The ACLJ has a major update in its election interference case at the U.S. Supreme Court. We’re fighting to ensure all Americans have the right to vote for the candidate of their choice. The Democrat Party had Green Party candidate Jill Stein removed from the Nevada presidential election ballot, so they asked the ACLJ to legally represent them after its success with the Trump ballot ban SCOTUS case. The Sekulow team discusses the next steps in the ACLJ’s election interference case, the controversy surrounding the U.S. Secret Service, the latest presidential election polls between Vice President Kamala Harris and President Donald
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Last night at 4 p.m. Eastern time, there was a deadline for the reply briefs from our opponents, the Nevada Democrat Party. Interesting enough, the party that tells you it’s all about choice and decisions and liberty and freedom. We told you they redefined all of those terms because the Green Party gets access to the ballot.
But the Secretary of State, who is a Democrat, by the way, also filed a reply trying to keep the Green Party off the ballot in Nevada. Isn’t it interesting that what they’re actually doing in court is trying to make sure that there are less options for voters in Nevada to actually vote for? And that is where their briefs focused in on is, you know, by the way, they waited the Nevada Democrat Party until the final day, the latest day possible to file this challenge.
Now, they could do that under strategy, but think about it. This is supposed to be the party of liberty, freedom and choice. So they wait till the final day to final this, to file this challenge.
And then the Nevada Green Party, of course, we filed suit and we brought it to the US. Supreme Court, and we asked the US. Supreme Court to look at it.
Their argument then, in their reply, though, is that now they don’t have enough time, they wouldn’t have enough time to print the ballots, even if the court thought what they did was wrong. And that’s kind of the classic thing here, Logan, is even if what the court did here is wrong, even if what we did is wrong, it’s too late, we can’t hit reprint on the machines. Everyone knows, I hope the Supreme Court justices realize too, that we live in a society where you can get things overseas in a day.
It’s not too late until the day has actually come, literally.
Yeah, to actually just print new ballots.
Especially if you made an error as the state.
Right, I think that it’s just so clear what’s going on. That’s maybe the biggest concern that everyone should have who should be watching this, because you may go, why do we care? Why are we involved in the Green Party?
Because it’s just clear what kind of interference is trying to happen.
What’s the latest poll? We got a will to pull it up. What’s the latest poll in Nevada?
Would you look at Harris versus Trump?
Yeah, because you may be thinking, OK, well, the Green Party is what? Got a poll of 1%, you know, 3%?
Usually the states they’re in. What’s the latest poll?
So the RealClearPolitics average has Harris up 0.2. The latest polls, though, one, she is up 4 and Trump is up 3 in the other.
OK, so all these margin of errors. And the Green Party gets somewhere between 1 and 3%.
Different game.
You know, and we know who that would probably whose voters are likely coming from. So, I mean, it’s the Nevada Democrat Party. They’re telling you, you don’t have to be some political expert to figure that out.
But the fact that they, as Democrats, try to act like they are this or friendly to all, except all, they’re not the big tit party anymore, Lohee. They are the, you’re either with us or we try to take you and destroy you. They did it to RFK.
They’ve done it now to the Green Party in Nevada, which, you know, is a party that has had a long history of getting on the ballot.
Yeah, everyone knows the Green Party. It’s not like this is a brand new thing. It’s been around forever.
As sort of that known third party, if you will. I mean, it’s not unheard of. It’s like that and the Libertarians, like we know them.
They’ve been around forever at this point.
Yeah, I just, I think that we are, again, there’s going to be more action. So the US. Supreme Court will just, you know, how this works, just again, if you’re just joining us on 1-800-684-3110, this is with Justice Kagan.
She is the circuit justice for this case. My dad’s going to be joining us in the next segment. Just kind of walk it through now that all the filings should be in by today.
And she will then make decisions on her own. She can more likely is referred to the entire Supreme Court. They can take action here without oral argument or additional briefing.
They could request additional briefing on a specific question, and they could rule for us. They could rule for against us without oral argument. They could do oral argument.
They’d have to come back early. So I don’t think this is as complicated of a case where you’ve got to do that. But we are going to be taking your calls at 1-800-684-3110.
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Dad, our chief counsel at ACLJ, I wanted to bring you in because I know it’s a busy time for our legal team. The texts keep coming in and out as there’s almost, I think, finished with the initial rounds of our filings here on the case out of Nevada. But I did want to go to you, Dad, just to kind of explain to people how you think this plays out, because I think it’s something probably by the end of the week, we’re going to probably have a decision on.
Yeah, I mean, we could have a decision, technically, I think, from this afternoon forward. Anytime now, you can have it. Look, I just reviewed a brief that we’re filing in response to the filings we now receive from Nevada and from the Nevada Democrat Party, and they are really arguing on a procedural basis.
They touch on the substance, but not a lot because they’re very weak on the substance. They’re trying to hook it procedurally by basically asserting that it’s not a relief that can be requested, and I think we’ve done a very effective job of rebutting that. Look, what the Nevada Secretary of State did was unconscionable.
They said, use this form. The Green Party used the form, and then they said, we’re not going to accept it because that form is not the right form, even though it was the form you told us to use. I think we’ve got a very strong case on the merit, but look, Supreme Court review on these things are always odds are against it, but I’m pretty optimistic here that we’ll at least got a shot.
We certainly got the court’s attention.
Yeah, we got the court’s attention. We knew that when they ordered the replies last week. Of course, there was a holiday some places, some federal holidays on Monday, so their replies came in.
Well, I was interested in their replies, which is they try to rely. Their main argument to the Supreme Court is, you don’t have the power to do this, like the court loves to hear that. And we don’t have time to print ballots.
Now, this is 2024. If you have to print new ballots for an entire state, and a lot of these are actually just the early ballots that go out, you can do it in a day. You can ship it overseas in a day.
Right. There is no, the time constraint is a time constraint of Nevada’s own making. The truth of the matter is, there’s some days here.
I mean, this has to move quickly, no doubt. I mean, we’re, what are we, 49 days away from the election, so this has got to move quickly. But quickly here should mean that there should be a resolution by the end of the week.
And this argument that we don’t, that there’s not enough time is just not right.
I mean, I also just remind people, the Nevada Democrat Party, that is something they, I mean, they could do it, it was not, you know, illegal for them to do it, but they waited to file on the final day, they could attack and file against the Green Party to try and make it more difficult if they were successful for the state to print the ballots.
There is no, in my mind, there is no question about that. And if you look at how they procedurally handle it, you’d have to come to the same conclusion. But nevertheless, I think we presented a very coherent argument and we’re worried about election integrity.
Knocking parties off when they’ve been basically hoodwinked by the Secretary of State will be a horrible precedent, a lot of shit.
Yeah, absolutely. And I think that people need to understand why we’re getting involved in this. Because you hear words like, you know, Green Party and all of this, and you know where we stand.
And we want to know why we are getting involved. I’ve seen that even in some of the commentary, if they maybe aren’t watching this show. They go, that’s strange that the Sekulows are getting involved in this.
So, can we give a bigger idea? I understand it’s election integrity, but why that should be important to our listeners?
Dr. Logan, that’s a great question. And here’s the truth. I mean, we’ve represented in the Religious Liberty Front, I’ve represented, as you all both know, the Hare Krishnas before.
Why? Not because I support the theology of the Krishnas, because they’re right to propagate their beliefs, their evangelism. If they’re denied their right, well, then our clients are denied their right.
And the same thing goes here. Jordan said this very well the other day. If this is allowed to happen to the Green Party, you don’t think they’re going to do this to other parties, including conservatives, you know they will.
So that’s why you got to kind of nip these things off as soon as they start happening.
Yeah, especially in a time period where it’s possible you could see the makings of a potential third party that conservatives could be interesting, a viable one. I mean, you kind of see the makings of the RFKs, the Tulsi Gabbards of the world. You could imagine in a scenario in our lifetime, but not if the major two parties are able to keep those parties from even being on the ballot, even when they’ve spent the resources, even when they’ve gone to the Secretary of State and said, hey, we want to double check, make sure the form we’re about to use is the correct form, the Secretary of State, and that would have been the right form, dad.
They had the right form, the Secretary of State’s team said no, and then now the Secretary of State’s team, instead of taking responsibility for that, wants to say, well, it’s their fault for using the wrong form. Or it’s their fault for relying on the Secretary of State’s information.
Yeah, they’re saying the Secretary of State made a quote, inadvertent mistake, and you can’t hold them responsible for it, but you can penalize the client who now can’t have their party registered for voters to cast a ballot for. So that tells you how unjust that is. It also tells you where the Democrats are in this.
So I hope that explains why we’re doing this.
Yeah, but also it makes sense because, like you said, could they do it to other parties? Well, they already know that they tried to do this to President Trump. We had to get involved in that.
The original, the original one. So this isn’t some sort of shocking thing that this would happen. We saw it with RFK multiple times, but then we had to get involved for President Trump.
That’s exactly right. And it was the same kind of thing. It was one of these, and everybody sat on that one, remember, oh, there’s no way that could happen.
And it did. So I think, look, I think we’re doing the right thing institutionally. We sent a, I sent a letter to a lot of our board, a text to our board members explaining why we’re doing it.
And the reason we’re doing it is, if you let it sit, it’s gonna impact, it could impact the entire election, especially in the close states.
And if this was, if this kind of standard was okay, if it was okay to give a candidate or party the wrong form, and then let their opposition party file a lawsuit against them on the final day you can, to say they used the wrong form, and by the way, now they don’t have time to correct it. And you, the state, are the reason why they used the wrong form. I mean, Dan, it gives bad actors in the Secretaries of State’s Office an actual framework to deny ballot access.
Oh, it’s an incentive to deny ballot access. Are you kidding? I mean, that’s the reality of what it is.
It’s an incentive to deny ballot access. But that’s why we’re fighting, and that’s why people supporting the work of the ACLJ is making a huge difference on so many issues.
Yeah, and that’s again why I believe, too, people are supporting the work. They see, again, the work we’ll do on the 14th Amendment, the work we’re doing in this case. We’re asking people right now, if you become an ACLJ champion right now at aclj.org/champions, your actual first donation that you make and your occurring donations, your first one is going to be doubled, like a matching challenge, but your first donation will be doubled.
So go to aclj.org/champions. Dad, we have a big team on this. This was, it moved very quickly, of course, last week and then it moved even more quickly the last 24 hours.
Yeah, and it’s going to move quickly now. I mean, I think it’s, look, it’s in the court’s hands and any additional orders are going to come, I think, very, very quickly.
All right, dad, we appreciate you joining us. And folks, we take your calls on this too. If you’ve got any more questions about why, I think you’ve now, we have explained it and made it as clear as possible, 1-800-684-3110.
And then, you know, add to the third, and there’s no question why we’re in Nevada. I was in Monday night, I was in Washington, DC and one of the Senate candidates were running for the, the Republican running was at a dinner, or was that, and it’s a three-point race.
Yeah, I mean, it’s very close.
It’s a three-point race. And most of these polls are showing two and three. Now, again, and that is why you’re getting so much, the Nevada, remember.
Because why would they, you think about why would they care?
In some states, they wouldn’t. I guarantee you, in deeply blue states and deeply red states, the Democrat Party isn’t trying to sue to keep the Green Party off.
It’s just specifically because it’s a swing state.
Swing states. It’s a swing state, they found a way to do it. Which is, oh, they didn’t use the right form.
Even though, and I think what they got caught was, that may have worked if it was their fault for not using the right form. But then when they sued, they found out, uh-oh, they used the wrong form because the Democrat Secretary of State gave them the wrong form. It actually said the form that they had, which was the correct form, was the wrong form.
So, I mean, there’s a lot of issues here that they actually caused by filing this lawsuit.
Yeah, we got a good comment that came out of Rumble, said, I’m glad the ACLJ and those are tackling this case, because they would also do this to the Libertarian Party if they could, or any of the other parties.
Absolutely. And again, you have to look at that, and RFK is fighting those battles there. He’s got the resources.
We also look at resources, too. And ACLJ and our co-counseless knows we have the resources to take this all the way to the US. Supreme Court and fight the battle.
They have the resources, too, though.
Oh, on the other side, yeah, has brought in some two of the biggest law firms in the United States. So do not think when you were talking about the Secretary of State of Nevada and the Nevada Democrat Party and some local general council, they do have those. But they brought in the two biggest law firms in the United States to write their reply to the Supreme Court.
Yeah, so spending a lot of money and taking it very seriously.
Very seriously, because this is about those 3% or less could determine who is in the White House come January.
All right, the closer we get to this election, you know that you’re going to see more and more of this kind of behavior. And we have to be there, whether that is for the Green Party or just to really protect your rights, be able to vote for who you feel is the best candidate. We obviously are continuing our support.
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Okay, yesterday I was watching the news. There’s a lady named Paula Collins. She’s running for senator, I think, in New York.
And she said on TV that anybody, MAGA people who post anything on social media about Donald Trump was like robbed of the election, I’m paraphrasing here, you know, posting false information needed to be put in reeducation camps.
Yeah, we actually have the sound from Ms. Collins, the candidate in the house, she’s running against Elise Stefanik, our good friend there. So let’s play it because I don’t, did she, did she actually send a radio broadcast or did she know she was? A Zoom call to support her.
So she thought maybe she was in a more private setting. You never are if you’re, if you’re speaking to anyone on any device that can be recorded, which is basically everywhere now, but let’s take a listen.
Even if we were to have a resounding blue wave come through as many of us would like, putting it all back together again after we’ve gone through this MAGA nightmare and re-educating basically, which that sounds like a rather, a re-education camp. I don’t think we really want to call it that. I’m sure we can find another way to phrase it.
Yeah, so we want to call it something differently than the Communist Chinese would or the North Korea’s Logan, but we need to put everybody inside. I mean, and this is again-
This is really going to help lower the rhetoric.
What Randy heard is right. I just want to make sure people understand. She heard everything correctly.
Right. This is, we want to put you in a mandatory re-education camp and rewire your brain. This is like when people joke about how one day they will say, if you support MAGA, somehow they will say that’s child abuse.
This is someone running for Congress.
It’s like you’ll be a criminal or somebody. You’re not a responsible human to raise children.
The truth of this is though, this is someone running for Congress. This is not some random person on the Internet. This is someone who seriously-
Won a nomination.
Won a party’s nomination. It’s insane. When you hear that, it’s really pretty disturbing.
Pretty disturbing. I think again, it is extremely-
I think it would only happen also on really one side, I feel like. You would not hear that the other way. You would not hear the conservative candidate saying, we need to take all of those who-
We need to take all of the woke leftists and put them in re-education camps. I don’t think that people would say that. I would hope not, because that’s simply not how we do things in America.
It’s really an unfortunate time when you hear that kind of rhetoric come out.
Yeah, but the rhetoric continues. We have the soundbite from Corrine Jopierre. This is again, this is Peter Doocy asking her, because she keeps using that language about Donald Trump.
This is obviously encouraging people when you use this kind of language, and these shooters are using it when they write on their social media the same words.
It’s been only two days since somebody allegedly tried to kill Donald Trump again. And you’re here at the podium in the White House briefing room calling him a threat. How many more assassination attempts on Donald Trump until the president and the vice president and you pick a different word to describe Trump other than threat?
Peter, if anything from this administration, I actually completely disagree with the premise of your question, the question that you’re asking. It is also incredibly dangerous in the way that you’re asking it because American people are watching.
So she’s scared.
She’s scared about what she should be saying.
Yeah, because now all of a sudden it’s like putting it back on to them and saying, you know, that’s an issue. You’re asking this, you’re kind of blaming me for this.
Her party and her candidate and their White House and her own microphone, that word is coming out. She had just said threat. I mean, this is why they don’t like Donald Trump’s rhetoric, but he’s the one getting shot at over the words that they use as he’s a threat to democracy, he’s a threat to the Constitution, and they’ve been pounding that along so hard, that MAGA, you know, needs to go to re-education camps, that who do you think, it’s like, well, and you know what they’ll say every time, they’re going to say, as a crazy kid, this is a crazy person down in Florida, who do you recruit to do crazy things like try to kill a president?
Yeah, people who are-
Crazy people, right? It’s not the most sane people that even bad actors would recruit. Who do you think terrorists recruit to become suicide bombers?
They recruit people who are vulnerable. They recruit people whose families are in bad situations or individuals who have found themselves in very bad situations. And that’s in, again, we’re talking about Islamic terror.
They still use the same strategy, vulnerable people. That’s why you say, well, why isn’t everybody in ISIS becoming a suicide attacker if they believe this is the greatest thing? That’s because they use the vulnerable.
They use those who feel like they’ve done something wrong and need to atone for it to carry out these horrific acts. Same thing goes when you’re talking about these shooters. And yet we go by after two, three days, and acts like, oh, these are just one-offs.
Right.
How many one-offs do we have to have?
There’s another clip I think we need to play from Wolf Blitzer on CNN, just was it a day or two ago? Yesterday. So yesterday this happened.
This is with Senator Tammy Duckworth of Illinois. Again, to show you that the rhetoric is not changing. And in fact, it may be getting worse.
And at the same time, Trump is blaming the latest assassination attempt against him on democratic rhetoric that he says is a threat to democracy in our country. How do you respond to him on that?
Well, I think that he has been the most inflammatory person and in fact, democratic rhetoric has not escalated in any way in recent months, hasn’t escalated in any way. He has always been a threat to democracy. We’ve always said that.
Back to the same verbiage of threat to democracy. Of course, maybe it hasn’t gotten worse. Someone doesn’t hear something once and then go act.
This is slow rolling people who really get, like you said, who are not well.
And how do you take people from saying, I hate this person, to saying, I’m gonna kill this person. And I don’t care if I get killed or have to spend the rest of my life in jail. I know this is almost like a suicide mission.
Coming up martyr for their own heads.
Right, a martyr for this cause. Because he wanted to fill the whole thing. And whether it’s the kid in Pennsylvania and whether it’s the guy out, the older guy in Florida, I mean, they are following what they think are directions that they’re hearing.
They think they’re hearing directions. I’m not saying political rhetoric, by the way, cannot be tough.
It will be in America. Donald Trump is always going to be.
And he’s got some of the toughest political rhetoric. But when you demonize your opponent as an enemy of the state, as a kind of a disease or something that is, again, foreign almost, like they don’t want to ever talk about the fact that we’ve got the Chinese influence in our country. They love talking about foreign actors, like the foreign actors calling in all the threats.
But then they kind of ignore that issue in Springfield, Ohio. Now that that’s not crazy MAGA people, but probably China and Russia and other countries.
We’ll definitely break that down coming up a little later.
You know, all of that has come up. You know what I’m saying, though? It’s like they only acknowledge it.
Now they’re hiding behind podiums. But I think this is what they’ve decided. They’re not gonna change.
They’ve doubled down on it a little bit.
Yeah, they got 40-something days. They’re, you know, no reason to adjust now. We’re gonna take some more calls coming up.
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Do have a new update for you. I hope it’s ready for the screen. So we have filed, you may have heard my dad mention it when he was on earlier in the broadcast, our reply brief to the response from the Nevada Democrat Party and the Nevada Secretary of State in the case involving them trying to kick the Green Party off.
This reply, it goes, it’s been delivered to the US. Supreme Court. Look, we have the screen.
We’ll have it just a second. Maybe explain what that means because we’re replying to a reply to a reply.
Okay, so we file a brief at the US. Supreme Court, and that’s because this case had been adjudicated all the way through Nevada’s, to the US. Supreme Court of Nevada, okay?
So we filed an initial brief. Then Justice Kagan, who is the circuit justice. So the justice, there’s still all, there’s the 13 circuits of the United States.
The justices divide those up. Because she’s the circuit justice, you take that and you send your request in to her. You file your brief with her.
It’s almost like a cert petition slash, you’re asking them to take some kind of action. So it actually says in there, this is both a cert petition and also a request to vacate or vacature, which is basically to take action without no argument. She then asked for briefing from the Nevada Secretary of State and the Nevada Democrat Party.
And that briefing had to be in by Tuesday at 4 p.m. and it was delivered by Tuesday at 4 p.m. The Supreme Court rules are kind of silent on if you’re the party who goes from the state Supreme Court, like we are, to the US. Supreme Court, do you get an automatic reply? It’s kind of silent.
So what you hear is, if you want to reply, you better do it quickly. So what do we do? Well, these came in at around 4 p.m. Eastern time yesterday.
Our reply is already in from the ACLJ, representing our client. There it is on the screen. It’s been filed with, I mean, I haven’t, again, you’re fresh, you’re seeing it.
As I’m seeing it right now, it’s on this show. But that is our team. And so again, that was put together by our team, Lowey, you know, basically working all over through the night last night, because you were just starting to reply to something that you received late afternoon.
So what does that team look like? You’re talking about a big group of people working on these things.
You have to have at least, I mean, probably eight attorneys total, four of which are putting it together the entire time. And I’d say additional four who are reviewing it constantly, so that when the final edits go through, you can hit the button and deliver it. So you got upwards of eight, probably even more close to 10 eyes on it.
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It’s a massive effort to get all of us going and to continue on the work. Yeah.
Of the US. Supreme Court. The tables you’ve got to include.
The appendices that you have to include. All of that, we have teams working on that while they’re simultaneously editing other edits that have come through. And so again, it shows you what we’re capable of doing at the American Center for Law and Justice because of the resources you make available to us.
And by the way, that’s not like the only work we’re doing at the ACLJ. It’s not like the ACLJ somehow shuts down. It’s actually, again, it’s a team.
That team is on it and everything else moves forward.
Yeah, there’s other teams working on other cases all the time. And look, if you want to support the work, this is a great time to do it. We get back.
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All right, welcome back to Sekulow. Rick Riddell is joining us. Rick, I want to go right into, I don’t even want to call it an interview.
President Trump participated. It was kind of bizarre to say the least, but Harris, I’m sure she’ll try to claim it’s some kind of interview setting, because she received questions from moderators. And I mean, for us, I don’t think it went well.
She also just had some really bizarre answers to the questions she received. One was directly about the Secret Service protection of President Trump. Let’s play this for everybody, because I want to make sure Rick hears it too.
And then where she takes it, which is, again, it’s ignoring the actual question, even from a friendly questioner.
Do you have full confidence in the Secret Service?
I do.
To protect all of you?
I do.
You feel safe for you and your family?
I do. But, I mean, you can go back to Ohio. Not everybody has Secret Service.
And, there are far too many people in our country right now who are not feeling safe. I mean, I look at Project 2025, and I look at, you know, like, the don’t say gay laws coming out of Florida. Members of the LGBTQ community don’t feel safe right now.
Immigrants, or people with an immigrant background don’t feel safe right now. Women don’t feel safe right now. And so, yes, I feel safe.
I have Secret Service protection. But that doesn’t change my perspective on the importance of fighting for the safety of everybody in our country.
So, Rick, on the one side, we now know that those bomb threats that came into Ohio from the Ohio governor, they’ve done the work there, they took it seriously, were all by foreign actors. Okay, and so they all came out by foreign actors. They weren’t Americans making those threats.
That’s point one. Point two is, it’s almost like she went through it in so many different groups of people that no one in our country is safe except for her, and she has Secret Service. But if you’re Donald Trump and you have Secret Service, you may not actually be safe because you’re still getting shot at.
Wait, first of all, the headline is, she’s in charge. She just listed a whole group of Americans that don’t feel safe. Well, she’s in charge.
What does that say? You know, we keep talking about turning the page. Let’s turn the page.
Well, we have to turn the page on the fact that people don’t feel safe right now under this administration. This is the first point. The second point is, she throws around Project 25 and these Don’t Say Gay laws like the Russian dossier.
This is a scandal that the Democrats are pushing, just like the Russian dossier, which turned out to be totally Hillary Clinton, trumped up fake charges against Donald Trump. This whole Project 2025 is another Russian dossier. It’s phony and they keep pushing it and they keep getting fact checked.
But it’s like they don’t care that they’re just pushing phony Russian disinformation again. And this time it’s in the form of Project 2025.
Yeah, so whatever key words they can throw out there, it does appear though, Rick, like the rhetoric, it’s not gonna stop. I mean, they keep getting asked, Kareem Jean-Pierre gets asked about, why are you using words like threat? And then she said, I can’t believe you know, Peter Ducey, you even asked me that question because you’re putting us all in danger.
But yet it is, it’s not like Donald Trump doesn’t use tough rhetoric. But the rhetoric that they have decided to use to describe Donald Trump specifically is now rhetoric that we’re seeing play out in dangerous events. I mean, that’s just reality.
People aren’t making up, they’re seeing it with their own eyes. It doesn’t matter what news channel you’re watching. They may try to play it down like they did with the second event.
But eventually the truth starts coming out on all these networks.
Look, I was the US ambassador to Germany. One basic thing I learned is there is nothing, nothing that compares to the Holocaust. Shame on the left for trying to pretend like there is something similar.
When they talk about Nazi language, Nazis or the Holocaust to compare to their political enemies, it’s shameful. The Nazis killed 6.5 million Jews. This is not even comparable.
They need to stop using this language to go after their political opponents. That’s all they’re trying to do is score political points.
I mean, this is another time in this forum, Rick, where again, it’s like Harris, maybe this is how it felt as the vice president to Joe Biden, like he weren’t even working or he had nothing, he weren’t even doing anything because he couldn’t really keep it together knowing what he was even going on. But listen to the second bite from that conference.
Is the price of grocery still too high? Yes. Do we have more work to do?
Yes. And I will tell you, I do believe that I offer a new generation of leadership for our country that is about, in particular, turning the page on an era that sadly has shown us attempts by some to incite fear to create division in our country.
Again, it’s an era that she’s been in office as a senator and Vice President of the United States, Rick.
Look, I think she’s going after Joe Biden there. We already know that she called Joe Biden a racist during the primary. And I think that this is her chance to distance herself from Joe Biden.
So she’s talking about turning the page, a new generation, really a swipe at how old Joe Biden is. And she’s talking about the fact that we don’t feel safe in this current environment, and she wants to do something different. This is her trying to distance herself from Joe Biden.
And she can’t distance herself from Joe Biden. She was handed the entire nomination because Joe Biden says, give it to Kamala. There wasn’t even a Democratic process.
So she is going to have to try to distance herself from Joe, but I don’t think it’s working.
No, I don’t either. I mean, I think, Rick, what do you think the response needs to be from the American people that don’t, you know, they don’t have the opportunities to get to go on TV necessarily, but when they’re talking to their friends and family about this kind of rhetoric, and it does feel like, you know, if you use, if you support certain candidates, you’re putting yourself potentially, like, in danger of violence right now. And I hate that for the country.
Well, look, it’s the fear on the left that they’re trying to pretend that somehow all of these problems now are someone else’s fault. It’s their fault. They’ve been in office for three and a half years.
So I think the first point that people have to make is Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have been in office for three and a half years. Why don’t we have a closed border? Why don’t we have lower grocery prices, lower gas prices, and why do we have two wars?
They need to answer those questions. Then I think the second point is, just compared to Donald Trump’s administration, we didn’t have an open border. We didn’t have these higher prices.
People could afford groceries and gas, and we certainly didn’t have two horrific wars, one in Europe and one in the Middle East.
Because, always, we appreciate you joining us on the broadcast and your insight on all of this, because, again, I think, as, again, there’s room for tough political rhetoric in our country. There always is room for that, folks. But there’s certain times when you see the actions that we’ve seen, Logan, when you see two assassination attempts, it’s almost like the school shootings issues.
You keep seeing these things happen over and over, people get not used to it, but you get callous to it.
Numb to it. You get numb to it. You start to say, okay, well yeah, this is what happens in America.
You don’t have to think how serious that is.
Yeah, exactly. And I think that when we got to the second one, and of course, the success of the fact that the shooter did not get off a round, obviously I think brought a different perspective than the first one, which was obviously inches away. But there are a lot of questions that are coming in about that.
I want to go ahead and take Tim, who’s been a hold for a long time. Tim, you’re on the air. In Indiana, go ahead with your question.
I just have a quick question. It’s something that I don’t know and I’m hoping you can educate us. What would happen in an election environment like we are right now, if the candidate does get assassinated or let’s say they die before the actual election day?
Okay, so before election day, you’ve got the case. So you’re saying, like these candidates now, they’ve got the nomination from their party, but they don’t make it to election day. Each party has got rules.
So it’s not automatically JD Vance, necessarily, under party rules. Now, again, you can change those party rules every time the party comes together, which is every two years. The Republican Party works it, but they do most of their platform work every four.
So the members of the Republican Party, like the committee men and women, likely would have a, there is a policy in place about who to choose that would be the presidential candidate at that time. So it’s not automatically necessary, necessarily who has the VP nomination. Same for the Democrat Party as well.
It could be, but it’s not necessarily. The parties get to decide how that is fixed, and that’s ultimately the name that appears on the ballot.
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And I just wanted to let you know that I love listening to your show. Wondering if you heard this, that Kamala Harris wants to change the name of USA to BRA, which stands for Banana Republic of America. So feel free to plagiarize that because it’s so fit for, she’s like fingernails on a chalkboard to listen to.
Just cringes.
Yeah, it’s all cringey.
Yeah, I mean, there are these phones. We played those interview bites. I think those were, or you would call them interview, the panel that was happening.
Well, you have every three weeks an assassination tip on a former president, though. You are getting into banana republic territory for real.
Of course, yeah, it feels that way.
I mean, that’s what, if you look in other countries, in developing world countries or failed states as well, so states that might have been one time very successful but have crumbled, this is what happens. Political violence becomes extremely normal.
I think we live with a little bit of blinders on because in the majority of our lifetime, there have been assassination attempts, but not regularly. If you actually think about when they have happened, but if they did happen, they’ve been very early, like the Ronald Reagan ones, like very early in our lives. So we haven’t really experienced that, like our parents’ generation did with Kennedy, and like previous administrations, previous generations did with plenty of others throughout history.
So it’s not that uncommon.
No, it’s not that uncommon to develop, but we were, you know, the earliest fascinations, we were a developing country, and then we saw, I think we saw JFK posed a new threat to the elite in America because of the fact that a Catholic, an Irish Catholic could become president, I said literally. And then we saw the first Islamic terror through RFK, and RFK Jr.’s father, that attack. So usually it is kind of like you can track kind of historic moments happening around the world to those.
But when you’ve got a former president facing this, this is when you actually get into, I think, the worst territory. He’s a current candidate, but former president. These are not individuals going after the current president of the United States for something they’ve done.
All those were current presidents.
That’s true.
When you can be on the top of the list as a former and candidate, you are living in a place where the rhetoric has gotten out of control.
All right, we’re gonna continue on and take some more calls. Let’s go to Pat, who’s calling in Maryland on line five. Matt, Pat, you’re on the air.
Hey, guys. Thank you. Thank you so much for all you do.
God bless you. My question is what can we do to get a Republican governor or a highly ranked state Republican to do the same thing as Governors Abbott and Yonkin did in Texas and Virginia and get these illegals off the registration voter rolls?
Yeah, I think that listen, you got to go state by state, but I mean, the issue is you’ve got to have, one, Republican leaders in your state and half the states don’t have that. So they’re not going to necessarily do that. They are not going to do that.
They’re not going to purge voter rolls unless there’s law that requires them to do so. So maybe you can get it through if you’ve got a state legislature that’s Republican, even if the governor is not. But so what do you have to do?
Well, in these general elections coming up, there’s going to be plenty of gubernatorial races too. You’ve got to elect people who are going to do that. Now, each state is going to have different rules on who is actually able to kick that off.
But what you do is you get a law passed saying, we do this every so many years. Our state is going to go through the voter rolls every year. It’s about people who have moved, people who should not be on.
It’s not just illegal immigrants who somehow got put on the ballot, maybe because they were allowed to get IDs at one time or driver’s license at those states. But it’s people who have also passed away, people who have moved. We saw under the COVID voting how bad the voting rolls were because I got three live ballots.
And that’s over 10 years of places I lived.
Yeah, from different states.
I had been cleared in places that were a decade old.
Yeah, I think we all learned a lot during that. Let’s go to last call of the day. Let’s go to Bonnie.
She’s calling in North Carolina. You’re on the air.
Hi, everyone. I just wanted to call because I feel like Trump needs to target specific areas and age groups that he’s not pulling highest in. Like, for instance, tip the Gen Z, Gen X.
Let them know, I stand for you. Use a tagline to pull those young people in. You’re faced with trying to start your career.
Can I afford rent? I’m a young couple trying to get married in the cross of that, and a rent and car payments and student loans. I stand for you.
To senior citizens, now with Social Security, I’m not going to be taxing your Social Security. I stand for you. He needs to bring it to a personal of how he’s standing for that age group, that person.
I think there’s a lot that can be said to those different generations you said, whether it’s the senior community, whether it’s the brand new voters, those that are 18 to 22, maybe never voted, haven’t voted yet. It is harder to activate those bases. So you see a little less time spent talking to them and maybe you’re correct.
Maybe there’s a way to do that. Well, I encourage you, Bonnie, I appreciate you for calling in and giving your feedback on that. That’s going to do it for today’s show.
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