The Great America Show - November 04, 2026


ELECTION SPECIAL: What the Mainstream Media is Hiding from you!

HAHA! Trump Releases Plan to HIT the DEMS where it Hurts!

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00:00:00.000 Hello, everybody, and welcome to a special night.
00:00:06.160 It's a night we've all been waiting for for the last two years.
00:00:09.920 I'm John Fawcett, alongside my good friend and co-host for the night, Stephen Gardner.
00:00:14.140 Stephen, a delight to be joined with you tonight as we go through some of the biggest races
00:00:19.380 and perhaps the biggest midterm election this country has ever seen.
00:00:24.880 Yeah, this is a critical one.
00:00:26.620 president trump needs to keep at least one of the houses it would be best if he could keep two
00:00:32.580 so we're going to go through all of that together i appreciate you co-hosting this with me we're
00:00:38.160 going to have a hoot steven just for the audience uh so we can go through just so we're all on the
00:00:42.820 same page there's been a lot of people who have been waiting for us to get on here live
00:00:46.100 figured 8 30 was a good time we've got some of the races closed as we sit here uh right now parts
00:00:50.780 of indiana kentucky georgia south carolina vermont virginia the remainder of indiana kentucky
00:00:56.560 would be closed in this hour.
00:00:58.820 North Carolina, Ohio, West Virginia, Alabama,
00:01:01.440 Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Maine, Maryland,
00:01:03.760 Massachusetts, Mississippi, Missouri,
00:01:06.260 New Hampshire, New Jersey, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania,
00:01:09.080 Rhode Island, Tennessee, Washington, D.C.
00:01:12.620 All closed right now, as well as Arkansas,
00:01:15.120 which just closed about six minutes ago.
00:01:16.540 It's 8.36 Eastern time, nine o'clock.
00:01:19.780 We're expecting Arizona, Colorado, Iowa,
00:01:22.920 Kansas, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota,
00:01:25.260 Nebraska, New Mexico, New York, South Dakota, Texas, Wisconsin, and Wyoming to close. That's
00:01:31.360 our next call. So we'll get to that nine o'clock. Let's get, let's get right into it. What do you
00:01:36.820 think so far tonight? Your sense as we're seeing some of these races be called pretty darn early.
00:01:42.780 Yeah. It doesn't look like they're going to be, you know, giving us answers in the morning. It
00:01:49.420 looks like probably 90% of these are going to be called tonight. Some of them are already being
00:01:55.320 called like North Carolina, parts of Florida, not, not all of them. Um, and you know, at the end of
00:02:02.380 the day, we still don't really know it is the, uh, it is what Trump did enough, you know, in business,
00:02:09.120 uh, in corporate America, I learned that it doesn't matter what you did. It's what have you
00:02:14.900 done for me lately. Right. And so President Trump, he's done a lot on the border. He's done a lot
00:02:20.740 with immigration and deportation, doing his best to bring down costs. At the same time, he's got
00:02:27.440 this Iran war that a lot of people didn't want. He's got the high gas prices, although they're
00:02:32.680 down quite a lot. And he's held off from attacking Iran in order to do that. So, you know, my thoughts
00:02:41.280 are, I still don't know. I still don't know what's going to go. And so we're going to be
00:02:45.480 walking the audience through that. I've got a bunch of different topics and things that we'll
00:02:49.200 go through. But what's your take? Where do you sit at this moment? Yeah, I'm in total
00:02:54.200 agreeance with you on it for 99%. You know, the gas price thing, I think he got such a raw deal
00:02:59.560 on. You know why? Because we sat, Steve, four years with Joe Biden's gas prices, which was a
00:03:05.040 self-manufactured crisis. We got to think back what Joe Biden did when he came into office.
00:03:09.400 His first thing to do was go after any sort of what they call dirty energy.
00:03:14.720 So he killed all new land leases and he killed any existing ones or ones that were planning to go for drilling on here in America.
00:03:22.160 He manmade this issue.
00:03:24.180 What he do just months before the election, Stephen, he went and drained the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, which is supposed to be used for dire need, hurricanes, natural disasters when we need it the most.
00:03:34.900 So he manmade this crisis and then tried to fix it himself.
00:03:39.100 Whereas President Trump, there's a lot of pushback.
00:03:41.200 And we're going to be hearing about it, I think, for the next two weeks, Stephen. 0.89
00:03:44.560 Was the Iran war the right choice? 0.93
00:03:46.540 Was it the right time?
00:03:48.460 Is he having buyer's remorse?
00:03:50.260 Was he misled?
00:03:51.420 And, you know, I think it's going to be all questions I don't have the answer to.
00:03:54.120 And I don't think you do either, because I think it was a decision he made behind closed doors based on information, you know, he was presented with.
00:04:03.020 So, you know, it's so hard to see.
00:04:06.300 But as you and I were speaking earlier today, this is all part of history, isn't it?
00:04:12.080 Yeah. I mean, historically, statistically, the sitting president, regardless of whether they're Republican or Democrat, they end up losing typically the House and many times the Senate.
00:04:22.760 Obama lost big time. George Bush lost big time.
00:04:26.080 So, you know, that's that's kind of been what's predicted. If they can pull it off, Donald Trump is the man that could pull it off.
00:04:34.260 But he's got a lot of headwinds. Right. And going back to that energy that you were talking about, I mean, the first thing that President Biden did was shut down the Keystone Pipeline, killing 10,000 American jobs.
00:04:45.920 And I read just this morning, President Trump said, we are very close to a solid deal with the country of Canada.
00:04:52.960 And one of the first things we want to do is resurrect the Keystone Pipeline and Canada is going to pay for it.
00:04:59.040 So I know that the president is very conscious about middle America, lower income people and gas prices.
00:05:07.180 Unfortunately, we've got this Iran war that's gone on longer than anyone expected.
00:05:12.100 we've got uh the russia ukraine war going on way longer than anyone expected and now
00:05:18.680 they're trading missiles against electrical power and oil and oil refineries and now we've we've got
00:05:25.980 a glut of oil but we have refinery problems and so he's going to have to chew through that but
00:05:33.040 from everything i'm seeing from energy secretary uh chris wright they know this and they're they're
00:05:38.760 going to be putting their shoulder to the wheel and pushing forward to get this thing solved for
00:05:43.560 us yeah you know it was among the some of the things that we you know we were talking about
00:05:47.900 today was uh um fraud you know president trump uh had his war on fraud went after the fraud
00:05:54.120 but did it move the needle enough you know was it enough fraud uh you know did they go after
00:06:01.460 enough of the fraudsters did they go after these people enough yeah i guess that's a question that
00:06:06.820 the voters are answering right now. Yeah, I think the fraud is really important to people. I genuinely
00:06:12.840 do. But I think their own financial situation is more important to them. Right. So, for example,
00:06:20.040 they don't want any more fraud and they do want arrests and accountability. But arresting a Somali 1.00
00:06:25.980 in Minnesota doesn't make bread less expensive or gas less expensive. So it's like you don't want to 0.93
00:06:33.180 not go after fraud. That's what the Democrats have been doing, right? They allow it. They
00:06:37.100 rig elections off of it. At the same time, it comes down to the economy. And you know what
00:06:43.380 is really interesting to me is President Trump is underwater on inflation, but he's above water
00:06:49.500 on the economy. So it's like people trust him in order to get jobs and manufacturing and
00:06:55.960 investment going. But at the same time, they're hurting in their wallet.
00:06:59.620 and and as i say you know every election comes down to steven people voting with their wallets
00:07:06.000 for those who are joining us we are live tonight steve uh we've got we're up on steven gardener's
00:07:10.260 channel steve i just sent you over i'm not sure if it's populating out to your right channel i just
00:07:13.940 uh texted you over the link um for your audience i'm not sure if it's going out on the right one
00:07:19.360 uh technical difficulties are uh our normality in the uh era of things so steve gets that together
00:07:25.940 No, I do completely agree with you. It's it was something that President Trump tackled on from the beginning, the fraud, the waste, the abuse in which was so rampant when he came in and he's spearheaded it with J.D. Vance.
00:07:46.700 He's got J.D. Vance at the forefront of it, trying to to get to the bottom of it.
00:07:51.360 J.D. Vance is also sitting there waiting to possibly run for president in twenty twenty eight.
00:07:56.220 But there's so much up in the air right now is, you know, if they could pull through some seats tonight, if they get absolutely, you know, washed tonight, you know how the night winds up going.
00:08:06.600 I think that paints a big picture for twenty twenty eight.
00:08:09.420 now, the Democrats never let a crisis go to waste. So the next two years, even if the Democrats do
00:08:14.360 see some sort of power, they will find a way to do something ridiculously stupid to show the 0.99
00:08:20.160 voters, listen, you know, we're not trustworthy. You should never trust us. We completely fooled 0.97
00:08:25.080 you. You should never trust us again. Yeah. You know, I think J.D. Vance is doing a lot of good.
00:08:33.400 I mean, if you let's talk about this for a second. I want to get your thoughts on this. So
00:08:37.200 President Trump, no president in my lifetime has fought this hard to try to win the midterms.
00:08:43.720 With that, he could have sat back. He didn't have to spend $450 million. He didn't have to
00:08:50.160 do 29 rallies in 30 days. He didn't have to single-handedly run 40 tele-rallies.
00:08:59.980 Mike Johnson went to 42 different areas. I believe J.D. Vance was in over 20.
00:09:05.740 In the meantime, they're still running the government. They're still negotiating with Iran, Canada, Mexico. They're being hit by the cartel on the southern border. Like a lot's been going on. But do you think that I know that people appreciate what he's done in the midterms. And I do think if if there is a loss, he has helped mitigate a lot of those losses. But how successful do you think the midterm rallies were?
00:09:31.240 um you know i i guess we'll be able to tell in in a few hours from now i'm not entirely sure
00:09:38.100 was it a little too late i'm not entirely sure i don't put as much though of this blame on 0.79
00:09:43.580 president trump as some of these black pillars do i put a lot of the blame on people like john
00:09:48.700 a lot of people like uh mike johnson who quite frankly couldn't pass president trump's agenda
00:09:55.000 and it's not because they couldn't pass it it's because they didn't care to pass it so i think
00:09:59.100 you put a lot of the blame uh if if this does end up the way i you know that it's certainly looking
00:10:05.160 like it's going to go tonight that you do have to shift a lot of the blame uh to john thune now
00:10:10.100 could you in turn shift that to president trump because he's allowed to thune uh allowed thune
00:10:15.200 to run you know buck wild and do whatever he feels like yeah i guess you know you could do it there
00:10:20.360 but i do think if like i said if this ends the way it does tonight that they've predicted with
00:10:25.480 this massive blue wave, there is going to be a reckoning to be had in the Senate and in the
00:10:33.960 House. We're already hearing rumblings of Jim Jordan trying to move up in leadership on the
00:10:38.580 House side of things. We're hearing rumblings of possible John Thune being ousted as Senate
00:10:44.780 majority leader. So I do put a lot of the blame, Stephen, on these two people who, quite frankly,
00:10:50.940 I don't think pulled their weight. Yeah, I agree with you. I think if they're able to keep the
00:10:56.860 majority, John Thune, you you have served for many years. You have been holding on to the
00:11:02.880 coattails of Mitch McConnell, a Trump hater. But at the same time, like you, you didn't get things
00:11:10.720 passed. And so it's it's time to it's time to get things done. Now, the Save America Act, I think a
00:11:20.620 lot of people wanted that even democrats wanted that yeah um and so we we've we've got to get
00:11:26.980 that thing passed if we get a majority and i don't think that john thune is the guy to get it done
00:11:30.860 yeah i think you're absolutely right folks we are live tonight we're live tonight on the great
00:11:35.220 america show we are live tonight on the stephen gardner show channel uh be sure to tap in let us
00:11:39.940 know where you're tuned in from on the chat if you're on stephen's chat we're going to come to
00:11:42.640 you if you're on our channel the great america show we're going to try to come to you uh we're
00:11:46.060 going to take a quick break here on the other side of this quick break we've got much more to
00:11:49.180 come we've got some updates on some big races that are happening uh as well as polls that are set to
00:11:53.840 close in about 15 minutes so stay with us we're coming right back uh here live tonight with the
00:11:58.640 great steven gardener thanks everybody for staying with us here live tonight we've got some updates
00:12:08.960 on some races uh and we appreciate each and every one of you guys joining us live uh if you're
00:12:13.620 joining us on steven gardener's channel if you're joining us on the great america show we truly do
00:12:18.260 appreciate it so as it says right now uh with the uh new york times how they have it uh called uh
00:12:24.640 43 safe seats for the democrats uh 32 safe seats for the republicans the republicans holding that
00:12:30.160 seat uh in florida ashley moody's seat um with 95 of the vote in imagine that 95 of the vote in
00:12:39.380 and they are able to call a race on election night i can't remember the last time uh we've seen that
00:12:44.860 Um, also John Ossoff, they've called that race, uh, down in Georgia, uh, North Carolina,
00:12:50.860 Roy Cooper, uh, outlasting Michael Watley, former RNC chair, uh, Mark Warner winning
00:12:56.700 in, um, Virginia.
00:12:59.000 And they've called that race for Stratton in Illinois.
00:13:01.900 No surprises there as well as a New Hampshire being called, uh, president Trump reportedly,
00:13:06.980 Steven, not happy with a New Hampshire being called, uh, so early as what he said, uh,
00:13:13.120 against john sununu a household name in new hampshire uh as it sits right now with 32 percent
00:13:18.900 of the votes in 60 uh 40 yeah um sununu i i think could do really well um because of the the name
00:13:30.160 recognition the fact that he was a former i believe state senator um it's not like it's an
00:13:36.640 anti-Trump uh channel or or anything like that or excuse me state or anything like that at the same
00:13:44.200 time uh it does seem to be leaning a little bit more democrat and and so we'll have to figure
00:13:49.820 that out um can you guys can you guys let me know in the comments if you can hear me uh on my end
00:13:55.620 i'm i'm showing that there's a thousand you know 1200 people in here they're watching but then on
00:14:02.160 my own channel it it's showing that there's only 400 people so i don't know if we're having
00:14:07.380 technical issues uh you know what it looks like it's going through on two streams uh for some
00:14:12.200 reason it looks like you get a thousand at one and 400 and the other so nonetheless they're still
00:14:16.500 there i don't know uh technically cancel the other one that's kind of kind of weird technical
00:14:22.460 difficult steve steve it's uh it's all part of the plan you know people see people don't like
00:14:28.220 perfect okay they don't like perfect hair they don't like things just aren't meant to be perfect
00:14:33.040 there's a there's meant to be uh bumps in the road and you know it's all part of it is what uh what
00:14:37.860 you know what matters is we're bringing people uh what they want to hear and uh bringing people
00:14:41.920 the news so the big race we're waiting on steve is texas and what's going to happen in texas with
00:14:50.400 James Tallarico and Ken Paxton. I just don't see how the people of Texas can vote for James
00:14:59.140 Tallarico. Yeah, I agree. I think Tallarico is one of the worst candidates that we've seen.
00:15:07.200 One of my worries is they focus so much on this guy believes that God is non-binary,
00:15:14.020 that there's six genders. Again, if it comes down to the economy, I mean, you don't want a weirdo 1.00
00:15:21.540 that has really weird Christian beliefs. Like I would rather not have a Christian than a Christian 1.00
00:15:26.720 with weird beliefs, right? But I think the major problem is, did they do enough on the economy 1.00
00:15:33.040 or did they lean too much on Trump? Did they lean too much on God's non-binary, 0.70
00:15:38.660 Talafrico is a weirdo. I don't know. I guess we're all going to just have to wait and see 1.00
00:15:44.900 what is going on. But as far as I can tell, a lot of the voting data looked like it was going to go
00:15:54.420 to Ken Paxton. And Seth Keschel told me, do not, you know, don't freak out. Let everybody close
00:16:01.420 the polls and get all of the data in before you have any kind of a freak out, because they
00:16:07.360 typically end up dumping stuff to make the Democrats look good. And then Trump kind of
00:16:12.700 comes in and wins in the end, unless they rig things and, you know, count votes in the middle
00:16:17.500 of the night. And so I don't know. I don't know where things are going to go with Texas. I don't
00:16:24.540 know that Ken Paxton was the strongest candidate, but he is a good guy. He's a great attorney
00:16:29.100 general. I think he's going to be a warrior for President Trump. And Trump has been down there
00:16:34.780 three, maybe even four times. So again, I don't see how Texas suddenly says, you know what? I'm
00:16:41.240 going to vote for Greg Abbott, but you know, I'm going to go ahead and vote for Tallarico. I mean,
00:16:46.320 like such a difference and they haven't had a Democrat Senator for decades. So it would be
00:16:52.640 very weird for that to suddenly crop up. And, and now all of a sudden we've got Tallarico
00:16:58.260 out in Washington, DC. Yeah. You know, it's actually more common than not. And we're going
00:17:03.640 to see that. I think the crossing of the aisles, I think we're going to see that in Michigan with
00:17:10.980 people voting for Mike Rogers and then crossing over and voting for the Democrat over there.
00:17:18.020 I think we saw a little bit in Florida with people voting for Ashley Moody there and then
00:17:23.600 crossing over and voting for David Jolly, who has really sold himself as a middle of the road
00:17:28.100 Democrat and not this Marxist Democrat. Although I'm not really sure what the difference is. I
00:17:32.520 I think I've asked you this before. You know, what's the difference between a modern Democrat and a Marxist Democrat?
00:17:36.780 Because, you know, they're both selling the same, you know, the same Kool-Aid.
00:17:41.060 As it looks right now, we've got about 38, we'll call 40 percent of the vote in Tallarico leads Pax in 58 to 40.
00:17:50.640 Looking over at the gubernatorial race, same thing, 38 percent of the vote in there, 56 percent to 40, about 43 percent.
00:17:59.140 So you've got, like I just said, you've got Abbott polling almost three percentage points higher than you've got Paxton there.
00:18:08.240 And I think probably what it was was that the hate campaign at the end selling Paxton as a cheater and he's this and he's that and he's a cheat.
00:18:20.220 And he said, I've got news for people. Ken Paxton has fought harder for truth, justice and the American way and against the covid tyrants, Stephen.
00:18:30.200 And, you know, this, you know, you've had Paxton on many times.
00:18:33.860 He him and Andrew Bailey from Missouri were the two hardest fighting attorney generals that this country has ever seen when it came time to fight back against the tyrants and covid.
00:18:46.800 Yeah, absolutely. Can I make can I make one announcement, John?
00:18:50.220 So for some reason, YouTube has opened two different shows.
00:18:55.800 One of them, they're saying, we can hear you.
00:18:58.160 We can hear John Fawcett.
00:18:59.480 We love what you guys are saying.
00:19:01.040 The other one is saying, we can only hear you, Steven.
00:19:04.360 So what I'm going to do is I'm going to close down the one where they're saying they can't
00:19:09.000 hear you.
00:19:09.700 If you guys will just go to the channel, you'll see a picture of me and John.
00:19:13.720 That is the correct one.
00:19:15.160 I apologize.
00:19:16.260 YouTube is telling me they're having technical difficulties to see and others
00:19:20.500 are having technical difficulties.
00:19:22.340 I'm going to shut down the one stream and stay on with John.
00:19:24.960 Please go find us.
00:19:25.960 We've got a lot of great information.
00:19:27.460 I just don't want anyone to sit here and not be able to hear John.
00:19:31.500 While we while Stephen handles the technical difficulties.
00:19:34.460 And like I said, Stephen, people like technical difficulties.
00:19:36.840 We've got them all day long.
00:19:38.300 You know, it is what it is. 0.62
00:19:39.980 You've got these some of these house races as here as we go through them in Texas.
00:19:44.600 looking you know pretty darn red so you know i think we are going to get that uh that crossover
00:19:52.460 vote uh where people are going to vote for one candidate we also just got confirmation andy bar
00:19:58.800 will win the race in um um in kentucky for to be the next governor over there we've also got
00:20:06.080 we're being told some numbers coming in from maine uh where susan collins is over there we've got
00:20:11.820 three percent of the vote in um so we're just we're waiting for these numbers to come in still
00:20:16.760 sitting at a 40 40 43 33 uh safe seat so the republicans have some some some uh work to pick
00:20:25.280 up here and they've uh you know they've got to kick the horse and get into gear and all those
00:20:31.740 cast those votes have been cast so i don't know steven how do you how do you feel about this night
00:20:37.700 I mean, I can't I think it's for me, it's still too early to say definitively the Democrats won Georgia.
00:20:47.700 I had you know, I did a show yesterday with my predictions. I figured John Ossoff was going to win.
00:20:53.320 He's you know, he's he's this good looking guy, the central casting guy who appears to be a non Marxist, which he is a Marxist.
00:21:01.560 they all are. But he sold himself to be this middle of the road guy. And once again, the
00:21:06.360 Republicans find themselves in a candidate who just can't resonate with the American people in
00:21:11.200 Mike Collins. Yeah. Georgia, I knew was going to be an uphill battle. Ossoff. I mean, he kind of
00:21:18.160 reminds me of a Kennedy. He's well spoken. He comes he comes from money. He pretends like he
00:21:22.980 doesn't. You know, he he he just does a good job, like you say, as President Trump would say,
00:21:30.940 central casting. Unfortunately, he's not on our team. So I don't want him to to win. And he he
00:21:36.620 is a little bit more radical than some of the other modern moderate Democrats. But let me let
00:21:43.600 me ask you this as as we wait for more things to come in, because I agree with you that I think
00:21:47.860 it's way too early to call this race. I mean, I remember on the presidential night being up till
00:21:53.500 one, two in the morning. But if if President Trump, I want to ask you two questions. If
00:21:58.500 president trump is able to pull this off and he wins what do you think his next moves are and then
00:22:04.320 i want to talk about if he loses what are his next moves because we have to be prepared for both
00:22:09.160 um i think either way he win or lose he goes scorched earth i think he starts to ramp up the
00:22:15.140 arrests uh because this may be over the midterms may be over but you've still got to look towards
00:22:21.280 2028 which you know people say it's very far away and it is far away for picking a candidate but
00:22:26.060 it's not far away in the eyes of the voter, because really, you got about a year, a year
00:22:30.320 and a little bit before these candidates start getting ready, start getting their policies out
00:22:33.880 there. So I think he goes scorched earth one way or the other. I think the arrests have to start to
00:22:39.980 ramp up. I think he he issues some pardons, some preemptive pardons, like we heard him say
00:22:47.080 yesterday in an interview with Miranda DeBine, Elon Musk among them, him probably himself.
00:22:52.640 but i do think he has to he he's got to fight for his life because he may be out of office in 2028
00:22:59.660 but steven they're going to come for him once again they're going to come for his kids they're
00:23:03.780 going to come for elon musk they're going to come for anybody who's been associated with him which
00:23:07.340 is why i'm very disappointed that he didn't get the arrests that we all waited for get the arrests
00:23:13.220 that were all necessary um so i i think one way or another we're going to see a new donald trump
00:23:20.040 starting tomorrow yeah he's gonna have to he's gonna have to now I think if he wins uh he's
00:23:28.120 gonna have to finish off this Iran thing one one way or another this can't sit in limbo I mean I 0.95
00:23:34.200 suppose I suppose he could have his blockade which is been more effective than even attacking them 0.99
00:23:41.040 in my opinion um but you know now he he has announced okay we are not going to continue 0.60
00:23:49.260 to fund Israel. Israel is a first world nation. They can stand on their own feet. They've got a
00:23:56.220 great economy. They can defend themselves. Now, we're going to always have Israel's back. That's
00:24:02.360 not what he is saying there. But a lot of frustration, especially with younger people,
00:24:07.440 has been with Israel. Are we being pulled into Israel's wars? Are we funding Israel 0.53
00:24:12.840 more than America first? But he's going to have to deal with that. And whether that's letting 0.54
00:24:18.920 Israel do what Israel does with Iran or whether he starts up more kinetic warfare with the US
00:24:25.880 military, I think he's going to have to deal with that. I think he's going to have to ramp up the
00:24:29.920 deportations. I think he's going to have to ramp up the war on fraud department. And then he's
00:24:39.380 going to have to deal with some people in the cabinet as well. Right now, there's a possible
00:24:46.220 coup against Pete Hegseth that I'm reading about. I don't know the details of it, but they're saying
00:24:52.940 damning information is going to come out about him. Yeah, that might all be headlines. I don't
00:24:57.340 really know. What do you think happens if he loses? Does he go into signing more executive
00:25:05.160 orders than ever? Does he just become the veto in chief where he just vetoes everything? Your
00:25:13.180 thoughts on what he does if he loses well the good thing about trump is he's never shied steve
00:25:17.740 to tell us what he wants to do or is going to do or should be doing uh and he told us the other day
00:25:22.860 that he will veto anything that comes across his desk and we'll continue to rule by executive order
00:25:28.360 because that's how the democrats uh have done this now the problem is is we are going to have
00:25:34.220 some weak-kneed republicans steven who roll over on their back as we've seen we've got susan collins
00:25:39.100 right now in a race right now who's done this better than anybody she's betrayed the republicans
00:25:43.660 and some people aren't going to be happy to hear me say this but it's the truth and i think this is
00:25:47.740 why some of the voters are are going against her um you know you've got these weak-kneed republicans
00:25:54.380 who will not stand on principle when it comes to uh fighting with the republicans would have no
00:26:00.900 problem standing on principle when the marxist democrats need something and the voters don't
00:26:06.520 like that regardless of what these people think what these these democrats think steven the voters
00:26:11.040 don't want to see that the democrats don't like that and uh you know i think these these these
00:26:16.520 politicians have got to start learning their ways we saw president trump empty out a slew of rhinos
00:26:22.020 marjorie taylor brown you've got uh don bacon who will be leaving uh congress now at the end of this
00:26:28.060 term he did clean house with these people but there's far more of them than meets the eye and
00:26:33.760 And I think something has to be done about them.
00:26:36.460 What do you think?
00:26:37.960 Well, I think regardless of win or lose, he's going to have a stronger MAGA base in the House and over in the Senate.
00:26:45.280 But not having those majorities, I think, is going to make his life really, really difficult.
00:26:51.120 And I, you know, based on how the Democrat Party allows rampant fraud, fraud is baked into how their states are run,
00:27:00.680 how their sanctuary cities are run, how they extract money from hardworking American taxpayers,
00:27:07.580 how they cover up election fraud. Like there's so many problems. But he's going to have a stronger
00:27:15.000 base. But without those majorities, I just worry, are they going to say, screw it? We don't care
00:27:22.360 about the fraud. We don't care about the border. We are going to unleash hell on everyone around
00:27:28.960 Donald Trump and impeach as many as we can. I don't think they care if they have to blow through 0.95
00:27:34.440 hundreds of millions of dollars in order to dismantle Trump. They've been sitting very
00:27:39.980 docile. I think tomorrow morning you're going to see a different Democrat party.
00:27:44.260 Oh, for sure. The Democrats mean to destroy America and anyone who was fooled by this past
00:27:49.340 election. Shame on them. I took a video today. I want to roll it, Steve, for the audience 0.65
00:27:53.120 going to vote 37 seconds or 40 seconds i think the entire video was of me voting notice me going
00:28:02.200 into my pocket to show out to pull out my license uh here in new york one more one more year resident
00:28:08.620 fawcett f-a-w-c-e-t-t i just want to lower it there about my address so
00:28:17.180 I don't need the Marxist Dems showing up.
00:28:23.000 But as you can see here.
00:28:27.380 Take a pen.
00:28:30.300 Thank you.
00:28:33.180 Look at that, Stephen.
00:28:34.360 37 seconds.
00:28:36.200 And I got my ballot.
00:28:37.920 And that was it in the great state of New York.
00:28:41.760 She asked for my name, my address, and my date of birth.
00:28:46.360 not a driver's license nothing else i i i mean it's truly truly sickening and as i sat there
00:28:53.840 and and filled out my ballot card to then put it in a voting machine who knows if it got counted
00:28:58.900 uh it made me sick to my stomach knowing that we could have had voter id this election yeah the
00:29:05.820 save america act uh what one of the most desired and consequential pieces of legislation and the
00:29:13.900 fact that John Thune couldn't whip the votes he couldn't find something that Lisa Murkowski that
00:29:20.140 trader up in Alaska she's gone in 2028 but couldn't get Mitch McConnell couldn't get Tom
00:29:29.180 Tillis some of these other rhinos this is what I'm saying is like unfortunately he's dealing with 0.50
00:29:35.560 rhino garbage right now next year majority or minority he's going to have a better congress
00:29:42.280 But without that majority, he's just he's hamstrung. 0.95
00:29:46.440 They've they've got him by the legs.
00:29:48.340 It doesn't mean he's going to stop fighting.
00:29:50.040 This guy will fight till his very last breath.
00:29:53.180 But I just the fact that we couldn't get the Save America Act across the finish line is really sad to me.
00:30:01.280 And that just goes back to the point, Stephen, of of John Thune obfuscating and delaying and defying president.
00:30:11.280 President, he has no respect for President Trump. Now, I say this all the time on my show, Stephen.
00:30:15.760 I don't care if you hate President Trump, if you dislike him, if you don't care for him, at least respect the office of the presidency.
00:30:21.720 You and I both respected Joe Biden. I know me. I hated showing videos of him falling downstairs and getting lost and confused.
00:30:29.400 It's an embarrassment to the country. It's an embarrassment to the nation.
00:30:32.560 But these Republicans don't lead by example with showing any respect for the office of presidency.
00:30:38.380 They talk to President Trump like he's one of their boys from the street.
00:30:41.020 And I think it's extremely wrong.
00:30:42.860 And I think it's extremely disrespectful to the office of the presidency, whereas the Democrats up until the very end, when they pushed Joe Biden off the metaphorical cliff, revered him.
00:30:52.540 Yeah. Yeah.
00:30:55.900 I mean, like, for example, Spike Lee, he's trying to tell all the sports people, stop visiting the White House.
00:31:03.260 Don't give this guy any oxygen. Don't give him any time.
00:31:06.200 that, you know, they don't want Stephen A. Smith to talk to him. Now they're trying to turn people
00:31:10.740 on Stephen A. Smith. We've got the gal up in Michigan that came out and said, I cannot support
00:31:16.680 Abdul Mohammed El-Sayed. He's he's against Jews. He's against the blacks. And now what are they
00:31:25.320 doing? They've removed her from office. They're booting her out. She told everyone to vote Democrat
00:31:31.680 on everything other than Mike Rogers. I mean, these, this, this group of people are crazy 0.97
00:31:37.080 and it makes me nervous on what they're going to try to do to Trump, what they're going to try to 0.92
00:31:42.500 do to his family, what they're going to try to do to RFK jr. And Pete Hegseth and others. I, again,
00:31:48.520 I, I think we're going to see a very, uh, we've gone from docile Democrat to destructive Democrat.
00:31:55.740 They're going to go crazy as soon as they get a little bit of legal power.
00:31:59.900 oh uh the impeachment proceedings are going to start tomorrow uh if the democrats hold the house
00:32:06.180 it's another thing people don't like to hear me say but i'm not saying it because that's what i
00:32:10.260 want clearly that's not what i want we went through years of hell with with with the democrats
00:32:14.020 impeaching president trump but the impeachment hearings are going to start immediately they're
00:32:19.620 going to start going after elon musk we saw what they did to him two weeks ago when he decided he
00:32:24.120 was going to shut down starlinks in ukraine because they were blowing up oil facilities
00:32:27.940 in Russia. This is going to be horrible for the country for the next two years under the
00:32:35.720 Democrats' leadership. I mean, what do you think they start with? I say impeachment first.
00:32:40.940 Then what's next? I don't know that they go for Trump first, right? You know that saying,
00:32:46.640 if you go for the king, don't miss. I think they're going to go for everybody else around
00:32:51.280 him, right? And he doesn't consider himself a king, but they've had what, two, three,
00:32:56.120 no king rallies. So they're going to have this mentality of don't go for the king unless you can
00:33:02.000 get him. Right. So what are they going to do? They're going to go for Don Jr. They're going
00:33:06.140 to go for Pete Hegseth. They're going to go for RFK Jr. The one guy I don't think they can get,
00:33:11.600 you know, any anything on is Marco Rubio. And that I mean, but all of this, I believe,
00:33:17.860 is going to set a Republican up to win in twenty twenty eight because of how nasty they might
00:33:23.860 become if they win. And again, I don't know if we have any updates, any states that are closed
00:33:29.700 that we want to update people on. But again, I think we're going to see a very different Democrat
00:33:34.780 party. We'll see. We will absolutely see. But you're you're you're right. Going back to the
00:33:40.400 fact of what they did to President Trump and what Joe Biden did that first term around, which gave
00:33:44.840 President Trump this this presidency. We're still stuck at about 42 percent of the vote in in Texas,
00:33:49.820 where you've got Tala Frico leading 58% to 40% there.
00:33:54.640 Some numbers coming in, Oklahoma, Kevin Hearn, likely a safe seat.
00:33:58.860 The other one we're watching is Roger Marshall in Kansas,
00:34:02.380 which we're being told the Democrats had eyes on being able to flip that seat
00:34:07.160 with 42% of the vote in there, 62% to 36%.
00:34:11.520 The Democrat Adam Hamilton leading up in Nebraska,
00:34:15.940 uh pete ricketts and don osborne that's expected to be a safe republican seat uh we'll see there
00:34:21.040 um i was another one where the the marxist dems tried to make a run for we're getting five percent
00:34:26.620 of the vote in there of josh turek against ashley hinson um gonna be an interesting one to see we're
00:34:33.500 also getting some numbers in uh just 14 percent of the vote in michigan we'll keep them updated
00:34:37.860 on what's happening over there it's still you know far too early to tell let's go can can you
00:34:43.560 and i go back to kansas for a minute sure um because uh you've got you've got roger marshall
00:34:50.560 he's the he's the sitting incumbent yep uh he's been very good for the country very strong
00:34:58.800 conservative uh kansas is a very very red republican state yep why why all of the sudden
00:35:08.040 do the betting markets with no rallies, no debates, nothing suddenly come out so aggressive
00:35:15.960 that they can flip Kansas. It doesn't make any sense for me. And I don't know that, you know,
00:35:24.420 Seth Keschel, somebody that I trust, he believes that Kansas is going to stay red. They haven't
00:35:30.780 had a Democrat in over 90 years. I don't think that they're going to switch now. But any thoughts
00:35:36.100 on why all of the sudden or do you think they created this narrative and then the fuel got
00:35:41.460 behind it that maybe this is a seat that could be flipped well we got up there for the audience
00:35:46.520 right there the calci odds right now on what things are looking at uh they've got governor
00:35:51.480 greg abbott with 40 42 percent of the vote in nine percent chance of holding on to his gubernatorial
00:35:56.940 uh ship over there uh talarico uh looking like with the demanding lead over there michigan
00:36:04.440 And they've got Mike Rogers at a 6% chance of beating Abdul El-Sayed.
00:36:10.160 So these numbers are rather interesting.
00:36:14.580 The betting markets this morning we saw, for everyone who didn't see, Guam,
00:36:19.460 the two seats that got flipped red, were 70% favorited to be held.
00:36:26.440 By the way, some breaking news.
00:36:27.960 Florida was just called for Byron Donalds.
00:36:30.380 He will prevail as the next governor.
00:36:32.000 Yes, Congressman Byron Donalds is the new governor.
00:36:36.060 Yes, sir.
00:36:36.820 It's now governor to you, Stephen.
00:36:40.820 We might have to get some tickets and go down to the inauguration
00:36:44.400 and maybe go have dinner with Roger Stone.
00:36:47.820 Yes.
00:36:48.320 Oh, my gosh.
00:36:49.620 That would be awesome.
00:36:51.000 But it's great to see him prevailing there because he had a little bit of
00:36:55.000 adversity there, them too, running the hate campaigns against Byron Donalds
00:36:59.380 in Florida, the similar ones that we've seen run against Ken Paxson. The Democrats don't have a
00:37:04.440 plan for America, Stephen. I mean, tell me if you disagree. Their plan is to just divide and
00:37:10.300 conquer. And it's what we've seen for the last 10 years, 10 plus years now that President Trump's
00:37:14.780 been in the picture. Yeah, they have no plan. Even right now, if you ask them, what is your
00:37:22.560 plan to make life more affordable? If you're telling me that this entire midterm is on
00:37:28.120 affordability. What is your plan? And they say, we're not going to impeach Trump. No, hold on.
00:37:33.460 I asked you, what is your plan to make life more affordable? OK, we are going to impeach Trump.
00:37:38.820 Like they have no plan. All they had to do was not be Donald Trump. But they've literally ran on
00:37:45.420 nothing. At least Trump is saying, here's what I've done and here's what I still want to do if
00:37:51.020 you keep me in power. But the Democrats, they've run on nothing, literally nothing.
00:37:56.040 As they usually do. I want to take a look now because we just had the race called up in New York for governor and the people in New York, my fellow New Yorkers never seem to learn their lesson, Stephen.
00:38:08.700 We've got just 13 percent of the vote in, but it's already been called for Kathy Hochul.
00:38:13.880 When will these people learn their lesson? I mean, you're lucky you live in a little bit more of a free state than me.
00:38:18.500 But when will these people learn their lesson? You know, I was talking with Grant Cardone one day and we were talking about, you know, like how bad it's gotten.
00:38:26.040 And Grant said to me, he said, listen, it could always get worse.
00:38:29.640 There's no such thing as rock bottom.
00:38:31.420 It could always get worse than it already is.
00:38:34.360 And I was like, you know what, Grant, I've never actually thought of things like that.
00:38:37.380 But you're absolutely right.
00:38:38.440 Like, I can get into a car accident, and then I can get out of my car thinking, okay, that's the worst day.
00:38:42.700 And then, oh, God forbid, I get hit by the next car that comes down the street, and so on and so forth.
00:38:47.700 And I was like, you know, Grant, I've never thought about it like that, but it is.
00:38:51.880 how much worse does it need to get under these Democrats for people to wake up and realize how
00:38:58.420 really bad they are for America? I don't know. It doesn't make any sense to me.
00:39:05.100 I mean, OK, let's go back to the affordability issue, right? You can you can be very mad at
00:39:11.740 Donald Trump over the gas prices and a war that maybe you didn't want. But he's doing a lot on
00:39:19.080 the economy to bring things in. There's a reason that people still trust Trump and the Republicans
00:39:24.180 on the economy. And he ran on, I'm going to lower your taxes. These Democrats are running on,
00:39:30.740 we will raise your taxes. The government will be more involved in your life. The government
00:39:36.180 is the answer. And on our side, we're saying, no, the government is the problem. So I don't know,
00:39:42.540 I can't get my brain to think like a Democrat. I try to, and I get very frustrated. Even as a
00:39:50.680 libertarian, I get very frustrated because I go, why would you vote to increase your taxes? Why
00:40:00.020 would you give the shovel back to the group that dug us into the inflation? They want to blame
00:40:06.260 Donald Trump for a lot of the inflation. If you look at any graph, you could ask a child,
00:40:12.540 Where do you see the major uptick? Oh, it was under Joe Biden. They can tell you. Children can understand this. But then it comes down to voters and voters go, you know what? I'm going to give the Democrats another chance. It doesn't make any sense to my brain.
00:40:30.360 I want to see if we could see in there, Stephen, if you could see in the audience, you could see race has been called in Kentucky's four.
00:40:37.120 That was one you and I were talking about, the Ed Galler in race, that seat that he took over for Thomas Massey, who's just come out as this terrible Republican.
00:40:49.440 He cared more about this Epstein stuff, which we cared about, but he made this whole charade out of it for absolutely no reason. 0.54
00:40:58.240 We all wanted everything released.
00:40:59.520 He was going after President Trump, all but, you know, saying President Trump is in these Epstein files. 0.75
00:41:05.760 And it really bit him in the rear end.
00:41:08.500 The people of Kentucky rejected his sentiment.
00:41:11.720 Yeah.
00:41:12.220 So prior to the Epstein thing, he actually voted with President Trump and he was on the scale of conservative to liberal.
00:41:22.160 He was very high conservative.
00:41:24.000 I really like the guy.
00:41:25.220 He reminds me of a more charming Rand Paul. Right. But then this Epstein thing came out and all of the sudden, I don't know if the the women at the conference, the press conferences he would hold that refused to name a single person.
00:41:44.240 I don't know if they got in his mind, but all of a sudden he decided, you know what I'm going to do?
00:41:49.840 I'm going to pretend as if Donald Trump was in the Epstein files, as if Donald Trump was guilty.
00:41:56.240 And he started this pressure campaign against President Trump as if he was in there. 0.59
00:42:01.700 Well, now six million documents have been released and Donald Trump's not connected to Epstein's disgusting, perverted behavior.
00:42:09.860 So then what did he do?
00:42:11.280 He doubled down and said, oh, Israel controls the United States of America.
00:42:16.440 Israel, Israel, Israel. Right. 0.98
00:42:18.680 And meanwhile, behind the scenes, you should see the stuff that President Trump was saying to Benjamin Netanyahu.
00:42:24.540 I mean, you would you would think he hated the guy's guts based on the arguments that they've had and different things like that.
00:42:30.020 So Thomas Massey went from like this really great candidate to like, I don't know what the heck happened.
00:42:36.140 But I'm so grateful to see that a very strong, you know, candidate has kept that seat.
00:42:43.820 That's amazing news.
00:42:45.540 Yeah.
00:42:45.800 And, you know, Massey, you mentioned the Israel thing.
00:42:48.240 Massey's selling it as, oh, Ed Gowran only won that seat because Israel bought it for him.
00:42:53.820 It's like people, you can promise people, unless you're a Democrat, you pick up on it.
00:42:59.380 Republicans are far smarter than the Democrats.
00:43:01.420 But the Democrats can be sold something for 100 years and they'll continue to vote with no results shown.
00:43:07.180 The Republicans wanted to see the evidence.
00:43:09.040 Massey came out and said, I'm releasing the names.
00:43:11.260 Boom. Release the names. Get them on the floor.
00:43:12.940 We all want to know.
00:43:14.600 He read six or seven names that we all already knew were already released.
00:43:18.480 OK, Massey, well, where is the evidence that you said?
00:43:20.780 And the people were smarter.
00:43:21.880 They said, we don't need our state turning into a charade.
00:43:24.360 We don't need this congressional district turned into a Israel versus America race or an Epstein versus non-Epstein race.
00:43:31.040 Massey, you got the evidence, bring it out.
00:43:32.540 And people, I think, really picked up on his scheme and said, you know, enough is enough.
00:43:38.160 The other thing we were talking about earlier today, Steve, was Trump's approval rating,
00:43:40.980 which now sits, you know, 37 to 40 percent rather low on the low end side compared to where it was in the beginning of the administration.
00:43:50.000 What do you think we see now?
00:43:51.500 Do you think we see a little bounce back with the balance of power possibly being divided between Republicans and Democrats?
00:43:59.300 I don't know.
00:44:00.560 Because, you know, when people hear, let's say that it's a 37 approval rating, right?
00:44:09.360 Yeah.
00:44:09.580 They hear, oh, my gosh, most of the country hates this guy, right?
00:44:14.180 Well, guess what?
00:44:15.400 He could cure cancer and half the country already hated him, right?
00:44:19.460 So it's not like he lost all of those people.
00:44:22.680 He has lost some people that were probably independents that said, you know what?
00:44:28.200 I want the border closed. I want no more, you know, foreign wars that we get entangled in these
00:44:35.840 endless wars. I'm going to vote for this guy. And so he's lost some favor with that, with that
00:44:42.420 group. Right. But when it comes to hardcore MAGA base, he still has over a 90 percent approval
00:44:48.860 rating. Well, you know, even though he's the president for everyone, that's the group that
00:44:54.100 he is trying most to deliver for. And I was reading today, they put out a list of over 100
00:45:00.100 campaign promises that he's kept and others that he still needs time to get to. And so I don't I
00:45:06.900 don't know the answer to that. I just know that he's not done anything that has made me want to
00:45:13.020 abandon him. I don't love the Iran war. I've been clear about that. I don't love the high gas prices,
00:45:18.940 But I also don't like having a nuclear weapon that can hit our military bases in Europe.
00:45:24.960 I don't like a Europe. I don't like, you know, taking out Saudi Arabia or Israel or Japan or any.
00:45:32.380 I mean, we know they have the missiles that can reach into there.
00:45:35.560 And so, again, I don't know where he sits.
00:45:38.540 But for me, as someone in the MAGA base with 11 different Make America Great hats on my desk right here off screen, I'm still with the guy.
00:45:47.360 I don't expect somebody to do 100%. I think that is unrealistic. But is he still my guy? Yes. Has he done the majority of what I want? Yes. Does he still need time? Yes. I want to give him that time. That's why I voted.
00:46:02.260 Yeah, you're absolutely right. I mean, nobody keeps 100% of the promises they make. And the Democrats, even today, I mean, they promised health care for all. They promised all this BS that they know they're not going to be able to deliver because President Trump will never sign it into law. So the voters once again fell for the sham.
00:46:19.160 I do want to bring something up.
00:46:20.780 It's coming across the news feed right now.
00:46:23.180 Some bad news for Ken Paxton, down by about a million votes,
00:46:27.140 estimated about 3 million votes left to be counted, 53% of the vote in there.
00:46:34.220 We just got a big update, 5 million votes in right now, down 60, 40,
00:46:39.420 down now by over a million votes to James Tala for ECO.
00:46:44.020 Wow, that is not good.
00:46:46.220 I mean, so how many did you say they still need to count?
00:46:49.160 They said it was an outstanding of about 3 million votes.
00:46:53.740 Okay.
00:46:54.320 Wow.
00:46:55.360 Wow, wow, wow.
00:46:56.120 Okay.
00:46:56.680 So he's got to win two-thirds of those.
00:46:58.780 Yeah.
00:46:59.460 Three million votes.
00:47:00.340 And if we take a look here where those votes are outstanding, well, that's good.
00:47:05.840 Houston's got 76% of the vote in.
00:47:08.080 Dallas County's got about 80% of the vote in.
00:47:10.060 So some outlying areas, but it is, I think, a little bit more on the promising side that you've got the deep blue Bexar County,
00:47:18.820 77% of the vote in Houston County, 76% of the vote in Dallas with 80% of the vote in all predominantly blue areas.
00:47:27.540 But not promising news for Paxton, you know, as we sit here right now.
00:47:34.460 Let's talk about that a little bit because George Bush came out, supported Tala Frico.
00:47:39.820 The whole family came out supporting Tala Frico. 0.95
00:47:41.760 John Cornyn wouldn't lift a finger for Paxton because he was a sore loser, upset with President Trump.
00:47:49.960 Do you think this would have been a very winnable race should these people have come out?
00:47:56.400 People like Karl Rove, who, by the way, is sitting on Fox News right now on this panel of plastic surgery victims, coming out and supporting Tallarico.
00:48:07.860 I mean, it's a shame.
00:48:09.600 Yeah. So here's what I think is going on. You've got the Bush family that still hates Donald Trump very much. You've got George Bush, who after all of the Middle Eastern wars went into hiding. His family, however, has still stayed in politics.
00:48:26.560 They made a decision. Okay, we're going to come out against Donald Trump. I don't know that they
00:48:32.880 actually like Talafrico, but they definitely don't like Donald J. Trump, right? Then you've got
00:48:39.640 sour grapes, John Cornyn. He was not voting with President Trump. He was he was a very difficult
00:48:46.040 person. And he was like best friends with John Thune. Yeah, but John Thune seemed to be doing
00:48:53.580 more than John Cornyn. And so when the opportunity to pass the Save America Act was on the table,
00:49:01.620 President Trump made a decision. I think I can get the Save America Act passed if we keep the
00:49:07.100 majority and we get Ken Paxton. So he rolled the dice and he gambled. I don't know that it's going
00:49:14.360 to pay off. We still have a million plus votes that need to come in. You make a good point. A
00:49:19.320 lot of the blue areas have already voted. We need the red areas now to come in. But this is a
00:49:26.320 difficult one. I don't think that Texas is going more blue, but there is this battle between the
00:49:33.940 Bush dynasty, which is very strong, and the John Cornyn multiple decades of being in there.
00:49:40.680 So I don't know. I thought Ken Paxton could pull it out. I'm still not willing to walk away from
00:49:46.880 it just yet but like you said it's not looking good yeah i trust me nobody wants paxton to win
00:49:52.040 more than me i love the man i've gotten to know him over the years you've gotten to know him over
00:49:55.580 the years he's done like i said done more for uh trying to save america and our children fight 0.96
00:49:59.780 back against the transgender tyranny and all of it and uh what do you what role do you think steven 1.00
00:50:06.840 you and i were talking about this earlier about some um friends that we've had um over the course 0.77
00:50:11.300 of this thing who you know started a black pill who have come out just anti-trump this anti-trump
00:50:16.720 that, who quite honestly didn't put in that much effort when Joe Biden was destroying this country
00:50:22.120 as they sat by and watched and laughed and made a joke about some of it. What role do you think
00:50:28.740 they played in this whole thing? We see Alex Jones, one of them, who has gone completely
00:50:35.400 rogue. You think they played a role in dissuading Republican voters in favor of Democrats?
00:50:42.740 I do. You know, I think a couple of things I've kind of been game planning this out in my mind
00:50:50.700 is, OK, so President Trump wins the popular vote. He wins the Electoral College. Everybody is really,
00:50:58.580 really excited. Right. Doge starts finding all of this money and like people are really excited.
00:51:05.900 And then the Epstein stuff gets started, right?
00:51:10.380 And Trump kind of drags his feet on that.
00:51:13.900 But I don't think he was going to have any problem.
00:51:16.440 And then when they did the midnight hammer, I think a lot of people were like, whoa, wait a minute. 0.94
00:51:21.720 I was not expecting us to attack Iran. 0.90
00:51:24.760 I thought that they probably would, but I don't think a lot of Americans thought that he was going to do anything right.
00:51:30.400 That kind of smoothed over.
00:51:31.940 Then all of a sudden, Charlie Kirk is murdered.
00:51:35.300 And all of a sudden, that's where this big division starts coming. And the main thing behind it is Israel. Does Israel control America? Does Israel control Charlie Kirk? Does Israel control Donald Trump? And you start seeing all of this anti-Israel start to pop up, right? 0.62
00:51:54.060 And then all of a sudden it's like, well, Epstein was Jewish and connected to Israel.
00:51:59.480 And and, you know, so like that, that's where I saw a lot of this division starting.
00:52:03.960 And then you start seeing Alex Jones, who I still like, but you start seeing him turning
00:52:09.840 on Trump and the guy's got a megaphone.
00:52:12.660 He gets more views than a lot of a lot of people.
00:52:15.620 I mean, even Fox News, they've come out in the last week saying, we don't know what's
00:52:20.080 going on, but our viewership is down.
00:52:21.860 But you've got you've got Alex Jones. You've got Nick Fuentes. Nick Fuentes. Big thing is Israel. And he's telling people stay home or actively vote Democrat. And then you start seeing this split where the older generation, they're against socialism and communism.
00:52:40.160 they want to support Israel they believe in capitalism they believe in Trump and you see
00:52:46.060 the younger generation start to go I don't know if this is my guy and is our guy being controlled
00:52:52.820 by Benjamin Netanyahu right and so anyway this is where I start seeing the cracks and then when
00:52:59.380 when we launched the Venezuela thing people were like oh I don't know but wow that thing that thing
00:53:06.040 really went in our favor. That was really cool. Nobody died. And we got this guy that's responsible
00:53:12.000 for the death of thousands of Americans because of drug stuff. We've got the Cartel del Sol.
00:53:18.120 Maybe they're interfering in our elections. People give a pass. And then and then, you know,
00:53:23.360 the Iran war thing starts and then boom, all of a sudden Trump's controlled by Israel again. That 0.60
00:53:29.340 all starts popping up again. So these are where I'm seeing the fractures within the conservative
00:53:34.940 base, this incredible coalition that got President Trump the popular vote, the electoral college, 0.97
00:53:41.140 it all starts kind of being broken up by war and Israel and Epstein. And it's like just these 0.93
00:53:48.160 little fractures. But then, yes, you've got all of these black pillars going on, spreading all 1.00
00:53:54.300 of this crazy stuff. And then what is the ultimate thing? They start telling their huge bases of 1.00
00:54:01.160 people, vote Democrat or stay home. And I was like, this is bananas to me. Yeah, you're absolutely
00:54:08.480 right. We're coming up on 930 Eastern time on the East Coast. We're taking a quick break here,
00:54:13.300 Stephen. When we come back, I want to talk about we got some breaking news coming out of Georgia
00:54:17.540 and we've got some news of Ron DeSantis weighing some comments on President Trump. I thought they
00:54:24.160 settled the beef, but might not be apparently so. We're coming right back, folks, and we're live.
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00:54:53.320 Well, Stephen, some bad news, folks.
00:54:54.920 By the way, thanks for being with us live tonight,
00:54:56.460 the Great America Show, the Stephen Gardner Show.
00:54:58.020 we're trying to get to your questions live here we do appreciate you being with us steve some bad
00:55:02.500 news to report out of uh uh georgia the first democrat governor elected in the state since
00:55:08.760 1998 keisha lance bottoms will defeat uh rick jackson there your thoughts uh i mean she was
00:55:17.940 predicted to win but i didn't think it would happen uh you know it's one thing to say okay
00:55:23.960 uh we're a red state we're gonna pick a blue senator we're gonna pick a blue congressman
00:55:30.960 um but now they've got two democrat senators and they've got a blue a democrat uh governor
00:55:42.260 governor that i mean that tells me either there's shenanigans like there was in 2020 or
00:55:47.860 the state of georgia has just shifted blue yeah and uh the the republican governor there didn't
00:55:55.960 care brad raffensperger was uh key to uh all the fraud in 2020 and and 2024 didn't care to fix it
00:56:04.520 so the only thing that tells me like you said is they're in on the cheat they don't care about
00:56:10.360 securing our elections um some comments made by ron de santis this afternoon i thought rather
00:56:15.860 interesting because I thought he and President Trump squashed their beef. Governor DeSantis
00:56:19.860 said President Trump, sort of to blame if there's a blue wave, saying, quote, he obviously ran saying
00:56:26.760 he wasn't going to do a Middle East war. And then he did. Yeah, I mean, some of this could be
00:56:34.520 Ron DeSantis is expected to throw his hat in the ring to run for president again in in 2028.
00:56:40.800 and you know the the war as i mentioned just before the the break the the war has been very
00:56:49.800 divisive uh the midnight hammer thing people were really shocked but they're like okay i guess if
00:56:55.160 we're done um okay you know so there's a lot of people that are like okay i believe that they had
00:57:02.680 the uh the um uranium in order to make those weapons then you've got people that say they
00:57:10.640 absolutely did not have that. So I think a lot of people are split on this. And I don't know that
00:57:16.540 we're going to fully understand the truth for a while. But either way, when these gas prices went
00:57:22.840 up and then they stayed up, I still believe that they're going to come down. When the fighting
00:57:27.700 stopped in June, I mean, gas prices dropped really fast, right? And then now they've come down about
00:57:33.740 70 cents by not attacking Iran again. But again, Iran is going to have to be dealt with. So this 0.95
00:57:40.420 is disappointing. This news out of Georgia is disappointing. The fact that Tallarico might win,
00:57:46.500 that one has not been officially called yet. But, you know, every single state shifted more red
00:57:53.980 in 2024. All of the data proved that. So is this the pendulum swinging back? Is this Republicans
00:58:02.280 just saying, hey, we already put Trump in office. We're not going to go out and vote. Or is this a
00:58:09.440 concerted effort to hold him accountable for a foreign war i don't know yeah i i think you bring
00:58:15.920 up a a really good point there as we've got on the screen there for the audience to some of your
00:58:20.780 chat from some of your great folks who have uh who've tuned into the show there so we give them
00:58:25.620 a little shout out um do you think it's a blessing in disguise should the i you know i i often say
00:58:33.000 I think it was better that President Trump won in 2024 rather than him winning in 2020 with the divided Congress, being able to get things done, you know, so on and so forth.
00:58:45.720 Do you think this is maybe a blessing in disguise being the Democrats essentially won't be able to do anything, you know, with President Trump in power, but for a Republican hopeful in 2028?
00:58:59.000 uh so i'm i'm really hopeful that he at least keeps the senate uh i mean again we started this
00:59:07.440 show off by saying historically and statistically he should lose regardless of whether he's doing
00:59:13.300 a good job or not he should lose right but but we want him to win but i i think if there is going to
00:59:20.060 be a blessing in disguise if he loses the house they go crazy with the impeachments the lawsuits
00:59:27.440 They're going to feel emboldened. They're going to double down on trans reopening the border, giving amnesty to 45 million immigrants in the country. 0.87
00:59:37.740 I think that pendulum swings back. We pick up a Marco Rubio or a J.D. Vance or somebody.
00:59:43.520 So it could be what I have learned in 45 years of being alive is that you almost can't see a blessing until enough time goes by.
00:59:54.000 Because when President Trump did not get to continue in 2020, I was heartbroken. 0.98
01:00:01.000 Suddenly, here I am, a journalist having to talk about yogurt for brains, Joe Biden and idiot Kamala Harris. 0.99
01:00:07.960 It brought me no joy. 1.00
01:00:09.540 It was a soulless suck, you know, suck the life out of me. 0.98
01:00:13.300 I got up every day. 0.98
01:00:14.480 I went to work.
01:00:15.300 I brought the news, the truth, the best that I could for my audience.
01:00:19.500 But then, like you said, he comes roaring back in 2024 just when we needed him most.
01:00:26.120 We actually needed him more in 2024 than in 2020.
01:00:30.620 And it was a blessing in disguise.
01:00:32.160 But I don't think a lot of us could see it until four years down the road.
01:00:36.140 I don't know what will happen in 2028, but I sure hope it's not that they suddenly have all three branches, you know, that they have the House, the Senate and the presidency.
01:00:47.320 and they packed the court because we didn't have the courage to nuke the filibuster and they put
01:00:52.940 23 justices on there and and suddenly we never get anything done i do worry about that but is
01:00:59.520 this a blessing in disguise yet it's just it's too soon it's too close to tell in my opinion
01:01:04.340 your thoughts yeah people are writing in like oh uh you know obviously i'm not saying this is the
01:01:10.080 outcome i wanted clearly i didn't i go out here every single day steven you do too uh advocating
01:01:14.600 for the policies of President Trump and the Republican Party. It's not the outcome I want,
01:01:19.200 but I do try to find a silver lining. Like I said, in 2020, if President Trump were to win
01:01:23.940 and the election wasn't stolen from him like it was, what would he have been able to get done?
01:01:29.860 Who would have then taken over as president in 2024? You run through all these different
01:01:35.020 scenarios of what could have been, what should have been, and how bad things are,
01:01:41.480 and how bad things could be.
01:01:45.140 Speaking of how bad good things could be, I do want to check in, Stephen.
01:01:48.040 We haven't looked at Ohio, where Vivek Ramaswamy is running.
01:01:54.020 We've got John Usted against Sherrod Brown over there
01:01:56.780 in a pretty tight race, 62% of the vote in.
01:01:59.940 Sherrod Brown leading Usted 49 to 46.
01:02:04.300 We just got a little bit of a dump in there.
01:02:06.240 Usted with a 0.1% lead.
01:02:07.900 But Ramaswamy running against Amy Acton, 62 percent of the vote in there.
01:02:13.440 He's down 40, 46 percent to 51.
01:02:17.180 So polling about the polling about the same weight as John Husted.
01:02:21.920 Your thoughts on that race in Ohio as Vivek did some rather interesting things and made some rather interesting comments about Americans as he was running for a great American state.
01:02:34.460 Yeah. John Husted has been a great, a great senator. Sherrod Brown, however, was the guy just before him. And again, if there's if if some of these states are wanting to punish Trump or they're just not showing up and this is the result, you know, they're going to have to live with that.
01:02:53.360 But, you know, Sherrod Brown had a lot of name recognition.
01:02:57.320 He had a lot of policy behind him, not policy that I agree with, not policy that I want in my state of Utah.
01:03:05.580 And then on Vivek Ramaswamy, you know, I really like Vivek.
01:03:10.280 I think I interviewed him four times when he was running for president.
01:03:14.160 Very, very intelligent.
01:03:16.260 He's got some things, though, that he's going to have to work through that I think maybe weren't exactly lining up.
01:03:22.580 And I don't know whether the ad that he ran with Amy Acton's, you know, mother saying horrible thing.
01:03:31.000 I don't know. That might have backfired on him.
01:03:33.380 And then, you know, he didn't want to give an inch.
01:03:36.420 And so he doubled down. Hey, we didn't pay her. This is her opinion. 0.73
01:03:41.380 And we ran that. But again, I again, it's hard to know what is going on.
01:03:48.880 are you kidding me they're saying that the democrat might be might beat greg abbott for
01:03:54.100 governor in texas yep well we just got another dump of ballots in right there steven 54 uh percent
01:03:59.980 of the vote in uh in texas uh greg abbott uh trailing 42 percent 41.6 percent about 57 uh percent
01:04:09.660 so um yeah the only thing i can think of is we're just not seeing the the you know other 50 trump
01:04:18.740 counties. You know, when I look at that map, there's a lot of gray and then there's a lot of
01:04:26.000 blue. And so I'm just wondering, you know, how much more of the red counties that need to come
01:04:33.680 in that voted overwhelmingly for Trump? Maybe we just don't have their votes yet. No, you know,
01:04:38.860 you're absolutely right. If you look here at Dalham County, majority Hispanic rural county
01:04:44.160 where Donald Trump won by 78 points in 2024.
01:04:47.280 Sherman County, Trump won by 88 points,
01:04:50.340 77 points, and so on and so forth, for sure.
01:04:53.040 But they don't carry the weight, of course,
01:04:54.720 that Houston will carry with,
01:04:57.420 you got a million people voting there
01:04:58.920 with 76% of the vote.
01:05:01.060 And the other thing, too, that we got to look at
01:05:03.200 is he's far underperforming his 2024 numbers.
01:05:07.800 So, and it's across the board.
01:05:09.940 So, if you look at these various counties
01:05:11.520 where he won by 77 points, 80 points,
01:05:13.600 95 points, 65 points, you know, 50, 40. Is he going to perform the way he performed in 2024
01:05:21.060 in Texas? You know, seeing what we see right now out of, you know, Tarrant County and Dallas County
01:05:28.820 and El Paso County and these other blue big cities, Corpus Christi. So I think that's the
01:05:37.520 million dollar question, Steve. So, you know, a thought that I have, and again, just as you said
01:05:43.860 a few minutes ago, I hope that the 3,400 people that are watching us, I hope you guys know we
01:05:50.680 don't enjoy bringing bad news. We want to bring good news. We want President Trump and conservative
01:05:57.040 values, Christian values to be what rules the land, but we're just dealing with the real data
01:06:03.960 here. But a thought that I've had is, you know, you suddenly saw this kind of shift in energy
01:06:12.600 in Iowa, in Ohio, and Kansas, and Missouri, and Texas. And I just have to wonder if a lot of
01:06:22.800 these states that raise cattle and grow food, if they're just being hit so hard with these diesel
01:06:29.700 prices that they're they're not showing up or they're saying, I'm sorry, we've we've got to
01:06:36.060 put some brakes on Donald Trump and get this war. And that could also be happening. I mean,
01:06:41.680 I'm not a farmer. I don't you know, my life doesn't fully depend on diesel. Of course,
01:06:46.880 everything I buy is moved by diesel. But that's just a thought that I have is you've got a lot
01:06:52.180 of these like central midwestern conservative christian states that have gone red a lot but
01:07:00.060 they're also you know the gas prices are hurting them i don't know it's just a thought that i had
01:07:04.540 no you're you're absolutely right and it's funny you pick texas because i spoke about this on the
01:07:08.620 show the other day you've got about 200 250 000 commercial truckers who live uh in texas you know
01:07:14.840 who do this for a living the average gas price in january of 2025 or diesel price rather was
01:07:20.520 three dollars and 63 cents today it sits at about five bucks and 80 cents so you know you're asking
01:07:26.340 people to pay two bucks more a gallon of diesel you know to fill up your hundred i'm not even
01:07:32.320 sure what a tank uh you know fills on a on a on a trailer but have to assume a few hundred gallons
01:07:37.120 it adds up it's a lot of freaking money for people to uh to be paying when they're living
01:07:43.640 paycheck to paycheck so i think it's absolutely uh a chance and you know it's funny you bring that
01:07:48.220 up because i've spoken about it uh many times too the the farmer thing is also another interesting
01:07:53.520 point you bring up when you see kansas i mean i like you said i don't want to be here bringing
01:07:59.340 bad news saying this is what's going to happen i come out here i've lost friends i've lost family
01:08:04.680 members for supporting president trump okay for supporting republicans so it doesn't make me happy
01:08:11.080 to come out here and deliver the bad news i i try to be optimistic as you do too uh in it all
01:08:18.720 it's obviously not the result we wanted but if it is the result that uh that does wind up happening
01:08:23.580 we're gonna have to live through it and we're gonna have to fight like hell to ensure that
01:08:27.500 this doesn't happen another time and that people get uh engaged i i mean as it's looking right now
01:08:33.800 the current balance with the senate that the 40 democrats have 45 uh safe seats we're still
01:08:38.800 waiting for Oregon, which is probably a safe Dem seat, Idaho, Montana, South Dakota, Minnesota,
01:08:45.260 Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee,
01:08:52.700 South Carolina. So we do have some outstanding ones, but you look at it and the Democrats are
01:08:57.520 six seats away from a safe hold or from a safe pickup of the Senate. So if you put an Oregon in
01:09:06.640 there, which, you know, they're going to hold with Jeff Berkley, you know, they're 46. So then
01:09:14.460 they got to pick up four. Will they chip off Minnesota? Then they need three. Will they chip
01:09:19.180 off Michigan? Then they need two. So, you know, the math starts to get a little bit more difficult
01:09:26.000 as you start to look at the picture. I don't want to be the one to bring the bad news, but
01:09:30.040 I'd rather be honest with the viewers, Stephen, than lead them down a road. That's not true. And
01:09:34.200 them be mad at us that you said we're going to win and we didn't. Yeah. I mean, the other the
01:09:40.400 other thing is, is, you know, a lot of Republicans don't they don't show up in the midterm. They're
01:09:48.560 very big on we don't want a Democrat president. Right. But I mean, and I'm not I'm not ragging
01:09:56.240 on anybody and anybody that watches us is way more knowledgeable on politics than people that
01:10:02.720 don't watch. But, you know, I've talked to people this week and they've said things to me like
01:10:08.640 there's an election again. Wait, why do we have to vote to keep Trump in power? I thought we
01:10:14.760 already voted for him. So I think, you know, a lot of people are not as into politics as you and I,
01:10:21.240 those that watch your channel and my channel or listen to the podcast. They're just kind of going
01:10:26.640 about their daily life and um if they've got a pay raise uh or they're paying less in tax they
01:10:35.240 may not attribute that to republicans they might just think they had a better year financially
01:10:40.720 um and so because you you have to remember in a lot of these blue areas the gas prices are higher
01:10:48.380 than in red areas there's some there's some blue states where they're not honoring the no tax on
01:10:54.500 tips, the no tax on overtime. So they're doing things to actively punish their own citizens
01:11:01.540 in order to make Trump look bad. And that that strategy may be may be paying off.
01:11:07.800 I don't know if you can see there, Stephen, but every single county that's that's come in so far
01:11:14.160 that they've counted has shifted. Now, this looks exactly like it did in 2024 with the inverse of
01:11:20.000 what it was whereas almost every single place was a shift to the right there's literally one place
01:11:25.200 that i can find on this map that went further right this time around sumter county uh in florida
01:11:32.480 west or west of orlando there um great americans i must say that moved six points to the right of
01:11:40.140 where it was in 2024 uh that's not encouraging news you know to look at you know when we're
01:11:47.380 waiting the results of texas when we're waiting the results of uh kansas and uh you know i think
01:11:55.000 i guess the million dollar question is is could they survive you know these 29 point shift to
01:12:02.220 the left 18 point shift to the left and i'm just going through random random counties here uh but
01:12:07.240 we go to oklahoma which is a republican state rogers county 14 points to the left 19 points
01:12:13.520 to the to the left Pittsburgh County 13 points Cole Cole County 12 and you go through the list
01:12:20.120 of the of these counties and you know what does that say for the rest of the races that are
01:12:25.120 outstanding you know uh the the Democrats took uh gosh almost 18 months to release their findings
01:12:34.980 on why they lost the 2024 election and then a lot of them were in denial right that the Republican
01:12:41.620 Party is going to have to do this. And it's going to come down to a handful of things.
01:12:48.020 Was it the gas prices? Was it the war? Was it Epstein? What you know, I don't know what what
01:12:57.000 else it could be, you know, but we saw the pendulum swing really hard red with Donald Trump.
01:13:04.500 And now it seems to be swinging back more blue for you and I, those watching. This is hard to
01:13:10.600 But it's hard to wrap your mind around because, again, why would you hand the shovel back to the group that dug us into a hole?
01:13:19.160 And and but again, if people are voting based off their wallet, they might have saved four thousand dollars on taxes.
01:13:27.080 They might have got a raise. Some of their life might have become affordable.
01:13:31.060 But every day they drive past that gas price. I don't know. Again, you're you're dead right.
01:13:37.760 I don't want to forget this point. I don't mean to cut you off, but you're 100% right. And my answer to you on that is that people's attention spans are short. And I'm not saying literally short. They're short in the meaning of the sense of what did you do for me the last two weeks? What did you do for me the last month? What did you do for me the last six months? And I don't think people's attention spans go back.
01:13:59.900 And I should say their political attention spans and create a new term here.
01:14:05.560 You know, what did you do for me the last five months?
01:14:09.040 That's really changed. And when you do look at that, you know, when you ask the Republicans, when you ask President Trump, what did you do for me the last five months?
01:14:18.000 Regardless of the circumstances they're in, you know, I really don't know what you have much to show for.
01:14:24.520 And you and I get it. No tax on tips, no tax on overtimes. That was a year ago.
01:14:29.300 You know, I think the Republicans, and I don't put this blame on President Trump wholly. I put it on John Thune. Now, is that a result of President Trump allowing him to stay there far past his time? Yes, it could be. But there's a lot of contributing factors. Sorry, I didn't mean to cut you off there, but I would have forgot that point.
01:14:48.480 Yeah, no, that's OK. Yeah. So just just to finish up what I was saying is that they're they're just going to have to do a debrief and be honest about what happened.
01:14:59.840 What would make the country swing back so hard? And again, I think it's going to be, you know, just a handful of things.
01:15:08.500 Another one that it could be that almost nobody is talking about is just maybe people behind the scenes are just really mad at how expensive health care has become.
01:15:18.480 And then they go, why haven't we fixed Obamacare?
01:15:22.580 You know, I don't know.
01:15:23.660 It could it could be a very, very small thing with with the Democrats.
01:15:27.580 It was that they felt like they were out of touch with the American worker.
01:15:31.580 That was like one of the big things.
01:15:33.060 So, again, I don't know what it is, but if the country is swinging this much to the left, there's got to be a reason for it.
01:15:42.620 And they've got to they've got to figure out what that is.
01:15:45.360 Yeah, you know what, Stephen, whether it be the black pilling pollsters and black pilling mainstream media, you know, or it be the gas prices or it be the Iran war or it be Russia, Ukraine or it be Israel, the Democrats still, aside from all that, you can give them all that, they'll still find a way to cheat.
01:16:04.440 Look at what they did up in Alaska with Dan Sullivan, Dan Sullivan, and the Supreme Court refused, refused to take it up and say, listen, this can't go on, guys. 0.68
01:16:16.400 We need to figure something out here. I don't know what you do. I don't know how you delay the election.
01:16:21.720 But to have Dan Sullivan and Dan Sullivan on a ballot after it's already been to me, Stephen, is mind blowing and stealing and cheating to the extent of something we've never seen before, far surpassing what they did in 2020.
01:16:33.260 Yeah, I mean, I mean, it is just flat out election rigging, right? Like, let's go find somebody with the with the exact same name. And when that guy tried to register his paperwork, he tried to use the same middle initial.
01:16:49.180 I mean, this thing is a dirty, dirty trick come up with by Peltola and Chuck Schumer that now they're going to say, you know, plausible deniability.
01:17:01.060 Maybe it was lower staff that we don't know really well.
01:17:04.640 Give me a break.
01:17:05.880 I mean, this is going to be an investigation.
01:17:07.820 I read just before you and I came on that a hundred over 100 subpoenas are going out.
01:17:16.240 20 people are being targeted.
01:17:18.020 and uh so there there there is going to be an investigation but if we lose to talarico and we
01:17:25.640 lose to el syed i guess in the long run it doesn't really matter right up in alaska but i do believe
01:17:31.180 somebody needs to absolutely be held accountable that was cheating that was trying to manufacture
01:17:37.860 and give us a dishonest election you know the problem is is we watch litigation in the 2020
01:17:43.880 election and time and time again we heard no standing you can't do this you can't do that
01:17:48.780 well you know after seeing that you know you you're extremely pessimistic of the the prospects
01:17:54.240 of an election being overturned if dan sullivan is whichever dan sullivan people decide to vote
01:17:59.160 for if dan sullivan is to lose up in alaska tonight or i guess we'll get the results early
01:18:04.540 early in the morning in the you know 12 one o'clock hour um but but it's already past the
01:18:10.740 point the supreme court has allowed to happen the state of alaska has allowed it to happen
01:18:14.700 that should have that's one of those things where it has to be stopped the buck stops here and as
01:18:19.780 soon as it happens it has to stop before it progresses and they've continued to allow it
01:18:24.360 to progress it's the same thing they did in 2020 and look how 2020 ended up when we tried to
01:18:29.360 overturn an election people went to jail you had a former president fingerprinted handcuffed and
01:18:34.340 and mug shotted you had you know 2 000 people locked in the basement of a gulag for two years
01:18:40.360 i i mean this country's going to a place steven that's just really not a desirable place and
01:18:46.120 it's sort of scary yeah here's another one to throw out there uh could it be that a lot of
01:18:53.440 people are frustrated that the save america act didn't pass and they've lost confidence and so
01:18:59.060 they go you know what i'm not going to vote because i i think that my vote doesn't really
01:19:04.580 count. There could be some of that. And again, the fact that John Thune couldn't get that across
01:19:11.260 the finish line, the fact, I mean, we knew the Democrats weren't going to get on board with that,
01:19:16.820 even though over 70 percent of their voters said, yeah, I would like to have confidence in our
01:19:23.160 elections. They they said, you guys are crazy. We're going to do whatever we want. I don't know 0.99
01:19:29.700 that. That's what I'm saying. When they debrief this, when they actually dig in and figure it
01:19:34.280 It could be something as simple as I didn't show up because the Save America Act didn't
01:19:38.820 pass, and I don't believe that my vote was going to be counted properly.
01:19:42.920 Yeah, I think we'll get probably a better sense on just what happened and what took
01:19:48.260 place when we get some of the exit polling, when we find out what people, and we're going
01:19:51.760 to check and see, because we should maybe have some now, on what people's top issues
01:19:56.080 were and the reason why.
01:19:58.180 I think part of it is the affordability crisis.
01:20:01.640 You know, you hear some of these socialists talking, El Saeed and the platforms they run on. Right. And they say, well, we want to lower the cost. Now, they don't tell you how they're going to do it or who's going to pay for it. But they say, we want to lower the cost of your living. We want the government out of your life. We want to be able to make you live a more affordable life that you that you should be able to afford. We want better schooling for your children.
01:20:24.700 whose plan does that sound like that sounds awfully like the plan of donald trump and the
01:20:29.640 republicans now the socialists don't sell it the way that it's really meant to be and how they're
01:20:34.820 planning on paying for it along with the other garbage that they're bundling in on that but
01:20:39.420 people fall for it and people believe that these people mean what they say and they say what they
01:20:43.280 mean and they're actually going to give them free health care they're actually going to allow these
01:20:47.160 these people to to come in and have government living where they they subsidize your apartments
01:20:52.580 or they come in and say, well, the government can't raise your rent past X amount of dollars
01:20:56.980 and they fall for it. Now, my problem is, Stephen, is they continue to fall for it every election.
01:21:03.340 Yeah. Yeah. You know, within within the Democrat Party, whenever there's an affordability problem,
01:21:12.560 I mean, we always want the government to solve that and we should be able to trust our government.
01:21:17.220 unfortunately i don't i believe that ronald reagan had it right the the scariest words
01:21:26.200 in english are i'm from the government and i'm here to help the government is not the answer
01:21:31.200 to most problems a free market like look at elon musk nasa gets billions of dollars and doesn't
01:21:38.640 really do much elon musk he's going to be putting 98 of everything into space within a couple of
01:21:45.280 years, right? Look at cars, look at, I mean, there's just so many things that the government
01:21:52.120 just cannot get involved in. Now, does that mean that the government is no good? We should toss
01:21:56.640 them out? No, there's, there are things that the government can do, but right now, a lot of
01:22:01.080 governments are raising property taxes as if people got big raises. I mean, we have a lot of
01:22:07.260 broken systems and it makes, it breaks my heart to see so much blue on the map because I cover
01:22:14.920 every day how Democrat policies are hurting America and to give them back power just seems
01:22:20.580 crazy to me. One of the ones we got up there on the screen there is the race in South Carolina
01:22:26.520 where Darlene Graham, President Trump, endorsed her, you know, before anybody could run for that
01:22:31.160 seat. And, you know, she did some interviews where they asked her, you know, what do you think about
01:22:35.240 China? And she, you know, she flat answered, well, I don't really know about foreign policy,
01:22:40.080 but uh you know x y and z and i think that you know it's not what the people want to hear your
01:22:47.560 voters want to hear you saying listen i i think this is what it is they want you to have a position
01:22:52.400 on every issue that you could possibly have and you know it sucks because sometimes you got to
01:22:57.380 take unpopular positions but that's what comes with the job of being a politician and we're
01:23:01.660 seeing right now that uh that seat in south carolina is um uh rather interesting one of
01:23:09.600 the counties that uh that they they were looking close at is uh harry county which is myrtle beach
01:23:14.200 where president trump won by 40 points nearly 40 points in 2024 where darlene graham's only leading
01:23:19.640 by about 20 points so uh what's your thoughts on president trump's endorsement of of darlene graham
01:23:28.440 and and uh you know not letting anyone else have the opportunity to jump in the race that
01:23:35.300 is a seasoned politician, someone who was a good talker in a time where we clearly need to win some
01:23:42.080 seats. I think President Trump liked Senator Lindsey Graham, and most of his voters did not.
01:23:49.780 Yes. So when you then do what the Democrats do, which is install somebody, Darlene Graham,
01:23:56.160 she might be a Darlene human, but she doesn't have any political experience. And so you put
01:24:02.720 a deeply unpopular senator's sister in. I think maybe he was leaning on her name
01:24:09.940 a little too much. And I don't know that her name was that good. I interviewed
01:24:13.800 somebody down there multiple times named Mark Lynch. And he's a business owner. He understands
01:24:20.600 economics. He's super MAGA, super pro-America first. And he literally was like pushed to the
01:24:28.700 side like a bug. I mean, so this one, I was hoping she'd pull it out. Maybe she still can. I mean,
01:24:37.080 but I think maybe we leaned a little bit too hard on Trump's endorsement of Darlene Graham when we
01:24:44.840 should have actually put forward a candidate that South Carolina knew and liked and felt like they
01:24:51.320 had their back. But again, I don't personally know anybody that liked Lindsey Graham. 0.98
01:24:56.600 Yeah, I wasn't a fan of his. Now, Polymarket is declaring, for what it's worth, James Tallarico, the winner in Texas. Now, full transparency, the Associated Press has not declared that yet, but Polymarket, I believe, doing so in this case of cashing out their bets.
01:25:16.740 I think if they do that, they have to pay out their bets.
01:25:21.200 56% of the votes still in there.
01:25:24.280 Paxton down 59% to 39%.
01:25:27.920 About 6.5 million, just about 6.6 million votes in there.
01:25:35.080 Is he running out of time there, Steve?
01:25:37.780 It's not looking good because even though the rural counties
01:25:43.940 that went for Trump, they may not show up or their votes might come in, but they just can't
01:25:49.340 overcome the metropolis of Houston and Austin and Dallas. I don't know. I mean, there's still
01:25:55.960 a lot of votes to count. It's not like Florida where they get their stuff counted in a couple
01:26:00.820 of hours. Some of these states take a while. But if Texas turns blue, that's very disappointing.
01:26:09.120 yeah and i think it's it it sets the tone for you know what's to happen the rest of the way
01:26:15.760 um we can look here to also at uh gavin uh gavin newsom we'll talk about gavin newsom what his
01:26:21.880 next plans are uh but uh take a look at the governor race uh with greg abbott down with
01:26:30.640 56 percent of the vote and 50 about 57 percent to 42 percent another one that's uh rather troubling
01:26:38.920 and outperforming Ken Paxton by just three points or so.
01:26:42.960 It's not looking good there, Stephen.
01:26:44.640 It's not looking good.
01:26:45.560 And if we take a look, you know, just a few states north up in Kansas,
01:26:50.180 you got 66% of the vote in there,
01:26:52.440 and Roger Marshall's down by just about 118,000 votes to the Democrat there.
01:27:00.420 40% of the vote in Nebraska, Pete Ricketts,
01:27:03.320 they have that as a toss-up race there.
01:27:06.880 Iowa between Josh Turek and Ashley Hinson,
01:27:10.260 they've got a slight lean Dem with 30% of the vote in
01:27:13.040 with the Dem leading 57%.
01:27:16.600 Saeed, of course, Michigan, Stephen,
01:27:19.380 is taking their time with the votes.
01:27:21.200 Probably just got to figure out the crux
01:27:23.060 and how they've got to work things in.
01:27:26.660 Surprisingly, Mike Rogers outperforming only 20% of the vote in,
01:27:30.000 but outperforming where I figured he'd be
01:27:32.380 to start this early with, you know, the big Dem County's coming in,
01:27:38.840 Wayne County, Oakland County, Grand Rapids, Kent County.
01:27:44.800 Do you think it's possible El Saeed could lose that race there?
01:27:50.320 I don't know.
01:27:51.460 If those blue arrows are any indication, then why would Mike Rogers win?
01:27:58.860 um you know uh well i think that's a peculiar i i think that one's a peculiar seat right because
01:28:06.320 of how uh el saeed is extremely uh polarizing you know hated by a lot of people there for
01:28:14.020 various different reasons that's the only reason i think that maybe that one could possibly be
01:28:18.240 different am i just being optimistic no i i don't think he resonates with the black community as
01:28:25.280 much. He obviously doesn't resonate with the the Jewish community. You know, Detroit is 75 percent
01:28:33.280 black Americans and they tend to they tend to vote Democrats. So I don't know that that is a that is
01:28:42.060 a tough one. And it would be very disappointing to see it go to him because, you know, it's kind
01:28:50.780 of like when ma'am donnie got in it's like okay hold on we got 9-11 all of these middle eastern
01:28:56.940 wars we've been fighting socialism with the cold wars you know we're against communism we're against
01:29:02.880 all and then all of a sudden we get this socialist middle eastern mayor in one of the biggest cities
01:29:10.480 in america i think that shocked a lot of people too so i don't know i mean maybe uh america is
01:29:16.860 shifting. I don't know that it's, it's a very bizarre. It's very bizarre. What's going on
01:29:22.640 tonight. What do you think Gavin Newsom's doing tonight? Oh, he's probably popping champagne with
01:29:29.300 his assistant. Uh, uh, I don't know if you, I don't know if you saw that, you know, they're
01:29:34.720 always giving Trump a hard time for, uh, having his assistant that brings the printer to print
01:29:39.980 him out stuff. But, uh, there was a story that broke a couple of days ago that, uh, people
01:29:45.220 started clocking the time and he spends more time with his assistant than his own wife,
01:29:50.180 you know, and his wife is under federal investigation for possibly fraud, tax evasion, 0.93
01:29:56.780 lying to people about the way that she's running charities, the way that the state donates money.
01:30:03.180 But I have to imagine he's sitting back and he's laughing and saying, wow, look, look at how many
01:30:09.060 blue arrows are pointing towards us. We really are great. I'm telling you, this is going to
01:30:14.080 embolden them in a way that i don't think a lot of people expected 24 hours ago 100 and but i mean
01:30:21.960 we've we've heard about this blue wave thing now for the last uh i guess year year or so now and
01:30:27.520 you know it's coming to fruition looking at 55 of the race in in new york 66 to 33 for kathy okel
01:30:34.040 uh the only thing i can do there is just laugh as we await these uh house races to come in um
01:30:41.520 the shifts the shift arrows even are still just i i mean this is this is looking at the
01:30:47.120 the house races uh in the shifts across you know where we were in 2024 and absolutely just blew
01:30:54.020 all throughout the board uh new york aoc aoc's race she won her her race uh pretty handedly 1.00
01:31:01.900 there uh we'll be glad to see her back uh you know doing what she does best causing issues 0.99
01:31:08.820 Maria Salazar is locked in a tight one there that's the congresswoman for those who haven't 1.00
01:31:15.200 followed her along who came out over the last few weeks criticizing president trump and his 1.00
01:31:19.240 border policies she's locked in a tight race over there in florida neck and neck with uh
01:31:25.000 with the marxist dem yeah wow that is uh that is shocking um yeah she uh she's kind of a 0.99
01:31:34.920 controversial person um you know i i actually don't have a big problem with her other than she
01:31:40.980 came out and suddenly came against trump as if you know she was caught off guard by the fact that he
01:31:47.400 wanted to deport people that came across the border illegally under joe biden and kamala harris
01:31:52.560 you know and and you know another thing is maybe uh maybe people are believing
01:31:58.340 oh they're not going to be able to reopen the border so then we'll we'll go back to the status
01:32:04.620 quo when you know they're just gonna they're just gonna wait until 2028 and then if they win there
01:32:11.440 the border is going to be thrown wide open yep and you know what will happen all those people
01:32:17.800 will be american citizens all of those people will be going to the ballot and vote and guess
01:32:21.880 what they'll show up to the ballots and vote the same way that everyone here saw me vote today 37
01:32:26.740 seconds name uh address birth date which you can all find online about any person you you know you
01:32:34.200 You want to you want to figure out if you dig hard enough and and, you know, there goes the country.
01:32:40.220 And I think once you do that, Steve, there's probably no coming back.
01:32:44.500 And I'm not being hyperbolic and I don't mean to be hyperbolic. 0.96
01:32:47.040 But I think once you legalize all these illegals, there's really I think you've crossed to the dark side. 0.98
01:32:54.800 And I don't think there's any coming back from that. 1.00
01:32:57.380 I mean, this this is why Elon Musk spent nearly a half a billion dollars.
01:33:02.400 He was very clear on X. My worry is these people will flood the country, provide amnesty, say that they're going to give a bunch of free programs that are going to allow millions of people to live off of the labor and the tax dollar of the American worker.
01:33:21.420 And then all of these people will vote blue and we will have a country that looks like California, where you you you Steve Hilton ran an incredible campaign, so much fraud exposed out there.
01:33:35.240 And yet California is looking like, you know what, we're going to go ahead and vote blue and keep this a super majority, even though we're managing decline more than, you know, any other state, maybe other than maybe New York City.
01:33:49.620 But it's wild. It is absolutely wild that there's got to be some kind of underlying thing.
01:33:59.400 Either people are just not showing up or this is kind of a, hey, we're really unhappy about one, two, maybe three things and we're sticking it to you.
01:34:10.020 I don't know yet. We won't know.
01:34:11.880 Here's an interesting thing. So I had mentioned before exit polling is usually a pretty good idea of, you know, who voted, how they voted.
01:34:19.400 And what they did right now, as it sits exit polling, we're seeing out of 73 percent white people, 73 percent of the people who voted in it, 51 percent of white voters, the only predominant people to vote Republican, 88 percent blacks voted for the Democrats, 60 percent Latinos voted for the Democrats, 69 percent of the Asian community voting for the Democrats and 52 percent of the other.
01:34:46.480 The other interesting thing, Stephen, and before I get to that,
01:34:49.920 I do want to break some news.
01:34:51.320 AP has just called the race for South Carolina that Darlene Graham
01:34:55.640 will not prevail in that seat. 1.00
01:34:57.660 So that's another seat flipped over into the Marxist Dem column over there.
01:35:04.740 Not good.
01:35:06.400 That's not good.
01:35:09.000 Yeah, that was a seat that they were really, really hoping to keep.
01:35:13.420 Hold on to.
01:35:13.860 Yeah.
01:35:14.420 So that'll successfully flip the Democrats picked up two seats with just five hanging in the balance that they'll need to pick up to get the majority.
01:35:23.620 This is an interesting one.
01:35:24.820 This is an NBC exit poll, Stephen.
01:35:26.680 I want to get your take on this.
01:35:29.780 67% of the Jewish voters voted Democrat.
01:35:35.560 Just 32% voted Republican.
01:35:38.420 For a party that doesn't care about them or their well-being or them existing as an entity in America, that's sort of interesting, my take.
01:35:49.800 Yeah, I don't know what to make of that. That seems very high. And yet throughout the election campaign, I remember President Trump saying many times, why would any Jewish person vote for a Democrat? They don't care about you.
01:36:05.500 Right. And I don't I don't see them do much. They've taken a very hard stance against Israel.
01:36:13.780 Most of the people that were, you know, pro-Palestine were also Democrats.
01:36:17.980 So I don't know that that is another another mystery to me.
01:36:23.380 It'll be really interesting to see, you know, President Trump picked up a lot of the Hispanic vote in 2024.
01:36:30.020 I wonder if a lot of them swung back, you know, and maybe people are more upset about what happened with ICE under Gnome and Greg Bovino than we understand.
01:36:43.540 I mean, I didn't like seeing people, you know, be killed.
01:36:47.980 But at the same time, you know, from my position, I'm like, well, what did you think was going to happen when you tried to run someone over with a car?
01:36:54.980 You know, so I don't know.
01:36:57.620 it'll be really interesting to see the final exit polls.
01:37:00.820 It'll be really interesting to see when they do a debriefing and really dig in
01:37:06.440 why this shifted so much.
01:37:09.680 Those are really important answers, especially for 2028.
01:37:13.980 Yeah, the reason I find the Israel number interesting is because, you know,
01:37:17.760 you do have a lot of the younger voters who, you know,
01:37:20.100 as we discussed a little bit earlier,
01:37:21.380 who were offset by President Trump striking in Iran.
01:37:27.120 A lot of them saying President Trump was in bed with Benjamin Netanyahu
01:37:30.460 and that America is too influenced by Israel.
01:37:34.080 And it's a lot of what these black-pilling pollsters had said as well.
01:37:37.780 To me, that's an extremely, I think, disappointing number to look at.
01:37:43.000 I do want to see if we got any updates on these races here.
01:37:45.620 I just saw Kalshi has now a prediction that Mike Rogers only has a 3% chance of prevailing in Michigan, whereas Ken Paxton's got a 1% chance of prevailing in Texas.
01:38:00.820 So not promising. Looking at Nebraska, still have that as a toss up. Kansas, they have as likely Dem with 73 percent of the vote in. Roger Marshall down 42 percent to 56 percent. Iowa, another one, they have that as lean Dem, 55 to 43 for Ashley Hinson. Not a good night for the Republicans so far, Steve.
01:38:26.360 No, I mean, and so we've talked a lot about John Thune. Let's talk about House Speaker Mike Johnson.
01:38:35.420 Yeah. You know, I was impressed. He went and visited, I want to say, maybe 42 cities.
01:38:40.880 But he's been on every from Newsmax to Fox News telling everybody these polls are bad.
01:38:46.440 We're going to prevail. We might even increase. This is the opposite of that.
01:38:50.920 And so it really, you know, I don't have really any faith in the polling.
01:38:56.360 And yet, where do you turn for information?
01:38:59.380 All of these groups pay millions of dollars to get information, you know, privately delivered to them.
01:39:08.100 I just wonder if they're caught off guard or I don't know.
01:39:13.100 Again, I knew that this was going to be a close race, but now I'm kind of thinking it doesn't look like a close race.
01:39:19.440 Yeah, you know, the polling industry is such a joke that we actually had, you know, we saw a few weeks ago, the fake polling of, you know, that company comes out and creates this entire fake polling outfit to to make a joke out of the industry.
01:39:35.960 And people think it's OK. You know, everything was, you know, hunky dory and it was funny.
01:39:40.540 And they made a joke of it. They were able to get in The New York Times on the aggregate.
01:39:45.580 They were able to get in the Wall Street Journal on the aggregate.
01:39:48.060 They were able to get in the Real Clear Politics aggregate.
01:39:50.980 And, you know, I went through these polls yesterday.
01:39:52.920 I went to the New York Times and Siena because they got it so wrong in 2020,
01:40:01.460 missing by massive margins.
01:40:03.040 And I went through their numbers yesterday on the show,
01:40:05.400 and I laughed at them that they had these Democrats winning by 10, 12, 15 points.
01:40:11.160 And I said yesterday, I said, well, they're going to have to defend these numbers,
01:40:14.460 And they're going to have to tell us, you know, how they got them.
01:40:17.580 You know, it's seeming tomorrow is going to be a different day.
01:40:23.960 Explaining how the Republicans screwed this. 0.93
01:40:27.980 Yeah, well, I just saw someone in the comments that said, screw all the Republicans that refuse to show up for Trump.
01:40:35.200 And do you know when they do the exit polling and they go in and they dig in, are we going to find out if this election came down to more people actually voting Democrat or did it really come down to Republicans not showing up?
01:40:51.720 Oh, yeah, we certainly will. We'll find out voter registration. We'll find out why. And like I said, we'll find out the reasons why they're top issues in the exit polling in the days to come.
01:41:01.960 for sure we'll be able to we'll be able to pinpoint i think pretty pretty rationally uh
01:41:08.500 why the republicans are absolutely got washed and uh and this was this blue wave that you know they
01:41:14.560 had they had said it like you know like we've said a million times steven we didn't want to come out
01:41:19.500 here tonight uh you know to break horrible news we wanted to come out here tonight uh to celebrate
01:41:25.280 now maybe some promising news up in maine as uh susan collins those numbers are starting to come
01:41:31.600 And 20 percent of the numbers in about one hundred and fifty thousand votes in Susan Collins up slightly way too early to tell.
01:41:39.900 But will that be a seat that maybe now the Republicans could defend, you know, looking at the ways to victory right here or even close to victory is kind of getting a little bit tough.
01:41:51.080 Do you think and I just want to ask this, maybe my audience is thinking this, but right now, a lot of the a lot of the races are being called by Polly Market and Kalshi.
01:42:05.880 They've certainly played a major role this election cycle more than at any time.
01:42:10.940 But yet I still see 58 percent in Texas, 6 percent in Minnesota, 74.
01:42:17.700 is there any chance that they're shutting down because they're we're now past the polling or do
01:42:25.200 you think that their data is good enough that they can call a race even before the election desk at
01:42:32.080 the Associated Press? So so how it works usually is how they call these races generally is how it's
01:42:39.800 done. The Associated Press is based on exit polling and they have a very they're usually
01:42:43.500 pretty spot on pretty accurate uh um on how you know they're able to call the races and how they're
01:42:50.320 able to do it so their their their accuracy i would say is pretty pretty darn good they don't
01:42:56.540 like getting it wrong you know we complained about uh fox calling arizona early for for joe biden
01:43:02.160 uh but they get it usually usually uh pretty pretty darn uh spot on i do want to give a shout
01:43:11.320 out here to one of your folks if we can get it up here who gave a super chat i think it's we've
01:43:18.680 got it we got to give a shout out where it's due if i can get this up here sure it out sounds so
01:43:25.140 we don't get an echo from it was the uh the culprit uh james mcdaniel 93 53 with a hundred
01:43:35.640 dollar super chat for the best, most trustworthy guy on YouTube from bright core came in as CRC.
01:43:43.200 What currency is that? I don't know. I'm not sure, but thank you. Thank you for that. Hey,
01:43:48.440 listen, you know, we're, we're trying to be positive. We are trying to give you guys the
01:43:54.800 truth. You know, I know I went out and voted red all the way down the ticket. I had one
01:44:00.840 constitutional guy that I was like, you know what, this guy is interesting, but his talking
01:44:06.960 points are about the same as the Republican and very different than the Democrat. And I did,
01:44:11.280 I voted red all the way down. So did my wife. Um, we, we looked up the different candidates
01:44:17.100 and went through everything and we, we made the best decision that we thought was there. But,
01:44:21.540 um, you know, some of this could change by morning. Um, you know, there, there's still
01:44:27.760 stuff coming in. Um, but you know, at the end of the day, we can't make anybody show up and vote.
01:44:35.280 Uh, we, we can't make any kind of changes, but it right now it's, it's very disappointing,
01:44:40.440 you know, and, um, you know, there's going to be, there's going to be some pain around each of these
01:44:46.620 individual races and we'll be back on tomorrow to help try to make sense of all of it. But,
01:44:51.780 uh, anyway, I just wanted people to know, like it doesn't bring us any joy to go through this,
01:44:57.220 this data i don't know about you i might need the day off tomorrow i i i you know i'm just
01:45:02.980 anytime this happens it perplexes me because you know i've worked years in politics before i you
01:45:09.040 know started doing this show and spent years at fox news and analyzing data and going through it
01:45:14.000 all and you know it's one of those jobs steven where you just never you can study all you want
01:45:19.640 you can know the algos all you want you can know the voters all you want but you really just never 0.87
01:45:24.360 know what they're thinking in the back of the head and when they go in that booth and they 0.52
01:45:29.420 close that curtain at least that's the way it used to be where you go in that little thing and
01:45:33.320 and circle your things you you know there's people who don't tell you what you're thinking
01:45:38.420 what they're thinking and and go in there uh and they voice it themselves i you know i don't know
01:45:45.100 what the people thought when they went there tonight but clearly it was that they're not
01:45:48.700 in favor of what president trump has sold us thus far this two years yeah in the presidency
01:45:54.040 Yeah. Or they didn't show up to vote, which is also a vote.
01:46:00.560 Deciding not to decide is a decision. You know, I remember having to say that to people in a previous business that I ran.
01:46:10.020 Deciding not to decide is a decision, you know, and and deciding not to vote is a vote.
01:46:15.060 If you allow the blue to come in because you don't want to get out there and vote, then you're basically voting for blue.
01:46:22.080 But I don't know that a lot of people look at it that way.
01:46:24.580 They just say, you know what, I'm not going to spend my time standing in line or, you know, so that that is unfortunate now.
01:46:33.500 Let me let me ask you this.
01:46:35.020 Sure. You know, people are going to have to chew on this for a while, but might things have gone differently if if Trump had not picked Ken Paxton and said, I get enough votes out of John Cornyn.
01:46:48.860 I'm going to keep that. But I don't know. I felt like honestly, I felt like John Thune and a few others were almost borderline trying to blackmail Trump into keeping John Cornyn.
01:47:01.360 And I still think he made the right decision, but it may have cost him, you know.
01:47:06.260 We're going to get to this in a second. I want to answer your question first.
01:47:08.740 no i don't think the outcome changes and i'll tell you when we get the answer from this main
01:47:16.960 race because i consider now it's not the same voting electorate obviously but um by the way
01:47:22.900 we see by the the swings if you look here steven if we we go back to the to the swings of where
01:47:28.880 you know the voters uh swung 11 points 18 points and this is this is in texas 22 points in jefferson
01:47:38.100 Allen 24 points how much more does Paxton really sway you back does he I know he doesn't sway you
01:47:45.620 back 24 20 points in in here I know he doesn't swing you back 12 points in Miller County
01:47:50.440 no I don't I don't think that that changes uh at all um when it comes to that now I do want to
01:47:57.940 pull up something that I just saw Molly Hemingway post on Twitter that it's really
01:48:01.760 really interesting and they inverted uh this from Raymond James Trump's approval rating mapped on
01:48:07.720 the average gas prices and if you take a look at that that is a direct correlation steven
01:48:14.820 a direct correlation um i think that answers your question tonight not even after waiting for exit
01:48:21.880 polling on what the american people were voting and it makes perfect sense right because what did
01:48:28.440 people do in 2024 when they went to the polls you saw on gas pumps pictures of joe biden pointing at
01:48:34.220 The gas price is saying I did that. And what happened in 2024? I think we have your answer right there from February 2026 that at Trump underwater by 15 points to where we sat in September of 2026, Trump underwater minus 25 with gas prices.
01:48:52.880 Now, they didn't go as far as October and obviously not November, but we have to assume if it fell, you know, 10 points from February to September, you're probably down another four or five points in October down to 20 underwater.
01:49:08.880 Wow. And do you think if there was a way to map approval of the Iran war, it would probably follow that same thing?
01:49:17.120 Because you can see, as I mentioned, in May and June, when they stopped the fighting and the gas prices came down, you can see he gets he gets a lift in approval.
01:49:26.480 And then it comes down again in July and August when they start that 15 day kinetic war again.
01:49:33.780 You see that that that dropping and, you know, gas prices have come down about 70 cents where I live from four ninety nine to about four twenty nine.
01:49:42.840 But what was it enough? Or are people going, hey, listen, I'm having to pay for the war I didn't want in the form of higher gas prices. And, you know, I just I don't I don't want that.
01:49:56.620 And then it goes back to what I had said earlier in the show.
01:49:59.860 You look at Iowa, Ohio, Kansas, Missouri, Texas, Oklahoma, that seem to be shifting blue.
01:50:07.960 Those are big farming, ranching.
01:50:10.200 They're all affected by diesel more than the average person.
01:50:14.620 There could be some swing back that way.
01:50:16.560 Again, we won't know until we get that briefing report.
01:50:21.760 Well, let's take a look at something that Pew Research did last month, because this may shed a little bit of light on on maybe what the people were thinking.
01:50:30.900 And this is Pew Research and President Trump's zoom in in there so that people can see.
01:50:36.360 There we go. They can see a little bit better polling on America's largely disapproval of Trump's handling on the Iran conflict expected to continue for months.
01:50:44.860 This is a percentage of people who say how Donald Trump is handling the U.S. military action against Iran.
01:50:50.800 44 percent strongly disapproved, 20 percent somewhat.
01:50:54.080 My math is correct. That's 64 percent strongly or somewhat disapproving, just a 34 percent somewhat approval.
01:51:05.980 That, I think, certainly coincides with some of those blue arrows that we see.
01:51:10.480 Yeah. Yeah. No, I mean, it almost lines up with the approval rating.
01:51:14.120 You know, if he's got a approval rating of 37, again, nationwide on your channel, my channel, he's still holding.
01:51:22.240 Yeah. On on on that, he's still, you know, ninety nine percent.
01:51:26.600 And and maybe that's where, you know, during these midterm rallies, he would say these polls are not right.
01:51:34.740 CNN says I have ninety nine percent, you know, but that's among his own voting base, not maybe the rest of the country.
01:51:41.500 Yeah, if you look at it, they go a little bit further percentage of people who say they're confident Trump administration will achieve its goal. Only 52 percent. I'm sorry. 52 percent of the people say not at all.
01:51:54.620 Oh, wow. That you're going to achieve his goal. So they're not optimistic that we're going to have a resolution one way or another. And I mean, if you look at where we're at right now in this war, it doesn't seem there's going to be any sort of, you know, resolution of it.
01:52:09.760 How much longer do you think the U.S. military action Iran will last? 47% of people say more than a year. So is this how the people were voting? I don't know. But as of right now, the only indications that we have is exit polling that we have so far is the correlation of President Trump's approval rating to gas prices.
01:52:30.120 And is this latest Pew Research survey that shows the American people, as we expect, they vote with their wallets.
01:52:41.900 The correlation of what we saw in 2024 to the correlation of what we saw now, I think, is strikingly similar.
01:52:50.560 Yeah. One thing that I wanted to say to you and to my audience is it was already it was already going to be an uphill battle.
01:53:04.340 We started this entire show with historically and statistically, the sitting president ends up having a swing back.
01:53:13.980 And so if if there was a chance it was going to be affordable gas.
01:53:19.200 it was going to be no war and so that uphill battle becomes an even steeper incline when you
01:53:27.200 have gas that goes up um and that that is that is unfortunate um but we'll see what that that final
01:53:36.020 is but it wouldn't shock me if this comes down to iran and gas prices yeah oh i mean it's really
01:53:43.500 the only thing we have to go off of you know because everything else he's done i i unless
01:53:47.680 they're of course taking out their frustration on john thune and and mike johnson which is also
01:53:53.040 very well possible you know you guys didn't say pass the save i mean nobody was bigger on on the
01:53:58.860 save america act than you steven you spoke about it every single day uh smashed on it every single
01:54:04.700 day huge on it every single day by the way i'm looking at youtube and some of the other shows
01:54:09.040 particularly the black pillars they've only got a few hundred people in here we have a few thousand
01:54:13.820 on your side and my side as well so we're crushing them it's uh what the people want to hear um 0.99
01:54:20.260 but nonetheless i mean uh they couldn't get it done and i do think that the save america act 0.97
01:54:27.200 is a massive part on on why um it happened i do think these people who are black pillars play
01:54:35.680 another part and they'll sit there and for the next week or so and they'll dance on his grave 0.54
01:54:39.780 on President Trump's grave and they'll laugh about it. But really, what's funny about it?
01:54:45.600 What's funny in the fact that we're all going to wallow in the misery of what the Democrats
01:54:52.420 are going to sell us? What's good about that? There's nothing. I mean, whatever the final
01:55:00.020 outcome is, I'm going to pick myself up, dust myself off, and I'm going to get back to telling
01:55:04.680 people the truth. This is why people listen to you and me. We're truth tellers, good, bad, or ugly.
01:55:11.700 I don't believe that President Trump is going to just roll over. I think that he's going to get
01:55:19.980 more aggressive. I think he wants to go out with a strong legacy on the border. I think he's going
01:55:25.660 to work to get this war ended and get those gas prices back down. I mean, there is a lot of good
01:55:31.580 that this man has done. America now controls 60% of all the oil on planet Earth. The future is
01:55:40.540 bright because of that. Now they've got to focus on refineries. They've got to focus on getting
01:55:46.140 those prices down. And I have worried many times that he's been distracted by foreign policy when
01:55:54.580 what America wanted was domestic policy. But he's still got two years. I know that they're
01:56:01.280 going to try to impeach him they're going to impeach everyone around him first though they're
01:56:05.860 going to try to cut him out leave him on a floating iceberg and then they'll go for him
01:56:09.820 is my opinion but we'll see what happens you're absolutely right the the american people and i
01:56:15.520 said this from the beginning and uh yeah i text with the great lou dobbs's wife every day and
01:56:20.480 we argue back and forth on things because you know i've been a little bit harder on trump this
01:56:24.140 time around than she has and i said you know i wish lou was around these days because lou would
01:56:28.540 have called president trump and said mr president and he always responded him as mr president not
01:56:34.300 like these guys sean hannity these schmucks uh mr president it's time to bring him back home it's
01:56:39.540 what the american people want and uh i blame part of this on lou dobbs not being here because 0.93
01:56:44.600 he always had the president's here and and number one is he always had the best interest of the
01:56:48.980 country and president trump not his own pocket he was fired from jobs he was sued from jobs for
01:56:54.980 protecting president trump and protecting this country and uh you know it's days like this where
01:57:00.600 i truly do miss him can we hit some audience questions before we wrap would you yeah i go
01:57:06.100 go ahead and uh give us give us some questions and we'll do our best to answer them for you guys
01:57:11.100 can you see those yeah we'll get to you i'm gonna hit some of mine i gotta let less than yours and
01:57:15.400 we'll run through some of yours good afternoon i gotta hit the loyals gw5 too uh tuned in we
01:57:20.540 appreciate you a great team to join from that one person watch party we appreciate you tuned in peg
01:57:26.840 uh from uh marie from new hampshire she's disappointed that pop is one we're disappointed
01:57:31.260 that uh the democrats have done what they did chris holmes tuned in from beautiful summers
01:57:35.680 point new jersey our loyal fall girl we've got some guests in here steven who tune in each
01:57:40.160 internet to our show from norway so we appreciate uh you guys there yay steven you're my daily
01:57:46.320 the information source i love you both thank you for your dedication we appreciate uh appreciate
01:57:51.320 you marie from beautiful new hampshire good evening steven i'm glad to see you this evening
01:57:55.000 my friend chris holmes out in new jersey peg says let's go red i'm in texas i wish i wish we had a
01:58:02.420 different uh different outcome for you tonight hello from georgia georgia in the house another
01:58:08.740 one um we're not happy with uh ossoff the governor's race darlene says our country is doomed
01:58:16.680 right now we'll see um optimistic but uh president trump will still be the president that's the good
01:58:24.400 thing at the end of the day good election coverage steven and john from rwi we appreciate you uh we
01:58:29.520 tuning in i'm watching newsmax and not too impressed yet well carolyn you should have
01:58:34.860 been tuned in here with us all night we do appreciate you tuning in uh to see us here
01:58:41.220 sorry i'm trying to run through this here jay mattson i'm here from sir steven gardner show
01:58:46.800 steve are you from england you didn't tell me sir steven i like uh my my dna is from england but i'm
01:58:53.980 not mb wolf says they're going to start impeachment proceedings right away uh yes i i i said tomorrow
01:59:02.560 You were a little bit more optimistic that it's going to be further out,
01:59:05.500 but I don't know.
01:59:08.360 Andrew says, Trump will definitely be impeached now.
01:59:10.220 Should have focused on the economy and not Iran. 0.53
01:59:12.380 Prices won't go down. 1.00
01:59:13.400 The jihad commies are taking over. 0.89
01:59:14.860 I blame Trump. 0.56
01:59:15.940 And this is, I think, the general sentiments, Steve,
01:59:18.460 of I think what people are feeling tonight with a little bit of remorse.
01:59:24.940 I don't know.
01:59:25.740 Who knows?
01:59:27.620 Any news on Abbott in Texas?
01:59:29.360 Not looking good.
01:59:30.120 Texas, not looking good.
01:59:32.560 Jen Ross says, if Texas turns red, I'm moving to Portugal. 1.00
01:59:35.260 I will not live in a socialist or Democrat leaders who are Muslims. 0.99
01:59:38.700 I think we all might have to, but we'll stick it out. 1.00
01:59:41.100 You know, we can't be like the Democrats and do that.
01:59:43.780 We'll stick it out. 1.00
01:59:45.420 Let's hope Katie Hobbs is not in charge of counting the rest of the votes in Texas. 1.00
01:59:48.520 Oh, God. 0.99
01:59:49.480 Help us all, folks.
01:59:52.720 MB Wolf says, I think the swing is due largely to negative media and short-term issues, war and gas prices.
01:59:57.900 I think that's generally the sentiment that we had, too, Steve, no?
02:00:00.840 Yeah, I mean, so President Trump coming back and winning in 2024 is kind of a miracle. I mean, like it probably should not have happened. And he was he was able to do that. And like she just mentioned right there, these are some short term things, but there are people hurting from it.
02:00:22.940 And even though poverty is the lowest it's ever been, household income is the highest it's ever been, the Trump tax cuts save people thousands of dollars.
02:00:33.240 At the end of the day, you know, there there are people that don't want this war.
02:00:38.060 There are people that don't want the high gas prices.
02:00:40.160 But she nailed something right there.
02:00:42.820 President Trump every day is up against ninety nine percent negative news.
02:00:48.340 I don't know how you survive.
02:00:49.940 If somebody was talking horrible about me and accessing a hundred million
02:00:55.180 Americans and 99% of it was negative.
02:00:58.600 I mean,
02:00:59.500 wow.
02:01:00.520 So she,
02:01:01.340 she is absolutely right there.
02:01:03.340 Yeah,
02:01:03.960 you're absolutely right.
02:01:04.860 Fall girl says Mike Rogers deserves a medal for going up against Saeed.
02:01:08.520 Yeah.
02:01:09.600 That's it's scary.
02:01:10.880 I think he's going to be,
02:01:11.680 you see,
02:01:12.080 there was another super chat that came in.
02:01:14.040 I want to make sure that they will,
02:01:15.780 we'll get to them.
02:01:16.520 We're just,
02:01:17.140 I'm just trying to run through these.
02:01:18.400 We'll a hundred percent hit to them.
02:01:19.940 gw5 says unfortunately my new york rangers won tonight there you go i guess any win's a good
02:01:25.280 win right yeah fogo says uh and did trump do enough for maga i you know that's i guess the
02:01:31.440 question at the end of the day there uh fogo that's gonna have to be answered you know did
02:01:36.620 he do enough the real everlet two of my favorite political streamers we prefer podcasters i think
02:01:42.940 just kidding we appreciate you too thanks for for tuning in to see us i agree the save america act
02:01:48.880 two. Unfortunately, Gen Z thinks that socialism is just another social media and they want a
02:01:54.060 government that gives them free things. Unfortunately, you are correct. And well,
02:01:58.780 whenever, whenever people are struggling for money, socialism sounds like a better idea.
02:02:03.920 It just does. But the problem is socialism only works until you run out of other people's money.
02:02:10.900 I mean, look at what was happening in Venezuela. Look at some of these other socialist countries,
02:02:16.020 the ones that kind of make it work they're all going bankrupt France is falling apart other
02:02:22.240 parts of Europe are falling apart and you can say oh they get six weeks of vacation and if they have
02:02:27.540 a baby the dad gets a year off or whatever none of that functions in America with 350 million
02:02:32.740 Americans it just it just doesn't and communism more people have died because of communism than
02:02:38.380 any other thing and so the you know these are these are short-term thinking and I believe
02:02:43.940 president trump's trying to overcome that but the the the gas prices the iran war that may be the
02:02:50.200 the thing that hurt him the most yeah you know people don't realize that when they want to talk
02:02:54.560 about socialism and they want to talk about universalized health care and all that garbage
02:02:58.300 they don't realize the gdp that america has is dominant to every country's gdp they don't
02:03:03.700 realize that the american population is superior to every they don't realize the things that go
02:03:08.520 into effect you can never compare america to canada you can never compare america to norway
02:03:13.280 or sweden or any of the other ones and people do not realize that who think this socialism thing
02:03:19.340 is great uh what do we got here from james james sawyer if the demograph rats take our republic
02:03:28.140 in which we stand the republic will be attracted at the lowest level cameras in the room everyone
02:03:32.780 i know has a rough time voting today how can we ensure we get our votes counted and that's a
02:03:38.240 $50 super chat. Appreciate you, James. Steve, you want to take that one first?
02:03:43.400 Yeah, thank you. That was very generous of you. You know, I have my doubts that this was a free
02:03:50.240 and fair election. I think that we should have had the Save America Act. I'm very, very disappointed
02:03:56.420 that we were not able to get that done. You know, one thing that I'll say, and maybe you back me on
02:04:03.100 this, or maybe you disagree with me, John, but from, from what I read, the house actually got
02:04:08.680 more done for Trump, but then it just died in the Senate. Yeah. Yeah. And yet everybody was
02:04:13.780 trying to protect the Senate so that Trump could not be impeached. But the Senate was the very
02:04:19.340 reason that he was not getting as many things done. And so, um, you know, again, I, I don't,
02:04:27.600 I don't know that we have fully free election, free and fair elections, but I still showed up
02:04:32.100 to vote because i i wanted to get my voice heard yeah and you know to your point james it's uh you
02:04:39.900 know what's what's the other option you know staying home and not voting and then you're
02:04:43.940 guaranteed you're giving the democrats a win and that's exactly what they want they want you to
02:04:47.760 stay home they want you to to not come out and vote and they want you to you know to be
02:04:51.520 disenfranchised i think that's part of the reason why we have so many of the fake polls i think 0.97
02:04:55.600 that's you know part of the reason why we have these black pillars who you know have done the 0.99
02:04:59.940 destruction uh that they've done this time around this election around so yes our 100 and this this 1.00
02:05:06.740 goes back to what steven and i were talking about before about the fact of not passing the save
02:05:11.240 america act that i think probably disenfranchised a lot of voters who didn't go to the polls because
02:05:17.100 they said my vote doesn't matter my vote doesn't count they're going to steal the election anyway 1.00
02:05:21.720 which is very well possible very well possible never underestimate the the power of the marxist 0.98
02:05:28.180 stems and the deep state to get what they want and to steal and who's to blame for it steven well 0.98
02:05:33.980 the republicans didn't do anything to stop it so who's to blame yeah i mean somebody somebody
02:05:41.280 said in the comments they can't even get the daylight savings bill passed like come on man
02:05:46.160 come on oh wow i wish i wish we had better news for the voters tonight i wish we had better news
02:05:52.820 for the audience and it's uh i will say watch party yeah i i will say uh i i've received very
02:06:02.720 very hard news in my life uh five or six years ago and it was a very good friend of mine that
02:06:09.460 delivered it to me and so you know i don't like being the one delivering this news but hopefully
02:06:15.940 you know that people at least go hey at least you know these guys are telling us the truth
02:06:22.420 we're trying to we're trying to tell the truth and it looks it looks blue everyone's going to
02:06:27.580 feel blue uh about this um and i just hope and pray that everyone is not regretting their vote
02:06:34.660 in a few months going oh my gosh uh what did we allow into office that's my worry yeah i i think
02:06:43.720 there's going to be a lot of people get the buyer's remorse but you know at the end of the day
02:06:47.900 Stephen, when you don't keep up on your promise, the people remember and going back to what I said about the, you know, the attention span of people's voting.
02:07:00.060 It's it's what's in front of you at that given moment, at that given time that people go off of that aren't going to go off of people are off the no tax on tips and overtime.
02:07:08.960 Right. That's a year in the past. You know, they're not on that anymore.
02:07:13.400 or they're on going to fill up their gas pumps at their car.
02:07:15.840 They're on how their lives are going to be made better.
02:07:21.700 Looking at this race, 83% of the vote in Ohio.
02:07:25.020 Vivek Ramaswamy is down by almost five points.
02:07:28.560 John Husted down by two points.
02:07:32.060 I mean, all across the board.
02:07:34.320 I mean, it just looks horrible.
02:07:37.160 Yeah, I think those blue arrows is probably the biggest indicator
02:07:43.120 of what's going on here well days to come steven we will hopefully have some more information on
02:07:50.080 just why this happened how it happened and how the republicans can get themselves out of this mess
02:07:55.760 for 2028 which now is the only thing we have to look forward to uh on the horizon because
02:08:03.040 this is you know now in the rearview mirror um with an absolute butt whooping for the republicans
02:08:11.060 Before we wrap, do you think the Republicans get their act together now?
02:08:15.040 Do you think Donald Trump goes into John Thune's office and drags him out by his collar?
02:08:20.720 Because, like I said, I put this blame.
02:08:23.220 It's partially President Trump, but it's also on John Thune.
02:08:26.560 Do you think he actually holds him to account the same way he held Don Bacon to account?
02:08:32.220 By the way, he held Marjorie Taylor Brown to account, Thomas Massey to account?
02:08:38.380 Because in my book, they're just as bad as they were.
02:08:42.000 I don't know what he's going to do, but I'm sure he's either at the White House or at Mar-a-Lago.
02:08:48.480 Steam is coming out of his ears. He's going, what the heck is going on?
02:08:52.720 How did this shift so much? We will get answers, but I don't believe he's going to give up.
02:08:58.780 I believe he'll continue to fight. Maybe this will be a blessing in disguise and we end up with the presidency
02:09:05.660 and the majority again in 2028, because I do not believe the country can stand another four years
02:09:12.160 of Democrats being fully in control. You're certainly right about that, Stephen. Steve,
02:09:19.060 to your audience, to my audience, where can they watch you each and every single day,
02:09:23.620 multiple times a day? The best place to get me for news covering the fraud that they're,
02:09:28.960 you know, wrapping up, the immigration, the deportation, all of that. Just go to
02:09:33.740 Steven Gardner on YouTube and you will find my face. I want to give you the last word here to
02:09:38.920 to give some optimism for the for the American people on on the days to come.
02:09:47.920 I mean, I'm kind of annoyingly optimistic. And so I'm going to wake up tomorrow, dust myself off,
02:09:55.840 and I'm going to move forward.
02:09:59.440 And I'm always leery of the government.
02:10:03.200 I don't believe that they're the answer to our problem,
02:10:05.420 but we have to work within the system that we have.
02:10:08.860 And so, you know, hug your families, move forward.
02:10:12.300 We'll see what the Democrats end up doing.
02:10:14.160 But I have a feeling a lot of your show and my show
02:10:17.380 is about to be about the evil, cruel nature
02:10:20.900 of the Democrat Party
02:10:22.440 because those impeachments are coming.
02:10:24.320 yep they're just getting started folks and to those of you who don't think so um tomorrow's a
02:10:30.640 new day and next week's a new week for these people to show just how evil they are and i want
02:10:35.180 to reiterate steve and i were not happy to come out here and bring you guys this news tonight we
02:10:39.820 were hoping to come on here and it'd be a far different night but uh god had different plans
02:10:46.160 and uh you know we put it all in his hands and uh things will be made right whether it's tomorrow
02:10:52.320 or the next week or the next year, we've got to keep optimism.
02:10:55.780 I've got to try to be more optimistic like you.
02:10:57.620 I try, but you're far superior to me in that.
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02:11:13.720 Stephen, we'll see you back tomorrow on The Stephen Gardner Show.
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02:11:33.120 Steven, it was a delight talking with you tonight, my friend.
02:11:35.520 We'll catch up soon, I'm sure of it.
02:11:38.020 Have a great night, folks, and God bless you all.