November 7, 2024 • 18 mins
Fresh off winning the seat in Colorado's 3rd Congressional District, Jeff Hurd joins the show to talk about his victorious campaign, and what he sees in store for America following Donald Trump's massive victory over Kamala Harris.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
So we're closing in on almost five pm Eastern time,
and I've been tracking everything that's been going on across
the country today, and my most important encounter was when
I went out to get my champagne. I was talking
to the guy in the store, of course, asking him
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did he vote, and he said he did early voting,
and he asked me if I early voted, and he
asked me.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
You know why I.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Was getting the champagne and I said, because I'm going
to be toasting Madam President tonight. And he just looked
at me with kind of like a smirk on his face,
and I said, you know, she's she's going to win this, right.
He says, oh, well, it's very very close. And I said, no,
it's not.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
He says, well, what do you mean.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
I said, no, it's not. The women of America are
making their voices heard. Reproductive rights is what it all
comes down to, and the women are voting in numbers
relative to men that are UNBELO. She's won this. And
I said to him, she's going to take every one
of the swing states.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Plus o TuS Iowa.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
He said, oh, but the numbers are so close. I said,
I'm a political analyst. I'm telling you right now, the
numbers are there. She's taking this election. I've said to him,
you realize, and he didn't tell me who he voted for,
but of course I knew, and I said, you do
realize you wasted.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Your vote, right, And I didn't care.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
I walked out with my bottle of champagne and happily
walked home. Bye bye.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
She who laughs last, laughs best and for doctor Arlen
there on TikTok. Unfortunately for her, she laughed first. Now
this is from a Texter, says Ryan. This political analyst
goes into a liquor store to buy champagne to celebrate
Kamala's win. She tells the poor, uneducated liquor store worker
that he completely wasted his vote because Kamala Harris is
going to take this election because reproductive rights trumped everything.
(02:01):
Nice pun there with Trump. Well, the fact of the
matter is it wasn't close, but it just didn't go
the direction that she anticipated. And wow, talk about egg
on your face. How about champagne too? I wonder if
you were uncorked that bottle. It's time to uncork a
bottle of Jeff heard champagne. He has been declared the
winner in the third Congressional district, and he joins us
on Ryan Schuling Live. Jeff, congratulations, Thanks so much.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
Ryan. It's great to be with you now.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
I was waiting for that official call to come down,
and I know there are still some votes out, So
let's take care of the particulars first and foremost.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Has Adam Frisch called you to concede?
Speaker 3 (02:36):
He did. He did call me yesterday. It was gracious
and professional, and he did concede.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
Well, then I can call you Congressman elect as of
right now, right, yes.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Right, yes, person elect. It's kind of surreal, but it's
an honor to be in this spot, and I'm going
to work hard to be worthy of it.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
Well, we talked exactly one week ago and you were
taking your kids out for trick or treating. Did the
candy aspect work? We talked about that angle.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
D Yeah, explaining how taxation works. But yeah, a couple
of handfuls out of their trigger treat bags. Yeah, it's worked.
There's plenty of candy though there was more. There's plenty
left after that than they didn't see the mind too
much so, but yes, it worked, and trigger treating went well.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
Jeff for joining US congressman elect for the third Congressional district.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
He'll be succeeding Lauren.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
Bolbert in that post as she has moved over to
the fourth Congressional district and one. With eighty nine percent
of the vote in Jeff Leeds Adam Frish fifty to
forty seven. So there's still be some numbers coming in,
but it looks like here, Jeff, you will have won
by about twelve and a half thousand votes with about
three and a half one hundred thousand, three hundred and
fifty thousand or so votes cast, so a larger margin
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than Bobert won by the last time around. Still, it
was going to be close. I think you anticipated that.
Are those numbers about where you thought they would be?
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Yes, we knew it was going to be a tough race.
I mean, I have an opponent that raised a ton
of money against me, and you certainly spent it. So
we knew it was going to be close. But the
fundamentals were strong for the district. In what I told
people when I was on the campaign trail was dollars
don't vote. People do. And I think we saw that
on an election day. And I'm going to take that
mandate with me to Washington and do what I promised
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to do, which is fight to secure border and grower
energy economy and protect color out of water and egg.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
A couple of things Jeff, that I think appealed most
to voters about your candidacy was You're not a career politician.
This isn't something that you've been doing for your entire life.
In fact, you were born in this district, you were
raised in this district. You're a lifelong resident of this
third congressional district, and you know what matters to this district,
as you just said, with the energy aspect of this
and the conservation aspect of your campaign. So as you
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ran a campaign for the first time and now you
have time to reflect on it, albeit it's just hours
really after you declared the winner, is there something that
you would point to and say, you know what, that's
one of the big reasons we won. And is there
anything that you would point to and maybe the next
time around when you run for reelection in two years going,
you know what I want to tweak that, I want
to do that a little differently.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Yeah, I think what resonated with voters was sincerity and authenticity.
And you're right, this is my first time ever running
for office, hadn't even run for dog Catcher before. I
think people saw me as a candidate who is the
homegrown candidate, You're right, raised in this district, raising a
family here, and who cares about the issues that matter
to families here. I'm a father of five. I know
and see the cost of groceries. I know and see
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the cost of energy that costs when you fill up
your gas tank. And I think having somebody that could
relate to them was really important to people here. And
that's something that I hope to keep with me. Hope
to keep a levelhead when I'm serving in Congress, and
I'm going to work my hardest for the families and
small businesses and communities of the third Congressional District.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
And he will be joining in coalition with Jeff Crank,
who was victorious in the fifth Congressional district. He will
be taking over for the retiring Doug Lamborne and Jeff
able to win an emphatic fashion fifty five forty two
Representative Lauren Bolbert, as I mentioned, a ten point point
win over Tricia Calvaresei in the fourth Congressional District, Jeff,
it looks like and it hasn't been called yet and
there's still votes out, but that Gabe Evans may be
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facing a narrow defeat to Yo Derek Caravello in the eighth,
which I think makes it all the more important as
somebody who lives in the sixth than my candidate, John
Fabricatory came up short against Jason Crow in a very
difficult race that was well run by John in and
of himself. But there's so many of us in Colorado.
You know, I don't feel represented by Jason Crow. I don't,
and I look to people like yourself and Jeff Crank
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and Representative Lauren Bobert as those that are really going
to represent the interests of the state. I know you
got your district at heart and what you're really looking
out for, but a lot of that is a contiguous
with the interests of people that might live where I
am in the sixth Congressional District or throughout the state
of Colorado. How much do you wear that not only
as a badge of honor, but as a responsibility that
you're one of three elected Republicans that are representing us
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in the Congress here in Colorado.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
That's truly an honor and a prival with Ryan, and
I'm honored to be your congressman in spirit. Yeah, and
you know what, we need to bring a conservative message
to Washington. I think that's something that we saw just
with the national election results, and that's going to be
something I know that Jeff and Lauren and I will
bring and hopefully Gabe as well. I hope you're wrong.
I hope you can pull it out and win. But
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you're going to get a serious Republican delegation here, no
matter how many members are here, and we're going to
work hard to bring those conservative values to Washington, and
like I said, to fight to secure border, grow our
energy economy, and rein in the spending that is just
crippling the generations to come.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
Yeah, there's never been an instance where I have more
wanted to be wrong than in that eighth congressional race
for Gabe Evans. And we'll see they're still counting the
votes and again a winner has not been declared. Congressman
elect Jeff heard joining us. You'll be representing the third
congressional districts, So.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Jeff, you kind of touched on it.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
But one of the great aspects about entering Congress at
the time that you are is it is part of
what we anticipated in did not have two years ago
with this so called red wave.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
But this is a wave election.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
Donald Trump wins the national popular vote, looks like he's
going to be around fifty one percent. There an electoral
college landslide, an emphatic voice of the American people being
heard on Tuesday Night.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
You were part of that too. Republicans are going to
control the Senate.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
Looks like McCormick and Pennsylvania Dave McCormick is going to
pull out a win over Bob Casey that would put
the Senate at about fifty three forty seven by current calculations,
and we're anticipating my math it could be off, but
that if all these races hold that are still left
up for grabs, the margin in the House with Speaker
Mike Johnson would be the same as it was elected
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in twenty twenty two, which is two twenty two to
two thirteen, with albeit a minor and a narrow majority
in the House. That Senate majority. I talked about Donald
Trump in the White House. How do you think that
affects what the Republican agenda that you just described can
be and how it can go forward when you're sworn
in in January.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Well, I think it's a mandate for all of us
as a Republicans, and it's also an opportunity. Certainly I
would prefer the margins in the House were better. We'll
see how things land in the other races, but certainly
I think the American people send a loud message they
want to change direction. They want to secure the border,
they want to grow our economy, they want to stop
the inflation and spending. And it's going to be incumbent
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on us as Republicans to deliver, and the American people
can and will hold us accountable. So it's up to
us to get the job done.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
I kind of talked about this with Greg Lopez when
he was elected the special election this past summer to
serve out the last one hundred days of so or
so of Representative Ken Buck's tenure in the fourth Congressional District.
But I'll ask the same question of you, Jeff, how
do you get up and running. How do you hit
the ground running with your transition team from being elected?
Now the election is in the rearview mirror to getting
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your feet on the ground in Washington, getting set up
the way that you need to, especially considering, like you said,
you've never done this before.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
Great question, Ryan, It's my number one priority is actually
setting up a congressional office that is staffed by hard working,
serious competent members who are working hard to make sure
that we don't drop any balls and take care of
the people that live in this district. And you know,
you don't read about it on the front page of
the paper, but an essential part of being an effective
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member of Congress is having a staff that takes care
of the people that live here. So that's my number
one priority is making sure that we have people in
place that are going to serve the people that have
entrusted us with this responsibility well next Congress. So that
is something that is a top priority for me right
now as I'm transitioning from campaign to governing.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Finally, Jeff, I mean, like you said, you're a family man.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
This has been your district, so this hits close to
the heart for you to win this election with the
support of your constituents. As you kind of sit back
and reflect on that, what does that mean to you
and what does it mean to you to be a
congressman representing the district that you've spent your entire life in.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
Well, it's certainly humbling. And what I tell people, and
what I tell people on the campaign trail, and that
i'd say to everyone that's listening now, is I will
never forget where I came from from Colorado, grew up here,
raising my family here, and I hope not to change.
And I tell people I will always be Jeff to
the people that the third Congressional District.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
Congressmen elect Jeff heard, I'll call you Jeff if that's okay.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Absolutely, Jeff.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
I'm sincere and serious when I say this. You mentioned
it earlier. We're kind of joking about it. I do
feel that you're my congressman by proxy for the issues
that our listeners care about here, that I care about.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
As an individual, as a resident of Colorado.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
I'm so thankful that you take the time to join
us and that you'll be rare representing us in Washington.
So please know there's an open line like to have
you on the show at any time. Anything that's going
on in Congress, we'd like to hear from you. So
I just really appreciate you joining me and being a
part of this.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
I'm happy to do it, Brian. I look forward to
talking many times in the future.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Wrison.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
Elect Jeff heard congratulations once again. We'll look forward to
many more visits with him as we continue through these
first two years of the Donald Trump second term presidency,
in which we're hoping. As it stands right now, I'm
looking at the New York Times, Republicans are at two ten,
Democrats at one ninety eight. You need two hundred and
eighteen seats to have control of the House.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
You'd like to have a little breathing room.
Speaker 4 (12:24):
And again, by my calculations, it looks like they'll have
at least four seats above that margin. The Republicans will
above two eighteen to two twenty two, and that would
mean two thirteen for the Democrats. It can be very
difficult to get an agenda through when you have that
evenly divided house.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
The Democrats certainly.
Speaker 4 (12:41):
Are going to dig in their heels, and there will
be some moderate Republicans that might be a little tenuous
in terms of going along with the vote for Speaker Johnson.
That's why there should be some big tent issues that
I anticipate somebody like Congressman heard Congresswoman Lauren Bobert, Congressman Crank,
that they're going to be able to try to set
up get through the House, push it over to the Senate,
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get that signed in, and then have President Trump sign
it into law. A couple of things I'd like off
the top, federal election reform, tightening down election integrity and security.
I think that needs to come from the top, and
it needs to come from Washington. It needs to be
codified by Congress and signed into law by President Trump.
That would give me and I know a lot of
you a lot more peace of mind about our elections
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and how they are run and how they are counted,
and the integrity of our ballot and making sure chain
of custody is a top priority for those that are
running our elections, that we don't have a lot of
this kind of sideways questioning of our elections here in Colorado,
which I will continue to criticize that Jenna Griswold should
have resigned already. She hasn't yet, And I'm looking at
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you know, we're supposed to have this gold standard of
counting votes in Colorado, folks, We're still only at seventy
nine percent of our ballots being counted. Do you know
that there's only one state doing worse than us in
that category, and that's Arizona, which we know they're a
mess in Merica, a county and elsewhere in that state
the last time around. But if we're supposed to be
the gold standard with this all mail in voting, we
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turned so many of these ballots in early, why is
it we only have seventy nine percent of our votes counted.
I think that's a failure and I think we need
to do a lot better than that. And if it's
not going to come from Colorado and our far left
leadership in this state, then it needs to come from
the federal level to provide the guidelines and the guardrails
so that every state is held to account for how
they run and operate their elections. They're free to do
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it themselves, but they have to conform to a federal standard.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
That's the only way forward from here, I believe, and.
Speaker 4 (14:34):
Hopefully it will help these states like us here in
Colorado kind of get our rear ends in gear Nevada
is still counting their votes as well. But what is
looking like is that Donald Trump will win Nevada by
about a fifty one to forty seven margin, not bad,
and by a fifty two to forty seven.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
Margin in Arizona.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
That would add seventeen electoral votes to his total, and
that would put him at three twelve, and it would
mean he would outperform his electoral vote total from twenty sixteen,
in which he defeated Hillary Clinton. By adding Nevada to
his map. He had lost Nevada twice, and he finally
was able to turn Nevada read in this election and
winning all seven swing states, much to the chagrin of
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poor Mary.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
In the previous.
Speaker 4 (15:18):
TikTok analysis, where she was a doctor, Arlene, I guess
her name, was belittling the liquor store clerk for voting
for Trump, saying he wasted his vote. Nay, I would say,
you wasted your vote. And that's another thing we've been
talking about this too. People underestimate the power of women voters,
but it's not for the reasons democrats tell us. I
think it is very insulting to suggest that women are
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monolithic one issue voters, that abortion is all they care about.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
I get it.
Speaker 4 (15:46):
Even if you're a liberal woman, it might be an
important issue. It might even be your most important issue.
But you can't define yourself by that. I don't think.
I mean, I'm a man talking here. I get that,
But there are so many other issues that are of
such import to a woman and her family and her
friends and those that she cares about, and what I
can't square in my mind. I had a friend, lifelong friend,
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little league teammate from way back in the day in
Michigan posting and bragging about the fact that he voted
for Kamala Harris because he is in solidarity with and
supports the women in his life, his nieces, his daughters,
his wife, his whatever, you know, female friends, and they
were applauding him, and I'm.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
Like, okay, please spell this out for me.
Speaker 4 (16:28):
That the only way you measure support for women is
whether or not they have the power to abort a pregnancy.
And one let alone the argument of why did you
get to that state in the first place, and we
can have that conversation. And as you know, I'm a
moderate on the issue. I don't want abortion outlawed. I
think there should be as few as possible and they
should be conducted as early as possible.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
I still don't like them, and.
Speaker 4 (16:51):
I think they should be safe, legal, and rare, and
it's always a tragedy when it occurs, and it lingers
with a woman for her entire life. I've talked to
friends of mine, female friends of mine who have had abortions,
and it's not just something you go in for a procedure.
It's all no must, no fuss, You walk on, you
continue with your life, and you never think about it again.
You know that you terminated a life there, or a
potential life there. And I think that sticks with women
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a lot more and a lot longer than a lot
of people on the left would have you believe, And
that there are a lot of women who are much
more complex and much more nuanced in how they vote
and why they vote, and that those women need to
be supported, and those are the women who I support,
regardless of the abortion issue. I am much more concerned
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about Title nin and the access to sports and spaces
for girls and women to have that respected, That biological
men would not invade those spaces, that biological men would
not take those scholarships, that biological men would not harm
female athletes because they have no business competing in the
same sports.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
On the same playing field.
Speaker 4 (17:56):
We're seeing this at San Jose State University, where many
of their opponents have taken forfeits against the team because
they choose to have a transgender female on the roster.
Even an assistant coach for San Jose State, even one
of the player's teammates, has spoken out against it.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
And that is the.
Speaker 4 (18:16):
Tide that I think is turning in this country against
the woke agenda, and it showed up in full force
on Tuesday night, a time out, We're back more of
your text five seven seven three nine.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
You're listening to Ryan Schuling Live
Okay.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
So we're closing in on almost five pm Eastern time,
and I've been tracking everything that's been going on across
the country today, and my most important encounter was when
I went out to get my champagne. I was talking
to the guy in the store, of course, asking him
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did he vote, and he said he did early voting,
and he asked me if I early voted, and he
asked me.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
You know why I.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Was getting the champagne and I said, because I'm going
to be toasting Madam President tonight. And he just looked
at me with kind of like a smirk on his face,
and I said, you know, she's she's going to win this, right.
He says, oh, well, it's very very close. And I said, no,
it's not.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
He says, well, what do you mean.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
I said, no, it's not. The women of America are
making their voices heard. Reproductive rights is what it all
comes down to, and the women are voting in numbers
relative to men that are UNBELO. She's won this. And
I said to him, she's going to take every one
of the swing states.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Plus o TuS Iowa.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
He said, oh, but the numbers are so close. I said,
I'm a political analyst. I'm telling you right now, the
numbers are there. She's taking this election. I've said to him,
you realize, and he didn't tell me who he voted for,
but of course I knew, and I said, you do
realize you wasted.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Your vote, right, And I didn't care.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
I walked out with my bottle of champagne and happily
walked home. Bye bye.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
She who laughs last, laughs best and for doctor Arlen
there on TikTok. Unfortunately for her, she laughed first. Now
this is from a Texter, says Ryan. This political analyst
goes into a liquor store to buy champagne to celebrate
Kamala's win. She tells the poor, uneducated liquor store worker
that he completely wasted his vote because Kamala Harris is
going to take this election because reproductive rights trumped everything.
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Nice pun there with Trump. Well, the fact of the
matter is it wasn't close, but it just didn't go
the direction that she anticipated. And wow, talk about egg
on your face. How about champagne too? I wonder if
you were uncorked that bottle. It's time to uncork a
bottle of Jeff heard champagne. He has been declared the
winner in the third Congressional district, and he joins us
on Ryan Schuling Live. Jeff, congratulations, Thanks so much.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
Ryan. It's great to be with you now.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
I was waiting for that official call to come down,
and I know there are still some votes out, So
let's take care of the particulars first and foremost.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Has Adam Frisch called you to concede?
Speaker 3 (02:36):
He did. He did call me yesterday. It was gracious
and professional, and he did concede.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
Well, then I can call you Congressman elect as of
right now, right, yes.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Right, yes, person elect. It's kind of surreal, but it's
an honor to be in this spot, and I'm going
to work hard to be worthy of it.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
Well, we talked exactly one week ago and you were
taking your kids out for trick or treating. Did the
candy aspect work? We talked about that angle.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
D Yeah, explaining how taxation works. But yeah, a couple
of handfuls out of their trigger treat bags. Yeah, it's worked.
There's plenty of candy though there was more. There's plenty
left after that than they didn't see the mind too
much so, but yes, it worked, and trigger treating went well.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
Jeff for joining US congressman elect for the third Congressional district.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
He'll be succeeding Lauren.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
Bolbert in that post as she has moved over to
the fourth Congressional district and one. With eighty nine percent
of the vote in Jeff Leeds Adam Frish fifty to
forty seven. So there's still be some numbers coming in,
but it looks like here, Jeff, you will have won
by about twelve and a half thousand votes with about
three and a half one hundred thousand, three hundred and
fifty thousand or so votes cast, so a larger margin
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than Bobert won by the last time around. Still, it
was going to be close. I think you anticipated that.
Are those numbers about where you thought they would be?
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Yes, we knew it was going to be a tough race.
I mean, I have an opponent that raised a ton
of money against me, and you certainly spent it. So
we knew it was going to be close. But the
fundamentals were strong for the district. In what I told
people when I was on the campaign trail was dollars
don't vote. People do. And I think we saw that
on an election day. And I'm going to take that
mandate with me to Washington and do what I promised
(04:15):
to do, which is fight to secure border and grower
energy economy and protect color out of water and egg.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
A couple of things Jeff, that I think appealed most
to voters about your candidacy was You're not a career politician.
This isn't something that you've been doing for your entire life.
In fact, you were born in this district, you were
raised in this district. You're a lifelong resident of this
third congressional district, and you know what matters to this district,
as you just said, with the energy aspect of this
and the conservation aspect of your campaign. So as you
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ran a campaign for the first time and now you
have time to reflect on it, albeit it's just hours
really after you declared the winner, is there something that
you would point to and say, you know what, that's
one of the big reasons we won. And is there
anything that you would point to and maybe the next
time around when you run for reelection in two years going,
you know what I want to tweak that, I want
to do that a little differently.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Yeah, I think what resonated with voters was sincerity and authenticity.
And you're right, this is my first time ever running
for office, hadn't even run for dog Catcher before. I
think people saw me as a candidate who is the
homegrown candidate, You're right, raised in this district, raising a
family here, and who cares about the issues that matter
to families here. I'm a father of five. I know
and see the cost of groceries. I know and see
(05:26):
the cost of energy that costs when you fill up
your gas tank. And I think having somebody that could
relate to them was really important to people here. And
that's something that I hope to keep with me. Hope
to keep a levelhead when I'm serving in Congress, and
I'm going to work my hardest for the families and
small businesses and communities of the third Congressional District.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
And he will be joining in coalition with Jeff Crank,
who was victorious in the fifth Congressional district. He will
be taking over for the retiring Doug Lamborne and Jeff
able to win an emphatic fashion fifty five forty two
Representative Lauren Bolbert, as I mentioned, a ten point point
win over Tricia Calvaresei in the fourth Congressional District, Jeff,
it looks like and it hasn't been called yet and
there's still votes out, but that Gabe Evans may be
(06:09):
facing a narrow defeat to Yo Derek Caravello in the eighth,
which I think makes it all the more important as
somebody who lives in the sixth than my candidate, John
Fabricatory came up short against Jason Crow in a very
difficult race that was well run by John in and
of himself. But there's so many of us in Colorado.
You know, I don't feel represented by Jason Crow. I don't,
and I look to people like yourself and Jeff Crank
(06:30):
and Representative Lauren Bobert as those that are really going
to represent the interests of the state. I know you
got your district at heart and what you're really looking
out for, but a lot of that is a contiguous
with the interests of people that might live where I
am in the sixth Congressional District or throughout the state
of Colorado. How much do you wear that not only
as a badge of honor, but as a responsibility that
you're one of three elected Republicans that are representing us
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in the Congress here in Colorado.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
That's truly an honor and a prival with Ryan, and
I'm honored to be your congressman in spirit. Yeah, and
you know what, we need to bring a conservative message
to Washington. I think that's something that we saw just
with the national election results, and that's going to be
something I know that Jeff and Lauren and I will
bring and hopefully Gabe as well. I hope you're wrong.
I hope you can pull it out and win. But
(07:18):
you're going to get a serious Republican delegation here, no
matter how many members are here, and we're going to
work hard to bring those conservative values to Washington, and
like I said, to fight to secure border, grow our
energy economy, and rein in the spending that is just
crippling the generations to come.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
Yeah, there's never been an instance where I have more
wanted to be wrong than in that eighth congressional race
for Gabe Evans. And we'll see they're still counting the
votes and again a winner has not been declared. Congressman
elect Jeff heard joining us. You'll be representing the third
congressional districts, So.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Jeff, you kind of touched on it.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
But one of the great aspects about entering Congress at
the time that you are is it is part of
what we anticipated in did not have two years ago
with this so called red wave.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
But this is a wave election.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
Donald Trump wins the national popular vote, looks like he's
going to be around fifty one percent. There an electoral
college landslide, an emphatic voice of the American people being
heard on Tuesday Night.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
You were part of that too. Republicans are going to
control the Senate.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
Looks like McCormick and Pennsylvania Dave McCormick is going to
pull out a win over Bob Casey that would put
the Senate at about fifty three forty seven by current calculations,
and we're anticipating my math it could be off, but
that if all these races hold that are still left
up for grabs, the margin in the House with Speaker
Mike Johnson would be the same as it was elected
(08:39):
in twenty twenty two, which is two twenty two to
two thirteen, with albeit a minor and a narrow majority
in the House. That Senate majority. I talked about Donald
Trump in the White House. How do you think that
affects what the Republican agenda that you just described can
be and how it can go forward when you're sworn
in in January.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Well, I think it's a mandate for all of us
as a Republicans, and it's also an opportunity. Certainly I
would prefer the margins in the House were better. We'll
see how things land in the other races, but certainly
I think the American people send a loud message they
want to change direction. They want to secure the border,
they want to grow our economy, they want to stop
the inflation and spending. And it's going to be incumbent
(09:23):
on us as Republicans to deliver, and the American people
can and will hold us accountable. So it's up to
us to get the job done.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
I kind of talked about this with Greg Lopez when
he was elected the special election this past summer to
serve out the last one hundred days of so or
so of Representative Ken Buck's tenure in the fourth Congressional District.
But I'll ask the same question of you, Jeff, how
do you get up and running. How do you hit
the ground running with your transition team from being elected?
Now the election is in the rearview mirror to getting
(09:53):
your feet on the ground in Washington, getting set up
the way that you need to, especially considering, like you said,
you've never done this before.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
Great question, Ryan, It's my number one priority is actually
setting up a congressional office that is staffed by hard working,
serious competent members who are working hard to make sure
that we don't drop any balls and take care of
the people that live in this district. And you know,
you don't read about it on the front page of
the paper, but an essential part of being an effective
(10:22):
member of Congress is having a staff that takes care
of the people that live here. So that's my number
one priority is making sure that we have people in
place that are going to serve the people that have
entrusted us with this responsibility well next Congress. So that
is something that is a top priority for me right
now as I'm transitioning from campaign to governing.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Finally, Jeff, I mean, like you said, you're a family man.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
This has been your district, so this hits close to
the heart for you to win this election with the
support of your constituents. As you kind of sit back
and reflect on that, what does that mean to you
and what does it mean to you to be a
congressman representing the district that you've spent your entire life in.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
Well, it's certainly humbling. And what I tell people, and
what I tell people on the campaign trail, and that
i'd say to everyone that's listening now, is I will
never forget where I came from from Colorado, grew up here,
raising my family here, and I hope not to change.
And I tell people I will always be Jeff to
the people that the third Congressional District.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
Congressmen elect Jeff heard, I'll call you Jeff if that's okay.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Absolutely, Jeff.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
I'm sincere and serious when I say this. You mentioned
it earlier. We're kind of joking about it. I do
feel that you're my congressman by proxy for the issues
that our listeners care about here, that I care about.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
As an individual, as a resident of Colorado.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
I'm so thankful that you take the time to join
us and that you'll be rare representing us in Washington.
So please know there's an open line like to have
you on the show at any time. Anything that's going
on in Congress, we'd like to hear from you. So
I just really appreciate you joining me and being a
part of this.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
I'm happy to do it, Brian. I look forward to
talking many times in the future.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Wrison.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
Elect Jeff heard congratulations once again. We'll look forward to
many more visits with him as we continue through these
first two years of the Donald Trump second term presidency,
in which we're hoping. As it stands right now, I'm
looking at the New York Times, Republicans are at two ten,
Democrats at one ninety eight. You need two hundred and
eighteen seats to have control of the House.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
You'd like to have a little breathing room.
Speaker 4 (12:24):
And again, by my calculations, it looks like they'll have
at least four seats above that margin. The Republicans will
above two eighteen to two twenty two, and that would
mean two thirteen for the Democrats. It can be very
difficult to get an agenda through when you have that
evenly divided house.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
The Democrats certainly.
Speaker 4 (12:41):
Are going to dig in their heels, and there will
be some moderate Republicans that might be a little tenuous
in terms of going along with the vote for Speaker Johnson.
That's why there should be some big tent issues that
I anticipate somebody like Congressman heard Congresswoman Lauren Bobert, Congressman Crank,
that they're going to be able to try to set
up get through the House, push it over to the Senate,
(13:02):
get that signed in, and then have President Trump sign
it into law. A couple of things I'd like off
the top, federal election reform, tightening down election integrity and security.
I think that needs to come from the top, and
it needs to come from Washington. It needs to be
codified by Congress and signed into law by President Trump.
That would give me and I know a lot of
you a lot more peace of mind about our elections
(13:23):
and how they are run and how they are counted,
and the integrity of our ballot and making sure chain
of custody is a top priority for those that are
running our elections, that we don't have a lot of
this kind of sideways questioning of our elections here in Colorado,
which I will continue to criticize that Jenna Griswold should
have resigned already. She hasn't yet, And I'm looking at
(13:45):
you know, we're supposed to have this gold standard of
counting votes in Colorado, folks, We're still only at seventy
nine percent of our ballots being counted. Do you know
that there's only one state doing worse than us in
that category, and that's Arizona, which we know they're a
mess in Merica, a county and elsewhere in that state
the last time around. But if we're supposed to be
the gold standard with this all mail in voting, we
(14:07):
turned so many of these ballots in early, why is
it we only have seventy nine percent of our votes counted.
I think that's a failure and I think we need
to do a lot better than that. And if it's
not going to come from Colorado and our far left
leadership in this state, then it needs to come from
the federal level to provide the guidelines and the guardrails
so that every state is held to account for how
they run and operate their elections. They're free to do
(14:28):
it themselves, but they have to conform to a federal standard.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
That's the only way forward from here, I believe, and.
Speaker 4 (14:34):
Hopefully it will help these states like us here in
Colorado kind of get our rear ends in gear Nevada
is still counting their votes as well. But what is
looking like is that Donald Trump will win Nevada by
about a fifty one to forty seven margin, not bad,
and by a fifty two to forty seven.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
Margin in Arizona.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
That would add seventeen electoral votes to his total, and
that would put him at three twelve, and it would
mean he would outperform his electoral vote total from twenty sixteen,
in which he defeated Hillary Clinton. By adding Nevada to
his map. He had lost Nevada twice, and he finally
was able to turn Nevada read in this election and
winning all seven swing states, much to the chagrin of
(15:15):
poor Mary.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
In the previous.
Speaker 4 (15:18):
TikTok analysis, where she was a doctor, Arlene, I guess
her name, was belittling the liquor store clerk for voting
for Trump, saying he wasted his vote. Nay, I would say,
you wasted your vote. And that's another thing we've been
talking about this too. People underestimate the power of women voters,
but it's not for the reasons democrats tell us. I
think it is very insulting to suggest that women are
(15:41):
monolithic one issue voters, that abortion is all they care about.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
I get it.
Speaker 4 (15:46):
Even if you're a liberal woman, it might be an
important issue. It might even be your most important issue.
But you can't define yourself by that. I don't think.
I mean, I'm a man talking here. I get that,
But there are so many other issues that are of
such import to a woman and her family and her
friends and those that she cares about, and what I
can't square in my mind. I had a friend, lifelong friend,
(16:09):
little league teammate from way back in the day in
Michigan posting and bragging about the fact that he voted
for Kamala Harris because he is in solidarity with and
supports the women in his life, his nieces, his daughters,
his wife, his whatever, you know, female friends, and they
were applauding him, and I'm.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
Like, okay, please spell this out for me.
Speaker 4 (16:28):
That the only way you measure support for women is
whether or not they have the power to abort a pregnancy.
And one let alone the argument of why did you
get to that state in the first place, and we
can have that conversation. And as you know, I'm a
moderate on the issue. I don't want abortion outlawed. I
think there should be as few as possible and they
should be conducted as early as possible.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
I still don't like them, and.
Speaker 4 (16:51):
I think they should be safe, legal, and rare, and
it's always a tragedy when it occurs, and it lingers
with a woman for her entire life. I've talked to
friends of mine, female friends of mine who have had abortions,
and it's not just something you go in for a procedure.
It's all no must, no fuss, You walk on, you
continue with your life, and you never think about it again.
You know that you terminated a life there, or a
potential life there. And I think that sticks with women
(17:15):
a lot more and a lot longer than a lot
of people on the left would have you believe, And
that there are a lot of women who are much
more complex and much more nuanced in how they vote
and why they vote, and that those women need to
be supported, and those are the women who I support,
regardless of the abortion issue. I am much more concerned
(17:35):
about Title nin and the access to sports and spaces
for girls and women to have that respected, That biological
men would not invade those spaces, that biological men would
not take those scholarships, that biological men would not harm
female athletes because they have no business competing in the
same sports.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
On the same playing field.
Speaker 4 (17:56):
We're seeing this at San Jose State University, where many
of their opponents have taken forfeits against the team because
they choose to have a transgender female on the roster.
Even an assistant coach for San Jose State, even one
of the player's teammates, has spoken out against it.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
And that is the.
Speaker 4 (18:16):
Tide that I think is turning in this country against
the woke agenda, and it showed up in full force
on Tuesday night, a time out, We're back more of
your text five seven seven three nine.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
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