Democrats take the Black community for granted.
The Michele Tafoya Podcast
Salem Podcast Network
2.4 • 590 Ratings
🗓️ 18 December 2025
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Congressman John James is the living embodiment of the American Dream. But as a conservative, he gets more pushback from people who "look like him" than from anyone else. His resume is beyond impressive, he's a proven leader, and he is vying for the Governor's mansion in Michigan. What's not to like?
Michele Tafoya is a four-time Emmy award-winning sportscaster turned political and cultural commentator.
Record-setting, four-time Sports Emmy Award winner Michele Tafoya worked her final NBC Sunday Night Football game at Super Bowl LVI on February 13, 2022, her fifth Super Bowl. She retired from sportscasting the following day. In total, she covered 327 games — the most national primetime TV games (regular + postseason) for an NFL sideline reporter.
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| 0:00.0 | We're starting well. Our recruiting numbers are coming up. |
| 0:04.1 | Secretary Hegeseth is talking to everyone, not just the general, but I hear that he's talking to enlisted. |
| 0:11.3 | He believes that no one has monopoly on the truth. |
| 0:15.4 | Secretary Hegeseth is a storyteller himself, has gone on, and he has made his previous career going and talking to |
| 0:24.4 | everyone, trying to find the truth and not looking at any one source of it. And that is why he's |
| 0:30.1 | able to move so quickly. I've spoken with people in the administration who have a laser |
| 0:36.4 | focused without getting tunnel vision on what it's going to take to make sure |
| 0:40.4 | that our service members have the resources that they need to fight win our nation's wars and |
| 0:45.5 | come back home safely. But making sure that we are able to sustain the fight and then make |
| 0:51.2 | sure that we're prepared to fight the wars of the future. When you see the changing |
| 0:55.6 | nature of war, we could find ourselves in a World War I style stalemate if we do not retain and |
| 1:03.5 | maintain the technological edge on the battlefield and maintain our air supremacy and also make sure that we can project our power with |
| 1:12.7 | our Navy. The Secretary of War is also working into the new frontiers, making sure that we are |
| 1:19.1 | able to integrate space and cyber into the new way of fighting. America needs to focus on the things |
| 1:24.7 | that will keep us safe. We've been lulled into a false sense of security, and Secretary Hegseth, who's been to war, |
| 1:31.2 | recognizes the great investment in sacrifice has required, and he's going to make that sacrifice |
| 1:36.4 | on the front end so that my sons don't have to make the sacrifice in the future. |
| 1:51.8 | Welcome. Welcome to a brand new episode of the Michelle Tofoya podcast, hit subscribe. |
| 1:57.8 | Please click subscribe wherever you are right now, whether it's Rumble, YouTube, Spotify, Apple, wherever you stream. |
| 1:59.2 | Just hit subscribe. |
| 2:02.2 | It's free, and that way you never miss an episode. Today, |
| 2:09.0 | I am pretty psyched because this guest is someone I've been following watching from afar for a long time. |
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