July 7, 2026 • 33 mins
This episode of the Dan Caplis Show is a must-listen for anyone interested in current events, politics, and the state of our country. The conversation is a thought-provoking discussion on the current situation with Iran, the Colorado elections, and the Democratic Party's shift towards socialism. The speaker shares his insights on how the US is handling its relations with Iran, and how President Trump's approach is being perceived by the Iranian regime. He also delves into the Colorado elections, discussing the recent primary results and the implications of the Democratic Party's shift towards socialism.
The episode covers a range of topics, from the US's struggles in soccer to the devastating forest fires in Colorado. The speaker shares his thoughts on how the US can improve its soccer skills, and discusses the importance of protecting our forests and preventing forest fires. He also touches on the current situation in Iran, where the Iranian regime believes President Trump will not take further action, leading to a humiliating America and boosting their standing in the world.
The conversation also explores the Colorado elections, including the recent primary results and the implications of the Democratic Party's shift towards socialism. The speaker discusses the potential nominees for governor and attorney general, and how their policies may impact the state. He also shares his thoughts on the importance of patriotism and the need for Americans to stand up against socialism.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:05):
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the US hitting back at that evil regime for the
latest interruption of travel in the hormone strength, So these
are as you're familiar with at this point, this pattern
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then of the US coming in and striking these various
installations along the Strait, and so also at this point
the US cut off suspended the license to buy Iranian oil.
There's a couple of week grace periods, so it won't
kick in maybe till the seventeenth or so, part of
this ongoing dance, which is really a remarkable moment we
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find ourselves in because to me, President Trump has been
one of the greatest commander in chiefs that we've seen,
and he understands peace through strength, and he has attained
that in a really press of measure.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Yet he's in this situation.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Right now with Iran, that is, and it's hard to
even get the words out of my mouth. Analogous to
where Biden found himself toward the end of his presidency,
and that is and again, you know that any kind
of comparison ends there, because Trump has been a magnificent,
bold commander in chief who has been able to achieve
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peace through strength the enemy certain that Trump will strike,
you know, if the enemy doesn't do what Trump wants.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
He's been very very.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Effective that way and protected our interest and benefited the world.
But this situation right now in Iran, this evil regime
clearly has concluded that President Trump is not willing to
take the next step in fighting Iran. And I'm not
being critical of President Trump for that. I trust him.
I trust him as commander in chief. He's earned that
trust and he has access to infinitely more information than
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I do. But the point is that is the moment
we're in right now, and Trump, being as so brilliant,
Trump understands it. This evil regime has concluded, as the
world concluded. You know that Biden would not fight. The
evil regime has concluded that Trump will not fight further
in round, at least not in the kind of large
scale way that would be required. And so that regime
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is at this point just absolutely committed to humiliating America
and to boosting its own standing in the world, particularly
the hallways of evil by humiliating America. And our president
understands that's the situation we're in at the moment, So
it'll be very interesting to see how that plays out.
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d an five seven seven three nine. If you have
any thoughts on that, as always, would love to get it.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Some great texts comingity.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
I cannot look at our tech screen without laughing always.
I mean to me because you know, when I started
doing the show decades ago, obviously we didn't have that feature.
We didn't have the text feature. Everybody would just call
and I'm gonna throw back. So I love the call.
I love the back and forth. We can get into
layers all that good stuff. But the text is hilarious,
right because Keyboard Warriors people are kind of unleashed when
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they can text anonymously, and then you get the others
who will sign their name or whatever, and you know
they I just think to write is to think. And
I tell young lawyers that you know, to write is
to think. Older lawyers have already figured it out.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
There's just something about sitting down.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
And writing that lets people, I think, think things through
better and think deeply, unless, of course, somebody's just doing
the keyboard warrior thing and just heavy a spasm on
the keyboard, which we get plenty of two.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
So one way or the other, we love our Texters.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Three O three seven one three eight two five five
an five seven seventh, three or nine. I do want
to know why the US isn't better at soccer? Got
to figure that out right, I mean, got absolutely drilled
by Belgium. And Belgium they can even beat Hershey's, but
we get drilled by Belgium. We got thirty times more people.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
How can that be?
Speaker 1 (04:07):
How can we not after all these years? How can
we not be better at soccer? Every field I drive
past the right time of the year. You got little
kids out there, You got the gaggle running around from
the time they're six, and our kids did that too
and loved it. And yeah, soccer being played everywhere. How
can we not be better? And what is it going
to take for the US to get better? And do
you even care about that? Three or three seOne three.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Eight two five five d an five seven seven three nine.
Of course are going to.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Talk as promoed for today about Colorado's forests, because we
obviously have some major problems now. The Aspen Acres fire
at this point now last count I think at about
ninety four thousand acres one hundred and forty six square miles,
which is larger than the land mass of Denver, Colorado.
Two hundred and fifty structures destroyed. So in this example,
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you know, what, what can we do better? What can
we do better to protect against the ravages of forest fires,
particularly the destruction of dwellings.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Should we be doing anything?
Speaker 1 (05:08):
You've got that camp out there that just says, hey,
let them burn. It's part of nature, a circle of life,
all that, as long as it doesn't damage structures. Obviously
this one damaging structures. And in Colorado right now, you
know an af lot of fire. Forest fires are going
to damage structures unless they're actively fought. So is there
something we should be doing better to get them early?
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I know we'll all say, hey, we want to prevent
forest fires, right, don't tear your cigarette butt out the window,
And that's all true, But knowing that lightning starts a
bunch of the ease and they're going to be a
bunch started and a vandals start some of them. Is
there anything we should be doing better to get them early?
So wuld love your thoughts on that, and then we
get to that general overall question of the health of
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our forest. It just excuse me now, I was coming
down from the cabin where I do my trial prep
and just heartbreaking to see all the pine beetle now
as you get closer to Denver.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Of course we've.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Been dealing with it, everybody's been dealing with it in
the central mountains for years now, but this fresh outbreakdown
as you get around the foothills, and it's happening up
and down the front range of Colorado along the foothills,
just heartbreaking to see these beautiful trees now suddenly turn brown.
So we'll talk about what we should be doing differently
when it comes to our forests. I think everybody knows
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without being a forestry major, that our forests have been
overgrown and are just full of all this fuel. And
you got a lot of trees now they can't get
enough sunlight, and you got a lot of trees that
can't get enough water. And you've got aspen you know,
that are being hurt because they can't get enough sunshine,
and then you've got our whole water table being affected
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by the fact that, you know, the more of these
big pine trees and their different varieties, as you know
that we have, those just suck up a lot of water.
Zach Trivia question of the day, though not so trivial.
Say you get a snowfall on one of these big,
beautiful pine trees that I and everybody loves looking at.
How much of that water is going to evaporate before
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it ever hits the ground and becomes part of Colorado's
water supply.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Oh wow, I've never thought of that before.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Can we tease it through the break? Because I just
noticed I got to hit this very heartbreak.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
So when we come back, I'll tell you, beautiful pine,
the snowfalls, it couldn't be better.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
How much of that water is going to evaporate before
it even hits the ground.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
You're on the Dan Kepler Show.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
And now back to the Dan Kapler Show podcast.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
I said to myself, that's my kind of man, because
that is a man who not only has the values,
but a man who believes.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Can we hear that again, Elizabeth Warren? That's my kind
of man.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
I said to myself.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
That's my kind of man.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Now who is she? Is she talking about her next guest,
Dick Wadhams, she's talking about grim Plattner. What kind of man?
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Holy cow, that's wow.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Gotta come to a as a shock to many, including
probably mister Warren. By the way, Dick Joe had as
a professor in law school and absolutely loved, absolutely loved you.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
I said he was a phenomenal professor.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
And you know, the professor invited the class over to
the house one night and Senator Warren was there, and
but but yes, he was a great professor. But I
would not have seen Grim Plattner as her kind of man. No, yeah, wow,
So they must have concluded right that that Platner wasn't.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Going to win. So now there the left is running
him out of the race.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
And don't bring somebody else in who doesn't have a
Nazi tattoo and all sorts of sex abuse and rape
allegations and see if they have a better sh.
Speaker 5 (09:02):
Yeah, and a lot of damage has been done, I
think in Maine by Flattener Dan So I think it's
going to be And I heard today that Flattner was
insisting that he would only withdraw, he could personally select
the nominees.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
You're going to say, date phenominee.
Speaker 6 (09:20):
I who got endorsed by him.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
It's perfect, obviously. I hope he doesn't withdraw and just
gets beat like a drama. Would seem like poetic justice here,
but it just goes to what we already know, right
that just the Democratic Party, it seems to me, and
I'm saying, this is a former Democrat and it's just
not anymore organized any around any core principles or morals
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or anything else. It's just a bunch of different interest
groups gathered together to get and keep power.
Speaker 5 (09:52):
Well, that's that's right, I mean, and they're pretty desperate
because in order to win the Senate they almost have
to have name. There's no room for air there. So
they've almost got to do something drastic to find somebody
who might be more electable in Nay.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Well, hey, let's talk us from Colorado. Were you surprised
that Wiser absolutely clubbed Bennett?
Speaker 2 (10:16):
I mean, in the end it was thirteen points.
Speaker 5 (10:21):
Well you could kind of feel the momentum going Wiser's way.
Dan at thirteenth. The margin surprised me. I thought it
would be probably half that but when you think about it,
Bennett just never made a case for him for his
candidacy other than I hate Trump, and of course that
was the sum and substance of the Democratic crimary.
Speaker 6 (10:42):
I hate Trump more than you do.
Speaker 5 (10:44):
But I will say that that Wiser came across much
more vibrant in his commercials and he just demonstrated vitality. Frankly,
that Michael Bennett came across as a three term tired senator,
which exactly what he is. And so and then throw
in I think the Democratic socialists who voted in the
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Democratic country, who nominated Curos than others, I think they
thought they went with Wiser. So I think it's pretty
explainable wise.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Point, my friend, because I do think Wiser's margin of victory,
and it's a little more than thirteen points, almost exactly
mirrors Colorado's favorite comi malac Kiros margin of victory. So yeah, yeah,
must have been that the socialist went Wiser's way. And
it seems to me, and I hate to say this
because I think his policies are absolutely destructive and Colorado's
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going to suffer under his rule if he's governor. I
think the Wiser benefited tremendously from this primary, far more
than he would have if, say Bennett had never run,
and it was just kind of wiser in the pips.
Speaker 5 (11:54):
Oh, I agree, he's coming out of this with a
great deal of momentum. It's a three term US senator
in a primary. It is an accomplishment, regardless of how
weak Bennett was in so many ways. And so no,
I think he comes out of this and hit with
a head esteem.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
And you know, if if Bennett had any honor politically
or kind of in general at this point, he would
do the right thing and he would resign and he
would ask that Joean No Goose be appointed. Now, I
personally believe I can't prove it. I personally believe that
was the deal. The Goose got behind Bennett early and
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Joangoose for those who don't know, congressman out of Boulder,
who is you know?
Speaker 2 (12:40):
And I think his.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
Policies are awful, But he's very widely liked. He's big
in Democrat leadership and viewed as a rising star. They've
even been calling him senator, you know, in Washington. And
so once again, you know, Bennett kind of standing in
the schoolhouse door as is Wiser, as are all these Democrats,
you know, blocking the women, blocking of people of or
from rising to this high office.
Speaker 6 (13:03):
And they've done that over and over again. Dan, you know,
I got to tell you.
Speaker 5 (13:07):
That one of the last stands of the campaign were Patterson,
Crow and the Goose all endorsing Bennett in that lance
to one of the last stands, and I thought, and
they were all kind of I love Bennett more than
you do. Yeah, yeah, they were all kind of auditioning
for the appointment if he's going to be elected deveronor,
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which of course was moved down.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Yeah, they should have paid for a poll.
Speaker 6 (13:33):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Holy God, because I didn't see that kind of win
coming in the beginning.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
I thought Bennett was a lock.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
Then you saw the thing kind of roll out and
you thought, holy count Wiser's probably going.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
To win this.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
I never saw Wiser winning by thirteen points.
Speaker 5 (13:47):
No, if I said the margin or the forces surprise.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
Yeah, so is malt Kiros now the Socialists for those
not familiar, just elected d C D one and I
should say she will be elected and CD one she
just won the primary. Is she now the face of
the Colorado Democratic Party?
Speaker 2 (14:06):
I think she is.
Speaker 5 (14:07):
I think she's going to make herself some face Colorado
Democratic Party. She sees herself as the next AOC.
Speaker 6 (14:15):
She is going to.
Speaker 5 (14:17):
Make her presence known, and she's going to get a
lot of media coverage because it's going to be very
worthy of coverage what she does and says. And I
think she's going to be a big pain for Democrats
during the rest of this election cycle and beyond. I
think that I think that Manny Routinelle, who is already
far left himself. I mean he wanted to he wanted
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to ban beef and one wants to ban the oil
and gas in the eighth Congressional district. Now all of
a sudden he's gone from vegan.
Speaker 6 (14:49):
To beefeater, which is some pony. I can't stand it.
Speaker 5 (14:52):
I think Manny Rutanelle, who already has the problem idiologically,
is going to be running in the shadow of Cairos
and so we're other Democratic candidates, and so she is
going to be a distraction and a problem for Democrats.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
Well, because they cannot distance themselves from her right without
risking burning off all that energy. And then once they
kind of tie themselves to wait a second, Now, it's
a choice between a Republican and a socialist. That is
a different ring to it. But hey, Dick, can you
stay through the next segment. Sure, you guys want to
talk about the GOP primary and so much more. But
as we go to break, let's hear from a lot
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kiro Son whether she's kind of willing to wait.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
To take over the Colorado Democratic Party? What about it?
Speaker 7 (15:35):
Lot Denver voters of all ages, of all races, of
all relegen. It's a clear message, Well not wait, we
will not wait.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Ye got her answer. You're on the Dan Capitalist you go.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
You're listening to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 7 (16:01):
To take a fight to Donald Trump and the oligarchy.
We will not wait to abolish izetic carepro.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
It's the new face of the Democratic Party.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
Melt carros Now, Dick Wadhams, you have seen it all
in Colorado, right, you ran the campaign for the last
Republican to win I think the only one about sixty
years Bill Owens the Governor's office.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
But to me, this seems like what we've been waiting for.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
This seems like the big break when now the mask
is dropped and people can see wait, wait a seconds,
it's not your grandfather's Democratic Party in Colorado, they're a
bunch of socialists.
Speaker 5 (16:41):
Well, it would be Dan if the Republican Party was
not potentially on the verge of nominating in candidates who
is so far out of the mainstream. He will pull
down every Republican in every competitive rate for Congress and
stay legislature in November. That's the problem, is that Victor
Marx is a bigger problem for Republicans than molt Heros
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is for Democrats. And that's just the brutal truth.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
Well, can I take that on, Dick? Can I take
that on?
Speaker 1 (17:10):
And over the years, I know we have not disagreed
about much, but I'd love to have some fun with
this one because I'm thinking long term, right, because it
seems to me, in this particular cycle, with the state
of human events, no matter who our gubernatorial candidate ends
up being, it's going to be a major, uphill battle
to win the governor's race. And I completely respect the
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point you're going to make in rebuttal to that, but
my point is more long term. My point is going
into the next two or three cycles, now that the
Colorado Democratic Party is so dramatically and openly dropping the
mask and shifting to socialism. I've just got to think
that opens the door to the GOP long term.
Speaker 5 (17:54):
Dan, I don't disagree with that, but that's the key term.
Speaker 6 (17:57):
Long term.
Speaker 5 (17:59):
The problem is got an election in about what five
months here in Colorado, and the most high profile marquee
race is the governor's race. And if our nominee is
a guy who talks about rescuing forty five thousand women
and children and then who backtracked as well, he really didn't,
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who claims he can exercise demons, including over the phone,
who talks about being forced to murder somebody when he
was seven years old, but there's no proof of that.
Speaker 6 (18:31):
I mean, it just it just goes on and on
and on.
Speaker 5 (18:35):
With this guy, and he will in the short term,
and that being between now and November, the Colorado Republican
Party will be defined by our nominee for governor, who
very possibly I will know Thursday at the latest, could
be Victor marsh and he is absolutely in. He is
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absolutely unacceptable advanced scace majority of Colorado voters, and it
goes beyond the governor's rate. They will take down Republicans
and tough districts for instance, Gabe Evans in the eighth DAN.
The Democrats are targeting the fifth district with the with
Jeff Crank, and the third district has never been a
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rock hard Republican district with Jeff heard. And then there
are a multitude of legislative districts well where Republican candidates
and incumbents can win, but they will be saddled with
this guy who is absolutely way out of the mainstream
and who will take Republicans down.
Speaker 6 (19:37):
So you, first of all, I agree with you. Long term, the.
Speaker 5 (19:40):
Democrats are dangerously imperiling their own party with this swing
to to democratic socialism. But the Republicans in the short
terms have the bigger problem. And I hope, I hope that,
I hope that Bart Kirkmeric can somehow et this out
when the votes are finally totally counted on Wednesday night
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and we hear Thursday morning what happens. But there's a
good chance that that won't happen.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
Now, Dick, how does all that work?
Speaker 1 (20:09):
Because as I read it, and I just looked at
the Secretary of State site again, it looks like Barb
Kirkmeyer is probably down what about nineteen hundred votes, maybe
one nine and fifty votes.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
How many votes are still out there?
Speaker 5 (20:24):
You know, I'm unclear, Dan, I kind of got lost
in the minutia of that whole process. There By Wednesday night,
all the care of the ballots have to be into
their county court's offices, all the military ballots have to
be and that are coming in after the election, and
so I'm frankly not sure I think there.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
I don't think anybody out there.
Speaker 5 (20:48):
I think that there's enough out there that there's a
glimmer of hope for Barb Kirkmeyer. But that nineteen hundred
number were certainly the number of the Sectory of State
had this morning, which was the lead Victor Marx had.
And I will tell you every Republican candidate in a
competitive district better got it up if he's the nominee,
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because what you saw in the primary is not going
to be any better effect. It's going to be far
worse in the general election.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
Tickquantum's our guest. Let's assume that Victor is the nominee.
How do you see that rolling out in the general
Do you see it be in a situation where Saint
Michael Allen running for AG is being pinned down by
the Democrats on whether he supports Victor Marx, whether he
separates from Victor Marx, and then if Michael does, and
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he loses a lot of GEOP support, and if he doesn't,
he loses a lot of unaffiliated support.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
Is that the theories.
Speaker 6 (21:46):
That's the problem right there.
Speaker 5 (21:47):
And I'm glad you mentioned the ag grace because I
think actually, if if we had a level playing field,
and that being not having a candidate for governor so
far out of the mainstream, I think Michael Allen might
be able to pull off an upset that because I
know there are Democrats who are almost panicking over electing
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Jenny Griswold attorney General and what he she would do
to that office and to their party into the state.
But yeah, Michael Allen is a classic example. I mean
he as we learn more about Victor Marx and his
amazing life so that he tries to talk about, he
will be in a position of having to either.
Speaker 6 (22:30):
Support him or deny him.
Speaker 5 (22:32):
And if that's just the brutal truth of politics. And
you know, Dan, I just I do not understand anyone
who could vote for Victor Mark thinking he could be
a credible candidate and a general election in Colorado when
the electorate has become so dominated by unaffiliated voters and.
Speaker 6 (22:52):
Are who are repelled by a guy like him. Well,
I do not get it.
Speaker 5 (22:57):
But that's what they did, that's what they might have done.
Speaker 6 (23:00):
Well.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
Well, Dick, let me let me ask you, though, in
just looking at the numbers, just what we can see
from the outside, and you're far better at reading these
than I am, because you've actually won campaigns. It looks
to me as if very few unaffiliateds would have voted
in the GOP primary, and that the vast, vast majority
would have gone to the DEM primary where you had
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that contest between Wiser and Bennett. Because I'm looking at
in the DEM governor's race, what do you have? You
had about eight hundred and fifty thousand votes cast a
little more than that, and in the GOP race right now,
it's like five hundred and eighteen thousand, So that that's
where the unaffiliateds voted, right.
Speaker 5 (23:42):
That's a good point that the probably the unaffiliates took
voted in the Democratic primary by a two to one
margin over Republicans, and I think a lot of that
is the fact that the Democratic primary were so much
more high profile between you when you have the attorney
general and a U Senator, I think that.
Speaker 6 (24:03):
There's a drama there.
Speaker 5 (24:04):
Second of all, I think a lot of unaffiliated voters
just kind of assumed that this is going to be
a Democratic year and it's going to be a Democratic governor,
so they wanted to vote in the primary where that
decision was going to be made in terms of the
Democratic nominee. But it also I think it also shows
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Dan that the perception problem Republicans still have in the state.
And I know the strong supporters of Donald Trump don't
like to hear it, but Donald Trump is very, very
unpopular in Colorado, and he defines the Republican Party and
unaffiliated voters who ordinarily would be open to a Republican candidate.
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They look at the party and they see Donald Trump,
and that is a problem we have right now.
Speaker 6 (24:49):
In fact, the.
Speaker 5 (24:50):
Poland shows his approval rating in Colorado is now in
the mid thirties. His disapproval is in the high fifties.
That is devastating to a Republican candidate.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
Well, Dick, one thing I'd love to do first, I'd
love to have these conversations much more often now that
we're heading in the general. Second, next time you have
some time to join us, let's really deep dive this
AG's race. Because I'm hearing the same thing you are,
like I'm hearing from big, big, big Democrat donors, you know,
very very very important, separately, very important people within the
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Democratic Party that there is absolute horror at the thought
of Griswold becoming Attorney General. Now, whether any of those
will actually break and go public and opposer or try
to marshal some kind of effort against there's a whole
other critter.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
But next time we get together, let's steep dive that race.
Speaker 6 (25:45):
Good, love to do it.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
Okay, my friend, thanks for the time today. All right, Dan,
appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
That is Dick Wadams. Hey, when we come back, love
your thoughts on all of that. And also, Michael Allen,
the GOP nominee for Attorney General, will join us tomorrow.
I do believe he has a real chance to win
a combination of his strengths against Griswold's stunning weakness and
in her lies about arguing to the US Supreme Court,
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the fact she's not a practicing lawyer self preservation. You know,
people want a real lawyer practicing lawyer and law enforcement
type normally in that age's position for their own protection.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
So I think Michael Ellen has a real chance he'll
join us tomorrow. You're on the Dan Capla.
Speaker 3 (26:26):
Show, and now back to the Dan Kapler Show podcast.
Speaker 8 (26:34):
You and I said this on this show many many
years ago, because this is my tenth year on the show,
and I said, there are times when I walk into
a community and I see American flags all over the community,
and I suddenly feel unsafe.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
Because because what got to hear this.
Speaker 8 (26:52):
That's co op with the American flag, and they equate
being an American or an American flag with white supremacy and.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
That, oh my lord, oh my lord, what a point
we're coming to.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
And again it's just like in Colorado, right with the
Democratic Party has dropped the mask they're socialists. And so yeah,
there's going to be real clarity for voters and that
whole attitude now that that patriotism is bad and the
Democratic Party, you know the polls as well as I do.
Patriot the American flag is a negative symbol.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
Yeah, that's not where America is at.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
And listen, I speak with some authority on this because
I was a Democrat for years. Vast majority of my
family outside of Colorado one hundred percent Democrats, and they
are as patriotic as you're ever going to find policy differences, yes,
but they're not going to go for this socialism, anti
American stuff.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
So this is the moment. This is the moment, you know,
for the GUP and Colorado to come back.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
And like Dick Wadams is the saying before the break,
I'm not saying it's going to happen over the next
few months. I'm talking about the longer term. I hope
it happens over the next few months. And there's the
very best shot I think has been all along in
the AG's race because of Jenna Griswold on the dem
side and all the Dems who are very, very scared
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of her textures. And we've got a bunch of things
going on. If you just joined us, thank you. We're
talking about, among other things, hey, why isn't the US
better at soccer? I mean, we have thirty times more
people than Belgium and we got absolutely trounced.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
So we're talking about that.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
We're talking about Colorado forests, right, We've got this ragire
going on in this fire down and Aspen Acres outside
of Pueblo.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
You've got more land burned there than all the land.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
Mass of Denver one hundred and six forty six square
miles two hundred and fifty structures. We're talking about the
state of Colorado's forest. Should more be done to shut
these fires down early? Some would say just let them burn.
I think that's wrong. But and the overall health of
our forests with all this pine beetle kill and everything else.
The forests are so overgrown. What do we need to
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be doing with our forests. We're talking about Iran, where
there's morelitary action today because once again the evil regime
believes President Trump will not fight further, and so they're
determined to humiliate America thereby boosting their standard in the
world and standing.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
And then we're of course talking about the Colorado elections.
Let's go to the texters.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
Dan Democrats have put on such a show where children
can be aboarded up to the last second, and believe
men can be women who thou cares If Marx has
some controversy, I think that's a very important email because
said text, thank you, because you know, if Victor Marx
is the nominee, and it looks like he's likely there be.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
Though it's not settled. You know, if he is the nominee.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
I think we have to look at the fact that
Democrats right now have adopted absolutely wicked, wicked positions, not
on every issue, but on a lot of issues, and
on the foundational issue, you know, they're extreme support for
mass killing of children before birth. They are so far
gone on the left in Colorado, I don't think we
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have the luxury of sitting back and saying, well, our
candidate has flaws, because their candidate has flaws in the
worst possible ways right when it comes to supporting absolutely
wicked policies. So what I'd ask people to consider is
they weigh this is what if it was slavery instead
of abortion. What if it was a situation where the
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GOP had a nominee that an awful lot of really good, credible,
highly respected for good reason people were extremely uncomfortable with,
but the Democrat opponent supported slavery.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
We were back in that era. I think it would
be unanimous.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
No, We've we've got to support anybody who's going to
defeat slavery. And when you think about abortion, I mean
Slavery is a unique kind of evil in world history.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
Right, so's abortion.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
So yeah, I think that the texture makes an important
point no matter who our nominee is, Dan, I agree,
who are these crazies voting for Victor Marx? I think
what we saw is I think we saw that the
Marx campaign was very, very, very smart. And what the
Marx campaign did was that I think it successfully scoped
out the fact that there were going to be very
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few unaffiliateds voting in the GOP primary and the unaffiliateds
we're going to be going to that temp gubernatorial primary,
and that in the end, you know, Victor Marx would
be able to win with his core supporters and so
they wouldn't have to campaign often outside of that core
support group. Just you know, Marshal, that core support group,
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and you know, it may very well work out for
them in the end because of a very very low
voter turnout in the GOP race. Dan, since we're not
allowed to investigate our elections in Colorado anymore, we'll end
up with Democrats always defeating the Victor Marxis of the
Republican Party.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
That from Kevin. Kevin, I could not disagree more.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
I think it is lame, dangerous, absolutely self defeating. For
us to sit here and say, oh, we're losing because
the elections are rigged.
Speaker 2 (32:05):
That's total. And if I could say the word on air,
I'd say it ten times.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
And it's the excuse of weaklings, we weak mentally, lacking
the courage to stand up and fight this fight.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
We've been called on to fight our state.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
It's open, openly being taken over by socialists, and we're
gonna sit there, curled.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
Up on our couch in the fetal position, with our.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
Thumbs in our mouths, saying, oh, they're still in the election,
They're still in the election.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
Grow up here, man.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
We are losing for other freaking reasons, So just stop
wasting everybody's time with that garbage.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
Do we have perfect elections? No?
Speaker 1 (32:41):
Should we have better yes? Should we ever tolerate any
level of fraud?
Speaker 6 (32:45):
No?
Speaker 2 (32:45):
Is there some fraud now?
Speaker 6 (32:47):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (32:48):
But it's not why we're losing.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
Losers make excuses, Winners find a way to win.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
That's all I got. But it's enough.
This is Dan Kaplis, and welcome to today's online podcast
edition of The Dan Kaplis Show.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
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Give us a five star rating if you'd be so kind,
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the US hitting back at that evil regime for the
latest interruption of travel in the hormone strength, So these
are as you're familiar with at this point, this pattern
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then of the US coming in and striking these various
installations along the Strait, and so also at this point
the US cut off suspended the license to buy Iranian oil.
There's a couple of week grace periods, so it won't
kick in maybe till the seventeenth or so, part of
this ongoing dance, which is really a remarkable moment we
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find ourselves in because to me, President Trump has been
one of the greatest commander in chiefs that we've seen,
and he understands peace through strength, and he has attained
that in a really press of measure.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Yet he's in this situation.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Right now with Iran, that is, and it's hard to
even get the words out of my mouth. Analogous to
where Biden found himself toward the end of his presidency,
and that is and again, you know that any kind
of comparison ends there, because Trump has been a magnificent,
bold commander in chief who has been able to achieve
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peace through strength the enemy certain that Trump will strike,
you know, if the enemy doesn't do what Trump wants.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
He's been very very.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Effective that way and protected our interest and benefited the world.
But this situation right now in Iran, this evil regime
clearly has concluded that President Trump is not willing to
take the next step in fighting Iran. And I'm not
being critical of President Trump for that. I trust him.
I trust him as commander in chief. He's earned that
trust and he has access to infinitely more information than
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I do. But the point is that is the moment
we're in right now, and Trump, being as so brilliant,
Trump understands it. This evil regime has concluded, as the
world concluded. You know that Biden would not fight. The
evil regime has concluded that Trump will not fight further
in round, at least not in the kind of large
scale way that would be required. And so that regime
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is at this point just absolutely committed to humiliating America
and to boosting its own standing in the world, particularly
the hallways of evil by humiliating America. And our president
understands that's the situation we're in at the moment, So
it'll be very interesting to see how that plays out.
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Three oh three seven one three eight two five five
d an five seven seven three nine. If you have
any thoughts on that, as always, would love to get it.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Some great texts comingity.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
I cannot look at our tech screen without laughing always.
I mean to me because you know, when I started
doing the show decades ago, obviously we didn't have that feature.
We didn't have the text feature. Everybody would just call
and I'm gonna throw back. So I love the call.
I love the back and forth. We can get into
layers all that good stuff. But the text is hilarious,
right because Keyboard Warriors people are kind of unleashed when
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they can text anonymously, and then you get the others
who will sign their name or whatever, and you know
they I just think to write is to think. And
I tell young lawyers that you know, to write is
to think. Older lawyers have already figured it out.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
There's just something about sitting down.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
And writing that lets people, I think, think things through
better and think deeply, unless, of course, somebody's just doing
the keyboard warrior thing and just heavy a spasm on
the keyboard, which we get plenty of two.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
So one way or the other, we love our Texters.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Three O three seven one three eight two five five
an five seven seventh, three or nine. I do want
to know why the US isn't better at soccer? Got
to figure that out right, I mean, got absolutely drilled
by Belgium. And Belgium they can even beat Hershey's, but
we get drilled by Belgium. We got thirty times more people.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
How can that be?
Speaker 1 (04:07):
How can we not after all these years? How can
we not be better at soccer? Every field I drive
past the right time of the year. You got little
kids out there, You got the gaggle running around from
the time they're six, and our kids did that too
and loved it. And yeah, soccer being played everywhere. How
can we not be better? And what is it going
to take for the US to get better? And do
you even care about that? Three or three seOne three.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Eight two five five d an five seven seven three nine.
Of course are going to.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Talk as promoed for today about Colorado's forests, because we
obviously have some major problems now. The Aspen Acres fire
at this point now last count I think at about
ninety four thousand acres one hundred and forty six square miles,
which is larger than the land mass of Denver, Colorado.
Two hundred and fifty structures destroyed. So in this example,
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you know, what, what can we do better? What can
we do better to protect against the ravages of forest fires,
particularly the destruction of dwellings.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Should we be doing anything?
Speaker 1 (05:08):
You've got that camp out there that just says, hey,
let them burn. It's part of nature, a circle of life,
all that, as long as it doesn't damage structures. Obviously
this one damaging structures. And in Colorado right now, you
know an af lot of fire. Forest fires are going
to damage structures unless they're actively fought. So is there
something we should be doing better to get them early?
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I know we'll all say, hey, we want to prevent
forest fires, right, don't tear your cigarette butt out the window,
And that's all true, But knowing that lightning starts a
bunch of the ease and they're going to be a
bunch started and a vandals start some of them. Is
there anything we should be doing better to get them early?
So wuld love your thoughts on that, and then we
get to that general overall question of the health of
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our forest. It just excuse me now, I was coming
down from the cabin where I do my trial prep
and just heartbreaking to see all the pine beetle now
as you get closer to Denver.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Of course we've.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Been dealing with it, everybody's been dealing with it in
the central mountains for years now, but this fresh outbreakdown
as you get around the foothills, and it's happening up
and down the front range of Colorado along the foothills,
just heartbreaking to see these beautiful trees now suddenly turn brown.
So we'll talk about what we should be doing differently
when it comes to our forests. I think everybody knows
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without being a forestry major, that our forests have been
overgrown and are just full of all this fuel. And
you got a lot of trees now they can't get
enough sunlight, and you got a lot of trees that
can't get enough water. And you've got aspen you know,
that are being hurt because they can't get enough sunshine,
and then you've got our whole water table being affected
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by the fact that, you know, the more of these
big pine trees and their different varieties, as you know
that we have, those just suck up a lot of water.
Zach Trivia question of the day, though not so trivial.
Say you get a snowfall on one of these big,
beautiful pine trees that I and everybody loves looking at.
How much of that water is going to evaporate before
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it ever hits the ground and becomes part of Colorado's
water supply.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Oh wow, I've never thought of that before.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Can we tease it through the break? Because I just
noticed I got to hit this very heartbreak.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
So when we come back, I'll tell you, beautiful pine,
the snowfalls, it couldn't be better.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
How much of that water is going to evaporate before
it even hits the ground.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
You're on the Dan Kepler Show.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
And now back to the Dan Kapler Show podcast.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
I said to myself, that's my kind of man, because
that is a man who not only has the values,
but a man who believes.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Can we hear that again, Elizabeth Warren? That's my kind
of man.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
I said to myself.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
That's my kind of man.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Now who is she? Is she talking about her next guest,
Dick Wadhams, she's talking about grim Plattner. What kind of man?
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Holy cow, that's wow.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Gotta come to a as a shock to many, including
probably mister Warren. By the way, Dick Joe had as
a professor in law school and absolutely loved, absolutely loved you.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
I said he was a phenomenal professor.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
And you know, the professor invited the class over to
the house one night and Senator Warren was there, and
but but yes, he was a great professor. But I
would not have seen Grim Plattner as her kind of man. No, yeah, wow,
So they must have concluded right that that Platner wasn't.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Going to win. So now there the left is running
him out of the race.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
And don't bring somebody else in who doesn't have a
Nazi tattoo and all sorts of sex abuse and rape
allegations and see if they have a better sh.
Speaker 5 (09:02):
Yeah, and a lot of damage has been done, I
think in Maine by Flattener Dan So I think it's
going to be And I heard today that Flattner was
insisting that he would only withdraw, he could personally select
the nominees.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
You're going to say, date phenominee.
Speaker 6 (09:20):
I who got endorsed by him.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
It's perfect, obviously. I hope he doesn't withdraw and just
gets beat like a drama. Would seem like poetic justice here,
but it just goes to what we already know, right
that just the Democratic Party, it seems to me, and
I'm saying, this is a former Democrat and it's just
not anymore organized any around any core principles or morals
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or anything else. It's just a bunch of different interest
groups gathered together to get and keep power.
Speaker 5 (09:52):
Well, that's that's right, I mean, and they're pretty desperate
because in order to win the Senate they almost have
to have name. There's no room for air there. So
they've almost got to do something drastic to find somebody
who might be more electable in Nay.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Well, hey, let's talk us from Colorado. Were you surprised
that Wiser absolutely clubbed Bennett?
Speaker 2 (10:16):
I mean, in the end it was thirteen points.
Speaker 5 (10:21):
Well you could kind of feel the momentum going Wiser's way.
Dan at thirteenth. The margin surprised me. I thought it
would be probably half that but when you think about it,
Bennett just never made a case for him for his
candidacy other than I hate Trump, and of course that
was the sum and substance of the Democratic crimary.
Speaker 6 (10:42):
I hate Trump more than you do.
Speaker 5 (10:44):
But I will say that that Wiser came across much
more vibrant in his commercials and he just demonstrated vitality. Frankly,
that Michael Bennett came across as a three term tired senator,
which exactly what he is. And so and then throw
in I think the Democratic socialists who voted in the
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Democratic country, who nominated Curos than others, I think they
thought they went with Wiser. So I think it's pretty
explainable wise.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Point, my friend, because I do think Wiser's margin of victory,
and it's a little more than thirteen points, almost exactly
mirrors Colorado's favorite comi malac Kiros margin of victory. So yeah, yeah,
must have been that the socialist went Wiser's way. And
it seems to me, and I hate to say this
because I think his policies are absolutely destructive and Colorado's
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going to suffer under his rule if he's governor. I
think the Wiser benefited tremendously from this primary, far more
than he would have if, say Bennett had never run,
and it was just kind of wiser in the pips.
Speaker 5 (11:54):
Oh, I agree, he's coming out of this with a
great deal of momentum. It's a three term US senator
in a primary. It is an accomplishment, regardless of how
weak Bennett was in so many ways. And so no,
I think he comes out of this and hit with
a head esteem.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
And you know, if if Bennett had any honor politically
or kind of in general at this point, he would
do the right thing and he would resign and he
would ask that Joean No Goose be appointed. Now, I
personally believe I can't prove it. I personally believe that
was the deal. The Goose got behind Bennett early and
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Joangoose for those who don't know, congressman out of Boulder,
who is you know?
Speaker 2 (12:40):
And I think his.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
Policies are awful, But he's very widely liked. He's big
in Democrat leadership and viewed as a rising star. They've
even been calling him senator, you know, in Washington. And
so once again, you know, Bennett kind of standing in
the schoolhouse door as is Wiser, as are all these Democrats,
you know, blocking the women, blocking of people of or
from rising to this high office.
Speaker 6 (13:03):
And they've done that over and over again. Dan, you know,
I got to tell you.
Speaker 5 (13:07):
That one of the last stands of the campaign were Patterson,
Crow and the Goose all endorsing Bennett in that lance
to one of the last stands, and I thought, and
they were all kind of I love Bennett more than
you do. Yeah, yeah, they were all kind of auditioning
for the appointment if he's going to be elected deveronor,
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which of course was moved down.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Yeah, they should have paid for a poll.
Speaker 6 (13:33):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Holy God, because I didn't see that kind of win
coming in the beginning.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
I thought Bennett was a lock.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
Then you saw the thing kind of roll out and
you thought, holy count Wiser's probably going.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
To win this.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
I never saw Wiser winning by thirteen points.
Speaker 5 (13:47):
No, if I said the margin or the forces surprise.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
Yeah, so is malt Kiros now the Socialists for those
not familiar, just elected d C D one and I
should say she will be elected and CD one she
just won the primary. Is she now the face of
the Colorado Democratic Party?
Speaker 2 (14:06):
I think she is.
Speaker 5 (14:07):
I think she's going to make herself some face Colorado
Democratic Party. She sees herself as the next AOC.
Speaker 6 (14:15):
She is going to.
Speaker 5 (14:17):
Make her presence known, and she's going to get a
lot of media coverage because it's going to be very
worthy of coverage what she does and says. And I
think she's going to be a big pain for Democrats
during the rest of this election cycle and beyond. I
think that I think that Manny Routinelle, who is already
far left himself. I mean he wanted to he wanted
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to ban beef and one wants to ban the oil
and gas in the eighth Congressional district. Now all of
a sudden he's gone from vegan.
Speaker 6 (14:49):
To beefeater, which is some pony. I can't stand it.
Speaker 5 (14:52):
I think Manny Rutanelle, who already has the problem idiologically,
is going to be running in the shadow of Cairos
and so we're other Democratic candidates, and so she is
going to be a distraction and a problem for Democrats.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
Well, because they cannot distance themselves from her right without
risking burning off all that energy. And then once they
kind of tie themselves to wait a second, Now, it's
a choice between a Republican and a socialist. That is
a different ring to it. But hey, Dick, can you
stay through the next segment. Sure, you guys want to
talk about the GOP primary and so much more. But
as we go to break, let's hear from a lot
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kiro Son whether she's kind of willing to wait.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
To take over the Colorado Democratic Party? What about it?
Speaker 7 (15:35):
Lot Denver voters of all ages, of all races, of
all relegen. It's a clear message, Well not wait, we
will not wait.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Ye got her answer. You're on the Dan Capitalist you go.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
You're listening to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 7 (16:01):
To take a fight to Donald Trump and the oligarchy.
We will not wait to abolish izetic carepro.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
It's the new face of the Democratic Party.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
Melt carros Now, Dick Wadhams, you have seen it all
in Colorado, right, you ran the campaign for the last
Republican to win I think the only one about sixty
years Bill Owens the Governor's office.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
But to me, this seems like what we've been waiting for.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
This seems like the big break when now the mask
is dropped and people can see wait, wait a seconds,
it's not your grandfather's Democratic Party in Colorado, they're a
bunch of socialists.
Speaker 5 (16:41):
Well, it would be Dan if the Republican Party was
not potentially on the verge of nominating in candidates who
is so far out of the mainstream. He will pull
down every Republican in every competitive rate for Congress and
stay legislature in November. That's the problem, is that Victor
Marx is a bigger problem for Republicans than molt Heros
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is for Democrats. And that's just the brutal truth.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
Well, can I take that on, Dick? Can I take
that on?
Speaker 1 (17:10):
And over the years, I know we have not disagreed
about much, but I'd love to have some fun with
this one because I'm thinking long term, right, because it
seems to me, in this particular cycle, with the state
of human events, no matter who our gubernatorial candidate ends
up being, it's going to be a major, uphill battle
to win the governor's race. And I completely respect the
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point you're going to make in rebuttal to that, but
my point is more long term. My point is going
into the next two or three cycles, now that the
Colorado Democratic Party is so dramatically and openly dropping the
mask and shifting to socialism. I've just got to think
that opens the door to the GOP long term.
Speaker 5 (17:54):
Dan, I don't disagree with that, but that's the key term.
Speaker 6 (17:57):
Long term.
Speaker 5 (17:59):
The problem is got an election in about what five
months here in Colorado, and the most high profile marquee
race is the governor's race. And if our nominee is
a guy who talks about rescuing forty five thousand women
and children and then who backtracked as well, he really didn't,
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who claims he can exercise demons, including over the phone,
who talks about being forced to murder somebody when he
was seven years old, but there's no proof of that.
Speaker 6 (18:31):
I mean, it just it just goes on and on
and on.
Speaker 5 (18:35):
With this guy, and he will in the short term,
and that being between now and November, the Colorado Republican
Party will be defined by our nominee for governor, who
very possibly I will know Thursday at the latest, could
be Victor marsh and he is absolutely in. He is
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absolutely unacceptable advanced scace majority of Colorado voters, and it
goes beyond the governor's rate. They will take down Republicans
and tough districts for instance, Gabe Evans in the eighth DAN.
The Democrats are targeting the fifth district with the with
Jeff Crank, and the third district has never been a
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rock hard Republican district with Jeff heard. And then there
are a multitude of legislative districts well where Republican candidates
and incumbents can win, but they will be saddled with
this guy who is absolutely way out of the mainstream
and who will take Republicans down.
Speaker 6 (19:37):
So you, first of all, I agree with you. Long term, the.
Speaker 5 (19:40):
Democrats are dangerously imperiling their own party with this swing
to to democratic socialism. But the Republicans in the short
terms have the bigger problem. And I hope, I hope that,
I hope that Bart Kirkmeric can somehow et this out
when the votes are finally totally counted on Wednesday night
(20:01):
and we hear Thursday morning what happens. But there's a
good chance that that won't happen.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
Now, Dick, how does all that work?
Speaker 1 (20:09):
Because as I read it, and I just looked at
the Secretary of State site again, it looks like Barb
Kirkmeyer is probably down what about nineteen hundred votes, maybe
one nine and fifty votes.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
How many votes are still out there?
Speaker 5 (20:24):
You know, I'm unclear, Dan, I kind of got lost
in the minutia of that whole process. There By Wednesday night,
all the care of the ballots have to be into
their county court's offices, all the military ballots have to
be and that are coming in after the election, and
so I'm frankly not sure I think there.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
I don't think anybody out there.
Speaker 5 (20:48):
I think that there's enough out there that there's a
glimmer of hope for Barb Kirkmeyer. But that nineteen hundred
number were certainly the number of the Sectory of State
had this morning, which was the lead Victor Marx had.
And I will tell you every Republican candidate in a
competitive district better got it up if he's the nominee,
(21:10):
because what you saw in the primary is not going
to be any better effect. It's going to be far
worse in the general election.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
Tickquantum's our guest. Let's assume that Victor is the nominee.
How do you see that rolling out in the general
Do you see it be in a situation where Saint
Michael Allen running for AG is being pinned down by
the Democrats on whether he supports Victor Marx, whether he
separates from Victor Marx, and then if Michael does, and
(21:40):
he loses a lot of GEOP support, and if he doesn't,
he loses a lot of unaffiliated support.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
Is that the theories.
Speaker 6 (21:46):
That's the problem right there.
Speaker 5 (21:47):
And I'm glad you mentioned the ag grace because I
think actually, if if we had a level playing field,
and that being not having a candidate for governor so
far out of the mainstream, I think Michael Allen might
be able to pull off an upset that because I
know there are Democrats who are almost panicking over electing
(22:09):
Jenny Griswold attorney General and what he she would do
to that office and to their party into the state.
But yeah, Michael Allen is a classic example. I mean
he as we learn more about Victor Marx and his
amazing life so that he tries to talk about, he
will be in a position of having to either.
Speaker 6 (22:30):
Support him or deny him.
Speaker 5 (22:32):
And if that's just the brutal truth of politics. And
you know, Dan, I just I do not understand anyone
who could vote for Victor Mark thinking he could be
a credible candidate and a general election in Colorado when
the electorate has become so dominated by unaffiliated voters and.
Speaker 6 (22:52):
Are who are repelled by a guy like him. Well,
I do not get it.
Speaker 5 (22:57):
But that's what they did, that's what they might have done.
Speaker 6 (23:00):
Well.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
Well, Dick, let me let me ask you, though, in
just looking at the numbers, just what we can see
from the outside, and you're far better at reading these
than I am, because you've actually won campaigns. It looks
to me as if very few unaffiliateds would have voted
in the GOP primary, and that the vast, vast majority
would have gone to the DEM primary where you had
(23:21):
that contest between Wiser and Bennett. Because I'm looking at
in the DEM governor's race, what do you have? You
had about eight hundred and fifty thousand votes cast a
little more than that, and in the GOP race right now,
it's like five hundred and eighteen thousand, So that that's
where the unaffiliateds voted, right.
Speaker 5 (23:42):
That's a good point that the probably the unaffiliates took
voted in the Democratic primary by a two to one
margin over Republicans, and I think a lot of that
is the fact that the Democratic primary were so much
more high profile between you when you have the attorney
general and a U Senator, I think that.
Speaker 6 (24:03):
There's a drama there.
Speaker 5 (24:04):
Second of all, I think a lot of unaffiliated voters
just kind of assumed that this is going to be
a Democratic year and it's going to be a Democratic governor,
so they wanted to vote in the primary where that
decision was going to be made in terms of the
Democratic nominee. But it also I think it also shows
(24:25):
Dan that the perception problem Republicans still have in the state.
And I know the strong supporters of Donald Trump don't
like to hear it, but Donald Trump is very, very
unpopular in Colorado, and he defines the Republican Party and
unaffiliated voters who ordinarily would be open to a Republican candidate.
(24:45):
They look at the party and they see Donald Trump,
and that is a problem we have right now.
Speaker 6 (24:49):
In fact, the.
Speaker 5 (24:50):
Poland shows his approval rating in Colorado is now in
the mid thirties. His disapproval is in the high fifties.
That is devastating to a Republican candidate.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
Well, Dick, one thing I'd love to do first, I'd
love to have these conversations much more often now that
we're heading in the general. Second, next time you have
some time to join us, let's really deep dive this
AG's race. Because I'm hearing the same thing you are,
like I'm hearing from big, big, big Democrat donors, you know,
very very very important, separately, very important people within the
(25:25):
Democratic Party that there is absolute horror at the thought
of Griswold becoming Attorney General. Now, whether any of those
will actually break and go public and opposer or try
to marshal some kind of effort against there's a whole
other critter.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
But next time we get together, let's steep dive that race.
Speaker 6 (25:45):
Good, love to do it.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
Okay, my friend, thanks for the time today. All right, Dan,
appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
That is Dick Wadams. Hey, when we come back, love
your thoughts on all of that. And also, Michael Allen,
the GOP nominee for Attorney General, will join us tomorrow.
I do believe he has a real chance to win
a combination of his strengths against Griswold's stunning weakness and
in her lies about arguing to the US Supreme Court,
(26:10):
the fact she's not a practicing lawyer self preservation. You know,
people want a real lawyer practicing lawyer and law enforcement
type normally in that age's position for their own protection.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
So I think Michael Ellen has a real chance he'll
join us tomorrow. You're on the Dan Capla.
Speaker 3 (26:26):
Show, and now back to the Dan Kapler Show podcast.
Speaker 8 (26:34):
You and I said this on this show many many
years ago, because this is my tenth year on the show,
and I said, there are times when I walk into
a community and I see American flags all over the community,
and I suddenly feel unsafe.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
Because because what got to hear this.
Speaker 8 (26:52):
That's co op with the American flag, and they equate
being an American or an American flag with white supremacy and.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
That, oh my lord, oh my lord, what a point
we're coming to.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
And again it's just like in Colorado, right with the
Democratic Party has dropped the mask they're socialists. And so yeah,
there's going to be real clarity for voters and that
whole attitude now that that patriotism is bad and the
Democratic Party, you know the polls as well as I do.
Patriot the American flag is a negative symbol.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
Yeah, that's not where America is at.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
And listen, I speak with some authority on this because
I was a Democrat for years. Vast majority of my
family outside of Colorado one hundred percent Democrats, and they
are as patriotic as you're ever going to find policy differences, yes,
but they're not going to go for this socialism, anti
American stuff.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
So this is the moment. This is the moment, you know,
for the GUP and Colorado to come back.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
And like Dick Wadams is the saying before the break,
I'm not saying it's going to happen over the next
few months. I'm talking about the longer term. I hope
it happens over the next few months. And there's the
very best shot I think has been all along in
the AG's race because of Jenna Griswold on the dem
side and all the Dems who are very, very scared
(28:08):
of her textures. And we've got a bunch of things
going on. If you just joined us, thank you. We're
talking about, among other things, hey, why isn't the US
better at soccer? I mean, we have thirty times more
people than Belgium and we got absolutely trounced.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
So we're talking about that.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
We're talking about Colorado forests, right, We've got this ragire
going on in this fire down and Aspen Acres outside
of Pueblo.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
You've got more land burned there than all the land.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
Mass of Denver one hundred and six forty six square
miles two hundred and fifty structures. We're talking about the
state of Colorado's forest. Should more be done to shut
these fires down early? Some would say just let them burn.
I think that's wrong. But and the overall health of
our forests with all this pine beetle kill and everything else.
The forests are so overgrown. What do we need to
(28:56):
be doing with our forests. We're talking about Iran, where
there's morelitary action today because once again the evil regime
believes President Trump will not fight further, and so they're
determined to humiliate America thereby boosting their standard in the
world and standing.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
And then we're of course talking about the Colorado elections.
Let's go to the texters.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
Dan Democrats have put on such a show where children
can be aboarded up to the last second, and believe
men can be women who thou cares If Marx has
some controversy, I think that's a very important email because
said text, thank you, because you know, if Victor Marx
is the nominee, and it looks like he's likely there be.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
Though it's not settled. You know, if he is the nominee.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
I think we have to look at the fact that
Democrats right now have adopted absolutely wicked, wicked positions, not
on every issue, but on a lot of issues, and
on the foundational issue, you know, they're extreme support for
mass killing of children before birth. They are so far
gone on the left in Colorado, I don't think we
(30:02):
have the luxury of sitting back and saying, well, our
candidate has flaws, because their candidate has flaws in the
worst possible ways right when it comes to supporting absolutely
wicked policies. So what I'd ask people to consider is
they weigh this is what if it was slavery instead
of abortion. What if it was a situation where the
(30:24):
GOP had a nominee that an awful lot of really good, credible,
highly respected for good reason people were extremely uncomfortable with,
but the Democrat opponent supported slavery.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
We were back in that era. I think it would
be unanimous.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
No, We've we've got to support anybody who's going to
defeat slavery. And when you think about abortion, I mean
Slavery is a unique kind of evil in world history.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
Right, so's abortion.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
So yeah, I think that the texture makes an important
point no matter who our nominee is, Dan, I agree,
who are these crazies voting for Victor Marx? I think
what we saw is I think we saw that the
Marx campaign was very, very, very smart. And what the
Marx campaign did was that I think it successfully scoped
out the fact that there were going to be very
(31:15):
few unaffiliateds voting in the GOP primary and the unaffiliateds
we're going to be going to that temp gubernatorial primary,
and that in the end, you know, Victor Marx would
be able to win with his core supporters and so
they wouldn't have to campaign often outside of that core
support group. Just you know, Marshal, that core support group,
(31:37):
and you know, it may very well work out for
them in the end because of a very very low
voter turnout in the GOP race. Dan, since we're not
allowed to investigate our elections in Colorado anymore, we'll end
up with Democrats always defeating the Victor Marxis of the
Republican Party.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
That from Kevin. Kevin, I could not disagree more.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
I think it is lame, dangerous, absolutely self defeating. For
us to sit here and say, oh, we're losing because
the elections are rigged.
Speaker 2 (32:05):
That's total. And if I could say the word on air,
I'd say it ten times.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
And it's the excuse of weaklings, we weak mentally, lacking
the courage to stand up and fight this fight.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
We've been called on to fight our state.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
It's open, openly being taken over by socialists, and we're
gonna sit there, curled.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
Up on our couch in the fetal position, with our.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
Thumbs in our mouths, saying, oh, they're still in the election,
They're still in the election.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
Grow up here, man.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
We are losing for other freaking reasons, So just stop
wasting everybody's time with that garbage.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
Do we have perfect elections? No?
Speaker 1 (32:41):
Should we have better yes? Should we ever tolerate any
level of fraud?
Speaker 6 (32:45):
No?
Speaker 2 (32:45):
Is there some fraud now?
Speaker 6 (32:47):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (32:48):
But it's not why we're losing.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
Losers make excuses, Winners find a way to win.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
That's all I got. But it's enough.
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