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We are just less than five days from election day.A lot of things are happening all around the country.President Trump last night went to Wisconsin, stole the show with showmanship.He drove in a garbage truck. MAGA garbage truck.
He wore a construction man's vest for the entire speech.And he played the everyday common man worker in a very popular moment that even the mainstream media had to cover.It was a moment and people knew it.
The garbage truck playing off of Joe Biden's fallout from the claim that MAGA people are garbage.Well, they They had a big moment last time.I think a lot of people buzzing about that today.The race is razor close.
So listen, the winner is going to be the person who gets the most vote out between now and election day.Yeah, the polls are tipped a little bit in Republicans' directions, as I have been saying.
But it's still a very divided nation, a very closed country.
Early voting is definitely running better for Republicans, but Democrats still have an overall advantage in that they've closed the gap and it really will turn out to what sort of day of vote will Donald Trump deliver?
We'll have to wait and see what that looks like.We've got a great show for you today, a very special treat, the Speaker of the House, the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, Mike Johnson, is going to join us.
We've got a good long conversation.We're going to talk about what he expects to happen in the election, what a Republican Congress, if there is one, would take on.
And we'll give you an update on his take on the emerging scandal or investigation into whether ActBlue is being abused by foreign powers to route money illicitly to Democratic campaigns.All of that is a chock-full conversation.
You're going to enjoy it.It's the first time he's been on the show since he's been speaker.He's come on before, but not since he's speaker.We're really appreciative that four days, five days before election, he found time for us.Big news there.
The second block, well, since it's an election, let's not go, why not go to one of the party chairs, the Republican National Committee chairman.
Michael Whatley will join us and give us his take on how things are going, where we expect problems in America, where we expect surprises, where the RNC chairman is in terms of his own confidence level.Will Republicans do well or not?
Are the polls right?What should we be looking for?How is the election integrity battle going?
The RNC has won some really big lawsuits, most recently in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, which is one of the bellwether counties of Pennsylvania, battleground state.
It got three extra days of early voting because people were not able to vote in time because of long lines and delays.That's a win for making sure every vote counts, making sure it's easy to vote and hard to cheat.That's a big win.
And of course, the RNC, the Trump campaign and Governor Glenn Youngkin in Virginia all winning in that epic story.We're going to have Jason Mayoris on tomorrow.He's the attorney general from Virginia.That'll be a big interview as well.
So back to back today, Mike Johnson and Michael Watley.That is a really great conversation. All right, folks, we're going to take a quick commercial break.We'll be right back after these messages.
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Together, we'll protect America's future. A couple of things that have caught my attention in the news or in developments today, the insult game keeps happening for Democrats.
These surrogates for Democrats keep finding a way to offend Democrats or to step on Kamala Harris's message.Bill Clinton did it when he said the border administration was ... The administration's border policies led to Lake and Raleigh's death.
That's the young woman who was killed in Georgia, a college student. He said that in Georgia.That was hard for Kamala Harris's campaign, a surrogate gone astray for her strategy.
It happened with Barack Obama, who said, if you're a black guy and don't vote for the black woman, you're not black.Well, that didn't really work out well.That received a significant amount of repudiation.You know what happened on Tuesday.
Kamala Harris had to disown her boss's comments. Joe Biden, when Joe Biden suggested that followers and supporters and voters for Donald Trump's campaign and Republicans were, quote, unquote, garbage.
That's, of course, what led to the garbage truck episode in Green Bay, Wisconsin yesterday.Well, it happened again today.Mark Cuban, television celebrity, major entrepreneur and billionaire, he called women who
dare to support Donald Trump to be weak and dumb.Boy, that didn't take long for the Republican candidacy to respond.
The Trump fans campaign putting out a statement saying, this is extremely insulting to the thousands of women who work for President Trump and the tens of millions of women who are voting from these women are mothers and entrepreneurs, industry leaders, and they are indeed strong and intelligent, despite what Mark Cuban and Kamala Harris say.
The negativity, the mistakes of the negative nature of the entire Democrat campaign, the mistakes by the surrogates, continuing to be one of the subplots of this election.
Again, it's going to be close no matter what, but unforced errors four or five days out, well, they're kind of like the errors that the New York Yankees
made last night when they blew a five-run lead and lost the World Series to the Los Angeles Dodgers.By the way, congratulations to my co-host, Amanda Head.She's a Dodgers fan.She's got something to celebrate.I'm a Yankees fan.
I got something to mourn for the next year.We'll see what happens and where we are.Another important measure, and I think this is such an important conversation in America,
Democrats are saying there's no reason for Americans to be upset about election system.
And the more they say that, the more they criticize people who have concerns about it, the more people are gravitating towards the idea that they don't trust their election system.
Perhaps addressing the issues instead of criticizing the concern would yield greater confidence.But the Rasmussen Reports has a fascinating poll on election integrity, and it really had some top lines to it.In fact, I think one of the
most important lines is that nearly half of supporters suspect election officials are involved in cheating.I mean, the people who are supposed to administer a free and fair election might themselves assist cheating.And that is really remarkable.
A majority believe if any of those do do that, that there should be criminal prosecution and punishment for election officials who help others cheat.
But the idea that nearly half, I think it's 49% of the voters consider the possibility that an election worker might be an election cheater, that is a real problem.Now, I don't think That's worthy of every election official.They don't deserve that.
But the idea that that lack of confidence that exists, well, it's because of what's happened.The Justice Department trying to stop non-citizens from being purged from Virginia's rolls.
The efforts to keep finding non-citizens showing up on rolls and criticism when you actually prosecute one of them, which the left has done.
A recent one happened just yesterday where a foreigner was found to have voted illegally in Michigan, but they're not going to actually remove the vote from the rolls.
They're going to let the vote count even though the person cheated, criminally cheated.That is the sort of things that are driving people nuts in the in the debate about this very important campaign.So, the story there that I think is important.
Now, the last one I want to get to is a story that I broke this morning with my good friend and colleague, Stephen Richards, a newly revised diversity, equity, and inclusion strategy, DEI strategy for the Central Intelligence Agency.
Yep, our top spy agency promises to put diversity at the center of promotion decisions and to codify it so that it can't be taken out of the CIA's mission by future presidents.
In other words, make the CIA impervious to presidential orders when it comes to DEI, something that a lot of people think is divisive in America.You were going to have a good discussion about that recently.
This is a direct quote from one of the top CIA's officers, the person who oversees diversity inclusion in the CIA.We see it as the core of our mission.
Wait a second, isn't the core of the CIA's mission to catch spies and to stop threats and to keep America safe, not making sure there's an equity of outcomes in hiring a CIA?It does seem a little over the top.
Fred Flights, who's a former CIA analyst and national security official, said that the
he told Just the News when we went over this extraordinary document with him, that this philosophy is dug in quite deep with our government, including at the Central Intelligence Agency.They're not promoting or hiring, giving bonuses based on merit.
They're using quotas.They're using DEI to promote political outcomes.We're going to have that interview with Fred Flights in the coming days, a really important conversation.He's such an important voice.Expect that tomorrow.
All right, that is a big story.DEI is embedded in the spy agencies.And by the way, some of the spy agencies have traced DEI to China and socialist and Marxist enemies of the United States.
It kind of makes you wonder, why would the CIA incorporate something that our enemies like to see Americans embrace? It's a question for all of us to think.This story is really important.
If you want to read the documents, if you want to listen to the recordings of what these CIA officials actually said at a public agency official meeting, go check them out.They're most enlightening and I think also most important too. read.
This indoctrination of the federal government, it's getting far and wide and pervasive, and we're exposing it.The real question is what will happen to it.We'll ask Mike Johnson about that in the interview we're going to have in a few moments.
So, those are the top headlines that have trending at the At the Just the News right now, we have a lot more over the night, so keep an eye on them for sure.One of the fun stories that is on the side, I just want to shout it out.
Ben Whedon, my great political reporter, did a great job tracing the Democrats' long-term embrace of intolerance and insult from deplorables to garbage.The Democrats seem to like insulting people and creating a culture of intolerance in their party.
Some of that actually flows from the DEI philosophy, the oppressor oppressed. I think DEI, of course, at the root of anti-Semitism, many experts say, some of them have been on the show, but go check out that story too.It's a good read.All right.
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All right, folks, welcome back from the commercial break.We have a very special guest.He really doesn't need any introduction, but we're going to give him one anyways.
The 56th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives is joining us right now.Speaker Mike Johnson.Mr. Speaker, good to have you on the show, sir.John, great to hear your voice and be with you.It is good to be with you.
I know how busy you are.You're out on the campaign trail trying to get every Republican across the finish line.Five days out.How are you feeling?
I feel really bullish, John, and it's based on my own observation.You mentioned I've been campaigning, and I mean everywhere, brother.
By the end of this week, I will have led campaign events in over 250 cities across 40 states, and I've been doing this for many months.That's a lot of travel.Yeah, a lot of travel.
And what I've seen with my own two eyes, what I say is not based on pollsters or pundits.This is my own observation.
i'm i genuinely believe we're going to have an historic demographic shift in the collection i mean i think when all the analysis is done on the other side of this uh... they will see that we had a record number of hispanic and latino voters for example come in the republican party a record number of uh... black and african-american voters jewish voters union workers mean people who have not traditionally been in our camp are
coming now.And the reason is because they're desperate for change.And they know the unique thing about this presidential contest is that both of these persons have had an administration.This isn't theoretical.
And people are comparing just what President Trump always begins with.Are you better off four years ago?Were you better off now than you were four years ago?And of course, no one can answer that question affirmatively.
And they know what life is like under Harris and Biden, and they know what it was like under Trump.And I think that has a big effect across the board and all the way down the ballot.
And I believe we're going to win unified government with Republicans back in the White House and control the Senate, and we grow the House majority.So we're excited.
You feel pretty good about the possibility of a sweep.You mentioned Hispanic voters.The new president of Univision was on the show just two days ago, and he said, I am certain now that Hispanics are no longer a reliable Democratic bloc.
They are shifting and they're being driven by issues.And in this election, the issues and the solutions that have been offered are moving Hispanics to Republicans.
The contrast between Republicans who have had lots of ideas and Kamala Harris and the Democrats who tried to do the rope-a-dope and not really describe to people what they would do.Has that been a big factor on the trail when you talk to real voters?
a big factor it really has and you know hispanic and latino voters are just like everybody else in the that they're so fed up and fired up about the cost of living and rising crime rates in all the communities and you know the weakness we projected on the world stage it was just got this into the most dangerous situation since world war two uh... that they're very very concerned obviously about the open border as well and you know if people in the hispanic latino community
if you immigrated to this country lawfully you or your parents grandparents uh... and you can you see people jumping a line just running right into the to the country and getting on taxpayer benefits and all that it's infuriating to you know it it's um... it's not just it's not right and people feel that acutely went when the border was open wide and we had more than by my count sixteen million illegals come in the country
a lot of times they wind up in Hispanic and Latino communities and neighborhoods, and they're overrunning the area.A lot of these people are dangerous criminals, as President Trump has pointed out, and it's ruining these areas.
They're draining public resources.And so there's just a lot of frustration about all that.And then also on top of that, remember that Hispanic and Latino voters,
are very family-oriented uh... many of them have had deep uh... religious traditions and beliefs and they see the democratic party abandoning all of these sort of foundational principles and they've had enough and and i think they have the same frustration everybody else does and i think that's why they're coming into our camp now our challenge will be going forward and i think this is a a great problem an exciting a moment that we have the challenge is that week we gotta do it reagan did after nineteen eighty
When this happens, we'll have to warmly embrace these new demographics and persons who've come into the tent and ensure that they do understand why they're there and why this is a great decision.
Because our policies are the ones that lead to human flourishing.Our policies are the ones that restore law and order.Our policies are for sovereignty and secure borders and all the rest.And we deliver that.
I think we'll hold this coalition for a long, long time.
Yeah, that's really a big opportunity here.You can see it in the data that there is a shift that could be generational if Republicans embrace it.There's been a really interesting closing argument for Republicans.
When I talk to real voters, they really get it.In the last maybe five or six days, you, President Trump, everybody has been on this message of Democrats broke it, we're going to fix it.And that seems to be resonating.
Yeah, it is an all-Republican sweep, like it looks like, and like you suspect.What is the top priorities for Congress to begin fixing the things that Democrats broke?
Well, I wish we had time for my two-hour slideshow on the topic.Let me give you a quick summary.There's a lot to fix.There's a lot to fix.Right, exactly, John.I've told President Trump this so many times over the last several months.
I said, Mr. President, I'm convinced you're going to have another term.And I genuinely believe that you could be the most consequential president of the modern era because, sir, we've got to fix everything, you know, and he knows that and we do.
And so we don't put the cart before the horse, but we do have to be prepared to lead.And so for the last year, since I've had the gavel as speaker, we've been working to methodically develop
Forgive me, I'm from Louisiana, so we explain everything in hurricane or football metaphors.We've been working to develop a well-designed playbook, right?And we are going to get the metaphorical football handed back to us in January.
And we're going to begin to run those plays with precision.
And so to do that and to have a good game plan, it takes a lot of planning, takes a lot of practice, takes a lot of, you know, uh, working with your players to make sure everybody on the, on the metaphorical field knows their role, their position, and that they're ready to run those plays.
And part of this was in candidate recruitment.You know, we went out to be very deliberate about, uh, making certain that we're bringing people in who.
uh... know what they're doing and they're very credible and competent and they'll be good players on the field so this is a a multi-pronged uh... very you know complex sort of operation that we've been working on so what's on that agenda will look i mean very quickly on day one i mean i think within the hour of president trump taking his oath of office he'll issue an executive order to secure that border will come behind that with legislative action to to to secure it seal it up
And then we'll work on having to deal with the fallout of everybody who was allowed in.And that's a whole agenda thing.
But immediately after the border secured, um, we go to the economy because the cost of living is, is unsustainable, unaffordable, and we know how to fix it.We've done this before.
Remember we had a Trump administration and we brought about the greatest economy in the history of the world.We learned a lot of lessons.Then he learned a lot of lessons.Then we're going to do that.And then some, so you're going to have,
an extension of the Trump era tax cuts.But the big thing, I think, and the thing I'm most excited about is taking a blowtorch to the regulatory state, because the agencies are completely out of control.They're weaponized.
The bureaucracy of the federal government is too big.It does too many things.It does almost nothing well.And we have the government's boot on the neck of job creators and entrepreneurs and risk takers, and we've got to remove that.And so we can.
We know how to do it. And I think that will unleash the free market again and usher in a new pro-growth economy.Energy policy will be at the center of this because it's important, not just for the economy, but even national security.
And so you'll have a lot of different components to, to what that looks like.Meanwhile, Elon Musk is saying he really does want to come in and do the department of government efficiency didn't lend his hand on that.Howard Ludnick.
That would be a huge thing, wouldn't it?Oh brother.I mean, I'm so excited about this.And, um, He's a really busy guy, but he's really, really dialed in on this.And so I think you'll have a very talented and committed cabinet.
I think we'll have new leaders at the heads of all these agencies and you'll have a sort of a whole-of-government approach when Republicans are in charge of all three levels of power.And I'm bullish.I believe our pet states are ahead of us.
I really do.It's not a talking point.So we're excited about that prospect.
When you look at the reorganization of government, the opportunity for both efficiency and savings and also getting the regulatory fiat reduced, are shrinking agencies and moving some things to block grants and trusting cities and states to get the policies right an option that Republicans will turn to?
yes yes and and in addition to that uh... removing the agencies from washington i mean there's a lot of talk about uprooting you know these these entrenched bureaucracies and putting them out elsewhere around the country and so uh... that that accomplishes a lot of uh... of of important uh... it goes on but but the first would be that you don't have you know all these career civil service law protected bureaucrats some of them have been camped out of the agencies for decades their nameless faceless we don't know who to hold accountable
Um, the idea is if you move the agency to, you know, northern Kansas or Southwest New Mexico or wherever it is around the country, then some of the swamp dwellers will not, uh, they will not desire to follow the job to the new, less desirable location.
They love the swamp.You know, they want to, they'll, they'll turn them into lobbyists or something to stay in DC.But then, then you have a business reorganization proposition.
You've got agencies that you can scale down because you have empty cubicles and lots of these, all the, almost all the agencies are bloated and inefficient. And so you can scale that down.
And then the cubicles that you do need to fill, we've had America First Policy Institute and some of our other think tanks that have been working to develop a notebook full of highly qualified, previously vetted, limited government conservatives who have expertise in these areas.
And they can be a prospect list of persons to fill those cubicles.And then on top of that, John, as you and I know well, the Supreme Court overturned the Chevron doctrine. Right?So we have a once in a lifetime.Yeah.
Once in a lifetime opportunity to really claw back article one authority to the legislative branch and the constitution and, and, and have an administration that is, um, in tune with that whole agenda.
So look, I just think there's almost unlimited potential in front of us and we've got to seize that moment.And if we win this election, as I expect, we will, we'll have that moment.So we're going to be prepared to leave.
Do you have some specific agencies that you start with?Is the education department on there?Is it, you know, small business administration?Imagine if that got closer to mainstream because it was actually right alongside the people it's supporting.
Do you have some favorites that you think you would start with early in the process?
Yes, those are top of the list.I mean, there's also all the agencies that are involved in the implementation of the Green New Deal madness, you know, have to be scaled back.I mean, we've got to just take all that down and what they've done to our
energy policy and security and how they've limited us in so many ways.
I mean, one of the things, when I became Speaker of the House, I've developed all these relationships with my counterparts around the world, our allies, you know, speakers of the other parliaments and leaders and prime ministers.
And our allies around the world are desperate, for example, for our LNG exports, right, liquefied natural gas. Biden and Harris inexplicably turned off the spigots, literally paused LNG exports.
It makes no sense because what happens is our European allies, for example, have to go to Vladimir Putin to get their energy needs met, to get, you know, natural gas.And the product that Russia produces is far less clean than what we do here.
They've made it more dirty here.I know.Exactly.And it's, it's terrible for, uh, so, just some, we're just going to restore common sense to the equation and, and stop all the green new deal mandates because they're crushing like the auto industry.
And, you know, every, all these facets of the economy, um, it, it just makes no sense.And so restoring common sense to that equation, I think is the first step.And it's going to be very important thing that we do.
That's an exciting proposition.I think Americans are ready for a little common sense.They've had four years of insanity, and it just feels like the world is spinning out of control.
And that sort of common sense framework, I think, is going to make a lot of people feel comfortable with the changes that are about to happen in Washington. I want to turn to something that you and your team have worked on extensively.
We've done a lot of reporting on it here at Just the News because it's important to us.ActBlue, one of the largest fundraising machines ever built in the world, $16 billion raised over the last two decades by its own admission.
There is some serious concerns about money laundering that Chairman Brian Stile and Chairman James Comer have put together.
This week, we just learned a couple of days ago that the Treasury Department has informed Congress that it has hundreds of suspicious activity reports related to activities surrounding Act Bloom.
Bring us up to speed on why you're concerned about this and what you think Congress may ultimately find.
Yes, this is going to be a big story, as you know, and thank you for giving it so much attention.I think very soon everyone will have to, John.As usual, you'll be ahead of the curve because this is a massive scandal.
Look, the last cycle alone, Act Blue, I think they raised $2.2 billion for Democratic candidates on that on the website.And it's a low dollar fundraising platform that is a juggernaut.And we've been having to contend with it for some time.
Now, we've had suspicion for a long time.Something is amiss.Well, now the evidence is coming forward.And yes, the federal government, the FBI is investigating now.You've got suspicious activity reports.
But we have anecdotal evidence that we've gathered just on our preliminary investigations through the House Republicans, through the House Admin Committee and oversight. that, um, this is very widespread.
I mean, what they've done is I think my theory is that they're taking money from foreign nationals, primarily, probably Iran, Iran and Russia, China, Venezuela, and they're breaking down the donations into smaller gifts and making it looked as though these are, you know, this wave of new donors, American people that are, that are doing this.
And I don't think it's true.And, So we've sent out subpoenas now.We want to know about ActBlue's donor verification policies.Clearly, they're not doing this well. I think some of it may be intentional.These are all allegations, right?
They'll be investigated and proven, but this is a massive, massive operation.We started a website.Some groups aligned with us started a website.Yeah, this is exciting.Yeah, checkmydonation.org, okay?
And I would encourage all your listeners, just take a couple minutes.Go to checkmydonation.org.You can type in on an advanced search your name and your address or your zip code or whatever identifiers you want to put in there.
and just to see if maybe you're an act blue democratic party donor right uh... i've done this as an informal experiment with small groups have been in the last two weeks their hits in every group on them and and john i'm with lifelong republic yes yes i'm with lifelong republicans okay and they have no idea that their names and addresses are being used and assign these supposedly small dollar donation
They've been very broad in their approach on this, apparently.I mean, the lawsuit was filed three weeks ago.Yeah, in Wisconsin, right?Yes.Herman Cain's campaign chairman.Yeah, Mark Block, he came on the show.What a crazy story.
Right, like, you know, and so they've been almost indiscriminate about their use of people's names and addresses.They haven't done any homework or seemingly didn't care.They didn't think anybody would pick up on it, but now they are.
uh... i think it's a massive scandal a massive story and it's something we'll be talking about for a long time our problem is that in the immediate challenges they have raised record amounts of money i mean it's almost inconceivable how much money's come in that's why we suspect that this isn't right there's going to be an adjudication of all this i think people ultimately go to jail these are crimes of course fraud but uh...
whatever happens right now, I've got to contend with the avalanche of cash that they brought in.And so what this has meant to us is that in some of the closest house races around the country, they're outspending us almost three to one.
And we can't figure out how they're because we're setting fund record fundraising records.Yeah, that's right.You're doing better than ever.Right.Right.Right.But it's not enough to contend with people who are breaking the law.
And so, you know, I think I think somewhere at, you know, liberal high command, they made the decision like, well, the benefit outweighs the risk.
We'll have a couple of fall guys that will go to jail eventually, but we'll have this avalanche of cash and maybe we can win the election. they'll never be able to unwind the results.I mean, it's very serious.It has huge implications for the country.
It's really remarkable.Has there been anything that the Gang of Eight or the intelligence communities have been able to shine light on about why those four countries, whether they've seen money, whether they've been aware of it?
Obviously, if the suspicious activity reports have been around, somebody in the Biden-Harris administration knows about it.
Well, you know what's interesting?I mean, I'm the Speaker of the House.I'm privy to You know, a lot of all the top level information, obviously, but this, this was not a subject of discussion until we brought it forward.Okay.
They, they didn't voluntarily bring this to us.We're the ones that had to drag it out and we had private groups and organizations.We had our own investigators that we hired through the NRCC.
People started looking at this and that's what brought it to the surface.Oh yeah.Oh yes, you're right.By the way, there are suspicious activity reports, you know, um, If they ever made that available, I didn't know about it.
Nobody brought it to my attention.We had to do it in reverse.
I can't find anyone who knew about it.I mean, I know law enforcement have known about it, but no one in the Congress, which is crazy.Crazy.Absolutely crazy.
We had a gut feeling, you know, but now we know the evidence is being gathered and these subpoenas and what they yield is going to be very interesting.
Yeah, there's no doubt about it.If it's turned out that, well, you already know Iran tried to assassinate President Trump and put orders in place to do that, hacked him.
Is there anything that Congress would contemplate for a foreign power that has tried to meddle in this election?Those are four big countries that Congress has a suspicion about.
Would Congress itself take some actions to make sure that the penalty for intrusion is higher and a good deterrent in the future?
Yes.And I think there'll be a big appetite for that.And I would hope that would be bipartisan.You know, I mean, this is
this has serious implications for the country and uh... we've got a insurer free and fair elections obviously the top priority if you don't have that and a constitutional republic you really undermine everything and and that there's real concern right now i mean i everywhere i go i mean everywhere john around the country almost without exception when i go to audience questions and these big forums all over the country first or second question almost every time is about election security
It is a big thing to the people because of recent experience, and they just don't trust it.And if we don't restore trust in that, we're in big trouble as a nation.So I do think we've got to contend with these foreign adversaries and make it serious.
You won a big victory, as the Republicans did in Virginia, though, being able to actually remove and enforce the law that's on the books and remove non-citizens who admitted they're non-citizens.
They weren't trying to get on the books, but a judge didn't want to keep them on the books.How important was the Supreme Court's ruling yesterday?
Robert Hagstrom The huge, huge.And I sent a note to Gwen Youngkin, the governor over there, right after it happened.He's a good friend.And I said, thank you.Principled leadership makes all the difference.
I wish that it would inspire more governors around the country to take affirmative steps to ensure that we do have this, you know, clean voter rolls.
I mean, our big concern for, we've been talking about this for many months, is that you're going to have non-citizens trying to participate in the election.
And the reason for that is that it's obviously against federal law for non-US citizens to vote in US elections, but some of the states have not been enforcing it, which is why we passed the SAVE Act.
Um, out of the, uh, out of the house and they died on Chuck Schumer's death, but that would require the States to request proof of citizenship and, um, and the Democrats killed it.
And so that tells you everything you need to know, but it's up then it's then up to the governors to use their executive authority.To just follow common sense and follow the law.Glenn Youngkin did that and the Biden DOJ sued him to stop it.
I mean, it's crazy.You can't make this stuff up.Yeah. So, the Supreme Court said it right.That was obviously the right result, and I think it's a really important step, and it sets an example for everybody else.
It sure does.Sir, I know how busy you are.I am so grateful for the time you made for us today.Such important conversation.People are gonna get a good sense of what a Republican Washington may look like in a few days.
Great honor to have you on the show, sir.Thanks a lot, my friend.Keep up the great work.I will, sir.You too.Thank you so much. Wow, what a great interview.A lot of news there.
Federal bureaucrats in Washington, you might get deported to the middle of this country.How about that?Think about the outsourcing of the government back to closer to the people in America, middle America.
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All right, folks, welcome back for the commercial break.If you've been reading just the news, you've been seeing just an avalanche of very significant election integrity victories for the Republican National Committee.
Opportunities to keep open and make it easier for people to vote and to stop things that would potentially look like cheating.Today, the U.S.Supreme Court ruled that Virginia can, in fact,
eradicate 1,500 people who admit they're non-citizens and not eligible, can take them off the voter rolls.That's exactly what the law was intended to do.But for some reason, the Biden Justice Department didn't want to let that happen.
And then a few hours after that very significant ruling, a second ruling driven by the RNC itself, is going to allow for three more days of early voting in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.Why?
Because the lines have been long and the processing has been slow, and that could have disenfranchised a lot of voters in one of the most important bellwether counties in America.
We're very lucky to be joined by the man who's behind so many of these very important preemptive election victories.It's important to challenge things before Election Day, not after.
He's the chairman of the Republican National Committee, Michael Watley.Sir, welcome to the show.Congratulations on quite a string of victories.
Well, thank you, John.We're really excited.You know, when you think about kind of the template we put together is we want to make it easy to vote and hard to cheat.And so we've got two really big decisions today that hit both sides of that coin.
And very, very excited about the Supreme Court.And, you know, really, the fact that this case had to go to the Supreme Court is really pretty troubling.The fact that the Biden Department of Justice
sued Virginia for following Virginia law, for following federal law and saying that non-citizens cannot vote in an election, is really, you have to ask yourself, why?
Why did they put down that marker and go to the mat to try and force Virginia to put 1,600 people back on the rolls when they've admitted that they're not U.S.citizens?Really very, very troubling.That just shows you
the politicization, the weaponization of the Department of Justice time and time and time again.
The fact that the trial court judge was a Biden appointee, the fact that they had a, you know, a three-judge panel that was led by Democrats at the Fourth Circuit.
Thankfully, sanity reigns at the Supreme Court, and we got a really good rule there for Governor Younkin and Jason Meares, who done a really good job on so many issues.
Absolutely.You know, when you look at Pennsylvania, really, we saw a number of counties that were making it harder for people to vote.They have they have an interesting system in Pennsylvania.
They have absentee voting, but you are allowed to absentee vote in person. You know, we call that early voting in most states, but they call it in-person absentee voting.
And, you know, for them to have the lines that they did and then the you know, the state commonwealth, you know, the commonwealth, the secretary of the commonwealth, you know, put out an order saying that those facilities had to be open until five five thirty last night and that anybody who was in line had to be given the opportunity to get a ballot and cast a ballot.
And for some reason, Bucks County said, no, we're going to shut it down around 2, 2.30 in the afternoon.You know, really troubling.So we filed that lawsuit and very glad that the court agreed with us that that was problematic.
So I think it's important that that we're going to fight for the right of people to vote pursuant to the law in Pennsylvania and that the court agreed with us that Bucks County was violating the law
You know, we spent a lot of time being criticized for, you know, we're trying to suppress the vote.No, we're not.We really do want to make it easy to vote and hard to cheat.
Yeah, you have.And you've opened up so many important discussions and dialogue.And you did it before Election Day.
The difference I've covered politics for 30 years now, the difference in the RNC since you took over and before that time is just really palpable on so many different fronts, whether it's early voting, where there are historic waves of new voters
is entering the system through ground game that the RNC and other private groups have been doing, or adjudicating disputes before Election Day instead of trying to put the toothpaste back in the tube after Election Day.
The RNC just has had a tremendous run, even the mainstream media acknowledging a lot of these victories.There's a mindset change and I think earlier is better, smarter and quicker is better, and it seems like it's really across the entire party.
Now it's seeping across the party.Trump campaign, RNC, really has changed the mindset of the Republican Party, hasn't it?
It really has.You know, what we learned the hard way as a country in 2020 was that if you bring this type of action after the election has been certified, there is not a court in the country that's going to take it.
So when we looked at the rules, the laws, the regulations in every state, What we saw, we didn't necessarily like.What we want are basic premises, right?Only American citizens can vote.You have to have a voter ID.
We want states to clean up their voter rolls.And in those states that have mail-in balloting and absentee balloting, we want basic protections in place.And you've got to go out and get that done in front.
The fact that we're winning in Democratic states like Pennsylvania, that we're winning in Democratic courts like Michigan,
The fact that we're winning in federal courts, we're winning in state courts, I think really shows you that we are trying very hard to get the states to comply with their own laws.And that we're making very reasonable requests.
You know, I always say that this is not election denialism.This is not conspiracy theory.You know, these are basic protections that 70, 80, 90% of all American voters, including Democrats and Independents agree with.
Yeah, it's such an important mindset change.And you're right.I think the victories point out that you're not throwing spaghetti on a wall.
You actually have very specific arguments that courts of all different persuasions and different levels have all accepted pretty regularly.The RNC's winning record way better than the Democrats right now.
And that's an important bellwether when people try to decide, are these legitimate issues or illegitimate political issues?I think the RNC has a very strong record. There is also a big difference in the surrogate programs.
And you have these incredible surrogates that are out wowing the crowd.Brett Favre is out in Wisconsin right now.He's a legend in football in Green Bay.That's a big moment.And you've got Elon Musk and Bobby Kennedy Jr.and Tulsi Gabbard.
And they've all not only brought star power, but they brought very consistent messaging.And then the Democrats have Joe Biden,
stepping on Kamala Harris's unity message with the garbage comment and Bill Clinton acknowledging that Lake and Raleigh would probably be alive if the Biden-Harris administration did its job.
And Barack Obama saying, if you're a black man and vote for anyone other than Kamala Harris, you're not a black guy.It's been a really difficult surrogate program for the Democrats.
Talk a little bit about how that's changed some of the momentum in this race.
Well, Donald Trump has really, truly built a campaign as he calls it, a common sense campaign, where what we're talking about are the issues that the voters care about, right?
And the voters really, truly care about things like restoring our southern border, rebuilding our economy, and making sure that America is strong enough to protect our interests at home and abroad.
You know, the Democrats are fighting to put boys and girls sports and men and women's locker rooms They're fighting to have an open border policy where you can have tens of millions of illegal immigrants, you know, coming across the border.
And it's not enough just to let them in.We're going to, you know, give them free tuition.We're going to give them free health care.We're going to give them driver's licenses.
The next thing you know, we're going to make them citizens and let them vote.You know, these are positions that are just not popular with the American people.I think that it says a lot about Donald Trump.
that we've seen Tulsi Gabbard, we've seen Elon Musk, we've seen Robert F. Kennedy Jr.join this campaign, join the movement, really truly to make America great again.
And very exciting to be able to see and work with these folks on the campaign trail and to focus back in on what is actually going to help this country, what is going to help every American family.And it's a common sense approach
to solving the problems of the country.
The fact that Democrats are going to these sort of extents, and there are new reports today, I think CPAC filed a complaint in Wisconsin of some alleged irregularities of maybe some harvesting going into the ballot boxes.
You've got in Michigan a non-citizen caught voting, but they're not going to remove the vote from the tally.And then you've got all these efforts to keep non-citizens on voter rolls when the laws in those states say they can't.
Does it give you some implicit thinking about the Democrats thinking they can't win under the normal rules, so they're trying all these side gigs?
When you see the Democrats going to the mat to keep illegal aliens on the ballot, to take away protections from mail-in balloting, to try and put lock boxes or drop boxes in place instead of mailboxes, to try and allow ballots to come in after election day, even if they're not properly marked or postmarked, you have to ask the question, why?
And it really is not, that they're trying to make it easier to vote.The American people are very happy to have voter ID.Voter ID is supported by 85% of all Americans.
You know, the Americans, 90% of all Americans do not want non-citizens to vote in their elections.So, but they continue to fight and fight and fight on these things.You got to ask the question, why?You know, what is it that they want
uh, to try and accomplish.Um, and, and, you know, there really are not a lot of reasons, uh, that, that are legitimate, uh, in terms of explaining their behavior other than, uh, they wanna weaken protections to prevent cheating.
It's really amazing, too, because a couple of years ago, the Democrats and Stacey Abrams tried to suggest that what Georgia was doing would disenfranchise voters.
They got the Major League Baseball to cancel the All-Star game in the great city of Atlanta.And then they got rejected by the courts because their arguments didn't work.But an amazing thing has happened in Georgia.
It has the highest voter turnout it's ever seen.I think a half million new voters just already in early voting this year.Three consecutive elections of high voter turnout.
when they had voter ID installed, it kind of debunks the whole argument that the Democrats were making, right?
It really does.You know, and for Kamala Harris to suggest that, you know, that that any part of our population cannot get an ID is is really, truly a very weak kind of argument that we see on this.So, you know, we're we're excited.
I think that, you know, what we have tried to do here
is build a program that is based on common sense protections and really kind of keep our focus on making sure that we are winning these lawsuits and that we're going to, you know, ensure everybody that they're going to have their vote count.
You know, if we have 1% of Republican voters who say, you know what?My vote's not going to count.You know, they're going to cheat.They're going to take it away.They're going to cancel it and stay home.That's how we lose, right?
because the flip side to election integrity is get out the vote.You know, when Laura and I took over the RNC back in March, you know, I made a promise.We're going to do two things.We're going to get out the vote and protect the ballot.
It is a real important part of getting out the vote that people trust the system.They trust that their vote is going to count and that their ballot is, you know, frankly going to be protected.
And, you know, right now what we're seeing all across the country is our get-out-the-vote efforts are working.You know, Donald Trump is an unbelievable turnout machine as a one-man machine.He is able to do that.
But our efforts to drive out low-propensity voters have really, we're seeing the results of those efforts right now.
And the turnout that we're seeing in Arizona, Nevada, North Carolina, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan is higher than we've ever seen
And it's also at the same time, we're not cannibalizing election day because we are turning out new and low propensity voters in record numbers.
It's pretty amazing to see.And it looks a lot like the 1980 Reagan effort, which I think was in an older era and a different era.
We didn't have early voting and a lot of digital opportunities really put a ground game together that shocked the Democrats.And I think the parallels between 80 and 24 grow every day in so many ways, including the messaging of the two candidates.
I want to turn to one other question of cheating that has become more and more serious every day.Nineteen attorneys general are investigating Act Blue and suspicions of straw donors or smurfs, as they're now called in the modern era.
But Congress has had two major developments in the last 24 hours.
Late yesterday, James Comer, the chairman of the House Oversight Committee, sent a letter to all of his colleagues saying, the Treasury Department has told us they now have confirmed they have hundreds
hundreds of suspicious activity reports involving transactions that evolve around ActBlue.
And then today, Brian Stile, the chairman of House Administration Committee, working with James Comer said he dropped subpoenas on ActBlue saying, it's time to turn over your records and tell us, do you know that there's a problem?
Have there been warnings?Are there some warning signs?Those two developments are pretty important.Tell us why ActBlue is an important discussion for everyday Americans to know about.
Because ActBlue is a conduit for billions of dollars in campaign funds that are going into campaigns.And, you know, there are legitimate concerns about the safety of those dollars that are coming in.
The fact that we have lots of different entrances across the country where donations are being tagged to individuals, they're being credited to individuals. who turned around and said, I did not make that donation.
I don't know what you're talking about.It makes you wonder where is that money coming from?Where are the donations coming from?
And ActBlue itself has basically refused to have the security protocols in place to be able to find out where that money is coming from, that it is acting as a conduit to go through to those candidates.
And, you know, I think it's tremendously important that these attorney generals and these chairmen in the House are initiating these investigations to take a look at it.
And look, if ActBlue is doing everything above the board and it's not being gamed in properly, then great, we'll figure that out.
But if it is acting as a conduit for the, you know, type of, you know, illicit donations that are being talked about right now, that needs to end and we need to make sure that we clean the system up.
Yeah, it's so important.And of course, the Democrats have a history 30 years ago.In 1996, they were caught cheating with the Chinese money that was laundered through then old-fashioned straw donors.
So, there is a history that I think a lot of Republicans are worried might be repeating itself. Last question for you because I know how busy you are and how tirelessly you're working every moment.
As people go into the voting booth these last few days, they got, I think, three questions.One is, am I better off than I was four years ago?Clearly, the answer seems to be no in the polls.Is this the sort of America I want to live in?
I think people say no, not when you're talking about men in women's sports, boys in women's locker room, and illegals roaming the country and criminals let out.But the third question I think is, what sort of leader do I want now?
And I think in the last week, the change in tone, how Kamala Harris has basically become a name-caller all day long, and Donald Trump is constantly saying, I can fix this, and we got an idea and a plan, optimism versus negativism.
Has that become a bigger and bigger question in voters' minds as the tones of the campaigns have changed?
It really has.I think if you're going to boil this entire election down to one question, the question is, do you want strength versus weakness in the president of the United States?Do you want a strong country?Do you want a strong community?
Do you want, you know, a strong economy for your family?Because on every issue that the voters are saying is important to them, those issues, Donald Trump is carrying the day on all of them.
And so it is, you know, in a position right now where he is leading in the polls in every battleground state.They're small, but they're very durable leads.I think that we've seen them over time.He is now leading in the national polling.
And, you know, so there's a lot of conversations coming out of Labor Day where people typically start to pay attention to the campaign.They start to pay attention to the issues, and they compare and contrast those candidates
Donald Trump has a record of success.Kamala Harris has a record of failure.Donald Trump has a record of strength.Kamala Harris has a record of weakness.
At the end of the day, the American people, as they go into those polls, are going to have to ask themselves, do I want a strong community and a strong country or not?
It's such an amazing question and such an amazing environment in which it is occurring in.
Every day you've been standing up for people with voices, whether it's the voters turned away in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, or those who are trying to find a solution for the issues in their life.North Carolina, hard hit by hurricanes.
You and the president were there for them.The former president, Donald Trump, obviously were there for them.It's an amazing time.And I know you said Americans want to vote for a leader who's a strong leader.
As president, I think Republicans wanted a strong leader as chairman, and they got it in March when you took over, Mr. Chairman.You deserve a lot of the props for the successes that have occurred.And congratulations on what you've achieved so far.
Well, I appreciate that.We are less than a week out from Election Day, and we need every single one of your listeners all across the country to get out there and cast that vote.It is not enough to shout at the TV.You have to deliver your vote.
And then we need them to go have 10 five-minute conversations with friends, family members, colleagues, co-workers, people from their church, but have a five-minute conversation with those people.
Tell them how important this election cycle is and that they have got to commit to get out there and vote.And when that happens, then we're going to have the movement that we need really, truly to make America great again.
Yeah, that's exactly it.Well, sir, it's a great honor to have you on.I know how busy you are, but to get a few minutes is certainly valuable.Thanks for joining us today.Yes, sir.Thanks, John.Thank you so much.All right, folks, that wraps up.
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