is California so blue?
California is so blue because Democrats are working it and hustling and the Republicans have literally sold us out.
And so I do believe we will become more purple as you've just predicted with voter ID, but it's not just because we're enacting voter ID.
It's because we're showing people that there is the ability to fight.
We're giving hope to the hopeless out there.
I'm meeting so many people who say, I don't want to flee California.
I love California, but I hate our government.
And I don't want to move to another state, but I feel like it's hopeless.
Well, guess what?
When people see others fighting, not only does it give them hope, but they will join that fight.
They will get off the couch.
They'll get into the street and they'll be part of it.
And so that's what's going to make California purple.
And I predict red again, is the fact that we actually have a fight and we're giving people hope and giving them something that they can be part of.
So I do think Gavin Newsom is going to try to lie and cheat and deceive and break the law on this.
He's going to ignore the law, particularly as he's running for president.
And I warn people across the country, do not underestimate him.
Oh, he's a lousy governor.
He's failed his way upward with the help of billionaires.
But the one thing he is very good at is he's a very capable liar.
I mean, this guy would sell his mother for a nickel.
And he's so good at looking into a camera and just lying in such a convincing way and having this umbrage of like, oh, how dare you challenge my position on this?
We have a Gavin Newsom soundbite, actually, that we play constantly from his hilarious black podcast interview where Gavin Newsom, who grew up in a multi-million dollar mansion and inherited multi-million dollar properties, owns a vineyard, and has rich father.
And this is what we headed out to California to do.
This is what Nick Shirley is doing right now.
We're going to like take the fight where the fight belongs, which is the state of California.
That's why we're so thankful for Cola DeMayo and your work and your constant effort here.
Obviously, you're so right about bravery and having people that continue the fight and that that is contagious.
It is critical to follow Carl DeMayo.
He has nearly 100,000 subscribers right now here on X.
And then we have just this little piece of data from Stephen Miller that I love because it does show that 60% of California voted to strip all taxpayer funding of criminal aliens.
Just as long as you're not in LA, I don't think I'm invited back there.
But yes, let's go.
It'd be a blast.
I would love that.
Thank you, Carl.
Godspeed.
Abysmal Oscar CB ratings reveal.
After Snorefest Awards ceremony, the Oscars had an absolute wholesale collapse.
A 67% collapse in viewership from 10 years ago, down 9% from last year.
This, of course, shows kind of like a really nice hookend to how worthless California is, how worthless the propaganda economy of California has become, how they're literally hanging on to the vapors with every single passing billionaire or trillion-dollar company that leaves California.
The capacity for them to project power diminishes.
The capacity for Hollywood to project power has all but been ground to powder.
The Oscars will now be on a live stream on YouTube.
Hey, no hate, but like, we're new here.
All right.
You're the Oscars.
You've been around for 100 years.
This is the 98th Oscar.
And the reason we care about it is because it is actually a signal of the waning power of the system.
The deep state and those who wish to control us.
And that's a very, very good thing.
And it's something that, you know, Elon Musk this morning had a great tweet.
Like, it actually is actually something that's kind of funny.
There was a roast about Kid Rock having an alternate Oscars down the street.
Like, you can go to the Kid Rock, Dave, and Buster Oscars down the street.
Well, the Kid Rock halftime show did more views.
Winning an Oscar has become an embarrassment, says Elon Musk.
The Kid Rock Halftime Show did more views, reached more households than the Oscars.
In fact, depending on what number metric you use, the Kid Rock Halftime Show did twice as many or three times as many views or reached as many households than the Oscars did.
Well, the argument for statehood for Venezuela, and not that I'm here making it, okay.
I'm just giving you the broad strokes.
The argument for statehood in Venezuela goes like this.
Venezuela controls the single largest oil reserves in the world, the largest known reserves in the world.
They also have something like $8 trillion worth of minerals in Venezuela.
Like, since these are the kind of like this is the kind of hardcore mineral deposits that you need to build batteries, that you need to build vehicles and infrastructure.
And Venezuela has a ton of it.
It's buried up in the mountains.
You need to develop it.
So what could happen if Venezuela became like a Guam, you know, or like a, like an American, like an American territory or something, and you get mineral rights.
Kind of like the same thing that Trump's trying to do with Greenland.
I mean, Trump's been trying to do that with Greenland.
So is he going to like move that direction with Venezuela?
Venezuela defeated Italy tonight, 4-2 in the semifinals.
Trump said in a different post, they're really looking good.
Good things are happening in Venezuela lately.
I wonder if what the magic is all about.
Statehood, anyone?
He's just trolling at this point.
Whatever.
You know, I guess we'll see.
I guess we'll see.
Will the U.S. invade Cuba in 2026?
Let's go ahead and check in.
26% chance, skyrocketing, in fact.
Way up.
Way up.
26% chance that the U.S. will, in fact, invade Cuba.
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That's when I can get behind.
I will always admit to you my biases.
I will always tell you where I'm coming from here.
I will always tell you what I don't care about.
Top line is for my American children to be able to live the American dream and for your American children to be able to grow up in a safe and clean, prosperous, and functional country where the potholes are fixed, the bridges are strong, where the buildings are being built, and people have access to housing, the middle class.
People have access to a life in their church, a future.
That's all I care about.
And partly, you know, sometimes you actually have to pair that vision with getting rid of your enemies that live directly off your border.
This is the problem with the Iran excursions, is that Iran isn't particularly close to America, but Venezuela was, and they hated us.
And so is Cuba.
Cuba is just one of those places that if like if it had the right guidance, could be one of the most prosperous nations on earth.
And it's 90 miles from where we're doing our broadcast right now.
I live in a neighborhood packed with Cubans.
The regime is in wholesale and total collapse.
I think this is night two or three of complete blackout.
They have zero electricity.
They're having to now cook with like firewood to make bread.
And while that sounds like fun and wholesome, like it's actually terrible if you're trying to sell bread.
You don't have any electricity.
So it's in wholesale collapse.
I think that the regime will collapse without Trump even firing a bullet.
But I would want that, like big time.
I would want that.
That's something we've been waiting to happen for a long time.
Marco Rubio, Cuban descent, is somebody who is, I think, on it.
Might be growing out of beard, getting his cigar chomping ready, getting his little green fatigues ready.