Catching Up With David Duke
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Summary
David Duke is running for the U.S. Senate seat currently held by former Louisiana Governor David Vitter, who is up against Democratic challenger Mary Landrieu. In this episode, David talks about why he s running for re-election and why he thinks he has a chance to win.
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I'm fine. I'm just a little bit ragged. I've been campaigning the last few days,
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and we've been under a lot of very powerful attacks, technical attacks.
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My campaign website went down, an international attack that was so strong,
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it even took down the big commercial server that we were using.
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I've been using it for 12 years that also does major airlines.
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There are definitely some powerful people who are very afraid I'm going to win this election,
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go to the Senate, and really change the whole narrative and the whole discussion about politics in America.
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They were not allowing me to book my flight this weekend, that's why.
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Okay, well, you can blame me. I guess you can blame me and my candidacy for that.
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Well, we blame you for everything, so might as well blame you for this, too.
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Really, you are afraid of the possibilities of this election here in Louisiana.
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Yeah, absolutely. I want to definitely talk about your election.
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You're running for Louisiana Senate, which David Vitter has recently left.
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But before that, I want to get your thoughts on the RNC and DNC and just this moment where we are.
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And I'll just throw this out there to get you started.
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There seem to be revolts in both parties, and one of them is top-down, and the other seems to be bottom-up.
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What we're seeing this week is a lot of genuine leftists, who I think are very genuine.
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Genuine leftists who see Hillary for what she is, and that is a banker and globalist shill.
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And I think there's another revolt going on in the GOP, and this one is top-down.
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You could say it's kind of a coup where Donald Trump is forcing the GOP against the wishes of the establishment,
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and I'll be honest, actually against the wishes of some grassroots Ted Cruz Tea Party types, to be a nationalist party.
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So I think we're in this point where so many things are happening.
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Well, my take is that we are in the midst truly in a political revolution,
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and it's been brought on by the activism of people like yourself, myself, for years,
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and it's also been brought on by a man who had celebrity status, Donald Trump,
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who joined this race and began talking about the issues that we've championed,
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the fact that immigration will literally destroy our country and that we have to even using language such as we've got to take our country back.
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I mean, that's something that I've been saying for the last four decades of my life.
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And so it's really an amazing phenomenon that's happening, and it's also rekindled a lot of interest in me here in the state of Louisiana
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because everybody's aware that most of the major issues of the Trump campaign, such as America First, that was one of my campaign issues.
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Everybody that knows anything about me knows that.
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In my history, my record against the Iraq War and these insane wars in the Middle East that have actually led to the rise of ISIS
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and hurt our country dramatically, caused the damage of hundreds of thousands of young Americans in this war,
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trillions of dollars expended, it's really rekindling that.
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And people now are really looking for candidates that really express the core issues maybe even more openly, more explicitly than Donald Trump does.
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So there's a real sea change going on, and I'm feeling that right now in this race.
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The support is absolutely more intense, more widespread than I expected even in this race.
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I thought we were going to get support, but I've never really kind of felt as much support starting out a race like this as I'm feeling now.
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And you remember I came in with a three-point switch, a three-point voter switch would have sent me to the United States Senate in 1990,
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and the truth is the only way they kept me out of that Senate race was by having the Republican official nominee,
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Ben Baggert, of the caucus of the party, drop out at the last Senate and cause hundreds of thousands of absentee ballots to go, you know, to be destroyed.
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And those votes were kept for me, which they would have voted for me, obviously, against a liberal Democrat, a guy with a record like Teddy Kennedy.
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And so it was really political tricks and insider tricks that even caused me not to go to the Senate.
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And so people in Louisiana, they know me well since that time.
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You know, I served in the House of Representatives from 89 to 93.
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I served as the chairman of the Republican Party in the largest Republican parish, and we have parishes instead of counties in Louisiana.
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And I was elected at large at the ballot box in the presidential election in 96, where they voted for me at large to the Republican committee.
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And then 14 other elected Republican officials, executive committee members who were elected to the ballot box as well,
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then turned around and unanimously chose me to be their chairman.
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I mean, that's totally outside the narrative of the way the press and the media and the political insiders construct what they call David Duke.
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It's very, very different when you have 14 other elected Republicans voting me unanimously who know me the best, who know me very well.
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They wanted me to be their chairman, and I was the chairman.
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Yeah, I think your whole career and the trajectory of it is fascinating.
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I'm 38 years old, so I actually remember your runs when I was in middle school.
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But I remember them not only, you know, having intense support in Louisiana, but really getting under people's skin
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and changing the way they think all around the country and possibly even around the world.
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Whereas I don't think anyone would have talked about the, you know, Louisiana gubernatorial race otherwise.
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It's because you were clearly doing something different and you were shocking the system.
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Why, could you talk a little bit about what you're going through right now?
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I mean, why did you decide to get in the race right now?
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Is it just, is it because of just, you know, the end of the Obama administration and all this angst about the future?
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Um, and, uh, why, why did you think this is the right time to do it?
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And, and talk a little bit about what it would take to become the senator.
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Uh, you're, you're, you're taking over a seat that's been vacated by David Vitter.
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So it, it really is up for grabs and there, there are a ton of people running.
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And, and what it would take to become a senator?
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Well, I think it's a, a lot of factors there you're talking about.
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Um, I think we've got to remember that, uh, that Donald Trump did not come out of a vacuum.
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Um, the fact is that the ground that's been laid by people like myself over these decades
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is very, very important to what's happening right now.
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You know, for literally since the time I was 18 years old, uh, 19 years old at LSU, I've
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been speaking publicly about the threat of massive immigration to this country.
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The fact that European Americans, the founding people of this nation, the men and women whose
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forefathers created this country, our constitution, our rights, our liberties, our values, and who
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sustain those things, who vote to preserve those liberties, that we are being purposefully
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ethnically cleansed in our own country by immigration policies that were designed to
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literally replace our population, this country, so they could usher in, you know, this leftist
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And maybe simply because of a lot of hatred against our heritage and our values that we
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see prominent all over the Western world by the globalist media and the international
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banking and, and political establishment of the planet.
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Uh, that's, so what happened was that I think that people have, when, when Donald Trump came
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in the scene, he had a celebrity status and he started talking about some of the issues that
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There's this massive illegal immigration, uh, the trade policies that are betraying both
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American working people and American businesses that want to stay home, that, that don't want
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to compete unfairly with products and businesses that are overseas.
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Uh, when he started talking about, um, these insane wars overseas and, uh, discussing the
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insanity of the Iraq war and George Bush's policies, when he started talking about, uh, he's even
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said that we should audit the fed talking about the federal reserve bank.
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He, he's also made some direct assaults against Goldman Sachs.
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So I think that when Trump came along and he also spoken away, even though he didn't speak
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always in the way that's that endearing to people, he, he spoke in many ways, kind of
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And, uh, but the fact that he wasn't politically correct and he didn't apologize, uh, also has
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given people a lot of encouragement and the fact that the media has attacked him full bore,
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they've accused him of every character violation.
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Uh, they can't, they can't argue with their ideas and not only stretch and use hyperbole to
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make our ideas seem differently than they are, but different than they are, but they literally
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always attack your character, no matter what your character is.
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They always something they can find, something they can say, something they can bring out
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And they've done that to Donald Trump, but the people have to have enough of it.
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And they, and so it's also been helpful to people like myself because people see what's
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going on in terms of me and what's has gone on with terms of me the same way they see
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Uh, but we're not riding on his coattails and in some ways he's ridden on our coattails
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I was, I did a patrol of the Mexican American border to call attention to it back in 1976,
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We're warning the country of the illegal alien problem, how it's going to increase crime,
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hurt our economy, hurt our culture, basically threaten, uh, the heritage, the values, the
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So, uh, basically Donald Trump has capitalized on, which I'm thankful for a lot of the issues
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What, what is, talk just about the basics of, of getting elected.
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There are a number of people who have thrown their, their hat into the ring.
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What, what is, what's, what, how is this going to play out?
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Well, I think, uh, even, even the left now is starting to admit the fact that I've got
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a hell of a good chance to win this thing and you can't win without getting into the runoff.
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But in a very crowded field of, uh, 24 candidates, uh, obviously that increases the opportunity.
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And that's one reason why an open seat is much better for a, an insurgent candidate than
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Incumbents are able to do favors for people during their terms.
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They're able to, they've already got a lot of very well-funded people.
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And so in a race like this, you have a lot of candidates and, and you have a real opportunity
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for a candidate to stand out different than the rest.
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The same thing happened in district 81 when I won, uh, election to the house of representatives
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They all outspent me, uh, they all had the support of the political establishment or some
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And, uh, I, I came in the first primary at 33% and the other guys, the next closest to
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And of course that was like a shot heard around the world.
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And, uh, so we have a good chance to get into the runoff.
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Now people often ask me, well, why state race rather than the congressional race?
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Uh, one is a, a state race, uh, enables you to reach more people without as much concentration
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In a small district, they can just pour the money in.
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Uh, they can just go in there and just unbelievable.
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Plus if you're running against an incumbent, uh, if they're serving the people for 10 years,
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helping people with their social security benefits or their tax problems or with some
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government issue, um, they're developing a, a support group that goes beyond the, their
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So on the statewide level as well, uh, then your open ideas, your ideas like the Donald Trump
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ideas, uh, that he had the same kind of impact, uh, you can talk more about ideas.
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Secondly, what's happening today is very, very different than the 1990.
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The demographics are a little bit worse than they were then, but they're not much worse.
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They're talking about a couple of points difference in terms of the black bloc vote and the non-white
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The difference though, in this race is the fact that the European Americans have been
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more polarized, uh, to vote for Republican candidates.
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So they're voting more and higher percentages than ever before.
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Whereas many Republicans and many Democrats, many Democrat, many people in the state voted
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They're going to vote for the leading Republican, whoever is against the leading Democrat.
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And in the last couple of races for the Senate, we had overwhelming, I mean, just massive Republican
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So the opportunity for me to get a higher percentage of both Republican and Democratic votes this
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Five more percent of the, of the white vote in Louisiana would have taken me into the Senate.
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Secondly, it doesn't, to raise money, we got to have, you got to have money to run.
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And I raised a couple million dollars, but the way I raised money was a lot of mailings
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and things like that, which costs a lot of money.
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So when you raise 2 million and it costs you kind of a million and a half to raise 2 million,
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The opposition didn't have that problem because they could go directly to the fat cats and they
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get on their phone banks and here's 5,000 or 5,000.
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And they are in the state of Louisiana for governor, they could get 30, 40, $50,000 from
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Um, they have the networks to do that through these corporations.
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So when they raise 2 million or 3 million, in fact, they raised 10, 20, 30 million with
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Uh, they could all go into commercials and all go into groundwork and infrastructure and
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paying people to work the phones and paying people to do all the, all the work and the
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Uh, today we have a different opportunity, uh, in my, in my Twitter account.
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I urge all your listeners to go to Twitter and, and join the discussion there.
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Uh, if you're not on Twitter yet, folks, and if you're older folks get on Twitter, get
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The young people are coming at me and for me in great numbers.
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In just the last seven days, I've had over 4 million responses, 4 million impressions.
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Um, we were in fact, uh, five days ago, you're a number three trending in the entire world
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And 1.7 billion and we were number three trending in the world, in the world.
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Did they, uh, they shut down that hashtag pretty quickly, I would suspect.
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But, uh, but you know, that's, it's, it's the way it is.
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We're, we're getting between a four or 500,000 a week and a million and a half or more.
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Uh, they shut down my website, but we still have our, you know, our, our social media going.
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So we have more opportunity to reach people with our message through our websites and through
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the rest and hear our message than we had way back in those days.
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And, and when people get to hear my message, they vote for my message and they vote for me.
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And you have a huge advantage in that you have name recognition and it really is a kind of
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Your celebrity granted is because the mainstream media has turned you into a kind of bogeyman
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It's a, almost a parody of what they say antisemitism is actually, where they, uh, they fix
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Well, you know, with all those attacks, and that's the interesting thing here in Louisiana,
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with all those attacks and two major elections, over 60% of the European American voters voted
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for me to be their United States Senator and to be their governor.
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So yeah, there's, it is true that people love me or hate me, but among our constituency, among,
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you know, the European American voter, a lot more people love me.
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And that's powerful because you're, you're over that first hump.
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Um, real quick, when is the first election and when is the runoff election in Louisiana?
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The first, um, the first election for the United States Senate is going to be on election day
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And, and the media, um, you know, trying to attack Trump a little bit, but that hasn't
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In fact, when they really came out with the big attacks on Trump saying he didn't denounce
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me and he wouldn't denounce me when he was on Jake Tapper and all that stuff, what they've
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done is they've, you know, driven a very close psychological association between myself and
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And in some ways it's correct, some way it's not.
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I mean, I'm definitely far more, uh, outspoken on a lot of these issues than Donald Trump is.
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Uh, but that's, but it's a psychological association.
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I mean, uh, we have my campaign manager and, uh, and his wife are now working on a, a very,
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uh, statistical analysis of the election and the voters and that they, they're estimating
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now the likelihood of Trump voters to, to pull my lever too is really powerful, probably
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Uh, so I think there is a kind of like, there's a, be careful what you wish for element to
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all this because they, uh, a lot of people in the media have been associating the alt-right
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And, and of course there's good reason for that.
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I would say most people in the alt-right are excited about the Trump campaign.
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I think we, we all have a lot of skepticism, but we're definitely excited by it.
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Uh, but again, when they start saying things like the alt-rights taking over the, the, the
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conservative movement and the Republican party, the alt-rights ascendant and so on, it becomes
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kind of a self-fulfilling prophecy because that, that's how things work.
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It's, it's almost better for them to ignore us or to, or to, you know, harp on about how
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we don't have any money or so, or something like that.
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It's actually, I, I think they're, they kind of can't help themselves and they are really
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are promoting us and they're, they're making it a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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We do have a lot more power than we did a year and a half ago.
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And, uh, it's, it, it doesn't mean that we have this, you know, multi-million dollar
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endowments or billion dollars, like the heritage foundation and all these conservative losers
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in the, uh, the, in the, in the beltway, but we, we, we scare them more and we're, we're
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seen as ascendant, whereas conservatives are seen accurately as, as, as descendant and,
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and as, as old and tired and boring and all that kind of stuff.
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So I, I think what the media has been doing, again, they're attacking us, but I think it's
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The traitors to our people, our heritage, our freedoms, our constitution, our rights,
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our traditions, our very existence in not only America, but the entire Western Christian
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world, you know, they should be scared because they're going to be turned out of power.
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They're going to be, there, there is a massive tidal wave of Europeans all over the world
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And, uh, they know, uh, they know that, you know, the, yes, they, they're putting us up
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against the wall by their immigration policies, but our people are not out done and out by any
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Our people are actually, we still have millions upon millions of people who are just not
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They're not going to go quietly into the night.
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And when we apply our intelligence and our ability and our courage and that of our ancestors,
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when we reach down into our genes and our traditions and culture and our heroes of the past, when
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we embrace that, we will rise up and we will take our countries back.
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We will preserve our children and our heritage.
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And we will ensure a future that will take us not only to victory and survival in our own nations, but
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That's what I believe in and what my life's always been about.
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I would say a lot of people who, who have some conservative instincts will say things like,
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oh, it's over in 2050 or 2042 when whites become a minority in the United States.
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And I've always just chafed at that kind of talk, just cringed, like as if it's over if
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I mean, it's just like, that's just the beginning.
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I agree that something will be ending at that point, but something will be beginning.
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We don't, we don't need to be 98% of the population in order to change the world or even dominate
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I mean, let's keep in mind, uh, the city of London was able to dominate a great deal of
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And I'm not saying I want to bring back them to the British empire.
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I don't, uh, and I'm not saying there weren't problems with that, but it's, it's just a
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We're able to, you know, explore the galaxies in ways that others can't.
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And maybe we need to become a minority in the United States of America in order for us to
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I don't, I don't know, Richard, that may be saying too much to say we need to, but it
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It's not that we need to be a minority, but I'm telling you this, that minorities, dedicated
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minorities have always been the most powerful force in history, rather than latent majorities.
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I mean, you look at, look at the Bolshevik revolution in Russia, it was maybe 10,000 people
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in a country of, of tens of millions of people.
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I mean, less than one 10th of 1% perhaps were Bolsheviks.
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Um, and there's no question that in, in other countries, there were very small percentages
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that captured the will of the people and, and went to power and we can do that.
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And also physically, I mean, let's be frank about it.
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You know, I'm not, I've never advocated violence.
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And I think any sort of violence right now in terms of this society is totally counterproductive.
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And I, I've always believed, and I've, I totally opposed any sort of terrorism or violence of
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any kind, because not only do I think it's morally wrong, but I also think that it's totally
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Uh, that because the power of the media, they're able to make us to be the moral enemies, even
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though they're committing all kinds of terrorism against us every day with their policies.
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Uh, they're, you know, it's like the black lives matter.
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I mean, you have a few dozen black criminals who are shot by police and maybe of that, a
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tiny number and a couple of handfuls that might be, um, you know, might be something where
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they can argue about whether they should have been shot or not.
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And then you have thousands upon thousands of innocent white men, women, and children
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who've committed no offense, who've done nothing wrong, who've been, uh, murdered, robbed, car
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hijacked, raped themselves and their children, massacred, murdered women, uh, raped and sexually
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I mean, and it's a cross racial crime and yet you have no mention of these things.
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So, um, the time may come when this has happened throughout history, when people who are facing
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tyranny, uh, facing ethnic, uh, destruction and genocide, doesn't the media teach us every
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day that when the quote, the Jews were facing ethnic destruction in Europe or whatever, that
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they have a, they had a moral right to rise up and fight.
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I mean, the, the, the question is very simply that, uh, the day will come, if the day ever
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comes and that fight comes about, uh, we have the intelligence and the organization and the
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ability and the courage and the brilliance and, and really the history that we can rekindle
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whatever, whatever we need to rekindle to win the battle.
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If only we have the dedication toward that victory.
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Well, let's, um, let, let's pull back a little bit.
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I, I, I do want to talk about history because you've, you've had this fascinating career
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and, um, first I want to talk about something that is what is, is the only thing that the
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wolf blitzers of the world want to talk about where whenever they introduce you, they say
00:26:43.300
former Ku Klux Klan leader, grand wizard, David Duke.
00:26:53.080
Um, you actually founded the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan in 1974.
00:26:58.440
Uh, so it was actually a, um, it was actually, I wasn't the founder.
00:27:03.840
It was actually founded by a very successful intellect and businessman by the name of James
00:27:08.400
Lindsay in New Orleans, very successful uptown, uh, New Orleans, uh, individual.
00:27:13.880
He used to own a, uh, brokerage firm and, uh, major real estate developer, brilliant guy.
00:27:23.400
He said, well, we need you to come in here and, and we're going to use this organization
00:27:28.900
and we're going to buy this, uh, controversial view.
00:27:33.480
We're going to get a lot of coverage and we're going to get the issues out that we need to.
00:27:38.260
And, uh, it, it kind of like was the original trolling that these young people are doing
00:27:42.780
today in a sense, even though they were going back to the original values of, of the, uh,
00:27:50.260
Klan and the original values of the Klan were a revolutionary group to preserve the rights
00:27:55.020
of the people of the South who were losing them with the horrific reconstruction.
00:27:58.420
And most of America used to recognize that by the way.
00:28:02.360
And, uh, in fact, we got to remember now that the North and South, even the first great popular
00:28:09.620
movie, which was loved all over America, North and South was birth of a nation.
00:28:13.200
They're making a new black version of it, celebrating the black massacre of white people
00:28:23.280
But, um, so I got involved and, you know, if I had to do my brothers, I'd probably
00:28:28.400
be taking a different, different path, but at the same time, uh, it did give a platform,
00:28:35.040
And, um, and later when I, I realized that, uh, I wasn't going to be able to change the
00:28:42.300
image of it because of the people involved, I was a nonviolent person and, uh, always condemned
00:28:47.680
So, um, I eventually, you know, left the organization and formed a, a more of a political activist
00:28:54.000
organization, the NAWP, and then later ran for office.
00:28:58.260
In fact, as a very young man, 24, my first political race was for state Senate.
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I was a, a student at LSU, a graduate from LSU in history, later got my PhD.
00:29:10.460
It helps me a lot with, with my credentials and it's a real PhD.
00:29:14.140
Uh, but, you know, of course the media, anything you do in your life, they're going to put down
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and try to, you know, that that's how the media is.
00:29:22.400
But, you know, it's, uh, and I went forward and I, I could have said, well, I have this
00:29:27.940
I'm not, you know, I'm, I shouldn't run for office, but I didn't let it stop me.
00:29:32.300
And I eventually I got elected office and, and, and had huge campaigns and powerful campaigns,
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uh, where I almost went to the Senate and, and the governorship, I unseated a sitting
00:29:45.740
Um, so it kind of shows you that we should never let these things stop us.
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And I think I'm poised right now to go to the United States Senate.
00:29:53.960
And because of the media, uh, craziness about my clan past, uh, it's, uh, it's going to make
00:30:00.880
my victory, probably the biggest political victory covered in, in the entire earth.
00:30:05.680
I mean, in fact, we're getting the runoff, uh, from November 8th to December 3rd, I think
00:30:12.480
It will be the biggest news story, the biggest political race covered in the world, which
00:30:17.560
is a tremendous bully pulpit for the ideas I represent and the ideas you represent and the
00:30:22.560
ideas that hopefully the listeners of this program represent.
00:30:26.460
That's, that's fascinating that you said that joining the clan was a little like trolling.
00:30:31.080
It, it, it reminded me of something I think, uh, William Pierce said about, um, George Lincoln
00:30:38.060
Rockwell, where he said that no one paid attention to me until I put on this Nazi garb, uh, Rockwell
00:30:45.600
And again, I don't, I've always, whenever I've met someone or something like that, and they,
00:30:51.760
they love all of that, that paraphernalia of, of the 1930s.
00:31:02.680
You're, you're, you're becoming kind of a Hollywood caricature of our ideas and our movement.
00:31:07.200
So I've always, uh, distanced myself from those people, but I actually do see your point.
00:31:13.680
Uh, there, there is a way where if you, if you do put on the clan robe that you immediately
00:31:20.420
I mean, obviously there was the original clan, uh, during the reconstruction period that was
00:31:26.860
Then you had the, the next clan, which wasn't even really Southern.
00:31:31.020
I mean, it was, it was a kind of all American, you know, uh, uh, organization.
00:31:35.560
It was many governors and senators in the North and South elected office.
00:31:39.140
In India, I think I've read something like in Indiana, half of the Indiana legislature was
00:31:44.040
a member of the clan and they waived the American flag.
00:31:46.840
Well, Harry Truman, before he became president, he joined the clan as a sitting judge in Missouri
00:31:58.300
Uh, but again, you'd notice how the media treats former Klansmen and that's what's, but
00:32:03.760
you know, the way to deal with it now, I've learned the way to deal with it.
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And maybe Donald Trump is one of the teachers on this.
00:32:08.580
I just laugh at them and I'll just say, you know, who in the heck cares?
00:32:14.120
What did you, you know, when, when, when Harry, when, uh, excuse me, what I'm saying, Robert
00:32:18.500
Byrd, when Robert Byrd was a former Klansman who was supported by Barack Obama and Hillary
00:32:23.840
Clinton for the United States Senate, they lead the United States Senate.
00:32:28.100
Uh, they never headlined former Klansman Robert Byrd.
00:32:31.200
If they're saying that my former Klan affiliation is, uh, and really, well, basically for about four
00:32:36.580
years during the, during my twenties is legitimate, then certainly his former Klan affiliation was
00:32:44.260
legitimate, not determined whether he became a liberal Democrat or not, you know, or, I
00:32:48.760
mean, it doesn't make any, that's what they're saying because obviously my, my rhetoric is
00:32:56.140
I've been out of the Klan for four decades now.
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Uh, I should be identified with the press as former representative.
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And that's, that would be the proper way to talk about me.
00:33:11.000
Just like they would never introduce Robert Byrd as former Klansman, Robert Byrd, they
00:33:16.140
would, Byrd, they would never put a headline on him.
00:33:21.140
I mean, so, so the truth is that actually they've overused it so much.
00:33:30.860
And I also, I can point out, like we had, we had Bernie Sanders.
00:33:35.340
Now the media calls him sometimes a socialist, hardly ever headlines him as socialist.
00:33:39.480
Here's a guy who at 41 years of age, not like me when I was from 23 to 28, right?
00:33:45.500
24 to 28, actually, uh, in the Klan, less than four years.
00:33:48.940
And he was at 41 and elector for the Socialist Workers Party, which was a self-described communist
00:33:59.460
That worshipped Leon Trotsky, the first head of the Red Army in the Russian-Soviet Union,
00:34:11.220
And also he went to a communist Stalinist kibbutz in Israel.
00:34:16.280
And he took that red flag, by the way, took a copy, one of them, back and flew it in his
00:34:21.220
office, you know, when he was mayor of Burlington.
00:34:23.780
And, and, and yet the media never says former communist Robert Byrd.
00:34:32.840
Um, with, with Senator Byrd, uh, I'll, I'll, I'll say very briefly, I think the way that
00:34:42.040
And they, the, probably the dirty little secret of, of Senator Byrd was that a lot of West
00:34:47.660
Virginia voters liked him precisely because he was a good old boy or one of them.
00:34:53.040
Um, but he, they, they could at least pitch it as this redemption narrative of, oh, he
00:34:58.320
He's, he had a change of heart, but you, they, you, you can't do that, or at the very least
00:35:03.280
they won't do that for you just because you actually do care about your race and civilization.
00:35:11.160
They, they say, okay, I was thinking, well, exactly what did I do?
00:35:14.020
They'll say my views were apprehensible because I said that European Americans, you know, should
00:35:19.200
not be discriminated against massively in discrimination, affirmative action.
00:35:22.600
Because I say that we, we shouldn't be intentionally, uh, reduced our population, ethnically cleansed
00:35:32.700
So I could be a story of redemption, but see, but it's not my past.
00:35:36.480
And just like, it's not Robert Byrd's task, past, which is important.
00:35:40.980
It's not the past of, of David Duke that they care about.
00:35:45.780
So that's why Robert Byrd's past became a footnote and my past became a headline and
00:35:52.980
And they could, you know, if they wanted to write a story of redemption, they could, they
00:35:58.160
He realized a lot of people were, you know, who were taking that title, who acting improperly
00:36:06.120
He was a force for nonviolence in the organization.
00:36:13.300
He was a great voice for equal rights for all, including European Americans.
00:36:19.220
They could easily write a story of redemption, but that's not what the, we have an unfair,
00:36:25.920
And really everybody gets the idea of that when they, when they read KKK now, because
00:36:32.620
Why not, you know, why not Robert, you know, why not Bernie Sanders, former communist, or
00:36:38.180
why not, you know, Robert Byrd, former Klansman?
00:36:40.660
How can Hillary Clinton endorse, all right, Robert Byrd to head the United States Senate?
00:36:45.960
And all the Republicans, by the way, voted for him.
00:36:47.760
So the Republicans, they always say, well, yeah, yeah, look at the Democrats.
00:36:52.400
Well, every Republican member of the U.S. Senate voted.
00:36:58.860
They could have objected, but every Republican senator in the U.S. Senate voted to confirm
00:37:03.760
Robert Byrd as a Senate, Senator pro tem, who was third in line to succession to the president.
00:37:11.240
So how in the world can they say they can't support me because I was suddenly, I was been
00:37:15.300
in the Klan before they support a Democrat, former Klansman.
00:37:21.500
I would say one, one real quick footnote to Robert Byrd.
00:37:27.620
I want to mention something about Bernie, but a quick footnote to Robert Byrd.
00:37:31.640
Despite the fact that we, he was on the wrong side of a lot of issues.
00:37:34.980
I actually would say this at the, at the end of his life, he was actually very good on
00:37:41.900
He, he opposed George W. Bush and the Iraq war with as much vehemence as anyone.
00:37:46.540
So I would actually tip my cap to the evil Klansman.
00:37:53.820
He, he, he voted against the, you know, the heart seller immigration reform bill, which,
00:38:00.100
which changed the demographics of America fundamentally.
00:38:05.160
And, uh, but then later he kind of sold us out because he supported the amnesty and these
00:38:15.680
In the, in 1960, there was that terrible mid decade, uh, you know, political revolution.
00:38:23.720
He absolutely was a, a leading opposition to that act.
00:38:28.020
But he kind of shows you the hypocrisy of the media, right?
00:38:31.160
So, um, yeah, after it, it wasn't really important after he could get away with it, he kind of switched
00:38:38.980
Because, because, because now he got the support of the media, right?
00:38:43.900
So now he could, he could, he could sell out his own people, people of West Virginia, people
00:38:50.140
of this country, because the media was going to give him acolytes.
00:38:53.380
And now he's a good man because he has all this powerful structure behind him.
00:38:57.500
Uh, and the truth is that I, on the other hand, has been a man that's always stood for
00:39:02.840
principle over any sort of political advantage.
00:39:07.320
Maybe that's why I'm so popular among so many people here.
00:39:13.440
It was interesting that he was a member of a Trotskyist organization, uh, which were,
00:39:17.220
of course, uh, opposed the, the Soviet Union, which probably, uh, stank of Russian nationalism.
00:39:26.820
Well, Richard, I, I, I'm, you know, we need to get this very firmly in our, in our brains
00:39:32.380
and in our, in our history and understanding of Bernie Sanders.
00:39:35.500
Bernie Sanders was not only in the Socialist Workers Party, he was an elector for the
00:39:43.400
Socialist Workers Party candidate for president of the United States, Andrew Pulley, who, who
00:39:50.280
was on the ballot and he was an elector for this open communist, called himself a communist
00:39:55.780
in an open communist party for the presidency of the United States.
00:40:00.040
So he was on the ballot for the Socialist Workers.
00:40:17.600
So, and, and, and by the way, as far as labels go, if the, if we had a really fair media,
00:40:22.620
they would list Hillary Clinton as the, uh, you know, as the hero of Benghazi.
00:40:28.000
You know, she caused the death of an American ambassador.
00:40:31.120
Who was tortured and murdered in this town because in, in Tripoli and she led to the,
00:40:36.620
and her policies led to this happening to begin with.
00:40:41.300
I mean, she and her state department and our government supported ISIS against this, the
00:40:50.020
Syrians who actually were a secular government who actually had Christians and Sunni and Shiite
00:41:00.040
The freest governments in all of the Middle East.
00:41:02.060
And I met the head of the Christians in Syria before.
00:41:04.800
Oh, I mean, if you look at Hillary's qualifications, I mean, it is a total disaster.
00:41:11.880
I mean, Gaddafi was, you know, and I'm not saying he's an ideal leader, but, uh, he, he
00:41:19.140
I mean, it, he was willing to work with America and, and, and Western leaders.
00:41:24.020
Certainly stopping any sort of terrorism out of Libya.
00:41:31.700
They've, they've luckily been unsuccessful in that.
00:41:34.540
Um, I, I don't think they're going to be able to create even more chaos in Iran as well.
00:41:38.560
But, uh, yeah, I mean, there are some, uh, really terrible people.
00:41:43.540
Like you've, you've, you've never, you know, inspired terrorism or like funneled money, funneled
00:41:49.620
money that ultimately ended up in the hands of ISIS.
00:41:51.560
You've never overthrown, you know, uh, legitimate leaders and created failed states except, and
00:41:59.280
You know, the only oath I ever took can be even back when I joined the Klan and what we give
00:42:03.800
to people was to not commit a violent or illegal act to, to defend the Christian faith and our
00:42:09.420
Christian heritage in this country, to defend the constitution of the United States, right?
00:42:14.060
And to defend the rights and the heritage of the European American people.
00:42:20.800
And in fact, I, that I, in fact, made it a rule in our group that you would, because I was very
00:42:27.060
aware of how the violence is not only an immoral thing, but a counterproductive thing.
00:42:30.960
I, I made that as part of our oath, everybody who joined my group.
00:42:34.000
And there was never a single individual in my organization that ever committed a violent
00:42:38.760
So when they try to put this brush against me, it's ridiculous.
00:42:42.220
But again, I think all that's, it doesn't make any difference anymore.
00:42:47.140
They, they, they've lashed every sort of personal attack on Donald Trump.
00:42:53.540
It's a, and he's leading Hillary Clinton right now.
00:42:57.420
Let me, as we bring this conversation to a close, it's really been, it's really been
00:43:01.720
I just like to talk about the difference between your first campaigns and, and then your,
00:43:12.220
Um, and I've actually, I actually watched a lot of video of your appearances in the, uh,
00:43:19.740
Uh, there, there's a very famous Donahue appearance where you, uh, you, you, you basically win the
00:43:28.720
It was, uh, you really handled yourself quite well.
00:43:31.860
Um, at that time you sounded very much like a Reagan conservative, uh, in terms of your talking
00:43:41.140
points, granted, you'd say something you'd maybe taught, you'd maybe a different emphasis.
00:43:45.600
You talk a little bit more about immigration, talk a little bit more about getting rid of
00:43:49.900
affirmative action, which is obviously anti, you know, discrimination against, uh, white
00:43:53.880
But you basically, in terms of your terminology and your tone, you, you sounded a lot like
00:44:02.060
Um, what do you, do you think that we're in a different world now?
00:44:06.200
I mean, I really think, I really think we are in terms of my cuckoo clock.
00:44:12.240
I keep my cuckoo clock there to remind me of these cuckolds who we have to defeat in
00:44:17.700
People forget that's the origin of the cuckoo clock is the cuckold bird.
00:44:22.340
I mean, it's the origin of cuckold and it's the cuckoo bird who, who, that's what, that's
00:44:25.760
what the Republican party is right now when they say that they're going to sell out the
00:44:28.740
Senate and the, and the Supreme court to keep David Duke out.
00:44:33.200
It's, they're cucking themselves in their cuckoo.
00:44:36.220
Well, let's, let's talk about what, what is, what is new?
00:44:39.660
Like, do you think that you want to become the alt-right candidate in the sense of some
00:44:45.640
I mean, maybe that's, that's a little too cuckoo, but, or do you want to, do you, do you,
00:44:49.780
do you think that Trump has brought in a new language?
00:44:51.820
Cause Trump sounds much more like a, you could say a Democrat or, or, or even a socialist in
00:44:59.240
the sense of we're going to protect American workers.
00:45:02.200
That, that seems to be this new emphasis that he's brought on and conservatives hate that.
00:45:06.100
So do you think that you're going to change your language a bit in, in 2016?
00:45:12.060
Well, here's, here's what I, there's a very big difference between your idea, ideological
00:45:19.980
And when you run a campaign and you run a campaign, you're maximizing votes.
00:45:24.480
So you're, you've got to be the cutting edge, but at the same time, if you get too far ahead
00:45:32.260
Uh, before I was a little bit before my time, uh, you also got to, to, to mobilize the
00:45:41.440
But I do believe absolutely that everything I was talking about, and here's the thing,
00:45:47.000
no matter what we, people say, well, you sound like a Reaganite person, but the truth is
00:45:53.080
They weren't talking about preserving our neighborhoods that forced integration of
00:45:56.380
education was, uh, destroying the education of this country.
00:45:59.960
Nobody was saying that immigration was going to destroy America as we know it, and the
00:46:04.260
traditions and the rights of the American people, uh, that it was going to change the
00:46:09.960
So I said, you know, a lot of things that sound like Reagan, you know, conservatism, and
00:46:16.960
I mean, I believe that we should have less government and less taxes and all the rest of
00:46:21.040
it, but, um, and the constitutional liberties must be preserved.
00:46:24.740
But at the same time, I pushed the envelope, I think that, uh, today I can even be more outspoken.
00:46:32.360
I really believe that it's a talking point to talk about the fact that we must make America
00:46:37.460
great again and to understand that America can never be made great again unless we preserve
00:46:45.100
the principles and the people who made America great in the first place.
00:46:59.280
The principles and the people that made America great in the first place.
00:47:05.680
Because, no, listen, you got to learn, you know, we have to learn the ways, look, whenever
00:47:12.160
you say something with people, and this is, this is important.
00:47:15.720
And I do believe that the principles, when we talk about the principles like freedom of
00:47:18.980
speech, we talk about principles like our gun rights, right?
00:47:23.060
When you talk about principles in addition to people, in addition to our race, that gives
00:47:32.560
It makes people realize that these things are united.
00:47:35.360
This is how you, you, you kind of expand the envelope out there.
00:47:39.700
You, if you take people too far, too quick, you can do, there's some times and places it's
00:47:46.800
When you say something that bridges them, and we have to bridge these conservatives who
00:47:52.380
really have their, a lot of them have their heart in the right place, right?
00:47:58.080
They really want to preserve their neighborhoods.
00:48:01.560
They don't want to have to pay $15,000 a year to put their kids in private school while
00:48:04.840
their taxes are making them poor to promote public education.
00:48:09.800
You know, you just, you have to build a bridge to them.
00:48:12.760
At the same time, you've got to be outspoken enough that they are very, very clear that
00:48:17.880
you're distinctly different than these SOBs who've sold us out entirely in the political
00:48:24.660
You know, I think this is the challenge, and I don't claim to be a political strategist.
00:48:30.780
But I would encourage you to be a little vanguard-ish.
00:48:39.260
I think the vanguard should obviously be writers and thinkers.
00:48:43.160
That's how it, or artists, that would be better.
00:48:49.300
One of my platforms is to repeal the 1965 Immigration Act.
00:48:52.280
One of my platforms is that we need to use antitrust laws to break up these media conglomerates
00:48:57.980
where we have eight or nine corporations that control 90% of media in America.
00:49:05.220
The only way that's going to happen is by dismembering these unelected dictators over our discourse.
00:49:16.740
We've got to disband the Fed, you know, and take away the power of these unelected bankers
00:49:23.840
So, yeah, I'm definitely on the vanguard on most of these.
00:49:28.480
We've got to totally stop this massive legal and illegal immigration that's ethnically cleansing
00:49:35.000
We've got to have a policy in the Middle East and all over the world that puts America first
00:49:38.560
and only America first, and that we have to support our European and Western brothers
00:49:44.860
and sisters all over the world because this is a worldwide struggle for our people, just
00:49:50.780
We have to have a trade policy that defends the rights of the American people, the American
00:49:56.140
working men, and the American businesses that want to go overseas.
00:49:59.600
So, yes, we've definitely got a vanguard policy here.
00:50:05.340
Well, folks, if you like what I'm saying, if you see the possibility in this, if you see
00:50:09.480
why the left and the media and the establishment is so, so afraid of my candidacy because they
00:50:16.640
know I can win and they know the impact it'll make, I need your support.
00:50:20.900
I need a lot of people's support out there who can give us really sizable economic support
00:50:32.320
Even if you can give a small amount or a large amount, there's a lot of people standing
00:50:42.880
And we're getting some money in, so we're going to be able to raise some money.
00:50:46.560
But every penny you give and every real commitment you give, including some of those people and
00:50:51.640
give the maximum, that's going to put us on top.
00:50:55.760
We've got social media pretty much massively on our side.
00:51:02.080
But we do have to reach a lot of those people who are a little older, who are just beholden
00:51:15.660
But to do this thing, to win this thing, I need your support, and I need it now.
00:51:22.280
You can go to my website for the campaign, dukeforsenate.com.
00:51:26.580
And if it comes down sometimes by the opposition, keep trying and get back to it.
00:51:31.000
And I'm going to give you an email address as well that you can send me your thoughts and
00:51:36.900
And that email address is drdukeinfo at gmail.com.
00:51:47.400
And if you send me your name and your address and your telephone number, and especially if
00:51:51.140
you want to give me some significant help, send me your phone number as well and your
00:51:55.080
And I will get back to you personally, in fact.
00:51:57.460
Tell us what you'd be willing to commit to and the support you'd be willing to give.
00:52:02.120
And let me know what you thought about the interview today.
00:52:07.380
And if you want to volunteer for this campaign or help us in other ways as well, if you have
00:52:11.140
talents or abilities, I want to hear from you as well.
00:52:13.680
So, Richard, thank you so much for this opportunity for being with you.
00:52:17.180
And thank you all out there for listening to what I had to say here and supporting this
00:52:22.220
This can make a really great difference in the history of this country and the survival
00:52:26.560
of our people and into this great fight we have to make sure we have a future for our