Gaines for Girls with Riley Gaines - August 28, 2026


Inside Trump’s White House Press Room ft. Mary Margaret Olohan


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00:00:00.480 Recently, our company's softball team lost the big game by one run.
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00:00:30.000 well mary margaret thank you for joining the riley gain show you spend your day your days
00:00:39.160 inside the white house press operation can you just give us like a 30 000 foot overview
00:00:44.780 of what this really means and what your day-to-day looks like now i spend all my time at the white
00:00:50.300 house because i am daily wire's first white house correspondent we got into the briefing room and
00:00:55.540 got our white house hard pass after trump came into office for the second time we decided we
00:01:00.880 need to be in there and be asking the president questions and not just writing the questions that
00:01:05.340 other people are asking him which tended to be pretty left-leaning a lot of the time when the
00:01:09.680 white house press corps was really hardcore left-leaning legacy outlets so now we are in
00:01:15.640 there there's a lot of other new media in there i know i've seen you in the new media seat in the
00:01:19.400 briefing room because caroline levitt has been so great about bringing in all of these different
00:01:23.940 new media reporters or journalists or influencers. And what I do is I spend my time there. I go into
00:01:31.360 the Oval Office when the president brings reporters in. Sometimes I travel with him on Air Force One
00:01:35.460 or with Vice President Vance on Air Force Two or even occasionally with Pete Hegseth. We went with
00:01:40.760 him to Panama last year with former Attorney General Pam Bondi. You name it, all of these
00:01:46.260 different admin folk just to cover them and see what's going on and share with our readers
00:01:51.040 firsthand. We don't really believe in using news from legacy outlets that hate many Americans.
00:01:57.600 We'd rather actually get the news ourselves and bring it to our people and ask the questions that
00:02:02.220 our audience wants. So for me, that means hanging around the briefing room, hanging around the
00:02:07.100 White House, hoping to go in the Oval, traveling and just reporting on all the news that we can.
00:02:12.520 And it's like I was saying to you before we started, it's a little bit of a chaotic
00:02:16.400 pell-mell of political craziness, but it's fun and it's always interesting. And it's just getting
00:02:23.140 to heat up right now as we head into the midterms. I would imagine, especially under President Trump,
00:02:29.580 things are chaotic because he seems to move so fast. Like the news cycle can't keep up with him.
00:02:36.520 Does he move a lot quicker than a lot of previous presidents? Oh, a thousand percent. And I didn't
00:02:42.760 cover President Joe Biden, but I have multiple friends who did. And even the legacy reporters
00:02:47.500 who covered him are very frank about the fact that they very rarely saw him. And when they did,
00:02:52.400 they didn't get to ask him a lot of questions. Some of my reporter friends who are conservative,
00:02:57.380 who were covering the White House under Biden, such as my friend Reagan Reese, who works for
00:03:01.780 Daily Caller, I think she got to ask him maybe two or three questions throughout his entire tenure
00:03:07.240 as president, which is crazy when you think about the amount of access we have to the president now.
00:03:12.760 now when you know you go to the white house for your shift that day people get angsty and
00:03:18.380 disgruntled and mad if we don't see the president once that day so imagine that where you know we
00:03:24.140 used to have a president we never saw we never got to ask questions to now everyone's all annoyed
00:03:28.120 and you know self-righteous if we don't get to see him during a single day and keep in mind if we do
00:03:33.620 if i go into the oval for example and they have one of those press conferences where the president
00:03:37.460 is signing an executive order on something or granting a pardon, he'll always end it with
00:03:43.000 saying, all right, got any questions? And he'll take questions on literally anything. It could
00:03:46.860 be from transgenderism to something to do with the war in Iran, to flock cameras, to data centers,
00:03:52.580 anything that you might want to ask about. Sometimes he'll be like, that's not on topic,
00:03:56.780 and then he'll answer it anyway. So it's just an incredible level of transparency that we'd not see
00:04:01.480 in the past administration. And I think everyone, legacy reporters, conservative reporters, new
00:04:07.040 media, we're all very aware that it's just something that needs to be taken advantage of,
00:04:12.020 because even if we have, let's say, Vice President J.D. Vance takes Trump's place or who knows takes
00:04:17.620 his place, it's not going to be the same level of just absolute chaotic Trumpism where everything
00:04:23.820 can change any minute. One minute we're talking about Iran, the next minute we're replacing a
00:04:28.060 cabinet official, the next minute we're kidnapping a dictator. You just truly never know.
00:04:33.340 See, that's what I'm talking about, how things move so fast, because you almost forget
00:04:36.920 things like that even happen. You talk about this Trump to his second administration and kind of
00:04:44.260 bringing in new outlets who otherwise haven't really had a seat at the table and kind of
00:04:49.160 leaning into the podcast sphere. Do you see things like that continuing on into 2028 and even beyond
00:04:56.480 that? I do think that after Trump, we will see a continuation of new media because it is the
00:05:02.040 future. You know, we have seen so many different aspects of how the new media landscape changed the
00:05:08.360 last election, especially when it came to podcasting. Just remembering, you know, Donald
00:05:13.400 Trump and J.D. Vance on Theo Vaughn or on Joe Rogan and how much that impacted the stakes of
00:05:21.040 the election. Even thinking of Kamala Harris on Call Her Daddy. You know, the bids that these
00:05:27.440 very powerful people made to new media and to the podcasting world. And so I think
00:05:33.080 no one's ever going to forget that. And that is absolutely the future of much of media, because
00:05:40.080 that's where the public's attention is. And obviously, we know, Riley, better than a lot
00:05:46.120 of people that that medium can change so quickly. And it could be something that is new and exciting
00:05:51.900 that comes after this podcasting and influencer space. But for the time being, this is going to
00:05:56.900 be what dominates the media landscape, the media culture. And I, for one, as part of it,
00:06:03.140 I'm excited about that. To that point in speaking about President Trump and again,
00:06:07.520 just the genuineness there that we see on TV, those who watch him, those who don't get to
00:06:12.320 personally spend time with him. How can you, I guess, attest to how he really is in real life?
00:06:19.660 Let's say you're traveling on Air Force One. What is that experience really like?
00:06:23.380 recently our company softball team lost the big game by one run then dale tried to console us
00:06:30.480 with the quote winning isn't everything well dale and i are very different i get early payout from
00:06:37.920 bet365 if my team goes up big i get paid out instantly even if they blow the lead later sound
00:06:44.040 familiar dale thanks bet365 must be 19 or older ontario only please play responsibly if you have
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00:06:57.300 and he just he honestly just does what he wants and says what he wants and for some people you
00:07:02.400 know that's very jarring i think there's people that would prefer the president to be really poised
00:07:06.460 and careful and prepared and polished but this is who the american people elected to be president
00:07:12.220 so i think you know uh it behooves us to kind of accept him as face value and see who he really is
00:07:17.500 and what he's really saying.
00:07:18.500 And so, you know, for example, on Air Force One,
00:07:21.040 he'll come back to the cabin where the press are.
00:07:23.900 And, you know, everyone's always kind of on their toes
00:07:26.020 because if he hasn't come back yet,
00:07:27.580 there's this sense that he might, he might appear.
00:07:30.660 I know there was a trip I was on
00:07:32.860 where, you know, everyone was exhausted
00:07:34.540 and I was freezing cold.
00:07:36.340 So someone got me a blanket down
00:07:37.580 from the little overheads on Air Force One.
00:07:39.260 And I was, you know, kind of wrapped in it,
00:07:41.440 trying to take a nap.
00:07:42.340 But at the same time, I'm thinking,
00:07:44.380 whew, if he comes back here,
00:07:45.960 It's going to be really embarrassing to, you know, hop up and got to get myself together.
00:07:49.920 So the last time he came back, you know, I was probably about a foot and a half from him.
00:07:54.620 Everyone's screaming, Mr. President, Mr. President, trying to get his attention.
00:07:57.560 He'll take your question.
00:07:58.420 He'll look you right in the eye.
00:07:59.500 He'll answer it.
00:08:00.560 If he doesn't like it, such as these questions on the war in Iran, he'll literally look you in the eye and be like, why would I tell you that?
00:08:06.580 Now, thankfully, I haven't had that experience, but there has been, you know, it's really funny.
00:08:12.840 And, you know, as a reporter, when you're there, you really are like, oh, man, that's
00:08:17.680 brutal.
00:08:19.000 And, you know, everyone is kind of acknowledging that question.
00:08:22.540 Sometimes you're thinking, OK, well, I would love to ask the question, even if I'm not
00:08:26.060 going to get a good answer to it, because it's a really newsworthy question.
00:08:29.740 But at the same time, you do think, well, he's the leader of the free world.
00:08:33.040 And that is a really pivotal question to national security.
00:08:36.500 So I'm not surprised he's not answering it.
00:08:38.820 So it's that kind of dynamic all the time.
00:08:41.360 And then, you know, there was another time when I was in the Oval Office, and I was on the far right of the room. So the president wasn't seeing me when he was looking around to take questions from reporters. And I was getting kind of desperate because this Oval Office meeting is ending. And I was like, Oh, I really need to get my question in. And he goes, Alright, one more question and calls on someone that was kind of near me. So I waved until, you know, it's kind of going like this, until he looked at me, which is awkward, too, right? Because the cameras might pick it up.
00:09:09.880 And so someone's watching, you know, Fox News and they're like, who is that weird girl that's just kind of waving at the president in the corner?
00:09:16.060 He finally calls on me and he's like, all right, we got to get to her.
00:09:19.360 And he says to the camera, you got to come over here.
00:09:21.720 So they slowly pan over to me in the corner and I'm like, oh, my gosh.
00:09:26.380 And then, you know, I asked him my question and he answered it and it was fine.
00:09:29.440 But anything like that can happen where he's just he doesn't care.
00:09:33.100 He's like, all right, we'll get to that girl in the corner, move the cameras.
00:09:36.260 And that's that's kind of the classic Trump vibe.
00:09:39.560 Yeah. Okay. So Natalie Harp is someone who also travels with President Trump, of course.
00:09:45.700 Do you know her? Have you been able to interact with her? And I guess to that point, what have
00:09:50.120 you made of the recent attacks, really slanderous attacks to Natalie and I guess how she aids
00:09:57.080 President Trump? There is no evidence whatsoever that there is any kind of inappropriate relationship
00:10:01.900 between her and the president. Now, if someone has that kind of evidence, they should produce it.
00:10:06.460 But in the meantime, the slander and the absolutely just inappropriate way in which the media and a lot of different Democrat strategists and lawmakers have discussed this matter is disgusting.
00:10:18.840 I mean, they're suggesting that there's an inappropriate relationship between Trump and this very loyal staffer without any proof whatsoever.
00:10:25.500 And really just for political points.
00:10:27.640 And we saw, I believe it was Abdul El Saeed that was the most recent example, or it was
00:10:32.860 John Ossoff that was the most recent example of someone, you know, taking a stab at this
00:10:37.320 young woman who he doesn't know.
00:10:39.040 He's just using her to try and score political points against the president.
00:10:42.780 And I have to imagine, you know, when she goes home at night, she's on the internet
00:10:46.980 too.
00:10:47.420 She's seeing these things that people are saying about her and it's incredibly cruel
00:10:51.120 and vindictive. 0.88
00:10:52.540 And we know that this is the party of believe all women, right? 0.58
00:10:55.680 I spent years reporting on that phenomenon as well. But as soon as it comes to someone that 0.99
00:11:01.900 they can use against Donald Trump, apparently all those fancy slogans fall by the wayside.
00:11:06.560 So I've been very disgusted with the coverage I've seen of this and disillusioned with some
00:11:12.740 people who I think wanted to portray themselves one way and just couldn't help themselves when
00:11:17.500 it came to hopping onto these rumors that have no basis as far as we know. Yeah, rumors that
00:11:23.880 turn into conspiracy theories. And I think disillusioned is a really good word because
00:11:28.440 that's how I have found myself certainly over the past, I mean, what, almost year at this point
00:11:34.480 following the Charlie Kirk assassination and some of the things that have surfaced online from
00:11:39.780 pretty credible, or at least historically previously credible voices. What do you make
00:11:44.960 of the conspiracy theory culture that we live in? And is there concern that it's going to grow
00:11:52.160 because of the online, the chronically online community?
00:11:56.680 Yeah, this is a topic I talk to my friends and my family a lot
00:11:59.960 because it bothers me so much.
00:12:02.520 You know, I'm a woman, I'm online,
00:12:04.280 I'm on all the social media platforms for work.
00:12:07.000 And what I've noticed is that there is this new rising trend,
00:12:11.160 and I think it's risen dramatically in the past year,
00:12:14.240 especially with Charlie Kirk's death,
00:12:16.100 but this trend to suggest to women 0.52
00:12:18.420 that there's something somehow good and even virtuous in guessing and speculating about things
00:12:26.840 that we have no facts to base them on. And that somehow guessing and speculating is a noble
00:12:33.120 pursuit that we should do in favor of other obligations that we might have. So for example,
00:12:39.640 I saw a video last week where a woman made a joke about how she was neglecting her duties at home,
00:12:47.040 neglecting her kids while she dove headlong into the Lindsay Clancy murder trial and guessed and
00:12:54.080 speculated her way into the views that she now has. And she was joking online saying that this
00:12:59.160 was, you know, her new passion and her new job. Well, she has a family, she has, you know,
00:13:04.980 obligations, she has work, but she's throwing all that aside to guess and speculate. And
00:13:08.960 there's plenty of people online that were saying me too and applauding her for that sort of thing.
00:13:13.660 And I think we need to take a step back and remember that it's the truth that will set us free, right?
00:13:20.000 And enjoying the online dramas, I think we need to take a step back and look at what we're looking at here.
00:13:26.180 Are we enjoying the drama of three children being killed?
00:13:30.020 Are we enjoying the drama of Charlie Kirk's widow and children spending the rest of their lives without their beloved husband and father?
00:13:37.200 Are we enjoying the drama of criticizing a company like the Daily Wire that has only existed to fight for truth against the legacy media, against a lot of these forces of evil that we have seen in our world, such as transgenderism, disrespect for the unborn, all of these issues that, you know, people like myself have fought so long and hard against as many of my colleagues have as well.
00:13:59.820 So I think there is this desperation to latch on to conspiracy theories in this day and age and enjoy them as some sort of entertainment.
00:14:10.900 And I would encourage everyone to remember that every single person out there is equipped with the resources they need to verify if something is true or false.
00:14:20.480 Pretty much everyone I know is equipped with those resources.
00:14:23.160 And it is so vital that we are all making use of our brains, but also the basic search engines,
00:14:29.840 AI platforms available to us just to do some basic fact checking. And I don't think enough
00:14:35.000 people understand this or take advantage of it. The children should be at the center.
00:14:39.620 They should be the starting point, the ending point, and everything in between when we're
00:14:43.180 having this conversation about compassion or what real justice and accountability looks like.
00:14:48.620 And for that, oh my gosh, I had to take a step back. I'm like, wait, am I missing something?
00:14:52.380 Like, am I the crazy one? Um, and then to that point, uh, again, online, it's just not real
00:14:58.080 life. Um, the people who I know in my daily life that I interact with, um, and I, I asked them
00:15:03.420 about whether it's, it's the Lindsay Clancy or the Candace Owen stuff, they all kind of reinforce
00:15:07.720 the same opinions that I have. And not because that's who I surround myself with, because
00:15:12.060 that's the broadly held public opinion. Exactly. Yeah. Yeah. I think that's a really great point.
00:15:20.700 And, you know, in my own personal life, too, you know, when I when I sound out some of these theories to people or even if I talk to someone who, you know, I have seen posting online about this sort of thing.
00:15:30.940 For example, I remember talking to someone who was joking online that Erica Kirk was somehow involved in the brutal murder.
00:15:39.200 Recently, our company softball team lost the big game by one run.
00:15:43.580 Then Dale tried to console us with the quote, winning isn't everything.
00:15:47.900 Well, Dale and I are very different.
00:15:51.580 I get early payout from Bet365.
00:15:53.500 If my team goes up big, I get paid out instantly, even if they blow the lead later.
00:15:58.320 Sound familiar, Dale?
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00:16:09.020 Of her husband.
00:16:10.280 When you talk to them about it in real life, they're embarrassed.
00:16:13.180 They're kind of ashamed.
00:16:14.120 they tell you like, oh, I guess that's not reasonable and it's a joke. And you can very
00:16:19.400 quickly and easily impress upon them the fact that, yeah, she has a family and she never gets
00:16:24.420 to see her husband again and her children have to grow up without a father. And very quickly,
00:16:28.040 they're reasonable about this because they understand that this internet sludge is cruel
00:16:34.120 and hurtful and sad. But online, there's this lack of responsibility. There's a lack of interest in
00:16:41.060 truth. And like I said before, there's this kind of notion that conspiracy theories make you a
00:16:47.180 more interesting, sexy person. And it's an unfortunate, you know, reality that we're living
00:16:52.660 in, where online, this this sort of thing does get you views, it does get you clicks, it does make
00:16:58.360 you, you know, money in the short term. And I think that's something that people like yourself
00:17:04.200 are combating so well, and just standing up for the truth and being honest and realistic,
00:17:08.560 and helping people remember that it's actually more noble to care about facts and truth and
00:17:13.920 charity and realities than it is to profit off of these fake lies. I can't remember if it was
00:17:19.140 Wall Street Journal or Washington Examiner where they ultimately canned a woman for her pretty
00:17:24.720 horrific, just to speak personally here, what I believe, a horrible take following Charlie Kirk's
00:17:30.880 assassination and saying, you know, essentially that he deserved it. He got what was coming to
00:17:34.740 him. This was karma for him. But she just sued and ultimately will be reinstated now. What do
00:17:41.080 you make of cancel culture in media and how I guess it affects the First Amendment?
00:17:46.920 Yeah, I think it's a complicated situation, right? Because I don't believe in cancel culture,
00:17:52.780 but I do believe in, you know, you should be fired from your job if you do something that
00:17:58.480 is against what your employers have agreed to. So if you make an agreement with your employers
00:18:02.940 and you violate that, then that's fair game, in my opinion. And I think sometimes we blur the line
00:18:07.400 there where people say, oh, it's cancel culture if your employer fires someone who did a bad job
00:18:13.040 or someone who violated their agreement. But at the same time, we are in an interesting period
00:18:18.400 where a lot of things that went during the last administration no longer are acceptable. So if
00:18:26.840 you look at transgenderism for example uh there were a lot of employers and and institutions that
00:18:33.280 were promoting transgenderism they were promoting dei they're promoting all these concepts and
00:18:37.440 employees just had to go along with it well now a lot of these places are dropping these practices
00:18:42.120 and in some institutions like let's say um you know a legacy media outlet like the washington
00:18:48.340 post where jeff bezos took over and started pushing a more centrist uh publication employees
00:18:55.820 countries really didn't like that. And they were very angry. And in some cases, some of them were
00:19:01.300 let go. Now, there's a lot of instances like that that we've seen across the board. You've seen a
00:19:07.380 little bit of this in academia, too, where people who were very, very woke or angry at changes being
00:19:12.780 made and deciding to push back and rebel against that. And I think that's just going to be growing
00:19:17.820 pains as, you know, the country kind of grapples with a new normalcy. We'll see how long we have
00:19:23.860 that. If we have another Republican in office, I think things will continue on this trajectory.
00:19:29.380 But let's say we get a President Gavin Newsom, for example, things could really grind to a halt
00:19:34.900 and change very dramatically. And that's obviously definitely a possibility. So a lot of this is,
00:19:41.800 I think, a product of President Donald Trump coming into office and a lot of these institutions
00:19:46.840 kind of grinding to a halt and realizing they can no longer implement the practices that they had
00:19:51.700 before. Uh, so, uh, I think that's, that's a lot of what we're seeing here. And I think some people
00:19:58.300 would say, and I would, I would say as well, hopefully we'll continue to see more. All right,
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00:21:26.860 Oval Office, you're around the White House. Do you feel like there's any buzzing or stirring or
00:21:34.160 quietly trying to prepare a Republican nominee? I guess actually on both sides, because you
00:21:40.160 mentioned Gavin Newsom too. Who do you think are kind of the front runners in both the Republican
00:21:45.940 and the Democrat side of presidential 2028 nominee? Well, as for the Democrats, that's a
00:21:54.000 hard one. And I hesitate to make a prediction yet because I'm not totally sure who's going to
00:21:59.760 emerge. I will say that Kamala Harris is not out of the question. She has absolutely been making
00:22:04.680 the rounds. Gavin Newsom also is very interested in a potential presidential run. Josh Shapiro,
00:22:12.140 similarly. So I think, oh, and Pete Buttigieg, I always mispronounce his name, Pete Buttigieg.
00:22:17.460 What do you think about AOC and like even like the going through the egg freezing process? Like
00:22:24.280 to me, it kind of signaled a bigger picture. Absolutely signal that to me too. And I think
00:22:29.660 it was not lost on me that in the same week that Caroline Levitt announced that she was stepping
00:22:35.120 back from her job to focus more on her family, AOC came out and announced that she's freezing her
00:22:40.920 eggs, made a bunch of big media appearances talking about politics. And actually not too
00:22:47.760 long before, I want to say it was a month before, she was asked outside of the Capitol about J.D.
00:22:53.680 Vance saying that something she had said wasn't very intelligent or something along those lines.
00:22:58.100 or I believe she was asked about J.D. Vance saying that she wants to run for president and she kind
00:23:04.540 of smirked and said he hopes that I won't or something along those lines and I was traveling
00:23:09.720 with the vice president that day so I asked him about it and he laughed and he kind of played it
00:23:13.360 off but I think that the Republicans for that matter view J.D. Vance as the very likely heir
00:23:20.740 to MAGA and I believe Donald Trump is really increasingly viewing him this way as well for
00:23:25.780 a little while there was suggestions that maybe Trump was interested in Marco Rubio, that he was
00:23:30.720 asking people about Rubio versus Vance. But around the White House, the view is very much among staff
00:23:35.860 that Vance is the heir. And you'll see him, you know, we saw him on the road this week campaigning.
00:23:40.840 They're not calling it that. He's doing a lot of different travel and messaging stops. But
00:23:45.440 he's absolutely feeling things out, trying to decide, you know, get out there and help people
00:23:51.720 see him and and that's that's how he's viewed but aoc versus vance i think she's increasingly
00:23:58.020 wanting that to happen and there's democrats who think that maybe she could be that balance between
00:24:02.880 these really aggressive social socialist candidates and then the more quote-unquote moderate side of 0.90
00:24:09.140 the democrat party because at the sit rate there there really isn't a moderate side to the democrat
00:24:13.740 party and i think i might say someone like susie collins is perhaps the more moderate side of
00:24:18.560 politics. Oh, for sure. Yeah. You look at the rise of, of DSA and the things that they support. 1.00
00:24:26.120 And I mean, it's, it's, it's parallel, if not the exact same to what the democratic party
00:24:31.440 supports. Right. I think they just, they just take things to their logical conclusion. Uh,
00:24:36.440 so where, you know, Democrats will say, um, healthcare is a human right. Uh, then you'll
00:24:44.020 have the dsa who says well that we should fund it for illegals uh where the democrats will say
00:24:49.740 no one is is in or no human is illegal the dsa will then say okay well then we should abolish
00:24:57.220 ice so they just take things i believe to their to what the democrat democrats party logical
00:25:02.380 conclusion right would be um but what about sorry go ahead well and it's it's things that the
00:25:09.280 Democrat Party on a lot of occasions actually agrees with. They just aren't willing to say
00:25:14.120 them because electorally it's not really going to work out for them. And at the same time, I think
00:25:18.240 a lot of these candidates haven't really thought through the statements that they're making to
00:25:21.840 their logical conclusions, whereas the DSA is just saying, look, this is what you're saying.
00:25:27.380 This is the logical conclusion, like you were just saying, Riley. So I think it's a very scary
00:25:32.020 thing. And it's also kind of a realization of these Democrat politics that we've seen for so
00:25:37.980 long that you know someone like um buddha judge might portray him as self as kind of a moderate
00:25:44.240 that's not um you know harboring these radical politics well if you do follow a lot of his
00:25:49.500 political messages to their ends it's not too different from the dsa and i think that's
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00:27:07.400 kind of last thing for you, again, kind of keeping this like perspective mindset of,
00:27:13.120 of 2028 or even 2026, um, and these midterm elections, what are some things that we as
00:27:19.660 Republicans or conservatives really need to get right if we want to, you know, maintain the house
00:27:26.600 in the Senate and win the Oval Office in 2028. Well, I just wrote about this yesterday,
00:27:31.720 actually, and I think this is a really important point. Republicans are very, very scared and
00:27:36.440 anxious about how to message on abortion. And it has been stressful. It's been a problem since
00:27:41.800 overturned Roe v. Wade. The matter was handed back over to the states. A lot of lawmakers,
00:27:46.240 a lot of politicians, including the president, actually don't totally know how to message on
00:27:50.480 this. And they know it's so easy for Democrats to successfully message and say, you're taking
00:27:55.580 away our rights you want to you know put us all back in the handmaid's tale but i had this really
00:28:00.220 interesting messaging i reported on yesterday from a top pro-life group the susan b anthony list
00:28:04.940 and essentially they they did poll testing and found that candidates who message on late-term
00:28:10.820 abortion had a massive shift in their favor when it came to polling on this and a four-point i
00:28:18.940 believe shift in their favor when they just simply said look my opponent voted for this bill that
00:28:24.680 allows for babies to be aborted in the final term of their pregnancy or up till birth. Massachusetts
00:28:31.020 is the 12th state, I think, to pass legislation allowing unhampered abortion. So on that topic,
00:28:37.800 these pro-life groups are saying, don't do the ostrich, which is essentially burying your head
00:28:42.560 in the sand and hoping that nothing will happen and that everyone will stop talking about abortion.
00:28:46.400 Instead, just say, I don't support late-term abortion. My opponent does. Here is his vote
00:28:51.840 or her vote in the United States Congress to prove it. And I think that's some really interesting
00:28:56.620 polling and some really interesting messaging that Republicans should take heed of, because we know
00:29:01.640 Democrats are very successful at messaging on abortion, especially with women. Women really,
00:29:07.300 really seem to like the way the Democrat Party messages on abortion and talks about so-called
00:29:11.860 reproductive rights. So that's going to be a really interesting one. And I think,
00:29:16.200 you know, Republicans have mastered messaging on transgenderism. They should pay heed to some of 0.98
00:29:21.140 these groups that are doing this messaging on abortion because they need help with it yeah
00:29:26.040 that's good i think most people whether we like it or not even christians even people who would
00:29:31.140 otherwise consider themselves pro-life they can understand the argument for safe legal and rare
00:29:38.360 but the democrats are so so far past that they want it accessible anytime and funded by taxpayers
00:29:46.800 yeah so if we can hit those points um that's a really good point i think it would be incredibly
00:29:51.860 effective for republicans who um you said it they've kind of wanted to just like hide from
00:29:58.800 the abortion issue because they know i think especially amongst women it's not the topic
00:30:04.060 that's going to to persuade them to vote uh conservatively to certainly not to vote for
00:30:09.940 president trump so this is really really big um thank you you are the best i so appreciate you
00:30:15.600 We're going to keep following and watching as the cameras pan to you in the Oval Office.
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