The Great America Show - IF THERE’S A RED WAVE, IT’S NOT BECAUSE GOP DID ANYTHING GREAT, IT’S BECAUSE THE DEMS TOOK THE COUNTRY DOWN A PATH WE DIDN’T WANT TO GO

00:00:00.140 Hello everybody, I'm Lou Dobbs. Welcome to the Great America Show and great to have you with us.

00:00:05.660 So here we are, the most important, most consequential, absolutely existential midterm election,

00:00:11.980 one week away. Still hard to believe that the election that will decide the fate of the

00:00:17.060 republic and the future of Marxism in America are only seven days out. I hope everybody's ready to

00:00:23.800 make some history in this election. I'm ready, I'm prepared, I'm anxious, I'm eager to get in that

00:00:29.060 polling booth and vote like our lives depend on the outcome because the results of this election

00:00:35.180 will shape our lives and those of our children and grandchildren for years to come. And God help us

00:00:41.800 if the Marxist left tries to steal another election and gets away with it. So here's where we are,

00:00:48.160 at least in the view of the latest polling. I'm more than pleased to tell you Republicans are in

00:00:53.280 a strong position going into the election. The Trafalgar polls show Biden with a dismal approval

00:00:59.400 rating. The Gallup-CBS News-YouGov polling reveals an electorate that is absolutely fed up with a

00:01:06.640 country that's out of control and certainly fed up with a Democrat party that's in charge of the

00:01:12.220 White House, the Senate and Congress. Most Americans are being clobbered by high inflation,

00:01:18.340 as we know, and high interest rates. And the economy is slowing. Talk of diesel shortages in

00:01:24.680 just a few weeks. That would mean a disruption in almost every sector of our economy if it happens.

00:01:31.080 And the bad news for the Dems is voters will hold them responsible for it all. Seventy-nine percent

00:01:37.520 of voters say the country is headed in the wrong direction. Seventy-nine percent. The generic

00:01:43.840 Congress poll shows Democrats' problems worsening. Republicans have opened up a seven-point lead.

00:01:50.600 The real clear politics projection now is a Republican route. The GOP will take back the

00:01:56.540 House with a margin of 30 to 50 seats if that projection proves true. And in the Senate,

00:02:03.360 the RCP projection is GOP plus three. Folks, it appears right now there will indeed be

00:02:10.480 a red wave this election cycle. And if so, it will mean that you and I voted. I hope you all will

00:02:18.040 vote like our lives depend on the result because that's the fact. Our lives depend on winning this

00:02:25.140 election outright. Our guest today is a great American, noted GOP political strategist, top

00:02:32.020 pollster John McLaughlin of the McLaughlin Group. And John, welcome back to the Great America Show.

00:02:38.580 Great to have you here. The numbers all look positive. They look good. Just how good will

00:02:44.820 we have that red wave we all have been waiting for? Well, the red wave is not because the Republicans

00:02:54.120 have done anything great as much as that the Democrats are taking the country down a path we

00:02:59.660 don't want to go. In our most recent national survey that we completed on October 17th, 65 percent of all

00:03:07.080 voters said that the country's on the wrong track. If they were in that 65 percent, they said it's Joe

00:03:12.780 Biden's fault, 67 to 25. And the Republicans are working on getting that up since then. In August,

00:03:21.080 the generic vote was 45-45 for Congress. It was a tie. September is 48 Republican, 44 Democrat.

00:03:27.620 Democrat. This month, it's 49 Republican, 43 Democrat. That's, you know, the highest we've seen

00:03:35.440 since probably 1994. Being an old man, I remember delivering a poll to Newt Gingrich and the House

00:03:41.380 leadership, Bob Michael, that the Republicans were up seven in September of 94. And I said,

00:03:46.100 I've never seen that before. But don't compromise with the Clintons and take, you know, ride the contract

00:03:51.700 into a new majority. And they did. And what you've got this time is you've got 60 percent of the six

00:03:58.720 out of 10 voters saying the country's in a recession. And when we asked them, is the economy getting

00:04:03.340 worse or better? Only 26 percent said better. 67 percent said worse. What's really scary is that

00:04:12.940 when we asked about if people have been impacted by inflation, 85 percent said they had.

00:04:19.440 You know, John, that is the most, to me, dramatic number in your poll to see that level of response

00:04:28.060 to has inflation affected your family. I mean, that's a stunning number.

00:04:35.120 Yeah. And what's stunning about it is not just the breadth of the number of people affected by it

00:04:41.120 is the number one issue, but it's 47 percent of all Americans saying that they've been impacted so much

00:04:49.040 that they're cutting back or it's affecting basic necessities. So, you know, this is, you know,

00:04:57.060 in Biden, he's he's running the strategic oil reserves down to zero to keep the price low.

00:05:03.600 And he's begging the Saudis and Venezuelans for gas and oil. And it's a disgrace. But but the bad part is

00:05:10.840 it's it's the cost of food. It's the cost of essentials. It's utility bills. It's trying to

00:05:16.560 make their rent. And, you know, when 47 percent of all Americans say it's affecting so that they're

00:05:23.400 struggling to meet basic necessities. That's a crisis. If you don't mind, I'd like to while you're here,

00:05:31.560 I'd like to everybody have an opportunity to see and hear you on exactly what is happening and why

00:05:40.440 on a love on a broad range of issues. I want to talk and put it in context. I want to see two big

00:05:48.300 states, Pennsylvania and and New York, what's happening there. And in New York, Lee Zeldin,

00:05:57.080 Congressman Lee Zeldin running for governor, has now pulled ahead in the latest polling

00:06:02.920 of ahead of his Democrat incumbent opponent. And let's just listen to part of the debate between

00:06:11.900 the two, Hockel and Zeldin. Here is Zeldin. My opponent still can't finish this sentence. You

00:06:19.700 can't expect her to ever fix it. But New York leads the entire nation in population loss because 0.90

00:06:24.480 she actually got asked this question by the media a few weeks ago when she was at Binghamton

00:06:28.380 Airport. She probably would love to have a redo because she messed it up that time. For me, 0.99

00:06:32.900 you ask me, why does New York lead the entire nation in population loss? Because their wallets,

00:06:37.000 their safety, their freedom and their quality of their kids education are under attack. So they're

00:06:40.480 hitting their breaking point. They're looking at other states like the Carolinas, Tennessee, Texas,

00:06:44.520 Florida and elsewhere. And they feel like their money will go further. They'll feel safer and they'll live

00:06:48.480 life freer. The state is at a crossroads. We're at a crossroads in 1994 when New York elected George

00:06:54.880 Pataki. And we're at a crossroads right now. But as far as what happens with Kathy Hochul and one 0.89

00:06:59.960 party rule for four more years, outsized power of self-described socialists, we need balance and

00:07:04.980 common sense restored to Albany. That was a summation of why New Yorkers should elect Lee Zeldin.

00:07:12.760 The best summation I have heard from any candidate since, frankly, Donald Trump. It was brilliant. It

00:07:22.380 was terrific. Your response? Well, full disclosure, I work for Lee and I've always worked for Lee since

00:07:29.840 he ran for Congress in 2008. He wasn't successful, but he's stuck with it. And you've got a person who's

00:07:37.620 on a mission where, I mean, this is a person who volunteered to serve in Iraq after he was done

00:07:44.800 with college. And he did go in the Army Airborne and he did serve. And he came back and he wanted

00:07:52.140 to get involved in public service. And he has. And, you know, he ran in a race for Congress in 2008.

00:07:59.060 He wasn't going to win. He knew it from the polling. I don't think he believed my polls. He was trying to

00:08:03.060 win. And he ended up eventually getting elected to state Senate there and then winning that seat

00:08:09.240 for Congress in 2014. And he's been a part of change ever since then. And when Andrew Cuomo was

00:08:17.800 governor, Lee got into the race and people said, you can't win. And he said, well, the state's going

00:08:23.120 in the wrong direction. I'm going to run and I'm going to try to, you know, win this race. And he

00:08:27.860 challenged Cuomo and, you know, Cuomo got caught with scandals and other things that were wrong.

00:08:34.060 And he's been on a mission to repeal cashless bail, fire, Alvin Bragg, turn things around. You've got

00:08:40.540 a crime crisis in New York. You've got an economic crisis in New York. You have their schools. The

00:08:47.080 kids have fallen behind. And you've got the immigration crisis has come to New York that Eric Adams can't

00:08:52.840 handle. And Lee's on a mission to fix all these things, what he calls to save our state.

00:08:57.860 So I know from the polls that we're in a dead heat right now. I know some polls have us a little

00:09:02.400 ahead. We have us, you know, slightly behind, but hopefully the sitting governor is under 50%.

00:09:09.940 I wish the election was tomorrow, but there's a lot of Democrats that are leaving the Democrat

00:09:16.120 party to vote for Lee Zeldin.

00:09:19.000 One would think that that would be a natural reflex to what all ails New York. New York,

00:09:25.300 as Lee Zeldin said, one party rule. This is a disaster, what the Democrats have done to New

00:09:32.220 York, just as not perhaps as large as the disaster that Biden has done to the United States.

00:09:40.600 But that's only a matter of scale and difference. I want to cut to Pennsylvania, where another

00:09:48.840 debate, Oz, Dr. Oz, running against John Fetterman, impaired, obviously unable, unfit to stand for

00:09:59.840 office. But the Dems, as we know, given Biden and everything else, are not in any way hesitant to put up

00:10:07.980 a man who is really in terrible shape. But here is Dr. Oz responding to John Fetterman.

00:10:18.440 We have a catastrophe at the border, and we should not have sanctuary cities, as John Fetterman has

00:10:23.420 tried to introduce. But I've been into the parts of Philadelphia and Allentown and Reading, where we

00:10:28.400 have large Latino populations. I understand the challenges of the border. My father was an

00:10:33.280 immigrant. My mother were immigrants. You know, I understand what legal immigration offers us. But

00:10:37.140 the completely porous, open nature of our border, which John Fetterman supports, has created a

00:10:42.860 humanitarian crisis with cartels profiting, with human trafficking operations. They take the money,

00:10:48.140 they buy narcotics from China, and bring that into our country. And it's making every state a border 0.99

00:10:53.020 state. Pennsylvania is already a border state, because we're top three in the country in fentanyl

00:10:57.360 overdoses. At least I can't go anywhere where I'm giving a big event where I don't meet multiple

00:11:02.720 people who say their personal lives have been destroyed because of fentanyl overdoses. Yet John

00:11:07.260 Fetterman not only wants an open border, not only supports sanctuary cities, but he wants to legalize

00:11:12.220 all hard drugs in America, including narcotics. That is, I mean, out of touch with everybody. That

00:11:19.600 radical position was tried in Oregon, which he endorsed, 50% homicide increase rate.

00:11:24.400 And there it is. Again, a terrific summation of positions and the consequence of the following

00:11:34.380 the opponent's policies. Your thoughts? I want everybody to hear John Fetterman, too, because

00:11:40.980 I've used some strong words, impaired, unfit. Here is John Fetterman on the issue of supporting

00:11:50.180 tracking and the confusion in his record on the issue. Here we go.

00:11:56.680 I absolutely support fracking. In fact, I live across the street from a steel mill, and they

00:12:02.320 were going to frack to create their own energy in order to make them more competitive. And

00:12:05.900 I support that, living closer to anybody else in Pennsylvania for fracking to myself. I believe

00:12:11.500 that we need independence with energy, and I believe I've walked that line my entire career.

00:12:17.540 I believe Democrats. Mr. Mr. Fetterman, I do have a specific question, which you can continue 0.54

00:12:22.940 on this topic. But you have made two conflicting statements regarding fracking. In a 2018 interview,

00:12:29.360 you said, quote, I don't support fracking at all. I never have. But earlier this month,

00:12:35.260 you told an interviewer, quote, I support fracking. I support the energy independence that we should

00:12:40.980 have here in the United States. So, Mr. Fetterman, please explain your changing position. 60 seconds.

00:12:46.980 Yes. I've always supported fracking. He's always supported fracking. I mean, it's sad. It is very sad. And

00:12:58.480 again, I'm not going to play here the sound that is so difficult for anyone to watch, because this is a

00:13:07.000 man in poor health who is being exploited by his own political party. And in my judgment,

00:13:14.700 his family bears some responsibility in this as well. This is inhumane what they are doing to him

00:13:22.120 as a candidate. And it's an obscenity what the Marxist Democrat Party is trying to do to the people of 0.58

00:13:29.820 Pennsylvania. Your thoughts, John?

00:13:31.720 Well, it's not a surprise considering that they've got Biden as our president. Six out of 10 voters in

00:13:37.480 the United States think he needs to go for a cognitive test and make it public. And so with

00:13:43.500 John Fetterman, they're just taking it to a new level. And the difference between Fetterman and,

00:13:49.620 you know, certainly we wish him well and we wish him to stay healthy. But the difference is he's got

00:13:55.860 these radical policies. The story is not his health. The story is when he was well, what was he

00:14:01.480 thinking of when he said they should release a third of these violent criminals out of the

00:14:07.680 Pennsylvania jails? Why did he support this thing? And look at what's going on in Philadelphia. Look

00:14:12.240 what's going on throughout Pennsylvania as well as the rest of the country when you let violent

00:14:17.360 criminals out of jail. I mean, Wawa, who was headquartered in Philadelphia, is closing stores because

00:14:24.860 they can't keep it safe. They're getting looted by mobs. And, you know, this is the kind of policy

00:14:30.760 that this guy's in favor of. And whether it's fracking where he would shut down a billion dollar

00:14:36.200 industry in Pennsylvania, something that's vitally needed right now is Russia becomes the supplier of

00:14:44.160 oil and gas for Europe as they, you know, promulgate a war in Ukraine and kill thousands of people.

00:14:50.880 You know, Biden talks a good game. Fetterman talks a good game. But then they don't up the oil and gas

00:14:58.340 production that would actually starve Putin of the money he needs to prosecute his, you know,

00:15:05.700 prosecute his war. So we had we had a poll list last week that we did for Dick Morris and John

00:15:12.920 Jordan, who published it on Newsmax, that we had us moving a point ahead among likely voters. So it was

00:15:19.740 already moving in this debate should just be the closing argument on John Fetterman for the Senate

00:15:24.840 and should seal the fate of the Senate seat for the Democrats that it belongs to the Republicans

00:15:32.420 because they're wrong on the issues and they would do damage to America. So so what's the best part

00:15:41.640 about what's going on in the election right now is the Marxist radical Democrats who took over their

00:15:47.500 party from these from the moderate Democrats are being exposed and they're they're wrong on so

00:15:55.440 many issues, whether it's the economy and inflation, whether it's crime and, you know, being pro criminal

00:16:03.280 instead of pro police, whether it's the border and security, whether it's keeping America strong in

00:16:10.460 the world so that we could, you know, promote peace and not be subject to like dictators like Putin or

00:16:17.740 or elsewhere in the world terrorists from Iran. I mean, let's expose these Democrats and beat them on

00:16:25.780 the issues. Yeah. One hopes that at this point people understand who Joe Biden is and what he is not

00:16:33.240 and a fully capable president. He is not and a puppet. He is of the Marxist Dems and the party

00:16:40.600 they control, as you say. I want to also point out something about what's happening in Pennsylvania

00:16:46.480 and get your reaction to early voting, mail in balloting, absentee balloting, because we now know

00:16:51.740 a million people have already had already voted when Dr. Oz and John Fetterman held their first,

00:16:59.700 last and only debate, which should have made a clear cut statement in favor of Dr. Oz, anyone who

00:17:06.680 cares about the future of their children and their quality of life. That should have been clear as a

00:17:14.680 result of last night's debate. A million votes already cast in Pennsylvania. How could it be? And

00:17:21.100 your reaction? Well, it's dangerous because, I mean, during COVID on the, you know, the Democrats

00:17:29.240 led by their governor and their secretary of state, Governor Wolf passed a law called Act 77. And

00:17:37.380 the Republicans went along with it because they didn't want to be perceived as being, you know,

00:17:42.320 intolerant during COVID times or whatever. But it allowed the paper ballots and what they call curing of

00:17:49.840 ballots, where they can go back and a ballot that wasn't filled out properly, they can correct it and

00:17:57.840 count it because they knew they were banking votes against Republicans. And a lot of other states have

00:18:04.120 fixed those laws. Like what Wisconsin, the Supreme Court ruled four to three, even though the media

00:18:09.540 says there's a big lie out there. No, there's, there's evidence. And the Supreme Court of Wisconsin

00:18:15.080 threw out that law that allowed people to say they were permanently disabled when they weren't. And they

00:18:21.980 were getting absentee ballots. And granted, there's been no remedy for the 2020 presidential race,

00:18:27.540 but it's not going to happen this year to defeat Ron Johnson. In Georgia, finally, the Republicans woke up

00:18:34.220 after the election because Governor Kemp didn't call a special session after their election. And why they

00:18:39.500 agreed to the consent order, I had no idea. But that allowed the unsecured drop boxes was hundreds of

00:18:46.220 thousands of ballots that had no chain of custody record and enabled ballot harvesting. That's been

00:18:51.580 proven in different documentaries. But in Georgia, this, the state legislature we work for, the

00:18:58.180 majority corrected the law. So whether you vote by absence, you're in person, you need a voter ID.

00:19:05.060 There's no excuse absentees. And the drop boxes are now secure. There are government buildings

00:19:10.160 that require you to, you know, that you can only drop in one ballot, etc. So they're being

00:19:15.960 watched. And, you know, no one has said their civil rights were, unlike Stacey Abrams talks about, or

00:19:24.480 Reverend Warnock, no one has said their civil rights were deprived, and they're being allowed to vote.

00:19:30.120 And they're showing up in record numbers. And because Georgia is a civil rights state, that has to keep 0.96

00:19:37.300 records of how people vote based on statistics of, you know, race and age, 33% of the vote right now

00:19:44.700 is African American. So they're, you know, it's an honest election now. And, you know, the Democrats

00:19:52.340 are taking advantage of it. And the Republicans will take advantage of a lot of Republicans wait till

00:19:56.760 election day still. But it's a it's a race that Herschel Walker can win. And the polls are showing

00:20:02.260 that as, you know, neck and neck, whether he's up to or down to, that's a close race. And they keep on 0.97

00:20:08.720 throwing every, every, every character attack, you can imagine a Herschel. And he's still standing

00:20:15.340 because of Warnock is voting with Biden for all these failed policies. And, and Governor Kemp's

00:20:20.880 leading Stacey Abrams decisively. So, so, you know, Pennsylvania, they should have fixed that law,

00:20:28.380 and they haven't done it. And that's a problem, because you still have a Democrat governor there.

00:20:32.220 And the Pennsylvania Democrat officials mailed out the, the Democrat election officials mailed out

00:20:40.640 240,000 ballots to unverified voters. They now say it's 255,000 voters, according again to the

00:20:49.820 Gateway Pundit. I mean, what in the world is the Republican Party doing? And I, and I know that

00:20:58.100 the RNC is a fundraising mechanism, and an opportunity for the top officials of that

00:21:04.000 organization to get rich. But the reality is, the reality is, we've got to, we've got to break up

00:21:12.000 that mess that we call an RNC, because they've let this happen. The state organization is obviously

00:21:17.580 a disaster. This is our future being, this is not something that should be tolerated by the Republican

00:21:23.640 Party of any state, but particularly a state with a number of electoral votes,

00:21:28.100 that it holds, and the consequence for the entire nation.

00:21:33.100 Right. No, I agree with you. And the Republican, you know, I, I, you know, I, I, I, I, I'm at a loss

00:21:43.900 for words, because I've been saying all along that in 2020, they let us down in terms of, you know,

00:21:52.040 protecting the ballot integrity that year. And since then, they still haven't filed any complaint

00:21:59.040 against the Zuckerberg drop boxes, or the use of tax deductible dollars for partisan voting activities,

00:22:07.520 because they certainly targeted their efforts that was tax deductible by Mark Zuckerberg.

00:22:15.600 And it was tax deductible, they got a break, they spent hundreds of millions of dollars,

00:22:20.460 and they targeted it in Democrat areas to drive out a partisan Democrat vote. So no one's filed an IRS

00:22:26.480 complaint, no one's filed an FEC complaint. And, and, you know, granted, they have changed some laws,

00:22:32.780 and they have gone after laws, but so much more needs to be done. You know, it's, it's, I wish the

00:22:37.840 election was tomorrow, because our Republicans are fired up to go vote. There's a lot of Democrats that are

00:22:43.720 breaking from their party, independents are overwhelmingly with us.

00:22:48.040 I think that they will exceed even, even their conduct in 2020. But I, I've just, I'm at a loss

00:22:56.980 to understand two things about the Republican Party right now. And that is their toleration of two

00:23:03.020 leaders, Senate Minority Leader, Mitch McConnell, House Minority Leader, Kevin McCarthy,

00:23:10.820 we're being told everything's fine, because they understand they're going to have to do what the

00:23:16.160 party says if we went back to House and the Senate. We're in the position of tolerating two

00:23:23.240 rhinos, two Democrats, with an R by their name instead of a D, as the leaders of a more conservative

00:23:31.860 and more moderate Republican Party. I mean, this is nuts what's happening, and I don't get it. And we're

00:23:39.600 putting up with a Republican National Committee that is filled with people who seem to want to

00:23:47.060 give this over to the Democrats. How can this be tolerated? And how can they be removed?

00:23:54.300 Well, I'll tell you, first of all, I kind of, I'm just working for my candidates to get them

00:23:59.700 elected, because I know there's a lot of good pro-Trump, pro-conservative Republicans that are

00:24:06.800 running. If we thought we elected in the wave years of 2010 or 1994, if we thought we elected a

00:24:12.860 good conservative crop of elected officials, I think we're going to see the types of candidates

00:24:20.820 who are elected now more in touch with the mainstream of America, more in touch with the

00:24:25.460 majority, what they want to do, whether it's immigration, whether it's crime, whether it's taxes

00:24:32.000 in the economy, various groups. And I'm like, you know, I'm telling people, if you want to give to

00:24:37.320 somebody, give to them directly. And, you know, we've got to get them elected. Once the election

00:24:44.640 happens, if we elect as many of these candidates as we have to control the Senate, not, you know,

00:24:50.120 and by the way, the House, like I said, we have that Republicans up 49, 43. That means we would

00:24:56.380 probably gain between 40 and 50 seats. You gain between 40 and 50 seats, that caucus, when they

00:25:02.880 meet, they're going to, they're going to elect some pretty conservative, strong pro-Trump, you know,

00:25:09.280 leaders. And the Senate races, you know, right now, Oz looks like he's going to win Pennsylvania. It

00:25:15.980 looks like we're going to win North Carolina. It looks like we're going to win in Wisconsin. But

00:25:21.580 right now, it doesn't look like the Republicans are going to lose any Senate seats. In Alaska,

00:25:27.060 the Republican Party has, has, you know, it's a, it's a contest, not between the Democrat and

00:25:32.180 Republicans, between Murkowski, Senator Murkowski, and Trump's endorsed candidate, Kelly Chewbacca.

00:25:37.980 So that's a different one. But we control the Senate. You know, then it's up to the senators to pick 0.96

00:25:45.360 their leader. And let's get as many of them as elected as possible, so that they can pick the right

00:25:50.960 leadership. So right now, I, I, I'm not looking past November 8. All I'm doing is, I'm with you,

00:25:57.720 I advise my candidates what they need to do to beat the Biden Democrats. And then we go from there.

00:26:03.400 I'm sitting here looking at November 8. And I just can't wait to get there. Because the sooner we do,

00:26:11.020 and hopefully, we'll be able to lock up the barn and not have any, any breakaways, I'll put it that

00:26:18.240 way. This is a Senate minority leader, though I think we have to explain, whether, whether it is

00:26:27.820 in New Hampshire, whether it is in Alaska, supporting the, the Democratic opposition to Republican

00:26:36.000 candidates. This is insane what Mitch McConnell has done. And no one wants to raise their voice

00:26:44.140 above a whisper when they talk about this madness on the part of McConnell. Why is that?

00:26:50.220 Well, it's because, first of all, there's a, certainly the Senate, he is the Senate leader and

00:26:56.140 controls the campaign funds with Rick Scott for this Senate committee. And then at the same time,

00:27:03.360 you have the Senate leadership fund that puts in millions of dollars extra to offset what the Democrats

00:27:08.280 are doing what Schumer's doing. So, so, you know, there's a lot of resources that they control.

00:27:15.340 But right now, I think, you know, I think the voters, the battlefield is widening, because

00:27:21.180 it's not just the four Democrat incumbents who are in trouble. It appears that Laxalt's ahead in

00:27:27.100 Nevada, over Cortez Masto. That's all the polls seem to agree on that. It's not a big lead, but it's a

00:27:32.720 lead. Mark Kelly's in trouble in Arizona. Blake Masters is right behind him. Hershel Walker and

00:27:39.540 Warnock are virtually tied in the polls, you know, and there could be a runoff in Georgia after

00:27:45.300 November 8th. And in fact, Warnock did some ad where he's saying that they don't want to go to

00:27:52.340 Thanksgiving with another election. I was like, it's a turkey of an ad. So the turkey came before

00:27:58.320 Thanksgiving. By the way, John, that's the worst pun of the entire campaign year that I've heard to

00:28:05.980 this point, but I like it. Yeah, but it's like, when you look, when I looked at the ad, I'm like,

00:28:11.100 for the Democrats to be begging for 50.1% for him before Thanksgiving, it's like, that's just not

00:28:20.140 good. They're in trouble. And then, and then you've, then you've got Bulldog, General Bulldog in

00:28:27.080 New Hampshire, you know, right behind Maggie Hassan, the Democrat Senator in New Hampshire.

00:28:34.000 New Hampshire, if she's polling in the 40s, she, she's very beatable. Sununu, the governor is,

00:28:40.800 appears headed for re-election decisively. So, you know, it's, it's very likely that the Republicans

00:28:48.420 could not just have, you know, 51, 52 seats, they could have more. And you have candidates

00:28:55.720 that could win for the Republicans in Washington state, in, in Colorado, and Leora Levy could win 0.99

00:29:02.460 in Connecticut, because Blumenthal, most voters in Connecticut think he's a liar. So, well, we know

00:29:08.680 he's a liar. They must be thinking something in addition to the fact that he's a liar. Well, he, well, 1.00

00:29:15.660 that his lies have affected them at this point. Right now, what everybody has to be focused on is

00:29:22.220 getting, you know, making sure they vote, making sure they're friends and family and that think

00:29:28.060 like they do, they vote. Because even though 160 million people voted in the 2020 presidential race,

00:29:35.160 turnout won't be as high this time. In 2018, it was 118 million. In 2014, which was a good Republican

00:29:40.840 year, it was only 83 million. So you got tens of millions of voters deciding not just who they're

00:29:45.820 going to vote for right now, deciding whether they're going to vote or not. And we need to make

00:29:51.400 sure those who would vote with us, if they really want change, whether it's for Lee Zeldin as governor

00:29:55.460 in New York, Dan Cashless bail to stop the crime wave, to stop the exodus of people. I mean, the only

00:30:01.220 people that Kathy Hochul doesn't want to leave New York are the Buffalo Bills. And she gave them a billion 1.00

00:30:06.980 tax dollars. But the way she's headed, there'll be nobody in the stands watching the game because

00:30:11.960 everybody else is leaving upstate New York. You've given me a you've given me a segue. So I'm going

00:30:18.740 to take it because I'd like to bring in what John is talking about. This is Lee Zeldin again in that

00:30:25.820 debate, talking about why people are leaving New York State, and putting it straightforwardly

00:30:34.580 on vocal and the one party rule that has been in charge of New York for way too long. Here is Lee

00:30:44.460 Zeldin. And you get people who are afraid of being pushed in front of oncoming subway cars. They're

00:30:49.740 being stabbed, beaten to death on the street with hammers. Go talk to the Asian American community 0.85

00:30:53.940 and how it's impacted them with the loss of lives. Jewish people targeted with raw, violent anti-Semitism

00:30:58.820 on our streets. It just happened yet again. We need to be talking about all of these other crimes.

00:31:04.580 But instead, Kathy Hochul's too busy patting herself on the back. Job well done. No, actually,

00:31:09.740 right now there should be a special session. The state legislature should come back and they

00:31:13.580 should overhaul Castles Bale and these other pro-criminal laws with zero tolerance. But they're

00:31:18.100 saying, elect me. She says, elect me. And then you'll find out where maybe I'll stand on this issue in

00:31:22.460 January. Lee Zeldin running to unseat Kathy Hochul, the incumbent Democrat. And God bless him. And God

00:31:32.160 speed. We need him in New York. I take your point. It is time to everybody to come together. But I have

00:31:43.180 to ask you this and then I'll get off the issue of leadership of the Republican Party. I promise you.

00:31:47.600 Have you ever seen another majority leader in either part in either either house, the Senate or the

00:31:55.480 House, actually finance opponents to the Republican Party candidates?

00:32:05.180 Right now, all I know is that that my candidates are being supported by, you know, by the leadership,

00:32:12.160 but they have no choice because we won the primaries. So my job now is to make sure they win in

00:32:17.560 November. And that's all I'm focused on. I appreciate your candor, John, and I understand

00:32:23.140 your reticence on certain issues. So let's go forward and take a look at your poll because it's

00:32:29.820 really critically important for everybody to understand what is happening. Putting the blame

00:32:36.020 squarely on Joe Biden for the United States. Two-thirds saying that the country is moving in the wrong

00:32:41.960 direction. Guess what? Two-thirds say it's all Joe Biden. Not all, but it's Joe Biden's fall

00:32:47.240 primarily that the United States is on the wrong track. To me, that should spell doom for the

00:32:55.960 Democrats in and of itself. The generic ballot, as you point out, it's widened to six points under

00:33:03.360 your polling, in your polling. That's impressive. And the job rating? Biden is underwater.

00:33:11.480 No one thinks he's fit for office. And his policies are vicious. And what in the world are

00:33:19.240 we looking at here in terms of impact on November 8th and all of these senatorial and House races

00:33:27.740 that are so critically important, as well as governorships and state legislatures around the

00:33:32.140 country? Well, Joe Biden will be in a lot more Republican ads than he will be Democrat ads.

00:33:36.840 And I'm hoping he comes in and campaigns for all our opponents. So it's, you know, it's, it's the guy

00:33:44.780 has failed. And, you know, but, you know, the, the, that question about whose fault it is,

00:33:50.500 it was only 67% of those who thought it was 65% wrong track. So that's still in the 40s. We still

00:33:58.900 have room to grow. Some of the people aren't getting the message because some people still believe it's

00:34:04.180 Putin's fault that gas is so high, not Joe Biden. Some people still believe that, you know, that the

00:34:11.040 economy is slowed because of pressures about inflation that they don't control. I mean, so,

00:34:18.600 so we still have a debate to commence that is really important in terms of why this country is on the

00:34:24.860 wrong track, why these policies are failing, and that it is Joe Biden and the Democrats' fault. And

00:34:29.860 there's so many things that these Democrats voted for that the mainstream media, which should be the

00:34:34.520 left-wing media of the Democrat party, the socialist party, they don't tell us. And the only way you find

00:34:41.400 out is candidates running ads and getting the message out during the campaign and people using

00:34:45.860 social media when they don't get censored. So, so we've got, we've got 13 days to keep pounding.

00:34:51.760 I mean, we've got to pound this, this home until November 8th.

00:34:54.860 You've focused on November 8th. I'm focused on what looks in your poll to be, to me, nothing but good

00:35:02.800 news for the Republican party and nothing but bad news, awful news for the Democrat party. You say

00:35:08.560 there's room to run. I would guess there is. I'd like to get from you, though, your, if you will,

00:35:16.720 your summarization of what you think is the likely outcome. Where you see the selection headed. Are we

00:35:29.140 talking about a red wave? Are we talking about a tsunami? Are we talking about the prospect of

00:35:34.400 the Democrats coming up with another steal? How important is turnout? I would guess the answer

00:35:41.580 would be very, uh, and immeasurably important. Uh, give us, give us your sense how this is going

00:35:48.760 to look on November 9th. I mean, today, you know, today it should be, if the election was held today,

00:35:54.980 the Republicans would gain 40, 50 seats in the house, someplace in that range. Uh, most of the

00:36:01.020 toss-ups are actually Democrat seats. We'd win those. We'd win all the ones leaning Republican,

00:36:06.000 all the ones, uh, you know, uh, certainly, uh, tilting Republican and we'd pick up some that

00:36:12.540 lean Democrat we'd, we'd win today. Uh, even people like Sean Patrick Maloney, who is Nancy Pelosi's

00:36:19.540 campaign manager for the Democrats in the house, he's losing a Mike Lawler. Uh, but you know, when

00:36:25.380 you think about the races that we could pick up, you know, in 2012, everybody thought Mitt Romney

00:36:33.380 was going to be president. He was running ahead in all the polls, you know, uh, a week over a week

00:36:39.340 out. And a lot of the Republicans stopped polling going into that weekend. And guess what happened?

00:36:44.700 You had hurricane Sandy hit most of the East coast. Some States like Connecticut, New York,

00:36:50.420 New Jersey, couldn't even Poland because the phones were out. The electricity was out.

00:36:55.640 Obama takes advantage of it. Mitt Romney flies over those States because he doesn't think they're in

00:37:00.880 play. Obama comes in, hugs Chris Christie. And the next thing you know, on Sunday, he goes ahead in

00:37:07.160 the polls and Monday he's ahead in the polls and he eats out a victory in 2012. Yeah. Um, and

00:37:13.340 Romney could have easily come into New York said how terrible this was like the Democrats did with

00:37:19.180 Katrina and he didn't do it. And he, you know, so here you've got a situation where, you know,

00:37:26.260 right now it looks really good. I don't see any hurricanes coming, but the Democrats can, uh,

00:37:32.460 maybe, you know, steal some races from us that we should win and, and minimize our success that we,

00:37:38.920 we only win the house by a handful and we don't take as many Senate races as we should. So,

00:37:44.880 you know, we've got to run like we're behind every day until the polls close. And then even after the

00:37:50.720 polls close, we now know that we have to make sure that the elections were honest

00:37:54.540 and the ballots that are being cast are legitimate and we can't allow the Democrats to, uh, uh, you

00:38:02.320 know, change the rules, uh, after the election happens. So, so right now, you know, right now it

00:38:08.880 looks pretty good, but the election is not tomorrow. It's over a week from tomorrow. So I, I've never

00:38:15.500 asked you this question, but the bounce of the polls that Obama got in 2012 in that final week,

00:38:23.360 I mean, it was dramatic. It was dramatic. Uh, how manufactured was that and how much of it was

00:38:31.140 real? Oh, it was real. It was the, the polls, the bounce he got in the polls. I mean, he was losing

00:38:38.540 in most polls, uh, but a lot of places, you know, they, they stopped polling Wednesday, Thursday before

00:38:44.620 the election. And then, you know, uh, nobody was, you know, some, the media of national polls

00:38:51.600 that were, that were out there actually had Obama go ahead on Sunday and Monday. And I don't think it

00:38:56.440 was manufactured. I think, I think the Republicans, you know, got fat and confident and they thought

00:39:04.160 they were going to win. And until the exit polls hit them on election night, you know, I heard stories

00:39:08.860 from people that were up in Massachusetts waiting to celebrate Mitt Romney's victory. And I, I wasn't

00:39:15.440 a part of that campaign. And, you know, I was one of these outcasts eventually ended up with Donald

00:39:19.960 Trump, but, uh, but, uh, uh, but I, you know, they, they thought they were going to win and they

00:39:27.580 didn't see it coming. And, uh, you know, in an age of social media and electronic communications,

00:39:33.560 I mean, Obama's people pioneered it on Facebook back then in 2008 and 2012. And you've got,

00:39:41.620 you know, things that can happen in one state, uh, you know, end up on the internet throughout the

00:39:47.480 country in a matter of, uh, nanoseconds. So, uh, so right, so right now I don't, you know, I, I,

00:39:55.600 I'm not, I'm not taking anything for granted. I'm keeping my candidates staying on offense,

00:40:00.880 running like they're behind right through till election day.

00:40:03.880 Good for you. And I think that's the only posture to, to, to assume, uh, especially in these dire

00:40:11.000 moments in which we live. I want to ask further, if you will, what, what do you look, when you see

00:40:21.260 executive order, uh, what is it? 1 0, uh, 1 4 9. I believe that is, I, I'm not sure of the exact

00:40:29.160 number that the March 21st executive order by Biden, putting the federal government, uh, making

00:40:36.060 them responsible for get out the vote. Uh, how much of an influence will that have on the election? 0.95

00:40:41.700 In your opinion, has there been a Republican response to it? Um, I, I'm not a lawyer, but I've

00:40:48.980 had, you know, lots of friends and people in campaigns that are concerned about it and keeping

00:40:53.600 an eye on it right now because, uh, we are very concerned that they're going to pull some sort of

00:40:58.420 stunt, uh, that would, uh, uh, that would affect the election. So, uh, you know, right now we just

00:41:04.960 got to be vigilant that the, the Merrick Garland led justice department doesn't do anything other

00:41:10.680 than make sure the election is safe, honest, and, uh, you know, fair. So it's like, uh, you know,

00:41:17.060 safe, honest, and legal, just, just, you know, let's, let's have the election, let people that

00:41:22.620 are eligible to vote. Most states have voter ID, New York doesn't, uh, Georgia does. Um,

00:41:29.160 you know, we let's, let's make sure those who are legitimate citizens are able to vote and, uh,

00:41:34.520 no one else. So, you know, uh, right now, I, right now we're just waiting to see, we don't control

00:41:40.680 this. They're, they're in charge. So.

00:41:42.540 Absolutely. Uh, John, we always give our guests the last word, as you know, uh, your concluding

00:41:49.200 thoughts and, uh, we appreciate all of your time today.

00:41:52.960 You know, the, this is probably the most important election we've seen in a long time,

00:41:57.280 because if we do not succeed on November 8th, um, a lot of things will change permanently in the

00:42:04.120 country. If the, if the Democrats are able to keep their house majority, if they're able to keep

00:42:09.560 their Senate majority, um, the inflation we're seeing, the weakness we're seeing, the lawlessness

00:42:15.160 on the border, the, you know, fentanyl and who knows who's coming into the country, it's going

00:42:20.760 to continue and there'll be irreparable damage done to America. So November 8th, if you, if you want to

00:42:29.860 vote early, you should vote early. If you want to vote, uh, on election day, vote on election day,

00:42:34.780 but, but we need to vote to make sure that this country and, uh, uh, the, you know, the,

00:42:41.820 the basically democracy and freedoms that we love stay intact. So, uh, I'd urge all your listeners

00:42:47.700 to make sure not only they vote, but also their family and friends vote, because this is probably

00:42:52.020 the most consequential election we have seen in our lifetime. Amen. John McLaughlin, thanks for being

00:42:59.460 with us here on the great America show. We appreciate it so much. And all you do, God bless you.

00:43:04.280 Thank you. God bless you too, Lou.

00:43:07.360 The days are counting down and quickly let's save the Republic folks. Please remember to vote,

00:43:13.260 please. And here tomorrow, our guests will be a great American running for governor of Minnesota,

00:43:19.500 Scott Jensen. Dr. Jensen is a physician who's not a politician, but a man who means to make a

00:43:26.280 difference for the people of Minnesota. I think you'll find Dr. Jensen to be a very interesting fellow,

00:43:32.140 a fellow who I think will make a great governor of Minnesota. Please join us here tomorrow on the

00:43:38.200 great America show. Till then, God bless you and God bless America.

The Great America Show - November 01, 2022

IF THERE’S A RED WAVE, IT’S NOT BECAUSE GOP DID ANYTHING GREAT, IT’S BECAUSE THE DEMS TOOK THE COUNTRY DOWN A PATH WE DIDN’T WANT TO GO

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