The following is a transcript from the Pro America Report with Ed Martin.
Welcome, welcome. Welcome. Ed Martin here on the Pro America Report. Hey, thank you for coming back around. I hope you are checking in. We’re changing up things a little bit on the podcast version of the Pro America Report, you can still view and listen to the Pro America Report on our website, proamericareport.com and also wherever you get podcasts and others. We are doing the Pro America Report also as a TV program in the Rumble DC studio, so there’s a lot going on. Please keep checking back for this and sign up at proamericareport.com, you’ll get our frequent emails. What you need to know that update you on what’s going on, give you a few links and other stuff. So listen today.
I wanted to jump in and tell you a little story. I wish I had told the story, spoken about this a little bit more specifically in the last month or two, but let me walk you through it again.
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Couple months ago, as we’ve talked about, I was in Milwaukee for the Republican National Convention. Now I was actually out there about 10 days early because I was part of the team that was working on the platform and For all the stupid talk about this project or that project, the Project 2025 or whatever else, all these things, the actual place to go and look at what Donald Trump has promised to do is in the platform. More specifically, at the beginning of the platform, when President Trump spent a couple of days during the last few days of the preparation of the platform, he spent a couple of days kind of rewriting and writing out his promises. And there are 20 promises of what he says he’ll do and you know, you can say what you want about Donald Trump when he tells he’s gonna do something, he doesn’t back off. He’s been saying what he’s gonna do since the ’80S regarding China, regarding our adversaries, all these kinds of things. And anyway, so check that out. And I you know. I.
The coverage of things. It’s always such a lie. The media coverage and I have to tell you, with regard to the platform they make it sound like the platform was prepared that weekend. Well, Donald Trump was rewriting his words to say what the promises were, but the platform had been in formation for two months. People that were involved with it had been listening and visiting with thousands and thousands of people, Republicans, about what they wanted in there, and this was the culmination of that, anyway. So check that out. But.
While I was in Milwaukee, there was a lot of down time because the Convention was set to start a week later, so there wasn’t that many people in Milwaukee yet. There were the staff folks that were preparing. There was the platform committee and some of the staff. So it, you know it a week later when the convention started. There was 20,000 people, you know the delegates plus all the different groups and the staff and everything, probably 25,000 people. I mean, Milwaukee was jammed.
But the week before, there might have been 1000 people, probably less, a couple hundred. And so there was a lot of time where you were sitting around, you were seeing people in different places and you’d catch up with them. I remember we went out to lunch a couple of us and we ended up seeing one of the key senior staffers for a Senator and having a discussion. I mean, just kind of ran into people.
So one of the people that I ran into a couple of times and then stopped to talk to was the pollster John McLaughlin. And McLaughlin has been around for a long time, polling his McLaughlin and Associates, I think is his firm and he’s been around forever. I mean, he’s polled all kinds of candidates, every every kind of Republican. Some of the hard conservatives, the hard right conservatives, the the moderates, he’s done stuff for the Tea Party folks. He’s he’s a professional pollster and a good guy. Reliable guy, I think, and his polls are reliable and a nice guy. Very nice guy. Truck driver. I I think I only met him once before, but we knew each other and were on emails and things.
And so anyway, I had a chance to talk to him. Now, this is Milwaukee. This is after the assassination attempt of on Donald Trump. This is before Joe Biden drops out. So the bottom is falling out of the Democrat ticket. Biden, Harris, and they’re losing ground every day. You could feel it. You can feel it in the national press. You could feel it in the in the events, you could just tell that people were not going to vote for Joe Biden as President again, which is why they forced him out. Among other reasons.
But there was a lot of energy and momentum because the Trump campaign was realizing, Wow, we’ve got places where we can make an argument about what’s going on that we might never have made it before.
And so I ended up with McLaughlin at one point. I said to him, hey, you know, I’m working after the Convention, I’m going to work on identifying and and hoping to turn out what I call the pro-life Catholics, the Catholics that are conservative, that, you know, should be voting for Donald Trump in my opinion. And and he and I were talking.
So I have had this. I have had this sense and I’ve talked about this a little bit since 2020. That part of the reason Joe Biden was picked by the Democrats to run and was, it was controlled so that he could run was that he was an identifiable type. Of politician, a Democrat Irish Catholic, with all that blarney and all that kind of stuff. You know, he thinks he’s a Kennedy. He’s not. Well, maybe he is. I don’t know. I mean, it’s it’s a silly comparison. He thinks he’s sort of this iconic, but there is this sense among voters who are low information voters who just clue in at the end. Yeah, yeah. There’s a guy from Scranton, you know, his named Joe Biden. He’s kind of a. He’s not the smartest guy, but he’s a good guy. We recognize him. We all got relatives like that. We’ve got friends. For a certain number of people of Catholic faith and of of the American sort of melting pot, Joe Biden was recognizable and they were able to position him and capture him as and described him as non-threatening for the election in 2020 was about Trump in office. All this kind of stuff. And then here’s Joe Biden. He’s kind of friendly. And I’m not saying it worked for normal people. I’m not saying it worked for people that were paying a lot of attention.
I’m saying that for other voters. It kind of made sense and McLaughlin backed me up on that.
I said to McLaughlin, I said, is it really true? Are you seeing polling that says like New Jersey is in play and he said New Jersey is in play. Now, that’s not that surprising to me, because New Jersey was a state that outperformed for Ross Perot. New Jersey has this sort of populist edge amongst his voters, and a lot of them are ethnic Americans. Now there’s lots of Cuban Americans and and Latin American Americans up there too but but. For for the years, in the last 40 or 50 years, you had lots of Irish, Catholic, Italian Americans. All this hodgepodge spreading out from New York City. And kind of populist. And Ross Perot did better in New Jersey than almost anywhere in the country. I think he did better in the collar counties of Saint Louis also. But you get the point.
So McLaughlin, I said really? And he said, yeah.
And I said, well, doesn’t that mean in New Jersey there’s a whole bunch of Catholic Americans that should be, you know, communicated to. And he said yes. And he said, yeah, the Italian Americans. Sure. Yeah. Polish Americans. Yeah, you know, especially the newer generation Vietnamese. Yeah.
And then he said don’t bother with the Irish, Irish Americans, he said. It’s just hard to move them because they they they think Biden is kind of of their, you know, kind of of their history of their clan. And I said really. And he said, yeah, you know, I mean, look, you can try, but it’s not that it’s not, it’s harder than you think.
Here’s my point. RFK Jr. coming out last week and saying he’s voting for Trump. That is the iconic Irish American family and you can quibble with whether the Kennedys were good or bad for politics. I’ve got relatives on both sides of that fight. For decades. The people that in my family that say the Kennedys Ruined everything for America. You know that they’re terrible. Others that say these are the greatest, you know, kind of servants of the common good. All that.
But what you can say. When you watch RFK Jr. give his speech about why he’s not supporting the Democrat ticket. On censorship, on the capture of of the the swamp by big corporations, on the Forever Wars. What you when you’re done with that, forget about what you think of those positions. Just hear me when I tell you.
Catholic Americans, lots of them. Irish, Irish Catholics, Irish Catholic Americans are going to look up at the two tickets and say Kamala Harris. And Tim Walz. Far left liberals, all the stuff that’s going on – the wokeness at the border, all that stuff is going on, and we’re supposed to be for those two?
And then they look over and they’ve got RFK Jr. saying Trump’s OK. I I’m telling you now, when the history is written, they will look back. I’m not, by the way. I’m not saying New Jersey’s back in play. I think that one of the things Kamala Harris and the media have been able to do, the fake media which is helping her so much is to sort of secure a whole bunch of voters that were looking up and saying, you know, I’m not gonna vote for that guy. And now they’re going, well. Like, I wanna stick with Democrats. I think it’s. And and probably that was inevitable. I think the guys like McLaughlin were hopeful that New Jersey would stay and play, but I I don’t think they really knew. But here’s my point.
RFK Jr. means Catholics to Trump. Because those lot, and I’m talking about the voters, I’m talking about people that vote. I’m not talking about like necessarily the whole of the the parish directory. I’m saying the people that vote, the people that vote, there’s thousands, millions of American Catholics of Irish Catholic descent of Irish descent, of Italian descent, of other descent that are going to church every Sunday and they will sometimes vote Republican, but they’ll also vote Democrat. But in this case, RFK Jr, it’s a signal, and it’s a signal early enough in the cycle, you know, 80 days out, 75 days away, that people are, it’s going to seep in and it’s a big deal, a bigger deal than people realize. And that’s what you need to know. It’s Ed Martin, Pro America Report. Check it out. ProAmericaReport.com, @EagleEdMartin. Be right back.
