March 7, 2025 • 36 mins
Reagan Reese, White House correspondent for The Daily Caller, makes her debut appearance on the show to discuss President Trump's address to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday night as well as her coverage of Vice President Vance's visit to the Mexican border on Wednesday.
Darcy Schoening, candidate for next chair of the Colorado Republican Party, joins Ryan to expand on the story of her serving papers for a lawsuit against Brita Horn (also a candidate for CO GOP chair) directly to her rival at an IHOP in Greenwood Village.
Darcy Schoening for Colorado GOP Chairwoman
Darcy Schoening, candidate for next chair of the Colorado Republican Party, joins Ryan to expand on the story of her serving papers for a lawsuit against Brita Horn (also a candidate for CO GOP chair) directly to her rival at an IHOP in Greenwood Village.
Darcy Schoening for Colorado GOP Chairwoman
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Brag and Ree's daily caller, thank you. How do you
and the president define success this term with the border
wall and how much of the southern border wall needs
to be walled off before Trump Roop's office.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Well, look, I think the president's hope is that by
the end of the term.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
We build the entire border wall.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
And of course that's the physical structure of the border
wall itself.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
But we even heard today, there are so.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Many good technological tools, so many great artificial intelligence enabled technologies.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
That allow us.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
For example, you you know, a camera, not a person,
but a camera picks up somebody two miles away who's
about to come across the southern border. Maybe it's it's livestock, right,
Maybe it's it's a you know, a critter in the desert.
Maybe it's a human being with a weapon on their back.
We're using artificial intelligence to make us better at the
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job of border enforcement, but we've got to make sure
that technology is deployed across the entire American southern border.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
We're going to do it as much as we.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Can, as broadly as we can, because that's how we're
going to protect the American people's security.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Vice President JD. Vance answering the question from the reporter.
You heard, Reagan Reese, and we are very happy and
excited to have her join us now for the very
first time her debut appearance here on Ryan Schuling Live.
You can follow her on x at Reagan Reese Underscore.
Don't forget that last part. And she is the White
House correspondent for the Daily Caller and she joins us now, Reagan,
(01:24):
thanks for taking the time.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Yeah, thanks for having me.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
I'm just so proud I was able to find that
SoundBite of you asking that question, and I go back
to my years covering sports in that realm. And at
the beginning of that JD was like, Hey, who are
you and asked you to identify yourself, and that's where
I cut it. Were you the first one to ask
a question that conference?
Speaker 1 (01:43):
No, I was the second one. Julio Rosis with the
Blade was the first person to ask the question.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
And yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Then after that, Vance was like, Hey, I need to
know who's asking these questions. But I mean, Julio had
a great question, but.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Yeah, talk to me a little bit about access for
non traditional media and what I mean by that outside
the mainstream the typical usual suspects and I use that
derisively on purpose. Reuter's AP, CNN, they're all in the
front row. They all kind of assume that they're going
to have that special, privileged access and they take it
for granted, whereas reporters for outlets such as your own,
(02:21):
which is well established the Daily Caller, haven't gotten that
type of access. But now we're seeing Daily Wire and
you mentioned Julio Rosas having those opportunities. How has that
changed in the time that you've been covering this White
House since inauguration Day.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Yeah, so yesterday I was a part of the travel
pool with Vice President Bands and there were only six
of us in that travel pool that went on the
trip with him. It was the Daily Caller, the Blaze,
the Washington Posts, and CBS, so really a mixed bag
of media outlets there. But you know, this is a
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trip you have to paste your way through, these beach
trips as a member of the media, and these are
trips that probably weren't want it for us to take
before because the administrations didn't really want to play ball
with a reporter like the Daily Caller. And so now
you know, just knowing that there isn't a way better
chance of being able to get a question at something
(03:19):
like this makes these trips pay off. But you know,
in terms of access, you know, I point to my
time covering the Bye administration, which was over a year.
I got three questions in the press briefing, and two
of them came because there was this little bit of
a snow dusting in Washington, BC and the city shuts
(03:43):
down when we get like an ancient snow. But being
from upstate New York, I'm not afraid of the snow.
So there's a press briefing after that storm. I went
in and you know, half the briefing room didn't really
show up. I was able to move off a couple
of roads, and I think Green just kind of ran
out of people to call on and had to call
(04:03):
on me. And so I've gotten more questions now. Under
Caroline Leavitt, I've been called on every time I've attended
a briefing, which is you know, definitely a blessing. She's
willing to go to the back row. And I've also
invested in a booster seat, which has made me taller
in a briefing room, and I think it's had an
effect on my access as well. I'm five eight I'm tall,
(04:30):
but it is incredibly hard to see from the back row,
especially in the Trump era, so there are people who
line at beside. It's completely packed in a room and
it's a very small room. People don't realize this, and
every single person's hands raised, you know. Under the Body administration,
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people werering eager to ask questions, and so I could
actually probably be seen from the bathroom, are raising my
hands now, like first raids of hands blocking my base.
So I was like, I need a couple inches on
these people.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Getting every advantage she can in that press room. As
she mentioned, it is crowded and it's in high demand.
She is the White House correspondent for Daily Caller. Joining
us here Reagan Reese, and she's from upstate New York.
Whether it's that or here in Colorado or where I'm
from in Michigan. It was neat to hear that you'll
brave the dusting of snow. That's what I noticed to Reagan.
I lived in Virginia for a time, and as a
(05:27):
transplant from Michigan. What would shut down schools or roads
or businesses? Then if there was a snow in Richmond, Virginia,
I laughed at I have to imagine you had the
same feeling with the situation you described.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Oh yeah, I mean it's we've even had some snowstorms
this past year, and it's just kind of funny to
me that they're not ready. They were more significant this
last year, but they don't even have the plows ready.
They don't know what to do. People are freaking out
about salt. No one has a winter jacket. And it's
not like we're in Moorida, Like we're just in DC
(06:03):
and nobody is ready. It's it's far and out south
for people not to be ready.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Introducing you to our listeners as well, Reagan, we're so
appreciative of your time and contributions to this program. But
she's a visiting fellow as well for the Independent Women's
Forum and an alumna of journalism and a fellow of
Hillsdale College in my home state of Michigan as well. Reagan,
take us back to that time in your life. Have
you cross paths with Victor Davis Hansen? I know he
(06:30):
does some auxiliary work there. What was that like for you?
Speaker 1 (06:34):
I wish I had crossed paths with you know what
we call Hillsdale BDH. Yeah, but I never had the opportunity.
Pat Sayjack is one who I saw very often. You know,
he was around. I think he's on the board of trustees.
But Hillsdale, I really feel like my life started when
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I went to Hillsdale. Really formed me as an adult.
And it's such a great place that just teaches you
how to think, not you know what to think, but
how to think, how to think critically. They really test
your faith and most of all, I think people, you know,
look at Hillsdale and be like, hey, that's a school
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that traditionally means, right, that must be a bubble. But
we always say it's kind of like a bubble that
we are aware of, and you're okay to be in
a bubble if you're aware of it. And it's like
it's a safe place for you to fail and try
and fail and grow and do all of those things
that will help shape you as an adult and prepare
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you for the real world. And that's really what college
is about. College is not about this indoctrination that we're
seeing out across the country, growing you into a young
adult that can then go off to different areas of
the country to start a family, to get involved in
your community, and create growth really at the graph roots level,
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and that's exactly what Hillsdale is about.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
If only there were more Hillsdale colleges throughout the nation.
Of course, you may have recalled them from their original
sponsorship of the Rush Limbaugh program. A Grand Canyon is
another one that comes to mind that has that kind
of open focus on learning, like Reagan put it, how
to think, not what to think. As you may have
heard many times, I'm a college graduate at myself, Central
(08:26):
Michigan University, before that, Michigan State University. But if I
had a child right now that was in high school
looking to go to college, like my niece Sonia is,
I think there's not a lot of four year colleges
I would recommend because of the things Reagan talks about.
They have become indoctrination farms and you don't even know it.
You're not even aware of it. It's become kind of
part of the body politic there on campus, and it's
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shifted far to the left. So if you want to
counter that and have a real four year college experience.
They're not paying me to say this, but my home
state Hillsdale very proud of it, and it's very proud
to have Reagan Reese on the program at Reagan Reece
under School or on X if you want to follow
her there. And I got to ask Reagan your name?
Reagan my all time favorite president, Ronald Reagan. Were you
named after him?
Speaker 1 (09:08):
I was, yes, my childhood bedroom back home, my parents
have had a photo of Ronald Reagan right outside my
room for as long as I can remember, and it's
still there now.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Now you had to AUTI a womb with the name,
but then also in your youth with your parents reinforcing it.
I already love your parents, because again, Ronald Reagan my
all time favorite president Trump becoming a very close second, though,
whether or not your parents provided you structure, let's say,
in your formative years before you went into public schools,
or maybe you went to private schools and kind of
(09:40):
reinforced that notion that you talked about earlier with Hillsdale College,
that they presented you with options, They told you how
to think, not what to think. Did they set the
example for you? How did that all materialize for you?
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (09:52):
So I did go to public school. It was kind
of funny to me going to Hillsdale and learning kids
who went to private schools and home schools. That was
not really an issue in the area of New York
I'm from. My dad says, we're from the good part
of New York. So a big published school. A big
thing that I just looked back at was it's sports.
(10:15):
I played softball at Hillsville. Was very blessed for that opportunity,
but I was a very competitive softball player to get
there when I was young and you know, probably eight
nine all the way up until high school. And that
was really I think building blocks of my relationship with
my parents and kind of teaching me, you know, how
(10:38):
to have the stuff was very applicable to life and
just sports are in general, and how to be heard,
working and how to be a leader and how to
be a person. You know, my dad taught me a
ton of lessons. My mom was not athletic at all,
but you know, she always has something to say, and
all that time, and you know, taking me to travel
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tournaments with softball and games and stuff was really just
great FaceTime with my parents. They were very present, and
I think that makes the difference in just being able
to have conversations with your kid and check in and
understand what they believe. And kind of guide them along
that path. And so in a lot of ways, you know,
just off the field and all the things that softball
(11:24):
brought really I think helped put me on this path.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
Love it. I can totally relate my sports experience shape
me in that way too, and it really teaches you
about meritocracy and that things are not given, or at
least they shouldn't be a spot on a team, et cetera.
You know, Reagan having earned that me working my tail
off to play baseball through high school and junior college.
She's the White House correspondent of Daily Caller. Reagan Reese
our guest going back to the border here where you
(11:51):
were one of the privileged few in the pool that
were able to report on this with Vice President Vance.
There interesting comments from him in addition to the answer
that he gave to you your question, which was a
very good question, Reagan, and he's talking here about the
reaction from border patrol agents and how palpable it was.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
The most heartening message that I take away from my
visit here at the Texas border is that the number
of border patrol agents who have come up to me
and said thank you or.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
Said because of this we've.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Cut the number of border crossings from fifteen hundred a
day to thirty a day, or the people who have
come up and said, we've seen a reduction and eighty
five percent of the number of people who are dying
at the American Southern border. And every single day that
we continue to keep this border safe, that means less
migrant crime, that means less fit and all coming into
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our communities. That means more safety and security for the
people of the United States of America. And of course
we know the border problem, the border crisis under Biden's
administration was a national crisis, but it acutely affected.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
The communities right here.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
And I've already heard heartbreaking stories of people who are
still picking up the pieces. Local mayors who are well
do dealing with the budgetary consequences of what the Joe
Biden administration allowed to happen at the American Southern border.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
Regan, you were there to see it with your own eyes.
What were some of the very stark things that you
noticed changes at the border, people that you talked to
that you can relate to our audience.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
So Advance was making these comments at Shelby Park, and
so we were in the motorcade on our way over there,
and we saw a long stretch of Trump's border wall,
and then it immediately switched to this you know, makeshift
border wall of razor wire and train cars, and we
(13:38):
pulled into this dirt like area right across the way,
you know, was Mexico. There were you know, border patrol
and military personnel both there to guard the border but
also to guard Vice President Vance. And you know, a
local reporter was explaining to me Shelby Park is a
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that was seized by Governor Greg Abbott because it was
a hub for legal immigrants to come and pour right
in off the border, and because the state was in
this battle with the Bibe administration about the wall. That's
where you see this makeshift wall that was Governor Greg
Abbott's wall, this razor wires, these train cars picking up
where Trump's wall left off. And that's where Vance chose
(14:23):
to have his press conference, was right in front of that.
This I think a very symbolic area to have this
press conference to then say, you know, we are going
to be supporting border patrol and the federal government is
now here to help them and to back them up
in this effort. And then to also say we're going
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to finish the border wall in these four years. I
think it was really, yeah, quite symbolic of what this
trick was meant to accomplish, and also what this administration
has done in six weeks six weeks and what plans
being going forward.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
Well more comment from VP Vans that'll kind of take
us back to the other night with President Trump's address
to a joint session of Congress, and the nation have
some bad news and some good news.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
And the bad news is that because of what Joe
Biden did at the southern border for four years, we
had record increases in migrant crime, in fit and ol deaths,
and in just floods and floods of people who shouldn't
be in our country who came into the United States
of America. We also have a number of ways in
which the cartels became more advanced, better warfighters because Joe
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Biden opened up the American southern border and allowed the
cartels to turn it into their playground.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
Now that's the bad news.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
The good news is, as President Trump said last night
at the State of the Union, it turns out we
didn't need new laws. We didn't need fancy legislation. We
just needed a new president of the United States, and
thank god, that's exactly.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
What we have. What this does to Reagan, and you've
done it with your own reporting. You've seen it with
your own eyes, and it totally smashes the narrative of
both Joe Biden and Kamala Harris say, hey, look, our
hands are tied. We presented a bill to Congress, they
wouldn't pass it. Senator Langford came up with another one.
Trump tried to torpedo it and undermine it. But without that,
there's nothing more that we can do. I mean, we've
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done all we can from an executive action standpoint. That
has been revealed to be total hogwash in light of
what President Trump has already accomplished, like you said, in
just six weeks in office.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
Yeah, that was definitely a big theme of Vance's Vance's trip,
and that's not the only time that he talked about
this from Marks. He brought it up again ahead of
a roundtable that he had with Governor Greg Abbott, Texas
Attorney General Ken Text, then the mayor of Eagle Pass
was there. The chief of Board of Patrol was also
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there as well as you know, just something to note
Aboutfice trip didn't do this alone. He also went with
Secretary of Defense Pete Headsteth and National Intelligence Dirrector Toulcy Gabbert,
And so this was really a monument Visit wasn't just
the Vice President, which is great and big in of itself.
He was doing this with administration officials. I think two
(17:08):
also just showed that this is not, you know, not
just a executive branch type thing, Donald Trump type thing.
This is something that across the federal agencies that they
are really working and deploying different different initiatives. And one
thing I think that Van talked about a lot on
this trip was the technology aspect, and he kept you know,
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touting the new technology that he saw on the new
technologies that they're deploying. And he also you know, said
I don't want to get ahead of any public announcements,
but that there is more to come, that they are
going to be taking more action on the border.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
You know.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
His quote on that was Rome wasn't built in a day,
and so this administration isn't done taking action, which is yeah,
like you pointed out, quite hilarious in comparison to the
last administration that claimed their hands were tied and that
they had nothing to do. And Donald Trump and Jadie
Vans are both steam ahead with the action that they
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can take.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
Reagan, final minute that we have with you. We're so
thankful once again for you joining us. Your observations of
Trump's addressed to the Joint Session of Congress. It was
unlike any other we had seen. But how would you
sum it up?
Speaker 1 (18:24):
I think it was about the American people and being
just the way that he used Americans who have been
affected by poor policy choices and highlighted them and you know,
used those to draw out what he has accomplished. I
think was very strong and unlike a State of the
Union or Joint Congressional address that we saw over the
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last four years. And so it was really about highlighting
the guy. And that's exactly what the swamp with the
DC eladers hate, and so that's how I would sum
it up.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
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X as well. Reagan, thank you so much, really enjoyed this,
hope it's the first of many conversations to come.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
Yeah, thanks for having me, Reagan.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
Reese, your thoughts, your reaction. Jade Vance at the border
just yesterday and she was there five seven seven three nine.
Send those texts along more Ryan Schuling live after this.
Speaker 5 (19:32):
Like many families, the Colorado Republican Party tends to have
its fights and meltdowns in public.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
Today, one faction.
Speaker 5 (19:39):
Of the party served another faction of the party with
a lawsuit at an IHOP restaurant. As diners in Greenwood
Village enjoyed the breakfast faves Combo, the house Scramble, and
the Pancake of the Month, one candidate for the Colorado
GOP chair dropped a double stack litigation.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
On the plate of arrival.
Speaker 5 (19:56):
This stems from the Republican civil war over whether to
replace current state Chairman Dave Williams, who was accused of
misusing party funds for his failed GOP primary bid for
Congress and for the hassle he created for Colorado Republicans
with his call to burn all Pride flags. But back
to the eye Hop home with a new spicy shredded
Beef Anytime Tacos where the spicy lawsuit served this morning
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shreds the Republicans who tried unsuccessfully to force out Chairman Williams.
She got Darcy Channing, current party leader who's running for
chair in next month's elections, who served papers this morning
on Britta Horn, a rival candidate for chair who's part
of the uprising.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
They were both at the I Hop.
Speaker 5 (20:35):
For interviews with the local talk radio show doing a
live broadcast from the pancake House. Neither woman waffled when
I reached out.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
To him today.
Speaker 5 (20:42):
Channing says Horn stole money from party donors. Horn called
it a frivolous attack. You may recall the Colorado GOP
has a bit of a history of airing its grievances
at random businesses in the suburbs.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
In twenty twenty.
Speaker 5 (20:57):
Two, we dubbed at the boot Barn Rebellion, when the
faction of the GOP that's now in control was on
the outside, they got turned away from the Republican Party offices,
so they stood in the parking lot of the Western
wear outfit or nearby hollering that their party leaders were whores.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
We have a Republican Party that is full of horns.
They've not held to the US Constitution, And then you
wonder why these can't win a race.
Speaker 5 (21:24):
Those boot barn rebels now lead the Colorado Republican Party,
leading us to this morning's ihop dust up. So if
you're buying boots or breakfast in the suburbs and you
hear ruckus might just be Colorado Republicans working things out.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
Oh, Comrade Kyle enjoying the fodder provided for him with
all the clever writing there on nine News, and we
had to get to the bottom of these details. Why
not turn to Darcy Shaning. She was mentioned in that
story on nine News. She joins us now on Ryan
Schuling Live. Darcy, welcome back, Thanks for having me Ryan.
What happened at the ihop in Greenwood Village that's not
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far from where I live.
Speaker 4 (22:06):
Yes, that day I was on Jeff and Bill and
Breda Horn was alf and Britta has unfortunately been evading
service for quite some time, so I knew she was
going to be there, and I went ahead and served
her the papers. And again, Kyle Clark just really loved it.
I gotta give him credit. That's some really good writing.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
It was. It was humorous, but there's obviously a serious
motive behind this. In your confrontation of Britta Horn and
what went down as I recall it, and you can
fill in the details because you know a lot more
from the inside than I do from the outside. But
Brita was part of a rebellion. Eli Bremmer was another
name I remember at that time that we're looking to
remove Dave Williams and go through the protocols that by
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which that could happen, and Dave Williams was resisting that.
Can you take us back to that point in time,
what was going on in the party as you saw it?
Speaker 1 (23:00):
Yeah, sure.
Speaker 4 (23:00):
So they were not happy with leadership that was Eli Bremmer,
Todd Watkins and Britta Horn. So they scheduled. They were
not happy with a meeting that Hope scheduled out in Bayfield.
They wanted another meeting, so they scheduled a meeting in
Castle Rock. They met, they did not have a the
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quorum that was required. So if you're going to change leadership,
you have to have two thirds of the whole body there.
Two thirds of the whole body was not there. But
they did not read that bylaw correctly, as the judge
later determined, and they ran with that leadership. So for
a couple of weeks there was leadership and then there
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was kind of a rogue leadership team. And you know, listen,
like I said, I don't hold anything against these people.
I don't want Britta out of the party. I don't
want Eli out of the party.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
That's not what this is.
Speaker 4 (23:58):
But what this is is is we as a party,
we can't just sue any time that we don't like
the bylaws or we feel someone is not doing something correctly.
We have to follow the processes that we have internally
because if we don't, then we're going to really destroy ourselves.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
And we did.
Speaker 4 (24:19):
I mean, that was over one hundred thousand dollars that
was literally allocate its candidates for critical races. I helped
raise that money, and I had to call these candidates
and tell them, hey, Rebecca, I'm sorry. I know I
told you that you have money coming, but you don't.
And we can't operate that way. So this isn't personal.
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It's not like, you know, I want to personally ruin
these people. But the party needs to be made whole
again when one hundred thousand dollars of don our money
that was given to elect candidate and to keep the
lights on is taken in that manner and the judge
determines that it was it was the rightful way to
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do things. We have to either have that many paid
back or I'm going if there's an alternative solution. You know,
if Dave and Gretta and Todd Watkins want to come
volunteer ten hours a week for the next six months
just to pay those donors back and strengthen our party
and rebuild that trust, I'm totally okay with it. But
it's just about making the party whole again. We can't
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operate like that.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
She's Darcy Shaning, she's a candidate for the Colorado State
GOP chair. It is a fractured party, to put it
mildly at the moment. So Darcy, you take this action.
You're saying it's not personal, but it's actually a long
term play to make the party whole again and bring
people back together. So you mentioned the money being returned,
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but what exactly would be the remedy that you feel
would be substantial and satisfactory serving her with these papers?
And where does it go from here?
Speaker 4 (25:55):
Well, like I said, I mean, just something, just something, Ryan,
you know, I think a lot of us, like even
in apology, would go a long way that that was
a really traumatic time for our party, no matter which
side of the party that you're on, and the purpose
of serving those papers, the purpose of making sure that
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this happened is because in a couple of months when
I'm chair, this is what I'm going to tell people.
We can't have lawsuits like this. We will I mean,
we will be dead as a party within years if
this is how we're going to do things. So what's
use this lawsuit?
Speaker 1 (26:33):
This is the last one.
Speaker 4 (26:35):
Okay, there's going to be no more, because let's use
this as an example.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
Of to show what it really did.
Speaker 4 (26:41):
It cast so much more division, It took candidate funds
and didn't accomplish anything.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
Darcy shenning our guests, there's three prs that I think
you subscribed to, Darcy in the course of your race,
and we both spoke at the same event for the
log cabin Republicans. For me what it's about, and that's
being practiced, being pragmatic and going through this entire list
of priorities with principles. So I guess there's four prs there,
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and that you are a principal person. I don't think
anybody would dispute that. Where I have a problem. I'm
just going to call it like the horse race portion
of this is the practical, pragmatic part of it, and
I'll just go to the US House races because those
were front and center the last time around. Dave Williams
himself ran against Jeff Crank in the primary, he lost,
Crank won the seat a tremendous candidate, and Gabe Evans
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ran in the eighth district, a pivotal swing district. He
would end up winning that, but Williams backed a losing
horse in Janet Joshie. That was another one. Then there
was a third example in the third district that Lauren
Bobert departed went over to the fourth she won. Jeff
Hurd was running in a primary against Ron Hanks. Dave
Williams back Hanks. That was the losing horse. Herd would
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go on to win. Now we have in Colorado, by
some miracle, for Republican representative in the US House to
four for the Democrats and what is an overwhelmingly blue state.
I guess where I'm going with this is, are you
going to have that mission in mind of identifying winning candidates,
backing the right horses, and making sure the funds that
you talk about are going to those candidates.
Speaker 4 (28:17):
Yeah, for sure. So now when I've addressed this on
a couple of shows this week, it's really important to
me that we have primary neutrality. I did put out
an amendment that I plan to present to the body
after I am elected chair. And Ryan, I worked so
hard on the candidate initiative last year, and literally when
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I had to call people like Stan Vanderwerth and Rebucca
Kelsey and explain like, look, there's no money last because
the party's been too busy fighting with it so right,
I wanted to throw up, like I could have cried,
because it's just this is not how we are supposed
to be operating and it's not necessary. And those candidates
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that ran in those congressional districts believe if you ask them,
and I think that they have said it in multiple areas.
I was there for them, and I did work to
get them the data that they needed and card some
ballot for Gabe. And you know, being a party isn't
about picking the best Republican candidate in the primary. It's
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about putting the information out there to the voters so
that they can make the best decisions.
Speaker 3 (29:24):
And I think that leads me to my last question here, Darcy,
And I'm just kind of relaying information that I've accumulated
through the many different people that I talked to in
the party. And as you know, I'm a big supporter
of the Colorado Republican Party and I want us to win.
So with that preface, there are a lot there's a
perception out there, and I think in light of this
story that we're talking about at the IHOP that you've
got one kind of rebellious faction of Britta Horne and
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Eli Bremer, and you mentioned some others Todd Watkins, and
then we have kind of what has been the established
power dynamic, which is Dave Williams, Hope Sheppelman, whom I
know somewhat but not really well personally, and yourself. Yeah,
and that people would view you like as more of
the same with Dave Williams. But I'm hearing a much
different tune that you're singing than the leadership that Dave
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Williams exhibited. And I guess I'm just asking you to
tell our listeners right now, kind of bullet point fashion,
where you are most different from Dave Williams in your
leadership style approach and strategy.
Speaker 4 (30:16):
Well, I mean we are totally different people. While we
while we have similar conservative values, we don't manage things
the same way. I mean, there were a lot of
things at the party that I wanted to do that
you know, they're just not on Dave's agenda. And there
were things that Dave did that I didn't necessarily agree with. So,
you know, my entire platform is based on building an
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infrastructure that will have for generations to come. It's based
on getting candidates elected, and it's based on some really
strong fundraising and that's where a chair should be focused.
I'm not as focused on the internal workings of the
party or you know, securing my leadership team seats for
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the next couple of years. Not that that's where Dave's focused,
but I don't. I don't focus on the internal division
or the internal politics of politics. I'm about advancing the
state and getting Republicans elected. That's what I've been doing
for years and that's what I'll continue to do. And
one thing people will tell you about me is I
do what I say I'm going to do, and you
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always know where you stand with me. So yeah, I
think that we just need to move forward, and these
lawsuits they've they've got to stop. So once I'm elected,
we'll discuss the current lawsuit further, and we're going to
see what the Body wants to do. You know, if
the body, if the body comes back and says that
they know better and they don't want to pursue this,
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then that's a whole nother story. They won't two thirds
of the body tends to vote with that block, so
there there will be some outcome, but we'll be fair
about it, and we'll continue to work with Britta and
Todd and Eli. As a matter of fact, plan to
personally call them and welcome them to the new GOP
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and figure out what their place is.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
Her last name is nine letters long. You switch out
the middle three and put in uil. You got my
last name. Darcy Shaning joining us here on Ryan Schuling Live,
and she's a candidate for the Colorado Republican chair. Darcy.
What I appreciate most about you, You're very accessible, Trent
Lisei's doing a great job with you and connecting you
with the media and more importantly to the listeners and
voters of Colorado. So thank you for your time, Thank
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you for your detailed answers and explanations, and we'll talk
to you again soon.
Speaker 4 (32:32):
Thank you, Ryan, thanks for all you're doing.
Speaker 3 (32:34):
All right, Darcy shaning right there, and we are going
to reach out to Britta Horn as well to get
her side of the story. Kyle Clark's just having a
little bit too much fun at our expense, That's what
I'll say. And it was clever and it was funny,
and I got to give a tip of the cap
to Comrade Kyle, but you know that he takes great
delight in glee and to borrow a German word from
Kelly Coucherra because that's her language, your native tongue. Almost
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there was a lot of schodenfreud when it comes to
Comrade Kyle on all of this, and we got to
nip that in the butt a final time out here
in hour number one. We'll wrap up with your text
five seven seven, three nine before we jet ahead into
hour number two here on RSL six point thirty. K
Out and the programs so thankful for her time. The
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White House correspondent for the Daily Caller, and she was
at the borderline with Mexico Vice President jd Vance and
just a pool of four reporters. She was one of them,
and I'm just really enthused by the increased access for
alternative media. I'm not just saying conservative media, although Reagan
would be considered part of that, but alternative media when
it comes to podcasts, different types of platforms that are
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covering the news, because you got these old dinosaurs in
there that'd become entrenched, entitled and take things for granted
and just assume that everybody's going to cater to them,
whether it's CNN, CBS, AP, reuters, and it's nice that
they might have to sing for their supper a little
bit more, and we'll see how that goes going forward.
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Your reaction too, to Darcy Shaning just joining me a
moment ago her response to the nine News story that
Kyle Clark gleefully covered enough Darcy serving Britta Horn with
some lawsuit paperwork at the ihop at Greenwood Village, where
I have dined previously, and the menu items described by Kyle.
I mean they didn't even have to pay him. That
was a good advertisement. I have to go back sometime soon.
(34:24):
Let's get to those tax five seven seven three nine. Ryan,
did I just hear correctly that Darcy has a neutrality plan,
but won't release it until after she's elected chair. Is
that how campaigns work? Now? Well, the practical effect what
you describe may be the case, but she is in
the midst of campaigning for this spot against Britta. You know,
all's fair and love Warren politics, and this is how
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she has chosen to kind of launch a salvo, drew
some media attention, got nine news coverage, She's been on
this show, Britta Horn. I'm hoping we'll join us on
Monday to offer up a rebuttal, a response. And for
my part, again, I don't get a vote in this.
There might be some of you, and there are listening
audience who do, or there are people that might vote
somewhat as a surrogate for you. Is a very limited
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number within the state party apparatus that do that, that
have that right responsibility and honor, I would say, and
maybe you can express how you feel about that and
what a direction you want the Colorado GOP to take.
Also this one, I wonder if Darcy also was disgusted
when Dave Williams used party funds to fund his own
failed campaign, as well as Dave Williams endorsing people who
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backed his run for Congress. Yeah, that kind of quid
pro quo, backroom dealing, cigar chomping, smoke filled room, you
know that sort of thing. It seemed like it was
going on, and I didn't like it, not one bit.
And more to the point of the question, I asked her,
which Dave Williams was just really bad at backing the
right horse. He was backing losing horses. Janet Joshi in
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the eighth, Gabe Evans defeated him and won. Ron Hanks
in the third, Jeff Hurd Rhymes of the third beat
him and won. Beat Adam Frish in a very hotly
contested campaign, as was Gabees. When Jeff Crank defeated Dave
Williams himself in the fifth, I won a winning horse.
I want somebody that can pick winning horses in that chair.
Brag and Ree's daily caller, thank you. How do you
and the president define success this term with the border
wall and how much of the southern border wall needs
to be walled off before Trump Roop's office.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Well, look, I think the president's hope is that by
the end of the term.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
We build the entire border wall.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
And of course that's the physical structure of the border
wall itself.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
But we even heard today, there are so.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Many good technological tools, so many great artificial intelligence enabled technologies.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
That allow us.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
For example, you you know, a camera, not a person,
but a camera picks up somebody two miles away who's
about to come across the southern border. Maybe it's it's livestock, right,
Maybe it's it's a you know, a critter in the desert.
Maybe it's a human being with a weapon on their back.
We're using artificial intelligence to make us better at the
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job of border enforcement, but we've got to make sure
that technology is deployed across the entire American southern border.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
We're going to do it as much as we.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Can, as broadly as we can, because that's how we're
going to protect the American people's security.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Vice President JD. Vance answering the question from the reporter.
You heard, Reagan Reese, and we are very happy and
excited to have her join us now for the very
first time her debut appearance here on Ryan Schuling Live.
You can follow her on x at Reagan Reese Underscore.
Don't forget that last part. And she is the White
House correspondent for the Daily Caller and she joins us now, Reagan,
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thanks for taking the time.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Yeah, thanks for having me.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
I'm just so proud I was able to find that
SoundBite of you asking that question, and I go back
to my years covering sports in that realm. And at
the beginning of that JD was like, Hey, who are
you and asked you to identify yourself, and that's where
I cut it. Were you the first one to ask
a question that conference?
Speaker 1 (01:43):
No, I was the second one. Julio Rosis with the
Blade was the first person to ask the question.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
And yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Then after that, Vance was like, Hey, I need to
know who's asking these questions. But I mean, Julio had
a great question, but.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Yeah, talk to me a little bit about access for
non traditional media and what I mean by that outside
the mainstream the typical usual suspects and I use that
derisively on purpose. Reuter's AP, CNN, they're all in the
front row. They all kind of assume that they're going
to have that special, privileged access and they take it
for granted, whereas reporters for outlets such as your own,
(02:21):
which is well established the Daily Caller, haven't gotten that
type of access. But now we're seeing Daily Wire and
you mentioned Julio Rosas having those opportunities. How has that
changed in the time that you've been covering this White
House since inauguration Day.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Yeah, so yesterday I was a part of the travel
pool with Vice President Bands and there were only six
of us in that travel pool that went on the
trip with him. It was the Daily Caller, the Blaze,
the Washington Posts, and CBS, so really a mixed bag
of media outlets there. But you know, this is a
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trip you have to paste your way through, these beach
trips as a member of the media, and these are
trips that probably weren't want it for us to take
before because the administrations didn't really want to play ball
with a reporter like the Daily Caller. And so now
you know, just knowing that there isn't a way better
chance of being able to get a question at something
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like this makes these trips pay off. But you know,
in terms of access, you know, I point to my
time covering the Bye administration, which was over a year.
I got three questions in the press briefing, and two
of them came because there was this little bit of
a snow dusting in Washington, BC and the city shuts
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down when we get like an ancient snow. But being
from upstate New York, I'm not afraid of the snow.
So there's a press briefing after that storm. I went
in and you know, half the briefing room didn't really
show up. I was able to move off a couple
of roads, and I think Green just kind of ran
out of people to call on and had to call
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on me. And so I've gotten more questions now. Under
Caroline Leavitt, I've been called on every time I've attended
a briefing, which is you know, definitely a blessing. She's
willing to go to the back row. And I've also
invested in a booster seat, which has made me taller
in a briefing room, and I think it's had an
effect on my access as well. I'm five eight I'm tall,
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but it is incredibly hard to see from the back row,
especially in the Trump era, so there are people who
line at beside. It's completely packed in a room and
it's a very small room. People don't realize this, and
every single person's hands raised, you know. Under the Body administration,
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people werering eager to ask questions, and so I could
actually probably be seen from the bathroom, are raising my
hands now, like first raids of hands blocking my base.
So I was like, I need a couple inches on
these people.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Getting every advantage she can in that press room. As
she mentioned, it is crowded and it's in high demand.
She is the White House correspondent for Daily Caller. Joining
us here Reagan Reese, and she's from upstate New York.
Whether it's that or here in Colorado or where I'm
from in Michigan. It was neat to hear that you'll
brave the dusting of snow. That's what I noticed to Reagan.
I lived in Virginia for a time, and as a
(05:27):
transplant from Michigan. What would shut down schools or roads
or businesses? Then if there was a snow in Richmond, Virginia,
I laughed at I have to imagine you had the
same feeling with the situation you described.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Oh yeah, I mean it's we've even had some snowstorms
this past year, and it's just kind of funny to
me that they're not ready. They were more significant this
last year, but they don't even have the plows ready.
They don't know what to do. People are freaking out
about salt. No one has a winter jacket. And it's
not like we're in Moorida, Like we're just in DC
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and nobody is ready. It's it's far and out south
for people not to be ready.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Introducing you to our listeners as well, Reagan, we're so
appreciative of your time and contributions to this program. But
she's a visiting fellow as well for the Independent Women's
Forum and an alumna of journalism and a fellow of
Hillsdale College in my home state of Michigan as well. Reagan,
take us back to that time in your life. Have
you cross paths with Victor Davis Hansen? I know he
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does some auxiliary work there. What was that like for you?
Speaker 1 (06:34):
I wish I had crossed paths with you know what
we call Hillsdale BDH. Yeah, but I never had the opportunity.
Pat Sayjack is one who I saw very often. You know,
he was around. I think he's on the board of trustees.
But Hillsdale, I really feel like my life started when
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I went to Hillsdale. Really formed me as an adult.
And it's such a great place that just teaches you
how to think, not you know what to think, but
how to think, how to think critically. They really test
your faith and most of all, I think people, you know,
look at Hillsdale and be like, hey, that's a school
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that traditionally means, right, that must be a bubble. But
we always say it's kind of like a bubble that
we are aware of, and you're okay to be in
a bubble if you're aware of it. And it's like
it's a safe place for you to fail and try
and fail and grow and do all of those things
that will help shape you as an adult and prepare
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you for the real world. And that's really what college
is about. College is not about this indoctrination that we're
seeing out across the country, growing you into a young
adult that can then go off to different areas of
the country to start a family, to get involved in
your community, and create growth really at the graph roots level,
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and that's exactly what Hillsdale is about.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
If only there were more Hillsdale colleges throughout the nation.
Of course, you may have recalled them from their original
sponsorship of the Rush Limbaugh program. A Grand Canyon is
another one that comes to mind that has that kind
of open focus on learning, like Reagan put it, how
to think, not what to think. As you may have
heard many times, I'm a college graduate at myself, Central
(08:26):
Michigan University, before that, Michigan State University. But if I
had a child right now that was in high school
looking to go to college, like my niece Sonia is,
I think there's not a lot of four year colleges
I would recommend because of the things Reagan talks about.
They have become indoctrination farms and you don't even know it.
You're not even aware of it. It's become kind of
part of the body politic there on campus, and it's
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shifted far to the left. So if you want to
counter that and have a real four year college experience.
They're not paying me to say this, but my home
state Hillsdale very proud of it, and it's very proud
to have Reagan Reese on the program at Reagan Reece
under School or on X if you want to follow
her there. And I got to ask Reagan your name?
Reagan my all time favorite president, Ronald Reagan. Were you
named after him?
Speaker 1 (09:08):
I was, yes, my childhood bedroom back home, my parents
have had a photo of Ronald Reagan right outside my
room for as long as I can remember, and it's
still there now.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Now you had to AUTI a womb with the name,
but then also in your youth with your parents reinforcing it.
I already love your parents, because again, Ronald Reagan my
all time favorite president Trump becoming a very close second, though,
whether or not your parents provided you structure, let's say,
in your formative years before you went into public schools,
or maybe you went to private schools and kind of
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reinforced that notion that you talked about earlier with Hillsdale College,
that they presented you with options, They told you how
to think, not what to think. Did they set the
example for you? How did that all materialize for you?
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (09:52):
So I did go to public school. It was kind
of funny to me going to Hillsdale and learning kids
who went to private schools and home schools. That was
not really an issue in the area of New York
I'm from. My dad says, we're from the good part
of New York. So a big published school. A big
thing that I just looked back at was it's sports.
(10:15):
I played softball at Hillsville. Was very blessed for that opportunity,
but I was a very competitive softball player to get
there when I was young and you know, probably eight
nine all the way up until high school. And that
was really I think building blocks of my relationship with
my parents and kind of teaching me, you know, how
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to have the stuff was very applicable to life and
just sports are in general, and how to be heard,
working and how to be a leader and how to
be a person. You know, my dad taught me a
ton of lessons. My mom was not athletic at all,
but you know, she always has something to say, and
all that time, and you know, taking me to travel
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tournaments with softball and games and stuff was really just
great FaceTime with my parents. They were very present, and
I think that makes the difference in just being able
to have conversations with your kid and check in and
understand what they believe. And kind of guide them along
that path. And so in a lot of ways, you know,
just off the field and all the things that softball
(11:24):
brought really I think helped put me on this path.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
Love it. I can totally relate my sports experience shape
me in that way too, and it really teaches you
about meritocracy and that things are not given, or at
least they shouldn't be a spot on a team, et cetera.
You know, Reagan having earned that me working my tail
off to play baseball through high school and junior college.
She's the White House correspondent of Daily Caller. Reagan Reese
our guest going back to the border here where you
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were one of the privileged few in the pool that
were able to report on this with Vice President Vance.
There interesting comments from him in addition to the answer
that he gave to you your question, which was a
very good question, Reagan, and he's talking here about the
reaction from border patrol agents and how palpable it was.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
The most heartening message that I take away from my
visit here at the Texas border is that the number
of border patrol agents who have come up to me
and said thank you or.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
Said because of this we've.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Cut the number of border crossings from fifteen hundred a
day to thirty a day, or the people who have
come up and said, we've seen a reduction and eighty
five percent of the number of people who are dying
at the American Southern border. And every single day that
we continue to keep this border safe, that means less
migrant crime, that means less fit and all coming into
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our communities. That means more safety and security for the
people of the United States of America. And of course
we know the border problem, the border crisis under Biden's
administration was a national crisis, but it acutely affected.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
The communities right here.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
And I've already heard heartbreaking stories of people who are
still picking up the pieces. Local mayors who are well
do dealing with the budgetary consequences of what the Joe
Biden administration allowed to happen at the American Southern border.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
Regan, you were there to see it with your own eyes.
What were some of the very stark things that you
noticed changes at the border, people that you talked to
that you can relate to our audience.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
So Advance was making these comments at Shelby Park, and
so we were in the motorcade on our way over there,
and we saw a long stretch of Trump's border wall,
and then it immediately switched to this you know, makeshift
border wall of razor wire and train cars, and we
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pulled into this dirt like area right across the way,
you know, was Mexico. There were you know, border patrol
and military personnel both there to guard the border but
also to guard Vice President Vance. And you know, a
local reporter was explaining to me Shelby Park is a
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that was seized by Governor Greg Abbott because it was
a hub for legal immigrants to come and pour right
in off the border, and because the state was in
this battle with the Bibe administration about the wall. That's
where you see this makeshift wall that was Governor Greg
Abbott's wall, this razor wires, these train cars picking up
where Trump's wall left off. And that's where Vance chose
(14:23):
to have his press conference, was right in front of that.
This I think a very symbolic area to have this
press conference to then say, you know, we are going
to be supporting border patrol and the federal government is
now here to help them and to back them up
in this effort. And then to also say we're going
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to finish the border wall in these four years. I
think it was really, yeah, quite symbolic of what this
trick was meant to accomplish, and also what this administration
has done in six weeks six weeks and what plans
being going forward.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
Well more comment from VP Vans that'll kind of take
us back to the other night with President Trump's address
to a joint session of Congress, and the nation have
some bad news and some good news.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
And the bad news is that because of what Joe
Biden did at the southern border for four years, we
had record increases in migrant crime, in fit and ol deaths,
and in just floods and floods of people who shouldn't
be in our country who came into the United States
of America. We also have a number of ways in
which the cartels became more advanced, better warfighters because Joe
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Biden opened up the American southern border and allowed the
cartels to turn it into their playground.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
Now that's the bad news.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
The good news is, as President Trump said last night
at the State of the Union, it turns out we
didn't need new laws. We didn't need fancy legislation. We
just needed a new president of the United States, and
thank god, that's exactly.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
What we have. What this does to Reagan, and you've
done it with your own reporting. You've seen it with
your own eyes, and it totally smashes the narrative of
both Joe Biden and Kamala Harris say, hey, look, our
hands are tied. We presented a bill to Congress, they
wouldn't pass it. Senator Langford came up with another one.
Trump tried to torpedo it and undermine it. But without that,
there's nothing more that we can do. I mean, we've
(16:14):
done all we can from an executive action standpoint. That
has been revealed to be total hogwash in light of
what President Trump has already accomplished, like you said, in
just six weeks in office.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
Yeah, that was definitely a big theme of Vance's Vance's trip,
and that's not the only time that he talked about
this from Marks. He brought it up again ahead of
a roundtable that he had with Governor Greg Abbott, Texas
Attorney General Ken Text, then the mayor of Eagle Pass
was there. The chief of Board of Patrol was also
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there as well as you know, just something to note
Aboutfice trip didn't do this alone. He also went with
Secretary of Defense Pete Headsteth and National Intelligence Dirrector Toulcy Gabbert,
And so this was really a monument Visit wasn't just
the Vice President, which is great and big in of itself.
He was doing this with administration officials. I think two
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also just showed that this is not, you know, not
just a executive branch type thing, Donald Trump type thing.
This is something that across the federal agencies that they
are really working and deploying different different initiatives. And one
thing I think that Van talked about a lot on
this trip was the technology aspect, and he kept you know,
(17:32):
touting the new technology that he saw on the new
technologies that they're deploying. And he also you know, said
I don't want to get ahead of any public announcements,
but that there is more to come, that they are
going to be taking more action on the border.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
You know.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
His quote on that was Rome wasn't built in a day,
and so this administration isn't done taking action, which is yeah,
like you pointed out, quite hilarious in comparison to the
last administration that claimed their hands were tied and that
they had nothing to do. And Donald Trump and Jadie
Vans are both steam ahead with the action that they
(18:09):
can take.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
Reagan, final minute that we have with you. We're so
thankful once again for you joining us. Your observations of
Trump's addressed to the Joint Session of Congress. It was
unlike any other we had seen. But how would you
sum it up?
Speaker 1 (18:24):
I think it was about the American people and being
just the way that he used Americans who have been
affected by poor policy choices and highlighted them and you know,
used those to draw out what he has accomplished. I
think was very strong and unlike a State of the
Union or Joint Congressional address that we saw over the
(18:47):
last four years. And so it was really about highlighting
the guy. And that's exactly what the swamp with the
DC eladers hate, and so that's how I would sum
it up.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
Follow her support her work at Dailycollar dot com and
you can follow her on ex at Reagan Reese Reagan
Spelled like the President. Reese r e s underscore on
X as well. Reagan, thank you so much, really enjoyed this,
hope it's the first of many conversations to come.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
Yeah, thanks for having me, Reagan.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
Reese, your thoughts, your reaction. Jade Vance at the border
just yesterday and she was there five seven seven three nine.
Send those texts along more Ryan Schuling live after this.
Speaker 5 (19:32):
Like many families, the Colorado Republican Party tends to have
its fights and meltdowns in public.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
Today, one faction.
Speaker 5 (19:39):
Of the party served another faction of the party with
a lawsuit at an IHOP restaurant. As diners in Greenwood
Village enjoyed the breakfast faves Combo, the house Scramble, and
the Pancake of the Month, one candidate for the Colorado
GOP chair dropped a double stack litigation.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
On the plate of arrival.
Speaker 5 (19:56):
This stems from the Republican civil war over whether to
replace current state Chairman Dave Williams, who was accused of
misusing party funds for his failed GOP primary bid for
Congress and for the hassle he created for Colorado Republicans
with his call to burn all Pride flags. But back
to the eye Hop home with a new spicy shredded
Beef Anytime Tacos where the spicy lawsuit served this morning
(20:17):
shreds the Republicans who tried unsuccessfully to force out Chairman Williams.
She got Darcy Channing, current party leader who's running for
chair in next month's elections, who served papers this morning
on Britta Horn, a rival candidate for chair who's part
of the uprising.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
They were both at the I Hop.
Speaker 5 (20:35):
For interviews with the local talk radio show doing a
live broadcast from the pancake House. Neither woman waffled when
I reached out.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
To him today.
Speaker 5 (20:42):
Channing says Horn stole money from party donors. Horn called
it a frivolous attack. You may recall the Colorado GOP
has a bit of a history of airing its grievances
at random businesses in the suburbs.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
In twenty twenty.
Speaker 5 (20:57):
Two, we dubbed at the boot Barn Rebellion, when the
faction of the GOP that's now in control was on
the outside, they got turned away from the Republican Party offices,
so they stood in the parking lot of the Western
wear outfit or nearby hollering that their party leaders were whores.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
We have a Republican Party that is full of horns.
They've not held to the US Constitution, And then you
wonder why these can't win a race.
Speaker 5 (21:24):
Those boot barn rebels now lead the Colorado Republican Party,
leading us to this morning's ihop dust up. So if
you're buying boots or breakfast in the suburbs and you
hear ruckus might just be Colorado Republicans working things out.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
Oh, Comrade Kyle enjoying the fodder provided for him with
all the clever writing there on nine News, and we
had to get to the bottom of these details. Why
not turn to Darcy Shaning. She was mentioned in that
story on nine News. She joins us now on Ryan
Schuling Live. Darcy, welcome back, Thanks for having me Ryan.
What happened at the ihop in Greenwood Village that's not
(22:03):
far from where I live.
Speaker 4 (22:06):
Yes, that day I was on Jeff and Bill and
Breda Horn was alf and Britta has unfortunately been evading
service for quite some time, so I knew she was
going to be there, and I went ahead and served
her the papers. And again, Kyle Clark just really loved it.
I gotta give him credit. That's some really good writing.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
It was. It was humorous, but there's obviously a serious
motive behind this. In your confrontation of Britta Horn and
what went down as I recall it, and you can
fill in the details because you know a lot more
from the inside than I do from the outside. But
Brita was part of a rebellion. Eli Bremmer was another
name I remember at that time that we're looking to
remove Dave Williams and go through the protocols that by
(22:50):
which that could happen, and Dave Williams was resisting that.
Can you take us back to that point in time,
what was going on in the party as you saw it?
Speaker 1 (23:00):
Yeah, sure.
Speaker 4 (23:00):
So they were not happy with leadership that was Eli Bremmer,
Todd Watkins and Britta Horn. So they scheduled. They were
not happy with a meeting that Hope scheduled out in Bayfield.
They wanted another meeting, so they scheduled a meeting in
Castle Rock. They met, they did not have a the
(23:24):
quorum that was required. So if you're going to change leadership,
you have to have two thirds of the whole body there.
Two thirds of the whole body was not there. But
they did not read that bylaw correctly, as the judge
later determined, and they ran with that leadership. So for
a couple of weeks there was leadership and then there
(23:45):
was kind of a rogue leadership team. And you know, listen,
like I said, I don't hold anything against these people.
I don't want Britta out of the party. I don't
want Eli out of the party.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
That's not what this is.
Speaker 4 (23:58):
But what this is is is we as a party,
we can't just sue any time that we don't like
the bylaws or we feel someone is not doing something correctly.
We have to follow the processes that we have internally
because if we don't, then we're going to really destroy ourselves.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
And we did.
Speaker 4 (24:19):
I mean, that was over one hundred thousand dollars that
was literally allocate its candidates for critical races. I helped
raise that money, and I had to call these candidates
and tell them, hey, Rebecca, I'm sorry. I know I
told you that you have money coming, but you don't.
And we can't operate that way. So this isn't personal.
(24:40):
It's not like, you know, I want to personally ruin
these people. But the party needs to be made whole
again when one hundred thousand dollars of don our money
that was given to elect candidate and to keep the
lights on is taken in that manner and the judge
determines that it was it was the rightful way to
(25:01):
do things. We have to either have that many paid
back or I'm going if there's an alternative solution. You know,
if Dave and Gretta and Todd Watkins want to come
volunteer ten hours a week for the next six months
just to pay those donors back and strengthen our party
and rebuild that trust, I'm totally okay with it. But
it's just about making the party whole again. We can't
(25:22):
operate like that.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
She's Darcy Shaning, she's a candidate for the Colorado State
GOP chair. It is a fractured party, to put it
mildly at the moment. So Darcy, you take this action.
You're saying it's not personal, but it's actually a long
term play to make the party whole again and bring
people back together. So you mentioned the money being returned,
(25:43):
but what exactly would be the remedy that you feel
would be substantial and satisfactory serving her with these papers?
And where does it go from here?
Speaker 4 (25:55):
Well, like I said, I mean, just something, just something, Ryan,
you know, I think a lot of us, like even
in apology, would go a long way that that was
a really traumatic time for our party, no matter which
side of the party that you're on, and the purpose
of serving those papers, the purpose of making sure that
(26:16):
this happened is because in a couple of months when
I'm chair, this is what I'm going to tell people.
We can't have lawsuits like this. We will I mean,
we will be dead as a party within years if
this is how we're going to do things. So what's
use this lawsuit?
Speaker 1 (26:33):
This is the last one.
Speaker 4 (26:35):
Okay, there's going to be no more, because let's use
this as an example.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
Of to show what it really did.
Speaker 4 (26:41):
It cast so much more division, It took candidate funds
and didn't accomplish anything.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
Darcy shenning our guests, there's three prs that I think
you subscribed to, Darcy in the course of your race,
and we both spoke at the same event for the
log cabin Republicans. For me what it's about, and that's
being practiced, being pragmatic and going through this entire list
of priorities with principles. So I guess there's four prs there,
(27:11):
and that you are a principal person. I don't think
anybody would dispute that. Where I have a problem. I'm
just going to call it like the horse race portion
of this is the practical, pragmatic part of it, and
I'll just go to the US House races because those
were front and center the last time around. Dave Williams
himself ran against Jeff Crank in the primary, he lost,
Crank won the seat a tremendous candidate, and Gabe Evans
(27:33):
ran in the eighth district, a pivotal swing district. He
would end up winning that, but Williams backed a losing
horse in Janet Joshie. That was another one. Then there
was a third example in the third district that Lauren
Bobert departed went over to the fourth she won. Jeff
Hurd was running in a primary against Ron Hanks. Dave
Williams back Hanks. That was the losing horse. Herd would
(27:54):
go on to win. Now we have in Colorado, by
some miracle, for Republican representative in the US House to
four for the Democrats and what is an overwhelmingly blue state.
I guess where I'm going with this is, are you
going to have that mission in mind of identifying winning candidates,
backing the right horses, and making sure the funds that
you talk about are going to those candidates.
Speaker 4 (28:17):
Yeah, for sure. So now when I've addressed this on
a couple of shows this week, it's really important to
me that we have primary neutrality. I did put out
an amendment that I plan to present to the body
after I am elected chair. And Ryan, I worked so
hard on the candidate initiative last year, and literally when
(28:37):
I had to call people like Stan Vanderwerth and Rebucca
Kelsey and explain like, look, there's no money last because
the party's been too busy fighting with it so right,
I wanted to throw up, like I could have cried,
because it's just this is not how we are supposed
to be operating and it's not necessary. And those candidates
(28:57):
that ran in those congressional districts believe if you ask them,
and I think that they have said it in multiple areas.
I was there for them, and I did work to
get them the data that they needed and card some
ballot for Gabe. And you know, being a party isn't
about picking the best Republican candidate in the primary. It's
(29:18):
about putting the information out there to the voters so
that they can make the best decisions.
Speaker 3 (29:24):
And I think that leads me to my last question here, Darcy,
And I'm just kind of relaying information that I've accumulated
through the many different people that I talked to in
the party. And as you know, I'm a big supporter
of the Colorado Republican Party and I want us to win.
So with that preface, there are a lot there's a
perception out there, and I think in light of this
story that we're talking about at the IHOP that you've
got one kind of rebellious faction of Britta Horne and
(29:45):
Eli Bremer, and you mentioned some others Todd Watkins, and
then we have kind of what has been the established
power dynamic, which is Dave Williams, Hope Sheppelman, whom I
know somewhat but not really well personally, and yourself. Yeah,
and that people would view you like as more of
the same with Dave Williams. But I'm hearing a much
different tune that you're singing than the leadership that Dave
(30:06):
Williams exhibited. And I guess I'm just asking you to
tell our listeners right now, kind of bullet point fashion,
where you are most different from Dave Williams in your
leadership style approach and strategy.
Speaker 4 (30:16):
Well, I mean we are totally different people. While we
while we have similar conservative values, we don't manage things
the same way. I mean, there were a lot of
things at the party that I wanted to do that
you know, they're just not on Dave's agenda. And there
were things that Dave did that I didn't necessarily agree with. So,
you know, my entire platform is based on building an
(30:39):
infrastructure that will have for generations to come. It's based
on getting candidates elected, and it's based on some really
strong fundraising and that's where a chair should be focused.
I'm not as focused on the internal workings of the
party or you know, securing my leadership team seats for
(31:00):
the next couple of years. Not that that's where Dave's focused,
but I don't. I don't focus on the internal division
or the internal politics of politics. I'm about advancing the
state and getting Republicans elected. That's what I've been doing
for years and that's what I'll continue to do. And
one thing people will tell you about me is I
do what I say I'm going to do, and you
(31:22):
always know where you stand with me. So yeah, I
think that we just need to move forward, and these
lawsuits they've they've got to stop. So once I'm elected,
we'll discuss the current lawsuit further, and we're going to
see what the Body wants to do. You know, if
the body, if the body comes back and says that
they know better and they don't want to pursue this,
(31:43):
then that's a whole nother story. They won't two thirds
of the body tends to vote with that block, so
there there will be some outcome, but we'll be fair
about it, and we'll continue to work with Britta and
Todd and Eli. As a matter of fact, plan to
personally call them and welcome them to the new GOP
(32:04):
and figure out what their place is.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
Her last name is nine letters long. You switch out
the middle three and put in uil. You got my
last name. Darcy Shaning joining us here on Ryan Schuling Live,
and she's a candidate for the Colorado Republican chair. Darcy.
What I appreciate most about you, You're very accessible, Trent
Lisei's doing a great job with you and connecting you
with the media and more importantly to the listeners and
voters of Colorado. So thank you for your time, Thank
(32:28):
you for your detailed answers and explanations, and we'll talk
to you again soon.
Speaker 4 (32:32):
Thank you, Ryan, thanks for all you're doing.
Speaker 3 (32:34):
All right, Darcy shaning right there, and we are going
to reach out to Britta Horn as well to get
her side of the story. Kyle Clark's just having a
little bit too much fun at our expense, That's what
I'll say. And it was clever and it was funny,
and I got to give a tip of the cap
to Comrade Kyle, but you know that he takes great
delight in glee and to borrow a German word from
Kelly Coucherra because that's her language, your native tongue. Almost
(32:56):
there was a lot of schodenfreud when it comes to
Comrade Kyle on all of this, and we got to
nip that in the butt a final time out here
in hour number one. We'll wrap up with your text
five seven seven, three nine before we jet ahead into
hour number two here on RSL six point thirty. K
Out and the programs so thankful for her time. The
(33:17):
White House correspondent for the Daily Caller, and she was
at the borderline with Mexico Vice President jd Vance and
just a pool of four reporters. She was one of them,
and I'm just really enthused by the increased access for
alternative media. I'm not just saying conservative media, although Reagan
would be considered part of that, but alternative media when
it comes to podcasts, different types of platforms that are
(33:40):
covering the news, because you got these old dinosaurs in
there that'd become entrenched, entitled and take things for granted
and just assume that everybody's going to cater to them,
whether it's CNN, CBS, AP, reuters, and it's nice that
they might have to sing for their supper a little
bit more, and we'll see how that goes going forward.
(34:01):
Your reaction too, to Darcy Shaning just joining me a
moment ago her response to the nine News story that
Kyle Clark gleefully covered enough Darcy serving Britta Horn with
some lawsuit paperwork at the ihop at Greenwood Village, where
I have dined previously, and the menu items described by Kyle.
I mean they didn't even have to pay him. That
was a good advertisement. I have to go back sometime soon.
(34:24):
Let's get to those tax five seven seven three nine. Ryan,
did I just hear correctly that Darcy has a neutrality plan,
but won't release it until after she's elected chair. Is
that how campaigns work? Now? Well, the practical effect what
you describe may be the case, but she is in
the midst of campaigning for this spot against Britta. You know,
all's fair and love Warren politics, and this is how
(34:46):
she has chosen to kind of launch a salvo, drew
some media attention, got nine news coverage, She's been on
this show, Britta Horn. I'm hoping we'll join us on
Monday to offer up a rebuttal, a response. And for
my part, again, I don't get a vote in this.
There might be some of you, and there are listening
audience who do, or there are people that might vote
somewhat as a surrogate for you. Is a very limited
(35:08):
number within the state party apparatus that do that, that
have that right responsibility and honor, I would say, and
maybe you can express how you feel about that and
what a direction you want the Colorado GOP to take.
Also this one, I wonder if Darcy also was disgusted
when Dave Williams used party funds to fund his own
failed campaign, as well as Dave Williams endorsing people who
(35:30):
backed his run for Congress. Yeah, that kind of quid
pro quo, backroom dealing, cigar chomping, smoke filled room, you
know that sort of thing. It seemed like it was
going on, and I didn't like it, not one bit.
And more to the point of the question, I asked her,
which Dave Williams was just really bad at backing the
right horse. He was backing losing horses. Janet Joshi in
(35:52):
the eighth, Gabe Evans defeated him and won. Ron Hanks
in the third, Jeff Hurd Rhymes of the third beat
him and won. Beat Adam Frish in a very hotly
contested campaign, as was Gabees. When Jeff Crank defeated Dave
Williams himself in the fifth, I won a winning horse.
I want somebody that can pick winning horses in that chair.
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