WRFH/Radio Free Hillsdale 101.7 FM - Hart on the Hill: Hart to Heart

Episode Date: October 31, 2024

This week, Micah Hart discusses the presidential election in his last pre-election episode. Hart provides updates and expresses his thoughts on how the country needs to move forward.

Welcome back to another episode of Heart on the Hill. As always, I'm your host, Michael Hart, and today is a, it's a big day. I'm going to be honest, it is the last episode of Heart on the Hill before the election. So there's a lot to talk about. So I don't want to keep us too long on this little part of the show. So without further ado, let's just, let's just get into things today. So as I said, this is the last show before. the election. So there's a lot to cover today on just everything going on because there's been

a lot of development since we talked last week. But I just wanted to start by going through real clear politics again and they're polling and looking at numbers and how it's all seeming to play out right now. So if you look at the real clear politics like averages right now, we're seeing an electoral college where if it's a no toss-up state to Trump, 297, Harris, 2141, with toss-ups it's 219-215 Trump so it's really close there if you look at percentages for like national average Trump at 48.5 Harris at 48.4 really really razor-thin margins right there battlegrounds Trump 48.4 Harris 47.5 again really really close numbers there

and the swing states too pretty close it's looking like there is it looks like it's just going to be again really close races all within razor-thin margins from Michigan, Wisconsin, all of these states seem like they're going to be really close. If you look at the Senate, also seems going to be pretty tight in Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin are the really close ones I'd be watching. And the House is just going to be really close races in general as well.

So that's kind of just a little update as to where we are looking right now. But as I keep saying, this is going to be a really close race, I think. And this is just my predictions about this. Again, everything is predictions. Nobody knows what's going to happen. No one can tell you what they know. Because at the end of the day, it's people going to the voting booth and voting themselves, knowing who they're voting for.

That's what it is. It's a personal decision people are making. And we can speculate all we want. But at the end of the day, it's these decisions that people are making that's going to come down to. And these last minute decisions, some people are making of who they want to win the presidencies and the Senate and the House and all of these things. So it's really still, I would say early to start thinking about things. And I have some maps I've drawn up about who I think's

going to win, where they're going to win or how they win. But I think it's still a little early to start making these predictions, even though we're only a week out. Like today as I'm recording this is a week out. And so it's kind of crazy to me that we're going to be next week electing, deciding who our next president will be and this whole election cycle has been just so crazy. So maybe I'll start with this. I want to start with what I think we need to do and how we move forward as a country because I do get really concerned about where we go from here. AP was reporting a poll on like US orders are concerned about post-election violence and all

of that that comes with that. And so I really think that this is something we need to talk about is there is a concern about post-election violence and there is a concern about where this country goes forward. But I want to just take a second to focus on politics in general and how we need to perceive politics. I am such a big believer in politics being politics for itself. You do politics, you vote, you are involved, but that doesn't mean it's your whole life. I am involved in politics. I work in politics. I love politics, but it's not my entire life. And the reason I've been able to have this show and do work in politics and do all of this stuff at the same time is because I've not centered my life on politics. I'm not burning out through politics. I'm allowing myself

to take time and take space away when I need it. Because I still make time for my friends. I hang out with them regularly. I'm a college student. I'm not making politics everything I am. I have my faith, which is very, very important to me. I center myself in that. I also have my family. I center myself in spending time with them when I can. I mean, I'm in a different state for college, but when I can, I still talk to them all the time and I make sure I leave room for them in my life. I don't make my entire life politics. And that's how I've really dealt with this election and just working in politics at this time and working on the radio at this time and doing all of this type of stuff. And I really think that these are things

we need to really consider us. How do we move forward? And I think that first point should be, don't make politics your life. Don't make your friendships about politics. Be friends with people because you want to be friends with them. That's something I also learned at a very young age. I became friends with whoever I wanted to. I didn't care what they believed on a certain policy. I was just friends with them because I liked them as people. And that's what we need to get back to. We need to start healing this nation coming together, being able to talk to each other. We can disagree. That's okay. Disagreement is good. We want to disagree or else we're just all the same thing. It's robotic. We don't want that. We want a place where we have discussions where we have these tough conversations.

But that doesn't mean we go after that and then hate each other after we have these conversations. We can still be friends. We can just disagree on things. I have friends. who are voting for Harris. I have friends who are voting for Trump. And that is okay on either side. Really? It doesn't change my opinion about them at all. And that might say naive to people like,

Mike, you really should care about these things. Like, you should be caring who you're friends are voting for. And I do obviously care what they believe in stuff. I'm not saying that I don't. But I do think we should be able to be friends with people of different opinions. We learn from everyone around us. I learned so much from all the different people around me. And when I learn from them,

it makes more sense to me why they believe what they believe. When I hear stories about their lives, when I hear what they're going through, when I hear how life has treated them recently, I understand maybe that's why they believe that. Maybe that is why they're voting for that person. We need to learn people. People are not policy. People have spirits. They have emotions.

They have feelings. They have so much more than just political beliefs. That's a very small part of who they are. And I mean, there are values in there that make them on. but there's so much more to human beings than just politics and a Republican or Democrat or independent. I don't care who you are, who you voted for. Like there's so much to everyone that we really need to take into account. And I think all of this too looks on how does politics look right now and how is the media portraying politics? The media is so divisive. The media is

trying to divide. They are continually having all this coverage of politics and pushing down the narratives of you're on one side or the other and they're just keep putting that. They give give it to us and it makes us more divided, I think. And that is horrible. We should not be being divided by the media. We also shouldn't be going after each other in the ways I think we do in politics. I mean, we see them calling Trump like Hitler and stuff or like equating him to Hitler sometimes. And we also see Trump just being really offensive to the left as well and having horrible nicknames for candidates and stuff. And that's not okay either. I don't think that is ever what we should want. politics. We should always want to just treat people how we want to be treated and have policy

disagreements. Politics should never be about a performing arts. That's not what it was meant to be and never should be that way. It should be getting things done for the people, getting things done for the American people, making sure they have what they need to live their lives and live freely. The political organists should never just come to the point where we're like, I'm just here to entertain you. There are points where it's rhetorically smart to entertain to bring a certain wording to something, but this does not mean it's personal attacks and that's where we've gone in politics. And I think that because we're seeing that so mainstream now in politics, it's now gone into our culture as people and who we are and how we interact with people on

everyday basis because that's what we're seeing from the leadership. Leadership does matter. But I do, again, think you have to do vote on policy. I think that's important. For me at least, is like I look at policy and I think that's important, but I also understand like we character does matter, leadership does matter. And I think we've really struggled as a country in that recently. Look, I've grown up and I was born during Bush's time and then I went through like elementary school and stuff through Obama and I ended up with Trump and then Biden. And so, but like what I really remember was Trump. I first voted in the 2020 election. So I've really known the Trump era. pretty well. And politics, I think that's what we've all known now, is the Trump era, Hillary Clinton,

Kamala Harris, Joe Biden. We know those people. That's who we know in politics. And it seems like it's the norm, but it doesn't have to be. We can have a better political outlook. And I think it also does take us. I think when we change too, when we go back and say enough is enough, that's when things can change in the leadership as well. When we say, we're not doing this anymore, we want civilized candidates. We want debates about policy. We don't want the name calling. We don't want this. We need leadership. That's what we need. We need policy. We need leadership. When we start doing that, I think that sends a message to the top and says, hey, look, you can't be doing that at the top of this leadership. You cannot be calling people like that. You cannot be hating on people like that. This is

not what we're here for. And there have just been some recent examples. I mean, even the division we're seeing, I mean, Kamala Harris is giving a rally today in D.C. about Trump and what he would do, again, if elected, and going after Trump. And then, I mean, you have Trump who had his Madison Square Garden rally, which was just full of a lot of offensive things, too. Like, both sides are just going at each other and completely attacking each other on just random things that I frankly don't think the American people really care about that much. Like, let's just. stick to policy. Let's talk about the issues. Let's talk about what's going on to this country. I think that the single mom who's trying to pay for groceries, pay for gas, pay for prescriptions

is struggling a lot more and cares more about what you're going to do about that than about saying some random stuff about another candidate about their personality or whatever. Like I think that they care more about the issues. I think that somebody cares more about how they're going to get medical coverage, how they're going to get jobs, how they're going to feel secure in this country. when there's a crisis at the border. Those are what I think people care about and politics needs to go back to the people

and the issues that the people are facing and talking about those issues, not about issues between personalities of people and name-calling all this. I think that we need to stop that and move forward. And that's something I think after the election, really I'm going to be thinking about is what do we do?

Where do we go from here? And how do I deal with all of this? now. For me, I think a lot of this, you really should be focusing on everything outside of politics. After the election, after this chaos starts to dwindle, and we start to go into what will be our next presidency and see who that is and how life will be, like, and how division will be. Like, kind of just focus on what you need to focus on, your friends, your faith, your family, those things, the things that you want to keep close to you. because frankly I think a lot of us would rather keep politics far away from ourselves

and keep our friends, family, and our faith close to us. And I think that that is where we begin, is finding what's true to us, what we want in life, what we care about, and holding on to those things, clinging those things, because those things are precious. Those are the things we don't want to lose. We should never want to lose. And it takes us really doing that to be able to start repairing. I think the divide in this country and starting to move forward, starting a new chapter where we

agree to disagree, where we have conversations, and where we don't let politics consume our entire lives, because that's what it's been and it's just not healthy, I think, for the American people and our American political system. I think it's very dangerous, actually. So now I just want to talk about this, this. issue I just saw yesterday actually. A fire was set in drop boxes that destroyed ballots in Washington and damaged a few in Oregon. This is really, really, really concerning. I think we should always want people to vote. I don't care what side you're on. You just want, you should want people to vote. Every citizen in this country should be able to have that right and have at least the

ability to go out and vote. And we should not try to take that away from anybody. People should be able to go fulfill their civic duty and vote and cast their ballot. That's how their voice is heard. That's how they can feel understood by a government who sometimes doesn't listen to them or they feel like doesn't listen to them. And so when you're seeing these, it's very alarming to me. We're seeing fire set in these drop boxes. This is going back to that concern for chaos after the election. Like, look, we're already seeing before. There's already this type of thing. And one of the biggest things is that one of these ones is in, um, It's the biggest city in Washington's third congressional district, which has one of the closest house races we're going to see in this country.

And it's between Marie Losingkamp Perez and Republican Challenger. She's currently the rep. Joe Ken is the Republican Challenger. And it's really going to be one to watch. But like you're seeing those things and you're like, what the heck is going on? Why are we getting to this point that people are going in there or whoever, whatever they're doing there. ballots are getting put on fire? That's ridiculous. Like there's a fire in these drop boxes. That's horrible. We should want people to vote. We should want people to feel like they're being

heard to go out there and proudly cast their ballot. That's what we should want. Every American should want that there should not be this level of craziness in our politics that we're getting to this point. That's absolutely absurd and dangerous. And it makes me so angry because I care so much and I do care about what I believe, but I also do care that people have the right to go out and vote. I care that people feel like they're being heard because I know there are people who don't feel like they're understood by the government, don't feel like they're being taken care of, and feel like that the government could do more for them. And now you just see things like this happen. And people do get scared of these things like, what's going to happen if I go and vote?

People have concerns about what's going to happen in this country because we've let politics get to this point. Enough is enough. When will it be enough? I don't know. I'm just so frustrated about it. It makes me angry is where do we go from here? And I always just think we need to remember what we're doing in this country and why we are so blessed by what we have. And always go back to our foundational principles of we are blessed with this country. We are so blessed to be Americans. We are blessed to be able to vote. And we should let everyone out do their part too. I don't care what side you're on. This is not supposed to be a political thing. People should have the right to vote. And I think that's something that I just think about a lot these days.

And I really hope that Election Day does go smoothly for everyone. I think I want people to be able to. I want people to be able to go out there and say they did something, cast a ballot if it's their first, second, third, whatever it is, to cast those ballots. So I was reading a CNN article today and they were brought up Megan Kelly. So I was like, oh, I'll go read that. And Megan Kelly has a message to Donald Trump after his rally at Madison.

Square Garden. Here's what she said. It was too brotastic. Okay? It was. You're trying to win an election in which you're hemorrhaging female voters. Maybe when you present in front of hundreds of thousands at Madison Square Garden, you clean up the bro talk just a little so you don't alienate women in the middle of America who are already on the fence about Republicans. So I have to agree with Megan Kelly. I think Trump does need to clean up a lot of his talk and rhetoric.

And a lot of this show has been about rhetoric today. And that's good. I think it's right before the election we need to talk about these things. And what I really want people to realize is like, you're not appealing to your base anymore, right? You at this point in the election should be looking to the people you don't have. You have to say, okay, we have these people. That's fine. how do I win the people that we don't have?

For both sides, they need to be doing this. And I think that is, I've been saying this, a suburban woman in this country, in these swing states, you need to go out and talk to them. They're not people who are definitely for you. And like Megan Kelly said, this is like, Trump needs to start appealing

to these people if he wants to win, I think. I think personally, like Trump needs to get out there and talk to these people. And that means bringing on people, like I said last week, Nikki Haley, I think that means bringing people like Joni Ernst. That means people like Cam Reynolds. That means all these people who I think really can help bring in different parts of the party, bring in different people to the party.

You always want to bring people into your party. That's what this last week should be about is doing that, bringing people in. You don't have to have all this crazy rhetoric that you have. Just go talk to them about the issues. Talk to them about prices. Talk to them about jobs. Talk to them about the border. Talk to them about security.

Talk to them about family and what it means to you. Go do that. Don't have this crazy rhetoric. don't go off on spools on your opponent on both sides. Just talk to people about the issues they're facing. That's what this needs to come down. And I think those are the people who are really feeling left out of this process is the people who just want to hear, what are you going to do for me?

What are you going to do to make it so that my life is easier? What are you going to do so that I feel safe? What are you going to do so that I know my children are safe? That's what people want to hear, I think. And I think a lot of these twink voters specifically want to hear what their leader would do to make sure they're safe, their kids are safe, their families are safe, their friends are safe, and that they can live out the American dream and do so in a safe and comfortable way

that they know they don't have to worry about everything else going on because their leader knows what they're doing. I really do think that and I think if we keep seeing for the next few days, both sides kind of just doing with their own thing and like not appealing to this middle base, it's going to be much, much, much closer than it could be. I think it's going to be close anyways, but like, you're not even, if you're not even making an attempt, that's ridiculous to me. Like, get out there. I don't care. Put any of your qualms with different people and your parties aside and just talk with them and talk to other people. Like, bring as many people

as you need in and help get this done for your party. Like, that's what you should be doing. And I just feel like it's all crazy right now. But these last few days are definitely going to be interesting in these campaigns for sure. Well, thank you so much for listening to Harlan the Hill today. I am so honored always to be able to talk to you on this show. It's such an honor. And as we near the election, just know that everything will be okay. I really believe that. I do believe that everything will be okay. I think we will get through this either way. I think we can do this. I know we can do this. We are resilient people. That's what I love so much about our country and our people. We're resilient. and we are doers, we do things, we get it done, and we always stand up and we always do what we need to do. We are a strong and resilient country and I know that in my heart, that that's the American spirit we have and we will always hopefully have. So I just want you to remember, it'll be okay, take some deep breaths, take a break from politics for a bit and just live your life and enjoy the things you love. really do that enjoy the things you love because that's what matters at the end of the day

that's what matters to you your people your friends your faith your family those are what matter so always remember that you're listening to radio free hills down 101.1.7 FM and this is heart of the hill thank you