Resigning Republicans Threaten GOP House Majority

On April 8, 2024, Brian Joondeph and Chris Phelen joined the show. Analyzes how Ken Buck, Kevin McCarthy, and Mike Gallagher resignations could hand Democrats control of the House, enabling legislation to declare Trump an insurrectionist and pack the Supreme Court CD4 congressional candidate outlines his border security plan, presents fentanyl crisis statistics, and differentiates himself through Congressional experience and Project 2025.

Republican Resignations Threaten Constitutional Crisis

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Dr. Brian Joondeph, columnist for American Thinker, sounds the alarm on a coordinated pattern of Republican resignations that could tip control of the House to Democrats. Ken Buck’s early departure from Colorado’s CD4 seat, combined with Kevin McCarthy’s resignation and Mike Gallagher’s strategically timed exit from Wisconsin, threatens to eliminate the razor-thin GOP majority.

Joondeph warns that once Democrats control the House, they could pass legislation declaring Donald Trump an insurrectionist, a remedy the Supreme Court explicitly green-lighted in their Colorado ballot decision. The consequences extend beyond the 2024 election: Democrats could expand the Supreme Court by simple majority vote, packing it with liberal justices who would reinterpret the Constitution’s fundamental protections.

The timing of these resignations appears deliberate. Gallagher delayed his departure until after Wisconsin’s deadline for special elections, ensuring his seat remains vacant until November. Buck’s early exit created a vacancy on Colorado’s CD4 committee, forcing Republicans to scramble for a special election candidate.

“These members of Congress are doing it, I think, very deliberately to give themselves clean hands. They’re not voting with the Democrats. They’re not going to go that far. But they’re going to wash their hands of it and say, oh, well, look what happened. It’s not my fault. But, yeah, it is their fault.”

Dr. Brian Joondeph, American Thinker Columnist

Border Security and the Fentanyl Crisis

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Chris Phelen, Republican candidate for Colorado’s 4th Congressional District, brings six years of Congressional experience from his time as chief of staff to Congressman Doug Lamborn. Phelen differentiates himself from the crowded primary field by proposing to relocate the Bureau of Land Management headquarters to CD4, building on Trump’s Project 2025 framework.

On border security, Phelen presents staggering statistics: 7.5 million illegal encounters since 2021, ten times the population of his district. In 2023 alone, 169 individuals on the terrorist watch list crossed the border, along with 35,000 people with criminal convictions or warrants. The fentanyl crisis compounds the humanitarian disaster, with seizures in 2023 totaling enough to kill the entire U.S. population seventeen times over.

Phelen advocates for complete border closure until Mexico takes ownership of its southern border, combined with deportation of those who entered illegally. He criticizes the Biden administration for treating asylum claims as legal entry while American citizens endure invasive security screening at airports.

“The lethal dose of fentanyl, 2 milligrams. 2 milligrams. I don’t think people understand what 2 milligrams is. The weight of 2 milligrams is the same of 2 grains of salt. So you take a normal container of salt that you have in your cupboard, Kim, and that container has enough, if it was full of fentanyl, it would have enough lethal doses to kill roughly 37,000 people.”

Chris Phelen, CD4 Congressional Candidate