via NRA
Following President Donald Trump’s resounding victory, former Speaker of the House 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.
Obama won back when he ran partly because he could lie to the cameras and his own supporters KNEW he was lying but only saying it (the lies) to get votes.
And enough people bought those lies to put him over the top.
Kamala could not do that.
When she flip-flopped her long-held positions no one believed her…..
Muslim voters quit her.
Nothing to do with guns.
Had to do with her support for Israel.
Black men quit her.
Nothing to do with guns.
They identified with Trump as a victim of “lawfare.”
Hispanic voters quit her.
Nothing to do with guns.
Hispanic voters wanted the border closed.
Really, EVERY demographic shifted to the right.
Nothing to do with guns.
Dems had shifted so far to the radical left that voters couldn’t identify with Kamala’s viewpoints anymore.
Kamala couldn’t figure out how to separate herself from the Robin Ware/Robert L. Peters/JRB Ware/Pedo Peter/idiot Biden disaster without admitting the entire Democrat agenda was a failure. Her leftist totalitarian agenda repulsed the majority; anti-gun was just a portion of it.
They’ve got to blame everybody but their own radicalism.
Don’t forget younger women because they could not bear the hysterics!
Read the 2nd Amendment you Dumb Cluck it might Educate You about Gun Ownership in America you wont learn from the Liberal Written Text Books Read a a Book by a Conservative about the U.S. Constitution
Hell, just read the Constitution. It’s self explanatory. Then look at people being arrested for social media posts and speech crimes in the UK and the old lady beaten by thug cops in Australia for not wearing a mask and you see what happens to a disarmed population.
If the Constitution were self-explanatory, we wouldn’t need a Federal judiciary tasked with the job of interpreting it.
It might help if you read the whole 2nd Amendment Pill Bug’ it might help you learn
I’ve read it, and not just the second half, as seems to to be your situation.
Good now comment nb the article groomer, not just at someone elses comment.
Or are you waiting for the school board to give you your opinion?
Why am I not allowed to reply to comments?
Oh you most certainly are, you have never commented on an article posted, really cant form your own opinion just on other opinions, rather retarded. As far as the SC they are needed when the Constitution is violated not to interpret it. Silly tax vampire.
3/5th a person ?
The judicial branch interprets the law. That’s Civics 101.
Please read past Well Regulated Malitia and into SHALL NOT BE INFRINFED Funny Bunny that’s why Liberals get Stumped by those last Few Words
Where’s the well-regulated militia?
Does California have a reserve?
You know weekend warriors?
Its ex military or veterans organizing relief for NC in the face of FEMA failure.
Where is your personal comment tax leech?
Nothing about that says “well-regulated.”
Still cant comment?You glow of ignorance. Its why Kamala lost you are as ignorant as her.
The first few words in the 2nd Amendment Bean Brain is WELL REGULATED MALITIA
WE are the well-regulated militia.
The Constitution, particularly the 2nd Amendment, is totally self-explanatory. It is the new and innovative interpretations that need to be explained.
Well for a stupid b!tch she got this right. Every body I know who voted Trump is a gun owner.
Poor little Democrats. The NRA provided $30 million in support. How much in taxpayer money did Planned Parenthood kick back to Democrats? Democrats hate the 2nd Amendment (well, every Constitutional right, unless they can exploit it) but think an imaginary “right” reigns supreme.
Elitists like Pelosi, who have walled homes and security (which doesn’t do much good against homeless homos invited in) always denigrate the right to self defenses because they fear that right used against government assault. Well, this “gun toting American” will always vote for freedom and against leftist fascism and socialism.
We need to keep shipping illegals to the affluent, Leftist, walled and gated communities.
Yep, us deplorables, irredeemables, and garbage own guns, and lots of them. Barack Hussein Obumbler once said of conservatives, “they cling to their religion and guns”. He and Nasty Pelosi better remember that, especially the “guns” part. You are far out gunned, so don’t even think of attempting to get Trump out of the WH by violent means.
We have heard all the excuses, looked at all the finger pointing all except the candidate looking in the mirror, she much like Hillary was drunk on the stump. You cant cover incompetence with highly paid celebrities. Campaign ads with debunked lies. Oh the stuff that backfired, like “Weird” with a cabinet full of thieving cross dressing sexual deviants and DEI hires.
In 2024, the number of firearms in America is likely over 466 million due to record breaking sales during the pandemic. The average gun owning American has 5 firearms, while nearly 22% of gun owners only have a single firearm. 5 firearms! on TV its called an arsenal anything over 1 box of rounds is made out as enough to take out an entire city. 1000 rounds makes them swoon.
Yet we know sending long range missiles to a nut that lobbed a bomb into Poland, in attempts to draw NATO troops into his money laundering machine …meh.
Did Russia and China Sever NATO Cables to Block an Attack and Delay World War 3?
Maybe the only “peaceniks” are Trump and Putin. (+ BRICS)
The timing is delicious.
Nothing stops the insanity of this admin and its trickle down effect to State government.
While they sit in heated 3 bedroom houses with running water doing their level best to f*** over private assistance to American children living in flimsy nylon tents.
Seems the temporary road built by the miners to get relief and access to Bat cave has been determined to be unsafe and already one barrier torn down by sane residents.
Much backlash over Amish sheds having to follow building codes.
I know misinformation, damn their lying eyewitnesses with cameras.
Hope this is the last build back better pilot project.
Crouching Bear Hidden Dragon
[like “Weird” with a cabinet full of thieving cross dressing sexual deviants and DEI hires.”}
And these are the more likeable and skilled of the lotat that cabinet.
Skilled? How? Effective where?
Can you decipher lotat that cabinet please.
Well, duh!
We still cling to our relgi0on and guns you old battle ax .One reason is because of people like Nazi Pelousy I for one are sick of these lying dem/communists and their BS they have been pushing all these years and when they do get in power they go over the edge like Bribeme and he was a senile old fool ..Who was really running the show .
Real men…you know…the ones who take seriously their role at protecting and providing for their wives and children…were NEVER going to support an utterly unaccomplished political whore who literally got started in politics as SF Mayor Willie Brown’s slutty sidepiece….and who despite being a demomarxist senator from Kalifornistan could not garner even 4% of the leftard primary vote in the 2020 Kali presidential primary was selected by the Biden crime cabal as his VP running mate in a blatantly racist act of condescention towards blacks….made cosmically ironic by the fact that Harris is not black, but half Indian!
Leftards, assuming that everyone is as cataclysmically stupid as they are, just KNEW that all the hicks and hillbillies in the American hinterlands would forget all the propaganda calling all whites…particularly those disgusting CHRISTIAN whites…as the source of all evil in the world because of “white supremacy” and “white privilege” and “unconscious racial bias”…
So the left/woketards were too stupid to recognize that normal Americans, whether white, black, hispanic, or asian, recoiled from the unnatural unscientiic nasty perversion of the tranny insanity…that normal Americans of all skin colors could remember that on the last day of Trump’s previous term, the average price for a gallon of gasoline was $1.87, while under the pedo dementia scum bag it was over $3.25…that while normal Americans of all skin colors were struggling to buy groceries or get mortgages to buy homes, untold hundreds of thousands of illegal invaders were being housed in 4 star hotels, given “free” health care, food and educations (except the ones deported by thenational guard out of Martha’s Vinyard)..and the federal criminal cabal pretending to be a legitimate government refused to spend any money to protect the American border…while over $400 BILLION was sent to the corrupt Ukrainian money laundering operation to protect THEIR border…
Leftardism is the epitome of selfish, enabled, moronic evil. Honest, God-fearing, intelligent individuals of good character do not support leftardism.
The old witch need to be investigated for insider trading, and for her failure to call in troops for Jan. 6. She is a disgrace as a human being.
And once again, the leftists lost because they just don’t get it and they don’t want to get it. The elite looking down on the people that they are supposed to serve…. being told they are stupid, classless, domestic terrorists, racists … etc…. the elite hate the American people… but want their money….
How does the adage go if you cannot say something sensible say something stupid.
Se forgot to mention rifle and pistol packing demented trans girl aiming her weapon at the back of the head of a six yo girl – hero who was about to pull the Christian SChools fire alarm.
Nor are they pointing at the use of a printed gun and screaming, “See? SEE!?!?”