Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - Ep 1057 | “Make America Healthy Again:” A Kennedy Endorses a Republican

Episode Date: August 26, 2024

Today we explore Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s unexpected decision to endorse Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and its potential impact on the upcoming election. Could this endorsement boost Trump’s chances for victory in November? We’ll also talk about the importance of Christian involvement in politics and the ways in which government policies directly affect our everyday lives. Additionally, we share thoughts on Trump’s recent stance on abortion, including his moderate position and how it might influence pro-life voters. We offer insights into what the Trump campaign could do to better align with conservative values and maintain support from the pro-life community. Get your tickets for Share the Arrows: https://www.sharethearrows.com/ Pre-order Allie's new book: https://a.co/d/4COtBxy --- Timecodes: (01:00) Introduction (04:50) Importance of political engagement for Christians (09:40) Comparing Election Candidates (11:30) Kamala Harris is a liberal radical (18:00) Share the Arrows event announcement (23:00) RFK Jr. drops out and endorses Trump (48:00) Trump on “reproductive rights” (50:00) Moderation on Abortion & Voter Impact (52:00) JD Vance on abortion ban (55:00) Advice for Trump’s Campaign on Pro-Life Messaging --- Today's Sponsors:   EveryLife — The only premium baby brand that is unapologetically pro-life. EveryLife offers high-performing, supremely soft diapers and wipes that protect and celebrate every precious life. Head to EveryLife.com and use promo code ALLIE10 to get 10% of your first order today! A’del — Try A'del's hand-crafted, artisan, small-batch cosmetics and use promo code ALLIE 25% off your first time purchase at AdelNaturalCosmetics.com Good Ranchers — Fire up the grill this Labor Day with premium American meat from GoodRanchers.com—use code ALLIE for $25 off, free shipping, and a free add-on for a whole year! Cozy Earth - Go to COZYEARTH.COM/RELATABLE to enjoy 40% off using the code RELATABLE. --- Relevant Episodes: Ep 1053 | DNC’s Free Abortions, ‘Evangelicals for Harris’’s Bad Theology https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-1053-dncs-free-abortions-evangelicals-for-harriss/id1359249098?i=1000665924965 --- Buy Allie's book, You're Not Enough (& That's Okay): Escaping the Toxic Culture of Self-Love: https://alliebethstuckey.com/book Relatable merchandise – use promo code 'ALLIE10' for a discount: https://shop.blazemedia.com/collections/allie-stuckey

Hey, this is Steve Day. If you're listening to Allie, you already understand that the biggest issues facing our country aren't just political. They're moral, spiritual, and rooted in what we believe is true about God, humanity, and reality itself. On the Steve Day show, we take the news of the day and tested against first principles, faith, truth, and objective reality. We don't just chase narratives and we don't offer false comfort. We ask the hard questions and follow the answers wherever they leave, even when it's unpopular. This is a show for people who want honesty over hype and clarity over chaos. If you're looking for commentary grounded in conviction and unwilling to lie to you about where we are or where we're headed, you can watch this D-Day show right here on Blaze TV or listen wherever you get podcasts. I hope you'll join us. RFK Jr. suspends his campaign and endorses Donald Trump. How is this going to affect the election in general and suburban women specifically? Also, Trump says that he is going to fight for women's quote unquote reproductive rights. Wait a second. What is a second? What is.

in the world does this mean? If you love Relatable, if you could do me a favor and please leave us a five-star review on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. It really helps us out and it means so much. Thank you guys so much for being here. All right. This episode is brought to you by our friends at Good Ranchers. Go to Good Ranchers.com slash Alley. That's good rangers.com slash alley. Hey guys, welcome to Relatable. Happy Monday. I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend and that you are kicking off the school year. Wonderfully, this is the last day that I will be recording from this setup. We won't have to be virtual anymore. And so thank you so much for really just not caring about kind of the low quality picture and the less quality audio that you guys have had to deal with. I really appreciate that. Just the patience and the graciousness that you've shown us. So today is a Monday. We've got election news and discussions to focus on today. Next Monday, we will be out because it is,

it's Labor Day. And so the team will be off that day. There will be no episode, but we will pick right back up on Tuesday. and then of course our election coverage will continue, especially focusing on that every Monday. But before we get into it today, and as you can imagine, we have a lot to discuss, just a couple things. I want to reiterate what I post on Instagram many Mondays, not every Monday, but God's eternal plan of redemption is always going off without a hitch. And actually, we've got some merchandise coming out with that reminder because you guys love it so much. And it can feel really overwhelming, both outside of your home. maybe inside of your home, in your personal life, perhaps, and certainly in the political world. But we can trust that God is never thrown off. He is never surprised. He has never taken it back.

He's never wondering what's going to happen next. He's never looking down and thinking, how did you guys get into this mess? He is not constrained by linear time the way we are. He is suspended in the eternal now. He is the same. Hebrews 138 says, yesterday, today, and forever. He is our steadfast hope. He is our anchor. He is not only the author of our faith, but the finisher, the perfector of our faith. And we can trust that completely. It is from that place that we get our joy, that we get our stability, that we get our assurance, that we get our hope. And that gives us this kind of hopefully contagious happiness, this contagious peace in a world that is just wrought with so much confusion and so much chaos.

And when we do feel overwhelmed, either just in our own lives or because of everything that's going on, we can always do what? The next right thing in faith with excellence and for the glory of God. I love that Elizabeth Elliott quote when she says, the only thing that you have to do today is the will of God. And we've kind of added on to that over the years. When you don't know what that is, it can always be the next right thing in faith with excellence and for the glory of God. No matter how seemingly mundane or seemingly small, that matters.

That matters to the God of the universe. That matters in eternity. And we can take heart in the fact that everything we do in the way of faithfulness and obedience as Christians is. used by a God who is, again, making sure that all of his plans and all of his purposes come to fruition. This is going to be a crazy, crazy next few months. It's not going to be done at the beginning of November. No matter who wins, there's going to be some kind of conflict. I don't mean hopefully any kind of like violent conflict, but there's going to be some kind of contesting, I'm sure, of the results of this election. Unfortunately, that's kind of where we are.

That's been where we, or that is where we have been, arguably for a long time, but certainly from 2016 when the Democrats really just never let that go. And then, of course, a similar thing happened in 2020. And so I anticipate that there will continue. to be chaos and yet God is on his throne and things are good because God is good and he wins in the end and one day one day there will be no more

politics no more elections no more conflicts no more confusion no more debate over right or wrong there will be no more sickness no more sadness and Jesus will rule fully and totally on his throne own and we will live in the new heaven and the new earth and we will get to enjoy full peace forever

more. And yet right now, we are still occupying this physical space and this temporal context. God has placed each of us here not arbitrarily, not accidentally, but providentially and purposely and with specificity. He deliberately ensured that you were. were born on the day at the hour that you were born, the same is true of your children, the same will be true of your children's children, and so on. He does nothing flippantly. And if he did not want us to care about what goes on in this world, then he wouldn't have made any of us. There wouldn't be a need for a physical world. And yet he created it. And he placed us in it and he determines the times and the seasons and he allots the time periods for each

generation. And so here we are specifically and deliberately in 2024 in the United States of America before an election, a consequential election, that will decide not the entirety of our future as a country, but we'll decide a portion of it. It is the president that signs executive orders. It is the president that can sign a bill into law. It is a president that appoints judges Supreme Court justices. And it is presidents who help drive foreign policy and much of domestic policies. and all of these policies have an effect on people. So it's really not an option for the Christian to not care about what is going on in our country. It's really not an option for Christians not to care about politics, not because we should be paranoid, not because we should ever lose sight

of eternity, not because we should ever deprioritize our primary citizenship, which is in heaven, but because, as we have said so often, politics matter because policy matters, because people matter. Politics affects policy. Policy affects people. People are made in the image of God. They matter to God and therefore they matter to us. Politics is not the primary way to love your neighbor. It's certainly not the only way to love your neighbor, but it is a way to love your neighbor. all of those responsibilities that I just articulated, that I just outlined that fall under the president. All of those have a real effect on people, especially when you're talking about something like a Supreme Court justice that has a generational effect.

That has a centuries-long effect in some cases, just because it's a lifetime office and they are making decisions that are extremely consequential when you think about, for example, the overturning of Roe v. Wade, not on partisan grounds, but on constitutional grounds, we then saw states pass laws that protected lives. And because of that, we have at least according to CNN, seen tens of thousands of more babies born because of these restrictions on abortion that were able to be passed in Republican states because of the Dobbs decision that overturned Roe-Vu-Aid. Politics matter because politics affects policy and policy affects people. It especially affects, it primarily affects the most vulnerable first, the helpless, the people who

don't have any monetary or political capital. It affects the babies in the womb, maybe the most. It affects those who are truly on the margins of society the most. It affects the immigrant. It affects those who are in poverty. It affects those who have to bear the brunt of lawlessness, for example, or open borders, for example. Chaos has consequences. Hey, this is Steve Deast. If you're listening to Allie, you already understand that the biggest issues facing our country aren't just political.

They're moral, spiritual. and rooted in what we believe is true about God, humanity, and reality itself. On the Steve Day show, we take the news of the day and tested against first principles, faith, truth, and objective reality. We don't just chase narratives and we don't offer false comfort. We ask the hard questions and follow the answers wherever they leave, even when it's unpopular. This is a show for people who want honesty over hype and clarity over chaos. If you're looking for commentary grounded in conviction and unwilling to lie to you about where we are

or where we're headed, you can watch this Steve Day show right here on Blaze TV or listen wherever you get podcasts. I hope you'll join us. All right, quick pause to tell you about our first sponsor for the day. It's Adele Natural Cosmetics. I love Adele Natural Cosmetics. I use their skincare every day. I love their Blue Lagoon line. Their oil-based cleanser has been such a game changer for me. I don't use those like harsh sudsy soaps anymore. I really just use their oil-based stuff. And as someone who has dry your skin and of course, I'm in my 30s, so I have to think about the fine lines and wrinkles. this has been so helpful for the texture of my skin, the softness, the moisture of my skin. I love that everything at Adele is completely non-toxic.

It's all natural ingredients. And the best part to me is that this is a family-run company. They make all of the stuff themselves and they are just looking to glorify God with the good work that they do and the products that they make. And their products really, really work. So it's just a win all around. If you go to Adele Natural Cosmetics.com, use code Alley for 25% off your first time purchase, Dell Natural Cosmetics.com code Alley. When I look at these two tickets, and as we will talk about today, I certainly don't see perfection on either ticket. But just because that is true of both tickets doesn't mean that they are morally the same.

Doesn't mean that their policies are morally equivalent. I see more chaos on Kamala Harris's side. I see more order on Donald Trump's side, even just the end. immigration and foreign policy issues alone, I see more order and more peace that will do more good for my neighbors than I see on Kamala Harris's side, which is, as she has demonstrated, as the borders are, for the past four years, she is an open borders radical. She showed us as Attorney General of San Francisco, as of California, as district attorney of San Francisco and even as senator, that she does not care about fairly enforcing the law, that she

really is just serving her masters in the abortion in LGBTQ lobby, that she will sacrifice the constitutional rights of journalists like David Delighton, pro-life pregnancy centers, as long as it serves her abortion donors. She is not only an advocate of degeneracy, but an advocate of institutionalizing the very degeneracy that we have seen has been a cause of the fall of every society since the beginning of time. And her bloodthirst, both for babies in and outside of the womb, it just cannot be justified. Remember that she voted against as Senator, the Born Alive Infant Survivors Protection Act. That is the act that simply said, look, unborn babies have, or not unborn babies, rather, but babies who survive an abortion,

they are entitled to health care. They should be entitled to health care because we've heard testimony after testimony of these babies surviving abortion accidentally and being thrown in a waste bucket or being set off to the side, being placed in a utility closet. These aren't hyperbolic stories. These are not fables to make a point. They're, real. This is congressional testimony. And she said, no, those babies that survive abortion, they do not have a right to health care. They should die, struggling for breath alone. That is Kamala Harris and so much more. But she is on the side of unmitigated chaos. And I love my neighbors too much to vote for that. Some people say that you shouldn't vote for the

lesser of two evils, but I think that we have the obligation to. Now, I understand that that's not everyone's calculation, and I do get that. We'll talk today about some of Trump's, some of Trump's statements on abortion, how he seems to be doubling down on what I would call pro-choice rhetoric. And so we'll be really honest about that. I'm certainly not afraid to critique Trump. and his rhetoric and some of his policy positions. But when you're voting for the lesser of two evils, you are voting for more goodness to be preserved when you have the lesser evil. And by the way, every single election in the history of the United States has been a choice between the lesser of two evils. even when we've had overtly, outwardly more kind of evangelical presidents, which we really haven't

had very many. Like I think that we'd probably have to go back to Reagan because George Bush wasn't even, he wasn't even an evangelical. Like, really, I would say the most pro-life president that we've had in policy and even in rhetoric while they were president, it's, I mean, it's Donald Trump. I don't think George Bush fits the bill. I don't think George H.W. Bush fits the bill. It's actually quite known that many of the Bush is pro-choice.

I guarantee you that George W. Bush believes in legal abortion up to some point. And then when we look at Ronald Reagan, yes, he was rhetorically very pro-life. I love that about him. But his policies didn't really advocate for that, at least tangibly. But Donald Trump gave us a huge pro-life victory. the overturning of Roe v. Wade when he selected those justices that helped author that Dobbs decision. And also he was the first president to go to the March for Life. And so we have always had to decide between the lesser of two evils.

We still are today. And when I'm looking at that, there's just no question. There's no question the right decision. Is it the perfect decision? There will never be a perfect decision. They can go tip for tat on their different moral issues that they have. I mean, Kamala Harris is certainly no saint considering her background and how she came to power and the kind of mean, callous person she is.

Donald Trump is certainly no saint. So at the end of the day, I'm looking at order versus disorder, chaos versus peace. And I see peace and order more on the side of the policies and the appointees of Donald Trump than do Kamala Harris. So I wasn't even really expecting to go on that monologue. It was totally just train of thought extemporaneous, but that's my, that's my calculation this election. So understand all of that as we get into some of this back and forth today because I am going to say some things that I'm concerned about that I don't like that are happening in the Trump campaign. And I think that we should be free to do that. Like I don't think that we should be afraid to criticize

and critique and to voice our perspective, that we should shy away from that. I think we still should. I think it's the honest thing to do. And I think that's what we should be doing for all of our nominees and all of our politicians. Before we get into all that, I do just want to remind you guys that Share the Arrows is happening on September 28th in Dallas, Texas. Y'all, I am so excited. And yes, of course, I'm excited because they're going to be thousands and thousands. I haven't released the official number yet because it just keeps growing. I will.

Before we actually get to the day, I will announce to you the number of tickets that we've sold. It'll be, it's amazing. It's amazing already. But I think the final number will just be incredible. So praise God for that. But I'm excited, obviously, because of the amazing speakers that we have, because Francesca Batiselli is going to be leading worship, because we have an amazing venue. It's just going to be so good to be together and encourage one another and equip one another in this crazy time and to remind us, hey, we're all on the same page here and we're on the side of sanity and we're on the side of goodness.

It's not a political conference. We're not even talking about politics. It's really just theological and equipping. how do we contend with all of these cultural changes that are happening in a biblical and loving and joyful way. So that's one big reason why I'm excited, but I'm also excited because, guys, we have a speaker that I haven't announced yet. Sorry, if you're watching this, there's like a fly right in front of me that's really annoying. I'm super excited, super excited about this speaker that I cannot announce yet. I'm going to announce it next week. I'll announce it next Tuesday. If you have your guesses, you can drop them below in the YouTube comments, but I'm so pumped. This is big.

Okay? So I took some of your guesses on Instagram. And a lot of y'all never need to consider going on the prices right. Because guessing is just not your forte. That's okay. That's okay. We still love you. But like, let's look at some context clues.

It's Christian conference. So that's one, some of the suggestions. I'm like, what, what, why? and then, or not suggestions, but guess is. And then also I'm saying it's big, okay? Some of y'all need to think higher and bigger. And so this is an amazing person. I'm so excited about this, so excited.

When she said, yes, I was just like over the moon pumped because I know how much you guys are going to love this person. So I'm so excited. So excited. So we'll announce that next week. And then we'll do another push of, you know, information and promotion and all that. We've got amazing merch that's only going to be at the event. Of course, it's designed by the amazing Carly Jean Los Angeles. And we've got lots of

more fun stuff coming down the pipeline. So stay tuned for that. Go to share the arrows.com. And, you know, I probably shouldn't tell you this, but I'm going to. If you want to discount on general admission, there are a lot of promo codes available to you. Like you can use, for example, any of the speakers and Francesca's name, followed by 15 as a promo code. And it has to be all caps. It's case sensitive. So you can do Elisa 15. You can do Fran 15.

You can do Abby, AB-B-B-I-E-15. And so use any of those. You get 15% off just general admission, not the other ones. And again, it's case-sensitive. And so plug that in. Come by yourself. There's a lot of people coming by themselves. There's no shame in that at all.

Come with friends. come with their family. It's women, Christian women only, but it's for Christian women. And if you've got a nursing infant, you can't bring your nursing infant other than that. It's not an event for kids. But we totally understand not being able to leave your baby. I am the exact same way. So bring that nursing baby. There'll be a nursing room and stuff like that too if you need more privacy. But we are so pumped, so pumped. I can't believe how soon it is. It's a month away, y'all. A month away. Okay. So go to share the arrows.com and check that out.

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in some states, he's just taking his name off of the ballot in the battleground states. That's true, but he is suspending his campaign. He knows that he's not going to win. This is basically him dropping out of the race. If his name is on the ballot where you are, you could still vote for him if that is your conviction. I would urge you not to. I would urge you not to do that, especially in the states where it matters at all. because he is telling you, he is communicating that I'm endorsing Donald Trump because Donald Trump of the two candidates is more likely to advocate for public health and for ridding the public health apparatus in this country of corruption, advocating for the health of the future of our children. And so get behind this guy. And of course, he's right about that. He's right out of the two candidates. Donald Trump is more likely to do.

do that. Now, we know that Donald Trump gave us Operation Warp Speed that he has been, that he brought one of the guys from Johnson and Johnson on the stage that he's been a big advocate of the vaccine and, of course, Operation Warp Speed. But he was against the mandates. I have no idea how he feels about Operation Warp Speed now. You can see, though, at the time why he felt like that was a great idea. He doesn't probably share all of the knowledge and concerns that we have about vaccines and especially an experimental MRNA vaccine like that one. But you can see why at the time he did what he did and why he would even say he's proud of it now. I do hope and think that if something similar to COVID came up again, that he would hire better people, that he would fire

someone like Anthony Fauci, fire someone like Deborah Birx. He was also dealing with the fact that this was an election year. And also, we had riots going on. There was so much going on during this time. I think he thought that this would be a major win. But I think the fact that he is now willing to link arms with someone like RFK is actually a really good indication of where he stands now on public health. So here's a summary of what went down. On Friday, independent presidential candidate, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., not only dropped out of the race for president, but also endorsed the Republican candidate, former President Donald Trump, and appeared alongside him at a rally in Arizona, like very iconic, very iconic, him going out into the stage and they're playing

this like foo fighter song, which of course the foo fighters have their, you know, their pantyhose in a lot about that. But he goes out there and he shakes hands with Donald Trump. We've got that, like, iconic photo that's going around and he makes a really good speech. But before we get into that speech, we got to go back to his announcement, which was making waves. So he made an announcement earlier in the day where he explained his reasoning for dropping out. He said he doesn't see a pathway to victory. And it is because of the meddling of the Democratic Party. Like you'll remember that it's pretty unprecedented that Joe Biden decided not to give RFK, junior any security, even though he is a nominee. He's a candidate for the presidency. He won security.

He needed security, maybe as much as the other candidates. And yet he didn't get that. And the DNC pulled out all the stops to keep him off the ballot in as many states as possible. he was basically not allowed on most networks besides Fox News. And so the fact that he was able to get a million signatures, the fact that he was able to garner the support that he did, yes, he was still pulling low, but the fact that he was able to get as many people behind him as he was as an independent candidate, I mean, that's pretty incredible. So in his speech, he explains all of that. He shamed the Democratic Party for weaponizing government agencies, abandoning democracy, suing the opposition, and disenfranchising American voters. RFK pointed out that Trump was mentioned 147 times during the

first day of the DNC. Biden was only mentioned twice in four days. His point in that is that, look, like, they are telling you that you're going to have. Kamala Harris. And the only thing they are offering voters is that she's not Donald Trump. They haven't talked about what she and Biden have accomplished over the past few years. And of course, they're not owning up to those failures. Like, their only pitch for Kamala Harris is that she is not Donald Trump. This is yet another example he's arguing of them disenfranchising voters and basically believing that voters are. stupid. Here's not one. The DNC and its media organs engineered a surge of popularity for Vice President Harris based upon nothing. No policies, no interviews, no debates, only smoke and mirrors and balloons

in a highly produced Chicago circus. There, in Chicago, a string of Democratic speakers mentioned Donald Trump 147 times just on the first day. Who needs a policy when you have Trump to hate? In contrast at the RNC convention, President Biden was mentioned only twice in four days. He then compared Biden and the DNC to Vladimir Putin, which is such an act and interesting description because, of course, the Democratic Party pretends like they are the ones against Putin and that Putin and Trump are in bed together. But of course, the comparison between Putin and the DNC has always been more appropriate. So he said President Biden mocked Vladimir Putin's 88% landslide in the Russian

elections, observing that Putin and his party control the Russian press and that Putin prevented serious opponents from appearing on the ballot. But here in America, RFK said, the DNC also prevented opponents from appearing on the ballot and our television networks exposed themselves as Democratic Party organs when a predictably bundled debate performance precipitated the palace coup against President Biden. The same shadowy DNC operatives appointed his successor. Kamala Harris. Also without an election, they installed a candidate who was so unpopular with voters that she dropped out in 2020 without winning a single delegate, which is all true. I mean, that's all true. I would say this probably goes back even further. I mean, I remember thinking at the time, why Kamala Harris is the

VP. She was so unpopular in the election. She wasn't even popular before she ran for president. I mean, obviously, that's why she didn't do well at all in the 2020 election, like, embarrassingly, horribly. And yet she was picked for the VP. So I think, I personally think this plan and plot goes back much, much further than that horrible debate in June for President Biden. But I agree that it was everything, the plan was precipitated after that debate. Now, some people are suggesting that maybe the entire thing was set up for Biden's failure so that they could have, so they could use a facade of compassion and say, this is just what we have to do. He needs to step aside. He's not ready. where is he, by the way? I feel like we haven't heard from Biden and that we have no idea what's

going on in the White House right now. I'm sure it's nothing good because we've been so distracted by this campaign. But then Kamala Harris was pushed forward and this person who has always been a deeply unlikable. She's never been popular. She's always been just kind of very strange and awkward and everyone knows she's very vapid. She's very similar to VEP in the show. And now we are supposed to believe that she is this just powerful, compelling figure in American politics, that she has all of these successes under her belt, that she's this magnanimous person who leads with strength through joy. They keep saying, it's joy, it's joy, it's joy. It's so strange. And people have pointed out that strength through joy was actually like a Nazi motto. I don't

think that's intentional. I just think it's weird. I just think it's weird to borrow what word that campaign seems to love to use. And it's completely manufactured by the media. These are the very people that say that they care about democracy. And yet they are using straight up unabashed propaganda to make you vote for someone who has never even once presented to you a tangible policy that is going to make your life better. I mean, she's put forth very few tangible policy proposals at all, but like, can you name a policy that she advocates for? Kamala Harris, not just some, like, vague Democrat policy. Kamala Harris has suggested that is going to put more money in your pocket. It's going to increase peace, increase order, make your life better in any way. I mean,

the president doesn't have all the power in the world to do that, but he or she certainly has some power to do that through the authority that they have. They might. They might. might not be able to make your life that much better, but they do have the power to make things a lot worse. Again, not just for ourselves, but for our children, our children's children, and our neighbors. And so obviously, RFK was absolutely right in calling all of this out and highlighting the hypocrisy on this and realizing that Kamala Harris is a puppet. I know this sounds conspiratorial, but a puppet of the deep state. She is. That's why she was chosen, because she is going to be compliant with her handlers. Okay, y'all, I love cozy earth. I love

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Trump echoed his concerns and his desire to champion children's health. Here's SOT too. Today I'm repeating my pledge to establish a panel of top experts working with Bobby to investigate what is causing the decades-long increase in chronic health problems and childhood diseases. seasons, including autoimmune disorders, autism, obesity, infertility, and many more. We want every child in America to grow up and to live a long and healthy life. Okay, that's good. I think that is an amazing message for suburban moms because a lot of moms were voting for

RFK. and I was always told, no, that's not true. No conservative suburban mom is voting for RFK. I was told that relentlessly. And I'm like, I know them. And I know my audience very well. And I knew that there was a sizable portion of the conservative suburban mom that were willing to look past RFK's views on abortion, considering Trump's moderate views on abortion,

and say, yeah, medical freedom matters more to me, rooting out the, the corruption and our public health institutions matters more to me. And they were voting for him. And I always knew that he was taking more Republican votes than Democrat votes. That's another thing that I kept hearing that, oh, no, it's good for RFK to be running because he's taking some Democrat votes away from Kamala. It's mostly Democrat votes that he's taking. I'm like, you guys are out of your mind. No, I always knew that it was mostly Republican votes that he was accounting for, which is exactly why he is joining the Republican side. And it is going to help Trump. It might not help Trump stupendously, but it's going to help him at least marginally. And elections have been won

by very thin margins. And so I do think it matters. Kennedy is, he's also saying that he thinks that President Trump is going to make a series of announcements of other Democrats who are joining his campaign to make America healthy again. This is stopped. Will you have others? Will you campaign for president? Yeah, I'm going to be campaigning actively. I think President Trump is going to make a series of announcements about other Democrats who are joining his campaign. And, you know, I want to make America healthy again, and so does President Trump. Okay. So on the one hand, adding more Democrats to the campaign, could be a good thing, obviously. I mean, it could bring in some moderates. It could bring in

some independence that President Trump may need to win. I know that he tapped Tulsi Gabbard, another Democrat, more of an independent to help him prep for the debate against Kamala Harris. And Tulsi Gabbard owned Kamala Harris in the 2020 debates. She's very articulate, very smart. I like a lot about Tulsi Gabbard. But this is a lot. is shaping up to be a very moderate campaign. And maybe some of you see that as a good thing. I've always known, of course, that Donald Trump is moderate, if not liberal, on many things. But I don't have to support him on all of those ways. And as a social conservative, as a Christian, like I'm not looking forward to a government that is run by people who are basically just 1990s

Democrats who are basically just Bill Clinton Democrats because it's that kind of political ideology that got us exactly where we are. Like if we don't understand that we can't just like turn back the clock 20 years and hope for the best that all of that is connected to the degeneracy and the chaos that we see today, then I think that we're kind of a lost cause. Now, there is part of me that is excited about Republicans, Democrats who don't like corruption and don't like too many foreign entanglements and who believe in some common sense economic policies and immigration policies coming together and just rejecting the far-left progressive insanity on things like gender and immigration and economics and foreign policy.

That's, I mean, that, of course, is good. but do I think that that is enough to preserve the Constitution? Do I think that that is enough to rewrite the ship and to put America on the right path? Absolutely not because inherent in that kind of wishy-washy moderate ideology is weakness. It is extremely vapid. It's not really built on any time-tested principles. And so I, you know, I don't want a moderate, independent, presidential administration. I just don't. I want someone who is extremely strong on life. I want someone who is extremely strong on all forms of conservative principles and conservative ideas and just moral truths and natural law. So,

we'll see. We'll see how this shapes up. I think, I mean, it's pretty clear to me that it's that crowd that Trump and Vance are vying for, that they really don't care. This is what I think. I really don't think they care about the evangelical vote. Like, I don't think that they care about us conservative Christians over here. I think that they take our vote for granted, that they think that they're going to get it no matter what, no matter what they do. And so instead, they're vying for this very fickle middle. And part of part of that is true. Like they are betting that we have nowhere else to go. And part of that is true. It's an unfortunate situation that we social conservatives, that we Christians are in. Now, you can absolutely withhold your vote. I know pro-lifers who

think that Trump has compromised too much. And so they're not going to vote for Trump. I think that is an option. That's not what I'm going to do. But I understand. I understand that. Um, however, the Trump campaign has made it really, really clear that they really don't care about losing those votes, that they, they really don't care. As long as they get the secular libs in the middle who are just kind of like don't love transgenderism and, uh, kind of like guns, then they're good to go. It's like the barstool conservatism. that are really, like, morally loose, socially liberal, and are kind of moderate on other topics. Like, you can be that, okay? You can even want those voters, but that kind of philosophy is not sufficient for building a movement. It's not sufficient for building a country. It's not a sufficient driver of policy. But maybe it is a win for some form of sanity. So we'll see.

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couple days, I will say that this was, this whole thing of RFK joining Trump was absolutely a victory, even if just in the short term for Trump's campaign. Because remember after the assassination attempt of Donald Trump, how that was all everyone talked about. And there was the surge of support and enthusiasm for him. And then what happened? Biden stepped aside. Kamala Harris came in and all of a sudden it was all about Kamala Harris and how beautiful and wonderful and awesome and amazing she is. So the air was sucked out of the Trump campaign. Like they were riding high on that. When they were going against Biden and you had those amazing iconic pictures of Trump, I mean, I think, think that they thought they were just going to skate into victory and the election.

And then everything shifted. Attention shifted away. No one even cared about that. No one talked about that anymore. People weren't even sure that it happened. All they cared about was Kamala Harris and this new joyful campaign. So they completely sucked the air out of that story in that moment for Donald Trump. Well, the same thing has happened here, except it's the other way.

Democrats, they feel like they had this. amazing D&C, you know, where Planned Parenthood was right outside offering free abortions and free vasectomies for people. 25 plus babies were aborted through medication abortion right outside the DNC. I mean, that's just child sacrifice. That alone should be a reason not to vote for Democrats because they endorsed that. They love that stuff. But they felt like they had a gray DNC. They felt like it was very enthusiastic and very joyful. And of course, they lied. I don't on how it got started, but they lied about Beyonce performing when Kamala Harris was going to speak. I think just so people would tune in to watch Kamala Harris's speech. I mean, just

crazy. What a gimmick. And then with this announcement, now that's all everyone's talking about, even in liberal media. Everyone's talking about that. So I think this was very good strategy. They completely sucked fear out of the DNC enthusiasm and magic that they felt like they had after the DNC, and now all eyes are on them, and they're hoping to use this as momentum. So, and I do think that some of the ads of the Trump campaign is putting out that they're much better than they were. So I'm kind of getting the feeling like, okay, now we're cooking. Now we're cooking. Now things are picking up. That doesn't mean things are going to be easy at all. It doesn't mean that he's a shoe in by any means. I mean, the media is still going to

try their darndest to keep them out of the White House. And just to remember, remember that Kamala Harris has not given interviews. She has not given answers to the American people because she knows that she can do the same thing as Joe Biden did. She can just hide away. Both of them are really terrible in interviews, really terrible when they are speaking extemporaneously. She's not likable herself. So she has to rely on the media to do that for her, to create her into something that she's not. And she can just stay quiet. So that's what her plan is. And she is betting that most people are going to vote based on vibes.

And that's sad. You should prove her wrong. And most people are going to vote, she thinks, based on just not looking Trump. Those are really, really superficial reasons to make such a consequential decision. Actually look at the policies and ask yourself, what is going to make life better? for you and also for the people around you. Now, Trump and Vance have doubled down on their position on abortion because Democrats, they worship abortion.

They worship child sacrifice. This is their issue for them, as we've talked about before, like when Democrats say we're running on freedom, they mean abortion. When they say, yeah, we believe in your rights, they mean abortion. When they say, we care about your health, they mean abortion. That is basically what every euphemism they use is referring to. Abortion and your abnormal sexual choices. They're not talking about your constitutional rights.

They're not talking about your actual personal liberty that is guaranteed in the Bill of Rights. That's not what they're referring to. Like, we've already seen that with walls. Like, we saw that when he, as he is still, but when he was governor of Minnesota during COVID and he allowed churches to only have 10 congregants in worship services, even as he allowed abortion facilities to operate at full scale. We saw that with Kamala Harris when she tried to force pregnancy centers as Attorney General of California to advertise for abortion via the fact act that was overturned

by the Supreme Court because it's a violation of the First Amendment. These people don't care about your first amendment, right? They don't care about your right to speak. your right to religious liberty, your right to protest. They don't care about those things. They certainly don't care about your Second Amendment rights. When they are talking about freedom, they're talking about abortion primarily, and they're talking about being able to mutilate your genitalia in the name of being the opposite sex and institutionalizing the celebration of being gay. That's basically what it is. That's what they mean by freedom. So just understand that, understand that. But because that is central to their campaign, because they are telling

women, you're going to be freer under a Harris presidency. And unfortunately, many women believe that. They believe that their right to kill their child, a sacrosynct. That is their one issue that they have to vote on. Trump and Vance have decided that they are going to significantly moderate on abortion to try to get those people to vote for them. Donald Trump, he posted this. This is on truth social, although he is on X now. He said, my administration will be great for women and their reproductive rights. Now, does he actually mean abortion?

Is he trying to be tongue in cheek? Does he mean, like, other forms of reproduction? I don't know. He should have been clear about this. I think he did clarify to like a few people at some Pennsylvania event. I don't know. But he wasn't clear. He was, I think, purposely.

obscure. I mean, this is obviously the euphemism that's used by the pro-abortion crowd to talk about abortion. Of course, it's a misnomer because if you're at the point of abortion, then you've already reproduced. You have the right

already to reproduce woman as you see fit. What you do not have the right to do is to kill your child. Consent to sex is consent to pregnancy and grow up. Like, this is a product of the choice that you made. And this is more importantly, no matter the circumstances of the conception,

like this is a human being made in the image of God. From the point of fertilization, by the way, from the point of fertilization, sperm meat, its egg, unique DNA. That is the beginning of life. That is when human life begins. And to end that life purposely at any point after that is murder. That's an image bearer of God. And it's not a reproductive right. So I don't know if that Trumpman abortion or what he meant, but he is wronged, moderate on it. And he has said that he would support something like a 16-week compromise. No, that's literally going to make no one happy. It's certainly not going to make me as a pro-life or happy. It's not going to make the pro-abortion side happy. And here's what I said in response to that post on X. I said, I'm glad to see

RFK endorsing Trump. I'm sure that's why Trump felt the need to post this. today. He thinks he has to be pro-choice to win RFK's voters. Not only is this morally wrong, I also think it's simply incorrect. Those I know supporting RFK were supporting him, despite his pro-choice views, true. With every wild statement like this, Trump chips away at pro-life enthusiasm, which he desperately needs to win, stop with the compromise and move forward confidently on the side of life. And then on Meet the Press on Sunday, J.D. Vance was talking to reporter Kristen Welker and Welker-push. him asking, okay, if a federal abortion ban got to Donald Trump's desk, would he veto it?

And here's what J.D. Vance said, sought for. Can you commit, Senator, sitting right here with me today, that if you and Donald Trump are elected, that you will not impose a federal ban on abortion? I can absolutely commit that, Kristen. Donald Trump has been as clear about that as possible. I think it's important to step back and say, what does Donald Trump actually set on the abortion question and how is it different from what Kamala Harris and Democrats have said. Donald Trump wants to end this culture war over this particular topic. If California,

wants to have a different abortion policy from Ohio, then Ohio has to respect California and California has to respect Ohio. Donald Trump's view is that we want the individual states and their individual cultures and their unique political sensibilities to make these decisions because we don't want to have a nonstop federal conflict over this issue. Now, I completely disagree with that. I understand that's where a lot of people on the right are. There's not where people on the left are, by the way. They are for what Kamala Harris stands for, which is federalizing abortion and guaranteeing

the right to abortion at least through viability, which is 24 weeks, which is almost the third trimester. It's absolutely insane. And the baby can feel pain before that. And of course, again, from the point of conception, already an image bearer of God equal value to anyone outside of the womb. So it's all just absolutely egregious. But because of that, because we're talking about human beings scientifically, they therefore logically, philosophically, morally, theological, are entitled to human rights, the chief of which is the right not to be murdered,

the right to life. There's a reason why the right to life comes first in the Declaration of Independence, life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness, because neither liberty nor the pursuit of happiness would exist without the right to life. It is the most fundamental right. Democrats talk about abortion as if it is the fundamental right. That's what Oprah did at the DNC. This is your fundamental right. No, you don't have a fundamental right to kill your child. You have a fundamental right to not be murdered. Abortion is the murder of innocent, helpless human beings. And to say that it should be left up to the states is just as ridiculous as saying slavery should be left up to the states. Now, I have, I would say, I don't, I don't know if I've changed in my opinion on that,

but I've certainly thought harder about it since the Dobbs decision. At first, of course, I'm like, yes, it's back to the states. It's always what we wanted. But then I'm realizing, or I don't even know if realizing it's the right word, but just being able to articulate, wait, no, no, no, this can be a state's rights issue. Like, there was literally a war fought over the human rights atrocity of slavery and whether or not it should just be a state's rights issue. I mean, it is, the parallel is stunning.

There couldn't be a more apt comparison. And so it really isn't. It really shouldn't be a states rights issue. Now, again, I understand that's where most Republicans are, but also, like, there's some hypocrisy here because Trump says, yeah, this is just a states rights issue. Well, Florida enacted a six-week ban, a heartbeat bill. And what did Trump say? Trump said in an interview that he thought it was terrible.

And so what is it? Like, are you going to respect the states that want to restrict abortion or are you not? I mean, I guess you can share your opinion, but if your president saying something like that, like that carries some weight with it. So it's, I don't think that the conservative pro-life position is, yeah, the state of California with its tens of millions of people should allow abortion subsidized by the taxpayer through all nine months. Of course not. And so I just don't think this is the right direction to go. Again, I would say, just stop talking about it. Stop talking about it. And I would, you can always opt the skates.

You can always, when they ask a question, say, look, Trump is on the side of life. He's, he's on the side of life inside the womb. He's on the side of life when it's outside the room, not just your physical life, but he wants to make people's lives better. He is trying to make America healthy again. So that children are not only born, that they not only survive the womb, but also that they thrive outside of the womb. And that's why we're doing X, Y, Z on health. Like, that's what you can say. Because every time you say something like this, you demoralize the pro-lifers whose votes you need. And it's not just the votes that you need. That's what I feel like they just don't understand. It's their enthusiasm. You need there, for lack of a better term,

like evangelism. You need their excitement to vote for Donald Trump. And every time you say something like this, you chip away at that excitement. And I'm telling you that there are a lot of Christian women who only vote based on this abortion issue. And they are feeling really apathetic about voting for Donald Trump. Now, before you in the comments say, well, those women are dumb. Those women aren't thinking. It doesn't matter if you think. It doesn't matter if you think. that. Their votes count just as much as yours and you are not winning them over by talking to them like that. These are thoughtful women who need a reason to vote. Now, I'm doing my darndest to convince those women that there is a lot on the line that I think Trump does so much better on. So you don't

even have to talk to me about that. But that's the truth. That's what the Trump campaign needs to understand. You are chipping away at their enthusiasm. Stop talking about abortion if you're going to compromise on it. Just be vague. Just say you're on the of life and you love life. And look where Democrats are on abortion. Look at their literal child sacrifice mobile that they have outside of the DNC. Like they're anti-life, both in and outside the womb. Talk about that and then talk about all of the policies that you are going to implement to support life in and outside of the womb. My gosh, that's PR 101. Like I think that J.D. Vance is extremely articulate. And I know he's also a Catholic. And this is not a tenable Catholic position.

I'm not a Catholic myself, but I have enough Catholic friends that I talk to very often about this kind of thing. And I'm sure they're telling you on their own shows. Like, uh-uh. This is not it. This is not a tenable Catholic position. I'm not even sure if you can take a communion and hold a position like this within the Catholic Church. So I would say reverse course. Just be on the side of life and be confident about it.

You don't even have to get exact at this point. That would be, that's my advice. I have a lot of advice that I have given and that I will continue to give. Not that I think that, you know, everyone is turning to me for campaign advice, nor should they. I just want to give the representation of the vantage point of many evangelical women whose enthusiasm and support the Republican ticket needs. So that's my thought on that. All right. That's all I got time for today.

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