Episode 2255: The Democratic Politicians Are Terrified Of Their Own Shadows; ProtectTheVote.com
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Summary
John Fetterman has a stroke and is fighting for his political life. He's running for Governor of Pennsylvania against Josh Shapiro, a fellow physician and former state senator, in the upcoming primary election. In this episode, we talk about the debate, his recovery, and why he should have been allowed to run for governor.
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released your detailed medical records surrounding your stroke. Mr. Fetterman,
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will you pledge tonight to release those records in the interest of transparency?
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You have 60 seconds. To me, for transparency, it's about showing up. I'm here today to have a
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debate. I have, you know, speeches in front of 3,000 people in Montgomery County, you know,
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all across Pennsylvania, big, big crowds. You know, I believe if my doctor believes that I'm
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fit to serve. And that's what I believe is appropriate. And now with two weeks before
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the election, you know, I have run the campaign and I've been very transparent about being very
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open about the fact we're going to use captioning. And I believe that, again, my doctors, the real
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doctors that I believe in, they all believe that I'm ready to be served. Follow up. I didn't hear
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you say you would release your full medical records. Why not? You have 30 seconds.
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No. Again, my doctor all believes that I'm fit to be serving. And that's what I believe
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is where I'm standing. I do want to clarify something. You're saying tonight that you
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support fracking, that you've always supported fracking, but there is that 2018 interview that
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you said, quote, I don't support fracking at all. So how do you square the two?
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Oh, I do support fracking and I don't, I don't, I support fracking and I stand and I do support
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fracking. Okay. Uh, it is Wednesday, 26 October in the year of our Lord, 2022. We're now within
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two weeks of the most important midterm. They try to say last night on MSNBC, 1850, uh, no, 1862
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in the, uh, right after Antietam or Sharpsburg, depending on, um, what your viewpoint is. Um,
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so these shows are going to be absolutely jammed wall to wall, and we're going to be doing live
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streams constantly. Last night, I think we had, I think over 20, 25,000 people on the live streams
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with the Grace Moe and the Gene Zirkle. And I will come in and out of those all day long. Just be
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advised, get it, get her, watch, uh, our announcements. We're going to be putting these
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up nonstop. Uh, last night, this was a disgrace. This is a disgrace to the Democrat party. This shows
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you how low they would go. An individual that's clearly very ill, right? And needs to recover
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in a long, tough recovery. To put that out in front of the world is, is a disgrace.
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And then afterwards on MSNBC, the New York magazine reporter was saying how great, you know, how great
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this was a disgrace. The political class here was shocked. We've been following this closely. That's
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what we got Joe Allen up there in the Commonwealth. We knew how bad this was going to be. The political
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class, every sitting there shocked, they're all shocked, you know, that he'd be kept. No,
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this is a disgrace. This talks to a deeper rot of the Democrat. This one, the Democrat party is going
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to get blown out. And this is not about Fetterman right now. This is about Josh Shapiro. I don't
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bring a Colonel Doug Mastriano, Colonel Mastriano for a state or Commonwealth that has the history
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of Pennsylvania. Not just how important Pennsylvania is now is the Saudi Arabia of the United States
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with the natural gas and oil, but what it has meant to our nation, not just in the fight for liberty in
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the revolution, but, but besides my home state of, of the Commonwealth, Virginia, the central
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battlefield of, of the civil war. It is a disgrace. Tell me last night, I want to know your historian.
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That was an absolute disgrace to allow John Fetterman, a very ill individual to go up there
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last night. It didn't really, you know, Oz couldn't, had to kind of be with kid gloves.
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It's not the type of debate. Watch Tudor, Dixon and Whitmer. Watch Lee Zeldin and Hochul. Look,
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I'm not a Whitmer fan. I'm not a Hochul fan and Tudor Dixon. And we're going to show some clips,
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Tudor Dixon and, and, and, uh, Lee Zeldin took it to him, but those were two debates. I thought the
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Democrats got beat, but that's what you see when people running for governor, people have to have
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the choice and sit there and to know this has been hidden and the political class knew it. So
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they're coming at, man, this is really terrible. Colonel Mastriano. It's really bizarre. If you
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think about the rich history of our nation and especially Pennsylvania, as you laid out, I mean,
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it's just incredible, you know, Valley Forge, Independence Hall, the Constitution,
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Gettysburg, even 9-11 flight 93 down in Somerset County. And, uh, I just don't know what the
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Democrat party's thinking. They've, they've gone mad because you think about their policies on crime.
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You know, my opponent, Josh Shapiro, you know, at least Fetterman showed up. I mean, my opponent
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who has his cognitive abilities about him, refuses to stand on the stage with me because he's a coward
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because I'll smoke him like a bad cigar. And we see the same thing happening in Arizona and elsewhere
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where they're dodging debates left and right. And so, you know, this is really a job interview
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and, uh, I've laid it out 70 days ago to Josh Shapiro to, to meet me on the field of battle
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on a debate, the battle of ideas, metaphorically speaking. And he absolutely refuses to stand on
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the stage with me, period. Why is it, how can a guy be at the attorney general and crime ridden?
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And now we're going to show morning Joe, as soon as you get off, we're gonna show morning Joe,
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uh, Al Sharpton, um, you know, morning Joe, uh, Chris Matthews are all saying, yeah, crime
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is huge. It's obviously a huge issue with the minority community because they're the victims
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by and large. It's gotta be talked about, of course, within two weeks, how can Josh Shapiro
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who is directly in the chain of command and responsible for the, the, the, the brutality
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against the minority community in Philadelphia, how can he not have enough respect for the people
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of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to stand on a stage and defend his record and talk
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about what he wants to do going forward? This is outrageous. He should get beaten by 20 points.
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If he doesn't have the guts to stand in front of the people of, of Pennsylvania and sit there
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and go, this is what I've done. This is why I did it. Right. And this is what I'm gonna do
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I believe honestly, Steve, and this is not Ed Helman. And I think it's, it's, it's borne out
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by his behavior and attitude in his job and capacity as a, as the senior law enforcement
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official, that he has general disdain from common people of Pennsylvania. He does not
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respect them. He does not like them. Uh, if he did have respect for the people of Pennsylvania,
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he would have done his job as the attorney general over the past six years and fought
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crime. And instead it's gone up 40% on his watch this year alone, a thousand carjackings
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in Philadelphia alone, just Philadelphia, you know, 4,400 robberies in Philadelphia. You saw
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the mayhem in Wawa last month. And now while I was pulling many stores out of Philadelphia,
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I mean, this, this is pretty catastrophic shootings after football games. I mean, it's the list is
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just incredible sex trafficking going on, uh, fentanyl deaths is skyrocketing the lawlessness
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in Kensington with the opener drug market. And he owns it all. And it's the media is, is providing
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cover. If this was a Republican attorney general running from a debate in a gubernatorial race,
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they would be crucifying that person every day. But since it's Josh Shapiro and the Pennsylvania
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media is in Josh Shapiro's pockets, they're covering for him. He gets a free pass, just
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like Levine got a free pass in sending the sick back in a home. Uh, Josh Shapiro looked the other
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way on that. Uh, Josh Shapiro is always on the wrong side of history. Instead of doing his job
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and fighting for the people and our rights, I mean, he sues nuns. I mean, the guy is completely
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has lacks of moral compass. By the way, all the Republican establishment people you've seen
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come out, they're all elites. They don't care about anybody but themselves and their net worth.
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That's where they're partners with. That's where they're backing Josh Shapiro. They're backing
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Josh Shapiro for one reason, money. They want it. They're totally corrupt. All they care about is
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money. All they care about is their tax cuts. This is all they care about. So you talk about Republicans
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not backing Mastriano. It's all the elites that are in business with the scumbag Shapiro.
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I just want to make sure everybody in the Commonwealth understands this. You will go
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anywhere, any place, anytime under any rules and take on Josh Shapiro in a debate stage in the next,
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what, 13 days, Colonel? I will be happy to take him on and expose him to the people of the state.
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You know, the people need to hear from Josh Shapiro and I and see us side by side. You know,
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we crossed paths one time and he made sure to have a wide path around me on Erie. The guy's a coward.
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I'm impressed by how cowardly and sheltered he is. And so in the meantime, we're taking our message
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to the state and Steve that despite not having, you know, broad establishment support, we're still
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neck and neck in this race here. And I believe we're going to have a great victory. So but the
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people have to get out and vote. You just can't sit back. You know, the time of shaking your fist
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at the TV screen is over. You've got to just not get out and vote, but also spread the word. Pick up that
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telephone list that you have or email all your contacts. Get out the vote. 13 days. We're at
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a crossroads between tyranny and freedom. We need everybody to get to the phone banks to get.
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This is all get out the vote. We're going to talk later about securing the vote in Pennsylvania.
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Josh Shapiro, correct me if I'm wrong. What am I looking for? My ever cracked staff. He has not
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tweeted at anything on the Fetterman thing. Well, he owns that. This is how gutless and what a coward he
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is. He won't even step up. Fetterman and Shapiro, well, they can't be bolted to the hip because of
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the size difference. He's on the show. They are bolted together. It's a package. It's a package
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deal. When everybody in the Commonwealth that's revolted and disgusted by the scam, the Democrats
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have tried to run and to sit there and go, my doctors have said, I'm okay. I think I'm okay.
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No, we look, Fetterman is going to get beat by 15 points down, but we need you to step up and put
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forward your full medical records. The people of Pennsylvania, the people of Pennsylvania
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have to be able to sit there and review this themselves and make their own judgment.
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Colonel Mastrano, where do people go to find out more about your campaign, sir?
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Thank you, Steve. Go to DougForGov.com and kick in a few bucks to help us get across the line
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and volunteer. You don't have to live in Pennsylvania to volunteer. We have phone banks.
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You can be making phone calls. We want to make several million calls before the election.
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We need poll watchers to stand at the gates of the polls, of course, for transparency,
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as Yonkin did last year, to ensure a free and fair election. So thanks again for having me on.
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This is very, it's very serious in Pennsylvania.
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You saw that. You saw what they tried. You saw the scam they're trying to play in there.
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Everybody that's paid attention to this at all.
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He's a very ill individual and is a multi-year process to recover.
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You know, this audience will pray for him in his recovery.
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And then to have people on MSNBC in the poll, you know, some of the initial reports made it seem like it was every day.
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I thought that the Democrats got beaten badly, but it was a debate.
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There's other, and by the way, Shapiro owns Fetterman.
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I know it's tough to look at you and see a man, but be a man.
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Be a man and step up to the plate and debate Doug Mastriano.
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Own what you've done to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
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Own what you've done to the minority community in Pennsylvania.
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Own what you've done to the school children in Pennsylvania.
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Katie Hobbs is going to be by eight points out there.
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Two, she's too gutless to stand on a stage with Carrie Lake.
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You're too gutless to stand on a stage with Doug Mastriano.
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Regardless of your politics, now you need people who are authentic and who have courage.
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Every Democrat that's listening to this show or knows a Democrat, just push this out to
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them and say, hey, look what they're trying to, the scam they're trying to put on you with
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Natalie, you've unearthed some things that are quite disturbing, ma'am.
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John Fetterman's finance director, I unearthed last night some posts that would best be described
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as racist and homophobic, including use of the N-word and the F-word and some other derogatory
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terms towards gay people, published the story about five minutes ago.
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She's already locked her entire account so no one can see it anymore and deleted all
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of the tweets that I called out in this article that's up at warrooms.org.
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And I think it's a perfect example of John Fetterman's refusal to apologize for chasing down an innocent
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black jogger with a shotgun and holding him at gunpoint while his finance director's done
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I'm just attempting to hide on Twitter, locking her account.
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Um, and like I said, no, no apology, but you can go to warrooms.org, um, to see all the
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receipts that I've saved that show the posts, all the things that she said.
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Again, this is someone who's attacked Republicans as racist.
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Of course, the Fetterman campaign has attacked Dr. Oz for being racist.
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She's portrayed herself as this defender of the quote, black and brown community while she
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was the president of her collegiate democratic club.
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Um, but in reality, if you look back at her old posts, uh, she says a lot of things that
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by really anyone's standards, let alone the far left political, politically correct social
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justice warriors, uh, are definitely not defending or helping the black and brown communities.
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So she's used, she's homophobic and using the F word.
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And she's also used the N word in the, in the, these racist posts and they had them up there.
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And just, she just locked the account when you published the story, ma'am.
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Exactly. Just about a minute ago, uh, she deleted all the posts that we called out and
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locked her account. So now no one, uh, can see, but like I said, I saved the links. We
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have the archives and they're available to see at warrooms.org and on my getter page.
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Real quickly, give me how to get to you. I'll let you go back to work.
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How do people get to you right now to find this?
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Natalie G. Winters on Twitter and getter and go to warrooms.org to read the story.
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War Room, Pandemic. Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon.
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Okay, we had a cold open, but I got to get Cortez. Cortez, your thoughts on Fetterman?
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You know, watching that last night, Steve, I'll say this first as a campaign operative.
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Oz clearly won that race last night and I hope that that momentum for Oz is also going to translate
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into increased momentum for Mastriano, which I believe, I hope and believe that it will.
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But just as a human being, it was sad to watch. It was legitimately sad to watch because all I could
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think of is no one around that man, John Fetterman, cares about him. Nobody gives a crap about him,
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okay? Not his family, not his wife, not his staff. They will use him. Why? Because the thirst for power
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among the leftists is insatiable. I think that's the important takeaway for us, for those of us in
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the patriotic populist movement, to realize who our opponents are, to realize the lengths to which
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they will go to accrue and to accumulate power. That was emblematic last night of their mentality.
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And we have to be aware of that. I think sometimes we on the right, we want to assume that there are
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good motives of our opponents on the left. There are not good motives. And what we saw last night
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Perfectly said. That's why this is dangerous. It was a tell last night. And the political class is,
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hey, you know, we didn't, it's totalized. They knew exactly what this was. Let's play the cold
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open. Now, now also here's a signal, not noise. They're all scrambling. By the way, the Hill had
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the lead story about how, if it's the numbers, 30 seats in the Senate flipping, that you're going to
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see a complete evisceration of Pelosi, Hoyer, Clyburn. They're going to have a revolt, get rid of all
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them immediately. And that that number, wait for it, is the number. If it's more than that,
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they lose the Senate, but even one in the house by 30. This is what the thinking is internally.
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These are Democrats talking that there's going to be a huge, huge effort to get Biden to come up
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a couple of days after November 8th and say, he's not running for president again. So the knives are
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not just out, the knives are getting ready to get plunged. And this is why we have to have a massive
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win on the 8th of November. We have a chance to destroy this institution as a national political
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entity from school boards all the way up. They're pivoting right now in panic mode because
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they got Lee Zeldin, metaphorically, punched out Hochul last night on crime. And they understand
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they got a problem. So they brought out Sharpton and Chris Matthews. Let's go ahead and play the
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Yeah, I'm pretty sure I just heard an audible gasp around town when Gretchen Whitmer said that
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kids were out of school for three months. Perhaps she wasn't paying attention to what was actually
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happening. We even had schools that were closed this year. This is shocking to me that she thinks
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that schools were only closed for three months. Or maybe she thinks she can convince you that schools
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were only closed for three months. But you know better because your students are the ones that
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are desperately behind. And the test scores show that she's being dishonest about this. She's being
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dishonest about even trying to get into these schools to get these schools back on track.
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sometimes Democratic candidates worry too much about what their base says.
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You've been saying that when you go and talk to people,
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crimes at the top of their list of things that they're concerned about.
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And now there's a poll that you and I have been talking about
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that actually proves that black voters are concerned with crime and think there actually
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I know this will shock white woke people who live in Park Slope,
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but black voters actually want more police officers.
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is that there is a misreading of wanting criminal justice reform and police reform
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and this is why African-Americans that want to connect back to the Hill story yesterday,
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blacks are not coming out to support their oppressors.
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the woke progressives of the radical progressives of the Democrat Party,
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the same people that propped up Fetterman last night.
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because they're the ones bearing the brunt of this criminal class.
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I think he was momentarily possessed by Steve Bannon
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talking about the issues that matter to regular voters,
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not the things that dominate the Acela corridor bubble in New York newsrooms,
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things that matter to regular people like crime.
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I want to translate this into what I believe is going to be a big wave in now less than two weeks.
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It's going to be women coming to these patriotic populist candidates.
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the Republican Party has had a real problem with women,
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But there are two issues right now that I think are front and center,
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they'd be persuadable women are going to come over
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to these wonderful Republican candidates like Lee Zeldin.
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And those two issues are crime and then injections,
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we know it is a nationwide problem because of feckless and weak blue state governors
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and the Soros-backed prosecutors who refuse to back the police
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and properly punish dangerous criminals who make our streets completely unsafe.
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I don't see many people talking about this outside of your show, Steve,
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All of them will do it if they are allowed to do it.
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And it's a massive reason why we need to fire all of those incumbents right now.
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It's why Shapiro can never become the incumbent governor of Pennsylvania.
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all of the challengers have pledged the opposite,