The Keith Edwards Show - Republican Rising Star Quits Party!

Episode Date: March 10, 2026

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MAGA, Mike Johnson, just got the worst news of his speakership as another GOP member of Congress has decided to defect and is no longer going to be a reliable vote. This just happened moments ago. MAGA is in total disarray. Megan Kelly, who I'm going to show you, is coming out against Donald Trump. Candice Owens, who has just become more and more vocal against what's happening in this administration, and is one of the largest creators on the right also comes. coming out against Donald Trump. And Megan Kelly shared Charlie Kirk's own words, where he said this is going unnoticed

because so much other news is happening, but the war drums are beating again in D.C. The warmongers worry this is their last chance to get the white whale they've been chasing for 30 years an all-out regime war against Iran. A new Middle East war would be a catastrophic, stake. Our military stockpiles are depleted from three years of backing Ukraine. Our effort to reshore manufacturing has only just begun and will take years to bear fruit. War would

worsen our already immense deficit and national debt. Iran is larger than Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan combined. A war would not be easy and could easily become a calamity. Thanks to Donald Trump's restraint during his first term, America has a golden opportunity to pull away from the Middle East, quagmirus for good. We shouldn't throw the opportunity away so that some DC has-bands can feel tough by sending young Americans to die yet again. This was almost a year ago. Charlie Kirk posted this, and here's what Megan Kelly said went super viral. She said, within five months, he would be killed, but he saw the truth. Now, why is this important? Why is this important? That's a great question. I'm glad you asked. Why I actually ask that, but maybe you're wondering that.

This is important because this shows that what Lindsay Graham, Israel, Donald Trump, and the rest of the DC establishment are doing is not popular at all. Megan Kelly is a crazy woman. She is not right in the head. She says things that are truly insane. But she understands where the base is. She understands where the money is. She wouldn't be saying this if the base didn't support her. She's doing this because she is captured by her audience. Unlike me, for instance, sometimes I say things that piss you off. That's okay.

That's okay. But Megyn Kelly exists to serve an audience that wants to hear things that they already believe. and Megan Kelly is much more in tune with the Republican base than most Republicans who, by and large, aren't on social media. Let me just tell you this, too. Being on social media is literal hell, but it's a superpower as someone who is a content creator. I get, I don't know how many comments Megan Kelly gets in a week. I get about 150,000 comments a week, more or less, sometimes more, sometimes less. That first off, I can't read every single comment.

I do literally look as much as I can. And so thank you to all through who do comment, like, and subscribe. And if you're not commenting, if you're not liking, you're not subscribed. What are you doing? What are you doing? But what that gives me the opportunity for is knowing, exactly what the pulse is. I feel so in tune with what the base wants,

what the base desires, what people are happy about, what they're upset about, what they want, they don't want. And Megan Kelly has the exact same thing. And so she is mirroring her audience when she's doing this. And so she's ramping up this attack because she knows that it's not wanted. That's a moment of weakness on the Republican side.

It's something we should definitely take advantage of. One reason why I'm sharing about it here. And that's one reason why I believe this Republican is leaving the GOP. How often that happened? That does not happen very often. Republican rep Kylie, who I kind of knew existed, but I wasn't 100% aware of.

Like, I feel like his face is familiar. Maybe I saw him in, like, CNN or something. He's leaving. Rep Kevin Kylie announced Monday that his decision to leave the Republican Party and register as an independent will take effect immediately. Awesome. Speaker Mike Johnson's two-vote majority got even smaller. I did not realize it was that small. Kylie said he will still caucus with the Republicans for administrative purposes, but noted that he's been a less than reliable vote for Johnson even as a Republican.

the California Republican did not give leadership a heads up before announcing Friday that he was leaving the party. Jesus Christ, so he just got blindsided. But he said that he did speak with Johnson over the weekend about continuing to conquer caucus with the conference. Of course, Colley's move comes after mid-decade districting, redistricting dismantled the Republican-leaning district, forcing him to run in a far more Democratic territory. framed the switch as a response to partisanship fueled by gerrymandering. He said this, quote, since gerrymandering seeks to elevate partisanship above everything else in our politics, the best way to counter gerrymandering and its insidious impacts on democracy is simply to take

partisanship out of the equation, he said on a Monday press call. And then Kylie stopped short of promising he'll be a reliable vote for Johnson. He said, I don't know if he would tell you I have been so far. So this is, I mean, listen, obviously this guy is doing this because he feels like he needs to do this in order to potentially save his seat. I mean, there is going to be a blue-ass wave this November. And so it is a sign of things to come that the rats are leaving the sinking ship. They're saying, they're saying this brand is so toxic that I would rather be an independent than be connected to the GOP. By the way, the Democratic Party is now much more popular.

In fact, it's one of the least popular brands in that country, I think, like 30% approval rating. It's just abysmal. That's not 30% of Democrats who approve of the party, but 30% overall of Americans. Still, it's not good. So yeah, I'm like, good. Okay, good. I'm not mad about this. No one should be. Great. I'm glad you're becoming an independent. Let's see those independent votes, bitch. All right? So, yeah, I'm glad that you are no longer going to be caucusing or you're not going to be a reliable vote for the GOP, but let's see what that actually shapes up to look like. And I will take anyone who is willing to vote against the fascism coming out of this Democratic, sorry, out of this Republican. majority. And we are learning too that Israel has growing concerns about escalating a war in Iran and is now seeking a possible exit. So this man is leaving the GOP and Israel now suddenly wants

to also exit their war. Everyone is running scared. And let me just say this. Candice Owens also, I think it's pretty smart. I hate to give it to her, but I'm going to. She was like American troops get dishonorably discharged from the U.S. military in order to avoid going to war. Here's a bit of that. War in Iran is on the agenda, and that appears so. Get dishonorably discharged. Who cares? Who cares?

Why should you go die in a foreign land? You now have the benefit of 2020. You can see, think about those men and those women who died because they were pitched that they were serving their country because there were weapons of mass destruction, right? They were serving their country because the Taliban, they were serving their country, whatever, and these people gave up their lives and asked yourselves for what? And the answer to that question is for the elites. You're like toy soldiers.

And I would have said that Trump would never do that to you. He would never just throw you into an Israeli war. But right now, our planes are flying in the sky. So I don't have that confidence anymore. And I'm comfortable with people being dishonorably discharged because the dishonor has come from our politicians. The dishonor has come from our politicians who routinely lie in our faces and are willing to let us die to serve their financial interests.

So why don't they dishonorably discharge themselves from public office? That works for me. And I think a great place for you guys to go into would be into security. There are a lot of security firms that are popping up all over. I'm certainly a person that needs security all the time. And I think that's the way. Start establishing your own security company. and all other jobs.

I mean, you... Yeah, so the point is well made that this is not our war. This is Lindsay Graham's war. This is Israel's war. This is Donald Trump's war. This is a war that the billionaires and the oligarchs want to have. They want to send underprivileged poor people to fight their war. and we should say no.

We should say no. Obviously, they don't have the support. Where's the support coming from? It's not on the left. As I'm showing you, it's not on the right. So if you want to do something popular, you want to do something that most Americans agree with, stand up against another war,

another waste of our money that could be used to help us, rather than hurt other people. I'm just doing whatever we can. I don't think we're going to be able to stop what they're doing, but we can at least stop ourselves from being complicit in it and make sure that as many people know as possible that you don't have to do this. There's no draft right now,

and if you don't want to go to war, don't. And whether on the left or on the right, there's a lot of people who support you.