Reforming the Party and Engaging Young Voters (Part 2)

In the, in The Senate, maybe 51. I would take those 51 to punch, punch way above their weight class than the crop we had before. And so like when we're trying to reform the party, the point, the place when you do that is in the primaries, when you're trying to get them as conservative as their voters, you do it in the primaries. Yeah, we still would have had a Lisa Murkowski problem. Yeah, Susan Collins would have played patty cake with us, but she would have probably come around. We couldn't get anything done because we had basically five senators that were dead weight. President Trump pushed really, really hard on the Save America Act. Couldn't get it done. Senator MIKE Lee he was really pissed off. I even think Thune had, he genuinely had 50, probably would have gone along with it. So my point is, when you're hoping to get all these things done and then you said you split your ticket and that it didn't affect your district, I bet there was a lot of people who said the same thing in South Carolina. I bet there was a lot of people who said the same thing in Nebraska and Iowa and Kansas. And it did have an impact. And now we don't have the numbers. So now we can't get anything done outside of vetoes and executive orders. So I understand that you're frustrated and I am too. And I, you know, you're talking about, your question was, what's the plan to reach young men? I think the plan has to be like, hey, we were, we screwed up on the war and we're going to fix that and we're going to unwind that problem and we're not going to do it again and we're not going to listen to the neocons again. That has to be the takeaway here. So that's what we're fighting for. I think when we talked to young men at Turning Point, the war was huge. The Epstein rollout was huge for them. The credibility gap was huge. So you got to restore credibility and you got to restore trust or else they're not going to believe you when you say you're not going to invade some far flung country again in the future. That's just my take. Andrew Blake. Well, I think it's good. I think I just want to thank you for that call because I know it was real. Yeah, it was real and I'm glad that you weighed in. We definitely want to hear from people who stayed home or split their ticket. Yeah, we have to learn from this or we're going to get cooked again. In 2028. So thank you again. I talk about jobs and industries on this show all the time, but I didn't expect to find an entire skills trade community on TikTok. Plumbers, electricians, builders and contractors sharing the work they do every day. And it went way beyond tips and tricks. People were sharing their craft, connecting with local contractors and talking about how.