Does Sen. Mitt Romney seem arrogant to you when he claims that the wise wing of the GOP are not MAGA supporting patriots?

Reporter: “Do you feel like this is a Republican Party that is beholden to former President Donald Trump?”

ROMNEY: “Well, there’s no question that the Republican Party today is in the shadow of Donald Trump. He is the leader of the greatest portion of the Republican Party. It’s a populist, I believe, demagogue portion of the party. Look, I represent a small wing of the party. If you will, I call it the wise wing of the Republican Party. And I don’t believe we’re going away. I think ultimately we’ll see a resurgence and come back into leadership of the party. Look, my wing of the party talks about policy and about issues that will make a difference to the lives of the American people. The Trump wing of the party talks about resentments of various kind and getting even and settling scores and revisiting the 2020 election. What are the policies for the future? And my party is only going to be successful getting young people to vote for us if we’re talking about the future. And that’s not happening so far in that other wing.”

GALLAGHER: Sometimes they say the quiet part out loud, don’t they? I represent a small wing of the Republican Party, which I refer to as the wise wing of their word, that they’re they’re the smart kids. They’re they forget what everybody else is saying. Forget hardworking, taxpaying God fearing Americans who are tired of getting steamrolled by the Democrat machine. No, no, they’re the wise ones. The establishment Republicans, they’re the smart ones. They got all the degrees behind their name. They got all the letters behind their name. They got all the all their credits, all their country club bona fides. They’re the wise wing of the party, the rest of us. Well, Mitt Romney said it. He wouldn’t sit down and have lunch with you. He wouldn’t sit down and have lunch with you. He’s insulted by J.D. Vance, so much so that he couldn’t bear to have lunch with them. Sorry. Good riddance. O.T. in Florida, 865 five. My 25 past the hour. How you doing, Odie?

CALLER ODIE: I’m fine, Mike. You’re 100% on target. They despise us all. They look at us ads as an ATM machine. That’s it. Have a good day.

GALLAGHER: All right, you too. Tim in Michigan. Tim, you’re on the Mike Gallagher Show. 800 655. Mike is the weight loss number. Hi, Tim.

CALLER TIM: Hey, How you doing? Good. How are you? I’m just working on my truck. Hey, here’s the thing. I used to be a Republican when I was younger. Because everybody over there is camp Romney’s compromise. All of it. All they do is sniff out money when they get into when they get into office. And that’s it. They don’t represent the American people anymore.

GALLAGHER: Well, listen, I’m going to tell you something flat out, Tim. If Mitt Romney doesn’t want to have lunch with J.D. Vance, the senator from Ohio, he definitely don’t want to have lunch with you working on your truck. I mean, are you kidding me? You think Mitt Romney works on his truck? Good reminder, Tim. Thank you. One open line, quickly to Steve in Phenix. Hey, Steve.

CALLER STEVE: Hey. Hi. Mitt Romney needs to go. He’s one of those Republicans that considers himself so brilliant he doesn’t need to think or talk to anybody else.

GALLAGHER: Exactly. I mean, but that but doesn’t that sum up the state of the establishment clash today? Doesn’t that completely what you just said knock it out of the park?