Speaker 1: Leonard Cohen sang about it, Hallelujah. Harry Underwood sang about it,
Speaker 1: Jesus take the wheel. But what happened last night and
Speaker 1: continuing to today could not have happened except for divine intervention.
Speaker 2: And it occurred.
Speaker 1: And of course I've not slept since I got up
Speaker 1: yesterday morning about seven point thirty. I can't sleep. I'm
Speaker 1: taking water. I'm doing my best. I'm gonna crash at
Speaker 1: some point. I'm running on adrenaline. But the man who
Speaker 1: delivered Ohio, the man who campaigned in all eighty eight counties,
Speaker 1: the man who beat all the experts in the pros,
Speaker 1: the man who won a Republican primary against the Rhinos,
Speaker 1: and the man that's going to go to Washington representing
Speaker 1: you and I is Bernie Marino of the Cleveland area.
Speaker 1: I love Cleveland at this point temporarily. And Bernie Marino,
Speaker 1: welcome again to the Bill Cunningham Show. And Bernie, here
Speaker 1: we are the afternoon after And can you tell us
Speaker 1: your feelings when it became you're going to be elected
Speaker 1: to the US Senate. I know I sent you a text?
Speaker 1: Was I the first one to call you? Senator Bernie Marino?
Speaker 3: That was with my family and I had I had
Speaker 3: my siblings, you know.
Speaker 2: You know, I'm one of seven.
Speaker 3: I have my four kids, my three grandkids, my son
Speaker 3: in law. So it was just great moment. It's a
Speaker 3: true honor.
Speaker 2: Bill. You're gonna remember.
Speaker 3: I'm a kid grow you know, born in Columbia, South America,
Speaker 3: moved here, was able to open a tiny little car dealership,
Speaker 3: and here I am representing the people of Ohio and
Speaker 3: the United States Senate. Just an overwhelming honor, truly honored,
Speaker 3: and just I'll say this to every one of your listeners,
Speaker 3: whether you voted for me or not, I will be
Speaker 3: the Senator for all of Ohio and I will work
Speaker 3: tirelessly to help make your government better for you.
Speaker 2: That's what I'm going to do.
Speaker 3: And I agree divine invention happened last night, because divine
Speaker 3: intervention created this country, and we're going to restore this
Speaker 3: country to its greatness.
Speaker 2: I can't wait to get started.
Speaker 1: Why Shared Brown is the Democrat evyweight champion of the
Speaker 1: state of Ohio's beat everyone, including a Mike DeWine. He
Speaker 1: beat Mike DeWine like a red headed stepchild. And I
Speaker 1: think it was twenty oh six and I was in
Speaker 1: Mike's office after that happened in the Capitol. I mean
Speaker 1: it was ugly. It was how did this happen? Shared Brown, undefeated, untied,
Speaker 1: unscored on in politics for more than half a century.
Speaker 1: Why did you win?
Speaker 3: Because people weren't buying his crap anymore. Sharon had been
Speaker 3: talking about work, helping the working man his entire fifty
Speaker 3: year career and doing the exact opposite where he was
Speaker 3: actually in office. So he was all taught, no action,
Speaker 3: and people just got sick of it. They saw what
Speaker 3: they saw. They saw the last four years where they
Speaker 3: couldn't afford basic necessities, you know, fast food, going out
Speaker 3: to the grocery store was terrorizing when you got your bill,
Speaker 3: your rent, your property taxes, your energy costs. And then
Speaker 3: yet they had Shared Brown making the corner someone of
Speaker 3: his campaign that I'm a bad guy and he wants
Speaker 3: to be able to kill babies indiscriminately, And the people
Speaker 3: just said, look, that's just I'm not buying it. They
Speaker 3: saw somebody who wants to serve this country, who wants
Speaker 3: to make their lives better, who was going to work
Speaker 3: with President Trump to restore American greatness, and they want
Speaker 3: to change. I mean, there were just sick and tired
Speaker 3: of these career politicians that do nothing. And last night
Speaker 3: Ohio spoke with a singular voice to reject that.
Speaker 1: In fact, he wouldn't debate. There were others that he
Speaker 1: didn't want to confront. He wanted to hide behind these Well,
Speaker 1: it's five hundred million dollars, the most expensive Senate race
Speaker 1: in the history of the world and the history of
Speaker 1: America was here in little old Ohio. And they knew
Speaker 1: he was at risk. They had a lie about you
Speaker 1: to win, and the lies didn't work. As a family
Speaker 1: man with children and grandchildren and one of a large family,
Speaker 1: and he called you everything but a white man, and
Speaker 1: it didn't work. The politics of personal destruction that the
Speaker 1: Democrats always engage in seemingly didn't work this time. Shared
Speaker 1: Brown called you to concede, and how if he did,
Speaker 1: how was the conversation.
Speaker 3: He is not called, he is not called. I think
Speaker 3: is deeply disappointing. You know, you know, it's interesting the
Speaker 3: party who said that we, the Republicans, were a threat
Speaker 3: to democracy. You have Kamala Harris that hasn't had the
Speaker 3: class and the dignity to give closure to the selection
Speaker 3: has not even addressed the American people and conceded the
Speaker 3: selection as a total disgrace. It's why these extremists are
Speaker 3: all about projection. They're the ones that don't believe in democracy.
Speaker 3: But look, we're not going to be divisive. We're going
Speaker 3: to unify this country bill because we're going to get success.
Speaker 3: And when people see that, our policies make their lives better,
Speaker 3: when they see a secure border, energy dominance, low prices,
Speaker 3: low interest rates, piece of stability around the world, safe communities.
Speaker 2: Good schools. We're going to deliver that, and.
Speaker 3: The American public is going to come together and reject
Speaker 3: the extremism from the other side. But look, I couldn't
Speaker 3: be more proud of the campaign that we ran. We
Speaker 3: did not engage in personal attacks. We engage in the
Speaker 3: campaign that pointed out this record. This is what the
Speaker 3: guy voted for, and if you agree with it, then
Speaker 3: you should continue to keep him in office. If you
Speaker 3: disagree with it, give the outsider a chance. And they did,
Speaker 3: and I'm truly honored for every single person that supported me.
Speaker 1: I can only imagine your first speech in the well
Speaker 1: of the United States Senate, those desks when you sit
Speaker 1: at a desk there they have a little plaque of
Speaker 1: all the senators that have set at that desk before.
Speaker 1: And there might be a desk there with four or
Speaker 1: five of the giants, so to speak of the Senate.
Speaker 1: And you're going to sit at a desk and there
Speaker 1: sets a kid from Columbia, gonna sit there and look
Speaker 1: at those names. On the left side of the desk
Speaker 1: is all those names that have served. And when you
Speaker 1: think about the magnitude of Bernie Marino and what you did,
Speaker 1: the magnitude of this to what credit do you give?
Speaker 1: Shall I say, the apparatus of government? I talked a
Speaker 1: lot with those in your campaign, look a lot with
Speaker 1: Alex Trentefilu, the chair of the party. I know you
Speaker 1: were close to JD. Vance, But has the moment reached
Speaker 1: your heart and soul yet? As to the chore that
Speaker 1: lies ahead for Bernie.
Speaker 3: Marino, absolutely, I mean it is a absolute honor, but
Speaker 3: also just an incredible challenge to make certain that I
Speaker 3: rise to this moment to make Ohio proud, to make
Speaker 3: this country proud, and get great things done. Look, I
Speaker 3: want to bring this country together, Bill, because I uniquely
Speaker 3: understand how special this country is. You know, when my
Speaker 3: mom and dad decided to leave Columbia, South America to
Speaker 3: come here, this would have even been in their wildest imagination. No,
Speaker 3: I love this country. I love this country, and we
Speaker 3: need to have people in Washington, DC that not only
Speaker 3: love America, but love Americans and know that it's their
Speaker 3: greatness that we need to support and defend and protect.
Speaker 2: And that's what I'm going to do.
Speaker 3: This will be a great honor for me to work
Speaker 3: for the next six years to move this country forward,
Speaker 3: and for the people who didn't vote for me, I
Speaker 3: will work tirelessly for you as well. We're going to
Speaker 3: bring this state in this country together.
Speaker 1: In the first two years. You know, the pundits that
Speaker 1: are wrong. I love the posters. The Polsters were unbelievable.
Speaker 1: You know, Bernie Marino's down ten points, fifteen points. They
Speaker 1: spend five hundred million dollars to smear your character and
Speaker 1: that it didn't succeed. The first one or two things
Speaker 1: you're gonna do. What are the one or two issues
Speaker 1: you're going to focus on in the Senate.
Speaker 2: We're going to secure a border.
Speaker 3: We're gonna make it crystal clear to the entire world
Speaker 3: there's one way to come to America, which is by
Speaker 3: invitation only on our terms, and if you're here illegally,
Speaker 3: you're not going to be able to stay here because
Speaker 3: at the end of the day, this is our home
Speaker 3: and we're going to protect it and we're going to
Speaker 3: defend it. And we have to be a sovereign country.
Speaker 3: That is absolutely key, and that will happen right away.
Speaker 3: The second thing we got to do is we got
Speaker 3: to lower the cost of everything. It's too expensive to
Speaker 3: live a normal life here in America, and we're going
Speaker 3: to work to make our government spend a lot less
Speaker 3: money and we're gonna have an energy dominant superpower in
Speaker 3: America and that will make the lives of Americans better
Speaker 3: and that allows.
Speaker 2: Us to lower interest rates.
Speaker 3: So just we want to be able to have Americans
Speaker 3: live a good, working class life, be able to make
Speaker 3: ends meet, save a little money, take a vacation periodically,
Speaker 3: and be able to retire debt free. That's the goal
Speaker 3: for us in the next six years and makes certain
Speaker 3: that we make that happen.
Speaker 1: As far as lowing costs, number one is energy and
Speaker 1: that's an important aspect. How do you, I know, the
Speaker 1: last year or two, the strategic petroleum reserve has been
Speaker 1: drained to keep prices down until the election. There's literally
Speaker 1: billions and billions of bearers of oil that Joe Biden,
Speaker 1: Kamala Harris took out of the spr in order to
Speaker 1: artificially keep prices low. In the last few weeks that's
Speaker 1: gone up fifty cents. It was scheduled to go up
Speaker 1: a dollar or two. And so in the short term,
Speaker 1: you can't turn on the spicket immediately, but the strategic
Speaker 1: petroleum Reserve has got to be stopped draining. That that's
Speaker 1: for like a real crisis, not a political one. So
Speaker 1: can you give the American people, Bernie Marino, a couple
Speaker 1: of things to lower cost that would have an impact,
Speaker 1: say in the next six months.
Speaker 3: Well, just lowering the regulatory environment, making certain that there's clear,
Speaker 3: transparent regulations that don't choke businesses.
Speaker 2: That helps a lot.
Speaker 3: But the big thing, Bill is if you send a
Speaker 3: signal to the markets that you're going to unleash American energy,
Speaker 3: increase natural gas exploration, oil exploration, you're going to put
Speaker 3: a moratorium on closing coal, fire plants, power plants. All
Speaker 3: those things send the signal to the market to lower
Speaker 3: future costs.
Speaker 2: Of energy.
Speaker 3: So we can make a difference in that right away,
Speaker 3: this is going to be America will be an energy superpower.
Speaker 3: There will not be a nation on Earth that rivals
Speaker 3: America when it comes to energy.
Speaker 1: Bernie Marino, congratulations. I can only go back in time
Speaker 1: a few decades and as your family is immigrating from Columbia,
Speaker 1: if somebody you told your mom or dad, see the
Speaker 1: little kid right over there, see a little Bernie.
Speaker 2: He's going to sit in the United States Senate.
Speaker 1: He can't be the president much like Arnold Swarzenegger because
Speaker 1: you weren't born here. But that guy right there is
Speaker 1: going to represent eleven million citizens. He's going to stand
Speaker 1: in the well the United States Senate. That little kid
Speaker 1: right there is going to do that in America. What
Speaker 1: your mom and dad would have said, If God Omid
Speaker 1: would have said, look at Bernie, think about the ark
Speaker 1: with they have said, yeah, yeah, that sounds right. No
Speaker 1: parent could have thought that correct. What would your mom
Speaker 1: and dad have said?
Speaker 3: My mom and dad would have said that everything and
Speaker 3: anything is possible of America if you can dream big
Speaker 3: enough and work hard enough to get it. My mom
Speaker 3: and dad believed in the greatness of this country. It's
Speaker 3: sad to me that they're not here. They both passed away,
Speaker 3: but they believed in the true greatness and not only
Speaker 3: this country but the people, and that they loved it
Speaker 3: beyond anything I've ever seen. And I'm going to honor
Speaker 3: their memory by making them proud.
Speaker 1: Both your mom and dad know what's going on, and
Speaker 1: they're so Proudno, once again, thank you for coming on
Speaker 1: the Bill Cunningham Show. Thank you, Bernie, thank you, and congratulations.
Speaker 1: Let's continue with more. It's unbelievable. And the life that
Speaker 1: he has lived up to this point is typical of
Speaker 1: the lives led by so many other Americans who find
Speaker 1: the possibility of manifest destiny. And it's in this country
Speaker 1: right now. And I would hope at some point in
Speaker 1: the near future of the mainstream media and the Democratic
Speaker 1: Party that controls all the institutions in this country would
Speaker 1: look back and say, we have to correct what we're doing.
Speaker 1: We can't be advocates for the left wing and for
Speaker 1: the fascists. What we have to be is care about
Speaker 1: the greatness of our country. And I hope, I hope NBCCBS, ABC, PBS,
Speaker 1: the newspapers can recognize they got to slap in the face,
Speaker 1: grow up and understand that there's a whole bunch of
Speaker 1: Americans out here in the hinterland that live a life
Speaker 1: you know nothing concerning, and don't preach to us anymore.
Speaker 1: And get on board, Get on board, let's continue. Bill Cunningham,
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