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Elgine McCardle

Elgine McArdle is a Wheeling, West Virginia attorney and former chairwoman of the West Virginia Republican Party (2022–2024), and a conservative political commentator on The Bloomdaddy Experience.

Oct 15, 2026

5:01
Mm-hmm
5:01
... and whether or not it is a deterrent.
5:05
So starting from the premise that taking another's life for, someone's life for taking someone-- an eye for an eye, basically, whether or not that is a deterrent, i- i- is the first question.
5:18
Public- publicizing it, I agree, is 100% barbaric.
5:24
I, I, I mean, fine, turn it off.
5:26
Don't watch it.
5:28
I don't agree with it.

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20:06
Mm-hmm.
SamHOST
18:23
Mm-hmm
18:24
... at one point in the Biden administration when all those individuals were being, uh, coming into the country and bused to New York, and put up in hotels, and the hotels were ransacked, and they were getting really [laughs] good food, and we have our own, uh, it- you know, citizens who are not cared for, I think we need to concentrate on who's here as opposed to who's in other countries and need to come in.
18:50
So the compassion needs to be...
18:52
The compassion is there.
18:53
We are a very compassionate country, but it's not for anybody who doesn't live here.
18:59
[laughs] You know? And there are methods and ways and pathways for individuals who are truly seeking asylum to come in, so-
SamHOST
19:08
Yeah
19:09
... uh, it, it will be ransacked.
SamHOST
11:27
Mm-hmm
11:27
... um, success rate in endorsements.
11:31
Um, I think it's around 95.
11:33
That's a pretty high percentage rate in carrying people across the line.
11:38
Um, you know, as far as distancing, you know, it, it, if the, if you have particular areas that, that you can reference, I think that tho- those are either, um, races that they, the, the individual candidate is already winning, and so there's no need for, um, President Trump to come in.
12:01
And in the climate that we are in, sorting out the difference between, um-

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SamHOST
21:06
Elgin, any thoughts on that?
21:07
[laughs] I would agree.

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