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you may know, there's three Republicans running against Shared Brown, the most liberal
member of the US Senate and Akolaidea Bernie Sanders, Senator Matt Dolan, State
Senator Matt Dolan, and the Frank Lerosa, the Secretary of State. But
also Bernie Marino. Bernie Marino, welcome to the Bill Cunningham Show. And
Bernie, let's get right into it right now in Washington. All hell's breaking
loose because of this border deal. If a year from now or so,
Senator Bernie Marino is in the US Senate and you head to vote on a
deal to give money to Ukraine and Israel and I support one and not necessarily
the other, and in exchange for minor adjustments on the border, would you
make that deal? Well, I wouldn't because we shouldn't be conflating three completely
different things. The reality is Ukraine, we're going to get to peace.
I believe we're going to win this election. Bill. I think we're going
to get the Senate back, we're going to keep the House. President Trump's
going to get re elected. We will have a peaceful settlement in Ukraine within
the first thirty days of the new administration is amazing Israel. Talk to me
about Israel. Israel. We're going to give them the money they need to
defend themselves, because if they're not just defending themselves, they're defending us.
They're at the tip of this battle against Western civilization. They know how to
process our money, and they also really take that money and give it back
to us in space with research and development for our weaponry. So if you
look at an F thirty five and F thirty five I, that I is
the Israeli version that they give us that advanced technology. So we have to
make certain that we preserve that relationship and unequivocal, no question about it,
support for Israel. In fact, my first trip foreign trip will be to
go to Israel as a United States Senator. And in our border, we
don't need more mind there. What we need is more better policies. We
either reform our asylum laws. You currently can cross into America illegally, raise
your hand and claim asylum, and it's like you won a game show.
We have to make it so if you cross illegally, you're immediately returned,
not detained, that arrested, immediately returned and you forfeit your right for asylum,
and if you come in the right way, you stay in Mexico or
in Canada until your claim is heard. Bernie Marino, if you were the
governor, would you have signed or not signed the Protecting Youth Bill, which
is called killing trans kids by the left wing activists. If you were Mike
Dwine, would you have signed the bill or vetoed it like he did.
I would have signed it one millisecond after a pass then holist, I would
have walked across the street and told them to save the time to sign that
if we can't agree that men shouldn't play women's sports, that we can't mutilate
children, and that we can't give children life altering experimental drugs, then we
have a major problem in our society. That was the easiest yes that any
governor could possibly have faced. You have the Donald Trump endorsement for this Senate
sat Did you have to promise him anything to get that endorsement from Donald Trump.
I had to promise that that was going to work really hard. I
was going to make certain that we advanced the America First Agenda, that I
was going to stand up for the things that I'm campaigning on that I'm not
going to cave to the left. I'm not going to cave to the media
that are going to be a fierce warrior to make certain that we get the
things down, the secure border, energy dominance, peace of the world,
parents back in charge of public schools, Criminals punished and not rewarded. That's
the agenda. Bring it industry back to the US, make certain that we
grow our middle class, that we were thriving middle class. That's what he
knows I'll do, which is why he endorsed me. Jd Vance's endorse me,
Jim Jordan's endorse me, with a bak Ramaswami Christy nom we have thirty
five prominent national endorsements, including over a dozen city Republican senators that are serving
now for them to weigh in in a primaries very unusual. Let me just
point out my two opponents have zero national endorsements, and we have dramatically more
endorsements in Ohio than they do, even though they're the career politicians. Now,
if you would be elected, I think would be the only state in
the country with two US senators, neither of whomever ever been in public office.
Before. So some consider that an advantage, some consider it not so
much so. But Jade Vance came to the position horizontally, didn't come up
vertically, and you would come horizontally a respond to the argument that we need
someone who's been in government for a while to know how it works, and
that Bernie Marino doesn't know where the bodies are buried in government and politics.
He's new to the game, doesn't know what he's doing. Respond to that
criticism, Oh, you mean compliment. That's a compliment. I look at
that as a complete compliment. Bill. Here's the thing. It's very simple.
If you think Washington d works well and the country is heading in a
great direction with the way these career politicians are taking this country, and I'm
probably not for you if you think that place needs to be reimagined, blown
up, completely upended. That's what jad and I are going to do there
as partners, and that's why I'm going I would never have imagined doing this.
This is not something I aspire to. You know, these other guys
that are career politicians, they dream about this since they were twelve. This
is not what I imagined I would do with my life at this point.
But it's exactly career politicians, exactly people who think they know better than we
do that are going to Washington, DC and destroying this country and taking it
off a cliff. Let me read to you the opening line on an AP
story. The Associated Press used to be objective. They're not anymore. They're
bought and paid for by the left. But that's a different issue. Let
me read you the sentence Bernie Marino, a Trump back candidate for Ohio's crucial
US Senate see who touts his success in business, facing allmultiple lawsuits alleging discrimination
against employees in the run up to the sale of his high end Cleveland car
dealerships. An Associated Press review has found explain what happened. So, by
the way, that's three lawsuits, thousands of employees over fifteen years. I
would compare that record any business that you would know. Two of the people
in that lawsuit, the two women involved in that lawsuit are great personal friends
of mine. Now they are supporting my campaign. And the reporter couldn't get
them off the phone because they were so so saying such nice things about the
things that a reporter didn't want to hear. She wanted. Of course,
the stories she had already written before she called them. The third case was
a misunderstanding between a very nice team member of mine at one of my dealerships
and the manager. I found out about it resolved it immediately, as anybody
who's in business knows, lawsuits are part of business, unfortunately, but I
would take my record of how we've treated our people versus anybody else any day
of the week. When did you become a US citizen? I know from
our previous discussions you were born in Bogata, Columbia. You're about fifty two
years old, explained to the American people your history and how you made it
out of Bogatal. Sure, so, my five brothers, my sister,
my mom and dad. We left Columbia December fifteenth of nineteen seventy one,
just before my fifth birthday. I'm about to become fifty seven on February fourteenth.
I became a citizen on February fourteenth, when I turned eighteen years old
nineteen eighty five, I had The first thing I did that morning was head
on down. I took the tests, swore the oath, and know that
this is the greatest gift my parents gave me was bringing me to this great
country. I could never have achieved anywhere else on Earth what I was able
to achieve here in America. It's why I'm fighting for this country, for
our kids and our grandkids, and your kids and your grandkids. You probably
came here a little, not too much in your pocket. Explain your process
from like twenty five now, how'd you make your money? Where did it
come from? What businesses did you operate? Did you sell them all?
Explain financially where you are? Yeah. So when I was when I was
thirty eight years old, I had an opportunity to buy a tiny, little
car dealership. Usually car dealerships are inherited from generation to generation. I had
the opportunity to buy a car dealership. Put every cent I had into buying
that dealership, backed up my credit card, sold every possession I had,
took out the biggest loan I could even imagine in my life. And with
that little tiny dealership that sold four cars a month and created fifteen dealerships over
the next twelve years, sold about twenty thousand cars a year and did about
a billion in sales in the Cincinnati market. I built Mercedes Benz to Fort
Mitchell. I subsiqutely have sold all my dealerships. I then started a technology
company that uses what's called blockchain to make the car titling process digital. We're
in West Virginia, Kentucky, New Jersey, Illinois, soon to be other
states. I've sold my shares in that company build because I believe when people
vote for me and count on me to be in Washington, DC, I've
got to be free and clear of any conflicts, perceived or real. So
you're a rich guy who came here poor. Well, I came to Ohio
and put every cent I had into that business. So as as I tell
the story off of Bill is, every day was a struggle and the decision
between survival and living one more day or in a complete failure. So I
know what it's like to sweat it out. You know, my parents left
a very good life in Columbia for a very different life here. But I
saw them succeed. Didn't change my life. My parents gave me a loving
household and a great education, and of course the gift of coming here.
But I worked for the moment I was twelve years old, whether it was
delivery newspapers, bagging groceries, being a bus boy working in landscaping, to
bookkeeping, whatever it happened to be, because if I wanted to go to
the movies or go out to dinner at lunch with my friends, that money
came from my pocket, not my parents' pocket. On the state's representative the
other day from Warren County, who wants to eliminate the state income tax,
but from now in twenty thirty, I think the state income taxes like three
or four percent. Are you in favor encouraging Ohio to get rid of the
state income tax? Absolutely, we are way too high of a tax burden
in Ohio. It's why a lot of people move to Florida while they moved
to Texas. Why they move south, it's because the tax environment is much
more favorable. The government is taking too much of our money. They're confiscating
too much of our money. And the reality is government will continue to grow
until we stop it. That includes property taxes. I think our property taxes
are continued to spire out of control. Now these are not federal issues.
I will work. I'm making certain that our tax burden federally is lowered.
But you got to do it because you got to cut but you got to
do it by cutting spending. This is what makes me mental is you look
at these politicians. They've never cut costs, They've always only raised it.
You can't keep doing that. We have to cut spending make government more efficient.
Now the other two you're running against, Frank Lrose and Matt Dolan.
What do you find? What do you bring to the table different than Frank
LaRose, for example, that's led to state and balloting the last two cycles
when he's run. He's a soldier, been on the Southern border, a
wife's got three kids. Why would you be better than Frank LaRose or Matt
Dolan. Well, they're both US guys, and certainly with Frank honor his
military service, our country's better as a result of people like Frank who put
on the uniform and we honor that service. But the reality is after leaving
the military, he's done nothing other than run for public office. You know,
he was running for Secretary of State. Well at the same time thinking
about running to the US Senate. And that's what's wrong with DC. These
guys are thinking about a career. Our founders never envisioned a career. It
was about service. It was about people who did something their lives that are
willing to go to DC to serve and build is the key part, and
then come home home, not be there forever. We don't need people there
forever. That's not what our founders had in mind. Would you commit to
a two term limit? If elected? Would you only serve two terms?
As you said you got to come back home? Would you agree to a
two term limit? Well, I'm the chair of US term Limits for Ohio
and we're trying to get a constitutional amendment around that. And not only will
I commit to a two term limit. If you interview my wife, Bill,
she will tell you third term, second wife. So that's it.
That's it, two terms. I'm going to go there for two terms.
Can't be president United States because I wasn't born here. There's about going there
to serve, not worrying about who gets credit, and then coming home and
living under the very rules and laws that we passed. Of what value is
to Trump endorsement in Ohio? I understand the other two sought it but did
not receive it. What benefit is to Trump endorsement in Ohio to the Bernie
Morino campaign. Well, in the words of Franklin Rose, it's decisive I
mean, the reality is he's the leader of our party, he's the head
of the America First movement in this country, and honored to have his endorsement
because he knows I'm going to have his back, and obviously did not give
that endorsement to Frank because he doesn't believe Frank would have actually have his back.
And in terms of Matt, he's actually unindorsed Matt. He's saying,
Matt the guy you should never vote for, because Matt doesn't just disagree with
him on process, he disagrees with him on policy. Both of those guys
want to give amnesty to legal migrants. Both of them are against term limits.
Both of them are for funding Ukraine for another endless war. This is
a big policy difference. It's not just oh, I don't like this guy's
style, which is what Matt tries to say. Matt raised the gas stacks.
He's terrible in the Second Amendment. You know, at our debate though
he said it's okay for the government to decide that you shouldn't have a weapon.
Now he packaged it and says, well, the judge, et cetera,
there is no scenario which the government should be disarming our citizens. We've
had it embedded in our fundamental rights. Well, I say on that front
that I don't blame a car. If someone commits a dui, I don't
blame the car. And if someone wrongfully uses a gun, I don't blame
some inanimate metal object. I blame the person that's doing it. But the
media loves to blame the gun, but they never would blame the tire or
the car if the car is driven on a dui, it's not the same
thing. And last thing, on the issue of abortion. If you're in
charge of abortion, Ohio just passed the state issue on it, and you
know, I think we got problems there. Would you have any limits on
abortion at all from the moment of conception till natural birth? What limits would
Bernie Reno put on abortion if any? Well, I think the states obviously
are the ones who have been making these balls, but there is a federal
role. In my mind, I think we should look around consensus around maybe
taking a look at you know, abortion being after fifteen weeks restricted. Obviously
there's exceptions for rape, insects, life for the mother, but make certain
that we're not allowing late term abortions that we're not using federal funding for abortion,
making certain we have access to contraception and healthcare, making sure that we
lower the costs of having a child and raising a child, making sure that
there's good jobs, because a lot of abortions are economic issues, and we
have to make sure we talk about this issue, that we understand the empathy
that we need to deal with this issue. This is a tough issue for
the women involved. We shouldn't be judging them. We should be making certain
that we're there to support them. Fund these pregnancy centers, make certain that
adoption is available to them in an easier way, and we can build consensus
around eliminating elective late term abortions. The reality Sharon Brown has no limits on
abortion. He thinks abortions should be allowed right up to them over the birth
for any reason any time. Voted against the Infant Borner Live Protection Act,
which said that in a busched abortion that Bavy's going left to diet a cold
metal table. He is an absolute extremist on this issue, no question.
Bernie Marine, If you have any questions for me, the Great American about
sports, politics, world capitals, something that's confused you over the years.
Absolutely, I want to know, because you would have the actual answer.
Are the Lions going to make it? You know, this is I remember
the Lions the days of Milk Plumb and Dick Knight train Lane, and it
would be one of the great stories in sports history if the Lions, who
three years ago didn't win a game, could arise and win the Super Bowl.
They get seven points in San Francisco. I'm taking the Lions to go
all the way to beat out the forty nine Ers without the seven points,
to march into the Super Bowl, probably against Baltimore and beat quote the Raven
nevermore in Las Vegas. I predict the Lions from march for glory and for
some the judgment seat of God. Oh my, well, this is this
is now national news bill that you just made. I'm with you one hundred
that no scenario which anybody should be rooting for the Raven or the forty nine
Ers. I'm all in. Let's get the lines across the finish line.
Bernie, you are you going to invite Donald Trump to campaign with you?
In Ohio? I was had a great fundraiser here mar A Lago. We
broke a record for mari A Lago for a GOP non incumbent candidate at three
hundred and fifty people here at mar A Lago. I'm going to be a
president Trump tonight. He was supposed to be here last night, but the
judge in persecuting him up. There's a complete lunatic. Yeah, he's in
a great mood. He's going to be our next president. He's our nominee
already, and I look forward to shaking his hand and thanking him for everything
that he's doing for this country. Bernie Marino, you're a great American,
and thank you for coming on the Bill Cunningham Show. Thank you, Bernie,
Thank you. God bless America. Let's continue with more line becomes available
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