December 4, 2025 • 40 mins
Todd breaks down why Indiana’s redistricting fight matters far beyond the Hoosier state. He answers a listener’s question about why Indiana “needs” to redraw its congressional map, explains what the Constitution actually says about redistricting, and pushes back on claims that new maps somehow “take away representation.” Todd contrasts traditional Hoosier Democrats with today’s radical national Democrat leadership, warns about federal overreach on borders, culture, and spending, and argues that refusing to redraw maps is unilateral political disarmament. He also previews his remarks at the Turning Point Action event at the Indiana Statehouse and encourages listeners to make their voices heard with their state senators.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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All right, my friends, we are in the thick of
it here in Indiana. I know that this right now
is the political center of the country, maybe the universe
right now, with what's going on with redistricting. And I
know we've talked about it a lot. I know I've
shared with you. If you're not in Indiana, understand that
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this battle, this battle absolutely affects you your state. Your
state may be going or have recently gone through this
as well, or maybe soon to be going through this.
That's a potential as well. But this will help shape
what happens in the twenty twenty six midterm election, and
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that is one election incredibly important. It's incredibly critical. So
that's why this matters so much. You know, I've always
stayed away from talking. In fact, many of you who
are in Indiana may have sometimes thought that you wish
that we would talk more about Hoosier policies or local issues.
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We don't do that. This is a program that talks
about national issues, American issues from a Hoosier common sense, conservative,
not bitter perspective, and so we're not deviating from that.
This is just something that is critically important, and I
want to get to it today. In fact, I want
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to respond. There was a a question that I got
on I think on social media. By the way, you
can email your thoughts and questions to Todd at Toddhuffshow
dot com. I read those. That helps me know what
we need to talk about as well. But I got
a question I believe on Facebook that said or that asked,
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why does Indiana need to read district? A very straightforward question,
and of course it's from someone who can't listen every day,
so I understand you might think, Wow, we've talked about
that to some degree for the past several days, maybe
the past several weeks. I want to go through that today.
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I want to give you, I guess, a summary, a
final argument presentation here for this, I'll also tell tell
you that we'll be speaking. I'll be speaking tomorrow at
the Indiana State House. I don't have the exact schedule.
There's lots of speakers, including Governor Braun, Lieutenant Governor Micah Beckwit,
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who was on this program a couple of weeks ago,
other voices. I'll be up there as well. Just have
a few minutes. But if you can make it, I
encourage you to come. The event will start, believe it
starts at noon. I'll put all the information in the
stack of stuff, and I've been posting some stuff on
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social media as well, if you follow us there, and
I'll talk about it in the newsletter, which is free
and you can sign up for that as well. Just
that's the way that you'll get it. These events are
very fluid. I'm still waiting there creating a graphic that
includes me on it that we can, you know, share
with the Times and the I don't know the lineup
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or whatever is going to be on there. Just don't
have all that stuff yet. This is just the nature
the nature of how these things are done, especially when
they're changing and evolving. And I didn't even know that
I could be a speaker until yesterday. So anyway, that's
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go through this systematically today, as I've prepared my remarks
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for what i want to say at the State House tomorrow,
and I've dealt with some of the questions I've gotten,
some of course by trolls, which I don't take seriously
who often entertain me. Some are serious questions from people
who really want to understand. They don't. This isn't in
their wheelhouse, and they're really trying to come to grips
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with their position on this issue. I respect that, I do.
I respect that, And let me say this too. Let
me say this too. I think it's critically important that
Indiana goes through that Republicans put their big boy and
big girl pants on here and vote for this new map,
vote to redistrict the state of Indiana. I believe that.
I'll tell you why. That's what the whole show is
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going to be about today. But let me also say this.
A lot you've heard me say in recent years. I've
done this program for ten years now, which just saying
that it just hits differently in my brain. It's hard
to believe. Really, time goes so fast. But there are
many issues today where I have said on this program
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or I've thought to myself, and you've probably had the
same thought. A lot of what we call political today
is not even really political. It's a fight between good
and evil. I mean, not everything hear me out, but
when you're talking about, say, the issue of abortion. It
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is a fight between good and evil when you are
talking about some of the cultural depravity we see thrust
upon us, like the transagenda, men competing in women's sports.
This is this is, my friends, just an evil, god
forsaken ideology. And there's a lot of issues that are
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like that. But not everything is there is still politics.
This issue is politics. If you disagree with me on this,
I don't think that you're enabling or well enabling wicked
beliefs or whatever. I don't think that I want you
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to know that we can disagree on these things. I
will tell you. I think if you disagree with me
on this, forget about disagreeing with me. I think if
you're on the side of not changing the maps, it
enables more of this evil to be forced upon America
because of what I'll lay out here. But I don't
believe that defending the current maps is some moral, you know,
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defect that someone has. I think that it's I think
that it is maybe holding on to tradition. I think
that it may be misunderstanding or not fully grasping the
weight of what this fight is about. I think it
might be misunderstanding what fairness is. I think it might
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be not just thinking through. You're very smart. People can
disagree with me on this, but if you really think
it through, and that's what I want to do today
and talk about districts. I mean, what makes one preferable
over another? Why is it considered the necessary and good
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and fair and just for Democrats to have two seats
in Indiana or Republicans to have seven? Why not five? Four?
Why not nine? Zero? I mean, when you wrestle with
these questions and think logically about it, you'll see that
these are all they all have political answers. There's not
at its core some absolute guiding principle of right or wrong.
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Here again, I think the outcome of this vote will
allow us to fight for the side that's right better.
Not that I'm here to say Republicans hold all the answers,
because they don't, but they hold a whole lot more
answers than the Democrat Party does. The Democrat Party, under
the leadership of the radical, godless left, have taken us,
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I mean into places that our founders would be mortified
to find us meandering through at the moment. So why
let's talk about this did this issue? Let's break it
down first? Let me say this. It is perfectly legitimate,
and I said this in the Todd Talk today. No,
I usually make sure the Todd Talk and this show,
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the content of the show is different. Today I didn't
do that because the Todd Talk reaches people, maybe this
program doesn't. I've had some people that have asked questions
who may listen to a sixty second Todd Talk but
not to a forty or whatever it is some on
minutes podcast. So this might be repeating itself. But the
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purpose of the Todd Talk today I started with this
very point. It is perfectly the legitimate and legal for
Indiana to do this. So, first, redistricting is explicitly constitutional.
And what do I mean by that. I mean that
the Constitution gives state legislatures the power to do this.
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So it's not the government stepping out of bounds. It's
not the government trying to acquire too much power. This
is the job of the state legislature. Now, some state
legislators have tried to because this is a politic you know,
it's interesting to me, this is a political process, and
you have some states who have said, well, we don't
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want it to be political, so we want it to
be fair. And they bring in these people who are
supposedly nonpartisan, and they put them on a panel on
some commission, and they say, go out there and tell
us what the fair map is. And I think that
that's actually that sort of thinking has maybe insulated people
from reality. Drawing maps is absolutely a political activity because
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how do you decide, how do you decide where the
lines should be drawn? I mean it is an arbitrary
at some point, an arbitrary decision. I mean, for example,
I hear people say to me, Indianapolis being split into
four districts denies people representation. No, it doesn't. What the
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world are you talking about? I got that comment yesterday.
You know, when this country was founded, when it was
long before Indiana was a state, there were the thirteen
original colonies, and the colonists were upset because they were
being taxed by the British government, but they did not
have a voice in the British government. And the phrase
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no taxation without representation became a catchphrase amongst the colonists.
And why did it become a catchphrase? Became a catchphrase
because it was true. See Parliament, the British government did
not have a seat, did not have a representative from
the colonies, not from each individual individual colonies, not from
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the colony, one representative from the colonies. There wasn't a
seat at the table for the colonies politically, and so
they were being taxed without having someone there to make
their case, to try to argue, to try to, you know,
protect their interest by casting votes and so forth. They
literally had no person there. Just because your district lines
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have been changed, just because they've been changed means doesn't
mean you suddenly don't have a representative. Every single person
in the state of Indiana, and every state in the
United States for that matter, has a representative. They have
a rep In fact, the way that we do the census,
you can make the case that illegal aliens have representatives,
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which that's absolutely bonkers. But you have a representative, you
have representation. People conflate their preferred representative with their actual representative.
Maybe they don't like that representative, maybe they politically disagree
with him or her or whatever, but the truth is
they have a representative. They have representation. There's not a
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person in this country who's living in a US state
that does not have congressional representation. That is not the
way that it works. And they again they I don't
know if it's ignorance. I don't know if it's just
trying to make their argument sound stronger. So they say
these things that the low information voter crowd will just
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simply say, wow, that sounds right. There's no guarantee that
the person you vote for that this might be a
surprise to some I know not to you, but this
might be a surprise to the left to find out
that the person you vote for may not win, may
not win the election. That doesn't suddenly mean that you
don't have representation. It's really quite it's quite foolish to
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say to say such a thing. You know it's in vogue.
I know it's in vogue. In fact, you will one
thing I don't think you'll ever. I don't think I've
ever said it. When let's say Obama or Biden was president,
I never said. I don't believe I did. He's not
my president because he was my president. I might not
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have liked him. Actually I didn't like him. I forget
about personally, just I didn't like his policies. They were
dangerous open borders. Of all the things, all the reasons
that we should be making sure we have the most
Republican representation. We can to go fight this nonsense on
the federal level. The federal overreach, the disastrous policies that
crush Hoosier families and Hoosiers who are trying to work
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and live their lives with liberty. All those things are
under threat because of people like Biden and people in
his political party. But I never said he wasn't my president.
He was my president. I didn't agree with him, but
he was still my president. People say that about Trump
not my president, Well, first of all, yes he is.
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And secondly, just because you don't agree with him doesn't
change that fact. This is entirely constitutional, this process, and
it's entirely the responsibility of the state legislature. States draw
the congressional districts. The rules are pretty simple. They need
to be contiguous areas, they can't be split up, basically,
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and they need to have roughly equal population. That's it. Now.
You could say the Voting Right Acts of Voting Rights
Act as interpreted by the Supreme Court might say that
there's additional burdens regarding politics and race that's being questioned
here through the court system now. But in general, contiguous
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area that has an equal population to the other districts.
That's all that these have to be. Now, there's no
sacred there's no morally superior shape of a district. Our
circles better than squares, are rectangles superior to triangles. Look,
it's much more complicated than that. You have to go
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where the people go, and you can draw the lines
however you see fit. Breaking Indianapolis into four districts is
not immoral. You might say people don't politically like it. Okay,
then hold the people who draw the map politically responsible.
There's not something. Get off your moral high horse, is
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my point here. You don't have the moral high ground
because you think Indianapolis should have two representatives instead of four.
That's ridiculous. You can make the argument, that's perfectly legitimate
for you to make the argument, But to say that
that's morally superior to someone who wants to split Indianapolis up,
Tell me why, Tell me why all these answers are political.
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The people that want to keep Indianapolis having one main
district and part of another is because it gives them
a political advantage. The people that want to split it
up into ford district is because it gives them a
political advantage. There's no other rationale here, There's none. People
try to find it. Well, these people don't have the
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same shared interest as it. Why what are you talking about?
Besides which, there's the city of Indianapolis that's managing should
be managing local issues. We're just wanting to send people
to Washington, d c. To fight government overreach, to actually
not micro manage our cities, put a heavy burden on
them and let them be overrun with illegal aliens and drugs,
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things that are coming across the southern border in other ways.
That's all we're wanting. We're not wanting to have our
people run the federal government so that they all become
lose their ability to self govern. This is none of
this makes any sense when you just continue to dig down.
This is a political fight. There is nothing illegal, nothing immoral,
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nothing unprecedented about a political party drawing maps. Every state
does it. Blue states have aggressively done it for years.
In fact, that's again jerrymandering actually takes place in some
of these blue states. Jerrymandering may happen in a lot
of states, but this map here that Indianapolis has drawn
is not jerrymandering. Jerrymanderin is extreme, extremely odd and unnatural
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shapes that are clearly designed to include certain part of
a district and not of another. This map is not
that it does split Indianapolis up, but the term jerrymander
actually came from Massachusetts in eighteen twelve. I believe the
governor's name, the name Jerry was in his Now I
don't know if this is his first name or last name,
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but G. E. R r Y. Apparently one of the
districts drawn was resembled a salamander in the state of Massachusetts,
and so the term jerry mander was formed. That's where
that came from. Just drawing lines that give you a
political advantage is not I understand that in the common
use of the phrase it comes to mean that today,
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but it is it's an extremely odd shaped to accomplish
a political ends. That's where the term jerrymandering comes from.
So these aren't extremely gerrymandered districts. Yes, they split Indianapolis up,
but they don't go out of their way to be
ridiculously out of control shapes that look like things like salamanders.
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Indiana refusing to exercise its authority to draw maps and
have control over this while other states do this unilaterally.
Is political disarmament. I should say it is unilateral political disarmament.
The left plays to win. The left plays by a
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different set of rules. My position is we shouldn't be
doing anything illegal immoral. We should be using the tools
at our disposal to do everything that is legal that
we can do. Republicans should not pretend they're obligated to
lose a political fight politely. That's not what this should
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be about, and that's not what it's about for me.
Legislators are not only allowed to draw maps, they're expected
to do that. That's part of their job, and they're
expected to do it responsibly. It's their constitutional duty. It
is not some sort of political sin to exercise their
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constitutional duty to draw these maps. So we can one percent.
For those who think that we can't, we absolutely can
do this. There is nothing in the constitution. You'll hear
people say it's unconstitutional because the Constitution specifies this is
done every ten years. Of course it does, because there's
a census taken every ten years. So it's saying every
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time there's a census, we've got to do this. It
does not prohibit it from being done at other points
in the timeline. That's not the way that this is.
That this is done. It's not prohibited. It is absolutely
under their authority. This is their prerogative and they can
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should draw new maps. So this is for the people,
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for the individual. Her name was Evelyn on social media
who said, why does Indiana need to do this? Okay,
I'm glad that you asked that. I think it's a
sincere question and I'm going to do this. So national
Democrat leadership pushes policies that are dramatically out of step
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with hoosier values. So what happens is when we elect
someone in Indiana as a Democrat or as a Republican,
they go and they caucus nationally, they go to Washington,
d C. And they get together in their caucus in
the group of people that are part of that part
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of that party, who they actually strategize with and so forth,
and they vote for leadership, and they end up voting
for people that are pushing some radical and dangerous agenda
items on the American people. This is where economic policy
comes from, along with democratic leadership in the executive branch,
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for example, but this is where ideas come that create
economic policies that have crushed hoosiers, that have added massive
amounts to the cost of living, massive out of control inflation.
I mean, go back and look at Biden's numbers. People
are it's remarkable to watch Democrats complain about the cost
of things now. The cost of things now are the
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result of what happened. It was inflation was put into
hyper drive during the Biden years. That's why we're dealing
with this, and prices won't come down again. Economics is
much more complicated than that.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
But.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
Inflation is not if it's not negative, which I'm not
arguing that it should be. That the prices are not
going to come down, that they'll they'll slow in growth
is what's going to happen. And so we had policies
that you know, someone might have voted for a representative
here to challenge Trump because they're fraid he's a king,
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But that doesn't mean that they voted for policies and
things that lead to high inflation. But they did, sometimes unwittingly.
This is dramatically out of step. I got no problems
with people say, hey, vote for me because I'm going
to hold the president in check. Okay, fine, whatever his party,
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But don't use that as a green light to institute
other policies, because you've caused blind rage amongst the constituents
in your district to where they just want to stop
the guy in the White House, and they don't stop
stop to think about all the other things that are
happening out there as well. That's number one. Hoosier's end
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up represented by Democrats who vote for radical leadership once
they're in Washington. So the ideology that exists in Washington,
d C that's embraced by the Democrat Party is not
held by Hoosiers in general, and even specifically, I would
say not the majority of even Hoo's. Your Democrats vote
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for what's happening in Washington, d C. I believe that
that is true, But they end up getting there and
they vote these jokers and clowns into office. They're also
put under extreme pressure to tow the party line or
else they lose potential positions on committees and so forth,
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they lose other voices within the party. They're basically muted
until they go along with the leadership. This is what happens.
So National Democrat policies on things like spending, on things
like the border, on things like culture, they hurt. And
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I would say hurt is maybe even an understatement. They
sometimes they dramatically hurt. Sometimes sometimes my friends in the
case say where open borders allows people to be in
this country illegally, sometimes that literally cost people their lives
because of policies. I'm not saying all the time, but
that certainly can be the case in some tragic circumstances. Inflation,
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federal money printing, that's of course the source of in
It's not anything else. In spite of what they want
you to believe, the federal government's responsible solely for inflation,
cultural radicalism, remaking this country into something that it was
never intended to be. These are things that happen in Washington,
d C. That directly affect Indiana. Households. I mean, think
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about how you lived your life under COVID. The people
that were running the shows, running the show politically at
various levels of our government are well. They were elected
and most of the time they were Democrats or they
were bureaucrats that vote for and support the ideas of
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the radical left. I mean, there's lots of examples as
to how this has directly hurt. Who's your businesses, who's
your families, who's your lives. The modern Democrat Party, by
the way, is nothing like the old Hoosier Democrat Party. Listen.
I was raised in a Union Democrat home shared that
on here before my parents. My dad was a Union
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Democrat for UAW Local nine thirty three. It was what
was it, Allison Engine Company, Alison Gas Turbert, I think
is where he started. It had a couple of names.
When he retired, it was bought by Rolls Royce That's
what That's what it was before he retired. He was
there for thirty thirty or thirty one years, was a
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union representative, a committeeman, I believe for several years. I
remember that when I was in high school. And he
he's not a leftist, he's not even liberal. He's a
traditional blue dog Democrat, primarily Democrat, because he believes Democrats
look out for workers more than Republicans and Republicans favorite
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big business. That's his perspective. But that political party is
long gone. The Party of John F. Kennedy is nowhere
to be found. And if you have a Democrat running
here for Congress, he is by definition going to be
a part of a party that is radical, radical, my friends,
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and electing radical leadership. They don't reflect the values of
Hoosier's and they definitely well off Hoosier's overall, and they
don't even reflect the values of Hoosier Democrats. Indiana has
a duty to protect itself from what happens here. From
this recipe. You have other states, other blue states that
are maximizing their vote count the number of seats, say California,
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for example. Other states have done the same thing to
try to squeeze as many blue districts out as possible.
By the way, you've never heard me complain about that.
I am remarkably consistent on this. I don't like it.
I think maybe that the people should try to challenge
you to find ways to win in those states which
I know that they do, but they got to get
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better at it. They got to get the ideas of
conservatism out there, and they've atifind better candidates. There's a
lot going on there. But states can draw these districts
as they as they see fit, and we now have
a duty in Indiana to protect Hoosiers from the overreach
that happens in this scenario and the destructive national agendas.
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Because what happens if the federal government gets too big,
which it has, and you have a group of people
that are put into Washington, d c. That believe it
is their job to solve every problem in the world,
then they're going to start manipulating and you know, uh,
messing with all sorts of things, passing laws for everything.
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And they'll say, well, this is the prerogative of the
federal government. Indiana and other states, Suddenly we're still part
of a republic. It's still a federal you know, there's
still federalism here. But if you're appealing to people who
are favorable to big government and who are willing to
overreach their bounds and not care about the constitution, which
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is what we have when the left is in charge,
you've got a recipe for disaster, and you've got things
being forced upon your community, your state. That is absolutely
there's nothing that can be done at that point. We
have a duty to protect ourselves from that. In action
today means conceding future congressional power to the radical left.
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Make no mistake about it. For those Republicans who act
like it's something else because of comments Trump made or
whatever it is, this is a very very easy political
issue to see. If you want to empower the left,
vote against these maps. If you want to fight against
the left, if you want to fight against governmental overreach,
if you want to stand in favor of liberty and
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against the tyrants that are put into place in Washington,
d C. Through the system I just explained to you.
If you want to oppose that, then you will be
in favor of these maps. That is how I see it.
I've got to take a break, my friends. Sit tight
back here in just a minute. Welcome back, my friends.
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Third and final segment of today's program, going through the
reasons or the rationale for being in favor of these maps.
I've been asked some of these questions. I'm responding to
some of the comments, and I don't know allegations and
the emotions that are out there. That's what we're doing
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here today. And I will be speaking tomorrow at the
Turning Point action event at the State House. I'll get
you more information on that. I invite you to come
down to the State House at noon tomorrow. You know,
there's been plenty of people on the left screaming and
channing and stomping their feet and so forth, throwing tip
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or tantrums in our rotunda. We're going to be there tomorrow,
my friends, and I would love to see you there.
If you can't be there, which I know you're busy, right,
I mean, you're working. You you've got a job, you've
got responsibilities, you own a business, whatever, lots of things
going on, you got kids and everything else. You can
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you can still be a part of this. In fact,
the next best thing to do is to call or
email your state centers if you agree with me. If
you agree with me, then let them know that you
expect them to pass these maps. They're going to vote.
This is all going to end supposedly on Monday, and
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some of these folks, including my representative, my state Senator
Rod Bray, who's leading the Senate, I can't listen I
don't give up. It's just not in my makeup. But
I am one who accepts reality. Rod Bray's not going
to respond to me. I'm a constituent. He doesn't. He
doesn't care. He doesn't care to even answer my questions,
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to answer constituents of his in this audience, which I
know there are many. He doesn't care to answer your questions.
And that's wherever he votes on this. It's absolutely despicable
in my mind that a public servant, a quote unquote
public servant. I'm using the Seinfeld the air quotes here
behind the microphone public servant. Public servants don't behave like this.
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This is incredibly disappointing to me, incredibly disappointing. If he
thinks that this is going away, I just he doesn't know.
On top of that, we've got Scott Presler, who I've
talked to. I don't know if you know Scott Presler.
He's he's very influential. He's got a grassroots organization where
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he helps get Republicans elected. Scott Presler's on the record
of saying any Republican who votes against these maps, he's
going to try to primary. And so I've talked to
him about coming on the program. Of course, with everything
going on between his schedule of mind, it's been tough,
but I do hope to get him on this program
to talk about that very thing, because we're not going
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to let this go away. Scott is going to do
what Scott's going to do. We're gonna support him. I'm
going to give him this an opportunity to speak with
you and to share with you what he's doing. And
there will be accountability for this. There will be accountability
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see if there's any other questions, any other questions that
I need to address or I mentioned that the TAC
that the argument that this takes away representation, It clearly doesn't.
Everybody still has a representative. They may just not have
their preferred representative, which, by the way, the way that
it works, that's always going to happen for some, especially
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especially when this country is split the way that it is.
For those who say redistricting is cheating again, I guess
the simple answer would be the Democrats have been doing
that for decades then, But I would say it's not cheating,
it's illegal, it's constitutional, and it's being used aggressively. I
might add nationwide, in Indiana, if they don't vote for this,
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could be refusing to be the only state to be
playing by imaginary rules. Indianapolis does not deserve its own districts.
That's something else that. People say, splitting Indianapolis, so that's
some sort of unforgivable sin. Republicans are being extreme. No,
protecting Hoosiers is not extreme. Failing to do so is
absolutely irresponsible. I gotta go, SDG.
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All right, my friends, we are in the thick of
it here in Indiana. I know that this right now
is the political center of the country, maybe the universe
right now, with what's going on with redistricting. And I
know we've talked about it a lot. I know I've
shared with you. If you're not in Indiana, understand that
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this battle, this battle absolutely affects you your state. Your
state may be going or have recently gone through this
as well, or maybe soon to be going through this.
That's a potential as well. But this will help shape
what happens in the twenty twenty six midterm election, and
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that is one election incredibly important. It's incredibly critical. So
that's why this matters so much. You know, I've always
stayed away from talking. In fact, many of you who
are in Indiana may have sometimes thought that you wish
that we would talk more about Hoosier policies or local issues.
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We don't do that. This is a program that talks
about national issues, American issues from a Hoosier common sense, conservative,
not bitter perspective, and so we're not deviating from that.
This is just something that is critically important, and I
want to get to it today. In fact, I want
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to respond. There was a a question that I got
on I think on social media. By the way, you
can email your thoughts and questions to Todd at Toddhuffshow
dot com. I read those. That helps me know what
we need to talk about as well. But I got
a question I believe on Facebook that said or that asked,
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why does Indiana need to read district? A very straightforward question,
and of course it's from someone who can't listen every day,
so I understand you might think, Wow, we've talked about
that to some degree for the past several days, maybe
the past several weeks. I want to go through that today.
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I want to give you, I guess, a summary, a
final argument presentation here for this, I'll also tell tell
you that we'll be speaking. I'll be speaking tomorrow at
the Indiana State House. I don't have the exact schedule.
There's lots of speakers, including Governor Braun, Lieutenant Governor Micah Beckwit,
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who was on this program a couple of weeks ago,
other voices. I'll be up there as well. Just have
a few minutes. But if you can make it, I
encourage you to come. The event will start, believe it
starts at noon. I'll put all the information in the
stack of stuff, and I've been posting some stuff on
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social media as well, if you follow us there, and
I'll talk about it in the newsletter, which is free
and you can sign up for that as well. Just
that's the way that you'll get it. These events are
very fluid. I'm still waiting there creating a graphic that
includes me on it that we can, you know, share
with the Times and the I don't know the lineup
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or whatever is going to be on there. Just don't
have all that stuff yet. This is just the nature
the nature of how these things are done, especially when
they're changing and evolving. And I didn't even know that
I could be a speaker until yesterday. So anyway, that's
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go through this systematically today, as I've prepared my remarks
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for what i want to say at the State House tomorrow,
and I've dealt with some of the questions I've gotten,
some of course by trolls, which I don't take seriously
who often entertain me. Some are serious questions from people
who really want to understand. They don't. This isn't in
their wheelhouse, and they're really trying to come to grips
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with their position on this issue. I respect that, I do.
I respect that, And let me say this too. Let
me say this too. I think it's critically important that
Indiana goes through that Republicans put their big boy and
big girl pants on here and vote for this new map,
vote to redistrict the state of Indiana. I believe that.
I'll tell you why. That's what the whole show is
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going to be about today. But let me also say this.
A lot you've heard me say in recent years. I've
done this program for ten years now, which just saying
that it just hits differently in my brain. It's hard
to believe. Really, time goes so fast. But there are
many issues today where I have said on this program
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or I've thought to myself, and you've probably had the
same thought. A lot of what we call political today
is not even really political. It's a fight between good
and evil. I mean, not everything hear me out, but
when you're talking about, say, the issue of abortion. It
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is a fight between good and evil when you are
talking about some of the cultural depravity we see thrust
upon us, like the transagenda, men competing in women's sports.
This is this is, my friends, just an evil, god
forsaken ideology. And there's a lot of issues that are
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like that. But not everything is there is still politics.
This issue is politics. If you disagree with me on this,
I don't think that you're enabling or well enabling wicked
beliefs or whatever. I don't think that I want you
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to know that we can disagree on these things. I
will tell you. I think if you disagree with me
on this, forget about disagreeing with me. I think if
you're on the side of not changing the maps, it
enables more of this evil to be forced upon America
because of what I'll lay out here. But I don't
believe that defending the current maps is some moral, you know,
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defect that someone has. I think that it's I think
that it is maybe holding on to tradition. I think
that it may be misunderstanding or not fully grasping the
weight of what this fight is about. I think it
might be misunderstanding what fairness is. I think it might
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be not just thinking through. You're very smart. People can
disagree with me on this, but if you really think
it through, and that's what I want to do today
and talk about districts. I mean, what makes one preferable
over another? Why is it considered the necessary and good
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and fair and just for Democrats to have two seats
in Indiana or Republicans to have seven? Why not five? Four?
Why not nine? Zero? I mean, when you wrestle with
these questions and think logically about it, you'll see that
these are all they all have political answers. There's not
at its core some absolute guiding principle of right or wrong.
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Here again, I think the outcome of this vote will
allow us to fight for the side that's right better.
Not that I'm here to say Republicans hold all the answers,
because they don't, but they hold a whole lot more
answers than the Democrat Party does. The Democrat Party, under
the leadership of the radical, godless left, have taken us,
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I mean into places that our founders would be mortified
to find us meandering through at the moment. So why
let's talk about this did this issue? Let's break it
down first? Let me say this. It is perfectly legitimate,
and I said this in the Todd Talk today. No,
I usually make sure the Todd Talk and this show,
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the content of the show is different. Today I didn't
do that because the Todd Talk reaches people, maybe this
program doesn't. I've had some people that have asked questions
who may listen to a sixty second Todd Talk but
not to a forty or whatever it is some on
minutes podcast. So this might be repeating itself. But the
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purpose of the Todd Talk today I started with this
very point. It is perfectly the legitimate and legal for
Indiana to do this. So, first, redistricting is explicitly constitutional.
And what do I mean by that. I mean that
the Constitution gives state legislatures the power to do this.
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So it's not the government stepping out of bounds. It's
not the government trying to acquire too much power. This
is the job of the state legislature. Now, some state
legislators have tried to because this is a politic you know,
it's interesting to me, this is a political process, and
you have some states who have said, well, we don't
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want it to be political, so we want it to
be fair. And they bring in these people who are
supposedly nonpartisan, and they put them on a panel on
some commission, and they say, go out there and tell
us what the fair map is. And I think that
that's actually that sort of thinking has maybe insulated people
from reality. Drawing maps is absolutely a political activity because
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how do you decide, how do you decide where the
lines should be drawn? I mean it is an arbitrary
at some point, an arbitrary decision. I mean, for example,
I hear people say to me, Indianapolis being split into
four districts denies people representation. No, it doesn't. What the
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world are you talking about? I got that comment yesterday.
You know, when this country was founded, when it was
long before Indiana was a state, there were the thirteen
original colonies, and the colonists were upset because they were
being taxed by the British government, but they did not
have a voice in the British government. And the phrase
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no taxation without representation became a catchphrase amongst the colonists.
And why did it become a catchphrase? Became a catchphrase
because it was true. See Parliament, the British government did
not have a seat, did not have a representative from
the colonies, not from each individual individual colonies, not from
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the colony, one representative from the colonies. There wasn't a
seat at the table for the colonies politically, and so
they were being taxed without having someone there to make
their case, to try to argue, to try to, you know,
protect their interest by casting votes and so forth. They
literally had no person there. Just because your district lines
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have been changed, just because they've been changed means doesn't
mean you suddenly don't have a representative. Every single person
in the state of Indiana, and every state in the
United States for that matter, has a representative. They have
a rep In fact, the way that we do the census,
you can make the case that illegal aliens have representatives,
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which that's absolutely bonkers. But you have a representative, you
have representation. People conflate their preferred representative with their actual representative.
Maybe they don't like that representative, maybe they politically disagree
with him or her or whatever, but the truth is
they have a representative. They have representation. There's not a
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person in this country who's living in a US state
that does not have congressional representation. That is not the
way that it works. And they again they I don't
know if it's ignorance. I don't know if it's just
trying to make their argument sound stronger. So they say
these things that the low information voter crowd will just
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simply say, wow, that sounds right. There's no guarantee that
the person you vote for that this might be a
surprise to some I know not to you, but this
might be a surprise to the left to find out
that the person you vote for may not win, may
not win the election. That doesn't suddenly mean that you
don't have representation. It's really quite it's quite foolish to
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say to say such a thing. You know it's in vogue.
I know it's in vogue. In fact, you will one
thing I don't think you'll ever. I don't think I've
ever said it. When let's say Obama or Biden was president,
I never said. I don't believe I did. He's not
my president because he was my president. I might not
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have liked him. Actually I didn't like him. I forget
about personally, just I didn't like his policies. They were
dangerous open borders. Of all the things, all the reasons
that we should be making sure we have the most
Republican representation. We can to go fight this nonsense on
the federal level. The federal overreach, the disastrous policies that
crush Hoosier families and Hoosiers who are trying to work
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and live their lives with liberty. All those things are
under threat because of people like Biden and people in
his political party. But I never said he wasn't my president.
He was my president. I didn't agree with him, but
he was still my president. People say that about Trump
not my president, Well, first of all, yes he is.
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And secondly, just because you don't agree with him doesn't
change that fact. This is entirely constitutional, this process, and
it's entirely the responsibility of the state legislature. States draw
the congressional districts. The rules are pretty simple. They need
to be contiguous areas, they can't be split up, basically,
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and they need to have roughly equal population. That's it. Now.
You could say the Voting Right Acts of Voting Rights
Act as interpreted by the Supreme Court might say that
there's additional burdens regarding politics and race that's being questioned
here through the court system now. But in general, contiguous
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area that has an equal population to the other districts.
That's all that these have to be. Now, there's no
sacred there's no morally superior shape of a district. Our
circles better than squares, are rectangles superior to triangles. Look,
it's much more complicated than that. You have to go
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where the people go, and you can draw the lines
however you see fit. Breaking Indianapolis into four districts is
not immoral. You might say people don't politically like it. Okay,
then hold the people who draw the map politically responsible.
There's not something. Get off your moral high horse, is
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my point here. You don't have the moral high ground
because you think Indianapolis should have two representatives instead of four.
That's ridiculous. You can make the argument, that's perfectly legitimate
for you to make the argument, But to say that
that's morally superior to someone who wants to split Indianapolis up,
Tell me why, Tell me why all these answers are political.
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The people that want to keep Indianapolis having one main
district and part of another is because it gives them
a political advantage. The people that want to split it
up into ford district is because it gives them a
political advantage. There's no other rationale here, There's none. People
try to find it. Well, these people don't have the
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same shared interest as it. Why what are you talking about?
Besides which, there's the city of Indianapolis that's managing should
be managing local issues. We're just wanting to send people
to Washington, d c. To fight government overreach, to actually
not micro manage our cities, put a heavy burden on
them and let them be overrun with illegal aliens and drugs,
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things that are coming across the southern border in other ways.
That's all we're wanting. We're not wanting to have our
people run the federal government so that they all become
lose their ability to self govern. This is none of
this makes any sense when you just continue to dig down.
This is a political fight. There is nothing illegal, nothing immoral,
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nothing unprecedented about a political party drawing maps. Every state
does it. Blue states have aggressively done it for years.
In fact, that's again jerrymandering actually takes place in some
of these blue states. Jerrymandering may happen in a lot
of states, but this map here that Indianapolis has drawn
is not jerrymandering. Jerrymanderin is extreme, extremely odd and unnatural
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shapes that are clearly designed to include certain part of
a district and not of another. This map is not
that it does split Indianapolis up, but the term jerrymander
actually came from Massachusetts in eighteen twelve. I believe the
governor's name, the name Jerry was in his Now I
don't know if this is his first name or last name,
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but G. E. R r Y. Apparently one of the
districts drawn was resembled a salamander in the state of Massachusetts,
and so the term jerry mander was formed. That's where
that came from. Just drawing lines that give you a
political advantage is not I understand that in the common
use of the phrase it comes to mean that today,
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but it is it's an extremely odd shaped to accomplish
a political ends. That's where the term jerrymandering comes from.
So these aren't extremely gerrymandered districts. Yes, they split Indianapolis up,
but they don't go out of their way to be
ridiculously out of control shapes that look like things like salamanders.
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Indiana refusing to exercise its authority to draw maps and
have control over this while other states do this unilaterally.
Is political disarmament. I should say it is unilateral political disarmament.
The left plays to win. The left plays by a
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different set of rules. My position is we shouldn't be
doing anything illegal immoral. We should be using the tools
at our disposal to do everything that is legal that
we can do. Republicans should not pretend they're obligated to
lose a political fight politely. That's not what this should
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be about, and that's not what it's about for me.
Legislators are not only allowed to draw maps, they're expected
to do that. That's part of their job, and they're
expected to do it responsibly. It's their constitutional duty. It
is not some sort of political sin to exercise their
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constitutional duty to draw these maps. So we can one percent.
For those who think that we can't, we absolutely can
do this. There is nothing in the constitution. You'll hear
people say it's unconstitutional because the Constitution specifies this is
done every ten years. Of course it does, because there's
a census taken every ten years. So it's saying every
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time there's a census, we've got to do this. It
does not prohibit it from being done at other points
in the timeline. That's not the way that this is.
That this is done. It's not prohibited. It is absolutely
under their authority. This is their prerogative and they can
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should draw new maps. So this is for the people,
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for the individual. Her name was Evelyn on social media
who said, why does Indiana need to do this? Okay,
I'm glad that you asked that. I think it's a
sincere question and I'm going to do this. So national
Democrat leadership pushes policies that are dramatically out of step
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with hoosier values. So what happens is when we elect
someone in Indiana as a Democrat or as a Republican,
they go and they caucus nationally, they go to Washington,
d C. And they get together in their caucus in
the group of people that are part of that part
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of that party, who they actually strategize with and so forth,
and they vote for leadership, and they end up voting
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items on the American people. This is where economic policy
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for example, but this is where ideas come that create
economic policies that have crushed hoosiers, that have added massive
amounts to the cost of living, massive out of control inflation.
I mean, go back and look at Biden's numbers. People
are it's remarkable to watch Democrats complain about the cost
of things now. The cost of things now are the
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result of what happened. It was inflation was put into
hyper drive during the Biden years. That's why we're dealing
with this, and prices won't come down again. Economics is
much more complicated than that.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
But.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
Inflation is not if it's not negative, which I'm not
arguing that it should be. That the prices are not
going to come down, that they'll they'll slow in growth
is what's going to happen. And so we had policies
that you know, someone might have voted for a representative
here to challenge Trump because they're fraid he's a king,
(26:49):
But that doesn't mean that they voted for policies and
things that lead to high inflation. But they did, sometimes unwittingly.
This is dramatically out of step. I got no problems
with people say, hey, vote for me because I'm going
to hold the president in check. Okay, fine, whatever his party,
(27:10):
But don't use that as a green light to institute
other policies, because you've caused blind rage amongst the constituents
in your district to where they just want to stop
the guy in the White House, and they don't stop
stop to think about all the other things that are
happening out there as well. That's number one. Hoosier's end
(27:30):
up represented by Democrats who vote for radical leadership once
they're in Washington. So the ideology that exists in Washington,
d C that's embraced by the Democrat Party is not
held by Hoosiers in general, and even specifically, I would
say not the majority of even Hoo's. Your Democrats vote
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for what's happening in Washington, d C. I believe that
that is true, But they end up getting there and
they vote these jokers and clowns into office. They're also
put under extreme pressure to tow the party line or
else they lose potential positions on committees and so forth,
(28:12):
they lose other voices within the party. They're basically muted
until they go along with the leadership. This is what happens.
So National Democrat policies on things like spending, on things
like the border, on things like culture, they hurt. And
(28:32):
I would say hurt is maybe even an understatement. They
sometimes they dramatically hurt. Sometimes sometimes my friends in the
case say where open borders allows people to be in
this country illegally, sometimes that literally cost people their lives
because of policies. I'm not saying all the time, but
that certainly can be the case in some tragic circumstances. Inflation,
(28:57):
federal money printing, that's of course the source of in
It's not anything else. In spite of what they want
you to believe, the federal government's responsible solely for inflation,
cultural radicalism, remaking this country into something that it was
never intended to be. These are things that happen in Washington,
d C. That directly affect Indiana. Households. I mean, think
(29:22):
about how you lived your life under COVID. The people
that were running the shows, running the show politically at
various levels of our government are well. They were elected
and most of the time they were Democrats or they
were bureaucrats that vote for and support the ideas of
(29:42):
the radical left. I mean, there's lots of examples as
to how this has directly hurt. Who's your businesses, who's
your families, who's your lives. The modern Democrat Party, by
the way, is nothing like the old Hoosier Democrat Party. Listen.
I was raised in a Union Democrat home shared that
on here before my parents. My dad was a Union
(30:03):
Democrat for UAW Local nine thirty three. It was what
was it, Allison Engine Company, Alison Gas Turbert, I think
is where he started. It had a couple of names.
When he retired, it was bought by Rolls Royce That's
what That's what it was before he retired. He was
there for thirty thirty or thirty one years, was a
(30:26):
union representative, a committeeman, I believe for several years. I
remember that when I was in high school. And he
he's not a leftist, he's not even liberal. He's a
traditional blue dog Democrat, primarily Democrat, because he believes Democrats
look out for workers more than Republicans and Republicans favorite
(30:49):
big business. That's his perspective. But that political party is
long gone. The Party of John F. Kennedy is nowhere
to be found. And if you have a Democrat running
here for Congress, he is by definition going to be
a part of a party that is radical, radical, my friends,
(31:10):
and electing radical leadership. They don't reflect the values of
Hoosier's and they definitely well off Hoosier's overall, and they
don't even reflect the values of Hoosier Democrats. Indiana has
a duty to protect itself from what happens here. From
this recipe. You have other states, other blue states that
are maximizing their vote count the number of seats, say California,
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for example. Other states have done the same thing to
try to squeeze as many blue districts out as possible.
By the way, you've never heard me complain about that.
I am remarkably consistent on this. I don't like it.
I think maybe that the people should try to challenge
you to find ways to win in those states which
I know that they do, but they got to get
(31:55):
better at it. They got to get the ideas of
conservatism out there, and they've atifind better candidates. There's a
lot going on there. But states can draw these districts
as they as they see fit, and we now have
a duty in Indiana to protect Hoosiers from the overreach
that happens in this scenario and the destructive national agendas.
(32:18):
Because what happens if the federal government gets too big,
which it has, and you have a group of people
that are put into Washington, d c. That believe it
is their job to solve every problem in the world,
then they're going to start manipulating and you know, uh,
messing with all sorts of things, passing laws for everything.
(32:40):
And they'll say, well, this is the prerogative of the
federal government. Indiana and other states, Suddenly we're still part
of a republic. It's still a federal you know, there's
still federalism here. But if you're appealing to people who
are favorable to big government and who are willing to
overreach their bounds and not care about the constitution, which
(33:01):
is what we have when the left is in charge,
you've got a recipe for disaster, and you've got things
being forced upon your community, your state. That is absolutely
there's nothing that can be done at that point. We
have a duty to protect ourselves from that. In action
today means conceding future congressional power to the radical left.
(33:22):
Make no mistake about it. For those Republicans who act
like it's something else because of comments Trump made or
whatever it is, this is a very very easy political
issue to see. If you want to empower the left,
vote against these maps. If you want to fight against
the left, if you want to fight against governmental overreach,
if you want to stand in favor of liberty and
(33:44):
against the tyrants that are put into place in Washington,
d C. Through the system I just explained to you.
If you want to oppose that, then you will be
in favor of these maps. That is how I see it.
I've got to take a break, my friends. Sit tight
back here in just a minute. Welcome back, my friends.
(34:05):
Third and final segment of today's program, going through the
reasons or the rationale for being in favor of these maps.
I've been asked some of these questions. I'm responding to
some of the comments, and I don't know allegations and
the emotions that are out there. That's what we're doing
(34:26):
here today. And I will be speaking tomorrow at the
Turning Point action event at the State House. I'll get
you more information on that. I invite you to come
down to the State House at noon tomorrow. You know,
there's been plenty of people on the left screaming and
channing and stomping their feet and so forth, throwing tip
(34:47):
or tantrums in our rotunda. We're going to be there tomorrow,
my friends, and I would love to see you there.
If you can't be there, which I know you're busy, right,
I mean, you're working. You you've got a job, you've
got responsibilities, you own a business, whatever, lots of things
going on, you got kids and everything else. You can
(35:10):
you can still be a part of this. In fact,
the next best thing to do is to call or
email your state centers if you agree with me. If
you agree with me, then let them know that you
expect them to pass these maps. They're going to vote.
This is all going to end supposedly on Monday, and
(35:32):
some of these folks, including my representative, my state Senator
Rod Bray, who's leading the Senate, I can't listen I
don't give up. It's just not in my makeup. But
I am one who accepts reality. Rod Bray's not going
to respond to me. I'm a constituent. He doesn't. He
doesn't care. He doesn't care to even answer my questions,
(35:57):
to answer constituents of his in this audience, which I
know there are many. He doesn't care to answer your questions.
And that's wherever he votes on this. It's absolutely despicable
in my mind that a public servant, a quote unquote
public servant. I'm using the Seinfeld the air quotes here
behind the microphone public servant. Public servants don't behave like this.
(36:21):
This is incredibly disappointing to me, incredibly disappointing. If he
thinks that this is going away, I just he doesn't know.
On top of that, we've got Scott Presler, who I've
talked to. I don't know if you know Scott Presler.
He's he's very influential. He's got a grassroots organization where
(36:47):
he helps get Republicans elected. Scott Presler's on the record
of saying any Republican who votes against these maps, he's
going to try to primary. And so I've talked to
him about coming on the program. Of course, with everything
going on between his schedule of mind, it's been tough,
but I do hope to get him on this program
to talk about that very thing, because we're not going
(37:10):
to let this go away. Scott is going to do
what Scott's going to do. We're gonna support him. I'm
going to give him this an opportunity to speak with
you and to share with you what he's doing. And
there will be accountability for this. There will be accountability
for this, and we're not going to forget so friends,
(37:31):
really quickly here before I wrap up, let me remind you.
I know, I know you know this. But one of
the biggest challenges that we have as conservatives, not like
we need another one, right with everything going on here,
but one of the biggest challenges we face is finding
ways to ensure our values align with the things that
we do in everyday life. And that includes a lot
(37:53):
of things. I mean, it's nice to work for a
conservative or a company that loves America. It's nice to
work for a company that has biblical values and that
sort of thing. It's nice to send our kids to
school with teachers that share those values. All these different things.
It's good to work with businesses we talked about freedom
(38:13):
marketplace that push in the same direction we are politically,
but it's also good to be able to find places
to invest that share our values. That's what I love
about what for eight Financial is doing. They specialize in
biblically responsible investing. They screen out companies that don't align
with your faith and your values so that you're not
funding things that go completely against what you believe in.
(38:36):
In fact, a lot of these problems that we're seeing
today kind of start because this sort of money laundering.
I don't mean that in a legal sense, but this
operation where companies are taking their profits and then sending
it to causes that you would be mortified that they're
(38:57):
sending it to. And I'm not saying it's illegal. I
don't mean money launder illegally. I just mean that they're
putting on the front of hey, we're providing this for you,
and hey, at the back door, we're promoting things that
if you knew we were doing it, you would be
highly upset about. That's what happens in some places, my friends,
and that's what for eight Financial is trying to prevent.
So if you go to for eight financial dot com
(39:18):
slash todd. You can complete an assessment and they will
help you determine what degree your current investments are aligned
with your values. For eight financial dot com slash todd.
That's for eight financial dot com slash todd, because your
money should work for your values. All right, let me
(39:38):
see if there's any other questions, any other questions that
I need to address or I mentioned that the TAC
that the argument that this takes away representation, It clearly doesn't.
Everybody still has a representative. They may just not have
their preferred representative, which, by the way, the way that
it works, that's always going to happen for some, especially
(40:01):
especially when this country is split the way that it is.
For those who say redistricting is cheating again, I guess
the simple answer would be the Democrats have been doing
that for decades then, But I would say it's not cheating,
it's illegal, it's constitutional, and it's being used aggressively. I
might add nationwide, in Indiana, if they don't vote for this,
(40:26):
could be refusing to be the only state to be
playing by imaginary rules. Indianapolis does not deserve its own districts.
That's something else that. People say, splitting Indianapolis, so that's
some sort of unforgivable sin. Republicans are being extreme. No,
protecting Hoosiers is not extreme. Failing to do so is
absolutely irresponsible. I gotta go, SDG.
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