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Join John Rush for another thought-provoking episode of Rush to Reason. This time, John takes listeners on an analytical journey through the current political climate and economic strategies shaping today’s world. Listen as the intricate relationships between tariffs and the global marketplace are laid bare, offering insights into the back-and-forth between advocates and critics. This episode promises deep dives into key political maneuvers, unexpected pardons, and the hidden motivations driving today’s headlines. With expert guests and dynamic conversations, you’re guaranteed to walk away informed and ready for more.
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All right, we are back. Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Thanks so much for joining. Text line. Somebody asked earlier the switchboard out front here. What is it? It’s 307-282-22. Now, because of some of the issues I’ve had with the text line of late, and I think it’s because they won’t specify, but I think it’s because… Our volume is getting so heavy that if I don’t respond to every message, don’t worry. I’ve read it, and I will do whatever I need to do with that. In a lot of cases, you guys send me just great information and things that I’ll use anyways. But if I don’t respond to every text message, it’s not because I’m ignoring you. It’s because I’m trying to figure out exactly why have they, in the last two weeks, shut me off four times. I can still receive messages at times, or when those times are happening, I’m able to receive, but I can’t respond. So I’m limiting my responses, trying to determine am I over the volume end of things or something along those lines. And again, I use a service for our text line. That’s not my personal phone number, and I’ve had it for years, and I’ve never had any issues with it up till now. Now, I also am wondering with the… amount of political things that we’re now talking about back and forth, is that part of it as well? And I don’t know. So honestly, I don’t have an answer as to why the text line gets glitchy in regards to me responding. So again, for a lot of you where I’ve been able to just hold some conversations even back and forth on that line, I’m limiting a lot of that and doing my best to see exactly what’s happening there and can I stop some of these conversations 24-hour holds. There’ll be times where I’m in the middle of the show responding to somebody and all of a sudden I get a, you can’t send that message. And it’s like, you’ve got to be kidding me. So I’m doing my best to try to figure that out. I will have to probably figure out an alternative to that. But frankly, with the election cycle and everything else we’ve had going on, I’ve just not been able to figure out any other alternatives right now. So that’s where we’re at. So Dinesh D’Souza, Charlie is still trying to get a hold of. He was confirmed, but he’s a very… Busy individual. For a lot of you that know him, have seen him, watched his movies and so on, you know exactly what I’m talking about there. So we’ll do our very best to get him dialed in on the program. If not, we’ll continue to move on. Going back to a couple of things Dr. Kelly Victory and I talked about, I want to hit on what Mark Cuban said today. And by the way, if you guys haven’t been able to go out and see that, you need to watch his comments in his interview. And yes, Mark’s a sharp guy, and he’s fairly sharp even on Shark Tank, although at times he can be a real jerk, no doubt about it. I get it. It’s a TV series, and there’s some of that that’s part of the shtick and so on, and I understand all of that. On the same token, when he gets into politics, he’s a complete loser, just flat-out loser. And the one thing I want to talk about today, if I get time to, and I mentioned this a little bit yesterday in regards to Scott Garlis on tariffs, I didn’t get as much of a chance to get into that as I would have liked, but I want to get into a little bit today, if I have time. We’ve got a lot going on. So I’ve got Dinesh D’Souza that we’re trying to get lined up right now. I’ve got a couple of candidates that are running for office here in Colorado that I want to get squeezed in here before it gets too late. As far as the election itself goes, we’re going to talk about election integrity here this hour as well. Jim Paff will be joining me in the 4 or 5 o’clock hour, which you’ve heard from many times in the past before as well. And many others. So I’ll get as many of these in as I possibly can. But I want to talk about tariffs as I have time because it’s another area where I feel guys like Mark Cuban have no clue what they’re talking about when they start talking about Trump’s tariffs. They’ll talk tariffs in general, but they won’t talk Trump tariffs. And I’ll talk about some of that here in just a few minutes. Before we go to break, though. Question of the day. Yesterday’s what unusual mathematical redefinition did Indiana state legislatures attempt to pass in 1897? And the answer is they tried to legally redefine the value of pi as 3.2 instead of 3.14. And I don’t know why. Today’s impossible question. Which company is the largest tire manufacturer in the world producing more tires annually than Goodyear, Firestone, or Michelin? I know this answer, by the way, because I’ve had this question before on Drive Radio. 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Putting reason into your afternoon drive, this is John Rush.
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All right, we are back. Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Thanks for joining us today. I appreciate it very much. And a couple of you have been texting and asking me the answer to the question of the largest tire manufacturer. Just go to the Facebook page, Rush to Reason, and have some dialogue there, and I’ll give you the answer tomorrow, of course. And is that John and Cheyenne? John and Cheyenne is next. Go ahead, John.
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First thing, you were talking about Cuban?
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Yes.
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I don’t know if you saw this, but Elon did an interview a couple of weeks and it was posted on X. And he was saying that the reason all these really rich guys don’t want Trump is because a lot of them he thinks have gone to Epstein Island and Trump’s going to release that document.
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Could be. You know, the other thing that I was thinking of, and this I think relates back to what I was going to talk about with tariffs as well, so John, we might as well just dovetail into that. Keep in mind, too, that a lot of these guys, Cuban included, these guys are globalists. They don’t want anything shutting down what they could potentially do business-wise globally. On a global scale. Now, Elon is in that same world, but Elon has gotten to the point where he just doesn’t care anymore. He’s doing his own thing anyway. It doesn’t matter what everybody else is doing. He’s so far ahead of guys like Cuban that it’s not even a race anymore. So I feel like a lot of these… quote-unquote, John, experts, where there’s these economic experts, Wall Street, et cetera, and a lot of them hate Trump’s tariff plans. And the reason is because a lot of these guys, again, they are in the market. They’re globalists. They’re trading all around the world, and they would not want to see anything at all disrupt what they do on a global fashion, I guess I should say. And And at the end of the day, we know that Trump’s tariff plans, and I think, by the way, Trump will be very strategic in that. If he gets elected, that’s the things that he will do, just like he did the last time. He’ll do more of them, though, because he’ll make it more strategic and try to bring some things back to the U.S. that should be. And the way you do that is with tariffs. But these globalists, again, John, as you know, they don’t want that. They hate that idea.
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Oh, absolutely. They want the United States to be on a level playing field with the rest of the world. And we’ve never been that since the turn of the 20th century, when we kind of became a superpower after World War I, economically-wise.
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Correct.
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And they want us back there.
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Correct.
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They don’t want us to have that advantage as Americans. One other thing, what I was going to call about yesterday, and I still think it’s pertinent, you were talking between guests yesterday about Joe trying to blow up kamala’s campaign by saying that garbage thing the other day right i don’t think it was joe i think it was jill i think jill is still mad that they got forced out and she couldn’t run for re-election and every chance she gets she’s doing something on this slide that may be a conspiracy theorist but i think he’s not
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I don’t know that I can argue that. In fact, I sort of dovetailed those two together. Probably should have done a better job of it. I believe everything you just said, John, is 100 percent correct. And I’ve said that all along. In fact, there was a little bit of dialogue that I had on NCR. way back when, when these things were happening. And my prediction was exactly what you and I are talking about right now, that, yeah, Joe will allow this. And I mean what I said, allow this to happen. She’ll allow Joe to step down, making sure that she can stay in the White House all the way to the end. There’s no way she’s going to let Kamala step into that thing earlier. There was all sorts of hearsay back at that time, remember, about, oh, now Joe will be stepping down and they’ll invoke the, you know, whatever, whatever amendment and they’ll force him out and blah, blah, blah. And I’m like, yeah, no, that’s not going to happen because that wasn’t part of the deal. In fact, you got to look at how much money probably even changed hands when this was all said and done for her to agree what she did. But to your point, John, yeah, no, there is no love loss there. In fact, there is a distinct amount of hatred between Jill and Kamala. Absolutely.
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Oh, yeah. I could see her sabotaging Kamala’s campaign.
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Because, yeah, she’s at a point right now, John, honestly, where, let’s face it, they’re set for life. They don’t really care who wins next, despite what some Democrats might think. The Bidens themselves, frankly, I think are, to your point, irritated. They’re mad. They don’t care if this thing gets blown up. I don’t think they even care if Donald Trump becomes president. In fact, I think they’re going to just send that as a poke in the eye back to the other side for what they did to them.
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And, you know, you’re right. Here’s the other thing, though, that I think Biden’s going to do before what Jill’s going to have him do. Sometime between, especially if Trump gets elected, sometime between Election Day and Inauguration Day, he’s going to pardon his brother and his son.
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It could be. That wouldn’t surprise me. And frankly, I would venture to guess that’ll happen early January.
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Yeah, that’s what I’m thinking. Late December… Perfect time, the Friday before Christmas week, when everybody’s leaving D.C.
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Yeah, thank you. I was going to say the same thing. Yeah, that’s the other time he could do it, is when everybody’s out of D.C., sort of doesn’t even make a lot of news, he’ll do it on a Friday where it doesn’t make big news. Yeah, I could see him doing something. The Friday after Christmas, for example, could he do something like that? Absolutely.
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And I don’t see him leaving the office without making sure Hunter’s pardoned, because otherwise— And Hunter’s the kind of, from everything I read about him, the kind of weasel who would even rat out his own father.
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He is definitely a weasel. I would not be shocked at that whatsoever, John. No, I think you’re spot on with all of that. I would not be shocked at all to see that happen. I think, and this is interesting. And again, I don’t have a crystal ball. I’m not predicting anything on Tuesday. I am predicting that I don’t think it’s going to be as long of a time frame to figure out who won, like a lot of people are thinking. I do think there’ll be a distinct answer by Tuesday night, if not early Wednesday morning. In fact, I think by the time we go to bed, John, on Tuesday night, we’ll know. I think it’ll be called by then and there’ll even be a concession speech, you know, one way or the other, if in fact either party decides to do so.
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Yeah, I think she might hold out until Wednesday if it’s her to concede just because. And I think the one state on the West that could slow it down is Arizona and that Maricopa County nonsense again.
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Yeah, I don’t even see that happening.
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Well, it depends on how much the rest of the state goes trump. Now, I know you were talking about this the other day. Last thing, I read an article today. that in the latest Arizona Republic poll, Carrie Lake took a lead?
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Now, if that happens, I will be stunned.
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I am, too, because she’s been behind for the last six months.
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Okay, here’s a prediction I’ll make on that one, John. If that happens, Trump wins by 300 or more electoral votes.
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Oh, and if that happens, then we’ve got 54 senators, minimum.
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Yeah, if what you’re saying actually happens, and I’m doubtful that it will, but if that actually happens, yeah, it’s all over for the Democrats, period. They’re done.
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Yeah, because then the Republicans have all three houses like it was in 17 without having to deal with Paul Ryan and McConnell.
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Yeah, I was going to say there’s a little less, not that it’s a lot less, but there’s a little less swamp there now than there was then.
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On the Republican side.
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Correct.
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No Cheney, no McConnell, no Paul Ryan. There’s a few others we could name if I went down the list. But, you know, with those three not being around and being replaced with good Republicans, we may have a chance of getting some legislation done in the first two years. But it’s all going to depend on Tuesday and the turnout. Yep, that’s right. But… John, thanks for taking the call.
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You’re very welcome. No, appreciate you, John, very much. We’ll know more as we get into, of course, Tuesday night. We’ll see how it all works out. But back to tariffs. For a lot of you that listen and you hear all sorts of different economists and experts, and I follow some of these folks. I watch them on social media and different news sources and so on. And some of these guys I have some legitimate respect for. I think in a lot of cases— they’re fairly correct in the things that they’ll talk about and the investment strategy they have and so on. And I’m not dogging them there at all. But these same people… will tell you how bad tariffs are. And again, these are people that are looking out for themselves. They’ve got a stake in this. They’re investors themselves. Some of these guys handle a fund on their own. They’ll manage a particular fund or a portfolio for others, or they’ve got a large fund of their own. Maybe they used to be in that space, and they’re now managing things for just themselves. So they’ve got a stake in this, and they’re looking at this you know, in a different way than probably we as general, regular, everyday Joe Americans are. And the one thing I always have to remind people when you listen to some of these individuals is they are definitely global-minded. They may themselves, you know, they may not call themselves globalists, But they are. They’re looking at things through a much different lens than you even as Joe business owner in America does. They’re looking at it completely different. And what I mean by that is they feel like if you tariff anything, eventually it’s only the customer that pays. That’s not totally true, by the way. In some cases, it would be. But not in all cases. So, you know, there was an example the other day where a guy used T-shirt making, for example, where a lot of that is made overseas. It could be done in China, Taiwan, Korea, Vietnam, etc. And he was using that as his example of, well, if you made a tariff, even a 10% tariff on all of those T-shirts, then that 10% just gets passed on to the customer and T-shirt prices go up 10%. Well, what Trump’s thought process is, is let’s encourage those particular manufacturers to make T-shirts here in America. We used to. And his argument back is, well, do we even have enough cotton supply and, you know, all of the resources necessary, the mills and so on to even do that? Well, here’s how Trump would respond to that. Build them. It’s not like we can’t make that stuff here in America again. It’s not like we can’t even grow the crops again to make that happen. We could easily compete and do what they’re doing there, automated-wise, where you’re not having to use the amount of physical labor that a lot of those particular companies companies are using now? Could we move that back to America with AI and automation and still be just as competitive as they are? Yes. I think that’s what Trump’s trying to say. Yes, we could. In fact, everything I just said creates jobs, stimulates the economy, and does all sorts of things along those lines that these other folks, these globalists, aren’t looking at. And again, because they’re not looking at it the same way I am, they’re looking at it strictly as the global end of things, and ultimately you’re going to pay, instead of $25 or $20 for a T-shirt, it’s now going to cost you $30. And by the way, initially it may. And what happens with tariffs is until there’s enough of a separation in price to where these American companies even can look at it and say, well, wait a minute, we could do all the things that John Rush just said, And we could sell that same T-shirt for $25 instead of $30, saving the Americans $5 a T-shirt. You understand where I’m going with this? And again, these are the things that economically you’ll see a lot of these other guys get into. And the reality is, here’s my other thought on this. And I could be wrong. But most of these folks that I’m talking to you about, these economists, these experts in investing, have never owned a business. They’ve never ran a business. They may have run a business in regards to the investment end of things, which I’m not saying that’s not running a business. It’s not that they don’t have payroll and things like that, but they’re not producing a good business. In a lot of ways, they’re not even producing a service. Now, they’ll say it’s a service because they’re helping folks with their investments, but it’s not the same kind of service as the person that comes out and washes your windows, let’s say. Not the same type of service. It’s not a service industry. So my point with a lot of these folks that claim to be experts and are, they’ve never ran a business, though. Not the kind I’m talking about. And they’ve never even had the wherewithal to even say, well, wait a minute, how do we start one from scratch and compete on this level? All they look at is what’s currently available and what’s currently out there, and they don’t look at the things I just mentioned earlier. Trust me, I follow these guys. I listen to them. I watch them. And they’ve got a very distorted, in my opinion, distorted view of how things work. So when you see people come back and say, oh, yeah, Trump’s tariffs are going to cost the economy X amount of dollars. Yeah, not so fast. They’re not considering all of the things that I just put into play a few minutes ago, and they don’t look at that side of things. So that’s my two cents when it comes to the tariff end of things. We can talk more about that maybe as we go through the show. I’ve got guests joining us here shortly. Hang tight, though. Golden Eagle Financial, speaking of the financial end of things, is next. 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All right, we are back. Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Lauren Bowman-Biz joining us now. She is Director of Communications and Engagement for the Public Interest Legal Foundation. Lauren, welcome. How are you?
SPEAKER 04 :
I’m good. How are you?
SPEAKER 17 :
I’m great. Thank you very much. I believe you’ve been with us before, so I appreciate you guys and all that you do. We’re not even a week away from Election Day. We’re like less than five days away right now. How do you feel we’re going to do when it comes to election night, knowing the results, election integrity, and so on?
SPEAKER 04 :
You know, when it comes to election integrity, this election is going to be so much more secure than what happened in 2020. That is the good news here. Courts and election officials no longer have the excuse of COVID and the use of national emergency powers to suspend the rule of law and change the rules in the middle of voting. So that is good news there. Unfortunately, when it comes to knowing the election results on election night, I don’t think we’re going to know them. I think it’s going to be a couple of days. Some states like Nevada accept ballots that arrive up to four days after election. Arizona election officials are coming out and saying, We probably won’t know results for 10 to 14 days. The Pennsylvania Secretary of State is already cautioning people. He doesn’t think they will know the results on election night. So I think, unfortunately for the country, it’s going to be another anxiety-driven week while we wait for election officials to count these ballots.
SPEAKER 17 :
Unless it’s an all out one way or the other. And frankly, I don’t see it being all out on the left side, but it could be more stacked on the right side. And I’ve explained it on my program a few times as to how that might work. And again, I’m not predicting that. I have no idea, Lauren. But my question would be if, in fact, it were really looking like, you know, doesn’t matter. Every ballot we start to count is going this direction. I mean, if it were to be that way, would we know potentially Tuesday night or Wednesday morning?
SPEAKER 04 :
you know it’s really hard to know because these mail ballots election officials don’t know what areas of the country they’re coming from um of the state you know is it coming from a rural red counties where they feel confident that they can call it are they coming from heavily blue urban counties where they feel they can call it um so you know in any race that’s highly competitive which these key things swing states battlegrounds they’re always very close very competitive You know, I do think Trump is going to do very well. I’m predicting that he’s going to win the popular vote just because he’s had so much momentum and surge. But I still think it’s going to be hard for election officials to call this. And, you know, I hate to say it, but the media and a lot of these election officials don’t want to call it for Trump until they absolutely have to. I can’t argue that. No, you are.
SPEAKER 17 :
You are 100%. I will not argue with you on that one at all. And you’re much more of an expert on this than I. And I think a lot of people are expecting what you’re saying to happen that we won’t know for even maybe several days or a week after. I think of late, I’m a little more optimistic than I was even a week or two ago on that. Now, I’m not saying he’s going to run away with it. I do believe that there’s a slight edge in his favor right now. I think it is going to be close when it’s all said and done. By the way, I hope I’m wrong. Let me just say this. If it goes heavy in one direction, it won’t be for her. It will definitely be for him because I think all the trajectory is in his favor right now. If she wins, it’ll be a squeaker.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, and he’s definitely got the enthusiasm on his side. You can see that just with his latest campaign, garbage trucks, people making the headlines, working at McDonald’s. He’s having more fun out there.
SPEAKER 17 :
Okay, really quick, along those lines, I’ve got to throw this in because you just prompted something in my memory I was going to say today anyways. I didn’t know this until this morning. As of today, the number one Halloween costume looked up was Garbage Man.
SPEAKER 04 :
I hadn’t heard that. He’s a trendsetter, even with Halloween costumes now. I’m sure the president’s loving that. You know, he said it made him look skinny up there. Maybe he should wear one every day.
SPEAKER 17 :
To your point, Lauren, I mean, that wouldn’t be the number one Google search today for Halloween costumes if he wasn’t having an impact along those lines.
SPEAKER 04 :
Right. And then even today, new inflation numbers came out and inflation’s up. It’s the worst it’s been since April of this year. Things are just trending in his favor. And I do think that his campaign, his team, they’ve invested heavily in a get out the vote, vote early message operation, which was not there in 2020. It was still a very old party where we’re saying come and vote in person on Election Day. And as we know, things happen. People might not end up being able to make it to the polls on Election Day. I think they’re doing a really good job turning out their voters to the polls.
SPEAKER 05 :
Agreed.
SPEAKER 04 :
And things are just trending up for him. I’d much rather be on the Trump campaign than I would on the Kamala Harris campaign right now.
SPEAKER 17 :
I’ve talked about this one a lot this week as well, and I’ll talk about a little bit more today. The other thing that I think is not in her favor is the mail vote. And it’s not that they forgot the mail vote. It’s, Lauren, the left has pushed mails away, not mail voters, but mails in general away. away. And, you know, it’s a party that can’t even describe what a gender is or what a woman is. And yet they expect the average male to vote for her. And I think they’re going to be very disappointed on Tuesday night when some of these results come in, because I personally feel like this lack of male vote for the left is going to shine Tuesday night. That’s my prediction. I could be wrong, but that’s my prediction.
SPEAKER 04 :
No, I think that’s a safe prediction. You know, the left in Kamala Harris, she cares more about women becoming men than she does about real male voters and the issues that they’re facing, including a horrible economy. And that’s just shown over and over again. You know, she doesn’t care about the forgotten man, the forgotten woman in America. And President Trump is the candidate of the forgotten man and woman. And he’s out there every day messaging and talking to these people and listening to their concerns. And she is in a whole other sphere being for they-them and for just abortion on demand, just radical stuff that most Americans don’t support. And the more they’ve gotten to know her over this campaign, the less they like her and the less they are likely to support her.
SPEAKER 17 :
Well, and these same men, to your point a moment ago, these are men and women, but in a lot of cases it’s families. But in a lot of situations, yes, I know there’s different family dynamics and so on. In some family dynamics, the wife or the woman does a lot to do with the finances and the paying of bills and so on. But in a lot of cases, it’s still the man that is the overall breadwinner. You know, wife might be paying the bills, but he’s bringing it home. And there’s a lot of pressure that can come from both sides of that. And I’ve got to believe, Lauren, at the end of the day, you know, these men especially are looking at that saying, man, I need a reprieve. I don’t see that coming down the pike with her. I know what I had under him. This is an easy decision for me.
SPEAKER 04 :
Right. And Trump has a proven track record of delivering on the economy. He’s done it. And, you know, the Kamala Harris campaign knows that they’re struggling with men. I saw an ad that the other day on Fox News that they put out that was two women going into the voting booth and making eye contact, talking about how they’re secretly voting for Kamala, you know, against their husbands. They don’t want their husbands to know. So she knows that she has a problem with men. And instead of fixing it and reaching out to these voters.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yep.
SPEAKER 04 :
she she’s doubling down on it and it’s not going to work. And the Democrat party is going to have a, I think a moment after this 2024 election where they’re going to revisit some of these radical policies that they’ve had and say, we’ve got to change or we’re never going to win another election. And that’s just the path they’re headed down. I think right now.
SPEAKER 17 :
No, you know what? Thank you. And I know other people agree with me along these same lines, but thank you. You’re one of the few people that I’ve talked to that feel the same way about this that I do, that there is going to be a reckoning, if you would, after the election on the left. And I predict not that I want this to happen, but I predict they’ll make some changes on that side to not make that not to make that mistake again in the future. That’s my thought.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yes. No, I agree. And, you know, I think I thought they would do something similar after they lost to him in 2016. But instead, they just dug in on this radicalness. Trump is evil. Trump is Hitler narrative that they bought into. And I just think they’re going to realize they can’t do that again and be competitive. I think Tuesday night is going to be a very good night to be a Republican. He has, I think, Trump wins, and we pick up Senate seats and the House seats, and the Democrats are going to be hurting, thinking, what have we done wrong? How did we lose to someone that they actually might believe is Hitler-like, according to their rhetoric, if you believe what they say?
SPEAKER 17 :
Lauren, how do folks find you guys at the Public Interest Legal Foundation? You guys do some great work. Again, I’ve had you guys on in the past. I appreciate it very much. How do folks find you?
SPEAKER 04 :
Yes, go to publicinterestlegal.org. We are a nonprofit C3 law firm. All we do is election law. So we have the team of some of the country’s best election lawyers, and we’re a nonprofit founded by donations.
SPEAKER 17 :
Well, we appreciate you very much. Keep the great work up. I’ll put links into our show notes for you guys as well, so if folks want to learn more, they can do that. And, again, thank you so much. I, like you, I feel fairly confident that we’ll have some good results. I don’t know, again, like you said, if we’ll know exactly Tuesday night or not, but I do think that the trend will be in that direction. And I hope by Tuesday night we have answers, and I know that’s high hope, but you’ve got to have good hope.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yes, I agree. Everyone’s got to get out there and vote.
SPEAKER 17 :
Absolutely. Lauren, thank you so much. I appreciate it very much.
SPEAKER 04 :
Thanks for having me.
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Now back to Rush to Reason on KLZ 560.
SPEAKER 17 :
And we are back, Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. There was an opinion piece on the 24th of October in USA Today, and I didn’t get a chance to talk about it because we’ve had a lot of things going on. And this is written by a young lady by the name of Nicole Russell. And I say young lady because she is to me. Even though she’s got four kids, I still think she’s a young lady. And she’s a conservative because a lot of the things that you can see her write about, she’s very much in line with us. But she still gets to write for USA Today and throw opinion pieces in. So good for her. And good for the USA Today, even though it’s a left rag of a publication. Yeah, thank you, Charlie, for saying that. Yeah, they did not endorse, though. You’re correct on that. They did not endorse Kamala Harris, which is probably one of the first times they haven’t done something like that. But there’s an opinion piece. Men are shifting right because the left made them unnecessary. A lot of what I’ve talked about over the past week or so is in this opinion piece. Women in America have made significant gains towards gender parity. more so than women in many other countries. But when it comes to this presidential election, there’s a large gender gap. The USA Today Suffolk University poll shows former President Donald Trump leading among men 53 to 37 percent. By the way, I think some of those men lie. So I think that gap is even larger. Kamala Harris lead with women is 53 to 36 percent. So roughly about the same. The gender gap in this election matters beyond politics. and portends significant problems for the nation. As I said earlier with our last guest, I think it’s a big issue for the left, one that they’re not addressing at this point in time. Brad and Lakewood, you’re next.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, so one of the issues I don’t really think should be on the ballot is that 127, because the uninformed people in Boulder and Denver have no idea what they’re voting for, and these emotional females seem to make these comments about it’s all about killing the poor old mountain lion.
SPEAKER 17 :
Yeah, you’re right on that one. And, again, that one got put on there, and this is what happens to keep this in mind, everybody listening, Brad, you included. When they do things like the reintroduction of wolves or let’s not shoot mountain lions, eventually the wilderness becomes even more wild than it is today, which, by the way, Brad, is by design. And everybody, please follow with me here when I talk about this. Brad, if the wilderness becomes more wild and less people go into it, then more people stay in the cities. And that’s exactly what the left wants.
SPEAKER 10 :
No, I never thought about it that way.
SPEAKER 17 :
This is by design.
SPEAKER 10 :
I never thought about it that way, but what I try to explain to these people, it’s more about habitat. In other words, I tell them, whether you live in a house, a condominium, or rent an apartment, you have destroyed the habitat of an animal, and in a sense, you’re helping to destroy the animals, too, and they They can’t seem to figure out it’s more about habitat.
SPEAKER 17 :
Well, and you can use that, but I would throw in there what I just said as well, because for a lot of people, especially some that are maybe in the middle and maybe lean a little bit more conservative, but they’re quote-unquote animal lovers, when you tell them what I just said, and this is actually a part of the Marxist master plan, and go read it, Brad, it is.
SPEAKER 10 :
That’s very interesting. I’ll have to check into this. Now, I’ve been listening to a lot of Charlie Kirk lately, and he’s a getting kind of upset when people say the betting market and the polls are in our favor. And he says it’s all about voting. And he seems to think if the men don’t vote more often that the females could go ahead and elect Harris. Now, he may be correct. He’s correct in a lot of that. But from what I can understand, there’s a lot of females that are voting for Harris. So the question is, will the males actually get out and vote in numbers to help get Trump in?
SPEAKER 17 :
I think they will, and I appreciate Charlie. I think he’s really strong, and I think he’s not wrong in making these men understand that they’ve got to get out, be a leader, vote, and so on. I also feel, Brad, and I’ve said this many times over, and I’ll keep saying it, I think there’s a lot of men… that are even married to women that are very much in the left. They are supporters of the left. They are Kamala supporters. And these guys are scared to death of their wives, girlfriends, whoever it happens to be. And they’ll even tell them that they’re going to vote for Kamala. But when it’s all said and done, they’re going to vote for Trump.
SPEAKER 10 :
I noticed in the neighborhood, I live by 25th and Kipley. Now, I see Harris signs all over the place. I don’t see any Trump signs. And I think that’s partially what you said. you advise people get those Trump bumper stickers off your car, off your windows. Cause, uh, somebody could vandalize your house.
SPEAKER 17 :
Correct. Well, you know, it’s funny, too, though, Brad, and this is something I was talking to one of my clients today, and we were talking about the differences between, you know, this time around and even 2020 or 2016. And I will say, and I drive a lot of places in the Denver metro area, and I will say, Brad, that in general, not just the Trump bumper stickers, but in general, I see a lot less bumper stickers, period, this time around than I ever have in the past.
SPEAKER 10 :
Oh, I’ve noticed the exact same thing.
SPEAKER 17 :
Meaning the fervor for her, even on the left, isn’t there.
SPEAKER 10 :
Now, when Joe Biden made this statement about Trump supporters were garbage, you think he was doing that to deliberately get back at Harris?
SPEAKER 17 :
Yep, absolutely. I believe that 100%. That was not something that was done by mistake. I believe that even he and probably Jill had a conversation. Keep in mind, Brad, that Joe’s in kind of the final stages of… his life and memory and so on. And it’s really sad in a way because you don’t want to see anybody go through that. And a lot of what he is saying, he’s having to be pumped with what to say on the front side. So I can guarantee you he was pumped to say that.
SPEAKER 10 :
And, but then Trump made a mistake with that, uh, inappropriate comedian showing up. I agree.
SPEAKER 17 :
Yeah, Brad, that’s one. And I talked about that on Monday. I don’t know who was vetting people and who didn’t do their job correctly. I would have never had that guy speak at my rally, no matter how much he was a comedian and everybody knows that’s what he does and so on and so forth. And I’ve heard even Bob Duco, you know, talk about that and so on. And not that I’m, you know, arguing with Bob. Yes, that’s who the guy is. I would not have had him at my rally.
SPEAKER 10 :
Now, do you think Brett Favre’s endorsement is going to help Trump in Wisconsin?
SPEAKER 17 :
You know, there’s a lot of people in Wisconsin that think a lot of Brett Favre. So, yeah, it probably will, Brad.
SPEAKER 10 :
And the Senate races are starting to look a lot better for us. Some of these races where the candidates were down by seven or eight points, now they’re either up by one or two or down by one or two. It depends on what poll you listen to. But that earlier caller made the comment that Carrie Lake had pulled ahead, and I have seen that, that… Again, it depends on what poll you listen to, but they’re saying that Kerry Lake does have a slight lead in Arizona.
SPEAKER 17 :
And like I said earlier, if that ends up happening, Brad, every single thing that we’ve talked about and been worried about with the election and so on is over, because if that ends up happening, Trump wins by 300 electoral college votes easy.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, so if you had to just make it like a gentleman’s bet with me right now and Whether Trump wins or loses on Tuesday, would you offer a prediction?
SPEAKER 17 :
Well, I’ve already said that I feel like right now, currently, as of today, this could change over the weekend, tomorrow and into the weekend, but if everything keeps going the way it’s been, I predict Trump at least squeaks by a win. Now, it may be a few days, like we were just talking to Laura a minute ago. Lauren, I should say, a few minutes ago. It could be that we don’t know for a few days after. At this point, my gut feeling is he at least squeaks out a win. Now, there is a chance, and if everything that even you and I have been talking about, what happens with what you just said with Carrie Lake happens, if a lot of the men come out and vote like Charlie Kirk was talking about, if I’m correct in that a lot of these men are going to vote for him even though their girlfriends and wives are dictating that they vote for her, I think if a lot of those things happen in combination with one another, Brad, I think he wins by 300 electoral college votes.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, some people are giving them 271. Some people are giving Trump 312. But it doesn’t matter to Election Day. But unfortunately, there’s still a large number of Christians that don’t want to vote. But what really puzzles me is why these hunters in Pennsylvania don’t want to register to vote.
SPEAKER 17 :
That makes no sense to me either. I don’t get that one. Well, Brad, I’ll just say this. I don’t understand people not voting, period. That’s one I just struggle with. I mean, you live in a country that gives you the opportunity and the freedom to have a voice and to vote. Why don’t you?
SPEAKER 10 :
I agree. And if somebody was willing to somebody’s willing to die for me.
SPEAKER 17 :
Absolutely.
SPEAKER 10 :
I owe it to them to vote.
SPEAKER 17 :
Absolutely. Brad, 100 percent.
SPEAKER 10 :
Now, they’re also saying that. we’ve got a pretty good chance of holding the House.
SPEAKER 17 :
Yeah, I’ve been looking at those races as well. I think we do. In fact, might even pick up a few seats in the House, which would really bode well for us. And I think you’re going to see that happen, no matter whether she or he wins. And again, I still predict that Trump wins at this point right now, today at 4.56 in the afternoon on this Thursday.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, and I sent Ted Cruz a small donation last week. Well, $10 for the mail and $20 for the Internet, but I got a thank you letter back from him today, and it sure looks like a handwritten signature to me.
SPEAKER 17 :
Wow, that’s nice. Good for him.
SPEAKER 10 :
Just a thank you. Good for him.
SPEAKER 17 :
Brad, I’ve got to run to break. Appreciate you very much. We’ll see how things go on Tuesday. But, yeah, that’s my prediction. As of right now, do I feel like Trump will squeak out a win? Absolutely. And there is a possibility. Again, there’s a possibility for all sorts of things to happen, but there’s a possibility that he wins really big 300 electoral college votes. If you go to 270 to win and you just click on the different states that are neutral right now, that are the swing states, and you do the figuring and it will do it for you, but you just click on the states and make them either blue or red, it’ll do that for you. And it’s not really hard to figure out exactly how that combination would work. And it’s doable. Trump has the ability to get done what I just said. We’ll see how it turns out, of course. Tuesday night. Roof Savers of Colorado coming up next. Dave Hart wants to help you with not only your roof, but anything your house needs in that regard, from drainage, gutters, roof, even the commercial side of it. He does it all. Roof Savers of Colorado, 303-710-6916.
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