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Chapter 1: What happened during the Wisconsin elections?
And I'm getting some reactions pouring in, including Digowski 21 saying Vince is in the T-shirt size medium. Thank you for that election analysis. Oh, it's Diego. I should have said that. Diego, Diosky. I don't even know. Anyway, thank you for that. So what is going on in Wisconsin? Wisconsin voted for voter ID. So that's one good thing, said Armageddon. That's right.
Chapter 2: Why did Wisconsin voters support voter ID?
So let's just start with some of the good news here. In Wisconsin, the voters in that state voted overwhelmingly yesterday to say, yes, we love voter ID. We love it so much. We want it enshrined in the state constitution. Now, this is an important thing because Wisconsin already had voter ID as a part of its law.
But the challenge in Wisconsin is that the lefty Supreme Court there, which has been in power and is now retaining power, more on that in a moment, has been threatening to unseat voter ID, to make it more vulnerable to voter fraud in the state. The voters there saying, we don't want it to be more vulnerable to voter fraud. And so they've enshrined it in the state constitution.
They've added one further barrier to that radical Supreme Court, tearing up election integrity in the state. That is a massive, massive win. And we should acknowledge that. We should take it for what it is. simultaneously in Florida, those two Republican seats in Congress, well, they're still Republican. So they're not pickups, they're retentions.
But in both of those cases, the Republican candidates winning in those special elections in Florida to replace both Matt Gaetz and Mike Waltz. So again, I'll take it. Those are victories. I'm happy to have them. But the Wisconsin Supreme Court race yesterday didn't go our way. It didn't. Brad Schimel lost to Susan Crawford, and it wasn't a close race. This wasn't like a narrow little race.
It was a 10-point loss. Susan Crawford ending as of this morning with 55% of the vote to Brad Schimel's 45% of the vote. It's not close. It's not close. So what happened here? Well, let's unwind the election a little bit. For one, let's look at voter turnout.
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Chapter 3: How did voter turnout impact the Wisconsin Supreme Court race?
One thing that we've been discussing that you should definitely know by now, you saw it happen in 2024, that if Republicans are going to win in the era where Trump has reshaped the party into a party that serves the needs of everyday Americans, you've got to get low propensity voters out to vote. Low propensity. Do you know what low propensity means?
Low propensity means they don't show up every election. They only show up occasionally when you can really speak to an issue that matters to them. they'll show up. It wasn't always this way. Republicans used to have high propensity voters, the kinds of voters who would show up always, all the time, no matter what.
And this comes from the era of the country club Republican, where you had college educated, high income Republicans, people who were very active in their communities and civil society stuff. And they would show up to vote on a routine basis on all these elections, whether or not they were a standard presidential election or midterms, off year. This one yesterday was off year, off cycle.
It's about as off, off, off as you can possibly get. It's an odd year election at an odd time of year. It's not November, it's in April, special elections. And so Republicans, their challenge is we got to get these low propensity voters out. How many people actually voted yesterday in Wisconsin? What was a big number for an off year, off cycle election? It was 2.3 million people who voted.
Do you know how many people voted in the presidential election last year? 3.4 million. So 2.3 million yesterday, 3.4 million, an additional over 1 million people voted in that presidential election last year. Do you know how much Trump won that election by in Wisconsin? Less than a point. Less than a point. It wasn't quite a nail biter, but it was close in Wisconsin.
President Trump picked that up. Of course, he picked up every swing state in last year's contest. But what this should tell you is that you need to figure out a way to get the low propensity voter to actually show up. Now, I'm seeing a lot of people doing some finger pointing today.
This always happens in the wake of these elections where Republicans have, you know, you're feeling a little dejected about how things went in a particular race. This is a meaningful race. And for whatever reason, I've seen people pointing fingers at Scott Pressler as if that guy had somehow let everybody down. Scott Pressler did not let anybody down.
Scott Pressler brought his operation to the state. He was able to get people, including people in this very chat, to send text messages to get all of these votes out there. The get out the vote component of this, Scott was in there in a very aggressive way. And there were a number of other groups that did that too. Elon Musk was spending money through America PAC.
Turning Point Action was in there. The Libre initiative. The get out the vote component of this. Well, they were out there. They were on the streets. They were sending the text messages. They were doing the work. Here's where I detect a failure. It's the message. It's the message. So I went back and I looked at the advertising for Susan Crawford and Brad Schimel.
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Chapter 4: What was the difference in campaign strategies for the Wisconsin Supreme Court candidates?
Meanwhile, what did Brad Schimel's campaign run on? Brad Schimel's campaign ran on a message that you and I can understand. for sure, which is we don't want Democrats to have more power. Brad Schimel's campaign was wrapped up, at least the people who were advocating for him, spending money on him.
They were running ads like, well, if the left wins here, Republicans might lose congressional seats because the Supreme Court will redraw the district lines. Okay, that means something to me. That means a lot to me. If that ad was built for me, I would say, man, that's really That's horrifying. If that ad was built for you, you would say, that's horrifying. We don't want that.
We can't give Democrats any more power. We can't let them steal congressional seats. We can't let that happen. But what does that mean to the average Wisconsin voter who is a low propensity turnout person? Half of Wisconsin voters have a union member in their household. Did you know that? Half. Half of Wisconsin voters have at least one union worker in their household.
What does that mean to those families, those low propensity voters? What do they think of Washington to begin with? What do they think of these political parties? Do they feel well served by them? Are they so interested in the well being of the Republican Party that they look around, they go, man, I really gotta stand up for Republicans.
Hell no, you think they care about the well being of the Republican Party? Not a chance. It's not about the party. In the end, these elections, especially with low propensity voters, are like, why would I show up to vote? I don't always show up to vote. I occasionally do. What's the rationale for why I would show up to vote? You know why Wisconsin voters showed up for Trump?
You know why they did that? The top two reasons, immigration and the economy. Immigration and the economy. That's it. Those are the big numbers. Immigration was the biggest. The economy was the second. And so how did Republicans speak to those needs in order to bring out low propensity voters? Oh, it turns out they didn't in Wisconsin.
And so as we analyze this vote, it's probably important to say, okay, so we have a get out the vote effort. You guys, guys like Scott Pressler are doing a good job. You have people in our Rumble chat who were literally texting people in Wisconsin to get them out. But what about the messages? What advertising were they seeing? What reason would they go to the polls here?
And it can't be enough to say you have to support Republicans. That's ridiculous. It can't be enough. Now, here's the thing. I've seen a lot of concern about, okay, Vince. Nobody's saying Vince, but generally on social media. What about the role that fraud played here? What about the role of fraud? Maybe the election was stolen. Let me just look at the margin with you for a moment.
First of all, it's a 10 percentage point margin. So if it was fraud that resulted in this outcome, it would be a massive, massive, massive amount of fraud that would lead to this outcome. That's one. Two, people point in the fraud case, they point to, well, look at the voter ID initiative. Voter ID. You've got
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Chapter 5: How did President Trump's policies relate to Wisconsin's election results?
This country is being taken advantage of, and it has been for decades, many. And today, President Trump is announcing a way to fight back. We are not starting a trade war today. We are trying to end one. We are trying to fight back in a world where other countries, a lot of them, all across the planet, have been waging a trade war against us. And so what does that mean for Wisconsin?
What does that mean for the voters there? Well, it means a great deal. We're in a situation where you can look at Wisconsinites and say, I'm gonna fight for your family. You remember how your community used to be thriving? Do you remember when you didn't have blight and crime all over the place?
Do you remember what it was like to have a productive community, a manufacturing base, agriculture, healthy exports? Do you remember this? What happened to this place? Why are things on the slide? And the answer to that is they've been sold out by their leaders. So it's no wonder they did the messaging, which is like, hey, you need to keep Republicans in power. They're like, up yours.
Why do I got Republicans? I don't care about that. The message should be, we are going to restore your livelihood. We're going to make Wisconsin great again. We're going to fight back against the people who are hurting you and your families. And so as we come out of the Wisconsin election, the Supreme Court election, and we come into today where the president of the United States is saying,
I'm going to fight back on your behalf. He ran on this. Wisconsin elected him on this basis. What did I tell you? Number one was immigration. Number two is the economy. Number two, that's in 2024, the exit polls in Wisconsin. The economy. What does that mean to the average Wisconsin family?
What does that mean to the average Wisconsin family who has labor union members inside of their own household? 50% of them do. It means they need somebody who's going to fight for them. And they need the rationale for why they would show up is to restore their livelihoods.
And the rationale for why they would vote against Susan Crawford, this radical leftist, is because she is a part of the effort to continue destroying them. That's what matters. And so today, President Trump is stepping forward to fight back in a big way. And it would behoove Republicans to stop being so squeamish about getting on board with the Trump agenda and do it right now.
Because if you don't, you'll end up in the very political wilderness that the left is spending time in right now. And they absolutely hate, absolutely hate to the point that they're trying to pick off anything they can, including Wisconsin Supreme Court seats. In a moment, I want to get your reaction to all this. I know your messages are pouring in on the chat. It's a big day.
We should learn some lessons from this. If you're sitting around all mopey and dour, you got the wrong lesson out of this. We don't need any Eeyores, do we? We don't need this thanks for noticing nonsense. No, we need fighters. So come out of this, learn something, use it. That's the key. Hey, the reason we can do these episodes for free is because of our great sponsors.
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Chapter 6: What was Cory Booker's recent Senate floor speech about?
You ever go to one of those restaurants where they have an oversized steak? And nobody can do this. No one's ever done. If you do it, you get your picture on the wall. And Cory Booker just ate the oversized steak. And now he gets his picture on the wall. The whole restaurant's clapping for him. It's an amazing achievement.
Amazing, meaningless achievement that only serves to fatten up his own head and nothing else. So that was Cory Booker's use of all of this. Scott Jennings, who's always fantastic, he's kind of the feature on CNN. He came out and said, what was this all about? I think it was about nothing.
I'm not sure what the point of it is. He didn't stop any legislation. He didn't hold up any nominations. He said it was a moral moment. So I guess, you know, as a Republican, I infer that he thinks half the country is immoral. And that kind of messaging to me is exactly what's been plaguing the Democrats for the last, certainly in the last election, in the last several months is this idea that...
this hatefulness towards your fellow American just because they chose a different party or voted a different way. And our own Harry Hinton reported this morning that congressional Democrats have a 21% approval rating. Look at this screen, by the way. Interview with Senator Cory Booker coming up. And Cory Booker, I think, is trying to fill a vacuum.
There's no real leadership nationally of the Democratic Party. Obviously, they don't have any confidence in Schumer. They've got a lot of radical voices out there who are trying to take control of the party. So maybe this was an attempt by him to try to you know, wrest control of at least the, you know, the spiritual leadership of the national party.
So, no, you know, ultimately, Scott, what it was was an attempt by Cory Booker to suck up as much camera time as humanly possible. This guy is so addicted to cameras and microphones being pointed at him that he that you saw on the screen. CNN says interview with Cory Booker coming up. How is an interview coming up? He just he was just up for 27 hours straight peeing through a tube.
And now he's like, you know what I need to do now? I need to go on CNN. What I really need is more camera time. Last piece on this, and then we'll get to our great guests and our sponsors here in a moment. Cory Booker, the reason they went as long as they did, 24 hours and 18 minutes, whatever the number was, the reason they went as long as they did is because they wanted to supplant
the record of Strom Thurmond, the Democrat who last held the record for arguing against civil rights in the 1960s. So basically, you've gone back to back. The people with the top two records at least are both Democrats who won't shut up about how much they want to divide America. Way to go. What an achievement, Cory Booker. One for the record books. Too bad.
The Guinness people weren't there, so he didn't get the certificate for that. In a moment, the great Chris Bedford joins me. But first, we're in a turbulent time right now. You're seeing daily policy changes having a massive impact on the global and national economy. That can be really scary. But what can you do to protect your savings right now? You can diversify.
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