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The WallBuilders Show

Why Conservatives Must Vet Candidates Before They Rise - With Heidi St John

The WallBuilders Show

Tim Barton, David Barton & Rick Green

Wallbuilders Show, Education, Constitutional, Church, Christianity, History, Conservative, America, Family, Christian, Biblical, Religion & Spirituality, Wallbuilders.show, Government, News, Politics

4.82.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2026

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

A decorated past, a tragic story, a viral interview, and suddenly millions of people are treating a politician’s new talking points as truth. That’s a recipe for getting played, and we’ve seen it happen before. Heidi St. John joins us to unpack the Joe Kent controversy, what she witnessed firsthand on the campaign trail, and why the real issue is bigger than one candidate. We talk about how media narratives get built, how endorsements can suck the oxygen out of a race, and why conservatives ...

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0:00.0

Welcome to the intersection of faith and culture.

0:08.9

It's The Wall Boulder Show, taken on the hot topics of the day from a biblical, historical, and constitutional perspective.

0:14.4

It's, let's see, what is this? This is Tuesday.

0:16.9

We've got all kinds of things going on in the world, from Iran to, course, the Jo Kent thing out of the counterterrorism resignation. And I mentioned that one briefly last week, guys, as we were signing off. But I bet a lot of our listeners may not even know who he is. It may not have even seen this. It's been a big deal if you're in kind of the, you know, certain circles and your Twitter feed or your ex-feet happens to

0:38.1

be caught up with it, but thought we'd get Heidi St. John on to talk about it. She ran against him

0:41.9

several years ago, but thought we should cover it a little bit more today. This is something that

0:46.6

is a media heyday. They look for any opportunity to make Trump look negative. He is doing well

0:52.6

and polling and other things right now, gaining support.

0:56.3

And so they look for anything to kind of drag him down. And if you can find someone out of

1:00.6

2.3 million federal employees that don't like Trump, that when he leaves, makes a big deal

1:06.6

out of it, that's exactly what they're looking for. And essentially, that's what's happening now.

1:11.5

Well, and, you know, some of those guys, too, there's some validity to some of the concerns if the

1:16.6

accusations are all correct. And looking at some of what's going on, and so for those that don't

1:22.6

know, Joe Kent came out was, did several different interviews, but Tucker Carlson was one of the biggest

1:27.4

ones where he said that Israel is controlling America and America is going in to do Iran and

1:33.0

war and blah, blah, blah. And so a lot of people that are maybe more in the isolationist camp,

1:39.0

frankly, but think, man, we're tired of America. And maybe that's not totally fair for some of them.

1:45.2

They're just tired of America funding other nations more than maybe doing some basic

1:49.5

things in America.

1:50.3

And some of that's just Democrats in general, perhaps.

1:53.7

So a little nuance in the midst of that.

1:56.4

But they're tired of seeing our dollars go international.

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