Following President Donald Trump’s resounding victory, former Speaker of the House (and possible evil incarnate) Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) whined about gun rights voters to the New York Times.
In an interview with Times reporter Lulu Garcia-Navarro, Pelosi stated that cultural issues played an important role in the 2024 election. Garcia-Navarro asked the former House Speaker, “why did voters who earned less than $100,000 go for Trump in such large numbers?” Pelosi responded in part, “Well, there are cultural issues involved in elections as well… Guns, that’s an issue.”
Pelosi’s forthright acknowledgement of the gun vote is welcome public recognition of the powerful role gun owners play in American politics. However, astute observers of the 2024 presidential campaign will have seen earlier signs of this reality.
Try as they might, the Kamala Harris campaign couldn’t run far enough fast enough from the candidate’s decades-long anti-gun and anti-Second Amendment record. The Harris campaign claimed Harris no longer supported the type of firearm confiscation she repeatedly advocated in 2019. The handgun ban supporter touted how she supposedly owns a Glock pistol and how she would use it against a home invader.
The Harris campaign attempted to cast her anti-gun running mate, Gov. Tim Walz (D-Minn.), as some sort of gun-toting Midwestern everyman. The vice presidential candidate took to a Minnesota field in an ill-fated hunting photo-op. And of course there were the dopey Harris-Walz camouflage hats.
Gun owners can add Pelosi’s comments to the long list of prominent acknowledgements of pro-gun political power in presidential elections.
In 2017, twice-failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton released her book, “What Happened,” about the 2016 presidential election.
Clinton repeatedly acknowledged NRA’s influence on the 2016 election and the broad political landscape.
Pointing out the grassroots power of gun rights supporters, Clinton explained, “The politics of guns has been toxic for a long time… The vocal minority of voters against gun safety laws have historically been more organized, better funded, and more willing to be single-issue voters.”
Recounting her first policy speech of the 2016 campaign, where she attacked NRA, Clinton admitted, “Going after the NRA is dangerous for candidates…”
Discussing NRA’s contribution to her defeat, Clinton noted,
As for the NRA, it kept its promise to do everything it could to stop me. All told, the gun lobby spent more than $30 million supporting Trump, more money than any other outside group and more than double what it spent to support Mitt Romney in 2012. About two-thirds of that money paid for more than ten thousand negative ads attacking me in battleground states.
Following the 2000 presidential election, President Bill Clinton spoke with CBS News’ Dan Rather about Vice President Al Gore’s loss. Rather asked Clinton, “Do you agree or disagree that some of your failures — policy as well as personal failures in the White House — had an impact on Al Gore’s losing?” The president replied in part, “I don’t think there is — I don’t know if you’d call this a policy failure, but I don’t think there’s any doubt that, in at least five states I can think of, the NRA had a decisive influence…”
Later in the interview, Clinton described NRA as “an effective adversary” and said, “you’ve got to give it to them, they’ve done a good job. They’ve probably had more to do than anyone else in the fact we didn’t win the House this time. And they hurt Al Gore.”
Through the decades, gun owners have made clear that they are a force to be reckoned with. By continuing to organize, and demonstrating the power of the pro-gun vote at the ballot box, NRA members and other gun owners can preserve our Second Amendment rights for years to come.
—Courtesy NRA-ILA
It’s the Democrats, Stupid…. Nothing more!
It’s the Stupid Democrats.
…More nothing
Extremely poor candidate and policies. US was burning and not a drop of water was to be found. Considering the main stream media provided free cheerleading services and the candidate spent $1B+, and remains $20M in debt, I’m guessing the NRA was out spent this election cycle. The US and NRA received an early Christmas present. Let’s not squander it.
Yes the NRA is an effective “boogie man” against the anti-civil rights democrats. Now spend less money on suits for the leadership. And spend more money on building ranges and more on shooting competitions in all 50 states.
You just might attract new members. If you handle and advertise these local events correctly.
The NRA has a history of successfully lobbying for laws that are beneficial to the blessings of liberty – and opposing laws that are inimical to the blessings of liberty.
That is not done by wearing overalls or Kmart polyester.
You don’t need a new suit for every day of the year.
A man can look good in a $500 suit, as long as that suit has been fitted by a good tailor. And a good tailor doesn’t cost another whole $500. It’s a lot less than $100, as long as you’re not getting it tailored in DC.
You’ll never convince me that “only the CEO” should be well dressed. And you’ll never convince me that only the CEO should be compensated for his attire.
There should never be a budget line item for clothing, unless that clothing has a special requirement, such as being suitable (see what I did there) for hazardous waste work. And nothing requires that kind of work from the NRA leadership.
You’re the expert. What is your salary and expenses to run a major operations and lobby organization?
I would run the NRA and I would not charge them for my damned suits, that’s for sure.
Salary is negotiable. Some travel should be covered, just as it would be in any corporation. But not suits and not vacations!
Why don’t you run for NRA President then?
I could.
The NRA probably wishes it has the power and influence attributed by these washed up has-beens.
My hand full of wishes is covered with shit.
It’s going to take more then scare tactics and promises to get the NRA back on a lot of people’s trust list.
Yes Nancy Pelosi did say that republicans kept talking about god guns and gays.
God-The 1st amendment.
Guns- The 2nd amendment
Gays- Stay out of women’s and girls private spaces. And get out of women’s and girls sports teams.
“Following President Donald Trump’s resounding victory …”
Trump only beat Harris by about 1.5% on the popular vote. And his margin over Harris in the battleground states averaged about 1.5%. That is most definitely NOT a “resounding victory” in my book. A resounding victory means at least a 15% margin in my opinion.
Even more concerning, Harris was a terrible candidate (a last-minute candidate at that) and had to overcome the legacy of all that Democrats royally screwed up over the last 3.5 years.
To be far more accurate, Trump and the Republicans did not win this election, Democrats lost it.
The resounding part can also be found in the amount that most blue areas that he did not win went redder than ever. There was definitely some resounding ness to it
Popular vote means NOTHING in a presidential election, Trump won, 312 to 226, that’s a significant margin.
Trump and the Republicans did not win this election, Democrats lost it.
It was both. The Dems thought they could keep telling everyone the sky was green after their success in 2020. “When you can’t see Joe, he’s at the top of his game! He only falls apart in public.” People began to notice they were constantly lying about everything. “There won’t be any inflation.” “The border is secure.” “Hunter’s laptop is Russian disinformation.” That level of lying isn’t sustainable, especially after Elon purchased twitter.
However, Trump deserves some credit. I’ve never seen a Republican candidate that is so focused on things like civil rights, peace, real immigration/border reform, and actually trying to shrink the government. The national level R’s of my adult life have been hyper focused on *increasing* the size and scope of the government. Trump’s willingness to focus on these issues attracted some Democrats and got Republicans excited.
“However, Trump deserves some credit.”
LOL, ya think? Good post, tho. The surrender monkeys have def been a real thing, longterm.
Dude,
Sure, Trump and his campaign team deserve some credit. That does not change the fact that Democrats:
1 — fielded the worst candidate ever
2 — created the worst inflation in decades
3 — enabled the most illegal aliens to ever enter our nation
4 — handed over billions of dollars worth of military gear to the Taliban
5 — enabled significant increases in violent crime
6 — could no longer hide their lies about Biden’s condition
With all of that working against the Democrats, it is incredibly disconcerting that Trump just barely edged-out Harris in the battleground states and the popular vote. What that tells me is that Democrats could very well win bigly in 2028 if they field a quality candidate, such as Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro.
“…field a quality candidate, such as Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro.”
The Dems have backed themselves into a corner. They’re now the party of anti-Jews, even though non-religious Jews still vote for them. How are they going to explain Shapiro to their new base of Jew haters? AOC is too radical for wide appeal. Mayor Pete was supposed to be the next big thing which is why he got the cabinet position. But he blew it. No pun intended.
On the other hand, Republicans have Vance, DeSantis, and Youngkin. All of those guys are excellent.
The most important things going forward are election integrity and free speech so we don’t have a rerun of 2020. A free and fair election would have Trump trouncing Harris. The Dems are still stealing congressional seats.
The entire country moved to the right, but a Republican district moved to the left in 2024? And it took them three weeks to find enough votes to call it when the state of Florida can call it in one day? Yeah right. Anything that suspicious should trigger outside, complete forensic audits conducted by both parties, with fair election practices in place to begin with.
“The most important things going forward are election integrity and free speech …”
Agree 1,000 percent.
DeSantis 2028
“and had to overcome the legacy of all that Democrats royally screwed up”
I don’t think she was there to overcome it, but rather to be the tip of the spear. I’m almost surprised she hasn’t gone to Cuba for R and R.
The folks that believe in the back of their minds that Dems are the Party of Reason, and have been knee-jerk voting commie for years, could not fool themselves this rime. The blatant-cy of it all was shocking.
Just how I see it.
XZX,
Of course Harris, had she won the election, would be the tip of the proverbial spear of the Ultra Far Left Pr0gr3$$ive party–and they would have never lost another election going forward.
She and the Democrats knew, though, that they had to downplay the last 3.5 years and eke over the finish line one more time to ensure their power forever. That is why the Harris campaign was silent on the last few years under Democrat control.
A republican presidential candidate has to win by a ten to fifteen percent margin just to get ahead of all the voter fraud. What’s driving the Democrats nuts is they know they lost in spite of all the fraud.
I say this with love and respect. Calm down.
If the Presidential election were going to be only counted by popular vote, then the Trump campaign would have adjusted. Playing the game to a different set of rules would have required a different strategy. Intelligent competitors would know this and would have adapted.
There’s no way to know for sure (because we didn’t do the election under different rules), but the results just might have revealed an even bigger gap in the popular vote.
And this is not unique, either.
Did you know that you can still lose a game or match in basketball, football, and tennis…EVEN THOUGH you scored more points than your competitor? Every one of those sports has one or more ways to win a game without scoring more than the other team.
The same applies to swimming, track, marathon, and other sports that are decided by time. You can lose a race even though you completed it faster. You can win a race even though you were slower than your opponents. There once was a time when you could lose a swimming race even though you TIED your opponent down to the 1/100th or even 1/1000th of a second…even when the race was timed electronically, with computers and touch pads.
You’re putting too much importance on election results that were not used to decide the winner. Trump still won the popular vote, so that’s a plus. But the election only counted electoral votes, and that’s what matters.
And finally, you’re ignoring the groundswell that has been forming since the election. It’s a culture shift bigger than the worst earthquake ever witnessed by a human. Don’t discount this; it may be much bigger than you think.
Osprey,
“… the election only counted electoral votes, and that’s what matters.”
True.
And that is EXACTLY why I am concerned about the election results: because Trump just barely carried the battleground states of Wisconsin (0.9% margin), Michigan (1.4% margin), Pennsylvania (1.7% margin), and Georgia (2.2% margin).
If Harris had carried Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania, she would have won the Electoral College. I don’t know about you, but I am most certainly NOT comfortable with an average margin of 1.3% in those states. That means approximately 40,000 more votes going the other way in each of those three states would have changed the election results.
The margins will likely be close in elections moving forward. Half of the electorate has their heads up their asses and the undecideds pull their heads out of their asses to check their pocketbooks and vote accordingly.
muckraker,
I believe that your statement is frighteningly accurate.
There is a ray of hope, I think. The mainstream media is losing its stranglehold on the airwaves. What is a little bit scary iirc approx 36% of people get their news from social media influencers. Those are the undecideds that I was talking about. If the economy is good, they don’t vote making the rights chances of winning that much tougher.
Correction for 36% of people s/b 36% of Gen x. No small number.
Phew! That’s a relief, thanks for the correction…
Ha! 😆
The margins will continue to be close if we continue to cede the education system to the democrat party and its compliant supporters in the DOE and the teacher unions.
Our numbers will continue to decline, until we decide to fix education and start ACTUALLY EDUCATING future generations.
There is no other way around THAT math problem.
Agree.
The really hard part is how to take the education system back. I have invested a large amount of brainpower and time into that conundrum and I keep coming up empty.
I can tell you what most certainly will not work: attempting to educate your local Far Left school board. I gave up after several attempts to politely and assertively educate them when they declared that body integrity disorder is totally different than gender identity disorder. Both conditions are effectively identical: what a person claims to be true in their mind does not match their physical body, and yet that person insists that their mental image is right and their physical body is wrong. When people reject obvious and objective reality, it is impossible to educate or persuade them.
I believe the key is to break up the government monopoly on schools. Ditching the Dept of Education is a start.
Pubbik skewls nede gubmint muny.
Poor peepl can not private skewl for there kids.
Moor bunch of dummer poor kids.
Have to have edjectation to drive garbage truck.
Rich peepl kid don’t drive garbage truck.
Rich peepl kid own garbage truck.
Pay pubbik Hiskwel gradkid drive it.
Everybody make muny
Everbody happy.
K or yu got culd have dum porunskewl kid robbing peepl
Possum is that you?
If you make less than 100 grand a year why would you vote for dems? The party of the wealthy elites? AOC was a bartender. Wealthy white millionaires/billionaires.
jwm,
You would probably be absolutely stunned at how many households have incomes WAY above $100,000 per year. I would dare say that just about ALL homes which are NOT in our nation’s urban Hellscapes and NOT the rural hinterlands have incomes well above $100k per year.
It’s not the guns, it’s the morons actively trying to strip us of our rights.
Yep. Some of those folks are blatantly excited-delirium bath-salts go-naked crazy, and out to get us.
Further – most identity groups in the US have very bad memories of malicious prosecution/persecution – it is why they came here. Yet somehow the Deep State operators thought that a campaign of malicious lawfare would benefit a party based on identity politics. The look on their faces when they realized everybody else had kept their clothes on was priceless.
Far from only gunz. I betcha gat owner’s were their usual whiny selves & did not bother. I can only vouch for me & my household 🙄
It wasn’t guns back in 2000 either. Bill got reelected after the assault weapons ban. Bill’s personal indiscretions cost Gore that election.
Bill got reelected because he signed the welfare reform bill. The Left hated him for that. But he also signed the 1033 Act. Allowing the Federal government to transfer for free, machine guns, select fire weapons, armored fighting vehicles with gun turrets, and grenade launchers, to civilian police departments. All across the country.
Senator Joe Biden was the author of 1033.
And your correct. Al Gore lost because of the AWB and his support for government banning music his wife didn’t like.
The democrats, the Left, have always hated the 1st amendment.
I’m a gat owner and I haven’t missed an election since about 1978. But I can be excused since I was only 16 then.
Speaking of crazy, Miner’s presence has been reduced and the court jester dacian has gone dark. Are they planning something for inauguration day?
The Soros money stopped flowing.
I’m serious. I’ve always thought both were 12 years old. So not legal to vote anyway. But they just struck me as being paid shills.
I’ve also heard it said that a lot of the opposition on X, Truth, and Reddit just disappeared once their side lost the election…because the money stopped flowing.
Don’t worry, demons never give up. They’ll be back as soon as the Soros organization frees up more dosh.
Their loyalty was not to their cause; it was to their contractor.
Whipped puppies hiding under the porch.
Miner49 was so looking forward to gloating over Kamala’s win.
“Do you agree or disagree that some of your failures — policy as well as personal failures in the White House — had an impact on Al Gore’s losing?”
Dan knew. Even someone like Rather asked real questions back then. Bill getting caught in his affair with the intern cost Gore that election. It was an international embarrassment.
I dunno, the 4th and the 2nd are why I haven’t voted Dem since before Carter was fending off swamp rabbits. I like a President that plays a good game of poker, and care little about party habits.
Then again, I read that 90% of the hanging chads were Gore votes. That is weird. Could it be said that Gore put Obama over the top?
I don’t care about that either, but I recall it being a big deal at the time. It was so embarrassing that Gore kind of ran away from the very popular Clinton while running in 2000. I think it was enough to give Bush the edge.
Then there’s the fact that the more charismatic candidate almost always wins. Bush came across as more personable than the robotic Gore.
I always thought the robot thing was act. I can’t believe someone thought it would be a winner.
Oh, Look at the kitty.
Bush was an oil man.
I went broke feeding my gas tank.
Carter is the reason for the war in Ukraine.
Just like Ford pardoning Nixon (Proclamation 4311) cost him the election.
I’ve always felt that the modern era in terms of politicians being unanswerable to the voters and unaccountable to the laws began on the day that Ford pardoned Nixon.
I also think that very event was…ultimately…the reason we got lousy candidates such as Gore, Kerry, George (both of them), Carter, Obama, and Biden. It’s really hard to get a Reagan or Trump. And even those have not done the very best they could have.
The Democrats are going to be dropping the whole gun issue until they can get into a better position. You’ll think they were the original authors of the 2nd Amendment, next election. But as soon as they can put together their coalition of the House, Senate, White House and the courts, BOOM. It’s over. Never trust em. Then they will swing that hammer with all their might.
Never trust them. I think you’re right; they’re going to have to lie low for a while. But they will return, just like another lousy Star Wars movie or series.
LOL, it does crack me up that anyone actually believes the United States Secret Service is going to let the Vice President of the United States keep a handgun.
What are you smoking?
Perhaps they would attempt to keep sharp objects away from crazy broads.
Democrats are like snakes, once a snake always a snake and a snake in every way.
A lady years ago let loose her pet snake. A few days later she answered the door and it was the snake who bit her immediately. She said why did you bite me after all I did for you, to which the snake replied, “I’m a snake what did you expect”.
The way I heard it, they were like scorpions. And I thought republicans were like the frog.
We osprey stay away from all three. Fish and small game are our thing. But NOT marsupials!
That joke is a spin from a native american story.
Squaw gathering wood, frozen snake, warms snake up, snake bites squaw.
Kamala Harris no longer supported certain weapon confiscation? Yeah right. That biotch lies. She’s a lawyer and that’s what they do let alone being a politician which means they lie.
They say ANYTHING at any given moment to meet any narrative.
Thank GOD she’s likely unelectable in any race including a gubernatorial race in California. She is as toxic, even more so than Beto O’Rourke after leaving donors with a loss and massive campaign debt.
I seriously doubt anyone is going to dig deep in their pockets and give to Kamala who’s dumber than a box of rocks other than ignorant women who would vote for and support any person equipped with a vagina.
Who had the balls to brush the snakes out of Medusa’s hair?.
Oh wait, that’s Nancy Pelosi, sorry bout that.
Why did the Democrats lose elections?
I suppose four years of lies and being shit on had a lot to do with it.
The democrat went to the doctor and told him every time he gets rain on his back he gets a rash.
The doctor looked him over and told him that wasn’t rain running down your back.