September 2, 2025 • 9 mins
GOP Analyst Bob Clegg on crime in Chicago, voter ID requirements, and those Trump rumors
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Let's go over to the Legacy Retirement Group dot com
phone light and say hello to our good friend, GOP
strategist Bob Clegg.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Bob, how is the holiday weekend? You guys travel anywhere?
Speaker 3 (00:10):
No, we did not, Mike. We stayed pretty much close
to home and you know, went to the Buckeye game,
and then on Sunday the Greek Festival and then just
did a little family stuff yesterday.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Wow, that sounds like a pretty packed weekend. How was
your experience? How was your experience on campus?
Speaker 3 (00:26):
It was a beautiful day, a beautiful day. The crowd
was great, I mean they I think the crowd was
a big factor in that whole game on Saturday.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
I watched on TV, and you could definitely anytime that
Texas was in a third down situation, it seemed like
it was deafening.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
It kind of felt.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
I know, there was criticism of it being a noon
game versus a night game, but it had a night
game feel when it came to the crowds energy level.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Oh yeah. I mean I didn't, to be honest, I
didn't expect the crowd to be that into it, but
boy were they. And it was a big game obviously,
so people were going to get into it, but didn't
seem to matter that it was the noon game.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Yeah, I'm glad you as had a good time. Let's
go over a couple of issues from the weekend. There
was a bunch of anti Trump protests both here in
Columbus over the weekend Downtown Arena District and around the country.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
And I think they're just kind.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Of a general, we hate Donald Trump type protest. I
really don't know what they were protesting, but you see, yeah,
and you see these Look. I support everyone's First Amendment
right to do this. There's there's no doubt about it.
But I don't know is it doing any good? And see,
(01:46):
I would give advice to anybody who wanted to protest
the political party and power with which they disagree. You know,
the slogans aren't going to change anybody's mind. You you're
well painted signs are not going to change anybody anybody's mind.
What I would recommend is you go back to the
drawing board and actually create better policy, find find a
(02:07):
better run, a better candidate with better policy, and then
start that way.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
I don't know, it just kind of makes sense to me.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Yeah, you know, it's sort of like Mike, you know what,
try to get a majority of Americans to support your candidate,
which you know, unfortunately for the Democrats and the Liberals,
they don't have that because they have positions on so
many different issues that are so opposed to the majority
of Americans. So what does that mean, Well, means they
(02:33):
become very frustrated and they have these you know, demonstrations
that are being paid for by you know, George Soros
and other billionaires that they have and it really, like
you say, it doesn't really do much. But I mean,
I thinks they've gotten so over the top with all
of this that if you were on ex this weekend,
(02:54):
you saw all these rumors about Donald Trump either being
dead or is dying or I mean, the frustration level
on the left is so high that they are like
wishing him to die.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
That's I don't even know what to make of that
other than.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Just making up these false rumors and and I don't know,
hope hopefully they're true.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
You know, maybe it's true. I mean, I don't know
what that either.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
It's like they think if they wish it hard enough
that it somehow might.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Have well, maybe they should. There's a number of things
they should be wishing for. And I don't know if
the the death of the president is one of them.
And I see, you know, one of these situations where
as you describe where Democrats kind of taking the wrong side,
and that is of course crime. Seven people killed in
(03:48):
Chicago over the long holiday weekend, forty seven others injured
in shootings in Chicago, and yet and yet the mayor
there is still pushing back on Trump sending the National
Guard to clean things up.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
I mean, talk about being totally tone deaf, that guy
who who is a socialist And you know, Democrats are
going to elect another one in New York City in
a few months. You know, they don't care about their
own people. They care more about their ideology, their politics
than the health and safety of their own citizens. But
(04:26):
you know, yeah, seven people were killed, forty some got shot.
But Mike, you know what, the crime rates going down in.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Chaga down from what then? I mean, it's just.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
That's how they answer these things. I know, they come
up with this ridiculous statement that has nothing to do
with reality in the city itself.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
I wonder how the actually the people who are you know,
live in the neighborhoods where these crimes are being committed.
How they feel, because I bet they have a different
story to tell. You know, when you hear the mayor
in Chicago, Brandon Johnson say, you know, no federal troops
in the city of Chicago. We're going to defend our democracy,
defending your democracy by by what allowing crime to go
(05:08):
sky high?
Speaker 3 (05:09):
By allowing more people to be killed. That's basically what
they're saying. And I'll tell you what, Mike. Can you
saw just last year in the vote results for Donald Trump,
he's getting a higher and higher percentage of not only Hispanics,
but also African Americans, African American males especially. He got
twenty five percent. That's one in four African American males
(05:30):
voted for Donald Trump last year. I mean, that's unheard of.
And why because of these very issues. These are the
issues that affect people that live in these areas. They
want to be safe, they should be safe, but their
politicians don't care about that. They care about themselves and
(05:51):
being always against whatever Donald Trump is or that's it.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
I mean, you could say what you want about Trump.
There's certainly things to be critical of. If you want
to be the tariffs, fine, fine, I'll listen to that,
because you may not be wrong. You want to be
critical about, you know, some of the executive voters. Fine,
I'll listen to that. You may not be wrong. But
one of the things that he's right on is crime.
I mean, because who doesn't want lower crime in your neighborhood.
(06:15):
It just again going back to.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
Mayor Johnson, does this impy? So I mean, and you
know what, and he's going to pay the price when
he's up for reelection because guess what, he's not going
to get re elected.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Well, speaking of elections, I think something else that that
President Trump is right on, and that's the voter ID
requirements and getting rid of the mail in voting, something
he mentioned a couple of weeks ago. And again it's
something else that I don't understand. I mean, if you've
got to show ID to rent a car or a
rent a hotel room, why should you not have to
(06:51):
show ID to vote or cash a check?
Speaker 3 (06:55):
I mean, it fits unbelievable that somehow the most precious
thing we have, which is our vote, can just be
thrown out in like, well, we don't really need ID,
we don't really check, we don't really need to ask
people whether they're citizens or not when they're when they're
registering to vote. I mean, this is unbelievable. And why
(07:15):
did the Democrats do this? Because obviously there's something going
on that they don't want to stop. And voter ID
asking the question are you a citizen or not are
things that they don't like because it's going to disrupt
something they got going on right now.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
There really is only one reason that you don't want
voter ID, and that's to cheat somehow. That's to get
people voting who shouldn't be voting. And look, I understand
not everybody has a driver's license. I understand not everybody
has a passport. But if you can't get it together
enough just to get a state ID to prove you
(07:52):
are who you say you are, then maybe voting you
should not be on the top of your list. There's
other things you probably a life should be worrying about.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Well, you know what, it's such a precious thing to us,
you would think that people would have some sense of
responsibility about it, which means if you want to really
vote and you don't drive, and you don't have a passport,
then you do get that state ID, which here in
Ohio and everywhere in the country are very very easy
to get. They're not difficult to get.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
No, are you good?
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Are you good with abolishing mail in voting? With exceptions
obviously if you're overseas in the military, or if you're
elderly or physically unable to leave the home to go vote.
I mean, obviously those folks would need to have mail
in voting. But just if you're, in my view, Bob,
if you're able bodied and you're able to go, even
(08:45):
voting early by a couple of weeks, I've sort of
changed my tune on that. I don't think that, but
I think you need to go in person.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Yeah, I like going in person. I think you should.
But I'll tell you, until they put more safeguards in
this whole mail and voting apparatus, I you know, until
they get in more safeguard, we shouldn't be doing it because,
I mean, there is abuse. We've seen videos of people
going into drop boxes and just dumping you know, hundreds
(09:15):
of ballots. I mean, this is this is a whole
area where once again Democrats don't want to have a
lot of rules or regulations around it.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Yeah, there's only one reason. There's only only one reason.
And the more people that have their midst on my ballot,
the bigger the window is for fraud, the bigger the
opportunity there is, and again there's exceptions there.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
So I don't know. I don't know if we solve
the world's problems, Bob, but
Speaker 1 (09:42):
You know so, as always good to talk to you,
Bob clegg in right here in Delaware County,
Let's go over to the Legacy Retirement Group dot com
phone light and say hello to our good friend, GOP
strategist Bob Clegg.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Bob, how is the holiday weekend? You guys travel anywhere?
Speaker 3 (00:10):
No, we did not, Mike. We stayed pretty much close
to home and you know, went to the Buckeye game,
and then on Sunday the Greek Festival and then just
did a little family stuff yesterday.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Wow, that sounds like a pretty packed weekend. How was
your experience? How was your experience on campus?
Speaker 3 (00:26):
It was a beautiful day, a beautiful day. The crowd
was great, I mean they I think the crowd was
a big factor in that whole game on Saturday.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
I watched on TV, and you could definitely anytime that
Texas was in a third down situation, it seemed like
it was deafening.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
It kind of felt.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
I know, there was criticism of it being a noon
game versus a night game, but it had a night
game feel when it came to the crowds energy level.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Oh yeah. I mean I didn't, to be honest, I
didn't expect the crowd to be that into it, but
boy were they. And it was a big game obviously,
so people were going to get into it, but didn't
seem to matter that it was the noon game.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Yeah, I'm glad you as had a good time. Let's
go over a couple of issues from the weekend. There
was a bunch of anti Trump protests both here in
Columbus over the weekend Downtown Arena District and around the country.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
And I think they're just kind.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Of a general, we hate Donald Trump type protest. I
really don't know what they were protesting, but you see, yeah,
and you see these Look. I support everyone's First Amendment
right to do this. There's there's no doubt about it.
But I don't know is it doing any good? And see,
(01:46):
I would give advice to anybody who wanted to protest
the political party and power with which they disagree. You know,
the slogans aren't going to change anybody's mind. You you're
well painted signs are not going to change anybody anybody's mind.
What I would recommend is you go back to the
drawing board and actually create better policy, find find a
(02:07):
better run, a better candidate with better policy, and then
start that way.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
I don't know, it just kind of makes sense to me.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Yeah, you know, it's sort of like Mike, you know what,
try to get a majority of Americans to support your candidate,
which you know, unfortunately for the Democrats and the Liberals,
they don't have that because they have positions on so
many different issues that are so opposed to the majority
of Americans. So what does that mean, Well, means they
(02:33):
become very frustrated and they have these you know, demonstrations
that are being paid for by you know, George Soros
and other billionaires that they have and it really, like
you say, it doesn't really do much. But I mean,
I thinks they've gotten so over the top with all
of this that if you were on ex this weekend,
(02:54):
you saw all these rumors about Donald Trump either being
dead or is dying or I mean, the frustration level
on the left is so high that they are like
wishing him to die.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
That's I don't even know what to make of that
other than.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Just making up these false rumors and and I don't know,
hope hopefully they're true.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
You know, maybe it's true. I mean, I don't know
what that either.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
It's like they think if they wish it hard enough
that it somehow might.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Have well, maybe they should. There's a number of things
they should be wishing for. And I don't know if
the the death of the president is one of them.
And I see, you know, one of these situations where
as you describe where Democrats kind of taking the wrong side,
and that is of course crime. Seven people killed in
(03:48):
Chicago over the long holiday weekend, forty seven others injured
in shootings in Chicago, and yet and yet the mayor
there is still pushing back on Trump sending the National
Guard to clean things up.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
I mean, talk about being totally tone deaf, that guy
who who is a socialist And you know, Democrats are
going to elect another one in New York City in
a few months. You know, they don't care about their
own people. They care more about their ideology, their politics
than the health and safety of their own citizens. But
(04:26):
you know, yeah, seven people were killed, forty some got shot.
But Mike, you know what, the crime rates going down in.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Chaga down from what then? I mean, it's just.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
That's how they answer these things. I know, they come
up with this ridiculous statement that has nothing to do
with reality in the city itself.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
I wonder how the actually the people who are you know,
live in the neighborhoods where these crimes are being committed.
How they feel, because I bet they have a different
story to tell. You know, when you hear the mayor
in Chicago, Brandon Johnson say, you know, no federal troops
in the city of Chicago. We're going to defend our democracy,
defending your democracy by by what allowing crime to go
(05:08):
sky high?
Speaker 3 (05:09):
By allowing more people to be killed. That's basically what
they're saying. And I'll tell you what, Mike. Can you
saw just last year in the vote results for Donald Trump,
he's getting a higher and higher percentage of not only Hispanics,
but also African Americans, African American males especially. He got
twenty five percent. That's one in four African American males
(05:30):
voted for Donald Trump last year. I mean, that's unheard of.
And why because of these very issues. These are the
issues that affect people that live in these areas. They
want to be safe, they should be safe, but their
politicians don't care about that. They care about themselves and
(05:51):
being always against whatever Donald Trump is or that's it.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
I mean, you could say what you want about Trump.
There's certainly things to be critical of. If you want
to be the tariffs, fine, fine, I'll listen to that,
because you may not be wrong. You want to be
critical about, you know, some of the executive voters. Fine,
I'll listen to that. You may not be wrong. But
one of the things that he's right on is crime.
I mean, because who doesn't want lower crime in your neighborhood.
(06:15):
It just again going back to.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
Mayor Johnson, does this impy? So I mean, and you
know what, and he's going to pay the price when
he's up for reelection because guess what, he's not going
to get re elected.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Well, speaking of elections, I think something else that that
President Trump is right on, and that's the voter ID
requirements and getting rid of the mail in voting, something
he mentioned a couple of weeks ago. And again it's
something else that I don't understand. I mean, if you've
got to show ID to rent a car or a
rent a hotel room, why should you not have to
(06:51):
show ID to vote or cash a check?
Speaker 3 (06:55):
I mean, it fits unbelievable that somehow the most precious
thing we have, which is our vote, can just be
thrown out in like, well, we don't really need ID,
we don't really check, we don't really need to ask
people whether they're citizens or not when they're when they're
registering to vote. I mean, this is unbelievable. And why
(07:15):
did the Democrats do this? Because obviously there's something going
on that they don't want to stop. And voter ID
asking the question are you a citizen or not are
things that they don't like because it's going to disrupt
something they got going on right now.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
There really is only one reason that you don't want
voter ID, and that's to cheat somehow. That's to get
people voting who shouldn't be voting. And look, I understand
not everybody has a driver's license. I understand not everybody
has a passport. But if you can't get it together
enough just to get a state ID to prove you
(07:52):
are who you say you are, then maybe voting you
should not be on the top of your list. There's
other things you probably a life should be worrying about.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Well, you know what, it's such a precious thing to us,
you would think that people would have some sense of
responsibility about it, which means if you want to really
vote and you don't drive, and you don't have a passport,
then you do get that state ID, which here in
Ohio and everywhere in the country are very very easy
to get. They're not difficult to get.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
No, are you good?
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Are you good with abolishing mail in voting? With exceptions
obviously if you're overseas in the military, or if you're
elderly or physically unable to leave the home to go vote.
I mean, obviously those folks would need to have mail
in voting. But just if you're, in my view, Bob,
if you're able bodied and you're able to go, even
(08:45):
voting early by a couple of weeks, I've sort of
changed my tune on that. I don't think that, but
I think you need to go in person.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Yeah, I like going in person. I think you should.
But I'll tell you, until they put more safeguards in
this whole mail and voting apparatus, I you know, until
they get in more safeguard, we shouldn't be doing it because,
I mean, there is abuse. We've seen videos of people
going into drop boxes and just dumping you know, hundreds
(09:15):
of ballots. I mean, this is this is a whole
area where once again Democrats don't want to have a
lot of rules or regulations around it.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Yeah, there's only one reason. There's only only one reason.
And the more people that have their midst on my ballot,
the bigger the window is for fraud, the bigger the
opportunity there is, and again there's exceptions there.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
So I don't know. I don't know if we solve
the world's problems, Bob, but
Speaker 1 (09:42):
You know so, as always good to talk to you,
Bob clegg in right here in Delaware County,
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