Richard Manning - President, Americans For Limited Govt. Joins Houston Morning News

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
With Kamala Harris now the new Democrat nominee. Does this
change things? Democrats are sure hoping, so, I don't know
if it really does. We'll see Richard Manning as President
of Americans for limited Government. Do you think that was
a game changer for Democrats as far as the Senate
and the House.

Speaker 2 (00:16):
It does get a little bit more excitement to the
Democratic down ticket opportunities of the voters. But the fact
of the matter is no, the states that the Democrats
have seeds up are Republican states, and place like Montana, Ohio,
they've got very vulnerable incumbents up. It's hard to beat

(00:38):
an incumbent, but in presidential election year with a strong
Republican turnout, because it's a presidential election year, Democrats have
a really, really difficult way to go to keep control
of the House or the Senate. In fact, if you know,
I think it's more likely that there's fifty three to
fifty four Republicans and there are Democrats. Democrat control control

(01:00):
and it's.

Speaker 3 (01:01):
Just a matter of really, they've five seats. If the
Republicans retain control of their five seats and then managed
to swing two or even one, will that be.

Speaker 2 (01:12):
Enough well, if they're swing one, they better win the
presidency because they put it at fifty. But there's a
no they're going to I mean, it's the map, the map.
If everything goes away, it just should. According to form,
the Republicans should pick up two to three seats. The

(01:33):
challenge is this the Republicans to have an effective majority
should Donald Trump be present. To have an effective governing majority,
need to really get to fifty three fifty four seats,
because you've got Murkowski in Alaska who council as a
Republican but was elected by Democrats. And you have Collins
who'll be up in Maine, which means hard vote to get,

(01:55):
and so you have at least two Republicans who will be,
let's say, not on board with the Trump agenda in
any great degree. And as a result, you really need
to get to fifty three to have a governing majority
for the Republicans through the Senate.

Speaker 1 (02:10):
You know, there's been a lot of excitement in the
past about the possibility of Republics controlling the Senate, in
the House, in the White House. They kind of disappointed
us last time around when they had that going for him.
They didn't really get a whole lot done, or at
least not as much done as everybody thought they would.

Speaker 2 (02:25):
No, the big sail on repealing Obamacare was a or
even amending Obamacare was a big disappointment. And you know,
the fact matter is, I had the opportunity to sit
down at center McConnell the day before that vote, and
he was convinced that John McCain was going to vote
with him. He was absolutely one hundred percent convinced. And

(02:46):
I don't think he was cut more off guard than
the Mitch McConnell that they weren't able to pass that
and pass the quasi repeal that they had on the floor.
And sometimes, you know, sometimes people don't tell you the truth.
And you know, and the Republicans, it destroyed them in
the next election that they weren't able to deliver on

(03:09):
a basic promise. So yeah, if they hit the control,
they darned well better make good use of it.

Speaker 3 (03:14):
Last time out, there were an awful lot of ballots
that simply voted for president and didn't vote down ballot.
Do you see that happening again?

Speaker 2 (03:25):
Those are kind of shady ballots, a lot of them,
and I certainly hope we've put safeguards in place. In
places like Georgia, there aren't a lot of shall we say,
unfolded absentee ballots showing up at the polling places. I'm
hoping we've got the safeguards in place to stop that

(03:46):
in many of the states, like Georgia and Arizona in particular.

Speaker 1 (03:51):
Nice sir, thanks for joining us. We do appreciate it,
President that Americans for limited government Richard Manning at seven
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