Do Republicans Really Know What Time It Is?
Making the Argument with Nick Freitas
Nick Freitas
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ποΈ 13 May 2026
β±οΈ 31 minutes
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Summary
Do Republicans know what time it is? We look at three Red states to answer that question and give you the tools necessary to make sure your state is prepared to fight back against the Left.
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00:00:00 β Republican voters are fighting back in primaries.
00:00:59 β Indiana voters defeat incumbents over redistricting failure,.
00:03:11 β West Virginia voters prioritize school choice wins,.
00:04:19 β Addressing government over subsidization of higher education,.
00:05:28 β West Virginia Republicans lose seats over DEI,.
00:08:13 β Powerful West Virginia chairmen lose primary elections,,.
00:12:12 β Sending a clear message to Republican squishes.
00:14:27 β Analyzing the South Carolina redistricting battle update.
00:15:40 β Republicans fight back against egregious Democrat gerrymandering.
00:17:21 β Tennessee and Florida successfully redraw district lines,.
00:19:28 β Five South Carolina Republicans block redistricting push,.
00:20:38 β Targeting South Carolina leaders who betrayed voters,.
00:23:47 β Defining qualities of a successful primary challenger,.
00:25:29 β Why door knocking is essential for winning elections,.
00:27:53 β Replacing weak Republicans with strong conservative leaders,.
00:29:01 β MTA Survey requests and audience feedback
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I've already told you about some interesting news that came out of Indiana with respect to their state primary. |
| 0:06.0 | We have some more very interesting information going on in other states, which are demonstrating that while some Republicans apparently don't know what time it is, |
| 0:15.0 | there's a lot of other ones that actually are fighting back and the voters themselves have an opportunity to fight back and they are doing it. |
| 0:22.5 | So again, this is great news. |
| 0:24.6 | This is great news. |
| 0:25.3 | Not all of it. |
| 0:26.1 | Not all of it, if we're being honest. |
| 0:27.7 | But it demonstrates that not only do Republican politicians or at least some of them know what time it is and are fighting for the right things, but a lot of Republican voters are acting in the sort of strategic ways |
| 0:37.7 | they've needed to in order to hold bad Republicans accountable. So what do I mean by all this? |
| 0:43.0 | We're going to look at three states, Indiana, West Virginia, and South Carolina. In two of those |
| 0:48.0 | states, some really good work has been done. And in the third one, they're going to have an opportunity |
| 0:51.8 | to learn from what just happened in Indiana and West Virginia. So first things first, let's do like a quick recap of what happened in Indiana. So you had a bunch of state senators in Indiana that decided that they didn't want to do the redistricting when they had an opportunity to. Again, it's part of this crew of Republicans like, this is just not the way we do things, right? |
| 1:12.1 | We have a process here. |
| 1:14.3 | And Hoosiers don't behave this way. |
| 1:16.7 | Well, the problem is that Democrats are out for blood. |
| 1:23.9 | Every opportunity Democrats have had to drastically gerrymander or to push the limits of the Constitution or to just flat out ignore the Constitution like they did in Virginia, they do it. And they don't just do it with respect to redistricting. They do it with respect to everything when it comes to infringing on Second Amendment rights, when it comes to excessive taxes and regulation, when it comes to indoctrinating your children and your schools. If they can get away with it, they do it, period, the end. Meanwhile, we've always had a bunch of mealy-mouthed weak Republicans. They're like, well, I don't know. You know, we follow a process. And gosh, two rights or two wrongs don't make a right. Yeah, two wrongs don't make a right. But you are allowed to use the power that the people have given you in order to affect the sort of changes that you promised. Right. Well, in Indiana, you had a bunch of state senators that didn't want to redistrict because they wanted to do it by the old ways, right? They wanted to pretend like this is the same fight we were having 30 or 40 years ago. Well, Donald Trump came in and he backed a bunch of challengers, but it wasn't just him. It was also people like Senator Jim Banks in Indiana. It was the governor of Indiana, right? And most importantly, |
| 2:18.7 | it was the people in those districts. And what happened? Well, five out of the seven incumbent |
| 2:24.3 | senators that were up for re-election within their primaries got crushed. I don't mean they |
| 2:30.3 | sort of kind of maybe got beat by a couple. They got crushed. Some of them lost by more than 20 points. And some of these people have been there for a decade or more in the Indiana State Senate. So these are guys that have the name recognition. They had the committees. They had the donors. They had all the power. They had the establishment backing. And yet they were defeated because you had a couple of bold incumbents whether it was people |
| 2:52.4 | like senator jim banks the governor etc and you had people that were willing to send a message |
| 2:57.0 | they were willing to show up in primaries vote and they wiped out five of the seven incumbent |
| 3:03.0 | republican senators that had gone against the redistricting plan. |
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