The following is a transcript from the Pro America Report.
Hey everybody. Welcome. Welcome. Welcome to the Pro America Report. This is Ryan Hite, standing in today for Mr. Ed Martin, who is out on assignment, at least at this first portion of the program, but we will hear from Ed, we have a very good couple of segments coming up. Actually, today we have a dual segment. He kept a guest on. For both segments today, it was really fascinating. So I’m looking forward to hearing that along with you. But I had to step in here to make sure we rounded out the show and I am glad to be with you again, Ryan Hite here to guest host today. Glad to be with you. And don’t forget go to proamericareport.com. There’s where you will find Ed’s Substack. You can find all the things he’s writing about what he’s talking about. Long form. Often it corresponds to what we’re talking about here on the Pro America Report and of course go to phyllisschlafly.com. There you will find all of the past podcasts, the standalone guest segments, links and resources, and of course the all important WYNK e-mail. The what you need to know e-mail comes to your inbox every single weekday morning. Don’t miss out on that. Go sign up right now at Phyllis Schlafly. Dot com you will not be sad that you have done that, especially in an election year. You want to know the most that you can with the least amount of hassle. We do that for you every single morning Ed sends out the WYNK e-mail. Very important, very helpful. And I think that you will believe that as well, so let’s dive into it.
We had another round of primaries yesterday across several different states. Florida, Ohio, Illinois, some biggies. And of course, now that Donald Trump is the only candidate standing. Of course, there’s still other candidates on the ballot. That’s why you see some of these percentages happening. What 10,15% somewhere in that margin. Often for Nikki Haley, these names are still on the ballot, even though these candidates have suspended their campaigns. There’s one of the little insider things for you. A lot of them. Announced they’ve suspended their campaign, so you and I know that that means they’ve ended it, but technically it’s suspended. They still can raise money, pay off debts. Obviously they’re still on the ballot in some places. So you know, that’s technically, I guess they could come back. But the reality is it’s not like they, you know, shut the whole thing down. And and closed all the paperwork, but it it it is for all intent and purposes over and. These primary results, 80% for Trump 75,80. 85, 90% these deliveries for Trump at this point now are the obvious choice as our nominee.
Now, of course he has clinched the nomination in terms of delegates. The number of delegates at the GOP convention that will be held later this year in July in Milwaukee, WI, I believe is in Milwaukee, that’s Milwaukee and. That is, is clenched now. But it has been the whole time. And here’s here’s what I wanna talk about. Because there was a lot of talk about the Senate race in Ohio.
Moreno won that yesterday. Bernie Moreno. Moreno Moreno. I think it’s Moreno. Bernie Moreno won that yesterday. That was Trump’s endorsed choice. You may have seen him out at his final rally. He had Kari Lake standing on one side, JD Vance standing on the other, so he definitely has that conservative bloc with him that that populist kind of America First movement that was surrounding him. It was a huge lead for him and a big victory yesterday alongside Trump in the primary. But here’s, here’s what it boils down to this is definitely, and I I feel like we’ve said this before, but it bears saying again.
This is not just Trump. This is not just the cult of a certain personality. This is a very big movement inside the Republican Party and and. The this is just here’s here’s what you need to know the the the – the Republican Party is moving in a new direction. That’s what you need to know. The Republican Party is moving. Let’s no, no, let’s say it this way. I I here’s a better way to say it.
The Republican Party is moving in a renewed direction. That’s what you need to know. The Republican Party is moving in a renewed direction. Now let me explain this and I wanna give a little bit of history because I think this is important because this divide between what we would call the Trumpians and the non-Trumpians, the Never Trumpers. There’s a lot of folks out there who aren’t never Trumpers, but they’re not big fans. They don’t really want to support him. They might, in fact did not have voted for him. They may have voted for DeSantis. They may still be voting for someone else, but obviously the vast majority, commanding leads and not just of the small amount of people who showed up. No, there’s tons of people showing up for these primary votes. Even though Trump is the obvious choice at this point, the nomination process is, you know, essentially over. But this this divide between the Trumpian right and the never Trump right, or the non Trump right, I guess I should say a little more broadly, Trump hesitant, right.
This divide, I think, is very consequential. And it is indicative of a bigger divide inside the party and one that we need to understand, because it has to do with issues. This isn’t a cult of personality. I know there’s several of us, myself included, who criticized the rock star status, the pop icon status of Barack Obama. People were treating him in 2008, 2012 like this, it was a cult of personality. This following and I was the first to criticize that. In fact I still would, because they were following a personality and I know that many have said what we shouldn’t do it with Trump either we shouldn’t do it on our side. Well, you know what? I agree. I agree with that. I think that Ed agrees with that we we all agree with that we’re not here, because of someone’s personality, you and I, good conservatives, principled conservatives. We’re here because of what we believe in.
We are here because we believe in liberty. We believe in limited government. We believe in these federalism principles that were set down at the foundations of America. The principles that our founding fathers gave us when they framed the Constitution, when they signed the Declaration of Independence, when they fought and bled and died for years. Against the British Empire to say no, men ought to be free and govern themselves under the constraint of God’s moral law. We will continue to do it this way, and Parliament will not crush us under the thumb of Tyranny. Those principles are what we stand for. And if someone is willing to fight for them, or even if they don’t understand them, if that person is willing to fight for my right to continue talking about them, living under those principles, fighting for those principles in public, that’s my man. That’s my that’s my woman. I don’t, I don’t care. I this doesn’t have to be a man or a woman or any certain rate. I, make no mistake. I am not. I do not share the left’s principle that we should pick people based on their sex or the color of their skin. I don’t agree with that, and I don’t think any other conservatives do too. We will leave that kind of divisive racism. And sexism to the left, shall we? Let’s, let’s leave it to them.
But when we look at the field of candidates who are going to give us these choices, I know that people don’t like binary choices in the Republican Party, the Democrat Party, the two party system. Guess what? Our country functions as a two party system. We could go into a long thing of why I think that’s a that’s a good thing. And that multi party systems aren’t really any better, but that’s a conversation we can say for another day. There’s the fact remains, that’s what it is.
We are locked into a choice now. The Republican Party platform and the Democrat Party platform could not be farther apart. We should we hold our party leaders and our candidates for office accountable to those platforms. Yes, we should. That’s what primaries are for.
Now. When it comes down to our elections, it’s it’s a pretty solid binary choice and I don’t feel like you and I should get pigeonholed into this feeling of ohh well, I’m just voting for the lesser of two evils. No, I’m voting for the better direction and I have two choices in front of me. That represent 2 wildly different directions. I must choose the better direction, particularly when one of those directions does in fact continue to allow the expansion of freedom, liberty, economic freedom, and free markets. Common sense. Yeah. Again, you know, looking back at this at the at the record. ‘Cause we have two records to hold against each other. Four years of Trump, four years, almost of Biden. Although it feels like an eternity, I think you and I would both agree. Feels like an eternity. Can it please be over? At least that’s what my wallet says, and I’m sure yours too.
But as we look at this choice, this choice between Trump and Biden, we have two records to hold up.
Now I have some major problems with particularly the final year of the Trump administration. COVID was just handled poorly, and and that I think we can easily lay at the feet of bureaucrats. But, you know, people who were there. Who are in charge? Our duly elected representatives. They bear their portion of The blame now all of that said. Looking at the. whole, great things happened under the Trump administration, great economic advancements, great advancements in America’s energy market. Great justices nominated to the Supreme Court who are behaving mostly, mostly everyone calm down, behaving mostly like constitutional textualists. Originalists. This is a a a pretty easy choice this year.
And I think that this represents the bigger move inside the Republican Party. The bigger divide of the understanding are we fighting this old battle of the traditional, you know, the Liberals versus the Conservatives and these issues that we talked about 30 years ago or are we fighting the new battle. Of statism, authoritarianism versus freedom. I would argue that latter portion. That’s what we’re in. We are not fighting the same old battle of the same old political issues like we talked about 30 something years ago.
We are fighting for the sovereignty and survival of our nation. We are fighting for the side that allows freedom of speech, freedom of of religion and freedom of conscience. We are fighting for the side that will dismantle The administrative, unelected, unaccountable bureaucratic state. That is the new battle we need to understand that, and Donald Trump certainly represents that.
So this commanding lead that’s being given to him in the primaries, I do not believe it’s a cult of personality. I don’t think that you and I should view it that way. I think that it is an understanding of where we are in America and who our enemy is. That’s what you need to know. That’s what you need to know is we are fighting for a renewed America. It’s time for that.
So with that in mind, let’s dive off into the rest of the program. I’ll be back to wrap us up after these couple of great interviews that’s got for us and go, don’t forget, ProAmericaReport.com, PhyllisSchlafly.com and I will look forward to seeing you back here at the end of the program. Be right back after. The break on the Pro America Report.
