BREITBART REPORT WITH BRADLEY JAYE 5/20/26

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SPEAKER_01 0:36

The one that's getting a lot of um uh I guess you know questions is the the Thomas Massey one, the Ken Paxton one. So give us an update on on what we saw happen um over the last week and last night.

SPEAKER_00 0:52

Yeah, last night was another example of Trump flexing his muscle and showing how much control over the party he truly has. Uh Harry Inton on CNN last night was going over Massey's previous uh primary results, which were challenged. Uh and then the his last three primaries, he got between 75 and 81% each year. Trump pushed all his chips in last night to take out Massey, who has been Massey has probably been more effective at uh stopping the Trump agenda than any other House Democrat. Every other House Democrat would do anything for Massey's record stopping Trump. Uh yet last night Massey failed to even get 50%. Just a real monumental uh uh achievement for Trump. If you look at everything else that has has happened recently with Trump's retribution tour in Indiana and coming after the and defeating those state senators who had voted with the state's business interest and against Trump on uh the redistricting plan there. If you look at the Cassidy curb stomping over the weekend, where Trump went all in against Senator Bill Cassidy, who had voted to impeach the president and generally just been an authority on his side, Cassidy failed to get a quarter of the vote. A sitting United States Senator failed to get a quarter of the vote in a primary. Just really wild. If you look at what's happened with Ken Paxton, yesterday Trump formally endorsed uh Paxton over incumbent Senator John Thornan. Uh John Cornyn, who also, despite his protests and his posturing, had worked behind the scenes to simulate the Trump agenda. Trump is really just on a roll, uh flexing his muscle, exerting his control over the party, uh purging the remnants of uh establishment uh that are left in the party. And if you take into account the Supreme Court's decision, uh gutting section two of the Voting Rights Act and the Virginia Supreme Court's decision invalidating the illegal referendum uh which would have gerrymandered Virginia even further. I mean, the the man is just on an unprecedented hot streak when it comes uh to electoral politics over the past month or so.

SPEAKER_01 3:14

So when we hear okay, there's a couple of things I just want to bring up from that we're hearing from the likes of the left on you know CNN and all that. Um we hear a couple of things. First of all, we hear a lot that Trump uh and and this um situation uh in Iran, we're losing the battle here, we're losing the war, Trump needs an exit ramp, uh, all this. Uh we've we have lost our strength position. We've also heard that there's been a lot of APAC money, a lot of uh Israeli uh funding for uh candidates against candidates that that have said that they didn't didn't want the U.S. to um help Israel in any way and if they're against its operation epic fury because it helps Israel, if they say, uh like NASI said, being anti-Zionist is not being anti-Semitic. What do you make of all these uh uh conversations about how Trump is in the pocket of Netanyahu, and this is really about an Israeli win in the United States, not a Trump win.

SPEAKER_00 4:30

Look, Matthew almost just single-mindedly talked about Israel, Israel, Israel, Israel. Uh to the extent that I mean he neglected everything else going on. Uh look, APAC, yeah, there's APAC money in races, but if you look at their track record, a lot of the time APAC actually is counterproductive. What they will do is, uh frankly, I don't think they have a very good political operation. They'll get into these races early, and what they'll do is they'll brand their candidates as beholden to a special interest, which helps the opponent. Uh, meanwhile, it was that they'll generate a lot of attention for their their opponent who also is able to fundraise uh off of uh uh uh APAC's involvement in races. So it's not like APAC can just pick and choose who they want to win. That's just that's that's just uh uh not a a reality. The fact of the matter with the APAC race, or excuse me, with with the with the Massey race, yeah, is that Massey just he ran a very, very bad campaign. He ignored what most of his voters want, which is to push the Trump agenda. Uh and yes, Trump had a lot of resources. This was the most ex or this was the most expensive House primary in history. But Massey had a lot of money too. Massey in his concession speech last night made clear that he had all the money that he needed. He said something to the effect of that there wasn't a single race, uh, there wasn't a single week uh in the last month of the race where uh they didn't have the money that they needed to get up the ads and do the campaigning that they want. So, yeah, this was uh the the way that it often often happens in these races, you know, uh money which money when money flows in, each side ends up having to amplify what they're doing to match the other. But when it came down to it, this race was about a message. And Ed Galrine's uh message of supporting Trump, getting behind the president, pushing the America First agenda is what won the day instead of Massey's, which is doing whatever it he could do to stop that agenda.

SPEAKER_01 6:44

What do you think about the fact that he has created Thomas Massey has uh this partnership with Rokana when it came to the Epstein files, and then Rokana had endorsed uh Thomas Massey, and now Breitbart's reporting that Rokana invited Massey's uh followers to become Democrats now, and Massey insists he's a libertarian. There are libertarians say he's not libertarian, uh he's a Democrat. So you know, I mean, I uh this was like the best thing that ever happened, I think. You know, I mean maybe he has revealed himself.

SPEAKER_00 7:21

It's just creepy, isn't it? His his romance with Rokana, who is one of the most vile radical Democrats uh in the House Republican conference. Uh look, I I've I've covered Massie for a while. Uh when I was a congressional staffer, obviously, uh my boss at at one time or another uh worked for him. Uh but look, when it comes down to it, Massie, uh he has some kind of a twisted main character syndrome where he needs to be hated to be validated. I mean, he's an MIT guy. I don't know if he was beaten up and shoved into a locker a lot as a kid. Uh maybe he he wasn't enough. Uh, but I I think that that weird personality quirk is what fuels a lot of what he does. Um he just he it's like he has to be contrarian uh just to to validate himself as the smartest guy in the room. Uh he claims that he's the only purist in Washington, yet any if you've heard him at all over the past weeks, all he's talked about is go to my campaign website, uh pay me campaign dollars. And honestly, I think the guy's a fraud. He's a member of Congress, he's not a member of the media. He actually has uh levers at his disposal uh to move the needle on this stuff he cares about, but he never even reaches for those levers. Uh and the uh he he never often like the White House has stopped working with them, Liz, because they know that his vote isn't achievable. He doesn't want anything, he just wants the attention. I I I just really think that there's something psychologically wrong with him, or that everything that he's done is just to position himself to run for president in the future, uh, which tells you that uh that he wasn't serious about actually being an effective member of Congress. Uh so look, he's gonna be around for another uh seven, eight months or so. Uh he will vote against the president at every juncture, he will vote against uh the party which he willingly joined at every juncture, but that's gonna be no different than he's done over the past several years. But Bradley, he's got his principles.

unknown 9:33

Good.

SPEAKER_01 9:33

He can rest all those.

SPEAKER_00 9:35

Oh, yeah, I know. His principles, uh, which continue to evolve. Uh I look I I'm sorry. I just think that for you to say, for you to make the argument that Congress is irredeemable even as you campaigned 24-7 to remain a member of it, uh that that's very revealing to me.

SPEAKER_01 9:51

I have a couple of other things I want to ask you about, Bradley. Uh, one of them is what happened in Georgia and Raffensburger, um, and how he's like third, which is really incredible. So can you give us a little bit of a background on on what was going on there for governor?

SPEAKER_00 10:09

Yeah, the guy was not just third, but a distant third. It was almost it seemed like a vanity run for him. Uh kind of like like Bill Casty, where he just, you know, wanted to uh uh I I don't know if it was go out on his own term, but uh to just uh give it one last uh college try. But yeah, he he just got beat badly. I think he had what 14-15 percent. Yeah uh whereas the the two the two uh gentlemen who uh will advance to the runoff in that race, each of them got over 30 percent. Uh yeah, Raffensberger, uh he's uh riding off into the sunset now. And it's the the timing is is is is funny because uh President Trump and many of his uh administration officials keep hinting that there's a lot more that we're gonna hear about in the coming uh month and over the next year in Georgia about what happened in 2020 in the election. And poor old Brad, he isn't gonna be around uh to put his fingers on the scale this time.

SPEAKER_01 11:13

Yeah. Uh the other thing I wanted to uh to talk to you about, and uh we're speaking with Bradley Jay, the deputy pol politics editor at Breitbart. Uh years ago, when I first moved here in 2013, way before that, there was an NAACP athletic uh boycott of South Carolina because uh somebody thought it was a good idea to put the Confederate flag on the State House. And then they moved the Confederate flag to the um the Confederate Memorial in South Carolina. Eventually someone came along and removed that flag, Nikki Haley, after we had the Charleston church shooting and retired the flag into a drawer somewhere in the statehouse. And after that was done, they lifted their NAACP boycott of athletics. I don't know how it manifested, but they were playing sports years and doing events and no championship events or whatever. So now we're uh supposing a relationship, uh open athletic relationship since 2015. Okay, so that was a 15-year boycott of that. Okay, of the Confederate. Now it's 2026. And now we're talking about redistricting because we have a district text that was drawn a racial line for racial reasons that has been deemed unconstitutional. But they're saying they still want that district. It's a racally motivated gerrymandering that they approve of because they have fiber in that district. And he was motivated Biden and Kamala and County Brown tax interests. And now they're threatening another boycott of not only our state, but all states that have redistricted uh in benefits of Republicans. They're saying that um they want to do this boycott athletics pressure campaign all over again. What do you make of that? What is Breitbart's covered on coverage on that?

SPEAKER_00 13:21

Well, first, I I'm just so glad that that Nikki Haley defeated racism. That was a monumental achievement um and and one that I don't think that she gets credit for. Uh look, well, I look, I'm a proud son of the South. Uh I I was in West Virginia uh just last weekend and the saw the Confederate flag being displayed there in a state that had uh that had actually seceded from Virginia so that it could stay with the Union. Uh the battle, the the the battle flag is it it means different things to different people. A lot of times they people see what they want, whatever. Uh look, Democrats don't actually care about democracy because they don't value the individual. They only care about the state, state authority, and Democrats don't care about the law or constitution because they only care about power. Whenever Democrats do something like this, they reveal who they really are and what they really care about. Uh look, my my congressman in Alabama, uh Shamari Figgard, uh, who only owns his seat because of unconstitutional racial gerrymandering, he was a proponent of this uh score act that had to be pulled this week. He was a co-sponsor of it, which would uh regulate how college athletes receive their NIL money. Uh but because of this now he is uh blocking this bill and has removed his co-sponsorship. I mean, it's just so hypocritical, it's so cynical. Uh, I actually think that a result of uh the Voting Rights Act getting gutted is that the black members of Congress that we that we have, or even the white ones, I think that black Americans will get much better representation than they would have otherwise, even from their Democrat rep. Black members of Congress, anytime you see them, all they talk about is race. Race, race, race. And the reason why is because their their districts have been illegally gerrymandered so that the only thing that the uh the citizens inside those districts have in common is race. There's a reason why that's illegal. So even if you're a Democrat, uh these look, black people for the most, I think not black politicians, but black Americans, they care about the same thing that white Americans do. They want to be able to fill their car up with gas, they want their kids to have a future, uh, they want to have time to get their kids back and forth to Lilly practice. But but you wouldn't know that from looking at black members of Congress. So I it's just another reason that I I think that there's that everyone, every American will benefit uh from uh the Voting Rights Act getting gutted. Uh until then, look, we're gonna continue to have people who make hay out of race uh in an effort to prop up their own power. And what you're describing, sadly, is just a another instance of that of people putting the path to their own power above what their constituents really care about.

SPEAKER_01 16:25

Yeah, absolutely. All right. Well, Bradley, thank you so much. And you can follow Bradley J on Breitbark.com. And are you on the Fight Club and anything that's coming up or out now?

SPEAKER_00 16:37

Absolutely, absolutely. We're gonna film another uh episode of Breitbark Confidential today where we break down e uh more of these races in even fuller detail. So keep a look out for that.

SPEAKER_01 16:47

All right, very good. You can go to Breitbark.com and click on the Fight Club tab. We appreciate your time. We'll talk to you next time.