Mitch McConnell Will Not Seek Re-Election in 2026

Mitch McConnell Will Not Seek Re-Election in 2026

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Senate has voted to confirm Cash Battel the new
director of the FBI. It was close as you would
expect it to be, but it did.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
It did. Yep. That there we go.

Speaker 1 (00:15):
And yeah, so congratulations to Cash Battel. Also congratulations to
Mitch McConnell. Mitch McConnell. You know what Mitch said there,
Maddie boy, Huck, Mitch is done. He will not seek
reelection in the election of twenty twenty six when his
term ends, which is a good time to do this now,
because you know everybody's making their plans to run for

(00:37):
election for the midterms by you know, twenty six. Did
you know that Mitch McConnell was still alive, Well, you know,
we talked about him I semi recently. He was doing
that whole freeze dance thing that people weren't into, you know,
like where they weren't they weren't in on it. They
didn't know it was coming, so he just would kind
of freeze. He must have been listening to that song
while he was talking and.

Speaker 2 (00:56):
Everybody freeze and then it just never started again. Maybe
he was trying to start it. Maybe his grandkids were
telling him about like TikTok and they were like, you
should try to start a TikTok trend. Graham, Pappy, I
don't think so. No, no, I you know what I think.
I think he's the uh. I think he's just old.
I think he's an octogenarian. Who I don't I don't

(01:19):
know he Uh. I have a bad guy for saying this.
He's too old. He's just too old. Some guys can
be really old and being like Chuck Grassley, the Iowa guys,
he's like ninety's still he's still doing it, man, and
he's still sharp as attack. I've talked to that guy recently.

Speaker 1 (01:37):
You know, when you talk to somebody, you know, in
front of the cameras, they can maybe put on a
happy face. When you see a person face to face,
you're able to like kind of really feel like, hey,
I'm talking to this person legitimately right, he's still sharp
ninety one. By the way, Chuck Grassley, he's ninety one
and he is he is del What is his What
is his secret? What is Chuck Grassley's secret? How do

(02:01):
you get to be ninety one years old and you're
in a job that demanding not just the physical physical
part of it, and I say physical, not that he's
doing a lot of like heavy weightlifting, but he's got
to he's flying all over the place. Have you heard
of the Full Grass Ley. This is something he does
in Iowa, the Full Grass lea full Grass League. He
visits every single Iowa county once per year. You know

(02:24):
how many counties are in Iowa, seventy two, ninety nine,
so that's ninety nine different stops that he continues to
commit to doing. Now, Joni Ernst has followed in his footsteps.
She's been in Congress for a while now as well,
and every year she does the same thing. So they
don't do it at the same time, but you know,
as their schedules allow, they schedule stops to talk and

(02:45):
meet people in all ninety nine counties once per year.
That's a lot on top of being in Washington and
doing their duties in Washington. Right now, I'm just saying this,
the guy's ninety one years old. What's the secret? What's
the secret sauce that he has on his farm in
New Hartford on the Iowa side of the river that

(03:06):
allows him to do that. Isn't that insane?

Speaker 2 (03:10):
It's very impressive.

Speaker 1 (03:12):
Now, eighty three years old doesn't sound that old compared
to a ninety one year old. But we just had
an eighty three year old as President of the United States,
and we were seeing what the heck was that was
going on. And I'm not trying to be mister old
people can't do stuff, because I just told you that
a ninety one year old Chuck Grasley can do stuff.
But at some point somebody close to Mitch McConnell has

(03:33):
to be like, you are too old for this and
your health is not good right like, And he said
he was not going to maintain being the leader of
the Senate for the Republicans. So he's not John Thune
is now, but Mitch McConnell is still chair of the
Senate Rules Committee. He's still a very important figure.

Speaker 2 (03:50):
It's got to be a test, you know. It's just
got to be a test everybody should take. It doesn't
matter your ager, it's got to be a test you
got to take just to make sure make sure what
make sure all your marvels are nice and shined up
and up there.

Speaker 1 (04:02):
I have been a big advocate on this show of
we need to increase like as you age your drive,
like you should have to drive, to get your license renewed.

Speaker 2 (04:10):
I think after a certain amount of time.

Speaker 1 (04:12):
This is again, this is going to sound terrible coming
from a guy in his early thirties. I'm just telling you,
I read too many things of people that are aging
and they're not fully aware of the surroundings and they
get into a car accident and it not only harms them,
but it harms the people around them. I'm just saying,
this guy is making legislation. I was under the impression
he was leading the Senate while he was having these

(04:34):
freeze up moments where he just kind of stood there
and just kind of forgot where he was. I'm not
making fun of him. This isn't a fun thing to
talk about. It's just this is a guy who you know,
it's concerning it. This is what our leadership in this
country looks like, is behaving like. So I'm happy he's
put it in a ton of service. And I know
that he's quite polarizing to a lot of Republicans these

(04:55):
days because he voted against Pete Haig Sith to be
Secretary Defense. He's gone against Donald Trump repeatedly here in
the last five years. I he's done great work. He
has been re elected many times for different types of
things within his party and from the state of Kentucky.
And I don't know, I just I feel like he

(05:17):
he's been the state center from Kentucky since nineteen eighty five.
Did you know that that's a long long time. Kentucky
has had multiple opportunity. You can say that, you know,
incumbents have insane advantages, and that is true. But when
you're reelected that many times, the people of Kentucky get
sick of you. They could have an uprising and somebody
challenge him from within the party for a primary or

(05:38):
maybe a Democrat, could you know, surprise us from Kentucky
and maybe try to, you know, steal his seat.

Speaker 2 (05:44):
You know, I don't know. I still wonder if he
was doing the mannequin challenge it was making the rounds
on TikTok, you're you're something else.

Speaker 1 (05:51):
By the way, Mitch mcconnald's first name, go, it's not Mitchell,
it's his middle name. And one of those huh yeah, okay,
I'll say it's something weird. You wouldn't ask me if
it's not something weird. It is not what I would
consider a common male name.

Speaker 2 (06:06):
No oh, so it's like Stacy. Maybe Stacy's a good guess.

Speaker 1 (06:11):
It's kind of like that, kind of like that, it's
it's less less well known Heather Tabitha what okay, now
you're just guessing chick names. Well you led me down
that direction. Yeah, well it's kind of it's kind of
a chick name. But I've no multiple men who have
been named this. Oh uh, you'll never get it.

Speaker 2 (06:32):
It's Addison. Oh, Addison.

Speaker 1 (06:34):
Okay, now I'm one of my sister in laws. His
name is Addison Addison. I feel like you asked me
that before Mitch decided not to go with Addison Addison McConnell. Yeah,
sounds more like a romance novelist.

Speaker 2 (06:46):
Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (06:47):
So, uh, you know how Ted Cruz you know his
real name?

Speaker 2 (06:50):
Yeah? What is it? Raphael?

Speaker 3 (06:52):
Right?

Speaker 2 (06:52):
All right? What's he got against the Ninja turtles? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (06:55):
Well, when you're a guy in Texas trying to be
elected as a Republican, it's probably better to go with Ted. Really,
why else would he do it? Raphael's a great name,
so it's a fantastic name. And turtle. It's my favorite turtle.
I'll how have you know Michaelangelo was my favorite personally,
he was cool. He used just a little much for
me too. Sixteen. If you've got thoughts on old Mitch

(07:17):
McConnell and his announcement that he is not running for
reelection and what kind of makes you feel about aging
people in our legislature and just in general, you know,
just kind of his voting pattern and behavior towards the
end here, feel free to call us open those phone
lines four oh two five five eight eleven ten, four
h two five five eight eleven, ten, News Radio eleven ten,

(07:38):
KFA eight and Rarey's songer.

Speaker 2 (07:39):
I've seen many many.

Speaker 1 (07:41):
People who were really really sharp in whatever they do,
and if they reached kind of an advanced stage for
what they do, time eventually mother nature, father time and
weighs him down. Mitch McConnell has reached that kind of
spot where it's like, I don't know how effective you
can be being the guy in the Senate and you're

(08:01):
serving six year terms and you're gonna be like ninety
by the time that that next one finishes up.

Speaker 2 (08:05):
That's a bad idea.

Speaker 1 (08:07):
Well, we're talking about Mitch McConnell specifically, and also maybe
just aging people running our country, our states, our cities. Anyway,
four h two, five, five, eight eleven ten is the number,
and we'll talk about this however you'd like. Mike's on
the line, Mike, welcome to the show today.

Speaker 2 (08:23):
What do you think?

Speaker 4 (08:25):
Hi, thanks for having me on Emrie and enjoying the show.
I just wanted to say that it's really sad to
see Mitch McConnell go. I think he's one of the
very few politicians that have any kind of dignity and
integrity left, especially if you are not a MAGA person.

(08:45):
And it's kind of sad to watch what used to
be a wonderful party, the Republican Party, get hijacked by people.
And whenever you replace any of these people with younger people,
it always seems to be someone that will just do
whatever the current administration tells them on both sides. So

(09:06):
thanks for having me on.

Speaker 1 (09:07):
Yeah, problem, Mike, and I think that's a's a bigger,
you know, piece of conversation here, Matt, who's Gary Satimyre.
Let's let's use let's do this as an example. Okay,
Gary Sademeyer at some point, maybe in like forty years
or something, will decide that he wants to retire Let's
say you find yourself to kind of be get the

(09:29):
nod is like, hey, you're next in line point. They
point right at you, and you're like, hey, get your
stuff together. He's announcing that in a year he's not
going to be looking to extend his contract your next I.

Speaker 2 (09:42):
See, we're living in fantasyland. We are.

Speaker 1 (09:44):
But let's say, like, like just for example's sake, and
to make this applicable to what we're doing right now,
and based on what Mike just said, what would be
your plan of action? You're going to go in like
a ball of fire and bee who you want to
be or are you going to do what it takes
to to try to pick up where the previous guy
left off while also taking under advisement to people that

(10:06):
you're working with.

Speaker 2 (10:07):
I trust the expertise of the person making the decision
that they decided the right person by choosing me. And
there's really only one thing you can do in this circumstance.
I can't just pretend to be someone else and hope
that works out. I've got to be me every single day.

Speaker 1 (10:20):
Yeah, but well, I say that you're not going to
last long if you don't play ball with the rest
of the team. What do you mean that means if
you know Mike's terminology here, if there's a bunch of
MAGA people who are mostly far conservative Trump supporting type,
people who are like, we want you to take over
Mitch McConnell's Senate seat, and we would love for you
to win this seat. We're going to do everything we

(10:42):
can to make sure you're the person. You just have
to make sure that you follow along and play ball
with the rest of us, because we're trying to get
an agenda.

Speaker 2 (10:50):
Go in here.

Speaker 1 (10:51):
Even if Mitch McConnell started to get a little pushy
the other direction here lately, or if you say that
you can't do that, we may try to find somebody
else who will. What would you do? This is your dream.
You get a chance to be a United States Center
from your home state of Kentucky.

Speaker 2 (11:08):
Yeah, and I could never live with myself if I
compromised who I was just to do what my quote
unquote dream was. Okay, I gotta be me. But okay,
so your dream dies here. I'm giving you an avenue
to achieve your dream. You can't just be yourself and
get elected. I have told you that. Well then well then.

Speaker 1 (11:31):
We are going to we are going to put every
last one of our resources against you to find somebody
else who will play ball with us, and we will
run on that.

Speaker 2 (11:41):
Listen, I'm nobody's Patsy. I'm gonna be me, you know
what I'm saying, And you're gonna lose and never hear
We'll never hear from you again. This is Mike's argument.

Speaker 3 (11:50):
Right.

Speaker 1 (11:50):
It's just like the young people who are trying to
take these Senate seats, these representative seats, they're coming in
and they basically just fall in line with whatever the
trajectory of their political party is. First of all, that's
not unusual. That's been happening in for decades and decades
and decades. It's very rare that somebody like McConnell has
been in the seat that he's been in uninterrupted for

(12:12):
the better part of American history since the Reagan administration. Right,
so he's kind of overseen some of the changes and
the morphings that have happened within the last you know,
few generations. What I'm saying though, is it does make sense.
I've been raised differently than my parents were raised, Right,
I've had different things that have been problems for my

(12:32):
generation that were not problems for the generation before me,
in the generation after me, when my generation, which is
our generation, is the one that's like starting to take
some of these Senate seats, right, these House representative seats.
You know AOC is You know, me and AOC are
basically the same age, right.

Speaker 2 (12:49):
She's viewed as a.

Speaker 1 (12:50):
Younger person in Congress, but she's coming in with a
completely different mindset as somebody who came before her, Democrat, Republican, whatever. Obviously,
her district is very demical, and she is incredibly liberal.
That's why we consider her to be pretty looney compared
to what we've seen. But she's probably gonna be one
of several that end up looking like her as they
start taking over more seats. She just happened to accelerate

(13:12):
things by getting elected much earlier than anybody else thought
that they would. Does that make sense now, if you,
in this example, want to be the Senator that represents Kentucky,
getting elected is like eighty percent of the battle, my man,
and we have already established that if you're elected, you
could be there as long as you want you are.

(13:34):
I mean, mister McConnell was here since the Reagan administration
at the age that you are now. I could give
you forty years in the Senate if you want it,
but you got to get elected now. This is your
one shot. You just have to play ball with us
and get this Republican conservative administration helping keep the movement happening.

(13:55):
This is going to be a hotly contested race in
the midterms of twenty twenty six.

Speaker 2 (13:58):
I need your word. You are going to follow our lead.

Speaker 1 (14:01):
We can get you elected, I promise you, and then
we can answer all the other questions once you get there.

Speaker 2 (14:07):
Listen, you pick the wrong guy. Maddy only plays ball
with himself. That's a sad existence it is. You know what,
I'm going to rethink that, you know what.

Speaker 1 (14:17):
I appreciate that, But if you want to be a politician,
you're already not that guy.

Speaker 2 (14:21):
Why I've already failed. Yeah, maybe I already think it.
You've already failed. What do you need me to think
and say? I will change my beliefs for the right
dollar amount.

Speaker 1 (14:30):
I will tell you that. Look at how much money
different people have made just serving in the United States Senate.

Speaker 2 (14:36):
I'm not saying it's all.

Speaker 1 (14:37):
Clean money, okay, but I'm saying like, if I can
get you elected right now, I can basically promise if
you play ball with the Republican Party, the state of
Kentucky will continue to re elect you as long as
you want to be here.

Speaker 2 (14:48):
All right, Now that I have some new information to examine,
I reserve the right to change my opinion. You tell
me what I should think, feel and believe, and assign
a dollar value to it. And I think we have
a deal.

Speaker 1 (14:58):
All you got to do is know how to write
life law and speak in front of a camera.

Speaker 2 (15:02):
Oh I can do that. Okay, Well now we're off
and running. Now.

Speaker 1 (15:05):
See this is what Mike's point was. It's like, hey,
you know what, if I'm going to get you elected,
you got to play ball with me, Mike. To Mike's point,
it's maybe not right, and you may be a kind
of a backboneless person if you ended up going like this.
But you know, want to know something else. Getting elected
is eighty percent of the battle, baby, And when you
get there then you can start figuring out what does
and doesn't work and how you feel. But one thing

(15:28):
that I do know is many people do things they
say they will or will not do when they're in
Congress because they have to play ball. That's how it works.
You cannot get there, work against your party in any way,
shape or form, and expect to stay there. See Kirsten
Cinema great example of the Democratic Party and her deciding
I can't play ball with all this like super duper

(15:50):
lefty liberal type stuff, and eventually they just said just
get out of the party. And then she eventually was
just like, I have no friends here. I'm not running
for reelection, right, but if you play ball, I can
keep you here as long as you'd like two twenty nine,
if you'd like to call in four roh two five
to five, eight, eleven ten. I'll read some of these emails.
People are funny. I will say that Mitch McConnell not

(16:10):
running for reelection next year.

Speaker 2 (16:12):
What does it mean?

Speaker 1 (16:13):
We're speaking about it on news radio eleven ten kfab
Emeric Sungner. Mitch McConnell no longer going to be in
the Senate. Well, I mean for the next two years
he'll be basically because he just said he's not running
for reelection in twenty twenty six. So the Republican Party
in Kentucky can get somebody ready to take his spot.
Now we're talking about this from a variety of standpoints

(16:34):
because obviously also politically it's not just about his age,
but also politically things have been pretty uneasy with the
hardcore conservative Republicans and Mitch McConnell as he's been fairly
vocal when he does talk in opposition of some of
the stuff that Donald Trump and a lot of the
MAGA movement wants to go down. Well, the phone lines
are open, four two, five to five, eight eleven, ten

(16:55):
is the number, and Leanne is there. Leanne, welcome to
the show. What's going on?

Speaker 3 (17:01):
I was just going to disagree with the guy who
called in earlier and said how much, how dignified Mitch
McConnell was in et cetera, et cetera. For many, many years,
I have wished that term limits had been legislated, and
he was one of the major ones that would make

(17:22):
me feel that way, and in doing in standing in
the way of legislation that needed to be done, I
thought as a conservative, I never thought that how he
verbally communicated was very I don't even know for anything

(17:45):
to be proud of as a conservative, which I am,
and I just I am so thankful that he's retiring,
and I am looking forward to someone else who is
much more far sided, I guess, I would say, and
much more on the conservative wavelengths. And I don't think

(18:07):
it has a lot to do with Donald. Whomever the
gentleman was before alluded to that, which I think is
a mistake. But personally I am so glad because you know,
I think if he could walk around better, he would
probably run for another term. And I never understood what

(18:31):
in the world his con constituency was doing in the
first place.

Speaker 1 (18:36):
Well, Leanne, a few things about what you're talking about here.
Number one, you're right, he's never been super inspiring as
a communicator for any reason, at least in my lifetime.

Speaker 3 (18:44):
Now.

Speaker 1 (18:44):
He's been in the Senate long before I was even born,
So I mean that kind of tells you the longevity
of this guy. He was the leader of the Republicans
in the Senate since two thousand and seven. I mean,
he did eighteen years of being the leader essentially of
the Republicans in the Senate while also being just kind

(19:04):
of a horrid communicator and a guy that doesn't really
inspire anybody to follow him. That doesn't make any sense
to me.

Speaker 3 (19:10):
And sometimes it makes one wonder if he might have
been in the conservative movement the same as Pelosi is
in the liberal movement. And my feeling about Pelosi is
that she has something on practically everybody. Yeah, that is
a liberal and maybe the same I wondered the same

(19:31):
thing about him, Like, how in the world does he
do it? Does he just have something on everyone because
he's been there so long he knows where all the
bumps are.

Speaker 1 (19:41):
Or Leanne Maybe even the more likely scenario is he
was like a compromise upon a compromise upon a compromise.
It's like, hey, nobody hates this guy because he just
kind of sits there. Let's have him be the leader.

Speaker 2 (19:52):
Right.

Speaker 1 (19:52):
And I'm not a fan of Chuck Schumer in his politics,
but when he speaks like he sounds like he's the
leader of his political party in his chamber, Mitch McConnell
has never talked like that, right, agreed.

Speaker 3 (20:04):
Yeah, Like I said, I've always been somewhat embarrassed. And
and just like praying this will be the time where
they passed something about term limits so we can see
him leave.

Speaker 1 (20:17):
Yeah, I'm a big fan of Turlements too, That's makes sense.

Speaker 3 (20:22):
Yeah, And That's that's it. That's all I got.

Speaker 2 (20:25):
Thanks Leanne, really appreciate it.

Speaker 3 (20:27):
Thank you.

Speaker 2 (20:28):
Have a good day, good stuff. Got some emails. Are
you ready? You strapped in?

Speaker 3 (20:33):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (20:33):
I am Brian sends an email and says, Urdle Mitch
McConnell Urdle, Well, Yurdle is a.

Speaker 2 (20:41):
Is that a Pokemon character?

Speaker 1 (20:43):
No, that's Doctor Seussurdle the Turtle. I'm sorry you didn't
know Yurdle the Turtle of all of the Doctor Sus Like, Okay,
so I say, Doctor Seuss, you think what cat and hat,
fox and socks the lorax?

Speaker 2 (20:55):
I think the people who buttered their bread on the
wrong side of the bread.

Speaker 1 (20:59):
Yeah, the Butter battle Book, Butter Battle Yeah, but there's
not like a standout character in the Butter battle Book.

Speaker 2 (21:04):
It's just Butter battle Book.

Speaker 1 (21:07):
You know, Doctor Seuss, Right, all that stuff You'redle the Turtle,
also Bartholomew and the five Hundred Hats or whatever like,
there was all sorts of great Doctor SEUs stuff. But
you'd of the Turtle. That was that was some that
was some legitimate, you know, some legitimate literature there. Yeah,
Joe says, glad to see old Mitch hit the trail
Dude has developed Joe Biden syndrome. Have faith the good

(21:30):
people of Kentucky will elect a Senator similar to Rand Paul,
which is their other senator. By the way, could you
get more different between Rand Paul and Mitch McConnell. The
same people are electing those two guys. Joe says. Where
the Senate needs adjusted is the seat held by one
Lisa Murkowski.

Speaker 2 (21:46):
That's Alaska.

Speaker 1 (21:47):
By the way, she is a disservice to the people
of Alaska in the country as a whole. We can
say all this stuff, but it takes the people of
the state that they're representing to make a change. You know,
we can complain about these senators like Murkowski and Susan
Collins and Maine and mccawn in Kentucky. You know, you
know how change happens with the people in the Senate
that you'd like to get yeeded out of there? The
Democrats complaining about Fetterman. Now in Pennsylvania, you know how

(22:10):
you get them out? How do you get them out?
You wrong, The people in that state have to vote
them out. Oh that way, sure, you know, But like
I said, Maddie boy, you can be the next Senator
of Kentucky. If you do what we say, Yeah, Maddie
plays ball. You got to play ball with us. We
will put our resources behind you. You will be the
heir apparent to the McConnell's seat. You're gonna get people excited.

(22:31):
We'll have Ran Paul say you're the guy. Well, if
Donald Trump say you're the guy. Well if Ja d
Vance say you're the guy. Can I wear a nice
pair of lifts?

Speaker 2 (22:38):
You can?

Speaker 1 (22:39):
You know what, Ronnie does it down there in Florida,
you can do it too. You know what, I think.
We have your back. You just have to have our back.
I got your back. Hey, Maddie's got your back all
day long. And if you get into this first term
and we start noticing that you don't want to play ball,
well we have five other guys that are, you know,
knocking themselves over to try to take your seat, and
we will let them if you don't play ball.

Speaker 2 (23:01):
Do you hear me, Maddie? Can I have some of
the cash up front? I don't know what you're talking about.
Oh I thought there was an agreement made.

Speaker 1 (23:09):
Ah, yeah, and there would be. But you can't say it.
You can't talk about it. What is there a live microphone.

Speaker 3 (23:14):
Up front of my face?

Speaker 2 (23:15):
Why can't we just talk about this like friends.

Speaker 1 (23:17):
That's the thing. I don't know what they do in Kentucky.
I think they still do the bourbon thing. You have
to go into the back roads like you're some sort
of moonshiner, and then that's how you get the payment.

Speaker 2 (23:25):
I'm not spending any time in the back roads of Kentucky.
I've watched enough movies to know that's not the place
to be for a fine young gentleman.

Speaker 1 (23:32):
And you're saying this on microphone has lost you any
opportunity to be the new senator for the state of Kentucky.
So congratulations, Matt. We're back to plan A if you
becoming the presidential nominee from American Samoa.

Speaker 2 (23:44):
It is two forty seven. When we come back, we
will have more.

Speaker 1 (23:47):
I got a bunch more emails coming in about old
Mitch and we'll talk about it next. And by the way,
Don Bacon's going to join us in twenty minutes here
on news radio eleven ten kfab.

Speaker 2 (23:55):
Em Rie's songer on news radio eleven ten KFAB.

Speaker 1 (24:01):
And we're going to have another keyword for you here
just after the top of the hour, so stay tuned
for that. Got another email coming in Emory at kfab
dot com. Joe says, Hey, Emery, I thought mcconnald's first
name was turtle because we talked about this pop quiz.
What's the first name for Mitch McConnell Addison Addison, Mitchell McConnell.

Speaker 2 (24:19):
The third, by the way, is his full name? The third?

Speaker 1 (24:21):
He lost the third part of that too, and Mitch
McConnell the first and the second apparently weren't famous enough
for him to want to use that. Because Mahomes does that,
Pat Mahomes, Patrick Mahomes. He's got the second on the
back and Mahomes two on the back of his jersey
because his dad's Patrick Mahomes and he was a big
time pitcher Ajor League Baseball. Anyway, Joe says, I thought

(24:43):
mcconald's first name was turtle. What are the Chinese gonna do?

Speaker 2 (24:45):
First?

Speaker 1 (24:45):
Biden's gone now, Mitch is leaving. He's going to protect
to the Chinese from Trump. Uh yeah, I don't thought.

Speaker 2 (24:52):
I don't know. Ryan says, does Addison have a brother? Minuson?

Speaker 1 (24:56):
Hmm?

Speaker 2 (24:57):
Subtractison? I think is actually was his name?

Speaker 3 (25:00):
Is.

Speaker 1 (25:00):
Ryan follows that up and says two parents decided to
multiply and were divided on what to call the twins.
Very good, that's pretty it's pretty good. Good job Ryan,
happy to be able to tell that joke on the air.

Speaker 2 (25:12):
That was good.

Speaker 1 (25:13):
Michael says, people like Mike, which was a previous caller
who was talking about the context was Yeah, Mitch had
had real backbone because he stood up for what he
believed in at the end. I don't even know if
he knew where he was at the end, but that's okay.
Michael says, people like Mike and Mitch or the reason
America is in need of saving establishment politics is corrupt.

(25:34):
But that's what I'm saying right Well, that's how you
get elected, baby, Matt. If you're going to be the
next Senator of Kentucky, you gotta play ball.

Speaker 2 (25:41):
And I already said I would, Maddie will play ball
for a certain price.

Speaker 1 (25:44):
Yeah, and the price will come. But the first thing
is I got to get you in the office.

Speaker 2 (25:48):
And I would just like at least fifteen percent up front,
because I gotta buy lifts. I gotta get these teeth fixed,
I gotta get the new hairdo I'm gonna choose from
my office. Look, there's a lot of things I got
to do to clean this whole situation up.

Speaker 1 (25:59):
Have you seen feder Do you think anybody gives a
respitute about what you look like. I'm not going for
the fetterman. Look, okay, that's fine, but you can live
on the feederman. Look, well, I get your behind in office.
You've seen Perry Johnson. You know how he wears his hair.
He's not elected into the Senate. Were don't don't don't
bring Perry into this.

Speaker 2 (26:18):
Oh I'm bringing Perry into this. He and Perry wink
go to the top. Baby, I don't know where Perry went.
Is that your running mate? You don't get a running
mate for the Senate? What I want to running mate?

Speaker 1 (26:28):
Adam, says the caller Mike. He's referring to that said
Mitchell integrity because he didn't fall in line. The guy
spent his career threatening and withholding campaign money from fellow
Republican senators who didn't fall in line.

Speaker 2 (26:40):
That is true.

Speaker 1 (26:42):
As the leader of the Senate, he said, Hey, we
got to be careful about who we're helping get into
office here, which is why you got a play ball.
I'll play ball for a certain price. And uh he said,
Mike doesn't know bleep about poop.

Speaker 2 (26:56):
Oh yeah, and then Arnie last email read here.

Speaker 1 (27:00):
The only thing I can say good about the Turtle
is he kept Garland off the Supreme Court.

Speaker 2 (27:04):
That did happen.

Speaker 1 (27:05):
Look, he's a longtime Republican. If you're a conservative, most
of what Mitch McConnell did you'd probably agree with. It's
the stuff that he didn't do or the stuff that
he disagreed with your perspective that you were like, I
get that guy out of here. I want somebody who
agrees with me one hundred and ten percent of the time.
And I hate to tell you this, but sometimes it's
just not going to happen. It's just not a thing
that actually happens. You're not going to find somebody that's

(27:27):
the perfect politician that's going to agree with you every
single time. That's just not And this is why I
don't like to bow down or cowtow to any possible
movement politically. I don't like following a singular political party
or a political person. I just kind of like having

(27:47):
the right to be me and kind of vote with
my heart on the issues, and then I vote for
people based on which issues are most important to me
and how they line up with the people who are
running for office.

Speaker 2 (27:58):
That's how I feel.

Speaker 1 (27:59):
I am not the guy that says vote for all
these Republicans or vote for all these Democrats. That's just
such a lazy way to vote. You might as well
just say out loud you don't know where people are
on the issues. Speaking of a guy who runs for
office and is currently serving the second Congressional District of
the state of Nebraska.

Speaker 2 (28:15):
His name is Don Bacon.

Speaker 1 (28:16):
He is going to be joining us on the phone
line here after the top of the hour. He had
quite an interesting comment about Ukraine. We'll talk to him
about that on news radio eleventon KFAB