WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:03.520 This is Dan Caplis and welcome to today's online podcast 2 00:00:03.640 --> 00:00:05.719 edition of the Dan Capla Show. Please be sure to 3 00:00:05.759 --> 00:00:08.240 give us a five star rating if you'd be so kind, 4 00:00:08.320 --> 00:00:11.599 and to subscribe, download and listen to the show every 5 00:00:11.679 --> 00:00:14.240 single day on your favorite podcast platform. 6 00:00:14.759 --> 00:00:16.839 This is a real privilege. 7 00:00:16.280 --> 00:00:18.160 To be able to go to the VIP line and 8 00:00:18.239 --> 00:00:21.359 welcome Archbishop Sam Aquilla to the Dan Capla Show. In 9 00:00:21.399 --> 00:00:24.160 the Catholic Faith, the archbishop stands in the shoes of 10 00:00:24.399 --> 00:00:30.079 the disciples and has an enormous responsibility. And Archbishop Aquilla 11 00:00:30.160 --> 00:00:34.079 has been absolutely fearless in speaking truth to power and 12 00:00:34.479 --> 00:00:37.840 defending the weak and defense starting with innocent human life. 13 00:00:37.880 --> 00:00:40.719 And that's why he's with us today to talk about 14 00:00:40.759 --> 00:00:45.640 this mind blowing, insidious Amendments seventy nine in Colorado. Archbishop, 15 00:00:45.719 --> 00:00:47.119 welcome to the Dan Capla Show. 16 00:00:47.679 --> 00:00:49.719 Thank you very much. Dan, it's good to be with you. 17 00:00:50.359 --> 00:00:50.719 Thank you. 18 00:00:51.039 --> 00:00:54.000 If you would please just take the floor and tell 19 00:00:54.039 --> 00:00:57.799 people why you are so opposed to seventy nine and 20 00:00:57.960 --> 00:01:00.359 why you are asking them to oppose. 21 00:01:00.159 --> 00:01:00.679 It as well. 22 00:01:01.560 --> 00:01:08.799 Okay, the Amendment seventy nine enshrines into our state constitution 23 00:01:09.920 --> 00:01:17.000 the right to abortion and Essentially, what it would do 24 00:01:17.319 --> 00:01:24.200 is make abortion for a woman a constitutional right, and 25 00:01:25.120 --> 00:01:31.920 it would first of all ban parental notice laws, and 26 00:01:32.840 --> 00:01:37.560 with that, it would mean that parents could very easily 27 00:01:37.719 --> 00:01:40.840 get a call in the middle of the night that 28 00:01:41.319 --> 00:01:47.560 their fifteen year old daughter has died from an abortion, 29 00:01:49.000 --> 00:01:52.359 and no parent that I know of wants to get 30 00:01:52.400 --> 00:01:59.280 a call like that. And with that is helping parents 31 00:01:59.519 --> 00:02:06.439 to be aware of the ongoing erosion of parental rights 32 00:02:07.359 --> 00:02:14.960 that this amendment causes and that it brings about, because 33 00:02:15.000 --> 00:02:18.719 one of the great difficulties in culture and society today 34 00:02:19.759 --> 00:02:24.039 is the government thinks that it knows better than parents 35 00:02:25.159 --> 00:02:30.400 what is good for their children. And then secondly, it 36 00:02:30.520 --> 00:02:35.240 would also allow abortion all the way through to the 37 00:02:35.319 --> 00:02:44.840 ninth month. And so let's say a woman was scheduled 38 00:02:44.840 --> 00:02:53.439 to deliver or have the baby at a certain date, 39 00:02:54.520 --> 00:02:58.479 and then she decides two days before she wants an abortion, 40 00:02:59.319 --> 00:03:03.120 even though that baby would be perfectly healthy and the 41 00:03:03.159 --> 00:03:06.840 mother would be perfectly healthy, she would have that right. 42 00:03:09.840 --> 00:03:13.360 And once again, it's the destruction of a human life. 43 00:03:13.439 --> 00:03:17.800 It's a major surgery that puts the woman at risk 44 00:03:18.199 --> 00:03:24.719 and kills the child, the unborn child. And then finally 45 00:03:26.319 --> 00:03:33.520 there is a peace in the law in this amendment 46 00:03:34.120 --> 00:03:39.199 which refers you to a bill that had passed or 47 00:03:39.199 --> 00:03:43.400 an amendment that had passed back in the nineteen eighties 48 00:03:44.800 --> 00:03:50.000 which said in the Amendment to the Constitution that no 49 00:03:50.199 --> 00:03:56.159 taxpayer funding could ever be used for abortion. And if 50 00:03:56.159 --> 00:03:59.120 people don't read the fine print or go deep into 51 00:03:59.159 --> 00:04:05.120 the amendment and look up what it is doing away with, 52 00:04:05.199 --> 00:04:11.400 what it does away with is the prohibition against tax 53 00:04:11.439 --> 00:04:18.399 paid abortions. So that means that our taxes can be 54 00:04:18.560 --> 00:04:24.360 used for abortion. And with as pro abortion as our 55 00:04:25.199 --> 00:04:30.920 state legislature is, it would be very easy for them 56 00:04:31.279 --> 00:04:37.839 to put a law into effect requiring taxpayer money for abortion. 57 00:04:38.839 --> 00:04:43.040 And I know personally for me that would certainly create 58 00:04:43.240 --> 00:04:47.240 a matter of conscience and that I would not want 59 00:04:47.279 --> 00:04:51.759 to see my money going for my taxpayer money going 60 00:04:51.839 --> 00:04:55.040 for abortion and the destruction of human life. 61 00:04:56.399 --> 00:04:57.240 Our vicious and. 62 00:04:59.199 --> 00:05:04.439 Children survive very easily. I have baptized infants who were 63 00:05:04.439 --> 00:05:11.360 premature in weighing a pound and nine ounces ten ounces, 64 00:05:12.040 --> 00:05:13.240 and they have survived. 65 00:05:13.360 --> 00:05:14.519 Yeah, just say. 66 00:05:16.800 --> 00:05:23.720 It is some medical medicine has advanced so much. A 67 00:05:23.800 --> 00:05:29.240 medical technology has advanced so much that oftentimes children that 68 00:05:29.279 --> 00:05:35.240 would have been lost by premature birth now survive very well, 69 00:05:35.279 --> 00:05:36.800 and our very healthy children. 70 00:05:38.319 --> 00:05:43.000 Archbishop Samquilla are special guest, and Archbishop, I look at 71 00:05:43.040 --> 00:05:45.839 the preamble to the Colorado Constitution. I mean, this is 72 00:05:45.959 --> 00:05:49.279 right in the Constitution, we the people of Colorado, with 73 00:05:49.399 --> 00:05:54.120 profound reverence for the supreme ruler of the universe. And 74 00:05:54.199 --> 00:05:57.120 it goes on from there and says, in part to 75 00:05:57.160 --> 00:06:00.879 secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity. 76 00:06:01.759 --> 00:06:04.360 How do we ever get to the point where we 77 00:06:04.439 --> 00:06:06.920 may end up in that same document that starts that 78 00:06:07.000 --> 00:06:10.240 way with a so called right to take As you 79 00:06:10.279 --> 00:06:14.759 just said, Archbishop, this this fully developed child at nine months, 80 00:06:14.759 --> 00:06:18.720 perfectly healthy, the mother's healthy, and the Colorado Constitution is 81 00:06:18.720 --> 00:06:21.480 going to provide a right to kill that child, even 82 00:06:21.560 --> 00:06:26.000 seconds before it's delivered. How do you think we got 83 00:06:26.040 --> 00:06:26.759 to this point? 84 00:06:27.360 --> 00:06:31.519 Yeah? Well, you know it is hard to say. When 85 00:06:32.040 --> 00:06:35.519 America fell in love with the murder of her unborn 86 00:06:35.600 --> 00:06:42.199 children and the killing of her unborn children, and when 87 00:06:42.720 --> 00:06:47.639 one saw all of the celebrating in Chicago and the 88 00:06:47.720 --> 00:06:55.800 fact that they put up even abortion places to have 89 00:06:55.920 --> 00:07:01.199 abortion and all at the Democratic Convention, and that was 90 00:07:01.439 --> 00:07:09.040 highly offensive for anyone who is pro life. And our 91 00:07:09.160 --> 00:07:16.240 constitution begins with the recognition of God. And with that 92 00:07:16.839 --> 00:07:22.120 what we do now is say we are God, and 93 00:07:22.160 --> 00:07:24.560 I will decide what is good or what is evil, 94 00:07:24.639 --> 00:07:27.759 what is right or what is wrong. And our country 95 00:07:27.839 --> 00:07:31.079 is to the point where it is, as we can 96 00:07:31.120 --> 00:07:36.600 see within the political parties of our country, it is 97 00:07:37.240 --> 00:07:42.600 very divided. And where the division, the deepest division, rests 98 00:07:43.639 --> 00:07:51.480 in the profound disbelief in God that is present in 99 00:07:51.519 --> 00:07:56.560 the world in society today, and there is a complete 100 00:07:56.600 --> 00:08:03.439 dismissal of any kind of moral authority. And when there 101 00:08:03.519 --> 00:08:10.319 is a dismissal of a supreme being as the one 102 00:08:10.360 --> 00:08:15.800 who determines moral authority, then everything is up for grabs 103 00:08:16.600 --> 00:08:20.439 and people become violent, they fight with one another. It's 104 00:08:20.439 --> 00:08:24.879 going to be my way, and there is a there 105 00:08:25.079 --> 00:08:30.800 there is no kind of moral structure that I don't 106 00:08:30.839 --> 00:08:37.399 determine myself rather than recognizing, because I mean, that's that's 107 00:08:37.519 --> 00:08:42.759 beauty of our own. In the not only our state constitution, 108 00:08:43.039 --> 00:08:49.039 but also the preamble to the Constitution, it recognizes the 109 00:08:49.159 --> 00:08:56.519 Supreme Being for the United States. And when you have 110 00:08:58.240 --> 00:09:03.919 many people, millions of people who claim to be atheist 111 00:09:04.240 --> 00:09:08.440 or agnostic, you are going to come up with all 112 00:09:08.720 --> 00:09:15.639 sorts of challenges to the moral order as determined by 113 00:09:15.679 --> 00:09:20.720 the Supreme being Archbision. And the greatest gift that we 114 00:09:20.799 --> 00:09:24.279 have is the gift of life right and the dignity 115 00:09:24.320 --> 00:09:25.279 of human life. 116 00:09:26.720 --> 00:09:28.759 Well, we're grateful for your time today. I hope we 117 00:09:28.799 --> 00:09:34.840 can do this again someday before election day. And Right 118 00:09:34.919 --> 00:09:37.679 to Know Colorado Right to knowo dot com people can 119 00:09:37.720 --> 00:09:39.840 go there and get more information, get more. 120 00:09:39.679 --> 00:09:40.519 Involved in the cause. 121 00:09:40.559 --> 00:09:42.879 But I also wanted to thank you for what you're 122 00:09:42.919 --> 00:09:46.720 doing within the Catholic Church itself, because I've the last 123 00:09:46.720 --> 00:09:49.519 few weeks for different reasons, We've been at different churches 124 00:09:49.519 --> 00:09:53.039 around the state, and every single church is speaking out 125 00:09:53.080 --> 00:09:56.240 on this, not from a partisan red blue standpoint, but 126 00:09:56.399 --> 00:09:59.279 just a right or wrong and that is great to see. 127 00:10:00.000 --> 00:10:03.480 Oh yes, no, thank you very much. And it's important 128 00:10:03.519 --> 00:10:06.200 that we return to the dignity of human life, and 129 00:10:06.960 --> 00:10:10.279 because if we do not have it from the very beginning, 130 00:10:11.080 --> 00:10:14.960 we are going to hedge in every other way on 131 00:10:15.120 --> 00:10:19.679 human life and all the issues that is right. Thank 132 00:10:19.720 --> 00:10:22.840 you very much, Thank you, sir. You take care, okay, 133 00:10:22.919 --> 00:10:25.279 all right to you too, Dan, Thank you. I appreciate it. 134 00:10:25.399 --> 00:10:26.720 Uh huh, but it is. 135 00:10:26.799 --> 00:10:29.720 Archbishop Sam mcquillis so good of them to spend time 136 00:10:29.799 --> 00:10:33.080 with us. And no matter what faith you are, maybe 137 00:10:33.120 --> 00:10:35.200 no faith at all or whatever, I'm sure in your 138 00:10:35.360 --> 00:10:38.720 orbit there are certain people who are just fearless and 139 00:10:38.799 --> 00:10:41.039 you probably just respect the heck out of him. And 140 00:10:41.120 --> 00:10:44.519 he is one of those people. He's just absolutely fearless, 141 00:10:45.200 --> 00:10:47.720 and you should check out. He has a podcast as 142 00:10:47.759 --> 00:10:50.039 well with his different sermons and you can see there 143 00:10:50.120 --> 00:10:52.120 that he is just an absolute straight shooter. 144 00:10:52.320 --> 00:10:54.320 So please do, no matter. 145 00:10:54.159 --> 00:10:58.679 Where you are on the spectrum of abortion policy, etc. 146 00:10:59.480 --> 00:11:02.159 Please do look into seventy nine because hopefully in a 147 00:11:02.159 --> 00:11:05.080 lot of people who favor some level of legal abortion, 148 00:11:05.120 --> 00:11:07.240 which I think is said, but even a lot of 149 00:11:07.240 --> 00:11:09.799 those folks, I think we'll see this as a bridge 150 00:11:09.799 --> 00:11:10.240 too far. 151 00:11:10.559 --> 00:11:11.879 Here on the Dan Capla. 152 00:11:11.639 --> 00:11:16.320 Show and now back to the Dan Taplas Show podcast. 153 00:11:17.120 --> 00:11:20.200 Right now, we're talking about border security and there's nobody 154 00:11:21.039 --> 00:11:25.399 talking about a pathway to citizenship an immigration belief that 155 00:11:25.600 --> 00:11:30.799 the benefits that migrants bring to this country. But there's 156 00:11:31.120 --> 00:11:36.679 no question that migrants bring the America is a country 157 00:11:36.840 --> 00:11:39.720 that was built in part. 158 00:11:39.600 --> 00:11:40.639 By immigrant people. 159 00:11:41.799 --> 00:11:43.639 GPS, the that ca there. 160 00:11:44.759 --> 00:11:47.639 We're talking about massiportations. 161 00:11:48.639 --> 00:11:52.320 I'm not talking about what do you the positions? What's 162 00:11:52.480 --> 00:11:54.000 what's your stand there? 163 00:11:54.600 --> 00:11:58.799 Listen, we need smart oh man. 164 00:11:59.600 --> 00:12:00.120 Listen to that. 165 00:12:00.159 --> 00:12:02.519 One of the reasons I wanted to play it was 166 00:12:03.679 --> 00:12:09.080 just the lack of her ability to respond to these 167 00:12:09.240 --> 00:12:16.559 easy questions. And again coming back to she just doesn't 168 00:12:16.559 --> 00:12:20.720 have the type of intellect, the type of intelligence to 169 00:12:20.799 --> 00:12:24.080 do this job. Now, she may be very smart in 170 00:12:24.200 --> 00:12:26.799 other areas or other things, but the kind of skill 171 00:12:26.840 --> 00:12:29.120 set you need to do this job. These were the 172 00:12:29.240 --> 00:12:33.440 easiest questions for her to possibly to respond to, and 173 00:12:33.480 --> 00:12:36.960 she's stumbling around like this. But what I find most 174 00:12:37.080 --> 00:12:40.200 fascinating is, listen to this. You heard the very end 175 00:12:40.200 --> 00:12:46.279 of that. She would not reject mass deportation. He just 176 00:12:46.320 --> 00:12:49.919 asked her directly, are you for mass deportations? And she 177 00:12:50.000 --> 00:12:55.519 wouldn't say no. Think about that now, no, you know, 178 00:12:55.559 --> 00:13:00.519 of course she's for a mass influx of unvetted folks 179 00:13:00.679 --> 00:13:01.360 across the board. 180 00:13:01.480 --> 00:13:03.639 And it's important. I don't know if you did that intentionally, 181 00:13:03.639 --> 00:13:05.519 but you cut that off early. There's a very important 182 00:13:05.559 --> 00:13:06.639 part of this at the very and I'm going to 183 00:13:06.679 --> 00:13:07.279 play it right here. 184 00:13:08.679 --> 00:13:16.159 We need smart, humane immigration policy in America that includes 185 00:13:16.200 --> 00:13:19.879 a pathway to citizenship. Right. 186 00:13:20.000 --> 00:13:26.440 But what I was most intrigued by was she would 187 00:13:26.440 --> 00:13:29.840 not just give a simple note a mass deportation. No, 188 00:13:30.159 --> 00:13:35.200 because it's polling so well, so many people across party 189 00:13:35.279 --> 00:13:38.480 lines favorite this goes back to the early June, to 190 00:13:38.559 --> 00:13:43.600 the early June polling on that, So it just I 191 00:13:43.639 --> 00:13:48.039 believe interviews like this just hurt her so badly, regardless 192 00:13:48.080 --> 00:13:49.679 of what her policy. 193 00:13:49.240 --> 00:13:51.000 Position ends up being, if you can even. 194 00:13:50.799 --> 00:13:53.799 Decipher it, I think it hurts her so badly because 195 00:13:53.840 --> 00:13:56.639 so many people watching say, wait a second, she just 196 00:13:56.840 --> 00:14:01.120 doesn't have the intellectual firepower or to be president. She 197 00:14:01.159 --> 00:14:04.120 doesn't have what it takes. No matter where you are 198 00:14:04.200 --> 00:14:08.120 on the policy spectrum, eight five five Z five A 199 00:14:08.200 --> 00:14:10.360 two five five the number, we're gonna get a treat tonight, 200 00:14:10.440 --> 00:14:15.559 my friend, because this is a live town hall on CNN, right. 201 00:14:15.559 --> 00:14:16.720 No way, there's no editing. 202 00:14:17.639 --> 00:14:20.200 I My understanding is it's live, and it starts at 203 00:14:20.240 --> 00:14:24.960 seven months, carefully pre selected questions from listening voters then, 204 00:14:26.200 --> 00:14:28.519 and so not a true town hall, I get it. 205 00:14:28.559 --> 00:14:32.120 But it's live. It's not live to tape. It's going 206 00:14:32.200 --> 00:14:35.399 to all be right out there, which is another indicator 207 00:14:35.399 --> 00:14:38.120 of how desperate she is at this point, right, which, 208 00:14:38.279 --> 00:14:40.000 and I don't want to get wonky on everybody, but 209 00:14:40.039 --> 00:14:43.840 I think this is potentially really significant. This Mark Helprin, 210 00:14:43.919 --> 00:14:48.320 guy who does this two way podcast, is is really 211 00:14:48.360 --> 00:14:50.600 fascinating to listen to. He is certainly no friend to 212 00:14:50.639 --> 00:14:53.200 Trump's and he's certainly not a conservative, which is one 213 00:14:53.240 --> 00:14:55.480 of the reasons it's worth listening to because when you 214 00:14:55.480 --> 00:14:58.759 hear these concerns being voiced, you know, from the left 215 00:14:58.799 --> 00:15:02.440 or at least somebody who's not on right, it's even 216 00:15:02.519 --> 00:15:03.600 more encouraging. 217 00:15:03.840 --> 00:15:06.360 So this is his hit on the early vote. 218 00:15:06.639 --> 00:15:12.960 Now early vote. John Ralston is the David Groter of 219 00:15:13.000 --> 00:15:15.159 the Silver State. He's just been there forever. He's a 220 00:15:15.159 --> 00:15:19.440 great reporter and he understands how to read the early Talkovada. 221 00:15:19.559 --> 00:15:22.399 Let's put up what John Ralston wrote overnight about the 222 00:15:22.399 --> 00:15:26.759 early vote in his state. Okay, all right, a little 223 00:15:26.759 --> 00:15:28.279 hard to read, but we wanted you to see the 224 00:15:28.360 --> 00:15:30.879 chart here. It's pretty easy to explain. The Clark firewall. 225 00:15:30.879 --> 00:15:32.840 That's Clark County, where Las Vegas is, where the vast 226 00:15:32.879 --> 00:15:35.960 majority of the state's population is has all but collapsed. 227 00:15:36.519 --> 00:15:39.399 The Democratic usually have a huge lead. There's forty five 228 00:15:39.519 --> 00:15:43.480 hundred votes. The Rurals are over performing their share of 229 00:15:43.519 --> 00:15:46.960 the electorate. And he says, you can read this and 230 00:15:47.000 --> 00:15:50.360 it's linked. It's LinkedIn my sub stack. It's too soon 231 00:15:50.399 --> 00:15:52.279 to call it a trend, but this was a huge 232 00:15:52.320 --> 00:15:55.840 day for Republicans. They are head now in Washington County too. 233 00:15:55.960 --> 00:15:58.240 A few more days like this, though, and the Democratic 234 00:15:58.279 --> 00:16:00.720 bedroom wedding will reach a proportions. 235 00:16:00.799 --> 00:16:01.000 Yeah. 236 00:16:01.000 --> 00:16:04.120 And the guy he's quoting is like the consummate expert 237 00:16:04.279 --> 00:16:08.039 on Nevada and also comes at this from the left. 238 00:16:08.200 --> 00:16:11.000 So it's too early to drawing conclusions, right, I mean, 239 00:16:11.039 --> 00:16:13.879 you've still got time left, but certainly the early trends 240 00:16:14.399 --> 00:16:17.039 not only very favorable for Trump just in terms of math. 241 00:16:17.159 --> 00:16:19.519 But Ryan, this comes back to what's been my theme 242 00:16:19.559 --> 00:16:22.039 for a long time on this show. This is twenty 243 00:16:22.120 --> 00:16:25.600 sixteen all over again. The only difference is Kamala Harris 244 00:16:26.039 --> 00:16:28.879 is not as strong a candidate as Hillary Clinton. You know, 245 00:16:29.000 --> 00:16:32.519 Hillary Clinton, for all her awful policies and for all 246 00:16:32.559 --> 00:16:37.399 her awfulness, is a brilliant person intellectually. And Hillary Clinton, 247 00:16:37.440 --> 00:16:39.759 I think, in a lot of ways a far better candidate. 248 00:16:40.240 --> 00:16:43.919 But this twenty sixteen all over again. And when you 249 00:16:43.960 --> 00:16:46.120 talk about the royal vote, I don't know if you remember, Ryan, 250 00:16:46.159 --> 00:16:49.200 where you were when the first return started coming in 251 00:16:49.200 --> 00:16:51.759 in sixteen. But the first returns, if I remember, right, 252 00:16:51.879 --> 00:16:55.440 came out of Indiana, maybe Kentucky, and yeah, Trump's gonna 253 00:16:55.440 --> 00:16:59.120 win those, right. But I saw those numbers coming in 254 00:16:59.600 --> 00:17:03.519 and that the turnout, the spread was so much larger 255 00:17:03.559 --> 00:17:06.960 than expected. That was the harbinger, right, because we all 256 00:17:07.000 --> 00:17:09.960 know elections are about turnout, not who talks to a polster. 257 00:17:10.119 --> 00:17:10.880 So they're about. 258 00:17:10.680 --> 00:17:14.640 Intensity and passion. And I think long before Trump's heroic 259 00:17:14.759 --> 00:17:19.039 response to the assassination attempt in Butler, there was a 260 00:17:19.079 --> 00:17:22.200 lot of devotion to Trump that only intensified after the 261 00:17:22.240 --> 00:17:25.079 left tried to turn us into a banana republic, you know, 262 00:17:25.160 --> 00:17:28.000 through this law fare and again what we're seeing today 263 00:17:28.400 --> 00:17:32.440 with these false comparisons to Hitler, etc. From the Vice 264 00:17:32.480 --> 00:17:36.519 president's official platform, that that's another effort to banana republic 265 00:17:36.559 --> 00:17:39.440 assize us new word, Ryan feel free to claim it, 266 00:17:39.920 --> 00:17:45.039 and America pushing back against that. But now, after everything 267 00:17:45.079 --> 00:17:47.720 Trump's been subjected to and the way he stood up 268 00:17:47.720 --> 00:17:50.480 to it, I think you're going to see an intensity 269 00:17:50.599 --> 00:17:54.599 that manifests in size of turnout, and now we're seeing 270 00:17:54.599 --> 00:17:57.480 in timing of turnout, including early turnout, a level of 271 00:17:57.480 --> 00:17:59.920 intensity we have not seen even in sixteen. 272 00:18:00.480 --> 00:18:02.960 And it's going to be further fueled by the fact that. 273 00:18:03.240 --> 00:18:05.119 You know, you'd look at Hillary Clinton and she's awful 274 00:18:05.119 --> 00:18:07.759 with awful policies. But you look at Hillary Clinton and 275 00:18:07.799 --> 00:18:10.640 say that's a person who has the intellectual capability, etc. 276 00:18:11.039 --> 00:18:14.640 To be president. You look at Kamala Harris and everybody 277 00:18:14.799 --> 00:18:17.880 honest knows she is not up to this job. So 278 00:18:17.960 --> 00:18:20.240 I think we're seeing that perfect storm. The left seas 279 00:18:20.279 --> 00:18:22.359 that train coming down the tracks, and that's why they're 280 00:18:22.359 --> 00:18:26.240 taking us to a very dark place today with this latch, dick, 281 00:18:26.440 --> 00:18:27.839 ditch desperate efforts. 282 00:18:27.839 --> 00:18:29.119 You're on the Dan Kaplas Show. 283 00:18:31.839 --> 00:18:34.240 You're listening to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast. 284 00:18:34.640 --> 00:18:37.640 I love that perfect walk up song for our next guest, 285 00:18:37.799 --> 00:18:41.680 Gabe Evans. He's a GOP nominee in c D eight 286 00:18:41.960 --> 00:18:44.279 and this one is one of the most hotly contested 287 00:18:44.640 --> 00:18:48.440 districts in America. Speaker Mike Johnson came out recently to 288 00:18:48.480 --> 00:18:50.920 support Gave Evans and said he really thinks control of 289 00:18:51.000 --> 00:18:54.400 Congress will come down to this seat. Gabe, Welcome back 290 00:18:54.400 --> 00:18:55.599 to the Dan Caplis Show. 291 00:18:56.680 --> 00:18:57.839 Ahlways, great to be on with you. 292 00:18:57.880 --> 00:18:59.880 Thanks so much, Thank you, my friend. How goes the battle? 293 00:18:59.880 --> 00:19:03.319 I see there are finally some numbers out on early voting. 294 00:19:03.759 --> 00:19:06.240 Can you tell yet how that's shaping up in CD eight? 295 00:19:07.640 --> 00:19:09.960 You know, I got those numbers this morning. I haven't 296 00:19:10.000 --> 00:19:12.759 had a chance to really dive into them, reason being 297 00:19:12.839 --> 00:19:16.640 we just launched our fourth TV ad today. I've really 298 00:19:16.680 --> 00:19:20.119 taken my opponent to task for her defunding the police 299 00:19:20.160 --> 00:19:23.079 policies and so been pretty focused on making sure that 300 00:19:23.079 --> 00:19:25.000 we get that message out there. And then probably later 301 00:19:25.039 --> 00:19:26.440 tonight I'll be able to do a little bit of 302 00:19:26.480 --> 00:19:28.000 that data analytics. 303 00:19:28.279 --> 00:19:31.319 Yeah, and let's talk about you, Derek Caravell in a second. 304 00:19:31.319 --> 00:19:34.240 But Gabe, I think there are still some folks who 305 00:19:34.440 --> 00:19:37.119 don't know about you, and I have to tell you, 306 00:19:37.160 --> 00:19:39.279 as I've told the audience, that I think you're one 307 00:19:39.319 --> 00:19:42.279 of the most impressive candidates in a long, long time. 308 00:19:42.359 --> 00:19:44.920 So please just let folks know your story. 309 00:19:46.400 --> 00:19:49.119 Yeah, well, thanks for that. Gabe Evans born and raised 310 00:19:49.119 --> 00:19:53.039 here in Colorado. After college, joined the US Army and 311 00:19:53.079 --> 00:19:56.319 the Colorado Army National Guard, served for a combined total 312 00:19:56.359 --> 00:19:59.359 of twelve years there, one combat deployment overseas, and then 313 00:20:00.000 --> 00:20:02.200 everything that we do with Blackhawk helicopters here in the 314 00:20:02.200 --> 00:20:05.319 state of Colorado. My last assignment, I ended up commanding 315 00:20:05.960 --> 00:20:08.799 one of the Blackhawk outfits out at Buckley Air Force Base. 316 00:20:09.519 --> 00:20:11.640 Married with two boys. My wife says, I didn't have 317 00:20:11.720 --> 00:20:14.319 quite enough fun in the army for twelve years, so 318 00:20:14.359 --> 00:20:16.799 I did another ten years in law enforcement with the 319 00:20:16.839 --> 00:20:20.160 city of Arvada, made it up to command level rank 320 00:20:20.200 --> 00:20:22.960 there as well. In twenty twenty one, I was a 321 00:20:23.079 --> 00:20:24.400 night shift watch commander. 322 00:20:24.920 --> 00:20:25.839 And that's why I'm. 323 00:20:25.680 --> 00:20:30.160 In politics right now, because I've watched what happened to 324 00:20:30.200 --> 00:20:32.880 our country, our state, our community as a result of 325 00:20:33.359 --> 00:20:37.200 the failed far left, radical policies of the Democrats and 326 00:20:37.240 --> 00:20:40.240 the folks like my opponent voted to lower the penalty 327 00:20:40.279 --> 00:20:44.279 for drug dealers, voted for defund the police policies, voted 328 00:20:44.279 --> 00:20:46.880 for sanctuary city and state policies. And I'll just remind 329 00:20:46.920 --> 00:20:48.960 everybody that because of a law that she helped to 330 00:20:49.000 --> 00:20:52.160 pass in twenty twenty one, it is illegal in the 331 00:20:52.200 --> 00:20:55.319 state of Colorado for state or local law enforcement to 332 00:20:55.440 --> 00:20:58.519 even be able to reach out to Immigration and Customs 333 00:20:58.559 --> 00:21:01.960 to have violent criminals legally present in our community deported, 334 00:21:02.400 --> 00:21:05.640 you cannot share under this state law, you cannot share 335 00:21:05.759 --> 00:21:12.039 any data with Immigration and Customs for immigration related purposes, 336 00:21:12.200 --> 00:21:14.559 you know, for for having somebody that's committing crimes in 337 00:21:14.599 --> 00:21:17.359 our community deported. I saw of that as a cop. 338 00:21:17.880 --> 00:21:20.279 We were thirty first in the nation for our crime 339 00:21:20.359 --> 00:21:23.119 rate in twenty eleven when I started my law enforcement career. 340 00:21:23.119 --> 00:21:25.160 We're now number three. We are the third worst. We're 341 00:21:25.160 --> 00:21:29.640 worse than California, New York State, Oregon, Washington State, Illinois. 342 00:21:29.759 --> 00:21:32.160 It's got to change. I've been involved in politics for 343 00:21:32.160 --> 00:21:34.680 three years now, finishing up my first term down at 344 00:21:34.720 --> 00:21:37.519 the state Capitol in Denver as a state representative, and 345 00:21:37.559 --> 00:21:39.519 we're going to go flip this congressional peep. 346 00:21:39.880 --> 00:21:42.279 Well, I hope so we'll all be so much better off. 347 00:21:42.319 --> 00:21:45.319 Gabe Evans, our guest, what's that website? We have more 348 00:21:45.319 --> 00:21:46.960 to talk about, but what's the website? 349 00:21:47.920 --> 00:21:51.160 Electgabeevans dot com. You'll have two e's right next to 350 00:21:51.200 --> 00:21:54.519 each other. Elect Gabe ga b e Evans ev a 351 00:21:54.720 --> 00:21:55.480 n s dot. 352 00:21:55.319 --> 00:21:58.160 Com and gab as people hear your story, and I 353 00:21:58.200 --> 00:22:00.960 think anybody fair minded I'll see your perfect for that 354 00:22:01.119 --> 00:22:04.279 district and pretty much any district. I don't know that 355 00:22:04.319 --> 00:22:07.400 people fully appreciate how radical your opponent is. And I 356 00:22:07.440 --> 00:22:10.680 thought Kyle Clark did an excellent job of exposing that 357 00:22:10.920 --> 00:22:13.519 in the first debate that you guys had, which and 358 00:22:13.559 --> 00:22:15.440 I've played some of that on air here because I 359 00:22:15.440 --> 00:22:18.440 think you handled it so well. But he had this 360 00:22:18.480 --> 00:22:20.839 one riff with her where he went through all of 361 00:22:20.880 --> 00:22:23.920 these positions that she's flipped on and asked her if 362 00:22:23.960 --> 00:22:26.680 she's truly changed her mind, and she made it clear 363 00:22:26.759 --> 00:22:29.559 she hasn't. She still holds all those radical positions, but 364 00:22:29.599 --> 00:22:32.640 wants people to believe she won't vote that way in Congress. 365 00:22:34.279 --> 00:22:37.319 Yeah, she's running one hundred and eighty degrees away from 366 00:22:37.319 --> 00:22:39.319 her record. She's trying to pull the wool over the 367 00:22:39.319 --> 00:22:40.759 eyes of the voters, and I don't think they're going 368 00:22:40.799 --> 00:22:43.680 to fall for it. They're seeing the results of these policies. 369 00:22:43.680 --> 00:22:46.519 They can hear her own statements where exactly as you said, 370 00:22:46.799 --> 00:22:50.079 she doesn't actually believe any of the moderate stuff that 371 00:22:50.119 --> 00:22:53.519 her ads are acclaiming that she does. She's a radical 372 00:22:53.559 --> 00:22:56.359 at heart, and she's doing whatever she thinks she needs 373 00:22:56.400 --> 00:22:58.200 to do, and saying whatever she thinks she needs to 374 00:22:58.200 --> 00:22:59.960 stay in order to try to hold onto power. 375 00:23:00.720 --> 00:23:03.920 It's obviously so important that you win for control of 376 00:23:03.960 --> 00:23:06.039 Congress and for the people of c D eight. 377 00:23:06.400 --> 00:23:07.680 Just the nuts and bolt stuff. 378 00:23:07.720 --> 00:23:10.480 Now that we're so close, how can people get involved 379 00:23:10.519 --> 00:23:12.960 in the most meaningful way to affect the outcome? 380 00:23:14.359 --> 00:23:17.240 At this point, the biggest thing that folks can do 381 00:23:17.359 --> 00:23:21.279 is vote. In Welld County, for instance, two years ago, 382 00:23:21.680 --> 00:23:26.039 we had thirteen thousand registered Republicans who didn't return their ballot. 383 00:23:28.000 --> 00:23:30.160 If you return your ballot, if you vote, I mean, 384 00:23:30.160 --> 00:23:32.640 first of all, that's like one of our civic duties 385 00:23:32.640 --> 00:23:35.559 as folks that live in a representative style of government. 386 00:23:35.920 --> 00:23:37.319 But the real good news is. 387 00:23:38.839 --> 00:23:40.920 You get taken off of a lot of the lists, 388 00:23:41.000 --> 00:23:42.680 so you'll get a lot less text you'll get a 389 00:23:42.720 --> 00:23:44.799 lot less phone calls, you get a lot less outreach, 390 00:23:45.039 --> 00:23:48.599 you know, from folks like myself who are trying to 391 00:23:48.599 --> 00:23:51.680 make sure that folks return their ballot. You return that ballot, well, 392 00:23:51.720 --> 00:23:54.599 then I don't have to send you a calls and 393 00:23:54.640 --> 00:23:56.880 texts and have people knock on your door anymore. So 394 00:23:57.400 --> 00:24:00.400 it's really a win win. You participate in the repersentive 395 00:24:00.440 --> 00:24:03.119 style of government that we have, and you come off 396 00:24:03.119 --> 00:24:05.400 the list and get annoyed by folks like me a 397 00:24:05.400 --> 00:24:05.880 lot less. 398 00:24:06.519 --> 00:24:09.200 And I'm sure every campaign can use donations. Is there 399 00:24:09.200 --> 00:24:11.480 are also a way for folks to go boots on 400 00:24:11.480 --> 00:24:13.480 the ground to help out in many of those other ways. 401 00:24:13.519 --> 00:24:14.480