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Time to Unify Dinesh D’Souza Podcast Ep 653
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Hi and welcome to the Dinesh D'Souza podcast.
This is Brandon Gill filling in for Dinesh this week.
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Today we're going to start by discussing how Donald Trump is effectively the Republican nominee for president.
How no other candidate really has a prayer of beating him in the primaries.
And how it's past time for the party to stop wasting time and resources and unite behind Later in the show we'll have Alex Brusiewicz.
Alex is a political operative and CEO of X Strategies.
He'll join us later to discuss how the primaries are shaping up so you won't want to miss that.
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Welcome to the Dinesh D'Souza Podcast.
I'm Brandon Gill filling in for Dinesh this week.
I want to begin by talking a little bit about the Republican primary process.
We're about a year into the primaries.
Almost a year.
Last week, there was a debate with eight primary candidates, not including Donald Trump.
That was kind of a farce.
And I want to make the point that there really is no candidate on the Republican stage that can possibly beat Donald Trump.
Even if you're a DeSantis guy or a Nikki Haley person or whatever...
The reality is there's not a single candidate who can beat Trump.
He is the nominee.
He's effectively an incumbent president.
He's dominating in the polls.
And it's time that we unify behind our guy.
Let's just go through some of the reasons that it is just blatantly obvious that he's the only guy who can win.
First of all, let's look at polling data.
We look nationally at For the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, according to RealClearPolitics, President Trump is winning by 40 points.
In the latest poll from Emerson, he's up by 38 points.
In the Reuters poll, he's up by 37.
We have poll after poll, and this is consistent over the past months that Trump is 40-50% above the number two person, which obviously is DeSantis.
I think we need to think about how unique this process is this year.
The 2024 Republican primary nomination process is not like it was in 2016.
It's not like it was in 2012.
In past primary cycles, and I've got the charts in front of me here, you could see that...
Republican voters were looking for—they were kind of learning more about each candidate.
You would see one guy spike in the polls, and then he'd drop a few months later, a few weeks later, as people learn more about him.
And then another guy would spike in the polls, and then he'd drop— In July of 2011, Mitt Romney was at 25%.
He was the obvious frontrunner for the nomination.
And then he dropped. And then Rick Perry spiked in the polls in October of 2011.
Then Herman Cain after that spiked, and then he dropped.
And then towards the end of 2011, Newt Gingrich was the clear frontrunner, the clear nominee.
He hit 35% at one point.
Then it went kind of back and forth between Gingrich and Romney.
And then Santorum at one point looked like he was going to be the nominee.
And then Romney obviously ended up winning it.
But the point is, you had multiple candidates that voters had to learn about, decide whether they liked them or not.
And you saw a really vibrant primary process.
There was the same thing to a lesser extent in 2016.
At the beginning, it looked like Bush was going to win, and then people learned more about Carly Fiorina.
They kind of liked her.
She spiked in the polls, and then Rubio spiked, and Cruz was doing well.
Then he had Kasich, especially towards the end, who kind of came in from the back.
To be fair, Trump was dominating the polls through most of that process.
But the point is that There were other people, other candidates that voters were learning about and kind of weighing and trying to decide, is this somebody that we'd like to nominate?
We do not see that at all this primary cycle.
In fact, like I said, we've been here for almost a year now and for the entire time, Trump has been at or near 50% in the Republican primary polls nationally.
The only other candidate who's come close is DeSantis, who spiked at the beginning of 2023.
For the entirety of this year, he has been steadily declining in the polls.
At this point, he's in the low teens, and he's hitting new polling lows every single day.
We don't have a vibrant Republican primary and the reason is that voters want Donald Trump and that's been clear for a long time.
It's like the longer they get to know the other candidates, the more they're set on Trump.
And the reason for that, I think, is that Trump is effectively an incumbent nominee.
He gave us four years from 2016 to 2020 of an excellent presidency that the vast majority of Republicans were very happy with.
In fact, most of them would tell you that President Trump's presidency was the best presidency in modern history.
Some would say even better than Reagan's.
I think at different time periods, but arguably it was better than Reagan's.
And I think the reason that Trump has dominated this entire process is The reason it's been almost a boring primary, because there's nobody who can come close to really challenging him, is that most voters realize that Trump had four years in the White House that were phenomenal.
We had closed borders or as close to close as we've ever had before.
We had a phenomenal economy that was booming until COVID hit.
We had a president who completely got rid of absurd political correct customs that most presidents have really adhered to.
And we had a leader that we could actually trust.
Somebody who didn't need a teleprompter to talk.
Somebody who would say what he actually thought.
And it was really refreshing.
It's the first time really we've ever had that in American politics.
And Republicans were, a lot of people, even non-Republicans were happy with them, but especially Republican voters were very happy with Donald Trump.
And then obviously we come to 2020 and the election was stolen.
And most Republicans recognize that the election was stolen.
If you've seen 2000 Mules, you know without a shadow of a doubt that Donald Trump should be in the White House.
So effectively, he is our party's incumbent nominee.
And whenever voters see that we had a phenomenal presidency that was stolen from him, they think, well, we should probably give this guy another four years.
We know him. We trust him.
We like him. We want him back.
And that's why this primary process has been so dull.
But one of the things that we've heard this entire time is really that there's another catalyst coming up, whether it's the debates or an official announcement that somebody's running.
Maybe the next thing can impact the poll.
So take DeSantis, for example.
Trump announced right after the 2022 midterms that he was running.
DeSantis didn't announce until much, much later, but everybody knew he was running.
He was running basically effectively a shadow campaign for several months.
The argument from the DeSantis camp was DeSantis may be doing really bad in the polls right now.
But once he announces, people will realize who he is, he'll get higher name recognition, they'll take him more seriously, and then you'll see a pretty big bump in the polls.
That didn't happen.
Didn't happen for any of the other candidates who announced either, or who waited to announce.
Then they were saying that he just needs to be in the campaign for a little bit longer, let people build up his name recognition, let him get out and meet the voters in Iowa and New Hampshire and everywhere else, and then you'll start to see him grow in the polls.
That hasn't happened.
The opposite's happened. It seems like the longer people get to meet every other candidate who isn't Trump, the less they like the candidates.
So then they said, okay, we'll wait until DeSantis, and I'm kind of picking on DeSantis, but this is true for other candidates.
He's just been the clear number two candidate for a while.
They said as soon as he gets on the debate stage, he can show off how smart he is, how effective of a leader he is, and then voters will start to like him.
He'll get that post-debate bump.
Well, he was on the debate stage last week, and according to most polls, he didn't win.
Vivek Ramaswamy was the clear, obvious winner, according to almost every poll, unless you watch Fox News, who's been pushing for DeSantis.
So that didn't do anything.
So now the argument is that we're early in the primaries still, and there are some early primary states, Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, that are really important.
And if DeSantis or one of the other candidates can win those states, then they'll gain some momentum and be able to hopefully carry that, or they say hopefully carry that further into the nomination process.
But even that seems far-fetched.
DeSantis and the other candidates have been campaigning in these early states for quite a while now, and we've seen almost no impact in the polls.
And I can go through these right now.
In New Hampshire, which DeSantis has put a lot into, according to the latest Trafalgar Group poll, Trump is up by 39 points.
That's not even close. Real Clear Politics has him up by 31 points, but that's sort of a backward-looking average.
The most recent polls have him up by 39 and 40 points.
In Iowa, Trump is up, according to the Real Clear Politics polling average, by 26 points.
In South Carolina, which you would think Nikki Haley would be strong there, Trump is beating everybody by 34 points, according to the most recent polls.
And even if you look in Florida, which should be DeSantis' strongest state, he was governor there, he was in the news almost every single day, that's his home turf where he should be, if he's a viable candidate, he should be beating Trump.
Trump is up by 20 points, according to the most recent poll.
So the reality is, it doesn't matter that we're early in the primaries, even though we aren't.
It doesn't matter that we still haven't seen results from the early states, Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina.
DeSantis doesn't have a chance of winning any of those, and neither do any of the other candidates.
Trump is dominating the And one of the things whenever we're evaluating this primary process is we have to have a realistic recognition of who the candidates are.
Trump is the leader of the Republican Party, indisputably.
Nobody can come close.
Not Rona McDaniel, not any governor in the country, no senators.
It is Donald Trump. If you are running for office right now and you're a Republican, there is nobody whose support means more than Trump's support.
There's no endorsement more valuable than Donald Trump's endorsement.
Because people listen to him, because they like him, they trust him.
And that's just a reality, and DeSantis can't even come close to that, much less Nikki Haley or any of the other candidates.
And the reason that Trump is the leader of the Republican Party is because he is the Republican Party now.
He reinvented the party.
Prior to 2016, the Republican Party was the establishment party.
It was the party who talked about sealing the border but never actually did anything.
It was the party who talked about small government but was never effectively able to do anything, not even lower taxes most of the time.
And Trump was actually able to make promises and keep them, and people recognized that.
If it weren't for Donald Trump...
The entire way we talk about politics would be different.
Nobody would be talking about building a wall.
Trump came up with that.
Nobody would be talking seriously about deporting illegal aliens.
Trump was the one who kind of added that vernacular to our political discussion.
Nobody would be talking about sending money abroad and how we need to put America first.
That was Trump who came up with that.
And nobody can talk as fluently about the economy as Trump can.
So the idea that there's somebody who can challenge him is kind of absurd.
He had a phenomenal presidency, was wildly popular, had an election stolen from him.
Republicans want him back in office.
So the question is, why are we even, especially at this point, why are we having...
A primary process.
Why can't the party unify behind President Trump?
None of these other candidates can win.
These are obviously vanity campaigns for half of them, or they're positioning themselves for better things later on, more lucrative jobs or prestigious posts somewhere.
Yeah. And it's fine.
Nobody can stop that.
Nobody can force them to drop out.
But we can say that we've had enough of this.
Trump is our nominee, and it's time to get behind him.
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Welcome back to the Dinesh D'Souza podcast.
I'm Brandon Gill.
Going back to the debate last week, one of the big things that stuck out was the candidate's conception of America's role in the world.
With the sole exception of Vivek Ramaswamy, every single candidate on stage had a foreign policy that was out of date and irrelevant before I was born.
I don't know what it is about establishment Republicans, but it's like their glory days were during the Cold War and they can't move on.
All they want to do is fight an endless war with Russia, regardless of any kind of merit.
They may not have seen it, but America actually won the Cold War.
The USSR dissolved over 30 years ago.
And despite what the left and establishment Republicans want to say, Russia is actually not a geopolitical enemy.
They're a rival.
But what do we get when they're asked about sending more money to Ukraine?
Virtually every single candidate said they would.
Ron DeSantis gave a non-committal answer, to be fair, which is another example of how he's just trying to read the political winds.
Vivek, for his part, adamantly said he would not, but that's it.
Everybody else said they would, just like Democrats would.
And what's sad is that when the Republican answer to an important foreign policy question is identical to the Democrat answer, like what we see with Ukraine, that is the definition of a uniparty.
And it's also another reminder that the warmongering neocon faction of the Republican Party is alive and well, even if it isn't representative at all of the conservative base.
Nikki Haley is probably the most representative of the warmongering faction, and it's no surprise.
After she ended her ambassadorship at the UN, which she served under President Trump, she went on to serve on Boeing's board of directors.
That's one of the largest defense contracting companies in the world.
It's a cushy job.
You get paid several hundred thousand dollars a year, and you do very little work.
Obviously, she got the job at Boeing, not because she has some detailed knowledge of Boeing's business or of the defense contracting industry or of defense technology or of engineering or their supply chain or anything else.
She got it because she has a big Rolodex of people in the government she can help sell Boeing's stuff to.
And Vivek was probably right.
As soon as Nikki Haley gets knocked out of the Republican primary, which she will...
She'd probably love to be on Raytheon or Lockheed Martin's board.
That way she can make money herself off of all the taxpayer dollars that she's trying to send for bombs and other things to go blow up nations most Americans have never heard of.
But the bigger problem, I think, is Mike Pence and his wing of the party.
He'll stand there like a brick wall and rattle off talking points about how America can prioritize our own border while also prioritizing Ukraine's.
Anybody who disagrees, he says, has a pretty small view of the greatest nation on earth.
Meaningless patriotic aphorisms notwithstanding, what is he talking about?
Other than some wealthy donors and consultants, who does this appeal to?
Trillions of dollars in debt, and Mike Pence is supposed to be the fiscally responsible one, remember?
We have an economy that's in terrible shape.
Jobs are being shipped overseas, and inflation is raging.
Our heartland is being absolutely and possibly irreversibly gutted.
And Mike Pence's priority is to send Americans, is to tax Americans, so that we can send our resources across the globe to secure another nation's border.
Who does somebody like that think he is?
He was a good vice president for Trump, at least for a little while, but what happened to him?
It may be lost on Mike Pence, but the greatest nation on earth has had an existential and socially destabilizing border crisis for over 20 years now, and no leader, Republican or Democrat, other than Donald Trump, has done anything at all to solve it.
So he can sit there and say that we can prioritize two things at once.
But the truth is, we never have.
We paid for Israel's Iron Dome to help their border.
We disproportionately fund NATO and the UN and other international bodies.
We send billions of dollars to Ukraine to defend their borders.
But we've been virtually nothing other than under President Trump to seal our own.
And it may not affect establishment Republicans or the wealthy consultant class grifting millions of dollars every campaign cycle on candidates who will never win, but it does affect the rest of America, who's watching their culture get stripped away and their wages drop and their cost of living rise, which is all partly due to the massive influx of illegal aliens pouring across the border every day.
And that's not to mention crime and drugs and some of the other things they're bringing.
So if you can't unequivocally denounce sending billions of dollars overseas when our own nation is being ripped apart, you shouldn't be running for president, at least not on the Republican ticket.
That's what we have Democrats for.
The ideology that the non-Trump, non-Vivec candidates put forward is actually the textbook definition of America last.
At the debate, Chris Christie gave a heart-wrenching account of the atrocities Vladimir Putin is committing against Ukrainians.
And it is sad. It's bad.
But what I want to know is why will no candidate give a heart-wrenching account of the atrocities at our own southern border?
It's one of the biggest human trafficking hubs in the world.
And some of the deadliest drugs ever created are flooding across the border so they can slaughter Americans.
The reality is that in many places, we don't even share a border with Mexico anymore.
Mexico doesn't even remotely control the territory south of our border.
They don't pretend to.
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So effectively, we border a narco state run by brutally violent people that have more power than most nation states in the world.
And that was another problem with the debate last week.
Nobody even asked about the border.
Even though that's one of the biggest issues for most Republican voters.
Can we please for once have a Republican primary debate that's focused on issues that Republican primary voters actually care about?
We see this every debate, every cycle.
The debate questions are written by Democrats for Democrats.
They're things leftists care about to push a left-wing agenda.
They're not geared for conservatives.
The biggest issues for Republicans right now were, one, immigration, which was an afterthought in the debate, despite the fact that poll after poll will show Republicans view illegal immigration as the single most or at least one of the most important issues of our time.
And it's not just illegal immigration.
Legal immigration is an issue as well.
And Republicans want to know things like, what do you think about the current levels of legal immigration?
Should we let more legal immigrants into the country or fewer?
What do you think about things like H-1B visas that allow foreign workers to come into the country, take American jobs, and drive down American wages?
We could have an entire debate on immigration and it would have been more useful than the questions that Fox brought up.
Instead, the first question on immigration was a gotcha question that CNN could have written about what to do with the illegals already here.
Then we have barely a mention of the crime wave that's turning our cities into third world hell holes.
Urban decay is one of the biggest problems in our country right now.
Every other day there's another video of a massive smash and grab, stores being looted, and innocent people being assassinated by gang members in broad daylight.
Our cities are drowning in lawless barbarism, but the moderators at the debate hardly mention it.
And the reason they didn't mention it is probably because to the consultant and donor classes who influence the debate, the ones who live in nice neighborhoods, gated communities, and doorman buildings, the ones who influence the questions that are being asked at debates like this, for them, crime doesn't matter.
Who cares? Crime hardly affects them.
They live on the right side of the tracks.
But for the rest of the country, we have to deal with it.
And of course, there was no substantive discussion of inflation or our depressed economy that doesn't work for most working-class Americans.
There was little to no discussion of the gross weaponization of the federal government, the DOJ, or other members of the bureaucratic executive branch.
Not just against Trump, but against parents, pro-lifers, conservatives.
There wasn't a single question about election integrity and nothing on the resurging talk of another round of COVID lockdowns and Vax mandates.
Those are the things that conservatives care about, especially Republican primary voters.
But if any of these things were discussed, it was either in passing from the moderators or because it was one of the candidates themselves that brought it up.
And when they do finally touch on topics that Republicans want to hear about, it's always framed from a left-wing perspective.
Take abortion for example.
Martha McCallum framed the entire discussion as if Republicans have radical views on abortion that constitute a massive political liability.
So Trump missing this debate didn't hurt him.
The debate was largely useless, except to expose how terrible his challengers are.
Trump probably knew that, and that's the political sense he has, which is why he's dominating in the polls.
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Welcome back to the Dinesh D'Souza podcast.
I'm Brandon Gill filling in for Dinesh this week.
We've got a special guest here now.
His name is Alex Brusiewicz.
Alex is a political operative.
He is the CEO of X Strategies, and he's also, I am told, a GOP mega-donor.
He's going to talk to us about the Republican primaries and how they're shaping up.
Alex, thanks for joining us.
Hey, great to be with you, Brandon.
Thanks for having me, man. Yeah, Alex, you were at the debate last week.
We've been talking about it for a little while, and I want to get your take on what was it like being there?
How was the energy?
And give me your take on sort of the candidates who think that they can beat Donald Trump.
Well, I'll just say this.
The debate was kind of depressing because it was basically what the Republican Party would look like without Donald Trump and the MAGA movement.
I don't like going to those RNC events because those aren't my type of people.
Those are the type of Republicans that had us lose for decades and decades.
It's important to remember that the GOP establishment hasn't won the White House since 2004, and it was on the brink of death until President Trump came along and saved it.
And so, you know, you have the RNC and you have the GOP establishment that works so hard to try to undermine Trump and ridicule and try to destroy the MAGA movement, but they are playing with fire because it's Trump and the MAGA movement that is keeping the Republican Party alive.
And so when I'm walking around there, obviously they think I'm some MAGA extremist, and so they don't like us too much over there.
You know, I went in with Don Jr.
and Kimberly Guilfoyle and You know, the Rumble folks and everybody at Rumble treated us so well and with a lot of respect.
And I saw a lot of the younger people that were kind of fans who got tickets from YAF or some organization.
They love seeing Don Jr.
They love seeing Kimberly.
But you could tell that the swampy folks that went through the debate were not thrilled that they were there because when Don Jr.
hit the floor, he got a bigger reception than the candidates on that stage.
And so there's a major disconnect between Yeah, I think you made a good point.
Whenever I was watching the debate, one of the most disappointing things to see was how animated the Republican establishment class is.
I mean, the base has moved on from the establishment for years.
I mean, since 2015, whenever Trump initially came down the escalator, but it's like the establishment class will not go away.
And none of the other candidates there, with the exception, I guess, a little bit of Vivek Ramaswamy seem to realize that.
They don't represent our voters.
They don't represent really anybody other than like a handful of grifting consultants.
So I agree.
I was just as disappointed.
What's your take on sort of why we're even having this?
I mean, Trump has been dominating the polls.
He's not just dominating the polls.
He's been dominating the polls for months.
So what is the purpose in your mind of all of this?
Well, I think it's important to remember that Donald Trump isn't just up against the radical left.
He's also up against the establishment Republicans.
And a lot of times people like to refer to as the unholy alliance between the establishment, GOP and the radical left as a unit party.
And the unit party is real folks.
And that's what we're up against.
And so there's a lot of people within the Republican establishment that are rooting for these political persecutions to take out Trump.
And so instead of fighting for him with everything that they have and rallying behind our leader, you have some folks who are trying to undermine him and benefit politically from what's happening to him.
And so, yeah, President Trump's up by 50% in the polls, but there's a section of the Republican party that is hoping that he's taken out.
And I think that's wrong and it's sick and the voters won't stand for that.
And so I don't care who is on that stage.
They will not be the nominee, and President Trump was the winner of that debate.
There's more polls that have come out showing him extending his lead.
You have polls that show DeSantis falling into third place post-debate.
And that's just the reality of the situation.
And that's not changing anytime soon.
And so I think if the Republican Party unites around President Trump, we'll be stronger and we'll actually have a chance to win 2024.
And President Trump's the only one that gives us that opportunity, too.
No, I totally agree.
DeSantis is on the verge of falling into third, but he still is number two.
And one of the things that DeSantis supporters like to say is that DeSantis is President Trump without the baggage.
He's not fighting legal cases.
He doesn't... He's more buttoned up on Twitter, as they would say.
Now, I don't agree with that at all.
There are major substantive policy differences between Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis.
Things like tariffs, which is really important, a key part of the America First agenda.
Ukraine, they're very different.
But what is your response to that?
That these two are...
DeSantis is kind of a better version of Trump, which is what they say.
I don't think that could be...
Further from the truth, after watching Ron DeSantis on the national stage over the last nine, ten months, it's clear as day that he comes from the old guard Republican establishment.
He is a Paul Ryan accolade.
He is a club for growth puppet.
He has no beliefs of his own.
And what's concerning is that he is not a wealthy man.
He is somebody who is controlled by those who pull the financial levers off.
Of his campaign, those who give him the big book deals.
The Murdochs gave him a million dollars to run for president, basically.
He wrote this book, and it was a terrible book.
I don't know a single person that read it or owns it, except for his super PACs.
And so he basically got a million dollars for free to run for president.
And I think one of the best things that President Trump has going for him is that he cannot be bought.
You know, he is a multi-billionaire.
He does not need special interests.
And the only interests that he cares about are the interests of the American people.
And so I think there's massive policy differences.
I think there's personality differences in the negative.
I don't think DeSantis has the demeanor, the likability, or the ability to negotiate deals that would benefit America.
People don't respect him.
I do think he's too short to be commander-in-chief.
And that is why I'm all in for Trump 24.
Yeah, I think a good example of that at the debate was the question on Ukraine.
We've seen DeSantis kind of flip back and forth on Ukraine for no apparent reason other than I guess somebody who is funding his campaign didn't like his initial answers.
Well, we also saw him kind of flip-flop on the abortion issue.
He signed the six-week abortion ban in Florida, and he's like, I'm the most pro-life candidate running.
And then, you know, all the pro-life organizations, they started knocking President Trump for refusing to, you know, say he'll do a federal ban.
And then DeSantis hit President Trump on that, too.
But now DeSantis refuses to say that he'll do a federal ban.
And so what happened?
Well, one of his major donors called him up and said, hey, Ron, we need you to cool it on the abortion issue.
And he said, yes, sir.
And so it doesn't matter, like, what the issue is.
If a donor goes against him, He will follow the donor and not follow the interests of the people.
And so I think it's beneficial to have a president like President Trump, who is incredibly wealthy.
I mean, Joe Biden was the poorest member of the Senate for decades and decades.
And you saw what happened.
You know, he got a taste for the highlight.
Yeah, he's not poor anymore.
His crackhead son sell access to him and his family.
And so, and now he's worth 20, $30 million, has multiple beach houses where he takes his shirt off and looks disgusting on the beach.
And so, you know, we can't have people who can easily be bought and Ron DeSantis is someone who can be bought.
Right, right.
Before we hop off, Alex, I want to get your take on the concept of loyalty in politics, because I think if you compare the Republican Party historically to the Democrat Party The Democrats have, they'll maybe run a primary process, but they know who the nominee is going to be long before it really heats up.
They'll rig a nomination against Bernie Sanders, for example, and they will rally behind their candidate.
And one of the big criticisms, I think, very valid of the Republican Party is that we don't do that.
And it's disappointing to see that we have a guy right now, Donald Trump, he's been our nominee.
I mean, nobody can touch him.
We were talking about that earlier on the show.
And it's been that way for months.
But there's some...
One of the reasons we lose elections is because we don't have a little bit of loyalty to our guys.
So what is your take just on this general concept of loyalty?
Well, I don't come from the political class.
I don't come from a connected family.
I come from a small town in Wisconsin where your word matters, where friendships matter.
And if you go against your word, if you go against friends, then people remember you and you don't have friends anymore.
Politics, it seems to be a different type of game, and it's disappointing.
I think the American people want to see some sense of loyalty.
I don't think there's a loyalty to a politician, but there's a loyalty to a movement, the movement that saved the Republican Party, and President Trump is the leader of that movement.
And if you want to have success in 2024, if you want to have success in the future, you don't undermine the representative and the voice of the largest political movement in the history of our country.
You just can't have that happen.
A lot of the DeSantis people are like, well, we're not loyal to a politician.
We're loyal to the country.
Well, you have this forgotten men and women of our country that are loyal to Donald Trump.
If you go against Donald Trump, you're going against them.
And then you lose the country.
And it's very that simple.
And so, sadly, we have politicians who are more interested in serving themselves and advancing their careers than helping the American people.
And that is what makes Donald Trump so special.
He doesn't care about advancing his career.
In fact, this has probably been worse for his career than anything else.
And so, people are sticking with Trump, and the disloyal dogs are going to be thrown into the snake pit.
Right. That was well said.
Alex, thanks for joining us.
Really appreciate it. Thanks, Brandon.
God bless you guys. That wraps things up for today.
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