The Anchormen Show with Matt Gaetz - The Anchormen Show Ep 109 - Golden State, Tarnished w：Pearson Sharp & Paula Whitsell

00:00:00.000 now it's time for the anchorman podcast with matt gates and pearson sharp

00:00:11.180 welcome back to another episode of the anchorman podcast we are excited about everything that is

00:00:18.720 going on right now and how to explain it to you and we have just the right guest i'm always joined

00:00:23.940 by my co-host and never satisfied a conservative california republican pearson sharp host of the

00:00:29.700 sharp report here on One American News. And Paula Witzel, the chair of the San Diego County

00:00:34.080 Republican Party, is here with us to go over the things happening in California and around the

00:00:39.660 country and around the world. And I guess, Paula, you and I were just chatting before we came on

00:00:45.000 air about what brought you to San Diego and conservative activism. It seemed as though you

00:00:51.120 were fleeing a version of socialism in Brazil as you were living as an expat. And now you're

00:00:58.560 fighting to make sure your state doesn't follow the same path you picked the wrong state yeah no

00:01:03.700 of course well my dad was navy so we picked san diego for that reason because i lived here as a

00:01:08.400 kid so that's why we chose san diego to come back but um that's why we left brazil we love brazil but

00:01:14.420 it became so socialist you couldn't possibly live now the chair of a county party is often someone

00:01:22.020 in a constant state of herding cats you have candidates they constantly have needs you have

00:01:27.880 events, you have membership that you're trying to reach, fundraising. Walk our audience a little

00:01:33.340 bit of the day-to-day and somebody who is leading a local Republican Party. Well, first of all,

00:01:39.740 the governing body of the Republican Party of San Diego County is the Central Committee,

00:01:44.020 and they're elected to office every four years, and there are 50 members between the elected

00:01:49.220 members and the ex-officios to the Central Committee. So you have 50 members, plus you have

00:01:54.380 50 alternates, so you're technically dealing with 100 different people from five different

00:02:00.840 supervisorial districts here in San Diego County. So you have regional interests as well. You have

00:02:05.660 East County, South County, North County, the coastal area, and every region has its own

00:02:12.700 interests. So the other thing is the candidates. We really work very hard in trying to recruit

00:02:19.940 candidates for every office. San Diego County has about 420 different offices and about

00:02:25.660 every 220 some every cycle. So there's a lot of offices we are making sure that we have a

00:02:32.580 candidate in. So that's a lot of work. Candidate recruitment in California is a challenging task.

00:02:39.040 I don't know that Christopher Columbus's task was harder when recruiting people to sail to the edge

00:02:43.160 of the earth. But you raised a really important point and Pearson's plucked out some news on it

00:02:49.300 that I want to discuss. And I think it shows a roadmap for where some of these redistricting

00:02:53.280 battles are going around the country. You talk about your county as different, distinct communities.

00:02:59.520 Coastal people have coastal interests. Folks inland have a different set of interests. People in the

00:03:05.460 burbs have a whole panoply of concerns. And what your independent redistricting commission had done 0.98

00:03:11.720 is they had said, okay, well, you know, maybe we take the desert people from this county and that 0.94

00:03:16.380 county and kind of put them together to go represent the desert. Let's go find kind of a 0.99

00:03:20.480 way to give the coast a member of Congress. And it still resulted in overwhelmingly democratic 0.76

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00:05:03.020 Daryl Issa, an institution in California Republican politics, not running again as a direct result of Gavin Newsom's redistricting.

00:05:10.620 Pearson, why does this story stand out to you?

00:05:13.580 He's been here for decades.

00:05:15.940 You may not be a fan of his politics, but he has a conservative seat in Congress, and he has been an ally of President Trump.

00:05:22.060 So losing him is—it's going to hurt.

00:05:26.600 It's definitely going to hurt.

00:05:27.360 And he's not the only one because we are also losing California Republican Rep. Kevin Kiley because his district was also extremely red.

00:05:37.560 I was just looking at this before we came on. For the last 30 years, it's been solid red voting every single election.

00:05:44.060 And now the new lines, every single election of the current map has been Democrat, ending with Schiff on the last election.

00:05:51.220 But those two stories, and I served on committee with Kevin Kiley, incredibly bright lawyer, good Republican.

00:05:58.100 You got two options in Newsom's maps.

00:06:01.620 You go home or you shed the Republican label and become an independent.

00:06:07.000 What do you think about it, Paula?

00:06:08.440 Well, I mean, that is really what he needed to do to be able to get reelected.

00:06:13.700 And we lament that he left the Republican team, but he's still a conservative.

00:06:18.260 And I understand he's still going to caucus with the Republicans.

00:06:20.720 And so really that was something that he felt that he needed to do to get reelected.

00:06:25.680 And it's still a long shot.

00:06:26.820 Yeah.

00:06:27.260 No, it's not a given.

00:06:28.180 And I even wonder if it has any chance of working.

00:06:33.780 Well, because even though he's re-registered independent, everybody knows he's a Republican at heart, right?

00:06:39.920 He was a Republican congressman.

00:06:42.040 It's not like he's a nobody who then showed up as an independent.

00:06:45.280 Putting a mustache on.

00:06:46.600 Yeah.

00:06:46.860 If we were going to go after some of these seats with independents, you would find someone that had not.

00:06:54.180 Yeah, doesn't have a reputation.

00:06:56.040 Exactly.

00:06:56.860 But everybody in the region knows him.

00:06:58.520 He's very well known and he's very well liked and well loved in his area, actually.

00:07:02.740 So I think he, you know, we lament this as Republicans, but this was really, from his point of view, his only pathway to a possible victory of keeping his seat.

00:07:14.620 Well, I think that Issa was a little premature in his abandonment as well.

00:07:19.100 I mean, he's got tons of funding, tons of reputation, tons of history, tons of connections.

00:07:23.640 I think he could have probably stretched it out and won if he'd persevered through it.

00:07:27.520 I think he saw the map change a little bit.

00:07:29.460 He said, I'm out.

00:07:30.480 That might be a fight.

00:07:31.300 I don't want to be a part of that.

00:07:32.540 Well, initially, there was the belief that that would be the position he would take.

00:07:37.040 Because when you went from, you know, a certain universe of Republican seats to a constrained

00:07:41.740 universe of those seats, the big concern was that a lot of these folks would start running against

00:07:45.480 each other and they would burn to the ground the resources that they had built up. And so I think

00:07:51.180 here, ISA will take his chips off the table and probably redeploy them in places that can be

00:07:57.720 more helpful. He is a party builder. I mean, this is the guy who funded out of his own pocket

00:08:03.260 the recall of Gray Davis, who was the governor of California. The only successful recall we've had.

00:08:09.380 He was a winner in that regard, consistently won. I mean, he won some very close elections here in San Diego County when he represented this community. And I think you'll see him in the Trump administration somewhere. I think also—

00:08:21.380 No, I mean, he's not going to be gone. We know that for sure. He's a political animal. He's going to slide somewhere else.

00:08:25.980 But here's the question I want to ask you, Paula. Imagine you're making a case to a Democrat or maybe even a left-leaning independent about why the loss of a Daryl Issa in the congressional delegation is bad for them.

00:08:41.060 Like even if you didn't agree with Daryl Issa on a vote or this or that, he was one of the most senior people in Congress. He could bring home the bacon. He could make things happen.

00:08:50.580 And do you think there's a compelling case to make that Democrats actually hurt themselves by getting rid of a guy like Daryl?

00:08:56.440 I think so.

00:08:56.860 And I feel that if he had stayed in the race, he probably would have had a decent shot at keeping his seat.

00:09:03.660 Because even though he is a Republican, he's been in East County and San Diego County forever.

00:09:09.260 He was the only congressional seat in San Diego County.

00:09:13.620 And he was very well liked.

00:09:16.800 He has name recognition.

00:09:17.700 And so over the years, he'd really built a solid reputation that people were voting for him because it was Daryl Issa, not because he was a Republican.

00:09:28.700 So I think he would have had a very good shot at keeping his seat.

00:09:32.440 Well, if there was any shot, I think he would have done it.

00:09:36.180 I think he would have assessed just how many people in this state blindly show up and vote Democrat.

00:09:40.800 Now, the reason this is an important national conversation is because what we've been talking about in these dynamics and these moves on the chessboard, you're going to see this exact same thing play out in Virginia where they're doing the same thing.

00:09:53.780 They're going to squeeze Republicans. Virginia could end up losing some senior folks and it's all going to happen.

00:09:59.920 We just picked up a Republican in Virginia, didn't we?

00:10:02.880 Oh, they just voted to redistrict. They're going to go to like 10 Democrats, one Republican.

00:10:07.740 They're going to squeeze all the Republicans into one, you know, kind of one district that looks like it was.

00:10:13.580 I think there was some Muslim candidate who had a bunch of racist tweets that came out like 10 years ago.

00:10:17.240 And so he lost. And so a Republican just jumped into his seat.

00:10:20.680 I'm pretty sure I just had a lot. We'll check it out in Congress.

00:10:23.500 I think it was it might have been a state position. I thought it was Congress.

00:10:26.960 Well, I must have missed it. One thing that that we do want to look at, too, as it relates to the California discussion is this governor's race.

00:10:34.140 Yeah. And and big story about Governor Swalwell.

00:10:37.740 Well, big story in the Daily Call.

00:10:40.080 I want to get to the environment, and then we will get to Swalwell.

00:10:43.960 But a majority of California voters, according to the Daily Caller,

00:10:47.740 say the state is heading in the wrong direction ahead of the governor's race.

00:10:52.240 52%.

00:10:52.760 52.48 say wrong direction.

00:10:55.320 Paula, is this an opening for Republicans?

00:10:58.860 I believe so.

00:10:59.860 I mean, everyday life is slapping Californians in the face.

00:11:03.580 You go to the gas pump, and there's signs on the gas pump that say you are paying the highest price for gasoline in the entire country, higher than Hawaii.

00:11:13.100 If only you guys had gas and fuel nearby that you could access.

00:11:17.180 Did you see Newsom's tweet about that?

00:11:19.360 He just came out.

00:11:20.080 He put out a tweet, and he said, because of Donald Trump's recklessness, we are now going to be paying $1.5 billion more for our gasoline.

00:11:28.460 California is going to continue to use the tools that we have for decades to fight this.

00:11:32.460 What tools?

00:11:34.140 They're not fighting it.

00:11:35.080 He's making it worse.

00:11:36.040 They always do.

00:11:37.100 California's number one on a lot of things that we don't want to be number one.

00:11:39.920 And gas is one.

00:11:41.200 Homelessness is another one.

00:11:42.500 Poverty is another one.

00:11:43.480 We used to have 40 refineries.

00:11:45.620 I'm going on a tangent here.

00:11:46.900 We used to have 40 refineries in California.

00:11:49.060 Now we have six.

00:11:51.000 And another one's Chevron or something.

00:11:52.960 I think they're going to be leaving soon.

00:11:54.540 Yeah, Chevron has announced that if the CARB passes the regulations that they've already signed off on, then they're going to leave.

00:12:02.400 And we just lost Valero, too.

00:12:03.720 Yep.

00:12:04.300 I mean, they're doing this.

00:12:05.700 This is shooting yourself in the foot, and he has the nerve to talk to Trump that way.

00:12:09.320 The question, though, is whether or not this really is a breaking point with this poll saying 52% wrong direction, or is this something where you're still going to see Republican infighting?

00:12:22.260 Can that poll overcome TDS in California?

00:12:26.000 Paula, what do you think?

00:12:27.700 That is a challenge.

00:12:28.700 That is definitely a challenge because, I mean, I have relatives that this weekend made a comment about the fact that President Trump shines his own shoes every morning.

00:12:40.500 And this person thought that was a negative thing.

00:12:44.200 He can't afford to get someone to do that?

00:12:46.160 Exactly.

00:12:46.560 I mean, if he has someone doing it, well, he can't shine his own shoes?

00:12:48.840 This is a person that could have anyone do these menial tasks, but yet he was disciplined and he does it because that's something his father taught him to do.

00:12:57.240 And so there's nothing that President Trump can do that will change people's minds because it's emotional.

00:13:04.060 It has nothing to do with facts.

00:13:05.560 It has nothing to do with reality.

00:13:07.340 It has to do with the emotion that they have.

00:13:10.540 But it's not on the ballot, Paul.

00:13:11.780 I mean, do they hate Trump so much that they're going to go and vote against independent candidate?

00:13:15.500 Well, what happens is that when the Democrats issue campaign materials and advertisements and that sort of thing,

00:13:25.240 They always try to tie the candidate to President Trump because that's how they see their pathway to to victory is by tying that candidate, whether they're a city councilman, it doesn't really matter.

00:13:39.600 They tie they try to tie him. They put pictures of President Trump on mailers, that sort of thing, to make it look like that person, whether it is true or not, is a Trump surrogate.

00:13:51.180 I'm trying to understand, Pearson, what goes into the psychosis of someone who will vote against their own interests because of that very raw emotion that Paula just described.

00:14:02.720 Like, I'm thinking about the people who I've disliked the most, like in all of politics.

00:14:09.060 And I can't imagine caring more about showing harm to them than improving my own life.

00:14:18.080 like what what what level of the simulation are we in when that is the critical mass in not only

00:14:24.260 california and a lot of these blue states there is a level of indoctrination that has been going on

00:14:31.340 for for decades at this point and it has reached a critical mass now and it sounds like hyperbole

00:14:37.680 or a cliche to talk about it this way but i think it really is at a point where these

00:14:42.060 these democrat voters genuinely believe the stuff that they hear about trump and that i i really

00:14:48.820 think that it is a survival mode it's almost like fight or flight you know they have they have an

00:14:53.300 internal panic when they think about someone on the right getting into a position of power because

00:14:58.180 all they hear and see is people like newsom talking about how evil we are and that you're

00:15:03.940 going to die if trump gets into office you know these these literally life situations yeah you

00:15:09.180 might put somebody with COVID in your nursing home or something. Yeah, something horrible like 0.60

00:15:12.800 that. So you think you attribute it to that indoctrination as much as someone's own self

00:15:20.580 loathing? Because I honestly, let me throw out a theory for you, okay? The reason a voter would

00:15:28.180 vote to signal their hatred of Trump more than improving their own life conditions is because

00:15:34.420 their own situation has become so grave and self-obsessed and and lacking the divine lacking

00:15:44.040 i don't think it's mutually exclusive they hate themselves so much that they can't even imagine

00:15:48.980 their circumstances getting good enough where they would enjoy their own company and so instead

00:15:53.320 what's most important to them is sending a signal that oh i hate trump that's it's not mutually

00:15:59.040 exclusive i think the other thing is i i think that the mainstream media has a lot to do with

00:16:05.060 it because uh some of these people only watch mainstream media so they are not in connection

00:16:10.220 with reality they uh are told that the economy's terrible and they believe it even though uh don't

00:16:19.380 believe your lion eyes because uh the you know we're here uh seeing a lot of things get better

00:16:25.980 for citizens in the country in general.

00:16:30.760 We are watching, I get text messages from relatives in Texas

00:16:34.440 with pictures of the pump and the gas pump,

00:16:37.700 and they send it to me because, ha, ha, ha, ha,

00:16:39.420 we're paying $1.99 and I'm paying $4.50, right?

00:16:44.080 And so, but people just are detached from reality

00:16:48.060 because they're believing what the mainstream media is telling them.

00:16:51.320 I think you've triggered my co-host

00:16:53.140 because we could name this show

00:16:55.680 Pearson Sharp is Not Satisfied.

00:16:58.040 Paula says, everything is great.

00:17:00.160 Everything is wonderful.

00:17:01.860 You should be celebrating the golden age.

00:17:04.460 Pearson, why are you unsatisfied?

00:17:07.720 I mean, I'd throw it back to you and say,

00:17:09.100 are you satisfied with the current state of affairs?

00:17:10.900 Paula's satisfied.

00:17:11.840 She just told you she's satisfied.

00:17:13.380 Yeah, I don't think so.

00:17:16.440 My family's existence on a day-to-day basis

00:17:20.860 has not dramatically improved in the last couple of years,

00:17:24.360 specifically in the last year.

00:17:25.920 It hasn't gone up the way I think we all imagined that it would.

00:17:29.260 And I understand there's a lot of forces acting against that,

00:17:31.160 but I don't think there's any reason to be satisfied right now,

00:17:33.540 especially when we have people like Newsom in power

00:17:36.780 and potentially running in 2028,

00:17:39.240 and we have Eric Swalwell looming on the horizon.

00:17:43.440 I mean, that's just absolutely, I can't fathom that.

00:17:46.880 I don't think she has a chance.

00:17:47.860 Well, no, Pearson is pointing to a redstate.com report.

00:17:52.320 Eric Swalwell shoots to the top of California governor's race poll as arrival questions whether or not he's a resident.

00:17:59.400 So are you buying this?

00:18:01.360 Are you buying that Eric Swalwell is the frontrunner to be the governor of California?

00:18:05.560 I mean, maybe they just picked up the phone and polled everybody in San Francisco.

00:18:08.620 You know, I don't know where the polling data came from, but you probably have the numbers more than I do.

00:18:14.660 That's depressing, actually.

00:18:15.320 But it's something like what there's like there's like five million Republican voters in California and like nine million Democrats.

00:18:21.740 So it's almost two to one here.

00:18:23.560 So, I mean, I believe that could be a possibility as horrifying as that is. 1.00

00:18:29.820 He's such an idiot. 1.00

00:18:31.380 I'm sorry. 1.00

00:18:31.960 I hate to say something so personal.

00:18:33.760 You think I was not.

00:18:35.200 Well, I was on the Judiciary Committee with Eric Swalwell, and Eric Swalwell had to feign these big, like, swells of emotion and outrage because he isn't smart enough to, you know, go through a witness's testimony and draw out the key components.

00:18:52.420 He isn't sharp enough to read the documents and perform a cross-examination.

00:18:55.860 Yeah, but listen to Newsom.

00:18:56.740 Everything had to be this big, just phony theater.

00:19:00.120 Listen to Newsom try and give a speech off-prompter, though.

00:19:02.700 So you think he's like— 1.00

00:19:03.660 He's an idiot. 1.00

00:19:03.920 Wait, are you saying that Eric Swalwell is a homeless man's Gavin Newsom? 1.00

00:19:09.620 Yeah.

00:19:10.560 Yeah, absolutely.

00:19:12.040 Amazing take, Paul.

00:19:12.760 Are you buying the similarities between the two?

00:19:15.060 Oh, it's really sad to think that Swalwell might actually be governor of California.

00:19:20.240 I don't know who's worse because it's a contest between the two as to who is worse for California.

00:19:29.580 But there's something similar.

00:19:30.700 There's something about, you know, they're the fair-haired boys, they're, you know, attractive, they're not that bright. 1.00

00:19:38.560 They both have had affairs on their wives.

00:19:42.100 Allegedly.

00:19:42.980 Allegedly.

00:19:43.600 We don't know anything about it.

00:19:44.880 We're not the bedroom police.

00:19:46.440 Allegedly.

00:19:47.300 But their reputations are not that stellar.

00:19:52.920 But more importantly is what they would do for the state of California.

00:19:56.260 Well, I want to point out that Mr. Swalwell has missed more votes in Congress, thank God, than anyone else, including, and I'm going to mess this name up, Raul Grijalva, who died a year ago.

00:20:15.020 Swalwell has missed more votes than him.

00:20:17.020 Oh, my gosh.

00:20:17.660 Amazing.

00:20:18.220 When you don't beat the dead guy in attendance, it's not a good look.

00:20:21.060 It's incredible.

00:20:22.020 So, I mean, maybe we should hope for Swalwell to get in.

00:20:25.100 Maybe he wouldn't do a damn thing but tweet.

00:20:27.500 He spent a lot of time in, like, the House gym, just kind of hanging out down there.

00:20:31.660 Yeah, with those, I think it was 135 pounds he was pressing.

00:20:35.820 He took a picture of it and said, you know, I'm in the gym now because we can't work in Congress.

00:20:41.800 This is what I'm doing.

00:20:42.580 And it was 135 pounds.

00:20:44.000 Okay, so as a political strategist in this state, which one of the Democrats would you want to run against?

00:20:49.880 If you had one of the prominent Republicans like Steve Hilton or Chad Bianco in that in that subsequent election, who do you look at and say, that's who we want?

00:20:58.800 Katie Porter.

00:20:59.360 Katie Porter.

00:20:59.940 OK, tell me why.

00:21:00.820 Tell me why.

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00:21:41.660 and so and those went viral so everybody's seen those videos so she's uh she smiles to your face

00:21:48.640 but she stabs you in the back while she's smiling. 1.00

00:21:51.500 And so her demeanor is very, very... 0.95

00:21:54.480 Doesn't California need a rude governor? 1.00

00:21:57.920 Well, not like that.

00:21:58.580 Doesn't California need someone who, like, I mean, I'm not a big Katie Porter fan,

00:22:03.180 but when we saw her just, like, screaming and demeaning in a demeaning way at people... 0.71

00:22:07.460 That's not a good look.

00:22:08.540 I don't know.

00:22:09.120 Maybe the California bureaucracy needs someone who will scream at them and demean them. 1.00

00:22:12.220 That's what Pearson would do.

00:22:13.760 Absolutely.

00:22:14.420 I mean, that's...

00:22:15.100 But for different reasons.

00:22:16.120 For different reasons.

00:22:17.380 Yeah, you need someone who's not afraid to take the backlash.

00:22:19.940 You need a Trump in California.

00:22:21.640 And I would like to see Trump get more on board and get more involved in California, honestly.

00:22:26.620 I feel like so many mainstream Republicans have just given up.

00:22:29.560 Well, Daryl Isis' seat was a target seat with the RNCC, because I actually had several conversations with Casey Crosby.

00:22:36.240 So they have indicated that they will still support Jim Desmond, who is now the candidate in that seat.

00:22:43.640 He was running for the 49th and now is in the 48th.

00:22:47.380 but it's not going to be as strong a campaign or support

00:22:51.980 that we would have seen if it had been Daryl Issa, for sure.

00:22:55.040 I think what we're really watching here

00:22:58.240 is Gavin Newsom's presidential ambition.

00:23:01.340 He's going to go out there to Democrats and say,

00:23:04.820 Donald Trump has whipped you around.

00:23:08.020 He has beat you.

00:23:09.160 He got the House.

00:23:10.380 He got the Senate.

00:23:11.180 He got the presidency.

00:23:12.300 He centralized power.

00:23:13.740 He executed his agenda.

00:23:15.000 And you didn't have anybody who could fight back.

00:23:17.080 Well, you know what I did? I went and ripped that House majority right away from them.

00:23:21.700 I know how to wield power. You know how you fight against a bully?

00:23:24.980 You get a bully of your own and I will go be the bully for all the Democratic Party.

00:23:29.040 And you, the people of California, are his willing supplicants. 0.87

00:23:35.920 And it's so sad to watch.

00:23:38.840 Well, in part, I think one of the issues that California has is that they're subjected to the unions.

00:23:46.020 The unions have control of California.

00:23:48.440 Tell me how.

00:23:49.520 So they control the voter because they currently,

00:23:53.580 teachers unions and some of the other big unions,

00:23:55.920 they have mandatory union dues.

00:23:57.880 So they have lots of money to spend on candidates.

00:24:01.080 And so in races where we would normally be competitive,

00:24:04.640 we can't outspend them.

00:24:06.600 They have more resources and unlimited resources to a certain degree.

00:24:12.620 How is mandatory union dues not a taking?

00:24:16.940 I agree with you.

00:24:18.360 And apparently there's been a Supreme Court case that recently came out that said that unions cannot be mandatory.

00:24:23.780 But the problem is, is that everybody's already signed up.

00:24:26.980 And so for you to get people to take the necessary steps to stop the mandatory union dues is cumbersome.

00:24:36.440 In Florida, we passed a law called the Paycheck Protection Act.

00:24:39.440 And it means that you have to literally go check the box if you want a portion of your money to go to the union.

00:24:46.160 You have to take some affirmative step.

00:24:48.200 Just having the job doesn't create a right on behalf of some union to your money.

00:24:55.920 Why is that not something that working people would support even in a state like California?

00:25:02.700 Again, because I think the union has so much control.

00:25:05.200 My dad was a teacher at the public schools, and they pressured him relentlessly to be a part of the union.

00:25:12.020 He actively quit.

00:25:14.060 He was the only teacher in school who didn't participate in the union, and they hated him for that because he wasn't one of the good old boys.

00:25:21.100 He didn't strike me.

00:25:22.580 I met your father.

00:25:23.460 We'll have to have him on the show sometime.

00:25:24.780 He didn't really strike me as a believer in collectivism.

00:25:27.720 He was a rugged individualist.

00:25:29.400 That's a mild way of putting it.

00:25:30.660 Yeah, absolutely.

00:25:31.860 Well, is that what happens here?

00:25:33.360 It's a stranglehold.

00:25:33.900 Does that happen now where people feel intimidated to participate?

00:25:38.340 Yes, because if you choose not to participate, if you opt out, they say, well, if anything ever happens to you, we're not going to go to bat for you.

00:25:46.120 We won't negotiate salary increases or benefits for you.

00:25:51.000 So they really threaten people with dire consequences.

00:25:55.280 It's an intimidation racket.

00:25:56.380 Intimidation, exactly, if they don't sign up for the unions.

00:25:59.880 And so for the most part, even though you can opt out at some point now, people are very pressured to be a part of the unions.

00:26:10.200 In a way, it's the parasite killing the host and in doing so, killing itself.

00:26:15.980 We've got so many stories right now about corporate flight out of blue states.

00:26:21.180 We see Yamaha, iconic California connections.

00:26:25.280 They're leaving, and we see Howard Schultz leaving Washington State.

00:26:30.800 So, Pearson, what's the big picture that we need to grasp here on this corporate flight and billionaire flight out of these jurisdictions?

00:26:39.500 We should all be looking at houses in Florida.

00:26:41.700 I think that's the big picture.

00:26:42.840 There's not a tax that Democrats don't like, and that's really the problem.

00:26:46.380 So they think they can tax their way out of any issue, any problem, any concern.

00:26:51.580 And we've already seen here in California that they have, what, 19 billion or some big number that they've attributed to homelessness, and homelessness has only gotten worse.

00:27:02.560 So now they're trying to create new taxes to address the homeless problem.

00:27:07.500 So that is really the issue.

00:27:10.040 It's corruption.

00:27:11.460 And that's a third world problem, corruption.

00:27:15.560 And it's something that when I lived overseas, we all took it for granted that it was part of the equation.

00:27:20.960 I thought naively when I came back here to the United States that that was not, yeah, that was not the case here.

00:27:27.760 But I find that it's actually worse here because it's more insidious.

00:27:32.780 That's actually a hot take.

00:27:35.240 Yeah.

00:27:35.500 Well, it's, it's what I hear from my wife is Lebanese and her, you know, her whole family came from Lebanon and they have a mindset over there that the West is this, it's, it's heaven.

00:27:47.780 It's a paradise, you know.

00:27:50.140 Compared to Lebanon, right now it is. 0.95

00:27:52.100 And nothing could go wrong here.

00:27:53.180 They just trust implicitly that corruption doesn't exist here

00:27:56.000 because they come from one of the most corrupt governments in the world.

00:27:59.800 And it's been a really rude awakening,

00:28:01.920 but a lot of them still have that ingrained in their mind.

00:28:04.000 They resist the idea that anything corrupt could happen here.

00:28:07.620 But back to California, in 2025, we had 235,000 residents flee the state.

00:28:15.820 The year before that, we had like 245,000 flee the state.

00:28:19.840 And what is California's response?

00:28:22.240 Well, we need to tax the billionaires. 0.99

00:28:24.240 You know, we've got to make up this deficit that we've got because we're not taxing them enough.

00:28:28.400 So we're going to implement a tax on the billionaires that could generate $100 billion.

00:28:32.440 And so then you see people like Howard Schultz taking off.

00:28:35.100 You have Mark Zuckerberg taking off.

00:28:36.580 Elon taking off.

00:28:38.500 We had-

00:28:39.620 Schultz from Washington State.

00:28:40.480 Schultz from Washington, yes.

00:28:41.460 But still, it's the same concept.

00:28:43.700 It's the same policy.

00:28:44.300 Yeah.

00:28:45.360 And that was when Seattle announced they were going to have a billionaire tax, 9.9%.

00:28:50.560 But does anyone here get it?

00:28:52.280 That if all – I don't know how they're squeezing.

00:28:54.740 They're squeezing the middle class.

00:28:56.240 There's nothing left.

00:28:57.500 There's absolutely nothing left.

00:28:58.480 That's what's going to happen is they're going to cascade down to the middle class.

00:29:00.980 Yeah, if you are one of those middle class voters and Democrats told you that these billionaire taxes would be really good for you and then you see producers leaving, do you think it's hitting the –

00:29:13.760 No.

00:29:13.920 the receptors? No, I don't. I think maybe that could be a show idea for some time. We go hit

00:29:18.280 the streets and just poll people, just ask people walking by if they have any level of awareness of

00:29:24.060 these issues. And I guarantee you, it'd be one in a hundred who would know anything about any of

00:29:28.800 this. All they do is hear what the people say on TV and vote that. So is that the path to flipping

00:29:33.240 some of these places is driving that awareness? Yeah, I mean, it is. But how do you do it?

00:29:38.200 How do you do it, Matt? Well, I mean, we are bombarded with these headlines that like,

00:29:42.360 Look at how things are going.

00:29:43.920 Schultz is leaving Washington State.

00:29:46.020 Virginia's following California's playbook on the redistricting.

00:29:49.120 Yamaha's leaving California. 0.99

00:29:51.580 And I guarantee you, none of the people we talked to outside would know any of those stories.

00:29:55.520 Chevron's packing up, so gas is going to get worse.

00:29:58.420 What are they talking about?

00:29:59.620 The average people out there would see the gas going up and think, well, it's because Trump's attacking Iran, not because Gavin Newsom shut down 40 refineries or whatever it was.

00:30:08.700 They have no connection to reality.

00:30:09.860 By the way, none of the gas that's being pumped right now was even passing through the Straits of Harlanos.

00:30:16.360 No, that's true.

00:30:17.200 That is true.

00:30:17.700 It's just a commercial play to grift people.

00:30:20.360 It is.

00:30:21.200 But also, I want to point out, California has the worst energy dependence in the nation.

00:30:27.700 Worse than Hawaii, which is an actual island.

00:30:31.400 Get out.

00:30:31.960 We have 63% energy dependence on other states and other countries.

00:30:36.840 We're getting our oil from Bahamas.

00:30:38.520 And from Vietnam, that's crazy. 0.81

00:30:42.180 Like this is the most resource rich place in the hemisphere.

00:30:46.460 It is.

00:30:47.100 You guys are importing stuff from the largest economy, fifth largest economy.

00:30:51.560 All right.

00:30:51.700 So ride that to the grave.

00:30:52.960 These facts.

00:30:53.620 What do you expect Gavin Newsom to build this 2028 presidential campaign on?

00:30:59.580 Well, I think he's already doing that.

00:31:01.860 And that's why you're seeing him on TV and doing all the different media and PR programs.

00:31:09.220 He just is, what, proposing to spend $19 billion on a PR program here?

00:31:14.240 Oh, I think it was like $25 million.

00:31:15.320 $25 million.

00:31:15.900 Oh, it's $25 million.

00:31:16.780 $25 million.

00:31:17.520 It's a big number.

00:31:18.060 It's our money, yeah.

00:31:18.780 For a state that's currently showing a budget deficit, it's money we don't have.

00:31:23.380 Yeah.

00:31:23.780 So, and why is that?

00:31:25.540 Because he's...

00:31:26.860 He's gearing up.

00:31:27.620 He's gearing up.

00:31:28.680 He's showing his big smile and greasy hair in other states.

00:31:33.120 Okay, so a Democrat voter who's going to vote for him in the primary is going to say, I'm voting for Gavin Newsom because what?

00:31:43.040 Because he's not Trump, because he's redistricting.

00:31:45.140 Yeah, but he's going to be running against other Democrats.

00:31:46.380 He brought in these other—he gerrymandered the state, brought in more people in Congress.

00:31:52.500 He's been able to accomplish this, this, and this for the Democrat Party.

00:31:55.900 I don't know how he does it. 0.99

00:31:57.340 He's got all the force in the Democratic world behind him, all the globalists, to make these things happen because he's a clown. 0.85

00:32:04.140 But he's getting it done, and I think that's what they're going to see and use. 0.92

00:32:08.040 And he's very slick.

00:32:09.460 I think another thing to use is the fraud stories.

00:32:12.660 So you've got this article pulled for us.

00:32:16.080 Under Newsom, hospice fraud explodes with $105 million in Medicare overbilling, 700 fraud warnings.

00:32:23.440 Let me tell you something that we've picked up on the Matt Gaetz show, which we make every nine o'clock on weekdays here on One American News.

00:32:32.340 People are really focused in on this fraud.

00:32:35.420 Some of the biggest spikes we see in audience on our show come when we walk people through not just the headline allegations, but who actually gets hurt by this.

00:32:47.780 And it's not like the people that get hurt are one political party or the other or even one age group.

00:32:53.440 or the other. It is all up and down the spectrum. I mean, you talk about hospice fraud. You are

00:32:58.180 taking money away. You are stealing from dying people with patients and clinics that don't

00:33:06.420 exist, that are ghost-like. I really believe of all these headlines that we've seen, the stories

00:33:13.060 of how Democrat-run jurisdictions take the money that should go to vulnerable people and they waste

00:33:19.960 it or they give it to foreigners, I think that could cut through, Paula.

00:33:23.040 And the fact that it's taxpayer money.

00:33:25.140 Yes.

00:33:25.640 Worse, I mean, it's worse that it's stealing from hospice care people, people who actually

00:33:30.920 need these services, but it's taxpayer funds that are being stolen.

00:33:34.680 I think we saw that the story in Somalia, daycare centers in Minnesota really, really

00:33:43.680 hit a sore spot, and it's going to come to galvanize people.

00:33:48.700 And Nick Shirley has actually been here in San Diego a couple times.

00:33:53.220 And so we're going to see that the situation here,

00:33:56.860 unbeknownst to everyday people, is actually worse.

00:34:00.640 Horrendous.

00:34:01.220 It's worse than Minnesota.

00:34:02.960 And so that's not going to play well for Gavin Newsom.

00:34:05.640 In one address, at one address in L.A., they had 89 hospices registered at one address.

00:34:15.620 You're telling me that some AI bot can't, like, decipher that and stop it?

00:34:20.700 So I don't know about the ones in California, but the issue they were having in Minnesota was these would get flagged, and they've been flagged for, like, the last decade.

00:34:29.440 And they would be reviewed and dismissed.

00:34:32.640 Whoever was reviewing it would just dismiss the investigation.

00:34:35.580 Well, that was the...

00:34:36.480 Right, exactly.

00:34:37.860 And so that's the issue here.

00:34:39.280 In the last 10 years, well, I think 10 years ago, there were like 700 hospice centers in LA, and now there's over 2,000.

00:34:48.040 So in a decade, they've just exploded.

00:34:51.620 And I think it would be fascinating to look at the people who are behind these things.

00:34:56.880 That would be really telling.

00:34:58.260 I believe that the administration right now is building out cases against some of these fraud networks.

00:35:03.840 I mean, come on, start arresting people, man.

00:35:06.540 How many people have we caught in these fraud schemes in Minneapolis?

00:35:10.480 Well, a bunch of them have been arrested in Minneapolis.

00:35:11.900 I think it was like 79 was the last number I heard.

00:35:15.260 Well, some have gotten some long prison sentences, but I think they're, I don't think, I know there are ongoing cases right now where they're going to try to pull this thing up from the root.

00:35:25.580 Deport them all.

00:35:26.460 I mean, that's the issue. 0.99

00:35:27.860 I would imprison them and then deport them.

00:35:29.760 I don't want to pay for them. 0.99

00:35:30.760 Get them out of here.

00:35:31.540 You would deport?

00:35:32.280 Yeah.

00:35:32.980 Get them out of here.

00:35:33.760 To a certain degree, you're rewarding these people by deporting them

00:35:36.460 because they're going to go back to wherever they came from.

00:35:38.920 Almost anyone in prison would rather be deported.

00:35:43.120 Well, in the old days, I know several people from overseas

00:35:47.440 that did things that ended up in prison,

00:35:50.020 and they did their prison terms first, and then they got deported.

00:35:52.760 I think I'd rather be in prison than go to Somalia, personally. 1.00

00:35:56.940 Yeah, Mogadishu, not for you.

00:35:58.360 Yeah, not exactly.

00:35:59.420 So I think most of these people don't want to go back.

00:36:01.420 They wave the flag, but as soon as you tell them they're going back,

00:36:03.600 They scream and cry.

00:36:05.700 If you're making a case to a swing voter in these midterms, anywhere in the country, give me the Paula case.

00:36:16.680 Well, first of all, I think we need to use our taxpayer dollars wisely.

00:36:23.700 And I think with all these fraud cases, we're seeing that not only our tax dollars are being wasted, but there are no checks and balances to ensure that this doesn't happen again.

00:36:36.480 And DOGE, I think, was a very effective tool, which got a bad rap.

00:36:41.800 But I think people have come to a realization that, yes, the United States has a lot of money.

00:36:48.360 We do have a lot of tax dollars, but those tax dollars are not being deployed efficiently, honestly, to the people that actually need them.

00:36:58.100 And we need to actually review all this.

00:37:00.620 And, you know, that's the only way to make it happen is to clear out the swamp and start holding people accountable for how our tax dollars are being spent.

00:37:11.120 very domestic focused there uh do you think the war becomes uh something that republicans are

00:37:19.360 running on in the midterms i think it can because it needs to be i think that the poll number showed

00:37:27.520 it was like 85 of republicans thought that trump had gone back on his word not to start a new war

00:37:32.960 and i think that's going to hurt republicans when it comes to voting

00:37:39.380 If we can have a decisive victory here, if Trump can pull this off in a couple of weeks and we can start nailing heads to the wall and use them as trophies when we go into the midterms, like, look what we've done.

00:37:51.280 Unfortunately, Pearson is not using a metaphor here.

00:37:53.760 No, absolutely not.

00:37:54.920 You know, put heads on pikes outside the White House. 0.59

00:37:56.860 Look what we've done.

00:37:57.760 These are America's enemies.

00:37:59.080 Now our country is a safer place because of what President Trump has done.

00:38:03.440 Vote for this party.

00:38:04.920 That will win.

00:38:05.840 But I think if we end up in another forever war or it drags on closer towards the midterms, and I think I saw something that the Pentagon said they were preparing logistics into September for this war, which is not a good sign, that will really hurt us.

00:38:19.580 The voting is in November. If we're still engaged in active combat operations in Iraq, where we're engaged in active combat operations now in Iran, if other countries like Israel and Qatar and Bahrain are getting bombed, do you think the war will be more of a positive for Republicans or more of a negative, Paula?

00:38:44.000 I think it would be a negative, but honestly, I mean, I have no connections to the Department of War, but I have a sense that they're not looking to have this war extend out for a long period of time.

00:38:58.380 I think they want to get in, bomb what they need to bomb, and get out, and have, like you said, a decisive victory, because I think that was the mindset going in.

00:39:09.020 OK, but here's my concern about that. I think that is literally the mindset of everyone who goes into a war almost all of the time.

00:39:18.920 Except Lindsey Graham. 0.94

00:39:19.940 Well, yeah. Russia thought that their special military operation in Ukraine was just going to be a quick thing.

00:39:27.260 You know, we thought that we could put 40 advisers in Syria when Obama was president.

00:39:32.200 And then Syria kind of turned into a forever war for the United States. 0.60

00:39:35.040 We were, George W. Bush was saying, mission accomplished in Iraq after really nothing had been accomplished in terms of a security situation there that was improved.

00:39:46.120 And so I'm always hesitant when we say, well, we really want this to be a short, limited engagement.

00:39:52.100 But we've had generals in the past who say the enemy gets a vote.

00:39:55.880 Don't you think we've learned some lessons from that?

00:39:58.100 I would hope.

00:39:59.020 But, I mean, I thought that in Iraq about Vietnam.

00:40:02.100 There were people who were saying when I was in favor of the invasion of Iraq in 2003,

00:40:07.900 something I apologize for, I feel deep shame for now,

00:40:11.160 but I remember people saying Iraq is going to be another Vietnam.

00:40:15.100 And people were like, no, we've learned our lesson since Vietnam.

00:40:17.920 And then Iraq kind of was another Vietnam. 0.85

00:40:19.840 And now I hear people saying, well, Iran won't be another Iraq.

00:40:22.340 And I really hope they're right.

00:40:24.360 I think I don't, I genuinely don't think that's the intention going into this.

00:40:28.860 And I think that's what differentiates this war, even though we're not calling it a war, from all the others.

00:40:33.940 Because Trump really does, I think, want to get in and get out, whereas Biden and the rest of them, Obama and Bush and Clinton and everybody else, wanted forever wars, wanted a conflict that never ended because it's in the military-industrial complex interest.

00:40:51.980 And that's where they get a lot of their funding.

00:40:53.820 It's the deep state.

00:40:55.520 They want to keep wars going.

00:40:56.700 And I don't think Trump does.

00:40:57.940 I actually think that's probably right on all of those grounds. Bush probably would have preferred just for the bravado to have had a quick one. But once he got into it, the extended nation building, I guess.

00:41:11.460 And Trump's not talking about that. He's not talking about nation building.

00:41:13.920 Yeah, it's an astute point. But I'm going to lean on your expertise here. You know the Middle East. You study the Middle East. You've traveled in the Middle East. You've done reporting out of Syria during the war there.

00:41:26.240 And I want to ask, if the United States tomorrow were to abandon combat operations and say we've achieved our objectives, we've ended the Iranian Navy, we've executed the Ayatollah, we have degraded the missile capability, we've re-obliterated the nuclear program, the war is over, we're out of here, you know, have a nice life, Iran. 1.00

00:41:52.500 What do you think would happen in Iran?

00:41:56.240 that's a really tough question there is so much destabilization there right now

00:42:02.020 and there has been for the past couple of months you know tens of thousands of civilians slaughtered

00:42:07.600 in the streets but the regime's ability to continue that kind of operation against its

00:42:12.980 own civilians i think that's been severely degraded as well what is the evidence of that

00:42:17.520 they continue to do it and succeed every time there's some big uprising against the iranians

00:42:21.960 you know what happens the irgc goes and kills tens of thousands of people and stays in power

00:42:26.580 right and that's again that's why this is difficult that is entirely a possibility but i think we have

00:42:32.420 tipped the cards in the populace's favor and they might have the ability to rise up and overthrow

00:42:38.140 the government i think that is a neocon fever dream that might be entirely optimistic and i'm

00:42:42.860 not saying i want that to happen i'm not saying i think the regime needs to fall and i think it's

00:42:48.120 close to falling apologizing for them no no i'm i'm observing that they're not falling no they

00:42:54.400 are not falling yet and so i i would hope that we haven't just kicked this hornet's nest just to see 0.96

00:42:59.000 what happened then walked away i hope we can put flame to the nest and kill all of the hornets in 0.53

00:43:04.300 there and let the i don't know what the rest of the metaphor would be but let the normal people

00:43:08.420 come in and take over ah yes because normal people always take over after middle east regime change

00:43:13.300 No, I know. I agree.

00:43:15.000 Yeah, that's always the path.

00:43:16.460 So, Paul, I want to get to the raw politics of it, you know, with you, a political operative.

00:43:21.620 If that is the message from the administration, we broke their stuff, we killed their leader, we wiped out their missiles,

00:43:28.840 we're not going to stick around to see what happens next.

00:43:31.580 If they, whatever that happens to them happens to them, but we're done.

00:43:35.620 Do you think that is a compelling political message?

00:43:38.900 No, I think the hope of the American people with President Trump taking these measures against Iran is to actually see some form of sanity come back to Iran. 1.00

00:43:52.300 Although the person that they elected to replace the Supreme Leader is the Supreme Leader's son.

00:44:00.200 But I understand he's severely injured and not in a position.

00:44:04.680 He's got a short shelf life.

00:44:05.640 Yeah, he had a short shelf life.

00:44:07.700 And President Trump has said that he would like to have a, you know, I don't know if you call it a say or approval or have some sort of his scale as to who's going to replace the leadership in Iran so that it, I mean, he agrees that it needs to be someone put there by the people.

00:44:29.200 But I think he wants friendly to the West, friendly to the West.

00:44:32.080 Correct.

00:44:32.620 Exactly.

00:44:33.020 I think the other thing that we're missing here is the Israel factor.

00:44:35.740 Because, I mean, even if the U.S. walks away and says we're done, I think Israel has greater ambitions in the region.

00:44:41.420 I don't think they're done.

00:44:43.080 Do you think Israel would continue a military campaign in the absence of U.S. cooperation?

00:44:48.160 The absence of U.S. cooperation doesn't mean the absence of U.S. support.

00:44:53.080 As long as we're still writing the check.

00:44:55.020 Yeah, and we have historically shown that we will.

00:44:59.480 I'm sure everybody in Ohio loves that.

00:45:02.880 Oh, yeah.

00:45:03.320 Just to keep writing the check.

00:45:04.320 Yeah, absolutely.

00:45:05.740 So I think Israel once has an objective, and I'm not exactly sure where that line is going to be for them, but whether or not the U.S. walks away, they have.

00:45:15.200 I think there's a certain cohort of voters who really love President Trump and believed in him and elected him and might not have voted in a lot of elections who would hear like what Paula said, which I think is the administration's position in a lot of positions, which is we want to bring some sanity back to Iran. 0.96

00:45:33.520 And they would say, sanity back to Iran. 0.94

00:45:36.340 I want to bring sanity back to the, like, San Diego County School District.

00:45:40.980 I want to bring sanity back to my own neighborhood where a bunch of immigrants have moved in.

00:45:46.020 I want to see the same level of effort that we're putting into Iran put into recovering our own nation,

00:45:50.900 defending our own borders, getting these people out of here, 1.00

00:45:52.820 getting the mass deportations that we were promised that we haven't had yet.

00:45:56.780 That's what I want to see.

00:45:57.700 And let me offer you my own political take here.

00:46:00.060 Even if everything goes according to plan in Iran from here on out, even if everything goes exactly the way we want it, we get the pro-Western person acceptable to the populace that we like, de-radicalize them.

00:46:17.180 Everything that we've had to do to achieve those objectives risks showcasing to our voters a lack of focus on their needs.

00:46:26.800 and and i worry about that like and that's so unfair because it's such a two-dimensional view

00:46:33.400 of the world and the world is nuanced and complex and things do impact our lives that we don't

00:46:38.760 necessarily see in that moment but just from a raw like i want to win the midterms i know how

00:46:44.320 bad it will be if democrats get their levers on anything in power and i worry there's a certain

00:46:49.000 cohort of voter that's gonna be like well yeah everything went great for iran but like things

00:46:54.320 haven't gotten a lot better for me and i wonder if they would have gotten better for me if the

00:46:58.400 people i voted for were less focused on you know whether or not the new leader of iran was i don't

00:47:05.240 think that's a certain cohort of voter i think that's the majority of voters it's america first

00:47:09.320 right yeah that's what do you think am i am i am i over i've had people tell me i'm overly neurotic

00:47:14.240 about that and i i shouldn't be concerned no i do think that people are focused on america first so

00:47:19.880 So if the Iran campaign is short lived and they get in, get what they want done and get out, I think that'll be OK. 0.95

00:47:28.600 But really, most people want the government and President Trump to focus on domestic issues.

00:47:36.380 They suffered quite a bit during the Biden administration.

00:47:39.600 So now they're looking to get past all that.

00:47:42.400 Yes, economic numbers look better on paper and everything on paper looks better.

00:47:47.840 But like Pearson was saying earlier, they need to be able to feel it in their paychecks and their daily life when they go to the gas pump.

00:47:57.840 They don't want to walk down the streets of downtown San Diego and see tents all over the place.

00:48:04.760 A lot of cities in this country.

00:48:05.900 Yeah, it's terrible.

00:48:07.640 So these are things that impact daily lives, everyday people, middle class.

00:48:14.320 And so these are things that we're going to really have to focus on.

00:48:18.740 Otherwise, people are going to lose the enthusiasm.

00:48:22.800 I think that was so I wish I could take that and tattoo it to the forehead of every political consultant within Washington, D.C.

00:48:32.160 That is so wise, so smart.

00:48:34.300 We'll make sure the boys clip that and get that one out on social media.

00:48:37.940 Pearson, any any final thoughts or observations or stories you're following this week?

00:48:41.640 Any preview you can give our viewers about what they'll be getting on the Sharper board?

00:48:47.100 Well, a lot of focus on California with what's going on.

00:48:50.600 And I'm working on a documentary that we will talk about at another point.

00:48:54.440 But I'm excited about that one.

00:48:57.060 And you didn't have to go to a war zone for this one.

00:48:59.400 I didn't have to go to the war zone.

00:49:00.420 Most Pearson Sharp documentaries involve shots fired in anger.

00:49:04.680 And this one doesn't.

00:49:05.720 Not yet, no way.

00:49:06.480 Yeah, yeah.

00:49:06.880 That could happen.

00:49:08.020 It's not over yet.

00:49:09.080 Right.

00:49:09.720 Yeah.

00:49:09.920 No, I think what we've covered, just that Republicans and just a lot of people are disenfranchised with what we've been getting.

00:49:18.940 And it's a meme at this point, but nobody cares the Dow's at 50,000, you know, that doesn't affect me.

00:49:24.540 What we want to know is that our families are safe, that our border is secure, that we've got these deportations, that inflation is under control, which it came in at 2.5%, which I mean, that's a lot better than 9% we had under Biden.

00:49:38.000 this was the core one of the the border and inflation yeah the two big and you know ending

00:49:42.800 the crazy woke like stuff yeah but i mean we've still got the 20 million illegals that biden let

00:49:49.400 in that's great if we've kind of closed off the border a bit i want them out though you got net

00:49:54.080 negative migration for the first time in your life yeah that's what they say that's what they

00:49:58.200 say no i mean we had a border patrol guy on here who said that people are still coming across the

00:50:01.800 border in droves they're going back the other way too yeah i don't i don't buy it well we will try

00:50:07.300 We still have welfare programs that pay people to be here, and we've got to stop that.

00:50:12.280 And, again, that's a violation of taxpayers, right?

00:50:15.960 Totally.

00:50:16.700 They're having to pay for all this, and when people are suffering day to day

00:50:21.700 and they don't see grocery prices getting better

00:50:23.880 and they don't see the prices at the gas pump getting better,

00:50:26.680 but we hear that we're paying health care for illegals,

00:50:29.540 we're doing all these services for illegals,

00:50:32.300 that's where the rubber hits the road.

00:50:34.720 You know, and if these other red states put a kibosh on these programs that have been flourishing under Biden, they're still going to come to California and we're going to get all the other ones that are coming here.

00:50:44.160 The state's a mess, man.

00:50:45.720 So, no, I'm not satisfied.

00:50:47.960 Well, we'll try better next week.

00:50:49.540 Paul, if people want to get involved with the San Diego Republican Party, is there a place you would direct them?

00:50:57.300 Yes.

00:50:58.220 Go to our website.

00:50:59.380 You can sign up to get our newsletters.

00:51:00.900 You also can sign up to help us volunteer because we're going to need a lot of volunteers for the upcoming campaigns that we have going on for everything from city council to supervisor district, the congressional races.

00:51:16.380 They can go to SanDiegoRepublicans.org.

00:51:20.280 SanDiegoRepublicans.org.

00:51:21.560 Paula Witzel, the chair of the San Diego Republican Party.

00:51:24.460 Thank you so much for joining us and talking to us today.

00:51:26.620 Thank you.

00:51:27.060 We really enjoyed it.

00:51:28.100 And, Pearson, we hope to get you in a better mood next time, my friend.

00:51:31.660 We'll be back next week.

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The Anchormen Show Ep 109 - Golden State, Tarnished w：Pearson Sharp & Paula Whitsell

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