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00:02:24.000I want to begin the show, however, talking about DSA.
00:02:28.000There were some revealing clips that came out over the weekend of the people that run the Democrat Socialist of America party platform and what they actually believe.
00:02:38.000And I want to explain where this is coming from.
00:02:41.000And there's a clip that we never played on the show from Secretary Marco Rubio that I think is.
00:02:48.000It is so important that you really internalize what he's saying in this clip because I think it's fundamentally accurate.
00:02:57.000Now, Marco, of course, you know, without weighing into the horse race on the Republican side ahead of 2028, Marco is one of the most eloquent communicators when it comes to the issue of socialism and Marxism.
00:03:12.000Part of that obviously comes from his background, his proximity to Cuba, his own Cuban heritage.
00:03:19.000And understanding that dynamic extraordinarily well, it's not been something that snuck up on Marco Rubio.
00:03:24.000He's been thinking deeply about this problem and what he has perceived as the rise of this ideology in the United States for a long time.
00:03:32.000And therefore, he is a great tip of the spear when it comes to countering it.
00:03:37.000So, this was a speech that Secretary Rubio gave on July 15th.
00:03:57.000This is a distinctive and unique evil.
00:04:00.000It has always been driven by a hatred, above all else, a hatred for civilization itself.
00:04:07.000It is a revolt of the worst against the best, a revolt of the weak and the cowardly against the strong and the good.0.51
00:04:15.000It is perpetrated by those who cannot build, who cannot create, who cannot achieve great things, and take their revenge upon the world for their own inadequacy by seeking to destroy those who can.
00:04:40.000It is a poisonous resentment cloaked in the language of equality and justice and liberation, an overwhelming need to tear down what greater men have built.
00:04:57.000He goes on in this speech to say that it makes everything low and gray.
00:05:03.000You lose every exceptional characteristic of the human soul.
00:05:07.000And ultimately, that is what has made America so powerful, so amazing, so exceptional, so rich, so innovative, so pioneering.
00:05:19.000And the DSA, this rise that you're seeing, now that we hear that over a majority of Democrats have a favorable view of socialism in this country, we must address it.
00:08:57.000They believe in a nirvana, they believe in a utopian idea that is terrifying.
00:09:04.000That people aren't innately full of sin.
00:09:06.000We as Christians understand that the sin nature leads people to do bad things and that we need to be redeemed and the state needs to step in and protect us at times.
00:09:19.000Their vision for the future of this country is anarchy.
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00:12:18.000Here's how it will work once a month, our five city run grocery stores will set prices for this core set of goods at 30% below typical retail prices.
00:12:48.000So he's going to force all the capital to flee New York, but he's still going to promise all these free goodies based on a depleted income base, a tax base that's getting smaller, not larger, because that's what happens in socialism.0.93
00:13:02.000Smart people, productive people, the great people, the people that built this country and that continue to make it thrive and to continue to make it rich, they will flee to red states where they don't have to put up with this garbage.
00:13:14.000But they don't really talk about that, do they?
00:13:33.000Democratic socialism sounds benign, but at the core of democratic socialism is Marxism.
00:13:39.000And at the core of Marxism is this fake offer that if you turn over more of your individual freedom, we're going to provide you security, we're going to provide you free health care, we're going to provide you free education.
00:13:51.000But the problem is that when they can't deliver on it or when you're not happy with it, you don't get your freedoms back.
00:13:56.000And by freedoms, I don't just mean elections.
00:13:57.000I'm talking about the right to choose your own doctor, the right to make health care decisions for yourself, what your kids learn in school, what schools they go to.
00:14:04.000All that stuff you lose control over and you don't get it back.
00:14:07.000Just because the security they promised you didn't happen.
00:14:11.000So that's what we're on the verge of having to decide here in this country.
00:14:14.000It's a reason why people flee countries that have this stuff.
00:14:22.000So they promise you free health care, they promise you free schooling, they promise you all of these things.
00:14:28.000But when they fail to deliver a superior product, you lose that freedom once you give it over to them to have any choice, to have any selection, to be able to determine where your kid goes to school, what they learn.
00:14:41.000To determine what kind of goods and services you're able to buy, that is ultimately the end point for Marxism.
00:14:49.000That's why when you go to a grocery store in Cuba or a grocery store in Russia, the options are very limited.
00:15:44.000He understood that we are on a race against the clock as conservatives.
00:15:48.000Our ideas must prevail and they must be successful soon and very soon, or else more and more young people with the affordability crisis, the housing crisis, not being able to afford to start a family and get married, that problem will cause radical politics to emerge in this country, and it's already doing it.
00:17:42.000Let's start with the Democrat primaries.
00:17:44.000There was a poll that came out of New Hampshire that had AOC leading, and there was an open question Are the Democrats going to start with New Hampshire?
00:17:52.000Are they going to start with South Carolina?
00:18:14.000Second of all, I don't know if you saw, there's a new University of New Hampshire poll showing you leading in the presidential race in New Hampshire.
00:19:34.000And then everything after that moved around, but it didn't really matter because Iowa and New Hampshire were disproportionately influential.
00:19:40.000The Democratic Party has decided that those two states cannot go first in large part because they're not diverse.
00:19:49.000But when you take those two states out of the equation, Iowa completely at New Hampshire going third, you're asking for trouble because you're asking for unpredictability.
00:20:19.000This is basically made because the Democratic Party wanted a state with a large percentage of the electorate being black voters to go first.
00:20:26.000And so now the question is who is advantaged by that for prospective candidates?
00:20:34.000One person's clearly advantaged is Kamala Harris.
00:20:36.000I don't know that this is good for AOC, honestly.
00:20:38.000It could be, but it's not clear that it is.
00:20:41.000Yeah, I tend to see the same thing here, Mark.
00:20:45.000When they picked South Carolina, I thought it was a huge.
00:20:54.000I think the Democrat Party, we had Evan Barker on last week, Mark, and she was talking about her view inside the Democrat apparatus.
00:21:04.000She was a fundraiser for them, and she felt like the party in general learned the wrong lesson from the Obama years, that it became, instead of the message of Obama, which was sort of colorblind and we're all one, the Democrat Party took it into this complete I would say race to the bottom with racial grievances, tribalism, identity politics.
00:21:28.000And it feels like that's continuing on.
00:21:30.000The whole tribalization of the Democrat Party is who are you going to favor, a white state in New Hampshire, a more Hispanic leading state in Nevada, or a more black leaning state in South Carolina.
00:21:42.000And that is going to have ramifications down the road.
00:21:45.000It feels like everything in the Democrat Party has become a question about those racial politics.
00:21:52.000I don't think that's a winner, Mark, actually, because I think this is going to disadvantage their stronger candidates.
00:21:58.000But Kamala Harris and AOC, Kamala's polling down at the bottom.
00:22:02.000I think we have that New Hampshire poll here, if you guys want to throw that up.0.82
00:22:06.000It's, let me see which number it is here.
00:22:10.000Okay, so you got AOC, this is New Hampshire.
00:22:12.000AOC's at the top, Buttigieg, Mark Kelly, Gavin Newsom, Bernie Sanders, and then Kamala in New Hampshire.
00:22:19.000I haven't seen the polling in South Carolina, but we have to, Guess that this is, I guess, the real question here is Mark, are they rigging it again?
00:22:30.000Is the Democrat establishment rigging the primary again for their favored candidates?
00:22:37.000And are you hearing that Kamala has the sort of pool internally to get this type of stuff done?0.73
00:22:42.000Is she the preferred candidate of the establishment?0.98
00:22:46.000And again, I believe this happened not to favor a candidate, but to put their finger on the scale, as you said, for black voters.
00:22:53.000In today's Democratic Party, It's not just the super woke who say New Hampshire is too white to go first.0.55
00:23:02.000It's just too white for the party.0.88
00:23:04.000And look, there's something to that.0.88
00:23:06.000Not only is it almost entirely white, with the exception of Manchester and Portsmouth, it doesn't really have cities.
00:23:13.000So ideally, if you're trying to be fair and equitable and produce the strongest possible nominee, you want a state that is representative of the country and representative of the party.
00:24:39.000I think it becomes more interesting, Mark.
00:24:41.000Because we are looking at a Democrat party that is so divided right now between this rising far left DSA cohort within its ranks, which really has captured so much of the grassroots energy, and the more establishment wing.
00:24:57.000I looked at the choice of South Carolina that this is a favor, this is them trying to stack the deck in favor of the more moderate wing of the party to give them a leg up as they head into that second, third, fourth primary states.
00:25:21.000I mean, I think for electability in a general presidential election, yeah, probably.
00:25:25.000But they did the same thing because they did the same thing with Hillary and Bernie, and they've done the same thing against Bernie actually twice.
00:25:44.000You don't know what was in the hearts of and the minds of every member of the committee, but I really do think the primary driver here was they wanted a state that was interested, right?
00:25:56.000They want to start with a smaller state, a state that's got affordable television advertising rates, a state that geographically you can get across and campaign in, where the playing field's somewhat level.
00:26:08.000And you want to reward black voters because they're such a big part of the Democratic constituency.0.64
00:26:14.000So, You also run a risk if you pick a state that's never gone early before.
00:26:21.000Because if you go early, there's a lot of pressure.
00:26:25.000And lastly, and I think this is probably a big reason, it's reportedly a big reason why they chose it over Nevada.
00:26:31.000You want a state that can count quickly.
00:26:34.000You can't have the first primary take so long to count the votes that the second primary is already happening, right?
00:26:41.000And we know from the last two presidential cycles Nevada doesn't count very fast.
00:27:28.000Turning point still knows that, and TikTok has always strived to build the kind of place that thrives on respectful connection, where curiosity fuels connection, and we can share what's on our minds and learn from each other.
00:27:40.000When ideas meet respect, good things happen.
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00:27:57.000You can feel it in the comments, in the thank you from a stranger halfway across the world.
00:28:01.000TikTok is a place where respect opens the door for discussion and discussion helps us build something real.
00:28:10.000Mark, you went viral for this clip, so I'm going to play the clip and then we'll go from there.
00:28:26.000But what we're seeing now with people lashing out at JD Vance, it is largely the establishment who sees, in some cases, The opportunity to break the Trump grip on the Republican Party, to go back to a Republican Party that they liked before.
00:28:57.000Explain this dynamic because, you know, back in 2016, we had the Never Trumpers.
00:29:03.000You know, there was the cover of the National Review.
00:29:06.000And it felt like basically Trumpism and MAGA won, and there's a resurgence.
00:29:11.000And it seems like Marco and JD are that proxy battle heading into 2028.
00:29:18.000What are the dynamics at play, and what are you watching for?
00:29:21.000Well, you can't paint with too broad a brush, right?
00:29:24.000Not everybody who doesn't like JD Vance or poses him for the nomination is motivated by a desire to return to the Romney, Bush, McCain Republican Party, but some of them are.
00:30:07.000We have to go back to a pre Trump Republican Party.
00:30:09.000We cannot let MAGA continue to dominate the party.
00:30:13.000And it's fascinating because not everybody likes what JD Vance says, including to Joe Rogan.
00:30:21.000But go back and look at what he said and ask yourself did he say anything that was wrong about Israel?
00:30:28.000Did he say anything that was wrong about taxes or the economy?
00:30:32.000They may not agree with him on his position, but in terms of facts, With a few exceptions, he was spot on.
00:30:40.000And a lot of them privately agree with what he's saying.
00:30:43.000So, their distaste for MAGA, their distaste for the Trump era, I would ask them, what is it that you don't like?
00:30:51.000What is it besides Trump himself, besides his style, besides his violation of some norms, what is it that you don't like?
00:30:57.000And it's going to be fascinating to see JD Vance navigate this because since Rogan, he's largely been out of the limelight because he's just had a kid.
00:31:04.000So, I'll be curious to see how he speaks about all this stuff when he comes back and starts doing interviews again.
00:31:10.000I did sort of a very unscientific, real world polling, just asking, you know, friends of mine, associates, colleagues about some of the statements about Israel or, you know, Iran, the MOU.
00:31:23.000Obviously, he was seen out front with the MOU.
00:31:26.000And what struck me, Mark, is just how popular and mainstream the things that he was saying have really become with a lot of people on the right.
00:31:34.000Now, when you get on X, it's a battlefield, right?
00:31:37.000People that represent different constituencies are really vocal, really loud.
00:32:09.000He's talking about common good economics.
00:32:11.000I think that is popular because there is a felt need, whether it be affordability or the wealth inequality that has, you know, exploded after COVID.
00:32:21.000I think he's got the winning message in a lot of ways.
00:32:24.000I'm a big supporter of his, but I understand that people are not.
00:32:27.000They think he's, These are some of the things I've heard that he's too tied to Tucker.
00:32:31.000He hasn't disavowed Tucker or something.
00:32:33.000That they don't think he's got the proper foreign policy position on Israel or that he was too aggressive on the MOU.
00:33:08.000Now, one thing I want to say, Mark, because I think this is getting lost in it, I'm not alleging the people that are attacking him on X, for example, are paid to do so.
00:33:15.000I think they have really legitimate questions and concerns.
00:33:20.000But my guess is he's going, these are popular positions.
00:33:42.000You go back and look at how Al Gore was covered or Dan Quayle was covered or Kamala Harris.
00:33:46.000It's a tough job to do well in because you have to agree with the boss.
00:33:50.000And as the saying goes, you get all of his enemies and only a few of his friends.
00:33:55.000At the same time, beyond people who don't want him to be the future of the party, It's difficult as vice president to enunciate what you really think because you got to go with what the boss thinks.
00:34:08.000So, for instance, I really don't know what JD Vance thinks about the current Trump administration policies on the economy.
00:34:15.000The policies on Iran get a lot of attention for obvious reasons, but where is he on the economy?
00:34:19.000I don't really know how he might differ from Donald Trump on the economy.
00:34:23.000And I think if he does run for president, it'll be both a challenge because he'll have to separate politely from his boss, but also an opportunity to define himself maybe on different terms.
00:34:33.000And I've no doubt he's a free market capitalist, but But his boss has, you know, people say, well, his economic policies are Democrat.
00:34:41.000A lot of things Donald Trump has been for, like taking ownership in these companies.
00:34:46.000That's not traditional Republican economics either.
00:36:45.000You know, my wife and I got up and we said the prayer that we've said every single day since we announced that we were running, and that's to put on God's full armor protection.
00:37:30.000And You know, I'm excited about this process.
00:37:32.000You know, I'm kind of reinvigorated because when you're running a primary, you're running against guys that mostly have the same beliefs that you have.
00:37:42.000And now, you know, in this general, you know, the two parties have never been further apart ideologically.
00:37:47.000And the Democrat Party has wholeheartedly embraced Democrat socialism.
00:37:51.000And you can really focus on the issues and you can focus on the differences and where this country is going.
00:37:57.000You know, one party wants to, you know, embrace this Democrat socialist mentality open borders, open prisons.
00:38:04.000Getting rid of the Senate, you know, completely undermining and changing the very foundations that this country was founded on.
00:38:11.000And one party believes in common sense ideas, trying to create equality, trying to create the right economic environment for people to thrive individually and businesses to thrive and to respect individual liberties.
00:38:24.000You know, and I'm excited to be able to make that distinction.
00:38:27.000Yeah, I mean, that was really well put, Jay.
00:38:29.000I mean, we spent a lot of our first hour of the show today talking about the rise of DSA and what their policy planks actually are.
00:39:08.000They spent a ton of money against him.
00:39:11.000You know, and they wanted somebody who they felt would fit this district more, somebody who was more moderate, and they didn't get that.
00:39:19.000And, you know, they got Amish Shaw again, who ran two years ago against David Swiker, lost 52 48.
00:39:26.000You know, and he's somebody who wants a single payer system, you know, that wants Medicaid for all and, you know, wants to embrace and has embraced a lot of these Democrat socialist policies that, you know, believes in the destruction of capitalism and the destruction of the American empire and, you know, wants to undermine so many of the foundational qualities that we believe.
00:39:47.000And you have to, I think a rational person is going to look at.
00:39:51.000Where this Democrat socialist movement is going.
00:39:54.000Who are the leaders of the Democrat Party now?
00:40:00.000They are having tremendous success around the country, not just in New York with the three House seats there, but in Colorado, in Pennsylvania, in the mayor race in DC.
00:40:11.000The Democrat Party is panicking about this because they know that these ideas and the ideology that they espouse, especially here in CD1 in this district, that is a center right district.
00:40:25.000You know, it's a district that has 60,000 more registered Republicans than Democrats, got 180,000 registered independents.
00:40:32.000And I believe most of those independents lean to the right, you know, but they want the right economic opportunities for their children to succeed in the next generations.
00:40:41.000They want individual liberties and they do not want this platform that believes in fundamentally changing America and what's made it great.
00:40:48.000You know, you look at the last 250 years, what we've been able to accomplish and the poverty that capitalism has eliminated, not just here in this country, but around the world.
00:40:59.000It is the greatest system to lift people out of poverty and give people who come from nothing the opportunity to be a success in life.
00:41:18.000And you started this conversation, Jay, basically saying, hey, listen, the ideological divergence between the two parties has never been greater, never been larger.
00:41:30.000And the DSA's plan for America is to destroy it.
00:41:33.000It is to destroy what has made America America.
00:41:36.000And you go around your district, and I know that district pretty well now, as I've moved to Arizona in November, really before that of last year.
00:43:04.000I love the fact that it's consequential.
00:43:06.000I talked about that in my speech after we won in the primary.
00:43:10.000You know, like when you do things, you want to be involved in something that's going to have real meaning and going to have an impact on the future of our country.
00:43:18.000I truly believe that this seat and this election, this midterm election, has the ability to fundamentally shape our country going forward.
00:43:26.000I think one of the things that we need, Andrew, is Christians to be engaged in the political process.
00:43:32.000We have 40 million Christians around the country that don't vote, that aren't engaged in the process.
00:43:38.000And for me, we're going to do all kinds of events.
00:43:41.000We're going to do town halls where we talk to independents and Democrats.
00:43:46.000Hear what I believe and why I believe it.
00:43:48.000The impact that I've tried to have on this community, the engagement that my wife and I have always done throughout my time in the NFL, and why I wanted to get into politics to effectuate people's lives.
00:43:59.000But the other thing I want to do is I want to go to churches and I want to sit down and be able to talk to people in those communities, in those churches, about why they should care about this process, the impact it has.
00:44:10.000Because I believe if you're a Christian and you believe in trying to live a life for Christ, then there's only one party that you can support.
00:44:21.000The Republican Party and conservatives are perfect, not by any means.
00:44:25.000But when you look at the two parties and what they advocate for and where they want this country to go, if you believe in God and you are a Christian, there's only one party that's advocating for those policies that respects life and tries to create the right opportunity for this country to follow its Judeo Christian roots.
00:44:44.000And that is the conservatives, that is the Republican Party.
00:44:47.000You know, so I want to do something that isn't done a lot in politics and going and doing those meetings in churches on Saturdays.
00:44:55.000Talking, giving the right opportunity and forum for people in those churches to come out and hear you and question you and listen to you because we need those people engaged.
00:45:05.000We're going to do our huddles that we do every Sunday where we go into people's homes and you invite all your friends and family, not as a fundraiser, but to communicate and talk and to be able to ask questions.
00:45:16.000We're going to be doing our Friday night football events that we started last year where we go to all the football games.
00:45:22.000Jay Feely for Congress, Jay Feely for Congress.
00:45:46.000Because Senator Rand Paul, Republican from Kentucky, publicly released the Fauci diaries that he uncovered in the course of his investigation into Anthony Fauci.
00:45:57.000And he released them on July 25th, 2026, as part of a Senate Homeland Security Committee.
00:46:02.000Oversight investigation into COVID 19 origins and Fauci's role.
00:46:08.000Senator Paul posted a thread on Tony's diaries covering roughly December 2019.
00:46:15.000So, right before the outbreak was felt very strongly here in the United States, we were getting reports of it in China.
00:46:23.000So, it covers it from December 2019 through December 2022.
00:46:27.000And it's all available on the Senate site.
00:46:32.000But what he does is he frames What Dr. Fauci said publicly versus what he wrote privately in his own journal.
00:46:42.000And this is becoming shortly before Dr. Fauci is scheduled, subpoenaed to testify before the committee.
00:46:49.000So these are contemporaneous notes of what Dr. Fauci saw and what he was saying versus what he said publicly, which we have a very ample record of.
00:47:00.000And there is a couple of things that are just extraordinary, okay?
00:47:06.000One, We get this weird view into Dr. Fauci being completely obsessed with himself and his own fame.
00:47:13.000He notes more than once at his, he's almost flabbergasted at how famous he was becoming, that he is probably the most famous scientist in the world.
00:48:27.000This is saying I spoke with Bill de Blasio, mayor of New York City, and convinced him, based on what I was saying publicly in my conversation tonight, to close the New York City schools.
00:48:38.000I went on to tell him he could close the bars and restaurants in New York City.
00:48:42.000I had a similar call with Ann O'Leary, the chief staff of Governor Gavin Newsom of California, and said that based on my TV appearances today and yesterday, the governor has decided to close the schools in California as well as bars and restaurants.
00:48:55.000This is a direct contradiction to his publicly stated statements that he had nothing to do with closing the schools.
00:49:06.000He convinced New York and California, which led the way on these draconian lockdowns, to close everything up.
00:49:15.000The other thing that becomes really interesting is this discussion about where the origin of the virus came from.
00:49:23.000There is a very, very famous meeting of 12 scientists that gathered in a room.
00:49:27.000And from that, we got proximal origin, right?
00:49:57.000The wet market was already off the table in his own private notes.
00:50:02.000And yet, we took months of deliberation saying that it was probably a lab leak.
00:50:07.000We had an argument, very, very loud and vociferous, that it was probably a lab leak because the Wuhan Institute was right there where the source of the spread originated.
00:50:17.000It was very obvious to anybody with common sense.
00:50:21.000And yet, they denied this, they obfuscated, they lied publicly.
00:50:26.000But in his own notes, as of January 2020, We knew that the wet market was off the table.
00:50:34.000We got banned on social media for saying this.
00:51:04.000Dr. Rand Paul says it was never a 50 50 room as was expressed.
00:51:10.000So, in May 23rd, 2021, Fauci called the lead author of Proximal Origin, the paper he'd been citing publicly as independent science, for reassurance about his own NIH grant.
00:51:24.000His diary I feel much better now that he is in total support of what I have been saying.
00:51:36.000He was very emphatic that the work that was done at the Wuhan Institute in association with our grant was not gain of function.
00:51:43.000In addition, he confirmed that if you match the chimeric viruses that were made in the context of the NIH grant at Wuhan, they are not even close sequence wise to the SARS CoV 2.
00:51:55.000So this is basically establishing that he gets to keep his grant.
00:52:00.000There is so much more here that needs to be unpacked, and we're going to unpack it in the days to come.
00:52:06.000Dr. Fauci is Probably the biggest shape shifting liar of a con artist that's ever been unleashed on the American public, and he's being caught out by his own freaking diary.0.98
00:52:17.000You can't make this stuff up for nearly 3,000 years.0.98
00:52:22.000Homer's The Odyssey has shaped Western imagination.
00:52:26.000It tells the story of Odysseus as he faces monsters, shipwrecks, false comforts, and impossible choices on his long journey home.
00:52:35.000As one of the foundational works of Western literature, Homer's epic is more than a mythology, it explores permanent questions about.
00:52:42.000Courage duty loyalty, family leadership, temptation and the search for home.
00:52:48.000In one of the epic's defining moments, Odysseus rejects the offer of immortality from the goddess Calypso, choosing instead the long and difficult journey home.
00:52:57.000His decision reveals one of the central themes of the Odyssey, that a life of duty, family and home is greater than a life devoted to comfort or glory.
00:54:37.000People like me who have been better or not even better, the best at surveying and measuring and tracking the Trump coalition, which is different than any previous Republican coalition, have been now for over a year.
00:54:51.000And by the way, that included Charlie because he was one of my only allies before Operation Midnight Hammer.
00:54:57.000Trying to warn everybody that if you do this, it will be seen as a gross betrayal by a huge and critical section of your base, and they will not come back.
00:57:06.000That entire group doesn't have a single, single data point on their side to argue for the catastrophic policy that they have led this administration in, that they have advocated for, which is, by the way, more of the same Bushism.
00:57:21.000It's the exact reason why Donald Trump was able to win a nomination against 17 other people.
00:57:26.000And by the way, make the biggest political, most impressive political comeback in U.S. history.
00:57:32.000So, why on earth would we ever think it was a good idea to go down the path of those?
00:57:37.000People, the dinosaurs who represent a shrinking and dying coalition, it's not even a coalition, it's a shrinking and literally dying demographic in the US electorate.
00:57:47.000The only thing they've accomplished since, and yes, you know, people like Charlie and I were successful in limiting the strikes last year, but what we knew what everyone else didn't want to accept is that if they did Operation Midnight Hammer, it was always going to lead to an unpopular, full on kinetic war.
00:58:05.000And now here we are, Andrew, and the only thing they accomplished, the only thing this group of people have accomplished is that.
00:58:12.000Now, MAGA has shrunk and transformed into something that is dwarfed by what the Democrats are going to put together.
00:58:30.000I wish people would have been able to read it sooner so we didn't have to go through this painful process.
00:58:35.000But millennials are actually the largest voting eligible population share in this country.
00:58:40.000Boomers just vote at a higher rate, but they turn 80 this year and will soon fall off.
00:58:46.000Chasing away millennials was the single most unwise, is the best word I could drum up right now, move that I've ever seen a political party make.0.61
00:58:57.000Rich, so with millennials, you know, we saw a big move.
00:59:02.000Okay, if you date all the way back to Obama when we lost millennials by, I don't know what it was, like 40 points or something, it became basically a swing vote.
00:59:51.000Millennials, and if you look at the story of millennials, of which I am one, you'll see 9 11 hit them.
00:59:57.000The minute they come into the workforce and they become adults, right, the oldest of them, which is me, I'm right before Gen X.
01:00:03.000They get hit with 9 11 and it completely changes their world and how things work.
01:00:08.000Unfortunately, it also stripped a lot of their liberties, which soured them on the Republican Party later down the road when it became clear that it wasn't worth it.
01:00:16.000Then they start to recover from some of this and they get smashed with the financial crisis.
01:00:23.000He resurrects the Republican Party after two very disappointing years when they backed Obama.
01:00:31.000In 2017, they become the largest share, the largest single generational share of the voting eligible population, but they're still not voting at significantly higher rates.0.64
01:00:41.000So boomers and others are able to keep them from flexing their political muscles, as we like to say.
01:00:48.000It's not until 2024 when Donald Trump didn't just change minds.
01:00:53.000These are disaffected people that through this, what happened after that, COVID, right?
01:00:58.000Donald Trump was able to convince a large group of millennials to come out and vote again and participate in the process when in previous elections they had checked out again.
01:01:10.000They gave Obama a chance and they're okay, and they came out in large shares for Obama.
01:01:14.000They drove older shares of the vote down into the mid to low 20s.0.54
01:01:19.000And then by the time Obama began to cause disaffection himself, You know, the boomers started to get to the mid and high 20s again, even in some elections and midterms, of course, in the 30s.0.56
01:01:31.000So they punch way above their weight because they're voting at rates, you know, that are significantly higher.
01:01:37.000Trump didn't judge the millennial mind changer and did a whole show on this and inside the numbers because of the death of Hulk Hogan and what it meant culturally.
01:01:45.000And it was a perfect example, perfectly symbolic.
01:02:54.000They're Trump's swing states and a particular brand of Trump that now, unfortunately, most voters, whether you support Donald Trump or not, is irrelevant.
01:03:04.000You are still a shrinking part of the electorate, the overall electorate.
01:03:09.000All that matters is how the rest of his coalition from 24 views it.
01:03:13.000And they don't view it that way anymore.
01:03:15.000So that hurts, by extension, Hurts the only guy who can win a national election.
01:03:32.000Charlie was a big believer in the fact that JD was the right pick for vice president because of his story, because he thought that he could help in the Rust Belt.
01:03:40.000All right, Rich, I want to show another graph from some of your polling here.
01:03:44.000Because I think it's really important that people visually see this stuff.
01:04:27.000It's tough to negotiate with Iran.1.00
01:04:28.000This is one of the reasons getting involved in a conflict in the first place was probably a questionable decision because you can always start a war, but you can't finish.0.99
01:05:20.000Honestly, JD Vance, the vice president, is a Helen Keller like miracle worker.
01:05:26.000The fact that he was able to get the terms of the MOU, that the neocons hated, by the way, The fact that he was even able to get those terms, considering what Iranians, how their opinions have changed after Operation Midnight Hammer, is a real testament to how much work he must have put into it and how much persuasion that the guy must be capable of.
01:05:46.000Because the truth is, and people hate this, they hate hearing this, but it's true.
01:05:51.000The warmongers lied to all of you, including the president.
01:05:54.000The Iranians were not these rabid, fanatical pursuers of a nuclear bomb, Andrew.
01:06:04.000In polling from Credible organizations that aren't backed by the CIA and other regime change think tanks is very, very clear.
01:06:13.000From Gallup, the University of Maryland, from Pew, they didn't even believe before Operation Midnight Hammer, they didn't even believe Islam permitted the development of nuclear weapons.0.56
01:06:22.000Now they want a bomb, and it's going to be more difficult for the regime to sell this to their population in the wake of Operation Midnight Hammer.
01:06:33.000I was stunned that JD even got the terms he did because the regime has no incentive.
01:07:25.000And the only time in multi decades of polling by credible outlets, not fake CIA led polling, in multi decade trends, you can see that Operation Midnight Hammer was the catalyst.
01:07:39.000And for the first time ever in the history of their polling, they want a bomb.
01:08:26.000And the question then becomes if you had a magic wand, and from a messaging and a policy standpoint, between now and Election Day in November, what should the admin be hitting hard?
01:09:07.000Honestly, Andrew, everybody's got to get back to work.
01:09:10.000If you want to buck history, you better buck what Congress usually does, which is go home in the second year, especially in the month of August, and do nothing.
01:09:30.000When you got a situation where one in five Republican, predictable, reliable voters might stay home, I don't believe that they're going to vote Dem.
01:09:38.000Maybe some will, but I think what's more likely is they're just not going to show up.