1 00:00:03,320 --> 00:00:05,440 Speaker 1: Welcome back to a Numbers Game podcast with Ryan Gurduski. 2 00:00:05,519 --> 00:00:07,560 Speaker 1: Thank you guys for being here again. A happy Friday. 3 00:00:07,600 --> 00:00:09,840 Speaker 1: We've made it through another week and we have a 4 00:00:09,880 --> 00:00:11,840 Speaker 1: lot to catch up on. There's a lot of things 5 00:00:11,880 --> 00:00:14,400 Speaker 1: going on in the news that just kind of come 6 00:00:14,400 --> 00:00:16,640 Speaker 1: at you so quickly that you really don't not being 7 00:00:17,160 --> 00:00:18,880 Speaker 1: not a daily show, so I don't have every day 8 00:00:18,880 --> 00:00:20,360 Speaker 1: to talk about, but these are the things I think 9 00:00:20,360 --> 00:00:23,600 Speaker 1: are worth picking up on, especially when it comes to 10 00:00:23,680 --> 00:00:26,279 Speaker 1: what's going on with elections and a lot of the 11 00:00:26,360 --> 00:00:29,480 Speaker 1: earlier numbers coming out of Virginia for their redistricting effort. 12 00:00:29,520 --> 00:00:31,920 Speaker 1: So let's get into it first. Some good news for 13 00:00:32,040 --> 00:00:37,400 Speaker 1: Republicans GOP Jean Lacroix flipped a Democrat seat in Prince 14 00:00:37,479 --> 00:00:40,920 Speaker 1: William County Board of a Supervisor. So this is local, 15 00:00:40,960 --> 00:00:45,480 Speaker 1: This is like county legislative type thing, but it's important 16 00:00:45,800 --> 00:00:49,120 Speaker 1: because Prince William County is the second most populated county 17 00:00:49,200 --> 00:00:52,040 Speaker 1: in the state of Virginia. Democrats now have a five 18 00:00:52,120 --> 00:00:54,440 Speaker 1: to three majority. They're one seat away from tying it 19 00:00:54,520 --> 00:00:56,720 Speaker 1: up and two seats away from flipping the majority. Be 20 00:00:56,760 --> 00:00:59,720 Speaker 1: a big deal. So the first time in thirty eight 21 00:00:59,800 --> 00:01:03,400 Speaker 1: years that this seat has flipped from Democrat to Republican. 22 00:01:03,960 --> 00:01:08,960 Speaker 1: So what happened? Democrats nominated guy named Mohammed Surf Cassin 23 00:01:09,360 --> 00:01:12,000 Speaker 1: and he won his primary by a mere thirty three votes, 24 00:01:12,080 --> 00:01:15,720 Speaker 1: running to the far left of the Democratic Party. Well, 25 00:01:15,720 --> 00:01:18,679 Speaker 1: it turns out mister Cassim was a big fan of 26 00:01:18,720 --> 00:01:21,760 Speaker 1: writing things on social media. He is good. This is 27 00:01:22,080 --> 00:01:25,000 Speaker 1: the story that is going to come out more and 28 00:01:25,120 --> 00:01:28,040 Speaker 1: more and more as more millennials are running for office 29 00:01:28,040 --> 00:01:30,600 Speaker 1: and we're the generation that were like the more or 30 00:01:30,680 --> 00:01:34,000 Speaker 1: less the guinea pigs of social media, really likened to 31 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:36,800 Speaker 1: put whatever they wanted to out there. Well, from twenty 32 00:01:36,840 --> 00:01:41,880 Speaker 1: twelve to twenty fifteen, mister Cassin, who is Muslim, liked 33 00:01:41,959 --> 00:01:45,440 Speaker 1: to put the N word on social media a lot, 34 00:01:45,920 --> 00:01:48,760 Speaker 1: like a lot, a lot, big fan of the Edward 35 00:01:49,080 --> 00:01:50,960 Speaker 1: with the soft A not the hard R. Not that 36 00:01:50,960 --> 00:01:53,920 Speaker 1: that makes a difference, but nonetheless he would joke about 37 00:01:53,960 --> 00:01:56,240 Speaker 1: things like this is one of the more wholesome jokes 38 00:01:56,240 --> 00:01:58,840 Speaker 1: I could tell. He said, you can't call a tigger 39 00:02:00,120 --> 00:02:03,080 Speaker 1: or you can't call a tiger a tiga, only they 40 00:02:03,120 --> 00:02:06,400 Speaker 1: can call themselves tig up, which is like more harmless, 41 00:02:06,440 --> 00:02:10,919 Speaker 1: I guess than I mean the other ones were explicit Edward. Also, 42 00:02:11,080 --> 00:02:14,600 Speaker 1: you can imagine a man with a name Mohammed surf 43 00:02:14,639 --> 00:02:18,760 Speaker 1: Cassim probably not a big fan of Jews or feminism. 44 00:02:19,639 --> 00:02:23,320 Speaker 1: His laundry list of comments even caused Democrats demand that 45 00:02:23,360 --> 00:02:26,880 Speaker 1: he stepped down, and when he refused, the candidate decided. 46 00:02:27,200 --> 00:02:29,400 Speaker 1: Of the candidate who had lost the primary, decided to 47 00:02:29,480 --> 00:02:33,120 Speaker 1: run a write in campaign, believing he could win just 48 00:02:33,160 --> 00:02:36,320 Speaker 1: doing a writing campaign and flip the district as a 49 00:02:36,360 --> 00:02:40,000 Speaker 1: Democrat but independent Democrat. Well, he was wrong. In the end, 50 00:02:40,000 --> 00:02:42,840 Speaker 1: Miss Lacroix, the Republican won by seven points, winning forty 51 00:02:42,840 --> 00:02:45,640 Speaker 1: four percent of the vote in a basically three way race. 52 00:02:46,080 --> 00:02:49,440 Speaker 1: This is especially important given what I said to you 53 00:02:50,120 --> 00:02:54,240 Speaker 1: last episode about main Democrat Graham Platner. Lots of things 54 00:02:54,280 --> 00:02:57,040 Speaker 1: he's written on social media, same things with James Tallerrico. 55 00:02:57,040 --> 00:02:58,919 Speaker 1: I mentioned that like last week about the Texas guy, 56 00:02:59,360 --> 00:03:01,320 Speaker 1: Lots of things on social media, lots of things that 57 00:03:01,360 --> 00:03:04,560 Speaker 1: Republicans are not spending a lot of money on, talking 58 00:03:04,560 --> 00:03:07,760 Speaker 1: about his social media history. If you're going to run 59 00:03:07,800 --> 00:03:12,359 Speaker 1: for office years beforehand, you should probably start scrubbing your 60 00:03:12,440 --> 00:03:15,480 Speaker 1: social media it works in your favor. The best case 61 00:03:15,520 --> 00:03:21,600 Speaker 1: of this is Congressman Abe Hamaday from Arizona. He's a Republican, 62 00:03:22,240 --> 00:03:25,480 Speaker 1: wrote on social media a lot. Loved to call when 63 00:03:25,520 --> 00:03:27,320 Speaker 1: he was a younger guy in his early twenties and 64 00:03:27,400 --> 00:03:30,520 Speaker 1: his mid twenties, loved to call Republicans racists. Love to 65 00:03:30,560 --> 00:03:35,360 Speaker 1: call Republicans who support immigration restrictionist racist, YadA, YadA, YadA, YadA. 66 00:03:35,440 --> 00:03:39,400 Speaker 1: And then, for whatever reason, twenty sixteen to twenty eighteen, 67 00:03:40,120 --> 00:03:44,360 Speaker 1: his entire social media scrubbed. Can't imagine why. What his 68 00:03:44,400 --> 00:03:47,440 Speaker 1: original opinions of Donald Trump were. My guess is it's 69 00:03:47,480 --> 00:03:50,680 Speaker 1: not what he says now. Nonetheless, there's no proof because 70 00:03:51,200 --> 00:03:53,560 Speaker 1: he deleted. He was smart. He was smart to delete 71 00:03:53,640 --> 00:03:56,960 Speaker 1: his social media in those years where he was probably 72 00:03:57,440 --> 00:04:04,080 Speaker 1: more than more than the average Republican was hesitant towards 73 00:04:04,080 --> 00:04:05,680 Speaker 1: Trump at the time. He was probably calling Trump or 74 00:04:05,760 --> 00:04:08,960 Speaker 1: racist every five seconds. We don't know because he with 75 00:04:08,960 --> 00:04:10,680 Speaker 1: social media. But nonethless, if you're going to run for 76 00:04:10,720 --> 00:04:12,480 Speaker 1: office and you'd like to be spiced on social media 77 00:04:12,760 --> 00:04:17,280 Speaker 1: years beforehand, deleted. All okay, Now, they're good news for Democrats. 78 00:04:17,320 --> 00:04:20,720 Speaker 1: Democrats overperformed in a number of special elections, especially in 79 00:04:20,760 --> 00:04:23,799 Speaker 1: state legislatures. They flipped the seat in New Hampshire State 80 00:04:23,839 --> 00:04:27,240 Speaker 1: House or representatives. New Hampshire State House is four hundred seats, 81 00:04:27,240 --> 00:04:29,599 Speaker 1: so it wasn't like it's a big seat. It's basically 82 00:04:29,640 --> 00:04:33,120 Speaker 1: like a block or two. It's a small, tiny district. 83 00:04:33,400 --> 00:04:36,400 Speaker 1: Voters swung seventeen points to the left in this New 84 00:04:36,400 --> 00:04:38,880 Speaker 1: Hampshire district in the area of Carol. It was a 85 00:04:38,920 --> 00:04:43,400 Speaker 1: district that Trump won by nine points. In George's fourteen 86 00:04:43,480 --> 00:04:46,920 Speaker 1: congressional district, a Republican and Democrat are headed to a runoff. 87 00:04:47,200 --> 00:04:50,599 Speaker 1: This is the old Marjorie Taylor Green Congressional district. The 88 00:04:50,680 --> 00:04:54,200 Speaker 1: Democrats are so far outperforming where they were in twenty 89 00:04:54,240 --> 00:04:57,560 Speaker 1: twenty four by seventeen points. It's such a Republican seat 90 00:04:57,600 --> 00:04:59,800 Speaker 1: that it doesn't matter like the Republican's going to win, 91 00:05:00,240 --> 00:05:04,880 Speaker 1: but they are. Democrats are overperforming again. In the Georgia 92 00:05:04,880 --> 00:05:07,040 Speaker 1: State Senate district that Trump from by fifty eight points 93 00:05:07,040 --> 00:05:11,279 Speaker 1: that had a special election, Democrats overperformed Kamwa Howards's results 94 00:05:11,320 --> 00:05:14,440 Speaker 1: by twelve points. And then in another a special election 95 00:05:14,480 --> 00:05:16,640 Speaker 1: in Georgia and the State House, which is a super 96 00:05:16,640 --> 00:05:20,440 Speaker 1: democratic area, Democrats still overperformed by eight points. So this 97 00:05:20,560 --> 00:05:23,320 Speaker 1: is not great when you look at the total of 98 00:05:23,400 --> 00:05:26,839 Speaker 1: the thirty special elections that occurred in twenty twenty six 99 00:05:27,120 --> 00:05:29,000 Speaker 1: just this year. So far, in the first three months 100 00:05:29,040 --> 00:05:33,280 Speaker 1: of this year, Democrats on average have outperformed where they 101 00:05:33,320 --> 00:05:37,480 Speaker 1: were in those districts in twenty twenty four by twelve points, 102 00:05:37,600 --> 00:05:41,200 Speaker 1: very similar to the twelve point two points Democrats outperformed 103 00:05:41,240 --> 00:05:44,160 Speaker 1: their twenty twenty four numbers in twenty twenty five, and 104 00:05:44,200 --> 00:05:47,120 Speaker 1: that year was a landslide victory. November that year was 105 00:05:47,160 --> 00:05:51,159 Speaker 1: a shellacking for Republicans. Now, as I said in the past, 106 00:05:51,200 --> 00:05:54,800 Speaker 1: Republicans have been doing better in special elections this year 107 00:05:54,839 --> 00:05:57,480 Speaker 1: than they were of the year before. That all started 108 00:05:57,480 --> 00:05:59,760 Speaker 1: to change at the end of February. At the end 109 00:05:59,760 --> 00:06:03,320 Speaker 1: of for whatever reason, Republicans had six or seven special 110 00:06:03,360 --> 00:06:06,840 Speaker 1: elections where they were just getting obliterated and their average, 111 00:06:06,839 --> 00:06:10,200 Speaker 1: which was getting much better, just fell apart. It just 112 00:06:10,279 --> 00:06:13,480 Speaker 1: completely fell apart. I don't understand why the last six 113 00:06:13,600 --> 00:06:16,840 Speaker 1: or seven special elections have gone so heavily to Democrats 114 00:06:16,880 --> 00:06:19,880 Speaker 1: when the previous special elections just a few weeks before, 115 00:06:19,920 --> 00:06:22,039 Speaker 1: we're going more for its Republicans. It could be a 116 00:06:22,080 --> 00:06:24,240 Speaker 1: candidate thing, it could just be the new cycle, it 117 00:06:24,240 --> 00:06:26,640 Speaker 1: could be the around war. I don't really know, but 118 00:06:27,040 --> 00:06:30,440 Speaker 1: that has changed the averages to really match twenty twenty five, 119 00:06:31,320 --> 00:06:33,839 Speaker 1: and it could be a precursor towards the November election. 120 00:06:33,960 --> 00:06:38,120 Speaker 1: If Republicans don't start getting energized, it shows this. These 121 00:06:38,120 --> 00:06:42,000 Speaker 1: special elections are important because they show that Democrats really 122 00:06:42,200 --> 00:06:46,760 Speaker 1: have tremendous energy. They are angry, they are passionate. They're 123 00:06:46,800 --> 00:06:49,200 Speaker 1: talking about things like democracy that I know, like average 124 00:06:49,240 --> 00:06:51,000 Speaker 1: voters are not talking about, but they're worried about it. 125 00:06:51,000 --> 00:06:53,599 Speaker 1: They're still going to No King's rally. They are ready 126 00:06:53,800 --> 00:06:59,120 Speaker 1: for November. I don't know if Republicans realize how energized 127 00:06:59,120 --> 00:07:00,760 Speaker 1: they are, Like it's going to be very close to 128 00:07:01,320 --> 00:07:04,000 Speaker 1: may not be presidential election numbers, but it's going to 129 00:07:04,000 --> 00:07:07,560 Speaker 1: be very very high. And the only exception, the only 130 00:07:07,600 --> 00:07:09,640 Speaker 1: case where this is not true is when you have 131 00:07:09,680 --> 00:07:11,880 Speaker 1: a Democrat who likes to say the N word and 132 00:07:12,000 --> 00:07:14,720 Speaker 1: rail against Jews and women on social media. Then that case, 133 00:07:14,760 --> 00:07:18,800 Speaker 1: Republicans are still doing pretty good. But that's not every case, 134 00:07:18,840 --> 00:07:21,800 Speaker 1: that's only a few. Now, while we're on this subject 135 00:07:21,840 --> 00:07:24,760 Speaker 1: of elections, let's talk about Virginia, which is having the 136 00:07:24,920 --> 00:07:28,880 Speaker 1: early vote for their redistricting. They're having a constitutional Amendment. Remember, 137 00:07:28,920 --> 00:07:32,840 Speaker 1: the court said we are going to review if this 138 00:07:33,040 --> 00:07:35,920 Speaker 1: change in districts is legal after the people vote on it, 139 00:07:35,960 --> 00:07:39,320 Speaker 1: which I don't understand. I think that's the stupidest thing 140 00:07:39,320 --> 00:07:42,360 Speaker 1: in the world. But they're going to look at this 141 00:07:43,240 --> 00:07:45,440 Speaker 1: this after the vote. So there's an early vote coming 142 00:07:45,480 --> 00:07:48,200 Speaker 1: up right now for a change in the Virginia constitution 143 00:07:48,680 --> 00:07:52,720 Speaker 1: which will turn Virginia. Virginia is currently remember this is 144 00:07:52,720 --> 00:07:55,040 Speaker 1: the state that went for Kamala Harris by six points. 145 00:07:55,400 --> 00:07:59,000 Speaker 1: Currently has five safe or likely Democratic House seats for 146 00:07:59,400 --> 00:08:02,520 Speaker 1: safe or life Republican seats, and two swing seats, one 147 00:08:02,920 --> 00:08:05,360 Speaker 1: which has a Republican in it, one which has a 148 00:08:05,400 --> 00:08:08,440 Speaker 1: Democrat in it. It would change that very balanced map 149 00:08:08,720 --> 00:08:12,600 Speaker 1: to being ten Democrat seats, hard Democrats seats, one Republican. 150 00:08:13,680 --> 00:08:17,000 Speaker 1: It's pretty fair to say that this is one of 151 00:08:17,040 --> 00:08:21,720 Speaker 1: the most egregious examples of jerry mandering in the entire country. 152 00:08:21,720 --> 00:08:24,640 Speaker 1: It's up there with Illinois, It's up there with California, 153 00:08:25,840 --> 00:08:28,280 Speaker 1: It's up there with I mean, Tennessee. Maybe you could 154 00:08:28,360 --> 00:08:32,560 Speaker 1: argue there's very other few cases where there's this heavy 155 00:08:32,679 --> 00:08:36,440 Speaker 1: level of jerry mandering and they are aggressively going after 156 00:08:36,840 --> 00:08:40,640 Speaker 1: taking out four Republicans in the House Representatives. Well, the 157 00:08:40,679 --> 00:08:43,680 Speaker 1: early vote is in so far, and I have some numbers, 158 00:08:43,720 --> 00:08:47,760 Speaker 1: reports and numb Remember, Virginia does not have party registration, 159 00:08:48,200 --> 00:08:50,000 Speaker 1: so it's not like I can say this many Republicans 160 00:08:50,080 --> 00:08:51,640 Speaker 1: or this many Democrats. I don't know why they're on 161 00:08:51,679 --> 00:08:54,440 Speaker 1: party registration. I think states that don't have party registration 162 00:08:54,480 --> 00:08:58,400 Speaker 1: are crazy and chaotic. I like party registration, but they 163 00:08:58,400 --> 00:09:01,679 Speaker 1: don't have it. So we'll wo is based off of 164 00:09:01,760 --> 00:09:05,800 Speaker 1: the counties and how they performed in the governor's election. 165 00:09:06,080 --> 00:09:09,720 Speaker 1: Off of the twenty twenty five election. So far, nine 166 00:09:09,840 --> 00:09:13,720 Speaker 1: of the ten counties most overperforming in the early vote 167 00:09:13,760 --> 00:09:18,280 Speaker 1: so far voted Republican. Seven of the top ten bottom 168 00:09:18,320 --> 00:09:21,280 Speaker 1: counties that are underperforming their early vote from twenty twenty 169 00:09:21,280 --> 00:09:24,839 Speaker 1: five are Democratic counties. According to Chas nty Comb of 170 00:09:24,960 --> 00:09:29,080 Speaker 1: State Navigator, he says, one thing is absolutely clear right 171 00:09:29,120 --> 00:09:32,199 Speaker 1: now in the early in person vote so far, Republicans 172 00:09:32,200 --> 00:09:36,240 Speaker 1: are ahead. A lot of Western Republican dominated localities have 173 00:09:36,400 --> 00:09:38,760 Speaker 1: more votes so far than they did the same day 174 00:09:38,800 --> 00:09:42,640 Speaker 1: equivalent in twenty twenty five. There aren't any Spamberger one 175 00:09:42,679 --> 00:09:49,880 Speaker 1: localities running ahead. Now. Remember Virginia is still a Democratic state. 176 00:09:50,360 --> 00:09:52,880 Speaker 1: So their Republicans are running ahead of where they were 177 00:09:52,920 --> 00:09:56,079 Speaker 1: running in twenty twenty five, that does not mean that 178 00:09:56,120 --> 00:09:59,839 Speaker 1: they were ahead. More money and more resources have to 179 00:09:59,840 --> 00:10:01,560 Speaker 1: be or because you also need to try to win 180 00:10:01,600 --> 00:10:04,600 Speaker 1: the independent vote in uist the Italian deependence. This is unfair. 181 00:10:04,960 --> 00:10:07,960 Speaker 1: This is allowing politicians to pick their to pick their voters, 182 00:10:08,320 --> 00:10:12,400 Speaker 1: rather than voters picking their politicians. Really lean in heavily 183 00:10:12,480 --> 00:10:17,560 Speaker 1: on that and try to get get them motivated Virginia voters, 184 00:10:17,640 --> 00:10:20,120 Speaker 1: I feel would be more fair to that kind of messaging. 185 00:10:20,200 --> 00:10:24,920 Speaker 1: Then let's say California, especially California had already happened, and 186 00:10:24,960 --> 00:10:27,960 Speaker 1: Texas has already happened. So they both took out five 187 00:10:28,440 --> 00:10:31,439 Speaker 1: Texas took up five Democrats, California took up five Republicans. 188 00:10:32,120 --> 00:10:34,920 Speaker 1: They both, you know, split the baby. There's no reason 189 00:10:35,120 --> 00:10:39,040 Speaker 1: to go in now on Virginia. It's not like Republicans 190 00:10:39,040 --> 00:10:43,520 Speaker 1: are getting this massive lead in the registricting efforts the 191 00:10:43,559 --> 00:10:45,320 Speaker 1: way the White House thought they would. The White House 192 00:10:45,480 --> 00:10:48,240 Speaker 1: made this big gamble and it's not really working out 193 00:10:48,280 --> 00:10:51,160 Speaker 1: I think, as they expected. But I want to emphasize 194 00:10:51,280 --> 00:10:54,280 Speaker 1: this is very early. This was a baseball game. We 195 00:10:54,320 --> 00:10:56,280 Speaker 1: are not even out of the first inning yet, this 196 00:10:56,320 --> 00:11:00,680 Speaker 1: is the first week of early voting. But Republicans so 197 00:11:00,840 --> 00:11:03,520 Speaker 1: far are showing up. They're showing up because they're angry. 198 00:11:03,559 --> 00:11:07,200 Speaker 1: And anger motivates people to go vote. It is why 199 00:11:07,320 --> 00:11:09,960 Speaker 1: Democrats are voting any special elections. It's why they're going 200 00:11:10,000 --> 00:11:13,960 Speaker 1: to vote in November. But this case of the Virginia 201 00:11:14,000 --> 00:11:18,000 Speaker 1: redistricting is motivating a lot of Republicans to show up. 202 00:11:19,000 --> 00:11:20,560 Speaker 1: And you know what I would say is if you're 203 00:11:20,640 --> 00:11:27,080 Speaker 1: a Republican politician or political advisor or consultant or activists 204 00:11:27,120 --> 00:11:30,520 Speaker 1: or whatnot, what I would do if you were in Virginia, 205 00:11:30,880 --> 00:11:33,439 Speaker 1: look at every person on the voter rolls with a 206 00:11:33,559 --> 00:11:39,440 Speaker 1: Persian last name, Persian, Farsi, whatever the case is, where 207 00:11:39,480 --> 00:11:42,320 Speaker 1: their family probably comes from Iran, and send them an 208 00:11:42,360 --> 00:11:44,600 Speaker 1: email or reach out to them or doorknock to them 209 00:11:44,920 --> 00:11:47,079 Speaker 1: and say did you vote? We need you to vote no. 210 00:11:47,200 --> 00:11:50,000 Speaker 1: If you vote yes, they're going to indie President Trump, 211 00:11:50,040 --> 00:11:52,320 Speaker 1: who just killed the dictator that forced your family to flight. 212 00:11:52,800 --> 00:11:54,560 Speaker 1: I would do that. For Venezuelans, I would do that. 213 00:11:54,679 --> 00:11:57,080 Speaker 1: I mean Venezuelan's is hard because it's not like a 214 00:11:56,800 --> 00:11:59,440 Speaker 1: as unique of a last name as as Persians. But 215 00:12:00,040 --> 00:12:03,280 Speaker 1: I would do it for every single group that has 216 00:12:03,559 --> 00:12:06,599 Speaker 1: huge levels of support for Donald Trump. I think that 217 00:12:06,640 --> 00:12:10,079 Speaker 1: would be really, really, really important. Mobilization in these elections 218 00:12:10,200 --> 00:12:13,880 Speaker 1: is key right now, and the Republican rules and the 219 00:12:13,920 --> 00:12:18,360 Speaker 1: Republican exerbs really need to show up in presidential full 220 00:12:18,360 --> 00:12:20,520 Speaker 1: force to make sure that this does not go through. Okay, 221 00:12:20,800 --> 00:12:23,400 Speaker 1: that is my update for the special election in redistricting 222 00:12:23,480 --> 00:12:27,400 Speaker 1: fight in Virginia. Once again, Democrats are probably heading the 223 00:12:27,400 --> 00:12:29,480 Speaker 1: early vote because it's the fundamentals of the states, but 224 00:12:29,679 --> 00:12:32,719 Speaker 1: Republicans are doing the job and need to continue doing it. 225 00:12:33,640 --> 00:12:36,600 Speaker 1: I'm going to have now a longer than usual Ask 226 00:12:36,679 --> 00:12:39,320 Speaker 1: Me Anything segment for this Friday episode that asks me 227 00:12:39,400 --> 00:12:45,160 Speaker 1: up next stay tuned now it's time for the ask 228 00:12:45,240 --> 00:12:46,840 Speaker 1: Me Anything segment. If you want to be part of 229 00:12:46,880 --> 00:12:49,360 Speaker 1: the Ask Me Anything segment, emi me Ryan at Numbers 230 00:12:49,440 --> 00:12:52,719 Speaker 1: Gamepodcast dot com. It's Ryan at Numbers Plural Numbers Gamepodcast 231 00:12:52,800 --> 00:12:55,679 Speaker 1: dot Com. I will take any questions you have. People 232 00:12:55,679 --> 00:12:58,480 Speaker 1: have asked me is so and so good looking in 233 00:12:58,520 --> 00:13:01,200 Speaker 1: real life? They'll ask me out folks, movies, whatever the 234 00:13:01,240 --> 00:13:03,400 Speaker 1: case is. Let's get to it. I mean, it has 235 00:13:03,400 --> 00:13:05,760 Speaker 1: to be some appropriate for the show. But if it's okay. 236 00:13:05,840 --> 00:13:08,520 Speaker 1: I'll still answer it. Okay. First question comes from Derek. 237 00:13:08,559 --> 00:13:10,440 Speaker 1: He says, Hey, Ryan, big fan of the show. I 238 00:13:10,480 --> 00:13:13,320 Speaker 1: recently saw you post a Congress and Crenshaw and the 239 00:13:13,360 --> 00:13:16,560 Speaker 1: insider trading after his primary loss. I used to believe that, 240 00:13:16,600 --> 00:13:19,480 Speaker 1: but I don't think that's accurate. Now maybe it doesn't matter. 241 00:13:20,040 --> 00:13:22,280 Speaker 1: But if you listen to the mic drop podcast he 242 00:13:22,320 --> 00:13:24,680 Speaker 1: did in February, he brings the receipts and the proof, 243 00:13:24,760 --> 00:13:27,199 Speaker 1: so you can ask for the show if you really 244 00:13:27,200 --> 00:13:29,920 Speaker 1: don't do that much of anything at all. I get 245 00:13:29,960 --> 00:13:32,320 Speaker 1: what you're saying. And he talks about how Crenshaw is 246 00:13:32,360 --> 00:13:36,520 Speaker 1: very talented. Yes, Crenshaw is very talented. Here's the thing. So, 247 00:13:36,880 --> 00:13:40,040 Speaker 1: and maybe I misrepresented what I was saying. It is 248 00:13:40,080 --> 00:13:42,920 Speaker 1: not that I was saying he does the most amount 249 00:13:42,920 --> 00:13:46,560 Speaker 1: of stock trading. He doesn't. That's not the case. He 250 00:13:46,720 --> 00:13:50,599 Speaker 1: defended it the loudest, which makes no sense. Why you 251 00:13:50,640 --> 00:13:52,600 Speaker 1: would defend it the loudest if you're not doing the 252 00:13:52,640 --> 00:13:54,760 Speaker 1: most of it, right, and I don't think he was 253 00:13:54,800 --> 00:13:59,319 Speaker 1: doing most of it. He just you know, even Nancy Pelosi, 254 00:13:59,400 --> 00:14:02,800 Speaker 1: Nancy Peloe see is all about banning stock trading for 255 00:14:03,120 --> 00:14:06,160 Speaker 1: I mean publicly he's banning stock trading for congressman, and 256 00:14:06,440 --> 00:14:09,640 Speaker 1: she does millions of dollars in stock trades like it's crazy. 257 00:14:10,280 --> 00:14:12,960 Speaker 1: But for some reason he allowed himself to be the 258 00:14:12,960 --> 00:14:16,959 Speaker 1: face of it. It made utterly no sense at all. 259 00:14:17,200 --> 00:14:19,720 Speaker 1: I want to make something else, very very clear. It 260 00:14:19,920 --> 00:14:23,480 Speaker 1: wasn't that he was moderate, because he wasn't moderate. I 261 00:14:23,560 --> 00:14:25,000 Speaker 1: know people like to say that he was a moderate, 262 00:14:25,000 --> 00:14:27,320 Speaker 1: but he had a Republican voting record, like you know, 263 00:14:27,320 --> 00:14:29,520 Speaker 1: a standard Republican. He butted with Trump almost one hundred 264 00:14:29,520 --> 00:14:34,000 Speaker 1: percent of the time. The problem with Dan Crenshaw was this, 265 00:14:34,840 --> 00:14:40,880 Speaker 1: he was extremely, extremely arrogant. I had friends. I have 266 00:14:40,880 --> 00:14:43,160 Speaker 1: a lot of friends in the Texas political circles. They 267 00:14:43,200 --> 00:14:45,960 Speaker 1: told me. He started pulling his ads from Texas from 268 00:14:45,960 --> 00:14:49,600 Speaker 1: the TVs in Texas TV ads three weeks before election day, 269 00:14:49,880 --> 00:14:52,120 Speaker 1: thinking he didn't need them, so why spend the money. 270 00:14:52,600 --> 00:14:57,080 Speaker 1: He insulted donors who went back to Ted Cruz. He 271 00:14:57,120 --> 00:15:02,040 Speaker 1: had Ted Cruz involved, he had I'm not making light 272 00:15:02,080 --> 00:15:05,200 Speaker 1: of this. He has basically no friends in Congerce. No 273 00:15:05,240 --> 00:15:08,520 Speaker 1: one really enjoyed being around him, and even the craziest 274 00:15:08,520 --> 00:15:13,160 Speaker 1: members have friends. Even George Santos had friends like you could. 275 00:15:14,200 --> 00:15:19,280 Speaker 1: He was just obsessively and obscenely arrogant and went out 276 00:15:19,280 --> 00:15:23,160 Speaker 1: of his way to make people not like him. And 277 00:15:23,200 --> 00:15:25,800 Speaker 1: he was very talented and he was a great communicator, 278 00:15:26,320 --> 00:15:28,320 Speaker 1: and it's a lost to Republicans. But it is a 279 00:15:28,440 --> 00:15:31,360 Speaker 1: character flaw on his part. So I'm not saying he 280 00:15:31,400 --> 00:15:34,120 Speaker 1: did the most insentire trading and stock trading. I'm not 281 00:15:34,160 --> 00:15:36,200 Speaker 1: saying that at all. And if I did say, if 282 00:15:36,400 --> 00:15:39,960 Speaker 1: I alluded to it, I'm sorry. But he chose to 283 00:15:40,000 --> 00:15:42,040 Speaker 1: make himself the face of it by defending it so 284 00:15:42,200 --> 00:15:46,840 Speaker 1: vocally once again, makes no sense, Completely arrogant, and that's 285 00:15:46,880 --> 00:15:50,600 Speaker 1: why he lost. Okay, next question comes from Michael. Michael wrote, 286 00:15:50,720 --> 00:15:54,240 Speaker 1: Noam has had to go. She turned Trump's strongest issue 287 00:15:54,240 --> 00:15:57,360 Speaker 1: immigration and not only made it a liability, but made 288 00:15:57,360 --> 00:16:00,360 Speaker 1: it a big positive issue for Democrats. Frankly, she wasn't 289 00:16:00,360 --> 00:16:05,240 Speaker 1: smart enough and experience them to run DHS. Here's the 290 00:16:05,320 --> 00:16:09,360 Speaker 1: rumor on the street. You want to hear it. Allegedly, 291 00:16:09,440 --> 00:16:13,760 Speaker 1: let me take a sip of water for this one. Allegedly, 292 00:16:16,520 --> 00:16:21,320 Speaker 1: after Trump's victory, he allegedly reached out to Corey Lewandowski 293 00:16:21,360 --> 00:16:24,600 Speaker 1: and allegedly said to Corey, I like to offer you 294 00:16:24,680 --> 00:16:27,920 Speaker 1: some kind of job for being so loyal, and Corey 295 00:16:28,920 --> 00:16:35,400 Speaker 1: really went to bat for Christy and Trump now Christie 296 00:16:35,480 --> 00:16:41,680 Speaker 1: on True Social and allegedly he has a tendency Trump 297 00:16:42,000 --> 00:16:44,920 Speaker 1: when he's worked up, when he's angry, when someone can 298 00:16:44,960 --> 00:16:47,760 Speaker 1: press his buttons in the right way, if he's alone, 299 00:16:48,320 --> 00:16:51,800 Speaker 1: to take to truth Social to proclaim something, and once 300 00:16:51,840 --> 00:16:54,280 Speaker 1: it's out in either, it's out in either, there's no 301 00:16:54,280 --> 00:16:58,760 Speaker 1: one who's going to take it back. So maybe possibly 302 00:16:59,640 --> 00:17:03,080 Speaker 1: there is allegedly the same situation going on with with 303 00:17:03,080 --> 00:17:08,600 Speaker 1: with Corey, Christy and Trump, where Trump was all worked up, 304 00:17:09,440 --> 00:17:13,439 Speaker 1: he was, uh you know that, Uh, Corey was you 305 00:17:13,480 --> 00:17:16,639 Speaker 1: know by without along with them and was really pushing 306 00:17:16,800 --> 00:17:20,680 Speaker 1: for for Trump to to pick Christy and was doing 307 00:17:20,760 --> 00:17:26,560 Speaker 1: it before everyone was on the same page with it. Allegedly, 308 00:17:26,800 --> 00:17:28,639 Speaker 1: who knows, maybe it's not true, but I've heard it 309 00:17:28,640 --> 00:17:33,080 Speaker 1: from a bunch of people. You're right, but by for 310 00:17:33,119 --> 00:17:35,399 Speaker 1: those who are watching this program on YouTube, this is 311 00:17:35,440 --> 00:17:37,439 Speaker 1: my dog on my lap. It's not I have this. 312 00:17:37,840 --> 00:17:39,760 Speaker 1: He just won't shut up, so he's sitting in my lap. 313 00:17:39,800 --> 00:17:43,040 Speaker 1: I answering these questions. But as you asked, but is 314 00:17:43,119 --> 00:17:45,439 Speaker 1: Mullen really the best choice to take over. He has 315 00:17:45,480 --> 00:17:47,920 Speaker 1: no law enforcement experience or any experience running in a 316 00:17:48,000 --> 00:17:51,439 Speaker 1: large bureaucracy. But plus, he's very combative. Much of the 317 00:17:51,440 --> 00:17:55,879 Speaker 1: administration's problems is how their spokesmen come across as unnecessarily aggressive. 318 00:17:56,119 --> 00:18:01,439 Speaker 1: No one was a failure with the whole girl boss persona. Okay, 319 00:18:02,240 --> 00:18:05,480 Speaker 1: here's the thing. So is he the best Congress and immigration, 320 00:18:05,520 --> 00:18:09,760 Speaker 1: best center in immigration, No he's not. But on INSI reinforcement, 321 00:18:09,920 --> 00:18:12,680 Speaker 1: and on or security he has an A plus rating 322 00:18:12,720 --> 00:18:15,840 Speaker 1: from number USI. So there's that. That's the job. He's 323 00:18:15,840 --> 00:18:18,680 Speaker 1: got an A plus rating where it matters, right, so 324 00:18:18,720 --> 00:18:23,480 Speaker 1: take that for what it's worth. Secondly, he will not 325 00:18:23,640 --> 00:18:26,240 Speaker 1: be on an island by himself, right. There will still 326 00:18:26,280 --> 00:18:31,080 Speaker 1: be people like Tom Homan, who was completely sidelined according 327 00:18:31,080 --> 00:18:38,120 Speaker 1: to Politico, by the Lewandowski gnome you know click ps. 328 00:18:38,200 --> 00:18:41,800 Speaker 1: By the way, this story of the two hundred and 329 00:18:41,840 --> 00:18:48,200 Speaker 1: twenty million dollars were the ads and who which which 330 00:18:48,320 --> 00:18:51,840 Speaker 1: companies got those bids and how they were connected to 331 00:18:51,920 --> 00:18:58,200 Speaker 1: Corey Christy and their affiliates is not going away if 332 00:18:58,240 --> 00:19:03,280 Speaker 1: Democrats take over. Will I will bet to my bottom 333 00:19:03,400 --> 00:19:06,680 Speaker 1: dollar there will be an indictment going on over this 334 00:19:07,520 --> 00:19:10,639 Speaker 1: and if they take over the presidency, there will be 335 00:19:10,840 --> 00:19:16,800 Speaker 1: a special counsel possibly or just a the Attorney General 336 00:19:16,840 --> 00:19:19,560 Speaker 1: will will make some kind of effort to get them 337 00:19:19,600 --> 00:19:22,920 Speaker 1: behind Bowers for this for a corruption. I'm just side 338 00:19:22,960 --> 00:19:25,480 Speaker 1: note to everything. I've been thinking about this a lot lately, 339 00:19:25,800 --> 00:19:28,199 Speaker 1: and the more I look at it, the actual the 340 00:19:28,240 --> 00:19:32,560 Speaker 1: worst it gets with Christy Corey and their click. Anyway, 341 00:19:32,560 --> 00:19:34,359 Speaker 1: back to Mullen, He's not alone on the island. He 342 00:19:34,359 --> 00:19:36,520 Speaker 1: will sell Steven Miller. I think you will lean Heaver 343 00:19:36,760 --> 00:19:39,320 Speaker 1: on Tom Holman, which is a good thing. Holman's experience. 344 00:19:39,359 --> 00:19:43,600 Speaker 1: He's very smart and yeah, and I think that he's 345 00:19:43,600 --> 00:19:45,160 Speaker 1: gonna I think he's gonna be part of the team. 346 00:19:45,200 --> 00:19:47,120 Speaker 1: I think he's made a team player with what you need. 347 00:19:47,720 --> 00:19:50,480 Speaker 1: And I used to give him a chance. You know, 348 00:19:50,520 --> 00:19:53,240 Speaker 1: he wouldn't be my first pick, but he wouldn't be 349 00:19:53,240 --> 00:19:55,680 Speaker 1: on my radar at all, just because I wouldn't consider 350 00:19:55,800 --> 00:19:59,160 Speaker 1: him for that job. But apparently Trump did, and let's 351 00:19:59,200 --> 00:20:02,680 Speaker 1: just hope for the best. You also ask about President 352 00:20:02,760 --> 00:20:05,560 Speaker 1: Trump firing Pam BONDI. I don't think that's going to happen. 353 00:20:05,880 --> 00:20:07,800 Speaker 1: I think he really likes Pam Bondy. I know she 354 00:20:07,840 --> 00:20:15,760 Speaker 1: scored the Epstein files. Allegedly she was in a bathroom 355 00:20:16,480 --> 00:20:21,560 Speaker 1: with influencers, the ladies bathroom, talking very loudly about how 356 00:20:22,320 --> 00:20:26,760 Speaker 1: Anna Paulina Luna, the congressman from Florida, was pushing her 357 00:20:26,800 --> 00:20:29,160 Speaker 1: on the issue, and how much she hated Ana Polana 358 00:20:29,200 --> 00:20:31,959 Speaker 1: Luna for pushing on the issue, and that's kind of 359 00:20:31,960 --> 00:20:36,080 Speaker 1: why she released those binders full of nothing. Okay, next 360 00:20:36,160 --> 00:20:39,160 Speaker 1: question comes from Connor. Connor goes, hey, Ryan, you've been 361 00:20:39,240 --> 00:20:42,240 Speaker 1: of your work. Excited to have your own show, Thanks Connor. 362 00:20:43,040 --> 00:20:44,720 Speaker 1: I mean twenty five year old mail that grew up 363 00:20:44,760 --> 00:20:47,440 Speaker 1: in South Erie County, New York, a fellow New York 364 00:20:47,480 --> 00:20:50,920 Speaker 1: girlthough that's like Western New York in a town called Concord, 365 00:20:51,000 --> 00:20:53,160 Speaker 1: went to school in the University of Alabama. There you go, 366 00:20:54,800 --> 00:20:57,480 Speaker 1: was a Catholic college missionary for the last two years 367 00:20:57,480 --> 00:21:00,800 Speaker 1: in a different southern state, and about to start a 368 00:21:00,840 --> 00:21:04,480 Speaker 1: new job at an actuary in Atlanta. I don't know 369 00:21:04,520 --> 00:21:06,560 Speaker 1: what an actuary does. I think that's I don't know 370 00:21:06,560 --> 00:21:09,000 Speaker 1: what it does. Good luck to you, though I grew 371 00:21:09,119 --> 00:21:11,679 Speaker 1: very politically conservative. Family and culture shape a lot of 372 00:21:11,680 --> 00:21:14,920 Speaker 1: my opinions in early college. This area is ground zero 373 00:21:15,000 --> 00:21:17,560 Speaker 1: for rost Belt decline in an American sagnation, and she 374 00:21:17,640 --> 00:21:19,359 Speaker 1: was one of the few to call it trade policies 375 00:21:19,359 --> 00:21:22,560 Speaker 1: and immigration causes. Side note, I'm praying for her conversion. 376 00:21:23,040 --> 00:21:27,199 Speaker 1: I don't think that that's going to happen. It's one 377 00:21:27,240 --> 00:21:29,880 Speaker 1: of the things we talked about politics a lot. We've 378 00:21:29,920 --> 00:21:32,119 Speaker 1: we've learned to stop talking too much about religion and 379 00:21:32,240 --> 00:21:37,760 Speaker 1: and I okay, questions WN Western New York is largely 380 00:21:37,760 --> 00:21:39,800 Speaker 1: forgotten about in the context of the national politics. Do 381 00:21:39,800 --> 00:21:42,160 Speaker 1: you have an insight into the future trends of political 382 00:21:42,240 --> 00:21:45,040 Speaker 1: history of the area That yes, because New York State 383 00:21:45,119 --> 00:21:47,520 Speaker 1: is out of play. If New York, if Western New 384 00:21:47,600 --> 00:21:52,159 Speaker 1: York was its own state or upstate, whatever that really means. 385 00:21:53,480 --> 00:21:56,520 Speaker 1: I guess West of Aubany was its own state, it 386 00:21:56,520 --> 00:21:58,800 Speaker 1: would one hundred percent be in play right now because 387 00:21:58,800 --> 00:22:01,120 Speaker 1: it would be a swing state. Because New York State 388 00:22:01,200 --> 00:22:05,480 Speaker 1: is not a swing state, it is not given any 389 00:22:05,560 --> 00:22:08,240 Speaker 1: kind of coverage. It's unfair. I think it's completely unfair. 390 00:22:08,240 --> 00:22:11,240 Speaker 1: I think that part of New York is desperately needs 391 00:22:11,359 --> 00:22:14,720 Speaker 1: some kind of intervention and some hell places that towns 392 00:22:14,720 --> 00:22:17,520 Speaker 1: that were amazing and then like Kodak left, I forget 393 00:22:17,520 --> 00:22:19,840 Speaker 1: which city it was and it just devastated. I maybe 394 00:22:19,920 --> 00:22:27,240 Speaker 1: less of Rochester, just devastated in like that whole area, Niagara, Jamestown, Eerie, Buffalo. 395 00:22:27,640 --> 00:22:29,520 Speaker 1: It absolutely needs help. But that's really why because it's 396 00:22:29,520 --> 00:22:31,720 Speaker 1: in a blue state. Otherwise, if it was if it 397 00:22:31,760 --> 00:22:34,080 Speaker 1: was in Pennsylvania, if that was part of Pennsylvania, it 398 00:22:34,119 --> 00:22:36,760 Speaker 1: would one million percent and get a lot of coverage. 399 00:22:37,600 --> 00:22:40,480 Speaker 1: Is there any data on how people vote that moved 400 00:22:40,520 --> 00:22:43,560 Speaker 1: to a different state, for example, what are the political 401 00:22:43,680 --> 00:22:45,879 Speaker 1: characters of California or New York as I moved to 402 00:22:45,880 --> 00:22:47,800 Speaker 1: Tennessee or Georgia. This is a great question. The New 403 00:22:47,880 --> 00:22:49,879 Speaker 1: York Times, I get the question, asked a lot. The 404 00:22:49,920 --> 00:22:54,400 Speaker 1: New York Times did a fabulous breakdown of how voters 405 00:22:54,440 --> 00:22:59,600 Speaker 1: are moving. Most voters who are Democrat move to Democrat 406 00:23:00,160 --> 00:23:03,639 Speaker 1: super areas, so they don't go Most Democrats do not 407 00:23:03,680 --> 00:23:05,480 Speaker 1: move to a purple area. They do not move to 408 00:23:05,520 --> 00:23:07,399 Speaker 1: a red area. They may move to a red state, 409 00:23:07,720 --> 00:23:10,520 Speaker 1: but they will only move to the bluest parts of 410 00:23:10,560 --> 00:23:14,520 Speaker 1: that red state. And what happened during COVID, especially Governor 411 00:23:14,520 --> 00:23:17,359 Speaker 1: de Santa's' team coming us. What happened during COVID was 412 00:23:18,000 --> 00:23:21,040 Speaker 1: so many New Yorkers and so many Democrats from across 413 00:23:21,080 --> 00:23:25,040 Speaker 1: the country really bought the media's big bag of bullshit 414 00:23:25,240 --> 00:23:29,879 Speaker 1: on COVID statistics that they thought moving to Texas or 415 00:23:29,920 --> 00:23:32,919 Speaker 1: Florida was a death sentence. They were like, absolutely not. 416 00:23:33,520 --> 00:23:36,280 Speaker 1: You know, it's death Santas. Millions of people going to 417 00:23:36,320 --> 00:23:37,840 Speaker 1: die in that state because they are not all wearing 418 00:23:37,880 --> 00:23:42,600 Speaker 1: masks and living in plastic bubbles, and that kept people 419 00:23:42,960 --> 00:23:48,199 Speaker 1: Democrats far away from those states. It really supercharged the 420 00:23:48,240 --> 00:23:52,720 Speaker 1: Republican enrollment registration over in Florida. Okay, last question you asked, 421 00:23:52,880 --> 00:23:56,280 Speaker 1: maybe too personal free to ignore. Clearly pro life positions 422 00:23:56,320 --> 00:23:59,400 Speaker 1: are an electoral Miles Millstone, I love Jdvans for being 423 00:23:59,400 --> 00:24:01,080 Speaker 1: but I'm sad to see him move away from his 424 00:24:01,119 --> 00:24:03,720 Speaker 1: total pro life position, although I'm completely understanding given the 425 00:24:03,720 --> 00:24:06,840 Speaker 1: political context. I know you have mentioned your Catholic Do 426 00:24:06,920 --> 00:24:09,520 Speaker 1: you have a difficult time watching the Republican Party slowly 427 00:24:09,560 --> 00:24:12,800 Speaker 1: drift left on social issues? Is there any data to 428 00:24:12,880 --> 00:24:15,520 Speaker 1: indicate that some Republics will eventually set things out of 429 00:24:15,560 --> 00:24:18,399 Speaker 1: the party goes too far left? Okay, this is a 430 00:24:18,560 --> 00:24:22,040 Speaker 1: so I worked for JD and I am Catholic. No, 431 00:24:22,160 --> 00:24:25,840 Speaker 1: I'm not saying because the Republican Party's job is to 432 00:24:26,000 --> 00:24:30,520 Speaker 1: represent voters. The Republican Party's job is to get people 433 00:24:30,520 --> 00:24:35,520 Speaker 1: elected to office. Your job as a Catholic clearly a 434 00:24:35,600 --> 00:24:39,680 Speaker 1: very serious one. Your job as a you know, pro 435 00:24:39,720 --> 00:24:43,480 Speaker 1: life person is to try to reduce the number of abortions. 436 00:24:44,760 --> 00:24:50,919 Speaker 1: It's very difficult for jd to or whoever Trump, to 437 00:24:51,000 --> 00:24:54,159 Speaker 1: say we need more abortion laws restrictions when all the 438 00:24:54,200 --> 00:24:57,680 Speaker 1: states that have done the restrictions are Republican states. Now, 439 00:24:57,720 --> 00:24:59,560 Speaker 1: you could sit there and say we should and I 440 00:24:59,600 --> 00:25:01,000 Speaker 1: know he said, sit there and say, but you could 441 00:25:01,040 --> 00:25:03,840 Speaker 1: say we should try to force us on the blue states, 442 00:25:03,880 --> 00:25:07,600 Speaker 1: but we've gotten a lot done on the red states. 443 00:25:07,720 --> 00:25:11,679 Speaker 1: The progression on the pro life movement is so immense. 444 00:25:12,520 --> 00:25:14,439 Speaker 1: You know, you're twenty five years old. So I'm not 445 00:25:14,440 --> 00:25:16,800 Speaker 1: saying you're dumb, but you I don't even say it, 446 00:25:16,920 --> 00:25:20,679 Speaker 1: but you're not. I'm saying you've gotten a much smaller 447 00:25:21,200 --> 00:25:25,119 Speaker 1: series of life experiences and maybe knowledge on the political past. 448 00:25:26,320 --> 00:25:31,399 Speaker 1: I would say two thousand and twelve. I want to 449 00:25:31,400 --> 00:25:34,960 Speaker 1: say twenty twelve was the first time the Republican Party, 450 00:25:35,560 --> 00:25:38,480 Speaker 1: or maybe even twenty sixteen was the first time the 451 00:25:38,520 --> 00:25:43,080 Speaker 1: Republican Party had only pro lifers running for president on 452 00:25:43,119 --> 00:25:46,760 Speaker 1: their party's ticket. That's how real, that is how much 453 00:25:46,840 --> 00:25:51,399 Speaker 1: the pro choice part of the party was very dominant. 454 00:25:51,760 --> 00:25:53,320 Speaker 1: I know, the narrative is that they never you know, 455 00:25:53,359 --> 00:25:55,840 Speaker 1: Republicans were always go ininst abortion. Yes, there were wings 456 00:25:55,840 --> 00:25:59,600 Speaker 1: the Republican Party alwaysginst abortion, but as a whole there 457 00:25:59,600 --> 00:26:04,479 Speaker 1: were a plethora of pro choicers that dominated the party. 458 00:26:05,119 --> 00:26:07,800 Speaker 1: I mean, all you have left now is Lisa Murkowski 459 00:26:07,840 --> 00:26:11,679 Speaker 1: and Susan Collins. Really at the Senate anyway, you have 460 00:26:11,680 --> 00:26:13,600 Speaker 1: a handful of people in the House, and that's about it. 461 00:26:15,240 --> 00:26:20,000 Speaker 1: The progression of the Republican Party to spend decades working 462 00:26:20,000 --> 00:26:24,520 Speaker 1: to nominate pro life judges to get Roe v. Waight overturned. 463 00:26:24,960 --> 00:26:27,560 Speaker 1: And if your goal, and this is what I always 464 00:26:27,680 --> 00:26:32,760 Speaker 1: express to pro lifers who are disappointed, your goal should 465 00:26:32,760 --> 00:26:37,960 Speaker 1: be one goal, reduce the number of abortions. Until Roe 466 00:26:38,080 --> 00:26:43,840 Speaker 1: was overturned, the number of abortions nationwide was significantly declining, 467 00:26:44,320 --> 00:26:48,560 Speaker 1: and then it spiked up. So the goal should not be, Hey, 468 00:26:49,000 --> 00:26:52,719 Speaker 1: let's pass an abortion man everywhere. We should go back, 469 00:26:53,160 --> 00:26:55,840 Speaker 1: you know several stages before Row was overturned, and what 470 00:26:55,960 --> 00:26:58,439 Speaker 1: was the pro life movement doing. Let's make sure that 471 00:26:58,760 --> 00:27:03,400 Speaker 1: abortion clinics are near hospitals. Let's make sure that there 472 00:27:03,400 --> 00:27:07,040 Speaker 1: are more regulations on the abortion industry, make it more 473 00:27:07,400 --> 00:27:12,160 Speaker 1: difficult for abortion clinics to operate, and that will put 474 00:27:12,160 --> 00:27:15,520 Speaker 1: them out of business. That's what a pro life movement 475 00:27:15,640 --> 00:27:19,159 Speaker 1: was doing until Roe was overturned, and then they said no, actually, 476 00:27:19,320 --> 00:27:21,920 Speaker 1: forget all these laws. Let's just get it fanned everywhere, 477 00:27:22,000 --> 00:27:26,040 Speaker 1: even though it was not politically feasible. Do what's politically 478 00:27:26,160 --> 00:27:29,880 Speaker 1: feasible to achieve your goal. Don't ask for a purity tesk. 479 00:27:29,880 --> 00:27:31,520 Speaker 1: I'm not yelling at you, but don't ask for a 480 00:27:31,560 --> 00:27:35,679 Speaker 1: purity task where you're saying it has to be this way. No, 481 00:27:35,840 --> 00:27:38,840 Speaker 1: let's just reduce a number of dead babies, however that 482 00:27:38,960 --> 00:27:42,080 Speaker 1: may be, and that may look different in different places, 483 00:27:42,119 --> 00:27:45,480 Speaker 1: and that may not be possible in certain places right now. 484 00:27:45,880 --> 00:27:49,080 Speaker 1: But where it's possible, do what's possible, and where it 485 00:27:49,160 --> 00:27:53,000 Speaker 1: is impossible, look to change it. That is the real 486 00:27:53,119 --> 00:27:55,680 Speaker 1: message that I would say. And as far as other 487 00:27:55,800 --> 00:27:59,040 Speaker 1: social policies, Yeah, gay marriage is out the door. That's 488 00:27:59,040 --> 00:28:01,040 Speaker 1: not the issue, and I think think that that's you know, 489 00:28:01,160 --> 00:28:05,880 Speaker 1: that is very clear to everybody. Let's like the gun issue, 490 00:28:06,040 --> 00:28:07,640 Speaker 1: do you know in nineteen eighty seven and the year 491 00:28:07,680 --> 00:28:10,760 Speaker 1: that I was born, the only state to have constecial 492 00:28:10,800 --> 00:28:16,399 Speaker 1: carry was Vermont, Texas was it had so many regulations 493 00:28:16,400 --> 00:28:19,840 Speaker 1: on guns. States in the West had so many regulation 494 00:28:20,400 --> 00:28:23,840 Speaker 1: regulations on guns it was insane. A majority of states 495 00:28:23,840 --> 00:28:26,560 Speaker 1: now have const soecial carry, including half of the states 496 00:28:26,560 --> 00:28:31,720 Speaker 1: in New England. So you may say the social the 497 00:28:31,720 --> 00:28:35,560 Speaker 1: conservative movement isn't winning anything, hasn't concerned anything. That's it's nonsense. 498 00:28:35,600 --> 00:28:39,360 Speaker 1: It's just not true. People have spent decades building this 499 00:28:39,480 --> 00:28:41,840 Speaker 1: and doing little things here and there and here and 500 00:28:41,880 --> 00:28:47,160 Speaker 1: there that have made tremendous progress. It's not perfect, but 501 00:28:47,200 --> 00:28:51,160 Speaker 1: America is safer today than it ever has been. America's 502 00:28:51,360 --> 00:28:54,040 Speaker 1: got more pro life bills, you know, in law since 503 00:28:54,040 --> 00:28:58,000 Speaker 1: the nineteen seventies. There are more rights to own guns 504 00:28:58,240 --> 00:29:01,120 Speaker 1: than ever before. I think, going back like the Revolution, 505 00:29:02,040 --> 00:29:05,120 Speaker 1: there are men's schemes that even social conservatives have made. 506 00:29:05,560 --> 00:29:09,239 Speaker 1: Where they have failed is that not everybody has then 507 00:29:09,320 --> 00:29:11,120 Speaker 1: carried out in their own personal lives which the government 508 00:29:11,160 --> 00:29:13,560 Speaker 1: can't control. And you shouldn't ask it to. You should 509 00:29:13,600 --> 00:29:16,400 Speaker 1: do the most for what you can of what you have. Okay, 510 00:29:16,600 --> 00:29:22,600 Speaker 1: more asked me. Anything is coming up next. Okay, it's 511 00:29:22,800 --> 00:29:25,320 Speaker 1: time for more Ask me anything. This question comes from Kelly. 512 00:29:25,760 --> 00:29:27,480 Speaker 1: She says, Hey, Ryan, love your show. I like to 513 00:29:27,480 --> 00:29:30,800 Speaker 1: hear your thoughts about the Illinois goubernatorial election. I'm a 514 00:29:30,840 --> 00:29:34,520 Speaker 1: lifelong Illinois resident who despises Pritzker and he has done 515 00:29:34,680 --> 00:29:37,560 Speaker 1: to our state, particularly during COVID. Darren Bailey seems to 516 00:29:37,560 --> 00:29:40,400 Speaker 1: be the front runner for the Republican nomination, but he 517 00:29:40,440 --> 00:29:43,960 Speaker 1: already lost to Prisker once person. I like Ted Dabrowski, 518 00:29:44,280 --> 00:29:46,520 Speaker 1: I mean fellow Polock Hello, but I'm not sure he 519 00:29:46,560 --> 00:29:48,360 Speaker 1: has enough support. We'd love to hear your thoughts on 520 00:29:48,440 --> 00:29:51,960 Speaker 1: the candidate, if they have a shop being Pritzker. Yeah, Prisker, 521 00:29:52,040 --> 00:29:55,920 Speaker 1: I mean, listen, prince who's got a gazillion dollars. He's 522 00:29:56,200 --> 00:30:01,760 Speaker 1: rich as anything. There's no way to kind of circle that, 523 00:30:01,840 --> 00:30:04,880 Speaker 1: and he's the incumbent. It's just going to be very difficult. 524 00:30:04,960 --> 00:30:08,280 Speaker 1: I'm looking if there's any polls right now. I've seen them, 525 00:30:08,280 --> 00:30:13,960 Speaker 1: but I haven't seen Republicans really make any inroads anywhere enough. 526 00:30:14,240 --> 00:30:17,800 Speaker 1: You know the problem is is that so Illinois, even 527 00:30:17,840 --> 00:30:22,720 Speaker 1: worse than New York, is so dominated by such a 528 00:30:22,760 --> 00:30:29,280 Speaker 1: heavy population concentration. In one specific area. And whenever a 529 00:30:29,360 --> 00:30:32,560 Speaker 1: state has that, you really have a difficulty where that 530 00:30:32,600 --> 00:30:35,160 Speaker 1: state calls all the shots. Chicago just calls all the 531 00:30:35,200 --> 00:30:37,800 Speaker 1: shots Chicago and the strong suburbs, and a lot of 532 00:30:37,800 --> 00:30:42,920 Speaker 1: the suburbs are just woke, lefty places. I mean, that's 533 00:30:42,960 --> 00:30:45,640 Speaker 1: just the truth of it. So Republicans can to make 534 00:30:45,680 --> 00:30:50,360 Speaker 1: and Democrats have done a tremendous job at jerrymandering. Tremendous, 535 00:30:50,440 --> 00:30:53,800 Speaker 1: I mean, one of the most talented gerrymandering I think 536 00:30:53,840 --> 00:30:55,800 Speaker 1: in the entire country, both in Congress and in the 537 00:30:55,800 --> 00:31:00,400 Speaker 1: state legislature. They did it hook line and sinker to 538 00:31:00,560 --> 00:31:03,640 Speaker 1: make sure voters have no say in anything. They just did. 539 00:31:03,720 --> 00:31:07,560 Speaker 1: Democrats were I mean, listen, hats off to Democrats. You 540 00:31:07,600 --> 00:31:11,560 Speaker 1: did it. You made sure you disenfranchise every voter in Illinois, 541 00:31:11,560 --> 00:31:14,880 Speaker 1: and you did it right. So so far in so 542 00:31:14,920 --> 00:31:17,520 Speaker 1: I'm looking at the polls right now, so far Bailey 543 00:31:17,560 --> 00:31:20,760 Speaker 1: has a significantly but it's not, you know, overwhelming, And 544 00:31:20,800 --> 00:31:24,520 Speaker 1: in the general election right now, Pritsker has a twenty 545 00:31:24,640 --> 00:31:28,080 Speaker 1: point lead. I just think that Illinois is in a 546 00:31:28,160 --> 00:31:31,320 Speaker 1: rough shape. I mean it's it's it's just in rough 547 00:31:31,320 --> 00:31:33,360 Speaker 1: shape right now. I don't know how else to say. It. 548 00:31:33,560 --> 00:31:35,600 Speaker 1: I mean, I know New York is, I know a 549 00:31:35,600 --> 00:31:38,920 Speaker 1: lot of other places are, but Illinois and probably of 550 00:31:39,000 --> 00:31:41,120 Speaker 1: all the big blue states, Illinois is probably in the 551 00:31:41,160 --> 00:31:42,880 Speaker 1: worst shape that there is. I think it's even a 552 00:31:42,880 --> 00:31:46,600 Speaker 1: worship in California. Okay. Next question comes from John. I 553 00:31:46,640 --> 00:31:48,360 Speaker 1: know that wasn't by the way, Kelly, that wasn't an 554 00:31:48,440 --> 00:31:50,360 Speaker 1: uplifting thing. I know, I know I usually give a 555 00:31:50,400 --> 00:31:55,400 Speaker 1: positive thing, but it's it's not great in Illinois. I 556 00:31:55,400 --> 00:31:58,080 Speaker 1: if there is a if there is a strong candidate 557 00:31:58,080 --> 00:32:00,440 Speaker 1: who's gonna run, they're gonna run, wait and Scres no 558 00:32:00,480 --> 00:32:02,480 Speaker 1: longer the nominee and have a vacant seat in a 559 00:32:02,480 --> 00:32:05,680 Speaker 1: better year. Maybe that's the ray of hope. Especially comes 560 00:32:05,680 --> 00:32:09,080 Speaker 1: from John John High Ryan. Are there any state propositions 561 00:32:09,240 --> 00:32:13,480 Speaker 1: to amend this constitutions to require voter ID in state 562 00:32:13,560 --> 00:32:16,000 Speaker 1: and federal elections? How hard is it to get a 563 00:32:16,040 --> 00:32:18,280 Speaker 1: proposition on the ballot? What does it cost an az 564 00:32:18,840 --> 00:32:20,560 Speaker 1: We had a proposition three on nine, but it lost 565 00:32:20,560 --> 00:32:22,560 Speaker 1: by eighteen thy us in twenty twenty two. Help me 566 00:32:22,600 --> 00:32:27,360 Speaker 1: understand the results versus suppose that eighty percent broad support 567 00:32:27,680 --> 00:32:30,600 Speaker 1: for voter ID the media claims, is it really has 568 00:32:30,640 --> 00:32:32,560 Speaker 1: brought support. It seems a voter id shit of the 569 00:32:32,560 --> 00:32:37,360 Speaker 1: advances advanced by the right, like abortion and was ensconced 570 00:32:37,400 --> 00:32:40,480 Speaker 1: in the state constitution by the left. Okay, thank you. 571 00:32:40,560 --> 00:32:44,400 Speaker 1: That's a really great question. So it depends on the state. 572 00:32:45,120 --> 00:32:48,120 Speaker 1: State by state, there is a multitude of different ways 573 00:32:48,120 --> 00:32:50,000 Speaker 1: to get a ballot proposition. Some states don't even have 574 00:32:50,040 --> 00:32:54,720 Speaker 1: ballid propositions, but is It is a multitude of different 575 00:32:54,760 --> 00:32:57,520 Speaker 1: states that have a different regulation. So it's impossible for 576 00:32:57,520 --> 00:32:59,400 Speaker 1: me to say, can you get it here or can 577 00:32:59,440 --> 00:33:01,880 Speaker 1: you get it there? I don't know. As far as 578 00:33:02,000 --> 00:33:05,080 Speaker 1: propositions to get put id on the ballot, I have 579 00:33:05,200 --> 00:33:08,000 Speaker 1: not seen any as of yet. They should have already 580 00:33:08,000 --> 00:33:10,880 Speaker 1: been they should have already been processed. We would already 581 00:33:10,960 --> 00:33:16,640 Speaker 1: seen them. Usually there's a signatory like you need signatures 582 00:33:16,680 --> 00:33:19,920 Speaker 1: and money and time. It's I would say it's less 583 00:33:20,080 --> 00:33:22,719 Speaker 1: money than it is just you need a ton of 584 00:33:22,800 --> 00:33:27,719 Speaker 1: volunteers and someone with a little political knowledge of dates 585 00:33:27,720 --> 00:33:31,520 Speaker 1: and deadlines and requirements as far as that goes. And 586 00:33:31,560 --> 00:33:36,080 Speaker 1: when you file anything that comes with signatures, you always 587 00:33:36,120 --> 00:33:39,320 Speaker 1: need to get more because people claim a signature is 588 00:33:39,360 --> 00:33:40,840 Speaker 1: beat or it's not the right person or not the 589 00:33:40,920 --> 00:33:42,760 Speaker 1: right signature. And they always find with signatures. So if 590 00:33:42,760 --> 00:33:46,520 Speaker 1: they requires ten thousand signatures, you need thirty thousand signatures. 591 00:33:46,560 --> 00:33:50,000 Speaker 1: That kind of thing. As far as the proposition goes for, 592 00:33:50,880 --> 00:33:54,440 Speaker 1: I had not heard of this one before you send 593 00:33:54,440 --> 00:33:58,000 Speaker 1: me the email. As for proposition three or nine in Arizona, 594 00:33:58,080 --> 00:34:00,800 Speaker 1: I was unaware of it before you had met. Yeah, 595 00:34:00,800 --> 00:34:05,000 Speaker 1: there was a proposition to require The exact quote was 596 00:34:06,280 --> 00:34:09,480 Speaker 1: The exact phrase was, it would require voter ID on 597 00:34:09,680 --> 00:34:12,600 Speaker 1: mail in ballots, so it says a vote free. Yes. 598 00:34:13,080 --> 00:34:16,080 Speaker 1: Was making multiple changes to Arizona voter identification of mail 599 00:34:16,080 --> 00:34:19,480 Speaker 1: in ballot policies, including a required dates of birth and 600 00:34:19,600 --> 00:34:22,640 Speaker 1: voter ID number for mail in ballots and eliminating the 601 00:34:22,680 --> 00:34:26,880 Speaker 1: existing two document alternative to voter ID or in person voting. 602 00:34:27,360 --> 00:34:31,560 Speaker 1: It lost fifty point they voter said no, fifty point 603 00:34:31,640 --> 00:34:34,680 Speaker 1: three eight to forty nine point six y two, very 604 00:34:34,840 --> 00:34:37,880 Speaker 1: very very close. It was yeah, eighteen thousand, five hundred votes. 605 00:34:38,239 --> 00:34:42,520 Speaker 1: So I'm looking up this this this case, and all 606 00:34:42,560 --> 00:34:45,120 Speaker 1: I can come down to as to why I think 607 00:34:45,160 --> 00:34:49,880 Speaker 1: this is right after the you know, Arizona claim that 608 00:34:49,920 --> 00:34:52,479 Speaker 1: the election was stolen, which you can or cannot believe. 609 00:34:52,480 --> 00:34:54,960 Speaker 1: I'm not going to relitigate it. But it left a 610 00:34:55,000 --> 00:34:59,000 Speaker 1: lot of people in Arizona with very, very sour grapes. 611 00:34:59,480 --> 00:35:03,600 Speaker 1: And I think the carry a Lake running the campaign 612 00:35:03,640 --> 00:35:08,800 Speaker 1: at Cheheran as Cheeran. It made the issue the issue 613 00:35:08,800 --> 00:35:12,279 Speaker 1: with her and voters did not like her, and I 614 00:35:12,320 --> 00:35:15,160 Speaker 1: think that it really affected kind of everybody and Democrats 615 00:35:15,160 --> 00:35:16,600 Speaker 1: at the surge that a year. So all I can 616 00:35:16,600 --> 00:35:18,239 Speaker 1: sit there and tell you is that Democrats of the 617 00:35:18,280 --> 00:35:19,960 Speaker 1: surge of the year and they were voting against anything 618 00:35:20,280 --> 00:35:22,560 Speaker 1: that reminded them of the electron was stolen. I don't know, 619 00:35:22,640 --> 00:35:24,840 Speaker 1: because usually those malad measures when they brought up for 620 00:35:24,840 --> 00:35:28,160 Speaker 1: a vote, actually passed, So I don't know. Try it again. 621 00:35:28,239 --> 00:35:31,840 Speaker 1: I think if they brought up again, it probably would pass. Arizona, 622 00:35:31,840 --> 00:35:33,520 Speaker 1: by the way, was a state that did not recommend 623 00:35:33,600 --> 00:35:36,040 Speaker 1: I recognized Martin Luther king Day and has brought for 624 00:35:36,080 --> 00:35:37,560 Speaker 1: a vote and they voted it down and they voted 625 00:35:37,560 --> 00:35:39,960 Speaker 1: for it. So bring up for a vote again, Okay. 626 00:35:40,160 --> 00:35:43,120 Speaker 1: Next question comes from Shnapiro writes, Hey, Ryan, hope you're 627 00:35:43,160 --> 00:35:46,080 Speaker 1: getting through lent without many breaks to your sacrifices. I 628 00:35:46,120 --> 00:35:51,120 Speaker 1: have broken it twice, Jnapiro. I gave up secular music 629 00:35:51,120 --> 00:35:54,959 Speaker 1: for Lent, and I listened to music all day long, 630 00:35:55,080 --> 00:35:58,239 Speaker 1: every day, so it's actually been a sacrifice. And I 631 00:35:58,440 --> 00:36:02,920 Speaker 1: tell you the problem is Christian rock is genuinely awful. 632 00:36:03,239 --> 00:36:05,000 Speaker 1: I mean, there's like a few people or do a 633 00:36:05,000 --> 00:36:08,000 Speaker 1: decent job, but it's genuinely some of the worst music 634 00:36:08,000 --> 00:36:11,080 Speaker 1: I've ever heard. There's a guy who sings a song 635 00:36:11,080 --> 00:36:13,840 Speaker 1: called counting My Blessings. He's good. There's literally there's like 636 00:36:13,880 --> 00:36:16,120 Speaker 1: a handful. There's maybe like five people who do a 637 00:36:16,200 --> 00:36:20,080 Speaker 1: decent job. No one is like an amazing job. And 638 00:36:20,120 --> 00:36:22,359 Speaker 1: I like a lot of gospel music, but you can 639 00:36:22,400 --> 00:36:25,080 Speaker 1: only listen to it so many times. Like it's been very, 640 00:36:25,600 --> 00:36:27,879 Speaker 1: very rough this lent. I thought that it was going 641 00:36:27,920 --> 00:36:31,160 Speaker 1: to be much easier. It is not. What does the 642 00:36:31,239 --> 00:36:33,839 Speaker 1: data show without the value of phone banking for campaigns 643 00:36:34,239 --> 00:36:37,080 Speaker 1: not in polling. I worked on a congressional campaign a 644 00:36:37,120 --> 00:36:39,239 Speaker 1: few years ago, and after two thousand phone calls, I 645 00:36:39,280 --> 00:36:42,680 Speaker 1: had fewer than ten conversations more than five minutes, longer 646 00:36:42,680 --> 00:36:44,480 Speaker 1: than the vast majority of people who didn't pick up, 647 00:36:44,680 --> 00:36:47,080 Speaker 1: hang up, amediately or already have their mindset up on 648 00:36:47,120 --> 00:36:51,680 Speaker 1: the issues. Putting aside the advice of professional campaign consultants 649 00:36:51,680 --> 00:36:55,080 Speaker 1: who charge exorbitant fees even in unwinterable races. Is there 650 00:36:55,120 --> 00:37:01,400 Speaker 1: any real value to phone banking in my opinion, this 651 00:37:01,440 --> 00:37:04,000 Speaker 1: is not what every consultant will tell you. In my opinion, 652 00:37:04,400 --> 00:37:09,000 Speaker 1: not anymore. There once was. That's absolutely true. Once upon 653 00:37:09,040 --> 00:37:11,720 Speaker 1: a time a phone banking made a big difference. And also, 654 00:37:12,440 --> 00:37:16,360 Speaker 1: if you have volunteers that have nothing to do, you 655 00:37:16,719 --> 00:37:18,640 Speaker 1: might as well have them phone bank. You gotta do something. Right. 656 00:37:18,640 --> 00:37:20,719 Speaker 1: If you have a bunch of older women there and 657 00:37:20,760 --> 00:37:23,600 Speaker 1: they want to do something to help you and they 658 00:37:23,600 --> 00:37:26,319 Speaker 1: can't door knock, well, then yes, then go go make 659 00:37:26,320 --> 00:37:29,520 Speaker 1: phone calls if you have that time. It can't be 660 00:37:29,600 --> 00:37:33,720 Speaker 1: your whole entire campaign. And I would say the way 661 00:37:34,000 --> 00:37:39,840 Speaker 1: you do it properly is you call people. If I 662 00:37:39,880 --> 00:37:41,160 Speaker 1: was in term of a phone bank, what I would 663 00:37:41,160 --> 00:37:46,279 Speaker 1: do is this, organize the list of voters sixty and 664 00:37:46,520 --> 00:37:49,920 Speaker 1: older and sixteen younger. And during the day you call 665 00:37:49,960 --> 00:37:53,279 Speaker 1: people sixteen older, more likely retired, more like to be home, 666 00:37:53,280 --> 00:37:55,600 Speaker 1: more like the answer the phone call. During the day, 667 00:37:55,760 --> 00:37:57,600 Speaker 1: they're out shopping, they have times so that they're in talk 668 00:37:57,640 --> 00:38:00,319 Speaker 1: for a little bit, or they're not working the point 669 00:38:00,320 --> 00:38:03,840 Speaker 1: they're not working. And then at in the PM hours, 670 00:38:04,400 --> 00:38:09,399 Speaker 1: I would get foreign language foreign language speakers or bilingual 671 00:38:09,440 --> 00:38:12,440 Speaker 1: speakers and have them on the phone with people of 672 00:38:12,480 --> 00:38:15,920 Speaker 1: the same surname that they speak the language for. I 673 00:38:15,960 --> 00:38:18,320 Speaker 1: would not call the average show in in the evening 674 00:38:18,520 --> 00:38:21,239 Speaker 1: no answers to the phone because of that, That's what 675 00:38:21,280 --> 00:38:25,080 Speaker 1: I would do. So, yes, can it be used effectively? Yes? 676 00:38:25,600 --> 00:38:28,920 Speaker 1: Is it often use effectively? No? And it's really the 677 00:38:28,960 --> 00:38:31,120 Speaker 1: only way you want to use it is if you 678 00:38:31,160 --> 00:38:35,319 Speaker 1: have volunteers, specifically senior citizens who can't really walk, they 679 00:38:35,360 --> 00:38:37,319 Speaker 1: can't go sign waving, they have to sit for a 680 00:38:37,320 --> 00:38:39,719 Speaker 1: long periods of time. But they have the time they 681 00:38:39,760 --> 00:38:42,920 Speaker 1: should be out doing the phone calling for free. Consultant 682 00:38:42,920 --> 00:38:45,520 Speaker 1: shall not pay enormous amounts, so fees for it. You 683 00:38:45,560 --> 00:38:47,840 Speaker 1: can get burner phones, you can get call systems that 684 00:38:47,920 --> 00:38:51,960 Speaker 1: dial automatically, whatever the case is. But that's my best 685 00:38:51,960 --> 00:38:53,920 Speaker 1: advice for phone banking. I would not if I was 686 00:38:54,040 --> 00:38:56,560 Speaker 1: I was actually just doing a school board election and 687 00:38:56,560 --> 00:38:58,080 Speaker 1: they asked I wanted to pay for phone banking, and 688 00:38:58,080 --> 00:39:02,560 Speaker 1: I said no. Okay. Last question comes from Sam. Sam says, Hey, Ryan, 689 00:39:02,600 --> 00:39:05,160 Speaker 1: big fan and longtime listener, you held up your own 690 00:39:05,200 --> 00:39:08,600 Speaker 1: against my client Michael Tracy the SOHO for him. That 691 00:39:08,760 --> 00:39:12,759 Speaker 1: was such a great form. I really enjoyed that, and 692 00:39:12,800 --> 00:39:15,600 Speaker 1: Michael was a really, really nice guy. It was not 693 00:39:15,640 --> 00:39:17,320 Speaker 1: the person I met him, but he was a really 694 00:39:17,400 --> 00:39:21,160 Speaker 1: pleasant person to talk to. His mom was there, and 695 00:39:21,200 --> 00:39:23,640 Speaker 1: if my memory servesly correct, I actually beat him in 696 00:39:23,719 --> 00:39:26,280 Speaker 1: that form in the debate, but he was very, very nice. 697 00:39:26,400 --> 00:39:29,560 Speaker 1: I really don't like not that most of my I 698 00:39:29,640 --> 00:39:32,640 Speaker 1: know Michael Tracy is, but he's a left wing blogger 699 00:39:32,680 --> 00:39:36,840 Speaker 1: and writer and reporter, and he's made a big story 700 00:39:36,880 --> 00:39:38,640 Speaker 1: about how he thinks a lot of the people who 701 00:39:38,640 --> 00:39:42,600 Speaker 1: claimed to be abused by Epstein their allegations would not 702 00:39:42,640 --> 00:39:45,799 Speaker 1: stand up in court, and it's very thought provoking. I 703 00:39:45,800 --> 00:39:47,680 Speaker 1: don't know if I agree with it. I'm not like 704 00:39:47,680 --> 00:39:49,799 Speaker 1: an expert of the Epstein stuff, but I find it 705 00:39:49,840 --> 00:39:52,719 Speaker 1: intriguing and worth listening to. And the way people have 706 00:39:52,840 --> 00:39:55,720 Speaker 1: treated him, and they've said, you know, he's being paid off, 707 00:39:55,760 --> 00:39:59,799 Speaker 1: he's working for Mossad, whatever the case they've said, is 708 00:40:00,040 --> 00:40:01,960 Speaker 1: really kind of gross. I just think he's a deeply 709 00:40:02,000 --> 00:40:05,160 Speaker 1: intellectual and thoughtful person and he's asking important questions. So 710 00:40:06,719 --> 00:40:08,640 Speaker 1: where are those questions lead? I'm not exactly sure, but 711 00:40:08,680 --> 00:40:10,160 Speaker 1: I don't think that he's doing a bad thing by 712 00:40:10,239 --> 00:40:12,759 Speaker 1: asking them. Okay, you said last week someone had a 713 00:40:12,840 --> 00:40:16,440 Speaker 1: question about opposition to Virginia democrats redistricting effort. I'm sure 714 00:40:16,480 --> 00:40:18,920 Speaker 1: you know this already, but just in case, Eric Hendrick, 715 00:40:18,960 --> 00:40:20,960 Speaker 1: Jason Mirras and a few others from a group in 716 00:40:21,040 --> 00:40:24,040 Speaker 1: opposition to the new maps despite the GP leadership, is 717 00:40:24,080 --> 00:40:28,800 Speaker 1: a bipartisan effort. And the first tbads are airing tomorrow. Okay, awesome, 718 00:40:28,840 --> 00:40:31,920 Speaker 1: so they're already airing. Here is the link. It's called 719 00:40:32,520 --> 00:40:36,680 Speaker 1: vafairmaps dot com. Please feel free to shed the spread 720 00:40:36,719 --> 00:40:41,200 Speaker 1: the word vafairmaps dot com. Thank you so much. Sam. 721 00:40:41,239 --> 00:40:43,920 Speaker 1: That is so great. I definitely well, I did already, 722 00:40:43,920 --> 00:40:45,719 Speaker 1: but I'll share, I'll tweet it. I think that that's 723 00:40:45,840 --> 00:40:48,400 Speaker 1: really really important, and I think that I think politicians 724 00:40:48,440 --> 00:40:51,960 Speaker 1: should not pick their voters votership their politicians. It gets 725 00:40:52,000 --> 00:40:54,440 Speaker 1: me knowing when both parties do it. But now it's 726 00:40:54,480 --> 00:40:56,200 Speaker 1: the Angel place where it's going to be like really 727 00:40:56,680 --> 00:40:59,759 Speaker 1: insane as as time starts picking up and there's kind 728 00:40:59,800 --> 00:41:02,280 Speaker 1: of the trains lot the station. I'm not in charge. 729 00:41:02,320 --> 00:41:06,520 Speaker 1: I'll just report the facts to you guys. It's quote friendly, 730 00:41:06,560 --> 00:41:08,279 Speaker 1: but It's my great lot in life is that I 731 00:41:08,320 --> 00:41:11,360 Speaker 1: am always a godfather and never a god so I 732 00:41:11,400 --> 00:41:13,319 Speaker 1: don't get to make any decisions on anything. No one 733 00:41:13,360 --> 00:41:16,120 Speaker 1: listen to me anyway. All right, guys, that's this episode. 734 00:41:16,160 --> 00:41:17,920 Speaker 1: I hope you enjoyed it. I hope you like this podcast. 735 00:41:17,920 --> 00:41:20,359 Speaker 1: If you do, please like and subscribe on the iHeartRadio app, 736 00:41:20,400 --> 00:41:23,000 Speaker 1: Apple Podcasts, wherever you get your podcasts, or on YouTube. 737 00:41:23,040 --> 00:41:26,000 Speaker 1: Give me a thumbs up and press subscribe. I appreciate you. 738 00:41:26,040 --> 00:41:28,319 Speaker 1: And if you're feeling really generous this weekend, a five 739 00:41:28,360 --> 00:41:30,960 Speaker 1: star review goes fast. We can see the podcast. I 740 00:41:31,000 --> 00:41:33,320 Speaker 1: will talk to you guys on Monday