Joe Concha is one of the most visible faces on Fox News. In December 2021 alone, he appeared more than 70 times on Fox News and Fox Business, including on top-rated shows including Hannity, Fox & Friends, Unfiltered with Dan Bongino, Watters World, Justice with Jeanine Pirro, Outnumbered, Kudlow, Varney & Co, and Mornings with Maria. He also is a rotating co-host on The Big Saturday and Sunday Show and has co-hosted the #1 show on cable, The Five. Concha is one of the most-read media and politics columnist for The Hill, a leading political publication based in Washington, D.C. In additional to television, Joe has also served as a drive-time talk radio host on 710-WOR in New York City, the country's #1 market. Guests in his Rolodex included Donald Trump Jr, Kimberly Guilfoyle, Eric and Lara Trump, Kayleigh McEnany, Greg Gutfeld, Pete Hegseth, Ben Shapiro, Bill O'Reilly, Piers Morgan, Adam Corolla, Russell Crowe and Jim Nantz, among many others. Concha has also frequently guest hosted for Sean Hannity on his nationally-syndicated radio show, reaching 625 stations, before covering the media industry, Joe was a sports columnist for Fox Sports and NBC Sports. He was also a producer for Time Warner's NY-1.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is a podcast from wor Now more of the
WR Saturday Morning Show and Larry Minte. The book is
called the Greatest Comeback Ever, Inside Trump's Big Beautiful Campaign,
and you know the author, Joe Concha from Fox News. Joe,
thanks so much for being here today.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Oh thanks for having me. This is a very exciting week.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Oh absolutely, I'm so glad you could come on. I
went to the back of the book. I have a
copy of it here, and most people on the back
of their book have all these accolades and people recommending
the book. Instead, you have all of these people that
were wrong about the election, badly wrong about the election,
like Nicky Haley and Bill Maher and Chris Christy, Nancy Pelosi,
(00:45):
and at the very bottom you have Joe Concha. In
October of twenty twenty four, it says Trump wins this
quite easily. Save the tape, play it back if I'm wrong.
This is how it's going to end. How did you know? Then?
Speaker 2 (01:03):
I said it on w R Believe it or Not,
And that was with our friend Sean Hannity. You know, Larry,
I just a Kamala Harris was the opponent to Donald Trump.
So I just cannot see in the end America saying
this person should be the next president, along with goofy
Tim Walls being the vice president. But more importantly, Donald
(01:23):
Trump was on the right side of every issue. He
was winning in the early vote, which was something that
we had never seen before. And in the end, I
just saw this as like a manifest destiny kind of
thing where Trump was going to win back this presidency,
despite the fact that he had ninety one felony charges
against him at one point, despite the fact we had
(01:44):
a hostile media that was against him and still is
at every turn, and the fact that he survived those
two assassinations attempts, particularly the first one where he shot
in the ear, and instead of staying on the ground
like I think most of us would have been saying,
get me the heck out of here, he stands up,
doesn't know there's a second shooter or anything like that,
(02:04):
and says fight, fight, fight, and Larry, when I interviewed
the President for the book, I wanted to talk about
that more. I said, what made you, in that moment
want to stand up despite the fact that you could
be exposing yourself again, you're bleeding, Why would you do that?
And he said, you know, I knew my youngest son
was watching that rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. I knew my
(02:26):
wife was watching. I knew the country was watching. And
I want to make sure everybody knew that I was
okay and that nothing's going to stop me. I'm going
to continue moving forward no matter what you do. And
I'm like, wow, I wouldn't do that.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
No, but outa here, that's a wonderful anecdote. And the
fact that he thought of his family first says a
lot about the man. You list a lot of reasons
why big moments in the campaign and why he won,
and I think the biggest moment and I thought he
won with the debate in Biden. I think one Spiden
(03:00):
mumbled so much in that debate, all of America saw
behind the curtain and realize we've been lied to. And
I think that that launched Trump. There were other big
moments I realized, but would you agree that maybe the biggest.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
That they're probably three, that was one of them. Absolutely, Larry,
And the fact is that I love that we hear
from so many people now that wow, we didn't know
about Biden's cognitive decline. We were misled, We were deceived. No,
you were talking about it on this radio show. I
was talking about it on Fox. We've known since like
(03:36):
twenty nineteen that Joe Biden's brain had turned Apple sauce
right and a long time ago had no business being
near the Oval office. So certainly the debate was one
of them. I think another one was the vice presidential debate,
because all we heard about was how weird jd Vance
was and then he gets up there and just blows
Tim Walls out of the water, who looked like a
(03:57):
deer in the headlights. You're like, oh boy, we can't
let this be anywhere near even the vice presidency. But
then I think that visit to McDonald's was so huge.
And on the cover of the book, that's the photo
that I used is Donald Trump waving goodbye to somebody
at the drive through when he did a shift over
in Pennsylvania at McDonald's as the fry's guy, as the
(04:18):
drive through guy, and all we heard was that Trump
is Hitler, Trump is a fascist, Trump is a threat
to democracy. Well, you know, in last check, Hitler probably
didn't do a shift at McDonald's, and he was the
happy candidate, right He was a joyful warrior, and it
was Kamala and Tim Walls who were the angry ones.
And I think that he just showed there a that
Kamala never worked at McDonald's, because she wrote two memoirs
(04:41):
on her own life and never mentioned that once, never
mentioned it when she ran for president in twenty nineteen,
never mentioned it when she was vice president. Suddenly she's
saying she worked a McDonald's, so she didn't. More importantly,
this was the billionaire that people could relate to. And
that photo of Donald Trump at McDonald's photos, I should
say that went to places Petsy voters, viral that Kamala
(05:02):
Harris could ever touch. And I think that was the
genius of the campaign. And that's why I used it
on the cover of the book.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Larry, I'm sure you have this in the book. But
another thing that he did that was brilliant, and I
understand this might have been Baron's idea, and it's more
than a strategy than a moment. And except that it
culminated with Joe Rogan was go to alternative media, and
it turns out that was huge in his victory.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Yeah, I mean the Joe Rogan interview Donald Trump was
more than three hours with him and Kamala. Harris tries
to put conditions on Joe Rogan says, I'm not going
to go to Austin, Texas to do the interview. I'm
too busy. Uh huh. Also, by the way, we're only
going to do an hour. We're not gonna do any
more than an hour, and I want to know what
the topics are beforehand. When she did do that interview
(05:49):
and Trump and jd Vance did, that was huge. And
then the Al Smith dinner Larry right here in New York,
Kamala blows it off all those Catholic voters. Cardinal Dolan
speaks about it to this day. And Trump goes there
and is like the Dean Martin of roasters as far
as roasting Kamala that night, while Kamala sends a video.
I think that was a huge moment as well.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
I love that you brought up the vice presidential debate.
I thought that's when I became an enormous jd. Vance fan,
and I hope he runs for president. But you're right
when you have Tim Walls, When you have Tim Walls
saying sometimes I'm a knuckle hud, and that is the
that's the audio that's played over and over again. You
(06:31):
lost that debate, right then?
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Oh yeah, and maybe he lost the election, right. I mean,
this is the guy who said that he handled weapons
of war and war zones and actually no, he actually
ditched his National Guard unit, said that he was in
Hong Kong during the Tieneman Square massacre. No, he was
in a Nebraska cornfield. But the thing that made me
the most angry Larry was when he said that AOC
when they're playing some video game football video game against
(06:55):
each other, he says that AOC runs a real being
pick six. If you don't football to pick six. It's
the thing that just kind of happens organically. And that's
where I'm like, all right, these guys are phony. That
was the thing. Trump was authentic. JD was authentic, and
Tim Walls and Kamala Harris not so much. So here
we are now. It's the greatest comeback ever. And I
hope everybody buys the book.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Fox News contributor Joe Conca, author of the new book
The Greatest Comeback Ever. Inside Trump's Big Beautiful Campaign. This
has been a podcast from Woor
This is a podcast from wor Now more of the
WR Saturday Morning Show and Larry Minte. The book is
called the Greatest Comeback Ever, Inside Trump's Big Beautiful Campaign,
and you know the author, Joe Concha from Fox News. Joe,
thanks so much for being here today.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Oh thanks for having me. This is a very exciting week.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Oh absolutely, I'm so glad you could come on. I
went to the back of the book. I have a
copy of it here, and most people on the back
of their book have all these accolades and people recommending
the book. Instead, you have all of these people that
were wrong about the election, badly wrong about the election,
like Nicky Haley and Bill Maher and Chris Christy, Nancy Pelosi,
(00:45):
and at the very bottom you have Joe Concha. In
October of twenty twenty four, it says Trump wins this
quite easily. Save the tape, play it back if I'm wrong.
This is how it's going to end. How did you know? Then?
Speaker 2 (01:03):
I said it on w R Believe it or Not,
And that was with our friend Sean Hannity. You know, Larry,
I just a Kamala Harris was the opponent to Donald Trump.
So I just cannot see in the end America saying
this person should be the next president, along with goofy
Tim Walls being the vice president. But more importantly, Donald
(01:23):
Trump was on the right side of every issue. He
was winning in the early vote, which was something that
we had never seen before. And in the end, I
just saw this as like a manifest destiny kind of
thing where Trump was going to win back this presidency,
despite the fact that he had ninety one felony charges
against him at one point, despite the fact we had
(01:44):
a hostile media that was against him and still is
at every turn, and the fact that he survived those
two assassinations attempts, particularly the first one where he shot
in the ear, and instead of staying on the ground
like I think most of us would have been saying,
get me the heck out of here, he stands up,
doesn't know there's a second shooter or anything like that,
(02:04):
and says fight, fight, fight, and Larry, when I interviewed
the President for the book, I wanted to talk about
that more. I said, what made you, in that moment
want to stand up despite the fact that you could
be exposing yourself again, you're bleeding, Why would you do that?
And he said, you know, I knew my youngest son
was watching that rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. I knew my
(02:26):
wife was watching. I knew the country was watching. And
I want to make sure everybody knew that I was
okay and that nothing's going to stop me. I'm going
to continue moving forward no matter what you do. And
I'm like, wow, I wouldn't do that.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
No, but outa here, that's a wonderful anecdote. And the
fact that he thought of his family first says a
lot about the man. You list a lot of reasons
why big moments in the campaign and why he won,
and I think the biggest moment and I thought he
won with the debate in Biden. I think one Spiden
(03:00):
mumbled so much in that debate, all of America saw
behind the curtain and realize we've been lied to. And
I think that that launched Trump. There were other big
moments I realized, but would you agree that maybe the biggest.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
That they're probably three, that was one of them. Absolutely, Larry,
And the fact is that I love that we hear
from so many people now that wow, we didn't know
about Biden's cognitive decline. We were misled, We were deceived. No,
you were talking about it on this radio show. I
was talking about it on Fox. We've known since like
(03:36):
twenty nineteen that Joe Biden's brain had turned Apple sauce
right and a long time ago had no business being
near the Oval office. So certainly the debate was one
of them. I think another one was the vice presidential debate,
because all we heard about was how weird jd Vance
was and then he gets up there and just blows
Tim Walls out of the water, who looked like a
(03:57):
deer in the headlights. You're like, oh boy, we can't
let this be anywhere near even the vice presidency. But
then I think that visit to McDonald's was so huge.
And on the cover of the book, that's the photo
that I used is Donald Trump waving goodbye to somebody
at the drive through when he did a shift over
in Pennsylvania at McDonald's as the fry's guy, as the
(04:18):
drive through guy, and all we heard was that Trump
is Hitler, Trump is a fascist, Trump is a threat
to democracy. Well, you know, in last check, Hitler probably
didn't do a shift at McDonald's, and he was the
happy candidate, right He was a joyful warrior, and it
was Kamala and Tim Walls who were the angry ones.
And I think that he just showed there a that
Kamala never worked at McDonald's, because she wrote two memoirs
(04:41):
on her own life and never mentioned that once, never
mentioned it when she ran for president in twenty nineteen,
never mentioned it when she was vice president. Suddenly she's
saying she worked a McDonald's, so she didn't. More importantly,
this was the billionaire that people could relate to. And
that photo of Donald Trump at McDonald's photos, I should
say that went to places Petsy voters, viral that Kamala
(05:02):
Harris could ever touch. And I think that was the
genius of the campaign. And that's why I used it
on the cover of the book.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Larry, I'm sure you have this in the book. But
another thing that he did that was brilliant, and I
understand this might have been Baron's idea, and it's more
than a strategy than a moment. And except that it
culminated with Joe Rogan was go to alternative media, and
it turns out that was huge in his victory.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Yeah, I mean the Joe Rogan interview Donald Trump was
more than three hours with him and Kamala. Harris tries
to put conditions on Joe Rogan says, I'm not going
to go to Austin, Texas to do the interview. I'm
too busy. Uh huh. Also, by the way, we're only
going to do an hour. We're not gonna do any
more than an hour, and I want to know what
the topics are beforehand. When she did do that interview
(05:49):
and Trump and jd Vance did, that was huge. And
then the Al Smith dinner Larry right here in New York,
Kamala blows it off all those Catholic voters. Cardinal Dolan
speaks about it to this day. And Trump goes there
and is like the Dean Martin of roasters as far
as roasting Kamala that night, while Kamala sends a video.
I think that was a huge moment as well.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
I love that you brought up the vice presidential debate.
I thought that's when I became an enormous jd. Vance fan,
and I hope he runs for president. But you're right
when you have Tim Walls, When you have Tim Walls
saying sometimes I'm a knuckle hud, and that is the
that's the audio that's played over and over again. You
(06:31):
lost that debate, right then?
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Oh yeah, and maybe he lost the election, right. I mean,
this is the guy who said that he handled weapons
of war and war zones and actually no, he actually
ditched his National Guard unit, said that he was in
Hong Kong during the Tieneman Square massacre. No, he was
in a Nebraska cornfield. But the thing that made me
the most angry Larry was when he said that AOC
when they're playing some video game football video game against
(06:55):
each other, he says that AOC runs a real being
pick six. If you don't football to pick six. It's
the thing that just kind of happens organically. And that's
where I'm like, all right, these guys are phony. That
was the thing. Trump was authentic. JD was authentic, and
Tim Walls and Kamala Harris not so much. So here
we are now. It's the greatest comeback ever. And I
hope everybody buys the book.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Fox News contributor Joe Conca, author of the new book
The Greatest Comeback Ever. Inside Trump's Big Beautiful Campaign. This
has been a podcast from Woor
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