On today's show, Steve and John take a look at the results of the mid-term elections and discuss the implications for the 2020 election. They also discuss the latest on the Eric Adams case and the possibility of a Supreme Court challenge.
00:00:00.000I told the donors, you know, when we basically called he was going to win the primary and every, oh, this guy was, and Alex DeGrasse, who's a Stefanik's guy, told me back in February when I think this guy was a 2% in the Democratic primary that this guy was going to be the guy because the Working Family Party and the DSA have a massive ground game.
00:00:18.120They've essentially copied what the Trump movement, what the MAGA movement did.
00:00:23.320Or ACORN, Obama, ACORN, that sounds, it seems a little like that.
00:00:27.520You have to get low-propensity voters, and they've gone out and they've canvassed and they've gotten low-propensity voters.
00:00:33.280They've, you know, they're focused on foreign-born voters, and here's what you got.
00:00:39.000And so I think he's got to go through a thorough review quickly, denaturalizing, get Eric Adams and put him on a plane and send him to Uganda.
00:00:47.700And I think the president tomorrow ought to have the Justice Department go into California in the federal court and talk about the unconstitutionality of what they did in California.
00:02:15.980You know, we always talk about is even the financial guys, Apple and whatnot, are they just saying they're going to come bring manufacturing back here and just kind of hold their breath until, you know, 20, 29, when there's someone else in office and say, you know, I pledged it.
00:04:14.520I think right now, if the snap program was all the illegal aliens were off it, all the deadbeats were off it, all the scam artists were off it.
00:04:25.780If we got actually even a mini audit right now and people that really needed to deserve it, I could agree.
00:04:32.320Other than that, you can't bend to the Democrats.
00:04:36.020They're going to keep throwing something else up to you.
00:04:37.740I just think, I think we need Trump and we need harder Trump.
00:04:41.460I think the best solution we've had in this country, Eric, is every time we get to the back and Trump's trying to modulate or people around him have said, you've got to reach out to guys.
00:04:57.920You're seeing tonight, you're going to see tonight when they all talked him out of getting involved and all the campaigns in those states, you know, Winston Sears and Youngkin.
00:05:08.560They couldn't be bothered for four years to implement any MAGA programs.
00:05:11.780They couldn't be bothered to have Trump down there.
00:05:13.540They couldn't be bothered when Trump really delivered the victory.
00:05:16.780When John Fredericks and MAGA turned out in 2021, historic proportions, all because this show and John Fredericks and others got them out there.
00:05:25.860They couldn't be bothered to thank Trump for doing that.
00:06:05.740Everybody should get there and we'll see what happens.
00:06:08.680You know, MAGA is great when they represent.
00:06:11.300But right now, when you hear about anecdotal what's happening during the day, you see the polling, you see the amount of money Democrats are putting in because Trump's not engaged.
00:06:51.260So 24 years after that, in memory of all those heroes that died at the at the World Financial Center, at the World Trade Center and all the heroes in the police department, the fire department that died.
00:08:04.720Number of voters that we're seeing at the two polling places we visited today here in the South Bay area.
00:08:09.580You know, this is an off year election.
00:08:11.380There's only one thing on the ballot, but we're seeing substantially more people than I expected.
00:08:15.800Here at this polling place, for example, we've seen lines of 20 to 30 people off and on throughout the day.
00:08:21.740So it'll be really interesting to see the turnout numbers at the end of the day.
00:08:25.280And what we're hearing from people, really, it's mostly Democratic voters for whom the messaging from Newsom and the rest of the Democratic Party has very much landed.
00:08:32.200They're saying that they're here to counteract Republican gerrymandering efforts in Texas and other places.
00:08:36.740And they're happy for the opportunity to kind of respond to that as aggressively as Newsom and others have been positioning this.
00:08:44.140Also, some dissenters, I will say, not just Republicans, but independents.
00:08:47.540I'll play you a sample of the interviews we've been doing, one with a Democrat and the other an independent.
00:08:53.920That last point, Katie, that, you know, what Texas did.
00:09:23.920By gerrymandering districts in this sort of nakedly partisan move to benefit Republicans was not good.
00:09:28.460And the California should not stoop down to that level is one that Republicans here and nationally tried to exploit in trying to get people not to vote for Prop 50.
00:09:38.440But from what I'm hearing from people, by and large, Katie, that didn't really work.
00:09:41.860Most of the Democrats, at least, that I'm talking to are really kind of excited about an opportunity, finally, to sort of fight fire with fire or, you know, take the gloves off, whatever metaphor people prefer.
00:09:54.160And then, you know, on the other side, we have spoken to some Republicans who also understand that they're basically here defending Donald Trump and Donald Trump's project and the Republican project.
00:10:01.900It's a very kind of, again, gloves off, tit for tat, kind of hard political tactics.
00:10:07.660And people understand that that's what's happening when they come to the ballot.
00:10:11.220The fact that Donald Trump went from having this huge wind in his back on affordability to now Democrats running on offense on it is certainly a threat to Republicans.
00:10:21.200That's certainly the case. Now, playing in places where, you know, you haven't played in a long time is certainly something that every party should want to do.
00:10:30.680But I don't think you do that through running running socialists everywhere.
00:10:35.200And in fairness to the Democratic Party, Bernie Sanders has been saying this kind of stuff for decades now.
00:10:40.640So I think what you can maybe learn from these elections, if Abigail Spanberger and Mikey Sherrill do well, is that if you run sort of down the middle and run more moderate candidates,
00:10:50.580you can do really well. The problem Democrats have right now nationally is that people think they're too far to the left,
00:10:56.840that they care about far left progressive issues much more than they care about things that average people talk about.
00:11:02.860Obviously, cost of living is something that average people care about.
00:11:05.980But that is not the perception that most voters have of the Democratic Party.
00:11:10.360And that's why Republicans are trying to elevate the potential new mayor of New York City as a Democratic socialist,
00:11:15.320because that plays into the narrative that voters already have about Democrats too far to the left.
00:11:20.460And until they've figured that out, they're going to have a problem playing in places like West Virginia.
00:11:24.300There appears potentially to have been some tightening in the race in the last few days.
00:11:28.640Staten Island could be a difference maker.
00:11:30.840Donald Trump is trying to weigh in and convince Republicans in this city to vote for Cuomo.
00:11:36.840Should we be reading into what the margin ends up being?
00:11:40.440Say Mamdani does win, but he doesn't win by or he wins by less than 10 points.
00:11:47.060Well, I think you've predicted a narrative that's going to be fought out in the next couple of days because it is a three-way race.
00:11:53.460We're not sure how much Slewa will lose to Cuomo because of Trump's appeal, which Slewa would never make.
00:11:58.920I was at a campaign rally this weekend.
00:12:00.760It was all about how he's not going to take bribes from billionaires and not drop out.
00:12:04.420So Democrats who don't want the party defined by Mamdani, I think they will point to that.
00:12:08.880But his agenda is going to be more important and the way his agenda is discussed.
00:12:13.500Brennan was just talking about the perception Democrats are viewed as more progressive.
00:12:16.680It's specifically what really hurt them.
00:12:19.020And you saw this in New York last year.
00:12:21.420Those interviews Mamdani was doing on the street.
00:12:23.380But other interviews, lots of people did, was it was the perception that Democrats were taxing you, American taxpayers, and using that for hotels, for migrants who'd been sent in from Texas.
00:12:35.620They're using it for surgeries, for gender surgeries for prisoners with Kamala's position.
00:12:42.440One thing I expect Republicans to hit with Mamdani is a position to make New York a sanctuary for transgender people who are being discriminated against in their own states
00:12:50.160and offering a fund to help with their treatment, help with their gender transitions in New York.
00:12:57.100I think there'll be much more of a focus by Republicans on the policies he tries to lay out in New York.
00:13:03.860We might hear socialism and think of the economic basis of socialism and Karl Marx.
00:13:08.540For a lot of voters, it just means left wing and it means you're taking my money and giving to somebody else.
00:13:13.260And that's something Mamdani did a very good job of describing in the campaign.
00:13:16.500Cuomo did a terrible job rebutting, but something Republicans are very, you saw that with Eric Adams.
00:13:20.720Eric Adams' mayoralty was basically destroyed by those sorts of expenditures by Democrats and his inability to explain them.
00:13:27.600And there are going to be Republicans who wouldn't have been safe, but now will be because of those maps.
00:13:31.280But on the president's agenda, look, the Republican argument all year has been trust this guy.
00:13:36.780It's going to work out. The tariffs are going to work. You're not paying much for it anyway.
00:13:40.280If voters are angry about the state of the country, they have not separated themselves from Trump the way, at this point, four years ago, there were Democrats separating themselves from Biden.
00:13:50.800They were not defending Biden on every decision he made.
00:13:53.200They were willing to criticize his handling of Afghanistan, for example.
00:13:56.960The party will ride or die with Donald Trump.
00:13:59.780That is not just the strategy, that is unavoidable, based on the way the party's built itself.
00:14:08.640Well, for somebody who's prepared to ride or die, they didn't really engage him across the country.
00:14:14.780From New York, from Manhattan to New Jersey to the Commonwealth to California, now they're saying, hey, there could be a hope for in Commonwealth if you have a strong turnout in southwest Virginia.
00:14:28.760Well, southwest and central Virginia, Donald Trump dominates.
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00:17:47.160And I think that it is an illustration of the attacks we're seeing in our democracy.
00:17:53.100Sometimes they're blatant and explicit in the manner of these bomb threats.
00:17:55.660And we have to understand this as part of the general approach the Trump administration has taken to trying to intimidate voters with baseless allegations of voter fraud as a means of trying to repress the voice of Americans across this country.
00:18:10.580Okay, there you're seeing it right there.
00:18:15.220Right at the beginning, this is what you're getting.
00:18:17.940And if you want to tolerate it, tolerate it.
00:19:05.820Now, the progressives, because you're going to have a Marxist jihadist, as we've been telling you,
00:19:16.060you're going to have a Marxist jihadist with their hands on the governmental apparatus
00:19:21.800of the financial capital of the United States of America and the financial capital of the world.
00:19:28.560Twenty-four years after radical, the jihadist, radical Islam struck the World Trade Center.
00:19:42.240Killing all those folks about their daily business, basically doing what American citizens do to drive forward the country, doing their jobs.
00:19:53.840And, of course, the firemen and the police officers that died in the line of duty, doing their jobs.
00:21:09.100And I just think that the strongest MAGA voices and the folks, and when I say strongest MAGA voices, I don't mean me or some of the people that come on here, Mike Davis or others.
00:22:16.360If 3 million people end up voting in total, we will lose this race.
00:22:21.240If roughly 3.1, we're at least in play.
00:22:24.120If we get north of 3.2 million total votes in the entirety of this general election, Jack Cittarelli will be the next governor.
00:22:33.340I'm not saying we're there, but I'm saying that we are on the cusp of being competitive.
00:22:38.680And we still have, like I said this morning, as of 10 a.m. this morning, 57,000 Republicans who have a mail-in ballot that need to get it to a drop box or need to take it to their county office.
00:22:51.120But outside of that, Steve, if we can get all of these Republicans to turn out, the after-dinner rush, the after-work, this is the time.
00:22:59.8803.2 million, if we can reach that, there's a shot that Jack Cittarelli will be the next governor of New Jersey.
00:23:06.040But that is, you know, we've got two and a half hours left.
00:23:09.100And so if people are sitting there, every member of the war room posse, anyone you know in New Jersey, this is the time to call them, to double down, to really ask them to do you a favor, not just for you, but for the entire America First movement, for our republic.
00:23:23.740We can flip Jersey, but we've got to get to that 3.2 million total vote for this general election.
00:23:46.640We have certain counties that at 2 o'clock today, if you look at the 2021 numbers, 100% of the voter turnout that we had in 2021, just for total votes in those counties, was matched.
00:24:00.520And so I'll pull for my team right now what the actual total amount of votes were.
00:24:04.780I've been so focused on the vote by mail.
00:24:06.800And so we're pulling all this, preparing for the live stream tonight.
00:24:10.000But at 2 o'clock, to have tons of these counties that are already where they needed to be, it shows you that we have massive turnout on election day.
00:24:18.640What the mail-in ballots, the 57,000 that are out there haven't been returned, what is the absolute?
00:24:30.080Do they have to be stamped by some government official by 8 p.m. tonight if they come in after 8 p.m.?
00:24:36.280I mean, if you put them in a drop box, they're going to be picked up immediately, right?
00:24:40.580But you just can't put them in the mail, right?
00:24:42.240You have to go deliver this somewhere?
00:24:45.680Yeah, well, you can put them in the mail as long as they're postmarked by today, which, you know, lets you go to the post office and get them postmarked and make sure it's not guaranteed.
00:24:54.120What I would do is I would take the ballot to your county office where you can hand it in.
00:24:58.600Or, and I can't believe I'm saying this, but we're desperate right now, go to the drop boxes because as long as it's in by 8 p.m., it will count.
00:25:54.140I mean, Decision Desk, as much as I don't follow them too often, yeah, I mean, they're putting out right now, they're projecting about 3.1.
00:30:04.600And I think that it is an illustration of the attacks we're seeing in our democracy.
00:30:10.560Sometimes they're blatant and explicit in the manner of these bomb threats.
00:30:13.120And we have to understand this as part of the general approach the Trump administration has taken to trying to intimidate voters with baseless allegations of voter fraud as a means of trying to repress the voice of Americans across this country.
00:32:05.080But the media presence here is incredible.
00:32:07.300We heard others remarking on these risers.
00:32:09.900They're expecting a lot less than this.
00:32:12.860So it's a packed room in terms of the media anticipation for her arrival and for this watch party.
00:32:18.040And she will need a lot of people to show up today, as we discuss, Steve, because early voter turnout has been the highest in Virginia since in any other non-presidential election year.
00:32:30.500Obviously, there's a huge turnout when we have presidential elections.
00:32:33.940Last year, Virginia was the fourth highest voter turnout, always possible red or blue state.
00:32:41.060Governor Glenn Youngkin has been wildly popular here.
00:32:43.680But for some reason, that number, his high approval ratings of 50 percent and above have not translated to early predictions for Winsome Earl Sears.
00:32:52.660So with 1.4 million votes being cast in early voting, 300,000 more than the last gubernatorial election.
00:33:01.240You have to wonder which of these women will become the first female governor in the state of Virginia.
00:35:01.560And she just didn't have much of a messaging there.
00:35:04.720She had Barack Obama campaigning for her this weekend.
00:35:07.260President Trump sent out a call and said we need to really support our candidates the other night.
00:35:13.040He didn't mention Sears by name, but there's been a bit of a disconnect in the history with governors in Virginia just sort of stepping aside.
00:35:21.960So I wouldn't look too much into that, but it for sure is heated.
00:35:25.460And I think also you have to keep in mind, Steve, the hundred delegates that are also open, open seats, 100 open seats in Virginia.
00:35:32.140So we need to see how many of those go red as well.
00:36:04.400But Fredericks had this theory of what she's tried to play out here the last couple of weeks of go down to southwest Virginia and central Virginia, which is basically Trump country and perform at presidential year numbers.
00:36:16.660I think, John, I think we came in and the board was very engaged back then.
00:36:20.640We came, I think, was 85 percent of turnout, which tipped it for Yunkin.
00:36:25.180This time it's been it's been basically nothing.
00:36:27.560In fact, last night, correct me if I'm wrong, Britt McHenry, I believe when President Trump did the teletown hall, I'm not sure he ever mentioned and Sears has been a never Trumper for a while.
00:36:39.260I don't think he ever mentioned her name by name.
00:36:42.780He talked about the gubernatorial candidate, but he did not.
00:36:46.420So right there, you're kind of going against the headwind.
00:38:07.480In fact, Solomon's going to pick up and do some pregame as we're doing here.
00:38:12.480Coverage is going to start, I think, at seven o'clock with the Studio 6B folks.
00:38:18.820They're going to have a live audience up in New York.
00:38:20.980Look, we're going to come and take the baton at 9 p.m. Eastern Standard Time and go to whenever, I guess, California and the rest of them are called.
00:38:29.900Should be around midnight or sometime thereafter, maybe one.
00:38:36.720And we put them in the most important places.
00:38:38.240That's where we're going to split the Commonwealth.
00:38:39.860We're going to have, I think, Serrano down in Richmond.
00:38:43.420And we've got since Loudoun County in northern Virginia has been so important, particularly in the parents' rights movement, kind of where that revolt started in the Commonwealth and really kicked it off across the country.
00:38:54.620It was, I guess, in Dallas and Florida and in northern Virginia that got rolling.
00:45:17.540Get direct access to Philip Patrick and the team and do it today.
00:45:22.480Remember, we're in times of financial turbulence.
00:45:24.420And something tells me after tonight, maybe even more turbulence, I don't know, with a Marxist jihadist trying to become mayor of New York City.
00:45:38.280Not so sure he's a legitimate legal citizen.
00:45:40.860But that won't stop this progressive Marxist crowd in New York City.
00:45:45.260Julie Kelly, Boesburg, you got so much going on.
00:45:48.040And by the way, Julie, I did get a copy of the book Injustice from you from the Washington Post team that I'm going to send to you to your home for you to read.
00:45:57.860You will have a laugh, a page, ma'am, as they have the long faces over the collapse of the Merrick Garland, Jack Smith.
00:46:05.340But the inside details are unbelievable.
00:46:34.500These people are so dirty and corrupt and stupid.
00:46:37.080So it's really time that they are held accountable.
00:46:39.280Hang on, hang on, because I only got time for this, but I want to say something.
00:46:41.660What I want to do is go back for your sub stack, in particular, your Twitter feed and your hits on War Room and compare and contrast your reporting at the time to what?
00:46:52.320Because these guys got the inside baseball.
00:46:54.320They got the inside baseball, the Justice Department.
00:46:56.640And when you compare and contrast both, you realize how purely evil Merrick Garland, Jack Smith, and the entire operation was, Julie.
00:47:06.500It was, I mean, as you and I talked when I was covering both court proceedings in Washington and then, of course, in Florida, I saw exactly what these guys were made out of.
00:47:20.300So, but now what's hilarious is that Jack Smith is finally being portrayed as the loser that he is.
00:47:27.420And now you've got even Democrats and establishment DOJ sycophants from MSNBC, Carol Lenning, who wrote the book, now admitting that there were so many mistakes made that delayed the case getting to trial or advancing before the election.
00:47:44.560So it doesn't look like Jack Smith has a lot of friends on either side anymore, which is perfect.
00:47:51.080And I look forward to the continued investigation into him and his team of thugs, Jay Bratt, David Harbaugh, J.B. Cooney, Molly Gaston, and Tom Windham.
00:48:01.720There's some emails floating around about Tom Windham today in seeking President Trump's cell phones.
00:48:07.840I tell you, Julie, we're going to get you back on tomorrow because there's so much going on in this and exploding every day.
00:48:14.800But I do want people to go to your Substack because I know you're working on things there, and particularly your social media feeds.
00:49:32.700I'm going, wow, this guy, it's his turn to be attacked, Steve, and he needs to be put in prison.
00:49:39.120But, you know, what I've learned today so much about Arctic Frost and how MyPillow was the most attacked company in history,
00:49:45.780and then also with our election platforms of what the senators and stuff is going to be coming on as we go into the future here.
00:49:54.400All this stuff going on today in New Jersey and stuff with these problems, I hope it's a gateway where people say, hey, let's look into these.
00:50:03.280I mean, isn't it funny how ATM machines and everything else seems to work out fine, and you get there and you have all these problems, everybody.
00:50:10.780This has been going on, and we've got to secure our elections and save our country.
00:50:14.420But, Steve, in spite of being attacked every day for four and a half years, MyPillow is still here, you guys,
00:50:21.520and this is the last day for our big Made in America sale we had for the War Room.