John Reeves
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1,814 appearances
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first heard Dec 2023
last heard Feb 2025
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And they made they made the mistake of just showing up in Philadelphia, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, and assume that they were going to be OK. But but a lot had slipped. And now the margins Trump created margins that were unheard. Like, you know, we referred to them as Romney margins.
So, in other words, you have red counties and Romney would they would cover those by about 60 to 65 percent. And Trump did. He created 80s, 80s. We were losing 80-20, 80-20. And like, well, yeah, that's a small county. But yeah, you multiply that by 57, 57 other counties. And that's how they scale up. And that's how he won. And he won by 45,000 votes. And that's why he captured the blue wall.
And that made him president. And here we are right now. The blue wall is they're both fighting on the blue wall. And the blue wall is... Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan.
Well, I just think it was just different. I'm like, hey, I was running for about Forgotten Places. People where America has turned their backs on them and talking about those kinds of important issues like living wage, abandoning the industrial parts of America. Some people watching what things have been left behind in places like Braddock. It's like – it's astonishing.
Ninety percent of people left and 90 percent of the buildings are gone. And that whole region has just been just – thrown away. There was a path. I mean, there were two other people in the primary. And I thought I could maybe split. I could split the other two and just sneak by and get 33% plus one extra vote.
But I came up a little short because I had no money because it's always going to be about money. And then Katie McGinty, she won, but she lost. And then that was that same cycle and then the same year that Trump won.
Well, again, you're a freshman. And, you know, my colleague and one that was just here, Senator Vance. I mean, we were both in the same cycle. We both ran in 22. So we both there for less than two years. And it's really based on seniority. And it's just kind of like, hey, get on the end of that line. So you are a freshman and your influences, at least in the institution, are limited in some sense.
But if you have a bigger platform, and I did, and I try to have those kinds of impacts and having those conversations, But my first half of that first year, that took a different detour because I was dealing with depression. I was in depression, and I realized that I was in a bad place.
So having to make those kind of choices, and I signed myself in to Walter Reed to get help because of the depression. And so I think... It's an important conversation. And I knew I thought at that time it could be politically could be difficult, but I thought it was important. And now if that costs me something politically, I'm OK. So that's why I'm continuing.
So how the impact I've had, I never fully expected that that voice would would break through. And I'm in contact with people constantly saying, thank you for talking about this. I chose to get help or I chose not to follow that path on self-harm. And so I've had active conversations with member of Congress or fathers with younger kids. And they're like, hey, can you please talk? And I do that.
I'm happy to talk to anybody. And so that's a way I've had an impact through all of that and also my voice through after what happened on 10-7, October 7. And I've decided I was going to be a very consistent voice for Israel through that. So that's why kind of like the platform.
But in terms of if anyone's being honest, whether it was Senator Vance or any kinds of freshman senators, it's very limited because otherwise there's people that have been there for 25, 30 years. They're the ones that are going to be the chairman. And if you're a minority party, you have incredibly limited kinds of ability to move an agenda forward.
I think it's really important. I'm really glad you did it. Well, thank you, but I don't think it was really courage. It's like I only had a choice.
Well, originally I was just going to talk about depression. And there's a paradox. You might be a place in your life that you've actually kind of won, but depression lies to you and it convinces you that you've lost. And my depression got far more worse after I won. And then it was a downward spiral. And then if you don't check your depression, then you go down a dangerous slope about self-harm.
And I started to have – I got to – to occupy that kind of a dark place. And that's when I realized that I have a choice. It's like, if I don't address this, then I had an emergency break. It's like, I have to stop, I have to stop. And that was my kids. I'm like, I cannot be, I can't be the example.
And when you're gonna get older in life and you're gonna have those kinds of challenge, well, hey, dad decided to leave. Oh, that must be the right thing. And I'm like, I cannot allow myself to be the example for that. So I stayed in the game and I was able to get help and I got much better.
So like for me, it's like I originally didn't want to talk about self-harm because that's definitely not a great political winner. Right. But I was like, I have to be honored about that and honest. And people, that really resonated with people. I was, I think the first person, I was the first politician, especially at that level, talking about self-harm.
And, you know, if people that are suffering, people that, I mean, you have a huge audience. I'm willing to bet plenty of them are suffering from that or looking through those kinds of issues. No doubt. No doubt. Yeah. And, you know, I promise people, whatever your path, whatever your path is for recovery,
And I'm not an expert, but if you promise yourself to stay in that game, stay in that game, that you are ready, you know, you're almost guaranteed to get better because I promise you it will get better. And I was at the point where I was really, you know, in a very dark place. And I stayed in that game and I am staying in front of you right now and having this conversation today.
And so that's what I try to tell everybody, whether they're listening today or in other times when I've had that. It's an honest conversation, but it is a red and blue conversation. And it's a rural and urban or suburban conversation. It's men or women talking. Or even younger kids. I've had conversations with teenagers, you know, with their parents, and they've even tried to take their lives.
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