Ep. 13 - Michael Steele

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So we're going to talk to Dave Trott next week.

Tell us a little about him.

Tell us a little about Michigan politics right now.

You guys are in some ways ground zero because it seems to be a lot of ground zeros out there as the polls, the poll numbers keep collapsing for Republicans everywhere.

Tell us about your Senate race and generally what's going on in Michigan.

Well, it's an honor and a privilege and just plain fun and good to be a quasi-introducer of Dave Trott.

I hope he considers me a friend.

We're sort of newly acquainted since the days of the of the Harris-Walls campaign, when Dave was a faithful contributor to our efforts in that regard.

Dave was just a wonderful, wonderful guy, very successful law firm, senior partner, managing partner in Michigan, very successful, ran in a kind of a difficult district, left of his own accord.

Was never voted out, was never forced out, was never redistricted out.

He's just a wonderful, wonderful guy to have as part of our organization.

I just can't praise Dave highly enough.

Man of great integrity.

If you've got time, let's bring you back next week to help talk to him.

Meryl, it's been a heck of a week.

You know, we made news on this podcast last week with Don Bacon saying that he's considering running for president.

We're excited by that.

What did you think? And what have you heard this week?

Well, I think that's going well.

I think a lot of Republican candidates giving some kind of thought to that because of some of the problems that we're having in the country for Republicans.

And Chuck, I noticed that Gretchen Whitmire, your governor, yesterday had a piece in The Wall Street Journal talking about the impact of tariffs on Michigan.

And I did my piece in The Hill this week, looked at the Canadian tariffs and the fight that Trump's having with them and how that affects so many states.

What are you seeing there in Michigan with respect to those Canadian tariffs?