BUCK: We are at what seems like the beginnings of the Red Wave here, my friends, but a very, very important race right now in Minnesota. The governor’s race in Minnesota is to be determined. Dr. Scott Jensen is with us now. And, Dr. Jensen, we appreciate you coming back on. You just got a big endorsement. Tell us what the Trump endorsement means to you and how things are looking right now with your throwdown up in Minnesota.

JENSEN: Well, the recent Trafalgar poll came out and shows us a half a point ahead. So, this has really been powerful because I think an awful lot of people across the nation are excited about the idea that Minnesota can basically tell a Democratic incumbent, governor, you’re done. You ill-advisedly locked people down, locked people out, locked businesses down, locked kids out. You did it willy-nilly trying to justify everything you did. You absolutely spurred on inflation. And from a crime perspective, Minnesota never used to have to keep track of carjackings. But when you get almost 800 in a year, people realize this is a real thing.

.@BirkMatt and I are committed to healing Minnesota from Tim Walz’s failed policies. This thing got away from him. Crime is out of control, our kids are falling behind and he’s not doing what it takes to keep more money in the family budget.

It’s time for new leadership! #HEALMN pic.twitter.com/llACWDNwcm

— Scott Jensen (@drscottjensen) October 25, 2022

So, I think that’s what’s happening and that’s why we’re half a point ahead. And what it’s brought about for us has been just a resurgence of people interested in our race. They want to know where they give and so I’m just telling everybody, Dr. Scott Jensen.com, D-R-S-C-O-T-T-J-E-N-S-E-N.com. Help us out. The more we can match dollar for dollar Tim Walz, the more likely it is that we’re going to win and we’re going to help lead the nation on November 8th to a place where conservative values, reasonable values, truth is being elevated.

In terms of endorsements, we made an intentional decision that because this is such a Minnesota race with its own nuances, we would not seek the endorsements of political leaders. But we are grateful that leaders around the nation have recognized the fact that Matt Birk and Scott Jensen have the ability to lead and heal Minnesota. But we’ve been extremely pleased at receiving some of the endorsements from the Minnesota Police and Peace Officers Association and the Hmong community. And we recently got an endorsement from our Federation of Small Businesses. And then the big one for us was newspapers came out. Rochester, Duluth, Moorhead, a dozen different newspapers collectively in this forum, group of newspapers came out and endorsed us, and that was huge.

And so I think that there’s a momentum going on. I think Tim Walz’s unwillingness to debate, truly hunkering down in the basement, taking a page out of Joe Biden’s playbook, even people like Keith Ellison and Ilhan Omar are they’re not able to protect Tim Walz at this point. He knows that he’s out there naked because Minnesotans are furious that he hasn’t been showing up for debates.

CLAY: So, the failure when it comes to crime, obviously, your state was the epicenter of the George Floyd protests and everything that spiraled out of there. And Tim Walz’s failures not only had a lot to do with Minnesota, but it seems like a lot of other governors took the lead in how he responded. How much is that resonating as you talk to voters all over the state of Minnesota that there is a residual anger over the fact that those months of protests and violent protest were allowed to occur?

JENSEN: Minnesotans recognized clearly that at some level, Tim Walz is the godfather of this crime epidemic, not just in Minneapolis and St. Paul, not just in Minnesota, but literally across our nation’s borders. There were cities that burned in our nation that would not have needed to burn, had Tim Walz been a leader. And I think for a while people thought, well, was that a one-off situation? Tim Walz Just make a gross mistake. But they see the pattern.

They see that he did not put the National Guard on the street when he could have. And when he finally did, he ridiculed Jacob Frey, the mayor of Minneapolis. He called the National Guard a bunch of 19-year-old cooks. And he followed that with telling the police that they had to stand down and let the third precinct burn. And then at the state fair a couple of months ago, he tried to blame it on the police as to why that building was allowed to burn. And then a couple of weeks after the third precinct building burned, he told the state patrol to stand down and allow his demonstrators to vent their anger by tearing down a statue that belonged to the state of Minnesota and had been in place for decades.

I think Minnesotans are recognizing Tim Walz has been literally feeding us a bunch of hogwash and they’re standing up and saying there’s no way in the world Tim Walz is going to get us public safety. Recently, he said some DFL staffers criticizing moms and dads in suburbs were being afraid to go to downtown Minneapolis with this DFL staffer, sort of saying, “There’s no crime problem, you should be down here. Why are you such a coward?” And now that person is absolutely closed on their Twitter account. I’m sure that they were probably reprimanded by Walz’s team, but this is the kind of, if you will, tone-deaf nature of what’s been going on in the Walz campaign.

BUCK: We’re speaking to Dr. Scott Jensen. He’s running for governor in Minnesota. He can win this one, folks. But we have our Minnesotans listening right now. They’re going to have to mobilize behind him. Dr. Jensen, there are some people out there still in the political world in this country who are saying things like Kathy Hochul in New York says kids should still be in masks. How much is the backlash against not only covid authoritarianism, but being wrong and being authoritarian when it comes to covid affecting the Minnesota race?

Tim Walz locked our kids out of school.

His soft-on-crime policies let repeat violent offenders back on the streets. Police have never been more demoralized.

He is keeping Minnesota energy dependent and driving up costs for families.

He has NOT earned re-election. Not close.

— Scott Jensen (@drscottjensen) October 27, 2022

JENSEN: It’s interesting. I think it’s a really interesting question. Thank you for asking. I think what we saw was this, especially in like 2020, we saw anything that went against sort of the liberal news narrative, it was misinformation. And they never recanted even when they were proven wrong.

For instance, right now I’ve been very clear there will be no mandates in Minnesota whereby kids have to take covid-19 vaccines in order to attend school. I’ve been very clear. Tim Walz won’t respond to that. But if you go back to that question that tantalized America, and even now we’re starting to see reports from the Senate, the U.S. Senate. Where did the covid-19 virus come from? And there were many people, including myself, that thought that this most likely would be a natural reassortment of RNA material between different species. But Robert Redfield, the former CDC director, he came out after he was no longer CDC director and said that he was uncomfortable attributing that covid-19 virus to a natural reassortment and that there was more and more data that would indicate that it probably was a lab incident.

Even today, we’re seeing this come out in the news. Well, what does that mean? Does that mean that the people that ridiculed you or me about spreading misinformation, are they going to now apologize to us and say, “Well, I guess it wasn’t that way?” There was a signature sequence of amino acid bases on the covid-19 virus that people recognized a long time ago. Didn’t seem to be consistent with that which would happen in nature. It would potentially happen in a laboratory-produced virus. So, are these people going to apologize to us or are they just going to sort of brush that under the rug?

CLAY: No, they’re never going to apologize. And, frankly, many of us out there who are asking these questions are going to be validated. I think the irony here in many ways, as you well know, Dr. Jensen, is that people try to claim they’re going to be on the right side of history. And anybody who studies history knows it’s difficult. And I feel pretty confident the people who locked down this country and took kids out of school for months are going to end up on the wrong side of history. Quite clearly, they already are. Dr. Jensen, thanks for coming on. What can people do in these last 11 days to try to make sure that you are able to get to that governor’s office in Minnesota?

JENSEN: Two things. We need the financial support. The Democratic money machine is alive and well. Our website is D-R-S-C-O-T-T-J-E-N-S-E-N.com. We’d love you to support us and help us. But the other thing is, I would ask all Minnesotans and even all Americans to remember that on March 13th, 2020, our lives changed because that’s when Governor Tim Walz issued his executive order, his first executive order, declaring a peacetime state of emergency. And from there, he told family businesses to shut down. He told kids, you’re locked out of schools. And he told sick, frail nursing home patients, you’re going to die alone. That day should be burned into our psyche. March 13, 2020. Minnesota was no longer governed by a governor. An empire had taken seat.

CLAY: It’s really well said. Dr. Jensen, we’re for you. We’re going to help you as much as we can these next 11 days. Hope everybody listening to us in Minnesota and beyond will do so as well. Thank you, Doctor.

JENSEN: Thank you.