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Glenn's response to the 'TRUMP vs DESANTIS' fight

Glenn is not going to engage in the "Trump vs DeSantis" fight. Instead, he has a message for conservatives: We are blessed to have both men on the side of freedom. They are both fighters that get things done. As Democrats float Biden and even a Liz Cheney/Stacey Abrams ticket for 2024, Glenn asks: do they have even ONE fighter of Trump or DeSantis' caliber? And he warns that Democrats would want nothing more than for Republicans to tear themselves apart. So, don't give them what they want...

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GLENN: I want to talk to you a little bit about what is -- what period of time we're now entering. We are entering. And we are still at this point, what I believe is the last phase of America, as we know it.

What comes, next, is an entirely new system, or a restoration of the original system. And it is still not decided. And it is going to be a fight to the -- to the wire. Fight to the finish. It's going to be a photo finish.

Let me give you this piece of information, to begin with. An endorsement, according to polls, an endorsement from President Biden made an individual less likely to support a candidate.

If a candidate was endorsed by President Joe Biden, would it make you more or less likely to vote for that candidate?

46 percent said a Biden endorsement would make it less likely to support a candidate. While 28 percent said it would be more likely to support a candidate. Have you seen polls like this? On Donald Trump? When it comes to Republican candidates.

Republican candidates, that he endorsed, did well. Some of them. Some of them did not. Right now, we are blessed by having Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis, both on our side.

They are both fighters. They both have different styles. But both of them get things done.

Yesterday, and I'm not going to get into it. Yesterday, Donald Trump attacked Ron DeSantis, on truth social.

And people started arguing, immediately, online.

I am not going to engage in this. And I urge you to not engage in this. We have an opportunity, right now, to have both of these guys, on our side. I want both of them in the fight.

This is not a fight that is going to happen, because of one man. This is going to happen, because you are involved. And all of us are pulling in the same direction.

And whether Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis know it, they're pulling in exactly the same direction.

DeSantis should come out and say, look, right now, you know Trump is responding to a lot of people that are trying to pit us against each other. He should say nothing bad about Donald Trump. He should admit that Trump is right. He helped him win the governor's office.

But he should also say that he considers Donald Trump a friend, and that Donald Trump has been there his entire life. And if Trump isn't talking about you, you're doing something wrong. But he has nothing bad to say about Donald Trump.

Now, I've said this to people, and they've said, wasn't that the Ted Cruz?

And I said, well, yes. And no.

Ted Cruz had words to go on. Ron DeSantis can just be quiet, and just keep doing his job. I am also not somebody, who -- who is -- I learned my lesson in 2016.

I learned my lesson.

My way is not usually the right way. Sometimes it is. Sometimes it's not.

But I am tired of trying to overthink elections. Let the American people, and more importantly, God sort it out.

If we remain loyal to what we believe, we're going to be fine. I thought Donald Trump was going to be the worst president ever. He turned out to be one of the best presidents of my life, policy-wise.

So am I upset that maybe Donald Trump will have another turn?

Nope!

Nope. Am I upset that Donald Trump may have another turn, and he spends four years, and Ron DeSantis finishes up in Florida, and then he does an eight-year term. Nope. Not at all.

I think that's fantastic. Would I -- would I mind if Donald Trump decided to bow out? I think it would be a loss, if we lost him as a vocal supporter. If he just kind of disappeared.

I think it would be a bad thing.

If he decided, I'm not going to second guess Donald Trump, I did that once. It was foolish to do.

Here's what I would suggest: Let's count our blessings, of having two great fighters. Can you name one on the democratic side?

Did you hear that -- in fact, I want to play this for you. This is crazy. Play cut four. This is MSNBC. Listen to this.

VOICE: What about we pair up Liz Cheney and Stacey Abrams, and actually talk about universal voting, and election reform?

I can see them doing kind of a czar thing with the administration, that's completely bipartisan. That would be exciting.

VOICE: That's --

GLENN: Stop. Stop. That would be exciting?

Good. That's who they're thinking. That's what they've got going for them. Here's Biden, play cut three, another of the brain trust.

BIDEN: And you help me keep my commitment. And I will help promote the first black woman to the Supreme Court, justice Jackson. Guess what, she's probably the smartest person on the Supreme Court.

GLENN: She's probably the smartest.

She couldn't identify what a woman was. She's probably the smartest woman on the Supreme Court. Wow. That's an incredible thing to say.

This is their brain trust. Let's celebrate that we have two of them. And let the system work it out.

We cannot separate ourselves from one another. If Donald Trump wins the nomination, I am all in.

If -- if Ron DeSantis wins the nomination, I am all in.

It is really important that we don't divide ourselves. That's what the Democrats do. That's what they need. You know if you look at -- I read a great op-ed. Let's see if I can find it. Read a great op-ed today.

From, gosh, I think she's an intern at the Federalist.

And she was writing about New York. And she said, you know New York is not necessarily a loss. Let's look at this in perspective. We've heard people say, that, yeah. Well, there's no way, they can win. Because all of the people that agreed with the conservatives have moved.

Well, that's not entirely true. Look how close he got. If all of those people that believed in you know constitutional rule, left, well, there's still a lot of people there, that are convinced of it.

And as things get worse and worse. There's only two ways that it then can go. Only more people wake up, or more people are duped.

I don't know which way it's going. But if they got rid of all of the people, that could have swayed this, it was still pretty damn close.

More and more people are waking up. I just want you to know, it's never my way or the highway here.

I'm going to have opinions on things. Both for and against DeSantis. For and against Trump.

That's what you pay me for, with your time.

We may disagree. I celebrate that. I think we should have disagreements. Lockstep is not the American way. We need to have those disagreements. But we need to be able to walk away, and respect one another.

So I'm going to do my utmost to earn your respect. On how I handle myself, on this.

But I want you to know, up front, I am a big supporter of Donald Trump.

And I am a big supporter of Ron DeSantis. Donald Trump has proven himself under the microscope, that is every intelligence agency under the planet. And every media source on the planet.

He has -- he has not broken a sweat under that light. That's hard to do. And he has proven himself to be true to some of the things that he promised us. In fact, I think most of the things that he promised us.

He did -- he actually completed. Ron DeSantis is doing the same thing, except at a state. And we need them at state and federal.

And I will happily be for either one of those. Let's stay focused.

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Salena Zito reveals WHY Trump said “Fight! Fight! Fight!”

“I have a new purpose,” then-candidate Donald Trump told reporter Salena Zito after surviving the assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania. Salena joins Glenn Beck to reveal what Trump told her about God, his purpose in life, and why he really said, “Fight! Fight! Fight!”, as she details in her new book, “Butler: The Untold Story of the Near Assassination of Donald Trump and the Fight for America's Heartland”.

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GLENN: Salena, congratulations on your book. It is so good.

Just started reading it. Or listening to it, last night.

And I wish you would have -- I wish you would have read it. But, you know, the lady you have reading it is really good.

I just enjoy the way you tell stories.

The writing of this is the best explanation on who Trump supporters are. That I think I've ever read, from anybody.

It's really good.

And the description of your experience there at the edge of the stage with Donald Trump is pretty remarkable as well. Welcome to the program.

SALENA: Thank you, Glenn. Thank you so much for having me.

You know, I was thinking about this, as I was ready to come on. You and I have been along for this ride forever. For what?

Since 2006? 2005?

Like 20 years, right?

GLENN: Yeah. Yeah.

SALENA: And I've been chronicling the American people for probably ten more years, before that. And it's really remarkable to me, as watching how this coalition has grown. Right?

And watching how people have the -- have become more aspirational.

And that's -- and that is what the conservative populist coalition is, right?

It is the aspirations of many, but the celebration of the individual.

And chronicling them, yeah. Has been -- has been, a great honor.

GLENN: You know, I was thinking about this yesterday, when -- when Elon Musk said he was starting another party.

And somebody asked me, well, isn't he doing what the Tea Party tried to do?

No. The Tea Party was not going to start a new party.

It was to -- you know, it was to coerce and convince the Republican Party to do the right thing. And it worked in many ways. It didn't accomplish what we hoped.

But it did accomplish a lot of things.

Donald Trump is a result of the Tea Party.

I truly believe that. And a lot of the people that were -- right?

Were with Donald Trump, are the people that were with the Tea Party.


SALENA: That's absolutely right.

So that was the inception.

So American politics has always had movements, that have been just outside of a party. Or within a party.

That galvanize and broaden the coalition. Right? They don't take away. Or walk away, and become another party.

If anything, if there is a third party out there, it's almost a Republican Party.

Because it has changed in so many viable and meaningful ways. And the Tea Party didn't go away. It strengthened and broadened the Republican Party. Because these weren't just Republicans that became part of this party.

It was independents. It was Democrats.

And just unhappy with the establishment Republicans. And unhappy with Democrats.

And that -- that movement is what we -- what I see today.

What I see every day. What I saw that day, in butler, when I showed I happen at that rally.

As I do, so many rallies, you know, throughout my career. And that one was riveting and changed everything.

GLENN: You made a great case in the opening chapter. You talk about how things were going for Donald Trump.

And how this moment really did change everything for Donald Trump.

Changed the trajectory, changed the mood.

I mean, Elon Musk was not on the Trump train, until this.

SALENA: Yeah.

GLENN: Moment. What do I -- what changed? How -- how did that work?

And -- and I contend, that we would have much more profound change, had the media actually done their job and reported this the way it really was. Pragmatism

SALENA: You know, and people will find this in the book. I'm laying on the ground with an agent on top of me.

I'm 4 feet away from the president.

And there's -- there's notices coming up on my phone. Saying, he was hit by broken glass.

And to this take, that remains part of this sibling culture, in American politics.

Because reporters were -- were so anxious to -- to right what they believed happened.

As opposed to what happened.

And it's been a continual frustration of mine, as a reporter, who is on the ground, all the time.

And I'll tell you, what changed in that moment.

And I say a nuance, and I believe nuance is dead in American journalism.

But it was a nuance and it was a powerful conversation, that I had with President Trump, the next day. He called me the next morning.

But it's a powerful conversation I had with him, just two weeks ago.

When he made this decision to say, fight, fight, fight.

People have put in their heads, why they think he said it. But he told me why he said that. And he said, Salena, in that moment, I was not Donald Trump the man. I was a former president. I was quite possibly going to be president again.

And I had an obligation to the country, and to the office that I have served in, to project strength. To project resolve.

To project that we will not be defeated.

And it's sort of like a symbolic eagle, that is always -- you know, that symbol that we look at, when we think about our country.

He said, that's why I said that. I didn't want the people behind me panicking. I didn't want the people watching, panicking.

I had to show strength. And it's that nuance -- that I think people really picked up on.

And galvanized people.

GLENN: So he told me, when he was laying down on the stage.

And you can hear him. Let me get up. Let me get up.

I've got to get up.

He told me, as I was laying on the stage. I asked him, what were you thinking? What was going through your head? Now, Salena, I don't know about you.

But with me. It would be like, how do I get off the stage? My first was survival.

He said, what was going on through his mind was, you're not pathetic. This is pathetic.

You're not afraid. Get up.

Get up.

And so is that what informed his fight, fight, fight, of that by the time that he's standing up, he's thinking, I'm a symbol? Or do you think he was thinking, I'm a symbol, this looks pathetic. It makes you look weak.

Stand up. How do you think that actually happened?

SALENA: He thinks, and we just talked about this weeks ago. He -- you know, and this is something that he's really thought about.

Right? You know, he's gone over and over and over. And also, purpose and God. Right? These are things that have lingered with him.

You know, he -- he thought, yes.

He did think, it was pathetic that he was on the ground. But he wasn't thinking about, I'm Donald Trump. It's pathetic.

He's thinking, my country is symbolically on the ground. I need to get up, and I need to show that my country is strong.

That our country is resolute.

And I need people to see that.

We can't go on looking like pathetic.

Right?

And I think that then goes to that image of Biden.

GLENN: You have been with so many presidents.

How many presidents do you think that you've personally been with, would have thought that and reacted that way?

SALENA: Probably only Reagan. Reagan would have. Reagan probably would have thought that.

And if you remember how he was out like standing outside.

You know, waving out the window. Right?

After he was shot.

GLENN: At the hospital, right.

SALENA: Had he not been knocked out, unconscious, you know, he probably would have done the same thing.

Because he was someone who deeply believed in American exceptionalism.

And American exceptionalism does not go lay on the ground.

GLENN: And the symbol.

Right. The symbol of the presidency.

SALENA: Yeah. Absolutely. And I think that affects him today.

GLENN: So let me go back to God.

Because you talked to him the next day. And your book Butler.

He calls you up.

I love the fact that your parents would be ashamed of you. On what you said to him.

The language you used. That you just have to read the book.

It's just a great part.

But he calls you the next morning. And wants to know if you're okay.

And you -- you then start talking to him, about God.

And I was -- I was thinking about this, as I was listening to it. You know, Lincoln said, I wasn't -- I wasn't a Christian.

Even though, he was.

I wasn't a Christian, when I was elected. I wasn't a Christian when my son died.

I became a Christian at Gettysburg.

Is -- is -- I mean, I believe Donald Trump always believes in God, et cetera, et cetera.

Do you think there was a real profound change at Butler with him?


SALENA: Absolutely. You know, he called me seven times that day. Seven times, the take after seven.

GLENN: Crazy.

SALENA: Talked about. And I think he was looking for someone that he knew, that was there. And to try to sort it out.

Right? And I let him do most of the talking. I didn't pressure him.

At all. I believed that he was having -- you know, he was struggling. And he needed to just talk. And I believed my purpose was to listen.

Right? I know other reporters would have handled it differently. And that's okay. That's not the kind of reporter that I am.

And I myself was having my own like, why didn't I die?

Right?

Because it went right over my head.

And -- and so I -- he had the conversation about God.

He's funny. I thought it was the biggest mosquito in the world that hit me.

But he had talked profoundly about purpose. You know, and God.

And how God was in that moment.

It --

GLENN: I love the way you -- in the book, I love the way you said that as he's kind of working it out in his own he head.

He was like, you know, I -- I -- I always knew that there was some sort of, you know -- that God was present.

He said, but now that this has happened.

I look back at all of the trials.

All of the tribulations. Literally, the trials.

All of the things that have happened. And he's like, I realized God was there the whole time.

SALENA: Yes. He does. And it's fascinating to have been that witness to history, to have those conversations with him. Because I'm telling you. And y'all know, I can talk. I didn't say much of anything.

I just -- I just listened. I felt that was my purpose, in that moment.

To give him that space, to work it out.

I'm someone that is, you know, believes in God.

I'm Catholic. I followed my faith.

And -- and so, I thought, well, this is why God put me here. Right?

And to -- to have that -- to hear him talk about purpose, to hear him say, Salena. Why did I put a chart down?

I'm like, sir. I don't know. I thought you were Ross Perot for a second.

He never has a chart. And he laughed. And then he said, why did I put that chart down?

By that term, I never turned my head away from people at the rally. That's true.

That relationship is very transactional. It's very -- they feed off of each other.

It's a very emotive moment when you attend a rally. Because he has a way of talking at a rally. That you believe that you are seeing.

And he said, and I never turn my head away.

I never turn my head away.

Why did I turn my head away?

I don't remember consciously thinking about turning my head away. And then he says to me, that was God, wasn't it?

Yes, sir. It was. It was God.

And he said, that's -- that's why I have a new purpose.

And so, Glenn. I think it's important, when you look at the breadth of what has happened, since he was sworn in.

You see that purpose, every day.

He doesn't let up.

He continues going.

And it brings back to the beginning of the book.

Where you find out, that there was another president that was shot at in Butler.

And that was George Washington. And how different the country would have been, had he died in that moment.

And now think about how different the country would be, had President Trump died in that moment. There would be --

GLENN: We're talking to -- we're talking to Salena Zito. About her new book called Butler. The assassination attempt on President Trump. And it is riveting.

And, you know, it is so good. I wish the press would read it. Because it really explains who we are, who Trump supporters are. Who are, you know, red staters. It is so good at that. She's the best at that.