July 19, 2024 • 30 mins
Dave McCormick, candidate for Senate in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, gives us his take on the speech by President Trump last night. Following a harrowing experience from a would be assassin and into a week of RNC mania with speeches, thousands of supporters and news out of the Democrat that Biden may not be their candidate after all.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
So when the shooting occurred last Saturday, Republican senatorial candidate
Dave McCormick was actually in the front row. He was
right there. And the state of Pennsylvania obviously is one
of the key swing states of all swing states, and
he is in a battle against basically a name in Pennsylvania,
(00:25):
which is the Casey name. But beyond that, as his
name recognition has gone up, so has his poll numbers,
and rather significantly. And we support Dave for you know,
this Senate seat, and if Donald Trump could pull out Pennsylvania,
I believe Dave McCormick ken as well, which would be
(00:46):
a massive pickup for Republicans. We welcome him back to
the program.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Sir, how are you, hey, Sean, how you doing.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
I'm good, all right, It's it's not even been a week,
and I I just can't imagine what goes through somebody's
head if you're in the front row and you're watching
the attempt at assassination of a former president and top
presidential candidate.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Amazing. It was a you know, less than an inch,
and we would have had a catastrophe for our country.
And it's such a wake up call. But you know,
the thing for me personally is that the President. I
had spoken to him backstage and he had said he
wanted to have me come up on the stage. So
when we walked out, I was in the front row,
(01:33):
and within a couple of minutes of the speech, he
started to talk about my race and asked me to
come up. So I started to walk up on the podium.
I went through the first player of security and then
he said, you know, to the crowd, fifteen tasks. People
said I want to talk about the border, and so
he said, Dave, I'm going to have you up in
a little bit. Go sit down. So I went and
sat back down, and then within a minute or two
(01:55):
I heard the shots and saw the whole thing play
out right in front of me, where the President grabbed
his ear and then went went down, a secret service
on top of him.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
And you saw the blood right away, so well I didn't.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Right away. I saw the sort of the foullans of
Secret Service, and I saw him stand up, and then
I saw this fifth come out and you know, this
sense of defiance and reassurance and courage, and then the
Secret Service movement. I saw the blood, and I honestly
think that's one of the reasons the crowd didn't panic
(02:32):
and stampede was that they saw President Trump stand up.
And I talked to him later, helped him the next day,
and I said to which I really believe. As you know, Sean,
I'm a military guy. I've heard and been under fire
and seeing people get shot at. And I think a
hundred guys are behind that one hundred people are behind
that podium, ninety nine of them stay on the ground
(02:54):
in the fetal position, and one or less than one
stands up and has the self awareness and courage. And
I admire a President Trump for that because I think
it shows just what a fighter and what strength he has.
And I think that's what defines this election. This is
an election between strength and weakness, and boy, are former
(03:15):
president President Trump showed us a lot of strength.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
What are your thoughts of what we're learning about the
Secret Service?
Speaker 2 (03:21):
You know, I look at this system and just basic terms,
if you're lead an organization and you have a catastrophic
failure and unthinkable failure, there is something rotten going on here.
And you know, in Pennsylvania, I think if you get
ten deer hunters with a high powered rifle, one hundred
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and thirty yards on that roof. Ten out of ten
times they make that shot, and so that was That's
not like a close call. That's not something you have
to think hard to imagine. And the fact that that
young man was able to get in into that area,
the fact that that area was out the perimeter, the
fact that there wasn't clear eyes on that and an
(04:05):
immediate reaction, I think is an epic failure. And at
the same time, the Secret Service on the ground when
the President got shot, I thought, performed well, and we're
all over the president. But the fact that that security
perimeter didn't keep that guy out is unthinkable.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
And the guys around the president were amazing and they
deserve to be praised. But we're learning a lot more
this guy. They knew how to range finder, which is
something you might use in golf to you know, you know,
check out where the pen is and it will tell
you the exact yardage. They had identified this guy as
(04:41):
a threat, and I am stunned and shocked at the
security failure here.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Yeah, I couldn't agree with you more. I think the
head of the Secret serviceship resign and because she hasn't resigned,
she should be fired. And you don't need any more
hearings or investigations to know that, although you do need
hearings and investigations to know how this could have possibly happened.
And you know, for me, I don't know anything that
you don't know. In fact, you probably know more. But
(05:08):
I can't even imagine how a twenty year old kid
on his own could have navigated all this and gotten
to that position. So it the whole thing smells terrible
to me. And and you know, for less than an
inch we would have had a catastrophe. And I just
thank god that the president wasn't really hurt.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Let me ask you this as it relates to Democrats
in general, and you can talk about your race if
you want, but their silence to me on the issue
of the security failure has been somewhat deafening to me.
I know they're obsessed with whether or not Joe should
stay or he should go, et cetera, et cetera. Why
(05:49):
are they not upset that this can happen to any
elected official, any presidential candidate. Why have there not been
calls by Democrats for the head of the Secrets of
US to resign?
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Yeah, it make shurean It what do you got to
do to get fired Joe Biden's administration? Right, I mean,
it's incredible. I agree with you. I think it's raw politics.
It's it's political fortunes over the best interests of the country,
and I think it's it's disgraceful. But but honestly, are
(06:22):
you surprised when we discover that people have known for
many months, maybe longer, that President Biden was in cognitive
decline and there's there's no possibility that he's going to
be able to carry out the responsibilities of the commander
in chief for four more years. And yet his inner circle,
guys like Senator Bob Casey whose interview, who's a campaigned
(06:45):
with him many times in previous months, members of Congress,
nobody was calling out the truth and putting country first
over politics. And until we all saw it on the
debate stage, and once it became clear that the politics
of this change, then people started to acknowledge what we
you know, what we all should have known that.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
But Dave, I'm not buying this because I've been pointing
out Joe's cognitive the decline since before the twenty twenty election.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Yeah, but listen, certainly, with this evidence of it. But
what we saw on that debate stage, I mean, good God,
can you imagine you're a father or a mother of
a young man or a young woman deployed in the
Persian Gulf and that guy's at the front of the
table in the situation room deciding whether we're going to
go into Seria to take out ices. I mean, yes,
(07:34):
he was old, but I listen, I saw cognitive declinent.
But I was stunned by what we saw on the
debate stage because it just made clear. And so, yes,
we knew some of it, but his inner circle clearly
has been protecting him. The whole Democratic Party has been
protecting him in a way that's, you know, in retrospect,
was completely indefensible.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Yeah, it really is. Let's talk about the state of
the race in the state of Pennsylvania, the Commonwealth defense Calvania.
This is where you grew up. You grew up in
Alligating County. You know the area. Well, it seems that
as your name recognition goes up, so does your your
poll numbers. You're going up pretty much against the name.
(08:16):
I've not heard much from Casey at all in the
days and weeks that have you know, preceded all of this.
It seems like he's supporting Biden. Why, I don't know,
what's the state of the campaign.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Yeah, listen, I feel great about it. Pennsylvania is tough.
You know, Pennsylvania is tough because it's a it's a
purple state, and you know, Bob Casey's been there forever.
But I think what's happening is eighty percent of Pennsylvania,
I think the country's going in their wrong direction in
this sky high inflation that's killing working families, the border
crisis and fentanyl four thousand deaths last year, the crime,
(08:53):
the war on the oil gas that the Biden administration,
Bob Casey has led. So they're deeply distressed about the
future of the country. That's that's part of the reason
President Trump's message is resonating so well. He's doing great
in the polls. All the polls show he's up. And
I think the reason I'm closing is that people are
starting to understand that Bob Casey's not only done anything,
(09:16):
not done anything in his eighteen years in the Senate,
but beyond that, he's moved further further to the left.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
And yeah, by the way, what percentage of the time.
Does he vote with Biden.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
Ninety eight percent of the time.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
Geez, just shy of one hundred, which is the perfect record,
right exactly.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
And this guy's voting for things that people pensively don't want, right.
They don't want all this eb mandates, and that's hurting
manufacturing jobs and pensify. They want to be able to
track and get natural gas out of the ground. We
get the fourth biggest natural by the way.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
That is the one thing that a single handedly saved
the economy in Pennsylvania, no doubt about it.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
And it it creates great jobs. It is huge for
our national security to be a net energy exporter, and
it's great for the environment because that natural gas sent
around the world's clean and it replaces coal fired plants
in places like India and China, So it's a big deal.
And and that natural gas also makes it much more
(10:22):
attractive to locate that cheap natural gas makes them much
better locate manufacturing facilities in Pennsylvania. So it's the one
thing you could do to unlock Pennsylvania's future. And Bob
Case he's been against all the things we need to do.
He's voted for a cap and trade's he's a post fracking,
you opposed the Keystone pipeline. If you want change, someone
(10:45):
who is a leader, someone who's going to be a
strong voice for Pennsylvania, I'm your guy. And you know,
President Trump has been incredible. He's been very supportive of me.
I've been very supportive of him, and I think him
on the ticket top of the ticket helped me. And
then I think Jade Vance is going to help me
because he's going to be a great addition to the
campaign team in Pennsylvania. Is a military guy. We got
(11:08):
a huge veteran population. He's a marine. I'm an army guy.
But I still like him. And he knows that part
of Pennsylvania, Western Pennsylvania. He knows what those working families
are struggling with.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
Well, they definitely are. And if I had to guess,
probably the Trump campaign is going to park him in
western PA and in Wisconsin, in Michigan, and in Minnesota.
I never thought Minnesota would be in play, but it
certainly is a quick break. Right back more with Republican
senatorial candidate from Pennsylvania, Dave McCormick is with us, then
(11:41):
we'll get to your calls. Eight hundred and nine four
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post RNC Convention, Straight Ahead.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
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(13:11):
the great state of Pennsylvania. The people of Pennsylvania represent
hard working salt of the earth, you know, Americans and
hardworking and a lot of union people there, and they
want their jobs, and they want a better economy. They
don't want open borders the way we have it, and
they're probably sick and tired of everything that has gone
(13:32):
on in the country under Joe Biden, and they know
he's a cognitive mess. What are your thoughts on you
know Democrats, you know in turmoil about the issue of
replacing them.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Well, I think they've you know, they've sown the seeds
that have got them to this place because they not
only stood behind a president who clearly wasn't up to
the task of being commander in chief for second term,
but they also got wholeheartedly behind a vice presidential pick
that now when we're contemplating or they're contemplating whether Kamala
(14:02):
Harris could actually be president. I think there's a lot
of Democrats that have deep reservations around whether she could win.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Well, wait a minute, if they want to replace him
because he's not up to the job, why are they
not invoking the twenty fifth Amendment.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
Well, that's the thing, right, you can't have it both ways.
I said that the day after the debate. If I'm
Secretary Defense or Secretary of State and I'm sitting in
that situation.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Well, I don't think Joan knows the name of a
secretary of Defense. As we've seen, we sought that right.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
So yeah, this is this is the absolute For all
the sanctimony we hear from the Democrats and the you know,
the browbeating of those of us who are Republicans and
support President Trump, they have shown an absolute, indefensible level
of moral compromise in pursuit of the political benefit. And
I think it's I think it's coming home to roost.
(14:51):
And that's that's why they face a big dilemma. I'm
not I'm not focused much on the inner workings of
the Democrats right now. I'm focused on we got to
save our country. I'm running for that reason. I think
I'll be a good senator, and I'm working closely with
the Trump campaign to try to get well.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
Let me ask you this, how can people look at
your platform and find out more about you? In Pennsylvania they.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Can hear all about me and see about me Dave
MCCORMICKPA dot com. And as you and I talked about,
I've got this bus where I'm going bus tour across
our commonwealth. I've visited all sixty seven counties so we
can find out more about where to meet up with
the bus.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
And I think i'd go back again, go twice to
every county in Pennsylvania. They need to see you, for sure,
no doubt about it.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
Well, and you know you're a mark, so you know
what I'm about to say. But this is the third period.
I'm a wrestler, third period, and you got to stay
on offense every day in their.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Faith fifty nine days and early voting starts in the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania fifty nine days and Democrats don't know
who their candidate is. We need those early votes in
Pennsylvania for sure, no doubt about it.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
Thank you for having me.
Speaker 5 (16:01):
I appreciate it well, appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Dave McCormick, thank you. We'll have you back. I want
to play for you now. The beginning of President Trump
from last night when he said this will be the
only time that he ever talks about this, because it
was that traumatic about the shooting that took place last Saturday,
in great specificity, in great detail. And this was him
(16:25):
addressing the Republican National Convention last night in Milwaukee. Let's
listen in.
Speaker 6 (16:33):
Friends, delegates, and fellow citizens. I stand before you this
evening with a message of confidence, strength and hope.
Speaker 5 (16:44):
Four months from now, we will have an.
Speaker 6 (16:47):
Incredible victory, and we will begin the four greatest years
in the history of our country. We will launch a
new era of safety, prosperity, and freedom for citizens of
every race, religion, color, and creed.
Speaker 5 (17:09):
The discord and.
Speaker 6 (17:10):
Division in our society must be healed.
Speaker 5 (17:13):
We must heal it quickly.
Speaker 6 (17:15):
As Americans, we are bound together by a single fate
and a shared destiny.
Speaker 5 (17:21):
We rise together or we fall apart.
Speaker 6 (17:26):
I am running to be president for all of America,
not half of America, because there is no victory in
winning for half of America. So tonight, with faith and devotion,
I proudly accept your nomination for a president of the
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United States. Thank you, thank you very much, Thank you
(18:28):
very much, and we will do it right.
Speaker 5 (18:33):
You're gonna do it right.
Speaker 6 (18:35):
Let me begin this evening by expressing my gratitude to
the American people for your outpouring of love and support
following the assassination attempt at.
Speaker 5 (18:47):
My rally on Saturday.
Speaker 6 (18:55):
As you already know, the assassin's bullet came within a
quarterage of taking my life. So many people have asked
me what happened. Tell us what happened, please, And therefore
I will tell you exactly what happened, and you'll never
hear it from me a second time, because it's actually.
Speaker 5 (19:17):
Too painful to tell.
Speaker 6 (19:21):
It was a warm, beautiful day in the early evening
in Butler Township in the Great Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Music
was loudly playing and the campaign was doing really well.
I went to the stage and the crowd was cheering wildly.
Speaker 5 (19:45):
Everybody was happy.
Speaker 6 (19:47):
I began speaking very strongly, powerfully and happily because I
was discussing the great job my administration did on immigrants
at the southern border. We were very proud of it.
(20:09):
Behind me and to the right was a large screen
that was displaying a chart of border crossings under my leadership.
The numbers were absolutely amazing. In order to see the chart,
I started to like this, turned to my right and
(20:35):
was ready to begin a little bit further turn, which
I'm very lucky I didn't do. When I heard a
loud whizzing sound and felt something hit me really really hard.
Speaker 5 (20:53):
On my right ear. I said to myself, wow, what
was that.
Speaker 6 (21:01):
It can only be a bullet and moved my right
hand to my ear brought it down. My hand was
covered with blood, just absolutely blood all over the place.
Speaker 5 (21:15):
I immediately knew it was.
Speaker 6 (21:17):
Very serious that we were under attack, and in one movement,
proceeded to drop to the ground.
Speaker 5 (21:25):
Bullets were continuing to fly.
Speaker 6 (21:30):
As very brave Secret Service agents rushed to the stage,
and they really did.
Speaker 5 (21:34):
They rushed to the start.
Speaker 6 (21:46):
Because are great people at great risk, I will tell you,
and pounced on top of me so that I would
be protected. There was blood pouring everywhere, and yet in
a certain way, I felt very safe because I had.
Speaker 5 (22:04):
God on my side. I felt that.
Speaker 6 (22:20):
The amazing thing is that prior to the shot, if
I had not moved my head at that very last instant,
the assassin's bullet would have perfectly hit its mark, and
I would not be here tonight.
Speaker 5 (22:37):
We would not be together.
Speaker 6 (22:39):
The most incredible aspect of what took place on that
terrible evening in the fading sun was actually seen later.
In almost all cases, as you probably know, and when
even a single bullet is fired, just a single bullet,
and we had many bullets that were being fired, crowds
(23:02):
run for the exits or stampede, but not in this case.
Speaker 5 (23:06):
It's very unusual.
Speaker 6 (23:14):
This massive crowd of tens of thousands of people stood
by and didn't move an inch. In fact, many of
them bravely but automatically. He stood up looking for where
the sniper would be. They knew immediately it was a sniper,
and then began pointing at him. You can see that
if you look at the group behind me, that was
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just a small group compared to what was in front.
Nobody ran, and by not stampeding, many lives were saved.
Speaker 5 (23:45):
But that isn't the reason that they didn't move.
Speaker 6 (23:52):
The reason is that they knew I was in very
serious trouble. They saw it, they saw me go down,
They saw the blood and thought actually most did that
I was dead. They knew it was a shot to
the head. They saw the blood. And there's an interesting statistic.
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The ears are the bloodiest part. If something happens with
the years, they bleed more than any other part of
the body. For whatever reason. The doctors told me that.
They said, why is this so much blood? He said,
it's the ears. They bleed more.
Speaker 5 (24:26):
So we learned something. But they just.
Speaker 6 (24:33):
They just this beautiful crowd. They didn't want to leave me.
They knew I was in trouble. They didn't want to
leave me, and you can see that love written all
over their faces. Incredible people, They're incredible people. Bullets were
flying over us, yet I felt serene.
Speaker 5 (24:54):
But now the.
Speaker 6 (24:55):
Secret Service agents were putting themselves in peril.
Speaker 5 (24:58):
They were in very dangerous territory.
Speaker 6 (25:01):
Bullets were flying right over, missing them by a very
small amount of inches. And then it all stopped. Our
Secret Service sniper from a much greater distance, and with
only one bullet used, took the assassin's life.
Speaker 5 (25:22):
Took him out.
Speaker 6 (25:30):
I'm not supposed to be here tonight, not supposed to
be here.
Speaker 5 (25:53):
Thank you, but I'm not. And I'll tell you.
Speaker 6 (26:01):
I stand before you in this arena only by the grace.
Speaker 5 (26:06):
Of Almighty God.
Speaker 6 (26:17):
In watching the reports over the last few days, many
people say it was a providential moment.
Speaker 5 (26:26):
Probably was. When I rose surrounded by Secret Service.
Speaker 6 (26:30):
The crowd was confused because they thought I was dead,
and there was great, great sorrow. I could see that
on their faces as I looked out. They didn't know
I was looking at They thought it was over, but
I could see it. I wanted to do something to
let them know I was okay. I raised my right arm,
looked at the thousands and thousands of people that were
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breathlessly waiting, and started shouting fight, fight, fight, thank you.
Speaker 5 (27:12):
Once my clenched fist went.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
Up and it was high into the air. You've all
seen that, the crowd realized I was okay and roared
with pride for our.
Speaker 5 (27:26):
Country like no crowd I have ever heard before, never
heard anything like that.
Speaker 6 (27:38):
For the rest of my life, I will be grateful
for the love shown by that giant audience of patriots
that stood bravely on that faithful evening in Pennsylvania. Tragically,
the shooter claimed the life of one of our fellow Americans,
Cory Comparatur, unbelievable person everybody tells me, unbelievable and seriously wounded.
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Two other great warriors spoke to them today, David Dutch
and James Copenhaveer, two great people. I also spoke to
all three families of these tremendous people. Our love and
prayers are with them and always will be. We're never
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going to forget them. They came for a great rally.
They were serious Trumpsters. I want to tell you they
were serious Drumpsters.
Speaker 5 (28:41):
And still are.
Speaker 6 (28:42):
But Corey, unfortunately we have to use the past tense.
Speaker 5 (28:45):
He was incredible.
Speaker 6 (28:47):
He was a highly respected former fire chief, respected by everybody.
Was accompanied by his wife, Helen, incredible woman. I spoke
to it today. Devastated and two precious daughters. He lost
his life selflessly acting as a human shield to protect
them from flying bullets.
Speaker 5 (29:06):
He went right over the top of them and was hit.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
All right. That was President Trump saying that this will
be the only time he addresses the assassination attempt on
him just less than a week ago. And wow, can
you imagine we're talking about a millimeter or two and
he would not be here. All right, that's gonna wrap
things up today. Does Joe stay or go? He says
(29:31):
he's staying we'll find out more. We're watching. We're waiting,
dump and destroy. Joe is in full force, full reaction
to that fallout from President Trump's speech last night. At
the final night of the RNC, we'll check in with
Senator Josh Holly tonight, hul Cogan Tonight, Mike Huckabee, R. Fleischer,
(29:51):
and news you'll never get from the media mob and
a video of Donald Trump that you're gonna want to
share with your friends, all coming up nineties to tonight
on Hannity CEA. Then we will be back here on Monday,
with only one hundred and five days until election Day,
and believe it or not, only fifty six days until
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early voting in Pennsylvania. Have a great weekend, We'll see
you Monday. Thank you for making this show possible.
So when the shooting occurred last Saturday, Republican senatorial candidate
Dave McCormick was actually in the front row. He was
right there. And the state of Pennsylvania obviously is one
of the key swing states of all swing states, and
he is in a battle against basically a name in Pennsylvania,
(00:25):
which is the Casey name. But beyond that, as his
name recognition has gone up, so has his poll numbers,
and rather significantly. And we support Dave for you know,
this Senate seat, and if Donald Trump could pull out Pennsylvania,
I believe Dave McCormick ken as well, which would be
(00:46):
a massive pickup for Republicans. We welcome him back to
the program.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Sir, how are you, hey, Sean, how you doing.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
I'm good, all right, It's it's not even been a week,
and I I just can't imagine what goes through somebody's
head if you're in the front row and you're watching
the attempt at assassination of a former president and top
presidential candidate.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Amazing. It was a you know, less than an inch,
and we would have had a catastrophe for our country.
And it's such a wake up call. But you know,
the thing for me personally is that the President. I
had spoken to him backstage and he had said he
wanted to have me come up on the stage. So
when we walked out, I was in the front row,
(01:33):
and within a couple of minutes of the speech, he
started to talk about my race and asked me to
come up. So I started to walk up on the podium.
I went through the first player of security and then
he said, you know, to the crowd, fifteen tasks. People
said I want to talk about the border, and so
he said, Dave, I'm going to have you up in
a little bit. Go sit down. So I went and
sat back down, and then within a minute or two
(01:55):
I heard the shots and saw the whole thing play
out right in front of me, where the President grabbed
his ear and then went went down, a secret service
on top of him.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
And you saw the blood right away, so well I didn't.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Right away. I saw the sort of the foullans of
Secret Service, and I saw him stand up, and then
I saw this fifth come out and you know, this
sense of defiance and reassurance and courage, and then the
Secret Service movement. I saw the blood, and I honestly
think that's one of the reasons the crowd didn't panic
(02:32):
and stampede was that they saw President Trump stand up.
And I talked to him later, helped him the next day,
and I said to which I really believe. As you know, Sean,
I'm a military guy. I've heard and been under fire
and seeing people get shot at. And I think a
hundred guys are behind that one hundred people are behind
that podium, ninety nine of them stay on the ground
(02:54):
in the fetal position, and one or less than one
stands up and has the self awareness and courage. And
I admire a President Trump for that because I think
it shows just what a fighter and what strength he has.
And I think that's what defines this election. This is
an election between strength and weakness, and boy, are former
(03:15):
president President Trump showed us a lot of strength.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
What are your thoughts of what we're learning about the
Secret Service?
Speaker 2 (03:21):
You know, I look at this system and just basic terms,
if you're lead an organization and you have a catastrophic
failure and unthinkable failure, there is something rotten going on here.
And you know, in Pennsylvania, I think if you get
ten deer hunters with a high powered rifle, one hundred
(03:43):
and thirty yards on that roof. Ten out of ten
times they make that shot, and so that was That's
not like a close call. That's not something you have
to think hard to imagine. And the fact that that
young man was able to get in into that area,
the fact that that area was out the perimeter, the
fact that there wasn't clear eyes on that and an
(04:05):
immediate reaction, I think is an epic failure. And at
the same time, the Secret Service on the ground when
the President got shot, I thought, performed well, and we're
all over the president. But the fact that that security
perimeter didn't keep that guy out is unthinkable.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
And the guys around the president were amazing and they
deserve to be praised. But we're learning a lot more
this guy. They knew how to range finder, which is
something you might use in golf to you know, you know,
check out where the pen is and it will tell
you the exact yardage. They had identified this guy as
(04:41):
a threat, and I am stunned and shocked at the
security failure here.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Yeah, I couldn't agree with you more. I think the
head of the Secret serviceship resign and because she hasn't resigned,
she should be fired. And you don't need any more
hearings or investigations to know that, although you do need
hearings and investigations to know how this could have possibly happened.
And you know, for me, I don't know anything that
you don't know. In fact, you probably know more. But
(05:08):
I can't even imagine how a twenty year old kid
on his own could have navigated all this and gotten
to that position. So it the whole thing smells terrible
to me. And and you know, for less than an
inch we would have had a catastrophe. And I just
thank god that the president wasn't really hurt.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Let me ask you this as it relates to Democrats
in general, and you can talk about your race if
you want, but their silence to me on the issue
of the security failure has been somewhat deafening to me.
I know they're obsessed with whether or not Joe should
stay or he should go, et cetera, et cetera. Why
(05:49):
are they not upset that this can happen to any
elected official, any presidential candidate. Why have there not been
calls by Democrats for the head of the Secrets of
US to resign?
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Yeah, it make shurean It what do you got to
do to get fired Joe Biden's administration? Right, I mean,
it's incredible. I agree with you. I think it's raw politics.
It's it's political fortunes over the best interests of the country,
and I think it's it's disgraceful. But but honestly, are
(06:22):
you surprised when we discover that people have known for
many months, maybe longer, that President Biden was in cognitive
decline and there's there's no possibility that he's going to
be able to carry out the responsibilities of the commander
in chief for four more years. And yet his inner circle,
guys like Senator Bob Casey whose interview, who's a campaigned
(06:45):
with him many times in previous months, members of Congress,
nobody was calling out the truth and putting country first
over politics. And until we all saw it on the
debate stage, and once it became clear that the politics
of this change, then people started to acknowledge what we
you know, what we all should have known that.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
But Dave, I'm not buying this because I've been pointing
out Joe's cognitive the decline since before the twenty twenty election.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Yeah, but listen, certainly, with this evidence of it. But
what we saw on that debate stage, I mean, good God,
can you imagine you're a father or a mother of
a young man or a young woman deployed in the
Persian Gulf and that guy's at the front of the
table in the situation room deciding whether we're going to
go into Seria to take out ices. I mean, yes,
(07:34):
he was old, but I listen, I saw cognitive declinent.
But I was stunned by what we saw on the
debate stage because it just made clear. And so, yes,
we knew some of it, but his inner circle clearly
has been protecting him. The whole Democratic Party has been
protecting him in a way that's, you know, in retrospect,
was completely indefensible.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Yeah, it really is. Let's talk about the state of
the race in the state of Pennsylvania, the Commonwealth defense Calvania.
This is where you grew up. You grew up in
Alligating County. You know the area. Well, it seems that
as your name recognition goes up, so does your your
poll numbers. You're going up pretty much against the name.
(08:16):
I've not heard much from Casey at all in the
days and weeks that have you know, preceded all of this.
It seems like he's supporting Biden. Why, I don't know,
what's the state of the campaign.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Yeah, listen, I feel great about it. Pennsylvania is tough.
You know, Pennsylvania is tough because it's a it's a
purple state, and you know, Bob Casey's been there forever.
But I think what's happening is eighty percent of Pennsylvania,
I think the country's going in their wrong direction in
this sky high inflation that's killing working families, the border
crisis and fentanyl four thousand deaths last year, the crime,
(08:53):
the war on the oil gas that the Biden administration,
Bob Casey has led. So they're deeply distressed about the
future of the country. That's that's part of the reason
President Trump's message is resonating so well. He's doing great
in the polls. All the polls show he's up. And
I think the reason I'm closing is that people are
starting to understand that Bob Casey's not only done anything,
(09:16):
not done anything in his eighteen years in the Senate,
but beyond that, he's moved further further to the left.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
And yeah, by the way, what percentage of the time.
Does he vote with Biden.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
Ninety eight percent of the time.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
Geez, just shy of one hundred, which is the perfect record,
right exactly.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
And this guy's voting for things that people pensively don't want, right.
They don't want all this eb mandates, and that's hurting
manufacturing jobs and pensify. They want to be able to
track and get natural gas out of the ground. We
get the fourth biggest natural by the way.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
That is the one thing that a single handedly saved
the economy in Pennsylvania, no doubt about it.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
And it it creates great jobs. It is huge for
our national security to be a net energy exporter, and
it's great for the environment because that natural gas sent
around the world's clean and it replaces coal fired plants
in places like India and China, So it's a big deal.
And and that natural gas also makes it much more
(10:22):
attractive to locate that cheap natural gas makes them much
better locate manufacturing facilities in Pennsylvania. So it's the one
thing you could do to unlock Pennsylvania's future. And Bob
Case he's been against all the things we need to do.
He's voted for a cap and trade's he's a post fracking,
you opposed the Keystone pipeline. If you want change, someone
(10:45):
who is a leader, someone who's going to be a
strong voice for Pennsylvania, I'm your guy. And you know,
President Trump has been incredible. He's been very supportive of me.
I've been very supportive of him, and I think him
on the ticket top of the ticket helped me. And
then I think Jade Vance is going to help me
because he's going to be a great addition to the
campaign team in Pennsylvania. Is a military guy. We got
(11:08):
a huge veteran population. He's a marine. I'm an army guy.
But I still like him. And he knows that part
of Pennsylvania, Western Pennsylvania. He knows what those working families
are struggling with.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
Well, they definitely are. And if I had to guess,
probably the Trump campaign is going to park him in
western PA and in Wisconsin, in Michigan, and in Minnesota.
I never thought Minnesota would be in play, but it
certainly is a quick break. Right back more with Republican
senatorial candidate from Pennsylvania, Dave McCormick is with us, then
(11:41):
we'll get to your calls. Eight hundred and nine four
one showing our number. As we continue on this Friday
post RNC Convention, Straight Ahead.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
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Speaker 1 (11:54):
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(13:11):
the great state of Pennsylvania. The people of Pennsylvania represent
hard working salt of the earth, you know, Americans and
hardworking and a lot of union people there, and they
want their jobs, and they want a better economy. They
don't want open borders the way we have it, and
they're probably sick and tired of everything that has gone
(13:32):
on in the country under Joe Biden, and they know
he's a cognitive mess. What are your thoughts on you
know Democrats, you know in turmoil about the issue of
replacing them.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Well, I think they've you know, they've sown the seeds
that have got them to this place because they not
only stood behind a president who clearly wasn't up to
the task of being commander in chief for second term,
but they also got wholeheartedly behind a vice presidential pick
that now when we're contemplating or they're contemplating whether Kamala
(14:02):
Harris could actually be president. I think there's a lot
of Democrats that have deep reservations around whether she could win.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Well, wait a minute, if they want to replace him
because he's not up to the job, why are they
not invoking the twenty fifth Amendment.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
Well, that's the thing, right, you can't have it both ways.
I said that the day after the debate. If I'm
Secretary Defense or Secretary of State and I'm sitting in
that situation.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Well, I don't think Joan knows the name of a
secretary of Defense. As we've seen, we sought that right.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
So yeah, this is this is the absolute For all
the sanctimony we hear from the Democrats and the you know,
the browbeating of those of us who are Republicans and
support President Trump, they have shown an absolute, indefensible level
of moral compromise in pursuit of the political benefit. And
I think it's I think it's coming home to roost.
(14:51):
And that's that's why they face a big dilemma. I'm
not I'm not focused much on the inner workings of
the Democrats right now. I'm focused on we got to
save our country. I'm running for that reason. I think
I'll be a good senator, and I'm working closely with
the Trump campaign to try to get well.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
Let me ask you this, how can people look at
your platform and find out more about you? In Pennsylvania they.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Can hear all about me and see about me Dave
MCCORMICKPA dot com. And as you and I talked about,
I've got this bus where I'm going bus tour across
our commonwealth. I've visited all sixty seven counties so we
can find out more about where to meet up with
the bus.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
And I think i'd go back again, go twice to
every county in Pennsylvania. They need to see you, for sure,
no doubt about it.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
Well, and you know you're a mark, so you know
what I'm about to say. But this is the third period.
I'm a wrestler, third period, and you got to stay
on offense every day in their.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Faith fifty nine days and early voting starts in the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania fifty nine days and Democrats don't know
who their candidate is. We need those early votes in
Pennsylvania for sure, no doubt about it.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
Thank you for having me.
Speaker 5 (16:01):
I appreciate it well, appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Dave McCormick, thank you. We'll have you back. I want
to play for you now. The beginning of President Trump
from last night when he said this will be the
only time that he ever talks about this, because it
was that traumatic about the shooting that took place last Saturday,
in great specificity, in great detail. And this was him
(16:25):
addressing the Republican National Convention last night in Milwaukee. Let's
listen in.
Speaker 6 (16:33):
Friends, delegates, and fellow citizens. I stand before you this
evening with a message of confidence, strength and hope.
Speaker 5 (16:44):
Four months from now, we will have an.
Speaker 6 (16:47):
Incredible victory, and we will begin the four greatest years
in the history of our country. We will launch a
new era of safety, prosperity, and freedom for citizens of
every race, religion, color, and creed.
Speaker 5 (17:09):
The discord and.
Speaker 6 (17:10):
Division in our society must be healed.
Speaker 5 (17:13):
We must heal it quickly.
Speaker 6 (17:15):
As Americans, we are bound together by a single fate
and a shared destiny.
Speaker 5 (17:21):
We rise together or we fall apart.
Speaker 6 (17:26):
I am running to be president for all of America,
not half of America, because there is no victory in
winning for half of America. So tonight, with faith and devotion,
I proudly accept your nomination for a president of the
(17:48):
United States. Thank you, thank you very much, Thank you
(18:28):
very much, and we will do it right.
Speaker 5 (18:33):
You're gonna do it right.
Speaker 6 (18:35):
Let me begin this evening by expressing my gratitude to
the American people for your outpouring of love and support
following the assassination attempt at.
Speaker 5 (18:47):
My rally on Saturday.
Speaker 6 (18:55):
As you already know, the assassin's bullet came within a
quarterage of taking my life. So many people have asked
me what happened. Tell us what happened, please, And therefore
I will tell you exactly what happened, and you'll never
hear it from me a second time, because it's actually.
Speaker 5 (19:17):
Too painful to tell.
Speaker 6 (19:21):
It was a warm, beautiful day in the early evening
in Butler Township in the Great Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Music
was loudly playing and the campaign was doing really well.
I went to the stage and the crowd was cheering wildly.
Speaker 5 (19:45):
Everybody was happy.
Speaker 6 (19:47):
I began speaking very strongly, powerfully and happily because I
was discussing the great job my administration did on immigrants
at the southern border. We were very proud of it.
(20:09):
Behind me and to the right was a large screen
that was displaying a chart of border crossings under my leadership.
The numbers were absolutely amazing. In order to see the chart,
I started to like this, turned to my right and
(20:35):
was ready to begin a little bit further turn, which
I'm very lucky I didn't do. When I heard a
loud whizzing sound and felt something hit me really really hard.
Speaker 5 (20:53):
On my right ear. I said to myself, wow, what
was that.
Speaker 6 (21:01):
It can only be a bullet and moved my right
hand to my ear brought it down. My hand was
covered with blood, just absolutely blood all over the place.
Speaker 5 (21:15):
I immediately knew it was.
Speaker 6 (21:17):
Very serious that we were under attack, and in one movement,
proceeded to drop to the ground.
Speaker 5 (21:25):
Bullets were continuing to fly.
Speaker 6 (21:30):
As very brave Secret Service agents rushed to the stage,
and they really did.
Speaker 5 (21:34):
They rushed to the start.
Speaker 6 (21:46):
Because are great people at great risk, I will tell you,
and pounced on top of me so that I would
be protected. There was blood pouring everywhere, and yet in
a certain way, I felt very safe because I had.
Speaker 5 (22:04):
God on my side. I felt that.
Speaker 6 (22:20):
The amazing thing is that prior to the shot, if
I had not moved my head at that very last instant,
the assassin's bullet would have perfectly hit its mark, and
I would not be here tonight.
Speaker 5 (22:37):
We would not be together.
Speaker 6 (22:39):
The most incredible aspect of what took place on that
terrible evening in the fading sun was actually seen later.
In almost all cases, as you probably know, and when
even a single bullet is fired, just a single bullet,
and we had many bullets that were being fired, crowds
(23:02):
run for the exits or stampede, but not in this case.
Speaker 5 (23:06):
It's very unusual.
Speaker 6 (23:14):
This massive crowd of tens of thousands of people stood
by and didn't move an inch. In fact, many of
them bravely but automatically. He stood up looking for where
the sniper would be. They knew immediately it was a sniper,
and then began pointing at him. You can see that
if you look at the group behind me, that was
(23:35):
just a small group compared to what was in front.
Nobody ran, and by not stampeding, many lives were saved.
Speaker 5 (23:45):
But that isn't the reason that they didn't move.
Speaker 6 (23:52):
The reason is that they knew I was in very
serious trouble. They saw it, they saw me go down,
They saw the blood and thought actually most did that
I was dead. They knew it was a shot to
the head. They saw the blood. And there's an interesting statistic.
(24:12):
The ears are the bloodiest part. If something happens with
the years, they bleed more than any other part of
the body. For whatever reason. The doctors told me that.
They said, why is this so much blood? He said,
it's the ears. They bleed more.
Speaker 5 (24:26):
So we learned something. But they just.
Speaker 6 (24:33):
They just this beautiful crowd. They didn't want to leave me.
They knew I was in trouble. They didn't want to
leave me, and you can see that love written all
over their faces. Incredible people, They're incredible people. Bullets were
flying over us, yet I felt serene.
Speaker 5 (24:54):
But now the.
Speaker 6 (24:55):
Secret Service agents were putting themselves in peril.
Speaker 5 (24:58):
They were in very dangerous territory.
Speaker 6 (25:01):
Bullets were flying right over, missing them by a very
small amount of inches. And then it all stopped. Our
Secret Service sniper from a much greater distance, and with
only one bullet used, took the assassin's life.
Speaker 5 (25:22):
Took him out.
Speaker 6 (25:30):
I'm not supposed to be here tonight, not supposed to
be here.
Speaker 5 (25:53):
Thank you, but I'm not. And I'll tell you.
Speaker 6 (26:01):
I stand before you in this arena only by the grace.
Speaker 5 (26:06):
Of Almighty God.
Speaker 6 (26:17):
In watching the reports over the last few days, many
people say it was a providential moment.
Speaker 5 (26:26):
Probably was. When I rose surrounded by Secret Service.
Speaker 6 (26:30):
The crowd was confused because they thought I was dead,
and there was great, great sorrow. I could see that
on their faces as I looked out. They didn't know
I was looking at They thought it was over, but
I could see it. I wanted to do something to
let them know I was okay. I raised my right arm,
looked at the thousands and thousands of people that were
(26:54):
breathlessly waiting, and started shouting fight, fight, fight, thank you.
Speaker 5 (27:12):
Once my clenched fist went.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
Up and it was high into the air. You've all
seen that, the crowd realized I was okay and roared
with pride for our.
Speaker 5 (27:26):
Country like no crowd I have ever heard before, never
heard anything like that.
Speaker 6 (27:38):
For the rest of my life, I will be grateful
for the love shown by that giant audience of patriots
that stood bravely on that faithful evening in Pennsylvania. Tragically,
the shooter claimed the life of one of our fellow Americans,
Cory Comparatur, unbelievable person everybody tells me, unbelievable and seriously wounded.
(28:11):
Two other great warriors spoke to them today, David Dutch
and James Copenhaveer, two great people. I also spoke to
all three families of these tremendous people. Our love and
prayers are with them and always will be. We're never
(28:33):
going to forget them. They came for a great rally.
They were serious Trumpsters. I want to tell you they
were serious Drumpsters.
Speaker 5 (28:41):
And still are.
Speaker 6 (28:42):
But Corey, unfortunately we have to use the past tense.
Speaker 5 (28:45):
He was incredible.
Speaker 6 (28:47):
He was a highly respected former fire chief, respected by everybody.
Was accompanied by his wife, Helen, incredible woman. I spoke
to it today. Devastated and two precious daughters. He lost
his life selflessly acting as a human shield to protect
them from flying bullets.
Speaker 5 (29:06):
He went right over the top of them and was hit.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
All right. That was President Trump saying that this will
be the only time he addresses the assassination attempt on
him just less than a week ago. And wow, can
you imagine we're talking about a millimeter or two and
he would not be here. All right, that's gonna wrap
things up today. Does Joe stay or go? He says
(29:31):
he's staying we'll find out more. We're watching. We're waiting,
dump and destroy. Joe is in full force, full reaction
to that fallout from President Trump's speech last night. At
the final night of the RNC, we'll check in with
Senator Josh Holly tonight, hul Cogan Tonight, Mike Huckabee, R. Fleischer,
(29:51):
and news you'll never get from the media mob and
a video of Donald Trump that you're gonna want to
share with your friends, all coming up nineties to tonight
on Hannity CEA. Then we will be back here on Monday,
with only one hundred and five days until election Day,
and believe it or not, only fifty six days until
(30:13):
early voting in Pennsylvania. Have a great weekend, We'll see
you Monday. Thank you for making this show possible.
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