WEBVTT - The Midterms Are Coming 0:00:00.310 --> 0:00:01.290 Welcome to the program. 0:00:01.330 --> 0:00:04.150 No Victor Krebs allowed because we've got a country to save. 0:00:04.390 --> 0:00:05.970 So let's get her teed up! 0:00:05.990 --> 0:00:07.470 Do you want to play rock? 0:00:07.490 --> 0:00:09.070 Say hello to my new friend! 0:00:09.130 --> 0:00:12.170 What the hell's going on out here? 0:00:12.250 --> 0:00:12.670 Woo! 0:00:12.789 --> 0:00:14.440 That's a bingo! 0:00:14.760 --> 0:00:17.439 You can't succeed without teeth! 0:00:17.560 --> 0:00:22.880 From Dallas, Texas, here's the sage brush, Mark Davis! 0:00:24.170 --> 0:00:26.470 Yeah, buddy, I was wondering if I would get my 0:00:26.590 --> 0:00:31.370 personalized sagebrush intro crafted as soon as I laid down 0:00:31.450 --> 0:00:34.360 a legacy of filling in for Larry. The sage of 0:00:34.440 --> 0:00:39.180 South Central. The sagebrush of the prairies of still prosperous Texas. 0:00:39.580 --> 0:00:41.600 Are we going to remain a red state? Are we 0:00:41.620 --> 0:00:43.720 going to turn Minnesota a step toward a red state 0:00:43.760 --> 0:00:46.870 with a Michelle Tafoya win? Is there hope for California 0:00:46.990 --> 0:00:49.470 or New York? Oh, dare we dream? Well, I'll tell 0:00:49.490 --> 0:00:51.350 you what we do dare to do. Get together here 0:00:51.490 --> 0:00:54.450 on the Salem News Channel. and Salem Radio Network to 0:00:54.530 --> 0:00:57.950 hang out together for three hours on this Wednesday, the 0:00:58.210 --> 0:01:01.860 14th of October. Happy morning, host, at 6.60 a.m. The 0:01:01.960 --> 0:01:06.959 Answer in Dallas-Fort Worth, and the host of the M & 0:01:06.700 --> 0:01:09.479 M Extra podcast with my buddy Mike Gallagher, and I'm 0:01:09.540 --> 0:01:12.680 constantly available for filling in absolutely everywhere. I'm doing Hugh 0:01:12.720 --> 0:01:14.810 Hewitt on Friday, so if you just want to sort 0:01:14.840 --> 0:01:17.890 of follow and stalk me through the broadcast day, you 0:01:17.950 --> 0:01:19.490 are welcome to do so. If you want to follow 0:01:19.510 --> 0:01:21.830 me on Twitter... On the old X, that's Mark Davis, 0:01:21.950 --> 0:01:24.649 M-A-R-K Davis. And there we go. So now that we 0:01:24.690 --> 0:01:27.190 know each other fully, let's see, what are we going 0:01:27.209 --> 0:01:30.500 to talk about? What can't we talk about? Everything is 0:01:30.600 --> 0:01:39.400 on the table. 888-971-SAGE. 888-971-7243. T-minus 20 days. 20 days. 0:01:40.500 --> 0:01:44.270 What are you going to do? What are you going 0:01:44.310 --> 0:01:46.550 to do? Now, the news is probably good if you're 0:01:46.590 --> 0:01:49.690 listening to The Larry Elder Show. If you're a consumer... 0:01:49.610 --> 0:01:53.640 of conservative media. Chances are, you're pretty stoked to do 0:01:54.020 --> 0:01:57.880 your part to fend off the narrative that has been 0:01:58.060 --> 0:02:01.280 force-fed to you. That it's going to be a blue wave. 0:02:01.480 --> 0:02:04.100 That the polls indicate it's going to be a ruinous 0:02:04.180 --> 0:02:08.040 day for Republicans. That Trump is unpopular here in my 0:02:08.080 --> 0:02:16.810 state of Texas. That Paxton is unpopular. James Tallarico, anti-gun, anti-meat, anti-oil, 0:02:17.230 --> 0:02:20.840 pro-sex changes for children. that this guy is going to 0:02:20.880 --> 0:02:24.060 win a Senate seat. I'll believe it when I see it, 0:02:24.600 --> 0:02:27.400 and if I see it, I will pass smooth out. 0:02:27.820 --> 0:02:30.540 That is not my state. These are not my people. 0:02:30.940 --> 0:02:35.019 But today, all of you are my people, he says humbly, 0:02:35.460 --> 0:02:37.940 sitting atop the Larry Elder broadcast throne in the Relief 0:02:37.960 --> 0:02:40.370 Factor studios, and it's great to be with you. So 0:02:40.410 --> 0:02:44.050 giving you that phone number, 888-971-SAGE, I tend to do 0:02:44.110 --> 0:02:48.169 two things at the same time. Make various observations and 0:02:48.210 --> 0:02:51.880 pronouncements while also asking you questions about them. Everything I 0:02:51.980 --> 0:02:55.660 say is an invitation to you to weigh in and 0:02:55.700 --> 0:02:58.680 tell me whether you think I'm dead on or crazy 0:02:59.100 --> 0:03:03.660 or somewhere in between. So let's begin. What is this 0:03:03.750 --> 0:03:07.769 country of ours going to do in 20 days? Are 0:03:07.830 --> 0:03:12.929 we going to be rolled and rolled over by this 0:03:13.050 --> 0:03:16.990 narrative from Democrats, from pollsters, from the media culture, from 0:03:17.210 --> 0:03:22.500 even some wayward, slow learner Republicans who cannot handle, they 0:03:22.520 --> 0:03:25.470 still can't handle the fact that Trump won. Do you 0:03:25.500 --> 0:03:27.730 and your state have a little issue like we have 0:03:27.770 --> 0:03:32.630 in Texas of establishment-soaked dinosaurs who actually will walk around 0:03:32.710 --> 0:03:36.410 telling you that I just don't think I just don't 0:03:36.430 --> 0:03:38.880 think I can vote Republican this time. The party has 0:03:38.900 --> 0:03:43.500 been hijacked by Trump. The party has been, it's just 0:03:43.520 --> 0:03:46.560 been waylaid. It's just, it's a terrible thing. And so 0:03:46.620 --> 0:03:50.680 maybe to teach the party that I love to strike 0:03:50.720 --> 0:03:53.680 a blow for conservatism in a kind of an oblique way, 0:03:54.700 --> 0:03:59.270 maybe I just have to sit this one out. Maybe, maybe, 0:03:59.990 --> 0:04:02.620 maybe I just have to vote Democrat. Maybe I need 0:04:02.660 --> 0:04:04.740 to do that in order so that my party, this 0:04:04.760 --> 0:04:08.180 is very Karl Rove, I'm channeling Karl here, who hasn't 0:04:08.220 --> 0:04:11.810 been relevant in half a generation. There's a lot of 0:04:11.850 --> 0:04:15.410 what was the metaphor that he used, that there's, it's 0:04:15.450 --> 0:04:18.450 like the need to clean a stall. And you know 0:04:18.470 --> 0:04:21.270 what that imagery is about. And you know what that means, 0:04:21.310 --> 0:04:24.780 you are in the minds of establishment dinosaurs like Karl Rove. 0:04:25.480 --> 0:04:27.979 Here in my state of Texas, some of the voters 0:04:28.020 --> 0:04:30.620 for John Cornyn can't handle the fact that Ken Paxton 0:04:30.740 --> 0:04:33.960 beat him like a drum in a runoff on May 26th. 0:04:34.360 --> 0:04:35.900 At the top of the list of people that can't 0:04:35.940 --> 0:04:39.289 handle that John Cornyn lost? John Cornyn, who has not 0:04:39.350 --> 0:04:43.310 lifted a finger. Oh, actually, he has lifted a finger. 0:04:43.570 --> 0:04:46.770 His middle finger in the direction of Ken Paxton and 0:04:47.029 --> 0:04:50.670 every single Texan who voted for him. He cannot believe 0:04:51.350 --> 0:04:53.930 that the people of Texas chose to turn a page 0:04:54.360 --> 0:04:58.980 and move past him, move past the Cornyn, John McCain, 0:04:59.400 --> 0:05:06.370 Paul Ryan, Mitt Romney style of Republicans. It's a story 0:05:06.390 --> 0:05:09.970 that's 10 years old. I mean, we're 10, 11 years 0:05:10.290 --> 0:05:13.640 since President Trump came down that golden escalator and changed 0:05:13.839 --> 0:05:17.979 our lives forever and changed the party for now, at 0:05:18.080 --> 0:05:21.420 least for now. And I think they envision that it 0:05:21.520 --> 0:05:27.260 might happen. Change back. I think they envision that we're 0:05:27.279 --> 0:05:29.860 going to yearn for the old days, that after we 0:05:29.900 --> 0:05:34.580 get this whole MAGA flirtation out of our system, we're 0:05:34.600 --> 0:05:36.659 going to go back to the go along to get along. 0:05:36.700 --> 0:05:41.080 We're going to crave the more Bush flavor of leadership. 0:05:41.180 --> 0:05:44.340 And look, I'm in Texas. And when I moved back 0:05:44.380 --> 0:05:48.460 to my native Texas in 1994, George W. was running 0:05:48.540 --> 0:05:50.260 for governor. I did a lot of events for him. 0:05:51.010 --> 0:05:55.430 I love that family. Their heart for service is beyond compare. 0:05:56.230 --> 0:05:58.930 Trump broke that family probably from the drubbing that he 0:05:58.970 --> 0:06:01.229 gave to Jeb. I can see how that might be 0:06:01.250 --> 0:06:13.010 taken personally. The Bush, center-right, moderate-squish style of governing has 0:06:13.089 --> 0:06:19.070 been shown the door. The Reagan revolution changed so much. 0:06:19.830 --> 0:06:24.490 The Trump revolution has changed so much. And there are 0:06:24.510 --> 0:06:26.630 two kinds of people, two kinds of Republicans, those who 0:06:26.650 --> 0:06:30.650 can handle it and those who cannot. Listen, let me 0:06:30.670 --> 0:06:32.040 give you a cut. You want to see what this 0:06:32.060 --> 0:06:35.120 looks like? CNN came to Texas. And I'll tell you what, 0:06:35.320 --> 0:06:37.420 do you want to get on television? Do you want 0:06:37.460 --> 0:06:39.719 to get on television? I mean, like today or tomorrow. 0:06:40.339 --> 0:06:44.120 Make sure a local network TV crew knows that you 0:06:44.279 --> 0:06:47.170 are a Republican, that you've been voting Republican for a 0:06:47.210 --> 0:06:49.370 long time, or just say you have because who can 0:06:49.410 --> 0:06:52.270 check and tell them you're just sick of Trump, can't 0:06:52.350 --> 0:06:54.990 wait for the old school of Republicans to come back. 0:06:55.010 --> 0:06:59.770 So this is cut number one. Here is the lifelong Republican, 0:06:59.790 --> 0:07:02.290 and let us feel his pain. 0:07:03.050 --> 0:07:07.280 We met lifelong Republican Pete Nodeker, who explains the coalition 0:07:07.360 --> 0:07:10.740 Tallarico is trying to build in the race against GOP 0:07:10.780 --> 0:07:12.060 rival Ken Paxton. 0:07:12.440 --> 0:07:16.680 The Republican Party has been hijacked. They're not the Republican 0:07:16.720 --> 0:07:19.360 Party that I was a member of for all of 0:07:19.400 --> 0:07:19.840 my life. 0:07:20.000 --> 0:07:20.760 Hijacked by who? 0:07:21.220 --> 0:07:21.500 Trump. 0:07:22.280 --> 0:07:25.840 Everything revolves around him and his ego. 0:07:26.440 --> 0:07:29.580 Is this a vote for Tallarico or against Ken Paxton? 0:07:30.020 --> 0:07:32.360 It's a vote for Tallarico in this case. He just, 0:07:32.820 --> 0:07:36.230 he presents himself in a very positive manner. He is 0:07:36.350 --> 0:07:40.570 clearly a legitimate Christian. He doesn't just talk the talk. 0:07:40.630 --> 0:07:44.150 He walks the walk. And you can tell the difference 0:07:44.190 --> 0:07:44.930 from a mile away. 0:07:46.200 --> 0:07:49.560 Paxton, the embattled Texas Attorney General, is scrambling to keep 0:07:49.640 --> 0:07:50.880 Republicans in line. 0:07:53.690 --> 0:07:57.710 Where to begin? First, with what this guy is. Don't worry, 0:07:57.750 --> 0:08:01.330 I'll be kind. He calls himself a lifelong Republican. Okay, 0:08:01.630 --> 0:08:03.630 not anymore. The minute you say I'm going to vote 0:08:03.650 --> 0:08:06.130 for Tallarico, sir, you have become, what's the word I'm 0:08:06.150 --> 0:08:11.030 looking for? Oh yeah, a Democrat. You've become a Democrat. 0:08:11.430 --> 0:08:15.340 And how gullible do you have to be? to believe 0:08:15.360 --> 0:08:20.780 that James Tallarico is a Christian. How biblically illiterate do 0:08:20.880 --> 0:08:23.990 you have to be to hear this man say that 0:08:24.060 --> 0:08:28.730 God is okay with abortion, that transing the kids is okay, 0:08:28.790 --> 0:08:34.730 that Jesus requires open borders? How twisted do you have 0:08:34.770 --> 0:08:38.400 to be in what passes for your Christianity? to say 0:08:38.440 --> 0:08:42.040 these things, to believe these things, he not only talks 0:08:42.140 --> 0:08:44.580 the talk, he walks the walk. He walks the walk, 0:08:44.620 --> 0:08:47.380 all right, right into the lake of fire. And I'm 0:08:47.490 --> 0:08:51.310 not kidding around. Because listen, James Tallarico can believe whatever 0:08:51.370 --> 0:08:54.870 he wants. Any Democrat can believe anything he or she wants. 0:08:54.890 --> 0:08:57.510 You can believe in transing the kids. You can believe 0:08:57.550 --> 0:09:00.530 in abortion on demand. You can believe in open borders. 0:09:00.830 --> 0:09:03.550 You can believe in legal weed. All of that, go 0:09:03.590 --> 0:09:05.510 knock yourself out. It's a free country and we have 0:09:05.550 --> 0:09:08.670 freedom of thought and freedom of speech. But the minute 0:09:09.470 --> 0:09:13.170 you say that my belief in such things is wrapped 0:09:13.290 --> 0:09:17.770 in Scripture, the minute you say that God agrees with you, 0:09:17.860 --> 0:09:22.380 that Jesus is in harmony with you, that is heresy. 0:09:23.179 --> 0:09:28.040 It is outright heresy. And James Tallarico is a blasphemer 0:09:28.640 --> 0:09:34.400 and a heretic and not Christian by any definition. So 0:09:35.700 --> 0:09:38.480 we have an issue sort of with the meaning... of words. 0:09:38.500 --> 0:09:40.340 And so we're going to talk a lot about the 0:09:40.400 --> 0:09:43.340 meaning of words, what it means to be Christian, what 0:09:43.380 --> 0:09:45.940 it means to be conservative, what it means to be 0:09:45.960 --> 0:09:49.000 a Republican, because as we've now learned, not all Republicans 0:09:49.080 --> 0:09:52.270 are conservative. Conservative has a meaning. It means I believe 0:09:52.510 --> 0:09:56.709 certain things. My head and my heart are with certain issues. Republican, 0:09:57.190 --> 0:09:58.750 you can take that on and off like a pair 0:09:58.770 --> 0:10:04.280 of shoes. It's a meaningless party label. Now, what we 0:10:04.300 --> 0:10:06.619 need all the Republicans to do, if you want to 0:10:06.640 --> 0:10:09.880 see Republican candidates actually succeed. In fact, the last thing 0:10:09.920 --> 0:10:12.260 I'll say about this last gentleman, he said, you know, 0:10:13.480 --> 0:10:15.790 it's not the party that I've voted for for my 0:10:15.830 --> 0:10:19.430 whole life. Totally right, sir. You're right. We got better. 0:10:20.100 --> 0:10:23.680 We got better, we got stronger, and you can't handle it. 0:10:23.700 --> 0:10:25.800 And for Trump, it's all about his ego, his ego. 0:10:26.040 --> 0:10:28.730 He's trying to make America better, sir. He's trying to 0:10:28.750 --> 0:10:31.030 make the world better in ways that you just don't like, 0:10:31.070 --> 0:10:34.090 and that's okay. Just be honest with yourself. Mark Davis 0:10:34.210 --> 0:10:36.469 in for Larry Elder. One of your calls and a 0:10:36.490 --> 0:10:49.700 bunch of other stuff next. Sit tight. Let's hang out together, 0:10:49.750 --> 0:10:53.120 shall we, at 888-971-SAGE, 888-971-7243. Mark Davis in for Larry. 0:10:53.640 --> 0:10:56.720 Among the questions I have for you, how do we 0:10:57.320 --> 0:11:01.220 as conservatives, how do we as Republicans, looking to eke 0:11:01.300 --> 0:11:05.089 out some victories here on Election Day, which almost nobody 0:11:05.130 --> 0:11:07.750 thinks we can hope for, dare we dream? I'm daring 0:11:07.790 --> 0:11:11.410 to dream. I am daring to believe that motivated by 0:11:11.920 --> 0:11:16.210 an unprecedented level of insanity in the Democrat Party, that 0:11:16.230 --> 0:11:18.170 there are Republicans who will get up off the couch 0:11:18.210 --> 0:11:20.250 and say, you know something, maybe I should do something 0:11:20.290 --> 0:11:23.070 about this. You know the way the usual history goes. 0:11:24.610 --> 0:11:26.949 A party wins the White House, as the Republicans did 0:11:27.010 --> 0:11:32.000 two years ago, and then in the ensuing midterms, the 0:11:32.040 --> 0:11:35.320 other party does well. The pendulum swings back. It's happened 0:11:35.420 --> 0:11:38.560 in our favor before. Bill Clinton wins in 1992. We 0:11:38.580 --> 0:11:43.500 get the Gingrich Revolution in 1994. Republican wave. Obama wins 0:11:43.580 --> 0:11:47.959 in 2008. We get big Republican gains in 2010. John 0:11:48.000 --> 0:11:50.520 Boehner taking the gavel from Nancy Pelosi. 0:11:50.780 --> 0:11:51.100 Ah, yes. 0:11:51.620 --> 0:11:55.510 So that's the way it seems like the tea leaves 0:11:55.870 --> 0:12:01.410 are to be read. Unless somebody thinks otherwise. Unless we're 0:12:01.450 --> 0:12:07.219 not lazy. Unless we are... motivated to prevent people like 0:12:07.260 --> 0:12:17.620 James Tallarico, people like Abdul El-Sayed, people like today's communists, socialists, Islamists. extremists, 0:12:17.940 --> 0:12:19.870 are we going to rise up and do something so 0:12:19.880 --> 0:12:22.829 that these people do not gain power? Are we going 0:12:22.850 --> 0:12:24.490 to do something? Listen, we showed up to vote for 0:12:24.510 --> 0:12:27.150 Trump two years ago. We showed up to give Republicans power. 0:12:27.530 --> 0:12:33.250 You realize that just vaporizes if we have a Democrat Congress. 0:12:33.510 --> 0:12:35.390 We're not going to be able to get anything done. 0:12:35.480 --> 0:12:38.640 His last two years, even with the power, the fire 0:12:38.679 --> 0:12:43.980 hose power of Donald Trump, he'll be crippled. His agenda 0:12:44.000 --> 0:12:47.250 will be crippled because everything will run through a Democrat 0:12:47.290 --> 0:12:50.710 Congress that will be filling its days with almost weekly 0:12:50.890 --> 0:12:54.000 impeachment articles. Is that what you want? Are we going 0:12:54.030 --> 0:13:00.240 to do something to prevent that from happening? Silly me. Well, 0:13:00.500 --> 0:13:03.420 I think we will. I know we can. But I 0:13:03.580 --> 0:13:08.320 really actively believe that we will. So I want you 0:13:08.340 --> 0:13:10.020 to join me in that belief. I want you to 0:13:10.080 --> 0:13:15.260 join me in that prayer. Pray hard. Vote hard. Work hard. 0:13:16.200 --> 0:13:19.780 Because if we do these things, we can save this 0:13:19.860 --> 0:13:26.380 country from these people. It's not hard voting. Voting is 0:13:26.470 --> 0:13:30.550 not hard. It just requires something of you. And again, 0:13:30.929 --> 0:13:33.829 if you're listening, watching, I'm not talking about you. I 0:13:33.850 --> 0:13:36.189 guess I may be talking about people you know. So 0:13:36.210 --> 0:13:38.330 a few minutes ago when I asked, what are you 0:13:38.390 --> 0:13:41.150 going to do? Your answer would be, well, Mark, I'm 0:13:41.190 --> 0:13:42.750 going to vote. I'm going to do exactly what you're 0:13:42.770 --> 0:13:45.210 talking about. I'm right here preaching to the converted, buddy. 0:13:45.250 --> 0:13:50.359 I'm right here. okay, then I need you to become 0:13:50.380 --> 0:13:54.459 evangelists for the cause. And I mean evangelism in a 0:13:54.480 --> 0:13:57.440 political sense. Obviously, usually that term attached to a moral 0:13:57.559 --> 0:14:00.199 or religious sense, and that would be good too. But 0:14:00.700 --> 0:14:04.530 by and large, this is something that should be of 0:14:04.610 --> 0:14:07.630 appeal to everybody of every faith. You don't have to 0:14:07.670 --> 0:14:10.270 be a conservative Christian to think that borders are a 0:14:10.330 --> 0:14:13.939 good idea. You don't have to be a conservative Christian 0:14:14.860 --> 0:14:19.620 to believe that sex changes for children is demonic outrage. 0:14:20.340 --> 0:14:25.460 This is, these are just normal common sense things you 0:14:25.480 --> 0:14:28.000 would think, or they used to be. And can we 0:14:28.040 --> 0:14:30.260 put the horse back in the barn? Can we get 0:14:30.360 --> 0:14:33.780 back to a time and I'm old enough to, I'm 68. 0:14:33.780 --> 0:14:37.869 I'll be telling you about these throughout our relationship is 0:14:37.930 --> 0:14:41.360 my memories of when the, the, The worst thing I 0:14:41.380 --> 0:14:44.640 would ever say about a Democrat is I think you're mistaken. 0:14:45.080 --> 0:14:46.540 The worst thing I ever want to say about a 0:14:46.580 --> 0:14:50.220 liberal is I think you're mistaken. I think my ideas 0:14:50.520 --> 0:14:52.760 are better than your ideas. I don't want to say 0:14:52.840 --> 0:14:56.960 you hate America, although some of you do. I don't 0:14:56.980 --> 0:14:59.560 want to say that you're a communist or a socialist, 0:15:00.100 --> 0:15:02.440 although a growing number of you are. I don't want 0:15:02.460 --> 0:15:05.680 to say you're a seething Jew hater, even though a 0:15:05.750 --> 0:15:09.980 growing percentage of you are in the Democrat Party. I 0:15:10.030 --> 0:15:12.400 take no pleasure in this, but I'll tell you this. 0:15:12.460 --> 0:15:15.320 I will take pleasure. I will take great pleasure in 0:15:15.380 --> 0:15:21.400 watching those agendas defeated in 20 days. This ought to 0:15:21.440 --> 0:15:25.070 be something that we all can get behind, that we 0:15:25.310 --> 0:15:27.810 all can. In fact, a little bit of history that's 0:15:27.870 --> 0:15:32.450 not that far back. President Bush wins in 2000. So 0:15:32.490 --> 0:15:35.410 the usual pendulum would be that in 2002, there would 0:15:35.430 --> 0:15:38.620 be big Democrat victories. And there were not. It's because 0:15:38.640 --> 0:15:41.400 we had that 9-11 thing happen in between there. And 0:15:41.420 --> 0:15:44.400 that was a massive stab to the heart of America. 0:15:44.720 --> 0:15:51.330 And some small vestige of unity still existed. And that 0:15:51.380 --> 0:15:54.630 led to people not flooding toward the Democrats as ardently 0:15:55.030 --> 0:15:59.990 as they otherwise might have. I don't want to need 0:16:00.010 --> 0:16:04.820 another 9-11 for us to have any kind of unity 0:16:04.900 --> 0:16:09.240 and any kind of cohesion behind the concept of common sense. 0:16:09.920 --> 0:16:13.060 I don't want to do that. I would like for, 0:16:13.280 --> 0:16:15.480 I'll tell you, I would like for people to view 0:16:15.940 --> 0:16:20.660 the Democrat agenda as being sufficiently alarming that it is 0:16:20.700 --> 0:16:24.430 worth getting up off the couch and voting, that it's 0:16:24.450 --> 0:16:27.590 worth getting up off the couch and voting. Let us 0:16:27.630 --> 0:16:30.830 roll to Portland, Oregon, on the phone. Jim, hi. Mark 0:16:30.850 --> 0:16:31.570 Davison for Larry. 0:16:31.610 --> 0:16:32.010 How are you doing? 0:16:33.450 --> 0:16:37.270 Doing well, Mark. Doing well, Mark. It's good to be 0:16:37.290 --> 0:16:37.590 with you. 0:16:38.210 --> 0:16:41.250 I had a question about the Tallarico campaign. Are they 0:16:41.270 --> 0:16:44.100 going to sue somebody who challenges their cover story for 0:16:44.120 --> 0:16:45.000 the two-week absence? 0:16:45.420 --> 0:16:46.479 Did I hear that right? 0:16:47.740 --> 0:16:51.180 Well, the two-week, maybe 30 seconds on what happened, and 0:16:51.200 --> 0:16:53.100 then you tell me how this struck you out there 0:16:53.160 --> 0:16:57.670 in Oregon. He vanishes from the campaign trail inexplicably, says 0:16:57.690 --> 0:17:00.670 he had a bad case of the flu exacerbated by diabetes. 0:17:00.990 --> 0:17:02.870 There was a weird story that I didn't believe for 0:17:02.910 --> 0:17:05.450 a minute about him being in a mental hospital in Ohio, 0:17:05.690 --> 0:17:08.550 not because it's implausible for him to be in a 0:17:08.830 --> 0:17:12.530 rubber room, but because there just wasn't enough corroboration for 0:17:12.570 --> 0:17:15.810 a thinly sourced story. So he's back. I think that's 0:17:15.910 --> 0:17:19.129 largely a forgotten story, but I haven't forgotten it. Because 0:17:19.150 --> 0:17:22.720 I think it's just indicative either of a bad communication shop. 0:17:23.000 --> 0:17:25.040 How in the world do you let that story get 0:17:25.119 --> 0:17:28.220 that bad? I mean, Ted Cruz posted pictures of Tallarico 0:17:28.280 --> 0:17:30.520 on a milk carton. How do you let that story 0:17:30.560 --> 0:17:33.750 get that bad? What do you think happened and what 0:17:34.090 --> 0:17:35.850 legs do you think that continues to have? 0:17:37.490 --> 0:17:37.650 Whoa. 0:17:38.390 --> 0:17:41.570 I don't know for sure. I don't like the idea 0:17:41.950 --> 0:17:45.610 of the First Amendment being challenged. If they sue, show 0:17:45.630 --> 0:17:47.850 us the medical records, and it's part of discovery. 0:17:48.310 --> 0:17:52.200 Oh, nobody's going to sue anything. There will be no lawsuits. 0:17:52.220 --> 0:17:54.320 There will be no nothing. This is going to exist 0:17:54.840 --> 0:17:58.720 in the political realm. This either damaged him or it didn't, 0:17:59.320 --> 0:18:02.480 and it probably didn't for a reason I'll describe here 0:18:02.500 --> 0:18:04.770 in the following way. Jim, thank you. Appreciate it very, 0:18:04.830 --> 0:18:10.149 very much. I've long had a definition. of political damage. 0:18:10.950 --> 0:18:13.650 The Mark Davis definition of political damage goes like this. 0:18:14.350 --> 0:18:18.430 There is political damage when people who liked you yesterday 0:18:18.710 --> 0:18:24.540 don't like you anymore. There is political damage when supporters say, 0:18:25.359 --> 0:18:30.000 I just can't support you anymore. So this entire two-week, 0:18:30.040 --> 0:18:34.679 almost 13-day absence by Tallarico, Republicans were in high dudgeon 0:18:34.720 --> 0:18:36.659 about it. I talked about it every day. Where is 0:18:36.700 --> 0:18:39.010 this guy? This is crazy. Is it possible that there's 0:18:39.030 --> 0:18:41.870 some independents in there who are thinking, wow, that just 0:18:41.890 --> 0:18:45.820 seems weak and weird? Yeah, maybe, but I don't think 0:18:45.859 --> 0:18:48.540 it ultimately moved the needle that much, meaning that there 0:18:48.619 --> 0:18:50.859 is good news that this race will be determined in 0:18:50.900 --> 0:18:54.980 Texas not by weird two-week absences or where was Jimmy Tallarico, 0:18:55.340 --> 0:18:59.260 but by his ideas versus Ken Paxton's ideas, and his 0:18:59.380 --> 0:19:05.360 ideas are not, repeat, not Texas ideas. Well, wherever your 0:19:05.410 --> 0:19:08.960 ideas are, give us a buzz, 888-971-SAGE. Mark Davison, for Larry, 0:19:08.980 --> 0:19:10.660 Salem Radio Network, Salem News Channel. 0:19:10.680 --> 0:19:11.240 Be right back. 0:19:20.380 --> 0:19:23.000 Whatever first comes out of their mouth, that's what they believe. 0:19:23.560 --> 0:19:26.180 So he's got all this bad stuff. Now he's making 0:19:26.200 --> 0:19:29.220 it up. Now he says he loves meat. But he's 0:19:29.300 --> 0:19:32.520 a vegan. See, Melania, I got that right, vegan. 0:19:35.010 --> 0:19:35.810 He's a vegan. 0:19:35.869 --> 0:19:37.880 He wants to eat a piece of lettuce, a little 0:19:37.920 --> 0:19:39.060 piece of lettuce, please. 0:19:40.640 --> 0:19:41.560 But he's been seen. 0:19:41.600 --> 0:19:43.280 You know, you haven't seen him in a couple of weeks. 0:19:43.320 --> 0:19:44.460 I hear the guy's disappeared. 0:19:44.540 --> 0:19:45.010 Nobody knows. 0:19:45.030 --> 0:19:45.670 You know where he is? 0:19:46.130 --> 0:19:49.290 He's sick because he's been forced to eat meat for 0:19:49.350 --> 0:19:49.970 political reasons. 0:19:50.720 --> 0:19:51.740 And he's throwing up. 0:19:51.760 --> 0:19:52.620 All over the place. 0:19:52.680 --> 0:19:53.260 He's sick. 0:19:59.720 --> 0:20:03.240 Well, there you are. Summarizing it as no one else can. 0:20:03.720 --> 0:20:10.770 President Trump riffing on the contentious... relationship between James Tallarico 0:20:10.830 --> 0:20:14.870 and meat. There was a famous staged photograph of him 0:20:15.390 --> 0:20:18.450 gnawing on a turkey leg and interacting with it as 0:20:18.530 --> 0:20:21.210 if it is some weird severed alien limb. He just 0:20:21.250 --> 0:20:24.510 did not look particularly comfortable with that thing. It doesn't 0:20:24.530 --> 0:20:26.929 look particularly at home in that truck somebody gave him 0:20:26.970 --> 0:20:29.920 for that TV ad either. It's all just been so very, 0:20:29.980 --> 0:20:36.199 very weird. Do we have soft, squishy Democrat men in Texas? 0:20:36.420 --> 0:20:37.979 Sure we do. We have some of those just like 0:20:38.040 --> 0:20:40.350 everybody does. We just don't let them run the place. 0:20:40.980 --> 0:20:42.720 We just don't let them run the place, and I 0:20:42.780 --> 0:20:46.790 don't think that is going to change. I have... There's... 0:20:48.230 --> 0:20:53.210 There's fresh cost of living concerns and polling results. And 0:20:53.270 --> 0:20:54.930 one of the reasons why everybody says, why is Trump 0:20:54.970 --> 0:20:57.290 going to Alaska? Why is Trump going to Montana? Why 0:20:57.330 --> 0:21:00.210 is Trump going to Texas every week? Because those should 0:21:00.230 --> 0:21:02.250 be layups. Those should be easy states to win. There 0:21:02.290 --> 0:21:04.310 are no easy states to win when you're in the 0:21:04.350 --> 0:21:07.990 middle of a tricky war and when gas is, you know, 0:21:08.109 --> 0:21:09.890 is a dollar and a half more than you need 0:21:09.930 --> 0:21:13.609 it to be. It is heavy lifting to explain to 0:21:13.650 --> 0:21:19.060 people that a non-nuclear Iran is worth A season of 0:21:19.100 --> 0:21:22.970 expensive gas. I believe it is. It's easy for me 0:21:23.010 --> 0:21:25.590 to believe it is. Maybe you intellectually believe it is, 0:21:25.630 --> 0:21:27.590 but you're making 30 grand and it's eating up your 0:21:27.609 --> 0:21:30.609 rent money. That is the uphill climb. You've got to really, 0:21:30.670 --> 0:21:33.390 really dig in hard and figure out what you want 0:21:33.490 --> 0:21:35.530 to be true and what you believe is true in 0:21:35.590 --> 0:21:38.950 your heart and in your mind. If you're okay with 0:21:38.990 --> 0:21:40.730 a nuclear Iran and don't think that we should have 0:21:40.750 --> 0:21:43.780 been in this war in the first place, okay, that's 0:21:43.820 --> 0:21:46.659 a position that you can hold. The president viewed things differently, 0:21:46.700 --> 0:21:50.220 and I thank God that he did. So anyway, I 0:21:51.140 --> 0:21:54.680 will offer you things not to dispirit you but to 0:21:54.760 --> 0:21:58.909 motivate you because the president's poll numbers– are flat out 0:21:59.670 --> 0:22:01.930 or in the toilet. And it's because of the warrant. 0:22:01.950 --> 0:22:04.750 It's because of affordability. And I believe, and I point 0:22:04.770 --> 0:22:07.090 these things out, that these are things that can be 0:22:07.210 --> 0:22:10.929 explained well enough to limit that damage. I'll tell you 0:22:10.950 --> 0:22:14.280 about that as we progress. Right now, let's progress back 0:22:14.760 --> 0:22:22.060 to your calls. 888-971-SAGE, 888-971-7243. We are in Los Angeles. Mark, hey, 0:22:22.140 --> 0:22:24.360 Mark Davidson for Larry. Welcome. How are you, sir? 0:22:25.820 --> 0:22:26.380 I'm fine. 0:22:26.460 --> 0:22:26.899 How are you? 0:22:27.770 --> 0:22:28.210 I'm fine. 0:22:28.250 --> 0:22:28.690 How are you? 0:22:29.750 --> 0:22:29.910 Good. 0:22:30.190 --> 0:22:34.109 So let me ask you, why are the Republicans so 0:22:34.210 --> 0:22:37.150 hateful and mean to Teller Rico? 0:22:39.040 --> 0:22:40.000 Are you that. 0:22:39.700 --> 0:22:44.520 Scared of them? What would be an example of something mean? 0:22:46.180 --> 0:22:49.170 Well, where they mock him all the time, make fun 0:22:49.210 --> 0:22:54.570 of the way he talks and walks. More importantly, your wonderful— wait, wait, wait, 0:22:54.609 --> 0:22:59.870 I'm not done. Your wonderful vice president yesterday, your worst 0:23:00.010 --> 0:23:05.129 vice president saying, oh, Joe, tell us what's going on. 0:23:05.210 --> 0:23:06.510 First of all, he's not. 0:23:07.670 --> 0:23:08.020