Deep State Moves To Censor Any Question About Voter Fraud In 2024
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The Supreme Court rules that the states do not have the authority to bar a federal candidate from the ballot. This is good news for Trump and the Trump campaign, but it is also bad news for Black Lives Matter, Antifa, and other leftist efforts to delegitimize the Trump administration. Roger Stone and Troy Smith break it all down and explain why this is a victory for President Trump and what it means in the short term and what will happen in the long term if Trump is elected to the White House in 2020. They also discuss what the Supreme Court ruling means for the possibility of an impeachment attempt against President Trump, and what the left will do if he s elected to be sworn in as President in 2020, and why they should be worried about that. The Stone Zone is a show about politics, culture, and pop culture hosted by Republican strategist and political icon Roger Stone. Stone has served as a senior campaign aide to three Republican presidents, and is a New York Times bestselling author and a longtime friend and advisor of President Donald Trump. As an outspoken libertarian, Stone has appeared on thousands of broadcasts, spoken at thousands of public events, and lectured before the prestigious Oxford Political Union and the Cambridge Union Society, and has lectured at countless venues. Roger Stone has been a pop culture icon for over four decades, and he is a prolific writer and has been described as a "pop culture icon." Join us in The Stonezone! and . in the Stone Zone by Roger Stone , The StoneZONE on this episode of The Stonezine ! is a new podcast produced by the legendary conservative strategist and pundit Roger Stone, Roger Stone ( ) and his co-host, Troy Smith ( ) of Slingshot News? ( ) on this week's episode on the latest episode of the Stonezone with his new book, "The Best Seat at the Table, & much more! , out now on the new podcast, on The Best Seat in the House of Sisyphus. , which is out now! on the Hill? on our new podcast on the best thing you need to know about the latest in politics and culture in the world? and much more. in this episode will be out in the next few days! and more on that, coming soon, coming out in a few weeks, coming in 2020!
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The Stone Zone, with legendary Republican strategist and political icon and pundit Roger Stone.
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Stone has served as a senior campaign aide to three Republican presidents.
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He is a New York Times bestselling author and a longtime friend and advisor of President Donald Trump.
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As an outspoken libertarian, Stone has appeared on thousands of broadcasts, spoken at countless venues,
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and lectured before the prestigious Oxford Political Union and the Cambridge Union Society.
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Due to his four-plus decades in the political and cultural arena, Stone has become a pop culture icon.
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Welcome, I'm Roger Stone, and yes, you are back in the Stone Zone.
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The United States Supreme Court voted 9-0 to overrule the Supreme Court of the state of Colorado
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when they barred President Donald Trump from the ballot in that state.
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Here to help me break this and other political stories down is my co-host, Troy Smith.
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Please, Slingshot.News, pardon me, joins us now in the Stone Zone.
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Mark, historic ruling today, and right off the bat, we just want to get your opinion on this.
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I want you to tell America what you're thinking immediately hearing this 9-0 ruling.
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Well, it is good news for Trump and the Trump campaign.
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I mean, I read the 20-page decision very quickly, but basically the court ruled that the states do not have the authority
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Therefore, the states never spoke to the larger question of whether Trump had engaged in insurrection.
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Very specifically, Troy, while this ruling does rule that Trump cannot be barred from the ballot,
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it does not speak to the question of his eligibility to be president.
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Now, we would argue that since he's not been convicted of insurrection anyplace,
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because the 14th Amendment of the Constitution, Article 3, specifically does not regard presidents and vice presidents,
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it speaks to its regulation of officers of the United States,
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which there's a previous Supreme Court decision holding the president and vice president are not officers,
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but it does not speak to the question of his eligibility.
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And indeed, Trump's lawyers didn't argue that, although I think they should have.
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While this is a great victory, and it means that the effort to bar Trump from the ballot in many states
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now collapses, if he is elected, which I believe he will be,
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they will come back and file new litigation claiming that he's ineligible to be sworn in.
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This will be just one of the many efforts in the toolbox that they are now openly speaking about.
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Mary McCord, the woman attorney who seems to be the Forrest Gump
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She was up to her hips in the Russian collusion hoax.
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She surfaces in both of the phony Ukrainian impeachment attempts,
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She then surfaces hip deep in the questions about the legitimacy of the last election.
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And now they're openly talking about stripping President Donald Trump,
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should he be elected, of his control, civilian control of the military.
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That's so when this election is won by Donald Trump and Black Lives Matter and Antifa start
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burning down past half the country, they would like to withhold from Donald Trump the ability
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We're going to be talking about that this week a lot here on The Stone Zone.
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Well, Roger, and I think the most surprising part to me was that we had a 9-0 ruling.
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And if you listen to the people in the mainstream media,
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they were kind of throwing it out there that this was being led by Trump's appointees
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The Trump justices, is what they claim, were leading this effort.
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And a 9-0 ruling puts that completely to bed, Roger, does it not?
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No, look, I think we all understand that Norm Eisen and his organization, Crew,
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which is not about ethics but about being against Donald Trump,
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fostered all of these legal efforts in the various states.
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Those who file them actually should be sanctioned.
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Even there, the state Supreme Court said, no, the state could not bar Trump from the ballot.
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But I also think that you're half right, where the left has really gone crazy,
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accusing the Supreme Court justices of being partisans, is in agreeing to hear the immunity question,
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Now, what's interesting about leftists is they love the federal judiciary.
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They love all federal judges as long as those judges rule the way they want them to.
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But when any judge rules contrary to what they think, that judge is unqualified.
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They like judges who are really, might as well be members of the prosecution.
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Those are the kind of judges they like, the kind of judges you get in liberal enclaves like D.C. and New York.
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So just the fact that the Supreme Court decided to hear the issue of immunity,
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that is immediately blamed on the Trump justices for agreeing to even hear that question.
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I still don't think there is, by any means, any guarantee that the U.S. Supreme Court is going to rule for Trump on the immunity question.
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My guess is if they ruled on the basis of the law, they would.
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But as we saw in the federal, the judicial decisions surrounding Nixon and executive privilege,
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because of the atmosphere in the country, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed 200 years of precedent regarding executive privilege
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to rule that Richard Nixon's tapes could be released.
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So you have the same hysteria in the country today, this same Trump derangement syndrome.
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I would not make any bets on what the U.S. Supreme Court is going to do on any issue.
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On the other hand, I would hope that Trump's lawyer will make a better presentation than he made to the appeals court,
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because the question of whether Trump, as president, could order SEAL Team 6 to assassinate his political opponent
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and then have them assassinate any senator who wanted to impeach and convict him,
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he would not have immunity for that because it falls outside his responsibilities as president.
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It's a ludicrous, hypothetical question that his lawyer answered, I think, incorrectly.
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His lawyer said that his answer was a qualified yes, that he would have immunity for such an act.
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Well, Roger, you highlighted something in one of your first responses there,
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where this ruling sets up something where they could take away power from Trump.
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And I think there's an effort across the country where the establishment almost seems like they know that Trump's going to win.
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They almost seem like they feel that Trump is going to win, and they're setting the deck.
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So just in case that happens, maybe we could call it a Peter Strzok insurance policy.
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Just in case that happens, they're going to have mechanisms available to them to squash dissent, to squash support for the president.
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And that was most evident in a show that we had last week with Greg Stentrum.
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I hope people go check that out. Just a brilliant, brilliant guy.
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But he was talking about Pennsylvania and Gettysburg.
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And we actually saw news this weekend that we talked about a little bit,
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that there is actually a partnership going on in Pennsylvania,
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where they're going to be coming after people who question elections and spread, quote, election misinformation.
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And they're partnering here with several government agencies.
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I'd like you to talk about that for a second, because it seems like, like you said, a setup for the next election.
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First of all, I think it's very important to establish that Greg Stentrum and Leah Hoops,
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in that Delaware County Pennsylvania litigation,
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absolutely established as an undisputable fact in court that there was corruption in the Pennsylvania election.
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So I think this is why Governor Josh Shapiro, a dedicated leftist,
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has announced last week that the state would partner with state and federal agencies,
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including Homeland Security and the Cyber Security Infrastructure Security Agency,
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to essentially censor any speech that is regarding the integrity and safety and honesty of elections.
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This is unconstitutional, but they need to be challenged.
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This is one of the most chilling things I have ever seen,
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which means you would deny people their First Amendment rights to question election results.
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The judge, the courts have now recognized our evidence last week,
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and therefore, I think his actions are unconstitutional and they need to be challenged.
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On the other hand, good luck suing Homeland Security.
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You may remember I had Dr. Robert Steinberg on, who's an expert,
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who's an expert on Google's manipulation of information in an election year.
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So, just as they seek to recycle the Russia, Russia, Russia fraud, that hoax,
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they will also try to reiterate that level of censorship they had in the 2020 election.
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Remember, Donald Trump was barred from the ballot in that election.
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His supporters, pardon me, barred from the Internet, barred from Twitter in that election.
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His supporters were barred from many social media platforms.
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They're seeking to reassert their control over all public discourse
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so that no one can raise the question of the legitimacy of the elections.
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and I think the ultimate goal here is that they want people in power to be able to silence the American people.
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And that's just, like you said, it's so blatantly unconstitutional.
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It's so unconstitutional that you wouldn't be able to question something.
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And, you know, conflation is a big part of this, Roger,
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because they love to take two pieces that really have nothing to do with each other
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and conflate them so the American people that aren't paying attention to the news cycle,
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And I also think deception is a big part of this.
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They want to make it seem like they are trying to prevent some kind of, you know,
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when in reality they're protecting themselves as we've proven that the elections are corrupt.
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They're protecting themselves by squashing dissent,
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and it's just there's nothing more anti-American.
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And speaking of things that are anti-American, Roger,
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Jill Biden, First Lady Jill Biden, was in Tucson, Arizona,
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and she was shouted down by a protester who came into where she was speaking there in Tucson,
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Joe Biden on the issue of Ukraine, on the issue of the Middle East,
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is plummeting with approval ratings in his own party.
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The people of the Democrat Party look at his handling of Israel and Hamas,
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He's shed nine points of support within his own party since November.
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And that's kind of flaring up every time they go into public.
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So let's play the video so you can see this, Roger,
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Jill, when are you in the best you're going to call for a free trial?
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Troy, this is a serious schism in the Democratic Party coalition.
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This is because Joe Biden seeks to have it both ways.
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In other words, while his administration is ostensibly supporting Israel,
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it's also funneling hundreds of billions of dollars to Iran.
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That money is used not only to reinvigorate their nuclear weapons development program,
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but they're also continuing to fund both Hamas and Hezbollah,
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So this is a foreign policy that makes no sense to me.
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We are supporting Israel, who we give $1.4 billion a year.
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There's some indications that Biden is seeking to restrain Netanyahu
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in terms of attacks on civilians that are alleged.
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But at the same time, he is trying to have it both ways.
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Muslim Americans, very, very important part of the Democratic voter coalition,
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In the recent Michigan Democratic primary, last time I looked, 15% of voters voted for non-committed.
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In other words, there was no viable challenge to Biden, so they cast their vote for uncommitted.
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That is the block of voters, I tell you, who are not going to vote for Joe Biden in the fall.
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There really is no way for him to resolve this issue, in my opinion.
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but I also think we have to be very careful in terms of looking at public attitudes towards Israel's conduct of their defense.
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It's interesting when you hear voices like Judge Andrew Napolitano, Mike Adams, the health ranger,
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and others beginning to question the tactics of Israel.
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Well, and Roger, I wanted to note here that Jill Biden, a mainstay on your worst-dressed list,
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and I wanted to ask you, what do you think goes through her mind when she put—
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I mean, it's just unbelievable, isn't it, to see what this woman actually wears out in public?
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Look, the entire Biden family is extraordinarily dysfunctional.
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Anyone who tried to follow that hearing last night, last week, pardon me,
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Hunter Biden's excuse for most things was, well, I was high.
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I'm sitting here with my father, and we're going to be very disappointed if you don't send us the money,
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He's now saying, well, he was high and his father was not really there.
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Who knows whether his father was really there or not.
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He continues to get caught in multiple lies regarding his businesses.
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He continues to get caught in multiple lies, as does Joe Biden, about what Biden knew and when he knew it.
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Oh, I never met with any of my son's or my brother's business clients, but we know that he met with many of them.
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So it is that whole, that whole escapade last week was not good news for Joe Biden.
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Biden continues to trail Trump in the national surveys.
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I still think that the hysteria in the media about Biden among Democrats still exists.
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But here's the key tactic, and this is crucial, Troy.
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I saw Peter Baker of the New York Times yesterday saying, Trump confusing Biden and Obama.
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But more precisely, this is an effort to distract from the mental deterioration of Joe Biden.
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Well, we accuse Trump of being, of slipping mentally, even though there's no evidence that that is the case.
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No, actually, it wasn't Donald Trump who couldn't remember his wife's name.
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It was actually Joe Biden who mistook his own sister for his wife.
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So these people have trouble keeping their lies straight.
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What it proves, of course, is that Peter Baker of the New York Times, who is a journalist, is not really a journalist.
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He's really a guy deeply infected with Trump derangement syndrome.
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And they're playing the Biden campaign game, which is to throw shade on Donald Trump's age and his mental acuity when there is no issue there.
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He is, I guarantee you, vital and as sharp as ever.
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Two excellent events this past weekend, one in Virginia.
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Interestingly enough, Virginia state, Trump lost twice, lost in 2016, lost in 2020, now appears he is narrowly ahead there.
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And a victory in Virginia may actually be possible.
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Very good strategic move, I think, for the Trump campaign to go to Virginia, taking the fight to a state that, frankly, they thought would be firmly in their column.
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Well, Roger, and it's important to point out here that we just had a primary last night.
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And if you've watched the mainstream coverage, you actually probably thought that Nikki Haley won something legitimate.
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Because I got to tell you, Roger, I get news alerts from everybody.
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I mean, every source of news you could imagine, because that's my job here.
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And Nikki Haley winning the primary, it might as well have been the Super Bowl.
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Because every single outlet reported on it, they were saying, oh, Nikki Haley's notch is this top-notch primary victory in D.C.
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So I wanted to ask you your opinion, because I took a look at what we were, you know, the D.C. primary results the last couple elections.
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In 2016, Marco Rubio carried the state, or carried the territory, with John Kasich coming in second.
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Obviously, neither of those guys had a chance in the 2016 election, yet they won the D.C. primary in 2016.
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So it kind of highlights what Haley's victory means here.
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But I wanted to get your opinion on the D.C. primary, because it's just unbelievable.
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If you put that chart back up, what you will see is fewer than 5,000 people voted in the entire primary.
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So we're talking about 3,000 people in the District of Columbia.
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The Republican registration in the District of Columbia is certainly in the teens.
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Most of these people work on Capitol Hill or work for some lobby firm.
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So Nikki Haley won the swamp primary, a jurisdiction that has a very small number of delegates and a tiny, minuscule Republican Party, which is rock-ribbed establishment swamp.
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These people are lobbyists or they work on Capitol Hill.
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There are no other large Republican neighborhoods, to say the least.
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So the D.C. primary is essentially meaningless, which is why Donald Trump didn't spend any time or any money on it.
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Well, he's been to D.C. and he knows what that area is like, and he knows what those people are like.
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And I don't think anybody would blame him for not putting any resources in.
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And I would ask Nikki Haley, you know, why does she love to put – she really loves putting her resources into useless races that she can use with the media to kind of hype up her campaign.
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There was, you know, a primary that awarded no delegates.
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I think as we're going forward here, Roger, it's important to highlight that, you know, the mainstream media, Nikki Haley kind of working in concert.
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I wanted to talk about Tulsi Gabbard a little bit here, Roger, because you keep bringing this up and it keeps getting a lot of traction across the media.
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Why are you continuing to talk about Tulsi Gabbard for vice president with so many others here?
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There's a number of candidates that I would be satisfied with.
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And in the end, I'm going to support whoever Donald Trump selects.
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I do think that politics is kind of like chess, meaning the person who controls the center of the board wins the game.
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In all of these national polls, while President Trump is leading, it's very rare that you see him over 50 percent, which for someone who has any experience in reading polls is a crucial milestone.
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So it's clear to me that in order to win, he has to hold his base and he has to win some votes outside of his base.
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Because candidates like Ben Carson, who I like very much, I don't think, for example, get you any votes beyond the votes that you already have.
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You know, frankly, had he not run for president and shown what a weak campaigner he was, his prospects might be better.
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But I also think on the more important issues, he is a neocon who votes more like Lindsey Graham than he does the MAGA Republicans.
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I also don't I also question whether at his age and with his experience, he is ready to be president.
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I think, for example, that the governor of South Dakota, Christy Noem, brings you West Virginia, a state that you're going to, pardon me, brings you South Dakota, pardon me, a state you're going to win anyway.
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Also question whether she has the depth to be president.
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So, yes, I admit that I'm intrigued by the Tulsi Gabbard question for several reasons.
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One, she is a combat veteran in both Iraq and Kuwait, served her country with distinction.
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She's currently a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve.
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She has radically, I think several years ago, changed her position on guns.
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So in that sense, she's a non-interventionist like Trump.
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No, but I do think that she has an appeal to women and to millennials.
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We are gaining rapidly among Hispanic-Americans.
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But the one area where we have not made any game, when I say we, meaning Trump, is among women.
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It's about the same as it was in 2016 and 2020.
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So, yes, a lot of people on social media are kicking me in the shins on this, saying no, no, no.
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All I'm saying is I'm intrigued by the possibilities.
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I understand she has an upcoming interview with Tucker Carlson.
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Here's a short clip of remarks I made on this to a local group.
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You want somebody who's maybe run for president before.
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That would be someone like Dr. Ben Carson, who I like, but it's hard for me to see how
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he would win you any votes you don't already have.
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Or somebody else who's run for president, Tulsi Gabbard.
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She's a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve.
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She is a former Democrat, former Democrat member of Congress.
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She is a strong proponent of the Second Amendment.
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I interviewed her yesterday for my WAPC New York radio show.
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She was in a shooting range in a shooting contest.
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You could hear the shooting going on behind her.
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I do think that she's had the same kind of political evolution we've seen previously.
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What my friends say to me, but she was a Democrat.
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On the larger questions of war and peace, she has stood up to the war machine.
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On the larger question of this weaponization of our criminal justice system,
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which they seek to destroy Donald Trump, to lock him up, to steal his wealth,
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Yet, and I think she has an appeal to millennials, to younger voters.
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So I would take some guff for this, but I actually think if you want somebody who's
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run for president before, has the qualifications, and would carry out the Trump agenda,
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I'm waiting for Donald Trump to choose, and then I'm for whoever he is for.
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So anyway, you can see I have amazing consistency.
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I would raise only one other point, and it's a key one.
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We've already seen Tulsi Gabbard take Kamala Harris to the cleaners in a presidential debate.
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I would have absolute confidence on her ability to do that again.
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If you have a heart problem, go see a cardiologist.
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But for general promotion of heart health, as well as a healthy cardiovascular system,
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Now that we're done with that little piece of housekeeping, let us move to our guest.
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There's an important primary coming up in Texas,
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and Brandon Gill is a candidate for Congress in that contest.
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He is running in the 26th Congressional District of Texas, and he joins us now.
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Very, very excited to have you, and I'm glad that we could get this in before the all-important vote.
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Off the bat here, how do you feel about the upcoming primary election?
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I mean, I think that I'm the frontrunner, and that's why the Swamp's coming after me really, really hard.
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They don't want a Trump-endorsed candidate winning in Texas 26th.
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They don't want somebody who has been endorsed by Senator Cruz or the Freedom Caucus,
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$2 million in D.C. Swamp Super PAC money dumped against me,
00:30:42.780
all in attack ads trying to take me out, not trying to prop up any other candidate,
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not trying to knock any other candidate, just to take me out.
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And for perspective, this is before we're even in a runoff.
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I'm in an 11-person field right now, and they picked me to knock me out.
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I think they're coming after me because I'm the frontrunner,
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and I'm the Freedom Caucus guy, and I'm the Trump guy, and I'm proud to be that.
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But I don't think the people of Texas 26th are buying the lies that they're dumping into this district.
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So we're feeling very, very strong going into Election Day tomorrow.
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But you have a very impressive academic background.
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You attended Dartmouth College and graduated cum laude with degrees in economics and history,
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I would have to imagine in Texas that the number one issue that people want to talk to you about is immigration, no?
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I would go so far as to say that that is the only issue right now is the border.
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And what the people of my district want is they want somebody who not only wants to secure the border,
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not only wants to reform our asylum laws, bring back Remain in Mexico,
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but somebody who wants to fight right alongside President Trump to go a step further
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and to say we've got to deport every single illegal alien Joe Biden brought into this country.
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That's something that President Trump is strong on.
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His immigration policy has come out, or at least parts of it,
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I plan on helping President Trump every single step of the way in doing this
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if we don't wake up and realize that the Democrats are intentionally flooding this country
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with illegal aliens so that they can create a class of people
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who they believe will vote Democrat perpetually,
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if we don't wake up and realize that the Democrats are flooding this country with illegal aliens
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to create a crisis of drugs and crime that big government can step in to solve,
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if we don't wake up and realize what they're doing to this country,
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But President Trump has been a leader on illegal immigration
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and fighting back against what the left is doing.
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And I'll be with him every step of the way, and the swamp doesn't like that.
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What specific steps would you take to seal our border?
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Well, the first thing, Congress has the power of the purse.
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And what we saw in President Trump's first term is Congress didn't have his back.
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They were fighting back against President Trump every single time
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he wanted to get something meaningful done, especially on the border.
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So we've got to provide funding for the border wall.
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We've got to provide funding for border patrol.
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We've got to bring back and stand with President Trump as he brings back Remain in Mexico.
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And I think that we need to codify some of these policies in a much more durable way.
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And we've got to have Congress behind President Trump to do that.
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We've got to have a Congress who's going to be behind him whenever he starts deporting illegal aliens.
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Because you know, as soon as President Trump does that, the Democrats are going to throw
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And we've got to have Republicans in Congress with some backbone to stand with him.
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I think you're exactly right about bringing back his Remain in Mexico policy,
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getting rid of the current catch and release policies.
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I mean, this is kind of a softball question, but your opinion on the recent Schumer-Lankford
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border security bill, which really should have been called the Schumer-Lankford open borders bill.
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It's funny to watch the Democrats pretend that passage of this bill would solve all problems
00:34:56.880
at the border when, in fact, that bill essentially guaranteed up to 2 million illegals would be
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That's about 155,000 a month to just under 2 million a year.
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Yet they dress that up and try to tell us, oh, no, that's the panacea.
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And by the way, here's several billion for Israel.
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But one thing that I'll say is we're oftentimes told by either the left or by the establishment
00:35:39.040
rhino squishes that if we want to get anything done, if we want to push the ball forward in
00:35:44.800
conservative policy, what we have to do is we have to go to the negotiating table and negotiate
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with Democrats, with the people who hate us, with our political enemies, to get anything
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But the reality is, and I think that this is a really, really good example on the border
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here, you don't negotiate with people who operate in bad faith.
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The Democrats, the left, doesn't want secure borders.
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They're creating a border crisis so that they can use a weaponized government to solve it,
00:36:18.540
to rig elections, essentially, by flooding the country with Democrat voters.
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That's a party who's trying to destroy this country, who's trying to rip our social fabric
00:36:35.100
We don't negotiate with these people like Langford did.
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We need to beat them and drive them out of political life.
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And that should be how we operate against the Democrats.
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So not only was that bill terrible and that negotiation or whatever you want to call it,
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but we shouldn't even be sitting at the table with the Democrats.
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We should be trying to beat them this November and secure the border.
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And if we can do that without any Democrats helping us, then we should do it.
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So would it be fair to say, Brendan, that the economy is probably the second greatest issue
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I think the economy, and I think that, you know, one other thing you hear about a lot
00:37:21.920
You know, people can see what's happening to President Trump every single day.
00:37:34.700
There are two different classes of people in the United States right now.
00:37:38.540
There's the political class, the political elites, who are not elite because they've done
00:37:43.740
anything well, not elite because they've been successful in any way.
00:37:47.500
They're elite because they're close to the federal government in Washington.
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And then there's everybody else, all of us, the working class.
00:37:54.960
In the working class, the masses of American people are hurting badly right now.
00:38:01.300
Now, the political elites, they're doing great.
00:38:07.680
They love to see Washington tearing our economy down.
00:38:15.880
And that's, you know, Texas 26 wants somebody who's going to reverse Bidenomics, who's going
00:38:21.500
to fight inflation by cutting spending, and they want somebody who's actually going to
00:38:25.500
be responsible in Washington with taxpayer money.
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And people are sick of Joe Biden and the White House.
00:38:35.620
Yeah, it's very interesting the way this administration basically jiggers the numbers to try to persuade
00:38:43.640
So sure, unemployment is 3.4 percent if you merely deduct the 757,000 people who stopped
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Or you could even make it lower if you took out the 2 million people who stopped looking
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to work for work over the last year, the prior year.
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So these numbers are essentially artificially manipulated.
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Now you add in what they call seasonal adjustments, whatever that means.
00:39:15.220
The truth is, of the 130,000 new jobs they claim that they created last month, 900,000 of
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The number of hours worked for the average American has dropped to an all-time low of 34.4
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hours a week, which means people are taking home less money.
00:39:38.500
If Bidenomics was the roaring success that Joe Biden insists it is, it would be reflected
00:39:47.300
I don't believe consumer confidence numbers that I see, just because anecdotally, I don't
00:39:53.780
talk to anyone who's confident about the future of the economy.
00:40:01.440
Well, the stock market is driven by the seven largest tech stocks, and they are indeed doing
00:40:10.840
And although gross national product is up, gross national income has been flat since Joe
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I went to a supermarket recently to buy a steak.
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But it still cost 18 bucks, and it blew my mind.
00:40:44.520
Troy, do you have a question for this distinguished member, this distinguished candidate for Congress?
00:40:53.220
We've seen reports that there are millions of dollars currently being funneled into Texas
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by George Soros in an attempt to flip the state blue.
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And how are you planning to combat that in the general election?
00:41:06.520
We're seeing that right in our district right now, actually.
00:41:10.500
As I mentioned earlier, there's been $2 million that's been dumped into this race entirely
00:41:24.180
$2 million spent trying to knock me out, not to support any other candidate or to attack
00:41:32.880
And what's really interesting about this is George Soros made a big deal about trying
00:41:42.020
And two days after he made those statements and set up some super PACs, some other super
00:41:46.760
PACs were created that have been spending all of this money against me in this race.
00:41:51.200
So it's potentially Soros-linked money coming after me.
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It's, you know, I think it's never-Trumper money coming after me.
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This is, you know, in other words, this is the DC swamp that's trying to take me out.
00:42:05.940
For reference, this was probably a $1.5 million race prior to this.
00:42:10.700
It's now about a $4.5 million race, just to give you a sense of the scale of the kind
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of money that's being dumped into attack ads against me.
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But the people of Texas 26 can see through this stuff.
00:42:33.500
They're saying that I am against law enforcement.
00:42:37.240
And what's funny is they're saying that because last fall, I was the executive producer of a
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movie called Police State, which traces how the federal government, and in particular,
00:42:47.340
the FBI, has been weaponized against conservatives and Christians.
00:42:51.260
And since the beginning of my campaign, I've said that I believe we should be defunding the
00:42:58.140
And they've taken that and warped it and lied about it and said that I want to defund the
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It's a flagrant, I mean, just bald-faced lies about me that they're spreading here.
00:43:09.620
Now, again, whether this is Soros or never Trump or money, they've got a lot of money
00:43:18.480
I don't think that they're going to flip Texas blue.
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We're feeling really good going into election day tomorrow because people can see that whenever
00:43:26.480
you're the Trump-endorsed candidate, whenever you're the Senator Cruz-endorsed candidate,
00:43:30.280
whenever you're the guy who's been saying since day one that I'll be in the Freedom
00:43:34.520
Caucus as soon as I get elected to Washington, most people realize that the swamp is going
00:43:41.480
Because the last thing that the swamp wants in Washington is another representative who's
00:43:46.180
going to be pro-Trump, who's going to defend Trump and help enact his agenda, and who's
00:43:50.260
going to be a member of the Freedom Caucus and fight for conservative values.
00:43:54.180
What the swamp wants is a squish, and that's not me.
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I mean, this race right now, it's we the people versus the establishment.
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And that's what we're seeing come into this district.
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Yeah, for those who have not seen the movie Police State, it is a powerful, important film.
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There is one particular scene in which the FBI raids the home, in this case of a pro-life
00:44:31.720
This scene was so upsetting to my wife, given our own personal experience.
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She actually had to go to the ladies' room at Mar-a-Lago during the premiere when she
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That's how disturbing it is to see this abuse of civil liberties and the authoritarian state
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So we have not seen Dinesh D'Souza's amazing documentary, Police State.
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To say that because you want to defund the rogue elements of the FBI, who seem to have
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no regard for civil liberties or the law, that does not extrapolate to opposition to
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When you look at the donors to these various independent expenditures, I guess, that are
00:45:28.820
attacking you but supporting no candidate, how curious.
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This seems to be, you know, there seems to be some link to Soros, but it also seems to
00:45:45.060
These are the guys who want to get anybody but Trump, anybody but Trump-aligned candidates.
00:45:50.760
And, I mean, we can see Nikki Haley's dead in the water.
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The only support she's getting is directly from the swamp right now.
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Nobody else outside of D.C. wants her as the Republican nominee.
00:46:05.020
So I think that the never Trumpers have some money to spend.
00:46:07.820
They know that their candidate's dead in the water, so they're trying to knock out Trump-aligned
00:46:15.820
I think they've spent more money in my race than we've seen anywhere else.
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These are the establishment people, establishment Republicans who are just on their last breath
00:46:27.800
because they know and we know that today's Republican Party is MAGA.
00:46:34.020
Donald Trump is the leader of the Republican Party.
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And there's absolutely nothing they can do to stop it.
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It doesn't matter how many millions of dollars they spend in my race or anywhere else.
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Yeah, early voting has begun in Texas, if I'm not incorrect.
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It has ended, and now we've got Election Day tomorrow.
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So March 5th, get out there, vote for Brandon Gill, fight the swamp, tell them you don't buy
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their lies, and let's swing back hard at them tomorrow.
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All right, we're going to put up your website address because, well, running a campaign for
00:47:22.300
Congress, folks, costs money, costs a lot of money.
00:47:27.500
Brandon Gill cannot depend on any George Soros type of billionaire writing a multi-million
00:47:35.280
He's got to raise money the old-fashioned way in small and medium-sized contributions.
00:47:39.840
So, folks, please go to BrandonGillForCongress.com and make a contribution.
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I don't exaggerate when I say this is one of the most important House races in the country.
00:47:56.840
He is a true believer in the America First agenda.
00:47:59.920
He is someone who wants to make America great again.
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He has the strong and enthusiastic endorsement of President Donald Trump, which in any Republican
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primary is probably the greatest single, not only honor, but asset that you can have.
00:48:19.100
Troy, I'm going to let you have the last question, and then, Brandon, I want you to get back out
00:48:24.060
on the street and keep campaigning right up until the time you win tomorrow night.
00:48:30.960
Well, if we do go forward here and we have a situation in Texas where the border is, you
00:48:37.140
know, just collapsing, what would your message be to Texans right now who are just feeling
00:48:47.460
What I would say to them is, first of all, I'm a big supporter of what Governor Abbott has
00:48:51.480
My only criticism of Governor Abbott sending the National Guard down to the border is that
00:48:58.700
I would say that if the federal government's not going to protect us, you need to protect
00:49:05.240
I'm a big supporter of the Second Amendment, and this is the kind of thing that the founders
00:49:09.700
envisioned whenever they rolled out the Second Amendment and the Bill of Rights.
00:49:16.420
We can't always rely on the federal government to protect us.
00:49:20.260
So you need to protect your family, arm yourself, have guns, have food at your house.
00:49:25.820
Be prepared, because at the end of the day, you are responsible for your family.
00:49:31.860
So my advice would be to take every precaution you can, have weapons at your house, have guns,
00:49:38.280
and make sure you can protect yourself and your family.
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Brandon Gill, candidate for Congress in the Republican primary tomorrow in Texas's 26th
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Brandon, we wish you the very best for a smashing America First victory tomorrow night.
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God bless you, and thanks for joining us in the Stone Zone.
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All right, Troy, this is one of the most important house races in the country, and we're hopeful
00:50:13.880
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00:53:23.380
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00:53:59.300
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00:54:02.560
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00:54:13.780
It's the political establishment or it's the good people of this country.
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And we can either make a stand now or we can forget our country.
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And I think it's just we're looking at a precipice here, Roger.
00:54:25.020
We're looking down into this valley and we're seeing what could be or we could ascend.
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If we could continue to build America and empower America and make more Americans and have a better
00:54:34.260
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And it's why it's so important that we keep track of what's going on here,
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because it's really a historic battle for the fate of mankind.
00:54:47.080
An excellent summation from my co-host, Troy Smith.
00:54:58.460
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