S12 EP137: Hour 3 - Glenn Youngkin Takes the Stage
The Erick Erickson Show
Erick Erickson
4.5 • 876 Ratings
🗓️ 21 August 2023
⏱️ 39 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Eric Erickson Show podcast, Our Three. |
| 0:13.0 | Greetings, conversationalists. Welcome, it's Eric Erickson here across America. The phone number is 877-973-7-4725. If you want to be on the program, reviewing all the news made this weekend, lots of it, not on the Sunday shows. In fact, the Sunday shows were talking about my event. So might as well play you the audio directly from the event and the way the Sunday shows characterized the event. |
| 0:39.6 | It was a great time. |
| 0:41.6 | It was it was a great, great to have these guys there. |
| 0:45.2 | Now, one word, because I've gotten a couple of emails on this and I know Charlie got a phone call on it. |
| 0:49.5 | Where was Donald Trump and all this? |
| 0:51.6 | I want to explain to you why we didn't invite Donald Trump. |
| 0:54.0 | When I announced that we were going to do the conference, I said I was going to invite |
| 0:57.8 | Donald Trump. So why didn't we? Well, the Trump campaign said very explicitly that they weren't |
| 1:07.9 | going to share the stage with any of these contenders. |
| 1:11.3 | They don't find them to be legitimate. |
| 1:13.6 | So he didn't participate with Tucker Carlson in his Iowa event for the family leader. |
| 1:19.9 | He didn't participate with Kim Reynolds in Iowa with her discussions with the candidates. |
| 1:28.2 | She did one-on-ones with candidates like Tucker Carlson. |
| 1:30.2 | He wouldn't go. |
| 1:31.3 | There was one in South Carolina. |
| 1:32.7 | He didn't participate in that. |
| 1:33.8 | There was one in New Hampshire. |
| 1:35.1 | He didn't participate in that. |
| 1:36.2 | And I did not want to put us in a position where we're trying to negotiate with his team, |
| 1:41.8 | knowing they're going to say no because they very explicitly said they had no intention of doing these sorts of events. And then three, four months in trying to hold the slot that now we've got to fill because they said what we knew they were going to say. It just wasn't worth my time or energy to have my team try to do this. Now you can disagree, that's fine. But understand we knew they were going to of the gate. They've been very explicitly say no to Tucker Carlson, to Kim Reynolds, to the groups in |
| 2:05.2 | South Carolina, New Hampshire. They sure as heck weren't going to say yes to me. But we learned in his |
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