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Our guest today is former California Senate Majority leader Gloria Romero.
She is leaving the Democratic Party. She is not alone.
She's changing the D behind her name to an R. Gloria,
thank you so much much for joining us in this
edition of the Federalist Radio Hour.
Speaker 2: Thank you, it's good to speak with you today.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, as I said, you are not alone in this
exodus that is going on that's been going on for
the past few years, in particular in this country. I
think it has everything to do with top leadership and
just the way that the Democratic Party has changed. I
want to get your perspective on this, but this from
a recent story. Romero, who served as a state lawmaker
for twelve years, made the announcement during a press conference
recently outside the California State Capitol in Sacramento, she explained
the decision was due to a feeling of misalignment with
the Democratic Party. You said, at the time in this
capital behind me, I served as both Senate Democratic Caucus
Chair and the Senate Majority Leader. Today I say goodbye, audios.
I have had enough. What was it that finally or
was there a single moment where you said enough is enough?
Speaker 2: Well, it's it's been a political journey. I mean my
roots have been very deep blue.
Speaker 3: Matt, just to let you know, in my household, you know,
FDR JFK, RFK, these were heroes to me, and so
I've been very actively involved. At the time that I
was a teenager, very much invested in really working class politics,
taking a look at how do we lift oneself out
of poverty and move forward a great belief that this
is a land of opportunity and that education is the
ticket to the American dream. So fast forward with those
with that backdrop for you to understand, I think there
were a number of issues that finally just said you know, enough,
I've had it, I'm out of here, And most recently,
I think it was the decision by the party elites
and the big donors to a centrally wipe out eradicate
fourteen million votes from Democrats in the primary in an
already rigged primary, to essentially, I think, conduct a political
coup in front of the entire world and choose who
they wanted to be quote unquote our leader. You know,
I as a legislator in the past, I had visited
other countries. I had gone on some election monitoring commissions
and investigations, and similar to what we've seen in Banana
republic type governments where we call it the vivaso, where
basically the finger is pointed to who they want, the elite,
who they want to become the leader. That's basically what
happened is they took out Joe and put in Kamala,
and I couldn't take that. In the so called Party
of Democracy. That was the most immediate issue, but it
really had been lead up to it any number of
policy issues, and for me especially which I hope we
can talk a little bit more about, and that is
how I have fought for school choice. I am one
of those Democrats who fought for school choice, charters, opportunity scholarships, vouchers, homeschooling,
whatever you want to call it, and all along the way,
I was essentially condemned by my own party as being
right wing for fighting to liberate mostly poor minority kids
from chronically failing schools. They call me right wing, and
I said, no, it is the morally right thing to do.
Speaker 2: There's nothing right wing about it.
Speaker 4: Laurie.
Speaker 1: You have for a long time thought the good fight
a quixotic fight in California, let's face it, for school choice.
And I do want to delve into that in just
a bit. But you know, California is a state that, well,
let's say, does not open its arms to alternative ideas,
to the institutions the government, government control cradle to grave
sorts of ideas. You're talking about freedom of choice when
it comes to parents trying to find a better way
for their kids, for their families, And like I said,
we'll delve into that in just a moment, but I
wanted to get back to a point that you raised
most immediately, and that is we have a democratic party
in this country that is saying insisting that it is
the defender the protector of democracy against the likes of
Donald Trump, the likes of the Republican Party. They have
made that a core issue of this campaign. They're the
defenders of democracy, Gloria. Yet as you mentioned, they had
a rig system. What many have described does and I
think rightly so, a softer, silent coup against the current
president of the United States, who did indeed want to
run for a second term, was the nominee. But beyond that,
you have a party that has gone after unconstitutionally Donald
Trump and trying to remove him from the ballot disenfranchise
millions more Americans in the primary system. How does the
Democratic Party in this country stand by the position that
it is the defender of democracy when there are myriaded
examples of the Democrats in this country trying to thwart
this representative style democracy.
Speaker 3: The sad truth is is it can no longer say that,
And that is really, I think a very sad point
and a major issue why I decided to leave. You know,
I was on the executive board of the Southern California
Americans of a Liberties Union. Today the ACLU is missing
in action. We have seen the march toward authoritarianism, the silencing,
the censorship of those any of us who basically have
challenged or will think outside of the box of the
Democratic Party. We've all read nineteen eighty four. It is
alive today in twenty twenty four. And you know, when
I saw the lawfair that was beginning to be exercised
against Donald Trump. And that was still when I had
a d after my name, but I was still very
disturbed by what I.
Speaker 2: Was seeing happening.
Speaker 3: I went online and I contributed to his campaign because
I said, as somebody who has been in the ACLU
who recognizes lawfair, I was the head. I was the
chair of the Public Safety Committee of the California State Senate,
and I was looking for always fairness under the law,
irrespective of one's politics or race, or greed or color.
And this was just so blatantly wrong. I began to
make campaign contributions to him as a Democrat back then,
just saying, I hope this sends a message that nobody
in America should tolerate this, Nobody who believes and talks
about being the party of democracy should tolerate this.
Speaker 2: And yet even when I finally left.
Speaker 3: The Democratic Party was still jumping up and down and saying, well,
you get to call him a felon and blah blah blah. Yeah,
a felon in your rigged system of justice, and I
couldn't take it anymore.
Speaker 1: Now you have served in California politics for a long time,
again with a D behind your name. I ask you
this two questions because I really want to get your
sense of where you believe things stand in what has
turned out to be a leftist, afar left Democratic party
in this country. I don't think there's getting denying that. A.
Do you believe that Joe Biden is still the President
of the United States? Because he seems to be on
vacation a lot and doesn't seem to be in the
public very much, and never was too much in the
public eye, it seemed before, in terms of press conferences
and those sorts of things. Also, you've I would assume,
I don't want to assume. But have you met Kamala
Harris and what do you think of her as the
new standard bearer of the Democratic Party?
Speaker 3: Right, I think there's no doubt that Biden is the
president of the United States entitle only it is clear
to me that this is a cabal basically that has
been running Joe Biden publicly and then hiding him from
the very beginning in the basement in Delaware when he
was running in twenty twenty, and Kamala Harris is the
newly installed puppet. You know, I was for your listeners
to understand, I was a convention delegate for both Jesse
Jackson and for Barack Obama both times. I was the
California co chair for Barack Obama for his re election committee.
And I was one of the earliest Democrats Latinas especially
to have come out publicly and supported then Senator Obama
mostly on his issue of school choice, his support for
charter schools, and unlike Hillary Clinton, he wasn't tied at
the hip to the Teachers' Union. Having said that, it
pains me to say that, I did begin to believe
that it really was as they say, you know, the
third term of Barack Obama, what we saw happening in Washington,
d C. Under Joe Biden, and it would be the
fourth term of Barack Obama if Kamala Harris were to
be installed. And I do not support or accept that,
and I think there needs to be change. So Joe
Biden is there in name only. It's clearly shown to
the world he has dementia, he's not functioning, He's being handled,
and Kamala Harrish should explain why she She must have
seen this on a daily basis and allowed it to
go forward so she could come in, I believe, under
his co tails in the election and then assume office.
As to her, I have met her. She did interact
I think on one or two occasions with the Public
Safety Committee.
Speaker 2: At that time, she was trying to have us lock up.
Speaker 3: Mostly poor and minority mothers, mostly who weren't sending their
children to school, so they were being called truant. But
mind you, these were kids who were going to chronically
failing schools in California, so her quote unquote tough on
crime prosecutorial skills were being used to target these mothers
who were themselves dealing with the impacts of generational poverty
brought about in part by a crappy, failing education system
that worked for the teachers' union elites but not for
the kids themselves. So I did meet with her. We
also again to interact it a couple of times on
the first and probably second Obama campaign again too. You know,
I always respect when women advance in politics, but it
does not mean that I need to support them, and
I do not support her.
Speaker 2: In this reelection or in this effort.
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Speaker 1: Speaking of support, I want to ask you this as
a Latino woman and as a Latino leader in your community,
in your state. The Democrats have long, basically just without
a second thought, have counted on the Hispanic vote in
this country. Do you believe that they are running in
political peril of doing the same this time around? Have
things change since well the last election?
Speaker 3: I suppose I believe that things have significantly changed, and
there's a reason for this. In part, I believe this
is to Trump's credit because I think it is a
different Republican Party. This is a you know, the blue
collar billionaire businessman who has interacted and reached out with
people of all backgrounds, persuasions. Overall, I think he has
in a newly created, invented, worked on Republican Party, really
has shifted the party. And this is one of the
reasons why I gravitated towards it. The Republican Party today
under Trump has become the new party that represents working
class interests, Los de avajo, those from below, the more
poor people. The Democratic Party has completely capitulated to the
highly college educated, the Hollywood and coastal elite. As I said,
as Robert F. Kennedy Junior said, when he walked away,
we don't recognize this party anymore. And to some ex
ex we really didn't leave the party. The party left us.
It's what is this?
Speaker 2: We don't recognize it anymore.
Speaker 3: So I think that with Latinos, I think there was
a real miscalculation from the Democrats to assume that if
they threw the borders open and just completely made a
mockery of what citizenship even means somehow, that they would
win the Latino vote. And nothing could be farther from
the truth. I think I and probably most Latinos want
a fair immigration system in place. We do want pathways
to citizenship, but we respect citizenship. We recognize the importance
of a border in defining a nation, and we want
to have fairness and the process. And the impacts of
this mockery of citizenship and the flinging open of the
border by the failed Border Czar Kamala Harris, it really
impacts us because this is where we've seen in Latino communities,
in the African American communities of Chicago and others that
we've seen on X going viral. This is where the
impacts are being felt. I always think what became a
turning point is when just what it was, a small
planeload of migrants were sent to Martha's vineyard to rest
among people, and how quickly they got rid of them.
But yet, I mean, when we take a look at
that Ohio town that just recently we've learned that there
were twenty thousand Haitians that were dropped into one county
in Ohio. That's major impacts on housing, on jobs, on crime,
on education, everything, And it's a real I think it
just shows the disdain and the disrespect for communities that
need help, and yet we're just told sit down, shut up,
take it, and don't say anything.
Speaker 1: Our guest today is former California Senate Majority Leader Gloria Romero.
She is leaving the Democratic Party. She again is not alone.
Think of RFK Junior, think of Tulci Gabbard, think of
so many others. In the last few years, As Miss
Romero has I think poetically put it, we didn't leave
this party. The party has left us. And I hear
that from a number of former Democrats now independents or
Republicans in a number of cases. As well as to
the border, we have seen over the last three and
a half plus years in this country that the border
now extends into places like central and southern Ohio and
into Madison, Wisconsin, in Chicago, Illinois, and New York, New York.
And we're all paid for that. Of course, we're paying
a hefty price in so many different ways. US Representative
Chip Roy from Texas released a report recently that details
the impact. I want to hear from you, someone who
has felt the impact of the border and over the
last again three and a half plus years, the significant
impact of the overrun of that order in places like
San Diego, all stretches of California. What is the impact
in your blue state as it relates to the invasion
in America.
Speaker 3: You know, California is a border state, although Governor Newsome
and then Senator Kamala Harris now Vice President, really have
done nothing to really address California as a border state,
as I had indicated. You know, I do support legal
thought out pathways to citizenship. We can even go back
to the example of you know, President Reagan when he
did put forth and sign an amnesty bill, but something
that type of legislation was done under very different circumstances
than today.
Speaker 2: Today. There really has been just a throwing open to
the gate.
Speaker 3: You know, I've traveled extensively pretty much around the world,
and I tell you, I can't just walk into a country.
I have to show my papers every single time. I
have to apply for a visa and carry a passport,
and if not, I'm going to be taken away.
Speaker 2: So I think that it was something where.
Speaker 3: That I believe that we have to have safe rules
here in Los Angeles, for example, and I think throughout
the country we have seen and I think especially this
is an issue that impacts women, where women increasingly have
become the victims of brutal, horrific crimes, assaults, murder, very
young as well, and we should not accept that.
Speaker 2: And it has to be tied directly to these policies
that have occurred. So what do we do.
Speaker 3: I do believe, and I have believed, that we build
a wall. I do believe that we have to develop
plans for what is an acceptable type of citizenship. If
we don't accept and honor legal immigration, then why even
bother with it? You know, when I was in the legislature,
I used to always have a ceremony on Flag Day.
I'd always do it in June and Flag Day, and
I would welcome those who had just become new citizens
of the United States, and I would hold this flag
swearing event in which I would invite the new immigrants,
new citizens from the district I represented, to join me
in saying their first flags salute as a new citizen.
And it became it grew into a very big events
each year. It was very festive. They would have children
and families, balloons, flowers. You could see tears in people's eyes.
And this was the district that I represented, was very diverse.
You know, we had you know, white and Asian Latino,
not as many African Americans, but it was very, very diverse,
and you would see across the board that these were
people who believed as I do, that America, despite many
flaws that we do have to address and remedy and change,
is a land of freedom and opportunity and a land
that is loved. And you would see that if you
just eliminate this and say, you know who cares open
the border and let anybody come and you get away
with anything, what is the value? And I think that
is a real loss for the Republic, for democracy and
for what this land even means.
Speaker 1: I couldn't agree with you more about particularly about those
beautiful I mean in touching, heartwarming ceremonies that you have attended,
I've reported on and so many others have as well.
Those are individuals who did it the right way. I
think the vast majority of America, vast vast majority of
Americans appreciate that. They respect that, but they do not
respect the politics driving what we have seen over the
last three and a half years. It is interesting that
you note you are not the only Democrat to say this.
There are many Democrats out there feel the same way
former Democrats in your case, that you believe we should
build a border, excuse me, a wall at the border,
just as President Donald Trump has said for many, many years.
But you know who also now supports you, Gloria Kamala Harris.
Speaker 2: Yes, exactly, up, I mean again too.
Speaker 3: I mean, not only did she cut and paste from
Joe Biden so much for her being the change agent,
but yeah, exactly Suddenly you know, when it's convenient, when
it's important, when she recognizes that the overwhelming numbers of
Americans across all stripes support legal immigration and the building
of a border wall, she comes out in favor of this.
But you're right, and before her, like I said, Barack Obama,
I mean, this was not it was not unheard of.
There's nothing racist about saying we want to have a
border wall and a process, a legal process by Gloria.
Speaker 1: But Gloria, the old Kamala Harris, not the new and improved,
the reinvented Kamala Harris has said that those are the
sorts of xenophobic, racist, sorts of things that Donald Trump
has brought and divided this nation up until, of course,
the time she became the candidate for presidents. So what
gives Do you think she's had a real change of
heart here or is it just naked politics.
Speaker 3: I think Bernie Sanders said it best when he basically
outed her just a couple of days ago and said, no,
he used the term pragmatic, she's being pragmatic in order
to win. I would be more blunt and say, no,
she's lying in order to win. You know, I've seen
a lot of politics in California and basically, sadly, sometimes
what people will do to survive an election.
Speaker 2: I often laugh and say I wasn't a.
Speaker 3: Very good politician because I didn't want to play that game.
I said, look, I'm going to say what I think.
I'm going to do what I believe is the right thing.
And you pay a price for that when you go
up against some of the biggest political interests like the
California Teachers' Union, which represents failure and failing schools rather
than the kids in the schools.
Speaker 1: So she did it.
Speaker 3: She did it to basically, you know, read the polls
and say, oh, that program's not working.
Speaker 2: I really do hope that the.
Speaker 3: American people understand this, see this, look at her record
and if she won't speak about it.
Speaker 2: I think it's important for us to speak about it.
Speaker 1: Let's delve into policy, and it's been very difficult of
late to get Kamala Harris, the standard bearer for the
Democratic Party, the presidential candidate, to define what her policies
will actually be. Now she did most recently put out
a page of agenda items that reads more like the
continuation of the joy Vibes pep rally that we've been
hearing about from the accomplish media over the last several weeks.
But there are policy issues that we can look at
in terms of Kamala Harris's background, the Democratic Party's background,
and those policy issues, many of them have infuriated you.
I see you were recently on Fox new was saying
and the story here says, spurned by her anger over
calls to ban gas stoves, a long time California lawmaker
has left the Democratic Party. I know that there are
more issues, as we've talked about, than gas stoves, but
I mean this is central to the whole massive climate
change cult that we have seen in this country, particularly
in the state of California, that has come to define
the Democratic Party. Let's talk a little bit about your
feelings on where these kinds of policies have landed the
Democratic Party.
Speaker 3: Right, we'll go back to gas stoves, because that really
is sort of at the end of the day. And
let no, I am not I cannot toast my tortella
and micro even it's suddenly gone like it's everywhere apparently.
But I think to that's would be cultural like no,
just we can't have it. But I think let's go
back to it again too. I mean the withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Speaker 2: You know, I'm a child of Vietnam.
Speaker 3: During that war, I helped a family from my hometown
bury their child who came back in a casket from
the Vietnam War. He was twenty years old, Clarence Griego.
And I think you never forget a family's, especially a
parents' pain at seeing their child being buried. They did
the right thing, They stood up, they gave everything. Whatever
one thought about the war, this child came home in
a casket. And we fast forward to tomorrow, September eleventh,
we take a look at the withdrawal from Afghanistan, which
I believe was set up as a photo op for
Biden and.
Speaker 2: Harris and the.
Speaker 3: Horrendous withdrawal and the sacrificing of thirteen American soldiers whose
names Kamala Harris cannot say. I really hope that Donald
Trump brings this up, and if he can, maybe even
just to mention a couple of the names, many of
whom were from California, by the way, And so I
think to take a look at the international stage, I
think also as well to at foreign policy. October seventh,
if we want to talk about dates, I mean, I
looked at Watch with horror as I saw women being abducted,
the blood coming from you know, the assaults that were
taking place on them, and the abandonment of Israel is
a key ally.
Speaker 2: You know, I was a university professor.
Speaker 3: Before I was I went to the legislature, and I've
been at UCLA and some of our other campuses, and
I think, my god, how can Jewish students be threatened
like this? Some years ago I went to Auschwitz and
I stepped inside that crematorium, and what's left of it
returned to America. And I think anybody who's ever been
there and has seen it, you cannot come home and
not remember. And yet here we were at UCLA, which
is not, you know, just down the road from me
thinking what was going on and the abuse and the
threats against Jewish students. It's intolerable. So I think a
lot of the international issues, but I think the economy, crime,
the border are some of the main issues overall. And
of course we've seen that Kamala Harris was the deciding
vote on the legislation that locked us into just runaway inflation,
and she can run from that record.
Speaker 2: So I think all of those are some of the
major issues.
Speaker 3: When I was winding up my press conference and Sacramento,
somebody asked them about climate change and I said, look,
you know, I'm not giving up my tortillas.
Speaker 2: You got to my guest of You're gonna have to
pry them.
Speaker 3: Out of my goal and my cold dying hands to
get that guestove away.
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Speaker 1: I hear you, and I think a lot of Americans here,
whether it be electric vehicles, evs that this administration has
claimed to be, you know, behind and building all kinds
of charging stations across the country, when it turns out
we've seen what half a dozen a dozen at best.
You know, this is part and parcel of a lot
of big government programs brought to us by the administration
and the party in power for the first two years
in particular of that administration's ten year and the impacts
are real, they're being felt. You mentioned inflation. You mentioned
Harris's vote, deciding vote in the Inflation Reduction Act, which
is probably I can't think of a bill that has
been worse named, less appropriately named, less factually named than
what came out and what we're experiencing. What is life
like for your neighbors, your communities in California in particular
that you know, a lot of folks have said this,
and I wonder what you think about it that another
term for Barack Obama, Joe Biden, and Kamala Harris will
be another four years of remaking the United States into
California in the worst ways.
Speaker 3: There's no doubt about it. That is the path on
which we are on. Gavin Newsom has had to confront that.
And mind you that Gavin Newsom is not popular in California.
Remember Kamala Harris when she ran in twenty twenty, our
home state of California was not going to support her
in any way, and that's one of the main reasons
why she dropped out before getting a single vote, because
she didn't want to be embarrassed. Well, that pretty much
is still the same today. So I think using climate,
for example, as an issue is one that you know,
it's oftentimes, you know, the virtue signaling like oh, we
are the good guys, blah blah blah. In the meantime,
we find Kamala Harris with her lovely guest stove. As
we've seen from the photos she has posted on x
We've seen the so called environmentalists flying around the country
on their private jets, and so it's one where we've
got to take a look at it more carefully. I
think it's one where we find, especially some communities are
trapped by this effort to stamp out our livelihoods. My
daughter Solidad or Sua, is the author of an article
along with Jennifer Hernandez that talked about what we call
what they called and Solidad calls the carbon economy, in
which many communities like Latinos are especially in this economy
that will be wiped out if this sort of full
blown far left climate change policy goes into affect at
some point. And so I think there are issues that
we have to look at and discuss. And if we
had a fair impartial mainstream media, I think this would
be out there. Unfortunately we do not. So you know,
your listeners, your program. Thank god that Elon must took
over X, because we would be suppressed in our thought
without it. I think it's up to us, though, to
really do everything we can to get the message out.
If you like how it's going out, it's just going
to be intensified. If Kamala Harris wins well, I.
Speaker 1: Can tell you this, we definitely appreciate real authentic thought
leaders like you, And when we say thought leaders, individuals
who have looked at the system that they have existed
in and questioned, I know, this isn't This isn't something
that is new to you or new to so many
others in the Democratic Party in this country. There have
been questions for a long time. It got to a
tipping point whereas we talked about you said, enough is enough.
That's years in the making. I do appreciate that and
understand that. But the authentic thought is one that can
change a viewpoint, an opinion based on the facts. And
the problem that we see that you just alluded to
over and over again is that Americans aren't being presented
the full picture and certainly not the facts as we
see them in communities across the state of California and
this country. Speaking of individuals trapped in systems, we talked
about it at the outset of the conversation. You have
been a warrior for school choice in California, again, a
very difficult place to battle in that arena. Do you
see California ever truly embracing school choice with the existing
power structure in place?
Speaker 3: With the existing power structure, No, it needs to change.
And let me just point out that, you know, I'm
the I have a PhD. I ended up chairing the
Senate Education Committee. My mother had a sixth grade level
of education, but she knew and she desired that each
of her children there were six of us in the family,
would least graduate from high school, and all of us did.
Speaker 4: So.
Speaker 3: I've recognized that education is the key to the American dream,
and I fervently have advocated for this. But what we
have seen in California schools is really that California schools
are essentially held hostage by the powers that be the
most powerful political interest in California. It's not the oil company,
it's not pharmaceutical, it's not tobacco. It is the California
Teachers Association and its affiliate. That is where you find
the biggest gathering of the war chess that keep the
Democratic Party tethered to them and in power. And so
if you want to change the system, you have to
confront the most powerful political player in California. And we
are not there yet in terms of winning and securing victory.
But the reason that's so important is, for example, in
Kamala Harris's Oakland hometown that school district. Seventy five percent
of Latino and African American students do not read or
do math at basic level of proficiency. Seventy five percent.
Speaker 1: That's incredible and cratyty.
Speaker 2: And think about it.
Speaker 3: Remember she was trying to put the mothers of kids
that are deemed truant into jail, get them arrested for
the kids not going. But at the same time, when
she was Attorney General, she hitched herself to the very powerful,
deep pockets California Teachers Association to go to the California
Supreme Court to overturn a significant victory that was won
and upheld by a lower court. And it was brought
about by mostly working class of kids and families, many
of them minority, who basically brought forth a challenge to
the distribution, the training, the tenure of teachers, and really
call for an end to this ineffective form of education.
She was right there the prosecutor in her basically prosecuting
her case against kids getting out of failing schools. That's
her record and the people should know that. So will
we change with the current structure. No, you know, some
years ago I actually got a bit of attention. When
I finally said and I was still a Democrat, then
I just said I cannot support a Democrat any longer.
And in the recall election, I supported Larry Elder to
recall Gavin Newsom and the number one issue because I
didn't agree with Larry on many issues, I agreed with
him on school choice. He was actively speaking out about
the importance of education and pointing out schooling and the
failures of these schools in California, especially for African American kids.
So I supported him on that primary place alone. So
I think it's important to change, to move forward. I
have happily allied myself with Steve Hilton with California No
Golden Together. We want to across the aisle, regardless of party,
to talk about many of these issues and schools for me, education,
access to quality schools in whatever form. That's a key
issue that I've been bringing up with California Golden Together.
Speaker 1: I think that's so interesting. I'm so glad you brought
up the fact that Prosecutor Kamala Harris fought tooth and
nail for the status quo, fought tooth and nail for
the teachers' unions, fought tooth and nail for these public
school systems that have so let down Latino, African American
and all students in so many different ways. A final
question for you, been extremely generous with your time. I
very much appreciate, very much enjoyed talking to you. When
November arrives, the votes are counted, who wins in your estimation,
who is going to be elected president? Who will control
the Congress at the end of the day. And do
you believe that Americans are so fed up, just like
you are, that there could be a repudiation of the
Democratic Party at the polls this November.
Speaker 3: Well, as I said in my announcement, I will be
voting for Donald J. Trump for President of the United
States of America. I hope he will win, but as
we know, hope is not a strategy. We've got to
get out and vote. Those who show up are more
likely to direct this and it can't be just on
election day. Those days are over. There is no more
election day. It is an election, so you know balance
across the country. Some of them are going out in
a few days, others you know later. I really encourage
people to get out to vote. I'm very encouraged with
a reorganized new leadership of the Republican Party. Nationally, I
think there's been some good work on getting out the
early vote. Ballot harvesting is real. One might not like
the rules, but you got to play according to the rules,
and I think depending on that we will see will
there still be cheating? Oh yes, I have no doubt
about it. I was always amazed as a candidate seeing
how many names were dead and still on the voter
rules back then. I can imagine there are many more
dead right now. So you've got to deal with that.
I think that with this whole mail in no signature proof,
which is absolute madness, I mean I need an ID card.
If I had been a delegate to the Democratic Convention,
I would have had to have shown my ID. So
I think we have to bring that about and change it.
But we only will win if we get out and vote.
Sign up to be monitors, watch that polling, Do not
walk away. Do not let middle of the night so
called water pipes to break in the windows to be
tacked over.
Speaker 2: That was madness. We cannot allow that again. And if
we do.
Speaker 3: That, I think we're still probably going to have challenges
ahead of us. But I believe that America should have
had enough and is willing to bring back Donald Trump
for a new term.
Speaker 1: Very good, all points well made. Thanks to my guest today,
former California Senate Majority Leader Gloria Romero, leaving the Democratic
Party as so many others have of late. In fact,
she is changing the D behind her name to an R.
As we move closer and closer to this critical election
for the Republic. You've been listening to another edition of
the Federalist Radio Hour. I'm Matt Kittle, senior correspondent at
the Federalist. You'll be back soon with more. Until then,
stay lovers of freedom and anxious for the fray.
Speaker 5: I heard the Fame Boy serison, and then it faded away.