Dem-Run Cities are Crumbling, Lee Zeldin Has The Solutions | TRIGGERED Ep.105
Dem-Run Cities are Crumbling, Lee Zeldin Has The Solutions | TRIGGERED Ep.105
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Okay guys, welcome to another huge episode of Triggered.
Today, we're going to be joined by former New York Congressman, former gubernatorial candidate, former armed services member,
And chair of the Leadership America Needs Pack, Lee Zeldin.
Lee Zeldin's a congressman from near where I used to be from before I left the People's Republic of New York.
But Lee is also an incredible America First voice.
He's doing an incredible job
We're good.
For the majority that we at least held before all these retirements in Congress today.
He brought over so many people in New York that literally were Republicans that won Democrat plus 5, 6, 7, 8, 10 points.
And those seats are now held by Republicans.
So while it's a tight margin, Lee Zeldin is single-handedly, in my opinion, responsible for the conservative majority we held that is allowing us to keep the House.
It's probably not going to help us get a lot of legislation passed, but to stop some of the insanity.
Put on us by the Democrats.
So this one's an important interview.
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Guys, with that said, joining me now is my good friend, veteran, congressman, gubernatorial candidate, a true fighter for the America First movement, Lee Zeldin.
Okay guys, we're gonna have some fun with this one because this is actually someone who's a very good friend of mine.
Someone, I think I've done more political fundraisers for Lee Zeldin than probably anyone else.
It was a little bit easy when you were basically, you weren't my congressman, but you were like a zone over.
So it was a quick jump leaving New York City to get to, you know,
Reasonable conservative people in New York, and that exists, and I think, Lee, you ran for governor, and honestly, I think we owe you the Republican caucus in Congress right now, because you brought four congressmen from New York over a line that really helped save the house.
Now, it's still a tight margin, which makes it brutal, but talk about that, because I feel like there was a sort of a universal, you know, likability to you that
We don't often, including myself, don't always ingratiate ourselves to the other side.
How does that work?
Why is it that just in a place like New York, and we saw it in a couple of other locations around the country, Republicans were showing up the way that they should?
And we were getting independents to vote for us the way that they should.
In New York, we were campaigning hard.
We started early, 19 months early.
We were taking nothing for granted.
We were going to the cities.
We were talking to longtime Democrat disenfranchised voters.
And we were not pandering.
We were showing up and talking about issues that mattered to them.
We were generating earned media on the rising crime in New York City.
People getting stabbed or pushed in front of an oncoming subway car.
The Democrats were not there.
Hochul, Adams, others.
So we would have these press conferences the next morning saying, this is bad.
We have a prosecutor like Alvin Bragg refusing to enforce the law.
We need to fire him.
This is what we need to do to have safe streets again.
And that message isn't just something that connects inside of the city.
But if you live in the suburbs, you get your news in the morning or the evening from broadcast where they're covering the story.
So we were driving the message in the suburbs, and we found that on Long Island, New York 1, New York 2, New York 3, New York 4, we won all of them.
Upstate, we won New York 17, New York 19, we almost won 18.
In the Syracuse area, we won New York 22.
We ended up with six house seats.
There are six Republican freshmen who won in seats that Joe Biden won in.
Well, I thought it was only four.
But OK, so six fresh.
I guess it gave us a four seat majority, but it was six that were like Democrat plus districts that were won by Republicans.
Yeah.
Four Democrat held seats.
Ended up being flipped to Republican.
And I mean, thank God that we're not dealing with Speaker Pelosi or Jeffries.
Jerry Nadler in charge of the House Judiciary Committee is a lot different than Chairman Jim Jordan in charge of the House Judiciary Committee.
So the impacts of these campaigns, I think there's an important lesson to learn as we go into 2024.
We have to get in the cities.
There are these disenfranchised Asian-American parents and Hispanic and black voters and Orthodox Jewish voters and they feel like the Democratic Party is harming them.
Yeah.
Well, they're right.
I mean, you see those videos out of like Chicago right now, right?
Like where you have, you know, a group of African-Americans probably never voted for a Republican ever.
And they're like, this is ridiculous.
You're destroying our children.
And it's not even just about safety.
They see the immigration crisis.
They see that they, too, are now being treated like second class citizens in their own city.
And they see it's all coming from one place.
I mean, but New York was interesting.
It's like it's still, you know, deep blue New York that we were able to do that.
Why didn't it resonate elsewhere?
You know, because it didn't make any sense.
And now, obviously, Joe Biden and they're doing it again recently, you know, bribing.
We're going to just get rid of all your student loans.
Congratulations, Mr. Plummer, you can go pay for some kid to get a gender studies degree.
And, you know, they'll continue to vote Democrat as long as we're doing that.
But how did it resonate there?
But not many other places, because it doesn't make sense.
I mean, you you're up against such a bigger machine there.
What can other Republicans do to to make that happen?
I'm going to give you three quick ones, and I'm going to throw another one in for honorary mention.
Number one, you have to work as hard as you can, all in, taking nothing for granted until the last ballot is cast and counted.
There are people out there who are guaranteeing a red wave, red tsunami, and they weren't working for it.
Yeah.
Talk about that.
Expand on that, because you're right.
There are people in Congress who work really hard, and there are people who do almost nothing.
And it's amazing that you can kind of get away with
With the latter.
I have no problem with people being optimistic.
If you want to say, there's a red wave coming, there's a red tsunami coming, and you're going to bust your butt to make it happen?
Hey, God bless you.
Being optimistic, that's a good thing.
But if you're going to be guaranteeing that there's a red tsunami, and you're going to use that as an excuse for not doing anything, and for some people, guaranteeing a red tsunami, they're not even going to vote?
Man, that's a big pet peeve for me.
Yeah.
Like, we need everybody right now doing everything in their power between now and November 24 until the last ballot is cast and counted, and no one can use optimism as an excuse not to bust your butt.
And around the country.
You had a whole lot of people who were not working as hard as they should in order to win.
That's number one.
Two is we need to run as a team.
You have primaries.
When the primaries over and you pick your candidate for state legislature or for Congress or governor or president, you now have a team, the ballot.
You guys agree on so much.
Campaign together because if you're talking about different issues, you're stepping on each other's message.
You're not working hard.
In the military we call it force multiplication.
You're not multiplying each other's effort if you're not firing in the same direction.
The third piece is that a wave momentum is created not by what you're against but what you're for.
So in New York 1, my congressional district in 2016, yes, a lot of people hated Hillary Clinton, but the reason why my district went from an Obama, Obama, Trump district, but it wasn't close, it was a Trump plus like 12 and a half, if you asked voters why,
They would tell you, folks who weren't that engaged knew, they would say, we need to build a wall, we need to stop Common Core, we need to make America great again, we need to drain the swamp, we need to repeal Obamacare.
The Republicans are really good at white papers.
Yeah.
But President Trump in 2016 wasn't out there saying, Hillary Clinton's bad, vote for me.
The Democrats are bad, vote for me.
And just expect that to do the trick.
To actually create a movement, it's what you are allowing people to envision of what they're getting if they give you that power.
And the third, the one piece that I would add on top of that point, the honorary mention is, once the Dobbs decision came out,
If you are a candidate for office, and it's now September-October, you are going to have debates.
And you are going to act shocked when you get asked a question about abortion.
I'm sorry, I didn't think about what I might say in response to this.
There are candidates out there who knew.
Obviously, questions are coming.
Talk about what you believe.
Answer the question directly.
It's not a gotcha question.
2024, they've got nothing else.
It's going to be about that.
I can see that coming.
What are they going to run on?
They've done a great job controlling the borders.
They've done a great job controlling inflation.
They've destroyed everything, but they're going to try to fearmonger on that one.
There are places like New York where they've legalized abortion until the end of a pregnancy.
They've gone so far they can't go any further than they have gone.
The idea that I was going to get to September and October and be surprised that a question would get asked.
So I leaned into it.
I spoke about it.
And you know what ended up happening?
At the end of the day, the campaign was decided based off of the issues that are most important to voters.
Crime, the economy, we were getting over COVID, education.
There were so many other issues that were more important to voters than that one issue.
But if I was surprised at the end of the day and I didn't have a good answer for it, like some of these candidates did across the country.
Well, now you've created an issue because you embarrass yourself so badly with that question that was asked.
So I would just throw that in as an honorary mention if you look back at 22.
Why was there not a national red wave?
I would say we have to work harder, campaign as a team, talk about what you're for, but also don't be naive to the questions that are coming.
Be smart, ready for how to answer it.
You know, so it was an interesting time and now, you know, 22 and now you got 24.
New York's an off-cycle year, right?
So New York governor doesn't go back until 26.
You know, it's almost like they needed another two years.
Like, I wish we were on cycle and you were running for governor right now because I think there's actually a better chance.
The people I see in New York,
That are just so sick of what's going on, you know?
The Eric Adams... Oh no!
We're a sanctuary city!
Wait a minute!
We're not a sanctuary city anymore!
I mean the displacement of veterans from literally publicly funded old age homes to make way for illegal immigrants for free!
It's mind-boggling to me, the insanity that is happening in these cities.
I mean, does it ever get where, like, New York City has just had enough?
Do they see it, or are some of the people, they are either, you know, too sheltered, the Democratic Party has too much control of sort of the lower, you know, economic demographic, and then the rich ones, you know,
Hey, they don't care as much because they would rather virtue signal and that gets them invited to the cool person party.
The migrant crisis, the amount of illegal immigrants who have made their way to New York City since November of 2022 has now created a new number one issue.
I mean, it went from not top three to the number one issue.
And they're failing miserably on it.
And you don't have to be a registered Republican.
We're hearing from independents and Democrats.
Even Eric Adams said this is destroying the city.
There are registered Democrats in New York City who register Democrat because they say that they want their vote to count.
That a general election doesn't matter as much because these races are usually decided by then.
But if you're a registered Democrat, you can vote for the most normal city council candidate.
So there's a lot of Democrats who are conservative and moderate Democrats, a lot of them on Staten Island.
I mean, we won Staten Island by dozens of points.
And that is a very heavily populated area of independents and democrats too.
I found that there are Asian American parents, when you show up, and again, you don't pander, you're not there to say, I love Asian people, vote for me.
Don't do that kind of identity politics, it doesn't work and it shouldn't work.
But when you say that you believe that we should not get rid of advanced academics in the name of equity, that we should not get rid of merit-based entry into specialty schools... Let's take the smart ones and make sure we really screw them over, you know what I mean?
Like, we want to make sure that they're doing math in class that they were doing seven or eight years ago so as not to offend someone else.
Now, by the way, I think that actually ends up being significantly worse because if you're the kid in the class that is underperforming and everyone knows your shit, I mean, you're just like, well, I'm just never gonna...
Why even bother?
It's so insane!
Yeah.
By the way, they oppose critical race theory.
They have members of their own community getting killed, pushed in front of an oncoming subway car, stabbed to their death in lower Manhattan, beaten to death on the street with a hammer.
I did The Breakfast Club when I was running for governor, and I was supposed to go in for a 20-minute interview.
You know, as you know, this is where Hillary Clinton pulled out the hot sauce.
This is where Joe Biden said- Yes, which was one of the more genuine
Does anyone ever believe that Hillary Clinton's ever even had hot sauce?
No, but it's such pandering.
Talking about pandering.
But they get away with it.
Because, like, they'll have enough people that are basically on the payroll to push it.
When it gets really bad, big tech will suppress it.
No one in the media will write about it.
You know, we're just in such a different battle.
Yeah.
You know, we don't get the benefit of the doubt on anything, even if it's 100% obvious what it was.
But you bring up the example of Chicago, and it also is another good example.
You see what's going on with Charlemagne Tha God from Breakfast Club, where I was just going for a 20-minute interview.
I ended up spending an hour and 20 minutes.
And the interview was going really well, by the way, until we started talking about January 6th.
And Charlemagne Tha God was trying to get me to try to create, going along with these legal opinions and theories that just were not accurate.
I'd been an attorney for 20 years.
So then it went probably a little bit downhill for me.
I was going to play along with it.
Unarmed insurrection.
Where the tour guides were armed.
We know this now from the exculpatory video.
You didn't know it for a while.
But it doesn't fly.
The narrative's bullshit.
But he was still holding on to that?
So this is where Joe Biden shows up and said, if you don't vote for me, you ain't black.
Charlemagne the God has now
Started to become very critical now multiple times over recent over this recent couple weeks where he's credit being critical of President Biden and the Democrats.
And I think the message really needs to get out to the Democrats but for Republicans it creates an opportunity.
For us to go talk about conservative solutions.
You have some blacks doing a kid trapped in multi-generational poverty.
There's a better performing charter school that's a half a mile away.
Their kid should have access to school choice and a quality education.
The Hispanic worker, they're just trying to get to the bodega and be safe.
But when they get attacked, like Jose Alba did, it's the bodega worker who gets thrown in prison and slapped hundreds of thousands of dollars.
What about Daniel Penney?
It was a little while ago.
Great example.
Second degree manslaughter.
I'm like, wait a minute.
So everyone, literally everyone on the train says, we were scared for our lives, this guy was a hero.
Now, a chokehold can, like, but there's also sometimes you just have no other choice, right?
If a guy's going freaking, like, everyone is on his side.
Except the cops.
Except the people who make the decisions.
Like, they're trying to force you to never be
The guy to step in and be, it's almost like, you know what?
If they're attacking your children, just let them kill a child.
You can make others, right?
It's fine, but God forbid.
I mean, the guy's got a 30-page rap sheet.
He gets the benefit of the doubt every time.
The other guy's a military guy, a hero.
Everyone that was a witness there said, we feared for our lives.
Everyone said they didn't think he did anything wrong whatsoever.
It doesn't freaking matter because he's gonna be dragged out there.
Like a political pawn.
He's the inverse to George Floyd, who was also a political pawn, utilized perfectly by the Democrat Party to create, you know, uprisings and billion dollars in damage.
But, you know, the people who, you know, you can burn down Portland and Seattle.
It doesn't matter.
That's in the name of social justice.
Therefore, we're not going to we're not going to do anything.
And it's sick to see because they're more than happy to play with the lives of heroes.
I guess to put everyone in order, be like, just, you know, let it happen.
Yeah, and Kamala Harris raising money to bail out these rioters.
They had cashless bail on their national platform in 2020.
And we went through this period where on social media, all of a sudden people were showing the videos of these incidents and the comments that you'd see in reply to the video is,
How bad it is that none of these people who are taking the video were jumping in to protect that victim.
That was a conversation right, left, a lot of people were making that same observation.
But when you see what happens to someone like Daniel Penney and some of these other cases, now you start to understand why there's so many folks who are sitting there with their cell phones and not getting involved.
You go get yourself involved to do the right thing in order to protect people who are getting attacked,
You may end up being the one who ends up getting charged by that prosecutor, if it's a prosecutor like Alvin Brett.
And by the way, if three dudes put down their phones and actually helped, they could probably subdue him with an arm bar rather than a chokehold, but as someone who wrestled at whatever, like...
When you're a one-on-one, and you could be outmatched or outweighed, it's like when they put those restrictions on cops, it's like, so the 150-pound female cop is not allowed to put a choke hold on a guy that's on speed and weighs 250 pounds.
She's gonna get manhandled.
It's not even close, but you put all those limitations on it.
The problem is, in a fight like that,
You're hamstringing yourself, but the other person won't, and if you do it, and if you try to save your own life, and if you have to fight the way you have to fight to survive, you're going to jail.
They want to get rid of the qualified immunity.
You're going to lose your pension, your home, your marriage, probably, and they don't even have your back.
It's lunacy, and the crime that we see is the result of that.
And if you change races,
The law has changed.
The application of the law changes inside a prosecutor's office like the Manhattan DA.
I remember in the Bronx, and this is a different district attorney, this is Darcelle Clark, there was a guy, Jesus Cortez, he was knocked cold into a coma.
The guy who hit him, put on a glove, the glove had steel.
This thing was a weapon.
Deliberately punches Jesus Cortez in a coma while he's sitting there in a coma.
The cops put together a case, charge attempted murder, they have all the ducks lined up so that the person who punched them would stay in jail.
The prosecutor reduced the charges so then that guy ends up getting let loose while the victim is fighting for their life.
And there are prosecutors like this across the entire country who are either in office or others who are candidates for office.
These local races, they matter.
Are these all like the quote-unquote Soros-type DAs, or are there others that just believe in this insanity?
Soros' network...
Funds.
There's no larger donor that I'm aware of funding these efforts to get these prosecutors in.
And getting these prosecutors in, that's just one piece of it.
The Defund the Police agenda was a lot more than just money in defunding.
And there's policy changes that they want.
In New York, they implement Castle Spell.
We're the only state in the entire country that doesn't give judges discretion away dangerousness.
We passed something called the HALT Act, that's a new law that was passed up in Albany by the Democrats, getting rid of the tool of solitary confinement so corrections officers now are having a hard time maintaining good order and discipline inside a correctional facility.
They passed something called the Clean Slate Act, a new law that in 2023 was signed up in Albany where
All sorts of convictions including up to like manslaughter, homicide type charges were included where the slate was just wiped clean as if it never even happened.
It was, you know, these records sealed and if you're... So there's a difference in...
And they'll use the example of the person who was caught smoking weed as if you're not including all these other offenses.
The person who actually started this push, because I was in the state legislature for four years back in the day, was Danny O'Donnell, Rosie's brother.
He was the original person who was pushing this.
He's actually still in the New York State Assembly.
You know, you think Rosie's bad.
Rosie is bad.
Danny's actually, like, in office getting legislation like this passed.
And we're just, like, scratching the surface.
They come back into Albany.
It's one party rule.
And what you see coming out of a state capital like Albany might be coming to a city or state near you.
The sanctuary state policies in New York, the sanctuary city policies coming out of New York City.
You could say, well, I don't live in New York, so this doesn't matter to me.
Well, this is where AOC comes from, and Chuck Schumer comes from, and Hakeem Jeffries and others.
And they're now the voice of the Democrat Party, right?
Amen.
There is, I always say, hey guys, like,
There are some great blue-collar Democrats across the country.
The problem is they don't have anyone representing them in Congress because they won't get the California and the New York City and the Soros money or whatever it takes to actually get into a leadership position.
So they may exist, but if you're voting for them, it's futile at this point because they have no one in power.
The voices of the Democrat Party today, the thought leaders of the Democrat Party today, are the most radicalized of those voices.
Sure, there's a couple that are reasonable, but they have no power.
And guess what?
The one thing the Democrats do do well is they just get in line.
Leadership says this, we're going to do it.
And that's why you see these policies being enacted and then pushed on a national scale.
It's why you see people who are in, let's call it purple, or live in, you know, Democrats who live in, you know, rather conservative areas are still voting for this other crap.
Then they go tell the people what they want to hear.
No one's going to call them out.
No one's going to push them in there.
Media will suppress the Republican opponent from being able to get that message out there.
So it seems like they're doing you a big favor and you're doing great and they're not really for those things.
But the reality is they're all complicit at this point.
Yeah, exactly, and if you claim as a Democrat that you're not one of them, like AOC, then I want to know, in order to show the rest of the world that you're not a coward, are you speaking out against them?
I hate when you see these Democrat governors and mayors who are saying the federal government is not doing enough to secure our southern border.
But they then want to blame the MAGA Republicans as opposed to putting the pressure on Joe Biden.
Yeah.
Because he's the one... Joe Biden could have shut this border down, just so we're clear, because they're going to start this one.
It's like, you know, they'll use, you know, the fact that there's basically no majority in the House, there's nothing, you know, they're going to use that and they're going to try to flip it like...
I don't know, we could have given you something, if you rolled over and everything, this bill that I'm reading about now, this Lankford bill, and this is a Republican senator agreeing with Churchill, 5,000 illegal immigrants a day, every day, forever, guaranteed.
At any other point in history, okay, at any other point in history, that would have been the highest number we even imagined.
So it's an open border.
It's an open border.
They'll push everyone else through.
It's almost guaranteed amnesty, and the Republicans are too weak to actually fight this thing.
Jay Johnson, when he was in the Obama administration, he put out some number like 2,000 or 2,500 a day, like whatever the number was, 1,000.
He put out a number that was a lot less than 5,000, essentially saying that anything more than that was a crisis, an emergency.
Of course.
From day one, as soon as Biden got sworn into office, that the policies that he was implementing was going to cause this crisis, was going to cause this emergency.
He comes in, stops construction of the border wall, ramps up catch and release, attacks the Customs and Border Patrol agents, gets rid of Title 42, gets rid of the Remain in Mexico policy, and now you have these Democrats who are acting as if Congress
Is the lone entity that is able to fix this.
Joe Biden proved, and by the way, no way, and then you could say Donald Trump proved during his four years that the president can do many things himself or herself to be able to get this stuff done.
Joe Biden is proving that there's many things that the president can do themselves in order to be able to open up the border.
President Biden, one of the best examples I saw that really puts a highlight on it was J.B.
Pritzker puts out a letter to the White House, calling on the White House to do something about the open border, Democrat governor, and there was a paragraph in that letter telling that the White House, suggesting the White House should put someone in charge of this whole issue.
Wow, what does that say about Kamala Harris, the borders are?
What does that say about the Secretary of Homeland Security?
Everybody knows!
So to your point about the far, like, the Democrats today, if there's a Democrat out there who wants to claim that they aren't far left, that they're not radical, that they are somebody different and special, well, I want to see your courage in speaking up against your own.
I got, like, Fetterman?
Man, I was, I and many others, like, very critical of this guy.
And, like, he's now, like, on multiple issues proving to be the Senate Democrat who actually makes the most sense.
Okay.
By the way, I agree with you, and I've said... What happened?
He's frank.
I literally put out a tweet two weeks ago, whatever it was, saying, like, hey, he's more based than half of the Republicans in the United States Senate.
I mean, he's no J.D.
Vance, but, like, I'm, like, I'm agreeing with him.
But I also understand how the Democrats operate.
Are they letting him do—do you think it's him on his own?
Because, you know, in all fairness, we were also questioning his mental acuity for quite some time.
Do you think it's him on his own, or do you think this is the ploy to be able to then march him around Pennsylvania with Joe Biden?
Like, no, no, no, we're actually moderate.
We're the good guys.
These are what we believe in, and Joe Biden's going to buy into this, so vote for us.
Just like they told him, hey, we're not going to cancel your, you know, the Keystone Pipeline.
We're not going to do—we would never do that.
So people are like, okay, well, that's a good one.
Day one, cancelled.
I mean, it feels like... I just don't trust these guys to be honest dealers.
And fast-tracking Nord Stream 2 to help the Russians transport gas.
Yeah, what could possibly go wrong?
Like, let's give them more money.
So, to me it feels like a psy-op.
But I agree with you, and I've said it, but it's like, I also don't want to get over my skis and pretend that there's...
There's literally anything that these guys wouldn't do to maintain power.
I mean, I'm just surprised to see that, like, when there is some type of a, you know, pro-Hamas demonstration going on and, you know, he shows up with, you know, his Israeli flag.
I talked about that one too.
Why isn't Schumer and the others doing it?
I don't know exactly what's going on with Federman's health.
I don't know his views on a lot that he hasn't spoken up on.
All I know is that this is the direction that many Senate Democrats should try to go down if they want to start demonstrating that they are anything different
Then the far left, because if you're silent post-October 7th, while anti-Semitism is on the streets, or they're ramping up inside of higher ed, they're in the halls of Congress with some anti-Semites who are actually serving there.
I want to see these Democrats, if you want to claim that you're not them and that you're something different, in moments like these, stand up and be willing to take on your own party.
The folks who are taken to the streets, who are dressed like Hamas,
You're Jewish.
You see what's going on in the streets of New York.
You see what's going on on college campuses.
It's not a protest to say that a Palestinian people should have a right to exist.
It's literally a Hamas did the right thing, this is a necessary thing, and raping women and children in the streets.
That's a difference.
It was shocking.
I'm watching it and listen, it happened at my alma mater.
I went to the University of Pennsylvania.
When I was at Penn, the undergrad population was like 60% Jewish.
It was based on just the facts of the demographic.
They're one of the ones that were unable to denounce, like, the promotion of Hamas.
That was one of the, you know, Harvard, MIT.
By the way, it was a plague everywhere.
You see the riots and the protests in London and this.
I'm like, oh my god, these guys are chanting for the death of an entire religion.
I didn't think this was possible.
And yet, in New York, which is also heavily Jewish, right?
It's going on, and I'm seeing Jews chanting along with them.
I'm like, wait a minute!
Like, it's literally like a scene out of, like, Dave Chappelle's, like, The Black White Supremacist.
You know, what the hell is going on here?
That Queers for Palestine, shutting down the Brooklyn Bridge.
Hamas would kill you.
They would throw you off that bridge in a heartbeat.
Well, they did.
There was a gay activist in Palestine.
They literally, they just killed, like,
Three weeks ago, and I'm like, guys, how's this working out for you, the queers for Palestine?
I will pay for your tickets to go over there to see how it works out.
I don't recommend going to the top of a building because you're probably not taking the elevator down.
I remember in 2015, Obama's pushing the Iran nuclear deal.
At the end of 2016, a U.N.
Security Council resolution is getting passed.
The U.S.
doesn't use our veto power.
We let it go through, essentially seeking to ethnically cleanse Judea and Samaria.
Trump comes into office and he puts a good team together and you have the moving of the embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, signing the Taylor Force Act into law, the Abraham Accords, recognize Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights.
President Trump, I was on stage with him, it was Republicans and Democrats, when he signed a new executive order to combat anti-Semitism on his campuses.
And then the Biden administration comes in and so much has been heading in the wrong direction.
And one of the things that we see on these college campuses, as this was heading in the wrong direction before October 7th hit, is that the Biden administration and Democratic governors, we had this issue in New York, this was an issue during the campaign, they're like afraid of a certain aspect of their own base and they're not challenging these issues head on.
Like you have to identify and confront
And crush antisemitism when it rears its ugly head.
When Rashida Tlaib or Ilhan Omar want to sound off with nasty antisemitism.
If you want to graduate and celebrate your commencement event at the CUNY School of Law, you have to sit through a vile, hate-filled speech of somebody who is antisemitic.
Just at the City University of New York, there was one example after another.
Jewish professors having to resign because they don't feel welcome anymore.
All of those people still voted Democrat.
It never made sense to me.
And yes, Penn is, they took the step of removing their president, but that person stays on payroll, stays as a member of the faculty.
Yeah, Harvard, same thing.
Harvard.
Same issue, also caught plagiarizing.
Wow, we're getting, she's going to keep her million dollar salary.
She should have never been president in the first place, but it was a DEI hire.
We understand that now.
We see it.
If the two of us were sitting there at a congressional hearing and we were asked a question by anyone of whether or not calling for the genocide of
Fill in the blank.
Whether or not that violates your code of conduct, how do you stumble on that?
It depends on the circumstances.
No, you can't do that.
There's a line.
It is important that we protect free speech.
Because it's not free speech.
We've got to be clear about that.
It crosses a line.
If you're part of an institution, I can't just show up...
You know, to Trump org and scream whatever I want and expect to keep my job.
It physically prevents somebody from getting to their classroom.
No one's saying you can't do this, but no one's also saying there aren't consequences to your actions.
Walking someone in a building at Cooper Union.
You can't threaten the lives of people, you know, at a university, especially one getting government funding, etc, etc.
Yeah, and your activities, your actions are actually forcing people to stay inside of a building waiting for law enforcement to come get you out.
Like, this is not free speech.
Well, then watching the left then try to make it a free speech argument.
It's like, wait a minute, for the first time in history, you're now okay with free speech?
I'm like, I remember when you canceled literally anything that said anything against you guys about it.
Yeah, and you want to have an event inside of a classroom at a college, and before your event goes off, the opposition comes in and tears up the classroom, and at the end of it, beyond the intimidation, the actual acts of vandalizing the room, it's free speech.
If the shoe was on the other foot,
Oh, 100%.
You would be kicking the Jews off of campus if they were trying to do that to the group.
How about conservatives?
I've spoken at college campuses around the country, did a lot with Charlie Kirk and Turning Point USA.
We've had the protests come in.
They won't do anything about that.
We've had a place where you sell X number of thousands of tickets.
Well, we're going to give you an arena to talk where it only holds X hundred.
I'm like, no, no, no, but we have 10, 15 times that already sold.
Yeah, you're just not...
Like, we're going to give you the illusion that you have the ability to get it out there, but like Big Tech, or like the mainstream media, you know, let it out there, but we're never going to let it actually get to a critical mass.
We're never going to let it get to a point where you're actually able to speak to everyone that you want to.
We're going to limit it, so we're always working from that disadvantage.
Trump's executive order that I referenced, which by the way should have been a law, he signs this executive order.
I believe that we should be defunding or withholding or leveraging tax dollars going to a university where students are unable to get from their dorm room to a classroom or they're getting locked inside of a building because of folks who are protesting them.
Where you have a president who's unwilling to say that calling for the genocide of Jews violates their code of conduct, why are we funding as heavily these universities when civil rights are being violated when you're crossing that line and it's no longer protected free speech?
Because they're one and the same though.
So how do you separate that?
Right?
No one in Congress is ever going to vote to defund a university because that's where they're starting their indoctrination into the Democrat Party.
It's starting much earlier than that.
The teachers union has a grasp on our children from kindergarten on.
These are the same people that want to force transgenderism.
They want to cut parents out of every aspect of every decision-making process in this child's life.
You know, these are people's parents' rights.
Like, what on earth do you mean?
It's like, wait a minute.
But again, it is so insane that we're even having this conversation, and yet it's a very real conversation.
It's happening.
A three-year-old couldn't buy a pack of cigarettes, couldn't get a tattoo, couldn't do this for 15 years.
But no, no, no.
They cut the parents out and they need to get their gender-affirming care or whatever the hell they're talking about with this bullshit.
It's happening.
Yeah, parents want to be in charge of their kid's education.
Making the decision to send your kid off to a school is not a relinquishment of your rights to be able to control the upbringing of your child.
But there are people on the left and there are teachers unions and there are Democrats in office who want to implement, in many respects have already done it,
Where when the parent sends their kid off to school that they are relinquishing their ability to be a parent and control the upbringing of their child.
And you need conservatives to be able to fight back to make this right.
You can't just be silent on this battle because the left, they are all in.
I remember President Trump had this max pressure strategy on Iran.
Right now you're seeing the left on a very different issue with a max pressure effort in our schools to create a system of brainwashing and indoctrination instead of just providing a quality education.
You see max pressure campaigns from the left.
On many different issues.
And we have to identify that.
I can't think of an issue that is a big issue of the left that isn't a max pressure campaign.
That's the problem.
Everything they do, they're all in.
And we'll sit there like, OK, well, we really believe this, but it's not that much.
I don't want to be yelled at by someone in the Washington Post who literally hates my guts, hates my politics, hates the people who I actually am chosen to represent in their home state, wherever that may be.
But we capitulate.
Now, you have done many episodes and you've had a lot of people on and you've said a lot of things through your shows and otherwise.
If anyone was to re-listen to what you just said.
Like, that right there is one of the most important points of what is happening at this moment in 2024.
And the lesson is that everything that the right believes in, that conservatives believe in, don't be timid about fighting for it.
What you see the left doing is it's max pressure on everything.
Everything.
There's not a single issue that's not max pressure.
There's not a single issue that they wouldn't, you know,
Forgo everything.
And we need to do that.
We need to be all in fighting for what we believe in and stop trying to make believe like this is the politics of 10 years or 20 years ago.
Or by the way, in many respects, still the politics of today.
We just go along, get along, people who are still inside of Congress and elsewhere and just want to survive past our next election in order for us to get
Actual victories on what matters most to protect the Republic and our flag and our freedom and our liberty.
It needs to be max pressure, not just, you're not checking a box.
We need to increase our standards of what it is that we believe is necessary in order to actually win.
So I said it, so obviously I agree with you, but you do have a different, and you see this probably better than anyone in New York.
I try to explain it to some of the guys on the show.
If you're Matt Gaetz in an R plus 97 district, you can go all in on those issues.
If you're Mike Lawler in New York, in a Democrat plus 13 district who happened to win because crime is rampant, people are waking up a little bit, there are issues that are gonna be,
It doesn't seem to hurt the Democrats, meaning you can be a lunatic, you know, abortion till six years after birth, you know, kind of Democrat.
And it doesn't seem to affect them.
But we do have Republicans that cost us sort of that bigger thing.
And by the way, I understand it because I understand in their district, it'll be weaponized so much harder against them.
How do we level that playing field so that so that we can move
You know, move forward together and actually win.
If you want to step up and be a member of Congress or state legislator or governor or president or whatever, you need to understand you are signing up to be a messenger and to lean into communication.
You are going to take some tough votes.
You have to have the willingness to be able to explain to your constituents why it is that you voted a particular way.
In some deep red district, they don't need to provide an explanation.
Some do it anyway.
If you are in a district that Joe Biden won heavily, and you have to take a vote to, let's say, impeach Secretary Mayorkas, that's one of the things that's being discussed right now, you have to have a willingness and ability, a talent, to message and communicate to your own voters to explain why you're taking a position that maybe, even though they voted for Joe Biden, that person you're talking to, that they can understand what you're thinking, what your rationale is,
There are too many people who are stepping up to run who are not good messengers, they're not good communicators, they're quite frankly lazy, and they don't want to take the tough vote.
Yeah, it's like, well, now that I'm in Congress, I'm in the big leagues.
I'm just going to stay here, so I'm a Republican that's going to vote Democrat.
And I'm like, well...
The other side doesn't have that problem.
Yeah.
Even the moderates go full in on the crazy.
And you end up, like, your own base ends up wondering, like, what's the point?
Because you give them a choice between a Democrat and a Democrat-lite.
I've always approached, I mean, I was a New York
We're good to go.
I understood.
I wasn't caught off guard.
I knew that casting the vote was going to be a headache to have to explain to people, especially when you're the only one Republican, Democrat in your entire state voting that way.
But you have to be willing to do it.
You have to be prepared.
Sometimes that shitty vote is going to happen the day before Christmas.
It's going to be some omnibus spending bill that just, it's like a Christmas tree, and they just add everything on it.
I would be maybe the only person who would vote no, and then folks would say, well, oh, you're voting to shut down the government.
No, I was, this is why I voted no.
You explain it to your people, you lean into it, you do the interviews.
We just have to, this is what you're signing up for, you want to be a member of Congress, and you especially want to represent a purple or even blue district, be prepared to lean into some tough votes and explain to people, or heck, you know, maybe just tell them that you're not going to be voting as a Republican up front.
And not only would Democrats be happy to hear it, but I think a lot of Republicans would like to know that too, ahead of time.
Yeah, I think it's important.
So, sort of speaking of which, one of these things that
What do you think?
It's a tough position.
I served with Mike.
Mike and I were actually on President Trump's impeachment defense team on that first impeachment.
And he was a smart guy.
He's a constitutionalist.
Think of this.
He was able to get, with all the chaos, a unanimous vote.
Of the most conservative House Republicans and the most moderate House Republicans, they all voted for him in unity when a lot of people were concluding that no one would be able to get the vote.
The majority is very slim.
It's a very tough job.
I want to see, as someone who spent eight years in a House Republican conference, I want to see these guys be successful because there's so much at stake.
Ultimately, I don't see anyone sitting inside of that speaker's position with a majority that is 219 once the open seat comes with Bill Johnson is vacating to be the president of the university.
I don't see this year being a situation where we're ever going to be happy.
You're not going to pass legislation, right?
We get that.
But can you stop some of the insanity?
Yes, absolutely we have to.
Whether it's a shutdown or this, you can shut down the government but still say, hey, we're going to shut down, but we will agree to pay our debts.
Because the Democrats will leverage, oh, and you can't default on our debt.
And by the way, there's plenty of people watching this right now, they're going to be like, that's bullshit, Don.
It's like, no, no, no, you don't understand what that would do to our economy.
Like, we would no longer be the reserve currency of the world, which may do us a favor because at least we won't be able to spend on bullshit, but we also wouldn't be able to spend on basically living at this point with all the bloat.
We gotta get rid of that stuff, but it's not so simple.
But you also need the resolve to do that.
So when I look at it, I'm like, he's a nice guy.
He's a smart guy.
But there is something about being also politically astute.
And you know, say what you want about Chuck Schumer.
These guys are, you know, are they rolling him in these things?
When I see the picture, he's coming out with Mitch and we're getting along.
And I get the photo op of this, but like,
You know, are these guys getting steamrolled because they just don't have that ability to function within that world?
And that's just, it takes a different kind of animal.
The animal's the worst.
You have to fight the fight.
The Senate Democrats, and in many respects you won't see that of, you know, some of the Senate Republicans who are sitting at the table.
You're not going to get it out of the White House.
The last line of defense in 2024.
Is the House Republican Conference.
So everything that matters.
Understanding, by the way, that voters, yes, will have an opportunity this November to correct a lot of what is wrong.
But between now and then, in order to be able to defend our republic, to secure our borders, to keep this administration accountable, we need Mike Johnson and the House Republican Conference to be outperforming expectations
I just happen to believe that it is going to be a difficult year, but even though it's difficult, listen, there's no excuse for not getting it done.
Yeah, we'll give you a couple bucks for the border.
It doesn't actually solve anything, but you're going to get less than 60 billion to perpetuate the death and destruction and mayhem of the Ukraine war, which Ukraine has exactly zero chance of winning.
Because, you know, someone wants their board seat at Boeing, so they'll spend $60 billion to make, you know, a six-figure bonus next year for them.
And that's the problem.
I mean, we're fucking our country over with these decisions.
And, like, when do we say, enough's enough?
We do have to take the risk.
Sure, the Democrats will message a shutdown better than we will.
The media will be all over it.
But when do you have the resolve to actually say, I don't care.
It's the right thing to do for the American people.
And then we got to get out there and actually fight that battle.
Yeah.
Listen, as someone who did not vote in favor of multiple Ukraine aid packages, I am not intimidated by what is now the responsibility to explain to people why I have a position that I have.
And I think that the Republicans need to do a better job calling on this administration to identify exactly what winning is in Ukraine, because they have no idea and they haven't articulated it.
And we should not be providing aid towards a foreign conflict ever without having any idea whatsoever being articulated by the administration of what the endgame is.
Well, how about like what the money's actually being spent on?
Right.
I mean, we don't have that.
I mean, the Pentagon lost, what was it, $220 billion last- and it's like, I don't know, it just happened.
They literally can't account for it.
The same government, the same administration that wants, if I have a Venmo account for $601, they want a full audit, and if I screw something up, I'm going to jail.
Lost $220 billion, I'm sure that was all sent to Ukraine, I'm sure they're getting it all back, but like, they're still not telling us where it went.
You know, they don't not only have an endgame, they're not even monitoring what's going on.
I mean, we got random missiles all over the place.
I'm sure that won't be used against us in the not-too-distant future.
I mean, every time we've armed, let's call it, you know, out-of-control regimes, you know, it usually comes back to bite us in the ass, you know, see Afghanistan and others, you know.
How come no one can say that?
Mitch McConnell has said, and I don't know if you've seen me do this, I know we've talked about it, but Ukraine is the number one issue for Republicans in America.
I've been all over America, I speak to more people on a weekly basis than Mitch McConnell has spoken to in his entire political career because no one gives a shit and no one shows up other than the big donors.
It's not a top 10 issue.
I've done the surveys.
I do it every time I speak in front of thousands of people, which is multiple times a week.
One person one time said it was a top 10 issue.
He happened to be from the Ukraine, so I get it.
I'm gonna give him a pass.
So, if you take away the people who are biased because they actually are from there,
Exactly zero Republicans think of it as a top 10 issue, and yet our representative in the Senate that has trillions of dollars to spend will more than happily mortgage our children's futures to the Hilt.
It's the number one issue.
It's not!
It's not a number one issue for anyone outside of D.C.
And you go one step further, and you ask the Republicans, do you want to provide more aid, regardless of whether it's a top 10 issue or not.
You go one step further, you ask them anyway.
So do you want to provide more aid or no?
Most Republicans would say no.
And I think that we just touched on two what should be rules whenever the United States is ever considering the possibility of providing a dollar of foreign aid towards any conflict anywhere is whoever is in charge must
Be required to define exactly what the mission is, what success is, what's the end game.
You have to actually have a strategy to achieve it.
And secondly, to your point, which is absolutely right, there needs to always be a full accounting.
And when a member of Congress is asking a question about how this money is being spent, they get attacked as if they're like unpatriotic.
No, it's our job.
You're members of Congress.
You're stewards of the tax dollars.
You have an obligation to tell your constituents that you asked the question, and not only do you ask the question, you actually know the answer, and here's the answer.
I think these are two rules that, you know, right now we're having this conversation in 2024.
If it was 2044,
It should still apply, it should still withstand the test of time and be two things that needs to be part of the process to even consider a single dollar of foreign aid to a military, to a foreign conflict.
Yeah, well, it's like Mitch has been there for 50 years, whatever, you know, he's glitching, it's almost like he doesn't realize, like...
It isn't the Cold War still.
It's like, oh, we got to take out Russia at all costs.
I'm like, I don't understand.
For Ukraine?
Like, a country that was literally listed as, even by many U.S.
standards, as more corrupt than Russia before?
I'm sure this is not a big graft ring.
Because of course it is.
Of course it is.
You know, our sanctions against Putin has actually helped Russia.
It's trimmed up the price of oil, which is allowing them to continue the war forever.
They're getting off the reserve currency of the United States because our sanctions prohibit them from doing it, so they're going to trade with the Saudis and the Yuan and China and all that.
I mean, we are literally screwing ourselves in this whole process.
Yeah.
And as somebody who is critical of Ukraine, the corruption has been there a long time, one administration to the next, that's a real issue.
As somebody who is on Putin's permanent sanctions list and permanently banned from visiting Russia, but using this particular conflict as an example, what matters most is what is in America's best interest.
And how can you ever be more concerned about another nation's border when you are not providing the proper attention and focus to your own border?
And I'll say one other thing, by the way, about this whole Russia versus Ukraine, this would not have happened.
If President Trump was still in office.
In August of 2021, when we were doing a fatally flawed withdrawal from Afghanistan, a total faceplant that turned 13 Blue Star families into Gold Star families, you know Putin was watching because he wants to go into Ukraine.
You know that Xi is watching, he wants to go into Taiwan.
North Korea ramps up the missiles after it, the test firing of missiles.
Iran ramped up their uranium enrichment.
The whole world watched and they concluded that we had a weak
Underbelly, a vulnerability at the highest level of the government.
We gave them every excuse they needed to do what maybe they wanted to do anyway, but they would never have done underbelly.
I don't believe Russia ever would have gone into Ukraine in the first place if President Trump was still in office.
I'm convinced of it.
President Trump would have said, hey, guess what?
We've always had this thousand mile buffer zone between NATO and you.
You know, we're just going to bring him in.
It's like, that's all he needed.
He's been waiting to, if he wanted to invade, that was the excuse he needed.
If he didn't, we almost forced his hand.
It's lunacy.
So, you know,
The next thing, you were floated.
You were floated as possibly taking over the RNC.
I asked you for your assessment of Speaker Johnson.
What about the RNC?
How do we do that to fix that?
Because I see it here all the time.
I mean, there are people that are
Very, let's say, disenfranchised from the RNC.
They're more Trump than anything.
I mean, you know, the number one question, how do I donate to Trump without donating to... And it's like, it's a problem because we do understand the infrastructure of that to help the down-ballot stuff that you're talking about.
That'll be what I want to ask you about next.
It's all critical.
What do you do?
I mean, they floated you there.
You weren't even seeing a member of Congress.
And they were like, hey, put Lee Zeldin in as RNC, and I think you'd do an awesome job.
How do we fix that?
So I'm one of the chairs at the America First Policy Institute, and we have a C4 called America First Works, and we've been working with conservative groups, Turning Point and others, reaching out to different demographics across the country.
We're filling gaps that, quite frankly, shouldn't be gaps.
And I am not going to sit here and tell you that I think that everything that we can identify that needs to improve with the Republican Party is going to get fixed by November.
My top priority is making sure that President Trump gets into office in November.
We need to keep the House.
We need to win back the Senate.
There's going to be other important races on the ballot.
I believe that the RNC needs to lean more heavily into voter outreach.
If a state legalizes ballot harvesting, listen, I think there should be ballot harvesting in all 50 states.
It's a bad thing.
If the state wants to legalize it, the RNC needs to take the lead in making sure that Republicans are ballot harvesting
Better than Democrats, to the point Democrats are regretting it.
You can't change these laws unless you're in power to actually change them.
And we've seen, even in places like, you know, the left will strong-arm the Republican on the commission and, okay, fine, I'll give you what you want, just please leave me alone, don't hurt me.
It's brutal.
But we've got to play the game based on the battlefield.
Whatever the battlefield is, we can't just forfeit the game.
So, and you said something important about the down-ballot races.
I mean, how do we focus on getting those guys that are there, that are electable,
Strong sort of America first candidates, get them to win down ballot races in like Ohio, Arizona, Nevada.
You know, there's so much out there.
And you know, how do we set up that system to make sure those people win so you don't have the Republicans just sort of just roll over and die every time the Democrats would like them to?
Because I think that's how we effectuate the most amount of change.
I support, as you mentioned, three states.
In Ohio, I support Bernie Moreno as one of his first endorsements.
He's in a competitive Senate race.
This is a seat that we have to win, we should win, we should have it right now, but we don't.
The Democrats are in the seat.
Hopefully, Bernie is successful in his primary.
He'd be an amazing Senator.
A great Senator in Ohio right now is the junior Senator, J.D.
Vance, who's doing an amazing job.
It would be great to get Bernie in.
In Arizona, Carrie Lake is running.
My message to all those Republicans who are out there that if you care about a higher stake, a moment in time where we have to defend our republic,
Regardless of whether you did everything in your power when she ran for governor or not, I am asking you out there, anyone out there in Arizona, to help make sure that she's the next senator from Arizona.
Yeah, this is our last chance on the Senate map, right?
Because, you know, there's only 100 senators and it's a six-year term.
It's not like Congress where you're running every two years like a dancing monkey.
You're there.
This is the last time where we have, let's call it, you know,
Good candidates in purple states that we could actually make some gains in the Senate.
And you see with these close tiebreakers, if you end up with a stalemate that just—a disaster, you know, it's literally like a decade before we have another favorable map where it's not just, hey, the people that are coming up are hardcore blue states, like, you know, New York, you know, coming up and—like,
You're not flipping a seat there.
You know, this time you have Arizona, you have Montana, you have Ohio, you have places that are, you know, clearly like we could actually make gains if we fight it right.
But after that, it's literally like I think I was talking to Steve Daines from Montana, and he was like, it's literally like 10 years before we get another chance to ever change that demographic towards our favor.
And when you win one of these Senate seats, as you point out, they're there for six years.
It's also, if you want to think six years down the road, it's easier to win that race six years from now.
Correct, because you're in.
Because the Senator is in there.
In Nevada there's a candidate, again another Republican primary, there's a guy, Jeff Gunter, he was the U.S.
Ambassador to Iceland under President Trump, but that's a competitive primary.
I support Jeff Gunter in that primary.
He's a little bit more of an underdog there.
But wherever you're tuning in from, all across the entire country, get to know these down-ballot candidates.
And again, not just down-ballot in Congress, let's be clear.
Congress is great, the Senate is great.
Run for your school board.
Find the person who's not, like, a lunatic trans activist trying to indoctrinate your children.
Like, we gotta get—like, honestly, we're almost at the point where, in my opinion, the Democrats and the radical left have subverted so much of the hierarchy, we almost have to do it the other way, right?
And this is kind of—yeah, I want to win the presidency, I want to win all these houses, but, like, we also have to go bottom up.
The lowest, at least on paper, you know, importance races, you know, the school boards, you know, state legislatures, like, get involved because that's how they did it.
They took it from all the way there and they corrupted everything throughout the way.
We got to get in there and take those things back over and create some reasonableness from the bottom up.
Yeah, this is, it's so important, the drop-off that you go down ballot, people will show up, they will vote for president, and then they'll walk out.
And you end up helping elect more Democrats by doing that.
When the Democrats are successful in convincing their voters to not just vote for the presidential race, but to go vote blue all the way down to the end of the line, at the end of the line there are important races for judges,
Uh, you're turning over the entire judicial branch if you don't go down to the bottom of the ballot.
It's your local races.
And by the way, if somebody slips in for some town supervisor position, you're actually helping that person, maybe one day that Democrat, get elected to the Congress.
Sheriff!
Town supervisor, you're right.
Who do you want making your decisions?
The reality is the ones that will progress will be the most radical.
We've seen that.
They're doing it all the time.
If you get a liberal sheriff, you're not going to have anyone enforcing crime.
But they'll be well-funded.
We've got to get involved from the bottom up.
You know, before we came in here, Kim pointed out that it's been seven minutes since the last time you did a fundraiser for me.
No, I just want to say thank you, because from very early on, actually, when I first ran for Congress, and I wasn't even in Congress yet,
It was a very important high profile endorsement in a competitive Republican primary where millions were being spent against me.
It was the Trump family all in in that race.
They were the high profile early supporter.
It put us over the top.
We ended up going from down to we ended up winning by 20 plus points.
And every step of the way, and this is before, you know, your father was a candidate for office.
You guys have always been amazing.
And it's not that, you know, Donald Trump Jr.
has done a fundraiser for me once.
I'm talking about, like, we've lost count.
Who knows how many events you've done.
And what a lot of people don't realize is how much time you're dedicating.
You never asked for anything.
You weren't asking for like, you know,
Money or endorsements, right?
Like, you've never asked for anything.
You don't do that from anyone.
You're just doing it because you care about the country.
Or I'm a schmuck, one way or the other.
No, you're a patriot.
Yeah, I believe in this stuff, sir.
You're a good man, and for everyone who's tuning in, who follows Don, thank you.
We need to get this message out, and I wish that we could clone you and have many others like you who have
The ball's max pressure to go all in on the causes that are most important to us.
And for everything that you've done involved on the east end of Long Island and in New York, all of your help through the years, it really means a lot.
I want to say thank you.
It's my pleasure, man.
Thank you for all.
By the way, Lee is the same way, man, just steadfast and loyal.
I know you're traveling with my father as we leave from this, so I know you got to get rolling, but I appreciate everything that you're doing out there.
You've shown that even in places like deep, dark, blue New York, you can actually make a difference.
You don't just have to seed
You know, one of the biggest states in the Union.
We can fight back, we can win with logic, reason, and if you have the work ethic, a lot can happen.
I gotta say one thing quick.
New York is 22% Republican.
But we got just under 50% of the vote.
I don't care what state you are from tuning in.
I bet you, you probably have a lot more than 22% of your state registered Republican.
And even in a state like that, we got just under 50% of the vote.
So I hope that we end up with an expanded map.
Yeah.
That we go on offense and we make history this November.
Let's do it man.
Thanks a lot.
Appreciate it.
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