October 14, 2024 • 22 mins
In this episode, Lisa and Congressman Byron Donalds discuss the political implications of Hurricane Milton in Florida. Lisa criticizes Vice President Kamala Harris for her perceived lack of genuine involvement in disaster response, accusing her of using the situation for political gain and photo opportunities. Congressman Donalds shares his frustrations, highlighting the impact of the hurricane on his district and critiquing Harris's media strategy. The conversation also touches on Donald Trump's campaign strategy, emphasizing the importance of reaching out to voters in traditionally Democratic areas and the shifting dynamics in battleground states as the election approaches. The Truth with Lisa Boothe is part of the Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Podcast Network - new episodes debut every Monday & Thursday.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
So as a Floridian, I've got to tell you I've
got a bone to pick with Kamala Harris. Watching her
trying to insert herself in the disaster planning for Hurricane
Milton for a photo op disgust me. It angered me
quite frankly, it pissed me off. Or remember she said
she tried to accuse Governor de Santas of not taking
her call. But then what was his response? He said, well, actually,
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you're not even in the chain of command. You have
been absent. You've been am I during every disaster Florida's
had throughout the entirety of the Biden administration, the Kamala A.
Biden administration, so she's been MI. So now head of
the election, after the Biden administration, Kamala Harris totally wrote
up Hurricane Heleen, left people to die in western North
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Carolina and other parts of the southeast. So now she's
trying to insert herself in for a photo op. If
you remember the photo that sums up Kamala Harris, the
best is that photo after Hurricane Aleen and she's on
Air Force two and she's riding on a blank piece
of page and her headphones aren't plugged in. That's all
she is. She's a staged photo op. She is an
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empty person and unserious woman during a very serious time
that we're facing, both in the country and Florida recently
faced with Hurricane Milton. So that made me mad. So
we're gonna have another Floridian on the show who is
also very mad about Kamally Harris doing that. We're also
going to ask him, Congressman Byron Donalds of Florida, about
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Donald Trump's strategy heading into this home stretch. He's going
to be visiting Colorado, California, New York, Blue States, So
you know, why do that? What's the purpose behind it?
Is this the wise decision or not. We'll get into
all of that and more with Congress and Byron Donald's
stay with us. Well, Congress and Byron donald it's great
(01:50):
to have you on. You know, obviously we just had
a Hurricane Milton, you know, with a lot of Floridians
impacted with that. I know that you toured damage from
the hurricane recently. You know, Firstville, how are you doing,
how is your district doing? Take us through what you
saw when you went to go toward the dam edge.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
I'm good.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
I mean, the district is mostly good.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
You know, our Barrier Islands, you know, took storm surge
and took some heavy winds. I know, like power on
Centebel Island and parts of kid Coral, Marco Island and
Fort Myers Beach was mostly out. So you know, we
have Florida Power and Light and else elseec are working
(02:33):
round the clock to get that back up and running.
Had some low lying flooding on certain areas as a
part of Fort Myer is called Deane Park that I
actually went personally to go see, and it's kind of
sits in the bowl around like right by the close
that hat you wherever the residents sit more than the
surrounding improvements. And you know, it's really unfortunate because they
(02:55):
just flooded during Hurricane Kalid, and they flooded again, and
talking to some of the property owners, they just finished
your repairs from Hurricane Hean moved back in the house
a couple of months ago, and then the last two
weeks happened, so they're now they have to stow some scratch.
So like that's the stuff that really just gets to
you because you know, people just trying to live a
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life and disaster happens.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Of course, and just the displacement of it all. You know,
even though you know house is not a person, it's
just a belonging, it's still I mean, that's a massive
financial tool and also just a massive emotional tool. You know.
I wanted to ask as a Floridian I was so
angry watching Kamala Harris trying to use Hurricane Milton after failing,
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after you know, the Biden administration failed Americans so badly
with Hurricane Heleen and coming in and using the suffering
of Floridians is the photo op trying to insert herself
on that video conference recently as well with you know,
FEMA and some of the other people involved in all that.
And as Desantra's pointed out, she's been m I throughout
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all the disasters during the Biden administration. She's not even
in the change of command, yet she wants to use
Flirtians as a as a photo op.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Yeah, it's disgusting as far as I'm concerned. You know,
Kylala Harris has never been involved in storms don Florida.
You know, my district went through in like I said,
two years ago. I know for the other members, whether
it's Hurricane Idalia or Debbie or even Helene. Nobody saw her,
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nobody even got a phone call from her. But now
all of a sudden, she's trying to insert herself in
Hurricane Milton. And I think it parts because this administration's
response to Helene in western North Carolina and in Tennessee,
Eastern and western Tennessee, and in Georgia was really a
disaster that they were nowhere to be seen. Uh, private
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citizens were going in with helicopters trying to bring aid,
and then, which typically does happen, people need to understand it.
What happens is you always get this clash between nonprofits
and church communities are just people who just want to
help and like officials on the ground trying to get
things organized, and there's always that clash.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
But that's where.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Leadership comes in. And you know, she tries to put
herself in the middle of that looks ridiculous in the process.
And I said the other day, she's costplaying as a
leader because nobody's ever seen her be a part of
any of this, and all of a sudden she wants
to take charge. I think the most despicable thing was
she did this video package with the mayor of Saint Petersburg,
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And my attitude was, why are you distracting this mayor
from preparing his city for the storm that's coming so
that you can have a video package They had. He
had to stop what he was doing for them to
set the cameras up for him to take the call
on speaker, so she could do a call on speaker
with her camera set up. I mean, it's just ridiculous
kind of stuff like that. But you know, is just
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a distraction. It doesn't help people in these storms. It's
about helping people. It's not about politics. So see that,
because her campaign's floundering and she's trying to find a
way to get a mantle as a leader, is just
really disrespectful to what goes on in these storms as
far as I'm concerned.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Well, I think the photo that sums her up the
best is after Helene when she was on Air Force
two and she's writing on a blank piece of paper
and her headphones aren't even plugged in, and it just
shows what an unserious woman she is, and that her
entire candidacy, everything she represents is just staged. It's manufactured,
it's fake. You know, we've seen her recently change for
(06:37):
her media strategy. I mean she went from hiding from
the media to doing you know, the view drinking beer
with Steve and Colbert. She did this Univision town hall.
Why the new strategy and what impact do you think
it's having.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Well, I think that the strategy has to change because
she's been sliding in the polls. From what I understand,
not just from President Trump pulling, but from what I
hear about her polling is she's been slipping in every
battleground state. I think, like a month ago, I was
asked about where I thought this race was going, and
I said, I think the battleground states are all going
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to swing Donald Trump's way, and you could see an
electoral college landslide in this campaign. And that's now starting
to be borne out by polling, and so obviously internally
they're trying to figure out what to do. She tried
to ask for another debate, even though Donald Trump initially
offered her three, and she should have took that deal.
She would have had three opportunities, but they were cocky,
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thought that they were riding high in the polls, and
she said, no, I'm just gonna do this one.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
Men will talk.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
But you know, so that's really what happened, is that
the polls have slipped on them. They're trying to find
a way to catch footing. But if Kamala Harris was
good at doing interviews and being out front without a teleprompter,
she'd have been doing this already. And look in DC,
everybody knows she's not good at this.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
We know she's not built for this.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
If she were, she would have been far more prominent
publicly during this administration. I mean, everybody remembers the clip
they sent her out there about the border crisis, and
she blew that one with Lester Holt talking about she
hadn't been to Europe, like the lady who cares, like
do your job and get to the border, and like
that's the kind of stuff where you know, she's not
really ready for prime time. She's not really built for this.
(08:19):
But Joe Biden, you know, obviously he's not capable of
doing this, and so they're really stuck. So I think
it's going to be an electoral college landslide. I don't
think the media blitz is going to help because even
if you watch these interviews, she's still not saying anything.
She's just saying more of saying nothing, you know, and
that's it's really frustrating when people are dealing with real
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life situations to see somebody out there saying they want
to lean you, but they give you nothing, no plans,
no substance. No.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
It's like it's a tweetled and tweedledumb with you know,
Joe Biden.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Her.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
She's also changed her accent along the way. She's apparently
Jamaican with Stephen Colbert and then she has a Spanish
accent with Univision. I don't know if Americans are saying
through her, you know, fakeness and authenticity with all that.
You know. So Congressman or Donald Trump is speaking in Aurora,
(09:12):
Colorado today, is also going to be visiting California, you know,
New York. Why white visit the blue states?
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Honestly, I think the strategy is wise because now you're
in a situation where she's starting to slip in the polls.
It doesn't mean you're not emphasizing the battleground states because
all of the campaign and operations are obviously focused in
the battleground states. But I think that you start to
go across the country because Donald Trump is demonstrating He's
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going to be a president for all America. Even if
you're in a blue state. Residents and blue states are
struggling just like they're struggling in red states because you
have terrible policy from the from the top and Joe
Biden that Kamala Harris another thing I think you're starting
to see if you really start to look at polling
across the country, which most people don't look at, the
blue states, in my opinion, are not going to be
(10:03):
as blue in twenty twenty four. I just don't see that.
So I think part of this is Donald Trump taking
the MAGA movement, if you will, into unfamiliar territory like
I was with him in the Bronx. Jesus seems like
eons ago. Now that was way before both assassination attempts,
And I was with him in the Bronx. So when
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you got out there, you know, you're just like, holy crap,
these people love him and these people are ready for him.
And that's in the Bronx. And so I think taking
the message everywhere is important. He has the time to
do it, in part because the polling is moving in
his favor, and also the campaign, although you know they're
still raising money, obviously, but they have the resources and
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have proven that they can compete in every battleground state,
So I think it's a smart strategy.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
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you think it takes him away at all to win
a both states?
Speaker 2 (12:12):
No, I don't not at all, because he's still spending
the bulk of his time in Michigan, in Pennsylvania. I
think the campaigns in Georgia next week, so he's going
to be where.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
He needs to be.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
And then also you have to overlay that with what
Jdevans is doing. Jdevans his energy level and his schedule
is almost as much as Donald Trump, so that you
really got to commit both of.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
Them for that.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
You mentioned earlier about how you know Kamalo was hiding
from the press, Well, what President Trump and jd did
is they just filled the vacuum.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
They filled the void.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
They did every interview, they were everywhere while Kamalo was
in hiding, and that was a smart strategy then. So
I think being in Colorado. Being in California isn't going
to distract from the job that needs to be done.
You know, the president is going to be in Nevada
and Arizona this weekend. But I think that where we
are in politics today, it's not just about oh, you
spent every day in the battleground states, especially for the presidency.
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I think for the presidency, it's about demonstrating that you
can be in any room with any people, anywhere, anytime,
be consistent, but have an agenda and have a vision
that resonates, you know, because you got people who they
might they might live in Nevada now, but they got
relatives in Colorado, or they got relatives in California. And
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I think people talk about these things and like text
messages and group chats. Now the clipping that's a part
of presidential campaigns and politics really now where these things
are clipped and shared, you know, tens of thousands of times,
hundreds of thousands of times.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
That's kind of the new wave.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Of presidential campaigning. And I think campaigning writ large.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
When you've done that is sort of you know, stepping
into the lions down a little bit with you know,
Sydan or going on the breakfast club, and you know,
kind of spreading the Republican masses and places or message
in places where you know they're not hearing it as much.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
For me, it was always about the fact that I
never saw Republicans do that before I got elected, and
it kind of frustrated me. I was like, well, why
aren't you talking to this group of people, you know,
those you know, those Americans who typically don't vote Republican.
It's not that they don't care about our country.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
They do.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
They love our country, but they just have a worldview
that has in part been shaped by the media around them.
And so if Republicans never go into those places and
have to fight it out and battle it out about
policy and about vision and about ideals, then why would
you expect people to decide to vote for you?
Speaker 3 (14:39):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (14:40):
Like I look at voting, it's almost it's like building
a relationship. It's not you know, asking somebody for you know,
a coke or a pepsi at a restaurant. It's a relationship.
And so if you really want to have sway with
voters who were typically in moderate districts or mindsets, or
typically Democrat voters, you have to go, oh where they are.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
You know, that's why I think the President.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Embracing the teams to reunion, doing that kind of work,
being in different venues where you would say, as a
traditional Republican candidate, why are you doing it?
Speaker 3 (15:12):
It's because you're trying to.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Get to other people who've never heard from you. And
you know, that's the reason why I do I go
into the lions. That not just to have clips like
that's great, I could have clips any time of the day.
It's about taking the message to people who typically would
not hear it and have them think about it and
begin to have them see that. Look, Republicans, we stand
for the American people. We actually believe in a quality
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economy for everybody, for sound government. But our viewpoints of
how you get there are very different, and people need
to hear that.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
When I you know, I think those efforts, you know,
are helping him in the sense of, you know, he
sort of change the Republican Party, this realignment of you know,
the working class party. And we look at the blue
Wall and looks like there's some creatoring happening. For in
a Kamala Harris, like in a Michigan there's some erosion
with union members, the Arab Americans, with young men. You
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look at Wisconsin, you know, Cook recently moved the Senate
place Senate race there from toss up to lean Democrat.
You know, you look at Pennsylvan In Michigan and Wisconsin,
he leads on the economy, he leads on immigration into
the most important issues there.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
You know.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
So a lot of this races, you know, comes down
to the blue wall. You know, where do you think
those states you know end up here? As as we
close out until November fifth, So I.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Think President Trump's gonna win in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. I
think your undecided voter is going to lean towards him
because at the end of the day, you know, this
is in my view, this is the Pepsi taste challenge
for presidential elections.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
You've had two administrations.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Who did the better job, and I think it's really
gonna come down to that.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
Michigan.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
I just I just can never believe Michigan. I see
the polls that are coming out now, and I just
don't believe it until I see it. But I'll tell
you the impact of him winning Wisconsin in Pennsylvania, that
not only does that definitely put Michigan in play. But
what it also does it puts Bob Casey, the Senator
in Pennsylvania on his heel. I saw him on stage
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with Barack Obama yesterday. That all that tells me all
I need to know that he's he's scared if he's
now out going to be campaigning, because nobody's ever seen
Bob Casey. I mean, you could have picked the guy
out in a lineup. Nobody's seen him. It puts Tammy
Baldwin in Wisconsin in a real problem, in a real bind.
And I think the polling in Wisconsin is demonstrating that.
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So you know, I think the battle rounds actually end
up going to lean towards Donald Trump in this final
stretch here as people are going to the bulls.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
And we've had Bernie Marino and Eric Cubdy on the
show who running in Ohio or with David McCormick rather
running in Pennsylvania and Air cub D running in Wisconsin
on the show. You know, you look at Kamala Harris,
I feel like her messaging is just it's so strange
because she's simultaneously trying to present herself as some new
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path forward is this you know, new vision for America.
But then when asked on the view recently if there's
anything you know she would basically separate herself from Joe
Biden from she said, you know, no, and that they're
you know, basically she's been a part of all the
big decision making. So it's like, I don't you know,
what's the message to voters? Then, like, you know, who
are you and what do you represent?
Speaker 3 (18:27):
There's no there's no message there. I'm just gonna be
straight with you.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
The message for voters from that team from her campaign
is I'm not Joe Biden, I'm not Donald Trump. Okay,
so what what are you going to do? And that's
the problem is because she won't tell anybody what she's
going to do, because we already know what she's going
to do. She is going to be the next face
on the Democrat machine. She's gonna essentially sit in the
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White House, She'll go out and give scripted comments when
they tell her to, and you'll have the cabal of
unelected technocrat's run this government. She truly does believe in
government by experts. And let me let me do a
little quick history lesson on this one. Lisa This isn't
new for the Democrat Party, not new at all. Their
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presidents have always believed in in in this committee of
experts that would guide the government and by and by
and by guide the people. And so because of that,
because of that fact, you have a situation where their
decisions are really disconnected from what's going on in the
lives of people. And then politically, it makes hard. It's
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hard for you to reverse course because you've already made
these decisions. You've given all the speeches because the technocrats
told you to give all these speeches. And then when
the speeches are done and the policy doesn't work, then
you're trying to either gaslight, blame shift, bring Republicans into it,
or somebody else. And so I think with her, the
reason why there's no core message is because she's stuck
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to Joe Biden. Because she was VP, she was key
in all these decision But at the same time, she
can't throw the Democratic Technocrats under the bus because they're
the ones who were truly running this country and we
see that they're running it into the ground. And so
that's why I think she struggled in her messaging. And
then to top it all off and I'm a sports fan.
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I'm a big sports guy, and you know, one of
the big sports casters in the country would always say
that you could tell you know an athlete that's never
going to win championships because they have low intangibles or
they have loser in tamp intangibles. Well, look, Kamala Harris
has loser in tampled intangibles. There's just no way the
other way around it. You know, like, if you're running
for president at this point in your career, you've been
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in politics twenty years, You've been a US senator, attorney general,
vice president. You mean to tell me you can't go
out there and run a campaign effectively when the entire
media apparatus is supporting you. That just means you have
loser in tangibles and that you just don't have what
it takes to win. But that was proven already because
when she ran for president in twenty twenty, her campaign
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fell part. She couldn't even make it to a state.
And at that time that people remember, she raised the
most money of any Democratic candidate. She was polling in
the lead of any Democratic candidate, and it all fell
apart before she got to a primary state. So this
isn't new. This is still the same Kamala Harris. It's
just that now that she has a billion dollars instead
of one hundred million dollars.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
Congressman, anything you'd like to leave us with before we go.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
Honestly, I think at this point this election is about
getting out to vote. People need to just go get
to the polls, get there early, don't mess around, don't
wait to election day, get to the polls, make your
voices heard. You really have a choice between Kamala Harris
and Donald Trump. Kamala Harris is going to do what
Joe Biden has done. There's not going to be many changes.
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You'll just have a new face that can that's better
at the teleprompter. Donald Trump is going to make decisions.
We've lived under his presidency. It was actually a great
presidency and we didn't talk foreign policy at all. But
our foreign policy is a mess. So who do you
want having to go toto toe with Putin and Xiji ping,
Kamala Harris or Donald Trump. I mean, let's be honest,
it's not really a contest there.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
I just think.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
America is need to just do the right thing. Vote
for Donald Trump. Let's get our country on track and
then let's find out all the other things we got
to fix, so America continue to be great.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
Heymen Congress and Byron donald thanks so much for joining us.
I really appreciate you making the time no problem. Thanks
Lisa those Congress and Byron Donalds of Florida. Appreciate him
for making the time to come on the show. Appreciate
you guys at home for listening every Monday and Thursday,
but you can listen throughout the week. I want to
think John Cassie and my producer for putting the show together.
Until next time.
So as a Floridian, I've got to tell you I've
got a bone to pick with Kamala Harris. Watching her
trying to insert herself in the disaster planning for Hurricane
Milton for a photo op disgust me. It angered me
quite frankly, it pissed me off. Or remember she said
she tried to accuse Governor de Santas of not taking
her call. But then what was his response? He said, well, actually,
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you're not even in the chain of command. You have
been absent. You've been am I during every disaster Florida's
had throughout the entirety of the Biden administration, the Kamala A.
Biden administration, so she's been MI. So now head of
the election, after the Biden administration, Kamala Harris totally wrote
up Hurricane Heleen, left people to die in western North
(00:44):
Carolina and other parts of the southeast. So now she's
trying to insert herself in for a photo op. If
you remember the photo that sums up Kamala Harris, the
best is that photo after Hurricane Aleen and she's on
Air Force two and she's riding on a blank piece
of page and her headphones aren't plugged in. That's all
she is. She's a staged photo op. She is an
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empty person and unserious woman during a very serious time
that we're facing, both in the country and Florida recently
faced with Hurricane Milton. So that made me mad. So
we're gonna have another Floridian on the show who is
also very mad about Kamally Harris doing that. We're also
going to ask him, Congressman Byron Donalds of Florida, about
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Donald Trump's strategy heading into this home stretch. He's going
to be visiting Colorado, California, New York, Blue States, So
you know, why do that? What's the purpose behind it?
Is this the wise decision or not. We'll get into
all of that and more with Congress and Byron Donald's
stay with us. Well, Congress and Byron donald it's great
(01:50):
to have you on. You know, obviously we just had
a Hurricane Milton, you know, with a lot of Floridians
impacted with that. I know that you toured damage from
the hurricane recently. You know, Firstville, how are you doing,
how is your district doing? Take us through what you
saw when you went to go toward the dam edge.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
I'm good.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
I mean, the district is mostly good.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
You know, our Barrier Islands, you know, took storm surge
and took some heavy winds. I know, like power on
Centebel Island and parts of kid Coral, Marco Island and
Fort Myers Beach was mostly out. So you know, we
have Florida Power and Light and else elseec are working
(02:33):
round the clock to get that back up and running.
Had some low lying flooding on certain areas as a
part of Fort Myer is called Deane Park that I
actually went personally to go see, and it's kind of
sits in the bowl around like right by the close
that hat you wherever the residents sit more than the
surrounding improvements. And you know, it's really unfortunate because they
(02:55):
just flooded during Hurricane Kalid, and they flooded again, and
talking to some of the property owners, they just finished
your repairs from Hurricane Hean moved back in the house
a couple of months ago, and then the last two
weeks happened, so they're now they have to stow some scratch.
So like that's the stuff that really just gets to
you because you know, people just trying to live a
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life and disaster happens.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Of course, and just the displacement of it all. You know,
even though you know house is not a person, it's
just a belonging, it's still I mean, that's a massive
financial tool and also just a massive emotional tool. You know.
I wanted to ask as a Floridian I was so
angry watching Kamala Harris trying to use Hurricane Milton after failing,
(03:41):
after you know, the Biden administration failed Americans so badly
with Hurricane Heleen and coming in and using the suffering
of Floridians is the photo op trying to insert herself
on that video conference recently as well with you know,
FEMA and some of the other people involved in all that.
And as Desantra's pointed out, she's been m I throughout
(04:01):
all the disasters during the Biden administration. She's not even
in the change of command, yet she wants to use
Flirtians as a as a photo op.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Yeah, it's disgusting as far as I'm concerned. You know,
Kylala Harris has never been involved in storms don Florida.
You know, my district went through in like I said,
two years ago. I know for the other members, whether
it's Hurricane Idalia or Debbie or even Helene. Nobody saw her,
(04:30):
nobody even got a phone call from her. But now
all of a sudden, she's trying to insert herself in
Hurricane Milton. And I think it parts because this administration's
response to Helene in western North Carolina and in Tennessee,
Eastern and western Tennessee, and in Georgia was really a
disaster that they were nowhere to be seen. Uh, private
(04:52):
citizens were going in with helicopters trying to bring aid,
and then, which typically does happen, people need to understand it.
What happens is you always get this clash between nonprofits
and church communities are just people who just want to
help and like officials on the ground trying to get
things organized, and there's always that clash.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
But that's where.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Leadership comes in. And you know, she tries to put
herself in the middle of that looks ridiculous in the process.
And I said the other day, she's costplaying as a
leader because nobody's ever seen her be a part of
any of this, and all of a sudden she wants
to take charge. I think the most despicable thing was
she did this video package with the mayor of Saint Petersburg,
(05:35):
And my attitude was, why are you distracting this mayor
from preparing his city for the storm that's coming so
that you can have a video package They had. He
had to stop what he was doing for them to
set the cameras up for him to take the call
on speaker, so she could do a call on speaker
with her camera set up. I mean, it's just ridiculous
kind of stuff like that. But you know, is just
(05:57):
a distraction. It doesn't help people in these storms. It's
about helping people. It's not about politics. So see that,
because her campaign's floundering and she's trying to find a
way to get a mantle as a leader, is just
really disrespectful to what goes on in these storms as
far as I'm concerned.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Well, I think the photo that sums her up the
best is after Helene when she was on Air Force
two and she's writing on a blank piece of paper
and her headphones aren't even plugged in, and it just
shows what an unserious woman she is, and that her
entire candidacy, everything she represents is just staged. It's manufactured,
it's fake. You know, we've seen her recently change for
(06:37):
her media strategy. I mean she went from hiding from
the media to doing you know, the view drinking beer
with Steve and Colbert. She did this Univision town hall.
Why the new strategy and what impact do you think
it's having.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Well, I think that the strategy has to change because
she's been sliding in the polls. From what I understand,
not just from President Trump pulling, but from what I
hear about her polling is she's been slipping in every
battleground state. I think, like a month ago, I was
asked about where I thought this race was going, and
I said, I think the battleground states are all going
(07:12):
to swing Donald Trump's way, and you could see an
electoral college landslide in this campaign. And that's now starting
to be borne out by polling, and so obviously internally
they're trying to figure out what to do. She tried
to ask for another debate, even though Donald Trump initially
offered her three, and she should have took that deal.
She would have had three opportunities, but they were cocky,
(07:34):
thought that they were riding high in the polls, and
she said, no, I'm just gonna do this one.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
Men will talk.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
But you know, so that's really what happened, is that
the polls have slipped on them. They're trying to find
a way to catch footing. But if Kamala Harris was
good at doing interviews and being out front without a teleprompter,
she'd have been doing this already. And look in DC,
everybody knows she's not good at this.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
We know she's not built for this.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
If she were, she would have been far more prominent
publicly during this administration. I mean, everybody remembers the clip
they sent her out there about the border crisis, and
she blew that one with Lester Holt talking about she
hadn't been to Europe, like the lady who cares, like
do your job and get to the border, and like
that's the kind of stuff where you know, she's not
really ready for prime time. She's not really built for this.
(08:19):
But Joe Biden, you know, obviously he's not capable of
doing this, and so they're really stuck. So I think
it's going to be an electoral college landslide. I don't
think the media blitz is going to help because even
if you watch these interviews, she's still not saying anything.
She's just saying more of saying nothing, you know, and
that's it's really frustrating when people are dealing with real
(08:40):
life situations to see somebody out there saying they want
to lean you, but they give you nothing, no plans,
no substance. No.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
It's like it's a tweetled and tweedledumb with you know,
Joe Biden.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Her.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
She's also changed her accent along the way. She's apparently
Jamaican with Stephen Colbert and then she has a Spanish
accent with Univision. I don't know if Americans are saying
through her, you know, fakeness and authenticity with all that.
You know. So Congressman or Donald Trump is speaking in Aurora,
(09:12):
Colorado today, is also going to be visiting California, you know,
New York. Why white visit the blue states?
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Honestly, I think the strategy is wise because now you're
in a situation where she's starting to slip in the polls.
It doesn't mean you're not emphasizing the battleground states because
all of the campaign and operations are obviously focused in
the battleground states. But I think that you start to
go across the country because Donald Trump is demonstrating He's
(09:42):
going to be a president for all America. Even if
you're in a blue state. Residents and blue states are
struggling just like they're struggling in red states because you
have terrible policy from the from the top and Joe
Biden that Kamala Harris another thing I think you're starting
to see if you really start to look at polling
across the country, which most people don't look at, the
blue states, in my opinion, are not going to be
(10:03):
as blue in twenty twenty four. I just don't see that.
So I think part of this is Donald Trump taking
the MAGA movement, if you will, into unfamiliar territory like
I was with him in the Bronx. Jesus seems like
eons ago. Now that was way before both assassination attempts,
And I was with him in the Bronx. So when
(10:24):
you got out there, you know, you're just like, holy crap,
these people love him and these people are ready for him.
And that's in the Bronx. And so I think taking
the message everywhere is important. He has the time to
do it, in part because the polling is moving in
his favor, and also the campaign, although you know they're
still raising money, obviously, but they have the resources and
(10:46):
have proven that they can compete in every battleground state,
So I think it's a smart strategy.
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you think it takes him away at all to win
a both states?
Speaker 2 (12:12):
No, I don't not at all, because he's still spending
the bulk of his time in Michigan, in Pennsylvania. I
think the campaigns in Georgia next week, so he's going
to be where.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
He needs to be.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
And then also you have to overlay that with what
Jdevans is doing. Jdevans his energy level and his schedule
is almost as much as Donald Trump, so that you
really got to commit both of.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
Them for that.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
You mentioned earlier about how you know Kamalo was hiding
from the press, Well, what President Trump and jd did
is they just filled the vacuum.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
They filled the void.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
They did every interview, they were everywhere while Kamalo was
in hiding, and that was a smart strategy then. So
I think being in Colorado. Being in California isn't going
to distract from the job that needs to be done.
You know, the president is going to be in Nevada
and Arizona this weekend. But I think that where we
are in politics today, it's not just about oh, you
spent every day in the battleground states, especially for the presidency.
(13:07):
I think for the presidency, it's about demonstrating that you
can be in any room with any people, anywhere, anytime,
be consistent, but have an agenda and have a vision
that resonates, you know, because you got people who they
might they might live in Nevada now, but they got
relatives in Colorado, or they got relatives in California. And
(13:29):
I think people talk about these things and like text
messages and group chats. Now the clipping that's a part
of presidential campaigns and politics really now where these things
are clipped and shared, you know, tens of thousands of times,
hundreds of thousands of times.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
That's kind of the new wave.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Of presidential campaigning. And I think campaigning writ large.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
When you've done that is sort of you know, stepping
into the lions down a little bit with you know,
Sydan or going on the breakfast club, and you know,
kind of spreading the Republican masses and places or message
in places where you know they're not hearing it as much.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
For me, it was always about the fact that I
never saw Republicans do that before I got elected, and
it kind of frustrated me. I was like, well, why
aren't you talking to this group of people, you know,
those you know, those Americans who typically don't vote Republican.
It's not that they don't care about our country.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
They do.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
They love our country, but they just have a worldview
that has in part been shaped by the media around them.
And so if Republicans never go into those places and
have to fight it out and battle it out about
policy and about vision and about ideals, then why would
you expect people to decide to vote for you?
Speaker 3 (14:39):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (14:40):
Like I look at voting, it's almost it's like building
a relationship. It's not you know, asking somebody for you know,
a coke or a pepsi at a restaurant. It's a relationship.
And so if you really want to have sway with
voters who were typically in moderate districts or mindsets, or
typically Democrat voters, you have to go, oh where they are.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
You know, that's why I think the President.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Embracing the teams to reunion, doing that kind of work,
being in different venues where you would say, as a
traditional Republican candidate, why are you doing it?
Speaker 3 (15:12):
It's because you're trying to.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Get to other people who've never heard from you. And
you know, that's the reason why I do I go
into the lions. That not just to have clips like
that's great, I could have clips any time of the day.
It's about taking the message to people who typically would
not hear it and have them think about it and
begin to have them see that. Look, Republicans, we stand
for the American people. We actually believe in a quality
(15:34):
economy for everybody, for sound government. But our viewpoints of
how you get there are very different, and people need
to hear that.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
When I you know, I think those efforts, you know,
are helping him in the sense of, you know, he
sort of change the Republican Party, this realignment of you know,
the working class party. And we look at the blue
Wall and looks like there's some creatoring happening. For in
a Kamala Harris, like in a Michigan there's some erosion
with union members, the Arab Americans, with young men. You
(16:01):
look at Wisconsin, you know, Cook recently moved the Senate
place Senate race there from toss up to lean Democrat.
You know, you look at Pennsylvan In Michigan and Wisconsin,
he leads on the economy, he leads on immigration into
the most important issues there.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
You know.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
So a lot of this races, you know, comes down
to the blue wall. You know, where do you think
those states you know end up here? As as we
close out until November fifth, So I.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Think President Trump's gonna win in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. I
think your undecided voter is going to lean towards him
because at the end of the day, you know, this
is in my view, this is the Pepsi taste challenge
for presidential elections.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
You've had two administrations.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Who did the better job, and I think it's really
gonna come down to that.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
Michigan.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
I just I just can never believe Michigan. I see
the polls that are coming out now, and I just
don't believe it until I see it. But I'll tell
you the impact of him winning Wisconsin in Pennsylvania, that
not only does that definitely put Michigan in play. But
what it also does it puts Bob Casey, the Senator
in Pennsylvania on his heel. I saw him on stage
(17:13):
with Barack Obama yesterday. That all that tells me all
I need to know that he's he's scared if he's
now out going to be campaigning, because nobody's ever seen
Bob Casey. I mean, you could have picked the guy
out in a lineup. Nobody's seen him. It puts Tammy
Baldwin in Wisconsin in a real problem, in a real bind.
And I think the polling in Wisconsin is demonstrating that.
(17:33):
So you know, I think the battle rounds actually end
up going to lean towards Donald Trump in this final
stretch here as people are going to the bulls.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
And we've had Bernie Marino and Eric Cubdy on the
show who running in Ohio or with David McCormick rather
running in Pennsylvania and Air cub D running in Wisconsin
on the show. You know, you look at Kamala Harris,
I feel like her messaging is just it's so strange
because she's simultaneously trying to present herself as some new
(18:05):
path forward is this you know, new vision for America.
But then when asked on the view recently if there's
anything you know she would basically separate herself from Joe
Biden from she said, you know, no, and that they're
you know, basically she's been a part of all the
big decision making. So it's like, I don't you know,
what's the message to voters? Then, like, you know, who
are you and what do you represent?
Speaker 3 (18:27):
There's no there's no message there. I'm just gonna be
straight with you.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
The message for voters from that team from her campaign
is I'm not Joe Biden, I'm not Donald Trump. Okay,
so what what are you going to do? And that's
the problem is because she won't tell anybody what she's
going to do, because we already know what she's going
to do. She is going to be the next face
on the Democrat machine. She's gonna essentially sit in the
(18:53):
White House, She'll go out and give scripted comments when
they tell her to, and you'll have the cabal of
unelected technocrat's run this government. She truly does believe in
government by experts. And let me let me do a
little quick history lesson on this one. Lisa This isn't
new for the Democrat Party, not new at all. Their
(19:13):
presidents have always believed in in in this committee of
experts that would guide the government and by and by
and by guide the people. And so because of that,
because of that fact, you have a situation where their
decisions are really disconnected from what's going on in the
lives of people. And then politically, it makes hard. It's
(19:33):
hard for you to reverse course because you've already made
these decisions. You've given all the speeches because the technocrats
told you to give all these speeches. And then when
the speeches are done and the policy doesn't work, then
you're trying to either gaslight, blame shift, bring Republicans into it,
or somebody else. And so I think with her, the
reason why there's no core message is because she's stuck
(19:56):
to Joe Biden. Because she was VP, she was key
in all these decision But at the same time, she
can't throw the Democratic Technocrats under the bus because they're
the ones who were truly running this country and we
see that they're running it into the ground. And so
that's why I think she struggled in her messaging. And
then to top it all off and I'm a sports fan.
(20:16):
I'm a big sports guy, and you know, one of
the big sports casters in the country would always say
that you could tell you know an athlete that's never
going to win championships because they have low intangibles or
they have loser in tamp intangibles. Well, look, Kamala Harris
has loser in tampled intangibles. There's just no way the
other way around it. You know, like, if you're running
for president at this point in your career, you've been
(20:38):
in politics twenty years, You've been a US senator, attorney general,
vice president. You mean to tell me you can't go
out there and run a campaign effectively when the entire
media apparatus is supporting you. That just means you have
loser in tangibles and that you just don't have what
it takes to win. But that was proven already because
when she ran for president in twenty twenty, her campaign
(20:59):
fell part. She couldn't even make it to a state.
And at that time that people remember, she raised the
most money of any Democratic candidate. She was polling in
the lead of any Democratic candidate, and it all fell
apart before she got to a primary state. So this
isn't new. This is still the same Kamala Harris. It's
just that now that she has a billion dollars instead
of one hundred million dollars.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
Congressman, anything you'd like to leave us with before we go.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
Honestly, I think at this point this election is about
getting out to vote. People need to just go get
to the polls, get there early, don't mess around, don't
wait to election day, get to the polls, make your
voices heard. You really have a choice between Kamala Harris
and Donald Trump. Kamala Harris is going to do what
Joe Biden has done. There's not going to be many changes.
(21:45):
You'll just have a new face that can that's better
at the teleprompter. Donald Trump is going to make decisions.
We've lived under his presidency. It was actually a great
presidency and we didn't talk foreign policy at all. But
our foreign policy is a mess. So who do you
want having to go toto toe with Putin and Xiji ping,
Kamala Harris or Donald Trump. I mean, let's be honest,
it's not really a contest there.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
I just think.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
America is need to just do the right thing. Vote
for Donald Trump. Let's get our country on track and
then let's find out all the other things we got
to fix, so America continue to be great.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
Heymen Congress and Byron donald thanks so much for joining us.
I really appreciate you making the time no problem. Thanks
Lisa those Congress and Byron Donalds of Florida. Appreciate him
for making the time to come on the show. Appreciate
you guys at home for listening every Monday and Thursday,
but you can listen throughout the week. I want to
think John Cassie and my producer for putting the show together.
Until next time.
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