Hello, everybody and welcome to The Great America Show.

It's great to have you with us on a beautiful day in America.

Thank you so much for spending part of your evening with us here on the Great America

show.

True delight.

And I want to start tonight by apologizing for my absence for the last week and a day.

As I updated you guys about two weeks ago, I expressed some concern.

I was going through with my pup, who unfortunately last Tuesday lost his battle with cancer.

So, you know, I decided it was the right thing to do to take some time off to, uh, digest and, and, um, you know, take a step back, I guess from some, some reality. So I apologize for my absence. But, uh, after a week off, uh, I thought it was the right thing to do to come back tonight. So, um, my little buddy has crossed over the rainbow bridge and is now pain free and up in heaven.

So I appreciate you guys hanging tight with us here on The Great America Show.

So over the last week, we missed some big news, primary on Tuesday night, which was I, the last show we did before I took a little

break. And then last night, once again, in Texas. And the further has reaffirmed something,

folks, that I think you and I have all known, and I think for some people, has been hard for them to fathom.

And the fact of the matter is, is that Donald Trump has a grasp on the GOP and a grasp

on the Republican Party unlike no person ever in history.

So the mainstream media won't acknowledge it.

Some Republicans behind closed doors won't acknowledge it.

But it's something you and I have been talking about now here for the last year plus.

And I've reiterated whether, you know, you love the man or you hate the man,

he does have control of the Republican

party and what he says goes. So whether they like it or not, they're going to have to deal with

it. And the truth of the matter is, is Donald Trump is here to stay, whether he's president of the

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