The Ben Shapiro Show - July 31, 2026


The Wake-Up Call That Could Save the Republican Majority


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00:00:00.000 The possibility of a Democrat victory, even a blue wave or tsunami in the midterms, that's kind of real.
00:00:04.000 It should scare the crap out of most Americans.
00:00:07.000 From Texas to Maine, Alaska to Ohio, Michigan, Iowa, there are way too many races that are way too close right now.
00:00:14.000 If you would like for a Southern border not to look like Spain's did yesterday, electing Democrats, that is the worst thing you could do.
00:00:20.000 Even these supposedly moderate Democrats these days are preaching about abolishing ICE or at least making way for those who do.
00:00:24.000 We're going to look at all the upcoming races and run through Republican chances in 2028.
00:00:28.000 Let's dive in.
00:00:30.000 So here's the thing.
00:00:31.000 The left in the United States has the same feelings as Pedro Sanchez.
00:00:34.000 They are fine with both mass migration and mass Muslim migration.
00:00:38.000 They are fine with both radical Islam and mass migration.
00:00:40.000 They are fine with it.
00:00:41.000 Remember, under Joe Biden, images like the ones that we are seeing in Ceuta were not rare.
00:00:46.000 Here was Bill Malugin reporting from the Rio Grande just five years ago in September.
00:00:52.000 We are live on the Rio Grande right now on a boat.
00:00:54.000 We want to show you what we're looking at.
00:00:55.000 Take a look at this.
00:00:56.000 This is Ciudad Acuna.
00:00:57.000 This is Mexico right here, where we have been watching a steady stream.
00:01:01.000 Of hundreds of migrants crossing the Rio Grande illegally.
00:01:04.000 Brian will pan left here.
00:01:05.000 They're crossing the Rio Grande illegally over a dam, and they are slowly walking over to the United States where there is a massive crowd of these migrants who have gathered.
00:01:15.000 They go over there, they bathe in the river, they change their clothes, and then they walk down a dirt path towards where that international bridge is.
00:01:22.000 Some Border Patrol agents and Texas state troopers just pulled up.
00:01:29.000 And Joe Biden did this not that long ago.
00:01:31.000 And of course, today's DSA led Democratic Party.
00:01:34.000 Openly, I would like to get rid of our nation's border enforcement agencies.
00:01:36.000 Francesca Hong, who's likely to be the Wisconsin Democratic gubernatorial nominee, says that ICE needs to be abolished.
00:01:46.000 You also have called for abolishing the police and ICE.
00:01:49.000 That's a piece of what that political ideology is about, too, is it not?
00:01:56.000 Well, ICE is a rogue agency and an enforcer of fascism, and I believe that it is an agency that indeed needs to be abolished.
00:02:04.000 And I'm going to be a governor that is most serious about.
00:02:07.000 Being serious about public safety, where we actually invest in our communities and we are tough on the causes in order to be tough on crime, preventing guns from being off the street, taking guns off the street, making sure we're investing in victim services,
00:02:22.000 and that people who are incarcerated or work in the prisons are able to work and live with dignity.
00:02:30.000 So, again, this is what the DSA wants.
00:02:33.000 This is what they want.
00:02:35.000 They want Spain.
00:02:36.000 That's what they want.
00:02:37.000 Here's a Florida DSA candidate named Oliver Larkin.
00:02:42.000 Unlikely to win, but you know, he's going to try.
00:02:45.000 He says that illegal immigration should be treated like a parking ticket.
00:02:49.000 ISIS lawless in and of itself.
00:02:50.000 ISIS.
00:02:51.000 We run these roles every day of ISIS bringing these people out of the country who have committed heinous crimes.
00:02:57.000 Last week, there were a number of rapes of young, a baby, of a six year old.
00:03:02.000 Would these types of things be worthy of protest?
00:03:07.000 We need to keep our communities safe and we need to hold people accountable when they have harmed others, when they have broken the law.
00:03:14.000 But let's be clear immigration is a civil violation, not a criminal violation.
00:03:19.000 So we need to stop treating the equivalent of a parking ticket like people are breaking the law and need a militarized police force breaking down their doors.
00:03:29.000 Again, this is where the DSA is.
00:03:30.000 And as we'll talk about in a minute, the Democratic Party has been taken over by the DSA.
00:03:34.000 An entire generation of young people has been indoctrinated into the same sort of belief system as Pedro Sanchez, that basically the West owes it to criminals to let them wander free.
00:03:42.000 Here's Nick Shirley asking an NYU student about the release from prison of rapists.
00:03:49.000 And so I'm not certain what prisons are actually doing for our society.
00:03:54.000 And so would you like to have criminals out in the open?
00:03:57.000 Do I want criminals out in the open?
00:03:59.000 Sure, I'm fine with that because the idea of a criminal is like a little bit funny to me.
00:04:03.000 Let's just say somebody who has raped a woman.
00:04:07.000 Totally.
00:04:07.000 Would you like them to be out in the street?
00:04:09.000 I think my answer is yes, even though that's a challenging answer to say.
00:04:13.000 So if you got raped, would you like your rapist to be out in the street?
00:04:16.000 Oh, like let me finish.
00:04:18.000 Because I have been raped and they are out in the street.
00:04:21.000 And I'm not sure like them going to jail is a solution to like whatever's going on inside their heart or even my own heart.
00:04:29.000 That contributed to that experience that I'm having.
00:04:32.000 And I don't want more people to get raped, but I don't know for certain that going into a jail in the United States is going to shift anything inside of their operating system so that they'll make a different choice again.
00:04:50.000 This is patently insane.
00:04:53.000 Well, the same left that is not only fine with, but encouraging of mass migration, they're also totally fine with the infusion of Islamic values into American government.
00:05:01.000 Abdul Al Sayed.
00:05:02.000 A terrorist supporter remains the frontrunner for the Michigan Senate seat for Democrats.
00:05:05.000 New poll out today shows him up over Haley Stevens.
00:05:08.000 Zarn Mamdani, of course, is a pro jihadi who leads New York City.
00:05:11.000 There's an actual alleged spokesperson for Al Qaeda running as a Democrat in New Jersey.
00:05:15.000 And the Democrats embrace this stuff wholesale for the same reason that Pedro Sanchez does.
00:05:19.000 They like the votes and they despise the West.
00:05:23.000 And now they're reaping the whirlwind.
00:05:24.000 Traditional Democrats are reaping the whirlwind of this stuff because they have bred an entire generation of people who think like this.
00:05:29.000 Here is Chuck Schumer, again, the Senate minority leader, being interrupted at his presser.
00:05:34.000 By a protester who is a prospective congressional representative in Maryland who is yelling about the Jews, of course.
00:05:42.000 The people didn't come to hear you.
00:05:44.000 You should be questioned about your dive on.
00:05:54.000 Mr. Senator!
00:05:55.000 Mr. Senator!
00:05:59.000 That's Bernie Sanders' less good looking brother over there yelling at Chuck Schumer.
00:06:04.000 Meanwhile, Senator Mark Kelly, remember he was supposed to be moderate?
00:06:06.000 Remember that time?
00:06:07.000 Here he was talking with Katie Couric about the DSA's takeover of the Democratic Party.
00:06:11.000 And he says, well, you know, they've got a point, of course.
00:06:16.000 You know, as I said earlier, just people can't afford to have a reasonable standard of living.
00:06:23.000 So do you think that translates?
00:06:25.000 Does that translate into them wanting to burn the house down?
00:06:30.000 I think it leads to incredible frustration with the status quo, and people want to see change, and they want to throw out the person who's in office and replace them with anybody.
00:06:46.000 Now, again, these are Democrats basically picking up the DSA and treating them as though they are a decent part of the conversation.
00:06:53.000 They have no systemic immunity to any of this.
00:06:55.000 And how radical, of course, is the DSA?
00:06:58.000 I mean, charter members of the DSA are literally moving to China to do propaganda.
00:07:02.000 Zoran Momdani's video editor is a guy named Eric Hovagin.
00:07:06.000 He moved to China in September 2025 and explained that he, while working for, of course, Hassan Piker, he explained why he did that.
00:07:17.000 I know what you're thinking.
00:07:18.000 He's glazing China.
00:07:19.000 He's Xi Jinping's number one foot soldier.
00:07:21.000 And the truth is, I wish.
00:07:23.000 That would be sick as hell.
00:07:25.000 And I also hear what you're saying.
00:07:26.000 Like, Eric, in a couple of months, Comrade Momdani is going to transform New York City.
00:07:32.000 Into the socialist caliphate that you've been praying for, why would you want to leave right now?
00:07:37.000 The answer is simple.
00:07:38.000 I like Zoran, but the United States is heading in a very bad direction very quickly.
00:07:44.000 I actually had to rewrite this entire video because of a certain event that took place while making it.
00:07:50.000 America is a deeply violent nation, and it's just normal.
00:07:54.000 It's like an everyday existence.
00:07:56.000 And it's weird because even though the big cities aren't actually like the crazy zombie wasteland that the media tries to make them out to be, the country as a whole is like Six corporations in a trench coat trying to scam you at every turn.
00:08:12.000 Yeah, that guy moved to China to talk about how wonderful China is and how terrible America is.
00:08:16.000 He's not the only one, by the way.
00:08:17.000 A bunch of DSA members, according to the Times, pledged support to the CCP after a VIP trip.
00:08:23.000 Quote, high ranking activists for the left wing group behind Zoran Momdani's rise have backed a call to support the Chinese Communist Party, whose officials have organized trips and meetings where members were treated like royalty.
00:08:33.000 More than a dozen members of the DSA have pledged to support the People's Republic of China and to promote understanding of Chinese socialism.
00:08:39.000 So, President Trump has responded to all of this, what he is watching over in Ceuta.
00:08:44.000 And he said, It's terrible.
00:08:46.000 Remember that picture.
00:08:47.000 That's going to be us in three years if the wrong side gets in.
00:08:49.000 So, as I've been saying, what's happening in Spain could easily happen here.
00:08:52.000 Democrats, as I have pointed out, largely agree with the general principles of Pedro Sanchez in Spain.
00:09:00.000 AOC, who agrees with all of it, she says that there's a lot of political realignment happening.
00:09:06.000 And she urges there to be a political realignment that includes, of course, the Tucker Carlson types as well.
00:09:11.000 Here she was.
00:09:14.000 I think that there's a lot of political realignment happening in the country, and whether, you know, people like it or not, there actually is a lot of hope that can be generated, you know,
00:09:27.000 among voters of all kinds to actually show us get something meaningful done by people who are most disparate and unlike one another in the House on something that's real.
00:09:39.000 Okay, so again, she's looking for that realignment.
00:09:43.000 So understand what's happening here.
00:09:45.000 The DSA. Would love to take over the Democratic Party and they would like to form a horseshoe with the woke right as well.
00:09:52.000 Hunter Biden is doing this routine.
00:09:53.000 There's a reason Hunter Biden is hanging out with Nick Flanders because he's doing the same routine as AOC, just in a dumber way.
00:09:59.000 Here he was on a podcast called Macro Dosing.
00:10:04.000 I'm not running for anything, so I can say whatever the fuck I want.
00:10:08.000 And here's what I think I think Chuck Schumer's a piece of shit and that he'd fuck my dad over.
00:10:13.000 I think that the Speaker of the House, Ned Pelosi at the time, also was involved in that.
00:10:18.000 And so I don't have anything nice to say about it.
00:10:22.000 We're not fancy.
00:10:23.000 And I'm supposed to be the guy that says, oh, but you know what?
00:10:28.000 For what Nancy Pelosi has contributed to this country and to the Democratic Party.
00:10:32.000 I'm not supposed to.
00:10:33.000 Fuck that, man.
00:10:34.000 And as it relates to Donald Trump, him, his sons, his daughter.
00:10:39.000 I mean it.
00:10:40.000 All of them, the whole family, down to the grandchildren.
00:10:42.000 I hope for the rest of time that I am on this earth, their names will live in ignominy.
00:10:54.000 Again, the reason that he is attacking these sort of traditional Democrats is because he's trying to make inroads with the DSA and also with the woke right.
00:11:00.000 Okay, so here is the problem.
00:11:03.000 The Democrats could easily win.
00:11:05.000 Okay, they could easily win.
00:11:07.000 One in three Democrats now identifies as a Democratic Socialist, and the Democrats are in a fairly commanding position for the next couple of election cycles.
00:11:14.000 There's a brand new generic congressional ballot out.
00:11:16.000 It shows the Republicans down eight points in the generic congressional ballot.
00:11:20.000 That's bad.
00:11:20.000 It means they lose the House.
00:11:21.000 Okay, again, because the House is very closely divided.
00:11:24.000 And then when you get to the Senate, things start to get pretty dicey.
00:11:28.000 Brand new Fox poll shows that James Tallarico somehow is up over Ken Paxton.
00:11:34.000 Now, listen, I think Paxton wins that race because it's still Texas.
00:11:37.000 And the sample here apparently oversampled Hispanic voters.
00:11:43.000 It's within margin of error.
00:11:45.000 But bottom line is that Tallarico is not a long shot in Texas.
00:11:50.000 He is like a medium shot in Texas.
00:11:52.000 That is not good.
00:11:55.000 Apparently, according to the poll, one quarter of non MAGA Republicans actually back Tallarico, 68% of independents, and virtually all Democrats support Tallarico.
00:12:05.000 Again, I've said before, Paxton is not the strongest candidate in the world.
00:12:09.000 If I were in Texas, obviously I'd vote for him to stop
00:12:13.000 radical trans, the kids, howdy, dooty, from getting ascendancy.
00:12:17.000 But it turns out that getting rid of strong incumbents, even if you don't like them very much, in favor of weak challengers has some cost.
00:12:26.000 It is not just in Texas that we have a problem.
00:12:30.000 In Maine, there are polls showing, there's a new University of New Hampshire poll, it shows.
00:12:35.000 Maine Senate President Troy Jackson, who is the guy who replaced Graham Platt, and who it turns out is also a giant weirdo, is leading incumbent U.S. Senator Susan Collins, 49 46, in a potential general election matchup.
00:12:50.000 So, were he to win, that is a major problem.
00:12:53.000 By the way, I have to say, what the hell is going on in Maine?
00:12:55.000 Seriously, what is happening in Maine?
00:12:56.000 I used to think that all the stories that Stephen King wrote about weirdos in Maine, like these weird towns in Maine, that maybe he was just exaggerating for fictional effect.
00:13:03.000 And it turns out that every person who runs as a Maine Democrat.
00:13:08.000 Has some weird kink.
00:13:09.000 Like, for example, this new Maine Democratic candidate, Troy Jackson, he has two kids with his second cousin.
00:13:16.000 What is happening up in Maine, man?
00:13:18.000 Like, what is happening?
00:13:20.000 I don't get it.
00:13:22.000 Are there just not that many people in Maine?
00:13:22.000 Really?
00:13:26.000 Why is everybody in Maine either a bizarre world nicotine salesman who thinks demons attacked him or a guy who wants to rape home invaders or alternatively a guy who nailed his cousin?
00:13:39.000 What is happening up in Maine?
00:13:40.000 Maine, get control of yourselves.
00:13:42.000 Seriously.
00:13:43.000 Jackson, by the way, also admits that he ran anonymous troll accounts to troll Republicans online.
00:13:47.000 He seems like a good pick.
00:13:49.000 Now, as you know about any campaign, opposition research is a big part of it.
00:13:53.000 And today we got a report from CNN that suggested you ran troll accounts in your past to troll Republicans online.
00:14:02.000 Is that true?
00:14:03.000 What's your response?
00:14:05.000 Well, I guess so.
00:14:08.000 The thing about it is that I fight for workers.
00:14:12.000 And during that period, me and Governor LePage were having quite a time.
00:14:17.000 And he wasn't helping workers, and I'm interested in fighting for workers.
00:14:23.000 Hmm, hmm.
00:14:25.000 He seems like a charmer.
00:14:26.000 Hey, but he could win.
00:14:28.000 Hey, so that'd be Republicans down once here.
00:14:29.000 Remember, Republicans currently have 53.
00:14:32.000 Hey, so that would take us down to 52 if you are a conservative or Republican.
00:14:36.000 Sherrod Brown right now is running a very close race with John Husted in Ohio.
00:14:40.000 And despite the fact that Mike DeWine wins generally very, very big victories, the last couple Senate races in Ohio have been pretty close.
00:14:45.000 Bernie Moreno narrowly won his seat, JD Vance narrowly won his seat.
00:14:50.000 So John Husted is running in Ohio.
00:14:53.000 Sher Brown, who's a former senator, is running against him.
00:14:55.000 He's dead even.
00:14:56.000 You lose that seat, you're down to 52.
00:14:58.000 Roy Cooper is almost certain to take the Republican Senate seat in North Carolina.
00:15:01.000 He's up by almost double digits in the polls right there.
00:15:03.000 So, barring some sort of cataclysmic circumstance, that would take you down to 51.
00:15:07.000 Alaska has a person named Mary Peltota, who's in a dead heat with the Republican Senator Dan Sullivan.
00:15:14.000 That would take you down to 50.
00:15:16.000 Iowa's Senate seat, left open by Joni Ernst, is now a dead heat.
00:15:19.000 That would take you down to 49.
00:15:22.000 And of course, Tallerico in Texas could take you down to 48.
00:15:24.000 So, There is a blue wave scenario.
00:15:26.000 I don't think this is what's going to happen here, but there is a blue wave scenario where Republicans drop five seats in this election cycle.
00:15:32.000 And that is going into a 2028 election cycle where Republicans are vulnerable in a bunch more seats.
00:15:37.000 So if they were down to 48, Chuck Grassley could retire in Iowa.
00:15:40.000 He's currently 92.
00:15:41.000 Running for reelect at 94, that would be a hell of a thing in a presidential election year.
00:15:51.000 So that could take you down to 47.
00:15:53.000 Ted Butt is up in North Carolina if North Carolina keeps trending blue.
00:15:56.000 Then that could take you down to 46.
00:15:58.000 Ron Johnson is up for reelect in Wisconsin.
00:15:59.000 That could take you down to 45.
00:16:01.000 Lisa Murkowski is up again in Alaska.
00:16:03.000 That could take you down to 44.
00:16:05.000 And then, of course, there's John Fetterman, who caucuses with the Democrats, but he's not as crazy as the Democrats.
00:16:09.000 He's up for reelection.
00:16:10.000 He will be primaried.
00:16:12.000 So you would be down to 44 seats, and all the Democrats would be radicalized.
00:16:18.000 Okay, so that would put them at almost filibuster proof levels.
00:16:21.000 And that's if they leave the filibuster in place.
00:16:23.000 Add that to a House wipeout in 2026.
00:16:26.000 And President Trump's successor running on the back of whatever Trump's popularity rating will be in 2028.
00:16:33.000 So, when I say that Spain looks like what our future could be, I mean it.
00:16:38.000 Like, we are a couple of elections away from having to face this thing head on.
00:16:42.000 Like, this could happen really, really quickly.
00:16:44.000 This is why it is quite important the president governs well and that Republicans run a good candidate in 2028.
00:16:49.000 Because if they don't, you could easily see an AOC or a Westmore with a Democrat Congress and a Democrat Senate poised to shove America far to the left, maybe.
00:16:58.000 For good.
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