1 00:00:00,680 --> 00:00:02,880 Speaker 1: Good night. Michael Brown joins me here, the former FEMA 2 00:00:02,920 --> 00:00:06,000 Speaker 1: director of talk show host Michael Brown. Brownie, no, Brownie, 3 00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:08,039 Speaker 1: You're doing a heck of a job the Weekend with 4 00:00:08,200 --> 00:00:11,960 Speaker 1: Michael Brown. Hey broadcasting life from Denver, Colorado. You've tuned 5 00:00:11,960 --> 00:00:13,560 Speaker 1: into the Weekend with Michael Brown. Glad to have you 6 00:00:13,680 --> 00:00:16,080 Speaker 1: joining the program today. You know, one of the rules 7 00:00:16,120 --> 00:00:18,119 Speaker 1: of engagement for this program is you can tell me 8 00:00:18,160 --> 00:00:21,720 Speaker 1: anything TMA asked me anything AMA on the text line 9 00:00:21,720 --> 00:00:24,360 Speaker 1: that numbers three three one zero three three three one 10 00:00:24,480 --> 00:00:27,480 Speaker 1: zero three keyword Mike or Michael, and then go follow 11 00:00:27,520 --> 00:00:30,360 Speaker 1: me on x at Michael Brown USA and of course Facebook, Instagram, 12 00:00:30,480 --> 00:00:33,720 Speaker 1: all the others. Two. So let's go back in history. 13 00:00:34,680 --> 00:00:38,720 Speaker 1: November twentieth, November twenty twenty, I should say be precize. 14 00:00:39,120 --> 00:00:42,280 Speaker 1: November twenty twenty, Joe Biden won Virginia by fifty four percent. 15 00:00:43,159 --> 00:00:45,520 Speaker 1: Joe Biden that same year won New Jersey by fifty 16 00:00:45,640 --> 00:00:51,280 Speaker 1: seven percent. In fact, Donald Trump lost all six presidential 17 00:00:51,280 --> 00:00:56,120 Speaker 1: election contests in the two states combined in twenty sixteen, 18 00:00:56,600 --> 00:01:00,480 Speaker 1: in twenty twenty, and in twenty twenty four. His high 19 00:01:00,560 --> 00:01:05,000 Speaker 1: water mark in all of those states over all of 20 00:01:05,000 --> 00:01:10,440 Speaker 1: those years was forty six percent in twenty twenty four. Now, 21 00:01:10,520 --> 00:01:13,880 Speaker 1: Joe Biden was president from January of twenty one through 22 00:01:13,920 --> 00:01:19,080 Speaker 1: November of twenty one, well technically through you know, sometime 23 00:01:19,160 --> 00:01:21,119 Speaker 1: he was a president there. I'm not surely really when 24 00:01:21,160 --> 00:01:28,160 Speaker 1: he was president. On August twenty six, twenty twenty one, 25 00:01:29,760 --> 00:01:33,880 Speaker 1: a suicide bomber killed thirteen US Service personnel outside the 26 00:01:33,920 --> 00:01:39,120 Speaker 1: gate Abby gate to the Kabal Airport in Afghanistan. Now, 27 00:01:39,240 --> 00:01:41,959 Speaker 1: this came in the hectic final days of the chaotic 28 00:01:42,080 --> 00:01:47,319 Speaker 1: collapse of Afghanistan, following President Biden's announcement of a withdrawal 29 00:01:47,360 --> 00:01:50,080 Speaker 1: by the US by a very certain date. In fact, 30 00:01:50,120 --> 00:01:54,400 Speaker 1: he had telescoped to the Taliban, We're going to be 31 00:01:54,400 --> 00:01:56,720 Speaker 1: out of there by such and such date. We're going 32 00:01:56,760 --> 00:01:58,360 Speaker 1: to be out of there Binals twenty six, come hell 33 00:01:58,400 --> 00:02:02,720 Speaker 1: or high water. The method of withdrawal that was picked 34 00:02:02,720 --> 00:02:06,400 Speaker 1: by Biden happened to be against the advice of every 35 00:02:06,480 --> 00:02:09,600 Speaker 1: single one of his single military advisers. Every advisor to 36 00:02:09,680 --> 00:02:13,200 Speaker 1: Joe Biden said this is not the way to do it. Now. 37 00:02:13,240 --> 00:02:18,600 Speaker 1: The aftermath of that disastrous withdrawal included coverage of Joe 38 00:02:18,600 --> 00:02:22,840 Speaker 1: Biden at Andrew's Air Force Base when the bodies of 39 00:02:22,840 --> 00:02:27,800 Speaker 1: those fallen soldiers were returned, and we know and we 40 00:02:27,960 --> 00:02:32,840 Speaker 1: remember him repeatedly checking his watch while kind of watching 41 00:02:32,840 --> 00:02:37,040 Speaker 1: the ceremony. In the moments that Biden spent with the families, 42 00:02:38,040 --> 00:02:42,200 Speaker 1: he kept comparing their grief to the loss of his 43 00:02:42,440 --> 00:02:47,240 Speaker 1: son to cancer, equitting that with the combat deaths of 44 00:02:47,320 --> 00:02:50,200 Speaker 1: the fallen soldiers who had died in all of that 45 00:02:50,440 --> 00:02:56,359 Speaker 1: chaos at Abby Gate on August twenty six, twenty twenty one. Now, 46 00:02:56,480 --> 00:03:01,440 Speaker 1: in July of twenty one, Biden's approval rate hovered somewhere 47 00:03:01,520 --> 00:03:05,560 Speaker 1: and I'd say the mid fifties range. It peaked at 48 00:03:05,600 --> 00:03:11,320 Speaker 1: one point in one poll at fifty eight percent. That's July. 49 00:03:11,520 --> 00:03:14,640 Speaker 1: By August, by the time that Kabble had fallen to 50 00:03:14,720 --> 00:03:18,080 Speaker 1: the Taliban, it had dropped into the high forties range, 51 00:03:18,800 --> 00:03:20,880 Speaker 1: and then in the aftermath of the bombing it fell 52 00:03:20,960 --> 00:03:24,400 Speaker 1: close to forty percent, and then continued slowly thereafter just 53 00:03:24,480 --> 00:03:28,080 Speaker 1: to kind of boom boom boom, boom boom. By election 54 00:03:28,160 --> 00:03:31,639 Speaker 1: day in November of twenty one, several polls had him 55 00:03:31,639 --> 00:03:33,840 Speaker 1: in the high somewhere between thirty and four thirty eight 56 00:03:33,880 --> 00:03:38,480 Speaker 1: percent range. The point is the election on November two, 57 00:03:38,600 --> 00:03:43,000 Speaker 1: twenty twenty one came only sixty eight days, less than 58 00:03:43,040 --> 00:03:45,480 Speaker 1: three months, only slightly more than two months after the 59 00:03:45,480 --> 00:03:51,040 Speaker 1: Afghanistan debackle. And it wasn't just Afghanistan. In late twenty 60 00:03:51,080 --> 00:03:54,080 Speaker 1: twenty one, all this wild spending by Biden and the 61 00:03:54,120 --> 00:03:57,800 Speaker 1: Democratic Congress in reaction to COVID had started to show itself. 62 00:03:58,320 --> 00:04:01,040 Speaker 1: And what was it? How was it manifesting itself? We 63 00:04:01,120 --> 00:04:05,320 Speaker 1: started to see inflation beginning to increase wildly. Shelf prices 64 00:04:05,360 --> 00:04:08,560 Speaker 1: for virtually everything you were buying was starting to go up. 65 00:04:09,720 --> 00:04:12,200 Speaker 1: And I remember it well because it was like, you 66 00:04:12,200 --> 00:04:14,160 Speaker 1: buy groceries one weekend, it cost one hundred dollars, You 67 00:04:14,280 --> 00:04:15,880 Speaker 1: buy groceries the next week in this one hundred and 68 00:04:15,880 --> 00:04:19,040 Speaker 1: twenty dollars, and you're looking at I got the same basket. 69 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:25,839 Speaker 1: What did I do differently this time? By twenty nineteen, 70 00:04:26,240 --> 00:04:31,000 Speaker 1: the last four year prior to COVID, with a robust economy, 71 00:04:31,320 --> 00:04:36,719 Speaker 1: inflation was about one point nine percent. In twenty twenty one, 72 00:04:37,520 --> 00:04:39,320 Speaker 1: by the time you went to the grocery store just 73 00:04:39,360 --> 00:04:42,400 Speaker 1: after COVID and just as Biden was beginning to spend 74 00:04:42,440 --> 00:04:45,720 Speaker 1: all this money, inflation was at four point seven percent. 75 00:04:46,440 --> 00:04:48,560 Speaker 1: And it was just on a trend line, just like 76 00:04:48,600 --> 00:04:55,000 Speaker 1: a rocket ship went straight up. Now, Biden's immediate implementation 77 00:04:56,720 --> 00:04:59,240 Speaker 1: of all these new policies that restricted oil and natural 78 00:04:59,240 --> 00:05:02,880 Speaker 1: gas production. At the same time that your grocery prices 79 00:05:02,920 --> 00:05:05,920 Speaker 1: are starting to go up, your energy costs are starting 80 00:05:05,920 --> 00:05:10,279 Speaker 1: to skyrocket too. The national average price of a gallon 81 00:05:10,320 --> 00:05:13,000 Speaker 1: the gas rose from about two dollars and sixty cents 82 00:05:13,040 --> 00:05:17,200 Speaker 1: to over three dollars in the two short years between 83 00:05:17,200 --> 00:05:22,200 Speaker 1: twenty nineteen and twenty twenty one. Increased energy costs ripple 84 00:05:22,240 --> 00:05:25,680 Speaker 1: through the economy. You know this as well as I do, 85 00:05:26,360 --> 00:05:30,400 Speaker 1: because virtually everything that we do, everything that we purchase, 86 00:05:30,480 --> 00:05:33,839 Speaker 1: somehow involves energy. It takes energy into production. It takes 87 00:05:33,960 --> 00:05:36,640 Speaker 1: energy for the people that drive to the factory to 88 00:05:36,640 --> 00:05:38,919 Speaker 1: make whatever it is, or to produce. You know, the 89 00:05:38,960 --> 00:05:41,040 Speaker 1: can of pork and beans that we buy, It takes 90 00:05:41,160 --> 00:05:43,400 Speaker 1: energy to transport those pork and beans once they get 91 00:05:43,480 --> 00:05:45,880 Speaker 1: in the can, which takes energy. It takes energy to 92 00:05:45,880 --> 00:05:47,840 Speaker 1: transport those of the grocery store. You got to buy 93 00:05:47,920 --> 00:05:49,880 Speaker 1: gas to get to the grocery store to buy the 94 00:05:49,920 --> 00:05:52,000 Speaker 1: stuff that that energy has already been consumed to buy 95 00:05:52,040 --> 00:05:57,160 Speaker 1: the can of pork and beans. The nationwide average, as 96 00:05:57,200 --> 00:06:00,000 Speaker 1: I said, rose from two sixty to more than three dollars. 97 00:06:00,000 --> 00:06:01,520 Speaker 1: I think it was about three dollars and five cents 98 00:06:01,520 --> 00:06:06,520 Speaker 1: a gallon. And those costs ripple throughout the economy because 99 00:06:06,880 --> 00:06:10,480 Speaker 1: it's a cost of production, and it's a cost and distribution. 100 00:06:11,600 --> 00:06:14,440 Speaker 1: And I would even say, let's expand distribution, not just 101 00:06:14,480 --> 00:06:18,080 Speaker 1: from getting the raw materials to the factory or raw 102 00:06:18,120 --> 00:06:23,280 Speaker 1: materials to the production facility. That then you have all 103 00:06:23,360 --> 00:06:26,400 Speaker 1: the energy costs to distribute it to the retail outlet. 104 00:06:26,600 --> 00:06:29,040 Speaker 1: And then you spend energy going to the retail outlet 105 00:06:29,080 --> 00:06:31,440 Speaker 1: to buy it and to go home. And then when 106 00:06:31,440 --> 00:06:34,000 Speaker 1: you go home, you're consuming energy because you want to 107 00:06:34,040 --> 00:06:36,520 Speaker 1: heat your home, unlike the stupid studio I'm sitting in today, 108 00:06:37,000 --> 00:06:43,120 Speaker 1: which is but ass cold. Those costs, those energy costs, 109 00:06:43,920 --> 00:06:47,880 Speaker 1: ripple throughout everything that we say or do. So the 110 00:06:47,880 --> 00:06:54,240 Speaker 1: Biden victory also back in twenty twenty one, resulted in 111 00:06:54,279 --> 00:06:58,599 Speaker 1: the full implementation of all these diversity, equity and inclusion policies, 112 00:06:59,279 --> 00:07:02,680 Speaker 1: not just across the federal government either. But then corporate 113 00:07:02,680 --> 00:07:06,000 Speaker 1: America feels pressured. In Corporate America some because they willingly 114 00:07:06,040 --> 00:07:08,200 Speaker 1: want to do it, some because they hesitatingly want to 115 00:07:08,240 --> 00:07:10,400 Speaker 1: do it, and some because they're forced to do it. 116 00:07:11,000 --> 00:07:15,960 Speaker 1: DEI policies start going all across the country, all across 117 00:07:16,000 --> 00:07:20,200 Speaker 1: corporate America and the country as a whole. So the 118 00:07:20,240 --> 00:07:26,560 Speaker 1: Biden administration had normalized you know, cross dressers, transsexuals, and 119 00:07:26,640 --> 00:07:31,040 Speaker 1: highly visible positions, you know, using the women's restroom and 120 00:07:31,120 --> 00:07:34,000 Speaker 1: using the men's restroom and nobody really knowing which is which. 121 00:07:34,840 --> 00:07:37,400 Speaker 1: But it wasn't just that. It wasn't just that kind 122 00:07:37,440 --> 00:07:42,520 Speaker 1: of cultural shift. He was also promoting transsexuals and highly 123 00:07:42,600 --> 00:07:46,920 Speaker 1: visible position Remember doctor Rachel Levine, Remember doctor Levine from 124 00:07:46,920 --> 00:07:49,960 Speaker 1: the Health Department, that she was an assistant Secretary of Health. 125 00:07:50,720 --> 00:07:53,720 Speaker 1: She actually got confirmed by the US Senate. So a 126 00:07:53,760 --> 00:07:56,720 Speaker 1: man wearing the dress of a female admiral in a 127 00:07:56,760 --> 00:08:00,000 Speaker 1: civilian department gets confirmed as an assistant secretary of Health. 128 00:08:00,040 --> 00:08:09,320 Speaker 1: Health theater of the absurd, absolute surreal theater gets piped 129 00:08:09,360 --> 00:08:13,560 Speaker 1: into every living room, or if you were listening to 130 00:08:13,640 --> 00:08:17,360 Speaker 1: the news in a car or on your earbuds, however, 131 00:08:17,400 --> 00:08:21,640 Speaker 1: you were consuming the news that theater of the absurd, 132 00:08:22,440 --> 00:08:29,040 Speaker 1: rising gas prices, inflation, transsexuals, DEI, everything is getting pounded 133 00:08:29,120 --> 00:08:34,880 Speaker 1: into your head by the cabal It was brought into 134 00:08:34,920 --> 00:08:39,360 Speaker 1: your living rooms by the White House and by the 135 00:08:39,400 --> 00:08:42,600 Speaker 1: occupant of the White House and all of those puppeteers 136 00:08:42,640 --> 00:08:46,480 Speaker 1: around the White House that were implementing Barack Obama's third term. 137 00:08:48,200 --> 00:08:52,680 Speaker 1: It indeed, was a truly triumphant victory expressed by a 138 00:08:52,800 --> 00:09:00,960 Speaker 1: radical departure in our cultural norms demanded by the increasingly assertive, 139 00:09:01,240 --> 00:09:05,480 Speaker 1: radical progressive Marxist wing of the Democrat Party that came 140 00:09:05,559 --> 00:09:09,560 Speaker 1: into power during the Biden administration. It was a shift 141 00:09:09,600 --> 00:09:13,360 Speaker 1: in norms, and that shifting norms was championed and driven 142 00:09:13,440 --> 00:09:15,920 Speaker 1: by the forces of the entertainment in the marketing industries, 143 00:09:16,120 --> 00:09:19,120 Speaker 1: without any current concern whatsoever about the reaction of the 144 00:09:19,120 --> 00:09:22,440 Speaker 1: consumers of entertainment or marketing or anybody else. That was 145 00:09:22,480 --> 00:09:27,440 Speaker 1: the national landscape. That was the national landscape that started 146 00:09:27,480 --> 00:09:32,319 Speaker 1: to develop throughout twenty twenty one leading up to those 147 00:09:32,640 --> 00:09:37,280 Speaker 1: off year elections in Virginia and New Jersey that I 148 00:09:37,360 --> 00:09:43,200 Speaker 1: told you about earlier. Remember those elections, those twenty twenty 149 00:09:43,240 --> 00:09:48,200 Speaker 1: one elections are coming up next. So we came with 150 00:09:48,240 --> 00:09:50,240 Speaker 1: Michael Brown takes the word Michael, Michael to three three 151 00:09:50,320 --> 00:09:53,040 Speaker 1: one zero three, Tell me anything, ask me anything. Hang tight, 152 00:09:53,120 --> 00:10:01,720 Speaker 1: I'll be right back. Hey, welcome back to the weekend 153 00:10:01,720 --> 00:10:03,200 Speaker 1: with Michael Brown. Glad to have you with me. I 154 00:10:03,240 --> 00:10:06,600 Speaker 1: really do, be sure and follow me on except Michael 155 00:10:06,600 --> 00:10:09,160 Speaker 1: Brown USA. Now, why did I give you all of 156 00:10:09,200 --> 00:10:16,480 Speaker 1: that history about twenty and twenty twenty one Because I 157 00:10:16,600 --> 00:10:19,440 Speaker 1: believe that when you look at what happened in the 158 00:10:19,480 --> 00:10:27,319 Speaker 1: elections this past Tuesday, even conservative media appears to completely 159 00:10:27,320 --> 00:10:32,640 Speaker 1: misunderstand what happened in those two blue state elections in Virginia, 160 00:10:32,720 --> 00:10:37,240 Speaker 1: New Jersey, and this guy is falling according to them, 161 00:10:37,400 --> 00:10:40,360 Speaker 1: and I don't think it is. I Are there some 162 00:10:40,720 --> 00:10:46,560 Speaker 1: problems with this non election year election, sure, I mean, 163 00:10:46,679 --> 00:10:48,439 Speaker 1: Mom Domini, I can talk about that for the you know, 164 00:10:48,559 --> 00:10:52,280 Speaker 1: the next twenty days. Because when you look at the 165 00:10:52,920 --> 00:10:58,040 Speaker 1: voter turnout data, you find that particularly young and I'm 166 00:10:58,080 --> 00:11:01,360 Speaker 1: gonna put air quotes around the word educated, young educated 167 00:11:01,360 --> 00:11:06,040 Speaker 1: women turned out and droves to vote for him. That 168 00:11:06,200 --> 00:11:10,040 Speaker 1: shows you that they've been indoctrinated by our so called 169 00:11:10,040 --> 00:11:12,880 Speaker 1: government run schools and in many cases even private schools 170 00:11:12,880 --> 00:11:16,880 Speaker 1: like Columbia University. They've been indoctrinated to not fully understand. 171 00:11:17,000 --> 00:11:19,440 Speaker 1: They hear socialism and they think about, you know, everybody 172 00:11:19,480 --> 00:11:21,959 Speaker 1: getting something free. And they really it's like they're back 173 00:11:21,960 --> 00:11:25,520 Speaker 1: in high school, you know, and the student council president's 174 00:11:25,559 --> 00:11:28,280 Speaker 1: running on a platform a free pizza on Fridays, no 175 00:11:28,320 --> 00:11:31,199 Speaker 1: homework over the weekends. Well, I think we got a 176 00:11:31,200 --> 00:11:33,480 Speaker 1: little bit of the same thing going on here. So 177 00:11:33,600 --> 00:11:36,560 Speaker 1: all of this theater of the absurd is getting fed 178 00:11:36,600 --> 00:11:38,719 Speaker 1: to us. I mean, I really want you to think 179 00:11:38,760 --> 00:11:44,920 Speaker 1: about COVID and how COVID shut everything down, how that 180 00:11:45,080 --> 00:11:49,640 Speaker 1: completely screwed up the social development of children going to school. 181 00:11:50,280 --> 00:11:53,200 Speaker 1: It actually screwed up I think, the social development and 182 00:11:53,240 --> 00:11:57,959 Speaker 1: the social abilities of many adults. And then Biden runs 183 00:11:58,000 --> 00:12:02,640 Speaker 1: in and Biden, I think, unbeknownst to himself, but those 184 00:12:02,679 --> 00:12:08,679 Speaker 1: that are manipulating Biden spend trillions of dollars, virtually double 185 00:12:09,040 --> 00:12:13,040 Speaker 1: the American budget. And so as we go to borrow 186 00:12:13,200 --> 00:12:15,960 Speaker 1: most of that money in order to spend that money, 187 00:12:16,520 --> 00:12:20,679 Speaker 1: we decrease the value. We throw more money into the system. 188 00:12:20,960 --> 00:12:25,000 Speaker 1: So you've got all of these dollars chasing fewer goods 189 00:12:25,360 --> 00:12:29,560 Speaker 1: because COVID shut down, manufacturing shut down and screwed up 190 00:12:29,559 --> 00:12:32,120 Speaker 1: the supply chains. So you got all of this money 191 00:12:32,200 --> 00:12:35,400 Speaker 1: chasing all the fewer number of goods, and so inflation 192 00:12:35,480 --> 00:12:39,560 Speaker 1: begins to skyrocket, and that was the and then you 193 00:12:39,600 --> 00:12:44,360 Speaker 1: had the DEI transgenderism. All of that just skyrockets during 194 00:12:44,360 --> 00:12:49,880 Speaker 1: the Biden administration. That was the landscape that developed throughout 195 00:12:49,960 --> 00:12:54,160 Speaker 1: twenty twenty one leading up to those off year twenty 196 00:12:54,200 --> 00:12:58,400 Speaker 1: twenty one elections in Virginia and New Jersey. So what 197 00:12:58,520 --> 00:13:01,920 Speaker 1: happened in those years? What? Because I wanted to compare 198 00:13:01,920 --> 00:13:06,120 Speaker 1: and contrast what happened in twenty twenty one with what 199 00:13:06,240 --> 00:13:08,760 Speaker 1: happened in twenty twenty five, and then everybody can just 200 00:13:08,840 --> 00:13:11,360 Speaker 1: kind of take a deep breath. So let's go to 201 00:13:11,480 --> 00:13:15,520 Speaker 1: Virginia first. In twenty twenty one, former Virginia Governor Terry 202 00:13:15,559 --> 00:13:18,240 Speaker 1: mccauliffe was trying a political oddity in the state. He 203 00:13:18,320 --> 00:13:20,960 Speaker 1: was he was trying to get back to the governor's mansion, 204 00:13:21,920 --> 00:13:25,679 Speaker 1: where the consecutive terms in office are not allowed, but 205 00:13:25,840 --> 00:13:30,760 Speaker 1: non consecutive terms are permitted. So it would be like, 206 00:13:31,200 --> 00:13:35,000 Speaker 1: you've been term limited out, you've done your four years, 207 00:13:35,120 --> 00:13:38,080 Speaker 1: you've done your eight years, and now you've been out 208 00:13:38,080 --> 00:13:39,439 Speaker 1: for four years. Now you want to come back and 209 00:13:39,520 --> 00:13:44,640 Speaker 1: run again. He had previously served as the governor of 210 00:13:44,679 --> 00:13:49,199 Speaker 1: Virginia from twenty thirteen to twenty seventeen. Then he gets 211 00:13:49,240 --> 00:13:52,600 Speaker 1: succeeded by a name you probably don't remember. The mentioned 212 00:13:52,679 --> 00:13:54,480 Speaker 1: the minute I mentioned it, you'll remember. And I bet, 213 00:13:54,640 --> 00:13:56,560 Speaker 1: I bet I know what you remember about him too, 214 00:13:56,840 --> 00:14:01,840 Speaker 1: And that was Democrat Ralph Northrom. Remember Ralph Northam, He 215 00:14:01,920 --> 00:14:04,640 Speaker 1: was governor from twenty seventeen to twenty twenty one. He 216 00:14:04,679 --> 00:14:06,800 Speaker 1: was the guy who was caught wearing blackface, yet gets 217 00:14:06,800 --> 00:14:11,040 Speaker 1: elected anyway, connects the guy that ran for attorney general 218 00:14:11,080 --> 00:14:15,800 Speaker 1: in Virginia this time and claims that Park says in 219 00:14:15,880 --> 00:14:19,120 Speaker 1: text messages he really wants to kill the former Virginia 220 00:14:19,160 --> 00:14:21,480 Speaker 1: Speaker of the House and his children. And when he's 221 00:14:21,600 --> 00:14:24,080 Speaker 1: offered an opportunity to back off that, he doubles down 222 00:14:24,120 --> 00:14:27,960 Speaker 1: even more so. So here's Terry mccallif, former governor in 223 00:14:28,040 --> 00:14:33,320 Speaker 1: twenty twenty one, trying to return after a non consecutive term. 224 00:14:33,560 --> 00:14:36,200 Speaker 1: And who's Terry mccaulli. Flee's a long time Bill Clinton 225 00:14:36,240 --> 00:14:39,400 Speaker 1: and Hillary Clinton insider. He's a confident of the of 226 00:14:39,440 --> 00:14:43,400 Speaker 1: the Clintons. He had won in three He had won 227 00:14:43,400 --> 00:14:47,680 Speaker 1: in three way races in twenty thirteen with only a 228 00:14:47,720 --> 00:14:51,080 Speaker 1: plurality of the vote, only forty eight percent of the vote. 229 00:14:51,280 --> 00:14:56,280 Speaker 1: A libertarian candidate that year had received almost seven percent 230 00:14:56,280 --> 00:14:59,760 Speaker 1: of the vote. That was one year after Obama's reelection 231 00:14:59,840 --> 00:15:04,920 Speaker 1: and twenty twelve where Obama had underperformed underperformed his first 232 00:15:04,920 --> 00:15:07,520 Speaker 1: election in two thousand and eight were in Virginia. He 233 00:15:07,560 --> 00:15:09,840 Speaker 1: went from fifty two percent down to fifty one percent. 234 00:15:10,280 --> 00:15:13,520 Speaker 1: So you look at Virginia election cycles going back forty 235 00:15:13,560 --> 00:15:18,720 Speaker 1: five years, there's only one exception have zagged following the 236 00:15:18,800 --> 00:15:24,040 Speaker 1: national election that zigged. The Virginia electorate is notoriously response 237 00:15:24,080 --> 00:15:27,160 Speaker 1: even a negative way, to the outcome of the previous 238 00:15:27,240 --> 00:15:33,960 Speaker 1: presidential year's elections. I've got the receipts right in front 239 00:15:34,000 --> 00:15:38,840 Speaker 1: of me. Nineteen eighty Reagan wins, but in nineteen eighty 240 00:15:38,840 --> 00:15:42,560 Speaker 1: one a Democrat wins Virginia Chuck Robb nineteen eighty four, 241 00:15:42,600 --> 00:15:45,600 Speaker 1: Reagan wins again, but in nineteen eighty five a Democrat, 242 00:15:45,640 --> 00:15:50,320 Speaker 1: Gerald Beliveze wins. Nineteen eighty eight George H. W. Bush wins, 243 00:15:50,560 --> 00:15:54,720 Speaker 1: but in nineteen eighty nine Democrat Dug Wilder one. Nineteen 244 00:15:54,760 --> 00:15:57,200 Speaker 1: ninety two Clinton wins, but in nineteen ninety three a 245 00:15:57,280 --> 00:16:01,080 Speaker 1: Republican wins. Nineteen ninety six Clinton but in nineteen ninety 246 00:16:01,120 --> 00:16:04,840 Speaker 1: seven a Republican. Two thousand, George W. Bush wins, but 247 00:16:04,920 --> 00:16:07,320 Speaker 1: in two thousand and one a Democrat, Mark Warner wins. 248 00:16:07,560 --> 00:16:10,280 Speaker 1: Two thousand and four, George W. Bush wins, but in 249 00:16:10,280 --> 00:16:12,480 Speaker 1: two thousand and five a Democrat wins. Two thousand and 250 00:16:12,520 --> 00:16:16,479 Speaker 1: eight Obama, a Democrat wins, but a nine a Republican 251 00:16:16,520 --> 00:16:22,800 Speaker 1: bab McDonald wins. Twenty twelve, Obama wins, and another Democrat 252 00:16:22,840 --> 00:16:29,720 Speaker 1: wins the next year. That is the only exception going 253 00:16:29,960 --> 00:16:35,040 Speaker 1: all the way back to nineteen eighty, the only exception. 254 00:16:35,800 --> 00:16:41,120 Speaker 1: So in every election except twenty thirteen, the party that 255 00:16:41,200 --> 00:16:44,640 Speaker 1: won the White House lost the Virginia governor's race the 256 00:16:44,720 --> 00:16:48,920 Speaker 1: following year. Now, I think that's partly because of all 257 00:16:49,040 --> 00:16:52,120 Speaker 1: the counties in Virginia and Virginia itself quite frankly as 258 00:16:52,120 --> 00:16:55,040 Speaker 1: a whole that is so close to the District of Columbia, 259 00:16:55,080 --> 00:16:58,400 Speaker 1: and so many people that live in Virginia that work 260 00:16:58,440 --> 00:17:00,600 Speaker 1: either in DC in the government or work from one 261 00:17:00,600 --> 00:17:04,720 Speaker 1: of the big contractors are consulting firm in DC. I 262 00:17:04,720 --> 00:17:09,480 Speaker 1: think it's their proximity to DC, and it's the it's 263 00:17:09,520 --> 00:17:15,320 Speaker 1: the absolute tumultuous state of the two parties following a 264 00:17:15,320 --> 00:17:19,800 Speaker 1: loss in the presidential election, because losses motivate the base 265 00:17:20,000 --> 00:17:22,159 Speaker 1: to action. Oh my gosh, we lost. We can't let 266 00:17:22,200 --> 00:17:25,720 Speaker 1: that happening, but we gotta go do something, whereas victories 267 00:17:26,480 --> 00:17:29,440 Speaker 1: tend to cause people to go, huh, well we won 268 00:17:29,560 --> 00:17:35,160 Speaker 1: that everything's fine. So when Glenn Youngkin, the current Virginia 269 00:17:35,640 --> 00:17:39,600 Speaker 1: Virginia governor, beat McAuliffe in twenty twenty one, that was 270 00:17:39,720 --> 00:17:45,000 Speaker 1: consistent with the well established pattern in Virginia. The thing 271 00:17:45,080 --> 00:17:49,760 Speaker 1: that kind of helped him was a local subject, a 272 00:17:49,880 --> 00:17:55,240 Speaker 1: local issue, critical race theory in public schools. Now at 273 00:17:55,240 --> 00:17:58,000 Speaker 1: the time, there was a vigorous debate going on. What 274 00:17:58,240 --> 00:18:08,879 Speaker 1: was it that's next? Tonight, Michael Brown joins me here, 275 00:18:09,000 --> 00:18:12,800 Speaker 1: the former FEMA director of talk show host Michael Brown. Brownie, no, Brownie, 276 00:18:12,800 --> 00:18:14,840 Speaker 1: You're doing a heck of a job the Weekend with 277 00:18:15,000 --> 00:18:18,480 Speaker 1: Michael Brown. Welcome back to the Weekend with Michael Brown. Glead. 278 00:18:18,520 --> 00:18:22,199 Speaker 1: Have you joining the program? You know, for all of 279 00:18:22,200 --> 00:18:26,360 Speaker 1: you who listen to me via the iHeart app one, 280 00:18:26,440 --> 00:18:29,439 Speaker 1: I really appreciate you doing that. But I got some 281 00:18:29,480 --> 00:18:32,200 Speaker 1: big news for you. And the big news is starting 282 00:18:32,440 --> 00:18:37,119 Speaker 1: Monday morning. 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It's a pretty big deal for me, 293 00:19:14,080 --> 00:19:16,639 Speaker 1: and I'm pretty excited about it. So make that change 294 00:19:16,640 --> 00:19:19,800 Speaker 1: and follow me through the weekday too. If you just 295 00:19:19,840 --> 00:19:23,720 Speaker 1: a heads up, if you subscribe to the podcast, you 296 00:19:23,720 --> 00:19:26,720 Speaker 1: don't have to worry about anything. The podcast stays on 297 00:19:26,800 --> 00:19:30,159 Speaker 1: the same RSS feed, so you'll continue to get the podcast. 298 00:19:30,800 --> 00:19:32,639 Speaker 1: You may just get it later in the day as 299 00:19:32,680 --> 00:19:35,080 Speaker 1: opposed to when you normally would get it Monday through Friday. 300 00:19:35,320 --> 00:19:37,760 Speaker 1: So if you subscribe to the podcast and listen to 301 00:19:37,800 --> 00:19:41,160 Speaker 1: the weekday program, you're good. You're set to go back 302 00:19:41,200 --> 00:19:44,720 Speaker 1: to Virginia. So I'd say this about Virginia. Virginia is 303 00:19:44,760 --> 00:19:48,600 Speaker 1: not a Republican state. When I worked in DC for 304 00:19:48,640 --> 00:19:51,840 Speaker 1: the Bush administration, I lived in northern Virginia. I lived 305 00:19:51,880 --> 00:19:53,840 Speaker 1: in Alexandria, and I can just tell you it is 306 00:19:53,920 --> 00:19:58,320 Speaker 1: not a Republican state. I might describe it as a 307 00:19:58,320 --> 00:20:00,720 Speaker 1: bellweather state, a state where the w blows only in 308 00:20:00,760 --> 00:20:04,640 Speaker 1: one direction, that is away from the White House. Whoever 309 00:20:04,680 --> 00:20:07,080 Speaker 1: wins the White House the next year, they're not gonna 310 00:20:07,080 --> 00:20:11,320 Speaker 1: win in Virginia. And you add this year, you add 311 00:20:11,359 --> 00:20:16,000 Speaker 1: to the mix that wins some sars. The lieutenant governor 312 00:20:16,040 --> 00:20:18,919 Speaker 1: who was running for governor, she was not a very 313 00:20:18,960 --> 00:20:22,600 Speaker 1: good candidate. So if her goal was to try to 314 00:20:22,680 --> 00:20:25,720 Speaker 1: replicate Youngkin, which I think is what she was trying 315 00:20:25,720 --> 00:20:28,600 Speaker 1: to do, and replicate that victory from twenty twenty one, 316 00:20:28,680 --> 00:20:31,000 Speaker 1: she just wasn't very good at it, you know who. 317 00:20:31,960 --> 00:20:34,359 Speaker 1: It kind of reminded me of of all people, and 318 00:20:34,440 --> 00:20:36,639 Speaker 1: how if she's listening, hope she doesn't think this is 319 00:20:36,640 --> 00:20:39,040 Speaker 1: the wrong way. But it kind of reminded me of 320 00:20:39,359 --> 00:20:44,000 Speaker 1: Gavin Newsom, governor of California, trying to imitate and act 321 00:20:44,080 --> 00:20:47,879 Speaker 1: like Donald Trump. You really can't do that. You have 322 00:20:47,920 --> 00:20:49,960 Speaker 1: to be yourself. When you try to be somebody else, 323 00:20:50,000 --> 00:20:53,680 Speaker 1: you're inevitably going to fail, and I kind of think 324 00:20:53,720 --> 00:20:57,159 Speaker 1: that's what win some Sears was doing in Virginia. Sears 325 00:20:57,320 --> 00:21:01,199 Speaker 1: is she's truly a deeply conservative candidate uncleultural issues and 326 00:21:01,240 --> 00:21:05,520 Speaker 1: she's not willing to compromise. She's very noble, she's very principled, 327 00:21:06,359 --> 00:21:08,639 Speaker 1: but she's not the profile of a winning candidate in 328 00:21:08,680 --> 00:21:12,119 Speaker 1: a state like Virginia. She couldn't raise much money, and 329 00:21:12,160 --> 00:21:14,320 Speaker 1: she didn't see ig nor was she offered the endorsement 330 00:21:14,359 --> 00:21:17,159 Speaker 1: of President Trump. And I think Trump rightly made the 331 00:21:17,200 --> 00:21:19,960 Speaker 1: decision not to endorse her when he could see that 332 00:21:20,040 --> 00:21:22,919 Speaker 1: it would be it would cost him political capital and 333 00:21:22,960 --> 00:21:27,120 Speaker 1: it wouldn't gain him anything. And then she lost by 334 00:21:27,119 --> 00:21:29,359 Speaker 1: three and a half million votes, fifty seven to forty 335 00:21:29,359 --> 00:21:34,840 Speaker 1: three percent, and that was a twenty percent increase in 336 00:21:34,920 --> 00:21:38,919 Speaker 1: turnout in eight years. So when you add up all 337 00:21:38,960 --> 00:21:44,080 Speaker 1: of her flaws and the first do no Harm campaign 338 00:21:44,359 --> 00:21:48,800 Speaker 1: run by her opponent, spam Burger, was it was an 339 00:21:48,840 --> 00:21:53,240 Speaker 1: inevitable loss. The internals of that race I think are 340 00:21:53,240 --> 00:21:55,200 Speaker 1: going to be really important when they finally are able 341 00:21:55,200 --> 00:21:58,240 Speaker 1: to be studied to the extent that they might show 342 00:21:58,880 --> 00:22:01,840 Speaker 1: some shifts in demic graphic support between twenty twenty four 343 00:22:01,840 --> 00:22:05,119 Speaker 1: and twenty twenty five. But my personal opinion is the 344 00:22:05,160 --> 00:22:10,840 Speaker 1: outcome really reflects a motivated Democrat base as is typical 345 00:22:10,880 --> 00:22:14,000 Speaker 1: in Virginia for a party that just lost the White House, 346 00:22:14,960 --> 00:22:18,119 Speaker 1: and a largely content and let's sit back on our 347 00:22:18,200 --> 00:22:21,720 Speaker 1: Laurels Republican base that is content with the direction that 348 00:22:21,760 --> 00:22:24,800 Speaker 1: President Trump is headed. So it doesn't really push people 349 00:22:24,840 --> 00:22:27,840 Speaker 1: to the polls. So when you look at Virginia, I'm 350 00:22:27,880 --> 00:22:32,080 Speaker 1: kind of like, everybody, settle down when you really understand 351 00:22:32,080 --> 00:22:35,920 Speaker 1: what took place there and what historically has taken place there. 352 00:22:37,240 --> 00:22:40,359 Speaker 1: All of the conservative media, all of the conservative talking 353 00:22:40,400 --> 00:22:42,199 Speaker 1: heads that I hear about, oh my god, it's the 354 00:22:42,280 --> 00:22:44,680 Speaker 1: end of civilization in the sky is falling, I'm kind 355 00:22:44,680 --> 00:22:46,159 Speaker 1: of like, sit down and shut up. It's really not. 356 00:22:47,720 --> 00:22:51,159 Speaker 1: It doesn't mean you can just blow off the midterm elections. 357 00:22:51,840 --> 00:22:54,720 Speaker 1: I'm not saying that at all, but I'm simply saying, 358 00:22:54,720 --> 00:22:57,200 Speaker 1: when you look at what really happened in Virginia, it's 359 00:22:57,240 --> 00:23:00,360 Speaker 1: not as bad as you think it is. So let's 360 00:23:00,400 --> 00:23:03,400 Speaker 1: go to New Jersey. I think there were two critical 361 00:23:03,440 --> 00:23:07,880 Speaker 1: facts that had conservatives I think rightfully optimistic about their 362 00:23:07,880 --> 00:23:10,960 Speaker 1: prospects in New Jersey. In that governor's race, for this year. 363 00:23:12,160 --> 00:23:16,159 Speaker 1: And here are the two reasons. President Trump had actually 364 00:23:16,200 --> 00:23:23,440 Speaker 1: improved his turnout, And he had improved his votes between 365 00:23:23,440 --> 00:23:28,159 Speaker 1: twenty twenty and twenty twenty four by almost five percent, 366 00:23:29,160 --> 00:23:32,440 Speaker 1: from forty one percent versus Joe Biden to forty six 367 00:23:32,520 --> 00:23:37,320 Speaker 1: percent versus Kamala Harris. But notice those are still minority numbers. 368 00:23:37,880 --> 00:23:40,479 Speaker 1: Forty one and forty six percent don't get you the election. 369 00:23:42,320 --> 00:23:46,800 Speaker 1: And the significant factor in his improvement between twenty twenty 370 00:23:46,800 --> 00:23:52,600 Speaker 1: and twenty four was Trump's increased support among minorities. So 371 00:23:52,680 --> 00:23:55,679 Speaker 1: that's the first factor in New Jersey. There's another factor 372 00:23:55,680 --> 00:23:59,320 Speaker 1: in New Jersey, and that is the Republican candidate Jack 373 00:23:59,400 --> 00:24:03,919 Speaker 1: Chittarelli was largely unknown, he was mostly underfunded back in 374 00:24:03,960 --> 00:24:06,840 Speaker 1: twenty twenty one when he first ran for governor, and 375 00:24:06,960 --> 00:24:10,480 Speaker 1: he was running against an incumbent Democrat governor. He lost 376 00:24:10,640 --> 00:24:13,000 Speaker 1: by fifty one to forty eight percent, which isn't bad 377 00:24:13,040 --> 00:24:16,880 Speaker 1: in New Jersey, but certainly the combination of the two 378 00:24:17,880 --> 00:24:21,480 Speaker 1: could have led to a Chitdarelli victory in twenty twenty five. 379 00:24:22,840 --> 00:24:26,359 Speaker 1: But refer back to what I said about the fall 380 00:24:26,480 --> 00:24:31,879 Speaker 1: of twenty twenty one. Those circumstances provided the wind at 381 00:24:31,960 --> 00:24:36,000 Speaker 1: Chitderelly's back in twenty twenty one. That got him to 382 00:24:36,040 --> 00:24:40,440 Speaker 1: within three percent of a Democrat incumbent. It wasn't enough 383 00:24:40,440 --> 00:24:44,000 Speaker 1: to push him over, but everything going on in twenty 384 00:24:44,040 --> 00:24:48,200 Speaker 1: twenty one was enough to push him ahead because people 385 00:24:48,200 --> 00:24:51,200 Speaker 1: were looking around at the economy, looking at their own 386 00:24:52,040 --> 00:24:54,520 Speaker 1: grocery baskets, they were looking at their own gas tank, 387 00:24:54,520 --> 00:24:56,560 Speaker 1: they were looking at their own heating bills, they were 388 00:24:56,560 --> 00:24:58,280 Speaker 1: looking at the government submitting, they were looking at the 389 00:24:58,320 --> 00:25:02,600 Speaker 1: cultural stuff going on. So, of course, but even with 390 00:25:02,680 --> 00:25:05,240 Speaker 1: all of that, the best that Chiarelli could do in 391 00:25:05,240 --> 00:25:07,720 Speaker 1: twenty twenty one was to come within about three percent 392 00:25:08,080 --> 00:25:13,680 Speaker 1: of the incumbent. So even with Joe Biden in the thirties, 393 00:25:14,040 --> 00:25:19,159 Speaker 1: in approval ratings, inflation and energy costs just skyrocketing, the 394 00:25:19,240 --> 00:25:24,640 Speaker 1: Democratic in Jersey still won the contest. Chris Christy Krispy Kreme, 395 00:25:25,080 --> 00:25:29,159 Speaker 1: Old Chubby Chris Christie, Christine Todd Whitman. Those are the 396 00:25:29,200 --> 00:25:32,880 Speaker 1: only two Republican governors in recent New Jersey history. And 397 00:25:32,920 --> 00:25:39,040 Speaker 1: who are they? They are both adamant anti Trumpers. That's 398 00:25:39,080 --> 00:25:42,879 Speaker 1: the Republican Party in New Jersey. The Republican Party in 399 00:25:42,920 --> 00:25:45,679 Speaker 1: New Jersey is distinctly an anti Trump party. It is 400 00:25:45,800 --> 00:25:49,480 Speaker 1: not a middle of the road. It's a decidedly Rhino 401 00:25:49,600 --> 00:25:53,600 Speaker 1: Republican party. Now. I know that if you're listening to 402 00:25:53,640 --> 00:25:57,239 Speaker 1: me in New Jersey and you're a Trump supporter, you're like, oh, 403 00:25:57,240 --> 00:25:59,439 Speaker 1: Michael Rock, no, no, I support Trump. Well, I know 404 00:25:59,520 --> 00:26:03,679 Speaker 1: you do, but as a whole, it is a decidedly 405 00:26:03,760 --> 00:26:07,840 Speaker 1: anti Trump Republican party. New Jersey is a Democrat state. 406 00:26:08,119 --> 00:26:11,120 Speaker 1: It has long been a Democrat state, and every time 407 00:26:11,160 --> 00:26:15,560 Speaker 1: Republican hopes get up in New Jersey, it's kind of like, 408 00:26:16,280 --> 00:26:21,320 Speaker 1: you know, Charlie Brown and Lucy. In fact, there are 409 00:26:21,359 --> 00:26:27,040 Speaker 1: long standing complaints in Virginia Republican circles that the mirage 410 00:26:27,080 --> 00:26:30,320 Speaker 1: of Hope in New Jersey every four years actually costs 411 00:26:30,359 --> 00:26:34,359 Speaker 1: Republican candidates and who in Virginia because they see money 412 00:26:34,400 --> 00:26:39,479 Speaker 1: from national contributors flow out of Virginia into the New 413 00:26:39,560 --> 00:26:42,760 Speaker 1: York and Philadelphia media markets because that's where you have 414 00:26:42,800 --> 00:26:46,560 Speaker 1: to spend money to reach voters in New Jersey. And 415 00:26:46,640 --> 00:26:53,600 Speaker 1: so every year voters are contributors. The big donors think, oh, 416 00:26:53,640 --> 00:26:55,680 Speaker 1: I got a chance, I got a chance, so they 417 00:26:55,720 --> 00:27:00,000 Speaker 1: spend money, outrageously expensive money in the highest media market 418 00:27:00,520 --> 00:27:04,080 Speaker 1: most costly media markets in the country, New York and 419 00:27:04,080 --> 00:27:09,199 Speaker 1: in Philadelphia, trying to reach voters in New Jersey. So 420 00:27:09,320 --> 00:27:13,320 Speaker 1: it just never materializes. The story out of New Jersey 421 00:27:13,359 --> 00:27:15,920 Speaker 1: is always the same Democrats when being in a Democrats state. 422 00:27:16,600 --> 00:27:21,399 Speaker 1: So yeah, you know, pass the donuts. We shouldn't be 423 00:27:21,440 --> 00:27:25,040 Speaker 1: surprised about either of these. That's what I really want 424 00:27:25,080 --> 00:27:28,120 Speaker 1: you to take away from this conversation. So when you 425 00:27:28,200 --> 00:27:34,360 Speaker 1: hear because obviously the cabal is thumping their chests about oh, 426 00:27:34,400 --> 00:27:37,280 Speaker 1: this is a bad sign for Trump, this is a 427 00:27:37,320 --> 00:27:39,919 Speaker 1: bad sign for Republicans, this is a bad sign for 428 00:27:39,960 --> 00:27:45,919 Speaker 1: the midterms, and even some conservative outlets are saying the 429 00:27:45,960 --> 00:27:50,720 Speaker 1: same thing. And once again, I'm swimming upstream saying to everybody, well, 430 00:27:51,400 --> 00:27:53,080 Speaker 1: it's not nearly as bad as what you think it is. 431 00:27:54,440 --> 00:27:58,199 Speaker 1: I'm just being again, I'm trying to be realistic. Now, 432 00:27:58,200 --> 00:28:00,679 Speaker 1: I do want you to know this. There are some 433 00:28:00,760 --> 00:28:02,920 Speaker 1: polling results that show that some parts of the Trump 434 00:28:03,040 --> 00:28:05,880 Speaker 1: coalition that carried him to win in seven of those 435 00:28:05,880 --> 00:28:11,680 Speaker 1: swing states last year, guess what, Yeah, they've moved back 436 00:28:11,680 --> 00:28:15,560 Speaker 1: into the Democrat column in twenty twenty five. Support by 437 00:28:15,600 --> 00:28:21,800 Speaker 1: minorities in this past election was down women voters played 438 00:28:21,840 --> 00:28:25,040 Speaker 1: a huge role in the victories in Virginia, New Jersey 439 00:28:25,800 --> 00:28:30,040 Speaker 1: now final results, I haven't seen him yet on vote 440 00:28:30,040 --> 00:28:33,280 Speaker 1: by gender, but all the pre election polling showed that 441 00:28:34,240 --> 00:28:38,040 Speaker 1: Cheryl was leading by nearly twenty percent among women voters. 442 00:28:38,760 --> 00:28:42,239 Speaker 1: So I think it's pretty much a given that no 443 00:28:42,400 --> 00:28:46,760 Speaker 1: candidate can lose by twenty percent with roughly half of 444 00:28:46,760 --> 00:28:52,800 Speaker 1: the electorate and win any race anywhere, let alone New Jersey. 445 00:28:53,120 --> 00:28:57,600 Speaker 1: The Democrat party, this is really important to note, is 446 00:28:57,680 --> 00:29:03,080 Speaker 1: increasingly dominated by female voters. The Trump led Republican Party 447 00:29:03,480 --> 00:29:09,400 Speaker 1: actually skews towards male voters in equally huge numbers. But 448 00:29:09,480 --> 00:29:11,960 Speaker 1: there is a long historical record of women being more 449 00:29:11,960 --> 00:29:15,200 Speaker 1: reliable voters men between the ages of eighteen and thirty five. 450 00:29:15,480 --> 00:29:19,000 Speaker 1: Those are probably the least reliable voting demographic on election 451 00:29:19,120 --> 00:29:23,200 Speaker 1: day for any party. Men eighteen to thirty five. I 452 00:29:23,240 --> 00:29:25,640 Speaker 1: don't know what's wrong with you, guys, but you're you're 453 00:29:25,680 --> 00:29:28,440 Speaker 1: wack of doodles. You show up some days, other days 454 00:29:28,440 --> 00:29:32,080 Speaker 1: you don't. You're not very reliable. So not only was 455 00:29:32,120 --> 00:29:34,719 Speaker 1: Trump not on the ballot to drive the turnout among 456 00:29:35,040 --> 00:29:39,440 Speaker 1: those men that traditionally turn out for him, I don't 457 00:29:39,480 --> 00:29:41,880 Speaker 1: think he could have been a good surrogate in New Jersey, 458 00:29:42,840 --> 00:29:45,800 Speaker 1: and he did not endorse the candidacy of Winsome Seers 459 00:29:45,840 --> 00:29:49,160 Speaker 1: the female in Virginia because she did not want it. 460 00:29:50,440 --> 00:29:53,720 Speaker 1: So think about that and take a deep breath. It's 461 00:29:53,760 --> 00:29:56,600 Speaker 1: the weekend with Michael Brown. Text lines always open three three, 462 00:29:56,680 --> 00:30:06,000 Speaker 1: one zero three keyword Michael, Michael, be right back. When 463 00:30:06,000 --> 00:30:08,360 Speaker 1: I think about on the past week, well since last Tuesday, 464 00:30:09,360 --> 00:30:11,480 Speaker 1: I think some of the smartest things I've heard said 465 00:30:11,960 --> 00:30:16,520 Speaker 1: about the loss of support of minority voters really has 466 00:30:16,560 --> 00:30:20,400 Speaker 1: to do with pocket pocketbook issues in the economy, because 467 00:30:20,440 --> 00:30:23,080 Speaker 1: for the most part, think about who generally speaking. I 468 00:30:23,600 --> 00:30:25,560 Speaker 1: know I'm making a generalization here, but I think it's 469 00:30:25,600 --> 00:30:29,920 Speaker 1: a legitimate generalization that minority voters tend to be among 470 00:30:30,000 --> 00:30:35,280 Speaker 1: the socioeconomic demographics that are most vulnerable to economic downturns. 471 00:30:35,840 --> 00:30:38,480 Speaker 1: It's not to say that Caucasians aren't also, or the 472 00:30:38,520 --> 00:30:42,040 Speaker 1: Asians aren't also, but just because of the sheer raw 473 00:30:42,280 --> 00:30:48,480 Speaker 1: numbers of minorities and sheer numbers of Caucasians, then I 474 00:30:48,520 --> 00:30:52,440 Speaker 1: think minority voters tend to be more affected by shifts 475 00:30:52,440 --> 00:30:56,720 Speaker 1: in the economy than other groups. But I'm going to 476 00:30:56,760 --> 00:31:00,520 Speaker 1: emphasize something too. We're not in an economic down this 477 00:31:00,640 --> 00:31:03,040 Speaker 1: cause it was caused by the election of Donald Trump. 478 00:31:04,080 --> 00:31:06,640 Speaker 1: Let me repeat that, we are not in an economic 479 00:31:06,760 --> 00:31:11,200 Speaker 1: downturn caused by the election of Donald Trump. If you look, 480 00:31:11,800 --> 00:31:15,920 Speaker 1: you look at all of the all of the revelations 481 00:31:16,200 --> 00:31:20,560 Speaker 1: of the past ten months. Among all of those was 482 00:31:20,600 --> 00:31:23,560 Speaker 1: the degree to which the Biden administration was cooking the 483 00:31:23,600 --> 00:31:27,840 Speaker 1: books on the economy. The Democrats and the dominated press, 484 00:31:27,880 --> 00:31:30,480 Speaker 1: the cabals, we'd like to call it in this program, 485 00:31:30,760 --> 00:31:35,360 Speaker 1: gleefully played along. The job's numbers were wildly inaccurate. They 486 00:31:35,400 --> 00:31:40,320 Speaker 1: were always being revised downward. Economic growth numbers were wildly inaccurate. 487 00:31:41,120 --> 00:31:44,680 Speaker 1: The economy was already in a recession under Joe Biden, 488 00:31:44,920 --> 00:31:48,400 Speaker 1: and inflation was being misrepresented as lower than it actually was. 489 00:31:49,240 --> 00:31:52,520 Speaker 1: So the Federal Reserve kept interest rates up based on 490 00:31:52,600 --> 00:31:56,120 Speaker 1: those inaccurate numbers, which only makes the growing which only 491 00:31:56,160 --> 00:32:01,040 Speaker 1: makes growing the economy more difficult, and again people less 492 00:32:01,080 --> 00:32:04,480 Speaker 1: patients to look at and understand, Oh, it's taking longer 493 00:32:04,560 --> 00:32:08,080 Speaker 1: because we were lied to for four years. That's very 494 00:32:08,080 --> 00:32:11,560 Speaker 1: difficult to explain to people because it's still hurt your pocketbooks. 495 00:32:11,600 --> 00:32:18,680 Speaker 1: I get that, but my rule about. But these voters 496 00:32:18,720 --> 00:32:20,720 Speaker 1: only know what their monthly income and their bills are. 497 00:32:21,680 --> 00:32:24,400 Speaker 1: They're not focused on how the Biden administration and the 498 00:32:24,400 --> 00:32:28,440 Speaker 1: Congressional Democrats nearly destroyed this economy between twenty twenty one 499 00:32:28,480 --> 00:32:31,760 Speaker 1: and twenty twenty three. They're competing for resources, they're actually 500 00:32:31,760 --> 00:32:35,880 Speaker 1: trying to get food, housing, consumer products, and they're competing 501 00:32:35,920 --> 00:32:38,959 Speaker 1: with ten plus twenty plus whatever it is million million 502 00:32:39,000 --> 00:32:41,920 Speaker 1: illegal aliens that have been led into the country, who 503 00:32:41,960 --> 00:32:46,080 Speaker 1: have their their purchasing power, their ability to buy things 504 00:32:47,200 --> 00:32:51,560 Speaker 1: provided to them by taxpayers. So these what I would 505 00:32:51,600 --> 00:32:55,880 Speaker 1: call illegal consumers are part of the calculation of more 506 00:32:55,920 --> 00:33:01,160 Speaker 1: people chasing fewer resources come like rental housing, and that 507 00:33:01,280 --> 00:33:06,600 Speaker 1: leads inevitably too higher costs for everything. So the Republicans 508 00:33:06,640 --> 00:33:09,360 Speaker 1: have got to address this through Congress. They've got to 509 00:33:09,400 --> 00:33:12,360 Speaker 1: do it, but the fixes need to understand the causes. 510 00:33:13,040 --> 00:33:14,960 Speaker 1: One of the fixes is you've got to reduce the 511 00:33:15,040 --> 00:33:17,480 Speaker 1: number of people chasing to fix the matter of resources. 512 00:33:18,400 --> 00:33:21,280 Speaker 1: So reduction in the cost of energy that's going to 513 00:33:21,320 --> 00:33:23,760 Speaker 1: take it a while to show up in the production 514 00:33:23,880 --> 00:33:27,240 Speaker 1: and the distribution of things that we buy. Higher costs 515 00:33:27,240 --> 00:33:30,880 Speaker 1: incurred last year have to be recaptured in prices this year. 516 00:33:31,160 --> 00:33:36,040 Speaker 1: But that is a cycle that inevitably reverses itself. For example, 517 00:33:36,440 --> 00:33:39,640 Speaker 1: the ridiculous cost of labor brought on by the idiotic 518 00:33:39,720 --> 00:33:43,040 Speaker 1: policies like a twenty dollars plus minimum wage have got 519 00:33:43,080 --> 00:33:48,360 Speaker 1: to be brought in line with what consumers pay. Think 520 00:33:48,360 --> 00:33:53,560 Speaker 1: about it this way. Take just a hypothetical worker making 521 00:33:53,640 --> 00:33:57,040 Speaker 1: thirty five bucks an hour, let's say a union contract, 522 00:33:58,720 --> 00:34:02,920 Speaker 1: when non union fast food workers were making ten dollars 523 00:34:02,960 --> 00:34:05,720 Speaker 1: an hour. What do you suppose happen to the union 524 00:34:05,760 --> 00:34:09,880 Speaker 1: hourly rage wage rate when the non union fast food 525 00:34:09,920 --> 00:34:13,160 Speaker 1: worker is suddenly making twenty two to fifty an hour 526 00:34:13,600 --> 00:34:16,640 Speaker 1: and that union factory worker is making thirty five dollars 527 00:34:16,680 --> 00:34:20,320 Speaker 1: an hour. Now that your big mac meal costs you, 528 00:34:20,360 --> 00:34:23,280 Speaker 1: I don't know what, fifteen bucks, and it takes sixty 529 00:34:23,280 --> 00:34:25,359 Speaker 1: bucks and more to feed a family for at McDonald's, 530 00:34:25,840 --> 00:34:27,680 Speaker 1: how do you think that gets reflected in the rest 531 00:34:27,719 --> 00:34:31,080 Speaker 1: of the economy. So the hike in the minimum wage 532 00:34:31,120 --> 00:34:35,960 Speaker 1: was really about union prevailing wage rates, because a lot 533 00:34:36,000 --> 00:34:39,880 Speaker 1: of contracts with prevailing wage rates are pegged to the 534 00:34:39,920 --> 00:34:44,120 Speaker 1: minimum wage. So as the minimum wage increased under the Democrats, 535 00:34:44,320 --> 00:34:47,040 Speaker 1: the union wage rate increased along with it. So now 536 00:34:47,120 --> 00:34:49,600 Speaker 1: you understand why you know I'm going to Steakhouse tonight, 537 00:34:50,840 --> 00:34:52,279 Speaker 1: and so now I know why the stake's going to 538 00:34:52,320 --> 00:34:54,760 Speaker 1: cost me seventy five bucks in a really nice restaurant 539 00:34:55,040 --> 00:34:57,239 Speaker 1: rather than the thirty five dollars like it was say 540 00:34:57,239 --> 00:35:00,719 Speaker 1: ten or fifteen years ago. That's the economics that I 541 00:35:00,719 --> 00:35:04,680 Speaker 1: think most Americans that we don't understand. This is twenty 542 00:35:04,760 --> 00:35:08,320 Speaker 1: seventeen all over again. Nothing that the Republicans, what the 543 00:35:08,320 --> 00:35:12,760 Speaker 1: Trump administration does, is ever going to get favorable media coverage. 544 00:35:12,880 --> 00:35:18,000 Speaker 1: If anything, the Biden years and the abject refusal to 545 00:35:18,040 --> 00:35:22,680 Speaker 1: be critical in any way while a cognitively impaired Dufus 546 00:35:23,080 --> 00:35:26,280 Speaker 1: was an office's president, that should tell you the degree 547 00:35:26,320 --> 00:35:29,600 Speaker 1: to which the media is willing to be an instrument, 548 00:35:29,680 --> 00:35:36,239 Speaker 1: a stenographer, a bullhorn for the Democrat Party. When you 549 00:35:36,320 --> 00:35:41,400 Speaker 1: have relentless and I mean relentless negative coverage of Trump, 550 00:35:42,760 --> 00:35:45,240 Speaker 1: well that's going to influence the mood of the country 551 00:35:45,680 --> 00:35:51,240 Speaker 1: generally speaking. And the elections from Tuesday are a reflection 552 00:35:51,360 --> 00:35:55,160 Speaker 1: of that. So nobody in New Jersey has been in 553 00:35:55,160 --> 00:35:59,960 Speaker 1: the Republican column and had and nobody has New Jersey 554 00:36:00,080 --> 00:36:03,799 Speaker 1: in the Republican column in twenty twenty eight, Democrats are 555 00:36:03,880 --> 00:36:06,440 Speaker 1: likely to continue to do well in New Jersey, just 556 00:36:06,480 --> 00:36:08,959 Speaker 1: like they in twenty twenty six, just like they did 557 00:36:09,040 --> 00:36:12,160 Speaker 1: going all the way back to two thousand and Democrats 558 00:36:12,320 --> 00:36:14,680 Speaker 1: they went in Virginia as the party out of the 559 00:36:14,680 --> 00:36:17,520 Speaker 1: White House. And that's been true in eleven of the 560 00:36:17,600 --> 00:36:22,520 Speaker 1: past twelve election cycles. You know what does matter when 561 00:36:22,600 --> 00:36:25,600 Speaker 1: it comes to a margin of victory in a close race, 562 00:36:25,880 --> 00:36:31,680 Speaker 1: it's the candidate that matters. Now, just let me say this. 563 00:36:32,719 --> 00:36:37,800 Speaker 1: Elections in New York City are meaningless in the United States. 564 00:36:38,400 --> 00:36:41,279 Speaker 1: New York City is only nominally part of the US 565 00:36:41,400 --> 00:36:46,160 Speaker 1: right now. In fact, escape from New York, build the 566 00:36:46,200 --> 00:36:48,840 Speaker 1: wall around it. It's a great time for an experiment, 567 00:36:49,280 --> 00:36:51,440 Speaker 1: and let's look at the shocking results the weekend with 568 00:36:51,480 --> 00:36:54,120 Speaker 1: Michael Brown. Text line three to three one zero three 569 00:36:54,200 --> 00:37:02,160 Speaker 1: always open, keyword Michael, Michael. I'll be back, ye