John Reid Joins Rob Carson: The Fight to Take Back Virginia Starts NOW

Summary

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The Rob Carson Show

Date: September 9, 2025
Episode: John Reid Joins Rob Carson: The Fight to Take Back Virginia Starts NOW
Host: Rob Carson
Guest: John Reid (Republican candidate for Lieutenant Governor of Virginia)

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Episode Overview

This episode of The Rob Carson Show combines Carson’s trademark humor and fiery conservative commentary to discuss current political and cultural issues, with a specific focus on public safety, urban crime, media narratives, and the critical special election in Virginia’s 11th District. The episode features extended interviews and commentary from John Reid, a Republican candidate for Lieutenant Governor, who makes the case for a political realignment in Virginia to combat rising crime and "woke" policies in schools and government.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Crime, Urban Policy & Media Coverage

• Charlotte Light Rail Murder Case
  Carson launches into the show with an emotional and pointed response to the murder of Irina Zarutska, a Ukrainian refugee killed in Charlotte. He argues that mainstream media and Democratic leaders are minimizing patterns of crime in major cities, especially when the suspects are people of color and the victims are white women.

  • “[Democrats] promised the sun and the moon to people of color in America's inner cities. And then election day would roll around, they'd get their votes and then leave some money on the nightstand, and they don't leave the money anymore.” (04:15)
  • He blames “progressive” policies—lenient judges, decarceration, and defunding police—for rising violent crime and criticizes the media for alleged double standards in coverage.

• Public Official Responses & Compassion Narrative

  • Carson condemns Charlotte Mayor Vi Lyles for focusing on the killer’s mental health and homelessness.
  • Quote: “I'm thinking the woman who had her throat stabbed out and died right there on the spot. I'm thinking she's the victim. I could be wrong.” (07:20)

• Media Silence & Double Standards

  • Discussion on the lack of media coverage for certain violent crimes compared to the national focus on other incidents (e.g., Daniel Penny case).
  • Quote: “CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC didn't mention a damn thing about this woman's murder a couple weeks ago until they decided to call it racist for us to point out the obvious.” (15:10)

• Racial Politics & Truth-Telling

  • Carson denounces what he sees as censorship and obfuscation by progressive politicians and commentators regarding race and violence.
  • He amplifies commentary questioning the narrative that only white people can be racist, and backs up guest Justine Brooke Murray’s arguments about the brokenness of the nuclear family, especially in black communities.
  • Quote: “It is especially evident in the black community.” – Justine Brooke Murray (18:55)

2. Political Climate in Virginia & Special Election Focus

• John Reid Interview

  • John Reid provides updates from the campaign trail, emphasizing the fatigue among voters with “the trans agenda, crime, tax abuses,” and the desire for practical leadership. (22:01)
  • Stresses that Democrats only seem to take contrarian positions to Donald Trump, and have offered few real solutions to pressing issues.
  • Quote: “I'm stepping up. I'm saying we're going to change the game here. And I think that's resonating.” – John Reid (22:01)

• Republican Strategy & Grassroots Momentum

  • Discussion of efforts to win a special election in Fairfax County, a traditionally Democratic area, and the implications for broader state politics.
  • Quote: "There are a lot of people who are obviously motivated... and they're saying they're tired of the trans agenda, they're tired of the crime, they're tired of the tax abuses." – John Reid (22:04)

• Critique of Abigail Spanberger’s Gubernatorial Bid

  • Carson and Reid accuse the Spanberger campaign of creating a “fake news site” to push positive stories—a phenomenon they decry as deceptive.
  • Quote: “Literally fake news.” (30:37)

• Reid’s Personal Candidacy

  • John Reid discusses being an openly gay Republican candidate, insisting on transparency and mature debate over divisive identity politics.
  • Quote: “I am a reasonable man. I'm a responsible person. And my commitment is to be fair to everybody across the state.” – John Reid (33:30)

3. Cultural Critique & Social Commentary

• Silencing of Conservative Voices

  • Anecdotes about conservatives in Northern Virginia speaking in “hushed tones” due to fear of ostracism. (24:19)
  • Carson encourages listeners to become more openly patriotic and vocal.

• Gen X/Libertarian Social Attitudes

  • Carson and Reid share lighthearted discussion about how many conservatives don't care about gay marriage or marijuana, but want focus on public safety, lower taxes, and education reform.
  • Quote: "The soul doesn't have a penis or a vagina. And so if you want to devote yourself to someone for their entire life, I think the state ought to stay the hell out of it." – Rob Carson (26:37)

• Virginia’s Heritage & Optimism

  • Both hosts celebrate the historical importance and “greatness” of Virginia, rejecting erasure of history and monument destruction.
  • Reid: “There are a lot of lessons in the first 250 years of this great experiment that we can learn from, but we are doing ourselves a disservice if we erase the monuments, the tombs, the memorials that are mile markers for the achievement of this society.” (35:05)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments (with Timestamps)

• On Crime & Race in America

  • Rob Carson: "The Democrat Party, by not recognizing the pandemic of murder... being committed, particularly by young men of color—it's very obvious." (05:20)
  • Brian Kilmeade: "We have to be able to handle that. If we don't handle that, we don't have a country." (11:31)
  • Rob Carson: “Did you ever think maybe the murdering of the white woman was the racist act? I'm just saying.” (12:59)

• On Broken Families and Policy Taboo

  • Justine Brooke Murray: "Is the brokenness of the nuclear family. The Brokenness of the black family." (17:58)
  • Rob Carson: “The nerve of you pointing out the truth.” (18:45)

• On Political Shenanigans

  • John Reid: “They know that these are issues where 80% of the population, even the Democrats, have decided, no, we shouldn't be cutting the breasts off of teenage girls; we shouldn't be castrating teenage boys just because they're going through what all of us probably had on some level.” (32:08)

• On Open Political Identity

  • John Reid: “I've had to. And because I am a gay guy who is making history as the first openly gay candidate, Republican or Democrat... I stand there and respond to it for hour after hour after hour.” (33:10)

• On Virginia's Role and History

  • John Reid: “My goal in running for office as Lieutenant Governor is to make sure that in the coming decade we have even more prosperity and more freedom for people in this state where freedom began.” (35:43)

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Important Segment Timestamps

• Main Crime Segment – Charlotte Murder & Media Narrative: 04:15 – 20:00
• Virginia Politics and John Reid Interview Begins: 20:43
• Republican Platform and Identity Politics Discussion: 26:10 – 34:00
• Virginia History & Civic Optimism: 34:08 – 35:43
• John Reid Campaign Pitch and Closing: 35:48 – 36:18
• Gen Z Pundit Justine Brooke Murray Social Comment: 37:44 – 39:00

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Additional Insights

• The tone throughout is highly emotive, punchy, and unapologetically conservative, often blending humor with anger and urgency.
• Carson leans on recurring themes: media hypocrisy, failed Democratic leadership in cities, the dangers of “woke” policies in schools, and the importance of family structure.
• The interview with John Reid exemplifies the conservative pivot towards inclusivity on some social issues while doubling down on law and order and parental rights.
• Cultural references—sushi dinners, barbecue, Gen X nostalgia, and monologues on state pride—help lend the show a relatable, folksy feel even during heated segments.

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Conclusion

This episode is a passionate call-to-action rallying conservatives to push for political change in Virginia, combat what the hosts describe as the failures of progressive policies in crime and education, and resist media “gaslighting.” The episode’s lively interviews and uncompromising rhetoric are tailored to energize the Republican base ahead of a pivotal local election.

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Transcript

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[Rob Carson]

You are about to hear the most interesting, informative, thought provoking and funny show in America on air and on the World Wide Web. This is the Rob Carson Show. This is the Rob Carson Show. It's already Tuesday and the what, the 9th of September already. Welcome to the show. Please come inside, chill out, hang out. We got a lot of stuff to get to. My head is swimming because I've been so bloody busy with all of the developing news, all of the sound bites, all of the everything that's going on in the world. And also I'm writing my TV script because I tape a TV show today and all that. But anyway, anyway, we've got a. We've got a full plate today. I had a nice time last night. I went out to a. I've never been to a kosher sushi place before. It was kind of fun. You ever been to a kosher sushi place? I go to a kosher sushi place and I was talking to my friend Matthew Farraji, who invited me to dinner and I said, so it's a kosher sushi place. What kind of fish do they serve? Is it just Gefelta? And he laughed. It was kind of fun. But I hung out with him and I got to hang out also with Israel Ganz, the governor of the Binyamin region and the chairman of the Yeshua Council on Israel. He's a big deal in Israel, a really big deal. And we had a delightful conversation about Israel. I was hanging out there with Mark Meckler, who has a convention of states, and it was, I gotta Tell you, it was something else. It was really something else. I can't believe that I have in my lifetime the opportunity to meet people like this. It is something else. It is something else. And I'm gonna tell you, the sushi was amazing. It was. I'm trying to remember the name of the place. I'll remember the name of the place because they just posted it on the social media. And I gotta tell you, it was the best sushi I've had in a while because, you know, I live in Kansas, Kansas. Not exactly known for their sushi, more for their barbecue and whatnot. So, you know, I'm sure they, you know, if I went to barbecue here, I'd be like, okay, anyway, it's Oronami dc. Oronami DC is where I went. It was crazy. It was crazy to be served by sushi by guys wearing yarmulkes. And it was. It was pretty cool. So you can check out my social media. I did a little review up there and everything and, and. And all of that. I want to get to this murder of this woman in. From Ukraine in Charlotte. And the Democrat Party has now officially made the race of the perpetrator invisible. This has been going on for years and years and years. The Democrat Party trying to kind of erase the record that they have with inner city black Americans and how they've forsaken them. I used to say that the Democrat Party in inner cities, they promised the sun and the moon to people of color in America's inner cities. And then election day would roll around, they'd get their votes and then leave some money on. On the nightstand, and they don't leave the money anymore. And the Democrat Party knows that the murder rate with young black men is 10 times the national average. They know that the abortion rate is 60 or 70% in America's inner cities. They know that the black nuclear family was destroyed by the Great society, and about 70 to 80% of black families don't have a dad in the home. Now, these are things that maybe for a while there, I was afraid to say, but honestly, I'm not afraid to say it anymore because I'm not in this for me. I'm not in this to make Americans, particularly African Americans in America's inner cities, feel bad. I'm here because I want to help. And I've been trying to help for about 35 years of my broadcast career. And this is, I gotta tell you, the Democrat Party, by not recognizing the pandemic of murder in this country being committed, particularly by young men of Color. It's very obvious. And lately it has shifted from killing one another to killing women. Like this woman from Ukraine who just went on a damn bus coming home from her job as a pizza in a pizza joint. And this Jack Weed, who'd been in and out of jail countless of times and released, the last judge to let him out said, oh, you're gonna show up, right? Yes, your honor, I'll show up. And he gets up and he murders her. He stabs her in the throat, for God's sake. And I'm gonna tell you, I'm freaking done. Done with this nonsense. And the liberal media, the leftist media, cnn, they are in their death throes so hard right now by making the avoidance of this story, they are avoiding this story at all costs because they recognize that a pattern has clearly developed. Has clearly developed. And when Republicans attempt to say, hey, I don't know, maybe all this division with regard to race and sexuality and all of this hate speak coming from the Democrat party have actually caused the unhinged to start murdering people. I don't know whether it be a Catholic shooting, school shooting by a transgendered individual with six other very similar shootings, mass shootings happening in the last couple of years. And then of course, I don't know, all of the, the violence in America's inner cities. And now you've got people like this Jack Weed in Charlotte killing a woman who just happened to be a white woman. And then other countless. I've got other, other evidence of this happening in places like Chicago, places like Cincinnati. Do you recall Cincinnati? And this is all part of this plan. The Democrat party has done their level best the last decade to rage and foment violence and say it's 1968 all over again and say that Republicans, white supremacy is the worst thing that you could possibly imagine. White supremacy is the most dangerous thing in the country. Nothing could be further from the truth. But look at the fruit it has produced. Look at fruit that it has produced. You've got people who are raging in America's inner cities because the Democrat party loves to keep people in inner cities uneducated, ignorant, needy, dependent and pissed off. And look what it's causing. Look what it's causing. And CNN is denying it's happening and calling Republicans, of course, what else? Racist. Racist. Because what do they do? They just pointed out the obvious. They just pointed out the obvious. The Democrat party let the, the, the country burn in the summer of 2020. Didn't say a damned thing. You know why? Because they wanted it to Burn. The Democrat party wanted the country to burn in the summer of 2020 or they would have done something to stop is utterly, utterly ridiculous and I'm quite done with it. Charlotte Mayer ripped for saying career criminal deserves compassion after video showed him a Ukrainian woman to death in the throat. In the throat. My God, this is the United States of America in 2025 where this jackass can be arrested what 13 times and released. And then even his mother was begging please don't release him. He's a danger. And then he stands up and he does such a horrific act. If this ever becomes normal, my God in heaven, it's over. And so we have to confront it. Charlotte Mayor Vi Lyles who by the way was completely down with defunding the police in 2020. One of the reasons why all these people are wandering around have been released because you know, you wouldn't want to be relay racist for putting someone of color in jail for committing a crime, you know, and obviously. But anyway, Charlotte Mayor V. Lyle suggested that 35 year old decarlos brown is simply a victim of the justice system even as he faces first degree murder. I'm thinking the woman who had her throat stabbed out and died right there on the spot. I'm thinking she's the victim. I could be wrong. She noted that the suspect, who homeless and has a litany of previous offenses, has struggled with mentally mental health issues and seemed to have suffered a crisis. I'm thinking the crisis of his victim was worse. Don't you suppose, don't you suppose when he murdered this woman, Zarutska, Irania Zarutska on the light rail on August 22nd. This is a tragic situation that sheds light on problems with society safety nets related to mental health care and the systems that should be in place. Well why don't you get on it then? Why have you allowed it to happen then? We will never arrest our way out of issues such as homelessness and mental health. Yeah, we will. It works every damn time. Look at Washington D.C. it's almost crime free now. Democrats are literally now saying oh more police aren't going to do anything. The National Guard isn't working. Even though the most Obvious Sign Washington D.C. one of America's most dangerous cities has suddenly become one of the safest cities because of police presence and National Guard. Yeah, and they're, they're literally trying to tell you that the sky is green even though it's right there. It's right there. He says here we will never arrest our way out of this bullcrap. Adding that mental health problems should never be, should be treated with the same compassion, diligence and commitment as cancer or heartache. No. Not when it comes to somebody getting their, their life taken away from them. At 23 year olds, 3 years old, after escaping a war torn country. It is ridiculous. After surveillance footage was released showing Brown Jr watching Zarutska for some time before he swung a knife at her and she sat with her phone, Lyles released a statement thanking media partners and community members who have not chosen to repost or share the footage out of respect for the family. No, it's not. No, it's not. It's about exposing something that is becoming a pandemic across America and has been going on for decades. Decades. Four decades. Here is your president talking about the murder of an innocent woman who came here to live her life and had it cut short before she even had the chance to.

[Brian Kilmeade]

I just give my love and hope to the family of the young woman who was stabbed this morning or last night in Charlotte by a madman. A lunatic just got up and started. It's right on the tape. It's not really watchable because it's so horrible, but just viciously stabbed. She's just sitting there. So they're evil people.

[Rob Carson]

Yeah.

[Brian Kilmeade]

We have to be able to handle that. If we don't handle that, we don't have a country.

[Rob Carson]

Wow. It is remarkable. By the way, the mayor didn't even mention the name of her killer. And the magistrate judge Teresa Stokes freed this killer in January, just about seven months before he stabbed the Ukrainian refugee. She said that you can walk free on a written promise that you would return to court following his arrest in January for misuse of the 911 system. So there you go. The justice system needs an overhaul. The Democrat party needs to fade into oblivion and Americans need to fight back against this nonsense because the, the trail of blood is, is lengthy and, and it needs to stop. Let's take a break and, and come back. This is the Rob Carson Show.

[Brian Kilmeade]

The Rob Carson show podcast is everywhere. Go to newsmax.com listen for details.

[Political Commentator]

It's being used, as you said, Brian, as a political symbol with MAGA media calling for more forceful punishments and more incarceration. Yeah, I have to say some of the replies to Musk, some of the comments around this story are baldly racist, stoking fear.

[Rob Carson]

No, they're actually just true. They're. They're actually just true. There.

[Political Commentator]

Humpty Dumpty, African Americans because this man attacked a white woman. The open racism on sites like X Today It's.

[Rob Carson]

Did you ever think maybe the murdering of the white woman was the racist act? I'm just saying.

[News Reporter]

A woman is gunned down and killed in Center City. Philadelphia police say it was just before six o' clock and Chestnut streets. Investigators say the woman was rushed to the hospital.

[Rob Carson]

Well, that's another white woman being killed by a person of color.

[News Reporter]

Where she died a short time later.

[Rob Carson]

Yeah.

[News Reporter]

Police say they do have a suspect in custody but are not yet releasing their identity. Police working to piece together what led to this fatal shooting.

[Political Analyst]

What does everything have in common? Black suspects, career criminals who keep catching breaks by the justice.

[Rob Carson]

Oh, that's Jesse Waters being a racist. Probably a KKK member or something.

[Political Analyst]

In Washington D.C. the average homicide suspect has 11 prior arrests. But cities would rather run these ex cons through rehab programs and get rich. Yes, Donald Trump's had enough.

[Brian Kilmeade]

We're all people of relig, but there are evil people and we have to confront that. When you have horrible killings, you have to take horrible actions.

[Rob Carson]

Yes. And the, the decades of Democrat leadership in, in Democrat cities has resulted in this zenith of blood and, and bodies. It is utterly, utterly ridiculous. Here is a little montage. A couple of years ago it was very important for the United States to bring in Ukrainians and look what happens to them.

[Government Official]

I've announced two days ago we will welcome 100,000 Ukrainian refugees.

[News Reporter]

Our collective respons ensure the safety and.

[Rob Carson]

Well being of these refugees.

[News Reporter]

We have a moral responsibility in the world.

[Rob Carson]

Well, I guess the, the, the security and the safety ends when you get to the United States.

[News Reporter]

Every other country does too. Yeah, to receive refugees who have a well founded fear, persecution or harm so.

[Rob Carson]

They can come here and get murdered.

[News Reporter]

To return to their own country.

[Political Analyst]

Now if you have a moral responsibility to receive a refugee like Irina, don't you have a moral responsibility to say something when she's murdered? You would think when you can't protect her. Nancy hasn't said a thing. Outside of North Carolina, no Democrat has. Every politician in the country had something to say. The last time surveillance cameras caught a death on a train. The Daniel Penney case was a national census.

[Rob Carson]

Oh yeah, yeah, there was that. And Daniel Penney was just, you know, trying to stop a psycho from hurting people. But it was a national story. You know, cnn, abc, cbs, NBC didn't mention a damn thing about this woman's murder a couple weeks ago until they decided to call it racist for us to point out the obvious. The inner city crime pandemic that has been going on for decades. By the way. This this man who killed the Ukrainian woman in in Charlotte had a lengthy criminal history, including assaulting his sister in 2021, leaving her with minor injuries and armed robbery in 20. This is a piece from Ashley Rensburg, a woman who was stabbed to death on a train. Wikipedia wants to erase her story Erase her story Boarded the links Blue Line, Charlotte, North Carolina, August 22. Began looking for her own Wore a hat and a T shirt, trendy wire rimmed glasses perched on her nose. Within minutes she had caught the attention of a man wearing a red hoodie seated behind her. Minutes later, the man took out his folding knife from his pocket, opened the blade and stood over her, who apparently had no notion that those moments would be her last. The man who stabbed her, decarlos Brown, was arrested and charged with first degree murder. But a number of Wikipedia editors don't want you to know about the attack. Since the online encyclopedia's article Killing of Irina Zarutska was created on Saturday, Wikipedia editors have fought to have it deleted as I wrote it in a post on X. And it's happened that way across the board with America's news media because you know what? They they just can't get enough of of their own annihilation. That's really what's happened. Listen to this is kind of interesting. I remember a few years ago and I heard Whoopi Goldberg say that people of color could not be racist. And I said, well that's just ridiculous because racism exists around the world, by the way, and anyone can be racist. It was absurd. But this is the narrative that's been happening in this country for decades from Democrats rather than actually focusing on the real societal issues that have brought so much violence, so much destruction to America's inner cities, particularly the black nuclear family. And we couldn't say anything about it because people like Whoopi Goldberg were putting up all these, these guardrails and saying everything you said is racist unless you are a part of the protected group. And it's always been terrible and it's resulted in the deaths of thousands and thousands and thousands of people. I want you to listen to Liz Wheeler talking with Chris Cuomo and this other woman, I don't even know the hell her name is, pointing out the obvious. And listen to how because she is, you know, the amount melanin in her skin, she has no ability to say anything about all of the death and destruction that are happening in America's inner cities. And that's the end of the discussion.

[Justine Brooke Murray]

Is the brokenness of the nuclear family. The Brokenness of the black family.

[John Reid]

The fact that.

[Rob Carson]

Oh, oh, oh, listen to the reaction. Oh, no.

[Justine Brooke Murray]

By the way.

[Rob Carson]

Well, the family, I think the family in general, you can point to, I don't know, that one race over there's Chris Cuomo trying to moral relativism. Even though the black murder rate, black on black is 10 time the national.

[Justine Brooke Murray]

Average is also true for the murderer.

[Rob Carson]

There she go, trying to kind to filibuster. And in the argument.

[Justine Brooke Murray]

Will you listen to what I'm saying? I literally said he broke a nuclear family.

[Rob Carson]

Really? Is that why the abortion rate so high and the fatherless homes are so high, the murder rate and everything so high.

[Justine Brooke Murray]

Families and white families.

[Rob Carson]

The nerve of you pointing out the truth. You singled out. You singled out black families. But if you're saying all families, it's a different point. Yeah, it's because there's a problem.

[Justine Brooke Murray]

It's especially evident in the black community.

[Rob Carson]

But it is.

[John Reid]

You know what?

[Rob Carson]

You know what? This is it. This, this is ending, okay? This is finally ending. Because, you know, there are so many people in this country who, who are in interracial relationships or adopting kids of color and all of this. And, and the left, all they're trying to do is shut down the exposition of the truth of what has happened with the Democrat party being in charge of so many of is utterly ridiculous. And then of course, there's this, which may cause some people, you know, who are on the fringes of, of sanity to go after people for the color of their skin.

[Government Official]

And we won't ignore what our intelligence agency have determined to be the most lethal terrorist threat to the homeland today.

[Rob Carson]

What's that? What's that?

[Government Official]

White supremacy.

[Rob Carson]

Yeah, white supremacy.

[Government Official]

We're not going to ignore that either.

[Rob Carson]

No, it's not.

[Government Official]

But on the best days, enough of us have the guts and the hearts to stand up for the best in us. The most dangerous terrorist threat to our homeland is white supremacy. Our own intelligence agencies, the United States of America, have determined that domestic terrorism rooted in white supremacy is the greatest terrorist threat to our homeland.

[Rob Carson]

You know, it's almost like a plan, isn't it? It's almost like a plan. The great awokening the division of us on our sexes and our races. The inflammatory and dangerous language causing some in society to lash out, those on the fringes of sanity. And it's happening in real time. And now we can finally talk about it. Let's take a break and come back, shall we? This is the Rob Carson Show. Abigail Spamberger is running for governor.

[John Reid]

Jesse in the state of Virginia.

[Rob Carson]

And she is for little boys playing.

[John Reid]

In girls sports and for men being.

[Rob Carson]

In women's locker rooms and for Medicaid actually, you know, funding trans surgeries, mutilation surgeries for children.

[John Reid]

So she's not exactly a centrist.

[Rob Carson]

Not exactly. In fact, she's just as left as left can be. Don't let her campaign ads try to fool you. Also, don't let her her fake news site to promote her candidacy fool you as well. We'll get into that. One moment. John Reid is running for lieutenant governor of the great state Virgini that I call my my home now. Thank you very much. And I'm very proud to and he joins us on the Newsmax hotline. How you doing today, my friend?

[John Reid]

I am great. I'm out campaigning all day today for Stuart Whitson in a special election, giving up one vote. We're trying to get trying to snag this seat for the people of Virginia so the Democrat mafia doesn't win again.

[Rob Carson]

Hey, this is big. And we've got, we've got him on the show later in the, in the show. And like I said, I just moved back here, so I'm trying to catch up with everything. I, you know, I've what's happened in Fairfax county and all of this and all of the madness in schools and whatnot. And, and it looks like we have a real opportunity to take that seat and end this nonsense or at least take a step in that direction, wouldn't you say?

[John Reid]

I think so. Listen, I've been standing out for hours today talking to voters and there are a lot of people who are obviously motivated, come on a very beautiful Tuesday that's not a normal election day. And they're saying they're tired of the trans agenda, they're tired of the crime, they're tired of the tax abuses. And Republicans, I am stepping up. I'm saying we're going to change the game here. And I think that's resonating.

[Rob Carson]

Well, I think right now the Democrat Party only offers a contrarian approach to anything that Donald Trump proposes. And honestly, I think America is tired of their petulant temper tantrum after losing the election, after four years of trying to throw Donald Trump in jail and take his fortune and then eventually take his life. And then they've been going out doing these idiotic marches and rallies for every stupid thing imaginable. Most recently, thousands of people bought and paid for in Washington, D.C. protesting that Donald Trump brought violent crime to a standstill and made in three weeks DC Took it from one of the most violent places in the country to one of the safest. And are you finding that people are getting a little bit tired of this nonsense?

[John Reid]

Yeah. Listen, if you're somebody who makes $250,000 a year and you live in one of the fancy buildings in D.C. with an armed guard at the front desk and a lock, right, it doesn't bother you to pick up the paper and find out that a black family has been shot and killed every day. That's sick. We cannot continue to allow this. And it's. It is so hypocritical for Democrats to say they care about minority minorities, they care about working families. And yet every single day in Washington, D.C. and quite frankly, in every city that the Democrats run, whether it's Baltimore, I hate to say it, my hometown of Richmond, Virginia, the state capital, there are minority families, working families, where somebody gets blown away night after night after night, and their only response is to come out to the suburbs and tell us we need to surrender our guns. How about you actually deal with the criminals and lock them up? Up like the thing in Charlotte where the poor girl got stabbed. They had 14 chances to get that guy off the streets, and they blew it. And the public is getting tired of it.

[Rob Carson]

I think the public is getting tired of it. You know, I moved to Old Town Alexandria, you know, which is not exactly in the hood, you know, and since I moved here, it is remarkable. I've met so many conservatives who live here, here, but speak in hushed tones about being conservative because they're afraid who's going to overhear them or who's going to be offended by their speech. And I got to tell you, I think that people are done with it. I've been kind of rallying people around me just to say, you know what? You don't have to do this, okay? Nobody can hurt you for having an opinion, and it's time that we fought back. Nobody's declaring your opinion misinformation or disinformation anymore. And I'm just finding it. And I'm beginning to see this rising tide of. Of not only the ability to speak, but also patriotism and joy are making a comeback. And I think that's a really big deal, too.

[John Reid]

That's what leadership does. You know, whether you love Donald Trump or whether you don't like his personality. I don't argue with anybody anymore. I just look at what the guy is doing. He is bringing back safety to D.C. he is setting a standard. I mean, if I would. Seriously, if I was A Democrat mayor. You know what I would be? I would say, I don't need the troops, Mr. President. I'm going to take care of this myself. Have you heard that from any of these guys? No. They're pathetic and they're weak. They do not actually look at the problem and try to come up with a real solution. So you don't want Donald Trump's help? Fine. Tell me what you're going to do to solve the problem. And until the Democrats step up with those kinds of answers, which are the answers I'm offering as a candidate for lieutenant Governor.

[Rob Carson]

Yes.

[John Reid]

I hope they're going to continue to lose because even people who are left of census on maybe some of the social issues that the Republicans talk about, they are tired of this too.

[Rob Carson]

Well, I think what a lot of people are saying, and I've been hearing this forever from Gen Xers like me, that we lean libertarian on a lot of issues. Like for instance, we don't give a crap if gay people want to get married. We never did. We think you're foolish because it's illegal. You could have had an out. I just going to tell you, you had an out. You could have just said, nope, it's just illegal. We don't have to get married. Married. But you said, no, we got to get married. But anyway, that said.

[John Reid]

I mentioned that to my partner.

[Rob Carson]

Well, exactly. I'm like, you had an out, for God's sake. What the hell are you thinking? Anyway. But no, we don't care. We don't care. I've always told my kids, I said, the soul doesn't have a penis or a vagina. And so if you want to devote yourself to someone for their entire life, I think the state ought to stay the hell out of it. As far as legalization of marijuana, that's up to the voters. These are things that we don't so much care about. I am very pro life because I was a fetus. However, those things to a lesser degree, those other things to a lesser degree are guiding us. We want strong defense, we want lower taxes, we want wokeness out of schools, etc. And I think that there is a place for, in fact, I would venture to say most people feel this way. What would you say?

[John Reid]

I think there are people who have very strong opinions on both sides and I think there are a lot of people in the middle who just want to live peaceful, prosperous lives and have the government out of their business. And that's what I would like to.

[Rob Carson]

There you go.

[John Reid]

Is come up with a way to balance that going forward, be fair to everybody.

[Rob Carson]

You can be opposed to gay marriage in your church and your church can decide that. Your church should decide that. And should your church decide to say gay marriage is cool and you're not down with it, then you'll find another church. So that's what I'm trying to say. I'm not meaning to whiz on anybody's religious views. Okay? That's not what I'm trying to say here. Don't get me wrong, but looking at the Virginia 11, this includes Fairfax City, Fairfax county was represented by Gerry Connolly, very, you know, left of center, reliable Democrat. And Stuart Whitson now has a real opportunity. Have you heard anything on the street about how Whitson is performing in today's special election?

[John Reid]

Well, I've seen him several times today. He and his wife are going around from pretty precinct to precinct. They're working very hard. I mean, it's hard not to like this guy. You know, he's, he's young, dynamic, good looking, really articulate, very friendly. Yeah, I, you know, you could tell some people have walked up and they're going to vote Democrat. And it doesn't scare him. He goes up and says, hey, I'm Stu. And that's the kind of leader we want. Somebody who isn't intimidated, isn't put off, who's going to reach out and try to win that vote in the last second. Like you're going to get a chance to meet me, ask me whatever question you have, and I hope I can win your vote as you walk into the ballot box.

[Rob Carson]

They're smart, but Virginia has made a lot of progress in Fairfax county with regard to the schools and this woke nonsense. But they do, they take one step forward and two step backs. Most recently, young men being booted from school because a girl who said she was a boy videotaped them in the locker room. And maybe this is a step toward putting a nail in that coffin. John Reed, can you hold on for another break? I know you're very busy. Okay. Because I want to talk to you about Apple Gold Spamberger and her fake news site to promote her candidacy. She's as, that's as fake as her candidacy, period. Let's take a break and come back. This is the Rob Carson Show. It is ROB CARSON show. I've been living in Northern Virginia for about five, six weeks now. Special election to fill the seat of Jerry Connelly, Virginia's 11th district, Fairfax County, Fairfax City. And a guy named Stuart west is running to fill that position and it could change things dramatically for that area because it's been under Democrat rule and also Democrat nonsense for a while. Hopefully things will change. Joining us on the Newsmax hotline, John Reed running for lieutenant governor of the state of Virginia. Of course, Winsome Sears running for governor. You know, John, I saw this headline campaign of Abigail Spamberger, the Democrat running for governor in Virginia creates a fake news site to promote her candidacy. See, she has created a, it's called the Commonwealth Courier, which shares positive news. They got a.

[John Reid]

Don't have a, like, they don't have a stranglehold on the regular news.

[Rob Carson]

Yeah.

[John Reid]

Create their own.

[Rob Carson]

Oh, no, this is literally fake news. Literally fake news.

[John Reid]

This is happening all over the place. You've got to watch the headlines that you're looking at and where the news is coming from and scroll down to the bottom, see if you can identify an actual reporter and what their CV is.

[Rob Carson]

Yes.

[John Reid]

You know, is this somebody who is an activist, a community organizer, quote, unquote, or is this a journalist who writes and kind of calls balls and strikes? Sometimes it's good to get the story out, you know, especially for conservatives. Yeah. There are lots of stories that I've had people write about on the Internet that the Washington Post and the New York Times and some of the local papers like Times Dispatch in Richmond refused to cover. And then it gets to a point where so many people are talking about it, they have to cover it. So that's helpful. But you're right, the fake masthead that makes you think you're getting objective journalism and in fact you're getting community activists garbage is really, is really troubling.

[Rob Carson]

Now, John Reed, you know, it's remarkable. Is there anything that you're hiding that you are going to enact when you get into office you don't have in your campaign ads or are you actually truthful? Unlike Abigail Spamberger, who wouldn't say in a campaign ad, I want to make Virginia a sanctuary state. I am for the transitioning, sexual transitioning of children. Why doesn't she put that in her ads if that's what she wants to do? Why isn't it part of her ads? John?

[John Reid]

Yeah, they know that these are issues where 80% of the population, even the Democrats, Democrats have decided, no, we shouldn't be cutting the breasts off of teenage girls. We shouldn't be castrating teenage boys just because they're going through what all of us probably had on some level, teenage acts. You know, you're finding yourself, you're figuring out who you Are, this is insanity. And somebody's got to be bold enough to say, stop, this is wrong, and I'm going to do it. And I'm not adding anything. I've told people. I'm probably the most open cat candidate in the history of Virginia. I've had to. And because I am a gay guy who is making history as the first openly gay candidate, Republican or Democrat, and, you know, haven't worked for Ronald Reagan and George Allen. I hope conservatives accept my. My conservative credentials, but everybody's asked me questions that no one else has ever had to answer. And I stand there and, and respond to it for hour after hour after hour. And I'm. I really resent the politicians who were trying to keep. Keep things secret or they're trying to be hypocrites.

[Rob Carson]

Yeah.

[John Reid]

And make sure no one discovers it.

[Rob Carson]

You know, John, I gotta tell you, when I think of you, even though I know you are a gay candidate, it doesn't matter to me. It's like Scott Besant, you know, he's the first gay treasury secretary. You know why they don't make a big deal out of it? Because it doesn't matter.

[John Reid]

And he does what he does. People of Virginia vote for me for Lieutenant Governor. Governor, you're going to be happy that I'm in that role. I am a reasonable man. I'm a responsible person. And my commitment is to be fair to everybody across the state. And I want to put all of the hostility and the nastiness aside, if we can, if it's at all possible, and come up with real solutions for the people of the state of Virginia. This is my home state. I didn't just migrate here and say, oh, well, let me try to be an elected official. I got a lot riding on this. This is where my family is and has been for generations. It's real to me.

[Rob Carson]

I'm going to tell you something, John. You know, I'm from the Midwest. I lived in the D.C. area for a dozen years. I made the mistake of living on the Maryland side for those years. Honestly, my God in heaven, what the hell was I thinking? I got stuck there. I really did. I got stuck in Maryland, where, by the way, my mall, Lake Forest Mall, still vacant, still run down, still vagrants hanging around it 10 years later. But I mean, Virginia is something special, brother. It is historical. It is. I gotta tell you, when I drive down the streets here and I see the names, Lee, or you know what, it doesn't have to be a Confederate name, but I see all the history that the left wanted to tear down. And we need to embrace this state and celebrate it, celebrate its history, celebrate its greatness. And plus also, it's just a beautiful state. It is a glorious place to live and it's about time the leadership lived in up to the state.

[John Reid]

There are a lot of lessons in the first 250 years of this great experiment that we can learn from, but we are doing ourselves a disservice if we erase the monuments, the tombs, the memorials that are mile markers for the achievement of this society. I mean, I'm not going to lament everything that's happened in the past. I'm going to celebrate the great success that we have in 2025. And my goal in running for office as lieutenant governor is to make sure that in the coming decade we have even more prosperity and more freedom for people in this state where freedom began.

[Rob Carson]

All right, John, now we got to run. Tell everybody where they can go to support your candidacy.

[John Reid]

Sir, I appreciate it. It's john reed4virginia.com My last name is R E I D John reed4virginia dot com you know what, all these stops that I'm doing, I'm, you know, non stop from early in the morning to late at night, I document them on Facebook and on X. So if you want proof that your money is going to be well spent and that I'm, that I'm working hard, I've told people, I said I'm gonna work harder than anybody you've ever seen run for statewide office. And I hope that you will feel confident about that if you check out what I'm doing.

[Rob Carson]

Well, John, God bless and Godspeed. I'm, I'm proud to live here. I think it's going to be an amazing place to live and I will most probably live the rest of my life here. So there's, there's nothing you can do about that.

[John Reid]

On your behalf, Rob, thank you, brother.

[Rob Carson]

Hey, take, we'll talk, we'll talk to you again very soon next week. Let's touch base again. In the meantime, take care of yourself and get out and vote today in the special election in Fairfax county, if you will. Let's take a break and come back. This is the Rob Carson Show, Little Rage against the Machine. Special election, Northern Virginia, Stuart Whitson, Republican nominee for Virginia 11, which was Gerry Connolly's seat. He'll be joining us at the top of the hour. I met someone about a year and a half, two years ago. Her name is Justine Brooke Murray. She's a young woman in broadcasting, probably in her early 20s. I met her in D.C. and I've been seeing her online and just thinking she is, she is growing. She's been on Newsmax, she's been on Fox, she's been on others and she is making an impact. She did a delightful social media, a commentary on arriving at Union Station after living in the area for years. Listen to her. And by the way, her, I would say that her, her, her narrative is pithy. Is pithy and, and it's really fun. Here she is.

[Justine Brooke Murray]

I'm heading back home to Jersey from the weekend from D.C. here at Union Station, and for the first time, there is not a single salivating crackhead following me. In fact, the only salivating people here seem to be some weird angry women and a lemon who hopped out of his waiting car for five minutes to dictate how the rest of us should feel. This is a really bad thing.

[Rob Carson]

How do you feel being here?

[John Reid]

That's a great question. To the state PAO's office.

[Rob Carson]

Thank you. That's it.

[Justine Brooke Murray]

I'll tell you how it feels as a common commuter and a five foot one woman who had to play Dodge Bum every day with the creeps diddling themselves just to get to work. I lived here in D.C. for two years under an actual occupation. Now what Jim Accompanied Pasta calls an occupation. Under Joe Biden, the mural bowser, you were considered a second class citizen to actual criminals. Sometimes if you did not receive an experimental jab, in fact, you were banned from the same stores and restaurants thugs could rob and then get set free.

[Rob Carson]

And this is the place where they said, oh my God, you're going to bring your families. I don't really know people who bring their families here.

[Justine Brooke Murray]

I'm just saying it's so easy for the rest of you guys to just lecture us that we should lie down and let ourselves be victims to bloodthirsty criminals. But it's another thing to actually experience it firsthand like you never will.

[Rob Carson]

There you go. That is Justine Brooke Murray and she is, she is wonderful. And I think that's one of her best pieces thus far that I've seen on. She's a Gen Z influencer and an up and coming pundit and commentator and she's wonderful. I reposted that on my social media. Media. I would encourage you to do the same. Coming up, Stuart Whitson, the Republican nominee for Virginia 11 special election. Maybe turn around Virginia from this transgender CRT DEI nonsense in schools and whatnot. Also, Letitia James is in a whole lot of hot agua and the Supreme Court lifts restrictions on roaming ICE raids and the Democrats heads are exploding. Don't go anywhere. Your sausage McMuffin with egg didn't change your receipt did the sausage McMuffin with egg extra value meal includes a hash brown and a small coffee for just $5. Only at McDonald's for a limited time.

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