In this episode, Lisa welcomes Bernie Moreno, a U.S. Senate candidate from Ohio, to discuss the critical importance of the upcoming November 5th election. Moreno shares his background as an immigrant and business leader, expressing concerns about the Biden-Harris administration's policies on immigration and the auto industry. He highlights the impact of these policies on local communities and businesses, urging voter engagement to counteract external funding in his opponent's campaign. The Truth with Lisa Boothe is part of the Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Podcast Network - new episodes debut every Monday & Thursday.
We're going to be hyper focused on the November fifth election in the coming weeks. It's just such an important election. I mean, we look at what has happened under the Biden Harris administration. We all knew that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris will be bad, but who could have imagined them being this bad. We've seen open borders, We've seen the economy tank, we've seen instability around the world, just absolute chaos at every corner of the nation and every corner of the world. Even more than that, this is a party that doesn't believe in freedom, that believes in jailing its political opponents, that will turn this country into something even more unrecognizable than what we're already saying. So it is imperative that not only Donald Trump wins, but also that Republicans maintained the House and went back to Senate as well. So we're going to be featuring a lot of the Republican candidates who are running for the United States Senate as well as candidates for running for the House as well, because it's important that one if Donald Trump wins, that they're able to advance his agenda in Congress. And then secondly, worst case scenario he does not win, that they're able to block Kamala Harris and the further damage that she wants to do this nation. So we recently had Captain Sam Brown on who's running in the state of Nevada, and today we're going to talk to Bernie Marino, who's running for Senate in Ohio against Shared Brown. This is a business guy. He purchased his first car dealership in two thousand and five, investing every cent that he had. At one point in twenty sixteen, he owned fifteen different dealerships. He also, in twenty eighteen co founded a company called Champ Titles, which eliminates the need for states to issue paper titles. So this is the guy who worked himself up through business as well. He came here at the age of five from Bogada, Columbia, became an American citizen at age eighteen. So he's got an interesting backstory as someone who would know firsthand, you know, one the failures of the Biden Harris administration's immigration policies, but secondly about what her policies, particularly her push to electric vehicles, what that would do for businesses across America as well. So we're going to talk to him about a lot of the news coming from Springfield, Ohio. You've got this small city. We have the mayor on as well on the show. You've got this small town of fifty thousand people absorbing twenty thousand Haitian migrants. Obviously that's become a larger national story. So we're going to take on that just the Biden Harris's failed immigration policies open borders as well. We'll also talk to him about the damage that she would do to the auto industry. I mean, everyone has been trying to take Donald Trump's bloodbath comment out of context, but he's absolutely right of what her policies would do to the auto industry. So we'll talk to him someone who has the inside scoop on that. Also, you know what her policies would do to business owners across America. Why does he even run a run? I mean, you look at the attempted assassination against Donald Trump, you look at the viciousness of the media, the viciousness of the left. Why would anyone want to run in this atmosphere, in this political environment. A lot to get to with Bernie Marino, an important candidate and an important state Ohio is a must win obviously for the president, but also for the path to the Senate as well. So stay tuned for Bernie Marino. Well, Bernie Marino, you're running and the incredibly important state of Ohio. We're just talking about the insanity of this election cycle, you know, to assassination attempts on former President Donald Trump two different Democrat nominees. As a candidate, you know, how do you navigate sort of just this. You know, we still have weeks until the election, so you know, how do you navigate this chaos?
Well, in my campaign, I do what I did in business, which is I focus only at the things that I can control. So what I can control is making certain that we raise the money to have the resources to expel those share rounds, idiots, voting record. We go out and meet voters all over Ohio. So we're traveled four to five hundred miles a day, every single corner of Ohio. One of the advantages I have, Lisa, is that I sold all my operating businesses. My kids are all grown, so I can focus on campaigning all day, every single day. That's what we've been doing for the last seventeen months, and that's what will continue to do for the last forty seven days of this campaign.
I mean, you look at what they've done to you know, former President Donald Trump and you know, trying to jail them, you know the FBI, you know fake investigation into him, you know these assassination At times, I guess you know, why why want this? You know why want to be in politics? Why I want to go to Washington, d C.
Let me just say right up front, It's not something I ever wanted or aspire to do. I've been a business guy my whole life, perfect perfectly happy, creating jobs, creating opportunities for people, creating opportunities for my community and my family. But the greatest gift I've ever gotten in my lifely so, was that my mom and dad brought me to this country. And they not brought me to America, I would never accomplish what I accomplished here anywhere else on Earth. So the question we have to answer is what are you willing to do to save this country for your kids and grandkids? And sitting on the sidelines as we watch these lunatic liberals destroy this country in a way that no military at earth could ever do. I just could not sit by and watch that happen. My dad had a great expression, you either write the book or read the book, and if you're just reading it, don't complain about how it ends. And I'm not going to watch this country and this country is too special. We have to get into the fight. One of the things I hope that happens as a result of me serving in the United States Senate is other business leaders will step up. We've done something to the private sector, go to serve, and like me, come home after a certain period of time. In my case, that's going to be two terms.
So you worked your way through the auto industry until you just your first dealership in two thousand and five, have been immensely successful. And there you also co founded champ Titles, which eliminates the need for states to issue paper titles. You know, you look at some of these policies that Kamala Harris well, first of all that we've seen under the Biden administration, and also what Kamala Harris would do, you know, taxing on realized gains, pushing US towards electric vehicles, you know, how would that impact first of all, Ohio, but just you know the country at large, like being a business owner, how do you operate in you know, Kamala Harris's world, or you know, how would you be able to operate under Kamala Harris as president?
If you're a smaller, medium sized business owner, you'd be completely crushed and devastated because you have no ability to comply with the overburdens and regulations. So what you end up happenings you end up having an enormous consolidation. So you have these giant corporations, and then these giant corporations become the fact though extensions of the government. This is not new. This is what happens in China, is what happens as well at Russia. This is the building lots of communism and socialism. It's what they want. So again, if you're a medium or small business, totally devastated. And that's where you're seeing a lot of these giant company CEOs that have got woah, that do everything they can to placate the government regime, and small medium business owners are wondering what's what's left to them? You know, they they have so many catastrophically bad ideas it's hard to even imagine where they come up with them.
Well, it's also like, you know, her policies are being slammed. You know, when she uh, price controls was slammed by the liberal media and then even you know rokana her own sarrogate on taxing unrealized games, like.
Yeah, this is probably not the best.
It's like when your own people are saying your ideas, uh, you know what, a few ideas you even put out are not good.
You know, it's pretty telling.
I imagine you probably didn't have on your your bingo card Spring Food, Ohio becoming you know, a national news story heading into the election. You've got a town of something like fifty thousand people absorbing you know, something like twenty thousand Haitian migrants in a large part because of a Biden administration's expansion of the Temporary Protected Status program. I guess what did they tell you about, you know, Kamala Harris and the Biden administration's immigration policies, that they believe a town of fifty eight thousand people should absorb twenty thousand people who shouldn't be here.
Well, let's see, clear, they really don't have an immigration policy. What they have is an open borders policy. They don't believe that we're a sovereign country. They believe it's our responsibility to take care of the rest of the world. Look, the Springfield situation is interesting in this exact context. The media ignored this problem for the last three and a half years. It took cat memes to get the media to pay attention. And the reality is, I've been talking about this for a while. This is ground zero of exactly everything that's wrong with the current immigration system. As a lead somebody who followed the process to come here to become a United States citizen the right way. It's infuriating. It's grotesque to watch this country ward people who skip the line, who violate our laws and then are granted special privileges that even American citizens don't get. For example, asylum is not intended to be the only way people come to America. If that's insane. Asylum should be a very, very small, any fraction of the people who come here to America. But this administration has allowed ten to twelve million people to falsely claim asylum in our southern border and then release them into the country, encouraging millions of people to violate our laws. But to make it even worse, those asylum seekers get things that need not even American citizens would dream of. Free food, free phone, free healthcare, free housing, free education, free airline ticket anywhere you want in America, a stipend every single month. If you work your tail off in this country, you get fifteen or sixteen hundred dollars in solid security. If you're an asylum seeker, you get a stipend of up to twenty two hundred dollars a month. That's obscene. And then, to make it worse, the Harris Biden administration, with the full support of Sheer Brown, rant a temporary protective status, which is a shield that's not intended to take care of illegal entering asylum seekers. It's intended for a totally different purpose. And then they continue to extend this temporary operative word temporary protective status. So they've totally corrupted our immigration system. And by the way, let me just this is a really important point that's not covered. Well, twenty thousand people in Springfield is not because there's twenty thousand new jobs. It's maybe if I exaggerate, two or three hundred jobs that have been created in Springfield. So the question is what are the other nineteen or twenty plus thousand people doing there. They're dependent and the United States taxpayer to house and feed them and take care of them. We are thirty five trillion dollars in debt. We have our own citizens that are absolutely struggling. Why I eard are we importing foreign nationals to be dependent on our social safety net system.
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But let's think of that for a second. Here's the difference. The people of Streeingfield, Ohio are predominantly working class Americans that have modest homes that where they live in three hundred and sixty five days a year. They live there because they probably can't afford to live in Columbus or Dayton or looking for a lower cost of living. The people in Martha's Vineyard, this is their third home, their fourth home, their fifth home. These are gigantic, multimillion dollar mansions. If you are going to say, hey, let's bring in foreign nationals that we want to house and feed, you take care of, you'd actually take them to Martha's Vineyard where you have plenty of capacity. The difference. In Martha's Vineyard, you're talking about the we well connected elite to this country that are the ones that fund the Democrat Party. And of course in Springfield you're talking about working class Americans that patly vote for President Trump. That's the contrast. And the number in Martha Zenyu was just over fifty, like five zero, and the National Guard was brought in to absolutely get rid of every last one of them. Is Springfield, twenty thousand people completely dependent on the government, raising the cost of rent, raising the cost of insurance, causing enormous problems in the schools and on the roads of Springfield. But nobody cares because it's not the elites of this country. This is what the issue in Springfield really highlights, that the elites in this country want a different set of rules for themselves than the rest of us. Were going to make certain that that does not happen, and we restore the power of the people of this country. You deserve it.
What I think Americans are moving in that direction when you look at Pulling and you know the vast majority of Americans now support mass deportations, when you know previously it was taboo is you know you don't want that, And then you know now because the Biden Harris administration's policies have been or you know, their actions have been so bad, you know they've now turned Americans in the opposite direction. You know, I wanted to ask you, I wanted to dig in a little bit more on you know, obviously more in President Donald Trump's bloodbath comment about the auto industry has been taken entirely out of context because he was right. I mean, what camal Ayras wants to do is move everyone to you know, electric vehicles, move us all off gas powered vehicles. You know, someone who has spent his career in the auto industry. What would that do for the auto industry. Some of these policies that she'd like to push us towards.
Well, we've already lost about a third of auto industry to overseas, mostly Mexico. Third of our industry gone has devastated towns like Dayton, Toledo, Lorraine. You know, shared around attends more plant closings than any other person I've ever known. He's the grim Reaper of manufacturing. If he's at your business, it is probably be if it's closing. So what we would see is we would see the Chinese takeover the auto industry. They would build these massive factories in Mexico for battery electric vehicles where they control most of the base materials. They would then ship them into the US and their minds terror free. So President Trump was talking about is if we allow that that auto industry will be devastated, the will be a bloodbat. Of course, the media orderly twisted that because Lisa you said it. President Trump is exactly right. So what we've got to do. The question is what's the solution. The solution is this, get out of the incentive's business. The government should not decide what kind of car people should buy. They should now incentivize one technology to the detriment of the other. They should allow the market forces, they'll vote with their pocketbook from those consumers to pick the car they want is what will dictate the pace of innovation. So getting rid of all EV mandates, all the BV incentives, and I would take it a step further. Let's freeze the cafe requirements for a decade. Let's make certain that California can that allow or dictate a different emission standards for the rest of the country. And what you'll see is American innovation. American ingenuity will flourish. Our auto industry will absolutely recover and will build these good middle class jobs right here in Ohio and Michigan and Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. This is the heartland of this country. We've seen all the opposite policies and policies that by by the way, Republicans and Democrats together pursued over the last few decades have destroyed the heart of this country. We're going to fix that. That's why he's so popular. Why President Trump is so popular at Ohio is because he knows that he's on the right track and he's going to get this stuff done.
Yeah, obviously there's a lot going on in the country and the world. You know what keeps you up at night, you know what's sort of driving you right now in terms of, you know, wanting to get to the Senate and wanting to turn the trajectory of the country around.
Second chance on November sixth, Lisa, that's what keeps me up at night. I want to make certain that I know that I did everything I humanly could to make certain that I win this selection, because one way or the other on the presidential level, control the United States Senate is absolutely imperative as either the emergency break haven forbid Kamala Harris or to win, or the engine that allows our agenda to get done. And I'm very optimistic about the latter. Lisa. I thought to a lot of my hopefully future colleagues, and we are fully united with the idea that at seventeen and eighteen. We missed a great opportunity to get really great things done for the American people, to actually massively shrink to size the government, get rid of agencies that we don't need, like the Department of Education. Let's states focus on that. Give them the money, let them do it. Get a healthcare system that works for America. Make sure we have peace and stability around the world. The ninety four executive orders that President Trump put in place at secured our border, we can do those legislatively. So what drives me is the hope and promise that we're going to restore America for my kids and great kids and your kids and great kids. And I believe we get there. But it's got to be a full blowed effort for every single patriot in this country who will not allow this country to go off a cliff like every other country has.
No I agree, well said. And then where can people before we go? Where can people find you? You donate and if they're in Ohio, you know, sign up to help out.
You can go on Berniemurto dot com. The website's right behind me. You know, every dollar matters, you know, five dollar contribution, a twenty dollars contribution, he makes a difference. Sure Brown raises money from every dark money organization the country. He's got more lobbyists in his office than any other senator. He just bragged about Gavin Newsom raisium eighty five thousand dollars and John Legend raisium one hundred thousand dollars. You know this is his money comes prodomably from outside Ohio. So if you're outside Ohio, look, this race is going to be whether we control the senator or not. If you're inside Ohio, put up a yard sign, get some literature passed out, make a phone calls, knock on doors. Vote early October eighth. You to start voting. Vote early, there's no reason to wait. Get your vote in their bank. It four weeks of early voting starts October eighth. Make certain that you're registered by October seventh. Let's win this selection, and such big numbers that we show up at the ballot box. You just show the American people that we want this country back, that we want to restore American greatest. Go out there and vote like your country depends on it, because it does.
I agree, Bernie Marino, I hope you get to the Senate. We're praying for you, praying for this country. We appreciate your time, sir, Thank you Lisa, those Bernie Marino running for Senate in Ohio. Appreciate him making the time. Appreciate you guys at home for listening every Monday and Thursday, but you can listen throughout the week. I want to thank John Cassio, my producer, for putting the show together. Until next time,