00:03:53.900Whoever wins these races tomorrow is going to end up on the Georgia Supreme Court.
00:03:58.360Now, Georgia's Supreme Court is technically nonpartisan, but right now that court is dominated by conservatives who were appointed by Republican governors.
00:04:06.080Two of those Republican appointees are up for re-election tomorrow.
00:04:10.640And no sitting Georgia Supreme Court justice has lost a re-election challenge in over a century.
00:04:18.780But tomorrow, there are two candidates who are making a really strong effort to try to do just that.
00:04:25.400Their names are Miracle Rankin and Jen Jordan.
00:04:29.440They both have gotten big endorsements from people like former President Barack Obama,
00:04:36.960If those two challengers win, it would not only change the composition of the Georgia
00:04:42.560State Supreme Court, which is a huge deal in its own right, but it would also, I think,
00:04:47.540change the way Georgia voters think about Supreme Court elections going forward.
00:04:50.680It would also be a big sign of Democratic enthusiasm in a really important state where
00:04:55.180both the governorship and the U.S. Senate are up for grabs this year. In terms of early voting,
00:05:00.880already more than a million people have voted early in Georgia. Democrats have outpaced
00:05:05.520Republicans by about 15 percent of the votes cast. I'll say that again. Democrats have outpaced
00:05:12.040Republicans by 15 percent of the votes cast in early voting already. It's going to be fascinating
00:05:17.380to watch this one. Polls close 7 p.m. Eastern time tomorrow in Georgia. Watch this space.
00:05:22.100tuesday 19 may in the year of our lord 2026 uh it's election day uh commonwealth of kentucky
00:05:31.200state of georgia idaho others we're going to um cover this all throughout the day we're going to
00:05:37.840go to georgia particularly off the talking about the bunker the secret bunker in uh fulton county
00:05:44.020so we got all the players associated with that are going to be on this morning we're going to
00:05:47.880talk about Georgia we're going to start in Texas um the uh Caroline Wren and not all these are
00:05:54.980perfect I realize there's some that are that are you know personal vendettas and you know some are
00:05:59.220about policy but uh as one of the people in the engine room told me watching the cold open it's
00:06:05.860not so much being outside the current it's getting caught in the undertow of the riptide is it not
00:06:11.600ma'am certainly and that's what happened to bill cassidy i mean this was a resounding defeat of a
00:06:18.720two-term incumbent senator bill cassidy who mustered i believe only 25 five percent of the
00:06:24.420primary vote he didn't even make the runoff he came in third and i i will say that the grassroots
00:06:29.240but particularly maha played a huge role in this complete shellacking of cassidy in louisiana this
00:06:35.140was a vote that took place five and a half years ago but people do not forget when you betray0.91
00:06:39.660President Trump when you, I believe, betray democracy in the way that he did, primary voters
00:06:45.140don't forget that, nor should they. And so I was thrilled to see him go. He needed to go. And so
00:06:49.980it's a big win for the MAGA movement. And yes, I mean, today we have primaries in Alabama, Georgia,
00:06:56.580Idaho, Kentucky, Oregon, Pennsylvania, and then all eyes turn to the runoff in Texas, which is
00:07:03.080next Tuesday. But the early vote. Give me a minute on Make America Healthy Again. We had Tony Lyons
00:07:09.520on last night, this. But Politico and the New York Times spent the last two weeks telling us
00:07:15.580that it's a flop, and the Washington Post too. It's a flop. It's a failure. When you talk to
00:07:20.940voters, it's all an internet phenomenon and on the war room. But other than that, it doesn't
00:07:26.380move the needle. It has no power on Capitol Hill and certainly no stroke in these primaries.
00:07:32.740What does Cassidy tell us about that, ma'am? Well, that's absolutely, I think the Maha movement0.91
00:07:38.500has huge, huge power. It had a huge power in the massive popular vote win that President Trump had.
00:07:44.680Then also, you know, Kennedy's doing a great job in the role. We're seeing a ton of movement out
00:07:48.420of there. And in Louisiana, this was a particular battle for the Maha movement. Bill Cassidy had
00:07:54.260been against everything that the Maha movement stood for. You know, he did end up voting for1.00
00:07:58.240Kennedy, but not after, you know, having to put us through the ringer during that confirmation vote,
00:08:02.640but he's still just been obstructing the Maha movement at every moment. And so the Maha movement,
00:08:06.860i think really turned out and said no we don't want you anymore and they showed their power that
00:08:11.680they could play the thing about the maha movement is they have power to play not only in primaries0.99
00:08:15.920but also in general elections making them a very very lethal movement in this country0.99
00:08:20.420the hill story lead story because here's what's so shocking about it it's not simply that a sitting
00:08:26.960senator was defeated a city senator in the south right because you know how they lock in down there
00:08:32.160the uh he finished third he did not make the runoff that is what so i think people are stunned
00:08:39.100about the hill newspaper today had an article about how john tune in the republican conference
00:08:45.060and stephen law those guys are shocked right beyond belief that they because they thought
00:08:50.300worst case he'll get in the runoff and it'll be let low uh you know in in the in the uh in the
00:08:55.840runoff uh like they helped cornyn did but they they he didn't didn't even come close to making
00:09:00.780the runoff, ma'am. Of course, I know they're probably shocked, but the thing is, there's
00:09:05.660no movement behind those folks. There's no movement behind preserving the Senate rules
00:09:09.820and preserving the filibuster. All they have behind them is money. And, you know, they didn't
00:09:14.260spend as much money as I expected them to on Cassidy. I think they kind of saw the writing
00:09:18.340on the wall with the, I guess, polling numbers, but also they've also wasted so much money in
00:09:24.760Texas, that their resources can only stretch so far. But with Cassidy, I mean, he really had no
00:09:31.540chance. And even, I think in the clip that you were playing in the beginning, they talk about
00:09:35.440how almost every senator that voted to impeach Trump is now gone, except for now Murkowski and
00:09:40.560Collins. Well, don't forget, Murkowski lost her primary, right? So she actually was defeated in
00:09:44.960the primary. She just ended up running a write-in campaign that she was able to win. So I would
00:09:51.120actually put that in the category of being defeated in a primary yeah she ran as an independent that1.00
00:09:56.480funky way they do it up in Alaska um talk let's pivot to the let's not bury the lead the 1500.99
00:10:01.440million dollars that has everybody's attention and has uh the MAGA movement outrage in Texas
00:10:07.820Cornyn yesterday admitted he doesn't think the he doesn't think a Trump endorsement is coming
00:10:12.840his quote was that ship has sailed do you buy that I certainly hope so and that ship should have
00:10:20.180sailed. It should have sailed from the moment he tried to, he defended Lisa Monaco and every other
00:10:25.060foe that Donald Trump has had. And the entire closing argument from the Corning campaign as
00:10:29.180allies is that Paxton is unelectable in general. And I just want to take a moment to point out
00:10:34.060how preposterous that is. I mean, the Democrats need to pick up four seats for majority. They're
00:10:38.760also defending three seats in Georgia, Michigan, and New Hampshire. And so when you go to look up
00:10:43.640those four pickup seats, I was actually watching David Axelrod said this. He said, there's no way
00:10:48.080we should play in Texas or we're going to play in Texas. It's too expensive. They're better off
00:10:51.800trying to play in Alaska or Ohio or Nebraska or Iowa, which are much, much cheaper. But the
00:10:57.840Democrats have learned this lesson. They poured millions behind Colin Allred and Beto, got them
00:11:02.840nowhere in Texas. Texas is a deep red state. I don't care if it's Paxton or Cornyn, the Republican
00:11:08.240nominee is going to win, which leads us to the point of why you should then vote for Ken Paxton.
00:11:12.120There is no reason why John Cornyn deserves a fifth term from Texans.
00:11:17.620He cannot point to any legislative accomplishments that he has done over those four terms.
00:11:22.400And it's time to have some new blood in someone like Ken Paxton, who is unshackled from the corporate money, from the D.C. establishment.
00:11:29.040And so that is why I'm just hoping and praying that Paxton has a big victory coming up next Tuesday.
00:11:33.500And the number one thing the war room posse needs to be doing is calling and texting every single person they know in Texas, remind them about this runoff and tell them that they've got to vote for Ken Paxton.
00:11:43.440Yeah, it's all about turnout. The turnout is absolutely important here for the grassroots.
00:11:49.160Doesn't this all point back to John Thune, though, the Save America Act?
00:11:52.280You came up with this great idea that Ken Paxson jumped on, that Ken Paxson would actually jump out of the race if Cornyn got the Save America, if he got really in the grill of John Thune and got the Save America Act.
00:12:08.480Isn't time, because I think we're going to hold the House because of the great work of you and Alex DeGrasse on being Bomber Command and doing these redistricting, which was a trench warfare, Brian Harris and the folks in Texas.
00:12:20.440I actually feel pretty good about the House, given that hopefully the economic situation won't worsen with these interest rates.
00:12:28.700But the Senate, I just don't see, I don't see anybody.
00:12:31.040As I go around the country or have people and talk, you know, have these meetings after the show,
00:12:34.700I don't see any enthusiasm on a mass basis for the grassroots to turn out for these senators.
00:12:40.380I think we can actually lose the Senate no matter how much money they've got.
00:12:44.720Isn't the way we counter that, isn't it to remove John Thune as leader and to do it ASAP?
00:12:50.440You know, when Cornyn made his comment yesterday about how, oh, that ship has sailed with the Trump endorsement, I'm like, actually, it hasn't sailed.
00:12:57.340Paxson literally handed you a way to be the captain of the ship, and it was get Save America passed, and I will step aside and let you be the next senator.
00:13:05.820And John Cornyn refused to be a captain of that ship, refused to try and get his colleagues.
00:13:10.000He changed his own personal opinion, which he didn't actually change it.
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00:19:21.340War Room. Here's your host, Stephen K. Mann.
00:19:24.560Subject to the time, it is 19 May, year of our Lord, 2026.
00:19:30.740In 19 May, the year of our Lord, 1536.
00:19:34.940That would be 490 years ago today.0.72
00:19:39.060Anne Boleyn, the witch that was the mother of Elizabeth I
00:19:44.100and had Henry VIII walk away from his 19-year marriage to Catherine of Aragon,
00:19:50.140was executed, beheaded in London today.
00:21:56.400So, Garland Favarito, we're going to have the lieutenant governor candidate, hopefully, Greg Doversal, who's, I think, the guy doing the suit.
00:22:07.180But tell us, you know, Paul Sperry and others came out yesterday, this bunker.
00:22:36.680And they told the judge, we're going to destroy it as soon as we get it.
00:22:39.920This thing in Georgia is so out of control.
00:22:43.080I get literally texts and calls from people all over the world, not just the national audience of the war room, the international audience going, what is going on?
00:22:51.960You know, we go through the airport in Georgia.
00:22:53.960It's a renowned state where you get global television coverage of the Masters.
00:23:00.320But this thing is like a third world banana republic, sir.0.55
00:23:06.060Steve, I wish I had a great answer for you, but I don't.
00:23:09.220Basically, he has been violating the law ever since he first went on to the system, and he bought this $100 million system that violated two statutes right up until two weeks ago when he was actually doing his own election challenge, adjudicating his own election challenge, which also violates the law as well.
00:23:35.520So it is just really something that has continued, and I think the reason, Steve, is because
00:23:42.480there is a collusion between this Republican Secretary of State and the Democrats in Fulton
01:12:07.840Let's call the bond market the big dog.
01:12:10.100They don't see, not that it's not going to end, they don't see that there's an immediate
01:12:14.960ending to this conflict in the Middle East.
01:12:17.160And for that, they believe inflation is roaring, and that's why interest rates are now on the 30-year, almost 5.2, 5.18 now, and on the 10-year, almost 4.7, which is really, really tough numbers, especially for people who want to buy a house or have a credit card debt or almost anything.
01:12:37.540And what it does, too, it slows down capital spending for businesses.
01:12:42.160When that slows down, it just trickles down into employment and into spending.
01:12:48.020The bond market has turfed out more governments than howitzers.
01:12:52.500The direct issues with, as you warned us, with energy is now leading to people being reticent about, they'll lend to the U.S. government, but they want more money for that.
01:13:04.840They think there's more risk involved.
01:13:06.660The 30-year is directly tied to people's mortgages.
01:13:09.780And, of course, we had Pulte and these guys on.
01:13:11.360The president wants to make a big issue about affordability in housing, right, for young people.
01:13:16.640The 10-year is your credit card, your student loan, any home equity loan you have, your auto loan, all of it.
01:13:24.020That's now popping, heading towards 5%.
01:13:39.380And I love you, Steve Bannon, since 20-whatever, 20-0, 20-aught.
01:13:44.960You've been talking about America first.
01:13:46.540My issue is right here, we are listening to President Trump.
01:13:49.920After the 12-day war in June of last year, we obliterated their ability to deliver a nuke for the foreseeable future.
01:13:57.820Now we're talking we can't allow them to deliver a nuke for the foreseeable future.
01:14:02.940I just got to know which one it is because right now, I tell you, most markets are now not listening to what both sides are saying.
01:14:08.720They're just going what they see, and what they're seeing is higher pump prices, which will turn into higher food prices, which will turn into higher inflation, which basically handcuffs the Fed from doing anything, anything but raising.
01:14:21.780So it's either going to be a raise or stay still, and if they stay still, you'll likely get higher inflation.
01:14:26.700They're really, really putting the clamps on it.
01:14:28.620And to say, just wait till this war is over and gas will drop like a rock, no, oil may, but gas will stay elevated for 30, 45 days.
01:14:37.300I just think, you know, people yell at me, you're a whiner, Bowling.0.97