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Welcome to Vince. Cory booker goes over 24 hours without peeing. That's the real amazing thing he did this week. Also, we've got big results from Wisconsin. What do they mean? What do we learn from all of this? I'm going to dive into that. The great Chris Bedford is stopping by here on the program and of course, as always, I'll talk to you in the Rumble chat. Love having your comments on everything going on in the country. Want to get your reaction, start piling them up. Let me know. What do you think happened yesterday during the April Fool's Day of elections? My deep dive into that in just a moment. So glad to have you with us. As always, let me first say this. I want to thank our sponsors who make this great show free. It's really amazing and they're wonderful and you've seen it before. When disaster strikes, grocery store shelves can go empty overnight. The worst time to prepare is during the aftermath. Honestly, it might already be too late. 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Special special elections in both Florida and Wisconsin. You and I talking about this in depth over the course of the past week and I'm getting some reactions pouring in including diegoski21 saying Vince is in the T shirt size medium. Thank you for that election analysis. Oh, it's Diego. I should have said that. Diego Diowski. I don't even know. Anyway, thank you for that. So what is going on in Wisconsin? Wisconsin voted for voter id. So that's one good thing. Said Armageddon. That's right. So let's just start with some of the good news here in Wisconsin, the voters in that state voted overwhelmingly yesterday to say, yes, we love voter id. We love it so much, we want it enshrined in the state constitution. Now, this is an important thing because Wisconsin already had voter ID as a part of its law. But the challenge in Wisconsin is that the lefty Supreme Court there, which has been in power and is now retaining power, more on that in a moment, has been threatening to unseat voter ID to make it more vulnerable to voter fraud in the state. The voters, they're saying, we don't want it to be more vulnerable to voter fraud. And so they have enshrined it in the state constitution. They've added one further barrier to that radical Supreme Court tearing up election integrity in the state. That is a massive, massive win. And you should, we should acknowledge that. We should take it for what it is. Simultaneously in Florida, those two Republican seats in Congress, well, they're still Republican, so they're not pickups, they're retentions. But in both of those cases, the Republican candidates winning in those special elections in Florida to replace both Matt Gaetz and Mike Waltz. So again, I'll take it. Those are victories. I'm happy to have them. But the Wisconsin Supreme Court race yesterday didn't go our way. It didn't. Brad Schimmel lost to Susan Crawford and it wasn't a close race. This wasn't a, this wasn't like a narrow little race. It was a 10 point loss. Susan Crawford ending as of this morning with 55% of the vote to Brad Shimmel's 45% of the vote. It's not close. It's not close. So what happened here? Well, let's unwind the election a little bit. For one. Let's look at voter turnout. One thing that we've been discussing that you should definitely know by now, you saw it happen in 2024, that if Republicans are going to win in the era where Trump has reshaped the party into a party that serves the needs of everyday Americans, you've got to get low propensity voters out to vote. Low propensity. Do you know what low propensity means? Low propensity means they don't show up every election. They only show up occasionally. When you can really speak to an issue that matters to them, they'll show up. It wasn't always this way. Republicans used to have high propensity voters, the kinds of voters who would show up always, all the time, no matter what. And this comes from the Era of the country club Republican, where you had, you know, college educated, high income Republicans, people who are very active in their communities and civil society stuff, and they would show up to vote on a routine basis on all these elections, whether or not they were a standard presidential election, midterms, off year. This one yesterday was off year, off cycle. It's about as off, off, off as you can possibly get. It's an odd year election at an odd time of year. It's not November, it's in April. Special elections. And so Republicans, their challenge is we gotta get these low propensity voters out. How many people actually voted yesterday in Wisconsin? What was a big number for an off year, off cycle election? It was 2.3 million people who voted. Do you know how many people voted in the presidential election last year? 3.4 million. So 2.3 million. Yesterday, 3.4 million. An additional over 1 million people voted in that presidential election last year. Do you know how much Trump won that election by in Wisconsin? Less than a point. Less than a point. It wasn't quite a nail biter, but it was close in Wisconsin. President Trump picked that up. Of course, he picked up every swing state in last year's contest. But what this should tell you is that you need to figure out a way to get the low propensity voter to actually show up. Now I'm seeing a lot of people doing some finger pointing today. This always happens in the wake of these elections where Republicans have, you know, you're feeling a little dejected about how things went in a particular race. This is a meaningful race. And for whatever reason, I'm seeing people pointing fingers at Scott Pressler as if that guy had somehow let everybody down. Scott Pressler did not let anybody down. Scott Pressler brought his operation into the state. He was able to get people, including people in this very chat, to send text messages to get all of these votes out there, to get out the vote component of this. Scott was in there in a very aggressive way and there were a number of other groups that did that too. Elon Musk was spending money through America Pack Turning Point action was in there. The Libre initiative, the get out the vote component of this. Well, they were out there, they were on the streets, they were sending the text messages, they were doing the work. Here's where I detect a failure. It's the message. It's the message. So I went back and I looked at the advertising for Susan Crawford and Brad Schimmel. I said, what are these guys even talking about? Like, what do they, what do they advertise to the people of Wisconsin about the merits of their candidacies? Why would you support each of these people? And in Susan Crawford's case, if you can believe it, she ran. Now she's the lefty. She is the radical lefty who now is getting a seat on this state supreme court. She ran on the idea that she is tough on crime. That's right. She said she was tough on crime. George Soros was funding the effort to get her into office. She's not tough on crime. But this is the game of pretend. They were playing advertising. We are tough on crime. Advertising that Brad Schimmel is weak on crime. Trying to turn a strength into a weakness for her Republican backed opponent. And then, of course, she ran, as all lefties do, on the issue of abortion. She said that she was gonna protect a woman's right to choose to kill a child. Of course, they don't say kill a child in the ad. It's not popular in the advertising. But these are the issues that she ran on. And if you go back to the exit poll in Wisconsin from just a couple months ago to the presidential election and you look at the data there, you can see why she did that. It's obvious in Wisconsin. Do people want crime in their communities? No, they don't. They want you to get tough on crime. They'd like the crime to stop. Please, no more. Kenosha is no more. Any of it. They want it to stop. And so she ran on that. Whether or not she's even gonna do it, she's not. I mean, George Soros supports her. She's a weak on crime person, but she pretended. And on the issue of abortion, once again, she looks at the polling and she says, well, this will activate my base to come out and vote. And it did. Democrats in the state of Wisconsin yesterday. Meanwhile, what did Brad Schimmel's campaign run on? Brad Schimmel's campaign ran on a message that you and I can understand for sure, which is we don't want Democrats to have more power. Brad Schimmel's campaign was wrapped up. At least the people who were advocating for him, spending money on him, they were running ads like, well, if the left wins here, Republicans might lose congressional seats, you know, because the Supreme Court will redraw the district lines. Okay, that means something to me. That means a lot to me. If that ad was built for me, I would say, man, that's really. That's horrifying. If that ad was built for you, you would say that's Horrifying that we don't want that. We can't give Democrats any more power. We can't let them steal congressional seats. We can't let that happen. But what does that mean to the average Wisconsin voter who is a low propensity turnout person? Who, on who? Half, you know, half of Wisconsin voters have a union member in their household. Did you know that? Half, half of Wisconsin voters have at least one union worker in their household? What does that mean to those families, those low propensity voters? What do they think of Washington to begin with? What do they think of these political parties? Do they feel well served by them? Are they so interested in the well being of the Republican Party that they look around, they go, man, I really gotta stick, I gotta stand up for Republicans. Hell no. You think they care about the wellbeing of the Republican Party? Not a chance. Not a chance. It's not about the party. In the end, these elections, especially with low propensity voters, are like, why would I show up to vote? I don't always show up to vote. I occasionally do. What's the rationale for why I would show up to vote? You know why Wisconsin voters showed up for Trump? You know why they did that? The top two reasons, Immigration and the economy. Immigration and the economy. That's it. Those are the big numbers. Immigration was the biggest. The economy was the second. And so how did Republicans speak to those needs in order to bring out low propensity voters? Oh, it turns out they didn't in Wisconsin. And so as we analyze this vote, it's probably important to say, okay, so we have a get out the vote effort. You guys, guys like Scott Pressler who are doing a good job. You have people in our rumble chat who were literally texting people in Wisconsin to get them out. But what about the messages? What advertising were they seeing? What, what reason would they go to the polls here? And it can't be enough to say you have to support Republicans. That's ridiculous. It can't be enough. Now here's the thing. We've got, we've got concern. I've seen a lot of concern about. Okay, Vince, they. Nobody's saying Vince. But generally on social media, what about the role that fraud played here? What about the role of fraud? Maybe the election was stolen. Let me just look at the margin with you for a moment. First of all, it's a 10 percentage point margin. So if you're, if it was fraud that resulted in this outcome, it would be a massive, massive, massive amount of fraud that would lead to this outcome. That's one. Two people point in the fraud case, they point to, well, look at the voter ID initiative, voter id. You've got people who voted for a constitutional amendment to add voter ID to the state of Wisconsin, and they voted for the radical lefty to join the Supreme Court. How could that possibly be? How could both of those things happen in the same election? And the answer to that question, at least on a basic level, is why don't we just take a look at support for voter id? Where is that at? And it turns out that Americans of every political persuasion wildly support voter id. I'm sure many of you know this by now, but this is. This is such a stinker for the Democrats, such a loser for that party, that they've actually de. Emphasized their messaging around this. Candidly. They rarely talk about this issue. Occasionally you see them talk about it, that they rarely talk about voter ID anymore because it's like men and women's sports. Nobody is for that. Nobody's for men and women's sports and not having an ID to vote. Nobody is for that. In fact, by majorities, Democrats, 67% of Democrats say you should have an ID to vote. That was a Gallup survey in October of last year before the presidential election. That's in the heat of political debate in the United States of America. 67% of Democrats nationwide said you should have a voter ID to vote. Republicans, 98%, independents, 84%. This issue, in case you ever look back and you're thinking like, hey, where have conservatives actually won? What are the fights that we've won on? Well, we've won on law and order. Americans want law and order. They don't like the chaos. They don't like the riots. It's a crystal clear message. They want to support the cops. We've won on that issue. Boom, done. We've won on men and women's sports. People don't want men and women's sports. No more games. No more playing with the mental illness. It's insane. No more cheating in women's sports. Americans are wildly with us. So if you're looking for areas where we've. We've dominated, that's definitely. Those are definitely areas. The other is voter id. Everybody supports voter id, regardless of your political party. So, yes, at the, at the upper levels of the party, you have devious political operatives among Democrats who, who are trying to stop voter ID from coming into place because they do believe that fraud works to their benefit. They do believe that not having an ID is a way for them to win elections. But meanwhile, the rest of the country, to include a whole bunch of people who vote for Democrats, overwhelming majorities support voter id. So if you're looking for anything to help you sort of understand, make sense of some of this in Wisconsin, look no further than that. That is a crystal clear expression of where voters are. It's true. And not just the nation. It's true in Wisconsin too. Wisconsin surveys have demonstrated that it's wildly popular voter id. That's why it's now enshrined in the Constitution in Wisconsin. That explains that. And then finally, on this issue of fraud, as we look to it as a potential for an explanation, I am in no way ruling out the role that fraud can play in any election. I never rule out how devious Democrats can be in their pursuit of power to include rigging elections to their benefit. Not at all. Here's what I want to caution you against, though. Don't for a damn minute use that as a reason to get lazy about all of the other explanations that you can. We can that the, that Republicans can, that conservatives can address to actually attract voters to their side to make these elections, in the words of President Trump, too big to rig. Too big to rig. So there's this impulse I've seen occasionally on the right, which is like, oh well, elections get stolen and therefore there's no reason to lift a finger. It's insanity. You can't take that attitude because you have to be able to go onto the field and fight. So you should fight for election integrity. You should fight for credible elections. You should fight to make sure voter idea is there. Absolutely. You should, you should fight to audit the way elections are conducted. You should establish whether or not there is evidence of fraud in these elections, 100%. But don't for a second use that as an excuse not to address the fundamental problems in your own party. So if it's. This can't be. Look, Trump can't be the only guy from now on who is capable of winning elections for the Republicans. Trump has rewritten the entire playbook and then handed it to the rest of us and handed it in particular these Republican candidates. And he says, use this. And that brings me to today. That brings me to today. The United States of America today is launching reciprocal tariffs against the countries who have taken advantage of us for many decades. Reciprocal tariffs. There's this theory going on, including in some corners of the right, the so called free market people. The, the free trade people. They're not free trade people. If your position is that Trump should not fight back here. You're not a free trade person. You're not fighting for free trade. You're fighting to let us continue to be taken advantage of, to hollow out manufacturing cities in the country to hurt places like Wisconsin, which is dependent on manufacturing industry and agriculture and dairy. There's a reason we call. We have cheeseheads in Wisconsin. There's a lot of dairy products there. This country is being taken advantage of, and it has been for decades, many decades. And today, President Trump is announcing a way to fight back. We are not starting a trade war today. We are trying to end one. We are trying to fight back in a world where other countries, a lot of them all across the planet, have been waging a trade war against us. And so what does that mean for Wisconsin? What does that mean for the voters there? Well, it means a great deal if you have. We're in a situation where you can look at Wisconsinites and say, I'm going to fight for your family. You remember how your community used to be thriving? Do you remember when you didn't have blight and crime all over the place? Do you remember what it was like to have a productive community, a manufacturing base, agriculture, healthy exports? Do you remember this? What happened to this place? Why are things on the slide? And the answer to that is they've been sold out by their leaders. So it's no wonder they did the messaging, which is like, hey, you need to keep Republicans in power. They're like, up yours. Why do I got Republicans? I don't care about that. The message should be, we are going to restore your livelihood. We're going to make Wisconsin great again. We're gonna fight back against the people who are hurting you and your families. And so as we come out of the Wisconsin election, the Supreme Court election, and we come into today where the President of the United States is saying, I'm gonna fight back on your behalf. He ran on this. Wisconsin elected him on this basis. What did I tell you number one was immigration. Number two is the economy. Number two, that's in 2024, the exit polls in Wisconsin, the economy, what does that mean to the average Wisconsin family? What does that mean to the average Wisconsin family who has labor union members inside of their own household? 50% of them do. It means they need somebody who's going to fight for them, and they need. The rationale for why they would show up is to restore their livelihoods. And the rationale for why they would vote against Susan Crawford, this radical leftist, is because she is a part of the effort to continue destroying them. That's what matters. And so today, President Trump is stepping forward to fight back in a big way. And it would behoove Republicans to stop being so squeamish about getting on board with the Trump agenda and do it right now. Because if you don't, you'll end up in the very political wilderness that the left is spending time in right now. And they absolutely hate, absolutely hate to the point that they're trying to pick off anything they can, including Wisconsin Supreme Court seats. In a moment, I want to get your reaction to all this. I know your messages are pouring in on the chat. It's a big day. We should learn some lessons from this. If you're sitting around all mopey and dour, you got the long rest. You got the wrong lesson out of this. We don't need any Eeyores, do we? We don't need this. Thanks for noticing. Nonsense. No, we need fighters. So come out of this. Learn something. Use it. That's the key. 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But these important messages are very, very worth looking at. And it's the best thing. McBroyle's01 says. Vince. Love it, dude. Keep it up. Thank you for that. Big balls. McGroyne asks how many votes were from invaders, illegals and dead ballots. Great question. Big balls. Because, you know, as you heard Elon Musk say on that stage in Wisconsin, they've got countless illegals who've been granted even Social Security numbers, five and a half million of those, which is just absolutely crazy. And, and how much. How much fraud is in our system? A lot. We need to get rid of that. We're going to talk to Chris Bedford about this because Chris is a very, very smart observer of all of this. He's always very tough, especially on Republicans. He really. He just wants us to win here. He's a great conservative. He just wants to be tough on these guys for good reasons. It's tough love. Let me. I do want to focus a little bit, though, on some of the other insane nonsense that happened in the last 24 hours. Little palate cleanser for you. So Cory Booker was consumed with what's good for him. Cory Booker, a just ridiculous human being. The senator from the state of New Jersey. He took to the Senate floor. Now, what was it about two days ago? And he decided to start rambling for over 24 hours. Not in the pursuit of making your life better, not in the pursuit of talking about anything that actually mattered, not in the pursuit of telling you the truth about anything. Not even in the pursuit of stopping some sort of piece of legislation. This was a pointless exercise. And after about almost 24 hours, Cory Booker was delirious and crying on the Senate floor. Take a look here.