joining the race president trump's
former press secretary
sarah sanders looking to follow in her
father's footsteps announcing a run
for the governor of arkansas watch this
everything we love about america is at
stake
your governor must be on the front line
so today
i announce my candidacy for governor of
arkansas
joining me now former bush president
bush senior advisor
and fox news contributor karl rove carl
i read your column in the wall street
journal religiously
and this is kind of goes to what you're
talking about how does the gop rebuild
not only did sarah sanders
work in the trump administration you
said that republicans need to run
more women black americans
asian americans latino americans like
just
go for diverse candidates
yeah i did and and uh that doesn't mean
necessarily in every race full
disclosure i'm a contributor to the
lieutenant governor of
uh arkansas tim griffin who's a former
deputy of mine at the white house so
good luck to all three candidates the
woman attorney general of the state the
guy lieutenant governor and now sarah
huckabee sanders in the race so three
persons
it'll be a big primary and the winner
will in all likelihood be the next
governor of the state of arkansas
will we be able to watch and take
anything from that race uh
in terms of what the future of the gop
might look like
i'm not certain you know it's it's these
are all uh
you know center-right uh you know all
three supporters of donald trump all
three
you know native arkansans two of them
hold statewide office it does give them
an advantage yet on the other hand the
one who hasn't held office is the
daughter of the former
longtime governor and before that
lieutenant governor of the state so
it's going to be interesting that's a
very it's going to end up being a very
personal
uh primary in the sense that personal
commitments
uh you know people who knew tim griffin
or new attorney general rutledge or
no new mike huckabee or we're friends of
sarah sanders
i mean all of this is going to be you
know a very uh
everybody's going to be making a list of
who they uh are
are for today but some of them may shift
tomorrow because so many of them have
relationships with one or more of
maybe all three of the candidates and
speaking of divisions in the gop
look no further than arizona arizona gop
chairwoman kelly ward narrowly
re-elected to another term following
concerns over the party's performance
in the 2020 election the party also
voting so
donald trump loses arizona but the party
votes to censor
three prominent members the governor
doug ducey for imposing emergency rules
during the pandemic they think
would deem unconstitutional former
senator jeff flake for condemning the
party
finally the widow of former senator john
mccain cindy mccain for endorsing
president joe biden carl what do you
make of this
well what's interesting to me is
president trump intervened in this race
endorsed kelly ward for reelection and
she won
51.5 to 48.5
on the state central committee and that
ain't a big margin
and uh you know she has never you know
she won a race for state senate she's
won
run statewide and lost the state you
know she
condemns cindy mccain and previously
condemned john mccain
who was elected six times to the united
states senate from arizona
and don't you think out of 3.4 million
voters that there were probably 10
457 or more who did who didn't
appreciate donald trump attacking john
mccain's military service this is idiocy
doug ducey is a very popular and very
effective conservative governor of
arizona
who won re-election two years ago by 14
points
and was elected to four years before
that by almost 13 points
and kelly ward can't win a statewide
primary for the united states senator
like she ran for uh and now she's
condemning the people who are leading
her her party in the state there's a
reason why the civil war
is is is raging in arizona and i know it
ain't gonna be won by kelly ward at the
end of the day
this is part of what destroyed the
republican party
in places in virginia i witnessed it
firsthand you had people
taking over uh local party power
because again it was just a thirst for
power
it had nothing to do with the
a conservative republican platform
a conservative ideology and now because
you've gotten this
inviting and long time republicans were
just
driven out of the party and you now have
a state that's solely blue
so i want to get to to your point in the
piece that you published in the wall
street journal last week
where does the party go from here with
the democrats controlling the white
house the senate and the house
yeah well first of all we've got to
decide what we stand for
it's going to be easy for us to oppose
many things that the biden
administration does
and that's fine but we are at a critical
moment for the republican party we have
an unstable coalition we have
the a lot of new blue collar
working-class people who love donald
trump who are parts of our
our coalition but we're losing support
among our
our traditional supporters in the
suburbs and we're facing an increasingly
diverse electorate and we've got to find
a way
to knit all three of those groups
together and and to do that we got to
figure out what we're for
and it is more important for us to say
what we're for
than what we're against don't get me
wrong we need to oppose what what we
think is wrong with joe biden's
administration
but when we do so we better find a way
to say we got a better
idea on how to get this thing done we
got a better way to make your future
more prosperous your family more safe
our country more secure
and and here's what we're for and that's
that's not going to be easy to do
it's going to be difficult and it's
going to require two things a droid
leadership that's thinking about what
that message is
and then some forbearance in our party
so that we don't say you got to agree
with me 100
of the time or you're my enemy ronald
reagan was right the guy who
agrees with you 80 percent of the time
is your is your ally
not your 20 trader but i do
think that some of what the bide
administration has already started to do
will unite those people conservatives
and republicans because again when he
said we're going to transition away from
the oil
business and you being from texas and
they acted like that that was a flub
but given what he's done in less than a
week
rejoining the paris climate accord again
bending over
for china you uh canceled the keystone
xl pipeline
that's 10 000 union jobs and then a
moratorium on
new leases on federal land for energy
exploration
so those are that is not what
not what america is about we are finally
energy independent which every president
since the early 70s has talked about
we achieved it these were high paying
jobs and they are
willing to wipe them out for the
left-wing climate change
crowd yeah and not only that but we did
that
as the only major industrialized economy
in the world that was growing its
economy and
reducing greenhouse gas emissions at
at the same time and you're right i mean
it's not good it's going to make wyoming
and montana and north dakota
more republican but it's also going to
put new mexico which is a democrat state
more up for grabs because the biggest
source single source of state revenue
for to pay for
education and everything else in that
state is the oil and gas industry and if
you clamp down on federal leasing
on leasing on federal lands which is
what most of the energy comes from in in
new mexico
that they're the state republican
chairman who's a former member of
congress steve pearce from the
from the oil producing part of the the
southeastern part of the state
said we're going to have companies and
jobs leave in our state and go into
texas
where they don't have to get a lease on
federal land they can get it on private
land and he's absolutely right
what else carl before we go what else is
going to because again
i want to say something i want to say
something quickly about executive orders
yeah can i this is really amazing to me
we got double speak here's the you know
we're going to tell the truth all the
time
they issued an executive order on
immigration
they said we have significant challenges
at the southwest border yeah we do
we need to surge resources to the border
to ensure safe legal and orderly
processing
at the border oh absolutely right so
what do they do
we're going to stop removal for 100 days
for a hundred days if you come into the
united states
we're gonna not remove you from the
country except if you are a national
security
or you committed an aggravated felony
but if you come into the united states
for 100 days
we're not going to remove you because we
got a significant challenge at the
southwest border
and we need to search resources and the
best way to do that is
call ali ali lox in free and come across
the border and we're not going to remove
you
i mean what is that would you explain
that to me because i'm still trying
to figure that out i cannot explain that
to you i can't explain
anything that encourages people to come
into the united states
illegally at a time that our hospital
system our health care system is swamped
that we're struggling uh financially
there are 16 million americans who are
collecting unemployment benefits
i i can't explain any of them yeah
no no and it's and it it my suspicion is
if you go down and talk to them
virtually all democrat local officials
along the southwest border
particularly in texas they'll say this
is idiocy you get
that the message is come here and you
get into the establish you need us
and that ain't the message we need to be
sending right now question
is will the bite administration will
people in power in washington listen to
those local officials
because again this administration has
already turned its back
on union workers who would be working on
that keystone xl pipeline
they they turn their backs on the unions
in exchange for cow toweling
to the left wing climate change crowd
so yeah yeah and look that oil from
canada
that's come that was supposed to come to
texas facilities and oklahoma facilities
in illinois
places where americans are working is
instead it's going to get there
but it's going to be coming by rail
which means if there's going to be more
carbon emissions rather than putting it
through a pipeline
and it's going to cost more that makes
absolutely no sense stick your finger
right in the eye of the canadians great
way to start off as president of the
united states
in a new administration i'll be beating
my head on the desk
in the commercial break thank you carl
great to see