Trump vs. His Base: How RINO Endorsements Are Destroying His Own Agenda | 1/19/26

Conservative Review with Daniel Horowitz

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🗓️ 19 January 2026

⏱️ 55 minutes

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For five straight election cycles, Donald Trump has used his unmatched influence to shape Republican primaries, and it has been a disaster for the conservative movement. In this explosive episode, I break down how Trump’s pattern of endorsing corporatist incumbents, liberal Republicans, and establishment insiders has crippled efforts to pass real reforms on immigration, spending, judicial power, health care, and national sovereignty. Why do Republicans always claim they “don’t have the votes”? Why are conservative priorities never codified into law? Why do red states keep electing leaders who quietly advance the same failed policies? The answer is simple — bad endorsements cancel primaries, protect RINOs, and sabotage the base from within. I go through all of the key races for Senate and governor to show how, absent wholesale change, we will be left with no benefits of his tenure and only the liabilities unless he stays out of our primaries. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Politics without the soap opera with unfiltered constitutional conservative truth.
0:06.5	The Conservative Review with Daniel Burns.
0:09.3	And welcome back fellow American Patriots and Minutemen standing at the ready to fight anew for the issues that matter on this brand new week, the 19th of January.
0:20.4	Federal workers might be off, but we are working
0:23.1	today because we have no time to waste. And we've been talking about so many issues, domestic,
0:29.6	foreign policy, national security, economic, legal, judicial supremacism, Antifa. But here's the deal.
0:37.6	We all know that nothing matters and nothing will change if we don't change the type of Republicans
0:45.1	we're electing.
0:47.0	We've talked about this on Thursday.
0:49.4	And I want to elaborate on this today because if Trump is going to continue for the fifth cycle in a row
0:58.4	nominating every single rhino under the sun, every single incumbent, and when there isn't an
1:07.6	incumbent, the most liberal industry connected, special interest connected candidate, then what is the purpose of everything he's doing and that we're doing?
1:19.5	Among the list of all the things we want to do, the gold bill, health care reform, spending cuts, welfare reform, abolishing vaccine liability shield, an immigration moratorium.
1:34.9	Everything that happens, what are they going to say?
1:37.6	We can't do this because we lack the votes.
1:41.5	We don't have the votes.
1:43.3	There aren't enough people. The Republicans aren't
1:45.9	going to support it. There's not enough Republicans to support it. But you know why we lack the
1:51.6	votes for this and we lack the votes during Trump's first term? Because Trump continues
1:57.5	to select rhinos in every primary and clear the field.
2:04.0	He has a 90% approval rating among Republicans,
2:07.8	so he gets to determine who is the nominee.
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