WEBVTT - AFP - Get out and vote! 0:00:00.050 --> 0:00:07.610 Talk Station. 729 on a Wednesday. Getting used to this 0:00:07.650 --> 0:00:09.270 time of the week because we get to hear from 0:00:09.289 --> 0:00:13.830 Donovan O'Neill, Americans for Prosperity, AFP Action State Director. You 0:00:13.850 --> 0:00:18.270 can find the Buckeye Blueprint over at BuckeyeBlueprint.com. Building a bolder, 0:00:18.340 --> 0:00:20.900 better Buckeye State. And you can get involved. Get in 0:00:20.920 --> 0:00:24.599 touch with BuckeyeBlueprint.com. Let AFP help you help all of 0:00:24.680 --> 0:00:27.380 us here in the state of Ohio. Right, Donovan? Welcome back, 0:00:27.420 --> 0:00:28.660 my friend. It's always a pleasure to have you on 0:00:28.680 --> 0:00:29.180 the morning show. 0:00:30.390 --> 0:00:31.770 Brian, great way to start my day. 0:00:32.210 --> 0:00:37.199 I appreciate that. Early voting, that's next week, right, Donovan? 0:00:37.220 --> 0:00:37.479 Yeah. 0:00:38.420 --> 0:00:41.580 It is. We're within seven days. You've got, what, about six. 0:00:41.420 --> 0:00:43.739 Days left to get yourself registered to vote if you're 0:00:43.800 --> 0:00:48.379 not registered. And then first ballots will be cast in 0:00:48.400 --> 0:00:50.880 this election on Tuesday, as crazy as that is. 0:00:51.380 --> 0:00:53.470 You see the headlines like I see the headlines, and 0:00:53.550 --> 0:00:55.590 every day yet another group of polls or poll that 0:00:55.610 --> 0:00:57.470 comes out talking about the Democrats are going to win, 0:00:57.510 --> 0:00:59.530 and we have three new polls out. We have the 0:01:00.330 --> 0:01:03.370 Marist poll, the quote-unquote big data poll, I've never heard 0:01:03.390 --> 0:01:07.190 of that one before, plus the Suffolk University slash USA 0:01:07.220 --> 0:01:10.580 Today Network Ohio poll, all of which have Amy Acton 0:01:10.620 --> 0:01:13.000 far ahead of, or at least multiple points ahead of 0:01:14.000 --> 0:01:17.360 Vivek Ramaswamy. And then, of course, the Sherrod Brown-John Husted race. 0:01:17.819 --> 0:01:20.620 They have Brown leading Husted by several points in that 0:01:20.700 --> 0:01:22.300 one as well. Gloom and doom out there, but I 0:01:22.319 --> 0:01:26.259 keep going back to the 2016 election. Everybody had every 0:01:26.360 --> 0:01:29.000 single poll with a couple of minor exceptions. Hillary Clinton 0:01:29.020 --> 0:01:31.460 was going to beat Donald Trump by at least three points, 0:01:31.520 --> 0:01:34.270 more like five or even eight. And then lo and behold, 0:01:34.630 --> 0:01:35.410 Donald Trump won. 0:01:35.450 --> 0:01:35.590 Why? 0:01:35.630 --> 0:01:37.690 Because everybody got up and went out and voted, much 0:01:37.750 --> 0:01:40.530 to the surprise of pollsters and the Democrat Party. 0:01:42.010 --> 0:01:45.160 Well, I look at politics. It's not exactly similar, right, Brian? 0:01:45.170 --> 0:01:47.940 But it's like sports betting lines in. 0:01:47.860 --> 0:01:49.780 College football, right? There's a reason you. 0:01:49.700 --> 0:01:55.690 Play the game even when Vegas has folks– folks up 30, 0:01:55.690 --> 0:01:56.660 40 points, right? 0:01:56.920 --> 0:01:57.620 There are upsets. 0:01:58.280 --> 0:02:00.650 The good news here is these polls don't have a 0:02:00.750 --> 0:02:04.290 separation like that. It's one, within margin of error. Two, 0:02:05.290 --> 0:02:08.470 the kind of people who do polls, right, something that's 0:02:08.490 --> 0:02:11.410 been increasingly discussed in recent years because of the change 0:02:11.430 --> 0:02:15.680 in landline phones and just voter behavior and habits, these 0:02:15.720 --> 0:02:18.040 polls aren't always spot on with where folks are. 0:02:18.060 --> 0:02:18.980 I think it's a good pulse. 0:02:20.220 --> 0:02:22.760 I do think the election is neck and neck and close, 0:02:22.840 --> 0:02:25.380 but There's a reason we have the elections and don't 0:02:25.400 --> 0:02:28.310 just decide our leaders off of polls, Brian. It's because 0:02:28.710 --> 0:02:31.470 voters actually decide and have to get out and do 0:02:31.490 --> 0:02:33.490 the work. It really comes down to who's campaigning the 0:02:33.530 --> 0:02:36.190 best and has the strongest grassroots ground game. 0:02:36.490 --> 0:02:39.940 Yeah, we had Tom Zawistowski on yesterday from wethepeopleconvention.org, and 0:02:39.970 --> 0:02:43.900 he's on every Tuesday. And he had mentioned that he 0:02:43.940 --> 0:02:47.040 had the most accurate poll, I believe, for the 2016 election. 0:02:47.080 --> 0:02:48.500 That was back in a time before we had the 0:02:48.560 --> 0:02:51.870 do not call list. And he literally was able to 0:02:51.950 --> 0:02:54.030 reach out with anybody in the state of Ohio with 0:02:54.070 --> 0:02:56.590 a phone. So he ended up with a very accurate 0:02:56.650 --> 0:02:59.030 poll because it wasn't, you know, limited to those people 0:02:59.060 --> 0:03:01.380 who just bothered to respond. He actually, you know, rang 0:03:01.400 --> 0:03:03.300 them up and engaged in a communication with them, much 0:03:03.360 --> 0:03:06.200 like AFP does, knocking doors. But he had a very 0:03:06.300 --> 0:03:07.740 accurate poll, and everybody's like, how in the hell did 0:03:07.760 --> 0:03:09.380 you do that? How come you haven't done it since? 0:03:09.419 --> 0:03:10.980 He said, well, I can't do it because it's against 0:03:11.000 --> 0:03:12.370 the law to contact people who are on the do 0:03:12.410 --> 0:03:15.829 not call list. So the one mechanism to bring about 0:03:15.889 --> 0:03:20.169 some at least semblance of reality is is no longer 0:03:20.250 --> 0:03:23.049 available to us here. So we're left with what these guys, 0:03:23.110 --> 0:03:26.530 who they reach out to. And quite often, the numbers 0:03:26.590 --> 0:03:30.169 are skewed. I mean, they reach out to a certain 0:03:30.230 --> 0:03:33.470 percentage of a defined group of people, like we're going 0:03:33.490 --> 0:03:37.230 to call X number of Democrats. It's weighted, and I 0:03:37.270 --> 0:03:38.530 think that's one of the reasons you end up with 0:03:38.570 --> 0:03:40.050 poor polling results. 0:03:41.930 --> 0:03:42.930 Yeah, I mean, you've got that. 0:03:42.950 --> 0:03:47.680 I think, you know, again, the type of folks who 0:03:47.740 --> 0:03:50.780 are engaged... in these polls. And then what it really 0:03:50.810 --> 0:03:53.100 comes down to are the people who are going to 0:03:53.140 --> 0:03:56.580 go out to vote. And while ballots will be cast 0:03:56.620 --> 0:03:59.160 next week, people who already know where they're going to 0:03:59.200 --> 0:04:01.620 be will get those in. There are a number of 0:04:01.700 --> 0:04:04.440 folks through the weeks leading up to it, 30 days 0:04:04.480 --> 0:04:07.740 of voting in this state. It's an election season, not 0:04:08.260 --> 0:04:11.860 an election day. And those are folks who are also 0:04:11.920 --> 0:04:14.530 up for grabs. And again, I think that's maybe biased 0:04:14.590 --> 0:04:17.909 as a grassroots organization, but that's where um you know 0:04:17.970 --> 0:04:21.570 good ground games can make up a huge difference in 0:04:21.880 --> 0:04:24.560 in what polling numbers might be showing right now those 0:04:24.600 --> 0:04:26.740 undecided voters who you know we can get in our 0:04:26.779 --> 0:04:28.940 column and turn out to vote on or before election 0:04:28.980 --> 0:04:30.020 day well. 0:04:29.800 --> 0:04:31.520 We'll i just have to ask you this we'll take 0:04:31.560 --> 0:04:32.940 a break and bring it back to talk about john 0:04:32.980 --> 0:04:36.580 husted ray specifically because what an amazing accomplishment you guys 0:04:36.660 --> 0:04:39.600 at afp did in door knocking but i was since 0:04:39.720 --> 0:04:43.310 we at representative bird uh from uh New Richmond phoned 0:04:43.350 --> 0:04:44.610 in earlier and said he was on his way to 0:04:44.650 --> 0:04:47.710 Columbus to vote on the gasoline relief tax bill, provide 0:04:47.730 --> 0:04:50.710 a temporary relief from the gas tax, which I guess 0:04:50.730 --> 0:04:54.729 has bipartisan support. I thought it rather comical. The Iranians 0:04:54.790 --> 0:04:57.010 issued a letter to the American people saying that we 0:04:57.070 --> 0:05:00.600 all need to collectively take back control from evil orange man. 0:05:00.620 --> 0:05:02.779 You know, we're all in the same. We're all we 0:05:02.820 --> 0:05:05.040 all share the same pain. So the Iranians are trying 0:05:05.060 --> 0:05:08.460 to tap into the voter disgust over the high gasoline prices. 0:05:09.050 --> 0:05:11.760 Is that an issue when you're talking with folks going 0:05:11.800 --> 0:05:13.880 door to door? Do they bring up the high price 0:05:13.900 --> 0:05:14.560 of gasoline? 0:05:16.140 --> 0:05:17.279 Yeah, I mean, it's one of. 0:05:17.279 --> 0:05:19.700 The dynamics that have been at play this election that 0:05:19.740 --> 0:05:22.540 was there two years ago, right? High fuel prices, people 0:05:22.560 --> 0:05:26.500 feel like they're paying more, getting less. It's absolutely prevalent. And, 0:05:26.520 --> 0:05:29.380 you know, nothing's more in people's faces as sort of 0:05:29.410 --> 0:05:32.430 the feel for the economy than gas prices. We've talked 0:05:32.470 --> 0:05:35.530 about as an organization many, many years. So getting those 0:05:35.589 --> 0:05:38.630 under control, doing what you can, right, to hey, the government, 0:05:38.810 --> 0:05:40.760 state of Ohio is running a surplus right now and 0:05:40.800 --> 0:05:43.600 has those excess funds, and we don't have to tap 0:05:43.640 --> 0:05:45.800 into a rainy day fund to access them. 0:05:47.000 --> 0:05:47.620 Using that to. 0:05:47.580 --> 0:05:51.039 Help provide Americans, Ohioans, some relief. 0:05:51.200 --> 0:05:51.800 Is a good thing. 0:05:53.000 --> 0:05:55.760 But yeah, fuel prices are top of the ticket for folks, 0:05:55.860 --> 0:05:57.940 that and just the overall cost of living. 0:05:57.960 --> 0:05:58.980 It's why we need to be. 0:05:58.880 --> 0:06:01.670 Looking forward on who we're electing and not going backwards 0:06:02.500 --> 0:06:05.990 and reelecting folks who've proven who they are over the 0:06:06.010 --> 0:06:06.810 last several decades. 0:06:07.130 --> 0:06:09.310 Well, Sherrod Brown versus John Houston. We're going to talk 0:06:09.360 --> 0:06:12.560 with Donovan Neal from Americans for Prosperity about this amazing 0:06:12.640 --> 0:06:16.520 feat that they accomplished in canvassing neighborhoods and going door 0:06:16.540 --> 0:06:18.360 to door. We'll also get the reaction from people when 0:06:18.380 --> 0:06:22.350 they talk about that particular race. Donovan Neal, Americans for Prosperity, again. Next, 0:06:22.390 --> 0:06:25.070 don't go away. It's 735. I have Donovan Neal from 0:06:25.130 --> 0:06:29.210 Americans for Prosperity on the phone talking about, well, door-knocking campaigns, 0:06:29.250 --> 0:06:32.020 which Donovan speaks of regularly, and for us to get involved. 0:06:32.650 --> 0:06:36.970 And in order, well, in order to canvas all 99 0:06:36.970 --> 0:06:41.870 Ohio House districts in one single day reflects what help 0:06:42.089 --> 0:06:44.409 you provide can do. I mean, that's an amazing thing, 0:06:44.450 --> 0:06:46.230 Donald and Neil. I mean, how many people did you 0:06:46.270 --> 0:06:47.789 have out knocking doors that day? 0:06:47.810 --> 0:06:49.710 A couple hundred. 0:06:49.740 --> 0:06:51.260 A couple hundred is all it takes, Brian. 0:06:51.300 --> 0:06:54.680 Volunteers, staff, get around the state pretty easily that way. 0:06:56.180 --> 0:06:57.020 Man, that's a lot of doors. 0:06:58.620 --> 0:06:59.779 Well, and it's a testament. 0:06:59.800 --> 0:07:00.800 You know, it was one of the things that we 0:07:00.839 --> 0:07:02.880 sort of, our team was looking at, you know, the 0:07:02.900 --> 0:07:05.110 reach that we've had, the way that, you know, thanks 0:07:05.130 --> 0:07:07.630 to our Buckeye Blueprint campaign and the work that so 0:07:07.670 --> 0:07:11.770 many folks do to show up and be involved with 0:07:12.090 --> 0:07:15.970 our 24-7, 365 operation. I wonder if we were to 0:07:16.010 --> 0:07:18.470 put a little effort into this and say, hey, can 0:07:18.490 --> 0:07:20.520 we organize some folks in different areas, try to get, 0:07:20.700 --> 0:07:23.140 you know, everybody we know around the state out? You know, 0:07:23.170 --> 0:07:26.190 on the same day, could we achieve that type of reach? 0:07:26.270 --> 0:07:28.430 Could we get to every corner of the state and 0:07:28.450 --> 0:07:31.410 have a presence and spread that message, right, of getting 0:07:31.450 --> 0:07:33.560 folks out to vote, getting folks out to vote for 0:07:33.580 --> 0:07:34.240 John Husted? 0:07:35.140 --> 0:07:35.700 Could we do that? 0:07:35.800 --> 0:07:39.000 And just kudos to our team for the infrastructure they've built, 0:07:39.080 --> 0:07:42.120 the work they've done, and especially the volunteers, the people 0:07:42.170 --> 0:07:43.590 who came out and showed up, put a little of 0:07:43.630 --> 0:07:48.710 their Saturday aside, right? came out, knocked doors for an hour, 0:07:48.730 --> 0:07:50.980 a couple hours with us, just to help make a 0:07:51.010 --> 0:07:52.880 difference and protect this. 0:07:52.820 --> 0:07:53.640 Country that's so great. 0:07:53.940 --> 0:07:58.060 Now, does AFP provide the addresses for the volunteers? I mean, 0:07:58.080 --> 0:08:01.750 do they know which specific addresses based upon some determination 0:08:01.770 --> 0:08:03.810 you've reached? Or is it just like, we're just going 0:08:03.830 --> 0:08:05.470 to go into the district and you just pick a 0:08:05.490 --> 0:08:08.090 neighborhood and start knocking doors? How does that work in practice? 0:08:09.270 --> 0:08:12.120 Yeah, it's all data-driven anymore, right? And so, you know, 0:08:12.160 --> 0:08:15.380 we're out there, as I mentioned, 24-7, 365 knocking. So 0:08:15.440 --> 0:08:18.680 we have good idea about a lot of voters. We've 0:08:18.720 --> 0:08:20.840 got our data gurus, right, which help us sort of 0:08:20.900 --> 0:08:24.510 identify people's voting trends, because all that information is public record. 0:08:24.570 --> 0:08:26.870 Not who you vote for, right, but the party, your 0:08:26.890 --> 0:08:29.210 party affiliation, how frequently you turn out to vote. 0:08:29.250 --> 0:08:31.630 And so... You know, we've got a targeted list. 0:08:31.490 --> 0:08:34.150 Of voters, about 1.2 million that we've identified in the 0:08:34.190 --> 0:08:37.880 state that we've been working since the spring to talk to, 0:08:37.920 --> 0:08:41.580 to engage with. And yeah, we equip our volunteers, our 0:08:41.600 --> 0:08:44.730 staff with those That list, it's all. 0:08:44.640 --> 0:08:46.690 In an app. Everything's an app now, right, Brian? 0:08:47.110 --> 0:08:50.450 And they go out and have those conversations. Each person 0:08:50.510 --> 0:08:52.290 has a script or some things we want to talk 0:08:52.309 --> 0:08:54.410 to them about, a message we believe is going to move. 0:08:54.230 --> 0:08:56.870 Them to go vote, motivate them to go vote. 0:08:57.230 --> 0:08:58.480 But at the end of the day, it really comes 0:08:58.510 --> 0:09:01.599 down to the simple principle of neighbors talking to neighbors 0:09:01.940 --> 0:09:04.480 and their community about the issues they care about and 0:09:04.559 --> 0:09:08.680 why this election, just like every election, is so important 0:09:08.740 --> 0:09:09.939 to make sure you turn out to vote for. 0:09:10.760 --> 0:09:10.860 Okay. 0:09:10.880 --> 0:09:10.960 Okay. 0:09:12.440 --> 0:09:14.540 Let me just ask you this, because I saw this 0:09:14.620 --> 0:09:17.540 ridiculous quote from someone who was asked why they are 0:09:17.960 --> 0:09:20.520 angry and they're going to vote for Democrats. This person 0:09:20.540 --> 0:09:22.440 was quoted as saying, whoever the Democrat is, they'll get 0:09:22.500 --> 0:09:22.900 my vote. 0:09:24.080 --> 0:09:24.260 Why? 0:09:24.300 --> 0:09:27.180 Well, and it's not because they're Democrats. It's because this 0:09:27.370 --> 0:09:30.949 administration is crooked and something's really wrong with the president. 0:09:31.290 --> 0:09:33.890 He's a crook. OK, there's an evil orange man person 0:09:33.929 --> 0:09:36.850 who's going to have their ideas, thoughts and decision making 0:09:36.910 --> 0:09:39.849 twisted because of one guy saying, who is president of 0:09:39.870 --> 0:09:41.910 the United States of America, as opposed to considering the 0:09:42.010 --> 0:09:45.170 state in which they sit, like a gubernatorial race where, well, 0:09:45.230 --> 0:09:47.400 Ramaswamy or Acton aren't going to have that same level 0:09:47.420 --> 0:09:50.880 of impact across this nation. But evil orange man, bad ergo, 0:09:50.980 --> 0:09:53.459 Amy Acton gets my vote. You have to run into 0:09:53.520 --> 0:09:56.089 people like that when you're knocking doors. What is the 0:09:56.429 --> 0:09:58.590 response from AFP when you obviously are dealing with someone 0:09:58.610 --> 0:09:59.970 who is not going to have that same level of impact? 0:10:00.160 --> 0:10:03.630 who is so shallow and lacking in critical thinking skills 0:10:03.770 --> 0:10:06.010 as to go down this path when it is definitely 0:10:06.030 --> 0:10:07.790 going to be in their best or their their uh 0:10:08.510 --> 0:10:09.730 not in their best interest. 0:10:09.650 --> 0:10:13.660 Donovan One of the things I'll typically ask when that 0:10:13.700 --> 0:10:15.780 comes up is, and I'm voting Democrat this year, and 0:10:15.800 --> 0:10:19.320 I've said this, have you voted Republican before, or are 0:10:19.340 --> 0:10:21.719 you a straight-line party voter? And they'll say, no, I'm 0:10:21.740 --> 0:10:22.380 an independent. 0:10:22.400 --> 0:10:25.020 I like to vet my candidates based. 0:10:25.179 --> 0:10:27.830 On the issues. And I say, all right, well, what 0:10:27.870 --> 0:10:30.870 issues matter? And you just sort of work through that. Now, 0:10:31.390 --> 0:10:34.450 I'm not going to say– people don't like to admit. 0:10:34.330 --> 0:10:38.370 When they're wrong, Brian, right? I'm guilty of that. Just 0:10:38.429 --> 0:10:39.550 ask my wife, right? Right. 0:10:40.100 --> 0:10:42.640 The part of the goal, right, is that we don't 0:10:42.679 --> 0:10:45.239 just go to one person's house one time. We try 0:10:45.260 --> 0:10:50.250 to have two, and if we can, three interactions with 0:10:50.290 --> 0:10:53.530 a voter throughout the full election cycle. And so part 0:10:53.570 --> 0:10:55.490 of it, when we get that, what I look at 0:10:55.510 --> 0:10:57.729 it as, at least for me personally, is beginning to 0:10:57.770 --> 0:10:59.630 plant those seeds of, hey, if you really are an 0:10:59.650 --> 0:11:02.330 independent voter, if you really are concerned about the direction 0:11:02.370 --> 0:11:04.719 of our country … Why would you vote for a 0:11:04.740 --> 0:11:08.960 candidate like Sherrod Brown, who has spent 20 years in Washington, D.C. 0:11:09.280 --> 0:11:11.679 as a senator, 50-year political career. 0:11:12.500 --> 0:11:16.200 When what you've said, Mr. and Mrs. 0:11:16.240 --> 0:11:19.120 Voter, is that you are frustrated with the direction the 0:11:19.160 --> 0:11:21.370 country has been going for the last several years, and 0:11:21.400 --> 0:11:23.870 you want to chart a new course? So beginning to 0:11:24.130 --> 0:11:26.810 plant those seeds, connect those dots, we may not win 0:11:26.870 --> 0:11:28.910 somebody off one conversation, right? 0:11:29.570 --> 0:11:34.530 But it's that consistent engagement and having those conversations. 0:11:34.550 --> 0:11:36.410 I was just in a neighborhood I was in two 0:11:36.450 --> 0:11:41.230 years ago in Lexington, Ohio, Richland County, Ohio, going back 0:11:41.270 --> 0:11:44.030 to similar houses I remember walking and knocking and talking 0:11:44.070 --> 0:11:47.170 to two years ago. So I think it's that consistent 0:11:47.220 --> 0:11:49.880 pressure and engagement that helps ultimately move those folks, even 0:11:49.910 --> 0:11:52.540 if we can't get a human to be non-human and 0:11:52.580 --> 0:11:55.040 actually change. I admit they're wrong right there on their 0:11:55.059 --> 0:11:58.160 front porch with us over a 10, 15-minute conversation. 0:11:58.740 --> 0:12:01.699 Well, I suspect that those who are planning on a 0:12:01.830 --> 0:12:05.010 protest vote because of, you know, Donald Trump or whatever, 0:12:05.590 --> 0:12:07.350 they seem to me to be a group of people 0:12:07.370 --> 0:12:10.410 that might be less inclined to go vote. They're not 0:12:10.510 --> 0:12:13.450 motivated by a particular platform. They're not motivated by the 0:12:13.890 --> 0:12:16.920 brilliance of a particular candidate and a faith that that 0:12:16.980 --> 0:12:20.280 candidate is actually so much better. It's just this anger. 0:12:20.440 --> 0:12:22.540 And I just get the sense that I don't see 0:12:22.559 --> 0:12:25.400 that translating into, you know, a desire to actually go 0:12:25.440 --> 0:12:27.700 out and do it. Maybe less of a desire anyway. 0:12:27.940 --> 0:12:28.440 Your reaction? 0:12:29.580 --> 0:12:31.140 Yeah, no, that's right too. 0:12:31.179 --> 0:12:33.160 And the other thing that I think has begun to 0:12:33.340 --> 0:12:37.020 neutralize those folks who are just anti-Trump for whatever reasons 0:12:37.100 --> 0:12:40.780 it might be or anti-Republican at the moment is socialism, 0:12:41.020 --> 0:12:43.780 reminding them, hey, there's this rise of socialism in the 0:12:43.800 --> 0:12:47.270 Democrat Party. And while you may not like– for whatever 0:12:47.309 --> 0:12:50.690 reasons Republicans are doing right now, do you really want 0:12:50.710 --> 0:12:51.970 to hand the reins of socialism? 0:12:52.480 --> 0:12:55.060 Power over to a group of folks who have. 0:12:54.960 --> 0:12:58.100 A radical agenda that will dramatically transform our country, not 0:12:58.620 --> 0:12:59.600 in a good way, right? 0:13:00.580 --> 0:13:01.819 That also, Brian, is. 0:13:01.800 --> 0:13:04.300 A message that's permeating, and it's something that we clued 0:13:04.370 --> 0:13:08.250 in on in August and have been driving home. And again, 0:13:08.330 --> 0:13:12.270 you can see, again, someone may not admit that they're 0:13:12.309 --> 0:13:14.790 changing their vote that moment, and they're all in on 0:13:14.830 --> 0:13:15.850 the GOP, right? 0:13:15.970 --> 0:13:17.270 But what we. 0:13:17.170 --> 0:13:20.470 See that do, I've seen it in people's eyes, they're 0:13:20.500 --> 0:13:21.280 thinking about that. 0:13:21.300 --> 0:13:23.630 They're like, well, wait a minute. I don't like that either. 0:13:23.830 --> 0:13:26.290 And I think, you know, that socialism message that's taken 0:13:26.309 --> 0:13:28.689 over the Democrat Party is one of the things that's 0:13:28.710 --> 0:13:30.950 having a tangible impact in this race as well. 0:13:30.970 --> 0:13:33.969 All right, real quick here. Some suggested, you know, let's 0:13:34.010 --> 0:13:36.250 say the polling is all skewed and wrong, and maybe 0:13:36.290 --> 0:13:39.730 it's done intentionally to give the Democrats the appearance of, 0:13:39.790 --> 0:13:42.810 you know, having an overwhelming victory anticipated in November for 0:13:42.830 --> 0:13:45.050 the purposes of taking the wind out of the sails 0:13:45.150 --> 0:13:48.280 of otherwise, you know, devout Republican voters, or maybe slightly 0:13:48.320 --> 0:13:51.730 disgruntled Republican voters, listen, you guys don't even bother because 0:13:51.790 --> 0:13:54.270 it's not worth your effort. We're going to take this thing. 0:13:54.370 --> 0:13:57.849 It's going to be a deluge, according to James Carville 0:13:57.890 --> 0:14:00.250 the other day. And I guess I want to, do 0:14:00.270 --> 0:14:02.890 you get a sense from Republican voters, people who are 0:14:02.950 --> 0:14:06.840 clearly Republican, not wavering ones, that the wind has been 0:14:06.880 --> 0:14:09.300 knocked out of their sails, that they're not motivated to vote, 0:14:09.360 --> 0:14:12.780 otherwise they would be? Any sense of that as you 0:14:12.820 --> 0:14:13.280 knock doors? 0:14:14.800 --> 0:14:16.309 I think we see a little bit of that, and 0:14:16.330 --> 0:14:18.590 it's just with the cycle. We saw it even after– 0:14:18.809 --> 0:14:23.830 shortly after Trump– no, the 2024 victory where Republicans took over. 0:14:23.850 --> 0:14:26.430 There's this sense among voters of like, well, no, I 0:14:26.470 --> 0:14:27.290 did my civic duty. 0:14:27.370 --> 0:14:27.830 I voted. 0:14:27.850 --> 0:14:30.070 I put the right people in power, and now I 0:14:30.090 --> 0:14:31.550 can sit back and I don't need to do anything 0:14:31.590 --> 0:14:34.130 else for another four years until the next presidential election. 0:14:34.590 --> 0:14:38.330 To me, that's one of the biggest– apathy factors that 0:14:38.350 --> 0:14:40.030 we have to overcome is no, no, no, no. You 0:14:40.110 --> 0:14:43.430 still have to go vote midterm elections. The legislature, right? 0:14:43.500 --> 0:14:45.900 Congress are the actual people who pass laws. If we 0:14:45.920 --> 0:14:48.220 don't send the right people to Washington to represent us, 0:14:48.580 --> 0:14:50.880 it doesn't matter who the president is because those are 0:14:50.900 --> 0:14:52.740 the folks who pass the laws and make the rules 0:14:52.780 --> 0:14:55.460 that run this country. And so I think that's, to me, 0:14:55.480 --> 0:14:57.640 has been the biggest apathy factor is there's just folks 0:14:57.680 --> 0:14:59.410 who say, I only vote for the president. Well, we 0:14:59.450 --> 0:15:01.150 got to get those folks out to vote in the 0:15:01.190 --> 0:15:01.810 midterms as well. 0:15:02.220 --> 0:15:04.160 And each and every one of my listeners can help 0:15:04.200 --> 0:15:06.800 in that process by talking to your neighbors, encouraging them 0:15:06.820 --> 0:15:08.680 to vote, picking up your friends and neighbors, take them 0:15:08.720 --> 0:15:10.240 to the poll, maybe go out and have lunch and 0:15:10.280 --> 0:15:12.640 vote at the same time. A reason to get up 0:15:12.740 --> 0:15:16.240 off the couch and, well, save us from the far left. 0:15:16.340 --> 0:15:18.520 It's going to be a disaster if they take over, Donovan, 0:15:18.540 --> 0:15:20.410 and I just hope that message gets out loud and 0:15:20.430 --> 0:15:23.430 clear before November or by next week when you can 0:15:23.470 --> 0:15:24.550 start voting. Right, Donovan? 0:15:25.530 --> 0:15:26.050 That's right. 0:15:26.100 --> 0:15:27.980 Make a plan. You've got 30 days to do it, folks. 0:15:28.400 --> 0:15:30.680 Put it on the calendar. Like Brian said, get a 0:15:30.700 --> 0:15:32.600 cup of coffee, go out and have a lunch, stay 0:15:32.640 --> 0:15:35.740 with a friend or something, cast your ballot, get it done, 0:15:35.800 --> 0:15:38.580 bank the vote, and do your part in. 0:15:38.520 --> 0:15:39.340 The civic process. 0:15:39.640 --> 0:15:42.600 And take action. Get over to BuckeyeBlueprint.com, learn how you 0:15:42.620 --> 0:15:44.640 can do that, and be part of the solution. Thanks 0:15:44.680 --> 0:15:46.540 again to AFP and you, Donovan Neal, for all that 0:15:46.580 --> 0:15:48.000 you're doing. We'll talk again next week. 0:15:49.140 --> 0:15:50.450 Talk soon, Brian. Thanks, man. 0:15:50.590 --> 0:15:52.090 It's 749 right now, 55K or CBD.