Dems Are Losing Their Minds… Here’s Proof | The Riley Gaines Show

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The Riley Gaines Show — Episode Summary

Episode Title: Dems Are Losing Their Minds… Here’s Proof
Host: Riley Gaines
Date: April 1, 2026

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Episode Overview

In this episode, Riley Gaines blends personal reflections on motherhood with sharp, unapologetic commentary on contemporary culture and politics. The first half is lighthearted and personal, focusing on family life, parenting decisions, and social media. The second half shifts to current events and political analysis, particularly surrounding the influence of progressive activism in children’s content and Democratic Party controversies. Throughout, Riley maintains her characteristic assertive and often satirical tone.

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Personal Reflections & Parenting Updates

00:00 – 08:50

• Motherhood Journey
  • Riley discusses her six-month-old daughter Margo’s milestones—crawling, reaching for the family dogs, protesting her car seat, and transitioning to her own crib.
  • She candidly reflects on co-sleeping, the emotional difficulty of moving her daughter to a crib, and fitness postpartum:

    “Now being six months postpartum, I’m not the same as I was. But I don’t think it’s necessarily a good nor bad thing. It’s different and it’s beautiful, quite frankly.” (05:04)

• Screen Time Decisions
  • Despite plans to avoid screen time, Riley admits Margo enjoys “Dancing Fruit” videos on YouTube for developmental reasons. However, she draws the line at popular YouTuber Ms. Rachel:

    “She is brainwashing your children.” (06:47)

• Ms. Rachel’s Influence
  • Riley outlines her concerns with Ms. Rachel’s content, including LGBTQ inclusivity, association with progressive politics, and what she perceives as an underlying agenda:

    “Parents… imagine that they’re allowing their child to watch safe, apolitical content. But I’m here to tell you that Ms. Rachel is not neutral.” (07:25)

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Critique of Children’s Content & Progressive Messaging

08:50 – 12:20

• Political Messaging in Kids’ Media
  • Riley references a New York Post article where Ms. Rachel reportedly admits having a political stance:

    “Her admission was that she is political. Shocker. We didn’t know. She says, ‘I am political. It’s political to believe that children are worthy of love and care, and that every child is equal and that our care shouldn’t stop at… a border.’” (08:34)

  • While Riley agrees with “children are worthy of love and care,” she expresses skepticism about conflating this belief with open-borders advocacy and points out perceived hypocrisy regarding abortion and missing children.
• ICE and Border Enforcement
  • Shares a news story of an illegal immigrant charged with child rape, using it to question Ms. Rachel’s “every child is equal” credo:

    “Where’s the every child is equal energy now, Ms. Rachel?” (10:01)

  • Defends ICE agents, contrasting their work with what she characterizes as progressive virtue-signaling:

    “Real compassion—it would secure the border so that kids aren’t put in this position in the first place.” (10:45)

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Viral Clips & “No Kings Day” Protests

12:20 – 24:20

• Confrontations at Airports (11:42)
  • Plays a viral clip of ICE agents being heckled by a protester who calls them “foot soldiers of a fascist regime.” Riley comments:

    “ICE is seemingly more diverse than every single anti-ICE harassment group. And I just think that’s peak irony.” (12:10)

• Trend of Progressive Takeover in Children’s Media
  • Asserts that progressive politics are infiltrating all children’s platforms and warns parents to be vigilant:

    “Kids’ content is now Leftist indoctrination hour... Audit what your kids are watching. That’s your job as a parent.” (13:43 and 14:25)

• Satire of Creating Her Own Kids’ Content
  • Jokes about starting her own children's channel to teach “love of country, love of family, love of God. None of those things inherently political.” (14:55)
• No Kings Day Protest Coverage
  • Riley describes protestors’ outfits and behaviors with mocking detail, referring to Craigslist ads recruiting people for protests for cash (16:53–18:35).
  • Critiques the symbolism, such as Handmaid’s Tale costumes, as misguided, and challenges protestors’ sense of oppression by contrasting U.S. freedoms with conditions in countries under Sharia law:

    “Go to somewhere where Sharia law is in place… and then tell me how oppressed you are here in the most free and opportunistic country…” (20:38)

• Challenging Progressive Slogans
  • Deconstructs popular slogans like “Love is love,” “You do you,” “Trans women are women”—accusing them of lacking substance:

    “Real women don’t have to publicly declare that they are women for people to believe them.” (22:25)

  • Emphasizes that President Trump’s 2024 victory reflected the majority’s will:

    “I just want to remind all of these No Kings Day protestors that President Trump is their president, that he won in a landslide.” (23:11)

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Democrat Leadership & 2028 Election Speculation

24:20 – 30:30

• Gavin Newsom & “Racism Field Trips”
  • Plays a 2023 clip of Gavin Newsom’s wife discussing her intention to expose their children to U.S. history and racism in red states. Riley retorts:

    “If someone says they’re a truth seeker but believes men can get pregnant, we don’t seek the same truth.” (25:18)

  • Suggests Democrats lack unifying leaders, even as figures like AOC and Gavin Newsom gain attention. Criticizes Newsom’s wife for using “partner” instead of “wife,” calling it “concerning” and emblematic of progressive trends.
• Contrast with Republican Field
  • Highlights results of the recent CPAC straw poll, showing Vice President JD Vance and Senator Marco Rubio as frontrunners.
  • Praises Vance for his outsider background and appeal to “average everyday American[s],” but notes he may need clearer immigration policies.
  • Lauds Rubio’s humor and says both could make a “stellar ticket.”

    “Both of these people… would make a really good ticket together.” (31:35)

  • Recalls playful tension between Trump and Rubio with an audio clip:

    “Little Marco and Big Don, look at them now, buddying it up in these cabinet meetings. That is so funny.” (32:48)

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Notable & Memorable Quotes

• “She is brainwashing your children.” — Riley on Ms. Rachel (06:47)
• “Her admission was that she is political. Shocker. We didn’t know.” (08:34)
• “Where’s the every child is equal energy now, Ms. Rachel?” (10:01)
• “Real compassion—it would secure the border so that kids aren’t put in this position in the first place.” (10:45)
• “ICE is seemingly more diverse than every single anti-ICE harassment group. And I just think that’s peak irony.” (12:10)
• “If someone says they’re a truth seeker but believes men can get pregnant, we don’t seek the same truth.” (25:18)
• “Both of these people… would make a really good ticket together.” (31:35)
• “Little Marco and Big Don, look at them now, buddying it up in these cabinet meetings. That is so funny.” (32:48)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• Motherhood Updates: 00:00 – 06:05
• Ms. Rachel & Kids’ Media Critique: 06:05 – 11:00
• Immigration, ICE, & Media Bias: 09:13 – 12:30
• No Kings Day Protest Commentary: 16:52 – 24:00
• Democratic Leadership & Newsom Family Critique: 24:20 – 26:00
• Republican 2028 Speculation & CPAC Results: 26:00 – 32:48

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Conclusion

Riley Gaines delivers a personal yet incendiary monologue tying family life, digital parenting choices, and political anxieties into a broader critique of progressive trends in U.S. culture. She frames contemporary Democratic Party activism as unmoored, performative, and lacking real solutions, while championing conservative values and the emerging 2028 Republican field. Riley’s directness and flair for satire make the episode both provocative and illustrative of the divides in American political and cultural life.

Transcript

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Foreign. Are true. I was told all the time when I was pregnant by other moms, other parents, that time flies, right? Don't blink. It goes so fast. And honestly, I would roll my eyes to this. You kind of just nod along, whatever. Here I am with a six month old. I cannot believe it. All of the cliches, it is so true. Even when they say, like, each stage is better than the last. You, you're in the moment and you think, there's no way, there' no way it can get better than the newborn. Like milk drunk. It can't get better than this. And then they start crawling and it is better. I don't know if it's better, but it's different. And I think your heart grows. Your love intensifies the altruism that I feel as a parent. Oh, my gosh. There's nothing that I would not do for our little baby. As I said, she is now six months old. We just did a little photo shoot with her just in our house. Um, it was really funny. We went to, my husband and I, we went to Hobby Lobby. I told him I had this vision. We were gonna, you know, create this little banner thing and I wanted to make these little party hats for her stuffed animals. I'm gonna put a picture on screen so you know what I'm talking about. And my husband told me, he's like, riley, you're not creative. You, you can't do that. I said, watch me. Of course we have her face blurred here as we have made the decision as parents in this crazy world full of creeps that we're not going to show her face online. But hopefully you still get a good idea of just how much grown. Oh, my gosh, it makes me so sad. You can see her little feet in this picture too. I say little feet. She really has huge feet. Um, if she's anything like her mom or dad, I imagine she will be a swimmer. Uh, she's crawling now, like very mobile, which is concerning. Um, I long for the days where you could put her in one spot, leave the room for a few moments, come back and know she was going to be there. That is no longer the case. Uh, crawling all over the place. She's reaching for things now, which is really sweet, especially with the dogs. She, like, notices them now and she just wants to reach out and grab their face. Uh, what else is she doing now? She protests her car seat. That's a new one. Anytime we try and put her in the car seat to buckle her in, it's like immediately like we call it an alligator role where she starts to spin and twist and turn. She looks like a breached whale where, you know, coming out of the water, she's definitely in her car seat protest stage. Uh, she's sleeping in her own crib now. Uh, I know we've previously talked about on the show co sleeping and that was the method that we chose, especially at first and when you would have to, to nurse throughout the night, um, it just made the most sense. Honestly. I felt super comfortable with it. Feels kind of primal. Maybe that sounds weird, but I feel as if that's as human beings, what originally we were intended to do. Um, and so we co slept for, I guess, nearly the first six months. Now she is sleeping in her own crib, which makes me sad. Like I want her. There's a part of me, and I know this sounds crazy, there's a part of me that wants her to want to sleep in the bed, but she sleeps in her crib with absolutely no problem. And what else? How I'm feeling. I feel great now six months postpartum. I posted a reel on my Instagram the other day, just sharing about the fitness aspect to being postpartum. Uh, I remember being pretty concerned, I think, especially as an athlete that, you know, you lose your body, you lose yourself. Which, yes, now being six months postpartum, I'm not the same as I was. But I don't think it's necessarily a good nor bad thing. It's different and it's beautiful, quite frankly. And so all that to say I feel great. You can go back and watch this reel. It got a lot of hate online, which, like that follows me everywhere. It doesn't matter what topic I'm talking about. It attracts the haters. So I feel great running all the time, still lifting, doing all the things I'm ready for. Baby number two. So hopefully we'll have an announcement in a few months. If it were up to me, we definitely would. What else? Margo, she still loves her dancing fruit. I think we've talked about that on the show before. On YouTube, if you look up dancing fruit, that's it. It's like these animated little like strawberries and cherries and avocados that dance across the screen. That's it. It's a black screen. I think the contrast, like the color of it for their development. She loves it. And what I can tell you is that we, we kind of decided we weren't going to be screen parents again, justifying this by saying it's good for her development. What I can tell you is that Margo will not be watching Ms. Rachel. Before I get into any of that, I will say this. My little nephew has learned a lot actually from Ms. Rachel. Some like pretty remarkable, incredible things. He's like 18 months old, so I guess a year and a half now. And he knows like sign language. I think that she teaches them that this is more and all sorts of different, different things. And so I'm not here to say that she hasn't been, I guess, useful or entertaining for some children, but she is brainwashing your children. I guess a little context if you don't know who I'm talking about. Ms. Rachel, she is like the biggest kids YouTuber on the planet. She sings songs for little, so nursery rhymes and these learning videos like ABCs. And she has this massive toddler audience. Parents, I would imagine believe that when they put on Ms. Rachel and set the screen in front of their child, I think that parents imagine that they're allowing their child to watch safe, apolitical content. But I'm here to tell you that Ms. Rachel is not neutral. She features non binary, they them gender fluid co stars. She has previously celebrated Pride Month, has encouraged others to celebrate Pride Month. She explicitly tells toddlers that it's okay to be trans or gay or non binary, probably a dog. The slogan that love is love. Some past red flags and kind of understanding Ms. Rachel because again, before Margo I didn't know. I guess before my nephew. But now having Margot, I didn't know who she was. I was inclined to learn about her. Here are some past red flags that I learned about. Just earlier this year. She liked an Instagram comment calling for America to be free from the Jews, to which she later apologized. Actually again celebrated and encouraged the celebration of Pride Month on her platforms. She was appointed to Mom Donnie's inaugural committee, which is basically like as I understand it, like an events planning role. They've announced that I think she will help support him and collaborate with him on child focused initiatives. We've got a picture of Mom Donnie and Ms. Rachel on screen together. And outside of all of that, outside of all of the the red flags and the political takes that she has, honestly in researching who she is, I just think she's weird. I think it's weird that a grown woman dresses up as like a toddler in overalls and kind of like the high side ponytail. I think that's a bit bizarre. But anyways, there was an article that came out last week. The article is titled it's from the New York post. It says, Ms. Rachel makes big admission as she leads effort to shut down immigration detention center. What was her big admission? Her admission was that she is political. Shocker. We didn't know. She says, quote, I am political. It's political to believe that children are worthy of love and care and that every child is equal and that our care shouldn't stop at what we look like, our family, at our religion, at a border. In theory, this sounds great, right? I mean, I actually agree with her. Right. I of course agree that children are worthy of love and care, that it doesn't matter the color of your skin or your religion or your economic status. But she got me here where she says those things don't stop at a border. Does she know what border I mean literally is defined as the connotation of the word border because of course it is intended to stop things. It's amazing to me that she could say something like this. Again, believing that children are worthy of love and care. Again, I agree. Yet advocating for killing fetuses, abortion, which is kind of ironic to me considering that she would technically be diminishing her target audience. I was wondering when I read this article if Ms. Rachel ever commented or stood up for the thousands of trafficked kids that were brought across the border and saved by ice. Did Ms. Rachel say anything when 300,000 children went missing under the previous president, under President Biden? Or what about this story here? Actually, we have a clip here. I'm gonna play it for you.

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Been arrested by Homeland Security. The DHS says Carlos Aguiar Reynoso, who was here illegally from Guatemala, he was arrested by Immigration Enforcement in February and turned over to Suffolk police last week. As we reported, Prosecutors say the 5 year old needed surgery as a result of this attack. Reynoso faces up to 25 years to life in prison if convicted.

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A 27 year old illegal immigrant from Guatemala who was babysitting a five year old just in February of this year when he allegedly violently raped her, causing her severe internal injuries that required surgery. Actually it was her mom who came home from work who found her, found her bleeding and rushed her to the hospital. So where's the every child is equal energy? Now, Ms. Rachel, of course, Ms. Rachel, she's hiding behind this pro child tagline when in reality, I think especially in this case, she's not advocating for children, she's advocating for pro open borders. Let's be very, very clear framing basic border enforcement that any first world country enforces by the way, as hateful while ignoring the actual Chaos at the border, right? We're talking cartels. We're talking the, the bringing in of fentanyl and dangerous drugs that Americans are dying from. We're talking trafficking. Real compassion. It would secure the border so that kids aren't put in this position in the first place. Really, what Ms. Rachel has done, not just in this scenario, what has, I guess, taken over the news in the past week, but across the board, is she's weaponizing kids for politics. Even again, the Mom Donnie position that she's now serving in. Parents who are tuning in to Ms. Rachel, they're not tuning in for an immigration lecture. They are tuning in for like Wheels on the bus or the ABCs. But now, Ms. Rachel, she has admitted the quiet part out loud, that kids content is now Leftist indoctrination hour. I will say God bless our ICE officers. Thank you. Thank you for your service. Look at what they did even in the past few weeks with TSA lines, how they were cleared up so quickly upon deploying ICE officers into airports. Actually, there's one more video I found online this week that I want you to watch. Let's watch it here.

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No thoughts. You guys are the foot soldiers of a fascist regime, right? Is that, Is that not what it is? Is that funny? Is that funn?

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Here you have ICE agents who are being screeched at by a banshee, a liberal banshee in the airports about fascism, which I just think is hilarious because these ICE agents, they can't help but laugh. And the thing that got me about this video, the thing that I noticed was that ICE is seemingly more diverse than every single anti ICE harassment group. And I just think that's peak irony. It's peak irony. How jarringly natural it came to them. So anyways, I love this white liberal. It doesn't show, actually the person behind the camera. Maybe it's not fair for me to assume, but I am going to assume because it seems that this is always the case. A white liberal is so angry that these black men just won't listen or obey them. So I say thank you to our ICE officers for keeping us safe. What we've seen from Ms. Rachel, which that's who she's protesting, by the way. These officers, what we see with her, it's the same playbook that we have seen time and time and time and time again with Netflix and with Disney and with Nickelodeon and in public schools, turn every single kids only platform into a progressive soapbox. But the good news is I really do believe that parents are waking up Trust in innocent kids. Entertainment, I really do believe is collapsing. And so my message to parents is to audit what your kids are watching. Maybe that sounds like super, you know, controlling, but that's your job as a parent is to control the information that they're receiving and to do your best to protect them. If a Ms. Rachel type is sneaking politics into a nursery rhyme, then maybe they shouldn't get your screen time. Look at that. I just made a nursery rhyme. I'm coming for you, Ms. Rachel. I'm actually going to just take your job. And with that there will be no enforcing of politics. If it were up to me, if I had a YouTube platform, which if you're [e-mail], i hope you subscribe right now, we can be the next Ms. Rachel. What's more enticing, if I had a you a huge YouTube platform, I guess solely specifically dedicated to children, I would teach them love of country, love of family, love of God. None of those things inherently political. Folks. If you have been buried by private student loan debt, I really really want you to hear this. I have talked about my friends at Y Refi before, but what they are doing right now is honestly life changing for people who feel stuck. If your monthly payment is way too high, if you've fallen behind or maybe you're already in default and you feel like there's no way out. Hear me when I say you are not alone and more importantly, you are not out of options. Why Refi? They specialize in refinancing private student loans that most companies won't even touch. And this is the part that makes them different. They don't force you into some one size fits all plan. They actually work with you one on one to create a payment based on what you can realistically afford. So that means lower monthly payments, that means a low fixed interest rate, and of course it means a real clear path forward. And get this, they do not care about your past, your credit score, they do not care. It is not the deciding factor. So if student loan debt is weighing you down, if it's stressing you out, if it's holding you back from the goals, the things that you want to achieve, you don't have to keep living like that. There is a way forward. Go to yrefi.com y r e f y.com and be sure to tell them that Riley Gaines sent ya. I do believe that real love for children, that means secure borders, that means protecting girls spaces, and that means honest conversations, not open border virtue signaling from a YouTube star dressed in overalls. Okay? So, parents, be mindful of what your kids are watching. Otherwise, they could grow up to be no King's Day protesters. Oh, my gosh. I'm sure you guys saw some of the clips over the weekend. If you didn't know there were no King's Day protests. These people, quite frankly, I'm trying to think of the best way to put this, how to put it kindly, to showcase Christian compassion and grace and patience. But I'm not Jesus, and my patience is running thin. Let's watch this clip.

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Sissy.

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That walk.

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Okay, again, I hope you're [e-mail] actually for your own sake. Maybe I don't. Maybe I don't hope that you see this. I'm going to describe in my own words what I'm looking at. I see. Well, the first thing I see immediately is a very large person, objectively large. Obese, actually, is the clinical term. I see an obese person with a face mask, I believe, like some sort of face mask. You would see, you know, like a softball player wearing on the field, a pitcher. Behind the pitcher's mound, looks like a football kind of, you know, metal cage there in a what appears to be a wheelchair. There may be an oxygen tank there. I'm not overly sure. Next to the obese person with the face mask in a wheelchair, I see a person very clearly dressed as President Trump on all fours, as if, I guess it's like a dog maybe connected to, I think a leash that some other person is wearing with this obscure platinum blonde wig. I see a large man, another clinically obese person. Man with a beard and maybe some, like, BDSM gear leather. The fishnet tights going up to his knees and high platform heels in a skirt with a whip. Like, again, if you're not watching, you're like, riley, what are you describing? No, this is the actual visual at these no Kings Day protests. Which it's crazy to me because I have to imagine that no one would be this stupid or hysterical to do this for free. You have to imagine that they get paid for this. I actually saw a reporter by the name of Jonathan Cho online who had posted about these no Kings Day protests organizers in Seattle. He found a Craigslist ad that were paying people to show up over the weekend and yell basically into the air. Here is what the post says. It says, no Kings anti Trump protest sales team on Saturday, March 28, cash paid. Hiring energetic people to sell protest merch at no Kings Anti Trump protests. So you got a 20% commission honestly, not too bad. Top reps earn 150 to $200 cash. You're paid at the end of the event. They gave the location the description here. It says you will sell buttons, flags and rally merch to marchers. Easy impulse items in a high energy crowd. He's admitting that there's sheeps here, which is kind of funny. Outgoing personality helps. Sales experience is a plus, but not required. You must be reliable on and on time. You can get paid to dress up like Donald Trump and walk around on all fours. We saw this protest happening in Nashville. Let's watch it. Yeah. So this is my home state, my home city. If you're [e-mail] Then you saw this, like, Handmaid's Tale visual where you have the women in, like, the cloaks and their bonnet things on their heads. If you don't know what Handmaid's Tale is, I'll kind of explain it. It's basically. It's this dystopian novel. I read the book. I think there's a show about it now. It's this dystopian novel where women are forced into reproduction. So the connection, I'm just not sure because that's not happening here in the United States. It is so very bizarre. These people think. Actually, maybe that's the thing. I don't think they think. They have no idea what they're protesting. Even the idea of a no King's Day protest. What are you doing? There's no. They have no clear direction. They have no understanding of the trajectory of our country or what they're even protesting. And to the women in these videos who I guess that the message was that they're oppressed living in the United States, My message to these women is go to somewhere where Sharia law is in place. Maybe go to Iran or Yemen or Afghanistan or any of those countries in the Middle east who operate like this that are controlled by radical Islamists. And then tell me how oppressed you are here in the most free and opportunistic country, the most diverse, the most inclusive, despite how often and perpetually they tell us that there's oppression and racism and all these horrible things, objectively horrible things, they're just not happening here. Maybe go to the Middle East. I imagine you would be a little more grateful for the freedoms that we have here and the people who fight for those freedoms. These protesters, what it seems to me, really the entirety of the Democratic Party, they hide behind slogans, nonsensical slogans that make no sense whatsoever, and they just expect Everyone, society at large, to be too stupid or too lazy to question it. They expect us to just nod along to what sounds good, right? Think about it. I'm sure you can think of your own. Some that come to the top of my head is like, love is love. Sounds good, right? What does that even mean? You do you. What does that mean? Trans women are women. You know, who doesn't have to publicly declare that they are women for people to believe them? Real women. Chants like, no Trump kkk. No Fascist usa. Like, what are you saying? They don't even know. They just expect that no one will question it. So I just want to remind all of these no Kings Day protesters that President Trump is their president, that he won in a landslide. 77 million of us turned out to support him, to support his America first agenda, to support his cabinet picks, and thank God for it. It's become increasingly clear to me in talking about the future, whether it's 2026 in the midterms, or looking way far ahead. Well, really not too far ahead into 2028, the presidential election, it's clear to me that the left just has no real leaders. They don't have a person that they have unanimously and. And have united behind to put forward on this platform, this pedestal. I mean, there's a few, of course, right? Aoc. I think Jasmine Crockett is maybe old news, given the fact that she lost her bid for US Senate for the state of Texas. Who else do they really have? I mean, I don't really know. Seems as if they're rallying behind Mamdani. But even I don't know, I don't want to say he's too radical because I think they've proven that no one is really too radical. I can't imagine that they would really get behind him for anything larger than where he is now. Gavin Newsom, he's kind of like the Democrat, darling. But with Gavin Newsom getting more attention going into 2028, people online have done some digging into him, his policies, his platform, and his wife. Let's watch this.

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You took your four kids on this trip. You're here in Alabama now. Why was it important to you to take them on this trip to red states and learn about the history in our country? That's a great question. Well, I don't think, or I know for a fact that we don't get all of this history in our schools. And it's part of enlivening them, building their curiosity, expanding their hearts, their empathy, so that they themselves can be the change they wish to see in the world and recognize that we have work to do and that we have healing to do, and so that they can use their voices to stand up and speak out when they see pain and suffering and bullying and racism and misogyny around them. And you want them to see it so that they know I do. I'm a truth seeker. They need to know the truth.

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If someone says they're a truth seeker but believes men can get pregnant, we don't seek the same truth.

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Gavin Newsom's wife, I don't even really, I don't know what her first name is, to be totally honest with you. For clarity, this video was back in 2023, so it's a couple years old now. She talks about how she wants to take her children on a racism field trip. That is peak California elitism. If she wanted her kids to see racism, which that is outright what she said, maybe she should show them the video of her husband, their father. Recently, I think he was in the state of Georgia, where he's talking to an audience filled with mostly black people and says something to the effect of, I'm just like you. I scored horrible on my sat and I also am illiterate. I'm just like you guys. That's what we call racism. If she wants to see her children to be able to see racism, show them the clip of President Biden saying, you ain't black unless you vote for me. If she wants her children to see racism, maybe show them the discourse that the Democrats have had surrounding the Save America act, how black people aren't going to be capable of getting IDs that if this passes. Or what about Kathy Hochul, the governor of New York, who says that black people, they don't know what a computer is. I would say those things are actually pretty racist. This woman, there's more and more videos popping up of her. She refers to herself as Gavin Newsom's partner, which raises concerns, right? When you hear that word, why wouldn't you just say wife? And so someone asked her, what would you refer to yourself? Or what do you refer to yourself as in the Governor's position he's in. What are you? She says, well, I'm, I'm the first partner. Not the first lady of California. She's the first partner. So concerning things for the left going into the midterms in the presidential election, if it looks anything like that video that we just watch and on the other hand, I believe that the right, the conservative side of the aisle, I believe we look better than ever. There's a CPAC straw poll that just came out. I have it here. Let's see. So following CPAC which just took place last week, they always do this every year. It's a straw poll for the 2028 Republican presidential primary. Here's what the people in attendance voted for. They have Vice President Vance receiving the most votes at 53%. Coming in second was Marco Rubio with 35%. Everyone else is, is not necessarily a concern. As it stood amongst, Amongst the attendees, DeSantis was at 2%. Don Jr. Was at 2%. Ted Cruz, Hegseth, Rand Paul, Tulsi Gabbard, Governor Abbott, RFK and Lindsey Graham, all less than 2%. I'm excited about this, what 2028 will look like for Republicans. I think there are some concerns going into midterms, to be totally honest with you, just because of the current state of things, the tensions in the Middle East, I think gas prices inevitably when you have those tensions and the instability there, they have increased. People have really short memories. So I think that will affect how people vote again. We have some time before we have to to worry about that. Who knows what the issue of the day will be then. But I do believe the issue of men and women's sports will continue to be relevant in 20 and it's always a big one in a presidential. Remember President Trump's most effective ad that he ran was against Kamala Harris. Was saying Kamala Harris is for they them. President Trump is for you. People care about these things and that really shows during a presidential. But I think with the options that we have and the results that we've seen here with Vice President Vance and Marco Rubio, that makes a pretty stellar ticket if I do say so myself. Both of these people, I think in particular JD Vance though this is like a non career politician and there's something admirable, there's something really appealing about that. Really rare, right? He's America first. He, I think his story, if you've read Hillbilly Elegy, which I hope you have, really, really awesome. There's something about that that just really resonates with your average everyday American. I love the fact that he's young. That's something that we haven't seen, at least in my lifetime from someone in that position. I do think he needs to maybe strengthen some of his policies as it pertains to immigration and his stances on some of the things. I think some things have been unclear about H1B visas and different things. So we'll see. But I think ultimately it depends who President Trump gets behind. It's that simple. J.D. vance was obviously he was in the U.S. senate prior to this, but in terms of the presidential, he would not have been a factor to be considered had President Trump not chosen him as his vice president. So we'll see. People value what President Trump says, Maga. They exist. They believe in him. They trust President Trump because I mean, his whole campaign slogan was promises made, promises kept. He really has stuck by that. And as for Marco Rubio again, who received 35% of the attendees votes, the thing I love about him, which I don't know if it's necessary for someone serving in the Oval Office, is he's just hilarious in a different way to President Trump. I think President Trump is funny unintentionally. I think he has Riz, if that's what you want to call it. It's what the young kids, it's the word they're using nowadays. Riz, short for charisma. Just the way the aura that he has, it demands a room. He's comical. I think he was a comedian in his past life, meant to be a comedian, made to be president. But Marco Rubio, he's funny in a different way. Like his little side jabs like you don't even know if you should laugh or not at first. And you see that in these cabinet meetings. And so either way, though, I think both of these people are fantastic and would make a really good ticket together. And just for entertainment purposes, we've got a sot of President Trump and Marco Rubio. Of course, they ran against each other in the presidential election in 2016. Let's watch this together.

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I have a policy question for you, sir. Let's see if he answers it. You're.

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I will.

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Don't worry about it.

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Don't worry about it.

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Don't worry about it, little Marco. I will. Well, let's hear big, big dot. You're. Don't worry about it. Don't worry about it, little Marco. Gentlemen, gentlemen, you ought to chill. Gentlemen, you gotta, you gotta do better than those. This guy has the number one, Mr. Trump, may I ask. I'd like to ask you a policy question. Your proposed tax cut. That's why the people in Florida do not like them.

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Little Marco and Big Don, look at them now, buddying it up in these, these cabinet meetings. That is so funny. Again, that's the unintentional funniness of, of President Trump. And obviously, you saw how Marco Rubio threw a shot back at him, calling him Big Don. Oh, my gosh. Politics, man. Politics in the year 2026. What is going on? I remember leading up to the election in 2024, obviously, when President Trump most recently won. I remember being at the Madison Square Garden rally and you've got Hulk Hogan on stage ripping his shirt, God bless his soul, by the way, ripping his shirt off. And I remember thinking to myself in that moment, what in the world is politics in 2024? Well, I'm here to report it seems it's only getting crazier and crazier. Thank you guys for tuning in to the Riley Gaines Show. Make sure you follow along all of our socials. You can follow us on Instagram at Riley Gaines show. You can follow my personal page, Riley G. Barker. You can follow us on TikTok X, all the platforms, Spotify, anywhere where you get your podcasts. We want to hear from you guys, topics that you're curious about that you want. My takes on guests that you want on the show. We want to know all the feedback. Give it to us, leave it in the comments, reach out over Instagram. We will see you guys later this week. Thank you guys for tuning in to the Riley Gaines show. Be sure to follow us here on YouTube.com RileyGaines. You can subscribe. That way you never miss an episode. You can follow us over on Instagram, rileygainshow. We'd love to hear from you. You can leave comments here. You can DM us over on Instagram. We want your feedback. We want to know what you want to hear about. We want to know what guests you want to see on the show. Be sure to share these episodes far and wide. It helps tremendously when you do. You can share it with your friends or your parents or your neighbors. Heck, why don't you share this with that liberal in your life? You know the one I'm talking about. Share it with the person who needs to hear this message the most. We'll see you guys. Sam.