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00:01:45.000So they've, for a long time, they had a caucus system, just like they have in Iowa famously.
00:01:50.000Not a lot of other states do it because it's very weird and cumbersome.
00:01:53.000You go and you physically gather, and your votes, I believe, aren't even really secret because you kind of caucus to different sides and all of that.
00:02:01.000And so what happened is Nevada's legislature, which I believe was Democratic, they passed a bill that says you have to hold a primary.
00:02:09.000But the Republican Party didn't care for this, not the least because it was Democrats kind of imposing it on them.
00:02:15.000And so they still wanted to hold a caucus because they can make you hold a primary, but they can't really force you to acknowledge the primary in your party's internal actions.
00:02:24.000So what we have is Nevada is holding a primary and a caucus.
00:02:28.000And as it happens, Nikki Haley only entered the primary and Donald Trump is only doing the caucus.
00:02:34.000And so they're like two ships passing in the night.
00:02:37.000And what makes this so amazing is Nevada, just coincidentally, has a law that on any election, you have to include none as an option on the ballot.
00:03:56.000And it really, it drives home what we've said, which is the transformation of Nikki Haley from, you know, a serious candidate.
00:04:04.000You know, we've got to see how the votes go.
00:04:06.000You know, there might be a break one way or the other.
00:04:08.000Or very briefly around Iowa, they're setting up Nikki Haley as maybe Trump's successor, could get the vice presidential nod.
00:04:16.000But the longer she's in this, what we're really getting is Nikki Haley as... de facto Democrat booster, as just a person to distract and tear down the Trump campaign.
00:05:14.000In fact, I think she should announce that she's going to stay in through the convention, no matter what happens in South Carolina, where it looks like she'll lose.
00:05:22.000And the reason for that is I think she can carry the flag for everyone within the Republican Party who doesn't want Trump to get the nomination.
00:06:20.000What I love about it, though, is that this goes to show the enthusiastic movement that Trump has built, where people will go out of their way just to say no to Nikki Haley.
00:06:32.000It also goes to show that this is the death of neoconservative neoliberalism in the Republican Party.
00:06:37.000I mean, Nikki Haley 10 years ago was a darling of the Republican Party.
00:06:42.000To say that a decade later, you would have 63,000 people drive out of their way to go say no to her.
00:06:49.000It's a remarkable philosophical shift in the Republican Party.
00:06:52.000I'll admit, I genuinely wonder how many of them knew this is what it would be and they were going to vote for Trump.
00:06:57.000And how many maybe just weren't paying super close attention, showed up, oh, they're primary day, I'm going to vote for Trump.
00:07:03.000And they read the list and they just think, what's this?
00:08:15.000So I would be able to live through an RNC and we'd be able to do some adjustments if they love their voters and lost all the time.
00:08:21.000Yeah, if we just loved everyone there and got a lot, we were totally on the same page of every issue, every candidate, and then the election results were disappointing.
00:08:29.000We could put our arm around them and just kind of have some compassion.
00:09:03.000Now, I think Donald Trump is doing it because he wants to be able to get more money out of the RNC and raise money and make the deals that they tend to do on fundraising.
00:09:14.000But it is going to be whoever it is, Donald Trump's going to choose him.
00:09:19.000And I hope that people pay attention because it will show you that if he were elected president again, he will, the type of people he's going to pick, only people who follow him.
00:09:32.000That's like a soft endorsement of Rana.
00:13:53.000She thought that all of you grassroots people, you know, you guys aren't.
00:13:57.000And we just played a small role at Turning Point.
00:14:00.000We just, you know, mentioned it here or there.
00:14:01.000And just there's other people that really carry the water here.
00:14:05.000And we just highlighted it and tried to keep the drumbeat going.
00:14:08.000But it really became clear in this last summer when the RNC was leaning into a failed debate strategy, an expensive debate strategy that was completely unnecessary.
00:14:19.000They very well could have done low-cost debates with online influencers on Rumble or Real America's Voice.
00:14:26.000They could have done a much more scrappy entrepreneurial, we're going to deploy our resources to ballot chasers.
00:14:32.000When they were as continually adversarial to outside groups like Turning Point Action, it was clear that the RNC is not going to change their ways.
00:14:40.000And that really ticked off the grassroots.
00:14:42.000And Donald Trump not showing up at that debate was a huge insult to them and really kind of weakened.
00:14:48.000And their fundraising numbers are abysmal and their spending practices went unchanged.
00:14:54.000And I hope that you all understand this is a monumentally historic development.
00:16:14.000Five years ago, this never would have happened.
00:16:17.000And it's also credit to how media is changing.
00:16:20.000Cable news was just offering cover for the RNC.
00:16:23.000There was not a critical word that was said against the RNC the last nine months on cable news, but Real America's Voice, Rumble, social media channels.
00:16:32.000We were able to push forward the narrative and say, that doesn't make any sense.
00:16:38.000And it was this building cascade effect that is going to put us in a much better spot to win for no other reason than to restore the confidence that we can actually have an RNC that listens to their voters, builds party infrastructure, chases ballots, registers voters, and does the necessary things to secure our elections.
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00:21:42.000He made the decision to have an immigration bill because he wants Ukraine aid.
00:21:46.000And then on top of that, Charlie, they put in their $10 billion that the president can use, President Trump, President Biden can use any way he wants, including giving money to Gazans, which goes to Hamas, or giving money to the Palestinian Authority, or giving money to some other humanitarian group.
00:22:44.000We're going to borrow money and pay the government workers of Ukraine, right?
00:22:50.000We don't have a plan exactly what we're going to do to win, right?
00:22:54.000I think a lot of us would like them to win, but we don't have a plan.
00:22:57.000Oh, but in this bill, after we spend the money, they're going to give us a plan.
00:23:02.000And then there's $10 billion to give to humanitarian, which we know Biden has already given, what, $100 million, but $10 billion, $100 million to Gazans, which is going to Hamas.
00:23:14.000And we also know that the Biden administration doesn't have any idea how to help Ukraine.
00:23:21.000They won't give them the long-range missiles.
00:23:23.000If you wanted Ukraine to win, you would actually give them the weapons to win.
00:23:55.000Look, everyone here also supported a leadership challenge to Mitch McConnell in November.
00:24:01.000I think a Republican leader should actually lead this conference and should advance the priorities of Republicans.
00:24:10.000And I stood up and said, look, in any ordinary organization, when you are faced with failure, if you're running a business and you lose $50 million, you don't just say, hey, everything's great.
00:24:21.000No, you sit down and say, what are we doing wrong?
00:24:24.000And at that meeting, I turned to Mitch McConnell then and I said, look, we spent the last two years with a group, a handful of Republicans joining with Democrats to pass the Democrat agenda.
00:24:46.000So, as you know, a little over a year ago, I ran with the support of Ted Cruz and Mike Lee and Ron Johnson, Mike Braun, and others to say, we need to have a different way of running this place.
00:24:57.000Because what was happening is they would do exactly what Ted Cruz did.
00:25:01.000Schubert would write a bill with McConnell.
00:25:03.000McConnell would get 12 people and they would pass legislation that we completely oppose.
00:25:07.000And then Pelosi was over in the House and pass it over there and then we'll go to Biden.
00:25:12.000So it's like we, it was just a, it was just a, you know, Biden everything.
00:26:30.000So, Senator, I just want to make sure I understand this because this in some ways will be the game after the game, after this exhausting civilizational defining election in November.
00:26:41.000How many votes does it take to get a new leader?
00:26:53.000It looks like we should be able to get a majority, but we're only going to get a majority if we have something to run on.
00:26:58.000Like we tell people, hey, we're going to fight like hell over this issue.
00:27:01.000We're going to fight like hell to get secure the border, balance a budget, things like that.
00:27:05.000If we don't, I mean, it's going to, it'll be harder for us.
00:27:09.000So the, so yeah, there'll be, there'll be an election.
00:27:12.000And whether hopefully with a majority, but majority or minority, we'll be a majority Republicans will get to pick a leader.
00:27:19.000So I have a couple of thoughts on this, Senator.
00:27:20.000Number one, you know, we need to all be in touch because as soon as the election is over, there's a lot of grassroots interest to get involved in putting pressure for a new Senate leader.
00:27:31.000And so last time I feel as if they snuck this through and you have my word, we're going to do whatever we can.
00:27:37.000Regardless of how the results happen in November, we need a new Senate majority leader coming in, or if it's Senate minority leader, I hope not.
00:27:51.000The only way you guys are going to get to a Senate majority is thanks to Donald Trump forgetting the sins of McConnell selling out the entire country because there's 20% of the Republican base, or maybe even 30%, that will not vote for Republicans.
00:28:05.000And the only reason they will is because Donald Trump is at the top of the ticket.
00:28:09.000Because we have not seen that kind of fighting gusto.
00:28:13.000In closing here, Senator, what should we run on?
00:28:16.000What should these candidates in Ohio, West Virginia, Montana, in these critical Senate races, what is the agenda that Senate Republicans can run on?
00:28:25.000Well, I put out a plan that Mitch McConnell attacked me immediately after I put it out about two years ago.
00:28:30.000You go to rescueamerica.com because we have to run on things.
00:28:34.000But let's think about what's important for your family.
00:29:10.000You were clear on putting the country first.
00:29:12.000And the McConnell way of doing things, just so everybody understands, is raise tons of money from special interests or people that are somewhat connected to the legislative agenda.
00:29:22.000Go run negative ads and just go run negative, negative, negative, and do not put forward a forward agenda because McConnell thinks if you do that, you're assuredly going to lose.
00:29:32.000And then just kind of hide behind some other, you know, excuse.
00:29:37.000We need to put forward a positive agenda, be morally clear on the issues that matter.
00:30:04.000I just want to say, Senator, I know that you're not connected with this.
00:30:06.000I don't expect any response, but showing that the RNC chair can be removed from grassroots pressure, I think, is a harbinger and a canary in the coal mine that McConnell's time is soon up.
00:30:34.000So we were discussing, obviously, Rana apparently is going to leave, but what follows up with it?
00:30:40.000We mentioned Vivek, Don Jr., some other names.
00:30:43.000But NBC News does have some reporting today on what other sources are saying: that if the Trump world has more power over the RNC, they might restructure it.
00:30:54.000And what's interesting is they might literally change how the organization functions.
00:30:58.000And it might actually leave McDaniel as the chairwoman nominally.
00:31:03.000I'll just read this quote: It would leave McDaniel as chairwoman, but she would essentially be a sort of figurehead.
00:31:10.000Meanwhile, staffers closely aligned with Trump would also be installed and have significant power over party operations.
00:31:17.000Under the plan, two Trump-picked co-chairs would be put in place: one to oversee fundraising and the other to oversee party operations.
00:31:26.000One source told NBC they named Reince Priebus as a possibility.
00:32:25.000And then you have a super savvy grassroots warrior that can navigate the trenches and be able to kind of go through that, those layerings of building state parties, register voters, be able to build state party committees, precinct commitment, stuff like that.
00:33:44.000So I think it's really smart, actually.
00:33:46.000And by the way, it also needs to be something that the grassroots division needs to be someone that small dollar donors trust and they know.
00:33:53.000That's why I think Vivek would be amazing.
00:33:55.000Vivek can kind of traverse both of those lines because you need the small dollar churn.
00:34:00.000You need the $10, the $20, and that is completely evaporated.
00:34:04.000Yeah, you are rebuilding an organization that has gone through a truly dramatic, almost cataclysmic collapse in both its actual fundraising and in its regard with its space.
00:34:19.000And I think that's a strong point in favor of a pretty radical restructuring.
00:34:24.000It allows you to come out and say, you know, new RNC, new face, new party, run a different way.
00:34:31.000And that can at least create some excitement.
00:34:33.000And excitement is what you need when you need to get so much money so quickly.
00:34:37.000And they're definitely the underdog no matter what.
00:35:13.000But to be honest, you guys effectuated this change.
00:35:16.000You know, we just talked on these shows and stuff.
00:35:18.000The real straw that broke the camel's back is when they were trying to do their phone solicitations and everyday rank and file people said, why is Ron in charge?