WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.440 --> 00:00:04.559 Attention. You're listening to the top Huff Radio show, America's home for conservative 2 00:00:04.719 --> 00:00:08.800 not bitter talk radio. Be advised. The content of this program has been 3 00:00:08.839 --> 00:00:12.560 documented to prevents and even cure liberalism, and listening may cause you to lean 4 00:00:12.599 --> 00:00:33.240 to the rights. Here's your conservative but not Bitter host, Todd Huff. 5 00:00:33.920 --> 00:00:37.679 Yes, yes, yes, conservative not bitter. Indeed, my friends, 6 00:00:37.719 --> 00:00:41.520 it is a pleasure to be here today, as you know. As always, 7 00:00:41.560 --> 00:00:47.320 you can join the conversation here my emailing Todd at todhoffshow dot com, 8 00:00:47.439 --> 00:00:52.600 or you can text us at three one seven to one zero twenty eight thirty 9 00:00:53.359 --> 00:00:56.920 message in. Data rates may apply depending upon your carrier. But I hope 10 00:00:56.960 --> 00:01:00.600 you had a great weekend. We did as well. You know, I've 11 00:01:00.600 --> 00:01:03.680 been just a brief update, Just a little brief update. I was just 12 00:01:03.719 --> 00:01:07.840 talking with the OZ about this. But we had a couple of games yesterday 13 00:01:07.959 --> 00:01:11.200 basketball I coach at what is it, I guess you would say, attend 14 00:01:11.280 --> 00:01:17.040 you. I guess basketball team, fourth grade, fourth grade girls. One 15 00:01:17.079 --> 00:01:23.159 of our girls is a player there, and we're competing. It's the first 16 00:01:23.159 --> 00:01:27.640 time that we've done something like this. The games. We play a couple 17 00:01:27.719 --> 00:01:37.200 of games every weekend and struggling right now, folks, we struggling. Lost 18 00:01:37.239 --> 00:01:42.560 a couple of nail biders over the weekend, lost one by three and the 19 00:01:42.599 --> 00:01:47.879 other by two. But we are getting better. So and if I'm being 20 00:01:47.920 --> 00:01:49.239 honest with you, I gotta tech. Can you believe that I got a 21 00:01:49.280 --> 00:01:53.359 tech? I'm going to tell you something I didn't deserve a tech. Now, 22 00:01:53.719 --> 00:01:57.159 I might have deserved a little bit of a warning, but I certainly 23 00:01:57.359 --> 00:02:01.680 did not deserve technical foul. But anyway, I'll keep you posting on how 24 00:02:01.680 --> 00:02:07.120 that season is coming together. But I think we've got potential to be pretty 25 00:02:07.120 --> 00:02:10.360 good. We just haven't. These girls are just learning basketball. So anyway, 26 00:02:10.800 --> 00:02:15.360 there you go. So by now you probably have heard, if not, 27 00:02:15.479 --> 00:02:22.000 I'm about to tell you that Ron DeSantis has officially dropped out of the 28 00:02:22.039 --> 00:02:31.919 presidential race and he is endorsing President Trump as his candidate of choice. So 29 00:02:34.240 --> 00:02:39.360 this, of course, you know. I rush used to say, See, 30 00:02:39.439 --> 00:02:45.560 I told you so, I don't want to go there. Maybe in 31 00:02:45.599 --> 00:02:47.360 a little bit of a way, I want to go there. But we 32 00:02:47.400 --> 00:02:51.479 all knew that this was going to happen. We all knew that this was 33 00:02:51.520 --> 00:02:55.400 going to happen. And there's really one contender left. And again, I 34 00:02:55.439 --> 00:03:00.240 do not mean this disrespectfully to Nicki Haley and her campaign, but she's not 35 00:03:00.360 --> 00:03:06.919 really a contender. This has been President Trump's nomination all along. Now, 36 00:03:07.199 --> 00:03:10.479 I'm not here to say that no one else can run for the nomination. 37 00:03:10.639 --> 00:03:16.919 That's not my point. I just questioned the judgment of such decisions. I 38 00:03:17.039 --> 00:03:23.080 questioned the judgment when Mike Pence announced that he was running in the twenty twenty 39 00:03:23.080 --> 00:03:30.360 four Republican primary. I questioned the judgment of I mean, take your pick 40 00:03:30.479 --> 00:03:38.520 rond dea Santis in particular because especially Ronda Santis, Rond de Santis had set 41 00:03:38.560 --> 00:03:43.319 himself up. And again, I'm not in the business of politics. I 42 00:03:43.479 --> 00:03:46.680 talk about these things on this show. I care about these things as an 43 00:03:46.719 --> 00:03:52.840 American, as a lover of liberty, these things matter a whole lot to 44 00:03:52.919 --> 00:03:58.960 me. But I'm not a professional in that world. I'm not a consultant, 45 00:04:00.080 --> 00:04:10.360 not what the advisor, have no interest in that whatsoever. So I 46 00:04:10.439 --> 00:04:15.160 know that there is a business side of this. Excuse me as I take 47 00:04:15.160 --> 00:04:20.000 a drink there. So I understand that, and I know that I'm not 48 00:04:20.040 --> 00:04:26.600 the one calling the plays and do not want to be. By the way, 49 00:04:27.480 --> 00:04:30.120 But to me, in my opinion, and I said this for a 50 00:04:30.160 --> 00:04:36.399 long time, this was such an obvious This was such an obvious situation where 51 00:04:36.439 --> 00:04:42.319 people like Rhonda's I would say, especially Ronda Santis, should have set this 52 00:04:42.519 --> 00:04:46.879 out altogether. I mean, we have gotten through one, We've gotten through 53 00:04:46.879 --> 00:04:49.600 the Iowa Caucuses. We haven't even gotten into New Hampshire. Now New Hampshire 54 00:04:50.639 --> 00:04:57.480 is coming upon us what tomorrow. But he didn't even technically get to the 55 00:04:57.519 --> 00:05:00.600 first primary. We've really only gone through the first August. And that goes 56 00:05:00.639 --> 00:05:06.680 with all of these folks. That goes with Nikki Haley, that goes for 57 00:05:08.040 --> 00:05:12.120 Nicki Haley, for Tim Scott, for Mike Pence. A lot of these 58 00:05:12.160 --> 00:05:15.199 folks never even got to the starting line. And it's maddening to me. 59 00:05:16.959 --> 00:05:21.000 And of course I said at the time, and I stand by my analysis 60 00:05:21.040 --> 00:05:27.600 at the time, when these folks jumped into the discussion here threw their names 61 00:05:27.639 --> 00:05:31.720 into the proverbial ring here to be considered for the Republican nominee for president of 62 00:05:32.680 --> 00:05:39.000 well for the Republican nomination for president of the United States. But I stand 63 00:05:39.000 --> 00:05:44.160 by the analysis that the only chance that these folks had of winning the nomination 64 00:05:44.319 --> 00:05:47.319 from top to bottom, and this is not meant to be an insult. 65 00:05:47.480 --> 00:05:50.639 I think that there are things to like about Desantus. I think there are 66 00:05:50.720 --> 00:05:58.600 things to like about vivek Ramaswami. I know that there's skepticism about both of 67 00:05:58.639 --> 00:06:02.439 those individuals. Some of you have skepticism about both of them. Some of 68 00:06:02.480 --> 00:06:06.759 you have skepticism of about one and not the other. And I get that 69 00:06:08.079 --> 00:06:12.040 some of you have skepticism about Trump. I get all this. I'm not 70 00:06:12.120 --> 00:06:15.240 even trying to say who I think we should be skeptical of or any of 71 00:06:15.240 --> 00:06:19.560 that. I'm just acknowledging that there's a lot of you know, a lot 72 00:06:19.600 --> 00:06:30.199 of uncertainty or well, I just say uncertainty about these candidates. But I 73 00:06:30.199 --> 00:06:33.920 don't think the only choice, the only chance I should say that Desantas had 74 00:06:34.480 --> 00:06:39.399 of winning, that Pence never had a chance. But the only chance they 75 00:06:39.439 --> 00:06:43.480 had of winning was if something happened to Trump. And by something, I 76 00:06:43.600 --> 00:06:49.759 mean something catastrophic to his campaign. I mean one of the indictments turns into 77 00:06:50.079 --> 00:06:55.319 handcuffs and I got to be candid. I don't even know if that's enough 78 00:06:56.000 --> 00:06:59.759 or if they were just trying to overwhelm his campaign to where it was unable 79 00:06:59.800 --> 00:07:04.439 to raise money and operate. I don't believe, I don't believe that there 80 00:07:04.480 --> 00:07:11.120 was ever any legitimate chance of that happening. But nonetheless, nonetheless, this 81 00:07:11.160 --> 00:07:15.279 is where we end up finding ourselves as the only course of action, the 82 00:07:15.279 --> 00:07:20.560 only path for any of these folks to win the nomination from the Republican Party. 83 00:07:20.639 --> 00:07:25.920 This is the only option, the only choice, the only path to 84 00:07:26.040 --> 00:07:32.519 victory was some series of events that were incredibly unlikely, just from the perspective 85 00:07:32.519 --> 00:07:40.600 of just the timeliness of it. Now, the people in the government who 86 00:07:40.600 --> 00:07:44.680 have been targeting Trump have tried to time this out so as to make and 87 00:07:44.720 --> 00:07:48.040 have the maximum impact on his ability to win the nomination. I mean, 88 00:07:48.040 --> 00:07:51.279 we've got one of the trials that they've tried to get started, the DC 89 00:07:51.439 --> 00:07:56.240 Trial. I believe that they want to get started on the day before Super 90 00:07:56.240 --> 00:08:01.639 Tuesday. Now you talk about an ultimate backfire Super Tuesday. At the rate 91 00:08:01.680 --> 00:08:07.399 we're going Nicki Haley, if she survives past this week in New Hampshire, 92 00:08:07.959 --> 00:08:09.639 it's not going to be much further than that. I don't see any way 93 00:08:09.680 --> 00:08:15.399 possible we get to a competitive primary and the Republican Party for the presidential nomination 94 00:08:16.000 --> 00:08:20.439 between Trump and NICKI Haley. I see no chance of this happening. I 95 00:08:20.480 --> 00:08:24.439 see no chance of this happening. It might go on for a couple more 96 00:08:24.480 --> 00:08:28.399 weeks. I haven't looked at the calendar to see which primaries might fall between 97 00:08:28.439 --> 00:08:33.879 now and Super Tuesday. I know South Carolina is in there, but anyway, 98 00:08:33.919 --> 00:08:39.279 I just I don't see this having any impact whatsoever. The likelihood that 99 00:08:39.320 --> 00:08:45.720 we get to Super Tuesday with Trump being the last person running a campaign is 100 00:08:45.759 --> 00:08:48.720 fairly high at this point. It's not a certainty, but it is fairly 101 00:08:48.799 --> 00:08:54.720 high. And I say all this simply to remind you that this was predictable 102 00:08:56.120 --> 00:09:00.440 when these people decided to run for office six months ago, nine months ago, 103 00:09:00.519 --> 00:09:03.840 whenever they decided to announce their candidacy. And you'll remember, if you've 104 00:09:03.879 --> 00:09:07.600 listened to this program for any length of time, that I questioned the decisions 105 00:09:07.600 --> 00:09:11.799 of Ron de Santis at the time, I thought, he has nothing to 106 00:09:11.919 --> 00:09:16.200 gain here, he has nothing to gain. I understand if he doesn't want 107 00:09:16.240 --> 00:09:20.360 to be the vice presidential nominee. I get that. I understand that. 108 00:09:22.480 --> 00:09:26.720 I don't know that some people. You know, there was a time and 109 00:09:26.759 --> 00:09:33.279 I think we shared this last week where there were a couple of campere presidencies 110 00:09:33.440 --> 00:09:41.600 right where the vice president became the party the let's say Reagan's vice presidential will 111 00:09:41.639 --> 00:09:43.519 not just candidate, but his actual vice president, George H. W. 112 00:09:43.639 --> 00:09:52.399 Bush became the nominee. After Reagan had to step aside from office after serving 113 00:09:52.159 --> 00:09:58.600 two consecutive terms, al Gore, who was of course Bill Clinton's vice president 114 00:09:58.639 --> 00:10:07.799 from eighteen nineteen ninety two through two thousand. Al Gore became the nominee. 115 00:10:07.799 --> 00:10:09.639 And there was a period of time where people were saying, hey, if 116 00:10:09.679 --> 00:10:16.440 you're vice president, remember you're just you're just the pick of the person that's 117 00:10:18.080 --> 00:10:22.879 the presumptive nominee of the Republican or Democrat party. The voters don't have a 118 00:10:22.919 --> 00:10:26.440 say on that. Now they can vote for a single ticket in the general 119 00:10:26.480 --> 00:10:33.440 election, but that's they didn't have a choice. They didn't actually voice their 120 00:10:33.519 --> 00:10:37.279 preference in the selection of who was going to be the running mate. And 121 00:10:37.320 --> 00:10:45.039 so there's been concern historically about, you know, having someone move into this 122 00:10:45.240 --> 00:10:52.120 level of prominence without being vetted by the voter per se. And the truth 123 00:10:52.240 --> 00:10:54.559 is, the truth is that not the direction that we've been going. There's 124 00:10:54.639 --> 00:10:58.559 not been a vice president. Now, Biden, of course was by vice 125 00:10:58.559 --> 00:11:05.360 president under Obama, but he did not win the nomination in twenty sixteen at 126 00:11:05.399 --> 00:11:09.519 the end of at the end of Obama's term. In fact, that was 127 00:11:09.600 --> 00:11:15.600 back when he was dealing with the passing of his eldest son Bo. He 128 00:11:15.639 --> 00:11:20.720 didn't even he didn't run at the time, didn't even decide or announce his 129 00:11:20.840 --> 00:11:26.600 running in twenty twenty until sometime, you know, as we got closer to 130 00:11:26.639 --> 00:11:35.519 that particular cycle as well. So there's obviously you can become the president of 131 00:11:35.559 --> 00:11:39.320 the United States if you're vice president. But there's certainly plenty of examples of 132 00:11:39.320 --> 00:11:46.159 where people don't take that route as well. I mean lots of them. 133 00:11:46.240 --> 00:11:48.720 Right. So anyway, so I know DeSantis doesn't want to be number two, 134 00:11:48.720 --> 00:11:52.080 and I don't know that that's necessary especially, I mean, I can 135 00:11:52.159 --> 00:11:58.639 understand that, and I understand that when you look and you see that people 136 00:11:58.720 --> 00:12:03.320 are asking you to run for president, when you have big donors coming to 137 00:12:03.360 --> 00:12:05.639 you and saying, hey, I think we can build a coalition. I 138 00:12:05.679 --> 00:12:09.639 think we can build we can beat Trump. I think we can get you 139 00:12:09.720 --> 00:12:13.440 across the finish line. And you see some big names, a lot of 140 00:12:13.519 --> 00:12:16.279 names, and a lot of by the way, names that are on the 141 00:12:16.360 --> 00:12:24.919 Rhino side of the Republican Party kind of got behind the candidacy of DeSantis, 142 00:12:24.919 --> 00:12:28.159 which was problematic for me. Which was problematic for me, But nonetheless, 143 00:12:28.200 --> 00:12:31.000 I mean, that's fine. I don't you know, we have to find 144 00:12:31.000 --> 00:12:35.200 a way to work with everybody within the Republican Party when it comes time to 145 00:12:35.360 --> 00:12:43.120 actually voting someone into the White House and governing and legislating and just moving the 146 00:12:43.200 --> 00:12:48.320 conservative agenda forward. So I understand that can be appealing, that can be 147 00:12:48.799 --> 00:12:54.279 maybe a little bit. I'm not saying this was the case with the Santas 148 00:12:54.320 --> 00:12:58.039 at all, but I can see how that could even make someone's head get 149 00:12:58.080 --> 00:13:01.879 a little bit too big Gore, as we like to say in my family, 150 00:13:01.960 --> 00:13:05.759 get a little bit too big for your breeches. In fact, that 151 00:13:05.840 --> 00:13:11.600 was my dad's nickname, is a little boy growing up with his great uncle. 152 00:13:13.159 --> 00:13:16.440 I guess it been his uncle. I think it's my great uncle called 153 00:13:16.480 --> 00:13:20.039 him britches growing up. So you can get too big for your breeches and 154 00:13:20.159 --> 00:13:24.159 begin to see that, hey, I've got some big names supporting me. 155 00:13:24.240 --> 00:13:26.840 I've got some big names that are calling me up. I've got some big 156 00:13:26.919 --> 00:13:31.879 names who are telling me that I should be the Republican nominee. And that's 157 00:13:31.919 --> 00:13:37.919 a pretty I mean pretty big deal, right, And so I get it, 158 00:13:37.919 --> 00:13:43.799 But where were the people? Where were the people that DeSantis could trust? 159 00:13:43.360 --> 00:13:46.480 Where were the people? And I don't put ram I do not put 160 00:13:46.519 --> 00:13:50.320 Ramaswami in this group because I actually think I think it was a good thing 161 00:13:50.360 --> 00:13:54.840 for him to run, because he didn't have any name recognition whatsoever. He 162 00:13:54.919 --> 00:13:58.399 went out there and now people know who he is and he is. I 163 00:13:58.399 --> 00:14:03.600 think he ran campaign the right way. I think he did as good as 164 00:14:03.639 --> 00:14:07.600 he could have done given the circumstances and the realities. I think he actually 165 00:14:09.840 --> 00:14:13.919 he actually was better off. Actually you could say one in a way, 166 00:14:13.960 --> 00:14:18.720 not the nomination, but had some things that put him at a better position 167 00:14:18.440 --> 00:14:22.200 moving forward in the party, in politics. But I would not say that's 168 00:14:22.240 --> 00:14:26.879 the case for DeSantis. It's definitely not the case for Mike Pence. Mike 169 00:14:26.960 --> 00:14:33.440 Pence, that was his last chance, his last chance, and he's politically, 170 00:14:33.679 --> 00:14:39.200 I mean just again, barring some sort of divine intervention sort of thing, 171 00:14:39.279 --> 00:14:43.360 that's Mike Pence's. The end of Mike Pence's political career. DeSantis I 172 00:14:43.440 --> 00:14:46.639 don't know if I want to go that far as to say that, but 173 00:14:46.679 --> 00:14:52.679 he's definitely alienated people. He's alienated people who believe. Now he's not alienated 174 00:14:52.799 --> 00:14:58.519 me, but I know he's alienated people who believe the things about who the 175 00:14:58.600 --> 00:15:03.320 right person is for the Republicans to nominate in twenty twenty four, which I 176 00:15:03.320 --> 00:15:07.159 believe, of course is Trump. And that's because I think we've got one 177 00:15:07.279 --> 00:15:11.039 heck of a fight. And I know that it alienated some people because some 178 00:15:11.039 --> 00:15:16.840 people would say Trump kind of helped make DeSantis. DeSantis even mimicked some of 179 00:15:16.879 --> 00:15:22.799 the movements, the hand gestures, the way that he would conduct press conferences. 180 00:15:24.279 --> 00:15:28.399 And so again, there's nothing to say he can't run, he shouldn't 181 00:15:28.399 --> 00:15:31.519 have run. There's nothing to say that definitively, it's a free country. 182 00:15:31.559 --> 00:15:35.360 You can do what you want. But where were the people that had judgment 183 00:15:35.440 --> 00:15:41.440 here? Where were the people who should have said, look, you're going 184 00:15:41.519 --> 00:15:43.279 to be in a better position. Trump's only going to be there for four 185 00:15:43.360 --> 00:15:48.799 terms. Now I think we should maybe talk about whether you're a vice presidential 186 00:15:48.840 --> 00:15:52.960 fit for him. But the smart move is not to alienate Trump's base. 187 00:15:54.519 --> 00:15:56.679 The smart move is to say, look, this guy needs to finish what 188 00:15:56.799 --> 00:16:03.679 he started. I've learned some things. I'm ready to implement them as kind 189 00:16:03.679 --> 00:16:07.960 of a next phase of the process, because it's not one election that's gonna 190 00:16:07.960 --> 00:16:11.639 save this country. We've got to win multiple We're gonna have to win, 191 00:16:11.279 --> 00:16:15.159 not just with Trump, not just in twenty twenty eight, with whoever's next, 192 00:16:15.240 --> 00:16:18.759 not in twenty thirty two. This is gonna have to This is never 193 00:16:18.799 --> 00:16:23.200 gonna end. We're gonna have to continue to move things back in the direction 194 00:16:23.279 --> 00:16:26.960 they should go. And it's gonna take strong principal leadership. And I think 195 00:16:27.000 --> 00:16:33.200 DeSantis is in a position where he's called into question in the minds of some 196 00:16:33.320 --> 00:16:37.559 voters. I'm not saying me, but I'm saying they have called in the 197 00:16:37.679 --> 00:16:45.960 question just how true he is to those principles. And that's why I thought 198 00:16:45.960 --> 00:16:49.360 it was a bad idea to run at the beginning. But you can't put 199 00:16:49.360 --> 00:16:52.120 that genie back in the bottle. I get it. You can't put that 200 00:16:52.279 --> 00:16:56.960 toothpaste back in the tube of toothpaste. It's over and done with anyway. 201 00:16:57.039 --> 00:17:00.480 That being said, we're gonna take a time out. We'll come back. 202 00:17:00.519 --> 00:17:03.279 I want to play a little bit of what DeSantis said when he announced that 203 00:17:03.319 --> 00:17:07.880 his campaign was suspending, and of course he was dropping out of the race. 204 00:17:07.880 --> 00:17:11.480 And there's other things I want to get to in due course as well. 205 00:17:11.599 --> 00:17:15.440 My friends, Sit tight, you're listening here to the home of conservative 206 00:17:15.599 --> 00:17:17.839 not bitter talk. I am your host, the one, the only, 207 00:17:17.880 --> 00:17:30.799 the ever so beloved Todd Huff Back in just a minute, Welcome back, 208 00:17:30.920 --> 00:17:33.440 my friends. Yes, indeed, we are going to have to win multiple 209 00:17:33.519 --> 00:17:38.279 elections. We're going to have to win, win, win, baby, 210 00:17:38.480 --> 00:17:42.359 just keep winning. Hopefully we'll win with Trump here in twenty twenty four. 211 00:17:42.440 --> 00:17:47.319 Hopefully we'll win with whoever steps up in twenty twenty eight. But it needs 212 00:17:47.359 --> 00:17:53.440 to be someone who is both well principled in a conservative sense and also a 213 00:17:53.480 --> 00:17:59.400 fighter. Also a fighter. I think that's one of the things that I 214 00:17:59.440 --> 00:18:04.359 have liked and appreciate it about Governor Ronda Santis. He was representative Ronda Santis. 215 00:18:04.400 --> 00:18:07.640 He's done a good job in Florida. I don't think he campaigned well. 216 00:18:07.680 --> 00:18:14.119 I think his campaign was terrible, But I also believe I also believe 217 00:18:14.400 --> 00:18:18.119 that that doesn't mean it's the end of this necessarily. It couldn't mean that. 218 00:18:19.039 --> 00:18:23.119 And I know some of you are very skeptical of Ronda Santis. I 219 00:18:23.200 --> 00:18:27.319 am not there. I'm not I'm not to that point. There are some 220 00:18:27.440 --> 00:18:33.400 things that do concern me as far as who I see kind of coalescing around 221 00:18:33.480 --> 00:18:37.279 him. But by enlarge, my friends, I mean, he's got a 222 00:18:37.319 --> 00:18:41.279 pretty darn good track record. He's got a pretty darn good track record. 223 00:18:41.319 --> 00:18:45.480 He's not you know, the he struggles in some part of campaigning, and 224 00:18:45.720 --> 00:18:51.839 I think some of that stems I think some of that stems from just losing. 225 00:18:52.920 --> 00:18:55.640 And this is something I feel like in a very very tiny way, 226 00:18:55.880 --> 00:18:59.640 very tiny way. Don't misunderstand me here. I'm not saying I can relate 227 00:18:59.720 --> 00:19:06.400 in but I think I can relate in a tiny way. And it's one 228 00:19:06.400 --> 00:19:10.920 of the reasons why we do the show that we do. You know, 229 00:19:11.079 --> 00:19:15.920 I remember, very early on, very early on in this program, I 230 00:19:15.960 --> 00:19:18.960 had someone I'm not going to tell you names, someone listened to this program 231 00:19:21.079 --> 00:19:25.920 and he's someone who's very influential in the industry, and he told me on 232 00:19:26.079 --> 00:19:30.440 a phone call. He said, well, he said a lot of good 233 00:19:30.440 --> 00:19:33.440 things about this program, things that of course you would know as a listener 234 00:19:33.480 --> 00:19:37.599 of this program, very well aware of. But he had some very good 235 00:19:37.599 --> 00:19:41.279 things to say about the program. And he asked, He asked me a 236 00:19:41.359 --> 00:19:48.000 question, he said, he said, would you consider moving to New York 237 00:19:48.079 --> 00:19:55.759 City? And I did? I absolutely, without missing a beat, I 238 00:19:55.839 --> 00:19:59.599 said no. Now I might have drawn it out like that a little bit. 239 00:20:00.200 --> 00:20:04.319 I said no, and I said, but I would like to at 240 00:20:04.400 --> 00:20:10.720 least understand what that opportunity is, before finally saying no, but no, 241 00:20:11.599 --> 00:20:15.759 and what do I mean by that? So so when you of course, 242 00:20:15.799 --> 00:20:22.319 politics is this way in a much, a much more, a much bigger 243 00:20:22.319 --> 00:20:25.799 way than something like what I do. But you gotta there is a thing 244 00:20:25.839 --> 00:20:29.920 that I can relate to on this because the more people, as you grow 245 00:20:29.960 --> 00:20:33.079 your show, getting on more stations, you have producers and people that are 246 00:20:33.160 --> 00:20:36.880 trying to, you know, tell you things to do and so forth. 247 00:20:37.519 --> 00:20:42.759 I can see how it can make things become It could set the stage for 248 00:20:42.839 --> 00:20:48.880 someone to feel uncomfortable because because it's pushed them out of who they are and 249 00:20:49.119 --> 00:20:53.599 what they were doing how they were doing it at the beginning, and you 250 00:20:53.720 --> 00:20:59.039 get too far from that and it's outside of your comfort zone and everything feels 251 00:20:59.079 --> 00:21:03.880 foreign. It's in your head at that point, you're not just being yourself 252 00:21:03.960 --> 00:21:06.559 you're trying to make sure that you do what you were told. It's a 253 00:21:06.640 --> 00:21:11.119 different animal, right, And I think that's what's happened to Ron DeSantis here. 254 00:21:11.200 --> 00:21:15.759 And by the way, it's why we are not doing it weird. 255 00:21:15.839 --> 00:21:21.759 Now we'll do it the slower way by maintaining control over the content, making 256 00:21:21.799 --> 00:21:25.720 sure like we folks, I don't have to I don't have to get clearance 257 00:21:25.720 --> 00:21:30.079 from anyone to say whatever I say. You know, these candidates, these 258 00:21:30.119 --> 00:21:37.440 candidates sometimes have to get clearance from you know, certain people, advisors, 259 00:21:37.480 --> 00:21:41.200 maybe donors, who knows all the folks that are concerned about these things that 260 00:21:41.279 --> 00:21:45.799 are happening, and are there's phone calls that they don't like something you say. 261 00:21:45.839 --> 00:21:48.599 I don't. Those are things I don't deal with. Then again, 262 00:21:48.640 --> 00:21:51.400 not as a candidate, I cannot relate in that way. I think it's 263 00:21:51.440 --> 00:21:57.400 massively bigger than the tiniest ways that I can relate. But I'm saying and 264 00:21:57.680 --> 00:22:03.119 maybe you can relate too. Maybe you can relate if you're in a position 265 00:22:03.440 --> 00:22:07.519 where you feel like you know how to do your job and you have people 266 00:22:07.559 --> 00:22:12.599 that are maybe micro managing or pushing you to change some very core things. 267 00:22:12.759 --> 00:22:15.599 That doesn't mean that we don't have. We all don't have ways that we 268 00:22:15.640 --> 00:22:18.920 can improve and things that we should change. I'm simply saying, when they're 269 00:22:18.920 --> 00:22:25.160 trying to change core things about who you are, the messaging, there's an 270 00:22:25.200 --> 00:22:33.240 emphasis that's so much on the optics. It makes you so attuned to every 271 00:22:33.480 --> 00:22:38.920 pause, every word, every facial expression. Right, people start making fun 272 00:22:40.000 --> 00:22:42.039 of your boots, as they did with the scientists, and that's I mean, 273 00:22:42.480 --> 00:22:48.599 look, most people. That begins to impact them. Most people, 274 00:22:48.559 --> 00:22:53.799 definitely, it doesn't impact Trump. Trump's not impacted the way that a lot 275 00:22:53.799 --> 00:22:57.759 of people are. And that's one of the reasons Trump connects. Trump connects 276 00:22:57.799 --> 00:23:03.160 because he doesn't go through these things I'm describing. And I think a lot 277 00:23:03.160 --> 00:23:11.480 of people put their money, some literally behind DeSantis and others maybe not literally, 278 00:23:11.519 --> 00:23:15.920 but just metaphorically. They put their support behind Desantas saying this is our 279 00:23:15.960 --> 00:23:22.319 guy. He begins to maybe feel that pressure. You're the only guy Ron 280 00:23:22.359 --> 00:23:26.640 who can stop President Trump. This is your only chance is now or never? 281 00:23:26.519 --> 00:23:30.920 Right? This sort of stuff happens, and so I think that these 282 00:23:30.960 --> 00:23:42.079 things impact a campaign a lot more than sometimes sometimes people really admit or discuss. 283 00:23:42.559 --> 00:23:45.960 We talk about all the end of this campaign or that campaign wasn't well 284 00:23:47.000 --> 00:23:49.960 done. It's not about it can be. I mean, having an effective 285 00:23:51.000 --> 00:23:53.799 slogan is good, but I would much rather have an effective candidate than an 286 00:23:53.839 --> 00:23:59.559 effective slogan. I would much rather have a guy or a girl who can 287 00:23:59.599 --> 00:24:03.640 go out there and communicate his or her ideas, connect with the audience, 288 00:24:03.400 --> 00:24:11.079 understand the audience, communicate with the audience, then focus so much on hope 289 00:24:11.119 --> 00:24:14.599 and change or make America great again or whatever. Again, there's nothing wrong 290 00:24:14.640 --> 00:24:18.799 with that. Those things actually can help solidify what a candidate is trying to 291 00:24:18.839 --> 00:24:22.160 do. It's a rallying point that the messaging can kind of weave in and 292 00:24:22.200 --> 00:24:27.559 out of. You can pull in your agenda, your platform, what have 293 00:24:27.640 --> 00:24:32.720 you, and start talking about issues and weaving it into your overall slogan and 294 00:24:32.799 --> 00:24:37.839 theme. But the most important thing is just that ability to connect and to 295 00:24:37.000 --> 00:24:41.240 relate. Of course, you got to raise money. That's another factor as 296 00:24:41.279 --> 00:24:45.920 well a lot of dealing with people. And I think if you can't be 297 00:24:47.000 --> 00:24:51.359 yourself, it gets really difficult. And I wonder I know that there was 298 00:24:51.400 --> 00:24:56.559 at least pressure there for ran DeSantis to not be able to be Ronda Santus. 299 00:24:56.079 --> 00:25:00.799 I wonder how big that that pressure really was, my guess is pretty 300 00:25:02.279 --> 00:25:06.000 pretty heavy, pretty heavy. So anyway, timeouts in order. I'm still 301 00:25:06.000 --> 00:25:08.000 going to play this sound bite, not the full thing, but I want 302 00:25:08.039 --> 00:25:11.480 you to get a flavor. If you haven't heard some of the things he 303 00:25:11.559 --> 00:25:15.039 said, I want you to hear him endorse President Trump. I mean it's 304 00:25:15.960 --> 00:25:23.160 it's he does it, but not maybe not as strongly as somewhat hope. 305 00:25:23.200 --> 00:25:29.400 But he definitely says we shouldn't be picking Nicki Hayley, she's part of the 306 00:25:29.440 --> 00:25:33.279 problem. So anyway, and I think I think he's right when you're looking 307 00:25:33.319 --> 00:25:37.519 at the overarching ideas of what we need to do as a country. But 308 00:25:37.559 --> 00:25:40.000 anyway, we'll play that. I promise you we'll play it, but a 309 00:25:40.079 --> 00:25:53.839 timeouts in order. My friend sit tight back here in just a minute. 310 00:25:55.079 --> 00:25:57.200 Welcome back to my friends. I promise you, if you could hear some 311 00:25:57.240 --> 00:26:03.000 of the things we discuss here behind the microphone during the breaks, you would 312 00:26:03.000 --> 00:26:07.319 be I mean, I don't know even know what to say about the story 313 00:26:07.359 --> 00:26:11.799 that I was just talking about with us, not related to anything in the 314 00:26:11.839 --> 00:26:18.720 news, just something that's something that we were discussing here. So so so 315 00:26:18.720 --> 00:26:23.440 so as we shift gears, and I'm going to play this SoundBite from DeSantis 316 00:26:25.319 --> 00:26:30.119 announcing his campaign coming to a conclusion. But before we get to that, 317 00:26:30.599 --> 00:26:36.519 my friends, I want to tell you about four Patriots. Four patriots dot 318 00:26:36.559 --> 00:26:42.640 com slash huff is the website that you can go to to make sure that 319 00:26:42.680 --> 00:26:48.880 you are prepared for natural disasters, for power outages. 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Make sure you use the slash huff to 337 00:28:23.559 --> 00:28:30.160 get in and see the discounts available to you as a listener of this program. 338 00:28:30.279 --> 00:28:38.160 So with no further waiting required, I want to play here. Well, 339 00:28:41.559 --> 00:28:45.720 hold on here, Desantas, take it easy, So I want to 340 00:28:45.519 --> 00:28:48.839 I want to play this. I want to play this starts coming into my 341 00:28:48.880 --> 00:28:52.359 ear. He this happens from time to time. They get these things queued 342 00:28:52.440 --> 00:28:56.240 up and then they start playing when they're not supposed to. So I had 343 00:28:56.240 --> 00:29:00.680 to re cut it. Here's DeSantis his announcement stating that he is no longer 344 00:29:00.720 --> 00:29:06.839 going to be a candidate in the twenty twenty for Republican primary, and he 345 00:29:07.000 --> 00:29:12.880 of course is now endorsing Trump and standing in opposition to Nicki Haley winning the 346 00:29:12.920 --> 00:29:18.359 nomination. Here's what he has to say. I cannot succeed as a country 347 00:29:18.559 --> 00:29:22.519 if we allow our nation to be invaded, our currency to be debased, 348 00:29:22.799 --> 00:29:26.680 our cities to crumble, and our kids to be indoctrinated. The DC elites 349 00:29:26.720 --> 00:29:30.839 who facilitated this mess do not care about you, sure, and they do 350 00:29:30.880 --> 00:29:36.599 not work for you. They work for themselves. They seek to accumulate power 351 00:29:36.640 --> 00:29:40.839 at your expense to pursue an agenda that is harmful to the American people. 352 00:29:40.920 --> 00:29:45.759 Absolutely, citizens do not serve politicians. It is the duty of politicians to 353 00:29:45.880 --> 00:29:51.400 serve you. Talk is cheap. Actions speak louder than words. Reversing the 354 00:29:51.440 --> 00:29:56.640 decline of this nation requires leadership that delivers big results for the people we are 355 00:29:56.720 --> 00:29:59.400 elected to serve. This is true. I have a record of leading with 356 00:29:59.480 --> 00:30:03.880 conviction, championing an agenda marked by bold colors, delivering on my promises, 357 00:30:03.960 --> 00:30:10.440 and defeating the people who are responsible for our nation's decline. That is the 358 00:30:10.480 --> 00:30:14.839 type of leadership we need for all of America now. Over the past many 359 00:30:14.880 --> 00:30:18.519 months, Casey and I have traveled across the country to deliver a message of 360 00:30:18.559 --> 00:30:22.119 hope that decline is a choice and that we can, in fact succeed again 361 00:30:22.200 --> 00:30:26.920 as a nation. Absolutely, nobody worked harder and we left it all out 362 00:30:26.000 --> 00:30:30.480 on the field. Now, following our second place finished in Iowa, we've 363 00:30:30.519 --> 00:30:33.720 prayed and deliberated on the way forward. If there was anything I could do 364 00:30:33.880 --> 00:30:38.839 to produce a favorable outcome, more campaign stops, more interviews, I would 365 00:30:38.839 --> 00:30:42.920 do it. But I can't ask our supporters to volunteer their time and donate 366 00:30:42.960 --> 00:30:48.119 their resources if we don't have a clear path to victory and they don't accordingly, 367 00:30:48.160 --> 00:30:52.440 I am today suspending my campaign. I'm proud to have delivered on one 368 00:30:52.519 --> 00:30:56.759 hundred percent of my promises, and I will not stop now. It's clear 369 00:30:56.759 --> 00:31:00.480 to me that a majority of Republican primary voters want to give Donald Trump another 370 00:31:00.559 --> 00:31:03.880 chance. Yes, they watch his presidency get stymied by relentless resistance, and 371 00:31:03.920 --> 00:31:08.039 they see Democrats using lawfair this day to attack him. True, I've had 372 00:31:08.039 --> 00:31:12.880 disagreements with Donald Trump, such as on the coronavirus pandemic and his elevation of 373 00:31:12.880 --> 00:31:18.920 Anthony Fauci. Trump is superior to the current incumbent Joe Biden. That is 374 00:31:18.000 --> 00:31:22.319 clear. I signed a pledge to support the Republican nominee, and I will 375 00:31:22.359 --> 00:31:26.279 honor that pledge. He has my endorsement because we can't go back to the 376 00:31:26.319 --> 00:31:33.319 old Republican guard of yesteryear, a repackage formed of warmed over corporatism that Nicky 377 00:31:33.359 --> 00:31:37.160 Haley represents. The days of putting Americans last, of cow towing to large 378 00:31:37.160 --> 00:31:44.160 corporations, of caving to woke ideology are over. Okay, Now this I 379 00:31:44.279 --> 00:31:52.839 played a little over half of his probably right at half roughly of his announcements. 380 00:31:52.160 --> 00:31:55.680 You can hear the full thing. I've got it on the website, 381 00:31:55.720 --> 00:31:59.519 as I try to always do Todd Huffshow dot com. Just go to the 382 00:31:59.559 --> 00:32:02.640 stacks, or you can google it or go to Twitter or what have you. 383 00:32:04.240 --> 00:32:06.839 I didn't play about a minute or show at the beginning, and there's 384 00:32:06.880 --> 00:32:09.119 a minutor's show at the end that I haven't played as well. But you 385 00:32:09.160 --> 00:32:15.160 get the idea. He's endorsing Trump. He's not in the race. He's 386 00:32:15.279 --> 00:32:21.960 met with his advisors, his team, his campaign, he has prayed and 387 00:32:22.000 --> 00:32:24.640 they realize that there's really no path forward for the campaign. Now you would 388 00:32:24.680 --> 00:32:29.519 have heard me say mumbling in the background as this was going on, he 389 00:32:29.559 --> 00:32:34.559 never did have a path to the nomination. But nonetheless, I mean there's 390 00:32:34.559 --> 00:32:37.839 nothing that should stop him from running. Of course, if he meets to 391 00:32:37.880 --> 00:32:40.480 qualifications and everything to be, you know, to to enter the race. 392 00:32:40.559 --> 00:32:45.680 I just questioned that the judgment of that. So he's making the right decision 393 00:32:45.759 --> 00:32:53.319 here. That really leaves one final competitor for Trump, one final if you 394 00:32:53.319 --> 00:32:55.400 want to even look at it that way. In another way, you can 395 00:32:55.440 --> 00:32:59.759 say Trump's never had a competition on the Republican primary side, but none the 396 00:32:59.839 --> 00:33:07.519 less us one final opponent, serious component, excuse me, opponent for Trump 397 00:33:07.599 --> 00:33:12.720 to address and deal with. He may be able to knock that one opponent 398 00:33:12.759 --> 00:33:19.279 out at the New Hampshire primary. Nicki Haley may stick around a little bit 399 00:33:19.319 --> 00:33:24.240 longer. But that, my friends, what DeSantis just did. We just 400 00:33:24.359 --> 00:33:29.599 played his announcement saying he's out of the race. That is, it's just 401 00:33:29.680 --> 00:33:34.720 a matter of time before Nicki Haley has to do something like this as well, 402 00:33:34.759 --> 00:33:38.160 and we can begin to focus on Trump versus Biden, which of course 403 00:33:38.200 --> 00:33:45.480 we kind of can anyway, but officially and formally deal with that and begin 404 00:33:45.640 --> 00:33:52.640 to ramp up to what promises to be the most intense, divisive, crazy 405 00:33:53.119 --> 00:34:00.759 political season in modern American history, and maybe who knows, rivaling rivaling any 406 00:34:00.880 --> 00:34:04.240 period of time in American history. So timeouts in order, though, my 407 00:34:04.240 --> 00:34:07.360 friends, you're listening to conservative not bitter talk. I am your host, 408 00:34:07.679 --> 00:34:13.039 Todd Huff and my vast, vast, vast team of attorneys has warned me, 409 00:34:13.280 --> 00:34:15.800 has reminded me to warn you, I should say that listening may cause 410 00:34:15.840 --> 00:34:21.199 you to lean to the right. So exercise caution, my friends. Back 411 00:34:21.239 --> 00:34:32.480 in just a minute. Welcome back to my friends. Still talking a little 412 00:34:32.480 --> 00:34:37.760 bit here. I want to just kind of tie up some loose ends on 413 00:34:37.800 --> 00:34:43.440 this Nikki Hayley situation or exhooted me the who's remaining here in the campaign, 414 00:34:44.079 --> 00:34:46.360 the stances of course having dropped out, which we've talked about here most of 415 00:34:46.400 --> 00:34:55.119 the program today. But there's a story. There's a story Nationalpulse dot com, 416 00:34:55.119 --> 00:35:00.320 which you can of course see by going to the website todt hu Show 417 00:35:00.480 --> 00:35:04.119 dot com. Go to the stack of stuff. This is at the National 418 00:35:04.239 --> 00:35:10.519 Pulse. That's who has actually posted this. Here's the headline report. More 419 00:35:10.840 --> 00:35:17.079 journals, journalists, that's what that is. More journalists than voters are at 420 00:35:17.199 --> 00:35:23.920 Nicky Haley events. A report published Friday suggests that excuse me, suggests more 421 00:35:24.039 --> 00:35:31.039 corporate news staffers than voters are attending Nicky Haley's events in New Hampshire, just 422 00:35:31.119 --> 00:35:40.079 three days before the Granite States primary. Filing for the spec that that's uh 423 00:35:40.239 --> 00:35:47.760 well, the name of the report I guess is Cockburn. Cockburn found a 424 00:35:47.840 --> 00:35:55.719 strange scene as he pulled up at Roby Roby's Country Store in Hookset Thursday. 425 00:35:55.800 --> 00:36:01.079 Sure enough, there was either Haley was stood outside giving a TV interview alongside 426 00:36:01.119 --> 00:36:07.679 her biggest endorser, Governor Chris Snunu, ten minutes ahead of the scheduled start 427 00:36:07.719 --> 00:36:10.719 time. After finding parking, cockburne attempted to end of the store as Haley 428 00:36:10.800 --> 00:36:15.960 and Sununu had just done, but the entrance was blocked by people trying to 429 00:36:15.960 --> 00:36:20.000 get in. Was demand on the ground for Haley and the Granite State really 430 00:36:20.039 --> 00:36:22.440 so high? Should we expect an upset that will change the Republican race? 431 00:36:22.559 --> 00:36:27.920 Let me answer that question. No, those questions were answered as soon as 432 00:36:27.920 --> 00:36:34.159 Cockburn managed to sidle into the store. It was full al right of reporters 433 00:36:34.719 --> 00:36:42.480 and cameramen with bulky equipment. So it's full of journalists. Remember Nicki Haley, 434 00:36:43.039 --> 00:36:46.880 New Hampshire, by the way, the New Hampshire Primary. This is 435 00:36:46.920 --> 00:36:52.679 a different animal than than Iowa. Nicki Haley finished a close well. Trump 436 00:36:52.800 --> 00:36:55.400 one, you know, pulled away with fifty what was it, fifty one 437 00:36:55.440 --> 00:37:00.239 percent. DeSantis finished I think at twenty one percent. Nicki Haley was just 438 00:37:00.400 --> 00:37:05.920 under twenty. So she finished a close second to DeSantis, but she finished 439 00:37:06.119 --> 00:37:12.199 distantly thirty plus points behind Trump. That's not what the polls are showing. 440 00:37:12.239 --> 00:37:15.079 I don't have a current pole in front of me, but it's it's a 441 00:37:15.159 --> 00:37:21.079 different scenario in New Hampshire. Of course, now that DeSantis is out, 442 00:37:21.159 --> 00:37:24.239 now that Ramaswami is out, now that Chris Christie is out, and there's 443 00:37:24.280 --> 00:37:32.559 really only two choices in New Hampshire, we'll see what happens. But look, 444 00:37:32.880 --> 00:37:37.400 I would maintain, I would maintain, you know, New Hampshire is 445 00:37:37.480 --> 00:37:45.239 one that unless Nikki Haley can somehow win this thing a little convincingly, there's 446 00:37:45.320 --> 00:37:50.880 no path. There's no path anyway, But just objectively, objectively, this 447 00:37:50.960 --> 00:37:57.440 is this seen on the ground in New Hampshire is the best chance Nikki Haley's 448 00:37:57.440 --> 00:38:01.239 gonna have at anything. And I still think it's it's a stretch to think 449 00:38:01.239 --> 00:38:07.400 that she's going to win this thing in New Hampshire and it's the best scenario 450 00:38:07.480 --> 00:38:08.880 she's going to get. It's only going to get harder from here if she 451 00:38:08.960 --> 00:38:13.840 can't win this sizably. The writing is on the wall. The writing's on 452 00:38:13.840 --> 00:38:15.760 the wall anyway, as we've talked about. But anyway, there you go, 453 00:38:15.840 --> 00:38:17.880 gotta take a break, quick time out my friends. Back in a 454 00:38:17.880 --> 00:38:28.280 minute. Welcome back to my friends here. To wrap up on this busy, 455 00:38:29.159 --> 00:38:31.119 busy Monday. A couple things in the stack of stuff I just want 456 00:38:31.119 --> 00:38:35.239 to mention. You can see them there or whatever. Google it. The 457 00:38:35.280 --> 00:38:40.840 Swedish government has been telling its citizens for a little while now to prepare for 458 00:38:40.960 --> 00:38:45.280 war. That's something that's something that I want you. Yeah, I've just 459 00:38:45.320 --> 00:38:49.159 looked at me. My brother had mentioned this to me a week or so 460 00:38:49.199 --> 00:38:52.800 ago, and I've had it. I just haven't gotten into it. But 461 00:38:52.840 --> 00:38:55.280 that's what's something to keep your eye out on. You can, of course 462 00:38:55.280 --> 00:38:59.920 go to the show notes page and check it out there. And of course, 463 00:39:00.119 --> 00:39:02.199 the other thing I want to mention in the waning moments here is the 464 00:39:02.239 --> 00:39:10.159 World Health Organization's director. He's now calling for a pandemic treaty pandemic treaty so 465 00:39:10.199 --> 00:39:15.599 that the world is prepared for quote disease X so they're going to get it 466 00:39:15.599 --> 00:39:19.360 all together and of course take away our freedoms and whatever else. But anyway, 467 00:39:19.800 --> 00:39:21.559 check that out as well. Got to go my friends, have a 468 00:39:21.559 --> 00:39:22.280 great day. STG.