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Do Republicans have an electability problem?

We've heard a lot about the E-word when it comes to Democrats, not so much when it comes to Republicans.

But we should ask that question.

Donald Trump is an unpopular president leading an unpopular war.

Gas prices are sky high, and Republicans have nominated a bunch of scandal-plagued candidates,

like Ken Paxton in Texas or Max Miller in Ohio.

They even nominated candidates who supported Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election.

Here's Tom Tiffany, the Republican gubernatorial candidate in Wisconsin.

He voted not to certify Joe Biden's 2020 win.

Do you regret your vote, though?

I'm looking forward, not backwards.

So have Republicans set the stage for a backlash in the midterms?

This is going to be an election between common sense versus crazy.

Do you want to run a candidate that hates Thanksgiving?

And are they the ones with an electability issue?

That's this week on America Actually, where we talk to C.J.

Pearson.

Let's dig in.

C.J.

Pearson is only 24 years old.

He first went viral as just a 12-year-old who was willing to criticize President Obama.

And in conservative circles, it was a hit.

President Obama, you don't love America.

Since then, he's bounced around Republican politics and masked thousands of followers in the process.

He's been a political commentator on places like Fox News and Newsmax, one of the most prominent young Black voices in the MAGA movement.

Pearson wasn't always a Trump guy, but he's recently reinvented himself as one of the president's most vocal fans.

He even teamed up with Trump's favorite election lawyer,

Sidney Powell, to sue Georgia Governor Brian Kemp over Trump's false claims of a rigged 2020 election.

Since 2024, Pearson has found some influence in Washington as a social media creator

and a liaison for young Republicans looking to make the GOP cool again.

In fact, much of his work reminds me of what Jack Posobiec told me

when we were at the UFC fight in Washington, that Donald Trump drives a lot of his connection with younger voters through things like sports and culture.

You go and look at the places that pro wrestling goes and holds their events.

And then you go and cross-section that, cross-reference that with MAGA rallies.

It's the same group of people, the same sort of culture that speaks to each other.

But the other thing Jack told me was that none of that matters

unless Donald Trump focuses on the issues that matter most in the midterm elections, like affordability and the Iran war.

And of course, we have not seen that from the president so far.

Republicans love pointing the finger at Democrats, but are they willing to defend Trump's record in this midterm elections?

Let's ask Pearson and find out.

CJ Pearson, thank you for joining us on America Actually.

How are you?

Thank you for having me.

It's great to be here.

I first want to just ask a broader question

because we wanted to talk to you about kind of Republicans and the midterms and their own electability questions.

That E-word's been thrown around a lot about Democrats, but we want to think about how Republicans are on their own.

If you could rate Donald Trump's second term, one through 10, what would you give it?

Well, I think the president's doing incredibly well for the American people.

Promises made, promises kept in many ways.

I think if you look at this president who ran on securing our southern border, he's done it.

You look at this president who's talked about bringing down costs.

You know, he's brought down the cost of dairy, eggs.

He's achieved that.

And I think also this president is only just getting started.

He ran on no tax on tips.

He did that.

He ran under tax on overtime.

He did that.

You know, oftentimes I tell people the challenge of this administration is keeping

up the messaging to the same pace as the accomplishments of this president.

And so I think that there's a lot more work to do.

Thankfully, we have two more years to do it.

Can I get a number?

I think he's doing well.

You know, I will say I grew up in a place where there's always room for improvement.

So I'll give him an eight.

You're giving him an eight.

I wanted to just start there because Trump's approval rating has fallen, as I'm sure you have seen.

Why do you think the country isn't maybe on the same page as you?

You know, I think a lot of people are focused on their pocketbooks, right?

They're focused on domestic issues.

And I think that, you know, we have been very nationally focused over the course of the past few months as we've navigated

and dealt with the Iran conflict.

But I think that as we get ready to get through this last wave of primaries, I think you're going to see a change in this messaging

and a reset at the midterm convention in Dallas later this month or next month in September.

And I think you're going to hear this president talking about how he's made America more affordable, how he's kept Americans safe, far more safe than they were under President Joe Biden.

And I think that you'll see those numbers start to change.

And reminder, the only poll that matters is on Election Day.

There are many polls that had Kamala Harris beating President Trump in 2024, and that didn't happen.

Yeah, I don't want to be overly poll-reliant, but we've heard some of this directly from Republicans even.

We were at Donald Trump's UFC event in D.C talking to young men, and even there we heard people really come to be critical on three issues specifically.

Tariffs, the Iran war, and the handling of the Epstein files.

Just because he's not living up to what he said he was going to do, you know?

He said he was anti-war, you know, he said he was going to lower prices, and we're just not, like, that result is just not happening, you know, we're not seeing it.

I mean, you mentioned the kind of question of affordability.

Donald Trump has said, quote, I love the inflation.

And when asked by reporters about the public strain that has come from the conflicts with Iran, he said, I don't think about American financial situation.

I don't think about it.

How can you say the Republicans are going to run on affordability

if the president saying he doesn't care if Americans lives are unaffordable?

Well, I've often said that we can't see this entire affordability debate to the Democrats.

You know, the reason

that I think a lot of young people are giving a little bit even a flirtatious nod to the DSA

and their socialist communist candidates is because they're talking about an issue that's top of mind for them.

In the same way that when President Trump won in 2024, he was talking about issues that were top of mind to the American voter, which was the cost of living.

And so I think that we need to get back to that messaging.

I think this president has continued to deliver on that front.

You know, costs are coming down.

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The economy is resurging.

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We're seeing economic and global investment in this country.

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And like anything we've seen before in Oklahoma, we're bringing back manufacturing with the aluminum smelting plant.

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But the president's not saying this.

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The president's saying, I love the inflation and I don't think about America's financial situation.

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Do those words help Republican midterms candidates?

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Well, I think the president has a lot of time to say a lot more things

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because election day is pretty far away from now.

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I think we have two or three months left.

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And I think the president will make this case.

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But I think what will also make the case is that the candidates that, you know, the Democrats are running

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and nominating all across this country who are now affiliating themselves

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with the socialist movement are not actually fighting for things that will actually ever work.

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Socialism has never worked anywhere it's been tried.

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And I think that this is going to be election between common sense versus crazy.

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Do you want to run a candidate that hates Thanksgiving?

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For the record, that candidate lost in the primary.

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She would not be on the ballot in November.

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She almost was there, though.

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And that's the thing.

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I'm glad common sense won the day in Wisconsin that the good people there love Turkey.

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I want to go back to the question of affordability, because, you know, we were just at a gas station in Allentown, Pennsylvania, a toss-up swing district,

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and the causational relationship that people have with the high gas prices and Donald Trump's war in Iran is really clear.

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It doesn't take political genius to know why you're paying more at the pump.

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We talked to one Trump voter who said specifically that he was upset with the president.

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I blame the president because he indicated to us he's going to drop all these costs.

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I know it can't happen overnight, but when is it going to happen?

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It's outrageous.

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Did you vote for him, Cass?

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Yes, I did.

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And did you vote for him on the premise that stuff like gas would be lower?

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I voted for him with his promises to American people.

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And I think he's let us down.

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What is your message to that type of voter who's not looking at the Democrats on the other side, but is upset at Donald Trump's own words not matching the campaign trail to the actions?

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I think my answer to them would be, I hear you, I feel you.

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At the end of the day, I think the price at the pump and the price of the grocery stores are, again, the things that are top of mind for people.

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While I think what the president is doing in Iran is helping avoid a global conflict

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that my generation would have to continue with decades from now, I understand that there's going to be some short-term pain that people are going to have struggles with.

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And I think that we've got to reach people and just acknowledge the fact that, yeah, there has been a slight increase in some of these prices.

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And they matter a lot more to people than this kind

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of broad idea of what we're doing is going to be good decades from now.

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Right.

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Yeah.

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The macro long term isn't hitting when someone's worried about the short term.

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It does a little remind me, though, of 2021, too, when there was a spike in inflation and Democrats, I would ask them similar questions and they would tell me,

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oh, you know, there's kind of a macroeconomic story that we can tell.

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And once inflation goes down a little bit, I think people will understand in the midterms.

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I mean, and conservatives, I think folks like yourself were telling people

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that Democrats were avoiding the kind of people's pain and that they weren't speaking to folks problems.

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It's part of the reason, as you mentioned, that Donald Trump won in 2024 in the first place.

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Is this administration now not just replicating that similar type of blind spot?

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Yeah.

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And so that's what I'm saying is we have to reorient the conversation

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that we're having as a party around these domestic issues.

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Or if not, we will lose disastrously in November.

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The reality of it is, again, is that these foreign entanglements, they show America's strength.

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I trust President Trump to get the job done

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and to do it well far more than I ever would have Joe Biden.

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But the reality of it is, again, is that everyday voters, everyday people my age, they're concerned about grocery store prices.

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They're concerned about the price of the pump.

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Those are the issues that we need to be talking about.

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And I think that from now until November, our entire message should be, how do we make America more affordable again?

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And on that point, President Trump has actually talked a lot about that.

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Everything from supporting things like the Credit Card Competition Act, but also, too, he's gone to places like Nevada, where there's a huge hospitality industry and talked about the impact

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that no tax on tips and no tax on overtime has had.

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The people that benefit the most from policies like that are everyday blue collar Americans.

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We need to talk about that ad nauseum.

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Yeah, I hear that.

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If we were to describe the Republican message in the midterms, it is what?

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I think what I'll tell you what it needs to be.

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It needs to be exactly what we just discussed, which is making America more affordable again.

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I guess we're somewhat identifying a gap of where it is, though, and what you're saying it should be, right?

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Like, do Republican candidates sound like what you're pretending here?

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Well, they should.

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But what I'll tell you is

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that I think the message as it currently stands is that this is an election between communism versus common sense.

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And I think that, you know, when it comes to that, I think that people are weary of you have some of these ideas that are being perpetuated by members of the DSA.

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They want to eliminate the Senate.

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They want to get rid of the presidency.

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It's bizarre stuff that actually doesn't actually resonate with many Americans.

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You also have people who are doubling down on things like biological men playing women's sports.

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That's an 80-20 issue.

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The more they talk about that, I got to tell you, I jump with glee because I would love to talk about that every single day until November, because I know that the American people are on our side on those issues.

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Back in 2025 when Trump was first elected, as I always mentioned, you were part of a group profile with a bunch of media outlets who were seeming to revel in Trump's return,

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a kind of return of cool, quote, kids moment in conservative culture.

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How would you say that's gone?

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Like, is Trump cool currently?

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I think he is cool.

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He's the coolest man in politics.

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But what I'll tell you is that.

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He's got him a little bar, I mean, he's got him a little bar.

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Well, he is Barack Obama cool and he's Trump cool.

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He's different kind of cool, you know?

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So I think Donald Trump is cool.

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And I think that what made these events cool was the fact

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that I think that you can go to them and actually just have a good time.

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And what we did is we actually didn't lead with politics for these events.

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And our last event was actually recent.

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It was 4th of July in celebration of America 250.

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We had Moneybagg Yo! there performing.

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And we weren't out there having some political rally.

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We were just simply saying we love America and we're not going to apologize for it.

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I hear you to some degree, but it does feel like Trump has lost the internet a little bit.

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I mean, even if we think about some of the pushback that was happening around the Epstein vows, you have prominent podcasters.

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If you want to think about the Joe Rogans of the world, we're certainly more willing to criticize him nowadays.

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I mean, it does stretch kind of credibility a little bit to say

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that Donald Trump's in the same place he was even in 2024, 2023.

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Like, it doesn't seem like the timelines turned on him a little bit.

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Well, I think it's important to acknowledge in 2024, and I think that people were fully aware of this fact, is that it was a fragile coalition of voters who were simply sick and tired of the status quo, right?

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They were sick and tired of, you know, what they were hearing from Joe Biden.

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They weren't ecstatic about the coronation of Kamala Harris.

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And they were looking to someone who was speaking their language and offered solutions for the time.

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And that was President Trump.

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And so I think that we still have to we can't rest on our laurels.

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I was always very, very like, I would emphasize this all the time.

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It's like, just because Donald Trump did well with young people doesn't mean everybody else going to do well with young people.

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And it's so interesting.

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And you may have seen this anecdotally.

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It's like, I saw the tide turn kind of after Venezuela.

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Like, so Venezuela, we go into Venezuela, we drop in there, we kidnap Maduro.

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People my age love that.

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They were like, this is America.

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Like we ran up in your trap.

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We took over your trap.

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And we also took your wife.

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Like that doesn't get more American than that.

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I loved it.

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But then there was something about Iran where people were like, wait, this is a little different.

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And I think that that is when we as Republicans, as conservatives had to communicate to people why this was the America first position to take.

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I think we were a little slow on that.

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I think the messaging has come around a little bit.

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But I think we were slow initially to that.

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I think that was a little bit of a problem.

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I mean, I think the problem is substantive.

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I think the problem is that Donald Trump said

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that he would not start another foreign entanglement in the exact place he has done so.

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He said he wouldn't start any new wars.

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New wars.

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We're not at war.

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For reasons that he has not explained to the American people on behalf of interests they do not think is serving them.

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Well, we're not going to split hairs.

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He said no new wars.

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You know, some would say this is, you know, a conflict or an entanglement.

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But let me move on.

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I think we both knew Charlie Kirkland.

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I covered him a couple of times, and I know you occupied an overlapping conservative influencer space.

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To the point you're making about building up institutions and connecting young people with Republicans, he occupied a unique space into doing that.

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It somewhat seems to me like somewhat of the gap in what we're seeing now in

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that landscape is one that he used to fill.

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How big is that void?

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You know, I think it's huge, and I think there will never be another Charlie Kirk.

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and I think that his absence is definitely felt.

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You see it across the conservative movement, which has kind of become like the Real Housewives of Atlanta.

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Like it's interesting seeing all these warring personalities all the time.

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It's like the way that I kind of get past it, I just say not my monkey, not my circus, but unfortunately I realize it is my circus.

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And so, you know, it is very much your circus.

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It is very interesting.

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And I think that the thing

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that Charlie was really able to do is to kind of talk to all these different coalitions of people

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and bring them together and say, hey, let's figure out how we can align

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and how we can actually communicate this in a way that we're staying united and that we're staying on message.

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And I think that his absence has felt in that way.

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A lot of these fights that typically would have happened behind the scenes are now fully on public view.

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Hopefully by November, we're a united family, families fight, families bicker.

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The Democrats know that well.

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Hopefully by November, we get things together.

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I would be remiss if I wouldn't ask you about Trump's cuts to the federal workforce, which had a particular effect on black communities.

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And it seems as

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if this administration has almost made a point to humiliate some kind of prominent members of black public service.

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I'm thinking about Lisa Cook.

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I'm thinking about other members of the military.

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And polls consistently show that the majority of American people don't like this, that they don't think that this sort of targeting is in line with American values.

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Is it in line with yours?

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When you have seen Donald Trump say some of this stuff, the rollbacks to federal diversity programs, what have you thought?

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Well, I think, you know, President Trump is an equal opportunity offender in the same way in which he'll go after a Lisa Cook.

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He'll go after, you know, a Republican congresswoman like Marjorie Taylor Greene, who says something that she that he doesn't like.

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And so I don't think this has anything to do with race in terms of DEI.

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I've never really needed DEI to succeed.

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I think I've been quite fine without it.

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And I think that it's unfortunate that, you know, black people have to go through public life with an asterisk sex of their accomplishments

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because people will question whether or not they earned it because of some, you know, quota or some, you know, racial program rather than their own merit.

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I think that there are tons of people in our community who are hardworking, accomplished, whose accomplishments stand on their own.

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And I don't think we need that.

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I mean, I want to say this respectfully, but like your role in the conservative space has been as a young black man.

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And that has been because of identity.

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I mean, it is kind of rich to hear such a visceral reaction to words like DEI

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when you could argue that the space

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that you have occupied has been directly related to the fact that you are a young black conservative.

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Like, doesn't that sound a little DEI, my friend?

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No, I don't think it does.

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I think I offer a unique perspective that, you know, oftentimes maybe wasn't, you know, platformed by mainstream media sources, but also, too, is actually really emblematic of our community.

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There are so many conservative voices within the black community who, unfortunately, were not elevated.

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We were treated as some type of monolith for far too long.

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And I think that's why many in the media missed the

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moment where you saw young black men who were not going to be sunned into voting for Kamala Harris, as President Obama attempted to do in 2024.

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But beyond that, what I would say is that unlike, you know, folks like Ntaji Brown Jackson, who sits on the Supreme Court today because President Biden declared that he was going to appoint a black woman,

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I've never filled a black job.

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You know, that's never really been my thing.

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I've never, you know, I focused on youth outreach and the overall movement.

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And because I think a rising tide lifts all ships, the black community, the white community, Hispanics, black and brown people all around.

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And so, again, I feel like you can make that point without picking on the Supreme Court justice.

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But let us move on.

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I want to ask a couple more.

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Another trend among Republicans this cycle has been their refusal to acknowledge Joe Biden won the 2020 election.

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You were previously one of Trump's mouthpieces for false election claims.

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I wanted to ask you four years later, will you say if Joe Biden won the 2020 election?

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Well, President Biden did occupy the White House for four years, so I guess that would mean that.

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But what I would say in terms of- Is this the Republican line on this?

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Why can't you say that Joe Biden won more votes than Donald Trump in the 2020 election and was duly elected?

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I don't understand that.

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Well, I think if he lived in the White House and he was president of the United States, then that has to be true.

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Right.

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But what I would say is that, you know, we continue to do all that we can to secure our elections.

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You know, oftentimes it's so interesting to me, the Democrats, you know, prided themselves on being the party of election integrity in 2020 as they perpetuated the Russia collusion hoax.

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And then all of a sudden, you know, when President Trump starts talking about the need to, you know, end non illegal illegal aliens from voting in our elections or, you know, God forbid, support something as basic as voter ID.

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Now, all of a sudden, you know, it's terrible or to throw it back because I'm from Georgia.

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When Stacey Abrams refused to concede her loss to Brian Kemp in 2018, she wasn't called an election denier.

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But for some reason, when Republicans have the audacity to question irregularities, we're conspiracy theorists.

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I think that's a little obtuse.

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Listen, there are some points that I think you can concede in that.

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But I just want to say, it's not as if the particular actions of Donald Trump after 2020 are on the same scale of the things you're mentioning.

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And it's not like they didn't have material consequences.

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Like people died at January 6th.

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Like I've been to the federal courthouse where folks were in prison

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and their families were outside holding vigils for days on end.

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Like the harassment against poll workers were real.

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Like the fact that there has not been evidence to substantiate the claims that you made in that election.

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Is there not any regret that there has been material consequences from some of that misinformation?

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Well, here's what I'll tell you.

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When it comes to January 6th, anyone who committed a violent act or action, I condemn them.

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I condemn them now.

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But what I will say is that I think what's important

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and what separates us from third world countries

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and the democracy in a shining city on a hill

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that our founding fathers intended us to be is having the ability to question the elections

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and to make sure that they pass muster.

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And I think that when anyone has, you know, this type of distrust of institutions and elections, it's not good for democracy left or right.

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And so I think that the more that we can do to make sure

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that people have faith in the integrity of our elections is a good thing.

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And so I think that should be a bipartisan thing.

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And I would love to work with my friends on the other side of the aisle to do that.

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Let's focus our last question on the GOP in the midterms.

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I know that you say that the argument is based on kind of how Democrats are out of touch.

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But we have talked about some ways in which Donald Trump has not lived up to folks' expectations, particularly on things like prices and on things like the Iran war.

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How does the GOP overcome that electability question?

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What is their message when folks ask, is their life better than two years ago?

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I think we've got to lock in.

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I think we also need to prosecute the case

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that it's going to be a lot worse under the Democrats if these crazy communists get into office.

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And so I think that when you're looking at costs, we need to make that argument central.

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We need to make that what we lead with.

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And I think that we have to kind of pump the brakes on a lot of the international stuff.

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And I think that we need to talk about the things that are actually affecting people's everyday lives at grocery stores, at gas stations, wherever it may be.

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And I think that is how we can kind of turn the ship around.

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Well, you know, when we talk about the Democratic candidates, you're saying they're, you know, the DSA candidates are far left.

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And we've certainly explored some electability questions for them, some ways that I think they might have stances that are misaligned with the American people.

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But I mean, so does Donald Trump.

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And so he's endorsed scandal play candidates like Ken Paxton in Texas, like Max Miller in Ohio.

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Like, why is that not just as much as a sign of a conservative version of extremism,

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just as you are arguing that there's a Democratic or leftist version of that?

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Yeah, because I think you're talking about folks who have dealt with issues in their personal lives, not necessarily their voting record.

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Okay, maybe I should say Tom Tiffany, who didn't vote to certify the 2020 election, but I imagine you agree with him.

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So that's a grand example.

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Well, no, I think that was six years ago.

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I don't think about 2020 anymore.

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I think about 2026.

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I think about 2028.

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And so when I look at that, and I think that's important that we really make the case for, crazy communism versus common sense.

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And I think that the American people are not going to go for that.

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I guess I'm saying, does Donald Trump win the common sense argument?

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Like, isn't crazy versus common sense an argument that Democrats can make and say Donald Trump is said crazy?

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No, because I think Donald Trump definitely wins the common sense argument when we're running against folks, you know, who belong to a party that is now waging a war against Thanksgiving, who believe that, you know,

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biological men should be playing women's sports.

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Again, these are 80-20 issues.

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And so I actually really like, you know, our odds here.

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It's going to be hard, right?

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It's always hard for the party that controls the White House to, you know, fare all too well in any midterm election but I think that we're going to overperform.

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I think the Senate is going to be, we're going to hold onto the Senate.

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The House will be a dogfight, but I think that I like our chances.

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We'll see where we land.

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Your argument is they care about war at Thanksgiving.

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My argument is they care about the Iran war.

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Like I think one of those matters a little more, but I hear you.

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Thank you for joining us.

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I really appreciate your time and I appreciate you like taking our questions.

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We appreciate everyone who comes on.

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So thank you for your time, CJ.

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This was fun.

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Thank you.

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So a couple takeaways after talking to CJ.

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Yes, he's young, but I do think he sounds like Republicans when they're forced to defend the actions of this administration.

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It's easy for them to talk about how Democrats are so extreme, but it's a lot harder for them to defend whether Donald

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Trump has actually followed through on his promises from the campaign trail.

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But that's because he hasn't.

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Donald Trump has broken key promises, like rising gas prices, or no new wars, or even things like his handling of the Epstein files.

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So if this midterms is a battle over common sense, I think Democrats will take that bet, because that's one they think they can win.

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このB2レベルのスピーキングレッスンは、動画「Is MAGA still electable?」を教材にしています。繰り返し出てくる語は次のとおりです：Trump, Donald, election, Republican。この動画には、シャドーイング用の文が404文、単語が5302語あります。音声の長さは25:08です。話す速さは速く、1分あたり約211語です。音のつながりや弱く発音される音が多くなります。単語の85%は英語の頻出3,000語に含まれます。残りは練習の前に確認しておきましょう。

この動画の重要語彙

動画の中で特に難しい単語15語を、発音と意味つきで紹介します。

単語	発音	意味
midterm 形容詞	/ˈmɪdˌtɚm/	中間
voter 名詞	/ˈvoʊtɚ/	投票者, 選挙人
occupy 動詞	/ˈɑkjəpaɪ/	占める
inflation 名詞	/ɪnˈfleɪ.ʃən/	インフレ, インフレーション
accomplishment 名詞	/əˈkɑm.plɪʃ.mənt/	遂行, 達成
circus 名詞	/ˈsɜːkəs/	サーカス, 曲馬団
acknowledge 動詞	/əkˈnɑ.lɪd͡ʒ/	承認する, 認める
certify 動詞	/ˈsɜː.tɪ.faɪ/	認証する
concede 動詞	/kənˈsid/	敗北を認める, 譲歩する
entanglement 名詞	/ɪnˈtæŋɡəlmənt/	縺れ
nominate 動詞	/ˈnɑ.mɪ.neɪt/	指名する, ノミネートする
criticize 動詞	/ˈkɹɪtɪsaɪz/	批判する, 非難する
unpopular 形容詞		不評
condemn 動詞	/kənˈdɛm/	断罪する
communism 名詞	/ˈkɒmjᵿnɪz(ə)m/	共産主義, コミュニズム

動画に出てくる句動詞

単語	意味
come down 動詞	降りる
find out 動詞	見出す, 調べる
go down 動詞	降りる, 降下する
take over 動詞	引き受ける

繰り返し練習したい文

動画に出てくる短く完結した文です。日常会話でそのまま使えます。

Do you regret your vote, though?
I'm looking forward, not backwards.
Can I get a number?
I think he's doing well.
How would you say that's gone?

この動画の文法

話し手がよく使っている文型を、動画の実際の表現とともに紹介します。

文型	動画での表現
現在完了形 have/has + 過去分詞 — 過去の出来事が今も関係している	We've heard · have nominated · He's been
受動態 be + 過去分詞 — 誰がするかより、何が起きるかに焦点を当てる	been thrown · been tried · being perpetuated
関係詞節 who / which + 節 — 人や物について情報を加える	voter, which was · discussed, which is · people who are

注意したい発音

話し手はwe're, don't, you'reなど、短縮形や弱形を106回使っています。聞こえたとおりの短い形で発音しましょう。

「sh」と「zh」の音: inflation /ɪnˈfleɪ.ʃən/, accomplishment /əˈkɑm.plɪʃ.mənt/, backlash /ˈbækˌlæʃ/, nationally /ˈnæʃənəli/, socialism /ˈsoʊʃəlɪzəm/
長い単語（アクセントの位置に注意）: accomplishment /əˈkɑm.plɪʃ.mənt/, entanglement /ɪnˈtæŋɡəlmənt/, perpetuate /pɚˈpɛt͡ʃəˌweɪt/, macroeconomics /ˌmæk.ɹoʊˌiː.kəˈnɒ.mɪks/, commentator /ˈkɑmənˌteɪtəɹ/

日本語話者が苦手な音：

/r/ と /l/ の区別 — /l/ は舌先を歯茎につけ、/r/ はどこにもつけない: wrestle /ˈɹɛs(ə)l/, follower /ˈfɒləʊə(ɹ)/, refusal /ɹɪˈfjuːzl̩/, fragile /ˈfɹæd͡ʒəl/, credibility /kɹɛd.əˈbɪ.ɫɪ.ti/
/v/ — /b/ にならないように、上の歯を下唇に当てる: voter /ˈvoʊtɚ/, overtime /ˈoʊ.vɚˌtaɪm/, elevate /ˈɛləveɪt/, vow /vaʊ/, overlap /ˌəʊvəˈlæp/
/f/ — 「フ」ではなく、上の歯と下唇で出す: inflation /ɪnˈfleɪ.ʃən/, oftentimes /ˈɔf.ənˌtaɪmz/, certify /ˈsɜː.tɪ.faɪ/, tariff /ˈtæɹəf/, follower /ˈfɒləʊə(ɹ)/

この動画での練習方法

まず声を出さずに動画を最後まで聞き、知らない単語をメモします。
まず0.75倍速で一文ずつシャドーイングし、慣れてきたら通常の速度に戻します。
自分の声を録音して元の音声と比べます。midterm, voter, occupyなどの単語に特に注意しましょう。

シャドーイングとは？英語上達に効果的な理由

シャドーイング（Shadowing）は、もともとプロの通訳者養成プログラムで開発された言語学習法で、多言語習得者として知られるDr. Alexander Arguelles によって広く普及されました。方法はシンプルですが非常に効果的：ネイティブスピーカーの英語を聞きながら、1〜2秒の遅延で声に出してすぐに繰り返す——まるで「影（shadow）」のように話者を追いかけます。文法ドリルや受動的なリスニングと異なり、シャドーイングは脳と口の筋肉が同時にリアルタイムで英語を処理・再現することを強制します。研究により、発音精度、抑揚、リズム、連音、リスニング力、そして会話の流暢さが大幅に向上することが確認されています。IELTSスピーキング対策や自然な英語コミュニケーションを目指す方に特におすすめです。

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このレッスンの語彙とスピーキングのポイント

この動画の重要語彙

動画に出てくる句動詞

繰り返し練習したい文

この動画の文法

注意したい発音

この動画での練習方法

シャドーイングとは？英語上達に効果的な理由