And now, this is the moment you've all been waiting for. It's time for the strength of breathless partner. It's Tuesday, October 22nd, 2024, and this is the State for Breakfast Podcast, episode 476 and 477. Make sure you're subscribed to the show. It's available across every downloadable podcast and platform. I'm Matt with Spotify, iHeart, Samsung, or Amazon Podcasts. Check out the State for Breakfast and Linkedry who takes shows Instagram, our latest sub-stack, and verified accounts on X getter and true social. What's up, everybody, and welcome to the first of two big Tuesday editions of the show. Today, I'm Ron, fine solo, and as always, we've got lots of breaking news. Donald Trump ran a blitz in Pennsylvania this week ahead of the November election. We've got a full recap of the former president's busy weekend in the Keystone State. One of the Sunday morning new circuits tea leaves say about the theme of the week. We'll clarify for you. Donald Trump rallied yesterday in Battleground, North Carolina, and we've got a comprehensive recap in full coverage of the event. And while the Trump team is on the ground in Battleground, North Carolina, and Florida today, Paul Harris sat down for a town hall with Liz Cheney. We'll bring it all into perspective. We've got a great plate of guests coming in here today as well. The strategic comms director for the RNC, Homie Pickett will be joining us for the first time. We'll also catch up with Tennessee Congressman, Tim Burchett, former U.S. Senator from the great state of Georgia, Kelly Lawfler will be here, and we'll catch up with the executive secretary of the New York Young Republican Club, Fish Borough, but before we get into any of our interviews, let's jump right into these headlines and change the way you consume your news. Monkey, this is not nom, this is bowling, there are rules. Hey, hey, hey, junior! America! It's like, for breakfast! So stand by! Alright, everybody, welcome to the State for Breakfast podcast. I'm Ron Fly and Solo today. Noah's got the day off. If you're a first-time listener, welcome to the show. If you're a long-time listener, welcome back to America's Fastest Growing. And quickly becoming favorite political podcast. On a busy news Tuesday now, just two weeks. That's right, I said it two weeks before Election Day. We are in the final stretch here, and we are starting to get some full circle vibes. We'll get into that in just a second. We've got a lot of stuff to talk about today. We're going to start with a comprehensive recap of Donald Trump's All Out Blitz in the battleground state of Pennsylvania, which occurred over the weekend. Town halls, rallies, tailgates, professional football games. The man even worked at McDonald's. Every promise made and troll drug throughout the course of this election cycle has nearly been completed. As we're witnessing Final Form Trump now, I do believe we've passed through the threshold and we are seeing Donald Trump in his final form now just two weeks ahead of Election Day. The president's been very busy out on the campaign trail. We'll get into that in just a second. We're also going to be taking a look into how the Sunday morning news circuits tea leaves red and how that narrative is kind of shaping the news week. We'll take a comprehensive recap and provide coverage of the rally Donald Trump held down in battleground North Carolina last night. And then we'll check out how Team Trump is now hitting it hard on the ground in not only North Carolina, which is where Donald Trump will be holding a rally today in Greensboro. But he started off the day in Florida as well with a town hall for Latino voters at Trump to rally down in Miami. So lots of news that anything comes across the pike or the chiron throughout the course of the podcast. We'll be sure to fit it into the show. But I do kind of want to talk about the schedule for the rest of the week. I already mentioned Donald Trump will be rallying today in Greensboro, North Carolina. So for all of our listeners that are going out to the rally, you be safe out there. Make sure you take some good pictures. Send them over to the show as you guys always do. He held a town hall event with Latino voters at Trump to rally this morning. Tomorrow, which is Wednesday, he'll hold a believers in ballots. Faith Town Hall with Lieutenant Governor Bert Jones in Georgia. We'll be catching up with one of Donald Trump's strongest warriors in the state of Georgia. Today we'll get to our guest list in just a second. Also on Wednesday, he'll be holding a rally in Duluth, also in the Peach State. On Thursday, he'll be out in Las Vegas, one of the states he's looking to flip back into America First Control on November 5th and be holding a rally there as well. That's going to be hosted by Turning Point. And of course on Sunday, the one that we've all been waiting for here on the show, that's going to be Donald Trump's rally in Manhattan at Madison Square Garden. And I kind of want to get into this for a second because, you know, when you look at the way almost nine years ago when Donald Trump came down the Golden Escalator, to think that nearly a decade later, he would have to take only a short trip from Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue over to Madison Square Garden to hold a rally. In the closing days of now his third presidential election cycle, you probably couldn't see it. But to attest to the amount of work that Donald Trump has done over the course of this decade of his time in the political arena, it is unmatched, it has been historic, it is iconic, the way he's reshaped the map and rewritten the political playbooks. You know, I just hope we've been telling you guys for a couple weeks now, enjoy the end of this campaign season because we're never going to see it with Donald Trump again. But also take notes moving forward on what we need to do, even in some small context, to be able to match the energy and the dedication and the sacrifices that Donald Trump and his family have made over the course of the last 10 years in his now third attempt to win the White House and get this country back on the right track. I did see J.D. Vance is going to be doing a ton of moving around this week as well, as should be expected, and we're going to take a quick look at his campaign schedule. J.D. Vance is today up in Peoria, Arizona, and he's going to be delivering remarks there. He'll be also holding a J.D. Vance rally in Tucson, Arizona tonight, tomorrow, which is Wednesday. He'll be in Las Vegas ahead of President Trump. He'll be doing two events in Nevada tomorrow, one in Las Vegas, one in Reno. Also on Wednesday, he'll be touring with Donald Trump Jr. in Queens Creek, Arizona. He'll be up in the battleground state of Michigan on Thursday. On Friday, he'll be jumping in a Trump team bus tour featuring Kimberly Guilfoyle, Senator Joni Erce, U.S. Representative Nicole Malletakis, J.D. Longo, Abel Maldonado, former U.S. Ambassador Carla Sands, former DHS Secretary Chad Wolf, and they'll all be out in Hershey, Pennsylvania. I'm pretty sure everybody's collaborating for the MSG event on Sunday as well, so we'll see everybody getting back together ahead of the big one, the crown jewel at MSG this weekend. But getting back to the end of this race and how amazing of a job the Trump team has done. Oh, and just a programming note. You know, we had vied really hard over the course of the last several years to get President Trump on the show. Unfortunately, and it's kind of the way the nature of the beast, when you're an unsponsored, unsindicated podcast like ours, who's been around since, you know, this is our heading into July, I'll be seven years of operation now. We were there when Donald Trump was in office, we supported his last presidential campaign, obviously picked it up following the events of the 2020 presidential election without missing a beat, and have ran with it all the way up through now with the Trump campaign two weeks before election day, hoping to get Donald Trump back into the White House to extend the, and retain that House majority and flip the Senate into Republican control. However, you know, our request to host the president on the show had gone through many a hands over the course of a number of years, and we received the official word yesterday that Donald Trump was not going to be able to make it onto our show before the November election, so don't you guys worry, we're good with it, and we will continue to do the job that we've done here from day one, and that's promote the American First Agenda, obviously highlight all the best parts of the Trump Doctrine, and be looking forward to provide the same comprehensive coverage both from inside and outside of the Beltway following the November elections and heading towards Donald Trump's inauguration in January of next year. So, you know, I talked to some of the team yesterday that had some really nice things to say about our podcast, we understand the non-traditional media that they are treading in right now, and how important it is to get those low information into the campaign voters who might still be undecided, extend the voter registrations and ballot chasing out to the youngest group of voters who could participate in this election, and right now, much as it has been the case since day one, winning and this country surviving is a lot more important than interviews we could conduct on the show. In the meantime, we'll be bringing our regular slate of great guests, those from Capitol Hill, people who served in the last Trump administration, those who were potentially going to serve in the next one, as many campaign, and, you know, agency surrogates that we can between now and election day, and once we get this big W on November 5th, we'll be moving forward and doing the exact same coverage, very excited for President Trump's second term as President of the United States. So, we really appreciate the opportunity to even be in the mix as, you know, we understand that we aren't Joe Rogan, we aren't Rush Limbaugh, we do the best job that we can, we think we've done a serviceable one for the campaign, but when you're looking for the things that really matter in the last couple days leading up to a major election, like this is probably the most important one in the history of our country, our job right now is to put our heads down and plow right through the finish line with all of these candidates, including President Trump, that are running right now to ensure moving forward this country is in a lot better spot than it is right now, which will lead me right into our guest list for today. Amazingly packed, as always, we'll be catching up at the end of this segment with the Strategic Communication Director for the RNC. He'll be joining us for the first time, someone that's traveling frequently and alongside the President, very much these days, Tommy Piggett. We'll round out today's show, circling back with one of our favorites, Tennessee Congressman Tim Burchit. We'll lead into our first interview in our second edition of the podcast today with former Republican U.S. Senator, and someone who's just been a critical component of the great job, an amazing work that's going on down in the great state of Georgia right now. Kelly Lofo will be back. And we'll round out today's two episodes, having just a wonderful conversation with one of our great friends on the show, someone who's, you know, essentially one of our day one interviewers as well, also part of the War Room Apparatus, and that's the New York Young Republican Clubs, Executive Secretary Mr. Vishbarra. So great guest lineup. We're going to be taking a look at a lot of different things nationally with Tommy Piggett, more specifically in the case of Georgia with Kelly Lofler. We'll get some commentary on the overall race with Tim Burchit. And then when we get into the New York state of mind, we'll be doing that with Mr. Vishbarra. So great guest lineup today, lots of stuff to cover. And I do want to jump into our news portion of the show opening today, and that's looking at just the blitz package that Donald Trump brought to the state of Pennsylvania this week. One of the two big ones that he is looking in, in my opinion, to flip. The other one being Georgia, obviously, we have so many other ones in play. There's been reports coming out today that the Kamal Harris campaign is getting ready to finally deal with the fact that they're not going to win Georgia, that they may lose Michigan. You've got Nevada in a dead heat. But when I look at the electoral map and finding out night of election day, whether or not Donald Trump is going to be the next president of the United States, if you can call Pennsylvania and Georgia before we even get into the rest of the Rust Belt, things are looking absolutely fantastic for us on November 5. So Donald Trump has been focusing a lot of his campaign's emphasis there, bringing the messaging, bringing the guests along with them. I mean, you've had Elon Musk doing these standalone town halls now for like the last two weeks. He's holding like a town hall event a day where people who have confirmed that they're already registered to vote in Pennsylvania could go out and hear him talk about why he's involved in this race. He's also given a million dollar check a day away at these town hall events. So for someone who really admired and made his electoral decision based off of how Donald Trump responded in the wake, even in the moments of after he was nearly assassinated in Butler, Pennsylvania a couple months ago, Elon Musk has gone all in for President Trump and is just doing the work that we haven't seen too many people want to go out and risk their next to do. In addition, Donald Trump caught up with a couple NFL legends this weekend. Someone who were big fans of here on stake for breakfast, former Steelers wide receiver, great Antonio Brown, but also Steelers legend running back. Levi on Bell joined Donald Trump at the rally, which we're going to look at a little bit later in the new segment here, but also did a tailgate party to where they were making sure people were getting registered to vote as well. You know, and when you see the amount of skin that people are offering up right now, whether it be physical, whether it be groundwork, whether it be monetary, whether it be overt support, if you have these huge platforms, they're going all in for President Trump. I think they understand the eye rolling narrative that this was the most important election in the history of our country back in 2022 has become, and it's just manifested into something so real right now that I think people understand what it looks like another four years of this, another which would add to the 16 would be of the past 20 years of Democrat control of the White House. How much our borders open, how crime has spiked, how the economy is tanked, how our geopolitical footing has slipped everywhere. And a lot of people say it's unsustainable for the country, but I'm also looking at it might be unsustainable for the world. You know, we see the saber rattling out of Russia, out of North Korea, out of Iran, even places in Venezuela, all the transnational gangs that are in Central and South America making their way up to the United States. It seems like this failed leadership has allowed our country to get encircled, and even in a lot of instances infiltrated by the enemy, and it's created a situation so bleak that we just have to really take into consideration what's at stake on November 5. Also, before we get into the clips and the highlights, I want to remind everybody places where all of your voting has already started, like North Carolina, Georgia, Arizona, et cetera, get out, get your ballot in so you can go out and chase five, ten, fifteen friends to make sure they're voting, and their votes are in and being counted before Election Day. In addition, the states that are coming up, Pennsylvania, Nevada, Michigan, et cetera. I mean, our early voting starts out here in California, I believe on November 1st or 2nd, and I will be at my election center on November 1st and 2nd, bright and early in the morning to cast my vote and get it over with so I can continue to chase ballots. I've already chased about four or five million ballots just from people in my orbit that I know needed to get them in. Some of them are immediate family, but they're also encouraging their friends, their coworkers to go out there and do the same thing. And every little piece counts, every vote counts. Don't think because you live in a blue state that your vote doesn't count, it does. Don't think if you're in a red state, you're seeing these great numbers coming in, the returns on early voting, mail-in ballots, Republican voter registrations, et cetera. It means nothing unless you do the job that you're tasked with. Number one is getting your vote in. Number two is getting as many people out to do the exact same thing after you. So, and Donald Trump was making sure that everybody got that messaging down, picking up another big endorsement in the Keystone State this weekend. And this time from U.S. Steel, one of the largest steel manufacturers on the planet, and I'm going to play a portion of that segment of the rally right now, let's check it out. It's an honor to be on stage with you, all the steelworkers here, honor to be on stage with you. I was up to Butler Rally when they started sass to make you. And I knew after that, that I had to do what I had, that I had, whatever I had to do. So, the president that saved the steel industry with tariffs, you saved it with tariffs. And you're my hero, and you're the greatest president ever. We love it. We love you. So, steelworkers for Trump, and the rank-and-file Mom Valley Works wanted to endorse you. We want to give you a hard hat. I hope we're getting 2016, Trump wearing the hard hat out on the campaign trail again, I love it. Well, thank you, President Trump. They gave him a make steelworking, MAGA-like hat also. Make steelworking great again. No tax on overtime. That's a good one. You know the steelworkers work a lot over time. You've never even heard about that, right? No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. I like it. We're just having a conversation right behind the podium at the rally. There's 40,000 people there just watching this. Oh, there it goes. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you. Let's take a picture. Come on. They've got it outside. Okay, he's got it right there. Let's go. We got it, get back. Thank you, fellow. Thank you. Good job. Thank you. Thank you. And of course, one more guy jumped in to take a selfie with them before they went off stage. But listen, the impact of that endorsement and how it shows the hardworking, blue collar, middle class, manufacturing sector of this country is fully behind President Trump. It's something that he doesn't take for granted. He will take the time out to take pictures with these guys to exchange some brief stories. Even as you heard right there, some of the banter back and forth. A joke with these fellows because they've had it tough. Their jobs are being outsourced. Their plants are being closed down. Bureaucratic red tape is making it harder for them to make a living and keep a roof over their family's heads and put food on the table. And they understand when you talk about the amount of work that Donald Trump wants to do, both sending steel out all over the planet and the infrastructure he wants to take care of it. I mean, he wants to build, like, what, 30 new Trump cities? He wants to completely rework some of the most beat up and broken down historically important cities across this country as well. I think you really have to be able to grasp the gravity of this situation and how the common man is behind the working man's president. He would obviously get into some of the rally basics and that would include absolutely hammering Kamala Harris. He would do so more specifically in this rally than he had done in some previous ones. And I thought the clip was pretty funny, so let's play it. She's radical left and crazy Bernie is radical left. And this one Kamala is further left than them. So you have to tell Kamala Harris that you've had enough that you just can't take it anymore. We can't stand you. You're a shit vice president. Get the hell out of here. She's a disaster. And you guys have seen it out on the campaign trail this week. We'll jump into that a little bit later on the show. And it was at some of these rallies over the course of the weekend. He had a town hall with stage steel. He also did a big Macarelli in Pennsylvania as well, where he kind of brought some new people into the campaign that had been flirting with it online. And you really want to understand how important this election is. And we keep harping on it here, but to see the amount of people who have come out of the woodwork to flirt with MAGA to kind of court MAGA. And now have gone all in. You can't take it for granted that we're seeing it now like we haven't seen it either of the election cycles pass. What does that mean? They're needle movers. And what that does is when Donald Trump goes on with Aiden Ross, or Theo Vaughn, or The Undertaker, or brings the NELK boys around with him. How people who follow these, you know, culturalists in our country, these major influencers who, you know, shape a lot of people's day. In some instances with daily podcasts or live streams, where you can either detach and veg out a little bit, or you could listen and shape your opinions and your values based off how these people conduct their lives. Now, if you would have told me it was going to be people like Elon Musk, an RFK junior, and getting into these clips here, former wide receiver, great for the Pittsburgh Steelers, Antonio Brown, I would have said absolutely effing not. You know, you talk about a bunch of people who in years past may have seemed like they're out there to self serve, to expand their entrepreneurial horizons, really didn't care about politics in general. And maybe didn't understand how the world works, but now, I mean Elon Musk has had to pick up his multi billion dollar corporate enterprises and leave states like California, and move them to places like Texas, because of the way the government is, both local and state, even federal, with all the regulations and stuff. You know, you look at people like a lot of these streamers, and influencers. Sure, they're into sports and they're in the video games and stuff like that, but God forbid you mention your politics and you get canceled. It's like, how can you make any kind of a life for yourself, always having to hide the way you feel or not being able to talk about what you believe in when you're supposed to be someone who, and I'm equating now, is an influencer. It makes it really hard. And even some of these pivotal sports figures, you know, for his woke and beat down as major league sports has been for the past decade, even longer so going back to, you know, the Obama years and all of that stuff with the race wars that he was trying to incite and then Black Lives Matter, obviously George Floyd and all that stuff, some are of love. You know, there are people who are in these organizations, major league baseball, the NBA, the NFL, obviously, the major ones who don't feel like they just want to carry the line for, you know, pronouns everywhere, or pride night where they have to wear like rainbow uniforms, or always talk about equality instead of talking about the opponent that they're facing on the field. And when you look at, you know, people like Antonio Brown and Laveon Bell, they understand what's at risk. I think in their state of Pennsylvania, with the, would be the ending of the energy sector there, what the cities have degraded down into, especially the major ones like Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, etc. And I was really so happy to see Laveon Bell jump up on the stage before the Trump rally and give his little speaking piece before being called up on stage by President Trump during the rally to be welcomed in under the America First 10. We're going to start off with Antonio Portion, a portion of Antonio Brown's speech here. Let's check it out. It's over there as well. Here we go. Pittsburgh, what to do, baby? I got one of my friends out here, Laveon Bell. Make some noise for Laveon Bell. I got Mike Wallace came today. He's over there as well. I want to say first and foremost, thanks for having me here today. It's amazing to be back in Pittsburgh. It's an honor to be here with the best fans in the world. Make some noise for the stellar fans. But before I get too deep in my speech, I want to say, I know the media is going to call me crazy, me and Trump crazy for having me speaking here, but I want to make this clear. We are not. They are. You know, Kamala Harris and Tim Watts, you really know they want to put 10 pawns in the boys' bathroom. Is that crazy? That's really insane, right? And by the way, 10 pawns Tim Watts, he isn't a real football coach. He could never guard me. You know, and it would be throughout the course of these several minutes that Antonio Brown spoke, which he kind of led into what drug him into politics, what enticed him about President Trump, what the America First agenda means to him, to his livelihood and to the community in places like Pittsburgh. And I'm going to play a little bit more of his speech because I think it was important. He gave him a few minutes. He wound up going for a little over five, but I just think when you hear the way that this man is trying to express himself. And it's tough. Listen, anyone that follows AB's Twitter account, you know, whether it be like "Enward of the Day", "Cracker of the Day", " Modest of the Day", no matter what of the day, he said that Donald Trump was "Enward of the Century" just recently on, you know, when he took his little picture of them to hugging up on stage at the rally over the weekend, it's not for everybody. But when you look at people that are more identifiable characters in this big race here that we're running, and you could bring in some of these people like the gamers, like the people who are just huge admirers of professional sports, you really can't pass up on the opportunity to bring them in, especially when they're, I mean, Antonio Brown has no future employment incentives. I mean, what could he be? He could be an ambassador to young people, maybe in a future Trump administration. But when you're talking about like paid government roles, these are people that are making self-sacrifices to make sure the man who they think is going to get this country back on track is going to get in the White House come January of next year. Let's hear a little bit more of A.B. speech. I love that. For those who tune in to my ex-account, my socials, you know, I started CTS being a platform for athletes that allowed them to tell their story, how they wanted to be told. And we discussed the traumas that they experienced through their life and how these events are critical to allow them to achieve success in the football field. We all need to possess courage and keep pushing forward to bring a better future. And speaking of pushing forward in a better future, we are here to support our 45th president soon to be the 47th president, Donald J. Trump. You know, and then when he talks about where he comes from and his presence on social media, the hashtag that he started, CTE SPN. It's kind of a take at two different things. It's the lack of awareness that's been brought on the CTE, which is the, you know, brain injuries that professional athletes, especially people like football players, may incur over the course of their career and because of big money, big media, big television, big marketing. They're overlooked. You have to be able to get your ass in there and play because you're on a hundred million dollar contract or you have to get your ass in there to play. You're the last man on the roster and you're barely hanging on to playing in the league. It doesn't matter what hurts or how it hurts or how that's going to shape your future. I mean, just look at people who have succumbed to, you know, CTE like Junior Seow talking in the instance of San Diego, where we're based out of here. I mean, he was someone that suffered from CTE, numerous brain injuries over the course of his career, maybe misdiagnosed, maybe undiagnosed. Long story short, he committed suicide over it. The guy had his whole life ahead of him. He was an entrepreneur. After football, he was an ambassador for the sport. He could have gotten into the media. Like a lot of these people have at the end of their playing careers and the man took his life because of things, demons he wasn't able to deal with and had to slip through the cracks throughout the course of his playing career. In addition, you know, and the way AB kind of looks at it here is he makes it into a joke. He sees these massive injuries happening, these massive collisions happening in the NFL and just kind of like, even without their knowing, welcomes them into the hashtag of CTE, SPN. And then the other half of that, the CTE and then the ESPN is obviously a take on the network, which is the 24-hour, you know, sports information center. That's on cable news. So he's kind of turned it into his own little thing. Anytime you see someone get absolutely smashed or receive a concussion or have to leave a game, you know, he welcomes it to the family. And it's just kind of sad that it takes someone who was very successful in the sport, even though he had some ups and downs to say the very least. You're going to have to go do your research on Antonio Smith, but his shirtless exit from the NFL in the middle of a game, directly following a play, is one that we probably won't ever see again. However, the awareness he's brought to one of the unspoken, really sad points of professional sports is, well, it's unmatched, and it's one that he's challenged a lot of people on. He's kind of stirred the pot with and brought a lot more awareness to something that's really, you know, kind of dragging down the NFL right now in regards to the quality of the performances that are happening in some of these games. So I'm going to play just a little bit more of it because I did want to kind of make sure that everybody got the recognition where the recognition is due, and that we were all welcomed into one of the biggest things that Antonio Brown has in regards to his little football family online, check it out. Pittsburgh in the state of Pennsylvania, I want to thank you for all the memories and all the support. I look forward to seeing you in Canton, Ohio, in 2027, with my favorite quarterback, Big Ben. I love it to be enriched and go down together in history with Ben. I love you guys. I make all you guys the crackers of the days today. Make some noise for yourself. Yes, I love you Pittsburgh. I see 2027 Hall of Fame. Looks like we made it. Everyone in America first was blessed into being crackers of the day. So first joking as it is, and it's pretty funny. You have to really take into consideration the sacrifices that these guys are making in contributing to Donald Trump's campaign here in the waning moments in the last couple of weeks. Antonio Brown went out on Sunday of last weekend and held a massive voter registration event with Laveon Bell and a couple other people in the parking lot of the Pittsburgh Steelers stadium ahead of their game with the New York Jets. And that would be a game that Donald Trump also attended a little bit later in the evening as well. Donald Trump during that rally would bring Antonio Brown and Laveon Bell and Mike Wallace up on stage. Let's hear it. Former NFL stars Antonio Brown. Oh, he was our good player. He was our good player. And Laveon Bell really good players and Mike Wallace. Come on up fellas. Come on up. Let's vote for Trump, baby. Make some noise for the president. Let's go Trump. You already know who Trump. Let's go. And you know Donald Trump is a huge sports fan. I don't really know what his teams are outside of the New York Yankees. He's always been a huge Yankees fan. He's gone to tons of Yankees games. He used to have a relationship with former Yankees owner George Steinbrenner before he passed. Well, more than a decade ago, but again, having these guys come in and lay it all out online for America first and bring in some low propensity voters. So I'm still undecided independence, or even people who just don't care about politics and they're like, okay. A B, Laveon Bell, Mike Wallace, or MAGA. They're talking in a Trump route. They're getting called up on stage and a Trump route. They're with Donald Trump and the owner of the Steelers luxury box. The Steelers game. There's a girl with huge knockers saying vote Trump for secure borders, vote for Kamala for open borders. Running across the field in the middle of the game, there's a spontaneous USA chant happening. While the Steelers are in the red zone on a Sunday night football game, this is wild. I'm all in. I mean, I'm already all in. But I'm talking about some of those people who might not have been. One of where Donald Trump's weekend was starting. I mean, what an amazing event, a packed rally, interactive crowd, big endorsement from U.S. Steel, inclusion of former NFL players. And he'd get up the next morning and he'd head out to rural Pennsylvania and to a place now added to his collective resume. I think we all know what we're talking about here. We called it. I called it. I said before election day, Donald Trump would don the apron and work in a McDonald's. And that's exactly what he did this weekend. He broke the friggin internet with the memes that came out of Donald Trump's appearance there. We're going to jump right into the clip as Donald Trump walked in the door ready for duty. Let's hear a little bit of his commentary. He's getting ready to suit up for the fry machine. Hello, everybody. In this year, she has this is in this. She has made for four years old. I think I should take off my jacket. The press wants to say this. Oh, you? You guys are wealthy, guys. You know, there's a lot of big Donald Trump. It's great. Thank you. I think it's good. You want to? Yeah, yep. Mr. Trump, what's your favorite thing to order on McDonald's? I like it all. I like every ounce of it, everything. But I do like the french fries, who I'll be working. I listened to Kamala. She said it was so hot. It was so hot. It was such a tough job. It's time to have a man that's been doing it for many years at the french fries. I want to learn everything. We're going to send you a learn how to do it right now. Thank you. Welcome here. Oh, man. I like everything. I like every last ounce of it. It was fantastic. You know, and to see him get in there and roll up his sleeves and work the fry machine and then transition over to the drive-through window. Oh, my God. The memes was just like, I don't know how many times I posted just a picture of Donald Trump working at McDonald's with the caption, "McCry Harder" for all the lives that were just melting down. Oh, this is staged. Oh, the McDonald's close. Listen, there were thousands and thousands of Trump supporters lining the streets up to this McDonald's to welcome the president to come in here and do just participate in a little slice of Americana. And again, this is why Donald Trump is winning this election right now. It's not because he talks about the forgotten men and women. He participates in their life like this. Now, is this a dead-end job or is this his only source of income? He's worried about the bills and the economy that we're in right now. While he's working graveyards at McDonald's, no. Is this something that most politicians in an uncringedly manner could go and pull off? Yes, it absolutely was. And when people started going through the drive-through and getting their orders fulfilled and seeing that the man that was ringing them up free of charge, by the way, because Donald Trump paid for everything. In addition, don't tell anybody, every six-piece nugget order had seven nuggies in it. And he even complained when he got the bags to go to the drive-through windows that the fries weren't full enough and to throw some more fries in the bottom of the bag. Let's hear him as the media kind of peppered him with questions from the drive-through window during this event in Pennsylvania this weekend. Mr. President, you actually have worked at McDonald's now. Now I have worked at McDonald's. I've now worked for 15 minutes more than Kamala. Are you going to put this on your resume? You should never work here. I've worked 15 minutes more than Kamala. Well, put on your resume. Worked at McDonald's. Why would you lie about that? Why did she lie about that? Because she's lying in Kamala this way. Why would she lie? She should lie about it. McDonald's converted more times than she never worked. She never worked here. But let's not talk about that. It's an amazing business. It's an amazing country. And we're going to make America greater than ever before. We're going to do it. Look at the enthusiasm. I mean, there's thousands of people over there. They go miles back. That's incredible. Look at that. He's waving at the people because the press won a battle jump. We're at the Pittsburgh game tonight. And we look forward to it. And it should be a good game. And yeah, a good team to have a great coach. It's very a great coach. And we'll see how it is. You know, and then he was asked shortly thereafter if he knew the special occasion that it was. Because it certainly was. Off the campaign trail again, much as like she is today. And will be tomorrow in preparation for some ridiculous town hall that she's supposedly doing or some hard-hitting interview. That she's supposed to be partaking in this week. Kamala Harris celebrated her 60th birthday on Sunday. Donald Trump was asked about that and had a pretty standard response. It's her. Kamala's birthday? She's turning 60 years old. Do you want to say it? Yes, I would say happy birthday, Kamala. She's turning 60. How about that? But I think when you look at what this event meant for people to see Donald Trump be able to do the things that they always talk to him about being some billionaire elitist who's disconnected from the common man. We all know here that that couldn't be further from the truth. But the fact of the matter is that he could do it. Listen, he's done it in undercover boss. Remember when he was the Bellman and he worked all the different jobs in Trump Tower? You know, there have been some components throughout the course of his time overseeing the apprentice. And it's just like, even when he invites people to the White House, whether it be like Gold Star families and how he could relate to them, even though he really doesn't have anybody that made the ultimate sacrifice in his family. To whether it be Marianne or Vera, a former Hall of Fame Closer for the New York Yankees, and how he can have events to, you know, expand physical fitness outreach to children. And still be on the same page. The man can do it all. What can I say? And when you talk about his experience there and how he felt about it, got a little bit of him providing his own commentary on himself. Let's check it out. This is a great job to take at the beginning. It requires expertise. I'm going through the french fry stuff. It's a whole big process. And it requires great expertise, actually, to do it right and to do it fast, yeah? I see it in Donald Ford now. Do you appreciate the Donald Ford now? Well, I do appreciate it. Maybe a little bit more. Yeah, you take it for granted. You say, give me french fries. I'll never forget this experience, okay? Now I know how to do it. It's very good. But you know what? It's beautiful. It's clean. It's really nice. You never touch him. Somebody stuffs them in with their hand, and I don't like that. And they don't do it that way. You never touch him. It's really great. So I want to thank you all for coming out. And we're going to see you soon. We'll see you at the next stop. And then we'll see you later on in the beginning. Busy start of the day for President Trump. But it wasn't going to be his last stop. It would just be his first. As I mentioned, he'd go on to do a town hall event in Pennsylvania with former professional sports commentator, Sage Steele, someone who used to work for ESPN and got kind of ran out of the building after she called out several of the work policies. You know, sexual misconduct that was going on with that company. In addition, he did over to the Steelers game at night. And I've even got a clip of that. So, you know, that's just the start of the big day and the busy weekend that was for President Trump on the heels of a massive rally and in the endorsements coming from people like Antonio Brown. He would go over to the McDonald's and then make his way over to the town hall. Guys, wherever you listen to the show today, welcome to the first of two big Tuesday editions of the "State Breakfast Podcast." Listen, help us out and do the things that help our show grow. That is sharing the podcast with your friends, family, coworkers and loved ones. In addition, you can check us out on any podcasting platform. Find us on Apple, Spotify, iHeart, Samsung, Amazon Podcast, or wherever you listen to your shows. 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So, he's been holding like a Dally town hall in these cities in town across Pennsylvania, at which he's kind of laying out his spiel, why he's gotten into this race, what skin he's got in this race, what he wants to do in a future Trump administration. And I really think the messaging is, I mean, with the chaos of the campaign trail and the final two weeks sprint is really starting to fall under the radar. But I did pull a couple clips from one of his town halls and I want you guys to kind of really take this in. Let's check it out. But they just don't seem to like the idea that people on the right can say what they want to say within the balance of the law, which is startling. I mean, the reason for this petition in support of the Constitution is because the Constitution really is under attack. One prominent Democrat after another has been saying that freedom of speech, the first amendment, is a bad thing. John Kerry literally said that. And Tim Walz. Yeah, and Hillary. Yeah, exactly. It's like a long list. It's not like, you know, mid-level people. It's like the top people in the Democrat party are saying the first amendment is an obstacle, and then they were referred to it, you know, they used the word disinformation. Like it's a pretty good indication that if someone's using the word disinformation a lot, they are the ones creating the disinformation. There it is. (Applause) You know, they panned out to the audience a couple times in these events. There are a lot of people going and showing out for Elon Musk because they're really excited about the potentiality of not only the things he's doing innovatively with some of his entities like Tesla and SpaceX, obviously Space Exploration is something that he just romanticizes about, something that Donald Trump wants to make. One of the focuses on of his next administration as well, getting back to the moon, and of course, Mars in the next five years at the very least. But, you know, for the people who come out, and you can hear it in Elon Musk's voice, he's not a politician. He is not a prominent public speaker. It would be like if one of us, even myself, who sits behind the microphone for, you know, many hours a week and does all these research and has all these formal conversations with so many prominent figures in American politics, you know what? If you packed a hall full of a couple thousand people and just put a microphone out on stage and just put the spotlight on me and the whole rest of the arena is dark, and next thing I know I had to just add Libby, you know, for a certain amount of time and pitch a message that's supposed to resonate with people to be motivated enough to go out and cast a vote in a presidential election, that's a tall task. And you can kind of hear it in like the tone and pitch of his voice that, you know, there's a lot of, I'm sure that he is looking for acceptance. He's looking for confirmation that the way he feels is not crazy, not like the way, you know, John Kerry and Hillary Clinton and Tim Walz make us seem like, but that the way we feel is supposed to be normal and free speech is supposed to be open and fair and fluid and a multiple directional conversation here. And, you know, I really do think, you know, Elon Musk would rather be sitting behind a commuter console working on the things that are going to make this country great, both in the space race and with all the other technology he's working out there. He even emphasized in that a little bit. Let's check this out. We prefer not to be in politics at all. And the reason that I have stepped into the political arena this time is because I think the stakes are extremely fundamental. I think democracy is on the line. I think constitution is on the line. And I fear that if Trump does not win, we're going to have a single-party state, and it's going to be like California, but actually worse than California, because the one thing that keeps California from going even further than they do go is that people can move out of California and still be in America. Like he did, he moved his business. Then it's going to be much worse than California. And that's the danger that we face. So an oppressive totalitarian state that has extreme restrictions on freedom of speech, that continues extreme over-regulation, that just basically makes government even bigger than it is today and takes away the liberty of the people. So it was something I wanted to do, but I felt it was critical to do it, or America is not going to be America. And it's just so important to really be able to comprehend the sacrifices that some of these people. They're putting all of the abilities they have. Elon Musk with his entrepreneurship and his philanthropy. You have all of these sports icons that are coming out, and any kind of possible ways to earn their family or future employments. You have a lot of these candidates and political figures from the other side of the aisle who have come on, you know, it's like Donald Trump said at his rally. He's like, "Oh, we have had so much fun along the way here for all of these years, and if you don't get out and make it happen on an election day." Well, I guess it was kind of nice. And that's really where we're at. You have to be able to understand that these people know that there's the risk that they are in the crosshairs for figuratively, of course, legal prosecution to be shut out of their businesses and/or industries to be completely canceled and sent in to the abyss of relevance for the rest of their lives. And, you know, if Donald Trump can't win the election on November 5th, it all would have been for not this. All ends on November 6th if Donald Trump can't secure this presidential election, and it's up to us to be able to continue to deliver and hammer that message home that more than just your vote counts in this election, you have to be able to get other people motivated and out to support not only these candidates, but President Trump and his policy platform that he's looking to bring you next year. You know, you have to be able to believe when energy costs are going to go down by 50%. When we are going to become energy dominant again, when the U.S. southern border is going to be sealed, when some of the darkest corners of these rundown, historically important cities to our country are restored back to their greatness. And things of that nature, you know, there's the manufacturing and industrial components of it that he wants to reinvigorate. I already had mentioned in this podcast the Trump cities that he wants to get done as well. And you just have to take into consideration with the saber rattling that's going around from places like North Korea and Russia and Iran, the world cannot wait another four years to see if we have some kind of an America first. And this is what the Democrats are running on right now, the fear of isolationism, which it's not. World peace is not isolationism, that's taking care of yourself. So you're the strongest beacon of strengths to the other countries who need some of that physical leadership in someone like Donald Trump was during his first term in office. It goes to stopping the globalist agenda when it comes to the open border policies. And then the economy, you know, we won't have a middle class in four years if Donald Trump doesn't win the election on November 5th. And that kind of goes into the motivation that Donald Trump was saying keeps him out there and running strong on the campaign trail. When he ran into Sage Steele, former ESPN employee who is now kind of an America first commentator, you know, she does a lot of great work out there. And talking about what keeps him in this fight, you know, it's not just the fact that Mar-a-Lago was raided or the law fair was waged against him or he had survived an assassination attempt in Butler. It's so many other things. When he goes to all of these places and he sees the people that come out and show out and absolutely, you know, spread the love for him, but it's like, what does he want to do for them? He doesn't just want to be able to campaign. He wants to be able to work for us. Absolutely phenomenal, but check it out. I want to wrap up on this if I could. I had the opportunity a few months ago to talk to your lovely daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, on my show. She is incredible. She's an incredible woman. She is obviously so committed to bringing you back to where you belong. She's an incredible mother. I've been traveling with her a lot lately and she's amazing. And one of the things we talked about on my show was the why with you. Because you have a lot of other things you could be doing right now. Your bank account looks pretty good. You have a few golf courses around the country. You have a few buildings here and there. You had four incredible years. You have grandchildren. You have another one on the way. Congratulations to your daughter, Tiffany. (Applause) One of my favorite moments with you was watching the RNC and watching your daughter, your granddaughter, 17 years old on the stage and what that must have felt like for you. So there's so much that you have. And then you come out here and you just said it's such a dangerous job and you choose to continue to do this when you don't have to. It's safer, it's cheaper, all of the things to not do what you're doing today. Why? Why? (Applause) So he hates talking about himself. He hates it. Thank you. He gives an honest-to-got smile though for the people that are cheering for him right there. He's blushing. (Applause) Thank you. So, I probably am asked that question more than any other question they say. (Laughter) Thank you. (Applause) Thank you very much. Thank you, everybody. I think I'm asked that question maybe, like, why do you do this? Or if you had it to do against sort of a similar question, would you do it over? And the answer to that is so easy and so emphatic, yes. (Applause) But the reason is, I was saying that, you know, in a sort of kidding fashion, the other night at a rally with these great rallies, and I was saying, you know, I didn't have to be here. I was in the middle of a little bit of a rough area and I loved every minute of it. We had, I think, 28,000 people. We had 101,000 people in Butler, you know that. We had 107,000 people in California the other day. And I said, here's the story. I could be anywhere I want. I could be in the finest beaches having that sun go over that very white skin that hasn't seen sun in years. (Laughter) I could be hit in the face with beautiful waves of salt and beautiful salt water. I could be wherever I want and I have great properties all over. Or I could be here with you people. And you know what? I would rather be here with you than any other thing that I can do because... (Applause) Because... Because... You have a lot of people that are rich or wealthy and they can do what they want to do. But we're doing something that's unique. This is the greatest movement of all time. We're going to turn our country around. Our country is really -- it's a failing nation. I don't care what you say. I mean, we're not -- we left that all over the world by other leaders. Four years ago, we were respected by everybody -- China, Russia. Russia would have never gone into Ukraine. Israel would have never been attacked on October 7th. We would have never had the most embarrassing moment in the history of our country, which is, you saw what happened in Afghanistan, the Taliban. We would have never had -- think of it. We would have never had Afghanistan. We were getting out, but we were going to get out with dignity and strength. And we were going to keep the big air-based background because it's one hour away. Spent billions and billions of dollars -- just about the biggest, most powerful, longest runways in the world. We gave it to China. They gave it to China. China is now operate. We were one hour away from where China makes its nuclear weapons. We gave it up. It would have never happened. All of these things, we wouldn't have had inflation because our energy was so good. Energy caused the inflation, what they did with energy. But I said to myself, you know, sometimes I think I see -- you know, I get hit with all these lunatics that we have. The radical left lunatics where they make up stories about Russia, Russia, Russia. In the end, I wouldn't change what we've done for anything. We're going to make America great again, greater than ever before. And we can't do that sitting on a beach, right? We can't do that sitting on a beach. It's a good argument that what's going on is more important than what he'd rather be doing. And, you know, he would go from the town hall stage there. Quick trick over to Petzburg, Pennsylvania, where Antonio Brown and Lady on Bell and Mike Wallace were holding their pre-game tailgate voter registration event. And jump up into the luxury box with the owner of the Steelers. And although there wasn't too much commentary that came out of that moment, you can only guess what it looked like when Donald Trump was shown on the Jumbo Tron. Yeah, there was a little of that going on. In addition, I've got one more clip before we jump in with Tom Piggett, the national comms director for the RNC. We're working very close with the Trump campaign right now. He was asked following the Steelers game and on his way back to the motorcade, you had such a big weekend here in the Keystone State. What is your closing message to voters here in Pennsylvania? Let's take it out. Only about a couple of weeks until election day. So what is your closing message to voters here in Pennsylvania? Well, the closing message is we have to save our country, our country's in big trouble. We're really in decline, serious decline. We've had two people that don't know what they're doing. And that's that. So although that wasn't the last time he'll be in Pennsylvania before the election, that was probably the biggest slots of events that he'll be doing leading up to November 5th. And we're going to leave it at that, as he's already done an event today in Florida and his end route to Greensboro, North Carolina, where he's holding a Trump rally tonight. 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MyPillow.com/stake for anything sleep-related. If you want the coffee, MyStore.com/stake, or you can always talk to a qualified pillow representative. 1-800-6580-45. All right, joining us first on the show today is this big Tuesday edition of the State for Breakfast podcast. He's the strategic comms director for the Trump campaign, and he's joining us for the first time. Mr. Tommy Piggett, thanks for coming on the show. Thanks for having me on. We are watching History, sir, and it is a multitude of things. It's a culmination of living under the Biden-Harris administration for the last four years. It is also definitely one of the greatest comeback stories, not just in political history, but probably history for this country overall. And that's the race that Donald Trump is running. We want to start off by discussing that with you today. Tommy, for someone who's been with the campaign and someone who's been on the ground, you've seen America. You've seen how this country is struggling right now to keep itself afloat. And you've seen the alternatives that Donald Trump is bringing back as part of his campaign and rolling into these last two weeks of this election cycle. I kind of want you to lead in with talking to our listenership about what it's like being on the ground with President Trump, seeing the comeback story. I mean, going all the way back from when he left office back in 2020, you start off, you know, seeing the law fair. That's waged against him, the Mar-a-Lago raid, the witch hunts and hoaxes that have been kind of waged against him and his family, the assassination attempts. And the state president kind of rise through the ashes and make it to this point where you see the pole shifting in his direction, where you see the crowd sizes of the rallies in just like we've never seen before. And the race that Donald Trump is running, how hungry is America to get this country back on track in return to those four years of greatness that he's been talking about in campaigning on so hard for the last four years? Well, they're incredibly hungry to get back there. I think I'm sort of two minds, but when I really think about it, the first is that we know what policies work. So when you travel across the country and you see all the devastation that Kamala Harris's policies have caused, it's really heartbreaking because it didn't have to be this way. She didn't have to open the border. She didn't have to fuel inflation. She didn't have to show weakness on the world stage. And yet she did. She did the exact opposite of what President Trump did and he was his successful term. So all the devastation we're seeing was preventable. And I think that leads to the second mind of it is that since we know what policies work, by getting President Trump back in there, we can solve these problems. And I think you see that hope across the country, you see that hunger to get President Trump back in there. The left's done absolutely everything they can to try to stop President Trump. To try to stop this movement to save America. Absolutely everything they can. But so far they failed and we see the momentum on the ground. We see the early vote totals coming in. We see the polls. I want to stress that those are just right now theoretical in a sense, right? We don't have the final results, so we can't take anything for granted. But we're seeing that momentum. And I think it's because, again, President Trump has the vision that will save this country and Americans want to get back to that. You know, when you talk about the man that President Trump is, there were a lot of people that you could have inserted into the role, but there's only one man that could have gotten out and done the work that President Trump has. I mean, when you talk about all of the hurdles that have been placed in front of them and some of the reasons why, you know, America is craving real leadership to be back in the White House next year, it takes a certain kind of person. I mean, Donald Trump, in our opinion, is a once in a lifetime, probably bigger than even political icon. He's just one of those people that I think history is going to look very positively on now, even though it doesn't seem like it's sometimes in the media today. But when you talk about what it looks like and his ability to multitask on so many different levels and what I mean is he could be campaigning in one day. And let's just say, working in McDonald's to the next, he could be bringing people under the tent that weren't with him or ideologically didn't even line up with Republican politics or the America First Movement, like R. F. K. Jr. and Tulsi Gabbard and Elon Musk one day and then be walking around in a disaster area the next day. And even though he's not the sitting President of the United States, there's been such an absence of leadership on the national stage that just his presence sometime is enough to reassure Americans that the job he did during his first term was great. And the job that he's looking to do in his second term is going to be even better. Yeah, I think you're exactly right to point to that absence of leadership, the fact that President Trump is stepping up and showing that leadership. I think just looking to the devastation from the hurricanes as that example, Kamala Harris at a fundraiser Joe Biden at the beach, President Trump showed up and he said, "I'm here for you." And now that he didn't just show up once, he showed up multiple times, delivered real relief, over $7 million in a GoFundMe campaign when I last checked those numbers directly to the people in North Carolina that were affected. I mean, that shows the leadership of President Trump that shows why he's needed back in the White House. And unfortunately, it's an absence of leadership from Kamala Harris across the board, the border, foreign policy, the economy. I mean, she's asked these basic questions of how would she solve these problems, and she has no answer because she created these problems in the first place. And so President Trump is out there, he has that vision, and you're exactly right to point out that he's expanding this tent. We are seeing President Trump poll at numbers with black Americans, Hispanic Americans, young Americans, higher than any Republican has in a generation. And Kamala HQ is panicking about it, and they should be, but Kamala has no message for people. That's why we're seeing all of these voters that have traditionally been Democrats saying, "Enough's enough." We got to vote for President Trump, we got to get common sense back in there. His policies worked before the work again, and not only is it going to re-implement those policies, he's going to expand on them and improve things even more. Yeah, and when you see the way the Democrats have countered kind of what they're weird, I mean, obviously, whatever happened with Joe Biden, exiting the race, and Kamala Harris being inserted in as something that is unprecedented, we probably won't see anything like that again. I still try to figure out how 81 million votes didn't have enough political capital to make it through four years and into another election cycle, but, you know, that's for the historians to kind of decide. But when you look at the policy-driven points, and obviously the top two are going to be the border, and then what's going on with the economy, you know, the Democrats can't offer anything. Except for four more years on steroids of what Joe Biden's administration, along with Kamala Harris, has been able to have done. Meanwhile, Donald Trump talks about returning to greatness, whether it be in the manufacturing industry, whether it be having the safest and secure border in the history of this planet, whether it be re-establishing our geopolitical footing and the absence of leadership on the world stage, especially in places like Israel and when it comes to some of our geopolitical foes when dealing with Iran, China, and obviously North Korea, who's ramping things up. You know, and just the sole fact that the Democrats have to fall back onto their beaten and pretty much failed campaign talking points of Donald Trump as a threat to democracy, Donald Trump will end Social Security and Donald Trump will do all these things that he never did in his first administration. It's pretty much showing that there is a clear choice on who's going to be the leader for this country and who's going to be able to get us back onto our feet again and who's going to continue us down this path to destruction, much like we've seen with Kamala Harris and Joe Biden. Yeah, no, it's kind of amazing to me that they forced Joe Biden out, installed Kamala Harris as if she's some quote-unquote new way forward, and yet they're running the exact same campaign. Kamala Harris taking multiple days off. Kamala Harris only doing staged events just like Joe Biden did staged events. Kamala Harris refusing to take any unscripted questions, essentially just like Joe Biden. Kamala Harris having the exact same economic policies as Joe Biden, but even worse, the exact same border policies as Joe Biden, but even worse farther to the left, the exact same foreign policy as Joe Biden. But even further to the left, Kamala Harris is Joe Biden. There's not a difference there. So it's amazing to me that they're claiming to be the party of democracy after throwing out 14 million of their own Democrat primary votes, then installing someone that's running the exact same campaign as Joe Biden. It's absolutely astonishing to me. And President Trump, in contrast, like you're saying, he's out there campaigning. He has that vision, and I would challenge all of your listeners to go listen to his recent interview with Bloomberg, his very long ranging interview about the economy. He showed mastery of the economic facts. Kamala Harris could never do that. President Trump is challenging the status quo, the failed policies that have failed working men and women in this country. And that's why he's polling at 60% with Teamsters members, 60% that's unheard of for Republican. President Trump has that vision, the mastery of the facts, and he's also going out there and explaining what his vision is. Kamala Harris can't even say what she'd do differently than Joe Biden, because she actually wouldn't have done anything differently than Joe Biden. And then when you talk about the working man of the people, it's those non endorsements that Kamala Harris has received, and the workforce endorsements that Donald Trump has gotten from law enforcement, from steel workers, from the Teamsters, et cetera, that I think really lends credits to how his policies are built to the hardworking, blue collar, middle-class man, women of this country who are just trying to raise a family and want to keep a roof over their head, food on their table, fuel in their car, and want to be left alone and not really spun, and kind of thrown into the political arena how they have been so much under this current administration. If it's not safety and security in the streets and we've seen so many victims come forward due to migrant crimes in this country, whether we see Gold Star families or how, or how, unfortunately, that's been highlighted under Joe Biden and Kamala Harris's administration too, with things like what happened at Abbey Gate in Afghanistan, whether you talk about how you have to work multiple jobs or jobs, having so much overtime under this administration, just be able to provide for your family, but then the taxes keep going up, the inflation keeps driving up the cost of everything, keep a roof over your head and food on your table, and then not be able to still make it at the end of the day. It seems like America is pretty much exhausted on the experiment that has been the radical progressives who have been in the White House for the last 12 out of the 16 years, but now you have a chance to return to Donald Trump into his America first policies that are going to put more money in your bank account who's going to drive up the dollar value and the wages in the job market who's going to bring safety and security in the streets here in America and start deporting the people who are causing such chaos, and it seems like the choice is becoming clear. I mean, I do want to kind of touch on the polls a little bit, Tommy, as we head down towards the selection. In both cycles previous to this, it seems like the fake news media narrative has been able to keep, and the fact that Donald Trump was always running from behind that Donald Trump always had an insurmountable lead in front of him. However, even though the campaign takes the notion of running like they're 10 points down every day, it seems like when you start to look at the polls, you start to look at all the cross tabs you had mentioned, black and Hispanic voters, you know, Asian Americans as well. I think there's a big component of the Jewish community and the evangelicals who were coming out, even gun owners in this election, who know there is just too much at stake in two weeks to, to maybe not participate in this election cycle or even not vote for a Republican when traditionally they have it. And it seems like more people are just gravitating towards Donald Trump. A hundred percent. I mean, like I mentioned before, we have President Trump polling at levels with black Americans, Hispanic Americans, young Americans, at levels we have never seen for a Republican, at least not in modern times. Already mentioned the Teamsters poll as well. 60% of Teamsters members supporting President Trump. The first time that the Teamsters leadership has an endorsed and presidential race has an endorsed a Democrat and a presidential race in about 20 years. I mean, monumental movement towards President Trump on these issues were seeing that reflected in the traditional battleground states were seeing that momentum on the ground. We're also seeing that in states that Democrats insist aren't in place, such as Minnesota, New Hampshire and Virginia. We're seeing momentum in those states as well. And early vote totals and registration numbers are backing that up. We're seeing Republicans cut into Democrat traditional Democrat advantages on early voting. We're seeing registration gains in Pennsylvania. All of that being said, though, like you just said, none of that matters if people don't turn out to vote. If they don't go to swampdevoutusa.com, make their plan to vote, get out to vote, make sure all your friends and family have that plan to vote too. Because we have the momentum, but we need to turn that momentum into actual votes. That's what the Trump campaign is doing. That's what we're focused on doing, running all the way through the finish line. But yeah, we have the momentum. And I think it's a testimony, like you said, to all those field policies. Kamala Harris' closing argument is that the American Dream is gone under her leadership. That's essentially what her closing argument is. That's a failed and closing argument. President Trump's closing argument is restoring the American Dream. And you know, I do want to touch on the weekend that was the first of our two Tuesday editions of the show here this week, Tommy. You know, Donald Trump has made so many different plays across the country. I mean, we're going to see probably one of the most unconventional ends to a Republican presidential campaign in the history of our country doing rallies in places like Madison Square Garden this coming weekend, et cetera. But he is making a huge play in the battleground state of Pennsylvania right now, as he knows that being one of the ones that have flipped, it's almost electorally impossible for Kamala Harris to ever get into the White House. You know, just to see the amount of events that he was able to do over the weekend, there was a rally. There was a town hall. He was at a Steelers game. He worked at a McDonald's and did a whole bunch of other interviews in between. You know, to see the and the people who are there with him, you've got Elon Musk out campaigning in the Keystone State. You've got Antonio Brown and Levy on Bell joining him on stage. You've got great candidates like Dave McCormick at the rally who's running for a Republican Senate seat in the state as well. The amount of focus. I mean, one of the things that we've been able to highlight is for as much as you wanted to armchair quarterback Donald Trump's campaigns over the course of the last two cycles and retrospectively, of course, is that maybe there might have been stones unturned when you look at the sprint that's going to be the next two weeks. And the amount of work that Donald Trump is putting in. I was discussing with some members of the Trump team last night, just how many events that they have already scheduled in addition to the stuff that they're all looking to, you know, add on over the course of the next 14 days. It seems like it's going to be another whirlwind finish for President Trump. But talking again about the Keystone State, there's been a heavy emphasis there and it really looks like the polls are starting to shift in his favor. Yeah, 100%. I mean, I think when you're talking about those events, no one works harder than President Trump to make America great again. It's astonishing to me that Kamala Harris is actually going out there with the absurd lie that somehow she's outperforming or out campaigning President Trump when she's taking the day off today. She is taking the day off today with two weeks left to go. It's absolutely absurd. No one's working hard on the President Trump. You mentioned that he's going to all these different events. Every single type of campaign event you can possibly imagine he is doing reaching out to voters. And each one of them is a phenomenal success. The trip to McDonald's, for example, to working at McDonald's practically broke the Internet. If you go to President Trump's TikTok, the team Trump TikTok account, I mean, the performance there was astronomical in terms of just that social media numbers, not to mention the news coverage. And then when it comes to Pennsylvania, we're seeing those poll numbers shift towards President Trump. We're also seeing voter registration gains, especially in the last few weeks. Republicans gaining a two to one in terms of voter registration gains compared to Democrats. So we're seeing that momentum. Again, it needs to turn into votes. And one of the things actually in Pennsylvania that we're seeing is Kamala Harris again shift her message because she's still fundamentally dishonest. So she was opposed to fracking her entire career. Then we're supposed to believe about, I don't know, a month ago, she completely changes her opinion on fracking is now pro fracking. And then just this week, her campaign comes out and says actually she's against fracking. I mean, she goes back and forth on this issue. And we're talking about an issue that if she goes through with her pledge to ban fracking would cost tens of thousands of jobs. Americans deserve better than someone that's playing politics with their livelihoods. And that's exactly what Kamala Harris is doing. That's why we're seeing that momentum in Pennsylvania. He spent so much time in Pennsylvania. We're going to make sure that Pennsylvania votes for President Trump come November 5th. No, just a continuation of things like we saw at the beginning of Joe Biden's term with the cancellation of the Keystone pipeline, you know, and America just cannot continue to not be energy independent, work towards energy dominance. Because as President Trump points out, all of his policies are great ideas. And when implemented have worked, let's just say in administration's past, but it's the start and the reinvigoration that he wants to put into the energy sector. That's really going to get the ball moving on everything from the economy all the way down to geopolitics. Tommy and closing here, and this has been great catching up with you today. Listen, two weeks doesn't seem like a lot of time, but there is a lot of time left. You know, we've been encouraging our listenership much like the campaign has to make sure your registration is done and that you can check on that status to make sure that you're voting early and in person, even when it starts in several states so you can get out there and chase extra ballots. And then sign up for jobs that let's just say swamp the vote or Trump force 47.com so you could be part of the equation that gets us over the finish line on Election Day, but talk about some of the things that you guys are still stressing out there on the campaign trail for our listenership to be doing these next critical 14 days running up to November 5. Most important thing is to make your plan to vote. Find out if you can vote early and if you can vote early, vote early. You mentioned about the resources that are saved. If you vote early, the campaign no longer needs to spend money chasing after your ballot. We can use that money to chase after low propensity voters, which meaning voters that haven't voted in the last few election cycles. That's incredibly important when we're talking about the amount of money being spent in this campaign, every single dollar counts. So exactly right. Make sure you make your plan to vote swamp the vote USA dot com. Get involved. Trump force 47 dot com. And then final piece of this is a lot of websites, but the Protect the Vote initiative is incredibly important for the Trump campaign and the RNC as well. Making sure that we have that Protect the Vote initiative. We've recruited over 230,000 volunteers to be part of that initiative. So people can go to ProtectTheVote.com. Find out more information there. But essential, make your plan to vote. Vote early if you can. And then once you do that, make sure your friends and family have that plan too. That's it right there. And Tommy, where can we find you on social media? We'll live link that in the show description today as well. They can find me at Tommy Piggett on Twitter or X now as it's called and similarly across other platforms. Everybody's chasing ballots. We hear the show where chasing members of the Trump campaign today. We caught up with the strategic comms director for Trump 2024. Mr. Tommy Piggett. Thanks for joining us on the show. Sir, have a great rest of your week. Thank you. Thanks for having me on. If you're on his campaign and I know you are certainly not. I'm not making any implication of that. But what is the logic behind this going to a McDonald's? I mean, we know the guy likes Big Max and Flayafish and he's used the word love to describe the way he feels about the food there before. But what's this about? There's no logic to it. It's a stunt. He has not put forth an economic agenda. He, as you know, is appears to be not well. And he's engaged in some really bizarre types of activities during this campaign. So this is just another one of those stunts that he will continue on through the campaign. And I think that we need to really focus on making sure that he is not elected, of course, because he is a threat to our democracy. Also, the Harris law agenda is about the economy reducing the cost of living, reducing the cost of prescription drugs, reducing the cost of housing and making life better for everyone. And that's what we have to focus on and make sure we get every voter to the polls and make sure that the voters vote the future, not taking the country backwards as you see what Donald Trump continues to try to do. So I'm encouraging and encouraging everyone to get to the polls and vote for Kamala Harris and Tim Walsh to be their next president and vice president. All right, jumping back into the news portion of the show here. Second news segment in our first of two Tuesday editions of the State for Breakfast podcast and that was MSNBC clearly having a meltdown to start the Sunday morning new circuit following Donald Trump's appointment at McDonald's over the weekend. And believe me, we followed up on it. Donald Trump is now a certified French fry craftsman. We'll get to that in our next edition of the podcast. We're going to stick into what the tea leaves were saying throughout the course of the Sunday morning new circuit here. And as always, well, I guess for the first time it was great catching up with Tommy Pickett who's doing a lot of great work in the RNC and the Trump campaign and setting things up for a big victory come November 5. So a lot of the usual suspects were ran through the gambit of the Sunday morning new circuit this week. We're going to be starting off outside of MSNBC's commentary on Donald Trump trolling everybody at McDonald's and jump right into it with someone who's probably feeling a little bit scorn still after being passed up for the Democrat vice presidential nomination and that is current Pennsylvania governor, little Josh Shapiro. He jumped on with MSNBC's meet the fake press and Kristen Walker and couldn't find one policy difference when challenged between Kamala Harris and Tim Walts and Joe Biden. Let's check it out. Polls do show that more Americans feel as though President Biden's policies have hurt them rather than help them. So can you name one key policy difference between Vice President Harris and President Biden? How would her administration look different? You know, I've been really encouraged by the amount of energy that Kamala Harris, Vice President Harris has put into focusing on how she will cut taxes for small businesses, the focus on childcare, tax credit expansion. That's something I've done here in Pennsylvania. We've seen that work to ease the burden on families. I think a focus on those kinds of things is particularly important. And those are the kinds of things I think Kamala Harris has brought specifically to this race. Those aren't necessarily differences, though. They're an expansion or a tweak to some extent to what's been done. Can you name one policy difference? That a girl. Listen, again, the contrast I am focused on, Kristen, is between her and Donald Trump. Don't answer. Don't talk to me that way. You're just a light weight. He sure is. And you know what? I don't think they would have had to be quite honest with you. Much of a difference between Tim Walts and Josh Shapiro. If selected for the vice presidential nominee on the Democrat side, and I'll tell you why. It's because Joe Biden has said it. There's no daylight between him and Kamala Harris on policy. Number one, policy is not her strong point. So she has no idea what she's talking about generally. When you look at things she would change, she's not securing the border. She won't make the streets safer. She could care less about the economy. She's going to continue to destroy the energy sector of this country. Manufacturing will be gone. And you want to talk about geopolitical leadership on the world stage. That's not something she's bringing to the table either. So what would be difference? Consequently, it would be worse. And they all know it. So they just kind of tiptoe around the question every single time they're asked and just segue back to, well, you know, Donald Trump, Donald Trump was never the president. Donald Trump is currently the president. Donald Trump can never be the president again. Those are the big three that they're using against him right now. So when all else fails, what do you do? You wheel out crazy Bernie Sanders. He jumped on with Jake Tapper and CNN's State of the Fake Union on Sunday to talk about, well, the flip floppy-edness of Kamala Harris on the campaign trail. And essentially how it doesn't matter what her policies will be. She's just going to do whatever it takes to get elected. It's funny to hear him admit it. Let's check it out. I know you know this, but in addition to the Green New Deal and Medicare for all single payer of health care and ending fracking, in addition to those being positions that you hold, Vice President Harris used to be with you on all three of them and now is against you on all three of them. Is she making a mistake having reversed those positions? Look, Jake, I think what we're seeing is a coalition of people, more establishment Democrats and progressive Democrats and progressive independents. I'm the longest serving independent American history. Come together with the goal of defeating a very dangerous candidate and that is Donald Trump. In terms of Medicare for all, I personally believe that the current system is broken, dysfunctional. It's major goals to make billions in profits for the drug companies and the insurance companies and we end up spending twice as much per capita on health care as the people of any other country, while 87 million are uninsured around the return. I think it's a broken system. Again, non-answer, segueing back to some beat. Remember, Bernie Sanders used to go after the millionaires before he became one and now he just talks about the billionaires because he already is one. And they're just bowing water. I mean, what else can you say? You're hearing it. These are the major pundits, the national campaign surrogates. All of the people that are supposed to be carrying the water for the campaign and the administration and it just looks like an absolute disaster, to be honest with you. Every single time they go out there, it's a bunch of non-answers and then always could fall back on Donald Trump as a threat to democracy, put a little lipstick on that pig and send it down the road apiece. So it wasn't going to be like, because we would go from losing it over McDonald's to non-answers with Josh Shapiro to it doesn't matter if she flip-flops with crazy Bernie Sanders, all the way down to nuclear meltdowns with, of course, James Carvo. Before we get into his audio clip, guys, wherever you're listening to the podcast, they hope you're enjoying the first of two big Tuesday editions of the "Stake for Records" podcast. Do us a couple favors here. Number one, share the podcast with your friends, family, co-workers and loved ones. We really appreciate it when you do that. In addition, head over to your favorite podcasting platform, whether it's Apple, Spotify, iHeart, Samsung, Amazon podcasts, or wherever you listen to your shows. Go into our show description and make sure you're following, which means the podcast is downloading to your electronic device. And then check us out on social media, Twitter, get our true social Instagram and TikTok. It's 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 the show, like our incoming interview, to wrap up our first edition of the podcast today with Tennessee Congressman Tim Burchit. So I had mentioned James Carville and, you know, if it's not about the policies or lack thereof, if it's not about what's already broken and it's all Trump's fault, they always do have the fall back on. He's going to start World War III, even though nothing could be further from the case provided by the evidence from the first Trump administration. And, however, when given the opportunity to say so, on MSDNC this Sunday, James Carville didn't fail to disappoint. And, you know, the other question is, were you better off four years ago? Are you going to be better off in a penitentiary four years from now, or still having the right of free speech and the right of political dissent? Because that's literally what's on the ballot. And I suspect in 1941, I don't know if people thought they were better off than they were four years ago, or in 1861, what people thought. But I know this, when the republic was threatened, people picked up arms and answered the call. Well, you know, in 1965, the middle of the civil rights movement, I think people decided they want to take matters in their own hands and create a better country. And that's what I hope we do here in the next two weeks. So the answer from James Carville is, we are losing this election. People who knew back before the Civil War and World War II that knew they were going to lose the election picked up arms and course corrected what they disagreed with. So his answer to the problem that Democrats are facing right now has nothing to do with their policies, has nothing to do with their weak candidates, has nothing to do with the state of the nation over the course of the last four years and 12 out of the last 16. It has everything to do with if we don't win, we're going to get violent. And he clearly just said it there. That wasn't an incitement of violence, if I've ever heard one say the least. We wouldn't have all America last clogging up the airways over the course of the Sunday morning new circuit. Quickly after crazy Bernie was ushered off. Current Speaker of the House Republican from Louisiana, Mike Johnson, came on to, I guess, counter some of the rhetoric that had been cycled through the Sunday morning new circuit up to that point, namely part of the commentary from people like James Carville threats to democracy, references to Hitler, etc. Let's hear the House Speaker. That's what he's talking about using the U.S. military against not marauding gangs of Venezuela. Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute, Nancy Pelosi, Nancy Pelosi's husband. So let me just say, if a Democratic presidential candidate said that you and your wife were evil and that the military should be used against you, I would say that's disgusting. Thank you, and some have said that about us because they don't like my politics. I did not hear President Trump in that clip say he's going to stick the military on Adam Schiff. That's not what he's saying. You've got two different clips in two different contexts. What President Trump is talking about is that they have been attacking and maligning him from the day he came down that golden escalator that everybody knows that's true. In 2015, 2016, that's when this began. He's been the most attacked, maligned political figure in U.S. history. They tried to kill him twice in the last few months. This day. This is real, and he feels that acutely. And Jake, you would, too, if you were under attack like he is all the time, every day. They, I mean, Iran, who has assassination attempt on against him. But that's not crazy, dangerous people in the country. But Adam Schiff and Nancy Pelosi... Get him written up to take down... Get him written up to fascinate Donald Trump. I mean, there's this conflation of any... They're not, Jake. They're not. But... No, but the political attacks have been relentless, and they have been baseless, and they made up the Russian collusion hoax. And they went after him, and they have been going after him ever since. They tried to impeach him twice. I mean, they've done real damage in the American psyche. What I'm talking about is the political attacks that are so over the top. Kamala Harris has used language saying he's so dangerous to the country. I mean, I've had colleagues in the house say he must be eliminated. He must be extinguished. He's literally talking about... This stuff is over the top. You know my... Against Democrats. I mean, he's literally talking. No, he's not. No, he's not. No, he's not. No, he's not. No, he's talking about using the National Guard in the military to keep the peace in our streets in the summer of 2020 that my Democrat colleagues called the summer of love. Got him. It was crazy. It was mayhem, and Democratic progressive mayors and governors allowed it to go on, including Tim Walts, who allowed Minneapolis to burn, and it's still not rebuilt. Look, Trump is talking about restoring law and order, and I'm telling you, you can mock it. People in the media can mock it, but that resonates with the American people. They are sick of being afraid on the streets of their cities. Donald Trump can bring order back to the chaos. They... And again, disconnected jerk-offs like Jake Tapper just still doesn't understand, because he hasn't taken the time to go and meet with Gold Star families, whose sons and daughters lost their lives at Abbey Gate during the Afghanistan retreat disaster. He hasn't gone and sat down with the mother of Jocelyn Nungarai, or the parents of Lake and Riley, and talk about how it was just a typical day, much like all the others throughout the course of their lives up until that point, when their daughter left the house to go buy some talkies at the Bodega, or go out for a jog off campus at the University of Georgia and never returned. In fact, they were brutally beat, raped, and then murdered by illegals who shouldn't be here in this country. And for people like Jake Tapper, who hasn't had it, touch his family, kinetically, in any way yet, just wait till something like that happens to someone he knows, a colleague, a family member, god forbid. It's not like we wanted to happen, but it's happening all over across every street in America right now. And these people need to understand it's going to take more than just ICE, more than the current available components of the Department of Homeland Security, to begin the framework and lay the infrastructure for the largest deportation operation in the history of this planet. And some of the optics aren't going to be nice. Mother's being ripped away from fake family units, et cetera. And we have to have a strong stomach for it. You know, someone I know that does have a strong stomach for it and is in for this fight is Tennessee Congressman Tim Burchin. And we're going to be catching up with him in just a second. I do have one more clip though, which kind of rounds up our Sunday morning new circuit review. And that state advance providing a little back-end commentary to Donald Trump's visit to rural Pennsylvania and his brief, albeit iconic employment at the Golden Arges. Let's check it out. The fact that these people are accusing him of a stage-managed thing, of course, the president has to have security because there have been two attempts on his life in the last eight weeks. He can't just walk into it, McDonald's, and sign a W-9 and actually go on the payroll. That's just not how this works, especially given the security threats on his life. But look, he was interacting with people. He was talking to the employees. He was giving people food. And he was just being, I think, what he does best, which is just being among the people, talking to them about what they care about. He showed, I think, genuine interest in the employees and their lives and where they came from and what they were actually doing in their job. And that's something you can't stage and you can't fake. That is just the genuine person that Donald Trump is. And it's why I think a lot of working people, even though, of course, he's a successful real estate billionaire, have this emotional connection to Donald Trump, you can't make up that kind of connection. Unfortunately, Kamala Harris has tried and failed. And I think it's why her campaign is flailing a little bit right now, is because she goes into sheets and does four takes of her buying Doritos. Donald Trump just goes into McDonald's and he is who he is, and people love him. They certainly do, and they certainly did. I mean, listen, prove us wrong. Where are the mass protests? Where are all the paid actors? Where are all the people who come out and cause all the chaos whenever Donald Trump's in control? They're not there. They've been absent. You've got one or two infrequent, go home to mommies every now and then, add a Trump rally, and then, you know, for the tens of thousands of people who attend his events and the tens of thousands of people who are outside, the people know they're not going to come and cause chaos. They're not going to come and cause problems at these events because the movement is galvanized behind the party and the movement's leader and that's Donald Trump. You know, I every day fear for his safety and safety for others who are out there campaigning with him. Obviously, RFK Jr., Tulsi Gabbard, Elon Musk, all these sports icons, the people who are involved in the media and these major influencers that have come in, they've all stepped over the line and now have to live their lives with an extra sense of security. And as J.D. Vance is playing to a packed house right now in the battleground state of Wisconsin, just down the road a piece in Detroit, Michigan, um, Beleaguered has been hip-hop artist, M&M, just introduced Barry Hussein Obama out on the campaign trail for Kamala Harris, who is not campaigning today. So again, who's doing the work, who's making the pitch, who's talking the talk, and how much does it mean? We'll ask that question and more with incoming guests, Tennessee Congressman Tim Burchit, but before we do that, we're going to have another check-in with one of our partners. This episode of the podcast is brought to you as always by Man Rubs. Rubs, barbecue tools, blowtorches, t-shirts, coffee cups, and all around barbecue-related gear for you to make barbecue great again. Can you find it manrobes.com on Instagram, manrobes. Use a code "Stake15" for 15% off your order. All right, joining us next on the show today is this big Tuesday edition of the "Stakes Breakfast" podcast. He's the Congressman who represents Tennessee's second congressional district, and we're always glad to catch up with Representative Tim Burchit. Thanks for coming on the show. Thank you for having me back on, brother. I really enjoy it. Oh, we really enjoy having a conversation with you, and I'm sure our listenership enjoys it just as much. Listen, Congressman, we're at the end of this presidential race now. The final baton has been passed. There are no more hurdles that we have to go. It's full sprint to the finish line here, not just in the presidential race, but to retain and extend that House majority, flip the Senate in the Republican control. And for all the guests that we've had on, whether they be from the RNC, from the Trump campaign, members of Congress, all the way up through leadership as we sat down with, at least a final class week as well, it seems like it's in all hands, on deck situation. Even in the same, staying in the sense of your race is in the most important race. It's all of the races and coming together, kind of as the Republican Conference family, you know, heading towards election day here. You know, as you've kind of seen this race unfold, and some of the races, granted, are tougher than some of the other ones throughout the country, but, you know, you've been on the ground. You've been talking to the people. You know what the pulse of the nation is now. We kind of want to get your commentary on how this race, just overall, Lee, is kind of wrapping up. I think people are dedicated. One of my smaller counties, a fellow called me this just maybe a couple hours ago and said he was the 4,000th person voting, and that was early voting, of course. But the interesting thing about it was that they didn't have 4,000 people even voted in the primary. So, and this is just early voting. I think you'll see, our polling showed that 85% of the people were going to early vote. Now, does that mean that we're going to have that much more? In the past, I would have said no, but the numbers are just so overwhelming. It's not just an early first day of our first couple of days of early voting. I mean, some of our areas have gotten calls this morning. I had a text from a fella. It's like almost an hour to vote in an area that's one of our biggest early voting sites, multiple machines. You know, people just out the door and they were lined up all the way around, almost around the block. And so you're seeing that everywhere and you're seeing that across the country. I've often said that fear and hunger are two of our greatest motivators. And right now, it looks like fear is what's -- and people are dedicated to. It's a different look about it. People are not -- their heads are down. They're in their business. They're thinking. They're there. They're dedicated. It's not just some kind of festival-type atmosphere, which you see some years. It's kind of fun, lackadaisical kind of thing, blowing blow out kind of thing. They're dedicated. And one other thing, which to me is kind of anecdotal, but my campaign manager said, "God, boss, nobody cussed you." And, you know, we stood out there. Nobody cussed me. Nobody flipped me a bird. You know, even when you're unopposed, you'll get some of that. Sure. And if you've been doing it long as I've been doing it. And yet the people that were there were very appreciative. People lined up and you couldn't stereotype them generally. I mean, yeah, some guy wearing one of those masks, COVID masks, probably didn't pick up his vote. He got in his car and drove off. But the rest just, you know, working people, minorities, ladies, young folks, all would come up and shake my hand after they voted or before they voted. They'd get out of their cars and bring their kids over to meet me. It was really a different atmosphere. And I think we're seeing that across the country. People are tired of the nonsense. But I've warned people once we get, if we are successful, which I hope we are, but if we are successful, I think you're going to have to hold us accountable because, you know, everybody's going to want to get in there and do their little projects, stuff that run up the tab. And I think we better put the brakes on that. I think that's how we're going to lead is about what we don't do, not so much as what we do. And I hope that the public holds us accountable. And I hope we're able to do that. I hope we're able to make cuts and reduce the size of government because I don't think we're getting another opportunity, at least in my lifetime. You know, I am going to get to that in just a sec, but I do need to ask you a little bit more on what you live in there, Congressman. I think it's really important. You know, the involvement in this election, it's like I've never seen in my life. I'm nearly 50 years old. And I've never seen, you know, at the end of this race right now, you still have people coming out of the woodwork. We've talked with you and extend about the additions of people like Elon Musk, what he's doing up in Pennsylvania right now, RFK Jr. and Tulsi Gabbard, how they're going around the country with their town halls. But I mean, even this weekend, you've seen people like Antonio Brown and Laveon Bell and Mike Wallace come out and endorsed Donald Trump in Pittsburgh. You know, sports personalities really don't like to dabble in politics. I saw during a podcast with The Undertaker this week, Donald Trump talked about how, you know, the rock, who definitely was 100% behind Joe Biden and Kamala Harris in 2020, not only was concerned and wanted to talk to Donald Trump in the wake of the assassination attempt with Chapin Abdullah Butler, but also tell him that he supports the job that he's doing and is looking forward to supporting him in this presidential race. In addition, I think one of the biggest components that kind of goes under the radar because, you know, the mainstream media always wants to talk about the blacks and the Hispanics and the Asians and the Jewish people and the evangelicals and the gun owners that are coming out are not for Republicans. It's the entire new generation of young voters that seem to be really dialed into this. And I think all conservatives, kind of as a total, whether it be harnessing the weaponization of social media, like Twitter or whether they're going on to podcasts or non-traditional media as they have in the past to get their messaging out, it's really kind of made this whole new demographic of new voters kind of feel included for the first time in their adult lives. And I think it's really motivating them to get out and to cast their votes for Republicans leading up to November 5th. I couldn't agree with you more. I think that's the strength. That's been my strength in the past. I remember I had a petition one time and a friend of mine who was a Democrat who got my petition or who saw it. And after I'd already had my qualifying petition, he said, "The one thing I can tell from this petition." And I said, "What's that?" And he said, "I can't tell anything. It is the wildest bunch of people I've ever seen." And that's what you're seeing with Trump right now. They can't put the finger in the dike to stop the water. It's just coming at them from so many different directions. I think that's why they're attacks or so lame and also the fact where is the squad? Where's Chuck Schumer? Where's Nancy Pelosi? All their stalwarts? I mean, they're having to dig off the back bench and pull out Obama and poor old Bill Clinton, who looks like Skeletor. You're not seeing it. I think they're saying that they're losing ground. And I think the people at least in Congress are seeing that and they just want to hold on to their gravy trying. And that's why they're not out there with Kamala or Kamala or whatever. Yeah, the joy and the brat has kind of worn off and now it's like she's out there scolding African-American male voters with Liz Cheney of all people in high density Muslim and Arab communities right now. 10 days ahead of the election. Meanwhile, Donald Trump is serving fries in the McDonald's in rural Pennsylvania and he's going to be holding a campaign rally in the Sapphire Blue City of New York at Madison Square Garden this Sunday, just 10 days before the election. When you talk about how politics has just changed a whole. You've been in this a little while, Congressman, and you've seen Donald Trump kind of rewrite the playbook both literally and metaphorically throughout this election cycle. It has to mean something for Republicans moving forward to see that there are ways to tap a lot of these resources that have been untapped by a conservative politics for a long time. And Donald Trump has kind of shown you guys where the vein is and it's going to be up to you guys moving forward to see on whether or not you have the, well, it takes a lot to have to tap it. Yeah, I think you got to quit trying to patronize. You know, I see these white moderates or whatever go into the black churches and try to act, you know, act different than what they are. And frankly, that's insulting. It's like when Kamala goes in and changes her tone, her voice or her vernacular or whatever she does, tries to act more like the community that she's in. And it just doesn't sell. They're not idiots. They've been played for so long. I wish somebody would say, at some point, that, you know, when Barack Obama comes in and says, "The brothers, B-R-O-T-H-A-S," which is something he never said. I've never heard him say anything like that up to that point. I wish one of them say, "Hey, unemployment to the roof, crime is horrible." Where is our piece of the American tie that we've worked for? We've gone to school for, you know, our kids are getting killed in the streets. And you're always wanting to point the finger at somebody or not offering any solutions, just pointing out the obvious or what isn't the obvious, but what you wish was the obvious. And that's what you're seeing more and more of, and I think that's why they're not responding. And I believe you're seeing that in his fan community as well in other areas. They're tired of it. They're tired of people going to the front of the line, frankly, when they've been here busting their butts. Yeah. The American Dream is not something that's easily attained, but if you were in a legal under the course of the last three years or maybe 12 out of the last 16, you've got a fast pass to the American Dream in ways. Most normal Americans or traditional Americans will never even see it. You know, Congressman, you would let in with your prior commentary talking about how the hard work is on the other side of the ballot box. I mean, we're all going to be doing whatever we can to make sure that we get the big three on election day. But then moving forward after that, you know, I think you're right. We cannot have the same kind of struggle over the power of the gavel. We can't have the same back door, back stabbings going on in regards to committee chair work or who's going to get a new Kitty Park in their district or a post office named after somebody or a challenge coin developed, et cetera. We really have to get on the same page and prove to the American people that, okay, everybody came out and got us in. We retained the house. We flipped the Senate. Donald Trump said back in office. We did say this was going to be the most important election in the history of our country. Now it has to be the most important four years in the history of our country moving forward. I think you pretty much agree with that. Oh, 100%. We've got to accountability is the key in all this. If we, it doesn't matter if we, if we win or lose the majority in any of that, but because this compromised talk is what's gotten us 35 plus trillion dollars in debt. Another another trillion dollars every hundred days. No plan to pay it off either party. Congressmen on both sides of the aisle, obviously getting incredibly wealthy. In my opinion, it's unethical, maybe legal just because they made it illegal. We only placed a world where insider trading is legal is in Congress. And then, you know, we got it. I think we're going to have to eventually start pushing for single issue spending bills and take all this nonsense away. These, these perks and things like that. You know, if you want to pay Congress more, that's one thing that's a drop in the bucket, but the ability to make three, four, five hundred percent profit to me is just unbelievable. I told somebody, you know, I got my buddy, Tommy Siler, who a Knoxville down on Getty Street. He, he's, he manages my nine thousand dollar portfolio. And it's in a mutual fund where everybody's money should be. Right. Man, listen, Congressman, you get to bring it down to the ground level better than almost anybody can on the show, which is where I'm going to lead in with the last topic I want to talk with you about. You know, we've made some really good friends along the way here through their congressional campaigns, obviously up to Capitol Hill with both Eli Crane, the Arizona Representative and Congressman Corey Mills, both regulars here on the show. We actually caught up with Corey. Believe it or not, for as busy as he's been pulling people out of the mess in the wake of the two hurricanes campaigning in his own district, doing events with President Trump and then going around the country campaigning with other candidates as well. In addition to that, you know, we've developed a really good relationship with you and your office. And, and you know, last week, when I got to sit down and finally watch the Sean Ryan podcast that you were on and you talked about all the government, the swamp and the mess and the corruption and all this stuff that's going on. Really kind of laid out there for the American people. I think the three of you guys together just do it in a way that is pretty unmatched when it comes to overall commentary on it. But, you know, leading into some of the things that were critical in this election cycle, obviously the assassination attempt out of Butler. You know, you guys are working independently and outside of the congressional parameters on trying to find a transparent solution and evidence for the American people so we can be satisfied to know what happened on that day and why. What happened in the days after it and why. And I just kind of want to get your take on how tough it's been to push back against the swamp in your attempt to bring transparency to the American people. And what does it say for the current state of the government? We're in a bad state. We're in a very bad state of disrepair. We have got to pull this thing back together. We've got to pull the cover off this thing and expose it for what it is. And it's, I mean, we are on the edge. And if we get control and don't do anything, God help us because it's on us. We've got the opportunity to do it with this election. We've got the opportunity to change course of history, which is a rare occasion. We've got people that are running in here wanting to cut 20, 30, 40%. I think that's a great start in the American public is nodding their heads. This is an election day hyperbole. This is the real deal. And if we don't, if we do not do that, we will lose our country. It's the honest to God truth and I mean, there's so many things that, you know, have their hands on it right now. Could it be we have the perfect storm of candidates on both sides of the aisle, which are going to lead to Republicans getting back in there and getting the country back on the right track? Sure. Could it, could it be, you know, that people have ran races to the best of their extent and are really starting to resonate? I mean, could we even say that, you know, God's hand came down and touched a little bit of this race when we saw what happened when President Trump and how he survived the assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania? Or is it all of the above? Who knows, but we're here for it and we were here for it today with you as always. Congressman, because you're out in district, we could live link your campaign website. In addition to your congressional one in our show description today, I know you've got two social medias. We always list one, but there's a spicy one, which I enjoy a lot more. If you want to give that to our listenership, we'd appreciate it. Yeah, it's on the X at Tim Burchit. D-I-M-B-U-R-C-H-E-T-T. Got to follow it. Won't regret it. As we never regret catching up with the congressman who's representing Tennessee Second Congressional District, Representative Tim Burchit. Thanks for coming on the show with us today. We look at the rest of your race, and we'll see you on the other side of Election Day, sir. Thank you, brother. Remember, that's why they're firing at us right now. We're right over the target. Guys, we're coming back with another all-new edition of the State for Breakfast podcast. So sit back, relax, and let us change the way you consume your news. [BLANK_AUDIO]
