What Will It Take For Republicans To WIN? w/ Erick Erickson
5/19/20261 hr 32 min
It's primary day in several key states with several more elections are on the horizon. Do we have the candidates? Will Democrats implode? Erick Erickson joins the progrum to discuss GOP prospects in November. In variety, macaque is making headlines again and an unfortunate architectural oversight in Spain. PLUS, Grover Norquist stops by to warn Republicans about the union pay off that is the so-called "Railway Safety Act."
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First 90 secondsErick Erickson· Guest0:00
When you look at the history of midterms, it's not that the party out of power wins, it's that the party in power loses. [laughs] Massie is willing to just go on the attack against people who have been his friends, to blast every good piece of legislation, and I mean, when you got Ro Khanna and, and The View- Yeah ... singing his praises, that kinda tells me where you are these days. He's like a, a, a non-blonde, non-female Marjorie Taylor Greene at this point.
Michael Duncan· Host0:23
[laughs] What I can never understand is playing into the hand of the left and going on The View.
Josh Holmes· Host0:30
The job is a legislator.
Erick Erickson· Guest0:32
Yes.
Josh Holmes· Host0:32
At some- Too many of them wanna be fricking entertainers.
Erick Erickson· Guest0:35
They want their own podcast these days. All of the people who lectured us that the Republicans were Nazis are now perfectly fine with the guy with the SS tattoo on- Yeah ... his chest running. Can you get elected in Maine thinking that rural Mainers are racist and lobster fishermen are terrible people? I, I... Give it a try.
Josh Holmes· Host0:52
[laughs] I don't know.
Michael Duncan· Host0:53
I think that Kamala is sort of like a leading indicator, something we were talking about just a little bit ago, of where the Democrats are headed. It is harder left- Oh, yeah ... in 2028 than we have ever seen before. America has abundant affordable energy, and real permitting reform is the key to unleashing it. Demand for natural gas has surged 50% in the US, but infrastructure hasn't kept up. That pipeline bottleneck is driving up costs and preventing economic growth. Real reform means stopping activist states from weaponizing the Clean Water Act and stopping endless activist lawsuits.