269 Michael Steele. Michigan & South Carolina Primary Insights. Where Will Haley Voters Go? Being the only Republican Host on MSNBC. Does Biden Have a Harris Problem? More Congressional Chaos. Will RFK Jr & No Labels Spoil Everything?
Independent Americans with Paul Rieckhoff
Righteous Media | Bleav
4.6 • 907 Ratings
🗓️ 29 February 2024
⏱️ 63 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Powered by righteous media. |
| 0:15.0 | Welcome to Independent Americans. |
| 0:18.7 | Welcome to episode 269. I'm your host, Paul Reikoff. February is almost over. |
| 0:27.7 | March is here after a very nice fifth birthday for my young son and a wild night at Dave |
| 0:35.4 | and Busters now is still very much a time to stay vigilant. |
| 0:41.3 | But now it's 2024. I'm now 82. |
| 0:47.3 | As Ecclesiastus, Estes tells us to everything there is a season and a time to every purpose under heaven. |
| 0:59.0 | To serve Kentucky in the Senate has been the honor of my life. |
| 1:05.0 | To lead my Republican colleagues has been the highest privilege. |
| 1:13.1 | But one of life's most underappreciated talents is to know when it's time to move on to |
| 1:21.9 | life's next chapter. |
| 1:25.5 | So I stand before you today, Mr. President, and my colleagues to say this will be my last term as Republican leader of the Senate. |
| 1:34.3 | I'm not going anywhere anytime soon. However, I'll complete my job. My colleagues have given me until we select a new leader in November, and they take the helm next January. |
| 1:53.5 | I'll finish the job that people of Kentucky hired me to do as well, albeit from a different seat. |
| 2:01.9 | Yes, Mitch McConnell is about 500 years older than my son who just turned five years old. |
| 2:10.1 | Mitch McConnell is out, and a chaotic time in Congress is about to get even more chaotic. |
| 2:18.5 | Maybe it's time for our friend Amy McGrath to run again, or maybe our other Kentucky |
| 2:23.7 | friend Rex Chapman, because the times are changing, and the old guard is going down. |
| 2:31.8 | One way or another, they're going down. But not before they make one last |
| 2:38.2 | pathetic and sorry stand in the 2024 presidential election. Yeah, and lots of folks are talking about |
| 2:45.1 | how old and how unpopular both Donald Trump and Joe Biden are, but there are stories beneath the stories that |
| 2:53.0 | still don't get enough attention. |
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