Global Crises Could Have Major Electoral Consequences at Home

0:00 Speaker 1 Sunday morning. Let’s go to Virginia. And I got a good friend there, and his name is James Gilmore. Well, he was the Republican National chairman for the whole country. He was governor of Virginia, and he was an ambassador.

0:16 So I don’t know if I should call him governor or ambassador or but I won’t call you late for dinner. James Gilmore, how are you for on a Sunday morning.

0:27 Speaker 2 I’m doing just great here, John, Thank you for the chance to talk to your listeners.

0:32 Speaker 1 Tell me, give me the pulse of things. It seems like, Glenn Youngkin, it seemed to be doing a good job in Virginia, and you had a good attorney general besides, and it seems like all of a sudden, it’s day and night. It was daytime and now it’s nighttime in Virginia.

0:50 What happened? You got an attorney general that doesn’t necessarily respect the law. You got a new governor that some strange doings. Sometimes you’d give us the pulse of the situation.

1:06 Speaker 2 Well, first of all, John, there I think two things. First of all, Virginia lean’s democrat is a Democrat state now, and that’s largely because of the vast population that’s around the Washington suburbs, particularly Fairfax County, as over a million people in Fairfax County, it’s very Democrat. And second of all, at that time of the election, the government was shut down,

1:29 which meant that a lot of the workers had a lot of anxiety about the jobs that those people had fired. Many thousands of federal workers who at that time were in northern Virginia casting are very for a job. So the first problem was that this was a wave of election against the president, and it was a very strong

1:48 one and it went everywhere, and it not only elected Spamburger, but it swung in to real no nobodies honestly to be lieutenant governor and Attorney general. And I thought the attorney general was a certain real the Republican was a certain re elect, but he too was swamped. Then the second thing is that we ran a candidate who I

2:06 think had not been properly prepared to be a candidate for governor of Virginia. I thought she was a very good person. I supported her, never said anything negative about her, but I think she never quite got a message. And in Virginia, if the Republican doesn’t have a message that will capture the voter’s attention. The state’s going to vote Democrat.

2:27 Speaker 1 I think everybody was shocked that the especially that attorney general got elected. That that, I guess, I don’t even know how to say. It has so many problems on law and.

2:42 Speaker 2 Order, all true, But Spamberger was elected by fifteen percent, and as a result of that, she brought in the other two, including the Attorney General, who had a very checkered past. And so there he is. And now we’ll see what happens is you know, three years from now when we give Virginia elections again.

3:01 Speaker 1 James, you were a Republican National chairman, and so you have the pulse of what’s going on in our whole country this November, is there gop gonna have a problem, or if we solve the problems what’s going on in Iran by November, by by September, do you think will be okay?

3:22 Speaker 2 Yeah, we might be. John. Look, here’s here’s the situation I think nationally at this point, and that is that people are troubled by the president’s tone and approach to things. We’re in the war in the Middle East, which is not popular. I personally believe, and I’ve said so before, that the European wars the pivot, the Ukraine wars the pivot,

3:48 and we’re not really participating in that very much anymore. But I’ll offer you a little ray of sunshine, and that is I don’t really believe the Democratic Party is really offering a real alternative than anything at this point.

4:01 I think that they’re a very strange party based upon gender and ethnicity and all of that, and a socialist type of approach like we’re now seeing in New York. And it’s the Democrats are not a real alternative. So if the Middle East becomes more quiet, if Ukraine continues to hold it and in fact advance the way they

4:23 are right now, I think that the Republicans have a fighting chance and the House of Representatives and will probably hold the Senate well.

4:31 Speaker 1 James Gilmore Fumer, Republican National Chairman, Governor of Virginia, Ambassador, thank you so much for calling in this Sunday morning, and I’m going to go to church and pray for our country.

4:44 Speaker 2 Always a pleasure to be with you in New York, John, I look forward to seeing you again. Look forward