Michael Steele Says He’s ‘a Republican Who’s in This Fight to Try to Save the Country from the Stupid’

RUSH TRANSCRIPT:
Steele: “Michael, it’s really interesting to me to be quite honest, you know, people complaining that the president gave an answer and made it about himself. Who is being attacked here? He is the one who is being attacked by his own people. So, I’ve got to go back to the quote that senator Fetterman gave on Friday. I can’t think of a single situation were panicking or freaking out has made the situation better or for god sakes, Democrats get a spine and grow a pair. One or the other. At some point, your team has got to figure out how to chill out, and reconnect them refocus the campaign. You have given us numbers that are showing, despite everything we’ve seen happen since Thursday, Joe Biden is holding his own and gaining ground and in some cases leading in battleground states. There are only five or six states that matter and everyone knows it. So, how do you handle this, the rest of this? How do you stop the bleeding by those members of your party with their little knives and stilettos coming at you, you know, a death by 1000 cuts and to the point that you cannot run a campaign because of the ignorance is happening right now. People don’t understand the threat in front of them. Do you shake up your team? What is it going to take to get these people to the hell up and win this election to stop project 2025 and stop the take- over of our country by the Supreme Court and an imperial presidency. I get it as a Republican who’s in this fight to try to save the country from the stupid, and your whole team is acting like, oh my God, did you hear what he just said? Making it all about himself. What the hell? How do you guys get through this? Because the rest of us are having a hard time watching it, quite honestly.”

Steele: “Yeah. I making sure people understand this is about the voters. The president is talking about the fundamental stakes for the voters and that is why he will fight so hard. That is why the campaign is doing what it is doing right now. What did he do? He went to a watch party and rally grassroots support — that is why he got on the plane, flew to North Carolina, nearly landed and spoke to the direct — that is why he got up the next morning, gave a speech, talk directly to the voters and that is why he spoke to the stakes of the election on Monday following the Supreme Court’s decision on the immunity case and why he talked about extreme heat and why Wednesday he got or he sat down and did two radio interviews and talk to black voters in cities like Milwaukee and Philadelphia and why he got back up on the stump yesterday and went to Madison, Wisconsin. That is why we are going to Philly in harrisburg. The selection is fundamentally about the voters. Will age continue to be a topic of conversation? It will be Joe Biden is 81-year- old and he’s going to be Donald Trump again. He’s 81 and will restore Roe v. Wade. He’s 81 and will make leaders pay their fair share in taxes. He is 81 and will ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines in the second term. He’s 81 years old and will bring people together to find solutions for the American people on the other side, Donald Trump who is 78 years old—“