WEBVTT - Can Republicans Keep The Senate? 0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:03.720 Welcome to today's podcast sponsored by Hillsdale College. All Things 0:00:03.800 --> 0:00:06.440 hillsdalet Hillsdale dot ed or. I encourage you to take 0:00:06.480 --> 0:00:08.920 advantage of the many free online courses there and of 0:00:08.920 --> 0:00:11.280 course a listener to the Hillsdale Dialogues, all of them 0:00:11.280 --> 0:00:14.560 at q for Hillsdale dot com or just Google, Apple 0:00:14.920 --> 0:00:20.320 iTunes and Hilldale Born in Glory and evening Grace, America. 0:00:20.400 --> 0:00:23.639 Good Thursday to you. I am Hugh Hewett. I want 0:00:23.680 --> 0:00:26.240 to say a load of my c SPAN audience this week. 0:00:26.440 --> 0:00:29.560 C SPAN has been running an interesting experiment Stephanie Miller 0:00:30.640 --> 0:00:33.839 three hours earlier today. She is a leftist. I am 0:00:33.840 --> 0:00:36.479 on the right, and so she Span. 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I want to begin today 0:01:34.840 --> 0:01:37.280 by talking a little bit about what the Democrats have done, 0:01:38.400 --> 0:01:41.039 because it'll be a theme throughout the program today. Given 0:01:41.080 --> 0:01:44.640 the Miranda Divine call him on what John ossoff slander 0:01:45.200 --> 0:01:47.920 of Natalie Harp has done, which is make Georgia competitive race, 0:01:48.920 --> 0:01:51.960 it broke through to the wrong people. Normal Georgians look 0:01:52.040 --> 0:01:54.640 up and said, why did John Osoff imply that this 0:01:54.760 --> 0:01:57.960 hard working young woman whose life was saved by the 0:01:58.040 --> 0:02:01.440 right to try and as an event, Jellico Christian and 0:02:01.600 --> 0:02:05.200 loves Donald Trump in an administration? Why did John Osoff 0:02:05.320 --> 0:02:09.000 imply that she was having an affair with Donald Trump? 0:02:09.400 --> 0:02:13.160 And that's because John Osoff was attacking Donald Trump. She 0:02:13.320 --> 0:02:16.360 was collateral damage. Didn't matter, but you know what, it 0:02:16.440 --> 0:02:19.280 did matter. America doesn't like that. They know that Donald 0:02:19.280 --> 0:02:22.400 Trump punches hard and heyone punches it him. They know 0:02:22.480 --> 0:02:24.440 he's got his own standards. They know he has his 0:02:24.560 --> 0:02:27.720 own unique style and it defends a lot of people. 0:02:28.160 --> 0:02:32.000 But they don't believe in attacking his staff attack Donald Trump. 0:02:32.040 --> 0:02:35.080 Osoff didn't do that. He attacked Natalie Harp, an innocent 0:02:35.120 --> 0:02:38.200 woman that I have a daughter, I have granddaughters. I 0:02:38.240 --> 0:02:40.359 do not want them and to have their character in 0:02:40.480 --> 0:02:43.880 pune by political actors if they happen to work for 0:02:43.960 --> 0:02:46.959 an executive who has them working a lot of hours. 0:02:47.080 --> 0:02:50.119 Natalie Harp works around the clock, been working hard this week. 0:02:50.120 --> 0:02:52.720 For example on the East Wing case, she works hard. 0:02:53.240 --> 0:02:55.760 I only deal with Nalie via text when I want 0:02:55.760 --> 0:02:58.760 the president on the radio program, on the television show, 0:02:59.440 --> 0:03:01.639 I texted Natalie. She gets the ball rolling if it's 0:03:01.639 --> 0:03:04.040 going to work and hands it off to the comms team. 0:03:04.120 --> 0:03:08.040 But she's always always on and always always working, and 0:03:08.080 --> 0:03:11.400 she's great at it. And Washington Media took out a 0:03:11.440 --> 0:03:14.840 previous personal assessant to the President madelon Westernhouse. I knew 0:03:14.880 --> 0:03:17.240 Madeline two, and I think they like to pick on 0:03:17.320 --> 0:03:21.359 young women, legacy media and Democrat candidates. And I repeat myself. 0:03:21.760 --> 0:03:25.080 But John Ossoff More on that later. But John Ossoff 0:03:25.600 --> 0:03:28.280 is one of eight candidates Democrats have nominated this year. 0:03:28.400 --> 0:03:30.239 I want to make sure you know them all. We've 0:03:30.280 --> 0:03:34.519 got Angie Nixon in Florida, hard left, Peggy Flanning in Minnesota, 0:03:34.680 --> 0:03:39.400 hard left, Abdua lsi Ed hardest left up in Michigan, 0:03:39.480 --> 0:03:43.080 James tul Rica weird and left in Texas, Troy Jackson 0:03:43.160 --> 0:03:47.080 hard left in Minnesota. Roy Cooper pretends to be not 0:03:47.200 --> 0:03:49.640 hard left, but is hard left, soft on crime, soft 0:03:49.640 --> 0:03:53.440 and immigration, shared brown, old and hard left infirm like 0:03:53.520 --> 0:03:56.560 Joe Biden and hard left in Ohio. And John Ossoff 0:03:56.760 --> 0:04:01.160 beij basically and nobody from no where. And he had 0:04:01.200 --> 0:04:02.920 to get some attention because he thinks he can run 0:04:02.920 --> 0:04:05.160 for president, so he tried to get some attentions blown 0:04:05.240 --> 0:04:08.000 up in his hands. And they know it because if 0:04:08.000 --> 0:04:10.200 you say anything about it online, all the left wing 0:04:10.280 --> 0:04:12.960 trolls come out, all the apparatricks that left, the aging 0:04:13.000 --> 0:04:15.960 aperatricks that the left come out and defend John Assaf, 0:04:16.120 --> 0:04:19.000 doesn't work, doesn't work America saw America. I heard America 0:04:19.080 --> 0:04:22.279 Judge John Ossaf. But where do we now? We know 0:04:22.400 --> 0:04:25.480 all of these people by what Angie Nixon and I'll 0:04:25.520 --> 0:04:28.719 do lsay Ed tells us about them. Here's Angie Nixon 0:04:29.080 --> 0:04:33.120 at the Clay County Speaks podcast with Daniel Marie Foster. 0:04:33.200 --> 0:04:34.680 Cutdamber one, what. 0:04:34.760 --> 0:04:39.159 Is your opinion on specific democratic reforms such as abolishing 0:04:39.200 --> 0:04:45.200 the electoral college, abolishing the filibuster, allowing non party affiliated 0:04:45.279 --> 0:04:50.320 voters to participate in primary primary elections, implementing different voting 0:04:50.360 --> 0:04:52.440 systems like rank choice voting. 0:04:52.680 --> 0:04:57.640 You can break it down, so obolsol college. 0:04:57.839 --> 0:05:01.240 I'm fine with it. I would leave in a I 0:05:01.320 --> 0:05:04.520 believe one vote, one person, and yes that's enough for 0:05:04.600 --> 0:05:07.400 that cut. She wants to repel the constitution. We're not 0:05:07.440 --> 0:05:10.560 getting really electoral college because it's not happening. It's a 0:05:10.560 --> 0:05:13.599 constitutional amendment. So either she's not smart or she's a radical. 0:05:13.920 --> 0:05:16.640 Cut number two with Danny Marie Foster. 0:05:17.760 --> 0:05:22.480 You gotta get these you gotta close these corporate text loopholes. 0:05:22.880 --> 0:05:23.000 Uh. 0:05:24.520 --> 0:05:31.400 You have to put the DEI policies. 0:05:30.839 --> 0:05:31.520 Back in. 0:05:33.279 --> 0:05:36.800 De I back there you go again DSA candidate represents 0:05:36.839 --> 0:05:39.159 all these Senate candidates. I talked about Angie Nixon on 0:05:39.279 --> 0:05:42.040 Midas Touch, this time with Katie Fang, Cut number three. 0:05:42.480 --> 0:05:43.480 So I'm looking. 0:05:43.240 --> 0:05:45.000 Forward to going to Washington, d C. 0:05:45.200 --> 0:05:49.640 To provide every day hardworking people with some relief after 0:05:49.680 --> 0:05:53.400 we work to you know, impeach and I vote to 0:05:53.440 --> 0:05:57.240 remove Donald Trump and wet there you go. Uh, she 0:05:57.360 --> 0:05:59.560 doesn't get to vote to impeach. She's a member of 0:05:59.600 --> 0:06:02.120 the Senate. She can vote to remove and convict. She 0:06:02.160 --> 0:06:04.480 doesn't know that. I don't think it's going on to 0:06:04.520 --> 0:06:09.000 cut number five. Angie Nixon on MS Now with Simone Sanders, 0:06:09.040 --> 0:06:12.000 talking about her decision recently to join the dsay the 0:06:12.080 --> 0:06:16.240 cult of revolutionary sort of French revolutionary fanatics inside the 0:06:16.240 --> 0:06:19.040 Democratic Party that has taken over this cycle. Cut number five. 0:06:19.640 --> 0:06:23.160 Did you join DSA? Is it about the organizing capacity 0:06:23.440 --> 0:06:27.320 and less about the issues? Because even today, like Republicans 0:06:27.600 --> 0:06:32.120 across the country, but especially the Republican Senate Campaign Committee, 0:06:32.200 --> 0:06:34.520 they are coming out hitting you as a socialist. It's 0:06:34.520 --> 0:06:37.960 not aligned with Florida values. But the answer you're giving 0:06:38.000 --> 0:06:41.479 today makes me feel like it is not about the socialists, 0:06:41.520 --> 0:06:46.039 It's about the organizing capacity. Is that accurate? It's actually yeah, no, 0:06:46.120 --> 0:06:49.600 it's actually about the issues that they care about the most. 0:06:49.800 --> 0:06:53.680 Right and DSA. They didn't help me on my campaign, 0:06:53.680 --> 0:06:54.600 they didn't endorse me. 0:06:54.800 --> 0:06:56.800 What issue they care about the most. They hate the 0:06:56.880 --> 0:06:59.400 United States Constitution. They're on record. I play that for 0:06:59.440 --> 0:07:01.359 you today. They want to get rid of the Senate, 0:07:01.600 --> 0:07:03.920 they want to get rid of the electoral college. They 0:07:03.960 --> 0:07:07.920 hate the United States way of government. They want centralized government. 0:07:08.279 --> 0:07:11.000 They want a dictatorship. That's where it always ends up 0:07:11.000 --> 0:07:14.680 with French revolutionaries. Let me jump down to abdu al 0:07:14.800 --> 0:07:20.680 Sayed campaigning at a presser yesterday, cut number ten. I mean, 0:07:20.720 --> 0:07:22.480 what do you just make it just happen there? If 0:07:22.480 --> 0:07:23.880 you guys saying you're in an arab you don't care 0:07:23.920 --> 0:07:25.800 about black pols. You know, I hate to say this, 0:07:25.880 --> 0:07:29.200 but I continue to hearing from older black folks and 0:07:29.240 --> 0:07:31.360 people like to some of that Sall's colleagues, somebody that 0:07:31.360 --> 0:07:33.720 they're uncommitted for you. 0:07:33.720 --> 0:07:36.360 You know, there's been an effort, I think, to divide 0:07:36.400 --> 0:07:40.480 people against each other, and unfortunately, you see that the 0:07:40.520 --> 0:07:44.080 consequence of that to tell us that some group or 0:07:44.080 --> 0:07:46.600 another group have to be counterposed because there's not enough 0:07:46.640 --> 0:07:49.560 for all of us. I am Arab, I'm also African. 0:07:50.000 --> 0:07:52.800 My family immigrated to this country from Egypt. I'm proud 0:07:52.880 --> 0:07:53.920 of my African heritage. 0:07:54.640 --> 0:07:57.360 All right. I just want to throw a flag here. 0:07:58.040 --> 0:08:00.840 He is from Egypt, his family is from Egypt. He's 0:08:00.880 --> 0:08:03.600 an Egyptian American. He's an American citizen born in the 0:08:03.680 --> 0:08:07.800 United States, no doubt about it. Muslim, that's fine. Egyptians 0:08:07.840 --> 0:08:12.559 don't often identify as blacks and as Africans. I don't 0:08:12.560 --> 0:08:14.760 think that's gonna work. The fact he's worried about this 0:08:14.840 --> 0:08:17.080 is because he did not pull well in the primary 0:08:17.640 --> 0:08:20.320 in the black precincts of Detroit, because they don't like him, 0:08:20.520 --> 0:08:23.760 because the radical leftists and black people want jobs in Michigan. 0:08:23.840 --> 0:08:27.320 They want Carks to come back. He hates the American 0:08:27.400 --> 0:08:30.880 Dream Cruise. He's actually just kind of a nut, like 0:08:30.960 --> 0:08:35.360 Angie King. Mike Rogers had this to say, he's running 0:08:35.360 --> 0:08:39.199 against mainstream Mike Rodgers. Mainstream Mike Rogers, mster down the middle, 0:08:39.480 --> 0:08:41.480 Michigan Republican cut number eleven. 0:08:42.160 --> 0:08:44.520 I advocate for a government takeover of health insurance because 0:08:44.520 --> 0:08:49.520 health insurance offers no value. What medicare for all does 0:08:49.920 --> 0:08:53.320 is it doesn't weigh with the private insurance market because 0:08:53.320 --> 0:08:55.000 instead of having a whole bunch of players, you have 0:08:55.360 --> 0:08:57.160 one day and that is the federal government. 0:08:57.240 --> 0:08:59.600 Medicare for All guarantees you a public health care plan 0:08:59.679 --> 0:09:00.840 and nhure private one. 0:09:01.080 --> 0:09:02.600 Medicare for All comes in in saggy. 0:09:02.840 --> 0:09:05.040 No more of this insurance. 0:09:04.600 --> 0:09:07.480 Than disc Reach one insurance, and that is the government 0:09:07.520 --> 0:09:08.240 of the United States. 0:09:08.360 --> 0:09:11.320 What you have is the state operating has your insurance. 0:09:12.920 --> 0:09:14.800 It is going to require taxes, and the question of 0:09:15.000 --> 0:09:18.120 how much of those taxes we would ask working Americans 0:09:18.120 --> 0:09:18.440 to pay. 0:09:18.600 --> 0:09:20.600 But I think it's important that from a political and 0:09:20.600 --> 0:09:22.920 company perspective that everybody pays a bid. 0:09:22.800 --> 0:09:26.800 In, everybody pays a bid in, and everybody loses their 0:09:26.840 --> 0:09:30.000 healthcare insurance and Medicare goes broken and serves seniors anymore. 0:09:30.040 --> 0:09:32.839 I'll said, it is just as radical as Angie King, 0:09:33.640 --> 0:09:36.400 who was just as radical as Troy Jackson, as Tallarrica 0:09:36.520 --> 0:09:39.959 is also weird, just as radical as Peggy Flanagan. I'll 0:09:40.000 --> 0:09:43.040 talk with Michelle Deefoye after the break, Just as radical 0:09:43.040 --> 0:09:48.120 as John Ossoff and the ethics of his scumbag. Roy 0:09:48.160 --> 0:09:50.600 Cooper pretends to be a moderate, not a moderate, soft 0:09:50.640 --> 0:09:57.760 on crime, soft on illegal immigration, shared brown, old and crazy. 0:10:00.320 --> 0:10:03.160 Up Mandis. 0:10:04.720 --> 0:10:07.120 Brook. I'm back America. I'm Hugh Hewett. I want to 0:10:07.160 --> 0:10:09.720 tell my Sea Span audience, especially about my next guest, 0:10:10.240 --> 0:10:13.360 Jim Garretty. If you take the Washington Post, look at him. 0:10:13.360 --> 0:10:17.360 There's my friend of me. He's reading about the Cleveland 0:10:17.360 --> 0:10:19.599 Browns because he's a Jets fan, and that's how he 0:10:20.000 --> 0:10:22.400 reads down. He gives himself hope by reading about the 0:10:22.400 --> 0:10:26.640 Cleveland Browns. Uh, let me give your Wall. 0:10:26.480 --> 0:10:33.000 Street Journal tells rock bottom quarterback competition, discussing Shadura Sanders 0:10:33.000 --> 0:10:35.480 and Deshaun By Anyway, we're not here to talk about that, 0:10:35.559 --> 0:10:36.440 and you know we're not. 0:10:38.000 --> 0:10:40.360 I will get you back, mister Jets fan. Let me 0:10:40.440 --> 0:10:42.880 tell the Sea Span audience about Jim. Jim is a 0:10:42.920 --> 0:10:46.480 weekly columnist for the Washington Post. Column appears on Tuesday 0:10:46.520 --> 0:10:50.120 in print on Wednesday. He is the Morning joelt editor 0:10:50.160 --> 0:10:52.640 at National Review, where he is their senior political writer. 0:10:53.120 --> 0:10:55.679 He is the host of the Monday through Friday podcast 0:10:55.880 --> 0:10:59.840 Three Martini Lunch. He is also on the Editor's podcast, 0:11:00.320 --> 0:11:03.319 which is usually on Tuesday. Sometimes he comes back as 0:11:03.360 --> 0:11:05.960 well at the end of the Week. The editor's podcast 0:11:06.000 --> 0:11:08.959 for National Review, the Morning Jolt, you should sign up for, 0:11:09.280 --> 0:11:11.880 and you should follow Jim at Jim Garrity dot com 0:11:12.120 --> 0:11:14.360 and listen to nothing that he says about the Browns 0:11:14.360 --> 0:11:17.440 because he's a paid assassin. Hates the Browns because they 0:11:17.480 --> 0:11:22.240 beat the Jets at every opportunity. Garrity, not many of 0:11:22.280 --> 0:11:25.760 them now, there aren't many of it. I call him 0:11:25.760 --> 0:11:27.840 the indispensable because he'd been on the program for more 0:11:27.840 --> 0:11:30.040 than twenty years, and we've been doing this shtick for 0:11:30.080 --> 0:11:33.040 twenty years. Jim, I want to start by asking you 0:11:33.320 --> 0:11:36.760 a very where do you think this election is going? 0:11:37.240 --> 0:11:41.280 Because the Republicans should get wiped out, but the Democrats 0:11:41.280 --> 0:11:43.920 are trying very hard with Angie Nixon and abduh Al 0:11:44.000 --> 0:11:47.120 Sayed and Peggy Flanagan and Troy Jackson and John ass 0:11:47.160 --> 0:11:50.040 Off and James tell Rico to keep the Republicans in 0:11:50.080 --> 0:11:52.640 the game. Yeah. 0:11:52.679 --> 0:11:54.839 The pessimistic take is that we are in for two 0:11:54.840 --> 0:11:56.960 thousand and six again. And I think it was last 0:11:56.960 --> 0:11:58.640 week when I was in this program where you mentioned 0:11:58.640 --> 0:12:01.360 how long we've been doing it, and I realized that, yes, 0:12:01.400 --> 0:12:03.600 I've been doing your program since before I had kids, 0:12:03.720 --> 0:12:05.880 and I dropped off my older one at college this week. 0:12:05.920 --> 0:12:08.880 And it's a science now how long we've been doing this. 0:12:09.800 --> 0:12:11.760 So I have I would say, have traumatic memories of 0:12:11.800 --> 0:12:14.520 two thousand and six, but I remember, you know, there 0:12:14.559 --> 0:12:19.359 was Bush had just been reelected. Iraq war was going badly, Katrina. 0:12:19.800 --> 0:12:21.720 I know, it's totally different because there were a bunch 0:12:21.720 --> 0:12:25.120 of Republican incumbents who were involved in sex scandals, Hugh, 0:12:25.160 --> 0:12:27.480 and as we all know, thankfully that's out of the system. 0:12:27.520 --> 0:12:29.920 We don't have to worry about that anymore. Mark Foley, 0:12:30.160 --> 0:12:33.319 you know, everything everything that could go wrong for Republicans 0:12:33.720 --> 0:12:36.560 did go wrong that cycle. And Republicans, I believe they 0:12:36.600 --> 0:12:38.200 lost off the top of I had thirty one House 0:12:38.200 --> 0:12:39.800 seats and. 0:12:40.080 --> 0:12:42.960 Did not lose the Senate though, oh yes they did 0:12:43.080 --> 0:12:45.640 lose the Senate. They did lose the Senate. 0:12:47.200 --> 0:12:49.640 But it was it was really rough year, right, and 0:12:49.760 --> 0:12:52.280 so my first thought was like, this could be like that. 0:12:53.240 --> 0:12:55.760 What does seem not crazy is to imagine that we 0:12:55.840 --> 0:12:58.680 end up with something akin to twenty twenty two, in 0:12:58.720 --> 0:13:01.920 which we were expecting Republicans to have this phenomenal year. 0:13:02.040 --> 0:13:05.880 Inflation had hit nine percent, people really upset about gas prices, 0:13:05.920 --> 0:13:08.880 people are really upset about the cost of living. Republicans 0:13:08.920 --> 0:13:10.800 did win control of the House, but by a pretty 0:13:10.800 --> 0:13:12.760 small margin, and I think they were expecting a lot 0:13:12.800 --> 0:13:16.120 more and did not win control of the Senate. And 0:13:16.200 --> 0:13:18.480 there was kind of this sense of like, well, Republicans 0:13:18.480 --> 0:13:22.320 had nominated a bunch of you know, fruitcake candidates who 0:13:22.400 --> 0:13:24.800 were just not you know, like the guy they had 0:13:24.920 --> 0:13:28.480 running against Shapiro in Pennsylvania. Like this year with Stacey 0:13:28.520 --> 0:13:32.040 Garrity is the first real statewide candidate Shapiro has had 0:13:32.080 --> 0:13:32.600 as a governor. 0:13:32.720 --> 0:13:34.319 Right, but he's still gonna win. 0:13:34.360 --> 0:13:36.480 That I shouldn't get anybody's hopes up. But like, she's 0:13:36.559 --> 0:13:38.880 running a real campaign, which is not something he had 0:13:38.880 --> 0:13:41.439 to deal with four years ago. So you look at this, 0:13:41.840 --> 0:13:46.400 there are enough fruitcake candidates on the Democratic side that 0:13:46.440 --> 0:13:48.520 they could leave some races on the table, and I 0:13:48.559 --> 0:13:52.240 think I dualized the It is probably example number one, Hugh. 0:13:52.320 --> 0:13:55.080 Have you noticed that the coverage of Abdul al Sayed 0:13:55.559 --> 0:13:58.600 in particularsno Fox News poll, but really in the last 0:13:58.640 --> 0:14:01.960 week or so in the mainstream media New York Times, 0:14:02.160 --> 0:14:07.000 NBC News, CNN, the tone is very much, well, this 0:14:07.040 --> 0:14:09.440 is going to be a good year for Democrats. But 0:14:10.040 --> 0:14:11.720 you know, Michigan might be the exception. 0:14:12.240 --> 0:14:12.400 Yeah. 0:14:12.480 --> 0:14:15.240 Part of its yes, he had this very divided Democratic primary. 0:14:15.640 --> 0:14:18.080 Some of is Mike Rogers is a better than average 0:14:18.400 --> 0:14:20.960 Republican candidate. But a lot of it is just that 0:14:21.000 --> 0:14:23.400 Abdul has a lot of baggage. And one of the 0:14:23.440 --> 0:14:25.800 things I wrote about this week you was that he's 0:14:25.920 --> 0:14:30.080 doing Labor Day weekend, this big Islamic Society of North 0:14:30.080 --> 0:14:34.000 America conference. I know it's going to shock you, but 0:14:34.120 --> 0:14:36.880 some of the speakers at this conference are controversial. Some 0:14:36.960 --> 0:14:40.000 of these speakers are not, you know, nice people. And 0:14:40.800 --> 0:14:44.000 if you're a dulas An you're running in a general election, 0:14:44.080 --> 0:14:47.080 the primary is over right you already If your name 0:14:47.240 --> 0:14:49.800 by itself is Abdul las A, people knew nothing else 0:14:49.840 --> 0:14:51.720 about you, you would still going to do very well 0:14:51.760 --> 0:14:55.400 amongst the Muslims who are voters in Michigan. Right, you 0:14:55.600 --> 0:14:59.440 have that demographic locked up. If elected, abduls A ed 0:14:59.480 --> 0:15:01.560 would be the first Muslim senator in the United States. 0:15:01.960 --> 0:15:05.440 I could hear everybody making Barack Obama jokes hahaha, right 0:15:05.480 --> 0:15:08.080 that It's one of those things where all say, yet 0:15:08.520 --> 0:15:12.760 has this demo, this demographic locked up, and yet he's 0:15:12.800 --> 0:15:16.120 spending part of it going to this conference associated with 0:15:16.160 --> 0:15:18.920 some rarely shady characters. So now the quest like this 0:15:19.000 --> 0:15:20.920 is not what any advisor would say. This is not 0:15:21.040 --> 0:15:23.560 the strategy which you say, Okay, it's a general election. 0:15:23.840 --> 0:15:27.280 You go to the middle, you go to the Apple Festival, 0:15:27.520 --> 0:15:31.640 you go to these non controversial non Look, I'm just 0:15:31.840 --> 0:15:34.320 like you, I'm normal, you know, all this kind of stuff, 0:15:34.360 --> 0:15:36.760 and he's not doing that, which, if you're a Democrat 0:15:36.760 --> 0:15:39.680 in Michigan, probably makes you nervous that he wants to 0:15:39.800 --> 0:15:43.200 run as exactly the same guy he was in the primary, 0:15:43.920 --> 0:15:46.120 and that's probably going to be a tougher sell than 0:15:46.200 --> 0:15:49.360 a you know, generic democrat. The Democrat runing against John 0:15:49.400 --> 0:15:52.640 James and the Gubernatoile race is running well ahead of him. So, like, 0:15:53.600 --> 0:15:56.720 was it this week when they had Democrats for Rogers? 0:15:56.840 --> 0:15:58.760 I mean, yeah, there are a bunch of Democrats who 0:15:58.760 --> 0:16:00.440 we look at this guy and say we can't liver 0:16:00.520 --> 0:16:00.920 for him. 0:16:01.200 --> 0:16:04.800 So let me ask you about door number two, Jim 0:16:04.800 --> 0:16:08.600 Garretty is Michelle Tafoya, who's coming up later this hour. 0:16:09.040 --> 0:16:13.479 Michelle is running in Minnesota, NFL sideline reporter. She's running 0:16:13.160 --> 0:16:17.320 against another DSA or Peggy Flanagan who cause plays as 0:16:17.320 --> 0:16:22.880 a fundamentalist Muslim woman dressed in full garb, and I 0:16:22.960 --> 0:16:26.840 think maybe that's and she's the lieutenant governor to Michael 0:16:27.000 --> 0:16:30.200 tim Walls, and I'm beginning to think they may have 0:16:30.280 --> 0:16:32.920 put that in play. I saw Poltay, She's down by four. 0:16:33.400 --> 0:16:35.520 And if we saw Ruffini this week, I'll give you 0:16:35.520 --> 0:16:37.600 the last two and a half minutes. Raffini said he 0:16:37.680 --> 0:16:41.240 did a backwards looking analysis of thirty years in August, 0:16:41.360 --> 0:16:45.760 especially the polling bias towards Democrats is in excessive five 0:16:45.840 --> 0:16:47.920 percent two minutes to you, Jim Garretty. 0:16:48.880 --> 0:16:50.520 I don't know if it's five percent, but I do 0:16:50.560 --> 0:16:53.920 believe it exists to some extent. You mentioned the three 0:16:54.000 --> 0:16:57.000 Martini Lunch, which I co host with Greg Corumbus Hugh. 0:16:57.080 --> 0:16:59.920 In the history of our program, which is now sixteen years, 0:17:00.120 --> 0:17:03.000 we have had eight guests. We don't do it very often. 0:17:03.000 --> 0:17:04.359 It has to be somebody who we think of is 0:17:04.359 --> 0:17:07.240 really special, somebody who's a big name, and somebody was 0:17:07.280 --> 0:17:08.840 willing to do it, which is you know, three really 0:17:08.880 --> 0:17:11.880 important criterias. I know you have like eight guests per hour, 0:17:12.640 --> 0:17:15.000 but Michelle Tafoya is one of those eight guests we've 0:17:15.040 --> 0:17:17.720 had in our history. And you know, if you're a 0:17:17.800 --> 0:17:20.760 Minnesota Republican, you want to have your best candidates on 0:17:20.800 --> 0:17:21.200 the field. 0:17:21.520 --> 0:17:22.679 You have your best candidate. 0:17:22.720 --> 0:17:26.800 And they avoided having mister my Pillow as their nominee 0:17:26.800 --> 0:17:28.960 in one state wide race and they have they have 0:17:29.000 --> 0:17:31.760 the state House speaker instead, and they have Michelle Tafoya. 0:17:32.080 --> 0:17:34.800 You know, look, it's a bluish purple state at best. 0:17:34.880 --> 0:17:37.720 It's never going to be easy for Republicans. But that's 0:17:37.720 --> 0:17:40.320 the best candidate you could get. Obviously, Michelle Tafoya is 0:17:40.359 --> 0:17:43.159 more than a natural on camera. I think she can, 0:17:43.240 --> 0:17:45.919 you know, has this great relatability in a way that 0:17:45.960 --> 0:17:49.120 your typical candidate doesn't. 0:17:50.000 --> 0:17:52.520 Did you have her on because she'd never been sent 0:17:52.600 --> 0:17:54.920 to a Jets game? Because the NFL was nice to her. 0:17:56.440 --> 0:17:58.520 She's been terrific in a bunch of Jet games here, 0:17:58.560 --> 0:18:00.440 but I don't know if she's ever been the Cleveland. 0:18:00.560 --> 0:18:02.240 We'll see, so ya my. 0:18:02.400 --> 0:18:04.560 Joke I got the last week, I got the harpoon 0:18:04.640 --> 0:18:08.920 in Garrity The Indispensable. You gotta follow the three Martini lunch, 0:18:09.080 --> 0:18:11.800 listen to the editors, sign up for the Morning Joelt 0:18:11.840 --> 0:18:15.000 over at National Review. It's a great morning newsletter. Follow 0:18:15.119 --> 0:18:17.760 Jim on exit Jim Garrity read him in the Washington 0:18:17.800 --> 0:18:20.840 Post if you're a subscriber every Tuesday or a print 0:18:20.960 --> 0:18:25.720 edition on Wednesday morning. Thank you, Jim. I'll tell Michelle 0:18:25.800 --> 0:18:28.640 Tafoya that you said nice things about her when she's 0:18:28.680 --> 0:18:30.840 coming up later in the hour. Don't go anywhere, America. 0:18:30.880 --> 0:18:34.560 I'm q Qwitt broke them back America. I'm Hugh Hewitt, 0:18:34.760 --> 0:18:37.160 joined by Michelle Tafoya, who's going to be the next 0:18:37.280 --> 0:18:40.960 United States Senator from Minnesota. Many people do not know this. 0:18:41.000 --> 0:18:43.639 Michelle is much more than an NFL sideline reporter for 0:18:43.680 --> 0:18:46.440 many years. She went to Berkeley, she got her MBA 0:18:46.520 --> 0:18:50.240 from USC, spent a Minnesota COLDI in for a long time. 0:18:50.320 --> 0:18:53.840 It's really smart cookie, Michelle. Congratulations on your primary win. 0:18:54.320 --> 0:18:55.000 I just saw it. 0:18:55.160 --> 0:18:55.640 Thank you. 0:18:56.320 --> 0:19:00.520 In August. August the shows you're within almost margin of 0:19:00.560 --> 0:19:04.520 air of Peggy Flannagan, who's this winger left wing nut. 0:19:04.720 --> 0:19:06.119 How do you feel about the race? 0:19:07.600 --> 0:19:10.439 Listen, we think that the primary results told us a 0:19:10.440 --> 0:19:14.360 lot about where Minnesota is. Our message is being heard, Hugh, 0:19:14.400 --> 0:19:17.080 and we're so happy about it. We've been working extremely 0:19:17.160 --> 0:19:20.560 hard since that primary ended. And look, I think the 0:19:20.640 --> 0:19:25.119 more people learn how tied Peggy Flanagan was to the fraud, 0:19:25.680 --> 0:19:29.560 to all of the just complete disruption in our state 0:19:30.080 --> 0:19:32.480 over the last twenty years that she's been in office 0:19:32.520 --> 0:19:37.520 getting a paycheck from the taxpayers, they start to understand 0:19:37.920 --> 0:19:40.479 she's been part of this. She can say, oh, it 0:19:40.520 --> 0:19:43.280 was the governor's fault, but she is right there at 0:19:43.320 --> 0:19:45.320 the center of it. They have been attached at the hip. 0:19:45.720 --> 0:19:48.040 That's when you start to see this pulling really change. 0:19:48.040 --> 0:19:51.119 One of the things you were excited about is among independents, 0:19:51.119 --> 0:19:53.680 we're leading by double digits. We think she's hit or 0:19:53.720 --> 0:19:56.680 her ceiling, and our ceiling is still well ahead of us. 0:19:57.200 --> 0:19:59.439 Well, Michelle Tafoya. One of the reasons I brought up 0:19:59.560 --> 0:20:02.560 your Edie location credentials at Berkeley and USC much as 0:20:02.600 --> 0:20:05.120 I hate USC as an Ohio state guy, I bring 0:20:05.160 --> 0:20:08.359 them up because Peggy does not strike me as the 0:20:09.640 --> 0:20:12.240 fifty one card deck sort of thing, not going to 0:20:12.320 --> 0:20:14.800 win the spelling Bee. Will you debate her? Will she 0:20:14.840 --> 0:20:16.840 agree to debate you? Because I bet you she won't 0:20:16.880 --> 0:20:17.919 come within a mile of you. 0:20:19.119 --> 0:20:22.000 That'll be interesting. I think we're scheduling debates. I absolutely 0:20:22.040 --> 0:20:24.000 want a debate. I want to hold her feet to 0:20:24.040 --> 0:20:26.720 the fire. I want to ask her why healthcare is 0:20:26.760 --> 0:20:27.840 diminished here in Minnesota. 0:20:27.920 --> 0:20:30.359 I want to ask her how young is too young 0:20:30.440 --> 0:20:32.720 for a child to get gender. 0:20:32.440 --> 0:20:36.919 Affirming care that involves, you know, an operation having body 0:20:36.960 --> 0:20:39.359 parts taken off. I want to ask her a lot 0:20:39.359 --> 0:20:42.320