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We didn't have strife.We didn't have violence. We voted for a change in leadership in America from the Senate to the White House and potentially in the House.And we made it through.Now, that said, there is a lot of breaking news today.
And one of the things that I know this election has been about, because I have tracked it all through the last two years, is that the insecurity at our southern and our northern borders drove voters to great concern.
They did not take Joe Biden and Kamala Harris's advice to ignore their eyes and believe that the border was secured when our own eyes told us it was insecure.
They didn't believe when their local officials told them, it will be okay if we bring lots of illegal aliens to our town, don't worry, nothing bad will happen, and then crime surged.
The border is going to be the first priority of President-elect Trump when he gets into office.He has been clear about that.
He was clear about that in my interview with him just a couple of weeks ago, where I think we got a lot of important news out of him.President Trump will, shall, focus on the border.And it will be done on day one.
And today, we've got three sensational guests that are going to walk us through exactly what that looks like.First, from the constituents in Arizona who've been at ground zero.
the newest member of Congress from Arizona, Abe Hamaday, Congressman-elect Abe Hamaday, we can now call him.He's gonna join us.
He has been one of our sirens on exactly what's been going on at the border, what the residents of Arizona and Texas and other border regions need, and then what we need to do and what Congress will do to support President Trump and his actions.
Abe Hamaday will get us kicked off on this Friday after Election Day.In round two, the man who ran the Customs Border Protection Agency
The last time Donald Trump squeezed the border numbers down, the illegal immigration squeezed down under President Trump.Mark Morgan joins us.He's got a great career.He was an FBI agent, an LA cop.
He worked for the Customs and Border Protection Agency all the way up to being its acting commissioner.He's going to tell us how do we get 15 million illegal aliens out of the country.
It's actually more straightforward than you think, but there's some really important notions, including how do you force sanctuary cities and sanctuary states to cooperate with the federal government? One answer may be the purse strings.
Mark Morgan will bring us into that in a little bit.
And then a man who has not only focused on the border, but also so many of the other issues, how to revive the Defense Department in a military that has been sidetracked by ideological indoctrination the last few years, former New York Congressman
Lee Zeldin, fantastic voice anywhere in America.He's going to join us in the third block.He also was a champion of the get out the vote, low propensity, early voting operation that swept this country.
Lee Zeldin himself ran an operation with Ashley Hayek, who was on the show earlier this month, to get millions of new voters to the poll, voters who hadn't been voting in years and they didn't vote on election day.They voted early.
Absentee or vote early in person.Millions activated by Lee Zeldin and his team.
We'll dabble a little bit into that because the ability to address the border actually flowed from the ability to win the election, something Republicans hadn't done well the last three elections, but they did it well this time in absolute convincing fashion.
That early voting was a big part of the strategy. All right, that's our show today.Now, it's an understatement to say that we have a tsunami of news today.There is just extraordinary amounts of news going on.
First up, Jack Smith signaled an end to the January 6th election interference case against President Trump.He asked the judge for a month delay.The judge immediately granted that delay.And that was quick.It was fast.It made a big difference.
Why would he do that?Well, first off, Jack Smith sided the election because that's the appropriate thing to do.You do that when you can.And so, I think that that's an important development.
You asked for the pause because the Justice Department's long-term policy has been the Justice Department cannot carry out prosecutions against a sitting president.Donald Trump will be a sitting president.How about that?
in just two months, a little over two months.And so that is one of the reasons why you saw that request.Jack Smith said it, said it so, and he did it quickly.And so that is the news at hand.That's one big thing.
Now, a second thing is there was a significant significant change or revelation today about the nature of the Iranian plot to assassinate President Trump during the election season before he was elected.
All sorts of extraordinary new details have been released in a new indictment.It was against three people in this Iran murder-for-hire plot on Trump.
According to the complaint filed in federal court in Manhattan, an unnamed official in Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard ordered his contact Farjad Shaqiri in September to hatch a plan to kill Trump.
The complaint said if Shaqiri wasn't able to create such a plan, the operation would be paused until after the presidential election.
According to the complaint, the unnamed official thought Trump would lose and it would be easier to carry out a plot to kill him.Shaqiri told the FBI the official asked for a proposal in seven days, which was the timeframe he was not able to meet.
How about that?The issue of border security, which we're going to tackle for most of the time, Donald Trump has been pretty clear.There's no price tag for mass deportation effort.Whatever we have to do, we do.President Trump said we have no choice.
That's what the law is.Imagine that, going back to the law.Pretty interesting and good idea. All right, that is our headline deck and headline check today.We've got a lot more ahead for us, including a great set of interviews.
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When we come back, we're going to kick things back off with the one, the only, and also one of my favorite folks on the show, Abe Hamadeh.Now we call him Congressman-elect from Arizona.Abe Hamadeh right after the commercial break.
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One of them is a familiar one to all of us here at Real America's Voice and Just the News, but he's now can be called Congressman-Elect.Our good friend Abe Hammaday is joining us now.Congressman-Elect, good to have you on the show.Good to see you.
Thank you, John.I like the sound of that.Congressman-elect, I think you're the first news anchor to call me that.Thank you for everything.
How about that?Well, welcome to the show.Congratulations on a big victory.There are a lot of messages in what the American people did on Tuesday.
I wonder, as you look back now and you reflect on what you went through on the trail, what you saw, what you witnessed on Tuesday night, what's the most important message that voters have sent to you when you go to Congress?
Well, I think if you look at President Trump's historic win, this was a mandate by the people.It was a mandate for us to secure our border once and for all.
We cannot continue as a country with 10 to 20 million illegal immigrants pouring across our southern border.
So if you look at it, it's not a surprise to me that President Trump won overwhelmingly and won the popular vote in Electoral College and united Arab Americans, Latino Americans, Black Americans.It was the biggest coalition ever.
And it's because all of these issues that we constantly talk about on the campaign trail, resonates with the people.
They understand that we will no longer tolerate being treated as second-class citizens while illegal immigrants are getting free health care, free housing, free benefits under the Democrat regime.
So that's something that we're going to tackle head-on.President Trump, I know, is going to secure our border very quickly, and I'm going to help him in Congress.We're going to go after the drug cartels as a foreign terrorist organization.
But number two, the inflation crisis, the economy, you're looking at the markets reaction to President Trump's victory.
I think it's a good indicator that there's a sense of relief now that maybe that President Trump's tax cuts are going to become permanent next year.And, you know, so many people in my district that have small businesses, that affects them.
And it has a big impact on the bottom line.So this is the way we're going to grow our economy, reduce inflation, make America an energy independent nation.Once again, that's dominant.
So I look forward to joining President Trump and all my colleagues in Congress, because we're going to pass the America First agenda.Republicans are united more than ever, and I think that should worry a lot of Democrats.
And it appears to be already, when Gavin Newsom is supposedly the head of the Democrats right now, because you're exactly right, Amanda, nobody wants California style entering into their state.
So this is a good sign that Republicans are gonna maintain and actually deliver our promises that we ran out of the campaign.
Absolutely.Well, and Congressman-elect, I love the way that sounds.You brought up Gavin Newsom.
What was highlighted in this election seems to me like that might be a major speed bump for Gavin Newsom because as we saw, I mean, in the nation's highest concentration, Hispanic communities, Starr County, they went 76% or something for President Trump.
Hispanic communities, especially on the border who feel the pain of an open border crisis, Many of which, look, they're in California.That's going to be an issue even more so in 2028, isn't it?
Absolutely.I think, honestly, President Trump and with Elon Musk purchasing X, people are getting their immediate alternate news nowadays.So the polls are completely wrong.
Look at Arizona, President Trump won by, I think he's going to win by close to 7 or 8 percent. And Gavin Newsom's policies, who is it helping?It's only enriching the few and the elites.
But then the rest of California has to suffer with homelessness on the streets, drugs on the streets, and illegal immigrants getting treated better than Americans.And that is not a recipe for a successful country.
So if this is what Democrats are offering,
That's a good sign for Republicans, because with President Trump's resounding victory and Republicans' victory on Tuesday, it's a good indicator that the American people are with us and with our common-sense policies.All we want is a secure border.
All we want is fair elections.All we want is a foreign policy that doesn't alienate our allies and emboldens our enemies.
We have to go back to an America-first policy, and that's what we're going to get with President Trump and this Republican-controlled government.
Really important.Sir, you've been a champion of the election integrity changes that need to happen in this country.You sued, you worked through Arizona to try to get things done in Congress.
What are the important things that should be in a federal law next year to give people greater confidence that it's easy to vote and hard to cheat based on all you've learned fighting through Arizona's problems?
Of course, when you have 50 different states all having different election laws, it becomes very complicated. I think the most common sense one is the save app, requiring ID to vote, making sure illegal immigrants are not on the voter rolls.
That's common sense that almost universally all Americans can agree on.And that's number one.But number two, if you look at some of these cities and states that defy that defies so many laws that they allow illegal immigrants on their voting rolls.
We have to have the federal government start withholding the power of the purse and stop funding these cities and these states that are disregarding our laws and making it easier to cheat.
And then if you look at the Department of Justice, they need to take election fraud very seriously because that is the number one threat to our democracy, the election fraud.
So I hope the Department of Justice actually works hand in hand with states to look at the voter rolls, make sure they're being cleaned up. But also, I'm looking at ways that we can ban ranked choice voting at the federal level.
Ranked choice voting was defeated in almost all the states, I believe, on Tuesday.I believe Alaska just repealed their ranked choice voting, so it was a total disaster.Ranked choice voting is prone to cheating, it's prone to election issues.
So that's something that we're gonna be tackling when I get to Washington, D.C., but it's gonna be on top of my agenda, and I know it's President Trump's, it's also on top of his agenda as well.
Absolutely, sir.And I'm pretty sure that on day one, President Trump is going to reimpose remain in Mexico and some of those other common sense border measures that started to, to, to cut into the numbers coming across our border.
But we've also got to deal with the numbers who are here and obviously prioritize the criminals, the people who not only broke the law by coming across the border, but are committing crimes here.How, how does that actually, what does it look like?
How do you actually implement that?
I actually think it's going to be a lot easier than people think.
If the Biden-Kamala administration, what they've done in many ways, they made it easier to identify who are illegals with the apps that they've been creating by the federal government, and also the housing and the health care and the debit cards they've been giving to them.
So there's a lot easier ways to track them down.But other countries routinely deport hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants.The Dominican Republic, they deport about a few hundred thousand illegal Haitians. every single year.So this is doable.
I believe President Trump, he tends to make the impossible possible always.When they said that we can't make peace in the Middle East, he was the one who did it with the Abraham Accords.So the deportation efforts, I believe, is gonna be done quickly.
The federal immigration judges that I talk to, they already say that there's systems in place right now.It's just the Biden administration.
They allowed this influx to come and they allowed this backlog to come in where some of these asylum cases are not being heard until 2030 or 2031. That's gonna be quickly reversed with President Trump out of Congress in there.
So the deportations, President Trump has a promise he's gonna deliver to the people, and I intend to make sure that it actually gets done when I'm in Congress as well.
Yes, sir.Real quickly, a lot of people wondering what will come of the Carrie Lake race.A lot of votes still to be counted.She's been closing.Tell us where that race stands, what she might need to do to become a senator-elect.
Absolutely.Well, I am no stranger to close elections.Last race was decided by 280 votes out of 2.5 million.I will say that there are a lot of votes to be counted in that race with Kerry Lake.So we have to just wait and see.
And it pains me so much that they're agonizing this and prolonging this process.And so it's an embarrassment that Arizona takes so long to count these ballots while every other state has done so.
I hate the fact that we accepted mediocrity and made it a part of normal, a part of government that's unacceptable.I think Carrie Lake has a shot, and it all depends on what the ballot returns are today and tomorrow and the days to come.
But so far, it seems to be trending in the right direction.But I'm going to be cautiously optimistic until we see some more results coming.
That's right.We're going to have to count every ballot in that race to figure out what has happened.Congressman Elect, what a great honor to have you on the show in your new role.We always enjoy bringing you on.
Can't wait to see you here in Washington in just a little bit.Thanks for joining us.Thank you, John.All right, folks, we're going to take a quick commercial break.
When we come back, we're going to have a great conversation with Mark Morgan, the man who ran one of the greatest border protection errors in American history as a commissioner of the Customs and Border Protection Agency.
He'll tell us how President Trump can get 15 million illegal aliens out of the country.President Trump said he'd spare no cost.He just said that yesterday.Mark Morgan will explain what that means.
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Now that President Trump is going to be returning to the White House, we are finally going to see the return of some sensible, common sense border policy.Gone are the days of letting anyone in with essentially zero background check.
But how are they going to do that and what sort of timeline can we expect?Joining us now to talk about that, former FBI special agent, as well as former acting commissioner of U.S.Customs and Border Protection, Mark Morgan.
Thank you so much for being here, sir.Great to see you.
You bet, it's actually great to see you both on the same set.You guys look great.
Thank you, yeah.Pretty awesome, thank you.Good to be together.Yeah, it's nice to be together.It helps with the on-air chemistry, but we always have chemistry with you because we always get such great wisdom from you.
And we were just talking in the last segment with Congressman-elect Abe Hamadeh about what it's gonna actually tactically look like to deport some of these people who definitely should be prioritized first.
And I know that this is something that is right in your wheelhouse, so let it rip, sir.
Yeah, well, first of all, something you said a minute ago, I think you're absolutely right.We've talked about this a lot.This is about returning to common sense policies, right?
You don't have to be a border security expert to know that one of the ways we get our arms around this issue is we have to start applying consequences, enforcing the law with respect to those people that remain in our country illegally.
It's that simple.It's common sense, Amanda, as you said. and how we're gonna do that, and look, all this hysteria around this, if it wasn't such a serious issue, it'd be laughable.
I wanna remind people, we've been removing illegal aliens in this country for a very long time.
I have to remind people that under President Bill Clinton, his administration removed 12 million illegal aliens, and every administration, Republican and Democrat, have removed millions of folks.ICE was created in 2003.
A subcomponent of ICE is called ERO, Enforcement and Removal Operations. Their statutory mission, their sole mission, is to identify, locate, and apprehend individuals in the country illegally and return them to their home country.
So this isn't anything new.All we're talking about is building upon that foundation that existed for a long time, infuse what I call a whole of government injection of steroids, and just increase the magnitude of what we're doing.
And real quick, two other key elements to this for us to be successful And what which didn't exist to the degree it does under like the Clinton administration is sanctuary cities.
We've got to unleash state and local law enforcement to be able to actually assist ICE with identifying criminals in their cities to remove them.
And the second thing is the Department of State is going to play a key role in this, forcing countries that traditionally refuse to take back their own citizens.Both of those things are going to have to happen, I believe, for us to be successful.
Mark, I wanna ask about something that's become a bigger issue, and that is trying to figure out how you get some of these sanctuary cities to cooperate with law enforcement, to give you more eyes, to give the American people more protection.
Do you think that President Trump, or President-elect Trump, will move to restrict federal funding for those cities that don't cooperate with the Justice Department, don't help us round up the bad guys and bad gals who may have come into this country over the last four years?
I do.I, I, I strongly do because look, we really have no choice.I started my career out as a local cop and I can tell you local to police department, state agencies, they know their state and city better than any federal agency out there.
They know the individuals in their community.They know where the criminals are.
They know in this case where illegal aliens are residing and they can help and be part of that, that, that, that tactical, you know, uh, um, implementation of operation and joined at ice as a task force.
local law enforcement in non-sanctuary cities, they've been involved in task force with ICE for a very long time to go out and continue to prioritize the criminals that need to be removed in this country, as well as other federal agencies.
So at the end of the day, and President-elect Trump has said that multiple times, that he's going to directly input it into the sanctuary cities. Again, Amanda, it goes back to what you said.We're talking about common sense.
In what planet does it make sense that someone who's in the country illegally commits a violent crime and then you're going to protect that individual and release them back in your city and prevent them from being removed?That's ridiculous.
That defies logic and common sense.And all we're talking about is being logical and actually enforcing the law and safeguarding this country.
None of these things are radical.That's right.Right.I seem to remember that even though the legal drinking age at 21 is not federal law, the way that they got states to comply with that is that they threatened infrastructure funding.
This obviously was eons ago.Would it be constitutionally copacetic to do something like that with respect to sanctuary cities?Just say, all right, you don't want to protect your people, you don't want to protect your state, and thus our country?Fine.
infrastructure aid.Sorry, it must have missed your city.
Yeah, I think so.Look, I think that's what the 10 pound legal brains are going to be looking at.I'm a lawyer.I hate to admit that, but I'm not a constitutional law expert.
But Amanda, to your point, it's the same thing with the highway speed limit, right?They did the same thing and that was found to be constitutional.
So I think that's where they're going to be taking a look at where can they actually hold back funding and put a maximum pressure campaign on these sanctuary cities.And again, I agree with you.This isn't radical.
In what world is it a radical position?Is it an anti-anything position to say, if you're in our country illegally, and especially if you committed another crime, We're going to find you and remove you.That's what we're talking about.
So I hope that the Trump administration uses everything under the Constitution within their power to just absolutely defeat these sanctuary cities, because it's illogical.
Mark, in the last few days, I've begun to hear some disturbing things inside CPB and the Homeland Security Department, and that is the numbers that are reported are massive, right?
10 plus million illegal aliens, but you get add gotaways into the total.But I'm being told that CPB and Homeland has a much larger number, maybe closer to 14 or 15 million.
Can you shed any insight on how many illegal aliens you think may really have come across this border or been let in by the Biden-Harris administration without us fully counting them?
Yeah, so two things.Here's the numbers we know that have been reported.It's about 10.7 million total nationwide encounters, plus another 2 million known guideways.That's what's been reported.Here's what I'm going to say on this.
The data, for them to fudge the data, for big DHS to fudge that data, That's going to be pretty hard, John.It really is.Because there's too many entities involved.Each sector, each port reports their own data independently and then it goes up.
It would be hard to fudge those numbers. But here's what we don't know.It's the unknown gotaways.That's what's impossible to determine.
And look, when I was chief, when I was commissioner, I mean, it's all over the place, but we've had reporting where it says for every one known gotaway we have, there's two unknowns that we have.
And if we're looking at almost 2 million known gotaways, do the math.So the numbers, there's no doubt that the numbers are absolutely underreported by several million.I don't think it's intentional.I just think there's a lot that we don't know.
But here's what I will say that's unconscionable, is that there are some surveillance equipment that this administration has shut down.
And some of that equipment was actually providing us with a lot of information with respect to known gotaways, and it's really degraded their capability to know that.
Commissioner, before we let you go, I want to end on a positive note, or I hope it's a positive note.
Obviously, the last four years, Border Patrol has suffered more than almost any other law enforcement agency in this country because they are the front lines at the border.
Now, knowing that President Trump is going to take over on January 20th, what's their mood now?
It's 180 degrees, Amanda.
I can tell you because I've been there.And here's the reason.Not because the Republicans are Democrats, not because they're getting involved in politics.They don't give a crap about any of that.
They are elated right now for one reason, common sense reason.They know that under President Trump,
that are actually going to be unleashed to do their job to secure, defend, and protect this nation against a vast set of threats, including drugs coming in, criminals, and national security threats.
So I guarantee you they're high-fiving, again, not for political reasons, but just from the fact that they're going to be able to do their job.
All right, folks, one more good one to go before we wrap up on this hard to believe Friday after Election Day 2024.We'll be talking to Lee Zeldin in just a second, congressman from New York.But first, a message from our great sponsors.
Welcome back, America.Our next guest, I can spend a whole show just on his bio and his accomplishments.He is such an extraordinary player in America.Former Congressman, you know him for that.
Former candidate for governor, nearly pulled off the blue miracle in New York.
An Army Reserve Lieutenant Colonel, and in his free time, he put together one of the most impressive get out the vote operations for low propensity early voters Republicans have ever waged.
He is a big reason Republicans picked three, four million votes up.He is our good friend, Congressman. Lee Zeldin, Congressman, welcome back to the show.It's great to be with you, John.
I am amazed, I've been looking at these numbers now, and we see all of the movement, the three, four, five million new votes that Donald Trump got this election, and the operation that you and Ashley Hayek at AFW ran, so Project C, Ashley Hayek, working together, 40, 50 groups all oaring in the same direction, you hit like 4.7 million homes, had conversations with real people,
Tell us how many of those low propensity voters, who probably wouldn't have gone to the polls, went to the polls.
Yeah, low propensity voters, no propensity voters, people who didn't even vote in 2020, but we knew that they were going to vote for President Trump if they showed up and we got them out.
What started in an effort with America First Works targeting 19 counties became a Project 47 at the end of the day, expanding to other counties in these battleground states, knocking on doors, not just dropping off literature and walking, but having conversations.
But I think it's important to go back a bit to the beginning of this timeline early in 2024 and how this year started.
We hosted meetings in Washington, D.C., where we were bringing coalitions, conservative groups together from the right, where what we witnessed in the past is that we weren't operating as one team, one ecosystem.
We were building an America First coalition. April 3rd, we brought together over 50 conservative groups, over 80 conservative leaders.
We spent the whole day talking about what we needed to do with the ground game, what we need to do to secure the vote, litigation and lawfare.And it was a productive meeting that we all continue to work together afterwards.
June 13th, we hit our first door to execute this final phase of the campaign.We knocked on many millions of doors having those conversations, as I mentioned, all across all of the battleground states with what was 47 counties at the end of the day.
We were registering voters, tens of thousands of new voters.We were partnering with many other groups on the right, helping them as best as we can.
creating a data infrastructure so that we could communicate with each other in a way that's never happened before.
And at the end of the day, thanks to this coalition of conservative groups on the right working the doors, not putting press releases out, bragging about all the doors that we were hitting, just focusing on doing the hard work, we got a lot of people out to the polls to vote for President Trump and Republican Congress.
Yeah, and these aren't the easy ones to get.I mean, every year there's the people that are gonna go and you still, you gin them up, you try to get them to go, but these are the harder ones.
They're with President Trump, but either they're too busy, the children, the job, the responsibilities, they can't get to the polls.You made it easy for them by opening up that early voting, that absentee voting.It is an extraordinary number.
I saw some stats today that AFW sent me.1.2 million people that you gauged at the door. went to the polls and been to the polls at least since 2020 and some of them much longer or never.
And then another two million people that you engage by text and emails, also low propensity voters, also out three, almost four million people that would have been on the sidelines were it not for what you did.It's such an extraordinary thing.
Two, three years ago, Republicans had an allergy to this in many places in America.
This time around with you and Charlie Kirk and Ashley Hayek and all the great people that work together, AMAC and Faith and Freedom and Ralph Reed, you made early voting and absentee voting kind of fashionable and cool, didn't you?
Yeah, for sure.We saw a big surge.How great was it?Looking at the early voting numbers in all seven of the battleground states, President Trump doing better going into Election Day than he was four years earlier.
We were working as closely as we were allowed to with the Trump campaign.James Blair, the political director, did a very good job.And the RNC under both Michael Whatley and Laura
Trump, that new team that came in, they were focusing on election integrity, taking care of issues on the spot over the course of these final days and weeks, which was very important.
And I think it's, you know, listen, sometimes when you lose a race, you hear the term postmortem discussed.There's been talk of postmortem for the Democrats. Well, we should be talking about an after action report, even though we won.What worked?
What do we need to do going forward to make sure that we continue to do what works, that we learn our lessons, not just when we lose a race, but also when we win?
That's such great advice.
And I also another thing I you have been talking since the summer that the second this election ended, keeping this machine going and leaning into 2026 was the next step.
And that's going to be an exciting thing, given the coalition of voters that showed up for Republicans and the size of the tent that grew.I want to go to your home state.
Donald Trump improved extraordinarily in New York, in New Jersey, just to the south of your home state.Illinois cut the traditional Democratic lead in half.
There are states that weren't on this year's map or on this year's compass that could be put in play next time around.Does the map get expanded? in 2026?
It really should.We saw President Trump expand the Republican Party.I saw a post that Bernie Sanders put out with a lot of truth in it of how the Democratic Party has lost a lot of traditional, reliable voting blocks for themselves.
They lost it and President Trump and the Republican Party earned it. We need to continue to grow on that progress with the Latino community, not just with Hispanic voters, but with Black voters and Asian voters and Jewish voters and so many more.
President Trump won Dearborn, Michigan.I'm Jewish.President Trump sent me into the Bronx to accept an endorsement from Arab American leaders in New York City on his behalf.
Yeah, that's so Donald Trump-like, isn't it?And it worked perfectly, too.I mean, Arab voters, Muslim voters really moved over in a big way for Trump.And if they didn't move over, they stayed at home for Democrats.That was a powerful coalition.
Jewish voters, much more Republican this time around.How do you keep this coalition together and keep it growing?I guess the first thing is probably delivering on the promises, right?
For sure.And there are issues that transcend blind partisan loyalty.And that's something that we need to understand as conservatives, that there are all sorts of people who are voting Republican for the first time.
That doesn't mean that they are a Republican. It just means that this time they feel like the best decision for them, their families, this country is to vote a different way.Now you have to deliver on those promises and work.
You're out there talking about upward economic mobility, let's deliver it.You want to make life more affordable, bring down inflation, let's get it done.
Safer streets, a stronger border, energy independence and dominance, a stronger, more effective foreign policy. we were connecting on these issues that matter so much to these voters, now we have to deliver on it.
We also have to keep getting into these communities and we have to get into the community not just when there's an election that's coming up that's a few days, a few weeks, a few months away, but the entire time building these relationships, building trust, and hopefully these people who voted for us for the first time
that they get to the point where they can be ambassadors and they can help recruit others.
To be able to have that undercurrent of support at the barbershop, like we saw President Trump showing up at one in the Bronx, in the communities for that word of mouth to say, you know, listen, they're doing good work.
You really should try to vote for him.Even if you don't vote for President Trump in 2024, let's support these great candidates in 2026.
That can be earned with the two years that are ahead. Yeah, so important.What an opportunity.
You have always been about accountability and fixing the lawfare system that got so out of control.Word today out of the Justice Department, Jack Smith's going to be showing the door and maybe those cases will be dropped.Good for America.
Yeah, they shouldn't have been brought in the first place.And I think that it's really important for the DOJ to preserve these files.There's a new administration that's going to be coming in in 2025.
And I'm sure that a lot has been handed over from the January 6th committee and many others.And it would be important for there to at least, at the very least, internally,
And make sure that there is full transparency, because maybe there's something that needs to be improved.
I'm sure that there's a lot that has to get improved as far as the process of how did we get to the point where the Justice Department could pick someone like Jack Smith
to be trying all of these different legal theories, just trying to take down the political opponent of the sitting president.There was a lot that obviously went wrong.And you can't just deep six this investigation and make it all, all of it go away.
I think we also need to learn lessons here to ensure that if you end up with a Democratic administration, that you aren't going to go right back to appointing a Jack Smith
and going after the next political opponent of that sitting Democrat president.We can't ever have this happen ever again.And we need to learn those lessons and adjust things in order to make sure that doesn't happen.
All right, folks, that wraps up another edition of John Solomon Reports, the podcast from just the news.So grateful you can join today.What a great conversation with all of our guests.I'm really looking forward to tomorrow, too.
We got a great conversation about the election, about the gains made. and the lessons learned, it's going to be a winner.I can't wait for you to listen to it.All right.
We will be back tomorrow with our Saturday edition of John Solomon Reports, a podcast from Justin News.Until then, God bless you and have a great night.
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