Join Mike Gallagher as he dives into a heated discussion on the SAVE Act, a proposed national voter ID law that’s stirring both controversy and support across the United States. In this episode, Mike unpacks the political theatrics surrounding voter ID requirements, tackling claims of racism and alleged motives of voter suppression. Featuring lively caller interactions and expert insights, this is an exploration of how deep-rooted issues in the political spectrum shape America today.
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From the wild world of D.C. politics to America’s culture clash, brace yourself for the reality check you’ve been waiting for. The one and only Mike Gallagher.
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I went in to get some allergy medicine the other day to the drugstore, and they asked me for my identification. And I wanted to scream, racist, racist. You know, I’m partially black. How dare you ask me for a photo ID to get my allergy meds? Every time I hear a Democrat pretend that they think that the SAVE Act, which would sort of make photo ID requirements to vote, a national thing, cross the board. Every time I hear the Chuck Schumers of the world say, oh, that’ll take us back to the Jim Crow era, it just cracks me up, because they don’t believe that for a minute. I understand that Democrats often exhibit subtle racism. We get that. They talk down to people of color. They talk down to minorities. It’s what Rush Limbaugh used to call the soft bigotry of low expectations. Oh, you’re black. You don’t know how to go down to the DMV and get a state ID. You’re not capable of the intellectual prowess that we white people possess in being able to get a photo ID. Instead, they know that’s not true. Even Democrats, even bigot Democrats, aren’t that moronic. They want to be able to cheat. Do you know it is a fact that every state that Kamala Harris took in the 2024 election is a state that doesn’t require photo ID to vote? Every single state she took. Now, some would say, well, they’re blue states. Yeah, blue states want to be able to cheat. Democrats are flailing. Democrats right now are spinning out of control. Jerry Nadler, one of America’s top Democrats, is on Capitol Hill encouraging Americans to shoot law enforcement. Now, you don’t think they’re desperate? That little toad in the House of Representatives has been around for about 100 years. He’s finally retiring. You know, the guy with his pants pulled up under his chin, walks around, waddles like the penguin from the Batman movies. Jerry Nadler actually said that since many ICE officers wear masks, you should be able to shoot them. Now, that’s one of the most powerful Democrats in America. As J.D. Vance pointed out in an ex-posting, expressing absolute disgust at Jerry Nadler, thinking that’s a normal thing to say. And I guarantee you, you’re driving around your thing. There’s no way, no way a Democrat… like Jerry Nadler, would encourage American citizens to kill, to shoot and kill law enforcement. No way that could have come out of his lips. No way would even Jerry Nadler say something that despicable. Well, here it is.
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Really the major problem in this country today is the fascism in our streets. The attacks on American citizens by masked… Hoodlums, if you were attacked by a masked person, you might think you were being kidnapped. You’d be justified in shooting the person to protect yourself.
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J.D. Vance, the vice president, exploded on social media. He posted on X, Jerry Nadler is one of the highest ranking Democrats in the House of Representatives. He’s openly calling for people to shoot federal law enforcement. These people are losing their minds and they don’t know what to do. Now, let’s go from one prominent Democrat to another one, Chuck Schumer, in the Senate. Listen to what he said about the SAVE Act. Again, reasonable requirement. You’ve got to be who you say you are when you go in to vote. We’re electing the leader of the free world. We’re electing people who are going to govern and guide this country. And you cannot argue with a straight face that… The simple process of producing an ID that you have to do in every walk of life shouldn’t be applied to the voting process. Polling shows 76% of black Americans favor voter ID laws. 83% of Americans across the board. This isn’t even an 80-20 issue. This is like a 90-10 issue. If the polling data says 83%, it’s probably really 90. But let’s go with 83. When’s the last issue you ever heard in this country of ours where 83% of Americans agreed on anything? 83% of Americans agree that it is reasonable that you’ve got to present photo ID to vote, but not this guy.
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Save Act Republicans to stand down or else this shutdown is on the Republican shoulders. Now is for the Save Act itself. It has nothing to do with protecting our elections and everything to do with federalizing voter suppression. The Save Act is nothing more than Jim Crow 2.0. If the SAVE Act were to become law, online registration, registration by mail, and registration drives would become a thing of the past. If you’re one of tens of millions of Americans who does not have access to your birth certificate, or if you’re one of the 50% of Americans who don’t have a passport, the SAVE Act could make it impossible for you to participate in elections. It would lead to massive purges that inevitably remove legitimate American citizens
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legitimate citizens who have the right to vote from voter rolls you know why he’s stammering and stuttering you know why he’s stuttering because he can’t even get it out because it’s an he’s an embarrassment he doesn’t believe any of that he doesn’t believe a word of that But he sure can’t stand up there and say, look, we Democrats are in trouble. We’re out of step and out of touch with America. Most Americans don’t favor our goofy, crazed policies. And so we’ve got to cheat. The only way we can win anything is if we cheat. We cheated our butts off in 2020, and we want to cheat again. That’s what he wants to be able to say. That’s what he would say if he had any integrity. But, of course, he can’t say that. So he pretends that the SAVE Act is Jim Crow 2.0. Here is the White House press secretary, Caroline Leavitt, talking about the SAVE Act.
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in 15 states. Can you tell us what he meant by that? What 15 states he’s referring to in terms of Republicans taking over elections? Again, what I was just telling you is that with the passage of the SAVE Act, voter ID will be implemented across all 50 states. The president was referring to specific states in which we have seen. a high degree of fraud. If you look at states like California or if you look at New York City, for example, non-citizens are allowed to vote in elections in places like California and New York City. That just creates a system, an electoral system, that is absolutely ripe with fraud. And you cannot deny the fact that, unfortunately, there are millions of people who have questions about that, as does the president. He wants to make it right, and the SAVE Act is a solution to doing it.
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Pretty simple. It’s not hard. And look, I’m going to ask you, and I want to turn it over to you. I want you to flood my phone lines, 800-655-MIKE. One number does it all. Call or text. Do you believe there is any legitimacy? to Chuck Schumer’s claim that voter ID laws will take us back to the Jim Crow era. Do you agree with me that the only reason Democrats are terrified of voter ID laws is because they won’t be allowed to cheat? Do you agree with me that that is the only reason for their opposition? Let me know what you think. 800-655-MIKE. Great to have you here on a Wednesday. It’s hump day here in the Relief Factor studios. Got a lot of breaking news, a lot of things to cover. And I want to revisit a conversation I had with a caller yesterday who really deserved better from me. And I want to apologize. We’ll see if we can get him back on the show, too. Steve from Connecticut. Remember my call with him yesterday about in-state tuition benefits for illegal immigrants? We’re going to revisit that a little bit later this hour as well. But first, here at quarter past the hour, let’s talk about ThinkFactor. made to help you think clearer, perform better every day. Welcome ThinkFactor to Team Gallagher, a product that comes to us from the great people at ReliefFactor. It’s a powerful blend of nutrients that unlocks mental clarity and precision, nurtures your memory and boosts your attention. You see, with ThinkFactor, brain power and performance finally meet for lasting daily results. Every single day, when I take my supplements, when I’m taking my relief factor, I pop a couple of capsules of think factor down the old gullet, and boy, do I feel great, and I’m thinking clearer and more focused, better memory than ever before. The longer you take it, the better results you get. So call our friends at Relief Factor now, 800-4-RELIEF, to order your first bottle of Think Factor. I’ll get you your first bottle for $19.95. You want to think clearer? You want to perform better? Then you’ve got to order Think Factor. Think Factor by Relief Factor. Again, first bottle, just $19.95 to order. Call 800-4-RELIEF, 800-4-RELIEF, or visit relieffactor.com. Learn more and order your first bottle of Think Factor. It works perfectly. For years, I loved to break down the news, calling out Washington corruption, standing up for the values that make America strong. That means secure borders, limited government, economic freedom. Look, if you’re worried about what’s coming, and a lot of people are, you need to think about protecting yourself and your family with something real, something that can’t be printed out of thin air, something that doesn’t depend on corporate greed or government debt. That’s why I want to tell you about American Independence Gold. They’re a veteran-owned company that stands strong for patriots. What I love is that every purchase supports the Tunnel to Towers Foundation, which helps injured and fallen heroes and their families. And they’re experts in precious metals. They help everyday Americans move their cash, IRA, or 401K into physical gold and silver, real assets you can actually hold. Because the truth is, powerful elites are pushing chaos, war, and central bank digital currency systems that they can track and control. Gold represents freedom. Silver has been hitting record highs. Recently, gold hit over $5,000 an ounce. Precious metals are one way to help protect your wealth from inflation, government overreach, and economic uncertainty. Right now, you can register for a free gold bar giveaway and get a free investor guide. Just call 888-670-7011. 888-670-7011 or visit MikeGallagherGold.com. MikeGallagherGold.com. Help secure your future today. American Independence Gold. Backed by veterans building a stronger America.
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There’s a live look at New London, Connecticut on the Salem News Channel camera network. We thank you for watching Salem News Channel, snc.tv. Or head over to mikeonline.com for all the ways that you can absorb the Mike Gallagher Show. Subscribe to our podcasts. Follow us on YouTube. Facebook, X, we’re at AtGallagherShow. And, of course, thanks to the hundreds of radio stations that carry the Mike Gallagher Show every single day. Connecticut is where Stephen was yesterday who called the show. And I want to apologize to him and I want to apologize to you. First of all, you know I have this never-ending sort of internal struggle. where I know I interrupt disagreeable callers too much. And I work on it. I really do. I usually fail, but I try. And I know that when I am interrupting a caller or the caller is interrupting me, look, when I’m interrupting a caller, I can promise you the caller is doing plenty of interrupting of me too. But I know it’s frustrating because you don’t want to hear people talk over each other. I’ve always been impressed with hosts who have this ability to kind of have an off switch. And they let the disagreeable caller say whatever they want, and then they respond. And I try. I promise I try. Look, I am a flawed human being. I try my best, but sometimes I fail. So I see this story from Axios, how the University of South Florida is going to increase its tuition rates, and the increase is going to impact what they call undocumented students. And I’m reading this story, and I’m losing my mind that there’s any issue – of how could in-state tuition rates be applied to illegal immigrants. It’s astounding to me. So here’s the headline. The University of South Florida increased its out-of-state tuition for the second time in less than a year, a markup that could prove unaffordable for undocumented students. And it goes on to say that there are illegals who had been getting access to in-state tuition. And how terrible it is that illegals have to pay out-of-state tuition. Now this makes me crazy. If you’ve got a kid who wants to go to school in Florida and you live in Ohio, you’re an out-of-state resident, you’re going to pay an out-of-state higher tuition rate. If you’re an illegal immigrant in Florida, so goes the… Defenders of this, you get to pay in-state tuition benefits. That’s insane. So I’m reading this article, and I get this call from Steve in Connecticut. I want to replay the call because, doggone it, he was very respectful. He wasn’t interrupting me a lot. And I’m just so emotional about this story, and I probably reacted too harshly to him. I mean, I’ll let you judge, but I want to play the call for you because it’s an interesting exchange about the issue of in-state tuition for illegal immigrants. Here’s the call. You’re on the Mike Gallagher Show. Hello. Hey, Mike. How are you doing? I’m good.
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How are you? I’m doing all right to keep this conversation going about the Florida tuition change impacting undocumented students the most I want to sort of draw a difference between your undocumented student in Florida who presumably has an address or else they wouldn’t be in Florida they’re paying you know local utilities in Florida they’re contributing to the local economy they were paying that 2800 fee as an in-state student Put them up against your hypothetical student in Ohio who is not as heavily impacted because they can go and apply for federal student aid, which allows them to cover the difference between the $2,800 and the new $8,000 that is the out-of-state rate. So my question would be, which is overall the better scenario? A cash payment from an undocumented student in Florida or… a continuation of the federal student loan crisis through an out-of-state student in Ohio.
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It’s a really interesting, intriguing way you position it. What you’ve lost and what you’re kind of muddy in the waters with is normal people cannot understand why an out-of-state student is expected to pay out-of-state tuition, but an illegal immigrant gets to pay Florida tuition rates. In other words, to equate the two, you take the hypothetical kid from Ohio. Sure, he can apply for federal aid. He may or may not get it. I’m getting a bunch of text messages saying my kid scraped, struggled, and we had to do everything we can to send our kid to this particular college, USF, in Florida. And that was with in-state tuition. Couldn’t afford out-of-state tuition if my life depended on it. Stephen, you’re actually going to argue that an illegal immigrant should be the recipient of in-state tuition, but an out-of-state American citizen should not. Is that your position?
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No, that’s not what I’m arguing. Your difficulty was with the headline, which states… No, no, my difficulty is with the story.
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It’s not the headline. The fact is, illegal immigrants shouldn’t get in-state tuition benefits. That’s not a headline. What’s that? That’s not what the headline… That’s not what the article says. The story… What are you talking about?
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The article says that…
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Are you trolling me? Are you gaslighting?
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That they are more heavily impacted. It doesn’t say they should or they shouldn’t. It says they’re more heavily impacted because they can’t apply. Well, they shouldn’t be able to apply for federal aid.
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They shouldn’t be able to get in-state tuition benefits. They’re illegal immigrants. What is it about that you don’t understand? Of course, I did notice that when you called, you won’t even use that term. Does that trigger you, Stephen, illegal immigrant? Does that term trigger you? No, not in the least. Because you said undocumented. Why didn’t you say illegal?
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Because that’s the terminology that the article uses.
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That’s the terminology you used.
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Read the couple headlines out of the article.
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I read every word of the article, and you’re arguing on behalf of the illegals. Do you want illegals to get in-state tuition benefits, yes or no?
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I want the federal student loan crisis not to get worse. Gotcha. Do you want illegals to get it?
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That’s not what I asked you. That’s not what I asked you. Nice deflection. Do you want illegal immigrants to get in-state tuition benefits?
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If they live in the state that they are asking for tuition benefits from, then they are in-state residents.
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Thank you for your answer. That’s all I needed to hear, because that’s where you’re coming from, and we get you loud and clear. Now, when I was driving home yesterday, I thought, I didn’t like the way that call went. And I know the reason I didn’t like the way the call went is because he wasn’t interrupting me. I was interrupting him. And I was mad at myself, and I thought, you know what? I want to try to make it right. So first of all, I want to apologize to the audience. And it’s not the end of the world. I mean, you know me. I get upset and I get passionate. But I also wanted to specifically apologize to Stephen because he was respectful and We may disagree, and we definitely disagree. I don’t believe that if an illegal is living in Florida, they should get in-state tuition benefits, but that’s okay. We disagree on that. We can agree to disagree. But he did it in a respectful, polite, non-interruptive way, and I should have acknowledged that, and I didn’t. Steven, you’re a good sport to come back on the show. I know you’re busy today. You had a lot of calls, Tracy said, but you took time away from your job to come back on the show to hopefully accept my apology for jumping on you a little bit too hard when you were making your points because you were not jumping on me the way I jumped on you, and I’m really sorry.
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Yeah. First off, Mike, thanks for having me back on the show. I think it is important to take time out of one’s day for an occasion like this, because you obviously have a national, if not an international platform, and you and I come from two sides of a lot of different issues. But I think it’s important to showcase the very responsible move on your part to acknowledge that The discourse could have been a bit more civil, but I certainly accept your apology and welcome future interactions with you on your show and elsewhere.
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Thank you very much. I appreciate your response to that because it just bothered me. And look, this has always plagued me. I mean, I get passionate, I get emotional, and I know I just interrupt too much, and I’m trying to do better at it. So you’re a good test case because… Frankly, the reason I often people perceive me interrupting people is that the caller is doing plenty of interrupting on their part, too. And they know people never seem to notice that. But you didn’t do that. And I just I wanted you to know that that I was I was bothered by the way I reacted to you. So thanks for accepting my apology. Hope the audience does as well. But let’s I do want to continue for just a couple of minutes while I’ve got you. Because this is such an important issue, and we’re in the middle of Minnesota today. Tom Holman, as we reported, held a press conference saying that there’s a – look, like it or not, the mass deportation is going to continue. I guess you’re of the mindset, kind of the Lindsey Graham, Newt Gingrich mindset perhaps, that, look, we’ve got to figure out what to do with the millions of illegals who are here. We just can’t round everybody up and send them back to their native country. Is that fair? Would you kind of consider your position to be sort of in that vein?
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Well, I don’t know that I would find myself aligned with Lindsey Graham or Newt Gingrich.
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I knew I’d get you. But that’s what they’re saying. And look, they’re getting a lot of flack from my side because people are like, come on, Newt. But they are. They’re saying, look, we’ve got to think of a way, a better way to handle illegals who are here who haven’t broken any other laws. They’re paying their taxes if they’re working or whatever, and we just can’t kick them out of the country.
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I think there’s There’s a tremendous amount of wisdom in looking at America’s role on the world stage over the course of the last 20th century, which, in my opinion, has been to try and minimize humanitarian crises everywhere. And I think by rounding up and deporting those in our country who are not causing a problem, who are in this case, we’re talking about people who are actively seeking higher education. right, and willing to pay full freight to that education to the degree they can afford it. And they’re obviously trying to better themselves, and we hope that if they’re able to do that, they stay in our communities and work to better our communities. I think the other side of this, again, looking at this issue through the lens of the article we were discussing yesterday, is when you’re talking about undocumented students, Certainly there are exceptions of folks that are later on in life going back to get a higher education, but you’re probably talking about DACA folks in a disproportionate sense. You know, children who came here through no action or fault of their own, who were brought here by their parents or their guardians, and if they’re undocumented students, of course they were brought here without following the appropriate legal channels. So I think taking action on those folks again, who haven’t even truly committed the crime of immigrating illegally, seems at odds with Right.
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I get that. And the disconnect is that a lot of normal Americans, I think, sit back and they’re watching this and they’re saying there’s no way that an illegal immigrant, whether it’s a product of DACA or a kid that was brought over here, the child is here illegally, the child is here illegally, a college student. And to somebody in Connecticut who wants to send their kid to school in Florida, the Connecticut parent has to pay out-of-state tuition rates. The Floridian parent who’s an illegal gets to pay in-state tuition rates. And I think the disconnect you and I have and the reason – there’s a disagreement is that Americans don’t want illegal immigrants to get an advantage over an American citizen. And what you’re suggesting is you’re okay with the illegal or the child of an illegal getting an advantage over that hypothetical student in Connecticut.
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Well, I think that goes a little far because what, again, what we’re talking about is what does the article say? And the article states that undocumented students are, are more heavily impacted than others.
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Yeah, but wait a minute. Let’s not get hung up. I get that. But the big picture here, and I talked to Mark Davis, my buddy in Dallas, about our call as well this morning, and Mark said, well, it sounds like Stephen was burying the lead. In other words, the 35,000-foot question is, should an illegal immigrant get in-state tuition benefits or not? And that, to me, that was my default, and that’s why I couldn’t get past that issue with you yesterday. And I want to focus on that. And I think you do believe that if, look, if an illegal is living in Florida, they should get in-state tuition benefits. And I wonder if you recognize how unfair that is to all the thousands and thousands of kids who don’t live in Florida who might want to go to school to USF. You want an illegal to get an advantage for…
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Well, so I think, and you’ll have to excuse me, Mike, I’m a corporate lawyer in my day job, so I tend to parse words very specifically. Sure, I do too. The article doesn’t. I don’t believe that it uses the term illegal immigrant. It does use the term undocumented student.
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Yeah, you don’t like to use… We get that you don’t like that. You sound like Chris Cuomo who said last week, oh, everybody agreed to change the term illegal to undocumented. No, we didn’t. No, we didn’t. Nice try. That’s not going to work. I mean, again, that’s… Now, you’re talking… You want to parse words. We’re talking about vernacular. We’re talking about an expression. You want to say undocumented. I want to say illegal immigrant. Okay, that’s fine. Nonetheless, they are illegal. If somebody’s here illegally, that’s an illegal immigrant. If somebody’s here illegally, your side likes to call them undocumented because you want to soften it up. You want to make it a little more palatable, right?
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Okay, so let me draw a couple lines around the word that I would use. If you are an illegal immigrant, in my parlance, that means that you, you the person, took action that was against the U.S. immigration laws in order to transport yourself into this country. Correct. That’s an illegal immigrant. Correct. That is someone who immigrated illegally.
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So you wouldn’t call that person undocumented. You’d call them illegal.
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If that person took action to enter the United States without following the immigration laws, yes, by definition, they’re an illegal immigrant. So what’s our disagreement? The article uses the term undocumented student, which could very easily refer to, as we discussed earlier, a tremendous number of people who are here and have DACA status.
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Well, they don’t – but they don’t differentiate between DACA or undocumented. They’re just using the term undocumented student because, frankly, they don’t want to use the word illegal. At no place is Axios going to talk – call an illegal immigrant an illegal immigrant because it’s Axios. And again, like we played the clip from Chris Cuomo the other day, oh, we don’t call people illegal. Look, there’s a revolt over at CNN over my buddy Scott Jennings because the CNN staffers are mad that he calls illegal immigrants illegals because they think they ought to call them undocumented. So, you know, we’re hung up on that particular word. Stephen, I’m way over time. You’re a good sport. I appreciate you coming back on the show. And make sure you call again, but thank you for… for teaching me the wisdom of not being so interruptive and not coming down so hard on somebody like yourself who disagrees with me in good faith. So you’re a class act, and I appreciate you very much, Stephen.
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All right, Mike. Appreciate you calling me back, and likely you’ll hear from me again.
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I hope so. 10 before the hour. More coming up.
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Mike Gallagher.
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Funny text on the MyPillow text line, Pennsylvania. Mike, what’s wrong with you? Take the win. If the left is bashing Mom Donnie, don’t defend the guy. Well, there is that. There’s a lot of people on the left who are upset about the snow removal in New York City. You know, the question about snow removal. Now, what about Staten Island? Because if they’re not plowing the streets in Staten Island, which is a conservative part of New York, you know that’s by design. I don’t think Mamdani is actually mapping out who gets plowed and who doesn’t. I think he’s worried about plotting the next, you know, warmth of collectivism strategy with his communist ideology. Man, oh man, oh man, still can’t believe it. There are things that have happened in the last year that you just can’t get over are real, right? They are. They’re very real. Pain is real. If you’ve got back pain, leg pain, neck pain, shoulder pain, why don’t you consider Relief Factor as the alternative, the answer, the solution that maybe you’ve been praying for. And look, that’s not an exaggeration. Relief Factor is literally the answer to many, many people’s prayers. Just a great way to get yourself out of pain relief without going down that dangerous prescription drug path. I love the fact that Relief Factor is 100% drug-free. I know these folks real well. I’ve been out to their headquarters in the Pacific Northwest on multiple occasions. They’ve changed my life. I had lower back pain, and that wasn’t the end of the world. It was about a 3 or 4 on the pain scale, but I figured I had to live with it. But the fact is, I didn’t. Because after two and a half weeks of taking Relief Factor, my lower back pain was gone. Let’s see if we can get you out of pain. Call 800-4-RELIEF. Take the three-week quick start, $19.95. It’s a low-cost way for you to kind of take it out for a test drive and see if we can get you out of pain. ReliefFactor.com, ReliefFactor.com, or call 800-4-RELIEF, 800-4-RELIEF. The SAVE Act has gotten a lot of attention. There is just no question that the SAVE Act, which would mandate voter ID laws across the country, are enormously popular. Don’t believe me? Check out the CNN data guru, Harry Enten. Again, remember, this is not Newsmax. This isn’t Salem News Channel. This isn’t Fox News. This is CNN.
SPEAKER 06 :
All this polling on the screen going back since 2018, you’ll notice on all of it, it’s all north of 75%, 76%, 76%, 76%, 81%, and then 83% in the last year of Americans agree with Nicki Minaj. They favor photo ID to be able to vote. What about by party? What’s the party bird? Yeah, normally you might expect, hey, there’d be a big divide by party with Republicans really for it and Democrats really against it. But not really here. I mean, just take a look here. Favorite photo ID to vote. You’ve got 95 percent of Republicans, pretty much all of them. But even 71 percent of Democrats favor photo ID to vote. So, again, Nicki Minaj. Posting that on X, and what you see is that the American people, actually, it’s not really all that controversial. The American people are with Nicki Minaj, whether they are Republican or even if they are Democrats. We’re talking about 7 in 10 Democrats agreeing with Nicki Minaj that you, in fact, should show a voter photo ID to vote. What’s the racial breakdown? Okay, what’s the racial breakdown on this, right? Because I think a lot of people make the argument that people of color, non-white Americans, have a harder time procuring a photo ID to vote. But even here, take a look here. Favorite photo ID to vote. 85% of white people favor it. 82% of Latino. 76% of black Americans favor it. So the bottom line is this. Voter ID is not controversial in this country. A photo ID to vote is not controversial in this country. It is not controversial by party, and it is not controversial by race. The vast majority of Americans agree with Nicki Minaj that, in fact, you should have a photo ID to be able to vote. So something of a non-troversy, in other words. Very good. The alliteration of Mr. John Berman, that Harvard education, paying off once again. Harold, and thank you very much.
SPEAKER 05 :
All right, how about that? How about Roger P. Shulman? And guys, our talkback, if you can get off your talkback there for me, folks in New York. Something’s gone wrong with her button there, Eric, so I can’t hear anything except Jasmine. So we’ve got a talkback problem. Roger P. Shulman’s in the newsroom. And, Roger, you just heard the polling from CNN, and yet Chuck Schumer, one of the most prominent Democrats in America… says that the SAVE Act will be DOA, dead on arrival in the Senate, because after all, it’ll take us back to the Jim Crow era. It’s racist to expect people to show a photo ID to vote. Where are we right now with the SAVE Act? Roger, bring us up to date.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, the SAVE Act, it stands for Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act. House Bill 22 passed the House but did not make it through the Senate this time. And as you said, it requires people to provide a photo ID to vote. Earlier voters, well, right now voters in almost every state register to vote simply by affirming or writing under penalty of perjury that they’re a U.S. citizen. This makes it a little tougher. And you have to have a photo ID to prove who you are and that you’re a U.S. citizen. And… This Jim Crow thing, I mean, black people fly on airplanes. You have to have a photo ID to fly on an airplane. I see lots of black people at the airport flying on airplanes and going into certain buildings to buy things, to go to the drugstore and pick things up. It just makes no sense. And I think black people realize it’s ridiculous and it’s just a non-issue.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, it’s insulting, but look, Roger, I think we know what really is going on here. The Democrats don’t think that black people are too stupid to be able to get photo ID. They’re hiding behind that because they know that without any voter ID regulations, they can cheat. Every state, Roger, that Kamala Harris won…
SPEAKER 03 :
in 2020 in every state she won in 2024 was won in a state that doesn’t have any voter id laws now you think that’s a coincidence not at all and uh speaker johnson said uh these uh other laws where you can actually keep the polls open after the election’s over they had three republicans that won in california and then they started bringing in these piles of ballots that uh all were democrat Very little Republicans in them. This kind of thing would be eliminated with this act. And that’s the kind of thing that just keeps on going. And the mainstream media is even coming around to saying that the opposition to this is ridiculous.
SPEAKER 05 :
We’re talking with our newsman, Roger P. Shulman, who’s in the Mike Gallagher Show newsroom. You know, I can’t think of another issue that gets this kind of widespread support. 76% of black Americans, 71% of Democrats, 83% of voters across the board, 90 plus. I mean, Roger, when’s the last time you’ve ever seen an issue that basically unifies most Americans? Never. Never. That’s an easy answer. See, your years of news journalism there, that gives you a perfect, succinct answer. But it’s true. And so is Chuck Schumer really ready to go down with the ship on this?
SPEAKER 03 :
I don’t know what’s going on with him. He’s pretty much kind of seemingly fading away. I don’t believe he’s going to be the main man much longer as far as the Democratic Party is concerned. I think there’s a lot of pressure to get him out of there. And he may not really be up to date on the situation. There’s a lot of turmoil in that party. The leadership changes, the direction. Carville is saying one thing and… And who’s going to be running this thing in the future? I guess Gavin Newsom wants to be president, and he’s pretty, and a lot of people think he’ll get it, but I just don’t know.
SPEAKER 05 :
Look, it’s going to be somebody else’s problem because I got the email today from the Nigerian prince. They’re going to give me between $5 and $25 million. So it’s been nice working with you, Roger. I’ve enjoyed it. We’ve had a good time together.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, I got the publisher’s clearinghouse, $7 million. That’s a little more legit.
SPEAKER 05 :
All right, Roger. Great work. Roger P. Shulman in the newsroom. Great job to the team. Yasmin doing a terrific job video producing. Alex on the phones. Tracy producing. Eric flying the plane. Thank you for joining us. We’ll do it again tomorrow. Have a great Wednesday. Be safe. Keep fighting the good fight. I’m Mike Gallagher. God bless America.
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