Chad Adams fills in for Pete Kaliner (04-08-2024--Hour3)

[00:00:00] and the WBT staff making it all sound wonderful and it has been an honor or pleasure and appreciate the feedback folks that have texted folks that have written. Thank you much always, always appreciate it. If you would like to call get in have something to say something to share please your right hand.

[00:00:16] 7-045-7011-10, 7-045-7011-10 here at News Talk 11-10 993 WBT. Now when we went to the break I was referencing a Michael Barone piece and it's been a while I mean I read his pieces so I'm going to go back to the beginning of the video.

[00:00:46] I don't know if he's regularly but he was really on point with this one about the board and I'm not trying to belabor the border. I don't and I don't relish in that I don't enjoy that I spent part of my childhood in Del Rio and was there for about

[00:01:00] probably a year and a half or so in my childhood and it's very, very different than it was when I was a child. It was just a beautiful I thought it was an amazing place. I'm a wildlife junkie so road runners and scorpions and

[00:01:17] and hella monsters and horned lizards those things always fascinated me but it and I was bust because I was white so the three next to two next to neighbors I had that were friends. One was Egyptian and one was Asian Hispanic white and we all three got on the same bus

[00:01:35] and we were bust because we were a minority on the border there much more Hispanic which is fine I had moved from Puerto Rico and we were bust because of our skin color background but it wasn't the same it was not a border problem like

[00:01:50] it was a very beautiful place but now it's become just a third world country and it's it's hard to reconcile how badly it's been completely and utterly mangled by the people of there but I digress back to Michael

[00:02:10] and and what he's doing is he's doing what you know a lot of people say oh I know why the Biden they're doing it intentionally they're doing it because they want X and and Barone takes the perspective and what I appreciate about is he takes the perspective that hey I'm not really sure why but maybe it could be these

[00:02:25] things and because it doesn't make sense you know what were they thinking that President Joe Biden the folks who put together his immigration policy imagine the voting public would celebrate policies that worked and resulted in a record high number of migration encounters more than three quarters of a million and the usually low immigration month of October, November, December of last year did they think letting in hundreds of thousands of people would classify preliminarily as asylum seekers and telling them to report for hearings as late as 2031 would go another

[00:02:55] notice by the American public. Did they think that having the government fly illegal immigrants by night into sanctuary cities such as New York and Chicago would go unnoticed? Did they think Republican governors in border states wouldn't launch their own flights of illegal immigrants from Texas to New York City or from Florida to

[00:03:14] Washington.

[00:03:18] So, I'm not sure what you're thinking about about Martha's Vineyard. These are great questions. These are very common sense questions. Even Democrats should be asking these questions and I don't say that in a mean way. I'm just saying if you're a Democrat, quit attacking the other side and think about that issue for a minute and

[00:03:31] just think about this issue because Barone's not asking this out of anger. He's asking that from a contemplative standpoint. Did the Biden administration think that election year pollsters would report that the issue brought up most often by voters would be immigration?

[00:03:45] I must imagine the answer to these questions is no. Politicians do not lightly inflict political damage on themselves and anyone who has experienced them presumably have some memory of the voting public's dissatisfaction with illegal immigrant surges in the 1980s, 90s and up through the household market collapse in 07 and 08.

[00:04:04] That includes Biden homeland security secretary Alejandro Mallorcas should understand the negative political potential of unchecked illegal immigration. So how do you explain this?

[00:04:14] How do you explain? How do you explain it to me Lucy? How do you explain it?

[00:04:20] What explanation proffered by original and sometimes eccentric commentator Michael Lynn is that the Biden Democrats are trying to import better voters.

[00:04:28] That letting in several million more illegal immigrants, no one can be sure just how many will in time make more Democrats because they have loose voter qualification laws or citizens children of illegal immigrants.

[00:04:40] That'll make more Democrats. These, the theory goes will replace the descendants of Ellis Islander immigrants in 1892 through 1924 who fell away from Democrat allegiance in the 70s and 80s.

[00:04:51] The problem is that it's not clear that people of color will turn out as unanimously Democrat as black voters were in the years of Barry Goldwater to Barack Obama.

[00:05:00] There's increasing evidence even in left lane in California that many Hispanic immigrants from 1982 through 2007 and their progeny are Trump Republicans.

[00:05:10] Just as many white ethnics became Reagan Republicans 40 years ago.

[00:05:14] Another explanation is that team Biden was misled by changing attitudes of their fellow Democrat voters that as neighborhood signs say no human is illegal.

[00:05:24] You see that don't you?

[00:05:25] Don't you love when Democrats try to spend no human they're not illegal people.

[00:05:30] If they break the law, they've committed an illegal activity.

[00:05:36] They say I just love when Democrats tried a word parsley.

[00:05:39] No human is illegal since 2007 support for increasing immigration levels has increased from 10 to 40% among Democrats while remaining around 10% among Republicans according to General Social Survey.

[00:05:52] Certainly, though his 50 year political career Biden has not veered far from the prevailing opinion in his party and within the Democrat bubble it's natural to believe overturning any policy associated with Trump is widely popular.

[00:06:04] It's natural to believe as well that sympathetic media will try to cover up any unfavorable news as most media has on illegal immigration during the Biden presidency.

[00:06:13] There's another factor operating here one that helps to explain the increasing opposition to Israel and support for Palestinians amongst Democrats.

[00:06:20] The tendency encouraged for two generations on college campuses to see the world is separated between the oppressed and the oppressors.

[00:06:27] In this paradigm, Trump and his America first followers are seen as the oppressors and people illegally crossing the border are the oppressed.

[00:06:36] They're oppressed they're put down there.

[00:06:38] They're there.

[00:06:39] They're in there.

[00:06:40] The victims.

[00:06:41] And just as oppressors are always vicious, the oppressed are always virtuous.

[00:06:45] They're always good people coming across the word good people.

[00:06:49] Well meaning.

[00:06:50] But it turns out Biden era illegal immigrants come from multiple places often with maligned motives.

[00:06:56] They're ready to pay off Mexican cartels to get a chance to game the system inside the US and there surely been coming in numbers much larger than the Biden policy makers expected.

[00:07:06] The huge number of illegal crossings in late 2023 together with poll numbers had the Biden administration contemplating a reversal.

[00:07:14] But Politico reports that now that's off.

[00:07:17] The plan now is to blame Trump blame the Republicans for opposing legislation.

[00:07:23] We heard that on a caller when I was on last week.

[00:07:26] Donald Trump broke the border.

[00:07:28] A Biden Harris billboard proclaims James Langford had a piece that was largely unpopular.

[00:07:37] See that's an excellent song.

[00:07:39] I've heard that one in years.

[00:07:41] Watching the wheels.

[00:07:42] I did feel like that sometimes you turn on the news and it's like, wait, I just saw the same news broadcast last night.

[00:07:48] Did I?

[00:07:49] Did I just see this?

[00:07:51] Well, wheels are going round and round and it is it is a fascinating time indeed that we live in and.

[00:08:00] So it is and when we were going to the break I was talking about Michael Brown's piece.

[00:08:05] And you had to wonder what were the Democrats thinking when they when the Biden administration decided to reverse like 74 different executive orders related to border security.

[00:08:16] And the Democrats just kind of said, well, we don't want to deal with this issue.

[00:08:20] We're making more Democrat voters.

[00:08:21] What were they thinking and barone to his credit?

[00:08:25] And I think it's a fair thing to do is say, I don't think the Democrats actually envisioned this nightmare unfolding the way it did.

[00:08:33] I mean, anybody could have seen if you were going to open the border, you weren't going to just get Mexicans coming across.

[00:08:39] You weren't just going to get Nicarangans and Honduras and El Salvador.

[00:08:42] You weren't going to get those.

[00:08:43] You knew you had to think it.

[00:08:45] You had to think in a three dimensional way that the cartels saw this as a business opportunity.

[00:08:51] I mean, they've got to get their product across the border to be the multi-billionaire operations.

[00:08:55] They are other countries like Venezuela could say, Hey, you know, I really don't like my prison population.

[00:09:01] It costs me a lot of money when I'm a socialist communist country.

[00:09:04] Why don't I just get rid of them and let the US deal with them?

[00:09:07] You had to think who you got.

[00:09:09] You have to think more than just in a flat way.

[00:09:13] They think, Oh, well, just a couple of Hispanics will come across the border.

[00:09:16] Now then you had to look at, you know, we have 100 plus countries where people have been flown in Chinese nationals are coming across the border.

[00:09:22] African nationals from different countries in Africa are coming across the world.

[00:09:25] It's not just it's not just Central and South America anymore.

[00:09:29] It's a party time.

[00:09:31] So Barone finishes his piece up, you know, the huge numbers of illegal crossings in 23 together with poll numbers had the Biden administration contemplating a policy reversal, but political over says that, you know, it's all for now.

[00:09:45] The plan is now to blame Trump and the House Republicans for opposing any bipartisan legislation.

[00:09:49] That's a thin veneer and that's not translating well for them.

[00:09:53] It's not turning into polls.

[00:09:55] If there's anything Trump is known for, it's denouncing illegal immigration and there was and is nothing to stop Biden from issuing executive orders reversing the day one executive orders that open the floodgates.

[00:10:05] This order works against incumbents and it's hard to see how this disorder produced by Biden's orange mad bad immigration policies will be blamed by anyone but partisan Democrats on Republicans.

[00:10:16] In other words, part of what he's saying the Biden administration refuses to reverse it because it it will make Trump look good.

[00:10:24] So when Democrats blame Republicans for not doing anything, they could instantly do something but they don't want to do it because then it'll make it look like what they did was wrong.

[00:10:33] Meanwhile, the country's getting creamed.

[00:10:35] John, welcome to the show. How the heck are you?

[00:10:40] I'm doing great.

[00:10:42] The Democrats really don't care about whether they get the voters. They know they're going to get some of them anyway, but it's already dramatically impacted our voting.

[00:10:51] The number of House of Representatives is determined by the census.

[00:10:55] The number of electoral votes is determined by the number of House of Representatives plus the senators and that's already dramatically affected it because not illegals, not migrants, whatever you're going to call them these days are counted.

[00:11:10] I don't think you're entirely wrong on that.

[00:11:14] So where do you think this all goes?

[00:11:16] I think it's going to just continue. Who's going to stop it?

[00:11:21] Do you think this translates into a problem for Democrats heading into the fall elections? Because you know if the Biden administration, if they don't...

[00:11:28] I think it translates into a problem but they've got such a numerical advantage because of the number of illegals that are already here.

[00:11:34] Wait till the next census and you see how many more votes a depleted population in California gets above and beyond what they would have gotten without the illegals.

[00:11:46] Well, Barone's point on that was that many of the Hispanics that have moved to this country and ones that have become citizens are overwhelmingly turning away from Democrats and that represents a problem.

[00:12:00] If that trend line were to continue then it would kind of be a push. Would it not for Democrats?

[00:12:05] If that trend line continues, maybe they thought they were going to get a lot out of it but they might not.

[00:12:10] If New York, New Jersey and California get a lot more House of Representatives allotted to them because of the increase in illegal population, that kind of...

[00:12:22] To me that wins out for the Democrats and so it's got to be stopped.

[00:12:27] Yes. I think this is devastating across political lines. I think there are many Democrats that are frustrated with this issue too.

[00:12:34] They may not blame the Biden administration publicly because they have to find cover but I do think they recognize this as a problem, especially in Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, these states, California, Texas.

[00:12:47] I think Democrats are going to have a very difficult time and notice they're trying to avoid this issue like the plague and blaming Trump isn't working for them on that.

[00:12:54] It would be very interesting for someone to put together the electoral votes that each state would have if you did not count illegals.

[00:13:02] I think someone put that up there. Well, the illegals they're saying would add 22 more districts across the country because they count them.

[00:13:09] They have to count them as part of the census so Decadent census would pick that up in the next one and add 22 districts which that's where your math would come in and say Democrats would have a miracle.

[00:13:19] Right. Some of these purple districts would be red.

[00:13:22] Could be. And John, man, I appreciate you listening and being part of the broadcast.

[00:13:26] Thank you.

[00:13:28] So one thing I want to get through Charlotte Animal Care and Control needs your help on Friday, April the 12th, CMPD Animal Care Control will begin another phase of their construction.

[00:13:38] This means they're going to be losing 47 kennels.

[00:13:43] 47 dogs need to be adopted or fostered. Even if you can short term foster for about three weeks, it will save lives.

[00:13:50] Please contact Animal Care and Control or go to 8, 8315 Byron Drive to see how you can help with the current phase of construction starting at Animal Care and Control.

[00:14:02] 47 dogs need to find a space to live. Please help them out short term fostering will save lives.

[00:14:09] They don't deserve to die due to lack of space. Visit Animal Care and Control at 8,315 Byron Drive help save a life.

[00:14:17] So this is WBT is pushing this want to make sure you folks are aware of what's going on out there and with this and again they're just they just are they've got to make more space in the meantime they have to have a place to put these dogs so help them out if you can

[00:14:30] and appreciate WBT stepping in and helping that out.

[00:14:34] Dog lover myself, spay deuterol, please do and take care of your pets.

[00:14:38] Oddly enough just outside my studio where this is taking place the there's a stairway on a porch and it has tiny like a nail hole for lack of a better word and I just noticed when I was looking outside that that projects a perfect image.

[00:14:56] It's just like any solar viewer you would construct. So I've been watching the eclipse progress, you know it is going to progress and I think it peaks here in Charlotte at about began at 154 I think it ends up at 311 is where it'll be peak at about 84%.

[00:15:12] But so as it creeps ever closer you can see kind of the darkening and you can see a perfect image of the eclipse on that this accidental solar viewer.

[00:15:22] So I benefited from the powers of observation and just noticed it was an intricate accident that I have a solar viewer actually there's three of them so I see 344 solar eclipses outside the studio that and I posted it on on Twitter you can see what that looks like but it looks great on

[00:15:39] It looks great on treks. I just thought that was interesting. Now having said that, when we're as we're heading through this election cycle and Democrats and Republic they're going to fight it out you know, you they're going to have to decide do they want to, it's going to be one of three things.

[00:15:57] Well, one of two things really they're going to decide to run on what it is they believe in. I mean you heard from Mark Robinson earlier on this broadcast you heard from Dan Bishop as well.

[00:16:07] They're seeking the office of governor and attorney general respectively.

[00:16:11] And you're going to hear their vision of what they want they're going to talk about the issues they would like to see the issues that they feel are important.

[00:16:19] You heard Dan Bishop talk about law enforcement you heard Mark Robinson talk about education those are going to be the issues they're going to to focus on leadership you heard Mark Robinson talk about lower taxes a pro business environment you heard these things.

[00:16:34] And the Democrats have that choice to they can choose to show you the vision of where they want the country to go where they want the state to go where they want their county commissions to go, whatever the office is they they choose to run for they can do that.

[00:16:48] That's choice number one choice number two is they can just run against the other person and say hey this person if you elect them. They're going to destroy your world they're going to sell your children into slavery they're going to cause every disease known to man.

[00:17:01] They're going to make it so you can't drive your car function or get up in the morning they're going to they're going to be the apocalypse if you elect them.

[00:17:07] And unfortunately we see that far too often where they really do try to bastardize their their political opponents both sides do it, but it is rare to see a campaign really run and then they can't.

[00:17:19] This is the weird part I would say they could, but it it it unfortunately what gets you active is kind of the negative campaign.

[00:17:27] If they believe they're going to come get your children if you believe this can it's going to come get your kids.

[00:17:35] You're going to vote for the other candidate because you like your kids you want to keep your kids.

[00:17:39] But policies do have consequences and I would implore all of you to go through the education.

[00:17:47] Do you think and again I'm going to try to be as objective even though I'm a conservative talk show host.

[00:17:53] The school choice is important to you do you believe that you as a parent should be able to send your kids to a charter school which right now that's the law of the land you can.

[00:18:03] There is the discussion now that Republicans have put forth opportunity scholarships so if you're in an area that doesn't have charter schools or there's no openings that you can have X amount of dollars for your kid because the Constitution says will provide a sound basic education for our children that you could use some of that money to offset the cost of private school.

[00:18:21] And if you want to stop that they would tell you that it's taking money away from public schools but the money goes for the kid.

[00:18:28] So if a whole classroom of kids leave then the capital still goes to the school but the money to educate that kid and the school still keeps part of the money for that kid even though the kids not in school.

[00:18:39] How do you feel you know about the climate stuff I mean that's going to be important how much are you willing to give up would you be willing to have brownouts in your and again doesn't sound like I'm being extreme.

[00:18:50] But if we went to windmills and solar panels and a good deal of your power came from that it only works if the sun is shining and the winds blowing and if not you have to have conventional power so it's going to cost I don't care what your financial situation is your power bill is going to go up a great deal because not only do you have to build the solar panels

[00:19:09] and have to build the windmills you have to build conventional energy whether it's nuclear or coal. You have to build or fission maybe we get to our fusion maybe we get to a fusion generation but you have to build the redundancy in in case the winds not a blow in the sun is not

[00:19:23] it's common sense hard to make that's the problem it's hard to make that argument because liberals just say it's clean energy. There's nothing dangerous in solar panels and windmills they don't do any harm they're perfectly good they don't want to talk about the complex

[00:19:35] and the more complex it gets the easier it is for the left to make the argument to you that was it simple. Therefore whatever they don't care that and the cost is not important to them you never hear them say oh sound basic education but here's how much is going to cost you

[00:19:49] they say we're going to fund a sound basic education. We're going to fund alternate energy we're going to fund the climate change movement we're going to fund whatever it is they don't want to talk Medicare Medicaid expansion your governor Cooper

[00:20:01] we're going to fund a million dollars a day if you're dedicated great 600,000 new people you would think it was free. It's not free were accumulating 1 trillion with a T.

[00:20:15] for doing that to you and your kids and your grandkids.

[00:20:19] If you're 30 years old or older,

[00:20:23] you will likely never see that debt paid off.

[00:20:27] In fact, I would almost posit that nobody living in this country

[00:20:31] right now will ever see that debt eradicated

[00:20:34] until the American public wakes up and says we're unsustainable

[00:20:37] or the entire thing collapses like the house of cards it's becoming.

[00:20:42] Chad Adams here rolling along to the top of the third hour

[00:20:46] as the eclipse darkens things around us.

[00:20:49] No, it's not my attitude nor is it my political perspective.

[00:20:52] I'm shedding light on things even as the sun grows dimmer for a few minutes

[00:20:56] as we peak in the Charlotte area about 11 minutes after three,

[00:21:02] about 83 percent, just over 83 percent.

[00:21:05] I'm looking at it.

[00:21:05] The holes I see the the sun.

[00:21:08] My sister's all high tech up in the Raleigh area and she's like,

[00:21:11] look, they have a camera on it.

[00:21:12] They're looking at it on their computer with a special camera

[00:21:15] that's aimed to say I'm like, you tech geeks, I swear.

[00:21:18] And I consider myself fairly technical.

[00:21:21] Now we were talking about what the Democrats are doing because it's

[00:21:25] the number of it's going it's going to be a crazy election.

[00:21:28] I mean, there's a bunch of conspiracy people

[00:21:30] that think oh, there's going to be a red flag.

[00:21:31] And there's a bunch of conspiracy people.

[00:21:33] Black Swan event. Don't you love these?

[00:21:34] I love I love conspiracies for anyone who follows me.

[00:21:37] I love a guy.

[00:21:39] If you're if you follow me on Twitter out there at chat underscore Adams,

[00:21:42] you'll know love against conspiracy.

[00:21:44] Not a believer in most of them, but I love them.

[00:21:47] And so Black Swan event, red flag event, but also that oh, a virus

[00:21:52] they're going to have to the left's going to construct a virus.

[00:21:54] I don't believe any of those things will happen because I think it would be

[00:21:58] it would be a larger problem for us from a tear the country apart standpoint

[00:22:05] for the left to try to even do that.

[00:22:06] I don't think they'll do that.

[00:22:08] I do believe that it's going there's going to be a lot of

[00:22:13] gamesmanship being done on counting votes and doing that.

[00:22:16] I am concerned, but I do also believe that there's going to be a lot

[00:22:20] of people paying attention on left and right to kind of ensure

[00:22:23] that a lot of shenanigans stuff, there will be questions.

[00:22:26] No matter who wins, there's going to be a lot of questions.

[00:22:29] I don't think the political left would accept a Trump victory,

[00:22:31] just like they had trouble accepting it when Hillary lost.

[00:22:35] I think also if Biden were to prevail, I do not foresee that the

[00:22:40] political right or at least the the the Maga right would would accept that.

[00:22:44] So I don't know how that manifests.

[00:22:46] I don't know how that plays out, but I certainly think it's an issue.

[00:22:49] Meanwhile, the political left is very concerned about the

[00:22:53] electrical college about how can I tell because the state of Nebraska

[00:22:57] has a weird way of counting things.

[00:22:59] So even though the state is reliably read, it it allows an

[00:23:03] electoral electoral vote to go to a congressional seat.

[00:23:07] Maybe it's it's gerrymandered in such a way that the Democrat always wins,

[00:23:11] but they would that just imagine a scenario where it's kind of tied up

[00:23:15] to 69 to 69 and that one congressional seat Nebraska would go

[00:23:20] as opposed to the whole state, which most states do.

[00:23:23] You saw elements of this.

[00:23:24] This is a real clear politics.

[00:23:26] The new leadership of the GOP opted to partner with community activists

[00:23:29] got pressler to increase voter registration, legal ballot harvesting

[00:23:32] and battleground states because the Republicans are catching up here on the game.

[00:23:37] Pressler, the co-founder of Gaze for Trump goes by the handle hashtag

[00:23:40] that persistence on social media and his support for Trump and Maga

[00:23:43] has seen him travel tirelessly in pursuit of every legal Republican vote

[00:23:47] he can find last month.

[00:23:48] He was registering members of the Amish community in Pennsylvania,

[00:23:52] Pennsylvania, very close.

[00:23:53] Charlie Kirk's campaign, however, another activist on the right

[00:23:56] that changed how Nebraska is allocating its six electoral votes

[00:24:00] that brought into sharp focus how this is no longer

[00:24:03] Rona McDaniel's Republican Party.

[00:24:06] Last week, Turning Point USA under Kirk's leadership used his podcast.

[00:24:10] Now think about the transition in messaging

[00:24:13] where podcasts are that big and can get people this active.

[00:24:17] Used his podcast to push for passage of legislation

[00:24:20] that would give all of the state's electoral votes to the statewide winner

[00:24:23] in presidential elections.

[00:24:24] Currently, Nebraska allocates some of its most based on the winner in congressional districts

[00:24:29] allowing Democrat to pick up one elector in the Omaha district

[00:24:33] despite Nebraska being overall solid red.

[00:24:36] Within hours of that proposed change by Charlie Kirk,

[00:24:43] President Trump endorsed it and more importantly

[00:24:45] the Republican governor of Nebraska, Jim Pillon,

[00:24:47] had agreed to sign the bill if it made it to his desk.

[00:24:50] Now think about that, it's just hours.

[00:24:52] Hours later, that social movement picked up enough steam

[00:24:56] but that's not the end of the story.

[00:24:58] Even though Republicans now hold 33 to 16 majority in Nebraska's

[00:25:01] unicameral legislature, the fact that there were only two weeks left

[00:25:04] in the session means that Kirk and his supporters

[00:25:06] had a very narrow window to bring the bill to a vote

[00:25:09] and the effort probably will fail.

[00:25:13] But the issue there is that Democrats are panicking

[00:25:18] because, and I'll read the last two paragraphs of this piece

[00:25:21] I'm much less interested in the fate of the one electoral vote in Nebraska

[00:25:24] than I am in the changing perspective of grassroots Republicans

[00:25:27] who see themselves becoming empowered by people like Pressler and Kirk

[00:25:31] and by the precinct strategy program that's taking leadership

[00:25:34] of the Republican Party away from the old guard.

[00:25:36] I think that's one of the most critical things that needs to happen

[00:25:39] not just nationwide but in the state of North Carolina.

[00:25:41] We have too many Republican counties

[00:25:44] that are becoming like Democrat counties used to be.

[00:25:48] You see this in counties like Brunswick, you see it in counties like Moore.

[00:25:52] You see these reliably Republican counties that become more

[00:25:56] like Democrats every day. They get comfortable.

[00:26:00] They forget that conservative issues matter and they start voting for tax increases,

[00:26:04] fewer property rights, encroaching government and then acting

[00:26:08] as if they're still Republicans.

[00:26:11] And the old guard Republicans defend that it's like, why?

[00:26:14] Because the goal of the GOP is to elect GOP not to stand for anything.

[00:26:18] And that's an inherently dangerous that's what led to

[00:26:21] someone coming down the escalator a few years ago and saying,

[00:26:24] I'm running for president. A guy who reshaped the Manhattan skyline

[00:26:27] who was loved by the political left and many others

[00:26:30] who decided to become a was a Republican or he was a Democrat at one point.

[00:26:33] Then he ran for president and unaffiliated and then now this

[00:26:37] but enough people are upset about the old guard

[00:26:43] and that's what you're seeing with Mitch McConnell's retirement.

[00:26:46] You're going to see it. You're seeing it more and more because grassroots are taking off.

[00:26:49] You're seeing it in the Mark Robinson campaign.

[00:26:52] But because of that, the precinct strategy program and other programs

[00:26:57] Democrats are starting to panic. They're not used to this.

[00:27:00] If they lose their upper hand in recruiting new voters turning out the early vote

[00:27:03] and seizing every opportunity to improve their chances for victory in battleground states,

[00:27:07] then the electoral map could very possibly transform into a landslide victory

[00:27:12] for the Republicans.

[00:27:14] In other words, the Republicans learned. They learned in 2020.

[00:27:18] They learned in 2022.

[00:27:20] They learned the value of one issue voters.

[00:27:23] They learned in 2022 that hey, that situation with with abortion was really detrimental

[00:27:30] and they had no answer for it.

[00:27:32] They didn't go after the kitchen table economics.

[00:27:34] They didn't go aggressively after states rights.

[00:27:37] They chose not to do that and that unfortunately is what cost them a lot.

[00:27:44] So they're not taking anything for granted.

[00:27:46] It's going to be a straight up race. It's going to be a race like you.

[00:27:49] You've never seen every race is kind of that way if you think about it.

[00:27:52] I mean, you wouldn't have thought about Dominion voting systems being a household word.

[00:27:57] We learned in 2020 what dangling chads and pregnant chads were all about.

[00:28:00] Didn't we?

[00:28:01] Every election cycle brings with it this unbelievable challenge for the veracity

[00:28:07] of our in the integrity of well, integrity, veracity kind of the same in this instance,

[00:28:12] our voting system to be the example to the world, to be what we know we can be

[00:28:18] and to be better because we know we can constantly be better.

[00:28:22] Now does that mean we're not we're going to have a lot of hiccups?

[00:28:24] It's going to be ugly but don't give up hope.

[00:28:27] There is a lot of hope for the country and we can be better.

[00:28:30] Now having said that, I do hope you get to enjoy your clips as it moves closer to what will be the,

[00:28:36] I guess the maximum there at 83% here in Charlotte at one fact.

[00:28:41] I actually at 311.