Are We Really Winning? The Return of the Silent Majority

The speaker reflects on the current state of conservatism and wonders if they are really winning. They discuss their love of history and how they have been listening to a book on tape about Watergate. They express sympathy for Richard Nixon and discuss the corruption and power of the media, deep state, and court system during that time. They also mention the ability to reach people and how it has changed since the 1970s. The speaker asks listeners to reflect on whether conservatives are truly winning or not. I wish a buck was still silver, it was black when the country was strong. Black before else, before the Vietnam War came along. Before the Beatles and yesterday, when a man could still work, still would. Are the days of the free life behind us now? And are the good times really over? Are we rolling downhill like a snowball? That's the Hag, Are the Good Times Really Over, circa 1981. Hey, I love that song, good music, but I don't think the good times are over. I think things are just getting started. Let's get in the ring. I'm your host, Keith Marshall, and let's go one more round. The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. Tear down this wall. We will make America great again. If I say something and you don't want to listen, don't listen. I love you all. One more round, one more round. Well, welcome to One More Round Podcast. I'm your host, as always, Keith Marshall, and welcome to the ring. You know, I struggled this week. I had several ideas of things that I wanted to do podcasts on. And I kicked, I actually started a couple. I kicked around a couple ideas. I did a lot of research. And I finally come to the conclusion that I didn't like the others. I want to put out a good product. I want to feel good about it. And I kind of figured that if I don't feel good about it, you're not going to want to hear it. And maybe you don't want to hear it anyway. But, you know, we'll just have to see how you feel about this after this one. You know, I want to thank you, first of all, all those that have been joining and listening to my podcast. I'm seeing the numbers do really well, and I'm really excited about that. You know, I can't tell who actually listens. I want you to know that. People wonder if I know whether or not you listen. No, I don't know who listens. I know how many people listen. And the numbers have been really good. And I want to thank you all that are listening. Please keep listening. Pass it on to someone else. Share the link that I send to you or I send out on Facebook and let people know. And I think there's a lot of information that we can learn together. And I've enjoyed putting these podcasts together so far. So, today, I ask kind of a rhetorical question as my title. Are we really winning? Now, who do you think I'm talking about when I say winning? I'm talking about conservatives in general. Are we really winning? And I think if I ask most of you that question, I think you're going to say no. I mean, I just instinctually think you will. I spoke to a good friend of mine the other day, and I asked him that very question. What do you think? And he's a strong, strong conservative. And he said, oh, man, we're getting killed. We are getting killed. And I had to explain to him a little different perspective on that than I've been thinking here lately. And it is something that I have come to the conclusions of just recently. I haven't always felt that way. But I'm going to tell you, and I hope by the end of this podcast, it will at least give you a reason to reflect on some of the things I'm saying and possibly convince you, hey, you know what? Maybe we are winning. So, how did I start? How did I come to this conclusion to begin with? Well, I'll tell you. I love history. I do love to read and learn about things that happened in the past. And, you know, there's so many topics out there. There's so many things you can, you know, dip into and read about and learn about. You've got to be careful, though, because we know that everybody's version of what happened in history is not the same. And so it's going to take a mix of common sense and your own ability to, you know, to look through several different people's work in order to come to a conclusion on that. So what I've been working on this week, or what I've been enjoying, it's kind of work, but it's kind of fun, too. I've been listening to a new book on tape, and it's called The Nixon Conspiracy. And right through the Rafferty City Public Library, I'm really tickled that, you know, all you have to do, let me tell you how it works, just so you all, in case you want to do the same. If you go to the public library's website, you can download an app. And I want to look here on my phone, and I want to tell you what the app's called because, hey, I want to be a complete and informative podcast. I want you to learn something. It's called Hoopla, H-O-O-P-L-A. And it's just a download that you can download on your phone, just an app. And through that, you can listen to audio books for free. You check them out just like you do at the location, except you do it with your thumb. You don't have to worry about their business hours, or whether it's cold outside, or whether it's raining, or whether it's a holiday, or whatever it is. You can listen to them right there. And, you know, I have to confess, I just learned that they had this feature a couple weeks ago, and I'm on my second book already. And, by the way, does it count the same if you listen to a book on audio versus reading? I probably don't get as many points for reading if you listen to it on audio, but I enjoy doing it that way because I can, you know, when I'm in my shop and working, when I'm driving, I can listen. You know, there's a lot of times that I can plug my ears, stick it in my ear, and listen to it while I'm doing something else. But I really enjoyed that. But this particular book, it takes a fresh perspective on Watergate and what exactly happened back in 1972, 73, 74, that culminated in the resignation of Richard Nixon in August of 1974 and his disgraceful, you know, exit from the White House. And, you know, I have to admit, it's a trait of mine. I don't know if other people share this, but I kind of have a, I don't know, for some reason I root for the underdog. I really do. I've always felt sorry for Richard Nixon, and I'll tell you where it started. It started when I was young, and I saw a clip from the funeral of Nixon's wife. Nixon's wife's name was Pat Nixon. She died in June of 1993. And I have to be honest, you know, I'd learned in school that Nixon resigned and it was over Watergate and it was over a cover-up and some different things. So I knew the basics. They did teach us good government in Radford High School, so I knew what everyone else knew. I knew what the official version of what happened during Watergate. I knew all that, although, you know, I hadn't really paid a lot of attention to it. But I remember, just for some reason, it's funny how things stick in your mind, but I remember this funeral. And I did think it was odd that they kind of drew a close-up of Richard Nixon as he was walking in. I think the funeral was outside. And he was visibly very upset at the death of his wife. And I don't remember the exact words that were said. I do remember thinking how sad it was to see, you know, this man. He was kind of my grandfather's age, you know, as I was looking at him, and how sad he was at the death of his wife. And they zoomed in on him, and you could just tell by the demeanor of the person that was speaking for the press corps about Nixon, it was just negative. It was almost like the person that was speaking was enjoying the sorrow of this man that had lost his wife. And it sticks in my mind to this day. And through the miracle of being able to look at anything anytime you want to, I went back the other day, and it didn't have any audio on it, but I was able to see that very clip that I had watched when I was 23 years old, some 30 years ago. And it was just a sad end. And I know now why I felt that way and why it's stuck with me all these years. So I've always been interested in Nixon. That's a long story to get to a short point. But I've always been interested in Richard Milhouse Nixon. He was elected to president in 1968, and he won in a massive landslide in 1972 on the backs of what he called the silent majority. The silent majority is just what most of us are, truthfully, although this big mouth is not a member of the silent majority because I won't shut up. I know at least one guy wishes that I would. But anyway, I'm still talking. I'm going to keep telling the truth. But he won on the backs of the silent majority, and they wrote him right to White House. But Watergate erased all of that. It was erased, and it was erased because there were people in government that had more power than the president. The first group that had more power was the corrupt news media. And the second group, of course, was the deep state involving CIA, the FBI. And even in this particular case, the court system within D.C. was as corrupt as you could get. No one was getting a fair trial in the Nixon administration, and everyone knew they were not going to get a fair trial. Friends turned against friends. People that were 100% guilty accused those who were 100% interest. You'll learn a lot. If you read that book, The Nixon Conspiracy, you'll be shocked at what actually happened in Watergate. If you're somebody that lived through it, that had that certain perspective, the same one that I read through my U.S. government textbook, I want to encourage you to go back and listen to that on your own. It's a little boring. It's got a lot of just talking. If you're a lawyer, man, you would love this. You'd be appalled at some of the things that happened and the tactics that were used. You won't find many prosecutors that are allowed to meet behind the scenes quietly and plot and plan with the actual judge that's going to be overseeing trials. That's pretty amazing and corrupt stuff, but you should go back and check that out. So getting back to my main topic, you know, are we winning? One of the things that I really noticed in that book was how different things were in 1973 and 1974 from how they are now, and I'm talking specifically the ability to reach people. Now, in 1974, when Nixon resigned, some of you lived through it. Obviously, I did too, although I was young then, but some of you kids, some of you young guys, and by the way, I've got a lot of young people listening. There's a lot of people that are 20-something listening. I'm really excited that they are, and these podcasts are kind of important to me because I want them to learn something from history in a way and in a format that they like to see it. So, hey, shout out to you guys. Thank you guys for listening. But in that time frame, you had three networks. You've got to understand, no cable TV. Cable TV come a few years later, and then there still wasn't a whole lot there, a couple channels. But at that particular time, all of your news came from three major networks, ABC, CBS, and NBC. Strongly liberal, one Washington, New York kind of perspective, and strongly liberal. You had basically two main magazines that were out there at the time, and I think it was Newsweek. They, again, they were liberal. You did not have talk radio. There was no Rush Limbaugh then. You did not have podcasts. You did not have these radio shows like Rush and others that had a conservative perspective. You didn't have that. There was no Fox News. There was no Newsmax. Okay? It was just those. So if you got your information, that's where you got it. And generally, people trusted the news media. They had a high opinion of what was put out there. They didn't know any better at this point because there was no one, there was no other point of view, to let them know that they were kind of being led down a certain path without any other supporting or other information that they could actually compare the two together. Just to kind of illustrate my point and compare it to now, in the 70s, there was a couple of polls taken, and the trust range for people trusted the media in the 70s ranged around 68% to 72%. They believed, you know, what the media said. So when they read it, they just kind of believed, I guess, somebody would not lie to them. And the media quickly learned that this trust, this unwarranted trust that they had, gave them great power. They could do a lot with that. They could determine the rise and fall of political candidates. So in 1974, when they dripped, dripped, dripped, dripped out story after story after story about the Nixon administration, many of which were not true, some were, many of which were not, they crippled his presidency and undid a landslide election from 1972, where only two short years later, not even two full years, you would see the end of the Nixon presidency. And you know, it wasn't an unsuccessful presidency. Nixon actually accomplished, you know, some pretty decent things. Did you know that we landed on the moon for the first time while Nixon was president? No. I know some of you guys don't believe we actually landed on the moon. Maybe that's for another episode, but let's just, I'm going to assume that I've been told the truth there, and we did. He was able to end the Vietnam War with the Paris Peace Accords, and for a short time period, it was peace with honor. It all went to pot once he left, but that's for another story. We opened up relations with China for the first time and drove a wedge between China and the Soviet Union, which enabled him to negotiate some peace treaties as far as ballistic missiles, anti-ballistic missiles, strategic ballistic missiles, some other things. And you know, he did some great things, especially on the foreign relations front. He was a master negotiator along with Henry Kissinger, so he did some really good things. But that all ended as a result of Watergate. And you know, I kind of look back, and I looked at that time frame, and how much control that the media had then. I would say if you were conservative in 1974, if you were to ask, are we winning or are we losing? You're definitely losing. You're definitely losing because the truth of it is you're not able to effectively get your message out to the masses because you're being controlled by news media that slants and bends only in one direction. So now, fast forward to a few years later. Well, I guess not too many years later, with the national syndication of the Rush Limbaugh show. That was an incredible turnaround in American history. I don't think many of you will understand that. But for the first time, there was a very strong opposition voice that was listened to nationwide that directly went after the stranglehold that the United States media had on the American people. And in fact, in his heyday, as many as 20 million people a day were listening to the Rush Limbaugh show. He was a national treasure. It's terrible that he's gone now, it really is. But I will say this, it didn't stop there. It wasn't long before we saw Fox News come on the scene. They began in 1996 and quickly, quickly rose towards the top. We've also seen the addition of conservative magazines. And now, nowadays, we're seeing some other things. We're seeing podcasts, we're seeing social media posts, and we're seeing a lot of things that are enabling the conservative message and the differences between what the media is putting out and what the truth actually is. We're seeing them come onto the scene and allow some objective opinions about what is actually happening in our government, in our federal government, state government, and even in our local government. We're starting to see the ice melt away in the playing field be evened up. Now, what's the result that we've seen of that? In 1974, the Democrats held both houses. They held the Senate and the House of Representatives. They didn't just hold them, they held them by a large majority. In most cases, veto-proof majorities. So, any Republican president was completely beholden. He couldn't get anything done without the approval of the Democratic Party. It didn't matter what the American people wanted. If the Democrats weren't scared enough of the American people to go along with that Republican president, the new ideas, the things he wanted to do, the things he wanted to implement for the good of the country, they were not going to happen. But what we've seen, we saw a change in that. And for the first time in 2011, we saw a momentous shift in power with the largest shift in government since the 1930s when the Republicans took the House of Representatives. And I believe it's something that was made possible only because of the change when it comes to the media. You know, the Rush Limbaugh's of the world, the Fox News's of the world, you know, the conservative magazines that were coming out. Now, in my book, I think that's a win. Now, is the playing field completely level? No, no, no, no, no. I mean, I've just mentioned Fox News as, you know, who is competing with CNN, MSNBC, ABC, NBC, CBS. So, no, no, the playing field is not even. But we have seen the conservative cause and the conservative beliefs increase. We have gained more power, more governorships, more local elections, you know, state house elections. We have seen, you know, tremendous victories at times, you know, in the Senate, in the House, and in the presidency. All because we've been successful in getting the truth out and getting the message out. We don't always do a good job, but the fact that we've come this far, and I know we've got a long ways to go, but if you look at 74, how bad it was that they could literally take down a president. He helped take down himself a little too. But the fact that they could take down a president who had won every single state, but, you know, Massachusetts and the District of Columbia, they could take down a president that was that popular, who enjoyed somewhere around a 68 to 70 percent approval rating. The fact that they could take him down and completely change that approval rating, and he, you know, in just a few short years he would be out of office. The fact that they could do that shows the power that they had. Now contrast that to 2016, when the news media and the deep state went right back to that same playbook. When the silent majority, just like it was under Richard Nixon, stepped back up to the plate again and said, enough, enough, and they put Donald Trump as president in 2016. They had enough of politics as usual. They had enough of promises by phony Republicans and Democrats alike, you know, that, hey, we're going to work for you. We're going to change things. No, no. We didn't believe it anymore. And we stepped up and we elected Donald Trump as president. And what did they do? They pulled out the same playbook. Now, I will say this. That group, the media, and I mentioned in, if you haven't listened to the podcast, How to Rig an Election, and also the one that followed it, you know, The Wolves, Letting the Wolves in the Gate, the Radford election, 2018. Go back and listen to those because they're important. And I'll show you what the media accomplished and how they rigged an election legally, you know, by continuous coverage of just story after story after story, lie after lie after lie after lie, drip, drip, drip, drip, just like during Watergate. And I even showed you, mentioned the same thing that The Run-Up Times did to me here locally. So, they're still strong. I mean, let's not, let me, let me make sure that point's made clear. They're still strong and they're stronger than we are right now. But, but, they weren't able to pull it off in 2016. One, for the strength and character of Donald Trump. But also, there were alternate voices that were, that were telling the truth, that were coming out and saying, wait just a second, you haven't proven this, or there's no proof here. Wait a second, you said this here, Schiff, but you lied over here. The media may not be reporting it from CBS or CNN, but Fox News is going to report it. Newsmax is going to report it. And, you know, some conservative magazines are going to talk about it. And Rush Limbaugh or the people coming after him were going to talk about it. Rush was there for the, you know, the four or five years that Trump, the four years Trump was president. So, there were some alternate voices that also helped to save Trump. Yes, that does mean that we're starting to win. We're starting to make progress on things like that. And if, and if the Republican Party, if conservatives in general can do one thing that will help the conservative cause, that will make sure that the truth is told and that the playing fields are even, quit investing your money in frivolous things and start putting your money in the same things that the Democrats are putting their money in, and that's ways to get information out to voters. Buy local newspapers. You know, these mega millionaires, buy news stations and at least, or buy a stake or a share in them, where you can make sure that the conservative message is getting out fairly. I don't think it's right for anybody to control the flow of information. I just want it free and fair. And we're not there yet, but we definitely took a chunk out of it and we saved Donald Trump in 2016, not only by his strength of will, which was unbelievable, but by the fact that information was allowed to get out that thwarted the attempts of both the deep state in 2016, all the way through his presidency, and also the media. Now, they were successful. I believe in making sure not only that he didn't win in 2020, but that any discussion as far as the fairness of the election and how it was handled, they made sure that discussion was squashed also. We talked about what big tech did and we talked about what the media did to make sure that the information didn't get out. But we still have conservative sources. I'm one of them. This podcast that I'm doing, I believe, is a way to get information out about what's going on. Now, one of the areas that Republicans have traditionally lost in and that the media and that the Democratic Party has been very good at is by isolating minority groups and making sure they control the voting bloc within those groups. And for years, for years, that's been an area where Republicans have lost. With African Americans and Hispanic Americans in particular. But, you know, I was just reading a story from back in December that Reuters put out. And I'm going to read some of it to you, but it was talking about the Hispanic vote in Arizona. And they took a poll. Well, first of all, they talked about Trump's support. And it said from 2016, when Trump ran in Arizona, to 2020, he saw his national share of Hispanic vote rise by eight percentage points to about 36 percent compared with the 2016 election. But most recently, most recently, they took a poll of almost 800 Hispanic adults, carried out, and they found that Trump now narrowly leads that category to Biden in support, 38 percent to 37 percent. Well, that's a big deal. So let's take a look at 2016. In the 2016 election, Hillary Clinton won 66 percent of the Hispanic vote to 28 percent for Donald Trump. Now jump to 2020. Biden lowered his percentage. He won 59 percent of the Hispanic vote to 38 percent that went to Donald Trump. And now, as I just read you, we're looking at a poll where it's even. Trump's actually a tick ahead, 38 percent to 37 percent in the Hispanic vote. That is winning. That's changing perspectives. Now how does that happen? Well, I'll tell you how it happens. Well, first of all, I'll tell you how it wouldn't happen. If you just listen to CNN, CBS, NBC, ABC, you're not going to see anything about what's happening at the southern border. Contrary to popular belief, Hispanics that come into the country legally, that follow the law, they want everybody to follow the law. They're proud Americans. They're happy to be citizens and that they come in the right way. And they resent people coming across the border not doing it the right way. It also costs them jobs and money and opportunities when, you know, people are illegally coming across the border and taking work from them. And it's the same, you know, it's the same for everybody that's losing work, not just Hispanics. But they in particular are upset about that. So they're watching that happen, not on CNN, ABC, CBS, you know, NMS, NBC. They're seeing it on Fox News. They're seeing it on Newsmax, okay? So they have an alternative. They can see it on social media now. They have another way to find the truth. When you get the truth out to people, the truth usually wins, and we are winning the truth argument when it comes to immigration. By the way, they just had the caucuses Monday night in, you know, in Iowa. Immigration was the number one, the number one concern of the people that came and voted. Immigration. It carried it big time. Now, let's also look at one of Biden's key constituency groups, and that's African Americans. And I'm looking at an article, believe it or not, from the New York Times. You know, they're not going to tell the truth unless they have to or unless they're really worried. And I think this article, I think this article is one that it is, and it's called, As Black Voters Drift to Trump, Biden Allies Say They Have Work to Do. And this article was written back in, oh, it looks like it was November, November 8, 2023. So it was just a couple months ago. And I'm going to read you a couple paragraphs from the article. It says, Black voters are more disconnected from the Democratic Party than they have been in decades, frustrated with what many see as inaction of their political priorities and unhappy with President Biden, a candidate they helped lift to the White House just three years ago. New polls by the New York Times and Siena College found that 22 percent of Black voters in six of the most important battleground states said they would support former President Donald J. Trump in next year's election, and 71 percent would back Biden. So you're probably just hearing that on the onset. You're like, well, Trump's only getting 21 percent and Biden's getting 71 percent. Well, they're obviously supporting Biden. And they are. The majority certainly are. But you've got to remember, an election, a national election is not won by just one group. When you can change the percentages within individual groups, like, for example, the Hispanic vote, but in this case, the African-American vote, when you can change those percentages, you increase your ability to win. So let me read you the next article, excuse me, the next paragraph. You know, remember this one said 22 percent say they're going to vote for Trump, 71 percent Biden. That's what it was. It said the drift in support, though, is striking, given that Mr. Trump won just 8 percent of the Black voters nationally in 2020 and 6 percent in 2016. So if you look just back from 2016, that is a huge jump. That is a 16 percent jump. And people saying that, you know, from the ones that voted for him in 2016 to the 22 percent that say they're going to now, that is a huge switch, and that is winning. That is the ability to get the message out that, hey, Biden is all talk. He's not helping anybody. He's just using you and wanting you just a plain vote. You vote for me. You know, that's what you're supposed to do. Don't thank for yourself. We'll thank for you. Well, you know what? You don't get to thank for anybody now because there's alternate opportunities for people to get out there and get more information and learn exactly what's going on. Now, as I talked about in a couple of previous podcasts, how big tech has gotten themselves involved in our elections, and they have prevented the free flow of information to the voters in America, how they stopped the Hunter Biden laptop deal, how they, you know, basically covered up a lot of the things that were going on in the Biden crime family, how they directed more and more stories against, you know, Trump and belittled him and kind of just chipped away and chipped away at people's opinions of Trump. Well, you know what? We're seeing some headway in that area, too. Now, we're a long, we're even further away there. But, hey, Trump, you got to hand it to him. He went out there and created his own social media company in Truth Social. You know, I'm on Truth Social. Does it compare to some of the others? It's not there yet. But it's growing. And it's doing a pretty good job. And it's definitely an attempt to do things a little different. You know, the idea that we're going to put all our eggs in the liberal baskets, where they can just cut off our, you know, cut off our access to the Internet, they can fact check factual stories and call them lies. You know, we're starting to figure out ways to cut them out of our flow of information, where we can freely get this information out. And that's a small win. That's a start. And these other areas, podcasts and, you know, creation of other social media outlets, that's a big deal. You know, podcasts, and I'm obviously, I'm not in this category. But there's some really good podcasts out there by Megyn Kelly and Dan Bongino and some others that are, you know, Ben Shapiro, that are getting information out, Charlie Kirk, they're getting information out that, you know, so people can listen for themselves, that they can hear the truth and make determinations of which way they want to go, without being tricked by subservient media to the Democratic Party and the, you know, the kind of three-way alliance between the media, the government, you know, and the Democratic Party. We're starting to see that be chipped away. That is a small win, but it's certainly a win indeed. You know, another area that I want to focus on, too, another area that I think we're winning. You know, I talked about, you know, in the Nixon and the Watergate, how corrupt that the judiciary was. And since that time, as a result of several Republicans winning, especially Donald Trump, we have seen good conservative judges being placed on the benches in different areas all around the country, but none bigger, you know, none even close to what happened with the Supreme Court under Donald Trump. You know what, one of the things that I love the most about Donald Trump and one of the things that I dislike the most about previous Republican presidents was this. All of them promised great things when it came to appointing conservative judges. They all promised really great things. And I'm going to take direct aim at the conservative. I know what the Democrats are going to do, okay. I expect them to do what they're going to do, and they do it every time. When they tell their constituents they're going to appoint liberal judges, you better believe they're going to appoint liberal judges. It's going to happen. But for many, many cycles, our Republican presidents promised us that they were going to appoint conservative judges, and they didn't always, they did sometimes, but they didn't always follow through on that. I kind of felt like they were trying to keep a certain balance so they didn't have to face the issue of abortion while they were president. They did not want, even though they promised it, even though they promised it, they did not want Roe v. Wade overturned. They really didn't. Donald Trump told us that he was going to appoint conservative judges. He gave us a list of the judges he was going to choose from. And he told us he was going to appoint judges that were going to overturn Roe v. Wade. And guess what? When he had the opportunity, and it was unusual that he got three opportunities, but he did exactly what he said. He picked from the list that he gave us. He appointed conservative judges. And the reason, and there was a question in a town hall he did the other night. And I don't agree with Donald Trump completely on abortion. I'm pro-life, 100%. I'm pro-life. I believe in the sanctity of life. I really do. He's not 100% with me. And one of the ladies asked him a question, and she kind of acknowledged the fact that he'd made some comments, that he wasn't as pro-life as DeSantis and some of the others. And that does bother me. It's something that I have to think about. But he said something that really struck me. He said, you know what? We wouldn't even be having the conversation if it wasn't for me. I told you I was going to appoint conservative justices, and I got Roe v. Wade overturned, and he did that. And I'm super impressed by that. Now, I want him to go to the next level. I don't believe abortion should be legal anywhere. I don't agree with that. I don't agree with that. Is the country there? No. Are the Democrats using that as a wedge to get extra people out to vote? They are. Do I want to see it ended completely because I think it's wrong? I do. I do. That is the difference I have with him. But I will say what he said is correct, absolutely correct. No other Republican president got that done. And he said, you know what? I'm going to put conservative justices, conservative pro-life justices on the bench, and he did it. He did it. And because of what he did, Roe v. Wade has been overturned. And that's just an example of where we're winning. Having a controlling majority of conservatives on the Supreme Court is massive. Now, do they always vote the way I think they should? No. I scratch my head sometimes. I think they're cowards sometimes, too. But I sure would rather it be the way it is now than the way it was or the way it could have been. So, in the category of are we winning, are we asking that question? When I'm asking that question, are we winning? When it comes to judges, we are winning. We are winning, and we need to keep doing so. Now, let's jump to another one. I was talking earlier about key Democratic constituency groups, and one of them that they talk about a lot, that you hear about just constantly, is that women do not like Donald Trump. And I think some of the numbers from the recent election have borne that fact out, that he does not do as well among women as he does among men. But guess what? In the Iowa caucus the other night, Monday night, a lot of these news organizations, and this kind of explains how it works, they take what's called entrance polls, which means they take entrance polls and exit polls. So, entrance polls, obviously, when someone's coming in to vote, they ask them several questions. A lot of times it's, who are you voting for in this caucus? Or they ask them, you know, they get their demographics. Are you a woman? Are you a white woman? A black male? Whatever it is, they're putting you in categories. They put us all in categories. And they're asking key questions. What's your number one issue? What's the most important problem that you think is going on in the country? They ask a lot of questions like that. And if you watch any of the networks, you'll see that they put those up. They actually, for this election the other night, they knew from these entrance and exit polls that Donald Trump was going to win this landslide caucus on Monday night. For those of you that didn't hear, Trump took 51% of the vote Monday night. But he set a record. It was the largest victory of any Republican for an Iowa caucus. He won, not only won 50% of the vote, 51%, he won all 99 counties. All 99 in the state of Iowa. It's amazing. It's never been done before. That's winning. That's definitely winning. Trump told us we'd win so much we'd get tired of it. I'm not tired of it yet, but that's actually winning. But through these entrance and exit polls, AP actually did one. I think they called theirs an entrance poll. But a statistic jumped out to them. You know, AP is definitely not pro-Donald Trump. But a statistic jumped out to them that I think they were amazed by. And quite frankly, as someone who follows this and watches, I was amazed by it too. Donald Trump, his victory the other night, it was widespread with women, with men, with older voters, with younger voters. But one important demographic that Republicans in general, and especially Donald Trump, have trouble with are women. Or is women. But not Monday night. Donald Trump actually won the vote, according to their exit poll, of more women than he did men. He won 54% of the women in Iowa that come out to vote in this caucus voted for Donald Trump. 54%. Now, wouldn't you think that they would vote for Nikki Haley? If women, you know, if it's still true that women do not like Donald Trump, and they're not going to support Donald Trump, and that's his Achilles heel, don't you think they would have voted for Nikki Haley? Well, they didn't. They didn't. Nikki Haley was, she wasn't even close. She was down by 37 points compared to Donald Trump with women. Donald Trump won 54%, according to that poll, of the women vote. He won 53% of the men. It's pretty close, according to the exit poll, but he won 54%. That is winning. That's making progress. That is winning. I talked about, just a little while ago, in those latest podcasts I did, about how, you know, the news media really took a hold of this, the election of 2020. And, of course, oh, my goodness, if you watch, when I watch these caucuses, I watch, I don't just watch Fox. I watch other networks, too. And I particularly watch CNN. Sometimes they actually do a pretty good job getting the numbers. But they clearly had, you know, an underlying theme that they wanted to press hard on Monday night. And that was the sanctity of our elections. I mean, they, if I heard them say it once, man, it's like 20 times they've talked about, see, these are fine Republicans. You're never going to hear them talk about fine Republican people. They say, these are fine Republican people. And they're out, and see how they're judiciously counting these votes, and see how fair it is. And, look, they even pointed out a particular lady that there was a vote that come in, and she had to, and she was a DeSantis person, I think. And she had a vote there for DeSantis. You know, if you ever watch it, they're pulling them out of a bucket, and they're counting them out loud. I love the way they're doing it. That part I do like. But she says, I'm going to have to disqualify this because there's no precinct sticker on the back, and that automatically disqualifies it. And nobody argued with it because that was the rule. And, you know, CNN just made such a big deal about how awesome it was and how that's the way elections should be conducted. Well, you're right, CNN. But if you listen to my podcast, CNN, you know, How to Rig an Election, you'll find out that wasn't what was happening in Philadelphia, okay? If that would have happened in 2020, we may have a different president right now. But that's not what happened in 2020. But they went on the sanctimonious about all this. It was just ridiculous. It was ridiculous to listen to it. But anyway, they talked a lot about, you know, about that. And one of the issues, one of the questions that was asked in these exit polls was they were asking people, do you believe the 2020 election was fair? Do you believe it was fair? Well, they asked Trump voters that question, the people that were saying that they had or they were going to vote for Trump, and 88 percent said, no, it wasn't fair. But what I thought was striking, they also asked the ones that were not for Trump, the ones that were voting for Nikki Haley, the ones that were voting for DeSantis or the Vake or the three people that voted for Asa Hutchinson. But 65 percent of those that were not Trump people, 65 percent of those said, yeah, I don't think the election was fair. No, it wasn't fair. I think it was rigged. I don't think it was right. And you know what that tells me? That tells me a little bit. Now, I'm not arguing that point. I'm not arguing whether, you know, we won, didn't win. That's not my point. But what it's telling me is that the news media stranglehold on the truth and their ability to try to completely disenfranchise and to make fun of and to demonize anybody that had questions about the election, that stranglehold that they tried to use and have been trying to use since 2020, the whole January 6th insurrection thing, it's not working. They're losing and we're winning. Whether or not it's true or not doesn't matter. The fact is they're not controlling the narrative, at least not in the Republican Party. We've got a long ways to go in other areas, but they did not, they have not been successful. They have not been successful in convincing conservative Americans, people that are for the United States of America, Republicans, conservatives, they have not been successful in convincing us of their lives. They've not been successful at that. They haven't. And while I'm on that subject, let me just talk about another thing. You know, Joe Biden, with the help of the media, and obviously, you know, the FBI with their arrest of everybody that even looked at the Capitol on January 6th, they have just a whirlwind effort, just a Herculean effort to try to demonize anything about MAGA, okay? And, you know, Make America Great Again, we're just saying, just try to demonize it all we can. And they try to say that the reason Trump, he has this huge MAGA base that identifies MAGA, MAGA, MAGA, MAGA, MAGA, gets sick of hearing it, Make America Great Again, I mean, how, why is that a bad thing to talk about? But they try to demonize that subject, that word. And, you know, what Monday night proved was that it's not just people that identify as MAGA, M-A-G-A, that are making a decision that Trump is the best choice, or that Biden is a poor choice, or that, you know, the things that Trump accomplished in his four years in office and the things that he's promising now, it's not just a core group of MAGA people, because they, in these entrance and exit polls that they interviewed, only 49% said yes, we're MAGA Republicans, we're part of the MAGA movement, but 46% said they're not. They didn't identify with that, right or wrong, whatever, they didn't identify with that. Yet Trump smoked the field with 51% when in 99 counties. I tell you what, guys, we are winning, all right? Now, whenever you're winning, we have a tendency, as conservatives, as Republicans, we have a tendency, to use another football analogy, we go into prevent, okay? We don't go on and take it home, we don't address the reasons that we're winning and the reason that we lose things, we just simply go along and go back to sleep. We're a lot different from the Democrats. When the Democrats get in office, they try to take ground, they try to take things back, they try to make sure things move more into the liberal direction. When Republicans get in office, we just kind of hold our ground. We never take back the ground that we lost when we weren't in control. We have a lot of candidates out there that promise great big things and don't deliver any of it, all right? If you want to know what frustrates me more than anything as a Republican, and honestly, when we lose, I think we lose because of this reason more than anything else. And that's when Republicans make big promises, we put them in office because we want to effect some change or we want to make sure that we get back some of the things we've lost, and then they sit there and they do nothing, or they go along with the Democrats, or they cut deals with the Democrats. And I mean that on the federal, state, and local level, too. Those are the things that turn off Republicans and keep them from coming out to the polls. And when you add that with the dirty tricks, with the rigging, and other things, it's a recipe for losing. It's a way to turn a win into a loss. It's like poor clock management, you know? It's like Mike McCarthy for the Cowboys. Great team around him, can't seem to get it done because you keep doing dumb things. And I'm not a Cowboys fan. I'm a fan of them losing, just to be honest. Even though I didn't poll for them, I had much more respect for them when Tom Landry was a coach. I really did. But I will say, I can't say much. I'm a Steeler fan, and I wasn't particularly happy with their showing on the Buffalo Bills. So, hey, you take free license to make fun of me, too, because I'm a big boy. I can take it. It's all good. But that's why people love Trump. That's why people love Trump. He said he would do it, and he did it. He said he would stand up, and he stood. He said he would go there, and he went. That's the difference. Listen, if you're running for office, if you're in office, it's okay to lose. But at least lose standing up for what you promised you were going there for. That's important to me. It really is. I have much more respect for you as a loser that stood up than as a winner who didn't. I really do. Now, I want to make one final point about winning and losing. And this is anecdotal. It really is. You know, I'm going to stick with the football analogy. You know, when time gets short and the clock's running out, a team that's fallen behind will get more desperate. They will do things that they don't normally do in order to win. They'll call out all the stops. They'll try plays they've never tried before, trick plays, whatever it is. They'll do whatever it takes to try to win because they know they're about to lose. To me, one of the greatest pieces of evidence that we're winning is the desperate tactics that we're watching year in and year out by the Democratic Party. And that's at every level. I talked about it here at what happened in Blacksburg in, you know, with the Montgomery County elections. I talked about what happened to me in 2018. We talked extensively about what happened in 2020 with how the election was done. When you know you can't win fair and square, when you know that if all things are equal and each side gets their information out fairly and equally, when you know you can't win, you've got to come up with a game plan that is different and that's ever-changing to make sure you can figure out new and inventive ways to bend the system so you can win. And we have never in the history of America seen as many tactics that's being employed on the local, state, and federal level as we're seeing that Democrats are doing to try to win now. We not only have watched the news media, you know, the drip, drip, drip, and the constant attacks on all candidates, on all Republicans at all levels. Those are happening. We've watched big tech come in and block stories and block posts and block major news outlets like the New York Post from being able to print stories on Twitter and other things. We've seen those things happen. We've watched as now we're watching in real time. It's incredible. We're watching in real time as a current administration, a current Democratic administration run by Joe Biden, are figuring out ways to try to arrest and imprison the opponent that it's becoming increasingly obvious that they cannot beat. We're watching it happen before our eyes, a Banana Republic type of activity that's going on with the persecution, not just prosecution, persecution of Donald Trump. And Donald Trump's right. They're not doing it because they just don't like him. They're doing it because they just don't like you and I. And we need to be ready for tactics like that. We don't need to do the same things, but we need to be prepared for this kind of stuff. And when someone like Donald Trump stands up, we need to stand up with him. We need to make sure that as hard as he's working, we're working just as hard to get information out, to get the truth told. I've been working on a story about what's going on in Georgia. I don't know if some of you have paid any attention to that with Fannie Willis there in Georgia, the prosecutor that's going after Trump on some crazy racketeering charges. It's amazing. It's amazing what's going on there. It's amazing what's happening with Jack Smith and the others that are prosecuting him for a little bit of everything. And I know when we see those things, it's real easy to look at them as we're losing. They're able to do that. They're able to use the federal government and the power they're in to persecute the other party. That's not, though, that is not evidence of winning. That's evidence of losing. Those are fourth and tens down by 20 points, and we're throwing the Hail Mary. Those are onside kicks to try to get back in the game. I'm sorry, I'm staying on the football. But that's what those are. But we've got to be ready for it. Who would get ready for an onside kick and not bring your guys up and put your hands team on the front row? Well, of course you would. We Republicans, we seem to forget that they're going to do their onside kick. We don't expect the Hail Mary, and we get burned a lot. We're not prepared. You know, when you think you're winning, plan on losing. Figure out a way that they're going to beat you in a way that they're going to come up with something new and be prepared for that. You know, in Donald Trump's case, it may help if you don't step in that mud puddle all the time and give them the opportunity to do it because they're going to take it. And we've got to be ready as Republicans. So, hey, that's my podcast today. I wanted just to show you, I wanted to give you some heart that we are winning. We are doing some things well. We are making progress as conservatives, and we're starting to win more and more elections, more governorships, more local elections. Hey, we won the governorship of Virginia back in the last election. We're making some positive steps. Not enough. We still have some people in our party that just don't seem to like winning. They seem to be happy with the status quo as long as they can keep getting elected and as long as they can, you know, just follow along and everything's smooth. They don't mind being in the minority party. Well, when you're in the minority party with Democrats in charge, you're going to lose your freedom. You're going to lose the things you love. We can't afford not to win anymore, and we've got to make sure that we continue to win, and we win bigger and more often and hold the ground that we're taking. Now, we all know it's never going to be over. We're not going to get to go to sleep. We're not going to reach the top of the mountain and say we're here because someone's going to be dragging out our ankles the whole way up relentlessly, relentlessly. And it's going to be a game of field position. It really is. Sometimes we're just going to have to get close and live to fight another day, but we've got to fight. We've got to continually politically fight to move forward. And, you know, just one little small thing that I want to add. I mentioned that in the 70s, that 68, 70 percent of the people believed that the media was telling them the truth. Just to let you know how that's changed and how we are, we're just starting to win. That number is now 35 percent. People have realized that, and that goes across all medias, that they cannot just trust what's being said. It's still a bad problem. It's still a lot of people that drinks the Kool-Aid, but we're making progress in every area, and I believe, overall, we're starting to win. Now, I'm going to close out this podcast with my theme verse, but before I do, I want to give a big shout out to the Rafferty City Electric Department. You know, my power went out today, this afternoon. I think they had a big old tree come down and rip down a couple poles over near in the area of Plan A, and my power went out. It's a pretty cold day for your power to go out, but you know, it was only out about 50 minutes. Amazing job. We've got an outstanding electric department, and I really appreciate that because, you know, I don't have to plan as well as I should. I should have more wood. I should have a lot of things in the winter, but I have so much faith in those guys. In fact, right before it went out, I was getting ready to go out the door. I was meeting somebody for lunch, and I told my wife, I said, that power is going to be on before I get back from lunch, and, you know, it was on just a few minutes after I left. So, hey, big shout out to those guys. It's a tough job working out in the cold. I've done that many a day, and those guys went out and braved those elements and got our power back on, and we should be thankful for that group, and I know, for one, this particular guy was really thankful. I really appreciate it. Okay. Our theme verse is found in Ecclesiastes chapter 12, verses 13 and 14. And God's word says this. Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter, fear God, and keep his commandments. For this is the whole duty of man. For God shall bring every work into judgment with every secret thing, whether it be good or whether it be evil. Hey, God bless you. Thanks for joining me here in the ring. I look forward to coming to you next week with a new episode. I hope you join me. We'll see you soon.