Vince Coglianese
Appearances
The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Vince Coglianese, Tim Burchett, Byron Donalds, and Vivek Ramaswamy
Dan, I am so pumped to be here. I've told you so many times personally already, but I'll just tell you in front of everybody else. I am so grateful to you for all the opportunities to get a bunch of at-bats on your show and to speak to this great audience.
The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Vince Coglianese, Tim Burchett, Byron Donalds, and Vivek Ramaswamy
Just the idea that I could even begin to do something like this on the podcast and on the radio show and now seeing it come to fruition, it is a blessing from heaven above. I can't be grateful enough to you for the great thing that we're about to start here together.
The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Vince Coglianese, Tim Burchett, Byron Donalds, and Vivek Ramaswamy
100%.
The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Vince Coglianese, Tim Burchett, Byron Donalds, and Vivek Ramaswamy
It was amazing in every possible sense. I was so overjoyed by everything I saw last night. Sad for the state of the Democrat Party, but happy that basically no one wants to deal with their nonsense anymore. So like there they are sitting in the crowd, sort of making these limp wristed gestures like like absolutely.
The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Vince Coglianese, Tim Burchett, Byron Donalds, and Vivek Ramaswamy
You ever see somebody who doesn't have a fight just like swinging their arms and not knowing what to do? Yes, many times. They're like the little kid who's being held back by the adult man going, OK, settle down, son. And the kid's swinging his arms like crazy and is in a big tantrum. That's what the Democrats look like right now.
The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Vince Coglianese, Tim Burchett, Byron Donalds, and Vivek Ramaswamy
They look ridiculous, as you point out, because you understand media, too, really well. President Trump, first of all, has a skill for this. And he had all the tactical advantages. He had the microphone. He had the camera. He had an enthusiastic crowd of Republicans there backing him up.
The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Vince Coglianese, Tim Burchett, Byron Donalds, and Vivek Ramaswamy
He had great, decent American citizens with really heartwarming stories and tragic stories in some cases that the viewer instantly connected with. And Democrats were either sitting on their hands or protesting and, of course, looking absolutely ridiculous and callous in the process. And I will say this. One last thing on this, which is yesterday was Fat Tuesday, as you know.
The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Vince Coglianese, Tim Burchett, Byron Donalds, and Vivek Ramaswamy
And I thought that yesterday was an all you can eat buffet of absolutely wonderful moments for the American people. I I've never engorged myself as much as I did last night on that speech. I loved I didn't even realize two hours had passed. People are saying this is the longest speech ever. Right. I didn't feel it over. It felt like it just started. It was that good from top to bottom.
The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Vince Coglianese, Tim Burchett, Byron Donalds, and Vivek Ramaswamy
No, and they also don't know who they are. There's no defining quality for their party other than that they hate Trump.
The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Vince Coglianese, Tim Burchett, Byron Donalds, and Vivek Ramaswamy
So everything Trump says, I'm certain you've played this clip, but Scott Jennings made the point, excellent point recently on CNN, that it's all 80-20 stuff, and that basically Trump has this political superpower of always taking the 80, and then when he takes the 80, Democrats feel compelled to take the 20, and they hysterically screech the 20% position in public.
The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Vince Coglianese, Tim Burchett, Byron Donalds, and Vivek Ramaswamy
So that's how they end up with constantly defending this idea that it's OK to mutilate children and that you can change their sex and that they're born in the wrong body and that they can play girls sports if they're actually boys. It's insane for normal people. The 80 is like really clear on this one. And the Democrats will take the opposite position because Trump takes the majority position.
The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Vince Coglianese, Tim Burchett, Byron Donalds, and Vivek Ramaswamy
And so as long as your party is defined by always taking the most unpopular position, you're going to continue to live in the wilderness, which is where they are now. They're in political Siberia and they don't know how to escape.
The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Vince Coglianese, Tim Burchett, Byron Donalds, and Vivek Ramaswamy
Don't undersell your influencer. You use way more than 10,000.
The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Vince Coglianese, Tim Burchett, Byron Donalds, and Vivek Ramaswamy
Yeah, it's a huge problem. And by the way, it's also a problem on the right to an extent, too, because sometimes you see these incumbent Republican lawmakers who keep coming back. And then you wonder, why are they the squishiest Republicans when their states are the reddest?
The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Vince Coglianese, Tim Burchett, Byron Donalds, and Vivek Ramaswamy
And the answer is similar, basically, to what you just described, which is that they don't really care that much fundamentally about moderating their politics or making their politics fit in such a way that actually help the people. And so, yeah, it's a big problem for sure. And these Democrats, it's just it is amazing to watch. They just had a big meeting out in Loudoun County, Virginia.
The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Vince Coglianese, Tim Burchett, Byron Donalds, and Vivek Ramaswamy
It was reported over the past weekend and they were trying to figure out what do we do? What do we do? And they started talking about, well, maybe we should start going to gun shows and churches, indicating, of course, that they haven't been going to gun shows and churches at all. Right. They said stuff like.
The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Vince Coglianese, Tim Burchett, Byron Donalds, and Vivek Ramaswamy
maybe we should stop relying so much on small dollar donors, which of course means, okay, so you're only going to rely on wealthy people.
The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Vince Coglianese, Tim Burchett, Byron Donalds, and Vivek Ramaswamy
But what they really mean by that is the point you just made, which is as a political force, the only way they figured out that they can try and generate revenue right now is to preach to the most hysterical choir they can find that is willing to open their checkbooks for demented things because that's how radical they are. So they're sending out emails about how much they like...
The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Vince Coglianese, Tim Burchett, Byron Donalds, and Vivek Ramaswamy
doing awful things to human beings, to children, because they know they have a very active base that's, it may be very small, but very active, that's willing to crack open its wallet to donate for something so ridiculous. And so it's become just like a cartoonish political party, and they deserve the wilderness. I mean, I hope the party disappears entirely.
The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Vince Coglianese, Tim Burchett, Byron Donalds, and Vivek Ramaswamy
I do think we need a real balanced political system with an actual exchange of ideas. But the Democrats are a dangerous... and fortunately shrinking political party that really should probably be retired entirely. Think about how many things have they removed names from, Dan? How is it that the Democrat Party, of all things, never got the ax?
The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Vince Coglianese, Tim Burchett, Byron Donalds, and Vivek Ramaswamy
Well, I can tell you I have a couple of very big rabbits in the hat that I'm ready to start pulling soon. I'm not going to make any announcement right now.
The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Vince Coglianese, Tim Burchett, Byron Donalds, and Vivek Ramaswamy
It's going to be very big. We're anticipating, we're planning for a very big launch week. as we take the helm here from you, Dan. And you're right. Look, I've been in conservative politics in Washington and conservative media, fundamentally, for a couple decades now. And in that process, I've been the editor-in-chief of The Daily Caller, and I've worked at Foreign alongside Tucker Carlson.
The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Vince Coglianese, Tim Burchett, Byron Donalds, and Vivek Ramaswamy
I've gotten to know so many of these, especially these Republicans. I've interviewed President Trump literally countless times now. I've been in the Oval Office many times for extended interviews with him. It's been great. And so, you know, as we start in this role to do the podcast and to do the radio show, I don't want any of that to end.
The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Vince Coglianese, Tim Burchett, Byron Donalds, and Vivek Ramaswamy
I want all of that to keep rolling because it's been productive here. I've done this radio show in the afternoon on WMAL for just over four years now. Prior to that, I was doing the morning show on WMAL. And we always, although we're a local one station in a local market, it is the nation's capital. And we've always booked all of our shows, all of my shows,
The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Vince Coglianese, Tim Burchett, Byron Donalds, and Vivek Ramaswamy
I like their national news shows because fundamentally they are. And so that's not going to stop. It's actually just going to kick into overdrive. And for any WMAL listener who might be tuning in right now, if you think my show has been good so far, wait until you see what we achieve from 12 to 3. It is going to blow your mind.
The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Vince Coglianese, Tim Burchett, Byron Donalds, and Vivek Ramaswamy
If I even hear words that sound like Ward Eagle, I'm going after Jim.
The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Vince Coglianese, Tim Burchett, Byron Donalds, and Vivek Ramaswamy
Thanks, Dan. Thank you for, once again, going back to service for your country. You're a great man.