The Campaign Finance Game

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First, I want to get to the biggest story of the day, which very clearly is Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer on the floor of the Senate, taking President Trump to task over his handling of the Iran war. Now on Iran and the NDAA. When all the Trump administration can say about a disastrous war with Iran. Wait, wait a second. Wait, wait a second. Did I just hear what I thought I heard? Now on Iran and the NDAA. Yeah, it certainly sounds like, wait, one more time. Now on Iran and the NDAA. Yep. I'm pretty sure the day after we were just talking about the problems with the gerontocracy, government by the extreme elderly here in America, the 75-year-old Chuck Schumer, the leader of the Senate Democrats forever, appears to have ripped one, or dare I say worse, on the floor of the Senate. Now on Iran and the NDAA. I mean, okay. I remember before today, the most famous political fart was probably Eric Swalwell on the old Chris Matthews hardball show on MSNBC years ago. Now, he had plausible deniability because even though it really did look like he shifted in his chair and let one rip, it could have very easily been Chris Matthews. I mean, Matthews isn't just full of hot air in what he says or said on TV. The man looks like he's been known to cut a few. Also, it did sort of more sound like the chair, you know, the rubber or whatever it is on an office chair that he was sitting on. There's plausible deniability there. This was a microphone picking up a fart from Chuck Schumer. Now on Iran and the NDAA. There is nothing else it could have been. Folks, I am here to tell you right now. I have analyzed this thing like the Zapruder film today, and I'm telling you, that man cut the cheese on national TV. Obviously, we are going to have a little fun here on the Dan O'Donnell show as we do each and every day, though. President Trump is talking about the deadly serious situation in Iran, Sentcom announcing another round of bombings. Against the IRGC and the remnants of the late Ayatollah's regime. President Trump is in Pennsylvania for a defense conference. He is speaking right now. Let's join the president live in progress very briefly. The elevators with 10 and 12 planes on them. Think of it. It had all sorts of modern day things that were all instead of using steam. For the catapults, they used electric. Wait, wait, wait, wait. I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Instead of using steam, did they use hot air from Chuck Schumer's butt? Now on Iran and the NDAA.

Okay, I promise I'll stop with the fart jokes now. Back to the president. It was up to like 18, 19. It was terrible. And I said, I want to meet the catapulter. And a man came over along with four of his assistants. And I said, what's better? Electric catapult or steam? He's been there for 25 years. He said, steam is better, sir. We can fix it with a hammer and a blowtorch. When the electric goes bad, I have to send to MIT to get geniuses over here. I said, steam is better. Yes, sir, it's better. So why did they do electric? Because you can have the catapult go like this. But you can't put planes on it, sir. It takes you 39 seconds. By the time the 39 seconds is up. I'm sorry. I thought I thought I was being absurd. And then I was going to get things serious by going to the defense conference where President Trump is talking about steam-powered catapults. He obviously started a while ago. This is the portion of the speech where President Trump, what does he call it, the weave, where he weaves back and forth between topics. I have no idea why he's talking about catapults right now. Is he going to launch another crusade? Is he going to try to conquer Gaul? uh... president trump uh... with the the new armaments of steam-powered catapults we will of course continue to monitor that press conference that speech uh... the president did give uh... the very telling interview to fox business today behind the scenes just behind the uh... curtain to go out on stage for that conference in which he said yes there is a very distinct possibility that we do wipe out the ir g c that's irons revolutionary guard core just like we did a decade ago with isis remember one of the first things that the president did on foreign policy in his very first term was to just root out the remaining elements of the Islamic State wherever they were and just destroy them. He is saying now, the United States could very easily do the exact same thing with Iran. He also says that the Iranians, shocker, after they have been shelled for several days, after walking away from negotiations and threatening the U.S. and the rest of the world for apparently the last time, and President Trump lost his temper. Now... They apparently want to come back to the negotiating table. If I'm President Trump, I am holding firm. I am continuing the bombing campaign until, frankly, there is nothing left but unconditional surrender. It is the only thing these people understand. It is the only thing they will respect. It is the only way we are going to get anything even resembling a lasting peace or any sort of concessions.

for the united states and allowing the free flow of commerce especially oil through the straight of hor moose so we are going to be monitoring that but the big story here in wisconsin today politically at eleven fifty nine p m tonight campaign finance reports are due in case you're wondering why i led this show with Chuck Schumer farting on the floor of the senate it's because well i wanted you to laugh because some of the stuff we're going to be talking about is very, very dry. Unlike Chuck Schumer's fart on the floor of the Senate, which sounded kind of well. Now on Iran and the NDAA. I'm telling you, like, I love my grandpa. My grandpa passed away, boy, 30 years ago. Loved him, loved him, loved him, loved him, loved him. But every so often, he kind of let one rip. You know how that goes? He got a little older. That's Chuck Schumer. He's 75 years old. Yes, I know the president is 80 years old. But we might need to have a talk about just how old our leaders are getting. All right. So campaign finance report, not exactly the sexiest topic in the world. And yes, I can tie that back. It's unsexy like Chuck Schumer farting on the floor of the Senate. It's not the sexiest topic in the world, but it is one of the most important. If you want to know how campaigns are won and lost, it's in the fundraising game, not just fundraising. but how that money is spent the big reason that a lot of democrats right now are calling for sarah rodriguez to drop out of this race is not because she is so horribly incompetent that she didn't catch the fact that her campaign didn't have more than a million dollars that it said it had because apparently the campaign manager who we now know was running into some personal financial problems which could have provided a motivation to skim a little bit off the top of the campaign believe you me that has been at the top of my mind for a potential motivator for why exactly there would be this massive cash discrepancy it's that somebody the one person who had total control over the finances was just taking a little bit off the top and then to try to hide it was doing double donations and and trying to make it seem like the campaign had raised way more than it actually did But the big reason that Democrats are so upset with Rodriguez is not the incompetence. The incompetence is part and parcel of being a Democrat. Money going missing is part and parcel of Democrat governance. They don't even want anybody looking into how much our social safety net programs are being defrauded, okay?

They wanted her dropping out because she's only got $200,000 in the bank. I actually just got an email from Dr. Mike John Roberts, who's running in the state Senate race. He is running as a Republican after Rob Hutton retired. Very, very good state senator Rob Hutton decided not to seek re-election. Republicans lucked out because John Roberts is a fantastic candidate. He tells me, Dan, just a heads up, I have more in the bank than Sarah Rodriguez right now. He's a state Senate candidate. He is running basically in the Brookfield area. Sarah Rodriguez is running statewide. What this does is send a clear signal that the campaign is just not nearly as successful as it's been portrayed. And in fact, that is a lot of people's belief on the Democrat side as to what the motivation was for so dramatically overstating the financial intake. How many donations were coming in? One Republican running in an increasingly Democrat district, Mike John Roberts, has more money in the bank right now than the woman who the Democratic Party wanted to pin its hopes on in stopping the socialists. That's a big deal. What's a bigger deal is the number that was reported by Republican Tom Tiffany today. He raised a total of $10 million. including in this reporting period alone from january to today eight million dollars he has three million dollars in cash on hand In other words, about what is that? Fifteen times what Sarah Rodriguez, 12 times what Sarah Rodriguez has in cash on hand, meaning money that is available to be spent, to be deployed on television advertising, on getting out the vote, on anything and everything. And that's what it's all about. Money equals ability. Money equals electability because you have the ability to get people on doors, knocking on doors, making voter contacts. You have the ability to be up on TV. You have the ability to very quickly on the internet or on social media or on television or on radio to get your message out there and to counter any negative message about you that might come out. Not only is Tom Tiffany just lapping the field when it comes to fundraising here. He has also set a record that was originally set four years ago by Rebecca Clayfish. Rebecca Clayfish during that same reporting period, January to July, raised about $3.5 million. Tom Tiffany has raised more than double that.

What this suggests is that there is a whole lot of support behind Tiffany. It suggests that Tiffany has taken advantage very effectively of the single biggest advantage that he has, and that is that he doesn't have a primary opponent and has been able to use his cash advantage to introduce himself to the entire state. To look like the guy who's just above the fray while all of the Democrats implode and take shots at each other. And oh, by the way, the knives are coming out in earnest right now as each non-Franchesco Hong Democrat is trying desperately to be the one that the Democratic Party pitches its tent under or over and hitches its wagon to try to stop the Socialist Express. Tiffany hasn't had to deal with any of that. Tiffany has been able to spend, he's been raising money, he's the only Republican who's running for governor, meaning all of the donors, big money and small money alike, are only giving to him. They don't have to choose, oh, are we going to give it to Sarah Rodriguez or Joel Brennan or Mandela Barnes? They're only giving to Tom Tiffany, but that's not his biggest advantage. His biggest advantage is the fact that he's been able to use that money to run a general election campaign for six months now. And we will dive into that in just a second. A lot of people on the... The Carpetland USA Flooring Center talk and text line telling me that the steam catapults that President Trump was talking about are actually launching aircraft from our aircraft carriers. And I looked that up during the commercial break. My goodness is our military so much more advanced than... any other on earth and this is why it just never made much sense i i get that president trump wanted to negotiate and and thought he would be the one to be able to talk some sense into the senseless the remnants of the ayatollah's regime that remained after the initial bombing campaign in late winter there's just no negotiating with this people there is only total defeat they do not have an appeal to sensibility. They don't have an appeal to, hey, if you just stop with the open antagonism and terrorism and wanting the entire nation of Israel dead, you can make a ton of money and we can all bring the entire region into the 21st century and out of the 7th century. Iran, they're not like the Qataris. They're not like the Saudis. They're not like the

Emirates, they are fanatics. They are absolute tyrants and they don't care about anything other than a desperate cling to power, which they're only able to do by projecting the strength. of the terrorist empire that they've been able to prop up over the past nearly fifty years so we will dive into exactly what was going on today very telling interview that president trump gave with a fox business reporter backstage before this conference began daily trump date coming up in the four o'clock hour The money game and why it is so important in Wisconsin politics and politics generally. When I was talking about those catapults, I was making a joke about Trump invading Gaul. And what was the single biggest determining factor throughout pretty much all of world history in which side was going to win a battle? Whether it was the Romans, whether it was the Crusaders. against the emperor Saladin throughout history, throughout the world, what was the single biggest deciding factor? Come on. It's as easy as you think it is. Whichever army was bigger. 90% of the time, whichever army was bigger, whichever Navy was bigger, whoever had the most ships, whoever had the most troops would win. In politics, replace ships, replace guns, replace troops. With dollars. Because dollars can be spent on hiring troops, people to go into the field, people to knock on doors, people to serve as neighborhood captains to try to make sure that the neighborhoods and the wards that you absolutely need to get across the state are turning out for you. The ships are for Democrats. The... ballot bags that will just show up in the middle of the night. No, I'm kidding. I'm kidding. But kind of, I'm not. Money. is the lifeblood of politics. And what Democrats have just never been able to understand since a landmark decision about 15 to 20 years ago, Citizens United is that in order to be able to speak about politics, in order to be able to exercise your First Amendment rights, the overwhelming majority of people need money to pay for advertising.

I myself am in a very, very unique position. I am paid and paid very well, thank you very much, to spew my opinions about politics by a company that has radio stations dedicated to allowing people to talk about politics like me. I am unique in that out of everybody in the entire state of Wisconsin, I am one of about, I don't know. five, six people who do the job I do, do an overtly politically conservative show. Everybody else who wants to advance the same narrative, who wants to spread the same message that I do, including political candidates, needs to pay for it. They will pay radio stations like mine. They will pay television stations. They will pay Google. They'll pay Google again for YouTube pre-roll ads, Facebook X. They will pay in order to get the message out there. Unless you got a show like mine. And if I were to run for office, I would have to give up this show because it is such a big advantage. And to get back on this radio station, I'd have to pay for it. Citizens United ruled that, yes, corporations and labor unions do still have the First Amendment rights of the people who run them. In other words, a corporation, and this is where liberals just pretend not to understand things. In fact, one of my favorite tweets of all time was the problem with modern discourse, or most of modern discourse is just liberals pretending not to understand things, thus making discourse impossible. Yes, it is not the corporation, the building. That is talking. It is the people who run the corporation, just like a labor union. If a labor union is a collection of individuals who speak with one voice on behalf of their members, so too is a corporation, so too is a trade federation, so too is a chamber of commerce, whatever. This is why fundraising totals by the candidate are so important because while people can speak on your behalf, the best messenger for your candidacy is you. The very best messenger for advocating for you is you. Tom Tiffany, raising $10 million, and a whole lot of it is in small dollar donations, that shows that there's a lot of excitement in this campaign. And yes, he is getting, as Democrats are already, well, he's getting billionaire donations from the e-lines and from Diane Hendricks and all the usual. Yes, yes.

Have I have I introduced you yet to George Soros, J.B. Pritzker, and Reid Hoffman. Not one of them live in Wisconsin, and those are the three biggest donors to the Democratic Party of Wisconsin and Democrat candidates over the past decade, and it's not even close. There's not even a close fourth. Money is big in politics. Tom Tiffany has been so effective with the record hole that he has raised, and in this reporting period, it's $8 million. Double, more than double. The previous record set by Rebecca Clayfish back in 2022 for her run for governor, which was ultimately unsuccessful because she had to spend so much money in the primary against the eventual winner, Tom, Tim Michaels, who lost to Governor Evers because he was tapped out. He was spending so much money to get the nomination that he just couldn't respond to Evers nonstop attack. And that's how Evers won. Evers didn't have to face a primary. Evers was able to just sit back and take pot shots at either Michaels or Clayfish or just ignore them both and focus on his own message of how great he is. Tom Tiffany just put out a new ad this past week, and it is about as folksy and dorky as you would expect. In other words, it is perfect for Tom Tiffany. It is... perfect for a general election campaign here in Wisconsin. Welcome to breakfast with the Tiffany's where nobody bites their tongue. Tom, you've got to fix health care. No one knows what it costs. I'm going to make it be more transparent. Young families can't afford housing. I will stop Wall Street from buying our homes and reverse the 400-year property tax hike. What about waste and fraud? We're going to audit every state agency to protect our tax dollars. Tom, you know Ma's going to hold you to it. I wouldn't have it any other way. Just a very effective ad. It's his entire family sitting around a picnic table. It is authentic. It is nerdy. It is Tom Tiffany. Now, you might be saying, well, Dan, Republican candidates, they have run poor ads before. I still hear Mark Belling screaming about the Michael Screnick for Supreme Court Justice Tuba ad. here's the difference Tiffany has been able to run the folksy oh here I am here's who I am for six months because he doesn't have an opponent yet What's the point wasting your fire before you know who the opponent is? What not having a primary has also allowed Tiffany to do is extensive background opposition research on every one of the remaining candidates. And he just got a bonanza of great stuff to work with should Sarah Rodriguez somehow survive and get this nomination. Spoiler alert, she won't. So the day after the primary, literally August 12th, he's going to be on the air just blasting whoever the nominee is. And especially if it's Francesca Hong, it is going to be 100% about socialism. It is going to be 100% about common sense versus crazy. That is what the dichotomy of this race is. Tiffany has been able to establish the terms of that dichotomy because he hasn't had to worry about a primary opponent.

That is such a massive advantage that Tiffany is going to be able to come out of the gate and why it's so important that he's got $3 million in cash on hand and is still raising a ton of money. He's been very, very effective at spending that money. He's not tapped out because he went on TV too early or he bought too heavily or he's overinvested in one particular media market. It's because he is able to immediately switch and immediately take the fight to whomever that Democrat might be. Fundraising numbers continue to come out today. It is not just Tom Tiffany doing very, very well. It is the all-important state Senate and state assembly races that are also seeing numbers that, frankly, are rather surprising because of how much better Republicans are doing this cycle than Democrats. We will dive in. This episode, sponsored by mood. Okay, this is actually genius. Are you ever overwhelmed with choices at the dispensary? What if I told you that you could shop cannabis by the exact mood you want tonight? With mood, you don't shop by strain names or confusion. You shop by how you want to feel. Want to relax after work? Sleep better. feel more creative, or be more social. Mood makes it simple. Pick the feeling, and mood recommends products to match. Mood has gummies, flour, pre-rolls, and edibles designed around your mood. I tried Mood's sleepy gummies, and within an hour I felt calm, settled, and ready for bed. No dispensary run, no second guessing, just a smooth, relaxing experience delivered to my door. It's federally legal. third party tested and backed by a 100-day satisfaction guarantee. Go to mood. M-O-O-O-D.com. That's M-O-O-D.com. However you want to feel tonight, mood helps you get there. Daily Trump date, we will check in with President Trump in Pennsylvania at a big defense conference as Centcom announces that as of 2 p.m. today. another round of attacks is being waged against the iranians in an attempt to just beat them into submission get them back to the negotiating table and strip them of any sort of defiance or hubris in believing that they have any sort of leverage over the united states of america all of that is coming up here on the dan o'donnell show now it's not just Tom Tiffany who is holding a massive fundraising advantage here at least as far as we're aware in terms of what has been reported thus far Attorney General candidate Eric Tony raised more than $700,000 during the first six months of this election year. That is the highest raised ever by any Republican Attorney General candidate and by any non-incumbent ever. To date, Tony has raised about $1.1 million. And boy, folks, it just seems like Josh Cole isn't really trying here. His heart just doesn't seem to be...

into it. In fact, I have not heard anything about call attending campaign events, about doing big-time fundraisers, about any sort of campaign activity. Not only that, we are also seeing significant advantages right now for the two campaign committees to elect Republicans in the Assembly and the state Senate. Yes, individual candidates will raise money on their own, but typically... When you're running as a Republican for the Assembly, you are supported by RAC, the Republican Assembly Campaign Committee, which is reporting today that it raised over $6 million during this reporting period. This included $5.72 million from individual contributors. The committee spent just $202,000 and has $11.5 million in cash on hand. Contrast that with the Assembly Democratic Campaign Committee, or ADCC, it raised a little over $3 million. and transfers from the party made up the bulk of that total finishing the period with two point three seven million dollars in cash reserves after expenditures of about eight hundred seventy five thousand dollars now this does not mean that the battle is over or that it's won by republicans but it does mean that right now Republicans have a bigger war chest. Now, do I believe that Democrats are going to get some George Soros funded group to come in and support their runs? Yes, of course. This is what always happens. But as of right now, the individual committees and the bulk of the money that is coming in totally favors Republicans right now. Also, the committee to elect a Republican Senate or C-E-R-S-SERS reports raising almost $5 million during the latest reporting period has more than $5 million in cash on hand. By comparison, the Senate... democratic campaign committee s d c c or s d c raised two point eight million dollars and has two point three million in cash on hand so everywhere you look In the governor's race, in the Senate races, and in the assembly races, Republicans are actually doing very, very well in raising money in arming up for what figures to be an incredibly tough battle and what figures to be just an insane fight to the finish. Because nobody, I think, believes that the Republicans are going to go down in the Senate without a fight.

The general consensus is that Republicans are still favored to hold on to a narrow majority in the assembly. And especially now if Francesca Hong is the nominee, all bets are off, that's the wild card. If Tom Tiffany is running against socialism and socialism is on the ballot in the ultimate swing state two years before the next presidential election. All sorts of money is going to come in on the Republican side in support of Tom Tiffany, and there's going to be a whole lot of interest in this race. It is generally believed that Hong as the nominee, and this is a big reason that the Democrats are trying to stop her, would make it much more difficult for Democrats to win the long desired trifecta, the Assembly, the Senate, and the governorship. They would not be favored to win the assembly. And in fact, I think, while they would have a slight edge in the odds to win the state Senate, Hong would make it much more difficult to do so. When we come back here on the Dan O'Donnell Show, we name the unhinged liberal. Some great news today in the campaign finance reporting. This is a big, big development ahead of the primary. The thinking is today that if Francesca Hong, the socialist frontrunner, puts up a big fundraising total, this race is all but over. Obviously, everybody is going to look for a week from today, July 22nd, the release of the next and final Marquette University Law School pull before this primary. If Hong proves that she can raise a lot of money, and that's so far been her only real weakness in this campaign, there's just going to be no chance for anybody to catch her. Mandela Barnes or Joel Brennan, Keldaroy's. I just don't see any chance for Sarah Rodriguez. I believe this campaign is over. You've actually got a former spokesperson. for the Democratic Party of Wisconsin now calling for her to drop out. It's getting real bad for her, real, real quick. In fact, I would be shocked if she's still a candidate one week from today when that poll comes out. Every other Democrat is jockeying for position to try to be the non-Hong, non-socialist alternative, including Keldaroys. That brings us to our unhinged liberal of the day. Remember, unfortunately, not able to use music because of copyright issues with the podcast. So for the time being, we will just tell you that it's time to name the unhinged liberal of the day. And it is indeed Keldaroys, who just released one of the most insane ads of this cycle. Kill us.

And it features Roy's talking to the camera as an ambulance races towards her, narrowly avoids her, and then crashes while she talks about her fear that Trump and Republicans are in the pockets of health insurance companies and are trying to kill us all. I'm Kel de Royce. Health care should be a right, but the system is broken. Republicans like Trump broke it so that insurance companies could profit more. It's almost like they're trying to kill us. If you couldn't hear that, it's almost like they're trying to kill us. Then there are supposedly her supporters who come on the camera and say, well, Kilda supports health care for all. Kilda supports, of course, universal abortion access and Kilda supports mental health care. Seems like she should take her own advice and get some of that because while this seems like a just gleefully... cheeky unhinged ad on its surface, would you believe that this is the exact same belief system that an actual assassin operated under Luigi Mangione in December of 2024 ambushed the CEO of United Healthcare Brian Thompson? and shot him to death in cold blood while he was at a health care conference in New York City because he believed that Thompson was killing people because his company was denying health insurance claims The left has celebrated Luigi Mangione as something of a Robin Hood figure. Only instead of robbing from the rich and giving to the poor, he's killing the rich and giving the poor absolutely nothing except a perverse sense of satisfaction that this rich CEO finally got his comeuppance. It is a dangerous, bloodthirsty mentality. that a whole lot of leftists have subscribed to. And now it seems that Kelder Roy's in this ad is giving that a wink at a nod. And it's almost as though Republicans like Trump and those insurance companies are trying to kill us. Well, what happens when you use rhetoric like they're all trying to kill us? Like... uh... words are violence like this is uh... what did what a o c call it when thompson was murdered denying health care claims and the uh... health care industry this is political violence they enact political violence against the people of this country And while, of course, she could never condone actual violence, like the kind inflicted by Luigi Mangione on an innocent man, you can understand why some other people would be driven to try to combat this political violence. It's exactly what...

Kelderoy's is saying here, listen to it again. I'm Kelter Roy's. Health care should be a right, but the system is broken. Republicans like Trump broke it so that insurance companies could profit more. It's almost like they're trying to kill us. Time now for the daily Trump date, President Trump traveling to Pennsylvania this afternoon for a big defense conference as CENTCOM, U.S. Central Command, announces that as of 2 p.m. Central Time, about two hours ago, another massive bombing campaign was launched against Iran. Now, President Trump, before taking the stage at that conference, gave a very, very... instructive, incisive interview to Fox business in which he basically said, yes, we are leaving every option on the table. I don't know. The number one negotiator, the guy who's been bragging about how many peace deals, he's been able to broker, something snapped inside of him. I'm convinced folks, it's because he was made aware of another Iranian plot on his life. And it was apparently, as I understand it. One that was very serious, that they were going to assassinate him when he went to Turkey for the NATO summit last week. And it was a plot that was foiled, but it was one that came dangerously close. I think President Trump said, all right. Yes, obviously, I'm taking this personally, but we're trying to negotiate in good faith with people who simply can't negotiate in good faith. They are simply incapable of negotiating in good faith with the great Satan in the United States. So we're just going to destroy them. And he told a reporter for Fox business today in the background at the backstage area of this security conference just a couple of hours ago that... Yes, we may wipe out Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps just like we did a decade ago to ISIS. You came to the conclusion that you couldn't negotiate with the IRGC. Does that mean that you might wipe them out like you did ISIS? Yeah, it does. We will see what's happening. We received a call just as I was coming here. They want to meet. They always want to meet. But, you know, this should have been done by other presidents for... many years, 47 years, but really a lot longer than that. And it wasn't. And I never understood why, but now I do. Because if you're not going to do it the way I'm doing it, you're never going to make a deal with them. They were very difficult. They were good negotiators who were tapping everybody along for 47 years. Then Obama came in and he just offered him, you know, a fortune of money. He paid him off. 1.7 billion in green cash and hundreds of billions of dollars. And that really set everyone else back because they started making, wanting to make nuclear weapons. And then we hit him a year ago, just about a year ago.

with the B2 bombers and that ended that. So we got a little bit lucky. Our timing was a little bit lucky. Yes, Mr. President, Dan Kane, Raising Kane, is your chief of staff. Right. He was the one, or Joint's Chief of Staff. He was the one who wiped out ISIS. That's right. Could he be tasked then now to wipe out the IJC if you can't negotiate? Well, we're going to be in good shape. I mean, they are really, they've been depleted. Their weapons are down very 91%. The drone capacity is way down. They still have, but not a lot. Their manufacturing capacity is down. Their rocket launchers and their missile launchers are way down. Their missiles are way down. They're probably depleted by 88, close to 90%. Now, that doesn't mean they're still not danger, and there is. They're nasty people, but they want to make a deal. I can tell you they want to make a deal, and you don't have to be a genius to realize when you see what's happening to them every night, and now today we gave them a little daytime shot, too. So this should have been done, not by me, this should have been done a long time ago, long before me. Won't get any disagreement from me on that score. The Fox Business reporter there, Edward Lawrence of Fox Business. Central Command said that there was a morning precision munition attack followed by that afternoon wave, and the military also disabled a tanker for violating the renewed blockade, trying to get oil out of an Iranian port. This is about as aggressive as an action that we've seen from the United States in months. The president, the United States military, not messing around. That, ladies and gentlemen, is your daily Trump date. And President Trump today issuing a rather interesting... Truth Social Post. Yes, he did call Michael Alfonso, the son-in-law of Sean Duffy, who's running for Duffy's old seat in northern Wisconsin and currently serves as Trump's Transportation Secretary, a future star. Alfonso had already been endorsed by Trump in that race. And frankly, folks... As much as I do like the other Republicans in that race, and it rubs me a little the wrong way. You know, this is a young guy. He's in his, what, early mid-20s, a very, very nice guy, very good guy, but he's in his mid-20s. And is there a little bit of nepotism in politics? Yes, absolutely it is. The reality is, though, in a house race, you're not overcoming the Trump endorsement. And last poll I saw was Alfonso over hermining, something like 31% to 10. Hermitin, by the way, was an Iran hostage. It's an incredible personal story that the guy is just an incredibly impressive guy.

Just don't think you're overcoming Donald Trump calling you a future star and giving you his endorsement very early on. Remember, remember, when Trump gave Tiffany the endorsement, I mean, it was always probably going to be Tiffany or bust for the Republican Party. They wanted Sean Duffy, sure. Tom Tiffany has always been considered such a strong candidate. The day after Trump endorsed Tiffany, the other Republican in the race, Josh Schumann, dropped out. But I'm not talking about that truth social post from Trump today. He waded into the debate over data centers with a lengthy post that, frankly, Makes a whole lot of sense. One of the biggest driving forces in the future for jobs are data centers. They are big, strong, bold, and money machines for the state in which they are built. Governor Kathy Hochul, for political reasons, has terminated all data centers being built or to be built in New York State. These companies are now being sought in Alabama, Florida, Texas, Arizona, and many other states. Both the taxes and the jobs amount to liquid gold. New York State has made a terrible decision. All of this income and other benefits will be going to red states in some blue where data centers are sought as cash cows with lower taxes and record-setting jobs. They must pay for their own water and power, and any leftover goes back to the state and local community. Data centers are tremendous wins for the states and communities that are lucky enough to get them. New York should change its policy immediately. The radical left Democrats, see, because they're dumb, must not be allowed to cause us to lose data centers, AI, and all of this incredible new technology to China and other countries, President Donald J. Trump. There is not a candidate right now running for governor, Tiffany included, who supports new data centers, or at least is open to new data centers because they have become so politically toxic. Anybody who sort of understands political realities, understands that supporting data centers is just a position that you cannot take in this electoral environment. A number of communities, including Port Washington, have tried to or succeeded in getting data center moratoriums on the ballot and in place. In fact, Francesca Hong, the socialist, and pretty much every Democrat, has said if they're elected, they're going to do a pause on data center construction.

Wisconsin, because of its northern climate and the past two days notwithstanding with the temperature, has a very cold climate and very flat land and is near a big body of water in Lake Michigan is an ideal spot to put data centers. Illinois is not because Democrats like Kathy Hochul and J.B. Pritzker and Francesca Hong don't want them there. Data centers, and we have been going over this over and over and over again. In fact, I believe a couple of weeks ago, I did an entire hour just trying to debunk some of the myths that have gotten into the mainstream. about data centers. First of all, they are not going to drain Lake Michigan of its water supply. It is a closed loop system. You use a certain amount of water, and then that water keeps getting recycled and reused throughout the system. And also, the water is used for cooling. A lot of data centers now are constructed using air cooling mechanisms and not water. They're not going to cause massive brownouts because they are required to pay for, as President Trump said, or create their own energy usage, i.e., and I believe, the future here is small-scale nuclear power. As soon as you say nuclear, that sets off a whole new rage and wave of fears. But that is the future, just as the data technology economy is the future. Folks, it's not just AI. It's not just chat GPT that is being powered. We use a whole lot of data. We use a whole lot of what's known in the industry as compute, i.e. the data and computing power, the processing power, the actual physical chips required to power, all of the things that are borderline miraculous about the modern information economy. It is unquestioned that the data centers that are used for military, for national defense, for homeland security, and other very, very secretive and very proprietary purposes need to be here in the United States. They just do. If I need to explain why you haven't been paying attention to the last, oh, I don't know, several thousand years of human existence because you can't trust another country to have valuable resources that you possess. This is why, by the way, President Trump has been going after Iran and did go after Venezuela. It is all about taking on the biggest geopolitical foe.

China's access to what is powering this information technology military arms race. It is an arms race, not just between the United States and hostile nations, but also between states competing for what are going to be very valuable entities, which can generate billions in tax revenue, which are actually creating jobs, which actually are creating. sustaining jobs. It's not just construction of the data centers and then they're just powered by the AI or robots. There are still upwards of a hundred to a thousand people depending on the size of the data center that need to go to work there. When all of a sudden you import that many people, you create that many jobs, you are going to have other businesses, other... uh... restaurants hotels stores all of it go up around now i do agree and i have one hundred percent with you In terms of converting pristine farmland or forest land, just changing the character of a neighborhood, changing a character of a community, completely get it. I will never, ever even use the dreaded nimbie, not in my backyard, defense on you. Because it's a legitimate concern. I wouldn't want to look at a giant building where I once looked out at farmland or I once looked out at a forest. But folks, folks, have you driven to Chicago lately? Have you been in Kenosha County? Have you been near the freeway? We've got a whole lot of land there that is basically just industry. It's commercial. It's gas stations. It's roadside motels, truck stops, that sort of thing. And it's heavy industry. You've got U-line. You've got the Amazon fulfillment centers. You've got the Foxconcent, the Microsoft Data Center facility, all of it. You build up data centers around that. I guarantee you. Nobody is going to say boo. I guarantee that instead of having land that is just otherwise sort of there.

And he is asking Todd Blanche a question based on the premise that he's just sort of invented, that he's just sort of gotten from watching too much Chris Hayes and Rachel Maddow. Now, what is it that Todd Blanche has actually done? Well, how about restore... faith in the office of the attorney general why that is so important after so many years of complete and utter corruption and the unbridled success of the department of justice in cleaning up america's streets and cracking down on fraud that's coming up next year on the dan o'd dot John Bolton's paradise lost uh... just a a seminal work of western literature John Bolton explaining the ways of God to men by exploring the fall of Satan, who uttered one of the most famous phrases in the history of literature, better to reign in hell than to serve in heaven. And yes, I'm saying that, not to brag, but to remind you that I'm more than just jokes about Chuck Schumer farting, which is still hilarious. I said it's still hilarious. Put that pot up, Doug. Or I'm going to record you farting and then play it on the radio nonstop. Now on Iran and the NDAA, when all the Trump administration can say about it. Wait, whoa, whoa, whoa. Well, I didn't even notice this. I have watched this man rip one. for like, I've got like a TikTok stream and all it is is Chuck Schumer farting and I didn't notice this because he totally does like lift up after after he releases. He lifts his shoulders up as though he has been forced up by some gaseous emission from his bottom. But listen to how after he releases, he sort of, the word is sort of pinched coming out of his mouth. Now on Iran and the NDAA, when all the Trump administration... Did you catch that? It wasn't so... He was giggling a little because I think he knew the fart got caught on the microphone. Look, I'm 45 years old. I still think farts are hilarious. I got to give it to old Chuck. He knew what he did. He knew what he did. And I think he chuckled a little bit because at 75, he still thinks farts are hilarious. Now on Iran and the NDAA, when all the Trump administration can say about his disastrous war with Iran. When he says Trump, he chuckles a little bit as he said with Trump, we've all been there. Yes, that's what you get here on the Dan O'Donnell show. We can be the most high-minded philosophical show of all time. And we're tying Milton's Paradise loss and the rise of Satan rebels against God because he hates God's creation. Man, he is envious of man. He is envious of the dominion earth that they have gotten when he says, well,

All I wanted is a similar status for the angels that he let. Remember, Satan was the morning star. He was Lucifer. And he was the angel of the morning sun. And he said, yo man, like, why can't we chill like the humans? It's cast down. He says, you know what? I'm going to show back up in snake form. And I'm going to pollute the mind. of man. Ultimately, what was Lucifer, what caused him to fall. Huberous, arrogance, sure, but it was envy. last week we were talking about socialism and why it is so powerful and why it's so intoxicating it's because it plays on our basest emotion and everybody's envies two types of envy benign envy is you're jealous of your neighbor as a nice house he's oh man i wish i had a house like that but i don't make enough money instead of getting mad You get motivated. And you say, you know what, I'm going to work harder at work. I am going to get a promotion. And eventually that envy motivates you to get a house just as nice as your neighbors. And then, you know what? I want to tear him down or I want to seize his house because I don't have one and I want to feel better about myself. Malignant envy is what motivated Satan. It's what caused the original sin. And the original sin was, yes, not trusting God, but it was envy of God. It was eating from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. And Satan actually plays to Eve, who then plays to Adam, saying, well, why shouldn't we be like God? Why shouldn't we? They were envious of what God had, the knowledge of good and evil. So they ate the fruit, which, by the way, was not an apple. It was much more likely a fig. That is socialism, sort of in a nutshell. Did you know, Saul Olinsky and his rules for radicals? Do you know who he dedicated the book to? It was an over-the-shoulder dedication to the first revolutionary in the history of the world. Satan. Look that up, folks. That is the actual dedication in rules for radicals. That's who a lot of these people are. They are so subversive that they would rather reign in hell than live in heaven and have to serve and have to be the supposed victims of capitalism. All right. Little deep discussion. Back to Chuck Schumer farting. Now on Iran and the NDAA. All right, we are sufficiently highbrow and lowbrow. Let's get back into Todd Blanche. The Homeland Security Task Force has been an unbridled success in partnering with local law enforcement since the very start of the first Trump administration with federal agencies who are able to very quickly respond to gang activity, very quickly.

able to provide logistical support to those communities and to those states, almost all red states and red communities, or at least communities like Washington, D.C., which is about as liberal as it gets, but the mayor there, Muriel Bowser, understands how effective this partnership has been in cleaning up her city. It has reduced the nation's crime rate by the lowest year-over-year total. Since record keeping began in 1900, and Todd Blanche testified about that partnership today and what he's heard from law enforcement officials across the country. To a person, they say this is what we needed forever. This is what works. Having law enforcement get together in a room and say, we need to tackle this gang or this apartment building has a drug problem or even this individual needs to be targeted because he's a violent felon and needs to go off to streets. It's basic law enforcement that... that I've done for a long time, that President Trump echoes and trumpets and has done since January 20th. And that's why, I think that's why we're seeing the success that we're seeing. And we're not slowing down. HSCFs are up and running full speed ahead. And I hope that we continue to still see the results that we've seen over the past 10 months or so. And those results speak for themselves. It's not just homicides that are down by the biggest one-year amount since 1900, do in large part because of all of the deportations, again, made possible by a local state and federal partnership with ICE, the FBI, on immigration holds 287G agreements with local jails and law enforcement agencies that allow for the worst of the worst of the worst people who are in this country illegally to be removed with no hope of ever getting back in so they can't victimize innocent americans that's what's been the single most effective policy and Todd Blanche has been a very effective steward of that give credit where credits do the do joe under bondie was very good at this but Todd Blanche has been just an absolute revelation in how quickly his DOJ has been able to put together investigations and prosecutions against fraudsters the highest profile one of course was the southern poverty law center which was perpetuating fraud upon its donors by essentially funding the very white supremacist groups that it was purporting to fight But the biggest focus of combating fraud in the Trump administration and for Todd Blanche has, of course, been in combating the fraud against our social welfare programs, again, in a very big way, being committed by people who should not be in this country. It's incredible since COVID. the absolute thievery that's happened from the FISC by people in this country. And so we have focused tremendous amount of efforts, not only in the new division, but at every U.S. Attorney's Office, with every Inspector General and their offices, the FBI, DHS, and HSI, to just root out this fraud. You have examples of rampant, of individuals just stealing.

So setting up entire centers for autism, when there are no patients, when there is no center, and taking millions of dollars of hard-earned taxpayers' money. And so we are very focused on that. We've already, like I said earlier, billions and billions we've already collected in just the past couple of months. That effort is going to go forward for as long as I am in the position that I'm in now, no matter whether I'm confirmed or not. And it's extraordinarily important. This also raises a very significant question. Where was this aggressive prosecution of fraud, not just before Todd Blanche became acting attorney general, but before the second Trump term? Why was this just allowed to go on for four consecutive years? Why instead of focusing on outright thievery of billions of taxpayer dollars, which can be stopped through a relatively inexpensive effort, using people who are already investigating this sort of crime, getting them focused at the local FBI bureau level to rooting out the easiest to spot. If you didn't, if a kid with an iPhone could spot the quality leering center in Minneapolis, you'd better believe the FBI can, but they weren't allowed to under Joe Biden. Because the focus under Joe Biden was what? Political persecution, especially of President Trump. Folks, I don't think we're ever going to fully appreciate how corrupt the Department of Justice was those four years. But Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson's book about how everybody just happened to miss Joe Biden's obvious mental decline. Oh, yeah, they missed it. No, no, no, Jake, no, Al. We all saw it on the right. You just said we were lying to you that we were engaging in cheap fakery. with videos showing Biden wandering off, looking confused, looking at the 80th anniversary of D-Day, like Chuck Schumer, he might have farted while on stage or very likely much, much worse. Seriously, go back and look at the video. It looks like the man has an accident in his pants. It unfortunately does. Why did Biden run? Why was he being pushed to run? Well, according to Thompson and Tapper's book, it's because he was convinced that he wasn't going to have to do any campaigning. He wasn't going to have to do any debates because Trump would be in jail. Now, think about that for a second. At the same time, just a couple of weeks after Trump announced in late 2022 that he was going to run for president again in 2024 instead of retiring, the Biden administration launched investigations. It impaneled unconstitutionally, I might add, a special prosecutor.

And the number three official at the DOJ took a job as a line prosecutor in New York City to revive an obscure white collar case against Donald Trump in the Manhattan DA's office. Took a massive cut in pay, massive cut in prestige to go from a high-ranking position in Biden's DOJ to work as a line prosecutor in Manhattan solely so he could get Trump. The president who appointed the special prosecutor and clearly was aware that the number three at the DOJ was going to prosecute this case says, I don't have to worry about my reelection bid. Because Trump is going to be in prison because we are going to prosecute him and ensure that he's in prison. Now you've got a DOJ under Trump and Todd Blanche going after actual criminals. One month, you're slammed. The next, you're chasing bids. Small businesses live with that reality. Your software costs shouldn't. Autodesk gets it. Autodesk for small business makes it easy to start with Autodesk flex, a pays you go way to access the tools you need when you need them. With prepaid tokens, you can use more than 100 Autodesk products without locking into a long-term commitment. Go to Autodesk-A-U-T-O-D-E-S-K.com slash small business, all one word, today. And see how Autodesk Flex helps your business pay only for what you use. Autodesk Flex. When your workload changes, Autodesk changes with you. You can email me, DOD at iHeartMedia.com at Dan O'Donnell Show on Facebook, Instagram, X, and YouTube. We are streaming live everywhere. Easiest place to find us. Just search for Dan O'Donnell Show. Please do follow us across social media. And follow, subscribe, like, download, and listen to the Dan O'Donnell Show podcast each and every day. If you miss a single second, chances are you have missed a lot. We cover a lot of ground. We break exclusive stories. We follow news as it happens. And you won't want to miss a single second Dan O'Donnell's show on IHartRadio or wherever you listen to podcasts. Sizzling Summer Cash Contest Time. Word of the hour, credit CRED-I-T. credit you have got until 555 to go to our website enter the keyword credit yes it is probably going to pop up as the inflation vacation cash contest apparently we cannot figure out how to update that my guess it is a stale page in our cash somewhere

That is causing us probably. It's the inflation vacation contest. It's the sizzling summer cash contest. It's a chance for you to win a thousand bucks each and every hour, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. each and every weekday from now until August 7th. All right. Obviously, a lot going on with campaign finance reporting due today. Joel Brennan appears to be the first Democrat to announce his fundraising total. It is $600 some thousand dollars. Now, compare that to the $8 million raised by Tom Tiffany. Brennan also, I believe, has dumped a lot of his own money into this race. And he is trying desperately, trying very, very desperately to be the one that the Democrats pick. Now that it's obvious, Sarah Rodriguez, is not going to be able to be in this race, is able to be a factor in stopping the Francesca Hong Socialist Express. In fact, Brennan did say something very interesting about... the realities facing democrats this fall and why it is that republicans have had such a good fundraising quarter fundraising period. I guess this is a six-month period, not a quarter, so the first six months of 2026. Why it is that RAC, the Republican Assembly Congressional Campaign Committee and the SERS Committee to elect a Republican Senate, the fundraising arms of the Republican Assembly and Republican Senate respectively. are just blowing the doors off of fundraising dramatically outraising their democrat counterparts i think A lot changed just in the last couple of weeks. Yes, I know the fundraising period ended June 30th, and the reports are due at 11.59 p.m. today. But you had Tom Tiffany with huge fundraising numbers. You had Eric Tony with huge fundraising numbers. You had a record for the Secretary of State race, Republican Nate Polnow reporting a record hall. You're just seeing a whole lot of money come into Republican coffers, and I think a big reason for that is because...

The thing that's galvanized Republicans, the thing that's motivated Republicans. And the big reason that the party that controls the White House typically doesn't do very well in the next midterm is because its voters are not motivated because they're complacent. They're happy. Their party controls the White House. They're not nearly as motivated to get out and vote because they're not ticked off or they're not scared. Well, the specter of socialism is a great motivator. The fear there is real. And the New York primaries, I really do believe shortly before the 4th of July, America's 250th birthday, changed the entire calculus of this midterms. Now, it may be... that Democrats still have a very good night, and I do believe Democrats are still going to win control of the House, probably with somewhere in the neighborhood of 220 to 225 seats, nowhere near a massive blue wave like they were originally hoping for. But I don't believe that here in Wisconsin, especially if a socialist is atop the ticket, you're going to see Democrats win the trifecta. In fact, I think if Hong is the nominee, Tom Tiffany becomes a prohibitive favorite to win election to the governorship of Wisconsin. We're going to dive into Joel Brennan's warning for his fellow Dems coming up in just a second. But last night, there was a congressional candidate's debate in the third congressional district. This is far western Wisconsin, a district currently represented. By Republican Derrick Van Orden, great friend of the show, he is considered to be the single most vulnerable incumbent Republican in the entire country, meaning this is Democrats' number one pickup opportunity. Their candidate, Rebecca Cook. who simply cannot stop running away from reporters who ask her questions about her past positions. After last night's candidate forum, she is running against another Democrat by the name of Emily Bergey, but she is going to be the nominee for the second straight chance at unseating Derrick Van Orden. After this candidate forum, there was a reporter who asked her, she said, I'm not here to take away your guns. I don't want to take away your gun. I'm not a gun grabber. So a reporter asked her today, hey, Ms. Cook. Why did you say two years ago that you wanted to take everybody's AR-15? Cook literally breaks into one of those half-run, half-walk, kind of speedwalking things along with one of our AIDS to try to get away. Rebecca, why did you say that you want to ban AR-15s? No comment on that? Rebecca, why do you want to ban Wisconsinites guns? No comment? Why won't you answer the question, Rebecca? No comment?

Of course not. This follows Rebecca Cook running away from another reporter who is asking her about her stance on sanctuary cities and protecting illegal aliens. By the way, here's Rebecca Cook in 2024. I support the ban of AR-15s. Yeah, it doesn't get much clearer than that. Yet last night at this candidate forum, say, I am not here to take your guns. Rebecca Cook is a unique candidate. in that she is just effortlessly able to lie about literally everything, including her own background. This is a race where there are a lot of people, even though Cook has run before, who might not be aware of who she is. So at this forum, each candidate, Cook and Berge, were given the opportunity to introduce themselves to the 150 or so people who were in attendance and the people watching on television. Here is how Cook introduced herself. And I want to see how politically astute you are, ladies and gentlemen. What big job that she just sort of omits from her laundry list of what she's been and what she's done in her life. A little bit about my background. I grew up here on a dairy farm in Chippewa County, ran a retail business in downtown Eau Claire, and launched a nonprofit serving women starting businesses across Western Wisconsin. Additionally, I waitress in a strip mall while I'm running for Congress here in O'Clair. I've always worn multiple hats to make ends meet, which is not unlike most people in our communities. Seems like she's forgetting to put on one of those hats, though. What job, a significant one, is she omitting? Obviously by design. Yeah, that's right. She's been a longtime Democrat political operative. In fact, she has worked for some of the most insane left-wing people in this state and in this country. One of her more notable clients back in the day when he was running for Congress, none other than the Managua Brewing Company weirdo Kirk Bangstad himself. Not only that, not only did Rebecca Cook. actually work for Kirk Bankstad. Kirk Bankstad in a Facebook post about two months ago. accused cook of stealing his donor list so that she could hit up the people who were donating to the insane, the utterly insane Kirk Bangstad to donate to her campaign. Now, Benstad shortly after Lindsey Graham died, the South Carolina senator of an aortic dissection very suddenly and very tragically at the age of 71 on Saturday.

Bangstad took to social media to remind people that, hey, you know what, I know you're excited that a prominent Republican died. I know you're very excited about this, but no, we will not have free beer day for Lindsey Graham's death. Only Mitch McConnell or Trump or other super prominent Republicans. Yes, the man is still offering free beer the day Donald Trump dies. I don't even know what to say to that. This is also the same man who was literally organizing his crazies to try to go after my advertisers to get me off the air. Thankfully, Kirk Bangstad is about as good at leading social movements as he is at making beer, meaning not very. This is a guy who is so toxic that the Democratic Party wants nothing to do it. Rebecca Cook said, yeah, you know what, I'm going to work for this guy. He seems like a straight shooter. And then when she's done working for him, she apparently, according to Bingstead, I've got no reason to doubt him because he may be nuts, but at least he's honest when he's going after the corporate Dems. After she's done working for him, she says, you know what? I am going to hit up the most insane people in the world who think it's a good idea to donate to Kirk Bangstad's scam pack that was used to very obviously enrich himself. Think about how nuts you have to be to donate to Kirk Bangstad's political ambitions. Then think... You're Rebecca Cook. You're running in a predominantly rural district, and you want to be, you know what? I'm just a waitress at a strip mall. I grew up right here. I went to college at LaCross. I'd work multiple jobs. I started a women's charity. I'm just Becky from the block. But what she really is... is a radical socialist lib. She's just got a lie and say, no, no, no, I'm not courting the craziest people, the people who are too crazy. Even for the left wing, socialist wing of the Democrat Party, the Kirk Bangstad Acolytes, I'm not one of them. I'm not hitting them up for money with my stolen fundraising list. I'm just, I'm totally normal. I don't even support defunding the police. I just want to underscore that I do not support abolishing or defunding the police, as many on the right side of the aisle might accuse me of doing. I support our law enforcement members. I have met with a number of county sheriffs across this district and want to make sure that our community stay safe. That's interesting. She never called for defunding the police, huh? Because I have got an article here from the last time that she ran for the House. October 4th, 2024. Rebecca Cook, a Wisconsin Democratic House candidate called for defunding the police, which she termed brute police enforcement and said that the money should instead go to addressing the root causes of crime.

cook made the comments during a zoom call for citizen action wisconsin there's another group of societal winners here in this state in december of twenty twenty three according to video obtained by the washington free beacon cook said during the call when it comes to policing i'm a proponent of allocating greater funds to root causes of the issue rather than brute police enforcing that is literally defunding the police See, here's the thing about Democrats like Rebecca Cook. They believe the exact same thing as the socialists like Francesca Hong. They just are smart enough not to let the Rube Democrat voters know what they actually stand for. And they hope once they get to a general election that not enough people are paying attention or that Republican voters are not going to turn out in as great a numbers. Or she's able to convince just enough of the independents who don't really know what's going on, but no, they don't like Donald Trump and know they want to vote for a change, even if they don't have any earthly idea what the alternative is, what change they actually want, or any idea about the body politic whatsoever. These are people who just swing back and forth with no real ideological mooring because they don't really follow. any of this she is hoping that she can simply fool them well the problem for democrats is with so many open socialists now representing the democratic party They won't be able to fool the people. What's the famous quote? You can fool some of the people all of the time, but you can't fool all of the people, although you can fool all the people some of the time, some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time. None other than Joel Brennan is sort of sounding the alarm here. We will dive into that next. This is probably the only talk radio show. where you'll get an in-depth discussion of Paradise Lost and John Bolton in one minute and an equally in-depth discussion of Chuck Schumer farting on the floor of the Senate. The next. The American people need to know, of course, how and why this chaos is spreading through their streets, and we need a complete investigation that's independent. Now on Iran and the NDAA. When all the Trump administration can say about his disastrous war with Iran, is that Vietnam was working. Shut up, Chuck. The man knew he ripped one, and he was giggling about it, as I think all men do when they hear a particularly Jewish. It's like a Pavlovian response to men. We have to laugh at farts. It's just what we do. So you get both here on the Dan O'Donnell Show, and I think the most astute political analysis in the state of Wisconsin, certainly the best fart analysis.

One of the things that really stood out to me during this candidate forum last night between Rebecca Cook and Emily Berge, who is not going to win the Democrat nomination to take on Derrick Van Orden in the Far Western Third Congressional District. Was Cook saying that, you know what, I just want to make it abundantly clear. I don't support abolishing the police. I just want to underscore that I do not support abolishing or defunding the police, as many on the right side of the aisle might accuse me of doing. I support our law enforcement members. I have met with a number of county sheriffs across this district and want to make sure that our community stay safe. Okay, she absolutely did call for defunding the police multiple times, in fact, pretty much throughout 2020. She used the official Instagram account of her business to do so. We discovered this, reported on this exclusively some time ago. Why is she saying, why specifically is she saying that specific talking point? Well, because she's very likely going to be running on the same ballot as a candidate in Francesca Hong at the very top of the ticket, who is saying, yeah, I totally still do believe in abolishing the police. I envision a world without prisons. And I want to do away with all law enforcement. Always, forever. We can live in a utopian society, although she also says, yeah, if elected, I totally think we should sick the National Guard on ICE agents who try to deport illegal aliens in Wisconsin. Good luck defending that. Joel Brennan, who is perhaps one of the last sane or at least shrewd Democrats left, talked to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel's Jesse O'Poyan, a political reporter today, and said this, that Brennan is trying to be the non-socialist alternative to Hong. It's not going to be Sarah Rodriguez, and Democrats sure as heck do not want it to be Mandela Barnes. It's either Kelderoy's or Joel Brennan. Who boy. Here's what Brennan told O'Poyant. If we spend the fall defending ourselves over comments related to defunding the police, if we spend the fall defending ourselves over being incompetent in the way that we manage our own campaign resources, we will lose and we will not be able to address the biggest issues that people have related to health care, related to housing, related to education. He gets it. If a socialist or if an utter incompetent like Sarah Rodriguez is the nominee, they will not be able to go on the attack.

They won't be able to pin unaffordable housing, unaffordable education. By the way, the insane cost increases in housing and education and health care can all be pinned directly on Democrats. And not just Joe Biden and the most recent batch of Democrats. We can go all the way back to the 1980s and earlier. In fact, if any of you Libs would like to debate me on this point. Please feel free. Our phone lines are always open. He understands Brennan does. that Democrats will have to try to make the case to people that, A, not all of them are insane socialists, or B, that socialism really isn't so bad. It's not, you know, hammer and sickle, uh, gulog socialism. It's happy face. We're just like those smiling Norwegian, Erling Holland socialists. Of course, it's not. Norway is not actually a socialist country. And socialism is never big government, big social safety net, high tax Nordic state socialism, which of course is totally dependent on petro dollars. It's inevitably communism. It brings ruin. It brings autocratic government. And it brings truly insane people. This is why Tom Tiffany's slogan, common sense not crazy. This is an election between common sense and crazy is so incredibly effective. Yesterday, there was a hearing before the, I believe it was the House Education Committee. I don't know how I missed this one. The chancellor of the University of California, San Francisco's medical school, medical school, was asked, so do you use the phrase pregnant persons? He said, no, thankfully. This was a hearing on the dangers of left-wing DEI ideology in medical school. You know, teaching the people to operate on you. And my God, if I have a doctor who went to UCSF and I have an emergency surgery and he's spending 20 minutes looking for my uterus, there's a very good chance I'm bleeding out on the table. This guy said, okay, no, no, no, don't worry. We don't use the term pregnant people. We recognize biological reality. Most people who get pregnant are women. Yeah, most. The vast majority of pregnancies are in women, and I have absolutely no problem with using the word pregnant women. I use it myself. Has a non-biological woman ever had a baby? A transgender person can. That's not a biological woman. Has a non-biological woman ever had a baby? I would reiterate. It's ridiculous.

head of UC San Francisco's medical school. This isn't like, you know, the head of the queer studies department. The medical school. And you say most pregnancies occur in women. Most? Uh, care to care to. cite the scientific research on that one like how many how many male uteruses have ever produced a child doctor this is the sort of craziness that brennan recognizes that democrats would have to defend The trans issue absolutely crushed Democrats in 2024. One of the most effective ads in recent political history was Kamala Harris is for they, them, Trump is for you. Simple, effective to the point. Common sense versus crazy is every bit as effective. Why has Tom Tiffany spent six months trying to portray himself as the the folksy dam man, the guy who used to operate a dam in northern Wisconsin? Why, by the way, is he calling himself the damn man? Because he is the literal human dam that would stop the flood of socialism. You see the strategy playing out from a mile away. He is making himself seem folksy. He is highlighting his mom the ties to his family, the ties to his community. He is embracing the scony traditions that we all love, but all admit are to the outside kind of nerdy. Why do we have a lazy Susan full of cheeses and everything other than relish but still call it a relish tray? I don't know because it's awesome and it's what we do. Why do we have brandy old fashions instead of bourbon old fashions like the rest of the country? Because they're better. Duh. Why do we kind of talk with a very up north accent? It's because we do. And you know what? We're proud of it. Elite coasties, make fun of us all you want. Yeah, we're absolutely going to be out in the parking lot tailgating a funeral. In fact, I guarantee like 75% of the people listening to me right now have tailgated a funeral. It's a thing. Yep, producer. Have you tailgated a child's baptism or first communion? Not yet. I have. I have. It was my buddies, I believe it was his daughter's baptism.

It was like a 10 a.m. service. And we're all in our 20s. And we're sitting out there. I felt a little bad because it was at my childhood church. And we're sitting out there drinking beer outside as all of like the families and like the little girls and all their church dresses. And there's a bunch of 20 something dudes drinking PBR tall boys outside of the church. Why do we do that? Because it's our culture. Because we're proud of it. Despite what you may think of us, you elitists with your brilliant ideas to import the entire third world and destroy your cities through unchecked crime, we tend to have pretty good common sense solutions to the problems that you create. What Tiffany is creating is a clear dichotomy here. He is saying Francesca Hong, also lifelong Wisconsinite, also known to embrace her inner nerd, bizarrely cheering wildly for the New York Knicks when she's from Wisconsin. Okay. That went pretty viral just for how bizarre it was. But what Tiffany is saying is her ideology. It has no place in Wisconsin, no place in the world because it is the most toxic ideology that human beings have ever conceived. But it really has no place in Wisconsin. Got no place going down a water slide in the Wisconsin Dells. No place picking apples in Door County. But it's seeping in. And somebody like the damn man, just an everyday regular Wisconsinite from northern Wisconsin, not down in Milwaukee or Madison, he's going to be the one to stand in the way, to stand between that ideology. It is absolutely brilliant. I got to ask, folks. What happened to the delightfully cringe Democrats that we used to have and just loved making fun of in bygone years? Why do we now have the half nuts and half insidious sounding ones like Zohran Mamdani and even Francesco Haw? A little five-foot-nothing, 100-pound woman can still say the things that make your spine. Just tingle and chills cover your entire body. She'll be like, oh, yeah, I totally love the brewers. I totally love the box. Yeah, go, Pat, go. We're going to seize the means of production and start locking up ice agents if they set foot on our state. What? Oh, my God. Viva la Revolution. It's just like, ah. Well, ladies and gentlemen, I have found a throwback, cringe lib. We'll introduce you to her. I'm not exactly sure what the Francesca Hong campaign is waiting for. Welcome back to the Dan O'Donnells show. All day, we were promised that the Hong campaign was going to have some seriously good news.

uh... at the campaign reporting deadline and that's at eleven fifty nine tonight is it possible that she's waiting for her massive fundraising totals to be released right before the evening news yeah sure but the big knock on home is not just that she's an insane socialist that's actually the biggest knock on home it's that because she's an insane socialist she's not able to raise a lot of money And now that you've had one candidate already implode because of a campaign finance scandal in Sarah Rodriguez, the Democrats are going to be taking a very close look at these reporting numbers. And if Huang is able to blow the doors off of fundraising in the first six months. This might be all she wrote. It might not matter what Mandela Barnes does or any of the other candidates. I already think that Hong is in the driver's seat. I think a lot of Mandela's polling advantage that he's been citing has been illusory because it's just based on name recognition. He's the only Democrat that people know because he ran statewide before and is the former lieutenant governor. If Francesca Hong has a big fundraising total, it might be over, but she has yet to report it, meaning I don't think she wants the comparison to Tom Tiffany's fundraising total. So that will be fascinating to watch tonight.