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The Anchormen Show with Matt Gaetz

The Anchormen Show Episode 85 - #WalkAway w/ Brandon Straka

The Anchormen Show with Matt Gaetz

Matt Gaetz

News, News Commentary

4.24.7K Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Founder of the #WalkAway campaign, Brandon Straka, joins The Anchormen for a deep dive into the Deep State that persecuted him for January 6th – even though he never even entered the capitol, and the same Deep State that continues to hold Tina Peters in prison for her effort to expose the truth about the 2020 Presidential election.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Now it's time for the Anchorman podcast with Matt Gates and Pearson Sharp.

0:15.0

Welcome back to The Anchorman Show. I'm Matt Gates.

0:17.5

Hosts the Matt Gates show every weeknight here on One American News at 9 o'clock

0:21.3

Eastern. And this is our platform where I get to have some great discussions with the folks

0:25.4

who happen to be hanging out here at the studio at One American News. I'm joined as always by

0:31.0

my co-host Pearson Sharp, host of The Sharp Report on our network. And today, Brandon Strach,

0:35.6

who is the founder and leader of the walkaway campaign.

0:39.3

And so much more. We've got so much to get into. But Brandon, first, you're very familiar to our

0:44.0

viewers, but a little bit about the walkaway campaign and the mission that you're on as we're headed

0:49.4

into these midterms. Yeah. So in a nutshell, walkway campaign is a movement I started in 2018

0:54.1

because I was a

0:55.6

lifelong Democrat who walked away from the Democratic Party after, you know, being a two-time Barack

1:00.7

Obama voter and voting for Hillary Clinton in 2016 and pretty convinced that Hillary Clinton was going to

1:07.5

win in a landslide. So I was one of these people screaming at the sky and crying and freaking out and breaking down when Trump got elected. And then I went on what I call a journey of research to understand how the media got it so wrong, how he did get elected. And what I didn't expect to find out was that Donald Trump was not my enemy, but the media that I've been trusting my whole life was my enemy and that just about everything I had believed as an adherent to the left

1:28.2

was not true. So I put out a six minute video detailing all the reasons I was walking away,

1:33.1

encouraged other people to share their stories. And almost eight years later,

1:37.5

hundreds of thousands of people have joined the walkway movement and shared their stories.

1:40.8

And we traveled the country going into colleges and talking to black people

1:44.6

and Hispanic people and LGBT people and anybody who is being lied to and indoctrinated by the political

1:50.2

left. You get behind enemy lines. We had a rally together in Beverly Hills that was raucous and

1:56.5

awesome and you've been in New York trying to fight against some of the craziness there.

2:01.6

But you also are very known to our viewers because of all the J6 drama.

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