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Buck Sexton
Ashley Brassfield of the Daily Caller joins us to talk about the elections this week, about the shutdown. She covers a lot of Capitol Hill in D.C. lives in our nation's capital. Let's start with this government still shut down. What are the people on the Hill saying? Like, we got air traffic controllers that are now going to get cut down to like 10% of them or something aren't going to be showing up because they're not getting paid. We got chaos at the airports, D.C. what's happening?
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Ashley Brassfield
Yeah, what I'm hearing just from today, I was just at lunch and with a bunch of staffers. And honestly, they don't even know. They don't know when it's opening is what I'm hearing. And so I don't know what type of, I guess, energy that expects, but, you know, a bunch of Democrat senators are actually expecting to meet tonight. So maybe there's a plan there to come. Of course, we saw the Rose Garden meeting with President Trump. We're talking about filibuster and nuking that. So that's part of the conversation happening right now. But it doesn't sound like as of, you know, three o' clock today, there's a lot of movement currently.
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Buck Sexton
That's kind of wild because I think the belief on from a lot of places was that as soon as the election's over, like this was all a game to get people upset, do more turnout for Northern Virginia. A lot of government bureaucrats and contractors and such live there. They'll be ticked off. They'll show up and vote. But now we can all stop, right? But it sounds like there isn't some imminent go back to the government as usual strategy, like, where is this? Where does this end up, you think?
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Ashley Brassfield
Well, remember the first marker was these no Kings protests that were happening back in October with Chuck Schumer. We were guessing maybe that was going to be the thing that, you know, set it in motion to where they'd start coming to the table with Democrats to negotiate. And now we had the elections. That's the second marker. Right. And now here we have Thanksgiving coming up and nothing seems to be happening right now. So I wonder a lot of the time how much the American people actually believe who's winning the PR stalemate that's going on right now between Republicans and Democrats. It seems like Democrats are starting to be able to hold out. You're starting to wonder, okay, well, are these Senate staffers going to be paid or the congressional staffers going to be paid? And that's going to be the thing that really twists their arm to open the government here. But I mean, I've always thought in my mind when it starts affecting the American people, say Thanksgiving travel, when you're missing flights, when you're not able to, you know, do things, and it's widespread, I that's my thought is when it starts affecting the American people, which I still think right now, honestly, a lot of American people, I think they're know that's starting to have effects that they do know there is a shutdown occurring a little bit, but it's now just starting when it comes to what they believe is happening.
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Buck Sexton
Speaking of, of D.C. you know, I was down there, gosh, I can't remember. I got back from Taiwan and I went right to D.C. and I was at the Pentagon and it was. But I just remember it in that order because the streets were the shutdown was going on and it had just started and the streets were nice and clear and I could get anywhere in D.C. in five minutes. And it also did feel safer to me. And I don't know if that's just because Trump is saying it and I believe Big Papa Trump or I don't know. But how is that going? Like the safety component of D.C. with that whole National Guard and all the Trump stuff, has that borne fruit?
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Ashley Brassfield
I do think so. I think crime has definitely gone down. I Mean, the presence. I live in Navy Yard in D.C. and that's been one of the higher youth crime rate areas in D.C. specifically, I always see National Guard when I'm getting off the subway in the metro system there. And as a girl that's 25 years old walking around single, you know, I feel safe that the National Guard's there. Their presence is definitely a deterrence, I would say. On Halloween, you might have seen videos go viral. There was kind of a brawl taking place in Navy Yard. But guess what? National Guard was there to handle it. Police presence is very heavy there. So I, I think it shows that there is. This is a reoccurring theme. And they can't prosecute much of these juveniles still. You know, we have Janine Pirro in charge, but there's not this essence that they can still go and, you know, it has to be a violent crime in order for them to be prosecuted in any way or, you know, there's no parents involved, so what's the consequence here for them doing this? So there is a, there is a.
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Buck Sexton
It's okay. Have you met Judge Deneen yet?
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Ashley Brassfield
I have not, but I'd love to.
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Buck Sexton
I was going to say, have you, have you interviewed her? She's, she's great. She's a sassy lady, let me tell you.
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Ashley Brassfield
Yeah, not.
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Buck Sexton
Yeah, yeah, yeah. She's. She's got some spunk for sure. You would not, you would not want to be a criminal on the wrong side of prosecutor Judge Jeanine, I can tell you that.
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Ashley Brassfield
Yeah, well, I think she's also, she's shown frustration, I can tell this in interviews, of not being able to prosecute a lot of these people. I mean, you saw, you know, the Doge guy, big balls, has all these, you know, youths go and attack him and there's hardly any prosecutions are getting let off still. So there is still that aspect that's being battled back against. But like the National Guard thing specifically is been a huge deterrence in my opinion, especially where I live. And this is a, it's a major Republican area. And you still have this issue in the city. A lot of Republicans live in Navy Yard.
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Buck Sexton
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Ashley Brassfield
Yeah, so I think when it comes down to the arguments being made right now, they talk a lot about the cultural issues. There was too much of a shift on the cultural issues with, you know, transgenderism being playing that major factor. We saw this in 2021, the debate moment with Terry McAuliffe against Glenn Youngkin. You got to remember during that time period we were coming out of COVID a lot of parents were angry at these school board meetings. So I think just setting that up alone kind of shows the differ culturally what was going on in the moment. I think there was a lot of focus still there and I think people do care about it. But also I think this government shutdown probably played a factor. There was multiple things. But I think you're right about the AG race. I think we were all very shocked about that. I covered it extensively and I was, I guess I had concern about how many voters were actually aware of what was going on. And I found there was a CNN exit poll that I found very fascinating. It was a 55% of women voted in favor of Jay Jones in Virginia. And so, you know, you put a lot of thought into that after the reckless driving charge, a special prosecutor being put on him as well as the violent text. And that came right after Charlie Kirk's assassination. So I Question how much the message actually got out. You have the factor that a lot of people don't show up for midterms, low propensity voters showing up within the state as well as early voting. And that taking place kind of. It was an October surprise, came in October 1st and October 3rd. Those two kind of reports dropped and there was still early voting already occurring. So I think it is a broad, complex picture of what actually happened there. I do think it was a GOP failure due to the fact that we took back the state in 2021 and we could have fought harder for it in this election.
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Buck Sexton
Specifically, was there a sense that the winsome Sears campaign was underperforming what the GOP expectations were for Virginia, or was it essentially what was thought to be possible? Like, how would you gauge how that, how that one ended up?
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Ashley Brassfield
I'll be completely honest. I think the excitement behind the candidate was lacking. I think there was a push on the from the presidential side to give an endorsement with Mierez. Sears came later. He didn't name her. It was in a gaggle on Air Force One that that came. It was only about two or three weeks before the election happened. So I think that those two things played a factor. I don't know how much that would have gained for her, but I do think as a candidate, the excitement and then, you know, like I said before, the Terry McAuliffe moment really was that push over the edge for Youngkin to take the lead there in the final days of that election, in my opinion. And that's the thing, though. We saw a debate performance with Abigail Spanberg and Winsome Sears. And I mean, Winsome Sears dominated Spanberg in that debate performance. It's just, I think the question is that early voting and low propensity voter aspect in that state, that was very interesting. I think it differed a lot from the New Jersey New York City mayoral elections. And I think that's the one that Republicans really need to take a hard look at.
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Buck Sexton
I would say, well, that's perfect because I want to ask, because you're 25 and you're a woman, and yet my sense is, as you work at the Daily Caller, you are not a huge zoron person. So we need. I'm going to need you. I'm going to need you to speak for your demo in a moment here and tell me about the ladies for Zoran phenomenon to the degree you can. We'll get there here.
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Ashley Brassfield
Hot girls for Zoran. Hot girls.
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Buck Sexton
Was. Was there really a thing called hot.
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Ashley Brassfield
Girls for Zoron Yeah, there are hot girls for Zoron shirts still. Bill de Blasio was wearing one.
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Buck Sexton
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Buck Sexton (promo voice)
How did this happen?
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Ashley Brassfield
I know we got to get you a shirt obviously for that. Like de Blasio, you know this. I think it's part of the greater social media campaign that Zoran was running with TikTok. He kind of did pull from that Trump aspect a little bit. They're obviously completely different in certain ways. But I think it's really interesting with this election, what we have to look at was who was voting for him, specifically in New York City. And it's the highly educated women, highly educated men, and then kind of transplants and immigrants really that came into the city in the last 10 years. And so I think we have to kind of break that down. How did we lose that? You know, do they not believe in the capitalist system to where they're now voting for socialist policy? So I think it is like not a one answer solution here. I think you have to take a hard look at how that was successful and then also the battle happening right now between the Democrat party with the establishment and I would say the more progressive wing, Bernie Sanders, the Grand Planters in Maine right now, Zahra Mamdani, aoc. So I think it is more of a complex issue and how do we actually approach those voters as a Republican Party? Because I do Think there is a sense that Republicans need to get ready for 2026.
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Buck Sexton
Do you have any of your peers who have taken like a two bedroom in Murray Hill in New York and split it five ways and are going through that whole process? Because I do think one of the challenge, one of the challenges of being a young person. So I've been a young person in D.C. and a young person in New York, D.C. just so, you know, way better in terms of affordability. So you're very, you're in a much better situation there. You know, I felt like I was living in a palace in D.C. and then paying a lot more rent for a lot less in New York City. But there's also, I think, an argument where people need to look at this like not everyone can live in the trendiest neighborhoods or their favorite places in the most expensive city in America. And Zoran telling them that he's going to manage this. You know, when Zoran's talking about building more affordable housing, the people who are voting for Zoran, like these yuppie demographic that we're talking about here, they don't want to live where the affordable housing is being built. I don't think they understand that.
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Ashley Brassfield
No, exactly. And I think you have these people that are once again highly educated but are getting these degrees that really aren't applicable that you can get a job. You're probably going to go get a job at somewhere in Brooklyn at a coffee shop. Right. And you still have, you know, these highly educated, over decorated.
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Buck Sexton
You have to have a lot of tattoos, male or female. At the Brooklyn coffee shop. I don't know how much you know Brooklyn. But like little, they like to get little tattoos on their wrists now too. Like little tiny ones.
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Ashley Brassfield
Yeah, it's like a doodle all over their body.
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Buck Sexton
What's going on. But you know, that's what the cool kids are doing that and you also. I'm gonna tell you something now. I'm gonna get very. Get off my lawn. But I need you to, I need you to spread the word to, to, to your generation for me here. The big jeans on the ladies. I've tweeted about this. This is, this is a disaster. Okay? All these girls are going to hate every photo that they are taking. The hot girls for Zoran, everybody else, every photo they take in jeans that are, they look like the MC Hammer pants from the 90s. Like they're giant, they're oversized. It looks horrible. They might as well be wearing a burqa. I don't know what else to say. I need you to help spread the word. This is madness.
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Ashley Brassfield
I know that's not fashion, unfortunately. You know, I think another point I want to make too. You know, Zara Momdani's wife is already being made into a celeb celebrity. She's kind of got this certain look to her, but that's kind of what all the females in New York City that are voting for Zong Ron Mom Donnie look like. So there is that translation happening there, in my opinion. Whereas on the right we have people like Melania Trump and they're just complete opposites, in my opinion. So when you come to the cultural factor with Zo Ron, what's happening in New York, you know, he's this cultural phenomenon. They're using the tick tock. He's young, you know, immigrant coming in. So I think, yeah, they have to be able to Republicans go out to that demographic and talk to them specifically with even in these blue cities and be like, hey, we have this solution. Maybe we can give it help you out rather than voting for a Democrat at this point. But I think Republicans are have to get gritty in order to get there.
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Buck Sexton
I'm going to give you something a little crazy but true. If you looked at my bookshelf here, I have a lot of stuff on different totalitarian regimes, Soviets, Maoist, Maoist China. And that's just like a fascination of mine. Dressing women in ways that effectively nullifies or neutralizes their gender and attractiveness and female sensuality. This is the truth is a thing the communists did. They wanted to, you know, you were supposed to like, if you were in the Maoist revolution, you're supposed to dress in a very basically male like very plain, boxy way. And I'm. I think that these boxy jeans are like a zoron plot to make all chicks ugly. I think this is horrible. So I'm just telling you this is very bad.
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Ashley Brassfield
Yeah, no, it is bad. But I'm glad you brought up those books because I think that's another factor. None of my generation, when I was in college or high school, went out of their way to read those books. It's kind of. You have to find that on your own. You know, I'm not. Nobody's giving you Dove Tevsky to read to talk about the gulags in socialist Russia, USSR at the time. So it is this idea that the education system is also failing us. You know, I have an mba, I have a bachelor's degree myself. I was never given any of that stuff to talk about. So it's I had to go find that on my own or I was raised by people that would give it to me. So that's where we're also failing is just education system of these areas like socialist Russia, Cuba and all these failed states that have had socialism put be put into place so that, I mean we talk about that all the time in conservative politics, but that's also the message we have to relook at the education of these things in my opinion as well.
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Buck Sexton
Yeah, I think very few people know, very, very few people know that the greatest mass starvation slash mass murder event of the 20th century, 40 to 60 million people, was completely self imposed in China, 1958, 1962. I think that that's something that people should know, especially as we're like, hey, China's a problem. It's like, oh, China's got big problems if you look at the CCP and its history. But that's a whole nother podcast that we'll have to do sometime. I want to ask you about where things are going toward the end of the year, end of the congressional. End of the congressional. Well, end of this Congress, whatever they call it, when they're all there doing their jobs, which they don't do very well actually working. We'll get to this here in a second. But our sponsors, Hillsdale College. The American Revolution didn't just happen. The colonists didn't just wake up one day in 1776 and declare independence. It was 150 years of history that made that revolution possible. My friends, we need to know our history. And most of we were just talking about this and most of us don't even know. The Declaration of Independence marks the beginning of America as an independent nation. You walk around the street, you ask these questions. You'd be shocked at the level of historical ignorance that exists in this country. Hillsdale College wants to be the cure for this malady. They've got miniseries that are completely free and Easy to access. Forty other free online courses, including a course on C.S. lewis stories in the Book of Genesis, the Rise and Fall, the Roman Republic. Go right now to Hillsdale Edu Buck to enroll. There's no cost. It's easy to get started. That's Hillsdale Edu Buck to enroll for free. Go check it out. Great for your kids, great for any of us. Good to go up and go back and brush up on this stuff. All right, so what happens here till the end? We got Thanksgiving coming up, Christmas. No one's going to pay attention to what's going on in politics. After that or leading up to that, really? When, when does this Congress finish up and are they going to do anything worthwhile assuming the government gets turned back on, which I guess is going to happen soon? Let's assume the government is back. What happens then? What are they trying to do before the end of the year?
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Ashley Brassfield
You know, I think the appropriations bills has been something that they touched on a little bit, but of course that comes down to whether the government opens back up. You know, I did an exclusive piece today with Joni Ernst and she put forth a package looking at a bill that would cut a bunch of COVID relief that's still being spent uselessly, really. And I think it's seven times more than what the rescission package was that they originally put through. I think it was about $9 billion. So seven times that. So that's something I think that would be necessary considering Covid was years ago at this point. So that's a good step forward in my opinion. And so with the president after this election, I keep hearing this buzzword, which is affordability. So I think the concentration should really be on that. It seems like the administration understands that from this election that Americans need to have something that's palpable where they see those costs lowering. When you go into the grocery store, you're not seeing those astronomical prices. And I think that I would say that's probably one of the main policy goals you're going to see from the administration pushing on Congress and vice versa, maybe.
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Buck Sexton
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Ashley Brassfield
You follow me on X rasfieldashley and Instagram. Ashleye Brassfield Excellent.
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Buck Sexton
I feel like sometimes being broke is.
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Ashley Brassfield
A cycle and that we might have.
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To revisit that and we're not stopping at success stories.
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Ashley Brassfield
What happens when it doesn't go right?
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Buck Sexton
How do you cope with it?
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