Mike Allen Saturday Mid-Day -- 11/8/25

Mike Allen rants about the latest political news and takes your calls. Alex Triantafilou, Ohio GOP Chairman, discusses the 2025 Election results. Kevin Burton breaks down the current political climate.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Unter WLW Mike Allen and Saturday midday on a kind
of brisk but nice Saturday morning. Rain comes tomorrow though, well,
I'll tell you what it was. It was a heck
of an election night. Not necessarily good though for the
good guys. We're going to be doing that a big

(00:20):
part of this morning. At ten o'clock, we've got Alex
Triant to feel you, Ohio GOP chair. He's gonna call
us and give us his thoughts on what happened. And
at eleven o'clock independent political analyst Kevin Burton. It's going
to be interesting to see what Kevin says. He lays
it on the line, So we will be doing that also.

(00:42):
You know, the last couple of weeks I was not
able to take a lot of calls because we were so
loaded with guests coming up to the election. But today
nine thirty to ten o'clock taking calls, ten thirty to
eleven o'clock taking calls, eleven thirty to two twelve o'clock
taking costs seven four nine seven thousand, one eight hundred.

(01:04):
The big one are the numbers really would like to
hear from you this morning. Well let's do this. Let's
just say Tuesday night was not a great night for
the good guys. Just no getting around that, and almost
as if it was timed future Ohio Governor. I hope
and I think for vik Ramaswami he put out some

(01:26):
kind of video or something kind of given his ideas
of what happened and what we have to do to
get ready for the midterms in twenty twenty six. Could
you plan that clip please?

Speaker 2 (01:39):
We got our asses handed to us in New Jersey, Virginia,
and New York City.

Speaker 3 (01:43):
Democrats slept all three.

Speaker 1 (01:45):
There's two key lessons for Republicans.

Speaker 3 (01:46):
Listen carefully.

Speaker 2 (01:48):
Number one, our side needs to focus on affordability, make
the American dream affordable, bring down costs, electric costs, grocery costs,
healthcare costs, and housing costs, and lay out how we're
going to do it. And number two, cut out the
identity politics. It doesn't suit Republicans. It's not for us.
That's the woke left's game.

Speaker 1 (02:08):
Not ours.

Speaker 2 (02:09):
We don't care about the color of your skin or
your religion. We care about the content of your character.
That's who we are.

Speaker 1 (02:16):
Well, there you go, I mean there he is. He's
laying the cheese on the crackers, and I get it.
I mean, geez, just within the few days afterwards, this
affordability issue has come up, and I looked at a
lot of the polls and that's what people are thinking
about now, more than immigration and more than public safety.

(02:37):
So I think we need to get our act together
and figure out how we get that message out because
the Democrats did and you know, you got to hand
it to him, they did a good job this time out.
But then he said cut out identity politics. I'm not
real sure what he's talking about there. We're not the
ones that engage in identity politics. But I'll tell you what,

(03:02):
I have so much respect for that guy. I'm sure
there's a good reason for it, but I'm not sure
what he meant by that. But the big deal is affordability,
and you're going to be hearing a lot about that.
Yeah it was a butt whipping, but you know, Georgia, Virginia,
New Jersey, they were all uphill battles to begin with.
I mean, they're blue states, but we still should have

(03:25):
done much better in those states. Here's the thing, people,
and this is a sorry old tale for Republicans. It
wasn't in twenty twenty four, but it is now. We
didn't get our voters out like we did last year.
I guess we got complacent. But here's if you want

(03:45):
to boil it down further. And this might honk some
people off in the mega movement, but it's what I believe.
There are some maga Republicans that will only vote when
Donald J. Trump is on the ballot, and that's killing us.
It's killing us and if it doesn't change, it's going
to kill us in the midterms. And you know, if

(04:06):
I were Donald Trump, I mean I would get as
much done as I possibly can before the midterms because
again you all know, the tradition is the party in
power in the presidency loses seats. And we're at a
razor thin margin to begin with, so we need those

(04:26):
die hard mega Republicans. You gotta get out, you gotta vote,
or we are screwed and the president is screwed for
the next two years. After that, Democrat turnout was huge
locally and nationally for an off year election. But the Democrats,
on the bright side, they have a huge Mandami problem.

(04:52):
You know, Republicans are going to make him the poster
child of the Democrat Party when things blow up in
his face in New York City, and you just know
they will. You can't do the things he's saying he
wants to do and not bankrupt the damn city. And
it's going to be interesting to watch that. But again,

(05:13):
I think we still need to focus on that affordability issue,
just like Ramaswami said, and you know he's right about that.
My goodness. I mean, you go through McDonald's and get
a quarter pounded with cheese, fries and a drink, it's
almost ten bucks. It's ridiculous. Everything everything is up. So

(05:35):
we got to convinced voters that we are the better
party to take care of that issue. Maybe what Vivek
meant talking about the leaving alone the identity politics thing,
I don't know. I'm not sure. Maybe we should just
stay on the sidelines and watch the Democrats kill each

(05:56):
other over it because they are They are in the
middle of a civil war in their party and it's
not going to get any better. It just breaks my heart.
I'm sure it breaks years too. So it's on to
the midterms. As y'all know, I was optimistic about keeping
control of the House, even given the tradition of the
party in power losing seats. I was optimistic before Tuesday,

(06:21):
but I don't know. I mean, I'm still going to
be optimistic. But again, if I were the president, I'd
get everything I can done get done this year. And
you know how quickly the man can move. I mean, frankly,
it's incredible because you know what's going to happen. You
just know it. And some of them already talked about it.
If the Democrats get the House back, they'll impeach Trump

(06:45):
for that twenty seventh time. There'll be no conviction in
the Senate. Though, if we keep the Senate, which I'm
not sure, you're never too sure. I'm reasonably certain that
we will, but they'll go down that road again, you
can count on it. Trump's taking a bit of a
dip to in his approval ratings the Real Clear Politics

(07:06):
average of polls, which is the one that's the most
reliable because they take all the polls that are out
there and put them together. So anyway, he's at forty
three percent approve, fifty four percent disapprove. It's a spread
of about eleven percent. You know, those are not Joe
Biden numbers, that are not near Joe Biden numbers. But

(07:30):
it's still not good coming into the midterms. You know,
and I've said this from day one about Donald J.
Trump is say what you want about him, but he
does what he says he's going to do, and that's
exactly what he has done in his second term so far.
You know, I really don't know what the hell some

(07:52):
people want these days. The electorate is so fickle, you know.
Just for example, Trump said he stop the illegal alien invasion.
He did. Border crossings are the lowest in this country's history.
He said he would stop the immigrant crime problem, and
he did. They're out there rounding those serious criminals up

(08:16):
and getting them the hell out of here. Said he'd
lower drug prices. He did that. Said he'd strengthened the military,
especially in the area of morale and man, he hit
out of the ballpark in that. And he ran on
unleashing American energy and he's doing that as well. He
said he and the left insanity on race and gender,

(08:39):
and you know, we still got a way to go
on that, but he's front and center on it. Keeping
men out of women's sports that we're not completely there yet,
but we're going to win that battle. And in no
small part because of Trump. And he also, and this
is important, he ran on restoring free speech on our
college campuses, and that is so important, and he's done that.

(09:04):
I love the way that he's playing with Harvard and
some of these other Ivy League schools because of that,
they're just blatantly biased. And that doesn't even mention his
foreign policy wins. You know, the guys of war. This
is extremely important. He's the only president that had the
stones to do this, ending Iran's ability to have a

(09:28):
nuclear device. So I don't know what people want. I
think probably a lot of it is the way he
does it. You know, he can be a bit brusque
at times, and that turns some people off. I think
it probably makes more sense to look at the results,
and the results are amazing for a guy's not even
been in office a year yet, but his numbers are

(09:50):
going down. It's a very volatile electorate. Frankly, I don't
think it's a very educated electorate. If it were, you know,
I think most people would say, hey, you know what,
he's an egotist. Even call him a narcissist if you want.
I don't believe that. But he's coming through for the country.
He's doing things that I never thought i'd see in

(10:13):
my lifetime. And you know, this country has a knack
for getting the right person in that office when we
truly need a leader, and Ronald Reagan comes to mind,
and I think that's the deal there. Boy, not a
lot of good news at all on the local front.
The mayor's race, Man what a route f tab beat

(10:35):
Corey Bowman seventy eight percent to twenty two percent. Corey
only won in Salor Park, Riverside, s Edamsville on the
west side, and California out there by Mount Washington, and
he worked his tail off. I think he ran a
great race. But that just shows the total domination of

(10:56):
the Democrat Party in this city and frankly in the county.
New Pure of All was back on his heel with
the crime issue. What the hell that came from nine
News Radio seven hundred WLW Mike Allen Saturday midday. I'm

(11:17):
going to get to the calls here in just a second,
but I did want to let you know about something.
Kevin Aldridge is the opinion editor for the Cincinnati Inquire.
I know Kevin a little bit. He's actually called me
a couple of times to get my opinion on issues,
and I appreciate that. Uh maybe Lean's left, you'd have
to say that, but I think he's always been fair

(11:40):
at any rate. He did an op ed piece, I
think the day after the election titled What's Old is
New Again? At City Hall, Cincinnati doubles down on one
party rule. Man, that's the understatement of the year. But
there are some things in it that I don't really understand.
I mean, let me just read some of it to you.

(12:01):
Just a couple of sentences here, Kevin writes. In his
victory speech, Mayor A. Tam Pureval put it plainly. City
Hall's job, he said, will be to protect us from
the chaos that's coming out of Washington, d C. I
don't think so, and I respectfully disagree Kevin. That's not

(12:21):
the job at all. The job of city council is
to fix the potholes. And by the way, as an aside,
I don't know, maybe somebody heard me, probably had nothing
to do with what I said, but I am happy
to report that Sunset Avenue they are in the process
of completely repaving it, and boy, westsiders have been complaining

(12:45):
about that. But anyway, that's city Hall's job and City
Hall's job is to keep us safe. It's not to
protect us from I would have the alleged chaos that's
coming out of Washington, d C. I mean, you want
to talk about chaos, look at a Biden administration, deadly
chaos with the Afghanistan pull out, you know, all this

(13:06):
stuff with the auto pen So I don't understand what
he meant by that. Goes on to say for many
Cincinnati voters, this election wasn't just about potholes, policing, or parks.
It was about preserving a local government that reflects the
city values in the face of a second Trump administration. Now,

(13:27):
what in the hell does Donald Trump have to do
with city government? Yeah, I get it, you know, with
various grants and things like that peripherally, But I mean,
you know, you can't blame it when it rains on
Donald Trump. I don't really understand that. Just a couple

(13:47):
more here, goes on Purevol's landslide and council's clean sweep
show that voters view local leadership as a line of defense,
a buffer against what they perceived as the instability and divisiveness. Again,
he says flowing flowing from Washington, Washington has nothing to

(14:11):
do with the day to day operations of the city
of Cincinnati. I mean not God, you can't blame everything
on Donald Trump. So Kevin, I like you a lot,
and I agree with you most of the time, but
just took issue with some of those things very respectfully.
I don't know, I just don't get it. But anyway, Hey,

(14:32):
let's get to the phones. Let's start off with our
friend Bobby J. Hey, Bobby J. How you doing? Are
you there? Bobby J? Hello, I guess we don't have him.
Let's go to Barry in miamis Barry in Miamisburg. What
you got for me?

Speaker 4 (14:52):
Hey, how's it going today, sir?

Speaker 1 (14:54):
Pretty good? Pretty good? How about you?

Speaker 4 (14:57):
I have a.

Speaker 5 (14:58):
Question for you about an incident that happened the week
before the election. Okay, let's say you were a lawyer
who had a client who was the victim of racial
discrimination by the city of Cincinnati, whose prosecuted him solely

(15:22):
because he was a white dude.

Speaker 1 (15:24):
I think I know what you're talking about. The downtown. Yeah,
they're already and I'm sorry, I didn't mean to cut
you off, but they're already talking about backing up the
Brinks truck. The City Hall for that guy. I mean, yeah,
I saw it. It was in signal ninety nine, I guess,
and it definity, definitively and clearly showed that this guy

(15:49):
didn't start it. He didn't start it, which is what
everybody was screaming for. Let's charge him. And he charged
him with a low level offense disorderly conduct, but that
doesn't matter. He never should have been charged. And when
he got a three to one Democrat majority in this
city and they smoke Republicans independence, Democrats, not Democrats, but

(16:11):
Republicans independence, I'm meant to say Charter rights. You know,
sometimes it seems like there's not much he can do
about it. Is that what you're referring to, Barry?

Speaker 4 (16:22):
Yes?

Speaker 5 (16:22):
And I have a follow up question, sure, as somebody
who is white, why should I go to Cincinnati and
spend money if that kind of garbage is going to
be allowed to happen time after time.

Speaker 1 (16:37):
It's a good question, and I think probably more of
a statement than a question. And I understand that I do,
And I'll tell you what, based upon what happened Tuesday,
I don't think we're going to see a damn dimes
worth of difference with the Cincinnati Police Department, And again
it ain't the cops. I talk to him. They want
to be aggressive, they want to be proactive, but they

(17:00):
are just not convinced or even think at all that
they will get the backing of the administration if they
happen to look at someone the wrong way or utter
some words they don't like. And that's not going to change,
and Downtown's going to continue to go downhill.

Speaker 5 (17:17):
I was not blaming the line officer or the sergeants.
You know, the problem with the building is on the.

Speaker 1 (17:26):
Top wall, no question, the top four City Hall, not
the not three ten Ezrad Park Drive. I don't know
if they're still calling it that anymore. That's where the
chief's office was. But no, you know what I mean,
I know exactly what you meant, exactly what you meant,
and I appreciate the Callberry have a nicety you too,
thank you. Yeah, you know, I talked a little bit

(17:48):
about Issue five, reviving that and trying well reviving the
opposite of it and get it on the ballot, and
it may be able if we probably could get it
on the ballot, but all the Democrat Party has to say, no,
this is so horrible you know, it's racist and this
and that and the other, and it's going to go

(18:09):
down the tubes. And it's a shame because, in my
humble opinion, that's about the only thing that could change
the crime issue in the city. But it's just not
going to happen. I'm afraid. Hey, let's talk to Bobby Jay.

Speaker 6 (18:24):
Are you there, Bobby, I'm here, my friends. A simple
thank you can't express the true feelings of appreciation. Keep
carrying that torture freedom high and bright.

Speaker 1 (18:34):
Thank you, Thank you sir, what you got for me.

Speaker 6 (18:38):
Well, I got to repeat myself, and I've said this
for now for many few years. I guess we're in
the midst of a cultural revolution.

Speaker 4 (18:47):
No q one.

Speaker 6 (18:48):
People need to understand that I can't control things that
are out of my control. All I can do is
look at the stable, Ohio and make good choices on
what I see in the facts. You have eighty eight
counties in this state. Of those eighty eight counties, you
look at the map, they're all red. Yes, it for

(19:10):
just eight to ten I know. So you've got eighty
eight counties and you've got just over ten percent is blue.
You have to handle it differently than what they're doing now.
You can't win in Cincinnati, Dayton and these other cities,
So what do you do well?

Speaker 1 (19:29):
I think now, with respect to the city of Cincinnati,
and you know, I was a Republican chair in much
better times and it was still tough even back then,
I think you give serious thoughts. It just not running anybody.
And I know that's heresy to some people, but my goodness,
I mean, the margin on the mayor's race is just astounding.

(19:53):
I've never seen anything like that, and I think Corey
Bowman ran a heck of a good campaign. I think
you just walk away from it. Unfortunately, I don't know
what else you can do.

Speaker 4 (20:02):
Bobby, No, You're exactly correct.

Speaker 6 (20:05):
You walk away from it and you think about it,
handling it in a different way. Yeah, these individuals, you
think of it, they're either friend or foes, adversaries or enemies.
They're my adversaries, and a lot of them don't be
a little bit more worse than that. You have to
you have to hand it like an insurgent operation.

Speaker 1 (20:25):
I agree with you.

Speaker 4 (20:26):
You're the one.

Speaker 6 (20:27):
We got them and circled in the military.

Speaker 7 (20:29):
That's exactly what you want.

Speaker 6 (20:31):
I have my adversaries circled. Every city is circled by red.
The one thing you can do is main thing. I
hate to say this about all the good people in Cincinnati.
You have to learn to starve them out.

Speaker 1 (20:45):
Would you how would you do that? Give me an
example of that.

Speaker 6 (20:49):
Don't spend any money in Cincinnati.

Speaker 1 (20:51):
Oh, I see, I see what you're saying.

Speaker 6 (20:53):
You know what, if you're a resident of Cincinnati, go
by the seventy two hour window. Yep, just like uh,
you don't have to do anything in the city. I
understand them have to buy gas there, and eighteen months
you'll start to start starve them out because they're upside
down anyway, even on their pinsion thimes. Yeah, I know,
we're upside.

Speaker 4 (21:13):
Down on it.

Speaker 1 (21:14):
They've been struggling with that, that money. They've been struggling
with that for years, for years, they've been struggling with it.
And I agree with what you're saying. I mean, you know,
when I drove downtown to go to court this week,
drove by that new convention center. I mean, it's going
to be beautiful, it's going to be big. But if
this crime problem continues or probably will get worse, we're

(21:37):
not going to have big conventions in this city. So
I don't see anything changing. You know, we will get
more cops, I think, but you know, they'll council went, well,
let's do this after school program or let's do that program.

Speaker 8 (21:52):
You know.

Speaker 1 (21:53):
I mean, they're just not focused on it. But I
appreciate the call as always.

Speaker 4 (21:58):
Thank you, my friend.

Speaker 3 (21:59):
I appreciate a great weekend.

Speaker 1 (22:01):
You too, Thanks, Bobby. Okay, let's talk to Larry in Germantown. Hey, Larry,
how you doing?

Speaker 4 (22:08):
Not pretty good? Thanks?

Speaker 1 (22:09):
How about you? I'm good. I'm good. Disappointed in Tuesday,
but other than that, I'm fine.

Speaker 9 (22:15):
Yeah, me too. Hey, I was just you know, this
shutdown in the national government. Why can't you know, just
like the January sixth committee did, why can't they have
the debate on the national television you know, CBA ABC
channel five, nine to twelve, and let's really talk about

(22:39):
the issues of you know, why are the Republicans so stubborn?
Why are the Democrats stubborn? Well, let's let the American
people see this stuff, yep, because because at this point
half the country only believes one side and the other
half only believes the other side.

Speaker 7 (22:56):
Well, let's get the facts on the table. So people
can see what it's going on.

Speaker 1 (23:00):
Yeah, you know, and I agree with you too. I
hadn't thought of that. They kind of do that a
little bit when you have the senators arguing back and forth,
not at each other, but I mean, yeah, it would
be nice to see that. I don't know if they
can ever make that happen, you know, and there's just
got to be a better way to do it. I mean,
for both sides. It's stupid what we're going through, right,

(23:23):
you know.

Speaker 9 (23:24):
With charts. So it's like the Republicans get up there
and say, look, we are not cutting medicare, We're only
cutting the growth of it. You know, it's not growing
at ten percent. We're going to let it grow at
five percent. You know, stuff like that.

Speaker 1 (23:39):
Well, you know what what's really really perplexing is in
just about every poll that I've seen, some of them
are close, most of them are, Republicans are getting blamed
for it, I mean, which is ridiculous, and you know
that could drag over into the midterms. So I don't
get it. But I like your idea.

Speaker 9 (23:59):
Though, Well you've got more pull than I do. Ony,
don't you pass that along?

Speaker 1 (24:04):
Let me see, let me let me see what I
can do. All right, Okay, thank good day, Okay, thank you. Hey,
let's talk to uh let's have the rush in Fairfax. Hey,
good morning, Russ. How are you doing.

Speaker 10 (24:18):
Good morning, Mike? Great, how are you good?

Speaker 1 (24:20):
Good?

Speaker 10 (24:21):
What you got awesome? Well, I look forward to hearing
you every Saturday morning.

Speaker 1 (24:24):
Thank you.

Speaker 10 (24:25):
One thing I wanted to say, though, is obviously you can't.
I always thought that ignorance could be cured stupidity.

Speaker 4 (24:32):
Can't.

Speaker 11 (24:32):
Have you heard that right?

Speaker 4 (24:33):
Hell?

Speaker 12 (24:34):
Yeah?

Speaker 10 (24:34):
Well, the voters are so natty. I've abously been confronted
with with the statistics of the crime and everything, but
yet they continue to vote the same way. So apparently
ignorance in this case would be called stupidity.

Speaker 1 (24:47):
You know, I guess you're right about that. I don't
get it. I mean, black people, white people, brown people,
they all hate crime, and you know, and some of
them have been very vocal about it. I don't get
it a all. I don't understand. Kudos to the Democrats
for them, you know, they had their act together, but
I do not get it.

Speaker 10 (25:08):
Well, I just thought maybe people smarter than us could
offer some wisdom.

Speaker 12 (25:12):
Have a great day, servich.

Speaker 1 (25:13):
Okay, thanks Rick, I appreciate it. Yeah, I mean, you know,
I stayed up, I don't know until about midnight, and
seeing those returns come in, It's like, what in the hell,
Because crime, there's just no question about it was the
overwhelming issue in this race. And crime in this city
is not good. You had a slew of them that

(25:34):
got shot last weekend. I haven't seen any tallies yet
this weekend. And you know what, we're in danger of
becoming Chicago, Portland, whatever, because when you got the mayor
of Cincinnati running the police department, that's just it's a
prescription for disaster. So why people vote overwhelmingly in the

(25:56):
city for Democrats. You got me man, Hey, let's talk
to you. Let's see I stalk to Rick. Hey, Rick,
good morning, Hey.

Speaker 7 (26:06):
Mike, great show. I was like listening to you, thank
you on Saturday mornings. Two different topics. One is this
city of Cincinnati thing with this with this video and
then charging the white guy just because he was white
when they knew the video was there, yep, and they
and I don't understand why that is absolutely not on

(26:31):
every news channel across the board on like being highlighted everywhere,
because if it was the other way around the national news.

Speaker 1 (26:42):
Yeah, yeah, there was one that that covered it pretty good.
I forget which one it was.

Speaker 7 (26:48):
It was nineteen with Chris o'mackey, I believe, yeah, and
she put it on her Facebook, which is great, but
then it die. It should have gotten national coverage on that.
And the only thing, like your other caller said, maybe
we just have to stop going downtown. When Jeff Ruby's
restaurant and the rest of the places down there start
losing tons and tons of business, maybe somebody will actually

(27:11):
do something because it's ridiculous what's going on down there.
And I live in Kentucky, so I don't really care
from an electoral standpoint, but it's the whole area loses
when this kind of stuff goes on. And how they
elected that whole council again is beyond my realm of comprehension.

Speaker 1 (27:31):
It really is, you know. I mean, they're voting against
their own interest, frankly, and the downtown core there is
so much money invested down there, and it is just
it's unbelievable how great it is down there. I live
downtown for about ten years, and you know, if this thing,
the crime issue doesn't get taken care of, all that

(27:54):
stuff's going to just blow up and dry away.

Speaker 7 (27:57):
Well, it's going to because people like my self and
that live in Kentucky and away from Cincinnati, we won't
go down there. We'll stay in Covington, We'll stay on
this side of the river. We'll go you know, up
the Mason or something. We won't come down there. And look,
that's gonna be a big problem if that starts happening.

Speaker 1 (28:16):
It sure is.

Speaker 7 (28:18):
But the other topic, really quick is this shutdown with
the government. Yeah, is if anybody in their right mind
thinks Democrats and Republicans actually care about what they're actually
fighting for, they're nuts. They just care about money and power.
They don't care about the people and health care and

(28:40):
all this other crap. It's how they stay in power,
how they keep getting their money, how they keep becoming
millionaires on two hundred and seventy thousand dollars a year salaries.
And that's what they care about. All the rest of
it is just smoking mirrors that we the public, for
some reason, eat up. And now they shut the government

(29:01):
down for thirty forty days whatever it is, and they're
doing it to scare people. They're doing it to think
their Thanksgiving flights aren't going to happen. They're not going
to be able to see Grandma. And what side is
going to blink it's going to reopen before Thanksgiving or
that would be political suicide for everybody. Yes, but it's
all about money and power with this group, and God

(29:24):
blessed Donald Trump as he donates his salary and that
how he does that. But the rest of them, it's
all about that's their job, their career, politicians, and they
don't care about the American people, and we keep putting
them in there.

Speaker 1 (29:38):
For some students, absolutely, and I appreciate the call on
and I agree with you. Something's got to be done
because they are and I think it's probably true on
both sides. More on the Democrat side. I think they're
just so insulated up there.

Speaker 6 (29:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (29:52):
Sure, they all go back to their districts or their
states and their senators and presumably talk to constituents. But
it's just I noticed the day after the election there
were ads running for twenty twenty six. Nobody wants to
hear that or see that. I mean, it's something has
got to give somewhere because it's just out of control.

(30:15):
I mean, maybe you take a look at term limits.
Sure it would be nice to get somebody like Schumer
out of there, but we'll have to see we finally,
I want to talk about this later if I have time.
Are getting rid of Queen Nancy, So I don't know.
We'll have to see. Hey, we got to take a
break for the news. But when we get back, we
are going to talk to Ohio, Gopachair, Alex Triant to

(30:38):
feel you. He's going to give us his impressions of
what happened on Tuesday. Mike Allen, seven hundred WLW.

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News Radio seven hundred WLW Mike Allen with our two
of Saturday Midday. Well, it was a big night on Tuesday,
obviously not as big as presidential or even midterms, but
still very important. I want to hear from the main
man what his thoughts on it are. I'm talking about

(32:02):
Alex Trant to feel you, he is the chair, the
boss of the Ohio Republican Party. Alex, thanks for joining
us this morning.

Speaker 15 (32:11):
Mike, good morning, Good to be Rick you as always.

Speaker 1 (32:13):
Hey, your thoughts in general on Tuesday night, and then
I'll have some specific things.

Speaker 15 (32:20):
We have a lot of thoughts.

Speaker 4 (32:21):
I mean.

Speaker 15 (32:21):
The first and foremost, the idea that this is being
sold to some kind of a blue wave is democrats
want elections in all Democrat areas. It's almost like, you know,
a communist Democrat socialist gets elected in New York and
somehow that's a reflection on the direction of the country. Look,
I'm not walking away from the idea that, you know,

(32:41):
we'd like to win every single race. I'm a Republican
Party leader, but I'm also a realist. But I know
that Donald Trump did not win Virginia. Donald Trump did
not win New Jersey. So if people are sitting back
and expecting us to outperform the president, you know, in
the year before a midterm, they just don't understand the
lessons of history. Mike and what I'm seeing, we're I
pushed back on and again people can say I've got

(33:02):
my head in the sand. That's just not true. I
know about Ohio. I know what happened right here in
the state of Ohio. And look, some of it is
in such a sexy talking point. But you know, we
as a state party, as a state Republican organization, I
think I use the word played. We engaged more than
one hundred and fifty races here in Ohio, everything from
township trustee to judicial race to local mayors. Now, if

(33:23):
you live in Cincinnati, it looks like a disactual Cincinnati
is a deep blue city, just like Cleveland, just like Columbus.
But in one hundred and fifty plus that we engaged in,
we were more than one hundred of those, So you know,
the number of still sort of pouring in as results
get ultimately cabulart. But we're winning seventy seventy five percent
of the races in Ohio. So look the things that
you're hearing about a blue wave and the momentum and

(33:47):
anti Trump. Look, we know, Mike, you and I know
as we've watched this, the national pundit crowd has been
rooting against Donald Trump. June fifteenth, two thousand and fifteen.
That's today. He came down the Golden escalator, and Mike,
they've been rooting against him. So any narrative, any story

(34:07):
they can write about how bad he is, how bad
his policies are, and how bad the direction of the
country is going, it is going to be the first
thing they're going to say. I never remember odd your elections.

Speaker 4 (34:17):
Getting this kind of a time.

Speaker 15 (34:18):
I know, like I just never do. The midterms were
always the marker, but now we've redefined that so we
can follow the try to embarrass the president. I'm not
buying it doesn't mean we don't have a work cut
out for us. I've got a huge plan ready to
go for twenty twenty six. It's already being engaged here
in Ohio. So those are kind of my general thoughts
on what happened Tuesday, and I get.

Speaker 1 (34:37):
It, and I think it's being blown out of proportion.
Obviously we would have liked to have done better. Here's
one thing that scares me, Alex, especially for the midterms,
is the issue of turnout. I've read a couple people
that they make the point the MAGA vote did not
get out at all, and you know they had better
get out for twenty twenty six. If Donald Trump is

(35:00):
on the ballot, seemingly not on the ballot, seemingly these
people won't get out and vote. And that's the death
now for US, I think, and I think in the
presidential man, the Ohio Republican Party did one hell of
a job with turnout. Your thoughts on that end, Is
it going to be a problem for the midterms.

Speaker 15 (35:22):
Well, first of all, Mike, as you are good politically
as anybody in the media, I mean that, and you
understand this problem. This is what motivates me. If I
tell you the number of times I have tested the
words low propensity or disengagers to those listening. Those are
the words we in the political operator class use to

(35:43):
describe those people who do not get out and vote
unless President Trump is on the ballot, and in Ohio
that's a significant number. So that is absolutely our focus.
The low prop as we call it, low propensity disengage voter.
If you're listening today, you must go out and vote
for from the midterm elections in twenty twenty six if

(36:04):
you're a supporter of President Trump. Otherwise we're going to
try to impeach him again in a second time. We're
going to all kinds of horrific things. So you know,
for us, it is all we talk about and rue
level deeper. You know, the data is such today, Mike,
that we know exactly who those people are and we
can go talk to them. We didn't have a state
wide election in twenty twenty five in Ohio, so you know,

(36:26):
we don't. We've looked at them in other places. And again,
I'm not the local guy here anymore. You know, I
left almost three years ago. I followed what happened in Cincinnati.
I care a lot about it, but that's not the
issue for us in Ohio, it's those low propensity disengagers
that typically vote for President Trump. President Trump on Ohio
by eleven percentage points, the best of his three runs,
Bernie Marino slept into office beating a longtime career politician

(36:49):
act named Sharon Brown. We know what to do. We
just got to get those low propensity disengage voters to
engage in this next election. You have nailed it. That's
the challenge for the Republican Party, not only in Ohio
but nationally to make sure all of those swing states
are seven of them that went for President Trump, turn
out and vote for the local member of Congress. And

(37:10):
we can't have any infighting, we can't have any finger pointing.
It's time out to unite this party and protect our
big gains of twenty twenty four.

Speaker 1 (37:18):
You're so right, Alex, and I'll tell you that, as
I said, getting the vote out for the presidential orp
did an amazing job. Let me ask you this. I mean,
President Trump's no dummy. He's got to understand that if
we lose the House, then his agenda pretty much goes
down the drain. Unfortunately, do you think he'll get out there?

(37:39):
I don't know whether by direct mail, rally, whatever, and
make sure he does everything that he can to get
these hardcore MAGA people out to vote, because you just
said it, I said it before you. If we don't
get him out, then we're screwed.

Speaker 15 (37:56):
Absolutely. I think the President wills. Matter of fact, I
know he will. I know allan games, the White housees
and this here, here's the other thing. I'll give you
some more. Some have a little inside information this Saturday morning, right,
So let me tell her what I know is happening
at the White House because I'm engaging in it and
I'm talking to representatives of the political team there into
one Washington, DC. We're also focused on candidate quality. Candidate

(38:18):
quality is crucial, and I can't tell you in the
first round for President Trump sometimes there was this focus
on certain aspects of your commitment to the cause and
Trump and MAGA, and that's fine, but we also this
time have to balance all of that with candidate quality.
So when they talk to me out of DC, they
want to know who are the best people that we

(38:38):
can run in certain parts of Ohio. And I think
you're going to see strategic endorsements from the President. I
mean you've already seen some strategic endorsements. He's already endorsed
several incumbent members of the Congress here in Ohio. That
the President and the White House is very much focused
on that candidate quality, but more importantly those low propensity
voters that are disengaged. So look, we're gonna have some

(39:01):
real fights here in Ohio. First in the first congressional
district right here in the Cincinnati area, and then there's
a big mup in the ninth which there's numbers mean
nothing probably to your listeners, but we're talking about the
Toledo area where you've got Mercy Captor, who's been in
a Congress for you know, damn year. As long as
I've been alive, she's probably been there fifty years. So anyway,
I'm about to tell you that the President and the

(39:21):
White House is very aware of what we must do
and that is yet those low propensity disengage voters to
plug in. So your question is is the right one?
And that I feel very calm. I know that President
Trump cares a lot about this, and I think you're
going to see him. Look, he is always welcome to
Ohio to have a rally, right on the west side
of Hamilton County.

Speaker 1 (39:42):
Mike, what do you think, Hi, I'll tell you what
I do anything I can to see that that would
be great. Maybe get him to go to Elder High School.
How about that?

Speaker 15 (39:51):
I set you up on that. I think I deserve
credit for setting you up.

Speaker 1 (39:54):
There, right, Thanks, buddy, I appreciate it. Hey, it all serious. No,
I did want to ask you about the government shutdown
and who it's hurting more, us or them. But before
I do this, and this won't be any surprise to you,
the Media Research Center is a group that looks at
the bias in the media. Listen to this, Alex. They

(40:15):
looked at the so called Big three ABC, CBS, NBC.
Eighty seven percent of Big three coverage heavily favored the Democrats.
And they also found that the media, some of these
reporters used the Democrat talking points on that. I mean,

(40:35):
it's so frustrating. How do you think that's going to
affect perhaps the midterm elections?

Speaker 7 (40:43):
Oh?

Speaker 15 (40:43):
I think by time we get to the midterms, of
the shutdown on the ancient history, I don't like the shutdown.
It's time forward to end. I mean, it's a political matter,
which is you know kind of my business. You know,
we need to put that behind us as Republicans, and
we need to focus on the solutions that are coming.
The big beautiful bill tax cuts will kick in in
the first quarter of next year. People will get a

(41:04):
much bigger tax return in April of next year. You're
going to see this, this deregulation helping the country, these
trade deals. You're going to see the economy continue to grow. Listen,
gas prices are at a record well, the stock markets
a near record highs. You're gonna have these ups and
downs that the stock market's doing well four oh one
case should be very strong. We need to be running
on that. Of those issues. This shutdown politics thing is,

(41:28):
unfortunately you just described as a phenomenon that drives me crazy.
Anybody who follows me on ex Twitter knows I have
a field goal with the biased mainstream press. Their bias
is overwhelming. This is a Democrats shutdown, pure and simple,
a clean cr which is something everybody now in America, Campair.
It is simply a continuation of the current spending levels

(41:50):
that the Democrats have long supported. Mike, what's going on
right now is one hundred percent the Democrats fault. They
see a political advantage in stopping presidential They haven't voted
for a single one of his nominees for even under
secretaries of State, only various spots in the government where
both parties. After a presidentialill just say, hey, the president

(42:10):
gets to put his administration in place because the American
people spoke. The Democrats won't even go along with voting
for a single nominee for the most obscure positions within
the administration. It is an absolute travesty. And the fact
that the press doesn't embarrass the Democrats for being the
most obstructionist we've ever seen, really maybe in the history
of the country, is a travesty from the press. But

(42:33):
it's why you can't trust them anymore. It's why people
have turned in record numbers to alternative sources of information.

Speaker 1 (42:39):
So what you're just.

Speaker 15 (42:39):
Described as a phenomenon, we know, well, very frustrating to
those of us who once trusted the mainstream. But they
cannot be trusted anymore, you know.

Speaker 1 (42:48):
And I asked the question rhetorically, I guess, why are
Republicans in the president getting the plane? Well, when eighty
seven percent of the so called Big three favor the
day Democrats when the media is using Democrat talking points.
We got kind of a problem. Hey, I wanted to
ask you about this. We are here and we heard

(43:10):
it right I think Wednesday morning from the vike Ramaswami.
This affordability issue. Apparently that's got some legs. And you know,
I've known from my little corner of the world down here,
stuff is way too expensive. How do you think we
will use that? And do you agree that is something
that we should be focusing on.

Speaker 15 (43:32):
We should be focusing on, and I agree. The President
has said it, the vike Ramaswami has said it, our
leader here in Ohio, and we just got to keep
talking about these issues. Listen. I've seen this happen in
both parties throughout my time in the political world. When
you start walking away from kitchen table issues and get
focused on even international affairs and other things, that's when

(43:53):
you tend to start to lose elections. You know, to
the extent that I can have the ear of those
people whose messages are being heard, we should be talking
every single day on three or four or five kitchen
table issues for the regular American people. You know, Mike
and I, Mike and I, you and I Mike, are
very similar in that we grew up at four new

(44:14):
working class Western side of Hamilton County neighbors. I know
what it's like when you can only steal your tank
halfway right. I see Shared Brown talking about that. He
doesn't know anything about that, but I can tell you
that we know what those people are going through.

Speaker 8 (44:27):
Uh.

Speaker 15 (44:28):
You know, I got family members that still, you know,
live kind of paycheck to paycheck. It's part of life.
So if we're not talking of those voters, we're missing
a chance, and we're missing a chance to win election.
So affordability is a big deal, and we ought to
be talking about it. We ought to more importantly though,
we ought to be doing everything we can to bring
prices down, like we have gas prices, you know, like

(44:48):
we have a booming stock market. Those are the kind
of things we need to be telling people, and they're
doing a better job of doing. You know, energy is
going to drive transportation costs down, Mike, which you know
should save you on the cost of your growth trees
and other things. The President's all about that he should
continue to talk about those issues.

Speaker 1 (45:05):
Let me do this look forward a little bit twenty
twenty six. Uh, the state offices that are up. There
are the constitutional offices are up. Am I right about that?

Speaker 15 (45:16):
You're correct?

Speaker 1 (45:17):
Yeah, how are we looking with that? I know we're
looking great for governor? And what are the efforts so
far of OARP and those races because we got to
sweep on my thing.

Speaker 15 (45:28):
Yeah, well, what we've done is and the two biggest
races in Ohio. Really that's not to exclude any of
the other very important races, but for governor of Ohio,
we did the unprecedented move of endorsing Viveke Roma for me,
we did that all the way back in May. That
came with some controversy. Mike, it was a risk I took.

Speaker 11 (45:43):
It was the right risk.

Speaker 15 (45:45):
We don't have a primary right now for governor. We
don't anticipate one. We've all been united around Viveke, working
this team. United States Senate John Houston we talked about that.
You asked about the down ticket races. We have been
several people sort of positioning themselves to run in these
down ticket races. Again, when we say down ticket races,
for the people listening, we mean Ohio Secretary of State,
which runs elections in this state. We mean the state

(46:07):
treasurer who manages the money. We mean the state auditor,
whose job it is to audit and keep elected officials
honest with your money.

Speaker 4 (46:14):
And we mean.

Speaker 15 (46:16):
The I think we've named of the Attorney general of
course as well, which is the state'sup attorney. So these
are the down ticket races that we're focused on. What
we're doing is just having conversations. We know we may
or may not endorse in those races, Mike. It just
kind of depends on how the party faith will feel
about that. But if it seems clear that we've got
a pretty clear slate that may or may not happen,
we'll just kind of watch that carefully. But look, the

(46:37):
one thing we're to do, though, is back to what
you asked me at the foot, at the outset. We
are going to focus on these low propensity disengage people
and say you need to get out and vote because
having John Houston back in the Senate, having a majority
of the United States House representatives, and having a Republican
governor is what we need to do to protect President
Trump and his legacy.

Speaker 1 (46:56):
Well, speaking of a Republican House representatives redistrict, am I
correct in assuming that that has finally been settled one
way or the other. I mean, it's just it's something
that kind of seems like it's always there, the issue.

Speaker 15 (47:10):
I mean, Yeah, the Redistricting Commission met and voted on
new maps. They're bipartisan maps. The Democrats heads are spinning
because the conventional wisdom is that the Republicans with these
new maps may and I use the word may, add
two additional Republican seats from Ohio. The Democrats go crazy
about jerry mandering is a political issue, and then they

(47:32):
vote for the very same maps that they complain about.

Speaker 4 (47:35):
Mike.

Speaker 15 (47:35):
It's kind of one of those things that's pretty interesting
from my perspective. But we have maps here in Ohio
set ready to go. I think what Cincinnatians ought to know,
Southwest Ohioans ought to know is that the Greg Landsman
is very much in play for us, and you will
see a robust effort to replace mister Landsman with the
Republican in southwest Ohio. So those are conversations we've been

(47:58):
involved with as well. And on that one, Mike, I'll
just say, stay tuned.

Speaker 1 (48:03):
Yeah, good. I mean, and I looked at it a
little bit, and it looks like the first congressional district
is better than it was, so hopefully we do pick
up a couple Hey, we only have a couple of
minutes left. But I did want to just briefly talk
to you about local races. I know you're the state
chair now, but you spend a lot of time as
a county GOP chair as I did. I mean, what

(48:26):
does Judge mock do. What do the Republicans do about
city council mayor's races? I mean, do they walk away completely?
You know, when you got a three to one advantage.
I don't know how the hell you get around that, Alex,
what are your thoughts?

Speaker 15 (48:43):
Yeah, Look, what's happening in this county is what's happened
really in every big county in America, and it's and
youre look, I mean it's there's a lot of pundits,
a lot of no one has, as I say, in
this business, but sometimes, Mike, the reality is the numbers
just aren't there.

Speaker 1 (48:57):
Okay.

Speaker 15 (48:58):
So there's a reason that that, you know, you strategically
allocate resources. I don't care at what battle you're waging, right,
So look, I mean the future of the big urban counties,
not just to pick on Hamilton County is number one.
If you're going to try to play in these races,
find candidates with crossover appeal. Okay, candidates who can speak

(49:18):
to both sides of the political spectrum. Does it always
work now, But you cannot walk away from moderate and
even light Democrat voters number one. Number two, you got
to repurpose what you're What you're doing is a local
party organization. This is more inside baseball might but you know,
for Hamilton County, we must turn out a maximum number
of votes for those other statewide races we just talked about.

(49:41):
So the Republican Party locally cannot and will not go away.
It cannot because we in Hamilton County turn out tens
of thousands of Republicans that help Donald Trump win and
help you know, really Ramaswami and help us win election
after election in the state. So that's what the urban
counties must do if they're going to be competitive. In
the city of Cincinnati. You know, I, like everybody else,

(50:04):
I paid a little bit of attention to what happened,
but you know, it's a crisis, and the voters did
not respond to those public staatee pricense that's happening on
the ground. So you know what, the Democrats have done
a good job in the urban centers. We just got
to continue to find candidates and drive a message that
appeals to regular folks. That's the biggest challenge there. And
you know, there's a lot of people think they have answers,
but the answers are not easy to find share in

(50:25):
some of these deep blue cities, especially for me, there's
always three of them in Ohio.

Speaker 1 (50:29):
Absolutely, Hey, listen, we're out of time. Alex as always,
really appreciates you taking time out of your Saturday morning
to keep us posted.

Speaker 4 (50:38):
Happy to do it. Mike, have a great rest of
your weekend, you too, Thank you.

Speaker 1 (50:42):
All right, Alex traned to feel you Ohio goopachair and
I'll tell you what and a little bit biased. I
like the guy. He worked for me when I was prosecutor.
He's one hell of a state party chairman and he's
so right. We got to preserve what we have on
the state wide level. Hey, we got to take a break,
but when we get back, I got a whole half

(51:03):
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(51:26):
Mike Allen Saturday Midday. Gonna get back to the calls
in just a second. Here just a couple of things
I wanted to cover, and the one is my beloved
Elder Panthers. The eleven and oh, I guess are twelve
and oh now beat Fairfield twenty seven to seven. So
Elder advances to the further in the playoffs, which is

(51:47):
ironerstand it. The games are going to be next Friday
at Dayton Welcome Stadium. Also eight and two Saint Xavier
is going to play. I don't know what molus record is.
So we got three GCL teams in there, but of
course we all know who the better team is and
they're located up on the hill on the west side.

(52:09):
But congratulations to the Panthers. Not done yet, guys, keep
it going. And I'll tell you I was fortunate enough
when I was up there, we had two in a
row seventy three seventy four state champion football teams. So
congratulations to you guys, and also to Saint x Ann Mueller.
One other thing I want to mention here before I

(52:30):
get back to the calls, and I will do that.
Something really good happened this week. I mean really good.
You're probably wondering, what, Mike, what the heck could that be? Well,
Nancy Pelosi retired. She decided she's not going to seek
another term. Thank god. Steven Miller, I know you've heard

(52:51):
of him before, conservative commentator. He joked, Pelosi isn't retiring,
She's just cashing out. And I know what he meant
by that. That woman has made millions and millions of
dollars on stock trades in the House. I believe they

(53:12):
have legislation. They think they're calling it the Nancy pelosiac
I don't know the particulars of it, but it's to
stop for these politicians getting rich while they are in office.
Of course, from the mainstream media, she never caught any
crap for that. They kneel down and genuflected to her.

(53:34):
Just let me get this off my chest a little bit.
She is the epitome of the modern progressive democrat. She's arrogant,
she's self righteous, she's smug, she's sanctemonious, and she's also
a hypocrite. You may recall during the COVID deal, you know,
nobody's supposed to go out and do anything. Well, what's

(53:56):
Queen Nancy do? She goes somebody filmed that they caught her.
She goes to her hairdresser, and she did not stay
where she was supposed to stay. So, you know, rules
for thee but not for me. So and having said
all that, yeah, I guess she was a good legislator
and all that kind of stuff. And she was the
first female Speaker of the House. I've said this a

(54:21):
million times. I want to get away from this the
first but good riddance, Nancy Pelosi. You will not be missed. Okay,
let's get back to work here. Let's talk to Jeff Hey.
Good morning, Jeff Hey, good morning.

Speaker 16 (54:36):
I'm actually work in downtown Cincinnati, but I live in Kentucky.
The thing that I want to mention is that Christophers
mither Maan. I like everything about the guy I know
and the only and he only got a four I
think he got four percent. I was watching that. I
mean I like everything about the guy the most advertised
I mean his his principles, and I mean everything about

(54:58):
the guy.

Speaker 4 (54:59):
I was this, you know, overtaken by that.

Speaker 1 (55:01):
He's a special person and we're friends, and I truly
believe that, and I hope he's not done with elective politics.
But he's kind of between a rock and a hard
place as an independent. You know, back in the day
people liked independence. Obviously they don't in the city of Cincinnati.
I thought, I said it, and I meant it when

(55:23):
I said, I was obviously wrong. I thought he had
a real good chance of cracking through simply because the
crime too. I honestly thought so too.

Speaker 16 (55:33):
He's very well spoken, he advertised his principles, and I
was just heartbroken when when I seen the final outcome.

Speaker 1 (55:42):
Yeah, and me too. And I hope and I think
he's going to continue to provide political commentary on this show.
And again, like I said, I hope he's not done
with elective politics. But uh, we texted just a little
bit yesterday. I'm going to leave him alone for a while.
Uh that was just a shame. I thought he would
come a lot low.

Speaker 4 (56:00):
I agree.

Speaker 3 (56:01):
Well, I'm a longtime listener, Mike, and I appreciate what
you do.

Speaker 1 (56:05):
Thank you, Thank you, Jeff. Hey, let's talk to Jay
in Centerville. Hey, good morning, Jay. What you got for me?

Speaker 17 (56:11):
Hey, Mike, how are you good?

Speaker 4 (56:13):
Good? Good?

Speaker 8 (56:14):
Hey?

Speaker 17 (56:15):
I called in a couple of weeks ago. I'm the
refugee from Portland.

Speaker 1 (56:19):
That's right.

Speaker 15 (56:20):
I am really worried.

Speaker 17 (56:22):
I look at current mayor and I see all the
signs of Ted Wheeler, who was the worst mayor of Portland.
A succession of really bad mayors, but he was clearly
the worst, and he ushered in the demise of Portland.
I don't know if I mentioned this last time, Mike.

(56:45):
The office building I worked in in downtown Portland just
sold about a month ago for ninety percent less than
it did in two thousand and four. Ninety percent.

Speaker 4 (56:58):
Yeah.

Speaker 17 (56:58):
If you look up US bankd how Portland they call
it Big Pink.

Speaker 4 (57:02):
Was beautiful, most.

Speaker 17 (57:04):
Gorgeous, most gorgeous office building it can possibly imagine. There
is nobody left down there.

Speaker 4 (57:11):
You know.

Speaker 17 (57:11):
I grew up in Dayton, and I watched Nan Whaley
and Mike Turner and Ryan mccleann destroyed that city. This
guy's on track to do the same to Cincinnati, and
it's a shame I spend more time in Cincinnati than
I do in Dayton, and my girlfriend and I go
out to OTR in downtown a lot, and there's so

(57:32):
much to offer. There is so many events, so much fun,
and Aftab is going to personally destroy that with his
idiot ideas. It's sad and I don't know how you
hold him accountable. Now he got a free pass to
do whatever he wants.

Speaker 1 (57:47):
That's exactly it. When you win that whatever it was.
I think Corey, who I thought run a great campaign.
He only got eighteen percent. But yeah, you know, I'm
usually a pessimist, but not about this. I worry like
you to do that Cincinnati becomes the next Portland because
with respect to crime, nothing is going to change lesson

(58:10):
until we go back to what we had for god
knows how many years where the police chief and the
assistant police chiefs were protected by civil service and you know,
like Tom Striker, Larry Whalen, they tell the mayor city
manager go to hell, and that's as it should be.
So it's a sad day. It really is.

Speaker 17 (58:32):
One of the big things with downtown is even if
it is relatively safe, and going out at two in
the morning is a stupid idea which which seems to
be the pattern. If people feel unsafe, they won't go
and everybody will leave downtown. That's really what happened to Portland.
It's during the day, it's pretty sketchy. I mean, it's

(58:55):
become kind of like Escape from New York at this point.
But you know, when it started to go downhill, I
was still living there. I had to start to carry Mike.
It just got so sketchy, and it was all about
this reimagine the police and don't prosecute anybody and usher
in the homeless because we can distribute more money and

(59:17):
NGOs that will feed Democrat campaigns.

Speaker 15 (59:20):
And it's just terrible.

Speaker 17 (59:21):
My girlfriend voted for AFTAB. She kind of leans left,
she's not a hardcore lefty, but her reasoning was anybody
that was tied to Trump in any way she's ever
vote for.

Speaker 1 (59:33):
I think a lot of people were like that, Jay,
And what's Donald delpav to do with it?

Speaker 17 (59:37):
You know, yeah, exactly. So anyway, I'm worried about the city.
I don't know how we hold him accountable for the
stupid ideas he's going to bring forward. He's going to
cost the city probably four or five million by the
fire he's a police chief and the fire chief that
could go to road repair. Yeah, he's a complete idiot.
He's a complete idiot, loser looking for his opportunity to

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go into the US Senate. It's the only reason easy.

Speaker 1 (01:00:04):
We shall see Jay. I really appreciate the call.

Speaker 4 (01:00:06):
Thank you, Thanks, Mike.

Speaker 17 (01:00:08):
Okay weekend Okay, you too.

Speaker 1 (01:00:10):
Yeah, you know, it is sad. It's just confirmation another
person is kind of throwing in the towel on the city.
I mean, with respect to the safety issue. I'm telling
you right now, it's not going to get better. It's
only going to get worse. I don't want it to.
I'm not advocating for that, but it is. And I
know I say it so many times. I live down

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there for twelve years. It is fantastic the things that
we have down there. But man, when you have six
shootings on the weekend, that ain't gonna last real long. Anyway. Hey,
let's talk to Ken. Hey, Good morning, Ken, Good morning Mike.

Speaker 18 (01:00:50):
One of the biggest problems that we have that we
fight is the dishonest news. Yes, and quite frankly, Rick
Macino is one of the worst that you guys have
on there. He always goes to the Democrat talking point,
never giving a counter position that the Republicans have. Now,

(01:01:12):
I know that your news feeds, which ABC, which is
ninety four to ninety seven percent negative on Trump, that's
where this comes from. And so that's it leans heavy
or at least this guy does heavy to the left.
And as far as the subsidized healthcare that they're fussing about,

(01:01:35):
early in my understanding, early in the Biden administration and
COVID was still going on, they lifted the income requirements
so that people now that are making eighty ninety and
one hundred thousand are getting subsidized healthcare. And some of this,
you know, some of the fees are down to ten

(01:01:56):
dollars a month. So when the dishonest news media says,
oh my goodness, they're going to get a twenty six
percent increase or a forty percent, that's on ten dollars.
Now it's not all ten dollars, but it goes down
to as low as ten dollars, and I think, you know,
what the Republicans are trying to do is clean that
up that the high incomers collecting it, the one point

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eight million illegals that are on it, in which the
California finagled them on it through medical out there, and
then you have seven point four million working age able
bodied mails that aren't working, and I don't know how
many of them are collecting it. So I think they've

(01:02:42):
come out and said that they're willing to look at,
you know, the single mothers with children and work with that,
but they want to clean up the rest of it.
But you never hear that, and the Republicans really should
do a better job at articulating that position.

Speaker 1 (01:02:56):
I agree, I agree, And it's a good suggestion.

Speaker 4 (01:02:59):
Ken.

Speaker 1 (01:02:59):
Thank you so much much for their call. Appreciate it. Hey,
how about we got a celebrity on the line here,
science Mike, He of the show that precedes me, Gary Jack.
How you doing, Mike? You want to talk to politics
instead of science?

Speaker 4 (01:03:16):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:03:16):
Yeah, politics.

Speaker 4 (01:03:17):
Just three quick points.

Speaker 8 (01:03:19):
So two callers previously talked about the voters.

Speaker 4 (01:03:21):
Didn't vote uh an our an our letter in their.

Speaker 8 (01:03:26):
Ballot because association with Trump. So if there would have
been a say, Kamala won the presidential election, so they
would have voted for a Republican. Really, I mean, they
just they just don't They just really can't rub throo
brain cells together.

Speaker 1 (01:03:43):
It's either it's either that, Mike, or they just don't
bother to read up on things. I think today's voter
is pretty much uninformed. And you know, Trump rubs a
lot of people the wrong way, and people don't look
past that. Some people. At least what the man is
done in less than a year is incredible.

Speaker 8 (01:04:03):
I agree. And the second topic this past week, they're
going to raise the property transfer tax rate right because
they can't balance the budget.

Speaker 1 (01:04:13):
Right, Are you talking about the city of Cincinnati or.

Speaker 4 (01:04:16):
Yeah, that's correct.

Speaker 8 (01:04:17):
Okay, I didn't hear that, but yeah, Well they talk
about the sales revenue being down, but that's all they
say about it. They don't say why it's down. They
don't talk about businesses that left Cincinnati, down the county.
They don't talk about the problem. They only want to
get more money from you to fix some lack of
ability that they can't solve on their own.

Speaker 4 (01:04:39):
You know what I'm saying, It's just I do.

Speaker 1 (01:04:42):
It's a topsy turvy world in politics, unfortunately, and yeah,
we just got to hang on and work as hard
as we can. You know, I worry, I worry Mike
about the midterms. I mean, we lose the House. I'll
bet you a chocolate Sunday. They will impeach Donald Trump
for nothing.

Speaker 8 (01:05:00):
Well, I hate, I hate the quote, a ninety two
presidential Clinton winner, but he ran on the simple it's
the economy, stupid. And if Trump doesn't get get the pricing,
the reakdown and pricing down. I mean, I agree, they
just they gotta wake up a lot of.

Speaker 1 (01:05:19):
People believe that, Mike, and I'm one of them. Hey,
thanks for the call, man. I won't tell Gary Jeff
you called, so don't worry about it.

Speaker 4 (01:05:27):
Don't do that. He'll banish me, brother, Thank you.

Speaker 8 (01:05:32):
You know.

Speaker 1 (01:05:32):
The affordability thing, that's I don't think he used that word,
but that's what Mike was talking about. And I guess
that's going to be the watch word going into the
mid terms. And I get it. I mean, stuff is
just so ridiculously priced. And ask yourself this question. If
Trump wasn't president, and God forbid, Kamala or Sleepy Joe

(01:05:54):
would have been elected, imagine how much worse it would be. Hey,
I got for one more butt if you are If
I don't get to you, please hang on through the
the eleven to eleven thirty hour because from eleven thirty
to noon open mics and I'll be taking calls. Got
time to take a quick one. How about Mark? Hey? Mark?

(01:06:19):
Are you?

Speaker 19 (01:06:20):
Hey?

Speaker 1 (01:06:20):
Mark? How you doing?

Speaker 20 (01:06:22):
Can you hear me?

Speaker 7 (01:06:23):
Okay, yeah, I can.

Speaker 1 (01:06:25):
I only got about a minute and a half for you.
I'm sorry, all right, all right, Well I'll go through
this quickly.

Speaker 20 (01:06:29):
You know, the affordability thing here, just to give you
an idea, you know, rents, rents and the interest rates.

Speaker 3 (01:06:36):
Are really a big problem.

Speaker 20 (01:06:37):
And what I don't think a lot of people realize
is most people that own investment property, that that you
know that have property, these are people like you and me.
They're not wealthy people. They buy a piece of property,
you know, for long term investment. But just to give
you an idea, you know, most of those loans on
those properties are they're no non unoccupied loans, they're short

(01:06:59):
term loans five years, have to be refinanced every five years.
So you know, if you bought a property for seven
hundred thousand dollars in twenty twenty, you're probably paying about
thirty six thirty seven hundred dollars a month for that.
You have to refinance that five years later with interest
rates that are double, and even though the principles down,

(01:07:19):
your payments are still up close to probably forty five
hundred bucks.

Speaker 3 (01:07:23):
A month, So up nine hundred bucks yep.

Speaker 20 (01:07:26):
You then you lump on the increased property taxes that
everybody has to pay, plus all the other stuff, and
that's why your rents are almost unaffordable now. And the
one thing that Trump has to do, he has to
get on that knit with who's running the who's running
the Central Bank, and get these rates down, because that

(01:07:48):
is that would be a huge, huge help to start
getting some of these numbers down.

Speaker 1 (01:07:53):
You're right, and I gotta let you go, Mark, but
I do want to comment briefly on what you have
to say. Thanks for the call. I think that's going
to happen. I don't know anything about that stuff. It's
just not my kind of wheelhouse. But I've heard more
than one time that he's getting the hell out of there,
out of the FED, and Trump will point somebody news,
So we'll see what happens. Hey, we got to take

(01:08:13):
a break, but when we get back, we're going to
talk to independent political analyst Kevin Burton. Want to see
what Kevin has to say about what happened Tuesday night.
We'll do that when we get back. Mike Allen Saturday
mid Day.

Speaker 3 (01:08:27):
I turned off news altogether. I hate to say it,
but I don't trust much of anything.

Speaker 1 (01:08:38):
News Radio seven hundred WLW. Mike Allen with our three
third and final hour of Saturday Midday. Well, you've been
talking about it all morning, and we're not going to
stop now. It was an off year election, but man,
I think still very important. I think most people feel
that way. Here to talk about it is independent political

(01:09:00):
analyst Kevin Burton. Kevin, thanks so much for joining us
this morning.

Speaker 3 (01:09:05):
Mike, thanks for having me.

Speaker 1 (01:09:06):
Hey, just in general, and then I'll have some specific
questions your thought on Tuesday night? What do you think
about what happened and the effect of it.

Speaker 3 (01:09:17):
It's the economy stupid. The quote always rings true.

Speaker 21 (01:09:21):
I mean, at the end of the day, you can
spend as much money as you want, you can do
as much earned media as you want, you can do
as much social media as you want. At the end
of the day, if people are feeling it in their wallets, you're.

Speaker 3 (01:09:33):
Going to lose the election. I mean, we saw it
last year, we saw it this year. It's the simplest thing.
But you know, the economy is always that well.

Speaker 1 (01:09:46):
Yeah, and for the longest time, immigration was the big thing.
I think that's moved down to number three, and it
is not in the economy. A little more specifically, affordability.
Something tells me you're going to be hearing that word
quite a bit from both sides.

Speaker 3 (01:10:04):
Exactly.

Speaker 21 (01:10:05):
And you know, in a lot of ways, Trump's kind
of making the same as Sake Biden did in the
sense that he keeps saying, well, the stock.

Speaker 3 (01:10:11):
Market's great, the stock market's great.

Speaker 21 (01:10:15):
Well, the stock market doesn't represent everyday Americans, right, And
the Biden administration kind of fell into a hole where
they were like, well, the economy is great, unemployments low.

Speaker 3 (01:10:26):
Well it is for some, but not for all.

Speaker 21 (01:10:31):
And Trump's kind of falling into that exact same scenario
where he's like, you know, the stock market's good.

Speaker 3 (01:10:36):
Soood's actually down.

Speaker 1 (01:10:37):
It's like, well, it's not.

Speaker 21 (01:10:41):
Affordability is going to be the number one thing on
the issue. If you're under forty years old. Can you
afford a house?

Speaker 4 (01:10:46):
Yeah?

Speaker 21 (01:10:47):
I mean, you know, a lot of politics go out
the window when you can't afford a house or you're
paying you know, twelve dollars for ground bes.

Speaker 1 (01:10:56):
Yep. Yeah, it's amazing how expensive things are now. And
it kind of reminds me of the late seventies with
Jimmy Carter. I mean, interest rates got up to I
don't know, thirteen fourteen percent and it was just bad,
always around and you know Riggan collaborat him with that.
So I think the watchword is going to be affordability.

(01:11:16):
Hopefully the Republican side at least gets it. I think
both sides will get it. Let me specifically ask about
Tuesday night. Democrat turnout was, from what I understand, very
very good. The D's do such a good job of
that Republicans did in the presidential just a couple of
years ago. But here's the thing. A lot of people

(01:11:39):
think this, Kevin, and I'm one of them that, you know,
the hardcore MAGA people, they ain't going to vote if
Trump's not on the ballot. And would you agree with
me if he doesn't do something to change that, we
ain't going nowhere?

Speaker 21 (01:11:53):
Well, I mean, and kind of history proved that. So
you know, he won in twenty sixteen, he won in
twenty twenty four. When you start looking at twenty eighteen,
twenty nineteen, you know, yes, or this week and before.
When Trump's Name's not on the ballot, it just frankly
doesn't have.

Speaker 3 (01:12:13):
The pool of the voters that when he does.

Speaker 21 (01:12:17):
I know, I didn't say it very elegant there, But
when his name's not on top of the ballot, MAGA
has lost every election.

Speaker 3 (01:12:26):
But when he's on it, it's a game changer.

Speaker 21 (01:12:30):
And frankly, we've talked about this before, when you are
just a unique political individual, we saw this with Obama,
we saw this with Reagan, we see it with Trump,
and we're also seeing it with Mindani right now too.
It's not no endorsement of any of their politics. It's
when you are this magnetic force that you can get

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people to the polls. People want to vote for someone
who frankly, they would want to beer with, or who
they actually just think is a fighter for them and
like them, and all the other stuff goes out the window.
And when Trump's not on the ballot, he's not there,
and you know, he got a whole pool of individuals.

Speaker 3 (01:13:14):
Who's never voted before.

Speaker 21 (01:13:16):
And that's why, like all the polls and models were
off in twenty sixteenth so much because if no one
has ever ever voted.

Speaker 3 (01:13:23):
You can't predict that they're going to vote here. And
he got folks, and he got folks who had never been.

Speaker 21 (01:13:28):
In politics before, and frankly, they you know, they really
turn out just for the presidential years, you know.

Speaker 1 (01:13:34):
I talked to Alex Trant to feel you, Ohio, g
opeach here just a little bit ago. He seems to
grasp this problem too, And I asked him, I said
that you think we're going to see Trump here a
lot ginning up the vote. And Alex thought that, yeah,
he is gonna do that, because if he doesn't, and
maybe even if he does, we're not going to win

(01:13:56):
the We're not gonna win the midterms. And boom, there
goes the House of Representatives. Would you agree, well, the House.

Speaker 21 (01:14:04):
Once again, we don't know because every state has decided.

Speaker 3 (01:14:08):
To just change the rules in the middle of the game. Yeah,
with I mean, it's ridiculous. You can't. If he did
it after the census, that's fine.

Speaker 21 (01:14:18):
But no, And one thing that's not being talked about
enough is actually the Senate map, you know, and shared
Brown is running. Yes, it's a long shot, but if
he wins that that actually it's very likely then that
the map could be fifty fifty, and no one's actually
really talked about that yet. So I want to be

(01:14:40):
shocked to see Trump here a lot to you know,
make sure, because you want to hold onto the governor's race,
and they want to hold onto that Senate race the House.
We just got to see how everything's redrawn until we
can really say who's going to be favored in that.

Speaker 1 (01:14:55):
Yeah. I talked to Alex on the air and he
said that it's it's final lit what is going to do?
And he had mentioned that he thought it might be
a pickup of two seats, one of the seats being
down down here in the first congressional district, which is
Landsman's seat. So I guess we'll have to wait and
see what happens on that. But there's got to be

(01:15:15):
a better way of doing that, you know.

Speaker 21 (01:15:18):
Seems like, Yeah, I mean, my whole thing is he
can't change the rules in the middle of the game.

Speaker 5 (01:15:26):
He can't.

Speaker 9 (01:15:27):
I just.

Speaker 3 (01:15:30):
You just can't like fight anyway.

Speaker 1 (01:15:33):
Well, let me ask you this speaking of something silly
government shutdown. I don't know. I'm kind of watching as
I talk here with the sound turned down. Maybe there's
something going today. But everything that I've seen Kevin Burton
is Republicans and Trump are getting hurt more on that.
Would you agree with that? Number one? Number two, what

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would you think would be the reason for it other
than the media bias.

Speaker 21 (01:16:00):
Well, I mean, they do control the House, the Senate,
and the Presidency, so I mean that's pretty much. Yeah,
but they are definitely getting hurt more by it because
they have all three branches. It's the only time in
government history that the shutdown is this long.

Speaker 3 (01:16:15):
And the president controls both chambers.

Speaker 21 (01:16:20):
You know, And I think that's another thing that you
got to take into effect that happened on Tuesday. I mean,
I think we can all agree they have a pretty
coochy job. The least they can do is actually fund government,
one thing.

Speaker 3 (01:16:37):
You would think, but.

Speaker 21 (01:16:38):
You know, entire trading they're they're very good at, but
funding governments they're not. So it's just aggravating on both fronts.
You know, everyone needs to be an adult. You know,
those air traffic and TFA agents, you know, thank you
for coming to work when you're not getting made. And
I think, you know, I think America just all owes
I'm a debt of gratitude and they should all get backpacked.

Speaker 1 (01:17:00):
You are so right. I hope that happens. I hope
it happens soon. It's just there's got to be some
bipartisanship somewhere. I mean, it's you know where I'm coming
from from the right, and you know, I would hope
somebody on the left and feel the same way. And frankly,
with respect to that issue, I don't think one party

(01:17:21):
is to blame a hell of a lot more than
the other. Maybe a little bit, but it's just crazy.
Let me ask you this, If the Democrats should retake
control of the House, do you think that they'll vote
to impeach Trump. Of course, he's not going to get
convicted in the Senate. I've heard a couple of them
talking about that already.

Speaker 21 (01:17:41):
I think it would be the stupidest thing in the world. Yeah,
he's lamed, dug why give something? You know, in a
lot of ways, if we go back, I guess a
year and a half ago when people were asking is
Bidy going to drop out? And Republicans were like, well,
I don't want Harris to be president for a year
because then you normalize it, then people get used to it.

Speaker 1 (01:18:04):
Yep.

Speaker 21 (01:18:05):
So if they try to do that to Trump, well,
you just now gave j D two years of being
a president or a year and a half, whatever it
would and then he would be the front runner because
people are used to him as president.

Speaker 3 (01:18:20):
It would be the silliest thing in the world to do. Listen,
you don't like him. We all get it, we all
know it, We've all heard it for the last decade.

Speaker 21 (01:18:29):
Yeah, it would be a huge calculation mishap if you
would target to impeach him, because then JD. Vance can say, Hey,
I've been president for eighteen months.

Speaker 3 (01:18:40):
And I've done X, Y and z M.

Speaker 1 (01:18:43):
Let me ask you this, and I've been waiting all
week to ask you this. The Democrats Mandami problem. Do
you think that I mean, I don't know just what
he says, the policies, I just don't understand and don't
know how they will work. How do you think that
well effect the Democrat Party, who frankly, although they had
a hell of a night Tuesday night, I think they're

(01:19:05):
still searching for an identity.

Speaker 21 (01:19:08):
Well, I mean in a way that Mandonnie kind of
brought him back from the dead. And we've talked about
this before with him in AFC. You may not agree
with them at all, but they at least stand for something.
And I think that's what Democrats have not had in
a decade. They've always just been the party of Trump sucks,
and it's like, well, what are you going to do?

(01:19:30):
And regardless of what you think of their politics, Mandannie
AOC And when we talked about this a while back
that you know, it's very similar to twenty fourteen in
the Republican Party that the neoliberals. You know, you see
Nancy Pelosi saying that she's not going to run again.
People wanted them to primary Chuck Schumer. It's very similar

(01:19:52):
to what we saw a decade ago with the rise
of Trump, and you're kind of seeing that now in
the Democratic Party. As for Mindani, I mean, the new
caught lightning in a bottle. You can't replicate that, You
just can. I mean, for I don't know how he's
in pay for everything, but he has an or swagger

(01:20:13):
whatever it's called these days, and he just has it
and he was able to tap into it.

Speaker 1 (01:20:20):
Yeah, and you know, I mean he was good on
the stump. I will give you that, but I don't
know that America is ready for socialist mayor of the
biggest city in the country. Hey, we shall see. I
mean he won it fair and square, and a lot
of people and I have to put myself in this group.
Republicans are thinking, well, let's you know, maybe it's a

(01:20:40):
good thing. Let's see what happens. I don't have any
confidence that it's going to work out, but I guess
we'll see. Hey, let me do this. I wanted to
ask you about the state races twenty twenty six governor
and the rest of the constitutional offices. Do you see
a Republican sweep again? I think last time we Kevin,

(01:21:00):
you did think that Shared Brown might have a chance
of getting back.

Speaker 21 (01:21:05):
Well, and Shared would be the only one. You know,
he's a known commodity. He is kind of a populist.
I mean, what is the like twelve and one in Alesta.
And you know Moreno was really able to use career
politician against him with houstaid, it's kind of the spider
Man means they're both pointing at each other because they've

(01:21:27):
both been in politics forever. So if anything would happen,
it would be that one governor. I have a really
hard time, you know, Amy he's running a good race,
but the fact Ramaswami has raised so much money and
he's running a really well organized campaign and.

Speaker 3 (01:21:47):
You know everything down ballot, it's gonna be hard for
the Democrats.

Speaker 1 (01:21:50):
Yeah, it should be interesting. I did have to answer
to ask you just a couple of questions about local
because I know sometimes you get involved in those races.
The Republicans are referring to it as the Tuesday disaster,
and it was. I mean, you know, you and I talked.
I think we both agreed that perhaps Smitheman, because of
the crime issue and his being all over that might

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have a chance. Man, it wasn't even close. And you
look at that mayor's race too. I mean, have you
ever seen a race that he got eighteen percent? I
forgot what the they what? Sorry, what the mayor got?
Pure of all, I don't know your thoughts. Yeah, I
mean I've never seen anything like that.

Speaker 21 (01:22:33):
Kevin Well, you did ask me on this show what
chance he had, and I said, as much as the
chances I had at playing Augusta National.

Speaker 3 (01:22:42):
I said, So that perdition was right.

Speaker 21 (01:22:45):
Yeah, it's the power and credit to the Hamilton County
Democratic Party.

Speaker 3 (01:22:51):
They have built a well oiled machine.

Speaker 21 (01:22:53):
They know how to they know how to turn out
their base, they know their election results.

Speaker 3 (01:22:59):
And Frank, you know, it does give the mayor a mandate.
It does you win eighty.

Speaker 21 (01:23:04):
Percent of an election. All outside noises are bad. I
mean he wanted farre and Square for the council. You know,
I think having twenty six people in the ballot, you know,
we we were speculating would some of the Democrats get
broken up by legacy names, you know, the Drea House,
the Keticle s.

Speaker 3 (01:23:25):
Metherman, Keating Well, and reality was the opposite.

Speaker 21 (01:23:28):
The Democratic slate stood strong and all the other candidates
all kind of split the vote.

Speaker 1 (01:23:35):
Mm hmm let me ask them, Bombstar go ahead.

Speaker 3 (01:23:38):
Yeah, well no, it's just like I said, credit to
their whole organization.

Speaker 4 (01:23:43):
It is.

Speaker 1 (01:23:44):
It's a thing of incredible. I was almost going to
say beauty. I don't want to say that, but they've
always been like that. I was chairman a million years
ago and they were good at that. The slate card,
there was some grumbling that the Republican slate card wasn't
getting out in the city. I don't know that it
would have made any difference though. Okay, you are the

(01:24:06):
party chairman, Hamilton County Republican Party Chairman twenty twenty seven.
Would you even field a slate for city council anymore?

Speaker 10 (01:24:17):
No?

Speaker 3 (01:24:18):
I mean, it's no different than if.

Speaker 21 (01:24:20):
You're in Brown County or Grant County and you're a Democrat.
Like it's kind of like, I don't want to say
it's a waste of time, but like you're not going
to do anything. You're not gonna win, and if you do,
you really only need to choose one candidate and just
go all in on one. I just the numbers are

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what the numbers are. You know, Harris won the city.

Speaker 3 (01:24:43):
Of Cincinnati seventy five to twenty five, and.

Speaker 21 (01:24:45):
It's pretty similar to what the mayor just won. There's
nothing to change that, yep, and I agree with that.

Speaker 1 (01:24:54):
We'll see what happens. Hey, really appreciate you coming on
on pretty short notice. I appreciate it.

Speaker 3 (01:25:00):
Evan, Hey, thanks for waking me up this morning.

Speaker 1 (01:25:03):
Okay, thank you, bye bye. You know what, Well, that's
a literal truth, I think. But he's always been available
to us and I love getting it from him straight,
with no bias either way. So we will continue to
have him on the show. Hey, we got to take
a break. Button we get back. We're going back to

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the phone. Seven four nine, seven thousand, one, eight hundred.
The big one are the numbers. Mike Allen, Saturday.

Speaker 3 (01:25:31):
Midday dinner for his date isn't funny?

Speaker 19 (01:25:37):
Try this baby listening to her reaction after she eats
he's under cooked chicken.

Speaker 1 (01:25:42):
You don't feel so well?

Speaker 3 (01:25:43):
He is funny. Eddie and Rocky are also funny.

Speaker 19 (01:25:48):
So when you think of date spewing raw chicken chunks
like a fire hose, think of Eddie and Rocky. Eddie
and Rocky Monday.

Speaker 13 (01:25:57):
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I missed playing football ever since I turned forty.

Speaker 1 (01:26:12):
It is eleven thirty eight News Radio, seven hundred WLW,
Mike Allen, closing minutes if you will of Saturday midday. Hey,
I got a correction I have to make here. I
hope I'm not expelled from elder. I had it reversed.
I had it reversed with respect to the state championships,

(01:26:33):
football and basketball. Elder was state champions in football two
thousand and two and two thousand and three basketball when
I was there nineteen seventy three and nineteen seventy four.
But I was at each of those those state championship games,
and boy, it was exciting. I had one of my classmates,

(01:26:55):
a fellow Latin Club member with me. He was president
and I was vice president. So I appreciate him keeping
me straight. One other thing before we get back to
the phones, and this is a very serious thing. Woke
up this morning to the news that a Miami Dade
deputy was fatally shot during an altercation. I guess it

(01:27:17):
was yesterday, leading to a massive police response. The deputy's
name was Devin jar Miillo. He was only twenty seven.
He was shot while responding to a car crash and
taken to a local hospital, where he passed away. And
you know, I've never heard of a line of duty

(01:27:38):
death with a car crash, but it just goes to
show you how dangerous that job is these days. It's
always been dangerous, but nothing nothing like it is now,
just for the heck of it. I checked. As of
November twenty twenty five, there have been at least one
hundred and three police line of duty deaths according to

(01:28:00):
the officer down memorial page, which I have found to
be pretty accurate. So prayers for this deputy sheriff and
his family. It's just such a sad thing when something
like that happens. Okay, let's get back to the phones.
Let's talk with our friend doctor Dennis in Annapolis. Doc,
how you doing all right?

Speaker 4 (01:28:19):
Michael?

Speaker 8 (01:28:20):
You good?

Speaker 1 (01:28:21):
Good? What you got for me today?

Speaker 17 (01:28:23):
Okay?

Speaker 22 (01:28:23):
As a as a sometimes visitor to Cincinnati, uh, you know,
we we usually don't want to go downtime because of
the crime situation, and looking at your recent mayor's election,
I would I would think that it would be a
choice between the crime allowers and the crime prevenders.

Speaker 1 (01:28:49):
Yeah, I mean that probably true.

Speaker 22 (01:28:51):
Looks like your voters went with the crime allowers. I
understand you didn't have that. There was not a great
turn on, is that correct?

Speaker 1 (01:29:00):
No, it was awful. I think it was close to
twenty percent, maybe a little bit above that, but no,
it was not good.

Speaker 4 (01:29:08):
Yeah.

Speaker 22 (01:29:08):
So therefore, by default, by not voting, you went with
the crime allowers. Yep, if you will. Yeah, so you
kind of lay a lot of the blame on voters too.

Speaker 1 (01:29:21):
Oh absolutely, I mean just the margin doc of f
Tab's victory. I mean it was impressive. You know, I
made the statement, I'll say it now even more so,
I don't know that you ever will see a Republican
elected either to Cincinnati mayor or Cincinnati City Council. It
just ain't gonna happen, you know, when you're out numbered

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three to one. But now I thought Christopher Smitheman, who
was all over all over the crime issue and ran
a great campaign, I was hopeful that he would punch through.
Then he had Liz Keating, who was on council before,
did a great job raising money in a great campaign.
That both of them were way out of the money.

Speaker 22 (01:30:04):
Yeah, I think they already have their minds made up
of these voters about just looking for the D in
front of the name. That yeah, that they don't look,
they don't look beyond that.

Speaker 1 (01:30:15):
They're pretty disciplined voters, they always have been. You got
to get on that.

Speaker 22 (01:30:20):
Yeah, well yeah, but what do you if you're just
going not looking beyond the D that then that that
that you know that that's really not that's very uh superficial.
Uh it is it's not very knowledgeable voting.

Speaker 1 (01:30:34):
No, I get it, I do.

Speaker 22 (01:30:37):
Yeah, just one might make one more point, uh this,
uh this pure of all. Yeah, he never seems to
come on w l W. I know you would if
you offer to come on your show.

Speaker 1 (01:30:50):
You in a heart in a heart beating, and I
would be respectful in a heartbeat, I'd have him on.

Speaker 22 (01:30:57):
Yeah, and so milk and then I'm sure you're going
the Cunningham show. But he just doesn't seem to have
the gonads to go on either of these shows or
any show on w l W. I know Bill had
this iris rolling or whatever name that comes and goes around.
So she was on, and she tended to overtalk Bill

(01:31:20):
like almost filibustering and that. But there was one revealing
thing about it's typical of all these liberals that won't
go on conservative shows. She made the remark that, oh,
Bill made some thing or there was something about why
you know liberals won't come on a show, And she says, oh,
you're not warm and welcome. So I guess they all

(01:31:45):
expect softball, cupcake questions. I guess when they get on
shows like they get on the all the liberal shows.
Your expectations.

Speaker 1 (01:31:54):
I'm glad you mentioned that, Doc, I got a lot
of callers. I got to move. Okay, thank you so
much for that call. I really appreciate it. You know,
he makes the point, and I don't understand it. I mean,
you have the crime issue, horrible crime issue in this
city that threatens too just shut down pretty much downtown,

(01:32:14):
but doesn't seem to matter to a hell of a
lot of people in the city. I don't know. It's
something beyond my comprehension. I guess let's see, let's see.
How's about Let's take Rick in Dallas. Hey, Rick, how
you doing.

Speaker 4 (01:32:31):
I know, I'm pretty good. So it's a boy a
week for everybody, I guess the Bearcats and yeah, and
I don't even mention Dallas. I only pay attention to
that to you anymore.

Speaker 1 (01:32:43):
I'll call up.

Speaker 4 (01:32:44):
This is sort of a child member of history. Why
didn't Cincinnati the city proper, not the county, just this
is the city proper. Why weren't they divided up in
the wars? I think when it was a huge city, well,
when it was about five hundred thousand people.

Speaker 1 (01:33:00):
It is it is divided up by wards, uh and
the ward chairman used to be one powerful individual. Yeah,
it still is, but nobody really pays attention to it
much anymore. Of course, it's divided into precincts and the wards,
but that used to be a very important position if

(01:33:20):
you were ward chair. I don't know that it means
much of anything now. But having said that, a lot
of good people on both sides of the ledger work
hard as chairman and chair women. But yes, that is
divided into wards. Twenty fifth ward is Westwood. I think
twenty one is down there in Salor Park and the

(01:33:43):
twenties are on the west side. But yeah, it's still
it still is, but it's not something that's very relevant anymore.

Speaker 4 (01:33:50):
Yeah. Oh yes, Oh one more thing too. If you're
talking about school and stuff. Now, I've graduated from from
real old quarter Tech. Yeah, okay, you know that's school.
I was legend that I'm probably saying. You know, they
won seventeen straight city gymnastic championship.

Speaker 1 (01:34:05):
I did not know that. What years were they?

Speaker 4 (01:34:09):
Oh god, well, well I graduated seventy two. We want
something seventy through seventy two. I just going all the
way back to fifty sixty. They opened that building in
what fifty five or something. Yeah, oh god, I mean
I guess it was back all the way back to
the late fifties.

Speaker 8 (01:34:26):
You know.

Speaker 1 (01:34:27):
I graduated in seventy four, So you and I are
we're like veterans. But I appreciate the call, Rick, I
really do.

Speaker 4 (01:34:34):
I gotta how'll go weekend and go Bengals.

Speaker 1 (01:34:38):
Okay, okay, yeah, go Bengals. They're not playing so they
can't lose this week. Hey, let's talk to Kurt in Madisonville. Hey,
good morning Kurt.

Speaker 4 (01:34:47):
Hey, good morning Mike.

Speaker 1 (01:34:48):
Hey.

Speaker 4 (01:34:49):
Yeah, go Bengals.

Speaker 11 (01:34:50):
But it's terrible. The Bengals are six point underdogs against
the bye week this week.

Speaker 1 (01:34:58):
I never heard that before.

Speaker 15 (01:35:02):
Anyway.

Speaker 11 (01:35:03):
So Thanksgiving is coming up in the next couple of weeks,
so I think if their government is still shut down
to what about a week or so before Thanksgiving or
our Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy needs to shut down all
the airports.

Speaker 4 (01:35:19):
Within one hundred and fifty miles of Washington, d C.

Speaker 11 (01:35:22):
And forso centered as if they want to go home,
they're going.

Speaker 4 (01:35:26):
To have to open up the government.

Speaker 1 (01:35:28):
Well, I'm afraid that may happen on a national basis
if they don't get this thing straightened out. Nobody wants
to mess with that. I mean, they just obviously it's very,
very dangerous, and it's just there's got to be a
better way to do that.

Speaker 11 (01:35:42):
I think. Yeah, they're they're they're the Democrats are holding
the nation hostage.

Speaker 15 (01:35:49):
It's it's ridiculous.

Speaker 4 (01:35:50):
Yep, all right, absolutely ridiculous.

Speaker 1 (01:35:53):
I appreciate the call. Take care, Okay, thanks. You know,
I think Sean Duffy's doing a hell of a job
without him, and he's engaged obviously, you know, he's running
the department and well, I'll tell you that's playing with
fire man. It really is. Can you imagine if the
tragedy of an airliner, a packed airliner goes down and

(01:36:16):
it can be attributed to not enough people in that
control tower. It's just the whole thing is just so stupid.
And I think this is where, you know, both parties
have to stand up and say we ain't doing this
no more. Here's another way to do it. But you know,
if you think that's gonna happen, I got a bridge
to sell you. Hey, let's talk to Jim and Mason. Hey,

(01:36:40):
good morning, Jim, Hey Mike, how you doing good?

Speaker 4 (01:36:43):
Good?

Speaker 1 (01:36:44):
Let's get Hey.

Speaker 23 (01:36:47):
I know our forefathers were really good at structuring the
Decoration of Independence and.

Speaker 4 (01:36:56):
Did a terrific job.

Speaker 23 (01:36:58):
Term limits Congressman, Is there any way other than them
voting for.

Speaker 7 (01:37:05):
It, that it could be accomplished, like on a national.

Speaker 4 (01:37:12):
Voter thing something like that, or is it just is
it just them that have have to pursue that, these elves?

Speaker 1 (01:37:21):
You know, I think it can be done maybe by
a constitutional amendment, I'm not sure somebody, And for that
you got to get thirty five states, and it's just
a real big deal. But somebody needs to do something
on that. It's just it's awful stupid.

Speaker 23 (01:37:38):
Yeah, it's just good luck and fighting all the time
and not good for America. So anyway, I just thought
i'd call and asked, so, okay, you would know.

Speaker 1 (01:37:52):
All right, my pleasure. Yeah, it's just I mean, the
whole thing is just ridiculous. I mean, it really is.
It just doesn't make a lot of sense at all.
But you know, that's where we find ourselves in the
year twenty twenty five. All Right, I'm out of here.
Actually I have about five more minutes. I do have

(01:38:14):
an announcement that I'd like to make if I could
find it, which I'm not having a lot of luck
doing that anyway. Now I'm not gonna be able to
find it, but I don't know. It's been an interesting
week and it's going to be an interesting election season

(01:38:35):
two coming up in the midterms again, Republicans have to
keep that control of the House or bad things are
going to happen. I just think, you know, there's just
no way around that. And you know, talking to Alex
Trant to feel you, it looks like it looks like
that the turnout thing is going to work a little

(01:38:58):
bit better for us. I guess we'll just have to
wait and see. All right, I am out here as always.
I want to thank my excellent time producer, Liam Tomlinson.
I guess I'm not out of here yet. Sorry about
kind of falling apart here. Let me take oh, Chris
signal ninety nine, Hey Chris, what you.

Speaker 4 (01:39:17):
Got, Hey Altior?

Speaker 1 (01:39:20):
My friend, Hey buddy, out to your hey real quick.

Speaker 15 (01:39:25):
Two things.

Speaker 12 (01:39:25):
I listened to bits and pieces of that Willy interview
with Irish Rollie and if she referred to herself in
the third person one time, she did it two dozen times? Yeah,
which just screens of narcissism, right.

Speaker 1 (01:39:39):
It kind of does. I didn't know she did that,
Oh it was, it was, I just much all drop.

Speaker 12 (01:39:46):
But if you're not following Signal ninety nine on Facebook,
everybody should be because they are uncovering the dark underbelly
of Cincinnati politics. Yeah, going on in the pl the department,
the fire department. It's just downright ugly, and it's it's
all about, you know, if if you follow them, it's

(01:40:09):
about you'll stick around if you're obedient to the powers
that be, especially the city manager, which essentially is the mayor.

Speaker 9 (01:40:18):
Right.

Speaker 12 (01:40:18):
Oh yeah, it's just absolutely it blows my mind that,
you know, voters voted the way they did, you know,
knowing some of this information, but if you're really pay
attention to what they're reporting on Facebook, Yeah, it's it's
absolutely mind blowing, my friend, it's amazing, it really is.

Speaker 1 (01:40:41):
And it's not going to get any better. It's going
to get worse before it gets better, unfortunately.

Speaker 12 (01:40:47):
I totally agree. But thank god, we've got someone that's
at least exposing and exposing the truth exactly that's what
has been hidden from us by this administration for the
previous four years.

Speaker 1 (01:41:01):
Well, I mean Christopher Smitheman did. I think Corey Bowman did,
but they didn't get much for their trouble. I guess.
I mean, I'm not trying to be flippant, but I
guess for an overwhelming majority of the city, they don't
really care about the crime issue. And I just don't. Yeh,
vote for who you want, But I just don't understand that.

(01:41:21):
I don't I never will.

Speaker 12 (01:41:24):
I don't understand it either. And as much as Smitherman
especially put out that word, apparently no one it just
fell upon that no one was listening.

Speaker 1 (01:41:34):
Yep, all right, well I appreciate the call. Thank you.
All right, Okay, thanks, Hey, I found what I wanted
to find. This is a message from General Tom O'Brien.
He was my commanding officer when I was in the
jag Reserve. An incredible man. He asked that I mentioned
the military sabbath. It is today, I would assume. So anyway, General,

(01:41:59):
mission accomplished in the last minute, sir, all right, I
am out of here. I do want to thank my producer,
Liam Tomlinson, who was a perfect example keeps me out
of trouble. We will be back next Saturday. Mike Allen
seven hundred WLW.

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