MATT MURPHY 8-7-26

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But Andy also was perceived as being in all of this for himself and not for the voters. And for all of those reasons that I listed above, I voted for Charlie Hatcher in District No. 5. And for all of those reasons, the majority of the people that went to the polls voted similarly to me. Andy, you know, I hope Andy learns from this. I think there's some more public service, you know, in his life. I would think so. I would hope so. But, you know, I hope he learns from this and moves on. Clearly, Donald Trump is already moving on, as I'm sure you've seen his true social posts today. You know, he said, you know, for those who haven't, last night was another good night for endorsements, eight and one. And the one was a person who I remained loyal to, even though he had virtually no chance of winning and was running against a great Trump candidate and former Agriculture Commissioner of Tennessee named Charlie Hatcher. Good luck, Charlie. And, you know, he goes on to say he has his complete and total endorsement. So I find that interesting. Donald Trump says that Andy had virtually no chance of winning. And almost every outlet that I saw that predicted this race, including me, I voted against him and I thought that he was flawed in a lot of ways. And I still predicted that he was going to win by five. So bottom line is that that was probably across the state the biggest surprise slash shock of the night. I'm trying to look up. What was the margin? It was still kind of close, right? It was six points. It's like 53.5 to 46.5. So six to seven points. You know, I mean, it was, you know, it was not razor thin. But, you know, it's like I say, 53.5, 46 and a half, something like that. So do you think part of it as well is that the district was redrawn? It's my understanding where it is now more rural areas. And, of course, people in those areas knew the agriculture. commissioner, right? I mean, he had worked for them. Well, that was the idea. Well, and I think, you know, Charlie was not, here's the thing. I like Charlie Hatcher a lot. I think Charlie Hatcher is the type of candidate that we sit around and claim that we want until we get it, right? We claim that we want somebody that's not in it for themselves. That's not some loud mouth. It's not, you know, outspoken. It's not ego driven. It just gets to the job, does the job, strong conservative credentials. strong conservative values. You know, I would compare it to, you know, down in Alabama, Gary Palmer, I think you know Gary pretty well, that type of guys, the type. type of candidate we say we want, and then we rarely elect those people, right? Because it's typically the more bombastic, the more brash people that come out of that. So Charlie, I think you're right on. He appealed to rural Tennessee in those farming communities where he had laid groundwork over eight years as ag commissioner. You know, I didn't see him very much, Yaffe. You didn't see him very much, but guess who did? The farmers. And so when they had a chance to vote for him,

They voted for him. Secondarily, once again, I just, I go back to this, you've got to tell us what you've done for us and you've got to tell us how you're in this for us as opposed to for yourself. So I just think all of those factors combined with the fact that when that, when those districts were redrawn to try to pick up nine, five changed considerably. And when it did. Congressman Andy Obles, the incumbent congressman in district number five, had $60,000 in his bank account. That is basically zero. And he had to raise money very quickly, which is something that Andy was notoriously not good at. And then he was eventually left with depending on outside sources of money from the House Freedom Caucus to try to get him across the finish line. And it was, you know, it was just too little too late. Yeah, and a lot of what he did, you're right, he voted the right way. I know people in this audience liked him because he was pretty good on the pandemic when all that was going on. Oh, yeah, Murray County. He was solid as Murray County. Right. But a lot of what he did was gimmicky, right? I mean, that's kind of the problem. He wanted to be a social media influencer. He tried to pass an amendment to give Trump a third term. He'd go on social media and say things that even Republicans were uncomfortable with. I mean, are we finally getting past the time where we just want social media influencers to be our members of Congress? Well, yeah, I mean, I would agree with that. I think a lot of folks got tired of the flash. They got tired of, you know, the, oh, Trump third term type stuff. And frankly, my, what turned to me off, and, you know, I've had many conversations with Andy Ogles. I've had many negative conversations with Andy Ogles and some positive. I've tried, I've tried very much to like Congressman Andy Ogles. But Andy has a propensity to kind of fudge the truth. And just the easiest example is when on his Twitter account, he came out and said, I think homosexuals have no place in America, something like that. And he did this on the heels of saying Islam has no place in America. Well, the Islam tweet got a lot of reactions, some negative, but a lot of positive. And it got a lot of people talking about Andy Ogles, which Andy Ogles very much liked. And it, it. was appreciated amongst his base. Well, when he threw out the homosexuals, had no place in America, it did not land nearly the same. And he got a tremendous amount of negativity thrown his way. And some of it came from the White House. I'm not to understand that the Treasury Secretary was none too happy about the comment, Scott Bessent, who is gay. And Andy backtracked. And instead of owning it and saying, you know, this is what I meant. I meant gay marriage, whatever you want to say. Andy just, in my opinion, lied about it. He said, oh, a staffer did that. There is zero chance, zero chance that a political staffer in Andy Ogles's campaign thought that they could, without Andy Ogles's permission, tweet out, homosexuals have no place in America. Zero chance. And instead of just owning it, he tried to throw somebody else into the bus. And I think it's that type of thing that finally got him.

yesterday in district number i'd agree with that and it looks like trump threw him under the bus a little bit with what What that post was, you were reading earlier. Man, speaking with... Well, yeah, Trump, Trump is, you know, right, you know, you got to love our boy, Donald Trump, because he is, he's like, I'm all in on Andy Ogles, Andy's the guy, Andy has my total endorsement. He was a bum. I always knew he was a bum. Exactly. He doesn't even take a breath, right? That's for sure. So let's move on to the governor's race then. I mean, Marsha Blackburn won. Most people thought she would, but... It was only by 11 points. I mean, that's usually pretty good, but I mean, there were some polls that were up by like 30 points. So what happened here? Well, I mean, I think, I would hope, obviously Marsha Blackburn had tremendous name ID rolling into this thing. And that name ID translated to huge numbers at the beginning. And those were eventually wheedled down. I think Monty Fritz and his presence in this race demonstrated the desire and the appetite that Tennessee has, you know, for outside voices that are not beholden to the same old, same old. The political structure in Washington, D.C., or in this case, the political structure in Nashville, Tennessee. And I think Marsha would do well to learn from that. I mean, she's going to enjoy her victory of a win is a win. 11 points is 11 points, double digits, is double digits. But when you came from 35 plus and you got down to 11, and if you consider, you know, we were talking about this last night during our election show, Yaffe in Murphy'sboro, if there's no Monty Fritz. I think John Rose could have won. It looks like that. I mean, you know, so, I mean, if you, I mean, so you put those numbers together, you know, sure, 44% voted for, 56% did not. And I think that Marcia is a strong enough political figure and understands politics enough that she's going to carefully consider what those voters were looking for moving forward. Now, there's no chance in. hell that Jerry Green beats Marsha Blackburn in November. But in order to launch herself in her, you know, as the 51st governor of the state of Tennessee in the way that she wants, I think she's going to do well to consider some of the concerns that people had when you went to the polls and voted for other people. But you know what? Marshall Blacker's going to be fine as governor in the state of Tennessee. She's going to do a good job. Tennessee has a relatively weak. governor's office in terms of power structure. The General Assembly has a good amount of the power in the state. And I think Marshall will do fine as governor after she beats Jerry Green. Speaking with Matt Murphy, he's a talk show host out of Nashville, Super Talk 99.7, WTN there. I got to ask you, Matt, on a separate note, have you participated in the great burrito debate?

of 2026 of a burrito. You know, I haven't. And everyone's nipping around the edges on this burrito talk, so to speak. And so I'm a little confused about what we're talking about. I feel like an old man and the kids are, you know, are talking about video games or something that I don't quite understand. So explain to me the $20 burrito, yeah. All right. I'll explain it. It started. With one conservative commentator, most of this is online, I get it. But one conservative commentator complaining about grocery prices, then a guy from TPUSA said that he asked a young person on his staff about affordability. The staffer said, I just think a burrito shouldn't cost $20. And most people are like, where in the world are you buying a $20 beret? Like first, that's kind of on you. But it started this whole debate on whether conservatives actually believe there's an affordability crisis, especially with groceries and food, or if it's mostly a myth that Democrats have put forward out there. So that's kind of the debate. There's one side. The more of the extreme right that's like we should get out of Iran and focus on affordability. That's where a lot of this is. You know, they want to blame Iran for it. But there's also, I mean, inflation was a real thing. And even if wages have gone up, we kind of look at the prices and we can tell it's more expensive. But I think the big thing it started it too was $20 for a burrito? Who is this guy? Where are you buying your burritos? You know what? I suppose in, you know, some of these swanky Washington, D.C. joints or, you know, if you get into some of these fine dining establishments and some of these new to your places, maybe you could find yourself a $20 burrito. I don't find $20 burritos where I'm eating. You know, I can go down to the Mexican joint in my adopted hometown of Mount Pleasant and get myself a 9-95 burrito that would choke a mule. You know, it's just a huge, like, full plate kind of deal. I believe it. So, you know, and it's delicious. And it's delicious. So, yeah, I mean, I think we're exaggerating a little bit, but I think we're exaggerating to make the point that prices have not gone down consistent with some of the promises that were made in 2024. And I think some of that, a lot of that does have to do with oil and gas prices. If the cost of a barrel of oil goes up, everything else has to follow, right? Almost everything in our lives that we consume comes from a truck. And if they come from a truck, then that means that if the cost of getting it from point A to point B goes up, naturally the cost of that good has to go up as well. So, I mean, I understand the economics of it. And I understand that if we kind of temper gasoline prices, oil prices, that you're going to see possibly mitigation in consumer goods. And I think that's the debate, is that is Iran hurting us that much? And is it hurting Donald Trump's legacy?

in that he did make the promise that he's going to get prices down, that he's going to get inflation under control, he's going to get the economy going again. He's done some of those things. I think most... commentators, and I would include myself in this, believe that he could be far more effective on the economic domestic front if we weren't entangled in Iran. I'm not saying that we don't have business to handle in Iran. I just don't believe that it's going as well as Donald Trump originally hoped. Well, that's definitely true. It definitely is not. I think part of it, though, is the tariffs, too. I mean, I think honestly, he screwed up a lot of it. Yeah, I know. I agree. Yeah. You know, when he did Liberation Day, it was like that really. screwed things up in terms of wanting to get prices down. He was just so obsessed with it. Well, and I'm a little, and can I just say on the tariff front, I'm a little bit frustrated because I bought into and defended Donald Trump's tariffs as a negotiation tool. I mean, to understand tariffs is. Pretty easy. If you add a cost of me doing business to my business, then I have to pass that cost along to the consumer. Donald Trump likes to say that foreign countries are going to pay for it. It is not true. The consumers are going to pay for it. Always. That's free market Milton Friedman economics, right? So I appreciated Donald Trump going all in and using tariffs to get better trade deals. I fully respected it and was all in on it. But now that's not what he's saying. He's moved the goalpost, and he's considering tariffs to be a legitimate form of taxation. And I'm like, no, I thought we were the lower. I thought Republicans were the lower tax party, right? And there's no way that the price of goods can't go up if you increase taxes on the consumers. I'm a little frustrated because I thought we were using these as negotiation tactics. That seemed where we were to begin with. And now we kind of move the goalpost a little bit, yeah. You're right. Matt Murphy talked to host out of Nashville. We'll end it there. We'll end it with me saying you're right. I'm sure that feels good. I'm sure. Oh, no. Listen, I'm often wrong, but never in doubt, Yaffe. You know that. All right, Matt. Appreciate it, my friend. We'll talk to you soon. Have a good weekend. Y'all take care. All right, you as well. We'll be back in a moment here on you after your life. What does one trip to Israel do? One trip changes people's faith, their identity, their perspective. One trip changes the response when people chant from the river to the sea. One trip changes how people see right and wrong. One trip changes the idea of home. One trip changes everything. And one donation is all it takes.