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From Memphis, Tennessee, on the banks of the mighty Mississippi, it's America's conservative blowtorch.

Jeff Stein (0:28)

Hello, fellow patriots. Jeff Stein, blessed to be filling in for Mr. Starnes today. He continues his tremendous trip to California, taking the place by storm. We'll tell you a little more about that a little later on.

My privilege to be speaking to you from the Heartland, my home base in Iowa, KXEL Radio, Iowa's home to the Todd Starnes show. Thanks so much for joining us from Liberty University Studio.

901-260-5926 is how you can join the Coast to Coast conversation on this Open Line Friday. We have a lot to get to, and I want to go right to the Patriot Mobile Newsmaker Line. Iowa is a spotlighted state if the Republicans want to hold on to majorities in Congress. And one of the open seats that folks are looking at is in Northeast Iowa. It is the second district. And joining us on the Patriot Mobile Newsmaker Line is the Republican candidate for US. House in that district. He's Joe Mitchell. joemitchell.com is the website. Mr. Mitchell, thanks so much for joining us. How are you?

Joe Mitchell (1:36)

Jeff, good to be on this morning. How are you?

Jeff Stein (1:39)

I'm quite well, but I didn't have to do a debate last night on television. You did, and we should point out to folks, this is an open seat because the incumbent Republican is seeking the US. Senate.

You've got a voter registration advantage, Republicans over independents over Democrats. You've got a Libertarian, a Democrat, a Republican, and an Independent, four on the ballot. You and the Democrat debated last night. How was that for you?

Joe Mitchell (2:07)

It was good. I could have debated three more hours, Jeff. I was having a good time by the end, and we'll have another debate next week, actually. But it was an hour long. KGAN out of Cedar Rapids, the CBS affiliate, one of the ones that hosted it. They did a nice job. They were very fair.

We got over a lot of topics, agriculture, tariffs, immigration, the economy. So I thought it went good.

We tweeted out and posted probably 20 different clips from the debate. And so we were clipping stuff non-stop, sending it out. And our opponent did, I think, one clip for answering the Iran war question. So I think that tells you maybe who won the debate.

Jeff Stein (2:52)

If you go to TwitterX and you can follow Joe Mitchell, Iowa, that's where you find this stuff. joemitchell.com is his website. I know that you brought up a few things that your opponent, the Democrat, did not have an answer for, in particular showing up for work.

Joe Mitchell (3:12)

Yeah, that was crazy. And Ray, who was one of the moderators, Greg Baccaro, KGAN, he had to ask her three times, and she had the same canned answer every time, avoiding the question, talking about this word salad of, you know, she's there for her community and her neighbors.

And he had to ask her three separate times, point blank, but Lindsay, did you miss over half of your votes in the legislature? And she would not answer it. And that's where I said she did in fact miss over 50% of her votes. And now she's asking the voters of this district to give her a job promotion and a pay raise when she can't show up to the job that she's elected for right now. And I said, imagine anybody listening, if you did not show up to your job over half the time, you would be fired on the spot. And I said, we must fire Lindsay James come November 3rd.

And I mean, I think she wasn't very happy after I said that. But it's true. It's like, it's ridiculous to these people, whether it be her or Josh Turek or anybody else in the legislature, they can't show up for the job they're currently elected for. And they think they're going to then get a job promotion and go to DC and get this huge pay raise. It's absolutely absurd. That's what they think. But that's a lot of these candidates on the Democrat side of the aisle now, is they're totally out of touch with everyday Iowa.

Jeff Stein (4:38)

Joe Mitchell is our guest. He's the Republican running for Congress from Northeast Iowa. joemitchell.com. If you like what you hear, there's a nice subtle donate button to help get him across the finish line. He's joining us on the Patriot Mobile Newsmaker Line on the Todd Starnes program. That debate you referenced was put on by our friends at the Sinclair Broadcast Group, their local affiliates in Cedar Rapids.