The search for a new Senate Minority Leader is on, and President Trump is leaning toward Montana Sen. Steve Daines. Conservative activist Scott Pressler joins Lou Dobbs on the show to discuss who should replace Mitch McConnell as Minority Leader.
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00:00:33.660Hello, everybody. I'm Lou Dobbs. Welcome to the Great America Sunday Show.
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00:10:28.560The first four primaries, he is the runaway.
00:10:32.540He will be, he is right now, officially, in my judgment, the presumptive nominee.
00:10:39.660I wonder, though, I'm very troubled about the RNC, to be candid with you, Scott.
00:10:45.640And, of course, my audience is used to my candor.
00:10:50.080And, by the way, I'm never going to argue, you know, publicly at least, you know, on the issue of strategy and so forth.
00:10:59.800But the idea that this RNC has a guy who is a compromise and is the representative of the establishment, you know, I'm uncomfortable with that because, frankly, he has been part of the losses and the horrible performance of this RNC.
00:11:21.440I mean, look at the money that they've spent millions of dollars on hogwash.
00:11:26.460The DNC doesn't do that, but the RNC hasn't been prudent, it hasn't been responsible, and it hasn't been effective.
00:11:34.360And I'm just saying to you that if a man is a general counsel in a corporation, you know, a public corporation, part of a management team, you know, he would be gone.
00:11:44.840Absolutely gone, because that is rancid corruption on the part of the RNC and mismanagement, and in my opinion, there could be a case for misappropriation of funds.
00:11:58.400You know, I'm not here to defend, you know, Chairman Watley, who is the current chair of NC, if he is elected as chairman of the party.
00:12:10.380You know, we have yet to see him lead in the national position, so I'm not here to defend, but what I will say, I will say.
00:12:21.280He has been leading in the national position.
00:12:24.440He has had all of that experience you're talking about, and he is the individual who's been the general counsel.
00:12:30.200Well, Lou, if you would like to have this conversation, bring it up with President Trump, I am not here speaking on behalf of the president or the RNC.
00:12:50.900I'm not the fellow that does that, though.
00:12:53.100I've seen a party that has gone to hell in a handbasket since Trump was defeated in the illegitimate election, the rigged election of 2020, and I sure don't want to see a step back, and I sure don't want to see any more corruption within the party itself.
00:13:17.720I'm saying the leadership team has not been successful, and to see anyone held over, particularly the general counsel, given what I have seen in terms of the mismanagement, the general counsel should have been all over that, and he was not.
00:13:31.040So let's move on, as you suggest, to another subject.
00:13:35.100That is one of the most controversial issues facing the Republican Party right now, aside from the fact that at this point, we know for a fact there is no ground game.
00:13:45.340There is no strategy on the part of the RNC.
00:13:49.760So let's get to early voting, which has been dominated, obviously, by the Democrats successfully, immensely so.
00:13:56.940So should the, in your judgment, should the party engage in early voting, or should it try to make certain that early voting in this country disappears, and we go to one-day voting, and we go to, well, paper ballots, and all of the above?
00:14:16.000Well, I launched my organization, EarlyVoteAction, EarlyVoteAction.com, in response to the abysmal performance of 2022.
00:14:38.440What day did it snow in Nevada, and Adam Laxalt did not win his United States Senate seat in that swing state on election day?
00:14:47.400On what day did we run out of paper ballots in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, another swing state, on election day?
00:14:56.360And I hate to say it, but look, we cannot change the system.
00:15:00.000We cannot provide for one day of voting, no early voting, especially when the states are the ones responsible for passing out legislation, and when we don't control the governorships or state legislatures in Pennsylvania, Michigan, or Wisconsin, for example.
00:15:16.460And so, therefore, the system is as it is, and we must, therefore, play within the rules of the system.
00:15:22.700And if we do not engage in ballot harvesting in states where it's legal, like Nevada, I do not envision success.
00:15:30.240And that's why at EarlyVoteAction.com, we are pushing for an all-of-the-above approach to voting.
00:15:36.000For example, who are conservative people that are probably going to vote by mail?
00:15:40.900Police officers, firefighters, truckers, members of our United States military.
00:15:46.120And so, if we have voices on the right, Lou, that are saying that people shouldn't vote by mail, in my opinion, why would a member of our United States military vote if their only option is by mail, but voices on the right are telling them not to vote by mail?
00:16:03.220And I just, I want to lock in every vote because I want victory this November.
00:17:24.160It's four hundred billion dollars a year.
00:17:28.420It's throwing elections because people are going to use these mail in ballots, I'm afraid, that are coming here illegally because you don't show any ID.
00:17:37.000And I mean, it and it puts our national security at risk with all these Chinese that are coming over.
00:17:43.160They're not crossing two or three continents for freedom.
00:17:47.260They could have stayed somewhere else.
00:17:49.000There's something really bad and nefarious going on.
00:17:53.040And I wish I wish the White House and Schumer would would realize that.
00:17:59.900Well, it's pretty clear that with that private meeting between Speaker Johnson and President Biden, that something may unfold here that that's going to be at least revelatory, if not if not pleasing.
00:18:18.100What are your thoughts about what the likely outcome is of these negotiations, particularly on the budget?
00:18:23.760I think I just don't have a lot of faith in in what's going on.
00:18:29.100They always come out and say we've come to this agreement.
00:19:07.740I would hope, though, that the president understands the dire consequences of this border situation and that, you know, the little girl getting murdered over in Georgia.
00:19:19.140I mean, that's just you multiply that across the country.
00:19:21.680You can't run into anybody who hasn't had a family member or or knows someone who's been impacted by fentanyl that's come over our southern border and they just can't hide it anymore.
00:19:32.840They can't hide it in the in the national media can't hide it for them anymore.
00:19:52.520And pessimism about that possibility runs high.
00:19:55.760And Biden on the border on part of Texas and and the president in Eagles Pass, Texas, where he'll be there with these all of these state authorities, the National Guard, everyone there.
00:20:11.920And the head of the border patrol union who won't have anything to do with Joe Biden, interestingly enough, despite going along with that crazy border bill that Mitch McConnell put in front of everybody.
00:20:25.140But here we are, and we are watching a remarkable development, I think.
00:20:32.300And that is that Matt Rosendale is under attack by the by the left.
00:20:38.900Former Senator Heidi Heitkamp accused making all sorts of salacious claims on a podcast.
00:20:46.960We've got a campaign that's underway against the Republicans running from probably the White House.
00:20:54.020This is going to be a tough, tough battle.
00:20:57.840And I think the gloves are coming off McConnell resigning effective in November.
00:21:10.740I expect 20 million Americans that decided to stay home last time for a mean tweet, get off their butts and do what's right for this country.
00:21:20.580And, you know, I always remember a prayer my dad made on the night Bill Clinton won.
00:21:25.320Daddy, you didn't know my daddy, but he was a United States Marine combat veteran, Second World War, First Marine Division, invasion of Okinawa and Peleliu.
00:21:51.360They are openly, they attack our country, our values, our religious beliefs, everything that we hold near and dear to our heart, and they're allowed to do it.
00:22:01.020And the media is right in there with them.
00:22:03.760Because anybody who stands up for their children, as you know, you know, our own FBI accuses parents who go after pornography being spread in their classrooms, in the public classrooms, that taxpayers are paying for it.
00:22:18.340When a parent stands up to that, the FBI labels them a domestic terrorist.
00:22:22.520We have lost control of the whole thing, Lou.
00:23:16.500I mean, look, we've got a Democrat member of Congress who Nancy Pelosi allowed to sit on intelligence committee that had a relationship with a known Chinese communist spy.
00:25:14.120We saw what happened in 2020 when we found ourselves dependent on global supply chains.
00:25:18.980We're still dependent on China and other countries for more than 90 percent of all our pharmaceuticals.
00:25:24.300With clusters of respiratory illnesses popping up around the world and here, we need to be prepared.
00:25:30.320And now is the time to make certain you have what your family needs when the next crisis hits.
00:25:36.520Our good friends, Dr. Peter McCullough and Dr. Drew Penske over at the Wellness Company have put together just what you and I need with the Wellness Company's medical emergency kit.
00:25:45.640And now the Wellness Company's medical kit provides a solution critical to you and your loved ones.
00:25:51.540This emergency kit includes eight life-saving medications including amoxicillin, Z-Pak and ivermectin for you to keep on hand along with a guidebook for safe use.
00:26:01.980From tick bites to biochemical events, every medical scenario is covered.
00:27:12.660But I've noticed something that a lot of the folks, and I was one of the original eight that voted to oust the previous speaker.
00:27:20.800And I noticed several of the people that you would have thought would have voted to vacate didn't that last time.
00:27:28.540And now they're kind of chomping at the bit at something because they felt like they got they caught grief when they got home because they knew in their hearts where they should have been.
00:27:39.320And they just didn't want to step out on that ledge with us.
00:27:42.380And because it was a lonely, it was a lonely time sitting on that house floor with eight of us, I want to tell you.
00:28:14.420And and that's and so it's a very it's very important.
00:28:17.840I think right now that we have a cohesive nature, especially going into this election cycle, because President Trump has stated that very much how he likes Mike Johnson.
00:28:29.920And and so I would hope that that would carry some weight.
00:28:33.360But we do not I do not think we need another vacate to tear right now.
00:28:37.860Yeah, I think that has to carry weight.
00:28:40.220And, you know, carried a lot of weight when the president said that McConnell's bill, border bill, so-called, was political suicide for the for the Republicans.
00:28:52.480That that pretty much ended that I think everybody knows right now he's not only the presumptive nominee of the Republican Party.
00:28:58.420He is, without question, across the board, the leader of the Republican Party.
00:29:04.020And that takes me to my next question, which is Senator Schumer announcing he's stepping down in November.
00:30:16.700We need somebody that's going to have the back of President Trump and, frankly, somebody that can work with the House because we haven't really seen a lot of that as of late.
00:30:25.420The deal cutting and things, to me, were not very advantageous to us in the conservative cause.
00:30:32.080And it's just to get along to get along kind of thing.
00:30:36.660You know, we take in $5 trillion, we spend $7 trillion.
00:30:39.680That's just the way we've always done it.
00:30:48.000We've got to start managing our money, managing our borders, and not being the world's peacekeeper.
00:30:55.080Peacekeeper, because historically that has proven very detrimental to us and our financial well-being.
00:31:04.400Well, we're in a peculiar place, and I ask you about McConnell, because I think we're going to see big changes in Washington, D.C.
00:31:12.300First of all, President Trump will be returned to the White House.
00:31:17.060McConnell means that there's an opportunity to put real leadership in there.
00:31:20.880My personal view is that John Thune is no way fit to be the leader of anything, let alone the leader of the minority or the majority, if the case is such, in the U.S. Senate.
00:31:36.420Joni Ernst, another member of leadership, hasn't even endorsed President Trump, nor has McConnell.
00:31:44.860And by the way, Thune only endorsed him a few days ago.
00:31:48.200So this is a recalcitrant bunch of rhinos, and they need to be, you know, to step back and step down in a way.
00:31:57.460I just can't imagine putting any one of them in there.
00:32:01.200Have you got any favorites in the race that is yet to be run?
00:32:59.520And he raised all the money in the, in his caucus, in those races, which I thought was interesting, you know, for the caucus operation.
00:33:12.940And that made people that switched over from the House to the Senate, they loved that.
00:33:17.560But really what it did was it consolidated on all the power within him.
00:33:22.840And so whoever has that position will have at their fingertips multi, multi-millions of dollars to negotiate other legislative races, just the whole agenda.
00:33:38.760So I, I would hope we'd have somebody that had some conservative landings, Lou, because if we don't, again, this continuation of, you know, well, they paid their dues kind of thing.
00:33:49.420I don't give a rip if they paid their dues.
00:33:51.840I want to know if they're going to, if they're going to serve the country and their constituents and not, and not the lobbyists and not the international crowd.
00:33:59.420Thanks, everybody, for being with us today.
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