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In this episode of the Mike Gallagher show, we delve into the significant political developments in Wisconsin and Florida. Join us as we dissect the implications of the Wisconsin Supreme Court election, where Susan Crawford, a fiery activist judge, emerged victorious. Dive into the details of how this could potentially reshape the House and impact future elections. Through Gallagher’s spirited monologue, we explore the ongoing struggle between conservative values and the Democratic playbook that focuses heavily on judicial influence.
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He’s the happy conservative warrior, Mike Gallagher, from your trusted conservative TV network, Salem News Channel, and broadcasting across hundreds of radio stations nationwide. Here’s Mike.
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You want the good news or the bad news? Where do we begin? Mrs. Lincoln, how’d you like that play? It was pretty funny, right? Except for that loud bang. that interrupted the dialogue. Well, let’s start with some good news. We got voter integrity in Wisconsin. It’s hard for me to say that without cracking up, considering what Wisconsin voters did with the Supreme Court. Two pretty easy victories in Florida. The media is hyperventilating because it wasn’t as wide a victory, it wasn’t as wide a margin of victory in Florida for those two congressional special elections as they thought it would be. Big deal. I mean, they won. Easy. Double digits. So we held the House in Florida, but that could be upended in terms of the composition of the House of Representatives if Judge Susan Crawford delivers on the promise to redistrict and deliver two, maybe three more Democrats to the House of Representatives in that pesky state of Wisconsin. And, you know, I don’t know anything. I’m not as finely attuned to the Wisconsin race as Wisconsin political watchers are. I saw Scott Jennings last night on CNN suggest that Brad Schimel’s campaign really wasn’t doing all that great. It was kind of floundering until Elon came along, injected some life, some money, some enthusiasm into it. But it wasn’t enough. And they get to gloat. They get to spike the football. Susan Crawford won. But a word about Susan Crawford. It came during her acceptance speech last night. I couldn’t believe it. And in case you have any doubts that Wisconsin voters just elected a stone-cold activist, I want you to hear what she said in her acceptance speech. This is remarkable. This is actually astounding. This is a Supreme Court justice, not a congresswoman, not a politician, supposed to be neutral, right? Supposed to stick to the Constitution. That’s what’s expected of our justices, our judiciary. But, of course, we’ve seen that they now do anything but. You want to really have your blood run cold? Listen to what this woman said last night in her acceptance speech, citing Thurgood Marshall, the late Supreme Court justice, who was talking about segregation and Jim Crow laws and colored people drinking fountains and blacks on the backs of buses. She invokes that imagery in her acceptance speech April 1st, 2025.
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Tonight, I want to share some words of the great Honorable Thurgood Marshall, which I find fit the unprecedented moment we are living in. Democracy just cannot flourish amid fear. Liberty cannot bloom amid hate. Justice cannot take root amid rage. America must get to work. In the chill climate in which we live, we must go against the prevailing wind. We must dissent from the indifference. We must dissent from the apathy. We must dissent from the fear, the hatred, and the mistrust. We must dissent because America can do better. Because America has no choice but to do better.
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There you go. Stone-cold activist. She’s telling you, Trump supporters, you don’t count because you don’t agree with her worldview. That’s all they got. I mean, Democrats desperately need activist judges right now. And they got one. So congratulations, Wisconsin, but look, no reason to react the way they react on the left when they lose elections. We won’t do that. We’ll dust ourselves off, and we’ve got to fight harder next time. A lot can happen in the next year or two. We should know that by now. There’s no reason to despair and believe that the doomsday scenario is going to prevail. But we better look at Wisconsin as the wake-up call. We absolutely need to get off our duffs. We have to recognize collectively that right now, Democrats expect a handful of activist judges to run America. That’s all they got. Their ideas stink. Their policies are awful. Their… Party is underwater. I think the last approval poll was 21%. I thought that was kind of rich to watch a bunch of social media influencers last night spiking the football, saying that, you know, excited about the win. But I get it because they haven’t had anything to be excited about since November the 5th. So now they are, and we’ve got to let them have their moment. Let’s pray it is truly a moment. You know, what the Democrats today realize is that their message, their ideology, their policies, all rejected in a huge way by the electorate. So they’ve turned all their attention to judges. It’s all they got. They want to continue the weaponization of the judiciary. That’s all they have. They’ve got the handful of Susan Crawfords, and we have the majority of Americans who reject that. And look, I saw somebody on social media say, don’t hate the player, hate the game. This is all legitimate. They’re not breaking any rules or laws to do this. They out-hustled us in Wisconsin. They out-spent us. Crawford, and incidentally, I saw Tampon Tim’s tweet, Wisconsin beat the billionaire. As if people don’t know how many millions and millions of dollars billionaires like George Soros pumped into Susan Crawford’s race. Nice try, Tampon. But look, this is where we are. This is what we got. 14 past the hour. I don’t think it’s time to despair. I don’t think it’s time to panic. I don’t think it’s time to throw in the towel. It’s time to wake up. And there was a fantastic response from Charlie Kirk. A terrific reply from Charlie Kirk on social media. And you’re going to want to hear every word of it. Charlie Kirk is emerging as one of the most vibrant voices in America today. Just a fantastic, a terrific way to put things in proper perspective. As a parent, I’ve always tried to teach my kids, perspective, perspective, perspective. Keep it in perspective. Don’t go off the rails in the moment we’re in. And ultimately… You’re going to want to hear Charlie’s post last night on social media. We’ll share that with you as we kick things off for a Wednesday. We got through April 1st, thank goodness. It was a rough day. Val Kilmer died at the age of 65, a legendary actor, kind of iconic, and he’s had a lot of, of course, health issues, throat cancer, and he died at the age of 65. Of all years to die, that’s all I needed to hear, 65-year-old dies. as I’m counting down next week. So, great. Couldn’t he be 75, 85, 95? We’re in the Relief Factor studios. I always want to open up my phone lines for your reaction on a big news-breaking day like this. 800-655-MIKE, 800-655-6453. Call or text, give me your reaction, and stay tuned and stand by for Charlie Kirk’s really smart reaction to last night’s Wisconsin election. That and more all coming up. Welcome in.
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He’s the happy conservative warrior. Mike Gallagher from your trusted conservative TV network, Salem News Channel, and broadcasting across hundreds of radio stations nationwide. Here’s Mike.
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Okay, maybe April Fool’s Day one day later, the Democrats got a much-coveted win at the Wisconsin Supreme Court last night. And, oh, my gosh, the humanity. They’re burning down Subaru dealers. Oh, no, people are scrawling messages all over Priuses, all over America. Holy cow, the humanity. They’re breaking windows at a Ben & Jerry’s. Oh, no, wait a minute. That’s right. That’s not how we react. when an election doesn’t go our way, that’s how they react. Not to worry, nobody’s going to take to the streets and commit acts of violence because the activist judge on the left, Susan Crawford, beat Brad Schimel last night. It’s too bad. Too bad Wisconsin voters didn’t show up once again. what we call the low propensity voter, if Trump’s on the ticket, we’re all in. We’ll make it happen. Trump’s not there, people stay home. Charlie Kirk had the perfect perspective. Look, we’re the party of plumbers and welders, waitresses. We work. For Democrats, politics is their religion. It’s all they got. That and judges. And they have identified the way to try to stop everything that Republicans are trying to do right now. And that is tie as much up as you can in the courts and find enough activist judges who have been installed by billionaire leftist activists and try to run the country that way. What else are you going to do when you’ve got a popularity rating of 21%? That’s the approval rating right now for the Democrats. Last poll I saw, 21%. Their ideas are not popular. Their policies are being rejected by the electorate. So if you lose the people, what do you do? Well, you go around them and try to find the Susan Crawfords of the world who will… Run the show. Get a judge here. Get a Wisconsin Supreme Court that can gerrymander. Deliver a couple of extra Democrat congressional seats. Find a federal judge in D.C. who can stop the mass deportation of illegals. A mass deportation that incidentally is enormously popular with the majority of Americans. Americans have had it with illegal immigration. The Democrats want to keep it going. Spartacus yesterday was on the Senate floor for 25 hours railing against deporting gang members. It’s unbelievable. And the takeaway from that was that, I don’t know, I mean, I honest to goodness don’t know what that accomplished. I saw Frank Luntz claim that it was illegal. Just epic. One of the most significant events in modern political history. I… I am completely mystified at this takeaway. Leland Vitterd on News Nation had Frank Luntz on last night. And here’s what the famed pollster said about Cory Booker’s stunt. He wanted to set the record and go 25 hours ranting and raving about the evil Republicans. Frank Luntz thought it was one of the most spectacular things he ever saw.
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But are they energized in running in a circle and fighting with each other? Are they energized in a direction?
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They’re going crazy right now. And they’re going crazy because they don’t see leadership in their own party. And I want to emphasize what Cory Booker did over the last 24 hours may have changed the course of political history. I watched a lot of it. I listened to words. I listened to phrases, how he presents himself. Did he criticize Donald Trump? Of course he did. But he struck the kind of tone that grassroots Democrats are looking for. He gave them a reason to fight. He gave them a reason to stand up and say, this is my country, too. Of course, every Republican watching will say this is nonsense. But he’s not speaking just to Republicans. He’s speaking to Americans. And what I saw over the last 25 hours absolutely blew me away. And just as you sometimes make projections or predictions, I’m going to do one right here. That speech puts Cory Booker as one of the leaders for the Democratic Party. I’ll go even further. If you ask Democratic senators right now, would they rather have lead them over the next three years? They would choose Cory Booker over Chuck Schumer.
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I got nothing there. So I guess Frank watched most of the 25 hours and came away convinced it will change the course of political history. And most normal people are saying, what was that all about? What in the world was that? What was the point? To just break the record? Talk a lot without going to the bathroom? That’s all I could think of. How can you go 24 hours, 25 hours, without going to the bathroom? And, you know, make no mistake, there was a mixed bag last night. I mean, across the board, there were really four major problems. things that voters had to decide on, four major initiatives, two races in Florida. We won them both. The voter ID law passed in Wisconsin, but Susan Crawford beat Brad Schimel. The best essay I read, the best analysis of the night came from our friend and colleague, Charlie Kirk. And Charlie wrote something that every word of it just rang true. about falling short in Wisconsin. Charlie wrote, we got to realize and appreciate that we are the low propensity party now. You know, got Trump on the ticket, we get excited, we go, we crawl over broken glass. If Trump’s not on the ticket, eh, I got a job to do. Special elections and these off-cycle elections continue to be a problem for us unless we change strategy. Charlie writes, Charlie uses this phrase all the time. Chase the vote. Chase the vote. Chase the vote. Democrats have become the college indoctrinated, institutionalized, and government dependent high propensity party. They live for politics. It’s their religion. You may hate Trump, but he resurrected a dead GOP back to life. Voters who weren’t on anyone’s data rolls came out of the woodwork to vote for Donald Trump. Our movement must begin to fully fund the infrastructure to match the Democrat machine. Our ideas are better. They’re actually popular. But we need to match like for like, Charlie says. We’ve got to out-organize the Democrats. We need to match their fundraising advantage. Let Wisconsin be a wake-up call. Let it be a call to return to the front lines. We won in November, but to save the republic, we must string together multiple victories. And that starts in 2026. He’s right. He’s right. He’s right. we’re not going to riot, we’re not going to burn down things, we’re not going to commit violence. We’re going to continue to fight hard. And in Wisconsin, the Republicans got out-hustled, got out-spent. I saw it was a two-to-one margin. You know, the billionaire activists poured tons of money into Susan Crawford’s campaign. And a lot of people bought it. I want to play the little old lady who was a Trump voter who voted for Susan Crawford. Because you have to ask yourself, why in the world would somebody who supported Donald Trump vote against Brad Schimel? Well, CNN caught up with one such voter, an older lady, a senior white lady, and she explained her reasoning.
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But I also want to bring you to a voter because I’ve been speaking to Carol here who’s from Elm Grove. And what was interesting, Carol, is you told me you voted for Trump in November. Yes. But then you also now voted for Crawford in this election. Yes. What motivated you for this vote?
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Well, I just feel like she’s the better person and she’s more consistent. I don’t like that vote. You know, there’s going to be no abortions. That really troubles me. And I just feel like Susan Crawford is the person to be.
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There you go. I don’t like that there are no abortions. Here we go again. And Democrats have shrewdly and carefully weaponized abortion. And we lose on that every time. You know that, right? that is politically a losing issue. And the irony of that is, morally, millions of lives are going to be… thousands, or if not millions of lives, will be saved. Millions of babies will come into the world because the Supreme Court got Roe v. Wade right. But what Roe v. Wade does… is allow states like Wisconsin and California and all the blue states to be an abortion haven. You want an abortion? Live in Wisconsin. Abortion was never banned. There was never going to be a federal ban on abortion. There should not be a federal ban on abortion because we’ll never win another election. And we have to live with that. We’ve got to accept that. So we’ve got people like that lady. Well, you know, I voted for Trump, but I don’t want to lose my abortion rights, says the 73-year-old resident of Wisconsin. And I went through this. I remember it like it was yesterday. After Roe v. Wade was overturned, Caller after caller were ladies like her calling the show, promising to never vote for another Republican because they couldn’t believe that their right to an abortion was being challenged. And then we forget what abortion really is. We forget what’s really on the line. So, look, I’m not in despair. You shouldn’t be either. We’ll live to fight another day. We’ve got to shake this one off. And like Charlie Kirk put it, may Wisconsin be our wake-up call. 800-655-MIKE. Let’s turn the show over to you like I love to do. We’re in the Relief Factor studios for a Wednesday, April 2, 2025. 800-655-MIKE. 800-655-6453. Big wins in Florida. Big win in Wisconsin for election integrity. Not a big win on the Supreme Court, and that might spell trouble tomorrow. for the country in the days ahead. Let me get your reaction to all of it. I want to put your voice front and center on the Mike Gallagher Show, 800-655-MIKE. Spring is here, and my pillow is ready to meet the moment with the Spring Sheet Sale. Got to be careful with the way I say that. The Spring Sheet Sale. Say that three times fast. You know the Giza Dream Sheets that I’ve been telling you about? These and the percale sheets, holy cow, check out this offer. Just in time for spring, you can get your very own set of Queen Giza Dream bed sheets from MyPillow. You’ll save 50% or more. You can get the queen size sheets. Queen-sized Giza Dream or percale bed sheets for as low as $29.98 with the promo code MikeG. That’s an extraordinary offer. And when you go to the website, check out the pillows, the slippers, the doggy beds, the loungewear. and more. MyPillow.com. Look for the Mike Gallagher Special Square. Click on that box, and then with anything you order, enter the promo code MikeG. MyPillow.com. Promo code MikeG. MyPillow.com. Promo code MikeG, or call 800-928-6034. 800-928-6034. Sing along with me. For the best night’s sleep in the whole wide world, visit MyPillow.com. Promo code MikeG.
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He’s the happy conservative warrior. Mike Gallagher from your trusted conservative TV network, Salem News Channel, and broadcasting across hundreds of radio stations nationwide. Here’s Mike.
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We’ve got a ton of breaking news to share with you. Out of New York, a judge dropped the corruption charges against Mayor Eric Adams. Of course, we’re still analyzing the results of yesterday’s big voting day in the special elections in Florida and Wisconsin. It was really, you look at it, 3-1 for Trump. Republicans in Florida won easily. Voter ID has become enshrined in Wisconsin’s state constitution. But in the sole victory for the left, for the Democrats, an activist judge named Susan Crawford got elected. And so, look, it gives the Democrats something to be excited about. during a cycle that they’ve had very little to be excited about. They are, after all, the party that has, at last count, a 21% approval rating. It’s a big day for the country and the world with the so-called Liberation Day finally arriving, the day when Trump is, after the markets close, will reveal what the tariff position is going to look like. Israel yesterday announced no tariffs. on the United States, which is big, but perhaps even bigger is what the Ontario premier said, Doug Ford, on an interview earlier today on CNBC.
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He believes he’s supporting Americans. He said he was going to create jobs, create wealth, reduce inflation. It’s worth the total opposite. But do you think it’s fair that you have tariffs on a whole number of products? That’s right. And we’d be willing to take those off tomorrow if he took all the tariffs off. We are not the problem, Andrew. Do you know what the problem is? China’s the problem. And he’s taking a blind eye to China as they continue to build their critical mineral mass. We have all the critical minerals that our great neighbors need. We have the energy that our great neighbors need.
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Did you hear what he said? We will take the tariffs off, all tariffs off, if Trump will take the tariffs off of Canada. That’s, of course, what Trump wants. Trump wants an even playing field. Fair trade. Not us shouldering the majority. Now, I’m also intrigued by the, and maybe it’s kind of in the weeds here a little bit, Um, but if you, if you haven’t heard the house was, uh, Speaker Johnson sent the house home yesterday because Anna Polina Luna sort of, she’s a Republican from Florida, began a revolt on the subject of proxy voting. She wants a limited form of proxy voting specifically for new parents. Um, And she argues that new parents should be able to vote remotely. And it’s so important that she got eight other Republicans to go along with her and join with the Democrats through a process called, it’s a rare procedural tool, called a discharge petition. which forces a vote on a bill if it secures 218 signatures. Well, thanks to Annapolina Luna and eight other Republicans, and those are Tim Burchett of Tennessee, Kevin Kiley from California, Mike Lawler from New York. Nick Lolota from New York, Ryan McKenzie from Pennsylvania, Max Miller from Ohio, Greg Stubbe from Florida, and Jeff Van Drew from New Jersey. Those nine Republicans, well, essentially torpedoed, for now, Trump’s agenda. The SAVE Act, reigning in activist judges. It’s important. I would suggest, I would humbly submit to you, that’s a little more important than proxy voting. People like Marjorie Taylor Greene are real fired up about her colleague from Florida, Annapolina Luna. Here’s the Georgia congresswoman’s reaction to that.
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Well, Luna’s bill is extremely unfortunate.
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Let’s go back to the beginning. Here’s Marjorie Taylor Greene. Take two.
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What we just voted on, this rule, Luna’s bill, is extremely unfortunate. You know, being in Congress is a privilege. You don’t have to be here. And there’s plenty of people in her district that could serve in Congress if she chose for, you know, to. time to be home and be a mother. I’m very much against the bill that she’s trying to force to the floor and the way she’s going about it. And I think it’s wrong. And it’s really going to open up the door to proxy voting, which is already unconstitutional. And we shouldn’t be doing it. And I think members of Congress need to basically leave their egos at the door and realize that this is an important job.
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You know, I saw a post from a number of social media influencers, Jack Posobiec and others, who are all on board with… basically thwarting Trump’s agenda this week, and I’m confused by that. I follow an election wizard on X who writes, I’ve got no time for anyone lashing out at Anna Polina Luna. She’s been an absolute warrior for MAGA. Elements of the right bashing her over proxy vote position is peak political stupidity. Of course, you can disagree with her, but spreading lies, calling her lazy, or suggesting she’s unfit, that’s just dumb. It splinters MAGA. You want to know what splinters MAGA? Holding up Trump’s agenda. I’m really surprised, and I think, I believe, and you can correct me if I’m wrong, the people who are supporting these nine rogue Republicans, and that’s what they are. I mean, they went rogue, and the Democrats are thrilled with them. Did I give you the clip, Christian, of the young Democrat congresswoman from San Diego? I’ll send that. I want to play that for you so you can hear how the Democrats are thrilled with Anna Polina Luna and the eight other Republicans. We did it. We did it. We held it up. We beat it. We beat it. I don’t know that we have time to mess around right now. And I don’t know that I have time for anyone who’s not completely devoted to trying to advance the Republican agenda right now. I mean, pet projects, it seems to me, can wait. But the people, I really truly believe that the people who are siding with these nine Republicans, and that seems real surprising to me, because I like a lot of these folks. They don’t like Mike Johnson. They don’t think he’s hard enough and they don’t think he’s tough enough and they don’t think he’s forceful. So they don’t like him. This is, I’m sorry, this is kind of BS to rally around thwarting Trump’s America First agenda. We’ve got to rein in federal judges. And we’ve got to rein in the judiciary. And we’ve got to stop the Democrat strategy. And that’s all that Wisconsin was about. That’s why 77% of the millions and millions and millions of dollars poured into Susan Crawford’s race came from billionaire activists who think that this will shape the country. All they’ve got right now are Democrats. As my colleague Chris DeGaulle put it, judges right now to Democrats is like water to fish. They desperately need activist judges to try to stop what the American people voted for. That’s all they got. All they got is Susan Crawford spewing, you know, activism in her acceptance speech last night. Look, we better be committed to advancing the agenda that the American people voted for. And frankly, with all due respect to those of you who don’t like Mike Johnson and think, oh, good, we showed him. This is ridiculous that nine Republicans voted Democrat yesterday. And that’s what happened. And it’s wrong. Absolutely wrong. And these Republicans better open up their eyes. Every last one of them is going to get voted out of office. If you’re not on board with the mandate that Trump received on November the 5th, get out of the way. Lead, follow, or get out of the way. 800-655-MIKE in the Relief Factor studios. Welcome aboard. We made it through April the 1st. Not a great day, but look. Keep and score. Three wins for Trump last night. One for the Democrats. I’ll take three to one. And before you panic and you’re convinced that the entire House of Representatives will be upended, remember something. A lot can happen in the next year or two. If we haven’t learned that by now, we never will. 800-655-6453. I hope you join us. Give me your reaction. Do you agree with Annapolina Luna and the proxy voting? Are you glad that Trump’s agenda changed? hit this roadblock yesterday thanks to these nine Republicans? We’ve got to stop these judges from trying to run the country from the bench. And that’s got to be front and center, not a debate or even a vote on proxy voting. I’m sure that to a young mother, that’s important. To most Americans, get on with the people’s business. And proxy voting ain’t one of them. 800-655-6453. Call, text, join us here on the Mike Gallagher Show.
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Breaking now on the Mike Gallagher Show.
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Well, Liberation Day continues in what’s being described as a stunning move. The president of Mexico, Claudia Scheinbaum, has conceded to the United States and President Trump, declaring she won’t retaliate with tariffs against President Trump’s trade measures. Somebody just pointed out, How Scheinbaum just played a high stakes game and she blinked first. It’s a big story. Real big story. It’s a real big story. First, Israel, Canada’s Doug Ford said we’ll lift the tariffs. Mexico, China is left, but this is… This is the golden era. This is where Trump’s agenda comes into play mightily. I love the quote, all we needed was a new president. So meanwhile, we’ve got Republicans pouting and playing hardball over proxy voting. Richard’s in Greenville, South Carolina, 24 and a half past the hour. Hope you join us, 800-655-MIKE. Richard, how are you?
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Fantastic, Mike. Good. The woman is a feminist before she’s Christian or Jewish. In the feminist world, there’s mother and non-mothers. And she succumbed to that feminism, which is more deleterious to our country than racism or Marxism.
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Well, whatever her agenda is about staying home and wanting to have a baby in Congress, I mean, here’s another mother, Marjorie Taylor Greene, said, look, you’re in Congress. Somebody just texted me, Kim Caldwell, the University of Tennessee women’s basketball head coach, had a baby. The next night she was out on the floor coaching her team. She’s not whining about maternity leave and staying home. They need to get off their butts, do their job, or get out of Congress. And a lot of people are noticing that the eight other Republicans who joined in this revolt against Speaker Johnson are all men. Why didn’t any women support it? And here’s another text from South Carolina. I don’t like Mike Johnson either, but this is about Trump and his promises. They’re all nothing but a joke. 800-655-MIKE. Meanwhile, look, we were three for four last night. The Democrats got their radical progressive activist judge they wanted. Michael wants to react to that in Brevard, North Carolina. Hello, Michael. Hello. Hi. Hello. Yeah.
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Can you hear me? Loud and clear. Well, I’m incensed about those eight Republicans in Congress who went against Trump.
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They are voting like Democrats. We don’t need Democrats. Okay. Appreciate it. Gordon is next. Hi, Gordon. Welcome to the show. Hello. Hi.
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Yes. I have one question. Why don’t the Republicans redistrict into red states and get rid of some of the
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Well, that’s a great question. And the truth of the matter is, this is what I mean about playing the long game. This is why we can’t panic. This is why we can’t, you know, feel like everything is over. There’s a lot of gloom and doom and naysayers. This is a marathon. This is not a sprint. You’ve got to give this time. But right now, I’m really blown away by what I’m seeing on social media and online and some of these news reports about Canada and Mexico and Israel and the trade, the fair trade. Free trade, fair trade. Trump wants an even playing field. He’s tired of the United States. And more importantly, he believes that these tariffs will be the key to America’s prosperity. 800-655-MIKE. More coming up.
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He met an untimely demise, didn’t he? That he did in 1984. Shot by his dad. But hey, let’s not dwell on that. It is Marvin Gaye’s birthday. He would have been 86 today. Oh, boy. But speaking of… Happy Liberation Day.
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I know. Happy Liberation Day. Well, it’s going to be a big day. I mean, but of course, I’m with you. I’m glad April 1st came and went. I mean… And on top of everything else that happened last night with Wisconsin, and I know we want to kind of break all that down, Val Kilmer dies at 65. He’s got to die at 65. He can’t die at 70. 90, 88, I’d have taken 93. Heck, I would have taken 71. He’s got to die at 65. Five days before you turn 65. Right on the eve of my 65th birthday. So, wow, what a crapping day yesterday. Although, you know, there were a lot of bright spots as well. Say what you will about the Wisconsin electorate. At least they got voter ID right. Very important. That is correct. Very important.
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Did you hear that? Were we talking about this or was it somebody else? Where it was like, hey, the voter ID measure passed and we saw that as a possible positive harbinger. It’s like, hey, maybe that means the Republicans have really shown up and that the Republican is going to win. No, you know what it’s proof of? Even Democrats have clarity on that. There are tons of people who voted for this Susan Crawford person but wanted voter ID also.
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Let’s talk about Susan Crawford. I was listening to her acceptance speech on your show, driving over the Howard Franklin Bridge. Wow, chills. This is a stone-cold activist. To talk that way as a Supreme Court justice. Yeah. sounding almost like Spartacus on the Senate floor yesterday.
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Against the hate and the darkness.
SPEAKER 10 :
We’ve got to go against the prevailing winds. Well, it’s the playbook. I mean, look, the Democrats right now, and we can’t look. We’ve got to dust ourselves off. I was praying that there would be a miracle and that Brad Schimel would win. It wasn’t particularly close. I saw little old ladies tell CNN, well, I voted for Trump, but I’m worried about abortion rights. Here we go again. And the Democrats, as we always knew they would, putting abortion front and center, scaring little old ladies into thinking that Brad Schimel wants to take their 72-year-old bodies right away from the right to choose. Lady, you don’t have to worry about it. You know, you’re fine. You know, just calm down, Gertrude. You’re not going to lose your right to an abortion, Grandma. But, you know, okay, so that’s the game they’re going to play. And they need judges desperately. Mark, think about this. If the scenario, the doomsday scenario is true, and I would maintain it’s not necessarily true. We don’t know about the redistricting in a year or two. We don’t know for sure that they’re going to take control of the House of Representatives. A lot can happen in the next year or two. So don’t panic. Don’t despair. But they do need judges to try to run the country. That’s all they got.
SPEAKER 12 :
Because they don’t have the voters on their side in many cases.
SPEAKER 10 :
They don’t have the electorate. Their ideas are horrible. Their ideas, their policies stink. Americans are saying no to their policies. They’re being rejected. You see the last popularity rate? 21%. Yeah, I got a real kick out of all these Democrats spiking the football last night on social media over the Wisconsin Supreme Court race.
SPEAKER 01 :
They love us now.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, you’re a party that is, as John Kennedy put it, a little bit less popular than chlamydia. So just calm down. But they know that to weaponize a branch of government, to force your will upon the people, is the only thing they got. That’s all they got. And honestly, I’m so glad you played that Susan Crawford acceptance speech because it does reinforce the strategy. She doesn’t even hide it, Mark. No. You know, she’s like you said earlier, she sounds like a politician on the stump. We’ve got to stand up against the darkness of Trump and Trumpers and the Trump movement. This is all they. So, by the way, Wisconsin. Have at it. Sanctuary cities galore. Crime. I mean, you should see her rulings about really bad people. So, look, you got what you got. And Republicans didn’t show up like we thought they would.
SPEAKER 12 :
Did you buy my theory that elections are reactive, that one of the reasons Trump won is it was a pendulum swing away from Biden, away from Harris? I was like, ugh, enough of that. Let’s try something else. Now in the early months of Trump with so much success, so much energy, so many things that are liberal defeats, it really pumped some activism. I just think that Democrat turnout, we were beaten in the – all elections are a turnout election, but we were really beaten in a – probably a 50 50 state we their energy was more because they’ve seen what’s going on with trump republicans have seen the trump opening couple of months have gone wow this is really cool time to get back to work leftists see the trump stuff and go ah we must take to the streets that’s well i i i loved what you read from charlie charlie kirk who is emerging as one of the the most popular vibrant vital voices in america and we’re so proud to have him on the salem team
SPEAKER 10 :
And this young man is just doing wonders. And look, Turning Point USA was on the ground in Wisconsin. A lot of good people left it all out on the field last night in Wisconsin. But Charlie said, we’re the party of welders, waiters, and plumbers. They’re the party that lives for politics. They live for this. This is their religion. And we do have to acknowledge that Trump… resurrected a dead GOP. I mean, everybody’s agreeing that without Trump on the ballot Republicans go to my job and I’ll do my thing.
SPEAKER 12 :
With him on the ballot, it was barely a 1% win over Kamala. It was one of the swing states that he won, but it was 1%.
SPEAKER 10 :
Wisconsin is truly one of those real purple, purple states. They’re down the middle. You’ve got Madison and Milwaukee. You’ve got big liberal strongholds. Look, we’ve got to learn from this. I think Charlie’s right. Let this be a wake-up call. And look, I don’t mind. This is weird of me. I was thinking this last night when I went to bed. The other side, our loyal opposition has had nothing to cheer about since November 5th. Nothing. So now they do. Now they’re excited. Maybe this will restore a little bit of normalcy to people who are keying Teslas and lighting Molotov cocktails.
SPEAKER 01 :
Silly, silly boy.
SPEAKER 10 :
I know, but let me… But I’m thinking that there are people who have been so agitated, maybe this will ramp down the temperature a little bit. Not at all. Not at all? You don’t think so? Not at all. Not a chance?
SPEAKER 12 :
Among reasonable people using Earth logic, people who are just more liberal than we are, sort of center-left, they may think, okay, they may have a moment of breathing easier. But if you’ve got the mindset, if you have the twisted soul to key a swastika into a Tesla… You don’t become better overnight because of a Wisconsin Supreme Court election.
SPEAKER 10 :
Right, and I’m not talking necessarily about the actual vandals, but people who are watching this who think that Elon Musk is the boogeyman. Look, you’ve got to hand it to the left and their playbook. They have pretty successfully vilified Elon Musk, and he incidentally embraces it. Do you ever notice how he always wears black and the black hat and the black coat and the black shirt? He does that. He thinks he’s like a Batman villain or something. Dark MAGA. Yeah, and that’s okay. I mean, look, we got a lot of interesting characters. Hey, did you catch him?
SPEAKER 12 :
Did you catch him in the beginning of the five? I did.
SPEAKER 10 :
I saw that.
SPEAKER 12 :
Of course, as they call it in Central Time, the four. So it’s four o’clock. Lisa and I are sitting down and firing up some Fox News. And there’s Judge Jeanine saying, hey, joining us now, Elon Musk. I said, whoa, what? I know. And they go around the horn. Jesse and Greg and even Jessica Tarloff had to badger him about the doge cuts. But boom. This is the charm of the show. Good. And he took it with grace and goodwill. I’m going to play some of that in a bit. But it was just a really good sit down as the round table on the five peppered Elon with some questions on the fly.
SPEAKER 10 :
He had a really profound bit of advice. One of them asked him, you know, what’s advice for young people? He said, you look at fear, you stare fear, and it goes away. Stare it right in the face. You got to conquer your fears. And I love that. I think that’s so very important because too many people right now are wallowing in fear.
SPEAKER 12 :
Especially these days, we’re growing young people who have no coping skills and no ability to get up and dust themselves off and go, that hurt. Let me get better. Let me get stronger. And my brand new Star-Telegram and across the country in the McClatchy chain, a newspaper column, is about that Walter Isaacson biography of Elon that I just finished shows to write a column about it. This is him. He goes after, whether it’s rockets, whether it’s cars or robots or SpaceX or whatever, he just says, I’m going to try 100 things. 30 of them may fail. 50 of them may fail. But I just had 50 successes, if that’s the case. Correct. And this is what he does, and it’s inspiring.
SPEAKER 10 :
And, you know, Scott Jennings last night on CNN made a really compelling argument against this narrative that Elon went there to Wisconsin and threw around the money and everything and he hurt the campaign. Scott said, look, it’s not really a secret in Republican circles that Brad Schimel’s campaign was fairly floundering. Until Elon went in there and injected a lot of money, a lot of attention. So, I mean, that’s okay. Let him do the Elon is the boogeyman narrative. And like you always say, let’s let the game come to us. Unfortunately, the game came to us last night on that side. But we did not prevail. Incidentally, speaking of dysfunction. So, Annapolina Luna, here in Florida, leads a revolt of nine Republicans who voted with the Republicans to table a procedure that would have allowed the House to vote against activist judges. Mm-hmm. And because they want to work from home. You see, Annapolina Luna is a new mom.
SPEAKER 12 :
It’s not just wanting to work. Yes, it is.
SPEAKER 10 :
Vote for proxy vote. It’s working from home.
SPEAKER 12 :
It’s her brand new baby. She wants the ability for 12 weeks to be able to proxy vote. However, she’s 100% wrong. We cannot do that.
SPEAKER 10 :
dead long and the and shame on and these nine republicans are getting a ton of flack as they should here we go again with the circular firing squad we never we just snatch defeat right out of the jaws of victory every time it makes me nuts i chris de gaulle earlier this morning had one of the funniest i had a spit take when i was brushing my teeth he played a clip of amy klobuchar who was congratulating Spartacus on that stupid 25-hour stunt. I don’t know what that did, by the way. Do you?
SPEAKER 12 :
What was the point? As if it’s one of these singular moments of legislative courage. All the guy did was prattle and spout for 25 hours to sound and fury signifying nothing.
SPEAKER 10 :
By the way, how do you go 25 hours without going to the bathroom?
SPEAKER 12 :
There’s an answer to that. Because if you’re doing the real filibuster, you can’t leave, you can’t eat, you can’t do anything.
SPEAKER 10 :
He didn’t leave.
SPEAKER 12 :
He went on a sizable fast. He might be kind of semi-dehydrated. It’s like, whatever, dude. Oh, and did you catch one of the fangirls? Lisa Murkowski? Exactly. Alaska Republican, air quotes. Lisa Murkowski, you may agree or disagree, but I don’t know what the word she was. It’s courage and resilience. Shut up.
SPEAKER 10 :
This is Mr. Smith goes to Washington. Lisa Murzkowski is a disgrace. That woman, she just ought to change party affiliation. Just go ahead and get it over with. Just be who you are.
SPEAKER 12 :
You’re a Democrat. You’re right on these Republicans. They bought into the Anna Paulina Luna. And who’s the other one? Brittany, I forget the young lady from Colorado. But there were nine of them. Brand new baby. But they went along with this. Oh, it’s anti-motherhood. We’re supposed to be pro-family. We are pro-family. We salute all motherhood. But, you know, because you’ve got a baby, can you flout the Constitution and our system of laws and representative democracy? But, Mark. No.
SPEAKER 10 :
But Mark, what’s with some of these social media influencers, the real sharp elbowed, I think maybe Posobiec or others are saying, oh, pay attention to those who are critical of these brave nine Republicans. I don’t really get it. I think they’re people that are, I think they’re anti-Mike Johnson, right? That must be their, and they want him to look bad. Well, good. Which I don’t understand.
SPEAKER 12 :
I don’t understand that either. Mike Johnson is about 90% awesome.
SPEAKER 10 :
So keep going. Kevin McCarthy was 80% awesome. Yeah, keep bagging on Mike Johnson and let’s have House Speaker Hakeem Jeffries. Exactly. You know, knock yourself out, dummies. Oh, my gosh.
SPEAKER 12 :
People just listen to us everything.
SPEAKER 10 :
I know. I know. We’d be okay. Just the world would be a lot better. All right. Hang in there. We made it past the first. Onward and upward.
SPEAKER 12 :
Happy Wednesday. Love you. We are ready. Mike Gallagher is set to go as soon as we’re done at 10, 660 a.m.
SPEAKER 06 :
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SPEAKER 05 :
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