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OK, here it is, Donald Trump. Won the South Carolina primary handily handily. He also, I’d say it like this. Here’s the headline: Trump wins corrupt presidential primary. Now what do I mean by that? I mean by that is that the system for electing the President of the United States, the Republican and the Democrat. I know the Republican system better. But the Democrat is this is very similar. It’s the same corruption. And I I remember I was on the Republican National Committee for a couple of years, and while I was on the Republican National Committee, I saw first hand how corrupt the systems were. Many of the systems very specifically around don’t be surprised. Money, money and the because the Republican Party. National as well as state parties have become less able to require candidates to work through them. They have to rely on the presidential primary as their big money maker, so let me explain what I mean by that.
After Citizens United and the dark money cases, what you ended up with was more and more of the action, more the more of the campaigning was happening through third party so-called Super PACs. So if you’re a US Senator, you’d raise money. You’re you’re the one that has a lot of influence. You’re gonna raise your money into a super PAC. That’s controlled by arms length, not controlled by you formally, but arms length is influenced and and run by one of your colleagues. So in every state where there’s an incumbent senator, both parties, there’s super PACs that basically run their campaigns and the state party is less needed.
That’s true about the National Party. It used to be when there are campaign limits, you had to use the parties as apparent, as, as as ways to build the party structure to get out the vote and everything else. So today in America, what you have is weakened parties. And that was true at the at the National Party, is true at the National Party. Also same thing happened.
Except for every four years, when there’s a U.S. presidential race and they take turns if there’s an incumbent, they take turns, obviously from one of the parties. If if one party’s got an incumbent president, you know, Obama running for reelection, there’s not a Democrat primary. But then it’s very clear how the the the primary, how the election season is gonna go, the incumbent president’s gonna raise gazillions of dollars.
But in an open so-called open primary. When there’s competition, you have this racket and the racket is set up to benefit consultants and to benefit television and media print media as well as now social media because you set up a dynamic where you have these, this string of races, first Iowa for a caucus, then New Hampshire for a primary, then South Carolina. For primary and and every stop there are 10s of millions of dollars spent for thousands of voters. Not millions of voters, thousands of voters. Now, I’m not yet telling you a better system. I’m just describing to you what’s going on.
And more importantly, what the control that needed to happen was big money influencing mostly TV until now, and TV would be bought by the candidate with the most money, and the candidate with the most money would then buy TV and they would persuade people in the in the least common denominator way the most the the way to move the most people and. The primary process in many, many states now includes what are called open primaries, so you can vote for the guy or gal who you think should be your party nominee, even if you’re not an a member of the party, you could just that day say I’m going to vote in that primary and they let you. It’s the stupidest system. It’s like electing the, you know, I always tell people it’s like electing the. The the head of the Cubs baseball team and say only Cubs fans, real Cubs fans can vote and then deciding. No, we’ll let Cardinals fans vote too. It is just so stupid. It’s insane. It’s insane to think about it.
And so some number one out of three, one out of five, whatever number of Nikki Haley’s voters in in South Carolina, we’re Democrats. Were not Republicans.
So you have a broken system that’s predicated on massive amounts of money, massive, massive amounts of money. Donald Trump is the first candidate Ever to buck the system, because what Trump did in 2016 was he had 100% name ID because he was a TV star. And then he had a really good ability to be entertaining in a way that the media covered him. So he got earned media.
Now you could say, well, back then he wasn’t really covered as outrageous. He was covered as entertaining. He was sometimes outrageous. That was later when the media realized they better, they better, you know, demonize this guy in in a substantial way so they can stop him.
But so the the primary in South Carolina that Donald Trump just won. Was a corrupt primary open primary corrupt, required 10s of millions of dollars to persuade thousands of voters. That’s not a way to select a president in the long run. And Donald Trump again. He he was the first person in generations who was able to over the top of the system, buck the system. He was able to dominate so thoroughly he could. He could didn’t need their money, he didn’t need ohh. So let me let me. Let me make it clear.
Let’s go back to 2016 as an open Republican primary. And you say, well, now, what do you need? Do you need lots of money. Why do you need it? To buy TV to pay for mail to pay for ground game to hire people. So you ended up with Scott Walker raising $125 million. Jeb Bush raising $125 million. So now you have an Inter party fight amongst among the people. Walker and Bush, who can raise the most money. Walker could do it cause he was a governor. He had lots of contacts and he could do it. Bush could do it cause he was a Bush. And the point here is that system was meant to drive out the Ben Carsons and anybody else who was grassroots cause they couldn’t raise $100 million. They couldn’t stay in long enough.
And Trump was the guy that shattered that.
Though here we are, to today. And Nikki Haley won. I think she won. What did she win? He he won by 20%, but she won 35 or 40% of the voters. In in, in in South Carolina. Why? Because they’re not Republican. Because it’s a a corrupt system. And remember what I said. The system has all this money for television, for social media, for consultants. All this money. Do you know what they have to have is they have to have the race keep going as long as they can. They gotta have a horse race because they got to have coverage so they can earn their money. They got, they want, they they want you to. Think that there’s a real race so that you will stay tuned. For Michigan this week and next week, Super Tuesday and all this.
It’s a totally broken system and only because of Trump did we see someone who didn’t come out of the system completely. Which brings me to the future.
No matter what, I would say, Donald Trump will not be a candidate for president in 2028, at which time we will back, be back to, unless something changes within the RNC, within the Republican system, we’ll be back to a process where you need a candidate who can raise 125, a $150 million to compete in the first. 4, 5, 6, 7 races. And so you say, who can do that? Only people who are in office as a governor, only people who are in office as a senator and only people who are independently wealthy, think Bloomberg. But they’re not that good at running. They’re actually just not that good at it. They want to be good at it. They want to buy it. They can’t do it. And it just doesn’t usually work. Try again. Trump’s an exception. Ross Perot was an exception.
So my challenge to you all is to realize, OK, and I’m happy Trump won that primary. I want that to be over. I want it to be head-to-head. The Biden policies versus what we had under Trump. Let’s vote on the policies. Let’s vote on how it feels to contrast to two. But what I am telling you is the American people are we’re headed to in 2028, a very troubling election cycle, unless there’s some sort of changes and the changes actually are hard to picture because you don’t want to make it so on. You know, there’s a limit on what people can spend. I think you don’t want to because the the liars will go around that, only people that are law abiders and rule abiders will abide by that. Generally conservatives and Republicans, and they’ll be beaten by the the cheaters and the and the game players, right? The people who will play around the games, around the rules. So I don’t know if we have a good solution yet, but I know that’s what’s coming and I think that any serious effort to reform The Republican Party. Should start with changing the primary system for present. Will it? I have my doubts again because the people who get paid lots of consultants, lots of media types, lots of of special interests, they, they, they, they, they pride themselves on knowing how that system works and when Donald Trump, if Donald Trump’s elected president, he’s not going to want to use his political capital. I don’t think to fix a broken party because he doesn’t need it. If he was in. In his first term of two, he’d want to fix it. I think he’ll use his political capital to try to govern the country. That’s where he’ll have his fights and I think that’s why it’s unlikely. Seems really unlikely that we’re going to see a significant change in how things are done. That’s just my instinct, but that’s what I’m saying to you, that’s what you. Need, what you Need to know is Trump won in a corrupt prime race System and what’s going to come in the future will be a continuingly and the system is corrupt. It’s and the system is set up to work the way it works and that’s corrupt. So we’ll see if there’s any way to break that. Alright, that’s what you need to know today. That’s the WYNK.
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