It's a Numbers Game: ASK ME ANYTHING: Immigration Backlash, Israel Divide & the Road to 2028

Ryan Girdusky (0:01)

Welcome back to A Numbers Game with Ryan Girdusky. Thank you guys for being here. Happy Friday, everyone. We've made it through another week. I looked at my emails, and I am so backlogged on Ask Me Anythings. I said, you know what? It's the most popular segment of the show. We're gonna do a whole Ask Me Anything episode. I'm gonna go through them all. I had like over 50 emails, and I love these. So I wanna get, I wanna make sure that I'm not so far behind where you guys, I'm addressing an email from like two months ago. So here it goes. First question is from Pradwal. Pradwal, you've written to me in the past. I know you're a listener to the show. I am so sorry if I'm butchering your last name or your first name. It is not a strength of mine, not name pronunciation. So once again, love you for listening. Sorry if I'm mispronouncing your name. You write, can I get a favor from you?

If you ever meet or interview DeSantis, can you say thank you to him for saving me from going insane during COVID? I don't think I will ever get a chance to say it myself. He might be a nerd, guess uncool, so might never become president, but he's always going to be my hero. But well, I've actually asked DeSantis to come on this podcast. I've sent emails to his team. I really hope he does. I'm a big fan. I have a lot of questions for him about building a political organization and governing such a big state so efficiently.

And really he was, I mean, obviously Trump was the leader of the Republican Party, but he was the, when Trump was out of office, those years, people were taking cues from DeSantis. I don't think that people understand how, how effective he was at a number of things. Even when Trump was president, there was an issue about refugee resettlement and every Republican governor was like, no, we'll resettle refugees, we'll resettle refugees. And it was DeSantis who was the first one to get up and say no. And then Abbott said no after DeSantis said no. A lot of times Abbott followed DeSantis, but it was not, not the man DeSantis was. Next question comes from Ryan. Ryan said, can Texas and North Carolina Republicans redraw their congressional maps between now and January, reverting back to the 2022 Texas 2024 North Carolina maps, undoing their dummymanders. So what happened was they did mid cycle redistricting in Texas and North Carolina to get more favorable maps for Republicans. Obviously didn't work as the black turnout was huge. And so was Latino.

I don't believe either state will do it. And the election in North Carolina in the one seat that they were supposed to gain, the Democrats won it by the skin of their teeth in such a huge Democrat turnout year that I don't think we're going to have that problem winning back any of those seats in North Carolina. If you are a Republican in North Carolina and you run for Congress and you win your nomination, there's a very, very high likelihood you will be going to Congress because that's how many seats were down in safe seats. Texas, I don't imagine they're going to do anything before the Democrats take over Texas in January. I have a very, very difficult time imagining they're going to do that even though the map is, if the map stays where it is, if Hispanics stay where they are, it's problematic. But I don't think they're going to do either one of them. Either one will do that. Next question comes from Ben. Ben writes, in the aftermath of the 2026 midterms, Vice President Vance made a huge ex post, part of which he mentioned that Republicans need to do to gain 24 voters back is to change the relationship between the United States and Israel. That concerns me because I think America should support Israel and leave them out to dry in the Middle East, I guess, and not leave them out to dry is what you're saying. The US supporting Israel is an important issue to me as a Christian and as a voter. Do you think the Republican Party is already beginning the process of ending their relations between the US and Israel? If the Republican Party were to do that, then how would that affect the Republican Party when it comes to the general electorate moving forward? So, this is such a hot topic and such a contentious topic. And I want to say, I know you say you're a Christian, I'm a Catholic. So neither one of us are Jews.