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April 25, 2022 - Doug Collins Podcast
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Democrats Election Year Meltdown
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The greatest thing I have ever heard in my whole life.
I could not believe my ears.
In this house, wherever the rules are disregarded, chaos and mob rule.
It has been said today, where is bravery?
I'll tell you where bravery is found and courage is found.
It's found in this minority who has lived through the last year of nothing but rules being broken, people being put down, questions not being answered, and this majority say, be damned with anything else.
We're going to impeach and do whatever we want to do.
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Because we won an election.
I guarantee you, one day you'll be back in the minority and it ain't gonna be that fun.
Hey everybody, you know it's electioneer and we've been talking about a lot here on the podcast.
We have guests who come on and everybody talks about the you know the 2022 cycle and what's it gonna mean and how is it gonna to unpack people and how are we looking ahead you know to the presidential election of 2024. Can you believe it?
We're already looking at 2024 and 2022 haven't even really started yet.
We've had one major primary season that being in Texas.
This year so far, but we're getting ready to where this is really going to start hitting.
We're a little over six months out.
We're looking at the November elections.
There's a lot of things in play and I've had a lot of questions that have came in.
People have wanted to talk about the elections.
What does it mean?
What's the foundation?
So what we're going to do here on the podcast for probably the next couple of episodes, and I'm going to break down the 2022 election.
I'm going to talk about the factors that are playing into it, the reasons that I see problems in our election cycle right now, and I see the problems for the Democrats, I see the opportunities for Republicans, but I also see Republicans having some issues that they're going to have to deal with as well.
So what I wanted to do is we talk about the elections.
Let's talk about why this 2022 cycle is important.
I think there's some overreaching discussions that we need to have.
Number one is we're coming off of a 2020 cycle that frankly is still being litigated in many ways.
Now, not necessarily in reality, but in many ways it is being litigated because the problems that came out of November 2020 are coming to light more and more.
You're hearing it here on the podcast.
Maybe you've seen it already.
2,000 Mules by Dinesh D'Souza, one of our Salem faculty here who does a podcast, is a movie coming out in May.
Go to 2,000mules.com.
You can get your tickets for that.
But it's going to document, I mean, using open records, using cell phone tracking and others, the issue of ballot harvesting and ballots in Georgia and Wisconsin and places like that.
So this is not going away.
Now, as far as looking backwards and changing the elections, this is why you've had so many legislatures, especially like in Georgia and other places, take initiatives in their legislative sessions last year and this year to combat what we saw in 2020. Now that's going to heighten this.
So in many ways, for a lot of people who are very frustrated, especially Trump supporters who are very frustrated with what happened in 2020, this is going to refuel that anger.
It's going to refuel that conspiracy and disgust.
And it's going to make, you know, because this is real...
Facts that are happening, real things that you'll be able to see.
And it just goes to show that no matter what the mainstream media wanted to say about the last election, that there were a lot of questions about what happened and how it was taking place and a lot of things that were done under the cover, if you would, of the pandemic That, frankly, should not have been done under state law in many of these states, and they were done unilaterally under the, quote, emergency COVID protections that ended up causing the elections to have a lot of people have questions about.
So, as you start into the 2022 cycle, if you have some people who are still very frustrated about the outcomes of the 2020 cycle, and then the discussion of will they show up to vote.
Now, I'm going to touch this here because it happened in Georgia in particular, where we had to deal a great deal in Georgia in the two runoffs for the Senate elections with people, Republicans and conservatives in particular, didn't show back up.
They were very frustrated with what happened in November in Georgia.
They did not believe it was fair.
They did not believe in the integrity of the system.
So guess what?
They didn't show up.
Now, at the same point, by them not showing up, we have two United States senators who are Democrats from the state of Georgia.
I don't believe, especially probably the David Perdue seat in particular, where John Ossoff won, I believe that if the Republicans had showed back up in the same numbers that they had in November, that that election would have gave David Perdue continue that Senate seat.
The other race was the Leffler race with Warnock.
A little bit different story mainly because of the way we had to run the Senate race in that seat.
That was the seat to fill the vacancy of Johnny Isakson.
The governor had put that into a jungle primary which meant all of us including myself and others who ran for that seat had to run against Not only Republicans and Democrats, it meant that Warnock did not get a real vetting during that election, especially in the runoff.
So that one was a little bit different.
Warnock won that one a little bit more.
Still relatively close, but he won that more.
But one thing that many people don't know, and here's something for you listening on the podcast, Georgia in January of 2020 When that election on January 5th occurred, there were three on the ballot.
There were three races on the ballot.
Let me rephrase that.
There were three races on the ballot.
There were two Senate races and a Public Service Commissioner race, which is a utilities board here in the state of Georgia that governs all of our utilities and sets rates and things like that.
Here's what is interesting.
The two Senate campaigns, both won by Democrats.
A Republican got the most Republican votes in that side and won We're good to go.
Is this going to drive into the 2020 cycle?
2020 into 2022 cycle?
We're going to see.
That's one of the overarching themes, I think, from a Republican perspective, from a conservative vote perspective, and also those who are still frustrated.
Now look, this is why the election integrity issues that were taken up at the state legislatures mattered.
Reversing some, unfortunately adding to some of the Problems that we saw in the 2020 cycle, especially with drop boxes and verifications.
But I think these questions that were asked and are being investigated, and now, as I said earlier, are going to be even more so in this new movie from Dinesh D'Souza, is going to cause, I think, more people to say, look, we've got to participate in these elections.
We've got to be there.
And also it reinforces why the state legislatures, the liberal media, went crazy.
I mean, those were just not accurate depictions of what happened in the Georgia elections law bill, SB202, from last year.
In fact, if anything, it strengthened.
It added more days to the voting.
It made the drop boxes more secure, did not get rid of the drop boxes, which many people thought that they should have gotten rid of.
As you look at this, really the matter comes in is will people show up to vote, and especially from a conservative perspective and a Republican perspective.
This is what has sort of hung over these last 15 to 18 months now since the November 2020 elections.
As we look at that and you take off and you're starting to look at this, and for some of you who listen to the podcast, you're very politically in tuned, you know what's going on, you follow these races, but maybe for some of you who are listening for the first time, you're just getting started.
You're saying, okay, what is the background?
Why are we seeing this election cycle, frankly, start as early as it has and then continuing into November and how is it going to play out?
So let's look at this from a basic perspective.
This year you have a third of the Senate.
U.S. Senate is always up in cycle every two years.
So 33 of the Senators are always up in the cycle every two years.
Then you have the entire U.S. House of Representatives, 435 members that will be elected.
And plus you have a lot of, this is a year for governor's races, they're off presidential years, so you have a lot of governor's races going on as well.
And of course the state legislatures in most states are being elected on this two-year cycle too.
So this is what's at stake.
The U.S. House and U.S. Senate are at stake.
Why does that matter?
Right now, President Biden started his presidency with both a majority in the U.S. House and a majority by the tiebreaker of Vice President Harris in the United States Senate.
That is why you have seen the ability and without, when they have been able to stick together in the Senate, be able to pass certain pieces of legislation such as the infrastructure bill, such as the COVID legislation, the stimulus legislation from last year, which looking back on it now, even the liberal economists said was going to be a catalyst to inflation.
And they turned out to be exactly right.
That wealth, multi-tradion dollar bill, fueled the inflation it was already building as the economy was beginning to build back up.
So this is what happens when you have these majorities.
So right now, the Democrats control For the most part, all three of the main legs of the legislative triad, that being the presidency who signs or vetoes the legislation, the House and the Senate, which compile the legislation and send it to the president's desk.
It is also saw as this last Supreme Court cycle be able to put through a Supreme Court Justice.
Justice Brown Jackson has been approved by the Senate, although they did have three Republicans who crossed over and voted with the Democrats in there, that shows you the closeness of what's going on.
So if you're looking at it from a perspective of what's at stake, if you're a liberal voter, one who's very happy that Joe Biden and the Democrats are in control, then Then you're looking at November 22 as being a pivotal time to either keep that majority or going back in the minority and not being able to pass the things that you had hoped for this past 15 months.
In fact, this has been one of the big, and we're going to talk about here in just a moment, one of the problems for Democrats facing this election.
Because most observers across the board will tell you That in looking at the situation right now, the United States House is probably going to flip to the Republicans.
And the question is now is not will it, it's just how much.
And this has been a problem building for the Democrats and also you can see it in their frustration level if not being able to pass things that they wanted to see passed.
A very liberal agenda, Build Back Better, many of the pieces of that, student loan debt, immigration, there's a lot of things that they've not been able to pass or get it through the Senate without the filibuster being overridden in the Senate, which is Chuck Schumer's problem and he's not used the nuclear option, so to speak, on those issues at this point.
Part of it, I believe, is because Schumer realizes that the Senate is also in place.
So at this point, the Senate doesn't look as firm as the House in flipping, but there is a very strong sense that the Senate could flip as well.
What does that mean for Joe Biden?
It means basically his legislative agenda is dead.
It means that things that he wants to get accomplished, things that he has been working on, that we've seen, if he could not get Build Back Better passed when he had both the House and the Senate, there's no way that it would get passed under a Republican-led House or in a Republican-led Senate.
So you're going to have to, for anything that he gets done, it's going to have to be negotiated or brokered with the Republicans to get it done.
That means your spending bills are going to be more interesting.
That means, as was just pointed out, the Supreme Court nominations, if there are any, are going to be very difficult to get through the Senate with the majority being Republicans, if that flips.
So there's a lot of things at stake here.
And if you're a Democrat, You know, I think if you're honest about looking at the field, you're in trouble.
You're looking at what can we get accomplished now.
That's why you're hearing a lot of Democrats who are on the Hill talking about, well, let's do a slimmed down version of Build Back Better.
Let's just do something.
Because they honestly see November coming and them losing their majorities in which they can no longer pass any of the things that they had promised to their voters when they came in in 2020. For the House, it was 2018. When they took control of the House, Speaker Pelosi again is going to be, looks like, a four-year speaker.
Whether she stays on in the House or not is let to be determined, but this is why Speaker Pelosi stuck around.
She wanted to get some things accomplished.
Right now, some of that has been accomplished, but not a lot.
But if you look at what is going on in this election cycle, Come past the fall and especially past November, that's just not going to be a setup anymore.
So let's talk about why this is an issue, why the Democrats are looking at such a problematic mid-election cycle here.
Number one, it is always the election cycle, first mid-term election cycle in a new presidency that is always the worst.
It's only been a couple of times in recent history in which that is the majority, the president's party does not lose seats in the Congress.
The last time that a majority president who was of one party and they kept seats in the election cycle was George W. Bush and that was at the beginning of the Iraq-Afghanistan war.
So this was a little bit of an anomaly at that point.
So we're looking at this point of historically, you lose upwards of 20 to 30 seats in the House.
You lose some Senate seats.
That's dependent upon who's in the cycle in that 30% of the Senate that's up for grabs.
But this is typically not a good cycle for the incumbent president's party.
It's being Double down and even triple down because of, frankly, the problems in the Biden administration.
Let's just look at the latest polls.
The latest polls are consistently coming in in the 30s in the approval process for Joe Biden's presidency.
36, 37, 38, you know, occasionally you see one at almost 40 approving of what Joe Biden is doing as president.
The negatives, the disapproval ratings are well over 50%.
People are just not happy.
Overall, Democrats and Republicans for different reasons with the Joe Biden presidency.
It's just become more and more of a problem as we have, you know, looked for their perspective in which for those of us on the conservative side, we can say, well, we told you so.
This is what he's going to run on.
But he has run even further to the left and has lost more popularity.
And is losing the ability to bring others into the fold.
You're seeing the issues that we're going to talk about here in a minute are dividing the traditional Democratic base.
You're seeing more and more African Americans who are not going to be voting Democratic.
You see a lot more Hispanic voters who are not going to be voting for the Democratic candidates.
You see Asian voters not wanting to vote for the candidate.
Why is the Democratic Party in free fall right now, it appears, in this election cycle?
And what would they have to be looking at to say, what do we either have to shore up and help, or where do we have to go to find votes, or just to keep some of their members so it's not a complete and total wipeout?
My prediction is, is it just going to be a Republican majority again somewhere between 230 and 240?
That means that you're going to have a 40 to 50 person seat flip.
In the House possibly could go a lot higher.
I think that's a conservative estimate.
Some of the reasons why that might not be is redistricting.
There's been a lot of gerrymandering, and it's amazing to me.
It's called gerrymandering if a Republican legislature draws them out.
In a red state, it's called gerrymandering if it adds a seat for Republicans or takes away from a Democrat.
But in New York and California, where just blatant gerrymandering gone on for the Democrats, it's not called that.
It's just called drawing the maps fairly.
I think people are seeing through this, but that is the one area that could hurt Republicans' chances in some of these seats that have been done through the redistricting process.
But let's just dive in for a minute on why is this a bad year for Democrats?
Well, let's just be honest.
Let's start off where it is.
Number one.
I think one of the issues that is being discussed a great deal is immigration.
When you look at the border and you see the open border policies of this administration, and that's all you can put to it.
There's no denying.
We've heard it here on the podcast from Tom Holman, just over and over from others.
From John Ratcliffe, from Dell, from these institutes who look at legislation and look at lawsuits that are dealing with immigration.
It's just a disaster.
There's no form or function at our southern border right now.
Almost every country in the world has been found at our southern border coming across.
And I think this is...
When you look at the millions that have come in just the first year of the Joe Biden administration, you look at now one of the more...
Head scratchers from a political aspect from Joe Biden's administration where they're now relaxing the Title 42 standard on health and keeping people out because of the COVID concerns.
At the same time, the administration was allowing the mask mandate on airplanes to be extended.
At the same time, they were still using caution in everything they were saying about COVID. They're releasing the Title 42 restrictions on the border and allowing anyone to come across again.
And this was something that I've worked in keeping people out, especially during COVID. And if you still believe that it's problematic, if Philadelphia is still requiring an indoor city mask mandate, then why would we be letting people in who are not being screened, they're not being vaccinated?
This is amazing.
We're forcing federal employees, we're forcing the military, we're forcing others to be vaccinated, but yet we're not forcing those who come across our borders illegally to be vaccinated if they're going to stay.
This is the problem that the Democrats are having.
They just don't seem to want to acknowledge that the border is a problem, even when the mainstream media is complicit here.
Do you ever see a story anymore about the mainstream media talking about immigration on our southern border?
You get Fox News, you get some, you get Newsmax, you get others, but as far as MSNBC, NBC, CBS, ABC, Washington Post, Washington Times, you know, I mean, Even New York Times, Los Angeles Times, none of them are reporting this on any regularity with a force that you would have seen that they were reporting on any issue that dealt with immigration under Donald Trump.
And I think this is going to come back to bite them.
You're seeing Hispanics in Texas Voting more and more Republican.
You see it across Arizona, New Mexico, into California as well.
But California, a very liberal state to start with.
But it is affecting, and I think you're seeing as many Republicans are pointing out, that you don't have to live on these border states to be affected by what's going on at the border.
There's been enough fentanyl brought in or captured at the border to kill every American several times over.
This is just what's being captured.
We don't talk about the half million getaways that sensors and other devices have picked up coming into the country, but we just don't have enough border agents to go apprehend them.
So they're just getting away almost a half million of them.
This is not an issue that has anything to do in most people's mind with racism or anything else.
It just simply has the fact that we have a sovereign southern border that's not being protected right now.
And we have, there's been over a dozen terrorists from the actual terrorist watch list stopped at our southern border.
There have been criminals, murderers.
I think I saw a statistic.
It was close to 50, I believe it was, or a little bit more.
Murderers who are caught coming across the border.
All of this is going on, and people are taking a look at it, and they don't understand it.
When you have issues of economy, you have issues of jobs, you have issues of inflation, you have all this, and you have people continually coming across our border with a Biden administration and Democrats, frankly, in the House and the Senate who have just turned a blind eye to this situation and then have the audacity to have Jen Psaki the other day, the press secretary, Say that the Republicans were using this for political fodder.
It's just disingenuous.
It's just coming across there.
The second thing that we're seeing that I think Democrats are having to deal with is inflation.
Now, inflation for the years had been kept at 2%, a little less, had been going.
Then we ran into COVID, and then we come into the The recovery out of COVID. Last year, when Democrats, one of their prime pieces of legislation they talk about is the COVID stimulus package, multi-trillion dollar package, that pumped a lot of money into the economy.
At the time, liberal economists, former White House economists, said, this is not a good idea.
And those economists were bad-mouthed on liberal media.
They were bad-mouthed on the White House saying, oh, they don't know what they're talking about.
And the result is that they knew exactly what they were talking about because the inflation rate has begun to skyrocket since that time and now is at its highest in 40 plus years.
When I was in middle school and high school was the last time inflation was this bad.
Part of that is just a basic economic lesson.
Let me just explain it to you if you're wondering, well, how does that affect the COVID stimulus package?
How did that affect the inflation rate?
Well, number one is really easy when you look at it from the perspective that What was going on was that supply was interrupted by COVID shortages across the globe.
We saw it with issues at our ports.
You saw the supply chain interrupted.
You see these problems with people not being able to get and still not getting product on shelves.
And we see it from food to hardware to regular goods, durable goods as well.
They're not going to be able to get there.
So we created a supply that is down.
You created a demand that is high when people had extra money to spend.
They were working on their homes.
They were buying cars.
They were buying utility vehicles.
They were buying things.
They were putting money that they were getting many times in stimulus checks and referrals.
And for many who were working at home, had less expenses.
In essence, they were getting a raise because they wasn't having to drive.
They wasn't having to go into work through the COVID cycle.
So they were spending money.
Well, Low supply, high demand is going to equal, prices going up, inflation starting to skyrocket.
Then you had Joe Biden's administration also come in on top of this and begin a war on American energy independence.
The first thing out of the bat, what did they do?
They wrote an executive order that stopped work on the Keystone XL pipeline.
Now, as Jen Psaki likes to say, this is not an oil field, but to have the flow and to have the ability to get the oil out of Canada to the refineries in the United States, having another pipeline is, and everybody that looked at it was going to help generate jobs and help to increase the oil production into the refineries because you're able to take more oil with multiple pipelines coming into the United States.
And the President Biden's administration just said, no, we're not going to do it.
They shut it down.
Then began to retract the deeds and the lease purchases on federal lands for energy exploration, stopped those, froze those.
Then they were complaining, the administration said, well, the oil companies has these leases, they're not using them.
But yet the reality is they couldn't find new leases.
And if you have a lease that then you needed to go horizontally or onto another partial land that's in another lease, you couldn't get the permits to do it.
So this is an attack On American independence, which again, you couple that with supply shortages and the food shortages and you then put on top of that energy, guess what?
You get the worst inflation in over 40 years.
And if you don't believe this is a political issue, and I've heard this from some, that this isn't Joe Biden's fault, he did what he did, then all I ask you to do is go and look on the internet or go to your local gas station.
At some gas station, you will find the sticker that has Joe Biden pointing at the gas pump and says, I did that.
I mean, this is a political issue that the Democrats are having to face here in this cycle.
Ukraine, they want to blame Putin for the gas prices.
Russia's invasion of Ukraine simply added to the misery there on the already attack on American oil independence.
And made us more dependent.
You have the war tightening up shortages, causing the price to go up around the world, which again just internally drove up inflation even further.
It also put us in an interesting position with the inflation going up, with the oil shortage coming, with the Russian oil coming off of the market for the most part.
It put, instead of the Biden administration turning to American sources for Work here, they turned to go beg from OPEC and Venezuela and other places.
It made us a beggar nation again when it come into energy independence.
And if you remember just our podcast that's just from the other day from Gerald Ford, Gerald Ford had to deal with this in his last speech and he talked about how we should never be dependent on outside sources for our energy needs.
Biden administration should go back and actually listen to that address.
And then you also get into another I think it's contributed to Joe Biden's falling poll numbers, and that is the absolute debacle of Afghanistan and the removal from Afghanistan.
Now, there's a lot of people who thought, including myself, that it was time to start drawing down to negligible amounts the war in Afghanistan.
Turning that back over to the country, letting the Afghanistan people be the predominant determiner of how their world will exist.
And when you look at it, there was ways.
Donald Trump began this process, he began pulling out, but he also made it very clear that there were going to be conditions on this.
And if there wasn't conditions made, if the Taliban didn't meet conditions, if the Afghanistan government didn't meet conditions, Then this was off.
Joe Biden's unilateral withdrawal, deciding to do it last spring and then say by the September 11th, which is again another political date, not a military date, which supposedly you had military, some military leaders saying this shouldn't happen.
They were counseling him on the fact that it wouldn't take very long for the Taliban to be back in control.
Intelligence was telling that, but many of the advisors were saying, oh, it's going to be okay.
And they continued that lie up until we're flying Jets out of there under Very stressful conditions, giving Taliban control of the security around the airport, and it led to 13 American lives being lost.
It also meant that we left a lot of people who we had promised to get out of Afghanistan.
We left them there.
In fact, some actually who did get on the planes were not vetted.
They were not the right people.
They did not go through the proper process.
But yet, when you do it poorly, this is what happens.
And the Biden administration just botched Afghanistan.
I've said this before, I'll say it again here on this podcast, and that is that the American people in general, not necessarily partisans on either side, but the American people in general are typically forgiving to a point of a chief executive if there's a problem with domestic problems such but the American people in general are typically forgiving to a point of a chief executive if there's a problem with domestic problems such as I mean, they may not like it, but there's at least some forgiving element.
forgiving element.
What I have found is, looking back over time, the one area that the general populace does not tolerate, and that is for the American flag and the American principles across the world to be looked upon as running or being in disgrace.
And when you see that happening, you could sense the turn in Joe Biden's poll numbers from last October, I mean from last August, really accelerating through October as this began to sink in even more, is his poll numbers were starting to go down and were not recovering.
people did not forgive the way we came out of Afghanistan.
No matter if you thought we should be in Afghanistan or not be in Afghanistan, there's a productive number of soldiers we could have left there without actual engagement, but the way we did it left a stain on Americans, America's standing in the world, and I think people, especially here in the United States, were not forgiving in that regard.
Then you turn into what we saw last November in the election cycle, and that's the very liberal agenda.
All of a sudden, the rise of the parents.
You saw this in Virginia.
You saw it a little bit in New Jersey.
You're seeing it continue, whether it be on CRT, critical race theory, whether it began on diversity.
The curriculum issues.
When you have parents going to school board meetings, and many of these liberal school board members were saying, look, parents are not a part of this.
Parents shouldn't have a say in the curriculum.
Terry McAuliffe, sort of following that same line, lost the governorship to Glenn Youngkin.
Why?
Because Glenn Youngkin saw the power of what that movement was.
So you have the Democrats on the wrong side of what is this liberal turn and liberal agenda, whether it be diversity push, whether it be the vaccinations, whether it be the opening up of the schools and opening up of our cities, people are tired.
And this idea of equity, meaning everybody gets the same, is just not an American principle that most people adapt to.
So as we look at this, and you saw that most emphatically in the transportation bill, when you had Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg say We've vetted these projects for their social justice worth.
Most people do not inherently take transportation, road and bridges into that movement.
Now, if there is a way that you're destroying neighborhoods and minorities and you're infringing upon their rights and you could do it in a different way, then yes, that should be something we look at.
But when you're grading projects based on this idea of social justice and equity, you're going to have problems and people just do not understand it and they lose it.
This liberal agenda has really, probably more than anything, put the Biden administration in a bind because you have what is left of the moderate Democrats fighting with the liberal Democrats who are saying we're not going far enough.
They're saying, look, you continue to do this, we're not going to be in the majority.
And that's exactly what it looks like is going to be happening.
That come November 2022, the Democrats are going to lose by a large majority the House of Representatives.
They have put into play the United States Senate And then taking the historical context of the first election after a president is elected, the midterm, being a time in which the party in the White House typically loses seat on Capitol Hill, you're setting up for what could be a rather ugly primary season, an ugly November, for the Democrats.
Now, let me just touch on real quickly the Republican issues.
Again, the House looks pretty much a given.
You got the Senate where there's going to be a fight, and this is where some of the issues, and that is divisive primaries.
Can the Republicans who are going after some of these Democrat seats or open seats such as North Carolina, can they come back together around candidates?
That they may not have supported, that in a divisive primary, lower turnout, can they come back out?
This is going to be true with McCormick and Dr. Oz up in Pennsylvania.
It's going to be true in North Carolina.
It's going to be true to some extent here in Georgia, where I'm from, with the Walker-Warnock campaign, which is going to play also into the governor's race down here.
As we go forward.
So again, a divisive primary.
Can Republicans come back?
And also from that perspective is, can the Republicans come back together and overcome what they view many in the Republican Party view as a stolen election for Donald Trump?
Can they come back out trusting the reforms that were done in places like Georgia, Texas, and other places to fix discrepancies found in elections so that they'll come back and actually vote?
Those are their factors.
Also, you have an enormously popular former president in the Republican circles.
Donald Trump is enormously popular with many of the voters.
He's endorsed over 100 candidates.
He has imparted himself into many of these races.
So we'll see.
How that is going to go.
And in the month of May, you're going to get a good telling of the effect of Donald Trump's endorsement power when you have the races in Alabama, which he's withdrew an endorsement in, said that he's going to endorse again North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Ohio, all of these having major races in which Donald Trump is endorsed in.
So we'll see how that plays out as we go forward.
There's one that I want to put on the radar, so to speak, before we finish part one here.
And that is the abortion debate.
Now, you may be thinking, the abortion debate?
What is that?
I didn't know that this was a problem.
Well, you may have forgotten the Mississippi case that was before the Supreme Court back in December and was argued that decision is going to come out in June.
Probably late June.
It'll be after most of these primaries.
There's still a few primaries left that are later in July and August around the country.
But this is going to be a big play, I believe, in the fall elections, especially if what I believe is going to happen in the Supreme Court is the two ways they're going to look at this is, number one, they're either going to uphold the 15-week ban in Mississippi, which from...
If you look at it closely, and we may do another podcast just on this case itself, it would go against what I believe John Roberts, the Chief Justice, would want.
He's already talked about the arbitrary trimester system of the current rulings of Roe v.
Wade.
So it would be interesting to see if they kept that.
Maybe that's the center ground, although not lodged in any legal theory.
That could be what you see with the Supreme Court.
Or you could see an overturning of Roe v.
Wade altogether, which throws this to the states, which opens it up a great deal.
Many states already have trigger laws in place that if it was ever overturned at the federal level, that a ban or some kind of ban would take place in their state immediately.
Either way, I'm putting this on your radar now.
This is your free one for the podcast.
Watch the abortion debate as it plays out in late June as we roll into the midterms of November.
That's the lay of the land.
That's where we're at.
That's why it is so bad right now for the Democrats.
That's why Republicans are confident, but they can't lose sight of the fact that they've still got to motivate their voters.
They've still got to give an alternative.
They've got to overcome some redistricting issues in some states.
And then also have how this abortion debate will play with turnout come November.
I think this will play well for conservatives, but we'll just have to see as that goes.
So if you've got the basics now, if you understand sort of the playing field, This is what November 2022 looks like.
This is where the president's party is.
The Democrats are looking down the barrel of getting wiped out in the House.
They're getting ready to lose the Senate.
And Joe Biden's legislative agenda, which has been far left in all aspects of his administration, is getting ready to come to a screeching halt.
And the question will be then, What does he do in those final two years running into the 2024 elections?
You're going to also see a lot from former President Trump and his endorsements.
How well do they do?
Who wins?
Who loses?
We'll see how that goes.
So, if you've got the grounding now, what I want to do when we gather again on the podcast, and what I need you to do is go to this.
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We're going to spend a lot of time in the next six months discussing issues or Related to the 2020 election cycle, 2022 election cycle, because I think the 2020 election cycle is looming in the background, but 2020 is upon us.
2022 is upon us and we've got to make sure that I think we're focused on the issues and from a service standpoint, showing up to vote.
So the next time we gather together, we'll talk about the lay of the land and how these atmospheres play out in states like Nevada, Arizona, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Wisconsin, Michigan.
A lot on the table.
We'll take individual states.
We'll go in-depth.
We'll let you.
You'll have the best primary you need for the primaries coming up and then the look ahead to November as we go forward.
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