Oct. 18, 2024 - Bannon's War Room
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| This is the primal scream of a dying regime. | ||
| Pray for our enemies, because we're going medieval on these people. | ||
| I got a free shot of all these networks lying about the people. | ||
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The people have had a belly full of it. | |
| I know you don't like hearing that. | ||
| I know you try to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it. | ||
| It's going to happen. | ||
| And where do people like that go to share the big line? | ||
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MAGA Media. | |
| I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience. | ||
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Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose? | |
| If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved. | ||
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War Room. | |
| Here's your host, Stephen K. Vance. | ||
| You think that some of the litigating they're doing is not to win. | ||
| Some of the litigating they're doing is to lose on purpose as a kind of narrative building exercise for post-election either PR or legal challenges where they can say that we lost because there was some set of phantom illegal voters or whatever that the judges made us keep on the rolls? | ||
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Absolutely. | |
| Look, Donald Trump thrives off of grievance, right? | ||
| He thrives off of feeling cheated. | ||
| And so he is getting what he wants from his political party, which is an excuse structure before he loses to explain why he lost. | ||
| And so Republicans are bringing these lawsuits and, you know, as of today, there have been 180 lawsuits filed this year, which is a record by a lot. | ||
| 111 of them were filed by Republicans and their allies to try to make voting harder. | ||
| And they are losing the overwhelming majority of these cases. | ||
| Part of it is because they don't have meritorious claims. | ||
| But part of it, like I said, I think is actually them pleasing the boss in filing these lawsuits and then being able to say, look, this is why we lost the election because, you know, the judges followed the law. | ||
| And then on the other side, look, Mark Cuban is out there fighting this battle for younger men. | ||
| You know, Elon Musk and this kind of bro podcast universe, you've seen the numbers. | ||
| Trump is doing better among younger men of all races. | ||
| And I And I think Cuban is out there as somebody that can be a voice to push back. | ||
| It's like, you know, I'm not, you know, I'm a guy's guy. | ||
| I own a basketball team. | ||
| I made money. | ||
| I cuss, you know, and I'm happy to just give you the real truth about this. | ||
| Like, these guys are BS-ing you, and I'm telling you the truth about who Kamala Harris is, what her agenda is, why it's better for you, why don't you have to be scared of it. | ||
| And I just think that's a very important role, and I'm grateful that he's out there doing it. | ||
| If Donald Trump does win, there won't be a Democrats go back and figure out how to get more voters and figure out how to change your positions. | ||
| There will be camps. | ||
| There will be Project 2025. | ||
| There could be arrests of people like Adam Schiff. | ||
| There could be Nancy Pelosi being hauled off to jail. | ||
| And if you don't think that that's possible, then you really don't understand that there is no American exceptionalism. | ||
| We're just a country like every other country. | ||
| My father lived under Mobutu Sese Seko. | ||
| If you ran against Mobutu Sese Seko's party, you went to jail. | ||
| That happened in my father's lifetime. | ||
| Maduro is putting people in jail if on your WhatsApp they find that you're saying things against Maduro. | ||
| That's happening right now in our neighboring country that wants to invade my mother's country, Guyana, because they have oil. | ||
| These are happening in our neighborhood. | ||
| Our democracy is much more like a Latin American democracy than it is like England. | ||
| Or Germany, or any part of Europe, we are a Latin American country, so everything you see happen in Brazil, Venezuela, it all can happen here. | ||
| So there isn't gonna be an opportunity for Vice President Harris to be the bigger party, because we will be fighting for our survival as a democracy, and some people will be fighting for their actual survival. | ||
| So I think the question misses the point, because if Kamala Harris doesn't win, it's not clear there will be another election. | ||
| So that's the stakes, unfortunately. | ||
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As we all talk to a lot of people who vote for Trump, and I say to them, and I still can't figure out, do they not believe it or do they not care? | |
| Do they not understand that our freedom is on the line? | ||
| Do they not get that or do they just not care? | ||
| Do they take freedom for granted at this point? | ||
| You know, when you hear Mark Milley, a man who has served this country, a great man, Joint Chief of Staff, Chairman of the Joint Chief of Staff, literally say, who's been in the room with him and say, he is a fascist to the core. | ||
| He is a danger to America. | ||
| Do they think he's making that up? | ||
| Do they just so care about their 3% tax cut? | ||
| What is it? | ||
| And I challenge people, and I say, you do understand that he will turn on this country, and he will turn us into Hungary. | ||
| Do you not understand the freedoms that started as you brought it up? | ||
| It started with Roe v. | ||
| Wade. | ||
| It will continue. | ||
| It will continue by putting his enemies in jail. | ||
| It will continue on having unfree media. | ||
| Are there people around this table that are really worried? | ||
| Rev. | ||
| Are you worried going forward that you're on a list if Donald Trump is elected? | ||
| Yes or no? | ||
| I'm convinced I'll be on the list. | ||
| I am too. | ||
| I don't know how we're not going to be. | ||
| And think about that. | ||
| This is America. | ||
| This is the United States of America. | ||
| And people in the media, like the Rev, have to be concerned that they may be on a list. | ||
| I have people saying to me, Donnie, are you worried? | ||
| This is America. | ||
| And yet people will still give permission to vote for Donald Trump. | ||
| What's wrong with us? | ||
| Friday, October 18th in the year of our Lord, 2024. | ||
| You're in the war room. | ||
| My name is Brian Kennedy, sitting in for the great Stephen K. Bannon, who is a political prisoner of the Biden-Harris regime. | ||
| You know, I hadn't thought of Donnie Deutsch and the Reverend Al Sharpton to make the list. | ||
| I'll make sure that Cameron and Natalie Winters get their names on the list. | ||
| They weren't on the list before this, let me tell you. | ||
| But now if they like to be on the list, they need to be on the list. | ||
| These cold opens that are done so brilliantly by the producer, Cameron Wallace, really do, I know they drive a lot of the war room posse crazy. | ||
| But they really do show the projection that the American left puts on the conservative movement or the MAGA movement or President Trump's. | ||
| And they really do drive... | ||
| They really do expose, I think, in a profound way, the problems with the election. | ||
| This is how they think. | ||
| And I guarantee you that if they have the power to impose any of those kind of things on the American people the way they actually have been... | ||
| For the last four years, they're going to do it. | ||
| And when Joanne Reid says this could be the last election, she means that, but she means that when Kamala Harris wins, if Kamala Harris wins. | ||
| Now, I am one of those people who've been on the War Room for some time. | ||
| I'm the chairman of the Committee on the Present Danger China, and I've been the president of the Claremont Institute. | ||
| But let me just say, I'm also a huge War Room fan myself. | ||
| And I get to go all over the country, and I get to meet a lot of the members of the War Room posse. | ||
| And I can say invariably, these are the nicest, most upbeat people who believe in the future of the country. | ||
| We're living in the weirdest possible time in the history of the country where the media is gaslighting people 24-7 about a variety of things. | ||
| And the war room has been, during all this last four years, a rock in a very turbulent sea. | ||
| And it's been the rallying point for the MAGA movement. | ||
| When people think about America first, they think about the war room and all the things that are being done every day on this show to articulate the crisis we're in today and how we get out of this crisis. | ||
| And so let me tell you how proud I am to be on the show today. | ||
| We have a great show with a lot of great guests. | ||
| We wanted to start, as Steve Bannon often does, with the economy. | ||
| So we turned to one of our longtime contributors, Jason Trenert, CEO of Strategist, who understands the economy, in my judgment, as well as anyone out there. | ||
| I read his things. | ||
| He is fresh off the Al Smith dinner last night in New York. | ||
| I want to hear something about what he thought of that. | ||
| But also really turn to the economy and drill down a bit on where we are today. | ||
| Jason, thank you for being with us. | ||
| Well, thank you. | ||
| Thank you for having me. | ||
| And I will agree with you. | ||
| That cold open, that's like Guantanamo Bay for me. | ||
| That's torture, absolute torture. | ||
| But it does frame the issues, I think, very well for your viewers. | ||
| So I'm happy to be here. | ||
| Well, thank you. | ||
| How was that Al Smith dinner last night? | ||
| Oh, it was a lot of fun, you know, and for those of you who aren't familiar with it, Al Smith was the first Catholic to run for president in 1928. | ||
| He lost for a variety of reasons, but there was clearly some anti-Catholic bias at the time. | ||
| But he's been named the kind of the happy warrior. | ||
| He was the first person to have that moniker, and he was very much Very much a defender of the poor. | ||
| And so, since then, they've had this every year, and every four years, both candidates for president, this is the 79th year, but both candidates for president come and, you know, kind of roast each other, but it's very good-natured, it's for a very good cause. | ||
| Unfortunately, Kamala Harris didn't attend, and in my opinion, gave him an extremely Cringeworthy prepared video presentation. | ||
| But it was, I think, to its reputation, it was an evening of goodwill. | ||
| And I think President Trump acquitted himself very, very well. | ||
| He was very funny without, I think, being overly harsh because, you know, it's a kind of bipartisan crowd. | ||
| And a good time was had by all. | ||
| So it was, I think, a good, it was, I think it was a big mistake for Kamala Harris not to go. | ||
| And I think it was a very good night for President Trump. | ||
| Yeah, no, I thought so too. | ||
| Well, one of the things that I wanted to ask you about, Jason, was when you look at the country today, whereas people may not in the polls want to talk about, you know, Trump or Harris, there are these polls that talk about the country being on the right track or the wrong track. | ||
| Today, I think only 27% of the American people believe the country's on the right track. | ||
| How much of that do you think really is due to the economy? | ||
| I have to say, I think a big part of it is due to the economy. | ||
| But I'd also say, and this isn't necessarily my expertise, but I do think there are some things happening in the country socially, particularly the impact of social media on children and some of the things that people are being subjected to that put people very much ill at ease, and I think for good reasons. | ||
| But I do think particularly For people that are not to the manner born, for people that may be in the lower half of the income distribution, probably the biggest part of their unease has to do with the economic situation and has to do with inflation that we've seen over the past three and a half years. | ||
| Yeah, you call it a, I think you term it a common man index, don't you? | ||
| In how you try to examine these things. | ||
| How has it been for the common man in this country? | ||
| Yeah, so earlier this year, you know, and of course when you deal with PhD economists, they kind of twist themselves into pretzels to kind of tell you that what you're seeing with your own eyes isn't actually true. | ||
| So earlier this year, they came up with something called Supercore Index. | ||
| Inflation, which excluded food, energy, and shelter. | ||
| And, you know, I don't know about you, but to me, those things are pretty core for living my daily life, you know, eating, staying warm, and having protection from the elements. | ||
| So we went the other way, and we created this index that just includes things you have to buy. | ||
| So it just includes food, just includes energy, shelter, insurance, utilities, Children's clothing. | ||
| And what you see there, if you look at that versus wages, is that during the Trump years, people's standard of living actually improved. | ||
| Their wages exceeded that measure of CPI. If you look at it in the last three and a half years their wages have greatly undershot the inflation in those essential goods. | ||
| And so that's why people are feeling pretty crummy despite the fact that on the surface you know stock markets making new all-time highs so if I guess if you're wealthy and you have assets, you feel pretty good. | ||
| But for those of us, or for those people that are just trying to make it from one day to the next, which is an awful lot of people, sadly, in this country, your life has gotten meaningfully harder in the past three and a half years. | ||
| Yeah, no, I think that's absolutely right. | ||
| What do you make, Jason, of one of President Trump's main economic initiatives that he's been talking about? | ||
| I'm assuming right now, by the way, you know, the polls may have this close. | ||
| I believe President Trump's going to win. | ||
| And he's going to win because Americans do think the country is on the wrong track. | ||
| One of his ideas has been to create super cities around the country. | ||
| I think he calls them freedom cities. | ||
| But find 10 new places around the country on federal land and build great cities. | ||
| It struck me when I heard about it that it would employ an awful lot of Americans using their hands again building houses, building factories, building stores, building the kind of things that America experienced, building the kind of things that America experienced, let's just say, after World War II. | ||
| When we come back from break, can we talk about that together? | ||
| Yes, sir. | ||
| Sure. | ||
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Here's your host, Stephen K. Vance. | |
| We're back. | ||
| We're back today with Jason Trenert, CEO of Strategis, and we're discussing the economy. | ||
| We heard a bit about the Al Smith dinner last night. | ||
| But before we went to break, I asked Jason about President Trump's ideas of building these new freedom cities around the country. | ||
| Personally, I think it would lead to a lot of the kind of employment and economic growth the country really needs. | ||
| But I'm not an economist. | ||
| Jason, this is his field of expertise. | ||
| Jason, what do you think of that idea? | ||
| Huge fan of central planning. | ||
| I believe very much in free markets. | ||
| By the same token, I think our cities across the country right now present big hurdles for capital formation and forward progress because the bureaucratic state is so large. | ||
| So it is a very intriguing idea to kind of start from scratch on federal land where you create cities in many ways in the way cities were originally created here in the new world in the 13 colonies without tons of government interference in which you can dream big And provide the productivity and the growth that will help us get out of the fiscal situation that we're in. | ||
| So in that regard, I'm very intrigued by it. | ||
| I like the idea of having contests, as President Trump has talked about, to come up with Innovative new ideas in which to build these cities. | ||
| And so, you know, listen, I think it's a great idea. | ||
| And I think, you know, we'll see how practical it is. | ||
| But certainly, that's the type of thinking you want. | ||
| You don't want to manage the decline of a great society. | ||
| You want to take giant leaps forward. | ||
| In terms of innovation. | ||
| And that's what that kind of idea from President Trump, in my opinion, would do. | ||
| It would allow people to dream bigger than what they see today. | ||
| And as someone, I live and work in Manhattan. | ||
| I've lived here for 34 years. | ||
| You know, I love this town, but they're not making it easy to stay here. | ||
| I can tell you that. | ||
| And so, if there were another alternative, I might be very interested. | ||
| Yeah, no, I think that that's very sensible. | ||
| Thomas Jefferson, at the time of the founding, worried that Americans would get huddled into cities and it would change the Republican character of the American people. | ||
| He thought that this was a big country. | ||
| It is a big country. | ||
| That Americans needed to spread out. | ||
| Of course, he was living in Virginia on a large piece of property and didn't really like the idea of living in cities. | ||
| But I think when President Trump is talking about this, he really does have the view that we ought to spread out. | ||
| And we have a huge potential. | ||
| Americans today, I think, live on like 6% of the land mass of the United States. | ||
| And so why not spread out? | ||
| But just the economic development, not everybody in this country... | ||
| Can be a computer programmer or a financial expert like yourself. | ||
| And so a lot of Americans are going to need to work with their hands, and this would be one way of getting there. | ||
| So it is encouraging in that regard. | ||
| I agree and I think not everyone wants to do that. | ||
| As Milton Friedman said, you're free to choose. | ||
| I don't like this idea that you essentially have to go on Wall Street or management consulting or something to make a decent living. | ||
| I think that's crazy. | ||
| It's anti-American. | ||
| I don't even think it's particularly helpful. | ||
| I'd also say that there is, in terms of cities, there is a problem in terms of the concentration of power, particularly government power. | ||
| As you may know, nine of the 20 wealthiest counties in this country are in and around Washington, D.C., And you say, well, why is that? | ||
| And you say, well, it's because lobbying the government has become an industry in and of itself. | ||
| The government is the industry in DC, and DC is the only city in the country I know of that seems to be recession-proof. | ||
| That isn't good. | ||
| It's not good to have that much power in one town. | ||
| It disconnects an increasingly overeducated elite to think in the same way and to lose contact with regular people. | ||
| So I wouldn't mind seeing some of the government spread out as well, if you will, the federal government. | ||
| As opposed to being all in one town, maybe it might not be a bad idea to spread out some of these agencies to places that are a little closer to real people. | ||
| Yeah, no, I think that's absolutely right. | ||
| Getting the Department of Education somewhere located in Texas, I think, would be a good idea. | ||
| Agreed. | ||
| I think I'd be for eliminating the Department of Education, but taking one of these agencies anyway and moving it outside of D.C. would be a very healthy thing. | ||
| Jason, thank you for being with us. | ||
| How do folks stay in contact with you? | ||
| What's the website and what's... | ||
| Yeah, so the website is www.strategusrp.com. | ||
| And then I'm on Twitter at Jason Trenert underscore. | ||
| And it's a blue checkmark. | ||
| There's some fake accounts out there. | ||
| But the one with the blue checkmark is mine. | ||
| And I'm easy to get a hold of. | ||
| I ain't hard to find, as they say. | ||
| Well, thank you for being with us. | ||
| I know Steve Bannon is a huge fan of your work, and I am as well. | ||
| So thank you for being with us, and we look forward to having you back on the show soon. | ||
| Thank you, sir. | ||
| So, next up, thank you. | ||
| So, next up, we have Joe Kent. | ||
| Joe is very familiar to this show. | ||
| Let me disclose in advance, I'm a supporter of Joe Kent's, that when I've heard him on the show make his appeals, I've thought, this is a man worth supporting, that the kind of arguments he is making to the American people are... | ||
| Absolutely necessary. | ||
| Retired Special Forces member. | ||
| The kind of congressional candidate that America really needs. | ||
| Joe, you're running in the 3rd District in Washington. | ||
| First of all, let's hear how the race is going, but then let's shift quickly into what you're going to do when you get to Washington. | ||
| Yeah, so thanks for having me. | ||
| Great to be with you. | ||
| The race is going really well. | ||
| We've got, I think, 17 days now. | ||
| Ballots are actually hitting most of our counties in the next 24 hours. | ||
| We've already got voting underway in one of our rural counties, so the ballot chasing has begun. | ||
| Unfortunately, Washington is all mail out, but we're going to do exactly what the Democrats do this time. | ||
| We're going to get out there and actually harvest ballots, so that's underway right now. | ||
| So if you're in the district, watch your mailbox. | ||
| You'll have a ballot soon. | ||
| Please vote as early as possible. | ||
| But the race is going well. | ||
| We also just wrapped up our last televised debate last night. | ||
| It was prerecorded. | ||
| It should be out today as well. | ||
| My Democrat opponent simply cannot defend her actual voting record. | ||
| As your previous guest and you were just discussing, the economy has most Americans really just fighting to fill a tank of gas or be able to buy groceries. | ||
| And so regardless of what's been Kamala Harris or so-called economic experts try to put on the state of the economy, people are really hurting. | ||
| And they understand that those who are in charge right now have gotten us into this position. | ||
| And I'd say it's the same thing with the wide open southern border. | ||
| We have a fentanyl epidemic in our district. | ||
| And so really just being able to highlight how radical my opponent has been, has been a great opportunity for me. | ||
| So I've enjoyed the four debates that we've had. | ||
| I don't think my opponent would say the same, but the Democrats are very serious. | ||
| They're pumping a lot of money into the district. | ||
| This is the number one seat for us to flip in the House of Representatives. | ||
| This is a district that Trump has won twice before. | ||
| My opponent only won by less than percentage point last time. | ||
| So this is going to come down to the wire, but we are absolutely committed to get every single MAGA Republican to vote straight ticket Republican and to get those ballots across the finish line. | ||
| Yeah, I think that's very important, Joe. | ||
| Now, look, I'm already assuming this is going to be a wave election. | ||
| President Trump's going to win, and Joe Kent's going to be a congressman. | ||
| When you get there on day one, can you tell me what are the top three priorities for you? | ||
| Because I'm assuming Joe Kent is going to be a congressman. | ||
| Well thank you very much yeah. | ||
| So number one we have to get this spending under control. | ||
| I mean that the out of control inflation is being driven by Washington DC spending so that hurts every single American pretty much every day especially those in the working class and the middle class. | ||
| But also, I feel that our debt crisis is one of the most existential crises that our country has. | ||
| And it's deeply intertwined with everything that's taking place on the world stage. | ||
| But if we don't get the spending under control, I fear that we don't have much more time. | ||
| 37 trillion in debt, adding 1 trillion every 100 days, simply isn't sustainable. | ||
| So I think the most impactful vote that I'm going to have It's gonna be even before I'm sworn into Congress as we decide what the rules of the next House of Representatives are going to be and who we decide who our leadership is going to be. | ||
| I am determined that we are going to put a cap on spending, that we're only gonna do individual appropriations bills. | ||
| We're gonna get out of this habit of Omnibus. | ||
| And continuing resolutions. | ||
| And then we've got to be absolutely committed to supporting President Trump's efforts to securing our border. | ||
| I know that President Trump is capable of doing this. | ||
| We just need to be able to come in and back it up with actual legislation that secures the border, stops the fentanyl, stops the invasion of illegals coming into our country, supports President Trump's efforts to conduct mass deportations. | ||
| And then, look, I want to prevent us from getting in any more of these endless wars. | ||
| I want to get our troops out of the Middle East, and I want to support President Trump's efforts to bring about peace to this conflict in Ukraine before that spirals out of control into World War III. Well, it's that kind of common sense that I think the War Room Posse so appreciates about you. | ||
| Joe, where do people go to learn more about the campaign, and what are your social media coordinates? | ||
| Yeah, please go to joekentforcongress.com. | ||
| Anything people can contribute, it's gonna help us get across the finish line. | ||
| But if you can't contribute because Joe Biden's taking all your money, we have a postcard program right now where you, for the cost of a couple of stamps, you can help us send postcards to low-propensity Trump voters in our district. | ||
| So joekentforcongress.com. | ||
| Has all of that. | ||
| I'm on X. I'm on Truth. | ||
| I'm on Gitter. | ||
| JoeKent16JN19. | ||
| But there's links to it on my website, JoeKentForCongress.com. | ||
| Great. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
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Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon. . | |
| It's Brian Kennedy sitting in for the great Stephen K. Bannon, political prisoner of the Biden-Harris regime. | ||
| One of the things we wanted to do on today's show was to hear from those people around the country who are leading the movement to ensure that President Trump is returned to office. | ||
| One of those key people is Brian Schimming. | ||
| He's chair of the Wisconsin GOP. He's been out with Elise Stefanik and he is with us here today and really looking forward to what he has to say. | ||
| Brian, how was that event with Elise Stefanik? | ||
| Actually, we're about to do it here in a couple of minutes. | ||
| We're touring a choice school here in the Milwaukee area, and then we'll be having a rally later up in Ozaukee County, which is a Republican area here in Wisconsin. | ||
| So we had a Trump Unity rally last night with Ambassador Grinnell and Kim Guilfoyle and Alina Haba and other folks, which went really well. | ||
| But we're into it, Steve. | ||
| We have J.D. Vance will be up doing a tailgate before the Green Bay Packers game on Sunday. | ||
| The president will be back in the state soon. | ||
| As I have said before, Wisconsin is the state where we've had 12 races in the last 24 years that have been decided by 30,000 votes or less. | ||
| So Wisconsin is very definitely a swing state. | ||
| No, it absolutely is. | ||
| I was there three weeks ago myself. | ||
| I felt a lot of great energy from the people in Milwaukee. | ||
| They're serious folks there. | ||
| I think they see the magnitude of what is going on in that state. | ||
| One of the things people worry about in Wisconsin, I was meeting with Judge Gabelman at the time, was the potential for voter fraud there. | ||
| Could you touch briefly on what you're doing in Wisconsin to stop that voter fraud? | ||
| Because a lot of our folks are worried about that and we want to give them some confidence that we're actually going to be able to outvote the steal. | ||
| Could you say something about that? | ||
| Yeah, that's an issue for us, too. | ||
| We built the biggest election integrity operation of any party in the country here in Wisconsin. | ||
| We've got 10 full-time staffers just on that issue. | ||
| Last year, by statute in Wisconsin, you have to... | ||
| You have to recruit your poll workers by November of the year beforehand. | ||
| And so we recruited almost 6,000 poll workers by November of last year. | ||
| And so we're moving those into positions of local clerk's offices around the state. | ||
| And frankly, and my attitude on this, because I agree this is an issue, it's certainly a big issue for me, but my attitude on this issue, I've said to The clerks is threefold. | ||
| Number one, we want to work with you. | ||
| Number two, if we feel as though you're doing something wrong or not following statute or local ordinance, we'll point that out. | ||
| If those two things don't seem to work, we'll sue you. | ||
| And so that's been my attitude from the get-go. | ||
| We have good relationships with a lot of clerks. | ||
| So there's different angles on it. | ||
| There's the local clerks, including issues that have come up already. | ||
| We had a situation in Racine County, just south of Milwaukee, where the clerk would not use the same number of Republican poll workers. | ||
| As Democrat poll workers, so we filed suit with the Republican National Committee. | ||
| So we're not waiting until the last three or four days. | ||
| There's no election day anymore. | ||
| It's an election season. | ||
| And my attitude has always been, as the national chairman has said, Look, we are going to, we want to be in the room when people are voting and when the vote is counted. | ||
| And that has no exceptions to me. | ||
| But there are a number of issues in the sphere of, obviously, of election integrity. | ||
| But we have tenfold increased our effort in just the last 18 months. | ||
| Well, that's great to hear. | ||
| I know a lot of the War Room Posse will be glad to hear that. | ||
| There's also the so-called UACAVA votes, the votes where people from outside the country can vote. | ||
| And one of the things I was noticing about Wisconsin was that it seems that the laws regarding people from outside the country voting are among the most lax. | ||
| I think they can get ballots almost to the very end and they don't need to prove citizenship. | ||
| Have you been suing on that one as well? | ||
| I know in other states they have been. | ||
| Yeah, in some states. | ||
| One of the challenges here in Wisconsin, it's a frustrating one, is, well, there's two of them actually. | ||
| There's no partisan registration in Wisconsin. | ||
| You don't register as a Republican or Democrat or Independent. | ||
| Secondly, you basically can vote by absentee up through Election Day. | ||
| I mean, Wisconsin is the most decentralized voting operation in the country. | ||
| We have 1,851 clerks across the state, and there is no Secretary of State's office. | ||
| There's a Wisconsin Elections Commission, which is a whole show by itself. | ||
| But there's a Wisconsin Elections Commission, and we work with them. | ||
| We can. | ||
| We take them on when we have to. | ||
| But there's any number of issues here, and that is certainly one of them. | ||
| And a lot of times on challenges to individual votes or even to voter lists in Wisconsin, you have to challenge them almost one by one. | ||
| It's not where you can just roll into the Elections Commission and challenge thousands of people at one time. | ||
| So it's frustrating, and that's why we committed very, very early to putting together a huge election integrity operation, which includes attorneys, which includes issues that we're looking forward on, And also, just to be candid, we're going to have hundreds of attorneys on Elections Day, | ||
| because unlike in the past where we just do, as most states do, an 800 number, where people could call in with concerns about what was going on in their local polling place, we're going to have them in the courthouses as well. | ||
| About two-thirds of the vote in Wisconsin is in a triangle between Green Bay, Madison, and Milwaukee, basically. | ||
| So there are dozens of potential issues out there, and we welcome the assistance of other groups to help identify issues, and frankly, individuals. | ||
| I say every time I speak in front of a group, look, if you see something, tell us. | ||
| That's great, Brian. | ||
| Thank you for your leadership in Wisconsin. | ||
| I think that's critical. | ||
| If we're able to win Wisconsin, if President Trump, let me just say, wins Wisconsin, I think it'll be largely due to your leadership. | ||
| How do people get a hold of you? | ||
| What's the website? | ||
| And where do people find you on social media? | ||
| Yeah, my website is WISGOP, W-I-S-G-O-P.org, WISGOP.org. | ||
| And I encourage people to follow me on Twitter at Brian Schimming, B-R-I-A-N-S-C-H-I-M-M-I-N-G. The picture is deceptive. | ||
| I don't look that good. | ||
| But follow me on Twitter at Brian Schimming. | ||
| And I'm going to be calling these issues out I was on the President's recount team four years ago here in Wisconsin. | ||
| We take these issues seriously, so the more we know, the more we can act on. | ||
| That's great, Brian. | ||
| Well, thank you for being with us, and say hello to Elise Stefanik from all of us today. | ||
| I will most certainly do that. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| So next up, we have someone who has been going all over the country. | ||
| She has more energy than anyone I know when it comes to political organizing. | ||
| And that's Jenny Beth Martin. | ||
| She's the co-founder of Tea Party Patriots. | ||
| She's been a longtime leader within the conservative and America First movement. | ||
| And I know she has two important efforts. | ||
| One is in her home state of Georgia. | ||
| I got to meet with her not long ago. | ||
| Jenny, thank you for being with us. | ||
| Can you update us on the key state of Georgia? | ||
| Yes. | ||
| Thank you so much for having me, Brian. | ||
| So in Georgia right now, what our super PAC, Tea Pretty Patriot Citizens Fund, is focused on is getting out the vote for Donald Trump. | ||
| Remember, in 2021, the official vote difference in Georgia was Was 11,779 votes. | ||
| So it was very close. | ||
| And I anticipate that, I think we have to prepare for this election to be just as close. | ||
| So we're trying to do everything we can to make that difference in votes too big to rig. | ||
| And part of what we're doing with that is going door to door. | ||
| And we are partnering with Turning Point Action and America First Action to go door to door in Georgia. | ||
| And our super PAC is actually paying people to walk. | ||
| So if you live in Georgia or are able to go to Georgia and want to apply for a job and actually get paid to go door knocking, you can go to knock4trump.com. | ||
| And Brian, we're going to those people who may not vote in every single general election, but they do vote and they don't vote in primary. | ||
| So that's what's called a low propensity voter, someone who votes, but not in every single election. | ||
| And who seem to be leaning towards the Republican side of the aisle and making sure they're planning to vote for Trump, giving them any other information they may need to decide to vote for him if they're still undecided, and then urging them to vote. | ||
| And we are chasing ballots, so if people have requested absentee ballots, we're making sure those absentee ballots Are getting turned back in, so we can be sure we can count those votes on Election Day as well. | ||
| It's very important work. | ||
| It's a little bit tedious to do. | ||
| Going door to door sometimes puts people out of their comfort zone, but it is extremely important to do. | ||
| Yeah, no, I think it is absolutely important to do, maybe the most important thing to do. | ||
| Jenny, we're heading into a break here, but I want to hold you over. | ||
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| How is it going when it comes to knocking on people's doors? | ||
| Because a lot of folks say that the MAGA base doesn't really like people knocking on their doors. | ||
| They're more private people. | ||
| Maybe like 10 seconds. | ||
| Yeah, we've had a very good experience, and people have appreciated us coming. | ||
| And some, of course, closed the door, but that's just the way it goes. | ||
| But it's a good experience. | ||
| People support Trump. | ||
| When we get back, we'll go through all of that. | ||
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| You're back in the war room. | ||
| Brian Kennedy with Jenny Beth Martin. | ||
| Jenny Beth is the co-founder of Tea Party Patriots, and she is working all over the country on making sure people get out to vote. | ||
| Elon Musk, when he was with the president a few weeks ago, talked about in his remarks, he said, I'm going to make an ask. | ||
| He said, you've got to call your friends. | ||
| You've got to text them. | ||
| You've got to go knock on their doors. | ||
| You've got to you've got to do everything you can to get people out to vote. | ||
| That's really where we are today in this country. | ||
| We're at the short strokes of this election. | ||
| And so we asked Jenny Beth to be with us today to let us know everything that she and her team are doing in that regard in the key state of Georgia. | ||
| So before we went to break, Jenny, I was asking you about knocking on doors and whether or not the America first voter, the usual Trump voter likes that. | ||
| Because I was getting reports going around the country that, you know, the average American doesn't like people knocking on their door. | ||
| We're living in dangerous times. | ||
| What kind of response are you guys getting? | ||
| Our response has been a little bit different than that. | ||
| You know, there's going to be some people who don't like their door being knocked on. | ||
| That is to be expected, and that just happens. | ||
| I think that where you see this resistance or people getting frustrated that there are people knocking on the door comes from communities where door knocking and door to door getting out the vote is not common and is just beginning to become more commonplace. | ||
| So let's say maybe like if you haven't been a swing state for a while and all of a sudden you are and you have all of the attention on you and you're not used to it, that is outside of people's comfort zone and they're not used to it. | ||
| Here in Georgia, Door-knocking in the county where our office is, Cherokee County, we've been door-knocking to get out the vote for nearly two decades now. | ||
| So people are definitely used to it, like right here. | ||
| And this is the heart of Trump country. | ||
| But also, when you move beyond thinking of that, we've had a special election for an We had a congressional seat that had all of the attention in the world on us, and people went door knocking for that. | ||
| We had the runoff between 2020 and 2021, and then we had the Senate race and the runoff resulting from the general election In 2022, where people were going door to door, people on both sides of the aisles knocking, going door to door. | ||
| So in Georgia, I think that we're kind of over that hurdle where you're not used to it and people are more accustomed to it. | ||
| We've run into people who support Trump, who maybe don't seem like they vote every single time. | ||
| And they're like, yes, we're voting. | ||
| We're voting for him. | ||
| Everyone in this house is voting for him. | ||
| So that's very positive and encouraging. | ||
| And then, you know, you always when you're going door to door, you're going to get people who either don't answer or some who'll just shut the door in your face. | ||
| That's fine. | ||
| That happens. | ||
| You can't take it personally. | ||
| You just have to go, OK, no worries and move on to the next one. | ||
| And remember that part of the reason they're upset, they love our country and we love our country. | ||
| As I pointed out on the show before, there are people who go to a rally by President Trump who are not registered to vote. | ||
| There are people who donate money to President Trump who are not registered to vote. | ||
| This is always kind of shocking to me and to most people because when I was a kid, you registered to vote and you went out and voted. | ||
| But there are substantial numbers of people in this country who don't trust the government. | ||
| They don't trust the process. | ||
| They don't think that it's going to be a fair election. | ||
| So there's a lot of work that has to get done between now and November 5th to persuade these people. | ||
| One of the things you're working on, too, I believe, is a more relational kind of strategy. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| So you just mentioned what Elon Musk said at that rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, when he was with President Trump. | ||
| He said that you need to contact your friends and family and make sure they're registered to vote and that they vote. | ||
| We have the technology to help you do that. | ||
| It is what the Democrats have been using since at least 2020. | ||
| You match up your friends and family in an app to the low-propensity voters. | ||
| And once you match them up, the return that you get is the people who you know personally, who are in your contact list, who don't vote all the time. | ||
| And then we have software to do that. | ||
| We're using the app Numenor. | ||
| Tell us right now, what does that look like? | ||
| Tell us, first of all, the name of the website so people can go to it, and can it be used all around the country? | ||
| Well, it can be used in swing states. | ||
| So if you're in a swing state, Arizona, Nevada, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Georgia, and North Carolina plus Montana, we've got it set up for that. | ||
| If you're not, we still have a way for you to reach some friends and family outside of that, but we're focused on the swing states. | ||
| Go to winelections.com, winelections.com to sign up. | ||
| And then we coach you through either through a downloadable PDF or a webinar or just a video on demand, depending on your choice, how to download the app from the App Store, how to set up your account, how to match your contacts, And then the things you need to say, because it's not just about sending a simple text message out to your friends and family. | ||
| You don't need an app to do that. | ||
| You can just open your contact list and start sending in messages. | ||
| What we are trying to do is help you figure out who doesn't vote all the time. | ||
| And then making sure that you know their plan to vote. | ||
| So if they plan to vote early, making sure then that they have the locations and the time so they can go vote early and they know where to do that. | ||
| Or if they're planning to vote on Election Day, urging them to go ahead and vote early if they've already decided. | ||
| If they're undecided, we have tools to help them help the user figure out the best way to talk to their friend. | ||
| If they're worried about immigration, you're going to say something different than if they're worried about the economy. | ||
| So we go through helping do that. | ||
| And it's not just using an app and you're off on your own. | ||
| We're supporting people throughout this entire process. | ||
| It really is relational. | ||
| It's talking to your friends and family, the relationships you already have, figuring out if they're voting for Trump. | ||
| And then if they are, making sure that they actually go cast that vote. | ||
| And you may come with only three people who match on your phone. | ||
| That's okay. | ||
| That means of all the other things you're doing, door knocking, phone banking, sending donations, whatever else you're doing, you also need to make sure that those three people vote for Trump and that you help and encourage them to go cast their ballot. | ||
| You may come back with 20, 50, 60, or 100 people who match, and then you would follow up with all of those people as well. | ||
| That's great, Jenny. | ||
| Where do people get a hold of you? | ||
| They can follow me on all the socials, JennyBethM, JennyBethM, and go to WinElections.com to sign up today. | ||
| Great. | ||
| Thank you very much, Jenny. | ||
| Great segment. |
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