00:00:29.000I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience.
00:00:34.860Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose?
00:00:38.620If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved.
00:00:45.020War Room. Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon.
00:00:52.500Okay, it's Wednesday, 9th September, Year of the Lord, 2026.
00:00:55.800we're live at the uh at the convention post so head to bounce we've got alex degrasse and the
00:01:01.640vice-rory mike davis from article three projects going to stick with us for this hour uh it's a
00:01:06.640very busy day i'm gonna get the exact time we're gonna be streaming also over at the forum uh our
00:01:12.260own joe allen goes for a huge debate today about ai and um and data centers and all that uh against
00:01:21.460joe lonsdale one of the um one of the uh the supremacist about everything about surveillance
00:01:28.380and ai so joe will be doing that kind of off-site we'll make sure we get everybody on top of that
00:01:33.320um what i've got is i've got steve court says i want to talk a little bit about polling
00:01:38.100uh in this with the grass i also got mike davis here mike's gonna give us a breakdown structurally
00:01:43.680of how the government operates and why the house is so absolutely important and kind of a must hold
00:01:49.620but i think we're getting some pretty good news out of the uh out of the out of the senate uh let
00:01:54.580me bring in steve cortez we got a clip that steve cortez made but first off steve talk to us about
00:01:59.180what you're doing you're doing some polling that is a little different than what other people are
00:02:03.780doing you're going to places i mean people wouldn't think right out of the box that minnesota is a
00:02:08.840place you would put more money but you're the guys who's been telling us there's there's you know
00:02:13.120you're you're saying hey tom tiffany's competitive in wisconsin there's some green sprouts out there
00:02:18.500I think if you look at the MAGA movement, hey, you've got Shapiro's totally flipped on on data centers in in the Commonwealth.
00:02:27.600His back's up against the wall. But there's measles situation right in Michigan.
00:02:31.340You got Rogers. Looks like he's going to be competitive.
00:02:33.760You got Tom Tiffany governor, which the governorship for the 2028 election is very important to win in Wisconsin.
00:02:40.360And now you've got some polling on in Minnesota. You want to walk us through it?
00:02:44.540Yes, let's talk Big Ten country. Let's talk the Great Lakes states, Steve, because we are going to sweep the Great Lakes states. You're exactly correct. We are going to win in Michigan with Mike Rogers, in Wisconsin with Tom Tiffany, largely on data centers. That will be the determinative, I believe, issue in that race.
00:03:02.080And now also, Steve, the new one, I'm getting really excited about Minnesota, and it is worthy of our time, our money, our attention, because Michelle Tafoya, longtime sports broadcaster, most people know her from that life, from that career, she is essentially tied in this race.
00:03:18.220We have a dead heat right now in Minnesota, a place that Republicans haven't won for the presidency since 1972.
00:03:27.840We haven't won the presidency in Minnesota since 1972.
00:03:30.340We're going to win the Senate race. Michelle Tafoya is only down two right now, 44 to 42, to Peggy Flanagan, the current lieutenant governor, who is tied at the hip to a very unpopular governor, Walls, an absolute radical.
00:03:44.340Flanagan is even more radical than Walls is on key issues like transitioning kids, like abolishing ICE.
00:03:50.020She is a radical leftist loon. She's completely beatable.
00:03:53.800And on the Republican side and Michelle Tafoya, we have somebody with a brand, with name ID, with absolutely superb media skills, of course, given what she's done for decades on television.
00:04:03.860And she is a center right candidate who is well positioned to win this race.
00:04:07.800And my polling shows right now we are in an absolute horse race.
00:04:12.120It is tight. It's going to be a photo finish in Minnesota.
00:04:14.520okay this is why i wanted to start the second hour of the morning show from the convention
00:04:19.960with this uh update this breaking news from from uh cortez and here's the reason is that we're
00:04:27.040talking about the framing of this for the last 55 days what to foyer who's not obviously maga
00:04:34.040but she's center right and it's a vote in the her victory could keep could keep the senate
00:04:40.060uh or her win absolutely flanagan is shockingly radical you got to remember klobuchar i think
00:04:46.820is up 10 points because klobuchar's got a brand she's running against the speaker of the house
00:04:50.800that defeated the lindell mike lindell and and she you know she's kind of a typical rhino
00:04:55.840klobuchar's got huge name recognition closure is up eight or ten points i think that's a dead
00:05:01.100he's in the senate and here's why it's a dead heat the people of minnesota are very familiar
00:05:05.860with flanagan i mean she wears the hajib she is a absolute radical on transgender she's a radical
00:05:11.720on on uh mass deportations and even border control she's a radical when it comes to uh the islamist
00:05:18.000i mean the she knows this and that's why tofoya is able to frame it as a choice election is that
00:05:25.060not true steve cortez that's completely right and i'm glad you mentioned by the way the governor's
00:05:29.400race because to the point of the credibility of my poll i did not get a maga sample i actually
00:05:34.500have the governor's race. You're exactly correct. I have Klobuchar up 10. So I have the Republicans
00:05:39.440losing by 10 in the governor's race, but essentially tied in the Senate race. Also,
00:05:43.740Trump approval in this poll in Minnesota, minus 22. Okay, so I did not get a MAGA sample. This is
00:05:49.120not a skewed America first poll. Overall, it wasn't a great poll for Republicans. However,
00:05:55.200Tafoya stands out, both because of her strengths, but also, to your point, because of the absolute
00:06:00.120radicalism of her opponent, Flanagan. I mean, somebody who just does not fit that state,
00:06:05.400does not fit any state in the country. But, you know, she's not running in a deeply,
00:06:09.220deeply blue state. Minnesota is winnable. Yes, it leans left, but Trump came close there in 2024
00:06:15.200in his magnificent popular vote when he came close in Minnesota. And Tafoya, I believe,
00:06:19.580is going to do more than come close. I think she's going to win. And to that point about Islam,
00:06:24.300too, I also polled, and we can certainly go over these numbers in detail if you like, Steve,
00:06:26.940But I also polled on Muslim immigration, and I've gotten the same numbers now in all three of those Great Lakes states in Michigan, in Wisconsin, and now in Minnesota, of course, which has a giant Somali community, which has had systemic scamming of the people of Minnesota wholesale stealing by those Somalis from the good, hardy taxpayers of Minnesota.
00:06:45.060And guess what? In my poll, Minnesotans report they're sick of it. They've had enough of it. They've had enough of mass migration, period, but especially mass Muslim migration and then specifically the Somali issue.
00:06:55.780So this race, I think, is ripe for the taking. And by the way, that's an issue where outside groups like mine are going to be very effective because I don't expect Michelle Tafoya to go there.
00:07:04.220And frankly, she probably shouldn't go there. But for outside groups, we will absolutely go there and make the case that, hey, we don't need an open borders, pro-Muslim, hijab-wearing radical representing Minnesota in the United States Senate.
00:07:17.400And you have a very sensible, centrist, common sense candidate with fantastic media skills who loves your state and loves this country and will be a Republican and will vote on our side of the aisle in Michelle Tafoya.
00:07:29.620So it's somebody who I think we need to get behind. We need the war room posse to get behind.
00:07:33.460And again, my polling, not a skewed sample, my polling shows right now this race is tied.
00:07:38.500If we expose who Flanagan is into the next few weeks, we are going to win this race.
00:07:45.080i want to go back real quickly to just the overall you know michigan wisconsin and uh in minnesota
00:07:53.600um about the polling on the islamic invasion where are people in the midwest uh coming down
00:08:00.820coming down on this again yeah so let me give you some numbers so first of all ilhan omar of course
00:08:05.420the somali congresswoman who i believe should be denaturalized and sent home uh her approval in
00:08:09.960Minnesota, in her home state, is only 28%, 28% approval in her home state of Minnesota. So she's
00:08:17.300incredibly unpopular. By the way, I also asked, should state and local police in Minnesota
00:08:22.600cooperate with ICE? Speaking of deportations, that is a plus 15 margin that they say, yes,
00:08:28.260we should be cooperating with ICE. Among seniors in Minnesota, seniors who vote overwhelmingly,
00:08:33.040plus 29% margin on, yes, cooperate with ICE. But then specifically on immigration, I asked
00:08:39.640do European immigrants make Minnesota better? 64% of people said yes, European immigrants make
00:08:46.300Minnesota better. Do Somali immigrants make Minnesota better? Only 33%, effectively half as
00:08:52.780many, 33%, that's it, say that Somali immigrants make Minnesota better. Among women, even lower
00:08:58.200than that. Women in Minnesota, only 28%. 28% of women, and we often have problems getting women's
00:09:03.880votes, 28%, that's it, say that Somali immigrants make Minnesota better. I also asked about
00:09:08.660assimilation. I said, who assimilates well in Minnesota? Do Christians assimilate well? Yes,
00:09:14.66077 to 10 percent. 77 percent say Christians assimilate well in Minnesota. Do Muslims
00:09:21.880assimilate well? Only 39 percent. Only 39 percent say that they assimilate well. When I asked, by
00:09:28.240the way, among Gen X, my age group, OK, Gen X, the 9-11 generation, effectively, I think the people
00:09:33.420who probably most poignantly remember 9-11, only 31% say Muslims assimilate well. Among independent
00:09:39.640voters, this is key to show you this isn't just a MAGA issue. Among independent voters, only 29%
00:09:44.840say that Muslims assimilate well in Minnesota. So we have a majority position. The corporate
00:09:50.820media wants us to believe that we have some sort of outlying, you know, crazy position. They call
00:09:55.100us bigots. They call us xenophobes. The reality is we're trying to protect our culture, our country,
00:09:59.700our economy, our national security, our street safety. We know that we're not doing immigration
00:10:04.060correctly in this country, even the legal side of immigration. And we know that the mass migration
00:10:08.780of Muslims has been incredibly harmful to this country and particularly harmful to Minnesota.
00:10:13.620So again, this is something I think for those of us on the outside to point out in favor of a
00:10:18.960rational candidate who believes in orderly immigration, somebody who believes in supporting
00:10:23.800ICE, who believes in law enforcement, and that is Michelle Tafoya, somebody who is tied in this race.
00:10:28.900Steve, she's exactly the kind of candidate we need.
00:11:35.960So an incredibly unpopular governor who she's tied to, she's lieutenant governor of, she's even more radical than Walls, if you can believe that.
00:14:07.620He's got President Trump underwater 21 points.
00:14:09.980So this is not a MAGA gun deck push poll.
00:14:12.820Where do they go for the content, Steve?
00:14:14.380Yes, please go to my social media. I'm at Steve Cortez. New handle. I would change it to my name correctly at Steve Cortez. Cortez with an S at the end. The poll is there. It's also published at Daily Signal where I release all of my polling. Rob Bluey and the Daily Signal team do a fantastic job. So my article with all of the details on the Somali issue specifically at Daily Signal. Also go to cortesinvestigates.com. This poll is a big deal, folks. Get motivated. We're going to win Minnesota and it changes the whole map. It changes the whole dynamic for the Senate.
00:14:44.380absolutely and you see the framing's right okay uh degrasse and the vice rory mike davis going to
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00:16:20.580There's a method to our madness of how we're doing the show today
00:16:23.780to kind of, for the most sophisticated and most important audience
00:16:27.140and all the world of MAGA it's you because you're the grassroots leaders and and drive this um I
00:16:33.180want to go back to the grass Mike Davis also I'm gonna go to him in a second to grass this is very
00:16:38.080important as I talk to some of the sharpest minds out there they say the two things the two most
00:16:44.720important numbers right now is our urgency and engagement which we've been lacking we've
00:16:50.480definitely been lacking behind the Democrats behind the Mondami influenced Democrats because
00:16:55.960they're driving the energy and this is why you just said about members of congress you talk to
00:17:00.240that talk to the democrats the democrats say man i'm scared to death right as radical as those
00:17:04.660centrist democrats are they're saying these guys are crazier and i can't cross them if i cross them
00:17:09.020i'm toast that's because the energy they're bringing so number one is is is urgency and
00:17:14.340engagement number one the other and what we called an informed ballot if you look at informed ballots
00:17:20.580in polling where they understand who abdul is they understand who flanagan is they understand uh like
00:17:29.360the the mayor of milwaukee if you understand really where what these guys stand for talarico
00:17:33.840is a perfect example in texas if if the information is out there and people understand in the framing
00:17:39.480of who these people are and how they were governed you're seeing five and six point wins
00:17:45.600an uninformed ballot with their energy, right? You're seeing horse races that could go either
00:17:51.680way. Walk me through that. What are you seeing? Because I know you're talking to the pollsters
00:17:55.920and to the inside operatives every day. What are you seeing?
00:18:00.380Yeah, Steve. So, I mean, there's a ton of really tight races. I think they can go up,
00:18:04.000they can go down, and they'll continue to kind of fluctuate as we advance through into the voting
00:18:08.780period, which starts a matter of weeks as we discuss. But what you said is huge, Steve,
00:18:12.580Because ultimately, the issues and message have, quite frankly, never been more on our side, whether it be on the actual policies, on the actual comparison, but most importantly, on how insane these candidates are.
00:18:26.280And when voters understand and learn what's going on, we win.
00:18:30.280And so it's really – that's why it's just a matter of turnout.
00:18:33.340If our people turn out, that's the key, right?
00:19:12.080you do agree is once that we educate we only got it's not 55 days that's that's game day there's
00:19:18.340going to be voting before then to the degree that we can get the message out about what these people
00:19:23.560are not make up stuff but just show exactly who they are what they stand for not what they're
00:19:29.220saying in a heated political race because they're all trying to be moderates and centrist but what
00:19:33.660they really are and how they will govern your conclusion is the same as ours if we do that
00:19:39.920with the grassroots engaged right particularly with lower information voters we can we can pull
00:19:47.740this out correct 100 not just the house but the senate obviously as well i mean i just was reading
00:19:54.800an article and during the commercial break i think it was politico but the democrats are panicking
00:19:59.380about their money problem and they're going out to the big donors and they're saying hey it's maybe
00:20:03.900a wave it's definitely a knife by district by district to me they're hedging i mean they're
00:20:08.880trying to sell this wave because they want to raise money from the big donors who are trying
00:20:12.760to compete with us. And so maybe that will work, maybe it won't. But the reality is they're
00:20:16.880admitting it's a knife fight right now, district by district in the House, on ground, on fertile
00:20:22.020political ground with a majority of these really competitive seats that President Trump's already
00:20:25.860won one time. That's huge. Okay, so we've done it once with the president, and we need to do it
00:20:31.180again. And some of these seats are battle tested. I mean, we've been focused on this for two years.
00:20:36.520So I feel great in terms of the mechanics of what needs to happen on the top level. I know that the President Trump's team is going to spend a ton of money. I feel great about that. I've had conversations. I feel very positive. It's going to come down to the grassroots who delivered us in 2024 and make sure that we can even double our efforts.
00:20:54.740We did that because ultimately, when people learn about this radical Islamic takeover of the Democrat Party, that is what it is.
00:21:20.820And I think when voters and even independents and soft Democrats, not just us and some of the hardcores, when people are aware of this, it's just too much.
00:25:07.960How are we doing in that Senate race and how are we doing in the, I guess, governor's race and also a couple of House races out there that the Democrats are saying, hey, we got this.
00:25:21.380Well, remember before President Trump came along, Iowa was a swing state for many, many years.
00:25:29.360Actually, Democrats won Iowa for 20 years for the presidential race, right?
00:25:34.440And so it was really President Trump who got the white working class voters in Iowa to become Republicans.
00:25:44.120And these voters right now need to we need to motivate that base of voters, this white working class voters to turn out and vote in these elections.
00:25:55.220When President Trump is not on the ballot, it's harder to turn out these voters.
00:26:00.540But I would remind my fellow Iowans again, do you want Team America or do you want Team Mohammed, right?
00:26:07.940Because the Democrat Party has been hijacked by Islamists like Mandami, like Issaid in Michigan.
00:26:16.540This is not our parents' or grandparents' Democrat Party.
00:26:19.560These are not liberals who love America.
00:27:13.740Philip Patrick is actually going to be with us from Birch Gold.
00:27:16.440We're going to talk about a lot of the president's policies, what's happening with the petrodollar in the Middle East, what Scott Besson's up to.
00:31:23.180It's no cost, no obligation, and we are maniacally focused on making sure that we know everything about every plan.
00:31:30.340Kobe, Kobe, Kobe, Kobe, give me a minute on why Humana, which is one of the largest in the country, why did they put, they got 600,000, you know, customers.
00:34:27.400The war and posse, and, of course, Davis can tell you, they ain't happy about Save America.
00:34:31.220One of the reasons there's a little lack of enthusiasm with these Senate candidates is they ain't happy with how Thune shut down President Trump and made him a lame duck.
00:34:39.700that being said we've got a technical problem we got to hold it right or we're going to have a
00:34:44.540nightmare and i understand people are upset but since the war and posse is at the tip of the
00:34:49.420spear and i'm going to uh be addressing the storm conference out in vegas which is the coalition
00:34:54.540which the hardest core of the hardcore on the steel and voter integrity and they just fired
00:34:59.880maria bartiroma for covering the president's historic address from the east room back in
00:35:05.500july this shows you how much fox is in on this talk to me about secretaries of state that we
00:35:10.580didn't even think about them you know years ago but george soros did and the left did talk to us
00:35:15.660about secretary of state races sir so there's quite a few of them steven it's super important
00:35:21.500because obviously there's so much focus on the senate so much focus on the house and that
00:35:25.100is hugely important of course but when you get to the brass tacks of these elect securing our
00:35:30.020elections there's some really competitive i think um the was maybe cook or larry sabato someone just
00:35:36.140came out today with the rankings for secretary of states there's a huge toss-up and the war room
00:35:41.300posse in indiana is strong okay davis and i have been out there i've been out there a few times we
00:35:46.100have the show out there steve and you've got a toss-up in indiana because there's this weird
00:35:50.200four-way race one with a former republican running who hates trump hates maga and he's trying to
00:35:55.300create a new political party to destroy the Republican Party in Indiana and force ballot
00:36:00.120access for the Lincoln Party. You've got a libertarian, and then you've got the former
00:36:04.180Democrat senator's son, Evan Bayh's son. You've got Beau, and this guy's got like $3 million,
00:36:09.760and Democrats are juicing this thing. And then some of these red states, people think it's very
00:36:14.060conservative, and of course it is, but in a four-way with millions of dollars and everything
00:36:18.360going on, everything is tough. So that's a very important race. We've got to get people involved
00:36:23.960than the indiana secretary of state race indiana has very secure elections they've they've caught
00:36:28.600some illegal immigrants that have voted they've got there's probably more there that needs to be
00:36:32.980sorted out and so this is huge because while we can't if we can't get the save america act which
00:36:37.720we need of course if you can go state by state and really clean this up and audit all the roles i
00:36:42.920mean if you look at what's going on in new york steve and i know you've had them on the show i
00:36:47.000mean it's just insane what's going on in some of these blue states but if we can really keep it
00:36:51.140together in the red states and hold the line that's huge because if you get a democrat in there
00:36:55.400it's cooked no guys i i this is why uh with the lease i was always telling the lease hey you're
00:37:03.600a powerhouse but it's so corrupt in new york they're just going to generate new york city and
00:37:08.080even out in the some of the district in long island the machine they're so powerful and albany
00:37:13.240so radical they're just going to print they're just going to print as many mail-in ballots as
00:37:17.080you need to defeat you this is why i think it's so difficult for a democrat to win in new york
00:37:23.000city new york state or new york city is that they control the apparatus and they're leninists
00:37:28.620they're stalinists they what does stalin say i don't care who votes i care about who controls
00:37:33.860the vote well they're putting it into practice that's why these any other secretary of state
00:37:37.680races we should focus on because this is red meat for the war and posse
00:37:41.300yeah we we got a hold in the end you got to hold these red states because so much is on the line
00:37:48.260if that crumbles so that's a really important race we need the pasta to get involved because
00:37:53.120we have to switch out the candidate we had an issue with the incumbent we had to put a new
00:37:56.580person in who's 100 percent maga and now it's like i'm going to be like a 10 million dollar
00:38:00.780race possibly so we got to lock in on that people know people tell you in arizona how tough is once
00:38:07.520you get one of these radicals the secretary of state or attorney general these attorney general
00:38:11.100and and source was smart enough to focus on this years ago mike hopefully i can get you back tomorrow
00:38:16.840i want to talk about the importance of the house and and the impeachment mechanism but i gotta go
00:38:21.620to what kind of brought you to my attention years and years ago you were you and rachel bovard were
00:38:27.420really two heroes in my my regard because you were the first two voices that started saying hey guys
00:38:33.160i think we got a big tech oligarch problem and i know the republican party you know loves a tax
00:38:39.740sector but these guys are radical progressives and they're going to shut everything down and
00:38:44.760they're going to poison your children at the time people thought who's this mike davis guy this guy's
00:38:49.020a nutcase rachel volvard who is this is a harpy turns out you guys were 1000 right there's just
00:38:55.020been and one of the biggest stories of the day and this is why joe allen is debating one of the
00:39:00.060biggest acceleration is this guy a lonsdale uh today at the forum and we're going to cover it
00:39:05.680live grace and mo will be over there but there's been explosive news just in the last 72 hours
00:39:12.000about anthropic in addition i can tell you going around and talking to people and having conference
00:39:17.260calls every day this data center thing we got to get on the right side of this issue because this
00:39:22.260is going to determine a couple of i think house races particularly in states like florida and
00:39:27.120maybe Texas. Mike Davis, your thoughts on the oligarchs and big tech? Yeah, this open AI
00:39:35.180whistleblower came forward and he exposed them and he said, look, I've been with Anthropic on
00:39:42.440open AI for years and we are building these AI machines. He actually said these words that
00:39:48.440these machines are going to kill humans, right? We're going to be taken over by the machines.
00:39:55.140They're just going to become too smart and too powerful and get out of control.
00:40:00.260It's going to be hard to put that genie back in the bottle with AI.
00:40:04.620And that's why at the Article 3 Project, the Internet Accountability Project, which is our sister group to take on big tech, that we want to hold these big tech platforms accountable.
00:40:15.540Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple, they have gatekeeping power.
00:40:20.180They use that power to crush conservatives, to harm children, to censor Americans, to rip off creators, to destroy communities.
00:48:36.080And, you know, the posse is just crazy how strong it is out there all over the place.
00:48:39.860You see him at the airport and all over the place.
00:48:42.460People are excited watching the show, especially looking back at our great midterm victory in 2022, Steve, which were up against Roe v. Wade.
00:48:48.860We were up against massive Democrats spending all this misinformation from January 6th.
00:48:53.020I mean, let's just rewind back and rethink about that.
00:48:55.180I mean, it was challenging despite history sort of, you know, in the midterm type of thing, you know.
00:49:04.120I mean, this convention is important, people to unify, get focused on the job at hand, which is turning out the vote.
00:49:09.640Nothing else matters between now and Election Day other than getting out your people, getting out our friends and family, calling your list, educating people on what's going on, donating grassroots directly to candidates if you can't afford to.
00:49:21.640And that's really what's going to make the difference.
00:49:23.700So, you know, I've got candidates blowing me up right now.
00:49:26.460I'm kind of stressed as we've been hammering on the show, but I'm telling people we're here plugging.