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Eric Hovde: “We got pretty quickly consolidated down to four media…”

Featuring: Eric Hovde, Republican | Former Candidate, U.S. Senate Wisconsin

Eric Hovde, Ben Shapiro interview

Published October 4, 2024 | Video Starts at 29:58

A tv station couldn't be owned by, you know, couldn't be connected with Hollywood by a movie studio, couldn't be connected with radio couldn't. Everything was splintered. He eviscerated that. We got pretty quickly consolidated down to four media complexes. And what also happened with that? All of a sudden, all these Clinton operatives went into the media and then all these Obama operatives. So when you watch ABC News, remember who George Stephanopoulos was. (29:58–30:04)

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Eric Hovde

“Over 50% of people in America and Wisconsin feel that they've been in a recession the last two years.”
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“We've never had real wages decline for three years in a row.”
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“They collapse the purchasing power of everybody's dollars by 22%.”
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“If you took the way they measured inflation back into the eighties, it's almost a decline by 40%.”
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“Wealth inequality grew more under President Obama than at any time.”
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“Real wages rose by 7.7% [under President Trump].”
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“Wealth inequality skyrocketed again under President Biden.”
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“GDP is almost all deficit spending.”
Eric Hovde, Ben Shapiro interview | Uploaded October 4, 2024 | 03:47-03:51
“The National association of Home Builders estimates now that 25% to 30% of housing cost is tied to taxes, impact fees and regulations.”
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“Madison makes it almost impossible to build [single-family homes].”
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“They're making it so much more difficult to even land, plan and zone for single family homes in a city like Madison.”
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“Ronald Reagan...defeated the Soviet Union economically and with words.”
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“We have more Americans not involved, working age Americans not involved in the workforce than ever before.”
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“Today our welfare system is bigger than it was before Bill Clinton [and] Newt Gingrich did [welfare reform].”
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“We felt it when they dropped 1000 illegal immigrants in Whitewater, a town of 13, 14,000, the budget went upside down immediately.”
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“ICE put out numbers that, what was it? 13,800 former convicted murderers are in our country.”
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“15,700 people that were convicted of sexual assault have been brought into our country.”
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“People with a criminal background. It's something to the tune of 350,000.”
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“Venezuela dumped their jail cells into our country, no different than what Castro did during the Mariel boatlift.”
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“We're at one of the highest terrorist watch alerts levels by the FBI right now in this country today.”
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“We lost 108,000 Americans last year to fentanyl, 112,000 the year before.”
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“They can't account for anywhere between 80 to 100,000 children.”
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“We have modern day slavery going on in this country today.”
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“Senator Baldwin is one of the ones pushing this big.”
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“We get taxed in our local community. We know how to educate our kids in our local community.”
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“They created this thing called the Department of Education. One of the worst monstrosities that's ever been created.”
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“They send our money up to Washington, DC, they take off this big chunk of it, they send our money back to our communities.”
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“Only 27% of our kids in this state can read at grade level.”
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“Lesser proficient at mathematic at that level.”
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“If I get to the US Senate, one thing I'm going to say, hey, there's the spot to save a lot of money and do America a lot better. Closing…”
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“They sent a group of protesters, largely transgender people, to my house.”
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“They've manufactured phony lawsuits against my companies just to try to write a hit piece.”
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“We used to have some of the most complex antitrust laws where, you know, a tv station, you couldn't own two tv stations in a market.”
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“Milwaukee's journal Sentinel subscriber base is only 42,000 now. Now that probably was almost a quarter million 30 years ago.”
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“Gannett stock, you can pull it up. This company will probably be bankrupt in two years.”
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“My most embarrassing moment as an American, was just the most incompetent withdrawal from Afghanistan.”
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“You would have thought we would have kept Bagram Air force Base, which was so strategic to that part of the world.”
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“We lost 13 marines that day.”
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“We left billions of dollars of the high tech military equipment behind.”
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“Putin moved on Ukraine, the ayatollah of Iran moved through their proxies, Hamas and Hezbollah on Israel.”
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“China's gotten more and more aggressive.”
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“President Obama thought he could cut a deal with Iran.”
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“He transferred money to them and loosened up economic sanctions on Iran.”
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“ISIS started growing very rapidly.”
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“President Trump came in, said this was one of the worst policies. He shut it down, put severe economic sanctions on Iran.”
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“Their economy was cratering, there were protests.”
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“Joe Biden goes back and doubles down on the policy that failed miserably that President Obama signed off on.”
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“Released all those sanctions, gave them money.”
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“Hamas would have never moved ever without directions from Iran.”
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“Hezbollah would have never moved. All their funding, all their direction comes from [Iran].”
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“We have to understand that China and Iran and Russia are all accesses of evil.”
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