- Okay, this is not nom, this is bowling, they're a rule. - Ten, ten, eight, junior, America! (screaming) - It's like four-- - Bathurst! - So, stand by. - All right, everybody, welcome back to the Steak for Breakfast podcast. I'm Ron knows here with me. You know, 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 quick, we'll be coming favorite political podcast. If you're listening to this episode first today, don't worry, we'll see you in just a little bit. Press pause, go back and check out our first edition of the podcast. Episode 458 was the first of our two Friday shows. We sat down with the former acting ICE director, someone who's looking to make big changes regarding our current immigration status here in the United States in the next Trump administration. Director Tom Holman and caught up with the Congressman who represents Texas III, Representative Keith Self. In addition, we talked about Donald Trump and the town hall he hosted. Well, he attended town hall in Flint, Michigan earlier this week, narrated and moderated by Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders, and then how the inflammatory rhetoric on the left continues to draw ire from not just the American public, but especially the Republicans up on Capitol Hill. We're gonna be jumping right into it here and getting things started covering the Trump rally, which happened on Long Island Union Dale, New York this week. Noah, polls came out following the rally that showed that typically a Democrat stronghold, but one we saw chinks in the armor with during the 2022 midterm gubernatorial election there when Lee Zeldin ran against current Democrat governor, Kathy Holchle. Donald Trump only down two points in the empire state. Now for a place that you wouldn't think is on the board or within the margin of error, heading into this election cycle, even though New Yorkers been subjected to the very worst of Democrat ran policies, what did you think when you saw those numbers come out this week? Well, if they're allowing the reported numbers to be that close, then it's even better for Trump. I guarantee it. - Trump thinks he can win it. I think it would be a Herculean task, but listen, if there's one man up for the job, it's going to be the 45th looking to be 47th president of the United States. I mean, you've seen places like New Hampshire say that is within the margin of error. Virginia tied as recently as last month as well. And then all the places that are already ruby red that ain't changing in either direction, plus with the battleground state's favorability outlook, definitely looking good for the former president as he took to the stage in Long Island and got things started talking about how the big guy, the real big guy, God may have had his hands on some of the situations surrounding the assassination attempt on his life recently and let's hear him weigh in on it now. - They're doing things in politics that have never been done before in the history of our country and worst of all, with their open borders and bad elections, they have made us into a third world nation, something which nobody thought was even possible. Americans deserve a campaign based on the issues. We try and keep it on the issues. And God has now spared my life. It must have been, God, thank you. (audience cheering) - We have the best God in America first. Not once, but twice. And there are those that say he did it because Trump is gonna turn this state around. He's gonna turn this country around. He's gonna make America great again. And maybe. (audience cheering) And we're gonna bring back religion into our country. (audience cheering) These encounters with death have not broken my will. They have really given me a much bigger and stronger mission. They've only hardened my resolve to use my time on Earth to make America great again for all Americans to put America first, and to put America first. - How do you think of that? That's a little bit of something different from Donald Trump outside of the normal rally-related material when he kind of talks about the experience. I mean, listen, we've heard so many people answer the questions, what was it like in that moment? What was it like for your family? And he always segues to things that are more commonplace for the political, the campaign trail. He doesn't really like to let people inside of what those moments or time periods, especially with those surrounding him and his family are like. But when he kind of opens up the window and lets everybody peek in a little bit and talks about how it's hardened his resolve and made sure that when he talks about his time up in this Earth, it seems like he's really putting things into perspective that just when you're trying to run a political campaign might not have been a factor, let's just say two months ago. - Yeah, and people just have to realize that the dude does not need to be doing this. He could be living very comfortably. So with attempts on his life and him realizing that what he's doing is drastically important to the American people and he's still standing up for us. That's pretty huge. - Yeah, it certainly is. We haven't seen a leader like this probably ever in our history. I mean, I think back of Patton, maybe. I mean, the way he was portrayed outside of all the scandals and things like that. I mean, he had a couple of, maybe MacArthur presidents that have stood up in the face of tyranny, let's just say during World War II and then revolutionary times, but outside of that, you really don't get traditional leaders like this anymore. And I think a lot of people who just are so unhinged by politics in name and not by person in really trying to understand what the whole notion of Donald Trump is about. They're really missing out. I think when you look back on this decades, if not hundreds of years from now, it's going to tell a lot different story about Donald Trump, the man in what making America great again was all about. He had a message segwaying from that point, issued directly at Kamala Harris. And, you know, when it comes to how the events which led up to the two assassination attempts happened, well, you can only blame the people on the other side of the aisle on how they kind of spun a few mentally deranged, unhinged fanboys of the Democrat Party to become activated the terror. - The people of our country and law enforcement does in this country is incredible. Tonight, let me also deliver a message straight to Kamala Harris. - Have you heard of her? (audience cheers) - Ooh, York fucking hates her. - Who, by the way, was just rated by far the most liberal senator in the US Senate. More so even. Further left than Bernie Sanders and Pocahontas. Pocahontas. She's more so. Elizabeth Warren, she's more left than Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren. Let me also deliver a message straight to Kamala Harris, the radical left Democrat politicians and the fake news media. Look how many are there. - New Yorkers boo their own sports team, so you know they were gonna boo the fake news media. (audience cheers) - Trump's laughing. (audience cheers) - We've got to get our media back in this country. We've got to get them back. (audience cheers) But the message is it's time to stop the lives, stop the hoaxes, stop the smears, stop the law fair or the fake lawsuits against me and stop claiming your opponents will turn America into a dictatorship, give me a break. (audience cheers) Because the fact is that I'm not a threat to democracy, they are. (audience cheers) - You know, what's really funny, I've seen recently 'cause you know, for the show, you have to watch MSDNC and CNN and listen to a couple of the really progressive podcasts to kind of get the narrative that they're building up as a counter to anything Donald Trump's doing out in the campaign trail. It went from asking rhetorically, after the Butler incident, you know, maybe people like Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, Nancy Pelosi and some of the other high ranking Democrat officials should stop saying these things that are unproven or just not true, the hoaxes and you know, the dictatorships and the threat to democracy and you know, to say his policies are bad, but don't say things that potentially could activate people like we've seen twice now that we know about. And because Donald Trump has segued in part of his rally commentary when he's delivering remarks and saying like, I'm not the threat to democracy, they are by saying stuff like this and doing stuff like this to the number one political opponent of the seated people in power. Now the left is saying, well, you know, this is stuff that both sides has said more frequently now coming from the former president referring to Donald Trump. No, it's just absolutely fucking asshat rhetoric to even buy into that now. Donald Trump never said stuff like this until they started literally trying to kill him. And then all the stuff that they misconstrued and change and it's a one-sided thing and the two-tier system of justice, all that shit. It's 100% true and people are starting to see it now, which is great. - Yeah, they certainly are and they're waking up to it. I definitely think there's a lot more people who are gonna vote, you know, policy driven and with their conscious in this upcoming election than just did by checking a box and maybe being exhausted by what the D.C. Swamp did to President Trump by weaponizing the pandemic at the end of his first presidency. And I really do think that's something that we don't talk about enough because, you know, it's what it was. For all the victories that Donald Trump has, he should have walked to an electoral landslide in 2020. And again, we know what happened. You know, the person that supposedly got 81 million votes, we knew it was 81 million ballots at least. Didn't even make it two months into his reelection campaign. And, you know, it puts us up in this situation where they're trying to pull the wool over your eyes again, the American public and say that like, listen, it doesn't matter how good or strong or widening of the tent Donald Trump can perform, it's always going to be a one two point race in either direction. It's just not the case. But we can't vote based off what the polls look like. We have to vote and get our communities involved in ways that like Donald Trump has alluded to, make it too big to rig. - Yeah, well, you mentioned the 81 million ballots about the other stuff. Whatever happened to all that digital stuff that like Mike Lindell was doing? - Yeah, I mean, I had seen cases that are being reversed in places like Georgia at least when it comes to the Dominion stuff. I also see some whole new rules that are coming up for votes in the State House there. This week, maybe even today in regards to safely and securing more of the election, all of these dead voters that potentially did participate in the 2020 presidential election, that everyone told us didn't exist. It's so weird how just under the radar of the mainstream media, we see these reports come out that they're by the hundreds of thousands being removed off of voter rolls in places like Wisconsin, Michigan, Georgia, Nevada, and Arizona, places where Donald Trump lost by percentage points. Yeah, not by percentage is. And you know, listen, when we get the reports that the mail-in ballots are not being requested in the same fashion they were because the Democrats don't have time to go into these neighborhoods and offer gift cards because they don't have time to go into these old folks home and register names of people who can't vote and that don't have families that are very present in their life. It's gonna be a lot different election, but the press isn't going to tell you it is. That's why on places like this, you'll get a more accurate picture of what it probably looks like. But at the end of the day, you still have to go with what the mainstream narrative is because it's not like they're just gonna change it up on Election Day and let's just say Donald Trump's gonna win 45 states all of a sudden and they're gonna be like, oh man, we never saw this coming. When you could telegraph it based off the work he's doing and how much better he's doing in all the states where elections have been a little bit more fortified. They're nowhere near where we need. The voter periods need to be cut down. It needs to be a day or a couple days, not as voting season. - That's not hard. - Yeah, the absentee ballots need to be requested by people that only physically cannot, they're either in the military or they're incurred to where they can't leave their house and things of that nature and that's it. And the signature verifications, all that stuff has to happen. But it's much like the SAVE Act. For as much of a good virtue single it was and President Trump wants it, there's no way that it would be able to be implemented, especially in places like blue states and cities that we needed in for this election season because it goes to voter registration, not game day voting. So I need everybody to understand that. That's what the SAVE Act does. It prevents illegals by showing proof of citizenship to be able to register to vote. But where the ballots are already going out in places like Pennsylvania and North Carolina, it doesn't matter anymore 'cause if illegals are registered, they're getting their ballots or they can go and vote in places where you don't have to show ID to vote on election day anyways. So making that clear. And after the messaging to Kamala Harris, he reminded everybody in New York not, like they needed what it's been like over the course of the last three years under her and where New York State is going if she's able to claim the White House in November. Check it out. - For more years of Kamala Harris, New York State will be like a third world nation if it isn't already. It is. I think it is. With Trump, the Empire State will once again be the envy of the entire world. We will have no crime, only success. And unlike your current radical Democrat regime, I'm not driven by partisan ideology. I'm driven by results. And I'm driven by New York common sense. It's common sense, right? (audience cheering) It's common sense. You know, I like to say the party, this is a great party. I like to say the party is really, you know, we're conservative and all that, right? Who knows? You know what we are? We're really people with common sense. We need walls, we need good elections. - There it is. - We want low taxes. We want great police officers that are well taken care of. We don't want to defund the police. With a party of common sense, more than anything else, and it's picked up a lot of steam, it's true. My first week back in the Oval Office, I will clean up and call up your governor and mayors all across your state, and I will tell them, it's time to work together. They're largely Democrats. It's time to work together for the good of the people. Going to do it. (audience cheering) And despite all of the persecution I've endured from the corrupt judicial system in New York, it's a corrupt system. I love the people of this state, and I want to give back. I want to give back to you. I've had a great life. I want to give back to you. We're going to give it back to you. We're going to make this city, and we're going to make this state incredible again. - You know, and I think one of the biggest things that people miss is the fact that Donald Trump has, you know, figuratively, because he's not literally in office yet, offer that olive branch out to people like Mayor Greg Adams and Governor Cathy Holchle, and places across the country where he knows, you know, they have to put on this facade of being able to say like everything's fine with the entire city on fire. But in reality, they know that they're eventually going to lose power because of the fact that they were forced to carry out these Democrat led policies in places that, you know, are sanctuary cities and states like places like New York. At some point, the people will vote them out. I think Lee Zeldin's candidacy in 2022 was a good measuring stick of that at where it could go. I think we're probably two full election cycles away from seeing a Republican governor. Maybe one back in New York, maybe one cycle away in the city when it goes to being the mayor. But I mean, the people aren't going to take this much. Listen, when you take away their food and you take away their freedom, like you did during the pandemic and in the start of Joe Biden's candidacy, and now you're ruining the job market to where you can't even get like, you know, the bread and butter New York jobs, construction workers and things like that because they're going to people like illegals and then ruining the schools and having these, you know, illegal encampments set up not just in the hotels, but in the parks where the kids can't even play sports anymore. That's when you start getting, you know, that's when you get back to the not in my hometown. Kind of narrative that we've seen, you know, true blue New Yorkers come out and kind of represent over the years. I mean, they are a place where people, for the most part, just kind of mind their business and carry on with their lives, albeit, groutially. I think in the big scheme of things, places like New York are getting so bad and there are still so many hardworking, good people there of all the communities that make up and what make New York great that are eventually going to take the power back there. But it could start with Donald Trump working hand-in-hand with, you know, the Democrats in power now to get that city safely secured and under control again. That's just my opinion, but we'll have to see what happens, you know, and how much of the power apparatus is taken away from the Democrats if we could retain the House and extend the majority, obviously flip the Senate and have a Republican in the White House, at least for the first two years, you don't have very many places to go for handouts anymore. So you might see a little bit of a reluctance to not want to work with Donald Trump if he can get sworn in in January. You know, and one of the big things, Donald Trump campaigned on in 2016 when he was talking to some of the minorities, as everybody had started calling him, you know, racist and xenophobic, misogynistic for the first time, was like, you've seen over the course of Obama's eight years in office how bad things really had gotten. Racial division was back. You know, the middle class was under attack. We were doing things geopolitically that just didn't seem congruent to traditional American foreign policy. And Donald Trump would make the pitch like, quite honestly, if you're not happy with your lives, then what do you have to lose? Vote for me. He touched on that threat a little bit during his rally out in Long Island. Let's check it out. - And so I say to the people of New York with crime at record levels, with terrorists and criminals pouring in, and with inflation eating your hearts out, vote for Donald Trump. What the hell do you have to lose? What do you have to lose? (audience cheering) There was a lot of people who only get worse. True story. (audience cheering) (audience cheering) (audience cheering) I mean, listen, it's the truth. And I think more and more people are starting to wake up to it. And, you know, he would segue off of that, and now he got the people kind of in the mood and going, there was very few funny points here. But one of the ones that I thought was absolutely fantastic. Noah, have you heard about Harry's for Trump? Harry's, Harry's. Is that like, "Furries," but Harry's? No, like Harry's is the name Harry. You haven't heard about him? You haven't heard about him? Well, name Harry. Yeah, and for the fact that at some point between now and November 5th, they need to get their fat asses up off the couch and out to cast a vote for Donald Trump. I don't think I've seen this. Well, you're about to listen to it, let's check it out. We can do all of this and more, but patriotic New Yorkers must get your asses out to vote. Harry, get up, get it, get out, get it, get up. Harry, get up, Harry. Harry, get your fat ass out of the couch. You're gonna vote for Trump today, Harry. Get up, Harry, come on, let's go. Let's go, Harry. Harry, it's time. They should have started a let's go, Harry, Chan, right? Dan, that would have been amazing. Yeah, yeah. It's only Donald Trump could do it and the people absolutely were feeling it, you know? And listen, there's one fat guy named Harry that's like, "Oh, come on, man." I am gonna get my fat ass up off the couch and go for that. I'm not going to, you don't need to call me out. This place was packed to know it. Nassau Coliseum, former home of the New York Islanders, the NHL team who plays at the Barclays Center now, it's pretty much just a venue that hosts musical events and things like that. I believe over 10,000 inside and then another 8-ish thousand watching the Jumbo Trons in the parking lot. Wow. And again, this is in Sapphire Blue, New York. It was like 49 days before election day. And you got that place packed to the gills with people who are supporting President Trump. And I think the biggest issue outside of the economy that's affecting places in New York that's been so overrun with migrants is the fact that the border is going to be issue number two, if not one A, for a lot of people who are casting their vote in the Empire State. Donald Trump laid it out there and told you exactly what you get with him and Kamala Harris, let's hear it. I talk about the border, nobody cared. But now they care because now the border is 25 times worse than it was in 2016. Now the border is not even believable what's happening. And I want to be known as your border president. I'm going to be known as your border president. Okay, I like that. It doesn't have the same ring as Zar, but... Way for the next one. And Kamala will be known as your invasion president. Just let them all come in. Let them all come in now. We're going to save our country. Our country's going down. It certainly is. And one of the things you talked about that's been really making the news cycle lately is what's going on in places like Springfield, Ohio, Aurora, Colorado, all of the different migrant crimes that we've seen happen in Texas, in Georgia. Most recently we talked about it on the show last week. There were two migrants from some South American country that wound up trying to do a home invasion. I guess the mother and father fought back. The migrants killed them. And then whether or not they knew about it or not, there was a two-year-old and four-year-old upstairs sleeping. And to cover up the crime scene, the migrants burnt the house down and tried to dispose of the evidence that way. So the two kids wound up, yeah. And this was just last week in upstate New York. And listen, people get that stuff. And it really hits home with them, you know? And Donald Trump had planned on visiting a lot of these places that he's considered hot zones that he's talking about. He touched on it during the rally, let's hear it. I'm going to Springfield and I'm going to Aurora. (audience cheering) You may never see me again, but that's okay. Got to do what I got to do. What ever happened to Trump? Well, he never got out of Springfield. I'm leading in Ohio by like 15 points a lot and we're going to take care of Ohio and we're going to take care of Colorado and we're going to take care of every single state in the union. They're all under siege. A lot of people don't talk about it, but think of this, so the mayor of Springfield, and I think he's a very nice person, but instead of saying we're getting them all out. And I'm going to tell you why I cut the president off there because he would go into a little bit of a more long-winded version than I want to say here. No, do you know what the big cover up about Springfield, Ohio has been? It's not the fact that migrants aren't eating pets or ducks or geese because we've already kind of proven in some context based off of city council meetings, recorded 911 calls, et cetera. In addition to all the car accidents that are happening there and the people that are getting hurt some woman, believe it or not, about a month ago, she got killed in her driveway, trying to bring in her garbage cans. A car with two Haitians, illegal migrants ran her over, left the scene, they were eventually detained, but now they're not going to be charged because the local government there feels like they don't understand, I guess, running over people is allowed in places like Haiti, I'm not going to dispute it, but because they don't have a comprehension in the American justice system. So they're not going to be charged with murder. It's fucking bullshit. Yeah, here's the deal. Oh, nobody doesn't, like you run somebody over and you leave them fucking maimed under your car and you fucking take off, like there's nobody on any fucking place ever that thinks that that's okay. There is a huge industrial manufacturing component that is present right outside of the city of Springfield, Ohio. And they are busing in like 12 to 15, 16 passenger vans of illegal migrants who have replaced American workers in these facilities and the owners and the managers have nothing but sparkling things to say about them. Oh, they're the hardest workers, they show up early, they leave, well, they're getting busted by either the state or federal government, so they kind of have to show up on time. Oh, but they work without problem and, you know, they come right back from their breaks. There's no meandering or anything like that. They're replacing not just with the social benefits, not just in your schools, but now in the workplace, American workers are being replaced with these migrants and they plan on building more manufacturing plants there, not for American prosperity, but so illegal migrants can work there. Probably at a much cheaper rate than Americans would be making when you talk about competitive wages. Comes off as a shocker to you. You knew there was something, it just seems so weird that we knew this was happening, like there were these crime reports, 911 calls, people at city councils, and I'm like, why is the mainstream press? Is it just because Donald Trump went viral for saying it during the debate on TikTok? I was like, there has to be something else. Then I saw this story come out. You should see the vans all parked next to, you know, there's like close to 20 of them, and then they show the people in there, you know, just dressed up like with their little safety goggles on, like working on the machines and the factory, and I was like, dude, this is fucking terrible. Yeah, jobs as Americans could have. They're given to the Haitians, and that's why they're essentially protecting that community. You know, one of the things that we're gonna be talking about in our next new segment as well, even before we do that, guys, wherever you listen to the show today, thanks for joining us. We're in the middle of two big Friday editions of State for Breakfast here. Do us a huge favor. Recently, Apple did a software update, which where if you're not settings subscribed to download explicit content, forced to unfollow you from Apple Podcast of following our show. 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Guests that are in the past been on, guests incoming, the top headlines we're hitting, how to help out the Trump campaign, et cetera. So make sure you're subscribed to that on our sub stack as well. And we're gonna be jumping in with former US Secretary of the Interior who last served during the Trump administration, David Bernhardt in just a bit. But no, what do you think about the Teamsters? Not endorsing a Democrat candidate for president for the first time in over four decades. After straw polls showed that if you include the third party candidate over 60% of their membership who was polled doesn't want Kamala Harris to be president because they know what's going to happen to their industry. What did you think? - There's probably a lot of that going around with unions. I just didn't think that something like that would be able to physically manifest itself before the elections. I mean, I know the Teamsters president was asked to speak at the RNC. He was not at the DNC. It was kind of a snub back to him. And I know he's tried to connect with the Biden-Harris regime and kind of present his message to them and why they're open to talking to Republicans too. And they said he's also been shunned from that. So where I thought they might have just like sucked it up and said, well, this is a once in a lifetime. Last chance for Donald Trump election cycle. Let's just go with the Democrat and not give a shit. They decided to make a public statement that they would not be endorsing anyone, which I think in the face of Democrats, especially one to a-- - Same thing. - It's the same thing as endorsing Trump. - Yeah, really counting on that endorsement. It's a slap in the face and just shows the absolute state of the Democrat party right now. Donald Trump got to this point during his rally in Long Island, La Tierra. - Earlier today, I was honored to receive the endorsement of the rank and file membership of the Teamsters. I love the Teamsters. (crowd cheering) They delivered all that concrete for those buildings I built in New York. They delivered the big, heavy, those beautiful trucks you've ever seen. They delivered the concrete and all those buildings I built in New York. But you know, this hasn't happened in so many decades. We won the overwhelming majority of the local chapters and the members. And as a result, the national organization has refused to endorse the Democrat candidate for the first time in many, many decades. (crowd cheering) And I also want to thank Teamsters president Sean O'Brien, an amazing man, and all of the incredible rank and file Teamsters across the country, 'cause this was a surprise. It's automatic, they endorse the Democrats. Automatic for many, many decades. But you know what, they said, they looked at her, they said, "We're not going there, I'm sorry." These are tough people. (crowd cheering) And together, we will secure our borders. We will protect our workers. We will defend our jobs. We will rebuild our country with American skill and American pride and American labor. (crowd cheering) It's a big time. Again, can't talk enough about how important it was that they didn't go out and endorse the Democrats. Like you said, it's automatic. You shouldn't even have to, you couldn't even consider. Let's just say in the last election cycle, whether or not the Teamsters were gonna endorse Republican or Democrat Republicans wouldn't even try 'cause they knew. And Donald Trump has opened up the door to these massive labor unions over the course of, you know, the time since he's entered the political arena. But it's always what can you do for me and not what are you going to do for the country? And I think there's a meeting in the middle on both. And I think that's where you saw the non-endorsement coming down for the Democrats. Last point I've got before we hit the closeout. No, this is big. You know, New Yorkers always need something. They feel entitled to stuff. They used to be a good representation, at least from the Mississippi East, of what this country looked like for decades. And, you know, fixing the economy and cleaning up crime and stuff that they've heard before. But what could you really do for me? I don't think when you talk about New York Pride and things that they really are invested in, it's the remembrance of what happened on 9/11 there as we just recently had the memorial for that date. Well, Donald Trump had a little surprise for them and what he plans on doing to the ground zero site. Let's hear it. Also with us are members of New York City Firefighters Union, Local 94, the largest in the city. Thank you, fellas. (applause) Incredible people. And in their honor, Amah, and I think this is a big deal, because in your honor, I am announcing tonight that as President, I will officially make the ground zero site at the World Trade Center, a national monument protected and maintained by the United States government. (applause) So that hallowed ground and the memory of those who perished there will be preserved for all time, preserved forever. (applause) And you deserve it, a lot of great people. I've met them last week. Thank you. Of course you're gonna start with USA Chan after that. What do you think, Noah? I think that's a huge offering to the citizens of the Empire State, as you know, how much blood, sweat, and tears went into rebuilding in the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attack. I mean, Donald Trump was around ground zero on day one. He was at ground zero for weeks afterwards, making sure people had hot meals, that paid members of his team were helping out in the rescue and recovery efforts, and then had probably some insight into what went into the rebuilding of the site following the 9/11 attacks. What do you think? Yeah, I mean, these are a more important thing to reflect on right now. No, there certainly isn't. And as we're getting ready to wrap here and jump in with former U.S. Secretary of the Interior, David Bernhardt, where you are going to play a little bit of the closeout. Noah, I have a surprise for you. It didn't end with hold on, I'm coming. Or, even YMC, there was a new song. It's actually an old song that Donald Trump, you know, is one of his absolute favorites, let's hear it. (applause) We will defend the Second Amendment, restore free speech, and we will secure our elections, and we will secure our borders. Everyone will prosper, every family will thrive, and every day will be filled with opportunity and hope. (applause) But for that to happen, we must defeat Kamala Harris and the Crooked Democrats. That we must stop her country destroying liberal agenda once and for all. So get everyone you know and vote. We want a landslide that is very simply too big, too big, too big to ring. Right, Bruce? Too big to ring, Joe, too big to ring, too big to ring, Joe. I think we can do that, too. 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 because, together, we will make America powerful again. Make America wealthy again. Make America healthy again. Make America strong again. Make America proud again. Make America safe again. Make America free again, and we will make America great again. Thank you very much. We love New York. Love New York. Thank you. God bless you all. Nice singing. What do you think, Noah? I like the end. I know how you're rating the rally. Ten. We're going with 9.8. New York was rocking, so was Donald Trump. The messaging was on point, and it flowed almost perfectly. This is exactly what he needs to do as he continues to move his way around the battleground states, and I think it's something that, moving forward, we're going to see a lot more of from the former president, as he's vying to become the next one. As we close out this new segment with a little Nessum Dorma, we're going to be jumping in with former secretary of the interior. David Bernhard, before we do, we're going to do another check-in with one of our partners. Friends, I want to take a minute and talk to you about cigars. Whether you're on the golf course, fishing on the lake, or doing some yard work around the house, our friend Alan has got you covered. He's launched the Patriot Cigar Company. The tobacco is hand-picked in the fields in Nicaragua right next to where Mike Lindell picks his coffee beans. Cigars are hand-rolled each three years. You've got a promo code stake here, you're going to get 15% off your total order. Every order over $100, free shipping, and a $10 gift card is included with every purchase. Mypatriotsigars.com, that's MyPatriotsigars.com, a premium smoke for freedom-loving patriots. All right, joining us next on the show today is a big Friday edition of the State for Breakfast podcast. He was the 53rd secretary of the U.S. Department of the Interior looking to sit down and have a wonderful conversation welcoming back at Mr. David Bernhard, Mr. Secretary, thanks for coming on today. Thanks for having me. Always a pleasure. Listen, we've got a bunch of stuff to talk about in the news. We want to cover some of the biggest headlines regarding the presidential race with you as someone who, you know, last served in the Trump administration. You've become a best-selling author since your time out of office, and someone who has remained dialed in to all of the America First policies that helped this country flourish during Donald Trump's tenure in office, and you being a big part of that. So, listen, we just had a second assassination attempt on President Trump's life over the past weekend. You know, and we've seen the political red tape, which you obviously know something about being a cabinet-level position in the last administration, and how bad it gets strewn in situations like that. You know, whether it be the former Secret Service Director, the current Acting Secret Service Director, the Department of Homeland Security head, Alejandro Mayorkas, Joe Biden, and Kamala Harris talking about providing extra security. You know, we've had members of Congress push back all the way up and through this morning, I guess, where there is some breaking news that Donald Trump will be getting more security. But Mr. Secretary, when you see a political figure like Donald Trump, who was the president last term in office, it wasn't like it was decades ago. And you know, he gone and walked to a nomination to where he's been the guy who is running head and head with the, you know, Democrats who currently sit in power. How was it that Donald Trump did not have adequate security? In your opinion, and how much or out of touch are, you know, some of the policies in place up on Capitol Hill and in Washington, D.C. that, you know, allowed for two attempts on Donald Trump's life to happen? Well, I think we have to first really recognize how fortunate we are that we're not talking about the situation in the context of a successful attempt by an individual. And, you know, to be brutally candid, I think that one of the things these federal agencies have not done like the Secret Service is maybe recognize the increasing reality of the state of threats against the president and former President Trump. And I think that they probably were slow to act. And what's really stunning to me is the second situation because you would think that from the moment the first one occurred, that agency would have been on all fours moving forward at an incredible pace. And the truth about federal agencies and people don't want to hear this, but it really, the responsiveness really begins at the top. If the people at the top want something to happen and they wanted to happen fast, you know what happens? It happens. And, you know, these agencies can move slowly and they can move quickly, but it all comes down to leadership. Now, I think the president has been very, very clear that the folks on the ground did a great job for him. But at the end, and they're the ones putting their lives on the line, but you've got to get people, you've got to get the resources to him. And that is a leadership function, plain and simple. And at the end of the day, if you're going to lead an agency, you need to be able to drive an agency. Now, their failure on my own view of the inability to react quickly in terms of recognizing the threat, I think that really potentially stems from not recognizing just how caustic this modern rhetoric is to our society. You know, and I do want to open up that door and head down there. Not only is it, you know, shocking and sad to see the way that we've had these attempts on President Trump's life, but it's how we've gotten here. You know, traditionally politics would come from a stance of Republicans usually run on tax cuts and immigration reform, where Democrats in the more modern sense have run on, you know, green energy policies and maybe a more robust immigration system or, but it's never been, you have to admit, in a situation like we've seen before, since almost when Donald Trump came down the golden escalator, all of the relationships that he had had prior to that seemed to dissolve and the talking points negatively came out against him and pretty much anybody who would serve alongside and underneath them throughout the point of his first term in office and now running up to this election day on November 5th again. I mean, comparing people to Hitler saying their threats to democracy, they are talking points that come and go in the media, albeit at the highest level of inappropriateness, but it's impossible to determine how millions of people will interpret that and in these instances, it seems to have radicalized people to the point to where they want to take attempts on President Trump's life. When you've seen the political rhetoric go outside of the arena of the political sense itself and stem into such hateful and divisive terms that the Democrats have used, how do you see, you know, you viewing the changing face of politics and what do you think maybe on the back end of this, let's just say after this election cycle, can we get back to a little bit more of normalcy and probably a policy-driven, you know, way that politics are kind of directed? Well, a studying survey was recently released that I saw that had as one conclusion that 28% of the Democrats that were surveyed thought that America would be better off if President Trump had actually been assassinated. And that was absolutely jar-dropping to me because at the end of the day, when anyone enters the political arena, the goal is for the betterment of our country, the goal is a battle of ideas, a battle of ideas that leads to better policy outcomes. And the differences here are ones that you stated, you know, differences of policy. And those policies can be reflected through, you know, the articulation of personalities. But you're really talking about what's the better course for America and the arguments associated with those courses are to lead to a better outcome that may be different than either of the advocates of a particular policy want to get to, you know, that's through shared enlightenment. So that's the goal. But over time, in my opinion, what has happened is that we have moved to a place where the attacks, particularly on President Trump, have just become unbelievable, but not only on President Trump. That's, you know, if you want to reflect back, Senator Schumer, on the steps of the Supreme Court minutes after a Supreme Court argument had taken place, basically said, not basically, specifically said, Justice's Gorsuch and Kavanaugh, if you move forward with these awful decisions, we will release the whirlwind and you will never know what will hit you. And in that moment, that said to me that our nation's highest officials were beginning to actually condone physical threats, physical threats against sitting justices in the context of them getting to decisions. And what has happened over time, I worked in the Bush administration and at that time, an inspector general once gave me an very interesting analogy. He said, "David, policy differences have now become differences in ethics, that because we disagree from a policy perspective, we think we differ on our ethical values." In the interim time between the early 2000s and today, we've moved from thinking that a person with a policy difference is actually not only ethically different, but now criminally different. You often hear that, you know, folks like President Trump are criminals for their policies. And then we moved from that to just a few in the last year, year and a half, to actually weaponizing the justice system. And now, it's almost impossible, I think, for people not. As some deranged people, some radical people, to not take from that, that there's an acceptability to physical violence. And we have to stop that. And I actually think, I mean, I think there's one simple solution. And I think that solution is for President Trump to have a resounding victory. Because I believe if he will, he's going to bring a recognition to both sides of the political aisle, that it's time to come together, focus on the country, and tone things down. But more importantly for the Democrats, they will see that this concerted effort of the corporate media, their hostile rhetoric, which the same survey of the 28 percent, said hostile rhetoric, large component of why this assassination attempt took place and media, a large component of why it took place. And I think, by him winning, and them recognizing that this rhetoric simply is not good, politics will end the rhetoric, and therefore will drive down this notion that physical violence is acceptable. Yeah. No, I think that's an excellent point you make. And moving forward, we can only hope that that's exactly what happens. Mr. Secretary, when you see the way that this race is kind of shook out, I mean, we obviously know what Kamala Harris brings to the table, whether she wants to tell America, or can, you know, put into words what her policies might look like. Just for the most part, open borders, green policy, soft on crime, lack of footing, geopolitically, especially in the face of some of our strongest geopolitical foes, et cetera, you know, they say the economy is robust, but it's robust for very few amount of people and very hard for middle-class hardworking blue collar families across the country, the ones that are still left and haven't entered into poverty under this administration. And then when President Trump did, you know, you talked about that reform that comes and the reckoning on the other side of the aisle. He's already brought some people in, outside of, and getting past the Republican National Convention where he said he wanted to not be the president of the Republican Party, but the president of everyone in the United States, people like Tucker Carlson, Elon Musk, Tulsi Gabbard, RFK Jr., it seems like that messaging that you could see President Trump really getting out to the American people on the other side of the ballot box is one, he's already promoting pretty heavily now and trying to bring a broad and big tent kind of outlook to not only his policy platform, but where a second Trump administration could go. And I just want to ask how you see this race shaking out and how is it that President Trump is kind of resonating more with America right now in a time when the country is essentially hurting in a lot of different components. Well, first off, you raised such an excellent point, which is with his incredible outreach and support he's received from RFK Jr., from Tulsi Gabbard, from others that really highlights the scope and breadth of his of his outreach, what you see him doing in New York and other places is unbelievable, but I think there are a couple of things here that really matter. First and foremost, everybody in America has experienced life under President Trump's leadership, the economy under President Trump's leadership, the border under his leadership, and so they have that as a frame of reference. And then two, this outreach, in my opinion, this extraordinary outreach that has brought people over also signifies even an even better second term, even better. And I think that people recognize every time they go to the grocery store that we have to move in a different direction, they know that the direction was better under President Trump, and they see this positivity moving on the other side. The reality is now, and we saw this with the Teamsters' non-endorsement of a Democrat, the American working palipole are recognizing that there's a better pathway than the current pathway. People are recognizing parents and schoolchildren, see that there's a better pathway. And I think we're going to see over and over and over a broad movement as we get closer to the voting days, which some of which have already started in some states. But the truth of the matter is the thing that really matters is that the American people need to get out and vote. Every single person needs to make that effort, because we can't forget that in the 2020 election, that's 44,000 votes made the difference between Georgia, Wisconsin, and Arizona. And that would have led to a tie in the Electoral College. And so we have to absolutely be focused on getting out there. But I am thrilled with what I'm seeing happen in this broad base of folks that are recognizing that President Trump has means what he said from the very day he came down the escalator, which is he simply wants to make America great again. And he's the guy to do it. I can't imagine even asking a follow-up question when you end. So in a way, Mr. Secretary, listen, this has been great catching up with you. As it always is, when you could join us on the show, you bring a lot of insight and for someone who's seen it and lived it for several decades, our listenership really appreciate you being able to take out some time of your busy schedule and share with us. Listen, we've got a live link in the show description today to your best-selling book. You report to me accountability for the failing administrative state is an absolutely fantastic read. And in addition, if there's anywhere that you want people to check you out on social media, where can they find you as well? Just go to DavidElbarnhart.org. And we'll be catching up with the 53rd Secretary of the U.S. Department of the Interior again soon. Mr. David Bernhardt, thanks for joining us on the show. Sir, have a great weekend. Thanks a lot. Have a good one. Wasn't any reaction to the Teamsters decision not to endorse? No, it's a great honor. They're not going to endorse the Democrats. That's a big thing. And this is the first time in, I guess, 50, 60 years that that's happened. Democrats automatically have the Teamsters. They took a vote, and I guess I was at 60 percent or more, and that's a great honor. I mean, it's really--I've had a lot of Teamsters work for me. A lot of the concrete trucks in me built all these buildings that you see in New York City, the Teamsters, exclusively Teamsters. I have to say, they've done a great job. But the vote of the Teamsters themselves was very high for me, and the leadership, Sean O'Brien and the group, who are great people, they said, "We can't endorse the Democrats." So I think this is the first time in many decades that they haven't endorsed Democrats. You're in big difference in those big industrial states, I think, you're going to make a difference? I think--well, yeah, I think some of the Teamsters carry a lot of weight. The Democrats cannot believe that in, you know, look, this is--it was always automatic that Democrats get the Teamsters, and they said, "We won't endorse the Democrats this year." So that was an honor for me. All right. Jump back into the news portion of the show here today, and it was great catching up with former Secretary of the Interior, David Bernhardt. I hope that he's ready, willing, and able to serve possibly in some context in the next Trump administration as well as he was part of the contributing factors that helped get the swamp out of the swamp by having branches of the Interior Department of the United States opened in other states other than having it just in Washington, D.C., and that was Donald Trump earlier this week. I believe it was Tuesday afternoon weighing in on the non-endorsement being officially put out from the Teamsters Union, and right before he bought around to cheeseburgers for everybody. I don't know if you saw this, Noah. He went to a crypto bar in New York. And he bought cheeseburgers and paid the tab with Bitcoin. Nice. Yeah. So he wants to make this the digital currency capital of the world in the next Trump administration in addition to having the government kind of take their hands out of wanting to regulate everything to do with it, which I think was good as well. And yeah, Donald Trump, I can't talk about how big of a move this is, you know, so much campaign related material goes on the Democrats being able to campaign as the party of unions and those who stand with union workers, even though over the years, especially recently with such old and out of touch candidates like Hillary Clinton, obviously Joe Biden and Kamal Harris, who doesn't do anything anyways, go out and stand in a picket line for a couple minutes. You know, it's not what people who are represented by this leadership want for this country. And I think their leadership, I think O'Brien did a good job of really being in tune with his workers and, you know, where they move on from here. No, did you think it was weird today? Joe Biden held his first cabinet meeting in like a year and a half, maybe even later. And guess who sat at the head of the table? Not Joe Biden, Dr. Jill, Dr. Jill. Yeah. She signed bigger on their stationery, too. She read from parts of the agenda to where Joe Biden probably couldn't got nothing to cover on that. She's an absolute embarrassment. It talks about the state of the nation. Again, we still haven't heard why Joe Biden is not running for reelection. We just know that Kamal Harris is running for the presidency in his space right now because the 25th amendment would be invoked and she would be complicit in the cover up. We will never hear about why Joe Biden isn't running for president until well after the November elections. Sticking in this thread, though, the steam fitter's union member president jumped on Fox News yesterday to talk about the importance of the teamsters not endorsing the Democrat nominee. Let's check it out. I can tell you on my end, the steam fidders have voted in the poll. We have a 70% return in favor of president Trump. Why? Everything that's gone on the last four years, an open border, inflation, gas prices, oil, mortgage rates. I mean, I can go on and on. The immigrants just getting into neighborhoods like the neighborhood I grew up in, which I mentioned last night, I have a daughter down there. She's afraid to walk around and this is a neighborhood I grew up in. These are where people worked hard all their life to buy a house in a nice neighborhood and now it's destroyed by illegal immigrants and, like I said last night too, David Muir and Lindsey Davis, those two hacks from the moderators from the debate, they don't have to go to Springfield, Ohio to look at mutilated animals. They could go to right, right in Queens and a federal park and you'll see them all over the beach. It's disgusting. You know, one of the things that opened up my eyes from earlier in the show today, Noah, was during our interview with Texas Representative Keith Self, the congressman who represents Texas 3. Someone recently moved into his district from living in Southern California and for only a hundred dollars a month more moved out of a one bedroom apartment building and into a 4,000 square foot home that sits on an acre and a half of property. Wait, they went from California to where and got that? Texas. Oh, Texas, yeah. Okay, that makes sense. Mm-hmm. I mean, just to see the way the policies are different in red states compared to blue and how, you know, there's steamfitters and there's auto workers and there's teamsters all over this country. And you know, you want to be a part of these unions that are supposed to be the best representation of the hard-working blue collar middle class, the heartbeat of this country. And then you don't get to enjoy the same benefits as your fellow union members do in red states because you live in a blue one. I mean, it must suck to be a teamster in Southern California rather than be enjoying things a little bit more comfortably in places like Texas if you're a teamster. Wouldn't you think? Yeah. And I think that's where you're seeing in the polls why Donald Trump is able to either garner or have the Democrats not endorsed by these major labor unions. And it's just big time. It's big time. You know, and while this is going on, it's not like she's going to be held to count to it. Kamala Harris, you know, I saw CNN panel the other day and, you know, America, I think, is fed up. We've kind of laid out all the agenda items, but running on vote for me just so Donald Trump can't be president is not going to win the Democrats of the election. It's not. And, you know, a CNN panel the other day actually got in the back and forth on this one trying to defend Kamala Harris. The other one, obviously, bringing up the points I pulled a clip from it. Let's check it out. I think the political danger in doing nothing or just tossing word salads, which she did all day today and has in most of her public interactions, is that without any more specifics about what she would do, I think an assumption will be made by many voters that she'll be simply a continuation of what Joe Biden is doing. And if I were in her shoes, I would not want to carry that burden because what he has been doing is not popular. Still think she's going to have to look into a TV camera and say he did these two or three things wrong. Here's how I would do it differently. Here's how. I mean, she keeps saying it's a new generation of leadership, but it just seems like she wants to do what Biden is doing, but just do it in a younger body. And that's not going to be enough for voters. Actually, there's one other thing. Answer the question. She got the same question at the debate. And you know what else? When I went back and watched the debate again, every single policy question she got at the debate, she totally ignored and never to answer it. Why is it that she believes she does not have to answer to journals who are asking pretty basic questions? I think. And the question they're asking is, do you feel you're better off today as you were three and a half years ago? Because remember, she does come from a middle class family. It's sad. You know, and they kind of went around the issue. They weren't as bluntly as some of the other commentators. I know he's low energy and low ratings, who is a prior to fake news. But Bill Maher kind of put it out there a little bit more bluntly on his show this week when talking about Kamala Harris and the absolute dumpster fire of a campaign. She's currently running. Let's hear it. Harris would be the first woman president, first black woman president and first Asian president. But I don't vote for who will be the first. I vote for who will win. And for whatever reason, Harris has never been popular. You can count the number of delegates she won in the 2020 primaries on one hand as long as that hand has no fingers. In three years as vice president, she's been quieter than an electric car. It's not fair that she's not popular. She's intelligent and accomplished and in fact wasn't put in charge of the border. And look at how, okay, bad example. So what do you think Noah? I mean, he's a non-Trump enjoyer. He actually hates Donald Trump. He knows the country's not going in the right direction right now. He knows when you run out of classes, the lower class who are getting stripped of all their benefits and given to illegals, the middle class who are getting crushed by the economy and inflation and all the crime, the downtrodden of the school, et cetera. Well, once you destroy everybody, it's that elite 1% that's next and what could happen to them? Friends and places like California to where it's not lucrative to live in the place where Hollywood is anymore. The same goes for places like Washington, D.C., Chicago, Philadelphia, and New York. You also have tax increases because for as much as we want to run up the national deficit and have a budget so inflated and, you know, be $37 trillion in debt and all that fun stuff, you can't financially let D.C. go off the cliff because you have to be able to sustain yourself at least to look like everything's fine, even though we know it's not. So I think a lot of these elite is the ones who are, you know, you had a recording artist this week. I can't remember who it was. He came out and said after Taylor Swift endorsed Kamal Harris, like, I wish people in my field would just shut up, like not endorse, like don't try to do things that it's not you. Or not to mention, don't try to use your power for swaying people's minds who are uninformed. Yeah. That's fine if you want to be uninformed. But if you're literally just trying to get people to do what you want to do because of your political poll or social recognition, like that's not the right thing to do. No, it isn't. Or, you know, you have people like Bill Maher, who knows when they run out of classes to destroy, they're going to come for the elite class. And the only people that will survive essentially, and I'm talking figuratively here, will be those who are put into the bunkers to repopulate the planet because we all know where things are going if they keep on the same trajectory. But he makes a lot of good points, she's been absent, she's been ignorant, she's ineffective, very unpopular, and anything that she has been tasked with for the past three plus years, she's failed resoundingly at. And I don't think that the apparatus that's set up around Kamal Harris can cover for her for the next two months. I really don't. You know, she's in battleground Georgia today, which, again, the manufacturing industry, the agriculture industry, the furniture making industry. There is a small component of the auto worker industry there as well. The schools, the crime, all things that are on people's mind. She's down in Georgia today talking about reproductive freedom. It's embarrassment. And if she thinks for the people who are already voting blue, just to go out there on a podium that has vice president of the United States on it and move her hands around and talk about my women body freedom, because you know, it's black accent because she's in Georgia is going to resonate and move the needle for people who are thinking about voting for someone other than Donald Trump. It's not. It really isn't. Nobody cares about abortion pills. Nobody cares about, you know, play for play abortions when you camp a food on the table, when your kids are struggling, when your marriages might be breaking up because of all the things that are going on, because you've lost loved ones due to what's happening as well. And you know, we're going to segue away from her, obviously, circle back to her because she did do the Oprah on last night. But before so, Noah, did you see after the New York rally for the first time, I believe this entire cycle, maybe since even before 2020, because they weren't doing in person during COVID, Donald Trump returned to the late night circuit for the first time. He sat down with it with the team over at Gutfeld. Yeah, it's not that it's not part of it anyway. Pretty cool, right? Yeah. You know, and as they brought out the former president and talked about the success of the rally, they want to touch on some issues, Greg Gutfeld let in, you know, calling out just how absolutely fake and gay everything that the Democrats are doing in regards to their campaign is right now. Let's check it out. I'm going to ask you, so Kamala Harris and the president Joe Biden, if he's still president, we don't know, they called you after you got shot at and wish you well to say all these nice things. But they're the same people that moments before say you're a threat to democracy and an existential threat worse than Hitler, does that mean that everything they say is full of ****? Well, you know, both of the shooters, one is dead and the other one is in prison. Trump didn't even smile. He's so funny again by Secret Service and a woman who saw somebody running and running for the car because he was caught and the Secret Service agent started shooting at him, didn't do any talking said just that's a barrel of a gun started shooting, which was amazing that he saw it and then he started shooting. So this man is running to the car and a woman is woman, of course, woman's always a woman, right? We just found out. How smart, who would do this? She sees somebody running and she didn't like the way he looked, he looked very suspicious and followed him and took the car, parked it right behind his and started taking pictures of the license plate. Who would do that? He was talking about the Karen calling the cops and then sent the picture to the sheriff who's a great sheriff of Palm Beach County and sent the pictures to the sheriff's office and they got them in a high speed chase down the highway. But who would do that? I mean, you said out of a thousand incidents, would that ever happen? And they said very rarely a thing like that. So she's very much of a heroin, right? Heroin. Yeah. You know, maybe you've heard of them and you know, they would go on to stay on the topic of the most recent assassination attempt, obviously we all know that he was golfing during this event. And you know, you're on, it was cat temp. It was Tires. They had Gutfeld and I don't remember Michelle Tafoe, I think was on as well, former NFL side on the border. She was the one that used to say like, I don't want going into the NFL locker rooms and everybody's like whipping out their wieners at me and stuff. So she kind of got canceled. She also talked about no men participating in women sports. So you know, they wanted to make light of the situation and they know it was a very stressful event for the former president. But what they did was want to kind of see what Donald Trump would do if he had the opportunity, maybe to square up with the potential would be assassin one on one and check it out. Well, Mr. P, how's your golf game? Well, I haven't been thinking about it too much lately, because I always said golf is a very dangerous game, especially if they're playing with you. Yeah, that's true. That was a good joke. Pretty sad. Did you, if they had told you that the shooter was there, would you have tried to take him out with your three wood? I think so, if I knew, actually the Secret Service did a great job. They saw the barrel of a gun, big gun, and it came out through bushes. And how many people would see that first, you know, he really was very exceptional to have done it. You know, and it's like, this is peak Donald Trump. I think we really get the best Adam. I like the prepared remarks and the fact that he could go off prompter at any time. I like even some of the town halls where he gets these unknowing questions from the audience and how he genuinely reacts to them. But when you get him in a setting like this where it's like bro time, I mean, no, did you see the belt that Tyrus gave him? No. When Tyrus made like a championship belt, it had the Trump train on it. It had lions on the side and then it had like in the standard, the font that's on like the Trump corporation right on the front and center. It was really nice. Now Trump got it. He's like, this thing's real. He's like, dude, you're the former president. You're running to be the next president of the United States. He's like, what do you think? I'm going to give you some piece of shit fake belt. He's like, yes, of course it's real. And you know, it's just good to see him get out there. I mean, listen, for as much as you can't stand Fox News and for as much as boomers who essentially ruin everything and the only ones who really tune into it on a frequent basis or habitual basis, Greg Gutfeld's been the number one nighttime talk show for a year and a half running. And it doesn't look like he's slowing down anytime soon. People tune in for the comedy, but they also tune in to the guests. And for the way they kind of attack the issues that you might not want to hear in a traditional news report, Donald Trump would go on in the last couple, we're going to play this just to talk about, listen, in addition to his golf game where sometimes it's like it's usually skill when he's talking about it. There's a component of luck that's gone on in the two assassination attempts that at least we know about on his life recently. Let's hear it. Like how you take these events so not lightly, but it's almost casually the way like I get more angry, you know, in my pant pocket gets caught on a doorknob. I get angry or about that than you get angry about getting shot at. It doesn't. How do you process that? Or number one, do I have a choice? What am I going to do? Right? Yeah. We have a choice. But you know, it's interesting. I was thinking a lot about it over the last period of time since Butler and being president is a very dangerous job because with a race car driver, that's a dangerous job. It's like one tenth of one percent die with a bull rider. I think bull riding looks pretty scary, right? Yeah. It's a little bit more than that die. By the president, what is it, six percent or seven percent? It's the most dangerous profession there is. So if you want to be president, I have a lot of friends that wanted to run, they're thinking about maybe not doing it. But here's the only good thing is that it's always a consequential president that gets shot at. And fortunately so far, I've been very lucky or something is greater than all of us. Ooh. Something is up there, something is up there, maybe watching over a set. I think he's voting for you. Yeah. Oh, nice. Jesus for Trump. I like it. Not Jesus. You know, and I think out of all the questions, there were two good ones that I liked. We're not going to play them. The first one, Kat Tim Fast, the question about Area 51, she's like, I know people so many in these town halls and forums, they want to ask president Trump is their aliens at Area 51. Guys, you do understand that's like beyond classified information, right? Donald Trump just can't say like I've seen the aliens. They're real. I mean, I guess hypothetically he could because it's Donald Trump. But I don't think he's going to, especially with the way they've kind of went after him with the document talk down at Mar-a-Lago back in 2012. Yeah, I kind of forbid you get impeached for saying that there's little green guys. Exactly. But he did say that he has talked with some of the best pilots that our armed forces have to offer. And they said in conversations with him, they have been engaged with vehicles that travel in a sense that would just do not line up with anything. I guess terrestrial engineering has to offer these days, going two, three, even four times faster than F-22s at their top mock, being able to move into directions I think is the big relation with those things. Stopping on a dime and just going in a different direction and he kind of gave a little insight to that. But also Donald Trump has always said he's like, I'm not really a believer of the whole little green man thing, and that's something he's always talked about. So whether or not he's ever seen anything or he's been privy to the information, I mean if I was president on day one, that's one of the first things I want to know about and I want to full on tour as well. But he's always kind of given the same answers and a lot of it has to do with national security. And then the other one was what was like some of the highlights of your life or anything like that? What is a memorable moment that you still think about as someone who's almost 80 years old and with all the stuff going on? He went back to his high school days where he talked about participating in sports and how it was learning how to be a strong, independent leader, man who would come into a group of people that he didn't traditionally know and form a team that went on to Wilthing. He always talks about his level of sports and even though he doesn't profession as much, I mean he was a huge Yankee fan, he used to be great friends with the Yankees owner George Steinbrenner before. He passed. He's also been around New York football forever as he wanted to be an owner and was kind of shut out from that crowd back in the day as well. But Donald Trump has always been someone who's really appreciates sports. We know he loves the mixed martial arts and boxing as well. Huge boxing fan. He grew up. He was living in his heyday as a business mogul when it was like the golden era of heavyweight boxing. You know, you're talking about Tyson Bow and all those other ones who were just a holy field in George Foreman at the end of his career when Donald Trump was making the rounds as the apprentice and the art of the comeback and things of that nature. So I thought it was a good job because listen, Goodfell did a good job of getting Trump to talk about Trump more than he just talked about, you know, it's so easy for him to take over an interview and it doesn't matter what question they asked them to go back to open borders or talking about, you know, geopolitics and stuff like that. And I think that whole group did a good job of bringing out a little bit of Trump for people to see. I hear so many people come on the show and they say, you know, our guests, I think people are over mean tweets and it's instances like these where you're open and get a little bit of what Donald Trump's like on a personal level and you get to see it on a national television show that makes people confident that, you know, mean tweets weren't that bad and he actually seems like he's a pretty cool guy. So I think that was mission accomplished as far as what God felt wanted to do is he's a huge supporter of the president. 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Like the interview we're going to have in just a few minutes with former congressional and senatorial candidate, the host of Battleground Live, someone who's working really hard for not just America First, but President Trump in the critical Battleground state of Pennsylvania and that's Mr. Sean Parnell as we always welcome him back to the show, someone who's in the front row during the Butler assassination attempt and has worked with President Trump and JD Vance out on the campaign trail stint. So we've delayed it as long as we can, no, because we're physically running out of show. But I do have to play a couple excerpts from that Kamala Harris interview, the town hall, whatever you want to call it, with Oprah Winfrey last night. And whether it was, you know, Josh Brolin or Chris Rock or whatever other person had a knife to their back to go on a Zoom call and say that they were all in for Kamala Harris, even though they essentially know nothing about her, because there's nothing to know about her because she's done nothing, essentially throughout the course of her career. When you saw it, if you watched any of this in extent, like I did, I watched it from start to finish, then I pulled a couple clips. Oprah knew about, I would say 30 minutes in after it was like the third question that Kamala Harris didn't answer and just went in different words out directions on that you could literally see it on Oprah's face like, this is scary. Whether or not she ever admits it or whether she continues to campaign for Kamala Harris, that's yet to be seen. But I could tell just by knowing body language and having done so many of these interviews when people were feeling it or not, Oprah knew that she was in trouble talking about her personally and then Kamala Harris with the answers. I'll give you a perfect example. Here's when a member of the audience asked Kamala Harris about what she will do to strengthen the border, not close it, not to port people, strengthening, because remember, this is a Democrat town hall of terror. We body in America left, right, middle has concerns about immigration. And I'm told that Justin, Justin, where are you in the audience? Justin. Hello. In our audience. Hello, Madam Vice President. You live in Michigan. Yes, ma'am. Don't you love saying hello, Madam Vice President? I do. What's your question? It's an immigration question. Question for you is, when you become president, what would be your specific steps? Yeah, of course. What would be your specific steps to strengthening the border? So it's a wonderful and important question. I, you know my background was as a prosecutor, and I was also the elected Attorney General for two terms of a border state. So this is not a theoretical issue for me. This is something I've actually worked on. I have prosecuted transnational criminal organizations for the trafficking of guns, drugs, and human beings. I take very seriously the importance of having a secure border and ensuring the safety of the American people. Sadly, where we are now can be traced most recently back to you. No, it's not falling asleep. I need you to listen to this. The fact that when the United States comes and comes and comes and comes from the most conservative Republicans. I can't help but tune her out. Came up with a border security bill. And here's what that border security bill would have done. It would have put 1,500 more border agents at the border. Let me tell you, those border agents are working around the clock. It would have just been, am I giving them some support and relief? Which is probably why the border agents actually endorsed the bill. It would have allowed us to stem the flow of fentanyl, and I'm looking at people from all over the country here. So I don't need to tell the folks who are watching this what fentanyl has done to families who are currently at two minutes into the answer with no answer. It's seriously stemming the flow coming into our country and addressing that extraordinary and tragic issue in terms of its effect. The bill would have allowed us to have more resources to prosecute transnational criminal organizations. And it would have been part of the solution. And Donald Trump called up those folks and said, don't put that bill on the floor for a vote. He blocked the bill. And you know why? Because he'd prefer to run on a problem instead of fixing a problem. And he has put his personal political security before border security, has understand even in the intervening months what that bill would have done to give support to folks who care about this issue. And this again gets to the point about what does leadership really look like? And is it about you or is it about the people? Is it about running on problems or fixing problems? My work and my career has always been about saying, let's fix problems. Let's address the needs because we know it's within our capacity to do that. So to answer Justin's question, now that that bill has gone and hasn't passed, will you reintroduce that? Absolutely. And I am elected president of the United States. I will make sure that bill gets to my desk and I will sign it in. So Oprah had to force her to say something, anything that resembles an answer as a question after you talk for 10 minutes. Oh my gosh, yeah, it's bad, really bad. And the nostrils, oh my gosh. And that's when Oprah started to lose it as it just was ugly. And you know, I've got one more clip. It's way shorter. That was over three minutes of non-answer. I'd like to be able to change my answer for superpower that I would love to have. Go ahead. I would love to read people's thoughts and just be able to hear what these people who are so invested in this have going on in their heads when they have to listen to this idiot speak. You can peanut butter jelly time in their head while she's talking. Just trying not to just trying not to visibly react to anything. That's the best part when when we were watching when Joe Biden would do stuff and he would just watch the people behind him try not to react. Oh, there would be the times where he'd be like pin and medals on people and somebody like two people down the rung was like looking at the camera like it was the office and rolling there. Yeah. Oh, yeah, it's ugly. And so was the answer to this zoom call question that came in from two more potential voters, let's hear it. Really would love to know what your plan is to help lower the cost of living. Yeah, first of all, thank you both for being here and yours is a story I hear around the country as a travel. And in terms of both rightly having the right to have aspirations and dreams and ambitions for your family and working hard and finding that the American dream is for this generation and so many recently are more elusive than it's been. And we need to deal with that. And there are a number of ways. One is bringing down the cost of everyday necessities, including groceries. And two is watering your lawn. Shut your bitch ass up. Nobody wants to hear that you grew up in a middle class family in the neighborhood that appreciated lawns. I am so, listen, I keep saying it every week, America can't be this stupid. I mean, when you're losing the pollsters, you're losing CNN, and I'm going to prove it to you in just a second, when you're losing the media, when you're losing Oprah, when you're losing the labor unions, like they can't prop up this facade that this is real anymore. They've done it for two straight presidential election cycles. America has to wake up, and it's funny how do you think, no, have you ever met or talked to anybody in the history of your existence that has been pulled by a major pollster in regards to like, let's just say general election for president. Have you ever been pulled by anybody or know anybody that's been like, hey, I got a call from 538 or hey, I got a call from the New York Times the other day. No, I mean, that generally wouldn't come up in my conversations, but I think if you're one of those people that had been, maybe you would, hey, guess what happened to me? Yeah. You're weird. It's like getting hit by a fucking asteroid. You know, it's just a joke, the way that we've kind of seen this fake candidacy be rolled out to the American public and for the fact that all of their donors and all their supporters of Joe Biden and Barack Obama, and even like the Clintons and stuff like that, are just supposed to accept this as it's going to be the way it is. And I think we're starting to see more of a rejection of this than we've ever seen before. And I think by the time we get to go vote in November, we're going to see a lot more people holding a referendum on Kamala Harris and Joe Biden, him for his failed presidency and her for being complicit in the coverup, then the media is ever going to let you know. And when you lose people like fake news CNN, who, you know, we've heard it kind of shot down the middle there, obviously lay more to the right this cycle than you have. Then you did with like places like MSD and see where they're just deranged and bring on every single Trump hater possible to do nothing but hate Trump. But I saw they were doing a, like a panel last night, like five people, right? Dana Bash, presidential debate moderator, whose husband was one of the, whose ex-husband was one of the 51 former intelligence officials who signed off on the Hunter Biden laptop, something that was provided and spread around by current Secretary of State Tony Blinken. Even when she's saying like, if you do nothing but repeat the same talking points that don't answer the question, it's almost funny where she went with the snow, check it out. When you listen to Kamala Harris on what she will do, you can almost start a drinking game. Every time she says small businesses, I'm going to give you an example. Part of my plan under my economic opportunity plan going forward is that right now startup entrepreneurs, small businesses only get a tax deduction of $5,000. Nobody can start small business with $5,000. So I'm expanding that to $50,000, understanding again that when people have the opportunity to have the resources to get started, they're going to put the good ideas, they're going to put the hard work into it. Describe the politics of that. She says that. She also talks about being a middle class kid. That's also the front of her answers. If you look at the interviews they've been doing with local media and they've opened up a bit more since the debate, the first question is often what are you going to do to lower prices, which is a very hard question for an incumbent party to answer. And it has implications that are very Trumpy and it is Trump says he's going to do mass deportation, that'll decrease demand, Trump says he'll explore more energy, that'll decrease energy costs. Democrats can point to the fact that inflation is actually, it was bad two years ago, it's not now. But people want to hear is how do you make the prices go down? So everything she says is something realistic that could survive a fact check that answers a very hard question. There is not a plan to say that we're going to lower the cost of your grocery bill to what it was in the 2019. There was a pandemic, there was a money supply inflation. You can't hit the button that makes that go away. But Trump has an answer that gets them through these questions. And Harris, I think with a different set of incentives and a different relationship to something she can back up in a policy paper, she doesn't have an answer. So she goes to a larger, well, imagine a future where there are more businesses and this starts to ameliorate. They're calling her out for not answering the questions. They're saying that her answers are becoming so repetitive, Noah, that they could fucking do a drinking game every time she goes into an interview. Yeah. And it's, that's my question. People are doing that actually. She even busted out. Some people, some people got alcohol, please. She even busted out the Latina accent the other day. You know, you know, one thing I didn't want to cover this week because it was so cringe I didn't want to cover it this week. Did you see Kamala Harris finally sat down with not the major heads of news agencies, like their top journals, like Donald Trump had to, but she sat down for a small intimate town hall with the Association of Black Journalists this week and they looked horrified when she just fucked off at the end too. Yeah. And, you know, how much longer is America going to accept this? This faking gay campaign that's not going anywhere that offers nothing except more death and destruction and chaos and the ruination of this country. Um, you know, and then when you just look at him head to head, the eye test, you've got Kamala Harris, she looks like, I think Antonio Brown put it best on his Twitter account. She looks like she just got off the Mayflower with her like three times too big pantsuits and, you know, black dress shoes with the buckles across them. She just looks like an idiot. No more on her clothes. Don't even fit her. And it just looks weird. And he got Tim Walts who's like literally the guy. He's like the husband who sticks around to party with all the wives when they come over for women night. You know what I'm saying? You're doing a girl's night at somebody's house, but then like the one husband who lives there stays. Yeah. He's the idiot sitcom dad. Yeah. Literally. And, uh, then when you look at Donald Trump, I mean, we haven't had a cool candidate for president. George W. Bush was not cool. I mean, Ronald Reagan was, he had charisma, but he was old when he ran for president. You know, he's in his 70s and Donald Trump has been able to defy physical age by keeping it hip. Whether or not it's because he has a teenage son or because his two older sons, Eric and Don Jr. are just more dialed in to what's hip these days, but Donald Trump, you know, his affirmation for the mixed martial arts and boxing, the way that he loves and promotes sports. He's going to be in an SEC football game in a couple of weeks, uh, that he wants to be involved with crypto and Bitcoin and he goes to things like sneaker con and you know, you just don't get that from traditional run of the mill candidates and CNN at a later point of that panel pointed it out. When you talk about what you got on one side, which is just absolutely skin crawling cringe and then you have Donald Trump who you may not like some of the things he does, but at the end of the day, he's pretty fucking cool. It makes the choice pretty clear for potential electors and as our last audio clip of the day, let's hear it. Man, Donald Trump, he plays golf with Bryson DeChambeau. When he goes on the O'Von, he talks about Zinn's and you know, Democrats, I'm sorry, like they haven't had a cool guy candidate in a while and like with all due respect to Tim Walz, like Tim Walz appeals to a lot of men. He also appeals to that guy, Bruce Jeff's package, he's wearing a futurist female shirt, like that guy in Madison, Wisconsin, he's already going to vote Democrat. I'm sorry. How do you reach the young man? It's the truth. Like, how do you reach somebody who's already not decided and I think the amount of people in this country who are undecided still, it is so small. Does Tim Walz or Kamala Harris, like when you line them up and put them right in front of you, a potential voter physically, like they're two feet in front of you, they changed the needle for you? They scare me. Have you seen the Dorito fake commercials that are going around online when they're putting the Dorito chip in on Kamala Harris's turkey neck? No. Oh, epic. And then with Tim Walz, man, listen, I don't care how manly you say you are, that you were a football coach, you're a veteran, that you like to hunt, the jazz hands are just not going to cut it. You make regular people's skin crawl. And it is Democrats, I mean, who was their last hip candidate? Barack Obama wound up being a complete piece of shit and Bill Clinton in his own sense was a different kind of piece of shit, but they were considered cool guys, they were both middle-aged men with weird families. And Donald Trump's got, you know, he's almost like Kennedy-esque in the way the Trump's have kind of resonated to be a better representation of what America's all about. And I'm going to leave it as that. As we're wrapping up the week here and getting ready to jump in with Sean Parnell, but before we do, I'll ask check in with one of our partners. It's an unpleasant truth that 42% of Americans are obese and 79% of Americans are overweight. 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All right, joining us next on the show today is a big Friday edition of the State Directless Podcast. He's a combat veteran, New York Times best-selling author and the host of Battleground Live. Welcome me back to the show, Mr. Sean Parnell. Thanks for joining us. Hey, thanks for having me. Happy news time, busy news cycle. Two people like us who are constantly talking about it when we catch up. It's a win-win for our listenership, so Sean, we're glad we're able to catch up with you today. Listen, the last time we talked to you, it was recently following the first attempt on President Trump's life. We had another scare in an attempt on his life again this weekend down in West Palm Beach. As someone that's a combat veteran, you know the way, at least in some context of the federal government works, safety and security of high-value assets when they come in and out of areas. We just haven't seen it in the case of President Trump. I know they had a vote in the House of Representatives today to make sure that all candidates at the Presidential and Vice Presidential level moving forward could have the elite type of security. But I mean, for the decimation of the agencies, for the DEI hires that are going on, and for the way the administrative state works, I kind of want your commentary on how you saw things fall out from Butler, where we're still very vague on what the investigation even looks like. And coming out of this weekend, it looked a lot different, but you know, in the same instance, it's the left's negative and inflammatory rhetoric that are leading to instances like Donald Trump being put in the crosshairs. Yeah. And it's not just the rhetoric. I think the rhetoric has led to a belief on the left that prefer or think the nation is better off with Trump debt. I'm sure you saw the polling that came out. I can't quite remember who the hell it was. It was Rasmussen or a subsidiary of Rasmussen that said that 17% of Democrats believe that the country would be better off if Trump had been shot, and then like another 14% wavered on it. So you're talking a third of all Democrats believe like not just the inflammatory rhetoric, but they actually believe that this type of behavior is acceptable. And that's really concerning as to the second assassination attempt around. I thought to myself watching, I believe it was the Palm Beach County sheriff saying, well, you have to understand Trump doesn't have the full up presidential protection. And I about lost my mind because the guy almost had his head blown off on national television. If that doesn't get you full up presidential level protection around what does. And so the fact that you add to all of this, the fact that we know nothing about the first assassination attempt, absolutely nothing. In fact, they've not only been not transparent, it's almost like they're trying to cover up aspects of the first assassination attempt as evidenced by the fact that they cremated Brooks's body, didn't release toxicology results. It just does none of it makes any sense to the American people. So when 60 days goes by and there's another one, I hate to say it, but it was unsurprising to me. It really was. And like, what's more, and I hate to say this, and I hope it doesn't happen, but what's stopping it from happening again. Sure. Nothing. Absolutely. Positively. Nothing. Because, you know, Rowan, you mentioned that I'm not a I'm not a secret service guy, but I did serve in combat and front towards enemy while there are differences between executive protection and being a combat veteran. The one thing that's that is in common is that you're operating and life and death is on the line. And when life and death is on the line, you know, you've got to recognize that there are people out there that want to hurt you, that want you dead, and they are always watching. And so if you aren't adapting to how they operate, and in the military, they say, you know, tea, they call that TTPs, like tactics, techniques, and procedures, they're constantly evolving, Rowan. And if you're not doing that in the face of enemy action, you will die. First assassination attempt happens. We don't know anything about it. It doesn't seem like the secret service adjusted their TTPs whatsoever. And a second one happens. And so they don't take bold action and bold action quickly. It's just not not good. It's not good, my friend. No, you make some excellent points there. And I mean, President Trump has already said it. He's been joking so lightly about it out on the campaign show, obviously in a little bit more intimate fashion the way he did with Sarah Huckabee Sanders up in Flint, Michigan earlier this week, and then with Greg Gutfeld following his Long Island rally. But I mean, I just don't see Donald Trump being the kind of guy who's going to change his schedule up. I mean, obviously they've released where he's going to be and when a lot closer to when the events are happening for obvious reasons since Butler, but when you talk about him going out to the golf course, when you talked about how much of an impact he has when he does retail politicking, it's like he knows that these are components that the Democrats don't want him to campaign. They don't want him to do rallies. And they couldn't do it with the law fair. They couldn't do it with trying to bankrupt him. And now it's like they've allowed these instances and the assassination attempts to go pretty much without investigation or any real changes like you had alluded to in a simple fact that we say, well, you know, we've played chicken with Donald Trump for so long. We've blinked every time. I mean, maybe in the face literally of bullets now. Maybe he'll finally blink and it doesn't look like he's going to. But when you talk about what you just said based off your combat experience and what we've learned or not really from the two investigations that are going on, you know, Donald Trump is not going to blink and he's going to continue to do what he needs to do to make sure that he gets his message out to the American people both, you know, philosophically with a campaign platform and then physically out on the campaign trail. And you know what? If something unfortunate winds up happening, we're going to have a lot of examples to look back on to. I mean, obviously we pray to God that that doesn't, but the fact of the matter is things have to change. I mean, we haven't even heard essentially from Alejandro Mayorkas who oversees the Secret Service as the head of the DHS on this matter. The only time he's spoken in last, you know, essentially since Butler is when he did a town hall at a Democrat think tank last week where he talked about the immortality of deportation. And that's what's at, you know, a front of mind for him, not things to do with protecting our political candidates, especially people like President Trump as we're getting ready to head to election day. I could not agree with you more and here's something else that I think we need to discuss. And that is the hesitancy to address the problem head on on the Republican side. Like, when you look at all of the things that you just laid out, whether it was, you know, impeachment, one impeachment to Russia collusion hoax, all of the hoaxes that have pushed on American people, 51 intelligence agents, Hunter Biden laptop, the January 6 committee, which has now largely been debunked. These are one attempt after the next to go after Donald Trump in a very unjust way. And then the next phase of that was law fair. That failed. And the next phase is like, hey, we got to take this guy out. And I'm sorry, but that is the truth. It is in the reticence that for our side, especially among major conservative news organizations to say it is something that is something that to me is scary. Because you know, you've got to be able to address a problem head on if that problem is going to change. And in the idea, like you talk about the first assassination attempt, how does it the fundamental question of how does a 20 year old kid with no training whatsoever get past the premier executive protection agency in the world? And it has been that way my whole life to get a direct line of shite shot with the president where he hits him on the first try. And then 60 days later, the same damn thing happens. And this Ryan Ruth guy, if this secret service agent doesn't miraculously catch this guy in the bushes with a pink shirt, he's 10 yards away from Donald Trump with an SKS. Style rifle. These questions, Ron have not been answered. And you've got to be able to ask what the hell is going on, because something doesn't add up. And this is the last thing I'll say for people to say, Oh, these are conspiracy theories. No, these are the questions. In fact, the opposite is true to believe that on July 13th, that everything that went wrong, everything that could have gone wrong went wrong in the most catastrophic way possible to believe that that is just an accident is the ultimate conspiracy theory. There's something else going on here everywhere I go, just out in Western Pennsylvania today, just traveling around. I get approached by people all the time everywhere I go, people are like, this is the government has to say it's some somebody knew something about this, right? Everyone believes it. So we've got to address it head on. Yeah, I saw acting secret service director, Ronald Rotate questions today from the press. And he continues to double down on blaming it on comms issues and the lack of drones. And when you look at the entire timeline of what, you know, all the spectator videos that had this kid walking around in and out around the building, it's just no, ridiculous. It's ridiculous. It's absolute. I've in this situations that I care to talk about the photos of July 13th do not do it justice. The building was right there. The stones throw away. It is it is somebody should have been on that roof. They weren't there. I don't know why they weren't there, but we've got no answers, none. And to your point about acting director row, every time he gives a press conference, he's out there talking about like, Oh, things went as they should and almost doing a victory lap. Not good. Absolutely not good sure isn't. And you know, you had mentioned Western Pennsylvania, Sean, we got to talk about this. I mean, I think Pennsylvania is probably one of the biggest battleground states. If not the biggest that Donald Trump has his eyes focused on in his campaign, working hard and heading up to the November election, listen, there are so many different models on ways that Donald Trump could secure the 270 to win. There's the only one or two paths that Kamala Harris could take and in her attempt to reclaim the White House. Here's the deal. If Donald Trump wins Pennsylvania, it's almost a short fit that he's going to be the 47th president of the United States. And I just kind of want to get your insight. I mean, someone who's working on the ground there, you've been to the Trump rallies, obviously stemming with Butler. I'm sure you'll be back at the next one that he's there, but you've been out on the campaign trail with JD Vance as well and give our listenership a little bit of update on what's going on in the Keystone state. Trump has never been stronger here. I'm telling you, you know, I've had my name on the ballot twice. I know this state better than anybody else. Trump is just, there's something going on in the state of Pennsylvania and Trump is every single poll. I mean, they're trying to like, there's this big sigh up about the strength of Kamala Harris that I don't actually believe she has, but in Pennsylvania, look, two counties that people need to watch is Northampton County in the Northeast in Erie County in northwestern Pennsylvania. Those are bellwether counties that are traditionally Democrat counties. They're working class Democrats there. None of those people, none of the men, especially in those districts, working class union Democrats are voting for Kamala Harris. They just will not hold a lever for her. And I think that hurts her on election day. And I'm sure you saw the latest Washington Post poll that had the race, you know, Trump Harris 48, 48, you know, McCormick Casey 48, 48. I tell people all the time, especially these consultants who like to come into Pennsylvania pretend like they know what the hell's going on. Pennsylvania is a state that closes very late and very fast. And the reason for that is, is that you have a lot of independence and you have a lot of, you know, conservatives in this state who just don't really pay attention until about 60, 30 days before an election cycle. And what you have seen over the last several months, particularly pronounced in the McCormick Casey Senate race here is the gap between Democrat and Republican get closer and closer and closer to now McCormick and Casey are tied. And that tells me something, Ron, that tells me that those independence moderate Democrats and certainly the conservatives who are starting to pay attention are starting to break the right way. And so in over the next 30 days, if that trend continues, it's, it's game over for Kamala because the Trump wins Pennsylvania, 96% chance he's going back to the White House. Absolutely. Can't debate it there. You see the way Donald Trump's pulling ahead in places like Georgia, looking to take North Carolina for a third consecutive cycle and then out in the Sunbelt, the amount of popularity Donald Trump has re risen to in places like Arizona and Nevada. It seems like the other total maps starting to shape up very favorably for Donald Trump, but he has to keep working it. And that's when we talked about the things aforementioned at the beginning of this interview Sean that we need to take into consideration and that's the safety and security of President Trump as he heads out on the campaign trail. What are some of the things? I mean, listen, you talk about policies, the Democrats offer nothing. It'll be the end of fracking, the energy industry there, you know, they're selling off contracts to international industries when it comes to the steel. There's also a huge agriculture component. And then we talk about the regulations and red tapes for people who aren't friendly with the federal government in places. The mom and pop shops out in places like Pennsylvania, it doesn't seem like outside of the major cities, which are now overridden with crime, the schools, the hospitals, the job markets are all overwhelmed by things like illegals getting dumped into these places. What do the Democrats have to offer? You know, anyone in the state of Pennsylvania that Donald Trump clearly has shown in his first administration that he could be the plausible solution and, you know, America first alternative to what's been going on for the last three plus years there. They have nothing. They have nothing, Ron. That's why they're trying to hide Kamala. Like every time she gives an interview, it's an abject disaster for them. Kamala has the problem. I mean, some candidates are amazing candidates where every time they talk, they bring people to their cause. Kamala has the opposite problem. Every time she speaks, somebody else doesn't like her. And in Pennsylvania, especially the profound impact that the terrible policies have had on the lives of both Democrats and Republicans in Pennsylvania, I mean, look, it's emblematic in the fact that there's been a mass exodus of people in the state for the last 10 years. It's this hostile Democrat policies that are crushing, you know, local manufacturing, crushing local economies. And people like rather than deal with that, they're saying, okay, I'm going to move somewhere else. That's a tragic thing and my home state, I don't want to see that happen. But Kamala has nothing to offer but hoaxes and vibes. And that's why I think, Ron, I really think that she's going to struggle here because when people go to pull that lever, and this, this is something that's very important. I think that people are over the mean tweets thing. I just do. I agree. I think that there are plenty of people out there that voted for Biden in 2020 thinking that they were going to get a unifier. Oh, it's just lunch bucket Joe from Scranton. How much harm could he do? Oh, he's a moderate. Of course, we know that's not true. But I think the vast majority of Americans maybe thought that. Now, obviously there were major, major, major issues with the 2020 election. I'm not talking about that. That's a conversation for another time, but, but I think people are over the mean tweets. They see what life was like under Trump. They know that their lives were better. They know that their 401ks were worth more. They know they could afford food. They know they could afford gas. And now here under Biden and Kamala, they can't afford any of those things. And I think that's going to be the driving force behind how they vote on election day. And I don't think it's going to be a good night for Kamala, but we will see. We will see. We got to do the work. We wake up every day. We got to do the work. Like we're 10 points behind. And again, in a place that's such important as Pennsylvania, I don't think anybody is a better expert on the Keystone State than you, Sean. That's why we'll be looking forward to having you back on the show very soon here. And as we get ready to head towards the November elections, listen, we've got the rumble channel with your fantastic show, Battleground Live, link to the show description today. I'm a daily listener. You know that for sure, because I'll sometimes text you about stuff you're talking about on the show and tell you whether you're talking about your kids or you're talking about politics. And I thought it was a great point. But anybody that wants to follow you on social media, where can they check you out? I'm Sean Parnell, USA on X. I'm on Facebook and Instagram as well, but often shadow band and crushed bear. So just maybe, maybe follow me on X and my show Battleground Live on Rumble. It's an absolutely fantastic show, just like we had an absolutely fantastic conversation with the New York Times bestselling author, combat veteran, host of Battleground Live, Mr. Sean Parnell. Thanks for joining us on the show today, sir. Have a great weekend. Yep, you too, my friend. Excellent. And to the week, if I do say so myself, if you enjoyed this episode of the podcast, I want to hear the now nearly 460 other additions of the show, you best be subscribed to us across every downloadable podcasting platform, minus on Apple, Spotify, iHeart, Samsung, Amazon podcast or wherever you listen to your shows. Make sure you're subscribed for free and that we're downloading to your electronic device, and please check us out on social media, Twitter, get our True Social Instagram. And Tiktok is where we have accounts, find them, follow them, hit the notification bell, you'll never miss out on all the great stuff we've got going on down here. At stake for breakfast, we want to thank all of our guests for coming in and sharing with us today. Former Acting Ice Director, Tom Holman, Texas Congressman, Pete Self, former U.S. Secretary of the Interior, David Bernhardt, and former House, and Senate candidate, the host of Battle Ground Live, Mr. Sean Parnell, you guys all helped make. Stake, great again. Guys, we're heading into the weekend, hopefully it won't be too crazy, but don't worry, we're here for it. We'll be back with you. Two all new Tuesday additions to the show, coming in hot next week, scheduled, and at the very least, joining us will be Virginia Congressman, Ben Klein and Wisconsin Congressman. Tom Tiffany. So, on behalf of the pot team, I'm Ron, thanks for listening, have a great weekend, and take care. Oh, come on, you gotta admit this is cool, just like a movie, the robot will emerge dramatically, do some damage, throw some screaming people, and just when all hope is lost, Syndrome will save the day. I'll be a bigger hero than you ever were! You mean you killed off real heroes so that you could pretend to be one? Oh, I'm real, real enough to defeat you! And I did it without your precious gifts, your oh-so-special powers. I'll give them heroics, I'll give them the most spectacular heroics anyone's ever seen! And when I'm old and I've had my fun, I'll sell my invention so that everyone can be super heroes, everyone can be super. And when everyone's super, no one will be. [BLANK_AUDIO]
