You have to reconsider everything after a loss of that

magnitude.

The calculus has changed on everything.

And the people that voted you in in 2022, it wasn't so much about you fulfilling your term.

It was about to make wise and discerning decisions.

And wise and discerning decisions is you now have a Democrat governor.

We thought we'd have Kim Reynolds.

Whoever that name is, they're going to lose if we don't get Trump's approval rating at least somewhere respectable in the mid-40s or something.

This is your home state, but you've got tentacles everywhere.

We do have tentacles everywhere.

And you know what? What we're seeing is more and more states embracing what we're doing and how to mobilize the church.

I will say Texas has me concerned.

I think our church turnout is going to be good, but Texas still has me very concerned, especially that U.S. Senate race, what I'm hearing.

And I think it would be disastrous if the state of Texas elected James Tallarico to be the next U.S. senator.

Matter of fact, Fox and Friends played clips of Tallarico and what he was saying, using scripture to back it up that God is non-binary, there's multiple genders, just completely taking scripture out of context, which is one of the most dangerous things to do.

It

The early vote Democrat advantage helps close the gap relative to a pure 22 or 2024 style result, but it's unlikely to overcome the baseline Republican lean.

You know, I really like Grok.

I didn't know I'd like him this much.

But for the win, like what he's saying on a week from Tuesday, you know, three cheers.

Take a look at this little Stephen.

I've always been concerned about the soft Republican.

Will they say now it's time to go Democrat? You know, these guys have too much of a runway.

It is quite a bit.

So, Bob, give me your thoughts on this now.

First of all, I think I totally would agree.

First of all, with your analysis about what Grok also provided his feedback, I will give kudos to Trump.

He won again.

And what I mean by he won again, he's got the Dems completely baffled about what do I do.

So now they're going to do the early in-person voting because they believe Trump controls the mail.

But Steve, I think you're right.

What else? I want to make sure you get all of your analysis and reaction in.

I really want to thank Faith Baptist Bible College.

What a jewel in the center of the country to remind us to stay anchored in God's Word.

Anchored in God's Word, whether we go out into the field of the U.S. Senate or the halls of Congress or the White House or to the top of an executive building or behind a pulpit or in a classroom, that you're anchored in God's Word and you're doing God's business.

We are so blessed and thankful that this college exists and it's right here in the heartland in Ankeny.

We've hired former graduates of Faith Baptist Bible College.

If you're looking for a job, we'll take your application.

Amen.

Amen.

And it just so happens that the, uh, Democratic nominee for governor, according to Fox News, this is where he's been going to church.

This is church.

And so therefore you take a look at it, you go, you can tell...

And I just tweeted this out.

You can tell a lot about a candidate about where they go to church.

And if they're waving the rainbow flag, if it's a deal about trans the kids, you got a bunch of genders, um, run from this.

I mean, if that's the foundation, just imagine what can happen.

I hope so.

It absolutely happened.

That you can't make this stuff up, but they're giving it to you.

So run on they are crazy.

Let us figure this out with common sense.

Do not let the crazies have a shot at trying to bring this home.

You don't want to make that happen.

The thing with Rob Sand, he believes life begins at first breath, which means you got unlimited abortion on demand up till the time of birth, or even after birth if that poor little child hasn't br- breathed yet, 'cause he believes life begins at first breath.

What do you think it is?

Uh, I heard from multiple people, not the least of which is, uh, a man, uh, sitting to your right, one Todd Erzen, that a star was born in the, uh, upcoming Iowa caucuses over the weekend, that, uh, the JD Vance invitational with maybe a, uh, a side of Ron DeSantis as t- in terms of big name people getting in, uh, they may have a, a third combatant to wrestle with, that, uh, Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders made quite the impression, uh, at, in, uh, in both the, the leadership summit, but then Todd said also, uh, the dinner with a lot of your donors later that evening, the private dinner as well.

Well, Steve, first of all, the leadership summit, we heard from multiple people, uh, that that was our best leadership summit yet.

And we've had a lot of good ones.

This was our 14th annual leadership summit, and I, I, I have a high bar for Sarah Huckabee Sanders 'cause obviously I know her very well.

Uh, in my introduction, I joked that she was like my little sister.

She got up to take the mic and she said, "I don't know if it's appropriate, but I'm gonna take a, a, a little sting at Bob right away, and that is, um, he's way too old to be my older brother." (laughs) She goes, "So he might be like Uncle Bob," but, um, she knocked it out of the park.

Uh, she came across as poised, as statured, as competent, as experienced, as well as showing heart.

(laughs)

So what i- is there kind of a theme for this year's event?

Well, there's...

The theme is always "Principles Over Politics." And so what we try to do is we try to balance worldviews, uh, the world, the biblical worldview, and so we have biblical teaching.

This year Dr. Tony Evans from Dallas is going to be giving, uh, the keynote message on that.

Think I said last week, you know, we're gonna have Joel Rosenberg in.

He's gonna talk a little bit about what's all happening in the Middle East, where are the dynamics, and he'll be talking about China and Taiwan, Russia, Ukraine.

He'll talk about Israel.

Mm-hmm.

But you were in DC recently, and wanted to share with us just kinda how the vibe is just different there right now.

Well, I'm a big guy.

As y- I think you know, Steve, whether it be at the Family Leader or any other place, uh, culture is king.

I mean, d- how do people feel? I mean, you talk a lot about, you know, what do you believe, all that type of thing.

But how do you feel? And there's a different vibe in DC today, all the way from the Uber drivers driving Darla and me around to places.

Uh, was at the West Wing, had a chance to visit with some people there in the West Wing.

There's a different vibe.

Mm-hmm.

So, what do you think, in terms of how this has been conducted, from what you've seen, from a leadership perspective so far, and what's been presented to the American people?

Well, let me go back to last week, you know, when you had...

I mean, so...

Everybody had an opinion on this, right? What should you do? What shouldn't you do? But there was all this talk, even going back to last Monday's segment, that we discussed this.

You know, w- what's the right call here?And my prayer and my counsel to anybody that would listen was shut out the white noise, shut out all the talking heads who wanna...

And really get quiet and lean in to an audience of one.

And that's why I thought it was so touching when he said, "Love you, God." You know, that an audience of one.

Mm-hmm.

And then just the floor is now yours and just ask you, what do you think?

Yeah.

Probably the only... as you're going through that list there, one I thought of is I'm also on the advisory board of All Israel News, uh, which is Joel Rosenberg's.

A lot of your audience will know who Joel is, a, a best-selling author.

But, uh, Steve, when I first went to Israel was back in 2014 and that's when Hamas was shooting missiles into, you know, into Israel, into... trying to get Jerusalem, but for sure they're getting across the Gaza Strip trying to blow things up.

Uh, Obama declared Tel Aviv a no airspace, meaning you couldn't fly into Tel Aviv.

And I remember Rick Santorum said, "Hey, do you want to go to Israel?" I said, "I don't know if it sounds like a really good idea.

So it's not like they have any kind of excuse at all.

Mm-hmm.

You have Trump saying, "Listen, we're a country of law, we're a country of order.

You're not gonna do this on our soil.

We will intervene here." And then you have a governor, uh, in Gavin Newsom, who wants to run for president, and he's trying to show that, "I'm not woke anymore.

Uh, I think girls play against girls, boys against boys," that kind of stuff.

But now he's out there defending the rioters bur- trying to burn down, you know, his city, his state, LA.

He's saying, y- you know, "The president needs to get out of here.

Mm-hmm.

Yeah.

But it's a fair question, because too many of...

Christians, so ma-...

Too many people of faith, too many Conservatives said, "You know, I think they're right.

It's not gonna impact me at all.

Go ahead get married.

You know, what do I care?" Now all of a sudden it's, um, "Hey, they're in my daughter's restroom, my daughter's locker room.

Mm-hmm.

So, you've got your own event coming up in July that you guys do every year, The Family Leadership Summit, right?

Yeah.

The Leadership Summit, as you well know, I mean, it's become kind of an entity unto itself.

I mean, it's the, the biggest thing in the state of Iowa in July, uh, j- on July 11.

But it's also become a real gathering, uh, all across the Midwest, and even more so across the country, uh, people coming into The Leadership Summit to see where does biblical leadership, biblical training, biblical worldview, how does that intersect with real life leadership application? And your audience will remember we've had people like Tucker Carlson.

We've had Donald Trump.

We've had Tony Evans.

That's amazing.

Mm-hmm.

Where do you stand on this stuff? Are you gonna defund it? What was your vote on that issue? Were you part of the reason that that didn't get defunded? And every congressional race across the country should be looking at this.

But also you have key gubernatorial races.

Uh, we got one here in Iowa coming up that you and I have talked about last week, but where are they on the life issue? Iowa's becoming a very pro-life state, heartbeat bill, all that, um, uh, right at conception, life at conception is now being debated in the Iowa Capitol.

Those are things that Chuck Hurley and Danny Carroll, two of our stalwarts, would've thought that would've never got- gotten done in years past.

Yeah.

Huge article.

And what he's saying is that, "Listen, uh, I'm neither Republican or Democrat.

Running on congressman so-and-so, I think that is an absolutely terrible idea.

Yeah.

So just for full disclosure, I'm friends with both, uh, Zach and Randy, and so (laughs) Steve likes to say I'm a little bit nicer than them but...

But I'm actually friends with them.

The thing is, you take a look at Iowa governorship throughout history, and it doesn't take long to say who was governor.

Bob Ray, Terry Branstad, and then you went to, uh, Tom Vilsack, and then you went to Chet Culver, and then you went to Terry Branstad, and then you went to Kim Reynolds.

The one thing all of them have in common is none of them were ever in Washington, DC-

Yep.

Mm-hmm.

And then there are Biden-Harris, lighting up the White House, uh, with the rainbow flag to celebrate the LGBTQ+ last Easter.

Remember that very well, that this was the Trans Visibility Day.

And all of a sudden, you're, you're just packing that yard, not full of solemn things, a one nation under God, let's look higher, think bigger, and thank God 'cause we all need a savior.

No, it's, uh, we need trans visibility.

And then you look at Trump, from The Post about...

Talking about the life and the death and the resurrection of Jesus Christ, and all of us need a savior, and that's where our true hope is.

If not, then, um, I, then I don't even wanna contemplate that, frankly.

I don't think we can deny that either.

Mm-hmm.

Not at all.

And first of all, y- you know, I was really shocked by the news.

And I'm, I think most people know, I'm very close to Governor Reynolds.

And I was about ready to mount my bike and go on my 62-mile bike ride on Friday, and I got pinged, "Governor Reynolds just announced on Twitter she's not running again." Steve, she had a full campaign operation, a campaign manager, others gearing up the campaign.

She had a fundraiser lining up fundraisers all over the state to raise money for her.

Uh, and, and, and there are national ramifications for losing one of those people.

So just kind of what are your thoughts? I laid out mine before you came on, but what are your thoughts?

Well, first of all, I think people need to take a look at it for what it is.

Uh, you have smart people, I mean really smart people, both in finances, politics, uh, whatever it might be, who are on both sides of this issue.

I mean they're taking very visible different sides here.

And I think the reason they are is that nobody really knows what's gonna happen.

But I think what President Trump saw, matter of fact, uh, when the vice president, current vice, or the former vice president, Mike Pence, was in these offices, he talked to our, our team and to our board about what a financial, uh, reality that this country has to face and that we need to take on entitlements.

If you're not gonna take on entitlements, where are you gonna get it? And so when you take a look at Trump and his administration, he's going, "Listen, this country has right now a 1.9 trillion, 1.9 trillion with a T, trade deficit, so we need to address this issue." And the only way to address the issue is take away the disparity, uh, with trade.

Mm-hmm.

What, what kind of econ-... you know, mammon ratio are we going for here in exchange for Sodom and Gomorrah, basically?

So basically, Steve, what they're doing is they're, they're making us play.

Uh, we used to say, you know, uh, "You will be made to care." Now, well, now they're kind of making us play.

They're forcing our hand to play.

And although our mission is that if it's for the family, we will be for it, if it's against the family, we're gonna be against it.

And whether that's economic policy or social policy or international policy, whatever the policy might be, if it benefits the family, we're gonna be for it.

And Steve, you're right to say, I mean, under Governor Reynolds' leadership and with this legislature, uh, it's been pinch-yourself stuff that we have taken a lot of ground under her leadership.

I will await your prompt response regarding your intention to address it." And again, that is the conclusion of a letter just sent by Secretary of Education Linda McMahon to the state of California.

Or am I wrong on that? Is there another choice?

No, you are not wrong with that.

So you put it back to Iowa.

The Iowa legislature passed the Defense of Marriage Act, basically saying marriage between one man and one woman and the governor signed it.

You then get the judicial branch inserting itself going, "Uh, you guys are wrong.

We're gonna redefine this institution on its own." That's where we said, "No, the governor should issue its...

his, his own executive order, say we're gonna re- restore marriage between one man and one woman until the legislature either passes a law saying something different or the people vote on it." And so what Trump needs to do here is say, "I'm gonna insert my own branch, the executive branch." The judicial branch does not have this kind of power.

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