October 10, 2024 • 33 mins
Rep. Gabe Evans (R-48), one of the 'Mighty 19' in the House of Colorado's General Assembly, joins Ryan to recap highlights from his critical debate on 9 News with incumbent Congresswoman Yadira Caraveo (D-CO) in the state's pivotal 8th Congressional District.
David 'Hutch' Theisen provides an update on the aftermath of Hurricane Milton the day after it tore across Central Florida, including near his hometown of Largo.
David 'Hutch' Theisen provides an update on the aftermath of Hurricane Milton the day after it tore across Central Florida, including near his hometown of Largo.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Our next guest who you could have heard or could
have watched on Tuesday night in his nine News Comrade
Kyle Marshall Zellinger debate. Oh wait, no, no, he debated Representative Youyo,
Derek karra Faale. I got a little confused there because
it was kind of like Trumpian or Jdvan's.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
It was one against three.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Here is part of his initial comments on addressing the
border crisis.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
I've been very clear with my three part plan. We
must secure the border right now. Immigration and Customs says
that we have over thirteen thousand convicted murderers who are
free in our communities. We have over ninety nine individuals
on the terrorist watch lists who have been released into
our communities.
Speaker 4 (00:37):
We have to secure our border.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
We have to create a path for folks who legally
want to immigrate to the United States that doesn't trap
them for decades in bureaucracy. And then we have to
aggressively target those individuals who are illegally in our communities
committing crimes, and those are the folks that we have
to deport. I've never wavered from that, and I know
that this is something that we have to do because
we're currently the third most dangerous state in the country.
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That's a direct result of the policies that my opponent
has voted for, open border policies, defund the police policies,
policies that make it illegal for police in Colorado to
even call Immigration and Customs, and I can fix it.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Composed informed, articulate on point part of the mighty nineteen
and the Colorado General Assembly. In the House Chamber, he
has Representative Gabe Evans, and he is the candidate in
the eighth Congressional District, challenging incumbent Representative and Democrat Derek Caraveo.
He joins us Now, Gabe, thank you for your time
as always, Oh.
Speaker 5 (01:35):
Thank you for the opportunity to be on with you
again this morning.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Well, I got a lot of highlights, and I use
that term in quotes that I want you to reflect upon,
but just in general, what your impression was of the
debate after you got through it and as you look
back on it.
Speaker 5 (01:51):
Really the biggest surprise to me was there were some
questions asked of my opponent, you know, do you still
stand by a lot of these terrible policies about the
open World Order, about lowing the penalty for drug dealers
about giving taxpayer funded benefits to illegal immigrants, and she,
like I expected her to maybe run away from that
stuff a little bit cheap in many ways, doubled down
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on that record of failure and on that record of
supporting open borders and requiring taxpayer money to go to
illegal immigrants, which, as we all know, is a major
reason why we have so many folks that are specifically
coming to Colorado and costing US hundreds of millions of dollars,
to say nothing of the fact that this is where
many cartels and transnational organizations have chosen to set up
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shop because they know this law enforcement can't do anything
to them in this state.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Electgaveevans dot com that's where you can go to support
his campaign. He could really use your help here down
the stretch. Here we are, it's October tenth. We've got
twenty one days left in October plus five, that's twenty
six until election day.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
You can contribute to his campaign.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Electgaveevans dot com what are the most important races now nationally?
So much so that Speaker Mike Johnson was recently out
here helping with Evans and his campaign. I wanted to
get into the pugilism between yourself and who I call
Comrade Kyle Clark. He was pressing you on Donald Trump,
on the border, on xenophobia, et cetera.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
I'll start there, and here's the first clip.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
We want to make sure that we've got a clear
answer to whether or not you support Donald Trump's plan
to deport every person in this country illegally. He describes
that as twenty one million people or more. I heard
you say deport people committing crimes. Do you support Trump's
plan to deport each person? We need to empower our
law enforcement to be able to deport those folks that
are committing crimes in our community. Once we start to
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enforce the laws, then I think what you'll see happen
is those folks who have cut in the line, we'll
step back into the place in line that they should be,
that they should have been in all along. My grandfather
earned his citizenship to this country with two purple hearts
in World War Two as an immigrant from Mexico, and
so we have to make sure that we are risks
inspecting the folks who did it the right way and
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not allow folks to cut in line.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Very good answer was not good enough for Comrade Kyle.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
I'm not certain that I heard an answer to the
question about whether you support the Trump plan to support
every person here illegally, but you did mention your a
Mexican born grandfather who you often cite in his heroism
in World War II fighting the Nazis. Of course, Donald
Trump echoes the dehumanizing rhetoric of the fascists that your
grandfather fought on behalf of this country. Trump says that
immigrants are poisoning the blood of our country.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
He says that they are animals, not people.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
He invokes genetics, saying recently that immigrants who kill have
bad genes, while telling a largely white crowd in Minnesota
that they have good genes because of racehorse theory, which
involves selective breeding. When you hear Donald Trump, whose endorsement
you accepted and celebrate, say those things, what do you think.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
A distortion of what Trump has said in the past.
And he has focused on criminal illegal aliens, those that
have been released from Venezuelan prisons insane aside is the
either find them their mental hospitals that is happening. Those
are factual characterizations, and it was Comrade Kyle's attempt to
link Evans to Trump, And here was Gabe's answer.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
As a state legislator, I was able to get almost
sixty percent of.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
My bills passed down at the state Capitol.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
And that's with me being in a Republican super minority
nineteen Republicans to forty six Democrats. And the reason that
I was still able to get almost sixty percent of
my bills pass is because I can work with everyone
on these issues.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
And I do that because I focus on policies, not personality.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
With respect, would you please answer the question when when
Donald Trump used this dehumanizing rhetoric about minorities and migrants specifically,
what do you think of that? So in the endorsement
that Donald Trump gave me, he talked about securing the border,
he talked about making our community safe, he talked about.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
Lowering the cost of living. Those are the things that
I'm focused on.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Of course, I condemn any sort of racist sort of speech,
and I would you really appreciate if my opponent could
join me in condemning some of that racist speech. Yes
yesterday was the anniversary of one of the most egregious
attacks on the Jewish community, and I didn't see anything
on my opponent social media talking about that, and both
of you actually acknowledged it yesterday on social media. But
just to clarify, when you say that you condemn racist statements,
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are you talking about those statements, those dehumanizing statements by
Donald Trump. I've always condemned any sort of racist statements.
Are you willing to say that Donald Trump statements are racist?
I've always condemned racist statement.
Speaker 6 (06:23):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
The framing of this, in my view game was ridiculous
by Kyle Clark. It was motivated, it was driven by
his own personal animus toward Donald Trump. I thought you
handled that well, especially that late pivot, even though Clark
went further to try to carry water for Caraveo.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
What did you make of that entire exchange?
Speaker 5 (06:42):
Well, I mean, going into this debate, you know, the
big thing that was lingering in the back of my
mind was these are the guys that have effectively made
a campaign ad for my opponent by fact checking indirectly
by the way fact checking all of my campaign commercials,
made of my campaign commercials, and turning a blind eye
to a lot of the things that she said, by
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the way the Wall Street Journal fact checked some of
her ads and the Democrat Party's ads on her behalf
and said that they were fiction. I believe was the word.
So that was kind of the baseline going into this conversation.
And yeah, for that particular exchange, I mean, I mentioned
to the social media. One of the things that I
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should have brought up that I didn't there was the
fact that last November, So this is the aftermath of
October seventh, you know, right after it happened, one of
the most anti Semitic members of Congress literally called for
the destruction of the Jewish state, and there was a
broadly bipartisan effort to censor her. Twenty two Democrats cross
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party lines to censor a Democrat member of Congress who
called for the destruction of the Jewish state. My opponent
was not one of them. She stood shoulder to shoulder
with someone who called for the destruction of Israel. And
so that's the that's what I'm trying to draw out
in this conversation is I've always condemned political violence, I've
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always condemned racism, and my opponent is getting a complete
pass here because she hasn't been able to do any
of those things.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Gave Evans our guest.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
You can go to Electgabevans dot com to support his
campaign in the eighth Congressional district. These sound clips that
you're hearing are from Tuesday nights debate on nine News
that was moderated in quotes by Kyle Clark and Marshall Zellinger.
Zellinger again, they just can't quit Trump, and they're trying
to tie him to Gabe Evans, and I think again
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this is a motivation along.
Speaker 4 (08:38):
As Lice Minster Evans, a yes or no question? Here?
Speaker 3 (08:40):
Will you appear alongside Donald Trump at his rally in
Aurora if you are invited. I found out about that
rally last night via the news media. I have as
much information as anyone else in this room.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
But if you were invited, would you say yes?
Speaker 3 (08:53):
I have as much information as anybody else in this room.
I have not been invited at this point. Let's say
you say yes. Would you correct any false statements in
front of Donald Trump that he would to make about Colorado.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
I always stand for the truth.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
Again, this is why I've got sixty percent of my
bills passed being in a super minority. This is why
I've got two thirds of the mayor's in my district
that have thrown their support behind me.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
They make Trump this boogeyman, Gabe, and you may.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Appear at this event.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Is there an update on that for Friday?
Speaker 5 (09:22):
Yeah, I still haven't received an invitation to that event.
And I'm focused on flipping this eighth congressional district. So
I suspect that anybody that goes to a Trump rally
is probably going to be voting for me as well
if they happen to live in the eighth congressional district.
You know, I would love to count on their support,
and so we know that, you know, I need to
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be able to focus on those independent voters that make
up forty some odd percent of the electorate. And so
it really is just a cost benefit analysis of this
race was decided by sixteen hundred votes out of almost
two hundred thousand two years ago, and so making sure
that we can get every last vote in the door
to be able to take this seat away from a
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really progressive, far left congresswoman who has voted with her
party ninety one percent of the time, she's voted against
small business seventy five percent of the time, she's voted
to defund the police, keep our borders open, and those
are the policies that I'm focused on.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
Correcting, and not only that. I don't have a problem
with a moderator pressing. Let's say you on Trump, do
you accept as endorsement? Do you reject the lies that
he said? They never mention all of the lies and
the flip flopping that Kamala Harris has done. And will
you dear at Caraveo call her out on that they're
not holding her to the same standard. There was a
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moment in this debate not long after the part that
I just played though game that you mentioned earlier, that
I really want to go over in.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Detail with you.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
It was striking to me for many of the same
reasons that you stated, the Caraveo just completely sells out
her beliefs in order to get elected, and she says it.
Speaker 4 (10:59):
Miss Caraveo.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
It would have here that your views on immigration and
border security have changed significantly in the last couple of years.
Three years ago you called for the defunding of border
patrol and ICE, and then this summer you joined Republicans
in strongly condemning Kamala Harris specifically and the Biden administration
more generally for failing to secure the border.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
What caused you to.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
So drastically change your views on immigration in just a
few years.
Speaker 7 (11:25):
I think the country has changed, and we've seen a
crisis that both parties have set up and not offered
solutions for. And so, as a member of Congress from
a district that is very evenly divided, it is my
responsibility to portray the opinions of my constituents. And I've
done that by being the eighth most bipartisan freshman member
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of Congress. I've done that by passing the first law
that a freshman member of this Congress passed last year.
And I've done that by introducing a bipartisan package around
immigration and many other issues. And so really that is
the way that I am approaching this issue and many
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other issues, making sure that I am truly representing the
people of eh destructor Gay.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
My simple question for you is has the country changed
in the twenty two months that she has served in
the House.
Speaker 5 (12:20):
So she is saying whatever she thinks she needs to say,
and she effectively said it later on in the conversation.
She's saying whatever she thinks she needs to say to
hold onto power. And here's why I mentioned that resolution
from the last November condemning the anti Semitic member of Congress.
That there's no policy attached to a condemnation resolution. It's
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literally just saying we disapprove of whatever the actions of
the words of the behavior was, but there's no policy
attached to it. So last November she could not say
that calling for the destruction of the Jewish state is
wrong because it hadn't sunk in yet that she was
going to be in a tough re election fights. And
then ten months later, when she realizes that people are
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actually concerned about the open border crisis and sanctuary state
crisis that she helped to create.
Speaker 6 (13:11):
Then she will.
Speaker 5 (13:12):
As even Kyle mentioned, she endorsed Kamala on a Monday
and then condemned her on a Thursday. She truly will
say she'll say or do whatever she thinks she needs
to say or do to hold on to power. And
again a little bit later in that exchange, she outright
admitted it that she still holds these beliefs, but she'll
go one hundred and eighty degrees in a different direction
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if she thinks that's what's politically expedient to do.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
Electgabevans dot Com is where you can go to the
Republican nominee for the pivotal eighth Congressional district. That race
in and of itself may very well determine the balance
of power in the House writ large.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Now, what Gabe just mentioned happens here.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Karraveo is peppered by Kyle Clark on her stance regarding
immigration policies.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
This is is breathtaking.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
In twenty twenty one, you called on the Biden administration
to divest from immigration enforcement agencies like ICE and CBP.
Speaker 4 (14:06):
Is that still your position?
Speaker 7 (14:08):
My constituents do not believe that, and so I would
vote against that.
Speaker 4 (14:11):
Is it still your position? Do you still believe that
that's the right thing to do.
Speaker 7 (14:13):
My job is to represent the eighth Congressional district, and
that is what I'm doing every time that I vote.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
In twenty nineteen, you sponsored a bill prohibiting local law
enforcement from cooperating with federal immigration holds in Colorado. Do
you still believe that Colorado law enforcement should be barred
from working with immigration agents?
Speaker 7 (14:29):
It shouldn't be up to local law enforcement to do
what the federal government has failed to do.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
That sounds like a yes.
Speaker 4 (14:34):
You still hold that position, the.
Speaker 7 (14:36):
Local police officers should not be enforcing laws that the
federal government has not reformed.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
In twenty twenty one, you sponsored a bill that allowed
the state to award contracts to companies that knowingly employ
people who are not in this country legally.
Speaker 4 (14:50):
Is that still your view?
Speaker 7 (14:53):
I will vote in keeping with what the constituents of
the eighth District wanted me to, and I think that
is taking a balanced approach to people that immigrate here
legally and illegally.
Speaker 4 (15:02):
That did not answer the question at all.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
In twenty twenty one, you sponsored a bill that allowed
the state to give contracts to companies that knowingly employ
people who do not have legal authorization to work.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
Do you still believe that's the right.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Thing to do.
Speaker 7 (15:13):
I've not had a bill presented to me since then.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
In twenty twenty one, you sponsored a bill that opened
up taxpayer paid public housing to people here illegally.
Speaker 4 (15:22):
Is that still your position?
Speaker 7 (15:24):
I have around the issue of housing, made sure that
I'm introducing a bill to had the federal government pay
for migrant housing so that local taxpayers do not.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
Well, local taxpayers pay federal taxes, so it's still their money.
Speaker 7 (15:39):
Yeah, but a disproportionate amount. It should not come onto
the taxpayers only of Denver.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Now, Gabe, if I'm an undecided voter and the border
is my top issue, why would I vote for someone
like her to fake these positions on my behalf rather
than somebody like you that will fight for that position
on my behalf.
Speaker 5 (16:00):
Fighting for these things. Since I was twenty years old
and joined the US Army, I've put my life on
the line three times US Army, Colorado Army, National Guard,
and the Arvada Police Department for a combined total of
twenty two years. Because I believe in protecting the United States.
I believe in preserving our territorial integrity. I spent almost
a year in a combat zone in the Middle East
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as part of the global War on Terror, And as
I had mentioned in the earlier cliff that you played,
the fact that we have ninety nine folks on the
terrorist watch lists who have been released into our country
is not why I said goodbye to my five month
old when I went overseas. This isn't why I spent
ten years in the police department here in the Denver
metro area so that we could have thirteen thousand convicted
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murderers released into our country. And that's perent Immigration and
Customs memo from a couple of weeks ago. I've literally
been putting my life on the line since I was
twenty years old to fight for these things. I've never
wavered from those I've continued that fight down at the
state Capitol, and I look forward to the opportunity to
continue at dictating for these principles in Congress.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
And we need to give him that opportunity.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
You can go to Electgabeevans dot com find out more
information about his campaign, contribute to his campaign.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
You're seeing the TV ads running.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
That's very important that they stay on the air locally
here for those of you live in the eighth Congressional district.
I cannot endorse gave Evans strongly enough. Representative Gabe Evans always,
thank for your time, great job in this debate, and
best to luck the rest of the way.
Speaker 5 (17:27):
Thanks so much for bringing me on the show. Electigaveevans
dot com to learn more.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Right, very expansive conversation. There we turn to our own
Kelly Kuchera.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
Your thoughts on Gabe Evans in this race in the
eighth against Yadrek Caravel.
Speaker 8 (17:39):
Oh, I'm so rooting for him.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Obviously.
Speaker 8 (17:42):
He is one of the nicest people and one of
the smartest, very sharp interviewed. I mean, it is just
a pleasure in working with him and just getting to
know him over these last weeks as we prepare for
the election.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
So one thing that stood out to me in this debate,
and I'm going to cut more sound for Dan here
in like thirty seconds, was your deer Caraveo and just
how nervous she was, Yes, every other word is or uh,
just a horrible public speaker. And then Gabe composed, polished,
sharp to your point, and I just think contrast was
stark exactly in that debate on Tuesday night, agreed Representative
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Gabe Evansletgaveevans dot com go there right now and contribute
to his campaign stick and steak. Guess what, Hutch He's
next from Florida.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Tornadoes.
Speaker 9 (18:36):
I think you can go back and find tornadoes for
all of human history for sure, and especially you know Florida.
You know, how does this storm rate in kind of
the history of storms. I think it hit with a
barometric pressure of what was it about nine hundred and
fifty milli bars when it hit, which I think if
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you go back to eighteen fifty one, there's probably been
twenty seven hurricanes that have had lower bear So the
lower the barometric pressure, the stronger it is. I think
there have been about twenty seven hurricanes that have had
lower barometric pressure on landfall than Milton did, and of those,
seventeen occurred. I think prior to nineteen sixty.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
Ronnie de just spitting straight facts historically about hurricanes in Florida.
He's a lifelong native. He went to the same high
school as my next guest.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
He's a few.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Years younger actually than David Tyson and yours truly, and
he was pushing back on whether global warming had anything
to do with the increase in tornado warnings that we saw.
He would go on to cite the Labor Day hurricane
of nineteen of the nineteen thirties. Another devastating one that
was the most deadly was in nineteen twenty eight, the
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Okachobe hurricane that was down in the southern part of
the state. And beyond that, there just more people in
Florida and therefore a storm like this like Milton is
going to do more property damage and be more deadly
because there's more things and more people in its way. Well,
riding out the storm down in Largo, Florida on the
panelas Peninsula is my good friend Hutchie David Tyson. He
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joins us live from there right now, hutch.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
What's going on?
Speaker 5 (20:21):
Man?
Speaker 6 (20:22):
Hey?
Speaker 10 (20:22):
Ryan?
Speaker 5 (20:23):
How I do Buds?
Speaker 1 (20:24):
What do you think of Ronnie D? Your governor down there?
His response to all of.
Speaker 6 (20:28):
This, Oh, I thank god we have ron DeSantis. He's
got things cooking this morning. Man, things calm down considerably,
clean up as moving Lineman. I saw Lineman rolling down
East Bay, I mean just as far as I could see.
So they're trying to restore power. And Ronnie D is
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the bass.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Well and Desanta's had made mentioned I messaged you this earlier, Hodge,
that he was critical of the local agency's enforcement vermnts
that were not effectively cleaning up after Helene taking up debris,
and that the state agencies had to go in there
kind of do their job for them, and he was
ripping on your county in particular, Panels County. Did you
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notice that after Helene that there's a lot of crap
debris still lying around?
Speaker 6 (21:17):
Oh? There was so much of it. I just don't
think there was enough time. Ryan. I mean, that one
just just devastated the beaches, and then this one just
came right behind it. I mean, what are you going
to do?
Speaker 1 (21:28):
David Tyson, our guest hutch down there having ridden out
the storm. A brief political take from you, Dave, because
I think you represent a lot of Floridians that are
very happy with your governorro DeSantis. Yet you remained a
Trump supporter throughout the primary and preferred him to DeSantis
as the candidate for twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
Why is that?
Speaker 6 (21:51):
I'm just a Trump guy, you know, I wanted to
give him four more years. You know, Aroan DeSantis is
a young guy. He's going to have a chance. Such
a good governor. You know, I couldn't imagine having some
goofball like hicken Looper, you know, trying to navigate something
like this down here. Ronnie d is a bad man, Wow.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
A hicket Looper, blast from Hutchie from Afar.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
He's not even governor anymore. He's a senator here right.
Speaker 6 (22:17):
Oh, I understand, but you know, you know, to have
some goofy governor like that, he's just cares about Pott
and Junk. You know Ronnie d he's a he's.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
A good guy.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
I love how you gave Jared pull Us a pass
on that. I think he'll appreciate it. Back to what
you're dealing with, Hutch in the wake of this storm,
now that it's passed through.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
It was a wild night last night. Take us through it.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
You're fifty two years old, you spent most of your
life down there, and you're telling me you've never encountered
anything like what you witnessed last night.
Speaker 6 (22:45):
Yeah, that was That was a wild ride, man, just
just insane. It just kept getting more intense. The winds
were just outrageous. We were getting one hundred miles an
hour wind guts here. The northern part of the Eyewa
was just kissing us in panelas it just battered the
hell out of us. It was in sandy and it
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just was unrelenting. It went on for hours and hours.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
And you told me we were watching your little reservoir
lake there kind of come and cresting up and flooding
up and.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
Maybe coming towards your apartment. You got the most rain. Thought.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
We know that the eye of the hurricane was a
little bit to your south as you just mentioned Cesta
Key Sarasota, but that meant that a lot of the
rainfall was cranking up toward you. And as I saw
the kind of post mortem on how much rain you got,
it was like a foot and a half right, eighteen inches.
Speaker 6 (23:35):
I see, I think we got sixteen inches. The storm
was weird. It was like cutting half right the bottom,
the bottom half of the eyewall literally had no rain,
and then the blob above us on the north part
was just just sat down Sanallas County and it just
beat the hell out of us. It was an insane
right I was getting I wanted it to.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
Be over and fortunately for David Tyson aka Hutch, it
is over formed down there. He's like my big brother,
and I was worried sick about him. As I've said
multiple times, he chose to ride this storm out, much
to the chagrin of some of our listeners and one
of my coworkers here, Mandy Connell. She called you crazy,
and another person thought you were gonna die.
Speaker 10 (24:14):
Hutch oh Man, Yeah, it was a little nasty to
heal all of a sudden, And you know that you
take very seriously your role in Denver Radio here in
your relationship with the listeners.
Speaker 6 (24:26):
Oh well, they healed on me, they rolled on me, right,
But I made it through. I made it through. It
was uh. I'll tell you one thing. I got a
new perspective on mother nature, you know, because when she's
on you, you just don't stand a chance. I don't
see how anyone could survive a Cat five. What I
dealt with with a three yesterday was was unnerving.
Speaker 10 (24:46):
A five is shift.
Speaker 6 (24:48):
That's next level.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
Would you do this again? If you had it to
do over? Or there's a second storm like this? God forbid?
Are you gonna gtfo?
Speaker 6 (24:57):
Yeah? If this sucks to having no electricity and it's
it's I would probably just dip, you know. Yeah, But
I'm glad I got to experience it. I mean, as
crazy as that sounds, you know now, I know firsthand
what it's all about. And it's nothing to play with.
I mean, it's it's devastating.
Speaker 8 (25:14):
Well, Ryan was not the only one that was worried
about you.
Speaker 10 (25:18):
I know you were, Kelly.
Speaker 8 (25:19):
I know.
Speaker 6 (25:22):
He's the only one in Denver that loves me.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
What about me?
Speaker 6 (25:25):
Well, you're on board with team Hodge, but I'm not.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
Fair enough.
Speaker 8 (25:31):
But he's always been team Cucero.
Speaker 10 (25:34):
I know, Kelly.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
Yeah, well, okay, can I break up this love fest
between the two of you. David Tyson reporting live from Largo.
So here's the question I've had. You're talking to me
on your phone. You have no electricity though, I mean,
how much longer are you going to keep your phone charged?
Speaker 6 (25:49):
Oh it's about dad. I think I'm got twenty percent left.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (25:53):
I'm not what. I don't know. I go into caveman mode.
You out there, what you're eating, the aids and bacon
and potatoes.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
It's pretty hardy meal you got there.
Speaker 6 (26:07):
Yeah, not bad. I mean I gotta I gotta had
to break out the Blackstone for it. But yeah, we
don't have we don't have power. I don't know when
I'm gonna get it. I'm not too concerned. Whenever we
get it, we get it.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
Well, here's where I'm concerned. I mean, you got your rations.
There is that breakfast, lunch, and dinner first pretty much.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
But you just described Yeah.
Speaker 5 (26:25):
Well you know what.
Speaker 6 (26:26):
Public's actually opened across the street from me today. No,
I can't go over there. Yeah I can go. I'm
telling you Ryan, when you know us Floridians. But we
we we pack it up and we get it going.
It's entirely different attitude right now than it was eight
hours ago. The cleanup is incredible.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (26:43):
Uh. Like I said, the linemen are out. You know,
we're storing power and you know this isn't the first
time Floridians has done this. We're pretty good at it.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
We call you Florida Man for a reason. And we've
discussed that in the path. Now, do you have a
cooler with ice? Are you able to obtain that because
you're gonna need it if you don't have electricity, you
don't have a refrigerator or a freezer.
Speaker 5 (27:03):
Eh.
Speaker 6 (27:03):
You know, if I lose stuff, I'll just throw it away.
And I do have to go to work tomorrow. We
got ice machine there.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
Wow.
Speaker 6 (27:10):
Yeah, I thinks they're going to start opening up. I'm
sure there'll be gasoline tomorrow again. Publics is open so
I can go get a sub or.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
Yeah, that's good news. But that's why you need me there, man.
You know we could we make a good team.
Speaker 6 (27:25):
I wish you were here for this just so you
could experience it.
Speaker 10 (27:28):
It was.
Speaker 6 (27:28):
It was a white knuckle ride last night for like
three hours. Ryan, I'm still trying to wrap my head
around that it was.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
It was just insane, and you lived through it, and
it sounds like it could have been a lot worse,
especially where you were. And yet the recovery and the
cleanup effort has already begun. That's really encouraging news that
publics is open, that you're going to go to work tomorrow,
that your workplace didn't get washed out there in Tampa. So,
you know, all things considered, I think things turned up
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pretty well.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
It sounds like Hutch Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 6 (27:57):
So hopefully I was going to take time to clean
it up. And then you know, it's just.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
When's Hannah Babes coming back?
Speaker 4 (28:07):
I think so.
Speaker 6 (28:08):
I think the wedding is Saturday. I think she comes
back Sunday.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa? What wedding? What are you
talking about?
Speaker 6 (28:15):
Oh? I know her mom was the maid of honor
in some lady's wedding in Atlanta, so ironically she was
going to go up there anyway this weekend.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
Oh okay, yeah.
Speaker 6 (28:24):
It just happened to work out that way.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
Well, there's an anti joke in there. I'll leave it
for another time. David Tyson, also known as Hutch.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
My lifelong friend, my older brother and from another mother,
and he has ridden out the storm there with Milton
and Ronnie Dee can't sing.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
His praise is enough.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
What a job he's done in response to these storms,
and to Milton in particular.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
Hotche you hang in there. I'll talk to you again soon,
all right, I love you.
Speaker 6 (28:48):
I love you, Kelly, Hicky.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
A lot of love in there, it is. And his
phone just died, I think. But he's going to go
to publics. Have you ever been to public's, Kelly? Absolutely,
it's phenomena.
Speaker 8 (29:00):
It's well, I mean I have kind of you know,
the King Sleeper's marketplace up by me is not the
way public.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
The only thing I've ever encountered that's close to it
is you crops in Virginia.
Speaker 8 (29:12):
But we didn't ask about Winston and Shady. I was
worried about.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
That they were oblivious. That was his characterization yesterday. Yeah,
I'll message him right now if his phone stile, Yeah,
I don't know.
Speaker 8 (29:24):
I mean, we need to reserve that battery he has
as long as possible.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
I know he's done. You think the guy's practical?
Speaker 1 (29:29):
What do you think I just said that for I
have to be there to take care of this guy,
to like think out like, hey, we got to get
a cooler with ice.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
He's like, I don't know, It'll just rat and I'll
throw it out. You heard him say it God drives
me nuts.
Speaker 8 (29:42):
Well, yeah, he's just touchy.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
He's just touchy, and he survived the storm and I'm
very glad for that. I'll probably be heading down there.
I think he's still on the line. Will you talk
to the guy he's doing take a final time out.
We'll wrap it up. Ryan Schuling Live on six thirty k.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
Haf Gonor.
Speaker 10 (30:19):
Talents.
Speaker 9 (30:33):
I think what's changed is we've got twenty three million people.
A storm that hits is likely to hit more people
in property than it would have one hundred years ago,
and so the potential for that damage has grown. But
what's also changed is our ability to do the prevention,
uh to pre.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
Stage the assets.
Speaker 9 (30:52):
I mean, we never did the pre staging of power
assets until I became governor. Now people like expect that,
but that what was done in the past.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
That's why people would be out.
Speaker 9 (31:02):
With power for three weeks when we'd have hurricanes. We
thought that that's not good. Now we have to pay
to get these guys to come in. But my view
is the quicker you get everyone hooked up, the better
off the economy is going to be anyway, So why
don't we just do that. Having the different search and rescue,
having a state guard, all these different things are just
bringing different tools to the fight and it allows us
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to respond more effectively. So if we had the tools
that we had in nineteen twenty eight to fight an
Ian or to fight some of these, you would have
had higher death tolls. There's no question about that. That's
a leader, and I just envisioned.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
Don't want to put the cart before the horse, but
could you imagine a twenty twenty eight primary where it's
down to Ronda Santis and jd Vance.
Speaker 8 (31:45):
WHOA, that's like that would be the ticket all ticket.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
Well, I don't know that they'd be on each other's ticket.
I think they're going to be competing for the same spot.
And that's like macho man Randy Savage against Jake the
Snake Roberts.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
I love them both. I didn't know who to root for.
I like both of those guys a lot.
Speaker 8 (32:02):
Yeah, they're both very, very bright, and I thought you
were going to pull rspwagon.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
Ride in the storm out. I'm saving that one for Dano.
Speaker 8 (32:09):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
Lots of text about Comrade Kyle, and I'm loving to
each it, every one of them. This one says we
don't hate Kyle Clark enough. Now hates a strong word.
Kyle Clark comes across as a complete a hole, says Alexa.
Speaker 2 (32:22):
Yeah, he's got that smug snipe, condescending quality Kelly's experienced
at firsthand. Holy blank, did Kyle go after you?
Speaker 5 (32:31):
Darro?
Speaker 2 (32:31):
Wow? He really did.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
And I will give Kyle credit where credit is due.
He does tend to handle these debate settings pretty well.
He gets a little bit eager when Lauren Bobert's involved.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
There's something going on there. I'm just saying on his side,
not hers.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
Maybe Comrade Kyle just likes to bully women politicians. He
was kind of pushing Gabe around two, so I don't
know that that's specific. He does on X, he does
on AX, whether it's Heidi Ganall or Lauren Bulbert or
Danielle Jorinski. He's got a pattern there, so does Jared Polis.
By the way, read from that what you will. Has
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anyone asked Caraveo. If she ran for Congress because she
wasn't making enough money as a pediatrician, I don't know,
but I think it's gonna be a short stay. She
is so unimpressive. I still can't believe she beat Barb Kirkmeyer,
even in a down year for Republicans. Senator Kirkmeyer is
just head and shoulders above her, and Gabe Evans is
a rising star. I think he's gonna win this race,
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and win it handily. You just got to keep contributing
to his campaign. Electgabeevans dot com in the eighth. Let's
get it done, and let's stay tuned for Dan Kaplis
Our next guest who you could have heard or could
have watched on Tuesday night in his nine News Comrade
Kyle Marshall Zellinger debate. Oh wait, no, no, he debated Representative Youyo,
Derek karra Faale. I got a little confused there because
it was kind of like Trumpian or Jdvan's.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
It was one against three.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Here is part of his initial comments on addressing the
border crisis.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
I've been very clear with my three part plan. We
must secure the border right now. Immigration and Customs says
that we have over thirteen thousand convicted murderers who are
free in our communities. We have over ninety nine individuals
on the terrorist watch lists who have been released into
our communities.
Speaker 4 (00:37):
We have to secure our border.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
We have to create a path for folks who legally
want to immigrate to the United States that doesn't trap
them for decades in bureaucracy. And then we have to
aggressively target those individuals who are illegally in our communities
committing crimes, and those are the folks that we have
to deport. I've never wavered from that, and I know
that this is something that we have to do because
we're currently the third most dangerous state in the country.
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That's a direct result of the policies that my opponent
has voted for, open border policies, defund the police policies,
policies that make it illegal for police in Colorado to
even call Immigration and Customs, and I can fix it.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Composed informed, articulate on point part of the mighty nineteen
and the Colorado General Assembly. In the House Chamber, he
has Representative Gabe Evans, and he is the candidate in
the eighth Congressional District, challenging incumbent Representative and Democrat Derek Caraveo.
He joins us Now, Gabe, thank you for your time
as always, Oh.
Speaker 5 (01:35):
Thank you for the opportunity to be on with you
again this morning.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Well, I got a lot of highlights, and I use
that term in quotes that I want you to reflect upon,
but just in general, what your impression was of the
debate after you got through it and as you look
back on it.
Speaker 5 (01:51):
Really the biggest surprise to me was there were some
questions asked of my opponent, you know, do you still
stand by a lot of these terrible policies about the
open World Order, about lowing the penalty for drug dealers
about giving taxpayer funded benefits to illegal immigrants, and she,
like I expected her to maybe run away from that
stuff a little bit cheap in many ways, doubled down
(02:14):
on that record of failure and on that record of
supporting open borders and requiring taxpayer money to go to
illegal immigrants, which, as we all know, is a major
reason why we have so many folks that are specifically
coming to Colorado and costing US hundreds of millions of dollars,
to say nothing of the fact that this is where
many cartels and transnational organizations have chosen to set up
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shop because they know this law enforcement can't do anything
to them in this state.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Electgaveevans dot com that's where you can go to support
his campaign. He could really use your help here down
the stretch. Here we are, it's October tenth. We've got
twenty one days left in October plus five, that's twenty
six until election day.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
You can contribute to his campaign.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Electgaveevans dot com what are the most important races now nationally?
So much so that Speaker Mike Johnson was recently out
here helping with Evans and his campaign. I wanted to
get into the pugilism between yourself and who I call
Comrade Kyle Clark. He was pressing you on Donald Trump,
on the border, on xenophobia, et cetera.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
I'll start there, and here's the first clip.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
We want to make sure that we've got a clear
answer to whether or not you support Donald Trump's plan
to deport every person in this country illegally. He describes
that as twenty one million people or more. I heard
you say deport people committing crimes. Do you support Trump's
plan to deport each person? We need to empower our
law enforcement to be able to deport those folks that
are committing crimes in our community. Once we start to
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enforce the laws, then I think what you'll see happen
is those folks who have cut in the line, we'll
step back into the place in line that they should be,
that they should have been in all along. My grandfather
earned his citizenship to this country with two purple hearts
in World War Two as an immigrant from Mexico, and
so we have to make sure that we are risks
inspecting the folks who did it the right way and
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not allow folks to cut in line.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Very good answer was not good enough for Comrade Kyle.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
I'm not certain that I heard an answer to the
question about whether you support the Trump plan to support
every person here illegally, but you did mention your a
Mexican born grandfather who you often cite in his heroism
in World War II fighting the Nazis. Of course, Donald
Trump echoes the dehumanizing rhetoric of the fascists that your
grandfather fought on behalf of this country. Trump says that
immigrants are poisoning the blood of our country.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
He says that they are animals, not people.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
He invokes genetics, saying recently that immigrants who kill have
bad genes, while telling a largely white crowd in Minnesota
that they have good genes because of racehorse theory, which
involves selective breeding. When you hear Donald Trump, whose endorsement
you accepted and celebrate, say those things, what do you think.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
A distortion of what Trump has said in the past.
And he has focused on criminal illegal aliens, those that
have been released from Venezuelan prisons insane aside is the
either find them their mental hospitals that is happening. Those
are factual characterizations, and it was Comrade Kyle's attempt to
link Evans to Trump, And here was Gabe's answer.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
As a state legislator, I was able to get almost
sixty percent of.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
My bills passed down at the state Capitol.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
And that's with me being in a Republican super minority
nineteen Republicans to forty six Democrats. And the reason that
I was still able to get almost sixty percent of
my bills pass is because I can work with everyone
on these issues.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
And I do that because I focus on policies, not personality.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
With respect, would you please answer the question when when
Donald Trump used this dehumanizing rhetoric about minorities and migrants specifically,
what do you think of that? So in the endorsement
that Donald Trump gave me, he talked about securing the border,
he talked about making our community safe, he talked about.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
Lowering the cost of living. Those are the things that
I'm focused on.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Of course, I condemn any sort of racist sort of speech,
and I would you really appreciate if my opponent could
join me in condemning some of that racist speech. Yes
yesterday was the anniversary of one of the most egregious
attacks on the Jewish community, and I didn't see anything
on my opponent social media talking about that, and both
of you actually acknowledged it yesterday on social media. But
just to clarify, when you say that you condemn racist statements,
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are you talking about those statements, those dehumanizing statements by
Donald Trump. I've always condemned any sort of racist statements.
Are you willing to say that Donald Trump statements are racist?
I've always condemned racist statement.
Speaker 6 (06:23):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
The framing of this, in my view game was ridiculous
by Kyle Clark. It was motivated, it was driven by
his own personal animus toward Donald Trump. I thought you
handled that well, especially that late pivot, even though Clark
went further to try to carry water for Caraveo.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
What did you make of that entire exchange?
Speaker 5 (06:42):
Well, I mean, going into this debate, you know, the
big thing that was lingering in the back of my
mind was these are the guys that have effectively made
a campaign ad for my opponent by fact checking indirectly
by the way fact checking all of my campaign commercials,
made of my campaign commercials, and turning a blind eye
to a lot of the things that she said, by
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the way the Wall Street Journal fact checked some of
her ads and the Democrat Party's ads on her behalf
and said that they were fiction. I believe was the word.
So that was kind of the baseline going into this conversation.
And yeah, for that particular exchange, I mean, I mentioned
to the social media. One of the things that I
(07:27):
should have brought up that I didn't there was the
fact that last November, So this is the aftermath of
October seventh, you know, right after it happened, one of
the most anti Semitic members of Congress literally called for
the destruction of the Jewish state, and there was a
broadly bipartisan effort to censor her. Twenty two Democrats cross
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party lines to censor a Democrat member of Congress who
called for the destruction of the Jewish state. My opponent
was not one of them. She stood shoulder to shoulder
with someone who called for the destruction of Israel. And
so that's the that's what I'm trying to draw out
in this conversation is I've always condemned political violence, I've
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always condemned racism, and my opponent is getting a complete
pass here because she hasn't been able to do any
of those things.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Gave Evans our guest.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
You can go to Electgabevans dot com to support his
campaign in the eighth Congressional district. These sound clips that
you're hearing are from Tuesday nights debate on nine News
that was moderated in quotes by Kyle Clark and Marshall Zellinger.
Zellinger again, they just can't quit Trump, and they're trying
to tie him to Gabe Evans, and I think again
(08:36):
this is a motivation along.
Speaker 4 (08:38):
As Lice Minster Evans, a yes or no question? Here?
Speaker 3 (08:40):
Will you appear alongside Donald Trump at his rally in
Aurora if you are invited. I found out about that
rally last night via the news media. I have as
much information as anyone else in this room.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
But if you were invited, would you say yes?
Speaker 3 (08:53):
I have as much information as anybody else in this room.
I have not been invited at this point. Let's say
you say yes. Would you correct any false statements in
front of Donald Trump that he would to make about Colorado.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
I always stand for the truth.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
Again, this is why I've got sixty percent of my
bills passed being in a super minority. This is why
I've got two thirds of the mayor's in my district
that have thrown their support behind me.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
They make Trump this boogeyman, Gabe, and you may.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Appear at this event.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Is there an update on that for Friday?
Speaker 5 (09:22):
Yeah, I still haven't received an invitation to that event.
And I'm focused on flipping this eighth congressional district. So
I suspect that anybody that goes to a Trump rally
is probably going to be voting for me as well
if they happen to live in the eighth congressional district.
You know, I would love to count on their support,
and so we know that, you know, I need to
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be able to focus on those independent voters that make
up forty some odd percent of the electorate. And so
it really is just a cost benefit analysis of this
race was decided by sixteen hundred votes out of almost
two hundred thousand two years ago, and so making sure
that we can get every last vote in the door
to be able to take this seat away from a
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really progressive, far left congresswoman who has voted with her
party ninety one percent of the time, she's voted against
small business seventy five percent of the time, she's voted
to defund the police, keep our borders open, and those
are the policies that I'm focused on.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
Correcting, and not only that. I don't have a problem
with a moderator pressing. Let's say you on Trump, do
you accept as endorsement? Do you reject the lies that
he said? They never mention all of the lies and
the flip flopping that Kamala Harris has done. And will
you dear at Caraveo call her out on that they're
not holding her to the same standard. There was a
(10:40):
moment in this debate not long after the part that
I just played though game that you mentioned earlier, that
I really want to go over in.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Detail with you.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
It was striking to me for many of the same
reasons that you stated, the Caraveo just completely sells out
her beliefs in order to get elected, and she says it.
Speaker 4 (10:59):
Miss Caraveo.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
It would have here that your views on immigration and
border security have changed significantly in the last couple of years.
Three years ago you called for the defunding of border
patrol and ICE, and then this summer you joined Republicans
in strongly condemning Kamala Harris specifically and the Biden administration
more generally for failing to secure the border.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
What caused you to.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
So drastically change your views on immigration in just a
few years.
Speaker 7 (11:25):
I think the country has changed, and we've seen a
crisis that both parties have set up and not offered
solutions for. And so, as a member of Congress from
a district that is very evenly divided, it is my
responsibility to portray the opinions of my constituents. And I've
done that by being the eighth most bipartisan freshman member
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of Congress. I've done that by passing the first law
that a freshman member of this Congress passed last year.
And I've done that by introducing a bipartisan package around
immigration and many other issues. And so really that is
the way that I am approaching this issue and many
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other issues, making sure that I am truly representing the
people of eh destructor Gay.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
My simple question for you is has the country changed
in the twenty two months that she has served in
the House.
Speaker 5 (12:20):
So she is saying whatever she thinks she needs to say,
and she effectively said it later on in the conversation.
She's saying whatever she thinks she needs to say to
hold onto power. And here's why I mentioned that resolution
from the last November condemning the anti Semitic member of Congress.
That there's no policy attached to a condemnation resolution. It's
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literally just saying we disapprove of whatever the actions of
the words of the behavior was, but there's no policy
attached to it. So last November she could not say
that calling for the destruction of the Jewish state is
wrong because it hadn't sunk in yet that she was
going to be in a tough re election fights. And
then ten months later, when she realizes that people are
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actually concerned about the open border crisis and sanctuary state
crisis that she helped to create.
Speaker 6 (13:11):
Then she will.
Speaker 5 (13:12):
As even Kyle mentioned, she endorsed Kamala on a Monday
and then condemned her on a Thursday. She truly will
say she'll say or do whatever she thinks she needs
to say or do to hold on to power. And
again a little bit later in that exchange, she outright
admitted it that she still holds these beliefs, but she'll
go one hundred and eighty degrees in a different direction
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if she thinks that's what's politically expedient to do.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
Electgabevans dot Com is where you can go to the
Republican nominee for the pivotal eighth Congressional district. That race
in and of itself may very well determine the balance
of power in the House writ large.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Now, what Gabe just mentioned happens here.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Karraveo is peppered by Kyle Clark on her stance regarding
immigration policies.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
This is is breathtaking.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
In twenty twenty one, you called on the Biden administration
to divest from immigration enforcement agencies like ICE and CBP.
Speaker 4 (14:06):
Is that still your position?
Speaker 7 (14:08):
My constituents do not believe that, and so I would
vote against that.
Speaker 4 (14:11):
Is it still your position? Do you still believe that
that's the right thing to do.
Speaker 7 (14:13):
My job is to represent the eighth Congressional district, and
that is what I'm doing every time that I vote.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
In twenty nineteen, you sponsored a bill prohibiting local law
enforcement from cooperating with federal immigration holds in Colorado. Do
you still believe that Colorado law enforcement should be barred
from working with immigration agents?
Speaker 7 (14:29):
It shouldn't be up to local law enforcement to do
what the federal government has failed to do.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
That sounds like a yes.
Speaker 4 (14:34):
You still hold that position, the.
Speaker 7 (14:36):
Local police officers should not be enforcing laws that the
federal government has not reformed.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
In twenty twenty one, you sponsored a bill that allowed
the state to award contracts to companies that knowingly employ
people who are not in this country legally.
Speaker 4 (14:50):
Is that still your view?
Speaker 7 (14:53):
I will vote in keeping with what the constituents of
the eighth District wanted me to, and I think that
is taking a balanced approach to people that immigrate here
legally and illegally.
Speaker 4 (15:02):
That did not answer the question at all.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
In twenty twenty one, you sponsored a bill that allowed
the state to give contracts to companies that knowingly employ
people who do not have legal authorization to work.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
Do you still believe that's the right.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Thing to do.
Speaker 7 (15:13):
I've not had a bill presented to me since then.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
In twenty twenty one, you sponsored a bill that opened
up taxpayer paid public housing to people here illegally.
Speaker 4 (15:22):
Is that still your position?
Speaker 7 (15:24):
I have around the issue of housing, made sure that
I'm introducing a bill to had the federal government pay
for migrant housing so that local taxpayers do not.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
Well, local taxpayers pay federal taxes, so it's still their money.
Speaker 7 (15:39):
Yeah, but a disproportionate amount. It should not come onto
the taxpayers only of Denver.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Now, Gabe, if I'm an undecided voter and the border
is my top issue, why would I vote for someone
like her to fake these positions on my behalf rather
than somebody like you that will fight for that position
on my behalf.
Speaker 5 (16:00):
Fighting for these things. Since I was twenty years old
and joined the US Army, I've put my life on
the line three times US Army, Colorado Army, National Guard,
and the Arvada Police Department for a combined total of
twenty two years. Because I believe in protecting the United States.
I believe in preserving our territorial integrity. I spent almost
a year in a combat zone in the Middle East
(16:21):
as part of the global War on Terror, And as
I had mentioned in the earlier cliff that you played,
the fact that we have ninety nine folks on the
terrorist watch lists who have been released into our country
is not why I said goodbye to my five month
old when I went overseas. This isn't why I spent
ten years in the police department here in the Denver
metro area so that we could have thirteen thousand convicted
(16:43):
murderers released into our country. And that's perent Immigration and
Customs memo from a couple of weeks ago. I've literally
been putting my life on the line since I was
twenty years old to fight for these things. I've never
wavered from those I've continued that fight down at the
state Capitol, and I look forward to the opportunity to
continue at dictating for these principles in Congress.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
And we need to give him that opportunity.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
You can go to Electgabeevans dot com find out more
information about his campaign, contribute to his campaign.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
You're seeing the TV ads running.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
That's very important that they stay on the air locally
here for those of you live in the eighth Congressional district.
I cannot endorse gave Evans strongly enough. Representative Gabe Evans always,
thank for your time, great job in this debate, and
best to luck the rest of the way.
Speaker 5 (17:27):
Thanks so much for bringing me on the show. Electigaveevans
dot com to learn more.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Right, very expansive conversation. There we turn to our own
Kelly Kuchera.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
Your thoughts on Gabe Evans in this race in the
eighth against Yadrek Caravel.
Speaker 8 (17:39):
Oh, I'm so rooting for him.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Obviously.
Speaker 8 (17:42):
He is one of the nicest people and one of
the smartest, very sharp interviewed. I mean, it is just
a pleasure in working with him and just getting to
know him over these last weeks as we prepare for
the election.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
So one thing that stood out to me in this debate,
and I'm going to cut more sound for Dan here
in like thirty seconds, was your deer Caraveo and just
how nervous she was, Yes, every other word is or uh,
just a horrible public speaker. And then Gabe composed, polished,
sharp to your point, and I just think contrast was
stark exactly in that debate on Tuesday night, agreed Representative
(18:21):
Gabe Evansletgaveevans dot com go there right now and contribute
to his campaign stick and steak. Guess what, Hutch He's
next from Florida.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Tornadoes.
Speaker 9 (18:36):
I think you can go back and find tornadoes for
all of human history for sure, and especially you know Florida.
You know, how does this storm rate in kind of
the history of storms. I think it hit with a
barometric pressure of what was it about nine hundred and
fifty milli bars when it hit, which I think if
(19:00):
you go back to eighteen fifty one, there's probably been
twenty seven hurricanes that have had lower bear So the
lower the barometric pressure, the stronger it is. I think
there have been about twenty seven hurricanes that have had
lower barometric pressure on landfall than Milton did, and of those,
seventeen occurred. I think prior to nineteen sixty.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
Ronnie de just spitting straight facts historically about hurricanes in Florida.
He's a lifelong native. He went to the same high
school as my next guest.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
He's a few.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Years younger actually than David Tyson and yours truly, and
he was pushing back on whether global warming had anything
to do with the increase in tornado warnings that we saw.
He would go on to cite the Labor Day hurricane
of nineteen of the nineteen thirties. Another devastating one that
was the most deadly was in nineteen twenty eight, the
(19:55):
Okachobe hurricane that was down in the southern part of
the state. And beyond that, there just more people in
Florida and therefore a storm like this like Milton is
going to do more property damage and be more deadly
because there's more things and more people in its way. Well,
riding out the storm down in Largo, Florida on the
panelas Peninsula is my good friend Hutchie David Tyson. He
(20:18):
joins us live from there right now, hutch.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
What's going on?
Speaker 5 (20:21):
Man?
Speaker 6 (20:22):
Hey?
Speaker 10 (20:22):
Ryan?
Speaker 5 (20:23):
How I do Buds?
Speaker 1 (20:24):
What do you think of Ronnie D? Your governor down there?
His response to all of.
Speaker 6 (20:28):
This, Oh, I thank god we have ron DeSantis. He's
got things cooking this morning. Man, things calm down considerably,
clean up as moving Lineman. I saw Lineman rolling down
East Bay, I mean just as far as I could see.
So they're trying to restore power. And Ronnie D is
(20:49):
the bass.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Well and Desanta's had made mentioned I messaged you this earlier, Hodge,
that he was critical of the local agency's enforcement vermnts
that were not effectively cleaning up after Helene taking up debris,
and that the state agencies had to go in there
kind of do their job for them, and he was
ripping on your county in particular, Panels County. Did you
(21:13):
notice that after Helene that there's a lot of crap
debris still lying around?
Speaker 6 (21:17):
Oh? There was so much of it. I just don't
think there was enough time. Ryan. I mean, that one
just just devastated the beaches, and then this one just
came right behind it. I mean, what are you going
to do?
Speaker 1 (21:28):
David Tyson, our guest hutch down there having ridden out
the storm. A brief political take from you, Dave, because
I think you represent a lot of Floridians that are
very happy with your governorro DeSantis. Yet you remained a
Trump supporter throughout the primary and preferred him to DeSantis
as the candidate for twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
Why is that?
Speaker 6 (21:51):
I'm just a Trump guy, you know, I wanted to
give him four more years. You know, Aroan DeSantis is
a young guy. He's going to have a chance. Such
a good governor. You know, I couldn't imagine having some
goofball like hicken Looper, you know, trying to navigate something
like this down here. Ronnie d is a bad man, Wow.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
A hicket Looper, blast from Hutchie from Afar.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
He's not even governor anymore. He's a senator here right.
Speaker 6 (22:17):
Oh, I understand, but you know, you know, to have
some goofy governor like that, he's just cares about Pott
and Junk. You know Ronnie d he's a he's.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
A good guy.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
I love how you gave Jared pull Us a pass
on that. I think he'll appreciate it. Back to what
you're dealing with, Hutch in the wake of this storm,
now that it's passed through.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
It was a wild night last night. Take us through it.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
You're fifty two years old, you spent most of your
life down there, and you're telling me you've never encountered
anything like what you witnessed last night.
Speaker 6 (22:45):
Yeah, that was That was a wild ride, man, just
just insane. It just kept getting more intense. The winds
were just outrageous. We were getting one hundred miles an
hour wind guts here. The northern part of the Eyewa
was just kissing us in panelas it just battered the
hell out of us. It was in sandy and it
(23:06):
just was unrelenting. It went on for hours and hours.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
And you told me we were watching your little reservoir
lake there kind of come and cresting up and flooding
up and.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
Maybe coming towards your apartment. You got the most rain. Thought.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
We know that the eye of the hurricane was a
little bit to your south as you just mentioned Cesta
Key Sarasota, but that meant that a lot of the
rainfall was cranking up toward you. And as I saw
the kind of post mortem on how much rain you got,
it was like a foot and a half right, eighteen inches.
Speaker 6 (23:35):
I see, I think we got sixteen inches. The storm
was weird. It was like cutting half right the bottom,
the bottom half of the eyewall literally had no rain,
and then the blob above us on the north part
was just just sat down Sanallas County and it just
beat the hell out of us. It was an insane
right I was getting I wanted it to.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
Be over and fortunately for David Tyson aka Hutch, it
is over formed down there. He's like my big brother,
and I was worried sick about him. As I've said
multiple times, he chose to ride this storm out, much
to the chagrin of some of our listeners and one
of my coworkers here, Mandy Connell. She called you crazy,
and another person thought you were gonna die.
Speaker 10 (24:14):
Hutch oh Man, Yeah, it was a little nasty to
heal all of a sudden, And you know that you
take very seriously your role in Denver Radio here in
your relationship with the listeners.
Speaker 6 (24:26):
Oh well, they healed on me, they rolled on me, right,
But I made it through. I made it through. It
was uh. I'll tell you one thing. I got a
new perspective on mother nature, you know, because when she's
on you, you just don't stand a chance. I don't
see how anyone could survive a Cat five. What I
dealt with with a three yesterday was was unnerving.
Speaker 10 (24:46):
A five is shift.
Speaker 6 (24:48):
That's next level.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
Would you do this again? If you had it to
do over? Or there's a second storm like this? God forbid?
Are you gonna gtfo?
Speaker 6 (24:57):
Yeah? If this sucks to having no electricity and it's
it's I would probably just dip, you know. Yeah, But
I'm glad I got to experience it. I mean, as
crazy as that sounds, you know now, I know firsthand
what it's all about. And it's nothing to play with.
I mean, it's it's devastating.
Speaker 8 (25:14):
Well, Ryan was not the only one that was worried
about you.
Speaker 10 (25:18):
I know you were, Kelly.
Speaker 8 (25:19):
I know.
Speaker 6 (25:22):
He's the only one in Denver that loves me.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
What about me?
Speaker 6 (25:25):
Well, you're on board with team Hodge, but I'm not.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
Fair enough.
Speaker 8 (25:31):
But he's always been team Cucero.
Speaker 10 (25:34):
I know, Kelly.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
Yeah, well, okay, can I break up this love fest
between the two of you. David Tyson reporting live from Largo.
So here's the question I've had. You're talking to me
on your phone. You have no electricity though, I mean,
how much longer are you going to keep your phone charged?
Speaker 6 (25:49):
Oh it's about dad. I think I'm got twenty percent left.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (25:53):
I'm not what. I don't know. I go into caveman mode.
You out there, what you're eating, the aids and bacon
and potatoes.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
It's pretty hardy meal you got there.
Speaker 6 (26:07):
Yeah, not bad. I mean I gotta I gotta had
to break out the Blackstone for it. But yeah, we
don't have we don't have power. I don't know when
I'm gonna get it. I'm not too concerned. Whenever we
get it, we get it.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
Well, here's where I'm concerned. I mean, you got your rations.
There is that breakfast, lunch, and dinner first pretty much.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
But you just described Yeah.
Speaker 5 (26:25):
Well you know what.
Speaker 6 (26:26):
Public's actually opened across the street from me today. No,
I can't go over there. Yeah I can go. I'm
telling you Ryan, when you know us Floridians. But we
we we pack it up and we get it going.
It's entirely different attitude right now than it was eight
hours ago. The cleanup is incredible.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (26:43):
Uh. Like I said, the linemen are out. You know,
we're storing power and you know this isn't the first
time Floridians has done this. We're pretty good at it.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
We call you Florida Man for a reason. And we've
discussed that in the path. Now, do you have a
cooler with ice? Are you able to obtain that because
you're gonna need it if you don't have electricity, you
don't have a refrigerator or a freezer.
Speaker 5 (27:03):
Eh.
Speaker 6 (27:03):
You know, if I lose stuff, I'll just throw it away.
And I do have to go to work tomorrow. We
got ice machine there.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
Wow.
Speaker 6 (27:10):
Yeah, I thinks they're going to start opening up. I'm
sure there'll be gasoline tomorrow again. Publics is open so
I can go get a sub or.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
Yeah, that's good news. But that's why you need me there, man.
You know we could we make a good team.
Speaker 6 (27:25):
I wish you were here for this just so you
could experience it.
Speaker 10 (27:28):
It was.
Speaker 6 (27:28):
It was a white knuckle ride last night for like
three hours. Ryan, I'm still trying to wrap my head
around that it was.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
It was just insane, and you lived through it, and
it sounds like it could have been a lot worse,
especially where you were. And yet the recovery and the
cleanup effort has already begun. That's really encouraging news that
publics is open, that you're going to go to work tomorrow,
that your workplace didn't get washed out there in Tampa. So,
you know, all things considered, I think things turned up
(27:55):
pretty well.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
It sounds like Hutch Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 6 (27:57):
So hopefully I was going to take time to clean
it up. And then you know, it's just.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
When's Hannah Babes coming back?
Speaker 4 (28:07):
I think so.
Speaker 6 (28:08):
I think the wedding is Saturday. I think she comes
back Sunday.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa? What wedding? What are you
talking about?
Speaker 6 (28:15):
Oh? I know her mom was the maid of honor
in some lady's wedding in Atlanta, so ironically she was
going to go up there anyway this weekend.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
Oh okay, yeah.
Speaker 6 (28:24):
It just happened to work out that way.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
Well, there's an anti joke in there. I'll leave it
for another time. David Tyson, also known as Hutch.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
My lifelong friend, my older brother and from another mother,
and he has ridden out the storm there with Milton
and Ronnie Dee can't sing.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
His praise is enough.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
What a job he's done in response to these storms,
and to Milton in particular.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
Hotche you hang in there. I'll talk to you again soon,
all right, I love you.
Speaker 6 (28:48):
I love you, Kelly, Hicky.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
A lot of love in there, it is. And his
phone just died, I think. But he's going to go
to publics. Have you ever been to public's, Kelly? Absolutely,
it's phenomena.
Speaker 8 (29:00):
It's well, I mean I have kind of you know,
the King Sleeper's marketplace up by me is not the
way public.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
The only thing I've ever encountered that's close to it
is you crops in Virginia.
Speaker 8 (29:12):
But we didn't ask about Winston and Shady. I was
worried about.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
That they were oblivious. That was his characterization yesterday. Yeah,
I'll message him right now if his phone stile, Yeah,
I don't know.
Speaker 8 (29:24):
I mean, we need to reserve that battery he has
as long as possible.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
I know he's done. You think the guy's practical?
Speaker 1 (29:29):
What do you think I just said that for I
have to be there to take care of this guy,
to like think out like, hey, we got to get
a cooler with ice.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
He's like, I don't know, It'll just rat and I'll
throw it out. You heard him say it God drives
me nuts.
Speaker 8 (29:42):
Well, yeah, he's just touchy.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
He's just touchy, and he survived the storm and I'm
very glad for that. I'll probably be heading down there.
I think he's still on the line. Will you talk
to the guy he's doing take a final time out.
We'll wrap it up. Ryan Schuling Live on six thirty k.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
Haf Gonor.
Speaker 10 (30:19):
Talents.
Speaker 9 (30:33):
I think what's changed is we've got twenty three million people.
A storm that hits is likely to hit more people
in property than it would have one hundred years ago,
and so the potential for that damage has grown. But
what's also changed is our ability to do the prevention,
uh to pre.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
Stage the assets.
Speaker 9 (30:52):
I mean, we never did the pre staging of power
assets until I became governor. Now people like expect that,
but that what was done in the past.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
That's why people would be out.
Speaker 9 (31:02):
With power for three weeks when we'd have hurricanes. We
thought that that's not good. Now we have to pay
to get these guys to come in. But my view
is the quicker you get everyone hooked up, the better
off the economy is going to be anyway, So why
don't we just do that. Having the different search and rescue,
having a state guard, all these different things are just
bringing different tools to the fight and it allows us
(31:23):
to respond more effectively. So if we had the tools
that we had in nineteen twenty eight to fight an
Ian or to fight some of these, you would have
had higher death tolls. There's no question about that. That's
a leader, and I just envisioned.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
Don't want to put the cart before the horse, but
could you imagine a twenty twenty eight primary where it's
down to Ronda Santis and jd Vance.
Speaker 8 (31:45):
WHOA, that's like that would be the ticket all ticket.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
Well, I don't know that they'd be on each other's ticket.
I think they're going to be competing for the same spot.
And that's like macho man Randy Savage against Jake the
Snake Roberts.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
I love them both. I didn't know who to root for.
I like both of those guys a lot.
Speaker 8 (32:02):
Yeah, they're both very, very bright, and I thought you
were going to pull rspwagon.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
Ride in the storm out. I'm saving that one for Dano.
Speaker 8 (32:09):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
Lots of text about Comrade Kyle, and I'm loving to
each it, every one of them. This one says we
don't hate Kyle Clark enough. Now hates a strong word.
Kyle Clark comes across as a complete a hole, says Alexa.
Speaker 2 (32:22):
Yeah, he's got that smug snipe, condescending quality Kelly's experienced
at firsthand. Holy blank, did Kyle go after you?
Speaker 5 (32:31):
Darro?
Speaker 2 (32:31):
Wow? He really did.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
And I will give Kyle credit where credit is due.
He does tend to handle these debate settings pretty well.
He gets a little bit eager when Lauren Bobert's involved.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
There's something going on there. I'm just saying on his side,
not hers.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
Maybe Comrade Kyle just likes to bully women politicians. He
was kind of pushing Gabe around two, so I don't
know that that's specific. He does on X, he does
on AX, whether it's Heidi Ganall or Lauren Bulbert or
Danielle Jorinski. He's got a pattern there, so does Jared Polis.
By the way, read from that what you will. Has
(33:07):
anyone asked Caraveo. If she ran for Congress because she
wasn't making enough money as a pediatrician, I don't know,
but I think it's gonna be a short stay. She
is so unimpressive. I still can't believe she beat Barb Kirkmeyer,
even in a down year for Republicans. Senator Kirkmeyer is
just head and shoulders above her, and Gabe Evans is
a rising star. I think he's gonna win this race,
(33:28):
and win it handily. You just got to keep contributing
to his campaign. Electgabeevans dot com in the eighth. Let's
get it done, and let's stay tuned for Dan Kaplis
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