Democratic Socialist Wins Florida Senate Nomination & $40 Trillion Debt | Snead, Spencer, Mitchell

[00:00:00] Alexander Vindman raised $16.3 million running for the Senate in Florida. Angie Nixon raised $975,000. On Tuesday, she beat him by double digits and she became the first member of the Democratic Socialists of America to win statewide nomination in the Democratic Party.

[00:00:20] Her organization's platform published this summer calls for abolishing the United States Senate, which is a body she's asking Florida to send her to. Welcome to The Jenny Beth Show. I'm Jenny Beth Martin. Welcome to The Jenny Beth Show.

[00:00:51] I'll come back to Angie Nixon in just a minute. But first, I want to give you an alarming number from this week. On Tuesday, the national debt surpassed $40 trillion. It took this country nearly 200 years to borrow its first trillion. We now borrow a trillion dollars in under five months. The Congressional Budget Office projected we'd cross the $40 trillion line in 2028, but we got here in two years early.

[00:01:20] House Budget Committee Chairman Jody Arrington said the federal budget borrows $6 billion a day and more than half of that is interest on the money we already owe. That is that is more than we budget. That is more than we budget for the entire national defense of the United States. $40 trillion comes out to a little over $300,000 per American household.

[00:01:47] This is unsustainable. And it's why we have to push back on Democratic socialists who want to spend even more money. Now, back to Angie Nixon. Watch this. We show the world what people are.

[00:02:37] That was her at her victory party on Tuesday night. She talked about big government solutions to the challenges our country faces today and failed to mention what else she stands for as a Democratic socialist. The Democratic Socialists of America call their platform workers deserve more. It calls for abolishing the United States Senate. It calls for abolishing the presidency, the Electoral College, the Supreme Court and handing the executive and judiciary to a Congress that they would remake.

[00:03:06] Their own co-chair, Ashik Sudik, defends it by saying the Senate is a very undemocratic institution. This platform is antithetical to the United States Constitution and the people who are calling the Senate an undemocratic chamber. They do not understand why we have a United States Senate in the first place.

[00:03:34] Five days before Angie Nixon won, the Democratic National Committee adopted a resolution urging congressional Democrats to write a bill abolishing immigration and customs enforcement. Now, it's not biting. And at the same meeting, they also adopted a competing resolution calling for the reform of the agency instead. They're very confused over there in the Democratic Party.

[00:03:57] Chuck Schumer and the Democratic Senatorial Committee, who spent the whole primary funding Angie Nixon's opponent, praised her within hours of her nomination. So which is it? Do they oppose this agenda or do they embrace it just to gain more raw political power? I'm pretty sure the answer is obvious. They want the power and the consequences to our country be damned.

[00:04:21] So we're going to spend time this hour on election, the elections in front of us and the tilt toward big government socialism that we face with candidates and nominees like Angie Nixon. Election day is 75 days from today.

[00:04:36] But before we get into that, we have a few more primaries, such as South Carolina picking the Senate Republican nominee in five days next Tuesday to fill the vacancy left by Lindsey Graham, who held that Senate seat for 23 years before he died in July. In Georgia, Senator John Ossoff is defending his seat. The primaries already happened in Georgia. I want to just be clear about that.

[00:05:02] But he's defending his seat against Congressman Mike Collins and Keisha Lance Bottoms, the former mayor of Atlanta, as a nominee on the Democrat side for governor and Rick Jackson, the nominee on the Republican side. They are in a dead even heat for governor. Will Spencer from the Atlanta Young Republicans and Robert McNeely will join us in a few minutes to discuss all of those races. And of course, every seat in Congress is up for reelection, including the ones in Iowa.

[00:05:30] We have Joe Mitchell, who is the candidate for Iowa's second congressional district at the bottom of this hour. But before we get into all of that, election integrity and what you can do to help us protect elections so that it's easy to vote and hard to cheat. That's what we're going to talk about right now. Jason Sneed is the executive director of the Honest Elections Project. Jason, thanks so much for joining me again today. It's great to be with you, Jenny Beth. Thanks for having me on.

[00:05:58] So you and Honest Elections Project have poll worker training coming up and Tea Party Patriots Action is one of the co-sponsors. Tell people exactly what this training is and how they can get involved in it. Well, this is a grassroots event that is designed to plug in committed conservatives with poll worker opportunities in elections near you. And poll workers are really the machinery of elections. They're what makes these things possible. We need people working the polls.

[00:06:26] And as we have several weeks of early voting plus election day to consider, we need to make sure that we've got folks that want to follow the law, actually working the process of making sure that we have a successful election. And so what we're doing in conjunction with a number of other organizations, including and I'm very grateful for the support of Tea Party Patriots Action. We've also got Heritage Action, Turning Point and the American Constitutional Rights Union alongside as well.

[00:06:52] We're offering a training in Georgia coming up next Friday, the 28th in Alpharetta to, first of all, give you an inside look at what it actually entails being a poll worker. And then we're going to have a couple of incredible guest speakers, including Congressman McCormick, who's going to talk about the ongoing fight for election integrity. And we're going to have a great discussion with a panel of experts from all of our partner organizations. So if you're interested in the election integrity and work in the polls, I encourage you to come on by and check out the event next Friday.

[00:07:22] That is excellent. And then, Jason, you've got a few more planned before we actually get into voting. Where else do you have these events planned? That's right. We're going to be doing a swing through Nevada and Wisconsin over the next couple of months. So maybe I'll have the opportunity to come back on and talk about those events as we get a little closer to them. But these are important states, important issues.

[00:07:43] And really, I've got to say, if you are fired up and passionate about election integrity, this is an opportunity to actually get into the fight by working the polls and making sure that not only elections work, but that they follow the law. That is exactly right. It's very important. And it's a good first step to getting involved in election integrity. Now, Jason, you and I both understand that a poll watcher and a poll worker are two very different kinds of jobs and opportunities for engagement.

[00:08:12] Explain to our audience what the difference is and which one is more important and how they work. Well, my first preference would be to get signed up as a poll worker. And the difference between poll worker and watcher is pretty much in the name. If you're a poll worker, you're actually in the polling location. You're in your precinct or your vote center. And you are the person who is checking people in, looking at IDs, handling ballots and actually working the election.

[00:08:40] If you are a poll observer, then you are the person that is essentially bringing transparency to that process. And historically, we on the right have been very interested in getting people signed up as poll watchers. And I hope nobody misunderstands what I'm saying. That is a very important position. But there is a difference. If you see something as a poll watcher, if you see somebody cutting corners or you see potential fraud, what you do is you report it up the chain and then somebody else takes action. As a poll worker, you're actually on the front lines, essentially.

[00:09:09] Not that you're there to specifically stop fraud, but what you're doing is making sure that the election is working right in the first place. So I encourage people to sign up as a poll worker. And if that's not an option for you, then definitely get involved as a poll watcher. All right. And then if somebody signs up and the people who cannot attend the training in Georgia because they don't live in Georgia, they still can go and be a poll worker or a poll watcher. So what will happen once they sign up?

[00:09:37] Just kind of explain if they're in Georgia, how it's going to work with the training and then what will happen next. And if they're in another part of the country, what they would do. Well, so there's going to be different requirements in each state for how to get signed up as a poll worker. But in general, you're going to get signed up. You'll get plugged in and then you're going to go through an official government sanctioned training to make sure that you are ready to work the polls. And then you're going to get assigned to a particular location and you're going to be given one of numerous tasks.

[00:10:06] And those could involve checking in voters. Those could involve handling ballots. Those could involve the tabulation process. And you'll be trained on the specifics of that particular role. And then each state has different rules and regulations for how long you're going to be working. And some of that is dependent on the particular job that you're doing. Now, full disclosure, these can be very long days. Sometimes you're going to be working 12 or 15 hours. In fact, our coalition was just in Ohio the last two days doing training there.

[00:10:33] And some of the jobs were 15-hour segments. And I know that can seem daunting. But it is incredibly rewarding work. And it is really necessary. The average age of a poll worker in this country is about 67 years old. We need to continue to get people filling these slots. And we need to be reaching demographics that are not just senior citizens but also into the younger ranks. And that's part of the reason why we're very excited for these opportunities to get out there and connect with the grassroots

[00:11:00] and hopefully get them fired up about working the polls. Very good. And then, Jason, where can people go to sign up and for more information? Well, you can check out the Eventbrite link. And that's going to have all of the details. And you can get signed up there. It's H-E-P action and the number 4.eventbrite.com. And I will say, not only do we get you trained up, but we provide you with a really nice free meal as well. So it's a twofer as far as I'm concerned.

[00:11:27] And so far, we've had a lot of really great folks, really good conversations. We had solid turnout in Ohio the last couple of days. And I'm looking forward to swinging south and hitting up Alpharetta in Georgia on the 28th. Very good. Jason, thank you so much for joining me. And thank you for putting together these very important training opportunities. Thank you, Jenny Beth. And thanks for joining this coalition with us as well. Thank you. Okay. Our next guest is William Spencer.

[00:11:56] And we are going to – he's from the Atlanta Young Republicans. Before we go to him, we're going to take a very quick break. And then we're going to talk with him and Robert McNeely about elections.

[00:12:35] William Spencer is the vice president of membership for the Atlanta Young Republicans, which is the largest Republican club in Georgia. William, thank you so much for joining me today. Absolutely, Jenny Beth. How are you doing? I'm great. It's so good for you to be here. And then we've got Robert McNeely on, and everyone who watches the show regularly knows he is the director of broadcasting and grassroots engagement for Tea Party Patriots Action. Robert, thanks for being on. Oh, thanks, Jenny Beth.

[00:13:01] So Florida Democrats just nominated a member of the Democratic Socialists of America for the United States Senate. And she beat a $16 million campaign with under a million dollars. William, you organize young Republicans in a city where that argument – a lot of the arguments that the Democrats socialists are making probably resonates with some of the people in the city. What do you think happened in Florida?

[00:13:27] And how is messaging from the Democrats socialists affecting young people today? Oh, man, Jenny Beth, let's talk about this. So, you know, before I got involved with the young Republicans, when I came back from my last deployment, I actually was involved with the college Republicans as well, starting up a chapter at my local college up in Kennesaw.

[00:13:49] And what I noticed and what I was trying to scream from the rooftops, you know, moving through the GOP apparatus here in Georgia, was like, guys, listen, we are increasingly seeing a rise in a leftward movement of the left. It is the proclivity of the left to always be leaving the left behind. But, I mean, this was something amazing. I had a conversation with a leftward Democrat peer of mine at the college, and I told him, like, hey, man, you really need to, like, look into this because this isn't just, like, the regular Democrat.

[00:14:17] I mean, this is a Democrat socialist starting to enter into your group, and they're starting to kind of take it over. So, you know, Jenny Beth, we're just seeing what's naturally starting to occur among the left. It's becoming a rise. It's becoming the standard movement. And what we're seeing by and large here, and what's fascinating, Jenny Beth, and I think we noticed this, you've had it down there at the bottom, is how much she spent in comparison to her competitor.

[00:14:43] Statistically speaking, political science tells us that if you threw in this much money, you got this much face time, more or less, you're going to win the race. That's usually how it works. But if you don't have a good message, Jenny Beth, oh my gosh, it's just, it's not going to work out. And right now, the Democrat socialist is resonating with all of these youth, all of these folks that are starting to come up and wanting something more than I dislike Trump. Because that's what it was. That's what it was.

[00:15:12] Her opponent was just up there on the stage saying, I dislike Trump. Trump is bad. Orange man bad. How many times have we heard that, right? Where she came up, and now granted, she gave us answers, but let's be really specific about what those answers were. They were platitudes. They were emotional answers. We're going to have real affordable housing. Okay, yeah, that's Section 8. That works out great. We're going to have real public schools. In the meantime, there's a video of a teacher in 12th grade who can barely get his kids to read a paragraph from a book.

[00:15:41] Oh, we're going to have real Medicaid and Medicare. Okay, that's wonderful. I work in a work sector where I have to deal with individuals who have to wade through that bureaucratic system. And just because they didn't cross a T or dot an I correctly, now they're off of it, and they have to work six, seven months to get back onto it. That's a great system. And it's not because it's a lack of affordability. It's not because we're not funding these things. We're funding them. Our taxpayers are funding them. It's because it's a deterrent from the natural human ability. It's not what we're made to do.

[00:16:10] We're not made to fall into these systems. So she's not providing real answers. She's making you feel emotionally like she's empathizing with you, and then through that, she's able to get this outreach. Robert, what do you think? Oh, gosh, Liam, I think you hit it right on the head. And the funny part about this is that the DSA, their platform is to get rid of the United States Senate.

[00:16:35] So you're actually running for the institution that you want to rid America of. So I think it's really quite ridiculous. And I'd like to be one to go back to let's repeal the 17th Amendment, which made the direct election of senators a personal opinion of mine, maybe perhaps with the next amendment. That would be number 28. But it just shows you right here that old, good-fashioned hard work can actually outspend the money that might be up against you.

[00:17:04] What do I mean by that? It's the social media. It's the free media. It's actually getting the boots on the ground in old-school phone calls and relational organizing that can make a massive difference. And that's what we saw on Tuesday night. That is exactly right. And one of the things that William was just saying is that these things aren't free. They cost money. And we're already spending money on it. And, boy, are we spending money on it. We're $40 trillion in debt.

[00:17:31] So our country is spending a lot of money on these so-called solutions already. We have the Affordable, Unaffordable Health Care Act. We have Obamacare. We have public schools. We have the Section 8 housing that you already mentioned. We have all these things already. They want to expand it. Those things aren't solving the problems. So pouring more money into it is not going to solve the problems.

[00:18:00] But it sure does sound good, and it makes people feel good. Let's switch gears just a little and move over from Florida to South Carolina. On Tuesday, Senator Darlene Graham Norton is going to be running against—and the final vote will be cast against— against Congressman Ralph Norman for the U.S. Senate seat. So let's take a look at this viral moment.

[00:18:26] Senator, are Taiwan and the South China see national security issues for the United States? If so, why? I'm sorry. Could you repeat the question? Are Taiwan and the South China see national security issues for the United States? And if so, why or how? I'm just going to be honest here. I'm not on national security that—I'm not that informed on national security. So—but I do support the military.

[00:18:57] I felt really bad for her during that clip and watching portions of the debate. I appreciate her honesty. And I know that she is grieving, and she stepped up into a position she probably never imagined that she was in.

[00:19:13] And I also think that there is a candidate who's running who has a proven track record when it comes to conservative values and standing up and fighting against the headwinds often that this country faces in the swamp in D.C. William, what are you hearing people say about the South Carolina race? Well, certainly, Ginny Beth, a viral moment is a viral moment. Nowadays, we see it everywhere on Instagram.

[00:19:42] You know, TikTok, if you're on it. Personally, I don't do TikTok. It's not my thing. Facebook, you know, I fall into that demographic. I'm like right there on the bleeding edge. But it is. This is one of the most talked about moments that we've seen in this race. And something that I appreciate that you did there, Ginny Beth, is you're empathizing. I think the word today is empathizing. And something they taught us in the Marine Corps is if you don't know an answer, you say, hey, listen, I'm going to be truthful with you. I'm going to be honest. I don't know the answer. But, gentlemen, I will get back to you with it as soon as I can.

[00:20:11] And there's something to be said about that candid ability to be able to do that and to be humble enough to do that. That shows excellent character. But when it comes to these races in regards to, you know, Republican against Republican, okay? Something I think we focus on so much is like my team versus your team, right? And something I think we need to be focusing on here now nationally. I'm going to kind of invoke my inner Scott Pressler if you're familiar with him. Great guy. Had lunch with him one time.

[00:20:41] You need to show the Democrats how many of you there are out there. When it comes to voting, when it comes time to vote for these individuals, I want you to go out there and vote for who you're going to vote for. Whoever makes the most compelling opinion out there that you agree with and you think represents you the best. Jeannie Beth, I want you out there in multitudes. I don't want this to be some sort of like let's focus in on the disagreements here and there.

[00:21:06] I want people to wake up in the morning, Democrats specifically, and seeing the number of Republicans that went out and voted in a primary so much so that it deters them from even remotely wanting to go in a general because they feel like it's helpless. What's the point? Look how many people voted in this primary. We don't match them. We don't match them. I want that to be the feeling. I want that to be the conversation that we have in regard to South Carolina. That is a very good point there, William.

[00:21:34] All right, now let's move it back into Georgia, which is where we're all three sitting right now. So Senator John Ossoff made terrible false accusations against Natalie Harp, who is one of President Trump's aides. What's really happening in that race is Mike Collins attempts a new direction. And I'm going to start with Robert and then William, if you want to chime in about the Ossoff Senate campaign, we'll go to you next. So first, Robert.

[00:22:03] Well, you know, Jay Beth, I find it outrageous. And Newt Gingrich came out swinging and poignant, as he often does, especially because this peach state was his home turf way back when, when he represented the good people of the 6th District. And the focus being that you do not attack an aide. And the former speaker made it abundantly clear.

[00:22:24] If this was a conservative politician, even the president of the United States, a fellow United States senator, or anywhere down to precinct committeemen, you would hear it all over mainstream media, all over CNN, that the double standard is so egregious. But now with John Ossoff, we see someone who is really a do-nothing senator preparing for 2028.

[00:22:51] He's now this second or third rung of potential candidates because of the extreme far left that is focused in the DSA into their party. It's no longer the DSA versus mainstream Democrats. It's all one mission. It's all one party. And I think they're trying to find that person who really has that ability to message. John Ossoff is that attack dog.

[00:23:15] We spoke of Pete Buttigieg earlier in the week as well, someone who really endorses these crazy radical ideas. But he puts a nice little cherry on top of it. So I think the senator, the senior senator from Georgia, is trying to really take upon himself an opportunity to become the next president. But not a good way of doing that with a senior aide who's widely respected throughout Washington, D.C. And mind you, someone who's a cancer survivor and just a lovely lady altogether.

[00:23:45] Leave Natalie Harp alone. It's just wrong. It's terrible what he did. You are exactly right about that, Robert. And you know what it's like to survive cancer. So it takes a lot to be able to do that. All right, William, what do you think about the Senate race? Oh, Jeannie Beth, what do I think about this? Well, you know what I'm hearing? I'm hearing a lot of Vindman. I'm hearing a lot of Orange Man bad. I'm hearing a lot of, wow, Trump is horrible. Trump is horrible. Ossoff isn't reaching out.

[00:24:15] He's not actually understanding what's going on. He's not actually talking about issues. And that leaves a wide open gate for Mike Collins to come in and say, hey, man, here's the issues you guys are experiencing. Here are the answers I'm going to provide you. I'm not going to talk about or blame this person or blame that person. I am going to understand where you are at situationally as a Georgian. And I'm going to take that and I'm going to represent you appropriately up in Washington. That's the thing, man.

[00:24:44] I mean, from all of these Democrat individuals that are going up and running for these positions, I mean, aren't you just tired of it? Aren't you tired of hearing how Trump is doing this wrong? Trump is doing this wrong. Trump is doing this wrong. Talk to me about housing. Talk to me about affordability. That's a big issue right now. Talk to me about, you know, why I'm having issues with gas at the moment, you know, why I'm having issues with trying to buy property and trying to, you know, get some chickens and get some eggs out of it myself. Right. Talk to me about that. And they're not doing that.

[00:25:13] And like I said, that gives Mike Collins plenty of space to come in and fill that rhetorical hole. All right. And then let's move to the governor's race in Georgia. Keisha Lance Bottoms is a former mayor of Atlanta. She's running against Rick Jackson. So, Robert, what do you think of that race? And then we will go over to William for his his take. Well, first and foremost, Rick Jackson, what a primary. And I think really, in a way, came out of nowhere. This is someone we're familiar with being involved so deeply in politics.

[00:25:43] But for that apathetic voter, someone from the outside would not necessarily know his background. And he's structuring a campaign of really being the comeback kid. If we know Rick Jackson's story growing up in foster care, seven stepfathers by the age of seven, his mom going through some terrible alcohol and drug addiction. And even him recounting a story where he had to drive home when he did not know how to drive at one point because his mom passed out at the wheel.

[00:26:13] I mean, this is an amazing person who went through the foster system and cried himself to sleep. He talked about this in Marietta, Georgia, with the president of the United States just last month because he was not adopted by Christmas. This is someone who really has lived the American dream through hard work, through the health care system. And he knows it and he knows how to help people.

[00:26:35] And talk to William's point as well about really caring for people and going into Georgia and finding out how to fix these problems. Rick Jackson is that person.

[00:26:46] And you counter that with Keisha Lance Bottoms, who Greg Dolezal, running for lieutenant governor, shared today on Facebook that remember back in 2020, the state capital was laid out with preventive bomb gear and tactical units and also vests to protect the police against the far left radical movement that was known as BLM.

[00:27:11] And the riots that took place and Keisha Lance Bottoms shut down Lennox, the over the Lennox Mall and went up to Dunwoody in order to go to yoga class and then called the Capitol Grill racist outside the perimeter. I mean, it's unbelievable. She ends up writing a letter saying goodbye to running for reelection because she said it was too much work. It was too much to do. And now she wants to be governor of Georgia. I don't think you have a larger contrast.

[00:27:40] That's a very good point there, Robert. That is a huge contrast with not continuing as mayor of Atlanta, but thinking you can can take on the whole entire state of Georgia. William, what are you thinking about this race and what are you hearing from the people you're talking to? From the folks that I'm talking to, Ginny Beth, I'm hearing about the relatability of Rick Jackson, right? The relatability of this man and something to kind of put forward recently in the news. You might have talked about it. Rick had a presser. He had it was a public safety presser. Right.

[00:28:10] And he had two Democrat sheriffs come in and endorse him. Guys, a governor leads from the front. And oftentimes that means working with folks that are ideologically on the other side of the party, but they understand fundamentally what needs to happen in Georgia and the greater mission that needs to occur to get that done. Rick Jackson so far has done that, I think. I think he's starting to show he's let's put it this way.

[00:28:36] When I want to have a job, my dad always said, hey, listen, if you want to have a job, kiddo, you start working that job before you even get it. I think what we're seeing out of Rick Jackson is the equivalent. We are seeing a man who's not only wanting the job to be governor, but he's also showing us that he's going to do it and has already started making those strides to make it happen. Guys, this is so important. The governor has the ability to veto. It has the ability to line item veto, which is really, really, really powerful.

[00:29:05] And for that matter, appoint. The governor has the ability to appoint. Who do you want appointing at the top of the House of Georgia? Do you want it to be Rick Jackson or do you want it to be somebody that, you know, probably didn't let Atlanta thrive a couple of years ago? I'd say it's Rick Jackson. Very good points. Well, we are out of time for this segment. So, Robert and William, thank you both so much for joining me today. And, William, it was great to have you on for the very first time. Absolutely, Jane and Beth. My pleasure.

[00:29:34] Look forward to having you back on. And, Robert, we will be back on with you again probably next week. So, thanks for joining me today. Election Day is 75 days from today. So, here is your assignment for this week. Today, go to one candidate's website and sign up to be part of that campaign. Volunteer to make phone calls, send text messages, knock on doors. Or you can donate. If you don't have time to volunteer, then donate to the campaign. Then come back here and leave a comment.

[00:30:05] Tell me what you did and who you're going to be helping. You can do it while you're watching right now. You can just pause the show and go sign up on a campaign. Or you can do it after dinner tonight. But make sure you get it done. Because a campaign, especially a local campaign in your area, needs you right now in August. And we're going to be having more volunteer opportunities for you starting next week for how you can help our super PAC getting out the vote.

[00:30:35] We have to defeat the radical left that wants to abolish immigration and customs enforcement. Abolish the Senate. Pack the Supreme Court. Or abolish it, one or the other. Get rid of the Electoral College. And take over health care. And have the government in charge of health care for everybody. They want to replace the free market, raise your taxes, and grow government spending. Which means more fraud and more theft of our hard-earned tax dollars.

[00:31:01] And more government control and more regulation of every single one of our lives. And I want to say this as well. We have to understand that while they want to do all of these bad things for our country, we can have hope. There are times when we may not have gotten every single thing that we want, such as the Save America Act.

[00:31:28] But in the last two years, we have secured the border. We have cut crime across this entire country. We've revitalized manufacturing. We've steadied the economy. We have the largest tax cut in American history. We also made sure that we began cutting government spending with the cutting of the waste, fraud, and abuse. Big government socialist policies will reverse every single bit of that.

[00:31:56] They'll set this country back, and they'll make things worse for everyone. So make sure that you are taking that action today. And before we go to a very quick break, if you find this hour useful, go ahead and hit like and subscribe. It really helps us reach more people who care about liberty and the Constitution. And it helps us get around the mainstream media spin and teach you about ways you can take action and take all that passion and love you have for our country and turn it into action. All right.

[00:32:25] We're going to be back with Joe Mitchell after this very quick break. Welcome back. Joe Mitchell is a Republican nominee, is the Republican nominee for Iowa's second congressional district.

[00:32:56] He was sworn into Iowa's house at age 21, the youngest member ever elected to it. And he's a developer by trade. And in November, he faces a Democratic state representative, Lindsey James. Joe, thank you so much for joining me today. Jenny, good to be here. Thanks for having me on. So let's let the audience get to know you a little bit. Tell everyone a little bit more about your background and why you're running for Congress.

[00:33:23] Well, first and foremost, I'm a lifelong Iowan. I'm a developer. I'm a business owner here in Iowa. I worked for the Trump administration last year as the chief of staff to the federal housing finance agency. I served two jobs in the Iowa legislature. I got elected at the age of 21, like you stated. And I served as the president of the Iowa Real Estate Developers Association for several years as well. So I've done quite a few things in my life. I'm 29. I feel like I'm 50 sometimes.

[00:33:50] But now it's time to run for Congress, win in November, and help deliver the America First agenda for the American people. So what are the primary issues that you're focusing on? And what are your solutions to the problems that Americans are actually living with today? Well, last year when we announced we were running for Congress, it was September 8th of last year. And I said, first and foremost, we're not taking any corporate PAC money.

[00:34:15] So that means no money from BlackRock or Pfizer or Goldman Sachs or these huge, ginormous corporations will be the only Republican in Washington not taking corporate PAC money, which is unique. And we hope we can start that trend with other Republicans when we get to Washington. The second thing is we have to have term limits. So we've said 12 years in the House, 12 years in the Senate. It seems like plenty of time to get your agenda done. I don't want to be up there when I'm 80 years old. And so we want to make sure that we pass term limits right away.

[00:34:44] And the third thing is stopping this insider trading that happens. So you have people like Nancy Pelosi. They go up there. They're worth about $2. They come out. They're worth about $200 million. I think we need to stop that. Washington politicians got rich for far too long. It's time for the average American, average Iowan to start getting their wages to go up. And the last thing is you have to stop the lawmaker to lobbyist pipeline. These people go up there. They serve a couple of terms. They come out.

[00:35:11] They immediately start making seven figures working in the lobby. And we think that's something that needs to end. And, you know, like myself, I'm going to serve a few terms up there. I'll come back and build homes again. I'm a developer. That's what I love to do. I still do that as we speak. Between campaign calls, I'm making real estate calls to different contractors and, you know, bankers and real estate agents and stuff. And so, you know, ultimately, we think people should go up like the founders did,

[00:35:40] serve their time, come back home, and do whatever they do and did prior to serving in Congress. And we need a lot more of that from elected officials. So let's say you win in November and you're sworn in in January. What's the first bill you're going to push on day one? Well, we want to sponsor a balanced budget constitutional amendment. I think that's so important. And I know we're going to talk about that later on in the show. But that really truly is a crisis that's happening right now. We have $40 trillion in debt.

[00:36:10] It's been a problem on both sides of the aisle. Democrats and Republicans alike, the Uniparty, I call it, have been spending like crazy for years, trillions of dollars in debt. You know, when I first started paying attention when I was growing up, it was about $15 trillion in debt when Obama was in office. And it skyrocketed now to $40 trillion in debt. So it's catastrophic. It's something that's going to collapse our dollar. It's going to collapse our country here pretty soon. So we must make sure to get our finances in order.

[00:36:41] That is very good. So a balanced budget amendment. And we've seen people who, members of Congress who have tried to pass these amendments in the past. In fact, well, before you were born, the Newt Gingrich went through the Republican Revolution in 1994 and had the contract with America and pushed for term limits and a balanced budget amendment back then.

[00:37:09] And so what do you, how do you think, what can we do differently in order to get an amendment like what you're talking about for a balanced budget, which I completely agree we need to be balancing the country's budget. How can we get this done? Well, we need to start treating the government like our own household budgets or our business budgets that we have, those of us that are business owners. But just in your own household, you can't overspend millions and millions of American families.

[00:37:38] They have to keep their finances in order or they'll go bankrupt. They won't be able to pay their mortgage payment or their car payment. And they won't be able to afford groceries. And so the politicians in Washington should act the same, but they don't because they're not spending their own money. They're spending other people's money. And so, you know, ultimately when you give politicians money, that's not theirs, which is all the money that they utilize, they're going to blow it and they're going to spend

[00:38:04] it on things that maybe aren't necessary first and foremost, but also that are excessive. And so, you know, we've now figured out over the last year and a half, we have projected to have a trillion dollars of waste, fraud and abuse in our government on the federal level alone. And so you're talking about Medicaid fraud. You're talking about fraud, like the daycare and the leering centers in Minneapolis, which was crazy. But this is where you had Nick Shirley, who's this 22 year old kid with a video camera and

[00:38:34] a YouTube channel. And he exposed more corruption in the United States government than any mainstream news channel had in decades and decades. And so you have a kid that doesn't, he doesn't even have a show. He just has a camera and a YouTube channel and is exposing billions and billions of dollars of fraud immediately. And this is where it's so important to recognize the vice president and his task force because

[00:39:00] they are right now finding fraud all over the United States. And you just saw, I just saw this, the mainstream news media, they were, they had a segment on talking about how, how bad it is that we're now cracking down on fraud less than a half million dollars. Because before, it was the only crackdown on fraud that was more than a half a million. And so now we're doing everything as we should be.

[00:39:25] If you steal a single dollar from the United States government, you should pay for it and from the taxpayers. And, you know, but they're mad about it. People are like, oh, why are we going after, you know, these low level, you know, criminals and thieves? And it's like, because everyone should be held accountable if you're stealing money from the American people. So this is where they're trying to gaslight us. They're trying to say going after waste, fraud and abuse, which should be the most bipartisan issue in the world.

[00:39:51] And for a long time, a lot of these issues weren't even discussed because you didn't need to discuss them. You talk to a Democrat or Republican or dependent, everyone understood that you shouldn't steal things, right? You shouldn't steal from the American taxpayer. And now this is somehow a partisan issue, just like men and women's sports and so on and so forth. So you have all these very common sense issues that if you just think like a normal person, you're voting for Republicans. And if you don't, then you're voting for these Democrats that want to institute incredibly crazy policies.

[00:40:22] Yeah, you are exactly right. They do want to institute very crazy policies. I heard recently now, I didn't hear directly from her, but I'm giving her credit and I hope that I'm right about it. Someone told me that Kelly Loeffler said that instead of calling it waste, fraud and abuse, we just need to call it what it is, which is lying, cheating and stealing. Right. That's it. It's exactly what it is. And you mentioned two of them just then, the stealing and the cheating.

[00:40:51] And they're lying in order to do it as well. It's just wrong. And it's our money. When we work hard and we earn the money that is paid in taxes, it's our money that they're stealing. And everyone around the country is paying taxes. So it affects all of us when people steal from the government and we can't sustain $40 trillion. It's our country is going to hit a wall at some point with the amount of debt that we are

[00:41:18] racking up unless we find a way to grow our economy quickly and get to a point where we're spending less money in addition to growing the economy. Which brings me to my next question for you. Which one do you think matters more, tax cuts or spending cuts? We have to balance the budget first and foremost. And I'm all for a good tax cut. And I think cutting taxes does grow the economy.

[00:41:48] I think it stimulates the economy. I think people are able to expand their businesses, pay people more, allow the American people to flourish and achieve the American dream. But you also have to get your finances in order, which means possibly cutting down on things. But again, I tell people this, before you cut on anything, you should just find the waste front of use, the trillion dollars. We had to crack down on that. That would make a huge dent into being able to balance the budget.

[00:42:17] And back to the earlier point you were making, Jenny, we used to live in a high trust society. And now it's a low trust society because it wasn't acceptable to publicly allow people to lie, steep, and chill. That wasn't accepted. And now it is accepted. And so we must make sure that we're keeping people accountable. We need to call the Democrats out on when a spade is a spade, just like when they're stealing money

[00:42:45] from the American people and allowing people to do that. You know, but you have to have a balanced budget. I think that's one of the most important things that we must do. And we must keep our elected officials accountable to make sure that they're stewarding our money correctly. That is very good. And I think we've got a clip of you talking about waste, fraud and abuse that we can pull up. Republican Joe Mitchell also took the stage.

[00:43:11] He's running for Iowa's second congressional district and hopes to keep the seat in Republican hands after Congresswoman Ashley Henson decided to run for the U.S. Senate instead. We have to get in charge of this waste, fraud and abuse that happens all over. We've seen it. There's projected to be over a trillion dollars of waste, fraud and abuse in our federal government. Mitchell urged fairgoers to vote Republican using the phrase remove every Democrat.

[00:43:36] He also highlighted his pledge not to accept corporate PAC money and said he would push to ban congressional insider trading and support term limits. So there you are talking about the exact same thing on the campaign trail. And it's really important that we're reminding people of just how much waste, fraud and abuse or lying, cheating and stealing is going on. And it is low hanging fruit. And Joe, you're right. We've pulled on it. And it is a bipartisan issue.

[00:44:06] Americans don't want their their tax dollars stolen. Jenny, think about all the issues I've talked to you about today. OK, whether that be not taking corporate PAC money, term limits, banning insider trading, banning the lawmaker and lobbyist pipeline, getting rid of this waste, fraud and abuse that's in our government budgets. So all those things are like 90 10 issues. Whether you ask a Democrat, a Republican, an independent, a libertarian, they're all going

[00:44:32] to tell you that they agree with those four or five or six points that we have. And so this is where we have to get these things in order. You know, we have to make sure that we're talking about the right things on the campaign trail. Republicans are off talking about all kinds of issues. And it's like, talk about the ones that we lead on that are 80 or 90 to 20 or 10 percent issues. OK, and you're you're right about that.

[00:45:02] We have to talk about the things where we're leading and then when elected, go and actually get those done. And I think that the House Republicans have been doing everything they can to lead on those very big issues. And when we were just as we're talking about the 40 trillion dollars in debt, right now we have this situation going on in our country where we have liberal people and leftists who

[00:45:30] are the Democratic Socialists of America who are talking about affordability and their way to solve all of the problems is free things. At the top of the show, we were talking about the nominee in Florida for the United States Senate, Nixon, who is saying that she will have Medicare for all, affordable housing for all, free public education, which we have right now.

[00:45:58] And she just keeps going through this list of things where it's more and more and more government spending to solve the problem. So two questions for you. First, how do you think that we address these issues, the solutions and the issues that the left is talking about right now? And you're talking about it a good bit. You know, we find the 90-10 issues and we focus on those.

[00:46:24] But how do you explain that what you're talking about with cutting the waste, fraud and abuse is going to make a difference when it comes to the affordability of things? And how do you explain that the debt is actually showing up in the prices of everything that we buy? First and foremost, I just noticed the debt clock on the bottom right-hand corner. And it's very depressing looking at this. Yeah. But, you know, you have to, number one, tell people the reality of the situation is that we're running

[00:46:54] against communists right now. You just said this. And whether it's Zoram Amdani or Abdul El-Sayed or Francisca Chong or any of these people, you're running against literal communists right now that are on the ticket. And, you know, they're not hiding it anymore. You know, I remember growing up, you know, when Obama was running in 2008, you're listening to Rush Limbaugh or Sean Hannity. And they were talking about communism, socialism back then being enacted.

[00:47:22] And it was a little bit of hyperbole, I guess. But now they're just front and center talking about communism, talking about taking over the means of production, talking about getting rid of law and order, law enforcement officers, abolishing prisons, abolishing the Senate. They want anarchy. And they want something that we've never had here in America before. They want to get rid of the America that we know. They want to get rid of the America that's been built over the last 250 years.

[00:47:52] They hate our founding fathers. They hate this country. And there's this underlining cancer in the Democrat Party of these communists that are running. And it's spreading to the rest of them because the rest of them, just like my opponent, Lindsay James, these people are scared of their party. They know that if they're challenged from the left, they will lose. And so this is why they're willing to commit to all this crazy, crazy policy, like men and women's sports and bathrooms. They're willing to give taxpayer dollars to prisoners for sex changes.

[00:48:22] They're willing to put illegal immigrants over American citizens because they don't want to be primaried and lose because they will, because they've been taken over by a bunch of nut jobs. And this is the message we have to get out there, that we're fighting against not your grandparents' Democrat Party, but a bunch of far-left communists that hate this country. Yeah, you are exactly right. They are far-left communists who hate our country.

[00:48:48] It is not the Democrat Party that—it's not your grandparents' Democrat Party. It's not your—it's not the Bill Clinton Democrat Party. This is a far-left communist party. You're exactly right about that. By the way, I'll give kudos to any Democrat. If they come out and they say, biological men shouldn't be in women's sports, we shouldn't give taxpayer dollars for prisoners for sex changes, I don't think we should give illegal immigrants any kind of benefits, any kind of welfare at all,

[00:49:18] while we have homeless veterans on our streets right now. If they just come out and say those very simple things that we all used to agree with, that we should have a secure border, we should have a single illegal immigrant come across that border, if they would just go back to agreeing with those things, I would give them kudos. I would say, that's a great message. And you know what? It would probably mop the floor with us. They would probably win so many elections if they just said common-sense things like they used to. But instead, they've drug us so far to the left to make us think and gaslight us

[00:49:47] that these everyday things that no American agreed with 20 or 30 years ago, they're getting their whole entire party to go along with. Yeah, you're exactly right. It should not... The things you just named should not make a person a Republican. It should just... They're common sense. And they shouldn't be things that divide the country, especially no men in women's sports. A man is a man and a woman is a woman. This isn't... This shouldn't be a Democrat-Republican issue.

[00:50:16] It's... And the people who are pulling the Democrat Party that far to the... It's not just to the left. That is... They're definitely pulling it to the left, but that far away from reality, they're harming... They're harming the Democrat Party as well as the entire country. Let me... You were talking about the things that have made the country great over the last 250 years. The Democrat Socialists of America, they're calling for things like abolishing...

[00:50:46] Abolishing the Senate, abolishing the Supreme Court, or packing the Supreme Court, getting rid of the presidency and deciding how to run the country from an expanded House of Representatives. Why do you think the founding documents of this country are important? And why are they important to... Not just to you, but to all of us? They're important because it's kept tyrants, like these people on the far left that are communists,

[00:51:15] from being in power for the last 250 years, because that's all they care about. They care about absolute power. And they will stop at nothing to get it. And they will use political violence, and they will abolish every single institution in this entire country to get it. And so we must stop them. And it starts with this November, voting and voting for Republicans to stop these crazy people. Because also, you know what we want as Americans? I don't necessarily want this as a Republican Party because it's easier to be communist,

[00:51:45] but we want the Democrat Party to be normal again. That would be far healthier for all Americans if we had a healthy Democrat Party, but we don't. We have these crazy people. All they care about power. They want to abolish, like you said, the Senate, the Supreme Court, prisons. They don't want law enforcement officers. They want complete chaos. And it's a disaster. And so we must beat them in November to send a message to say, your party is so radical left, so screwed up,

[00:52:15] and it's gone so far off the rails. You guys must course correct. That is a very good message there, Joe. Okay. One of your endorsements is from Turning Point Action. And we're coming up in less than a year now, I mean, less than a month now, and just a few weeks from now, on the one-year anniversary of Charlie Kirk's assassination. I think that, as I was reading and researching you, that you knew him,

[00:52:44] you were friends with him. So tell me a little bit about your interaction with Charlie Kirk and how you think we can honor his memory. Well, I met Charlie September 10th of 2019. So six years ago to the date that he was assassinated in cold blood right in front of all of us by a crazy radical left shooter. And so this was Tyler Robinson. There's no doubt he's the one that killed Charlie. Absolutely.

[00:53:13] And I've seen the hate against myself. Charlie had it a million times worse. These people absolutely hated his guts. He had death threats all the time, every day. That's why he had full-time security. And he was somebody that profoundly affected my life, had a huge influence in it. I am partially running for Congress because of his support that he had behind me. He was behind me very early. He was the last person to see my press release

[00:53:41] on September 8th, two days before he was killed. I saw him last August, August 16th of last year was the last time I'd seen him and spoke to him in Colorado. And he's somebody that always encouraged me and millions of other young people to go out and make a difference and make their mark, you know, and go out and be productive, be a productive citizen, you know, love God, love your family, all those sort of things. And so he was a wonderful role model. He was a wonderful mentor.

[00:54:10] And his legacy lives on. And I'm proud to, you know, be running and have his support and have the support of Turning Point Action. Very good. That's a, I think the fact that you're running and that you had just been in touch with him a couple of days before he died about your campaign. And I hope that that helps motivate you every single day. And we all have to find ways to honor his memory.

[00:54:38] He stood up for every single one of us as he spoke. And he was an amazing young man. He was one of my friends. I knew him since he was 19 years old. And I, as I was researching about you, I just said, I want to hear about your interactions with Charlie. He's, I miss him so much. Yeah. Okay. So the last question for you, who's your favorite founding father and why? Well, I love George Washington.

[00:55:08] And I love George Washington because he didn't even want to be president. And they said, you got to be president. And then he was president for eight years and he stepped down voluntarily, but he loved his family, loved his business. And he was a general in the revolutionary army. He was a fantastic guy. And he set the example for the last 250 years. And so I love a lot of our founding fathers, but George Washington has to be number one. Very good. Joe Mitchell, thank you so much for joining me today.

[00:55:37] And thank you for stepping up and running for office. Our country needs people like you willing to step up and run. Thank you. Thank you, Jenny. Okay. Before we go, here's that call to action. One more time, pick a candidate today, go to their website, sign up, make phone calls, knock on doors or donate. It's really important that we get involved and that we help candidates and that we're volunteering for them. And then next week be watching

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