Congressman Jim Banks discusses his humble background and the importance of representing working-class Americans. He highlights the shift of working-class voters towards the Republican Party and the need for the party to prioritize their interests. He also exposes the profit motive behind the border crisis and criticizes the Democrats for benefiting politically and financially from it. 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 (00:00):
As we get closer to November. With this presidential election,
we've seen a massive realignment in American politics with working
class voters flocking to the Republican Party because of Donald Trump.
I mean, he is the one who is spearheaded this
realignment in American politics. So today we're going to talk
to someone who is part of that shift. He grew
(00:22):
up in a working class family, he grew up in
a trailer park, and now he's running for Senate. We're
going to talk to Congressman Jim Banks from Indiana, who
is running for Senate. There there was this recent political
article talking about how he would shake up the Senate because,
as he stated, I don't come from a rich or
powerful family. I'm not a self funder. So we're going
(00:43):
to talk to him a little bit about his upbringing,
why we've seen this realignment in American politics, why working
class voters have shifted to Donald Trump will also get
into the twenty twenty four election, what does he think
is going to happen. And also we're going to talk
about how Democrats are profiting off of the border crisis.
Stay tuned for Congressman Jim Banks, soon to be Senator.
(01:06):
Banks from Indiana. Well, Congressman, I guess I should say
soon to be Senator Jim Banks. It's great to have
you on this show. I appreciate you making the time, sir.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Hey, Lisa, good to be with you.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Well, thank you. You know, sir, I was reading this
Politico article recently and it was talking about how you
would represent a shift in the Senate. And as you stated,
you said, I don't come from a rich or powerful family.
I'm not a self funder. You talked about how you
know you grew up in a trailer park. What was
your life like growing up?
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Well, it was that. I mean, I came from very
humble roots. My dad retired from a factory where he
made axles all of his life. My mom was a
cook and a nursing home for over thirty years of
her working life. And I was the oldest of three boys.
And I remember my mom and dad always talking about
they work hard so that my two brothers and I
(02:03):
could grow up and maybe do something better than they did.
My dad was a part of a true blue hillbilly family,
and I say that in the nicest, most affectionate way.
My grandparents came from South East Appalachian Kentucky. My grandpa
was a coal miner and he moved the Banks family
(02:24):
to northeast Indiana to my hometown today for better work.
And then my dad worked hard all of his life.
And you see that generational upward mobility. That that is Lisa,
to my parents, to my family, that's the American dream.
In the same way that I'm working hard every day
serving my country in the prime of my life, both
(02:48):
in uniform and now in Congress, to try to preserve
that American dream for my three girls so that they
grow up with something better than what I had. And
when I'm most struck by my is a couple of things. One, uh,
we are at risk of being the first generation in
American history that turns this great country over to our
(03:10):
kids in worse shape than we found it. And I
refuse to do that. I refuse to be a part
of that generation. But if we if we continue down
the track of biodynamics and the radical Democrat policies in
our country, that's exactly what's going to happen. But the other,
the other aspect of my story, I think that's I
don't see it as special or unique, but you're finding
(03:32):
that American politics is becoming the playground of rich and
powerful people, and it shouldn't be that way. I'm not
a self funder. I don't have the extra income to
fund a congressional race or to buy a seat in
the United States Senate. Unfortunately, that's a growing trend in
American politics of self funders, very wealthy self funders, especially
(03:54):
in the United States Senate. That's that's just not who
I am or where I come from. And I think
the best part of about that is my background is
a lot more like normal working class Hoosiers than a
lot of the people who are serving their states or
their districts. And that puts me, I think, Lisa in
a I'll quit rambling with this thought. It puts me
(04:16):
in a position where I could represent people who I
who I'm elected to represent. I shot at the same
Walmart that they do. I see the price increases from inflation.
I struggle with, you know, looking at the increase and
interest rates and mortgages, and I can't afford full time
(04:37):
daycare for my girls. My wife and I, you know,
we we do everything we can to raise our girls.
And during the pandemic, we felt the we felt the
pain of what it meant to shut down schools and
send kids home, and how difficult that made it for
working families. So I think if anything about that, that
background and story that I have, I think I think
(04:58):
it only makes me a better represent and hopefully a
better senator when I get to the Senate too.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
But you know we're saying a big shift and working
class voters coming over to the Republican Party. Why do
you think we're seeing that shift? What is behind that?
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Yeah? I think this is so good for the Republican
Party and we have to seize upon it and keep
the Republican Party the party of the working class. I
think about my dad again. He was a union factory
worker who voted Democrat most of his life because he
felt like the Democrats were the party of the working
people and it couldn't be anything that couldn't be anything
(05:34):
further from the truth. Today, I remember, Lisa. In twenty sixteen,
I got elected to Congress. My middle brother got elected
to a county council office in my home county. But
my dad was so much more excited about Trump getting
elected to president than he was either one of us.
And I still laugh about that. I've told President Trump
(05:56):
about that and President Trump, of course he appreciates here
that my dad was more excited about him than me too.
But my dad is your typical quintessential working class voter
who wasn't a Republican before Donald Trump, and now he's
a hardcore Trump America First Republican. And we got to
(06:16):
keep the Republican Party where Donald Trump has has placed
it representing working class values, not Wall Street and corporate
America values. And I think that's the that's the that's
the shift in American politics. The paradigm shift in American
politics is the Democrats are now more beholden to corporate America,
Wall Street, selling us out to China and sending our
(06:39):
jobs overseas. And the Republican Party is the is the
main Street America first policy, putting American workers first, and
immigration policies, in economic policies and even in our in
our foreign policy. That when we keep the Republican Party
planted there, we're a bigger, stronger party. That's how we
win national election. Instance why I believe Donald Trump is
(07:01):
going to win handily in November, because the Democrats have
drifted so far to the socialist left that they have
nothing in common with working class voters like my dad anymore,
like maybe like they did a generation or two ago.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
You know, we're saying that show up in the polls,
most recently in New York Times Battleground survey, finding that
Donald Trump is winning five out of six key battleground states.
Now we've got a debate before the conventions. If Biden bombs,
will they replace him?
Speaker 2 (07:30):
I think they're stuck with him. People ask me this
question every single day. I think they're stuck with them.
I think they know it. They know that Kamala Harris
would be even worse than Joe Biden on the ballot
in November, and they know they can't get rid of
her because what are they going to do. They're gonna
replace her with a white guy like Gavin Newsom or
(07:50):
Pritzker or someone like that, a governor from Illinois. They
can't get away with it. I mean, they've dug themselves
in this painful hole. And at the end of the day,
the policies over the last four years are just so
night and day difference from the Trump policies four years
before that. And that's why I think Donald Trump is
(08:10):
That's one of the big reasons that Trump is surging
in all of the battleground states. You see getting back
to this working class voter theme. I mean, Donald Trump
is doing better with African American voters and any Republican
before him, with Latino voters and any Republican before him.
Why is that? Because these are working class voters that
(08:31):
know that Donald Trump will save their good paying job
and Democrats will send it overseas and Democrats will drive
up the cost of living make it harder for working
class voters to get by. That's why they're flocking to
Trump and so hungry to get him back into the
White House. The other reason that Trump is surging is
(08:52):
because of the constant un American witch hunt against them
that we're seeing in the courtrooms. And the American people
have had enough of it. They see it for what
it is. Is entirely politically motivated, and it's disgusting. It's
not what this country stands for. And they're they're persecuting
Donald Trump more than anyone I believe in at least
(09:13):
in my lifetime, has ever been persecuted before in America
because their political beliefs. That's what they're doing to Donald
Trump to try to stop him to get back to
the White House. It's the only it's the only chance
they have to prevent him from going there is to
lock him up in jail.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Yeah, I mean I feel like he you know, Joe
Biden used to be able to be like, oh, at
least I'm not Trump, and now we're saying, well, Americans
want Trump, So that doesn't really work anymore. You know,
he recently held Secretary of Basara's feed to the fire
on Democrats and their friends. You know, these NGOs getting
rich off of the border crisis. Tell us a little
(09:47):
bit about that. What should people know about the profit
motive of allowing this border crisis to continue?
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Well, it was really struck by you know, every year
the cabinet secretaries come before our committees and they come
to defend their budget request. In this case, Secretary of Sarah,
Secretary of Health and Human Services is requesting like up
almost ten billion dollars to give to NGOs that are
(10:16):
supposedly taking care of these unaccompanied kids that come across
the southern border. But what's striking about is that ten
billion dollars so much more than what we've ever spent
before to send these these NGOs. So I read a
free press story about this. I forget the author's name,
but it's a really, really incredible and powerful story that
(10:37):
that sort of tie ties together. These NGOs are run
by Democrats and like Obama administration officials and Democrats who
were involved in like vetting appointments at HHS. I mean,
this is a this is a total racket. And then
(10:58):
you look at how much the seat eos of these
NGOs that, by the way, used to work for Barack
and Michelle Obama and work in the Biden administration. They're
making like a million dollars a year to run these
NGOs to take care of these poor kids that are
coming across the border. So, just like with everything else,
when it comes to the Biden policies, you start pulling
(11:19):
the thread and you realize that they're making a lot
of money off of it. They're making money off of
policies that lure these kids over the border. And I'm
a girl dad. At least I have three girls fourteen, twelve,
and eleven years old, so pray for me for that,
But I'm a girl dad. I read these stories about
(11:41):
girls coming across the border and they're sexually assaulted, like
one in three of them are sexually assaulted coming across
the border. And I think back to when Trump was
at office, they talked, they used to cry about the
inhumane policies of the Trump administration. By the way they worked,
they were a deterrent and like it was, the statistics
are a drop in the bucket of unaccompanied miners coming
(12:02):
across the border under Trump versus under under Biden. What
what What could possibly be more inhumane than policies that
draw young girls across the border who one and three
are being sexually assaulted and then they're then they're being
sent into UH sex trafficking, labor trafficking situations as miners.
(12:22):
And it's all directly tied to Joe Biden, Secretary of
Bessara's policies. And then when you find out the Democrats
are getting rich off of it, it just it infuriates me.
And that's that's why I that's why I was tough
on Secretary of Bessara this week on that UH, on
those questions. Of course, he can't defend it because he
knows he's personally responsible for it. It's just disgusting.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Well it is disgusting, and I don't want to scare you,
but my Mom told me that I was more difficult
to raise than all three brothers combined. So yeah, I
meant for its well. Or maybe I was just a handful.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
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You've got the NGO is making money, as you just
laid out for the audience. And then and then you've
got during this twenty twenty one hearing about Haitian migrants,
Representative Yvette Clark of New York stating, I need more
(14:27):
people in my district just for redistricting purposes. So you know,
if Democrats and their friends are profiting off of the
border crisis, and they're benefiting politically, why would they shut
it down.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Yeah, I've said all along that the Biden border policies
the biggest humanitarian crisis in American history at the southern border.
It's all by design, it's all calculated. It's a Democrat
strategy to flood our country with future Democrat voters. And
then then you find out they're getting rid off of it,
and you realize just how corrupt the Democrats are, and
(15:03):
the Biden administration is so yeah, I mean now there
now he's sort of now that they've flooded our country
with ten million illegals and they want you know, they're
pumping in into congressional districts where those illegals count for
in the census as they as they draw the maps
and and helped tilt the favorite toward the Democrats to
(15:25):
give them permanent power. I mean, that's what this is
all about. It's all about power for them. So it's
all by design. Now now we're six months before the election.
The Democrats know they're in trouble. They're you have like
twelve so called you know, more moderate they're not really
moderates anymore, but so called the more the more, uh,
the more moderate Democrats who are crying out like a
(15:47):
list of Slotkin who wants to join me in the Senate.
She's running in Michigan, and now all of a sudden,
she's pretending that she cares about the border and begging
Biden to like do something about it, and and and
the Biden administration is trying to make sort of last minute,
you know, fake moves to try to pretend like they're
doing something about the border, but they're not. I mean,
at the end of the day, they're not doing anything
(16:08):
about it. Joe Biden, with a stroke of a pen,
made it happen. With the stroke of a pen, he
could secure the border and return us to the Trump policies.
It's going to take Donald Trump winning in November. It's
going to take a Senate Republican majority and growing the
Republican majority in the House to secure the border. That's
how we fix it. And I hate to say it
(16:29):
when we say every election cycle this is the most
important election cycle of our lifetime. This one really is
the most important election of our lifetime. If we don't
do something to fix this now, I'm afraid we're not
going to have This great country is going to go
by the wayside, and it's not going to be the
great country that we know all of it to be
if we don't do something now to fix it.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
Yeah, And it's interesting I was reading there was a
recent Axio survey that found that fifty one percent of
Americans now want mass deportations. So you know, Joe Biden
has actually created an environment where now the majority of
Americans are more aligned with Donald trump On on border security.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Now, yeah, and in that same Actualio's Pool has said
that a large number of Democrats support master deportations. So yeah,
this country uh is has been awakened to the threat.
It's not it's not just I mean where I come
from in Indiana. The it's the illegals coming into our
(17:28):
country that's disruptive to our labor market. They take our jobs.
But it's also the violent crime. You can't you know,
now we've become sort of you look at the news
and you read the you you read these stories or
on the evening news, you see these stories of violent
crimes from uh uh illegals who have come across our border.
And then and then the sad the saddest part for
(17:50):
me because it's personal and I've I've met the families.
There's not a community in Indiana that I that I
don't go to anymore that hasn't been affected or family
that hasn't been affected by the drug crisis. Fenton all
the leading cause of death of Americans, my age of
working age, of military eligible age in this country. And
(18:11):
the stories that I hear from moms and families all
over the place who have had a loved one die
of a fentanyl overdose. It's all directly tied to Joe
Biden and the Democrat border policies. And that's again, it's
why I believe Donald Trump's going to win in a
land saw a landslide this election. Republicans are going to
(18:32):
win the Senate majority and the House majority. And then then, Lisa,
we have a moral duty to do what we said
we were going to do and make this our top
priority from the outset in the next Congress and the
next administration to fix it.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
Well, we're counting on you to help lead that charge
in the Senate. Congressman Jim Banks, soon to be Senator
Jim Banks, appreciate you making the time for the show.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Thank you great to be with you.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
That is Congressman Jim Banks of Indiana running for Senate.
Most likely when that race, it would be shocking if
he didn't so. Soon to be Senator Jim Banks appreciate
you guys at home for listening every Monday and Thursday,
but you can listen throughout the week. I want to
think John Cassio and my producer for putting the show together.
Until next time,
As we get closer to November. With this presidential election,
we've seen a massive realignment in American politics with working
class voters flocking to the Republican Party because of Donald Trump.
I mean, he is the one who is spearheaded this
realignment in American politics. So today we're going to talk
to someone who is part of that shift. He grew
(00:22):
up in a working class family, he grew up in
a trailer park, and now he's running for Senate. We're
going to talk to Congressman Jim Banks from Indiana, who
is running for Senate. There there was this recent political
article talking about how he would shake up the Senate because,
as he stated, I don't come from a rich or
powerful family. I'm not a self funder. So we're going
(00:43):
to talk to him a little bit about his upbringing,
why we've seen this realignment in American politics, why working
class voters have shifted to Donald Trump will also get
into the twenty twenty four election, what does he think
is going to happen. And also we're going to talk
about how Democrats are profiting off of the border crisis.
Stay tuned for Congressman Jim Banks, soon to be Senator.
(01:06):
Banks from Indiana. Well, Congressman, I guess I should say
soon to be Senator Jim Banks. It's great to have
you on this show. I appreciate you making the time, sir.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Hey, Lisa, good to be with you.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Well, thank you. You know, sir, I was reading this
Politico article recently and it was talking about how you
would represent a shift in the Senate. And as you stated,
you said, I don't come from a rich or powerful family.
I'm not a self funder. You talked about how you
know you grew up in a trailer park. What was
your life like growing up?
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Well, it was that. I mean, I came from very
humble roots. My dad retired from a factory where he
made axles all of his life. My mom was a
cook and a nursing home for over thirty years of
her working life. And I was the oldest of three boys.
And I remember my mom and dad always talking about
they work hard so that my two brothers and I
(02:03):
could grow up and maybe do something better than they did.
My dad was a part of a true blue hillbilly family,
and I say that in the nicest, most affectionate way.
My grandparents came from South East Appalachian Kentucky. My grandpa
was a coal miner and he moved the Banks family
(02:24):
to northeast Indiana to my hometown today for better work.
And then my dad worked hard all of his life.
And you see that generational upward mobility. That that is Lisa,
to my parents, to my family, that's the American dream.
In the same way that I'm working hard every day
serving my country in the prime of my life, both
(02:48):
in uniform and now in Congress, to try to preserve
that American dream for my three girls so that they
grow up with something better than what I had. And
when I'm most struck by my is a couple of things. One, uh,
we are at risk of being the first generation in
American history that turns this great country over to our
(03:10):
kids in worse shape than we found it. And I
refuse to do that. I refuse to be a part
of that generation. But if we if we continue down
the track of biodynamics and the radical Democrat policies in
our country, that's exactly what's going to happen. But the other,
the other aspect of my story, I think that's I
don't see it as special or unique, but you're finding
(03:32):
that American politics is becoming the playground of rich and
powerful people, and it shouldn't be that way. I'm not
a self funder. I don't have the extra income to
fund a congressional race or to buy a seat in
the United States Senate. Unfortunately, that's a growing trend in
American politics of self funders, very wealthy self funders, especially
(03:54):
in the United States Senate. That's that's just not who
I am or where I come from. And I think
the best part of about that is my background is
a lot more like normal working class Hoosiers than a
lot of the people who are serving their states or
their districts. And that puts me, I think, Lisa in
a I'll quit rambling with this thought. It puts me
(04:16):
in a position where I could represent people who I
who I'm elected to represent. I shot at the same
Walmart that they do. I see the price increases from inflation.
I struggle with, you know, looking at the increase and
interest rates and mortgages, and I can't afford full time
(04:37):
daycare for my girls. My wife and I, you know,
we we do everything we can to raise our girls.
And during the pandemic, we felt the we felt the
pain of what it meant to shut down schools and
send kids home, and how difficult that made it for
working families. So I think if anything about that, that
background and story that I have, I think I think
(04:58):
it only makes me a better represent and hopefully a
better senator when I get to the Senate too.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
But you know we're saying a big shift and working
class voters coming over to the Republican Party. Why do
you think we're seeing that shift? What is behind that?
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Yeah? I think this is so good for the Republican
Party and we have to seize upon it and keep
the Republican Party the party of the working class. I
think about my dad again. He was a union factory
worker who voted Democrat most of his life because he
felt like the Democrats were the party of the working
people and it couldn't be anything that couldn't be anything
(05:34):
further from the truth. Today, I remember, Lisa. In twenty sixteen,
I got elected to Congress. My middle brother got elected
to a county council office in my home county. But
my dad was so much more excited about Trump getting
elected to president than he was either one of us.
And I still laugh about that. I've told President Trump
(05:56):
about that and President Trump, of course he appreciates here
that my dad was more excited about him than me too.
But my dad is your typical quintessential working class voter
who wasn't a Republican before Donald Trump, and now he's
a hardcore Trump America First Republican. And we got to
(06:16):
keep the Republican Party where Donald Trump has has placed
it representing working class values, not Wall Street and corporate
America values. And I think that's the that's the that's
the shift in American politics. The paradigm shift in American
politics is the Democrats are now more beholden to corporate America,
Wall Street, selling us out to China and sending our
(06:39):
jobs overseas. And the Republican Party is the is the
main Street America first policy, putting American workers first, and
immigration policies, in economic policies and even in our in
our foreign policy. That when we keep the Republican Party
planted there, we're a bigger, stronger party. That's how we
win national election. Instance why I believe Donald Trump is
(07:01):
going to win handily in November, because the Democrats have
drifted so far to the socialist left that they have
nothing in common with working class voters like my dad anymore,
like maybe like they did a generation or two ago.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
You know, we're saying that show up in the polls,
most recently in New York Times Battleground survey, finding that
Donald Trump is winning five out of six key battleground states.
Now we've got a debate before the conventions. If Biden bombs,
will they replace him?
Speaker 2 (07:30):
I think they're stuck with him. People ask me this
question every single day. I think they're stuck with them.
I think they know it. They know that Kamala Harris
would be even worse than Joe Biden on the ballot
in November, and they know they can't get rid of
her because what are they going to do. They're gonna
replace her with a white guy like Gavin Newsom or
(07:50):
Pritzker or someone like that, a governor from Illinois. They
can't get away with it. I mean, they've dug themselves
in this painful hole. And at the end of the day,
the policies over the last four years are just so
night and day difference from the Trump policies four years
before that. And that's why I think Donald Trump is
(08:10):
That's one of the big reasons that Trump is surging
in all of the battleground states. You see getting back
to this working class voter theme. I mean, Donald Trump
is doing better with African American voters and any Republican
before him, with Latino voters and any Republican before him.
Why is that? Because these are working class voters that
(08:31):
know that Donald Trump will save their good paying job
and Democrats will send it overseas and Democrats will drive
up the cost of living make it harder for working
class voters to get by. That's why they're flocking to
Trump and so hungry to get him back into the
White House. The other reason that Trump is surging is
(08:52):
because of the constant un American witch hunt against them
that we're seeing in the courtrooms. And the American people
have had enough of it. They see it for what
it is. Is entirely politically motivated, and it's disgusting. It's
not what this country stands for. And they're they're persecuting
Donald Trump more than anyone I believe in at least
(09:13):
in my lifetime, has ever been persecuted before in America
because their political beliefs. That's what they're doing to Donald
Trump to try to stop him to get back to
the White House. It's the only it's the only chance
they have to prevent him from going there is to
lock him up in jail.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Yeah, I mean I feel like he you know, Joe
Biden used to be able to be like, oh, at
least I'm not Trump, and now we're saying, well, Americans
want Trump, So that doesn't really work anymore. You know,
he recently held Secretary of Basara's feed to the fire
on Democrats and their friends. You know, these NGOs getting
rich off of the border crisis. Tell us a little
(09:47):
bit about that. What should people know about the profit
motive of allowing this border crisis to continue?
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Well, it was really struck by you know, every year
the cabinet secretaries come before our committees and they come
to defend their budget request. In this case, Secretary of Sarah,
Secretary of Health and Human Services is requesting like up
almost ten billion dollars to give to NGOs that are
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supposedly taking care of these unaccompanied kids that come across
the southern border. But what's striking about is that ten
billion dollars so much more than what we've ever spent
before to send these these NGOs. So I read a
free press story about this. I forget the author's name,
but it's a really, really incredible and powerful story that
(10:37):
that sort of tie ties together. These NGOs are run
by Democrats and like Obama administration officials and Democrats who
were involved in like vetting appointments at HHS. I mean,
this is a this is a total racket. And then
(10:58):
you look at how much the seat eos of these
NGOs that, by the way, used to work for Barack
and Michelle Obama and work in the Biden administration. They're
making like a million dollars a year to run these
NGOs to take care of these poor kids that are
coming across the border. So, just like with everything else,
when it comes to the Biden policies, you start pulling
(11:19):
the thread and you realize that they're making a lot
of money off of it. They're making money off of
policies that lure these kids over the border. And I'm
a girl dad. At least I have three girls fourteen, twelve,
and eleven years old, so pray for me for that,
But I'm a girl dad. I read these stories about
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girls coming across the border and they're sexually assaulted, like
one in three of them are sexually assaulted coming across
the border. And I think back to when Trump was
at office, they talked, they used to cry about the
inhumane policies of the Trump administration. By the way they worked,
they were a deterrent and like it was, the statistics
are a drop in the bucket of unaccompanied miners coming
(12:02):
across the border under Trump versus under under Biden. What
what What could possibly be more inhumane than policies that
draw young girls across the border who one and three
are being sexually assaulted and then they're then they're being
sent into UH sex trafficking, labor trafficking situations as miners.
(12:22):
And it's all directly tied to Joe Biden, Secretary of
Bessara's policies. And then when you find out the Democrats
are getting rich off of it, it just it infuriates me.
And that's that's why I that's why I was tough
on Secretary of Bessara this week on that UH, on
those questions. Of course, he can't defend it because he
knows he's personally responsible for it. It's just disgusting.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Well it is disgusting, and I don't want to scare you,
but my Mom told me that I was more difficult
to raise than all three brothers combined. So yeah, I
meant for its well. Or maybe I was just a handful.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
I don't know.
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You've got the NGO is making money, as you just
laid out for the audience. And then and then you've
got during this twenty twenty one hearing about Haitian migrants,
Representative Yvette Clark of New York stating, I need more
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people in my district just for redistricting purposes. So you know,
if Democrats and their friends are profiting off of the
border crisis, and they're benefiting politically, why would they shut
it down.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Yeah, I've said all along that the Biden border policies
the biggest humanitarian crisis in American history at the southern border.
It's all by design, it's all calculated. It's a Democrat
strategy to flood our country with future Democrat voters. And
then then you find out they're getting rid off of it,
and you realize just how corrupt the Democrats are, and
(15:03):
the Biden administration is so yeah, I mean now there
now he's sort of now that they've flooded our country
with ten million illegals and they want you know, they're
pumping in into congressional districts where those illegals count for
in the census as they as they draw the maps
and and helped tilt the favorite toward the Democrats to
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give them permanent power. I mean, that's what this is
all about. It's all about power for them. So it's
all by design. Now now we're six months before the election.
The Democrats know they're in trouble. They're you have like
twelve so called you know, more moderate they're not really
moderates anymore, but so called the more the more, uh,
the more moderate Democrats who are crying out like a
(15:47):
list of Slotkin who wants to join me in the Senate.
She's running in Michigan, and now all of a sudden,
she's pretending that she cares about the border and begging
Biden to like do something about it, and and and
the Biden administration is trying to make sort of last minute,
you know, fake moves to try to pretend like they're
doing something about the border, but they're not. I mean,
at the end of the day, they're not doing anything
(16:08):
about it. Joe Biden, with a stroke of a pen,
made it happen. With the stroke of a pen, he
could secure the border and return us to the Trump policies.
It's going to take Donald Trump winning in November. It's
going to take a Senate Republican majority and growing the
Republican majority in the House to secure the border. That's
how we fix it. And I hate to say it
(16:29):
when we say every election cycle this is the most
important election cycle of our lifetime. This one really is
the most important election of our lifetime. If we don't
do something to fix this now, I'm afraid we're not
going to have This great country is going to go
by the wayside, and it's not going to be the
great country that we know all of it to be
if we don't do something now to fix it.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
Yeah, And it's interesting I was reading there was a
recent Axio survey that found that fifty one percent of
Americans now want mass deportations. So you know, Joe Biden
has actually created an environment where now the majority of
Americans are more aligned with Donald trump On on border security.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Now, yeah, and in that same Actualio's Pool has said
that a large number of Democrats support master deportations. So yeah,
this country uh is has been awakened to the threat.
It's not it's not just I mean where I come
from in Indiana. The it's the illegals coming into our
(17:28):
country that's disruptive to our labor market. They take our jobs.
But it's also the violent crime. You can't you know,
now we've become sort of you look at the news
and you read the you you read these stories or
on the evening news, you see these stories of violent
crimes from uh uh illegals who have come across our border.
And then and then the sad the saddest part for
(17:50):
me because it's personal and I've I've met the families.
There's not a community in Indiana that I that I
don't go to anymore that hasn't been affected or family
that hasn't been affected by the drug crisis. Fenton all
the leading cause of death of Americans, my age of
working age, of military eligible age in this country. And
(18:11):
the stories that I hear from moms and families all
over the place who have had a loved one die
of a fentanyl overdose. It's all directly tied to Joe
Biden and the Democrat border policies. And that's again, it's
why I believe Donald Trump's going to win in a
land saw a landslide this election. Republicans are going to
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win the Senate majority and the House majority. And then then, Lisa,
we have a moral duty to do what we said
we were going to do and make this our top
priority from the outset in the next Congress and the
next administration to fix it.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
Well, we're counting on you to help lead that charge
in the Senate. Congressman Jim Banks, soon to be Senator
Jim Banks, appreciate you making the time for the show.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Thank you great to be with you.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
That is Congressman Jim Banks of Indiana running for Senate.
Most likely when that race, it would be shocking if
he didn't so. Soon to be Senator Jim Banks appreciate
you guys at home for listening every Monday and Thursday,
but you can listen throughout the week. I want to
think John Cassio and my producer for putting the show together.
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