1 00:00:17,320 --> 00:00:19,640 Speaker 1: And we are back with another edition of the Federalist 2 00:00:19,760 --> 00:00:23,199 Radio Hour. I'm Matt Kittle, Senior Elections correspondent at the 3 00:00:23,239 --> 00:00:27,879 Federalist and your experienced Shirpa on today's quest for Knowledge. 4 00:00:28,239 --> 00:00:30,760 As always, you can email the show at radio at 5 00:00:30,879 --> 00:00:35,079 the Federalist dot com, follow us on x at FDR LST, 6 00:00:35,679 --> 00:00:38,640 make sure to subscribe wherever you download your podcast, and 7 00:00:38,799 --> 00:00:42,320 of course to the premium version of our website as well. 8 00:00:42,840 --> 00:00:46,159 Our guest today is c J. Pearson, National co chair 9 00:00:46,159 --> 00:00:50,520 of the Republican National Committee Youth Advisory Council, a rising 10 00:00:50,600 --> 00:00:55,079 star in conservative politics who's an inauguration weekend victory party 11 00:00:55,159 --> 00:00:59,759 for influencers was literally cropped out by the leftist New 12 00:00:59,840 --> 00:01:04,200 York York magazine. We do mean literally cropped out, a 13 00:01:04,280 --> 00:01:07,959 classic corporate media hit job to save the least from 14 00:01:08,040 --> 00:01:11,400 New York Magazine. CJ, thank you so much for joining 15 00:01:11,480 --> 00:01:13,519 us on this edition of the Federalist Radio Hour. 16 00:01:14,040 --> 00:01:15,799 Speaker 2: Thank you so much for having me. It's a pleasure. 17 00:01:16,280 --> 00:01:19,280 Speaker 1: This story is a part and parcel of what we've 18 00:01:19,319 --> 00:01:24,000 seen from corporate media, the prov depress, the accomplice media 19 00:01:24,480 --> 00:01:27,599 for so long now. But basically what it is is 20 00:01:27,799 --> 00:01:31,519 it is a long form, as I said, hit piece 21 00:01:32,079 --> 00:01:38,079 about anybody who supports Donald Trump, really conservatives, the mega 22 00:01:38,200 --> 00:01:42,920 movement to the Republican Party, and it focuses on inauguration 23 00:01:43,040 --> 00:01:47,599 weekend parties including yours. Give us a little background on 24 00:01:48,040 --> 00:01:52,200 what it was you were hosting this party in Washington, 25 00:01:52,319 --> 00:01:58,000 DC and what this piece attempted to do. 26 00:01:58,280 --> 00:02:02,359 Speaker 3: Ultimately, Well, Matt, thank you again so much for having 27 00:02:02,400 --> 00:02:04,599 me here to talk about this and to give you 28 00:02:04,640 --> 00:02:07,480 some background on you know, what this event was. 29 00:02:07,560 --> 00:02:09,000 Speaker 2: You know, throughout the election cycle. 30 00:02:09,120 --> 00:02:11,879 Speaker 3: You know, Vami work on the RNC Youth Advisory Council, 31 00:02:11,919 --> 00:02:14,159 where I was tasked with doing all that we could 32 00:02:14,240 --> 00:02:17,520 do to help President Trump perform well with young people, 33 00:02:17,639 --> 00:02:20,159 which we were super excited to have been able to achieve. 34 00:02:20,240 --> 00:02:24,560 That young people supported President From resoundingly this past election cycle, 35 00:02:24,719 --> 00:02:27,080 and it was in large part because the President actually 36 00:02:27,120 --> 00:02:29,879 pushed the corporate media to the side and said, I'm 37 00:02:29,879 --> 00:02:33,360 going to go directly to young people. And young people 38 00:02:33,439 --> 00:02:36,080 aren't reading the newspapers, he stays, they're not even watching 39 00:02:36,120 --> 00:02:38,520 cable news. But what they are doing is they're following 40 00:02:38,520 --> 00:02:41,840 their favorite influencers on social media. They're listening to podcasts 41 00:02:41,879 --> 00:02:45,599 and things like that, and so we actually organized these influencers, 42 00:02:45,719 --> 00:02:49,560 organize these podcasters to get their audiences motivated to come 43 00:02:49,599 --> 00:02:51,319 out and support President Trump. 44 00:02:51,360 --> 00:02:52,560 Speaker 2: And so, you know, they were. 45 00:02:52,479 --> 00:02:55,360 Speaker 3: A critical part of the of the President's victory, his 46 00:02:55,439 --> 00:02:59,000 resounding victory, and a critical piece of the mandate that 47 00:02:59,039 --> 00:03:01,560 he received from the America people. And so that was 48 00:03:01,599 --> 00:03:03,840 sort of the catalyst for this hosting this event which 49 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:06,400 we call the Power thirty Awards, which we hosted in 50 00:03:06,439 --> 00:03:10,000 partnership with TikTok and Call Shee and also the Daily Signal. 51 00:03:10,240 --> 00:03:12,159 And what we wanted to do was honor the thirty 52 00:03:12,159 --> 00:03:16,199 most impactful young conservative influencers from this past lifcense cycle, 53 00:03:16,400 --> 00:03:20,599 the folks who sacrificed you know, their you know, their time, 54 00:03:21,080 --> 00:03:24,439 their money, their careers in some cases because they realized 55 00:03:24,560 --> 00:03:27,400 just how critical and crucial this election was going to be. 56 00:03:27,840 --> 00:03:30,280 And so we hosted around I think it was four 57 00:03:30,360 --> 00:03:33,360 hundred or five hundred or so people at a you know, 58 00:03:33,439 --> 00:03:36,439 a club down in in DC during an honoation weekend. 59 00:03:36,479 --> 00:03:38,400 It was a little bit of a swinky affair. It 60 00:03:38,439 --> 00:03:42,080 was black tie and you know, everyone there, of course, 61 00:03:42,719 --> 00:03:45,479 you know, was a similar belief system other than the 62 00:03:45,560 --> 00:03:47,719 reporters in the room as we have come to see, 63 00:03:48,759 --> 00:03:50,719 and we were just having a good time. 64 00:03:50,840 --> 00:03:53,120 Speaker 2: We were happy. We were happy to be. 65 00:03:53,240 --> 00:03:56,680 Speaker 3: Back in Washington and to be back in the driver's seat. 66 00:03:56,719 --> 00:03:58,719 You know, for four years, we had kind of been 67 00:03:58,759 --> 00:04:01,159 cast out into the wilderness. We had been treated as 68 00:04:01,199 --> 00:04:03,520 second class citizens in our own country. We've seen a 69 00:04:03,560 --> 00:04:09,560 weaponized DJ going after conservatives. We were finally back and 70 00:04:09,919 --> 00:04:13,280 our future was once again in our hands, and there 71 00:04:13,319 --> 00:04:14,439 was a lot to celebrate. 72 00:04:14,520 --> 00:04:16,800 Speaker 2: And so that is exactly what we did. 73 00:04:16,959 --> 00:04:19,759 Speaker 3: Until the wee hours of the night, until we you know, 74 00:04:19,839 --> 00:04:23,040 on Monday when the president was inaugurated, and that was 75 00:04:23,120 --> 00:04:24,079 the that was. 76 00:04:24,079 --> 00:04:25,000 Speaker 2: The big celebration. 77 00:04:25,160 --> 00:04:27,560 Speaker 3: But you know, the origin of this hit piece, and 78 00:04:27,600 --> 00:04:30,240 I'm sure you'll get into it is truly interesting to 79 00:04:30,279 --> 00:04:33,279 me because I think that the thing that probably makes 80 00:04:33,319 --> 00:04:37,480 this man or I use man loosely, he identifies as 81 00:04:37,600 --> 00:04:39,439 non binary and I want to be inclusive in twenty 82 00:04:39,480 --> 00:04:43,000 twenty five, even though he failed to be inclusive of 83 00:04:43,040 --> 00:04:46,800 the black people in the photo that he cropped, you know, 84 00:04:46,879 --> 00:04:48,800 as he was trying to pedal the narrative that this 85 00:04:48,959 --> 00:04:53,839 was some AKK pizza party. But you know, it's it's insane, 86 00:04:54,000 --> 00:04:56,839 but I think again it goes to show why the 87 00:04:56,879 --> 00:04:59,439 President actually did what he did. He cut out the 88 00:04:59,439 --> 00:05:03,439 corporate me He went straightly direct consumer because he knows 89 00:05:03,639 --> 00:05:06,519 all these people know how to do is lie, lie, Lie. 90 00:05:07,120 --> 00:05:09,839 Speaker 1: Yeah. I think it's interesting, CJ. Exactly what you said, 91 00:05:10,079 --> 00:05:14,480 you know, and it's absolutely true. President Trump went around 92 00:05:14,639 --> 00:05:20,399 this roadblock, this constant interfering presence that is the so 93 00:05:20,480 --> 00:05:25,040 called mainstream media, corporate media in America. And I think 94 00:05:25,120 --> 00:05:29,319 the people in that room the night before Inauguration Day 95 00:05:29,839 --> 00:05:35,279 in your party represented all of the people that you know. 96 00:05:35,399 --> 00:05:39,399 This story is really this hit piece that was written 97 00:05:39,439 --> 00:05:43,079 by a reporter by the name of Brock Coliard, I 98 00:05:43,160 --> 00:05:47,199 believe from New York Magazine. It's really one long screed, 99 00:05:47,399 --> 00:05:51,519 a lament about the loss of power from leftists in 100 00:05:51,600 --> 00:05:55,839 America being able to use their favorite useful idiots in 101 00:05:56,240 --> 00:06:00,240 the corporate media to try to spin the narrative. And 102 00:06:00,279 --> 00:06:02,839 that's what this story was about. So in the piece, 103 00:06:03,160 --> 00:06:05,160 you have a couple of things, you know, you have 104 00:06:05,240 --> 00:06:09,519 all kinds of mockery of the new conservative movement in America, 105 00:06:09,600 --> 00:06:12,240 because that's what New York Magazine says. This is here 106 00:06:12,240 --> 00:06:16,720 are the new young Conservatives, the new conservative movement in America, 107 00:06:17,399 --> 00:06:19,120 and he does know. It's a bit. It's a bigger 108 00:06:19,160 --> 00:06:22,439 tent than the Republican Party is used to for sure, 109 00:06:22,480 --> 00:06:25,000 and that includes all kinds of people using all kinds 110 00:06:25,040 --> 00:06:30,600 of different and new technologies. It What it tries to insist, though, 111 00:06:30,879 --> 00:06:35,319 is that as you say, this is the party, and 112 00:06:35,399 --> 00:06:38,720 I'm you know, I'm getting a sense of the story, 113 00:06:38,800 --> 00:06:43,000 not necessarily direct quotes, but they're spinning this idea that 114 00:06:43,079 --> 00:06:47,800 it's all you know, this white supremacy style. They even say, 115 00:06:47,920 --> 00:06:51,360 you know, as it relates to your party and others, 116 00:06:51,480 --> 00:06:54,240 you know, the vast majority of these folks are white. 117 00:06:54,759 --> 00:06:58,199 At the same time, they have a photo from your 118 00:06:58,279 --> 00:07:01,040 party and they literally. 119 00:07:00,759 --> 00:07:01,639 Speaker 2: Crap out. 120 00:07:02,959 --> 00:07:08,639 Speaker 1: The black Americans who are in that photo. It is amazing. 121 00:07:08,720 --> 00:07:11,040 What did you think when you first saw this, when 122 00:07:11,079 --> 00:07:12,319 you first read this hit piece? 123 00:07:12,959 --> 00:07:15,360 Speaker 3: You know, I think it's diabolical, you know, to be 124 00:07:15,480 --> 00:07:17,639 to be quite frank, for them to be so flagrant 125 00:07:17,839 --> 00:07:21,720 about gaslighting the American people, I think is an indictment 126 00:07:21,800 --> 00:07:25,759 upon the institution of journalism as a whole. It's embarrassing 127 00:07:26,120 --> 00:07:28,920 and the fact that you don't see left wing reporters 128 00:07:29,040 --> 00:07:34,680 also condemning this so called piece of journalism is also disconcerting, 129 00:07:34,720 --> 00:07:38,000 but again part of the course and unsurprising. You know, 130 00:07:38,000 --> 00:07:40,160 when I first saw, you know, the article. When I 131 00:07:40,160 --> 00:07:42,319 first read the piece, it was really interesting to me. 132 00:07:42,519 --> 00:07:45,160 You know, first he describes it as almost every everyone 133 00:07:45,240 --> 00:07:48,279 there at the party is white and all these things, and. 134 00:07:48,439 --> 00:07:50,360 Speaker 2: What was really weird. It's like, I'm like, Ok, you're 135 00:07:50,399 --> 00:07:51,959 at my party. You're at my event. 136 00:07:52,079 --> 00:07:54,800 Speaker 3: I was the only speaker at the event other than 137 00:07:54,839 --> 00:07:58,120 Alex Vershwa too, you know, the senior advisor to President Trump. 138 00:07:58,800 --> 00:08:01,600 You had ample opera tunity as a journalist, as a 139 00:08:01,639 --> 00:08:04,439 reporter to do your job and to come up to 140 00:08:04,480 --> 00:08:06,360 me and ask me questions about the event that you 141 00:08:06,399 --> 00:08:09,160 were looking to cover. At no point did he make 142 00:08:09,240 --> 00:08:13,199 any attempt to do that. And so curiously enough, after 143 00:08:13,199 --> 00:08:15,160 I read the piece, I was like, Wow, this is 144 00:08:15,199 --> 00:08:18,800 so weird that you wrote eight hundred plus words about 145 00:08:18,839 --> 00:08:21,079 my party but at no point mentioned my name. And 146 00:08:21,120 --> 00:08:23,399 so I shot him a message on Instagram because I 147 00:08:23,399 --> 00:08:25,959 saw that he followed me on Instagram, which was also 148 00:08:26,120 --> 00:08:28,560 kind of crazy, right, It's like, you follow me, you 149 00:08:28,639 --> 00:08:31,160 knew this was my event, you were there, so you 150 00:08:31,360 --> 00:08:33,960 heard me speak, and you still didn't reach out for comment. 151 00:08:34,039 --> 00:08:37,120 That's a little bizarre and ethically dubious, but that's neither 152 00:08:37,159 --> 00:08:39,879 here nor there. I DMed him and I said, hey, like, 153 00:08:39,919 --> 00:08:42,519 would you mind, you know, correcting your piece and you know, 154 00:08:42,639 --> 00:08:46,240 adding that this was an event hosted by me? And 155 00:08:46,559 --> 00:08:50,080 he said, unfortunately, I can't do that at this point 156 00:08:50,120 --> 00:08:52,559 in time. And I ran out of space in the 157 00:08:52,639 --> 00:08:56,159 article to include your name. Now, Matt, my name is CJ. 158 00:08:56,559 --> 00:09:00,600 And my last name is not too much longer. I 159 00:09:00,720 --> 00:09:02,440 was like, that seems like, you know, one of those 160 00:09:02,480 --> 00:09:04,519 basic things. I remember when I was doing book reports 161 00:09:04,519 --> 00:09:06,960 in elementary school, it was always the who, what, the one, 162 00:09:07,000 --> 00:09:09,279 and the wear. And it's like you would think that 163 00:09:09,679 --> 00:09:12,000 the who he would have been able to lock down, 164 00:09:12,639 --> 00:09:14,960 but he was not able to do it. And the 165 00:09:15,039 --> 00:09:17,399 more I thought about it, it was all by intention. 166 00:09:17,759 --> 00:09:20,519 It would have undermined his entire narrative. This was some 167 00:09:20,960 --> 00:09:24,159 you know, white supremacist pep rally that he wanted to 168 00:09:24,200 --> 00:09:27,200 insinuate that it was when he had to acknowledge and 169 00:09:27,200 --> 00:09:28,840 admit that this was hosted by a black man, and 170 00:09:28,840 --> 00:09:32,440 there were multiple black influencers there present. Because black men 171 00:09:32,759 --> 00:09:35,960 were a critical constituency for President Trump going back to 172 00:09:35,960 --> 00:09:36,480 the White House. 173 00:09:36,480 --> 00:09:39,159 Speaker 2: So we had many black men that we were honoring there, 174 00:09:39,279 --> 00:09:39,799 folks like. 175 00:09:39,840 --> 00:09:43,679 Speaker 3: Terrence Williams, Representative Vernon Jones, Congressman Wesley Hunt. 176 00:09:43,919 --> 00:09:46,879 Speaker 2: Waka Flakka, who's a prominent rapper, was our performer for 177 00:09:46,960 --> 00:09:47,320 the night. 178 00:09:48,159 --> 00:09:51,480 Speaker 3: So to act as if this was some racially homogeneous 179 00:09:51,759 --> 00:09:56,840 you know shindig is just absolutely deceitful and it's actually 180 00:09:56,879 --> 00:09:57,960 just downright false. 181 00:09:58,799 --> 00:10:01,799 Speaker 1: Here's a salient point as well that I think is 182 00:10:01,960 --> 00:10:06,600 lost in the piece. You are a black American, You 183 00:10:06,879 --> 00:10:11,639 hosted the party, and they could not find space for you. 184 00:10:11,879 --> 00:10:16,039 It's interesting, I'll tell you this. I reached out to 185 00:10:16,840 --> 00:10:20,440 the New York magazine and I had a lot of questions, 186 00:10:20,559 --> 00:10:24,279 as you do and others do, And I said, I'm 187 00:10:24,279 --> 00:10:27,480 writing a story about New York Magazine's recent piece titled 188 00:10:27,519 --> 00:10:31,679 the Cruel Kids Table. I have spoken to CJ. Pearson, 189 00:10:32,080 --> 00:10:35,559 co chair of the Republican National Committee Youth Advisory Council 190 00:10:35,639 --> 00:10:38,080 and host of the event. He told me the hit 191 00:10:38,120 --> 00:10:41,440 piece was a false characterization of the event, the attendees, 192 00:10:42,120 --> 00:10:45,480 and then I go on to ask these questions. Mister 193 00:10:45,519 --> 00:10:48,600 Pearson said that after the story published, he reached out 194 00:10:48,759 --> 00:10:51,320 to the reporter who told him that there was no 195 00:10:51,519 --> 00:10:57,360 space available to include mister Pearson's comments. Is that true? 196 00:10:57,480 --> 00:11:02,799 There was no space left on the inner New York Magazine, 197 00:11:03,039 --> 00:11:07,360 if I'm not mistaken, is published online as of this recording, 198 00:11:07,440 --> 00:11:11,679 I've seen nothing in the way of attempting to add 199 00:11:11,879 --> 00:11:14,840 your comments, your statements, at the very least to the 200 00:11:14,879 --> 00:11:20,240 online publication. It's just amazing to me their response, by 201 00:11:20,279 --> 00:11:23,960 the way, and I'll I want you to have the 202 00:11:24,000 --> 00:11:28,840 opportunity to comment on this. This was from Lauren Stark, 203 00:11:29,000 --> 00:11:33,720 who is the senior vice president of Communications at the 204 00:11:33,759 --> 00:11:37,639 parent company of New York Magazine. She said the magazine's 205 00:11:37,639 --> 00:11:41,440 most recent cover story explores the new class of conservatives 206 00:11:41,519 --> 00:11:46,399 taking Washington by storm through the lens of Inauguration weekend. 207 00:11:46,879 --> 00:11:49,799 The cover was cropped to the center of a picture 208 00:11:49,879 --> 00:11:54,080 that was published in full online, and we believe both 209 00:11:54,159 --> 00:12:00,320 the cover and story provide an accurate impression of the weekend. Well, 210 00:12:00,360 --> 00:12:04,080 that may be the case online, but it only drives 211 00:12:04,080 --> 00:12:06,080 home the point that they had some more space to 212 00:12:06,320 --> 00:12:09,480 enter the comments of the host of the event. But 213 00:12:09,519 --> 00:12:12,279 what do you think about her particular characters? 214 00:12:12,440 --> 00:12:14,919 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I think I think it's a deflection, you know, 215 00:12:14,919 --> 00:12:18,159 from some very direct questions that you asked her that unfortunately, 216 00:12:18,200 --> 00:12:20,919 I think she realizes that there's not much stable ground 217 00:12:20,960 --> 00:12:22,480 for her to stand on. That would have been an 218 00:12:22,519 --> 00:12:25,279 easy thing for them to correct and to fix and 219 00:12:25,320 --> 00:12:28,279 to update, but they chose not to because again, they 220 00:12:28,399 --> 00:12:31,279 care more about the narrative than the actual truth. And 221 00:12:31,440 --> 00:12:34,279 I know, I don't think it's an accurate reflection of 222 00:12:34,320 --> 00:12:36,639 the weekend to act as if you know, this was 223 00:12:36,679 --> 00:12:40,759 some cruel gathering of everyone just coming together to you know, 224 00:12:40,919 --> 00:12:44,559 plot world domination is absolutely insane. No, we were there 225 00:12:44,559 --> 00:12:47,720 because we were happy to celebrate the resounding victory of 226 00:12:47,759 --> 00:12:50,360 President Trump. That was the reason that we were all 227 00:12:50,399 --> 00:12:54,480 gathered at that venue on that night, and there was 228 00:12:54,559 --> 00:12:55,879 nothing else to it. 229 00:12:55,840 --> 00:12:57,919 Speaker 2: To you know, to be quite frank, well, we. 230 00:12:57,799 --> 00:13:00,600 Speaker 3: Were gonna have the strategy meeting tomorrow, but for that day, 231 00:13:00,639 --> 00:13:03,600 we were celebrating. And so, you know, for her to 232 00:13:03,679 --> 00:13:07,399 pretend or him to pretend, both of them, to pretend 233 00:13:07,639 --> 00:13:11,879 that this was you know, some type of diabolical plot, uh, 234 00:13:12,279 --> 00:13:13,960 it's just it's so crazy. 235 00:13:14,000 --> 00:13:15,639 Speaker 2: But again it's unsurprising. 236 00:13:15,720 --> 00:13:18,080 Speaker 3: It's part of the course, and I'm actually glad that 237 00:13:18,120 --> 00:13:19,080 they still don't get it. 238 00:13:19,279 --> 00:13:21,000 Speaker 2: I'm actually really really glad. 239 00:13:20,799 --> 00:13:23,799 Speaker 3: That they still don't get it, because, you know, growing up, 240 00:13:23,799 --> 00:13:25,840 my grandma would always tell me, you know, when someone 241 00:13:26,000 --> 00:13:30,120 when someone is in the process of destroying themselves, let them, 242 00:13:30,200 --> 00:13:32,759 let them do it. You know, it's not on you anymore, 243 00:13:32,840 --> 00:13:35,440 you know, don't let like, don't intervene when the enemy 244 00:13:36,120 --> 00:13:39,679 is undoing themselves. And that's exactly what they are continuing 245 00:13:39,679 --> 00:13:41,919 to do. They continue to not get it. They continue 246 00:13:41,919 --> 00:13:44,360 to understand why President Trump won in the way in 247 00:13:44,399 --> 00:13:49,000 which she did across demographics that Republicans have long struggled with. Somehow, 248 00:13:49,320 --> 00:13:54,559 the most racist, sexist, most homophobic president to ever occupy 249 00:13:54,679 --> 00:13:58,360 the White House was the president who performed record amounts 250 00:13:58,360 --> 00:14:01,399 of support among those grew managed to do it. They 251 00:14:01,480 --> 00:14:02,960 so don't get it, And I'm okay with them not 252 00:14:03,000 --> 00:14:05,320 getting it because I hope they don't get it when 253 00:14:05,399 --> 00:14:06,960 Jade Vance is the next nominee too. 254 00:14:07,080 --> 00:14:09,240 Speaker 1: So I think it will be a great good point. 255 00:14:09,399 --> 00:14:13,480 Your grandmother a very wise woman, and it is interesting 256 00:14:13,679 --> 00:14:16,399 they talk about these kinds of things. Let me share 257 00:14:16,440 --> 00:14:18,519 a little bit, and this is I think the point, 258 00:14:18,919 --> 00:14:21,039 one of the many points of contention. But I think 259 00:14:21,080 --> 00:14:23,960 this drives at home this from the piece. From an 260 00:14:24,039 --> 00:14:27,799 esthetic standpoint, the new class of Conservatives is willing to 261 00:14:27,799 --> 00:14:32,279 top off a perfectly stylish outfit with a mega hat, 262 00:14:32,879 --> 00:14:36,080 which now comes in lots of colors red yes, but 263 00:14:36,159 --> 00:14:41,039 also yellow, green, orange, or black, the dark mega kind 264 00:14:41,080 --> 00:14:47,919 that Elon Musk wears. Almost everyone is white, the reporter states, falsely. 265 00:14:48,720 --> 00:14:52,720 The men look like Pete Hegseth in bow ties and 266 00:14:52,799 --> 00:14:57,080 black suits with clean shaven faces. The women are almost 267 00:14:57,240 --> 00:15:02,120 all out of their league. As I was once informed, 268 00:15:02,279 --> 00:15:05,879 these young conservative parties are eighty percent men and twenty 269 00:15:05,919 --> 00:15:10,799 percent the most beautiful women you've ever seen. This is 270 00:15:11,799 --> 00:15:16,519 another I will excuse my language, but I will call 271 00:15:16,559 --> 00:15:23,120 it what it is, a bitchy piece from areas from 272 00:15:23,200 --> 00:15:26,519 a leftist. I mean, it goes on and on like this, 273 00:15:26,799 --> 00:15:31,279 and I think it drives home your point precisely. They're 274 00:15:31,360 --> 00:15:36,960 at the inauguration of a president who absolutely smashed the 275 00:15:37,039 --> 00:15:41,960 Democrat competition, and at this party there are all kinds 276 00:15:42,039 --> 00:15:48,759 of different Americans there, including gay Americans, and yet you 277 00:15:48,799 --> 00:15:56,519 know they're trying desperately to create this narrative that only mean, awful, 278 00:15:56,840 --> 00:16:02,559 privileged white supremacist could possibly vote and sustain Donald Trump 279 00:16:03,159 --> 00:16:05,919 as far away from the actual truth as possible, and 280 00:16:05,960 --> 00:16:08,679 that they'rein lies what we're talking about today, doesn't it. 281 00:16:09,200 --> 00:16:10,799 Speaker 2: Yeah, you're You're exactly right. 282 00:16:10,840 --> 00:16:13,000 Speaker 3: And it's that same resentment you know for half of 283 00:16:13,039 --> 00:16:16,720 America too, is I think, really fueling their inability to 284 00:16:16,799 --> 00:16:19,440 understand why they lost and also is going to prevent 285 00:16:19,759 --> 00:16:23,000 them from ever being able to win again. But you know, 286 00:16:23,039 --> 00:16:25,960 you're right the pit the piece was bitchy, like you 287 00:16:26,000 --> 00:16:29,240 read the entire thing, and it's essentially them seething that 288 00:16:29,240 --> 00:16:30,200 they can't be us. 289 00:16:30,320 --> 00:16:31,600 Speaker 2: Actually is the way I took it. 290 00:16:31,799 --> 00:16:34,440 Speaker 3: I took it as you know, hating from outside the 291 00:16:34,440 --> 00:16:37,240 club because they can't get in. I took it as 292 00:16:37,399 --> 00:16:39,279 that they hate us because they ain't us. Like that 293 00:16:39,440 --> 00:16:42,360 is how the piece read. You know, you're shaming people 294 00:16:42,399 --> 00:16:45,960 for being handsome, you're shaming women for being beautiful and 295 00:16:46,200 --> 00:16:49,320 well dressed and for smelling nice. Like I understand he's 296 00:16:49,320 --> 00:16:52,279 probably used to covering, you know, Antifa rallies and where 297 00:16:52,279 --> 00:16:54,440 they all smell absolutely. 298 00:16:53,919 --> 00:16:56,080 Speaker 2: Petrick, But you know this is a little bit of 299 00:16:56,120 --> 00:16:56,799 a different crowd. 300 00:16:56,919 --> 00:16:59,200 Speaker 3: You know, we do dress nice, we do care about, 301 00:16:59,440 --> 00:17:02,000 you know, how we look and how we present ourselves 302 00:17:02,000 --> 00:17:04,680 because we actually have jobs, you know, here in the 303 00:17:04,680 --> 00:17:07,039 Republican Party, and so so. 304 00:17:07,000 --> 00:17:07,319 Speaker 2: I get it. 305 00:17:07,319 --> 00:17:09,240 Speaker 3: Maybe it's something out of side of their comfort zone, 306 00:17:09,279 --> 00:17:13,440 but it truly was an interesting, interesting piece to read, 307 00:17:14,160 --> 00:17:16,480 so much so to the the first time I read it, 308 00:17:17,559 --> 00:17:19,440 until I realized it had cropped out all of these 309 00:17:19,440 --> 00:17:22,519 people and done all these like nefarious, like little small things. 310 00:17:22,720 --> 00:17:24,559 When I first read the piece, it was just a typical, 311 00:17:24,720 --> 00:17:28,799 like I think it just leftists columnist piece. I was like, okay, 312 00:17:28,880 --> 00:17:30,720 like what's new, what's different about this? 313 00:17:31,799 --> 00:17:34,160 Speaker 2: But then I was just kind of like, okay, wait, no, 314 00:17:34,480 --> 00:17:37,759 this is like something like way deeper. 315 00:17:37,440 --> 00:17:40,640 Speaker 3: Than I thought initially, and we got to call this out. 316 00:17:43,319 --> 00:17:43,559 Speaker 2: Now. 317 00:17:43,599 --> 00:17:46,920 Speaker 4: The Hollywood liberals are obsessed about looting. The Watchdout on 318 00:17:47,039 --> 00:17:50,119 Wall Street podcast with Chris Markowski. Every day Chris helps 319 00:17:50,160 --> 00:17:52,799 unpack the connection between politics and the economy and how 320 00:17:52,799 --> 00:17:55,599 it affects your wallet. Some of the Hollywood elites have 321 00:17:55,720 --> 00:17:58,640 threatened to shoot people who loot their property. Where were 322 00:17:58,640 --> 00:18:02,359 they durned George Floyd. It's Celine Dion didn't mind looting 323 00:18:02,440 --> 00:18:05,680 during Hurricane Katrina because it wasn't her stuff. Whether it's 324 00:18:05,680 --> 00:18:07,319 happening in DC or down on Wall Street. 325 00:18:07,319 --> 00:18:09,160 Speaker 2: It's affecting you financially. Be informed. 326 00:18:09,200 --> 00:18:11,319 Speaker 4: Check out the Watchdot on Wall Street podcast with christ 327 00:18:11,400 --> 00:18:14,319 Markcowski on Apple, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. 328 00:18:16,720 --> 00:18:19,480 Speaker 1: You know, that's I think it's interesting because you're on 329 00:18:19,519 --> 00:18:23,599 the front line of the youth movement in America in 330 00:18:23,799 --> 00:18:29,200 conservative politics. You have seen as a young person in 331 00:18:29,240 --> 00:18:36,119 America along with members of your generation, exactly what has 332 00:18:36,240 --> 00:18:39,839 happened over the last four years. What has happened to 333 00:18:39,880 --> 00:18:44,759 the promise of America. You know, you suffered through inflation, 334 00:18:45,519 --> 00:18:50,960 you suffered through a borderless country and the rise in 335 00:18:51,079 --> 00:18:56,480 crime and violence, the lawlessness, the law fair the censorship, 336 00:18:56,920 --> 00:19:02,240 you you know, the worries deep sea worries about national 337 00:19:02,319 --> 00:19:06,640 security and our relationship and reputation around the world. 338 00:19:07,200 --> 00:19:07,440 Speaker 4: You know. 339 00:19:07,839 --> 00:19:12,559 Speaker 1: And this piece is so resentful of the fact that 340 00:19:12,839 --> 00:19:18,440 Americans woke up to this and in large part, they 341 00:19:18,480 --> 00:19:23,160 woke up to the things that this reporter absolutely despises. 342 00:19:24,640 --> 00:19:30,920 Any resistance to the diversity, equity, inclusion, and the whole 343 00:19:31,200 --> 00:19:36,160 woke agenda. And I think the influencers in that room, 344 00:19:36,519 --> 00:19:41,119 including yourself, you know, really pulled the scales off the 345 00:19:41,160 --> 00:19:45,000 eyes of the American people. Particularly the young voters in 346 00:19:45,039 --> 00:19:46,240 America today. 347 00:19:46,319 --> 00:19:48,279 Speaker 2: Yeah, and that was that was definitely our goal. 348 00:19:48,359 --> 00:19:49,960 Speaker 3: And I think, you know, I've always said, as a 349 00:19:50,000 --> 00:19:53,079 young person, I'm twenty two years old, that you know, 350 00:19:53,200 --> 00:19:55,720 if anyone has skinned needs to have skin the game, 351 00:19:55,759 --> 00:19:57,559 it's going to be us, because no one's going to 352 00:19:57,599 --> 00:20:00,799 fight for our future like the future. So I think 353 00:20:00,839 --> 00:20:04,119 it's so critical and it's actually, I think, you know, 354 00:20:04,640 --> 00:20:08,039 really heartwarming to see so many young people pull themselves 355 00:20:08,039 --> 00:20:10,680 off the sidelines this past election say I'm going to 356 00:20:10,720 --> 00:20:11,480 fight like hell. 357 00:20:11,400 --> 00:20:13,079 Speaker 2: For the America that I know that I deserve. 358 00:20:13,319 --> 00:20:16,359 Speaker 3: And the America that I deserve is not Kamala Harris's America. 359 00:20:16,480 --> 00:20:20,039 It's not Ancy Pelosi's America. It's not Joe Biden's America. 360 00:20:20,119 --> 00:20:23,319 But it's Donald Trump's America. And you know, I was 361 00:20:23,319 --> 00:20:26,240 old enough to remember, like, you know, when I my 362 00:20:26,319 --> 00:20:28,680 first election I was legible to vote in was President 363 00:20:28,680 --> 00:20:31,480 Trump's first selection, or in twenty twenty when he ran 364 00:20:31,519 --> 00:20:34,640 for re election, and I remember just how good things were, 365 00:20:34,720 --> 00:20:36,839 you know, obviously, you know, we were navigating the pandemic 366 00:20:36,839 --> 00:20:37,240 which had. 367 00:20:37,240 --> 00:20:38,200 Speaker 2: Never happened before. 368 00:20:38,480 --> 00:20:40,839 Speaker 3: But I remember in high school the economy being stronger 369 00:20:40,839 --> 00:20:43,519 than it ever was. I remember, you know, our enemies, 370 00:20:44,200 --> 00:20:46,920 you know, being afraid of us, our allies, you know. 371 00:20:47,079 --> 00:20:48,440 Speaker 2: Being able to rely on us. 372 00:20:48,480 --> 00:20:52,039 Speaker 3: These were just facts of life under President Trump, and 373 00:20:52,119 --> 00:20:54,279 I was desperate to have those days back. 374 00:20:54,480 --> 00:20:55,359 Speaker 2: I was eager to. 375 00:20:55,319 --> 00:20:57,400 Speaker 3: Have at the beginning of my collegiate career because I 376 00:20:57,440 --> 00:20:59,839 knew i'd be graduating and I'd be going into a 377 00:21:00,039 --> 00:21:06,279 Donald J. Trump workedforce. Unfortunately didn't have that opportunity. But now, thankfully, 378 00:21:06,359 --> 00:21:09,680 I think younger folks they will, and so I think that, 379 00:21:09,799 --> 00:21:12,079 you know, for a long time under Biden, it felt 380 00:21:12,079 --> 00:21:14,839 like America was in decline, which I think gave rise 381 00:21:14,880 --> 00:21:18,359 to a lot of anxiety among young people, especially those 382 00:21:18,400 --> 00:21:20,559 who were just about to step into the real world, 383 00:21:20,680 --> 00:21:23,119 whether or not that was going to college or leaving 384 00:21:23,160 --> 00:21:26,359 college or just getting a job. They didn't know what 385 00:21:26,440 --> 00:21:28,359 to expect. They didn't know if one day we're going 386 00:21:28,400 --> 00:21:30,400 to be in World War three because we had a 387 00:21:30,440 --> 00:21:32,440 you know, a president who didn't know he was president, 388 00:21:32,640 --> 00:21:33,680 or they didn't know if. 389 00:21:33,640 --> 00:21:35,240 Speaker 2: They would be able to afford groceries. 390 00:21:35,279 --> 00:21:38,799 Speaker 3: Which doesn't matter if you're thirteen or thirty three or 391 00:21:39,079 --> 00:21:42,119 ninety three. It's a factive life that you have to navigate, 392 00:21:42,160 --> 00:21:46,759 and so I think the president's victory was a testament 393 00:21:46,799 --> 00:21:49,079 to the fact that America's young people were sick and 394 00:21:49,119 --> 00:21:51,079 tired of being sick and tired. They were sick and 395 00:21:51,119 --> 00:21:53,680 tired of the media gas sighting us about a president 396 00:21:53,920 --> 00:21:57,480 who was failing every single day delivered for the American people. 397 00:21:57,720 --> 00:21:59,920 Speaker 2: They asked like he was loocid. We knew he was. 398 00:22:00,319 --> 00:22:02,559 Speaker 3: They acted like inflation was a figment of our imagination. 399 00:22:02,839 --> 00:22:03,319 Speaker 2: We knew it. 400 00:22:03,880 --> 00:22:06,000 Speaker 3: It wasn't every time we went to the grocery store 401 00:22:06,039 --> 00:22:09,319 and swiped our credit card. We knew that it was 402 00:22:09,400 --> 00:22:10,920 not a figment of our imagination. 403 00:22:11,640 --> 00:22:13,640 Speaker 2: And I think you get to a certain point where people. 404 00:22:13,480 --> 00:22:15,920 Speaker 3: Are sick and tired of being gas lit, and they're like, no, 405 00:22:16,799 --> 00:22:19,240 I know what I know, and I'm going to go 406 00:22:19,279 --> 00:22:23,480 fix the problem that Liza ahead, and their solution was 407 00:22:23,559 --> 00:22:25,319 voting for President Trump, and I think that was the 408 00:22:25,400 --> 00:22:25,839 right one. 409 00:22:26,440 --> 00:22:28,519 Speaker 1: Inflation is just transitory. I remember that. 410 00:22:29,079 --> 00:22:31,119 Speaker 2: Yeah, apparently so apparently, so. 411 00:22:31,640 --> 00:22:33,920 Speaker 1: That's what we got from the last administration. I will 412 00:22:33,960 --> 00:22:36,480 note that I'm a wee bit older, and so my 413 00:22:36,599 --> 00:22:44,480 first presidential election was George HW. Bush going up against 414 00:22:44,839 --> 00:22:50,079 William Jefferson Clinton and eventually h ross parole. It was 415 00:22:50,640 --> 00:22:54,559 with the exception perhaps of parole and an election of 416 00:22:54,599 --> 00:22:59,519 the UNA Party, and in the words of Virginia Slims, 417 00:22:59,599 --> 00:23:03,079 we've come. I'm a long way baby on that front. 418 00:23:03,160 --> 00:23:06,640 Of course. Our guest today is C. J. Pearson, National 419 00:23:06,680 --> 00:23:10,519 co Chair of the Republican National Committee Youth Advisory Council. 420 00:23:10,720 --> 00:23:14,920 You give me so much hope and faith in the future. 421 00:23:15,000 --> 00:23:18,400 I can't begin to tell you how so much now. 422 00:23:18,400 --> 00:23:20,680 I'm wonderful it is to talk to you, and I've talked, 423 00:23:21,119 --> 00:23:26,680 you know, I've talked to many younger Americans who, you know, 424 00:23:26,759 --> 00:23:31,160 either they were Conservatives to begin with or change their minds. 425 00:23:31,279 --> 00:23:35,119 I remember talking to so many young conservatives at the 426 00:23:35,119 --> 00:23:40,400 GOP convention where Donald Trump was nominated. Remember that was 427 00:23:40,519 --> 00:23:43,799 just days after the man took a bullet in the 428 00:23:43,920 --> 00:23:48,000 side of his head and survived and stood up and 429 00:23:48,160 --> 00:23:53,920 said fight, fight, fight. Exactly The usual suspects in the 430 00:23:53,920 --> 00:23:57,519 accomplish media forgot that moment. How important was that moment 431 00:23:57,640 --> 00:23:59,400 to young voters in America? 432 00:24:00,200 --> 00:24:00,640 Speaker 2: No, it was. 433 00:24:00,720 --> 00:24:02,559 Speaker 3: I think that was such a big moment, and I 434 00:24:02,599 --> 00:24:05,000 think it just confirmed everything that we already knew about 435 00:24:05,000 --> 00:24:08,960 the president, that he was a fighter, that he was resilient, 436 00:24:09,000 --> 00:24:11,319 and then if that man could take a bullet for us, 437 00:24:11,599 --> 00:24:13,039 then the least we could do is show up and 438 00:24:13,079 --> 00:24:16,200 vote for him. And I think that's always the big 439 00:24:16,240 --> 00:24:18,519 thing about the youth vote, is that the President's always 440 00:24:18,519 --> 00:24:21,240 had a tremendous amount of support among young voters. He 441 00:24:21,440 --> 00:24:24,640 is a cultural phenom. He's an icon in every sense 442 00:24:24,680 --> 00:24:28,240 of the word. The problem is just getting young people 443 00:24:28,519 --> 00:24:30,279 to go vote and getting them to turn in their 444 00:24:30,319 --> 00:24:32,720 absentee values being to show up to the polls. But 445 00:24:32,799 --> 00:24:36,319 I think that because this election had so much drama 446 00:24:36,400 --> 00:24:40,240 around it and so much writing on it, that young 447 00:24:40,279 --> 00:24:43,480 people were like, Okay, if there's anything I'm doing, I'm 448 00:24:43,519 --> 00:24:45,240 gonna go vote. And I saw it, you know, in 449 00:24:45,279 --> 00:24:48,119 adotely with so many of my friends who are not political, 450 00:24:48,160 --> 00:24:50,759 people who are super excited and proud to post their 451 00:24:50,839 --> 00:24:53,200 voting sticker. I saw it, you know, of course, in 452 00:24:53,200 --> 00:24:55,680 the exit polls that we saw after election day. 453 00:24:56,079 --> 00:24:58,880 Speaker 2: Young people realize that our future was at stake. 454 00:24:59,160 --> 00:25:01,839 Speaker 3: Our future was a lot and if we were going 455 00:25:01,880 --> 00:25:04,519 to secure the future that we knew we deserve, we 456 00:25:04,559 --> 00:25:06,599 need to fight like hell for it. And the bare 457 00:25:06,640 --> 00:25:09,000 minimum was going to be showing up and voting, and 458 00:25:09,039 --> 00:25:09,839 I'm glad we did it. 459 00:25:10,160 --> 00:25:12,279 Speaker 1: No, indeed you did. And a little bit let me 460 00:25:12,319 --> 00:25:16,000 ask you this. I mean, jeez, the New York Magazine 461 00:25:16,079 --> 00:25:19,079 and the New York Times and the Washington Post and 462 00:25:19,200 --> 00:25:23,119 CNN and the rest of their ilk. It's just they're 463 00:25:23,160 --> 00:25:27,519 ashamed of you guys. I mean young people, young voters, 464 00:25:27,559 --> 00:25:31,279 people in their twenties, their early thirties. They're supposed to 465 00:25:31,359 --> 00:25:34,920 hate Donald Trump. So what happened? What happened to that 466 00:25:35,200 --> 00:25:37,839 formula of the leftist success c J. 467 00:25:39,160 --> 00:25:40,960 Speaker 3: You know, it's it's one of those things where I 468 00:25:40,960 --> 00:25:43,400 think they just bet on a lot of these constituencies. 469 00:25:43,440 --> 00:25:47,680 They've always used an abuse to just always be that way. 470 00:25:47,839 --> 00:25:49,799 And I think what they failed to realize is that 471 00:25:49,839 --> 00:25:52,400 a lot of young people, a lot of black people, 472 00:25:52,440 --> 00:25:54,640 a lot of suburban women, were sick and tired of 473 00:25:54,640 --> 00:25:56,400 being sick and tired. They were sick and tired of 474 00:25:56,640 --> 00:25:59,640 skyrocketing crime, they were sick and tired of record high inflation, 475 00:25:59,680 --> 00:26:03,200 they were sick and tired of you know, heartburn every 476 00:26:03,200 --> 00:26:05,039 time they went to can fill up their gas tank. 477 00:26:05,200 --> 00:26:08,440 And eventually, I think people can only take so much. 478 00:26:08,599 --> 00:26:11,720 And thankfully people realize that the solution to their woes 479 00:26:12,400 --> 00:26:14,920 h was President Trump returning to the White House. And 480 00:26:14,960 --> 00:26:17,240 so I think, you know, that's the thing the left, 481 00:26:17,359 --> 00:26:21,119 you know, their entire way of keeping their hand and 482 00:26:21,240 --> 00:26:24,799 their grip on power is just through you know, using 483 00:26:24,799 --> 00:26:27,880 and abusing, you know, people that think like sheep. But 484 00:26:27,960 --> 00:26:31,039 I think that there were a lot less people who 485 00:26:31,039 --> 00:26:33,319 were inclined to do that this time around. Now, we 486 00:26:33,359 --> 00:26:35,160 still have to remain vigilant, and we still have to, 487 00:26:35,319 --> 00:26:37,960 you know, let keep people aware of the fact the 488 00:26:38,000 --> 00:26:40,200 media is, you know, their strategy is still the same. 489 00:26:40,200 --> 00:26:42,119 They're gonna live out but the president. They're gonna live 490 00:26:42,119 --> 00:26:44,039 out as a gender. They're gonna live out of supporters. 491 00:26:44,519 --> 00:26:47,799 This story that we're talking about today is indicative of 492 00:26:47,839 --> 00:26:51,559 that fact. They're still trying to draw into people's heads 493 00:26:51,960 --> 00:26:55,119 that being maga means you're racist, being maga means your 494 00:26:55,160 --> 00:26:57,240 white supremacist, or any of these things. 495 00:26:57,440 --> 00:26:58,480 Speaker 2: Well, that's not true. 496 00:26:58,720 --> 00:27:02,039 Speaker 3: President Trump was alike to a diverse coalition of Americans 497 00:27:02,319 --> 00:27:05,000 who again were sick and tired of being sick and 498 00:27:05,039 --> 00:27:07,759 tired and chose a new way forward, and that way 499 00:27:08,680 --> 00:27:11,599 was by voting for President Trump and Vice President JD. 500 00:27:11,720 --> 00:27:15,359 Speaker 1: Vance, you noted it. You have to be vigilant, ever vigilant. 501 00:27:15,480 --> 00:27:18,960 You have to sustain what you were able to accomplish, 502 00:27:19,119 --> 00:27:23,400 what so many on the left and in the accomplished 503 00:27:23,480 --> 00:27:27,440 media kept at least telling us, if they ultimately believe that, 504 00:27:27,559 --> 00:27:30,920 I'm not convinced of that yet, that there's no way 505 00:27:31,480 --> 00:27:37,240 that a in their words, as false as it is 506 00:27:37,279 --> 00:27:41,920 at a central level, that a convicted felon could ever 507 00:27:42,039 --> 00:27:45,480 be president of the United States. Forget the fact that 508 00:27:46,319 --> 00:27:49,640 the President of the United States was convicted on lawfare 509 00:27:49,799 --> 00:27:53,519 in the most excuse me, but trumped up charges, bogus 510 00:27:54,000 --> 00:27:56,839 charges that we have seen in this country as part 511 00:27:56,839 --> 00:28:00,920 of a targeted strategy to silence and to take out 512 00:28:01,359 --> 00:28:05,440 the biggest threat to the left in America, Donald Trump. 513 00:28:06,039 --> 00:28:10,119 And all of that said, you guys built a great coalition. 514 00:28:11,119 --> 00:28:15,440 I talked to people in the Republican Party and conservative 515 00:28:15,480 --> 00:28:20,079 activists who worked so diligently and found so much success 516 00:28:20,200 --> 00:28:24,839 in targeting those low propensity, low turnout voters like young 517 00:28:24,880 --> 00:28:28,440 people in America. How do you sustain all of that 518 00:28:28,599 --> 00:28:33,880 for the next four years and build out to maintain 519 00:28:34,519 --> 00:28:37,480 this victory that you have in twenty twenty five. 520 00:28:38,279 --> 00:28:40,240 Speaker 2: Yeah, I think we got to continue ron like you know, 521 00:28:40,400 --> 00:28:40,720 you know. 522 00:28:40,640 --> 00:28:44,039 Speaker 3: We're we're ten points behind, and I think we've got 523 00:28:44,079 --> 00:28:46,160 to continue this work in the off years as well, 524 00:28:46,200 --> 00:28:49,519 continuing to have a presence in our college campuses, continuing 525 00:28:49,599 --> 00:28:54,720 to you know, go and embracing alternative media and so 526 00:28:54,799 --> 00:28:57,720 that they can hear the truth because again, the core 527 00:28:57,799 --> 00:29:00,480 media is going to continue to lie. I lie, but 528 00:29:00,519 --> 00:29:02,440 we need to make sure that our supporters at our 529 00:29:02,480 --> 00:29:05,200 base are well informed so that they know a lie 530 00:29:05,240 --> 00:29:07,200 when they see it. And so I think that's going 531 00:29:07,279 --> 00:29:09,440 to be really critical. And I think just also too 532 00:29:09,599 --> 00:29:11,799 doing what you know, folks like Scott Presler, you know, 533 00:29:12,480 --> 00:29:15,519 is best known for going out registering people to vote. 534 00:29:16,400 --> 00:29:19,319 Winning some of these states and these off years is important, 535 00:29:19,359 --> 00:29:20,839 you know that. I think that's when we can really 536 00:29:20,839 --> 00:29:23,039 reap the reap this, uh, you know, the fruits of 537 00:29:23,039 --> 00:29:25,799 our labor. And you look at what you know, Scott 538 00:29:25,799 --> 00:29:27,799 did in Pennsylvania, like he had been there for I 539 00:29:27,839 --> 00:29:30,880 think two or three years before the election. Uh, just 540 00:29:30,920 --> 00:29:34,279 doing the work being president, being visible, and I think 541 00:29:34,279 --> 00:29:35,599 that we've got to do the same thing as it 542 00:29:35,640 --> 00:29:37,799 relates to young people. We've got to be visible. We've 543 00:29:37,839 --> 00:29:40,519 got to be on offense. And we've just got to 544 00:29:40,599 --> 00:29:44,319 make sure that they're hearing, you know, our message, because 545 00:29:44,559 --> 00:29:47,200 you know, in their college campuses and their lecture halls, 546 00:29:47,240 --> 00:29:50,200 they're hearing that all Republicans are white, old and racist, 547 00:29:50,279 --> 00:29:52,640 and so we've got to give them a counter narrative 548 00:29:52,680 --> 00:29:55,440 to that. And uh and if we do that, I 549 00:29:55,440 --> 00:29:56,759 think that we have a we have a hell of 550 00:29:56,759 --> 00:29:59,079 a chance. I think that you know, the President Trump 551 00:29:59,160 --> 00:30:02,240 like he's gonna deliver, He's gonna put wins on the board. 552 00:30:02,400 --> 00:30:04,000 But we've got to make sure they know about those 553 00:30:04,000 --> 00:30:06,400 winds and maybe also to make sure they can deliference 554 00:30:06,400 --> 00:30:09,640 between you know, misinformation that the media is so eager 555 00:30:09,640 --> 00:30:10,160 to spread. 556 00:30:10,759 --> 00:30:13,240 Speaker 2: You know, I just saw a little while. 557 00:30:13,000 --> 00:30:17,920 Speaker 3: Ago that AOC tweeted that Trump shut off Medicaid while 558 00:30:17,960 --> 00:30:21,559 the website is glitching, and so they're working on getting. 559 00:30:21,319 --> 00:30:22,279 Speaker 2: That website back up. 560 00:30:22,279 --> 00:30:25,480 Speaker 3: But of course AOC just you know, just pulled a 561 00:30:25,519 --> 00:30:28,599 fire alarm, you know, to send people into an absolute frenzy. 562 00:30:28,640 --> 00:30:29,960 And so like, these are the types of things that 563 00:30:29,960 --> 00:30:32,240 we're gonna have to be super vigilant about and just 564 00:30:32,359 --> 00:30:34,480 you know, rapid in how we respond to them so 565 00:30:34,519 --> 00:30:36,720 that they don't take root in the people's people's minds, 566 00:30:36,920 --> 00:30:37,240 and we. 567 00:30:37,240 --> 00:30:41,440 Speaker 1: Know that Democrat House members are not opposed to pulling 568 00:30:41,480 --> 00:30:43,319 a fire alarm from. 569 00:30:43,000 --> 00:30:45,720 Speaker 2: Time exactly that exactly. 570 00:30:46,640 --> 00:30:51,920 Speaker 1: You know, I think about, you know, the mission, the 571 00:30:52,400 --> 00:30:58,839 agenda of the Mega movement, and that begins, I believe, 572 00:30:59,240 --> 00:31:06,720 with making sure that America is safe. And you know, 573 00:31:07,000 --> 00:31:11,279 this has been obviously a different administration than the previous one. 574 00:31:11,400 --> 00:31:15,559 We saw, you know, and the first week plus of 575 00:31:16,119 --> 00:31:21,599 President Trump's administration what we expected a robust, energetic presidency 576 00:31:21,640 --> 00:31:26,559 as opposed to whatever that was over the last previous 577 00:31:26,599 --> 00:31:32,079 four years. But you know, because you're the victim of 578 00:31:32,119 --> 00:31:40,319 it today, the gas lighting, the leftist narrative that's being 579 00:31:40,400 --> 00:31:44,759 pushed out there, this is coming fast and furious will 580 00:31:44,759 --> 00:31:48,920 be from the left again in the whole illegal immigrant 581 00:31:49,440 --> 00:31:57,000 border battle. Do you believe young voters who supported changes 582 00:31:57,200 --> 00:32:00,279 from what we saw under the Biden years is the 583 00:32:00,319 --> 00:32:06,559 open border, borderless Biden gears, can they sustain through the 584 00:32:06,599 --> 00:32:10,640 optics that will certainly come out. It's already happened. It 585 00:32:10,680 --> 00:32:16,880 will continue from from the corporate media about immigration reform 586 00:32:17,119 --> 00:32:19,720 and border restoration in America. 587 00:32:19,920 --> 00:32:21,160 Speaker 3: You know, I think so, and I think that the 588 00:32:21,160 --> 00:32:23,440 administration is doing a really good job at you know, 589 00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:26,799 staying in front of the issue, and I'm just being 590 00:32:26,839 --> 00:32:30,680 honestly incredibly transparent and accessible when it comes to questions 591 00:32:30,680 --> 00:32:33,359 regarding it. You know, already on TikTok, I see it 592 00:32:33,400 --> 00:32:35,960 all the time of you know, folks making these videos 593 00:32:35,960 --> 00:32:38,839 perpetuating these narratives that you know, ices that's running into 594 00:32:38,880 --> 00:32:42,599 these schools and scooping up every Hispanic child that they 595 00:32:42,640 --> 00:32:46,440 can see, which is obviously, you know, untrue and completely false. 596 00:32:46,480 --> 00:32:48,799 But you know, I feel like I see a Tom 597 00:32:48,839 --> 00:32:51,559 Homan interview every day, multiple times a day, which I 598 00:32:51,559 --> 00:32:54,240 think is incredible because it's there's no one more knowledgeable 599 00:32:54,279 --> 00:32:57,039 about the issue. He is literally clown the play and 600 00:32:57,160 --> 00:32:59,200 running the football on this, and so I think that 601 00:33:00,359 --> 00:33:03,039 you know, him being out for on this is super helpful. 602 00:33:03,480 --> 00:33:05,920 You know, them inviting you know, members of the media 603 00:33:05,960 --> 00:33:09,599 along for ride alongs is super helpful because I don't 604 00:33:09,599 --> 00:33:11,839 think there's anything wrong with what's going on. We're taking 605 00:33:11,839 --> 00:33:15,799 criminals off the street who don't have any business being 606 00:33:15,839 --> 00:33:18,319 here to begin with, and I think that, you know, 607 00:33:18,359 --> 00:33:20,599 it's going to be one of those things where like obviously, 608 00:33:20,640 --> 00:33:22,799 again to your point, the media is gonna lie, lie, 609 00:33:22,880 --> 00:33:24,319 lie about this as much as they can. They're going 610 00:33:24,400 --> 00:33:27,000 to demonize us and and you know, call us heartless 611 00:33:27,000 --> 00:33:29,799 and many other things. But when you look at people 612 00:33:29,799 --> 00:33:33,079 that they're actually arresting, like these are people that are rapists, pedophiles, 613 00:33:33,240 --> 00:33:38,039 you know, criminals, assaulters, gang bangers, these are the types 614 00:33:38,079 --> 00:33:42,039 of people that the American citizens are going to have 615 00:33:42,160 --> 00:33:44,160 much empathy for. And so I think we just got 616 00:33:44,200 --> 00:33:45,799 to be confident in our argument. We got to be 617 00:33:45,839 --> 00:33:46,720 confident in the facts. 618 00:33:46,799 --> 00:33:47,440 Speaker 2: The truth is on. 619 00:33:47,400 --> 00:33:50,319 Speaker 3: Our side and we shouldn't back down from a fight 620 00:33:50,400 --> 00:33:52,079 to use it when it is. 621 00:33:52,720 --> 00:33:55,680 Speaker 1: And let's tell the stories of the people who are 622 00:33:55,960 --> 00:34:01,599 being rounded up, the worst of the worst, criminals allowed 623 00:34:01,640 --> 00:34:06,559 to be free and allowed to victimize over and over 624 00:34:06,640 --> 00:34:11,719 again where in sanctuary cities. And so I think, you know, 625 00:34:11,960 --> 00:34:15,599 the Federalist has and will continue to tell those stories 626 00:34:15,639 --> 00:34:20,679 and other conservative news outlets. But critical in all of 627 00:34:20,719 --> 00:34:25,440 that is to do what you have done, what young 628 00:34:25,519 --> 00:34:30,400 conservatives influencers in this country have done. How important will 629 00:34:30,440 --> 00:34:33,400 that be moving forward? And we talk about the people 630 00:34:33,440 --> 00:34:37,000 you were celebrating the night before Inauguration. 631 00:34:36,480 --> 00:34:39,039 Speaker 2: Day, definitely, definitely, and they're. 632 00:34:38,800 --> 00:34:40,559 Speaker 3: Going to be a critical you know critical part of 633 00:34:40,559 --> 00:34:42,960 the White House communications strategy. You know, we saw today 634 00:34:42,960 --> 00:34:45,880 in Caroline Lovett's first White House Press briefing that they're 635 00:34:45,880 --> 00:34:48,719 actually opening up the briefing room to influencers and content 636 00:34:48,760 --> 00:34:52,199 creators for the first time ever in White House history. 637 00:34:52,239 --> 00:34:54,159 Speaker 2: So super excited about that. 638 00:34:54,159 --> 00:34:56,800 Speaker 3: Super excited for the opportunity to go visit the briefing 639 00:34:56,880 --> 00:34:59,639 room myself, and I think that we are in a 640 00:34:59,679 --> 00:35:02,519 new ara of accessibility. You know, we before we had 641 00:35:02,519 --> 00:35:06,360 a president who ran away from the media, and now 642 00:35:06,360 --> 00:35:08,559 we have a President Donald Trump who speaks to them 643 00:35:08,559 --> 00:35:11,840 every single day and speaks to them directly, and I 644 00:35:11,840 --> 00:35:12,519 think that's going. 645 00:35:12,440 --> 00:35:14,320 Speaker 2: To cut out a lot of this information, a lot 646 00:35:14,320 --> 00:35:14,960 of the lies. 647 00:35:15,880 --> 00:35:18,280 Speaker 3: But again, we've got to continue to train up the 648 00:35:18,320 --> 00:35:20,679 next generation of these influencers. We need to continue to 649 00:35:20,679 --> 00:35:22,039 make sure that they know what they're talking about, that 650 00:35:22,079 --> 00:35:22,880 they're well equipped. 651 00:35:23,440 --> 00:35:25,559 Speaker 2: And if we do that, I think we're in good shape. 652 00:35:26,039 --> 00:35:30,920 Speaker 1: The First Amendment gives reporters and news outlets of pretty 653 00:35:30,920 --> 00:35:36,000 wide birth when it comes to distributing and reporting on 654 00:35:36,119 --> 00:35:40,880 the news. We've seen plenty of lies. We've seen abject spin, 655 00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:45,239 of course for a long time. But when you're starting 656 00:35:45,280 --> 00:35:51,519 to manipulate that becomes a problem. Have you considered or 657 00:35:51,920 --> 00:35:56,639 those surrounding you involved in this pre inauguration day party 658 00:35:56,719 --> 00:36:01,679 of influencers, have you considered potential legal action against New 659 00:36:01,760 --> 00:36:05,840 York Magazine for you know, what has been I think 660 00:36:05,960 --> 00:36:07,480 rightly described as a hit piece. 661 00:36:08,119 --> 00:36:10,360 Speaker 3: Yeah, we're definitely looking at all of our options, you know, 662 00:36:10,440 --> 00:36:12,039 for sure, because I think at the end of the day, 663 00:36:12,119 --> 00:36:14,400 the media gets away with this stuff far too often, 664 00:36:14,440 --> 00:36:17,639 and they won't stop doing it until you know, I 665 00:36:17,679 --> 00:36:19,960 think you, uh, you do something about it. And so 666 00:36:20,320 --> 00:36:22,800 we're taking a look at all of our options and seeing, 667 00:36:22,840 --> 00:36:26,840 you know, what recourses you know, there may be, and you. 668 00:36:26,800 --> 00:36:28,239 Speaker 2: Know, we'll make a decision on that soon. 669 00:36:28,320 --> 00:36:30,840 Speaker 3: But as of now, I'm just so glad to see that, 670 00:36:30,960 --> 00:36:33,360 you know, people have really wised up. 671 00:36:33,599 --> 00:36:37,039 Speaker 2: I think people were very quick to note that, you. 672 00:36:37,039 --> 00:36:40,119 Speaker 3: Know, something was afoot here, and they've they've called it out. 673 00:36:40,159 --> 00:36:42,239 Speaker 2: You know, everyone from Vice President jd. 674 00:36:42,360 --> 00:36:45,679 Speaker 3: Vance to Elon Musk and so many more incredible conservative 675 00:36:45,760 --> 00:36:49,239 luminaries have you know, come out and said that this, 676 00:36:49,360 --> 00:36:51,519 you know, is absolutely disgraceful what happened here, And so 677 00:36:51,880 --> 00:36:54,440 we're definitely grateful to have their support. 678 00:36:54,360 --> 00:36:55,679 Speaker 2: Of so many folks that we look. 679 00:36:55,599 --> 00:36:57,800 Speaker 3: Up to, and uh uh, but yeah, no. 680 00:36:57,760 --> 00:36:59,960 Speaker 2: We're keeping we're keeping it out on all of our options. 681 00:37:00,159 --> 00:37:01,840 Then I we'll have more on that soon. 682 00:37:02,559 --> 00:37:07,000 Speaker 1: Oh, you're doing great work, and it's not easy work. 683 00:37:07,320 --> 00:37:09,639 You know that better than any of you over the 684 00:37:09,760 --> 00:37:14,000 last several years, devoting your time and attention to getting 685 00:37:14,039 --> 00:37:18,519 the word out and my hunches. You will continue to 686 00:37:18,599 --> 00:37:21,360 do that for a good long time and you'll have 687 00:37:22,400 --> 00:37:25,760 a significant impact in that. I really enjoyed our conversation 688 00:37:25,840 --> 00:37:28,639 and I wish you the very best of luck moving forward. 689 00:37:29,119 --> 00:37:30,800 Speaker 2: Definitely, thank you so much for having me. 690 00:37:31,199 --> 00:37:34,199 Speaker 1: You bet. Thanks to my guest again today, C J. Pearson, 691 00:37:34,599 --> 00:37:38,519 National co Chair of the Republican National Committee Youth Advisory Council. 692 00:37:39,079 --> 00:37:41,760 You've been listening to another edition of the Federalist Radio Hour. 693 00:37:42,000 --> 00:37:45,880 I'm Matt Kittle, Senior Elections correspondent at the Federalist. We'll 694 00:37:45,880 --> 00:37:49,119 be back soon with more. Until then, stay lovers of 695 00:37:49,159 --> 00:38:04,760 freedom and anxious for the Fray.