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And Governor Glenn Youngkin issuing an executive order meant to improve election security. This will improve ballot security, voting machine testing, and voter list maintenance.  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.  Thank you.  The Mike Gallagher Show. Every word that he read from that teleprompter at that point was just dripping with hypocrisy. Because in this very situation, that's exactly what happened. You had party bosses, right? You had liberal elites, right? Checking the box and saying, get out, Joe. We're going to coronate Kamala. In the ReliefFactor.com studios, here's Mike.  All right, I want to share my emotional rollercoaster from yesterday with you and the reason we're all on kind of an emotional rollercoaster here. We're in our August Food for the Poor campaign, which is always – this audience is unbelievable. I can't brag on you enough. I can't – I run out of all the ways to describe the love –  the sense of community we have. You know, I used to use a phrase called Gallagher's Army. That was criticized by the left because, oh, it's militaristic. But it's a family. It's a community. I feel like you're my family. And I've shared highs and lows. Look, I've been at this a long time. Some of you have been with me for many years. Decades, in fact. And I'm proud of that, and I love my job. And a few times a year, we try to make a difference in people's lives.  And Food for the Poor is a Christian ministry that we partner with to try to feed starving children and provide clean drinking water to some of the roughest parts of the world. And this is a beautiful Christian ministry. They built a house for my late wife, Denise, in Jamaica. There's a Denise Gallagher house right now that a family in Jamaica lives in.  And $100 feeds a hungry child a nutritious meal twice a day for an entire year and provides that child's village with access to clean drinking water. It's a beautiful little donation. It's $100. I know it's not a lot. I mean, it's not a small amount of money, but can you spare $100? So yesterday, before we left the studio, I said, I'm feeling a little superstitious.  And I shouldn't get into superstition. I know I shouldn't. In fact, somebody chastised me and said, superstition is the opposite of God. Have faith in God. And that listener, that texter was perfect because they were right. I don't want to be superstitious. But let me tell you the mountain and the valley we hit yesterday.  When I left the studio, we had $11,000 raised of our $40,000 campaign. Our goal for the month is $40,000, which is ambitious, but it's doable, right? And when I came into the studio yesterday, it was at $11,000. You know, we've got a ways to go. When I talked about being superstitious, that if we hit our goal, good things are going to happen in the country, like, you know what, November 5th,  The donations came pouring in. And when I got home last night, the total said 35,000 out of 40,000 raised. We're almost at our whole goal. And all the emails kept pouring in from all of my bosses and the staff and the team here at the Salem Media Group. Oh, Mike, your audience is incredible. Look at what they...  Well, I saw that there was one donation for $10,000, which helped us get to this crazy number of $35,000. Again, the goal is $40,000. According to the counter right now, if you look at the counter right now, it says $35,350 raised of our $40,000 goal. So when I saw the $10,000 donor on the list, I called Food for the Poor and I said, can I call this donor?  and thank him personally for such a generous, wonderful donation. Well, they called to get permission for me to call him, right? The poor guy about had a heart attack. He put the wrong decimal point into his donation. His donation was $100, and because he put the decimal point in the wrong place, it came in and posted as $10,000.  Poor guy about had a stroke. So the point of all this is the donation is off, the counter is off by $10,000. It says $35,000 right now, but it's really only $25,000. And I was, I'll admit it, I was devastated. I was so disappointed, and it was an honest mistake. I mean, it's nobody's fault, but I was crushed. I thought, doggone it, we were so close. And then I prayed about it.  And I got some clarity. We can make up that $10,000 error with 100 people donating $100. All I'm asking right now, and I'm praying that 100 people's hearts will be touched by my appeal.  And we can make, because first of all, I'm kind of embarrassed at all the kind things that my bosses were saying, oh, Mike, that's incredible. Look at the job you're doing. And, you know, it wasn't true. However, we can fix this. A hundred dollars will feed a starving, hungry, needy, beautiful little child by giving them a nutritious twice a meal routine for an entire year. You're going to save a life with a hundred dollars.  And you'll provide their village with access to clean drinking water. Won't you please consider a $100 donation? If we can get 100 people today to donate $100, we'll get back to where we were last night. And I'll be back on cloud nine. And again, I'm not going to be superstitious. I'm going to be prayerful. I'm going to turn this over to God.  So, in fact, I'm going to pray out loud. Dear God, Lord, please let just 100 people of this vast audience go to MikeOnline.com and click on the Give Life banner at the top of the page. Because right now, if you go to that banner, it's going to show 35,000. They haven't been able to change it yet in the system. It's really 25.  If you make a $100 donation and 100 people do it, we'll be back to 35,000 and we'll almost be at our goal. So maybe God will take this honest mistake that this poor guy made and we got it all fixed for him. Don't worry. I mean, his credit card was going to be charged $10,000 and we got all that repaired. He made a $100 donation and we're grateful for his $100 donation.  Now we just need 99 or 100 other people to do the same thing. Won't you please consider going to mikeonline.com? I'm hoping and praying that God will touch your heart because if we can just get 100 people to donate 100 bucks, we'll be there. And you can watch the counter because if it says 35 right now, that really means 25. So that means if we get to 45,000, we'll be at 35. We'll make up the $10,000 mistake.  So I'm just going to turn it over to God. MikeOnline.com. Click on the Give Life bright red banner that you'll see there on the page. You can also phone in your donation if you'd prefer. But if you do it online, you'll see the change within two minutes after you make the donation.  So thank you in advance. And I'm sorry to take you on this ride. Man, I was so upset last night. I thought, doggone it. It's like we get good news and then we get bad news. It was an honest mistake, and I felt sorry for the guy that put the decimal point in the wrong place. What a scary mistake. That phone call must have been terrifying for the poor guy. So anyhow, go to MikeOnline.com, click on that Give Life banner, and let's see if we can get back  to where we were last night, almost at our goal of $40,000. If the counter that's showing 35 today says 50, that means we've hit our goal of what is really 40, which will be very exciting. So it's in God's hands and in your heart. I hope you'll be touched and you will be impacted by our appeal because this is a beautiful, beautiful ministry.  food for the poor. They do incredible, incredible work. I want to play for you the First Lady of Minnesota. You know, I don't know that you can blame a spouse for somebody's ideology, but let's face it, if Tim Walz is a happily married man, one would think that he shares an ideology with his wife. Check out what she was saying about the 2020 riots in Minneapolis where buildings were burned, where police officers were hurt,  where people were rioting and vandalizing and destroying American cities like Minneapolis and St. Paul. Here's the First Lady, Gwen Waltz, fondly remembering what those riots were like. I would say those first days, you know, when there were riots, I could smell the burning tires. And...  That was a very real thing. And I kept the windows open for as long as I could because I felt like that was such a touchstone of what was happening. She wanted to smell the burning tires and the destruction because it was a touchstone. That's down the middle, right? That's moderate? Those are normal people?  The waltzes, they kept the windows open so they could smell the stench of burning tires because it was important, important to remember that touchstone. This is who they are. This is who they are. Kerry's in Minneapolis. I assume that Kerry knows about the governor and his wife. Hi, Kerry. Welcome to the Mike Gallagher Show.  Hi, thank you for having me. You bet, you bet. Tell us about your governor. Well, there's a couple things. Governor Walz has ruined our city. I grew up in Minneapolis by Minnehaha Falls, and I live in Scandia now, but when I go through the state or through the city, when I go in there to see my friends, it's trash, it's awful, it's dirty, it's evil, and it's scary.  And I wanted to add that I agree with the lady that called in that he won't be on the ticket or Harris. I mean, do you think they want, Carrie, do you think they want to lose? No, I don't think they want to lose. I think them two are so into themselves that they think they're actually going to become the runners. Yeah. Yeah.  And I don't think they have a chance. And here's why I don't think so, is if we expose and wake up people to our constitutional rights like no other country has, and what are their goals to make our Constitution stronger? Right. That's what needs to be focused. I'm a voter judge. My boyfriend's running for school board. Oh, wow. We are wanting to get back to the parents being in charge of the schools. Sure.  people understanding constitutional rights. And if I could be in a room with them, I'd go, can you explain how you're helping our country keep our constitutional God-given rights?  Well, not only that, Carrie, but think about the way they want to strip parents' rights away from moms and dads. They want to make decisions for our kids without any parental involvement whatsoever. Look at the image of parents being dragged out of school board meetings. Good luck to your boyfriend, and I hope he wins, and I hope that we get... Look, we got a lot on the line. We got a lot at stake here. This country is on the brink right now.  And incidentally, some great text messages pouring in on the MyPillow text line from Michigan. Mike, think about it. You were that guy's guardian angel. I hope you're going to be blessed with 100 people donating $100 because you really helped him out. Think about it. If you didn't insist on talking to him and thanking him personally for what you thought was the $10,000 donation, he wouldn't have known until it might have been too late.  That is so neat. I am so thankful. Look, I'm looking at a number. I think we just got about $3,000 or $4,000 in the kitty.  Keep it up. MikeOnline.com, Give Life banner. Maybe, just maybe, God's going to bless this campaign and we're going to correct the $10,000 error that was totally innocent, totally inadvertent, but maybe, just maybe, my depressed state last night is about to become euphoric again.  Look, it's like, hey, happy wife, happy life, happy life. When I'm happy, you're happy. When I'm in a good mood, it should be contagious. I hope. This is it.  The waiting is over. No room to wait.  Did you know that home title fraud and equity theft are some of the biggest threats to U.S. homeowners? Just last year, one in ten Americans were targeted for real estate fraud. I've been an identity theft victim. 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It's just that several times a year you benefit destitute people in our country and all over the world. Thank you for what you do. Keep the faith. Speak the truth. Do the right thing. Never surrender. Gosh, that's how lucky I am that I get to...  get a note like that from Sarasota, Florida, and look at the number right now. Look at the... I mean, you're going to do it. I think you're going to make up the $10,000 mistake on our Food for the Poor campaign. Right now, it says 42,385 of our $40,000 goal. So remember, that's really 32 because of the $10,000 mistake. And I had prayed that 100 people would donate $100. And I can see some of the donations. Matt  Thank you, Alan. God bless you. Here's a $1,000 donation from Jennifer D. Wow.  This is what it can be like when God blesses a campaign. So thank you, thank you, thank you. If you're just tuning in, a guy made a mistake yesterday, wanted to make a $100 donation to our Food for the Poor campaign. 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