Trump Goes Scorched Earth on GOP, Fox News

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So I I have a question for you, everybody. I know President Trump next Tuesday is going to be making the big announcement. Everybody thinks he's going to be running for the White House. That's the general train of thought here. which is why he literally is trying to destroy every other conservative, every other popular conservative in America.

But I I just want to throw this out there because it's been gnawing at me. Like a pit bull gnaws on a pork chop bone. This has been gnawing on me, ladies and gentlemen. What if Trump doesn't run? What if the whole point is that he's not going to run?

What if that's what's really going on here? You think this is all some big trick Todd? I don't normally join in, but that's a pretty big thought there.

So I had to say something. I don't know. I mean, everybody thinks he's going to run. Everybody is anticipating that he's going to run. Everybody's ready to declare war on the MAGA world.

But what if at the end of the day he says, you know what, I just want to be the kingmaker? But then, why is he taking shots at everybody? And that's the question. I don't get it, folks. This has got to stop.

It's got to stop. We get it. He wants, you know, it's all about Trump, and we get that. And a lot of people love and respect the fact that it's all about Trump. But my question is: is it really helpful?

And is he helping himself by going out there and trying to destroy Ron DeSantis? I mean, it's no longer just the nickname Ron DeSanctimonias.

Now it's this man would be nothing without me. And Trump is making the same argument now with Governor Glenn Youngkin. Yeah, as a young voter, it turns me off. I'm like, nope. I'm done.

So, because you're a big Trump fan. Yeah, I like Trump. I mean, I've voted for him. I would vote for him again if he's the choice. If he's the nominee.

Yeah, if he's the nominee. I'll vote for him. No problem. But no, this is ridiculous. I mean, as a woman, it really turns off, I think, all the suburban moms because he's just so obnoxious and such a narcissist that I'm like, can you please just shut up for five minutes?

It's like now he's now and now he's trying to talk. He's telling people, he's not trying to tell people, he's telling people Glenn Young's Chinese. His name sounds Chinese. Jong King. Jong King.

Why is he making enemies? That's what I just don't understand. He's not Chinese, by the way. We checked, and he's not. He's American.

Oh. But what gets me is not so much Trump. Trump will say this. This is why it's dangerous. There are some people out there, and they believe that President Trump is Jesus Christ with good hair.

Okay? That's what there are people out there, and they truly, everything Trump says is the gospel truth. And if you deviate from the Trump agenda, just a smidge, you are crucified. Wow, the biblical, I've got to make sure we don't commit sacrilege here. But there really is a large segment of the conservative movement that feels that way.

And they don't believe Trump can do any wrong. They don't believe he has anything to apologize for. And anybody who decides they're going to run against Donald Trump is a liberal.

So there are actually people out there right now in this nation who are conservatives, who believe that Ron DeSantis is some sort of a leftist plant, a globalist, and And they're going to be saying the same thing about Governor Glenn Young: that he's really a Chinese plant. He's a Chinese spy. But people really believe this stuff.

So here's my question. And then there are others like, oh, Todd, he's just joking. He's just joshing. Really? Do you believe these are jokes?

Do you believe that he's just palling around with Ron DeSantis? I mean, he blew Fox News out of the water. And I will say this: what Trump said about Fox News is 1,000% accurate. Oh, by the way, welcome to the Todd Stearns Radio Program. We're very happy to have you with us today.

Folks, it's just mind-boggling what President Trump is doing here. And a lot of people are just puzzled and they're frustrated. And my question is this. Is what Trump is, what Trump is doing right now. Do you find that to be helpful?

as a voter, do you think that Trump is going to be able to attract Democrats and Independent voters with these sorts of attacks? And we've got to have a conversation about this. Because folks It is going to get ugly. And we've got a lot of battles we've got to fight. We have wars that we have to wage.

One of them being. Against the McMorons. And I'm talking about Mitch McConnell. I'm talking about Ronna McDaniel. And I'm talking about Kevin McCarthy, the McMorons.

We got to go after those guys. They've got to be removed from their leadership positions because they have endangered. The Republican Party. And they are no friend of the Conservatives.

So we can't fight that fight if Trump is out there trying to destroy Ron DeSantis, who, by the way, up until a few days ago, was the next generation of Trump conservative. It makes absolutely no sense to me.

So now you've got, there are so many different battles being waged here, and I'm going to do my best to try to lay all of this out for you and to help you understand what's really going on here.

So, ultimately, just big picture here: everything that's happening in the media, everything that's happening on Fox News, everything that is happening within the party leadership, they are trying to destroy Donald Trump. All right.

So, that's the big picture here: they're trying to stop Trump from running in 2024. And that's why you're not hearing Republican leaders out there standing alongside Kerry Lake and Blake Masters and Adam Laxalt. That's why you're not seeing them out there fighting the good fight. And the reason why is because they want Kerry Lake to lose because it hurts Donald Trump. They want Adam Laxalt and Blake Masters to lose because it's going to hurt Donald Trump.

They want Kelly Chapaca out in Alaska to lose because it's going to hurt Donald Trump.

So, this is all about ensuring that Trump does not run.

So the question is, is Trump helping himself by jumping in and attacking DeSantis and Yunkin? 844-747-8868. That's her toll-free telephone number. That's 844-747-8868. Yeah.

And then you've got all of these Republican establishment types, and they see this as the opportunity. They believe Trump is a wounded animal right now. But I don't believe he is. Because keep in mind, they're still counting votes. And why are they doing that?

Folks are dragging it out. They're taking their time. Florida, what, the third largest state in the nation, they were able to count all of their votes in one day. And you're telling me that Arizona can't do that? You're telling me that these smaller states like Nevada, they can't do that?

Of course they can. But they're dragging all of this out. And the reason they're dragging all of this out Is they want you to forget that the Republicans are on the verge of taking control of the House and the Senate. Yeah. Don't forget, just think about this for a moment.

We're living in a moment in political history. Where you have Joe Biden celebrating the election when he lost. The Democrats are going to lose control of the Senate. They're going to lose control of the House. And here's how Joe Biden is handling it.

He's celebrating. And meanwhile, the Republicans are in mourning. There's a lot of nasty stuff happening out there. I want to go to the phone, so we're going to take a lot of your calls today on this. Yeah.

This is a pivotal moment. Hear me. It's a pivotal moment, everybody, for the Republican Party. Let's go to Statesville, North Carolina, WSIC, Mike on the line. All right, Mike, what say you?

Well, Todd, here's what I think. I love President Trump. I worked for him very hard to But I think if we look at the really odd and interesting outcomes of a lot of these elections, I think there is a lot of anti-establishmentarianism toward Washington all over the board. And I was interested in these some of these things that show that A lot of people are just not happy with any of them, Biden, Trump, Pelosi, the whole crowd. I found it interesting in the Arizona race how many people voted for independence.

And the Libertarian Party, or didn't even vote for President. Look, if we had those votes or have those votes, we've been winning that race pretty easy.

So, as much as I love the President, there comes a time that maybe you step back and let some other people with a little more. Broader view, and I'm not saying that the current Republican leadership shouldn't be changed. But I think the big tent that Newt Gingrich and Ronald Reagan kind of had enthusiasm in positive direction. really attracted a lot of people who might not normally Vote for us, and I think that's what we need to take a real long, hard look at. And I love Ron DeSantis, I think he'd be a spectacular president, and I think he would really.

Pull the Republican Party up, and I hope. our former President will see that and not drag himself and his family through. if he runs what's just going to be a brutal, horrible uh You know, attack on him the whole way. This is going to be a bloodbath, and I'm afraid that everybody could get slaughtered by this. And my question is: will President Trump be able to attract independent voters and especially Democrats?

I mean, we're going to need all of those votes if we're going to win in 2024. Can he do that? Will he take advice from From the politicos. Will he listen to that advice? And so far, he hasn't.

Todd, he's driving away Republicans. I mean, I've got And and I'm not one, but um we have a lot of moderate Republicans who kind of you know bluer on the environment and you know, some of these other uh social issues and things and Um he's just polarizing and and I know good Republicans who are So not only do I think he won't be able to attract independents and Democrat. Remember, he ran against Who could be worse than Hillary Clinton? And even though I believe he got a bad deal out of that, I still think that a guy you look at the DeSanto's success in Florida. This is just stunning.

And you look at, and I think there's a will in the Democratic Party. It's really interesting that this guy in Colorado, who was a moderate Democrat. The woke crowd got rid of him in their primary, and now it looks like we're going to get that seat. I think there's people in the Democratic Party who are tired of how far left they're getting dragged. But they want to see a moderate Republican Party, a Ronald Reagan.

They want to vote for a contract with America. They don't want to. Vote for pounding tables and calling people names. You see, I disagree with you. I don't think they want a moderate Republican.

I think they want a conservative Republican Party. When you look at the Republican agenda, it is a conservative agenda. Unfortunately, we are electing people who are moderates who don't want to abide by our conservative party platform, Mike. Yeah, no, do we need the name-calling? No, there's a time and a place for it.

But I don't think the American people and I don't think conservatives are going to be able to handle 24 hours of name-calling and killing ourselves. These are, man, we're about to kill our party over friendly fire. That's what bothers me. Yeah, when I use the term moderate, I don't mean necessarily liberal on voting ideas. But I think moderating our language, being able to reach out to people and understand their perspective.

Look, Newt Gingrich, I used to go to Washington a lot for the outdoor industry. And Newt and his staff, and I had all these tree munchers with me. I was the only Republican out of 30 of the leaders in this group. They were so welcoming. And so nice.

And this is where we come by and wave to everybody. Tell everybody how much he loved animals. Even though he might not agree to live on their agenda, he really, a lot of those people walked up and said, you know, you Republicans aren't so bad after all. I think there's just a tone and a way of being moderate in how we conduct ourselves that opens people's minds to see why the conservative agenda is what's best for our country. That is sort of what I'm saying.

Mike, got a run. Appreciate that call. Folks, I will say this: the mainstream media, it doesn't matter if the nominee in 2024 is Donald Trump or Nikki Haley. The mainstream media will treat them like Adolf Hitler. They will say if Nikki Haley is the nominee, they'll call her a female Adolf Hitler without the mustache.

That's what they'll call her.

So again, we cannot pacify the media. They're always going to hate you. But hear me. There are people out there, and I hear this in the Memphis, Tennessee area. Oh, Todd Starns is the owner of a far right radio station.

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So, again, folks, you've got to be careful out there when you hear the left talking and using all of these words because they're all charged and it's offensive. But I'm telling you. We better have a come to Jesus meeting with all of the leaders of the party right now and get this figured out. I'm curious, whose side are you on here? Are you picking a side, Ron DeSantis?

Donald Trump Glenn Younken, whose side are you on, ladies and gentlemen? 844-747-8868. That's 844-747-8868. This is the Tod Stern Show. There's no doubt the nation is facing a financial crisis because of the Biden administration's economic policies.

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All right, just got an email in from one of our listeners, Vicki. She says, Todd, President Trump has a great record to run on. He doesn't need to tear Ron DeSantis down. We will need Ron one day as president. Trump needs to focus on himself and what he has done.

That's all. That's all. Give everyone a break from the election process for a little while. There you go, Vicki. Vicki, I hear you, and there used to be a nice break.

We would get a year off from the campaigns, but those days are long gone. The presidential election is going to kick into high gear on Tuesday. All right.

We're going to go to the phones after we get back from the break here. I want to give Tom and James plenty of time to weigh in. And by the way, James has an interesting suggestion for the next president of the United States. What about you, ladies and gentlemen? Yeah.

Do you believe that Ron DeSantis, and again, nope, Ron DeSantis has not declared, neither has Glenn Young. Who would you like to see run for the White House in 2024? 844-747-8868. That's our toll-free telephone number. That's 844-747-8868.

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Also, Tony Perkins from Family Research Council. Our good friend Martha Zoller is going to drop by from WDUN in Georgia. I'm actually heading out on the campaign trail over the next couple of weeks. I'm going to be out there helping, doing what we can to help Herschel win that big Senate race. And to that point, why is it that Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy and Rhoda McDaniel are not in Arizona and Nevada right now?

Fighting like Fighting like our lives depended on it. to stop the steel down there. Every single day, every single day that we don't have election results is another opportunity for the Democrats to grab those races. All right, let's go to the phones here: 844-747-8868. I want to go to Paul in Salem, Oregon on KYKN, our great affiliate there.

Paul, what say you?

Well, Todd, I've been thinking about President Trump and had a lot of respect for him. And I've been struggling with some of his comments, specifically around Our Florida governor. And I felt like the spirit spoke to me this morning early, about three o'clock, that. I see, John. I see Trump is kind of like John the Baptist.

He lived in the wilderness, he was all alone. He wore can he wore strange clothes. He act so That was a physical appearance, but Trump's got this thing about him where I I compared him to uh John DeBassett because John DeBassett was the first person that called fake Fake news, fake news. I mean, he called the Pharisees, he opened them up and exposed them for what they really were. and nobody liked him for it.

But they appreciated what he did because it exposed the reality of the spirit world as opposed to the flesh. And now that Trump has been out here in the wilderness and fought all these battles, I found myself being critical. And I felt I felt corrected because Don said, What did you go out here to see? Did you go out here to see a reed tossed about in the wind? A weak man.

This is a strong man, and God used him. And I don't believe there's another person, including DeFantis or anybody else. that could have fit that role at that particular time. But, Paul, we're not talking about 2020 or 2016. We're talking about now.

And the question is: should I mean, and again, Ron DeSantis has not declared. I mean, do I know if he's going to run? I don't know. But Trump is out there, and he has a scorched earth policy, and he will try to destroy these men. He will try to do it.

Yes, I understand that. And I think not having experience You know, John the Baptist was the last prophet in the Old Testament. Trump is a transitional person, and I'm basically speaking to believers. who need to understand the spiritual concept that's at work there. Trump needs to experience the grace of God, and he's not there yet.

He's in transition. He's a friend of the kingdom. But not a bride of Christ yet, I don't believe. But God's bringing him to that. And the church needs to support him, not in his Mannerisms necessarily, but in the spirit.

And they need to distinguish themselves from the body of Christ. Stop yelling. Why are you yelling at people, Paul? I'm sorry. I don't mean to yell.

I'm in my truck, so I'm not sure. No, you're fine. You're fine. But, Paul, again, I am hard of hearing.

So forgive me. Paul, let me jump in here for a minute.

So they told us early on that, you know, and all of the big evangelical leaders that Trump was, in fact, a born-again Christian. James Dobson came out and said, No, this man has had a conversion experience. I saw it for myself. I don't know. That's between President Trump and Almighty God.

But I don't want us to get lost in the bull rush here to continue the biblical analogy. I think the issue is whether or not. Trump needs to be destroying all the rest of the Republican competition or the men and women that he perceives to be his competitors here. I'm not sure that's a good look for the president. I'm advocating for, Todd, is that the believers would approach this and their support of Trump Would approach it from a spiritual perspective rather than a purely political perspective because I have political.

Desires too, and I'm in conflict over his responses. I'm in disagreement with that. that if I if I If I approach my prayers for Trump and for our nation, purely on the basis of my political position or my disdain For the style. I'm going to miss the real work of the Holy Spirit, which I think needs to be done, and that's where we have lacked for a long time as a church. All right.

Well, so again, Paul, we're not going to get into a sermon here, but I think I see your point. And again, it is, I don't know if it's fair to make that spiritual comparison to Donald Trump because, again, I don't know if he's a Christian or not. Everybody says he is. Everybody says he had the conversion experience. But if that's the case, then that.

That would raise other questions as to why he is doing this. I mean, really? Comparing Glenn Yunken to a Chinese guy? I mean, come on.

Well, to me, Todd, what you're saying, you're validating, and this is for me, I'm not. I didn't call in this morning. It was just on my mind. But I think that's one of the problems: it's incongruent. What he's saying is incongruent with faith.

It's incongruent with Okay. I hear you. And you're absolutely right. And Paul, I hate you this, but we've got to run. Appreciate your time.

Yeah, is Trump John the Baptist? I mean, is that the comparison here? I mean, I think I get where he's going with this, but I don't know where we are right now. We're in a weird place. in Republican politics.

Are we the Trump supporters out there now telling us there is no one but a Trump, no one but a Trump can ever represent us? Pierre, is that what is that the message we're getting here now? That's that's an odd place for us to go. I find it hard to believe that people truly are out there believing that. Ron DeSantis is some sort of a a closet liberal.

I really do. Let's go to Tom in Pennsylvania, listening to us on KWAM. Tom, your next senator, a fetterneck. How about that? Oh my god, I still can't believe it.

But I thought that had to do with the debate. You know, people a lot of people voted before they got to see that debate. Plus I don't trust Pennsylvania elections anyway. He knows what went on in Philadelphia. Go ahead.

I'll tell you. I think President Trump was probably the best president since George Washington. I mean, I really like him. I love what he did for the country. But this stuff he's doing now, I think.

I don't know. why his personality beats him to think he has to be terror. Good people down. to make himself look good. People know what he did for the country.

They know where his heart is. There's no reason to tear down Ron DeSantis or Glenn Yonkin To get himself reelected. If he's going to get reelected, he's going to get reelected on the merits of what he did. Not by Woody. says about Rhom does the announcement one yonkin.

And that's a real turnoff for me. I mean, I've been behind them 100% until this morning when I heard that. It's weird, Tom, and he doesn't need to do that. I mean, we need, you know, Donald Trump's already been in the White House. He needs to have that air of being a statesman here.

He doesn't have to put on the boxing gloves and knock out the competition like he used to. I think, like he did back in 2016. I think that he, you know, a lot of us believe he is the heir apparent. And I suspect a lot of these candidates do as well.

Now, that being said, the establishment wing of the party is looking for an opportunity here.

So, yeah, there are a lot of people lining up to take out Donald Trump. I just think these are forced errors, and he doesn't need to be doing this right now. I agree with you one hundred percent. Like I said, everybody knows what he's done for the country and what he would do if he gets reelected. That's what you ought to concentrate on, not telling us why Ron DeSantis or Glenn Youngkin shouldn't be the president.

We'll decide that. We know what he can do. I just think this is really hurting him doing this. I do too, Tom. the sannest and yonkin what the Democrats did to him.

And, Tom, I will tell you, not vetting some of these candidates that got endorsed, I think that is hurting the president in some of these races. And again, these are unforced errors.

So, all right, Tom, appreciate the call. Thank you for listening. Let's go to Tina in Georgia, WDU, and our great affiliate there. Tina, what say you? Hey, Todd.

I have a crazy, crazy thought about this that maybe Maybe DeSantis is going to be at Mar-a-Lago on Tuesday and Trump's going to kind of announce with him that he should run, that DeSantis should run.

Well, that so that would be that would be fascinating if that happened. But again, why go out there with the nickname? It's like Trump is almost if that's if that's how that's going to happen, Trump is giving the opposition all of this intel, you know, the nickname, the attacks that came out yesterday. Yeah. But Mohl's with a huge ruse.

I don't know. It may be. I I mean if it were that he'd have all the Trump supporters behind him plus plus everybody else, DeSantis would, that is. Could be. You know what, Tina?

Here's what I honestly, but here's the issue. And Governor Huckabee actually made a good point yesterday. He doesn't need to announce just yet. Let's wait until after the Georgia Senate race. We saw this happen once before, Tina.

And what happened? Georgia went Democrat. And you had President Trump out there and the Trump allies telling people not to vote, and they didn't vote. Republicans stayed home. They listened to Trump, and they stayed home, and we got a Democrat.

By the name of Raphael Warnock. In the Senate.

So, my recommendation is get Youngkin, get DeSantis, get Trump, put them all on a bus, and let's unify the party right now. We need some unity, and we've got to stop this Biden agenda. That to me is more important than who's running for the White House in 2024 right now. But it would be nice if they would sort of co you know, not co-run, but be supportive of each other. Yeah.

Trump could be there, but I don't know if he can. I don't know. You know, that's an interesting take on it, Tina. You know, another angle is: let's make Trump Speaker of the House, and then he becomes a kingmaker. We give him a memorial, a monument rather, on the Washington Mall, and maybe he is that elder statesman.

That'd be great too. Yeah, and again, if he's the nominee, you better believe I'm going to be out there campaigning for him because I love his policies. Right. But if if Trump stumps for DeSantis, that would be the best case scenario, I think. Um agreed.

I completely agree with that. Tina, thanks for the call. Let's go to Charles in North Carolina. Charles, what say you? Hey, good afternoon, Todd.

So I'm just speechless about what's been going on the last twenty four to forty eight hours with Trump and some of his comments. Um You know me, and I'm one of the biggest Trump supporters there is. I've been to his rallies. I was at january sixth. to hear to hear and there.

And I get why he wants to be the nominee. He feels like he was robbed of an election in 2020, which I firmly believe that he was. And he wants another bite at the apple to finish what complete his agenda, and I get that. And I would support him in that.

However, That being said, Todd. What he's saying about Ron DeSantis And when young, he just needs to shut it. Ron DeSantis and Glenn Younken are not his political enemies. They are his political allies. And Ron DeSantis, in my opinion, is just a younger version of Donald Trump at MAGA.

I mean, the man has character, He explained. Does what he says he's going to do. He he's a great governor, and one day I think he'll make a great president. But Donald Trump needs to realize that his political enemies are Joe Biden and the Democratic Party. And maybe some of the rhinos in there, like Mitch McConnell and people that the Mitt Romneys.

But I just think he needs to shut it. Uh apologize if he if he's capable of doing that. Uh it's the analysis. Just try to pull the the party along. uh and and be statesmanlike and you know just be statesmanlike to try to win over independents, some Democrats, because With name calling, he is going to pull the party down and he's going to commit political suicide.

That's my opinion. Here's the problem, Charles, and hear me on this. We're already in the middle of a civil war. It's the establishment versus the conservatives.

Now, Trump is in danger here of unintentionally dividing the conservatives and pitting the DeSantis-Young crowd against the Trump crowd. And when that happens, the establishment Republicans are going to be able to walk in and control everything. And we've got to be careful of it. We've got to unite. That's the issue.

Charles, I've got to run for a break. I'm late here. 844-747-8868. That's our telephone number. That's 844-747-8868.

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So we'll wait and see. We'll wait and see what information we can get on this particular story. All right, let's get to the we have full lines here, folks. Hang tight because we're going to get to all your calls right after the top of the hour news.

So don't hang up. Let's go to Mike in Oregon, K-Y-K-N. Mike, what's on your mind? Oh, hi, Todd. I'm talking about the Trump DeSantis issues.

And the young men uh young ken I'm a strong Trump supporter, and the bottom line is he deserves a run at the next election for all that he's done for the country and all he's went through. And I would definitely pull the trigger for them to vote for him. But this this name calling It's childish and a big turn off, too. And it's a turnoff, especially to women. He should be smart enough not to go down that road, and he doesn't need to.

If he does go down that road, I can promise them, you just shot yourself in the foot, and you're going to lose Republican vote. Mike, it's an important thought you're raising here, and I would like to hear from our female listeners, ladies, is this a turn off for you, all of these attacks? Here's what I would love to see happen, Mike. This is a man who did save our nation. Donald Trump did do that.

And I'd like to see Ron DeSantis and all these other folks who are thinking about running holding a press conference and say, you know what? Yeah, we're going to run one day, but this is not our turn. We stand behind this man. Donald Trump. He's the guy that saved our nation.

We believe he deserves a second chance. Let's see what happens here, guys. It's a weird time in America. It really is. We're going to get through it, but this is just bizarre.

All right.

Phone lines open 844-747-8868. Hour two coming up. Andy Biggs on the way. And your calls on the Todd Stern Show. Live from the Liberty University Studio in Memphis, Tennessee, it's common sense conservative commentary from Todd Starnes.

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Hello, everybody. Hour two of the big show. Good to have you with us. I am Todd Starnes. We still do not know who controls The Senate or the House, but can I let's just get real here.

Of course, we know. Of course we know. But what's happening right now is that these Democrats are slow walking the vote because they want to let all the air out of the Republican balloon here. When it's all said and done, we may be looking back and we may discover that it was not a trickle, but it was a wave. And that the Republicans, in fact, not only control the House of Representatives, but also the U.S.

Senate.

So we're still looking at four, we're looking at four races. We're not going to know about Georgia until December. A couple of weeks to go in Alaska, but they're counting votes, still counting votes in Arizona as well as Nevada.

Meanwhile, President Trump is on the warpath, and he is targeting Glenn Youngkin, by the way, who now says Glenn Young is Chinese. We actually checked, and Yunkin is not Chinese. He may like Chinese takeout, but he is not Chinese. President Trump also attacking Ron DeSantis and calling, I mean, it's pretty awful the things that Trump is doing with DeSantis, calling him an average Republican who would have lost without his endorsement, accused Ron DeSantis of being disloyal by not publicly denying a run for president in 2024. And keep in mind, I mean, we didn't know how things were going to go in that Florida governor's race, but.

If the race had been close, Trump coming out and blasting DeSantis before Election Day, calling him DeSanctimonious, I mean, that could have had a significant impact in that race. But anyway, Trump is trying to clear the deck so that he can run unopposed for the Republican nomination. Yeah. And Trump is scheduled to make that announcement. On Tuesday.

My question here, ladies and gentlemen, is all of this turning you off? From Donald Trump.

Okay. You have a chance to sit down and you have a conversation with Donald Trump. What do you tell him? About all of this. 844-747-8868.

We're going right to the phones here. Let's go to Forrest in Statesville, North Carolina. Forrest, what say you? Hey, Todd, how are you doing today? I'm well, thank you.

Great, great, great. Just an average guy here. I've got children and grandchildren and got more involved in politics in the last few years than I ever had before in my life. Um I used to be able to vote in an individual rather than a party, but there's so much extremism on the left side now that you can't vote for somebody who thinks it's a good person if they have the deep inside their name.

So that's the state of the world we live in. As far as Trump goes, I was I voted for Trump. I'm a Trump supporter.

However, he got to realize that He is a businessman, a shrewd businessman, very well educated man. And he is in it to win it and He he oversteps his boundaries sometimes. No one raises up the Trump name more than Trump himself. He's his own best cheerleader. And that's the good thing about it, but the bad thing about it is You need to be a little more humble if you're going to be a public servant, and that's what all politicians should be.

I think he's really messed up by going after DeSantis. Uh I don't think Trump can win First of all, I don't think he would win the Republican nomination if people just talk and think that, hey, There's people in this world that are going to vote against Trump, even though he did a great job as a President, have no problems with what he did on policy side. but their hatred for Trump is so much greater in their love for the country. They would vote for Satan if Satan was running as a Democrat. Just because I don't want Trump in.

That's just my opinion. Forrest, you're not kidding about that. And I will point to my hometown, Memphis, Tennessee. We're controlled by Democrats. I mean, we are a deep, deep, dark blue area, Shelby County, Tennessee, West Tennessee.

And we had a lady running for the Shelby County Clerk's Office. She was running for reelection. She's literally destroyed the clerk's office. She is despised by everybody. Nobody can get their car tags.

People are waiting hours and hours in the heat to get there, you know, to get whatever they need from the clerk's office. And Forrest, she won in a landslide for reelection only because of her skin color and the political party she belongs to. Yeah, I mean, that's the state of the world we live in. It is. When you have the small, like the AOC, they they call them what the the the AOC and whatever they call it group or the squad.

Yeah, the squad I I I refer to 'em as the squids 'cause they're they're they're sl slimy people to me, the way the way that they get away with some of the things they do. Uh but they're controlling that party. Uh it it's it's not Biden's policies, it's whoever's feeding Biden, and and he's just their puppet, and and I imagine if you had sit down and talk to Biden, he's probably a nice guy to talk to. I'm sure he is. But as far as moderate Joe and uniting the country, Joe, that guy's long gone.

That's long gone. He's just doing whatever they want him to do. It's a socialist agenda. And but Again, you've got to take the money out of the politics. We've got to stop spending $203 million on these races.

There needs to be a limit set for each state and each party. Say $100 million for the Democrats, $100 million for the Republicans. This is what you have to spend on your airtime. Make it even across the board. Because when you've got people that are So far left, like these George Soros groups, and they want to put money into these elections.

in from California, New York. to affluence Georgia coming up, for example, they're going to have a whole lot more money than the Republican Party is. Herschel Walker is going to probably get outspent for the one in that state because the blue-collar worker can't afford to send in the kind of money that these guys are sending in. Yep. No doubt about it.

It's not a fair and balanced election. All right.

Fars, appreciate the call and good thoughts, and we appreciate you. Let's go to James in Minnesota listening to us on our KWAM app. James, what's on your mind? Hey, Todd, Donald Trump is the greatest President the United States ever had. I will never.

ever support him again. Um you know, he he just, to me, established, improved What Donald Trump is about is Donald Trump. I don't believe he gives a squat about you, me or anybody else. It's all about ego and power for him. And I think he just proved it.

I was a supporter of him until last night and this morning, whenever I heard his ridiculous assassination of DeSantis, And Yunkin, why would you pick on Yunkin, my gosh? Uh to me, that's less like obscure. Anyway, The person I'd love to see for president. Cary Lake. She's the most popular politician America.

Well, I will say this. Carrie Lake, well, we've got to make sure she can get she's actually gets appointed governor. I mean, again, she's won, but every single day they delay this. James, the Democrats have a better shot of stealing that race. That's the only thing that's happening right now in Arizona.

But even if she doesn't win governor, that makes her even a better target for president. May I just say this? I'd like to see her govern first. I really would. Honestly.

And when you look at Glenn Young, guess what Glenn Young did? He showed people the path to victory. He's the guy that got out there and fought alongside these school boards. He showed other Republicans the way. And so I say I like Glenn Young.

I like Ron DeSantis. If I had to choose between those two, I would probably go with DeSantis. I think he's probably a little more conservative. But either one does not deserve to be blown up by President Trump. There's no need to do that right now.

At this point, I want to see a primary, and my dark horse favorite is Christy Noam.

Okay. And she won by landslide, by the way.

So there you go. James. Thanks for holding on. Got to run for a break, though.

So thank you, and God bless you. And Hope things are going good for you there in Minnesota. Eight four four seven four seven eighty eight sixty eight. That's our toll-free telephone number. Let's go to Chattanooga, Tennessee.

Our good buddy Mike from Nougaradio.com, our great affiliate out in those parts. Mike, what say you? Hey, on the Nuka Radio Network, you're my favorite talk shows. Thank you, sir. It's Todd Starns, dude.

Listen, I'm going to oppose what this guy said. I love Trump, Bob. I think Jefferson. Was probably a better president than him. And I put Reagan at number three, Trump at number one.

The fact that the the left has meltdowns when they mention his name. I you know what? Come on, you're in politics. these guys can't take and saying the sanctimonious and Yeah, get over it. The Democrats are going to never elect a Republican.

Very rarely does it happen. when one comes to their senses after they've they they've got medication or have repsychotherapy. And they vote for a conservative. It doesn't it's never about the man. It's not about Biden.

It's not about the new governor of Penn of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. It's about the policies. Half of America deals from the working class. And they're the individuals that are on some sort of bureaucratic Bureaucratic gravy train, whether they're elected or hired. And they're always going to vote their pocketbook to steal from the working Americans.

And they're called Democrats. You gotta be a you know, you gotta they gotta put their their big boy pants on. And with Trump, everyone has a meltdown. I will support him if he shoots five people outside of his Trump hotel. just to see the Liberals melt down.

That's what I want to see. They all melt down when his name is mentioned. Oh, it is true. And here's where it comes down. Nothing's really going to change.

The cabal, as we know, are the Republicans and Democrats that control trillions of dollars. But what Trump will do is melt them down. He will melt them down, and that's why I support him. Mike and his policies. Mike, good thoughts here.

And we're going to have to end on that. We've got to take a break, you know, they yell at me all the time here, Mike. It's terrible. But I'm always late for breaks. We've got to take a break.

Hang tight. A couple of lines open. 844-747-8868. We're going to be talking with Congressman Andy Biggs. This is the Todd Stearns Radio Show.

All right, folks, welcome back to the Todd Sterns Radio Show. Let's go to the Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line. Great to have with us. Our good friend, Congressman Andy Biggs from Arizona. Congressman, congratulations on your win, and I hope you're doing well today.

Thanks a lot, Todd, and I'm doing very well. Uh within reason.

Well, I suspect I know why, and I'm just going to go ahead and rip the band-aid off here, Congressman. Why is it that Arizona can't count its votes on Election Day? We've got some weird processes out there.

So we have a massive amount of early ballots. that we don't quantify with I D, right?

So So that's always a problem and um There are still over 300,000 is my understanding of those that were dropped off on the day of that have to be counted. We had a huge a day of turnout, which should not have impeded this. And for whatever reason. The uh Maricopa County elections officials Um Couldn't get their act together in 30% of precincts. Had bad printers.

Going. And since they print your ballot when you get there to the polling places. You know, people got dejected, people got in long lines, some people never even came out because. They didn't want to wait in long lines and then not be able to vote. I mean, it became a bit of a nightmare.

It's an embarrassment and a black eye on the st on the great state of Arizona.

Well, at the end of the day, who do you think we're going to see in the governor's mansion and win that Senate race? You think Kerry Lake's going to be able to pull it off here? I do, Todd, because Um most of the ballots left Are from Maricopa County and the Maricopa County day of and late, what we call late earlies. Are all breaking Kerry Lake's way. They're breaking the way of the Republicans.

So Hopefully, and a little bit further behind is Blake Masters, but I think he still has a legitimate. Um and even um a real chance to catch up and win. And what about Blake Masters? Yeah, yeah, I think, yeah.

So Kerry will catch up and win, for sure, in my mind. But Blake, I think he's got a legitimate chance to catch up as well. Good. Go buy. Little bit longer shot, Todd, than Carrie, but I think he can do it.

The big problem I have is with Republican leadership. I know people are trying to blame all of this on Trump. What happened on Election Day?

Well, we still don't know what happened, and that's the whole point of this: let's wait, get all the votes counted. I mean, there very well could be, it could be that Republicans take the House and the Senate. And if that's the case, a win is a win is a win, Congressman. It is. And I mean, we were promised a red tsunami, and we had a red trickle.

You know, very small breaker coming in, but I think we take I'm sure we'll take the house. I'm very confident we're going to take the house. And we surprisingly still have a legitimate shot to win the Senate. But my issue is, where are Kevin McCarthy? Where's Mitch McConnell?

Where's Rhonda McDaniel? They ought to be boots on the ground in Arizona and Nevada right now fighting tooth and nail for the candidates. And we haven't seen them. No, I don't know where they are or what they're doing necessarily. And that's that's part of the problem with the um Okay.

A purported leadership team of the House and the Senate. Congressman, do we need new leadership? in the House and the Senate. In my mind, yes. Yeah.

Who would you like to see?

Well, I'm not going to put a target on anybody's back. I mean, there are some great Uh candidates uh in over here in the in the house, particularly I mean, who doesn't love Jim Jordan, but I don't want to put a a target on his back, you know? And there are some others over here that would be great. I mean, Lucky cut. you've got a lot of people who are very capable, very successful, who are great leaders who could come and rally and rescue this.

And And quite frankly, Todd, this is the most monumental time To come into the leadership of the House of Representatives because it It will set the tone. for the twenty twenty four presidential election. And we all said it and I w and I certainly meant it. The election in 2022 is represented the salvation of the country or the dismantling of this country. And it also lays the foundation of where we're going to be for a generation ahead.

So So we have to have the right leader, and we need to I think there's some people that can do it. I mean, this Washington Post story that came out back in September where they did a deep dive, McCarthy was apparently using a lot of campaign money to fight against conservatives and supporters of the House Freedom Caucus, that quite frankly should disqualify him from leadership, if not this notion that he's seen nothing that Biden has done that would be worthy of impeachment. Yeah, I mean, those are things, Todd, that I agree. Those are some of the reasons I don't think that he is. the guy to lead us into the into the future.

Because attack I I get it, you know, he didn't want HF Hale's Freedom Caucus guys to win. But you don't put money against them. But but then this notion that That we're not going to fight. When you say no impeachment for Biden, no impeachment for Maorcus. Um Uh and It makes me question the commitment to the oversight Yeah.

And the impeachment, the things that have to happen, Todd. Congressman, unfortunately, we got to leave it there. We appreciate your insight. Congratulations on the big win. And, you know, you'd make a great House Speaker, sir.

Thank you, Todd. Appreciate that. We'll be right back. All right, welcome back, everybody. Good to have you with us.

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Hi, AJ. Hope you're doing well today. I am fine. How are you doing today? I am well.

Thank you for asking. What's on your mind?

Well, you know, I'm really. I'm really disappointed in Trump and his behavior. I voted for him before, but I won't again. I think he's divided our party. And the pro reason I think is 'cause these people believed everything they heard on the news about Trump.

No matter what Trump did, it wasn't good. I said so. I mean, when people will vote for Biden instead of Trump because they hate him, I mean, this is not good. And I think now that he's going again declaring war on Ron DeSantos, this is horrible. And I just don't think he's going to make it.

I don't I think we should come up with somebody else, and Trump should go home. I think the issue now, AJ, is, okay, we know that Trump will need to gain some ground. Let's just say he's the nominee, every Republican votes for Trump. He's still going to need some votes.

So what is he going to do? How has he changed his behavior on the campaign trail that would attract independent voters? Or if the country is so far gone, is that enough to cause even some Democrats to vote for Trump in 2024? I don't think they will. It's going to be a gamble.

It will be a gamble.

Well, I you know, I've worked the polls, and the Democrats are going to vote Democrats no matter what. And I don't foresee where they're going to vote for a Republican, let alone Trump. AJ, great words. We want you to give us a call back one of these days. I like the way you think.

And a lot of people are thinking like that, folks. They love Donald Trump. They just don't get these attacks on DeSantis and Youngkin. All right, I want to go to the Patriot Mobile newsmaker line. We are honored to have just a wonderful guest with us.

I've had a chance to meet her a time or two at some of the big CPAC gatherings. Rebecca Webber is the Chief Executive Officer for AMAC, and I am a proud member of AMAC. Rebecca, hope you're doing well today. Hi, Todd. Great to be with you.

Rebecca, I was reading on the AMAC website a terrific column written by Seamus Brennan, the headline: The Absurdity of the Blame Trump Campaign. Again, going back to what happened on Election Day, you got a lot of people out there trying to blame Trump, and I'm one of these people that doesn't, I just don't think it's Trump's fault what happened. You know, Todd, we knew that Trump's endorsed candidates, if they lost, we knew that he would get all of the blame, and if they won, he would get none of the credit. You know, it's my view that Trump did not watch the twenty twenty two elections, but they are sure the major media and media pundits are making Trump look like a scapegoat. It's easy to try to get people to You know, follow the herd, single out people who think differently than you, and feed them a narrative.

And this is what we're seeing happening. We've got to remember, Donald Trump was an America first president. He brought us to energy independence. We saw tax cuts and deregulation. That's what we've got to remember.

And also ask ourselves, do we want rhino do nothing Republicans? I would like to ask your listeners, what do they think? Is Mitch McConnell? and his allies behind the blame Trump campaign. Has Mitch McConnell been serious about the border crisis and the national security disaster?

We haven't seen threats of a government shutdown. Where was McConnell's considerable power in the fifty fifty Senate to set up really strategic fights For forcing Biden to finish the wall, stopping the Department of Homeland Security from trying to censor our free speech. And then, of course, AMAC members, we've got over 2 million of them, they were really upset when they saw that he greenlighted unpopular legislative. Policy initiatives. You know, it's one thing to say we want to help Ukraine, but what about our own border right here?

And so I think we've got to remember that what saved folks like J.D. Vance, right, was at the very end when the super PAC. dumped some money into his campaign, but before that happened, he was trailing Um so I you know, I think I think it's important to remember that um That there's a narrative out there that, of course, the Democrats and the left are acting as if they've won. Look at where we are, Scott. We've got control.

We believe we'll have control of the House and possibly the Senate. And the Democrats are pretending that they won. Yeah, Rebecca, it's just ludicrous. You know, Republicans are in mourning and the Democrats are celebrating. You're like, well, wait a second, this is not over yet.

And when you look at or reading Seamus' column here, make some very good points. For example, Mitch McConnell out there publicly endorsing and supporting candidates who were clearly anti-Trump, looking at Rhino Lisa Murkowski, giving her money. He also spent big money on Murkowski, even though she voted to confirm Kentanji Brown Jackson while she voted against Brett Kavanaugh. This is an in-your-face move.

Meanwhile, you have Kevin McCarthy out there, and he is covertly and has been covertly supporting establishment candidates and trying to sabotage the campaigns. Of true conservative candidates out there. That's exactly right. And we saw that a lot of the candidates handpicked by Kevin McCarthy lost races. But again, major media knows that people know the Trump name.

The average person might not know who Kevin McCarthy is unless you're paying attention to politics, right? And even if you look at what happened, with the Oz Betterman race. I don't think it's because Trump endorsed a bad candidate. I think that seventy percent of the Democratic vote was mailed in prior to the debate. And we know that the debate was a bit debacle.

And we know that the Federman campaign really misled the public. Saying that his stroke was not very severe.

So, we're seeing this over and over again. There's definitely a structural voting problem. We've seen that. We see how the Democrats are using COVID to implement and extend a vote by mail and early voting schemes.

So, this is something that we here at AMAC are very focused about. Our members care. We had over 12,000 AMAC members who participated as poll watchers. But this is an issue impacting the entire country, and we've got to really work aggressively to remedy. Rebecca Weber is the Chief Executive Officer for AMAC.

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And keep up the great work that you're doing. You're such an incredible authority on the issues that really matter most.

Well, you're kind to say that, Rebecca. And, folks, you're going to be able to read great articles like the one I just shared with you. It is great. And you get the great discounts as well. You know, Rebecca, I just turned 55 just a couple of weeks ago, and not much has changed.

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And all the information is there. You can sign up online. It's absolutely wonderful. All right, Rebecca, we're going to leave it there. Appreciate you, and we're going to get you back on very soon.

God bless you, Todd. Thank you. Have a beautiful day. All right, you too. Rebecca Weber, everybody, from AMAC.

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We're going to take a break here. When we come back, we're going right back to the phone lines. One line open. Poor Grace is having to take naps in between commercial segments. You guys are keeping her busy today.

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What's your reaction to this? First of all, I didn't see it. And I have to be honest, I've been busy all morning. Listen, you all know me. I do not call people names.

I really work hard to bring people together, and that's what we're working on.

Well, that's what I'm saying. And I just, that's not the way I roll and not the way I behave. And I think, again, this is a moment for us to come together. All right, that's Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin, who was accused by President Trump of having a name that sounded shiny. Oh.

Oh, Boogo Gai Pan. No, he's not Chinese, by the way. He's American. Let's go to the phones. Ann in Oregon, K-Y-K-N.

Ann, what's on your mind? Thank you so much for taking my call. I love your show and really appreciate What you do to keep us informed.

So, God bless you for that. There have been some really great calls today, and I'll try to keep my comments short. But earlier today, you had said that. Trump did save our nation when he was elected in twenty sixteen, but I would add an addendum to that that really truly we need to remember that it is God who saved our nation by allowing him to be elected. And the fact that he loves to take credit for the success of others, including himself, is very dangerous to me and divisive.

Like other people have said, it just is very nauseating to have him do these ad hominem attacks, which is exactly what the left does. when they berate someone's looks or they make up stories that are ridiculous. And he got away with that kind of campaigning in twenty sixteen because You know, there were a lot of people that prayed through the night in 2016. And that was why Hillary and the left were so shocked when the hand of God moved and brought us a reprieve in Donald Trump. And he was a great President.

I recognize all the things that he did. But I fear he's treading on very dangerous waters because of pride. and loves to take credit when he should be turning people to God, if indeed we want our nation to be changed, which is why I feel like the Republican Party itself or Conservatives is in a lot of trouble. That they you know, are not willing to recognize who should get credit for the success of our country. Anyway, I feel like name calling was one of the things that was a big turnoff for me before, but I recognize that you know As President, he did many things for which I honor him, and I am so glad God put him where he did when he did.

And the Republican Party is in a mess right now, and it's been in a mess. They have been fighting Donald Trump. This goes back even before Donald Trump came on the scene. You had the establishment Republicans, and they don't like all of the evangelicals. They don't like the Christian wing of the party.

But the reality is, without the Christian involvement, and this goes back to Jerry Falwell Sr. and Pat Robertson, but really Jerry Falwell Sr. launching the moral majority, if you remember that, Ann, that's what gave Ronald Reagan the victory. And as Ralph Reed said on this very program yesterday, that if all of the Christians had been raptured on Election Day, the Democrats would have won in a landslide.

So they better, you know, the establishment needs to figure out how to work with Christians in the party, or else we're going to continue to lose these races. Amen and amen. God raises up and God brings down, and He hates pride. Humility is what He's looking for in a man, and you don't have to. I mean, there's not a lot of that around anymore.

And it's a fair point. Thanks for the call. Kyle, I want to bring in Dora from Florida and Susan from Georgia together. Ladies, welcome to the program. Hi.

How are you? Doing well. Dora, we're going to start with you. Being in Florida, what's your take on this?

Well, before I say that, I want to read a statement by William Shakespeare.

Well, let's make it real quick. There is a tide in the affairs of men which taken at the flood leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in misery. On such a sea we are now afloat. We must take the current when it serves or lose our venture.

Shout. My take is Ron DeSantis would be a fantastic Speaker of the House. Donald Trump He is a man, he's our general. We don't have to like it, but he's strategic and he's fighting the war for us. George Washington actually executed troops for the lack of loyalty.

I don't know if people know that in the Revolutionary War. Loyalty was the most prized. Uh possession of character. And Trump is a leader, he's a general. And I don't excuse his his meanness sometimes, but it's what goes with the man.

And to change ships, and midstream is a disaster for us.

Now, Dora, hang tight, hang tight. Susan, now I want to get your take on that. What about you? Hi, Todd. I want to shout out to all of our veterans and really enjoy your show.

My take is, well, first of all, I'm an independent voter. And when Trump came down the escalator the first time, I wanted Marco Rubio to be our candidate to vote for for the president.

Well, I held my nose and voted for Trump. The second go round. because of Trump's policies, I had to go with him again. I didn't hold my nose the second time. But I'm really tired of his bombastic rhetoric.

We need a President once he goes into office. To serve for eight full years. That's my take. Susan, appreciate that. Dora Wilcook, we have two seconds here.

Who do you vote for, Trump or DeSantis, in the primary? Trump All right, there you go. Dora and Susan, you had your say. Thank you, ladies. And, folks, that's the point of this talk radio program.

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So happy to have you with us on the program. Last night, we had the honor as a team. Grace Baker came down and our good friend Ben Dieter, who's the morning show host of KWAM, our flagship station. And we fed about 175 Marines and their families celebrating the Marine Corps birthday yesterday. And we were honored to watch and observe the cake cutting ceremony, which is a beautiful thing.

Met some great patriots, the oldest Marine there, 93 years old, the youngest, I believe, in his 30s. And he served in Iraq, Afghanistan, and just had a wonderful time. Grace Baker was there. And what were you starting? You were in charge of the chicken, is that right?

I got the easier of the two stations because Mr. Ben Dieter had to deal with it. With the lasagna and the string cheese, and it was very, he did it very well. With the chicken, you kind of just scoop it out and say, Here you go. It was delicious, it was very delicious.

The whole meal, and people were coming back for seconds. I was down at the other end doing the iced tea and the biscuits. I noticed you were buttering biscuits, and I thought, How appropriate. I sure was. Hey, we were piling up that butter.

Yeah, you were. We clogged a few Marine Corps arteries. It wasn't a sliver, it was like a whole hunk of it. But it was our honor, it was just our way of saying thank you. We bought everybody supper, and we love our military personnel.

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So, we've got a lot going on this hour of the show.

So, yesterday on Fox News, Fox has taken a turn. They're going to be anti-Trump. All right, that's, I just want you. To hear me, Rupert Murdoch is done with Trump. Fox News will be anti-Trump.

Fox News is also going to be anti-conservative.

So they're coming after all of us. It's not just Fox, The Wall Street Journal, the New York Post, all of the Rupert Murdoch properties.

So yesterday, they had on a former comms director for the RNC, and I just want you to hear how they framed what's going on right now in politics. Cut number three. You know, we could go back to 2010 and 2012, where we saw a lot of these terrible first-time candidates that caused Senate races to fall by the wayside in Nevada, Delaware, Indiana, Missouri. And this is why Mitch McConnell was warning well in advance that we have a candidate quality problem. But what we've seen is a real intensification of this problem from top to bottom, not just Senate candidates, but House candidates, Secretary of State candidates, and governors and the like.

And it's what I call the my pillowization of the Republican Party: we've attracted these more cartoon characters. And if somebody speaking at a rally with a president or a presidential candidate is best known as a pillow salesman, run to high heaven because you're going to see more of these cartoon characters who are trying to make money off of the party, become Instagram influencers and celebrities more than they are about being serious legislators. There's a reason Madison Cawthorne lost his primary in North Carolina. He telegraphed and said clearly, I'm not serious. All right, that guy's name is Doug Hay.

And yeah, okay, Madison Cawthorne. He was Scandal, I mean, it was scandalized, and it was scandalous what he did. But to compare Madison Cawthorne to all of you other America First Conservatives is just nuts.

So I want you to think about something for a second. There was not a single rebuke from one of the Fox News anchors, not a one. Nobody said, Hey, well, wait a second. Mike Pellow's done a lot of great work. As a matter of fact, Mike Lindell's been down in Florida giving out free pillows and blankets to people who survived the hurricane.

Hurricane Ian. But here's what gets me. Those insults are just about as offensive as the FBI, Peter Strzok. Remember, he called all you people smelly Walmart people or Hillary Clinton's basket of deplorables. That's what this is, the mypelloization of the GOP.

Give me a break. And by the way, if George Soros can spend billions of dollars to defund the police and elect radical district attorneys, well, guess what? Mike Lindell can spend his money to alert people and warn people that the election was stolen. That's his right under the U. S.

Constitution, but I don't hear people complaining about that. And by the way, a word of advice for all of you establishment people out there. You cannot have a red wave without the rednecks. And that's what this is all about. They treat all of us, conservatives, the church-going crowd, as if we're the Beverly Hillbillies.

And by the way, Fox News would be wise to remember that those rednecks are the ones paying the bills at their TV and radio networks as well. Yeah. Well, the radio network's already gone left-wing. But the T V network. You know what I'm saying here.

All right, let's go to the phones, 844-747-8868. Daniel in Georgia, WDUN is our terrific affiliate there. Daniel, what's on your mind today? Hello, Daniel. All right, let's put Daniel on hold and we'll try to get back to him.

Let's go to James in Arkansas. Hi, James. What's on your mind?

I gotta make a comment about a couple of your callers. One of them said Trump doesn't act like a statesman, like presidential in his in his how he comes across to people. That's because he's not a politician, he's not a statesman, he's a businessman. And that's the problem, and that's what's going on in DC right now. That's why all the Republicans and Democrats are cussing Trump.

It's not because of anything he's did. because he hasn't done anything but try to help this country. And the problem is the reason Democrats and Republicans both are cussing because Trump came in and tried to mess up their pool party. because it's been going along status quo for years and years and years. They just go back to the state every now and again and say, hey, would you reelect me?

And then they go back to the office for the fifty fourth time And you know what? That's the problem. We need term limits. And that's the problem with the Republican Party. Anytime a group of people, Democrats and Republicans, agree and say, you know what, I don't think we've got to let them do term limits on us.

That's a problem. We're their ball. They're not our ball. We tell them when it's time to go home. But the problem is, you have basically the same candidates on the ballot every time.

So the American people don't have a choice to put anybody else in there.

Well, James, let me ask you about the issue at hand, which is the attacks that Trump is hurling towards DeSantis and Glenn Youngkin. Are those warranted? Are those justified in your estimation? No, they're not. And honestly, you know what?

Sometimes I just want to call him up and say, Mr. President, would you please just shut up? because some of the things you're saying aren't helping you. But that's kind of his personality, and I don't think that's anything that you can change. And back to one of your other callers a minute ago that said she had to hold her nose and vote for Trump.

See, that's the other problem. Democrats, they will proudly go support whoever the nominee is. They don't care if it's a child molester or sex offender. They're going to go support that candidate. And then the Republicans want to grow a conscience and say, oh, well, I just don't like some of the things he said or he's hurt my feelings somehow, so I can't support him.

Okay, so by not supporting that candidate, guess who you are supporting? The Democrats! James, let me tell you why Trump has my vote. And if he's the nominee, this is why he's going to have my vote. He delivered on his campaign promises the first go-around.

I support his agenda. He delivered on that agenda. The guy earned my vote. It's as simple as that for me. I don't care about the tweets.

I don't care about the language. I don't care about any of that stuff. And the reason why is, as a good church-going Southern Baptist, you know, we've elected some good church-going Southern Baptists to office, and they nearly destroyed the country.

So I'm not electing a preacher. I'm not electing even a deacon. I'm electing a politician. And Donald Trump, so far, he's delivered. He has, Todd.

And let me squeeze this in real quick, and I'll let you go. But you know, that's the old joke, right? About the Baptists, the What's the difference if you run it to a Baptist minister or a Catholic priest in the liquor store? The Catholic priest will speak to you. It's true, actually.

Mm-hmm. Not that I've encountered that, but I've heard. All right.

James preaching James from Arkansas. And by the way, congrats, guys. You folks in Arkansas got a good governor there, Sarah Sanders, your new governor. Let's go to James in Memphis, Tennessee, listening to us on KWAM. You know, yesterday was the Ralph Show, and now today is the James show.

Hey, James, what's on your mind? Uh First-time caller, by the way.

Well, wait a second. This is huge. You buried the news nugget there, James. We're so glad to have you on the program. I'm glad to be here, too.

So, look, don't hang up. Grace, we're going to give James a prize here. We'll give him a side copy of my book, Our Daily Biscuit. Why don't we do that? All right, good.

All right, so James, we like to give people stuff on this show. A couple of things. I'm 78 years old.

So, anyway, I remember when JFK ran for president. Uh He won by the skin of his teeth. And as he got in the presidency, he started having parties at the White House. And he would invite uh all the main news people at that time to all his parties. And I read a book about him, and the person that wrote that book said that he did that so that he would not get any bad press from the press.

And then I think the Democrats saw what that did, and they thought, well, you know, we might want to keep this up, and we'll get them on our side. And over time, that's what they've done. I think that's how they got hold on the news media people to be on their side. That's when it started. I believe.

James, no, you're absolutely right about that. As a matter of fact, you had other presidents, you know, there was no such thing as a press briefing room. That came about, I believe that came about as a result of Kennedy. But other previous administrations, they would just walk around in the hallways and try to get quotes here and there. But there really was some distance between the presidency and the press corps.

But to your point, I remember reading a book. It was Ben Bradley's memoir. Ben Bradley was the longtime editor of the Washington Post. And he and JFK, he and both of their wives, they were all best friends. And they used to vacation together the whole nine yards.

But, James, there was. Was always a line there. And JFK always reminded Ben Bradley: you know, you can't report on this, you can't talk about this. And it became a big problem. Yeah.

O one other thing, I have two th that's two more things. One other thing is Uh I believe uh When when uh Ben Fr Ben Franklin was involved with our fight to get freedom. He made a statement. I believe it was him. I'm pretty sure it's him.

He said that. Um Disobedience against a tyrant. is obedience to God. Will be for fighting the British. And I think.

We all need to know that and remember that also today. The third, second thing is whether you're a Democrat voter, a Republican voter or an Independent. We have to understand it. Only we can change things by doing Changing our vote. If we continue voting for the same people constantly, we're going to get the same results, and they're going to get more emboldened to do what they want to do, which is what's happened over time, over time.

Do you think that's uh James, it's a fair point you're making here. And going back to the media, I can't tell. Tell you how many times, and this goes back to even Ronald Reagan.

Well, it was George H.W. Bush where the Bushes just would not fight back against the media. And how many times we would listen to talk radio and people would say, We need a president who will take on the media, who will fight back.

Well, we got that in Donald Trump. And fighting back is not a pretty thing sometimes. And again, I salute the president for that. I think the issue now is: okay, why are you attacking your fellow Republicans? But more importantly, why are you attacking your allies, your political allies?

And that's a big problem. James. James. It's hard to believe that they're going to be allies when we've got, oh, I'd say roughly 19 or 20 Republicans that need to be kicked out, also.

Well, there you go. That's fair enough. James, I want you to hang tight, and we're going to get your info. And we sure do appreciate you as a first-time caller. All right, folks, hang tight.

We've got to take a quick break. We're going right back to your calls: 844-747-8868. If the lines are busy, keep calling. We'll be right back. You guys hear the story about British Airways?

Very odd. British Airways now announcing they're going gender neutral, so they're going to allow their male pilots to wear pantyhose and false eyelashes. Also, the male pilots are going to be allowed to carry handbags with them on board the blade. You know, my question is: okay, that's great, but here's the problem: when you're in first class, that's where the pilots and the flight adherents put all their stuff.

So, is there going to be enough room for the people who are actually paying to be in first class? I mean, if you're going to have. If you're going to have the man bags. By the way, they call it mascara, but isn't that called Guyliner? Isn't that the official Grace?

I don't know if that's. If that's accurate or not.

Well, no, see, mascara is for your eyelashes. Eyeliner goes on the lash line. It's two different things. I see. I'm really not all that interested.

Yeah, you wanted an explanation. British Airways says the men will be allowed to wear man buns. May I just say if you are wearing a man bun, your masculinity is probably in question. Is that permissible? Yeah.

Girls. Would girl, Grace Baker, back when you were a single gal, would you date a man with a man bun? No. Okay. I don't want a guy that has better hair than I do.

I understand. You know what you do? I forget who there was a great commercial for Thanksgiving where the father goes over and chops off the boyfriend's man bun, you know, the daughter's boyfriend's man bun. It's just too much to deal with. I mean, when the guy's using nicer shampoo and conditioner than me.

That's a red flag. I'm a pert man myself. Maybe a little head and shoulders. Oh. Pert.

I love perts.

Okay. I know head and shoulders. British Airwas says they want their staff to be bold, to be proud, to be themselves. Interesting. I just want him to serve me my peanuts.

And leave me alone. Don't shove an agenda down my throat. And you can't even eat peanuts now. Back in the day you could eat peanuts, but now you can't even eat peanuts because some kids got an allergy and they shut down the whole food service. You know, my favorite's the biscotti cookies.

Oh, the biscotti cookies. Yeah. Delicious. If they ever get rid of those, then I'm throwing a revolt. Very tasty.

Delta, or rather, British Airways says they want flight crews to embrace new guidelines regardless of gender, gender identity, or sexual identity. Last year, Virgin Atlantic announced it was scrapping gender-specific wardrobes. They said that women could wear pants and men could wear skirts.

Now look, I You know, I know I need to have an opinion about this, and I know the preferred pronoun passengers are very excited. Oh, we think it's fabulous, just fabulous. And then the pilots. I'm not sure if you're a pilot because I guess men would have to shave their legs, right, Grace Baker? That's the whole point of wearing the pantyhose.

Yeah, you don't want to have hairy legs and pantyhose. It gets a little itchy, and I think it just pops out the hair. It'll catch. You should check with Joe Biden on that issue at the pool side there. Anyway, look, to be honest, I really don't care what the pilot is wearing as long as he can land the plane safely on the runway, right?

Is it too much to ask? Got to take a break here. We are going back to the calls. Martha Zoller is dropping by. Grace, why is there luggage outside the news bunker?

Are you going out of town? I am just for a week. I'll be back. I'm going to the free state of Florida. The free state of Florida?

Oh, very nice. Vacation with a hubby? Yes. Mr. Producer.

Two-year anniversary, yes. Is Merlot going? No, actually. She's staying here with my parents. And then Ben Dieter, our morning show host, is watching her.

Oh, very nice. So dog sitting. Yes, he's dog sitting. All right, very good.

Well, have a great trip down there. Thank you. Thank you. Hey, let's go to the Patriot Mobile newsmaker line. Our good friend, the queen of talk radio in the state of Georgia, Martha Zoller from WDUN.

Hey, Martha, how's it going? It is great, Todd. How are you? Yeah, doing good. Just again, just trying to walk everybody off the ledge here, Martha.

This is, yeah, it's not the red tsunami, but we still have a shot here at taking the House and the Senate. And it looks like Georgia may play a big role in that.

Well, you know, I've been talking about it like it's a football game. We didn't win by four touchdowns, but I think we're going to win by an extra point. And a win is a win. And that's what you know. I think we've won the House.

I mean, we're not quite there yet, but I think everyone thinks that we will. But the Senate. you know, what's surprising, let's just say, there's I've been crunching the numbers just for you, Todd, that there were twenty thousand fewer voters in the Senate race than in the governor's race. Which says 20,000 people skipped that race.

Now, that wouldn't have made a difference even if that was 100% for Herschel Walker. And then there were about almost 200,000 people that voted for governor. That um Probably voted for Raphael Warnock. They voted for Brian Kemp and Raphael Warnock, which I don't understand that at all. The only thing I can come to is that.

Suburban women I voted for Brian Kemp even if they were pro-choice because of the economy. But they voted they were erring on the side of their nastiness about being pro-choice and voted for Raphael Warnock. That's the craziest thing I have heard, Martha. And I was looking at those numbers on election night, and they didn't make any sense to me. And there was a lot of speculation over the motive why would voters pick Brian Kemp, but then take a pass on Herschel Walker?

Yeah, I mean, the only thing, the only thing that makes any sense to me is that a lot of those squishy suburban women did vote for Brian Kemp. for governor because he's done such a great job. But they had to voice their unhappiness about the overturning of Roe v. Wade by voting for Raphael Warnock, who has called himself a pro choice pastor.

So he You know, it's a mess out there, but Herschel's got to do three things. He's got to get back out and get every vote back out. He's got to also get Brian Kemp on board. They took this tactic. That they weren't gonna campaign with the governor.

I don't know why they did, you know. I can't get a straight answer from anybody on why they didn't campaign with the governor at the end. when he was going all over with the entire ticket. But they've got to get on board and And the leadership committee announced today that Brian Kemp is on board and was always on board to help Verschall. But but Herschel had to meet him.

and be involved in what he was doing.

So we've got a lot of work to do. It's thirty five thousand votes different. We got to get our folks back out, and we got to know what happened in Nevada and Arizona. Yeah, no doubt about that. And it's mind blowing.

I mean, you guys are much larger than both of those states and yet you guys are able to count all of your votes. And it could be it could be next week before they get around to all the vote counting. I tell you what, hats off to the people in Georgia. Senate Bill 202 worked. It got things straightened out.

It closed loopholes. And Brad Rappensberger did a great job. But Kathy Wollard, who was a former Democrat. uh Atlanta City Council member who took over The Fulton County Election Board. I mean, I don't agree with her on politics at all, but she took over and she kicked butt and she straightened out Fulton County.

And I don't know if it'll last because it's Fulton County, but hopefully, you know, it will. Martha Zoller is midday host on WDUN, our affiliate in Gainesville, Georgia, also very tuned in to Republican politics there. Martha, one of my recommendations from yesterday's show is we need a unity tour and bring DeSantis in, bring Trump in, bring in Kemp and put them all on a bus and let them travel around the state. And let's try to get the party unified here. Yeah, because I think Brian camp at the actually threaded that needle and unified the Georgia Republican Party, okay, behind him anyway.

And he did that by not saying anything negative about Donald Trump.

Okay, and he and he just did his job. I think one of the things that you're right that needs to happen, but you know as well as I do that the wild card in that situation is not Ron DeSantis or Brian Kemp.

Okay, the wild card in that situation is what is President Trump going to do? And I think that. You know, I would say that it'd be better for Donald Trump to stay out of the state for this runoff, but at the same time, You know, yeah, if in a perfect world, that would be the best thing to happen, Todd. And Martha, and I called a lot of you-know-what early on because I told people Herschel Walker not willing to debate his fellow Republicans was a problem. And I think that just that's that's a standard thing for me.

If you're not gonna, if you're gonna run for the Republican nomination, you've got to be able to debate your fellow Republicans. And there are a lot of great rock-solid Republicans that would have been, you know, would have been terrific going up against Warnock. But Herschel Walker, at the end of the day, got the votes. And, you know, so now we've got to really get behind this guy. Yeah, we do, because it's about it's a you know, a long time ago, I gave up believing in the people that I vote for.

You know, you get to a certain age and you realize everybody's flawed. But I want the people that are going to vote the right way. And Herschel Walker's going to vote the right way. He's going to put the right team together to be able to. Do the homework that needs to be done to be a United States Senator.

He can do the job. And as far as all the negative stuff, None of the negative stuff has happened. Since 2009, since he sat down with that interview with his ex-wife and they sat together and they talked about his mental health struggles and how he had fixed them. And from that, it's a story of redemption. And I know that that interview was selectively edited by the Warnock campaign, but I gotta tell you, if you're Raphael Warnock, You spent $140 million against this guy who had $37 million and you only beat him by 34,000 votes.

So there's, you know, it didn't, without all the attack, who knows where it would have been. How are the fundraising dollars? I know he had a good first day out of the gate, Herschel. I understand it's staying strong. I mean, the people want to win the Senate.

Now, the only thing I'm, well, I'm not really worried about it. If both seats go Republican, Then this the Is great, but it doesn't matter if both seats go Democrat and talking about Nevada and Arizona. This seat is important, but it won't matter in the control of the Senate. The only reason the o I get I get concerned about getting the vote out in that situation. If it's not the seat that determines the Senate, I worry about getting the vote out.

So that's really what I'm focused on. I'm focused on getting the vote out. Kelly Loeffler, who lost the seat to Warnock in 2021. She has been working tirelessly to get the boat out and actually was very successful. She did not take her ball and go home, and I've been chatting with her about.

She's going to be targeting not only the 20,000 people who skipped the Senate race. But she's going to be targeting people to make sure they get back out and vote. Oh, well, that's good. That's definitely good to hear. Martha, appreciate the great insight.

And we're going to get you back home between now and Election Day. And we just got to get the vote out. And we appreciate you coming on the program. Thank you so much. Have a great weekend, Todd.

All right, you too, Martha. Take care now. Our good friend Martha Zoller, is that not the craziest thing you've heard, though? That you would have people out there voting for Brian Kemp and Raphael Fortnock. It's crazy.

It's crazy. We got to get all that fixed, and we've got to get Herschel Walker to the Senate. Got to. All right, we've got to take a break here. When we come back, heading right back to the phone lines: 844-747-8868.

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You'll be able to see that at ToddSterns.com. In the meantime, as promised, let's get back to the phone lines. Let's go to Larry in Georgia. Larry, what's on your mind? Hello, Larry.

All right, Larry is gone there. Let's go to Robert in North Carolina on the talk station. Hey, Robert, what's up? Hey, Todd, I love your show, man. Thank you.

I listen to you all the time. I mean, wh when you just you just you're just the man.

Well, you're I appreciate you saying that, Robert. Thank you very much. I was a Ted Cruz man myself. I was listening to you yesterday, and I was a I was to the end a Ted Cruz man. And uh I've Really, um glad that I voted for Trump, though, when it came to him or the Democrat uh that was running.

Obviously, um But um anyway He's uh got the mentality of me against the world. And uh When he's um I mean, he's uh you know, I When he's um att attacking these other politicians And whether they're Republican or Democrat or otherwise, Uh, he's he's defending hisself and uh I just like somebody that defends themselves and more even more so. I like someone who defends our policies. And when it comes to Trump, because he thinks like I do, or I think like he does.

So that's the way I look at it, and I'm going to vote for Trump again. Yeah, look, I'm going to vote for Trump again. But, you know, to that point, we've got to unify the party, and he's going to have to figure out how to temper himself in some ways that will make him appealing to more voters because he does need more voters. I mean, we're living in a divided nation right now.

So the question is, how do you woo those people? How do you convince them that you're the guy? And that's going to take a little bit of work. You know, Robert, I think another big problem here is that some of these people that have latched onto President Trump are not good people. And he's going to have to, and he'll have to use his discernment and judgment.

But some of these people are basically looking to make money for themselves as opposed to what's best for President Trump and the country.

Well, that you're right. You're exactly right. And I think that's the establishment Republicans that are doing that. Yeah. Agree.

So I I uh but I I just think that uh Obviously, we all know that Trump is not a politician. He's a corporate man. I mean, he's he is who he is. And I know he's I like a man that defends itself. And uh But you're right, he needs to take off the gloves, him and DeSantis.

Need to take the gloves off. temporarily at least and help Herschel Walker in Georgia. And um But Trump is also, he is, I can see what he's doing. He's doing preemptive strikes. Basically, against his potential opponent.

It's a first-strike policy. Take this due to them before they can do it to you, I think. Yeah, what did they say? The best defense is a good offense. Also, you can flip it around that way.

Fair enough. Fair enough. But anyway, that's that's the way it is in uh I know he's got a mouth on him. And people said it in the in the twenty twenty election and they said it in the twenty sixteen election. And But people still voted for him because they knew who he was going against.

And you're either for America or you're against it. I think George Bush said that pretty much. There you go. Robert, good call, sir. And we appreciate your listening to us.

God bless you there in North Carolina. Let's go to Arnaz, Horn Lake, Mississippi. Listening to us on KWAM. Arnaz, talk to me. Hey, how are you doing?

I'm good. Thank you for asking. First off, I want to wish my girlfriend a happy Veterans Day, Dr. Hope Ferguson of the United States Navy. Um Yeah, Tu Tu Tuesday was something.

Tuesday was something we haven't seen in politics at least in my lifetime. But I don't want to talk about Democrats or anything. Let let's just stick with Republicans, because this is where the analysis really is. And This is the third straight. election where Things did not go the Republicans' way, even though.

It felt like all signs up for at least the last two to three months said that. This was going to be a a clean either a clean sweep or very close to it, and it was none of that. And that caught everybody off guard. But I think the striking thing was that A lot of people latched onto Trump for a long time because he was felt like somewhat of a kingmaker. You know, his endorsement could either his endorsement or his non-endorsement could literally make.

Or break. Make or break a campaign. That's a good point. And You know, F and And there there are a lot of factors as to why as to you know why that didn't happen. you know it But The thing is with It's like how does how does that look going forward to the next two years.

Because Well, Arnaz, let me jump in here because we're literally going to run out of time here. But real quick, and I want to ask you a question about this. When you look at some of those races where the Trump-endorsed candidates run, those were not the best candidates. And I think that goes back to a vetting issue. You know, again, I think we're going to take the Senate and the House, but this was ultimately being the narrative about what just happened is going to be turned against Trump.

I think that's what's going on here. And you're right. And the thing is, a lot of people in the Republican Party did not, they knew that, a lot of them knew that Trump was endorsing the Nazi. was endorsing the wasn't endorsing the best candidate. And it showed.

And my thing is Two, three weeks ago, I would have I would have said, yeah, if Trump gets the nomination, he Trump is going to win like he's going to announce, he's going to run and he's going to get the nomination. I don't know anymore. I'm not going to sit here and say that. He won't get the nine. He very well still may end up.

Becoming the Republican nominee in the United States. Let me ask you this. We've got like two seconds here. Yes or no? Do you support Trump if he's the nominee?

Yep, yep. I registered Democrat, but I watch. But the thing is, I watch. You can still vote for it. We got to work on that, Arnaz.

We can get you over to the right side. I know, but all I know is I look at everything from an analytical standpoint, and I was just. I wasn't jumping for joy or anything. Arnaz, we got to run. We got to run, my friend.

But happy Veterans Day to your girlfriend. You're a good man for wishing her that. And, folks, we got to scoot out of here. It's been a great week. We'll see you Monday, America.