Bannon's War Room - episode 5318： Send Lawyers, Guns, And Money Virginia's Hit The Fan

00:00:00.000 Anderson now, CNN can project that the redistricting effort in Virginia has prevailed.

00:00:06.480 That means the vote yes side, which largely will give Democrats up to four more seats in the House of Representatives,

00:00:13.420 has defeated the vote no side.

00:00:15.360 You can see the numbers there on your screen.

00:00:16.860 They're still coming in.

00:00:17.820 And one of the reasons that we are projecting this now is that the vote in Fairfax County,

00:00:22.100 which is a largely Democratic area, often slow to come in on election nights.

00:00:26.680 But it's now beginning to come in.

00:00:28.840 So when you look at that, as well as the Democratic vote and other Democratic strong areas, this is what is projecting the yes side of this.

00:00:39.260 Anderson, if you step back at this, really a year into this redistricting fight that the president started with the Texas effort,

00:00:46.260 followed by California and now Virginia, it really is about a wash now.

00:00:50.840 And in fact, Democrats will prevail slightly in the overall map in terms of the number of seats that have picked up.

00:00:57.300 So largely the gambit that the president started about a year ago to try and help his House majority in November has been erased entirely.

00:01:06.600 The enthusiasm is still on the Democratic side.

00:01:08.700 There's no doubt there will be long term questions about this.

00:01:12.720 Virginia redistricting effort going from six Democrats and five Republicans to 10 Democrats and one Republicans.

00:01:20.660 But clearly, as so many voters have been mentioning to us over the weeks, fight fire with fire.

00:01:26.160 So that's what Democrats did there. So for Hakeem Jeffries, the Democratic leader, who clearly was central to this effort to push Virginia Democrats to go to the map and really expand this significantly, this is a major win for him.

00:01:41.380 So overall, the vote yes side is going to prevail. CNN is projecting. So a big deal in the midterm election fight now just six months away here in D.C. Anderson.

00:01:52.880 Anderson, I have that mini-magic wall with me because we're on the road.

00:01:55.700 We can show it on a bigger screen to our viewers, and you can see 51 to 49 or 51 to 50 if you round that up,

00:02:01.700 which, of course, is not math that works.

00:02:03.500 But it's a nail-biter.

00:02:04.460 We have a nail-biter in this critical piece of mid-decade redistricting chest,

00:02:08.420 and tonight it's the Commonwealth of Virginia.

00:02:10.280 No, meaning do not redraw the map, do not help the Democrats get more seats, is leading at the moment.

00:02:15.480 But you see that tiny margin, 22,000 votes.

00:02:17.860 Just an hour ago, that was above 130,000.

00:02:20.360 So what's happening?

00:02:20.960 I just want to show you right now as we look, where are we?

00:02:23.340 And we're waiting for this to play out.

00:02:25.020 This is to bring this down in here.

00:02:26.760 Wrong one.

00:02:27.280 Let me touch the button here to bring this in.

00:02:29.120 What are we waiting for?

00:02:30.100 This map tells you here, if you're confused, the bigger the circle, the more outstanding votes.

00:02:34.440 We're still waiting to count votes.

00:02:35.760 And where are the circles biggest?

00:02:37.020 They're green.

00:02:37.780 That's yes.

00:02:38.700 So we're waiting for more votes in places that are voting yes, which is trailing at the moment.

00:02:43.200 But that tells you northern Virginia, that's the most populous part of the state.

00:02:46.320 Richmond in the suburbs down here in the center, that's the capital in the big suburbs there.

00:02:49.900 Yes, there are some areas where no is leading.

00:02:52.080 You see those other orange circles as well.

00:02:54.200 But the giant green circle here in northern Virginia tells...

00:02:57.700 Okay, let me jump in here, because we're absolutely so packed today.

00:03:02.680 Sean Spicer joins us.

00:03:05.340 A night of reckoning last night, and I think we've got to face up to some hard facts about exactly how this went down.

00:03:11.760 So we're going to have Jeff Reier, John Reed, others from the Virginia Republican Party, the grassroots leaders.

00:03:18.040 they really put their shoulder to the wheel here

00:03:20.420 this is all of a peace

00:03:22.620 and we have to understand it as a peace

00:03:24.080 or we're going to get blown out in November

00:03:26.460 you do not have to get blown out in November

00:03:28.480 all these doomsayers

00:03:30.680 are saying that it has to

00:03:32.180 it does not have to happen

00:03:33.460 nothing is written

00:03:35.000 you create your own destiny

00:03:38.840 through your actions

00:03:40.820 through your human agency

00:03:41.980 and this is

00:03:44.600 inextricably linked

00:03:46.000 to texas and the paxton situation we have a system that has a perverse set of incentives

00:03:53.220 for these consultants who are making money hand over fist as we are frittering away

00:03:59.980 the hardest core and most devoted of the trump followers that are out in the field working their

00:04:07.360 tails off uh getting no air cover whatsoever while a set of consultants make unlimited amount

00:04:15.100 of money. That has to stop, and it will stop. It either stops, or the blowout in November is

00:04:21.460 actually going, that is going to manifest itself. So we have to have a moment of reckoning

00:04:28.660 on our side of the football. If we continue on with the structure of how it's structured today

00:04:34.160 and the incentive structure, we are going to lose the Senate big league. We're going to lose the

00:04:39.340 House big league. And people in the White House, the administration, and on Capitol Hill better

00:04:44.580 understand. The Democrats are coming at us with something you have no earthy idea what they're

00:04:49.580 doing. These are the most vicious. You see what they did in Virginia? Bald face lied. Never showed

00:04:56.460 a map. Spanberger's on Morning Jodas. I couldn't even play the cuts. It's so offensive of how she

00:05:02.600 positioned it. I have two people, Sean Spicer and Rahim Ghassan. We're going to break it all down.

00:05:06.660 Sean, first, you sent the flare up early. Walk us through, in your mind, the structure of this

00:05:12.960 and what actually happened on something that was very winnable.

00:05:17.700 Virginia was very winnable.

00:05:20.660 The grassroots rode to the sound of the guns

00:05:24.040 and could have won this if they had even a modicum of support.

00:05:27.300 Sean Spicer, your thoughts, sir?

00:05:29.760 Look, I hate to lose, but I really hate to lose when you could have won.

00:05:33.700 We didn't get blown out because we were outgun or outstrategy.

00:05:37.460 The Democrats' campaign was over the top.

00:05:40.840 They oversold Virginia.

00:05:42.300 I think they jumped the shark on their own political.

00:05:44.780 But there was no rescue to the grassroots.

00:05:47.440 You and I, Steve, we were out there on Sunday spending hours on end talking to the grassroots.

00:05:51.280 And what was the overriding message?

00:05:52.980 We've been raising our hands, asking for help, and we can't even get a pittance.

00:05:56.940 They couldn't get stuff for phone calls, door knocking, the basics.

00:06:00.260 But there was plenty of money for bad cable ads that consultants were able to get a cut from.

00:06:04.900 This was a winnable race.

00:06:06.160 And for all these people who in the last 20 minutes, like, by the way, this was on the calendar like Christmas is. 0.97

00:06:11.740 The idea that people didn't know this was coming is ridiculous.

00:06:15.340 So to the former governor who decided to go on Fox News a few times in the last few days talking about how we need to get together, we've known about this for months.

00:06:24.220 There was a special session called last year.

00:06:26.740 We knew what the strategy was.

00:06:28.240 There was no preparedness.

00:06:29.700 There's $500 million, half a billion dollars sitting in people's coffers today.

00:06:36.420 None of it was deployed.

00:06:37.360 This was the cheapest date in politics that I've seen in 30 years.

00:06:41.100 We lost four seats. That's very well the majority, right? And that's what's pathetic. And I see a lot of people this morning saying, well, maybe the Supreme Court in Virginia will save us. The Supreme Court, by the way, that needs to get reappointed by the Democratic legislature. Hint, hint, what do you think they're going to do? They're not going to come to the rescue. 0.75

00:07:00.900 But too many people blew it on this, who had plenty of money, had plenty of time,

00:07:05.420 and are now pretending like they were part of the solution.

00:07:07.840 They had nothing to do with the grassroots effort. 0.98

00:07:10.060 They wanted to put a bunch of cable ads up, which was the dumbest strategy I've ever seen. 0.99

00:07:13.720 The same losers that lost in November lost last night. 0.96

00:07:17.680 So here's your point, and I echo what you're saying in the cold open. 0.91

00:07:21.300 Get the message.

00:07:22.380 This is like going in to see the doctor saying, if you don't change your behavior,

00:07:26.180 you're going to have serious health problems.

00:07:28.060 You better get the message today.

00:07:29.680 If you think a bunch of cable ads are going to save us in November, you're dead wrong.

00:07:33.820 We need to get out there and sell this door-to-door, voter-by-voter, making the case.

00:07:38.380 But there's no white knight riding in to save us.

00:07:40.920 That's what I think.

00:07:41.540 Everyone in Virginia that I talk to comes to say, oh, well, the White House is going to do this.

00:07:44.500 The NRCC is going to do this.

00:07:45.720 The RNC is going to do this.

00:07:47.220 No, we need to do this.

00:07:49.340 And we got out there, Steve, on a Sunday and got tons of people.

00:07:52.740 I've been talking about it on my show.

00:07:53.900 You've been talking about it in the war room.

00:07:55.940 I wrote a book called Trump 2.0.

00:07:57.820 If you think this majority, this America First agenda that President Trump has been fighting for, you have to understand, if we don't get out there and keep this House majority, it all goes away.

00:08:11.360 The stakes could not be higher.

00:08:13.360 This is a power grab, pure and simple.

00:08:15.900 And one thing about that CNN clip, this BS, the idea that President Trump started this, I'm sorry, what did they do in New York last cycle if it wasn't for the Supreme Court?

00:08:24.880 They started this.

00:08:25.800 I don't really care who started, to be honest with you.

00:08:28.300 That's a media talking point.

00:08:29.820 The bottom line is this was a winnable race.

00:08:32.560 We could have picked up four seats. 0.99

00:08:34.200 It was sold as a bill of goods, temporary, fair, 10-1, fair, my butt. 0.97

00:08:38.600 I mean, look, guys, get the message. 0.98

00:08:41.240 This is about pure and simple power that the Democrats crave.

00:08:45.420 And if we believe that President Trump is driving this country forward,

00:08:49.500 then we need to do everything we can this summer, this fall,

00:08:53.820 to make sure that we re-elect a House Republican majority. 1.00

00:08:58.180 You know, Ari Fleischer is putting up stuff that, oh, this shows you want to do it. 1.00

00:09:01.740 No. 0.89

00:09:02.560 The Democratic Party showed exactly what they are.

00:09:05.640 They took Fairfax County.

00:09:07.760 They took the basically where the deep state lives, and they infected,

00:09:13.320 they infested five congressional districts by doing this.

00:09:16.840 They would never show a map.

00:09:18.140 The way they worded it was so bizarre because they understand power and they will do anything.

00:09:25.500 They put Trump on the ballot.

00:09:27.780 Steve, here's the deal.

00:09:28.500 We have to put Trump on the ballot.

00:09:29.520 Go ahead.

00:09:30.860 No, no.

00:09:31.400 To your point, you know what we can do?

00:09:33.660 We can do two things this morning.

00:09:35.240 We can whine and complain the Democrats worded the question.

00:09:38.220 Yes, guess what?

00:09:39.340 They played a better game.

00:09:41.320 So stop whining about them and up our game.

00:09:44.360 That's the problem.

00:09:45.240 I've watched too many people this morning on X.

00:09:47.000 Of course they did.

00:09:48.940 They understand what's at stake.

00:09:50.640 Do you think they cared about wording the constitutional amendment fairly?

00:09:54.460 No.

00:09:55.200 They want power and they will do anything to get it.

00:09:58.120 And instead of whining and complaining, get out there and do something about it.

00:10:02.120 So that's where I am.

00:10:03.340 I'm so tired of our side whining about how they're phrasing this or what they're doing. 0.98

00:10:07.280 You know what our side needs to do is do the same damn thing and go out there and fight. 0.93

00:10:12.660 Why are we sitting on over a half a minute? 0.91

00:10:14.800 I think the way I calculate it, it's like $600 million or north doing cable ads.

00:10:20.580 Nobody goes to cable TV to be convinced anymore. 0.89

00:10:24.500 It's ridiculous.

00:10:25.360 The model here was perverse because they get 20% of the cut. 0.86

00:10:29.060 They only – the grassroots is a tough grind.

00:10:33.040 It's a tough grind, and it can be expensive.

00:10:35.560 It's not free, but you need paid doors.

00:10:38.080 You need ballot chasing.

00:10:39.720 If Charlie Kirk showed us anything, you need ballot chasing to do this.

00:10:43.380 You need a commitment to do this. You can't do it by cable TV.

00:10:46.500 The reason it's not done, folks, is the consultants basically don't get paid for ground game.

00:10:51.700 Sean, they want what they want to do. This incentive structure.

00:10:55.540 They want to just leech off the money people put in, sir.

00:10:59.400 Go go look at the results this morning. Down in southern Virginia, you have a presidential turnout.

00:11:04.560 We hell are there. We didn't in Fairfax County. Where was any effort in northern Virginia?

00:11:08.900 I voted because I voted. You know, I'm a 404 voter.

00:11:12.220 But they did nothing to turn out the four or four voters, the three or four voters in Northern Virginia.

00:11:17.360 I agree with you.

00:11:18.180 The bottom line is it does take money to do ballot chasing, jet out the vote efforts, ID voters,

00:11:23.240 make sure you're chasing them, phones, door knocking, direct mail.

00:11:26.800 But a bunch of cable ads to people who are over 65 is not going to win the game.

00:11:31.180 But to your point, bottom line is you don't get a 15%, 20% cut if you don't do that.

00:11:35.420 And there's a bunch of people this morning, because you know the only winners in this are the same losers that lost in November.

00:11:41.000 They're lining their pockets of doing this, and we need to wake up because the grassroots could have won this.

00:11:46.380 And here's the thing.

00:11:47.380 By the way, this is one other big fallacy.

00:11:49.740 Don't look at the total amount spent.

00:11:51.780 I know some people are saying we spent $15, $20 million, but where you spend it and how you spend it matters.

00:11:57.300 That same money, if it was spent on the ground, on the grassroots, door knocking, talking to influencers, digital ads, mail, phone, we would have won.

00:12:05.900 81,000 votes made the difference.

00:12:08.140 I don't think there's a single person that said, wow, I saw a cable ad.

00:12:11.520 Now I'm going to go vote.

00:12:15.620 This is the same thing that happened in Texas.

00:12:17.540 I think he put a proposal.

00:12:18.580 Five million dollars could have been five million dollars spent for the grassroots.

00:12:23.120 And this whole thing on cable TV and what they're talking about, MSNBC, oh, the Trump voters, they are incredibly motivated.

00:12:30.060 The hardcore Trump will go knock on doors.

00:12:32.140 They did it in Texas and they did it in Virginia, Sean. 0.98

00:12:34.780 All they need is some air cover.

00:12:36.940 Four or five million dollars here would have made the difference.

00:12:39.220 And we lost four seats, sir.

00:12:41.700 And we have a one seat majority, Steve.

00:12:43.760 So they just get themselves forward.

00:12:45.480 Now all the pressure's on Florida, frankly.

00:12:47.520 I'll find out in the next few minutes.

00:12:49.140 I mean, I talked to you about this last week.

00:12:51.240 They slow rolled the Dems, the liberals on the court, the Voting Rights Act,

00:12:55.300 so that now all we're left with is potentially Louisiana and Alabama.

00:12:59.320 That's a net three.

00:13:00.380 And then Florida, which would go anyway.

00:13:02.280 But the bottom line is these guys know what they're doing.

00:13:04.660 They played a math game, and we sat back.

00:13:07.620 Think about it. 0.86

00:13:08.100 They'll spend $30 million on one House seat. 0.90

00:13:10.700 $5 million on the ground would have won this race, four seats.

00:13:14.620 This is a simple math and business proposition that was completely blown out of the water.

00:13:19.300 I hope that people learn their lesson.

00:13:21.480 If members of Congress are listening right now, understand this.

00:13:24.500 If you think you're going to win in November by placing a bunch of cable ads and 1,000 points on broadcast TV,

00:13:30.440 you have another thing coming to you.

00:13:31.900 Get out there, talk to those grassroots leaders, get with influencers, talk about putting money on the digital, invest in people.

00:13:38.780 But so many people I talked to in Virginia, because the Dems did a great job of confusing voters.

00:13:43.600 Oh, I hear this is fair. I hear this is just temporary.

00:13:46.580 They worded this great. They played a better game, frankly.

00:13:49.060 And you know what they did? They confused voters, and that's what they wanted.

00:13:52.060 But we needed a game on the other side that explained what was happening and why.

00:13:56.240 What was at stake and how to put the money into grassroots hands to go voter by voter to say you're a Trump supporter.

00:14:02.820 The Trump agenda is at stake. And here's why.

00:14:06.020 Sean, just hang through the break. I got also Raheem wrote a brilliant piece on this.

00:14:09.840 I just want to make sure everybody's got to where they get the book and your platform.

00:14:13.580 Points on the buy doesn't work anymore.

00:14:17.200 We've got to take that incentive system and crush it.

00:14:19.960 Points on the buy is not going to win in November.

00:14:24.060 And there is a motivated Trump army out there that's prepared to knock on doors, prepared to do this.

00:14:30.540 But they have to have some air cover.

00:14:33.180 Warren Zevon, what's it, guns, lawyers, uh, lawyers, guns, and money.

00:14:38.940 If we lose in November, you better send that.

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00:16:25.180 Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon.

00:16:29.160 And to have the worthless former governor of Virginia on Fox, 0.97

00:16:33.200 whining the last couple of days, Fox, totally worthless. 1.00

00:16:35.960 TV for stupid people, the former governor, good riddance. 1.00

00:16:40.640 um it's just an absolute total debacle uh sean before i let you go i do i want to get all your 0.99

00:16:46.840 touch points from people and where they can find the book because it is a lie the thing that the

00:16:52.000 trump base is not motivated you saw it in the commonwealth of virginia we've seen it in texas

00:16:57.660 right that people are incredibly motivated if properly incentivized lead and also have some

00:17:04.340 air cover they know what they're doing is is working to victory which the people there

00:17:08.080 were working to victory if they had just spent four or five million dollars on kind of support

00:17:14.540 for a grassroots effort to get a couple of pros in there like they like happened in in 2024

00:17:20.220 but this points on the buy mentality is what has to be shattered we have a perverse incentive

00:17:26.300 structure and you're seeing this in texas raheem's going to be in a minute with the you're seeing

00:17:30.800 this a hundred million dollars spent to destroy the grassroots in paxton this has got to stop it's

00:17:37.040 all of a piece, and it's got to stop, sir. Look, Raheem's got a great piece out at the National

00:17:41.820 Pulse on this. I posted it on Instagram this morning that lays out what's at stake. But to

00:17:45.920 your point, look, they spent $80 million and we came within a point and a half of beating them.

00:17:51.480 The grassroots is where it's at. And if you don't recognize that, then you are missing the boat.

00:17:56.340 Here's the point on the book. Thank you for bringing it up. Trump 2.0, go to Amazon right

00:18:00.160 now. And for any members of the war room posse that order it in the next seven days, if you go

00:18:04.280 on Amazon and send me a screenshot to contact at SeanSpicer.com. I will send you a personalized

00:18:09.880 book plate, personalized to whomever you want, or just sign it. I'll send it to you.

00:18:14.980 Just in time for Mother's Day, Steve. No, every mother in America, that's what they want. Rahim

00:18:18.900 Kassim told me that. That's what mothers want. Oling shows that. So order Trump 2.0 on Amazon.

00:18:24.120 But the point is, if you actually care about Trump 2.0, you need to understand what's at stake

00:18:30.340 right now. This administration will be the most historic because he had four years out of office

00:18:36.860 to plan and to plot and to think about who the people that he wanted to surround him with.

00:18:41.240 So go to Amazon, order Trump 2.0, and then tune in at Sean Spicer show every night at six on

00:18:47.060 YouTube to get a sense of like, we're talking about this tonight. We're going to talk about

00:18:51.340 it tomorrow. I've been up on the Hill talking to members of Congress. What's motivating them?

00:18:55.620 Are they excited? They got to get the message that you, the War Room, Sean Spicer show, the National Pulse.

00:19:02.280 This is what the grassroots is reading and seeing, not cable TV. Stop doing this, consultants.

00:19:08.180 I get you make your money there. Sean Spicer, thank you so much, sir.

00:19:13.660 I appreciate you. Look forward to you doing this amazing work on the Supreme Court case about the slow walking and also what states have got to fire up to do this.

00:19:21.520 Florida and these other states, folks, this fight's far from over.

00:19:25.500 And no, Ari Fleischer, we're not living in normal times, bro.

00:19:29.160 In fact, the lies you came out and told every day about the Iraq war is one of the reasons we're not in normal times.

00:19:34.280 You guys broke the system.

00:19:35.880 President Trump is here to shatter it and rebuild it.

00:19:40.180 Sean Spicer, thank you, sir.

00:19:41.800 Thank you.

00:19:42.140 By the way, President Trump wrote the foreword to the book if you want to get his sense of what's at stake.

00:19:47.880 It's amazing.

00:19:49.560 Thanks, Steve.

00:19:50.160 Great book.

00:19:51.520 Thank you. Make sure we get to Sean's show because he's breaking it all down about what's happened in the Supreme Court with this.

00:19:57.660 Raheem Kassam, I agree with Sean Spicer. He knows what the mothers of America want, and that is crystal clear analytics.

00:20:05.400 Over at the National Pulse, you wrote a piece last night because you connect the dots back.

00:20:10.000 This is not just some random occurrence.

00:20:14.500 This is the culmination of a process in a perverse incentive structure where these consultants are making a fortune.

00:20:21.800 And here's what I'm calling for.

00:20:23.200 No one should give another penny to any of these groups, just none, until we get total transparency on what these deals are.

00:20:30.600 I don't understand why the political director of the White House goes out to what MAGA, Inc., or whatever, and they say to coordinate.

00:20:37.400 Well, maybe he can't coordinate inside the White House, or it's not a way just to make money.

00:20:43.080 All the interconnections, the mail, the phones, the ads, all of it, people have to know, people are making a ton of money and getting blown out.

00:20:53.380 And here's what upsets me so much.

00:20:55.360 In Texas, they spent $100 million destroying or attempting to destroy Ken Paxton.

00:21:03.080 And the grassroots stood up there with no help whatsoever and just a couple of million bucks and has defeated Cornyn.

00:21:10.240 And Korn is now eight points down. And all he does is continue to put his his vitriol on television, Raheem, to try to destroy and make it harder, make it harder for Ken Paxson to win in the fall.

00:21:23.340 Sir, walk us through this piece you wrote last night.

00:21:27.280 Yeah, thanks, Steve. I I broadly agreed with most of what Sean said.

00:21:32.500 You know, I think there's going to be a lot of questions about how the money was spent.

00:21:37.560 And that's right. But if you look at the piece we wrote late last night, you know, it also became very clear to us when you break it down by cost per vote, the Democrats had to spend about $40 on every single vote that they got last night.

00:21:55.640 And the Republicans ended up spending just under $14 on every vote that they got last night, which means that if you extrapolate out and add for diminishing returns, then it would have cost about $2 to $2.5 million to keep those House seats, to hand Democrats a historic L last night, to avoid all of this negative press publicity and whatever.

00:22:23.240 Well, listen, maybe we needed this because it does shine a spotlight on where the money was actually going.

00:22:30.260 And when you look at the fact that what you just mentioned, $100 million spent on John Cornyn's incumbency campaign to fail to destroy Ken Paxton, by the way.

00:22:40.060 Not to try to destroy Ken Paxton, but to fail to destroy Ken Paxton.

00:22:43.560 Actually, maybe even to help Ken Paxton in the long term is what they ended up doing inadvertently by spending all that money there.

00:22:51.560 And bear this in mind, right? $2.5 million might sound like a lot. It's certainly a lot of money to a lot of people. But in the grand scheme of what's on hand in these political committees, I'll tell you this, MAGA Inc. has $312 million on hand.

00:23:09.040 The Senate Leadership Fund has $166 million on hand.

00:23:12.220 The RNC has $116 million on hand.

00:23:15.020 CLF has $91 million on hand.

00:23:17.860 The NRCC has $78 million on hand.

00:23:20.640 The NRSC has $43 million on hand.

00:23:23.400 So if you can't find $2.5 million in amongst all of that,

00:23:28.640 hell, I would have done an extra five just to be sure, right?

00:23:32.520 then you are committing malpractice and malfeasance at the highest possible levels

00:23:40.880 because this was wildly avoidable.

00:23:43.760 The GOP writ large, everything put together,

00:23:47.040 there is $808 million sitting there ready to be used.

00:23:52.960 And the Democrats have $259 million.

00:23:56.520 And they were still able to put up the money to get them over the line last night.

00:24:00.940 Now, look, again, it's not just the money, as Sean said.

00:24:03.420 It's also how the money gets deployed.

00:24:06.580 But we have to stop dancing around who these people are.

00:24:12.020 You know, we take consultants, this, consultants, that.

00:24:14.340 It's not every consultant, and not every consultant behaves that way.

00:24:17.780 But there are a specific set of people now who are in charge of the RNC coffers that do this time and time and again.

00:24:23.960 And guess what?

00:24:25.380 To the people who haven't been paying attention to this, guess what?

00:24:28.840 The people who are in charge of this money, like Chris Lasavita and his team, are also the chief campaign consultants for John Cornyn, for Lindsey Graham, and a host of other rhinos up and down the country.

00:24:43.880 That's who these people are.

00:24:45.960 We can't be afraid to name them.

00:24:48.560 This is, you know, they go around Washington, D.C., threatening people and throwing their weight around.

00:24:53.720 And it's time this thing stopped because it's not their money.

00:24:57.800 They got humiliated. They got humiliated in Texas. What they've done in Texas is criminal.

00:25:07.240 Let me repeat this. What they've done in taking people's money and attempting and failing to destroy Ken Paxson and the grassroots movement in Texas.

00:25:16.460 Remember that the grassroots movement in Texas, the great pages down there going door to door.

00:25:21.700 It's criminal.

00:25:23.320 Also, what happened in Virginia?

00:25:25.320 Criminal.

00:25:26.820 They're going to come at President Trump with everything once they take the House.

00:25:31.380 And right now, this makes it such a steep climb to hold the House.

00:25:35.180 However, look in Indiana.

00:25:37.080 Indiana working with banks.

00:25:38.960 We had it at 9 to 1.

00:25:40.380 Hell, you went out there and held that magnificent town hall early on.

00:25:44.960 We had it at 9 to 1.

00:25:46.140 Could have gone 10-0.

00:25:47.160 But then the heavy-handed nature of Las Vidas and that crew came in there.

00:25:50.040 ticked everybody off they're about to get humiliated all the big tough talk oh we're

00:25:54.980 going to run these guys out of indiana the state senators they're on the they're on the cusp of

00:26:00.640 getting humiliated in indiana i think that five of the seven they've targeted are going to win

00:26:05.860 or it looks like they're going to win now and what they've done is turned it we've gone from

00:26:09.960 we've gone from 9-1 potentially 10-0 back to 8-2 we've lost two seats there it's just a continual

00:26:18.020 losing streak where they're making a fortune. We now need to see all the money they made,

00:26:24.280 all of it. We need to see who is making money on catastrophic defeats. What they've done on

00:26:31.380 Paxton is a crime. Ken Paxton is one of the leaders of the Trump movement and one of the

00:26:37.360 leaders of the grassroots movement. And John Cornett is a total and complete scumbag. 1.00

00:26:41.900 and the folks in texas know it this is why uh paxton is up after taking that those ads because 0.98

00:26:48.460 i was out in texas for like two and a half or three months we'd watch them it's it's i'm shocked

00:26:53.240 that ken paxton's mother would want to vote for him after those ads one ad after the other carpet

00:26:59.440 bombed on on both the cable and also broadcast the broadcast television uh nightly news the local

00:27:06.060 News, which is incredibly expensive, to destroy Ken Paxton. Not a policy debate, to destroy Ken

00:27:13.220 Paxton. And he's come through it to only make the job of the grassroots harder in the fall.

00:27:20.080 And these guys talk about all this. In fact, Fox News just had Thunon. To tell you what a joke this

00:27:25.200 is, Fox News just had Thunon didn't talk about Save America Act at all. You know why? The Senate

00:27:30.060 is not interested. So no money should go to any of these guys. And then we have a total accounting

00:27:36.300 of who made what doing what. And then people can make a determination where they want to put their

00:27:41.920 money. Six, seven, eight hundred million dollars sitting on right now. And we just lost four seats

00:27:47.280 in Virginia that the grassroots for 45 freaking days went door to door. Because why? Because they

00:27:55.180 love president trump and they backed the trump movement and they had no air cover whatsoever we

00:28:00.480 left them out on the beach this is revolting and it's all because of a crass agreed to make more 0.54

00:28:10.700 and more money and line the pockets of this consulting class rahim stick around for one 0.54

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00:29:35.560 throughout the world read. And you should too.

00:29:38.300 you know since uh the first week of january we shifted the show down to texas for a couple of

00:29:49.620 months because of that incredible primary and then right into virginia uh with the 45 days

00:29:55.280 early voting so we've been cheeked by jow by the to the grassroots people the trump movement

00:30:01.360 is still alive and on fire i don't don't listen to the pundits don't listen to these doomsayers

00:30:08.180 Are things perfect? No, they're not perfect. Are there certain policies that make us very upset? Yes.

00:30:14.060 But that all goes back to the railhead of these consultants and the pollsters.

00:30:18.880 We had Brownstone on here. Dr. Jeffrey Tucker with their poll with Bobby Kennedy to show that the poll that Fabrizio and those guys put out is just dead wrong.

00:30:28.300 And this is why they chained up Bobby Kennedy. And this is why they all of a sudden you got to be promoting Roundup.

00:30:33.740 Same thing with Mike Howe and Rosemary Jenks and the Mass Deportation Coalition and Rosemary Jenks and that crowd paid for the poll about where the American people are on immigration and illegal immigration.

00:30:46.320 And yet you get this amnesty crowd down there in South Florida and all of a sudden James Blair is telling people you can't use the phrase mass deportations.

00:30:55.760 Then they go to the Capitol Hill Club and have this big thing and they leak it out to political and leak it out to the Hill and it's redonkulous.

00:31:03.740 Because I talked to people there and they said it's absurd.

00:31:06.960 Oh, a drug price transparency.

00:31:10.040 Is that going to get somebody walking door to door, banging on doors and saying, hey, let me walk you through the Trump plan. 0.99

00:31:15.060 And let me walk you through why this is a takeover of the Commonwealth of Virginia or to tell you what a scumbag John Cornyn is. 0.97

00:31:22.800 Is that what's going to do it? 0.99

00:31:24.360 You don't know human nature then. 0.99

00:31:26.340 That's just more consultant lobbyist crap. 0.99

00:31:30.140 And that's where we are. 0.98

00:31:31.240 And we avoided a massive loss in Texas because of the great Texas grassroots, these heroes and patriots.

00:31:40.500 And now in Virginia, you had something that was so frickin' winnable with the people putting Trump on their shoulder and say, we're not going to let it happen.

00:31:49.280 And, of course, the consultants say, shh, you don't want to bring up Trump because we might upset Democrats.

00:31:54.740 That's in punchbowl today.

00:31:56.700 The consultants say, shh, shh, you got to be careful.

00:32:00.260 You can't mention Trump's name.

00:32:02.160 You can't mention this is about the other thing.

00:32:04.140 Are you kidding me?

00:32:05.220 Do you not know where the country is right now?

00:32:09.720 Nick Ferratis has got his tweet up there.

00:32:11.680 He says, look where the Commonwealth was 10 years ago, and look at his today.

00:32:15.600 And you had Yunkin playing softball with him.

00:32:19.120 Do you think Spanberg is playing softball? 1.00

00:32:21.700 She's running a color revolution, dude. 1.00

00:32:24.420 She trained by the CIA. 1.00

00:32:26.380 She's like Victoria Nuland in the United States of America. 0.55

00:32:30.480 And they knew that they were going to shut down the rural counties.

00:32:35.420 This whole thing, this railhead of the lobster, have you seen that map?

00:32:39.280 Tough to see it because the Democrats never put it up.

00:32:42.200 I noticed today they didn't put it up on Morning Joe because it basically takes Fairfax County and has it infest, has the foreign-born deep state folks up there.

00:32:52.680 Right? 0.97

00:32:53.160 Right. The foreign born deep state folks up there infesting the entire Commonwealth. 1.00

00:32:57.920 That's their plan. And that's their plan everywhere, because that's how they win. 1.00

00:33:01.900 Did you not notice, Minnesota? You think we're playing by conventional rules?

00:33:05.680 You think Donald Trump's in the White House because he's a conventional politician?

00:33:10.200 Your conventional politician is Glenn Youngkin. And look what he's done.

00:33:14.420 Defeat after defeat. Now it's a crushing. Now they turned over the whole frickin state to him.

00:33:19.800 It'll take us a decade to dig out of this, a decade of those grassroots going door to door.

00:33:26.360 And thank God you've got patriots down in the cradle of our revolution on the 250th anniversary.

00:33:33.300 Those people that fought in the revolution would be proud of the people that went door to door, 0.98

00:33:38.480 and they would be disgusted and revolted by the scum of this consulting class that is stealing money. 0.97

00:33:45.600 And until it's totally transparent, nobody should give another penny. 0.99

00:33:51.320 And you got them up there whining, oh, we're going to lose the Senate.

00:33:53.960 You're going to lose the—you're damn right you're going to lose the Senate because you've given nothing for people to work for. 1.00

00:33:59.740 Complete total group of scumbags. 0.99

00:34:02.600 Cornyn, Lindsey Graham, John Theroux, the whole lot of them. 1.00

00:34:05.940 You think people are going to go door-to-door for that?

00:34:08.080 Do you think they're going to go door-to-door in a hot, sweltering summer to make voter contact for that?

00:34:14.080 Raheem Ghassam, your closing thoughts, sir, on this topic.

00:34:19.860 Yeah, I mean, it's hard to match that energy.

00:34:25.360 Look, I am willing to say one thing that I think a lot of people aren't willing to say,

00:34:29.120 and that's the president does have some level of culpability here.

00:34:32.480 You know, in November of 2024, we were telling him over the course of the campaign

00:34:35.760 that people like Lassovita were bilking from him, bilking from donations.

00:34:40.840 and he ended up having a conversation with him on Trump Force One.

00:34:46.220 It was reported by The Atlantic in November 2024 where Trump said to La Savita,

00:34:50.260 look, if these stories about you making so much money out of this campaign,

00:34:54.300 making so much money off my campaign and all the donations are not true,

00:34:57.020 then sue the people who are making those allegations.

00:35:00.620 So La Savita files a lawsuit against the Daily Beast

00:35:04.100 and then in February of this year just quietly drops the lawsuit entirely, right?

00:35:10.840 Just like, hey, we're making this thing go away because he doesn't want discovery.

00:35:13.660 He doesn't want people finding out exactly what he's been making off all of these races because that would happen in a scenario like that.

00:35:20.480 You get discovery against these people for something like that.

00:35:23.360 And then we'll suddenly not just know what happened in the 2024 campaign.

00:35:26.720 We'll know what's going on with his work with Lindsey Graham.

00:35:29.220 And by the way, here's how convoluted it is.

00:35:31.360 And I don't want to just dwell on this one guy because it's not just this one guy.

00:35:34.440 It's this whole, whole ecosystem.

00:35:37.020 It's a network.

00:35:37.460 We've got to see the whole ecosystem.

00:35:39.080 We've got to see Blair's deals.

00:35:40.600 We've got to see all the deals.

00:35:41.740 We're going to see them all.

00:35:42.640 By the way, I've already made inquiries.

00:35:44.840 So we're going to see them all.

00:35:46.200 You can't run in high from this thing.

00:35:47.600 We're going to see them all because no more money is coming in.

00:35:50.340 People are not going to do it.

00:35:51.600 I don't hold the President Coppola.

00:35:53.200 Good God, man.

00:35:54.620 He's fighting wars.

00:35:56.500 He's trying to bring world peace.

00:35:58.700 He's trying to turn the account.

00:35:59.460 The whole weight of the world is on his shoulders.

00:36:01.400 He shouldn't have to micromanage a campaign.

00:36:04.940 That should just be done.

00:36:06.680 And it should be done.

00:36:07.440 And this was not hard.

00:36:08.640 But he should have got rid of these guys years ago.

00:36:11.580 That's a topic for a different day.

00:36:13.620 That's a topic for a different day.

00:36:15.260 But I can't hold him culpable.

00:36:16.640 Here's what I will tell you.

00:36:18.000 All the media and all the guys sitting there going Trump, hey, I saw it in Texas and I saw it in Virginia.

00:36:24.600 The Trump base, the grassroots base are prepared to go door to door for this guy to make sure that we're still in power in November.

00:36:33.220 And right now, folks, take your number two pencil and write this down.

00:36:36.740 We ain't going to be in power.

00:36:37.740 I'm not playing Warren Zevon, lawyers, guns and money, because I think it's great to play Warren Zevon today.

00:36:44.140 That's a message that the Democrats, what they have in store, what they have in store for everybody.

00:36:51.080 As I said back at CPI's, you know, the talk I gave back during the inauguration when I went to one of their galas, they're coming for everybody.

00:37:00.660 These people look what they did in Virginia.

00:37:02.820 They they have one mode.

00:37:04.480 It's called Smash Mouth. And what Sean Spicer said, we need to get back to Smash Mouth.

00:37:10.640 What they did in Texas against Paxton was Smash Mouth. And guess what? Paxton, whatever doesn't

00:37:16.880 kill you, makes you stronger. Ken Paxton, this is why Ken Paxton is such a hero. And he's not

00:37:21.620 the most dynamic guy in the world. He's a hero because of what he did in 21 and stood in the

00:37:26.400 breach. And what he did here, not to back down and not to wilter. If you saw what they did to him,

00:37:31.960 How many humans would be able to take that?

00:37:36.020 A hundred million dollars, one hundred million dollars in TV.

00:37:41.600 Rahim, before I leave you, I need everybody go to the National Pulse.

00:37:44.880 You've been writing some great stuff on China.

00:37:46.940 I got to really just tell me about this upcoming China trip.

00:37:50.240 What has to happen real quickly before you bounce?

00:37:53.180 Yeah, look, the president goes to China on May the 14th.

00:37:56.660 And, you know, predominantly, we've come to expect what in these trade and tariff negotiations,

00:38:02.480 that when things get tough for Xi and his team over there, they immediately say, right,

00:38:07.580 OK, well, we're not buying soybeans, we're not buying beef, we're not buying pork, any of that

00:38:11.520 stuff. And who suffers in that whole process? It's the American farmer, right, who doesn't get a seat

00:38:16.280 at that table. So I wrote a piece yesterday about this thing, the Grown in America Act,

00:38:22.140 which actually would do a lot to stop that card being played by the Chinese. 1.00

00:38:28.220 It would effectively incentivize American companies to buy American product from American farmers. 0.96

00:38:34.820 And what it will also do, by the way, is set up a fight that I think we want to have with the World Trade Organization.

00:38:41.000 I encourage everybody to go and read this piece.

00:38:43.800 Trump should pass this bill before he goes to China.

00:38:46.960 This is what we should do.

00:38:48.260 This is why people go door to door.

00:38:49.560 Where do they go for National Pulse and all of your analysis, both internationally, the geopolitics, but particularly now the politics, because we need total transparency on these deals.

00:39:00.060 The incentive structure, people have to see.

00:39:02.600 They have to see it.

00:39:03.420 No more hiding the football, sir.

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00:39:31.460 Thank you, Steve.

00:39:33.780 Thank you, Rahim.

00:39:34.600 Let's go now to the folks in Virginia.

00:39:36.620 I want to start with John Reed.

00:39:37.560 You've got Jeff Reier, the head of the GOP.

00:39:39.600 John, you've been with the ambassador for this amendment to make sure that people knew exactly what was going on.

00:39:45.660 I can't be more complimentary of the effort you and Jeff, these GOP county chairs, these district chairs led.

00:39:56.620 It was just magnificent.

00:39:57.820 What's your assessment on the morning after, sir?

00:40:01.020 Well, look, the voters turned out in the regions where we needed them.

00:40:05.820 The volunteers were out there.

00:40:07.300 I mean, I've been around Virginia politics for a long time, and I've contrasted the real concerted effort where people put their hostilities and, you know, the normal inter-team rivalries aside and work together.

00:40:22.180 We saw that over the last two months.

00:40:25.920 But, I mean, it hurts to wake up this morning and realize that that wasn't a nightmare last night.

00:40:31.840 It's what we're going to be living with going forward, assuming the courts don't step in.

00:40:36.860 and I have no faith in the courts to do the right thing. If they were going to do that,

00:40:39.680 I think they would have done it before the election took place. But, you know, all of

00:40:45.700 the Republican activists that we could possibly get a hold of did answer the call and they put

00:40:51.360 in the work. And for the most part, everybody got along and we were focused on getting the votes

00:40:58.220 out. If you had asked me candidly off camera yesterday, I knew this was going to be a miracle

00:41:05.800 if we pulled it off i am disappointed that we lost but it was tight and you start thinking what

00:41:12.160 else could we have done what what other resources could we have marshalled to try to get you know

00:41:18.320 the last uh few thousand people district by district in and i think we need to ponder that

00:41:25.300 what we do going forward well you guys were restore resource constrained i mean the democrats

00:41:31.140 understood Hakeem Jeffries understands what this was about they came with 80 million bucks

00:41:36.440 okay yeah and they spent it smartly uh you guys were star for resources you didn't you didn't

00:41:41.700 have reason you didn't have any kind of professional uh ground game whatsoever to

00:41:46.280 augment this magnificent turnout you had from uh the volunteers sir yeah I mean people were

00:41:53.020 people like me I mean I was kind of one of the front guys but there were a lot of people like

00:41:57.660 me who were just in their personal vehicle driving themselves around every weekend from sunup to

00:42:02.940 after midnight trying to get in front of groups of 50 folks. But, you know, I saw last year if

00:42:09.860 the Democrats marshal millions of dollars and they go on television and they start doing targeted

00:42:16.760 digital and texting to the people that they know they can get out, and this is before we get into

00:42:21.080 the shady stuff that may be happening, who knows, they can move their voters. And you've just got

00:42:29.220 to have those resources in a modern election campaign. But, you know, we did a tremendous

00:42:35.600 achievement getting these folks out with the resources we did have.

00:42:41.060 No, the people say that people don't back Trump are just dead wrong. We've got it. I've seen it

00:42:46.700 Texas I've seen in South Carolina I've seen in Virginia John where do people go to get your show

00:42:51.600 where they find where they find the Reed Revolution that's the Reed Revolution on Twitter X on

00:42:56.580 Facebook on YouTube do it live five days a week about 1 30 in the afternoon and then of course

00:43:01.620 the clips go out you can watch it archived or in the podcast version the Reed Revolution I'm really

00:43:06.660 excited about it well we're going to stay in the fight regardless of those results yesterday

00:43:11.820 thank you john and thank you for hanging in there thanks steve appreciate it incredible

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00:45:01.460 War Room. Here's your host, Stephen K. Mann.

00:45:10.120 Folks, you know, I realize, oh, some people are depressed. I got it. I got it. I remember.

00:45:15.220 What did this show do on the on the 20th of January 2021?

00:45:19.340 You know, we lost about a third of the audience.

00:45:21.960 They came back in 60 or 90 days, but they were very depressed and said, hey, they can steal it from Trump.

00:45:27.460 What am I? I'm just some schmendrick, right?

00:45:30.000 Who stood in the breach?

00:45:30.960 I tell you, who stood in the breach?

00:45:31.860 You remember our guest that afternoon?

00:45:33.840 Ken Paxton.

00:45:36.280 Remember how that turned out?

00:45:37.920 We won in 22, and then we won again in 24.

00:45:43.000 Were those easy?

00:45:44.100 Were those dark days?

00:45:45.180 Were they dark days in January, February, or March?

00:45:47.680 And look at the crowd that's stealing this money right now, the consultant class.

00:45:52.060 Were they there?

00:45:52.880 Were they standing in the breach?

00:45:54.980 Were they down in the trenches with you?

00:45:56.460 No, they were not.

00:45:57.320 they ran from Trump so fast, make your head swim, in January 6. We've been here before.

00:46:04.940 Take a deep breath. Have a cup of Warpath coffee, and let's get focused. The good news, I'm telling

00:46:11.760 you the good news is that the grassroots, and I've seen it in Texas and in Virginia, and you're

00:46:17.900 starting to see it in South Carolina where Lindsey's below 50%, have had a belly full of

00:46:23.260 what's going on, and there's supporters of Trump in the Trump program. We just got to get back

00:46:27.640 to the Trump program. You can't have all this BS, consultant-driven, donor-driven,

00:46:37.300 K Street-driven, lobbyist-driven polling, which all happens to be a lie and a misdirection play.

00:46:44.220 Jeff Reier, you fought a heroic fight. Motivate the grassroots. This thing was so winnable.

00:46:50.520 We do not need to be here losing four seats this morning, and the Democrats know that.

00:46:56.040 They stole one last night, right?

00:46:58.300 They had a rigged system, a rigged map, and they played power politics, and they've got four seats, and we don't.

00:47:09.320 Your assessment of how we got here, sir?

00:47:12.260 Well, they told voters that they were voting for fairness, which clearly they were not.

00:47:16.760 They put deliberately misleading ballot language out there, and I guess we shouldn't be entirely surprised by that.

00:47:24.180 But I will tell you, people are like, where's the silver lining?

00:47:27.060 Well, I'll tell you what the silver lining is.

00:47:28.620 We now have really a model of how to do this and how to invigorate our grassroots from the start

00:47:36.020 and how they're key to being able to rebuild the party here in Virginia

00:47:40.240 and to get us back into a position where we represent the majority of the state.

00:47:44.860 last night, driven primarily by grassroots activists, our party had the best performance

00:47:52.720 that it's had since 2021. We ended up at a higher percentage than President Trump received in the

00:48:04.660 state. Our grassroots activists are there, and they're willing to work, and they're willing to

00:48:11.040 do the door knocking and everything else. And maybe there were some that held back because

00:48:15.340 they didn't think it was possible, but I can't imagine they're waking up this morning thinking,

00:48:19.240 oh, wow, this wasn't possible. It was very possible. And we made it, we made it a real

00:48:25.540 race. That's great. You've got the troops, you got the troops and they believe, and they believe

00:48:31.540 in the cause you got to get until, and look, the young can flitting around that day of politics is

00:48:37.500 over. Okay. Then you've got, then you've got this situation with the consultants. That's got to be

00:48:42.440 over. If the consultant class does not get restructured dramatically and the incentives

00:48:48.000 align with grassroots effort, then you're going to lose this house and you're going to lose the

00:48:53.320 Senate in November. Write that down. Okay. Write that down. It's going to happen. If you change

00:48:58.440 that and you change all of this, we could, we could, we could hold the house and I think hold

00:49:04.120 the Senate. It's all doable, like Virginia was doable. But the resources have to be put

00:49:10.060 in back of the people that actually deliver votes and are prepared to go door to door

00:49:14.760 for voter engagement, for low propensity voters and lower information voters, Jeff.

00:49:21.320 And that is absolutely the case. And that's one of the things that we're going to be focusing on

00:49:25.440 in the weeks and months ahead, getting up to within three points on an issue this significant

00:49:33.960 to the democrats considering uh not just the spending disparity but the the uh the true

00:49:39.800 deception that the democrats uh practiced uh is uh is an achievement of sorts i'm not going to

00:49:46.260 confuse it with victory because it's not victory they're they're they're gonna they're gonna

00:49:49.940 confuse i mean their whole thing is you know today what is the day's the birthday lennon's

00:49:54.840 birthday which is there they aspire to follow that yes jeff where do people go to follow you on um

00:50:01.540 And as the GOP chair, you've done a magnificent – last 45 days, just incredible leadership to get people moving where they go.

00:50:08.380 We are grassroots driven, and we do rely on our party volunteers, and that's where our strength is.

00:50:16.000 If you go to virginia.gop, that's our website.

00:50:20.240 We'll be updating it with new information.

00:50:22.880 Obviously, we're still on yesterday's election.

00:50:25.180 but you'll see the donate button in the upper right-hand corner and also the donate box right

00:50:32.460 below that you can donate and also if you click on that support and donate box you can also

00:50:37.620 volunteer look we've got active republican committees throughout the state who are looking

00:50:42.520 for people who are willing to to do the work and we give them meaningful work work that makes a

00:50:48.040 difference in changing votes uh we're not uh we're not we're not just giving busy work we're giving

00:50:53.580 real work and by the way war room uh war room phone calls were extraordinary the the war room

00:51:00.680 posse uh came in and participated very very actively we would not have achieved as as close

00:51:08.520 as we got yesterday without their help and support they were extraordinarily helpful

00:51:13.340 on the mission and as i said it was this entire effort was so uh grassroots driven and grassroots

00:51:19.940 dominated it just took quite a while to convince other people that this was winnable well you can

00:51:25.480 see in texas and virginia the beginning of a uh a second wave of the trump movement that could

00:51:30.620 definitely win in november 100 uh jeff thank you so much brother appreciate you thank you very much

00:51:36.500 thank you sir mike lindell we need a deal this morning before we end the first hour of the show

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Bannon's War Room - April 22, 2026

episode 5318： Send Lawyers, Guns, And Money Virginia's Hit The Fan

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