Nico Delgado is the Chairman of the Arizona Teenage Republican Party and a fierce opponent of the current leadership of the Republican National Committee (RNC) Youth Advisory Council. In this episode of War Room Battlefront, we discuss the youth vote battle, the lack of support from the RNC, and why the party needs to do more to engage youth voters.
00:00:00.000this is what you're fighting for I mean every day you're out there what they're
00:00:14.880doing is blowing people off if you continue to look the other way and shut
00:00:20.040up then the oppressors the authoritarians get total control and total
00:00:24.480power because this is just like in Arizona this is just like in Georgia it's
00:00:29.100another element that backs them into a quarter and shows their lies and
00:00:33.000misrepresentations is why this audience is gonna have to get engaged as we've
00:00:36.540told you this is the fight all this nonsense all this spin they can't
00:00:40.920handle the truth war room battleground here's your host Stephen K Bannon
00:00:47.400welcome to war room battleground it's Natalie G Winters hosting on today
00:00:51.480Wednesday December 20th in the year of our Lord 2023 Merry Christmas to you all
00:00:56.160and it was so wonderful meeting so many of you guys that Amfest the war room
00:00:59.940posse always shows up always turns out we're so blessed to have such a
00:01:04.140wonderful audience I hope you guys enjoyed yourselves there we are coming
00:01:08.040at you I'm at least coming at you live from Los Angeles hot off of Amfest the
00:01:12.640event concluded yesterday but I was actually really glad to go there not
00:01:16.520just because we got to do a bunch of fun live shows but I got to meet with so
00:01:20.580many grassroots types the activist class that I don't usually have the luxury of
00:01:24.980getting to talk with and chat with and understand what's really going on you
00:01:28.400know in the room where all of it where all this stuff is happening and I know
00:01:32.460this audience is very anti-Ronna Romney McDaniel emphasis on Romney you guys know
00:01:38.080Steve is always throwing down on her in his speeches calling for Don Jr. to take
00:01:42.100her place but there's sort of an interesting parallel track within the RNC a
00:01:47.160similar fight going on specifically on the youth side of things I'm sure you guys
00:01:51.760have seen the story how a bunch of people state representatives stepped down
00:01:55.860from the youth advisory council at the RNC but there's a lot more
00:01:59.500to the story there and I'm so blessed and honored to bring on our next guest
00:02:04.180someone by the name of Nico Delgado who is an absolute patriot it's a very rare
00:02:09.160day in the war room where I get to have a guest on who's younger than me but it
00:02:12.760brings me so much pride and honor really to be able to do that he's the chairman of
00:02:17.540the Arizona Teenage Republicans and Nico before we get into what you were telling
00:02:21.900me about what's going on sort of on the youth vote battle and how the RNC is not
00:02:26.320stepping up to the plate if you could let the audience know a little bit just
00:02:29.760about your background how you got involved if you're a Trump guy where you
00:02:32.960stand and everything who are you I'm a big Trump guy I'm a big Carrie Lake guy I'm a
00:02:38.800big Abe Hamaday guy I'm 16 I was just elected as the chairman of the Arizona Teenage
00:02:43.880Republicans a few weeks ago and you know I've been fighting it's it's hard being in
00:02:51.600Arizona it's hard seeing our state slowly fall because of fraudulent elections and
00:02:57.720Californians coming in so that's why I'm involved to save my great state because I
00:03:01.960think we are really the tip of the spear and if we lose Arizona we're gonna lose
00:03:06.100our country so a week or two ago I'm sure like I was saying the audience knows
00:03:11.200about what happened at the Youth Advisory Council the RNC we saw some resignations
00:03:15.500but can you give the audience a little more insight since you are very involved
00:03:18.900in sort of the youth activism community what sort of the broader critiques are
00:03:23.260of the youth engagement that the RNC is either doing or not doing I think this
00:03:28.200audience maybe isn't super familiar I actually didn't even know the RNC had a
00:03:32.200Youth Advisory Council which is sort of ridiculous but what exactly is the state
00:03:36.480of affairs right now well just like you said nobody even knew there was a Youth
00:03:41.940Advisory Council until we started attacking them so I think that's a major major
00:03:46.640problem especially going into one of the most important elections in history we need
00:03:54.120help my biggest my biggest attack on the Youth Advisory Council is the fact that
00:04:00.140Ronna Romney McDaniel is the one appointing all of her big donor kids who are
00:04:05.080paying for her big parties paying for her makeup artists so she rewards them by
00:04:10.060giving their kids positions on the council when they really don't know
00:04:13.700anything about winning these battleground states that we have to win that's my
00:04:17.240largest critique of the council they're not doing anything for us as the
00:04:21.940chairman of the teenage Republicans I haven't received any help I speak to the
00:04:25.960largest chapters for turning point for the college Republicans for the young
00:04:30.480Republicans they've never been reached out to and we need their help this is not
00:04:34.920something where every organization can just work on their own and we can expect
00:04:38.800win we all need to be coordinating we all need the resources from the national
00:04:42.900party so we can win these youth voters there's 41 million voters that are going
00:04:47.680to be Gen Z next year and if we don't win them we're going to have a very hard time
00:04:52.680winning our country back from what I understand this Youth Advisory Council which has I think
00:04:59.820you said about a hundred members but they're co-chairs who are directly appointed by Ronna
00:05:05.060Romney McDaniel McDaniel and I understand that or at least I would surmise that their goal like
00:05:11.060you said should be to turn out the vote for Donald J Trump it seems like the RNC is a little
00:05:15.520preoccupied with hosting sideshow to a sideshow to a sideshow debates but you're saying you haven't
00:05:21.540heard anything from them in terms of actually the grassroots the door knocking that kind of stuff but
00:05:26.700I'm curious what what they are doing we were talking and you said the only accomplishments that
00:05:32.160they love to go on of course Fox News and brag about is that they're bringing influencers to uh these
00:05:37.940you know VP that's a maybe a euphemistic term but the VP debates what's uh what's going on what are they
00:05:43.420actually doing yeah I mean I called out one of their co-chairs the other day and he responded with
00:05:49.140a list of their accomplishments and it's they're nothing to brag about uh they're really just pushing
00:05:55.660the bank your vote system that the RNC has been pushing and the rest of the 10 accomplishments are
00:06:02.800something to do with these like you said vice presidential debates these are the lowest rated
00:06:08.400presidential debates in history really it's it's not something I would brag about bringing young
00:06:13.960people to go listen to a bunch of second third and fourth placers we need them to start working with
00:06:21.220the nominee Donald Trump I'm just going to call him the nominee because he basically already is
00:06:26.880we don't need to waste our time on these sideshows and waste money and resources on making sure that
00:06:33.540Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley get to spread their neocon message across the country
00:06:37.900so to take a step back here obviously we're focusing on the youth advisory council but I think
00:06:43.960it sort of speaks to the broader systemic issue of having Rana in charge of the RNC whose track
00:06:50.080record is is so abysmal it's scary for the sake of Republicans but I'm just curious from your
00:06:56.260perspective talking to other people your age really you know the people who are concerned with
00:07:00.720the youth vote do you think that this is an issue that goes all the way to the top in other words
00:07:06.800is this just sort of another footnote in the very long case that we can make why Rana needs to step
00:07:12.800down from the RNC 100 percent you know I am a big supporter of the resign Rana movement I'd be happy
00:07:21.520today if she left immediately just like Vivek said on stage of the debate I would love to see Vivek take
00:07:28.160over to be honest I think he would be a great chairman but we need real leadership that's going
00:07:34.100to fight for Gen Z's vote because like I said 41 million new voters I believe 20 million of them are
00:07:39.500new just from the last election alone we need help this is not something that each organization can
00:07:45.880do individually turning points doing a great job the teenage Republicans were trying our best the
00:07:50.900young Republicans are trying their best but we can't do it if we don't have real leadership at
00:07:55.800the top coordinating and helping us win we seem to see these polls emerge before every election saying
00:08:02.620that you know the youth vote the people in our age group are going to turn I guess you don't know
00:08:06.940but you know we're going to turn out in droves to support President Trump I think the latest was
00:08:12.260it's a six-point spread between Biden and Trump and to make no mistake inflation immigration I'm sure
00:08:17.560moving the needle when it comes to younger voters but it never really seems like that red wave you know
00:08:22.820materializes right when at least if you look empirically at the last two or three elections so
00:08:29.280I'm just curious again from your opinion it sounds like you're on college campuses you're on high school
00:08:33.060campuses a lot talking to the the youth vote do you think those polls are accurate do you think they
00:08:39.460reflect but conversely do you think the RNC is not doing enough to drive that momentum into young
00:08:44.840voters actually turning out on election day um I think that we are winning with the youth um I've seen
00:08:53.140polls left and right Abe Hamaday sent me a poll the other day saying high school boys are turning more
00:08:58.380conservative than they ever have before they're sick of the transgender nonsense they're sick of
00:09:03.780the indoctrination going on in our schools but like you said if we don't have Ron and McDaniel
00:09:10.000helping and RNC helping get them out to vote it doesn't matter what the polls say it doesn't matter
00:09:15.940what they believe if they're not going out and casting their vote it's it's going to hurt us if we
00:09:21.560don't get real leadership that actually cares about getting people out to vote it's okay if you believe
00:09:26.440in uh election fraud if you can believe in the transgender nonsense if you believe in this that
00:09:31.860and the other but if you don't go and show that you believe it by casting your vote for President
00:09:36.740Trump for Carrie Lake for people running next year it doesn't matter we're going to lose our country
00:09:41.220war room posse I don't know if you guys are feeling depressed at all when you look at the news but I
00:09:47.580think Nico is a a bright spot like you said he's just 16 and look at all that he's been able to do it's
00:09:54.060like I said very cool for me to be able to have someone on who is similarly young I think I started
00:09:57.920actually no I think you take the prize for me I was 18 when I did my first war room hit so I think
00:10:03.560you're the youngest guest in the war room Nico if people want to follow you stay up to date with
00:10:07.940everything you're working on I'll of course have you back on but where can people go to stay up to
00:10:11.720date follow you do do all the things all of my social media platforms are Nico Delgado AZ I'd love to
00:10:18.280have your support and let's get Rana to resign I love it it's a multi-generational fight to get
00:10:26.100Rana Romney McDaniel to resign Nico thank you so much for joining us you have a good one thank you
00:10:31.620of course now our next guest we're gonna pivot go a little more on the geopolitics angle but talking
00:10:38.760about elections nonetheless is Dr. Bradley Thayer of course a good friend of the show who's always
00:10:44.280putting up expert commentary on the war room.org website if you go there and you go to the newsroom
00:10:49.220tab you can find a lot of his analysis some of my stories I would say start with his stories because
00:10:54.120he always provides just wonderful analysis you won't find anywhere else certainly not in the
00:10:58.620mainstream media but Dr. Thayer your new piece is why Taiwan's 2024 presidential election matters to
00:11:05.340Americans if you want to walk us through everything in the piece I'm sure the audience would love it
00:11:09.980sure Natalie it's great to join you again the piece makes two major arguments first Taiwan matters to
00:11:17.720Americans because of its importance its importance first of all is economic the fact that Taiwan is the
00:11:24.400world's chip producer and so much of what our industries depend on of course what our life depends on
00:11:30.840comes from processing chips that are made in Taiwan it's also on its own a substantial economy
00:11:39.580secondly it occupies geostrategic real estate and that is it's very close about 110 miles at its closest
00:11:47.320point to the People's Republic of China and it can work to bottle up the Chinese military as well as
00:11:56.260offering important military and intelligence bases for the United States and its allies thirdly it matters
00:12:03.400because in political warfare it's very significant because Taiwan shows what the People's Republic should
00:12:10.600have been what China should be a democracy and it would have been if the illegitimate Chinese Communist Party
00:12:17.740hadn't seized power in 1949 so Taiwan's existence is a great embarrassment to the Chinese Communist Party and then lastly it is it's significant because it shows the ability of the U.S.
00:12:31.400the U.S. and the willpower of the U.S. and its allies to stand up to the CCP's aggression and so the reports that Steve referenced this morning NBC reports about how Xi told Biden that he was going to take Taiwan is particularly alarming given that and it only underscores the need to redouble our efforts to ensure that Taiwan can resist an invasion now Taiwan's going to have an election on in January it's a major election
00:13:01.400got two big ones in 2024 the US presidential election the Taiwanese election Taiwan's election matters because the CCP is trying to put its thumb on the scale to ensure that its favorite candidates favorite party in this instance the Nationalist Party or what's called the KMT wins over the Democratic Progressive Party or what's called the DPP.
00:13:25.400And those are the two major parties really vying in the election and from the standpoint of the U.S. and the standpoint of an independent Taiwan a DPP victory is far superior to the KMT.
00:13:43.400But I also argue that the CCP wants chaos right I think Lenin had that great quip during the czar's time the worse the better that is the worse the conditions were for the Russian people under czar Nicholas II the better it was for the communists and their chance to come to power.
00:14:05.400And from the CCP's perspective there's something which is analogous that they want chaos they want doubt they want confusion in Taiwanese politics which is all about pairing the battle space for the invasion that Xi Jinping essentially communicated will come to Biden in that disastrous meeting in California in the San Francisco area in November of this year.
00:14:34.400So those are the major arguments of the peace and it's important for all Americans to recognize why Taiwan matters but also why this election the Taiwanese presidential election is so significant for our interest the CCP is pushing hard to coerce Taiwan in its multi staged path towards conquering it.
00:15:01.400And Americans have to know what's at stake and Americans have to know what's at stake and be willing to stand with the Taiwanese government to resist that coercion.
00:15:10.240Well you bring up something that I wanted to ask you about you know you see the headlines today that Xi warned Biden saying that he will unify Taiwan with China.
00:15:20.120I know we've had a bunch of people on the show it seems sort of like our thesis of geopolitics right now we see all these bad actors whether it's the Chinese Communist Party in an alliance with Russia North Korea and Iran working to create these global conflicts to distract us from what's going on here at home right weakness invites aggression but I think there's something a little more nefarious sinister and calculated going on.
00:15:41.980But I know that I believe it was Josh Phillip was on the show was talking about how the Chinese Communist Party had wanted to open it was either three or four fronts of war you look at Ukraine is the first you look at what's going on in the Middle East is the second.
00:15:52.920And I think everyone is sort of you know guessing that Taiwan could potentially be the third I'd maybe throw in our southern border as maybe the third you could put Taiwan as the fourth but I'm just curious do you think that we're sort of seeing that prophecy be fulfilled.
00:16:05.780Do you think there's sort of a broader strategy here if so what what exactly is it and how do we push back going into 2024.
00:16:13.020Well to my mind of course there's a strategy and that's not all in terms of the list of horrors is longer there could be something on the Korean Peninsula North Korea is very close to China the People's Republic and so a North Korean crisis with the South could occupy our attention still further Pakistan could do something against India to occupy China's southern flank.
00:16:38.360So there are additional crises that may come our way assume we need to recognize that but no having these events around the world these crises around the world recognizing the US intelligence community and military has limited bandwidth and they can focus well on some things but to be overwhelmed with these crises.
00:17:02.940The Red Sea, the Red Sea, the Gaza and its consequences, the Ukraine war, other threats and other activities around the world really is stretching us and occupying us and the Biden administration has been loathe to take the steps necessary to protect Taiwan.
00:17:54.920And partners like India, the Philippines, other states should also in a bilateral way take up the mantle and help Taiwan if the Biden administration isn't doing what it should do.
00:18:07.680Our European allies could as well. Britain, France, Germany have helped us out with freedom of navigation operations. Canada as well. And the Taiwan Straits as well as in the South China Sea. And having more of that and having that essentially done permanently is really important.
00:18:24.560But as we move into a presidential campaign, U.S. presidential campaign, it's very important for the American people to know where the candidates stand by the administration versus likely Trump nomination and campaign that where people stand and on Taiwan and Trump hands down is far stronger, far more supportive of all the steps that are necessary not only to protect Taiwan, but to cut the head off the snake.
00:18:52.900And that is to go after the CCP itself, as it is an illegitimate regime, which should not be in power in China.
00:19:01.400So much work to be done, to be sure. But there's going to be a very difficult, I think in a very 2024 is going to be a very difficult year and 2025 likely as well as a consequence.
00:19:17.060I'm curious. I know you were on War Room, I think about a week ago, talking about, you know, the modern day opium war, everything that's going on at the border and fentanyl.
00:19:25.520And it was interesting. I was reading a press release from the White House not too long ago calling out the fentanyl crisis.
00:19:31.360I'm sure we probably shamed him over at the War Room into doing that. But they only mentioned China once.
00:19:36.060They also never say the Chinese Communist Party, which I think is the biggest tell.
00:19:40.880But it seems like that's sort of a broader example of how this regime is just unwilling to actually go to bat to tackle the Chinese Communist Party in a substantive way.
00:19:49.360I'm just curious, from your perspective, do you think that what is motivating that, what is behind that is just ideologically these people still sort of subscribe to the, you know,
00:19:58.140we should let China into the World Trade Organization mindset, right? Like we are going to change them.
00:20:02.680They're going to become more democratic. Or do you think it's more of the, you know, nefarious critique?
00:20:07.360In other words, the people who are making the decisions within the Biden regime are so compromised beyond belief.
00:20:13.880Hunter Biden is maybe a good example of that, but that they really couldn't even put America first or substantively counter China if they wanted to.
00:20:20.720Or both. They can be related, right? The engagement school and its perniciousness is a cancer on the American political system,
00:20:30.020which has affected politicians of both parties, sadly. Mitch McConnell, Joe Biden, we could go on, certainly.
00:20:39.240As well as politicians around the world, from South America to Central America, Africa, Europe, South Asia, Australia.
00:20:51.540The modus operandi of the Communist Party of China was to gain influence through bribery, through business deals,
00:20:58.540through so many of really the sordid mess that we're seeing with the Biden family and the layers.
00:21:06.760It's like Schliemann at Troy, right? You have to go through these layers of corruption, and every layer leads a new, essentially, list of discoveries and corrupt practices.
00:21:20.820So the engagement school started this, right? We got off terribly on the wrong foot with Clinton,
00:21:26.400who recognized that he could sell, he could take Chinese money and sell influence.
00:21:31.700And that just metastasized through the U.S. political community, as well as business media, universities, foundations, of course,
00:21:38.960as you have documented, Natalie, time and time again.
00:21:42.500And what you're really seeing is the apotheosis of that with Biden.
00:33:05.940Well, yeah, I don't know, we might have experienced an attack going into this broadcast by the radical left,
00:33:12.040which is obviously trying to sabotage President Trump all across this country.
00:33:16.540I think here we see yet another example of how the people who always claim to be the greatest defenders of our democracy,
00:33:24.420relying on the least Democratic, anti-Democratic means to try to sabotage the will of 1.2 million MAGA diehard Republican Trump voters
00:33:34.740within the state of Colorado by relying on extra constitutional measures,
00:33:41.560which is, of course, these rogue judges who are obviously trying to remove Trump from the ballot.
00:33:48.220The decision was interesting, given the fact that the Supreme Court in the state of Colorado is,
00:33:53.360as you may know, comprised entirely of Democrats.
00:33:56.460So, this was a four-to-three decision.
00:33:58.940So, it was split, even though all seven of the judges there were Democrat appointees.
00:34:05.520You know, Colorado's been a blue state in recent election cycles.
00:34:09.260It's been pretty decidedly in Democratic control in recent elections.
00:34:14.840So, you know, it's not like this decision will have a major impact in terms of, like, the presidential level.
00:34:21.900But all that being said, you know, it's pretty scary that judges feel like they can get away with, obviously, denying and subverting the will of Republican voters,
00:34:34.000and really all voters in the state of Colorado, by taking that option off the table entirely.
00:34:39.720Now, this decision will automatically be appealed to the Supreme Court.
00:34:43.380We're hoping for a very swift and decisive decision ruling by the Supreme Court, you know, soon.
00:34:51.500And I hope, you know, the Supreme Court makes a very sweeping ruling on this,
00:34:56.200puts an end to any allegation that President Trump could be removed from the ballot
00:35:01.580because, you know, he engaged in an insurrection, which is a totally bogus and ridiculous legal theory on its face.
00:35:09.260I mean, this amendment, the 14th Amendment, was passed, you know, in the years after the Civil War.
00:35:14.440It had a very definite meaning, and that obviously was, you know, for, you know, the circumstances that led up to the Civil War,
00:35:23.380actual armed rebellion against the United States government.
00:35:27.320Of course, that nowhere resembles anything that happened on January 6th, 2021.
00:35:33.960So I hope the Supreme Court makes that very clear in the ruling that they issue once they inevitably take up this case.
00:35:43.660And I hope they do so quick because this is something that cannot be tolerated if we're going to have a free country.
00:35:51.400You know, this is totally ridiculous, what we're seeing here.
00:35:55.680You're always ahead of the curve when it comes to sort of debunking, I think, some of the far-left activists behind these, you know, lawfare attempts.
00:36:04.020I don't even know what number we're on.
00:36:05.520We've got four indictments, removal from the ballot.
00:36:08.360But, you know, hey, according to the Washington Post, democracy dies in darkness.
00:36:12.300I've said it before, I'll say it again.
00:36:26.840But I'm curious, you know, we opened the show this morning with a pretty long package of all the people we don't usually like to play in the war room,
00:36:33.520you know, the John Boltons of the world.
00:36:34.860But they were sort of saying what you're saying, right, the quiet part out loud.
00:36:37.640In other words, these indictments, this ballot removal shenanigans, it's only going to help propel Trump in the polls, in the election.
00:36:44.700So that sort of makes me wonder, and I'm curious for your thoughts on this,
00:36:48.600it's so transparent at this point that it's only helping President Trump.
00:39:26.040You know, I believe the Republican chairman in the state of Colorado is now going to ask Ronna McDaniel
00:39:34.760if they could caucus in that state rather than primary, which is a good thing, you know,
00:39:39.460over, you know, fight fire with fire and recognize that this is a political hit job against your political opponent.
00:39:47.240So use political means to counteract that.
00:39:49.260I think more Republicans have to be doing that in every state, whether they come from a state like New York
00:39:54.880or a state or a red state like Florida, you know, they have to be relying on strong methods
00:40:01.420to counteract this left-wing push to sabotage the presidential race.
00:40:06.360And I think, you know, the left recognizes that they could get away with a lot
00:40:10.860because they don't receive a lot of opposition from the Republican Party or from the RNC under Ronna McDaniel.
00:40:16.540Really, the only opposition they face is from Donald Trump.
00:40:19.260Desperate times obviously call for desperate measures.
00:40:23.580So I'm just curious, looking, you know, kind of long range,
00:40:26.100where do you think they're going to go next with this whole lawfare schtick?
00:40:31.480Do you think they're going to drop more diamonds?
00:40:33.680Do you think they're going to try to sort of metastasize this ballot removal process to other states?
00:40:39.620What do you think their next, you know, arrow in the quiver or tool in the tool belt is going to be to bring Trump down?
00:40:45.460Well, I think once the Supreme Court takes up this 14th Amendment case and hopefully puts a very strong decision ruling against what these people are doing,
00:40:55.580I think that's going to go out the window.
00:40:57.340So they're going to have to rely on other, as you said, you know, lawfare methods to try to remove Trump,
00:41:03.500given that, you know, the traditional Democratic methods are failing across the board.
00:41:07.140So I think you're going to see more of this, more and more of these indictments, more of these investigations,
00:41:12.200more of these ridiculous lawsuits and legal theories that they're kind of just pulling out of thin air to try to bring him down.
00:41:19.160I think you're going to see that sort of amplify and escalate, especially as the primary season unfolds.
00:41:25.140And especially as we begin to see these poll numbers become validated in real time when Trump starts winning.
00:41:33.000You know, once we pass Iowa and New Hampshire and South Carolina, we begin, you know, seeing these real time victories for President Trump.
00:41:40.880So I think the desperation is going to cause them to rely on more of these methods.
00:41:45.320And we're going to see that all throughout the year.
00:41:46.960And that's why Republicans, my message to Republicans, is to remain vigilant and to try to counteract this by their own political methods.
00:41:57.200Because, you know, Donald Trump, unfortunately, next year, it seems like he's going to be consumed by a lot of this lawfare stuff.
00:42:05.380So Republicans have to rally behind President Trump.
00:42:08.820My message to Ron DeSantis and to Nikki Haley and to Chris Christie and really anyone who's still in the primaries to drop out,
00:42:15.640endorse Donald Trump, endorse Donald Trump, rally behind him.
00:42:17.480It's time to do that now and to follow Vivek Ramaswamy's lead in states like Colorado and say,
00:42:23.580we're not going to be part of this process, you know, if they're trying to attack the front runner like Donald Trump like this.
00:42:32.480You know, you cannot cooperate with these ridiculous, you know, rules being laid out by the Democrats.
00:42:40.300And, you know, Republicans have to finally unify as a coalition, much like the Democrats have done and play by their own playbook and kind of adopt that playbook as well and ultimately rally behind Donald Trump.
00:42:55.320Before I let you go, speaking of rallies, I know you're just out in New Hampshire.
00:43:00.680I'm sure the crowd, the passion for President Trump, like you said, is hitting its peak 2016 levels.
00:43:06.720But if you just want to let the audience know, you know, if you watch the mainstream media, you think no one likes this guy anymore or just crazy dictator sycophants.
00:43:15.440What do you think that people think about these indictments, the lawfare?
00:43:18.260Are they still wearing their MAGA hats?
00:43:20.320Well, they're still wearing their MAGA hats and they're wearing them more than ever before.
00:43:26.340I mean, this was a rally held in Durham, New Hampshire, which was a deep blue town within the state of New Hampshire.
00:43:33.820And, you know, he lost or he did not carry.
00:43:36.080I don't like to say he lost the state because we know that, you know, the corruption and the fraud in the system that the Democrats have been able to pull this off.
00:43:43.600But he was only, you know, he only did not carry New Hampshire by 0.3 points in 2016.
00:43:51.720But, you know, the turnout there on this past weekend was was incredible.
00:43:56.600He had thousands of people in this deep blue college town of Durham, not just from New Hampshire, but all across New England.
00:44:03.300There were a lot of people from Massachusetts there.
00:44:05.400There were a lot of people from Maine, Vermont, New York, Connecticut.
00:44:09.040So, you know, all of New England, which is, you know, perhaps the most blue region of the country, you know, very much supporting Donald Trump and the MAGA movement.
00:44:20.680And people recognize the charade that is this weaponization of the justice system.
00:44:25.320People up there are experiencing the effects, the negative effects of Biden's economy, inflation.
00:44:32.100Obviously, the illegal immigration migrant crisis has affected every state, not just the southern states or not just the big cities, because we had, you know, tens of millions of people cross through our border over the four years of Biden's illegitimate presidency.
00:48:00.880So what we wanted to do was bring attention to the immigration crisis, but beyond just what's happening at the border.
00:48:08.040And what we wanted to highlight was that this is a multifaceted approach from the Biden administration to really having an open borders policy.
00:48:16.620So one of the parts we wanted to highlight in this video was the fact that the Biden administration is closing detention facilities.
00:48:23.520These are not facilities that have anything wrong with them.
00:48:25.380These are where they're using legal gimmicks.
00:48:28.200They're using the COVID outbreak as a tool to close a detention facility in Adelanto, California, just an hour and a half from Los Angeles, to close 2,000 beds and take those offline so that we can't put dangerous criminal migrants in detention facilities.
00:48:46.300Instead, what they want to do is they want to release these migrants into our communities and have next to no monitoring.
00:48:54.160Let us know where you are is literally what the bureaucrats at the Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement want to do.
00:49:02.100And this is just incredibly dangerous.
00:49:03.860And it's not just isolated to this one facility in California.
00:49:07.400This has happened to about 10,000 beds across the country.
00:49:10.720And they're closing facilities all over the country.
00:49:14.160They're closing facilities in Speaker Johnson's district.
00:49:17.760And this is really part of this larger deep state approach to say, look, we want to create a massive immigrants that are going to come into the country, come into our communities, push down wages and eventually become Democrat voters.
00:49:30.340And we wanted to use this ad to highlight those problems to say, look, you've got these problems because we're closing detention facilities.
00:49:37.800Unless your congressman does something about it, this isn't going to stop.
00:49:44.160So, Tom, I'm curious because the refrain that we're sort of hearing from the Biden regime now is, you know, oh, we're sending the National Guard.
00:49:52.720Of course, we forced them into doing that.
00:49:55.380You don't get points for caring about America if you were shamed into doing it.
00:49:59.720But it seems like they're just putting those people down there to sort of be the welcoming committee, right, to help bus these people in even deeper into the United States.
00:50:06.660I know coming back from AmFest, it seemed like every flight coming out of Phoenix was full of illegal immigrants.
00:50:13.640It felt like I was flying out of a third world country.
00:50:15.800Can you talk a little bit about kind of the countrywide, you know, the every state is a border state mentality and mindset to this approach?
00:51:07.900It's an intentional effort to bring in millions of migrants to really overwhelm these communities and create Democratic voters going forward.
00:51:17.200You know, look, unless there's a change in this administration, this is not going to change.
00:51:21.080This is going to be an ongoing policy.
00:51:22.760And each year we're going to see one, two million migrants coming across the border from from Latin and South America.
00:51:29.060And look, America just can't absorb that many migrants.
00:51:33.420So we're trying to educate people and we're trying to get folks to call their congressmen and say, look, you need to knock it off.