May 21, 2025 • 18 mins
Nate Morris grew up in a union household led by his single mom. He tells his life story and why he now considers himself the best candidate to replace Mitch McConnell in the U.S. Senate.
We discussed Mr. Morris' relationship with Vice President J D Vance, his allegiance to President Donald Trump, and how the "big, beautiful bill" will impact America.
Does he need a Trump endorsement to win?
When asked about competition from Rep. Andy Barr and former Attorney General Daniel Cameron, Mr. Morris said "The career politician is now a hunted species."
Listen to the full interview. Apologies for a few garbled passages. Technical issue.
We discussed Mr. Morris' relationship with Vice President J D Vance, his allegiance to President Donald Trump, and how the "big, beautiful bill" will impact America.
Does he need a Trump endorsement to win?
When asked about competition from Rep. Andy Barr and former Attorney General Daniel Cameron, Mr. Morris said "The career politician is now a hunted species."
Listen to the full interview. Apologies for a few garbled passages. Technical issue.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Joining me in the studio this afternoon is Nate Morris.
He is a presumptive candidate for the United States Senates.
How you trying to promote this interview talking about Senator
Mitch McConnell, saying, quote, he's had a stranglehold on Kentucky
politics and no one has had the courage to stand
(00:21):
up and say enough is enough. I'm willing to take
it to him and as people like nobody has ever seen. Well,
that's a nice how toy do, Nate Morris, Good to
see you.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Good to see you, Terry.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
We'll get into politics here, and just to say hi
to you. At first, you and I met a few
weeks ago at a gathering, met you and your wife.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Yeah, by the way of are your parents yet? You know,
we've got a little boy. He's going to be here
in two months, so he's due at the end of July,
so we're e static.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
What I took away from the conversation we had is
that you and your wife are both entrepreneurs and innovators,
and that's kind of a life. You're a Louisville guy.
You were raised here.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
I was born in Lexington, I grew up right here
in Louisville. Started in South Louisville and ended up going
to Eastern High School. But it was just me and
my mom, raised by a single mother. All my family
were ford workers, So I come out of the Union
household and very proud of that, and I think that
that's obviously there's a little American worker today in the economy.
(01:23):
And I lived at firsthand growing up, and I was
really fortunate. I had great teachers and coaches and people
that helped me through the years, and my mother gave
me a very strong faith. I grew up going to
Southeast Christian Church, was baptized there. So Louisville has been
a really terrific place for me. Proud alumnus of Eastern
High School as well.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
If you don't mind, I'm just going to work on
the bar running for the United States Center. Even though
you have not so declared well, stay tuned, Terry, Okay,
stay tuned, stay too. We say that a lot in
this business.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Stay tuned.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
I read all of your business. You've been through so
many different phases in your business, and you've had a
heck of a lot of success in your life. That
puts you in a pretty strong position right now. But
no one's going to be able to accuse you of
from the life you just described.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Look, Terry, we struggled like many Kentucky families. I mean
my mom and I. We run food stamps in my
early years. We've had our own sets of challenges, financial challenges,
health challenges, and look, nobody gave us anything, and we've
been fighting, like most Kentuckians for everything we have. And
(02:34):
as you start talking about the US Senate and you
start talking about who is going to fill this spot
that's been as I pointed out, how a stranglehold on
the seat for forty years. We need someone who's a fighter.
We need someone who's in touch with the struggles and
the challenges that everyday Kentuckians have had, particularly the American
(02:55):
worker and the single mothers, people like my family.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
There are already announced that they're running for that role
at Senator McConnell's giving up. That will be the former
Attorney General Daniel Cameron, and the current representative from the
Lexington area District six, and that's Andy Barr, and they're
both in that Why are you the best Canada of
those three?
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Look, Terry, I started looking at this race because obviously
as we talked about the Vice president's a dear friend
to look at the seat last year and start taking
a look at this. And obviously, as I started doing
my own homework and started doing my own research and
due diligence, you know, I started looking at the people
(03:34):
that may fill this seat. And these are puppets for
Mitch McConnell, and they're gonna be no different than what
we've had the last forty years. This is the America
Last Agenda, this is buy it to President Trump. And
the two guys that are in this race, they're going
to be no different than Mitch, his cronies, his people
(03:54):
are going to latch on if they were to win
either one of them, go to Washington with them and
ride them for as long as they can, to make
money with them, and to continue to lobby them and
put their friends in business. And look, I think it's
time that we have an outsider businessman, someone who's not
a career politician. And that's what I found so inspiring
(04:17):
about President Trump and JD is that these guys come
from the outside. They don't owe anybody anything. They're not
in it for the money, They're not in it other
than to make an impact for the American worker and
to get this country back on track, because look, these
career politicians, they've practically driven us off a cliff. I mean,
(04:38):
Mitch McConnell presiding over thirty seven trillion dollars of debt,
a disastrous Iraq war that left a generation of veterans
scarred and their family scarred. We have no answers for
them as to why we were actually there. We have
things like the Ukraine War that Mitch McConnell's continued to
back up the truck in the Great Financial Crisis. I mean,
(05:02):
it's hard to point to anything that Mitch McConnell's been
a part of to say we need more of that.
This has been an absolute disaster, and that's why we've
got to break from this kind of leadership. The career politician,
and as I told you Terry before we got started,
the career politician is now a hunted species in Washington,
d C. Trump has got on the scene.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Do you need a Donald Trump endorsement? Does the winning
Canada have to have a Donald Trump endorsement to win
this Senate seat in Kentucky.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Look, I believe it's really clear whoever the president endorses
will be the next senator from Kentucky.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Have you met President Trump. I have.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
I had the good fortune of meeting him through the
Vice President. He introduced me to President. We had a
terrific conversation about Kentucky and obviously the business world and
mutual friends that we've had through the years. But I
was really taken with the President and his vision for
America and certainly the impact that he's having here on Kentucky.
(06:00):
This is Trump Country, and I think Kentuckians now see
for the first time, maybe in generations, that we have
a president that's dream that's not working to outsource their jobs,
send them to Mexico, not working to put more taxes
on them, or make their life harder, or become a
nanny state to them like we've seen during the times
(06:22):
of COVID, but actually helping them live the American dream.
And I think that's why every Kentuckian gets excited for
this president. I think he does.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Here we're speaking with Nate Morris. That's his website, his
name Nate Morris dot com. That was a good get.
Donald Trump has posed for photos with Daniel Cameron. I
think they were holding a baseball bat or something or
other I don't remember in the Oval office during his
first term. He has made a comment to Andy Barr
not long ago, I'm hearing good things. But he hasn't
(06:51):
made an endorsement in this race. So that wound jewel
though asn't it is to get his attention.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Look again, I think the president, he has decided in many,
many races, almost every race in the United States, Republican races,
who wins. And I think that's a testament to his strength.
I think that's a testament to his political brand and
most importantly, the results that he's getting every day for
the country.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Well, he and one of them all. I mean the
people in Georgia, the Republican Party.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Well, and certainly you know, we had a big miss
here in the governor's race. We had a major opportunity.
I think that we squandered and that that should have
been in the win column for us. But I think, look,
candidate quality matters, candidate strength matters, work ethic matters, and
ability to get out there and fight and scrap. Introduce
(07:43):
yourself to every Kentuckian and show them you've got the
grit that you're going to be the fighter that they
need when you get to higher office.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
What are your feelings on the Big Beautiful Bill that's
being debated in Washington today.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Look, I think it's I think it's terrific. I think
this is promises captain promises delivered that Trump We're going
to get this done. I feel confident the Congress will
come around and make sure this thing happens. But I
think this is what the President ran on, and I
think that this is the results of the American people wanted.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
You mentioned the governor a few minutes ago or in
generic terms, but our governor is Andy Basheer and on.
He put out a video a few hours ago that said,
the so called Big Beautiful Bill is anything but cutting Medicaid,
leaving millions without health care, to snap cuts which will
cause more hunger. This bill will hurt Americans. Is Andy correct?
Speaker 2 (08:36):
You know Terry's as long history of telling tall tales
over and over again, and his holier than thou attitude
about these kind of issues. It's just shocking to me. Look,
the President made it abundantly clear yesterday. He said, don't
f around with Medicaid. And I take the President at
(08:56):
his word, and I believe that to be the truth,
and I know that that's what's going to happen. And
you know, again, I mean, this is rich coming from
this guy. This guy's the definition of a career politician
and continues to whine and scream about every little thing
when he doesn't get his way. And I think it's
going to be very telling when he gets on the
national stage what happens.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
He's not the only Democrat though, that's saying they're cutting Medicaid,
even though Republicans are saying they're not. We're hearing from
Democrats all across the country who are saying this situation,
poor people are going to be stranded, left in the cold.
That's not a new hymnal they're singing out of. It's
an old verse they're using. But it is scaring a
lot of people. So is it untrue from the way
(09:39):
you read the big beautiful bill that's being debated.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Yeah. Absolutely. I mean the President made it abundantly clear
not to touch Medicaid, and I know every Kentuckian about that,
and I believe the President and I know that that
to be the truth. And look, I think when the
Demostocrats try to scare us, that means we're win that's
the only thing they have, and that's a testament to
(10:04):
the success I believe the President Trump is having and
the impact that we're having with this legislation.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
What are your feelings on the acceptance of the four
hundred million dollar jet from Cutter.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Look, again, I think this is President Trump one oh one.
If somebody gives you something, you take it. And they
gave us a very big thing to our military and
to the President, and I think it's it's a good
deal for America. It saves us money so we don't
have to buy a point ourselves.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
A lot of Republicans will say this cross is a
line here, This is they're going to ask for something.
If they're not asking now, they're going to ask later.
And others said, well, we took those statue of liberated
It's like, yeah, that's apples and oranges.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Well, look, we've sent them enough money terry over the
years that it's about time we got something in return.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
A lot of people feel like President Trump's border policies
are too harsh, and then others will point to the
fact that, yeah, a lot of times people have drifted
over the border and then shipped to places like Martha's
vineyard and immediately ushered off the island because the liberals
who live there don't really want it in their backyard.
(11:12):
So we have this push pull with the border crossing issue.
Do you think that President Trump's vision with more wall
and the ejection and sending off people to Argentinian prisons.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
Look, Terry, we're in a crisis right now. Our country
has been invaded by illegals. We cannot do enough to
secure the border. We've got twenty million people who came
here illegally. They're taking American jobs, They're jeopardizing our safety,
they're bringing in drugs, and not only is our safety threatened,
(11:49):
but we're going to lose our economy to these illegals
as well. And I think there's nothing that we can't
do enough of to support the president and support these
efforts to keep this border strong, because that is the
epitome of a crisis that we have right here in
our country. We got to take care of at all costs.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
The President's foreign policy issues, like today he hosted the
President of South Africa and then surprised him with videos
of people singing about kill the white eye or kill
the boar, And some of this seems kind of ham fisted.
I mean, it's rough shod foreign policy, but you're happy
with the tact that the president is taking in terms
of talking to various leaders around the world and sometimes
(12:32):
in very dismissive ways.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Look, I think it's time that we got tough with
the rest of the world. We haven't been tough enough
on the people that we've supplied all this aid, all
this money. They've been ripping off the American worker for generations,
taken our jobs, and we've got nothing in return. So
I think this tone in rhetoric is appropriate given that
(12:57):
President Trump is fighting for America. You know, we have
to take take care of our own first, and we
can worry about the rest of the world when we
get our house in order. But our house is far
from getting in order, and we got a long way
to go until we get it right. We need to
focus on America period.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
If you are to run for Senate, what does the
Commonwealth of Kentucky need? Where are we behind? Even though
Mitch McConnell and Ran Paul are the current senators, and
you know Mitch mcconnald's going out, somebody's going to take
that seat. What would that person need to do to
bolster Kentucky's position, which, frankly, we're going to lose some
power to have a person like McConnell's step aside just
(13:36):
his years and various capacities, as as as he said,
given Kentucky the right to punch above its weight and
bring more money and so forth. How does this next
senator move us back to that power position.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Well, look, I think Kentuckians are beyond fatigued with Mitch McConnell.
You know, Terry, I travel around quite a bit around
Kentucky and have conversations with Kentucky Buckians all over. And
the number one issue is Mitch McConnell's got to go.
He's been there long enough, he's overstayed and no one
(14:09):
can really figure out what he's been for. You know,
until he got to leadership, the issue that defined Mitch
McConnell was injecting more money into politics, the whole fight
against campaign finance reform with John McCain. That was his
sole issue for existence. That's where he got the name
Darth Vader, and that's where to go crazy. And you
(14:31):
know some conservatives used to go crazy. And you know,
he made a lot of Hay with that, But there
was never anything that Mitch McConnell was for that I
can say this made a lot of sense again, presiding
over thirty seven trillion dollars of debt, presiding over the
Iraq War, presiding over the economic failures of this country,
presiding over a porous border, and Terry. We got to
(14:52):
have somebody who's a complete changed Mitch McConnell. We've got
to have somebody who's not a career politician, someone who
can come from the outside, and someone that is aligned
with President Trump and not going to sabotage his agenda.
You know, the first thing that we had to deal
with this Kentuckians was listening to Mitch McConnell op post
President Trump. I mean, what an unbelievable mandate that President
(15:16):
Trump got right here in Kentucky. And the first thing
that Mitch McConnell does is he votes and tries to
sabotage the president. And that's not the will of Kentucky.
That's not what Kentucky voted for.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
But he's that's in office, and Mitch McConnell, when you
look at the Supreme Court, you kind of go, oh no,
that's a hot cup of coffee in the lap of liberals.
They can't stand the makeup of the Supreme Court, and
Mitch was of sherpa guide for several of those justices
in there. You don't agree with that.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Look, what I would say is the McConnell inc apparatus.
They had to find a legacy, and I think they've
created this narrative around the courts. Those are the Trump courts.
Without President Trump, we would not have this court we
have today. And McConnell can talk credit to be the
master architect. But at the end of the day, that
(16:07):
is Trump's court, and you don't get brownie points for
doing your job. He did the job that he was
supposed to do. You know, when you get elected to
the Senate Advise and consent, you appoint people to positions,
you get people in positions. That's part of the role.
And he was doing his job, and so you don't
get extra points for doing that because my granddad say,
(16:28):
you got paid to do it too, So to be enough, right.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
All right, Last thing for you, why I circle right
back to this, Why are you better than the other
two named candidates on the Republican side for this seat
that'll come open in twenty twenty six elections.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
Well, look, Terry, I go back to why I first
started looking at this race, and we have two Mitch
McConnell puppets. We cannot afford another forty years of Mitch
McConnell holding the seat. We need something different. We need
someone from the outside, someone who's not a career politician,
not afraid the shape things up and stand with President Trump,
(17:02):
and somebody that's met a payroll, someone that's had a
job outside of politics. These two guys that are in
the race right now, they've never worked outside of government,
never met a payroll, and they owe everything to Mitch McConnell.
They owe their careers to Mitch McConnell. And so to
think that it's going to be any different if those
guys are elected as a fool's Errand so, look, I
(17:23):
want to fight for families like mine, working class families,
the American worker, the single mothers, and the people that
want to live the dream. I'm an entrepreneur. I started
company with ten thousand dollars on a credit card. I
took it public at two billion dollars on the New
York Stock Exchange. That could only happen in America. I
want every Kentuckian to have access to that American dream,
(17:45):
and I know I can bring that to Washington. If
I got in this race, it should.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
Be no chance. And you said I'm in this because
I listened to words.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
Maybe a Freudan slip.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
Do you have the money to get this done? I
know I've read your business, this record. I know there's
been bounces in and out of that, but it takes
national money as well.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
Look in every endeavor I've been involved with, I've always
been well financed, even when I had no money. So
I'm not worried about that. If if the timing's right,
you're a quality candidate, the funding is going to be there.
And anyone who says the contrary doesn't know politics.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
Nate Morris, potential candidate for US Senate. Great to talk
to you, Thank you, Terry. Great to be with you.
He's online at Natemorris dot com. Back in a few
on NewsRadio Wave forty whas
Joining me in the studio this afternoon is Nate Morris.
He is a presumptive candidate for the United States Senates.
How you trying to promote this interview talking about Senator
Mitch McConnell, saying, quote, he's had a stranglehold on Kentucky
politics and no one has had the courage to stand
(00:21):
up and say enough is enough. I'm willing to take
it to him and as people like nobody has ever seen. Well,
that's a nice how toy do, Nate Morris, Good to
see you.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Good to see you, Terry.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
We'll get into politics here, and just to say hi
to you. At first, you and I met a few
weeks ago at a gathering, met you and your wife.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Yeah, by the way of are your parents yet? You know,
we've got a little boy. He's going to be here
in two months, so he's due at the end of July,
so we're e static.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
What I took away from the conversation we had is
that you and your wife are both entrepreneurs and innovators,
and that's kind of a life. You're a Louisville guy.
You were raised here.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
I was born in Lexington, I grew up right here
in Louisville. Started in South Louisville and ended up going
to Eastern High School. But it was just me and
my mom, raised by a single mother. All my family
were ford workers, So I come out of the Union
household and very proud of that, and I think that
that's obviously there's a little American worker today in the economy.
(01:23):
And I lived at firsthand growing up, and I was
really fortunate. I had great teachers and coaches and people
that helped me through the years, and my mother gave
me a very strong faith. I grew up going to
Southeast Christian Church, was baptized there. So Louisville has been
a really terrific place for me. Proud alumnus of Eastern
High School as well.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
If you don't mind, I'm just going to work on
the bar running for the United States Center. Even though
you have not so declared well, stay tuned, Terry, Okay,
stay tuned, stay too. We say that a lot in
this business.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Stay tuned.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
I read all of your business. You've been through so
many different phases in your business, and you've had a
heck of a lot of success in your life. That
puts you in a pretty strong position right now. But
no one's going to be able to accuse you of
from the life you just described.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Look, Terry, we struggled like many Kentucky families. I mean
my mom and I. We run food stamps in my
early years. We've had our own sets of challenges, financial challenges,
health challenges, and look, nobody gave us anything, and we've
been fighting, like most Kentuckians for everything we have. And
(02:34):
as you start talking about the US Senate and you
start talking about who is going to fill this spot
that's been as I pointed out, how a stranglehold on
the seat for forty years. We need someone who's a fighter.
We need someone who's in touch with the struggles and
the challenges that everyday Kentuckians have had, particularly the American
(02:55):
worker and the single mothers, people like my family.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
There are already announced that they're running for that role
at Senator McConnell's giving up. That will be the former
Attorney General Daniel Cameron, and the current representative from the
Lexington area District six, and that's Andy Barr, and they're
both in that Why are you the best Canada of
those three?
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Look, Terry, I started looking at this race because obviously
as we talked about the Vice president's a dear friend
to look at the seat last year and start taking
a look at this. And obviously, as I started doing
my own homework and started doing my own research and
due diligence, you know, I started looking at the people
(03:34):
that may fill this seat. And these are puppets for
Mitch McConnell, and they're gonna be no different than what
we've had the last forty years. This is the America
Last Agenda, this is buy it to President Trump. And
the two guys that are in this race, they're going
to be no different than Mitch, his cronies, his people
(03:54):
are going to latch on if they were to win
either one of them, go to Washington with them and
ride them for as long as they can, to make
money with them, and to continue to lobby them and
put their friends in business. And look, I think it's
time that we have an outsider businessman, someone who's not
a career politician. And that's what I found so inspiring
(04:17):
about President Trump and JD is that these guys come
from the outside. They don't owe anybody anything. They're not
in it for the money, They're not in it other
than to make an impact for the American worker and
to get this country back on track, because look, these
career politicians, they've practically driven us off a cliff. I mean,
(04:38):
Mitch McConnell presiding over thirty seven trillion dollars of debt,
a disastrous Iraq war that left a generation of veterans
scarred and their family scarred. We have no answers for
them as to why we were actually there. We have
things like the Ukraine War that Mitch McConnell's continued to
back up the truck in the Great Financial Crisis. I mean,
(05:02):
it's hard to point to anything that Mitch McConnell's been
a part of to say we need more of that.
This has been an absolute disaster, and that's why we've
got to break from this kind of leadership. The career politician,
and as I told you Terry before we got started,
the career politician is now a hunted species in Washington,
d C. Trump has got on the scene.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Do you need a Donald Trump endorsement? Does the winning
Canada have to have a Donald Trump endorsement to win
this Senate seat in Kentucky.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Look, I believe it's really clear whoever the president endorses
will be the next senator from Kentucky.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Have you met President Trump. I have.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
I had the good fortune of meeting him through the
Vice President. He introduced me to President. We had a
terrific conversation about Kentucky and obviously the business world and
mutual friends that we've had through the years. But I
was really taken with the President and his vision for
America and certainly the impact that he's having here on Kentucky.
(06:00):
This is Trump Country, and I think Kentuckians now see
for the first time, maybe in generations, that we have
a president that's dream that's not working to outsource their jobs,
send them to Mexico, not working to put more taxes
on them, or make their life harder, or become a
nanny state to them like we've seen during the times
(06:22):
of COVID, but actually helping them live the American dream.
And I think that's why every Kentuckian gets excited for
this president. I think he does.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Here we're speaking with Nate Morris. That's his website, his
name Nate Morris dot com. That was a good get.
Donald Trump has posed for photos with Daniel Cameron. I
think they were holding a baseball bat or something or
other I don't remember in the Oval office during his
first term. He has made a comment to Andy Barr
not long ago, I'm hearing good things. But he hasn't
(06:51):
made an endorsement in this race. So that wound jewel
though asn't it is to get his attention.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Look again, I think the president, he has decided in many,
many races, almost every race in the United States, Republican races,
who wins. And I think that's a testament to his strength.
I think that's a testament to his political brand and
most importantly, the results that he's getting every day for
the country.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Well, he and one of them all. I mean the
people in Georgia, the Republican Party.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Well, and certainly you know, we had a big miss
here in the governor's race. We had a major opportunity.
I think that we squandered and that that should have
been in the win column for us. But I think, look,
candidate quality matters, candidate strength matters, work ethic matters, and
ability to get out there and fight and scrap. Introduce
(07:43):
yourself to every Kentuckian and show them you've got the
grit that you're going to be the fighter that they
need when you get to higher office.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
What are your feelings on the Big Beautiful Bill that's
being debated in Washington today.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Look, I think it's I think it's terrific. I think
this is promises captain promises delivered that Trump We're going
to get this done. I feel confident the Congress will
come around and make sure this thing happens. But I
think this is what the President ran on, and I
think that this is the results of the American people wanted.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
You mentioned the governor a few minutes ago or in
generic terms, but our governor is Andy Basheer and on.
He put out a video a few hours ago that said,
the so called Big Beautiful Bill is anything but cutting Medicaid,
leaving millions without health care, to snap cuts which will
cause more hunger. This bill will hurt Americans. Is Andy correct?
Speaker 2 (08:36):
You know Terry's as long history of telling tall tales
over and over again, and his holier than thou attitude
about these kind of issues. It's just shocking to me. Look,
the President made it abundantly clear yesterday. He said, don't
f around with Medicaid. And I take the President at
(08:56):
his word, and I believe that to be the truth,
and I know that that's what's going to happen. And
you know, again, I mean, this is rich coming from
this guy. This guy's the definition of a career politician
and continues to whine and scream about every little thing
when he doesn't get his way. And I think it's
going to be very telling when he gets on the
national stage what happens.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
He's not the only Democrat though, that's saying they're cutting Medicaid,
even though Republicans are saying they're not. We're hearing from
Democrats all across the country who are saying this situation,
poor people are going to be stranded, left in the cold.
That's not a new hymnal they're singing out of. It's
an old verse they're using. But it is scaring a
lot of people. So is it untrue from the way
(09:39):
you read the big beautiful bill that's being debated.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Yeah. Absolutely. I mean the President made it abundantly clear
not to touch Medicaid, and I know every Kentuckian about that,
and I believe the President and I know that that
to be the truth. And look, I think when the
Demostocrats try to scare us, that means we're win that's
the only thing they have, and that's a testament to
(10:04):
the success I believe the President Trump is having and
the impact that we're having with this legislation.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
What are your feelings on the acceptance of the four
hundred million dollar jet from Cutter.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Look, again, I think this is President Trump one oh one.
If somebody gives you something, you take it. And they
gave us a very big thing to our military and
to the President, and I think it's it's a good
deal for America. It saves us money so we don't
have to buy a point ourselves.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
A lot of Republicans will say this cross is a
line here, This is they're going to ask for something.
If they're not asking now, they're going to ask later.
And others said, well, we took those statue of liberated
It's like, yeah, that's apples and oranges.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Well, look, we've sent them enough money terry over the
years that it's about time we got something in return.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
A lot of people feel like President Trump's border policies
are too harsh, and then others will point to the
fact that, yeah, a lot of times people have drifted
over the border and then shipped to places like Martha's
vineyard and immediately ushered off the island because the liberals
who live there don't really want it in their backyard.
(11:12):
So we have this push pull with the border crossing issue.
Do you think that President Trump's vision with more wall
and the ejection and sending off people to Argentinian prisons.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
Look, Terry, we're in a crisis right now. Our country
has been invaded by illegals. We cannot do enough to
secure the border. We've got twenty million people who came
here illegally. They're taking American jobs, They're jeopardizing our safety,
they're bringing in drugs, and not only is our safety threatened,
(11:49):
but we're going to lose our economy to these illegals
as well. And I think there's nothing that we can't
do enough of to support the president and support these
efforts to keep this border strong, because that is the
epitome of a crisis that we have right here in
our country. We got to take care of at all costs.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
The President's foreign policy issues, like today he hosted the
President of South Africa and then surprised him with videos
of people singing about kill the white eye or kill
the boar, And some of this seems kind of ham fisted.
I mean, it's rough shod foreign policy, but you're happy
with the tact that the president is taking in terms
of talking to various leaders around the world and sometimes
(12:32):
in very dismissive ways.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Look, I think it's time that we got tough with
the rest of the world. We haven't been tough enough
on the people that we've supplied all this aid, all
this money. They've been ripping off the American worker for generations,
taken our jobs, and we've got nothing in return. So
I think this tone in rhetoric is appropriate given that
(12:57):
President Trump is fighting for America. You know, we have
to take take care of our own first, and we
can worry about the rest of the world when we
get our house in order. But our house is far
from getting in order, and we got a long way
to go until we get it right. We need to
focus on America period.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
If you are to run for Senate, what does the
Commonwealth of Kentucky need? Where are we behind? Even though
Mitch McConnell and Ran Paul are the current senators, and
you know Mitch mcconnald's going out, somebody's going to take
that seat. What would that person need to do to
bolster Kentucky's position, which, frankly, we're going to lose some
power to have a person like McConnell's step aside just
(13:36):
his years and various capacities, as as as he said,
given Kentucky the right to punch above its weight and
bring more money and so forth. How does this next
senator move us back to that power position.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Well, look, I think Kentuckians are beyond fatigued with Mitch McConnell.
You know, Terry, I travel around quite a bit around
Kentucky and have conversations with Kentucky Buckians all over. And
the number one issue is Mitch McConnell's got to go.
He's been there long enough, he's overstayed and no one
(14:09):
can really figure out what he's been for. You know,
until he got to leadership, the issue that defined Mitch
McConnell was injecting more money into politics, the whole fight
against campaign finance reform with John McCain. That was his
sole issue for existence. That's where he got the name
Darth Vader, and that's where to go crazy. And you
(14:31):
know some conservatives used to go crazy. And you know,
he made a lot of Hay with that, But there
was never anything that Mitch McConnell was for that I
can say this made a lot of sense again, presiding
over thirty seven trillion dollars of debt, presiding over the
Iraq War, presiding over the economic failures of this country,
presiding over a porous border, and Terry. We got to
(14:52):
have somebody who's a complete changed Mitch McConnell. We've got
to have somebody who's not a career politician, someone who
can come from the outside, and someone that is aligned
with President Trump and not going to sabotage his agenda.
You know, the first thing that we had to deal
with this Kentuckians was listening to Mitch McConnell op post
President Trump. I mean, what an unbelievable mandate that President
(15:16):
Trump got right here in Kentucky. And the first thing
that Mitch McConnell does is he votes and tries to
sabotage the president. And that's not the will of Kentucky.
That's not what Kentucky voted for.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
But he's that's in office, and Mitch McConnell, when you
look at the Supreme Court, you kind of go, oh no,
that's a hot cup of coffee in the lap of liberals.
They can't stand the makeup of the Supreme Court, and
Mitch was of sherpa guide for several of those justices
in there. You don't agree with that.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Look, what I would say is the McConnell inc apparatus.
They had to find a legacy, and I think they've
created this narrative around the courts. Those are the Trump courts.
Without President Trump, we would not have this court we
have today. And McConnell can talk credit to be the
master architect. But at the end of the day, that
(16:07):
is Trump's court, and you don't get brownie points for
doing your job. He did the job that he was
supposed to do. You know, when you get elected to
the Senate Advise and consent, you appoint people to positions,
you get people in positions. That's part of the role.
And he was doing his job, and so you don't
get extra points for doing that because my granddad say,
(16:28):
you got paid to do it too, So to be enough, right.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
All right, Last thing for you, why I circle right
back to this, Why are you better than the other
two named candidates on the Republican side for this seat
that'll come open in twenty twenty six elections.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
Well, look, Terry, I go back to why I first
started looking at this race, and we have two Mitch
McConnell puppets. We cannot afford another forty years of Mitch
McConnell holding the seat. We need something different. We need
someone from the outside, someone who's not a career politician,
not afraid the shape things up and stand with President Trump,
(17:02):
and somebody that's met a payroll, someone that's had a
job outside of politics. These two guys that are in
the race right now, they've never worked outside of government,
never met a payroll, and they owe everything to Mitch McConnell.
They owe their careers to Mitch McConnell. And so to
think that it's going to be any different if those
guys are elected as a fool's Errand so, look, I
(17:23):
want to fight for families like mine, working class families,
the American worker, the single mothers, and the people that
want to live the dream. I'm an entrepreneur. I started
company with ten thousand dollars on a credit card. I
took it public at two billion dollars on the New
York Stock Exchange. That could only happen in America. I
want every Kentuckian to have access to that American dream,
(17:45):
and I know I can bring that to Washington. If
I got in this race, it should.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
Be no chance. And you said I'm in this because
I listened to words.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
Maybe a Freudan slip.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
Do you have the money to get this done? I
know I've read your business, this record. I know there's
been bounces in and out of that, but it takes
national money as well.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
Look in every endeavor I've been involved with, I've always
been well financed, even when I had no money. So
I'm not worried about that. If if the timing's right,
you're a quality candidate, the funding is going to be there.
And anyone who says the contrary doesn't know politics.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
Nate Morris, potential candidate for US Senate. Great to talk
to you, Thank you, Terry. Great to be with you.
He's online at Natemorris dot com. Back in a few
on NewsRadio Wave forty whas
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