GOP Mayor: Real Leaders Step Up Because Trump Won’t (w/ Mayor David Holt)
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🗓️ 16 September 2025
⏱️ 31 minutes
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| 0:18.8 | UK to learn more. Hey everybody welcome to the bulwark YouTube page. I'm joined by Oklahoma City's mayor, |
| 0:25.3 | David Holt. You are the 38th mayor. Am I right? This is correct. You've done my homework. |
| 0:30.6 | Wikipedia was very generous. You are the 83rd president of the U.S. Conference of Mayors. |
| 0:36.1 | You were elected in 2018. And this one really Conference of Mayors, you were elected in 2018. |
| 0:38.8 | And this one really killed me. |
| 0:40.0 | 2022, you were elected with a 40-point lead overall. |
| 0:45.0 | Yes. |
| 0:45.8 | Is that right? |
| 0:46.1 | Like, I got 60, and second place got 20, and third place got 13. |
| 0:49.8 | And those were well-funded. |
| 0:51.8 | I mean, they had TV ads. |
| 0:52.8 | I'd say they were, like, legitimate opponents, butGA. Like that was, that was the 2022 challenge that I had was sort of from my right. So I... But you're a Republican. I am a Republican, yes. And so I like sort of touting the margin. Good for you. Look, if I want anything by that much, I would doubt it too. You are here in D.C. because of the U.S. Conference of Mayors, and we're going to get into that a little bit. |
| 1:14.3 | But obviously, everything that's happening right now, we're speaking here on Monday, middle of the day, is clouded by what happened with Charlie Kirk, the assassination, and the fallout from it. |
| 1:26.2 | So the statement that you put out, I believe it was |
| 1:29.5 | it was from the U.S. Conference of Mayers, but am I wrong to say that you had a heavy role in |
| 1:35.0 | crafting it? For better or worse, I have always written everything I'm ever attributed to. So yes, |
| 1:41.2 | I wrote it, yes. I want to talk about that because the statement was really nice. |
| 1:47.0 | It was, I thought, hit all the right notes. The word that kept coming up in that statement was |
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