00:00:01.000We've got Ana Paulina Luna, who just won her congressional primary down there in Florida.
00:00:07.000And then Richard Barris joins us to discuss whether or not Republicans are doing what they need to do to close the deal in the midterm elections.
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00:00:57.000Now, I want to dive right back into the news.
00:01:00.000We just had some elections last night, and we are so honored to be able to bring on someone who not only was involved in the elections, but actually won her election down.
00:02:27.000Why was it that the voters of your district wanted to back you for the seat?
00:02:31.000You know, it was really telling, especially as everyone started focusing on the election after the FBI raid, how many people were silenced to include other Republicans.
00:02:41.000You know, I took a strong stance against what had happened to President Trump with the FBI, but not just that.
00:02:46.000Through the last couple of years, I've really shown people in this community that, you know, even though I might be the only one sometimes, as it feels standing and shouting the truth, I'm going to stand firm in that.
00:02:56.000I think people right now, they don't want that Beltway Washington, D.C. politician.
00:03:02.000They want people that are normal from their same backgrounds and upbringings.
00:03:06.000And they want people that are really going to help fight against this globalist agenda.
00:03:10.000You know, we're seeing a lot of people that are increasingly scared at what's happening with the overreach of government.
00:03:15.000It didn't just stop at the FBI raid with Mar-a-Lago.
00:03:18.000They then basically took Representative Scott Perry's phones.
00:03:21.000We're seeing this January 6th commission that's really been weaponized against the American people.
00:03:25.000And there's a lot of people, they might not say it, but it scares them.
00:03:28.000And so I think having strong leaders, having people speak the truth like myself is what really set me apart from the underlying that's running.
00:03:35.000It's not just the fact that you've been outspoken on all these things, but because you have been willing to embrace MAGA.
00:03:43.000And we see here in this image that Trump's endorsement really has been the single, and it's actually getting stronger.
00:03:51.000It's even gotten stronger when we're told that it was, that he's done.
00:04:04.000And it looks as though the voters of your district are absolutely on board with that as well.
00:04:09.000Yeah, we had over we had over a thousand people, Jack, show up to a campaign rally for my congressional seat here in Florida 13, you know, where MTG came down and Kimberly Guilfoil.
00:04:19.000But to have that type of momentum show up for a candidate for Congress is pretty unheard of.
00:04:24.000And that is really the power of the MAGA movement.
00:04:26.000You know, a lot of people, I think that those rumors were actually placed by political operatives that are anti-Trump.
00:04:32.000I can tell you right now that MAGA's not going anywhere.
00:04:35.000And it's really been interesting to see how Beltway DC has really looked and kind of tried to figure out why is it that the American people love President Trump and the message of MAGA.
00:04:44.000And that's because that movement is for us.
00:04:47.000It's no longer about, you know, very wealthy people dictating to the people what it is.
00:04:51.000It's the people rising up from the bottom, telling the top how it's going to be.
00:05:37.000And by the way, though, it's, you know, I've got to say this, though.
00:05:41.000You know, we talked about the Trump endorsement.
00:05:43.000We talked about the fact that you embraced MAGA, but we all know what the real reason is.
00:05:46.000And I actually know this because I've got the receipts.
00:05:49.000And I know we didn't discuss this before, but I'm going to have to say it.
00:05:52.000I'm going to have to say it because not only were you out there knocking on doors, but you had a little posto power that was down there in that district.
00:06:00.000Because my brother, believe it or not, when he came down to SAS to 20 point SAS, he decided to stay and then just volunteer essentially for your campaign in the primary.
00:06:32.000Kevin Pozovic, brother Pozo, is going to be staying down there.
00:06:36.000He is going to be deployed to Florida for the purposes of making sure that we secure Adam Polini's victory and Polina Luna and everybody else who's down there.
00:06:44.000But so we're looking at your election specifically, but let's talk Florida and I guess the country in general where we look at these midterm elections, because you've been a great political strategist as well.
00:06:55.000We had Congressman Matt Gates on at the top of the show.
00:06:57.000We did have Congresswoman Margaret Shayla Green.
00:06:59.000She talked about being assaulted, not assaulted, but swatted last night, this attack where they wanted her to be assaulted or possibly worse.
00:07:07.000When you know that things like that are potentially in the cards, why is this that you want something that you want to get into?
00:07:15.000Why do you want to get into this when you know those threats and the pain box are something they can put you in with the smears, the attacks, and everything else?
00:07:24.000Because we live in the greatest country in the world and there's only one like it.
00:07:28.000If the United States ceases to exist, that's it for us.
00:07:31.000You know, we are the beacon of hope and freedom.
00:07:33.000I've been to, Jack, I've been to over 25 countries around the world.
00:07:36.000And I can tell you that the United States, everyone wishes that they had the opportunity and freedoms that we have here.
00:07:42.000Unfortunately, there are people in DC that don't like this country.
00:07:45.000There are people that are in DC that are foreign actors.
00:07:48.000They are involved with foreign governments and they want our country to crumble.
00:07:51.000And because of the fact that I think you and I both understand from a military perspective that sometimes maybe it's not the easiest thing to do, but it's the right thing to do.
00:08:00.000And if we as good people don't stand up, then it's going to be, you know, these sociopath weirdos that just want, you know, power and control to get into office.
00:08:33.000But what I'm seeing across the state of Florida is that people who have fled communism, surprise, surprise, are very alarmed at what's happening with this administration.
00:08:41.000You are seeing a massive shift of these formerly Democrat Hispanics that are now voting Republican because they realize the platform of the Democrat Party does not align with us religiously.
00:08:54.000Now, one of the biggest problems we're now seeing is the mainstream media, specifically those that are funded and bought out and controlled by Soros, are actually going and purchasing conservative radio stations, conservative news outlets to stop the information and really to control the information war.
00:09:11.000And so what I'm telling people, and I actually opened up my campaign to Telemundo, who typically was left-leaning, because I understand that we have to break out of the echo chamber and engage so that our ideas, our message, and our platform is reaching those voters that might be kind of in a box because of the power, power struggle we're currently seeing.
00:09:31.000So I can tell you that there's going to be a continued shift.
00:09:34.000But if you are Hispanic, if you are conservative, we have to be engaging this base because this is where from elections here on out for the presidentials, it's going to be fought with the Hispanic voting bloc.
00:09:45.000We are inherently conservative, but there's a massive information war and a fight that we have.
00:09:49.000And frankly, there's not a lot of funding going to some of these conservative Spanish news outlets and we need it.
00:09:54.000Let's hold on to that because I think that's a very important.
00:09:56.000I know you've been involved with El American and some of the others.
00:09:59.000This is, it's very important that people understand this because it's not just about Florida.
00:10:03.000It's about going into every single one of these battleground states and understanding that there is money to be made there.
00:10:11.000Look, we talk about current events a lot on this show, but there's other things that are in life that are bigger than current events, bigger things.
00:10:17.000We try to do some shows every so often on these things.
00:10:20.000But look, what am I talking about when I say that?
00:10:23.000Right and wrong, prayer and the Bible or heaven and hell.
00:10:26.000So look, the great C.S. Lewis, who's one of the most amazing minds ever to exist, who's a master at addressing these questions.
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00:11:48.000Just got a message in, by the way, here.
00:11:50.000I do actually read the live chats, you know, folks, when I get a chance and it says, let's all rally around Anna Paulina Luna, Florida 13, to defeat Eric Lynn.
00:12:00.000We need reps who will deal with inflation, education, crime, and immigration, not national security swamp creatures that will vote to sell strategic oil reserves to China.
00:12:17.000People have, you know, said, okay, this is a red seat.
00:12:20.000However, he's sitting on about $3 million in a super PAC.
00:12:23.000I think it was actually given to him by someone special interest money.
00:12:27.000And then he's sitting on about a million bucks.
00:12:29.000But the thing is, is that these people, Democrats especially, they falsely branded themselves as the candidate of the people when in actuality, he is literally working for special interests and for, I believe, the military industrial complex.
00:12:43.000He likes to say that he was the Obama appointee, that he helped out with the Iron Dome.
00:12:47.000But the fact is, is that the Democrats, as we saw with the botched withdrawing Afghanistan, have no cares.
00:12:52.000They have no skin in the game with military service members.
00:12:56.000I'm going to treat this like I'm 10 points behind, even though I'm projected to win the race and we're going to beat them on the ground game.
00:14:15.000But also, too, let's talk about the fact that a majority of these people that are actually having issues with repaying back their student loans, they're also majoring in things that they simply can't make money.
00:14:25.000That's predatory, in my opinion, from some of these organizations like Fannie Mae.
00:14:29.000But when you look at the fact that you can literally get a job as a welder or as a crane operator and make six figures, yet if you major in basket weaving at whatever university that you're complaining that you can't pay off your debt, you also need to accept responsibility as an adult.
00:14:57.000Then this is the path and you can go forward and you can set yourself up for life.
00:15:02.000But instead, that's not what you're actually getting because those jobs don't exist anymore.
00:15:07.000Post-pandemic, they really don't exist.
00:15:10.000And now suddenly, oh, we're just going to pay that off.
00:15:12.000You know, it not only is it a slap in the face to so many people, but it's also, it's a lie from the start because they're not shutting down these predatory programs.
00:15:20.000Is that something that you as a sitting member of Congress would fight for?
00:15:26.000You know, there was, I think I had heard someone float around an idea too that these schools need to accept responsibility for this.
00:15:31.000You know, these schools get massive government funding and yet they're pushing these programs where you know that these students are not going to be able to actually make it in the real world because the degree is useless.
00:15:41.000And so I think that there does need to be accountability held for this.
00:15:44.000But then, also, too, I think as a society, culturally, we need to stop looking down on people that haven't gone to college.
00:15:50.000We need to stop looking down at people that have specialized trades because, as a country, that makes someone powerful.
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00:18:53.000I want to bring in now Richard Barris, the people's pundit, not only to break down yesterday's elections, what we can learn from them, but this gambit, this huge gambit over essentially bribing younger voters.
00:19:04.000Richard, thank you so much for joining the program.
00:19:26.000What is the reason that you disapprove of the job he's doing?
00:19:30.000What's your most important voting issue this upcoming midterm or period?
00:19:35.000And student loans are really not up there, Jack.
00:19:38.000There are some who don't even have student loans.
00:19:41.000But generally speaking, their problem is the, for younger voters specifically, it's inflation, like others, and cost of living in general.
00:19:50.000And when we specifically ask them, they're a little bit different than older people or people who have families who may say, you know, gas, groceries.
00:19:58.000Their problem is housing and that they can't really, you know, they can't afford rent or they definitely can't afford a house now.
00:20:07.000It is a risk because you risk alienating.
00:20:11.000so many other people that are honestly more inclined to vote Democrat now and are and are likely voters.
00:20:18.000Here's something that I want to point out, though, is that you had a tweet about this up last night where you essentially said, and correct me if I'm wrong, but you were talking about educated white voters.
00:20:29.000And so, okay, those are people that are more typically going to have these student loans.
00:20:33.000Aren't they kind of already voting Democrat?
00:20:37.000And, you know, some of them already paid their student loans off.
00:20:41.000Others make too much money to even qualify for this program, Jack.
00:20:46.000So, you know, the textbook Democrat right now is an educated voter who makes a lot of money.
00:20:53.000So, you know, again, there's a lot of details in this plan, but it seems to me that he can risk, you know, ticking off a lot of people, you know, from maybe in a game of a few.
00:21:08.000I'm not at all convinced that this is a net game in the end.
00:21:29.000Then we see this special election up in the Hudson Valley.
00:21:32.000I don't know if this is as much of a bellwether as the media wants us to think that's this massive bellwether, but we're starting to see potential cracks in this narrative or this sense that I think people had that a red wave is just inevitable.
00:21:47.000I do think that there were some pretty significant warning signs yesterday.
00:21:52.000The media is always going to overblow, you know, that they're always going to blow things out of proportion.
00:21:58.000I will preface this with this, though.
00:22:00.000In a larger turnout electorate, New York 19's fallen to Republicans.
00:22:05.000In a larger turnout electorate, New York 23 is going to go back to a double-digit win for Republicans.
00:22:12.000The problem is getting those voters out in a larger electorate, Jack.
00:22:16.000And I think even looking around from New York to Florida, I saw signs that Republicans have a problem getting voters out on their own, you know, for these specials.
00:22:25.000There were also competitive races in New York on the Democratic side that Republicans did not have in the Hudson Valley.
00:22:32.000So you already had more Democrats that wanted, that were going out to vote for these other races.
00:22:55.000There were a lot of new right Hispanic voters who love Donald Trump and basically just said, you know what, whoever's got an R next to their name, I'm going to give it to them.
00:23:04.000So, you know, without Donald Trump on the ballot, can Maria Salazar perform as well?
00:23:20.000It's just a matter of these are lower propensity voters and they don't tend to go out and vote all the time without Donald Trump helping them along or pushing them to do so.
00:23:29.000They're skeptical of Republicans still.
00:23:32.000But the problem is, and not the problem, but see what you're saying, it's the exact, I think what you're saying is right, by the way, but it's the exact opposite of what the media is saying.
00:23:40.000Because here, let's play a clip and get your response to it.
00:23:55.000This is a significant victory, not just for Pat Ryan in this district.
00:24:00.000This is a significant victory for Democrats nationally, because it gets to the heart of the question that we've been asking politically for the last two months, Ned, is whether the political climate in this country has changed, specifically in the wake of the Supreme Court ruling that overturned Roe versus Wade.
00:24:18.000That is the narrative that they have been pushing so hard.
00:24:21.000Politico is saying the same thing in political playbook.
00:24:24.000Oh, it's Roe v. Wade, it's Roe v. Wade, it's Dobbs.
00:24:26.000I mean, I keep hearing this from the media, Rich, but I don't see it.
00:24:38.000This has nothing to do with Roe v. Wade.
00:24:40.000This has to do with a special election that drew 120,000 voters in a district where there are well over 300,000 in a general election.
00:24:49.000You know, when you have these special elections with lower turnouts, you get a lot more ancestral voting behavior, ancestral party voting behavior, meaning, you know, those new voters who are persuadable, going one party over the other, those trends are really not picked up until general elections come along and there's a wider electorate there.
00:25:05.000The problem, well, they don't want to give Donald Trump any credit.
00:25:08.000That's really what this comes down to.
00:25:10.000The real problem is that in New York, in California, in places where Donald Trump was not involved in these fights, we did not see historic turnout.
00:25:19.000In areas like Arizona, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Ohio, even Georgia, where the president lost that fight, the one and only place he lost.
00:25:52.000But in this race, Kevin McCarthy and, you know, the establishment in general, they thought Molinaro, being from Dutchess County, was going to outperform.
00:26:02.000They didn't want Trump anywhere near it.
00:26:04.000They didn't want him anywhere around these races.
00:26:07.000They thought they had this in the bag.
00:27:25.000That's what we go to Richard Barris for.
00:27:27.000Sabatini wasn't helped by the right people.
00:27:32.000And sometimes, if you go, let me just put it this way: if you have certain consultants around you, you're going to be blacklisted by the NRCC.
00:27:40.000If you get blacklisted by the NRCC, then you better be in good with Donald Trump or the NRC is going to come after you.
00:27:46.000And if those very same people piss the NRCC off and Donald Trump's people off, then you're screwed.
00:29:00.000That is their lodestar, their guiding light in terms of the world.
00:29:04.000And they don't think that Joe Biden is doing enough about it, even though the Inflation Reduction Act really was a backdoor Green New Deal.
00:29:10.000It just hasn't been painted as such for moderate voters.
00:29:13.000And so they're not talking, they don't actually give him any credit for it.
00:29:26.000Yeah, I think, you know, it would be unfair to wrap them all up together.
00:29:29.000Some are doing great, but ultimately, what happens here, Jack, without in the absence of a sitting president being the face of a political party, you have the leaders in the House and in the Senate being the faces.
00:29:41.000They're the ones who come to the microphone.
00:29:43.000They're the ones who put out the agendas on social media and then talk to the voters in a national space.
00:29:50.000And that being said, neither Kevin McCarthy or Mitch McConnell are particularly representative of a modern Republican voter and definitely not representative of those lower propensity voters that really made up that, you know, the groundswell of MAGA turnout.
00:30:07.000So I think you compare it before to 94.
00:30:11.000It was completely, it made sense and people were in lockstep with it.
00:30:16.000Newt Gingrich had that contract with America and everyone knew the talking points.
00:30:29.000You wouldn't be able to name even the three out of five bullet points on it because nobody knows what they are.
00:30:36.000Many people that I spoke to that remember some of this, all they remember is that they mocked him for the parent, the way that he delivered the parents' Bill of Rights.
00:30:43.000So it is not the close that we've seen them make before.
00:31:14.000You're complaining about socialism when it comes to these handouts for the student loan debt forgiveness, but at the same time, we're rubber stamping every single, it seems like a billion dollars a week feels like a billion dollars a week.
00:31:27.000And then videos of Mitch McConnell, you know, pop up.
00:31:31.000You know, I think Merrick Garland, I told Trump Merrick Garland should be the next attorney general.
00:31:38.000This is not, this was something I was concerned about for Republicans going into this primary cycle and why I said it was so important that MAGA candidates win.
00:31:47.000They're going to have to do their thing.
00:31:50.000And that's, you know, having each individual race, you know, localized like that makes it infinitely harder than when you have a national message that everyone's behind.
00:31:59.000And the truth is, you know, they want to win primaries on a message that they don't really believe in.
00:32:04.000You know, when I'm talking about these leaders.
00:32:06.000So when they, when it's time to pivot, they can't.
00:32:09.000And in your opinion, does it seem as though that there are some Republicans at the national level that would be okay with losing?
00:32:22.000I mean, I've been saying this now for a while, and I was deadly serious.
00:32:26.000You know, of course, Kevin McCarthy wants to be speaker, but he does not want to be speaker of a house with a massive majority of new MAGA Republicans.
00:32:48.000Well, Boehner couldn't control the Tea Party grounds well that came beneath his feet.
00:32:52.000He was, he, you know, they did at first anyway, you know, support his speakership, but then they wanted something.
00:33:01.000You know, they dared to want something from him, and that was to deliver on those promises.
00:33:06.000But Boehner never really believed in those promises.
00:33:09.000So it was a constant fight between all of these new members of this movement with the establishment who is just completely happy to control the opposite, to be controlled opposition and to manage decline.