The Ultimate Conservative Voter Guide

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text at 414-799-1130. And we are arming you with the knowledge that you need to cast the right choice in the spring elections. The conservative choice, it is the ultimate conservative voter guide online right now. We'll get to that in just a second. First top stories that we are following as in person early voting opens up. The final Marquette University Law School poll shows liberal Chris Taylor, leading conservative candidate Maria Lazar in that state Supreme Court election. All the details in just the second. Markwayne Mullin has been sworn in as the new Secretary of Homeland Security. The Senate approved his nomination yesterday. He takes over amid a DHS shutdown. Democrats are refusing to fund the agency because of ICE, which... is already fully funded through the end of 2028. Thanks to President Trump's one big beautiful bill. The Daily Trump date is coming up right after the 4 o'clock news. Ice agents deployed to airports nationwide have dramatically cut down on TSA security wait times caused by that Democrat shutdown. People reported waiting three to four hours in security lines over the weekend. and early monday but within a few hours of ice agents handling crowd control yesterday those wait times dropped to well below one hour the story coming up in the four o'clock hour then in the five o'clock hour the people of cut a hay speak And their school board listens, a follow-up to a Dan O'Donnell show exclusive from yesterday. Hundreds of people attended last night's school board meeting furious about what they call a secret plan to spend millions of taxpayer dollars to demolish a perfectly good middle school pool that, by the way, was just refurbished within the last decade. The board did agree to hold off on the planned demolition for a year to allow for more study and more community feedback. That story, an exclusive follow-up here on the Dan O'Donnell show coming up at 5 o'clock. Right now, though, it is election season as in-person early voting opens across Wisconsin, and we are once again running the state's largest early vote drive here in Wisconsin. Here's how it works. Once you early vote, text me and let me know about it so we can count up how many early votes we are getting to the polls. The number 414-799-1130. That is our advent knows.com talk and text lines. Text me all day, every day. As soon as you vote, let me know how many people you bring to the polls and then your work is not done. It is your duty to get other people to the polls to tell them to get out an early vote. Vote for Maria Lizar. Vote in your local, municipal, county elections, school board elections.

And to help you do so, we have online right now, the ultimate conservative voter guide. It is by far the single biggest statewide voter guide that has ever been attempted, ever been published in the history of Wisconsin. It is up at our brand new digital media venture that I am serving as editor-in-chief of. We are so proud to debut the Heartland Post. Head to heartlandpost.com. That is H-E-A-R-T. L-A-N-D-Post.com. The Heartland Post is your one-stop shop for the single best conservative news and analysis in the state. We have got an incredible team working exceptionally hard, and we have got hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of conservative names that you can vote for listed county by county. We've got an interactive map. up we will be posting links to it very shortly but go to heartland post dot com our digital mobile website is now up you can go on your cell phone heartland post dot com check it out follow the site and follow us on social media at heartland post w i on x at the Heartland Post on Facebook and on Instagram as well to get that ultimate conservative voter guide every single county, with the exception of maybe two or three, where we just didn't get a response from the local Republican Party, didn't get a response from local conservative activists, but we have got hundreds of names up right now. The ultimate conservative voter guide, it is, oh, boy, a labor of love. And the heavy emphasis is on labor to put together this thing for conservatives all across the state, not just in Milwaukee County, not just in Dane County in the Wow counties, Waukesha, Zaki, Washington, where we primarily broadcast. Look, we are a statewide show. The Heartland Post is a statewide site. This is your state, and we aim to tell your story. That's why our mission statement is your state, your story. We reflect Wisconsin values. We are Wisconsinites putting together the single biggest, single best conservative news and opinion site that I dare say has ever been launched in Wisconsin. I say that with no false bravado. Head to HeartlandPost.com. Just take a look at all of the comprehensive coverage that we have of today's Marquette University Law School poll. And that poll was, I'm not going to sugarcoat this or lie, not particularly good news. news for the conservative Maria Lazar. Among likely voters, among those who say they are absolutely certain to vote in April, 30% support the far left liberal candidate Chris Taylor, 22% favor Lazar with 46% undecided. Now, the poll was in the field, March 11th through the 18th.

It was of 850 registered voters and 597 likely voters. So a very small sample. And that means there is a very big margin of error plus or minus 5.3%. But the result is still outside the margin of error for Chris Taylor. She is up eight in February among likely voters. It was a seven point lead for Taylor, 22% to 15 with 62% undecided. Now there is still. a dramatic number of people who are undecided in this race. 46%, but what tends to make up their minds is advertising. It's messaging. And frankly, because of the massive fundraising discrepancies that we've been reporting on throughout this Supreme Court election cycle, both for Lazar and for the Wisconsin Republican Party, it is going to be difficult, not impossible, but difficult to make up that difference. Here's something that nobody else noticed about today's Marquette University law school pool, but your humble host did. Chris Taylor might actually be the beneficiary of liberal ignorance about the body politic here in Wisconsin. An amazing little tidbit about this poll. 75% of registered voters. Now, those are just people who are from the voter rolls. They did not say whether or not they are absolutely certain to vote. They were not determined to be likely voters, but just 75% of all of the people, registered voters. incorrectly believe that this election can tip the ideological balance of the Supreme Court. Three-quarters of voters believe that if Chris Taylor wins or if Maria Lazar wins, that conservatives or liberals will control the court. That is not correct. As anybody who listens to this show or anybody who has actually been following state politics for any amount of time would know. There is going to be either a 4-3 liberal majority if Lazar wins or a 5-2 liberal majority if Taylor wins. And the reason is because conservatives are defending a conservative seat. Rebecca Bradley is retiring. She announced back at the end of August right before the Labor Day holiday weekend that she was not going to seek re-election. And that meant that conservatives were really in a bind. And it should tell you a little something about how the justices themselves believe Supreme Court elections are going to go. Just about three or four weeks ago, Annette Ziegler, who is another conservative justice, the former Chief Justice of the state Supreme Court, announced that she's not going to run next year. She could have waited until after the April election because that sends a very clear signal about what she believes and therefore what the people who are in her ear politically and what a lot of people connected to conservative politics here in Wisconsin think about this election. If they thought that Maria Lazar was going to win, if Ziegler thought that Lazar was going to win, if the electorate was just so favorable to conservatives that she'd be able to overcome the massive money disadvantage.

She wouldn't have pulled the rip cord, and she wouldn't have said, okay, I'm retired. Now, it was almost certain that Ziegler was going to retire anyway. Here's a great bit of trivia for those who really know Wisconsin politics. In 2017, who did Annette Ziegler defeat to win another 10-year term on the court? It's a trick question. Nobody. Would you believe that in 2017, Democrats were in such disarray that they could not even field a liberal candidate to defeat the admittedly very popular Annette Ziegler? It seems unthinkable. especially given the fact that in 2025 now back when she was running for re-election ideological control of the court was not up for grabs but think about this in 2025 right after president trump won in 2016 he won the presidency for the first time the very next election that liberals who were just furious about trump's win in 2016. The very first election they would have had, would have been the state Supreme Court election. They couldn't even find a candidate who is willing to run against the net Ziegler. Ten years later, Democrats are so good at winning state Supreme Court elections and running far left candidates in pretty much every race up and down the ballot that they have dominated state Supreme Court races over the past decade. In fact, the next time Trump won a presidential election, November of 2024, last presidential election, the last election that we had for state Supreme Court, of course, last year. So same dynamic. Just a couple of months after liberals are shocked, liberals are furious that Donald Trump won the presidency. In 2017, they don't even get a candidate to vote for. In 2025, their candidate, Susan Crawford, wins by something like 11%. In Wisconsin, that is an absolute shalacking. Wisconsin is such a purple state that an 11-point win is akin to like a 25-point win in a state that's far less purple. But think about it like this. If 75% of voters believe that this election can tip the ideological control, they're going to be very motivated. So last year and in 2023, ideological control of the state Supreme Court was up for grabs. If liberals believe it is again, you could think that they would be far more motivated to cast a ballot. And wouldn't you know it, the Marquette University Law School poll shows that. 77% of Democrats say they're certain to vote. Just 59% of Republicans and 53% of independents can say the same.

Democrats also have much greater enthusiasm for voting. 51% say they are very enthusiastic about voting in this Supreme Court election compared to just 32% of Republicans 19% of independence. Why do you think that is? Why do you think there's such a massive enthusiasm gap? I am convinced it's because Democrats are the ones who erroneously believe that control of the Supreme Court is actually up for grabs. They are going to be the beneficiaries, very likely, of their own rank-and-file voters' stupidity. Final measure of engagement in that Marquette University Law School poll. Those who say the outcome of the Supreme Court election is very important to them. Democrats 65% say it's very important. 46% of Republicans say the same 24% of independence. And you can actually say something a little bit deeper about the mindset of Republicans and Democrats, conservatives and liberals extrapolating that data. Democrats have a huge advantage now because politics... is their life. Your average liberal is obsessed with Trump, is obsessed with the idea that democracy is dying, that Trump is a Russian agent. Oh, wait, no, that was the narrative in his first term, that Trump is a secret pedophile who is going to Jeffrey Epstein's Island every other weekend to have sex with children. That honest to goodness. is the narrative in left-wing circles. It's crazy. It's completely devoid of reality. But remember, a vast majority of them believe things that aren't true very easily. Believe that ideological control of the Supreme Court is up for grabs in this Supreme Court election. It's not, but Democrats believe that it is anyway. Here's the thing. When politics is your life, like think about it like this. Would conservatives ever attend a no-kings protest? Folks, we're still talking about the Tea Party rallies of 16 years ago. The 16 years ago, I believe, yesterday that Obamacare passed. And the Tea Party movement of 2009, 2010, that led to a huge Republican sweep in the midterm elections of 2010. And then again in 2014, people forget that in 2010 and 2014, Republicans just did exceptionally well. Everybody talks about how unpopular Trump is right now and unfavorably compares him to Barack Obama. Well, Barack Obama was electoral poison to his party for pretty much the duration. of his eight years as president republicans don't go out and protest they certainly don't throw their bodies in front of ice agents or try to run them over with cars or violently resist them because they are just so upset about the treatment of criminal illegal alien rapists and murderers

Republicans tend to have other things that satisfy them, other things that fulfill them. And by the way... All of the polling data, all of the survey data, and all of the medical science agrees with this, that Republicans place much more value on relationships with family members, with friends, with the community, with church, that Democrats are much more isolated and therefore are much more likely to be single-mindedly focused on politics. It's actually a fascinating... dive into the psychology of liberals and conservatives but suffice it to say there is an advantage here for chris taylor but with forty six percent of people undecided this late in the game there is a tremendous opportunity and we will discuss exactly how lazare and conservatives can take advantage of that opportunity when the dan o'donnell show returns after this

I'm continually amazed at our turnout in the state's largest early vote drive. Folks, you are absolutely amazing. We have gotten just since the show started by my count 75. Early votes tally. This is, of course, the first day of in-person absentee voting, which is still the most hilarious paradox. It's the biggest oxymoron in Wisconsin politics. In-person absentee voting. Well, if you're in-person... How are you absent? Of course, it's people who are at least saying that they're not going to be able to vote on election day. And by the way, most states used to require some sort of excuse. Like you would have to say, hey, I'm going to be out of town. Most people are on vacation. It's Easter break, spring break. You know, I'm just going to be out of town. I'm not going to be in Wisconsin, so I can't go to the polls. Now, what Democrats have wanted is not election day, but election month. Remember, Republicans actually had to go to the mattresses to reduce the number of hours of in-person early voting. We had to get it uniform across the state because the city of Milwaukee will literally run voting for 24 hours a day, seven days a week, if you let them. They will get every wino and drug addict on the streets of Milwaukee and on the streets of Madison. in registered and voting early they will get a ballot in their hands it's actually kind of amazing how effective they are so republicans actually had to say no we can't allow this sort of advantage in Democrat heavy areas like the city of Milwaukee and the city of Madison. So we need to have uniform early voting hours. So it is two weeks. You can have a maximum of two weeks of early voting. Early voting runs now through the Sunday before the election. I guess that would be Easter Sunday. There is no early voting on Monday, April 6th, the day before the election as clerks are getting ready to have election day the following day, Tuesday. April 7th. We want everybody to take advantage of in-person early voting, primarily because we know a lot of you are going on spring break. You're going to be out of this state because the spring election is always very close to Easter. Almost invariably, it'll be the Tuesday before Easter or it'll be the Tuesday after Easter, unless Easter is.

especially late and since almost every public and private school especially the christian schools they have their spring breaks tied to easter sunday it'll be either the week before the week after easter a whole lot of people especially a whole lot of conservative voters who have young children who who care about the future of this country i mean look folks i have got polling a mile wide i have got surveys a mile long that show Conservatives are more likely to have the wife, the kid, the picket fences. Liberals are much more likely to be, A, younger, B, hostile to the concept of children and families and everything else, and C, they are going to vote no matter what. What we have seen, especially in this state, really over the last, I'm going to say 10 years within the era of Trump. is not just a radicalized left, but a left that has gotten very, very good at turning out every last vote. And that's why we are trying to do the same here at the Dan O'Donnell Show. That's why taking President Trump's lead saying we want to make the election too big to rig. He wanted people to get out and vote early. We run the state's largest early vote drive. Here's how it works. Get out, vote early. Tell me who you went with. It's always fun. And I always urge people, if you're going out to vote early, make it a social thing. If you're like talking to your buddies, everybody's got like the March Madness text chain. Or maybe it's a group of high school buddies who still live in the area. Maybe it's a group of work friends, whoever. You know, guys, I know you've got like five different friend groups, girls, gals, you've got all the mom's groups, you've got the book club, you've got, what other social groups do women typically have that guys don't? Let's see, moms groups, books club. Oh, yeah, the wine club, the wine of the month club. My producer, Eric Pops in. Yeah, tell the members of the wine club. You're going to do like a sex in the city brunch. Mimosas are on you if you go out and early vote. And folks, I think the narrative is starting to crack on this. When I first started doing this in 2021, 2022, and I saw what a massive advantage mail-in-balloting and in-person early voting were for Democrats, I said, we're going to try to beat them at their own game. And a whole lot of people on the right, the election denying right, and look, as folks, folks, I'm going to, I'm going to tout my bona fides here. I was the one who found the actual voting fraud in Wisconsin. It was in the nursing homes, and it was very widespread. I know the 2020 election was not on the up and up.

But the idea that if you are voting in the town of Ashwabanon or the city of New Berlin, that your vote is going to be stolen by Dominion voting machines, that's paranoid thinking. You can vote early in full confidence in knowing that your ballot is going to be counted. By the way, you can check it. Very, very good website. Myvote.wI.gov. It is my mission. to not just try to get everybody voting. I am talking to people who, yes, if you're a loyal listener, chances are, I mean, you're listening to me on your ride home. I'm talking about politics. You're obviously very interested in this. Yes, I know you are absolutely certain to vote. I am also talking to people who aren't necessarily certain to vote, and that's why it's so important. In the era of Trump, Republicans have traded... High propensity voters who will show up in absolutely every election to lower propensity voters in rural areas in far western and far northern Wisconsin and also minority voters, black and Hispanic voters in inner city, Milwaukee, in Racine. in dane we saw huge huge gains with those voters the problem is a whole lot of them will only show up to vote for president trump it was a big problem that the democrats had for years they could get as many votes as they could possibly pack into a polling place in presidential elections But then nobody showed up for the gubernatorial elections. Tommy Thompson and Scott Walker dominated for 30 years in gubernatorial elections. Republicans have dominated at the legislative level for a long time. And no, don't give me this idea that it's because the maps were gerrymandered. No, long before the 2010 redistricting that Democrats have been furious about for a decade and a half now, Republicans dominated state legislative seats because they just... turn out their voters, or at least they turned out their voters in midterm elections and in spring elections. That hasn't happened. In the era of Trump, Republicans and conservatives are stuck with lower propensity voters. Therefore, they have to work extra hard to get those voters out to the polls in elections where Trump isn't on the ballot or where there isn't a whole lot of pub. There isn't a whole lot of attention. I want you to think back one year ago. You could not turn on the TV in Wisconsin without seeing a Brad Schimel or Susan Crawford ad. The left was obsessed with the idea that Elon Musk had gotten involved in the state Supreme Court election. They didn't even bother running against Brad Schimel. They ran against Elon Musk. Lo and behold, it actually worked. Right now, it is estimated that we're probably going to see... 20% turnout, 25% turnout.

Because ideological control of the court is not up for grabs, it is very likely that you're going to see a much smaller turnout. That's why it's so important that we as conservatives log every single vote. You know Democrats are going to be able to turn out their people. I just showed you, I just read to you, how enthusiastic they are compared to our side in voting in this spring election. It's up to us to fill that gap, and it is up to you. to not just vote early, but also to make sure your kids who are maybe home from college for spring break, maybe they're home for a long weekend. They're coming back from Whitewater or something like that. Get them out. Get them voting. Your spouse, your friends, whomever it is. It is on you. And when you get other people to vote, let me know about it. I'll try to read a couple of those texts on the air. The Marquette University Law School poll also dove into the gubernatorial election, and the results there were fascinating and potentially devastating for the Democrat Party. We'll explain when the Dan O'Donnell Show returns. As the state's largest early vote drive continues, we have got a lot of people logging their entries. Here's one from Wauotosa. Just voted today with my 90-year-old mother and her 80-year-old friend. Absolutely love that. That is exactly what we want to see. And that is exactly why we do the early vote drive because we understand that there are, frankly, a lot of people who just are not able to get to the polls on their own and they need you. So once you early vote. See if you can be some of some assistance and try to get your friends, your neighbors, your parents, people who might need a little bit extra help getting there or who might need, let's face it, a swift kick in the pants to get them to vote. There is a significant enthusiasm gap between Republicans and Democrats. ahead of this supreme court race and the spring election is so important though that we make that up 46% of voters in this state are undecided help them decide and take with you the ultimate conservative voter guide hundreds of candidates in nearly every one of wisconsin's 72 counties on our brand new daily news and information website the heartland post check it out heartland post dot com not heartland like heartland arrowhead although we do have a whole lot of candidates that we are recommending for the arrowhead school district in that voter guide it is like america's heartland h a r t l a and d post

follow us on x at heartland post w i and on facebook and instagram at the heartland post we have got uh links to the voter guide right there you can't miss it our mobile site just went live this morning uh we rushed out the desktop site yesterday just so we could have like a little preview but we are off to the races we are up and tweeting as it were so be sure to consult the ultimate conservative voter guide at the heartland post heartland post dot com The Marquette University Law School poll released a couple of hours ago has some rather shocking developments in the Democrat gubernatorial primary. That's where all the action is going to be up until the primary elections in August. Republicans have their candidate, and I don't believe for a second that Tommy Thompson is going to get in this race and challenge Tom Tiffany. Tiffany is supported by 40% of Republicans. There's some minor candidate by the name of Manske, who's got 6%. It's going to be Tom Tiffany. Even if Tommy Thompson gets in... The entire party is behind Tiffany, and so help me. There had better not be another kamikaze late entry that creates a divisive, destructive primary. I am all four competitive primaries, but when they get as toxic as the Tim Michaels Rebecca Clayfish won was four years ago, it did nothing except make it easier for Tony Evers to win re-election. Marquette University Law School poll released today, Democrat primary. Francesca Hong is leading the way with 11 or excuse me with 14% support. She is followed by Mandela Barnes at 11%. This is a devastating poll because no other Democrat. The quote unquote moderates who aren't really moderates, Francesca and Mandela are easily the two most left-wing candidates in this race. No other candidate gets more than 3% support. David Crowley and Sarah Rodriguez, who I can tell you, based on extensive reporting and talking to sources, those are the two that the party apparatus at both the state and national level were hoping was going to win.

They are at 3% apiece. That's abysmal. That is a devastating poll for both Crowley and Rodriguez. When you're only one point ahead of Joel Brennan. Quick, pop quiz. Who's Joel Brennan? Exactly. He's polling at 2%. Kelderoy's. If anybody should be even more embarrassed than Crowley and Rodriguez, it's Kelder Roy's. Nobody likes Kelder Roy's. I think that should be the title of her campaign. Vote for me even though nobody in my party likes it. 1%. 1%. She's tied with Missy Hughes. Pop quiz. Who's Missy Hughes? Exactly. She's the director of, what was it, the Economic Development Corporation, WEDC. And actually in a different era, because she seems to be the most competent human being in this field, she would be a leading contender, but she has no support. Now, there are 65% of liberal Dems who are just waiting for the party to tell them who they're supposed to be voting for, or excuse me, they're still undecided. They are independent thinkers. They're undecided. They're waiting to get all of the available information that they can. Who am I kidding? They're waiting for somebody to tell them who to vote for. It's looking like it's going to be Francesca or Mandela. Now, why would that be so devastating for Democrats? Yeah, they're left wing, but who cares? Well, yesterday, there was a tip poll in conjunction with the League of Workers, which is a Republican organization. Tip is a longstanding political polling unit. They actually polled hypothetical matchups between the candidates. The Marquette poll released today did not. Tom Tiffany in this tip poll yesterday loses to every single candidate except one on the Democrat side. Can you guess which one? Francesca Hong, the woman who has opened up a pretty substantial lead over Mandela. Tiffany leads her 43% to 40. He trails Sarah Rodriguez, 44% to 41, trails Mandela Barnes, 43 to 41, trails David Crowley, 42 to 41, and he's beating Francesca Hong. That says a lot about the strength of a Francesca Hong candidacy, but it is way too early to start talking about hypothetical matchups. But if you're a conservative, if you're a Republican, if you want to take back the governor's mansion, you are rooting very hard for Franmentum, Hongmentum, whatever it is. Unhinged liberal of the day coming up next on the Dan O'Donnell Show.

Why do I say it's great news if Francesca Hong is the frontrunner for the Democrat Party's nomination for governor, that she would be the candidate in November? Just today, she introduced a bill that would legalize prostitution and create a hooker's bill of rights. You think I am kidding. We have got the story at the Heartland Post, heartlandpost.com, where you can find the ultimate conservative voter guide. It is a brand new website we are launching in conjunction with this voter guide, as we hear at the Dan O'Donnell Show, are running the state's largest early vote drive. I am loving. Keep those texts coming, 414-799, 1130. I believe we're well up over 100 early votes. just in the nearly one hour that we've been on the air this afternoon. I love it. We will get into Francesca Hong and her prostitutes Bill of Rights. Coming up later in the show right now, though, it is time to name the unhinged liberal of the day. Trump is Hitler. We are in pre-Nazi Germany. All white people are racist. Trump is dangerous because he's evil. America is over. Have you ever heard of the phrase saying the quiet part loud? Comes from an old episode of The Simpsons, where Krusty the Clown, when he's judging a film festival, says about Mr. Burns' movie, which is just terrible. He says, let's just say it moved me. To a bigger house. Whoops. I said the quiet part loud and the loud part quiet. Well, that's become a cultural touchstone. It's become a meme. Saying the quiet part out loud is when you say something you don't really mean to say. Like Senator Chris Murphy last night on the MS Now Chris Hayes show, he accidentally said the quiet part out loud, the people Democrats really care about. are illegal aliens. Well, I mean, Chris, that's been a failed play for 20 years. So you are right that that has been the democratic strategy for 30 years, maybe. And it has failed to deliver for the people we care about most, the undocumented Americans that are in this country. The people that we care about most, the undocumented Americans who are in this country. Yeah. Senator Murphy, we know. That's who you care about most. I'm just shocked that you would admit it. Senator Chris Murphy, your unhinged liberal of the day. If what he said wasn't true, why else would Democrats be fighting so hard against closing the border? Mass deportations, which, by the way, that Marquette University law school poll found a majority of Wisconsinites are still in favor of, even though pretty much every Democrat is not Democrat voter, Democrat politician. Why else would Democrats not want to pass the Save America Act? All it says is you've got to prove that you're a U.S. citizen to vote. It's overwhelming. Democrats can't get behind it. We'll have more on that.

And the Daily Trump date coming up next when the Dan O'Donnell show returns. We're going to step aside for the news. Have no fear. We're back in just a couple of minutes. Daily Trump date. And then back into the Marquette poll and more Wisconsin politics on the way. Welcome back to the Dan O'Donnell Show. If you would like to join us 414-799 1130 on our advent knows.com talk and text line where you can take part in the state's largest early vote drive. Email me directly, DOD at iHeartMedia.com at Dan O'Donnell Show on X, on Facebook, on Instagram. Be sure to watch this show. Streaming live via our YouTube channel. Like and subscribe as the kids say. And please do follow the Dan O'Donnell Show podcast. on iHeartRadio or wherever you listen to podcasts we are in the top 100 podcasts in the world on iHeart radio and that is all thanks to your support we cannot possibly thank you enough time now for your daily trump day We're going to win so much. You may even get tired of winning. Trump just keeps waiting. It is a win for the administration. It's also a big win for the United States. We have to keep winning. We have to win more. We're going to win more. President Trump today in the Oval Office overseeing the swearing-in of Markwayne Mullin as Secretary of Homeland Security. Yesterday, the Senate approved him. One Republican, Rand Paul, voted against two Democrats, including Pennsylvania's John Fetterman, voted in favor. And today... Mullen officially succeeded Kristi Noem as DHS secretary. He takes over in the middle of a shutdown. Democrats are keeping the Department of Homeland Security shut down because they don't want ICE funded. ISIS fully funded through the end of President Trump's term, thanks to the one big, beautiful bill. The president talked about that. As you know, the department that Markwayne Mullin takes over today is currently shut down by radical left Democrat thugs in Congress who have blocked all funding for DHS because they're trying to shield illegal alien criminals, gang members. They want to protect them from being taken out of the country, drug dealers, murderers. They're protecting them all. Mullen spoke after he was inaugurated pledging to be a DHS secretary for everyone, regardless of their political affiliation. I don't care what color your state is. I don't care if you're red or you're blue. At the end of the day, my job is to be Secretary of Homeland and to protect everybody the same. And we will do that. I'll fight every single day. Today I got the privilege of meeting so many of the employees at DHS. These employees have been there for 30 days without pay.

And if you need anything to know their dedication, to show up and still protect the homeland that you and I enjoy and the freedoms that we're experiencing, they're working with for free because of political politics, that's all I need to know. I told him, if you're fighting 365 days, understand I'll be fighting 365 days beside you. Now, as he always does at these things, President Trump took a whole lot of questions from reporters. Very first one, as you could imagine, was about a potential... deal or rather excuse me it was about a potential deal that the senate may have struck to reopen the department of homeland security support the what appears to be emerging agreement coming out of the senate to reopen the well i'm going to look at it and we're going to take a good hard look at it i want to support republicans and you know sometimes it's awfully hard to get votes when you have democrats that don't want to have voter ID they don't want to have proof of citizenship they don't want to do anything about men playing in women's sports. That's one of the items we put on. And I did that just because it's so popular. You know, they say that's at least an 80, 20 issue. No, it's about a 991. I don't think it's, what do you think, but do you think it's 80, 20? Who's closer? 80, 20 or 991? Almost 100. Yeah, I think 100 is really there. So, you know, so I support that and I support comments. Now, speaking of negotiations, they are ongoing with Iran to potentially end Operation Epic Fury. The president talked about that. Are you going to send Jared Kushner and Steve Whitcock to do direct negotiations with the Iranians? Yeah, well, we're in negotiations, as it turned out, and now you've seen what I said yesterday was exactly correct. We're in negotiations right now. They're doing it along with Marco, J.D. We have a number of people doing it, and the other side, I can tell you, they'd like to make a deal. And who wouldn't if you were there? Look, their Navy's gone, their Air Force is gone, their communications are gone. That's the biggest problem. It's very hard to communicate them between themselves. All of the anti-aircraft is gone. Most of their missiles are gone. We either shot them or they shot them and don't have them anymore. They're down to a trickle. Pretty much everything they have is gone. I don't know. Can you name one thing that's not gone or can you name one thing that's doing well? You know, if you read the papers, you think we're tied. You think we're in a tough battle. We are roaming free over Tehran, the city, Tehran as opposed to Iran. We're roaming free. We can do whatever we want. And as you know, today we're going to have the privilege of shooting down a very big electric generation plant, one of the biggest in the world. And one shot to the right location, ends the plant that collapses. And we held off based on the fact that we're negotiating.

Now, the president did say that this does not mean that there is going to be a cessation of hostilities, but rather that there is going to be a bit of a pause for negotiation. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth also spoke. Never in history has a modern military. Iran had a modern military, a modern military, a modern military, a modern air defense, leadership, massive bunker. Never has a modern military been so rapidly and historically. obliterated, defeated from day one with overwhelming firepower. The air campaign that we've conducted, that Israel's conducted alongside us, was one for the history books, truly. And it's because we have a president of the United States that when he sends his warfighters out to fight, he unties their hands to actually go out and close with and destroy the enemy as viciously as possible from moment one. And that's why we see ourselves as part of this negotiation as well. We negotiate with bombs. You have a choice as we loiter over the top of Tehran, as the President talked about, about your future. The President has made it clear that you will not have a nuclear weapon. The War Department agrees. Our job is to ensure that. And so we're keeping our hand on that throttle as long as as as is hard as it's necessary to ensure the interest that the United States of America are achieved on that battlefield. This is not Iraq and Afghanistan. This is not a president who's interested in vague end states. He's been very clear with us about what we need to accomplish, creating the conditions for them never to have a nuclear capability. And that's exactly what we're doing in historic fashion. That is the daily Trump date. Now, the Iran excursion, as the president has been calling it, remains relatively unpopular here in Wisconsin. 61%. of voters in today's Marquette University Law School polls says they say that they oppose the Iran War or they oppose Operation Epic Fury. Now, this is as always going to be insanely skewed because zero percent of Democrats, and that's a rough estimate, almost zero percent support this or support anything Trump does. This is why you have to take pretty much all polling with a grain of salt because Democrats are so vehemently against the president and against anything this president does. It doesn't really matter what the president does. The president is going to be opposed. The president is going to face stiff opposition. This is also why President Trump's approval ratings are at about... 42%. Here in Wisconsin, his poll numbers are 42%. Now, It's not particularly great. It's also right around where President Trump typically polls. It's not as though we're breaking new ground here that, oh, my goodness. Of course, predictably, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, which, by the way, we are directly competing with at our new venture, The Heartland Post.

We aim to provide a conservative alternative to the liberal fish wrapper that calls itself Wisconsin's newspaper of record. And by the way, yesterday on our very first day of existence, we posted by my count one and a half times as many stories on Wisconsin news and politics that would be of interest to pretty much anybody that the journal Sentinel did. We are already running circles around them. By the way, please do follow the Heartland Post at Heartland Post, WI on X, the Heartland Post on both Facebook and Instagram. Head over to Heartland Post. That's Heart as in IHeart Radio, where you should follow and subscribe to the Dan O'Donnell Show podcast. We have got the ultimate conservative voter guide up, and we are... So proud to list pretty much every conservative that we or conservative groups, Republican parties in the various counties could list. It is an interactive map. It's really incredibly cool. It's not just a list of candidates. It is a fully interactive map that you are not going to want to miss. But the narrative has been really over the past year, and especially as we've headed into the midterm election cycle. Now, we here in Wisconsin, of course, are hyper-focused. on the state's largest early vote drive trying to turn out the vote in the state supreme court election in the spring election but the rest of the country is really already focused on that midterm election cycle so of course the narrative has been that trump has lost support that the iran war or maybe it was the tariffs or any number of things that trump did that the the the minnesota surge in ice agents has cost his support among conservatives I don't believe that's true. But what the polling tends to indicate is that Trump has, in fact, lost at least a little bit of support. Now, you might have seen the number of MAGA identified Republicans, those who call themselves MAGA Republicans, those poll released about a week and a half, two weeks ago. 100% of MAGA Republicans support the president. But around the margins, especially amongst young voters and the voters who maybe cast their ballots for a Republican for the very first time, black and Hispanic voters, it seems as though the president might have lost a little bit of ground. I'm actually genuinely curious about this, because what I've thought for a long time... is that black and Hispanic conservatives those who just completely disavow the liberal orthodoxy and the liberal movement become more loyal to the republican party and more loyal conservative voters maybe more loyal to the maga movement and president trump

than anyone else because for their entire lives they have been told hey republicans are racist donald trump is a bigot he he wants to deport you even if you are a legal Hispanic american he he wants to what was it that joe biden infamously said one of the most despicable comments in the history of American politics, he said about Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan, two of the most milk-toast non-Trump Republicans of all time. He said, they want to put y'all back in chains to a primarily black audience. They want to unchain Wall Street. Unchained Wall Street. They want to put y'all back in chains. And he said it with that southern drawl in case you didn't get the reference. It's despicable. So I'm actually genuinely curious. If you are a black or Hispanic conservative, I know we have got a lot of them in our listening audience, I want to know, have you lost faith in Trump? Are you still with President Trump? Are you still a mega conservative? Shoot me a text. Give me a call. 414-799-1130. 414-799-1130. If you are a black or Hispanic conservative, let me know. Are you still with President Trump? Are the polls accurate here or is, is my gut sort of telling me that minority support for Trump is as strong as it ever has me? You can also shoot me an email, DOD at iHeartMedia.com. Black and Hispanic conservatives, we want to hear from you. We'll get to your phone calls coming up next. Plus, provide an update on ICE at airports here on the Dan O'Donnell Show. Black election officials, says one texter, still a Trump supporter, but rhinos got to go. That comes from a texter in Racine. Hispanic conservative here, sometimes annoyed with Trump, but mostly support him. See, that's what I'm thinking. I wonder if this notion that the media has gotten that black and conservative voters are just abandoning Trump in droves. It's just it's a media op. It's just a narrative that is not supported by reality. One thing I know about Hispanics in general is legal Hispanic American citizens, they despise illegal immigration. They are the biggest supporters. And polling backs this up, decades of polling backs this up. They are the biggest supporters of deportations, of border crackdowns, of pretty much all of it. And I just, I don't see anything that President Trump has done.

as really changing anyone's mind. And it's just, it's something that's kind of been in my head as we see more and more polls saying, oh, Trump is slipping. Trump is a, and his support among black and Hispanic voters is just cratering. Let's go to Paul in New Berlin. Paul, you are Hispanic and you still support Trump, huh? Yes, I do. And what about, am I right about the deportation, illegal immigration crackdown, that in your family, in your friends, in your social network, that that is extremely popular? Very much. Yeah. If I don't want to ask me, I'm not Mexican. I'm not Mexican-American. I'm American. I'm a Navy veteran. And I'm 100% all about the American first agenda we have going on. All right, my friend, I do appreciate the call. I think you might have dropped out there if you did, Paul, I am very sorry. That's the thing. It's like the things that President Trump is doing, the things that President Trump and Republicans stand for is to me just kind of a no-brainer. Like, for example, let's take ICE, for example. Let's take ICE. Everybody hates ICE. Everybody hates ICE, right? Right? This is the narrative after Minnesota, after the battle for Minneapolis. This is the narrative that ICE is the worst agency known to Matt, except if you were traveling at any airport yesterday afternoon or today. After a week of the Democrat DHS shutdown causing security lines because of TSA staffing shortages, because frankly they're not being paid. We were told that... This was just, you know, this was just going to be something that happens. It's, you know, it's unfortunate Republicans. They just can't get there. You know what together. So you're going to have to wait for hours and hours and hours on spring. President Trump deploys ICE agents to help with crowd control, to help with manning some of the security kiosks, the computers when you first have to scan your ID or your passport before you actually go through the security checkpoint. Within 24 hours, the lines have disappeared. CNN actually dispatched a reporter by the name of Ryan Young to Atlanta's Hartsfield Jackson International Airport. What he found was amazing. Well, there may be a celebration here at the airport before it's all sudden done, especially for the folks who've been working nonstop extra shifts. If you look right here, you can see this is the main checkpoint.

Almost no lines, no waiting, Sarah. It's unbelievable at this point. This morning started briskly with a lot of people showing up here at the airport. Lines were long. People were waiting about an hour, but when that rush hour went away pretty quickly this morning, we ended up with this. And there seems to be more lines open than normal right now with the TSA workers here, breezing people through. In fact, a lot of folks have been showing up shocked at how short the lines are. You know that had to pain the CNN anchors back in the studio. You know that had to pain CNN executives to say that President Trump with it. I mean, this is just, this is classic Trump. He sees a problem. And he fixes it. And this, I am convinced, is from his decades and decades and decades of experience running a massive corporation in the private sector. Government just allows problems to sort of fester. government doesn't actually solve problems government simply gets people dependent upon more government with a promise that if you vote for the people who are currently in government and running government you will eventually get that solution case in point how long have we been talking about crime and poor schools in democrat run cities seriously how long How long have we been talking about inner city poverty in Democrat-run cities? Has anything been to... The war on poverty is a classic example of how government is just ill-equipped and incompetent when it comes to actually solving problems. The most mind-blowing stat I saw, easily of the past month, the city of New York now spends more on homeless programs per homeless person. then the average New Yorker makes in a year. Average New York home income, the net income or gross income, $81,000. New York now spends more than $81,000 per homeless person on homeless prevention, on homeless outreach, on homeless programs. That's insanity. Nate in Milwaukee up next on the Dan O'Donnells Show. Nate, welcome to the program. What are your thoughts on President Trump? I think that he'll go down in history as one of the greatest presidents we ever had. Now, are you, just out of curiosity, are you black or Hispanic, Nate? You know, my father in heaven looks at me as a man, so I would say I am a...

A man that happens that was born black. I like that. I like you identify as black. No, I'm just, I don't identify as a man. I identify as a man and American first. See, and this, this, this is the thing that I love. I love about all conservatives. Like, I am, yes, demographically, I'm white. Half Irish, half Italian. Doesn't get whiter than that. But yeah, you ask, I am an American. You're my brother. That's it exactly. You're my brother. We're human beings, right? We're all people who are connected, right, by, in this country, by a shared vision of freedom, of liberty, and of industriousness, and contributing to. the the greater good of society not in some communistic sense but all of us contributing i love that i love that nate so so you're still fully behind president trump Yes, and, you know, we've had a lot of presidents in the past, and I've been around long enough, probably a little longer than you did. However, what I found is that the politicians always put politics before the people, and we've never had anyone quite like Trump. Yeah. He basically takes care of the people first and let the politics... I'd be gone with that. We don't really need the politics as long as we have someone that puts us first. We vote for them. We vote for these politicians every time they come around and they keep making promises and they don't keep their promises. How can someone, how can a race continue to put those kind of people in power and be shocked at what happens when they do? Now, it's sort of like the definition of insanity, right, doing the same thing over and over and over and then being surprised at the result. I remember years ago, was it Stephen A. Smith, it was somebody who you wouldn't have expected. And this was the first inkling that Stephen A, who is, of course, a sports commentator on ESPN, was not just a liberal dogmatic voter, but he said, look. I think black people should not vote Democrat for one election to show, hey, we are really ticked off with the neighborhoods that you have been in charge of Democratic Party for, what, 50, 60 years in Wisconsin? The last Republican mayor left office in 1908. We had three socialist mayors since then. Okay, since the last Republican mayor. Democrats keep winning control of Milwaukee, which of course has by far the biggest black population in the state.

What changes? What changes? Milwaukee, I did an hour on this yesterday. Milwaukee has a higher murder rate now, 8% higher than it did at the start of Trump's term. The rest of the country, the single biggest one year drop in the murder rate since 1900 because of President Trump's deportations and closing of the border and all of that, right? It's 100% controlled by Democrats, right? So it just, I'm with you, Nate, and I really do appreciate the call that it is, it just, it boggles my mind. It's boggled my mind forever. But it is the power of racial grievance politics that the Democrat Party has just been able to weaponize. I mean, all they have to do is say Trump's are racist, Republicans are racist. Never mind the fact that a much higher percentage of Republicans voted for the Civil Rights Act. Never mind that the Democrat Party in the South was the party of Jim Crow and no, there was no great ideological switch. I have debunked that. I've been debunking that. The party switched that all the old racist Democrats became Republicans. They never did. They literally never did. All the old racist Democrats died. And then a new generation, the baby boomer Democrats in the South. Jimmy Carter is a little older than the boomer Democrats. But certainly Al Gore and Bill Clinton. What made the South Republican. was not the old Dixiecrat Democrats becoming Republicans. It was Ronald Reagan. Ronald Reagan won 49 states in 1984. I mean, first, you had Richard Nixon in 1972 just dominated George McGovern on a platform of law and order. There's nothing racist about that. It was not that I can debunk the quote unquote southern strategy as well. But it was really Ronald Reagan that... cemented that change that made the heavily black, heavily Democrat South very Republican. It actually did vote in two elections, 92 and 96 when there was a Southern Democrat ticket of Clinton and Gore did go back blue. And then, of course, 9-11 happened, George W. Bush, and the South has not been Democrat since. But the overall point here is that it is just ludicrous to me. Democrats went to war with the union so that they could keep their slaves. They seceded from the union in 1860, led by South Carolina. Democrat-run South Carolina, seceded from the union just because an abolitionist, the very first Republican president, Abraham Lincoln, was elected. That's what started the civil war, ladies and gentlemen. Democrats were so mad they couldn't keep their slaves that they left the country. They succeeded. Democrats were the party of the Ku Klux Klan. It's just the Ku Klux Klan started as a gentleman's club for old Confederate soldiers.

This is the history that Democrats cannot possibly allow their black voters to know because they are and they have been the real racists for the entirety of the Democrat Party's history. Let's go to Kelly up next on the Dan O'Donnell Show. Welcome to the show, Kelly. Hi, Dan. Oh, I can't believe I called in and I'm on the air. Well, we love having you, Kelly. Welcome to the show. Good. Hey, you know, I disagree with what you just said. But as a black American, okay, I voted Republican for, well, when I became a Christian, when, like the lights came on, okay? Yeah. I became conservative. I do not believe that black people are leaving the 5% to 10% that I know that we vote Republicans. If we did our homework enough to know, to come off of the Democratic plantation, we're not going to run so easily with what's happening right now. Because we know the Democratic Party is a party of slavery. It's the party of the Ku Klux Klan. We know it's not for school choice. And, you know, it's for abortion. I go to the abortion clinics. 95% of the people that go in there are black babies. Hold up by sign. Black Lives Matter. They strategically stationed them in the black community. That is absolutely true. And I'm sure you know, I'm sorry to interrupt very quickly, Kelly. You know the founder of Planned Parenthood, by the way. She has been erased. She was a eugenicist. It was her explicit goal to abort the black race out of existence to have a more perfect humanity. I mean, I can't think of anything more disgusting than that. Yes, but you know how she did it. She went to the black pastor. Yeah, she did. She went through the black pastor. So what we have here is I don't know if you know what is his name, Ellison. He wrote a book called The Iron Triangle. And he talks about the black church or pastor, the social worker and the politician. They keep us as black people in a triangle. And like you said, we've thrown. thousands of dollars at this. How can, how can choice schools that are educating our kids better spend $6,000 a year per child where MPS is $9,000 to $12,000? Kelly, I've got to, have you ever thought about doing a show like mine? My goodness, are you well-informed on the age? I, like, you're just spitting out facts like this is fantastic. I'm actually, you know, I do. Yeah, go ahead. I'm disheartened. I'm very disheartened. um one of the abortion clinics last saturday and i get a lot of problems okay i could imagine called me every name in the book and she says well leaving women alone let them do what they want to do and you should be at the schools petitioning there well i'm like well why don't you go there well how you should have answered you should have answered if the kids can't be born they can't go to the schools

Oh, that's a good one. Yeah, feel free to use that one, Kelly. Feel free to use that one. Yeah, I will. I'll tell you what. So we're not leaving. Okay, good. Can I ask a favor, Kelly? I am actually dead serious about you having a future in, like, politics or something. Can we put you on hold and get your information? uh yeah okay i we will we will not share that we're not going to share this okay it's just for i kind of want to talk to you because you've got a great perspective and you sound fantastic on the air so we're going to put you on hold producer eric is going to get your contact information i'm realizing now i am way way late for a commercial like fascinating discussion i want to keep it going for just a little bit when we come back here on the dan o'donnell show it's classical conservatism and contemporary style Welcome back to the Dan O'Donnell show, a tour to Force of Truth. I thought a fascinating segment there as I was just sort of testing a pet theory that Trump's hardcore MAGA base. is not, I just do not see him losing support against among minority conservatives. I just, I don't see it and I am not buying the polls. In fact, I am actually thinking that Trump's support is pretty much where it always has. Remember, his poll numbers are always skewed by the fact that precisely zero percent of liberals or Even liberals who will swear up and down that they're independent, that they will ever support him, that they will ever support any one of his policies. It's sort of like the Trump paradox in polling. In many respects, Trump sort of broke polling because of how much Democrats hate him. I can remember, I came of age politically in the post 9-11 era, the George W. Bush era, and I thought there was never a Republican who was as hated as Bush. I mean, you literally had rock bands putting out compilations called Rock Against Bush, which is like the most cringe thing in the world. They had Green Day. who I do like, despite their insane San Francisco leftist politics, they had Green Day. They did an entire album called American Idiot, and it was all about George W. Bush. I mean, just imagine someone living rent-free in your head to that degree. And that's why it's just, it's like, does it just at some point get tiresome? Hating one person, Libs, I should open up the phone line to Libs and ask, do you really obsess about Donald Trump that much? It's like they can't, and I see it. I probably have way more interactions with left-wingers on social media than most because half of them are commenting on my Facebook posts. And everything comes back to Trump.

They engage in what's known as the two quo quay fallacy or but you two fallacy constantly. It's also known as what aboutism? It's like, well, what about Trump? You say anything. You say anything and they will come back. And I'm sure you see this in your interactions with like your liberal wine aunt. You say something about, well, you know, hey, how about this? The sanctuary city policies of Chicago and of Illinois led to the death of Sheridan Gorman. A couple of days ago. She was shot in the back of the head by an illegal alien from Venezuela who was led into this country in May of 2023. He was arrested at the border. And of course, the Biden administration let him go, catch and release after all. He makes his way to Chicago where he's almost immediately arrested for shoplifting. Instead of informing ICE, hey, we've got an illegal alien from Venezuela here. They let him go. Never shows up for another court date. He just disappears until he reappears early Thursday morning shooting an innocent 18-year-old Loyola University student to death while she was trying to watch the Northern Lights with her friends. The two-quo-quay fallacy. even extends to politicians. J.B. Pritzker, governor of Illinois, one of the single bingest donors to the Democrat Party of Wisconsin, asked about the sanctuary state policies of Illinois, sanctuary city policies of Chicago that allowed Jose Medina, the suspect in Sheridan Gorman's killing to Rome Free. Do you know who he referenced immediately like within 15 seconds? Yep, Trump. There have been real failures. Those failures, of course, extend beyond the borders of Illinois. That's their national failures, a failure to have comprehensive immigration reform, a failure of the president to follow his own edict to go after the worst of the worst. You've got to be kidding me. He went after the worst of the worst. 675,000 deportations in the span of a year. 675,000. Do you think it's a coincidence that Trump deportes a whole ton of the worst of the worst criminals? And the United States has the single biggest drop in the homicide rate since... Record keeping was first started in 1900, 125 year low in the homicide rate. The same year that Trump goes after the worst of the worst and cracks down on illegal immigration and closes the board. In other words, the exact opposite of the policies of the Biden administration for the previous four years. And while we had record high homicide rates under Biden, and I think now it's worth examining.

We've been talking about it, and I sort of coined the phrase the George Floyd effect, to explain the massive spike in the murder rate, 2020, 2021, straight through to about 2023. We saw a brief one-year decline, but national homicide rates were nowhere near as low as they were pre-2020. I always attributed it to just anti-cop more brazen behavior from police or from criminals because they knew police officers weren't going to engage and pretty much every liberal city just stopped prosecuting criminals. Literally, they know processed crimes. They didn't prosecute. They refused to impose harsh prison sentences or any prison sentences. They accepted sweetheart plea deals as a matter of course. And they simply released suspects on their own recognizance with signature bond or no bond whatsoever. And dangerous people were flooding the streets. I think we need to have a serious discussion. about whether it was because there were so many criminal illegal aliens suddenly flooding into this country that we saw a dramatic spike in the nation's violent crime rate because you had a whole lot of violent criminals who were part of international drug cartels who were coming in in the flood of people not just from mexico or central america but quite literally from all across the world. The utter gall of J.B. Pritzker, oh, yeah, it was Trump's fault. Yes, when you think of somebody who is soft on illegal immigration, Donald Trump is the first person that comes to mind. If you think about an illegal criminal alien sneaking into this country, yeah, it's clearly Trump's fault. You're listening to the Dan O'Donnell Show. Big update on the exclusive story about Cudahey. Next. You asked for it. You got it. The ultimate conservative voter guide is here ahead of the Wisconsin Spring election. Just head to heartlandpost.com. That's heart as in iHeartRadio. Heartlandpost.com. It is our brand new, as in just launched yesterday. Digital news and opinion. We don't call it a website. It is a digital hub for all things conservatism in Wisconsin. It is by far the biggest and most comprehensive, most thorough, daily conservative website, news hub, news outlet that has ever been launched in this state. It is our aim. to directly take on the left-wing narrative of the Wisconsin State Journal, the biggest newspaper in Madison, and of course the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, by far the biggest newspaper in Wisconsin. For too long, they have essentially operated as a monopoly or a cartel, if you will, in the digital media space.

They are the traditional left-wing Old Guard Democrat news echo chamber. We aim to smash that at the Heartland Post. Don't believe me and don't believe our ability to do so. Just head to HeartlandPost.com and take a look at our comprehensive coverage of the day's events today. Of course, the biggest news in politics was the Marquette University Law School poll. Well, why don't we get you a daily rundown here of all of the stories that we have been following that Marquette University Law School poll? Does show among likely voters, Chris Taylor is leading the conservative Maria Lazar, 30% to 22%. There are 46% of voters still undecided. Over in the gubernatorial primary, Francesca Hong, the far-left Madison Assemblywoman. is in the lead for a second straight Marquette poll. She leads Mandela Barnes, the former lieutenant governor and Senate candidate, 14% to 11%. Just devastating for the current lieutenant governor, Sarah Rodriguez, who was the first candidate in this race in the summer. She's polling at just 3%. That is... When you're in Brett Holsey territory, the certifiably insane Democrat who is polling at a robust 0%, you know your campaign is in trouble. Same thing with David Crowley, who is going in the wrong way in these polls. He's also polling at 3%. It is shocking how much Barnes and Huang, who are by far the two left-wing, most left-wing candidates in this race, are... Early on, at least, it is very early on. A lot is going to change, but they appear to be running away with this. Earlier today, President Trump swore in a brand new Secretary of Homeland Security, Markwayne Mullin, who was approved by the Senate yesterday. He takes over amid a lengthy DHS shutdown. Democrats have been refusing to fund the agency because of ICE. They don't want to fund ICE. Of course, ICE, as pretty much everyone knows, is fully funded thanks to President Trump's one big, beautiful bill. And ICE agents have done wonders at the nation's airports. I was absolutely terrified about the prospect of flying out because of just how long. Security lines were going to be. I'm going to go on a very, very brief trip next week, taking off Thursday and Friday of next week. And I've got to fly out of O'Hare. I was not looking forward to that. Well, President Trump deploys ICE agents to O'Hare, to Atlanta, Houston, Dallas, 14 different airports across the country. Interestingly enough,

One, I fly into and out of all the time. Fort Myers, RSW, Fort Myers. My mom lives in Naples for half the year. We fly through RSW. There is never a security line. That is like the sleepiest little airport, obviously, because Fort Myers, Naples, a very, very popular spring break destination, ice agents were there. Within... probably seven hours, the three-hour lines at TSA security checkpoints were down to well under an hour. It just goes to show what you can do if you're actually interested in solving problems. All right. You want to join the Dan O'Donnell Show 414-799 1130. You can reach us toll free. 1-800-838-9476. Email me, DOD at iHeartMedia.com. Follow me on social media at Dan O'Donnell Show on X, on Facebook, on Instagram as well. We're streaming live across. Social media, you can watch the show instead of just listening to it on social media or on our YouTube channel, like and subscribe. Just search for the Dan O'Donnell Show. You'll find it very, very easily. And please do keep the momentum going. We are rising steadily up the charts on IHeart Radio's top 100 podcasts. That is thanks to your support. Best way to show the powers that be in this company. How much you love the Dan O'Donnell Show is by subscription. on the iHeart radio app or wherever you listen to podcasts we here at the show with no false modesty put out a whole lot of exclusive content we cover this state like no other radio show podcast and and now digital media endeavor does And in fact, that's why I wanted to launch the Heartland Post because I do so much investigative and exclusive reporting that, frankly, there's no place to put it. I was breaking stories on my X account, on my Facebook account, and realize, hey, wait a second, when I talk about this stuff. When I do this, let's say at 512, we got a lot of people listening right now, evening commute, although I suspect most people commute at 4 o'clock. Most people are done with work at 4. I myself am done technically at six, but usually producer Eric, when do I usually? I usually walk out of here at like 6.45, 7 o'clock sometimes just because I'm working on the next day. I'm constantly getting everything together. But if you aren't listening, if your commute is, say, at 5 o'clock and I break a big story at 4.15, you might never hear about it. Sure, it makes the rounds on social media, but I said, you know what? We have to have a place.

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It is just a general agenda item. You would have no idea they were talking about spending millions of dollars in revenue money that just passed in November of 2024, which by the way was never explicitly delegated to demolishing a pool. They're just going to take some of that money that's left over and they're going to get rid of the middle school pool, which probably to build a new cafeteria to demolish a pool. I'm guessing at least a million bucks, if not more. We reported on this and said on Friday afternoon, late Friday afternoon, the Cudahaye School Board puts out its agenda for the upcoming Monday last night meeting. That's the first time that there is any mention of the pool being demolished. And there was going to be a final vote where the school board was widely expected to approve demolishing the pool, building this new cafeteria. We reported on this, and over the weekend, citizen groups on Facebook organized, I believe it was Cudahay Town Hall or whatever other Facebook groups are out there. There's usually one community, each community usually has one big Facebook group. It's usually like Franklin Town Hall, Cotea Town Hall, something like that, but whatever it is. People organized, and they showed up. We reported on this at about 3 p.m. yesterday, and that just sent this into the stratosphere of people in Cudahey saying, look, we are going to show up. We're going to make our voices heard, and you, our elected representatives, are going to listen to us. More than 100 people showed up for this school board meeting, and they had to take public comments from all of them 100% of the people who spoke. It's called privilege of the floor where anybody can speak for a minute or two at the beginning of a meeting. They spoke for 75 minutes. 100% of them spoke against this plan to get rid of the pool and to put in the school cafeteria. I am pleased to report the Cudahaye School Board did the right thing. They didn't drop the plan altogether. They still believe that this is a necessity. The school superintendent still believes that they need to tear down the pool and that they need to put in a new cafeteria, a bigger cafeteria. However, however, they are going to table this for a full year. They said, all right. We're going to listen to the people. We're going to listen to our constituents. And we are not going to the original plan was to demolish the pool and to build this cafeteria over the summer, rather obviously, so that it would be ready for the next school year when they're going to bring the fifth graders into the Cotahey Middle School. Now they are going to hold off with the possibility that this is going to take place in the summer of 2027, but they're going to take more community feedback and they are going to do more research and try to be more upfront about the cost and just what it is that taxpayers are going to be on the hook for if indeed they are going to be expected to pay.

for the demolition of a pool now couple of things here one that's how government is actually supposed to function especially local government that is precisely what you want from your local elected officials they were responsive to the mood of and the wishes of the constituents they listened to the constituents and they acted accordingly However, why did it take a secretive process that just happened to get discovered by a couple of eagle-eyed citizens who then did the smart thing and reached out to Dan O'Donnell to let me know what was going on so I could bring it to a much broader audience's attention? Why did it take that for the Cudahaye School Board to do the right thing? Look, I appreciate that they did ultimately do the right thing and at least delay this for long enough so that you could at least have some meaningful feedback by the public. But the fact that it actually took quite a bit in order to get this discovered. That's a little troubling to me. This is also why, folks, while we talk, of course, so much about the state Supreme Court election, and obviously it really did not get a fraction. of the attention that the last two state Supreme Court elections got because those were for ideological control of the court. This one is not. Liberals are going to control the court regardless of the outcome of this election. It is so important, though, because do you realize, do you realize liberals can take a 7-0 majority before they ever have to defend another seat? Annette Ziegler retired. She announced that she's not running in 2027, so conservatives have to defend a conservative seat there. If they lose it, if Lazar loses, it's a 5-2 liberal majority. If whoever runs in place of Annette Ziegler loses, it's a 6-1 majority. If then Brian Hagadorn announces that he's not going to run or if he runs again and loses, it is a 7-0. liberal majority that is a very real scenario ladies and gentlemen and yes that would be every bit as devastating as it seems especially since supreme court terms are for ten years That all but guarantees. In fact, if Maria Lazzar loses, it all but guarantees that the court will remain in liberal hands probably for the next 15 years, I'm going to guess, if not the next generation. But while the Supreme Court race says the only statewide race on the ballot gets all the attention.

Something that you normally wouldn't think about. The Cudahaye School Board suddenly has outsized attention in Cudahey because what it was that board members and the superintendent that's hired by the board were doing in secret. I can imagine there's a whole lot of outrage there. We're going to get into when we come back, the importance of those small races. We'll get an update on the state's largest early voting drive and much, much more here on the Dan O'Connell Show. Hold on, hold on. I'm here. I was just counting up early votes in the state's largest early vote drive well over. 200 some. It is going to be quite the task logging all of them. We are getting just text after text after text. People telling me that they are voting early. I'm guessing we're going to have a much smaller turnout than we did last year when we had just incredible, incredible turnout for a state Supreme Court race. I still, my mind is blown by the fact that Brad Schimmel. got 60% of the votes that Trump did in the 2024 November election, but still lost. 62% I think total. That's because Susan Crawford got 76% of the votes of Kamala Harris. That's unheard of for a state Supreme Court or any spring election. That just shows you what conservatives are up against. It was widely thought in Republican circles that if Schimmel got to 60% of Trump's vote total, he would cruise to victory. And in fact, Brad Schimmel with his vote total would have won every single Supreme Court election in the history of the state. And he would have won it relatively easily, including the one two years earlier, where Janet Protisiewicz won by 10. That is how big a turnout we had last year in the state Supreme Court election. When Elon Musk, the richest man in the world who at the time was a huge political lightning rod as the head of Doge, remember he had to resign a couple of months later because his temporary government appointment ran out. And then he had a brief falling out with Trump. The two of them apparently got back together. They are on friendly terms after Charlie Kirk's funeral. But when Elon Musk is involved in your state Supreme Court election, you know it is important. And he got involved actually because of a story we broke on the Dan O'Donnell Show. And that was Susan Crawford was absolutely put on this court to ensure that Democrats would be able to try to flip. They would try to.

essentially gerrymander the state's congressional maps to ensure that there would be two Republican flips in the 2026 midterms. that Derrick Van Orden and Brian Stile would be drawn into districts that would be impossible for them to win. They were explicit about it. Susan Crawford, in the beginning of that campaign, even attended a virtual seminar that was titled, Help Put Two Seats Back in Play in the 2026 Midterms. It was explicitly about, lest you think. Ladies and gentlemen, that the great redistricting war of 2025 and 26 was started by the state of Texas, I have absolute proof that Democrats in Wisconsin were planning to gerrymander Wisconsin regardless of what Texas ultimately did. By the way, did you see the Virginia redistricting plan, the gerrymandering plan there that Democrats cooked up? It is in real danger of going down to defeat because of just how insanely brazen it was. And because the new governor, Abigail Spanberger, is just insanely unpopular. Because as soon as Democrats in the Virginia legislature retook control and Abigail Spanberger was sworn in, they... enacted pretty much every liberal wish list out of the most unhinged liberal agenda i think i've seen but while state elections are incredibly important i cannot possibly tell you how important elections like the cut a hay school board or the village board or your local mayor are here's an example here's an example brookfield City of Brookfield is, it has long been a conservative bastion. It's one of the wealthiest suburbs in southeast Wisconsin, wealthiest suburbs of Milwaukee. And it has been under conservative governance for a long, long time. Mayor Steve Ponto is a beloved figure in the city, and he has been an incredibly effective mayor. Don't believe me, drive down Blue Mound Road and see how much that is bustling. Yes, Brookfield Square Mall. Brookfield Square Mall is shockingly empty. There is an incredible plan in place, I guess. They're going to turn that into... a farmer's market, a mixed-use facility. They're going to try to get an athletic facility built there for kids' sports. It's just, it's been incredible to see what was done under Steve Ponto's term as mayor. Well, he's being challenged by a radical lib and by all accounts, a pretty toxic human being by the name of Mike Holquist. Watch, I'm going to, I'm going to test something.

I just called Mike Hallquist a toxic human being because everybody I know who knows him in real life says he is a toxic human being. Like he's just, he's like your typical, arrogant, liberal jerk. Like that's, I guess the best way to describe him. It's just a jerk. He's just a jerk. I'm going to test something. He is sort of notorious for putting out press releases whenever anybody talks about him to try to respond to this in like a sad little press shop that he runs himself. I want to know, I am not on the Mike Holquist email list. Please tell me if he puts out a press release responding to me calling him a terrible mayoral candidate and a toxic human being because he most assuredly is both. I want to see if I can get an official Mike Holquist press release about Dan O'Donnell. What do you think would happen to Brookfield? If Holquist and Democrats take over the mayor's office and the village board and the city council, rather. Yeah, a lot of that development stops. You get openly hostile government policy to development. Brookfield has seen nonstop development for 30 years. Because it's had conservative governance that is friendly to business and openly welcomes businesses into Brookfield. Without getting into ESG requirements that undoubtedly would follow a Mike Holquist administration. It is imperative that conservatives in Brookfield reelect Ponto. And that's why we put out, not just for conservatives in Brookfield or in Cudahey, but in every city, every municipality across the state, we have the ultimate conservative voter guide. We have in, I believe, all but two or three counties. We have conservatives listed. We spent months researching this at the Heartland Post to put together the ultimate conservative voter guide. Now that in-person early voting is open, we do hope you will head to heartlandpost.com. I have got a link to it on my Facebook page, Facebook.com slash Dan O'Donnell's show. We have got it up pretty much everywhere across social media. Check it out. Please share it with other conservatives. It is a big way to get more conservatives out to the polls since they're going to know who it is that they should be voting for. Stay tuned. We'll be right back in just a second. Got a text here.

Dan, what you said at the end of your last segment totally floored me. This was at the end of the first segment of this hour. Totally floored me. Marie Lazar needs to run an ad saying if she loses, conservatives won't be in power for 15 more years. I wasn't real interested in this race, but after hearing that I am now, this needs to get out to the masses. Thanks for all you do. Phil. Someone else just called saying that exact same thing. Huh. I guess, you know, there's such a thing, folks, as being in your own little bubble so much that you don't realize. Like, I just thought, oh, yeah, I thought it was kind of well known. So to reiterate, conservatives currently are in a world of hurt. Liberals have a 4-3 majority on the Wisconsin Supreme Court. No matter what happens in the upcoming election, they are still going to not have, they are still going to have a majority on the state Supreme Court. Because Rebecca Bradley retired, she was a conservative justice. Conservatives have to defend a conservative seat. Maria Lazar announced her run in the fall. No other conservatives got in the race, so she was going to be the candidate regardless. If she loses to far-left radical, Chris Taylor, conservatives would be down five to two on the court. Liberals will have a five-two majority. You can only have one state Supreme Court election per year that's in the Wisconsin Constitution. So you can only have one per year. Coming up next year. It is Annette Ziegler's seat. I say seat because Annette Ziegler has already announced. She announced two weeks ago. She's not going to be running. Not exactly a vote of confidence for how the justices themselves believe these elections are going to go because you had Bradley announced the day before Labor Day weekend that she's not going to run again. And now Ziegler announced it like. I like Annette Ziegler. I think Annette Ziegler is a fantastic justice. She was a great Chief Justice. She was actually a guest on this show. Supreme Court justes typically do not do media, but she was so appalled by the then new liberal majority back in 2023. She actually went on this show and did just an unprecedented interview where she just blasted Protisiewicz and Karaski and Dalit. Who's the last one that I always forget? Karowski Protisewitz, Dalit, and, well, whoever the other one is. Well, yeah, now it's Crawford. Yeah, I guess it would be Crawford, right? But conservative, yeah, because Ann Walsh Bradley retired, that was the Crawford seat. Oh, it would have been Ann Walsh Bradley. Jeez, what am I thinking? Yeah, Ann Walsh Bradley, who has since retired. Ziegler was so upset by what they were doing and trying to just undermine court tradition and state law dictating how the Supreme Court accepts cases and the like that she actually went on the show. So I am a huge Annette Ziegler fan. Her opinions and her dissents are fantastic. She's been a tremendous conservative in her more than decade on the bench.

Can we get some of these people some political instincts? Announcing your retirement a year out in the middle of the current Supreme Court election cycle sends a huge signal to everybody paying attention that you think this race is unwinnable and you think your race is unwinnable. So let's say a conservative gets in the race and loses in 2027. We then go. Okay, so first Marie-Lazar loses this election, down to a 5-2 liberal majority. If whoever runs in place of Annette Ziegler loses, liberals then have a 6-1 majority. In 2029, so they'll have that 6-1 majority for two years, 27 to 2029. The next election is 29, and that is going to be Brian Hagadorn. He is up, and Hagadorn, he is not going to have a whole lot of conservative support. Frankly, I don't think I in good conscience can support a Brian Haggardorne re-election bid. I'm just going to be completely upfront about that three years early. He has not been a good conservative justice. He has badly mangled easy questions of law. And frankly, I don't think he's been a very good or very intelligent justice. I just don't. And I know a lot of conservatives agree with me. So very likely, because he is not going to have the conservative support, seeing as he sided against conservatives, do you realize he was the deciding vote on the 2020 election case? And he decided it on the doctrine of leches. I'm not going to get into that. I promise I'm not going to get into that. I probably spent a week, if not a week and a half straight on how horrible that decision was. Of course, Haggardorne sides with the liberals. When it comes to the redistricting. case that came up. Haggardorne sides with the liberals. I said for weeks he's wrong. The liberals are wrong. They're going to get overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court. And I can remember people who go, oh, dad, you know more than Brian Haggadorn. You're a better lawyer. You're a better judge than Brian Haggard. Turns out I was because the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the state Supreme Court. I don't think Brian Haggadorn gets the institutional support to run again. I think he is one and done. And I think if he is smart, he is already looking for post-Supreme court employment. Maybe they can hire him at law forward that Madison left-wing legal firm that just conducts lawfare across the state. If Hagadorn or whoever Hagadorn's replacement candidate is loses,

That is a seven nothing liberal majority. Seven nothing. It won't matter what Governor Tom Tiffany does. Let's say Tiffany sweeps to the election. He defeats Francesca Hong, who is currently the frontrunner in Democrat polling for the gubernatorial nomination. Let's say he defeats her 60% to 38% with 2% scattered to other candidates. Let's say because of his strength and because Democrats could not stop the Francesca Expressca coming at them, Republicans hold both houses of the state legislature. It will not matter what they do because everything they do will be overturned by the liberal Supreme Court. If Maria Lazzar loses this election, it is very likely that the court is lost for a generation. That is 25 years. I am not exaggerating. Because it would certainly start a series of events, an unfortunate series of events, like Lemony Snicket, that would lead to, if not a 7-0 liberal court, a 6-1 court, which would be bad enough. It's not just that over the course of that 6-1 majority's tenure, they would be overturning everything. It's that you would have really no opportunity for... quite some time to retake control of the majority. If it gets to 6-1, heaven forbid, if it gets to 7-0, that's a devastating. devastating loss. And it all starts today as in-person early voting is now open. If that didn't motivate you, and you know what, I am going to sit down and write tonight a column. You'll see it tomorrow morning on the Heartland Post. We're going to talk about it extensively on the Dan O'Donnell show tomorrow because I think we did hit on something. If you're not motivated to vote. If you don't vote for Maria Lazzard is very likely, conservatives don't even sniff the majority for at least the next 10 to 15 years. You're listening to the Dan O'Donnell Show more after this. For just the second time in the history of the NCAA tournament, no mid-major teams made the Sweet 16. Every one of the last 16 teams remaining in the NCAA tournament this year is from a power conference, one of the big conferences, Big Ten, Pac-10, ACC, Big East, so forth, so on and so forth. Do you know the first time that happened in the history of the NCAA tournament? No mid-majors scored massive upsets. There were no true Cinderella's. It was last year.

This year and last year are the only times in the history of the NCAA tournament. There were no mid-major Cinderella's making the Sweet 16. Why is that? Three letters. N-I-L. The big schools can simply pay N-I-L money to any mid-major star that has a big year. Let's say you've got a talented freshman at Hofstra scores 19 points a game. Duke can pay him a million dollars to transfer there, and all of a sudden, Hofstra is without its best player. The reason that the mid-majors were able to compete with the Dukes and the North Carolinas and the Yukons and the Kentuckies of the world is because Duke especially in Kentucky, they would have won and duns. They would recruit the absolute best individual players and they'd get them for one year before they'd all declare for the NBA draft. Well, the schools that could beat Duke... were not all freshmen in the starting lineup or the rotation, freshmen and sophomores. These were kids who were playing together for four years. You would typically have one star scorer who might be a second round NBA draft pick or even a first rounder, and then you would have complementary role players around him that made a complete team. They were able to take down some of the biggest. You did not see a Maryland-Baltimore County upset of Virginia like you did. That was the first time ever a number 16 team defeated a number one seed. Because now all of the best players from last year's Maryland-Baltimore County team would be recruited through NIL money and the open transfer portal to bigger schools. I wish I had more time to discuss this, but you are really seeing the gap between the blue bloods of college sports. and the teams that were plucky underdogs that might have once been able to compete really, really be a bigger gap than ever before. Out of time for today's show. Back 306 tomorrow. We do it all again on the Dan O'Donnell Show.