00:00Republican supporter and is on the line from Maryland. Hi, Barry. How are you feeling right
00:04now? Thank you so much. Well, how are we feeling? How does anybody feel when they lose? And
00:09Republicans lost big, as we all know. Yeah. I mean, it's interesting though,
00:13isn't it? Because do you see it as a Republican loss rather than a Democrat win?
00:21I do look at it as a Republican loss and you got to look at it as a whole. We
00:26as a Republican
00:27party and you can blame Trump or whatever, but we got to take ownership of this mistake.
00:33We failed to deliver lower prices on gas. We failed to deliver lower prices on food.
00:41And those two key critical items outweigh a lot of the good that President Trump has done.
00:50And if you're not going to address that, whatever party you are, if you're not going to address that
00:56as a leader, as a president in the United States and try to talk through it, it's not going to
01:03go
01:04well during midterms. It's just not. And this is what you're seeing. But I guess the question is,
01:09what did he think would happen, right? Because when it comes to talking about the cost of living,
01:14which is broadly what encompasses the cost of gas, obviously, and the cost of things in supermarkets,
01:19if you start a war, which by the way, you promised you wouldn't do in the Middle East,
01:23which then strangles oil and causes prices to rocket up in America and elsewhere, not to mention
01:30then the tariffs that he imposed as well. And it's generally agreed by pretty much every economist
01:36worth their salt that tariffs affect those that impose them. Then it's going to impact on people's
01:43dollar in their pocket, right? So what did he think would happen?
01:47Well, I think he thought the Republicans would lose the midterms. That's why you saw him
01:53going from state to state to state, almost like he was running for president again,
01:57because he even knows that he's accountable to the voters, even now. And he doesn't want to lose
02:03seats. He doesn't want to potentially get impeached by losing control of the House and the Senate.
02:10So that's what you saw. You saw President Trump campaigning almost like he was on a ballot,
02:15like he was saying. And the Democrats came out strong. It was a win that they earned.
02:23You know, Republicans should remember this, learn from it, keep it as a strategy and
02:29learn what not to do the next time. Focus on what the voters are saying. You know,
02:35we got to lower the price of gas. I mean, that affects everybody, right?
02:39And it seems that a lot of Republicans are saying that and probably were saying that before
02:44the midterms. But the most crucial Republican, Donald Trump, is he saying that? Because it
02:49doesn't sound like we had that initial sort of conciliation. Okay, they did very well. I will
02:53work with them. And then the next minute, he's posting pictures of his hat with the word
02:56veto emblazoned across the front, saying that he'll strike down these kind of nutty ideas that
03:02they're going to put forward. So do you think that he has learned from this and he will change
03:07his approach over the next two years? He's going to have to. You know, this is democracy
03:13in the United States. You know, same thing happened to President Obama about two years in his first
03:19term. Same thing. People were very unhappy and Republicans took control of the House and the Senate.
03:25And, you know, that he was forced to work with both sides of the aisle. And President Trump's going
03:33to have to do that, too. As a Republican, I would tell him to do so. There's things that the
03:39Republicans
03:39and Democrats agree on. I would focus on that and get some kind of victory. He can get a victory.
03:45The Democrats can get a victory and the people of the United States can get a victory here.
03:50But they're going to have to find the commonalities to where they can get it at this point. He doesn't
03:54have any other choice.
03:55Yeah, it's interesting to me, because usually when we speak to people like yourselves and,
04:01you know, I don't know whether you class yourself as as part of the kind of MAGA group or not,
04:05but certainly generally Donald Trump supporters, very, very passionate, always very energised,
04:11always very keen to to defend Donald Trump. And I get the sense from you and many other people
04:16that we've spoken to in the Republican Party, that there is a kind of sort of weariness almost
04:21about it when it comes to Donald Trump. Do you still believe in him? Do you still have that energy?
04:28Oh, absolutely. It's he's done great things. You know, we have every child born in the United
04:34States is going to get a thousand dollar savings account from the government. I mean,
04:39that's just unbelievable. That's going to, you know, dig families out of poverty right from the start.
04:45I mean, that alone, boy, he should get the Nobel Peace Prize just for that one.
04:49But I'm talking strategic political ideology. And the bottom line, what outweighs that great
04:57achievement is, look, if people can't afford gas to drive to work and they can't afford food,
05:05everything else, quite frankly, is irrelevant. I support President Trump. He's done great things.
05:10I'm very pleased with also, you know, not taxing tips, not taxing Social Security. These are
05:17outstanding achievements. But the voters who we are all accountable to, they are going to decide if
05:24they perceive they're not getting a good end of the stick. Yeah, they're going to vote for the other
05:28team. And that can happen to the Dems too on the next time.
05:32And look, we're two years into this, right? So it's halfway through. We've got another two years,
05:36but obviously things are going to get very, very difficult now, considering he hasn't got the
05:40House and he doesn't have the Senate. And I just wonder, this will be seen as a pivotal moment
05:44in his presidency. Will this moment define his presidency?
05:50I think it already has. So what it's going to do, if I were him, if I were Neobel and
05:56advising him,
05:57I would say, well, Mr. President, you've done, you've done some good things. Let's see what we can
06:03come to the table with and actually agree with, with the majority, with the Democrats and save the
06:12legacy that you have. We don't want his legacy to go where he was just fighting with Congress and
06:19nothing was achieved. That would be a waste of time, right? So politically speaking, he should
06:25be focusing on finding what we agree on and moving forward. They may be able to achieve great things
06:32together, but that's the only choice. I mean, to sit and veto every single thing, you know, that might
06:38not get anybody anywhere. It's not good for him. It's not good for the country, of course.
06:43Yeah. I mean, if they put through things that are just really against many of the policies,
06:48it just depends how extreme it is. But there are things that we would agree with. And, you know.
06:55Okay. Well, we'll see what happens. Two years and still yet to come, I'm sure, a lot of fallout
07:00from tonight. Appreciate your time this evening, Barry. Take care.
07:03Thank you. Thank you.
07:04Barry Denardio there, a Republican fan from...
