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eight three zeros. So I want to talk a little bit about this Republican
primary. I want to talk about a little bit I should say about the
debate on Wednesday night. I look, I've shared this with you, and
this is not meant this is not meant to be a slight to anybody on
that stage. You know, I have my problems with the Republican Party in
general. Fact, that was recently talking with someone who we're hiring. We're
hiring some things here and was talking with someone and this individual told me,
you know, I can't because of ideology, and I said, hey,
I get it. It's cool. I told her that, you know,
my dad's a Union Democrat. Our first salesperson the some story. I don't
know if I ever shared any of those stories, but that was quite the
entertaining situation, eye opening in a lot of ways. But our first salesperson
was a self described liberal Democrat and she paid me what I consider one of
the greatest compliments ever. Anyway, so I just shared that and say best
wishes. And so there's some just some back and forth with this person,
and she expressed some I don't know, some anger, maybe disapproval with the
Republican Party, and I said, hey, I can't say that. I
really blame you for that. I'm not out here trying to defend the republic.
I'm not trying to defend anybody. I know some people think I defend
Trump. I'm trying to say what I think is accurate and true. If
Trump happens to be on the right side of that, then that's why we
end up there. I haven't said everything that Trump said is accurate and true,
But when you look at the big picture of what has to happen in
this country when you look at the massive problems that we face inside our nation's
capital, inside the alphabet soup of federal agencies and so forth, We've found
ourselves a real legitimate problem. We've got the weaponization of the DOJ. We've
got that. Some people don't want to admit that. Some people think that
this is a justifiable crusade that's being waged against former President Donald J. Trump.
I do not I do not want a crusade waged against Joseph Robinette Biden
president former vice president bribery. I don't want that. I want justice.
I don't want to have to turn a blind eye to legitimate problems, potential
money laundering and kickbacks and bribery. I don't want to have to turn a
blind eye to that because he is on the other side of the political aisle.
But I also don't want to use the fact that he is on the
other side of the political aisle as a reason as a rationale for pursuing him.
So, but that's not what's happening today. And so when I look
at the twenty twenty four campaign, the primary process, and I look,
we were down to four people on the stage, there's five in the race.
Well again, there's one in the race right now. The other four
are trying to prove to us, demonstrate to us that they are capable of
beating the one real person in the race. And I'm not trying to be
disrespectful. I remember going through this prior to people, prior to people entering
the race. I remember saying these things. I don't have the sound bites,
but I remember, in this steel trap brain that I've got, I
remember going I remember saying I remember when DeSantis announced, I said, this
is a bad choice. Someone is giving him bad advice, strategically bad.
The only reason the Santis will be the nominee ultimately, and this was back
whenever he announced, is if Trump ends up unable to be the Republican nominee
for because of legal problems, or he's removed from ballots, or it just
impacts his campaign in such a way that he's not able to function. I
don't think that there's a high likelihood of that. I think that he may
get into some problems with these trials, these criminal trials. But like most
people, I think that this is a political witch hunt. Most Republicans,
I should say and so there's a group of people, a large group of
people. Talk to a friend of mine earlier this week who hadn't watched the
debates either. I think this is common. You know, I have followed
this stuff my entire adults life. I remember having an interest in politics back
in high school, and I remember watching debates. I remember watching Reagan as
a kid. I mean, I didn't study it like I do today,
but I always, you know, I kind of wanted to know what was
going on, that kind of thing. And so I'm I'm the target.
I'm the I'm the prototype. And many of you in this crowd are too.
You're you and I are the prototype of people who will tune in and
watch these debates because we like don't I don't say I like politics, but
we like the debate. We like the discussion. We think the ideas are
critically important. We want to make sure we understand who we're voting for,
why we should pick which candidate, what their strengths are, what their weaknesses
are, all that stuff. We just like to see the back and forth
and all that. But I'll be honest with you, I have not watched.
I have not watched. You know, there's there's hosts out there that
wouldn't tell you this because I don't think that this takes away from anything that
we talk about, because I think what's happening on this debate stage is absolutely
oh boy, I don't with given where we are, I just I don't
think I think that it is absolutely meaningless. I do, maybe not absolutely,
because you know, it's nice to maybe know who the second choice would
be if a series of unexpected and insurmountable odds obstacles arise for Donald Trump.
But this is it's it's I think it's it's embarrassing to the candidates. I
think it's embarrassing to the Republican the Republican Party. I think it's embarrassing to
Ron I think it's embarrassing to anyone who's got their name associated with this because
it is like watching if you're an NFL fan, it would be like tuning
in to boy. It's just I don't know how to explain this. I'm
not trying to be personally critical. I'm just saying where the movement is.
The movement is with Trump. The connection is with Trump. When you look
at the entirety of what has happened since twenty sixteen. The clear and obvious
choice once you factor in everything, once you allow someone to articulate the reasons
why articulate that these are not legitimate criminal procedures being waged against simness is an
all out political fight. This is the weaponization of a political of the government
apparatus. In fact, I wrote a little bit about this in this week's
column, which you can get at todd huff show dot com. Slash column
is totally free goes out every Wednesday, picked up a couple new places that's
going to be syndicated online. I think one of them is actually even a
physical publication anyway. But the point is, the weaponization of government is a
massive, massive problem. In fact, government, as I've articulated before,
is one of the seven pillars of propaganda today. These are one of the
It's one of the apparatuses that has influence in our culture and society that's being
manned, that's being led by leftists. Even if Republicans have control of a
certain House, even the even the executive branch, even if the Supreme Court
is quote unquote conservative, which by the way, everybody should like that.
Everybody should like a Supreme Court that actually focus a conservative court just means that
the court interprets the law. It doesn't create it out of whole cloth.
It doesn't make it up. It doesn't try to become Congress and the president
ruled into one. But just because just because Republicans or conservatives may control from
time to time certain branches of government, it is it is the bureaucratic state
that is the problem. It is the massive, out of control, bloated
government. It is the alphabet soup of organizations, the DOJ, the FBI,
the CIA, the DHS. Right, it's all of those things.
And there's so many more, DOE, Department of Education. I mean,
you could go on and on, and these things have tentacles that extend into
every nook and cranny in our culture, society, in your home, in
your school, in your child's life, in your business. That's the real
problem that we face. The candidates are problems too, and by and large,
I mean, there's a lot of things I like about a few of
these a few of these Republican candidates. I don't know what it had to
think long and hard to find something I like about Chris Christy at this particular
point in time. I mean, it's crazy, I listened to him answer
a question in that debate. I do watch clubs. I've not watched the
entire debate. I haven't watched even I might have one night watched a few
minutes of it live, but just thought, this is so just uh,
it's not relevant because these folks don't have a chance. And I started to
compare it. It's like, it's like if you're an NFL fan, if
you tune in to the XFL or something or whatever. I don't is that
even a thing now, I don't even know. That's my point. That's
my point. It's and and then and then you've got the Republican Party.
It's it just sets up. It sets up beautifully for Trump. Trump can
point over there and say, look, I'm telling you I'm a Republican in
ideas, but not by the way they run that party. I'm not a
part of it. I'm not going to step into those debates again. He's
distancing himself from the political the ruling class. He steps out of that and
says, I don't need to do that. I'm your guy. These guys
are just over there talking about stuff that's not really relevant because I'm the candidate.
The Republican Party has gotten it wrong again. This is red and meat
to the base. This throws a little bit of gasoline on that on that
fire that already exists. You got Republicans bringing the other candidates in and the
one guy who's dominating all of them as an up there. They look weak
and an effective and disorganized. It's it's it's just a disaster as I see
it, and I try to put myself in. Ramaswami, he's the Santis,
Nikki Hayley's Chris Christie, I'm convinced, has just told himself he is
the Democrat nominee on that stage. He's he's doing the same exact things that
Biden would do in a one on Well. I'm not sure Biden can pull
it off, but strategically he's doing what they would want a Democrat candidate to
do to Trump on that debate stage. But I just asked myself, what
are these guys supposed to do? What's Nikki Haleian's Ramaswami and Desanti is supposed
to do. They've entered this race against all good judgment. Now here they
are They've got to go to these things, They've got to go to these
things, and then then they're stuck with being added virtually irrelevant event. And
I'm not again, I'm not trying to be insulting. I'm just this is
how a ton of people, even people like me who follow this our entire
lives, we decided we were voting for Trump. I mean way back,
I don't even way back. We decided that all this other stuff is I
think, just traction from the real battle that we've got a wage. Anyway.
That being said, I still have some clips because I do think that
there were some good things to come from it. I've got a clip from
Ramaswami dropping the hammer on this debate. But I want to play it.
I want to play some of that. It is still important to know.
And I don't mean that in an insulting way. I just I don't know
why they go if I I mean, other than it's the it's the they
have the stage, right, there's four of them on the stage. They
have a chance to say some things and be heard. But there is no
legitimate chance unless something just absolutely devastating happens to the Trump campaign or something just
you know, really really terrible as far as his candidacy goes. This is
this is completely irrelevant stuff. Again, I must saying the ideas are.
I mean, it's things that we need to understand and think through, and
it's good for that. But as far as helping us decide if one of
these people is going to be the candidate, No, it just isn't.
Absolutely not. So timeouts in order play some sound bites. Got other things
in the news stack of stuff as well, my friends, that I want
to get to. You're listening here to the home of conservative not bitter talk.
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minute. Welcome back, my friends. I know that some of you disagree
with my sentiments. Some of you may have different hopes or see different I
guess a different preference than I stated last segment. We can certainly differ on
that, for sure. But I just look the problems in this country.
The idea that we can tiptoe around the tulips here and save this nation is
incredibly naive. And I see I see by and large the only one that's
capable of having the mentality and take the necessary steps, take the necessary steps
and actions to eradicate the problem as best as possible. This is not going
away. We actually need some of these people on stage or others who are
out there that could be a candidate for president in twenty twenty eight to basically
get ready to carry the mantle if Trump is able to win, because this
is not going away. Trump's not going to be able to completely expose and
eradicate the deep state. I don't know. I'm not sure it can be
done, but it's going to need an in an unstoppable, consistent will of
the American people and members that we elect to Congress and the individual that we
elect to the President of the United States, and we are going to have
to hold these folks accountable in ways that we've not done in our lifetime.
This is not going away. It's going to take a level of fight and
tenacity that a lot of people just simply do not know or simply or not
comfortable with. But we have allowed this to happen. We have been metaphorically
asleep at the wheel for way too long. I don't mean you, some
of you have been screaming this stuff for decades, but as a group,
we have been asleep at the wheel for entirely, entirely too long. So
that doesn't mean that I'm not I don't want to play soundbites from this,
so so here is Here is vivk vivick Ramaswami in the debate on Wednesday.
He's talking about his three other opponents on the stage, which of course include
Ron Desant's, Nikki Haley Chris Christie, and he launches into I mean,
just I think there's a lot of truth here, and I know, look,
I know, and we could go down the line of these candidates person
by person and some people. Look, I I have had been a fan
of Dysantis. I thought DeSantis was the if you want to use this terminology,
the heir apparent. I don't mean that literally, just I just mean
the next the next choice after Trump. I did think that, but I
don't know, I don't know what I think now. I think I think
he used poor judgment. I don't like some of the people I see kind
of throwing their support behind him. That concerns me. That may not,
you know, It's like anything we've got to It takes time for the dust
to settle, and sometimes we just we just don't know. But there's still
things. I'm still hopeful about him. Some of you have it, some
of you have said that's over and done with. I'm not to that point.
There's some things about vivek Ramaswami. Some of you would never vote for
him. You think that he's a plant. That's a I'm open to that
as well. But what he says, if what he says matches reality,
I would make the case that of the four on the state, I think
he's the one that if you could match the words to the true motivation,
if we could get away with that safely, comfortably, then I would say
that's he's the best person on that stage. But that may not be the
case, don't I don't know. Nicki Haley of course drifts further to the
to the left of fact. There's a clip I have clip I have in
the stack of stuff that shows Nicky Hayley basically on TV back I think in
June CBS, I hadn't seen this until now. I think this might have
come up in the debate. But this issue about children being allowed, so
to speak, to have gender reassignment surgery, which I'm still for those who
say gender and biological sex are not the same thing, then why is biological
reassignment surgery necessary? If those things are not the same thing, then why
Why is the first thing that some people go to is I'm in the wrong
biological you know, the wrong body, that's of the wrong biological sex.
If those two things are not related, then why is why are these surgeries
necessary? It seems like a pretty valid question to me, But Nikki Hayley
says that there should the law should stay out of that. Parents should decide
a ten year old kid wants to get a gender reassignment surgery, change their
you can. You can't change your but that's the thing. You can't change
your biological sex. You can, you can try. And by the way,
there are some absolutely terrible, sad stories of people who have had this
done, who have had their biological sex changed or attempted to be changed,
and they are now out there saying that it ruined their lives. I mean,
it is sad some of this stuff that has happened. Parents who parents
sometimes pushing their kids into this stuff. It's become in vogue in certain insanely
radical left circles anyway, So there's problem. And then Chris Christie, I
think is has become the resident Democrat on the stage. He's he's in the
wrong party right now based upon what he's saying, and what's interesting about him,
I will say this is that he he had been a defender of Trump
for so long. Now he's flipped completely, which of course is pretty convenient
given that he's running for president now anyway. So but Ramaswami says this to
the other people on the debate stage, I want you to hear this,
my other colleagues on this debate stage, is all three of them have been
licking Donald Trump's boots for years for money and endorsements. Ron DeSantis, You've
been a great governor, but you would have never been one without actually begging
Donald Trump for that endorsement. And you had sad same thing with Chris Christy
as a lobbyist, begging them for COVID money for his special interests in New
Jersey. Prepping him for the debates last time around. These people are now
Monday Morning quarterbacking some decision he made. I think the real enemy is not
Donald Trump. It's not even Joe Biden. It is the deep state that
at least Donald Trump attempted to take on. And if you want somebody who's
going to speak truth to power, then vote for somebody who's going to speak
the truth to you. Why am I the only person on the stage at
least who can say that January sixth now does look like it was an inside
job that the government lied to us for twenty years about Sadi Araba's involvement in
nine to eleven, That the Great Replacement theory is not some grand right wing
conspiracy theory, but a basic statement of the Democratic Party's platform. That the
twenty twenty election was indeed stolen by big tech, that the twenty sixteen election,
the one that Trump won for sure, was also one that was stolen
from him by the national security establishment, and actually the Trump Rusher collusion hopes
they knew was false. There's a reason why I'm the only person that's what
it's going to take now. People who are licking his boots one time and
now Monday Morning quarterback gum of criticizing what it's convenient. Okay, there you
go. So that was VVK Vivek during the debate Wednesday night. Wanted to
share that with you here as again, it was something I thought that was
that resonates. I think with a lot of people, a lot of people
who have had enough, had enough with the Republican Party kind of being asleep
at the wheel and not realizing recognizing the real threats that we have. Time
out, though, is in order, my friends, sit tight, you're
listening to conservative not better talk. I am your host, Todd huff Back
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the caucuses kickoff in very very short order. We're moving towards that extremely
extremely quickly, and we've got a lot of noise out there. We've got
a lot of stuff going on. But there is again, there is again,
as I said, this debate, in my opinion, while there can
certainly be some good things that come from it, and I think that that
soundbity I played last segment was something that is good and beneficial to come from
that, because He's right at some point, whether you are a all in
Trump MAGA supporter, you're someone who votes for him although you know you don't
really want to, or someone who just is still an anti Trumper, a
never Trumper, the truth is we're going to have to have a whole new
a whole new class, a whole new type of leader arise. We're going
to have to have someone who understands the seriousness of the game, someone that
loves his or her country, who loves liberty and freedom, who understands that
they're there to do a real, significant, difficult job, and that the
true future stake of this Republic hinges upon their ability to do that job.
We've got a mess. By the way, just referencing other things in the
stack of stuff here National Pulse has shared is shared here. It's a research
by Rasmussen. Eighty one percent of Americans say that illegal immigration is a serious
problem. I remember writing about this in our column a couple of it might
have been a couple of months ago. I made the statement that we have
won this is now think about this. We have one on the issue of
illegal immigration, meaning we have actually persuaded, convinced people have come to see
the truth on the problem of illegal immigration. Eighty one percent say it's a
serious problem. Eighty one percent of Americans across the board. That includes Democrats,
that includes people who are in favor of sanctuary cities, That includes people
who generally have not been bothered by things happening along the southern border and now
frankly along the northern border, the percentage growth of illegal crossings there has skyrocketed
as well. Now, maybe a lot some of this is fueled by what
people just saw happen in Israel when Hamas illegally crossed their border and slaughtered and
raped and pillaged the towns, killing women and children, the elderly, the
affirmed taking hostages, leading to that mess that's going on over there. Now,
it should have been an eye opener, but it shouldn't have been the
only reason people finally saw a problem with illegal immigration. But we've won on
this issue. We've won in the sense that people are basically saying we need
to fix it. Now. Obviously there's a big that's a big process to
provide us, you know, lay out the solution and actually get it done
politically. But we have people that are now basically begging for this to be
solved. Tell me Trump wouldn't have stepped in and fixed this by now,
Actually just enforcing the law that's on the books would fix a big part of
this problem. The Biden administration has completely abdicated their responsibility to do that.
In fact, there's another story in the stack of someone an illegal alien,
maybe a couple of them as they crossed and enter the country illegally, were
detained, they expect to be released into the country. They were out there
saying thank you Joe Biden. People know what's a problem. We need leaders
to actually have the intestinal fortitude, the political will, the backbone to fight
this. And look, I'm not saying none of the other folks would do
things that De Santis has taken steps in his own state, right, I
see that, But I still think that the one to do this the most
fearlessly, the one to do this when it was first, candidly, the
one who did this first when he was told he couldn't, he shouldn't,
all this other stuff. The one who garnered support from people that had never
wanted to support a Republican before was Trump, and he's the one that's best
suited to fix this problem. It's certainly not the current administration. It's certainly
not Democrats in Congress. And I got to be honest, I don't know
how many Republicans in Congress are willing, unable and committed to actually fix this
problem as well. Timeouts in order to my friends, sits back here in
just a minute. Welcome back, my friends. I'm gonna go back into
the distant archives here and reference something from law from yesteryear. In fact,
I'm going to reference something that I first heard about listening to Rush years ago.
And I remember this was back in two thousand and six. Back in
two thousand and six, wolf Blitzer, I remember Rush talking about this.
This is when George W. Bush was President of the United States. I've
got the transcript, I don't have the montage, the SoundBite I'm going to
read. I'm going to read this to you because Bush's polling numbers dropped to
thirty six percent. That's important and relevant, so because Biden's are practically at
that level today. So listen how CNN covered this back in two thousand and
six. I'm gonna read this is not. Rush used to play the montage
of wolf Blitzer every top of the hour, maybe even every every segment.
He would he would lead with this, and this is what he would say.
It's four pm here in Washington, so you're getting their first look right
now at our brand new poll. The president's job approval rating has taken a
downward turn again, falling to only thirty six percent. This represents his lowest
rating ever in the CNN USA Today Gallop pole. The President's poll numbers are
pretty bad, pretty awful right now, rock bottom as far as the CNN
USA Today Gallop poll. Every one of these sentences, by the way,
is a break. This is him coming back at different parts of the segment
or whatever the President's Iraq problem, he continues, and his new low point
in the polls, his approval policies now are at new lows. You get
the idea. Well, then it continues. It's five pm here in Washington,
So all that was in an hour. I actually skipped a couple.
It's five pm here in Washington, where President Bush takes a beating in our
latest poll, his approval rating at a low EBB. Right. I mean,
you can go on and on and on to this. It's he didn't
look like he said it at six pm. Here at seven pm here in
Washington, the warrener Raq comes home to roost. Reminds me of Jeremi Right
for President Bush, he says, our latest poll numbers showing his approval rating
on a new low. So basically, he was breathlessly pounding this into the
American psyche. American It was just pounded pounded into reality. Well, President
Biden's latest approval numbers, and you're gonna love this. You're going I cannot
make this up. Headline here, this is the Washington Free Beacon. Biden
reaches all time low approval in Guess which pole, Guess which poll? These
numbers are discovered in CNN poll. I kid you not, I cannot make
this up. You've got to be kidding me. Biden reaches all time low
approval in CNN poll. The article reads President Biden's approval hit an all time
low in a CNN poll released Wednesday, just thirty seven percent. You're hearing
this now, Pause and ask yourself was a wolf as well? Welf blitcher?
Still at seeing I don't even know if he's at CNN anymore. I
have no idea, to be quite honest, I feel like I see I
see him from time to time. When I think of the media and the
mainstream media and this cast of jokers and clowns, they all kind of morphed
into one person. For me, it's the same person. They have a
different you know that they have a different gender, a different race, ethnicity,
different age group. Same person, same person. In my opinion,
or you think they're breathlessly at every break leading with this, my friends,
if they're not. If they're not, then ask yourselves why. Of course
we know why they're not doing this. They wanted to use the poll the
low polling, to drive Bush's numbers even lower, to hurt him. And
they just ignore this one, or it'll be put on the equivalent of,
you know, page forty three, buried somewhere between all the other stories of
the day, all the other ginned up crap that they're throwing at President Trump
thirty seven percent. First I've heard about this, I did not see CNN
breathlessly trying to tell us about it every single time they were on the air,
which is twenty four to seven. They should be breathlessly announcing this NonStop
if they want to be consistent. Quick time out, my friends, back
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