00:02:05.240How is there a guy who's involved in official politics in Greece, establishment politics in Greece, a former prime minister, wants to be prime minister again?
00:02:17.160How can he be aligned with somebody like that?
00:02:18.780Yeah, not only aligned, but this was at an event where he was rolling out the formation of a new political party.
00:02:25.780It's what they call ELAS over there, and it's all connected up with the radical left and all sorts of different violent movements and whatnot.
00:02:32.760So it's kind of like the DSA of Greece.
00:02:35.160And by the way, what it is is it's a sign that—and by the way, the quote that you read out, that was in Greek that she said that, so we had to translate it.
00:02:43.360But the fact is, is that it just goes to show you that we're dealing with similar, the exact things that we're talking about, these major issues and these clashes between the radical left and the normal right, right?
00:02:56.420Like, I don't know if that's a new term I just came up with, the normal right.
00:03:27.760Now, in some places, conservatives are actually winning.
00:03:30.640In places like Greece, they have a center-right government right now.
00:03:33.560I've interviewed the prime minister a couple of different times. He's been very supportive of what President Trump is trying to do. Unlike even the Italians, who have also a center-right conservative government, they let us use our military bases in Greece. Amazing concept, right? Like, we're paying for these bases, and we had no problem using them in Greece. But in Italy, the prime minister wouldn't let us use them. And that's the divide that you see.
00:04:35.520Gaeta, which is right. Like, honestly, Hania in Crete, I mean, just amazing.
00:04:39.720I've been there a couple of different times. I'm I'm actually going back to Greece next week and probably going to end up going back to Crete again while I'm there.
00:04:48.340I'm working on some big stories about some Orthodox priests, and there's a really famous Orthodox priest over there in the Greek community who's a really, really amazing guy.
00:05:02.060Greeks will know who I'm talking about when I say that.
00:05:04.580When I say Father Dimitri, I don't think beyond the Greek community they fully know him.
00:05:08.120Is he the one that was—he's on Mount Athos?
00:05:12.240He was at Mount Esidore in Athens for a while.
00:05:17.560And so what he was doing, and now the church establishments kind of turned on him because what he was doing was he was blessing people with this holy cross.
00:05:25.240And these were people who were, you know, suffering major, major problems, right?
00:05:30.280Like people with multiple sclerosis, cancer, brain aneurysms, things like that.
00:05:34.800And there are a number of different people who have experienced miracles afterwards.
00:05:38.460And they, so I've been interviewing many of these people.
00:05:41.860So I'm working on a huge story on it for Breitbart.
00:05:43.860It's going to come out hopefully later.
00:05:45.260More of like a like a Christian story. It's not even really political. It's not political now. And so it's really exciting stuff. So but the point is, is that the same getting back to the story that you broke on.
00:05:56.080Well, and here's my question. Here's my big question on all of this. Does this represent a turn? Because we know the communists have have made pushes in Greece and in Italy in many of these places for, you know, in the past number of times. It has always been horrifically disastrous.
00:06:13.120Of course, we see what's going on in Spain right now where they're just letting hundreds of thousands of migrants in. Pedro Sanchez, as far as I can tell, is just a full on communist and is completely betraying his country. Are we seeing a hard left turn in Greece?0.97
00:06:26.280I don't think so. So I think that if you look at the first off, we're going to see another election next year. Prime Minister Mitsotakis is running for a third term. I think that he's leading in the polls. So I fully expect that he's probably going to end up winning here.
00:06:43.160And a big part of that is going to be because I think people reject the radical left in places like this.
00:06:49.300And culturally, again, what we're seeing is the same issues that we face here from migration to trade to national defense and national security, the threats of radical Islam, the rise of the radical left are the same things they're facing there.
00:07:07.740And I think that people in Greece in particular, after having lived through hundreds of years of Ottoman occupation during the Ottoman Empire, their Turkish occupation, and also very recently having had the financial crisis in 2010, they recognize the threat of what happens when you let leftists into control.
00:07:29.760And that's why I think that, you know, continuing to expose this stuff, I think your story is, if you feel, I've heard from people in Greece, it's totally blown up across Greece since they did that.
00:07:40.560Well, and it kind of ties with sort of what we were saying about the DSA here in the United States, where Spain, or excuse me, I keep saying Spain, Greece sort of had their, they had their financial crisis.
00:07:51.020people said oh my gosh this is so terrible they turned the left back in 2010 and it just it I
00:07:58.180mean you saw Greece almost was kicked out of the EU because of how horrific the debt became about
00:08:05.020the spending that was the left and that was the left that's what I'm saying the left completely
00:08:09.080ruined the economy of Greece and then finally people said this is so crazy we have to go back
00:08:15.260to a center-right government that's where they're at now so that's why I'm saying that you know
00:08:20.880it's number one we in america can't go down that path and because this is how it always turns out
00:08:25.900and number two though the people of greece you would hope that because this is fairly recent
00:08:30.180history that they'd be you know smart enough to not fall for it i think that's i think that they
00:08:34.520aren't going to fall for it i think they're very smart people and i've gotten to know many people
00:08:38.060over there in my travels there uh and around the world and the one thing i would say too getting
00:08:42.120back to we're all we're all talking about the uh the the greeks right now because of the odyssey
00:09:34.060But look, beyond the whole Odyssey question, the one thing, the last point I would make here is that there are great young people all around the world.
00:09:42.520In Greece, in Italy, I've been to Serbia as well, all around the world.
00:09:48.720I've been to Scotland in the last year where I interviewed President Trump.
00:09:51.180I've met so many great young conservative people that were inspired by people like Charlie Kirk.
00:09:56.420And I think that the future of the West is very strong.
00:13:24.140So Republicans may pick up another, you know,
00:13:26.580five to 10, maybe even 15 seats in 2028.
00:13:29.720Right. So whatever majority Democrats were to build in the 2026 elections, if they were to get one, which is still kind of TBD.
00:13:41.040Again, it kind of gets back to what I was talking about in the previous segment there about where the country is and where the generic ballot is and so on and so forth.
00:13:48.440But even if let's say Democrats got a five to 10 C majority, I think it's a very short lived. Right.
00:13:54.260So the power that they that they get, I mean, they're they're in trouble in 2028. Then in 2030 and obviously in 2028, we have a presidential election. Right. Like and I think it's pretty clear that we're going to see the vice president.
00:14:09.140J.D. Vance will probably be the the the Republican nominee. I can't really see anybody running against him.
00:14:16.700And then who Democrats nominate will really determine how that goes and so on and so forth.
00:14:22.160But I do think that the vice president is very likely to become the next president of the United States.
00:14:26.780And then in 2030, we're going to see the census, the census.
00:14:32.460Then, you know, what they do is they count up all the Americans in America and they then and they figure out how many are in each state.
00:14:40.820And then by the populations of each state, they do what's called the reapportionment, where they then assign a certain number of congressional districts to states based off their population.
00:14:52.000It's probably an oversimplification here.
00:14:54.560But one of the things that I think we can expect is, is because the 2020 census didn't fully pick up all the internal migration that we saw because of COVID.
00:15:03.080It's amazing because we just saw Fauci testifying on Capitol Hill this week.
00:16:20.300It could be enough theoretically here. And I think that, you know, we'll see how it plays out in the 2030 census that a Republican could win the White House from 2032 onwards without the Rust Belt. Right. Like so without the Pennsylvania, Michigan or Wisconsin.0.57
00:16:37.840So what's interesting about that is the math could add up that way.
00:16:41.980It's it's not that you're winning it without the Rust Belt.
00:16:45.220It's that the Rust Belt voters have moved to the Sun Belt.
00:16:48.500So in a set. So what's what's what I want to be be explained to something, by the way, to to Republicans who might miss misread what's going on here, that that doesn't change the fact that this is going to be these are going to be white working class voters that are that are in different states.
00:17:05.520because it's going to change the nature of the Sun Belt when they bring that more Rust Belt politics mentality to the Sun Belt.
00:17:12.900Yeah. And not only that, but also you might be able to again, if you should still be competing in places like Pennsylvania.
00:17:19.880It's going to be very grassroots. Right. Yeah. But if you if you're a Republican candidate and you win a Pennsylvania, Michigan or Wisconsin in that mathematical setup,
00:17:28.280I mean, it's lights out for the Democrats like they have no pathway without those.
00:17:32.700Like they're going to absolutely need all of those. And then Democrats are going to it's going to make a Democrat winning the White House harder.
00:17:39.180It's going to make it easier for a Republican to win the White House if it all shakes out the kind of the way.
00:17:44.220Well, and a lot of that, a lot of that was COVID. Right. A lot of that was the Rust Belt states, Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania were extremely draconian during COVID.
00:17:52.560They all had Democrat leadership during that time. Ohio also had Democrats seeming leadership, I should say, in terms of the wine, because they had rhino leadership.
00:18:04.440So it's basically the same thing. That's what I'm getting at. And so that's that led to a lot of this migration, this northern migration south.
00:18:13.120But but the census just hasn't really caught up yet. Right. It hasn't caught up yet.
00:18:16.480Because, I mean, they did the census in 2020, but it was right.
00:18:19.440But the fact is, a lot of these people maybe didn't move to late 2020 or early 2021 or
00:18:34.060And I again, I just don't think it's caught up yet.
00:18:36.620And so when the 2030 census is done, you're going to see it's going to be a lot harder
00:18:41.380for Democrats to win a majority in the House of Representatives.
00:18:44.040And it's going to be a lot harder for Democrats to win the White House come around for 2032.
00:18:49.560So, again, that's what makes the 26, 28 and 30 elections so important, I think, is because if Republicans can hold it together for a little bit longer here, then it's going to be lights out for the Democrats.
00:19:06.120Look, the long money in this country is on the American right.
00:19:11.200The left is getting more and more desperate. And I think that's part of why you're seeing the stuff we were talking about there with Evita earlier in the show of the rise of the radical left.
00:19:22.960They're getting more desperate because they see exactly what I just laid out for you, too.
00:19:27.880They know what's coming. They know the math. They know the numbers. They know that all of this stuff.
00:19:33.440And so and they know that the right is is on track to win long term as well.
00:19:39.980So I think that the left is getting more and more desperate and more and more radical in the candidate selection that they have.
00:19:48.580What they're doing is a movement and they're showing their true face.
00:19:51.500The mask is slipping. Right. So we're so unfortunately, you know, you look at some of the like I think about Pennsylvania and I think about Fetterman, you know, and there there are possibilities that you get like a DSA type.
00:20:05.220I could see a DSA type being elected in Pennsylvania.
00:20:07.000Oh, absolutely. And by the way, if I were Senator Fetterman and I wanted to run for re-election, look, I like Senator Fetterman a lot, right? It got leaked somewhere when I had dinner with him not that long ago. He's a great guy.
00:20:20.000So I've said and I've I've I've and for the record, I've never spoken to them public or private.
00:20:25.560I'd like to see the votes match the rhetoric a little bit more, though.
00:20:29.920I would, too. But I also think if I were him and I wanted to win.
00:20:35.140Look, he I talked to him about this when I met with him.
00:20:38.420I told him not to switch parties, honestly. So really at the time.
00:20:42.620But now, even now, now I would say this was a year ago.
00:20:46.780OK, so now it was a year ago and all these. Now, I would say if I were Senator Fetterman and he wants to win reelection as a senator, he has to switch parties and join the Republican Party.
00:20:56.180And then because otherwise he's he's in for a really rough time in the primary.
00:21:01.200And I'm just going to say that if he wants to come in, we've we've got to see the votes match the rhetoric or else.
00:21:07.080Why? Oh, yeah. Republicans get behind a guy who's just been a Democrat his entire time.
00:21:10.420Right. No, that's that's. And by the way, our inspector tried this to the other way.
00:21:13.760Yeah. Yeah. The history of party switching in Pennsylvania Senate seats. Right back.
00:21:43.760All right, folks, Jack Posobiec. We're back. Human Events. Before we get started, I want to thank Allegiance Gold for doing everything they do to make our coverage possible.
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00:22:25.360If you want to learn more, visit protectwithposo.com. That's protectwithposo.com. Check them out, 844-577-POSO to learn more, protectwithposo.com. Evita Duffy, you're on with our political panel. And Evita, I, well, the clock, the unforgiving clock cut you off. Please continue your point.
00:22:42.360Well, I just want to say, Jack, you know, we have a real serious threat facing our country with these democratic socialists. I mean, these are radical individuals. I mean, yes, they want to abolish the police. They want to abolish private property. But it's really important that we have fighters on the other side who understand how far this goes.
00:23:00.300My family suffered through the Spanish Civil War and fought communists then.
00:23:05.000My husband, who's running for Congress in Wisconsin's 7th District, his family fled communist Cuba.
00:23:10.040We both have an intimate understanding of the violence, the chaos, the destruction, the misery that socialism, which really what they're saying is it's communism, what that leads to.
00:23:24.340We need people who understand the stakes to fight back at this.
00:23:30.300This is not a game. This is not politics. This is not 1990 Bill Clinton politics.
00:23:34.820We are dealing with radicals, with insane people who do literally want to see you dead.
00:23:39.040Even the people that applauded when Charlie Kirk was murdered in public.
00:23:42.900So we've just seen Zora Mandami's government post their list of the enemies, the enemies of the state in New York.0.55
00:23:56.240Tell me, what happens after they the communists post the list of the wealthy landowners and the addresses?
00:24:04.580What what typically happens in a communist system right after they do that?
00:24:08.880Jack, the list is is it's a hit list. That's what this is.
00:24:11.820It's not this is this. There's no games here. This is not politics.
00:24:15.100This is a list to murder people. I mean, literally, Jack, during the Spanish Civil War, you know that my family, they were prolific Catholic, but conservative writers.
00:24:57.380100 percent. Matt Boyle, so, you know, this is why one of the things that that that's so important about this, this 2026 election, it's actually about setting the stakes for 28, for 30 and 32, isn't it?
00:25:11.440Yeah, no doubt about that. And by the way, I think Avita has made several great points here about how you need to have, look, the other side is serious. They are unleashing, you know, forces in their base and so on and so forth that are, I mean, they're dead serious about what the things that they want to do.
00:25:31.580When they say they want to do all these crazy radical things, I think you should believe them.
00:25:35.460But what we need is on the on the right in this country, Trump like candidates.
00:25:42.340There's the idea that you can just return to the old way of doing things.
00:25:46.780The Mitt Romney, John McCain party, the Paul Ryan party.
00:25:52.200Like, I mean, you need real fighters that are going to go in there and take these people to task and go win the and unleash the base.
00:26:00.300Because I still think that the right is stronger in America for a variety of reasons.
00:26:05.480I think that the values that that exist out there on the right are are much more attractive.
00:26:15.320And but again, you need people that are going to go very clearly make that case.
00:26:21.580We've seen the Republican Party shifting and it's been a good thing over the course of the last 10 to 15 years in the lead up to Trump winning in 2016.
00:26:30.300during his first term during the time in between and now during his second term where we've seen
00:26:35.660great senators getting elected great members of Congress but the the concern is is that in the
00:26:42.560you know the wake of a of Trump down the road later that there might be a reversion to the mean
00:26:49.800if you will where Republicans go back to just you know losing gracefully and allowing the
00:26:54.920radical left to continue to chip away at our freedoms, rights and American way of life,
00:27:00.480which is, again, they're abundantly clear every day about what they want to do.
00:27:06.300So I think when they say they want to do all these crazy radical things, we should believe
00:27:10.300them and then we should go out there and fight and counter them.
00:27:14.140And so what we need to see are good candidates that are stepping up, people that have the
00:27:18.660resources and the wherewithal and the ability to do that.
00:27:22.340We've seen a lot of great candidates emerge in recent elections, but you got to keep that going.
00:27:29.660Well, I'd be I'd be remiss if I and I know we showed the website, but I'd be remiss if we're talking about the great candidates that are emerging in the election.
00:27:37.580Do you do you happen to know any? Could you could you think of one off the top of your head?
00:27:40.780Maybe. Listen, my husband, Michael, he understands the stakes.
00:27:43.840He's running in Wisconsin, 7th Congressional District.
00:27:45.960He's a fighter. And let me tell you all, let's tell you something else.
00:27:48.340He's also the hardest working person in this race.
00:27:51.120I mean, I mean, he is we are everywhere. I'm in the car right now because we're on the campaign trail.
00:27:56.400We don't get a break. We bring our baby with us. That's the kind of energy that we need in Congress.
00:28:00.720This this the stakes are too high. We're fighting for the soul of our country.
00:28:03.860We don't have time for lazy candidates. We don't have time for lazy.
00:28:07.900And the other thing I'm going to say, this is this is happening with young people.
00:28:11.520The the the cancer of democratic socialism, which, again, is really communism.
00:28:15.580It is growing out of our universities, of even our elementary schools with social, emotional learning.
00:28:20.800You need young fighters who understand where this is coming from and can message to young people.
00:32:10.040But it's all right. She'll she'll she'll make it look great. So, Evita, let's start with you, you know, because you're there in Wisconsin.
00:32:16.420You're on the ground. And I understand that you have some you have some interesting thoughts about this.
00:32:21.900So it looks to me like Francesca Hong is in the poll position going into the race for governor in Wisconsin.
00:32:30.480And a lot of people have told us that, oh, you know, and we've got this other guy, Abdul El-Sayed, right across the way there in Michigan, across the lake for you.
00:32:41.600And, you know, people are saying, oh, well, you know, these far left candidates are going to win.
00:32:46.440And that's actually good and helpful for the general election.
00:32:51.880Do you think that they're too far out of the lockstep of the Rust Belt to win?
00:32:55.400Jack, I was at AmericaFest last year, and I was talking to some young TP Action guys who were on the ground.
00:33:04.340I said, do you guys think Francesca Hong, who is this radical Democratic socialist, could she actually win the primary for the governor in Wisconsin?
00:33:12.000And they were like, no, there's no way. She's too crazy. The Democrats aren't going to put her up. She can't win.0.96
00:33:17.380And we are now in a position, Jack, in Wisconsin where she is very likely to win.
00:33:22.400She's the most likely to win per the polling. And not only is she most likely to win among the Democrats, but she's crushing it with young people, Jack. Under 44 and the Democratic primary polling shows they're going 74 percent for Francesca Hong. I mean, this is like overwhelming.
00:33:39.720Wait, I just want to be clear. Are you talking primary or general?
00:33:46.600Let's say she wins the primary. All right. So let's say she let's just let's stipulate that. Let's stipulate that she wins.0.99
00:33:53.060Do you think that translates into the general?
00:33:57.300I think, Jack, that there is a very good chance it does.
00:34:00.520And here's why. Because even though I don't agree with Francesca Hong at all, and I think that she's radical and she's crazy and the policies that she has are going to lead to equitable suffering for everybody, she's talking about the things that people care about, right? She's talking about affordability. She's talking about making life easier for regular Wisconsinites. She's talking about populism, economic populism, left-wing populism, which is very dangerous, but she's talking about populism.
00:34:25.160And on the right, I think we have to respond the exact same way with right wing populism, with unleashing American energy independence, getting up deportation numbers to bring up the value to getting up deportation numbers to bring up the value of labor in this country, doing things that help working class families.
00:34:43.360If we don't do that, what Francesca Hong and Momdani and all of these democratic socialists are offering is actually very appealing.
00:34:50.220And so so that's the offer of socialism, which, of course, never pans out. But to your point, it become very popular. I want to get Matt Boyle. And so so Boyle, you're seeing this as well. You've got Abdul Syed. You've got Francesca Hong. We've seen Mondami. And I think what Evita is saying is it tracks. Right. It's there are these popular. Hey, we're going to give everybody free stuff if you vote for us type of policies.
00:35:14.480And the danger is, of course, that if people see the high gas prices, and we're talking, by the way, Wisconsin, Michigan, that doesn't get more rust belt than that.
00:35:22.500Then what danger does that pose for Republicans in the general?
00:35:27.200Well, let's start from the from the point that these people are all fraudulent. Right. Like they're liars.
00:35:32.700Oh, yeah. Trust socialists are liars. And you're not going to they're not going to. I mean, they're scamming people.1.00
00:35:38.800You win elections. You would be hard pressed to find a show that's more anti-communist.
00:35:42.940Right. Right. But like for sure. But just that being said, I think that the energy that is there right now on the radical left, on the rise of the socialist candidates around the country.
00:35:52.920If I were the Republicans, I would much rather face establishment Democrats than socialist Democrats in a lot of these different races, because I think that the energy for the base.
00:36:03.500Look, I'm a base guy. Right. Like I care about where the bases of the parties are. Right.
00:36:07.700Like so, you know, it reminds me a lot of 2016 where you had Trump was the base candidate of the Republican Party and Bernie Sanders was the base candidate of the Democrat Party.
00:36:16.840Hillary was the establishment candidate base candidates energize their base.
00:36:22.980And that's where the Democrat base is right now.
00:36:25.300I think I saw a recent polling that showed something like 35 percent of the Democrats now identify as Democrat socialists.
00:36:34.300socialists and uh the energy is with those people and this is why in their party and if they can
00:36:40.400translate that into general election energy then they're gonna win elections now well and but just
00:36:46.380on that point this is why my senator john fetterman is it started quietly and now it's pretty loudly
00:36:52.400making these comments about you know making noise like he might want to drop the d next to his name
00:36:58.280because you know he'll face a primary challenge in 28 yeah no absolutely no doubt and by the way
00:37:02.920He's actually somebody who's really fascinating to me.
00:37:05.360Like Fetterman, I think, you know, would he's somebody who was with the kind of the left base when he won his election and has since drifted far away from that because the issue of Israel.0.83
00:37:17.120Yeah, it's because of that. And and also a lot of the other.
00:37:20.180By the way, it's going to be a problem for Shapiro, too, if you're in to run for something else in 28.
00:37:24.820But but before I go back to Evita, finish your point earlier, you were saying what so what does this mean for the general for the general?
00:37:34.860I think that the more socialist candidates they have, the more energy they have going into the general election.
00:37:40.460They want to unleash their base's energy.
00:37:42.860The generic ballot polling shows it anywhere from a two to a five or six point race between Republicans and Democrats for Republicans to hold their majorities in the House and the Senate.
00:37:53.520They would probably need it around two, maybe three Democrat point.
00:37:58.600What I'm talking about is the lead Democrats have on the generic ballot nationally.
00:38:04.480So if it's a D plus two or D plus three electorate, Republicans could probably hold their majorities.
00:38:10.820If it's four or more, then Democrats are probably going to take the majority in the House and maybe the Senate.
00:38:18.220So the Democrats' best chances, I think, and I think their base is very smart in doing this.0.52
00:38:25.440Bernie Sanders is sending staffers into Michigan right now to help El Saeed.
00:38:33.900They're very smart to try to unleash that energy on their side because if it's a three or a four point, you know, general election, national generic ballot,
00:38:43.740uh that you know having a lot more energy in some of these key races is going to help them take more
00:38:49.780seats and let me let me let me go back to evita duffy now so evita you're there you're on the
00:38:53.660ground in wisconsin are you seeing that as well we got this breaking news that you know bernie
00:38:58.240sanders these dsa types they're now shifting um infrastructure they're shifting staff and
00:39:03.860resources into michigan are you seeing things like that in wisconsin as well well certainly
00:39:09.520So Francesca Hong has appeared on on on shows with with Mom Donnie. He's signaled that he supports her. I don't know if Bernie Sanders has come into the state of Wisconsin yet, but he would I think he'd be dumb not to because this woman's going to win.
00:39:23.000I mean, she's she's I mean, she's extremely radical. This is somebody who said she wants to abolish the police. You know, she's she had crazy ideas about covid. She does not like America. She does not like our founding principles. And that's really what the DSA stands for. And she's she's going to be a champion for them.1.00
00:39:39.360So I there's there's a problem right now on the Republican side, I think, and that we are gravitating toward the more establishment candidates. Right. Like, I think in the in the age of post Trump, I think a lot of people are thinking that way. Right. Because he's going to be out of office eventually that that the John McCain, the party of John McCain, the party of like maybe Mitt Romney, that they're going to come back and take control.
00:40:02.100This is happening in Wisconsin, but this is happening in states across the country.
00:40:06.000And the problem that I see, Jack, is that the party of of of pre-Trump is going to fail against a Mom Donnie, against a Francesca Hong, against a Bernie Sanders.
00:40:16.520The American people are not there. Right.
00:40:18.540Wait, are you are are you talking about like the party of Paul Ryan who lost his own home state of Wisconsin?
00:40:23.760Yes. We need to have, I think, a clear eyes about where the American people are and what they want. And it's not the same old. It's not going 20 years into the past. It is MAGA populism. And that's what's going to, I think, win voters over.
00:40:41.900And we're coming up on a quick break, but just hold that thought.
00:40:45.920And by the way, Matt, well, correct me if I'm wrong.
00:40:48.260Romney was the governor of Massachusetts, but what was his actual home state again?
00:41:57.420This summer, Democratic socialist candidates have been gaining attention by winning Democratic primary races across the country.
00:42:03.960Despite President Trump pressuring the federal lower interest rates, investors continue to predict the Federal Reserve will keep rates steady.
00:42:09.960that's because inflation remains persistently high. It's impacted by oil and gas prices from
00:42:15.840the ongoing war in Iran. So would you like to abolish the Senate?
00:42:20.140That's that's part of our platform. And we don't think that's extreme. We think it's it's a change
00:42:25.780that would help make this country more democratic. The government is going to have to borrow 8.3
00:42:30.400trillion with a T dollars this year. And that is obviously a huge amount of money relative to
00:42:36.240anything it's borrowed in the past. Overnight, President Trump ordering new airstrikes on Iran
00:42:41.440after their surprise attack on an American base in Jordan Tuesday.0.99
00:42:46.020We're going to be hitting them very hard because it's our turn to hit them.
00:42:50.240U.S. Central Command says they hit dozens of military targets, including command centers,
00:42:55.400missile facilities and maritime capabilities. Social media footage shows smoke rising on
00:43:01.820Keshem Island in the Persian Gulf. And video from Iranian TV shows people digging through debris at
00:43:07.940what they claim is a residential building. And now new concerns the war is expanding to other
00:43:13.580countries. An American-owned tanker and two ships in Egypt were hit by drones. The Islamic Republic
00:43:19.460may soon be receiving some backup from China. A new report says the following, quote, Iran is
00:43:25.360expected to receive within weeks a first shipment out of up to 400 Chinese-made shoulder-fired air
00:43:32.520defense missile launchers. The purchase, valued at 60 to 70 million dollars, is one of Tehran's
00:43:38.340largest known efforts to strengthen its short-range air defenses. Here's what President
00:43:43.240Trump had to say when asked about this report. Well, that would be surprising. I mean, things
00:43:48.340like that happen, but that would be surprising. He told me very strongly he wouldn't partake,
00:43:53.060But he knows I'd be quite disappointed.
00:44:23.060the news now that the president is weighing multiple options for further escalation. Wall
00:44:28.580Street Journal has a story out that there's a U.S. commander with a two week plan to escalate
00:44:33.060strikes across all of Iran. I believe we saw the IRGC headquarters was struck last night. And of
00:44:39.700course, we had the caskets of four U.S. soldiers arrive home just last week as well. We're also
00:44:47.540hearing that there's a potential for more strikes coming forward in terms of strikes, not just on
00:44:56.320the direct infrastructure of the coast, but actually on infrastructure further afield
00:45:01.400directly targeting the regime itself. And so, of course, there's many questions as to how far
00:45:08.400this goes. Who is going to blink first? Is it going to be the president or is it going to be
00:45:14.020Iran and the Mullahs. And it certainly doesn't seem like either of them are interested in this
00:45:19.320all the while. Mounting questions are growing about how the Republicans are going to deal
00:45:25.420with the rise of gas prices in an election year. And remember, the rise in gas prices,
00:45:30.600the rise in energy costs, oil costs sweeps over everything. That means your energy,
00:45:36.020that means your your home energy is going to go up. That means the price of your goods is going
00:45:39.640to go up. The price of your groceries is going to go up. Your cost of living is going to go up
00:45:43.460At a time when we know the Democrats were already trying to make this election all about affordability.0.52
00:45:50.140This was always the danger of getting involved in a prolonged and protracted fight with Iran because Iran has asymmetrical effect on the world's energy supply vis-a-vis that choke point, that artery of empire, as we've called it on this show, the Strait of Hormuz.0.79
00:46:09.460that if they were to come in and block up the Strait of Hormuz, they knew that they could hurt0.87
00:46:14.960the world economy even more than they could if they were going directly at the military. That's
00:46:21.460what asymmetric warfare is all about. And now, of course, we hear and we've seen that the Red Sea
00:46:28.100is opening up as well because the Red Sea has become this alternate route. Well, what are they
00:46:31.900doing? They're targeting with their friends and their buddies, the Houthis and the Shia militia0.90
00:46:38.040groups, the PMF across Iraq are now targeting Saudi Arabia. The Houthis are targeting shipping
00:46:44.420in the Red Sea. A lot of questions coming up. A lot of hard questions and serious decisions need
00:46:51.120to be made from the White House, from the Pentagon. What is the plan going forward? What is the exit
00:46:58.260strategy? What does the wind condition look like? What does a deal look like with the Iranians?
00:47:05.240Is there a path back to the MOU? Is there a path back to the ceasefire? Because voters across the0.65
00:47:11.880Rust Belt are looking at this. And as a guy from Pennsylvania, I'll tell you right now
00:47:16.380that voters in Pennsylvania do not want to vote for higher gas prices. Voters in Pennsylvania
00:47:22.480do not want to vote for higher cost of living and higher groceries. And that's going to be
00:47:28.260the same thing in Michigan. That's going to be the same thing in Wisconsin. That's going to be
00:47:33.120the same thing in Ohio. That's going to be the same in North Carolina, Maine, all of these places,
00:47:39.060right? All of these places where there are tight races going on in the Senate, some cases for the
00:47:47.480governorship. And it's going to be something where Republican candidates increasingly are going to be
00:47:52.380asked, what are you doing with the war in Iran? We're seeing it, but the questions are mounting.
00:48:00.140Right back, Jack Trasovic, Real America's Voice, Human Events Daily.