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.
00:00:42.280For too many Americans, the choice now is, as someone said, eat or heat.
00:00:47.740That's a choice the Marxist Dems are forcing on the country.
00:00:51.440Interest rates high enough now to choke off the housing market.
00:00:54.640And the puppet president acts like he wants us to go to war as well.
00:00:59.120And Lord help us, this fool telling people that his son Beau was killed in Iraq.
00:01:05.140Biden is beyond unfit for the presidency.
00:01:08.500He needs professional help without question.
00:01:11.420And now, and Lord help us again, he needs to step aside.
00:01:15.360And yes, I know that would mean another fool would step up to the presidency.
00:01:19.980But Vice President Harris doesn't act like she wants to go to war, at least.
00:01:24.980This 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.
00:01:35.640And these dangerous times just got far more dangerous with Putin threatening nuclear war and with this pathetic puppet and his giggling sidekick in charge.
00:01:46.120If 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.
00:01:55.880And we have to be sure it's a fair count this time.
00:01:59.340And that big red wave win at the polls on November 8 will be made possible by some of the best Republican candidates in memory.
00:02:08.000One of those great candidates is here with us on the Great America Show today.
00:02:12.400Our guest is Doug Mastriano, running for governor of Pennsylvania.
00:02:16.880He'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.
00:02:25.740He's a state senator, and he's America first.
00:02:29.260And President Trump has endorsed Doug to be governor of the great state of Pennsylvania.
00:02:34.840Doug, first of all, I just want to say how much I admire you, how smart and hard you're running your campaign,
00:02:40.140and delighted to have you with us here on the Great America Show.
00:02:44.200And we're getting down to it about three weeks to the election.
00:03:17.840So – and we've hit all 67 counties since May, and this is our second time hitting these counties.
00:03:23.440And 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.
00:03:29.940So there's something going on in Pennsylvania.
00:03:35.440And 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.
00:03:49.720So it's going to be an interesting – just as I said, a little less than a month now.
00:04:12.600You 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.
00:04:22.120And 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.
00:05:17.700So 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.
00:05:24.520It is interesting to see, just going to the national polling to begin with here,
00:05:31.820about 70% of Americans say the country is headed in the wrong direction.
00:05:37.740Most Americans think, and there are huge numbers in this as well, but I'll just go to the most conservative.
00:05:44.240The majority of Americans believe the president of the United States is not fit to hold office, that he is cognitively impaired.
00:05:51.800The country is feeling the weight of high inflation, which we're told will only get worse, not by the Biden administration, of course,
00:06:00.320but by other economists, Wall Street economists, and we'll even take that with a grain of salt.
00:06:07.180But we're also looking at the prospect of a further slowdown in the economy.
00:06:11.100We've already had two quarters of contracting GDP, which is the classic definition of a recession.
00:06:17.940We have every signal that this president and this Democratic Party, if there was nothing else,
00:06:26.940and 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.
00:06:40.860You obviously have that groundswell, that wind behind you as well.
00:08:34.780We're going to drill and dig like never before.
00:08:36.220My goal is to make Pennsylvania number one in energy production in the nation.
00:08:40.260A tall order, but I think we can do that.
00:08:41.940Number 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.
00:08:50.160There's been so many regulations added that some of these have been leaving our state for Ohio and Texas in the energy sector.
00:08:57.880Number four, this will take a bit more time, is build two pipelines from the southwest.
00:09:03.120One pipeline going to Philadelphia so we can become a massive billion-dollar, multibillion-dollar exporter of liquefied natural gas.
00:09:11.600Have pledges even from some of our NATO allies.
00:09:13.860They want to buy it off of us rather than Russia or Norway.
00:09:17.060And also build a second pipeline, which will take a bit more time, up to Erie.
00:09:20.740And those will both serve as major outlets to export our energy around the world.
00:09:24.920But the irony is these failed Democrat policies in states like Massachusetts were born fourth in 2018 when we had that really cold winter.
00:09:33.140And it was so bad that Boston was running out of energy.
00:09:35.680And instead of buying energy off of Pennsylvania, they brought in several ships from Siberia 4,000 miles away.
00:09:41.320I mean, that's the epitome of madness.
00:09:43.060Why would you invest in Vladimir Putin and his radical policies in Russia waging war against neighboring countries?
00:09:48.500Well, 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?
00:10:03.820Venezuela, 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.
00:10:51.220And 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.
00:11:23.700Draw tens of millions of barrels of oil out of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
00:11:29.520And somehow, mysteriously, they end up, some of them, in some of those barrels by the millions in China.
00:11:36.120And 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.
00:11:52.320Your thoughts, if you will, about what you can do in the state of Pennsylvania if you can unleash energy.
00:12:00.920Yes, and the exclamation point, of course, you know, it's looking geopolitically with Germany.
00:12:07.980Germany is very proud that recently they announced they're giving $2 billion to Ukraine to fight the war against Putin's army.
00:12:14.480But 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.
00:12:26.460And it's time that our European allies get off of Russian oil and gas.
00:12:30.200Ronald 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.
00:12:37.540And we saw, of course, when Donald Trump spoke to the U.N.
00:12:40.400and the German delegation was mocking him in 2018 when he warned about this.
00:12:45.360And so as governor – and I know there's a lot of gubernatorial races that people are watching.
00:12:49.160There is no more important governor's race in the state – in all the states in our country than Pennsylvania because of who we are.
00:12:59.120Pennsylvania 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.
00:13:09.660And 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.
00:13:20.840And as governor, I have a lot to say over how we do that, you know, in-state.
00:13:24.720Obviously, in-trust state, we'll have to deal with EPA regulations.
00:13:28.820But, 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.
00:13:35.660Pennsylvania, 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.
00:13:59.380Pennsylvania is such a potentially wealthy, wealthy state.
00:14:06.820It'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,
00:14:19.440other than increased social welfare rather than prosperity that comes from opportunity and capitalist energy.
00:14:29.140Your thoughts about what the heck is going on?
00:14:32.940Why 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,
00:14:43.000why would anybody vote Democrat in your – you know, just academically, in your mind?
00:14:50.180John Adams, our second president, said the facts are stubborn things.
00:14:53.420And the fact of the matter, my opponent, Josh Shapiro, is the attorney general.
00:14:56.980So he's the senior law enforcement official of this state.
00:16:10.780And 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.
00:16:19.240And instead of doing his job and defending and upholding the Constitution, he sued to keep kids in masks.
00:16:27.600And 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.
00:16:40.480Philadelphia 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.
00:16:52.660And 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.
00:17:00.140We cannot afford to have Josh Shapiro as a governor.
00:17:02.180We have to win for the safety of our families and kids.
00:17:04.560It's an extraordinary circumstance that the state of Pennsylvania finds itself in.
00:17:12.920When I asked the question, why would anybody vote for a radical Dem, a Marxist Dem, I'm talking about nationwide.
00:17:22.120But the state of Pennsylvania is also a poster child for that question, a poster state for that question.
00:17:29.140And it just, it is stunning to me what the Dems have become the party of destruction.
00:17:36.500It is that simple, that straightforward.
00:17:38.940There's not a single positive policy that's been enunciated or initiated by this president in less than two years in office.
00:17:50.000Now, 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.
00:18:01.140Less than a month away, and we still haven't seen the level of reform that we've needed.
00:18:06.200We have seen the Supreme Court, for example, knock down mail-in balloting in various states and insist on greater integrity.
00:18:15.240The Supreme, the U.S. Supreme Court is not running from this right now, as they did in 2020.
00:18:21.320And we know history would have been different had they interceded.
00:18:24.640But what, how confident are you in the integrity of the electoral system in the state of Pennsylvania right now?
00:18:32.860Yeah, you know, obviously I have a lot of concerns.
00:18:35.240I led, of course, that hearing back in 2020, the first statewide hearing on integrity.
00:18:40.300And 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.
00:18:50.320It's not as bad as 2020, but it's still bad.
00:18:52.840And 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.
00:18:59.800Well, if you don't vote, then you're part of the problem.
00:19:01.860And 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.
00:19:11.600Part two is let's follow the Yonkin model.
00:19:13.980You know, Yonkin, this time last year, Virginia has similar issues as Pennsylvania, and I'm going to say is great as Pennsylvania was similar.
00:19:21.680And so how they overcame that problem, they had about 95 percent of the polls were covered with poll watchers.
00:19:48.080And I think that's a grand idea, two people at every polling station.
00:19:52.900And at the last I saw, we still had nationwide something like 40 percent of the polls in precincts to cover.
00:20:05.400And 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.
00:20:16.540That just isn't good enough to get it done.
00:20:18.340And we've got to have, as you say, and I commend you for it, more and more citizen engagement and participation in this election.
00:20:27.680I think that's a great call to action on your part.
00:20:30.140And I hope the folks in Pennsylvania respond.
00:20:34.560Give 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.
00:20:51.180You know, most campaigns have to, you know, pay for folks to knock on doors.
00:20:54.220And I think about 17,000 doors have been, you know, people have engaged with on the street, eyeball to eyeball.
00:21:00.720You know, lots of engagement on the phones, lots of community activities.
00:21:03.920But for me and my wife, my wife's obviously, you know, important to this campaign as well.
00:21:09.340We're hitting all the counties we can.
00:21:11.480You know, we hit all six, seven counties.
00:21:13.000We 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.
00:21:20.680And in that rally, you know, in this outside of Philly, we had over 1,000 people show up.
00:21:26.280In the morning, we had a meet and greet in Chester County right outside of Philly once again.
00:21:29.920You know, 500-plus people showed up for a meet and greet.
00:21:49.360And there's a lot of grassroots folks really sacrificing a lot to get the word out.
00:21:53.340We 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.
00:21:59.680And it really forges great movement here.
00:22:02.860So we're relying heavily upon our volunteers across the state here to get us across the line in 29 days.
00:22:08.900Well, it sounds to me like a very smart plan.
00:22:12.200It's one that's worked for you before.
00:22:13.920I 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.
00:22:24.360But 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%.
00:23:07.720Last 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.
00:23:17.600And I was actually number one on their list, according to Salon and political articles.
00:23:22.420And they hit – I know – and they colluded with the state media to hit me hard.
00:23:26.700And I thought it was weird that the same talking points in the Post were also in the media outlets in Harrisburg and elsewhere.
00:23:32.340They did a poll last November, and they were embarrassed that they actually made me more popular in Pennsylvania.
00:23:36.980But they have no other playbook than to lie and to attack – look, I'm a retired Army colonel, 30 years active service.
00:24:18.100And by the way, this is a national campaign and stratagem on the part of the Marxist Dems in this country.
00:24:25.120Their 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.
00:24:37.640He's destroyed the border, the immigration system.
00:25:23.480I 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.
00:25:51.600It's too easy with the energy we have underneath our feet.
00:25:53.780Pennsylvania is the natural leader of the country, but thanks to failed Democrat policies, we're lagging behind.
00:25:59.240And 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.
00:26:05.020Well, God bless you, and I wish you all the best of luck, Doug.
00:26:31.880You 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.
00:26:41.620And, of course, the cause of freedom comes at great sacrifice, and we saw a new birth of freedom in Gettysburg in 1863.
00:26:48.020Lincoln 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.
00:26:56.880If 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.
00:27:05.500Everything is at stake, and we have this opportunity.
00:27:07.940We're at a crossroads here in Pennsylvania between tyranny underneath my opponent or a new birth of freedom under Mastriano.
00:27:14.080And so do your part at DougForGov.com.
00:27:16.120Let's take back our state and our country and have rebirth of freedom.
00:27:19.100Doug Mastriano, thanks so much for being with us, Republican candidate for governor, great state of Pennsylvania.
00:27:28.180And I think everybody can tell all that Doug Mastriano would do as governor is make the great state of Pennsylvania even greater.
00:27:44.580Thanks, everybody, for being with us today.
00:27:46.460Here tomorrow, our guest is Mark Morgan, a great American, former Commissioner of Customs and Border Protection.
00:27:52.760We'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.