Will The Dems Nominate Anyone That Isn't A Socialist?
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27 segmentsIt's 7 o'clock. Rich has already studied the headlines, solved a few problems, ruffled a few feathers, and consumed more Diet Coke than most people drink all day. Richmond's Morning News with Rich Herrera. This is News Radio, WRVA. All right, keep the text messages coming, folks. 833-804-1140. 833, 804-1140 on the James River Air text line. Glenn Youngkin was in Wisconsin yesterday campaigning for the Republican nominee. And you had Gavin Newsom flying out to Michigan to campaign with El Saed, who's going to be the Democratic nominee for the Senate in the state of Michigan. Now, I wonder if Gavin Newsom is going to stand up there with him and agree that football is bad in Michigan. I don't know, do you wear a Michigan shirt and go, I hate football. That's going to get you a lot of votes in the Wolverine state. That's where I want to go next on Richmond's Morning News. Again, my name is Rich. Thanks for joining us this morning. It is 705. Now. I just want to throw this out. And I know we have some Democrats here in the Commonwealth of Virginia that listen to this show. And I probably drive you crazy. Well, just good morning because I give you something to think about. Well, my big question is, if you're a Democrat, have you noticed the trend lately of some really odd, odd people? that you see running for office on the Democratic side. I can just, I can kind of run down because they have the one that's running in Wisconsin today, Hong. She wants to, at one point said that Thanksgiving needed to be eliminated. There's a whole bunch of things that she said. She wanted to cancel Thanksgiving. 2020, she described Thanksgiving in colonial terms during the 2026 campaign. She said, now Thanksgiving is her favorite holiday. She also previously supported abolishing or radically reconstruction policy and has supported abolishing ICE. On the left in the Democratic side, if you're a Democrat, I just want to ask this thing, I just want to point something out that you have such far left wing. people that are running that really want to remake America into some utopian vision of Marxist ideology. If you're a regular blue-collar union, lunch pale, been a Democratic family in my entire life, is this still your party? Are these still people that you want to support? and see get into office that run under that Democratic banner. Is there room in your tent for people like Graham Platner, who every Democrat loved until they didn't? Remember, he was the one with the Nazi tattoo in his chest. He was the one who hoped that someone, if someone broke into his house, he was going to do something unmentionable to them. Crazy stuff. So then they replace him with a guy named Troy Jackson.
is their nominee. Turns out he's married to his second cousin and had two kids with him. You've got Abdul El-Sayed, the Michigan Democratic nominee, says he hates football. He had an essay that he argued, football culture can reinforce toxic masculinity and aggressive male behavior. How do you hate football if you're from Michigan? He also wants to abolish and replace ice. You've got the one in Wisconsin that wants to cancel Thanksgiving. She wants to raise the taxes on everybody. I mean, I just keep going on and on and on and on. Have you noticed, though, that the Democratic Party can't find anybody, quote, unquote, normal? I mean, just having traditional American values, maybe you lean to the left, but don't want to go so far to the left that you just want to change everything about the country. If you're a Democrat today, here's what I'm going with this, and you guys can comment, 833, 804, 1140, I'm looking at this right now. And I see your party slipping away. I see a Trojan horse that you brought into your party with Bernie Sanders. And now Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who by the way, she says all that woke stuff that she was talking about went too far. Now she's going to triangulate and moderate to do something else because she has bigger aspirations and plans. Have you noticed that on the left, your candidates are getting more cartoonish? and so wide-eyed, wild, and a lot of them are just flat-out Marxists, and the ones that aren't run like, and I hate to say this, that Governor Abigail Spanberger is actually becoming a noun. Or would it be a noun or an adverb, Dave? Do you want to get Spanburgered? Where you say one thing and you do another, you run as a moderate, and then you get an office and you become a very, very left?
Can the, is the Democratic Party, I'm just going to ask you this this morning. Is the Democratic Party an honest broker? Is the Democratic Party honest with its voters, with itself, and with the public? That's a big question I want to ask this morning because, again, if you're a Democrat and you don't speak up, the DSA is going to infiltrate your party, they will take it over, and you will be sitting there. with the party you won't recognize anymore. I'm just being honest with you. You keep letting in the DSA, and you keep saying we'd want to have a big tent, like Tim Kaine says, before you know it, these radicals are going to take over your party, and this will be the party of the far extreme Marxist left. And that's the way that you're leaning. Well, they're talking about primaring John Fennerman and pushing them out, that's where your party's leading. And you're seeing, and you see it here in Virginia, where they say one thing and they do another, or you see it, we're just going to be out there as far left as we could be. And then right before Election Day, we'll come back and we'll say, well, you know, woke 1.0 went too far. I'm going to, I'm not that wild as I used to be. It was something like, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, I was listening to her. She said, well, you know, everything during COVID, we were open to listening to everything, and we probably went too far. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, you weren't open to listening during COVID. That's why you're so dishonest about this. You weren't open to listening to everything. That's why Anthony Fauci shut everything down. Don't rewrite history. I wasn't born yesterday. And now I've got these Democrats over here on the left that are going so far wild. I just want to know. It's an honest question. It's an honest question. If you're a Democrat, do you like the tact that this party is taking and as far to the left as they can go? Do you like the fact that when you look at who represents your party, is it Zohran Mamdani or is it John Fetterman? Is it Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez or is it Chuck Schumer? Is it some of these wild-eyed candidates that we see that want to remake America? Or is it the traditional Democrat that you've always seen? I'm just interested. I'm not poking fun at you. I'm not making fun of you, but this is an honest-to-goodness question. You've gone so far to the left. Is this the direction that you're really excited about your party taking? And today's going to be another one. When you've got Hassad Pike or a guy who I absolutely, I think is despicable, I'll use Hillary's word, in the things that he says and the things that he stands for, and they're out there campaigning and getting his support, and he's asking his supporters to vote for these people, is that where you want this party to go? Do you want to see it go further and further and further to the left? into that column of where the DSA wants to take you. That's my big question. If you have friends that are Democrats, do they see what's going on or like, ah, we don't care as long as we all get together, we beat Trump, that's all that matters. 833, 804, 1140. If I were a Democrat, I'd be severely concerned right now how far to the left the party is going. If I've just...
Blue-collar regular Democrat that's voted Democrats since the New Deal, I would be concerned when you have a party that has people that are going to run for national office that say, I want to abolish ICE, I want to get rid of prisons. I want to tax the billionaires. You know, something, they never say millionaires anymore. Bernie used to always say, let's tax the millionaires and the billionaires. Well, now that he's a millionaire, we don't need to tax those people. Let's just go get the billionaires. I just wanted to get you. It's just an honest question this morning. It's not a gotcha. It's just an honest question. Thumbs up, thumbs down. Do you like where your party is going? If you have friends that are Democrats, are they concerned at all? Like, I don't care. More people that tend the better. Let's win this thing. 833804-1140, 833804-1140, the number for you to join us. All right, coming up on the program, school's going to get started. Kids are going to be worrying about the SATs. Should they? How important are the SATs? We'll have a full discussion coming up here in just a few moments. I'm Rich Herrera. Thanks for joining us, everybody. It's News Radio, WRVA. Again, the text message line, 833, 804-1140, 833-804-840. Today's program brought you apart by our friend Michael Greer of Greerfinancial Group.com. You can reach them at 804-4-27784-84 or find them online at Greerfinancialgroup.com. So here's the deal. You're going to retire and you better hope and pray that everything's going to work out well. Well, I will tell you this. Hoping at praying is not a strategy. Hoping it praying is, well, hoping it praying. How about you double check to make sure that you're ready for retirement, that you're doing the right things? You've been putting money away your entire life. Have you double check to make sure that it's working? Because you worked hard for that money, is it working hard for you? That's where Michael Greer comes in. Have Michael Greer do it once over and just take a look at how your money is being used, how it's growing, how you're protecting it, so when it's time to retire, you're ready to go. Call them 804-4-2-77784, 804-4-27784, or find them online at greerfinancialgroup.com.