The Great America Show - REPUBLICANS ARE A DECADE BEHIND DEMOCRATS IN ELECTORAL STRATEGY AND THAT’S WHY DEMS CONTINUE TO PREVAIL SAYS JOHN SOLOMON

00:00:00.000 Hello, everybody. I'm Lou Dobbs. This is the Great America Show, and welcome. Great to have you with us. We've talked about the great smash-up of an election we had this year, a smash-up at least for Republicans and independents, and how once again the Marxist Dems outfought, out-thought, and out-foxed the Republicans.

00:00:21.260 And the Republicans also raise far less money than those Marxist Dems by a two-to-one margin. It's hard to win when you're being outspent by that margin, and despite all her failures, Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel wants to be re-elected. That's so Republican, isn't it?

00:00:41.120 The good news, though, Senator Rick Scott and Mike Lindell say they're running as well. Lots of peculiar issues and events to talk about, and nearly all of them fascinating, like the new U.S. Air Force stealth bomber unveiled this week, the most advanced aircraft on the planet.

00:00:59.860 It had better be the Air Force's newest stealth bomber cost $2 billion apiece. That's impressive. Hope we can keep the Communist Chinese from stealing the blueprints to that aircraft this time. 1.00

00:01:13.720 China protests aren't letting up, by the way. They're spreading across China, despite the CCP putting tanks on the streets. This is something different this time, folks.

00:01:24.060 It's calls to open up the country, despite COVID, for the Communist Party to lighten up, for President Xi to resign. Can't imagine any of that will happen, but just these big protests for change are all unprecedented. We'll see what happens.

00:01:41.220 And this one I can't figure at all. California has released thousands of convicted pedophiles after they spent less than a year in jail.

00:01:50.700 The Daily Mail reporting that Governor Gavin Newsom is the one responsible for their release.

00:01:57.300 7,000 convicted pedophiles, just because Newsom considers apparently pedophiles to be nonviolent, and is clearing the prison system of as many prisoners as possible.

00:02:10.120 Gavin Newsom also refused to comment to the Daily Mail,

00:02:14.160 California, it is, at least it seems to me, somehow in an alternate universe.

00:02:20.700 There's an argument to be made that the entire country is being dragged into that universe, maybe the world as well.

00:02:26.820 This week, Chinese and Russian bombers overflew South Korea's air defense zone.

00:02:33.360 Just as European leaders were, optimistically it turns out, saying the Russians might be withdrawing from eastern Ukraine,

00:02:40.740 Vladimir Putin started calling up 2 million conscripts to serve in the Russian military.

00:02:47.660 For what purpose? We're not being told.

00:02:51.020 But 2 million troops he doesn't need to withdraw from Ukraine.

00:02:56.120 Putin clearly has other plans, and just as clearly, our intelligence agency and State Department apparently have no clue what those plans are.

00:03:06.360 Covering all of the news, and doing so with classic objectivity and fairness, is John Solomon's news outlet called Just the News.

00:03:15.600 John is our guest today. He's the founder, CEO, and executive editor of JustTheNews.com.

00:03:22.420 Welcome, John. This has been a far more civil post-election period than just two years ago,

00:03:28.560 but still a lot of questions, issues, and considerable anger on the part of some voters.

00:03:34.900 What do you think?

00:03:36.980 I think, particularly in Arizona, it is clear that issues, which, by the way, have been around since 2018.

00:03:43.380 2018 was the first time we heard a lot of complaints about Maricopa County, the epicenter of all voting in Arizona, largest county there.

00:03:51.160 We knew there were problems. 2020, there were problems.

00:03:53.920 And you would think by 2022, maybe they'd be on top of those problems, but they're not.

00:03:58.180 And the fact that there was a certification under duress yesterday in that county where the county voted to certify the results,

00:04:07.240 even though several of the candidates are calling into question what happened on Election Day.

00:04:11.500 And it's a train wreck that could have been avoided, that people's confidence in the system could have been fixed, but it doesn't appear that that happened.

00:04:18.940 And now the question is, can it be fixed in time for 2024?

00:04:22.160 That is a question that I think lingers over the entire Arizona race, and particularly now you're going to see, I think, Carrie Lake file a lawsuit challenging some of the results. 1.00

00:04:35.820 And you already have Abe Hamaday, the attorney general, who's only 800 percent, I'm sorry, 800 votes behind the Republican nominee, also charging.

00:04:44.160 So some of this is going to end up in the courts, kind of like deja vu 2020, all over again.

00:04:49.520 2020, and it's a fait accompli.

00:04:52.900 The courts are culpable in this as well, because they're insisting on standing.

00:04:57.340 They're insisting on their being certified entry rather than preventing a certification of what is an erroneous count.

00:05:06.280 We are watching a system that is broken down, in my opinion, John. 0.86

00:05:10.360 And we have a Republican Party, you know, the old movie, Dumb and Dumber.

00:05:17.680 I mean, the Republican National Committee building in Washington, D.C. should be the set for the next movie, the sequel to that.

00:05:26.140 This is outrageous, what we're watching.

00:05:28.660 The money that is splashing around, a half a billion dollars for the Congressional Leadership Fund for Kevin McCarthy.

00:05:37.940 He can't understand as a rhino handpicked by Paul Ryan why the party doesn't want to go along with him as Speaker. 1.00

00:05:45.020 As you say, there's no suggestion it's going to get any better, because we leave in place the same idiots who do the same idiocy. 1.00

00:05:54.340 I think there is a debate and a fight for the heart and soul of the Republican Party. 1.00

00:06:01.060 And it isn't just about who best epitomizes the Republican Party, who best has the values that lead it forward.

00:06:07.340 It's also about who can best perform inside the current election system that we have.

00:06:12.220 And Republicans have lost three straight elections.

00:06:14.540 They've underperformed in three straight elections.

00:06:16.980 In fairness, they did win the House back, but on very narrow margins.

00:06:20.380 Performance matters, and I think what we've begun to see is that Democrats have first tailored the election system the way that would be most advantageous for them,

00:06:30.380 and then executed to the best possible capability to win elections, and Republicans have not adapted accordingly.

00:06:37.720 And that always starts with the Republican National Committee.

00:06:40.360 Republican National Committee is the quarterback of all election strategies for Republicans.

00:06:45.880 And when they get outmaneuvered in three straight elections, there are serious questions about, is the right team in place there?

00:06:52.980 Then you go downstream and you look at some states where giant bullseyes have been lingering over the states.

00:06:59.160 Arizona, Pennsylvania, two states that we know have had questions in the past.

00:07:05.060 And Republicans did not significantly change their strategy in either of those states.

00:07:10.020 And then they wake up the day after the election realizing we lost.

00:07:13.600 And I think that that's a performance issue.

00:07:16.900 If this was a corporation, there'd be some terminations going on for failure to perform.

00:07:21.580 And it'll be very interesting to see if the Republican Party has the courage, the foresight to make some changes in leadership to better compete in time for the 2024 election.

00:07:31.660 And the folks who put their trust in the Republican Party are fools if they allow the liberal Republicans to run a party based on the vote of moderate and conservative Republicans and independents, don't you think?

00:07:50.960 The heart and soul of the party has to be determined in terms of what are the values that we share. 0.95

00:07:55.820 When Reagan went into 80, the party was very unified.

00:07:59.200 And in 1994, when Newt Gingrich swept Republicans in power, there was a clarity and a unity of purpose, a unity in message, and a unity in values.

00:08:09.060 And right now, you have an extraordinarily divided party.

00:08:13.120 You have some Republicans that often sound like Democrats.

00:08:16.640 You have some Republicans that are holding on to a Republican past in an America that doesn't exist.

00:08:21.660 They don't want to adapt to the times.

00:08:23.100 And then you've got this new generation of Republicans inspired by Donald Trump, by the Freedom Caucus.

00:08:28.640 And they're the most rambunctious and exciting and visible part of the party, but they don't always have the rest of the party behind them.

00:08:36.640 And I think getting this resolved before 2024 is such an important process if you're a conservative.

00:08:42.540 There has to be clarity.

00:08:43.960 What does a Republican stand for?

00:08:45.940 And if we stand for it, do we back it up or do we just say it in words?

00:08:49.420 I think one of the frustrations that voters have is that Republicans say things, they sound great, but they ultimately take actions that are less filling and less satisfying.

00:08:58.960 And that capitulation, I think, has frustrated a large part of the Republican base.

00:09:04.280 And I don't think they're going to accept it in 2024 again.

00:09:06.980 The frustration is you and Cronko, I mean, you're talking about the votes in the certification of votes in Arizona, Pennsylvania, two counties, Lucerne County and Pennsylvania, Mojave County in Arizona.

00:09:22.340 Basically, at gunpoint, being ordered to certify an election they know to be to be a regular and to not be correct.

00:09:32.880 It would be it seems to be a greater punishment should be in store for those who would certify elections that are not proper, correct, honest and and and accurate.

00:09:43.920 But those are the threats that people face in Arizona and in Pennsylvania.

00:09:50.880 Yeah, there's no doubt.

00:09:52.800 Some of the county executives said they voted under, quote, duress.

00:09:57.860 That was the actual word they used, saying they had serious doubts about the accuracy of the results they were certifying.

00:10:03.440 But they voted anyways because they told the alternative was they might end up in prison.

00:10:08.060 I don't think that's the sort of system that Americans want to see here.

00:10:12.820 I think they want to have an idea that we don't even get to this point that we're debating the quality of election results and the security of elections two weeks after the election or three weeks after the election.

00:10:23.700 We should have a system that we all go into on the day of and feel confident in it.

00:10:27.900 We used to have that system.

00:10:29.540 We don't have it right now in several of the states.

00:10:32.220 And yet there are very simple models.

00:10:34.160 Florida, Texas, they have no problem counting votes.

00:10:36.640 People feel good about it at the end of the day.

00:10:38.400 People who commit crimes are immediately charged after the election.

00:10:42.860 There are other states like Pennsylvania and Arizona where it's gotten not better but messier at each step of the way.

00:10:50.700 And I think those are the sort of issues that have to be resolved.

00:10:54.660 The best way to fix elections is not after the fact.

00:10:57.500 It's to fix them before they take place.

00:10:59.160 And I think in Pennsylvania and Arizona, there has been willful neglect in trying to address very legitimate issues about the security and sanctity of elections in those states.

00:11:08.580 Well, to your point, the idea that Ronna McDaniel would have the temerity to suggest that she should be reelected chair of the RNC when she lied and lied publicly about the preparations that the RNC had made for a ground game and that everything was well in hand.

00:11:29.280 It was far from it, obviously.

00:11:31.040 Now we hear Rick Scott and Mike Lindell, one who challenged her for the chair of the RNC.

00:11:40.380 That's a big development.

00:11:43.060 We haven't seen those kinds of profiles express interest in the chair of the RNC before.

00:11:48.840 Yeah.

00:11:49.120 And I think there's a lot of people wondering whether Dave Bossie might not be someone that goes there or maybe Carrie Lake if she doesn't prevail in her litigation in Arizona.

00:11:57.480 These sort of fights, actually, it's funny, a lot of times people are worried, oh, we're going to have a divisive fight.

00:12:03.120 But sometimes fights like this, fights over the RNC chairmanship or something like it, create the sort of consensus building that ultimately get the party all oaring in the same direction.

00:12:13.440 A good fight and someone prevailing sometimes can refocus the party in a way.

00:12:18.160 I mean, Reagan did it after the 76 loss to Gerald Ford at the convention.

00:12:23.260 He decided, you know what, I'm going to fight for the heart and soul of the party for four years.

00:12:27.120 And the Republicans went into 1980s elections so much more unified.

00:12:31.620 So a good fight may be one of the starting points where we get clarity on what the party stands for, what its tactics are going to be, how they're going to address the election systems that are very different than the election systems that the Republicans are used to competing in in 2012, 2010.

00:12:46.600 I think the Republicans are a decade behind in the electoral strategy of where the Democrats are.

00:12:53.340 And that's why Democrats have prevailed, even though the American public is more aligned with the conservative values of the Republican Party.

00:13:00.720 Polling shows that people voted Democrat even though they were more aligned with Republican values.

00:13:06.160 That is a gap that has to be fixed.

00:13:08.460 And it's a gap, I think, that was, personally, I think, it's just my opinion, it was a gap that could have been closed had the Republican Party had the courage to put out a meaningful contract with America, make promises, and prepare to keep them.

00:13:25.420 But they were afraid to do that because we have, in the Republican Party, liberal leadership and a moderate to conservative voter base.

00:13:37.040 It's that straightforward.

00:13:39.100 I think it's going to be a fascinating fight.

00:13:41.460 I want to go to some of your other reporting in just the news.

00:13:46.060 And that is, let's start with, if we may, the Biden administration silent on China protests that are sweeping the nation as best we can tell.

00:13:59.920 Let's be honest, the reporting from China is abysmal to non-existent.

00:14:04.560 But what the glimpse that we're getting, this is a meaningful moment of distress and disruption in the People's Republic of China.

00:14:16.060 Well, we've seen this show.

00:14:17.580 We first saw this show back in 2009 when the Obama-Biden administration was unwilling to embrace the Green Revolution protesters in Iran.

00:14:27.340 A very large missed opportunity because a lot of people now look back and say the regime could have been toppled in Iran had America been shown more courage.

00:14:35.660 And then early on when the Iranian protesters resurrected themselves just a few months ago, 60, 70 days ago, the Biden administration was reluctant to embrace them.

00:14:46.180 Only recently, after being shamed by large world leaders, have they started to speak up in favor of the Iranian protesters to a little degree.

00:14:53.980 And now we see it with China.

00:14:55.200 And when you look at this again and you realize the people that what the Chinese civilians are asking for is to be treated like humans and they're not being treated like that, that used to be a value that was universally shared by Americans, whether Republican, Democrat or independent.

00:15:12.420 This administration can't bring itself without great duress and pressure to even say anything to put a little bit of support behind the Chinese protesters and their fight for human rights and dignity, which is all they're asking for in these COVID protests.

00:15:28.600 And you're left wondering, and I think this is the big problem with the Biden presidency, how much did China's prior business dealings with Hunter Biden, James Biden, Joe Biden, play into the Biden administration's unwillingness to take a position that is universally American?

00:15:44.440 And I think that's the problem with the Biden administration.

00:15:46.900 So much of the prior corrupt business dealings that the family had in these foreign countries linger over every decision that occurs here.

00:15:55.440 And even if even if they're acting on reasons other than their business interests, the stench of those businesses don't go away.

00:16:02.200 And a lot of Americans sit there wondering, I wonder if Joe Biden is just simply in bed with China.

00:16:07.600 Without any doubt, in my mind, at least the Marxist Dems, they're corrupting the electoral system.

00:16:12.800 They've weaponized the Department of Justice, FBI, the intelligence agencies.

00:16:16.700 They've got it focused straight on the American people.

00:16:20.120 And and there is no response.

00:16:23.020 They are in control of our government and they mean to have their way.

00:16:28.080 And I don't know what the odds are of that being reversed, particularly when they are normalizing it all.

00:16:34.120 About 800 Americans in political prisons in the D.C. area because of their participation in the Capitol protests, January 6th of 2021.

00:16:44.880 I'm watching, reading just the news, one quarter of hiring managers now in the country saying they're less likely to move forward with Jewish applicants.

00:16:55.400 I mean, anti-Semitism is being normalized in this country.

00:16:59.320 The outrage after outrage that is just being accepted is is to me breathtaking.

00:17:05.960 Yeah. And there are these incredible disconnects.

00:17:10.680 Everyday Americans are so smart.

00:17:12.240 They know they're paying more at the gas pumps.

00:17:14.460 They see American pipelines being closed down like the Trans-Canada pipeline.

00:17:19.580 They see a lease is not being let under so that we can take the oil and gas beneath our feet and make advantage of it.

00:17:27.560 And then they look around and say, well, wait a second, Joe Biden just gave a pipeline to Russia at the beginning of his presidency.

00:17:33.660 And now he's letting Chevron drill in Venezuela and sell oil to Venezuela.

00:17:39.980 Why? What's going on?

00:17:42.020 How can that be?

00:17:43.300 And I think these disconnects for everyday Americans wonder, boy, that's why we think the country is so far off pace from where we want it to be.

00:17:50.980 I mean, 70 percent of people who went to the polls, even though in some cases they voted for Democrats, believe the country was headed in the wrong direction.

00:17:58.140 And every one of the things you mentioned, whether it's anti-Semitism, just insane energy policies, nonsensical energy policies, they all add up to the same thing,

00:18:07.900 which is we don't have the leadership to take this country where it has gone under prior leadership for 240 years.

00:18:14.740 And I think that frustration is becoming more and more palpable.

00:18:18.080 The question is, will anyone step into the void and provide that leadership going forward?

00:18:23.360 May I ask you a concluding question?

00:18:26.500 And that is, do you see such a leader in the Republican Party?

00:18:32.320 Listen, we had a moment in four years of the Trump presidency where, despite all the mean tweets, the policies of the United States made people better off.

00:18:41.780 If people ended the Trump presidency, even in the midst of a COVID pandemic, significantly better than when the presidency began.

00:18:49.080 So Donald Trump created a record of performance.

00:18:51.680 Unfortunately, the media and sometimes Republicans allowed his personality to overshadow that.

00:18:57.420 You have in the 2024 election in Donald Trump and in Governor DeSantis in Florida, two people who have significant records of achievement where they have governed, whether at the Washington by Donald Trump or Tallahassee by DeSantis, significant improvements, significant satisfaction in the constituency.

00:19:20.360 And I think if people focus on performance, we have two potential Republicans that have excellent records of where they could take America.

00:19:29.940 But the question will be will personality and some of the other issues, the gotcha, the fake scandals, be allowed to distract Americans from the performance issue.

00:19:41.560 I think Americans are ready to get back to elections where the performance of the candidates is the most important issue, not their personality, not where they were hiding in what basement, but rather what will they do and what have they done as leaders?

00:19:55.660 If people looked at Joe Biden's record, he had had a middling record in Washington, 40, 50 years of really not much success at all, elected him.

00:20:03.640 And now people wonder, well, why is he so unsuccessful?

00:20:06.080 Well, his record probably told us something about what he would be as president.

00:20:09.860 The Republicans have two candidates who have strong, strong records of performance.

00:20:14.540 And the question is, can they keep the American voter focused on that enough to win in 2024?

00:20:19.800 You know, it seems to me that if I can add this two cents for your concluding thoughts, as we always give you the closing concluding thoughts, the last word on this show, as always, John.

00:20:32.940 But I think that if Ron DeSantis can develop a personality and Donald Trump can control his personality, we will see an interesting contest.

00:20:47.940 But if either man falters in those two, I think, essential adaptations, the other will become the Republican nominee without question.

00:20:59.360 Your thoughts, your concluding thoughts.

00:21:01.200 That's the smartest analysis I've heard.

00:21:03.080 I think both of them have those strengths and those weaknesses.

00:21:07.420 And whoever can overcome their weakness and put their strength forward has the best chance of securing the nomination.

00:21:14.420 What's really interesting about both men is that their record of performance is so strong.

00:21:19.040 Donald Trump at the national level, DeSantis at the state level, keeping that focus, not allowing the Democrats to own the narrative.

00:21:27.920 And if you look at the last six years, the Democrats continue to own the narrative and they own it on things that really Americans don't care about.

00:21:34.440 They're just weapons of mass distraction.

00:21:36.840 Republicans' first skill set that they have to improve going into the 2024 election, they have to own their own narrative.

00:21:42.980 They've got to stop being on defense and let the Democrats control the narrative. 0.81

00:21:46.000 It'll be very interesting to see how well that happens over the next six months.

00:21:50.780 There's going to be a transition.

00:21:52.820 Republicans are going to have control of the House.

00:21:54.800 There could be real investigations of Joe Biden, maybe, and maybe the narrative changes to Joe Biden's performance.

00:22:00.920 But owning the narrative has been one of the Republicans' biggest problems over the last six or eight years.

00:22:05.660 It has, and unfortunately, among quite a number of problems.

00:22:12.320 John Solomon, Just the News, always great to have you with us here.

00:22:16.800 Appreciate it so much.

00:22:18.240 Great American, John Solomon.

00:22:19.740 God bless you.

00:22:20.420 You too, sir.

00:22:22.400 John Solomon, JustTheNews.com, a great American.

00:22:26.020 And thank you, everybody, for being with us today.

00:22:28.640 Please join us Monday when our guest will be Professor Victor Davis Hanson.

00:22:32.960 We'll be taking up American politics, history, and even take a look at what America's future might hold.

00:22:40.760 That's Monday with Victor Davis Hanson.

00:22:43.220 We hope you'll join us.

00:22:44.920 Till then, have a great weekend.

00:22:47.340 God bless you, and may God bless America.

The Great America Show - December 02, 2022

REPUBLICANS ARE A DECADE BEHIND DEMOCRATS IN ELECTORAL STRATEGY AND THAT’S WHY DEMS CONTINUE TO PREVAIL SAYS JOHN SOLOMON

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