It's MAGA or Mamdani： There is No Other Option
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The Trump administration is planning a new mission to target drug cartels in Mexico, according to four current and former U.S. officials familiar with that effort. Democratic Socialist Zoran Mamdani is now the new voice of New York City.
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This is what happens when the fourth turning meets fifth generation warfare.
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A commentator, international social media sensation, and former Navy intelligence veteran.
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This is Human Events with your host, Jack Posobiec.
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The Trump administration planning a new mission to target drug cartels in Mexico.
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This is all according to four current and former U.S. officials familiar with that effort.
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The operation would include American troops and intelligence officers on the ground striking drug labs and cartel leaders south of the border.
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This would essentially open a new front in the president's military campaign against cartels.
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Let's talk about what we are dealing with here.
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Radical left Democrats who have shut our government down and held the American people hostage for 32 days in a row.
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We have air traffic controller shortages all over this country.
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Half of our nation's major airports are suffering from severe delays as we head into the busiest travel months of the season.
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We have a half million federal workers who are going unpaid.
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Only because of President Trump finding a legal maneuver are our troops continuing to be getting paid.
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And that's why President Trump has said Republicans need to get tough.
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And they need to use this option to get rid of the filibuster to reopen the government and do right by the American public.
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Donald Trump, since I know you're watching, I have four words for you.
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In the nation's largest city, a political earthquake.
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34-year-old Democratic Socialist Zoran Mamdani is now the new voice of New York.
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In this moment of political darkness, New York will be the light.
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Mamdani makes history as the first Muslim mayor.
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New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants,
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Mamdani will be the city's youngest mayor in a century.
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I was going through some of the old conversations that I had with Charlie and Charlie's own tweets.
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Charlie was talking about Zoran Mamdani right up until just about two days before Charlie himself was murdered.
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I found this tweet from him that was just up September 8th, so two days before, where Charlie had said that Mamdani, if he wins,
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will usher in a crime wave the likes of which New York had not seen since the 1990s.
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And sadly, I think Charlie is going to be proven correct.
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Not just New York City, not just New Jersey, not just Virginia, but go and look into the actual cross tabs of the vote.
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And specifically, I want to talk about the Gen Z vote, because that's where this is going.
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Traditional, old school, legacy Republican candidates did not motivate the base last night.
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And this is something that Charlie Kirk understood indelibly.
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He went on the Tucker Carlson podcast in July of 2025, his last appearance on the Tucker Carlson podcast ever.
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He warned that Gen Z is going to swing against Republicans if there is not an economic conditional fix for Gen Z.
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Traditional candidates, Republican candidates, old school candidates, legacy candidates.
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Andrew Cuomo, by the way, talk about old school and legacy and all the rest.
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In fact, even Jason Meares got crushed last night in Virginia.
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Number one issue, not just for Gen Z, but everywhere.
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Republicans must embrace populism and deliver on populist victories.
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Legacy GOP candidates and talking points failed last night.
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The MAGA model is the only way forward, as Trump showed.
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Cost of living, jobs, debt, housing, economic conditions for young and middle Americans.
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That means this is what needs to be focused on.
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He didn't talk about people who built this country.
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He talked about the gimme grins and the Mamdani model is going to be.
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And by the way, by the way, Mamdani got a majority.
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So this is going to be the new Democrat model going forward.
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Import as many voters as you can and then run one of them to go and allocate the things
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from people who built the country, who built the wealth and take it from them.
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The mask went completely off and you don't have to.
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I have it sitting here telling you every day he was going to do this.
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If you go watch Mamdani's speech, go and watch it.
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Rip off the filibuster and get in there because the Democrats are going to if you don't do it
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So get in there and start putting points on the board.
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And to Senate Majority Leader Thune and all the rest, you got to get on board.
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Now it's time for everyone to understand what America First truly means.
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All right, Jack Posobiec, we are back live here.
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Very excited now, by the way, as well, to have on our next guest.
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It is the Pentagon Press Secretary, Kingsley Wilson.
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Well, Kingsley, I just wanted to mention, you know,
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do you have a message at all for the mainstream media who always so love to watch your appearances
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I saw so many of them commenting last, so I'm sure they're here watching right now.
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But no, we are happy to be joining a new member of the Pentagon Press Corps
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and excited for all the great coverage that you and the program are continuing to do of the Pentagon.
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So we're very excited about that, despite the mainstream media's dismay that you're one of our credentialed reporters.
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And look, as I've said from the outset and to anyone who's asked, you know,
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our job is to tell the story and tell the true story about what's going on.
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And we certainly did that over the summer with the various military operations that took place,
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Operation Midnight Hammer, all the rest of it, and we'll continue to do so.
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And so I'd be remiss, you know, the last time you were on here, we talked about Venezuela.
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We talked about, in general, the cartel strikes that have been going on.
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You actually were one of the first people to give us that, you know, kind of a scoop on that.
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What are we seeing in terms of this, and what are you able to tell us at this time regarding that?
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So we have not stopped seeking out these narco-terrorist threats across the region.
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Just last night, we had our 16th strike on a drug-carrying vessel with narco-terrorists aboard.
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66 narco-terrorists have been eliminated through these strikes, and that is a direct result of
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the charge that President Trump gave this department, the War Department, when he declared them
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Now, because of that designation, we have the ability, as the War Department,
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at the Pentagon every day to track these networks, to make sure that we find them,
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hunt them, and kill them, because they are attempting to bring deadly drugs to the United
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You've seen the president say it time and time again.
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Each one of these vessels, if it got all the way to the United States of America, would
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Each narco-terrorist that we are taking out is saving American lives.
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And so when you're looking at this, by the way, and I've pointed out as well a number of times
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to other folks that were the U.S. Navy to conduct a VBSS operation and actually put boots on one of
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those boats, that's actually far more dangerous and risky for the sailors involved in such an
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operation or an interdiction, which includes some kind of VBSS element, than simply what the
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And I think these strikes are also sending a message, right?
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If you're someone who wants to bring deadly drugs to America, if you're a part of a cartel,
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you're a narco-terrorist, you're going to think twice about getting in a boat and making your
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deliveries because the U.S. military is on watch.
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We are all over the region working with our partners to make sure that we have the assets that we need to
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be able to execute on behalf of President Trump and the American people.
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We're sending a carrier strike group to the Southcom AOR.
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I can't remember the last time that's happened, and it certainly hasn't in recent history.
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It is historic that we are going to be sending an aircraft carrier to that region to deal with this
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It shows just how serious President Trump is about protecting the American people, our waterways,
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So we're very proud to be delivering on this charge every single day.
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Now, of course, the—so the USS Ford, the strike group, moving down to Southcom AOR.
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And yes, to your point, this is the first time in a very long time that we've seen any of this.
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We know, of course, that there's been a lot of reporting in the media and, obviously,
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some pushback from the administration regarding the purpose of that carrier.
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Some—I believe it was the Miami Times or the Miami Herald had reported that land strikes
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were going to be coming on the ground in Venezuela.
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Does the administration have a position or a statement on that?
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You know, he said that he hasn't made a decision yet.
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But what our job here at the War Department is, is to make sure that we're preparing for
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Wherever we are in the world, we want to have options for the president.
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So having these assets in the region, not only does it send a strong signal to these
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cartel terrorists that want to wreak havoc on our people, it also ensures that if the
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president wants to make a decision or wants to do something, we have the people there to
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So that is what we are doing all across the region.
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And we will continue to make sure the president has that optionality.
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And we will seek to follow his direction every single step of the way.
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But again, I can't underscore how historic this is.
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We are so used to seeing carriers and carrier strike groups in the Middle East.
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We've spent decades protecting other homelands.
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Now we're making sure that the American people are safe and taken care of.
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And that is truly something that this department is proud of.
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So Kingsley, as we're discussing this, you're talking about resources, you're talking about
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We do know as well, though, that there is a question regarding, and I remember, by the
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way, being a former employee of the, at the time, Department of Defense, when we went
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through, I think it was the 2013 shutdown, there were questions about furloughs.
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There were questions about pay, questions about military pay as well.
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So thankfully, thanks to President Trump's direction, the military has been getting paid.
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So that is something that we are doing, despite the Democrats' refusal to fund the government
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They have voted now 14 times, I believe, to not pay our federal workers and our troops.
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But this shutdown is definitely hurting our military families.
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58,000 military spouses are employed by the federal government, and many of those families
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rely on two incomes to support their large families.
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There is a lot of stress that we are putting on our service members that is totally unfair,
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But Schumer and the Democrats would rather focus on, you know, free health care for illegal
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immigrants and slush funds for PBS than take care of our service members and their families.
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I cannot tell you the amount of psychological harm this does to a lot of our military families.
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A good example of that is permanent change of station moves.
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When you're moving from one duty station to the next, you're bringing your whole family
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with you, all of your items in your house, that is something the military helps you with.
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And they're now stuck in a holding pattern until the government can reopen.
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Our military members and their families deserve better.
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So we surely hope that the government will reopen and the Democrats will stop playing politics
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and make sure that they get our service members what they need.
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And, you know, I remember just, you know, from having been in the military, you look at a PCS,
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you look at anything, TDYs, all of this requires budget.
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And for the folks, when you're on active duty orders, your entire life circulates around the
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That's the idea, that you're willing to give up and volunteer to go in.
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And so you, you, the, you know, the other side of that equation, the two-way street,
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So your housing, your health care, your benefits, et cetera, that all comes from the government.
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And to your point, while basic pay is still going out, it's all of this other stuff that
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does affect your standard of living does require more outlays.
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And so I appreciate the fact that you're talking about military families here, because I really
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feel that for a lot of these folks, that military families and military spouses, they do so much
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And that's something that we've been really, really focused on here at the department.
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You know, we talked a little bit about the PCS moves, the permanent change of station moves.
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We actually launched a task force to make that process better.
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We also recently launched a new barracks task force.
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We're going to make sure that our barracks are up to standards and where they should be,
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because a lot of the conditions that our service members are living in, frankly, aren't
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And there's been a lot that has fallen to the wayside.
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So we at the department are focused on making sure that the members of our military have
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lives and high standards, and they have living conditions that are worthy of the hard work
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That is, of course, easier when we have government funding.
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So we will get to continue all of that important, great work when the government reopens.
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Well, you and me both, Kingsley Wilson, where can people go to get more information about
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Also, our Department of War page puts out great content every single day.
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She is the press secretary for the War Department.
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Joining us here, Human Events Daily, as we are members of the new Pentagon Press Corps.
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These are influences, and they're friends of mine.
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All right, Jack Prasovic back live here, Human Events Daily.
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First time on the show, but I've known him for quite some time.
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He is also the host of Media Exposed on Real America's Voice.
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We're getting interrupted by the Trump news cycle, as always, right?
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Ah, it's always good, but, you know, it's part of the business.
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I think one of the things the president should do in terms of a response to this, and what
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he's doing, is calling for this end of the filibuster, because you've got to be able
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But I wanted you to unpack it, because you understand, obviously, New York, New Jersey
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You know, once he won the primary, which he caught Cuomo and the establishment Dems by
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surprise, I mean, he had all these young activists.
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It's like we go to most conservatives, Republicans, and business leaders, because business leaders,
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They, you know, they live and breathe this stuff.
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Once they won the primary, it was a shock to everybody to uncover all of his, you know,
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activism, his anti-Jewish sentiments, his anti-capitalism sentiments.
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So once that happened, it's pretty difficult in this environment to beat a Democrat in New
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York City, very difficult, because there's a lot of different lines.
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And then you had Curtis Lewa stayed in as a principal matter.
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So now you had, but at the end of the day, you combine Curtis with Cuomo's tallies, and
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they almost got the same amount of votes together.
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So what we saw last night, I wanted to give him the benefit of doubt.
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Maybe he's just an activist and said stupid things, standing next to stupid things.
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But last night was worse than all of his campaigning.
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He was bringing up Trump and wanted to fight with Trump.
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You want to fight with the president of the United States?
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You just won the mayorship of New York City, our largest city.
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You've got 50% of New Yorkers that didn't vote for you.
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It was the biggest turnout in like 40, 55 years, I think.
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And he was sounding like a bitter, angry socialist.
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I thought he'd be more welcoming to the other side.
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Well, look, you know, I've said this for a while, and I think that it's very clear that
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Mamdani, if you go back and look at his politics prior to this year, he has always been someone
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You mentioned anti-capitalist sentiment, anti-business, anti-affluence.
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He's very much someone who practices grievance politics and the politics of resentment while
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And this is the new form of Marxism, right, where they tie class warfare to, you know,
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ethnic conflicts, to gender conflicts, the rest of that.
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And that's exactly the type of person you saw on stage last night.
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Even Van Jones said, wow, it really feels like the mask fell off.
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And I'm like, go look at the guy's Twitter account because he's been bashing people all
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day long right up until 2025 when he wanted to run an election and act like all of a sudden
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And Van Jones, thanks for telling us that now after we won, right?
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I mean, if it wasn't such a, you know, if it wasn't accomplished media, mostly, probably
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And Trump's endorsement really helped Cuomo because Curtis Lee is the GOP nominee.
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And he even won the election district, Jack, in all of Staten Island, which is the only
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So Cuomo, and, you know, Cuomo didn't even thank, you know, Trump at all.
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So, and then he never, Cuomo also never reached out to conservatives.
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They all backed him, said the world's going to end if we elect Mondani.
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So there were a lot of mishaps here that Cuomo did that he had a shot, better shot at winning
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But yeah, you know, there's a lot of things that, Hochul's up for election next year, the
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So she doesn't want this radical, because New York's, you know, if New York's, he gets
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too radical, that's going to hurt a re-election, because Stefanik's going to, the GOP minority,
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I don't know if she's the minority whip, she used to be, but Liz Stefanik, very popular
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She's going to announce very soon her governor, a race for governor, and Hochul's going to
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Hopefully she keeps him in check a bit, and the president, so we won't destroy New York.
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Well, here's the question then, that I guess, that I think that I'm looking at, are we going
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to see more of this kind of Democrat civil war between the older, you know, you call
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them moderates, but the older liberals and the younger socialists?
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The older liberals, we consider people we can actually have a drink with at the end of the
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We can debate during the day, we can debate it, and then at the end of the day, we'll
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The fact that they elected a guy that wanted to cause harm to, and the Democrats have come
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that far that they want to cause harm to someone, and they elected the attorney general in Virginia,
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that's how the minds of Democratic voters have been persuaded to even accept violence,
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If you told us, Jack, 15 years to 20 years, someone said the statements that Jay Jones said,
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he would have been blown away, even in a Democratic primary.
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The fact that he could win in 2020 is a sad state of affairs in the Democratic primary in
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America, the fact that he pulled this off, the Democratic, and that was going to be the
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An attorney general of Virginia with those kind of thoughts, so sad, that's going to happen.
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Yeah, and in the wake, and I remember, you know, in the wake of Charlie Kirk's murder just
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a couple of weeks ago, all of a sudden we were told it's both sides, the both sides issue,
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and then you have, I think it's 1.3, maybe 1.5 million people in Virginia go and vote for
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a guy who said that he wants to kill conservative children.
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I'm supposed to do a night with a bunch of people that just voted for that guy?
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Adam Weiss, where can people follow you, and where can they get the show?
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They can see my show, you know, it's on our app, on our website, Sunday at 6 p.m.
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I unpack the media bias every week, and we know there's a lot to unpack constantly.
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I'm back here in Wisconsin after spending the last couple of days in Arizona.
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I was going to say, I was about to be like, I was about to say from Wisconsin, but then
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I realized that, man, Tyler has you traveling so much, I realized I hadn't checked in to
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make sure where you were actually calling in from.
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I flew into O'Hare this morning and shot back up here to Wisconsin.
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We had a victorious night last night at the Turning Point HQ in Phoenix.
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And so I'm riding that high right now, but definitely tired, but definitely celebrating
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some of the wins, some of the highlights of last night.
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Well, no, I think that's interesting because obviously, you know, most people are saying
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that, you know, that, you know, good night for Democrats in the blue states, you know,
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And of course, you know, Turning Point Action was hugely involved in New Jersey as well as
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in parts of Pennsylvania, but look, in these blue areas, they stayed blue and these traditional
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Republicans weren't coming across and the turnout, right?
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And I think the turnout in the low prop voters in some of these areas, look, you've got to
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overcome just a massive Democrat registration advantage.
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And that's something you can't do it with just, you know, with just the last couple weeks.
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So it's a lot of lessons learned, but talk to me about this massive flip because I've been
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seeing and, you know, Tyler's been sending us article after article of this huge recall
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Last night was not a great night for Republicans nationwide, but the beacon of hope that I want
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to instill on the good conservatives listening right now is that Turning Point Action treated
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Mesa, Arizona, like it was the center of the political universe for the last six months,
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because there is a woman named Julie Spilsbury sits on the Mesa City Council, who is a Republican
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in quotation marks, who co-chaired Republicans for Kamala Harris last year in the state of
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Republicans for Kamala Harris paid for billboards.
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They could have been detrimental to the effort that so many hardworking people were doing to
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And frankly speaking, knowing that President Trump's path to victory was only running through
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a handful of states, Arizona being the top one of that, someone like Julie Spilsbury could
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So our Turning Point Action team went full steam ahead this year in the effort to officially
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recall her, helping gather petition signatures in the spring, did that throughout the summer.
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And then for the last month, we had a big sprint to the finish line in physically chasing those
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ballots, putting together 24-7 infrastructure on the ground in Mesa District 2 to send that
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flare signal that we needed to send to the rest of the conservative movement, that fake
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Republicans like Julie Spilsbury are not welcome in the conservative movements.
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We were able to successfully elect Doreen Taylor as the new Mesa City Councilwoman, but really
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the broader effects, you know, this is something that could really, really be good.
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And Brett, not only that, not only did we give Turning Point Action and your great efforts
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to action, Julie Spilsbury herself gave credit to Turning Point Action.
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There were probably 30 volunteers at the polling place today.
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Tons of people were flown in from out of state.
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Lots of people told me that people knocked on their door that weren't even from Arizona.
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And the recall would never have been successful without Turning Point's employees, over 30 of
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them, out knocking doors that are not from Mesa.
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Just kind of what message do you think this sends to the community of Mesa that you did have
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this organization, very powerful, a lot of money coming in and stepping in to a city
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election, I mean, we saw how many people were out there voting today.
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What kind of message do you think this sends to the community?
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Yeah, look, I, people are always saying that they wish they had better candidates that
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I don't think that's true because when good people run for office just because I want to
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serve my community, and then this is what happens to me, why would anyone want to run
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when you have groups like Turning Point that can go out there and put up thousands of signs
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So we're on with Greg Kalaszewski, and he's the National Enterprise Director for Turning Point
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Is the only thing that she did with her platform to just serve the community?
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You know, she talks about how, like, I was removed because an outside group came in and
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started telling Mesa voters how their city should be run.
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And really, the true answer is, no, Julie, you were removed because you told your constituents
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you were a Republican, then ran Republicans for Kamala Harris, and then gave yourself a raise
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They were out in full force helping us on the ground.
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I think Julie's comments further prove, though, that we truly are a force to be reckoned with
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in the conservative movement, and accountability is a structural pillar point of ours.
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It is amazing because you got a situation like this where it, by the way, and this, I think,
00:34:38.880
also shows writ large that with the turning point action model, with that model of knocking
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on doors and going to people directly, it even, and by the way, even in a race like that
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came down to about, you know, under 20,000 votes, it still took a sizable number of activists
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So if you want to scale that up for something like an entire state like New Jersey, entire
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state like Pennsylvania, it is going to simply take more bodies.
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So what it is, is it moves away from the war of persuasion model.
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We don't need to be spending time and money talking with swing voters about how they should
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vote to recall Julie because she got involved with a presidential level type of Benedict Arnold
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Our ballot chase model goes to people who we know are conservatives.
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They just don't value their vote, especially for a fall off year race, if there is such a
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thing, and we help them realize that, build a relationship with them, and then turn that
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And I think what last night really proved is that ballot chasing works and that building
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a ground game heavily based on this concept of relational organizing is truly the new way
00:36:03.960
Well, it's the idea of not being a political operative, but being a good neighbor.
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So we had to, on the fly, train a lot of our volunteers and our paid staff at Turning
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Point Action to make contact with voters and then kind of massage it into them about the
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And this is what really separates ballot chasing from just transactional door knocking.
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In the Republican apparatus, and I'm not just talking about the party, I'm talking about
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in the historical Republican apparatus, follow-up is not encouraged.
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Think about every door knocker that's ever been at your door.
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Our ballot chase model encourages them to say, you know, hey, can I shoot you a text tomorrow
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just to make sure that you get your ballot in the box?
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We'll walk out to the mailbox together right now.
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I was giving people a ride to the polls yesterday to drop off their ballot.
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It moves away from that very kind of one-and-done, one-size-fits-all model, and it moves to a very
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And I have to imagine, by the way, when people see the turning point name, when they see turning
00:37:33.920
point action, especially given the events of the last couple of months, you know, it definitely
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creates a different environment than when somebody's just showing up with like a hard
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And kind of the thing that really separates our universe of voters, meaning the pool of
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voters that we're knocking, is that we were only knocking on conservative voters.
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So we already had an icebreaker right off the bat.
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So you've already got the icebreaker right there.
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They're telling me we're up against a hard break.
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And he's been my friend right from the beginning of this whole beautiful event.
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And we're going to turn it around and make our country great to get to you.
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Human Events Daily, Phoenix, Arizona, unpacking so much of what happened last night in 2025.
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By the way, the Human Events editorial board has just released.
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And this is such an incredible, absolutely incredible editorial that's come out just now.
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And it says the 2025 elections are an indictment on conservative leaders who are more focused on infighting than winning.
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And it reads, what good is our media infrastructure if we just use it to put each other on blast and not to advocate for the causes we need to address and advance to save the United States of America?
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And we talked about the lack of conservative pundits mentioning the races, the lack of conservative pundits getting into this, the lack of conservative pundits to highlight Jay Jones.
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Many of them did, but many of them also did not.
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And so we're looking at all of this and we're trying to figure out, you know, what went on here.
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And we've got to we've got to call balls and strikes.
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And there was a huge failure, I think, from a lot of people in conservative media to focus on other things, particularly infighting, rather than these elections.
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Wanted to bring on my good friend Josie, the red headed libertarian, to kind of unpack some of this and unpack these elections.
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Well, I want to get your take on that right there.
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So we're we're we're dipping our toes in it and saying, guys, are we focused on infighting or are we focused on winning?
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I think that the infighting has become a huge problem.
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The coalition that got President Trump elected was a ragtag band of misfits.
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It was it was just it was all of these people who sort of came together for a common goal.
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What we're seeing right now is this neocon versus Groyper war for the soul of of of of what we did for the soul of our party.
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And these people didn't really do anything to help us to begin with.
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Most of them were never Trump or they got inside with Kamala.
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Yet they're now fighting with each other and demanding all these other people pick a side or they're anti-American.
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And this isn't something that we should be focused on at all.
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It drew away from helping with these elections that it was it was just a the Democrats just won them all.
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So it hurt us more than it helped us when we could have come together for the common goal of getting more Republicans into into these these seats.
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And yeah, by the way, yeah, and look, you know, I've you know, I'm not going to say that I haven't gotten involved in like a drama or stuff like that before.
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But guys, it's election time when it's election time.
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You put that stuff on the sidelines and you come out and you focus on getting out the vote.
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That's the entire point of politics and political coalitions is winning.
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And so losing is never a victory, losing, getting taken down, getting deplatformed, et cetera.
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Those are examples of a losing fight, a losing momentum.
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And so and look, by the way, I'm not going to sit here and say that, you know, and say that this is the end of the world.
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And I always made sure to put that into context for everybody that we are attempting to see if we can if we can play in these areas, if we can put up victories on there.
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It looks like the old school candidates, the classic, the legacy, the non-populist, the non-Trumpy Republicans lost that they just don't didn't have what it took.
00:42:18.180
But there's a big question now, I think, with the Mamdani victory about socialism.
00:42:22.680
And I think a lot of this gets into Gen Z. And I keep talking about it.
00:42:26.820
Charlie Kirk talked about it on his final interview with Charlie with Tucker Carlson.
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He said, if we do not improve the economic conditions of Gen Z, they are going to go full Mamdani.
00:42:40.400
Are we seeing the rise, Josie, of cultural Marxism in America's greatest city?
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Yes. But also, there's there's only five states that have races on odd years.
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And so I think something like that is is why, say, Kentucky has a blue governor when they're clearly a red state.
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So I think that Republicans don't really get out and vote on these odd years when they should.
00:43:08.360
There's not as there's not enough excitement about it.
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They're lucky, honestly, to get out and vote for the midterms if they're not really excited about somebody.
00:43:16.340
So I think that Republicans need to really get their head in the game when it comes to that, because if we're not fighting back against this cultural Marxism, it is the biggest threat.
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The cultural Marxism is a bigger threat than anything.
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So I do believe that there is some kind of rise that is happening that we're seeing, because these kids there, a lot of them were just empty during 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, when we were in the pandemic.
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And they really just want to get behind something.
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Young kids need a purpose to fight for something.
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And they're seeing that, well, we're all being disenfranchised because of reasons that you and I both know are related directly to socialism.
00:43:58.220
But they think that more socialism and more communism will fix them.
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So they're like, oh, well, I can't afford things.
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But, hey, this guy's going to give me free buses and free rent and free daycare and redistribute the wealth of the white people.
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But if I vote for this guy, then, yeah, this is this is great.
00:44:15.340
And I think a large part of that is the failure of public school.
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But I believe that that was the way that it was supposed to be like this is what they had intended.
00:44:26.240
Well, and I used this phrase last night on Fox News.
00:44:28.960
And, you know, some of the some of the folks or guys are that's they're like, Jack, that's a little that's a little, you know, they weren't trying to go with it online.
00:44:39.240
I said, look, Mom Donnie won the Mom Donnie model was because of the mass importation of gimme grints.
00:44:45.340
This idea that we're going to bring people in who are not not like the settlers, not like the founders, not like the colonists who came and actually built New York City.
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By the way, if it wasn't Europeans who built New York, why is it called that?
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Then you turn around and people who are just coming now because they want the government dole.
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But if you have a party that says, wait a minute, we can achieve political prowess through this by bringing in people who want to vote themselves the free stuff from that is paid for, of course, by the people who built this country and built New York City.
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Then they're going to use it as a political tool.
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This is what Elon Musk was talking about when he went on Joe Rogan.
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And and by the way, it's what Zora Mondani was talking about up on that stage last night.
00:45:33.920
The mask fell off and even Van Jones admitted it.
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Well, I think that settlers settlers come here and they build immigrants come here and they add and then migrants and illegals.
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They come here and they take and this is what we're seeing.
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We're seeing mass taking right now without without adding almost like I deserve this for whatever reason, because they've been there's this victim oppressor lens that school is is preached through and media is preached through.
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And so when people learn anything about our history, learn anything about what's happening now, there has to be a victim and there has to be an oppressor.
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And they usually align themselves with the victim because the only option is the oppressor and who would want to be that.
00:46:18.540
So what we're seeing right now is the embracing of victimhood led by this communist.
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I don't know what's going to happen when they have a one hundred and fifteen billion dollar budget.
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And I mean, sixty five million of that he's going to put towards transing kids and punish hospitals that don't trans kids.
00:46:38.400
There's there's the priorities are like handing it to a toddler and like and have them spend it on ice cream.
00:46:47.880
He's never proved himself to do anything like this.
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We're kind of getting, you know, I think it was you said at the mayor of London right here in New York.
00:46:58.340
Yeah, it's it's it's our it's America now has our city con.
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I mean, this is like I'm just going to say it's like giving a loaded weapon to a toddler when when I have kids, you have kids.
00:47:09.960
You understand they don't know the awesome power that they've been given.
00:47:14.680
And when kids are really little, you know, the vast majority, not all, but the vast majority, they're selfish.
00:47:23.280
And growing up and getting older, becoming more mature means that you understand and learn how to respect others and live in a society.
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Mom, Don, he's totally not interested in doing this.
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He's he's more than happy to laugh at this country, to play Bollywood songs.
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He's poking at the foundations of this country and he is laughing about what's going on.
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Josie, we're going to get you on next time for longer.
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