Welcome to the intersection of faith and culture. It's The Wall Builder Show, taking on the hot topics of the day from a biblical, historical, and constitutional perspective. Rick Green here in studio. Tim Barton's in studio. But yes, David Barton's still out there on the road with our friend Chad Connoley. Faith wins, hitting the road, rallying pastors, educating pastors. I mean, there's just a hunger for truth right now, and we love seeing pastors come out to these events. So, David, start us off, man. Let's see, we had you yesterday. Where were you? New Jersey? No. No, Maine. You were in Maine. New Hampshire and Maine.

New Hampshire and Maine. So how about today? Where did you end up today? Today we are in Ohio,

multiple meetings in Ohio. We will head immediately after the last meeting of night into Michigan,

multiple meetings in Michigan. And there are interesting things going to these states.

I mean, this is certainly kind of a year early, but it's also not kind of a year early

because we're at the end of the year, and a lot of these states will start having their

primaries in the spring.

So we're really only three or four months out from voting again for the next cycle.

And now is when candidates are deciding that they want to get in or not want to get in,

if they're going to run for governor, if they're going to run for senator or whatever.

And with the Senate being a big consideration in 26 along with the House,

these are areas where we want to make sure good people are mobilized and that we can keep good people serving in the federal government.

But also, there's governor's races here.

There's just, I mean, five minutes ago we were on the phone talking about race in South Carolina, five people running for governor there.

So all over the nation, this is the time that we want to see

good candidates step forward and get some support and be able to move through onto the finals.

So just part of the process, it's not the glamorous part. It's not where the news is,

but this is the time when you want to start making the best choices so that you have the best

people running at the end rather than having all the good people get out early and bad people running at the end. So that's kind of

what we're working on. Well, that actually makes me curious because you've, David, you've probably

been in more of those kind of meetings recruiting candidates to run for office than anybody I know

all over the country, including back in my day, those meetings to recruit me to run for office. I'm wondering if it's gotten better. Like, you know, you had to dig out of the bottom of the barrel to recruit me to run for office. So are the options better because people are starting to see government as a realm that Christians should be involved in? You know how I used to getting a Christian to run? You're like having to convince them of all the things you're already teaching just to get a good candidate. I'm just wondering how that looks for you these days versus 25, 30 years ago. Hey, and not to take away from the question because I do want to answer the question. I'm just curious. Does anybody else hear a bird? Dad, I know you're outside. Are you like under a bird's nest right now man i'm looking i'm

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