This Is the Democratic Party's Biggest Fear | Lisa McClain
The Rubin Report
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🗓️ 27 December 2025
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Dave Rubin of "The Rubin Report" talks to Rep. Lisa McClain about why Republicans struggle to communicate their wins; how the GOP has made real progress on border security, taxes, inflation, and interest rates but fails to message it effectively; how a loud minority and media narratives distort public perception; the role of congressional deadlines in forcing action and the need for Republicans to control the narrative; why the GOP will win some midterm gains once voters feel tax relief and urges celebrating American success over anti-America rhetoric; and much more.
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| 0:00.0 | Well, I think the problem is, like I said earlier, the voices of the few speak for the many, right? |
| 0:07.1 | And I think it's like a bully. |
| 0:09.0 | Nobody wants to stand up to the bully. |
| 0:11.5 | Everyone's afraid of the bully that the bully is going to steal my lunch money right up until somebody comes up and punches that bully right in the face. |
| 0:18.6 | And then it's done. |
| 0:19.5 | It's over. |
| 0:20.8 | But you've got to have |
| 0:21.4 | some courage to do that. And right now, that's what the Democratic Party is afraid of. They're |
| 0:26.3 | rudderless, their leaderless, their visionless. Tell me one thing that really the Democratic Party |
| 0:31.5 | agrees on. Not really much. |
| 0:44.7 | Congresswoman Lisa McLean, how are you? |
| 0:45.2 | I'm great. |
| 0:47.4 | I said, how are you when you walked in? |
| 0:50.9 | You said something that I probably shouldn't repeat on air. |
| 0:55.2 | So I just mentioned to you, this is like my eighth interview in the last two hours. |
| 1:00.8 | So I'm going to just go like this. What do you want to talk about? What do you want to talk? |
| 1:06.1 | What's going on in this crazy town? Oh, galley. No, it's amazing to me. I come from the business world, very, very, very different is we're winning. We as Republicans are actually winning. Could we be on |
| 1:14.2 | offense? Can we talk about it? I mean, my goodness gracious, look at what we've accomplished in just one |
| 1:21.9 | year. Close the border. No one's talking about that anymore. Yeah. Right? We're bringing prices down, mortgages |
| 1:28.1 | down, interest rates are down. We have a massive hole that we're trying to dig out of |
| 1:34.4 | and we're digging out of it. Could we act a little happy? Like we are, I'd rather be us than them |
| 1:40.3 | right now, Dave. Come on. So interestingly, you just hit on something that I think has come up in almost every interview so far, which is it seems to me there's a disconnect between what actually is happening and the messaging part. What is that? I mean, Trump is the master at messaging, so you can't blame Trump. So what is going on here? Because I'm with you. I get all the wins. I talk about the wins every day on my show. And yet there seems to be a certain |
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