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Townhall Review | Conservative Commentary On Today's News

All We Really Needed Was a New President | Dan & Amy with Senator Ron Johnson

Townhall Review | Conservative Commentary On Today's News

Salem Podcast Network

Politics, News, News Commentary

4.7697 Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2025

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Dan Proft & Amy Jacobson talk with Senator Ron Johnson about Trump's strong stance on border security, emphasizing the political consequences of open-border policies and the tragic stories that illustrate their impact. Senator Johnson argues that securing the border is a matter of public safety, not politics, and criticizes Democrats for their ideological stance on immigration and cultural issues.

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0:00.0

Thanks for listening to the Town Hall Review with Hugh Hewitt podcast, bringing to you the best voices on the stories and issues that matter.

0:07.5

Here's another piece I'll trust you enjoy.

0:10.2

Arguably the line of the night, because the issue was perhaps the most impactful in last year's election,

0:19.6

the line of the night from President, again, Trump, was on border security.

0:25.6

The media and our friends in the Democrat Party kept saying we needed new legislation.

0:32.1

We must have legislation to secure the border.

0:35.1

But it turned out that all we really needed was a new president.

0:42.5

And boom goes the dynamite.

0:44.1

Boom goes the dynamite.

0:45.3

And it was.

0:46.5

Yeah.

0:47.1

And by the way, that's not me saying it, perhaps the most impactful.

0:50.3

That's none other than David Lianhart opinion section boss over at the Grey Lady.

1:00.1

Oh, my goodness.

1:01.0

Oh, what's going on there?

1:02.5

We're in Haiti territory.

1:03.7

Now, we had 8 million immigrants coming to the country.

1:08.3

It appears about 5 million of them entered illegally, a vastly faster pace than under Trump or Obama.

1:14.2

Almost immediately, immigration surged. It was never what most Americans, never what most American

1:20.8

voters wanted, and it was particularly not what lower income voters across races wanted.

1:29.5

Well, that didn't matter because when you're an open borders ideologue, you're not particularly interested in what lower income voters or

1:33.9

anybody else has to say about what you're doing and they paid a political price for it.

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