Hi, this is Newt, due to the virus I'm recording from home, so you may notice a difference in audio quality.

On this episode of Newt's World, there is a red tsunami overtaking the so-called blue wave.

We have more Republicans elected at every level of government coming out of the November election.

Of course, the national attention is being drawn to the Senate runoff races in Georgia.

Those two races will determine the control of the United States Senate.

But the real news is what Republicans achieved in historic firsts.

In Georgia, we elected the first Republican Latino to the state Senate, Jason and David Tartik.

In Kansas, we elected the youngest woman to the state Senate, Kristanochet, in North Carolina.

We elected the first African-American-Otenant governor, Mark Robinson, among many other firsts.

Here, to share more of these achievements is my guest, Idea Kauratunyan, the Republican state leadership committee's political director.

Youdea, the Jorge Antunyan is the political director of the Republican state leadership committee.

Youdea, thank you for joining me.

And I want to start because I think the Republican state leadership committee does great work.

And I have worked with it for many years. But it's not really as well known as the Republican state leadership committee.

It's a very important thing to do.

The Republican state leadership committee does great work. And I have worked with it for many years. But it's not really as well known as the Republican national committee or the House and Senate committee.

Could you take just a minute to describe what the Republican state leadership committee does?

Absolutely. And thank you for having me on today to talk a little bit about our organization and how November was quite a success for us.

We've got the RMSL seaweed pride ourselves on being the only 50 state organizations that focuses solely on state level elections, candidates, and elected officials.

So what that means is we engage in all levels of state legislative races, both on the House and Senate side.

We engage with our Republican and the Senate governor's association, with our Secretaries of State, and also our agricultural commissioners in addition to our JFI, which is our judicial fairness initiative.

So think of them as subcommittees all underneath the umbrella of the RFLC, but where the goal and focus is state level races, that's kind of the name of the game.

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