1 00:00:00,400 --> 00:00:03,680 Speaker 1: Welcome. It is a verdict with Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson, 2 00:00:03,800 --> 00:00:07,080 Speaker 1: with you, Senator the elephant in the room. We have 3 00:00:07,200 --> 00:00:11,200 Speaker 1: officially lost the Senate, the ability to pick up the Senate. 4 00:00:11,720 --> 00:00:13,800 Speaker 1: And there are a lot of Americans that are going 5 00:00:13,880 --> 00:00:16,120 Speaker 1: to be tuning in to you this morning and they 6 00:00:16,239 --> 00:00:19,720 Speaker 1: want to know who is to blame for this. There 7 00:00:19,800 --> 00:00:23,000 Speaker 1: are a ton of people arguing over this right now 8 00:00:23,040 --> 00:00:25,280 Speaker 1: that's saying it's Mitch McConnell's fault. No, no no, no, it's 9 00:00:25,320 --> 00:00:28,440 Speaker 1: Donald Trump's fault for picking candidates like doctor oz Or. 10 00:00:28,440 --> 00:00:30,640 Speaker 1: And then it's not even his fault, it's his wife's fault. 11 00:00:30,880 --> 00:00:33,040 Speaker 1: And everybody's trying to figure out, how do you put 12 00:00:33,080 --> 00:00:35,240 Speaker 1: this in a box? And I think it's so important 13 00:00:35,280 --> 00:00:38,440 Speaker 1: to get your take on this. What happened, how did 14 00:00:38,440 --> 00:00:41,919 Speaker 1: this happen? And who's to blame for it? Well, Ben, 15 00:00:42,000 --> 00:00:45,000 Speaker 1: let me start out by saying, I am so pissed 16 00:00:45,040 --> 00:00:50,880 Speaker 1: off I cannot even c straight. We had an extraordinary opportunity, 17 00:00:50,920 --> 00:00:54,560 Speaker 1: We had a generational opportunity. This should have been a 18 00:00:54,960 --> 00:00:59,440 Speaker 1: fundamental landslide election. We should have won the House and 19 00:00:59,520 --> 00:01:02,600 Speaker 1: the Senate. We should have a thirty forty fifty vote 20 00:01:02,600 --> 00:01:05,600 Speaker 1: majority in the House. We should have fifty three fifty 21 00:01:05,600 --> 00:01:09,040 Speaker 1: four to fifty five Republicans in the Senate, and instead, 22 00:01:09,200 --> 00:01:14,119 Speaker 1: holy crap, the Democrats keep the Senate. Worse than that, 23 00:01:14,560 --> 00:01:18,720 Speaker 1: the Democrats potentially grow their majority in the Senate. Worse 24 00:01:18,800 --> 00:01:23,360 Speaker 1: than that. Yes, we take the House, but at best 25 00:01:23,400 --> 00:01:25,600 Speaker 1: we're going to take the House with a couple of seats. 26 00:01:25,600 --> 00:01:29,119 Speaker 1: Maybe there is an outside chance we lose the House. 27 00:01:29,160 --> 00:01:31,080 Speaker 1: I don't think we will. I think the numbers are 28 00:01:31,200 --> 00:01:33,960 Speaker 1: enough that we will hold onto the House. But it's 29 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:37,400 Speaker 1: gonna be a majority of two nineteen to twenty to 30 00:01:37,560 --> 00:01:40,679 Speaker 1: twenty one to twenty two to eighteen is a majority. 31 00:01:41,240 --> 00:01:43,200 Speaker 1: So we're going to be looking at a two three 32 00:01:43,240 --> 00:01:51,120 Speaker 1: four vote majority at best. The rage Americans are feeling 33 00:01:51,120 --> 00:01:53,760 Speaker 1: across this country, the rage that I'm feeling, there are 34 00:01:53,800 --> 00:01:58,360 Speaker 1: almost not words to describe it, because this opportunity was 35 00:01:58,440 --> 00:02:02,080 Speaker 1: screwed up, was screwed up badly, and the people are 36 00:02:02,080 --> 00:02:04,280 Speaker 1: going to pay the price. So the American people, the 37 00:02:04,360 --> 00:02:08,400 Speaker 1: country is screwed. 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One of the things that I 73 00:04:11,520 --> 00:04:14,480 Speaker 1: still think is so shocking is the exit poll data 74 00:04:14,520 --> 00:04:20,000 Speaker 1: did show that Americans were very concerned over the issues 75 00:04:20,080 --> 00:04:24,680 Speaker 1: the economy. They were very concerned over inflation, they were 76 00:04:24,839 --> 00:04:29,120 Speaker 1: very concerned over parental rights, they were very concerned over 77 00:04:29,320 --> 00:04:32,479 Speaker 1: all of these types of issues that clearly leaned to 78 00:04:32,520 --> 00:04:38,920 Speaker 1: the Republican candidates. Yet on election day we still see 79 00:04:39,160 --> 00:04:43,360 Speaker 1: and Democrats were as shocked as anybody. They were expecting 80 00:04:43,400 --> 00:04:46,600 Speaker 1: a bloodbast senator. And then they went on TV this 81 00:04:46,640 --> 00:04:50,559 Speaker 1: weekend on the Sunday shows, and they were basically sitting 82 00:04:50,600 --> 00:04:54,000 Speaker 1: there in total disbelief. They were actually saying out loud, 83 00:04:54,480 --> 00:04:59,440 Speaker 1: we cannot believe how well the Democrats did, comparing it 84 00:04:59,480 --> 00:05:02,919 Speaker 1: to how bad the economy was, and how low the 85 00:05:02,960 --> 00:05:06,159 Speaker 1: presence approval rating was, and how low the Democrats approval 86 00:05:06,240 --> 00:05:09,600 Speaker 1: rating was as a party. Look the Democrats that assumed 87 00:05:09,600 --> 00:05:12,320 Speaker 1: they were going to get utterly obliterated in the House, 88 00:05:13,160 --> 00:05:15,800 Speaker 1: and the Democrats thought they would lose the Senate, and 89 00:05:17,200 --> 00:05:21,560 Speaker 1: on every objective indsia they should have the top issues. 90 00:05:22,240 --> 00:05:25,200 Speaker 1: A large majority of Americans believe are on the wrong track. 91 00:05:25,240 --> 00:05:27,400 Speaker 1: They believe the economy is terrible, but they believe Joe 92 00:05:27,440 --> 00:05:30,360 Speaker 1: Biden is doing a terrible job. The top three issues 93 00:05:30,400 --> 00:05:34,239 Speaker 1: in the country number one, inflation, number two, crime, number 94 00:05:34,240 --> 00:05:38,400 Speaker 1: three illegal immigration. Democrats are disastrous on all three of them. 95 00:05:39,200 --> 00:05:41,080 Speaker 1: And yet at the end of the day, look, one 96 00:05:41,120 --> 00:05:44,279 Speaker 1: of the patterns we have out of this selection incumbents, 97 00:05:44,360 --> 00:05:47,720 Speaker 1: by and large one across the board. So the voters 98 00:05:47,760 --> 00:05:50,560 Speaker 1: came in, we said, we think it's all crap, let's 99 00:05:50,640 --> 00:05:53,120 Speaker 1: vote for the guy we got right now. And so 100 00:05:53,200 --> 00:05:57,880 Speaker 1: a whole bunch of incumbents prevailed, despite the voters recognizing 101 00:05:57,920 --> 00:06:02,440 Speaker 1: their lives had gotten a lot worse, and yet they 102 00:06:02,520 --> 00:06:07,479 Speaker 1: reelected the same people who did this. In terms of 103 00:06:07,520 --> 00:06:10,200 Speaker 1: whose fault it is, this is going to be a 104 00:06:10,200 --> 00:06:14,160 Speaker 1: discussion we're going to have for weeks and months going forward. 105 00:06:15,680 --> 00:06:18,240 Speaker 1: I think there is plenty of blame to go around. 106 00:06:19,120 --> 00:06:26,360 Speaker 1: Everybody bears some of the blame. But I will tell you, look, 107 00:06:26,440 --> 00:06:31,159 Speaker 1: the issue right now that I think is critical. The 108 00:06:31,240 --> 00:06:36,960 Speaker 1: Republican Senate has a leadership election scheduled for Wednesday, two 109 00:06:37,040 --> 00:06:44,320 Speaker 1: days from now. It would be insane if we reelect 110 00:06:44,400 --> 00:06:48,360 Speaker 1: the same leadership two days from now. If we say, hey, 111 00:06:48,400 --> 00:06:54,560 Speaker 1: nothing happened, Everything's good. Keep rowing off the waterfall, crash 112 00:06:54,600 --> 00:06:57,839 Speaker 1: into the rocks, everything's awesome. Listen, if you have the 113 00:06:57,920 --> 00:06:59,920 Speaker 1: number one team in the nation and you get crushed, 114 00:07:00,000 --> 00:07:01,560 Speaker 1: and you get crushed, and you get crushed, you know 115 00:07:01,600 --> 00:07:05,800 Speaker 1: what happens. They fire the coach. The idea that we 116 00:07:05,920 --> 00:07:09,800 Speaker 1: would have leadership elections on Wednesday is insane. I can 117 00:07:09,840 --> 00:07:13,280 Speaker 1: tell you I have publicly called for delaying the leadership 118 00:07:13,280 --> 00:07:17,520 Speaker 1: elections of the Senate until at a minimum after December six, 119 00:07:17,600 --> 00:07:20,840 Speaker 1: which is when the Georgia runoff is, because at this 120 00:07:20,920 --> 00:07:23,760 Speaker 1: point we don't even know who the Republican Conference is sadly, 121 00:07:24,360 --> 00:07:28,280 Speaker 1: we know it's a minority, so at best we're going 122 00:07:28,320 --> 00:07:31,520 Speaker 1: to have fifty senators and with Kamala Harris as the 123 00:07:31,600 --> 00:07:35,800 Speaker 1: vice president, that means the Democrats will have a majority. 124 00:07:37,000 --> 00:07:39,320 Speaker 1: But we don't know who the senator from Georgia is. 125 00:07:39,360 --> 00:07:41,920 Speaker 1: It could be herschel Walker. We don't know who the 126 00:07:41,920 --> 00:07:45,840 Speaker 1: senator from Alaska is. There's still it's gonna be a 127 00:07:45,840 --> 00:07:48,800 Speaker 1: couple of weeks before they reallocate the ranked choice voting, 128 00:07:48,880 --> 00:07:51,600 Speaker 1: so we don't know who the Senator from Alaska will be. 129 00:07:52,200 --> 00:07:56,520 Speaker 1: And yet what is happening is the Republican Leader, Mitch McConnell, 130 00:07:56,600 --> 00:08:00,200 Speaker 1: is trying to force through a vote on Wednesday. Now, 131 00:08:00,200 --> 00:08:03,440 Speaker 1: one of the things to understand people ask, well, gosh, 132 00:08:03,560 --> 00:08:08,600 Speaker 1: what's a Republican leader election like? And I have to admit, 133 00:08:08,640 --> 00:08:10,800 Speaker 1: when I first arrived here ten years ago, I didn't 134 00:08:10,800 --> 00:08:12,080 Speaker 1: know what it would be like I went to my 135 00:08:12,120 --> 00:08:16,400 Speaker 1: first one. So they do it deliberately immediately after the election, 136 00:08:16,440 --> 00:08:20,360 Speaker 1: and the people that vote the old retiring senators don't vote, 137 00:08:20,360 --> 00:08:22,400 Speaker 1: So the people who vote in a leadership election are 138 00:08:22,480 --> 00:08:24,960 Speaker 1: all of the new senators coming into the new Senate. 139 00:08:25,840 --> 00:08:28,080 Speaker 1: So you show up when I showed up there in 140 00:08:28,520 --> 00:08:31,680 Speaker 1: twenty twelve. I'm a baby senator. They put you in 141 00:08:31,720 --> 00:08:34,080 Speaker 1: a little temporary office down in the basement. You have 142 00:08:34,160 --> 00:08:36,240 Speaker 1: like three little offices, which with a bunch of people 143 00:08:36,240 --> 00:08:39,320 Speaker 1: packed in there. You don't know what you're doing. You 144 00:08:39,320 --> 00:08:41,440 Speaker 1: don't even know where the men's room is, and you 145 00:08:41,480 --> 00:08:43,520 Speaker 1: immediately walk in and have to vote on leader. And 146 00:08:43,559 --> 00:08:47,120 Speaker 1: they do that because they don't want the freshmen, who 147 00:08:47,120 --> 00:08:49,400 Speaker 1: are the least they have the least hooks in them 148 00:08:49,440 --> 00:08:52,520 Speaker 1: at that point. They don't want them to be able 149 00:08:52,520 --> 00:08:55,400 Speaker 1: to organize and vote against any existing leadership then, so 150 00:08:55,440 --> 00:08:58,720 Speaker 1: they try to force a leadership vote through before you 151 00:08:58,760 --> 00:09:03,560 Speaker 1: have a chance to do anything. The first leadership election 152 00:09:03,640 --> 00:09:07,000 Speaker 1: I went to in twenty twelve, I was amazed. I 153 00:09:07,040 --> 00:09:08,880 Speaker 1: kind of set back and said, oh, this should be interesting, 154 00:09:08,880 --> 00:09:12,240 Speaker 1: and I assumed the Republican leader was Mitch McConnell. Then 155 00:09:13,200 --> 00:09:15,160 Speaker 1: would stand up and give a speech and say, hey, 156 00:09:15,960 --> 00:09:20,320 Speaker 1: here's what I want to do. Twenty twelve, Barack Obama 157 00:09:20,320 --> 00:09:22,800 Speaker 1: had just been re elected to a second term. We'd 158 00:09:22,800 --> 00:09:25,800 Speaker 1: had a really disappointing election like this one. I'd got elected. 159 00:09:25,840 --> 00:09:28,160 Speaker 1: I was one of the few bright spots, at least 160 00:09:28,160 --> 00:09:31,760 Speaker 1: from my perspective not necessarily from Mitch's of the Democrats' perspective, 161 00:09:32,679 --> 00:09:37,800 Speaker 1: but you know, I was waiting for a Republican leader 162 00:09:37,840 --> 00:09:39,720 Speaker 1: to lay out a vision of here's how we're going 163 00:09:39,800 --> 00:09:41,960 Speaker 1: to fight against Obama, here's what we're going to do 164 00:09:42,480 --> 00:09:46,839 Speaker 1: to press back against these disastrous policies. Then it will 165 00:09:46,880 --> 00:09:50,960 Speaker 1: amaze you. At leadership elections, the leaders don't give speeches, 166 00:09:51,040 --> 00:09:53,160 Speaker 1: they don't lay out agendas, they don't say what they 167 00:09:53,200 --> 00:09:59,080 Speaker 1: intend to do. They say absolutely zero about their plans 168 00:09:59,080 --> 00:10:02,160 Speaker 1: going forward. Instead what happens. It was a shocking by 169 00:10:02,160 --> 00:10:04,360 Speaker 1: the way, because if it's a leadership election, you would 170 00:10:04,440 --> 00:10:07,640 Speaker 1: think and that's the first time I'm learning about this. 171 00:10:07,760 --> 00:10:11,120 Speaker 1: I thought for sure there was a Hey, here's why 172 00:10:11,160 --> 00:10:13,439 Speaker 1: I still think I should be the leader. Mitch McConnell, right, 173 00:10:13,440 --> 00:10:15,160 Speaker 1: this is what we're gonna do, this is what we're 174 00:10:15,200 --> 00:10:17,600 Speaker 1: gonna how I'm gonna do things. This is and then 175 00:10:17,640 --> 00:10:21,079 Speaker 1: would answer questions you're saying that will not happen on Wednesday, 176 00:10:21,080 --> 00:10:23,920 Speaker 1: and does not happen in the past either, So I 177 00:10:23,960 --> 00:10:26,240 Speaker 1: can tell you in the past it has never happened. 178 00:10:26,360 --> 00:10:30,640 Speaker 1: And look you point out think back to like when 179 00:10:30,679 --> 00:10:34,080 Speaker 1: you and I were in junior high student council elections. Sure, 180 00:10:34,480 --> 00:10:36,880 Speaker 1: someone would stand up and say, elect me to student 181 00:10:36,920 --> 00:10:40,600 Speaker 1: council and if you do, I'll have chocolate ice cream 182 00:10:40,640 --> 00:10:44,160 Speaker 1: in the cafeteria. Like they have some promise of what 183 00:10:44,200 --> 00:10:46,120 Speaker 1: they're gonna do, and you'd be like, oh, okay, I 184 00:10:46,200 --> 00:10:49,320 Speaker 1: like that, I'll vote for you. I naively came in 185 00:10:49,400 --> 00:10:51,400 Speaker 1: and said, okay, I assume that's what the leader elections 186 00:10:51,400 --> 00:10:54,520 Speaker 1: are like. They don't give any speeches at all. Instead, 187 00:10:54,880 --> 00:10:58,440 Speaker 1: other senators stand up and give nominating speeches. And the 188 00:10:58,520 --> 00:11:05,240 Speaker 1: nominating speeches are are these epic poems composed to the leaders. 189 00:11:05,960 --> 00:11:10,840 Speaker 1: And so I've been there ten years. I've never voted 190 00:11:10,840 --> 00:11:13,520 Speaker 1: for or against Mitch McConnell. Why is that no one's 191 00:11:13,520 --> 00:11:16,439 Speaker 1: ever run against him? And every election has been a 192 00:11:16,520 --> 00:11:19,000 Speaker 1: vote by acclamation. In other words, he's just been adopted 193 00:11:19,000 --> 00:11:23,040 Speaker 1: by acclamation. We've never had a cast a vote. My 194 00:11:23,200 --> 00:11:25,120 Speaker 1: first year I saw that, I was like, okay, this 195 00:11:25,200 --> 00:11:29,040 Speaker 1: is really bizarre. But then two years later, twenty fourteen, 196 00:11:29,080 --> 00:11:32,720 Speaker 1: I've been in the Senate for two years, something new developed, 197 00:11:33,240 --> 00:11:35,600 Speaker 1: which is in twenty fourteen, for the first year, Mitch 198 00:11:35,679 --> 00:11:42,480 Speaker 1: McConnell created a superpack, and Mitch's Superpack raises and spends 199 00:11:42,520 --> 00:11:45,760 Speaker 1: about three hundred million dollars every two years to elect 200 00:11:45,840 --> 00:11:50,679 Speaker 1: Senate Republicans. I remember sitting there in twenty fourteen, two 201 00:11:50,720 --> 00:11:55,439 Speaker 1: years into my term in the Senate, amazed and horrified, 202 00:11:55,440 --> 00:11:59,800 Speaker 1: in fact, texting Mike Lee, the wonderful Conservative from you, 203 00:12:00,040 --> 00:12:04,520 Speaker 1: Tau and my closest friends. This is terrible because today 204 00:12:05,640 --> 00:12:08,920 Speaker 1: Mitch McConnell is the single largest donor to every single 205 00:12:09,000 --> 00:12:12,800 Speaker 1: Republican Senator, almost without exception. He doesn't give to my campaigns. 206 00:12:13,760 --> 00:12:17,760 Speaker 1: He didn't give a penny to Mike Lee's campaign six 207 00:12:17,840 --> 00:12:20,400 Speaker 1: years ago. He didn't give a penny to Ron Johnson's campaign. 208 00:12:21,559 --> 00:12:24,400 Speaker 1: But Mitch. For most of the Republicans in the Senate, 209 00:12:24,520 --> 00:12:28,679 Speaker 1: Mitch is spending ten million, twenty million, thirty million, as 210 00:12:28,720 --> 00:12:31,920 Speaker 1: much as forty million dollars on their races, So most 211 00:12:31,920 --> 00:12:37,240 Speaker 1: of the Republicans are scared to cross him. I do 212 00:12:37,360 --> 00:12:40,400 Speaker 1: think this cycle it may be different. So I have 213 00:12:40,559 --> 00:12:44,600 Speaker 1: publicly called for delaying the leadership elections from Wednesday till 214 00:12:44,640 --> 00:12:48,480 Speaker 1: after the Georgia runoff, which is on December sixth. Several 215 00:12:48,480 --> 00:12:52,000 Speaker 1: other Republican Senators are called for the same. Mike Lee 216 00:12:52,040 --> 00:12:54,800 Speaker 1: has called for the same. Ron Johnson has called for 217 00:12:54,840 --> 00:13:00,760 Speaker 1: the same. Josh Holly Is called for the same. Cynthia 218 00:13:00,840 --> 00:13:03,520 Speaker 1: Lumis has called for the same. Actually, Marco Rubio has 219 00:13:03,559 --> 00:13:05,720 Speaker 1: called for the same, which surprised a lot of people. 220 00:13:05,760 --> 00:13:09,680 Speaker 1: That was an unusual development. Just a few hours ago, 221 00:13:10,240 --> 00:13:14,520 Speaker 1: Lindsey Graham called for delaying the elections. We're starting to 222 00:13:14,559 --> 00:13:18,680 Speaker 1: see several Republicans lean out and call for that. That 223 00:13:18,760 --> 00:13:22,520 Speaker 1: being said, the response of Republican leadership is not only no, 224 00:13:22,920 --> 00:13:26,640 Speaker 1: but hell no, we will vote, Shut up and vote. 225 00:13:27,880 --> 00:13:30,199 Speaker 1: Is that because they're afraid you guys are going to organize, 226 00:13:30,440 --> 00:13:34,120 Speaker 1: or because and is it also they're afraid that as 227 00:13:34,120 --> 00:13:38,800 Speaker 1: each day goes by, more and more Americans will sound 228 00:13:38,880 --> 00:13:43,079 Speaker 1: off and talk to their elected officials about why they 229 00:13:43,120 --> 00:13:49,400 Speaker 1: don't want Mitch McConnell to be the leader. Yes, yes, yes, listen. 230 00:13:49,440 --> 00:13:53,000 Speaker 1: I think if you look back at the record of success, 231 00:13:53,040 --> 00:13:54,920 Speaker 1: just like with a football coach, where you would fire 232 00:13:54,960 --> 00:13:57,200 Speaker 1: a football coach if the team loses when they should 233 00:13:57,240 --> 00:14:01,560 Speaker 1: have won, we should have won. And I got to say, 234 00:14:01,640 --> 00:14:06,320 Speaker 1: Mitche's philosophy as leader is to snuggle up to the 235 00:14:06,360 --> 00:14:09,839 Speaker 1: Democrats and work with the Democrats. You know, you look 236 00:14:09,880 --> 00:14:13,000 Speaker 1: at what happens when the Democrats have a majority in 237 00:14:13,040 --> 00:14:16,000 Speaker 1: the Senate. When the majority leader is Harry Reid or 238 00:14:16,080 --> 00:14:22,680 Speaker 1: Chuck Schumer, they don't cozy up to Republicans. When Republicans 239 00:14:22,680 --> 00:14:27,800 Speaker 1: had a majority in the Senate under Trump, the Democrats 240 00:14:27,800 --> 00:14:29,640 Speaker 1: didn't want to work with us. They voted no and 241 00:14:29,800 --> 00:14:34,360 Speaker 1: hell no on everything. The difference is when Republicans have 242 00:14:34,400 --> 00:14:38,400 Speaker 1: the majority, our current leadership believes it's a good idea 243 00:14:38,680 --> 00:14:41,360 Speaker 1: to pass bill after bill after bill with all the 244 00:14:41,400 --> 00:14:45,120 Speaker 1: Democrats and with ten or twelve or fifteen Republicans, and 245 00:14:45,200 --> 00:14:48,960 Speaker 1: so they end up organizing a small crew of Republicans 246 00:14:48,960 --> 00:14:51,240 Speaker 1: to suck up to the Democrats and give the Democrats 247 00:14:51,320 --> 00:14:55,480 Speaker 1: legislative wins. And by the way, Ben the Democrats never 248 00:14:55,520 --> 00:14:58,200 Speaker 1: ever ever do this when we have the majority. They're 249 00:14:58,200 --> 00:15:01,400 Speaker 1: not ten or twelve Democrats come give us wins. Nope, 250 00:15:01,440 --> 00:15:05,840 Speaker 1: they just vote hell no on everything. And I got 251 00:15:05,840 --> 00:15:09,120 Speaker 1: to say that I think there is a need for 252 00:15:09,160 --> 00:15:13,080 Speaker 1: a real reassessment of is this a good strategy for 253 00:15:13,120 --> 00:15:16,600 Speaker 1: the next two years. I think the American people expect 254 00:15:16,680 --> 00:15:20,840 Speaker 1: us to fight against these disastrous policies from the Democrats, 255 00:15:20,920 --> 00:15:25,120 Speaker 1: the policies that are producing rampant inflation and out of 256 00:15:25,120 --> 00:15:28,520 Speaker 1: control gas prices and crime that is skyrocketing, and open 257 00:15:28,640 --> 00:15:35,040 Speaker 1: borders and our current leadership. My single biggest disagreement with 258 00:15:35,080 --> 00:15:38,360 Speaker 1: Mitch McConnell over the last ten years is over and 259 00:15:38,400 --> 00:15:40,920 Speaker 1: over and over again when it comes to can we 260 00:15:41,120 --> 00:15:44,360 Speaker 1: stand up to Barack Obama or Joe Biden. His answer 261 00:15:44,480 --> 00:15:46,840 Speaker 1: is no. And I believe the answer is yes, that 262 00:15:46,920 --> 00:15:49,880 Speaker 1: we ought to stand and fight, not on everything. Look, 263 00:15:49,920 --> 00:15:52,080 Speaker 1: if you fight on everything, you're not being smart, you're 264 00:15:52,080 --> 00:15:54,560 Speaker 1: not being strategic, You're not actually fighting a real fight. 265 00:15:54,960 --> 00:15:59,600 Speaker 1: I think you pick real, significant fights that matter, and 266 00:15:59,640 --> 00:16:02,200 Speaker 1: then you develop a strategy to really fight on it. So, 267 00:16:02,280 --> 00:16:04,680 Speaker 1: for example, I think we ought to fight an epic, 268 00:16:05,560 --> 00:16:10,040 Speaker 1: knock down, drag out fight over stopping the Democrats from 269 00:16:10,080 --> 00:16:13,920 Speaker 1: funding eighty seven thousand new IRS agents to harass and 270 00:16:13,920 --> 00:16:17,840 Speaker 1: intimidate and persecute Americans and their political enemies. Now, to 271 00:16:18,000 --> 00:16:20,720 Speaker 1: do that, we will have to draw a line in 272 00:16:20,760 --> 00:16:22,680 Speaker 1: the sand and say we will not fund them. Here's 273 00:16:22,680 --> 00:16:26,560 Speaker 1: what will happen next, ben the Democrats and the media 274 00:16:26,640 --> 00:16:28,800 Speaker 1: will say Republicans are shutting down the government because the 275 00:16:28,880 --> 00:16:31,640 Speaker 1: only way to do it is on a government funding bill. Sure, 276 00:16:32,400 --> 00:16:37,560 Speaker 1: if past this prologue, our current leadership will agree with 277 00:16:37,600 --> 00:16:39,760 Speaker 1: the Democrats and the media and say, yeah, Republicans are 278 00:16:39,760 --> 00:16:42,800 Speaker 1: shutting down the government. It's terrible, so let's fund the 279 00:16:42,840 --> 00:16:47,960 Speaker 1: irs agents. I think the American people are pissed with 280 00:16:48,120 --> 00:16:54,080 Speaker 1: Republicans behaving like jellyfish. We need to stand up and fight, 281 00:16:54,160 --> 00:16:56,720 Speaker 1: and so one of the big reasons to delay the 282 00:16:56,760 --> 00:17:00,880 Speaker 1: election is to have time to have a debate about 283 00:17:01,000 --> 00:17:03,240 Speaker 1: what our strategy should be. And it ought to be 284 00:17:03,280 --> 00:17:08,639 Speaker 1: a strategy that involves every Republican, not one leader as dictator, 285 00:17:10,160 --> 00:17:13,400 Speaker 1: deciding the rules, and for those rules to be capitulation 286 00:17:13,480 --> 00:17:17,320 Speaker 1: to the Democrats. One of the things that I think 287 00:17:17,359 --> 00:17:20,800 Speaker 1: so many Americans are gonna want to have an answer to, 288 00:17:21,160 --> 00:17:25,000 Speaker 1: Senator is, if you take a step back, who's to 289 00:17:25,080 --> 00:17:27,679 Speaker 1: blame for some of the candidate selection has got us 290 00:17:27,680 --> 00:17:31,720 Speaker 1: into this situation that we're in now. Some of the 291 00:17:31,760 --> 00:17:34,960 Speaker 1: losses I think we're lack of funding from Mitch McConnell. 292 00:17:35,000 --> 00:17:37,160 Speaker 1: I think you would probably agree with me in that one. 293 00:17:37,680 --> 00:17:41,040 Speaker 1: But the other part of this is we had some 294 00:17:41,080 --> 00:17:44,560 Speaker 1: really bad candidates that were picked. Doctor Odz screams at 295 00:17:44,600 --> 00:17:46,840 Speaker 1: the top of my list, and I want to get 296 00:17:46,840 --> 00:17:49,000 Speaker 1: your take because so many Americans I've talked to over 297 00:17:49,040 --> 00:17:51,280 Speaker 1: the last couple of days, they're trying to figure that 298 00:17:51,359 --> 00:17:53,960 Speaker 1: part at this out of the math equation of how 299 00:17:53,960 --> 00:17:57,640 Speaker 1: we screwed this up so badly. So, Look, we had 300 00:17:57,680 --> 00:18:01,400 Speaker 1: some candidates who were not very good candidates. Mitch McConnell 301 00:18:01,440 --> 00:18:05,200 Speaker 1: said that two months ago. I disagreed with him strongly 302 00:18:05,240 --> 00:18:07,360 Speaker 1: at the time, not in the fact of it. Yes, 303 00:18:07,400 --> 00:18:09,879 Speaker 1: that there were some candidates who were not great candidates, 304 00:18:09,880 --> 00:18:13,200 Speaker 1: but it's really dumb for the Republican leaders to take 305 00:18:13,200 --> 00:18:15,960 Speaker 1: a two buy four to them while they're running once 306 00:18:16,000 --> 00:18:19,760 Speaker 1: there are damn nominees, like, don't stand up and kneecap 307 00:18:19,840 --> 00:18:24,200 Speaker 1: them while they're running. But the time to have done 308 00:18:24,240 --> 00:18:27,440 Speaker 1: that was in the primaries, to elect candidates who were 309 00:18:27,520 --> 00:18:30,399 Speaker 1: real and serious candidates. And you take Pennsylvania, listen. I 310 00:18:30,440 --> 00:18:33,400 Speaker 1: was all in for Dave McCormick. I went, I campaigned 311 00:18:33,440 --> 00:18:36,120 Speaker 1: for Dave McCormick in Pennsylvania the first week he announced. 312 00:18:36,119 --> 00:18:39,280 Speaker 1: I campaigned with Dave all over the state. If Dave 313 00:18:39,359 --> 00:18:44,159 Speaker 1: McCormick had been our nominee, he would have won Pennsylvania 314 00:18:44,240 --> 00:18:46,520 Speaker 1: and we would have been, I hope, on a path 315 00:18:46,600 --> 00:18:53,399 Speaker 1: to a Republican majority. He was clearly the strongest conservative 316 00:18:53,480 --> 00:18:58,840 Speaker 1: who can win, and yet he didn't win, and Trump 317 00:18:58,920 --> 00:19:02,840 Speaker 1: came in at the end endorsed doctor Oz, did big 318 00:19:02,960 --> 00:19:05,159 Speaker 1: rallies for Doctor Oz, and actually stood up in the 319 00:19:05,240 --> 00:19:09,320 Speaker 1: rally podium and blasted McCormick, which is amazing given that 320 00:19:09,640 --> 00:19:12,720 Speaker 1: he offered Dave McCormick the position of Deputy Secretary of 321 00:19:12,760 --> 00:19:18,359 Speaker 1: Defense and Dave's wife was the deputy National Security Advisor 322 00:19:18,400 --> 00:19:22,640 Speaker 1: to Donald Trump in the Trump White House. But that 323 00:19:22,760 --> 00:19:26,800 Speaker 1: had a real effect. And I gotta say, if we 324 00:19:26,840 --> 00:19:29,000 Speaker 1: had come together as a party and said we need 325 00:19:29,000 --> 00:19:31,480 Speaker 1: to win this race and we need a serious and 326 00:19:31,520 --> 00:19:34,960 Speaker 1: real candidate to do so, we would be celebrating a 327 00:19:35,080 --> 00:19:38,080 Speaker 1: victory instead of a loss. But that's not what happened. 328 00:19:39,480 --> 00:19:42,320 Speaker 1: Let's deal with Walker. There's a lot of people, and 329 00:19:42,440 --> 00:19:45,080 Speaker 1: you look at Georgia. That's the last place we're really 330 00:19:45,080 --> 00:19:47,720 Speaker 1: in a fight. You and I were just out there 331 00:19:48,440 --> 00:19:52,600 Speaker 1: on his tour on his campaign bus two days after 332 00:19:54,040 --> 00:19:57,560 Speaker 1: the election. He's in this runoff, and I'm really worried, 333 00:19:57,600 --> 00:19:59,719 Speaker 1: Senator that there's going to be a lot of people 334 00:20:00,280 --> 00:20:02,400 Speaker 1: in this country that are going to now think, well, 335 00:20:02,440 --> 00:20:05,840 Speaker 1: because we don't have the majority right or the chance 336 00:20:05,920 --> 00:20:09,040 Speaker 1: at the majority anymore than the Senate that this race 337 00:20:09,240 --> 00:20:12,159 Speaker 1: is pretty much who cares what really happens, right, because 338 00:20:12,480 --> 00:20:15,159 Speaker 1: they're gonna have control of the Senate, so so be it. 339 00:20:15,640 --> 00:20:17,640 Speaker 1: That is not the case at all, And I need 340 00:20:17,680 --> 00:20:21,440 Speaker 1: you to explain to everybody why this election in Georgia's 341 00:20:22,160 --> 00:20:26,800 Speaker 1: is still so extremely important. Yeah, it's a great question. 342 00:20:26,840 --> 00:20:29,159 Speaker 1: I want to say to everyone who listens to this podcast, 343 00:20:30,200 --> 00:20:32,080 Speaker 1: I want to call on you to do two things. 344 00:20:33,280 --> 00:20:37,600 Speaker 1: Number One, the battle this week to delay the leadership 345 00:20:37,680 --> 00:20:40,960 Speaker 1: election in the Senate is hugely important. I mentioned to 346 00:20:41,000 --> 00:20:43,400 Speaker 1: you the senators that have called publicly for delaying it, 347 00:20:43,960 --> 00:20:52,200 Speaker 1: me Mike Lee, Ron Johnson, Josh Holly, Rick Scott, Cynthia Alumbus, 348 00:20:52,640 --> 00:20:58,439 Speaker 1: Marco Rubio, and Lindsey Graham. If your senator is not 349 00:20:58,560 --> 00:21:03,600 Speaker 1: on that list, pick up the phone today and call 350 00:21:03,720 --> 00:21:07,560 Speaker 1: your senator and call on them to delay the majority 351 00:21:07,600 --> 00:21:15,199 Speaker 1: election the leadership election until after the Georgia runoff. That 352 00:21:15,480 --> 00:21:18,000 Speaker 1: is hugely important and the only way this will change. 353 00:21:18,040 --> 00:21:21,119 Speaker 1: The only way that election gets delayed is if a 354 00:21:21,280 --> 00:21:26,280 Speaker 1: gazillion phone calls come in two Senate Republicans in the 355 00:21:26,280 --> 00:21:30,240 Speaker 1: next forty eight hours. But secondly, the question you asked 356 00:21:30,240 --> 00:21:34,440 Speaker 1: Ben about Georgia there is a tendency among activists, among 357 00:21:34,520 --> 00:21:37,200 Speaker 1: donors to say, well, gosh, if the Democrats have the majority, 358 00:21:37,240 --> 00:21:43,320 Speaker 1: no matter what, Georgia doesn't matter. That is absolutely wrong 359 00:21:43,320 --> 00:21:47,040 Speaker 1: and let me explain why. So, as you know, right 360 00:21:47,119 --> 00:21:49,400 Speaker 1: after the election we go to the runoff, the very 361 00:21:49,440 --> 00:21:53,080 Speaker 1: first call the Herschel Walker campaign made was to me 362 00:21:53,160 --> 00:21:55,760 Speaker 1: and my team and they asked me to come rally 363 00:21:55,800 --> 00:21:58,520 Speaker 1: with Herschel. I was there on Thursday, two days after 364 00:21:58,560 --> 00:22:02,359 Speaker 1: the election, or the kickoff rally of the runoff. We 365 00:22:02,400 --> 00:22:05,359 Speaker 1: had over three thousand people come out. We had enormous energy. 366 00:22:05,400 --> 00:22:09,000 Speaker 1: It was fantastic. But let me tell you why, and 367 00:22:09,040 --> 00:22:12,359 Speaker 1: this is an important message to hear. This is why 368 00:22:12,560 --> 00:22:18,439 Speaker 1: the Georgia runoff matters immensely, even though Democrats are going 369 00:22:18,520 --> 00:22:21,080 Speaker 1: to have the majority regardless. And the reason is as follows. 370 00:22:22,280 --> 00:22:27,479 Speaker 1: If we lose Georgia, the Democrats will be at plus 371 00:22:27,520 --> 00:22:29,239 Speaker 1: one in the Senate. In other words, they will go 372 00:22:29,320 --> 00:22:33,200 Speaker 1: from fifty Democrats to fifty one Democrats. Why does that 373 00:22:33,240 --> 00:22:37,439 Speaker 1: matter Because the last two years, the Democrats tried repeatedly 374 00:22:37,480 --> 00:22:41,199 Speaker 1: to end the filibuster. They had forty eight votes to 375 00:22:41,280 --> 00:22:45,880 Speaker 1: end the filibuster. They were blocked by two Democrats Joe 376 00:22:45,920 --> 00:22:49,960 Speaker 1: Mansion of West Virginia and Kirsten Cinema of Arizona. Those 377 00:22:50,000 --> 00:22:54,080 Speaker 1: two stopped them from ending the filibuster. Between the two, 378 00:22:54,240 --> 00:22:58,240 Speaker 1: I think Cinema was the far stronger. I think Mansion 379 00:22:58,359 --> 00:23:02,040 Speaker 1: would have rolled over, but Cinema provided the backbone to 380 00:23:02,240 --> 00:23:06,119 Speaker 1: stop Mansion from rolling over. On that and I base Listen, 381 00:23:06,160 --> 00:23:08,200 Speaker 1: I've served in the Senate for ten years with Joe 382 00:23:08,200 --> 00:23:12,600 Speaker 1: Mansion prior to the last two years, one hundred percent 383 00:23:12,640 --> 00:23:15,920 Speaker 1: of the time when the stakes were high and Chuck 384 00:23:15,960 --> 00:23:19,480 Speaker 1: Schumer put the pressure on, Mansion gave in and did 385 00:23:19,520 --> 00:23:24,760 Speaker 1: what Schumer wanted, always one hundred percent without exception. Mansion 386 00:23:24,920 --> 00:23:27,440 Speaker 1: was never the deciding vote. It was Cinema that changed 387 00:23:27,480 --> 00:23:30,639 Speaker 1: the whole dynamic because she came in and had some backbone, 388 00:23:30,640 --> 00:23:33,760 Speaker 1: and suddenly it was like, Wow, they're really not ending 389 00:23:33,800 --> 00:23:35,720 Speaker 1: the filibuster. Now you might say, Okay, why do I 390 00:23:35,760 --> 00:23:39,360 Speaker 1: care about ending the filibuster. Here's what the Democrats want 391 00:23:39,400 --> 00:23:41,439 Speaker 1: to do. If they end the filibuster. Number one, they 392 00:23:41,480 --> 00:23:45,560 Speaker 1: will pass S one, the Corrupt Politicians Act, which would 393 00:23:45,600 --> 00:23:48,600 Speaker 1: strike down every voter integrity law in the country, would 394 00:23:48,600 --> 00:23:50,800 Speaker 1: strike down every photo ID law in the country. It 395 00:23:50,800 --> 00:23:54,080 Speaker 1: would legalize ballot harvesting all across the country. It would 396 00:23:54,080 --> 00:23:57,360 Speaker 1: immediately register to vote millions of illegal aliens. It would 397 00:23:57,400 --> 00:24:01,320 Speaker 1: register to vote felons all across this county. It is 398 00:24:01,440 --> 00:24:07,239 Speaker 1: designed to ensure that Democrats can never lose again. The 399 00:24:07,280 --> 00:24:09,439 Speaker 1: second thing they would do is add two new states 400 00:24:09,440 --> 00:24:12,280 Speaker 1: to the Union, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. 401 00:24:12,359 --> 00:24:14,399 Speaker 1: They're doing that. They want to do that because it 402 00:24:14,520 --> 00:24:19,040 Speaker 1: would add they believe, four new Democrats senators so that 403 00:24:19,080 --> 00:24:22,439 Speaker 1: they believe Republicans could never take the Senate again. The 404 00:24:22,560 --> 00:24:26,399 Speaker 1: third thing they would do is grant citizenship and voting 405 00:24:26,520 --> 00:24:31,480 Speaker 1: rights to every illegal alien in America ten fifteen, twenty million. 406 00:24:31,520 --> 00:24:35,040 Speaker 1: We don't know the exact number, but a big number. Again. 407 00:24:35,119 --> 00:24:37,359 Speaker 1: They would do that to seize power forever. And the 408 00:24:37,400 --> 00:24:40,159 Speaker 1: fourth to the thing they would do is pack the 409 00:24:40,280 --> 00:24:45,040 Speaker 1: United States Supreme Court, add four new left wing Democrats 410 00:24:45,040 --> 00:24:48,320 Speaker 1: to the Supreme Court, take it from nine justices to thirteen, 411 00:24:49,720 --> 00:24:55,480 Speaker 1: which would critically injure and take away our constitutional rights 412 00:24:55,520 --> 00:24:58,200 Speaker 1: to free speech, to religious liberty of the Second Amendment. 413 00:24:58,240 --> 00:25:01,640 Speaker 1: It would strike down school choice all across the country. 414 00:25:03,440 --> 00:25:06,760 Speaker 1: I believe if the Democrats win in Georgia, and they 415 00:25:06,760 --> 00:25:10,520 Speaker 1: have a fifty one vote majority, that Joe Mansion will 416 00:25:10,600 --> 00:25:13,160 Speaker 1: fold under the pressure from Chuck Schumer and they will 417 00:25:13,240 --> 00:25:16,480 Speaker 1: end the filibuster. And I got to say, look, Ben, 418 00:25:17,880 --> 00:25:23,600 Speaker 1: by my nature, I'm a deeply optimistic person, but if 419 00:25:23,680 --> 00:25:27,280 Speaker 1: they go down that road, I don't know how we 420 00:25:27,320 --> 00:25:30,240 Speaker 1: come back from it. Well. And Democrats, they have shown 421 00:25:30,280 --> 00:25:35,760 Speaker 1: no restraint at all in undermining the rules or the laws, 422 00:25:36,440 --> 00:25:40,200 Speaker 1: or even the procedures with our government or our country. 423 00:25:40,320 --> 00:25:42,560 Speaker 1: I mean, they knew when they were impeaching Donald Trump 424 00:25:42,600 --> 00:25:44,320 Speaker 1: that they were trying to overthrow the world the people 425 00:25:44,800 --> 00:25:47,639 Speaker 1: on adociate that they knew that their party, the Democratic 426 00:25:47,720 --> 00:25:50,640 Speaker 1: National Committee and Hillary Clinton paid for They knew when 427 00:25:50,640 --> 00:25:52,560 Speaker 1: they were trying to overthrow the world the people that 428 00:25:52,680 --> 00:25:56,560 Speaker 1: it was done on information they created out of thin air. 429 00:25:56,880 --> 00:25:59,760 Speaker 1: So if they're willing to do that, I think they're 430 00:25:59,800 --> 00:26:02,240 Speaker 1: more than willing to do exactly what you're describing right now, 431 00:26:02,280 --> 00:26:05,800 Speaker 1: which ten fifteen years ago would have been you would say, 432 00:26:05,840 --> 00:26:10,400 Speaker 1: I think unimaginable. Yet now I think this is their reality. 433 00:26:11,280 --> 00:26:15,000 Speaker 1: The Democrats their priority is staying in power. Everything else 434 00:26:15,040 --> 00:26:18,600 Speaker 1: as secondary. They care about staying in power. Notice the 435 00:26:18,680 --> 00:26:21,040 Speaker 1: legislative agenda that I said they'd passed if they end 436 00:26:21,040 --> 00:26:24,480 Speaker 1: the filibuster the corrupt politician. That act is to stop 437 00:26:24,560 --> 00:26:28,040 Speaker 1: voters from voting Democrats out of office. Making DC in 438 00:26:28,040 --> 00:26:31,679 Speaker 1: Puerto Rico States is to put more Democrats in the Senate. 439 00:26:32,160 --> 00:26:34,639 Speaker 1: Giving illegal aliens the right to vote is to elect 440 00:26:34,680 --> 00:26:37,840 Speaker 1: more Democrats. Packing the Supreme Court is to give them 441 00:26:37,920 --> 00:26:42,200 Speaker 1: control over all three branches of government. They believe in power, 442 00:26:42,240 --> 00:26:45,560 Speaker 1: they don't believe in democracy. One of the great ironies 443 00:26:46,240 --> 00:26:50,000 Speaker 1: just about every single attack the Democrats use on Republicans 444 00:26:51,000 --> 00:26:55,200 Speaker 1: is what in fact they are doing. And so listen. 445 00:26:55,240 --> 00:26:58,560 Speaker 1: I would ask the folks who listen to this podcast, 446 00:26:58,680 --> 00:27:03,160 Speaker 1: you guys are passionate believers in our country. You're standing 447 00:27:03,200 --> 00:27:07,400 Speaker 1: up and fighting. I know you're angry, you're demoralized, you're frustrated. 448 00:27:07,440 --> 00:27:12,400 Speaker 1: How did we blow this? I promise you that that 449 00:27:12,600 --> 00:27:17,720 Speaker 1: frustration is volcanic on my part. Two things I would 450 00:27:17,720 --> 00:27:20,760 Speaker 1: ask you to focus on. Number One, pick up the 451 00:27:20,840 --> 00:27:24,800 Speaker 1: phone and call your senator and get your senator. Every 452 00:27:24,800 --> 00:27:28,280 Speaker 1: Republican senator needs to hear from thousands upon thousands of 453 00:27:28,359 --> 00:27:32,760 Speaker 1: their constituents. Delay the leadership elections. Let's have real leaders 454 00:27:32,920 --> 00:27:38,920 Speaker 1: who actually stand and fight and deliver number two. Georgia 455 00:27:39,200 --> 00:27:42,880 Speaker 1: matters enormously, and if you are in Georgia, make sure 456 00:27:42,920 --> 00:27:45,160 Speaker 1: you turn out. Make sure you turn your friends out, 457 00:27:45,200 --> 00:27:48,159 Speaker 1: your family out. If you have friends and family in Georgia, 458 00:27:48,280 --> 00:27:51,680 Speaker 1: call them. It is about turnout. And then it's also 459 00:27:51,680 --> 00:27:55,159 Speaker 1: about fundraising. It's about supporting well. And that one's going 460 00:27:55,200 --> 00:27:56,719 Speaker 1: to be the last thing I was going to ask you, 461 00:27:56,760 --> 00:27:59,960 Speaker 1: which I think is probably the most important. Senator. Money 462 00:28:00,240 --> 00:28:03,440 Speaker 1: is going to be needed in Georgia, and Democrats are 463 00:28:03,480 --> 00:28:08,280 Speaker 1: now betting on Republicans and Conservatives being in essence demoralized 464 00:28:08,680 --> 00:28:11,520 Speaker 1: over what just happened to the point where they just 465 00:28:11,600 --> 00:28:15,040 Speaker 1: don't give. Democrats are fired up because they had one 466 00:28:15,080 --> 00:28:17,800 Speaker 1: hell of a midterm that they didn't expect. It's like 467 00:28:17,880 --> 00:28:21,080 Speaker 1: they've won the game in essence, right, come back out 468 00:28:21,119 --> 00:28:25,240 Speaker 1: of nowhere. They want this seat in Georgia, and they 469 00:28:25,280 --> 00:28:27,440 Speaker 1: think they can grab it, and they think they have 470 00:28:27,520 --> 00:28:30,720 Speaker 1: what they need to grab this seat, and they're going 471 00:28:30,760 --> 00:28:32,800 Speaker 1: to be able to raise a ton of money because 472 00:28:32,840 --> 00:28:36,160 Speaker 1: they feel like there's some sort of momentum here for them. 473 00:28:36,560 --> 00:28:41,240 Speaker 1: If Republicans don't give, we're gonna lose this thing because 474 00:28:41,280 --> 00:28:44,520 Speaker 1: we just get out. The money is out raised and 475 00:28:44,560 --> 00:28:47,520 Speaker 1: you already talked about that. I call it corruption the 476 00:28:47,520 --> 00:28:50,520 Speaker 1: Republican Party. I mean, do we have any indication that 477 00:28:50,560 --> 00:28:52,880 Speaker 1: Mitch McConnell's going to open up his purse strings and 478 00:28:52,920 --> 00:28:55,840 Speaker 1: give some real money to herschel Walker. Oh look, I'm 479 00:28:55,880 --> 00:28:58,120 Speaker 1: sure he will raise money and invest in the race. 480 00:28:58,480 --> 00:29:00,400 Speaker 1: But if you look at this last site, well, Mitch 481 00:29:00,440 --> 00:29:03,560 Speaker 1: McConnell pulled the money out of Arizona. We could have 482 00:29:03,640 --> 00:29:07,440 Speaker 1: won Arizona, We nearly won Arizona, and abandoning Blake Masters 483 00:29:07,520 --> 00:29:10,520 Speaker 1: was indefensible. Mitch, why will that happen? I got to 484 00:29:10,560 --> 00:29:13,440 Speaker 1: ask you, because everybody's going to say the same thing 485 00:29:13,520 --> 00:29:16,520 Speaker 1: I am right now. Explain to me, Senator, why in 486 00:29:16,560 --> 00:29:18,560 Speaker 1: a race where the polling showed that we had a 487 00:29:18,640 --> 00:29:22,400 Speaker 1: legitimate chance of winning there, why did he pull out 488 00:29:22,480 --> 00:29:27,640 Speaker 1: that money from Masters who desperately needed it? Because Masters 489 00:29:27,680 --> 00:29:31,000 Speaker 1: said he would vote against Mitch McConnell, and so Mitch 490 00:29:31,080 --> 00:29:36,880 Speaker 1: would rather be leader than have a Republican majority. If 491 00:29:36,880 --> 00:29:39,080 Speaker 1: there's a Republican who can win who's not going to 492 00:29:39,160 --> 00:29:42,400 Speaker 1: support Mitch, the truth of the matter is he'd rather 493 00:29:42,480 --> 00:29:44,920 Speaker 1: the Democrat win. So he pulled all the money out 494 00:29:44,920 --> 00:29:48,720 Speaker 1: of Arizona. He put nine million dollars into Alaska. And Alaska, 495 00:29:48,840 --> 00:29:52,719 Speaker 1: we've got an election between Lisa Murkowsky, a Republican, and 496 00:29:52,840 --> 00:29:55,360 Speaker 1: Kelly Shabaka, a Republican. One of the two is going 497 00:29:55,440 --> 00:29:58,960 Speaker 1: to win. Right now, Shabaka is leading in the polls. 498 00:30:00,040 --> 00:30:04,360 Speaker 1: She is endorsed by the Alaska Republican Party, but she 499 00:30:04,480 --> 00:30:08,960 Speaker 1: said she'd vote against Mitch, whereas Lisa Murkowski will vote 500 00:30:09,000 --> 00:30:11,720 Speaker 1: for Mitch. And so Mitch spent nine million dollars in 501 00:30:11,960 --> 00:30:15,240 Speaker 1: essentially the primary in Alaska. Now, it may be that 502 00:30:15,320 --> 00:30:18,600 Speaker 1: Murkowski wins because they have this weird ranked choice voting there, 503 00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:21,680 Speaker 1: so the Democrat got a handful of votes. Those Democrat 504 00:30:21,760 --> 00:30:24,640 Speaker 1: votes will be reassigned, and you have to assume all 505 00:30:24,640 --> 00:30:26,840 Speaker 1: the Democrats are going to vote for Lisa Murkowski, which 506 00:30:26,880 --> 00:30:31,120 Speaker 1: may give her the win. But nine million dollars in Alaska. Look, 507 00:30:31,200 --> 00:30:35,400 Speaker 1: Alaska has a very small population. Nine million dollars is 508 00:30:35,440 --> 00:30:40,800 Speaker 1: like setting off Adam bomb. Yeah, that was nine million 509 00:30:40,800 --> 00:30:43,160 Speaker 1: dollars that was not spent in Arizona. If that nine 510 00:30:43,200 --> 00:30:46,680 Speaker 1: million dollars have been spent in Arizona, Blake Masters probably 511 00:30:46,720 --> 00:30:48,600 Speaker 1: would have won and we wouldn't be on the road 512 00:30:48,640 --> 00:30:53,920 Speaker 1: to a Republican majority. But Mitch made a decision it's 513 00:30:54,000 --> 00:30:57,800 Speaker 1: more important to him to have Republicans who will back 514 00:30:57,920 --> 00:31:02,880 Speaker 1: him than it is to have fifty one Republicans. I 515 00:31:03,040 --> 00:31:06,640 Speaker 1: understand why. There's a certain selfishness that justifies that. It 516 00:31:06,720 --> 00:31:08,680 Speaker 1: just doesn't make any sense if you give a damn 517 00:31:08,680 --> 00:31:11,440 Speaker 1: about the country. Mitch also pulled all the money out 518 00:31:11,440 --> 00:31:14,920 Speaker 1: of New Hampshire Bulldock. Look he ended up losing by 519 00:31:14,960 --> 00:31:19,320 Speaker 1: a significant margin, but Maggie Hassan, the Democrat, was way 520 00:31:19,400 --> 00:31:21,960 Speaker 1: under fifty percent, was vulnerable and a big part of 521 00:31:22,000 --> 00:31:25,080 Speaker 1: the reason Bulldock lost as he got massively outspent and 522 00:31:25,120 --> 00:31:29,360 Speaker 1: had no resources. I think there needs to be a 523 00:31:29,400 --> 00:31:34,480 Speaker 1: real discussion about where dollars are invested. I think we 524 00:31:34,520 --> 00:31:38,040 Speaker 1: will see significant dollars invested in Georgia. But I'm worried 525 00:31:38,080 --> 00:31:40,560 Speaker 1: that people will be demoralized and say it doesn't matter. 526 00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:45,000 Speaker 1: And if you say it doesn't matter, that's how you 527 00:31:45,040 --> 00:31:47,800 Speaker 1: get fifty one Democrats. That's how they knuked the filibuster, 528 00:31:47,920 --> 00:31:53,920 Speaker 1: that's how they enact the republic ending changes that destroy 529 00:31:54,000 --> 00:31:59,080 Speaker 1: our democracy. And so I get that you're pissed, but 530 00:31:59,320 --> 00:32:02,720 Speaker 1: go to Team Herschel dot com. Teamherschel dot com teamherschel 531 00:32:02,760 --> 00:32:07,080 Speaker 1: dot com. Make a contribution. If you're in Georgia, show up, work, 532 00:32:07,760 --> 00:32:13,760 Speaker 1: let's win that seat. But also today, call your senators. 533 00:32:14,040 --> 00:32:16,960 Speaker 1: You gotta call your senators on that leadership vote. By 534 00:32:17,000 --> 00:32:20,480 Speaker 1: the way, do you know that the Democrats are voting 535 00:32:20,520 --> 00:32:23,680 Speaker 1: the first week of December? So the Democrats have the 536 00:32:23,720 --> 00:32:26,320 Speaker 1: sense to delay because they're like, gosh, Raphael Wardock got 537 00:32:26,400 --> 00:32:29,120 Speaker 1: to be able to vote. We shouldn't have a vote 538 00:32:29,120 --> 00:32:31,280 Speaker 1: till we know who's in the conference. That actually makes 539 00:32:31,760 --> 00:32:34,680 Speaker 1: enormous common sense. And yet the Republican leadership is like, 540 00:32:34,920 --> 00:32:38,160 Speaker 1: screw the voters. Doesn't matter who's in the conference, we're 541 00:32:38,240 --> 00:32:42,760 Speaker 1: voting now. It makes no sense other than as an 542 00:32:42,800 --> 00:32:49,000 Speaker 1: exercise of raw political power. And yet there are acolytes 543 00:32:49,880 --> 00:32:53,200 Speaker 1: of Mitch McConnell who are going on national television saying 544 00:32:54,160 --> 00:32:57,280 Speaker 1: vote for Mitch and let's vote now. 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