AVEN HARRISON

Conservative Warrior

Living with Jesus: Las Vegas Tonight August 26th, 2022

In the world of uncertainty and constant challenges, finding solace and guidance becomes paramount. One show that aims to bring spiritual enlightenment and inspiration is Las Vegas Tonight. In its episode aired on August 26th, 2022, host Dale Davidson welcomed special guest Raven Harrison. Together, they delved into the topic of living with Jesus and the profound impact it can have on one’s life.

Las Vegas Tonight August 26th, 2022 with Raven Harrison

Las Vegas Tonight

During the episode, Raven Harrison shared her personal journey with Christ, emphasizing the transformative power of living with Jesus. Her sincere and heartfelt testimonial resonated with viewers, reminding them of the boundless love and forgiveness offered by God. Raven’s words not only provided hope but also served as a guiding light for those seeking spiritual fulfillment.

Transcript

Announcer: Welcome to Las Vegas tonight with your award-winning host, Dale Davidson. Dale interviews fascinating guests from top-ranked celebrities to people just like you who have an important story to tell. For more than 15 years, Dale is broadcast every week from the fabulous Las Vegas strip. He finds the people who really make Las Vegas a one-of-a-kind city and lets the world know just what’s happening in this remarkable town. You’ll discover why 50 million people visit the entertainment capital of the world every year. Stay tuned for another exciting episode of Las Vegas Tonight.
Dale Davidson: Welcome to Las Vegas Tonight. I’m your host, Dale Davidson. Thank you for tuning in. Each and every week we do our best to bring you fascinating guests. Have we outdone ourselves? Yes, we have. Raven Harrison is with us. She’s a candidate for Congress from Texas. She’s a former Las Vegas, so we’ll talk a little bit about that. And a great lady. Raven, thanks for coming on.
Raven Harrison: Thanks for having me, Dale.
Dale Davidson: Good to see you. I appreciate you letting me call you by your first name.
Raven Harrison: Oh, excellent.
Dale Davidson: So you live in Dallas now?
Raven Harrison: We live just north of Dallas in Frisco, Texas.
Dale Davidson: Oh, okay. Frisco, I know where that is.
Raven Harrison: Yes, where it’s all happening, but I was born in Texas, so occasionally you have to go back to the beginning.
Dale Davidson: And you’re an Air Force brat.
Raven Harrison: I am.
Dale Davidson: There’s a lot of them here in Las Vegas.
Raven Harrison: THE, Air Force brat. I am the quintessential Air Force brat. So not only do I have two parents who are retired Lieutenant-Colonels in the United States Air Force.
Dale Davidson: Wow.
Raven Harrison: I can’t get away from that as quickly as I could to marry a retired United States Air Force C-17 pilot.
Dale Davidson: Couldn’t get away.
Raven Harrison: They never get away.
Dale Davidson: Couldn’t get away.
Raven Harrison: So, yes, I’m excited to have, it definitely gives you a perspective of patriotism and service.
Dale Davidson: Oh, my gosh, yeah.
Raven Harrison: You spend your life in people, in service to people, in service to this great country.
Dale Davidson: Yeah. And when I ask you a little bit about growing up that way, how many schools did you end up going to?
Raven Harrison: You know, to ask that question. That is, so I would say the conservative estimate is eight schools in 11 years. And I skipped two grades. So we were on kind of an accelerated program.
Dale Davidson: Wow.
Raven Harrison: Now, were both parents pilots?
Dale Davidson: Or what did they do?
Raven Harrison: No. We had my mom had a degree in electrical electronics engineering. Which to me meant that she could put anything I had together on Christmas.
Dale Davidson: Had a dad who was an electrical engineer. Yeah. And everything.
Raven Harrison: Awesome. And my father in law. So he was a pilot as well. He flew in NAM. But he was the law side of it.
Dale Davidson: Oh.
Raven Harrison: Keep us out of trouble.
Dale Davidson: Okay. Well, that’s good. That’s good. And what was it like? Tell me, do you have siblings?
Raven Harrison: I am an only child.
Dale Davidson: An only child. That explains a lot.
Raven Harrison: I guess I couldn’t dip into that well.
Dale Davidson: That’s sweet.
Raven Harrison: Broke the mold, literally.
Dale Davidson: Now do you feel that you were over disciplined because you had military parents?
Raven Harrison: I don’t know if over disciplined is the word I would use.
Dale Davidson: She’s going to be very diplomatic.
Raven Harrison: I’m going to be the diplomat. I’m going to tell you that that rumor of if it wasn’t gushing for our generation, if the blood wasn’t gushing, if the bone wasn’t visible, don’t want to hear it.
Dale Davidson: Walk it off.
Raven Harrison: And I’m telling you the one that most people never get used to was the briefings. It was always about the briefings. It was, I need to know how to do this. How do I make this hot chocolate? There’ll be a briefing at 0600. Are you kidding? And people thought it was really cool. I didn’t think it was that cool. I thought it was ridiculous. Can I just have the mom who makes cookies and the house smells great when you come home from school and my mom is God knows where packing an AR-15 or something. It was crazy.
Dale Davidson: I’m familiar. My dad was Air Force as well. Yes. US Army Air Corps, that’s how far back he went during World War II and was on the team that invented onboard radar.
Raven Harrison: Wow.
Dale Davidson: Yeah.
Raven Harrison: There it is.
Dale Davidson: Top secret stuff and all that electrical engineering and all of that stuff.
Raven Harrison: Excellent. Sounds like it.
Dale Davidson: But it was the same way. He would grill me and he would lecture me and grill me and he would use the Socratic method. It was like, what exactly precisely were you thinking when you thought hitting a tennis ball into the neighbor’s window would not break it? Explain to me what you thought the dynamics of that were. Oh yeah. And after a while I was like, can’t you just hit me like the other dads so I could get up and leave?
Raven Harrison: Yeah.
Dale Davidson: You know, my friends just get spanked and it’s over in five minutes.
Raven Harrison: You know, you would welcome corporal punishment after one of those because this was, I could tell you that some of the things I did, and especially being an only child, you’ve got no one to blame it on. That you have to be really precise because some of those inquiries would rival something you would see on television. So Jack Nicholson here at came, you can’t handle the truth.
Dale Davidson: And it’s so hard to keep track of the lies that you’ve told trying to get out of this.
Raven Harrison: That’s correct. And I think my father’s favorite saying is if you tell the truth, you don’t have to have a good memory.
Dale Davidson: That’s the truth. That’s the truth. So you went to college early.
Raven Harrison: I did.
Dale Davidson: You skipped a couple of grades.
Raven Harrison: Yes. I didn’t have the luxury of the internet and all this technology to distract me. We had books. Yeah. I tell you how old I was. One of my favorite games was to look up in the dictionary a new word each day and mark it off and wanted to see if I could get that dictionary with every X in it. And now my kids absolutely have an eye roll you can hear when I say that story of, yeah, I picked up a book and they’re like, what for? But yes, we, um, studying education is super important.
Dale Davidson: Very important to your family.
Raven Harrison: And there was also that thread of really understanding. I mean, my parents were great, but you saw them come in. There are a lot of things they couldn’t tell us about places. We lived in combat zones. We lived in communism. We lived in places that most people never would want to know about. And when you came back, the last thing I could do to them is, you know, I was in trouble at school or, you know, I was, I got caught for rough housing with this. So there was a line of respect that we held of just going, you know, I can’t do that to them. They’re out there doing something so important.
Dale Davidson: Wow.
Raven Harrison: Um, it was, it was difficult. It was definitely a sacrifice. I can probably count the number of birthdays they made it home for on one hand. But I understood. I got it as a kid, but boy, there were some days that you just, I think I remember coming to school one time, I corrected a teacher. That’s what I did. He had gotten the ranks wrong at general and I made a correction. He sent me straight to the principal’s office and I can’t tell you the panic that came with going down there. My dad and mom show up in full military uniform and you would have thought I was being put in the back of a police car. I just, it was like, you’re kidding. And he’s like, but I, I was like, oh, this is not going to be good. I’m wondering if I could move right about now.
Dale Davidson: Oh, wow.
Raven Harrison: But it was turned out, it was, it turned out just fine. Wound up shaking hands, laughing with the principal and all was well.
Dale Davidson: And everybody noted, noted that you had it right.
Raven Harrison: Yes. Thankfully we moved, I think within about two months of that. So we can start that all over again in a new area for people to think I’m completely nuts.
Dale Davidson: Wow. So you were contemplate going into the military yourself. You know, I probably would have, I was really proud, especially, I’m proud of both my parents, but I was proud of my mother because it was a really, it was a hard journey. She had a very complicated assignment. She worked really long hours. I never saw her take a day off, but we still, it was in a time where the patriotism wasn’t always respected and understood. So there were people that refused to salute her. The Native American, and she’s a Cherokee Sioux Indian. And there was still in a time where people were still kind of getting used to a different dynamic. So I remember people refusing to salute her. They’re giving her quite a rough time. So I was extremely proud and I had that fire. But I think I knew deep down that really wasn’t my path. But they always encouraged. We had two different stories and my dad was like, well, you might be of the cut. We’ll see. My mom was, no, don’t do it. Don’t do it.
Dale Davidson: Whatever you do, don’t do this.
Raven Harrison: Go do something that’s going to, you’re going to make money and be appreciated. And I went, okay. So we, we had those conflicting, but I think deep down we were waiting. And that’s the amazing thing about God is how the puzzles, I didn’t make a lot of sense at that time. Fire breather, only child spent a lot of time making my own path. And then all of a sudden it kind of, it comes together when you realize I was literally raised by warriors for a time such as this. God always has it right on time.
Dale Davidson: That’s amazing. So you went to temple, temple university.
Raven Harrison: I started at Purdue.
Dale Davidson: Oh, you did.
Raven Harrison: And went there for a year. And I think my parents got a tuition bill for about as much as our house cost. And we decided to make a change. And I went to temple and correct in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and graduated with a bachelor of science.
Dale Davidson: And you were in marketing. You studied marketing.
Raven Harrison: I did. They keep changing the schools just so we feel older than we really are. So it was a commercial marketing and hospitality management.
Dale Davidson: Oh, okay.
Raven Harrison: Ask me again later what that means. You’re probably going to get a different answer.
Dale Davidson: There’s an important, there’s a school here at the University of Nevada Las Vegas. That’s hospitality. Yeah.
Raven Harrison: Yes. So, but that was the general thread. Yes. It was telling people why they need it and with a big smile.
Dale Davidson: That’s right. And you went into marketing when you got out of school.
Raven Harrison: I did. I have to be honest with you, Dale, that I be honest with the viewers that I didn’t have a great plan except I wanted to not be in school and I didn’t want to be paying off student loans forever. So I said, I’m taking the first thing that I get when they offer me out of.
Dale Davidson: Yeah.
Raven Harrison: Exactly. Can’t be too picky. And it happened to be with an advertising agency and just started working my way up and never really looked back. It was definitely something I’m hardwired for.
Dale Davidson: And you started as an account executive.
Raven Harrison: I started as an account coordinator, which is coffee and water when the people who were doing real marketing need it. That’s what it is.
Dale Davidson: Right.
Raven Harrison: So you get to be the first person in, the last person to leave and get paid nothing and you’ll love it.
Dale Davidson: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I worked in ad agencies for a long time and ended up specializing in political advertising.
Raven Harrison: Oh boy.
Dale Davidson: And I handled a lot of campaigns.
Raven Harrison: Was always a fun time, wasn’t it?
Dale Davidson: As the media consultant. Well I ended up working on the White House for Ronald Reagan.
Raven Harrison: Wow.
Dale Davidson: So that, and I wrote words that came out of his mouth.
Raven Harrison: Love it.
Dale Davidson: Which was a thrill. He’s still my hero.
Raven Harrison: The great communicator.
Dale Davidson: Yeah.
Raven Harrison: One of mine as well.
Dale Davidson: Yeah. And he was extremely easy to write for. You know, once you understood the basics as a writer, a speech writer, you need to, you know, know their pacing, know their favorite phrases, know their, you know, whatever.
Raven Harrison: And know their personality.
Dale Davidson: Their personality. And once you had that down, he was very accepting.
Raven Harrison: Wow.
Dale Davidson: But he was a boss. You know, he was very avuncular, you know. He’s, oh, you know, he’s Uncle Ron. But if you screwed up, which I did, multiple times. You heard about it, but the thing was, the next day everything was fine.
Raven Harrison: Excellent.
Dale Davidson: You know, but he was wonderful to work for.
Raven Harrison: I am, I’m a little jealous on this point.
Dale Davidson: So what inspired you to get into politics? That’s a crazy thing to do. You’re making money, you’re working in marketing. Everything is groovy. Then all of a sudden, here’s a good idea.
Raven Harrison: Or not. It’s a really interesting story. I’m going to try to condense it because it has a lot of facets to it, but I can tell you that I really had an interesting dynamic of knowing that I was meant for something big.
Dale Davidson: Yeah.
Raven Harrison: I’m a strong personality. I don’t know if anybody can tell that. Strong personality, but it really doesn’t always sometimes come together.
Dale Davidson: Yeah.
Raven Harrison: So you get the call. And I started this journey the way that I should have started it from the beginning, which is pretty much on my knees to God. We had been hitting a block everywhere. I saw the direction our country was going in.
Dale Davidson: Yes.
Raven Harrison: Really never saw where I fit into any of this. But it really came to a head when my eight-year-old daughter, we got a phone call that she was, they were attempting to expel her from school for voting for President Trump in a mock trial. True story.
Dale Davidson: Wow.
Raven Harrison: We are at home. My husband’s a pilot, but we’re at home and we just get this phone call. My mind is swirling. You need to come get her. She’s in trouble. When on earth, she’s never been in trouble. What did she do? And we go racing over there. My mind is just going a million miles a minute and we get over there. And just very flippantly, I said, where’s my daughter? She’s into detention. I said, she’s into detention for what? She needs to think about her choices. I said, I don’t have time for this. Get to the point. And she said, well, we had a mock trial today. And I said, you’re studying civics? She said, no. I said, OK. And she goes, but she voted for President Trump. And she just left it there. And I’m-
Dale Davidson: What’s your point?
Raven Harrison: Waiting for her to get there. And she just goes, well, she’s making those decisions now. Where is she going to be in a few years? And I went-
Dale Davidson: Oh, Lord.
Raven Harrison: There’s no way this is happening. I’m looking for the camera. I’m being punked. There is no way this is real. And my husband and I look at each other. We go to my daughter who is hysterically crying in the room. And I said, this just does not happen. And we calm her down. And she’s desperately trying to give me something. And she hands me this tear-soaked piece of paper. And it’s her detention assignment, which says, for her to write, and I quote, in 100 times in cursive, that Hillary Clinton is the true president and Trump is an ass.
Dale Davidson: Oh, my gosh.
Raven Harrison: And I almost dropped it. I gave it to my husband because I just could not believe.
Dale Davidson: Oh, my Lord.
Raven Harrison: I said, this is not happening. My husband looks at it. He looks at me and he goes, get her stuff. Get all of her stuff. And we grabbed everything out of her desk. We cleaned it out. We- I said, you know, and then my husband got the first look of what we now call Unleashed the Raven. I would have made the kracken and blush.
Dale Davidson: Oh, yeah.
Raven Harrison: It was a nuclear explosion on that school. I said, you cannot be serious. This does not happen. I said, can we focus on actually educating these kids and reading and writing without this agenda and extra stuff mixed in so we grabbed Patience? And I got home and while my husband is cheering her up with a lifetime supply of whipped cream on something, I basically- I had to really give it to God. I said, I don’t know what-
Dale Davidson: You had to be unbelievably angry.
Raven Harrison: I was furious. I was confused. I felt betrayed. My trust had been betrayed. And I said to God, truthfully, I don’t know what to do. I said, we’ve been moving to get them in the best schools. We’re doing everything we can to teach them the right ways.
Dale Davidson: And this is-
Raven Harrison: I don’t know what you want me to do. I don’t know how to fix this. How do I make this better? I am the fighter and I don’t do helpless well. How do I fix this? And believe it or not, the call came from an actual call. That was a Friday afternoon. Sunday, I mean, I’m sorry, Saturday, my phone rings in the blue, 8 p.m. on a Saturday night.
Dale Davidson: Let’s take a brief break.
Raven Harrison: Let’s take a break.
Dale Davidson: This one’s going to be good. A cliffhanger. Cliffhanger. So watch the commercial break and then come back and you’ll hear the end of this story. Raven Harrison is with us. We’ll be right back.
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Dale Davidson: Raven Harrison is with us, she is a candidate for United States Congress and we hope she gets the job. That’s an endorsement I guess.
Raven Harrison: Oh yeah, it’s going to be some good times. Get the popcorn ready.
Dale Davidson: We got some powerful women running. Charel Mendenhall’s been on the show.
Raven Harrison: Yes.
Dale Davidson: You know Charel, have you met her?
Raven Harrison: I have not met her, but she’s great. Very impressed.
Dale Davidson: Yeah, yeah. And she basically almost said exactly the same thing you did when she sat in that chair. She said, you know, if somebody else would do a better job at this than me, I would never run because it’s a pain in the butt running.
Raven Harrison: That’s right. Something I never saw coming. I never put the fiery spirit and politics together ever.
Dale Davidson: So finish your story. Sorry to interrupt you.
Raven Harrison: The cliffhanger.
Dale Davidson: I think it was going to be a good cliffhanger.
Raven Harrison: It is.
Dale Davidson: You got a phone call.
Raven Harrison: I got a phone call and completely out of the blue was not expecting it. It’s a Saturday night. My husband and I are watching a movie and the kids are devoting their lives to the Xbox or whatever they’re doing upstairs and the phone literally rings and it is a GOP chairman who calls me and he goes, is this Raven? I said it is. He goes, I got your name from a gentleman running for Congress out in California. He said, and I quote, you are the person who’s going to change the face of the Republican party. And I remember again, I just have this urge to, I’m not sure what it’s talking about.
Dale Davidson: Is this a prank?
Raven Harrison: Yeah. Is this a prank? Where are the cameras? What are the kids done this time? And literally I said, I’m sorry. I don’t know what to say. I said, what can I do for you? He said, have you ever think about running? I said, only when I’m chased. And he said, ever thought about running for political office? This gentleman says that you are the one. You’re the one who’s going to change it. And I said, this guy told you I was a greasy politician? And he said, I’m going to pretend you didn’t say that. And I remember thinking, oops, do I say that out loud? It was what I was thinking.
Dale Davidson: Right away what was in store for him?
Raven Harrison: Well, I literally don’t get caught off guard very often, but that was definitely one of those times. And I said, well, I’m flattered. I said, I really hadn’t thought about it. And I said, at that time we had moved to Las Vegas, very happy in our lives, with the exception of the lockdowns and the pandemic. We were pretty happy. But I really just, I wanted to be polite. And I said, thank you, sir. I said, let me think about it. I had zero intention of thinking about it. I hung up the phone and I looked at my husband and I said, that’s crazy. Right? And expecting him to go, yes, that could only happen to you. And what a day this was. But he looked at me and he goes, actually, Raven, I kind of think you were put on this earth for this. And that is the first time that I had ever put those two together. And when I was praying to God, I said, look, this can’t be subtle. You’re going to have to smack me in the face with it because I’m missing something. Well, there it is. There’s the divine. So, oh my goodness.
Dale Davidson: What a nice affirmation for him.
Raven Harrison: That was an affirmation that was a right on time. I heard it as clear as day. And I said, you know, this is what we’ve got to do. And there was no turning back. It has been an unapologetic forward move for God. And then just realizing that as more of this has been revealed, now those puzzle pieces as a child, I could not put together. I’m Native American. I’m a constitutional conservative. I am pro-life, raised by warriors. Who does this connect to? I was made for a time such as this and the ability, the Queen Esther anointing as my dear friend, Bishop Archer. If you’re watching, love you, sir.
Dale Davidson: Dr. Ron Archer has been a guest.
Raven Harrison: Archer, the man, the legend. But yes, basically there was no turning back and understanding that all these pieces were put together to do his work and there’s no turning back. They can’t stop what’s coming.
Dale Davidson: Tell me about the district.
Raven Harrison: The district I live in, 26. So we returned home. We left Las Vegas. We packed up and we went home. I said, you know, he wants me to make this fight for my home turf. The district is amazing. It’s full of great people. There’s been some changes with the redistricting coming. So it’s Denton Cook and Wise County down in those districts and the people are ready for change. Been running against a two decade, nearly two decade incumbent who is exactly the epitome of why we have to have change. There is nothing good that comes out of the government that has been there for decades. It’s just not what our founding fathers intended for people to just get so comfortable that they forget why they’re there. And it’s a good reminder, especially when you see the changing dynamic now that’s happening in the political scape. Everything is being reduced by the radicals to race, class, gender. Well, I am the counter attack to all of that, the antithesis of that.
Dale Davidson: Yeah, it’d be hard to name call.
Raven Harrison: Oh, it would be hard.
Dale Davidson: It does still do it, you know.
Raven Harrison: But I mean, we can have fun with it. So because according to the left, you know, Elizabeth Warren’s Native American and I’m a white supremacist, that’s how the left works. So we will, we can play that game, guys. You don’t want to play it with me. I’m not the one to troll, but we are, we’ve got to move forward and you have to have thicker skin than that. So I am, this is not a personality contest. This is about God has called me to come forward and do what needs to be done. He didn’t say, let them tell you up is down and left is right and good is bad. He didn’t say to let yourself push around, get pushed around and compromise what we know to be principal and biblical law and rule. He didn’t allow me to pervert this and he didn’t say Raven be polite.
Dale Davidson: Yes.
Raven Harrison: You said fix this.
Dale Davidson: I don’t think that works. So you’re in the Republican primary.
Raven Harrison: Yes. Well, we had the primary and we had the primary. We were unsuccessful this time. So we need a little bit more time to get the traction going. But yes, we definitely have still a lot of the entrenched and that’s what I would remind the people now and any of the races that you’re looking at is don’t look at what they say. We have to look at what they do. This is really of us peeling the layers off and saying, no more. We have got to get this fixed. We have got to get back to the way government was intended to operate and that’s God at the helm.
Dale Davidson: Absolutely.
Raven Harrison: We were founded on Christian principles.
Dale Davidson: Oh, yeah.
Raven Harrison: So the fact that that’s become, she can’t say that. I absolutely can. I will.
Dale Davidson: Yeah.
Raven Harrison: Every time we get. So we just have to be able to say, listen, it is God is in control. We have to get back to what is right America first, our values first and be unapologetic.
Dale Davidson: Yes. I am so hopeful that the Republican party, barring excessive cheating by the other side, is going to turn a control of both houses back over to the GOP.
Raven Harrison: We do, but we have cheating on both sides. We have to remember that the establishment, we have to be able to look at our own ranks first and clean houses. I tell people it’s no good in taking back the house if we don’t clean it first. So we are going to be doing both and then give people hope again. They need to know that integrity is coming back, that people are holding themselves to a higher standard. And that’s where I come in. Is transparent, out in the open, breathing fire so everybody can see, we’re going to call it like it is. People with nothing to hide, hide nothing.
Dale Davidson: That’s nice. Tell me about your affinity for President Trump. What’s your feelings about Donald Trump?
Raven Harrison: I love President Trump.
Dale Davidson: Me too. Yeah.
Raven Harrison: I had no opinion. I’m of the cloth of the time when you gave people a chance to demonstrate the kind of people they are. As Bishop Archer says, when people show you who they are, believe them. I like the idea. I had no opinion. I knew, I don’t watch a lot of television, so I knew he was a television personality and larger than life. But he said something that I thought was very interesting. So the elections happened, everybody’s crying and melting down and nuclear fireworks and he’s on an interview and the woman is going, she goes, whoa, what do you say to these people who say you’re going to get us into a nuclear war that you know, you’re this and this and I remember watching this going, oh, this ought to be good. And he sat there as cool as a cucumber, let her go through all the litany of doomsday scenarios that were going to happen with him as President. What would you say to those people right now? And he looks at the camera and he goes, don’t be afraid. Boss mode. Absolutely. And I remember going rock star. I can’t wait to see what this guy has got going on. And I’m telling you as a person, as a patriot, I was so grateful for the way he treated our military. But I wanted him to succeed. I was willing to take him at his word. The people have spoken. He’s been elected. Let’s get this man. I was extremely disappointed at how many people just couldn’t get past. Just let him do his job. Support him. Support him to fail is like people rooting for the plane my husband’s flying to crash that we’re all on. Let’s get it done. And he really stepped up for America. People have come after me for that. And he’s this, he’s that. I don’t know, President Trump personally. I hope to get to meet him one day. But I’m telling you.
Dale Davidson: He’d like you.
Raven Harrison: Let’s let us. I think you might see a lot in common. But just let this man do his job. He’s our commander in chief and best president of my lifetime. I was extremely pleased to have been able to witness the things he did for America. I don’t have to know anything about his background, his personality, all those things that people wanted to bring up. He’s this, he’s that. It doesn’t matter. He’s doing it for America. I don’t know him personally. I’m not going to judge. Not my place to judge. I just was very grateful for what he did for this country.
Dale Davidson: Me too. You know, it’s funny when you talk about the negative trash talking when he first became president or was running for president. Both reminded me of when Ronald Reagan was running. The same sort of thing. This man is, you don’t want his finger to be on the nuclear button because he’s unstable and he’s this and he’s that. And he’s a clown and he always a B movie actor. You know, this kind of stuff.
Raven Harrison: Before that, he was beloved. He was welcomed and embraced. The second he threw his hat in the political ring, he became Lucifer.
Dale Davidson: It all becomes.
Raven Harrison: But he was without sin cast the first stone.
Dale Davidson: There you go. There you go. And what, what, what I knew for sure was that this was going to be a great thing. And I remember I was working at an ABC station in Ohio at the time. And I watched as the hostages came back from Iran.
Raven Harrison: Yes.
Dale Davidson: You remember this?
Raven Harrison: Oh, yes.
Dale Davidson: He had just, just been sworn in as president. And after 444 days under Jimmy Carter, yes, our hostages were held and humiliated and all the rest of it.
Raven Harrison: Yes, they were.
Dale Davidson: And then they, they took one look around, you know, I had told the home any took one look at Ronald Reagan and said, we better send these people back. And they did.
Raven Harrison: And we had that respect.
Dale Davidson: Yeah.
Raven Harrison: You were revered. But I’m telling you, for my parents, we, you know, we had to be, you know, we had to be, you know, we had to be, you know, we had to be, you know, we had to be, you know, we had to be, you know, we had to be, you know, we had to be, you know, we had to be free. And I remember when I was in the US, we, you know, we traveled to a lot of war and communist zones. Right. I was, we lived in Germany when the Berlin Wall was still up. Oh, wow. So I’ve seen, I’ve seen people trying to get to their freedom, risking their lives.
Dale Davidson: Yes.
Raven Harrison: To be free.
Dale Davidson: Yes.
Raven Harrison: And it’s the same, it’s the principle of communism. The nail that’s sticking up.
Dale Davidson: Yes.
Raven Harrison: It’s hammered down.
Dale Davidson: Yes.
Raven Harrison: And I remember that you appreciated so much more when we had days, even in the commissary, we couldn’t shop on certain days with military, you couldn’t go to certain places. When we went to school in Germany, I was a young child, was spit on by the local people there. They didn’t want Americans, they didn’t want the military. We had a very negative connotation, but then there’s a bombing, you know, at the, at the Munich train station, all of a sudden, where’s America?
Dale Davidson: I remember that.
Raven Harrison: And that, you remember that.
Dale Davidson: Yes.
Raven Harrison: I was there for that, but I was also able to see the Berlin Wall fall.
Dale Davidson: Wow.
Raven Harrison: And what it meant to have.
Dale Davidson: 89, this was.
Raven Harrison: It’s the diligence and a lot of people, if I could, to relay to the viewers, one thing is what you need to understand about the military is people think that that’s an outdated concept. The reason they think that is because they’ve kept that off of your heads. So evil didn’t sleep last night, even though you did. And our military, our men and women, our law enforcement are putting this on every day so it never reaches our shores. So the sacrifice is my parents, my husband, and all those veterans. And thank you for our veterans out there have done is, is it’s diligent, it’s ongoing, it never ends, but you’d be surprised how many things you don’t hear about the good things you hear the ones you hear about. There’s countless more that you don’t that were stopped.
Dale Davidson: Yes. My daughter-in-law got her PhD in linguistic anthropology, which I never knew existed before. You know, I knew her.
Raven Harrison: Is there a degree for that to understand what the degree is?
Dale Davidson: Yeah, exactly.
Raven Harrison: That’s awesome.
Dale Davidson: But it’s like the basics of language is really what it was. And she speaks seven languages and all of this.
Raven Harrison: I thought I was doing pretty good at four.
Dale Davidson: Yeah, it’s very good. And she ended up, my son, her husband, and she moved to what was then East Berlin. And the wall had fallen at that point. And so her project was what did the communists say and do, particularly what language did they use, what words did they use, what propaganda did they use, to convince people that they should move from their farms, from the countryside, in lives that they really loved and go into the city.
Raven Harrison: There it is.
Dale Davidson: And she interviewed people who were-
Raven Harrison: Why indeed? What would convince people to substitute their judgment for someone else’s? Would Reagan say the words you don’t want to hear? I’m from the government and I’m here to help you.
Dale Davidson: I’m here to help you. Yeah.
Raven Harrison: And I saw that play out in real time. So for the ones who would push back against me and argue who have given nothing to this country, they’ve seen nothing, but they want to argue with those of us who have, telling you they have no idea how close we are. And this is at our shores. We’re ankle deep in it right now.
Dale Davidson: I know. When we come back from break, which we’ll have to do here in a minute, I want to talk about the Ukraine and talk about Russia. And in the national scene, you’re going to have to deal with this kind of stuff.
Raven Harrison: Oh, yes.
Dale Davidson: I want to get your take on this.
Raven Harrison: We’ve got ideas on all of that.
Dale Davidson: There you go. We’ll be back with Raven Harrison right after this.
Commercial: The world isn’t perfect. Just watch the news. Evil is everywhere. Now, the core of who we are, we all know and feel these things to be wrong. But why? Why do we agree that some actions are wrong? Where did we get our standard? The moral code that tells us good from bad? If we’re creating it ourselves, free to choose what works for us, then that would make every action acceptable. Good and bad would be the same, and then people who commit heinous crimes wouldn’t be guilty. They’d simply be doing what’s right for them. And yet we say they’re guilty. When someone murders an innocent person, it bothers us, enrages us, we hate injustice. Now, maybe we’re in a game of survival of the fittest. Being in death simply weed out those who aren’t strong enough or lucky enough to have won the genetic lottery. But if that’s true, why do stories of death and destruction draw up feelings of deep disgust and hurt inside you? Why does your heart break at the news of tragedy? And why do so many other people feel the same way? Could it be that there’s something more, some greater outside force that has ingrained you with the desire for love and goodness? Suppose there’s a reason behind hating the evil in the world. Suppose it leads to something greater. Could it lead to hope?
Dale Davidson: Welcome back to Las Vegas Tonight. We are so very, very, very pleased to have Raven Harrison with us. What a pistol.
Raven Harrison: Oh!
Dale Davidson: I think she would like that description.
Raven Harrison: Oh yeah, fire breather.
Dale Davidson: Let’s talk about the war. Which is of course what it is in the Ukraine right now. And Putin is obviously a mad man, in my opinion.
Raven Harrison: We’ve got to be with those from around.
Dale Davidson: Tell me what your stance is on what the U.S. is doing or not doing. What NATO should be doing and maybe is not doing. How do we help the Ukraine?
Raven Harrison: It is a really tough situation. The one thing that I have to say is that I’m always inherently skeptical until the facts come in. So definitely, and my family legacy, these are warriors. So I’ve seen the face of war many times. It’s a terrible situation that’s going on. I would also be mindful of our government’s involvement. So what I’m seeing is our foreign policy is a disaster. We do not have foreign policy right now. We don’t have a plan. We don’t have a message that resonates. And we don’t have a way to climb out of this from what they’re doing, continuing to send endless amounts of money to the Ukraine to secure their border, especially as a person from Texas with our wide open southern border is a really sore subject for me. But the billions of dollars that we’re sending over there are symptomatic of the problem we have. I don’t like when they say the government sent money. The government has no money. It is our money.
Dale Davidson: It is taxpayer money.
Raven Harrison: And when we have a wide open southern border, because a lot of these people can just walk through our southern border in Texas, it’s wide open. So the fact that we’re actually addressing someone else’s border before our own is a big problem for me. But for the Ukraine, we have a lot of innocent life that needs to be protected. And we have to be able to get real about what’s actually happening out there. So I’m not a huge fan of continuing to send billions of dollars in foreign aid out there. I’m also very skeptical of why Jill Biden and why Nancy Pelosi and all these people who have children who sit on the boards of Ukraine are out in the Ukraine right now. I don’t understand what that has to do, why they are in active war zones. So what’s happening with Putin is he sees the weakness. He is going for the jugular because we are on the ropes. We don’t have strong leadership. We don’t have a clean message and not just Putin, but all the others are capitalizing on this situation.
Dale Davidson: China is threatening Taiwan again.
Raven Harrison: Correct. And we have skyrocketing inflation. We have all these things going on. But what people are realizing and our debt is continuing to continue to kick up. Has anybody talked about what’s going to happen when we can’t keep borrowing our way out of this? What’s going to happen with the national?
Dale Davidson: Well, we know the answer. Children and grandchildren are going to get stuck with this debt.
Raven Harrison: Correct. But the only reason we’re allowed to keep occurring this kind of debt is because we are the national currency standard. What happens if China takes that over from us? We have a lot of questions we need to be asking on that. So as far as what’s going on in the Ukraine is we need to be strong and firm with Russia, but we can’t with the current, I can’t even call it leadership, with what’s currently going on in the government. This is exactly symptomatic. How could it not be happening this way? Because we have no strength there. Anybody who believes that Joe Biden is running this country is not paying attention.
Dale Davidson: Bullies, whether they’re on the playground or in charge of huge nations are all the same. The only thing they understand is power.
Raven Harrison: And they get it through the innocent. The weak.
Dale Davidson: Yeah. And if we stand up to them, they back down. Almost every time.
Raven Harrison: And we have to. And that’s what we used to have. We used to have that might and we had that presence, peace through strength. So that’s what we need to return to, again, is the peace through strength. We absolutely have to be active. We should be doing that. NATO’s not doing their job. The UN, and I’m not sure whose job they’re doing, but nobody is stepping up to do what needs to be done. Everybody’s still playing politics. And this is a war.
Dale Davidson: Yeah. I don’t understand why we don’t, as NATO, insist that we turn our tanks around and head them toward the battle. Why aren’t we protecting those people actively?
Raven Harrison: Correct.
Dale Davidson: Even though they’re now members of NATO, they should be. And we want them to be, right?
Raven Harrison: Well, exactly. But the other question is we’re seeing this seems like 2.0. If we look at what happened in Afghanistan, that was a colossal debacle. And as a person who grew up in military circles, one of the biggest things in my household and in the military, accountability. There’s a chain of command. There’s accountability. There’s a cause and effect. Seeing that, I don’t know what you call that sham hearing that we saw on Capitol Hill, I have never in my life, I remember seeing Millie up there decorated to the hill. I’ve never seen so many medals up there with answers that I don’t know. I don’t know what happened on this. I know what happened. You know, we left Americans behind. We left terrorists with $85 billion in of high grade military. Military equipment. We, the cardinal rule, no man left behind. And we left Americans to fend for themselves in a hostile terrorist country because our government failed. We failed our people. And this is what we’re seeing in Ukraine happen. They can, it’s Trump’s fault. It’s not Trump’s fault. Okay. They’re going to get to a point where maybe sometime two decades from now, they’re going to stop blaming Trump for everything that happens under this. I can’t even, we’ll call it administration, regime, whatever fits appropriately, but we saw what happened. That was a disaster. No accountability. Instead of, they went squirrel and that’s what we got. So now we’re seeing this in Ukraine come out and we’re seeing the exact same, the definition of insanity. We’re seeing it play over. So you’re right. We need to step up to the table. People need to stop playing politics and do their job. Get up to the table, get these people safe, hold the line. How do you hold the line against Russia when we’re getting oil from them? You shut our pipelines down. You have us on the ropes with this and then you’re going to sanction Russia when we have oil coming from Russia and Venezuela. How hard is Putin laughing right now at this? This is exactly the kind of things that are going on in our government, but every two years we forget as voters, we let these people come back and go, we’re fighting for you. You know, blah, blah, whatever. That’s we have to do better, guys. So it’s not only them, but we need to be on that doorstep every day, lobbying for if they’re not doing their job, they’re out and making sure that they are following through because the result is obvious to all of us. No matter what they want us to think and believe, we can all see what’s going on. We all know what we’re paying for at the gas pump and we all know whose fault it is. So let’s be better than the ones that we elected. The elected ones aren’t doing the job. It’s time to stop. You know, the things, God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change. It’s time to start changing the things we cannot accept, period.
Dale Davidson: I like that. I like that. Hot issue right now is abortion. First of all, tell us what you think about somebody in the court leaking a draft. And also tell me what your opinion is of demonstrating in front of justices, homes in the Washington, D.C. area. And then we’ll go from there.
Raven Harrison: It is un-American and it’s unconstitutional and we’re better than this. The one thing I want to bring up first is for all the people who said, Trump is this, he’s mean, he’s unpolished and all these things don’t, it surprises me how many people are becoming the very thing they accuse other people of. I am not happy with documents being leaked. That’s not how our justice system works. Whether it benefits conservatives or not, I do not support leaking documents or anything that would corrupt the justice process. So whether the ends don’t justify the means. So I’m not happy about that. Abortion is a very standard issue for me. I do not believe in it. Life begins at conception, no exceptions. And I love for people, this is one of the things I’m hardwired to fight for. I am God’s frontline fighter for the unborn. I’m a mother. And this is, there is nothing. If I want to clarify for people, you know, abortion is right. It is not a right. There is no right in our constitution to kill any living thing. It doesn’t say only if these certain circumstances exist. If it’s just a group of cells, it won’t grow and you don’t need an abortion. If it’s my body, my choice, well then why isn’t it you that dies? So if it’s your body, it would be you that dies. And that’s the end of it. You have lots of choices. Okay, you have a choice not to do that. They like to go back to their favorite argument of incest and rape. And as a woman, I like to be able to speak to that. Those are problems that exist, that have existed, but it does not invalidate life. Okay, it does not. And Bishop Ron Archer, a man that I adore and hold in high respect, is the product of a failed abortion attempt. That man has affected so many lives. He’s got so many things that he could complain about in terms of his start and his origin. And he’s still the most faithful warrior for God I’ve ever met. And that is what I want to remind people is the child is innocent and hate is learned. So it does not change the value of that life. Horrific. And as a woman, it’s a threat that I face all the time, but it does not negate what is. So if it wasn’t alive, it wouldn’t need an abortion. So we don’t need to have that, you know, that we’re just going to make science up as we go along. So that’s what I will always fight for. That is my guiding principle. So being on the start doxing Supreme Court justices, anybody who thinks that that’s a good idea, you are a hypocrite. That is the very thing that we’re supposed to be fighting for love, respect and tolerance. It’s the favorite platform of the left. Tolerance except, you know, when we don’t agree with it, believe all women except for that one. And we have to stop with this scathing hypocrisy. It has to end the anger and the animus and you have choices. You always have choices as a woman. I have choices. So and all choices have consequences. So that’s where I am on that and I will fight for the unborn and the helpless because you’re on a slippery slope. You know, it’s not really a life. No, it really is or you wouldn’t need an abortion.
Dale Davidson: That’s exactly right.
Raven Harrison: So that’s where I need people to know that there’s no debate on those kind of fundamental issues. But doxing Supreme Court justices, doxing anybody. The things that they did to Trump, the horrible things that we said I would like to remind people, no matter how angry you are, that’s somebody’s husband. That’s somebody’s father. That’s somebody’s son. Is that what you want your children to hear about you? You should see the horrible things they say about me for, you’re an uncle Tom, you’re a coon, you’re all these, you know, you can’t hurt my feelings with that. The point is, is that where does it become okay for you to disagree and feel like you can be consumed with this kind of hate and animus and spew this. You don’t have the right to kill things. Something in our document was, in our founding fathers, never ever said you have the right to kill a living thing. You don’t have a right to kill a living thing. And I will never support that. So the Supreme Court justices, their job is to apply the law equally. And that means for the ones who are going, well it’s not really a baby, well then why do you charge a person who kills a pregnant woman for a double homicide?
Dale Davidson: Yeah, I’ve always wondered about that.
Raven Harrison: You’re going to have to decide what side of the fence you’re on on that. So that’s, the science doesn’t change to suit your feelings.
Dale Davidson: That’s wonderful.
Raven Harrison: So we’re going to do that. But yeah, that’s what I would tell people is if doing that is nothing justifies that. You know, we don’t threaten people, we’re better than that. So we don’t do that.
Dale Davidson: Well God bless you for standing next to your principles.
Raven Harrison: Absolutely. This is the way God has ordained it. We do it. He knows what he’s doing.
Dale Davidson: Yep. Let me impose on you if I can. So we have millions of people who watch this show all over the world in fact. And many don’t know anything about Jesus. You know, they saw this strip scene behind us. They saw an attractive woman who’s running for office.
Raven Harrison: Where?
Dale Davidson: They say, well let’s watch this, you know, and that’s all they know. You are well informed by Jesus. I know that.
Raven Harrison: Yes.
Dale Davidson: That’s your camera. Would you please address it and tell folks why living with Jesus, walking with Jesus is a good way to go.
Raven Harrison: Well thank you for the opportunity to say that. I would like to tell people my journey with Christ has gone through a few turns. I grew up Catholic. I’m now proudly non-denominational but I have a wonderful relationship with God. I never understood it before but we have something inherent to us all where we feel. We know our circumstances but just know the truth is the truth. Everything that was made has a maker and that’s the premise that we live on. God is good and He is real if you believe Him to take you where you need to go. I have been through some of the worst things you can imagine and sometimes it’s hard to see the forest through the trees. There is God. I would tell people the best way I would explain it is like the best well played game of chess you’ve ever seen. We’ve got the King, the most prominent position on the board. We’ve got the Bishop on the spiritual perimeter, the Knights who go forward. God has laid this out for us in the Bible. The proof is in the pages and His Word. He has been faithful, everything that He has said to come to pass has come to pass. God is a God of love and a God of choice. He gives you the choice to come to Him. This is a tough world to live in. We have a lot of evil. We have a lot of things in this world that are difficult for just average ordinary humans to deal with. It’s going to take more than that to get you through. No matter what you’ve done, no matter where you’ve been, God is forgiveness and He is love. And there are people like Dale and myself who are happy to talk to you about the realness, the miracle that is God of just take a moment to soak in the amazing things that can only be possible with God in their lives. So God is, He is the answer. He is the proof. He is faithful. He has never forsaken us. And He will be back on the throne again. Come to God. He’s ready for you.
Dale Davidson: Thank you so much, Raven. It was very well stated, very heartfelt, and the most important message of this entire hour.
Raven Harrison: You can do all things through Christ. I mean, to end it is, Dale, I was wrapped around a tree 30 days ago.
Dale Davidson: I saw the photo in your husband’s phone.
Raven Harrison: Torpedo, car.
Dale Davidson: I don’t know how you’re even walking at all.
Raven Harrison: I’m not walking very smoothly, but I’m walking. So I would tell people if they wanted that extra layer of proof that 30 days ago I was hit by a car. I have a broken, I had a fractured tibia, second and third degree burns, whiplash, neck and back injuries, and I was in really bad shape. I am here 30 days walking in fabulous for God, 30 days later, because that is the power of God. I could have been killed. And I am here to speak and to help other people who are broken, who are struggling, and to tell them there is hope, and we can do this. Can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.
Dale Davidson: Wow, that’s wonderful. That’s so Raven. I waited forever to do that.
Raven Harrison: I was expecting a quote to Raven, but yes, that is very Raven.
Dale Davidson: There you go. God bless you.
Raven Harrison: Thanks, Dale.
Dale Davidson: Thanks for coming on the show. Raven Harrison, vote early and often. Oh no, that’s the other side.
Raven Harrison: That’s right. Vote like you mean it.
Dale Davidson: That’s right. Well, God bless you all for watching and as I try to remember to say each and every episode in closing when it comes to our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, please walk with Him. God bless you.
Song: All right. We’ve got the world. Praise the Lord If you ever lose sight of the road to the light There’s one who can’t leave You’ve got a guiding hand to all that promised land You’ll never be in need You’ve got to keep your head up high Keep on looking toward the sky Praise the Lord Don’t you ever say you can’t You’ve got a mighty hand Praise the Lord Praise him, O Lord Getting out disguise for foolish fears as wise We are the ones who try Praise the Lord You’ve got to keep your head up high Keep on looking toward the sky Praise him, O Lord Don’t you ever say you can’t You’ve got a mighty hand Praise him, O Lord You’ve got to keep your head up high Keep on looking toward the sky Praise him, O Lord Don’t you ever say you can’t You’ve got a mighty hand Praise him, O Lord Praise him, O Lord Come on and shine, shine, shine Las Vegas, shine your light on me
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Wrap-up

In a world often overwhelmed by darkness and challenges, the message of living with Jesus shines through as a beacon of hope. Raven Harrison’s appearance on Las Vegas Tonight reinforced the importance of embracing a relationship with Christ and finding solace in His teachings.

If you find yourself yearning for a deeper connection with God or seeking answers amidst life’s trials, consider exploring the power of living with Jesus. Take a moment to reflect on Raven Harrison’s testimony and the transformative impact faith can have in your life. Whether through prayer, attending church services, or seeking guidance from fellow believers, there are numerous ways to embark on a spiritual journey. Open your heart to the possibilities and allow Jesus to guide you on a path of love, forgiveness, and purpose.

Remember, you are never alone on this journey. Seek support from your local religious community or join online forums where you can connect with fellow believers. Together, we can find strength, hope, and joy in living with Jesus.

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