00:11:02.940JD Vance took over the podium today and called out the Marxist Dems and the
00:11:08.500roadmap, I think for the midterm elections that are right around the corner.
00:11:14.540I mean, we're at September 3rd right now.
00:11:17.340We're literally two months away and they are right around the corner.
00:11:20.760So anyway, J.D. Vance, in a quick two minutes, gave his elevator pitch on why the Republicans and not the Democrats.
00:11:29.960My elevator pitch is actually it's very simple.
00:11:33.200Do you want to live in a country that has safety and security and prosperity?
00:11:38.180If the answer is yes, and I think most Americans do, then vote for congressional Republicans over congressional Democrats.
00:11:44.740On every single issue, the Democrats have taken the side of fraudsters, of criminals, and of far-left interest groups over the side of the American people.
00:11:54.700Let me choose just a few issues, okay?
00:11:56.420So on fraud, we are trying to take money out of the hands of fraudsters so that people who rely on Medicaid or people who rely on food stamp benefits,
00:12:04.740they're able to get what they need because we've ensured that Americans' people's tax dollars actually go where it's supposed to go rather than fraudsters.
00:12:12.540Democrats have fought for the fraudsters and Republicans have fought for the people who deserve these benefits and the American taxpayers who are paying those benefits.
00:12:21.420If you look at oil and gas policy, Democrats for a generation have gone to war against energy.
00:12:28.760We've tried to make it easier to build additional energy capacity, and we've done that for the past 18 months.
00:12:34.200If you look at crime, we have had, I think, the most successful anti-crime policy, maybe in the history of I can't think of a single 18 month period where you've seen violent crime drop so significantly thanks to the work of a single administration.
00:12:50.900And every step of the way, the Democrats have fought us to open prisons.
00:12:55.180They fought us to prevent us from putting people, violent criminals behind bars.
00:12:59.380They fought us on basic things like funding and supporting law enforcement.
00:13:04.000they fought us on giving tax breaks to our police officers. So on every issue where we've been
00:13:10.320successful in promoting law and order, the Democrats have been for the criminals and we've
00:13:14.520been for the American people. And finally, just just one other very, very important issue, and
00:13:19.640that's building in the United States of America. This guy, Abdul El-Sayed, he says that he stands
00:13:25.740for working people. Well, if you stand for working people, then why have you supported the same
00:13:30.360policies that for 40 years shipped the Michigan auto industry to foreign nations. We are the
00:13:36.480people who've been fighting for the jobs of Michigan auto workers. We've been the people
00:13:40.820willing to stand up both to the big corporations, but the big foreign competitors and say,
00:13:46.680you are not allowed to steal American industry anymore. So on all these issues, Democrats stand
00:13:52.440for somebody else. The Republicans stand for you. My argument to the American people is not that
00:13:57.100you're gonna agree with us on every issue but they're a bunch of crazy people elect the common
00:14:01.820sense people to washington and we'll keep on doing great work this is why you know i've told
00:14:08.020you guys in the beginning i wasn't so hot on jd vance but this is part of the reason why i've
00:14:13.420come around to him i i think he looks at things very differently than a normal politician does
00:14:18.480very differently than uh how donald trump does he's not sitting there telling you listen folks
00:14:24.860we did everything we promised you we were going to do we cleaned up washington dc we did x y and
00:14:31.400z he's not sitting there bullshitting you he's saying look we do have a few shortcomings um
00:14:38.260we could do better paraphrasing of course but you've got to look at this
00:18:41.080And this week they cracked down bigly.
00:18:43.120We spoke about it the other day, in fact,
00:18:44.780on these CDL license scam and these illegals
00:18:48.460who are literally driving 18-wheeler tractor trailers
00:18:51.740on our roads who don't even speak English. You probably saw the announcement earlier in
00:18:57.780Michigan, earlier this week in Michigan, that we have taken over 2,000 fraudulent CDL mills
00:19:03.240out of business, which makes America's roads safer and also protects the jobs of American
00:19:08.260truckers. And so if you're an American trucker wondering why it is that the last administration
00:19:12.720facilitated illegal aliens driving semi-trucks on our roads, or if you're an American who just
00:19:17.900shares a road with somebody who isn't properly qualified. We've made the roads safer. We've
00:19:22.240seen trucker wages go up by 7.5 percent. And that effort was obviously led by our anti-fraud task
00:19:28.180force because so many of these people were engaged in effectively fraudulent driving. They were
00:19:33.060getting these diplomas, these CDLs through fraudulent means. We stopped that. We're very
00:19:38.860proud of it. And I want to give a special shout out to Secretary Sean Duffy at the Transportation
00:19:42.480Department for helping us and facilitating that work. And it goes into our broader effort,
00:19:47.000which is we're trying to make sure that your tax dollars and basic institutional trust is protected by your government.
00:19:54.660Whether it's a guy who gets a commercial driver's license to drive on the road or whether it's a person applying for Medicaid or Medicare benefits,
00:20:01.740the people who get these things should be legally entitled and should qualify.
00:20:06.760And for too long, we had a government that basically just gave out your money, the American taxpayer's money, to people who didn't qualify for it.
00:20:13.820We've put a stop to that, having found, I think, north of 200 billion dollars in fraud.
00:20:18.840And we're to keep, of course, working on that in the months and years to come.
00:20:27.500Now, another big thing J.D. called out the Biden regime on, and this isn't actually talked about that often.
00:20:33.760And I think it should be talked about more often because it could lower our gas or I should say it could have lowered our gas right now.
00:20:40.200And it's the draining of the SPR, the Strategic Petroleum Reserve that was done by Joe Biden and Kamala Harris months before their election to bring down gas prices.
00:20:50.620Now, for those who don't know the SPR, it's our petroleum reserve that's used in the event of natural disasters, catastrophic things that can happen, you know, where we have this massive reserves of petroleum across America that will release in times of hurricanes.
00:21:09.600We'll use a hurricane, for example, when these companies are trying to gouge or we can't get oil to places because roads or ships or whatever can't get into ports.
00:21:19.220They released this to keep the prices of oil, keep the price of gas level.
00:21:24.980Joe Biden released it for absolutely zero reason at all.
00:21:28.980Now, it could have been released right now.
00:21:31.180I think Trump has reloaded this thing, but Biden brought it down to less than 50 percent of what it was.
00:21:36.140Trump has since brought it back up a little bit, but we could have been using that right now for
00:21:41.340the last year to ease the price of gas as we waited to deal with Venezuela while Canada played
00:21:48.180games. But Biden tried to drain the thing to zero just to bring gas prices down to say he brought
00:21:53.860gas prices down when he was literally the one who brought them up in the first place by stopping all
00:21:58.520existing leases for drilling and any pending leases.
00:22:08.000He literally single-handedly did it himself.
00:22:10.580So, like, what the heck are we doing here?
00:22:14.860Take a listen to J.D. Vance as he calls them out for draining them.
00:22:20.060The second thing I want to talk about a little bit is the Venezuela oil deal,
00:22:23.540which I know some of you will have questions on,
00:22:25.140But I think it's just an amazing testament to what a smart foreign policy could look like and how it feeds back in to good outcomes for the American people.
00:22:33.640So as a lot of you know, and I think even some of the more liberal outlets in here had talked about,
00:22:39.180we had for a very long time the Biden administration draining the Strategic Petroleum Reserve purely for the purpose of lowering gas and oil costs.
00:22:49.040There wasn't, you know, a foreign nation that was trying to disrupt world energy markets.
00:22:52.980There was just an administration that was trying to juice gas prices for the midterms.
00:22:57.540And what that meant is for Americans, our strategic petroleum reserve under the administration got extraordinarily low.
00:23:04.460Well, now we're using, of course, the successful Venezuela operation and some of the friendships and some of the relationships that have developed in the wake of that operation to create what is effectively a new 65 billion barrel of oil reserve for the United States of America.
00:23:20.820And the way that that's going to work is that private companies, American companies, can go in there, generate a lot of oil revenue.
00:23:27.140Obviously, that's going to mean world oil markets get only more supplied.
00:23:54.680And I also just think that it gives supply stability in the energy market.
00:23:59.060I think if we've learned anything over the last six months, but importantly, if we've
00:24:02.520learned anything over the last 40 years, it's that these things, the supply of critical
00:24:08.020minerals and resources really matters.
00:24:10.360We had an administration for a very long time that underinvested in this stuff, and now
00:24:13.940we're trying to change that, and we're doing so quite successfully.
00:24:17.060In other words, the Biden regime set this administration up for failure.
00:24:22.020Speaking of setting up for failure, RINO Senator John Thune, Senate Majority Leader.
00:24:28.760I'm so sick of this guy. So beyond sick of him.
00:24:32.780He's now warning that Republicans could lose control of the Senate.
00:24:36.300This is, of course, after he spent months refusing to use his leadership position to pass President Trump's overwhelming popular Save America Act.
00:24:44.140thun admitted during an interview this afternoon with the south dakota television station k
00:24:49.060elo that he's concerned about democrats seizing the senate in november in the midterm elections
00:24:54.140but is he really he admitted in this interview uh that they may win and they may take back
00:25:00.740power saying i worry about that for sure i'm a realist and i think you don't i think you ever
00:25:06.760try and sugarcoat things it's a competitive environment right now i think we've got the
00:25:12.780highest and the greatest quality candidates. Now, Democrats need to pick up four seats to
00:25:18.900regain control. Perhaps Thune should ask himself why Republican voters are demoralized, fed up.
00:25:26.260GOP controls the White House, House of Representatives, the Senate. Yet its weak
00:25:31.120leadership has repeatedly allowed Chuck Schumer, Hakeem Jeffries, and the rest of the Marxist
00:25:37.600Dems to block President Trump's America First agenda, all under Republican control.