The Great America Show - October 17, 2022


MASTRIANO IS TIED IN THE POLLS WITH HIS DEM OPPONENT FOR GOV IN PA AND SAYS HIS GRASSROOTS CAMPAIGN WILL WIN IN NOVEMBER

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The most important midterm election in our lifetimes is now only 21 days away and it will be a red wave, folks. With their slapdash, phony polls trying to keep the Republican margin of victory down all across the country, does any sensible person really believe that the impaired puppet of a president isn t driving voters to the Republican side in droves? Inflation is the highest in decades, and the choice now is Eat or heat. That s a choice the Marxist Dems are forcing on the country. And the puppet president acts like he wants us to go to war as well. And Lord help us, this fool telling people that his son was killed in Iraq is beyond unfit for the presidency.

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00:00:00.120 Hello, everybody. I'm Lou Dobbs. Welcome to the Great America Show.
00:00:04.520 The most important midterm election in our lifetimes is now only 21 days away.
00:00:10.640 And it will be a red wave, folks, I promise you. 1.00
00:00:14.540 Don't let the idiot media and university pollsters fool you. 1.00
00:00:18.560 They're sure trying hard to do just that. 1.00
00:00:21.240 With their slapdash, phony push and pull polls trying to keep the Republican margin of victory down all across the country.
00:00:29.120 Does any sensible person really believe that the impaired puppet of a president isn't driving voters to the Republican side in droves?
00:00:39.940 Inflation, the highest in decades.
00:00:42.280 For too many Americans, the choice now is, as someone said, eat or heat.
00:00:47.740 That's a choice the Marxist Dems are forcing on the country. 0.66
00:00:51.440 Interest rates high enough now to choke off the housing market.
00:00:54.640 And the puppet president acts like he wants us to go to war as well. 0.99
00:00:59.120 And Lord help us, this fool telling people that his son Beau was killed in Iraq. 1.00
00:01:05.140 Biden is beyond unfit for the presidency. 1.00
00:01:08.500 He needs professional help without question.
00:01:11.420 And now, and Lord help us again, he needs to step aside. 0.99
00:01:15.360 And yes, I know that would mean another fool would step up to the presidency. 0.97
00:01:19.980 But Vice President Harris doesn't act like she wants to go to war, at least. 0.99
00:01:24.980 This country is in this monstrous mess because the Marxist Dems, who run the Democrat Party, put these two inept puppets in to do their bidding. 0.99
00:01:35.640 And these dangerous times just got far more dangerous with Putin threatening nuclear war and with this pathetic puppet and his giggling sidekick in charge. 0.99
00:01:46.120 If we can survive these two fools and tools and win the midterms, the country has a chance to set things right with a Republican House and Senate. 0.99
00:01:55.880 And we have to be sure it's a fair count this time. 0.96
00:01:59.340 And that big red wave win at the polls on November 8 will be made possible by some of the best Republican candidates in memory.
00:02:08.000 One of those great candidates is here with us on the Great America Show today.
00:02:12.400 Our guest is Doug Mastriano, running for governor of Pennsylvania.
00:02:16.880 He's a retired colonel in the U.S. Army, served 30 years, a combat veteran with four master's degrees and a Ph.D. in history.
00:02:25.740 He's a state senator, and he's America first.
00:02:29.260 And President Trump has endorsed Doug to be governor of the great state of Pennsylvania.
00:02:34.840 Doug, first of all, I just want to say how much I admire you, how smart and hard you're running your campaign,
00:02:40.140 and delighted to have you with us here on the Great America Show.
00:02:44.200 And we're getting down to it about three weeks to the election.
00:02:46.940 How do you feel about it all?
00:02:48.160 How are you running?
00:02:48.960 I feel – thanks for having me on, too, by the way, Lou.
00:02:53.580 I do appreciate and admire your work over the years.
00:02:56.480 And this is not a campaign guy talking here because, you know, I'm in a campaign.
00:03:00.460 You've got to keep things positive.
00:03:01.400 I'm a retired Army colonel, not a politician.
00:03:04.120 But I can tell you, I can look in your eyes and tell you, in all honesty, I feel really good about where we're headed.
00:03:08.420 Our internal numbers are fantastic.
00:03:10.640 I mean, we look at Trafalgar poll, and it has us neck and neck, and that's after my opponent spent $26 million and hit ads on me.
00:03:16.780 It's just not working.
00:03:17.840 So – and we've hit all 67 counties since May, and this is our second time hitting these counties.
00:03:23.440 And wherever we go, Lou, whether it's, you know, in Philly or up in Erie or anywhere in between, we get hundreds of people coming out, sometimes thousands.
00:03:29.940 So there's something going on in Pennsylvania.
00:03:32.780 Well, there definitely seems to be.
00:03:35.440 And in addition to the most important part, which are your numbers, which is, as you point out, you are running strong, and you're in a statistical tie with your opponents.
00:03:49.720 So it's going to be an interesting – just as I said, a little less than a month now.
00:03:54.360 But we're looking at Biden.
00:03:56.720 Biden is down in polling in the state of Pennsylvania.
00:04:01.360 He's underwater by 13 points in the last poll I saw.
00:04:04.740 What do you make of that, and what does that pretend for the other side, as we call them?
00:04:10.940 Yeah, thanks for bringing that up.
00:04:12.600 You know, reflect back on the, you know, Gingrich revolution during the Clinton times in 94, and, you know, all the economic and everything else runs back to the Republicans.
00:04:22.120 And that's an indication here that we might have a massive turnout, like in 94, where you see this huge red wave, because economically Biden's failed us.
00:04:31.800 There's no leadership there.
00:04:33.080 You know, we all have concerns about his cognitive abilities.
00:04:36.400 And then, of course, we see this reflected in Democrat policies in the state.
00:04:40.160 You know, my opponent is running the same kind of approach as our current governor, Governor Wolf, who shut us down and locked us out.
00:04:46.060 So I see a lot of momentum and energy, just as I've been yet.
00:04:52.060 And I don't think this is a one-off.
00:04:53.400 Three weeks ago, we had a march for life at the capital of Harrisburg.
00:04:56.800 And we've been told by the mainstream media that the Dobbs decision in June would motivate the left, the left base on abortion.
00:05:03.800 So we had about 5,000 or 6,000 people come out on the pro-life side.
00:05:07.040 The next day in Harrisburg, I was there.
00:05:09.220 I was in session as a senator.
00:05:11.180 The next day, Planned Parenthood had their march, of course, for abortion.
00:05:15.860 And only 65 came out.
00:05:17.700 So I'm kind of wondering, in so many ways, we don't even see the sales pushing them in that very sensitive issue as well.
00:05:24.520 It is interesting to see, just going to the national polling to begin with here,
00:05:31.820 about 70% of Americans say the country is headed in the wrong direction.
00:05:37.740 Most Americans think, and there are huge numbers in this as well, but I'll just go to the most conservative.
00:05:44.240 The majority of Americans believe the president of the United States is not fit to hold office, that he is cognitively impaired.
00:05:51.800 The country is feeling the weight of high inflation, which we're told will only get worse, not by the Biden administration, of course,
00:06:00.320 but by other economists, Wall Street economists, and we'll even take that with a grain of salt.
00:06:07.180 But we're also looking at the prospect of a further slowdown in the economy.
00:06:11.100 We've already had two quarters of contracting GDP, which is the classic definition of a recession.
00:06:17.940 We have every signal that this president and this Democratic Party, if there was nothing else,
00:06:26.940 and there's a whole bunch of other else involved here, this party is going to be rejected in historic numbers at the polls come November 8th.
00:06:40.860 You obviously have that groundswell, that wind behind you as well.
00:06:46.800 Your thoughts?
00:06:47.940 Economically, we haven't seen such a downturn, I would say, since 1978, 1979 under Jimmy Carter.
00:06:55.920 And we saw the effect that had, you know, at the national level.
00:06:59.440 Domestically in Pennsylvania, things are really rough.
00:07:01.820 Our governor has signed us up for this regional greenhouse gas initiative, which is a carbon tax,
00:07:06.180 and it's doubled our energy prices back in the 1st of June.
00:07:09.580 On top of all this here, people can't make ends meet.
00:07:12.140 It's estimated in Pennsylvania to live at the same level you did last year.
00:07:17.500 It's between $3,000 and $5,000 or more.
00:07:19.580 So really, this winter, it's going to be a choice between heating and eating for many families,
00:07:24.160 especially in a single-family parents and retirees on fixed incomes.
00:07:28.780 Gas prices are killing people.
00:07:30.400 And the irony is, on the energy sector side, Pennsylvania is an energy powerhouse.
00:07:35.680 You know, energy should be cheap here.
00:07:37.920 I mean, we're just blessed with liquefied natural gas, or we're blessed with freedom gas, as we call it.
00:07:43.740 And we're blessed with oil.
00:07:44.880 We're blessed with coal.
00:07:45.980 And there's no reason why Pennsylvania should be suffering, and Pennsylvanians.
00:07:49.140 And, in fact, my goal, of course, we are in a recession.
00:07:53.660 When I'm sworn on the 17th of January, Lou, my goal is to unleash this plan I have called the Pennsylvania Energy Independence Act.
00:08:02.380 Well, that's a grand idea.
00:08:05.060 Give us a sense of what that is.
00:08:08.420 So it's a multi-pronged approach here.
00:08:10.640 And so on day one, I'm going to remove us from membership in this regional greenhouse gas initiative.
00:08:15.840 So within a few weeks of ending our membership of that, we should see a drop significantly of heating costs in the energy sector.
00:08:23.300 And that will drive down prices, of course, in-state and make it cheaper to open up businesses or keep your business in operation.
00:08:29.380 Part two, of course, is opening up state lands for energy development.
00:08:32.660 And we're going to drill and dig.
00:08:33.780 We're going to do it responsibly.
00:08:34.780 We're going to drill and dig like never before.
00:08:36.220 My goal is to make Pennsylvania number one in energy production in the nation.
00:08:40.260 A tall order, but I think we can do that.
00:08:41.940 Number three is to, of course, roll back eight years of the current governor's regulations and controls over the energy sector to make it more business friendly.
00:08:50.160 There's been so many regulations added that some of these have been leaving our state for Ohio and Texas in the energy sector.
00:08:57.880 Number four, this will take a bit more time, is build two pipelines from the southwest.
00:09:03.120 One pipeline going to Philadelphia so we can become a massive billion-dollar, multibillion-dollar exporter of liquefied natural gas.
00:09:11.600 Have pledges even from some of our NATO allies.
00:09:13.860 They want to buy it off of us rather than Russia or Norway.
00:09:17.060 And also build a second pipeline, which will take a bit more time, up to Erie.
00:09:20.740 And those will both serve as major outlets to export our energy around the world.
00:09:24.920 But the irony is these failed Democrat policies in states like Massachusetts were born fourth in 2018 when we had that really cold winter.
00:09:33.140 And it was so bad that Boston was running out of energy.
00:09:35.680 And instead of buying energy off of Pennsylvania, they brought in several ships from Siberia 4,000 miles away.
00:09:41.320 I mean, that's the epitome of madness.
00:09:43.060 Why would you invest in Vladimir Putin and his radical policies in Russia waging war against neighboring countries?
00:09:48.500 Well, that's a question that a lot of Americans are asking, most Americans right now, is why in the world is Joe Biden wanting to buy energy from Iran, from Venezuela?
00:10:03.820 Venezuela, it's just utter madness rather than open up the entire country, as President Trump had done, to energy development and distribution, whether it's pipelines, whether it's drilling offshore.
00:10:20.280 We had everything going for us.
00:10:22.720 And then this president, in less than two years, has destroyed.
00:10:27.240 We're now energy dependent, obviously.
00:10:29.400 And that's the heartbreaking thing.
00:10:30.880 I'm looking at a report here that has us losing, in America, $100 billion in revenues to foreign sources.
00:10:38.240 And these are energy revenues that money should be coming into Pennsylvania and Texas and Alaska and benefiting the American people. 0.63
00:10:43.940 And instead, we're enriching foreign tyrants, which is just ridiculous to me.
00:10:49.020 It is. 0.79
00:10:50.120 It's extraordinary.
00:10:51.220 And governors across the country and state legislatures are dealing with a president who has no idea that the destruction that is that's it's already taken place under his policies and how long it'll take to dig out from under the Biden Marxist dem assault on this country.
00:11:14.300 It's nothing short of that.
00:11:15.840 But we've got wide open borders.
00:11:17.860 We have got an energy policy that favors China, for crying out loud.
00:11:22.100 How in the world can you do that?
00:11:23.700 Draw tens of millions of barrels of oil out of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
00:11:29.520 And somehow, mysteriously, they end up, some of them, in some of those barrels by the millions in China.
00:11:36.120 And the press walks around, you know, sucking their thumbs, paying no attention at all to these very important issues and circumstances and decisions that are being made.
00:11:49.300 It's stunning stuff.
00:11:52.320 Your thoughts, if you will, about what you can do in the state of Pennsylvania if you can unleash energy.
00:12:00.920 Yes, and the exclamation point, of course, you know, it's looking geopolitically with Germany.
00:12:07.980 Germany is very proud that recently they announced they're giving $2 billion to Ukraine to fight the war against Putin's army.
00:12:14.480 But the very little secret is Russians are addicted to – the Germans are addicted to Russian oil and gas, and they're spending $2 billion a month in giving revenues to Vladimir Putin for oil and gas to pump and energize their own economy.
00:12:26.460 And it's time that our European allies get off of Russian oil and gas. 0.81
00:12:30.200 Ronald Reagan warned Helmut Kohl, when he was prime minister in the 80s, the dangers of getting reliant upon Soviet oil and gas, which began, of course, in the 80s there.
00:12:37.540 And we saw, of course, when Donald Trump spoke to the U.N.
00:12:40.400 and the German delegation was mocking him in 2018 when he warned about this.
00:12:44.100 Well, it's time.
00:12:45.360 And so as governor – and I know there's a lot of gubernatorial races that people are watching.
00:12:49.160 There is no more important governor's race in the state – in all the states in our country than Pennsylvania because of who we are.
00:12:59.120 Pennsylvania not only historically is the birthplace of our nation, but also we have potential with Governor Mastriano, you know, at the helm of this shift of state here of opening up our entity sector.
00:13:09.660 And that will benefit just not only Pennsylvanians, but also help renew and reopen our own economy nationwide here because we really are blessed with resources and reserves underneath our feet that aren't being tapped.
00:13:20.840 And as governor, I have a lot to say over how we do that, you know, in-state.
00:13:24.720 Obviously, in-trust state, we'll have to deal with EPA regulations.
00:13:28.820 But, you know, in this state here, we can open up the energy sector here and break out of this recession and lead the way in the nation once again.
00:13:35.660 Pennsylvania, many people are not aware of just how powerful a state Pennsylvania is because, first of all, the Dems that have controlled that state for a very long time have been – are very interested, for some reason, in greater dependency on the citizens – on the part of citizens of Pennsylvania on their government and the federal government.
00:13:59.380 Pennsylvania is such a potentially wealthy, wealthy state.
00:14:06.820 It's incredible to me that we see places like Philadelphia where Dems have controlled that city forever and really without any significant benefit to those citizens whatsoever,
00:14:19.440 other than increased social welfare rather than prosperity that comes from opportunity and capitalist energy.
00:14:29.140 Your thoughts about what the heck is going on?
00:14:32.940 Why would anybody, after what we've seen in 2020, a rigged election – and your state knows something about rigged elections – and all the destruction of these Biden policies,
00:14:43.000 why would anybody vote Democrat in your – you know, just academically, in your mind?
00:14:50.180 John Adams, our second president, said the facts are stubborn things.
00:14:53.420 And the fact of the matter, my opponent, Josh Shapiro, is the attorney general.
00:14:56.980 So he's the senior law enforcement official of this state.
00:14:59.480 And he's been there for six years.
00:15:01.500 Now, sadly, of course, his pals in the media are playing cover for him and not asking him about his record.
00:15:06.500 But let me lay out the facts here.
00:15:08.080 And the facts are stubborn things.
00:15:09.340 And I agree with you, Lou, based off these facts, this guy is unfit for office and should be run out of town.
00:15:14.740 Okay?
00:15:15.260 So crime on his watch has gone up by almost 40 percent.
00:15:18.480 So it's nearly doubled since Shapiro has been the attorney general.
00:15:21.900 On his watch now, we're one of the leading in homicides.
00:15:25.060 Philadelphia, when he came into office, Shapiro, as the AG, had 277 homicides, for example.
00:15:30.960 Last year, 562.
00:15:32.620 It's on track for 600 this year.
00:15:34.880 This year, in Philadelphia alone – I'm not even talking all the same.
00:15:37.600 Just Philadelphia alone, the founding place, the birthplace of our nation.
00:15:42.160 We've had – we're the fourth highest in fentanyl deaths.
00:15:45.140 There's been 1,000 carjackings.
00:15:46.820 I mean, it's disgusting what's happening.
00:15:48.960 We saw the lawlessness in the Wawa, of course, in the northeastern part of the city.
00:15:52.880 Normally a nice area of the city.
00:15:53.920 We watch a shooting after a football game.
00:15:56.520 The grave diggers in the southeast were quoted in the article saying they can't keep up with the dead.
00:16:02.380 Mostly 15- to 18-year-old kids, you know, often caught in the crossfire.
00:16:05.760 Sometimes there's some lost souls that just need a second chance.
00:16:09.340 And Josh Shapiro stood aside. 0.78
00:16:10.780 And instead of protecting the people in Pennsylvania and doing his darn job of enforcing law, he's been complicit in releasing almost 10,000 criminals back on the streets. 0.78
00:16:19.240 And instead of doing his job and defending and upholding the Constitution, he sued to keep kids in masks. 0.93
00:16:24.320 He sued to keep businesses shut down.
00:16:26.160 I mean, he's part of the problem.
00:16:27.600 And instead of doing his job and looking out for the people of the state, he actually sued nuns, the Little Sisters of the Poor, over a religious issue for which, thankfully, the Supreme Court came out against him.
00:16:38.260 So the guy's unfit for office.
00:16:40.480 Philadelphia has had a Democrat mayor now for 72 years, 72 years of Democrat rule in Philadelphia, and about 58 or so years with a Democrat city council.
00:16:52.660 And all they do is they lie to the people, they make empty promises, and the city is running to the ground with death and horror, and it's time for a change.
00:17:00.140 We cannot afford to have Josh Shapiro as a governor.
00:17:02.180 We have to win for the safety of our families and kids.
00:17:04.560 It's an extraordinary circumstance that the state of Pennsylvania finds itself in.
00:17:12.920 When I asked the question, why would anybody vote for a radical Dem, a Marxist Dem, I'm talking about nationwide.
00:17:22.120 But the state of Pennsylvania is also a poster child for that question, a poster state for that question.
00:17:29.140 And it just, it is stunning to me what the Dems have become the party of destruction.
00:17:36.500 It is that simple, that straightforward.
00:17:38.940 There's not a single positive policy that's been enunciated or initiated by this president in less than two years in office.
00:17:48.400 It's just horrific.
00:17:50.000 Now, let me ask you another part, because I mentioned it in passing, the electoral integrity in state after state is a question as we go into the 2022 elections.
00:18:01.140 Less than a month away, and we still haven't seen the level of reform that we've needed.
00:18:06.200 We have seen the Supreme Court, for example, knock down mail-in balloting in various states and insist on greater integrity.
00:18:15.240 The Supreme, the U.S. Supreme Court is not running from this right now, as they did in 2020.
00:18:21.320 And we know history would have been different had they interceded.
00:18:24.640 But what, how confident are you in the integrity of the electoral system in the state of Pennsylvania right now?
00:18:32.860 Yeah, you know, obviously I have a lot of concerns.
00:18:35.240 I led, of course, that hearing back in 2020, the first statewide hearing on integrity.
00:18:40.300 And many of the things that came up have not been resolved or addressed because we do have a Democrat governor who vetoed much of our legislation.
00:18:48.480 Let me answer it directly here.
00:18:50.320 It's not as bad as 2020, but it's still bad.
00:18:52.840 And so the way we overcome this, and there's a lot of my friends out there in Pennsylvania wringing their hands, you know, Doug, I don't know, you know, my vote might not count.
00:18:59.800 Well, if you don't vote, then you're part of the problem.
00:19:01.860 And I'd ask you not to complain about the form of government that we end up with or, you know, or if Shapiro wins, you've got no right to complain because you didn't do your basic civics.
00:19:11.600 Part two is let's follow the Yonkin model. 0.86
00:19:13.980 You know, Yonkin, this time last year, Virginia has similar issues as Pennsylvania, and I'm going to say is great as Pennsylvania was similar.
00:19:21.680 And so how they overcame that problem, they had about 95 percent of the polls were covered with poll watchers.
00:19:28.440 So I want 20,000 poll watchers.
00:19:30.260 That's two at every polling station in the state.
00:19:32.580 And nothing beats accountability and transparency.
00:19:34.860 And if you see something, you'll be trained.
00:19:36.760 Just go to DougForGov.com and sign up and be part of the solution rather than part of the problem.
00:19:41.700 What was that URL again?
00:19:44.520 Yeah, it's DougForGov.com.
00:19:48.080 And I think that's a grand idea, two people at every polling station.
00:19:52.900 And at the last I saw, we still had nationwide something like 40 percent of the polls in precincts to cover.
00:20:05.400 And that's deeply troubling, of course, nationwide, particularly since Ronna McDaniel, the chair of the RNC, has done, was ballyhooing the accomplishment of 60 percent.
00:20:16.540 That just isn't good enough to get it done.
00:20:18.340 And we've got to have, as you say, and I commend you for it, more and more citizen engagement and participation in this election.
00:20:27.680 I think that's a great call to action on your part.
00:20:30.140 And I hope the folks in Pennsylvania respond.
00:20:34.560 Give us a sense of what you are right now going to do in the final days of this election, the final weeks of this election, to assure your victory.
00:20:45.420 So we have a winning formula.
00:20:47.100 We have a huge ground game, Lou.
00:20:49.020 I mean, we've got volunteers.
00:20:51.180 You know, most campaigns have to, you know, pay for folks to knock on doors. 0.99
00:20:54.220 And I think about 17,000 doors have been, you know, people have engaged with on the street, eyeball to eyeball.
00:21:00.720 You know, lots of engagement on the phones, lots of community activities.
00:21:03.920 But for me and my wife, my wife's obviously, you know, important to this campaign as well.
00:21:09.340 We're hitting all the counties we can.
00:21:11.480 You know, we hit all six, seven counties.
00:21:13.000 We started off in Erie in May and ended up in Bucks County, not too far from Washington Crossing State Park, another significant place in American history.
00:21:20.680 And in that rally, you know, in this outside of Philly, we had over 1,000 people show up.
00:21:26.280 In the morning, we had a meet and greet in Chester County right outside of Philly once again.
00:21:29.920 You know, 500-plus people showed up for a meet and greet.
00:21:32.160 That turned into a rally.
00:21:32.920 So we're going to continue to physically engage the people.
00:21:36.060 We continue to fundraise.
00:21:37.620 So if you go to DougForGov.com, whether you're Pennsylvania or not, it's irrelevant.
00:21:40.860 Help us.
00:21:41.460 We need to raise another million dollars for another, you know, campaign for ads on TV, which is quite expensive.
00:21:47.460 But we had this movement.
00:21:49.360 And there's a lot of grassroots folks really sacrificing a lot to get the word out.
00:21:53.340 We stood together during the shutdown trying to reopen the state and, you know, for voting integrity and all the other fights that we've had.
00:21:59.680 And it really forges great movement here.
00:22:02.860 So we're relying heavily upon our volunteers across the state here to get us across the line in 29 days.
00:22:08.900 Well, it sounds to me like a very smart plan.
00:22:12.200 It's one that's worked for you before.
00:22:13.920 I mean, a lot of people, if they read both the national media and the Pennsylvania left-wing media, they'd think that you had barely gotten through the primary.
00:22:24.360 But the polls show, some of those push polls that pose as university and media polls, as Robert Cahaley of Trafalgar points out, you'd have thought you were going to lose by a huge margin, yet you won by, what, 25%.
00:22:42.960 I mean, that's incredible.
00:22:45.860 And that's what you're up against.
00:22:46.840 Is there any friendly media for you in the entire state or are they all left-wing propagandists?
00:22:54.360 I haven't found any major media outlets in Pennsylvania that would give us a fair shake.
00:22:59.500 They cover down for Josh Shapiro.
00:23:01.260 They uniformly use Democrat National Committee talking points.
00:23:05.080 And this is just not me talking here.
00:23:07.720 Last year, Lou, about a year and a half ago, the Democrat National Committee, together with the Democrat Legislative Campaign Committee, blacklisted 21 Republicans at the state level for political destruction.
00:23:17.600 And I was actually number one on their list, according to Salon and political articles.
00:23:22.420 And they hit – I know – and they colluded with the state media to hit me hard.
00:23:26.700 And I thought it was weird that the same talking points in the Post were also in the media outlets in Harrisburg and elsewhere.
00:23:32.340 They did a poll last November, and they were embarrassed that they actually made me more popular in Pennsylvania.
00:23:36.980 But they have no other playbook than to lie and to attack – look, I'm a retired Army colonel, 30 years active service.
00:23:43.860 I'm no hero.
00:23:44.600 I served with heroes.
00:23:45.620 Top secret access for 30 years, investigated.
00:23:48.220 I mean, the idea that anyone would be radical extreme, with my experience, defies reason.
00:23:53.440 But that's the only thing the Democrats have.
00:23:56.220 First off, avoid debate.
00:23:58.440 My opponent, like in Arizona and Maryland, they're not debating.
00:24:01.660 And then number two, of course, is just call names.
00:24:03.560 And, you know, Pennsylvania, I agree with what you said, Lou, here.
00:24:07.580 This guy is so over the top and extreme and too dangerous for Pennsylvania that we cannot afford to have him.
00:24:12.760 He's failed us as the attorney general.
00:24:14.260 Crime is at record highs.
00:24:15.860 It's time for a change.
00:24:18.100 And by the way, this is a national campaign and stratagem on the part of the Marxist Dems in this country.
00:24:25.120 Their candidates will not debate because all they would have to do is defend the utter destruction of this great country by this president in less than two years.
00:24:37.640 He's destroyed the border, the immigration system.
00:24:41.060 He's destroyed the economy.
00:24:43.340 He's destroyed markets.
00:24:46.000 They are recoverable, but right now they're not recovering.
00:24:49.160 We have people actually in real serious pain and trouble in this country, and people talk about a Democrat going out to vote.
00:24:58.800 I don't care what your party affiliation is.
00:25:01.180 I don't care what your ideology is. 1.00
00:25:02.820 If you believe in yourself in this country, you've got to vote Republican because these fools are trying to destroy America. 0.99
00:25:11.300 There is no other interpretation that's rational. 0.99
00:25:13.560 I completely agree.
00:25:17.280 You know, like yours, my heart is grieved.
00:25:19.580 You know, I can tell from what you're saying, you know, how this has hurt.
00:25:22.520 It hurts me, too.
00:25:23.480 I mean, we're on the cusp of handing over our state and our country over to our kids without the same freedoms that you and I enjoyed growing up.
00:25:30.980 And it's that serious.
00:25:32.160 And that's for the Democrats.
00:25:33.240 They are global Marxists.
00:25:35.200 They have demonstrated incompetence and a danger to our constitutional laws.
00:25:39.380 And so on day one, I'm going to move with alacrity.
00:25:42.560 I'm going to move decisively here.
00:25:43.920 You know, we're going to restore balance and common sense.
00:25:45.760 We're going to open up the economy here, and we're going to bring relief to families through economic prosperity.
00:25:50.260 We have the model before us.
00:25:51.600 It's too easy with the energy we have underneath our feet.
00:25:53.780 Pennsylvania is the natural leader of the country, but thanks to failed Democrat policies, we're lagging behind.
00:25:59.240 And we can really turn it around, you know, with this election, with a great victory for Mastriano on 8th November, and we're going to do it.
00:26:05.020 Well, God bless you, and I wish you all the best of luck, Doug.
00:26:11.680 The state of Pennsylvania needs you.
00:26:14.880 The country needs you, and, you know, Godspeed.
00:26:18.920 We always give our guests the last word here.
00:26:22.800 And so for your concluding thoughts, this is your moment.
00:26:27.560 We appreciate you being with us.
00:26:29.140 Thanks so much.
00:26:31.100 Thank you.
00:26:31.880 You know, in 1682, William Penn founded us to be the seed of the nation, and that seed was born fourth in 1776 in Philadelphia, where the light of liberty was lit.
00:26:41.620 And, of course, the cause of freedom comes at great sacrifice, and we saw a new birth of freedom in Gettysburg in 1863.
00:26:48.020 Lincoln warned us and admonished us in his Gettysburg address when he said, rather, it is for the living to be dedicated to the unfinished work.
00:26:55.600 So now it's up to us.
00:26:56.880 If you care about your country and your kids and grandkids' future, it's imperative that we do our part here and win in Pennsylvania on 8th November.
00:27:05.500 Everything is at stake, and we have this opportunity.
00:27:07.940 We're at a crossroads here in Pennsylvania between tyranny underneath my opponent or a new birth of freedom under Mastriano.
00:27:14.080 And so do your part at DougForGov.com.
00:27:16.120 Let's take back our state and our country and have rebirth of freedom.
00:27:19.100 Doug Mastriano, thanks so much for being with us, Republican candidate for governor, great state of Pennsylvania.
00:27:28.180 And I think everybody can tell all that Doug Mastriano would do as governor is make the great state of Pennsylvania even greater.
00:27:36.280 We thank you so much.
00:27:37.440 God bless you, Doug.
00:27:39.520 Thank you, and God bless you as well.
00:27:41.100 Thank you for having me on.
00:27:41.980 I do appreciate it.
00:27:44.580 Thanks, everybody, for being with us today.
00:27:46.460 Here tomorrow, our guest is Mark Morgan, a great American, former Commissioner of Customs and Border Protection.
00:27:52.760 We'll take up why the Biden administration and the Marxist Dems are letting the Mexican drug cartels take over our southern border and kill Americans by the hundreds of thousands.
00:28:03.840 Please join us here tomorrow.
00:28:05.180 Till then, God bless you, and may God bless America.