Nov. 6, 2025

Elections That Moved the Ground: What 2025’s Results Reveal About America’s Future

Elections That Moved the Ground: What 2025’s Results Reveal About America’s Future
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America just shifted again. From Virginia to New York City, from California’s redistricting battles to Maine’s fight for ballot integrity — the 2025 elections redrew more than maps; they redrew momentum.
In this powerful 2-hour World of Payne special, host Tanner Payne unpacks the meaning behind the results, explores the growing divide between message and delivery, and calls for a conservative revival rooted in principle, not outrage.
This is the election post-mortem the mainstream won’t give you — fiery, factual, and focused on unity through accountability. Plus, an exclusive ValorBuilt Apparel message reminding us what integrity and community still mean in America.

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The dust is still settling, Ballots are still being counted,

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banners are being folded, Cheers are fading into the cold

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November air, And yet beneath the calm, America just shifted again.

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Last night's elections didn't choose a president, they didn't change

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who sits in the Oval office. But make no mistake,

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these results will echo from the State House floors, to

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the halls of Congress, and eventually to sixteen hundred Pennsylvania

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Avenue itself. This was the people's whisper before the nation's

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next roar, and if you listen closely, you could hear

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something very powerful. Americans tired, hopeful, frustrated, divided, trying to

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say we want stability, we want honesty, and we want

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someone who hears us. From Virginia to from New York

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City's skylines, to the California coast and up to the

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forests of Maine. The message of these elections wasn't just

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red or blue. It was about the heartbeat of the

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American middle. Working families struggling under the weight of groceries

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and gas, parents watching taxes climb whilest school standards drip

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and slip, small business owners buried under red tape and

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wondering whether and when the American dream became a survival test.

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And if you're someone like me, a conservative who loves

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this country deeply, but also believes in telling the truth

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when things hurt, even when they sting, and then you know,

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last night was a wake up call, not the kind

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that sends you running for exits, but the kind that

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makes you look in the mirror and ask, what are

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we missing, what are we hearing, what are they hearing

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that we're not saying clearly enough? Because this wasn't a

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blue wave or a red wall. It was something more complicated,

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more American. It was a country adjusting its balance, trying

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to find its footing in an economy that feels like

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quicksand in a culture that's arguing louder than it's listening,

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in in a political system where trust is wearing thin.

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We watched the Democrats sweep both governor races Virginia and

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New Jersey, and they did not They did it not

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by running far left radicals, but by presenting calm, calculated,

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middle of the road voices who promised competence over chaos.

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And in New York City, voters took a bold turn

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electing a young Democrat socialist as mayor, move that will

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test whether radical affordability can survive contact with fiscal reality. Meanwhile,

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in California, the ground rules themselves changed. A ballot measure

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called Proposition fifty quietly tipped three districting scales, giving Democrats

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a structural advantage that could echo for years in the

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fight for Congress and up north. In Maine, voters rejected

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a photo id and absentee voting restriction measure that conservatives

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hoped would tighten election laws. That rejection wasn't just about rules,

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it was about trust. If you zoom out, the map

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tells the story of a party, our party that still

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holds the moral compass, but is losing ground in the

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conversation about everyday life. It's not the America. It's not

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that America turned left. It's not even close. It's that

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America is looking for leaders who sound steady when the

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world feels shaky. So tonight, we're not going to hide

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behind the slogans. We're not gonna shout at the other side.

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We're gonna break this down piece by piece. We'll look

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at why Virginia flip blue again and why New Jersey

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stayed the course, why New York City's experiment could either

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collapse or reshape the urban landscape, and how California's redistricting

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move and Main's vote on access could redefine political power itself.

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We'll talk about what it all means for the twenty

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twenty six midterms and whether Conservatives are ready to meet

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that moment with integrity, vision, and grit. But first, before

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we dive into the races and the numbers, let's look

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at the national pulse, because beneath the polls and the

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precincts lies something more important the peep. You can measure

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politics by polls. You can track donations, TV AD or

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social media impressions, but the real measure, the one that

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matters the most, is the mood of the voter, and

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this year that mood was crystal clear. Americans are exhausted,

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Exhausted from rising prices, exhausted from hearing that everything's fine

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when they're wallets they say otherwise, exhausted for politicians fighting

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each other while nothing seems to change for them. According

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to exit polls and early voter surveys, the one issue

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across the country was no surprise, the cost of living inflation,

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may have cooled on paper, but on the kitchen table,

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it's still burning. Groceries are up twenty four percent since

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twenty twenty one, electric bills are higher, mortgage rates are climbing,

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and the average families emergency savings is that it's lowest

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in nearly a decade. And here's the truth. Both parties

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are being judged not by ideology but credibility. Who do

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people trust to actually fix this mess? Democrats tapped into

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that anxiety. They spoke the language of affordability, of competence,

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of getting things done, even when their solutions leaned towards

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bigger government. Republicans meanwhile, found themselves still fighting over cultural battlegrounds.

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Important ones, yes, but not the ones that were hitting

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people hardest. This fall the result Democrats came across as

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the problem solvers, and the Republicans they came across as

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the fighters. In a time of exhaustion, many voters chose

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the former. But make no mistake, this doesn't mean America

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has fallen out of love with conservative values. Actually, far

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from it. It means that people are demanding that we

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connect with those values to real solutions once again. Because

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if freedom doesn't make life more affordable. If personal responsibility

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doesn't translate into better opportunity than to the average voter,

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it's all just theory, and theories don't pay the rent.

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So as we move through this episode, remember this simple truth.

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The story of last night's elections isn't about who won.

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It's about why they won and what they say about

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the future of the conservative movement. Now, let's go state

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by state. We start in Virginia, a place that has

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mirrored the nation's swing for decades, a place that just

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handed Democrats a trifecta and a blueprint for how they

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plan to campaign in twenty twenty six. But as we'll see,

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that blueprint isn't unbutable, it's just better written for now.

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You know, we've spent the first part of this show

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into it. Let's talk about what happened next on election night,

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because the story that started in Virginia didn't stop there.

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The heart of the American story has always beat the

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loudest in the middle ground. That's why Virginia matters, and

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that's why New Jersey matters. These aren't just states, they're signals.

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When the coasts scream and the heartland steadies. These two places,

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half suburban, half whirl, half fed up, tell us which

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direction the wind is really blowing. And last night that

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wind was complex, cool in tone, but hot in the meaning.

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In Virginia, a state that's flipped more times than a

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coin in the last twenty years, Democrats didn't just win.

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They swept governor, lieutenant governor attorney general, each of them

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all plainted blue. And at the center of it was

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Abigail Spamburger, a woman who, if you believe the headlines,

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became a Democrat new poster child for moderation. Spamberger's win

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wasn't a shock to political insiders. It was the magnitude

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that startled them. This wasn't a squeaker, it was a statement,

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and the statement was clear. Voters were craving calm, competence

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over political chaos. Now, let's break that down, not like pundits,

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but like patriots trying to understand what it means for

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the nation's soul. Spamburger ran on. The message could have

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been written on a kitchen whiteboard. Lower costs, stable energy,

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safe schools, and pragmatism over partisanship, no catchy slogans, no fireworks,

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just political equivalent of comfort food, of soul food. And

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it worked. She flipped independence by nearly twelve points, she

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pulled college educated suburban women by nearly twenty and perhaps

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most telling, she neutralized rural resentment by talking about shared

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burdens instead of party blame. Now, this lady, this, this

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Virginia governorship is one of the things that just kind

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of bugged the hell out of me because you had

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you had Obama come in and he did his typical

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his typical thing. He told it went in there and

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he told, uh, voters of color and those of of

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the urban I mean, get best best place to say

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it is the ones that lived in the ghettos and

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that lived in like lived in the more urban population.

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Pulled his same rhetoric that he pulled with with Kamala

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Harris pretty much told him that if you don't vote

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for Spamberger, you're not black, You're you're not a Democrat,

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and attack and attack their identity, which to a level

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can be productive because if you attack someone's identity, they're

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only gonna do everything they can to reinforce that identity.

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So if that means that they have to vote the

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one way or the other, they're gonna vote one way

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or the other. But how is that right? This is

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my problem with identity politics. If you just attach yourself

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to voting blue or voting red, or you're a Democrat

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or you're a Republican, or you're black or you're white

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or whatever, or you're a union worker, so you're supposed

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to vote Democrats. However, if you attach an identity to

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how you vote in politics instead of what is actually

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beneficial to you and your family, you allow and open

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yourself up to stuff like this where if they can

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attack your identity, they can attack your values, you are

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more likely to reinforce those values and vote one way

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or the other than it is to vote the other way.

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And I feel like that's part of the reason why

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she won is she had you got Barack Obama really

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backing this woman, and he always uses that same strategy.

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He goes and he attacks their identity and makes them

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reinforce that identity. Now her opponent win some earl series

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is no lightweight. She's a marine veteran, a fighter, a

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strong conservative to embodies faith and resilience, but she leaned

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hard into the national narrative, defending Trump, hammering cultural fights,

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and assuming economic frustration alone would carry her over the

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finish line. Instead, voters seem to say, we agree with

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you on values, but we need someone who can actually

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make this system work. Again, that's not a reflection of conservatism.

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It's a warning about delivery. And I feel like that's

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a huge thing that we're having right now. We're having

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an issue with the way that Republicans are delivering stuff.

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They're delivering stuff as a Republican versus Democrat thing instead

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of a way of saying, no, we're on your side,

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we're trying to make things better for you for your family.

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Like that's why Marjorie Taylor Green has has such a

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poll now from the left because she has taken she

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has taken her stance and instead of it being as

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it's us versus them, now it's a I am voting

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for you. And that's the same reason why why there's

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some why there's Republicans who are taking Fetterman's side, because

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he is approaching it from a we need to come

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up with a solution. And that's why Rob stand in

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Iowa is our gubernatorial or governor candidate, one of the

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governor candidates for Iowa. He's really pulling a good following

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because not only is he doing town halls, but he's

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approaching stuff as we have to find a solution to

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make this better for everyone. It's not just for the

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people on the right or for the people on the left.

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It's a find a good solution that works for everyone

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that doesn't cost a taxpayer an arm and a leg.

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Because voters weren't voting against their principles. They were voting

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for predictability. They were voting for solutions. And in a

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time when Washington looks like a shouting match at groceries

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cost more each time you hit the store, predictability suddenly

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looks like leadership. Spamberger understood that her campaign ads didn't

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attack her opponent. They met, they reassured voters. She looked

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straight at the camera and said, I know you're tired,

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I know things feel unstable, but let's fix that. And

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then she did something else, something conservatives used to own.

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She talked like a mom, not a politician. No theatrics,

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no talking points, just steadiness. Now you can't you can't

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tell me as a voter, especially when the whole world

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just seems so turbulent. It's not just in the United States.

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the stuff that's going on overseas, with Israel, with with Europe,

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the United Kingdom. They're on they're on the brink of

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a revolution if they continue down the road that they're going.

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The whole world is just unstable. So for a politician

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to look at a camera to just talk to someone

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like especially in just those lines, just think about this.

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I know you're tired. I know things feel unstable. Let's

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fix that. If someone, if a politician sat down with you,

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was sitting in your living room and they said that,

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how how would that make you feel? You would feel reassured?

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Woun't you hell? That makes me feel reassured. It makes

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me feel good to know that a politician is admitting

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and is saying that, I know you're tired, I know

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things feel unstable. Let's fix that. Because it looks at

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if you just look at those three sentences, she is

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she is acknowledging how you feel, she is acknowledging how

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the world is, and she's telling you that she wants

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to come up with solutions. That's the secret to why

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Democrats have rebuilt strength of Virginia since twenty nineteen. They

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listened before they lecture. They meet fear with empathy, not deflection.

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They make you feel like your voice is being heard,

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even if they're steering you toward bigger government. And now

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I don't want to bring him into it, but this

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is why someone like Charlie Kirk was central to Trump's win.

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I get the people that hate him I heard, I

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have heard every argument of the sun most of them.

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It's because you actually haven't listened to the full like

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his full speeches and stuff. You get these cut up

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and mangled sections where they talk about something that makes

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him sound racist, or makes him sound transphobic, or makes

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him sound homophobic. That's that wasn't it. If you listen

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to him and his speeches is a broad thing, that's

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not That wasn't him, but that is I believe, I

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firmly believe that that is why Trump won this last

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election is because you had people like him doingroots grassroots movements,

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actually talking to voters, actually reaching out and having personable

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conversations with voters. Even if he didn't agree with you,

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he was still going to sit there and talk to you,

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he was still gonna make counterpoints and counter arguments, and

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he did he did what he could to make sure

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that people were going to be civilized about it. And

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I believe that is the That's a big reason why

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he won and why when it came to college campuses

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and stuff, there was such big swings for registered voters

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to go Republican instead a Democrat. Now, as conservatives, we've

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always believed that smaller government means stronger people. But lately

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our message sounds more like fight the left and not

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help the people. And the people have noticed. Let's talk numbers.

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Virginia's turnout was forty seven percent higher than the last

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off year, but below presidential levels. Among voters under forty,

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Democrats gained nine points since the last governor's race. Among independents,

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the Republicans lost six points. Among suburban mothers wants our firewall,

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Democrats now lead sixty to two percent to thirty five and

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those used to be our strong point with suburban mothers.

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That's not just a loss, that's a demographic alarm bell.

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It means when voters think conservative too many think angry

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when they should be thinking accountable. The thing that bugs

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me and I feel like too many and I feel

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like this is the big thing. Especially with Winsome. She

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tried to back Trump too much and too much of

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her platform was based off of everything, and he said

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she didn't come with personable, really connecting points that actually

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hit home with the Virginia voters. I really think she

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would have been a perfect candidate for Virginia, but she

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didn't connect with the voter. It was too much of

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the well she did this well, she did like it

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was too much of attack, attack, attack, and not enough

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of looking at the voter and saying I'm here for you.

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I'm here to listen. I want to hear what your solution,

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what your proposed solution is, and listen to half a dozen,

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a dozen, two dozen people at each stop and say

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I want to hear what your solution is or what

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is your big problem? How can I help? And I

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get that, I get The Republicans platform has always been

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smaller government, so using government resources to help is not

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the Republican's platform, but at least figuring out ways that

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like the government could make laws or figure out ways

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to help these people besides making more bureaucracy and making

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more or making any more issues for the voter themselves.

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That's the platform that we have that for the Republicans

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to win in twenty twenty six midterm elections, we have

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to approach it as how can we help you? Not

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how the Democrats are screwing you over, but how can

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we as Republicans help you stop using this party versus

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party mentality and start saying no longer saying the Democrats

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are screwing you because of this. Democrats are screwing you

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because of that. Democrats this, Democrats that. Because yeah, it

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might get some voters to to say, well, I don't

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want that, so I'm going to vote Republican. But the

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other people, the people that actually are educated voters, might

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actually go and dig into that and say are they

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really doing this? And if it's if they can't find

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definitive proof that the Democrats are doing that, it might

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actually drive them to the other side harder. So we

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have to approach us as how can we help the

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voters get out there and say how can we do this?

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How can how can I help you and approach that.

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It's one of the big things that I keep hearing,

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especially from the people who went to Rob Sands town

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hall in our county. He did, he did, he's doing

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his his ninety nine counties town hall tour. The people

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that actually went. All I've heard is he actually has conversations.

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We need to go back to politicians, especially Republicans, if

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you're gonna win having conversations not arguments. It's I would

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I would like the Republicans to win because I do

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align more with with Republicans and conservative values. But you

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gotta run on solutions, not just pulling more problems out

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of your butt. People already have enough problems at home.

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Some people are worrying about how they're going to put

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food on their plates, or food in their kids' mouths,

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or a roof over their kids' heads. It needs to

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be about how to find solutions and solutions that don't

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pull big government into this. It needs to be solution

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based ads, solution based everything. Don't pile on tell them

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you got it. I don't care right now, I doubt

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that it. Republican candidate is going to listen to this.

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But if you are out there, if you hear this,

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if you are running for any sort of office and

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you are a Republican, you need to get out there

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and tell people how you're going to help them, talk

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with them, try and figure this stuff out with them.

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Don't tell them the other problems that are going to

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be arising from Washington, because that is the worst thing

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you could do right now. People already have enough problems.

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So what happens now in Virginia with full Democratic trifecta

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the next two years, we'll see a legislative push on

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housing affordability, clean energy investments, teacher pay, and likely another

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round of abortion rights abortion rights codification. Every one of

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these policies will become a case study for twenty twenty six.

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If Democrats deliver visible results without chaos, that model will

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spread to other purple states. If they overreach, overspend, or

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over promise, then Virginia becomes our evidence that moderation was

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just a mask for expansion. Either way, it's a proving

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ground and we'd be foolish not to watch it closely

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because this is where the story of twenty twenty six

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really begins. And like I said, like I was just

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talking about, you have to watch these these off year

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elections because it's gonna show you how people are voting

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for one and two, what campaign promises can what campaign

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issues are people really targeting, and I get looking at

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New Jersey and Montana. You're probably not gonna have the

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same campaign issues, but you're gonna have the main foundational

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ones like the economy, housing, and energy prices. Those three

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are usually pretty foundational. And if it's an issue, if

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that's the issue in New Jersey, it's usually the issue

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in Iowa. If that's an issue in Illinois, it's probably

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the same issue that they're seeing out in Portland or

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Idaho or it's those are usually the ones that are

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the big targets. So if they're foundational issues, it's really

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what you're gonna see. And let's talk about New Jersey.

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If Virginia was about competence, New Jersey was about credibility.

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Governor elect Mickey Cheryl is a Democrat, yes, but she's

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also the kind of Democrat that swing voters can stomach.

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A Navy pilot, a prosecutor, a mother. Her campaign slogan

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was steady hands for a strong Future again. Campaign slogan

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that makes someone feel comfortable, and she delivered that message

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with precision. Her opponent, Republican Jack Cidarelli, came in with

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energy and name recognition. He had an endorsement of former

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President Donald Trump, well current President Donald Trump, and the

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backing of conservative donors and the loyalty of the state's

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GOP grassroots. But the same problem we saw in Virginia

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played out again. The Trump brand still excites the base,

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but it no longer expands it. Ciderelli didn't run a

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bad campaign, He just ran an outdated one. He talked

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about lowering taxes, which New Jersey desperately needs, but didn't

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tie it to a bigger story of why the middle

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class feels squeezed. He talked about education freedom, but didn't

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connect with parents frustration about safety and cost. He talked

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about fiscal sanity, but voters wanted emotional sanity. They wanted

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reassurance that their governor wouldn't make the nightly news for

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all the wrong reasons. New Jersey voters are pragmatic. They

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complain about taxes, sure, but they'll still pay them if

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they believe that they're getting stability and safety in return.

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That's the trade that they made last night. They chose

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the steady hand over the passionate voice, and that choice

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had national implications, because between Virginia and New Jersey, Democrats

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now have a new national playbook, center left women with

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security backgrounds, talking middle class economics and framing themselves as

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grown ups in the room. That's not radical, that's tactical genius,

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and Republicans would be wise to learn from it and

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not mock it. Because here's what this means heading towards

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twenty twenty six. If the GOP keeps nominating candidates message

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is all about fire and no focus, Democrats will keep

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winning by sounding calm while quietly moving policy leftward. Now

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here's my issue with this, and this is kind of

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what I was talking about earlier. I don't believe that

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this progressive politics of center left women is going to

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be able to work in every single state. But the

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talking middle class economics, talking the humility, and talking the

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humbleness where they actually talk with the voters and to

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the voters is something completely lacking from the Republican Party.

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Right now, You've got these people that are in Washington,

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You've got Speaker Mike Johnson coming out, and it's constantly like,

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this is what the Democrats are doing. This is what

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the Democrats are doing. But where is our solution? The

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Republican Party, especially in campaigns lately, has because honestly, on

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a national stage. Every time Mike Johnson goes up there,

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he's not just campaigning for himself and for his case

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to open up the government. He is campaigning for the

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whole Republican Party. So by him stepping up there and

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saying all the Democrats are doing this, the Democrats are

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doing that, he's doing nothing to help the party politics whatsoever.

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We need to go back to figuring out implications of

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their bill on the middle class and lower class. And

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don't just say the bill costs us much money. If

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you really want to break it down, you really want

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to talk to them. Okay, you're talking one point seventy

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five trillion dollars, how many work? Look at how many

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working Americans are out there now, you tell you, look

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at it and figure it up what the normal pay,

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what the average pay is, and then look at how

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many hours each person in this country who is a

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working American has to work to be able to pay

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for their bill. And just and you because you have

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to hit home with this. You have to hit home

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with these issues. You can't just blame the other party.

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It's time to hit home with these issues if you want,

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if you want to win any races in twenty twenty six.

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We have to start hitting home with these issues and

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provide stability. Trump going out there and smack and tariffs

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all over the place is not providing any stability. If

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I was Trump, I'd be working hard on making sure

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that their stability within our economy, stability within our government

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for the next year. And then if he goes on

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any campaign trailer, any or is endorsing any candidate, it

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takes away the Democrat parties push of instability. Look deeper

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and you will see a pattern across both states that

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tell the story of modern politics. Voters didn't swing left,

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they shrunk towards center. They want fiscal realism, local problem solving,

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and less theater. They're not about They're not asking for socialism,

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They're begging for sanity. This this is just in these

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two states. We'll get the mom Donnie later. Just that

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that is. That is just for these two states, and

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that's where where we are as conservatives. We can win

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again if we introduce America to what conservativesm really means,

465
00:35:28.039 --> 00:35:33.239
not chaos, not outrage, but order, accountability, and empowerment. That's

466
00:35:33.280 --> 00:35:37.960
the message Ragging carried. It's the one Eisenhower embodied and

467
00:35:38.000 --> 00:35:41.239
it's the one that we lost when politics turned into

468
00:35:41.239 --> 00:35:46.159
a performance. These elections remind us that the stage may

469
00:35:46.199 --> 00:35:49.079
have changed, but the audience still wants the same thing,

470
00:35:49.400 --> 00:35:53.760
a government that remembers who it serves. Like I said,

471
00:35:54.000 --> 00:35:57.880
we have to as a party, if we're gonna if

472
00:35:58.159 --> 00:36:00.760
if we're gonna continue down this road, we have to

473
00:36:00.800 --> 00:36:05.239
target these problems and target any campaigning as how is

474
00:36:05.280 --> 00:36:09.400
it going to affect the middle class, How is it

475
00:36:09.400 --> 00:36:14.000
going to affect the lower the lower class, How is

476
00:36:14.000 --> 00:36:15.920
it going to affect the people who are actually voting,

477
00:36:15.920 --> 00:36:21.039
who are actually hitting the button on the pole or circling,

478
00:36:21.239 --> 00:36:25.079
putting a circle in the little dot. We have to

479
00:36:25.119 --> 00:36:28.239
be doing this. We have to be connecting it back

480
00:36:28.280 --> 00:36:31.000
home so it hits home with these with the people,

481
00:36:31.800 --> 00:36:34.440
and don't just bring the problems. There has to be

482
00:36:34.480 --> 00:36:38.039
solutions with it. And that's one thing that I don't

483
00:36:38.079 --> 00:36:41.400
like about Rob sand He has the conversations, but if

484
00:36:41.400 --> 00:36:44.800
you talked, if you try to find any solutions that

485
00:36:44.840 --> 00:36:52.320
he brings up, I can't find him anywhere. These elections

486
00:36:52.360 --> 00:36:56.760
remind us that the stage have changed, but we can

487
00:36:56.840 --> 00:37:02.360
still make this work. Virginia, New Jersey are telling us

488
00:37:02.400 --> 00:37:05.599
something powerful. If we listen, we'll hear it. If we

489
00:37:05.679 --> 00:37:08.559
ignore it, we'll lose again in twenty twenty six. But

490
00:37:09.039 --> 00:37:12.519
if we adapt, if we can blend conviction with composure

491
00:37:12.840 --> 00:37:16.400
and passion with purpose, we can turn these defeats into

492
00:37:16.679 --> 00:37:22.320
blueprints for revival. Because under all the headlines, these weren't

493
00:37:22.440 --> 00:37:28.239
Democrat victories. They were lessons in message discipline, and the

494
00:37:28.280 --> 00:37:35.559
movement that learns fastest always wins. Next. Now, as the

495
00:37:35.599 --> 00:37:39.119
camera's cooled and Richmond and trenton another stage, load up

496
00:37:39.519 --> 00:37:44.440
the one no one thought would go red, blue, or

497
00:37:44.480 --> 00:37:48.679
anything in between. New York City, the beating heart of

498
00:37:48.719 --> 00:37:54.559
America's ambition, just chose a Democratic socialist as its next mayor,

499
00:37:55.320 --> 00:37:58.079
And whether you love or hate that sentence, you can't

500
00:37:58.119 --> 00:38:01.199
deny what it means for the direction in urban America.

501
00:38:01.320 --> 00:38:04.079
So let's go there. Let's talk about the bold experiment

502
00:38:04.360 --> 00:38:06.679
that just began in the largest city in the nation

503
00:38:07.320 --> 00:38:11.679
and why it could either explode or redefine politics for

504
00:38:11.719 --> 00:38:14.760
a generation. The lights never really go out in New

505
00:38:14.840 --> 00:38:19.199
York City, They just flicker between eras, and last night

506
00:38:19.880 --> 00:38:22.840
those lights burned a little redder, a little greener, and

507
00:38:22.920 --> 00:38:27.320
a little different. Because the financial capital of the world,

508
00:38:27.519 --> 00:38:31.559
the place that built Wall Street, Broadway, and more headlines

509
00:38:31.599 --> 00:38:35.559
than any other square mile of American soil. Voters had

510
00:38:35.559 --> 00:38:39.840
just handed the keys to a Democratic socialist. The New

511
00:38:39.920 --> 00:38:42.360
York experiment is what they're like going to call it.

512
00:38:43.760 --> 00:38:53.480
Zoran Mandami, thirty four years old, Queen's assembly Man, son

513
00:38:53.519 --> 00:38:57.920
of immigrants, member of the Democratic Socialists of America, now

514
00:38:59.119 --> 00:39:01.639
the mayor of New York's city. He ran on four

515
00:39:01.679 --> 00:39:06.840
words that cut straight through the Manhattan Marble. Lower the

516
00:39:06.880 --> 00:39:11.400
cost of living, rent freezes, city run groceries, free buses,

517
00:39:11.639 --> 00:39:15.320
public housing expansion, a higher minimum wage, and taxes on

518
00:39:15.360 --> 00:39:18.079
the wealthy to be able to fund it all. It

519
00:39:18.159 --> 00:39:21.639
was a message that turned the city's old political machine

520
00:39:21.880 --> 00:39:25.280
on its head. While the moderates talked about managing growth,

521
00:39:25.519 --> 00:39:29.159
Mamdani talked about changing the system that decides who gets

522
00:39:29.239 --> 00:39:32.599
to grow at all. Let's be clear, New York didn't

523
00:39:32.599 --> 00:39:36.119
suddenly turn socialists overnight, but a majority of its voters

524
00:39:36.119 --> 00:39:40.159
decided that the city's capitalist engine wasn't delivering them any

525
00:39:40.199 --> 00:39:43.920
seats in the car. So they're testing a new driver,

526
00:39:45.360 --> 00:39:49.519
and that test will ripple far between and beyond the Hudson.

527
00:39:50.559 --> 00:39:54.920
Because when the nation's biggest city moves left, it drags

528
00:39:54.960 --> 00:39:58.840
the cultural conversation with it. Hollywood might shape what we watch,

529
00:39:59.599 --> 00:40:03.000
but New New York shapes what the country thinks is normal.

530
00:40:04.280 --> 00:40:08.800
Now here's where the conversation and conservative lens has to

531
00:40:08.840 --> 00:40:15.360
stay sharp. We know how the story can end over promising, overspending,

532
00:40:15.440 --> 00:40:19.599
over taxing, and under delivering. Look at the history New

533
00:40:19.679 --> 00:40:22.719
York flirted with a version of this before the nineteen

534
00:40:22.800 --> 00:40:28.440
seventies fiscal collapse, public sector strikes, near bankruptcy until the

535
00:40:28.440 --> 00:40:33.400
federal government bailed it out. Those lessons fade fast when

536
00:40:33.480 --> 00:40:42.800
ideology promises redemption. The danger here isn't economic. It's philosophical too,

537
00:40:43.159 --> 00:40:47.679
because if mom Donnie's city first socialism somehow manages to

538
00:40:47.719 --> 00:40:53.800
stabilize affordability without killing investment other cities Chicago, Seattle, Boston,

539
00:40:54.159 --> 00:41:00.320
they'll all take notes, and if it fails spectacularly, it

540
00:41:00.320 --> 00:41:03.920
will be conservatives, not moderates who gets to say we

541
00:41:04.000 --> 00:41:07.880
told you so. Either way, we can't just watch ensneer.

542
00:41:08.280 --> 00:41:11.599
We have to learn, because right now the left is

543
00:41:11.639 --> 00:41:14.559
testing something big, and if we can't counter it with

544
00:41:14.559 --> 00:41:18.679
our own ideas about an urban renewal, we'll fight, will

545
00:41:18.679 --> 00:41:20.719
be left fighting on their field for the next decade.

546
00:41:23.880 --> 00:41:27.280
So yes, New York just elected its first Muslim mayor,

547
00:41:27.880 --> 00:41:30.920
its youngest in a century, and its most left leaning

548
00:41:31.000 --> 00:41:35.639
in history. But the story isn't about identity. It's about influence.

549
00:41:36.519 --> 00:41:39.000
And while that story unfolds on the East Coast, another

550
00:41:39.079 --> 00:41:41.519
kind of power play just happened on the West coast,

551
00:41:41.920 --> 00:41:45.960
one that could decide who controls Congress itself. Let's talk

552
00:41:46.000 --> 00:41:49.719
about California. Let's talk about Proposition fifty, the ballot measure

553
00:41:49.760 --> 00:41:51.960
that didn't just change the lines on a map, It

554
00:41:52.039 --> 00:41:56.559
changed the rules of the gain California, the jury mandered frontier.

555
00:41:57.440 --> 00:42:01.079
California is a kingdom of contrast. It's where tech billionaires

556
00:42:01.280 --> 00:42:04.400
talk about equity while buying private islands, where the word

557
00:42:04.400 --> 00:42:08.559
progressive comes from comes with a parking permit for hypocrisy,

558
00:42:09.199 --> 00:42:12.960
and where the state's political engine quietly perfected the art

559
00:42:13.000 --> 00:42:20.960
of institutional self preservation. Proposition fifty gave the legislator, overwhelmingly democrat,

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00:42:21.960 --> 00:42:26.719
the right to discard the independent redistricting commissioned maps and

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00:42:26.800 --> 00:42:31.480
replace them with legislatively drawn lines beginning in twenty twenty six.

562
00:42:31.800 --> 00:42:38.360
The official justification to restore flexibility and balance partisan disparities

563
00:42:38.519 --> 00:42:43.079
created by the Republican jerrymanders elsewhere. Translation, we're evening a

564
00:42:43.159 --> 00:42:47.880
score by tilting the board our way. Analysts estimate fifty

565
00:42:48.000 --> 00:42:52.199
could net Democrats four to six additional congressional seats in

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00:42:52.239 --> 00:42:56.159
a single state. That's nearly three percent of the entire

567
00:42:56.239 --> 00:43:01.079
House handed to one party through structural and engineering. This

568
00:43:01.239 --> 00:43:06.159
is jander marrying, jerrymandering wrapped in virtue. It's the same

569
00:43:06.199 --> 00:43:09.679
manipulation the left has condemned for decades, only now it's

570
00:43:09.679 --> 00:43:15.000
painted blue. But let's not pretend Republicans are innocent. Texas, Ohio,

571
00:43:15.000 --> 00:43:18.159
and North Carolina each has its own masterpiece in the

572
00:43:18.239 --> 00:43:23.880
Museum of map Making. Jerrymandering has become a bipartisan addiction,

573
00:43:25.639 --> 00:43:28.679
the illusion of democracy with pre drawn outcomes and the

574
00:43:28.719 --> 00:43:32.000
casualty trust. When a voter in California can cast a

575
00:43:32.079 --> 00:43:34.920
ballot and still feel like their district was decided long

576
00:43:35.000 --> 00:43:38.559
before they ever walked into the booth, that's not democracy.

577
00:43:38.679 --> 00:43:41.480
That's design. Now, Conservatives need to tell the truth here.

578
00:43:42.079 --> 00:43:46.360
We can't condemn jerrymandering when it hurts us and celebrate

579
00:43:46.400 --> 00:43:49.760
it when it helps. That's hypocrisy, and hypocrisy is the

580
00:43:49.800 --> 00:43:53.280
oxygen of apathy. We should be the party that stands

581
00:43:53.280 --> 00:43:59.679
for fair maps, honestcounts, and transparent rules, because when government

582
00:43:59.719 --> 00:44:05.159
plays straight, freedom wins. Now, let's talk numbers for a moment.

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00:44:07.239 --> 00:44:11.679
In twenty twenty, California gave Democrats roughly sixty three percent

584
00:44:11.719 --> 00:44:15.440
of its House vote, but they captured eighty two percent

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00:44:15.639 --> 00:44:19.400
of its congressional seats. After a prop fifty that advantage

586
00:44:19.440 --> 00:44:25.039
could even deepen more. Meanwhile, Texas Republicans won fifty three

587
00:44:25.079 --> 00:44:27.199
percent of the vote, took nearly two thirds of its

588
00:44:27.239 --> 00:44:33.000
House seats, and, in Main perhaps the most striking imbalance

589
00:44:33.039 --> 00:44:36.159
of all of them, roughly forty five percent of manors

590
00:44:37.079 --> 00:44:42.199
voted for Donald Trump in twenty twenty. Yet both of

591
00:44:42.239 --> 00:44:46.400
the state's congressional districts are held by Democrats. Zero Republican

592
00:44:47.440 --> 00:44:52.719
representation at all, almost half the electorate with no voice

593
00:44:53.159 --> 00:44:57.159
in the US House. That isn't fair representation. It's a

594
00:44:57.199 --> 00:45:02.840
mathematical disenfranchisement geography, and it's cut both ways. The same

595
00:45:02.920 --> 00:45:06.840
distortion that shields Democrats in New England shields Republicans in

596
00:45:06.880 --> 00:45:09.840
parts of the South, where nearly half of any states

597
00:45:09.960 --> 00:45:13.559
voters can't send a single representative aligned with their views.

598
00:45:13.800 --> 00:45:18.800
The system stops reflecting the people and starts reflecting the strategy.

599
00:45:19.039 --> 00:45:23.880
My problem with this whole situation is just like the

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00:45:24.280 --> 00:45:32.519
main situation, like the California numbers really aren't too are

601
00:45:34.119 --> 00:45:36.960
are pretty off balance. I mean, you're looking at nineteen

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00:45:37.000 --> 00:45:42.800
percent because you have sixty three percent of its House vote,

603
00:45:42.880 --> 00:45:45.599
but they've captured eighty two percent of the congressional seats.

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00:45:47.400 --> 00:45:53.440
You're off by nineteen percent Republicans. It's thirteen percent in Texas.

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00:45:54.360 --> 00:45:56.400
But like when you have Maine where you don't even

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00:45:56.400 --> 00:45:59.559
have a fifty to fifty split, you have two congressional

607
00:45:59.559 --> 00:46:02.440
seats and they don't get either one of them. I

608
00:46:02.480 --> 00:46:05.920
mean that alone is bad. You're you're looking at Illinois.

609
00:46:05.960 --> 00:46:09.880
Illinois's got forty percent, and I think they send they

610
00:46:09.960 --> 00:46:13.039
only get like nineteen percent of the representation. I mean,

611
00:46:13.519 --> 00:46:17.719
it's stuff like that that. It's the whole reason why

612
00:46:17.760 --> 00:46:21.199
this country was founded was because of the situation of

613
00:46:21.239 --> 00:46:28.039
taxation without representation. And it feels like Republicans and a

614
00:46:28.079 --> 00:46:34.400
lot of states are very underrepresented in Congress because you

615
00:46:34.400 --> 00:46:36.639
have the same issues like you do in Maine in

616
00:46:36.760 --> 00:46:43.679
multiple other states where you've got between forty and fifty percent,

617
00:46:44.079 --> 00:46:48.639
but they've got between zero and twenty percent of representation.

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00:46:51.280 --> 00:46:55.159
I mean, that's that's a huge issue. You can't we're

619
00:46:55.199 --> 00:47:00.840
founded on taxation, no taxation without representation. Yet it's exactly

620
00:47:00.840 --> 00:47:02.840
what we're dealing with here, and I don't I'm I'm

621
00:47:02.840 --> 00:47:07.440
not a fan of jerrymandering. But when you when you

622
00:47:07.480 --> 00:47:11.639
start looking at and talking about the Texas map, the

623
00:47:11.719 --> 00:47:14.880
new Texas map, if you look at the new Texas map,

624
00:47:15.119 --> 00:47:18.559
it looks a hell of a lot less jerrymandered than

625
00:47:18.639 --> 00:47:21.960
what the map before it did because they were based

626
00:47:22.039 --> 00:47:30.079
on racial districts, because they pushed for racial districts through

627
00:47:30.079 --> 00:47:34.760
the Supreme Court and the district courts because they felt

628
00:47:34.800 --> 00:47:43.519
that district maps were almost watering down certain races voices.

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00:47:44.480 --> 00:47:47.480
But at what point in time does do you look

630
00:47:47.519 --> 00:47:52.440
at does that just become jerrymandering for the Democrats because

631
00:47:52.440 --> 00:47:54.519
they know that they have a majority of those votes.

632
00:47:55.679 --> 00:47:59.159
Now that that's that's the hard argument, that's the hard

633
00:47:59.239 --> 00:48:01.559
argument that we have to have here of where's the

634
00:48:01.840 --> 00:48:05.760
where is the balance of making sure that people's voices

635
00:48:06.199 --> 00:48:09.119
and their voices are getting are making it to Congress

636
00:48:10.679 --> 00:48:17.760
and balancing that with jerrymandering, Like at what point in time,

637
00:48:17.960 --> 00:48:20.159
is it like if you changed everything up, are you

638
00:48:20.280 --> 00:48:23.320
jerrymandering just to make sure that the representation is there?

639
00:48:24.920 --> 00:48:26.840
I guess that's that's probably the best way that I

640
00:48:26.840 --> 00:48:33.719
can really word that. But yeah, we just it's hard

641
00:48:33.760 --> 00:48:36.199
to be able to make that balance between gerrymandering and

642
00:48:36.280 --> 00:48:39.280
making sure that every that the voices are are heard

643
00:48:39.639 --> 00:48:44.360
and if there's representation that matches, because there's not always.

644
00:48:44.400 --> 00:48:47.400
There's also not always in even amount of seats to

645
00:48:47.480 --> 00:48:50.400
match up with the percentage of of voters in the

646
00:48:50.480 --> 00:48:56.199
voter rule. Now, someone on the left called this balancing

647
00:48:56.199 --> 00:48:58.760
the map, but balance doesn't come from bias. It comes

648
00:48:58.760 --> 00:49:05.840
from boundaries drawn in the Independent Redistricting Commissions were created

649
00:49:05.840 --> 00:49:09.280
for a reason to make elections about ideas, not zip codes.

650
00:49:09.639 --> 00:49:15.480
But now with Prop fifty, California's lawmakers can redraw those

651
00:49:15.519 --> 00:49:20.760
lines with political precision. They argue that they're simply correcting

652
00:49:20.880 --> 00:49:25.679
Republican gamesmanship elsewhere. But let's be honest. You don't fix

653
00:49:25.800 --> 00:49:29.599
cheating by copying it. You fix it by competing better

654
00:49:29.960 --> 00:49:33.960
and keeping the field level so voters decide, not cartographers

655
00:49:36.360 --> 00:49:40.679
like that. That's my whole issue is if you look

656
00:49:40.800 --> 00:49:43.800
like I said, if you look at Texas, the map

657
00:49:43.840 --> 00:49:47.880
looks way less gerrymandered now, where you like you had,

658
00:49:48.079 --> 00:49:51.159
at one point in time, you connected two cities together

659
00:49:51.239 --> 00:49:54.360
to make sure that there was enough voters that it

660
00:49:54.480 --> 00:50:00.760
turned at least one district blue. That it is an

661
00:50:00.800 --> 00:50:05.559
issue you You literally had a small line that couldn't

662
00:50:05.559 --> 00:50:09.639
have been more than fifty miles wide running from one

663
00:50:09.679 --> 00:50:11.320
city to the other to make sure that there was

664
00:50:11.480 --> 00:50:16.119
enough voters within that district that it turned blue. Because

665
00:50:17.039 --> 00:50:21.079
without it, now it's turned red. With that, without that

666
00:50:21.119 --> 00:50:27.480
connecting two cities, it's red. So it's stuff like that.

667
00:50:28.119 --> 00:50:30.519
And then you look at the Illinois map. The Illinois map,

668
00:50:30.639 --> 00:50:35.599
they pretty much take bits and pieces of Chicago enough

669
00:50:36.039 --> 00:50:39.480
off of Chicago for each district to be able to

670
00:50:39.480 --> 00:50:43.559
make sure that it's blue like instead of just running

671
00:50:45.920 --> 00:50:50.920
instead of literally just running a few districts up there,

672
00:50:50.920 --> 00:50:56.719
splitting Chicago pretty evenly, and then running districts for the

673
00:50:56.760 --> 00:51:00.400
rest of this for the rest of Illinois, so that

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00:51:00.440 --> 00:51:03.480
way it's kind of looks normal instead of looking like

675
00:51:03.559 --> 00:51:06.199
you literally are just taking bits and pieces of Chicago

676
00:51:06.280 --> 00:51:12.400
to balance out and make districts go blue. Like it's crazy.

677
00:51:12.559 --> 00:51:14.960
Just I challenge you to take a look at some

678
00:51:15.079 --> 00:51:20.119
of these Democrat states, these blue run states, and look

679
00:51:20.119 --> 00:51:24.760
at their congressional maps, look at what their their House

680
00:51:24.800 --> 00:51:28.800
of Representative districts are, and then tell them and then

681
00:51:29.119 --> 00:51:32.400
you tell me if you think if which one you

682
00:51:32.480 --> 00:51:36.000
think is Jerry Maydard Moore Red states or blue states?

683
00:51:36.599 --> 00:51:39.159
From the ones that I've seen, it's blue states through

684
00:51:39.159 --> 00:51:42.239
and through because they always hit their cities, and their

685
00:51:42.280 --> 00:51:47.400
cities are always they take bits and pieces of their

686
00:51:47.400 --> 00:51:50.920
cities and spread them and then they take big chunks

687
00:51:50.920 --> 00:51:53.920
of the rest of the state. So it's just that

688
00:51:54.400 --> 00:51:58.000
small bit of the city turns the whole district blue,

689
00:51:59.079 --> 00:52:05.400
so that way they have that seat blue and they

690
00:52:07.119 --> 00:52:10.519
it's it's stuff like that. That's just it's not right.

691
00:52:13.440 --> 00:52:17.960
Prop fifty won't just reshape California. It will reshape Congress.

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00:52:21.920 --> 00:52:25.039
In a four hundred and thirty five seat House, flipping

693
00:52:25.119 --> 00:52:29.280
five seats through map redesign could determine control of the

694
00:52:29.360 --> 00:52:33.039
chamber in twenty twenty six. That means issues like tax policy,

695
00:52:33.159 --> 00:52:38.119
border security, energy independence, and defense spending could all hinge

696
00:52:38.599 --> 00:52:43.880
on a ballot measure. Few Americans even who existed. That's

697
00:52:43.880 --> 00:52:47.239
how quiet revolutions start. Not in riots or rallies, but

698
00:52:47.320 --> 00:52:51.079
in rectangles on a map. And here's the part every

699
00:52:51.079 --> 00:52:54.199
listener needs to take to heart. Both parties have learned

700
00:52:54.239 --> 00:52:57.360
that power is easier to preserve than earn. And that's

701
00:52:57.360 --> 00:53:02.280
why gerrymandering thrives. It's political insurance, and insurance without risk

702
00:53:02.440 --> 00:53:08.280
breeds arrogance, and arrogance breeds decay. That's why conservatives must

703
00:53:08.360 --> 00:53:12.000
lead the fight for transparency and redistricting because it benefits

704
00:53:12.079 --> 00:53:16.880
us today, but because not because it benefits us today,

705
00:53:16.920 --> 00:53:24.119
but because it saves the republic tomorrow. When we stand

706
00:53:24.119 --> 00:53:27.760
for fairness, even when it costs US seats, we prove

707
00:53:27.840 --> 00:53:31.280
that our movement isn't just about power, it's about principle.

708
00:53:31.639 --> 00:53:34.440
And make no mistake, there are ways to do this right.

709
00:53:34.559 --> 00:53:39.239
States like Iowa Arizona we've been models for where non

710
00:53:39.320 --> 00:53:45.760
partisan staff draw maps based on compactness, population balance, and

711
00:53:45.800 --> 00:53:50.880
county integrity. Those maps have held up in court and incredibility.

712
00:53:50.960 --> 00:53:55.000
It's not perfect, nothing in politics is, but it beats

713
00:53:55.159 --> 00:54:01.679
the background back room algorithm that turns democracy into a

714
00:54:01.679 --> 00:54:05.960
math equation. So yes, California's Prop fifty is a wake

715
00:54:06.039 --> 00:54:09.400
up call. But it's not just their problem. It's a

716
00:54:09.480 --> 00:54:13.559
mirror held up to the entire nation, left and right alike.

717
00:54:14.159 --> 00:54:17.599
Because whether it's the blue districts of Maine, the Red

718
00:54:17.679 --> 00:54:21.719
Corridor or greg corridors of Texas, or the gerrymandered patchwork

719
00:54:21.760 --> 00:54:25.079
of Ohio, the message is the same. If the people

720
00:54:25.199 --> 00:54:29.800
don't feel represented, they stop believing representation matters. And when

721
00:54:29.880 --> 00:54:38.679
belief dies, democracy follows. And that's why we as conservatives

722
00:54:39.039 --> 00:54:44.039
have to reclaim this conversation, not just with outrage, but

723
00:54:44.079 --> 00:54:47.519
with ownership. We say we're the party of the Constitution,

724
00:54:48.079 --> 00:54:51.840
then we must also be the party of its first promise.

725
00:54:52.119 --> 00:54:55.440
The government derives its power from the consent of the governed,

726
00:54:55.880 --> 00:55:03.559
not from the cartography of convenience. Imagine what happens when

727
00:55:03.599 --> 00:55:07.679
that principle meets the real world stakes picture of California

728
00:55:08.000 --> 00:55:11.679
redrawing its lines while Texas redraws its own, and each

729
00:55:11.760 --> 00:55:14.960
side chasing advantage until the map looks like it looks

730
00:55:15.000 --> 00:55:17.719
less like a nation and more like a chessboard of vengeance.

731
00:55:18.039 --> 00:55:24.559
That's not federalism. That's fragmentation. And it's happening now, right now,

732
00:55:24.639 --> 00:55:34.480
under our noses. So I really think in in Iowa,

733
00:55:35.000 --> 00:55:42.920
so it's crazy, it's crazy that let's really think about it,

734
00:55:43.360 --> 00:55:47.639
because our map was redrawn not that long ago, twenty

735
00:55:48.039 --> 00:55:54.079
one or twenty two, and thinking about it, like we've

736
00:55:54.119 --> 00:55:59.599
been a Republican run state for quite a while, and

737
00:56:01.000 --> 00:56:10.039
it's really crazy to think about it because if if

738
00:56:10.079 --> 00:56:12.440
the lawn Leans had been drawn just a little differently,

739
00:56:13.400 --> 00:56:17.159
and I mean, they're if you look at our map,

740
00:56:17.239 --> 00:56:21.000
our map does not look jerry mandard. And actually the

741
00:56:21.039 --> 00:56:24.239
way that they redraw redrew it up. We're lucky that

742
00:56:24.280 --> 00:56:29.239
we didn't lose a Republican a Republican seat because Marionette

743
00:56:29.239 --> 00:56:33.239
Miller Menks just barely squeaked by in her election after

744
00:56:34.039 --> 00:56:36.519
the redraw. If they had left the map or it

745
00:56:36.760 --> 00:56:42.760
was the there would have been no issue with her

746
00:56:42.800 --> 00:56:45.599
winning that seat. She would have she would have won

747
00:56:45.639 --> 00:56:50.920
it by probably a percentage point. So that's what I

748
00:56:50.920 --> 00:56:53.599
don't That's why it's so hard for me to understand

749
00:56:55.679 --> 00:57:00.840
this whole push for jerry mandering. Like I said, it's

750
00:57:00.920 --> 00:57:04.440
map looks less jerrymandered now, like it looks actually structured,

751
00:57:04.960 --> 00:57:11.559
has has some there's some districts and and actually the

752
00:57:11.599 --> 00:57:13.440
one that I can think of off the top of

753
00:57:13.440 --> 00:57:15.880
my head is actually a blue district, but it looks

754
00:57:15.920 --> 00:57:20.559
like a gerrymandered district because it's stretched from the city

755
00:57:20.880 --> 00:57:25.480
out and into the country, into the to the rural

756
00:57:25.559 --> 00:57:28.960
areas for a little as. It looks gerrymandered to me

757
00:57:29.199 --> 00:57:32.920
because they're not. There's no uniformity in some in some

758
00:57:32.960 --> 00:57:37.440
of these districts in Texas, but there's also a lot

759
00:57:37.480 --> 00:57:41.039
of uniformity in others. There's there's a i'd say four

760
00:57:41.199 --> 00:57:44.360
or five in Texas that have no uniformity, and I

761
00:57:44.360 --> 00:57:52.679
think three of those are blue districts. But it's just

762
00:57:52.920 --> 00:57:56.400
to me the way that Iowa's is set up, They've

763
00:57:56.440 --> 00:58:00.519
got it pretty much pretty well, split evenly, and it

764
00:58:00.559 --> 00:58:06.000
looks very uniform. If you looked at the the map

765
00:58:06.079 --> 00:58:10.760
before this one, they they they've all kind of looked uniform.

766
00:58:11.119 --> 00:58:15.360
They just cut off a few counties from I think

767
00:58:15.400 --> 00:58:20.119
it was Fienstra's district and moved it to Marionnett Miller

768
00:58:20.559 --> 00:58:24.639
Meeks's district or the other way around. So I mean

769
00:58:24.760 --> 00:58:34.079
they're there. Iowa has a pretty good map. I just

770
00:58:34.840 --> 00:58:39.679
I don't understand this push to Jerrymander. I get I really,

771
00:58:39.880 --> 00:58:44.039
I get that it's all about power, but like I said,

772
00:58:45.000 --> 00:58:50.079
it's getting annoying that they find it easier just to

773
00:58:50.159 --> 00:58:54.039
take the power instead of earn it. Earn the power,

774
00:58:55.159 --> 00:58:58.920
go out there, campaign your heart out, get out there

775
00:58:59.320 --> 00:59:01.920
and change some of these If you're a conservative, change

776
00:59:01.920 --> 00:59:08.880
some of these voters from Democrat voters or libertarian voters

777
00:59:09.000 --> 00:59:12.800
or any other party. Change in Republican. And it was

778
00:59:12.840 --> 00:59:15.400
the same thing for the Democrats. Turn the other voters

779
00:59:15.440 --> 00:59:18.360
from whatever other party they are to a Democrat voter.

780
00:59:18.719 --> 00:59:27.280
Stop just taking the power and earn the power. It's ridiculous. Now,

781
00:59:27.400 --> 00:59:31.159
while California was rewriting the lines of competition or another state,

782
00:59:31.480 --> 00:59:35.079
a small one with a big history of independence, was

783
00:59:35.119 --> 00:59:38.480
sending its own message about trust and access. In May,

784
00:59:38.519 --> 00:59:42.280
and voters faced a ballot question that tested whether Americans

785
00:59:42.320 --> 00:59:46.400
still believe and still value both security and simplicity in

786
00:59:46.440 --> 00:59:50.039
their elections. And their answer, will will kind of surprise you.

787
00:59:51.239 --> 00:59:54.760
That's where we go next. When most people think of Maine,

788
00:59:54.880 --> 00:59:59.960
they picture lighthouses, lobster boats, salt stained windbreakers. But on election,

789
01:00:00.639 --> 01:00:04.079
the Quiet Coast carried a message that reached all the

790
01:00:04.079 --> 01:00:09.960
way to Washington. Maine voters faced Question one, a package

791
01:00:10.039 --> 01:00:13.800
of new voting restrictions pitched as an election integrity Reform Act,

792
01:00:14.239 --> 01:00:19.239
photo idea to polls, proof for absenteeve at ballots, fewer dropboxes,

793
01:00:20.480 --> 01:00:24.199
tighter rules on who could collect or return ballots for

794
01:00:24.280 --> 01:00:28.519
someone else. Too many conservatives. That sounded to many conservatives,

795
01:00:28.639 --> 01:00:33.079
that sounded like common sense. Two opponents, It sounded like

796
01:00:33.159 --> 01:00:38.440
bureaucracy built to exhaust participation. And Maine made its choice

797
01:00:38.760 --> 01:00:43.039
no by nearly sixty percent. Voters rejected the proposal. That

798
01:00:43.199 --> 01:00:48.679
number matters because Maine isn't California. It's rural, independent and practical,

799
01:00:48.920 --> 01:00:54.280
half Republican, half Democrat, all allergic to nonsense. If that

800
01:00:54.639 --> 01:00:58.960
electorate said no, the message wasn't about ideology. It was

801
01:00:58.960 --> 01:01:02.760
about trust. People believe elections should be secure, but they

802
01:01:02.800 --> 01:01:07.000
can't or don't believe government should make voting feel like

803
01:01:07.039 --> 01:01:13.920
an obstacle. Course, when security becomes inconvenience, faith becomes fatigue.

804
01:01:14.280 --> 01:01:19.639
Now here's the uncomfortable truth. Republicans have spent years warning

805
01:01:19.639 --> 01:01:23.960
that loose rules invite chaos, and sometimes they do, but

806
01:01:24.039 --> 01:01:27.760
over correcting can look like punishment. Voters want a balance,

807
01:01:28.760 --> 01:01:32.119
tight enough to be clean, loose enough to be fair,

808
01:01:33.559 --> 01:01:40.360
and the Conservative movement must find that balance fast because

809
01:01:40.400 --> 01:01:44.079
every cycle we spend fighting over access instead of accuracy

810
01:01:44.400 --> 01:01:49.639
is a cycle we lose swing voters who just want competence.

811
01:01:50.360 --> 01:01:53.760
Now here's my problem with this, And I don't really

812
01:01:53.840 --> 01:02:00.920
understand how like requiring ID to vote or photo ID

813
01:02:01.000 --> 01:02:04.519
at the polls is hard because in Iowa, I'm required

814
01:02:04.559 --> 01:02:06.679
when I go and when I go into vote, I

815
01:02:06.719 --> 01:02:10.920
am required to show my photo ID and then they

816
01:02:10.960 --> 01:02:12.519
do their little thing on the computer. I don't know

817
01:02:12.559 --> 01:02:14.360
if they're checking to see if I voted somewhere else

818
01:02:14.440 --> 01:02:20.159
or whatever, but I don't see that as a way

819
01:02:20.280 --> 01:02:22.559
that that's a barrier to entry to whether or not

820
01:02:22.599 --> 01:02:27.519
you can whether or not you vote. The proof for

821
01:02:27.559 --> 01:02:33.000
absentee ballots, I don't I didn't look enough into exactly

822
01:02:33.000 --> 01:02:38.000
what they needed for proof, but why I don't understand

823
01:02:38.000 --> 01:02:42.239
how that is a a barrier for voting either, because

824
01:02:43.000 --> 01:02:48.760
just having identification proof of you living in the city,

825
01:02:48.840 --> 01:02:54.159
in the state and your identity, I don't know how

826
01:02:54.199 --> 01:02:58.039
that's a bad thing. Few were drop boxes that would

827
01:02:58.079 --> 01:02:59.920
have pissed me off that I probably would have voted

828
01:03:00.360 --> 01:03:04.119
just because of fewer dropt boxes. Because let's say you

829
01:03:05.079 --> 01:03:07.519
like me, live in a small town and with mainlying

830
01:03:07.559 --> 01:03:10.480
so rural, having fewer drought boxes. You might have had

831
01:03:10.480 --> 01:03:12.400
to go fifty miles away to be able to drop

832
01:03:12.440 --> 01:03:14.559
off your ballot. Now, that would piss me off as

833
01:03:14.639 --> 01:03:19.599
a as a conservative, to have to drive fifty miles away.

834
01:03:19.960 --> 01:03:23.840
I'd still do it for my civic duty, but that

835
01:03:23.880 --> 01:03:27.000
would probably that probably tip me to vote no as well.

836
01:03:29.360 --> 01:03:33.320
Main's rejection of Question one also echoed beyond voting laws,

837
01:03:33.519 --> 01:03:37.559
the same ballot included a red flag gun measure expanded

838
01:03:37.599 --> 01:03:44.199
authority to temporarily remove weapons from individuals deemed dangerous, and

839
01:03:44.320 --> 01:03:48.280
it passed. That tells us something those the electorate still

840
01:03:48.360 --> 01:03:53.639
values rights, but they're choosing responsibility first. That duality pro

841
01:03:53.760 --> 01:03:58.760
Second Amendment yet pro precaution is the center of American

842
01:03:58.800 --> 01:04:03.239
politics right now. In whichever party learns to speak that

843
01:04:03.400 --> 01:04:07.480
middle to that middle instinct, not fear, not rage, reason,

844
01:04:07.800 --> 01:04:12.840
but reason will own the next decade. Like I said,

845
01:04:13.599 --> 01:04:17.360
for Republicans to continue to win and win in twenty

846
01:04:17.400 --> 01:04:23.679
twenty six, we have to speak to the actual reason

847
01:04:24.880 --> 01:04:28.639
side of people. We have to speak to them with reason,

848
01:04:29.159 --> 01:04:34.239
not and don't speak at them or above them, speak

849
01:04:34.320 --> 01:04:44.119
to them. So while California rewrote maps, Maine rewrote the expectations,

850
01:04:44.719 --> 01:04:48.440
two ends of the country sending one shared message. Playfair,

851
01:04:48.800 --> 01:04:54.239
protect access, and quit weaponizing the rules. That's the process story.

852
01:04:54.840 --> 01:04:58.639
But in the age of algorithms, process doesn't move the needle.

853
01:04:58.840 --> 01:05:03.119
Perception does. Within minutes of the results, the medium machine

854
01:05:04.159 --> 01:05:09.159
did what it does best. It framed the headlines rolled in.

855
01:05:09.679 --> 01:05:18.519
Democrats dominate, Republicans messaging melts down, Progressives prove electability. Cable

856
01:05:18.519 --> 01:05:21.559
panels lit up with the same pattern. One conservative voice

857
01:05:21.639 --> 01:05:26.079
boxed in between four progressives pretending to be centrist, all

858
01:05:26.159 --> 01:05:29.679
nodding in agreement that the far right experiment has peaked.

859
01:05:30.280 --> 01:05:34.159
But the narrative is only half true. Democrats won key contest, yes,

860
01:05:34.679 --> 01:05:37.440
but the margins were not title waves. They were disciplined

861
01:05:37.519 --> 01:05:42.360
ground games. Turnout among younger voters was modest. Independent turnout

862
01:05:42.400 --> 01:05:47.599
was steady. Republican base turnout stayed strong. But our persuasion failed.

863
01:05:47.880 --> 01:05:51.519
That's not a collapse, that's communication failure. And the media

864
01:05:51.559 --> 01:05:54.880
knows it. They sell the collapse the story because it bleeds,

865
01:05:55.320 --> 01:06:00.679
not because it's honest. Look closer at the coverage and

866
01:06:00.719 --> 01:06:03.960
you'll see a playbook. CNN called the elections a reaffirmative

867
01:06:04.119 --> 01:06:12.840
reaffirmation of democracy. MSNBC labeled them a repudiation of extremism,

868
01:06:13.039 --> 01:06:17.000
and even some establishment conservatives echoed the line as if

869
01:06:17.039 --> 01:06:22.840
conceding moral defeat will earn them media mercy. It never does,

870
01:06:23.079 --> 01:06:27.480
because the media complex thrives on narrative asymmetry. When one

871
01:06:27.519 --> 01:06:31.559
side feels guilty, the other side feels vindicated if keeps

872
01:06:31.639 --> 01:06:35.760
ratings alive. So here's the conservative challenge. Stop chasing approval,

873
01:06:35.920 --> 01:06:39.280
Start building your credibility. We don't need to be the

874
01:06:39.320 --> 01:06:42.280
loudest network on the dial. We need to be the

875
01:06:42.320 --> 01:06:46.000
most trusted. That means leading with the evidence on emotion,

876
01:06:46.440 --> 01:06:50.360
substance or slogans. When we talk about inflation, you need

877
01:06:50.360 --> 01:06:53.800
to show the data. When we talk about broader and

878
01:06:53.920 --> 01:07:00.960
border security, show cause and consequence. When we talk about

879
01:07:01.000 --> 01:07:04.679
fairness and elections, show both fraud and the fix. Because

880
01:07:04.760 --> 01:07:10.280
truth told calmly is more dangerous than propaganda, to propaganda

881
01:07:10.320 --> 01:07:17.079
than shouting ever will be. The media's version of last

882
01:07:17.159 --> 01:07:21.360
night is that Democrats have mastered the center, the progressives

883
01:07:21.480 --> 01:07:25.800
are electable, and the conservative populism is fading. But data

884
01:07:25.800 --> 01:07:29.159
tells a different story. Across dozens of counties in the Midwest,

885
01:07:29.239 --> 01:07:35.079
the South, and Appalachia, Republican local turnout actually rose, the

886
01:07:35.119 --> 01:07:39.079
red infrastructure held, the blue unexpanded just enough to claim

887
01:07:39.119 --> 01:07:44.519
statewide optics. So what we're seeing is not dominance, its discipline.

888
01:07:44.880 --> 01:07:49.719
They planned earlier, They messaged unity while we messaged outrage.

889
01:07:50.440 --> 01:07:54.400
We have to flip that script, like I said earlier,

890
01:07:55.840 --> 01:07:58.639
Now that we know where we stand, let's talk about

891
01:07:58.639 --> 01:08:03.079
where we're headed. The midterms are roughly twelve months away

892
01:08:03.360 --> 01:08:10.400
from the primaries and twenty four from the vote, and

893
01:08:10.480 --> 01:08:18.600
already the chess pieces are moving. Democrats hold an advantage

894
01:08:18.640 --> 01:08:24.119
in map manipulation thanks to California's Prop. Fifty and court

895
01:08:24.159 --> 01:08:28.239
protected maps in Illinois and New York. Republicans counter with

896
01:08:28.279 --> 01:08:31.840
strength in Texas, Florida and the Mountain West. That balance

897
01:08:31.880 --> 01:08:36.600
of terror will likely produce another razor thin House maybe

898
01:08:36.680 --> 01:08:41.720
two eighteen two seventeen either way, which means messaging, not math,

899
01:08:41.840 --> 01:08:49.680
will decide control the battlegrounds. Watch Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Arizona, Georgia,

900
01:08:49.760 --> 01:08:54.199
and Virginia each has a suburban district where inflation, immigration,

901
01:08:54.359 --> 01:08:58.279
and education collde in real time. If Republicans can frame

902
01:08:58.319 --> 01:09:02.000
those three issues around family seeking and not the ideology,

903
01:09:02.680 --> 01:09:05.840
they can rebuild the coalition that one in twenty sixteen

904
01:09:06.000 --> 01:09:11.199
and twenty twenty two. If they don't, Democrats calm competence

905
01:09:11.359 --> 01:09:16.800
model becomes the new normal, and then there's turnout. Every

906
01:09:16.840 --> 01:09:20.840
metric shows younger voters drifting left on social issues but

907
01:09:21.000 --> 01:09:26.239
center right on economics. They don't trust parties, they trust purpose.

908
01:09:26.479 --> 01:09:30.039
So speak your purpose, Stop calling them lazy, start calling

909
01:09:30.119 --> 01:09:33.840
them necessary. Tell them that capitalism is not their enemy,

910
01:09:34.079 --> 01:09:37.800
it's their ladder, and show them how to Climate twenty

911
01:09:37.840 --> 01:09:41.560
twenty six will test more than party strength. It will

912
01:09:41.600 --> 01:09:45.079
test message endurance. Can we talk the cost of living

913
01:09:45.159 --> 01:09:50.119
without losing compassion? Can we defend values without sounding vindictive?

914
01:09:50.560 --> 01:09:57.359
Can we debate integrity without collapsing into conspiracy? Those answers

915
01:09:57.399 --> 01:10:04.079
will decide the midterms. No, let's end this segment with people,

916
01:10:04.159 --> 01:10:08.600
not parties, because parties don't vote. People do. The working class.

917
01:10:08.680 --> 01:10:12.720
Once the Republican backbone is now fractured, they still lean

918
01:10:12.800 --> 01:10:16.159
right on culture and work ethic, but wages medical costs

919
01:10:16.279 --> 01:10:20.520
are pulling them towards anyone who promises relief. If Conservatives

920
01:10:20.640 --> 01:10:25.520
don't reconnect policy to paycheck, Democrats will keep renting that

921
01:10:25.640 --> 01:10:32.239
loyalty cycle by cycle. Suburban mothers still the swing vote

922
01:10:32.359 --> 01:10:36.279
of the century. They want safety without fear mongering, quality

923
01:10:36.359 --> 01:10:41.119
schools without a doctrination, and stability without drama. They're not

924
01:10:41.279 --> 01:10:45.279
anti conservative, they're anti chaos. And whoever convinces them that

925
01:10:45.319 --> 01:10:48.680
their children's tomorrow will be calmer than today will win

926
01:10:48.960 --> 01:10:54.079
every time. Young entrepreneurs a generation raised on debt and

927
01:10:54.119 --> 01:10:58.279
digital freedom. They distrust bureaucracy but crave fairness. If the

928
01:10:58.319 --> 01:11:02.079
GOP can show them that free markets mean equal opportunity,

929
01:11:02.600 --> 01:11:08.159
not rigged advantage, this generation can still be won now.

930
01:11:08.199 --> 01:11:12.239
Faith communities still the moral core, but they're tired of

931
01:11:12.239 --> 01:11:17.279
being political props. They want integrity more than influence. If

932
01:11:17.319 --> 01:11:23.079
Conservatives return to faith as principle, not performance, revival follows.

933
01:11:24.119 --> 01:11:27.920
Roughly one third of eligible Americans still didn't vote the cycle.

934
01:11:28.439 --> 01:11:35.359
They are a silent power block. They're not apathetic, they're

935
01:11:35.399 --> 01:11:38.920
not unconvinced, and whoever convinces them that voting is self

936
01:11:38.920 --> 01:11:43.159
defense for the future will dominate the next generation of politics.

937
01:11:43.479 --> 01:11:47.720
The mission is clear, re earn trust, reconnect values to results,

938
01:11:47.960 --> 01:11:51.800
and rebuild credibility. Because the Left isn't winning hearts, it's

939
01:11:51.840 --> 01:11:59.680
winning patients and patience. Moose policy disengaged voters is going

940
01:11:59.720 --> 01:12:03.359
to be the biggest hardest target to get right now,

941
01:12:04.399 --> 01:12:14.680
and disengaged voters should be the thing that that any

942
01:12:15.880 --> 01:12:17.560
any person that wants to get to the House or

943
01:12:17.600 --> 01:12:21.680
the Senate needs to target the most, because by targeting

944
01:12:21.720 --> 01:12:26.239
disengaged voters and actually and explaining that their vote counts,

945
01:12:26.479 --> 01:12:29.479
and explaining why their vote counts, why their votes necessary,

946
01:12:29.520 --> 01:12:35.520
why their votes important, and how their vote affects them,

947
01:12:35.640 --> 01:12:39.880
just that simple messaging can apply to any other voter

948
01:12:39.960 --> 01:12:44.239
out there. The mission is clear. We need to re

949
01:12:44.279 --> 01:12:47.800
earn trust, reconnect values to results, and rebuild our credibility

950
01:12:48.279 --> 01:12:51.279
because the Left isn't winning hearts, it's winning patients and

951
01:12:51.399 --> 01:12:56.399
patients moves policy. Maine reminded us that security without access

952
01:12:56.479 --> 01:13:02.680
is control. California it reminded us access without integrity is chaos.

953
01:13:03.039 --> 01:13:06.079
And somewhere between those truths lies in the America we're fighting for.

954
01:13:07.079 --> 01:13:10.239
The twenty twenty six midterms aren't about parties anymore. They're

955
01:13:10.239 --> 01:13:15.119
about performance. Can anyone left or right prove they still

956
01:13:15.159 --> 01:13:19.000
remember who they work for? That's the ballot box question now,

957
01:13:19.560 --> 01:13:26.119
and we the people get to write the answer. As

958
01:13:26.119 --> 01:13:30.880
we go into Part five, where we take everything we've

959
01:13:30.960 --> 01:13:33.319
learned from this election night and turn it into a plan,

960
01:13:34.399 --> 01:13:38.960
not a post mortem. Where to explore this just a

961
01:13:39.000 --> 01:13:42.760
little deeper. Now that the votes are counted, the headlines

962
01:13:42.760 --> 01:13:47.119
are written, the talking heads have gone to sleep. But

963
01:13:47.159 --> 01:13:51.159
the real work is what begins now, because if last

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01:13:51.239 --> 01:13:54.239
night showed us anything, it's this America still believes, it's

965
01:13:54.279 --> 01:13:57.720
still choosing carefully who it believes in. And that's our

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01:13:57.800 --> 01:14:00.880
mission going forward, to make sure that when voters look

967
01:14:00.920 --> 01:14:04.199
for stability, integrity, and accountability, they see it in us.

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01:14:04.279 --> 01:14:06.600
They see it in the Republicans, they see it in

969
01:14:06.600 --> 01:14:13.680
the Conservatives. Let's start where every comeback begins with clarity.

970
01:14:14.239 --> 01:14:18.399
Conservatives don't need to reinvent themselves. We need to reintroduce ourselves.

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01:14:18.600 --> 01:14:21.640
We are the movement that believes hard work should pay,

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01:14:21.920 --> 01:14:25.960
families should endure, and government should stay in its lane.

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01:14:26.199 --> 01:14:29.520
Those ideas haven't aged, but the way we talk about

974
01:14:29.520 --> 01:14:35.000
them has. For far too long. We've let outrage drown

975
01:14:35.039 --> 01:14:41.560
out optimism. We've turned and traded persuasion for performance. We've

976
01:14:41.880 --> 01:14:45.840
mistaken noise for narrative. And that ends tonight. Because freedom

977
01:14:45.880 --> 01:14:48.479
is not an argument, it's an invitation. And if we

978
01:14:48.560 --> 01:14:53.399
don't extend it to every American, someone else will, and

979
01:14:53.439 --> 01:14:58.680
they will fill the silence with dependency. So here's the adjustment.

980
01:14:59.000 --> 01:15:02.920
Talk solutions before you even talk about slogans. Lead with competence,

981
01:15:03.000 --> 01:15:07.239
not conflict. Prove we can govern before we demand the

982
01:15:07.319 --> 01:15:12.920
right to and in practice that means talking less about

983
01:15:13.039 --> 01:15:19.479
owning the liberals or demanding the Democrats, and more about

984
01:15:19.520 --> 01:15:25.479
owning the results. When inflation bites, we offer policy. When

985
01:15:25.479 --> 01:15:29.560
families feel unsafe, we offer partnership. When communities fracture, we

986
01:15:29.800 --> 01:15:36.199
offer presence. Because the American people don't need warriors on Twitter,

987
01:15:36.279 --> 01:15:39.560
they need stewards in real life. If the kitchen table

988
01:15:40.000 --> 01:15:44.520
is the battlefield, economics is the weapon. And right now,

989
01:15:44.600 --> 01:15:50.279
the left has convinced too many voters that compassion requires control,

990
01:15:51.119 --> 01:15:54.319
that the only way to lower prices is to raise taxes,

991
01:15:54.479 --> 01:15:57.159
and that the only way to protect jobs is to

992
01:15:57.199 --> 01:16:00.800
regulate them. That the only way to help the poor

993
01:16:01.079 --> 01:16:04.960
is to punish the productive. We know that's false, but

994
01:16:05.000 --> 01:16:07.880
we have to prove it. Start with the basics. Promote

995
01:16:08.039 --> 01:16:13.399
energy independence as both economic and national security policy. Push apprenticeships,

996
01:16:13.760 --> 01:16:18.760
trade schools, and entrepreneurship as pathways to dignity. Perform taxation

997
01:16:19.479 --> 01:16:27.520
and reform it so small businesses don't don't fall to

998
01:16:27.600 --> 01:16:35.199
large corporations. They're not treated like corporations in disguise simplify regulations.

999
01:16:35.199 --> 01:16:38.880
So farmers, builders and shop owners spend more time producing

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01:16:39.000 --> 01:16:44.399
than they have to spend complying with regulation, and tell

1001
01:16:44.399 --> 01:16:46.840
the story of the free enterprise the way our grandparents

1002
01:16:46.840 --> 01:16:50.399
lived it, not as agreed but as grit. Because the

1003
01:16:50.520 --> 01:16:55.920
left has stolen moral vocabulary, they talk empathy while we

1004
01:16:55.960 --> 01:16:59.640
talk spreadsheets. It's time to marry both. Every paycheck is

1005
01:16:59.640 --> 01:17:03.039
a moral document. Every dollar is a statement of trust

1006
01:17:03.119 --> 01:17:07.640
between citizen and the country they build. That's how you

1007
01:17:07.680 --> 01:17:11.039
win back to working class, not by pitying them, but

1008
01:17:11.039 --> 01:17:17.920
by partnering with them. Culture does not change in Washington.

1009
01:17:18.399 --> 01:17:22.319
It changes at the dinner table. For decades, conservatives defending

1010
01:17:22.319 --> 01:17:25.279
tradition by shouting at the pop culture from the outside.

1011
01:17:25.640 --> 01:17:28.159
But now we have to plant seeds inside it. That

1012
01:17:28.239 --> 01:17:34.079
means storytelling, films, podcasts, schools, churches, spaces where virtue isn't

1013
01:17:34.079 --> 01:17:37.840
a sermon but a lifestyle. Faith must lead again, not

1014
01:17:37.920 --> 01:17:40.720
as a campaign tool, but as a compass, because if

1015
01:17:40.760 --> 01:17:45.640
we only speak scripture at election time, people will stop

1016
01:17:45.680 --> 01:17:48.760
believing we live it the rest of the year. Family

1017
01:17:48.880 --> 01:17:51.479
must lead again, not as a talking point, but as

1018
01:17:51.520 --> 01:17:55.600
a proof that discipline, forgiveness, and love still builds stronger

1019
01:17:55.680 --> 01:17:59.800
kids than hashtags ever will and freedom. Freedom must stop

1020
01:18:00.119 --> 01:18:03.920
being defined by what we resist and start being defined

1021
01:18:03.920 --> 01:18:09.520
by what we build. Freedom means building homes, companies, churches,

1022
01:18:09.720 --> 01:18:12.560
and schools that outlast the noise. That's what will save

1023
01:18:12.600 --> 01:18:20.760
this republic. Not tweets, not trends, but tangibles. We love rallies,

1024
01:18:20.920 --> 01:18:25.239
the chants, the flags, but movements don't win because of rallies.

1025
01:18:25.560 --> 01:18:32.000
They win because of reach. That means precinct captains, local candidates,

1026
01:18:32.159 --> 01:18:37.319
school board volunteers, church committees, business mentorships. Politics is downstream

1027
01:18:37.319 --> 01:18:42.319
from participation. If every conservative who posted online instead instead

1028
01:18:42.319 --> 01:18:46.840
mentored one kid, volunteered one weekend, or helped one neighbor

1029
01:18:46.880 --> 01:18:49.800
register to vote, we changed the nation without passing a

1030
01:18:49.920 --> 01:18:55.000
single law. Everything starts with one step. If we just

1031
01:18:55.000 --> 01:18:57.279
sit here and we look at this as a as

1032
01:18:57.319 --> 01:19:05.720
a movement of one person, of one candidate, it's very slow.

1033
01:19:06.520 --> 01:19:11.319
You know why some of the most successful campaigns have

1034
01:19:11.359 --> 01:19:16.159
been successful. It's because they started a grassroots movement. Like

1035
01:19:16.199 --> 01:19:21.039
That's one thing that that Rob sand did very well

1036
01:19:21.479 --> 01:19:26.079
by doing this ninety nine town hall tour for all

1037
01:19:26.239 --> 01:19:34.239
in all ninety nine counties. He has had the conversations,

1038
01:19:33.840 --> 01:19:36.199
he has got out there, he has got the reach,

1039
01:19:38.159 --> 01:19:40.279
and that will help him a ton when it actually

1040
01:19:40.319 --> 01:19:46.319
comes down to whether or not he's successful in the end,

1041
01:19:47.119 --> 01:19:51.800
because moral credibility doesn't come from a microphone. It comes

1042
01:19:51.800 --> 01:19:55.439
from showing up. Here's the roadmap for the next twenty

1043
01:19:55.439 --> 01:20:01.600
four months. One candidate, quality recruit lead who can explain,

1044
01:20:02.359 --> 01:20:07.399
not just exclaim. We've seen what chrisma without competence does.

1045
01:20:07.479 --> 01:20:12.840
It wins primaries and loses governing majorities. Digital infrastructure, the

1046
01:20:12.920 --> 01:20:17.640
left dominates micro targeting. We need our own ecosystem, data,

1047
01:20:18.000 --> 01:20:26.920
small dollar fundraising, message discipline, not copycats competitors. Every national

1048
01:20:27.039 --> 01:20:30.760
race is a mosaic of local trust. Host town halls,

1049
01:20:30.880 --> 01:20:35.039
not just rallies. Be visible between elections. Then we have

1050
01:20:35.079 --> 01:20:39.560
civic education. Reteach what self government means, because if citizens

1051
01:20:39.560 --> 01:20:47.800
don't know their rights, they don't defend them. Coalition expansion

1052
01:20:49.560 --> 01:20:54.720
pull in immigrants chasing freedom, union workers tired of false promises,

1053
01:20:54.960 --> 01:21:00.880
Minority entrepreneurs building generational wealth. They're not our ends, they

1054
01:21:00.920 --> 01:21:05.000
are our future teammates. This doesn't compromise it's confidence. A

1055
01:21:05.079 --> 01:21:08.600
movement secure enough and its values to open its doors.

1056
01:21:08.840 --> 01:21:11.319
What we have to realize is the people that don't

1057
01:21:11.960 --> 01:21:17.760
typically fit what our target audiences, what our target people are,

1058
01:21:18.199 --> 01:21:20.760
are the people that we have to target now. It

1059
01:21:20.840 --> 01:21:24.640
is the minority owner, It is the minority entrepreneur, the

1060
01:21:25.479 --> 01:21:31.079
union workers, the people because usually union workers, the ones

1061
01:21:31.079 --> 01:21:37.119
that I know are conservatives, but they're usually voting with

1062
01:21:37.399 --> 01:21:42.039
their union, which usually unions back a certain candidate, and

1063
01:21:42.279 --> 01:21:48.399
usually they're Democrats. But also pull in immigrants, legal immigrants,

1064
01:21:49.319 --> 01:21:53.760
because we can't be completely hip hippocratic hip, have full

1065
01:21:53.840 --> 01:21:59.920
hypocrisy here. But pull in immigrants that have been pushed

1066
01:22:00.439 --> 01:22:07.079
and wanting freedom and wanting wondering everything that the United

1067
01:22:07.119 --> 01:22:17.399
States could offer. Have them talk about the ways that

1068
01:22:18.079 --> 01:22:20.920
policies could help them, but also the experiences that they've

1069
01:22:20.920 --> 01:22:27.359
been through to be able to be legal immigrants. Corruption

1070
01:22:27.439 --> 01:22:30.199
does not start in back rooms. It starts in excuses.

1071
01:22:30.399 --> 01:22:34.520
When leaders lie for the cause, the cause dies a little.

1072
01:22:34.720 --> 01:22:39.159
When parties protect power instead of people, cynicism becomes contagious.

1073
01:22:39.439 --> 01:22:43.640
Integrity is our most powerful weapon. Use it until the

1074
01:22:43.680 --> 01:22:47.119
other side either copies it or collapses under its absence.

1075
01:22:47.920 --> 01:22:51.079
That means calling out hypocrisy in our own ranks before

1076
01:22:51.119 --> 01:22:54.199
anyone else does. It means holding allies to the same

1077
01:22:54.279 --> 01:22:59.960
standards as opponents, because when conservatives police themselves, Americans remember

1078
01:23:00.079 --> 01:23:03.680
or why they trusted us once before. Be the movement

1079
01:23:03.720 --> 01:23:08.439
that tells the truth even when it hurts. That's how

1080
01:23:08.479 --> 01:23:12.600
we heal this country, one honest sentence at a time.

1081
01:23:13.359 --> 01:23:17.239
You can feel it, the tremor under the surface, the

1082
01:23:17.319 --> 01:23:21.720
sense that this country's weary but not broken, divided but

1083
01:23:21.800 --> 01:23:28.199
not doomed. This election didn't crown a king or in

1084
01:23:28.319 --> 01:23:31.840
a cultural war. It reminded us that democracy is still

1085
01:23:31.840 --> 01:23:34.920
a conversation and the mic is still in our hands.

1086
01:23:35.199 --> 01:23:39.520
We've seen where apathy leads. We've watched trust fade like

1087
01:23:39.640 --> 01:23:44.840
paint in the sun. But as long as we can talk, think, vote,

1088
01:23:45.279 --> 01:23:49.199
pray and build, we can still course correct. So let's

1089
01:23:49.199 --> 01:23:52.880
do it. Let's rebuild this republic, not with bitterness but

1090
01:23:52.920 --> 01:23:57.039
with boldness, not with nostalgia for what we were, but

1091
01:23:57.119 --> 01:24:01.359
with conviction about what we can be. Other side chase headlines,

1092
01:24:01.560 --> 01:24:06.640
will chase history, Let them engineer maps, will engineer integrity.

1093
01:24:07.000 --> 01:24:11.399
Let them shout, and we'll serve. Because when America remembers

1094
01:24:11.560 --> 01:24:15.279
what service looks like when it sees neighbors feeding neighbors,

1095
01:24:15.520 --> 01:24:20.880
parents guiding children, entrepreneurs asking and risking everything for a dream.

1096
01:24:22.079 --> 01:24:26.479
That's when politics starts looking small again. And maybe that's

1097
01:24:26.520 --> 01:24:29.159
the point. Maybe politics was never supposed to be the

1098
01:24:29.159 --> 01:24:31.439
center of our lives. Maybe it was supposed to be

1099
01:24:31.560 --> 01:24:34.319
the shadow cast by a free people standing in the

1100
01:24:34.399 --> 01:24:38.119
light of purpose. So tonight, as the numbers fade from

1101
01:24:38.159 --> 01:24:45.199
the ticker, the pundits spin their takes, remember this, The

1102
01:24:45.239 --> 01:24:49.000
future isn't written in ballots. It's written in behavior. Every

1103
01:24:49.079 --> 01:24:52.079
act of honesty, courage, and compassion is a vote for

1104
01:24:52.119 --> 01:24:56.000
the America we believe in. And if we can keep

1105
01:24:56.039 --> 01:24:58.720
casting those votes daily in our homes, our businesses, in

1106
01:24:58.760 --> 01:25:03.079
our communities, no, no law, no media narrative can erase

1107
01:25:03.119 --> 01:25:08.800
that majority. So stand up, speak truth, serve boldly, and

1108
01:25:08.880 --> 01:25:14.560
never forget. The ground only moves when enough people decide

1109
01:25:14.600 --> 01:25:16.960
to push. I'm Tanner Pain and this has been with

1110
01:25:17.000 --> 01:25:21.520
the world of Pain podcasts. Stay grounded, stay grateful, and

1111
01:25:21.560 --> 01:25:25.279
never stop believing that America's best chapters are still unwritten.

1112
01:25:26.359 --> 01:25:30.119
Don't forget to follow the show. If you're on Spotify,

1113
01:25:30.199 --> 01:25:32.760
you can follow on there. If you're on Apple Podcasts,

1114
01:25:32.800 --> 01:25:35.560
you can share the show on there. Don't forget to

1115
01:25:36.000 --> 01:25:38.600
share it with your friends, your family, anyone who needs

1116
01:25:38.600 --> 01:25:44.239
to hear this, because as conservatives, we have to make adjustments.

1117
01:25:44.239 --> 01:25:46.199
We have to make adjustments now if we're going to

1118
01:25:46.279 --> 01:25:51.800
see us win anything in twenty twenty six, because if

1119
01:25:51.840 --> 01:25:55.800
we don't win anything in twenty twenty six, we are

1120
01:25:55.800 --> 01:26:01.479
going to struggle. So I challenge you share it with

1121
01:26:01.520 --> 01:26:04.680
one person in your life, someone who needs needs to

1122
01:26:04.760 --> 01:26:09.000
hear this. And don't forget to check out our social

1123
01:26:09.239 --> 01:26:17.279
our socials. Sorry, I'm that exhaust our socials x It's

1124
01:26:17.359 --> 01:26:23.760
World of Pain, Instagram, World of Pain, Facebook, World of Pain.

1125
01:26:25.239 --> 01:26:29.600
Check us out out there on Facebook. I do post

1126
01:26:29.800 --> 01:26:32.880
other stuff that's going on during the week. I had

1127
01:26:32.920 --> 01:26:36.439
to make this this podcast tonight. I'm going to try

1128
01:26:36.439 --> 01:26:39.199
and start getting on a consistent schedule of like Tuesday Thursday,

1129
01:26:39.720 --> 01:26:45.119
so I'm not exhausting myself staying up super late to

1130
01:26:45.159 --> 01:26:51.439
do these podcasts. But don't forget to to share these

1131
01:26:52.319 --> 01:26:54.600
share them with someone who needs to hear this stuff.

1132
01:26:57.079 --> 01:27:01.119
There's people out there that might be looking at the

1133
01:27:01.199 --> 01:27:04.640
conservative movement from the outside and not really knowing, especially

1134
01:27:04.760 --> 01:27:12.079
with the big conservative voices not really being voices anymore.

1135
01:27:12.479 --> 01:27:15.359
A lot of them have died down since Charlie Kirk

1136
01:27:15.359 --> 01:27:18.960
passed away, and I've started to notice that it's time

1137
01:27:19.039 --> 01:27:22.239
to start getting the conservative voices back out there. So

1138
01:27:22.279 --> 01:27:25.479
don't forget to share it, don't forget to like our socials,

1139
01:27:26.600 --> 01:27:30.359
and have a good night, and just remember America is

1140
01:27:30.359 --> 01:27:33.359
the best country on earth, and we can only make

1141
01:27:33.399 --> 01:27:38.600
it better if we do it together. Have the conversations,

1142
01:27:39.239 --> 01:27:44.920
the hard conversations, the easy conversations, the constructive conversations. We

1143
01:27:45.000 --> 01:27:47.520
can do this, and we can do this together. Have

1144
01:27:47.600 --> 01:27:48.039
a good night.