229. How Kansas Could Blow Up MAGA

Are you happy with what's happening in Washington? If you are, then vote for Roger Marshall and if not, then vote for me. Those are the words of no not a Democrat in California, but a pastor in Ruby Red, Kansas, a state that Trump has won three times in which hasn't elected a Democrat since 1932. But could that be about to change? We're just 21 days out to Trump facing his biggest referendum yet, and things are heating up. Kansas and the broader anti-GOP sentiment in the first half. Then, back from the break, has Trump lost it on Ukraine. He's announced an energy ceasefire between Ukraine and Russia, without consulting Keefe. Has Trump's cow-towing to Putin just reached new heights? This episode is brought to you by Yitoro. A tariff of spending plan, a regulatory change, it can all start just as the first line of a speech. But, it sets in motion things that can reach far beyond Washington and unfold for years to come. That's right, Caddy. 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Okay, ready? Donald Trump pardoned 1600 criminals. He bulldozed the White House. He said he was going to release the Epstein files. He did not release the Epstein files. He took over the Kennedy Center and named it after himself. He took a $400 million plane from the Qataris. He's threatened Canada, Cuba, Venezuela, Colombia, and Brazil. And now he's buying diesel from the Russians. So I could keep going. We've had ICE people murder people in Minneapolis and shoot at other people and on and on and I think the Kansas who are generally a good bellweather for the center of the country have actually had enough. Yeah, I mean, those things that you list and they're true of every state where there is anti-Trump sentiment around the country. I think what's interesting about Kansas and why it's even possibly in play, it's just been moved last week by the COOP political report, which is this great kind of nonpartisan bellweather, it's been moved from the lean Republican column into the toss up column, but they have not sent a Democrat to the Senate from Kansas in 94 years. So it is earth shattering that it's even moved into the toss up column politically. But the reason it's been moved into the toss up column is not just of all those things about Trump, which are true for everybody, it's that the Democrats in Kansas have nominated somebody who, if you went into a lab and tried to manufacture the ideal Democratic candidate for a conservative leaning state like Kansas, you would be hard pushed to come up with somebody better than Pastor Adam Hamilton, who is the founder of the country's largest United Methodist Church, was a registered Republican for most of his life, only became a Democrat. This spring is, calls himself conservative and liberal and is an amazing communicator. I mean, you don't get to be the pastor of a mega church in America. You know this, Anthony, unless you are a very good communicator. And so you've got Adam Hamilton up against, and this is a pattern we're seeing in other states, but I think is particularly true in Kansas, up against the incumbent senator, George Marshall, who is not doing what is needed to reach out to Kansas is getting booed during his public appearances. He gave one public appearance in the early 2025, talking about Doge, and was booed off the stage, heckled, and left the stage, the town hall meeting earlier, and called the people rude, and then didn't do another public appearance until the debate that he had with Adam Hamilton at the Kansas State Fair this September. And I think it's worth listening to a little couple of clips of that. You can hear the booing, and their attack lines are pretty clear. Hamilton being framed as too liberal, while Senator Marshall is being set up as the Trump apologist. in today's debate, you're going to see that my opponent is too woke. He's too weak. My opponent is too woke. He's too weak, and he doesn't stand for anything that he tries to be all things, to all people. Now, you may not agree with everything I have to say today, but you're going to know where I stand. Here's the problem, is senators are elected by the people to be their champion in Washington DC, not hired by the White House to be their spokesperson to the people in the state. Currently, our sitting senator has a very hard time speaking up to the president, has a very difficult time saying, Mr. President, this is corrupt. This is not okay. I didn't hear it after Wednesday. In fact, I think you were there for the speech. Didn't hear it that night, but we have got to have somebody who's willing to do what a sinner is supposed to do, and that is speak up against power to be a check on executive power. Roger Marshall struggles to do that. This is a story, Anthony, of doing things that people don't like, the tariff wars, the war in Iran, the diesel prices, which particularly, of course, affect Kansas is an agricultural state, but it's also isn't a question of candidate quality, and the Democrats just getting it right when the Republicans are nominating people who are weak candidates. He's not an East Coast or a West Coast Democrat, and he is resonated with that in terms of his identity. I think one of the big things that the Republicans have gotten wrong is the war, because there's particularly for Kansas, because if you're going to knock diesel prices up 79%, you're killing everybody in Kansas, you're killing the agriculture, you're killing the farmers, and I think it's very telling that when you look through who is supporting the Democrats now, and who's not supporting the Republicans, we just think about this, the livestock association pack declined to endorse the Republican this year. Can you imagine that? Even though they're endorsed him before, right? They're endorsed him before. They pulled their endorsement because they're like, this is absolutely crazy. You're going to hurt a $62 billion economy, $150,000 jobs, and listen, the green nature of the Democrats is not resonating in Kansas. What's resonating in Kansas is what you and I talked about during our live shows this week, that this is actually a referendum on the administration. What's registering in Kansas is, "Hey, this is not working for us here in Kansas, Donald Trump, and a result of which we're going to send somebody to Washington that's going to be an adversary of yours." I think the other thing about Hamilton that is interesting, because he does present very well in a Kansas context. He gave an interview on this week on ABC this weekend, and I just thought he handled a couple of those hot button issues very well. He started off by saying, "Listen, you cannot be Democratic Socialist of America and represent Kansas. That will not fly in Kansas." He made it very clear where he stood. He said, "I'm a conservative and a liberal because I'm a liberal because I have empathy and I'm open to changing my mind. I'm a conservative because I like to keep the best of traditional values, but you cannot be a DSA candidate in Kansas." He also said, "You can't over-regulate in Kansas." Again, a message that farmers and business owners will like. He's not proposing massive democratic style regulation. I thought he gave Anthony, and I don't know if you had a chance to hear it, the best answer that I have heard on the whole trans issue because he was asked, "Where do you stand on trans issues?" I just thought it was worth reading a little bit of it because I haven't heard a Democrat answer this issue so well, and I think it's kind of answer that people in Kansas would like. He said, "I don't believe that men should compete in women's sports. I believe that there are two biological genders. People may see themselves in different ways." The president has picked on people who are already bullied and picked on and made them a campaign issue and he's trying to use them to make people think they should be afraid of trans people and Democrats. I don't understand everything about trans issues. He said, "But I know what it's like to love your neighbor and we shouldn't hurt people." I mean, I don't know what your reaction is to that because I think lots of democratic candidates have got themselves tied up in this, but I think he's speaking both to somebody who's empathetic, but also pretty clear on where he stands on. He wanted to cut and pace that, Caddy, and I would want them to put that in every speech for every single senatorial candidate and member of the House. Moreover, I told you to think about the dynamic here because it's only two years ago of the president one Kansas by double digits. But now he has a 53% disapproval rating. Okay. And so that's a big deal. The other thing is a big deal is the messaging because listen to this sentence, Caddy, are you happy with what's happening in Washington? I mean, that line works like an alter call of a pastor, and I'm just wondering if they should copy that from this campaign as well because you're making this a referendum on Washington. And listen, I love the fact that he's not too woke. You know that and we should also point out that people in our five shows, our live shows when we ask people are the Democrats to woke, it's pretty much 80/20 that the general audience that you and I were talking to want the Democrats to come up the middle, go right after the moderate lane and attract independence. And this is something that's happening here in Kansas as well. But I want to ask you something, Caddy, because the president is trying to cut tariffs on one of the products that the Kansas are selling, which of course is beef. Do you think that's going to work or do you think that's a little bit too late and a little bit too transactional? No, I mean, I think you saw the reaction of Kansas cattle ranchers. Actually, they didn't like the plan to lower beef import tariffs, because obviously they are cattle ranchers themselves. They also have been pretty opposed to some of the ice activities, because during the cattle harvest, there were ice raids. I didn't even know there was such a thing as cattle harvest, but apparently there is, it looks, sounds kind of gruesome. Sorry, if you're a vegetarian or a vegan, but anyway, there is such a thing as a capital harvest. Anyway, during the cattle harvest, they had ice raids and the cattle farmers said, hold on a second, we actually need those workers. If we don't have those workers, whether they're documented or undocumented, we can't harvest the cattle. It's the wrong time of year. You can't be doing this. So Trump has done several things that have hurt farmers. The diesel prices, trying to get a lower price for beef imports, because he wants to bring beef prices down for the rest of the country. Well, if you are a beef producer, you don't like that. And then the ice activity, and Anthony, you were talking when we were doing these live shows about that story on the Kansas rural school districts. I think we mentioned it on one of the founding members episodes recently about how this letter has gone out. Tell it, I mean, you can see why that's also not going to help the Republican at the moment. Yeah, listen, 11 rural school districts, they put out a letter saying, if you're taken by ice, so you're the parent, you're taken by ice, who's going to pick up the kid at school? Didn't just go out to African-American, Hispanics, Black, and Brown people. It went out to white people, Caddy, went out to everybody, and it's chilled the entire neighborhood, and it's not polling well. And people don't like it. I also think that speaking to scripture in a place like Kansas is very, very important. And I'll just say to you that Tallerico and Hamilton are both capable of doing that. So they can speak to scripture, and they can let you know that your traditional life, your traditional values are going to be maintained by them, but we're going to be there to reject the insane policies of Donald Trump. I think it's incredible messaging, and it could be very, very effective. Now, he's only 45, 43 right now. So the question- Yeah, it's totally within the margin of error, and the Republicans could come home absolutely. So what could happen? What could the Republicans do here? What could Marshall do here to potentially take the race from Hamilton? Well, I think they've got to try to get out the Republican vote and the MAGA vote. There was a poll on CNN that Trump is talking about this weekend, has been talking about this weekend that shows that 90% of MAGA still support the president. So this is a place I think where you have to go for base turnout. You've got to try and make sure that they get those people who are reliably Republican and naturally get them to the polls. I mean, Hamilton has said, I am not going to win this unless Republicans vote for me. They just aren't enough Democrats in Kansas for him to win without Republicans turning out to vote for him. So he's going to be trying to chip into those more what I call Republican first candidates, Republican first voters as opposed to Trump first voters. And I think Marshall, by contrast, has to try and plug into Trump first voters and spend whatever money. And they are now pulling money. They've pulled money from North Carolina, which should be competitive, but they're bailing basically the Republicans on North Carolina. And if you're going to follow the money, the money has now gone to Kansas, which means that Democrats are also spending in Kansas. And Hamilton has outraged Marshall so far in this cycle. But the money is going to go into turn out at this stage and they've got to find the pockets of people who will reliably vote for a Republican candidate. I think there's one other hurdle. And the reason I think Kansas is such an interesting state is because it does get to some of these broader issues, like you say, gets to the issue of tariffs, it gets to the issue of diesel prices, but the other issue it gets to Antony is the issue of healthcare costs. And I think that's kind of one of the less talked about issues in this campaign, but is a huge issue for voters. And it gets to that because of Senator Marshall is an OBGYN, right? The Hamilton campaign put out, I think, one of the best ads of the season on this issue. Senator Marshall, who wasn't OBGYN, has a record of suing patients for outstanding bills. 700 of his patients have been sued by his lawyers for outstanding bills. 81 of them, Antony, have faced arrest, have been taken into police cars in front of their kids, in front of their grandkids. Some of them owed only about $100. Others owed a few thousand dollars, but he has a particular track record compared to other doctors of his lawyers going to a judge and seeking an arrest warrant. And of course, this was a story that got reported by The New York Times a few months ago, the Hamilton campaign found one of Senator Marshall's patients who had been arrested and they ran this ad. I think it's been devastating to the Marshall campaign. Listen to this. One evening, I see lights. I open the door and it's a police officer. They arrested me because I didn't make a $50 payment to Roger Marshall. That was eight months pregnant. And I said, "Please, do not handcuff me in front of my two-year-old daughter." Roger Marshall prayed on the low-income families of Kansas. The healthcare system is broken, but not for Roger Marshall. He's absolutely profiting from it. Now, the Marshall campaign has put out a cease and desist letter. They want the Hamilton campaign to withdraw this ad with Ms. Zimmerman. So far, it hasn't been. I don't know, you're the lawyer, Antony. I only, you know, don't even play one. At least you play a lawyer and play one convincingly. But a patient in her own words, I don't think that's going to work with a cease and desist because they're still being able to run it. There has been also, by the way, from the other side, the Hamilton campaign. This is a nasty, for Kansas nice, this has become a nasty campaign. The Hamilton campaign have put out a cease and desist order against the Marshall campaign which ran an ad implying that a church that Hamilton had been associated with had been accused of abuse. That church conference center has put out a cease and desist actually had nothing to do with Hamilton and it had nothing to do with abuse. So that Marshall campaign has actually had to apologize. Senator Marshall himself has come out and apologized for that ad, for his campaign's ad. But I don't think that the ad featuring Ms. Zimmerman gets taken down. That seems pretty powerful, of course. Listen, you pointed out before we started the show that Marshall is at the state fair. He's at the Kansas State Fair trying to defend the lawsuit. So he's telling people that it's common business practice. He said that the woman owed $3,000. And again, the $50 was the monthly payment. But the crowd doesn't care, Caddy. What does the crowd do? What do they say to the candidate? Shame on you. Shame on you. They're chanting it. They're chanting shame on you. Okay, so I think this is really hurt them. Also, look at what Thune has to do here. He's going to spend $14 million of the national money in this race. I don't think they thought in 2024, by the time they got the 2026, there would be a purple contest in the state of Kansas where they'd have to dump $14 million into the race. So listen, I like where it is. Again, because I want Maga Crush. I mean, I've just given you my personal opinion. I think Maga has been nothing but a disaster for the United States, and frankly, for the world. And this would be what a great thing for these midwestern people to finally bust Maga. What a great thing this would be. And to me, this would be a shock wave throughout the country. If you if you told me in 2024 that the Republicans could lose a Senate seat in Kansas and a Senate seat in Texas, it's like, oh my God, how is that even possible? And the answer is Donald Trump. Donald Trump has made this possible. And they've got to, to your point about Chuck Schumer picking good candidates. They've got two good moderate candidates that are culturally wise and effectively culturally moderate that could get elected in those two traditionally red states. You said that neither one of us is going to predict who's going to win here. I think the Democrats are going to pull this one off. Wow. Interesting. I'm more skeptical about Texas, even though he's further up in the polls because of the machinery in Texas. I think the combination of ice and Medicare situation and the fact that this is not a woke candidate, okay, or the reasons why I think he's actually going to pull this off, even though the polls are inside the bar, let's see if I'm wrong on this. You guys can dunk me in the public square after election day. We would just never do that. I mean, not like, we wouldn't do it every 10 minutes. I mean, we don't you do it like every hour, yeah, well, well, at least you're not like, at least you're not Alice or Campbell who says Harris is going to win. And then he's telling me and Rory that I never said that. And of course, the producers that go hang are hung them out to dry, you know, we have the tape. Okay. We'll come back and talk about Ukraine. This episode is brought to you by Eight Sleep, sharing a bet can be a nightly negotiation. Two people, two temperatures, no one thinks they should compromise with pod six though. No one has to. All right, guys, if you're a long time listener, you know, I'm already a fan of Eight Sleep. I've got eight sleep pillows. I've got eight sleep mattress covers. Let me tell you something, if you want to sleep better at night and you're spending one third of your life sleeping, you got to use eight sleep. And now they've taken it to the next level, they've just launched the new pod six. 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Zelensky who said that the deal was news to me. Trump had written on truth social on Friday effective immediately. There is an energy ceasefire in the war between Russia and Ukraine. Both parties have agreed, do not break it. Zelensky has said that he would happily agree to this ceasefire if Putin did the same. The Russians have come out and said that they reject presidents. Zelensky's proposal for a 60 day ceasefire and that they also aren't commenting on president's idea of an energy ceasefire. According to Zelensky, Russian drones were up flying throughout the day on Sunday. There have been attacks from both sides, but I think this is getting to something else and I think this is getting to Donald Trump needing to get the Ukrainians to back off attacking Russian energy assets because he wants to do two things. He wants to bring down the price of diesel, but secondly, because he wants to protect Russian energy assets for any future business deals that his negotiators might do with the Russians. Am I being too cynical? No. You're not being cynical enough. He's trying to protect Vladimir Putin and Vladimir Putin's reign. It's Putin's birthday. Most people would send Putin a birthday card. Trump is sending him a diesel waiver, which is unbelievable because he just signed the Lindsey Graham Harden sanctions bill and so he's going against that. I guess this is another thing that the Democrats should be campaigning on is the wayward Republicans, Daddy. The senators are in Kiev talking to Zelensky, offering him support while the president is now going to give money to the Russians to kill more Ukrainians. Square that for me, Daddy, and how do you rationalize that? Again, I always tell people you've got to follow the money. The Russians are going to be receiving money as a result of this deal and by the way, this is not even going to help us that much in terms of diesel supply. You made that point on Friday when we did our live show when the story just broke and it's broken. I mean, this is like a drop in the ocean, right? In terms of what we actually need. It had no impact on prices, but it's going to have an impact on billions of dollars going to Russia at a time when they have a cash shortage and real assets. David from Canada, conservative writer, conservative thinker, former George W. Bush speech writer said, "All we'd have to do is increase our imports by 4% from Canada." You mean from our friend up there in the North, the people we meant to like are ally? Yeah, but somehow now Canada is our arch enemy. There's nobody worse than Canada and I'm going to put out a true social and I'm going to get the diesel from Russia after I signed the sanctions bill. So to me, I got to tell you something, if I'm Solensky, I admire this man because he came right out and said, "Hey, man, this guy is not for me. This guy has betrayed everything that he said to me. Everything he said to me publicly and everything he said to me privately." So Cadi, you're the journalist here. I'm just a journalist. I'm a fake journalist. It plays a journalist on this podcast, but you're the real journalist, Cadi. You tell me, Cadi, what Donald Trump is really doing and what is the motivation of Donald Trump to handle himself as an American president in this way? Well, first of all, we all play lots of roles on the rest is politics, US, therapist, fake journalist, fake lawyer, fake podcast host. We have all these different hats. The right that it doesn't make much difference, the deal is for 2.25 million barrels. That's apparently 16 hours worth of US consumption or just 14 days of Canadian imports take whichever measure you like. So, it's not being done to satisfy American diesel needs. I think we can tick that one off, right? Republicans who are pro-Trump, Tom Emma, who is the GOP Whip, this weekend said something that I thought was pretty extraordinary. He said this was another example of President Trump, thinking out of the box and that DJT, Donald Trump is the best negotiator on the face of the planet. So they're implying, and you've heard John Barrasso, the Senate Whip, also implying the same thing, that this is kind of 9D chess, right? This is the Trump President using leverage by getting the energy deal to then put leverage on the Russians. I think they're trying to desperately get themselves out of a pickle here because actually you've seen quite a lot of pushback from Republicans. You've got four Republican senators joining a bipartisan letter saying this would be crazy. You've had Brian Kilmeade, the host of Fox and Friends, a staunch Trump ally program coming out and saying this would be the biggest mistake of Trump's administration and comparing Putin to the modern day Hitler, also making the point that the reason that diesel prices have gone up is because of Iran's attacks on gulf oil refinery facilities, not because of Russia. So you've got a lot of people who normally are Trump allies coming out and saying, we don't think this is a good idea. So why is he doing this? Why is he defying somebody like Brian Kilmeade? I think it gets us to desperation. the midterms or whatever it is 21 days away and prices are high and all of these stories like the Wall Street Journal saying that the Kremlin has offered multi-billion dollar deals to Jared and Wiccoff and Associates of theirs. The New York Times coming out and saying that the Kremlin has offered multi-billion dollar oil deals in Luke Oil that would benefit Middle East and investors in Jared and Wiccoff's companies, not Jared and Wiccoff directly, but certainly their investors. So I think there's, you're right, this is a follow the money moment and those deals aren't worth very much if the Russian energy assets are being attacked by Ukrainian drone. So effectively, this is David Trump, you're right in the Atlantic. I want to make sure this is very clear. Are you saying that Putin has told Trump, Wiccoff and Kushner, I will make you richer than your wildest dreams, all you got to do is help me destroy Ukraine. You think he's told him that? I think that the Wall Street Journal reporting, the New York Times reporting, that is exactly what you just said is exactly what David from is writing in the Atlantic this week. If you force Ukraine to surrender, we will make you very rich. He's putting it in kind of hypotheses. But these deals don't hold up, these energy deals that the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal are reporting that Wiccoff and Kushner are negotiating with the Russians. These energy deals aren't worth very much if Russian energy assets are destroyed. Okay, so no special, no special prosecutor, no inspector general at the State Department, no check or balance, no spine in the Republican majority in either of these two houses of the Congress. So nothing. So we're just going to allow that. But Kati, could you please tell the viewers and listeners about the senators that were in Kiev, supporting Zelensky at the same time that their president is doing the very opposite? Well, one of them is Tom Tillis, right? He was on Meet the Press this weekend and a health warning here. This is very disturbing story. But he said that while he was in Ukraine, he heard stories of wives and daughters, Ukrainian wives and daughters being raped in front of their husbands before their husbands were then executed by Russian soldiers. And Tillis said on Meet the Press that I do believe there's a legitimate case for saying the president's not following the law. So he even went not just to say this was a bad deal, but actually that it is an illegal deal and went on to say, they're very bad people hanging out with bad people putting American lives at risk because the Russians have been giving intel to the Iranians around targeting of American forces in the Gulf. So he was trying to connect Russian intelligence to Iran to the safety of American troops and why are we helping the Russians? And I just want to point out to everybody that Senator Tillis who has told people that he's received death threats when he was not going to vote for Pete Higgs. So he relented it, a voting forum has had to leave and resign from the Senate to speak out against this sort of stuff. And so you can't stay in the Senate because if you're in the Senate, they're going to they're going to go after you and they're going to threaten you with political violence and they're going to try to muzzle and silence you if you're in there. But what he is referring to Caddy, which I think we have to bring up is the ending of importation of Russian oil act of 2022. And so what he's suggesting is that Scott Bassant may actually be breaking the law if he sends treasury dollars to Russia in exchange for diesel fuel. And so I predict that Scott Bassett won't do that. He'll let that diesel fuel be sold to other countries which may meniscually reduce prices of diesel here in the United States. But I don't think Bassant who does not have presidential immunity is going to break the law for President Trump and potentially end up in jail when the Democrats retake the House and the Senate. If that's possible, I'm not saying they will do that. But if they do do that, man, you could be in a lot of trouble. Now, now, someone will push back and say Anthony, the law is little murky there, but it is a little murky, but it does spell out specifically that you can't take the imports in from the oil unless there's a sign piece treaty. And just announcing on truth social that there is an agreement and a ceasefire does not make there an agreement and a ceasefire. But you see Caddy now you're on to Trump. Someone has told Trump what I'm saying. And so then Trump took the phone out and said, boo, boo, boo, we have an energy ceasefire. Now you're on to how Trump operates, but but Trump has been likely called by Putin or by a Putin cut out and said, hey, man, we got the goods on you. We need money over here. Okay. We're need money. The West has really hammered us and you're the only guy that can help us because we've got you fully compromised. And so we need money. Now again, for the record, that is my opinion may not be Caddy's opinion or goal hangers opinion, but is my opinion because when it quacks like a duck and it walks like a duck, it is a duck. Okay, and there's no American president that would do something this insane. But this is our American president. And I'm hoping that the Democrats will take the house and the Senate and hopefully try to put a little bit of a check on this stuff. But again, just to remind everybody the House and the Senate, they have very little that they can do on foreign policy. That's really in the auspices of the executive branch. Or as Nancy Pelosi said to Trump to his face in 2019, with you or roads lead to Putin. In addition to that, Kevin McCarthy said that Trump was one of the few people in the United States that Putin was paying. Do you remember that? Yeah. Okay, we try to forget that now the Republicans, but that's what McCarthy said. Anyway, if those tankers arrive full of Russian diesel at American ports, you could be in the crazy situation where they're not actually legally allowed to unload. We're going to leave it there. We will be back on Thursday with more of the week's news. And we're going to continue this deep dive into the battleground states for the Senate and the midterms as there's only three weeks to go because there are a bunch of races that are super interesting. So I hope you enjoyed hearing about Kansas today because I think the stories behind these races are always what make them compelling. We will also have for our founding members a question now. So we're taking your questions. Great questions this week. 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