The Tudor Dixon Podcast: A Discussion with South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to the Tutor Dixon Podcast.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
When you're running for office and God wants to use you,
it's not easy because generally God doesn't call you to
the easy stuff, right, And when you find out when
you get into politics, you find out it's nothing like business.
Everybody is not your friend. You're not trying to make
a deal. It is very hard to find friends. But
one thing I found is that the Republican governors in

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this country are amazing. So many of them would take
a moment and take time to sit with me and
talk with me. And Governor Nom is no exception. But
I will say that she went above and beyond because

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we would go to these meetings with the Republican Governors
Association and she said, come and sit with me and
have lunch with me, and let me talk to you.
And it's so important because she comes from a state
that is thriving, thrive And when you look at Michigan
and you see that the governor here, her own administration

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put out a report that we will not have population
growth through twenty fifty, and you see that South Dakota
is growing every day record numbers. That's why it's important
to have people like Governor nomes sit down and talk
to us about what we can do to improve and
so we are so grateful to you for being here tonight.

Speaker 3 (01:31):
She should have been. Can you even imagine what Michigan
would have looked like if she would have been. It
would have been a whole different state. Wouldn't have it
You'd be growing, You'd be thriving, You'd have more money
in your pockets. Your kids would be safer, they'd have
a better future. Their teenagers and college students would have

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the careers that they want. Homes would be cheaper, they'd
be more affordable because you have more opportunities. In South Dakota.
Justin I've been governor, the incomes have gone up thirty
six percent. We are the only state in the country
where our overdoses are going down, our mental health challenges
are going down, our suicide rates are going down. And
it's because people are happier. And the reason they're happier
is because we've just let them be free. We let

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them make decisions for themselves that they should be making.
You know, I think the world of Tutor. I just
think she's fantastic. I think she's normal, which is so amazing.
In politics. You can find somebody who's normal that just
is doing this for all the right reasons. She just
wants to serve people. And I think the conversation we

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need to have tonight is going to be a family discussion.
I really want to have a family discussion with all
of you about this election, what it means, what it
means for our future, and why I'm going to ask
you to do more than you've ever done before. I'm
going to get you to figure out a way to
be uncomfortable, be uncomfortable in your skin, knowing that every
day you don't have enough hours to go out and

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talk to enough people. Because we as people in this
country that love America, we love our history, We've got
a lot of faith and hope, we have decided that
it's more important to be right than to go out
and win the hearts and minds of people, than to
go out there and really talk to people and spend
time having conversations about what it means to their family,

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to bring people a little bit of hope. One of
my favorite scripture verses that I talk about every once
in a while is that scripture verse in Deuteronomy says
how lovely are the feet of them that bring good news,
proclaiming peace, announcing news of happiness, and it's our God reigns,
but I always and it says our God reigns several times.

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But what is amazing about that is I would love
it if when people saw you coming and you want
to talk politics, and you want to talk about this election,
that they would recognize that you're coming as someone who's
bringing hope, bringing news of peace, proclaiming happiness. And that's
really what our policies that we believe they bring, that

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they bring a belief in our constitution, the opportunity that
it provides to grow up in America and have every
opportunity in front of you, not equal outcomes, but equal
opportunities to be successful and to go out and do
with your life what you feel called to do. And
that's really the conversation we need to have with people
this election cycle. So we'll talk about that in our

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discussion a little bit. I'll talk a little bit about
how different it is in South Dakota than maybe what
Michigan has gone through the last several years. And what
we'll talk about is how leadership has consequences. It matters
who's an elected office. It matters who's in that White House.
I will tell you what I'm here for, President Donald J.
Trump tonight because when I was governor. When I was governor,

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he let me do my job. When he was in
the White House, he let me make the best decisions
for my people in my state. And we were able
to never have a mandate, never closed a single business.
I never once even defined what an essential business was
because I didn't believe that governors have the authority to
tell you your business isn't essential. So we didn't do that.

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We were the only state in the country that never
took the elevated unemployment benefits. Said thank you, mister President,
for the flexibility. But our people want to work, and
they did, and we broke the nation's lowest unemployment record
in the history of the United States of America at
one point nine percent. And we're still at just two
percent right now, you guys are more than double. We

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are number one in the nation for the lowest unemployment
rate still and Michigan's number forty one. So when you
grow up, you can be like us. How does that sound?
All right? Our people work and they're happy, and they're
thriving and they're doing better, and we're having so many babies.
It is amazing. We are the number one state for

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birthrate too in the country. I think people are having
babies because they're happy.

Speaker 2 (06:01):
And she's right, Michigan can be that. Just so you know,
Michigan can be that. Yeah, I don't think you have
to be philosophical about this election.

Speaker 3 (06:12):
You don't have to say, you know, if we did this,
if we cut taxes, if we re eased up on regulations,
if we actually trusted people and let them use personal responsibility,
which is what our constitution requires of us as leaders,
that you will be more successful. All you have to
do is look from state to state and see that
it mattered who was in charge, and see what happened

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to their people and their families in those states. All
we did in South Dakota is what conservatives have always believed.
We just did it, and it worked, and it worked
historic revenues. We paid off all of our debts and bonds,
even for our universities and our technical schools. We built
roads and bridges and dams and railroads, and we did

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the largest tax cut in South Dakota history. And we
still have more money and revenues than we ever had
in history. And we don't have an income tax, we
don't have a personal property tax. All we have is
a four point two percent sales tax. And we're doing
great and it.

Speaker 2 (07:14):
And she was able to fix the roads without swearing
about it.

Speaker 3 (07:17):
Yes, yes, in fact, today somebody actually sent me. It's funny.
Somebody sent me a map of the United States of America.
And I think South Dakota was the state that swears
the least, which I didn't even know that we were ranking.
How I don't think that's true, though I've met enough ranchers,
met enough ranchers for that. But but that is, we

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had the chance when President Trump was in the White
House to cut taxes. I served on the committee in
Congress that worked on that bill for two and a
half years. He trusts you with your own money. He
trusts you with your own money to go out and
make the best decisions for your family. And let me
tell you what this Vice President Harris. Her belief has
always been, has always been that the government makes better

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decisions than you do. She wanted government run health care.
She wants the government to pay for college school loans.
She wants the government to decide what your taxes are,
and they all need to be higher. She is consistently
mandated and dictated to people. It would be a whole
different world if she gets into that White House than
President Trump, and your future would be a lot less free.

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You'd have a lot less liberties. And I'm not certain
if she's ever read the Constitution, because I've heard her
embrace and seen her sign on to enough legislation and
support it that clearly clearly says that you get less
control over your life.

Speaker 2 (08:35):
Well, I think the important message here is that if
you are in a Republican state, the Republican governor trusts
you with your money. They don't want to take your
money and use it elsewhere. And look in Michigan, we
could have had much lower income tax, but the governor
decided to increase it so you could have a lower

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income tax. And we should be moving toward no income tax.
We should be And that's the problem with the Harris administration.
What she has done as vice president, but what she
would do as president. She's already told you she will
take your money and give it to other people because

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she believes in redistribution of wealth. She's telling you When
she says she's going to pay off student loans, when
she says she's going to hand out twenty five thousand
dollars to everybody for a first home down payment, she's
not telling people she is going to make them more prosperous.
She's saying, the government has to do this for you,
and you have to behold it, be beholden to the government.

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That is how inflation rises. They want to keep us down.

Speaker 3 (09:41):
You know, the average American family since it's been the
Harris administration in the White House the last four years,
is making thirty three thousand dollars less than they did
previous to that. In fact, their energy costs have gone
up by average of forty nine hundred dollars per family.
Just in the increase in energy cost is a dollar
more a gallon than it was four years ago. And

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when President Trump came into the White House, it went down,
if you remember, because what did he do. He wanted
an American energy supply. Just if we had it here,
we were going to use our own resources and we
weren't going to rely on our enemies like the Harris
administration has done. So I clearly see that when it
comes to our policies. We can either put somebody in
the White House who loves America believes we should provide

(10:25):
for ourselves and rely on ourselves for our future, for
our energy and our food supply. And that is exactly
the opposite of what Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have
done the last four years.

Speaker 2 (10:36):
And if you hear Donald Trump say drill, baby, drill,
you've heard that. There is a reason for that, because
everything that moves in this country moves with energy, and
everything you buy or consume has been moved. The idea
that we have to do price fixing, that we have
to go after corporations is completely crazy. They've created the

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policies that have hurt us, and they want you to
believe that it's some big, bad corporation. They aren't for capitalism,
they aren't for innovation. They have crushed innovation in this
country in the last four years. The fact that we
were not only energy independent, but we were headed toward
energy energy dominance. There was a point when our gas

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companies were saying, man, we can't even make a profit.
We've got such so much extra energy here because the
United States of America is rich with energy, and that
means that you have the most security in the world.
But they want to take that away from us. And
what does that do. It comes out of everybody's pocket
in this room.

Speaker 3 (11:41):
Well, you remember the Keystone Excel pipeline, right that was
supposed to go through South Dakota. So what most people
don't remember is that when President Trump was in the
White House and then when Joe Biden was being sworn in,
he canceled that on day one. But in our state,
we already had all the equipment set up. The pipe
was laid out of across the state. Everything was there

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and prepared. All we had to do was put it
in the ground and hook it up and get it going.
In fact, most people don't realize it wasn't going to
be the first pipeline that came from Canada and hauled
resources down to the refinery to supply our country with energy.
It was the third one. We already had two pipelines
in the ground that went from the exact same points
and delivered our oil. This one was going to be

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more technology advanced, it was going to be safer, it
was going to be the security of having a pipeline
that would carry more capacity. It's not like we didn't
have pipelines in the ground already. This would have been
the third one. We've already done it. It was nothing new,
but they shut it down because they didn't want to
rely on our own supply and our friends for energy instead.

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What are we doing now? We're enriching Iran, right, and
our enemies who are partnering with Russia, who are now
supplying our China with their energy supply. Correct, We literally
have countries that hate us partnering in new ways, and
they're doing it to defeat the United States of America

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because they see an opportunity because this Harris administration has
been so weak. They've been so weak, and they have
emboldened and enriched our enemies to such a point that
they see an opportunity to finally cripple the United States
of America. And that has long term been their goal
this administration. The Harris administration went back into the Iran
nuclear deal immediately they lifted the sanctions off of Iran.

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They've been able to keep billions of dollars and they've
used it to fund hamas and terrorist activities around the
world who just attack Americans in our way of life.
That weakness on the world stage has huge consequences for us.

Speaker 2 (13:42):
Well, look at the consequences it has had in this state,
the way that that has torn this state apart because
the Biden administration, the Harris administration made the decision to
take sanctions away from Iran. I think the total is
close to one hundred billion dollars that Iran was enriched
in the time that they have been in office. And

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do you know where that money went? October seventh and
that tore this state apart. And now we have people
that are saying, what side are you on? What side
are you on? We love people no matter what, and
we were on the side of peace, and October sixth
was fine. October seventh was funded by a terrorist country

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that was helped along by the Harris administration, and it
has torn the lives of American citizens and Israelis and
Palestinians apart because of the irresponsibility of the Harris Administration's
exactly right.

Speaker 3 (14:46):
We're going to talk about several topics tonight. We're going
to talk about inflation in the economy, because I think
that's what every family is suffering with right now. Every
family right now is struggling to prioritize what their costs
will be. We'll talk a little bit about our border.
We're going to give you guys a chance to ask
us some questions. So if you want to be talking
about something or ask a specific question on a topic,
you'll get the chance to do that so you can

(15:07):
be thinking about it. We're going to visit a little
bit about this vice presidential candidate that Kamala has chosen,
Tim Walls. I happen to know him pretty well being
my neighboring state, and we have taken just this last year,
the last few months, over seven thousand Minnesotans and moved
him over to South Dakota. We've had tens of thousands

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of Minnesotans who have decided to leave his state and
come to South Dakota because of his policies and his
dictator type leadership skills that have been so devastating for
his state. And then we're going to talk about the
American dream and what that means, what does it look
like under the choices that we have on the ballot
this fall. But I know that with the tutor was

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just talking about our national security, and that's one of
those issues that I think a lot of Americans need
to stop and pause and really realize the threats that
we have and the insecurities that we have. I have
spent I'm a farmer and a rancher and have spent
my life, you know, raising food to feed this country
and to feed the world. We had a very large
operation when I was younger. My dad was killed in

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an accident when I was young and I ended up
quitting college and taking over our businesses. But I've worked
on food policy for thirty years, and I watched over
those last thirty years as China systematically came in and
first they started buying up our chemical companies in the
United States. Then they started buying up our seed and

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fertilizer companies. Then we saw America for a period of
time embrace selling citizenship to the United States for investment
in our processing facilities. The vast majority of our processing
facilities and meatpacking plants are owned by Chinese companies now
and people that are affiliated with the CCP. Now we

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have seen them come in, They've manipulated their currency, they've
stolen our genetics and our ip and now we're watching
them by our land and completing that full circle of
our food production in the United States. China has had
a thousand years plan for world domination. They've been trying
to take out the United States of America for hundreds

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of years. For the last two hundred years, we have
been a threat to them ever since we were established
because we were so different in the experiment that our
founders gave us. They gave us the most wonderful experiment
in the history of the world by giving us this republic,
and it was so different. And China has seen us
as we rose to be the world's power, as a

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threat to them, and they have a long term plan
to take us out, and they will make their people
suffer in order to get that plan complete. If we
think a pandemic was scary, wait until they control our
food supply. And wait until you go to the grocery
store and you realize you can't get food to feed
your family because China's decided that you can't get your food.
Did you know that they own quite a bit of

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our ports in the United States? The La port that
you hear Newsom Bag bragging about all the time, it's
ninety percent owned by Chinese. Chinese companies and Chinese officials.
They have started hoarding their shipping containers in China. Everything
in this world that gets shipped across the ocean goes
in a shipping container, doesn't it. Why do you think
that they're keeping the shipping containers so that we don't

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have access to them. That's what this election is about.
That's how important it is to get President Trump back
in the White House so that we have a strong
leader that stands up for America, puts China back in
its place, separates them between Russia and Iran. And when
we can fight any of those enemies and beat them today,
if they're all together, it gets really tough for us

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to win that battle if they're partnering together. And that's
what this election is about, is what will America look
like if we have a week leader back in the
White House like Kamala Harris And can we be protected
from the invasion of China with this administration? No, we
already know that Governor Walls is obsessed with China. He's
lived there, his good grief, his wedding anniversary. He chose

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the massacre of Tienneman Square so it would be memorable.
This is a man who idolizes the CCP and I
have a little bit different experience than the governor because
I come from the manufacturing world. So I saw it
from what they did to the manufacturing world, and I
saw foundry after foundry after foundry close because the Chinese

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were coming in offering the lowest prices, and they were
pirating all same things, stealing our technology. And I will
tell you today, there are not many people who come
out of college and say I would love to start
a steel foundry. It's kind of a generational thing, sort
of something that gets passed down. Same as farms. When
people come out of college, they don't say, man, I

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really like to start up a big dairy farm.

Speaker 2 (19:54):
Just doesn't happen today. They are generational businesses that get
passed down from family to family, from father to son,
from mother to daughter. These once they're gone, they don't
come back. No one starts them up again. And so
when you hear her talking about food security and making
sure that we have enough food to feed this country,

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what do you think the Chinese are doing buying up
our land. They're weakening us and a week America cannot
protect ourselves from a Chinese takeover. These are serious subjects.
We're here, folks, the people who think this is out
way out in the future, this one hundred year plan
of China, We're on your like eighty five. They've already

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gotten this far. They have the largest navy in the world.
A lot of people don't know that China is very powerful.
Our president decided to sit down and address the nation
and tell the nation that he was stepping out of
the presidential race. Didn't mention that he was doing it
because he's cognitively declining, but he did go. He did

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announce that he was going to sit down and tell
the world this. At the same time, China and Russia
flew together off the coast of Alaska, first time they've
ever flown together.

Speaker 3 (21:10):
It's here, it is, and that's the challenges we have
in front of us internationally. But we have challenges here
at home too. I think every person that I talked
to is challenged by the policies that are happening in
their communities and their cities, the violence, the crime we're
living with, what we have going on at the border,
the invasion that we're seeing of dangerous illegal immigrants, some

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of them are criminals. Just in twenty twenty three, we
saw almost one hundred and seventy of them that are
on the terrorist watch list that came into this country
that we know about. We don't know about the ones
that we haven't caught, that we haven't found, and everybody
has seen our communities changed because of this. We know
that there's about ten million that have come into this
country over the border. We don't know how many millions

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have come that we don't know about. There's been estimates
as high as fifteen to sixteen to twenty million. They're
fundamentally remaking this country by what they're doing and allowing
dangerous individuals to come in and rape and murder our
children and our sons and our daughters and our women
and take advantage of them, and then killing our population

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with a drug overdose epidemic that is now the number
one Fentanyl is the number one killer of adults eighteen
to forty five years old now in the United States
of America, and someone dies every seven minutes, so we
will have almost nine or ten people in this country
will die while we just have this meeting here, while

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we sit here today and talk about this election, and
that wasn't happening. It was just in twenty nineteen. It
was ninety three percent less, So it's almost doubled, gone
up ninety three percent in the last fourty five years
in the amount of desks that we're seeing from drug overdoses,
and where is fentanyl manufactured and made in China? Is

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it on purpose? Absolutely? Absolutely, you want to take out
a whole generation Americans. You poison them, You poison them
so they will do anything to defeat us because of
the threat that we face. And that is the challenge
we have in front of us, and we need a
president that recognizes that border needs to be closed, that
we need to make sure that those dangerous individuals are

(23:20):
removed from our country, and that when you break the
law in the United States of America, there's just consequences.
There's just consequences when you break the law.

Speaker 1 (23:27):
Let's take a quick commercial break. We'll continue next on
the Tutor Dixon podcast. And let's remember this was something
that Bill Clinton said, this was something that Barack Obama said,
This was something that old Joe Biden said. Oh now
he's old, previous.

Speaker 2 (23:47):
Joe Biden said. Not President Joe Biden. This is a
whole new situation that we're dealing with, and it's not
something that they feel in their hearts when they tell
you this, Oh gosh, this is just such a loving thing.
This is purely political. They have seized on an opportunity
to create a divide. But the reality is we are

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now the second largest country in the world for human
trafficking and sex trafficking, and the majority of that is kids.
This administration lost three hundred thousand children. Three hundred thousand
children are either in slave labor. And I know you're
going to say not in America. Yes, yes, in this country,

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they are either in slave labor, or they are being trafficked,
or they are dead. And the problem is that they
are all tracked by the cartel. So when people tell
you we have an open border, that border brings in
hundreds of millions of dollars every year. For the cartel,
it's not open. It is fully and completely controlled by
a criminal element. So there is no beauty in people

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coming across. There is no safety in people coming across.
There is no salvation for those people coming that way
across the border. They are never free. They do not
enjoy the freedoms that we enjoy because they are controlled
by a criminal element. They are marked for life. It
is a terrible, tragic situation, especially for the little girls

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and boys that are used every single day, because our
president and our vice president decided politics was more important
than people.

Speaker 3 (25:30):
We have a situation in South Dakota where we have
nine Native American tribes and most people don't realize that
a Native American tribe and their reservation boundaries are they
are a sovereign nation, So I, as governor have no
jurisdiction there. Who has jurisdiction there for law and order
is the tribal government and the federal government. They're the

(25:50):
ones who come in and make sure that tribal law
is upheld, that there isn't crimes being committed, and that
communities are safe.

Speaker 4 (25:57):
Well.

Speaker 3 (25:57):
Our federal government has dramatically failed our tribes in this country.
In fact, my tribes are suing the federal government right
now for lack of law enforcement in their areas and
in their communities. I have some of the poorest communities
in the country in South Dakota. In fact, that at
the top eleven poorest counties and the nation, I have
five of them in our state and they're all in

(26:18):
tribal areas. So these folks have eighty to ninety percent unemployment.
They struggle with addiction and challenges and alcoholism. And what
has happened since this border has been opened during this administration,
and it started a few years before that, but what
has happened recently is that we have seen cartel affiliates

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in our tribal reservations operating unchecked. There is nobody there
making sure that those cartel aren't They're trafficking people right
through South Dakota. They're trafficking drugs through the Midwest protected there.
It isolated from me because I have no jurisdiction there.
I can't go there and arrest anybody for rape or murder,

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or traffic or drugs or being dealers. The only people
who can do it is either the tribal law enforcement,
who's dramatically underfunded. They need ten times the amount of
dollars to have the law enforcement officers that they need,
and the federal government refuses to come in. So people
always think about the border being at the southern part
of the United States. We've got the border right in

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South Dakota. The cartel have figured out where they're protected
in this country and where they can use as a
home base to distribute their drugs. And their trafficking, and
it's happening right in South Dakota. I was the first
governor in the country to send my National Guard down
to the border to help when Texas asked for it,
because I recognized it was a war zone back then.

(27:43):
Since then, we have deployed National Guards seven times to
assist down there. We have gone down there on a
security mission. We've gone down there and sent our helicopters
to help do surveillance. We've sent an engineering unit down
there that built fence and barrier. We built over five
miles a barrier cleared, forty six miles of barrier cleared,

(28:03):
and fixed patches that have been broken. But continuing to
do all we can to support what Texas is doing,
what Governor Abbott is doing, but also doing what we
can because of the failure of this administration just to
enforce our border and to make sure that we can
protect our kids as much as possible and protect their
future by not allowing that type of invasion to continue.

Speaker 2 (28:24):
And it affects us too. I mean, obviously we are
a border state. We have a border with Canada. And
the scary thing is you may not realize the majority
of people who have come through on the terror watch list,
are coming from Canada. We have a very dangerous situation here.
So every state is a border state. I mean we
genuinely are, but every state is a border state. And

(28:44):
if you, I mean even if you just talk to
Sheriff Buchard, you would understand the drugs that are coming
into this country. And you know, it's crazy. When I
was campaigning, I went to their crime lab and they
pull out this just came today. And you know, I
think of Fenton is like these little pills and you're
gonna see it and you're gonna know, and it's this
giant brick and I was just flabbergasted. I'm like this,

(29:09):
you just find this in someone's house. Yeah, just we
did a raid today, found this in someone's house. The
tech has to be extraordinarily careful because even the tiniest
speck will kill you. This is just traveling around our
community in people's homes, going to our kids. They want
to get that to our kids. This is so dangerous now,

(29:31):
and we have people who are duping you when they
say they care about law and order, they don't care
about law and order. Look, we had three police officers
killed in one month's time in this state. I don't
think the governor went to a single funeral.

Speaker 4 (29:47):
Oh my goodness.

Speaker 2 (29:48):
Really, we had the largest mass shooting the state has
ever seen. What a month ago. The governor's never spoken
about it. You've never seen so much as a tweet.
But Rochester had a shooting. She tweeted about that. But
the people of Detroit she didn't tweet about. They don't

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care about the areas that are hit hardest with crime.

Speaker 3 (30:13):
My goodness, she's a wreck. Somebody should run against her.
I thought she was a mess last night too, or
was it two nights ago that she's spelled.

Speaker 2 (30:29):
I will say I think she looked beautiful, though I
looked it for that she had the dress was stunning.

Speaker 3 (30:34):
This is what I think. I think that this is
what I wish. We live in a country that's addicted
to being offended, right, don't we all just love to
be offended by each other? Like, oh my gosh, I
can't believe they said that. It's horrible. I'm so offended,
and they quit talking to each other. And she's really

(30:56):
good at offending people because I think she tries to
do it on purpose. Like some of the things is
that she says, and does some people do it without
really realizing it. But I had a pastor years ago
say something to me that Christy, people are going to
throw offenses out at you all the time, but you're
the one who decides if you want to pick it
up and carry it around with you, and then you're
the one who's carrying the burden. So you have the

(31:16):
opportunity every day to just make a decision that when
people offend you, and politics does it, it really does.
And some of the things she said offended me. So
I've got to take my own sermon here. But we
have the chance to when people offend us and we're
talking to them about this election and when they're talking
about President Trump versus Vice President Harris, that they're going

(31:37):
to say things to us, and we're going to have
to decide not to be offended and to keep the relationship,
to keep the relationship, because I truly believe we tell
our kids and our high schoolers and our college students
that your education is the most important thing for your life.
Your education is or where you grew up is the
most important thing, and I just disagree. I think the
most important thing in your life is relationships. The relationships

(32:00):
that you have in your life will determine the opportunities
that you get what you learn from each other. Maybe
the person that you meet at that meeting or you
have a conversation with at that gas station is somebody
that will change your life forever. Words have consequences. Words
have power. How many of you have somebody that said
something to you at some point in life that you
still remember today, an offhanded comment, something they said, but

(32:25):
it changed the way you thought about yourself, or it
changed your perspective. So remember that your words have power.
And when you leave here and you speak, choose not
to be offended by political conversations you're having with people.
Choose instead to recognize that the words that you speak
will impact somebody, and try to speak different words that

(32:46):
change their perspective. Help them think about this election different
than they have before. Help have them at a grocery store,
start talking about the price of pickles, do something like that.
That's what I go a couple times a month and
just run check out line at a grocery store. I had.
I did that when I was in college. But it
is the most eye opening experience anybody could have. It.

(33:06):
I would say every elected official should just go do it.
They will let you do it because they can't hire
enough people who want to run checkout lines at grocery
store and now nobody can count money anymore. But anyways,
but you will be shocked. I bet two out of
five people that come through the checkout line, they get
to where the total comes and they don't have enough
money and they have to sit there and decide what

(33:28):
they're going to put back. And it's amazing to me
the amount of people that don't have enough money to
get their groceries anymore. Or they come through with ten
or fifteen items and they're like, but I got this
last month, and I had enough money this month, I don't.
And they're trying to decide should they put back the
mustard or the olives, and they wrestle with it and
then they decide they're going to go put it back.

(33:49):
I had a mom the other day tell me I
saw her in a Walmart and she told me she's
trying to decide if she could buy her ten year
old son the backpack or the new shoes he wanted
for school this year. She could and get both of them.
And that's the discussion families are having, so we need
to let them know that it's the policies of the
leaders that are deciding what those costs are. The reason

(34:12):
that families can't buy a home anymore is because somebody
in power made a decision that drove up interest rates,
put more debt on this country, crippled our economy. Your
gas costs more because somebody in Washington, DC decided there
was more important to outsource our energy rather than to
reply or rely on ourselves. Those are all conversations you

(34:33):
can have in your day to day life with people
who aren't used to talking about that with somebody. So
I think we probably should go to questions. It looks
like there's quite a few people back there standing, did
you want.

Speaker 2 (34:43):
To I just want to add really quickly to your
point of finding joy and the trials. If you've been
listening to this past week, which I'm sure none of
you were, but on the off chance, in case you
didn't hear it, there was a kind of common theme
of I've been held back by gender and race and
discriminated against. And so we that from Michelle Obama, and
she was first Lady in case you didn't know, and

(35:05):
we heard that from Oprah and she's just like, you know,
everybody wants.

Speaker 3 (35:09):
To be Oprah, you know.

Speaker 2 (35:12):
And we heard that from Kamala Harris, and I think
that the overwhelming message from that is Wow, and look
what they were able to do in America. Look what
they were able to become in this country despite that.
Because God doesn't tell you it's going to be easy,
doesn't call you to the easy things, and he doesn't
tell you you're not going to be discriminated against. So
you're not going to be offended because every day I

(35:32):
can tell you you will be. And people will tell
you there's a reason. No matter what color you are,
no matter what gender you are, no matter what your
preferences are, people will tell you there is a reason
you can't do what you're going out to do. And
yet in this country you can. So don't listen to
the people who say oppression is real. You can break
through every day because you live here and this is

(35:54):
a special place.

Speaker 3 (36:03):
Okayeh, should we go to questions?

Speaker 5 (36:04):
Yes, Miss Catherine, Hi, everyone, thank you.

Speaker 6 (36:08):
Right now we have a question from Joe and he'd
like to ask it specifically.

Speaker 7 (36:12):
Joe, I just real quick, obviously we've lost our moral
compass in this nation of scenes. My question, I am
a huge Republican and I'm disappointed in the Republican partly
deeply because the squeaky wheel gets the most grease. Why
isn't any Republican truly going out there screaming every day

(36:36):
if it takes every week to stop or say something
about what's happening, that goes for both the state and
the national the statewide. That's the only question I have
that's got to start making fuss on a daily basis.

(36:57):
I've seen you done some of it. God bless you
help this country before we lose it.

Speaker 3 (37:04):
So are you talking about standing for what's right and wrong,
standing for faith, or are you talking about all of it?

Speaker 7 (37:09):
It all encompasses everything. There's a right and a wrong.
Child this deal, that's this thing going on with children.
We have schools that the teachers are not telling they're
telling kids, and they can tell the kids that they
can get gender trans all this stuff. Why isn't the

(37:32):
Republican Party in Michigan, because that's or nationally stand up
every day and say, what are you doing to my children?
What do you every day? They should be up there
the squeaky wheel, I'm done.

Speaker 3 (37:45):
Sorry, Well, I'll tell you what I think. No, the
media doesn't cover it. And it's not just the people
in elected office. Is responsibility. I feel like it's all
of our responsibility. We will never change this if you
just point at somebody else and tell them to go
do their job. And I get your heart because you're
not saying that. You just want us to be bold.

(38:07):
You want us to be bold and stand for truth,
and that doesn't mean we have to be ugly. And
that's why we see too many people that get elected
to office and then they forget their moral compass. They
want to be popular and they want to make sure
they can get reelected the next time, so they forget
to stand. Listen, when I was the only state in
the country that never shut down a single business and
never shut down a single event. Do you remember when

(38:27):
we held the Sturgis Motorcycle bike Rally, I mean when
we held the July third event at Mount Rushmore. I
mean I was getting killed every night on the night
on the national news, like Rachel Maddow and Elizabeth Warren,
they called me dangerous and reckless. I mean I literally
just didn't even I still don't really watch the news

(38:47):
because it's just too hard on me. You guys don't
know this about my personality, but I tend to be
an introvert. I mean, I love people. I love people,
and I like to be around them, but walking into
a room full of strangers is still something I have
to go. All right, Christy, you can do this. You
know this is not my nature. I still get nervous
for every interview, every speech. But I'll tell you what.

(39:09):
I had a dad every day when I was growing
up that said, we don't complain about things, we fix them.
And so there's something he built into us kids that
we don't ever get to sit home and just complain.
You have to go do something, Go fix it, Go
be somebody who's a part of the solution. I told
one of my staffers one day, he was exhausted. I

(39:31):
was just getting killed over something. And especially when more
people in the country started to know who I was,
I got more and more attacks from everybody. It was
liberals who didn't like what I was standing for. It
was Republicans who thought I was competition. I mean, you'd
be surprised how much you get attacked by your own
party half the time, just because they think that maybe

(39:51):
you're going to get to be a big deal, and
they want to be the big deal. But anyways, I
just remember I was looking at one of the people
that worked in my press shop and he just was
like exhaust And I said, Ian, when you die, you
will be able to say you lived a life of significance.
And he went, okay. But that's the only way we

(40:14):
change this country is we have to decide it's not
about us. I've got three kids, and my two girls
are married. I've got three grand babies and one on
the way. I look at little miss Addie, who's three.
She's the oldest, so they're all three under three. But
I just think, what kind of a country am I
giving her? I mean, I can't even look at how
this world has changed in the last five to six years.

(40:37):
Can you imagine what it's going to look like in
the next fifteen to twenty. I can't so that I
don't sleep at night because I think about that and
had I got to grow up in the most amazing
country in the world. And if we lose the United
States of America, where will we go? Where will we go?
That's better than what we have right now? So My
hope is that you encourage every person that's elected to office,

(41:01):
walk alongside them and hold them accountable, to stand for truth,
and tell them when they get attacked for it, you're
gonna hug them, and you're gonna write them a note,
and you're gonna write something nice on their Facebook page.
So they read ten ugly things, they see one nice
thing and they get encouraged by it. But every elected
official needs to stand for truth. But we change people's
hearts by you building relationships with them too, and being

(41:25):
bold enough to speak to them and to speak the
truth to them. Listen, I'm married into my husband's family.
They were all Democrats, and then I take their name
and I run for Congress as a Republican. Can you imagine?
I mean it, really, what a horrible thing to do
to them, And then it was one of the top
five races in the nation. But you know what, I'd say,

(41:45):
eighty percent of them are Republicans now. And we loved
each other then. We still love each other now. But
they just figured out that I was right. But we
didn't do it by screaming at each other. We did
it by loving each other and talking and having conversations

(42:07):
and that's really it's it's harder, and it takes more discipline,
and and but I think that that is what is
going to be powerful.

Speaker 4 (42:14):
We have.

Speaker 3 (42:14):
We had a moment after this assassination assassination attempt on
President Trump. Didn't you feel it where you're like, we
have a moment here, like we could have a revival.
That's what I felt like. I felt like for five
or six days there, we were like, oh my goodness,
And I don't want to I don't want to wake
up anymore and feel like we might have missed it.
I don't. I'm going to choose to believe we didn't

(42:36):
miss a chance for us to remember what's special about
this country. It was a country founded on right and wrong,
on faith and people who relied on themselves and their
freedoms to make sure that they were a country that
was had rights given to us by our creator, that
we can go out and live a life of freedom

(42:57):
of religion, freedom of speech, and live and operate under
a constitution that gave us everything every other country didn't give. Okay,
I'm sorry, go ahead.

Speaker 1 (43:04):
the Tutor Dixon Podcast.

Speaker 6 (43:12):
A question from Judy regarding education.

Speaker 3 (43:15):
Judy, Well, mine was actually on the border.

Speaker 5 (43:18):
What can we do to strengthen our borders.

Speaker 2 (43:21):
Well, I think it's fairly obvious that we can actually
enforce stopping people at the border, and I think that's
very important, and I think technology plays a key role
in that. And just as she was talking about the
Keystone pipeline, all of the equipment being left there and
just abandoned, Let's remember that that same thing happened at
the border when Joe Biden took over and said we're

(43:42):
not going to continue building the wall. And when you
have just people down there fighting against people, you have
a war, you don't have security. This is not fair
to put our border patrol in this position. We have
a gentleman here in the state of Michigan who just
found out that his brother's killer conviction was overturned on
a technicality. His brother was a border patrol agent down south,

(44:06):
and now they have to go through this all over
again after this happened in what ten years ago. To
this family, this is outrageous that we continually allow this
to just be like, oh, how could we possibly do it?
It's really not that hard. And Kamala Harris saying she's
going to hide her all these new border patrol agents.

(44:28):
It goes beyond that, It goes beyond that. There is
so much more involved. And that's why I encourage all
of you to force the Democrats on your local level
to tell you how. How are you going to do that?
Don't just accept that all the other side is bad.
Don't accept if you don't vote for me, you're under threat.

(44:49):
Ask him how. Because it has to be a strategic plan,
and it has to go beyond an executive order. It
would be lovely if we could get Congress together to
pass a bill. But do not be deceived by this.
O'donald Trump is better at whipping votes than we are,
and he was able to get people to vote against
the bill. I mean, how pathetic. First of all, why

(45:10):
would you admit that. Secondly, this was there was bipartisan
disapproval of this bill. There was there were people on
both sides who said, you are going to make it
legal to have thousands of people come across this border
every day and put children in danger. Continued to do this,
You are going to enshrine this in law. No, that

(45:33):
is not the answer. The answer is to make sure
you have a strong border and a strong immigration plan.
And that's not coming from the Harris administration.

Speaker 3 (45:41):
Yeah, that bill codified illegal immigration. If that illegal immigration
was now going to be law, it would be allowed
going forward. All we have to do right now is
to enforce our federal law. We just have to follow
the law. If we had a president that followed the law,
we'd have a secure border now. Obviously President Trump has
said build a wall. In favor of building a wall,

(46:01):
I have seen walls work. They work, and we need
to continue to do that. They worked last week in Chicago.

Speaker 2 (46:07):
I heard they got a wall.

Speaker 3 (46:08):
That's right, that's right, but it's it's not rocket science.
I mean, you follow the law. You build a barrier
where you need it, where you know where the vulnerable
places on our border are, and you make sure that
people have the opportunity to come to the United States
of America. They just have to follow the law when
they come. Good. Thank you, thank you.

Speaker 2 (46:27):
Fight for kids? How can you how can you even
look away from that fight for kids?

Speaker 5 (46:32):
Great? Thank you, thank you. We have a question now
from Joe.

Speaker 6 (46:35):
And he'd like to talk about voter fraud and election integrity.

Speaker 8 (46:42):
That's one of the things I like to address you.
I guess, Christy, you've been in a Republican I want
to thank Tutor for for bringing all these great Republican
women to Detroit.

Speaker 4 (46:55):
Because you had Tulsa Gabbard here last year.

Speaker 8 (46:59):
How then you get to eat I'm mail until the
next day and I missed it, but I'm glad you
brought her here. But now you've brought Christy and that's great,
and I'm really one of my biggest concerns this year
is not they get everybody to run out and vote
for Trump, because we're all voted for Trump last time.
The problem is what's going to be done to prevent

(47:20):
them from stealing election. I went to bed at midnight
or a little after I think it was like one
o'clock in the morning, and Google said Trump was leading
by well over forty percent and only zero point one
percent of the precincts had not reported in. I'm thinking, well,
that's overwhelming. You can't overcome that. And when I woke

(47:41):
up the next day and I found out they had
literally flipped the numbers. Now Joe Biden had beat Trump
by the exact same margin. It's like they just moved
his name from one thing. Come on, now nothing not
only has nothing, I haven't they kept us so busy
worrying about Trump and court for three years that we
haven't been focusing on protecting your election, doing anything to

(48:03):
the machines that are able to have internet access the
process itself.

Speaker 4 (48:11):
In Michigan.

Speaker 8 (48:12):
And I don't want to blame you, Tutor's not your fault,
but they changed our constitution. We're not allowed to have
voter ID and we must have stuffable mailboxes.

Speaker 4 (48:25):
You can go up with this stuff balance in.

Speaker 8 (48:27):
There, no monitoring, nothing, just go ahead and it's required
in our constitution.

Speaker 3 (48:32):
Now what is required?

Speaker 8 (48:34):
What are they doing to fix that?

Speaker 2 (48:37):
Well, you have to under I know this question is
for you. I'll just say really.

Speaker 8 (48:41):
Directly's rancher, and so I know you know about the farm.
You brought up the farm situation. China's in here buying
up o our farms and ranchers, and your email tutor
alerted me to the fact that they actually built a
battery factory in Michigan. That you have to declare your

(49:01):
loyalty to the CCP to do any business with them.
And these are huge issues that people are not been
mentioned anywhere, not even in Republicans absolutely.

Speaker 2 (49:12):
I mean, the elections issues are very strong here in
the state of Michigan. That's why you've seen the RNC
sue Jocelyn Benson, and there's been five lawsuits that she's lost.
I think the most significant is on absentee ballots when
she removed the signature requirement, which makes absolutely no sense.
Why would you do that? And so the signature requirement

(49:35):
was removed in twenty twenty and twenty twenty two, and
that lawsuit was just recently won by the RNC. But
you have to remember that the RNC couldn't get involved
in elections before twenty twenty and that was that lawsuit,
and that ruling was recently changed. And so the RNC
is heavily involved now. And I know that you probably
aren't seeing things every day, but they are fighting it

(49:57):
and we do have to continue to be vigilant because
I've just hearing this story in the last couple of
days that in the primary, Detroit had two thousand more
than two thousand additional poll watchers for Democrats than Republicans.
Not legal, not how it's supposed to be run, and
why is this happening? We have to go back consistently

(50:17):
to this secretary of state. And we have secretaries of
state across this country that are very radical. Remember when
a Democrat says something, they're actually doing it. So when
she says she's fighting for democracy, she's actually breaking the rules.
And you have to be very careful of what she says.
And remember she's saying clearly she's running for governor. She's

(50:38):
been traveling this country with Hillary Clinton. They've been lifting
her up. She's the Katie Hobbes of Michigan secretary of
state running her own election becoming governor. Be careful because
these people change the rules so they can win, and
you shouldn't be allowed. That's why we have to constantly
be vigilant and make sure the RNC is on top
of it, because somebody has to be watching. It's a

(50:59):
shit that you have partisan secretaries of state. It's a shame.
It shouldn't be.

Speaker 3 (51:05):
Yeah, they're the top election official in every state. So
the secretary of state position is extremely powerful. And if
we don't trust our election system, I'm not certain if
we trust anything in this country anymore. My concern has
always been that we can't just make sure that President
Trump wins. He has to win big. He has to
win big so that there is no question on election results.

(51:25):
The other thing is in South Dakota, you have to
vote on election day with an ID. You have to
identify yourself. We only vote on paper ballots. Where we
do vote on machines in a couple of counties. Our
machines are not attached to the Internet at all, and
so we trust our elections in South Dakota. But we
also hold our Secretary of State very accountable. And we

(51:48):
have a problem across the country where we don't have
enough people that are volunteering to be pole watchers. We
don't have enough people who are there willing to make
sure that their elections are written correctly. What I've been
concerned about all year is that they would do what
they did in twenty twenty. Remember when we had that
emergency declaration that happened in the country. It allowed every
governor to decide how to run their elections however they

(52:09):
wanted to. So I was in twenty seven states that
year campaigning for President Trump, and I saw from state
to state how governors decided to run their elections, how
they collected ballots. They maybe were collecting it in drop
boxes they met. Some states in Minnesota was one of them.
They had the unions collecting ballots in parking lots, and
then they didn't have any supervision. Sometimes they would keep

(52:31):
a box full of ballots in the trunk of their
car and not deliver it back to the secretary of
State's office or the auditor's office until the next day,
or they would hold the ballots for two or three days.
There was no accountability, no supervision, no integrity whatsoever. I
had one lady in one state walk up to me
with four different ballots in her hand. She said, listen,
one of them is made out. They mailed them all

(52:52):
to me. One of them is in my maiden name,
one of them is my first married name when I
was married to my first husband, but I got divorced,
one has a middle initial on it has my middle
initial on it, so that one is different as well,
and then the other one's in my new married name.
So she had four ballots that she could vote on
and just mail them back in and all four would
have been counted because the secretary of State had never

(53:12):
cleaned up the voter rules, had never once when she
changed her name, gone back and deleted her other name too,
So that happened in some of the states. So I
always tell people. They always ask me about that election,
and I say, it's not that they cheated, it's that
they didn't do one thing. They did. Everything they did.
Every state was different what they did and how they
did it. And that's what I've been concerned about, is

(53:33):
there'd be another event, another reason for the Democrats, the
White House, this administration, Harris to say, listen, we need
to do an emergency order for something. It could be
a national security reason, it could be another pandemic, it
could be a financial reason. I don't we have learned.
We always say, oh, they'll do anything, and then we're

(53:53):
shocked when they do it, right, don't we We need
to really realize they literally will do anything. Replaced their candidate,
a sitting president, right, didn't they Then they picked the craziest,
most socialist governor in the country, the most radical, extreme
governor who destroyed his state and made him the vice
presidential nomini. So the Democrat Party that used to be

(54:16):
here is now so far left. They've fallen off the page,
they're off the stage. They're clear over living in China.
That's who they've put up and shame on us if
we don't tell the world that they will do anything.
And we have to help open America's eyes so that
they don't do everything to take this election.

Speaker 2 (54:33):
But if you call one coach and you call the
other Mamola, then you're in good shape. I mean, that's
what they think. It's scary.

Speaker 6 (54:41):
Next question, Okay, have a question from Jason. He's looking
for some advice.

Speaker 4 (54:48):
First, I'm a Marine Corps veteran.

Speaker 9 (54:50):
My wife's im ring and my daughters serving in the
Marine Corps right now.

Speaker 8 (54:59):
Eric.

Speaker 9 (55:00):
I say that to say, you're both incredible, awesome women
and we're so proud of you as a family. But
my question is I just won a heavily contested race
for the Michigan State House of Representatives for the fiftieth
district and I want it and it's the seventy thirty district,
so I'm going to be the next Michigan State House
of Representatives for that area. But yeah, So my question

(55:27):
is what advice would you give to get more people
engaged for those that may have a more difficult race,
but getting our voters out, we saw that with this
early voting it hasn't been a success.

Speaker 4 (55:42):
In the state of Michigan.

Speaker 9 (55:44):
As a matter of fact, less people voted in this
primary than the one before.

Speaker 4 (55:48):
So that's my one question.

Speaker 9 (55:49):
Then the other is, outside of obviously the obvious reason
why you're having baby booms in your state, what do
you attribute that to when other states are not having that?

Speaker 4 (56:00):
And thank you and God bless you both.

Speaker 3 (56:02):
Do you want to talk to the advice for him
running his race and helping other shit that it's win.

Speaker 2 (56:07):
First and foremost. Don't read the comments on social media. Yes,
but seriously, I think, I mean to her point earlier,
don't be offended, keep going through. I mean, it's going
to be tough, but you the difference I think between
what I see when we have the RNC Convention as
compared to the DNC Convention is that this is a

(56:29):
heart and soul mission, and sometimes I think it's harder
when it's deep in your soul that you want to
be serving people, and that can make it that can
discourage a lot of people, and I think it's hard
to get people involved from that standpoint. Right now, we
are so viciously attacked. I mean, you've seen for months
they've called Donald Trump a threat, and then of course

(56:52):
when people are called a threat, someone wants to eliminate
the threat, so you end up with a really bad guy.
And boy does that discourage people from running as Republicans
right now? And so I would say, there are so
many people out there that love you, that respect you.
There are people who are afraid to run. And you
have to pray about it, and you have to ask
God if this is what God is calling you to do.

(57:14):
And sometimes it is really easy when God says no,
you're doing this, to be like, nah, I'm good. Trust me,
I've been there. Listen to God, pray, sit with your family.
If so, I will say, when I started running, someone
said pick the ten people you trust the most and
have them on your campaign, and by the end you'll

(57:35):
have five and go into it knowing.

Speaker 4 (57:40):
That, yeah, thank you, I appreciate it.

Speaker 3 (57:42):
That's fantastic. I would just say, continue to be genuine
and normal. And that's why Donald Trump resonates with people
is because he's just normal. He doesn't give a debate
perfect speech or you know, he's himself. I tell people
all the time that that he doesn't think he's better

(58:02):
than anybody else. He really truly doesn't You talk to
anybody who's worked for that man, anybody who's been close
to him. He treats them like gold. He asks about
their families, he asks about how they're doing, how their
business is. He asks them, you know, what he can
do to make their job better if they work for
him anywhere. They love him because he cares about people truly,

(58:22):
and he's normal and he's genuine, and he has his
flaws and that's fine. And when people attack him, he
punches back. So I'd say there might be a time
where you got to punch back and you got to
stand up and show that you're strong. Yep, Yeah, we
have time for two more quest Don't be afraid to
do that, because people do respect strength. They want you

(58:42):
to know that you love people, but they also know
that you're going to be strong enough to withstand the
headwinds that we've got from the media, from the left,
from all this woke that's going on around the country.
You can be strong enough to do that and still
care about people.

Speaker 5 (58:56):
All right, we have time for two more questions, gentlemen here.

Speaker 3 (59:01):
Well, we'll go fast. If you want to ask them fast,
we can do three or four, and I can quit
talking so much.

Speaker 4 (59:06):
I'll be brief.

Speaker 10 (59:08):
Thank you. My name is Tommy. I'm from Acomb County here.
My question is for Governor Christinoum. Governor, what kinds of
things have you seen worked in your state to combat
human trafficking? And keep in mind, obviously in the room here,
everyone here knows that we're a border state, but in
the state of Michigan, we cannot depend on our governor.

(59:29):
So what kinds of things can the populace do to
help combat human trafficking that you have seen work?

Speaker 3 (59:35):
Thank you well, First of all, you have to you
have to call it out where it's happening. It was
very controversial when I pointed out that the cartels and
their affiliates were operating in our tribal lands, because the
only way they can operate there is if somebody in
tribal government gives them protection, right, if somebody on that
tribal council or somebody lets them be there without making

(59:56):
sure that the tribal police are there stopping them. So
it was very controversial in South Dakota when I boldly said, listen,
they are operating trafficking out of our reservations, so be
bold enough to call it out when you see it,
and then educate people what it looks like. A lot
of people don't know what trafficking looks like. It can
be sexual trafficking. It also can be labor. It can

(01:00:19):
look so many different ways. Whether it's children, whether it's adults.
There are so many adult even males that I know,
that have been come out of situations where they were
being trafficked and used, whether it was for labor or
for other purposes in this country. And it's a slavery,
a modern day slavery that happens. And then spend your
time making sure that you're aware and observing every situation

(01:00:42):
that you're in, and that when you see it, that
you take action. We are people who do a lot
of talking. We do a lot of talk, and then
we walk out of this door and we put our
head down and we only worry about our own lives.
I would ask you be people who lift up your chins,
look ahead and look around and see the people around you,
see what's really happening around you, and teach your kids
that too. Teach your kids to be people who I

(01:01:04):
have two girls and a boy. But when Booker was
a little boy, he was four or five years old,
and I could tell from the time he was at
age he was probably going to be a pastor or
a teacher or something because I could. We could walk
into a restaurant when he was four or five years old,
and we would lose him because he was always chatting
with somebody. But he'd be sitting at a table in
the corner with one little old man who was sitting

(01:01:26):
by himself, or he would always be with somebody who
was all by themselves. Knew the kid in class that
didn't have any friends or somebody. But empathy and compassion
is the best thing that you can instill in your children.
I always tell people that if they haven't gone through
anything hard, then that's too bad. That's hard because the
things that my parents gave me by giving us hard

(01:01:47):
things to do, created us to be problem solvers. But
they also when you go through something hard, you have
more compassion for people around you that are going through
challenging things. So stop doing everything for your kids, all right.
You are crippling our children when you do everything for them.
Let them figure it out, let them face some challenges

(01:02:09):
and do that, because you will give them confidence to
take on the next bigger challenge. That they have, and
you'll create them to be problem solvers. They'll figure stuff
out and they'll get more confidence and recognize I guess
I can handle tough stuff.

Speaker 1 (01:02:21):
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Speaker 6 (01:02:29):
All right, one question from Matthew. He has a question
on mental health.

Speaker 2 (01:02:33):
Yeah, what are we going to do to improve mental
health and housing services for people?

Speaker 3 (01:02:37):
And will income inisbuilding because right now it's just horrible.

Speaker 2 (01:02:40):
Yeah, I think in the state of Michigan, we definitely
don't have enough services. We don't have them across the state.
We have a significant issue. Even I mean, as I
traveled across the state, I had so many corrections officers
say to us, we have people that shouldn't be in
the jails. We have people that need mental health help
and we don't have it. And that was there was
an opportunity for the governor to increase one of our

(01:03:01):
facilities and that didn't get increased to the extent that
it should have. So we definitely need to look at
how we can improve that across the state. And also
really there's so many things that need to be done
in Michigan. Even in the jails, we don't have enough
corrections officers. They even asked the governor she could send
in the National Guard and they were declined. So we

(01:03:22):
have a significant problem here in the state of Michigan.
And this is where I think that the collaboration between
Republican governors is so great because I know that as
Republican governors and other states have come across issues, they've
gotten together on calls and even during COVID got together
in calls and said, how do we come around the
people in our states and make it better? So I'll

(01:03:44):
defer to you on what you've done.

Speaker 3 (01:03:46):
No, that's what happens. So people have a mental health
challenge in their lives. A lot of times right now
today they're ending up an emergency room or in jail
right because something has happened in their life and they've
hit a crisis, and they may end up with an
addiction issue or something that puts them in one of
those twesday and neither one of them is appropriate for
that situation. So we in our state in the last

(01:04:07):
couple of years, have built and funded five crisis care
centers regionally across our state. That's a short term when
somebody's in a crisis situation. They come into that crisis
care center and we detox them, we start the counseling process,
and we start the referrals to getting them a support
system and counseling services that they need. It's made all
the difference in the world. And we've engaged our churches

(01:04:28):
because so many times people ask the government to do
things that churches and people should be doing. They ask
people to walk alongside people, and they ask the government
to raise our children. They ask the government to educate
our children. They ask the government to feed people, and
so much of that. And the responsibility for being a
community is the community, the churches, the faith organizations that

(01:04:52):
we were created to serve each other. And that's a
point of it. The one thing that I would say
about the situation that we have going on is that
in South Dakota, we have just developed and it'll be
coming out the next couple of weeks in our elementary
schools a resiliency program. We're going to teach our kids
how to have resiliency from the time that they're elementary

(01:05:13):
students and is it's an amazing curriculum that we will
give free of charge to all of our school districts
if the counselors and the elementary teachers want to use it.
But it's called South Dakota's Sturdy and it's using our
historical figures to teach them about how they took hard
things in their life challenges and use them to be
stronger and to have the resiliency and to make decisions

(01:05:35):
better and to do it because a lot of times
we're asking parents right now to be parents that never
had good parents. They don't know what it's like to
be a good parent because they never had one, and
somebody's got to give them an example. And that's what
this curriculum will do. We start with We start with
Teddy Roosevelt, who you all know the challenges Teddy Roosevelt

(01:05:56):
went through goodness sakes, the man was sick and then
lost his wife and his mother on the same day
and decided he was going to change his life. But
some of those skill sets we can build into our
children too. How about one more? Okay, grand fine, oh,
no pressure, that looks fantastic.

Speaker 11 (01:06:14):
Thank you ladies for coming to Detroit, to the area,
because this doesn't count as Detroit, whether you know it
or not. A'm Minister Burial Aupman. I am a candidate
for House District seven here in Michigan, that is Detroit,
Highland Park and ham Trammick. And one of the things
I think about, because the governor just said it, was

(01:06:37):
that President Trump was able to connect with a lot
of people by his authenticity. And in Detroit right now,
it's just it's hard to get help with the election.
It's hard to get help with money, resources, anything. Most
people consider Detroit an unwinnable district for a conservative. So

(01:06:58):
that's the mentality of most of our leadership now. Before
Pete Holkster came and was voted in as Charita Party,
Detroit absolutely got no focus, absolutely nothing. But to Ambassador
Holster's credit, he has done what he can. But he's
only one guy. He's only one guy, and we need money.

(01:07:23):
I have credibility in Detroit. I'm connected in Detroit. I've
been in trouble with the law. I've turned my life around.
I've been I'm a businessman. I've had some success, I have.

Speaker 4 (01:07:35):
Some educational success. I need help with money.

Speaker 11 (01:07:40):
I couldn't go to a good, a good event last
night because of the ticket price. I just couldn't afford
to go because I'm spending all of my money on
my campaign stuff. It's all coming out of my pocket,
and I wanted to thank you. I wanted to ask
you if you guys can be of any help in
that regard get money to candidates who have districts in Detroit.

(01:08:05):
The second thing, I really hope that we get a
chance to follow up because this is what I'm also.
One of the problems I'm finding, and one of the
things I think hurts the credibility of the candidates is
getting access to him. God gives you a card at
a function, you call the number.

Speaker 3 (01:08:26):
He never answers, never returns.

Speaker 11 (01:08:28):
The call, never, never any of that. I'm going to
ask for contact information from you guys at the end
of this so I can follow up with you.

Speaker 4 (01:08:35):
Please.

Speaker 3 (01:08:35):
So what are you running for? You're running for.

Speaker 11 (01:08:38):
House of Representatives, House of Representatives District seven and I'm
buried at all Altman h And one more thing, because
you didn't make the checkout to you may go to
elect Barry Alman. That's who you are. Elect Barry Allman.

(01:08:58):
That is the name my campaign. Detroit is the poorest
city in the country. It's hard to even get volunteer
help because everybody there is in survival mode.

Speaker 4 (01:09:09):
It's hard to get help.

Speaker 11 (01:09:11):
I need money, that's what and I got pledged cards
if anybody wants.

Speaker 3 (01:09:17):
I gotta tell you the hardest part. You can clap
for you and me put his name on about it.
That's hard. I tell people, the hardest part of this
job is asking people for their money, because you know
how hard they work for it, and you know that
they have other responsibilities, other things they have to take overs.
I always tell people every time I go in and

(01:09:38):
have to ask them. I also know I can't win
with If I'm running for office, you can't win unless
you have the resources because you've got to fight the media.
You're not going to have them telling your story. You're
going to have to have the resources to tell the
truth to people. So I always tell them, listen, I
hate asking for your money. I also know I can't
win without it. But I promise you this, I will

(01:09:58):
be a good investment. And that's that's one thing that
I'd encourage Berry to say, is say I will be
a good investment. What I tell you I am today.
When I win, I will be exactly what I said
I would be. I will I will go there, I
will learn, I will do the research, I will work hard,
and I will be a good investment. And people appreciate
that because they know that you recognize that their dollars
they work hard for and that they're trusting you to

(01:10:20):
be a good steward of it.

Speaker 2 (01:10:22):
Yeah, And I would just say that I think that
Republicans are changing the way they're looking at things. You know,
we've historically been told you're not welcome hearing, not welcome here.
And I will say that when I was running, we
had an event and some gentlemen came from Dearborn and
they said, you know, we were told that if we
came to this event, we would be kicked out. And
they said, but then we sat here and we heard

(01:10:43):
a lot of things that mean something to our community.
And I think that's it's a shame on us, but
it's also a new world where we are realizing that
it's time for us to reach everybody. It's time for
us to go the places that everybody told us, well,
you'll never be accepted there. And I'm so glad that
you're doing this. I mean, it means so much to
us that you are stepping up and doing this and

(01:11:06):
that falls on all of us who have run before
to answer your call, and I mean it, to answer
your call and say we know someone. I know someone,
Let me help you, let me introduce you, let me
move you along. Because this is a group effort. And
the Democrats do it. They don't lack for money, and

(01:11:26):
they have like a pile. I think they do have
a money tree, Like where does this money tree grow
for the Democrats? Apparently somewhere in Soro's land. But we
need to step up. So that's on us, and I
will answer your call. I think that anytime any community

(01:11:52):
that you live in, you have to be involved in
your community. And one of the things that I've heard
when you talk about schools, one of the things that
I've heard about parents, and I think this is very encouraging,
is that when parents go to their local school and
they say, hey, you know what, I don't love this,
their teachers are like, let's work it out, so we don't.
And to your point of not being angry all the time,
not being automatically offended, and assuming everybody is against you

(01:12:14):
and there's a right and a wrong, sit down and
talk about it, find out the story. It happens. It's
locally is the most important. That's where everything happens in
your life and your heart with your kids.

Speaker 11 (01:12:25):
So it is.

Speaker 2 (01:12:25):
Important to get involved locally. Now, I would say that
a prayer group is also so important because one of
the consistent messages that I heard over the last week
was that the Democrat Party is inclusive unless you're Christian,
and so we need to we need to be prepared
for the attack against Christians, and we need to we
need to make sure that we're all praying for one another.

Speaker 3 (01:12:48):
And the world is still moved by people who show up,
So just show up. The fact that you show up
at all those meetings is powerful. Bring a friend with
you the next time. Listen. When I ran for governor,
I wasn't supposed to win. People don't know this about
South Dakota. Everybody thinks it's so conservative, it's really populist.
When I won governor, I only won by three points

(01:13:08):
against a guy who was a Bernie Sanders guy. Yes,
so nobody really knows how tough of a race that was.
And it was hard. He was a cowboy who'd had
a tragic accident, was in a wheelchair and talked like
he was a conservative. But that was like a knife
fight in a ditch. A big factor in South Dakota
was that I was a woman. South Dakota was not

(01:13:29):
ready to see a woman. They were okay electing them
to office and sending them to Congress, but they weren't
quite ready for a woman to be the CEO, to
be the boss of the state. And so that was
a huge factor in my polling. And so I ran
on building stronger families and growing our state. Our state
was dying, people were leaving, and I didn't really think
about being a woman. I never talked about it until

(01:13:49):
the day I was being sworn in. It was my
inauguration and there was hundreds and hundreds and maybe thousands
of people filling the Capitol building, and all the balconies
were filled with people. And then when the ceremony started,
they started to talk about how historical this event was.
And it was historical because I was being sworn in
as the first female governor of the state on the

(01:14:11):
one hundredth anniversary of women getting the right to vote
in our state, and all the songs were picked out
to honor that occasion. All the previous speakers talked about that,
and I was standing there thinking, man, this is a
big deal. And I got really nervous, and I thought

(01:14:33):
I better not screw this up.

Speaker 4 (01:14:34):
You know.

Speaker 3 (01:14:34):
I was like, this is going to be in a
history book somewhere someday, and I better make sure that
I do a good job. And as I was getting
sworn in, and I had my hand on my dad's Bible,
and I was thinking, you know, how am I going
to do this. It was for the first time I thought,
I don't know if I can do this. And I
remember I made two promises, and one was to uphold
the constitution of the State of South Dakota and the
second one was to uphold the Constitution of the United

(01:14:56):
States of America. Two promises, and I thought to myself, well,
I can do that. I can too promises. That's not
hard at all. So that's from day one. I have
a form that everyone in my staff has to fill
out on every idea they bring to me, every bill,
and it's the first The first thing is when it's
this bill, this idea, this change we're going to do,

(01:15:17):
our first question is is this constitutional? Do I have
the authority to do this? Why do I not have
the authority to do this? What happens if this bill
becomes law, what happens if it doesn't become law? And
the last question is what does this mean to our
next generation? I don't want people thinking about what happens
in six months for the political purposes. What happens twenty
years from now if we do this, what happens? What

(01:15:38):
do we open the door to? What's the precedent we
sent in court cases? If this gets challenged? You know
what is I want people thinking long term. The question
and the problem is is that we don't have a
president in the White House that respects the Constitution, that
gets up in the morning and says, is this constitutional?
Do I have this authority? President Trump did? He did.
He followed the Constitution, and he said during the pandemic,

(01:16:02):
during everything that I brought to him that I asked
him to let me do, he would recognize, Yes, Christy,
go make the best decisions for your people. Go make
that is not my authority to do that. This is
your authority to do that. That's what we need in
the White House. Again, That's why we need him back.
Heat respects our history, respects our country, and you lose
perspective if you're somebody who doesn't appreciate the Constitution and

(01:16:24):
follow it that way. That is what we need to
get back in the White House. And that's why we
need President Donald J. Trump back, so that we can
respect our constitution and make sure the states have the
power the.

Speaker 2 (01:16:34):
Federal government doesn't have the power. I want to tell
you all, we are so grateful that you're here. I mean,
think about this, Look at this room. This on a
Friday night, and I know we have a convention tomorrow,
so I know a lot of you are giving up
your Friday night to be here. This is meaningful, This

(01:16:56):
is from the heart. So again, we don't be offended.
Talk about it, have a hug, hug it out. And
my kids watch trolls all the time. It's hug time,
so make sure you make time for hug time. And
let's say thank you to this wonderful lady, the governor
of South Dakota, who came here to talk to us.

Speaker 3 (01:17:21):
We are so grateful to you.

Speaker 2 (01:17:23):
But we are so grateful to you, and I hope
that it's okay that I speak for these people. We
are so grateful that you came and shared this story
with us because you were very vulnerable. You told us
about your state. And I think that so many of
us need to hear what success looks like because we
haven't seen it in a very long time. But it
gives us all hope. And I think right now we're
living on fumes of hope and we know that that

(01:17:45):
comes in every one of us stepping up. So thank
you for stepping up, and thank you for being here.

Speaker 3 (01:17:50):
Go be happy, go talk to people. Thank you, Thank
you all for being here. On the Tutor Dixon Podcast.

Speaker 2 (01:17:55):
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