1 00:00:04,879 --> 00:00:07,160 Speaker 1: What's going on? Thank you so much for listening to 2 00:00:07,200 --> 00:00:09,640 this podcast. It is heard live every day from noon 3 00:00:09,679 --> 00:00:12,519 to three on WBT Radio in Charlotte. And if you 4 00:00:12,560 --> 00:00:16,719 want exclusive content like invitations to events, the weekly live stream, 5 00:00:16,760 --> 00:00:18,719 my daily show prep with all of the links, become 6 00:00:18,719 --> 00:00:22,359 a patron, go to dpekclendarshow dot com. Make sure you 7 00:00:22,440 --> 00:00:24,920 hit the subscribe button. Get every episode for free right 8 00:00:24,960 --> 00:00:27,320 to your smartphone or tablet. And again, thank you so 9 00:00:27,399 --> 00:00:28,320 much for your support. 10 00:00:29,120 --> 00:00:31,719 Speaker 2: Did you catch these two polls that came out over 11 00:00:31,760 --> 00:00:36,000 the weekend, one from NBC News, the other from CNN 12 00:00:36,479 --> 00:00:40,640 showing the Democrat Party's polling right now their favorability or 13 00:00:40,759 --> 00:00:44,439 unfavorability with the American people. Now, this is not some 14 00:00:45,079 --> 00:00:47,159 talk news spin. I want to read to you the 15 00:00:47,200 --> 00:00:50,759 first couple of sentences from the NBC News article that 16 00:00:50,799 --> 00:00:54,119 they published yesterday morning, Sunday around nine o'clock when they 17 00:00:54,159 --> 00:00:57,759 released the poll. This is directly from nbcnews dot com. 18 00:00:57,799 --> 00:00:59,920 No no conservative spin on this at all. 19 00:01:00,200 --> 00:01:00,560 Speaker 3: Quote. 20 00:01:01,079 --> 00:01:04,120 Speaker 2: The Democrat Party has reached an all time low in 21 00:01:04,239 --> 00:01:08,599 popularity in the latest national NBC News poll as it 22 00:01:08,640 --> 00:01:11,959 searches for a path forward after a painful loss to 23 00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:16,120 President Donald Trump and as the party's voters spoil for 24 00:01:16,200 --> 00:01:20,560 a fight between their leaders in Washington and Trump. Is 25 00:01:20,599 --> 00:01:22,680 that not the most damning headline you've ever heard from 26 00:01:22,799 --> 00:01:28,359 NBC News taking shots directly at the Democrat Party and 27 00:01:28,840 --> 00:01:31,840 the details It makes sense. Just over a quarter of 28 00:01:31,920 --> 00:01:36,040 registered voters, twenty seven percent, say they have a positive 29 00:01:36,079 --> 00:01:38,879 view of the Democrat Party. Take a listen to this. 30 00:01:38,879 --> 00:01:42,640 This is the lowest party's positivity rating in this NBC 31 00:01:42,719 --> 00:01:46,879 News poll that they have been doing since nineteen ninety. 32 00:01:47,840 --> 00:01:50,879 This isn't just some brand new poll that they made 33 00:01:50,959 --> 00:01:52,840 up a couple of weeks ago. They have been asking 34 00:01:52,920 --> 00:01:56,159 this question of both the Democrat and the Republican Party 35 00:01:56,200 --> 00:01:59,959 now for thirty five years, and this is the lowest 36 00:02:00,040 --> 00:02:04,000 that it's ever been. Twenty seven percent of registered voters 37 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:08,319 say they have a positive view of the party, with 38 00:02:08,560 --> 00:02:12,280 just seven percent saying that their view is very positive. 39 00:02:12,800 --> 00:02:16,120 So that's what NBC News had to say yesterday morning 40 00:02:16,120 --> 00:02:18,280 with their poll that came out. We then flip over 41 00:02:18,560 --> 00:02:22,919 to CNN, the illustrious cable news network. They've ran a 42 00:02:22,960 --> 00:02:26,439 similar poll. They have been conducting their polls since two 43 00:02:26,520 --> 00:02:31,319 thousand and six, specifically September twenty second of two thousand 44 00:02:31,360 --> 00:02:34,520 and six, and the question was phrased a similar way, 45 00:02:35,360 --> 00:02:38,919 question number one, We'd like to get your overall opinion 46 00:02:39,080 --> 00:02:41,599 of some people in groups in the news. This is 47 00:02:41,639 --> 00:02:45,199 how the pollsters asked the question. For each Please indicate 48 00:02:45,240 --> 00:02:48,560 if you have a favorable or unfavorable opinion of these 49 00:02:48,639 --> 00:02:51,280 people or groups, or if you've never heard of them. 50 00:02:51,479 --> 00:02:56,120 When asked the Democrat Party, the favorable opinion was a 51 00:02:56,319 --> 00:03:01,560 record low twenty nine percent, very similar to what you 52 00:03:01,639 --> 00:03:04,639 saw in that NBC News poll. And once again, now 53 00:03:04,680 --> 00:03:07,479 while this poll has not been going on since the nineties, 54 00:03:07,520 --> 00:03:10,199 it has been going on since two thousand and six, 55 00:03:10,240 --> 00:03:15,360 almost twenty years. This poll was conducted by SSRs Research. 56 00:03:15,960 --> 00:03:20,360 Same thing, the lowest level that that's ever been. So 57 00:03:20,439 --> 00:03:23,759 this got me thinking over the weekend, why is the 58 00:03:23,759 --> 00:03:28,120 favorability opinion of the Democrat Party so low right now? 59 00:03:28,840 --> 00:03:31,800 And obviously we're stuck in the news of the day today, 60 00:03:31,800 --> 00:03:33,879 there's so much going on. You're heard in the news 61 00:03:33,919 --> 00:03:37,639 break of the court order stopping the deportation flights, the 62 00:03:37,639 --> 00:03:41,000 Trump administration going forward with it anyway, battle over a 63 00:03:41,039 --> 00:03:44,240 shutdown late last week in Washington, DC. But I think 64 00:03:44,280 --> 00:03:47,280 We've got to go back further than that, I think, 65 00:03:47,319 --> 00:03:51,599 to truly understand why the favorability within the Democrat Party 66 00:03:51,639 --> 00:03:53,800 is so low right now, We've got to go back 67 00:03:53,800 --> 00:03:57,520 to prior to the election of last year, when you 68 00:03:57,639 --> 00:04:01,159 had many Democrats that were sounding the alarm on what 69 00:04:01,599 --> 00:04:06,199 was the final days of the Biden administration. Now, obviously 70 00:04:06,240 --> 00:04:08,960 you're party loyalists. They operate the same way on both 71 00:04:08,960 --> 00:04:11,039 the left and the right. They will carry the water 72 00:04:11,120 --> 00:04:13,599 and stick with their party one percent of the time. 73 00:04:13,639 --> 00:04:16,920 So we're not talking about those individuals. But as you 74 00:04:17,120 --> 00:04:20,519 work towards the middle of the political spectrum, you've got 75 00:04:20,519 --> 00:04:23,439 this group of voters that fall left fall right, depending 76 00:04:23,439 --> 00:04:25,879 on their political makeup and the things that they believe in. 77 00:04:26,240 --> 00:04:30,600 Those individuals were starting to call out what was a 78 00:04:30,639 --> 00:04:36,240 failing administration and their concerns were pushed to the side. 79 00:04:36,319 --> 00:04:37,639 Speaker 3: Their concerns were ignored. 80 00:04:37,639 --> 00:04:40,600 Speaker 2: They were told to shut up, sit down, and just 81 00:04:40,759 --> 00:04:43,839 get on the bus with everybody else. Don't make any 82 00:04:43,879 --> 00:04:47,279 issues here, don't argue with us. We're the Democrat Party. 83 00:04:47,319 --> 00:04:49,759 We know the best. So as we worked through the 84 00:04:49,839 --> 00:04:53,639 summer of last year with Biden's failing mental health on 85 00:04:53,759 --> 00:04:57,600 public display for everybody. Then, of course, the first disastrous 86 00:04:57,839 --> 00:05:01,199 debate that took place. Next thing, you know, Biden's gone, 87 00:05:02,199 --> 00:05:05,720 and those middle of the road Democrat voters, the ones 88 00:05:05,759 --> 00:05:07,800 that are not the party loyalists but tend to vote 89 00:05:07,800 --> 00:05:11,600 for Democrats in general and primary and various elections, midterms, 90 00:05:11,680 --> 00:05:15,279 whatever it might be, those individuals who had voiced this 91 00:05:15,360 --> 00:05:20,240 concern earlier were once again told to stop talking because 92 00:05:20,240 --> 00:05:21,720 they didn't get a choice. 93 00:05:21,800 --> 00:05:23,079 Speaker 3: As to who their candidate was. 94 00:05:24,240 --> 00:05:27,040 Speaker 2: They didn't get to decide who was going to lead 95 00:05:27,120 --> 00:05:31,120 their party in a major general election battle that we 96 00:05:31,240 --> 00:05:34,879 saw play out in November of last year. They were 97 00:05:34,920 --> 00:05:40,759 told the vice president, the very unpopular, very ineffective vice president, 98 00:05:40,959 --> 00:05:43,959 in Vice President Harris, was going to be their pick. 99 00:05:44,720 --> 00:05:47,240 They didn't have a say, they didn't get to vote, 100 00:05:47,279 --> 00:05:50,079 they didn't have a choice. This is your candidate. She 101 00:05:50,279 --> 00:05:56,360 was nominated queen of the Democrat Party overnight. Joe Biden's gone, 102 00:05:56,639 --> 00:06:01,519 and here you've got Harris as your candidate. Imagine that 103 00:06:01,720 --> 00:06:04,279 if you were one of those middle of the road, 104 00:06:04,319 --> 00:06:08,120 maybe even moderate Democrat voters that was not super happy 105 00:06:08,120 --> 00:06:11,279 with the Biden administration, was not happy with the upper 106 00:06:11,279 --> 00:06:14,279 echelon of the Democrat party and the way they were operating. 107 00:06:14,720 --> 00:06:18,319 How frustrating is that you knew Joe Biden wasn't up 108 00:06:18,319 --> 00:06:21,199 to the task, yet you were told that your concerns 109 00:06:21,199 --> 00:06:25,160 weren't valid. You were told that your concerns didn't matter. 110 00:06:25,199 --> 00:06:27,199 You just needed to get in line with everybody else. 111 00:06:27,959 --> 00:06:30,279 Here's the sheet of music, starts singing off of it, 112 00:06:31,519 --> 00:06:34,079 Lo and behold those individuals. Well they happened to be right. 113 00:06:34,879 --> 00:06:37,399 Joe Biden did, in fact drop out. He was not 114 00:06:37,600 --> 00:06:41,079 the candidate who ran against Trump in the November general election. 115 00:06:42,480 --> 00:06:45,720 So then Harris is the gal. She's the one. She's 116 00:06:45,759 --> 00:06:49,279 the face of the Democrat Party, even though she's incredibly unpopular. 117 00:06:49,920 --> 00:06:53,480 She refused to do media that touched American voters. She 118 00:06:53,560 --> 00:06:56,600 refused to do shows like Joe Rogan and other various 119 00:06:57,000 --> 00:07:00,439 interviews in media outlets that we as we I believe 120 00:07:00,600 --> 00:07:05,279 saw play out in November were incredibly influential for the election, 121 00:07:05,879 --> 00:07:08,519 and Democrats just had to continue to chug along. There 122 00:07:08,600 --> 00:07:10,759 was nothing they could do at that point. The match 123 00:07:10,839 --> 00:07:13,879 was already set, the race was already set, ballots were printed, 124 00:07:14,120 --> 00:07:15,720 the contest was Trump v. 125 00:07:15,800 --> 00:07:19,199 Speaker 3: Harris. That was it. So then we roll over to 126 00:07:19,519 --> 00:07:20,279 election day. 127 00:07:20,879 --> 00:07:23,759 Speaker 2: And while the polling looked pretty good for Trump, we 128 00:07:23,839 --> 00:07:26,720 know political polls are not always the most accurate thing 129 00:07:26,759 --> 00:07:30,600 in the world, and especially political polls dealing with somebody 130 00:07:30,800 --> 00:07:36,319 like President Donald Trump. That's at the time, former President 131 00:07:36,360 --> 00:07:39,079 Donald Trump. How were the polls going to handle him 132 00:07:39,160 --> 00:07:42,000 the third time around? Had the pollsters figured out how 133 00:07:42,079 --> 00:07:44,720 to pull Trump, had the pollsters figure out how to 134 00:07:44,759 --> 00:07:48,759 deal with him in a presidential contest on a national stage. 135 00:07:48,759 --> 00:07:51,240 There was a lot of uncertainty, a lot of questions. 136 00:07:51,279 --> 00:07:53,079 There are times of the charm maybe who knows. 137 00:07:54,600 --> 00:07:55,040 Speaker 3: And then, of. 138 00:07:55,000 --> 00:07:59,079 Speaker 2: Course we saw what happened election night November twenty twenty four. 139 00:08:00,360 --> 00:08:05,040 Harris lost all seven of the swing states. Democrats were 140 00:08:05,079 --> 00:08:08,920 incapable of holding the Oval office. They gave up their 141 00:08:09,000 --> 00:08:13,680 majority in the Senate. They were unsuccessful and taking away 142 00:08:13,720 --> 00:08:16,800 the majority from Republicans in the House. Oh and by 143 00:08:16,839 --> 00:08:20,040 the way, maybe I should mention this, Trump won the 144 00:08:20,040 --> 00:08:22,879 popular vote for a Republican the first time in twenty years. 145 00:08:24,160 --> 00:08:27,720 It's all of this setting the stage before we are 146 00:08:27,879 --> 00:08:30,639 even turning the calendar into twenty twenty five, all of 147 00:08:30,680 --> 00:08:34,559 this before Trump's even in office. I think that sheds 148 00:08:34,559 --> 00:08:36,759 a little bit of insight into some of this polling. 149 00:08:37,000 --> 00:08:38,799 Speaker 1: All right, if you're listening to this show, you know 150 00:08:38,879 --> 00:08:40,879 I try to keep up with all sorts of current events, 151 00:08:40,879 --> 00:08:42,960 and I know you do too, And you've probably heard 152 00:08:42,960 --> 00:08:47,039 me say get your news from multiple sources. 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The NBC News poll showed that just a 174 00:09:51,000 --> 00:09:54,600 quarter of registered voters twenty seven percent, say they have 175 00:09:54,679 --> 00:09:57,200 a positive view of the Democrat Party, which is the 176 00:09:57,279 --> 00:10:00,799 lowest in the NBC News poll since ninth teen ninety 177 00:10:01,080 --> 00:10:05,000 back when NBC News started asking this question and started 178 00:10:05,080 --> 00:10:08,159 conducting this poll. And then a similar poll over at 179 00:10:08,279 --> 00:10:11,519 CNN that asked individuals what they thought of the Democrat 180 00:10:11,559 --> 00:10:13,759 Party and they were found to only have a twenty 181 00:10:13,960 --> 00:10:17,480 nine percent favorability in the CNN poll. So both of 182 00:10:17,480 --> 00:10:21,799 those polls combined the lowest ranking ever, the lowest percentage 183 00:10:21,840 --> 00:10:25,600 ever for the favorability of the Democrat Party. And as 184 00:10:25,600 --> 00:10:28,360 I went through in the first segment walking through a 185 00:10:28,399 --> 00:10:32,559 couple of the reasons as to why Democrat voters might 186 00:10:32,600 --> 00:10:35,639 be frustrated, all of this happened before Trump was even 187 00:10:35,639 --> 00:10:40,000 in office. Right, you had the disastrous debate for Biden, 188 00:10:40,039 --> 00:10:43,679 then him being quickly exited stage left, and then replaced 189 00:10:43,679 --> 00:10:46,639 with the very unpopular vice president. She's supposed to be 190 00:10:46,720 --> 00:10:49,360 the savior of the Democrat Party. She shows up in 191 00:10:49,399 --> 00:10:52,200 early November and she gets her clocks clean. I mean, 192 00:10:52,240 --> 00:10:55,600 the Democrat Party just gets shellacked. In the November election. 193 00:10:56,080 --> 00:10:59,279 Trump wins seven of seven swing states. He wins the 194 00:10:59,320 --> 00:11:02,440 popular vote, something he was unsuccessful and Republicans have been 195 00:11:02,519 --> 00:11:06,720 unsuccessful in doing for twenty plus years now. Democrats lose 196 00:11:06,720 --> 00:11:09,600 control of the Senate at a much larger margin than 197 00:11:09,600 --> 00:11:12,480 they were supposed to, and by the way, Republicans retained 198 00:11:12,480 --> 00:11:13,360 control of the House. 199 00:11:14,039 --> 00:11:14,919 Speaker 3: So all of that. 200 00:11:14,960 --> 00:11:18,960 Speaker 2: Together, we're now at the midway point through November early 201 00:11:19,000 --> 00:11:22,120 part of December of last year. And you can imagine 202 00:11:22,919 --> 00:11:25,879 if you're a Democrat putting those shoes on for just 203 00:11:25,919 --> 00:11:28,200 a couple of minutes. I know it's tough, but put 204 00:11:28,200 --> 00:11:31,320 yourself in the shoes of that Democrat voter. How frustrated 205 00:11:31,399 --> 00:11:34,399 must you be with your party. You knew that there 206 00:11:34,480 --> 00:11:37,039 was an issue, you knew maybe, and you took Trump 207 00:11:37,120 --> 00:11:40,440 as a as a serious political threat, as opposition to 208 00:11:40,519 --> 00:11:42,759 you and what you stand for as a Democrat, and 209 00:11:42,840 --> 00:11:45,200 what your party beliefs are and what the party platform 210 00:11:45,240 --> 00:11:49,440 and ideas are. You were told to ignore that he's illegitimate, 211 00:11:49,639 --> 00:11:52,840 he's not serious. There's no chance he can win so 212 00:11:52,960 --> 00:11:55,679 on and so forth, all of the typical Democrat talking points. 213 00:11:55,679 --> 00:11:58,600 He's a convicted felon, he's a this, he's that. All 214 00:11:58,639 --> 00:12:02,559 of that materialized to because Democrats could not convince the 215 00:12:02,600 --> 00:12:07,840 American people that their ideas, their policies, their platforms were 216 00:12:07,879 --> 00:12:11,360 better than that of Donald Trump and the Republicans. So 217 00:12:11,399 --> 00:12:13,240 now we fast forward to the early part of this 218 00:12:13,360 --> 00:12:17,519 year January twentieth to be exact, inauguration day for now 219 00:12:17,559 --> 00:12:20,519 the forty seventh President of the United States Donald Trump. 220 00:12:20,600 --> 00:12:26,039 Once again Democrats besides them beside themselves. You don't like Trump, 221 00:12:26,120 --> 00:12:28,600 you weren't a fan of Trump, and now he's the guy. 222 00:12:29,360 --> 00:12:31,360 He's the president, whether you like it or not. Now, 223 00:12:31,440 --> 00:12:34,200 of course, some Democrats still screaming that the election was stolen, 224 00:12:34,200 --> 00:12:37,960 but we'll ignore those those voices in the corner. He's 225 00:12:38,000 --> 00:12:42,879 the president now. And what does he start doing day one? 226 00:12:42,960 --> 00:12:47,679 He begins dismantling what Democrats have worked for decades to 227 00:12:47,759 --> 00:12:53,399 put into effect, the complete and total government bureaucracy that 228 00:12:53,559 --> 00:12:57,080 controls each and every element and facet of our day 229 00:12:57,120 --> 00:13:01,279 to day lives. To the Democrats credit a very effective 230 00:13:01,320 --> 00:13:06,080 tool that they have mastermind over a generation where they 231 00:13:06,080 --> 00:13:10,039 have grown, the size of the federal government, grown, the 232 00:13:10,080 --> 00:13:13,879 size of regulation, grown, the size of the bureaucracy to 233 00:13:13,919 --> 00:13:16,240 the point where it's hard for you to operate your 234 00:13:16,279 --> 00:13:19,519 life without dealing with the bureaucracy in one way or 235 00:13:19,559 --> 00:13:23,120 the other. And of course, where does that bureaucracy fall 236 00:13:23,360 --> 00:13:27,159 on the political spectrum, Well, it falls almost exclusively to 237 00:13:27,200 --> 00:13:32,080 the left. Big government is controlled by and has been 238 00:13:32,120 --> 00:13:33,919 controlled by, the radical left. 239 00:13:34,519 --> 00:13:35,120 Speaker 3: You saw it. 240 00:13:35,120 --> 00:13:39,840 Speaker 2: During Trump's first term twenty sixteen to twenty twenty. Now 241 00:13:39,879 --> 00:13:41,679 at the time, there's a lot of talk from him 242 00:13:41,679 --> 00:13:44,840 and other Republicans about draining the swamp. You heard that 243 00:13:44,960 --> 00:13:47,039 a lot in the first term. It was a major 244 00:13:47,080 --> 00:13:51,120 campaign promise he made to voters throughout twenty late latter 245 00:13:51,159 --> 00:13:54,360 parts of twenty six twenty fifteen, and throughout the entire 246 00:13:54,399 --> 00:13:59,480 election in twenty sixteen. But he was unsuccessful in truly 247 00:13:59,720 --> 00:14:02,679 dre the swamp as to what he as he wanted 248 00:14:02,720 --> 00:14:05,840 to do so as many Republican voters wanted him. 249 00:14:05,720 --> 00:14:06,120 Speaker 3: To do so. 250 00:14:07,399 --> 00:14:11,960 Speaker 2: As Trump unfortunately found out the hard way, the problem 251 00:14:12,120 --> 00:14:14,960 was much bigger than he was maybe led on to believe. 252 00:14:16,200 --> 00:14:20,279 The size and the scope of this liberal, progressive bureaucracy 253 00:14:20,679 --> 00:14:23,759 was much bigger than he could even tackle, and in 254 00:14:23,799 --> 00:14:25,919 his first term he did not have the right people 255 00:14:26,080 --> 00:14:29,320 around him to do that. There was a bunch of 256 00:14:29,360 --> 00:14:32,440 individuals that did not have Trump or the American people's 257 00:14:32,519 --> 00:14:35,240 best interests at heart. When they decided they were going 258 00:14:35,279 --> 00:14:38,159 to work with the new administration, they misled Trump, they 259 00:14:38,159 --> 00:14:40,919 misled his advisors, and they didn't do the job they 260 00:14:40,960 --> 00:14:43,840 needed to do. And so, while he did make some 261 00:14:43,960 --> 00:14:46,000 inroads a little bit here, a little bit there in 262 00:14:46,000 --> 00:14:51,480 regards to the over the oversized government bureaucracy, the regulation, 263 00:14:51,600 --> 00:14:55,039 the red tape, the waste, the fraud, the abuse, wasn't enough. 264 00:14:55,039 --> 00:14:57,600 He didn't have enough time, and he spent the first 265 00:14:57,639 --> 00:15:01,120 two years of his administration fighting Paul and the Republicans 266 00:15:01,159 --> 00:15:03,120 in the House because I of course didn't want to 267 00:15:03,120 --> 00:15:06,120 work with the Republican president. What a novel concept working 268 00:15:06,120 --> 00:15:08,639 with a guy that just won the presidential election for 269 00:15:08,679 --> 00:15:11,519 your party, I know, what a wild idea working with 270 00:15:11,600 --> 00:15:13,000 the a duly elected president. 271 00:15:14,559 --> 00:15:15,480 Speaker 3: So within just. 272 00:15:15,559 --> 00:15:18,720 Speaker 2: Days of Trump being sworn in the second time as 273 00:15:18,759 --> 00:15:22,320 the forty seventh president of the United States, he begins 274 00:15:22,360 --> 00:15:28,200 the process of dismantling what the Democrats have worked decades 275 00:15:28,480 --> 00:15:33,639 to concoct. They have worked decades to install their people, 276 00:15:33,919 --> 00:15:39,200 their political ideology, their agenda in every facet of the 277 00:15:39,200 --> 00:15:46,720 federal government, from agencies like EPA to Social Security to Treasury, 278 00:15:46,960 --> 00:15:52,200 all over federal government, their people exist. The only difference 279 00:15:52,240 --> 00:15:55,600 now is that Trump and the people around him know 280 00:15:55,919 --> 00:15:58,360 what their target is, and they have done a very 281 00:15:58,399 --> 00:16:01,799 effective job at cut that out. They've done a very 282 00:16:01,840 --> 00:16:05,799 effective job at relieving those individuals of their duty. And 283 00:16:05,840 --> 00:16:08,200 there's a lot more that has been going on over 284 00:16:08,240 --> 00:16:10,840 the last couple of weeks six almost sixty days since 285 00:16:10,840 --> 00:16:12,480 Trump's been in the Oval office. 286 00:16:12,559 --> 00:16:15,240 Speaker 1: Here's a great idea. How about making an escape to 287 00:16:15,320 --> 00:16:18,799 a really special and secluded getaway in western North Carolina. 288 00:16:18,919 --> 00:16:21,080 Just a quick drive up the mountain and Cabins of 289 00:16:21,080 --> 00:16:25,480 Asheville is your connection. 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So this brings us to where 316 00:17:53,440 --> 00:17:56,559 we were in the middle and latter part of last week, 317 00:17:56,799 --> 00:18:01,480 where Democrats had a big decision to make do they 318 00:18:01,640 --> 00:18:04,400 keep open the government or do they shut it down? 319 00:18:04,839 --> 00:18:08,000 You heard all the WBT hosts talking about it last week. 320 00:18:09,160 --> 00:18:12,720 House Republicans worked with the Trump administration to come up 321 00:18:12,720 --> 00:18:15,480 with a continuing resolution, which I'll admit is not perfect. 322 00:18:15,519 --> 00:18:17,880 Not a fan of a CR, but that's what that's 323 00:18:17,920 --> 00:18:20,279 the cards that we got dealt. That's what we're dealing with. 324 00:18:20,880 --> 00:18:24,160 So Republicans work with Trump, they get a CR put together, 325 00:18:24,359 --> 00:18:26,599 they pass it in the House. They don't need the 326 00:18:26,640 --> 00:18:29,519 Democrats support to do so. Republicans have the majority in 327 00:18:29,559 --> 00:18:32,640 the House, simple majority vote wins, They passed it, and 328 00:18:32,680 --> 00:18:35,640 it goes on to the Senate. Now, while Republicans do 329 00:18:35,880 --> 00:18:38,519 have control and do have the majority in the Senate, 330 00:18:38,759 --> 00:18:41,599 they don't have sixty votes, which is what they need 331 00:18:41,799 --> 00:18:46,279 to pass something like a continuing resolution. So this brought 332 00:18:46,319 --> 00:18:50,119 forward a very interesting question for the leader of the 333 00:18:50,240 --> 00:18:55,680 US Senate in Chuck Schumer, at least from the Democrat 334 00:18:55,759 --> 00:18:59,039 side of the aisle, the minority leader in Chuck Schumer, 335 00:18:59,240 --> 00:19:02,359 had to decide what did he want to do now. 336 00:19:02,519 --> 00:19:05,559 Wednesday of last week, Tuesday, Wednesday of last week, you 337 00:19:05,640 --> 00:19:08,200 heard from Schumer that it wasn't going to happen. He 338 00:19:08,359 --> 00:19:12,640 was not going to vote for a continuing resolution. As 339 00:19:12,880 --> 00:19:15,160 the days went on, as we got closer to the 340 00:19:15,240 --> 00:19:19,759 Friday midnight deadline when the government was set to shut down, 341 00:19:19,799 --> 00:19:23,279 to close down at least on a temporary basis without 342 00:19:23,279 --> 00:19:27,039 this continuing resolution, this stop gap funding bill put in place, 343 00:19:27,559 --> 00:19:32,079 well old Chucky Schumer's tune started to change and he 344 00:19:32,920 --> 00:19:36,319 came out in public made a statement that said and 345 00:19:36,400 --> 00:19:39,039 claimed that he was going to vote for the continuing 346 00:19:39,079 --> 00:19:43,000 Resolution and that he was encouraging his Senate colleagues on 347 00:19:43,039 --> 00:19:45,599 the Democrat side of the aisle to do the exact 348 00:19:45,599 --> 00:19:52,759 same thing. And from a political standpoint, speaking purely political optics, political, 349 00:19:53,160 --> 00:19:54,920 you know the game that we all talk about, we 350 00:19:54,960 --> 00:19:57,680 all love, we all enjoin, most of us do. 351 00:19:58,960 --> 00:19:59,799 Speaker 3: That was a smart move. 352 00:20:00,759 --> 00:20:04,880 Speaker 2: He needed to move forward with the continuing Resolution. There 353 00:20:04,960 --> 00:20:07,599 was no amount of media spin. There was no amount 354 00:20:07,599 --> 00:20:12,039 of running to MSNBC or CNN cameras and blaming the 355 00:20:12,119 --> 00:20:14,799 Republicans for the shutdown. That was going to make this 356 00:20:14,880 --> 00:20:18,799 problem good for the Democrats. Republicans are in charge, they 357 00:20:18,839 --> 00:20:21,039 passed it in the House, they had all of their 358 00:20:21,160 --> 00:20:24,200 votes in the Senate. If the government shut down on Friday, 359 00:20:24,240 --> 00:20:28,079 it was exclusively one party and one party's fault. That 360 00:20:28,319 --> 00:20:31,880 was Chuck Schumer and the Democrats in the United States Senate. 361 00:20:32,039 --> 00:20:35,680 There is no amount of dressing up, putting lipstick on 362 00:20:35,720 --> 00:20:39,160 the pig that is going to change that for Senate Democrats. 363 00:20:39,359 --> 00:20:39,759 Speaker 3: Change that. 364 00:20:39,880 --> 00:20:43,079 Speaker 2: For the American media and for the American public. There's 365 00:20:43,119 --> 00:20:46,039 always an attempt because the mainstream media is such a 366 00:20:46,400 --> 00:20:49,880 powerful tool for the left. They always have this ability 367 00:20:49,960 --> 00:20:54,240 to spin the narrative right. We've seen this for generations now, 368 00:20:54,920 --> 00:20:58,440 we've seen the ability for them to take something and 369 00:20:58,559 --> 00:21:03,160 spin it into their fail from a political standpoint, they've 370 00:21:03,160 --> 00:21:05,119 been very successful. 371 00:21:04,480 --> 00:21:06,039 Speaker 3: At using media. 372 00:21:06,119 --> 00:21:11,440 Speaker 2: The media establishment, whether that be ABC, CBS, NBC now 373 00:21:11,440 --> 00:21:15,279 with the invention of cable news, CNN and MSNBC, use 374 00:21:15,400 --> 00:21:21,319 these tools, use these avenues and vehicles of media to 375 00:21:21,400 --> 00:21:25,119 tell the American people what is not the truth. Tell 376 00:21:25,160 --> 00:21:28,119 the American people that even though Democrats voted against a 377 00:21:28,200 --> 00:21:32,440 continuing resolution, it was those gosh darn Republicans that shut 378 00:21:32,480 --> 00:21:35,440 the government down. They've been successful at doing that in 379 00:21:35,480 --> 00:21:39,240 the past. But I think Chuck Schumer, contrary to what 380 00:21:39,319 --> 00:21:42,880 if you like him or not, he's a smart political operator. 381 00:21:43,759 --> 00:21:44,680 Speaker 3: He knows the game. 382 00:21:44,839 --> 00:21:47,240 Speaker 2: He's been in it long enough to know how this 383 00:21:47,400 --> 00:21:50,000 was going to play out for him. And I'll note 384 00:21:50,400 --> 00:21:54,079 the polls that we're talking about this afternoon, all of 385 00:21:54,119 --> 00:21:57,519 these were conducted well before this cr vote took place 386 00:21:57,559 --> 00:22:00,680 on Friday. Around was at five six o'clock Friday when 387 00:22:00,920 --> 00:22:04,559 the Senate passed the Continuing Resolution. All these polls were 388 00:22:04,559 --> 00:22:07,480 already in the field before that. So this was before 389 00:22:07,519 --> 00:22:13,839 the ciarvo. And so as he came out boldly and 390 00:22:14,000 --> 00:22:17,359 spoke against or spoke in favor of the Continuing Resolution, 391 00:22:17,440 --> 00:22:20,160 claiming that the Democrats will have more power with the 392 00:22:20,200 --> 00:22:24,799 government open than by shutting it down, something very interesting happened, 393 00:22:25,839 --> 00:22:29,079 something that we have not seen to take place on 394 00:22:29,160 --> 00:22:34,519 the public political stage in quite some time. You had 395 00:22:34,920 --> 00:22:40,759 in fighting within the Democrat Party taking place publicly. One thing, 396 00:22:41,119 --> 00:22:43,640 if you want to give the Democrat Party credit for anything, 397 00:22:43,680 --> 00:22:46,240 one thing you absolutely have to give them credit for 398 00:22:47,039 --> 00:22:50,759 is their ability to work out issues behind the scenes, 399 00:22:51,839 --> 00:22:56,200 their ability to work out issues behind closed doors. Have 400 00:22:56,359 --> 00:22:59,880 the knockout, drag out battle, but do it privately? Do 401 00:23:00,000 --> 00:23:03,359 you do behind the scenes and then emerge a unified front. 402 00:23:03,960 --> 00:23:08,359 Democrats are incredibly good at doing that. Republicans not so much. 403 00:23:08,880 --> 00:23:11,799 We see their knockout, drag out battles in public and 404 00:23:12,160 --> 00:23:15,200 making a complete and total mockery of the GOP and 405 00:23:15,279 --> 00:23:18,640 their agenda. Democrats don't operate in that manner, at least 406 00:23:18,720 --> 00:23:24,759 they haven't until Thursday and Friday of last week. Chuck 407 00:23:24,799 --> 00:23:28,079 Schumer says, I'm voting for this continuing resolution. I'm encouraging 408 00:23:28,079 --> 00:23:31,039 my Democrats senate colleagues to do the same. And just 409 00:23:31,160 --> 00:23:34,440 like that snap of the finger, you've got Democrats in 410 00:23:34,480 --> 00:23:38,319 the House calling out Chuck Schumer. I'd like to read 411 00:23:38,359 --> 00:23:42,000 you a quote from the former Speaker of the United 412 00:23:42,039 --> 00:23:47,200 States House in Nancy Pelosi, everybody's favorite representative from San Francisco. 413 00:23:47,240 --> 00:23:48,960 This is what she put out in a statement on 414 00:23:49,039 --> 00:23:53,559 Friday morning. Donald Trump and Elon Musk have offered the 415 00:23:53,640 --> 00:23:57,839 Congress a false choice between a government shutdown or a 416 00:23:57,880 --> 00:24:02,119 blank check that makes a devastating assault on well being 417 00:24:02,279 --> 00:24:06,960 of working American families. Across the country. Let's be clear, 418 00:24:07,359 --> 00:24:10,680 neither is a good option for the American people. But 419 00:24:10,880 --> 00:24:14,480 this false choice that some are buying instead of fighting 420 00:24:14,799 --> 00:24:21,359 is unacceptable. End quote. The false choice that some are 421 00:24:21,400 --> 00:24:26,160 buying instead of fighting is unacceptable. That is a complete 422 00:24:26,440 --> 00:24:32,319 pot shot at Chuck Schumer. That is calling out her colleagues, 423 00:24:32,480 --> 00:24:36,759 her friends in the United States Senate over not voting 424 00:24:37,279 --> 00:24:41,000 or not stonewalling the Continuing Resolution and voting against it. 425 00:24:41,359 --> 00:24:44,599 And she wasn't the only one. We heard some similar 426 00:24:44,680 --> 00:24:47,039 comments as well from Hakim Jeffries. 427 00:24:47,519 --> 00:24:50,079 Speaker 1: All right, so spring is here a time of renewal 428 00:24:50,160 --> 00:24:54,680 and celebrations. You've got graduations, weddings, anniversaries and the special 429 00:24:54,759 --> 00:24:57,279 days for mom and dad. 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You had Chuck 454 00:26:23,519 --> 00:26:26,680 Schumer who was encouraging his Senate colleagues to vote in 455 00:26:26,799 --> 00:26:30,200 favor of the continuing Resolution to keep the government open, 456 00:26:30,359 --> 00:26:35,079 and you had the Democrats in the House speaking against it. 457 00:26:35,119 --> 00:26:37,559 You heard I read the quote from Nancy Pelosi. I'll 458 00:26:37,599 --> 00:26:40,160 read the final part of it again. This is directly 459 00:26:40,160 --> 00:26:42,960 from the former Speaker of the US House quote. This 460 00:26:43,480 --> 00:26:46,400 false choice is that the false choice that some are 461 00:26:46,440 --> 00:26:51,039 buying instead of fighting is unacceptable, calling out Chuck Schumer. 462 00:26:51,480 --> 00:26:55,119 And here's a quick audio clip of Hakeem Jefferys saying 463 00:26:55,160 --> 00:26:58,160 a very similar thing. He held a press conference about 464 00:26:58,160 --> 00:27:00,680 three or four hours ahead of the vote in the 465 00:27:00,759 --> 00:27:03,519 US Senate on Friday. This is what Hakim Jeffries had 466 00:27:03,519 --> 00:27:04,559 to say about the shutdown. 467 00:27:04,880 --> 00:27:08,200 Speaker 4: A general view is that we do not want to 468 00:27:08,279 --> 00:27:14,480 shut down the government, but we are not afraid of 469 00:27:14,559 --> 00:27:20,400 a government funding showdown, and we will win that showdown. 470 00:27:20,799 --> 00:27:25,160 Speaker 2: And that's calling out Chuck Schumer. Hakim Jeffries, the leader 471 00:27:25,200 --> 00:27:28,119 of the Democrats in the House, says that he's not 472 00:27:28,240 --> 00:27:30,279 afraid of a shutdown and if there's going to be 473 00:27:30,319 --> 00:27:35,240 a public showdown over that, Democrats will win. I think 474 00:27:35,319 --> 00:27:39,799 Hajakim Jeffries is dead wrong about that. I think when 475 00:27:39,839 --> 00:27:43,079 you look at what just happened in November of last year, 476 00:27:43,759 --> 00:27:46,559 I don't think the American people and this polling, which 477 00:27:46,559 --> 00:27:48,880 again we didn't have at the time when these clips 478 00:27:48,880 --> 00:27:52,359 in this back and forth was happening on Friday. The 479 00:27:52,440 --> 00:27:55,960 polling indicates that the American public is not a fan 480 00:27:56,319 --> 00:27:57,599 of the Democrat. 481 00:27:57,119 --> 00:27:57,920 Speaker 3: Party right now. 482 00:27:59,039 --> 00:28:02,400 Speaker 2: The polling indos especially for those middle of the road 483 00:28:02,480 --> 00:28:05,519 voters that voted for split government. And now those folks 484 00:28:05,559 --> 00:28:09,799 do exist. I've coined the term a ping pong voter 485 00:28:10,240 --> 00:28:12,599 to describe these individuals. As they work their way down 486 00:28:12,680 --> 00:28:16,720 the ballot, they check off some Republicans, check off some Democrats. 487 00:28:16,759 --> 00:28:19,640 They exist, and they exist in large part here in 488 00:28:19,720 --> 00:28:23,000 North Carolina. As of course, our largest voting block is 489 00:28:23,119 --> 00:28:27,000 unaffiliated voters across the Tar Hill State. So those people 490 00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:30,720 do exist. And when they vote for split government, that 491 00:28:30,799 --> 00:28:34,160 means they want individuals to work together. They want Democrats 492 00:28:34,160 --> 00:28:37,640 and Republicans to come together and work on issues like 493 00:28:37,960 --> 00:28:41,240 a government shutdown. Now, obviously, when you get to the 494 00:28:41,559 --> 00:28:46,200 hyper partisan, the hyper political issues, I don't think individuals 495 00:28:46,240 --> 00:28:49,799 expect there to be some big Kumbaya moment where Republicans 496 00:28:49,799 --> 00:28:53,480 and Democrats all of a sudden agree on everything from 497 00:28:53,519 --> 00:28:57,680 a policy standpoint together, but on something like this continuing 498 00:28:57,720 --> 00:29:03,400 resolution keeping the government open until September of this year. Voters, 499 00:29:03,519 --> 00:29:06,920 especially those middle of the road ones, want Democrats to 500 00:29:06,960 --> 00:29:11,000 work with Republicans. That's what this polling indicates. So I 501 00:29:11,000 --> 00:29:14,680 think Hakeem Jefferies assertion here that if the government was 502 00:29:14,720 --> 00:29:16,400 shut down, which is what he was in favor of, 503 00:29:16,839 --> 00:29:19,559 you know, it's easy for him. But his vote and 504 00:29:19,640 --> 00:29:23,799 his Democrats vote in the US House didn't matter whether 505 00:29:23,839 --> 00:29:25,799 he voted for it or against it. It was going 506 00:29:25,839 --> 00:29:28,359 to pass right. It's very easy to make a vote 507 00:29:28,400 --> 00:29:30,720 when your decision doesn't really have any impact at all, 508 00:29:31,640 --> 00:29:34,759 when your vote doesn't really carry any weight. So he's 509 00:29:34,799 --> 00:29:37,960 throwing shade at Chuck Schumer, He's throwing shade at the 510 00:29:38,359 --> 00:29:41,720 ten Senate Democrats that voted in favor of this cr. 511 00:29:42,400 --> 00:29:44,759 He thinks that he's going to win the showdown, as 512 00:29:44,799 --> 00:29:47,240 he calls it in the public sphere. I'm not sure 513 00:29:47,279 --> 00:29:50,240 that's the case. I think that's a big issue and 514 00:29:50,319 --> 00:29:54,839 a big miscalculation from Hakeem Jeffries coming up. So that's 515 00:29:55,000 --> 00:29:57,920 what we're tracking there on the government shutdown. I'll have 516 00:29:57,960 --> 00:30:01,359 some more details coming up here in jeff a few minutes. 517 00:30:02,640 --> 00:30:04,559 Speaker 1: All right, that'll do it for this episode. 518 00:30:04,599 --> 00:30:05,960 Speaker 3: Thank you so much. For listening. 519 00:30:06,079 --> 00:30:08,200 Speaker 1: I could not do the show without your support and 520 00:30:08,240 --> 00:30:10,960 the support of the businesses that advertise on the podcast, 521 00:30:11,319 --> 00:30:13,400 so if you'd like, please support them too and tell 522 00:30:13,440 --> 00:30:15,160 them you heard it here. You can also become a 523 00:30:15,200 --> 00:30:19,839 patron at my Patreon page or go to dpetecleanershow dot com. Again, 524 00:30:20,119 --> 00:30:22,599 thank you so much for listening, and don't break anything 525 00:30:22,640 --> 00:30:27,240 while I'm gone.