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From the CBS 19 newsroom, I'm Beau Sykes.  Rain returns to the forecast today thanks to the remnants of Tropical Storm Debbie. We will see some heavy rainfall potential. Most of the area will see between 2 and 5 inches of rainfall. High temperatures today in the upper 70s, right around 80 degrees. The rain will continue overnight into Friday morning. Lows tonight are in the lower 70s. The rain clears out by midday on Friday. More weather anytime on the free CBS 19 Weather Authority mobile app from the CBS 19 Weather Authority Center. I'm meteorologist AJ Willie.  The Mike Gallagher Show. The United States shares a very important relationship, which is an alliance with the Republic of North Korea. And it is an alliance that is strong and enduring. In the ReliefFactor.com studios, here's Mike. You know, I've gone from sort of taking it all in from a humorous perspective, thinking, boy, if we can't beat  Kamala Harris and Tim Walz, heaven help us. And I say that kind of like with some humor or some levity, but then I started thinking about how dangerous they are, how dangerous a lot of these people are around us. I mean, for Kamala Harris to lean into progressivism this way and select the most radical possible choice. I watched Josh Shapiro and my fears were realized when I thought, gosh, I hope she doesn't pick him.  Because he's pretty impressive. Very charismatic and powerful speaker. And he was said to be right there in the driver's seat until Kamala realized and the overlords of the Democrat Party realized we can't tick off.  the far-left loonies of our party who hate Jews. We can't have a Jew named Shapiro on the ticket. That's going to contradict everything we stand for, which is against Israel. We don't stand with Israel, say the Democrats. We stand against Israel. And so, I mean, they go with this guy, Tim Waltz, and they think, well, maybe it's a good thing that people don't know much about him.  So guess what? It'll be up to all of us with platforms. It'll be up to all of us with audiences to make sure Americans know what they'd be getting. And I'm not saying this to be melodramatic. I'm deeply worried about my country. I can't believe that we would even be having a conversation about  about a Kamala Harris-Tim Walz ticket being viable. And I've got friends who say they want to lose. They're just expecting to lose. I don't accept that. I think that's absolutely wrong. They don't want to lose. If they think they'll lose with Kamala Harris and Tim Walz, they'll replace them at the convention. Just like they replaced Joe Biden. They decided they couldn't win with Biden,  So they replaced him. She's in there without a single vote. That's the party that wants to save democracy. Wink, wink. She doesn't have a single American vote for her to be the presidential nominee. It was a coup. They toppled him. They pulled the rug out from under him. They threw him down the steps. And he's done. They'll do the same thing to her if they don't think they can win with this ticket.  And look at what's happening around the country. Cori Bush, who's one of the worst of the worst of the squad, she got clobbered last night. She lost her primary in Missouri. A county prosecutor named Wesley Bell won.  He's a progressive, but he's not nuts like she is, evidently. And Missouri voters said, goodbye, Corey. She's out. Remember, she's the one that racked up the hundreds of thousands of dollars in security fees, and she wants to defund the police. Missouri voters said, adios. Jamal Bowman, the kook that pulled the fire alarm to try to delay a vote, gone. He's out.  Ilhan Omar's on the ballot next week in a primary. Maybe she'll lose. Because Americans are rejecting progressive extremism. Well, Kamala Harris said, you want progressive extremism? Hold my beer. I'm picking Tim Walz. You want to hear what a night, what Minnesota night sounds like? There was a really nasty internet meme yesterday.  taken from J.D. Vance's book, Hillbilly Elegy. And the meme, I don't even understand the whole story behind it, but it boils down to this. Somebody on Twitter or social media made up a smear against J.D. Vance that somehow he likes to have sex with a couch.  Now this is how nasty these people can be.  Like my friend Joe Piscopo in New York always says, people on the left, they're just mean. They're nasty and vicious and ugly, angry people. So that was this internet smear, totally made up out of whole cloth, right? That J.D. Vance has sex with a couch. And it has something to do with supposedly a story in his wildly successful book, Hillbilly Elegy. Now, it didn't exist. It was made up. It was like the Babylon Bee. It was totally fabricated.  Here's Tim Walz yesterday exhibiting his version of Minnesota nice. Like all regular people I grew up with in the heartland, J.D. studied at Yale, had his career funded by Silicon Valley billionaires, and then wrote a bestseller trashing that community. Come on! That's not what middle America is.  And I gotta tell you, I can't wait to debate the guy. That is if he's willing to get off the couch and show up.  You can hear him at the end. See what I did there? He said, in case you missed the joke, that I'm joking that J.D. Vance likes to have sex with the couch. See what I did there? Yeah, that's Minnesota nice. He's a real nice guy. And I will say one thing. I will agree with him. Oh, I can't wait to see you two get on a debate stage. I can't wait to see that freak...  debating J.D. Vance, the former Marine. I can't wait to hear him take off against J.D. Vance's military service. Have you heard about Tim Waltz and his stance in the National Guard? And what he did when it turned out that the rubber might meet the road and he might have to actually serve in Iraq? The man tucked tail and ran.  And he quit. And he's bragging about debating JD Vance with some filthy, nasty, ugly joke about JD Vance having sex with the couch? Yeah, real Minnesota nice. Like Jesse Waters said, he's not Minnesota nice. He's Minnesota nuts. These people are nuts. But they're dangerous. And let's understand the danger that we face.  I mean, hey, look at the polls right now. Kamala Harris, they got a lot of momentum in the month of August. August is looking pretty good. July was looking great for Trump. August is looking pretty good for them. We could elect these people? That guy?  The guy who defended tearing down statues of Christopher Columbus? The guy that gives driver's licenses to illegals so that they'll vote for Democrats? The guy who wants to do all this radical, crazy stuff? Tampons in the boys' bathrooms? Yeah, don't take anything for granted. 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There's a lot of good promising things that are happening. And I've got a personal story to share with you about a mistake a poor guy made trying to help our Food for the Poor campaign. And, of course, the reaction to the stunning development of the most radical presidential ticket in American history. All that's coming up.  TNT, T-Mobile want you to think you need unlimited data so that they can overcharge you. Let me give you a little secret here. They want to charge you for that data because you're not going to use it, but they make the money. That's why Pure Talk only charges you for the data you actually want.  For just $25 a month, you'll get unlimited talk, unlimited text, and 5 gigs of data, plus a free mobile hotspot from Pure Talk. I want you to stop overpaying for your wireless bill. Get 5G coverage with Pure Talk. Dial pound 250, and when prompted, just say the keyword Mike Gallagher. Dial pound 250 and say Mike Gallagher, and make the switch. 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If you believe your home has been unfairly appraised because of race or national origin, contact HUD at HUD.gov slash fair housing. Everyone has a right to fair housing. A message from HUD and the National Fair Housing Alliance.  Mike Gallagher. I've got to tell you a kind of a funny personal story yesterday that we left the studio in such a great mood. Everything was going so well. Our Food for the Poor campaign, the August Food for the Poor campaign, is going really, really well. And we had a great day yesterday. I mean, we started out the morning at like 11,000 in contributions. Food for the Poor is this Christian ministry that we partner with.  A few times a year, we try to make a difference in people's lives. We try to save lives. This audience – and this comes from my wife, Denise. Years ago, Denise said, why don't you take your show and the big audience you have and try to do some good, not just yapping about issues, but make a difference in people's lives. And that's why we have all these great partnerships with Prison Fellowship and the Angel Tree Christmas campaign. We've done –  Salvation Army, all kinds of partnerships over the years. And we love Food for the Poor. They are a worldwide Christian ministry. And they give starving children food. They save lives. They provide clean drinking water. So yesterday, I made a mistake. I said, and let me tell you what the mistake was. I said, I'm feeling a little superstitious today.  We've got a goal of $40,000 in the Food for the Poor campaign. $100 will feed a hungry child two nutritious meals a day for an entire year and provide their village with clean drinking water. Okay, $100. That's all I need. And we're at $11,000. I said, you know what? If we can get...  a big number today and get over, say, $20,000 in donations, I'll bet we're going to win on November 5th. I tried to tie it together. And somebody from South Carolina sent me a text. This is why I love South Carolina, because people there are so smart. And the person said, you know, Mike, when you flirt with superstition like that, you're doing exactly the opposite of what is godly. You're doing the polar opposite of God and faith. Turn it over to the Lord.  And that person was right. So I said that on the air. Well, anyhow, I got home last night, and the counter, if you go to MikeOnline.com and click on the Give Life banner at the top of the page, you'll see the total. And right now it says 44,000 of 40,000 goal reached. We're 4,000 over the goal, right? Not so right. There was one donor yesterday that I saw on the list, a guy, I think his name was David or Don, had a $10,000 donation.  And I called Food for the Poor and I said, I want to call him and thank him personally for that incredibly generous donation. So they called him to get permission for me to make a phone call to him, which is the right thing to do. The poor guy almost had a heart attack. He didn't make a $10,000 donation. He was trying to make a $100 donation and he put the decimal point in the wrong place.  So last night, what I thought was $35,000 of our $45,000 goal was really only $25,000. We lost $10,000 because of that honest mistake. It was a legitimate mistake. Things happen, right? But I was so depressed. I was so down about it last night. I'm like, gosh, we were so close. And then I thought about the South Carolina texter and thought about turning it over to God. Not being superstitious, just turn it over to the Lord.  So right now, the number is, let me give you the exact number on the counter, because you've got to know that the counter is $10,000 off. It's $10,000 higher than it should be. Right now, the counter says we have raised $44,000 of our $40,000 goal. Well, the real number is $34,000.  That means we're 6,000 away from actually hitting our goal. So you know what I'm going to do? I'm not going to be superstitious. I'm not going to bring in the election. I'm going to turn it over to the Lord, like that South Carolina listener said.  If we get 60 people right now to donate $100, and remember, $100 feeds a hungry child in an impoverished area of the world for an entire year. Two nutritious meals a day, you'll get them. You're going to save that kid's life.  if only sixty people will donate a hundred dollars i'm not asking for a thousand i'm not asking for five hundred hey maybe two of you can donate fifty but if we get sixty people to donate a hundred dollars right now we will officially hit our actual goal of forty thousand dollars in the food for the poor campaign i believe we can do it i'm praying that your heart will be touched i'm praying that only sixty people in this big audience  We'll go to MikeOnline.com, click on the bright red Give Life banner, and pop in $100. And we'll get to our goal today. And I'm sorry for flirting with superstition. That was wrong. And I'm grateful for that South Carolina advice. I'm turning it over to the Lord. And I'm hoping that God will bless.  you and touch your heart and get you to donate $100. Let's go to mikeonline.com, click on that Give Life banner, and watch that counter soar. Let's go to Barb, who's been waiting patiently in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the land of Tim Waltz. How you doing, Barb?  Good. Hey, Mike, also the land of being kept in the dark. I didn't know about how radical Tim Walz was. I read the Star Tribune. I watched two different local news on TV. They kept us in the dark about what a radical he is. So you guys don't even know in Minnesota how radical he is? I did not know. You didn't know about the driver's licenses for illegals?  I knew that one. I didn't like it. But, oh, it's a good thing because everybody on the road will be safe. Did you know about the wife saying she loved the burning smell of the tires during the riots? No, never heard about that. Did you know about him defending, tearing down the Christopher Columbus statue in Minneapolis?  You know what? That was on morning news and night for a week. Oh, over a week. Cause that was the safe thing because it was a native American and it was an outrage for everybody. Wow. Wow. That was, oh yeah, that was the biggest deal.  Well, so you knew, but you didn't quite know, and it wouldn't surprise me. I've read the Minneapolis Star Tribune. I've seen WCCO's website. These people are so far left, they're off the charts. I've got to have faith. Speaking of turning it over to God, we've got to pray that God blesses this nation with the right outcome on November 5th.  Coming up, the one and only Sean Spicer is going to join us. He's got a great movie documentary on Salem Now. And I want to get his perspective on this Tim Walsh pick. And my visit with Mark Davis, the M&M experience. That and more all ahead as the Mike Gallagher Show continues for a busy Wednesday.  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