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President Trump - March 6th, Hour 2
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CPAC took place this weekend in the straw poll.
Donald Trump came away far and away.
The winner with 62% of the vote.
The next closest candidate was Ron DeSantis.
I think at 20%.
And then it goes downhill from there for everybody else.
The president was extraordinarily passionate about everything that he was saying and what is on the line this election that is coming up, this presidential election.
He pledged not to ever retreat.
He pledged that as president, he's never going to be intimidated.
He's never going to be bought off.
He's never going to be blackmailed.
He's never going to be ripped to shreds.
He said that while he faces relentless attacks, he's not the target.
The real target are you, the American people that he's standing up for.
He talked about our enemies are desperate to stop us because they know that if we are the only ones that can stop them, and they know that we can defeat them, they know that we will defeat them, but they're not going to be coming after me.
They're coming after you.
And then he went through a long litany about the state of the world, war and peace, and open borders and law and order and homelessness and radical climate alarmist cultism, championing parental rights,
promoting patriotic education, talking about protecting women's sports, protecting our kids, protecting America first in free and fair trade, getting out of globalism and organizations like the WHO and the Paris Accords, etc.
Here's part of his speech.
And I will implement a four-year plan to phase out all Chinese imports of essential goods and gain total independence from China.
We have to do it.
We have to do it.
I will hold China financially accountable for unleashing the China virus upon the world.
And I will again withdraw from the WHO, which stands for We Hide Outbreaks.
We hide outbreaks.
In 2016, I declared, I am your voice.
Today I add, I am your warrior.
I am your justice.
And for those who have been wronged and betrayed, I am your retribution.
I am your retribution.
Not going to let this happen.
Not going to let it happen.
I will totally obliterate the deep state.
I will fire the unelected bureaucrats and shadow forces who have weaponized our justice system like it has never been weaponized before.
Sick.
These are sick people.
I will put the people back in charge of this country again.
The people will be back in charge of our country.
And instead of spending hundreds of billions of dollars to defend the borders of distant foreign countries, under my leadership, we will defend our borders first.
Three years ago, we had the safest border in the history of our country.
And I will quickly do that again.
All right, joining us now, the 45th President of the United States, Donald J. Trump is back with us, sir.
How are you?
Hi, Sean.
Let me throw out a general question, and then you can take it anywhere you want to take it.
And this is how I see the world right now.
In two short years since you've been out of office, a little over two years now, we see the territorial ambitions of both Russia and China on full display.
We're being told that Iran may already be or is very close to becoming a nuclear power.
We had in two years over five plus million people enter this country illegally, aided and abetted by Joe Biden not enforcing our laws.
We went from energy independence and being a net exporter of energy.
Now we know we're importing 3 million barrels of oil a day from Venezuela, and we are now energy dependent like never before.
I'm looking at everything from the economy.
Two-thirds of Americans now are living paycheck to paycheck.
You have more people now cashing in their 401ks, their retirement plans, because the average American household is paying $10,000 and Biden inflation tax.
And it all has gone to hell with record speed.
I never thought it would get this bad this fast.
Well, Sean, it's a question.
I could talk to you about it all day, to be honest with you.
I could tell you what they're doing, what went wrong, how foolish it is.
We had the safest border in history.
Now we have the worst border in history.
I think that includes other nations because no nation's ever had a border like this.
It's ridiculous.
And, you know, the number of 5 million, I think it's going to be 15 million by the end of this year.
15 million people come in from prisons, from insane asylums, from mental institutions.
These are the people.
We have a lot of these people coming in.
And the jails are being emptied all over the world.
Not just the three or four countries that I mention all the time, but all over the world, they're being emptied.
They're dumping people like a dumping ground.
They're dumping people into our country.
This was nothing like this was happening.
We had the best, we had the most secure border we've ever had.
And I built hundreds of miles of wall.
I was going to build more in areas that we actually needed it, that people didn't assume we needed so much.
But, you know, when you put it in one area, they go to another.
It's sort of like water.
But it was, we did a great job.
Stay in Mexico.
Remain in Mexico was incredible, how it worked.
Remain in Mexico was just unbelievable.
You think that was easy to get a deal with Mexico, but I did it by saying, look, if you don't do it, we're going to put tariffs on all your cars and everything you sell into the United States.
They said, sir, we'd be honored to do it.
We'd be honored to allow millions of people to stay in Mexico.
They were pouring into our country.
We had it done so well, including our medical reasons for staying out.
You know about that, and you reported on it better than anybody.
So all of this happened, and then, you know, you look at what's going on with Ukraine.
That would have never happened.
Inflation would have never happened.
Let me ask you about Ukraine.
You've said that before.
Why would it not have happened if you were president?
Are you talking about which one with Ukraine?
Yeah.
Yeah, because Putin understood that you can't do it.
You can't do it.
Don't forget, under Bush, they take over Georgia.
Under Obama, they took over Crimea.
And under Biden, they're taking over everything.
It looks like they're going to take over everything, the whole thing.
They're going to go for the whole enchilada.
They're going for everything.
That's what it looks like to me.
You know, that's not what you hear on the fake news, but that's what it looks like to me.
And under Trump, you know what they took over?
They took over nothing, Russia.
First time, first president in a long time.
He understood.
He would have never done it.
He would have never.
That's without even negotiating a deal.
I could have negotiated.
At worst, I could have made a deal to take over something.
You know, there are certain areas that are Russian-speaking areas, frankly, but you could have worked a deal.
And now Ukraine is just being blown to smithereens.
And people are dying.
And these cities that were so beautiful, old cities, the ancient cities, they're just being absolutely wiped off the face of the earth.
But so many people are dying.
So many more people are dying than it's reported.
And that something would have never happened.
And China could be next, you know, because China no longer respects the United States.
It's sad.
But they don't respect us.
And they're talking about Taiwan.
They're looking at what we do.
They're looking at all of the stupidity.
I'll tell you, a terrible thing was what happened in Afghanistan with the Taliban.
What happened in Afghanistan and the fact that we left early.
We actually left early.
We're supposed to leave late.
We left early.
The fact that that happened, Sean, was so bad.
I think that's what gave Putin the extra little boost to go in and do it.
But he would have never done it with us.
He would have done it for another reason, too.
Number one, he wouldn't have done it, but he also wouldn't have done it because I would have had oil down to $40 a barrel.
And it was actually up to $115 for a period of time.
He made a lot of money on it.
That's hard to believe, right, with all the war.
But they made a lot of money because at $115, that nation was really, really rich and is now because it's still very high.
And it wouldn't have been at that kind of a level.
So it wouldn't have happened there.
We were energy independent.
You know that?
Better than anybody.
We were energy independent, soon to be energy dominant.
We were going to be so dominant that we would have started paying off our debt.
We would have been reducing taxes still further.
I gave the largest tax cuts in history.
I gave the largest, the largest cuts.
Think of this, largest tax cuts and largest regulation cuts in history.
No president came close.
And that's why we created an engine, the likes of which nobody has ever seen until COVID.
And then I did it again.
I rebuilt it and handed over a higher stock market.
Think of it.
Handed over a higher stock market than they had just prior to COVID coming in.
And just, we did an amazing job.
We rebuilt the military.
We came up with right to try, things like right to try, where people were going all over the world.
If they had enough money to do so, trying to find a cure for a terminal disease, we wouldn't allow anyone to get near it.
And I made it so that if somebody is very ill, we can give a lot of our medicines prior to approval.
And they're working.
Thousands and thousands of lives are being saved.
It's amazing, actually.
So, I mean, we did things that nobody ever even thought of doing.
But we were going to be energy dominant.
Would have been literally, we were already bigger than Saudi Arabia, and we were bigger than Russia.
We would have been bigger substantially than both of them combined in a very short period of time.
I got NWAR approved.
Ronald Reagan tried.
He couldn't do it.
Nobody could do it.
I got NWAR.
It was all approved.
Practically in their first week of office in office, they ended NWAR.
That's the largest, probably the largest oil site in the world, similar to Saudi Arabia.
Some people say it could be bigger.
They've been trying for it for decades.
They couldn't get it approved.
I got it fully approved, fully approved.
And so we did a great job.
And then I see what's happening now to our country.
Our country is a laughingstock.
But a lot of bad things happened in Afghanistan in terms of enthusiasm, in terms of respect.
I don't think there's ever been a time in our country's history where we were mocked like that.
That was one of the worst, worst moments in time in our country's history.
And I think that emboldens a lot of other places when you see that.
One of the things I was able to do, you knew this, you reported on it better than anybody, frankly, is I was able to get the NATO nations to pay up.
They weren't paying.
They were delinquent.
They weren't paying.
They weren't paying their fair share.
And you also, by the way, were successful in getting out of the Paris Climate Accords that recognized both China and India as developing nations.
And we paid the bulk of money in that deal.
And the WHO, same thing there.
And the WEF.
The World Organization was with.
The WEF.
I want out of all these globalist organizations myself.
Well, generally, they're no good.
But the World Health Organization, we were paying almost $500 million a year.
China was paying $39 million.
We have 350 million people.
China has 1.4 billion people.
They're paying $39 million a year.
We're paying almost $500 million.
So I got out, not for that reason.
I got out because of how badly they handled the pandemic.
I mean, they didn't know what was happening.
So I got out, and they wanted me back in, meaning this country back in so badly that I could have gotten it for $39 million, probably less.
Should be less, actually.
But I could have had that easily done.
But I said, no, maybe we'll talk about it at a later date.
No, no, no.
And then they just went in.
They're paying the full almost $500 million now.
There's no reason to.
They were willing to give us a tremendous, you know, you're talking about $400, $450 million a year.
When you talk trillions, it doesn't sound like much.
But, I mean, this is for the sake of one sentence on a phone call.
Give us the same deal you would have given Trump.
So I was at $39 million, the same as China.
And I could have gotten it.
If you think about it, Charlotte, I could have gotten it for less, I believe, because, again, we have a, you know, it's a smaller in terms of people.
It's a smaller country.
So, pretty amazing when you see this stuff happen.
They just signed a deal with the World Health Organization, and I guess they're paying the original price, which is just so interesting.
Did they sign that deal?
Because if there was a future pandemic, that would result in us in the middle of the pandemic, before taking care of every American, promising that we'd give the World Health Organization 20% of everything that we had regarding, you know, if we had a vaccine, if we had any type of therapeutics, if we had any type of testing, we would hand over supplies that I'm sure at the time would be desperately needed by Americans first.
Well, the deal they're talking about is that it literally would mean that they would handle the pandemic in the United States.
And you saw how they handled it generally.
They didn't really know what they were talking about.
Wasn't too good.
That's the real reason I got out, not just the money.
It was the fact that they gave very bad advice to the world.
They didn't know or they knew or they were giving it to China Line.
You know, China dominates the World Health Organization.
So for 39 million, they dominate.
For 500 million, we don't dominate.
You explained that one.
But no, they want to take over the whole thing and we will be totally subject to whatever they want.
Who negotiates these deals?
Where are the people that negotiate deals like this?
I mean, I could say the same thing with NAFTA.
I got rid of NAFTA and we did the USMCA and, you know, Mexico-Canada.
And it's a great deal.
We went from a horrible deal to a great deal.
Everyone said there's no way I'd be able to get rid of NAFTA because if, you know, you have to go through the legislature.
I got it through.
We got it through the Senate.
We got it through Congress.
We got it through everything.
And it's such a good deal that Mexico and Canada are now trying to renegotiate the deal.
And I suggest we don't do that because we lived with NAFTA for years.
It was so bad.
It was the worst trade deal, probably.
That was one of the worst.
Quick break.
We'll come back.
Bore with the 45th president of the United States, now officially a candidate running for president for 2024.
He gave this big speech at CPAC over the weekend.
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What I told people, I was making a podcast about Benghazi.
Nine times out of ten, they called me a masochist, rolled their eyes, or just asked, why?
Benghazi, the truth became a web of lies.
It's almost a dirty word, one that connotes conspiracy theory.
Will we ever get the truth about the Benghazi massacre?
Bad faith, political warfare, and, frankly, bullshit.
We kill the ambassador just to cover something up.
You put two and two together.
Was it an overblown distraction or a sinister conspiracy?
Benghazi is a Rosetta Stone for everything that's been going on for the last 20 years.
I'm Leon Napok from Prologue Projects and Pushkin Industries.
This is Fiasco, Benghazi.
What difference at this point does it make?
Yes, that's right.
Lock her up.
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Hey there, I'm Mary Catherine Hamm.
And I'm Carol Markowitz.
We've been in political media for a long time.
Long enough to know that it's gotten, well, a little insane.
That's why we started Normally, a podcast for people who are over the hysteria and just want clarity.
We talk about the issues that actually matter to the country without panic, without yelling, and with a healthy dose of humor.
We don't take ourselves too seriously, but we do take the truth seriously.
So if you're into common sense, sanity, and some occasional sass, you're our kind of people.
Catch new episodes of Normally every Tuesday and Thursday on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen.
What I told people I was making a podcast about Benghazi, nine times out of ten, they called me a masochist, rolled their eyes, or just asked, why?
Benghazi, the truth became a web of lies.
It's almost a dirty word, one that connotes conspiracy theory.
Will we ever get the truth about the Benghazi massacre?
Bad faith, political warfare, and frankly, bullshit.
We kill the ambassador just to cover something up.
You put two and two together.
Was it an overblown distraction or a sinister conspiracy?
Benghazi is a Rosetta Stone for everything that's been going on for the last 20 years.
I'm Leon Nayfak from Prologue Projects and Pushkin Industries.
This is Fiasco, Benghazi.
What difference at this point does it make?
Yes, that's right.
Lock her up.
Listen to Fiasco, Benghazi, on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
I'm Ben Ferguson.
And I'm Ted Cruz.
Three times a week, we do our podcast, Verdict with Ted Cruz.
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Hey, ladies and gentlemen, it's sick and it's getting sicker.
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Sean, if you want to be a part of the program, we continue with the 45th president of the United States, now officially a candidate for president for 2024.
If you really think about it, one year from now, I believe we'll be past the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary and the South Carolina primary and probably headed right into Super Tuesday and all those states that are available.
Winner-take-all, I believe, is the system.
Mr. President, thanks for sticking around with us.
Let me stay a little bit on foreign policy for a second, and then I want to talk more about the economy because Americans economically are suffering so badly right now.
It should break everybody's heart because I would argue that all of this is preventable.
All of it is unnecessary.
I mentioned Russia.
We see their territorial ambitions on display.
You knew that as president.
You knew that Vladimir Putin wanted to go back into Ukraine.
He wanted more than Crimea.
You knew that President Xi also similarly had territorial ambitions for Taiwan.
We see what's now going on with the communist Chinese, and that is they've been flying their fighter jets over Taiwan airspace.
They've been threatening the United States to stay out of Taiwan, even though they're an ally of ours.
They're getting more hostile, seemingly, by the day, and there seems to be a new axis of evil, and that is an alliance between China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea.
How do you see it?
Are they going to go for Taiwan?
Well, we always said keep China and keep Russia away.
Now we have China, Russia, North Korea.
We had probably plenty more.
We have Iran.
They're all teaming up now.
And before they're natural enemies, it should be a natural enemy deal.
But under this group, they've all gotten together.
Nobody thought it was even possible.
Nobody thought it was absolutely even possible.
And, you know, it's very sad when you look at what's going on.
The world has never been in more danger, in my opinion, because of nuclear weapons than it is right now.
I had Iran to a point where they would have made a deal within one week after the election.
They would have made a deal, and it would have been a good deal.
It would have been wonderful.
They wouldn't have had nuclear weapons, et cetera, et cetera.
Now, I read in the papers, now, so much of it is fake, but I read in the papers that they're about seven days away from having a nuclear weapon Iran.
I'm reading the same papers that you're reading.
It's scary.
Yep, that's going to be a tough group to negotiate with, Sean.
Let me tell you, I know from personal experience, when they have that, that we're allowing it to happen is even crazier.
That we're allowing this to happen.
We just can allow it to happen.
But they were not going to have nuclear weapons.
And they would have been very.
I stopped China.
China wasn't buying oil from them.
They were at a point where they had to make a deal, and they wanted to make a deal.
And now they're getting rich.
China's buying massive amounts, record-setting amounts of oil from them.
Everybody is.
The whole thing is so sad.
It was literally on the doorstep of having that done and properly because the Arabia was the worst deal.
Another horrible deal that was made.
So stupid.
Let me ask specifically on China.
Do you believe in the next two years that China, they call it reunification with Taiwan?
I would call it an invasion.
Do you believe that China will take over Taiwan?
And if they do, what do you think the reaction of Joe Biden would be, and what would your reaction be?
Well, I think Joe Biden is compromised.
He did deals with China or they paid a lot of money to the family.
And I think he's compromised.
I really do.
Because his stance on China, like with the blimp or the balloon flying off, and then they shoot it down after it does all of its work.
I mean, you know, the whole thing is crazy.
But there's so many things.
By the way, I got to stop.
In my entire lifetime, I don't think there's been a more humiliating moment than allowing a Chinese spy balloon to fly over Alaska airspace down the west coast of Canada into Idaho, over Montana, where our ICBM missile sites are, then to Kansas, Missouri, Kentucky, then off the coast of the Carolinas.
I can't believe it.
I think more humiliating, though, in terms of total humiliation was Afghanistan, the way we left.
The way we left, not that we left.
I had it down to 2,500 soldiers.
We were going to keep Bagram.
You know that.
We talked about it a long time ago because not for Afghanistan, but it's one hour away from where China makes its nuclear weapons.
And we're going to keep Bagram.
We gave up Bagram, one of the biggest, greatest military bases, Air Force bases in the world.
Land the largest planes here.
The runways are the biggest and the strongest.
They can hold anything.
But that would have given us a positioning place against our number one geopolitical foe, and that is President Xi.
Now, you met President Xi.
You met Kim Jong-un.
You met Vladimir Putin.
What were these people like?
They're at the top of their game.
They are smart, cunning.
They want to do what's right for their country.
They want to win.
They want to win.
And they cannot right now believe what they're getting away with.
All of them.
They can't believe what they're getting away with.
So I had Kim Jong-un.
I got along with him great.
Nobody else got along with him.
They couldn't even deal with him.
They couldn't even meet, and they wanted to meet.
They tried.
They couldn't meet with him.
I got along with them very well.
We had no problem.
And we would have had to deal with them too, by the way.
We would have absolutely had to deal with them.
And now he's going around making missiles all over the place.
He's back to firing them.
A lot of rocket man's back.
He's firing them all over.
And, you know, you look at Iran.
Iran wasn't doing anything with me.
They were not.
There's no way they would have been doing.
And now they can't go fast enough.
You know, when you hear these reports going on, they cannot go fast enough.
It's a very, very dangerous precedent.
I think that President Xi of China, you never heard anything about Taiwan when I was president.
They weren't.
And I told him, you can't do that.
I can't tell my exact conversation because some people would be upset.
They'd be upset if I told it, to be honest.
But it was a very tough conversation.
He knew he wasn't going to do it.
And when this group came in, they immediately started flying bombers over Taiwan.
You know, 28 bombers flew over two days after I was gone.
They were flying over, taking pictures of Taiwan.
I'm sure that made the Taiwanese feel very good having 28 bombers, Chinese bombers fly over the top.
But no, and now you look at it, you have warships all over the place.
You have warships surrounding it.
And they've made their intentions known.
You didn't hear that when I was president, and he wouldn't have done that.
I got along with him really great.
I really liked him.
He liked me.
They'll criticize me for saying I like him.
But I got along with him great.
And I got along with Putin.
And that's a good thing, not a bad thing, by the way.
These are good things, not bad things I got along with.
Do you think you got along with them in part because they feared you?
Well, they knew there was going to be big retribution if they did certain things, and therefore they wouldn't have done it.
I never had any doubt.
For instance, I talked to Putin about Ukraine a lot, but eventually we didn't talk at all.
There was no way he was going to do anything.
He understood that.
And we just, you know, we just, that's the way it was.
There was no chance of it happening.
There was no chance for inflation.
Inflation was caused by oil prices, by energy prices.
Let me transition into the economy because I think this is just killing the average American.
You referred to them in 2015 and 16 as the forgotten men and women in this country.
But we now have two-thirds of the American people living paycheck to paycheck.
I've been there at points in my life, about a decade of my adult life.
I didn't particularly like it, I'll be honest.
You have now Americans putting, just for bare necessities, they're using their credit card or they're tapping into their retirement accounts and they're taking huge losses doing it.
There was a mile-long line this weekend in Kentucky for a food pantry.
In my local town, upper middle class, you see people online every Saturday at the food pantry, and these are people, they may still have their homes, and they may even be driving in a nice car.
They're not taking advantage of the system.
They didn't expect or anticipate the average $10,000 Biden inflation tax because of his economic and energy policies.
It's killing the American, you know, taxpayers are killing, you know, he just raised taxes on oil, gas, coal, on pensions and on corporations.
And corporations pass that tax on to we, the people, the consumer.
Well, the first thing he did was kill the Keystone Pipeline, which I had approved and they were starting work on it.
And all those workers, all those great workers, the pipeline workers, they all had a, they really took it hard because they had their whole lives set, you know, set back.
Well, he did.
He did give an approval for the Nord Stream 2 pipeline.
He gave that and I took that away.
So I took it.
Nobody ever heard of Nord Stream 2, maybe not even you until I became president.
I said they're building a pipeline that goes all throughout Europe and takes care of Germany.
And that is a really bad thing.
And in fact, I gave Angela Merkel the white flag of surrender.
I say as soon as you have your next war with them and, you know, if you look at history, they've had wars with Russia.
You know that very well.
But as soon as you have your next war, here's a flag.
You can use that to surrender because what you're doing is you're putting your country in the hands of Russia and whether or not they want to sell you energy.
I predicted that 80 percent of their energy was going to come out of that pipeline and out of Russia.
I said, you have to be crazy to be doing this.
Now, you remember the United Nations when the Russian delegation thought it was sort of amusing when I was saying this, that what a terrible mistake it is.
Now they've very much apologized.
And everybody knows I call that one right, too.
I call it a lot of things right.
Maybe everything right.
Let me ask you this.
You left this country energy independent.
We were a net exporter of energy.
Lately, you've been using the term energy dominance.
I take that to mean we as a country have been so blessed with natural resources, gas, oil, coal, et cetera.
The ability to extract it with new technologies is phenomenal.
Would we be able to provide all of our Western European allies all of their energy needs?
And wouldn't that go a long way to creating high paying American jobs while simultaneously making America rich as hell and hopefully even eliminating all debt?
Well, that's what I was going to do.
And that's where we were headed.
And we were going to be dominant.
We have more than anybody else.
We have more.
I call it liquid gold under our feet than anybody else.
Texas is massive.
Oklahoma, all these incredible places.
We have more than anybody.
And then I got ANWR approved, which nobody could have done.
Nobody could have done.
Reagan couldn't have done it.
Reagan tried so hard he couldn't do it.
Nobody could do it.
I got ANWR probably bigger than Saudi Arabia, ANWR in Alaska.
I got that done.
And by the way, they terminated it the first week that he was in office.
They terminated that.
It's not easy to do it.
I got it all approved.
Reagan couldn't do it.
Bush couldn't do it.
Nobody could do it.
I got it done.
It would have been like having Saudi Arabia and Alaska in terms of energy, in terms of jobs, in terms of money.
We would have made so much money.
We were bigger than Saudi Arabia individually and Russia as I left.
We would have been double and triple their size within a short period of time, literally a short period of time.
We would have been paying off our debt.
We would have had money.
We would have been reducing taxes.
It was going to be a gold mine, and it was going to be helpful.
We would have supplied Europe with oil instead of Russia supplying Europe.
I'll add one thing.
It would have been good for national security.
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I agree with you.
I think Election Day should be a national holiday.
I think we should have paper ballots.
I think we should have partisan observers watch the voting in every precinct in the country.
When the polls close, partisan observers watch all the vote counting.
You know, you announce the winner.
Everybody goes home.
We know who won the night of the election.
That's what I prefer.
But that's not the system we have.
And the only way you're going to get that system is to win elections.
I've heard you now, for the first time, tell Republicans there's been this reluctance, resistance to voting early, mail-in voting.
And I think these Democrats that hide in their basements like Joe did in 2020 and Fetterman did and Katie Hobbs did, most of these states, there's only one state that mandates you hand in your own ballot.
That's Alabama.
And most of these states have legal ballot harvesting laws.
Republicans have not matched Democratic efforts.
Should they follow the law and match it and even make their system more superior?
So Republicans always liked voting on Election Day.
But of course, Election Day doesn't exist anymore.
Now we have election periods where you have two months sometimes, and it's very dangerous, very bad.
We should go to single-day voting like we should have never gotten away from it, frankly, because our elections have problems like nobody could even believe.
But Republicans have always wanted to vote on Election Day, and that's a good thing.
The problem is bad things happen.
You look at what happened in Arizona with Gary Lake, but you also look at the accumulation of ballots that these opponents at the Democrats do.
They have an accumulation of ballots that are really massive.
And a lot of things can happen, bad things can happen if you wait till Election Day.
So I think what we're going to have to do, ultimately, we want to go same-day voting, voter ID, all of the things we talk about, paper ballots.
We'll have great elections, secure elections.
But until we get there, and we have to get there, you have to win to get there.
Until we get there, we want to accumulate ballots at an early level, at the earliest possible level, and do it that way.
And I think we're going to have to go that way.
And the Republican Party needs to build that system out yesterday.
They can't wait till 2024, in my view.
We could talk all day.
I have a million more questions I've prepared for you that I have not gotten to, but we'll have you on again soon.
We really appreciate your time.
You've been very generous with it.
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Sir, thanks for being with us.
We appreciate all your time.
Thank you very much, Sean.
My honor.
Thank you.
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