Nicole Shanahan voted for Donald Trump for the first time on stage last night. She joins me to talk about why she did it, and why she thinks it was a big deal. She also talks about how she feels about how the media handled it.
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00:01:35.540But for now, it's the final weekend before Election Day and prepare yourself for all sorts of hysterical nonsense from the left and the media.
00:01:43.620It's insane what they're doing right now.
00:01:46.760I mean, it is all hands on deck to try to throw anything they can at Donald Trump.
00:01:53.980Now they're trying to say that he called for the murder of Liz Cheney on stage with Tucker Carlson last night.
00:02:01.340It's an outrageous lie, and it's amazing how many in the media are willingly participating in it, spreading it, rolling around like pigs and shit in it.
00:02:14.980The sacrifice of credibility, of any pretense of honesty.
00:02:19.280Another person who was with Donald Trump and Tucker last night, who happens to be one of the strong, intelligent women around Trump that, in another story, Mark Cuban conveniently fails to see, is Nicole Shanahan.
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00:03:54.460So it's a big thing to be a Democrat who has been led by the media to believe that Donald Trump is evil incarnate to then find yourself actually filling in the bubble for Donald Trump.
00:04:09.080And we talked a bit about your evolution the last time you were here.
00:04:12.300But how did it feel and why did you do it?
00:04:17.580It was my first time at a Trump rally, my first time at a Trump event.
00:04:21.600And there were over 20,000 people in the crowd.
00:04:27.360And being backstage, looking out on to these faces of my fellow Americans, it was very abundantly clear that I was in the right place and that the message had to be one of unity.
00:04:44.940I think that what has happened in this country is that we have allowed the media to turn good people against good people, to create chaos, to create fear of one another.
00:05:04.340It's been just a storm of using lies to create discontent and instability.
00:05:14.440And so going out there yesterday was something that I think could have only happened had Bobby suspended his campaign and brought millions of people into the middle to shake hands on both sides of the aisle.
00:05:30.260To remember very clearly what it means to be an American and to believe in one's own goodness and the ability to heal and make amends.
00:05:41.980The crowd last night was so open to that.
00:05:46.440And I'd love to see a similar effort with those who are currently aligning themselves on the left.
00:05:53.120But I will say, as you pointed out, the media is making that almost impossible.
00:06:02.400It's an echo chamber of hate, lies, and fear right now.
00:06:06.680It's an all-out assault on Donald Trump and those who would support him, hit pieces dropping every day on people like RFKJ.
00:06:16.360They've already been telling us for months that he's some sort of a nutcase who would get people killed.
00:06:22.020Meanwhile, his whole life has been spent trying to help children in particular, but all of us from the pollutants in our air and our water and so on.
00:06:29.680And now they've taken it to just an 11 on Donald Trump.
00:06:35.360We'll get to the Liz Cheney thing and what they're doing there.
00:06:38.300But I want to start with you because you are a woman supporting Trump, and I am too.
00:06:43.060And I really think that the Mark Cuban response with his comment the other day is so offensive.
00:06:51.400And yet I bet that viewpoint is held by a lot of the Democrats now trying to champion women in this race, trying to act like they champion women and the Democrat Party champions women.
00:07:04.600Mark Cuban makes the following comment about women who support Trump.
00:07:09.980Donald Trump, you never see him around strong, intelligent women, ever.
00:25:33.800So it is, there are falsehoods in their narrative that are being felt, you know, by our communities
00:25:45.260and we have the ability to address it, finally, if we have the right administration going in next year, we can actually address the real issues, not the made-up ones.
00:26:00.420If you think about these moms who are so focused on abortion, which will never be illegal in the United States of America, it will never be illegal.
00:26:06.640The only possible way it would ever become illegal on a nationwide basis is if the Democrats make the case, if Kamala wins and if the Dems win the House and the Senate, if the Democrats make the false case that Congress has the ability to regulate this issue, which it doesn't.
00:26:23.760It doesn't. It derives most of its powers from the Commerce Clause, and if it's not generally related to the Commerce or Taxing Clause, generally Congress cannot do it.
00:26:32.900That it would be considered congressional overreach because it's a matter for the states.
00:26:36.200If the Democrats make the case, if they attain power, that they do have the right and pass a nationwide Roe regime, yes, that could potentially open the door to a Republican administration coming in once it's obtained power in the Senate and the House and then implementing a federal ban, which is why it is an incredibly stupid thing to campaign on, as Kamala Harris is.
00:26:57.420But I predict either way, whether the Dems try to do that or the Republicans try to do that, it will go up to the U.S. Supreme Court and such a law will be struck down as an overreach by Congress.
00:27:08.260I've been looking into this. There's only one law that they tried to do on a nationwide basis when it comes to abortion that comes to mind, and it's the partial birth abortion law, which was upheld by Congress.
00:27:18.980But no one involved was challenging it by saying the Congress didn't have the ability in the first place to pass the law.
00:27:28.720No one even raised that issue. So it's still ripe for Supreme Court to say Congress doesn't have this power at all.
00:27:35.420I believe that's how this will go down if anybody is ever so bold as to actually try to legislate abortion on a countrywide basis from the federal level.
00:27:44.340So there's there you have that. OK, but meanwhile, RFKJ and you and now Trump would like to take young girls and the moms who are so worried about their abortion rights and say to those moms, you're poisoning your daughter every day.
00:28:00.880You don't mean to be, but you are. You are. Take one look at the Halloween candies you got last night and do a little Google search on the ingredients.
00:28:09.740But you don't even have to think about Halloween candy. We kind of know is bad for us. Look at your Cheerios.
00:28:15.180Look at the orange juice that you give her. Look at the pasta and what pesticides it's been sprayed with prior to it getting to your daughter's plate.
00:28:23.360And by the way, 10 times all of that when they go to school, never mind if they're on a low income supplemental diet, you know, funded by the federal government.
00:28:33.320It'll be all terrible stuff, preservative laden, pesticide laden. So those moms need to understand the danger is present.
00:28:40.700What RFKJ, what you, what Trump are about to fight against, it's present. It's every day and it's in every meal and it's in every home.
00:28:48.460Nonetheless, you get hit pieces like this from CNN freaking out about Bobby's potential role in a Trump administration.
00:28:56.240Trump's plan to radically remake government with RFKJ and Elon Musk by CNN.
00:29:00.400This is yesterday. There is they talk about 2025 as though Trump hasn't disavowed that and denied having anything to do with it.
00:29:10.800But then they say there's an equally radical and expansive government reformation plan coming out of Trump's own mouth with heterodox, heterodox figures like RFKJ,
00:29:19.700where he would be given free reign to, quote, go wild on the health safety system.
00:29:23.740And Elon would be enabled to start from scratch with the federal workforce.
00:29:28.640Then they go on to suggest that Kennedy compared vaccine requirements with the Nazi Germany era, claiming Anne Frank was in a better situation.
00:29:37.040That is so out of context. It was a rally at which he was talking about censorship and government forcing us to do certain things.
00:29:43.580And by the way, he apologized for that, but he didn't even need to.
00:29:47.200It was being used against him unfairly.
00:29:50.240And then they hit him for his wild conspiracy theories about chemicals in the water, allegedly making children gay or transgender.
00:29:59.480By the way, there are hormones in our water that we do need to be concerned about.
00:30:03.280And talking about his stance on vaccines.
00:30:08.860This leads me long-windedly, forgive me, Nicole, to your, one of your Maha ads, which we talked about last time are the best in the business.
01:23:37.080So this is, this is in the news today.
01:23:41.140This is reported by VoteBeat, which is a nonprofit news organization.
01:23:46.960And Axios did an article on them in 2022, saying they are the only outlet in America that covers local voting exclusively.
01:23:54.020They report that two Pennsylvania counties have identified an Arizona-based company as the source of thousands of last-minute voter registration applications that are now under investigation.
01:24:07.580Monroe County, around 30 forms, this company was responsible for submitting, including mail ballot applications, were, quote, deemed irregular, and were included in what?
01:24:19.660Don't, you don't have to believe just the Monroe County officials.
01:24:23.280The district's attorney is now describing in a Facebook post several that were, quote, fraudulent.
01:24:30.380They were fraudulent and not authorized by the person named as applicant.
01:24:35.380There is a company that is accused of registering voters in Pennsylvania's Monroe County with ballots, applications, that have been deemed irregular and which the DA's office says were fraudulent and not authorized by the persons named as applicants.
01:24:55.340In at least one case, the applicant is dead.
01:25:05.960York County, where the chief clerk, Greg Monsky, confirmed to VoteBeat on Wednesday that this outside group, this Arizona-based company, it's called Field and Media Corps, submitted the forms that the county there is now investigating.
01:25:24.120In a press release on Wednesday, the county said that of the 3,087 applications under review, the county has found that roughly 47% were legitimate.
01:25:57.780This is not some made-up story by election deniers.
01:26:02.120This is the DAs in these counties saying, we've got serious concerns about ballot or application integrity and using the F word in at least Monroe.
01:26:17.740This company, Field Media Corps, which conducts voter registration and outreach programs, is run by a man who is from, it looks like, Mesa, Arizona, and a longtime voting activist in Arizona.
01:26:33.260He's clearly a Kamala supporter based on his social media.
01:26:36.100And he says that his company has not heard from any county officials in Pennsylvania or received any info about problems with the forms that his group submitted there.
01:26:45.700But he says his company will fully cooperate with any investigation in Pennsylvania.
01:26:50.460He says they have a zero-tolerance policy for workers who submit fraudulent forms.
01:26:55.820The company is reportedly not currently doing work in Pennsylvania as voter registration has passed.
01:27:02.920But their voter registration efforts have previously been flagged in Arizona, yet another swing state.
01:27:12.600Last year, two counties there flagged voter registration forms from this company and sent them to the Arizona Attorney General's Office for investigation, according to the AG's spokesperson, Richie Taylor.
01:27:26.240There was an investigation in Maricopa County as well.
01:27:30.600Uh, this man who runs this company, Field Media Corps, says that the Maricopa County Attorney's Office contacted his company last year.
01:27:39.660In connection with an investigation into two canvassers the company employed, Field Media Corps, says it fired those two workers.
01:27:47.940This election cycle, still in Arizona, the Maricopa County Recorder's Office has flagged this same company, Field Corps, the parent company of Field and Media Corps, for submitting a high percentage of incomplete or inaccurate forms.
01:28:33.780Okay, but they're saying, I think they're trying to make the distinction between voting and getting an application to vote when you're not legit.
01:28:41.480Election experts push back, noting that the applications were flagged by election officials as potentially problematic, a sign the system is working, and that no actual ballots were involved.
01:28:50.860Then they go on to say this, a third Pennsylvania county has just concluded an investigation.
01:28:58.100And their officials declined to identify the group or person who submitted the 2,500 voter registration forms that they are investigating there.
01:29:08.500That's a third Pennsylvania county, that's a third Pennsylvania county, Lancaster County, where they're investigating 2,500 voter registration applications.
01:29:18.660Heather Adams, a Republican, announced at a press conference last week, roughly 60 percent, 6-0 percent of the applications that her detectives have reviewed so far were allegedly fraudulent.
01:29:35.900While others, she said, were legitimate.
01:29:37.920She has since described, quote, hundreds of the applications as fraudulent, but has not given an exact number or announced any criminal charges related to the investigation.
01:29:48.220Selena Zito, posting on Twitter, this field and media core website is down.
01:29:54.340We confirmed that today and calls to their listed number have gone unreturned.
01:30:01.740Zito also noting that the company's clients have included Biden Harris, Senator Mark Kelly of Arizona and other Arizona Democrats.
01:30:12.620This is not to imply that every vote, every ballot or this election is being stolen.
01:30:20.280But when you are told that there is absolutely no basis to suspect voter fraud or attempts at it, you should remember this report.
01:30:29.620You know, here at the Megyn Kelly show, we have never said anything other than that Trump lost the 2020 election.
01:30:35.900And I know a lot of my audience disagrees with me on that, but this how do you ignore this?
01:30:43.560How do you it's one thing when you say to Trump, show me the evidence and he doesn't do it.
01:30:47.320It's quite another when you've got three D.A.s and three different Pennsylvania counties using the F word and doing investigations on ballots that they say are not legit or that appear to be illegitimate.
01:31:00.460OK, one more thing. Follow up now to the White House's altering of the transcript in connection with President Biden's statement that Trump supporters are garbage, which has caused a lot of heat, as you know, for the White House and Kamala Harris.
01:31:16.240As you're aware, President Biden said the remarks. Here they are.
01:31:19.960Then the White House issued a transcript, in quotes, of his remarks that had him say the only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters, except there's an apostrophe after the R in supporter and before the S.
01:31:48.960As though he's saying his supporter issued garbage, as opposed to his supporters are garbage.
01:31:57.160That's exactly the opposite of what he said. We all know we listen to it. It was very clear.
01:32:01.600Really, only a couple of news organizations are running with his bullshit explanation.
01:32:07.460And but it is weird to see the transcript try to do cover for him, try to run cover for him.
01:32:12.100And now that's spilled out into the open about how that happened.
01:32:15.720It wasn't the White House stenographer. And actually, the White House stenographer's office is P.O.'d because this was done by the White House press office.
01:32:25.360Corrine Jean-Pierre, spokesperson Andrew Bates, who's just a paid liar.
01:32:32.080And listen to this, according to the Associated Press, White House press officials altered the official transcript, drawing objections from the federal workers who document such remarks for posterity.
01:32:44.420By the way, this may be a crime under the Presidential Records Act.
01:32:48.560Let's see if they get prosecuted the same way Trump got prosecuted for allegedly violating the P.R.A.
01:32:54.480All right. Because you violate the P.R.A.
01:32:57.040I think they take it very seriously in this Department of Justice.
01:32:59.940Let's see what happens to Andrew Bates or whoever actually did it.
01:33:04.040It was the White House press office that put in the apostrophe, says the the A.P.
01:33:10.000The change was made after the press office, quote, conferred with the president, according to an internal email from the head of the stenographer's office that was obtained by the A.P.
01:33:20.040What happened was the press office, hold on, asked the stenographers to quickly produce a transcript of the remarks.
01:33:30.520The two person stenography team, a typer and a proofer, said any edit would have to be approved by our supervisor.
01:33:38.540But the supervisor was not immediately available.
01:33:41.280So the press office went ahead and altered it themselves and then published the altered transcript on the White House website and distributed it in an effort to tamp down the story.
01:33:54.260Then the supervisor got wind of the matter and called the press office and called out the way they handled this, saying it was, quote, a breach of protocol and spoliation, meaning spoiling of transcript integrity between the stenography and the press offices.
01:34:14.420And almost undoubtedly it was the stenographer's office that leaked this story.
01:34:19.240They're pissed that their actual recitation of his remarks was messed with by these losers over in the comms department.
01:34:28.600The supervisor is a career employee of the White House and raised the concerns about the press office action in an email to the White House communications director, Ben LaBolt, and press secretary, Corrine Jean-Pierre, saying regardless of urgency,
01:34:43.320it's essential to our transcript's authenticity and legitimacy that we adhere to consistent protocol for requesting edits, approval and release.
01:34:50.160The supervisor declined to comment to the AP, though in this reporter's opinion, mine, Megyn Kelly, was clearly the source for all of this.
01:34:58.380Asked to comment, Andrew Bates, who posted the altered version on X, did not address the alteration of the transcript,
01:35:04.140but simply said the president confirmed in his tweet that he was addressing the hateful rhetoric from the comedian that was reflected in the transcript.
01:36:17.300Up next, U.S. Senate candidate Tim Sheehy.
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01:37:11.240The Senate race in Montana may be one of the most important races in the country as it could determine which party gains control of the Senate.
01:37:31.120Incumbent Democrat John Tester has managed to hold on to his seat the last 18 years, despite the fact that every other statewide office is held by a Republican.
01:37:41.300Trump won Montana by 16 points in 2020.
01:37:44.840So the GOP is feeling a little bullish about this time around.
01:37:49.400The GOP candidate taking center stage in that race is Tim Sheehy.
01:37:53.960He's a father, entrepreneur, and former Navy SEAL, and he joins me now.
01:38:01.160Well, as somebody who has a place in Montana for the better part of the last 10 years, you're kind of potentially my next senator if you win this race, at least for a couple months of the year.
01:38:11.940Look, I'm going to get right to it because I know your time is short.
01:38:15.400You're winning, according to most of the polls.
01:38:17.640But the Democrats, according to a new report just today in Axios, haven't given up on this race.
01:38:23.260Then they're feeling cautiously optimistic that they can defeat you, according to Axios, based on, quote, a wave of negative ads about the combat record of yours.
01:38:38.820So the audience knows what we're talking about.
01:38:40.100They are alleging that you lied about being shot.
01:38:45.180That when you were serving our country, which you did honorably in Iraq and Afghanistan and you received a Purple Heart and you received a Bronze Star, that you said you received a gunshot wound to the arm over there.
01:38:56.740Not for stolen valor, this isn't one of those things, but that, in fact, you received it in a state park when your gun dropped and you shot yourself in the arm and they have a like a park ranger who swears you told her that and that you just made up having taken a bullet in the arm when you were actually serving the country.
01:39:18.260Yeah, well, I mean, their entire campaign against me has been based on character assassination.
01:39:22.100I mean, that's all it's been since the beginning, because Jon Tester has been a rubber stamp for Biden-Harris the entire time they've been in office, voted to impeach Trump twice, has consistently put America first policies, America last every single time.
01:39:35.540And, you know, every time he's run, they spend hundreds of millions of dollars in the state and they have one playbook, and that is to literally just smear the opponent to the point where they're unrecognizable.
01:39:45.820And they're doing the same thing to me.
01:39:47.040And, of course, Jon Tester loves to pose as a friend of veterans, but the first time ever he's run against a veteran, all they've been focused on is trying to shred my military record.
01:39:55.300And, of course, I have letters and statements signed by dozens of folks that serve with me saying, you know, my military service was honorable, was fantastic, was a good leader, was a great teammate.
01:40:04.460And the truth is, you know, during an insurgency war like we were fighting in Afghanistan for 20 years, insurgency is messy.
01:40:10.120And, you know, one of the most challenging parts we had as SEAL teams over my several deployments was we would have Afghan forces embedded with us.
01:40:18.980And that means you're fighting not always alongside just a bunch of highly trained Navy SEALs.
01:40:24.260Much of the time you are outnumbered by your own friendly partner force, sometimes 10 to 1, sometimes 20 to 1.
01:40:30.640You'll have hundreds of Afghans that you're responsible for training and then putting into combat.
01:40:34.540And we call those green on blue incidents, which actually were very, very common, where you'd have Afghans who either intentionally or unintentionally would end up shooting friendly forces.
01:40:43.840You know, sometimes they just start put their weapons on full auto and start, you know, shooting whatever direction they felt like.
01:40:48.680So it was a hazardous environment where we're dealing with, of course, actual hostile forces who were fighting Taliban, Al-Qaeda, Haqqani Network, et cetera.
01:40:57.100But half the time, we've also got to have one eyeball looking at our partner forces.
01:41:00.480And, you know, when those incidents would happen, everyone remembers, you know, the Pat Tillman incident, unfortunately, very, very clearly, where it was a tragedy, where Pat was killed by friendly fire.
01:41:10.540And, of course, you know, that investigation ensues and ends up destroying an entire command because they tear everything apart, investigate everybody all day long, every day.
01:41:19.680And even if the investigation proves nothing happened, the way the military works, as you well know, those investigations stick with those people for the rest of their lives and their career and oftentimes end those careers.
01:41:30.280In fact, our task force, that deployment, had one of those incidents, you know, that ended up being a career under for a lot of guys.
01:41:37.140So, you know, as a team commander, you want to keep your team intact.
01:41:39.880You know, we were at about half strength at this point in our deployment.
01:41:42.120We'd had many teammates wounded and sent home.
01:41:44.020And, you know, me as the team commander, there was no position to be to be carted off the battlefield.
01:41:49.620Many of us were injured multiple times.
01:41:51.160We don't report that simply because we're going to stay in the fight, stay with our team.
01:41:54.640We're going to finish our deployment and do our job.
01:41:56.480So unless those injuries are life threatening, of course, you know, if you've lost a limb like some of our teammates had or there's a severe injury, you're going to you're going to deal with that because that person has to be cared for.
01:42:05.420But otherwise, you just keep on moving.
01:42:07.440So it's unfortunate they decided to make this a focal point because it's a distraction.
01:42:12.320But that's what their entire campaign is about.
01:42:13.680It's about it's about distractions because they can't focus on the issues that John Tester is a loyal Chuck Schumer vote every single time.
01:42:20.700So just to be clear, did you shoot yourself in the arm?
01:42:25.660No, that was never the allegation that the point is, you know, it was a friendly fire ricochet downrange that wasn't reported at the time.
01:42:41.620So if voters are confused, you're going to explain it to them.
01:42:44.660They're saying that you were in a park, Glacier Park, that you dropped your weapon, that it went off inadvertently and it shot you in the arm and that there's a park ranger saying she spoke to you about that.
01:42:54.800It looks like you spoke to The Washington Post and you said that you lied when you told the park ranger about this.
01:43:02.060So which is it like you did you shoot yourself in the arm inadvertently in Glacier Park?
01:43:10.140No, we've discussed this at length repeatedly with every media outlet for the last year.
01:43:28.740We have to report this to law enforcement and still having active team members, you know, in the service who were involved in it at that time.
01:43:35.760I said, we said, well, this is this is an old one.
01:43:37.520They said, no, we have to report this as a gunshot wound, you know, to the to law enforcement.
01:43:51.480And a weapon of that size had it happen.
01:43:53.540Did you have a wound, Tim, in the park?
01:43:57.020Yes, I fell and injured my arm when we were hiking.
01:43:59.500So that's why I went, because, you know, I could feel the bullet get dislodged when I when I when I fell and fell on the arm.
01:44:04.720You could feel the bullet get dislodged and then went to the ER to say, hey, you know, look, you know, I've got internal bleeding going on here.
01:44:56.480And then you had a lot of Navy SEALs come out and say you're the picture of integrity.
01:45:00.680This is such B.S. and that those who are attacking you have defined their post military lives because there's another guy by criticizing the SEAL community.
01:45:09.840So, look, I think the bottom line is like people are trying to figure out what's going to happen with Montana in this race and they're going to look at you on the issues.
01:45:16.840And there is a big delta between you and your opponent.
01:45:20.580One of our main issues here, mine on the show, is whether we're going to allow boys into girls sports, whether we're going to support these Biden revisions to Title IX.
01:45:27.720It seems very clear that your opponent is 100 percent on the wrong side of all of these issues.
01:45:34.840He supported this terrible Equality Act.
01:45:51.500He doesn't stand up for Montana or for common sense policies.
01:45:54.200Whatever Chuck Schumer puts in front of him or the Biden-Harris administration has put in front of him, he rubber stamps, he signs and moves on.
01:46:00.000So it's no surprise he's done that as well.
01:46:02.720And my campaign slogan from the beginning has been common sense.
01:46:05.820Montana's want common sense back from the government.
01:46:08.180They want a secure border, safe streets, cheap gas, cops are good, criminals are bad, boys are boys, girls are girls.
01:46:13.160John Tester has not voted for any of those things.
01:46:15.040As a matter of fact, as you said, you know, he stood up actively supporting letting boys into girls' locker rooms.
01:46:59.400But when you look at actually the bills that matter, when it actually matters, when his vote has been the deciding vote, it's been every single time.
01:47:06.420You know, there's messaging bills and Chuck Schumer is masterful at making sure he architects these messaging bills.
01:47:11.140So whenever possible, he gives these battleground senators an outlet to pretend they're independents and moderates.
01:47:16.240The truth is, every time his votes mattered, it's been a rubber stamp for the Biden-Harris agenda.
01:47:20.600And he's brought us to where we are today.
01:47:22.000So he's almost single handedly responsible for all the bills that Kamala Harris has been the tiebreaker on for the last three and a half years.
01:47:47.800I mean, just like Hugh Hewitt got up and walked off the show on your previous segment, you know, the media wraps such a blanket around this guy, you can never actually get to the truth on it.
01:47:56.820His votes say one thing, and then he either says the exact opposite or refuses to talk about any of it.
01:48:01.880And the Montana media and the national media run interference for him on all these issues.
01:48:05.500They run interference for him on anything and prevent him from having to answer for the votes that he takes.
01:48:10.160So he doesn't say anything about it because that's his magic.
01:48:13.680He goes to D.C. and votes for these policies, then comes home and says nothing unless the media do his work for him.
01:48:18.820And, of course, the hundreds of millions of dollars of dark money that come in the state do the work for him because he can't actually stand up and defend his votes.
01:48:25.020So he lets everyone else do it for him and hides behind 100 million dollars of dark money that keeps him in office.
01:48:30.600Now, what you were saying makes a lot of sense.
01:49:12.960But have you been getting any feedback that that actually is a potential problem for you?
01:49:18.620Listen, it's something that they walk out nationally.
01:49:21.760You know, the whole carpet bag or label.
01:49:23.260They want to label everybody with that because, you know, it's an easy way for them to try to smear the opponent.
01:49:28.600The truth is, I think most Montanans understand that whether you come here, as long as you embody the values that Montana stands for and that Montana believes in, you know, they're ready to vote for you regardless.
01:49:39.360And we have multiple office holders around state that were not born here.
01:49:42.740But, you know, for John Tester, that's been his home base for years, runs back to, well, I've been here three generations.
01:49:47.560Like, OK, well, you know, it's great that your great grandfather came here.
01:49:59.980You know, we chose to make this our home and build our businesses here and have our children here.
01:50:04.280So after 10 years of living here, creating hundreds of jobs here and being a part of the community, you know, we were asked to consider running in this race and we did.
01:50:12.800So I think, you know, those attacks really kind of ring hollow because a lot of Montanans that are now voters here, they weren't born here.
01:50:20.600And they're sick and tired of being told that their vote doesn't count, that their voice doesn't count, and that if you didn't come here, you shouldn't have a say in how things are run.
01:50:27.380And I think it's a dangerous line for the Democrat Party in Montana to keep pushing down because what it does is it really alienates the people who are sick and tired of being told, if your birth certificate was in a different state, you know, I couldn't control where my mother's womb was when I came out of it.
01:50:41.160That's not something I had control over.
01:50:42.880So the fact that it was in a different state, it wasn't something I could control, but I could control where I chose to live and raise my family and build my businesses.
01:50:49.920So, you know, I don't think it's a particularly effective line of attack.
01:50:53.240I think Montanans have shown over and over again.
01:50:54.760They're more focused on the candidate, what the policies they stand for, than they are on where they happen to have been born.
01:51:00.900On your agenda, there's just a couple of other things.
01:51:03.120You've pledged to end the woke social agenda, infecting schools, teach kids how to think, not what to think, and saying it's important to have more choice in our education system.
01:51:25.640I'm very passionate about our founding fathers and how they imagined our constitutional republic to function because, you know, we always throw around these words democracy and, you know, we're a democracy, democracy this, democracy that.
01:51:36.800Well, constitutional republic is actually what our form of government is.
01:51:45.980And one of the things that was key to that is citizen government, people who have life experience, business, you know, soldiers, military fathers, farmers, family men who decide to go to government, bring a fresh perspective from the real world, which is, you know, the Beltway is not the real world.
01:52:00.880It's like an alternate universe that people live in, bring perspectives from the real world to government, make sure that government is acting in a responsive manner to the people, because ultimately it's of the people, by the people, for the people.
01:52:12.940And keeping that fresh blood in our government throughout.
01:52:16.040And I think, you know, me signing on the Term Limits pledge was one more nod in that direction to say, you know, this permanent political class that we started to have in this country where people go there and they stay there literally until they die in office.
01:52:27.780I mean, they'll be there for decades on end.
01:52:29.720I mean, Joe Biden's been running for president for like 40 years now.
01:52:37.480So having fresh blood in there with fresh ideas and also remembering, you know, with the perspective of a citizen that the government works for us, not the other way around.
01:52:47.720The government is accountable to us, not the other way around.
01:52:49.700At least that's the way it's supposed to be.
01:52:51.260So I think having fresh people in government helps maintain or at least bring back that perspective.
01:52:57.760Well, I love the idea of Montanans in general heading to Washington because, you know how they say you got to touch grass to sort of keep your base on like what matters in life.
01:53:06.320If you spend two days in Montana and you've got that in you.
01:53:09.220So whether you were born and raised there or whether you got there in 2014, like I did, too, by the way, you can feel it.