From the Kitchen Table: The Duffys - Why Former President Trump's Campaign Is Actually Working

Episode Date: October 26, 2024

With less than two weeks until Election Day, the presidential race has been incredibly tight. However, in recent weeks, former President Trump seems to be gaining momentum that could be pivotal as the candidates' time on the campaign trail runs out. Sean and Rachel sit down to analyze the state of the race as they see it — and why they believe the former President's campaign strategy is working better than Vice President Harris'.   Later, the Duffy's give a little life update (and Rachel shares some exciting news!). Follow Sean & Rachel on X: @SeanDuffyWI & @RCamposDuffy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Hey everyone, welcome to From the Kitchen Table. I'm Sean Duffy along with my co-host for the podcast, my partner in life, and my wife, Rachel Campos Duffy. Hey Sean, it's so great to be back at our kitchen table. And we have a lot of news we want to share today. We do have some news, a little update on the podcast. But before we do that, can we talk about the biggest news, not just in America, but around the world, which is the presidential campaign? Sure. And I can go first. You can want to give me your take on what you think is going to happen and why on November 5th. So I believe that it's really obvious that momentum is turning in Donald Trump's favor.

And I think a lot of it is just because Kamala hasn't been able to prove herself in any way. No one knows who she is. And the more they know, the less they like. And I think that's where we're at right now. And I think it's showing up in the polls. People are getting frustrated with these non-answers that she gives whenever she's asked the most basic questions like, what are you going to do about inflation? I'm going to tell you what I'm worried about, though, Sean. And I'm going to see if you would break it down a little bit more for our listeners. I'm worried about what Governor Youngkin has basically been facing in Virginia, which is that he tried to remove as the governor, he tried to remove non-citizens, people who self-identified as non-citizens from the voter rolls. And he has been blocked by an Obama-era judge from doing so.

And we always heard from the Democrats, Sean, they don't want illegals voting. Nobody can register if they're not a citizen. But here they are trying to make sure that people who aren't citizens remain on the voter rolls in Virginia and have to believe that this kind of stuff is happening all over the country. Yes, we'll start with that. So Governor Young in Virginia said, you know what, we're going to take a look at the voter rolls and cross-reference that information with DMV information. When they did that, they found 1,600 registered voters who had signed up to vote in this upcoming election. Well, Governor Youngkin said, well, we should, I'm not an executive order, we should take them off the voter rolls. They're illegal voters. Now, in national election law, there's a

90-day what's called a quiet period where you can't, the purpose was they don't want someone to go in and purge the voter rolls and try to impact the election by purging one set of voters versus the other, right? But this is something very different. This was not a purge. This was an individual walkthrough, name by name, cross-referenced with DMV data. And when Youngkin removed those 1,600 voters who are illegal, who shouldn't vote, the Department of Justice sued them. To your point, Rachel, it was actually a Biden-era judge decided with the federal government against Youngkin. So those 1,600 illegal voters get to stay on the voter rolls. We bring this up because I think it's something that's far more insidious. Remember, though, gosh, this is probably now five months ago, Republicans in the House introduced a bill called the SAVE Act. And the purpose was to, in essence, say illegal citizens cannot register to vote.

And if you remember the debate when that happened, Democrats were like, what are you talking about, Republicans? We don't need this bill. Illegals can't register to vote. It's already against the law. So we're going to vote no. Well, lo and behold, no, it's not against the law. Actually, the Department of Justice will fight in the court to make sure illegals stay on the ballot. And I think this is something that concerns me. I agree with you, Rachel. I think Trump is on a track to win. But what concerns me is this is not just happening in Virginia. Across the country, we have illegals who are registering to vote. And my concern is that whether it's the illegal who votes or someone who votes for the registered illegal, once that vote is mixed into the legitimate votes, you can't pull it out.

You don't know how that vote was cast. And what happens if you have more illegal votes than the margin of error of victory in a state? We don't have a mechanism to go back. We're going to go do a redo. There's going to be a revote. This could have been a state, we don't have a mechanism to go back. We're going to go do a redo. There's going to be a revote. This could have been fraud. We don't have that mechanism. So once the vote happens, there's really no way to go back and undo it, which is why I think you can complain all you want, complain all you want after the election. You're not going to get any remedy. Well, I did. Somebody sent me something saying they thought this would go up to the Supreme Court. But I'm like, things don't happen that quickly.

OK. Yeah. So it has to go one other to the appellate court. And then from there, it'd have to go to the Supreme Court. And I think because the election is what, you know, 11, 10 days away, these courts will move quickly. Oh, you think that this would move quickly? Yeah, it would, because of the urgency of the matter. Now, 1,600 votes may not change the course of the election in Virginia,

but if 2016 or 2020 are any indicator, sure. Listen, these are going to be really tight races. And it's indicative of not just Virginia. What's happening in these other states where illegals are registering to vote and the federal and state governments don't seem to care that that's happening because they think that those. They're not doing anything about this in New Jersey. They don't care. States like that. They don't care. And you may even have republican states where it's happening but if you have a weak governor they're not going to do anything either and the

integrity of the vote matters for every illegal that votes they take away a vote of a of an american citizen and so also it's also going to make i think i think everybody's on on edge let's be honest everyone is on edge um ahead of the election right now, because no matter how it turns out, people see that there could be, you know, unrest. There could be angry people on either side. And so I think I just, you know, I saw that Elon Musk the other day tweeted out something that looked like it came from my account, which was, you know, we've got to go back to paper ballots. We've got to go back to voting on election day. We've got to go back to where everyone can feel good about, you know, the integrity of

the vote, that everyone can feel like they can trust the system. And I think part of what everyone's sensing and part of that division that we have and that bad feeling we have in our country is because we don't trust our institutions. And the most important institution at this point we need to start putting trust in and taking measures to bring back trust to you is the vote. and taking measures to bring back trust to you is the vote. Yeah, because, again, a country's cohesion is that you have trust in the electoral system that whoever won, won, and whoever lost, lost. But if you have, you know, everyone's voting for, you know, a month before the election, and there's paper ballots, I'm sorry, there's mail-in ballots. month before the election and there's paper ballots, I'm sorry, there's mail-in ballots.

We're hearing some information about people going in on the electronic machines and they're hitting Trump and switching it to Harris. So things are happening that is very concerning across the spectrum on this election. But let me just tell you why I think Trump is doing well. Now, the polling, to your point, Rachel, says the momentum is shifting from Kamala to Donald Trump right now, not just nationally, but also in the swing states of Nevada, Georgia, Arizona, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan. Those are the seven swing states. It's shifted in all those. But you and I have done this before. We've been on've been on campaigns together and you can tell what campaign and what candidate is winning by the way they act and which candidate is losing. The losing candidate, what they do is they start changing up course. We've got to try something different because what they've been doing doesn't work. Not only that,

not only that they um they become angry and sour and mean and they're they're just it's not good vibes it's like toxic it's a toxic campaign and the campaign that's winning is joyful they're having fun they're laughing they're dancing they're going to mcdonald's they're i mean and they don't change a strategy because their strategy is winning. And so you see right now, just as a telltale sign from Kamala Harris's team, there's infighting. She's changing her strategy. She's trying to do interviews now. She's not saying anything, really. She's saying words, but no policy. So I think that's a tell tale. My favorite sign of like infighting or my favorite story of infighting in the in the Harris campaign is, you know, if you thought Tim Walz was weird, if you haven't seen footage of his wife, I mean, she is she is just the weirdest woman ever. She's that lady that, you know, footage that went viral, Sean, of a Harris supporter of a Democrat going up to somebody's door and she's on the ringtone video and she's screaming.

And she's like, how dare you? You're a bad human for putting up a Trump sign. And like the kind of lady that wears a mask and scolds everybody who isn't wearing a mask in the grocery store and confronts people. And this is what Tim Walz's wife is like. Apparently in her campaign and the waltz campaign, they, they, they went to waltz and said, Hey, you got to take your wife off the campaign trail. Cause she's, she's so off putting that it we're getting like the wrong viral moments from her. And so that, that, that, that, And so I can't explain why, Sean, that story brought me a lot of joy.

I know that the Kamala campaign is about joy. And in that regard, they really did bring me a lot of joy. But you're right. There's trouble in paradise. One of the biggest problems, Sean, that they have is they have a huge problem with the mail vote, have a huge problem with the mail vote. I have a huge problem with Hispanic voters. And there is, I think, a tectonic, massive, I think, generational, potentially, potentially generational, definitely it's going to affect this election, realignment happening right now in America.

And that is that Hispanics who I've always said, Sean, you know, I've been on this case for, you know, over a decade, you know, probably 14 years. I've been talking about the fact that Hispanics were in the wrong party, that Hispanics were persuadable, that they're natural conservatives, that they're about family and work, and they're about God and faith, and that the party, the more radical and left-wing the Democrat party got, the more exposed that got, the more persuadable Hispanics would be, because they are ultimately also a very entrepreneurial kind of people. They are, in fact, the most entrepreneurial people in America. They start businesses at three times the rate of any other demographic in America. Latino women in particular start small businesses at extraordinary rates that surpass any other demo.

And so these are people who are paying attention to business stuff. They're paying attention to taxes or paying attention to business stuff. They're paying attention to taxes. They're paying attention to the economy. They're also firmly in the working class. So all the working class issues that we're moving working class voters, like white voters, for example, or black voters, we're also going to move them. And so in this election, we're seeing a massive swing that we've never seen before. I mean, Donald Trump is winning. Donald Trump is winning Hispanics by over 50%.

I mean, the numbers are extraordinary. I mean, I remember when Mitt Romney and John McCain were running, it was in the 20s. And the highest mark we got was with George Bush at 45%. And this is a huge thing. And I think, Sean, my new show, Fox Noticias, couldn't have come out at a better time. No, I think because, again, there's an audience of people who want to hear the truth with a non-radical liberal bend to it. We'll have more of this conversation after this. Hey, I'm Trey Gowdy,

host of the Trey Gowdy podcast. I hope you will join me every Tuesday and Thursday as we navigate life together and hopefully find ourselves a little bit better on the other side. Listen and follow now at Fox News podcast dot com. It's interesting. Democrats are a bit shocked that that I don't care what your race is or religion is. If you're a man, you're like, I guess I don't like to be demonized. I don't like what your race is or religion is. If you're a man, you're like, I guess I don't like to be demonized. I don't like to be called toxic for just being a man. I don't like to be shunned from society. I don't like that. It doesn't feel very good. And by the way, you said this, Rachel, men want to work, provide for and protect for their families.

And they're having a hard time providing for their families in this economy and protecting their families is called toxic nowadays. And so men have rejected the radical, the radicalism of the Democrat party and they're finding a home in Trump, who by the way, exudes masculinity and success as a businessman. Yeah. And by the way, I do think that the fact that Donald Trump is unapologetically masculine and then had that incredible moment, for example, where it was on full display after he was like shot in the head and stands up with blood streaming down his face and says, fight, fight, fight. You got Hispanic

men who are like, really, that appeals to them because they still live in that culture where men are supposed to be men and they're supposed to protect and provide. And as you said, in this economy, it's harder for them to do that. But again, going back to just that sort of embracing of that masculinity, I think it's a huge factor in the Hispanic thing. I also talked to a young Hispanic man not long ago, and he said, you know, Donald Trump for us, and this is why I think Republicans have to be careful, Sean,

because it's not necessarily transferable. The appeal has a lot to do with who Donald Trump is, right? They look at him and they see the American dream. I mean, that's why Hispanics come to America. They want the American dream. And so he's successful. He says what he wants. He has a gorgeous supermodel wife.

He sort of encompasses that sort of bigger than life American dream story. And he's taking on all the villains and they can't take him down. They can't take them down. And so, yes, the values inside of the Republican Party, I think, are much far more aligned with Hispanic values than the Democrat Party. But I also think the messenger also matters. The message matters, but so does the messenger. And in this case, everything that white liberals hate about Donald Trump, I think a lot of Hispanic men find very appealing. So I don't want to be Pollyannish about this election, right? It's going to be close. It's going to be tight. It is. Now, I'm going to give you a couple of things of why Trump is still doing

well. Polling would also indicate that Joe Biden was winning those independent, those middle voters by 10 percentage points. Kamala Harris is winning them by one percentage point. Right. So another factor in Trump's another arrow in his quiver. Donald Trump's winning unions. They want they want jobs. They want their jobs back in America. They're sick of losing jobs to foreign competition. All really big signs that Trump is. By the way, Trump is surging at the right time. You mentioned he has the momentum. The momentum, you don't want to surge or have momentum a month out. That means nothing. I like it two weeks, two weeks before the election,

you want to see momentum. We saw the shift probably two and a half weeks before the election. So it still wasn't still too early. So Trump is surging at the right time. Also, if you listen to Democrats, they're calling, the language is more radical than before it was when Donald Trump was shot on July 13th. And they're basically calling him a Nazi. He's a fascist. All the liberal networks are saying it. Kamala's saying it. Tim Watts, Sean, was in front of a group of college students. I don't remember where he was at. This was just yesterday. And he said he told the kids that if Donald Trump is elected,

he's going to round all these opposition people and activists up. these, you know, opposition people and activists up. Like what? Like the only people who've been incarcerated have been, you know, Trump supporters. I mean, look at all the people, innocent people from January 6th that are still in jail. Look at Peter Navarro, just got out of jail. Stephen Bannon's still in jail. You know, these are the same people that go, we've got to get rid of fake news, right? Fake news, they espouse so many lies about Donald Trump. It's so rich. But the surge, again, Rachel, is happening at the right time for this campaign. But when you look at the language, the language, when you don't have policy or ideas or solutions to run on, what you have to do is try to demonize your opponent. Well, when you do that, it can work. Negative ads truly work. That's why candidates

run them. But it only works if the voters know who you are and they don't really know the candidate that you're trying to demonize. And in this case, it's the exact opposite. It's true. Everybody knows Donald Trump. We've known him for decades. so you can call him a fascist all you want but the voter has already made up an opinion on donald trump and what some talking head or kamala harris or tim wall says about trump being a fascist that that is just that's just noise no it's not going to affect anyone's decision um on election day which i think i think that matters and although also no one really knows who Kamala Harris is, right? She'd be better spending her time going, this is what I want to do. These are real policy solutions that I have to fix the border, to fix inflation, to bring

peace to the world, stop all these conflicts. She doesn't do that because she has none. So she just tries to demonize Trump. And I guess I say that because negative ads work, but not in this environment where everyone knows the candidate you're trying to demonize. And so it's going to be close. Voter turnout is going to matter. And Kamala Harris and Democrats notoriously have an amazing machine on the ground. They're going to get their voters out. One interesting point, Rachel, one last point I'll make in favor of Donald Trump is that when you look, we're just starting to see

information coming in on the early vote. Republicans historically, like you said, I want a paper ballot and election day. Republicans had rejected, they rejected the early vote. Trump has spent this campaign encouraging people to vote early, and it's happening. So Democrats were swamping Republicans in early votes in 2020. Republicans in some states actually appear to be winning the early vote. I think North Carolina, we're seeing that happen. And we don't know how these voters are voting, but if you look at the party registration, it looks really good for President Trump where the voters are coming out and casting their ballots early. The reason that matters, Rachel, just in for our listeners, on Election Day, there's a massive operation to make sure you get your voters to the polls.

Well, the people that are already voted, the campaigns don't have to worry about. They're in the bank. And then you can go to maybe people who are more reluctant, less likely voters, and you can spend your focus and attention on those voters and encouraging them to get out to the ballot box and cast their ballots. And so your resources on election day go that much further because you're not going after 100 percent of the vote. You may be only going after 50 or or 45% of the vote because— So if you're listening and you know you want to vote for Donald Trump, get out there and vote so that his team doesn't have to spend as much money

trying to waste their time trying to get you out of the House. You're going to go anyway on Election Day. But just if you do it early, they can use their money to get people who weren't going to leave the House to the polls. And if you can bring someone with you that's a like-minded voter, do that. Get them to the ballot box. That's what's going to be key is can you get the unlikely voter, the reluctant voter, can you get them to vote, turn up, show up, cast their ballot, because that's going to decide who wins or loses. And oftentimes a lot of people think my vote doesn't matter. Well, truly in this election,

it's going to be so close. The vote, everyone's vote will matter. Sometimes I get signs, John, that I feel like it could be a landslide like Reagan style. I don't know. Maybe I'm too hopeful. I'll point on that. Democrats oftentimes say we have to get rid of the electoral college where every in every state we count up their senators and and their governor. And this is the electorate. These are these are their. No, I'm sorry. The members of Congress and their senators is the total that they have. So Wisconsin, a congressmen, two senators, 10 votes in Wisconsin. They want to separate that and go, let's just have a national election and go with whoever wins the total vote is the winner. In this election, Donald Trump actually could win the total vote in America, which would be historic. It hasn't happened since, I believe, Reagan in 1984.

So and again, that takes the argument away from Democrats that they won the popular vote but lost the Electoral College. Trump could win them both. But with that, Rachel, we've we missed a couple of podcasts here. And I just want to tell our listeners we've had an interesting go of it. Rachel has started a new show, a Spanish language show for Fox. And I have a hard time saying the name of it. Rachel, give me the name and where it's at. Oh, come on, Sean. You can say it. Oh, come on. Of course. Of course. So here's the deal. It's called Fox Noticias. Sean, you do know how to say it. Say it again. Fox Noticias. Noticias. I don't roll my R. Noticias.

Is it a T-H? No R in Noticias. What are you talking about? So I started a show called Fox Noticias. It airs five days a week. I'm doing three days a week of that. And it's really exciting. It's on noticias.foxnews.com.

And you can catch it there. If you have Fox Deportes, the in-Spanish Fox Network, Sports Network, Fox Deportes, you can also catch it there at 4 p.m. We're hoping that everyone will tune in, especially those of you who speak Spanish or want to learn Spanish. It's really awesome. But it is taking a toll out of me and Sean because we've had, you know, as you know, we have a big family. And it's just been really tough managing both of these. And so what we've decided to do is we're going to take a bit of a pause here.

We're going to come back, maybe do a podcast, a couple podcasts before the election. But we're basically going to take a pause and just come back in a couple months when we've kind of gotten our bearings. But it's just right now, it's a lot. And we're just trying to find that balance for our family's sake. Well, we started off going, of course, we can do it all. And then we saw how much effort the launch of the show has been. It's been a lot. Rachel's doing a great job on the show with wonderful guests with very insightful information that a lot of Hispanic speakers don't get elsewhere. And again, we do have six kids at home still.

So we are going to take a brief pause on the podcast. Hopefully you'll stick with us. And once we get this show settled in and the kids settled, we're going to come back and have more conversations from the kitchen table. We love doing the podcast. Love sharing our thoughts with all of you. I know. This was a really tough decision for us, actually. It was really hard.

We really love doing it. We love getting, you know, information that sometimes you don't get to even see on the network out. We love all the guests that we've had on. We just love doing the show. And we actually enjoy that time together doing it. But we're starting to feel a little too stretched. So we're just taking a pause.

But it's not over. It's not over. The problem is I cannot only talk to Rachel on the podcast because if I did the podcast and she does this show and I do Fox Business, this is the only time I would have to talk to her. And that's never good for a marriage. So with that, we will be back. We are going to take this brief pause. And hopefully when we come back, you'll continue to join us at the kitchen table. We appreciate you joining us for this episode of

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