And now, this is the moment you've all been waiting for. It's time for the strength of breakfast for now. It's Tuesday, September 3rd, 2024, and this is the Snake for Breakfast podcast, episode 448-449. Make sure you're subscribed to the show. It's available across every downloadable podcast and platform. Find us on Apple, Spotify, iHeart, Samsung, or Apple podcast. Check out the Snake for Breakfast, Linktree, and take your shows on Instagram. Relate a sub-stack, and verify to count some ex-getter and true social. What's up, everybody, and welcome to the first of two big Tuesday editions of the show today. I'm Rome, and I've got Noah here with me, and as always, we've got lots of breaking news. Donald Trump delivered remarks to supporters on Pennsylvania this week. We've got comprehensive post-event highlights and analysis. Kamala Harris ends August on a bad note, and go in a war with the military over the Gold Star families who have stuck up for President Trump after he went down to support them to commemorate the people who lost their lives at Abbey Gate in Virginia last week. We'll bring you the latest on that. Kamala Harris, Joe Biden, and friends. I guess what you'd call a rally in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania over the weekend. We'll take a look at that and get you the best of the rest headlines heading into the week out of the busy Labor Day weekend. We've got a great slate of guests coming in here today as well. Indiana Congresswoman Erin Hoachman will be joining us. We'll catch up with South Carolina Congresswoman Nancy Mays as well. Newsmaxes John Bachman will be here, and we'll have South Carolina Congressmen Ralph Norman joining us as well, but before we get into any of these interviews, let's jump right into the headlines and change the way you consume your needs. Okay, this is not nom. This is bowling. They're a rule. All right, everybody, welcome to the Steak for Breakfast podcast. If you're a first-time listener, welcome to the show. If you're a longtime listener, welcome back to America's Fastest Growing, and quickly becoming favorite political podcast. First of two big Tuesday editions of the show, today on my own flying solo. I got caught up at work. The cargo ink and a forklift itself, especially after a busy Labor Day holiday, and we'll be bringing you the news in a way that we only can as we try to change the way you consume it. Here on Steak for Breakfast, had kind of a busy weekend here over the Labor Day holiday. Lots and lots of sports, a couple kid birthday parties in the middle of all that, but yeah, my daughter, she had her first volleyball tournament of the year. They did well. The son had another football game his second of the season. They up their record to two and zero. And then he participated in a three-day travel ball baseball tournament. So for all the parents out there who've got kids doing sports and lots of them, I feel your pain, but I'll be completely honest with you for the amount of time we're together with friends and family and getting to watch our kids grow and be successful. In our case, I wouldn't trade it for the world. So, the news cycle didn't take the holiday weekend off. And neither did our guest list. Got to talk about the all-star lineup we've got coming in today. A trio of Republican House members will be joining us. We'll be sitting down with Representative Aaron Houchin. At the end of this segment, we'll catch up with Nancy Mayce to round out our first edition of the show. Representative Ralph Norman will be joining us in our second edition of the podcast. And we'll be catching up with Newsmax, the zone, John Bachman. So, great guest lineup. It's going to be a good week here on the show. And we are hurtling towards election day. Now only 63 days away before November 5th, early voting starting in Pennsylvania on the 16th of this month, Virginia and Minnesota on the 20th, and then in Illinois on the 26th. So, right around the corner, we're here for it. We've got you. And we're going to just continue to keep you up to date on all the things you need to know about getting involved, being involved in the latest news items. So, I saw a couple things that didn't really make the show cut today that we could touch on briefly. I see coming across the news wire. New York Governor Kathy Hochl's. One of her top deputies is now confirmed linked to the CCP shocker and happened to all of these. You know, the more diversity, equity and inclusion you see in bringing people in as staffers to these major politicians' offices, you see it a lot more frequently on the Democrat side of the aisle because that's where the DEI thrives. You leave yourself open and susceptible to be infiltrated by members of the Chinese Communist Party. It's not like we haven't let enough of them in across our U.S. southern border. However, I do not know whether or not, you know, that's the case in the instance here. However, you really have to take into consideration the vetting procedures for some of these high-ranking positions close to our major politicians needs a complete rework and refitting because this is becoming something that's, you know, heard more frequently and becoming commonplace in the way we kind of brush it off. You know, there's no telling what kind of information or face-to-face meetings they could have had with other high-ranking politicians and it's just really a shame to see how empowered three-plus years now, almost four years of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have done to strengthen the CCP. So, you know, that's kind of some breaking news today. When the crimes ramping up all over the country, somebody got knifed here, raped there, murdered in another case. It seems now that every three out of four calls to 911 in Manhattan is tied to migrant crimes or migrants committing crimes, whether they're here illegally, whether they're adjusting status, whether they're already part of the Biden-Harris amnesty plan. It is something that needs to be taken head on and I think, you know, we'll see a lot clearer picture of what that's going to look like on the other side of the ballot box this November. Me personally, I'm under the weather a little bit today. I, well, actually my son and I, he stayed home from school. We ate something that was no go, no bueno yesterday and woke up with a little bit of food poisoning. But with Noah dispatched to the fork lifterry, the show must go on. So here we are. But if you hear any tummy rumble in throughout the course of these next two podcasts, I can assure you it's not hunger. It's upsettedness of my stomach because I'm not feeling well today, but we are going to bang this out and deliver the absolutely fantastic content we do on a quad legally basis here on stake for breakfast. First news item we're going to be touching on occurred over the weekend up in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, Battleground, Pennsylvania, state that Donald Trump is really fighting if you haven't noticed for in this upcoming election. In addition to having the assassination attempt on his life, you know, nearly two months ago up in Butler, Pennsylvania, Donald Trump, JD Vance or both of them have spent a large amount of time in the Keystone state rallies nearly every other weekend. And I can expect to only see a little bit of the same between now and election day as, you know, you start looking at the maps and the way everything shaking out. The electoral victory path for Donald Trump is many while for Kamala Harris, it is few. And when you look at just the breakdown, you know, Donald Trump has, of course, the North Carolina, Georgia and Pennsylvania to get to 270. He also has the North Carolina, Georgia, Arizona and Wisconsin to get to 272. You know, Trump can also lose Michigan and Nevada in some instances and still break the threshold. I honestly think it's going to be higher than that. But you have to just look at Kamala Harris. She really has to run the table, you know, much like Joe Biden did in 2020. She needs to hold Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan or sweep the entire Sunbelt and get one of those three. So the only path for Harris without the Rust Belt and that includes Pennsylvania is winning North Carolina on top of Georgia, Arizona and Nevada, which we all know. Kamala Harris is not favorite in any polls. Donald Trump continues to extend the lead in places like North Carolina. So I really don't think that when you look at it in a big, you can't trust the polls right now. You know, like I said, the polls were being sampled equally with seeing, you know, Joe Biden getting absolutely obliterated before he got out of the race. And now that the polls are showing a head-to-head matchup between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, you have more of a D plus whatever sampling. It started off D plus three, D plus five and six, and we're seeing some polls come out where, you know, Kamala Harris has like a 47, 45 lead over Donald Trump at a D plus 10. This does not show favorability to her. You also see the DNC bump or lack thereof come out this week. I mean, I looked at Polymarker this morning. Donald Trump has a 53% over 46% advantage over Kamala Harris and favorability to win the presidency. Now, when you talk about a lot of the undercard of the upcoming election ballot, the House of Representatives, obviously in a fight for their life, they're heading into a budget battle next week up on Capitol Hill as they need to pass a continuing resolution to keep the government open from September of this year, end of the month, through January when essentially we are all hope and Donald Trump has sworn in as the next president of the United States. In addition, we have the Senate races and although the favorability for Republicans to keep the Senate remains, you know, close to 75% in most instances, it's how many senators over the 51 threshold are we going to get. So it could be anywhere between 52, maybe 51, all the way up to 53, 54, 55, I've seen in some instances. So ideally, we'd like to get a couple senators over the line to pat us in the upper chamber while, you know, we can extend that lead all the way up to adding 10 house seats that we have now, which is 220 up to 230 and make legislatively life a lot easier for Donald Trump in a second term office. Again, we don't want the nightmare scenario of Democrats taking the House of Representatives because, you know, starting with the certification of the election. All the way up through impeachment, which we don't want to see again. It could be a perfect storm against President Trump. So we are hoping because he is at top of ticket. He's going to be pulling house races and senators over the finish line. But again, the work doesn't stop until the last ballot is counted. I can't emphasize on that enough. We'll continue to keep you guys in the loop. We're going to be bringing in people from the campaign just reached out to another new one online the other day. She said she'd be more than happy to join the show. We look to have her in here in the next couple of weeks, you know, obviously policy institute people ambassador Carl Sands comes to mind. Obviously people from the American Center for renewal Kingsley Wilson's a regular on the show, but we're looking to have Jeff Clark and Wade Miller back on the show as well. And then, you know, talking about the election integrity stuff, we're still going to be cycling in Laura Trump here. We should circle back with Chairman Watley before the election. Elizabeth Pip goes become now an esteemed guest on stake for breakfast and anyone James Blair from the campaign that we've reached. I've reached out to every single person, including the tops. You know, and I've asked everything about, Hey, would you like to come in for an interview? Give us an update on the campaign. You know, Caroline Levitt has always seemed inclined over the course of this election cycle to jump in here. We'll probably get her in here at least one more time before election day. And then, you know, we reached out for ourselves as well. We asked about having President Trump on the show. We saw today the newest edition of Lex Friedman's podcast dropped where he interviewed Donald Trump. And again, they're trying to widen the tent. They are trying to bring in people that normally wouldn't even hear President Trump in any extended context. And when he's going on places like Aidan Ross, when he's going on places like Lex Freeman, et cetera, you know, it's bringing in new valuable potential voters underneath the MAGA tent. So for as much as we ask and we do frequently here on stake for breakfast, I don't know if we really moved the needle in regards to election day, game day, numbers wise. But here's the deal. If it happens, it happens. If it doesn't, don't say that we didn't try because we're always asking. And I've got a great gift clip of a guy drinking a bottle of whiskey while crying in the shower that I usually post right underneath all of these other podcasts that he's appearing on once they come out because, you know, we've done the work. We were going to win it. I always like to remind our listenership that, you know, there was a time after the fallout from the 2020 presidential election that no one in Trump world was welcomed anywhere in the media. Due to the fact that they were talking about, you know, either the handling of COVID, the transfer of power, what happened on January 6 debating stolen elections. However, if you go back to early 2021, you found all of those personalities or at least the ones who were doing media here on stake for breakfast. So if there's one thing that we could have contributed that nearly nobody else has done throughout the entirety of Donald Trump's time out of office, it's the fact that this has always been a landing pad for all things MAGA. And whether it was some of those elusive interviews that you don't see anywhere else I'm talking about, you know, Brian Jack before he was a candidate Chris Lassavita while he was working on the campaign Devin Nunes is the CEO of TMTG. You heard them all here on stake for breakfast Matt Whitaker does very little media outside of the mainstream but he made several appearances here on the show and so on and so forth so we champion ourselves as never being late to the party. And have always been here since day one, we actually have the podcast receipts to provide to our listenership to show this was the home for MAGA before everyone else wanted to be the home for MAGA and moving forward we will continue to do such as it is our podcasting duties here so jumping into the rally now we'll get things started with a little pregame show, one of our favorites Byron Donald's talking about Johnstown PA, his excitement level of being there and getting things kicked off for President Trump let's check it out. This is my first time in Johnstown PA but I love being in Johnstown PA. And we're here to make sure that Pennsylvania does the job on November 5 and make sure that Donald J. Trump is the 47th President of the United States. I was in New York last night and I'm sitting down in the studio and they say Congress maybe want to play you the first clip of Kamala's interview on CNN. And so of course I'm like sure let's see it, I'm interested and I watched the clip and in my mind I'm thinking we waited 40 days for that. I mean seriously, we waited 40 days for that. You see America and you see Johnstown, it took her 40 days to come out and demonstrate to the American people that she hasn't changed. She said it herself, her values haven't changed. They are the same values that will take away your purchasing power. They are the same values that will shut down fracking in Western Pennsylvania. They are the same values that leave our southern border wide open. They are the same values that have our adversaries emboldened and there is only one person who can stop her and save America and that man is Donald J. Trump. I'm not sure if you're interested enough of how bright a future Byron Donald has within the Republican Party and the MAGA movement and I internalize fear sometimes and thinking about potential torch bears once Donald Trump's time in the political arena is finished. Feeling a little bit relieved in addition to people like JD Vance and obviously there's a couple more rising stars in the party but outside of the mainstream, Byron Donald is just he's a bomb thrower and he's a very just strong top to bottom whether it's, you know, you talk about policy, whether you're talking about the things that you need all of the tools, you know, to be a complete Congress person like he is. And I can't say enough good things about him. He's evolved in regards to the way he sees the world. He understands the way it works. And this comes after seeing things like the raid on Mar-Lago after the 2020 presidential election. You know, obviously the assassination attempt on President Trump's life, all the law fair in between. But for people who were like on board but you would wonder like how deep are they or what do they actually bring to the table. I think one of the political figures out there who just absolutely leaves very few questions to be answered as Congressman Byron Donald's. I like that guy. Yeah, and I like you. You know, I went through a whole spiel not too long ago talking about how the cargo after a long weekend of Labor Day wasn't going to forklift itself and I guess you must have broken some at least internal records, if not world. And here's a lot of pallets of hot dogs got moved. Let me just tell you those hot dogs are so much more expensive. I'm surprised the people continue to buy them. Well, that's why there's some left over for today. Yeah, and I think I might have ate a bad one yesterday because I have come down with man food poisoning not fun. And yeah, just hasn't been a good overnight session. But here we are on the show getting things rolling and Noah is here. So. Howdy. I'm happy for it. How's everything going on your end? Did you have a decent weekend at least? Yeah, it wasn't bad. I'm eating a California burrito right now. So that's something I can't really complain too much. Sounds like a win-win to me. Yeah, I had a busy weekend. I outlined on top of the show lots of kids stuff, daughter, volleyball tournament on Saturday, son, football game on Saturday. And then he had a three day baseball tournament Saturday Sunday and yesterday and we wound up playing like five games at two or three venues and just running all over the place. And yeah, got a lot of sun. It was a lot of fun, but I woke up. How far away did you have to drive for that? So they had two different venues for this event. One was like 15 minutes away from the house, not horrible, but the other one was like 35, 40 miles away from the house. And you were playing the team that's 15 minutes from your house? Well, it was just a whole bunch of teams, because it's a tournament. Sometimes you play two games in one space and one game in another. Just so it happened on the last day, we started out with our first game, 15 minutes away from my house. And then we played that. And an hour later, after this first game ended, we had to drive to the other site and then play two more games into the evening. And yeah, it's just a big pain in the ass of running around, you know, because you got the cart, the core, you got the chairs, all the stuff, my son's gear, obviously whatever my daughter's bringing. And you know, just blowing it up in and out of the cars, making sure you don't leave everything because the minute these games are done, the kids are like throwing everything in their bags and walking out of the dugout. And there's like another team just shuffling right in there. And it's like, if you leave like your elbow guard or your slide mid, these things all cost like a hundred bucks a piece. Oh, yeah, somebody's collecting. Yeah, you can kiss them goodbye. I saw like in our team group chat yesterday, one of the moms wrote, "Hey, I left," and these things are really expensive. They're like mini baseball gloves, they're like training gloves. They look like baseball gloves, but they're flat and you do like the bounce off the wall, catch in the mitt, bounce off the wall, you know, the drills to yourself. They run like 120, 150 bucks. And she wrote, "Did anybody see my son's training mitt? I think he left in the dugout. I didn't write any things, but I looked at like the reactions and like three other dads wrote like the LOL reaction on that post because there was a team coming in right after we got out last night and they knew it was in the one." That's like leaving a microwave in a tweaker area. Those are like one of the items that like all kids ask their parents for, but then when they see what they're actually for and think about how little their kids are going to use it, they tell them to get the hell out of here. But, you know, he had one and unfortunately he lost it. So, but, you know, that's just the nature of the business and much like Donald Trump out on the campaign trail this week. So they were running around all over the place throughout the week. They finished over the weekend up in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. I just played a clip of Byron Donald's leading president, Trump. And when he took the stage, he wanted the audience there, which was packed again from floors to the rafters to know we are in a very critical amount of time before Election Day. And we're going to play the clip right now. Let's hear it. It's coming. It's coming. Listen to this. Sixty-seven days. Wow. Sixty-seven days from now. We're going to win Pennsylvania. We're going to defeat comrade Kamala Harris. Did you see her? Did you see her last night? Did you see her last night? I don't know. I think she's going to be able to handle President Xi. I don't know. I don't think so. China. North Korea. Russia. I don't know. We're going to win back the White House. We're going to make this country greater than it's ever been. And everyone here today is part of the greatest political movement in the history of our country. You know, make America great again, MAGA. Maybe you've heard of it. You know, he was in a good mood. And I really feel like, internally, the Trump team feels like they've got a good footing in Pennsylvania right now, and I think they can flip it back into the win column for Donald Trump in this upcoming election. I think somebody's going to remix that don't come. I'm going to come. Wow, boy. Here it comes. It's coming. It's coming. And, you know, I told the listenership about how much time he's been spending there. It's because they really feel like they can get this state back. You know, when you talk about Kamala Harris' attack on the energy industry, the fact that she's has receipts, multiple receipts over the years, talking about how she wouldn't just restrict and red tape fracking. She would end it, essentially, which is a huge component of the energy industry they have up in Pennsylvania. There's the whole agriculture sector there. And you can't just run a basement campaign like Joe Biden did in 2020 in this kind of an economy, you know, because Donald Trump at least had some excuses. They were coming out of the pandemics. People still had money in their bank accounts, and things weren't as bad as they were now. You take all the other factors, the border, the crime, the geopolitics, how much your 401(k) doesn't exist anymore over the course of the last couple of years, and, you know, it just makes a really good case for it. And I think when you talk about someone who wants to be energy dominant, I think that resonates outside of the elite 1%ers who own these energy companies and a lot more with the workforce, the hardworking blue collar, American middle class. I think those people are starting to realize they're not going to be around much longer, both figuratively and literally, if they don't vote for Donald Trump in the upcoming election. I mean, what do you think, Noah? Yeah, people can't ignore it anymore. They're going to see the difference. They're going to see the difference in their lives. I don't know what else you can say about it. So I think you make a good point there, Noah. I think what we're trying to say here is, I don't think they're going to be as manipulated as easily as they were with grandpa Joe and moderate Joe and, you know, the adults are back in charge. Donald Trump completely understands that he was stumping on it in Johns Health, Pennsylvania. Let's hear it. American people are smart. They will not be manipulated by Hollywood. The fake news media and all of the advertising. And you deserve a president who respects you, talks to you, who levels with you, and who always has your best interests at heart. This November, we are going to tell Harris that we've had enough that we can't take it anymore. You've done a terrible job. Kamala, you're fired. Get out. Get out. You know, when you look at the way that Kamala Harris has just hit, I mean, obviously, we did a brush over of her. I don't even know if you want to call it an interview that she did with Dana Bash on CNN on our last edition of the podcast. Noah, did you see how she avoided the press this weekend? Oh, it was when she did the, I don't want to talk to you, so I'm going to pretend I'm being on the phone with my earpods. Yeah, I've done that a thousand times. I think we've all done that a thousand times. Hey, guess what? Comrade Kamala, you're not fooling anybody. No, you have nothing. Your tank is empty. You're out of gas. My favorite meme of Kamala Harris having the wired earbuds in and then looking at the press and putting the actual phone up to her ear over the earbuds was the, what is that? It's the cartoon of the dog and, you know, the one where he always has like the strong fist. Oh, yeah. And he has the headphones on his head, but his ear stick out of the top of his hair. Yeah, yeah. That's perfect analogy for Kamala Harris. Well, is anybody zoomed in yet to show that the phone's not actually active or it's on the home screen? She's just an absolute disaster, you know. Make sure of Joe Biden's hairy legs as her screen saver. Mm-hmm. Yeah, it's gross. And so is she. You know, you have to understand that this campaign that they're running right now, it's so much bigger than just politician A versus politician B. And the amount of work that Donald Trump's done to galvanize the base and then extend the tent and bring a lot of different kinds of people outside of the Republican apparatus. In underneath it was something that, you know, he's going to be championing on for, I think, all the way up until election day. In addition to the amount of people, I think he's still going to add to the squad. He was hyping on that in Johnstown PA over the weekend. Let's hear it. This past week, I was honored to receive two endorsements of former Democrats for President Tulsi Gabbard and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. And they're both great people. They were Democrats, as you probably know, and they felt very strongly about the endorsement and I feel very happy to get it. Every day we are welcoming more Republicans, independents, traditional Democrats and old-fashioned liberals, you know, they don't use that term anymore. They use progressive. We don't use that term. We like liberal better. Progressive sounds so good. It sounds progressive. They're not progressive. They're the opposite. Together we're fighting to secure our borders and the endless foreign wars and defend the working people of America. And coming in, I heard some of the most beautiful speeches. I heard just beautiful, beautiful speeches. I want to thank all of the speakers that preceded me. Beautiful speeches. We're joining forces to defeat government corruption, restore free speech, and make America healthy again. We're going to make America healthy again, you know? No. We're a nation that is not doing well in a lot of ways, and we're not doing so well with health, but we're going to solve a lot of those problems, I think, over the next short period of time. A lot of it's common. A lot of that's common sense too. It's all common sense when you get right down to it. But we're going to get toxic chemicals out of our environment and we're going to get them out of our food supply. We're going to get them out of our bodies. We'll get them out of our body, right? With victory this fall, we will enact this pro-family agenda. You know, and I think it's funny, one of the things that I've noticed, I try to look at everything. It's a pet peeve of my wives, but I noticed like every minute detail of everything. And, you know, over the years, we've done extensive coverage of what was being served on Trump Force One, where Donald Trump was stopping in between holes. I had either Redminster or Mar-a-Lago, and I've noticed that the Trump team has pretty much wiped a lot of the fast food promotion from their social media since RFK Jr. has come on, and they've kind of met in the middle on the make America healthy again. I think that's a good thing. It's a positive. You always like to see your politicians, and it's like Donald Trump's always been called like the blue collar billionaire. Like, he talks like us. When he's not out doing politician stuff, he acts like us. He eats like us. But when it's one of the things that you're looking to add as a component of your overall campaign strategy, I think it's brilliant that they kind of, you know, glossed over for now, and I guess we'll have celebratory bigbacks and KFC and Bleaker Street, John's Pizza, following the election day, in a celebratory manner. That's good stuff. Maybe some Patriot Cigar Company cigars. There you go. Alan, this is like the second week in a row that knows pinging you on it. You're better. Get the cigars out as soon as possible. We need the cigars out here. And while speaking of promotions, we might as well jump in here. Guys, wherever you're listening to the show today, welcome first of two big editions of our Tuesday Steak for Breakfast podcast. Wherever you're listening to the show, just make sure you're subscribed. Listen, we ran into a little bit of a, well, election interference as everybody's kind of going. 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You can all suffer in the absolutely abysmal analytics we're all going through right now in real time with us. Make America explicit again, right? Or make America unsubscribed again. That's true. All right, jumping right back into it here. You know, we talked about it. One of the reasons that Donald Trump is in Pennsylvania is because of the energy importance, not just on the ticket, but in the physical nature of the state. You know, when you talk about liquid natural gas that people like Senator Mastriano from Pennsylvania has outlined over the years here on the show. Again, all of the fracking and the important part of the industry that is, you know, relied on for American energy there. And then all of the other sectors, there's big steel manufacturing in Pennsylvania, obviously agriculture as well. You've seen what the Biden-Harris administration has done in waging war against the American energy sector. And Donald Trump was, of course, going to highlight it. Listen, there was a lot of people in the audience behind him who had on construction worker hats. You could only assume that they were members of the energy community there in support of president. I mean, obviously they want them to win. They're holding up the 47 signs as he's speaking so with so much energy. It could have been the village people, too. I like it. I'll allow it. Let's hear it. Kamala Harris surrendered our energy independence, spent hundreds of billions of dollars on the Green New Scam. She's trying to take away gas stoves and heaters. She's vowed repeatedly that we will ban fracking. We will always ban fracking. She just said it today. I saw it. They have a clip from, like, two years ago. She said, "No, no. I'm in favor of fracking, like, last week." "Oh, no, no. Then they start playing clips." "We will always ban fracking. They will never be fracking." The people of Pennsylvania are smart. They're not going to fall for it. She will destroy. If you don't have fracking, you don't have a commonwealth. She also imposed a crippling natural gas export ban on Pennsylvania oil and gas, another catastrophe for your state. And this is all stuff that she's done. And it's the truth because I tell you what. If they're not completely eliminating it because there's no path outside of a quick legal one that they can get to, they're going to drop so much bureaucratic red tape and restrictions and regulations on these energy. They're just going to not operate anymore. And you can't take into consideration the importance and the value that being a strong independent nation with the bedrock of it being the energy sector. We have everything we need here to never have to buy oil or liquid natural gas from places like Iran or Russia or Venezuela ever again. We're just so worried about the blob of tadpoles that this rare breed of frog queefs out in some creek next to a plant that we will literally ruin an entire state to save a couple tadpoles. And that's how bad our government has gotten. And Donald Trump, he says he feels for the tadpoles, but at the end of the day, it's our country that needs to survive. And the longer we continue to allow Kamala Harris and Joe Biden and policies like these radical progressives promote, well, I mean, he frames it so elegantly, I might as well not take the words out of his mouth. Let's listen. You look at Kamala and you look at what she's done to every place she's touched has turned to shit. Every single place she's touched. Did you hear him? He was looking at somebody in the audience and he shook his head. He's like, had to say it, had to say it. And, you know, again, Donald Trump is not done with the work that he's doing to bring people in under the MAGA tent. I feel people like Elon Musk, RFK Jr. Tulsi Gabbard, they're just the beginning. They might not be as big a names as them, but I feel like when there's people who viewed Donald Trump or the America First Movement or just Republican politicians in general, maybe as recently as four years ago, are going to have a change of heart and are going to be endorsing Donald Trump between now and election day. I thought it was weird when he landed in Pennsylvania and got off Trump Force One. There was a meeting on the tarmac and apparently after confirming it with my wife and daughter who a little bit more into the current music or the state of music affairs than I am, I'd much rather listen to a little bit of country or oldies myself. And, well, he's like a very popular, I mean, I went and looked at his social media's millions of followers on places like Instagram and Facebook and Twitter. They were on the same tarmac as President Trump. They met, they talked, there was an exchanging of MAGA hats. And this thing you know, one of the biggest, I guess this guy is like a Puerto Rican regga-toned singer, went with Donald Trump to Johnstown PA and was called up on the stage, gave his endorsement to President Trump. I thought it's an absolute game changer. Let's hear it. [Applause] Thank you, Mr. President, for having us here. For me, it's a real blessing to be here. I'm from Puerto Rico. We are, yeah, we are a big part of United States. We really depend on the United States. Since Trump hasn't been around, Puerto Rico's, yeah, it's not a secret we've been going through a lot as a country. And, yeah, Biden always promised, promised. A lot of politicians always promised through the years, but all of us know the world knows everybody's experienced it. The best president, the world's I've seen. This country has ever seen his name as President Trump. Thank you for having me here. [Applause] So, on my Puerto Ricans, let's stay united. Let's vote for Trump. I personally spoke with him. He wants to help Puerto Rico grow and succeed as a country. So, let's stand all tall and united, and we all want to remember that. He wants to keep helping Latinos in the U.S. Let's do things the right way, and let's keep growing. Let's keep growing as a family, and let's make America great again. [Applause] I'll also say a few words here. Mr. President, I'm beyond honored being here with you today. Mr. President, above all, I like you because I always say this. You're not a puppet. I love that about you. Yeah, I really do. [Applause] I back you because I feel you're the most honest president we ever had. That's true. [Applause] Saying things how they are, not what you think people want to hear, and that's very important. [Applause] A lot of Latinos, we stand strong next to President Trump. A lot of Latinos, we love you as well. Thank you for sharing with us back there how important building back Puerto Rico is, and not only building up Puerto Rico, but let's make America great again. Let's go. [Applause] Listen, it's an absolute game changer. You know, and I tell you what, you look at some of these major cities on the eastern seaboard. I'm talking about places like, obviously, New York, but Boston and some of the others. The large delegations of Puerto Ricans and Dominicans and people who have lived and made those places their homes for decades of time, and made those communities great again, are just absolutely getting overran by a lot of these international criminal organizations and gangs that are getting dumped into these cities. You think, you know, the normal US citizen Puerto Ricans who are living in places like New York and Boston and stuff like that, wanting to have to deal with these Venezuelan biker gangs and all this other crap that's going on, and have to contest with them. You know, it's just a shame to see what Democrats have done as part of their essentially replacement theory of people that they've pandered to for years. And, you know, starting out with some of the smaller groups like the Puerto Rican delegation within the United States, but you work it all the way up to the blacks and Latinos, they give amnesty to 20, 25 million people and allow for them to chain migrate 30 million more people in here. All of those programs, all of those, you know, social benefits that these communities have benefited from at the behest of Democrats since the end of the civil rights movement and things like, they're all gone. Because they're going to the new people that they're bringing in to be their voters. And I think the more the African American community and the Latino community continues to wake up, the more aggressively Democrats are going to try and replace them with people who are going to be more compliant voters. That's just my opinion. You've seen so many people break the mold of the old Democrat party during this election cycle and been like, not only have I been lied to, but my life is so much worse than everything Democrats have always campaigned on. And they're the ones that have been in power for, you know, 12 out of the last 16 years. So you look at this generation that's been affected by the Democrats' radical progressive move towards the left and their policies, which have hurt everything from safety in the community to their children's, their paychecks and everything in between. You can argue the fact that there's more people who are going to go out and vote for Donald Trump in this upcoming election than we probably had in the last two, maybe even combined. And I know Noah, you've probably seen this thing that's been just absolutely clogging up the news cycle lately. And that's the issue that the Harris and Biden administration have made with Donald Trump appearing at Arlington Cemetery to commemorate the three-year -- I hate calling it anniversary, but what happened at Abbey Gate where 13 servicemen and women from the U.S. military lost their life in the terrorist attack there. And, I mean, how do you feel about how the Democrats have spun this? You know, it's been confirmed that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris' offices were reached out to buy the military on three different occasions each, and neither one of them wanted to appear. In addition, when they confirmed that they weren't going to appear in the Gold Star families who were going to be doing, you know, a private memorial, invited Donald Trump there, the U.S. military actually stepped in and said, no, we don't want Donald Trump to be in Arlington Cemetery to commemorate this with the Gold Star families. I don't know if you want to say all-encompassing the U.S. military, but some of those ass javelins that are the higher-ups. Yeah, and again, our listenership is pretty condition. The people that are running the military are appointed and continually promoted by the people who are in power. They're concerned about their paychecks and their FaceTime on Fox News and all the other media outlets talking about how much smarter they are than all the people who want to end forever wars. Now, all the people who are actually in the military serving underneath them, those are the ones that we are not talking about. Those are the people who, well, more than likely are Trump voters as well, but here's the deal. Speaker Johnson had to come in and say, Donald Trump has every right to be there. This family has this space reserved for this memorial service on this date and time, and he is a personal invitee of the Gold Star families. Because they couldn't do anything, and because after a quick Google search, you could see that Barack Obama and Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have all used places like Arlington Cemetery for literally campaign pieces, Donald Trump was participating in something that had nothing to do with his campaign. He was going to share in a celebration of life for these people that lost theirs in the behest of these awful policies of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris and spend some time with these families who he's taken the time out to make relationships with over the years and since it happened. And I just think it's like there are new levels of disgusting as we get closer to this, because the only thing that the Harris and Biden spoke to people have come out and said, "Oh, yeah, well, Donald Trump wants to use this as an opportunity, but this is the same person who did the suckers and losers," which is a hoax, completely debunked. It never happened. The same thing, you know, I also heard, "Oh, yeah, when Donald Trump walked into the World War I or World War II Cemetery in Europe and he looked down at the ground and said, "I just don't understand what these people thought. They knew they were going to war to die and they never be coming back. I just don't get it." Like, that never happened either. This is just stuff that people made up. When you look at what Donald Trump did for the military in his first term and how much he is beloved by people that he's actually had the opportunity to interact with, I think that kind of speaks for itself. He was talking on it because I know this really bothers him, because the only thing that really negatively affects and shines light on is the families. They get negatively portrayed in the media after they've already given up such a sacrifice, their own son or daughter died for this country because of bad policies. And now you have places like CNN and MSNBC calling these people crazy and, you know, calling them that they're interfering with elections by letting Donald Trump do this. I mean, even on Joe Biden's inauguration day, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama took a picture of unifying the country at Arlington National Cemetery and used it as an inaugural piece for Joe Biden's ascension into office. Like, every single thing that they've ever accused Donald Trump of doing and he literally has not done, they've already done. Yeah. And wasn't Joe Biden hanging out on the beach like 15 minutes away from there? Yeah. Three different instances he was paying to, do you want to do like maybe something videotaped and edited more in your wheelhouse to at least say thanks for making the ultimate nothing. No response from either team. And, you know, Donald Trump was still talking about this up through the weekend, edited his rally. And I think it's really important that we continue to, you know, shine light on and then show that Donald Trump is the one who actually cares about these people. And that the radical left just uses them as pawns in their own games when they're at the, you know, ultimate display of bad policy when it comes to all things foreign, let's hear it. The mother would walk up and say, "Sir, may I tell you about my boy?" You know, he was a football player and he could throw the ball so far. He played quarterback, sir. And one day, and I realized that she's telling me a story and crying, about her son who's now in a grave because of Biden and Kamala. And I listened to that whole story, how the ball was caught, how the ball was thrown, how the team did, the season the team had, and I let her talk. And then these people accused me of doing this for public relations reasons. And the fact that we even got there, the fact that we even got there, so I just wanted, and they were so good, they said, "How dare they do that?" We asked him, they did ask me. And, you know, they actually came to my defense. It's nice because sometimes that doesn't happen too. But they really did. They said, "We asked him to be here and we want him to be there always." And I just think that's great. And we love you all. Thank you. (Applause) These people have been in his home. They've been in his rallies. He's brought them up and given them the opportunity to speak to the people who are potentially going to go out and vote for Donald Trump for better policies when it comes to things like what Joe Biden and Kamala Harris did during the Afghan withdrawal. Listen, it doesn't make me cry, like, get that kind of emotional, but I get an emotional reaction when I see people just demonizing the families who I can't imagine the loss that they incurred and how and why. You know, it just really bothers me. Unfortunately, and fortunately for you because you are a listenership, you need to be as informed as possible. This is what we're going to be covering in our second new segment of the day, because it's kind of spiraled out of control. And, you know, the back and forth between the Trump campaign and the Biden-Harris administration got so ramped up in the press that some of the surrogates went out and really pushed back in the most appropriate matters, including all of the families who were at Arlington Cemetery, clarifying why they wanted Donald Trump there and why Joe Biden and Kamala Harris were in. So as we're getting ready to wrap now and jump in with Indiana Congresswoman Aaron Houchin, we're going to play, well, something we play at the end of every Trump rally, and that's part of the closeout. Let's listen. Every family will thrive, and every day will be filled with joy and opportunity and hope. But for that to happen, we must defeat Kamala Harris, a Marxist, and we must stop her country destroying liberal agenda once and for all. We have to stop it. And I think a lot of things are happening. Look, people are seeing who she is. All you have to do is watch yesterday, give me a break. That's not a president. That's not a president. That's not a president. And we can't let that person destroy our country. So get your friends, get your family, register, volunteer, and get the hell out to vote, okay, front row Joe? Right? Because we want a landslide that is too big to Rick, too big to Rick, too big to Rick. And go to SwampTheVoteUSA.com, SwampTheVoteUSA.com. On November 5th, we will save our economy. We will rescue our middle class. We will reclaim our sovereignty and restore our borders. We will put America first, and we will take back our country together. We will make America powerful again. We will make America wealthy again. We will make America strong again. We will make America proud again. We will make America safe again. We will make America free again. And we will make America great again. Thank you very much, President. And God bless you. Good times. As always, YMCA's back in full effect, crowd was into it. Listen, every rally that he's doing right now, it's between a 9.5 and a 9.7. For me, there's been at least 110 from both me and Noah. Noah, I'm sure you're in the same. You know, agreeance here that this was pretty high caliber, high energy. The jokes were there. You know, the endorsements were there. The speakers previously, obviously, Bob McCormick, who's running for Senate in the state, and then people like Byron Donald's bringing the heat and bringing the fire. I mean, what do you want? This is it. This is fourth quarter right now. So 20-0. It's 10. Give him a 10. 10, I like it. And I like the message that President Trump out there had out there on the campaign trail this week, keeping it diverse, keeping it state specific, letting the people know there what's at stake. You know, you're going to get no support for the military. The state industry is going to be completely destroyed and decimated. They're already trying to outsource, you know, some of the biggest steel reserves in the United States to places like Japan. And you have the opportunity to stop all these things, course correct, and obviously make America great again. So we're going to leave it at that as we're getting ready to jump in with Indiana Congresswoman Aaron Houshin. But before we do, first check in with one of our partners. This episode of the podcast is brought to you by Battleborn Coffee Roasters. Law enforcement family owned, and they produce some of the best available special-to-grade coffee. That means all those beans have gone through an extensive process to remove all defects. 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I thought for the last maybe six months or so the last CR that is going to get us from the 118th to the 119th session of Congress. Might have been a slam dunk in a presidential election year. Obviously, you guys are working on things budget related behind the scenes, maybe meaningful cuts, obviously appropriations as well. But now there's the whole component of the SAVE Act, something that, you know, a lot of people in the mainstream media say, well, these laws are already on the books and everybody knows only US citizens could vote in federal elections, but the more and more we hear these reports outside of the states of voter rolls getting clean, and Secretaries of States doing some investigations into how the inflated rolls are now looking and finding out that people are registering illegally to vote in elections, it seems like this is a critical piece of legislation that we're going to have to attach and get into the budget this year. It seems like, from what we're hearing, preliminary, and before you guys get up to the Hill, Speaker Johnson's down for the fight, but I kind of want to get your, you know, all-encompassing, commentary on it, Congresswoman, and how you feel the SAVE Act is important, what it means to this election cycle, and what it also means for you guys once you guys get back up on the Hill next week. Hey, thank you for asking that question. First and foremost, I'll say that the SAVE Act is critically important, even though non-citizens are not supposed to vote in our elections, we know that they are. So the SAVE Act simply requires proof of citizenship when someone registers to vote. That bill has already passed the House of Representatives, but I'm not sure a single Democrat voted for that when it passed the House. It was strictly on partisan lines. So the Democrats are on record, not requiring someone to be a U.S. citizen to register to vote. That blows my mind that anyone could be opposed to that, but it is critically important for free and fair elections in the United States to ensure that only our U.S. citizens are voting. So as we get into this budget fight, the Speaker has indicated that he is considering, including the SAVE Act, as part of our negotiating strategy, what I would say to that is we have to, I think, in my opinion, there should be a line. Surely, we can agree that only citizens should be voting in our elections, but the Democrats can't even seem to do that. So with 10 million illegal immigrants coming across the border under whether she wants to admit it or not, borders are Kamala Harris. It's unbelievable that we have to have a bill that requires this, but we do. And if it has to be part of the budget fight, and we're going to go to the mat on that, I will follow the Speaker's lead. You know, and you made a really good point to start in. I don't want our listenership to miss it. They try to point it out in the mainstream media as not being the case. And you said that's requiring proof of citizenship when you register to vote. That doesn't mean that on Election Day, like Speaker Johnson or the SAVE Act or House Republicans are proposing that ice trucks line up outside of voting centers and, you know, are patting people down before they go in and vote for the President of the United States. This is ensuring that the voter rolls. And again, it's a finite amount of time because even though this is a piece of legislation you guys are going to be pushing in the next couple weeks. Voting is starting in some other states, early-wise, very soon here. And it's like, you know, if you're going to register to vote to participate in this election, this piece of legislation that you guys are pushing is going to be critical because all it does is ensure that not anywhere between the eight and 20 million illegals who have come into this country under Kamala Harris and Joe Biden and Alejandro Mayorkas are, you know, going to get work authorization under their programs and in turn being automatically registered to vote. It's that people who are going to vote in the selection that are U.S. citizens of privilege that we all have as citizens of this country and federal elections is protected. Yes, and I mean, even in the District of Columbia, they were letting non-citizens vote. And imagine that, right, in our nation's capital, non-citizens voting in elections that deal with the governance of the District of Columbia. We've got Chinese nationals that are living in that area. We have people who are, you know, here as foreign agents. Why would we want those folks to vote in our elections? That makes no sense. And it is anti-American and it erodes the confidence that the American people have in our system of government. The fact that the Democrats can't come to terms and support this really defies logic, but that's where we are. And do you think, in your opinion, after the success, Democrats, I mean, successfully like to, you know, kind of take a victory lap on with the free-for-all mail-in balloting that we had during COVID, and this is just another excuse to not have to worry about taking care of voter rolls and election integrity in states. This is just saying that like, oh, you know, we have the best, most safest sense of care elections in the country. And it doesn't matter who we let in or what opportunities they have to participate in these elections. So we could just tell you, by telling you and you have to believe us, that only US citizens are voting. Yeah, it's trust us with it to an administration that we repeatedly has repeatedly proven itself that it can't be trusted. We can't trust that they're going to hold the line on this because they're not. Clearly, they're not. We know that some non-citizens have been voting. And one of the things that Democrats always say is that voter fraud is not widespread, or this is not a widespread problem. It doesn't have to be a widespread problem to interfere with the trust that the American people have in their election results. Take a situation that we had with Bush v. Gore. That was not that many votes that made a difference in that election. And so, okay, it's not widespread, but even one person committing voter fraud, or one person who's here illegally casting a ballot infringes on and violates the trust, the voters' trust of another American. And that's just not acceptable. No, it certainly isn't. And then, you know, legislation-wise, it's not the only thing that I wanted to talk about in regards to the Save Act. You've also worked on some things too. The Kids Online Safety Act is something. Listen, I think a lot of our listenership has kids or has brothers and sisters, you know, family members that have kids as well. I mean, when you talk about the, I guess, digital arena and how it's changed over the last couple decades, there is no way to ensure that when you, as an adult or even your children, navigating online is always going to be 100% safe. But you've been working behind the scenes trying to get a great piece of legislation together. And I want you to kind of introduce to our listenership and tell them all about it. Yeah, the Kids Online Safety Act is a bill that I've been championing in the House. I've been working with Senator Blackburn on this bill. She's got the Senate version. It's bipartisan bill. It passed the Senate, I think, 91 to 3. And I'd love to see this legislation move through the House of Representatives. Here is the reality. 13 year olds and my kids among them, they have had the ability to access apps without parental permission, without parental controls. And, you know, when my own daughter downloaded Instagram and was using that to message people and people messaging her from all over the world, she was, you know, thinking she was interacting with 13 and 14 year old boys and girls. That's, it's a dangerous platform. It can be a very dangerous platform. It can lead to bullying. When we discovered this and tried to get her account deleted, we were told by the platform, you cannot delete her account because it's hers. She legally is able to have it at 13. So we're trying to get some, you know, parental permission and parental control, but also a duty of care. The algorithms that these online platforms use will sub kids in. And we've seen this result in terrible tragedies and suicides and accidental deaths because of these challenges that go on. And the algorithms just continue to put those, the negative content in front of our young teens eyes. And it's, it's not something that parents can, you know, ordinarily, I would say it's parents responsibility, but this is out of a parent's control. Even for something like YouTube kids, the algorithm eventually devolves down into things that you wouldn't want your kids to see. So the Kids Online Safety Act is aimed at providing some, some stability for an accountability for the online platforms. A duty of care that they're not using their data, that the algorithms are not promoting negative behavior and instilling parental controls for our teens, just for their own safety. It's, it is a matter of public health. Too many children have died by suicide and other means as a result of this as well, not to mention the other harms that could and have come to kids from engaging in these platforms. No, you make an excellent point. I have the same concerns with my daughter. She is around that age as well. The algorithms, the more you swipe, it seems like the darker it gets at what could start off as something as innocent as looking into sports highlights could devolve down into, you know, like you said, darker content bullying, sexual content and things of that nature. So my son, I've seen it as well, you know, specifically with the YouTube kids, I'll see him start off looking at, let's just say Yankee highlights, which I know he does frequently because he's a big baseball fan, but then he'll be swiping down for a couple minutes. And next thing I know, I hear, you know, swear words and inappropriate content being said, I'm like, what are you doing? I'm on YouTube kids. I was like, well, you're not on that video anymore. So swipe off of it, but it's just where it takes the kids and the fact that we can't watch them 24/7. The fact that these, you know, social media companies give that freedom once they hit a certain age to, you know, protect the apps in regards to not what parents want. I think it's a great piece of legislation. I think it's great that it's bipartisan. It's been worked on between you and members of the upper chamber, like you said, including Senator Blackburn and moving forward. I'd like to see its success. I also do want to segue a little bit Congresswoman right now because we are in the midst, the throngs of this presidential election race. Since the last time we've talked with you, we've completed the conventions. We're in the downhill sprint right now. You know, you see the candidates crisscrossing the country, both filling up their days, usually with five, six and seven days worth of campaigns and rallies and stops. We've seen a lot more of a variety from President Trump. Obviously, he's going to be participating in a town hall event tomorrow on Fox News, where he's going to take questions and answers. That was set as a possible first debate, but we won't see that until next week. But, you know, when you see things coming from the Harris Waltz campaign, it seems like they continue to, you know, hide themselves from the media and are running this basement campaign. Even so much is over the weekend when you see Kamala Harris get out of the limo with the headphones in her ear. And by the time she gets to the plane and avoids all the questions from the press, she has the phone pushed up against the headphones. And she's trying to talk into it, which we all know she just didn't want to take questions from the press. It's pretty sad. You know, if this was where some local election, and it was two obscure characters in like a little rural town in America, it might be comical. But this is for the President of the United States, Chief Executive of, you know, essentially the world. And I just kind of want to get your commentary on how this race has shaken out. Who's doing the work in your eyes? And what we need to focus on maybe as we head into the last couple of months here, early voting is right around the corner. Well, let's, I think the last time we talked Joe Biden might have still been the nominee. Yeah, that's a good point. So since Kamala Harris and the Democrat machine have have shoved Joe Biden off the proverbial cliff off the ballot, Kamala Harris is still the vice president. And so they're in this situation now where they don't believe that Joe Biden is capable of being a candidate for president president, but in the same breath, they think he's still capable of being the president and he proves every day that he's, he's really not capable. So that begs the question of why is Harris not stepping up when she, when she really is constitutionally obligated to do so as vice president, if the president is unable to really perform his duties. So first question I have is, you know, she's not doing media interviews as a candidate, but she's also not doing media interviews as the vice president of the United States. She is hiding from, from anyone that asks her tough questions, she just did that, that interview with Dana Bash and, and had walls there with her, I think that made her look weak. And, and small and it was not a good interview for her if that is the track record I'm not sure that she'll do many more that we should expect to see her do many more. We've seen her put on different accents, depending on what crowd she's talking to, we saw her avoid questions about the American Israeli citizen that was murdered by Hamas over the weekend, avoiding questions by putting. Now that's a good parlor trick puts your air air pods in so you don't have to take questions from the media, but she's the sitting vice president of the United States. This is not just a simple matter of I'm a candidate and I want to avoid tough questions. She is the vice president, every single thing that this administration has done, has been done on her watch, and the American people know that. Meanwhile, you see Donald Trump out and JD Vance doing record numbers of interviews and they'll talk to anyone, even including people that are hostile to them. And, you know, they're putting in the work. I sure hope that the American people will see this. But again, I go back to the start of our conversation on the SAVE Act, you know, making sure that only our US citizens are voting in our elections is critically important. We see the RNC around different places engaging in litigation like in Michigan to have equal representation of poll workers. This is going to be, I think, a different Republican Party this fall. And I certainly see that Donald Trump is out working Kamala Harris. The question that I have is will the media give her a pass, continue to give her a pass, it looks like they will. But it also appears that maybe the honeymoon phase for Kamala has worn off and she got the bump that she was going to get. And now it's off to the races to November. Yeah, it makes you think that the American people have woken up to it. I think a lot of is going to happen in the debate as well. That's going to make the choice even more clear for Americans. I mean, if you look at Donald Trump's track record as an, you know, essentially an outsider just eight years ago coming into the political arena. And when he's done to people in the debates, I would be pretty worried if I was Kamala Harris's team, especially if she can't take. You know, a couple of pot shot questions from reporters heading, you know, from one event to the other. Congressman, last thing I want to touch with you on, I think it, you know, it came and went in the news cycle. We don't really call it, you know, like a memorial. It's just the event that commemorates the anniversary of the terrorist attack that happened in Afghanistan where 13 servicemen and women lost their lives. You know, it's something that the Biden administration since the withdrawal hasn't paid much attention to. We know there's a lot of these Gold Star families who come out and said they haven't heard from either Joe Biden or Kamala Harris or either of them over the course of the last three years now. You know, it's been leaked to the media and now has been confirmed over the course of the events ramping up to this commencement date recently that they reached out to the office of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris and didn't receive any feedback on whether or not they were going to be able to appear at Arlington Cemetery. So the actual families reached out to Donald Trump and, you know, while on the campaign trail, he took some time off, spent some time with them, not just at Arlington Cemetery, but he's had them over to Bedminster and down at Mar-a-Lago. He's had them at rallies as well and other speaking events. He's brought it up on the campaign trail in a way to bring awareness to the people that this happened and we need to remember the ultimate sacrifice that these brave servicemen and women made during the botched Afghanistan withdrawal under Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. But when you saw how the media kind of ran with this and all you have to do is, you know, essentially Google Barack Obama, Arlington Cemetery, Joe Biden, Arlington Cemetery, and see them doing campaigns. I mean, even during the inauguration, you had Barack Obama, you had Bill Clinton, you had George Bush, all at Arlington Cemetery doing campaign related videos for other politicians. This didn't seem like it was the case with Donald Trump, even though they took some photos there, he was there for a different reason than the way the media and then the administration now with Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have kind of spun this negatively against President Trump. They're taking out of the fact that the only people involved here that anyone should care about is the gold star families and it's like the sitting president and vice president of the United States don't care about that because they just want negative campaign material against Donald Trump. Well, it didn't start out as a campaign stop for Donald Trump and for these families, but Kamala Harris and her criticisms of him being there at the request of these families made it into a campaign stop. She's the one that drew attention to it politically. It wasn't political for Donald Trump to be there. He was invited by those families. Joe Biden and Kamala Harris didn't even bother to show up. These families have not heard from Kamala Harris at all. When Kamala Harris was the last one in the room and has called the withdrawal from Afghanistan a success. This is heartbreaking that they don't care enough that Biden and Harris don't care enough about these families and the sacrifice that they have made in the loss of their family members in service to this country. Just no regard whatsoever for that loss. It's clear that Donald Trump personally cares about these families. And, you know, a lot of people I've chatted with on the Democrat side of the aisle. They just don't like Donald Trump. For a number of reasons, none of which are really what I would call fair criticisms when they don't take a look at who he is as a human being. And this is the side of him that shows who he is as a human being, how much he loves this country, how much he loves our military and how he embraces these families in their greatest hour of loss. And they appreciate that. It's why they came out and did videos, you know, excoriating Harris for her criticism of Donald Trump. Again, they didn't make it a campaign issue. She did. Yeah, she certainly did. And it's kind of backfired a terrible way. You know, with the lack of bumps you got out of the DNC compared to how this looks optically, it doesn't matter how the media wants to continue to spin it. I think the American people have woke up, especially like you said, since the Gold Star families, they put out videos on their own social media. They've done a lot of interviews as well and said, you know, it doesn't matter what the other outlets or politicians are telling you, this is just not the case. Donald Trump really cares about the loss that we have suffered and he's been there to support us like a politician or a leader should, which I think is probably the better example of it. We've seen weak leadership from Joe Biden and Kamala Harris for nearly the last four years now. I expect the same between now and November and these families recognize it and understood who was there for them. And like you had mentioned, Congresswoman in their darkest hours. So this was great catching up with you today. As it always is, we wish you safe travels as you head back up to Capitol Hill next week. We'll be looking to catch up with you again at some time soon as we always enjoy having you on the show. Because you're in district, we can have your house website, also your campaign website in the show description. Everybody wants to check you out on social media, all the great stuff you're working on or where you're at. Where can they find you? AaronHouchin.com, Aaron Houchin on social media and @rephouchin on the other platforms, houchin.house.gov. And as she just mentioned, this is the Congresswoman representing Indiana nine fighting for all the American people out there. Representative Aaron Houchin, thanks for joining us on the show. Have a great rest of your week. You too, thank you. But to have those 13 Americans lose their lives and not fire a single person is disgraceful. Kamala Harris is disgraceful. We're talking about a story out of those 13 brave innocent Americans who lost their lives. It's that Kamala Harris is so asleep at the wheel that she won't even do an investigation into what happened. And she wants to yell at Donald Trump because he showed up. She can. She can go to hell. (cheering) Alright, jumping back into the news portion of the show here. Second news segment on the first of two big Tuesday editions of the State for Breakfast podcast. As always, it was great kitchen up with Indiana Congresswoman Aaron Houchin. She'll be back up on the hill next week, back in the swamp. Getting ready to start the budget battle. She gave us a little bit of insight on the presidential race. Also talked about some of the legislation that she's working on to make the internet safe again for our children out there. And we'll be catching up with South Carolina Congresswoman Nancy Mason just a bit. But before we do, we're going to be tackling this issue right here that's kind of been engulfing the news cycle for the last week and a half. And that is the, well, into a bad month, if you could say, for Kamala Harris as she wrapped up August kind of stepping on the rake. Like a cartoon character in trying to ratio Donald Trump for showing up at a remembered ceremony for Gold Star families who lost their sons or daughters at Abigayt in Afghanistan a little bit less than two and a half years ago. Noah, I know that you've been watching this like a hawk as well. You know, I think J.D. Vance speaks for all of us here in America first when he says if that's the way that the Democrats and Kamala Harris feel about Donald Trump, you know, going the extra mile. To support these families and she can go to hell. Yeah, it's, I mean, how are you going to fault the guy for showing up and trying to honor these people that lost their lives and then have the audacity to say that it's a political stunt. No, this, this is one of the few politicians in the world, probably, that actually give a shit to an extent that they're willing to put their very well-being at risk to save what's left of this country. Yeah, I mean, this was anything but a political stunt. By the time we get through this segment, we're going to be able to lay it out for you. Some of the Trump campaign surrogates were making the rounds over the course of the weekend, most notably that I saw on the Sunday morning news circuit was Tulsi Gabbard. She was pushing back hard on this narrative is the Democrats were trying to, you know, lay out their case to say that Donald Trump did this for political measures only, and we're going to hear her push back right now. Let's check it out. I was there from the beginning with the laying of the wreaths with the family members, the Gold Star family members and some of the survivors of that terrorist attack in that disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan. I was with them at section 60 and what I saw was a very grave and somber remembrance and honoring of those lives that were lost. And I saw President Trump spending time at the invitation of these Gold Star families with them. It was there for a few hours. I did not see or hear about any kind of altercation until something came out in the news later on. The families were there grieving alongside President Trump and it was a very special moment to really remember their names, remember their memories and understand the true cost of war and the consequences of the disability. And the consequences of the decisions that Kamala Harris and Joe Biden made in the execution of that withdrawal. You know, and even though there was photographers for the Trump campaign there, again, this wasn't a Trump campaign sponsored event. This was an invitation that was accepted by Donald Trump that these Gold Star families who would be at Arlington on the day of the three year anniversary extended to him after the Department of Defense, the Office of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris's campaign, would answer multiple requests to participate in the same event. You know, and the way that the Democrats have spun it coming up with the fake news narratives, the suckers and losers hoax, the I don't understand why these people go to war when all they know is they're going to die and all of this other crap. You know, it's just exploded in the face like a cartoon firecracker of Democrats as how absolutely ridiculous they look. But the sad part about it, Noah that I think even was more mind-blowing to me than the fake news narrative that they were able to produce over this, the media ran out all the way up through this weekend and pushed back on every surrogate from the Trump campaign that went out there and said, yeah, he accepted the invite, but don't you think this is the put, like they literally carried the water for this narrative, not taking into consideration what these families who invited President Trump have gone through with the fact that they've been forgotten by this current administration as well. I mean, you had a man that was arrested at the State of the Union this year for interrupting Joe Biden because Joe Biden wanted to talk about the successful withdrawal from Afghanistan and how seamless it was. What do you think? It was totally seamless. I can't think of any way to describe that than seamless. What a joke. Yeah, yeah, it was just, I couldn't believe the Kool-Aid caring that happened throughout the course of this weekend and whether it was Kristen Welker or Dana Bash, Jen Psaki last week in prime time, just pushing back on all of these surrogates. You know, it's going to be good to get some insight. We've got South Carolina Congresswoman Nancy Mason of him just a bit. You know, she is not a veteran, but she is the first woman to successfully complete Citadel, graduate from there. So, I mean, that's got a little parents on it. I know her dad, I believe is a retired one-star general and someone who is very, very happy that she is back on the MAGA Express because for the first time in three election cycles, she didn't have a Donald Trump endorsed primary challenger to go against. So we love our Nancy Mases and we're glad that she's here, but we're going to continue in this thread here and show you how kind of the narrative on the Gold Star family speaking out against the Biden Harris administration played out throughout the course of the weekend. Let's check it out. Mal Harris is accusing Donald Trump of disrespecting sacred ground when he went to a memorial for those service members killed in the botched Afghanistan withdrawal, even though he was invited by Gold Star families. She tweeted this, it's a long tweet, but she's saying, "Let me be clear, the former president disrespected sacred ground off of the sake of a political stunt. Our veterans, military families and service members should be honored, never disparaged, and treated with nothing less than our highest respect and gratitude. With all due respect, Madam Vice President, where in the hell were you when they were honoring these 13 service members? Were you still the last person in the room? Have you not left yet? Is that where you were? Because you weren't at section 60 where a half dozen of my good friends are buried and I don't know one family member who would take objection to a president of the United States showing up in order to pay attention. In order to pay his respects and from what we've been told those family members wanted the pictures. Why wouldn't you? Why wouldn't you want the former president of the United States commemorating the loss of your son or daughter? Why wouldn't you want a picture of that, him laying a wreath where they were put to rest? Well, they obviously don't want the guy who's responsible for their death. That's a good point. The one who was checking his watch. And then you heard that... You remember when they tried to spin that and they were like, "No, he's got a bracelet that he remembers Bow Biden for." He kept looking at the bracelet to honor his son. Fuck you. Yeah, fuck you. Oh shit. You know, they actually had the audacity to push back on a Trump surrogate this weekend on one of the new shows and say, you know, when Joe Biden and Kamala Harris met at the airfield during the dignified transfer and they were like, "Um, Kamala Harris wasn't there." And they're like, "Oh no, she was. She was not." And you actually have these rabid, just incessantly retarded people in the mainstream press who were like, "Oh no, she was. I'll fight you over it." She literally was not. And it's just a fucking joke. You heard a portion of that tweet that... Johnny Joey of Fox News. You see him. He does Fox and Friends sometimes. He sits in. He lost his legs in Iraq. He's a veteran. And he understands probably the importance of people that he served with, who he lost. What it would mean if the president or the former president of the United States showed up at a memorial ceremony for the fallen and it's going to take pictures near their grave. They could show it to their kids, their grandkids. Some of these people probably died. They might have had small kids who will never know their mother or father. And then they get to see that a former president of the United States went and honored the sacrifice that they made at the behest of Joe Biden's failed foreign policies. And you know, the other half of that tweet that Johnny Joey didn't read, I'm going to finish it right now. There's nothing new from Donald Trump. This is a man who has called our fallen service members, suckers and losers, and disparaged Medal of Honor recipients. A man who during a previous visit to the cemetery reportedly said of the fallen service members, "I don't get it. What was in it for them?" This is a man who is unable to comprehend anything other than service to himself. If there is one thing on which we Americans can all agree is that our veterans, military families and service members should be honored, never disparaged, and treated with nothing less than our highest respective gratitude. No, you don't know how many times that tweet was "tweeted" throughout the course of the weekend with a picture of her out on the campaign trail using a fake accent when she's addressing black people and Joe Biden sleeping on the beach in Delaware. Yeah, I saw some of the accent side by side. It's embarrassing. I don't worry. We've got it for our next edition of the podcast. If the Gold Star families didn't speak out, Donald Trump would probably have less of an argument. Even though all of them individually put out long posts, video posts on their social media describing how the entire situation went down, the fact that they had invited Donald Trump themselves, what it meant to them, and you know, just how important it is for someone to show up for a family that lost somebody in service to the United States. It's just an embarrassment. Donald Trump from his own true social this weekend. Again, a week out. I wanted to thank the families again, especially after the video clarifications came out from all the Gold Star families. I want to thank the families of all our great warriors who have been lost to us for the way that they came together as one and thank you for attending at their request to celebration of their wonderful family members who because of the incompetence of Kamala Harris and Joe Biden are no longer with us. Thank you for saying you wanted me to stand with you at Arlington National Cemetery and take pictures that it was at your request, not mine, but it was great honor to do. I will never forget it. Lightweight VP Kamala Harris tried turning it around because they weren't there. They have never spoken to the families and have no intention of doing so. In Afghanistan, you don't have to take the soldiers out first. You take the soldiers out last. This would be military 101 for most. The most basic and the leaders of this disaster should be immediately fired. We have a lot of fools in the White House and now they are trying to solve the hostage crisis in Israel. Guess how that's going to turn out. And I don't want to say that Donald Trump moonlights is no stardomist, but over the course of the weekend, six dual citizens, Israeli and U.S. were found murdered. Some killed execution style in tunnels as the Israeli military continued to advance through Gaza. So six more Israeli citizens who share dual citizenship in the United States are now dead because of Joe Biden wanting to sleep on the beach instead of negotiate the peaceful transfer of these people back safely, and Kamala Harris would rather campaign and make up stories like she was ratioed on via her Twitter account over the weekend. Dan Skavino put out on his ex and true social accounts, kind of a video montage that went through some of the family members who were at Arlington and invited President Trump. And instead of going through and breaking down each several minute long individual Gold Star family, even though, quite honestly, they do deserve the time for you to hear the plight and probably the everyday rakers that they have to go through now and have to have this relived and rehashed open in the media as publicly as it was by Kamala Harris. But I'm going to play you through the montage to see you kind of get an idea of where these people were and how they were all on the same page in regarding President Trump being in Arlington last week. Let's check it out. Vice President Harris. Vice President Harris. Vice President Harris. My name is Steve Nakui. I'm the father of Lance Corporal Kareem M. Nakui. My name is Jim McCollum. I am the Gold Star Father of the United States Marine Corps Lance Corporal Riley McCollum. This is Mark Schmutz, Gold Star Father of the Marine Lance Corporal Jared Schmutz. My name is Darren Hoover. And I'm the Gold Star Father of the United States Marine Corps Staff Sergeant Taylor Hoover. My daughter-in-law, Sergeant Nicole Leanne Gee was killed in the Afghanistan exit at Abbeygate. Our kids were murdered because of your administration. You were not at Dover for the dignified transfer. And no time have you reached out to me to offer your condolences, to offer thank you for Kareem's sacrifice and service. Get 13 families. We've been waiting over three years to so much as get a phone call. To so much as hear our kids' names, settle out. You've failed for three years and eight months. To acknowledge our kids, where were you and Joe Biden on August 26, 2024? Nowhere near Arlington Cemetery. You couldn't be bothered to be with us or even say our kids' names, just as you had done for the last three years. Vice President Harris, I ask you, why won't you return a call and explain to us how you call my daughter-in-law's death a success? President Trump has called. President Trump shows up. The President Trump takes the time to hear our loved one's stories. We invite him to be there. These are the only memories we get to make with our son. And it is you who is playing politics and trying to detract from our memories made that day. President Trump has been there for us. He's been a rock for us. He showed compassion for us. And he showed he truly cares for the families that truly do know what the ultimate sacrifice really is. What do you think, though? Yeah, it's touching. It's rough to listen to. I tell you what, you know, you could hear the pain and the anguish and even the anger in what they're saying. And, you know, it's not like the headlines helped out President Trump. President Trump, New York Times, Saturday, Trump campaign uses statements from Gold Star families to attack Harris. Subheadline, it was the latest effort by the Donald Trump campaign to defend itself after the campaign defied a ban on political campaigning at Arlington National Cemetery. Again, just Google Barack Obama, Arlington Cemetery, Joe Biden, Arlington Cemetery, and you could see all of the campaigning that these politicians have done throughout the course of the years. And it just goes through some of the other headlines I saw throughout the weekend. You hear about how dangerous the Constitution is, Noah? Oh, it's so dangerous. Also from the New York Times, the Constitution is sacred, but is it also dangerous? One of the biggest threats to America's policies might be the country's founding document. Also in the New York Times, the Constitution is broken and should not be reclaimed. MAGA turns against the Constitution. We had to force the Constitution to accommodate democracy, and now it shows. The Constitution won't save us from Donald Trump. Is the Constitution obstructing American democracy? This is one of my favorites. Let's just give up on the Constitution. Oh, come on. The U.S. lacks what every democracy needs because of the Constitution, and this is the story of how Lincoln broke the U.S. Constitution. Subheadline, it's been broken ever since. It's an absolute joke. As I'm saying, you're watching some of these people rapidly defend these politicians when it's completely untrue. And I think it makes it worse for them because once it's fact-checked in real time, how do you go on from there? Do you bring back the guests who you tried to, you know, ratio and say, "Well, okay, well, maybe I was wrong. Maybe Kamala Harris wasn't a dignified transfer." It's like, "No, you pulled that toothpaste out of the tube live on television, and now you want to kind of go and make up for it." And I really don't think that when you take into consideration the fact that these people have any journalistic integrity left. Well, you have to leave it to people like Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton, who now for the second week in a row had to go out as a Trump campaign surrogate. I actually feel like this guy is really wiggling himself in for maybe a cabinet or agency head position in the next administration. But go out onto the Sunday morning news circuit, or even the Monday morning news circuit as, you know, we had the Labor Day holiday yesterday, and absolutely push back and destroy these people who are continuing to go out there and headline after headline of fake news. Let's hear it. On line though, I guess Senator, is it ever appropriate to make campaign content at military grade studies? He didn't take campaign photos there. These families, Gold Star families, whose children died because of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris's incompetence invited him to the cemetery. And they asked him to take those photos because as they told me yesterday, when I spoke to Kelly Barnett and Darren Hoover, the parents of Taylor Hoover, who has Arkansas ties, they don't get to go to the beach on Labor Day. They don't get to have barbecues. This is their one chance to have a memory of their children to commemorate their service and to honor their sacrifice. They wanted President Trump there. They wanted to take those photos. You know who the family is also invited? Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. Where were they? Joe Biden was sitting at a beach. Kamala Harris was sitting at her mansion in Washington DC. She was four miles away, ten minutes. She could have gone to the cemetery and honored the sacrifice of those young men and women, but she hasn't. She never has spoken to them or taken a meeting with them. They didn't meet with them during the dignified transfer. They were with them at the dignified transfer. Her and her and Joe Biden's incompetence, those 13 Americans were killed in Afghanistan. It's rough. I mean, it just shows you how out of touch, disconnected and little that these Democrat politicians, and it's probably politicians from both sides of the aisle, just don't care. About the expenditures of war, especially when it comes to human collateral. And again, you might find things that you can get Donald Trump on. But for the fact of the matter that he took time after that Afghanistan withdrawal to meet with these families, to host them in his homes, to have them at rallies, to allow them to speak at the Republican National Convention. And how much their stories probably mean to him on an emotional level? He's incurred a lot of loss over the last couple years as well. The mother of his children has passed away. Obviously before that, his brother, who he loved, you know, Melania Trump's mother passed away just this past year as well. And he had an assassination attempt on his life. Again, say what you will about the man. I think a lot of things are taken into a different perspective now that Donald Trump actually felt the hand of God, kind of will its way to show him that he's got a lot of work left for him. And we're going to kind of leave it at that. No, you got anything else? I mean, it's just a disgusting display of, you know, the traditional mainstream press. But I mean, at this point, and with what at stake here, do you honestly expect anything less from them? No, there's nothing the guy can do that will not be twisted in a way that makes him look bad by the left. Regardless of like he could be standing out on the street and a little kid could be walking in front of a truck and he runs over and pulls the kid out in front of the truck. And they'd be like, well, you know, he was just doing that to do a stunt and he faked it and blah, blah, blah, blah. It's just like there's no good deed that this man can do that will go unpunished. Yeah, I mean, they call people like Tulsi Gabbard in an RFK junior, not Democrats because they've joined. Oh, they've never been Democrats. Tulsi Gabbard ran in the last presidential election as a Democrat. She was the one that ended Kamala Harris's campaign. An RFK junior tried to run as a Democrat, but they continued to sue him and not allow him to go to debates or be in any ballots. He had to switch parties and pick up the role as the independent. It's such a joke the way that these people try to, you know, just bend and twist reality to make it seem like it's more appropriate when they say it. When the truth of the matter would probably lead us, not just as parties here or Republicans and Democrats, but as a society, man, I dropped the society to better solutions. And I guess we're going to kind of leave it at that, you know, Newsmax's John Bachman is going to be the first interview at the end of our first news segment in our next edition of the podcast. I want his view on this because he is the press, and I want to see how he feels watching a lot of his, you know, coworkers and other, you know, corporate entities go around and just do the opposite of what actual journalism is over the weekend. But that's for a little bit for now. 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MyPillow.com/stake for anything sleep-related. If you want the coffee, my store.com/stake, or you can always talk to a qualified pillow representative, 1-800-6580-45. All right, joining us next on the show today is a big Tuesday edition of the Stake Breakfast podcast. Here's the Congresswoman who represents South Carolina's first congressional district, and we're always glad to catch up with Representative Nancy Mays. Welcome back to the show. Yes, sir. Thanks for having me as always. It's always a pleasure to host. I wish we had some better stuff to talk about, but we're going to jump right into one of the biggest concerns of the upcoming election cycle, and that's illegal voting. Congresswoman, we can turn on our television without seeing ramped up migrant crimes, reports from Secretary of the States and Attorney Generals from across America, saying that they're cleaning voter rolls and finding that Democrats are making it easier and easier in blue states, especially for illegals to register to vote, whether they know they're doing it or they're just going and signing them up. This is something that's a huge concern. It's all kind of encompassing the narrative of the SAVE Act and the budget battle that we're looking to have when you guys reconvene up on the hill next week in the swamp in Washington, D.C. And I kind of want to get your commentary on the importance of not only the SAVE Act, but how you see this entire election cycle and the people that are going to be participating in it. And just a short amount of time is we're almost to early voting in some states in this upcoming presidential election. Well, the irony here is the left. The radical left is as they need to be correctly labeled. We'll tell you, "Oh, illegals don't vote in our elections." Well, just a few weeks ago that Alabama state government found over 3,000 illegals registered to vote in Alabama. That's in one of the most conservative states in the country. Imagine what that number is in New York, or God forbid, California, or neighboring Georgia, North Carolina, Florida, etc. It's really important that our states clean their voter rolls for these kinds of things. Also, the left tool gaslight the American people and say, "Elegals aren't voting, and yet they're using taxpayer dollars to pay off NGOs who are then telling illegals how to come into our country not only how to get here illegally, but how to vote." And so we have to call BS on their BS, and it's important that regardless of your political affiliation where you stand, that the American people get the truth. And these aren't lies, these aren't conspiracy theories. These are the facts. And so we need to save back. We need to make sure that we verify that people who are registered to vote are legal and allowed to vote. I really fear what's going on in other parts of the country where blue states are running things, and God knows what they're doing. No, it's a good point. And then when you talk about what you guys are looking at next week, how do you see Speaker Johnson looking to take up this battle, and do you feel like he's up for the fight right now? I hope like Kelly's up for the fight. I mean, I know that we are, and the American people, they want strong leaders. They want us to make tough decisions, to take tough votes. It's time to put the American people first, and that's what the MAGA movement is all about. Like, we just want to put our country and her citizens, Numero Uno, to be first, and nobody else. And so that's what this is about. We need to take this fight to the Democrats. We need to take it to the left. And our policies are winning for America. They're good for everybody. Black, white, brown, male, female, they, them, whatever, our policies keep everybody safe for more prosperous and free. You know, I want to touch on that really briefly before we jump on the next topic on this one. I think you'd have a pretty good take on this. So the last time we talked, you know, it was around convention time, President Trump had done, I think one of the best jobs in modern political history of galvanizing the base. There are very few people within what I guess you guys would consider the Republican caucus who are not fully aboard, you know, the MAGA Express and galvanized and unified behind President Trump in the Republican Party. It looks, in my opinion, stronger than ever. You have all components of leadership, whether it be at the state or federal level. But then that allowed President Trump to go out, you know, post convention and bring people like Elon Musk and RFK Jr. and Tulsi Gabbard into the mix. I don't even feel like he's done assembling that team. I mean, Marvel's done a couple of good movies that lead into a narrative like that. But when you look at it in the big scheme of things, and you want to talk about how polarizing the media is and trying to make President Trump as this divisive character, but he's brought in more different components outside of the Republican Party than I've probably ever seen a political figure do. Just your commentary on how you feel this plan is kind of unfolded and how President Trump almost seamlessly has widened the tent to, you know, levels that we may have never seen before in modern politics. He has absolutely made the Republican Party the big tent party. There are more black Americans who are going to vote for a Republican president, I think, in my lifetime, at least. He has brought independence by way of Tulsi Gabbard, who is independent. Same thing with RFK Jr. putting the forefront of healthcare for our kids and families. Both of them bring something to the table and help broaden the tent for women and for independent voters. And that's something that Kamala, we say it correctly, Kamala, doesn't have, right? I mean, she doesn't know what she stands for. And when she talks about policy, she steals Donald Trump's ideas. She doesn't have an original idea. And if she does, it's going to ruin America in the middle class. And it's going to take women back decades. And so it's really important that we have women on the team, that we have independence on the team and know that they have a home in the Republican Party. And Donald Trump has created that grounds while he's the one that has created the soil conditions to allow these types of independence voters welcoming them back into the party. He's done that. No, he certainly has. And that's where I want to kind of go with my next question that we're going to talk about. You had mentioned women being welcome under the MAGA tent. And we are underneath probably the most, even though they claim to be the most diverse and transparent and historic administration. And maybe they are historic in a lot of different, you know, contexts, but here, but the Biden-Harris administration has just been absolutely brutal to women. From top to bottom, when you talk about, you know, what they've done in Afghanistan with the withdrawal and how the Taliban has kind of been able to reinstitute their, you know, medieval ways of governing over women in places like Afghanistan. And then you had, you know, their continued fight to try and rewrite Title IX to make it inclusive to everyone, including men in women's sports. You just talk about the things that, you know, Vice President Harris has avoided as a woman who's running at the top of a ticket to be the leader of the free world, essentially the chief executive of the planet. And this administration has just kind of wanted to wash away all of the hard work that's been made to make women great again over the last 50, 60 years in this country. And I know this is something that you've fought from top to bottom, not only just women's rights, but just women's excellence. And it seems like this administration that we're under right now is the antithesis of that. And I kind of want to get your commentary on, you know, what it would be like in President Trump's administration, where he doesn't want to see all the transgender stuff going on with the kids, where he doesn't want men participating in women's sports, where he wants to be able to, you know, reinstitute that level of authority over the Taliban to where they're not as overtly doing what they're doing in regards to the women in that country and places all around the world right now. Well, right. Kamala Harris and Tim Walz will set women back 100 years if they're ever in power. And it's worse than men in women's sports is we're talking about biological men in these showers stall next to underage girls. That is what they want. And there are changes to Title IX. They want men to be able to take away women's scholarships in education and academia and colleges and universities. They want men to be able to take away women's achievements in sports at the Olympics. We saw two biological men vying for the female Olympic gold and boxing. Like what are you even talking about? And it'll make our women more vulnerable. It's sick. It's twisted. It's disgusting. I mean, I felt like hell to be the first woman to graduate from the Citadel, the military college of South Carolina. You can be damn sure that I'm not going to allow some guy in a skirt to say he was first and take that achievement away from me and the women that came behind me, absolutely not. And, you know, the whole gender bending stuff, the nine pronouns on Kamala Harris's website. You got nine pronouns, but no policy, Tim Walz wants tampons in middle school boy bathrooms. I mean, the whole thing, they want a sanctuary for underage kids to chop their body parts off of not tell mom and dad and throw mom and dad and jail or take their kids away if mom and dad disagree with their pronouns. Like, this is the sick utopia that'll happen under Harris walls and it's disgusting. No woman should vote for Kamala Harris. No one should. No mom. No dad should vote for these people because of their position on women. And I'm voting for Donald Trump because I am a woman. I'm voting for Donald Trump because I am a rape survivor. He wants to protect women and girls like me who are vulnerable and has those policies to protect us. And that's the kind of truth that we need to be throwing online to our friends who haven't decided the very few independent, right of center, left of center and show them the facts because the left is gone. They are, they are long gone. They have gone further radical than we could have ever realized. And we need to pull these metal people back into the party and show them that we're going to protect women. We're going to protect girls. We're going to make sure that we're back to normal. You know, going back to our other point, you bring people in like Elon Musk and Tulsi Gabbard and RFK Jr. It's like all those moderate or the traditional, like the blue dog Democrats of, you know, 40 years ago. They don't have a home right now. It's either like you're either considered MAGA or you're in like the pronouns and all that other weird stuff community, open borders, rampant crime. They call it all other things, you know, what is it, reproductive freedom and all that other junk that they, you know, kind of put when it means completely the opposite. And you have all this large group of people in the country who just kind of sit on the fence every election. And I think the more people Donald Trump continues to bring in, especially in regards to like women's rights and all the other stuff. It seems to be a slam dunk for me. And then, you know, you want to talk about another really affected under this administration class of people in the United States. It's our veterans. And you touch on a little bit, obviously with the accomplishments, you had the historic ones at the Citadel. And then, you know, you saw what happened over the course of the last couple of weeks with the commemorating the terrorist attack in Afghanistan where 13 servicemen and women lost their lives. The families reached out to President Trump after the offices of Kamala Harris and Joe Biden did not respond that they weren't going to show or have any kind of acknowledgement for these gold star families who lost their kids. Donald Trump shows up. This was not a campaign event. This was not some kind of political stunt to bring awareness to the fact that Donald Trump is running for president. Donald Trump has established a relationship with these families over the last, you know, a couple of years now to where he's someone that they can lean on both publicly, but privately as well as they've all kind of divulge in their history. In their hits with the media. But, you know, the way it's been spun in the mainstream press, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris referred to, you know, these beat talking points of like suckers and losers or I don't understand why people go off to war when they know they're going to die. We all know that stuff's not true. The fact of the matter is no one supported our armed forces, probably in the modern era, more than Donald Trump, he rebuilt the military. He had these contracts going around all over the world, which made the entirety of the world safer, not just the United States. He built relationships with not just our political allies, but some of our political foes that made sure that forever wars wouldn't be starting like they have under Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. And when you see the way that this whole incident with the photo opportunity that they're calling it in the media at Arlington Cemetery, when it was Donald Trump going and sharing a really somber moment with these families, you know, last week happened. How do you see, you know, the way the press has kind of just spun this and what do you know about the man that Donald Trump is behind the scenes, especially when it comes to interacting with members like these Gold Star families. Well, it's disgusting. It's shameful. It's on American with the mainstream media is doing to prop up Kamala and Tim Walls. And, you know, he's always Trump has always been very respectful of our military and our veterans. And, you know, I sit on House Armed Services Committee. I sit on the VA Committee. I am not a vet, but my family, most everyone in my family is active duty or retired or is a military veteran. And I know the sacrifices that they made. And these families with the tragic way that we exited from Afghanistan to then have Biden and Harris use it as a political wedge is disgusting. It is offensive and it should disqualify them from being in the White House from being in office. It's so offensive. And Donald Trump loves America. He loves our veterans. That's why there's veterans for Donald Trump coalitions all around the country. It's why a man like my father retired one star general supports Donald Trump. But he was grateful that I finally got on board last year. He's like, finally, it's about time, Nancy, you know, to get back on the Trump train and back on with MAGA. Because that's who my dad is. He loves Donald Trump. And he served our country for 28 years. Most vets do. And they need to be respected. And Donald Trump has nothing but love and respect for our veterans, but particularly for those who sacrificed it all and their families. He has those relationships. As you said, they invited him. He showed up. It's not it's not his fault that Kamala Harris turned it back on and turned a blind eye to the sacrifices these men and women made for our country. It's such an excellent point. And I think it's one that's not talked about enough. Luckily, we got to catch up with you today, Congresswoman. And bang it all out. Listen, because you're in district, we can live link your congressional website and your campaign website in the show description today. But anybody that wants to follow you on social media, check out all the great work you're doing. I can be the first to confirm that I know you haven't taken any days off since you've been in district. So tell us where we're at. Where can we find you? You can find me at Nancy Mayce online. Please join the fun. And we had a little bit of fun today with the Congresswoman who's representing South Carolina one representative Nancy Mayce. Thanks for joining us on the show. Please have a great, have a great rest of your week. You too. Guys, we're coming back with another all new edition of the state for breakfast podcast. So sit back, relax, and let us change the way you consume your news. [BLANK_AUDIO]
