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The Warning with Steve Schmidt

Candidate Spotlight: Tennessee State Rep. Gloria Johnson

The Warning with Steve Schmidt

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News, Politics, Government

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

In the latest edition of our "Candidate Spotlight", Steve sits down with Tennessee State Rep. Gloria Johnson to talk about her campaign for the US Senate against incumbent Senator Marsha Blackburn. In their conversation, Gloria shares her journey into politics, the issues that are important to her and how she can represent the residents of Tennessee in the US Senate. To learn more about Gloria Johnson, check out www.votegloriajohnson.com To become a The Warning Premium Member and listen to the show 48 hours early with access to premium content visit: https://thewarning.supercast.com/ Subscribe for more and follow me here: Substack: https://steveschmidt.substack.com/subscribe Twitter: https://twitter.com/SteveSchmidtSES Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SteveSchmidtSES/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thewarningses Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thewarningses/

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0:00.0

I'm thrilled today to be joined by state representative Gloria Johnson, who is running against

0:08.7

Marsha Blackburn from the great state of Tennessee for the United States Senate seat.

0:15.1

Gloria Johnson is from eastern Tennessee, from the city of Knoxville.

0:21.3

It represents that area in the state legislature.

0:24.3

We're thrilled to have her with us today on the warning as we continue to bring unfiltered

0:30.9

some of the leading Democrats in the country who, unfortunately, you're not going to see much on the

0:39.3

Acela Corridor media because they are not incumbents yet in the United States

0:46.1

Senate.

0:46.6

So when you're a challenger running against an incumbent, it's a hard road.

0:51.9

But when you're more than 100 days out, Gloria Johnson in a tight race behind, but in striking distance. You don't want to be like Trump in this business where you have your best day, 130 days before the election, you want to have it on election day.

1:14.2

And, you know, one thing I would say, you know, to Tennessee voters that are that are listening,

1:19.1

I said this to John McCain as he was climbing back from being in last place.

1:24.6

And I mean dead last in the Republican primaries in 2007, going to 2008,

1:32.0

was that we needed to be ahead on exactly one day, and that was election day,

1:39.6

and we needed to be up on the top of the mountain on that day.

1:44.4

Now, election day starts a little earlier these days

1:48.9

in that there's early voting and all of that stuff,

1:52.2

which warning viewers are familiar with.

1:55.1

But no matter all of that, Gloria Johnson has momentum

2:00.6

and she's running against really a person that it astonishes

2:06.6

the imagination that the very same state that would send Al Gore Senior to the United States

2:16.5

Senate, Al Gore Jr. to the United States Senate, Howard Baker to the United States Senate, Al Gore Jr. to the United States Senate,

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