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Speaker 1: Buck Brief. On this episode, Carolyn Levitt is with us now.
Speaker 1: She is the National Press Secretary for the Trump campaign.
Speaker 1: What is the specific title? Actually, I want to make
Speaker 1: sure I get that right.
Speaker 2: I appreciate that book.
Speaker 3: The specific title is National Press Secretary for the Trump Campaign.
Speaker 1: All right, I nailed it, just making sure I was like,
Speaker 1: am I getting this one right? I don't want to
Speaker 1: start that's never good. I will tell you a trick
Speaker 1: that a very well known Fox News host once taught
Speaker 1: me on set off camera, was whenever you're interviewing somebody,
Speaker 1: if you don't know, like, you know, we've talked many
Speaker 1: many times, so I'm not going to forget your name,
Speaker 1: but especially if it's a first time, doesn't matter who
Speaker 1: it is. First time you're interviewing somebody, write their first
Speaker 1: name on a big piece of paper, like a big
Speaker 1: version of their first because if you sit in there
Speaker 1: you're like, well, Bob, what do you think and they're like, well,
Speaker 1: my name is John. I can kind of throw the interview.
Speaker 3: Question the first impression you don't want to have, and
Speaker 3: they'll never forget it.
Speaker 2: So that is very good advice.
Speaker 1: And to be fair to me, your title changed recently,
Speaker 1: right because you were running the pack comms and now
Speaker 1: you're running the comms for the campaign. So let's start
Speaker 1: since you have that. We have South Carolina coming up
Speaker 1: this week. As people see it, we won't know or
Speaker 1: hear this. They won't know yet what but I think
Speaker 1: we kind of know, right, we kind of know what's
Speaker 1: going to happen in South Carolina. So what's gonna what's
Speaker 1: gonna go down here? I mean, Nicky Haley gonna take
Speaker 1: it all the way to the distance, get humiliated in
Speaker 1: her home state, and then drop out.
Speaker 3: Well, we'll have to see. We certainly know what's going
Speaker 3: to happen in South Carolina. I know the media doesn't.
Speaker 3: It's so funny to watch the New York Times and
Speaker 3: CNN and the fake news just continue to talk about
Speaker 3: this primary as if it's even a race.
Speaker 2: You had one of the networks had a town hall.
Speaker 3: With Nicki Haley just yesterday, and she's up there answering
Speaker 3: questions and I'm thinking to myself, this is such a
Speaker 3: waste of time.
Speaker 2: She has not won a state yet.
Speaker 3: She lost by a historic proportion in Iowa, President Trump
Speaker 3: beater by more than thirty points. He won more votes
Speaker 3: than any presidential contender on either side of the island
Speaker 3: New Hampshire. She didn't walk away from Nevada with one
Speaker 3: delegate because she didn't even participate in the caucus.
Speaker 2: And now she is headed to her home state of South.
Speaker 3: Carolina, where she's due for another embarrassing defeat in her
Speaker 3: own backyard. We are one hundred percent confident that President
Speaker 3: Trump will walk away from South Carolina with a dominant victory,
Speaker 3: just as he has in the other previous early primary states.
Speaker 3: And if Nicki Hayley unwisely wants to move forward after
Speaker 3: that defeated her own backyard, it's not like the road
Speaker 3: ahead gets any better. I mean, you look at the
Speaker 3: pulling for all of the Tuesday states, every single one,
Speaker 3: President Trump winning by more than forty percentage points. And
Speaker 3: I've asked Nicki Haley surrogate campaigns, surrogate's myself when I've
Speaker 3: been with them on television, name a state that she
Speaker 3: can win. She can't answer the question. Her team can't
Speaker 3: answer the question. They have no pathway to victory, and
Speaker 3: it's really just an utter waste of time at this point.
Speaker 1: How much of it do you think really is at
Speaker 1: some level being funded by Democrats as if nothing else,
Speaker 1: just to speed bump to Trump's clear pathway to being
Speaker 1: the nominee, You know what I mean? How much of
Speaker 1: that do you think is really at play here versus
Speaker 1: Nikki Haley's got nothing else going on, so I might
Speaker 1: as well take it to the end.
Speaker 2: I think that's the entirety of her campaign.
Speaker 3: She really has become a full blown Democrat, and she
Speaker 3: is funded by Democrat donors. In fact, one of her
Speaker 3: big donors, Reid Hoffman, is a Democrat who is currently
Speaker 3: funding some of the witch hunt lawsuits that we've seen
Speaker 3: against President Trump. Reid Hoffman funded the Egen Carol lawsuit
Speaker 3: that was a shameful disgrace and a travesty of justice
Speaker 3: in the New York court ordering him to pay eighty
Speaker 3: three million dollars. Unbelievable two tier system of justice that
Speaker 3: we have one of the same people that is fun funding,
Speaker 3: that is funding Nikki Haley's campaign. So when you have
Speaker 3: donors like that in your ear propping you up and
Speaker 3: writing you checks. I suppose you look in the mirror
Speaker 3: and think you might have a chance at this thing,
Speaker 3: but it is just not based in reality. She is
Speaker 3: running for the Republican nomination, yet she's targeting Democrat donors.
Speaker 2: She did in voters too. She did it in New Hampshire.
Speaker 3: She was calling on Democrats to infiltrate the Republican primary,
Speaker 3: switch their party affiliation to vote, and now she's calling
Speaker 3: on them in South Carolina, which isn't open primary, to
Speaker 3: vote as well. So we're calling on Republicans to elect
Speaker 3: their Republican nominee and get out and vote for President Trump,
Speaker 3: as they have in Iowa, in New Hampshire, in Nevada,
Speaker 3: do it again in South Carolina.
Speaker 2: Actually, early voting is underway now, So if any of your.
Speaker 3: Listeners are in South Carolina, go cast your ballot for
Speaker 3: the only Republican in this race, and that is President Trump.
Speaker 1: What is Trump's plan with the We just had the
Speaker 1: settlement last week with what three hundred something million dollars
Speaker 1: for or the business practices that the banks and Trump
Speaker 1: and everybody was fine with, and everyone made money and
Speaker 1: there was no problem until as we know the problem
Speaker 1: is just Trump for these people that they just hate
Speaker 1: him and they want to stop him from being president again.
Speaker 1: So does he have to put up the three hundred
Speaker 1: million to appeal it? What's the I mean, really there's
Speaker 1: a blend now right between the legal and what the
Speaker 1: campaign is doing, because the campaign is going to have
Speaker 1: to look at the legal schedule. What's the plan with
Speaker 1: this or does he know what the next steps are
Speaker 1: that he's going to take.
Speaker 3: The legal team is definitely still reviewing next steps, although
Speaker 3: they have said that they absolutely will be appealing this
Speaker 3: decision by Judge and Goren. I mean, you just look
Speaker 3: back at the beginning of this case. It was brought
Speaker 3: forth by Letitia James, who's the Attorney General of the
Speaker 3: State of New York, who campaigned for that public position
Speaker 3: not on getting the violent criminals that are running free
Speaker 3: across New York State right now, especially in New York City,
Speaker 3: but getting Donald Trump, and she fulfilled her campaign promise
Speaker 3: with this case, and she was granted a judge who
Speaker 3: despises President Trump just as much as she does. Judge
Speaker 3: Arthur and Goron is a disgraceful individual who was laughing
Speaker 3: and smiling for the cameras in the courtroom like it
Speaker 3: was the best day of his life. He is not
Speaker 3: someone who actually looks at the law. If he were,
Speaker 3: this case would have been laughed out of his courtroom.
Speaker 3: But unfortunately it moved forward and Letitia James and the
Speaker 3: judge in this case made their decision on it long
Speaker 3: before the trial even began.
Speaker 2: They denied President Trump the ability to.
Speaker 3: Bring witnesses to the stand, and they had ludicrous witness
Speaker 3: testimony and ruling in this case, like the fact that
Speaker 3: mar A Lago is worth.
Speaker 2: Only eighteen million dollars.
Speaker 3: I mean, that is laughable, especially to anyone who's been
Speaker 3: to mar A Lago and can see that it is
Speaker 3: a beautiful estate. And there's property down the road by
Speaker 3: the way that has nothing built on it. It's literally
Speaker 3: just an acre of trees that's worth more than eighteen million.
Speaker 3: So the whole thing is affable and ridiculous. So this
Speaker 3: case in itself will be moving forward towards an appeal.
Speaker 3: And as for the campaign, you know, President Trump is
Speaker 3: so tenacious, he's determined to be on the campaign trail
Speaker 3: as much as possible. The Democrats want to keep him
Speaker 3: in a court room. He will be in court now
Speaker 3: we know in March due to the Alvin braggcase, which
Speaker 3: is another miscarriage of justice in the formerly great state,
Speaker 3: now disgraceful state of New York. But he'll remain determined
Speaker 3: to stay on the campaign trail. He'll still be holding
Speaker 3: rallies as he has been since the beginning, and visiting
Speaker 3: all of the key battleground states that we must win
Speaker 3: in November, all of which, by the way, he is
Speaker 3: leading Joe Biden in the polls.
Speaker 2: As of today.
Speaker 1: Let's pivot to what you expect from your opponents here
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Speaker 1: miss Caroline, what's gonna happ I've been here with the
Speaker 1: Biden Well, first of all, are you some are you on?
Speaker 3: Ah?
Speaker 1: God, I can't remember if I asked you this already
Speaker 1: in the previous months. You think you're going to be
Speaker 1: facing off against a Biden Harris ticket? Right, I mean
Speaker 1: you're You're as close as the Trump campaign as and
Speaker 1: it can be. You're not preparing for some third part
Speaker 1: or third person third option thing.
Speaker 2: Right, We will be prepared for anything.
Speaker 3: Let's just say that, however, I think we do expect
Speaker 3: that they will have Joe Biden at the top of
Speaker 3: this ticket, even if that means they're rolling him in
Speaker 3: to a wheel in a wheelchair on November the fifth,
Speaker 3: if that means they have to run a basement strategy,
Speaker 3: which they we they already did. They already did that
Speaker 3: in twenty twenty using the excuse of COVID. So I
Speaker 3: think the Biden White House is determined to keep this
Speaker 3: man in power, and they're going to do everything they
Speaker 3: possibly can to ensure that. So we're expecting him to
Speaker 3: be the nominee, but we're prepared for anyone that the
Speaker 3: Democrats put up and look buck at the end of
Speaker 3: the day, really does not matter, because it's the Democrat
Speaker 3: Party that has supported Joe Biden's administration in his policy
Speaker 3: since day one of him taking the oval office. It's
Speaker 3: the Democrat Party that has moved so far to the
Speaker 3: left in this country that most Americans cannot identify with
Speaker 3: it anymore.
Speaker 2: It's the Democrat Party that wants to shut down our
Speaker 2: domestic energy industry.
Speaker 3: It's the Democrat Party that wants to abandon our nation
Speaker 3: ally friend in Israel and send millions of dollars in
Speaker 3: aid to the Gaza and to the Iranian regime, which
Speaker 3: has led to these brutal attacks in the Middle East.
Speaker 2: It's the Democrat.
Speaker 3: Party that supports these wide open border.
Speaker 2: Policies that we've have.
Speaker 3: I mean, we've had very few Democrats across the country
Speaker 3: speaking out against Joe Biden's open border policy, which has
Speaker 3: led to a mass invasion of illegal immigrants all across
Speaker 3: this country. And so it's the Democrat Party that has
Speaker 3: led to the destruction in chaos over that we've experienced
Speaker 3: over the past four years. Joe Biden is just a
Speaker 3: useful puppet for them at this time. So no matter
Speaker 3: will we run against our winning message of peace and prosperity,
Speaker 3: security and strength I think is a winning one.
Speaker 1: Do you have already a sense of the timeline for
Speaker 1: President Trump's vice presidential pick. I'm gonna have to ask,
Speaker 1: of course, who you think it might be or who's
Speaker 1: in contention. You can defer on that one, as I'm
Speaker 1: sure you probably will have to, but can we at
Speaker 1: least know when? Will we know?
Speaker 3: Well, we have to focus on wrapping up this primary
Speaker 3: and securing the delegates necessary to have President Trump be
Speaker 3: the official nominee of the Republican Party, which we expect
Speaker 3: will happen about mid March if all goes well, which
Speaker 3: we are one hundred percent confident that it will, and
Speaker 3: then it's the president's decision to make. So whenever he
Speaker 3: decides to do that is when it will happen. And
Speaker 3: that's all on him.
Speaker 1: Okay, So he hasn't there's not on the calendar, you know,
Speaker 1: May tenth or June fifth, or we don't know yet, right,
Speaker 1: He's just going to do it when he does it.
Speaker 1: Do we know? Do we know who some of the
Speaker 1: top people are that he's considering.
Speaker 3: I can tell you that he is still thinking about it.
Speaker 3: There's a lot of people within the Republican Party that
Speaker 3: are great. I think we have a really deep bench,
Speaker 3: and the president's asking around and taking advice from those
Speaker 3: that he trusts.
Speaker 2: Ultimately, it's his decision to make. I'm sure it will
Speaker 2: be a good one.
Speaker 3: Something he has said publicly publicly, which I can share
Speaker 3: with your audience if they haven't heard it, is that
Speaker 3: the president is number one trait in that person is
Speaker 3: someone who can be a great president and leader for
Speaker 3: this country after his term is done. And so I
Speaker 3: think we have a lot of good options in this
Speaker 3: Republican party. Again, it's up to him to make that call.
Speaker 1: Now. Look, you know, I'm very fond of President Trump,
Speaker 1: think he did a great job in office. But I
Speaker 1: do love my job in radio, so I don't think
Speaker 1: that I'll be able to take the VP slot if offered.
Speaker 1: You could just pass that along.
Speaker 2: The table book, so your name could be on the list.
Speaker 2: Anyone's on the table.
Speaker 1: I don't want to disappoint the guy. I feel very
Speaker 1: badly if I disappoint him, But I think I got
Speaker 1: to stay in my current place in radio and help
Speaker 1: from the outside as I as I like to do.
Speaker 1: And then if I could, Caroline, we come back in
Speaker 1: just a second here, I want you to tell everybody
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Speaker 1: so what is it like? Would you be the youngest
Speaker 1: press secretary in history? Trump wins, you become press secretary?
Speaker 1: Would you be the youngest? We love Kaylee mcanenney, she
Speaker 1: was young, but I think you would be the youngest.
Speaker 2: Buck. I honestly have absolutely no idea. You're gonna have
Speaker 2: to google that one for me.
Speaker 3: Since you are a reporter, a radio host, a journalist.
Speaker 2: I have no idea.
Speaker 3: I haven't even thought about that, but possibly, I think
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Speaker 2: You can go look it up.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean you would certainly. I think you would be,
Speaker 1: and that would be a lot of fun. But we'll
Speaker 1: talk to you more when you're actually in the White
Speaker 1: House after Trump wins about all that stuff. In the meantime,
Speaker 1: what's it like on the campaign?
Speaker 2: Like?
Speaker 1: What give us a sense of I mean, you're going
Speaker 1: into the campaign, going into a campaign headquarters slash war
Speaker 1: rom each day, looking at what's coming up. I mean,
Speaker 1: how is it?
Speaker 2: You know?
Speaker 1: I mean, you ran for Congress in New Hampshire, so
Speaker 1: you've run a campaign yourself before. What's it like now
Speaker 1: being Press secretary for the Trump campaign.
Speaker 3: First of all, it's a great honor to be part
Speaker 3: of this campaign, especially at such a historic time in
Speaker 3: our moment's history, where you look at the current president
Speaker 3: that we have in office and never have we needed
Speaker 3: a change in leader more than we do right now.
Speaker 3: And I think the majority of Americans agree with that.
Speaker 3: So it's great to be involved at this level. And
Speaker 3: it's NonStop, it's crazy every day, there's something new every
Speaker 3: day and Joe Biden's America that we.
Speaker 2: Are capitalizing on that.
Speaker 3: We are shining President Trump's message to the American people
Speaker 3: and highlighting his policy plans to make this country great again.
Speaker 3: I do work here at the headquarters in West Palm Beach.
Speaker 3: We have a fantastic, dedicated team. So many people are
Speaker 3: part of this team that you don't see on television
Speaker 3: or doing interviews, but they work behind the scenes so hard,
Speaker 3: literally twenty four hours a day to make sure that
Speaker 3: this ship can continue to sail. And it's a great
Speaker 3: team to be a part of. And of course we
Speaker 3: have a great boss in President Trump, who is just
Speaker 3: tenacious and works so hard. Even as young's younger folks
Speaker 3: here working on the team, it's hard to keep up
Speaker 3: with him. That's just how hard he works. And it's
Speaker 3: only going to get a lot crazier as we continue
Speaker 3: to move forward into this general election, which morale is
Speaker 3: very high in this building and we're very confident we
Speaker 3: will win November the fifth.
Speaker 1: Are how are preparations going for the general election when
Speaker 1: it comes to having any legal challenges that may come
Speaker 1: up in place before or even after the election. I mean,
Speaker 1: one of the big issues of twenty twenty was obviously
Speaker 1: people might call it shenanigans that happened in different states.
Speaker 1: I get calls all the time, this is why I'm
Speaker 1: asking this. I got calls from the radio audience, you know,
Speaker 1: on the show, and they just say, what has been
Speaker 1: done so that we can feel more confident this time
Speaker 1: around in the election process itself. What is the campaign
Speaker 1: doing well?
Speaker 3: First of all, there has been some great progress in
Speaker 3: Republican led states across this country, particularly Georgia, which we
Speaker 3: know there was a lot of fraud that took place
Speaker 3: in that state in twenty twenty. They have tightened up
Speaker 3: their election laws to make sure that there's election integrity efforts.
Speaker 3: We also now understand what happened in twenty twenty more fully,
Speaker 3: so we can better prepare for it. That means deploying
Speaker 3: poll watchers to the polls, especially in those key battleground states,
Speaker 3: in those key counties where we saw mass election integrity
Speaker 3: issues in the twenty twenty election. We also have lawyers
Speaker 3: that are working around the clock to hear the claims
Speaker 3: in the cases of Americans across this country who are
Speaker 3: complaining about their electoral processes in their specific counties and towns,
Speaker 3: precincts across the board. And then, of course, we're also
Speaker 3: just making sure that we're getting the message out there
Speaker 3: to the American voter that while you may not like
Speaker 3: the laws in your state, we have to play by
Speaker 3: those rules of that game until we have a chance
Speaker 3: to change them with Republican leadership. And so, while the
Speaker 3: ideal situation in President Trump says it all the time
Speaker 3: is one day of voting, paper ballots, no machines, and
Speaker 3: voter id the reality is in this election that won't
Speaker 3: be the case in many states, and so we have
Speaker 3: to understand the laws in each and every state so
Speaker 3: large part of what our campaign is doing is educating
Speaker 3: voters in every individual state across the country so that
Speaker 3: they understand their voting laws. For instance, in South Carolina,
Speaker 3: right now, this primary is underway a while it won't
Speaker 3: take place, we won't know the results till Saturday night.
Speaker 3: Voting is underway this week, and so if you have
Speaker 3: time to go vote this week rather than waiting until Saturday,
Speaker 3: get out and do it, because you don't know what
Speaker 3: life could bring you on Saturday. There could be a
Speaker 3: major storm, or you can have a family emergency where
Speaker 3: you're unable to cast your ballot. And so if the
Speaker 3: rules of your state allow you to vote early, we
Speaker 3: are encouraging people to get.
Speaker 2: Out and do that.
Speaker 3: And that's something that you didn't really hear coming from
Speaker 3: Republicans in twenty twenty and that's shift in messaging that
Speaker 3: we're certainly pushing.
Speaker 1: What's the main Trump campaign website.
Speaker 2: These days, Donald J. Trump dot com.
Speaker 1: There we go, nice and easy. I don't know if
Speaker 1: it was like Trump twenty twenty four, Donald J. Trump
Speaker 1: dot com. Everybody, If you want to go see more
Speaker 1: of what the campaign is doing, follow Caroline Levitt on
Speaker 1: all the social media platforms that are out there, see
Speaker 1: what she's up to, she what she's doing, and uh
Speaker 1: great to see you, Caroline, Thanks for being here.
Speaker 2: Thank you back