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BONUS: Trump Might Lose If He Keeps This Up · The Lila Rose Show

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this life. So what are we going to do
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today? We're going to be unpacking some
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of my recent statement that I've made on X.
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They cause a little bit of a firestorm.
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There's a little bit of virality happening over there.
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A lot of heat going on on X. I'm going to be talking about
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that. I'm also going to be talking
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about the election that's upcoming and what pro lifers
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should do as we approach this historic election, what our view
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should be, our perspective should be at this crucial time.
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I also want to start out with a positive story.
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I like doing that with the podcast.
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We're going to be doing more of that, especially when we're
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getting into heavy stuff. And so the positive story I want
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to note is congratulating a new baby that was born last week to
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Justin and Haley Bieber. You might have seen that.
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Let's see if we can pull up the. Article here.
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So as you guys probably saw, Justin Bieber and Haley Bieber
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had a baby. Congratulations to them.
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It's very exciting. What I especially am excited
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about here is the power of Justin's story.
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I mean, his beautiful child is going to be living on the legacy
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of Justin's very talented life and Haley's very talented life.
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But as you guys may know, Justin was born to a single mother,
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Patty Mallette, who's a friend of mine, someone that I admire
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greatly. And Patty is very pro-life.
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She's very a beautiful person inside and out.
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And she chose life for Justin. She rejected a board.
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Some people around her told her she should abort.
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She did not abort Justin. She was a teenage mom and she
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chose life for her son. And now look at Justin's
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incredible talent. And now married to another
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incredible talent, Haley, they're bringing a new life into
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the world. It just shows the power and the
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potential of every human life. So I want to start with that
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because it is very beautiful to see new life and just and we
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should always be celebrating new life because life is worth
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fighting for. All right, let's get to the
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controversies, right This week. A lot of stuff happened over the
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weekend. I came out on X and I commented
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on it. I want to break that down.
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Let's start with what was said. Now before I go into what I
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said, I want to remind everybody that the Lila Rose podcast is an
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independent project. This is my podcast in my
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personal capacity. It is not created by or produced
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by Live Action, as many of you know and support.
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I run the organization Live Action, which is a 5O1C3
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nonprofit. That means that we are
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nonpartisan. We do not get involved in
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elections at Live Action and our job at Live Action is to educate
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millions of people about the evil of abortion and the crisis
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of the human, the human rights crisis of abortion and to
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showcase the beauty of every human life.
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As a 501-C3. We are prohibited by the from
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the IRS. We do not back one candidate
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over another. We do not tell people to vote
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for one candidate over another. Live Action is an educational,
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not-for-profit that uses media to change hearts and minds.
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I'm really proud of the amazing team at Live Action and the work
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that we do over at Live Action. We're reaching millions of
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people every month with truth about abortion and human life
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that is proven to help change minds and save lives.
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So that's live action. In my personal capacity on my
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social media accounts and on the Lila Rose podcast, we do
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sometimes get into politics and that's what we are doing today.
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So on X yesterday, I came out with comments about statements
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that were made this past Sunday by JD Vance, who is the vice
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president pick for vice president by Trump.
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His his ticket. And he had some comments in an
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interview that he made about abortion.
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And I'm going to play those comments for you now so you know
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what I'm talking about. Democrats made the case this
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week and beyond this week that Donald Trump, if elected, will
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impose a federal ban on abortion if he wins.
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Now, Donald Trump says he won't. But can you commit, Senator,
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sitting right here with me today, that if you and Donald
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Trump are elected, that you will not impose a federal ban on
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abortion? I can absolutely commit that,
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Kristen, Donald Trump has been as clear about that as possible.
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I, I think it's important to step back and say, what does
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Donald Trump actually said on the abortion question and how is
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it different from what Kamala Harris, the Democrats have said?
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Donald Trump wants to end this cultural war over this
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particular topic. If Kamal, excuse me, California
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wants to have a different abortion policy from Ohio, then
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Ohio has to respect California and California has to respect
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Ohio. Donald Trump's view is that we
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want the individual States and their individual cultures and
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their unique political sensibilities to make these
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decisions because we don't want to have a nonstop federal
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conflict over this issue. The federal government ought to
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be focused on getting food prices down and getting housing
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prices down, issues, of course, where Kamala Harris has been a
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total disaster. So I think Donald Trump is
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right. We want the federal government
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to focus on these big economic and immigration questions.
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Let the states figure out their own abortion policy.
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Let me just follow up with you a little bit on that point because
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I've been talking to Republicans, including Senator
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Lindsey Graham just last week, who've made it very clear that
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if Donald, Donald Trump is elected, if you are elected,
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they will continue to press this point.
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Senator Graham said to me, I'm going to keep saying that there
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should be a federal ban. If such a piece of legislation
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landed on Donald Trump's desk, would he veto it?
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I think it'd be very clear he would not support it I.
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Mean, he said that. Yeah.
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I mean, if you're not supporting it, as the President of the
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United States, you fundamentally have.
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To veto a federal abortion ban. I think he would.
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He said that explicitly that he would.
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So what you probably heard JD Van say there was, yes, he would
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President. Trump would veto an abortion ban
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if it came to his desk as president.
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This is a really consequential thing that Daddy Vance is saying
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because it is in effect, he's saying if the duly elected
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Senate, the duly elected House. Were to pass an abortion ban, it
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didn't specify what kind. It could be a 15 week ban,
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theoretically A20 week ban, or a complete abortion ban protecting
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all human lives from the violence of abortion.
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And if that made it to President Trump's desk, which by the way,
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would be a colossal feat on the pro-life side, if we
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accomplished getting pro-life legislation like that in front
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of a sitting president, JD Vance is saying we would veto it.
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President Trump would veto it. This is extremely troubling
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because this is a pro abortion position for President Trump to
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now take for his ticket to take. As you guys saw also on Friday,
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he came out and says that he stands for reproductive rights.
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Didn't clarify what that meant. But obviously that's the
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language that was used the entire week prior by Kamala
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Harris and her folks at the DNC shouting for abortion.
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The whole DNCI did 2 lives on this this last week as you guys
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saw many of you the whole DNC, the Democratic National
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Convention last week in Chicago was an abortion bonanza.
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They were one after the next Oprah, Cecile Richards,
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obviously Kamala Harris, Tim Walz, Joe Biden, Obama.
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They were all getting up there talking about abortion and why
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it's so great that. Was the DNC last week there was
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an abortion bus parked just blocks away outside of the DNC.
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Committing abortions. So the response from President
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Trump, I think the smart response, the right response
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would have been look at that extremism from the Democrats.
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Look at the abortion bonanza that was had at the DNC where
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they're where they're catering to this extreme fundamentalist
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pro abortion fringe within the Democratic Party.
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Most Americans want some abortion restrictions.
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By the way, most Americans oppose full term abortions.
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But the DNC was doing an abortion cheerleading session
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all week. So it would have been powerful
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for Trump to come out on Friday and over the weekend and say,
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look at the extremism from the Democrats.
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Look at how pro abortion they are.
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They have an abortion bust outside their convention and
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we've got to fight for life because these are babies, lives
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on the line. I think that would have been
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incredibly motivating for the pro-life base.
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But instead, unfortunately, tragically, Trump chose to make
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statements and now his VP pick is making statements to media
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saying not only are they just wanting to be put put abortion
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away, not talk about it, but they're actively saying that
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they would actually veto a pro-life law.
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They would actually come out in support of abortion pills, which
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is something that JD Vance has also said recently.
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So these are the facts that I'm sharing with you.
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It is very clear that Kamala and Walls the the the Harris Walls
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ticket is extraordinarily pro abortion.
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Unfortunately, this is a very different Trump ticket than it
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was in 2016. Trump campaigning on life.
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Trump making promises to the pro-life community.
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Trump saying that he would fight for life.
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I don't know if you guys remember, but Trump spoke at the
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March for Life and Trump said that he was pro-life.
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We're going to talk about this more in the live in a few
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minutes. But he has in the past said that
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he would stand for pro-life policy and that he would stand
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for life. This is a radical departure from
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that Trump. And so the question is why?
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Why is Trump doing this? And I would say, well, first of
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all, it's profoundly unprincipled.
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It's profoundly unprincipled to throw the lives of babies who
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can't speak for themselves, who can't mobilize, who can't vote
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under the bus to theoretically win an election, right, as
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presumably he's doing this to win an election.
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That's what the defense is by some Trump supporters.
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Well, he's trying to win the election.
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Cut him some slack and say, well, Kamala's trying to win the
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election too. And she's using pro abortion
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rhetoric and Trump is now using pro abortion rhetoric too.
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Is this going to help Trump win the election?
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It's the morally wrong thing to do.
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I mean, JD Vance is a Catholic. He's somebody that my
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understanding is he converted to the Catholic faith.
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And there are Catholic politicians on the left in the
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Democratic Party who promote abortion, who say they support
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abortions. And there are some Catholic,
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Catholic Bishops who have said they cannot receive Holy
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Communion because they are out there advocating for abortion.
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Unfortunately, JD Vance is doing that same thing when he says he
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supports the abortion pill, which is 60% of abortions.
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But I want to challenge this question of, oh, politically
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they need to do this. Politically, you got to throw
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the pro lifers under the bus. Otherwise we just can't win.
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I think it's foolishness and I'm going to show you why.
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I think there's a lot of data to show both through polling and
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through past experience that life is a winning issue.
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And I'm going to walk you through some examples and some
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polls to show you this. I don't know who is consulting
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the Trump administration right now or the Trump campaign right
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now, but I'm going to say loud and clear if anyone from the
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Trump administration is listening, that advice is bad
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advice that you're getting. So let's let's break some of
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this down South. So we're going to go to Trump
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and Vance's comments over the weekend.
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We we covered that. Let's go to why being pro-life
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is a winning issue. And I'm going to start with some
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precedent examples, which are really important because there's
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this argument being made that if you come out for life as a
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politician, then you're going to get killed at the at the voting
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booth. You're just going to get killed.
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This is not true. Let's start with the state of
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Georgia as a case study. Now, Georgia is in many ways a
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swing state. This year hasn't always been
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that way, but it's a swing state this year because Trump lost
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Georgia to Biden in 2020. So what happened in Georgia?
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Well, in 2019, Governor Kemp signed the heartbeat bill into
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law. Now the.
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Heartbeat Bill, as many people may know.
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Abortions after around 7 weeks when a baby's heartbeat can be
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detected. This is a big step in the right
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direction because it can save past 40% potentially of lives,
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30 to 40% of lives who are in danger of abortion.
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There are many abortions that happen at six to seven weeks,
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killing those babies, but there are many abortions that happen
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at 8910 weeks and later. So this is a strong step in the
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right direction. This is not complete justice,
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it's not sufficient, but it is a strong step in the right
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direction to ban abortions after seven weeks.
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Of. Course, the baby at six weeks is
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just as valuable as the baby at 7 weeks and all abortions should
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be banned. But we're using this as a case
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study to show that the mindset that oh.
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Trump needs to throw pro lifers under the bus somehow to win is
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a correct mindset. So let's start with Georgia
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2019. Kemp signs the heartbeat bill
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into law. In 2020, Trump lost Georgia to
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Biden. OK, Then in 2022, two years
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after Trump lost Governor Brian Kemp, who had passed.
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The heartbeat law. In 2019 and he was the he was
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the incumbent. He won his re election in 2022.
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The voters of Georgia who would not vote for Trump respected
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Governor Kemp, including his heartbeat law that he signed.
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And why is that? I believe it's because Governor
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Brian Kemp showed leadership and confidence and conviction and he
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was willing to fight for life. Do I wish Governor Kemp had
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fought for even more lives? Yes.
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But he was willing to fight for an abortion restriction and
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abortion ban. And he was rewarded for that in
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2022 when his base was galvanized.
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He got out enough of the vote and he won his re election.
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People would say, well, if you sign a heartbeat law or you sign
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an abortion ban, then you're just going to be crushed at the
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voting booth. That's not what happened.
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And that's in a state where Trump lost.
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Let's do another state, Ohio in 29.
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In 2019, Governor Dewine signs the heartbeat bill.
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So he did the same thing as Governor Kemp in 2022.
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Governor Dewine wins re election again after signing that law.
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You can look at Florida and you can look at Governor DeSantis.
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Governor DeSantis, in a purple state, won re election.
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In a landslide. In a historic landslide,
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Governor DeSantis has been confidently and courageously
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speaking out on behalf of life. In fact, right now as we speak,
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Governor DeSantis is actually putting his time and effort into
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the state ballot fight happening in Florida right now, urging
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Floridians to vote no on Amendment 4, which would
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enshrine abortion on demand through all nine months in the
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state of Florida. These are very important
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examples because this idea that if you're a politician and
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you're bold on life and you fight for life and you pass
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abortion restrictions, you're just going to be smoked at the
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voting booth is a false narrative.
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Another example would be Governor Abbott.
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He has virtually banned abortions in the state of Texas.
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He gets a ton of Flack for that. He also won his RE election.
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So this idea that you have to throw your principles to the
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side and throw the babies under the bus to win, and then
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secretly, somehow you're going to be pro-life when you win.
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By the way, no one's promised that.
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It's not like the Trump campaign is reaching out to all the
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pro-life leaders and saying, hey, guys, we're just lying
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right now. We're lying to you behind the
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scenes. We're saying we're going to
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actually help you out. And then publicly, they're
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throwing the babies under the bus.
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That that's, by the way, not happening.
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But even if that theoretically were to happen, it's
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foolishness. People appreciate authenticity,
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courage. They want a fighter.
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They want to see somebody who is unashamed of their stance.
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People do not like waffling politicians.
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It it reeks of establishment. It reeks of inauthenticity.
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It reeks of self-serving unprincipledness.
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People don't like that. So Kamala Harris, she got the
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message. She's like, well, my base wants
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abortion. My not her whole base, by the
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way, a small percentage of her base wants the policy she's
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fighting for, right? But she's going hard on it.
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She is. I'm 100% for abortion.
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Trump would serve himself well and his campaign well if he came
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out passionately like Governor Dewine, like Governor Kemp, like
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Governor DeSantis for life. All right, So those are some
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examples of. The precedent for winning on
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life. I'm going to go to the polling.
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There's a lot of people saying, well, the pro-life ballot
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initiatives are just struggling, they're failing, they're
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falling, and they are not doing well.
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We were losing all of these ballot initiatives.
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And I want to address that because it's true.
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There were several losses post Roe V Wade's fall at the state
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level that should not have been losses.
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And I want to break down briefly what happened there because I
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think it's important people know.
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So first of all. In these ballot initiatives,
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there's difference between ballot initiatives and a a
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candidate running for office is a candidate who's running for
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office. They have the microphone, they
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are speaking, they are being interviewed by the media.
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They are talking about, you know, in the case of, as an
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example, DeSantis, they're talking about their pro-life
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convictions, right? When there's a ballot initiative
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on abortion, there's not a politician whose election is at
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stake, right? There's not even typically a
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politician who's spearheading the campaign.
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Sometimes folks will lend their voice.
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You have voiceless people, the unborn, who are being voted on.
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And So what has happened in the state ballot initiatives is
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there have been 10s of millions, upward of 100 at this point,
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millions of dollars poured into state ballot initiatives by the
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pro abortion side. We have been outspent over 3 to
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one in the state ballot initiatives. 10s of millions of
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dollars have gone into the state ballot initiatives.
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And what are they saying from the pro abortion side?
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They are saying fear mongering. They have very misleading often
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initiatives that are written up about what they're going to do,
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like we're going to protect Women's Health by prohibiting
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abortion restrictions. But they use this language to
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try to scare you that without it, abortion is going to women
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are going to die. Women need these laws.
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And then they're pouring tons of money into these states to say
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that women will die without this amendment or without this
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initiative, that women will get miscarriage care.
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So many lies are being told and unfortunately it's often a money
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issue where if you are outspent by the lies 3 to 1 and the lies
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are incessant coming from the abortion industry, then a lot of
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the times a lot of voters, the ones that do come out to vote,
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are going to be confused on the matter.
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So I think it's very important to note the distinction between
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a politician running on life versus these ballot initiatives.
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Now, what do we do about these ballot initiatives?
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It's obviously heartbreaking. We need to, we need to fight.
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One of the big problems with the pro-life movement that I'm
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trying to solve, as many other leaders that I know, is that we
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are advocating for people who can't speak for themselves and
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there's no special interest group themselves.
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The unborn who can go out and raise money, make money, vote,
22:23
advocate. It's 100% dependent on the
22:25
people who are doing it right. And the amount of money that is
22:29
poured into the abortion machine is insane.
22:34
Planned Parenthood alone is a 1.5, nearly actually 2 at this
22:38
point. Billion dollar corporation,
22:41
their marketing budgets alone and their development budgets
22:45
alone to promote the abortion agenda is in the hundreds of
22:50
millions of dollars. I got some Flack on X lately
22:53
saying your budget is so big at live action $14 million.
22:56
What are you doing with this budget?
22:58
We spend this budget to create content and persuasive media to
23:02
educate people on life. When you're working in an
23:05
environment and I'm proud to say by the way, we're beating
23:07
Planned Parenthood, which has a budget that far surpasses ours.
23:12
But when you're dealing with institutionalized lies about
23:16
life from corporations, yes, but also in media, a very pro
23:21
abortion media, pro abortion academia, pro abortion political
23:25
party like the Democratic Party and unfortunately increasingly
23:28
like the Republican Party, the lies take on a life of their
23:32
own. So what's needed in the pro-life
23:34
movement is you. We need more of you.
23:37
We need more people who are willing to speak the truth when
23:39
it's popular and unpopular in and out of season, who are
23:42
willing to fight for the babies, who are willing to lend your
23:44
time, your efforts, your resources, everything you can to
23:48
this fight. We need more people in the fight
23:51
and that's part of the job of live action to galvanized more
23:54
people into the fight. And I'm proud to say we are
23:57
bigger than any other pro abortion group online,
24:00
dominating the news cycle with the pro against the pro abortion
24:04
groups. Unfortunately, we are fighting
24:06
an uphill battle when it comes to the media institutions, when
24:09
it comes to the ballot initiatives, when it comes to
24:12
all of these different factors that are fighting for the
24:15
abortion side. There's a fight to be had.
24:18
When Roe V. Wade was overruled, people say,
24:21
well, I went to the states, I went to the states.
24:22
The fight is on. The fight has just begun in many
24:26
ways. And before I go to the polling,
24:28
I want to say one other thing. I should have mentioned this to
24:31
you guys earlier. A lot of the rhetoric right now
24:34
coming from the Republican Party is that this is a states rights
24:38
issue. You probably have heard this,
24:40
right? And I think there's even some
24:41
pro-life people are saying, well, is is it a states rights
24:43
issue, right? Maybe.
24:44
I guess the reality is this. Our Constitution under the 14th
24:50
Amendment right now says that no state has any right to deprive
24:55
life of any person without due process.
24:59
Abortion is already unconstitutional.
25:02
There's already a promise of equal protection under the law
25:05
for all people. And unborn babies,
25:08
scientifically speaking, are as human being, are as much of a
25:11
human being as a born child. And if you're human, you're a
25:15
person. We've had a lot of issues
25:16
historically as a country when we've said people were less than
25:20
human or they were human but less than a person.
25:23
You know, we are said or certain groups in the past are not
25:26
persons, but maybe they're human, but they're not persons.
25:28
Know if you're human, you're a person.
25:30
The science is very clear that human life doesn't begin at
25:32
birth, begins at the moment of fertilization, and you deserve
25:36
the right to not be killed. And states like California,
25:40
which is a state that has abortion up until birth, right
25:43
now does not have the right to deprive you of your right to
25:47
life if you are a baby. It does not have that right.
25:49
So this idea that, well, we just let the states decide who lives
25:53
and who dies is false. Imagine if the abolitionist
25:58
during the time of slavery said, well, we just are going to let
26:01
the states decide who's enslaved and who's free.
26:05
We're just going to let the states decide, no?
26:08
No. State, whether you're Alabama or
26:11
New York, talking about the North versus the South in the
26:13
time of slavery, has the right to allow other people to enslave
26:18
others. Similarly, no state has the
26:21
right to allow a parent to kill their child, to allow an
26:25
abortionist to be paid to go and murder a baby.
26:28
No one has that right. In fact, you have the
26:31
constitutional right to live when you are born today and when
26:35
you are preborn. And that is the pro-life
26:37
position. That is what we are fighting
26:38
for. So back to the state ballot
26:40
initiatives. Well, what about the polling?
26:44
People say like the polling, you know, I, I, I, my understanding
26:47
is, I mean, again, theorizing here, but you know, what is
26:50
behind JD Vance and President Trump flip flopping on abortion?
26:53
What is behind this? Why are they doing this right?
26:56
Could it be that people are close to them saying you got to
26:58
do this to win, you got to do this to win?
27:00
Well, if that is the case, let's look at some of the polling.
27:03
People say that you can, you've probably heard this said.
27:07
You can put the inputs you want into a poll and get the outputs
27:10
that you hope for. You can torture poll data to
27:12
show you multiple things. And I guarantee you, I know this
27:16
because I've been doing this now for 15 years.
27:18
I have seen the pro abortion side.
27:21
I've seen pro abortion reporters, pro abortion
27:23
pollsters run polls using language and setting up
27:28
questions a certain way to try to persuade people to answer in
27:32
a certain way because that would further cement public opinion
27:36
that, oh, abortion is it's impossible to change minds.
27:38
It's impossible to change hearts.
27:40
Well, it's not impossible to change minds on abortion.
27:43
Minds are being changed. Hearts are being changed.
27:47
And some of the poll data, just so you guys know, and this is
27:49
not even disputed, this initial poll data I'm going to share is
27:53
that the majority of Americans want abortion restrictions.
27:59
The majority of Americans are against late term abortions.
28:03
They want an abortion restriction on late term
28:07
abortion as an example. So I'm going to start there
28:10
because it's kind of the easy thing that I think a lot of
28:12
people still acknowledge. Yes, of course, some people are
28:15
are for abortion, some abortion restrictions.
28:18
Europe, as an example, most of Europe has a ban on a federal
28:23
ban in each state 8 or each country in Europe, excuse me, on
28:26
abortions after the first trimester.
28:29
So just starting there alone, you can see how, unfortunately,
28:32
Trump's current position on life is to the left of Europe.
28:37
I mean, think about that for a minute.
28:39
That is extraordinary, and that's also to the left of a lot
28:43
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28:46
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little bit more. I want to talk about the
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heartbeat law as an example. People say, well, maybe abort,
29:54
maybe Americans oppose late term abortion, but the heartbeat law
29:57
goes too far. Americans won't buy the
29:59
heartbeat law. Well, let's look at the some of
30:01
the poll data. This is from March 2023, so a
30:06
little bit over a year ago. And this was in Florida, and SBA
30:10
and Ragnar Research found that 62% of Floridians support
30:15
legislation to protect unborn babies when a heartbeat is
30:19
detected, with exceptions for rape, incest and life of the
30:22
mother. 61% of independents and 58% of women surveyed supported
30:28
the heartbeat law. Hispanic voters were even more
30:31
likely than others to support the legislation at 76%.
30:35
This is the heartbeat law banning abortions even in the
30:38
first trimester. And this data shows, which from
30:41
just a year ago that 61% of independents supported that,
30:45
including 76% of Hispanic voters.
30:49
Let's just stop there for a moment.
30:51
This is a winning issue. It was a it has been a winning
30:54
issue. And Governor DeSantis is proof
30:56
of that. By the way, in Florida, when the
30:58
question is asked about a baby's heartbeat being detected, would
31:02
you protect that baby's life? And you get the majority of
31:06
Floridians supporting that. Now, you might be listening and
31:09
say, well, this amendment is up for a vote right now in Florida
31:13
on abortion. People are afraid you're going
31:15
to lose. How does that square?
31:17
Well, the text of the amendment is very misleading.
31:21
It was written by the abortion side, and it indicates that if
31:24
you don't support this amendment, if you don't vote yes
31:28
on this amendment, then you're somehow going to hurt Women's
31:31
Health care, right? So it's all how the question is
31:34
positioned to the voter or to the person responding on a poll.
31:39
And that's part of the job of Governor DeSantis right now.
31:41
He's going up and down the state to educate people on this
31:44
extreme amendment in Florida that would permit abortions
31:49
until birth. I think that's why it's
31:51
particularly another demoralizing thing for the
31:53
pro-life base that President Trump, who's a a native of
31:56
Florida or he's a, he's a resident of Florida, excuse me,
31:59
He has not come out against the amendment yet.
32:02
He said I haven't shared yet how I'm going to vote.
32:05
It's like keeping people in suspense.
32:07
There's only one way to vote on that amendment if you are in any
32:10
way pro-life and it's to vote no on Amendment 4 in Florida.
32:15
We haven't even heard that yet from President Trump.
32:16
He should come out boldly and say, of course I'm going to vote
32:19
no on Amendment 4 because it would permit abortions until
32:22
birth in Florida. That would be a winning a moral
32:26
position and a winning position for President Trump.
32:30
I want to share a few other polls.
32:31
This is we're going to go back to 2021 and then go back, come
32:35
forward to this year in 2024, September 2021, a Rasmussen poll
32:40
found that US voters, this is this is a poll of all US voters.
32:46
So there's I think 2000 respondents here.
32:48
So it's not just in one state, and it's on the left and the
32:51
right, Republican and Democrat of US voters.
32:54
These are likely US voters, I should say. 46% of them said
32:59
that they supported Texas's heartbeat law, and only 43% of
33:04
them said that they opposed it. This is a Rasmussen poll.
33:06
It's not some Pearly poll. It's Rasmussen.
33:09
And more people, Americans at large, supported the Texas
33:13
abort, abortion heartbeat law, then opposed it.
33:18
You might be listening to this and say wow.
33:19
I had no clue. It sounds like everybody hates
33:22
Texas's laws, especially heartbeat laws.
33:25
Everyone hates heartbeat laws. They're so radical.
33:27
That's a media narrative that they're selling you.
33:30
That's false. I think so many on the, the
33:33
right, you know, know this. They know the media lies.
33:36
They know the media misleads people.
33:39
They know that the media creates false narratives to tell people
33:42
that left is right and right is left and up is down and down is
33:44
up. But somehow we believe in media
33:46
narrative on abortion. We believe that, yeah,
33:49
abortion's a losing issue. Yeah, everyone's pro abortion.
33:52
Yeah, American women are just, you know, radically pro
33:55
abortion. We all love abortion like Kamala
33:57
Harris tells us to. It's not true.
34:00
It's not true. And if you look at the poll
34:02
data, not just the hand picked data from pro abortion
34:05
journalists and Kamala Harris promoters, you look at more poll
34:11
data than that, you'll find that American people are very torn on
34:14
abortion. Most Americans don't like
34:16
abortion. Many Americans want abortion
34:19
restrictions. And it's our job to continue to
34:22
build that light, that fire, to continue to build that rejection
34:26
of abortion in our culture. I'm going to go to another poll.
34:30
This is from February 2024. A poll conducted by The
34:33
Economist and you Gov found that 48% of Americans would support a
34:39
law limiting abortion to the 1st 16 weeks of pregnancy, so
34:42
basically to the first trimester.
34:44
So almost half of all abortion of all Americans support this.
34:48
So there's a lot of other polls here.
34:50
I'll, I'll share I'll share a couple more just just so we have
34:53
them here. 2023 This is just last year, NPRPBS poll found
35:00
that the proportion of Americans who support pro-life laws up to
35:03
the time of cardiac activity at about six weeks gestation has
35:07
increased from 27% to 40%. So there's actually been an
35:11
increase in people who support heartbeat law.
35:15
There's a lot of poll data to show you that the media's
35:18
narrative on abortion is a lie. So my encouragement right now,
35:24
where, where are we going with all this?
35:26
Where is this landing? Here's my message to the Trump
35:30
campaign. This is my message from
35:34
pro-life. Americans fight for life.
35:38
It's the right thing to do. It is the bold thing to do.
35:44
There was a Trump that spoke at the March for Life not too long
35:49
ago. Let's hear what that Trump had
35:51
to say. Can we pull up that quote?
35:54
As you know, President Trump is the only sitting president to
35:57
have done that. Here's what he said.
36:06
Together, we are the voice for the voiceless when it comes to
36:11
abortion, Democrats ISM, And you know this.
36:14
You've seen what's happened. Democrats have embraced the most
36:18
radical and extreme positions taken and seen in this country
36:23
for years and decades, and you could even say for centuries.
36:29
Nearly every top Democrat in Congress now supports taxpayer
36:34
funded abortion all the way up until the moment of birth.
36:42
Last year, lawmakers in New York cheered with the light upon the
36:46
passage of legislation that would allow a baby to be ripped
36:50
from the mother's womb right up until delivery.
36:57
Then we had the case of the Democrat governor in the state
37:02
of Virginia, the Commonwealth of Virginia, and we love the
37:10
Commonwealth of Virginia, but what is going on in Virginia?
37:15
What is going on? The governor stated that he
37:19
would execute a baby after birth.
37:22
You remember that Senate Democrats even blocked
37:26
legislation that would give medical care to babies who
37:30
survived attempted abortions. And that's why I've called on
37:35
Congress, two of our great senators here, so many of our
37:39
congressmen here, and called upon them to defend the dignity
37:44
of life and to pass legislation prohibiting late term abortion
37:48
of children who can feel pain in their mother's womb.
37:55
Look at the departure. I mean, that was a great Trump
37:57
right there, right? I remember the electricity of
38:00
the pro-life movement. He's saying he's actually
38:03
calling on Congress to send him an abortion ban and later
38:06
abortion. He's actually asking that from
38:08
Congress. He's saying that the Democrats
38:11
are extreme on abortion there even till post birth abortion
38:14
infanticide. He's saying every they cannot
38:17
speak for themselves. The unborn cannot speak for
38:19
themselves, and I just want to encourage the Trump campaign to
38:24
go back to that. Trump.
38:25
People want a fighter. People want someone who's not
38:29
going to bow to the establishment and bow to the
38:32
Beltway pollsters and consultants, someone who's not
38:35
going to waffle and run and hide, someone who's not going to
38:39
be controlled by the false media narratives.
38:42
That's what people want right now.
38:44
That's not what Trump is, for whatever reason, delivering
38:47
right now. In fact, he's trying to sound
38:49
like a Democrat on abortion. And the response from the
38:52
pro-life community right now is crucial.
38:55
And I'm, I'm encouraging Trump to get out there and fight for
38:58
life. And I want to encourage the
39:00
pro-life community right now. We are two months, a little over
39:03
two months out before the election.
39:05
Mines are still being made-up. Candidates are still shape
39:09
shifting in many ways. Positions are being shifted and
39:12
changed. I urge all pro lifers to come
39:15
out right now and say President Trump, stand for life.
39:21
President Trump, if you want the pro-life vote, fight for life.
39:26
That's not called voter suppression, my friends.
39:28
That's called voter encouragement.
39:31
That's called encouraging voters to do what their job is, to
39:36
demand what they need and they want from their candidate, from
39:39
candidates. You know, the pro-life vote is
39:42
not owned. Nobody owns the pro-life vote.
39:46
The pro-life vote is earned, and you don't earn the pro-life vote
39:51
by throwing it under the bus, by listening to whatever pollsters
39:55
are lying to you or media narratives are lying and
39:59
throwing the babies under the bus.
40:01
You earn the pro-life vote. And I would say the respect even
40:04
of the middle moderates and I would even argue the respect.
40:08
Of your average Joe by getting up there and saying I'm going to
40:12
fight for what I believe in, for what is good and true.
40:14
I'm going to fight for the lives of children.
40:16
I'm going to fight for families, I'm going to fight for you.
40:19
And So what President Trump should say specifically I
40:22
believe is what he said in the past, I will fight for life.
40:26
I will fight for babies. They have no one to defend
40:28
themselves. They have no one to speak for
40:31
them. I will help speak for them.
40:33
That he will sign any pro-life legislation that crosses his
40:36
desk as president, including the pro-life legislation that he
40:39
used to ask Congress for back in the day.
40:42
He used to ask Congress to send pro-life legislation to him.
40:45
So instead of saying he would veto it or Vance saying for him
40:48
that he'll veto it, he should say he will sign any pro-life
40:51
law that passes his desk. And he should say that he will
40:54
fight against the abortion expansion of the Democrats.
40:58
He will fight against the abortion industry that is hell
41:02
bent on killing and taking innocent human life.
41:07
And he should say that he will use his executive branch to do
41:09
everything in his power to fight for babies, to fight for
41:12
children, to fight for the American family, and to make
41:15
America a more welcoming place to bring human life into the
41:18
world. That's going to be the winning
41:21
message that will not just galvanized the pro-life base,
41:24
but I think earn respect that Trump is a fighter, he's a
41:28
maverick. He will do what's right.
41:30
Those are my thoughts. And so pro-life people, people,
41:33
raise your voices loud and clear to say we need you to fight for
41:36
life. We need you to fight for the
41:37
babies because our job is to be their voice.
41:40
That is the job of pro-life activists.
41:42
Today I want to close here with something I did in the last two
41:46
lives last week. As you guys know, I spent a lot
41:48
of time talking about the extremism of the Democrats, how
41:52
radically pro abortion the Democrats are.
41:54
It's tragic, but we closed our lives.
41:57
These are heavy topics. We closed our lives last week
42:00
with a Chaplet of the Divine Mercy.
42:02
And I'd like to do that again because I believe this is a
42:05
spiritual battle as much as it is a battle of votes and people.
42:10
And I believe that we win by speaking the truth in and out of
42:15
season, not compromising the truth, standing up for what is
42:19
good and true. And I believe that we also win
42:22
by prayer, by praying for mercy on this country, because a lot
42:27
is at stake with this election. A lot is at stake every day.
42:31
2800 children are killed every day by abortion in this country.
42:35
There is a force of evil at work, and there always has been
42:40
since our parents in the Garden of Eden chose to bite that
42:43
apple. There is a force for evil at
42:46
work in the world, to lie and to kill and to destroy.
42:49
But I believe the truth is power more powerful than a lie.
42:52
And God, God will win in the end.
42:55
So let's ask for his mercy. And I'm going to invite you to
42:58
pray with me a chaplet of the Divine Mercy.
43:02
This is a beautiful prayer for mercy.
43:04
And we're going to pray one decade.
43:06
So as I've shared before, there's five decades of this
43:08
chaplet. There's one opening prayer and
43:10
then 10 smaller prayers, but we're going to start with the
43:13
Eternal Father, and then we're going to go to the 10 small
43:17
beads of the decade. There's ten small prayers.
43:21
So starting with the Eternal Father, in the name of the
43:23
Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, Amen, Eternal
43:28
Father I. Offer you the body and blood,
43:32
soul and divinity of your dearly beloved Son, our Lord Jesus
43:36
Christ, an atonement for our sins and those of the whole
43:39
world. For the sake of His sorrowful
43:41
passion, have mercy on us and on the whole world.
43:45
For the sake of His sorrowful passion, have mercy on us and on
43:48
the whole world. For the sake of His sorrowful
43:51
passion, have mercy on us and on the whole world.
43:55
For the sake of His sorrowful passion, have mercy on us and on
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the whole world. For the sake of His sorrowful
44:00
passion, have mercy on us and on the whole world.
44:04
For the sake of His sorrowful passion, have mercy on us and on
44:07
the whole world. For the sake of His sorrowful
44:10
passion, have mercy on us and on the whole world.
44:13
For the sake of a sorrowful passion, have mercy on us and on
44:16
the whole world. For the sake of a sorrowful
44:19
passion, have mercy on us and on the whole world.
44:22
For the sake of a sorrowful passion, have mercy on us and on
44:26
the whole world. For the.
44:27
Sake of a sorrowful passion. Have mercy on us and on the
44:28
whole world. Thank you friends, for praying
44:30
with me. Thank you for fighting for life
44:32
and standing strong. Continue to do so and May God
44:37
bless you all. This week we'll see you again on
44:41
Friday, or if we might end up doing a lot before that, but
44:44
we'll see you again soon. God bless you guys.
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