Кандидат в губернаторы Флориды о миграции, школах и культурной политике

so you're running for governor of florida why are you doing that i'm doing it because i love my state i'm a fourth generation floridian and i gotta tell you tucker it's really hard to be an american in america these days it's really hard for floridians who quite literally put the state on the map they're not being forced out of this state because they can't afford to live here anymore all while illegal immigrants still get the free stuff from the biden years all while h1b still come into our state and take jobs that belong to americans here in florida and then i think the last straw was this idea of washington dc negotiating a trade deal with china and then 600 000 foreign students are going to come to our universities maybe a third of them to florida colleges where their taxpayer funded universities are going to have to give up their seats from florida kids from charlotte county or lee county to kids from shanghai and beijing it didn't make any sense and so i'm running because i'm the only that's literally true literally that's part of the current framework this bilateral framework between the u.s and china right now is the dc is now as a concession to the chinese in this tariff war that we're going to have to accept 600 000 chinese foreign students at our schools and you think you're getting 200 000 in florida we could get 200 000 here in florida and they would go to state that's so university of florida florida state ucf usf now i think it's easy to get lost in all those numbers but just take one kid from a small fishing village in florida and say hold on your ability to go to a horticulture program at the university of florida has now been put on pause your entire life has been shelved because we need to have a grand negotiating strategy with china and tariffs and the ai arms race it's destroying lives here in florida it's just the latest analogy of we're losing sight of what the america first so that's for sure so that means i mean i guess it's all obvious but i haven't talked it through or really thought it through so that would mean that there's no preference given to the american born whose family's been paying taxes to support the school and i should say in florida the best schools in florida are public universities that's right the largest and the best right so university of florida number one i think i don't want to get in trouble but i mean i'm just like yes hardest to get into so it's not like they're all going to go to some boutique liberal arts college and pay a hundred grand a year to middlebury or something they're going to be taking spots at the public universities that are there to serve the children of taxpayers of florida that's exactly right who will not receive preference over them correct in fact will be inferior to them in a sense because when you have this dc mandate coming down that says hey because of our grand strategy with china because the u.s china the sino-us relationship is on the line wink wink nod nod in order to maintain detente with beijing and xi jinping we need this kid to get in and it's not going to ever be a direct order right but it's going to be implied in the zeitgeist that you know those pesky americans you know the ones that paid to build this university yes they deserve and forget this idea of fairness and who deserves what just objectively speaking florida kids who grew up here know the state best when they graduate they'll stay in this state of course they'll build businesses here they'll hunt here they'll raise families here and when you deny them that ability to do all of that then what's the point that is a very uh distressing thing um and that's happening it's happening what has been the posture of state government like what's the governor's office say about that it's been nothing so far i think governor de santis has been a great governor especially during covet after covet standing yes i agree with that the indoctrination in our schools which maybe is the only silver lining from covet as all the parents actually knew what was going on in the classroom right the white guilt lessons you know yes to the white kids we don't want the teachers telling the white kids to apologize and we don't want the teachers also telling the black kids that there's something somehow wrong with them exactly and they're systemically oppressed and they can never make it you know my posture on all of this is i think it's conservatives we have to stop playing defense stop wagging the finger at things we don't like and start actually having concrete falsifiable solutions to this issue of china here's my solution very simple on day one my first executive order as governor next january is to raise tuition on all foreign students to one million dollars a year so tucker when they can't pay they're out and our kids are back in their destinies their lives restored at our great colleges in the legislature can you can do that by executive order sure executive order oh that's clever um yeah because foreign students pay full freight typically right and unless you're an illegal alien in which it's subsidized but but rich foreigners send their kids to school in america and displace americans correct well i should say they pay full freight relative in that moment to what the tuition is relative to the in-state student but think about the in-state student 18 years old probably worked a job in florida right live their whole life their parents lived their whole life there possibly so all of those taxes that they paid over their 18 years their parents 45 years collectively built that university funded dormitories janitors professors of course the chief dei officer right all of that was funded and so it is full freight in an instantaneous sense but if you take a holistic view the kid who just got here from shenzhen who doesn't know what a florida orange juice try none of that right can't possibly both in an economic sense but i think i mean not to sound gay but in a spiritual sense yes you know like in a spiritual sense does not represent our state and our heritage it's the opposite of gay actually uh no i agree with you absolutely and completely and that's by the way how a civilization forms its culture is through education right and you can't educate the world that's not your job and in fact it's counterproductive yeah to having a distinct culture so that's what inspired you to get in i think that was the last straw to tell you the truth because i met with a lot of college students in my life before this which is to say four and a half weeks ago i've been running an investment firm called azoria that actually launched at all places at mar-a-lago last december 2024 kevin roberts was there president trump kathy wood and the firm was based on this idea that instead of channeling money into companies that hate america why don't we channel money into companies that unapologetically stand for american values right like meritocracy like colorblindness yeah so in 2025 i'm proud to say we channeled up to 40 million dollars of investor capital in companies that were doing the crazy thing of not hiring on race and gender and hiring on skill and merit and my my company azoria it's actually it's etf got delisted by our board of trustees they're supposed to be independent but it got delisted because we submitted an amendment to them saying we wanted to now exclude companies that abuse the h1b program we said look this abuse it is systematic it is systemic it's hurting american workers and we gave them a five-page research paper that said it's actually hurting the bottom line of these companies because they're bringing in cheap foreign slave labor that doesn't actually add to the synergy of the company it leads to higher attrition it breaks down productivity etc and their response was you're a racist and they delisted our fund and who did this the board of trustees of the title financial group in october just nine days after saying hey here's our formal amendment to to broaden the scope of our investment fund to not just exclude companies that are doing the dei stuff but actually exclude companies that are doing something that's far more insidious which is you're a white guy no you don't get a job we want an indian guy to do it right and and ethnic cartels form within companies that hire within the ethnicity it's the opposite of what this country promises right and they and they gaslight us and say all the white men hiring officers are only hiring white men absolutely not that's a lie it's not a single hr manager it's a white male country that led in the rest of the world so clearly we know that's not true clearly yeah and and this it's all based on the slanderous lie of systemic racism the only systemic racism in america is against white christian men i'm aware that's interesting and it's interesting to hear you say that as a gubernatorial candidate because even like six months ago hearing that from aspiring politician would have been totally shocking and it does seem like maybe because of you and people like you saying it more just like who could disagree with that yeah i i think for me i was in a small town called frost proof in southern polk county your viewers may know grady judd he's the most famous sheriff here in florida i know grady judd and so i was down in frost proof and this was a community that was teeming with life just 15 20 years ago the peak of our citrus industry was the 2005 harvest 230 million boxes of citrus this last season only 14 million and this was predominantly a white man's industry and when i went there and i saw what used to be a small movie theater now a dollar general what used to be a family-owned grocery store now some weird perverted liquor store when i see entire towns across my state whether it's frost proof pokey bell glade canal point moorhaven i've seen it utterly hollowed out and the primary victims of what is effectively this america last globalism that has prioritized other nations and other corporations interest over our own people it really does hit hard that we have been sold a bag of goods and the the biggest victims in all of it are actually predominantly white men to be completely honest i mean the victimhood not to be a victim but the victimhood is very far-reaching but if you want to flip the caste system over you'd be hard-pressed to find someone more oppressed in my state right now than a rural white christian man who relied on cattle on citrus on manufacturing my own dad was a tree trimmer for 20 years the devastating haitian earthquake happened in january of 2010 and then it was this brilliant idea from a guy named barack hussein obama to let 100 haitians who were here illegally just stay here and get work authorization now of course they can't become sat tutors so what happens they do manual labor like tree trimming next thing you know my dad has lost his business of 20 years through no fault of his own but because the open 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these trees and you can't sell that fruit if it falls off early and so that's obviously the proximate cause and i think it's again it's like most conservatives i'm not going to sit here i mean just blame china for everything right i think the ultimate systemic cause is democrats and dare i say republicans in tallahassee just stopped caring yeah i mean look this destroyed an entire industry 220 million down to 14 million boxes entire communities decimated not just citrus but all the little mom and pop businesses the diner the family-owned grocery store the little movie theater down citrus was florida was on the license plate it's still it well there's nothing something else on license plate now as i think you know it's a foreign flag um i've also said as florida governor there's going to be no foreign flags flown on our government buildings or in our state license i want to ask you about that how did another country's flag wind up on your license plate but i'll ask you in a second so sure but but citrus was at the very center of florida's economy and its culture for 100 years 100 and i grew up in broward county which is obviously a very urban place now but where i grew up in davie in west broward near the everglades we had citrus groves out there when i was a kid and so you could quite literally go out to like a flamingo gardens and you could smell you could smell that orange scent yes on a crisp it's a wonderful day and it is perhaps the sickest analogy that yes in a proximate sense china caused this but much like covid tucker it wasn't china it was the government apathy indifference and an intentional sabotage hostility of our country against its own people so true look i'm not going to sit here and blame xi jinping he's doing what he thinks is best for his country and that means screwing us over i guess that's it but i can't sit here and say look the chinese are guilty of the fentanyl crisis these precursors come from interior of china get shipped to mexico get pressed into fentanyl pills and sent across the southern border but really it is our leaders that have the ultimate responsibility they're the last line of defense so i think as republicans we need to grow up and stop blaming all of our problems and embracing this left-wing victim culture and so look china this china that here's my solution as florida governor any scientist in the world who wants to develop a strand of citrus that is impervious to greening we're going to pay you one billion dollars cash if you can prove and we'll grow it and we'll do it for 18 months if you take the best scientists in the world and they may be in iran of all places it doesn't matter if there's a scientist or a group of scientists in the world who want to step up and actually solve a problem that has torn asunder entire communities that's unemployed men and women hollowed out entire towns across my state we're going to pay you a billion dollars because what that industry represented that would merely be an investment in bringing back the number one thing that put my state on the map no that is absolutely that is absolutely right and they tore up the groves that took you know year takes years for an orange tree to go from seedling to fruit bearing and they tore them up they tore them out of the ground they burned them correct it's really uh a metaphor for so for so much so i want to ask about the foreign flag thing um i always admired de santa certainly during covet i thought he was just a remarkable leader interviewed him many times i know him um and his wife and it was the foreign policy stuff that made me wonder like what is this and how controlled is he by ken griffin and the rest of his donors and then he had this moment where he signed a hate speech law yeah out of the country he flew to a foreign country israel to sign a hate speech law for florida and i thought well this is obviously unconstitutional it's immoral but it's also part of an elaborate humiliation ritual where you have to go not just like enslave your own people with a hate speech law which that is it's slavery but you have to go kiss someone else's wall to show your obedience and i was like i'm out like how did that happen well it started like most things terrible things start here in florida with randy fine randy fine quite literally the genocide guy yeah the genocide guy the starve away gaza kids guy i can't even believe he's real so what how did what did he have to do so he introduced this law which effectively criminalized anti-semitism in florida now look tucker i think you and i and your viewers recognize that any form of religious hatred should be condemned unequivocally well of course yeah i have condemned it i've been condemned anti-semitism i've condemned attacking people for being muslim with their kids for evil too right i was called a jihadi for that i'm against all of it and i'm certainly opposed to the anti-christian hate from which is perhaps the most virulent that's for sure so no i'm of course i'm totally i'm a christian i'm opposed to that but you can't criminalize attitudes every person's free to have his own attitudes ugly as they may be period correct and the issue is if you look at if you look at the statutory definition of anti-semitism here in florida which is 10105 in our state statute it actually says that criticizing the jewish state that would be israel holding them to a double standard denying them their place on the world stage that's literally in state statute 10105 it's against the law to criticize israel think about that so if you're a college student at fsu and you're having an earnest good faith debate with someone who sympathizes with the israeli cause you with the palestine cause whatever the case is and one of you says netanyahu is a war criminal or israel is committing genocide you could literally be punished and expelled from your taxpayer funded university by that and that is that is messed up it is unconstitutional totally unamerican it's totally unamerican and of course the republicans and democrats in tallahassee got along with it because their donors wanted them to get along with it and so randy fine is the one who introduced that introduced it and it was his idea to have it signed in israel why would desantis who is smart if nothing not a warm person obviously but he's definitely not stupid why would he go along with something like that it's a great question what you know i i hold the governor to the incredible work that he did during covid me too education all of that i think that what's quite telling just recent events is maybe you heard a foreign leader was here in florida last week one benjamin netanyahu's fifth visit to the united states criminal he's a total criminal he's a depraved little man to be completely honest and he was here and you know all of this ashley moody bernie moreno all came down to meet with him the governor didn't governor desantis didn't but the lieutenant governor jay collins did and so i think it's easy for us to go back and say you know why did the governor do this that or the other several years ago but at this moment in time when the governor had the opportunity to meet with netanyahu it seems like he deliberately chose not to which was an absolutely wise decision but jay collins did meet with him which is actually rather interesting because 40 hours before that meeting happened israeli media said that i am a quote threat that i am a bigger threat to israel than donald trump's who who is i am you yeah how old are you i'm 31 well congratulations for being an existential threat to a nation state because you're running for governor this is they really said that they said that and because i push out a policy that was actually quite popular with almost everybody and it is the fact that florida lends israel 385 million dollars as we sit here today and so what i said is at day one as governor executive order number two would be to fully divest all foreign bonds of any country and there's only one country that we invest in abroad and that's israel 385 million dollars you know what really got them is i said i would then take the 385 million and create a statewide down payment assistance program for young married couples because we have to protect home ownership so young folks across our state can buy a place to live get married and have kids okay we've got my vote that's all i needed to hear sorry um amen amen what's the smart way to protect your house is it wait till a burglar smashes a window and wanders around the living room terrifying your kids or is it b preventing bad people from breaking into your house in the first place well obviously it's b but most security companies don't seem to know this they react to invaders after they've gotten into your house no simply safe does the opposite the obvious it stops criminals before they get inside it's proactive not reactive simply safes cameras spot threats alert live agents to talk directly to 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away so i actually was a government bond trader in a different life which is say three or four years ago and so i traded government bonds and interest rate futures and all of that stuff and so what happened was after the tragedy that was october 7th and unequivocally was a tragedy of course it the florida state government state chief financial officer jimmy patronus who's now in congress he announced that to stand with israel we were going to start buying tens of millions which became hundreds of millions of dollars in israeli bonds this was a purely political decision it wasn't a decision that says hey the the yield the rate of return on israeli debt is actually quite high so we should buy some no it was to stand in solidarity with a foreign country we are going to take taxpayer money money and lend it in the form of a sovereign government bond purchase they weren't even hiding how nakedly political they were and just for a moment i just want to but what about the the pensioners who rely on the returns of those bonds to like fund their retirement or the people of florida don't they isn't their fiduciary duty of the legislature to like look out for their interests or is it only about helping bb the latter truly i mean you're right and by the way and i say this to someone who was a fiduciary as an investor yes think about it just for a moment a country is going to war is currently being confronted by a soon-to-be nuclear power in iran they say yeah is escalating tensions with all of its neighbors just objectively forget what country that is and now you think it's a good time to compromise your fiduciary responsibility and buy their government debt i mean like can you imagine someone saying that seems like a good long-term investment right can you imagine someone saying like whoever they are and saying like we just invaded iraq in 03 we should just stand with iraq and buy their bonds like forget who saddam hussein was like why would it be a good idea to buy iraqi government bonds right and by the way they don't offer a terrible amount of interest actually israeli bonds often yield less than u.s treasuries no way yeah so it's not like they were yielding 20 and they were actually an objectively good decision for our pensioners no it was a nakedly political position without any risk reward it was all risk and no reward to appease the israeli government and don't understand so the donors in florida so there are a lot of uh very rich very active donors in florida um who support israel also why don't they send their money i don't understand like if you're a billionaire why are you pressuring some poor low iq florida politician to spend taxpayer money on a foreign country when you could just send your own money to foreign country i actually think it is sadistic i think so i think it's actually symbolic because you're right a large hedge fund in miami or palm beach i mean it would be nothing to buy 380 million dollars of israeli bonds they could have leverage i mean nothing it would be done in one day but it's the symbolism of the solidarity and by the way the florida state pension framework prohibits all foreign government bond purchases with one exception israel so it is literally prohibited in their investment framework that you cannot buy the bonds of any country luxembourg switzerland the uk and those actually may be good investments but israel for in their own words to stand in solidarity with them after october 7th we decided to send 385 million dollars and that's why as florida governor i'm going to divest that full 385 and then start a statewide with that money a statewide down payment assistance program because right now you got young couples across the state who are renting they're staring down the prospect of the 50-year mortgage they can't feel like they have any equity in the future 50-year mortgage so that's the craziest thing i've ever heard that's the solution to the affordability crisis you just turn everyone into a renter yeah it's usury it's just imposing usury on us of course i knew the answer to my own question but it's just so grotesque it's hard to believe that's real but i think this is the i think this is the frustration not with the president but with a lot of his advisors is there are real concerns about affordability in my state and number one is home ownership right if you can't buy a home can you get married if you can't get married can you have kids if you can't have kids then what on earth is the point tucker exactly right and so i think the president instinctively recognizes that we have to solve this problem but the solution isn't to go from 30 years of debt slavery to 50 years so you can save a hundred dollars a month i mean my my dad and i did the math and for the average home here in florida a 50-year mortgage would mean that if you paid 250 000 to the mortgage servicer you would own precisely 18 000 of equity in your home this is literally what was called out biblically what we were warned yes it was that's correct and so we have to be very honest about the system that they're creating you know i was kind of skeptical i think in 15 and 16 when the world economic forum trotted out this the year is 2030 and you will own nothing we are rapidly racing toward that of course today and if people are getting off on it and actually like in a sexual sadistic way i totally agree that we are i think cucked to the point that we have to bend over we can't own anything we can't have jobs in our country anymore and if we ask questions about why we sent 385 million dollars if i stand up as a candidate for governor i am smeared by the effectively the state media of israel and called a threat to their country well you are a threat actually because for example i didn't know that i didn't know that the state of florida's pension fund had invested 300 million dollars in israeli bonds you know the only country that the state's allowed to buy bonds from and i mean i didn't know any of that so just saying that out loud is a massive threat i think all of this stuff happens because people don't know what's happening and they're kind of lulled like cattle into a trance don't you think that's right so uh so the genocide guy is the one who came up with the hate speech law now was he a member of congress then state states representatives state randy fine yeah state house um have you talked to him well he called me the other day actually the genocide guy called the genocide guy called me he woke me up at like seven seven a.m that's never a good day he was breathing genocide guy calls it wakes you up he was breathing rather heavily i bet he was and i think he was in a car i heard some cheese it's rumbling around in the back seat i know that sound tucker i know the difference between a cheese it and a pringle as a former addict but gosh so he calls me he says i hear you're running against byron and i said but it'd be byron donalds it'd be byron donalds yes it goes with many names we have h1 byron apac shakur we can get into that later but here you're running against byron donalds and i said yeah i'm thinking about it i i perspective i'm thinking about it congressman and he says well you know you should know that it's not very nice to byron if you did that i don't care what's nice to byron congressman i'm fighting for my state my state is getting sold off in pieces by the property developers it's getting sold off what were once citrus groves and cattle ranches are now going to be scam altman's next ai data center that's not what we stand for here in florida and so for 42 minutes he proceeds to call me out and i'm just listening i'm brushing my teeth i'm i'm on mute i just let him talk but it was very clear and this is before i had formally announced but it was publicly talked about that i was seriously considering running that a sitting member of congress in washington dc at the time was taking 42 minutes out of his day not to talk to a constituent about one of their needs but to intimidate me into not challenging you think he was trying to intimidate you i think so didn't work i mean if he laughs at the murder of children i i mean i guess i shouldn't be surprised right wow does he have power in the state not really he has power in the sense that he's the only he was the only jewish republican in in florida in the state house state senate he of course then when when mike waltz got appointed to national security advisor did such a brilliant job there uh his seat was vacant and then randy fine quickly moved into the district and decided to run for congress after quite literally two months beforehand being elected to the state senate after having served in the state house and that's why i'm proud to support my friend aaron baker who's now running against randy fine primarying him so fine's not even from the district no he's not he's from he's from brevard county down in melbourne how did he get the seat how did he win a lot of strings and of course you know the president came in and endorsed him as well but a lot of very powerful people pulled strings and it's actually a very deep red district that he only ended up winning by five points which just shows you how deeply detested he is by the people of florida's sixth congressional district well yeah i mean if you members of congress shouldn't endorse genocide or laugh at the murder of children no that's disqualifying right quite literally starve away when there was an image this is july of 2025 an image of children starving his answer was starve away a sitting member i called the speaker of the house when that happened and i i don't get involved in anything really but i i said i don't know how you can have this guy in the republican party i'm not going to vote for that i would never vote for a party that endorses killing kids why would i do that i'm a human being but but george santos got some botox exactly and he gets expelled i mean think about that for a second right no still starve away that's like it's everything that we have to be against that's right and i think whichever side of that conflict and i think most americans they resonate with the words of president trump is you want the killing to stop whether it's a new green russia israel it doesn't matter if i was a jewish israeli zionist i would still feel that way you can't ever laugh at the death of children it's nothing yeah that's it's totally disqualifying to the point where he was literally disavowed by apac yeah literally disavowed by takes a lot apac of all groups uh speaking of which miriam adelson has already announced that she's funding a war chest against me told that to nbc news last month against you against me called me out by name we're monitoring they did the meme tucker we're literally monitoring the situation is what was said and uh miss adelson will be raising a war chest against mr fishback miriam adelson is spending against you yes and she's backing byron byron and that's why you call him apac shakur among other reasons it's the second the second part of it for other reasons i wouldn't call but i wouldn't call randy apac shakur yeah that is just too funny you don't need to be an economist to see what's happening the dollar is in trouble it's getting weaker it's sad but we're not in charge of it so we have to respond appropriately in ways to protect our families when paper money dies it's going to be replaced by programmable digital currency or gold gold survives the same americans who think they're protecting themselves with gold are the ones getting ripped off by big gold dealers after we left corporate media we got offered tens of millions of dollars to promote gold companies how do they get the money to spend that much on marketing because they're scamming their customers we didn't want anything to do with that so we sought an honest broker and together we formed a precious metals company that you can actually trust it's called battalion metals at battalionmetals.com we publish actual spot prices we're totally transparent about the vig what we take and we treat everyone with honesty so if you've been watching what's happening you know it's not just about money it's about sovereignty and holding something that endures and cannot be manipulated or taken from you so if you've been waiting for the right time to act this is it visit battalionmetals.com how has he responded to apac shakur well his campaign called me racist not for that comment because i called him a slave to his donors yeah and i said with all due respect i'll stop calling you a slave if you give the money back the 45 million dollars you gave to your donor that your donors gave you 45 million dollars five million dollars in a primary that was uncontested until five weeks ago no way five million dollars in an uncontested primary until five weeks ago until i entered and that was all to encourage him to make florida better apparently and his idea of making florida better in his own words he wants to quote speed up the construction of ai data centers his words he said in a private meeting with donors i have a friend of mine who was there and he said what do you think about fishback's proposal to ban blackstone from buying single-family homes and forcing us to rent as opposed to own and what byron told the donor in that meeting is that blackstone bailed the economy they saved us in the financial crisis they deserve to be able to buy those homes that's capitalism that was his response and i say look the goal here is we need to look out for our own people when a family of four is getting outbid by 1500 bucks by a private equity firm that's taken chinese money at the capital gains rate as opposed to the rate that you and i pay and everyone else half they pay half the tax they have carried interest 20 and he thinks that because of what blackstone did which they didn't actually do what blackstone allegedly did in 2008 gives them cover to run roughshod over all of us and to take homes from under our feet and this is not a hypothetical thing this is happening right now byron said that byron said that to a donor because what i have said executive order number three is that i would ban blackstone any private equity firm any airbnb speculator and any foreign national from buying a single family home in this state of florida you don't get to have a right to our homes if you or i were to go to canada right now and buy a single family home we would legally be prohibited from doing so because say what you want about trudeau or carney i guess they got the memo that canadian that canada is for canadians america's for americans and i don't think it's okay that a chinese national or russian national or an israeli national can come here and outbid a family that's known this state for two three generations and say you know what that home that you wanted to buy to get married to your wife and to have three kids that's not available anymore because a foreign national wants to vacation here for five weeks out of the year man you're spinning me up getting mad just hearing this um what kind of reaction do you get when you say that very positive i'll tell you one yeah i bet you do well i get a very positive reaction because i think and you've pointed this out i i loved your speech at amfest because you recognized that america first is not owned exclusively by any party of course not in fact if you went out and pulled that very question that framework that you put out which is the american government should exclusively look out for the interests of its citizens 90 of not just republicans of literally everyone would agree with that state yes and so what i was amazed by is we had a meet and greet in tampa bay this past weekend and we had 50 or so people rsvp over 200 showed up and a dozen on their way out said i wasn't even a republican i'm an independent i'm a democrat i am changing my party affiliation so i can vote for you in the primary because just like south carolina you had paul on recently just like south carolina florida is a red state the next governor mathematically will be a republican trump won the state by 13 ron desantis by 19 the next governor is going to be republican the question is what kind of republican tucker yeah i mean if it's the republican who laughs at dead children i'm not voting republican i'm not going to ever vote for anyone like that anyone who's pro-death who's against human dignity for hate speech laws who doesn't think that providing the next generation a chance to get married and have kids and own a home if you're not on board with that then i have nothing in common with you yeah i don't care what you call yourself that's right and i think this idea of the party labels has become a hall of mirrors that's for sure what you see isn't what you get i mean by the way byron donnells as of right now still endorses randy fine's re-election bid despite that star come on and they tried to cancel you for having a conversation with a certain someone he's literally endorsing a member of congress who told innocent children who were literally starving on video to starve away that tells you everything you know about my opponent byron donnells what i i know byron and i've always gotten along with him he's super cheerful um i didn't realize is is he ideological i've never detected that no so i call him a slave yeah what did and they called you a racist for that they did which is actually quite interesting because i got a call from the foundational black american society here in florida who reminded me that byron's mother is jamaican he is panamanian and they found it quite insulting in their words that he would try to claim victimhood of slavery that a single descendant of american slaves in his family i like those foundational guys they're so good reek nasheed and all i mean i don't agree with everything but like i they've got a perspective if your family's been here 400 years and the descendants of a lot of american slaves our families have been here 400 years i don't know i i think that gives i'll listen to you like you guys you know you've got a point of view that is legitimate i think yeah and they're they're unequivocally heritage americans that's for sure 100 definitely heritage americans if anyone is and you know someone rolls in from ghana and like you know gets an msnbc slot and starts telling you speaking on behalf of black people it's like shut up honey you've got nothing to do with this right that's a fair perspective right i think and so it's good to actually see them call them out for that that's actually cultural appropriation appropriating a struggle of slavery i totally agree and the struggle of slavery was real that's i mean i don't think republicans ever want to really whitewash that it's real right but for slavery we're against it whether it's in the you know west bank or or here or anywhere anywhere yeah against it and so for byron's group his team to call me and essentially our entire supporting base racists for saying that you're a slave when quite literally you took 45 million dollars you won't tell us what you agreed to to take that money this early in a primary which is unprecedented you know this how unprecedented that kind of money is in an uncontested primary until now but secondarily to actually go out and try to gaslight us and think that you're just one of those guys that has been here you know since the early 1800s and your family was in the struggle too you're not and that's a very interesting term that the foundational black americans use it's called tether they're tethering these tethers like byron donald's they come here literally one generation in and they try to just sit around and act so folksy that we're all part of the same struggle and we're all down on our and we need to fight against no you just got here dude like the haitians like the the guys from ghana who just got here you don't get to just be a part of our system and then lecture us about how our country went wrong well and if you're a republican supposedly conservative republican to throw around the term racist i mean that's what i personally i'll speak for myself i voted against that in november last year right i don't like that style of non-argument just dismiss someone off the top you're you're a bad person i don't have to respond to your specific charge against me i i'm too old for that yeah i thought we were aren't we opposed to that identity politics 100 and i'll tell you the the identity politics of the right is probably the greatest it's ever been but it's actually codified into law which is the scariest part i've noticed that right you know say what you want but left-wing identity politics never criminalized being a racist to a black person in that sense like there was never a hate speech law against which would have been unjust to call out a black person or black culture anything right i think that's deplorable to single out any as a christian i would right of course condemn that of course but it's interesting that there's only a hate speech law for one particular foreign nation as opposed to anything i'm against them entirely because they're blatantly unconstitutional they violate the first of course but it's interesting that right-wing identity politics has gotten to this point where anti-semitic is just a term i mean i was i got a call from the sun sentinel auditorial board they were interviewing me the other day and they said it's just fascinating this is the paper of record in south florida my childhood paper in fort lauderdale and they asked me why did you put out an anti-semitic proposal to divest the 385 million so how is it anti-semitic to bring back money our money that was foolishly sent over to not buy sovereign bonds like what which actually have a subpar return given the geopolitical risk premium on offer in israel right now if we're going to be completely honest right what they actually said that to you they actually said that and i just challenged the entire our bonds or you're a nazi that's kind of the trade or you're a nazi and by the way think about this tucker this is so bonkers i can't what's actually anti-semitic because this 385 million dollars statewide down payment assistance program this would of course go to any florida resident who is young and married so the ironic thing is that actually opposing it if anything would be anti-semitic because they're going to be young jewish couples of course who are ready to buy a home start a family and live out the american dream here in the sunshine state and so it's amazing that we've gotten to this point of debate and discourse in america where the ad hominem attack precludes the debate from even happening look you want to have an honest earnest debate about buying israeli bonds fine i welcome that debate but don't sit here and call american citizens anti-semitic for opposing a third of a billion dollars being shipped overseas to fund some stupid war i totally agree and it is kind of crazy if you think about i've got nothing against miriam adelson personally i know her but i mean she's an israeli and donald trump said in his remarks on television and the knesset to her you care about israel more than the united states which is her right but how is she a huge player in my country not her country my country's politics like how is that allowed if there was some chinese guy and he was pretty open about caring a lot more about the ccp than he cares about the united states it would not be cool to take money from him and that person would not be allowed to get on tv and be like i don't like what you're saying about my actual country therefore i'm gonna drown you in gambling money from china yeah from macau yeah yeah well can you imagine like the equivalent what is going on why is why do we think this is normal talk about foreign interference in our elections but it's it's a two-tiered system of foreign interference because remember jack ma from alibaba very well right can you imagine jack ma was running around telling nbc news he was going to fund political candidates well exactly how outraged he would literally get investigated by the doj on some made-up money laundering charge that is right moved some comma the wrong way and it's suddenly wire fraud under the commerce clause right but think about it can you imagine how repulsed we would all rightly be if jack ma or some ukrainian or russian oligarch was openly flagrantly being involved in us politics that's totally bonkers um so when you call has byron taken money from apac yes so that's why he packed your core yes i just like i'm only factual with these things because it's very funny did that go over well it went over very well it went over very very well and people like it i think people want i don't try to take myself too seriously and you know i think we're not allowed to we're not allowed to gen z was such an important part of the president's victory last year yes and they feel betrayed by a lot of these trump advisors and what they've chosen to prioritize and not i can see why and when i've met them and i've met them where they are at their universities whether it's uf a couple weeks ago i'll be at fsu and just a couple weeks from now their number one frustration is that look they don't want to be lectured anymore they got a degree they got good grades they got good test scores they didn't study gender studies or black intersectionality they did the stem thing that republicans told them to do yeah learn to code learn to code and now they say you know what amazon google fedex no no those jobs aren't available for you you pesky americans you want paid time off you want to go to church on sunday we're going to give those jobs to an entire new class of foreign serfs known as the indians and the chinese and we're not going to even interview you for those positions they don't even pretend that the chinese or the indians are smarter they're not they don't speak our language they have no skin in the game they're not smarter they're not at all oh i know and so the issue then becomes do we actually have a labor market that is utterly rigged against american citizens the answer is yes and you know that by virtue of the h1b program these tech companies it's not as if they've stopped hiring generally they've stopped hiring americans because they can bring in all this cheap foreign labor my belief is that a market-based wage is always going to attract the best labor i agree 100 that's the promise of the market right it is and i you know someone like ben shapiro to come out at am fest and one of the side panels and he said i want white men to stop complaining and get off the couch because there are jobs that are available no no no here's the truth ben when you say that you say the americans won't work these jobs no ben shapiro they won't work these jobs at the slave sub-market wages that you are offering them you offer someone here in my state an honest wage for an honest day's work they'll take that every single time and they'll show up but they'll take off on sunday to praise our christian lord it's funny to see um i never mentioned ben shapiro because i don't think about him very often but on those moments where sort of you see what somebody really thinks just kind of if you talk long enough you reveal what you really think it's always been my view ben shapiro's total disdain and loathing for white christian men is every bit as real every bit as bristling with hostility as any kind of college democratic socialist of america leftist yes it's exactly the same it's just like he just hates them he hates them why so it's probably because i mean there's a lot of reasons but i think that entire class of people doesn't have a real solution and in fact has profited on the demise of exactly of all of this and you know it's not just young white men it's young black women who literally studied engineering and said you know what i want to go get a job working on this bridge no that job that's not available for you anymore that job was given to an indian and it's actually effectively dei for indians in the name of capitalism noticed yeah right and i think this is a part of a bigger debate that's happening within the party this they call it a civil war i call it a genuine good spirited debate is if we are saying that we're principled conservatives then it begs the question from where do we draw these principles exactly right is it from the american enterprise institute is it from ronna mcdaniel's handbook on conservative principles or is it from our christian bible yeah is it from our constitution our declaration of independence the federalist papers and i think this idea of the free market i think the free market is a great place to get to the destination but the destination is not a free market tucker we don't get to stay here and say well our people are suffering and they're unemployed and they're addicted to fentanyl and they can't have kids and they can't own a home and there's 50 years of usury but you know what we got a free market and we have the freest market in the world we have the freest market in the world no if the goal was a free market tucker there'd be a slave auction happening outside right now of course there's supply there's demand there's an equilibrium my view in the america first movement is our north star should not be a free market but a free people and when i say free people i mean american citizens i don't mean the h1bs i don't mean the haitians on tps and i sure as heck i sure as heck don't mean any corporation that wants to come here and plant a flag and say that our goal is to boost profit margins and stock price and all of a sudden all that matters is not whether you can raise a family or buy a home but the gdp beat expectations on your bloomberg terminal that's exactly right that's exactly right how did you can i say something because i know um to the extent this will be seen and criticized i'm sure that people will say but this guy was in a sex scandal and you didn't mention it i just want you i'm not asking you to respond to this i just want to tell you my reasoning on it so the second you were deemed a threat they sent people out and tried to call you a sex criminal um you've not been charged any sex crime that i know of and if you're a sex criminal you know i hope you go to jail and if you're not i hope they stop saying it but a lot of people are pushing that have no basis i just i don't want to you know attack anyone in particular but it's pretty unbelievable that some of the people pushing that would accuse somebody else of having an unorthodox sex life i think it's shocking actually given what i know so i hope they'll stop doing that because they have no basis for doing that and that's why i'm not bringing it up so i just want to say that well thank you talker sorry it makes me mad well that level of hypocrisy is too much that's pharisee level hypocrisy can't have that it it is and you know the truth is is that unlike a certain someone who deleted social media recently because he couldn't take the heat i recognize that my entire life is going to be blown open that there is a guy taking pictures of me outside of my house the other day people taking videos of me at a bar it's going to happen and i welcome it i welcome that i think if you're going to run the third largest state you're going to control the life of effectively two and twenty three and a half million people here in florida you should have to be an open book but on that particular point if you'll allow me just to address of course nowadays false accusations against men are all too common yeah those accusations were brought before a judge in florida's second judicial circuit and after two lengthy hearings i was fully exonerated so don't take my word for it there was seven hours of hearing time evidence all of that and a judge said you know what not credible no evidence to support it mr fishback i apologize effectively and you're exonerated and so i think the silver lining to this particular attack against me is that it's already gone through due process and the fact that it's coming out now i think shows that our campaign our vision is a real threat to the deep establishment interests that have hijacked our state but of all things to hit you on by those people it's uh it's a it you know that enraged me like if you're going to accuse someone else of having a weird sex life you better have a pretty normal sex life and if you don't you shouldn't do that that's really uh too much hypocrisy for me so um the other attack that i have seen against you is that your views have changed yeah and the response i have seen for me was oh yeah they have so which is a great response i think um my my views have changed completely so i'm i'm with you yeah tell me how your views and why your views changed well i would start on this issue of the economy first and foremost because i dropped out of college in 2015 to start a hedge fund and i did that for five years really yeah good for you so i was a macro trader which meant that i was always fascinated with geopolitics i was a high school debate kid for four years it changed my life i had a stutter i wasn't as confident speaking publicly and turns out going to a high school debate tournament every other weekend for four years we'll turn that around pretty quickly yes first tournament by the way was at marjory stoneman douglas high school in parkland no way 2009 where we actually debated an assault weapons ban an assault weapons ban that's wild um but yeah grew up in broward county and my my career has been as an investor looking at the world as a macro investor saying how is the fed going to screw this up next right looking at what happened with covid the supply chain the supply chain lockdowns the massive fiscal transfers the stimulus that was going into the economy oftentimes to the lowest income folks which had the highest propensity to spend that was clearly going to cause inflation alongside the money printing from the fed upwards of five trillion dollars and so those are types of trades that i put on as an investor and so i really viewed a lot of this world from quite literally the perch of a bloomberg terminal so when i was saying looking at gdp expectations on a bloomberg that was me for 10 years i spent a lot more time on the ground i started a non-profit called incubate debate to offer free high school debate leagues all across my state from pensacola to miami and when i really got to travel these hollowed out places that were once teeming with life booming with industry i saw how detached that world was from this bloomberg terminal where i had seen gdp and inflation and consumer spending yes and said you know i respect president trump but when i hear about another trillion dollars coming in from nvidia i guess the obvious question is how does that help a single dad who lost his job five years ago and hasn't been able to get back on his feet what are we optimizing for is the goal gdp or is the goal as i think my friend nathan hobbelstadt from from newfounding says is the goal the i think the ultimate economic statistic these days which is what percentage of 30 year old men own their home and are married if you think about your entire economic policy framework around that question and i do right and so if the question is will we build this ai data center i don't know does it help 30 year old men get married or buy their home the answer would obviously be no because it employs 50 people who are all foreign laborers for the most part that doesn't help but if we're going to revitalize citrus here in florida if we're going to actually build out local businesses and help people get on their feet and create local great paying jobs and end the h1b scam and ban blackstone if we focus on those economic policies with the end goal being 30 year old men are more likely on the margin to buy a home and get married as a result of this policy then sign me up and so my distortion was look i spent much of my 20s going to events by the brookings institution yeah and ai and heritage and and learning about the economy through that vantage point and so guilty as charged i think my views really i voted for trump proudly in 2016 i've always been a republican for whatever that's worth quite literally since since high school when i registered to vote in junior high school didn't vote junior year high school i don't want anyone to think i'm committing voter fraud but you're not the only one but my views i think if i were to give one reason i think x and everyone talks about x but i want to talk about in a very specific way to my life i think it's hard to watch something and get really red pilled or nationalist pilled i think you have to have a steady stream of objective factual information yeah for me and my grandma that was your monologues in 2020 quite literally and we bonded over those um for me the last year or so it's been following af post this x account that just puts out 30 40 posts a day kind of punchy kind of funny but really factually grounded news about what's happening whether it's a company announcing h1b hires and they editorialize in the sense that if amazon announces that they're laying off 30 000 people they won't just print that headline like the wall street journal editorial board will those globalist shills they will print that headline but also contextualize it by saying that amazon also just brought on 10 000 h1b's so they have no issue firing our people but they will bring on foreign labor and not apologize for it and so when accounts like af post actually give us the full context around something which the new york times the wall street journal would never do i really appreciate that i think for me on on the issue which i get the biggest pushback on is israel right how you you wrote for barry weiss you wrote for the free press i wrote an article about high school debate going woke in 2023 which i'm really proud of it was the basis for my nonprofit really growing to the next level because there were quite literally high school debate tournaments that were taxpayer funded here in florida they were told a young black girl before a speech about president biden's foreign policy track record that if she mentioned donald trump's name she would be disqualified in a public school we had we had one judge in writing saying in writing tucker i am a marxist leninist maoist and if you criticize any of the following subjects you are automatically disqualified one judge went so far as to say again in writing not hearsay literally in writing they felt comfortable writing that yeah which tells you everything about the world of high school debate and academia but it's really personal to me because high school debate changed my life and it always was a marketplace of ideas until this guy named trump came down the escalator one judge said if we're debating immigration and you refer to them as illegal i will end the debate give you the loss and lecture you lecture you because i will not have you making the debate space unsafe and so you know i cold emailed cold called a barry weiss because i knew the free press was kind of in this business of publishing edgy pieces about how institutions had been hijacked and this was in 2023 and i said hey i have this crazy story i'm a former high school debate champion i have this crazy story about how high school debate has gone woke and my solution to it which is my nonprofit and she published it and it went bonkers and so i think people are looking at that and saying well you're aligned with barry weiss and i think to their to their credit to that thing i did put out a post when her book came out about anti-semitism because after october 7th i think like a lot of people i saw what was happening on college campuses and said that's wrong not because it was exclusively focused on jewish students but any black lesbian with red hair running into a math class saying like free palestine and white men need to apologize for the alleged sins of their ancestors that's wrong i guess i was led to believe that that was all part of this anti-semitism thing i called it out thinking it was anti-semitism but really it was anti-americanism it was anti-christianism well that's for sure and my views on israel changed in for two reasons i was invited on one of these paid trips to israel's as a young business professional and i very quickly found out what it was it was a propaganda trip and what i was told that i couldn't go certain places on my owner had to follow a very simple script when i left about what i would be i'd have to clear my experiences to share them online yeah and i said i'm not doing that i'm not i'm happy to go to a foreign country but i'm not doing it on your dime and have to parrot out some script that was approved by apac that was the first straw where i kind of became a little bit more skeptical but there was this young man named muhammad ibrahim he's a 16 year old kid from right here in florida and he went to visit family in the west bank last february and he was accused without any evidence of throwing a rock at an idf vehicle didn't hurt anybody but he was accused of it so as a result of that accusation he was put in an israeli military prison without any due process no trial for eight months he lost 27 pounds and contracted scabies and i committed the capital crime wait wait is he is he an american citizen yes how can they how can a proxy state that we pay for imprison an american citizen without due process for eight months it's a great question and you know to the folks on the other side i would say i'm going to hold israel to the same standard you want me to hold israel to that you say they're the only democracy in the middle east well democracies are underpinned by a basic adherence to the rule of law and you don't get to take anyone but least of all our citizens and who are teenagers and imprison them for eight months and then randy fine that was half of the point of his call was to call me anti-somatic he said well you didn't tweet about the hostages enough and i said randy what would have been the correct number of tweets on the hostages that have given me license to talk about this young american citizen but because he's a muslim because he's a muslim to them he is a second-class citizen i said look i don't care what he is he's an american citizen he grew up two and a half hours from where i did i went and met with the family and i put out a video that i actually texted the president directly and i said we have to do something about this yeah um one of the principles i'll never give up is you shouldn't be allowed to come here and import your disgusting little ethnic conflicts into my country and make them the focus of my foreign policy and i would say that to any any any immigrant cuba venezuela israel doesn't matter you may have had a thousand year war with some other tribe but that's not our problem and we don't do that here and um and i think the muslim hate muslim you know that's only what that's about exactly and my dad showed me a video while we were on the way over here of a black pastor who i think rightly focused on the one nation under god and our pledge of allegiance yeah and you think about that for a moment if you come here and to truly pledge your allegiance to our flag it means you are committing to the one singular nation of course not to import a generational multi-generational feud between different nations so when you come here whether you're jewish muslim doesn't matter and you say and you stand for that pledge and it's sad that we don't do that in our schools anymore i'll change that as governor as well that it is a basic precondition that if you go to a public school that you do a test that we are one nation under god that's not really debatable and so i think it's important because if you've got different the haitians and the dominicans hate each other for some reason there's a feud going on with different muslim groups and this and all of that and i say look if you're gonna come here at a at a minimum you have to commit to the whole one nation thing yes at an absolute minimum and i can't think of a better way and maybe that's why there's this this insistence this reluctance they're so loath to actually stand for our pledge i always thought of it tucker as they were trying to be righteous and it's kind of like their version of bending the knee no right it's they actually don't believe in what the pledge oh at all at all it's not like well we don't want to be compelled into something or we don't believe in chauvinism or or whatever it is quite literally they don't adhere to what the pledge represents principally one nation one and i don't care what that nation you came from is when you come here and you stand for that pledge you must adhere to that principle whether that nation you left was israel you don't get to serve in a foreign military you don't get to have dual citizenship you don't get to advocate for another country's interests over ours like these are not crazy ideas these are like any nation would enforce those ideas right because they're 100 and just go to south america imagine you know my mom's from columbia and i spent summers going there i don't of course consider myself columbian i'm a proud american my mom is as well but can you like going to a columbian just even something as innocuous as a they call it football but a soccer game can you imagine going going to a columbian soccer game and not standing for the national anthem and like whether you disagree with what was going on right right with some supreme court decision or whether you had a different view of a board or whatever like to not stand for our national anthem to to affirm the very ideals that set this country into motion is to hold the most vile form of contempt for this nation and her people exactly damn i can see why they hate you um so can you win part of my ignorance i mean i just i florida politics is so corrupt that i just try and stay far away from it but what do you think i think so i really do so i think i probably shouldn't share inside baseball but let me let me do that i think what has to happen very simply is i'm not going to out raise him i'm not going to outspend him but you know what neither did trump to kamala neither did trump to hillary no true and so i think this is going to ultimately we are in an attention economy and the attention is going to go to the person who can connect and show up and earn the trust of voters you don't get to earn the trust of voters in that fox news studio in washington dc uh no byron donald's is in dc four days out of a week this is my state i live here my my dad grew up here my grandfather taught here my great grandfather ran a hotel on fort lauderdale beach here this is my home and i'm not going to let it be stolen from anyone least of all byron donald's and his donors and so what i've already announced tucker is that over the next three months i'm going to visit all 67 counties in just five weeks i've visited 12 i'll visit every single state college and proud to break the news here i'm doing a statewide waffle house tour this is the staple of florida i'm going to every single waffle house to meet voters where they are they deserve to see a governor hands-on to ask him questions heck if they want to yell at me debate with me that's fine i am never never going to shy away from the people that i'm asking to hire me fat i just get the bacon i get a bacon and a large coke good call good call i remember jeb bush when he ran in 2016 i traveled him for a while he was going no carb and he lost at the end of course and i think south carolina and we were in a diner together in south carolina and he whatever his many faults he could be kind of funny and he's like no i'm i'm getting the blueberry pancakes i don't care it's over and it just immediately excuse me um so you think your money is going to come from where small dollar donors yeah you're going to need it because i mean you haven't said a single thing that it's going to attract ken griffin to your campaign fair i think so yeah look i i think that i'm i'm always meeting open to meeting with donors but it's on the basic precondition that you are donating in the to the campaign that already exists there's no influence on the campaign whatsoever and i would invite people to hold my feet to the fire on that one i think the biggest thing though is if you just look at what the turning point has been for florida politics uh we had an ag commissioner here in 2018 named adam putnam he was the establishment darling a very good guy yeah i remember him well his family's been here for a very very long time well respected family here in florida and then this guy named ronda santis comes on the scene and there's a lot of twists and turns but that election in 2018 was really decided by the fox news primary debate in the summer of 2018 where it was ron and adam on stage for an hour and a half unfiltered no handlers no donors just two and a half million voters watching at home i think if you put me on that debate stage and i'll be in this race all the way to the end when we get to that debate stage i will end byron donald's career and i will show that my vision for my state that i've known for four generations our family has known is the right vision i view this as a fork in the road do you want old florida or do you want new florida if you want ai data centers if you want what byron donald says which is he wants to make florida the financial capital of the world if you want that that's the new florida vision but if you like our state just the way she is if you want to go back to the way things were 10 15 years ago cattle citrus space ag if you want to to end the overdevelopment that has destroyed our communities pull back the sprawl i'm running for governor and i'd be honored to have your vote you really think he's going to debate you i think he has to really i think he has to what about this so there's a lieutenant governor i didn't even know he existed until i saw a clip from him that was so over the top his name is jay collins i think it was so shocking that i sent it to someone who works here and say is this ai this can't be real and he was basically saying you don't have the right to criticize israel yeah like free speech does not exist in the united states was that real it was real who is that guy he's the newly appointed lieutenant governor he's been on the job for about four and a half months am i misstating what he said no he he quite literally started off by saying you do not have a right to hurt people with your words which is almost like a true or false question in fifth grade civics about the first amendment well but it's also like the most left-wing thing you could ever say it's like the npcs the people i spent my entire 15 years at fox railing against these sensitive people who want to claim that words are violence stochastic violence or whatever i mean this was like that's the whole ideology of the left i can't believe this guy's he's real republican so-called he is what they call the transgender republicans they identify as such but they're not really and when someone actually goes out there and says you don't have a right to hurt people with your words i mean timmy timmy true or false does the first amendment give you a right to hurt people with if you failed that in fifth grade civics they would hold you back a year as governor i would hold anybody back who failed that question you know it was funny he put out a a comment about venezuela maduro he was very critical of maduro as i think a lot of people should be yeah yeah for what he's done to the country but i i responded and i think proudly ratioed him i said with all due respect lieutenant governor collins i'm formally filing a complaint with the office of hate crime speech for insulting maduro with your harmful words right and and that's what it's come to and so when you ask yourself what what vision for the republican party do we want i actually think everyone's talking about 2028 2026 here in florida we are the formidable republican i agree with that i agree with that this is going to be the proxy for what the party looks like and i don't know what the party's going to look like in 28 but if you've got me on the ballot byron donald's on the ballot jay collins i don't know what he's going to do okay so lieutenant governor hasn't decided he hasn't decided what he wants to do he's still checking with his wife apparently quite literally that's what he said he just keeps checking with his wife actually actually yeah and so this is a guy not to go on a big tangent but this is a guy who actually reached out to my own uncle like my actual uncle like my my dad's over there my father's brother and tried to convince him to get me to drop out and so my uncle was calling me all of a sudden on a saturday he hasn't spoken to me in a while for an hour and a half on the phone saying jay collins this jay collins that it's weird but the governor our governor ronda santis is not endorsing jay collins he's certainly not endorsing byron donald's and this is a wide open race as far as i'm concerned may the best person win and the best person tucker is not the person who looks best on fox although i don't think byron looks all that good on fox you're not getting invited on fox i'm just telling you that right now sorry they're not having you well thank you for having me here today yeah of course no i work there i know they are not inviting you on fox but i think if you look at and i on the way over here we stopped at uh chipotle we call it chapotle in our family because we like to be funny that's the spirit we say we go to chapotle and we say can i have the polo bowl with the fegitis but i was in chapotle and a young man by the name of aiden he's 22 years old he works for charlotte county in the maintenance division and he comes up to me says are you james fishback and i said yeah i have never voted in any election not even in a primary you have my vote i'm switching over to the republican party to vote for you on august 18th i think and i don't want to take credit for our vision it's a vision that's been honestly i've watched a lot of your stuff read a lot of what's happened in this space it's one that i believe in i believe it's the only way forward for my state and i think there's a real hunger because with whatever you want to say about byron donald and establishment money even the polls that have come out about him they still show 54 roughly of the electorate still undecided and this is a guy who's been in the race now for 11 months who's got 45 million dollars who's on fox news three times a week regards hitting the same gop slop and he still has half of the electorate undecided about whether to vote for him so i'm in this race because i think my state needs someone to step up and i want to earn people's support and being able to do when is the primary august 18th it's a closed primary so the cool thing about this is you got until july 20th if you're an independent you used to be a republican if you're one of the dixie democrats we've got all over the state who may have voted republican recently but hasn't changed their party affiliation you can do that online for free at the florida dmv website just google change voter registration in florida it takes you five minutes that now gives you the ability to show up on august 18th because you know this tucker this is a red state through and through we haven't had a democrat governor in 30 years we may never have one again and so the election if you wait till november you're literally allowing the system to disenfranchise totally right if if i think if we lived in new york city we probably would be registered democrats because you otherwise would not have a vote dc for my whole life i was always a registered democrat because i wanted to vote for the least crazy democrat in the primary because i lived there it mattered to me and so my pitch to to a public school teacher is we may not agree on everything but if you want someone who's going to fight for the dignity of american citizens someone's going to make your job easier as a teacher when we have 1.4 million illegals in our state many of whom all of whom have children enrolled in our public schools met with a teacher a couple weeks ago in southwest florida not too far from here and she broke down crying because her ninth grade class had 20 students seven of whom did not speak english they're illegals and so executive order number four is to remove all illegal immigrant children from our school i had someone ask me recently isn't that cruel i said no ma'am what's cruel is to force american citizens to dilute their education to take attention away from a teacher who has the second lowest teacher pay on average in any part of the country and say you have to teach half your class in english and the other half in broken creole or spanish for people who just got here that's what's cruel it is cruel that is what is vile and actually it's weird because the supreme court in 1982 found in pleiler video rather disastrously that illegal immigrant children actually have a 14th amendment constitutional right to attend public school and so i would proudly as mississippi did challenge roe v wade i would proudly as governor pass an executive order to challenge that decision and i know we would win in the supreme court whether it be five four or six three would depend on how she's feeling that day though james fishback that was great that was great and godspeed thank you thanks