The Ben Shapiro Show - July 09, 2026


SHOCKER: Rapey McNazi DROPS OUT


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Ben Shapiro explains why Democrats are so high on their own supply of socialist magic that they think they can pour it into any candidate and just win, and why this is a warning for Republicans in the midterms of 2026.

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00:00:00.000 Graham Plattner, you know, the guy from Maine.
00:00:02.000 Yeah.
00:00:03.000 He's suspending his Senate campaign.
00:00:05.000 It turns out that when your nominee is Rapey McNazi, that might not have been the strongest pick.
00:00:11.000 Were there any red flags?
00:00:13.000 Any at all?
00:00:15.000 I mean, other than that giant SS tattoo on his chest.
00:00:19.000 Yeah, no, no, no, no.
00:00:20.000 I mean, other than the unclad pictures on the grooming website. 0.96
00:00:23.000 I mean, like, other than him telling an ex girlfriend that allegedly he wanted to rape a home invader, but not in a gay way. 0.91
00:00:31.000 Were there any red flags at all? 0.94
00:00:33.000 Any red flags?
00:00:34.000 Here's the thing.
00:00:35.000 This isn't really a story about one weird dude in Maine.
00:00:38.000 It's a story about a party so high on their own socialist supply, they think they can pour some Momdani magic into any Senate race and just win.
00:00:46.000 We'll explore all of it and why this is a warning for Republicans as well.
00:00:49.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.
00:00:57.000 So here is the lesson, and it cuts both ways.
00:01:00.000 In 2022, a chunk of the Republican Party convinced itself of something that was not true that all you had to do to win was to imitate Donald Trump.
00:01:09.000 That Trump wasn't something unique, that he wasn't his own figure.
00:01:12.000 You could just kind of take some Trump adjacent magic and pour it into a bunch of weird bottles and then win a bunch of Senate seats.
00:01:18.000 So Republicans decided to endorse and then run Herschel Walker, a man who it turns out was genetically related to half the state of Georgia in Georgia, and they lost that Senate seat.
00:01:27.000 And they also ran Doug Mastriano, a kind of strange dude, far too extreme for Pennsylvanians in Pennsylvania.
00:01:33.000 And they lost that seat.
00:01:34.000 And they lost another seat by nominating Dr. Oz, who is fine, but he was nominated over Dave McCormick, who ended up actually becoming a senator. 0.99
00:01:41.000 Republicans ran Carrie Lake for Arizona governor that same year, despite her being a conspiracy theorist with some wild, wild mannerisms.
00:01:49.000 And they lost that seat too.
00:01:50.000 They ran Blake Masters, a tech bro who ran weird commercials with drones in Arizona.
00:01:54.000 And they lost that seat as well.
00:01:56.000 They ran Don Baldock.
00:01:57.000 A kind of nutty figure in New Hampshire.
00:01:58.000 They lost that seat too.
00:02:00.000 Overall, Republicans lost during that election cycle at least four Senate seats and at least one gubernatorial seat they probably should have won because Republicans got high on the Trump supply.
00:02:09.000 The lesson is that there is only one Donald Trump.
00:02:12.000 He cannot be copied.
00:02:13.000 He cannot be cloned.
00:02:14.000 He cannot be emulated.
00:02:15.000 The magic isn't some sort of just brand and it's not a platform, it is the candidate because candidate quality matters.
00:02:22.000 Now, Democrats don't seem to have learned that lesson at all.
00:02:24.000 They watched Zoram Amdani win in New York, a city.
00:02:28.000 That has 11 Democrats for every 10 voters.
00:02:31.000 And they drew precisely the wrong conclusion.
00:02:34.000 They decided that the Democratic Socialist Pixie Ducks was actually the transferable part.
00:02:38.000 You just take that stuff and pour it into a bunch of weird bottles, the same way that Republicans did back in 2022.
00:02:45.000 And now look at who they are running a guy in Maine with multiple rape allegations and a swastika problem.
00:02:50.000 And a guy in Michigan who is so warmed to terrorism, he wouldn't celebrate the death of Ayatollah Khomeini because too many of his supporters liked Ayatollah Khomeini.
00:02:58.000 Or a dude in Texas who hates traditional Christians.
00:03:02.000 In Texas.
00:03:04.000 That's some wild overconfidence. 1.00
00:03:07.000 And it's curdling into stupidity. 1.00
00:03:08.000 Again, the exact same disease that cost Republicans the Senate in 2022 could, I suppose we can hope, cost Democrats the Senate in 2026. 1.00
00:03:16.000 And that's the warning.
00:03:17.000 Forever and always, when you get high on your own supply, when your ideological silo tells you you can't lose and that candidate quality doesn't matter, you nominate people who then go on to lose.
00:03:27.000 Republicans learned it the hard way in 2022, and the Democrats seem like they're about to learn it the hard way in 2026.
00:03:33.000 All of which brings us to Graham Plattner.
00:03:37.000 He's suspending his Maine Senate campaign after a sexual assault claim.
00:03:40.000 Now, as I say, the actual real reason that Democrats decided to abandon Plattner is because he was losing in the polls. 0.83
00:03:46.000 It turns out that the people of Maine were not desperate for a fake oyster farmer who is a little rapey, allegedly, and also had the Nazi tattoo.
00:03:55.000 And those were like his benefits, those were like the good things about him.
00:03:59.000 Well, yesterday, he said he intends to exit the race after a woman accused him of sexually assaulting her in 2021, causing an insurmountable rupture with his closest allies.
00:04:08.000 Platner's fall, according to CNBC, is a seismic shift in the 2026 midterm elections as Democrats try to wrest control of Congress from Republicans and weaken President Trump's grip on power.
00:04:19.000 Susan Collins is just sitting over there in the corner laughing and laughing and laughing.
00:04:23.000 Members of the main Democratic Party voted on Wednesday night to hold a nominating convention to select a replacement for Graham Platner.
00:04:29.000 And apparently, according to state law, the party can replace him on the ballot by July 27th.
00:04:34.000 So, again, I think what happened here is he started to lose in the polls, and suddenly all these scandals were taken seriously by Democrats just to get rid of him.
00:04:42.000 I mean, think of Joe Biden falling apart during the election cycle and Democrats just supplanting Joe Biden with Kamala Harris.
00:04:49.000 Democrats do this actually not all that rarely.
00:04:53.000 So, Graham Platner decided that he was going to cut a video from the woods of Maine, yeah, in which he painted himself as the victim.
00:05:01.000 It turns out that Graham Platner, sad Fozzie Bear over here, was the victim all along.
00:05:07.000 He was the victim all along, Graham Platner.
00:05:09.000 Because when you're a Democratic Socialist, you're always the victim, always and forever, no matter what, you are the victim.
00:05:14.000 I mean, sure, you're allegedly a little rapey, but you're the victim.
00:05:18.000 Here's Graham Platner's dropping out video.
00:05:22.000 This is all false.
00:05:24.000 The things that have been claimed did not happen.
00:05:27.000 It's not real.
00:05:32.000 It has placed an immense amount of weight on me as I think about what needs to happen now.
00:05:46.000 Amy and I are regular people.
00:05:48.000 We were not looking for this experience, we were not looking to get into politics, we had no desire to run for office.
00:06:00.000 I just want you to think about what you would do as a regular person in a position where a much larger world, large forces were working against you personally to accuse you of the worst thing that a person could do, and it was not remotely true.
00:06:27.000 He's the victim.
00:06:28.000 Imagine if it happened to you. 1.00
00:06:30.000 Because if you ran for office, surely there would be bevies of women emerging to explain that you raped them. 0.99
00:06:37.000 I don't know. 0.98
00:06:37.000 I don't know. 0.98
00:06:38.000 Listen, running for office is tough for sure.
00:06:40.000 And it is true that in today's social media driven landscape, everything about you will come to the fore.
00:06:46.000 Every single thing, which is something you have to think about when you decide to run for office.
00:06:50.000 The way typically, unfortunately, that people respond to that is they don't run if they have any sense of shame and they only run if they are shameless. 0.62
00:06:57.000 But here's the thing Graham Platner is totally shameless.
00:06:59.000 I mean, clearly. 0.80
00:07:00.000 This is a dude who would get drunk in bars, take off his shirt, and show off his Nazi tattoo.
00:07:04.000 So, like, you're not talking about somebody who is driven by any sense of internal guilt or shame over his sins.
00:07:10.000 Clearly, clearly.
00:07:12.000 In other words, office right now does tend to draw people who are somewhat sociopathic because most people don't want to go through this.
00:07:20.000 But also, most people, if they did go through this, the stuff uncovered about them might not be a Nazi tattoo and rapey McRape a lot stories.
00:07:30.000 Like, I'm sure that if I ran for office, The press would uncover something about me.
00:07:34.000 I mean, they might uncover the fact that, you know, I'm really, really bad about locking the doors at night in my house.
00:07:43.000 My wife locks all the doors and we have 24 hour security, but I'm not really great about it.
00:07:48.000 They might uncover the fact that at certain times I may have been skeptical of particular proposals in our ad copy.
00:07:59.000 We all have our flaws.
00:08:01.000 We all have things about us that if they came out, they would be embarrassing and annoying and all of the rest.
00:08:06.000 I just don't think those things are like Nazi tattoos and rape allegations.
00:08:11.000 In fact, I feel like most of the people I know, in fact, pretty much everybody I know, would not have an allegation about rape or a Nazi tattoo.
00:08:19.000 So I don't think that he's like the biggest victim.
00:08:21.000 Did he not know that?
00:08:22.000 Was he shocked to discover one day he woke up, he looked in the mirror in the morning and he's like, oh my God, I have a Nazi tattoo.
00:08:29.000 Oh no, what are they?
00:08:31.000 Like, it was a giant Nazi tattoo on your body, my dude.
00:08:35.000 And was he shocked to wake up one morning and discover that there were many allegations about him being kind of rapey? 0.56
00:08:40.000 Considering that he was online on kind of rapey websites.
00:08:48.000 I'm sorry, like, he's not the victim.
00:08:50.000 You volunteered in for this and you knew all of this was true. 0.99
00:08:53.000 You knew that there was a bunch of crap out there about you. 0.98
00:08:55.000 But again, always and forever, he's the victim. 0.99
00:08:59.000 Forever.
00:09:00.000 Now, again, I'm just going to point out here that if he actually thinks this is false, he has a moral obligation to stay in the race and fight it.
00:09:08.000 That is the other half of this.
00:09:10.000 If somebody makes a false rape allegation about you, you have a moral obligation to fight false rape allegations and also not to destroy your candidacy on the shoals of that thing.
00:09:19.000 But Nobody believes that all of the weight of all of these allegations is just nonsense.
00:09:25.000 No one believes that.
00:09:27.000 Now, listen, you probably don't have an online search history as bad as Graham Platner's because probably no one has an online search history as bad as Graham Platner's.
00:09:37.000 I mean, my dude.
00:09:38.000 But, but also, what you search online really is kind of your business.
00:09:43.000 Imagine every Google search you've made over the last year automatically popping up on the Jumbotron at your kid's soccer game.
00:09:48.000 Not just the embarrassing ones, like all of them, restaurant searches, travel plans, everything.
00:09:52.000 Well, that sounds silly, but the internet provider actually has all that information, even if you're using so-called incognito mode.
00:09:58.000 In many countries, they're required to keep logs of your activity.
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00:10:37.000 And so Platner, after explaining that he was innocent, he explained why he was suspending the campaign.
00:10:44.000 We are suspending campaign operations.
00:10:51.000 This is incredibly difficult because.
00:10:54.000 I know that some will think it's an admission of guilt, and it most certainly is not.
00:10:58.000 We're not doing it because of the allegations.
00:11:00.000 We're doing it because of the structures that are being taken away from us by those in power.
00:11:06.000 Oh, it's the powerful systems again.
00:11:09.000 Like APAC.
00:11:09.000 Oh, yeah.
00:11:12.000 And it turns out we should all be sat along with him because all he wanted, all he wanted in life was a fair system.
00:11:19.000 That's all he wanted.
00:11:21.000 All he wanted was no genocide, health care.
00:11:25.000 And by the way, you should absolutely take lessons on genocide from a dude who has a tattoo of the largest genocidal group in human history.
00:11:35.000 Anyway, here's Graham Plattner.
00:11:38.000 All we were asking for was health care, to end the genocide, to use our taxpayer dollars at home to uplift our communities instead of waging war overseas.
00:11:52.000 We were asking for a fair system.
00:11:56.000 We were asking for an end to the corruption, the end to the money in politics.
00:12:04.000 We were asking for real democracy, and we did it the right way, and we won.
00:12:13.000 Oh, wow.
00:12:14.000 I mean, when?
00:12:16.000 I like when we define winning.
00:12:20.000 Isn't the real victory the friends they made along the way?
00:12:24.000 I mean, if you're sensing a little bit of shuddenfreude from me, that's because it's a lot of shuddenfreude from me.
00:12:29.000 Guys, don't nominate people with Nazi tattoos.
00:12:31.000 Again, this is like a low bar.
00:12:32.000 This is a really low bar.
00:12:34.000 Just a really low bar.
00:12:35.000 Hilariously, there's a group of independent activists, campaign advisors like Morris Katz, the Silver Spoon Socialist Advisor to Mayor Zorhan Mamdani in New York.
00:12:48.000 And they say that they paid a firm to vet Platner.
00:12:52.000 Well, you might want to get your money back, guys.
00:12:57.000 How did you go about vetting him?
00:12:59.000 And why did you?
00:13:02.000 We paid a nice firm a whole chunk of money and got some stuff back.
00:13:07.000 Some of what you've seen on the news, we got back, other stuff we didn't.
00:13:13.000 Did the vetting process turn up the tattoo that became so controversial?
00:13:18.000 No.
00:13:21.000 Daniel Moroff, one of the independent activists.
00:13:24.000 I'm curious what stuff came back.
00:13:26.000 Honestly, I'm a little curious.
00:13:27.000 He says some of the stuff you've seen on the news came back, some did not.
00:13:30.000 Which part of it was acceptable to you?
00:13:32.000 Which part of it?
00:13:33.000 Was it the kick account, like the grooming account?
00:13:37.000 Was it the.
00:13:38.000 Was it the comments about jacking it in the porta potty?
00:13:40.000 Like, which part came back?
00:13:41.000 Because all that was publicly available, by the way.
00:13:43.000 Which part came back?
00:13:45.000 That's the part that's confusing.
00:13:47.000 And the hard left, by the way, continues to try to blame everybody but Graham Platner, Ryan Grimm, who's the head of a pretty terrible site called Drop Site.
00:13:55.000 He was out there on Breaking Points with Crystal and Sagar, talking about how really the real victim, of course, is Platner in all of this.
00:14:04.000 Jenny Rascott had been, quote, texting Platner about needing her glute massaged.
00:14:10.000 That detail didn't make our story.
00:14:12.000 Right. 0.99
00:14:14.000 Glute massage.
00:14:15.000 So, within about a half an hour of getting this glute massage text, Plattner is in the house.
00:14:22.000 Now, she says.
00:14:23.000 She says she followed up.
00:14:25.000 No, no, no, don't come, don't come.
00:14:26.000 And don't come.
00:14:26.000 Because he texted back.
00:14:28.000 So, he's wasted, clearly.
00:14:30.000 He gets this message I need my glute massaged.
00:14:33.000 Right.
00:14:34.000 He comes over and he texts back, I'm coming over.
00:14:37.000 And she's like, wait, wait, don't come over.
00:14:40.000 She says, don't come over, don't come over.
00:14:43.000 This is Maine.
00:14:44.000 He's not taking the subway.
00:14:46.000 He's drunk.
00:14:48.000 Drunkenly driving over there.
00:14:49.000 Comes into the house, and then she says he's grabbing her on the couch.
00:14:55.000 She's saying no.
00:14:56.000 Right.
00:14:57.000 Where's he grabbing her?
00:14:58.000 Is he immediately starting the glute massage or whatever?
00:15:01.000 Right.
00:15:01.000 Anyway.
00:15:04.000 And then thank you for that amazing insight there, Ryan Grimm.
00:15:04.000 Oh, well.
00:15:08.000 Excellent, excellent job. 1.00
00:15:09.000 It's hilarious how once it was acceptable to point out that he's a piece of crap. 1.00
00:15:14.000 Suddenly, the media start paying attention to the fact that Graham Platner is a piece of crap. 1.00
00:15:17.000 So, Axios yesterday has a piece about how Platner wasn't even an oyster farmer. 0.99
00:15:23.000 Oh, maybe the Washington Free Beacon reported that legitimately a month ago.
00:15:27.000 Maybe.
00:15:29.000 We talked about it on the show.
00:15:31.000 But now, Axios is saying, starting with their launch video last August, Platner and his team billed him as an oyster farmer, a title most of the media, including Axios at times, repeated without scrutiny.
00:15:41.000 But as early as August, he told the ideologically friendly outlets he makes little money from selling oysters, and it's not how he makes a living.
00:15:47.000 Platner and his team pitched him as a working class Mainer who bought his house with veterans' benefits.
00:15:53.000 But in reality, his father loaned him $200,000 for the home.
00:15:56.000 Platner said last fall he's never been close to money and power.
00:15:59.000 He briefly attended the elite prep school Hotchkiss in Connecticut before attending a private school in Maine.
00:16:05.000 Now, the Platner campaign is trying to pull potential replacements.
00:16:09.000 They're trying to take someone else and shove that person into the slot.
00:16:12.000 That would include former Maine State Senate President Troy Jackson and Secretary of State Shanna Bellows.
00:16:20.000 Jackson is testing the best.
00:16:23.000 They have one poll showing Jackson leading Collins.
00:16:28.000 Janet Mills would be trailing Collins by a fair bit.
00:16:33.000 Now, again, it'll be interesting to see where this race goes. 0.96
00:16:36.000 Maybe it's early enough that the Democrats are able to recover, but Susan Collins is a political survivor par excellence. 0.96
00:16:42.000 And it doesn't help your party when it turns out that you were totally fine for months running a person who appears to be a sexually perverse sociopath.
00:16:51.000 It turns out that that may not have been a good look. 0.57
00:16:54.000 But here's the thing the entire Democratic Party is swiveling into DSA land really, really, really quickly. 0.98
00:17:00.000 And DSA land is filled with crazy people. 0.93
00:17:04.000 See, political ideology very often aligns with levels of crazy. 0.93
00:17:08.000 It's why when you walk into a Libertarian Party convention, it looks like the center ring at a three ring circus. 0.94
00:17:15.000 It's filled with clowns and hirsute ladies and bizarro world elephants.
00:17:21.000 And like the Libertarian Party, like certain ideologies cross over with certain types of humans. 0.96
00:17:26.000 That obviously is true. 0.54
00:17:28.000 And so if you welcome the DSA, which is a bunch of revolutionary psychopaths in your party, well, it turns out that you may end up with some revolutionary psychopaths as candidates.
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00:18:42.000 So the Democrats are trying to have it both ways.
00:18:44.000 They want the jet fuel of DSA energy, but also they want to claim that the DSA is not actually painting them into a corner.
00:18:51.000 The Democratic Socialists of America are growing by leaps and bounds.
00:18:55.000 Representative Debbie Dingell of Michigan says, no, no, no.
00:18:57.000 The DSA is not painting us into a corner.
00:18:59.000 Uh huh, sure.
00:19:02.000 Well, first of all, I don't think that the DSA is painting us into corners.
00:19:06.000 I think that we're a representative government and we have to be.
00:19:09.000 Do you think they're part of the Big Ten?
00:19:11.000 Like, do you think that they fit within the Democratic Party?
00:19:14.000 Yeah.
00:19:14.000 You know what I take people back to?
00:19:17.000 I think everybody in this country, Republican and Democrats, think that Social Security is very critical for many people.
00:19:24.000 Sure.
00:19:25.000 My father-in-law was one of the authors of Social Security and was called a communist.
00:19:29.000 Now, I don't agree with some of the things I've heard the candidates say in New York.
00:19:34.000 I don't agree with everything either Haley or Abdul have said.
00:19:39.000 They're both colleagues, they're both friends, and I'm neutral in this race.
00:19:44.000 She's neutral with regard to the DSA and the psychotics. 0.80
00:19:48.000 Well, they're going to eat your lunch.
00:19:49.000 They're going to eat your lunch.
00:19:50.000 It's funny to watch sort of the old school Democrats try to convince themselves that, like Quint in Jaws, they are halfway down the shark and they're maintaining that their legs have not been eaten at this point.
00:20:05.000 Representative Jim Himes, another Democrat, he says, you know, don't worry so much about this. 0.57
00:20:10.000 Zarmamdani isn't going to get his government owned grocery stores or anything like that.
00:20:16.000 Zorhan Mamdani, right?
00:20:17.000 Do you think Zorhan Mamdani is really going to get municipally owned grocery stores?
00:20:20.000 No, he's not.
00:20:20.000 But when he talks about that, people say, he's getting me.
00:20:24.000 And that's enough to get.
00:20:24.000 He's getting me.
00:20:25.000 By the way, when Donald Trump says, I'm beating up on Walmart over beef prices, that's insane.
00:20:30.000 This table agrees that that's insane and it's not going to stop inflation.
00:20:33.000 But America looks at that and says, We had Joe Biden talking about transitory inflation.
00:20:38.000 And Trump's at least trying.
00:20:40.000 He's calling the Walmart guy up and says, I'm sticking the DOJ on you if you don't lower prices.
00:20:44.000 America sees that and says, Hey, I'll take that guy.
00:20:48.000 So again, they keep claiming DSA is not eating them.
00:20:48.000 Okay.
00:20:51.000 DSA is eating them.
00:20:52.000 And that means that they are taking this sort of DSA ideology and pouring it into a bunch of pretty terrible candidates.
00:20:58.000 Because again, that DSA ideology tends to draw candidates who have some problems.
00:21:03.000 That includes, for example, running a pro terrorism person named Abdul El Sayed in Michigan, who also happens to be a habitual liar.
00:21:11.000 So he was on with Mehdi Hassan, another person who never should have been granted American citizenship.
00:21:18.000 And Mehdi Hassan questioned him about the fact that Sayed has been going around saying that he's a doctor and he's not actually a doctor.
00:21:27.000 And it got a little awkward.
00:21:31.000 You got attacked by your rivals for calling yourself a physician.
00:21:34.000 Not just a doctor, even though you don't have a valid state medical license in New York or Michigan, which apparently is what you need legally to call yourself a physician.
00:21:43.000 Do you wish you'd just stuck to calling yourself a doctor, which you are, to avoid all of this controversy and attacks on your physician status?
00:21:50.000 You know, at the end of the day, it's not about whether or not I'm a physician or a doctor.
00:21:54.000 The question is, can you see a doctor?
00:21:55.000 It's not about my education.
00:21:56.000 It's about whether or not your kid gets a good education.
00:21:58.000 So I'm just not stuck to that.
00:21:59.000 Well, that's a good line, but people would say it's also about, did you tell the truth?
00:22:03.000 Well, I would say that I was the health director for the city of Detroit, and I've done more to provide more people health.
00:22:07.000 Care or eliminate their medical debt than most doctors have done in their practice career.
00:22:12.000 So I'm proud of the work that I did.
00:22:13.000 I took my medical education in a different direction.
00:22:15.000 And I did graduate from a school that's literally called Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons.
00:22:20.000 So, you know, you can go have that argument with Columbia University if you'd like.
00:22:24.000 You know, I too am a doctor.
00:22:27.000 I'm a jurist doctor, meaning I'm a lawyer.
00:22:30.000 But again, lying is of no consequence.
00:22:32.000 Also, Abdul Sayyid claiming that he delayed his financial disclosures for reasons that make no sense.
00:22:39.000 Haley Stevens has also attacked you and Mike Rogers for being millionaires, who she says conveniently did not file their 2026 personal financial disclosures.
00:22:47.000 You sought an extension through August 13th, I believe, which is after the primary.
00:22:53.000 Was this to avoid transparency with your voters?
00:22:55.000 Why not release them before the election?
00:22:56.000 No, taxes get complicated.
00:22:59.000 My wife and her family own property abroad, and so getting all those tax forms is a thing.
00:23:03.000 And this is, by the way, the same extension that.
00:23:06.000 She says you're a millionaire and you're hiding that.
00:23:08.000 Well, if you take my assets and my wife's assets together, then I guess they add up to something like that.
00:23:13.000 But my career has never been about trying to maximize on money.
00:23:16.000 Otherwise, I would have just gone and been a surgeon.
00:23:20.000 Oh, weird that he delayed his financial disclosures to avoid all that.
00:23:24.000 By the way, he's now claiming he's not a Democratic socialist.
00:23:26.000 He just agrees with everything they say.
00:23:29.000 But he's not one of them.
00:23:31.000 Because if people realize in Michigan that he is one of them, then he might lose.
00:23:34.000 Remember, the last Senate race in Michigan was extremely, extremely close.
00:23:39.000 Mike Rogers, the Republican, only lost by.
00:23:41.000 A fraction of a percentage point in that race.
00:23:46.000 Do you define yourself as a socialist, a democratic socialist?
00:23:49.000 I don't, and it's largely because I'm a person of faith, and then everyone else has to bring empirics.
00:23:53.000 I look for solutions that are purpose-fit to problems.
00:23:56.000 I wrote the book on Medicare for All because I wanted to make sure that this was the approach that we could take to guaranteeing everybody health care in America.
00:24:04.000 And when it comes to our economy, I'm somebody who read about capitalism.
00:24:08.000 And anybody who knows about capitalism knows that the biggest danger to capitalism was never government regulation, it was always monopoly and oligopoly.
00:24:14.000 And you think about the options you have in any given market that you have to be a part of, whether it's buying meat at the grocery store or it's deciding to go visit grandma in another state, you got like one or two options.
00:24:25.000 And those options can work via algorithms to just start raising rates on you.
00:24:29.000 It feels like you're constantly being monetized.
00:24:31.000 That's not what capitalism was supposed to be about.
00:24:36.000 So he's explaining why he is a Democratic Socialist by saying he's not a Democratic Socialist.
00:24:39.000 This is who they're running in Michigan.
00:24:41.000 Oh, or they also decided the Democratic Socialist Party of America, which is what the Democratic Party now is, they have also decided it would be a great idea to run a dude who hates Christians in Texas.
00:24:51.000 This is a flashback of James Tallarico some years ago talking about children being trans. 0.59
00:25:01.000 Democrats decided that they needed anti Christian howdy duty over here as their candidate in Texas.
00:25:09.000 You saw it in the anti LGBTQ legislation, including the bill that would have denied gender affirming health care to trans children.
00:25:18.000 And then, of course, famously, infamously, we saw it last session with the most extreme abortion ban in the country.
00:25:26.000 All of these ideologies stem from this.
00:25:31.000 This Christo fascism movement, which essentially, like I said, is just using faith to exercise raw political, social, and economic power.
00:25:45.000 Right.
00:25:46.000 So you want the guy who talked about Christo fascism running for Senate in Texas?
00:25:49.000 Again, it's a move, Democrats.
00:25:51.000 If you lose the Senate seats in Maine, in Michigan, in Texas, you ain't winning back the Senate.
00:25:57.000 I mean, if you lose in Maine alone, you're not winning back the Senate.
00:25:59.000 And this is your own fault.
00:26:00.000 You decided to do this because here's the thing there are some normie Democrats who are running.
00:26:04.000 And by normally, I mean very left wing Democrats running in states where they are very likely to win.
00:26:04.000 In some of these states.
00:26:09.000 Roy Cooper in North Carolina is very likely to win that Senate seat that is currently held by Tom Tillis over in North Carolina and flip a seat.
00:26:16.000 It is quite possible that in Ohio, Sherrod Brown, who is a longtime senator and is very left wing, but is not kind of a total psychotic, that he may win in Ohio over John Husted.
00:26:27.000 Again, that's an uphill battle for him.
00:26:28.000 But the Democratic Party has no systematic immunity at all to the insane in their party.
00:26:35.000 And this is going to bleed over into 2028.
00:26:37.000 So take a look at the Calchee markets right now on 2028 for the Democratic nomination.
00:26:42.000 Calchee is one of our sponsors.
00:26:43.000 And what you see is Gavin Newsom nosediving, right?
00:26:47.000 He was up near 40% in terms of how many people thought he was going to end up as the nominee just back in September, October.
00:26:55.000 And now he's all the way back down at 20%.
00:26:58.000 Gaining quickly are Alexander Ocasio Cortez, who's up to 17%, and John Assoff in Georgia, who's at 15%.
00:27:06.000 Now, Assoff is also going to peak too early.
00:27:07.000 He's going to go away too. 0.69
00:27:10.000 The idea that they're going to nominate a Jewish Democrat, uh huh. 0.97
00:27:12.000 No, that's not happening because the party is not going to allow it. 1.00
00:27:15.000 They will not allow it.
00:27:18.000 It is worth noting at this point that according to polling from Gallup, roughly two thirds of Democrats sympathize more with Palestinians than Israelis.
00:27:27.000 Okay, that is not just they don't like Benjamin Netanyahu, that is they actually sympathize with Palestinians, meaning a group of people governed by terrorist groups, more than the Israelis.
00:27:38.000 Sympathy for Israel?
00:27:40.000 Is down to 17% among Democrats.
00:27:43.000 You think they're going to nominate John Assoff or Rahm Emanuel?
00:27:46.000 And I got to say that as a religious Jew, I find it amusing and annoying at the same time to watch some of these would be Jewish Democratic candidates try desperately to beg, borrow, and steal their way back into the Democratic Party by suggesting that while they are kind of pro Israel, actually the real problem is Bibi Netanyahu. 0.67
00:28:07.000 The real problem is the IDF. 0.57
00:28:09.000 The real problem is that there's no two state solution.
00:28:11.000 Guys, You're trying your warmed over Clintonism from 1998, it is not going to work.
00:28:16.000 It's not going to work, number one, because it's not realistic.
00:28:18.000 There is no two state solution in Israel.
00:28:21.000 It is not happening.
00:28:22.000 The reason it's not happening is because you have a terrorist group, Hamas, that governs one area, and you have another terrorist group, the Palestinian Authority, that governs another area.
00:28:30.000 So it's not happening, just on a realistic level.
00:28:31.000 It is not going to happen. 0.89
00:28:33.000 But put all of that aside, if Rahm Emanuel, for example, who went over to Tel Aviv just to lecture the Israelis, who have now been undergoing three years of continuous warfare, he went to lecture them on how bad and terrible they are, and if they were just a little nicer, then the Democrats would like them more. 0.82
00:28:46.000 If he thinks that that is going to buy him any points at all inside the Democratic base, he's out of his mind. 0.85
00:28:51.000 Maybe it makes some of his friends feel better in LA. 0.66
00:28:53.000 But it makes no one feel better in the root Democratic Party, who openly now sympathize with the Red Green Alliance, sort of communist Islamist alliance.
00:29:04.000 Here's Ron Emanuel trying to buy his way back into the good graces by pretending that it's all about Benjamin Netanyahu rather than for Democrats, the existence of the state of Israel at this point, which it increasingly is.
00:29:15.000 The prime minister and his government have led Israel into a dead end.
00:29:20.000 For too long, American policy towards Israel.
00:29:23.000 Operated under the assumption that the best thing Washington can do for Jerusalem is to blindly, to silently stand behind your government without conditions, without demands, without consequences, even when we disagreed.
00:29:44.000 That has been our mistake.
00:29:45.000 This is just nonsense.
00:29:46.000 And it's been not a favor to you.
00:29:49.000 Unconditional support has produced a prime minister who has presumed that his strategic interests.
00:29:57.000 Would incur no political costs if he ignored America's concerns about settlements and sparked a regional war.
00:30:04.000 He believes that being Sparta sparked a regional war.
00:30:08.000 It was Israel that sparked a regional war, not Hamas' invasion.
00:30:10.000 Even despite the reality that his own idol, Winston Churchill, once argued that weapons are not sufficient by themselves, we must add to them the power of ideas. 0.98
00:30:26.000 I can't listen to this schmuck anymore. 1.00
00:30:28.000 I mean, Rahm Emanuel playing this dumb game, put aside that, like, on a factual level, he's just wrong and stupid. 1.00
00:30:33.000 And the reality is that it wouldn't matter if it were Gadi Eisenkopf leading the Israeli government right now. 1.00
00:30:39.000 Gadi Eisenkopf is campaigning against Netanyahu.
00:30:41.000 He's his chief rival.
00:30:42.000 He's campaigning against Netanyahu from his right.
00:30:45.000 He's saying that Netanyahu needs to be doing more in Lebanon and more in Iran.
00:30:49.000 But put aside the actual facts of the situation.
00:30:51.000 You know, Rahm Emanuel suggesting that there's been unconditional support for Israel.
00:30:54.000 That's weird because it turns out that, for example, the memorandum of understanding that the Trump administration signed.
00:31:00.000 Essentially, tried to box in Israel's freedom of action in both Lebanon and Iran.
00:31:05.000 It turns out that Joe Biden was trying to slow walk weapons to Israel in the middle of an existential war and telling Israel not to invade Rafah.
00:31:13.000 So it's not true.
00:31:14.000 But put all that aside, understand the political dynamic that Emmanuel is trying to play here, and it's not going to work.
00:31:19.000 It's not going to work for John Assoff, it's not going to work for Josh Shapiro, and it's not going to work for Rahm Emanuel.
00:31:23.000 The Jewish Democrats who want to run for president think that it's going to be sufficient for them to say that they're quasi pro Israel.
00:31:30.000 They just don't like Bibi Netanyahu. 0.65
00:31:32.000 Good luck with that.
00:31:33.000 Good luck with that in a Democratic primary.
00:31:35.000 It ain't going to happen because, again, your party is being eaten from the inside out.
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