WEBVTT - Just Three Weeks Until Election Day 0:00:00.470 --> 0:00:03.990 I might be the only Republican right now who is 0:00:04.050 --> 0:00:07.740 not in an absolute state of panic about the state 0:00:07.920 --> 0:00:11.820 of this race. Welcome to the Dan O'Donnell Show. Why 0:00:11.900 --> 0:00:15.460 am I more optimistic than most? Well, as you can imagine, 0:00:15.500 --> 0:00:18.100 if you've been listening to this program or watching this 0:00:18.140 --> 0:00:22.020 program for any amount of time... It's because I've got 0:00:22.180 --> 0:00:26.530 data that suggests that it's not that the polls are wrong. 0:00:26.630 --> 0:00:31.290 It's not that somehow Republicans are going to undo more 0:00:31.350 --> 0:00:34.750 than a century of trends in midterms when their party 0:00:34.810 --> 0:00:39.879 controls the White House. It's that along the margins, nothing 0:00:40.170 --> 0:00:45.500 is suggesting a massive Democrat sweep except polling that has 0:00:45.600 --> 0:00:51.210 traditionally underestimated Republicans. at a Democratic Party that is less 0:00:51.330 --> 0:00:55.830 popular than ever before. We will dive into all things 0:00:55.950 --> 0:00:59.650 politics today and a whole lot more. The Brewer is 0:00:59.730 --> 0:01:03.810 coming off a hit. Huge, absolutely massive game to win 0:01:03.870 --> 0:01:07.710 at American Family Field last night against the Los Angeles Dodgers. 0:01:08.490 --> 0:01:10.510 They are now up two games to none as the 0:01:10.569 --> 0:01:14.709 series shifts to L.A. tomorrow. 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I am 0:06:29.910 --> 0:06:32.870 so excited to do it and you will hear all 0:06:32.950 --> 0:06:36.919 about it coming up just after 3.30 here on the 0:06:36.980 --> 0:06:40.619 Dan O'Donnell Show. Alright, let's get right into it today. 0:06:40.980 --> 0:06:44.670 Why is it? that I am more bullish than pretty 0:06:44.730 --> 0:06:48.950 much everybody else. The chatter behind the scenes this week 0:06:49.570 --> 0:06:54.150 has turned decidedly negative for Republicans, not just here in Wisconsin, 0:06:54.190 --> 0:06:57.770 but really across the country. I think there must have 0:06:57.810 --> 0:07:01.850 been some internal polling or something that came back, and 0:07:01.890 --> 0:07:06.400 it did not look good. And admittedly, the president's party 0:07:06.610 --> 0:07:11.230 is never going to do particularly well in a midterm 0:07:11.510 --> 0:07:17.130 in which that president is in his first midterm. Trump 0:07:17.190 --> 0:07:20.640 is a unique case. Trump has essentially had two first 0:07:20.820 --> 0:07:23.880 terms because, of course, he is just the second president 0:07:23.920 --> 0:07:27.320 in American history following Grover Cleveland to be elected to 0:07:27.440 --> 0:07:33.270 two non-consecutive terms. So typically... When a new president takes office, 0:07:33.310 --> 0:07:38.530 he's elected, say, in 2024. In the 2026 midterm, his 0:07:38.590 --> 0:07:43.190 party typically will get shellacked. It's generally a combination of 0:07:43.240 --> 0:07:47.140 the opposition party being so ticked off that they lost 0:07:47.240 --> 0:07:51.080 the presidency just two years earlier. They're so ticked off 0:07:51.480 --> 0:07:54.520 with what this new president has been doing in his 0:07:54.640 --> 0:07:57.640 first nearly two years in office that their voters turn 0:07:57.700 --> 0:08:00.620 out in massive numbers. Not only that, there is a 0:08:00.660 --> 0:08:03.080 bit of a complacency. There is a bit of a 0:08:04.340 --> 0:08:09.720 fat and happy aspect to the president's party. they don't 0:08:10.080 --> 0:08:13.900 really feel nearly as motivated to have to go out 0:08:13.960 --> 0:08:17.230 and vote because they're not being told that there is 0:08:17.430 --> 0:08:22.330 an existential crisis, that the world will end if we 0:08:22.390 --> 0:08:26.610 don't beat the president's party in this midterm. The messaging 0:08:26.710 --> 0:08:30.610 is just different, and the mindset is just different amongst 0:08:30.670 --> 0:08:33.780 the electorate. So typically, you'll have an electorate that is 0:08:33.920 --> 0:08:37.740 made up Of many more voters of the out party, 0:08:37.780 --> 0:08:41.000 in this case the Democrats, it is an institutional advantage, 0:08:41.160 --> 0:08:45.970 and there are significant economic headwinds. Here in 2026, to 0:08:46.030 --> 0:08:49.770 pretend otherwise is to put your head in the sand. 0:08:50.550 --> 0:08:54.910 The sands of the Middle East once again appear to 0:08:54.970 --> 0:08:59.320 be eroding Republican chances, just as they did 20 years 0:08:59.380 --> 0:09:04.400 ago in an historic Democrat sweep in the 2006 midterms, 0:09:04.460 --> 0:09:08.439 only instead of the Iraq War, it's the Iran War. 0:09:09.030 --> 0:09:12.520 and the subsequent rise in prices at the gas pump, 0:09:12.600 --> 0:09:17.900 especially in diesel fuel, that Democrats have been messaging that 0:09:17.960 --> 0:09:21.400 have caused grocery prices and really the price of everything 0:09:21.460 --> 0:09:24.330 to spiral out of control. Now, never mind the fact 0:09:24.830 --> 0:09:29.690 that the overwhelming majority of the spike in grocery prices, 0:09:30.010 --> 0:09:33.550 the spike in the price of everything, happened during the 0:09:33.610 --> 0:09:38.229 tenure and because of the policies of those exact same 0:09:38.370 --> 0:09:43.400 Democrats when Joe Biden was president, starting almost immediately after 0:09:43.440 --> 0:09:48.580 he took office in 2021. Remember, we had year-over-year inflation 0:09:49.080 --> 0:09:56.579 of 9%. We saw year-over-year price spikes in food staples, 0:09:56.880 --> 0:10:02.600 in rent, in housing, up as high as 20%. to 30% 0:10:02.600 --> 0:10:07.059 on some items. We saw utility prices get to levels 0:10:07.140 --> 0:10:10.359 that have never before been seen. Do you realize that 0:10:10.520 --> 0:10:13.439 still the only time in American history, so long as 0:10:13.480 --> 0:10:16.940 we're talking about Gas prices, the only time in American 0:10:17.040 --> 0:10:21.120 history where the average price of gas in all 50 0:10:21.120 --> 0:10:26.300 states averaged above $ 5 was the summer of 2022 during 0:10:26.340 --> 0:10:31.730 Biden's presidency. Biden raided the Strategic Petroleum Reserve so as 0:10:31.770 --> 0:10:35.209 to provide a temporary respite from high prices and to 0:10:35.270 --> 0:10:39.790 try to save his party in the 2022 midterms. 2022 0:10:41.320 --> 0:10:45.819 was not nearly the big Republican year that many people 0:10:45.920 --> 0:10:48.760 thought it was going to be. Big reason for that, 0:10:48.920 --> 0:10:52.350 I believe, one of the central issues of the campaign 0:10:52.450 --> 0:10:55.450 was the repeal of Roe v. Wade by the U.S. 0:10:55.490 --> 0:10:59.510 Supreme Court just a couple of months earlier. Not only that, 0:10:59.750 --> 0:11:04.979 you had redistricting following the 2020 census that that really 0:11:05.100 --> 0:11:08.400 handed seats to Democrats that they did not earn. In fact, 0:11:08.440 --> 0:11:12.250 the Census Bureau itself said, hey, we screwed up that 0:11:12.250 --> 0:11:15.449 2020 census. Wouldn't you know it? All of those weird 0:11:15.550 --> 0:11:18.850 random screw-ups just always seem to go in the direction 0:11:18.910 --> 0:11:23.800 of Democrats, where Democrat states didn't lose as many seats 0:11:23.860 --> 0:11:26.900 and thus as many electoral votes as they were projected 0:11:26.980 --> 0:11:33.920 to because the counts were just totally off during COVID-19. Democrats, though, 0:11:33.960 --> 0:11:38.720 had a massive advantage that people sort of overlooked. Their 0:11:38.820 --> 0:11:44.679 turnout machine was unbelievable. They were able to get people 0:11:45.250 --> 0:11:47.970 showing up at the polls who never did before. And 0:11:48.030 --> 0:11:52.070 forget about the 2020 presidential election where everybody in the 0:11:52.250 --> 0:11:57.190 universe was using mail-in ballots, even people who didn't exist. 0:11:57.230 --> 0:12:00.310 That's how good the Democratic turnout machine, even people who 0:12:00.350 --> 0:12:04.450 didn't exist before. We're mailing in ballots. That's a joke, 0:12:04.730 --> 0:12:10.459 ladies and gentlemen. Kind of. In 2022, Democrats still had 0:12:10.600 --> 0:12:15.480 an incredible turnout machine. This year, not so much. 0:12:16.679 --> 0:12:16.900 Why? 0:12:18.140 --> 0:12:20.800 They are not funding it. We'll get to that coming 0:12:20.920 --> 0:12:24.050 up in about five to ten minutes. But the fundamentals 0:12:24.250 --> 0:12:29.640 in specifically the gubernatorial race are actually much better for 0:12:29.679 --> 0:12:33.900 the Republican Tom Tiffany than I think anybody could have 0:12:34.000 --> 0:12:36.760 hoped for at this point. just take a look at 0:12:36.780 --> 0:12:40.320 the gold standard of polling here in wisconsin market university 0:12:40.400 --> 0:12:44.179 law school poll in the field september sixteenth through the 0:12:44.240 --> 0:12:48.700 twenty third so about three weeks ago crowley leads tiffany 0:12:48.760 --> 0:12:52.140 david crowley the democratic nominee forty nine forty six among 0:12:52.230 --> 0:12:56.449 likely voters he's up forty six forty five among registered 0:12:56.530 --> 0:13:00.810 voters but the story is the improvement of tiffany from 0:13:00.870 --> 0:13:06.730 that august market pool Tiffany gained ground, going from 44% 0:13:06.730 --> 0:13:11.590 among likely voters to 46%, whereas Crowley maxed out at 49%. 0:13:11.590 --> 0:13:18.410 Not only that, independent support for Crowley fell sharply. Now, 0:13:18.850 --> 0:13:21.530 I never believed this number when it came out in 0:13:21.570 --> 0:13:27.410 the August Marquette poll. He was winning independents 55% to 16%. 0:13:29.760 --> 0:13:32.800 That's right. More than half of independents were breaking for 0:13:32.860 --> 0:13:38.000 David Crowley and just 16 were breaking for Tom Tiffany. 0:13:38.250 --> 0:13:40.329 That doesn't happen. That tells me you've got a lot 0:13:40.350 --> 0:13:44.050 of quote-unquote independents who are actually partisan Democrats but don't 0:13:44.090 --> 0:13:48.070 want to say that they're partisan Democrats. My suspicion is 0:13:48.330 --> 0:13:52.110 these are the socialists, the DSA members or people who 0:13:52.550 --> 0:13:56.689 voted for Francesca Hong who don't particularly like the Democratic Party. 0:13:57.520 --> 0:14:02.140 They are technically independents, but of course, they're partisan, down-the-line Democrats. 0:14:03.320 --> 0:14:09.660 Crowley was up 55-16 amongst independents, quote-unquote, in August. In September, 0:14:09.700 --> 0:14:13.580 that number was down 44% to 18%. 0:14:13.580 --> 0:14:13.920 Why? 0:14:14.840 --> 0:14:18.780 Because of all of the negative advertising. And the more 0:14:18.840 --> 0:14:22.180 that people learned about David Crowley and his record as 0:14:22.240 --> 0:14:27.530 Milwaukee County executive, the more they disliked him. Crowley's net 0:14:27.630 --> 0:14:33.610 favorability in August was plus 4. That means 4% more 0:14:33.710 --> 0:14:37.110 respondents in that poll had a favorable view of Crowley 0:14:37.150 --> 0:14:47.790 than unfavorable. That collapsed to minus 13 in just a month. 31% favorable, 44% unfavorable. 0:14:48.410 --> 0:14:54.630 Tiffany's stayed remarkably stable at about minus 6%. Tiffany is 0:14:54.750 --> 0:14:59.890 now viewed more favorably than David Crowley. That is huge. 0:15:01.290 --> 0:15:05.850 How has Crowley not been able to win over supporters? Well, one, 0:15:06.310 --> 0:15:10.570 he's got no money to do so. Crowley, in the 0:15:10.650 --> 0:15:17.250 July 1st to September 23rd campaign finance reporting period, Crowley 0:15:17.310 --> 0:15:26.640 raised $ 10. 2 million. Tiffany, $ 26 million. His year-to-date fundraising total 0:15:27.520 --> 0:15:33.770 is now higher than $ 39 million. Why did Democrats suddenly 0:15:33.850 --> 0:15:38.750 start complaining bitterly that Tiffany is just raising money from 0:15:39.010 --> 0:15:46.330 three billionaires? Because Democrats billionaires, including their single biggest donor 0:15:46.410 --> 0:15:50.270 over the past seven years, Reid Hoffman, the founder of LinkedIn, 0:15:50.770 --> 0:15:54.690 who had sleepovers with Jeffrey Epstein, yes, I am dead serious, 0:15:55.110 --> 0:15:59.990 on three different occasions at three different Epstein properties in 2014. 0:15:59.990 --> 0:16:03.550 Epstein Island, the townhome in Manhattan, as well as a 0:16:03.630 --> 0:16:06.800 ranch in New Mexico that not many people knew that 0:16:06.880 --> 0:16:11.270 Jeffrey Epstein had. Reid Hoffman did. He slept there and 0:16:11.350 --> 0:16:14.870 did heaven knows what while the Democratic Party of Wisconsin 0:16:15.050 --> 0:16:19.390 screamed about President Trump protecting pedophiles. They have yet to 0:16:19.470 --> 0:16:25.590 return a single cent from the dirty pedophile BFF Reid 0:16:25.810 --> 0:16:29.850 Hoffman's donations. Those donations haven't come in. 0:16:30.770 --> 0:16:31.110 J.B. 0:16:31.190 --> 0:16:37.660 Pritzker, George Soros, Line E-Line, none of them. They are 0:16:37.840 --> 0:16:41.780 not raising nearly the same amount of money that they were. 0:16:43.000 --> 0:16:46.180 Republicans are. And that is a big problem. This is 0:16:46.200 --> 0:16:49.060 the first time in a long time here in Wisconsin, really, 0:16:49.480 --> 0:16:54.360 since probably the 2018 election cycle, the last Scott Walker 0:16:54.500 --> 0:16:58.090 election here in Wisconsin. This is the first time that 0:16:58.150 --> 0:17:03.270 Republicans are significantly outraising and outspending Democrats, and it appears 0:17:03.320 --> 0:17:08.240 to be having a massive impact. Not only that, Republicans 0:17:08.440 --> 0:17:13.859 are totally united behind Tom Tiffany. Their base is almost 0:17:14.040 --> 0:17:17.900 assuredly going to turn out for him because they are united. 0:17:18.060 --> 0:17:24.250 They are all behind him. David Crowley infuriated the socialist 0:17:24.330 --> 0:17:28.760 base of the Wisconsin Democratic Party when the party essentially 0:17:28.940 --> 0:17:38.330 rigged the primary for him. He was forced to drop 0:17:38.470 --> 0:17:42.350 out and endorse the disastrous Lieutenant Governor Sarah Rodriguez, who 0:17:42.410 --> 0:17:46.020 herself dropped out amid a massive campaign finance scandal just 0:17:46.040 --> 0:17:49.119 a couple of days later. The Democratic Party then rigged 0:17:49.180 --> 0:17:52.840 the thing for Crowley, get him back in the race, 0:17:53.260 --> 0:17:56.280 pretending that he's this conquering hero, that this is like 0:17:56.800 --> 0:18:01.610 Julius Caesar coming back from the Gallic Wars and crossing 0:18:01.670 --> 0:18:06.660 the Rubicon. He's just going to conquer the state of Wisconsin. Yeah, 0:18:06.700 --> 0:18:11.730 he limped back in, and Tony Evers, the marginally popular 0:18:11.790 --> 0:18:15.350 governor amongst the Democratic base, was basically leading him around 0:18:15.450 --> 0:18:19.190 by the hand. He only won with all of that, 0:18:19.250 --> 0:18:22.109 with the party scheming for the better part of a 0:18:22.190 --> 0:18:27.020 year to deny the socialist Francesca Hong the nomination. He 0:18:27.060 --> 0:18:31.619 won by fewer than 4,000 votes statewide out of hundreds 0:18:31.680 --> 0:18:37.080 of thousands cast. The socialists were and I believe still 0:18:37.300 --> 0:18:42.470 are furious because this isn't just a faction of Democrats 0:18:42.830 --> 0:18:45.990 who are ticked off about the treatment of their candidate 0:18:46.070 --> 0:18:50.750 very famously. In 2008, a lot of the Hillary Clinton 0:18:50.810 --> 0:18:55.050 supporters were real ticked off at the way Barack Obama 0:18:55.250 --> 0:18:59.890 and his fan base treated Hillary. They thought it was misogynistic. 0:19:00.510 --> 0:19:04.430 I never thought I would see Hillary Clinton complaining that 0:19:04.490 --> 0:19:08.810 the media was biased against her. My goodness. Lady, we're 0:19:08.990 --> 0:19:11.770 all old enough to remember how you and your husband 0:19:12.109 --> 0:19:17.540 were covered in the 1990s. This isn't that. Eventually, and 0:19:17.560 --> 0:19:20.439 there were people, and I'll never forget this, there were 0:19:20.480 --> 0:19:25.020 people who believed that a significant portion of the Hillary 0:19:25.220 --> 0:19:28.649 base was not going to turn out for Obama, and 0:19:28.730 --> 0:19:31.370 that would allow John McCain to win. It was never 0:19:31.410 --> 0:19:36.350 going to happen. This time, you have a base of 0:19:36.450 --> 0:19:41.260 voters who supported Francesca Hong, who aren't Democrat. They don't 0:19:41.380 --> 0:19:45.550 call themselves Democrats. And in fact, they want to take 0:19:45.890 --> 0:19:51.209 over the Democratic Party. They despise the corporate debt. as 0:19:51.270 --> 0:19:57.390 embodied by data center David Crowley. A couple of weeks ago, 0:19:58.080 --> 0:20:01.620 the Democratic Party was so panicked about the base not 0:20:01.720 --> 0:20:07.160 coming home that they actually deployed Francesca Hong out to 0:20:07.180 --> 0:20:11.220 the campaign trail to go try to rally her supporters. 0:20:12.060 --> 0:20:16.020 It did not go particularly well. At the very first stop, 0:20:16.980 --> 0:20:21.560 she was caught saying, please don't write me in to 0:20:21.600 --> 0:20:24.980 her supporters. You need to vote for David Crowley if 0:20:25.060 --> 0:20:28.399 we want to win this election. Not exactly a ringing endorsement. 0:20:29.020 --> 0:20:32.560 Then she gave an interview with upfront host Matt Smith. 0:20:33.390 --> 0:20:38.570 And she refused on multiple occasions to say she was 0:20:38.650 --> 0:20:43.430 endorsing David Crowley. Is this you campaigning for David Crowley? 0:20:43.820 --> 0:20:48.660 This is me campaigning for Democrats. This is me campaigning 0:20:48.840 --> 0:20:54.740 for making sure that we have people turning out to 0:20:54.780 --> 0:20:58.310 vote and to win back a Democratic majority in the legislature. 0:20:59.930 --> 0:21:05.060 Most pointedly there. She did not say when asked, is 0:21:05.140 --> 0:21:08.720 this you campaigning for David Crowley? Yes, this is me 0:21:08.780 --> 0:21:11.899 campaigning for David Crowley. She did not say it. And 0:21:11.940 --> 0:21:14.660 in fact, she refused to say it throughout the interview. 0:21:15.240 --> 0:21:18.080 Smith followed up, asked, OK, are you going to campaign 0:21:18.140 --> 0:21:20.820 with Crowley? Are you going to be on stage with him? 0:21:20.840 --> 0:21:23.340 Are we going to see you alongside David Crowley before 0:21:23.359 --> 0:21:23.840 Election Day? 0:21:24.640 --> 0:21:28.560 I think that it's important we are campaigning, you know, 0:21:28.880 --> 0:21:31.740 in as many places as we can. And I think 0:21:31.810 --> 0:21:35.250 that you'll see Democrats come together and make sure that 0:21:36.310 --> 0:21:39.570 we're earning people's votes, that we are the party to 0:21:39.710 --> 0:21:42.560 actually bring about change and help improve lives. 0:21:43.420 --> 0:21:50.080 Yeah, really sounds like she's all about party unification. And 0:21:50.100 --> 0:21:55.650 it wasn't just her. Pretty much every one of Crowley's 0:21:55.710 --> 0:22:00.830 primary rivals has not done anything. Not since the primary, 0:22:00.869 --> 0:22:05.100 the big unity breakfast the morning after the August 11th primary. 0:22:05.859 --> 0:22:10.679 Joel Brennan took his Twitter account, his ex-account, private. He 0:22:10.720 --> 0:22:15.440 has not said anything publicly. Kelda Roys, who is desperately 0:22:15.619 --> 0:22:19.220 hoping that when Rodriguez imploded, the party would back her, 0:22:19.640 --> 0:22:22.500 but didn't. They instead got Crowley back in. She has 0:22:22.540 --> 0:22:24.780 not tweeted. She has not said a thing. She has 0:22:24.820 --> 0:22:27.060 not been on the campaign trail. She has not done 0:22:27.080 --> 0:22:32.830 a doggone thing. The guy who was most egregiously wronged 0:22:33.050 --> 0:22:37.270 by the party, Mandela Barnes, who had a dossier of 0:22:37.330 --> 0:22:41.650 alleged sexual misconduct dropped against him to try to get 0:22:41.690 --> 0:22:44.670 him out of the race so that Crowley would, I 0:22:44.690 --> 0:22:47.510 don't know, be the only black man from Milwaukee in 0:22:47.530 --> 0:22:50.369 the primary. What is this, Highlander? There can be only one. 0:22:50.609 --> 0:22:52.950 Apparently for the Democrats, they thought they needed to get 0:22:53.320 --> 0:22:58.020 Mandela out. By God, they did. By hook and by crook. 0:22:58.540 --> 0:23:02.260 started compiling a dossier on him nearly a year ago, 0:23:02.760 --> 0:23:04.980 and then they drop it on him when they need 0:23:05.020 --> 0:23:07.100 him to get out. Do you really think that guy 0:23:07.200 --> 0:23:10.359 is going to rally his supporters for David Crowley or 0:23:10.380 --> 0:23:14.380 the Democratic Party? You have got some honest-to-goodness, not just bitterness, 0:23:14.460 --> 0:23:18.560 but hate as a result of that primary. And again, 0:23:19.000 --> 0:23:22.530 these aren't Democrats who are just going to come home automatically. 0:23:22.590 --> 0:23:26.470 These are socialists whose ultimate end goal is to take 0:23:26.730 --> 0:23:31.619 over that party. With all that as a backdrop, the polling, 0:23:32.080 --> 0:23:37.790 the money, the base geography, Tom Tiffany being from outstate, 0:23:38.270 --> 0:23:42.750 being able to run against the dysfunction and utter chaos 0:23:42.830 --> 0:23:47.570 that is Milwaukee County, which David Crowley runs, all of 0:23:47.650 --> 0:23:52.080 that is a huge advantage for Tiffany. But it's all 0:23:52.119 --> 0:23:56.780 for naught if not for you. You need to vote. 0:23:57.180 --> 0:24:01.399 You need to get out and ensure that those inherent 0:24:01.540 --> 0:24:06.129 advantages turn into votes for Tom Tiffany. And we're going 0:24:06.150 --> 0:24:09.090 to help you with that. Once again, here on the 0:24:09.130 --> 0:24:11.489 Dan O'Donnell Show, we are going to be running the 0:24:11.570 --> 0:24:16.879 state's largest early vote drive. In-person early voting starts a 0:24:16.990 --> 0:24:20.980 week from today, I believe. Or a week from yesterday? 0:24:21.320 --> 0:24:23.720 Next week. Early next week. I believe it's the 20th 0:24:23.740 --> 0:24:26.790 or the 21st. I think it's the 20th. Whatever day 0:24:26.840 --> 0:24:28.919 it is, we are going to be ready for it. 0:24:28.960 --> 0:24:32.100 We are going to be banking your early votes. And 0:24:32.680 --> 0:24:35.460 since the number one question I get is, Dan, I 0:24:35.580 --> 0:24:38.100 just don't know who to vote for. I don't know 0:24:38.160 --> 0:24:41.890 how to vote on those constitutional amendment questions. I don't 0:24:41.990 --> 0:24:46.350 know how to vote on my local school referendum. Once again, 0:24:46.690 --> 0:24:51.190 my website, the Heartland Post, is putting together the ultimate 0:24:51.270 --> 0:24:55.510 conservative voter guide. In fact, I wrapped it up this morning. 0:24:55.550 --> 0:24:58.790 We have all of the data in. We're ingesting it. 0:24:58.880 --> 0:25:02.600 We are getting the site ready to go. So you 0:25:02.680 --> 0:25:06.100 will know. You will go to the polls knowing exactly 0:25:06.200 --> 0:25:09.879 who to vote for, knowing exactly what is on your ballot, 0:25:10.000 --> 0:25:14.280 knowing exactly who the conservatives are or what the conservative 0:25:14.400 --> 0:25:21.530 vote is. on those referendum questions, go to heartlandpost.com probably 0:25:21.609 --> 0:25:24.450 late this week or early next week for the ultimate 0:25:24.580 --> 0:25:29.680 conservative voter guide, all of it designed to help you 0:25:30.320 --> 0:25:34.660 to ensure that you get out to vote and save 0:25:34.720 --> 0:25:38.740 this state. 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