Chad Holmes Show: Thursday, 1/29. (Trump endorses Alfonso. Sean Wright)

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Ian, do we have a, someone called in?

Yes, it's our good friend, Cornel.

He actually has a, he'll have to talk a few seconds about Tom, Tiffany, maybe we can tie

it into

the new, some endorsement as well.

Cornel, good morning.

Well, thanks for the great show.

I'm just so very upset.

You know, I can hardly talk about the actions of Trump.

We lost two,

beautiful people, Alex Petrie and Renee Good and some called them terrorists and they're just wonderful people and anybody that takes the endorsement of Trump should never hold office again.

By the way, Cornell, did you see, um, earlier in the week when Tom Tiffany held a press conference down in Madison, he was asked about the tragedy that occurred this past weekend and he, you know, he's basically spouts off his normal stuff.

And then he's asked, and he never even looked at the video.

How can you be somebody who wants to be a leader and ignore evidence just because it may contradict what your

Line of attack is I thought that was outrageous

It's just horrible and I'm glad I Mean I'm just it's just horrifying.

It's I've been watching the assassination and execution of Alex and I'm glad everybody on the comedy hours have stand up to even have pictures of them and they

I really honored them.

That's Colbert and Kimball.

And it's just horrible.

I mean, we've got a guy that should be impeached.

And I would never take endorsement from a person that was involved in a child sex ring.

And it's just horrible with the Epstein things.

And every day they're violating the Constitution of the United States.

They're not following it, and we have this great constitution in the United States that has lasted over 250 years, and they've set it on fire.

And these people in Congress have sworn on their family bibles to support the Constitution of the United States, and they've set it on fire, and it's really a horrible thing.

And I just want to say, I also want to say,

that we have so many tremendous nurses and doctors in Aspirus.

And it's kind of hard to talk that they saved my wife twice in her life.

She walked in the hospital on Friday, and on Sunday she walked out just normal and strong.

And I want to thank all the hospitals in the area for these tremendous ICU nurses.

Every night, they have to take care of patients and they don't know if they're going to live or die.

And they're just wonderful people.

I call them walking angels.

But nobody that should be in office that isn't endorsed by President Trump.

because he should be impeached uh... you know if you

if you

get catch jimmy jimmy kimmelayah's uh... show on monday and he listed a dozen things horrible trumpets but i want to just say that uh... i hope we get a great candidate i am uh...

you know

there's so many candidates flying around now uh... who's uh... running against uh... tiffany

Or is it too early?

Well, I would say that.

I'm very impressed.

We've had the opportunity here on this program over the last three weeks to talk.

I think the sixth of the Democratic candidates for governor.

Michael Crowley, the Milwaukee County Executive, I was very impressed with.

We had Mandela Barnes, who I thought also did

a

terrific job, but we had Sara Rodriguez.

I think the Democrats have a lot of folks that will be very strong.

Whoever ultimately comes out of this primary, I think will be very strong because Tom Tiffany has a lot of weaknesses.

He does.

I apologize.

I know I remember.

I'm older and my friend.

No, no, no, no.

It's all good.

And it gives me a chance to remind folks so you can listen back to those discussions as well.

Yeah.

Yeah.

No, I

just caught the part of the debate.

Yeah.

There's some strong candidates

there, but

I don't know who's going to come out leading.

It's

what

we'll have to wait and see

you're right.

I'm sorry No, no, it's the thing about it as well.

It's we have time I mean we want to have the make sure that the strongest candidate is able to go through this primary and and it's not until August at the primary So I think there's a lot of time to be able to to listen to these kind of candidates because I think we're at an era and I think that a lot of the folks that We've heard from they want strength now they want they want

People that are willing to stand up against mega ism and and the type of politics that is pushed forward by people like Tom Tiffany and Donald Trump

Well, yeah

30 we have about 30 seconds for now.

So any final thoughts?

Thank you civic media and you all and I watch the show and forgetting the word out and doing what is right and I hope we can you know

We've got to make Wisconsin great, and the thing is to just, you know, go Democratic because they're on the right side of...

Thank you, Cornell.

We have a break.

Hard break here.

We'll talk about the Trump endorsement of Michael Alfonso at 8.52.

And next, it's Sean Wright on WX.

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Well, Michael Alfonso

And I've actually known Michael Alfonso because he used to play football at Newman Catholic.

Yeah.

Yeah, he was a Newman Catholic grad football player there for coach Paul Mickleg and the Cardinals.

And he is now running for Congress in the seventh congressional district.

He is 25 years old, which is the minimum that you have to be in order to run for Congress.

Really?

And yep, so he's just barely old enough.

And this week.

He has been endorsed by Donald J. Trump, president of the United States.

Well, who would have thought?

Alfonso is also the son-in-law of Sean Duffy, who is the secretary of transportation in the Trump administration.

Of course.

But there's getting some pushback from Republicans and conservatives on this endorsement.

And actually, our friend, Pat Critello, has a good write-up on UpNorthNewsWI.com about this.

talking about Alfonso's record of of voting and where he lives and his work basically Pat Crichtler reports that Alfonso has an active voter registration in Florida not Wisconsin where he voted in 2024 has an inactive Madison record and an active record at his in-laws homes and home in Hayward That's Sean Duffy's home in Hayward though.

He's never voted there

The thing that's also packed right low says working against Alfonzo is not just the youth and inexperience, but his voting history and also the fact that There's some pushback.

He's he reports that the conservative website Wisconsin right now right now

Right on the political spectrum.

There you go.

Yeah, you got it there.

It's gonna be a second to click.

There you go.

But the conservative website Wisconsin right now has run a series of social media posts questioning Alfonzo's qualifications compared to other Republicans seeking the chance to succeed.

Tom Tiffany, who is running for governor.

The post point out his lack of job experience beyond some construction work and as a podcast producer.

And I was actually talking to some folks yesterday and

I may disagree with, say, Kevin Hermione on a lot of issues, and I do.

I disagree with Kevin Hermione on a lot of issues, and he's also running for the 7th Congressional District seat.

We've done him on the show before.

Absolutely, but the point is that... There are certain things that you have to be able to do to do the job well.

And there's a lot of question marks on whether or not Michael Alfonso's experience or lack thereof would allow him to be a representative because there are people, Republican, Democrat, independent, whatever you are, that from time to time will need the help of a congressman for an issue that has nothing to do with politics.

It just says, well, you need to call up your representative, the person that you have put in to office to represent you, to help you in some matter.

Would Michael Alfonso be able to do the basic

Tenants of the job.

I don't know.

I don't think so at this point based on the record I think that as much as I disagree with Kevin Hermione He's got governmental experience.

He's got experience in the business world where you think well He would at least be able to help you if you made a call you needed help with some sort of issue that deals with the federal government so again the seventh congressional district has Republicans who are running

Michael Alfonso, Kevin Hermanine, Jesse Eben and Paul Wasgren.

Democratic candidates include Fred Clark, Chris Armstrong and Ginger Murray.

And my plan is to get these candidates on from both the left and the right to talk about these issues.

in the next hopefully sooner rather than later so again it's a case where and and I think there's been a lot of pushback and we'll see whether or not Donald Trump notices that because one thing about Donald Trump he doesn't like pushback

No, he just

so he's either gonna go after the people pushing back against them or he'll toss Michael the Fonso overboard So it'll be interesting to see what happens there because again, it has not been universally praised that this endorsement of Alfonso and it happened as well this week with the endorsement of Tom Tiffany which was less controversial because frankly Tom Tiffany appears to have a wide open road towards the Republican nomination for governor of Wisconsin unless somebody else jumps into the race

it feels like Tiffany will be cruising to that nomination.

I think it's a good step in the right direction that there is a pushback on this.

It means that the people are understanding

that

Michael Alfonso does not have the experience, and Donald Trump is making a huge mistake in backing someone who has no idea what they're doing.

I think you got that, and I think it's generally starting to look like maybe a little bit of King Donald's aura is starting to fade away.

People are trying to take their

blinders off apparently.

A little

bit at a time, but at least it's...

A little pushback is better than no pushback at all.

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