00:07:06.200So when you look at the actual people that if they approve of Joe Biden, sure, Trump only gets 10 percent, but that's only four to 10 voters.
00:07:16.280Among the ones that disapprove of Biden, Trump wins 80 to 15.
00:07:20.100So Joe Biden's implosion on a host of foreign policy issues, domestic issues, it's saying, leaving people saying there's real buyer's remorse.
00:07:31.260We wish Donald Trump was president again.
00:07:33.540And it's only reinforcing Trump's base.
00:07:37.120And the more they attack him, the more they go after him.
00:07:40.360Donald Trump looks very good these days.
00:07:42.500It is curious to me, though, given the strength of the of the president in all of this polling, President Trump, that the Republican rhinos, as they are want to be rhinos in name only, it's it's it's stunning to me that they cannot understand that to function, this party has to follow Donald Trump right now.
00:08:09.560I don't know what the future holds, but right now it is the party of Trump.
00:08:14.460Why is that so difficult for them to understand, at least strategically, if not ideologically?
00:08:21.580Well, it's because, you know, you have the workers now run the country club, and that's got them very upset because it's like if you watch the if you watch if you watch that was that old movie Caddyshack.
00:08:36.760But Ted Baxter plays that candidate, Judge Smales, who runs the country and all of a sudden the Caddyshack are running the country club.
00:08:45.180He turned the Republican Party into a party of working Americans against, you know, the swamp and the elites.
00:08:53.380And and really, when you think about it, the Democrats have become the party of the big tech elites and the, you know, the wine and cheese liberals.
00:09:03.660And they're mixing it up with the socialists.
00:09:06.160But the working people in America, in the heartland and sunbelt of America, they respect Donald Trump because when he was president, you had work fair.
00:09:16.500You know, if you wanted something that was temporary and you needed help, you worked for it.
00:09:20.580You got tax cuts so people could work.
00:09:23.880And now you've got, you know, a Democrat Party who is talking about giving people money who don't work, giving our taxpayer dollars to illegal immigrants, giving, you know, free health care, free college to people that that, you know, basically don't have to work for it.
00:09:40.000And that's that's the function of socialism.
00:09:42.560And two thirds of the voters in this poll that we took end of February disagree with the fact they don't they don't they agree that big government socialism doesn't work.
00:09:52.660So, yeah, I love I love, John, this I love this Biden Marxism, socialism, whatever you want to call it, where he gives four hundred and fifty thousand dollars to an immigrant family who crossed into the country illegally.
00:10:08.400But they'll only give fifty thousand dollars to a young man or woman who wants to volunteer for the military to serve the United States of America.
00:10:16.900I mean, this is pretty rough stuff, but it does set the tone, doesn't it?
00:10:22.140Right. And what's what's scary about the survey is when we ask, we've been tracking and these numbers are on our Web site at McLaughlin online dot com.
00:10:30.740When we've been asking them about the state of the economy, 57 percent of the voters told us we're in recession right now.
00:10:38.820And we when we asked if it's getting better or worse, 63 percent said it's getting worse, only 31 better.
00:10:46.520And it's a different kind of recession where, you know, back when Obama was president or the Democrats were running things, people, businesses were closing, we're losing jobs.
00:10:57.700Now it's about inflation. Now it's about, hey, the price of meat is doubled.
00:11:01.660The price of gas has gone from less than two dollars a gallon to it's headed for four or five dollars a gallon.
00:11:07.820So people are seeing this hidden Biden tax and inflation where the national debt has gone from 21 trillion to 30 trillion in a year means our standard of living is declining.
00:11:19.980And people are feeling that, you know, this is the high tech Biden recession that their social spending is causing.
00:11:27.000Yeah, it's it's very abstract to talk to voters about 30 trillion dollars in national debt or nine trillion dollars sitting on the the balance sheet of the Fed.
00:11:38.580But when you start talking about a citizen, a consumer having to shove 20 dollar bills into his or her gas tank, it gets real in a big hurry.
00:11:50.640And that's what that's exactly what is happening.
00:11:53.880Let me you know, I got a kick out of your headline on the Newsmax article.
00:12:00.040McLaughlin poll. Joe Biden can't even wag the dog.
00:12:06.760And I just have to say, if he can't wag the dog, what in heck can he wag to to emerge from this malaise?
00:12:16.360Well, I think, first of all, I think a lot of people are afraid that, you know, I mean, you saw Joe Biden.
00:12:24.420He offered the Linsky, the president of Ukraine, you know, sanctuary and a ride out of Ukraine.
00:12:31.820And Linsky accurately thought that, well, should I go with the guy who surrendered Afghanistan and take a risk with him?
00:12:40.100No, I'm not leaving the country and go with Biden because that didn't go well.
00:12:46.380And and you wonder about the corruption with Biden where, you know, his his his son Hunter and his family's, you know, business where they were making money off Russian oligarchs, Ukrainian oligarchs, the Chinese.
00:13:00.680You wonder about, you know, the corruption where, you know, he won't he won't really help Ukraine with arms and weapons that to defend themselves, won't give them planes.
00:13:13.060But on the other hand, he's willing to say, I'll I'll take you out of the country, you know, so that, you know, the Ukrainian government will lose their leader so that there'll be a collapse.
00:13:24.620And that's what happened in Afghanistan. And you you have to wonder, it's like, shouldn't Congress be looking into the Biden family corruption?
00:13:34.380I mean, I mean, there could be real ties here where we don't realize it, but they could be taking instructions from Putin for all we know or or or Z.
00:13:44.520So it's like this is a serious weakness and a serious corruption level here that the American voters, you know, deserve to have answered.
00:13:51.960So I think based on these poll numbers, I think American voters are getting the idea that there's a little more to this call of Biden than they wanted to acknowledge in 2020, because it's it's rather circular, isn't it?
00:14:08.200And suddenly, suddenly, Putin and Xi Jinping are strategic partners.
00:14:14.420Suddenly, Ukraine, which was the playground of the Clintons and the Obamas and the Bidens is under attack.
00:14:24.440And the first thing he does is revert to, as you correctly say, his Afghans template that works so well for him and for America.
00:14:33.280He wants to take Zelensky out and Zelensky has the judgment to say, I'd rather be sitting here in the middle of mortal combat rather than be under the wing of Joe Biden and all of his pals in America.
00:14:54.200And by the way, in the same survey we did, and this is a thousand likely voters across the country, and it's modeled after the 2020 election, we asked them feelings about the Iran nuclear deal, because that's getting very little attention right now.
00:15:10.200And the Biden administration is basically negotiating with the Iranians to go back into the same deal where they were going to develop a bomb or at least a nuclear weapon somehow.
00:15:22.300And when you ask these voters, do you trust Joe Biden to negotiate a deal with Iran, 35% say they do, but 52% don't.
00:15:35.680And when you ask them, what's the bigger threat, the war in Ukraine, 21% agree with that.
00:15:42.920But 63% say in a nuclear Iran is a bigger threat.
00:15:47.260And they also think that Iran is the greatest threat to the United States, 71%.
00:15:58.320If the Democrats go back into the Iran deal that would allow them to get nuclear weapons, 70% of all voters would be less likely to vote for them.
00:16:06.420So, you know, after whatever's going on in Ukraine and Russia right now, underneath it all, we've got a big concern about what Joe Biden is doing with Iran, that they'll go back to the deal that Trump correctly threw out, put sanctions on them, stop them from getting a nuclear weapon.
00:16:28.620But unfortunately, it may only be temporary because Joe Biden's going to go back to the same bad deal that's brought them to the brink of being able to develop a nuclear weapon.
00:16:39.400I mean, it's just, these are scary times.
00:16:44.360And propitiously, we have a State of the Union address from Joe Biden.
00:16:48.800I assume that it will, as is tradition, come from the Capitol, not the basement in Delaware.
00:16:57.780But what do you expect of Joe Biden in tonight's State of the Union?
00:17:02.420Because anything resembling candor will scare the hell out of most Americans.
00:17:08.120Well, you know, I mean, you wonder if he's gotten the message yet, like at some point, Bill Clinton, after the 94 election, got the message where he said in the State of the Union after that was the year of big government's over.
00:17:23.340And he reversed on a lot of policies, whether it was passing a capital gains tax cut, he worked with Newt Gingrich to balance the budget.
00:17:29.920He, you know, he actually tried to make himself more of a moderate and triangulate when, I'm sure, Hillary Clinton and the other liberals in the White House were objecting and wanted to go far to the left.
00:17:49.400I don't see anybody saying, we've got to stop this.
00:17:52.440And, you know, they've been they've been telegraphing ahead of time that they're going to have more spending programs.
00:18:00.040Well, that's just going to fuel inflation.
00:18:02.400And and and they're talking about, you know, they're not talking about securing the border.
00:18:08.640They're not talking about, you know, doing anything with crime.
00:18:13.620I mean, we have crime in our cities across the country.
00:18:16.040And you wonder, you know, what he might say or not say that on the, you know, Ukraine, Russia war or Iran that, you know, our enemies are going to be listening.
00:18:29.640And you really got to realize that when he surrendered Afghanistan last August, it gave a signal to the rest of the world in terms of our enemies that they could test this president.
00:18:42.860And they're probably going for as much as they can before before the Republicans take over Congress and Donald Trump gets reelected.
00:18:50.320Well, I have to think there are two things going on right now in the mind of Xi Jinping.
00:18:59.240One is, what was I thinking when I selected Vladimir Putin as my strategic global partner?
00:19:06.680And two, thinking, well, as bad as things are for Putin right now and in Ukraine and Europe, what is the opportunity for me in Taiwan?
00:19:19.400But we have a president who is not easily focused.
00:19:27.600And all sorts of things flow from his obvious weakness, his feeble mindedness, his absolutely absurd agenda.
00:19:40.060Geopolitically, he is an invitation to our enemies, is he not?
00:19:44.260Yeah, and 61 percent of all voters in the United States think he should be, you know, have it take a cognitive test and release it publicly.
00:19:53.540And the media is blacking out that issue, but the voters have still gotten it.
00:19:58.860So when he speaks to probably a relatively empty chamber tonight, because I don't think they're allowing the Congress to meet because of the mask and whatever mandates they've got.
00:20:12.800So there's only going to be so many people.
00:20:15.200Yeah, John, they lifted that mandate just in time for the State of the Union.
00:20:26.180So that was good because they're going to need, the media is going to need a lot of audience shots of loyal Democrats like Nancy Pelosi, which voters will hate.
00:20:36.820Uh, because almost six out of 10 voters don't like her, but they'll need a lot of cutaway shots like that because if, if his teleprompter doesn't have a good night, Joe Biden won't have a good night.
00:20:47.840And, uh, the fortunate thing for him is it may be really low, uh, ratings for them.
00:20:54.420And so, uh, I mean, that's the best, if I was a, if I was a Biden operative, I'd be hoping for low ratings because the more voters see him, six out of 10 Americans think that this president, you know, doesn't have it.
00:21:07.360So they, they want him tested and they want to see, you know, they want to know what the results of his public health tracker are.
00:21:13.720Well, talking with, uh, with Congressman, Dr. Ronny Jackson, uh, just the other day, uh, he has been calling for a cognitive test.
00:21:23.980Uh, of this president for a very long time, the white house just simply rejects it out of hand, but people forget that was raised about president Trump and Dr.
00:21:35.100Jackson immediately gave him a cognitive test, the standard cog, uh, cognitive test, which he passed with flying colors.
00:21:43.660These, these folks in this white house won't go near their president with a cognitive test because they know, already know the answers.
00:21:50.920And by the way, uh, Dr. Jackson was the white house physician, uh, to president George W. Bush, uh, to, uh, Barack Obama, as well as, uh, uh, Donald Trump.
00:22:03.800So he knows whereof he speaks your thoughts.
00:22:06.700No, I think, I think Congressman Jackson, Ronnie Jackson, Harold Jackson, I mean, he's, he's, he's, he's an honest person and, uh, he did a very good job for president Trump and his duties at the white house.
00:22:19.900Now he's doing a great job in Congress and he's, he, he, he's telling it like it is.
00:22:26.240And you've got a mainstream media blackout because they're afraid of the answer.
00:22:33.100And you know, the Democrats, I mean, that that's, they have control of this president and the big government socialists are running the white house.
00:22:41.720And, uh, the American people, we're, we're just waiting for an election.
00:22:49.480Uh, I just wanted to take a look here quickly.
00:22:52.660Uh, McLaughlin and associates, uh, CPAC convention poll of the registrants, the issues most important to those conservatives, election integrity, immigration, the border wall, constitutional rights, inflation, cost of living, uh,
00:23:07.720uh, than national security and foreign policy.
00:23:10.740Uh, there's not anything there for, uh, CRT, uh, for ESG, uh, or for any, uh, of those issues that preoccupy even the minds of our military leaders in the Pentagon.
00:23:25.620Uh, it is really quite a disconnect in the body politic, isn't it?
00:23:31.500And that CPAC, that's, you know, that CPAC convention of activists, they, they, you know, you have,
00:23:37.800almost all of them approved the job that president Trump did.
00:23:41.240I mean, his numbers are, when you think about the base, they're stronger than Ronald Reagan's was.
00:23:45.520And I, you know, I used to work for Arthur Ficklestein, who was one of the pollsters for Reagan.
00:23:50.540So those of us who volunteered for Reagan's campaign in 76 that were elated when he got elected in a landslide in 1980, um, you know, we remember how strong Reagan was.
00:24:05.540And when you look at the continued support he gets from the activists in Florida, uh, or Texas last year, it was even better.
00:24:14.060And, uh, you know, he's, he's people, the, the activists, the mainstream body of America, the moderates, the independents, they want to see president Trump, uh, elected again, because Biden is just failing spectacularly.
00:24:28.200And the country's paying a price for the polling result, but I just fascinates me is that there is sufficient awakening, uh, not wokeness awakening, uh, to the reality.
00:24:44.340And when asked the question, would Vladimir Putin have attacked and invaded Ukraine, were president Trump still in office over 60% in poll after poll says they say, absolutely not.
00:24:59.460That's an honest and candid answer from people who know what we have in the white house and what we lost when, uh, after the 2020 election, you're, you're thinking on it.
00:25:11.320Um, yeah, those, uh, I, I saw those numbers in the Rasmussen report survey and they track closely with ours.
00:25:18.060And, uh, uh, when you're looking at that, you know, it's like some people may not like Donald Trump style.
00:25:24.220They may not like a comment here or there, but they respected him and they knew our enemies feared him.
00:25:31.040Um, and I mean, president Trump, you know, was not kidding where I think he told reporters that, uh, um, cause I saw him before the CPAC meeting.
00:25:40.220I was down in Florida and I saw president Trump and when we met and, uh, you know, Putin had, you know, hinted about invading, invading, uh, Ukraine before, as he did when Barack Obama was president, they took Crimea.
00:25:53.040He, he, he, he hinted about that again.
00:25:55.400And I think president Trump bluntly told him, if you do that, we'll bomb Moscow.
00:25:59.540And, uh, you know, no one doubted, uh, president Trump's ability or, or determination to keep, uh, the world of peace and the United States safe.
00:26:10.660And when you're, whether you were general Soleimani with Iran or you were, uh, uh, Assad in Syria, what, when Trump was having dinner with G, you know, they, they were using chemical weapons against civilians.
00:26:25.300And president Trump took action and knocked out their, you know, their ability to do it by knocking out the air force with some missiles.
00:26:32.900And, uh, you know, you're better off that they respect you and fear you than they like you because these are dangerous people and they don't have a pollster.
00:26:43.140They basically probably shot their pollsters if they didn't like the results in some of these, you know, countries, whether it's Russia or China, you're not allowed to poll there.
00:26:51.280So, uh, you know, so president Trump, you know, he, he, he's a man of his word.
00:26:57.360He's not like a typical politician or some diplomat.
00:27:01.140He's going to tell, he's going to tell you where he's standing, what he thinks.
00:27:04.000And, uh, America is better off for it.
00:27:06.580So, and, and, and, and he is a great American.
00:27:11.040You know, you're talking about the, the, the caddies taking over the, the golf, uh, the country club in Caddyshack.
00:27:20.200It's, it's sort of a, it's an interesting metaphor because here's a man in Donald Trump who owns more golf courses and prestigious courses than any man in America.
00:27:30.300In which he wants the caddies, uh, to be well-paid, well-respected, uh, and, uh, you know, run, run that country club, uh, metaphorically.
00:27:41.160Uh, it's, it's really interesting that that man, that billionaire can have that connection and that relationship with, uh, the, the forgotten American working man and woman in this country, our middle class.
00:27:54.400It's, it's a, it's a wonderful thing to behold.
00:27:57.120And the last, I think the last relationship anyone would have expected politically, don't you think?
00:28:12.360He grew up in the outer borough and he, you know, he, he, uh, uh, yeah, he went to Penn, but before that he went to Fordham.
00:28:19.420Um, and, and so he's, he's got this background where on this construction sites, he'll ask the workers, what they think he'll ask, you know, people that are just average people, how they're doing, how what's going on with them.
00:28:33.560And, and even in his own clubs, the people that work for him, you know, he'll be first ones to say, what do you think about this?
00:28:40.300So he's in touch, you know, he doesn't believe in the scientific polls as much in the fancy polling, as much as there's a gut feel and him talking to real people.
00:28:49.160And when he's in touch with people, that's, that's when he's at his best.
00:28:52.300And you can see that as rallies when the people come there and basically, um, he's, he's what I called the blue collar billionaire, where we, we all knew he was a billionaire and we all knew he was, uh, uh, had done very well in a successful life, but he was our guy.
00:29:08.740And so, you know, people respected him for that.
00:29:11.960And they knew he has this, he has this affinity and care for people that work for a living.
00:29:16.200And, uh, he, you know, he's been successful.
00:29:18.580He's taken care of people at work and, uh, you know, it's, it would be good to have that back in the white house and inside the Potomac again, but the establishment doesn't seem to like that.
00:29:29.300Well, I can, uh, all I will say, you know, all I can say to that is thank God this president.
00:29:34.440Uh, isn't one of those who would have walked away, uh, sulk, uh, and, uh, retired from the arena instead 2020 is so infuriated him, so offended him, uh, and thank God, uh, a hundred million Americans as well, uh, that he is now so essential to, to American politics.
00:29:59.520And to the good of this country, uh, as he is fighting, uh, to come back in 2022 with, uh, taking the house and the Senate and in 2024, uh, taking back the white house.
00:30:12.400And it's a, it's a long journey, I know, but it's a journey that we also know, uh, Donald Trump makes an ideal leader, uh, for us to, uh, to make that journey safely and securely and successfully.
00:30:25.180I want to ask you, uh, about the midterms, of course, uh, we have 30, what is it?
00:30:30.74034 Senate seats up, uh, 20 GOP, 14 dim, uh, today, the Texas primary is wide open.
00:30:39.180It's, it begins, uh, and with all of these seats that are up, all of these retirements, dims, 31 dims retiring from the house, uh, 16 GOPers retiring as well.
00:30:52.760But that 31 dims is the most, uh, in decades, uh, is the Republican party ready to have a wave election, a, uh, to, to take, uh, both the house and the Senate back?
00:31:06.500Well, well, I think it's a long way to go.
00:31:11.060And, uh, I think that, you know, president Trump and his supporters intend to keep the Republican party on track, uh, because they're, they're active in these primaries.
00:31:28.460The reason I was in Florida was to be at the, uh, make America great, uh, forum for their candidates at, uh, Mar-a-Lago and, uh, you know, nationally we're ahead in the poll that we put out Friday.
00:31:39.980The Republicans are ahead 47, 45 and, uh, it closed a little bit.