Kamala Harris was an unmitigated disaster in her first-ever interview with Bret Baier and Fox News on Wednesday night. What will her obsession with Trump, and failure to introduce herself to a new audience, mean down the stretch of her campaign?
George Mumma, Jr., GOP candidate for the 25th house district in the Colorado General Assembly, joins Ryan to discuss his pivotal race in Colorado's 25th House District against incumbent Rep. Tammy Story (D). Story narrowly defeated incumbent Rep. Colin Larson (R) by a 719-vote margin (49.7-48.3) in 2022.
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Robyn Carnes, GOP candidate for Colorado Senate (16), joins Ryan to discuss the state of her campaign with under 20 days remaining in the 2024 campaign.
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George Mumma, Jr., GOP candidate for the 25th house district in the Colorado General Assembly, joins Ryan to discuss his pivotal race in Colorado's 25th House District against incumbent Rep. Tammy Story (D). Story narrowly defeated incumbent Rep. Colin Larson (R) by a 719-vote margin (49.7-48.3) in 2022.
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Robyn Carnes, GOP candidate for Colorado Senate (16), joins Ryan to discuss the state of her campaign with under 20 days remaining in the 2024 campaign.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You called Donald Trump, called Donald Trump, he's misguided.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
You say, now he's.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
Unstable, he's not well, you say he's mentally not stable.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
Let me ask you this, And you.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Told me many interviewers that Joe Biden was on his game,
that ran around circles on his staff. When did you
first notice that President Biden's mental faculties appeared diminished?
Speaker 3 (00:25):
One?
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Two Joe Biden. I have watched from the Oval office
to the situation room, and he has the judgment, the experiment,
and experience to do exactly what he has done and
making very important decisions on behalf of the American people concerns.
Joe Biden is not on the ballot Donald Trump. Donald
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Trump didn't talk about it.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
And Donald Donald Trump within.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
A few minutes of talking to President Biden at a
fundraiser that he thought, this was not the same Joe
Biden that we saw on.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
The debate day. Much is on the bow.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
I understand you met with him at least once a
week for three and a half years.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
You didn't have any concerns.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
I think the American people have a concern about Donald Trump.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Oh my god.
Speaker 5 (01:13):
This was a calamity politically, otherwise personally, her political career,
all that down the tubes. Now, I'm not going to
say it's the make or break. This has been nineteen
sixty eight on steroids. We've had the sitting president of
the United States step down like LBJ that year. We've
got a Bobby Kennedy in the race senior back then junior.
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This time around he endorses Trump. We've had an assassination attempt,
not one, but two against one of the major candidates,
Donald Trump, thankfully not successful. This has been the craziest
election year since nineteen sixty eight and possibly including nineteen
sixty eight. There are a lot of parallels, a lot
of similarities, but for Kamala Harris to act like she
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can just walk in as the anointed one, never be challenged,
and have Brett Bair do the job that he did
and thank God that he did it, and expect that
she was going to walk out of there triumphantly. I mean,
they're trying to spin this that way, her handlers, the
Democratic operatives on the left.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
The mainstream media.
Speaker 5 (02:13):
I know, I repeat myself, there's no explaining this away.
She invoked the name of Donald Trump, what was it,
Kelly seventy three times in twenty seven minutes something along
those lines.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
I heard fifty six. Okay, a little bit lower then,
but even so.
Speaker 6 (02:27):
Yeah, it was it's more than two a minute. It
was atrocious. It was a complete butt kicking whatever you know,
adjitive you want to use it, it was.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
It was terrible.
Speaker 5 (02:40):
Well, it was terrible, but I thought it was exceptional
on the part of Brett Baar. And I know he's
taken a lot of heat for the call in Arizona,
for his general reporting on an anchoring on his own show.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
And I know Kelly's not a big fan.
Speaker 5 (02:55):
I would say I'm more of a fan of Bear
than maybe the average listener out there.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
I respect. I think he does a great job.
Speaker 5 (03:02):
He doesn't get into punditry or opinion hosting like I do,
like Jesse Waters does, like Sean Hannity, like Laura Ingram.
That's not his role and he recognizes that. But I
do believe he asked all the right questions basically in
the right order and what he was getting from her.
And I can relate on some level to this. A
guest that is just not going to give you a
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direct answer. You ask a yes or no question. You
want a yes or no answer. You ask a question
about numbers like immigrants, like he did early in this interview,
and she will spin away.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
From it and not give you a direct answer.
Speaker 5 (03:35):
The way to do this, the exemplary way that I
think is on the highest.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
Level is jd Vance.
Speaker 5 (03:42):
Jd Vance will answer the question and then he'll get
into his talking points that will support that. He's very
organized in his thought process. He doesn't need crib notes
or any kind of coaching. He is really a wonder
kind in the American political landscape. The opposite that was
Kamala Harris last night. You could spend, you can doddle,
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you can wander, but you've got to come back. You
gotta do the weave like Donald Trump does. Okay, I'm
gonna say this, but I'm gonna come back and then
I'm gonna give you an answer. She never kind came
back to give the answer. And further to that point,
the constraints of this interview were mind boggling for Brett
behar The team team Harris arrived late, disrespectful, unprofessional. Then
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they tried to talk down from half an hour to
maybe twenty minutes. Brettbar pushed on that and he got
I think twenty seven out of it, Kamala Harris. If
she was winning this interview, there is no chance in
hell any of those four handlers would be waving their
arms the way that Brett behar described them doing, saying.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
Stop the fight, stop the fight. We're throwing in the top,
throw the dead tow.
Speaker 5 (04:55):
If she was cruising, if she was cooking, they would
have They should have. They would have been like, oh,
let her go, she's doing great, she's on Fox News.
She's killing it. She was not killing it. Had she been,
they would.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Want it to go for an hour, hour and a half.
Speaker 5 (05:10):
That's just not the facts of the matter as it
was happening in real time.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
It was a disaster, and it was a hal Mary.
Speaker 5 (05:17):
Passed that they had to throw back to this issue.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
About Joe Biden. She kept trying to make it about
Donald Trump.
Speaker 5 (05:23):
And I was swearing when I was going back and
watching this, it's not about blank and Donald Trump. He
asked you about Joe Biden. I don't care about Donald Trump.
I would even go so far. Obviously, I've got a
lot more rougher edges than Brett bar Sharper elbows, But
I think I conduct my interviews respectfully, especially if there's
a Democrat candidate.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
Let's say Tricia Calvarezy comes on.
Speaker 5 (05:46):
Typically, because I have a broader latitude, Tricia.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Doesn't come to me and go, I can only do
five minutes. Ryan.
Speaker 5 (05:54):
No, she's grateful to come on and I spend all
the time I want with her, and I feel that way,
So the method of my questioning will be a little
bit different. But when there's not the basic respect of
answering the question asked, and you're trying to make it
all about it's not about Donald Trump. We know Donald Trump.
We either love them or we hate them, or there's
nothing new to discover about Donald Trump. And in particular,
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this was stupid on her part. If she's trying to
sway undecided voters. Undecided voters know everything they need to know,
and even some stuff they.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Don't want to know about Donald Trump. They don't know
about her.
Speaker 5 (06:30):
And this is what led to Brett Behars just coupde
gras at the end of this interview. It was delicious,
it was brilliant, it was magical, it was beautiful.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Matter Vice President, they're wrapping me very hard here. I
hope you got to say what she wanted to say
about Donald Trump.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
There are a lot of things.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
There are a lot of things that people want to
learn about you and your policies, and that's why I.
Speaker 7 (06:52):
Invite everyone to go to Kamala Harris dot com and
you will see that I have eighty pay of policies
that are quite comprehensive and should be accessible to anyone
who would like to read them.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
You absolute moron.
Speaker 5 (07:09):
If I was on her team, I'd be calling her
that I would have gotten fired last night, you idiot.
Nobody in the right mind that's a casual voter who
happened to catch this interview is going to go online,
look up ninety pages of policy sift and read through
that crap.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
You had your chance last night. That was your opportunity.
Speaker 5 (07:34):
The goal should have been, I'm going to clarify and
crystallize the points of my plan so it's easy to
understand for the average viewer and voter out there. You
don't just go, I'll go check out my website. But
you know why she did that, because she cannot articulate
her policy points the way that jd Vance does, or
even that Donald Trump does in his roundabout weaving way.
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She couldn't do it, she can't do it, and therefore
she won't do it, and she didn't do it. That
is the most egregiously weak punt I've ever seen in
an interview setting.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
She owed it to her own base.
Speaker 5 (08:15):
If you're a dedicated leftist and you want her to win,
that answer should piss you the blank off. You don't
just say I'll go check out my website. No, the
very point and purpose that you're sitting down there in
a hostile interview setting, the only one that you've ever done,
or probably will ever do, is to convince people who
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might not otherwise vote for you to do so. Spell
out in a text if you watch this interview last
night five seven, seven, three nine, what did Kamala Harris
say last night to an undecided, unaffiliated, moderate, middle of
the road voter that gave them a reason to vote
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for her? And I'm telling you right now, there wasn't one.
It was all I'm not Donald Trump. Well that's well
and good, dufus, we knew that. What alternative are you
presenting to the Donald Trump option? Why are you preferable
to him? Give specific and detailed reason in essay form.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
She can't do the assignment.
Speaker 5 (09:28):
She's been floating by her entire life on privilege, ironically enough,
the privilege of shacking up and being the mistress of
Willy Brown, one of the most influential men in California
politics going back to San Francisco in those days. But
for Willie Brown. We don't know Kamala Harris's name, We
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don't know who she is. We still don't know who
she is, not really, but the only reason we were
even aware of her is because Willie Brown launched her career.
Doubt me, prove me wrong, show me the evidence that
would counter otherwise that without Willie Brown, she'd have any
political career at all, because she wouldn't. And you know
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I'm right, and that is a big reason, along with
last night, why she is going to lose lots of
interviews today. I got a lot to get to and
a lot of ground to cover. And it's about candidates,
but it's also about ballot initiatives. And I've been really
going back and forth on some of these, and one
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in particular has divided people that are typically on our
side of the aisle the right, and that is the
ranked choice voting. One of the more influential members of
that proposal Dick Wadhams will be coming up in our
number two to start that hour. It's Proposition one thirty one.
I have severe doubts about this, and as of now
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I'm a very hard no on Prop thirty one. But
Dick Wadhams, they've been listed his services to promote this proposal,
and we'll get his take on that coming up an
hour number two. Right now, you can check out more
about his campaign. We want to focus on the local
races as well. Help georgewin dot com. It's just that simple.
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It's George Mama Junior and he's running for the pivotal
twenty fifth House district in the Colorado General Assembly. We
are looking to add to the Mighty nineteen. They've done
a phenomenal job at the state Capitol, but they need
reinforcements and George is the help that could be on
the way if you live in the twenty fifth district.
He joins us now once again that website help George
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win dot com. George, thank you once again for joining
me in for your time.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
Thanks for having me Ryan, I appreciate it absolutely.
Speaker 5 (11:49):
Now, just to illustrate those that missed our conversation earlier,
this election cycle. It's been a couple of months now,
but what District twenty five is the area that it encompasses,
what voters should be looking for on their ballots with.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
Your name, Ryan.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
District runs from I seventy south of Deckers and basically
from Pine Junction out to the east to Wadsworth. It
jockey's around in there a little bit because of the redistricting.
So I've got the mountain folks and the flatlanders out
is what I call them.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
And they all have their.
Speaker 4 (12:20):
Own unique little problems, but the common denominator right now
with all folks that are calling me and for those
that are listening, I hear you and I appreciate your call.
So the economy's huge, prime the roads, schools, and up
in the hills they're concerned about being able to get
home insurance. So those are the biggies for me right now.
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And being their voice, being.
Speaker 5 (12:44):
Their voice, George, and them being your voice with their
vote coming up, that's so important.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
This is a district that could easily flip.
Speaker 5 (12:53):
Last time around in twenty twenty two, which was a
very good election cycle for Democrats in this state. In particular,
Donald Trump wasn't on the ballot. He is this time
around that should help turn out a lot of Republican voters.
But this was a very narrowly decided race that Representative
Tammy's story. The Democrat won over incumbent Republican Colin Larson
by just seven hundred and nineteen votes and by just
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one point four percentage points two years ago. What has changed,
George in the landscape in this race that you feel
will tip the scales in your favor.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
Well, the public here, the constituents and house cis are
twenty five where I've lived my whole life. They want
a voice downtown and stories not providing them. That voice
doesn't return phone calls, doesn't answer the phone, doesn't return emails.
I've been a voice for this community my whole career.
I did forty five years as a law enforcement officer
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in this county and retired to the chief of police.
And the public wants a voice. They want someone that
takes their concerns downtown and gets them addressed. And that's
what I'm about, and that's what my record looks like
right now.
Speaker 5 (14:01):
Help out his campaign. You can find out more details.
You can contribute as well down this stretch run. As
we have under twenty days to go. Can you believe
that nineteen days as of today? Help georgewin dot com.
It's easy to remember if you live in that twenty
fifth house district. I highly encourage you to check out
that website now, George, with this amount of time remaining,
I just want to reflect and get caught up on
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the campaign as you have seen it to this point.
You mentioned that Tammy's story is usually unavailable maybe to
her constituents as well as those that are trying to
reach out to her from the media. Have you had
an opportunity, whether it's a debate or personally with a
town hall, any kind of interaction with her and her
campaign for the voters to decide on.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
Well, not at all. I will tell you that they
have attacked me pretty well since last Saturday. You know,
my opponent wants to distract everybody with abortion scares, and
that's not in my wheelhouse. I can't help with that.
That was decided before my time and don't know why
that's the direction they want to go. My concern is
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public safety, affordability, education, our owth. That's what my constituents want.
So I'm hoping that they're paying attention in my background,
my history, and what I've done, and not about the
craziness that the story campaign has been putting out there.
Speaker 5 (15:16):
George Mamma Junior here is the GOP candidate in Colorado
House District twenty five. I think it's telling, though, George,
if that's the only card they're trying to play against you,
Abortion a matter that's been returned to the states, and
here in Colorado, a state that has one of the
most extreme liberal abortion laws on the books, this seems
like a red herring by them.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
Well, I agree with you on Matt. It's a little
alarming that that's the message. I'm concerned about addressing these
issues that directly affect these folks, and the economy's killing
them right now, and by what we've done with law
enforcement here in the state, dumbing everything down, making it
difficult to hire law enforcement offsters, causing these grocery stores
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to bump the prizes because they can't get a report made,
so they got to get paid back to all these
pieces come back into playing that affects the constituents. That's
what they want fixed.
Speaker 5 (16:09):
Formerly of the Littleton Police Department and George, we appreciate
your service and public safety in that regard, and I
know that is in your wheelhouse, that is your focus.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
I just want to get.
Speaker 5 (16:18):
Your take because I had a rare opportunity for an
exclusive interview with Cindy Romero, who of course gained national
headlines with her excruciating experience in Aurora and dealing with
gang members from Trendy Arragua in Venezuela. And there's a
lot more layers to the onion of this story as
far as whether or not the mayor of Denver, Mike Johnston,
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the governor Jared Polis may have conspired to send a
lot of illegals from Denver to Aurora. Are you noticing
that kind of spillover effect into your district and what
kind of safeguards would you want to put in place
if you're elected.
Speaker 4 (16:53):
Well, it always comes to the West End. It hasn't
made it quite that far yet, but we are seeing
the auto sets which is causing issues here in twenty
five and again, be dumbed down. The judicial process took
felonies made of misdemeanors. So if there's no consequences for
the folks committing the crimes, which is exactly what's going on,
in Aurora. Then this type of behavior continues and will
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exacerbate itself and cause my votes a whole bunch of
problems here. So we've got to get back down into
the capital and get this stuff solved up front so
that the constituents don't have to deal with it and
the economy can stabilize a little bit.
Speaker 5 (17:31):
Final question, George, appreciate your time as always, and we're
wishing you the best of luck. And that is the
stark differences. You've kind of pronounced your candidacy based on
law and order, that's your background. You're talking about the
economy that is a red button issue, especially for those
of us. Cost of living here in Colorado and the
Metro Denver area. What changes day one if you're elected
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in terms of voting and what you're seeking to make
happen for your constituents if it's you instead of Tammy Story.
Speaker 4 (18:00):
Oh, Ryan, I'm a common sense guy. I've been collaborative
my whole career. I have an open door policy I
did as a chief of police. My people were free
to come in and talk to me. The only thing
I asked of those that come is have an end game.
If you're going to bring me a policy change that
you want us to talk about. I want to know
how it's going to look all the way down the
road so that my constituents don't get beat up in
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the end. And that would be what I'd have to
say to anybody that wants to come and talk to
me when I get down there.
Speaker 5 (18:29):
He is George Mama Junior, the GOP candidate for the
pivotal House District twenty five in the Colorado General Assembly,
looking to unseat incumbent Democrat Representative Tammy's story and I
can't stress this enough. If you can get to his website,
help him out. Every little bit counts. Help georgewind dot com.
If you live in the twenty fifth and you're looking
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for change, Hey, this is your guy, George Mama Junior. George,
always appreciate your time. Best of luck down the stretch
over these last nineteen days. Thanks Ryan, Talk to you soon,
George Mama Junior. He's a candidate for the House. And
when we come back, Robin Carnes, she's the GOP candidate
running for the sixteenth district of the Senate. After this
on Ryan Schuling Live, Oh that's right. Ryan Schuling Live
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back with you and our next guest that songs a
little bit of a clue, I would say, she's looking
to rock the vote. Rock and Robin Robin Carnes. You
can find out more online. Carnes for Colorado c A
R n Ees fo r Colorado dot com. She is
running for the State Senate in the sixteenth district as
the Republican candidate there.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
Robin, welcome, Ryan, thank you.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
I love it.
Speaker 8 (19:40):
I love that song, and you bet I am looking
to rock the vote.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
And you've done this. Robin.
Speaker 5 (19:46):
I've known you for some time, but working as a
communications director for Michael Donaldhill, I always fought felt was
a very intriguing candidate, and then also Paul Archer for
state House as well. Can you kind of connect the
dots for listeners there? What took you from that role
to running for office yourself?
Speaker 8 (20:04):
Oh, such a such a great question. Well, I want
to start with actually the fact that I decided to
run for and I won my city council race back
in twenty twenty one, and once I got a taste
of local government and realized we need good people in
these types of seats because it impacts everything that we
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do at the local level, and so I thought, I've
got to learn, and I'd like to learn through other
people's experiences versus on my own dime. Let's be real,
a lot of times folks run for too high of
office too quickly without any experience. So yes, I had
the opportunity to help Mike o'donald, which he approached me,
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and I thought, what the heck, let's give it a shot.
He was a terrific candidate. Then also Paul Archer, and
I try to immerse myself in, you know, being part
of House district races and secretary of State and I
helped a little bit with the governor's race and school
of board racism. The only one I hadn't touched was
a state Senate race, and so you learn. I mean,
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the basics of campaigning are the same whether you're running
for a local office or whether you're running for you know,
something much higher. And I really immerse myself because I
feel called to government. I hate politics, but politics is
a pathway to get to government. And so how do
you do that. You've got to jump in and learn,
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and you know, not be afraid to do the hard work.
And that's what I've done so as far as how
that comes to this situation. I was asked Ryan, I
didn't just dream this up, but I was approached about
a year and a half ago about this potential, which
seems like a jump, you know, to go from local
city council to a state senate race. But when doors
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open and other doors close, you take the opportunity. It's
a tremendous win win regardless because of the learning and
the relationships that are involved. So that's really kind of
what brought me to this place. In addition to the
fact that you know, Rome is burning Colorado's new crisis.
I have a husband in law enforcement. He sees it
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day in and day out. I have two boys, middle
school and high school, and we can either sit on
the sidelines and live in fear and frustration or choose
to jump in and do something about it. And so
that's what I'm doing.
Speaker 5 (22:24):
That's Robin with a y Carns and you can find
out more about her campaign at Carns for Colorado dot com.
That's the sixteenth Senate District and Robin, as you know,
I'm a nerd, so I went to the maps of
the Senate district and the history of this district and
It's very fascinating, especially recently. A Democrat, Jene Nicholson was
in there in twenty ten, and then Tim Neville, a Republican,
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unseated her in twenty fourteen. Come twenty eighteen, Tammy Story
defeats tim Neville. She is now in a different district.
We just talked to George Mama running against her, and
now you're going head to head with incumbent Democrat Chris Kolker.
But the real twist to me when I look at
the map of what this district represents, it has changed
perhaps as much or more than any other Senate district
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in the state of Colorado. Can you walk us through
that change of what it means for the district and
the people in it.
Speaker 8 (23:15):
Absolutely so. Senate District sixteen encompasses Centennial, primarily Central and
Western Centennial, Littleton, and also Columbine Valley and Kim Carroll
Valley made its home to over one hundred and thirty
three thousand people, and in it was actually redistricts two
years ago, which means that the current incumbent didn't actually
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win that seat, so the other side sees it as
an open seat. In fact, they told me this early
on and that's why there was a real opportunity in
that redistricting process. It gained sixteen precincts all in Jeffco,
which are heavily conservative. So now, if you look at
the makeup the numbers of the district, fifty percent where iyan,
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that's five zero of registered voters are unaffiliates and we
have twenty six percent which are registered Republicans and then
twenty four percent which are registered Democrats, so a slight
Republican lead. However, I think that five zero number, the
fifty percent of unaffiliates or independence is really interesting. I
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my personal perspective is that many folks are fed up
with the extremes. They are not happy with right or left.
They want to simply move forward. So we have this
purple camp. And that's really what I've tried to embrace
and simply carry from my city council position, because, as
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you know, city council's non part of them. So when
I ran in twenty twenty one, I did not have
an are behind my name, and I have to tell
you it is resonating with voters. As I'm going door
to door, they're just they're so frustrated. I'll say you
know what keeps you up at night, or or anything
that would be helpful for me to know, And nine
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times out of ten there's just frustration about what's going
on in our country. In fact, what I really am
trying to impress upon voters is, regardless of what's happening
at the national level, which gets all the attention, let's
talk is on the local stuff, because that's really what
impacts your life day in and day out. I always
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say your neighborhood impacts your city and county and state
and nation world. So starting for me at the local,
non partisan on the local, non partisan city council, to me,
is a tremendous benefit.
Speaker 5 (25:40):
Robin Karns, the GOP candidate Senate District sixteen, joining us
on the ballot. If you live there, obviously, make sure
to vote for her. And you're talking about bridging the
gaps in Robin and my experience. So, I live in
a district just adjacent to the one you're running in,
and my senator is Jeff Bridges, who I would consider
fairly a moderate Democrat. However big however, I am very
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alarmed that he did not stand up to members of
his own party, and we saw this happen Robin dragging
the General Assembly far to the left beyond any kind
of realm of what do you consider traditionally liberal, And
I think that has to resonate as a concern among
the constituents you hope to represent.
Speaker 3 (26:20):
So what, in your mind are.
Speaker 5 (26:22):
Those kind of bridge issues that you feel bring people together,
that bring unaffiliateds on board, that you're hearing about in
your campaign.
Speaker 8 (26:30):
Yeah, well, you know, the Centennial Citizen just put an
article out a month ago and they asked voters, what
what are most important to you right now? What's most important?
The number one issue was balanced government and good governance. Okay,
second was the high cost of living in affordability, and
then the third, believe it or not, was immigration. So
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these are the variety of voters that you know, weighed
in on this, and I think we have to start
at that, at that sort of not bipartisan, I should
say level. And you know, this is kind of my perspective.
Balance governments is the best governments. And right now, I
mean I saw that I experienced in that serving on
Centennial City Council, and right now, single party control has
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made our state unaffordable. It has deteriorated our business climates
and has since you know, our kids to other states
to raise their families, and so this is not the
Colorado you know many of us want to deserve. We
don't need blind loyalty to one a political party. I
think what voters want is someone who's a fierce independent voice,
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who has a commitment to making government work for the
people right and as someone on city council, I have
already been doing that. It's why I'm running, in fact,
a purple campaign. You take red plus blue typically Democrats Republicans,
you get the color purple. It's the color of champions.
I want to be that champion for Colorado. So we
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have to start, especially Ryan, because we just learned a
few days ago, we're starting this state legislature session with
a nine hundred million dollars shortfall, I mean nine hundred million,
and so this is not the time for partisan politics,
which by the way, has been plaguing you know, our states.
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We are politically unbalanced. We've got complex issues, and right
now with the political layout, we can't even have these
diverse discussions because there's one sort of monopoly. And I'll
just I'll share this as well, which listeners have to
understand in the Senate, which already exists in the House,
we are facing a super minority, which means that if
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we lose one seat in the Senate this election November five,
and I believe that's the seat I'm running hard for.
If we lose that, we will have one party and
all of their political ideas in charge of absolutely everything,
so that even the governor, even the governor, whether you
love him or lose him, she will lose beat of power.
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And so that's pretty startling, it is.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
And there's a way to remedy it.
Speaker 5 (29:17):
If you live in the western part of Centennial into Littleton,
the Columbine Valley and all the way west to Ken
Carroll along that four to seventy corridor. There you are
in the sixteenth Senate district, and that is the seat
that Robin Carnes is running for as a Republican but
a unifying force as you've heard there, And in order
to find out more about her campaign, you can go
online Carnes for Colorado dot com.
Speaker 3 (29:39):
That's with a C.
Speaker 5 (29:39):
Carnes c ar n E S four f O R
Colorado dot com. Robincarnes, great catching up with you, so
happy for your campaign and over these last nineteen days,
wishing you the very best and let's ride it out
to victory.
Speaker 4 (29:54):
You bet we will.
Speaker 8 (29:55):
Thank you, Ryan, thanks for having fun.
Speaker 5 (29:57):
Absolutely, Robin Carnes joining us there, so local politics angles
issues being covered. We'll get into some of the ballot
proposals coming up in our number two with Dick Wadhams
on the ranked choice voting. That's Prop one thirty one.
And then also my good friend George Brockler Props one
twenty eight and one thirty those have to do with
law enforcement parole eligibility.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
We'll get his take on that.
Speaker 5 (30:20):
He is running for district attorney in the twenty first
newly formed district south of here in Douglas County. So
still plenty to get to. And oh, by the way,
Carlos Mencia, the comedian, Yeah him, he's joining me an
hour two. He's coming to comedy work South and we
have more about that. We come back after this Ryan
schuling live on six point thirty KF and now deep
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thoughts by Vice President Kamala Harris.
Speaker 9 (30:54):
We have been clear in multiple conversations and in every
way that any major military operation in Rafa would be
a huge mistake. Let me tell you something. I have
studied the maps. There's nowhere for those folks to go.
And we're looking at about a million and a half
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people in Rafa who are there because they were told
to go there, most of them. And so we've been
very clear that it would be a mistake to move
into Rafa with any type of military operation, a mistake.
Speaker 3 (31:27):
But would there be consequences if he.
Speaker 4 (31:30):
Does move forward?
Speaker 9 (31:31):
Well, we're going to take it one step at a time,
but we've been very clear in terms of our perspective
on whether or not that can happen.
Speaker 8 (31:37):
Are you ruling out that there would be consequences from
the United States?
Speaker 7 (31:40):
I am ruling out nothing.
Speaker 5 (31:44):
Kamal Harris deep thoughts and that from March of this year,
so six months ago, a freezing cold take on potential
Israel military action in Rafa, which he was cautioning.
Speaker 3 (31:58):
And advising against.
Speaker 5 (32:00):
And just today Yaya Sinwar, the leader of Hamas, was
smoked out of his hole and turned into a million bits.
They needed dental records to identify him, and the IDF
took him out. And that's a good thing for the world,
for Israel, And despite Kamala Harris's worst efforts the United
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States that pro hamas apparently reporter kept pressing her. Will
there be consequences for bb net Yahoo if he invades Rafa?
If they do a military action in Rafa. Joe Biden,
you might remember, threatened to withhold military aid to Israel
if they engaged in such a mission. Seems to be
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a little quid pro quo. I seem to remember a
certain Orange president being impeached for such a military withdrawal.
Withholding quid pro quo, Benjamin Net Yahoo and Israel deserve
deserve our steadfast support, our trust in their judgment that
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they are engaging in military operations that are in their
best interests. They're people's best interests and the best interests
of the Western world. Unlike Ukraine, Israel is an ally.
Speaker 3 (33:15):
Of the United States. Ukraine is not in NATO.
Speaker 5 (33:18):
They are not officially an ally of ours. The enemy
of my enemy is my friend, applies to them. Russia
would be considered a geopolitical adversary, but Ukraine technically is
not an ally, and certainly not an ally in the
way that Israel is. Israel has been our strongest ally
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in the post World War two era. Perhaps compared to
any other nation, but certainly on the level of Great
Britain and France. When we have engaged in military endeavors
overseas Operation Desert Storm, Israel has lent their support and
I think we owe that to them in return.
Speaker 3 (33:59):
Today was a very good day.
Speaker 5 (34:01):
Yaya Sinwar is dead, and if we continue with Kamala
Harris's foreign policy, it would not have happened. And I
think she made some kind of public statement, you know,
calling for a ceasefire. She has since very much moderated
her stance on Israel. I think that's a calculation. She's
actually been much better on this issue than Joe Biden.
Speaker 3 (34:21):
Quite frankly, but the.
Speaker 5 (34:23):
Best friend Israel's ever had in the Oval office is
Donald J.
Speaker 3 (34:26):
Trump.
Speaker 5 (34:27):
He actually moved the embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem
after many presidents promised to, and that those promises were
left empty. Donald Trump is a strong advocate for Israel,
but he's smart about it in not wanting to get
overly involved from a United States military perspective. But is
he going to let Israel do the job of winning
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the war and ending this thing? Because the only end
of this comes at the complete and total destruction and
defeat of Hamas. There's no negotiating with terrorists or terrorist
organizations that would do what Hamas did. On October seventh,
Dick Wadham straight ahead ranked choice voting will see where
he stands
You called Donald Trump, called Donald Trump, he's misguided.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
You say, now he's.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
Unstable, he's not well, you say he's mentally not stable.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
Let me ask you this, And you.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Told me many interviewers that Joe Biden was on his game,
that ran around circles on his staff. When did you
first notice that President Biden's mental faculties appeared diminished?
Speaker 3 (00:25):
One?
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Two Joe Biden. I have watched from the Oval office
to the situation room, and he has the judgment, the experiment,
and experience to do exactly what he has done and
making very important decisions on behalf of the American people concerns.
Joe Biden is not on the ballot Donald Trump. Donald
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Trump didn't talk about it.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
And Donald Donald Trump within.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
A few minutes of talking to President Biden at a
fundraiser that he thought, this was not the same Joe
Biden that we saw on.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
The debate day. Much is on the bow.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
I understand you met with him at least once a
week for three and a half years.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
You didn't have any concerns.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
I think the American people have a concern about Donald Trump.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Oh my god.
Speaker 5 (01:13):
This was a calamity politically, otherwise personally, her political career,
all that down the tubes. Now, I'm not going to
say it's the make or break. This has been nineteen
sixty eight on steroids. We've had the sitting president of
the United States step down like LBJ that year. We've
got a Bobby Kennedy in the race senior back then junior.
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This time around he endorses Trump. We've had an assassination attempt,
not one, but two against one of the major candidates,
Donald Trump, thankfully not successful. This has been the craziest
election year since nineteen sixty eight and possibly including nineteen
sixty eight. There are a lot of parallels, a lot
of similarities, but for Kamala Harris to act like she
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can just walk in as the anointed one, never be challenged,
and have Brett Bair do the job that he did
and thank God that he did it, and expect that
she was going to walk out of there triumphantly. I mean,
they're trying to spin this that way, her handlers, the
Democratic operatives on the left.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
The mainstream media.
Speaker 5 (02:13):
I know, I repeat myself, there's no explaining this away.
She invoked the name of Donald Trump, what was it,
Kelly seventy three times in twenty seven minutes something along
those lines.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
I heard fifty six. Okay, a little bit lower then,
but even so.
Speaker 6 (02:27):
Yeah, it was it's more than two a minute. It
was atrocious. It was a complete butt kicking whatever you know,
adjitive you want to use it, it was.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
It was terrible.
Speaker 5 (02:40):
Well, it was terrible, but I thought it was exceptional
on the part of Brett Baar. And I know he's
taken a lot of heat for the call in Arizona,
for his general reporting on an anchoring on his own show.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
And I know Kelly's not a big fan.
Speaker 5 (02:55):
I would say I'm more of a fan of Bear
than maybe the average listener out there.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
I respect. I think he does a great job.
Speaker 5 (03:02):
He doesn't get into punditry or opinion hosting like I do,
like Jesse Waters does, like Sean Hannity, like Laura Ingram.
That's not his role and he recognizes that. But I
do believe he asked all the right questions basically in
the right order and what he was getting from her.
And I can relate on some level to this. A
guest that is just not going to give you a
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direct answer. You ask a yes or no question. You
want a yes or no answer. You ask a question
about numbers like immigrants, like he did early in this interview,
and she will spin away.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
From it and not give you a direct answer.
Speaker 5 (03:35):
The way to do this, the exemplary way that I
think is on the highest.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
Level is jd Vance.
Speaker 5 (03:42):
Jd Vance will answer the question and then he'll get
into his talking points that will support that. He's very
organized in his thought process. He doesn't need crib notes
or any kind of coaching. He is really a wonder
kind in the American political landscape. The opposite that was
Kamala Harris last night. You could spend, you can doddle,
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you can wander, but you've got to come back. You
gotta do the weave like Donald Trump does. Okay, I'm
gonna say this, but I'm gonna come back and then
I'm gonna give you an answer. She never kind came
back to give the answer. And further to that point,
the constraints of this interview were mind boggling for Brett
behar The team team Harris arrived late, disrespectful, unprofessional. Then
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they tried to talk down from half an hour to
maybe twenty minutes. Brettbar pushed on that and he got
I think twenty seven out of it, Kamala Harris. If
she was winning this interview, there is no chance in
hell any of those four handlers would be waving their
arms the way that Brett behar described them doing, saying.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
Stop the fight, stop the fight. We're throwing in the top,
throw the dead tow.
Speaker 5 (04:55):
If she was cruising, if she was cooking, they would
have They should have. They would have been like, oh,
let her go, she's doing great, she's on Fox News.
She's killing it. She was not killing it. Had she been,
they would.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Want it to go for an hour, hour and a half.
Speaker 5 (05:10):
That's just not the facts of the matter as it
was happening in real time.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
It was a disaster, and it was a hal Mary.
Speaker 5 (05:17):
Passed that they had to throw back to this issue.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
About Joe Biden. She kept trying to make it about
Donald Trump.
Speaker 5 (05:23):
And I was swearing when I was going back and
watching this, it's not about blank and Donald Trump. He
asked you about Joe Biden. I don't care about Donald Trump.
I would even go so far. Obviously, I've got a
lot more rougher edges than Brett bar Sharper elbows, But
I think I conduct my interviews respectfully, especially if there's
a Democrat candidate.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
Let's say Tricia Calvarezy comes on.
Speaker 5 (05:46):
Typically, because I have a broader latitude, Tricia.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Doesn't come to me and go, I can only do
five minutes. Ryan.
Speaker 5 (05:54):
No, she's grateful to come on and I spend all
the time I want with her, and I feel that way,
So the method of my questioning will be a little
bit different. But when there's not the basic respect of
answering the question asked, and you're trying to make it
all about it's not about Donald Trump. We know Donald Trump.
We either love them or we hate them, or there's
nothing new to discover about Donald Trump. And in particular,
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this was stupid on her part. If she's trying to
sway undecided voters. Undecided voters know everything they need to know,
and even some stuff they.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Don't want to know about Donald Trump. They don't know
about her.
Speaker 5 (06:30):
And this is what led to Brett Behars just coupde
gras at the end of this interview. It was delicious,
it was brilliant, it was magical, it was beautiful.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Matter Vice President, they're wrapping me very hard here. I
hope you got to say what she wanted to say
about Donald Trump.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
There are a lot of things.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
There are a lot of things that people want to
learn about you and your policies, and that's why I.
Speaker 7 (06:52):
Invite everyone to go to Kamala Harris dot com and
you will see that I have eighty pay of policies
that are quite comprehensive and should be accessible to anyone
who would like to read them.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
You absolute moron.
Speaker 5 (07:09):
If I was on her team, I'd be calling her
that I would have gotten fired last night, you idiot.
Nobody in the right mind that's a casual voter who
happened to catch this interview is going to go online,
look up ninety pages of policy sift and read through
that crap.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
You had your chance last night. That was your opportunity.
Speaker 5 (07:34):
The goal should have been, I'm going to clarify and
crystallize the points of my plan so it's easy to
understand for the average viewer and voter out there. You
don't just go, I'll go check out my website. But
you know why she did that, because she cannot articulate
her policy points the way that jd Vance does, or
even that Donald Trump does in his roundabout weaving way.
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She couldn't do it, she can't do it, and therefore
she won't do it, and she didn't do it. That
is the most egregiously weak punt I've ever seen in
an interview setting.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
She owed it to her own base.
Speaker 5 (08:15):
If you're a dedicated leftist and you want her to win,
that answer should piss you the blank off. You don't
just say I'll go check out my website. No, the
very point and purpose that you're sitting down there in
a hostile interview setting, the only one that you've ever done,
or probably will ever do, is to convince people who
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might not otherwise vote for you to do so. Spell
out in a text if you watch this interview last
night five seven, seven, three nine, what did Kamala Harris
say last night to an undecided, unaffiliated, moderate, middle of
the road voter that gave them a reason to vote
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for her? And I'm telling you right now, there wasn't one.
It was all I'm not Donald Trump. Well that's well
and good, dufus, we knew that. What alternative are you
presenting to the Donald Trump option? Why are you preferable
to him? Give specific and detailed reason in essay form.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
She can't do the assignment.
Speaker 5 (09:28):
She's been floating by her entire life on privilege, ironically enough,
the privilege of shacking up and being the mistress of
Willy Brown, one of the most influential men in California
politics going back to San Francisco in those days. But
for Willie Brown. We don't know Kamala Harris's name, We
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don't know who she is. We still don't know who
she is, not really, but the only reason we were
even aware of her is because Willie Brown launched her career.
Doubt me, prove me wrong, show me the evidence that
would counter otherwise that without Willie Brown, she'd have any
political career at all, because she wouldn't. And you know
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I'm right, and that is a big reason, along with
last night, why she is going to lose lots of
interviews today. I got a lot to get to and
a lot of ground to cover. And it's about candidates,
but it's also about ballot initiatives. And I've been really
going back and forth on some of these, and one
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in particular has divided people that are typically on our
side of the aisle the right, and that is the
ranked choice voting. One of the more influential members of
that proposal Dick Wadhams will be coming up in our
number two to start that hour. It's Proposition one thirty one.
I have severe doubts about this, and as of now
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I'm a very hard no on Prop thirty one. But
Dick Wadhams, they've been listed his services to promote this proposal,
and we'll get his take on that coming up an
hour number two. Right now, you can check out more
about his campaign. We want to focus on the local
races as well. Help georgewin dot com. It's just that simple.
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It's George Mama Junior and he's running for the pivotal
twenty fifth House district in the Colorado General Assembly. We
are looking to add to the Mighty nineteen. They've done
a phenomenal job at the state Capitol, but they need
reinforcements and George is the help that could be on
the way if you live in the twenty fifth district.
He joins us now once again that website help George
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win dot com. George, thank you once again for joining
me in for your time.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
Thanks for having me Ryan, I appreciate it absolutely.
Speaker 5 (11:49):
Now, just to illustrate those that missed our conversation earlier,
this election cycle. It's been a couple of months now,
but what District twenty five is the area that it encompasses,
what voters should be looking for on their ballots with.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
Your name, Ryan.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
District runs from I seventy south of Deckers and basically
from Pine Junction out to the east to Wadsworth. It
jockey's around in there a little bit because of the redistricting.
So I've got the mountain folks and the flatlanders out
is what I call them.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
And they all have their.
Speaker 4 (12:20):
Own unique little problems, but the common denominator right now
with all folks that are calling me and for those
that are listening, I hear you and I appreciate your call.
So the economy's huge, prime the roads, schools, and up
in the hills they're concerned about being able to get
home insurance. So those are the biggies for me right now.
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And being their voice, being.
Speaker 5 (12:44):
Their voice, George, and them being your voice with their
vote coming up, that's so important.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
This is a district that could easily flip.
Speaker 5 (12:53):
Last time around in twenty twenty two, which was a
very good election cycle for Democrats in this state. In particular,
Donald Trump wasn't on the ballot. He is this time
around that should help turn out a lot of Republican voters.
But this was a very narrowly decided race that Representative
Tammy's story. The Democrat won over incumbent Republican Colin Larson
by just seven hundred and nineteen votes and by just
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one point four percentage points two years ago. What has changed,
George in the landscape in this race that you feel
will tip the scales in your favor.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
Well, the public here, the constituents and house cis are
twenty five where I've lived my whole life. They want
a voice downtown and stories not providing them. That voice
doesn't return phone calls, doesn't answer the phone, doesn't return emails.
I've been a voice for this community my whole career.
I did forty five years as a law enforcement officer
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in this county and retired to the chief of police.
And the public wants a voice. They want someone that
takes their concerns downtown and gets them addressed. And that's
what I'm about, and that's what my record looks like
right now.
Speaker 5 (14:01):
Help out his campaign. You can find out more details.
You can contribute as well down this stretch run. As
we have under twenty days to go. Can you believe
that nineteen days as of today? Help georgewin dot com.
It's easy to remember if you live in that twenty
fifth house district. I highly encourage you to check out
that website now, George, with this amount of time remaining,
I just want to reflect and get caught up on
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the campaign as you have seen it to this point.
You mentioned that Tammy's story is usually unavailable maybe to
her constituents as well as those that are trying to
reach out to her from the media. Have you had
an opportunity, whether it's a debate or personally with a
town hall, any kind of interaction with her and her
campaign for the voters to decide on.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
Well, not at all. I will tell you that they
have attacked me pretty well since last Saturday. You know,
my opponent wants to distract everybody with abortion scares, and
that's not in my wheelhouse. I can't help with that.
That was decided before my time and don't know why
that's the direction they want to go. My concern is
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public safety, affordability, education, our owth. That's what my constituents want.
So I'm hoping that they're paying attention in my background,
my history, and what I've done, and not about the
craziness that the story campaign has been putting out there.
Speaker 5 (15:16):
George Mamma Junior here is the GOP candidate in Colorado
House District twenty five. I think it's telling, though, George,
if that's the only card they're trying to play against you,
Abortion a matter that's been returned to the states, and
here in Colorado, a state that has one of the
most extreme liberal abortion laws on the books, this seems
like a red herring by them.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
Well, I agree with you on Matt. It's a little
alarming that that's the message. I'm concerned about addressing these
issues that directly affect these folks, and the economy's killing
them right now, and by what we've done with law
enforcement here in the state, dumbing everything down, making it
difficult to hire law enforcement offsters, causing these grocery stores
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to bump the prizes because they can't get a report made,
so they got to get paid back to all these
pieces come back into playing that affects the constituents. That's
what they want fixed.
Speaker 5 (16:09):
Formerly of the Littleton Police Department and George, we appreciate
your service and public safety in that regard, and I
know that is in your wheelhouse, that is your focus.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
I just want to get.
Speaker 5 (16:18):
Your take because I had a rare opportunity for an
exclusive interview with Cindy Romero, who of course gained national
headlines with her excruciating experience in Aurora and dealing with
gang members from Trendy Arragua in Venezuela. And there's a
lot more layers to the onion of this story as
far as whether or not the mayor of Denver, Mike Johnston,
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the governor Jared Polis may have conspired to send a
lot of illegals from Denver to Aurora. Are you noticing
that kind of spillover effect into your district and what
kind of safeguards would you want to put in place
if you're elected.
Speaker 4 (16:53):
Well, it always comes to the West End. It hasn't
made it quite that far yet, but we are seeing
the auto sets which is causing issues here in twenty
five and again, be dumbed down. The judicial process took
felonies made of misdemeanors. So if there's no consequences for
the folks committing the crimes, which is exactly what's going on,
in Aurora. Then this type of behavior continues and will
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exacerbate itself and cause my votes a whole bunch of
problems here. So we've got to get back down into
the capital and get this stuff solved up front so
that the constituents don't have to deal with it and
the economy can stabilize a little bit.
Speaker 5 (17:31):
Final question, George, appreciate your time as always, and we're
wishing you the best of luck. And that is the
stark differences. You've kind of pronounced your candidacy based on
law and order, that's your background. You're talking about the
economy that is a red button issue, especially for those
of us. Cost of living here in Colorado and the
Metro Denver area. What changes day one if you're elected
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in terms of voting and what you're seeking to make
happen for your constituents if it's you instead of Tammy Story.
Speaker 4 (18:00):
Oh, Ryan, I'm a common sense guy. I've been collaborative
my whole career. I have an open door policy I
did as a chief of police. My people were free
to come in and talk to me. The only thing
I asked of those that come is have an end game.
If you're going to bring me a policy change that
you want us to talk about. I want to know
how it's going to look all the way down the
road so that my constituents don't get beat up in
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the end. And that would be what I'd have to
say to anybody that wants to come and talk to
me when I get down there.
Speaker 5 (18:29):
He is George Mama Junior, the GOP candidate for the
pivotal House District twenty five in the Colorado General Assembly,
looking to unseat incumbent Democrat Representative Tammy's story and I
can't stress this enough. If you can get to his website,
help him out. Every little bit counts. Help georgewind dot com.
If you live in the twenty fifth and you're looking
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for change, Hey, this is your guy, George Mama Junior. George,
always appreciate your time. Best of luck down the stretch
over these last nineteen days. Thanks Ryan, Talk to you soon,
George Mama Junior. He's a candidate for the House. And
when we come back, Robin Carnes, she's the GOP candidate
running for the sixteenth district of the Senate. After this
on Ryan Schuling Live, Oh that's right. Ryan Schuling Live
(19:14):
back with you and our next guest that songs a
little bit of a clue, I would say, she's looking
to rock the vote. Rock and Robin Robin Carnes. You
can find out more online. Carnes for Colorado c A
R n Ees fo r Colorado dot com. She is
running for the State Senate in the sixteenth district as
the Republican candidate there.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
Robin, welcome, Ryan, thank you.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
I love it.
Speaker 8 (19:40):
I love that song, and you bet I am looking
to rock the vote.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
And you've done this. Robin.
Speaker 5 (19:46):
I've known you for some time, but working as a
communications director for Michael Donaldhill, I always fought felt was
a very intriguing candidate, and then also Paul Archer for
state House as well. Can you kind of connect the
dots for listeners there? What took you from that role
to running for office yourself?
Speaker 8 (20:04):
Oh, such a such a great question. Well, I want
to start with actually the fact that I decided to
run for and I won my city council race back
in twenty twenty one, and once I got a taste
of local government and realized we need good people in
these types of seats because it impacts everything that we
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do at the local level, and so I thought, I've
got to learn, and I'd like to learn through other
people's experiences versus on my own dime. Let's be real,
a lot of times folks run for too high of
office too quickly without any experience. So yes, I had
the opportunity to help Mike o'donald, which he approached me,
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and I thought, what the heck, let's give it a shot.
He was a terrific candidate. Then also Paul Archer, and
I try to immerse myself in, you know, being part
of House district races and secretary of State and I
helped a little bit with the governor's race and school
of board racism. The only one I hadn't touched was
a state Senate race, and so you learn. I mean,
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the basics of campaigning are the same whether you're running
for a local office or whether you're running for you know,
something much higher. And I really immerse myself because I
feel called to government. I hate politics, but politics is
a pathway to get to government. And so how do
you do that. You've got to jump in and learn,
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and you know, not be afraid to do the hard work.
And that's what I've done so as far as how
that comes to this situation. I was asked Ryan, I
didn't just dream this up, but I was approached about
a year and a half ago about this potential, which
seems like a jump, you know, to go from local
city council to a state senate race. But when doors
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open and other doors close, you take the opportunity. It's
a tremendous win win regardless because of the learning and
the relationships that are involved. So that's really kind of
what brought me to this place. In addition to the
fact that you know, Rome is burning Colorado's new crisis.
I have a husband in law enforcement. He sees it
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day in and day out. I have two boys, middle
school and high school, and we can either sit on
the sidelines and live in fear and frustration or choose
to jump in and do something about it. And so
that's what I'm doing.
Speaker 5 (22:24):
That's Robin with a y Carns and you can find
out more about her campaign at Carns for Colorado dot com.
That's the sixteenth Senate District and Robin, as you know,
I'm a nerd, so I went to the maps of
the Senate district and the history of this district and
It's very fascinating, especially recently. A Democrat, Jene Nicholson was
in there in twenty ten, and then Tim Neville, a Republican,
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unseated her in twenty fourteen. Come twenty eighteen, Tammy Story
defeats tim Neville. She is now in a different district.
We just talked to George Mama running against her, and
now you're going head to head with incumbent Democrat Chris Kolker.
But the real twist to me when I look at
the map of what this district represents, it has changed
perhaps as much or more than any other Senate district
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in the state of Colorado. Can you walk us through
that change of what it means for the district and
the people in it.
Speaker 8 (23:15):
Absolutely so. Senate District sixteen encompasses Centennial, primarily Central and
Western Centennial, Littleton, and also Columbine Valley and Kim Carroll
Valley made its home to over one hundred and thirty
three thousand people, and in it was actually redistricts two
years ago, which means that the current incumbent didn't actually
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win that seat, so the other side sees it as
an open seat. In fact, they told me this early
on and that's why there was a real opportunity in
that redistricting process. It gained sixteen precincts all in Jeffco,
which are heavily conservative. So now, if you look at
the makeup the numbers of the district, fifty percent where iyan,
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that's five zero of registered voters are unaffiliates and we
have twenty six percent which are registered Republicans and then
twenty four percent which are registered Democrats, so a slight
Republican lead. However, I think that five zero number, the
fifty percent of unaffiliates or independence is really interesting. I
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my personal perspective is that many folks are fed up
with the extremes. They are not happy with right or left.
They want to simply move forward. So we have this
purple camp. And that's really what I've tried to embrace
and simply carry from my city council position, because, as
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you know, city council's non part of them. So when
I ran in twenty twenty one, I did not have
an are behind my name, and I have to tell
you it is resonating with voters. As I'm going door
to door, they're just they're so frustrated. I'll say you
know what keeps you up at night, or or anything
that would be helpful for me to know, And nine
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times out of ten there's just frustration about what's going
on in our country. In fact, what I really am
trying to impress upon voters is, regardless of what's happening
at the national level, which gets all the attention, let's
talk is on the local stuff, because that's really what
impacts your life day in and day out. I always
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say your neighborhood impacts your city and county and state
and nation world. So starting for me at the local,
non partisan on the local, non partisan city council, to me,
is a tremendous benefit.
Speaker 5 (25:40):
Robin Karns, the GOP candidate Senate District sixteen, joining us
on the ballot. If you live there, obviously, make sure
to vote for her. And you're talking about bridging the
gaps in Robin and my experience. So, I live in
a district just adjacent to the one you're running in,
and my senator is Jeff Bridges, who I would consider
fairly a moderate Democrat. However big however, I am very
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alarmed that he did not stand up to members of
his own party, and we saw this happen Robin dragging
the General Assembly far to the left beyond any kind
of realm of what do you consider traditionally liberal, And
I think that has to resonate as a concern among
the constituents you hope to represent.
Speaker 3 (26:20):
So what, in your mind are.
Speaker 5 (26:22):
Those kind of bridge issues that you feel bring people together,
that bring unaffiliateds on board, that you're hearing about in
your campaign.
Speaker 8 (26:30):
Yeah, well, you know, the Centennial Citizen just put an
article out a month ago and they asked voters, what
what are most important to you right now? What's most important?
The number one issue was balanced government and good governance. Okay,
second was the high cost of living in affordability, and
then the third, believe it or not, was immigration. So
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these are the variety of voters that you know, weighed
in on this, and I think we have to start
at that, at that sort of not bipartisan, I should
say level. And you know, this is kind of my perspective.
Balance governments is the best governments. And right now, I
mean I saw that I experienced in that serving on
Centennial City Council, and right now, single party control has
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made our state unaffordable. It has deteriorated our business climates
and has since you know, our kids to other states
to raise their families, and so this is not the
Colorado you know many of us want to deserve. We
don't need blind loyalty to one a political party. I
think what voters want is someone who's a fierce independent voice,
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who has a commitment to making government work for the
people right and as someone on city council, I have
already been doing that. It's why I'm running, in fact,
a purple campaign. You take red plus blue typically Democrats Republicans,
you get the color purple. It's the color of champions.
I want to be that champion for Colorado. So we
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have to start, especially Ryan, because we just learned a
few days ago, we're starting this state legislature session with
a nine hundred million dollars shortfall, I mean nine hundred million,
and so this is not the time for partisan politics,
which by the way, has been plaguing you know, our states.
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We are politically unbalanced. We've got complex issues, and right
now with the political layout, we can't even have these
diverse discussions because there's one sort of monopoly. And I'll
just I'll share this as well, which listeners have to
understand in the Senate, which already exists in the House,
we are facing a super minority, which means that if
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we lose one seat in the Senate this election November five,
and I believe that's the seat I'm running hard for.
If we lose that, we will have one party and
all of their political ideas in charge of absolutely everything,
so that even the governor, even the governor, whether you
love him or lose him, she will lose beat of power.
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And so that's pretty startling, it is.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
And there's a way to remedy it.
Speaker 5 (29:17):
If you live in the western part of Centennial into Littleton,
the Columbine Valley and all the way west to Ken
Carroll along that four to seventy corridor. There you are
in the sixteenth Senate district, and that is the seat
that Robin Carnes is running for as a Republican but
a unifying force as you've heard there, And in order
to find out more about her campaign, you can go
online Carnes for Colorado dot com.
Speaker 3 (29:39):
That's with a C.
Speaker 5 (29:39):
Carnes c ar n E S four f O R
Colorado dot com. Robincarnes, great catching up with you, so
happy for your campaign and over these last nineteen days,
wishing you the very best and let's ride it out
to victory.
Speaker 4 (29:54):
You bet we will.
Speaker 8 (29:55):
Thank you, Ryan, thanks for having fun.
Speaker 5 (29:57):
Absolutely, Robin Carnes joining us there, so local politics angles
issues being covered. We'll get into some of the ballot
proposals coming up in our number two with Dick Wadhams
on the ranked choice voting. That's Prop one thirty one.
And then also my good friend George Brockler Props one
twenty eight and one thirty those have to do with
law enforcement parole eligibility.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
We'll get his take on that.
Speaker 5 (30:20):
He is running for district attorney in the twenty first
newly formed district south of here in Douglas County. So
still plenty to get to. And oh, by the way,
Carlos Mencia, the comedian, Yeah him, he's joining me an
hour two. He's coming to comedy work South and we
have more about that. We come back after this Ryan
schuling live on six point thirty KF and now deep
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thoughts by Vice President Kamala Harris.
Speaker 9 (30:54):
We have been clear in multiple conversations and in every
way that any major military operation in Rafa would be
a huge mistake. Let me tell you something. I have
studied the maps. There's nowhere for those folks to go.
And we're looking at about a million and a half
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people in Rafa who are there because they were told
to go there, most of them. And so we've been
very clear that it would be a mistake to move
into Rafa with any type of military operation, a mistake.
Speaker 3 (31:27):
But would there be consequences if he.
Speaker 4 (31:30):
Does move forward?
Speaker 9 (31:31):
Well, we're going to take it one step at a time,
but we've been very clear in terms of our perspective
on whether or not that can happen.
Speaker 8 (31:37):
Are you ruling out that there would be consequences from
the United States?
Speaker 7 (31:40):
I am ruling out nothing.
Speaker 5 (31:44):
Kamal Harris deep thoughts and that from March of this year,
so six months ago, a freezing cold take on potential
Israel military action in Rafa, which he was cautioning.
Speaker 3 (31:58):
And advising against.
Speaker 5 (32:00):
And just today Yaya Sinwar, the leader of Hamas, was
smoked out of his hole and turned into a million bits.
They needed dental records to identify him, and the IDF
took him out. And that's a good thing for the world,
for Israel, And despite Kamala Harris's worst efforts the United
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States that pro hamas apparently reporter kept pressing her. Will
there be consequences for bb net Yahoo if he invades Rafa?
If they do a military action in Rafa. Joe Biden,
you might remember, threatened to withhold military aid to Israel
if they engaged in such a mission. Seems to be
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a little quid pro quo. I seem to remember a
certain Orange president being impeached for such a military withdrawal.
Withholding quid pro quo, Benjamin Net Yahoo and Israel deserve
deserve our steadfast support, our trust in their judgment that
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they are engaging in military operations that are in their
best interests. They're people's best interests and the best interests
of the Western world. Unlike Ukraine, Israel is an ally.
Speaker 3 (33:15):
Of the United States. Ukraine is not in NATO.
Speaker 5 (33:18):
They are not officially an ally of ours. The enemy
of my enemy is my friend, applies to them. Russia
would be considered a geopolitical adversary, but Ukraine technically is
not an ally, and certainly not an ally in the
way that Israel is. Israel has been our strongest ally
(33:39):
in the post World War two era. Perhaps compared to
any other nation, but certainly on the level of Great
Britain and France. When we have engaged in military endeavors
overseas Operation Desert Storm, Israel has lent their support and
I think we owe that to them in return.
Speaker 3 (33:59):
Today was a very good day.
Speaker 5 (34:01):
Yaya Sinwar is dead, and if we continue with Kamala
Harris's foreign policy, it would not have happened. And I
think she made some kind of public statement, you know,
calling for a ceasefire. She has since very much moderated
her stance on Israel. I think that's a calculation. She's
actually been much better on this issue than Joe Biden.
Speaker 3 (34:21):
Quite frankly, but the.
Speaker 5 (34:23):
Best friend Israel's ever had in the Oval office is
Donald J.
Speaker 3 (34:26):
Trump.
Speaker 5 (34:27):
He actually moved the embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem
after many presidents promised to, and that those promises were
left empty. Donald Trump is a strong advocate for Israel,
but he's smart about it in not wanting to get
overly involved from a United States military perspective. But is
he going to let Israel do the job of winning
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the war and ending this thing? Because the only end
of this comes at the complete and total destruction and
defeat of Hamas. There's no negotiating with terrorists or terrorist
organizations that would do what Hamas did. On October seventh,
Dick Wadham straight ahead ranked choice voting will see where
he stands
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