Ed Gillespie

Look, these mistakes happen where you don't invest sometimes where you could get a win and you just didn't think it was going to be there and then it was.

I mean, 2010, we had a lot of Republicans with the Tea Party folks kicked butt and we had a lot what we call driftwood candidates that shouldn't have won that were then voted out the next the next cycle but in 2014 i can think of you know the mark warner ed gillespie race in virginia i mean ed probably would have won that race if republicans had put some money into that ballot because democrats weren't paying attention so these things do happen i totally understand your fomo on this driftwood's a very new term well i think I wasn't calling you Driftwood.

I was going to say, be careful.

You might be sitting there without realizing

Well, did you notice

what Brit Hume, and I'm glad you asked that question, because Brit Hume was talking about, I remember I've had friends that were involved in writing the Contract for America back in 1994.

Oh, gosh, I thought you were going to say in writing the Constitution, but go ahead.

In 1994.

And he was doing the interpretation.

I had just said to Ed Gillespie, oh my gosh, isn't this amazing? All these Iraqi reporters get to be here and ask their leaders and the leader of the free world questions.

Like, this is the free press.

This is amazing.

I've been here at Fox 30 years, on radio longer, and I've never been to a single White House correspondence dinner and never planned to go.

I don't want to go.

So I made a pact with Ed Gillespie, who was the communications director at the White House.

We made a pact in 2008 that we would never go again.

So simultaneously in the Democratic and the Republican Party, there's a civil war going on in both, and in both instances, it's, it's the, the older you are, you're going, you're go- you're going for more the wh- whatever the, the main party is, is representing, right? So, like, specifically i- there's the MAGA versus America First wings of the crowd.

My friend Brandon Straka's been holding debates between the MAGA wing and then the America First wing, so it's like the Trump wing versus the Tucker wing, right? And what's, but what's fascinating about it is you l- you look at, you look specifically at that, at that, uh, race between Thomas Massie and Ed Gillespie, right? Uh, that one was really the, the, the election, the, the primary election between the MAGA crowd and the, and then the, and then the other wing, the America First crowd.

The Thomas Massie wing of the, of the Republican Party is, is largely taking a very anti-Israel, you know, approach.

I, I, I myself tend to be in the middle.

So that's 2012.

2014, I'm working for Ed Gillespie's campaign for Senate.

We're looking at, okay, well, we were given a target by Facebook of, you know, because a little bit of history here, you weren't able to target ads to someone who didn't have a friend who didn't like your page.

Oh, I forgot

The last time Mark Warner was unfettered in a midterm election, which was 2014, he won by 18,000 votes.

over Ed Gillespie.

And that's 1,100 votes in each congressional district.

And so I said, be careful, because he wasn't Nutty Mark then in those, as you mentioned, his car videos.

Caravans are back.

Ed Gillespie must have gotten through after a while.

Apparently, they decided this is

the way to do

So was Daniel Gade.

You know, we've been screwed over by the National Party since Ed Gillespie.

You know, Gillespie got within a point.

of mark warner and he was way up in the rnc he brought all these resources in when he ran for state for u.s senate but since gillespie the party has turned on us and then they harass us every day with multiple text messages to give to them screw them i'm not going to give the national party a penny they are not supporting virginia and they are leaving us out to dry yet once again with an amazing candidate.