The Republican Party held a national convention in a midterm year for the first time in American history, and President Trump spoke on the second night. Jenny Beth Martin marks that week by going state by state with three Republican state party chairmen, recorded in the days before the delegates arrived in Dallas. Jason Simmons brought the number that should end the argument about whether ground work matters. When President Trump was first elected in 2016, Democrats held a 645,000-voter registration advantage in North Carolina. Today Republicans hold the advantage. Democrats have lost more than 300,000 registrations and Republicans have gained more than 300,000. Nobody handed that over. It came one registration at a time over ten years. Josh McKoon will not predict a Georgia win. His party has targeted about 400,000 low propensity voters, Mike Collins has cut a double digit Senate polling deficit in half since early July, and the governor's race is tied with both candidates under 50 percent. He thinks it comes down to five or ten thousand votes, which is why he wants poll workers and poll watchers in every precinct. Bob Grogan explains why the Chicago Bears are leaving Illinois for Indiana, what a $300 million annual stadium tax bill says about a state, and why seven members of the Chicago City Council now sit in a Democratic Socialists of America caucus. The hour opens on the one year anniversary of the loss of Charlie Kirk, and the three things Jenny Beth Martin believes honor him. Learn more at teapartypatriots.org and jennybethshow.com.
Jenny Beth Martin is co-founder of the Tea Party movement and Chairman of Tea Party Patriots Action. She hosts The Jenny Beth Show, which airs Monday through Friday at 1:00 PM ET.
Josh McKoon is Chairman of the Georgia Republican Party. He talks about the roughly 400,000 low propensity voters his party has targeted, the Senate and governor's races that are both live in Georgia, and why he believes the state comes down to five or ten thousand votes in either direction.
Bob Grogan is Chairman of the Illinois Republican Party, three months into the job. He is a certified public accountant and a certified fraud examiner who served twelve years as a county auditor and has worked Republican grassroots politics for thirty years.
Jason Simmons is Chairman of the North Carolina Republican Party. He was the party's executive director before taking the chairmanship when Michael Whatley moved to the Republican National Committee.
Key topics:
The one year anniversary of the loss of Charlie Kirk, and the three things Jenny Beth Martin says honor him
The first Republican national convention ever held in a midterm year, and what each state's delegation hoped to see
Georgia's 400,000 targeted low propensity voters, and why turnout beats persuasion in a midterm
Mike Collins cutting a double digit Senate polling deficit in half, and a governor's race tied with both candidates under 50 percent
Poll workers, poll watchers, and what election integrity actually means
Why the Chicago Bears are leaving Illinois for Indiana, and the $300 million annual tax bill their stadium would have carried
Illinois as ground zero for the Tea Party movement, and the 20 of 27 original group leaders who left the state within five years
Seven members of the Chicago City Council sitting in a Democratic Socialists of America caucus
Hurricane Helene, and the contrast Jason Simmons draws between a bureaucratic response and a bulldozer
The 645,000-voter Democrat registration advantage in North Carolina that is now a Republican advantage
The call to action: Election Day is Tuesday, November 3, and every precinct needs a poll worker and a poll watcher it can trust
Timestamps:
00:00 — One year ago today: the rally in the rain, and the news that followed
00:54 — Three things, and the first is to study and then act
01:23 — He studied the Bible, and he studied being a good father
03:43 — A few more weeks until Election Day
04:34 — A historic convention, held in a midterm year
05:56 — Josh McKoon, Chairman of the Georgia Republican Party
06:41 — The 400,000 low propensity voters Georgia has targeted
07:47 — No competitive House races in Georgia, but the House still decides
10:28 — Georgia's own polling on the President's immigration record
12:03 — Mike Collins cuts a double digit deficit in half
13:41 — A voting record that does not match the campaign
14:12 — What Georgia's delegation expects in Dallas
14:51 — Two nights for a closing argument
16:17 — September 10, and the tribute he expects
17:31 — Five or ten thousand votes in either direction
18:44 — Georgia broke its own poll coverage records in 2024
19:34 — Election integrity means one thing, a level playing field
20:43 — Call your county election board and get the training
21:29 — Where to find the Georgia Republican Party
22:00 — Election Day is Tuesday, November 3
22:29 — Bob Grogan, Chairman of the Illinois Republican Party
24:21 — Pritzker fatigue and the longest COVID emergency in the nation
25:08 — The litmus test: the Bears are choosing Indiana
25:39 — They are basically tax refugees
26:29 — A $300 million tax bill every single year
26:59 — Taxing the tax on a gallon of gas
27:41 — Illinois was ground zero for the Tea Party movement
28:31 — A Republican governor who won 101 of 102 counties
29:10 — Gerrymandering that would make a salamander blush
29:47 — Fifty aldermen indicted, and seven socialists on the City Council
30:28 — The largest Polish community, and what it knows about communism
32:44 — Charlie Kirk was from Illinois
33:29 — He waged optimism
34:05 — Against the other guy, or for freedom, family and fiscal sanity
36:06 — At some point governance has to matter
37:22 — What Illinois needs to hear from the President in Dallas
40:36 — Jason Simmons, Chairman of the North Carolina Republican Party
42:48 — Absentee ballots started dropping September 4
44:11 — A party captured by the Democrat socialists
44:48 — Abolish the Senate, abolish ICE, abolish the police
45:27 — She ran as a centrist moderate
46:25 — Hurricane Helene, and where the government was
47:44 — The President sent bulldozers
49:35 — Answering the people who are still frustrated
50:53 — Iran, energy, and short term pain
54:14 — Ten years of voter registration trends
54:26 — A 645,000-voter Democrat advantage in 2016
54:42 — They lost more than 300,000, Republicans gained more than 300,000
55:21 — Why did you move to North Carolina
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