The Great America Show - The Great America Sunday Show： May 19th, 2024

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00:00:33.720 Hello, everybody, and welcome to The Great America Show.

00:00:36.800 Good to have you with us.

00:00:38.420 It's been another bad start to the week for the puppet president.

00:00:41.560 Joe Biden has a new poll out from The New York Times showing Biden losing support at a rapid rate.

00:00:49.060 According to that poll, President Trump leads in five key battleground states.

00:00:54.640 His young and non-white voters are expressing discontent and frustration with Biden.

00:01:00.260 In Georgia and Nevada, Trump up 10-plus points outside the margin of error.

00:01:05.680 And in Arizona and Michigan, Trump is up seven points, also outside the margin of error.

00:01:12.520 And in Pennsylvania, Trump is up only three points.

00:01:16.000 That's just inside the margin of error.

00:01:19.120 In other words, all good news for President Trump.

00:01:22.620 The good folks at Marxist Run CNN having a meltdown over these latest polling numbers.

00:01:29.440 Listen to this.

00:01:30.340 Look, these Sunbelt battleground states, frankly, for the Joe Biden campaign, these numbers are an absolute disaster.

00:01:36.120 The smallest leaders in Arizona for Donald Trump, he's up six.

00:01:39.000 Look at this, nine in Georgia, 13 in Nevada.

00:01:41.980 My goodness gracious, my God, that is a huge lead.

00:01:45.520 No Democrat has lost that state since John Kerry lost it back in 2004.

00:01:50.240 How about these Great Lake battleground states?

00:01:52.120 This is something that the Joe Biden campaign can work with.

00:01:54.940 Look, Pennsylvania, Donald Trump up three, but that's well within the margin of error.

00:01:58.300 Wisconsin, Donald Trump up one, well within the margin of error.

00:02:01.780 And actually, a Joe Biden lead, well within the margin of error, up a point here.

00:02:05.860 This, they can work with the Joe Biden campaign.

00:02:08.240 This, the Donald Trump campaign, absolutely loves.

00:02:11.980 And it looks like a lot of the other polling on the Sunbelt battlegrounds as well.

00:02:14.060 When you're looking into the numbers, why do you think Biden is doing better in the Great Lakes

00:02:18.860 and Trump is doing so much better in the Sunbelt?

00:02:20.520 Yeah, the Trump coalition is changing.

00:02:23.280 That's basically what's cooking here.

00:02:24.920 This is at least one of the big reasons why.

00:02:26.760 So this is among likely voters in all these battleground states we just spoke about.

00:02:31.740 Back in 2020, 84% of the Trump campaigns, the Trump coalition was white.

00:02:38.960 Look where it is now.

00:02:40.400 It's 78%.

00:02:42.240 The non-white portion of the Trump coalition, it was 13% in 2020.

00:02:47.140 Look at this now.

00:02:48.220 It's 19%.

00:02:49.700 So the Trump coalition is becoming more diverse.

00:02:52.140 And of course, those Sunbelt battleground states are more diverse than the Great Lakes battleground states.

00:02:57.020 You're looking at the Nevadas and the Arizonas here.

00:02:58.940 Of course.

00:02:59.360 If you look at Nevada, Arizona, heavy Hispanic population, Georgia, heavily African-American population.

00:03:04.340 With the Michigan does have some black voters in it.

00:03:06.740 But Pennsylvania and Wisconsin are heavily, heavily white.

00:03:10.100 As with everything that Joe Biden does, when the bad news comes, his puppet masters run to save him.

00:03:17.300 This week, the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced coffee prices will no longer be factored into the Consumer Price Index inflation data.

00:03:26.440 It's a really generous move on the part of the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

00:03:32.920 But perhaps it has something to do with the fact that coffee has been just rising a little bit for Americans.

00:03:40.960 It has something to do with the fact that since September of last year, coffee prices, in fact, are up 78%.

00:03:48.740 And three-fourths of Americans drink coffee.

00:03:51.640 So, as I said, it's a big favor on the part of the deep state to Joe Biden.

00:03:58.380 But he's used to that.

00:03:59.940 The puppet masters to the rescue for Joe Biden.

00:04:03.500 And Speaker Mike Johnson saying the quiet part out loud in a recent interview with Politico.

00:04:09.160 Johnson telling Politico that, believe it or not, he and Hakeem Jeffries have a lot more in common than most people think.

00:04:17.920 Johnson's comments, of course, came after Jeffries herded up his Marxist nims to save Johnson from a motion to vacate the chair.

00:04:26.660 Johnson also telling Politico, when Hakeem Jeffries is telling me something, I believe he's telling me the truth.

00:04:33.880 So said Mike Johnson.

00:04:37.080 Wow.

00:04:38.120 I believe he's a man of his word.

00:04:40.160 And I think he believes that about me as well.

00:04:43.040 That's a big thing in Washington, you know.

00:04:45.020 Trust is a rare commodity around here.

00:04:48.320 Well, Mike Johnson should know he's created a lot of distrust over the course of his short term as Speaker of the House.

00:04:55.740 And our guest today is John McLaughlin.

00:04:58.600 He is a top pollster and strategist for President Trump, a great Republican, and a great American.

00:05:06.000 And now here is John McLaughlin.

00:05:07.840 And, John, always great to talk with you.

00:05:09.780 And now it's going to be more important for everyone in the country to hear what John McLaughlin is saying, because we're less than six months from that critical, all-important, unprecedented election on November 5th.

00:05:26.420 But the numbers, the numbers look really, really good for Donald Trump, despite everything that they're hitting him with.

00:05:35.900 To me, I marvel that, first of all, the man can stand up to this.

00:05:40.800 And I know him, and I've known him for a while, as have you.

00:05:43.440 We know he's strong as a bull, but he is being hit by freight trains every day.

00:05:50.980 Give us a sense of how strong he is in your polling right now.

00:05:55.520 Well, you know, since I've polled for him when he first started running in the primaries in 2015, 2016, we've never seen him ahead in the national popular vote for president.

00:06:08.960 And really, since Biden surrendered to Afghanistan, President Trump has maintained that lead.

00:06:14.280 Where our last national poll that we published in April, Trump was ahead 49-45, four-point lead over Joe Biden, an incumbent-sitting president.

00:06:22.840 And other polls came out after that poll.

00:06:26.280 CNN had us up six.

00:06:28.620 Harvard-Harris had us ahead.

00:06:31.060 So he's ahead in the national polling average on the RealClearPolitics website.

00:06:35.440 And New York Times has come out with six battleground states, and they've got Trump ahead in five.

00:06:41.240 And these are states that we lost in 2020.

00:06:45.380 And so Trump, they've got Trump ahead in, and when you look at it, he's ahead in Georgia, and it's not close.

00:06:51.020 It's 50-41.

00:06:52.840 In Arizona, he's ahead, 49-43.

00:06:56.220 In Nevada, 51-38, we're ahead.

00:06:58.760 Pennsylvania, 48-45.

00:07:01.120 And Wisconsin, they got us ahead by a point, and Wisconsin's always a toss-up state.

00:07:05.520 And Pennsylvania and Michigan, take it back. 0.89

00:07:08.560 Michigan, they have us down by a point.

00:07:10.000 But what's interesting about the Michigan survey is the exit polls of Michigan in 2020 had the Republicans and Democrats tied.

00:07:19.480 And this poll is roughly tied, but with a lot of independents.

00:07:22.340 However, we only lost Michigan by three points in 2020.

00:07:26.560 And this New York Times poll has us losing the 2020 vote as a barometer by nine points.

00:07:33.440 So they've got too many Biden voters in that poll compared to Trump 2020 voters.

00:07:38.720 But what I'm seeing in our polls and what we're seeing in the national polls is there's a Biden 2020 voter nationally and in these battleground states that's voting for Trump now.

00:07:51.220 And they're roughly 4% or 5% of the electorate.

00:07:54.400 And we've been tracking them, and they're a quarter African-American.

00:07:58.880 They're a quarter Hispanic.

00:08:00.440 And their average age is 35.

00:08:02.260 They're younger voters.

00:08:03.300 And they're really disillusioned with President Biden because these younger voters, they're coming out of college if they're racking up debt.

00:08:11.640 And they're not finding the high-paying jobs that they wanted if their graduations happen at all.

00:08:16.940 I mean, because now you've got these pro-Hamas Palestinian protesters disrupting their graduations, the finals, and all that stuff.

00:08:24.740 And Biden's got a real problem because his base is split while President Trump looks stronger all the time and Biden looks weak.

00:08:35.300 So we never saw these kind of poll results in 2020 or 2016.

00:08:41.380 But now the Democrats are incredulous about it where you've got, you know, Obama strategists like David Axelrod, David Plouffe saying that Biden just, you know, doesn't – he's not doing what he needs to do to get elected.

00:08:56.960 But he just continues to get on the wrong path on the economy, inflation.

00:09:01.440 And they're talking about spending whatever is not spent.

00:09:04.220 And it'll just – you know we're better than anybody.

00:09:07.160 It'll trigger inflation even worse while inflation has caused all these voters to come to us.

00:09:14.640 Inflation, immigration for the first time, seeing immigration is actually the number one issue in poll after poll after poll.

00:09:23.680 People don't realize, even though this – the issue of illegal immigration and border security has been on the popular mind for, what, 25, 30 years, it has never been number one on the list of issues for voters going into a presidential election.

00:09:42.020 This time, it's already changed.

00:09:44.100 It's there.

00:09:45.040 And it doesn't show, at least as I read it, any sign of subsiding from that number one position.

00:09:52.480 Your thoughts?

00:09:52.960 No, as long as the border stays open.

00:09:55.320 I mean, you're seeing millions and millions of illegal immigrants coming to the United States.

00:10:01.260 And it's causing what – they've always talked about there was a gender gap. 0.88

00:10:05.100 And Donald Trump is expanding his lead with men, closing the gender gap with women precisely because safety moms, what I call safety moms, are moving to Trump because they're afraid of illegal immigration, the crime that's come with it and the fentanyl that's come with it.

00:10:20.360 Plus the crime that's up in the cities and the suburbs.

00:10:23.700 So these safety moms are moving to Donald Trump because they feel that Joe Biden has betrayed them.

00:10:31.680 I mean, and it's totally out of control where, you know, I guess it was Elon Musk called it the Biden registration drive with the open borders.

00:10:43.080 And now you've got members of Congress wanting – correctly wanting to require that you have to be an American citizen before you're allowed to register to vote because they're worried about these illegals are being, you know, registered. 0.57

00:10:59.080 They're given welfare, they're given welfare, they're given health care, they're given free food, free housing.

00:11:04.340 And you wonder why, you know, so many working class voters, whether they're African-American, Hispanic, or, you know, or the younger voters, why they're moving to the Republicans and to Donald Trump.

00:11:16.580 Because they're seeing, you know, their standard of living betrayed by Biden and they're moving to Trump because he's taking their money and giving it to illegal immigrants and attracting them into the country over these open borders. 0.63

00:11:31.580 And Trump always, back in the 2016 – when he announced in 2015, had a gut instinct for the immigration issue as a big issue.

00:11:41.460 And under Biden, it's become the biggest issue that's out there, and you're correct.

00:11:45.400 It's the number one thing when you say, what's the most important issue that would decide your vote for president?

00:11:49.900 And they're saying immigration is securing the border.

00:11:52.260 You know, it's interesting to think how right President Trump has been about everything, about what he promised, about what would happen if Joe Biden were in the White House, and what is happening to this economy, this society, this nation right now.

00:12:09.600 We're going to take up all of those things with John McLaughlin, a preeminent Republican pollster and strategist.

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00:13:52.340 We're back now.

00:13:56.160 We're talking with John McLaughlin, and we're talking about the threat, the rising threat, at least in the national media that is even beginning to take notice of this, that we're seeing registration forms in the hands of illegal aliens.

00:14:12.240 We're seeing, for example, in the District of Columbia, they're actually training non-citizens how to vote there.

00:14:19.340 That's a pretty clear statement, isn't it, John, that this is no coincidence that Joe Biden has brought in about 14 to 15 million illegal aliens at his invitation, an invasion of the United States.

00:14:35.560 And he means, I believe, for every one of those folks to have a vote this year.

00:14:40.120 You know, it's crazy, and it's a betrayal of American citizens.

00:14:45.220 And plus, if you're a legal immigrant and your family came here, you know, waiting years to get in and do it properly and wanting to be an American, you know, they've just rendered that worthless. 1.00

00:14:57.740 Because if any illegal immigrant comes in, whether they're a terrorist, a criminal, et cetera, they're giving them taxpayer-funded housing and, you know, credit cards and food stamps, et cetera. 0.99

00:15:11.000 And the worst part is states like New York, you have any interaction with the government, they register you to vote unless you decline.

00:15:18.860 They have a green law license for illegal immigrants.

00:15:22.640 Unless you decline, you're put on the voter rolls, and then they don't share that.

00:15:26.500 And in places where these nonprofits, the Soros nonprofits, are bringing illegal immigrants in, they happen to have voter registration forms around the facilities where they're housing them. 0.87

00:15:40.780 And so it's pretty obvious what they intend to do.

00:15:44.760 And besides, the New York City Council has tried to make it legal for illegal immigrants to vote in municipal elections in New York.

00:15:53.960 Well, I bet you if they got away with it, because thankfully the courts threw it out as unconstitutional, but if they got away with it, I wouldn't be surprised to see them call a special election on November 5th in New York City that illegal immigrants can vote. 0.77

00:16:10.020 So this is something that has to be stopped right away because, and they want to count them in the census for representation, which is electoral college votes.

00:16:18.380 And it's just a massive betrayal of American citizenship that the Biden administration is pushing.

00:16:27.420 The American people are not famous for paying much attention to some of these critical issues that you're describing when we're talking about, really, it's reverse suffrage, stripping everyone of their right to vote and to have it counted in a proportionate way, at least.

00:16:47.220 We're looking at, what, 20, 30 congressional seats that are at risk as well if we do not change the citizenship requirement for the census.

00:17:01.880 In other words, count citizens, but do not count persons because this thing is fully loaded now for a Marxist-dim takeover in the next round, the next cycle.

00:17:16.040 Right. And we, by the way, we polled on this in January. It's on our website on mclaughlinonline.com.

00:17:22.080 The Tea Party Patriots, Jenny Beth Martin, we polled it and four to five Americans disapprove of this.

00:17:28.000 And they think in order to be registered to vote, you've got to be an American citizen.

00:17:33.680 You should show proof of it. You should make sure, I mean, they don't want you to even fill out the registration card, let alone vote, if you're an illegal immigrant. 0.55

00:17:45.480 And so President Trump is taking that stand. Speaker Johnson's proposed legislation on that.

00:17:52.780 And it's a powerful issue because it's essential to who one American citizen is.

00:17:59.360 So that's an important issue for the Republicans and President Trump and to keep pushing because the Democrats want to ignore it.

00:18:05.520 Plus, you've got Joe Biden, you know, with his executive order that he's he's he's encouraging all sorts of federal agencies, whether it's Department of Education or Health, Human Services, et cetera, to try to register voters and then to encourage them to vote.

00:18:23.940 Where, you know, we don't have any any any trust in them, not using that for partisan advantage.

00:18:31.780 I mean, it's not a nonpartisan effort. It's, you know, it's Biden appointees that are pushing this.

00:18:37.320 Yeah, there's no such thing, in my opinion, anymore as a bipartisan anything, because the fact is Republican Party is they are AWOL.

00:18:46.400 They're missing an action, only they never got to the action.

00:18:50.600 It's really stupefying to imagine how they could be doing what they're doing.

00:18:56.040 They, the Marxist Dems, they're actually being recruited.

00:19:01.040 Those illegal aliens are being recruited to vote. 0.91

00:19:04.020 Their state governments are working in concert with the federal government.

00:19:07.620 And in the federal government, you referred to the Biden executive order that requires every federal agency to get engaged in turning out, quote, quote, turning out the vote.

00:19:20.340 This is this is an outrage and no one has stopped it.

00:19:23.880 There is no countervailing influence on the on the right.

00:19:27.220 There is the Republican Party and the person of the Republican National Committee.

00:19:34.280 They are flat footed and just slack jawed at looking at all they have to get done.

00:19:39.740 And now that's less than six months because Ronald McDaniel wasn't doing a damn thing for her entire tenure.

00:19:46.840 Well, I tell you what, Chris Lassovita and Susie Wiles, they got rid of a lot of the dead wood that that wasn't doing things.

00:19:52.080 And just this week in Wisconsin, they won a victory in Wisconsin with where an Obama appointed judge threw out Mark Elias's suit or ruled against them that that you need a witness to verify an absentee ballot in Wisconsin.

00:20:07.540 So that's their state law.

00:20:09.620 And Elias was trying to say it was unconstitutional.

00:20:12.400 The witness couldn't, you know, couldn't vouch for all this stuff.

00:20:15.760 So it was critical that we got that thrown out.

00:20:18.960 And now, you know, the witness, you still need a witness to sign an absentee ballot in Wisconsin.

00:20:25.000 But that's what the Democrats are doing.

00:20:26.440 The Republicans fought them there.

00:20:27.700 There's one little battle.

00:20:28.680 There's a lot of battles that we have to win because not only do we want to win the battleground states that everyone is identifying with the six or seven that there are.

00:20:38.980 We've got polls back last week.

00:20:42.700 They were talking about the Trump campaign where we're running even or ahead in Minnesota with Robert Kennedy and we're tied with without him.

00:20:51.380 We're we're up.

00:20:52.060 We're up a little for Donald Trump.

00:20:53.780 And in Virginia, we're trailing by only three points with Kennedy in this in the ballot with eight percent.

00:20:59.280 So we've got Minnesota in play and Virginia in play.

00:21:03.240 Plus, there were polls out last week.

00:21:05.660 The Emerson College poll in New Jersey had Donald Trump within five points of Joe Biden in New Jersey.

00:21:12.260 And if you didn't believe the poll, take a look at the focus group that he just held in Wildwood, New Jersey, where 100000 people came out, jammed the Garden State Parkway and went down to Wildwood and saw his speech.

00:21:24.380 Plus, in New York last month, we had a poll where even though we lost New York State, 61-38, Siena had Trump at 37, Biden at 47.

00:21:37.760 That's only a 10-point lead.

00:21:39.100 And they didn't ask it with Robert Kennedy Jr.

00:21:41.680 Robert Kennedy Jr. is a liberal who will take from Joe Biden's base.

00:21:46.200 So if he makes the ballot in New York and New Jersey, those two states are in play.

00:21:51.420 And you know what I think is contributing to it is the fact that they've got this phony Biden trial where Colangelo, the number three in the Justice Department, was sent, you know, to the Manhattan DA's office.

00:22:06.180 The guy, he was number three in justice under Merrick Garland.

00:22:09.220 All of a sudden, it's like, I'll take a demotion.

00:22:11.160 I'll be an assistant district attorney in New York.

00:22:13.620 Why?

00:22:14.140 So he could indict Donald Trump and he's prosecuting the case.

00:22:18.000 They didn't even think Alvin Bragg was smart enough to bring the case.

00:22:20.720 So they said they sent this guy in.

00:22:23.580 If the Cyrus Vance said no case, Bragg said no case.

00:22:27.020 And now they're seeing it every day.

00:22:29.240 And New Yorkers and people in New Jersey, as well as the nation, are wondering, what's this about?

00:22:34.240 Because our last national poll that we asked about this in April, 66 percent of the voters said it was politics.

00:22:42.040 56 percent said Joe Biden's playing a role in this.

00:22:45.040 And plus, you had 53 to 36.

00:22:48.100 They said Joe Biden's doing this just to put Donald Trump in jail to stop him from being president.

00:22:54.160 So they ever got that impression.

00:22:57.000 It's well, you know what?

00:22:58.740 It's mainly coming through on the Internet podcast like yours.

00:23:01.820 It's coming through on shows like yours because the mainstream media, CNN, MSNBC, they're trying to legitimize this.

00:23:09.580 No, it's it is really it's isn't it stunning to see the outright dishonesty, the the corruption of the national corporate media.

00:23:18.280 They're doing exactly what their corporate masters tell them.

00:23:21.920 And they're doing it with a big old anchor grin on their face and lying straight lying to the American people every every day.

00:23:31.840 We're we're talking with pollster and strategist John McLaughlin, great Republican, great American.

00:23:37.740 And we're going to take up here next just exactly how does the Senate and the House play into this and what are the Republicans doing to make certain that that Donald Trump, when he does win, has some back support in terms of the Senate and the House, something he never had in his first term.

00:24:00.700 We'll be right back for John McLaughlin.

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00:24:33.100 We're back.

00:24:38.880 We're talking with John McLaughlin, the best pollster in the country, as far as I'm concerned, and a great American.

00:24:46.200 I want to go to this Newsweek poll.

00:24:49.120 And Newsweek is an interesting publication right now.

00:24:52.240 It's starting to get harder to define where it is.

00:24:54.820 But in its poll, it's talking about the aging population of the country, baby boomers, extraordinarily topping out, if you will.

00:25:05.320 Aging out is, I guess, the better expression. 1.00

00:25:07.940 The number of Americans age 65, and everybody listen to this.

00:25:12.160 Everyone age 65 and older is now projected to rise from a $58 million level in 2022 to $82 million by 2050.

00:25:23.820 This is unprecedented.

00:25:26.400 We've never seen a situation where there are more aged people in the country than young people. 0.97

00:25:32.980 That's where we are.

00:25:34.140 The implications for politics in the country, given those realities.

00:25:39.960 Well, being a baby boomer myself at the tail end of that, I hope to make 2050.

00:25:46.420 But it's like I'm focused on it this year because with Donald Trump, what's interesting about with President Trump running is that we're doing better with Gen Z voters.

00:25:57.840 And the Democrats are apoplectic about that because certainly with the baby boomers, they've got their political views pretty much set. 0.98

00:26:07.320 And, you know, the ones who are Republicans will vote Republican.

00:26:09.900 The ones who are Democrats will vote Democrat.

00:26:11.500 And then the independents, when four to five disapprove of the job that Joe Biden is doing, they're coming our way.

00:26:17.060 But in the meantime, you've got a situation where as health care in the United States, because in spite of what the Democrats have tried to do, it's still the best health care system in the world.

00:26:31.140 So Americans are living longer and the population is aging.

00:26:36.660 But on the other hand, you know, the younger population, if there was optimism, younger Americans would probably be another baby boomer.

00:26:47.920 There would be another growth in the United States.

00:26:50.340 But right now with inflation, such a big concern with young families.

00:26:56.740 Like in our last national poll, we had 86 percent of all voters negatively impacted by inflation, 48 percent to the point where they can't make ends meet.

00:27:06.200 You go to the you have young children and you're going to the grocery store and you're paying double what you were compared to what when Donald Trump was president.

00:27:14.640 And price of gas is headed for four dollars a gallon.

00:27:17.340 Again, you wonder if you can afford that next kid or not.

00:27:20.180 And certainly, you know, you're wondering if college education is worth it in the United States, too, when you save up for your kids.

00:27:26.740 So. So that Newsweek article.

00:27:30.380 Yep. You've got a growing aging population because Americans are living longer.

00:27:35.280 They're also working longer in a lot of respects.

00:27:38.460 But but at the same time, we need some optimism.

00:27:43.000 So young people get married and get married, have children.

00:27:47.340 The tax system shouldn't penalize them. 0.74

00:27:50.260 And the one thing that Joe Biden wants to do is in January is repeal the Trump tax cuts.

00:27:54.840 So we're going to make sure that doesn't happen.

00:27:57.760 You talk about optimism and the fact that the baby boomers are not particularly interested in creating a boom right now because of the economy, because of the the malaise that has fallen over this country over the last few years.

00:28:11.680 Donald Trump, interestingly, says, I'm the only thing keeping the stock market higher.

00:28:19.140 And I think people's some people, particularly in the national left big media who want to reject everything he says, think that's bravado that it's he's absolutely right.

00:28:29.420 If it were not for the anticipation of a Trump presidency as a result of the vote on November 5th, I think the market would be off.

00:28:41.560 I I'll be conservative.

00:28:44.060 It would be off at least 20 percent from here.

00:28:46.560 And it would be on a decline going into the 2025 once those results were confirmed if he were to lose.

00:28:55.120 I mean, it's a disaster waiting to happen.

00:28:57.720 I think that there is an implicit understanding, an inference on the part of the the the entire country that without Trump, we don't have a chance in hell.

00:29:07.400 What do you think?

00:29:08.460 I agree with you.

00:29:09.400 You're more of an economic expert than I am.

00:29:11.420 I'm I'm good at taking polls and and and I will tell you, during the during the primary part of the Trump campaign this time, which was a historic win, he won that he won the nomination sooner, faster.

00:29:23.280 And he and since I'm an old pollster, I used to work for Arthur Finklestein, who was one of the three pollsters used to poll for Reagan.

00:29:30.360 So I could go back and look at those polls.

00:29:32.440 And Trump's numbers were better than Reagan's.

00:29:35.220 I mean, our numbers, the landslide we had in Iowa in the caucus, the decisive double digit win we had in New Hampshire, even with Nikki Haley trying to, you know, outspend us and bring Joe Biden Democrats who vote in Democrat primaries into our primary, still double digit win and then a blowout in Nikki Haley's home state.

00:29:55.520 Part of that was an investor class strategy.

00:29:59.820 You know, I mean, Larry Kudlow worked in the Trump administration and we're friends and I was talking to Larry and we needed an investor class strategy because we were Trump was doing really well with the working class voters.

00:30:10.480 But we wanted college graduates.

00:30:12.460 We wanted people that would have an investment.

00:30:14.540 So we started polling people that had investments and savings.

00:30:18.620 And guess what?

00:30:20.320 All of a sudden you reminded them about, hey, you did really well when Trump was president and not so well when Biden was president, because up until that point, the markets were flat.

00:30:31.200 And until they realized that Trump's ahead in the polls and now the markets are going up again because it'll save the Trump tax cuts.

00:30:39.080 Plus, they're talking about other tax cuts, Trump 2.0 to make the economy grow, the economy, the GDP, the economy.

00:30:47.840 These are things that you're expert in.

00:30:49.640 I'm just watching this and I'm like, economy is not growing under Joe Biden, but your standard of living is declining because your real wages have declined.

00:30:59.300 And people know that.

00:31:00.720 So once we told that to these college graduates, all of a sudden Trump is moving in the Republican primary with college graduates and you're seeing it in the national polls now, particularly among independent voters, where he's definitely, they're looking and they're saying, yep, I may not like his tweets.

00:31:17.520 I may not go to the rallies, but you know what?

00:31:20.240 I liked looking at my 401k statements when he was president compared to what it was with Joe Biden for the first three years.

00:31:26.860 I'm laughing as you're talking about these college graduates and your earlier skepticism that you noted about the quality of a college education.

00:31:35.760 I think you just confirm your skepticism because, frankly, you shouldn't have to remind a college graduate how much better off he or she was just a few years ago.

00:31:46.640 But that's the nature of the propaganda that is being spewed at them every day by the Biden regime, the Marxist Dems, the deep state, in point of fact.

00:31:58.400 The Bureau of Labor Statistics report today, by the way, that just kind of amuses me.

00:32:03.680 The Bureau of Labor Statistics has taken coffee out of the market basket of products that are measured for inflation.

00:32:14.100 And the reason is, coffee has gone up since last September by 78% in price, and they thought they'd give Biden a little boost if they could.

00:32:24.140 And you know that's happening in big ways as well as small ways in the national economic reporting in D.C.

00:32:32.080 But it is, it's very amusing to watch how desperate they are.

00:32:36.720 Now, this desperation does not right now extend to the House because of Mike Johnson, the speaker who's under, I mean, I have to tell you, I cried, not literally, but I cried at the very idea that Trump would support Mike Johnson, even if he, no matter what the reason.

00:32:56.580 Because he is an oaf and a fraud sitting in that office and a traitor to his party, as well as, I think, the country, because of his reversal on whether it be warrantless wiretapping, whether it be federal spending that's rampant.

00:33:16.440 And in the other aspect, there is a question about Mitch McConnell. 0.97

00:33:22.540 He's been quiescent.

00:33:23.960 What's he going to do in the Senate?

00:33:26.120 So we've got leadership issues, major leadership issues in both houses.

00:33:31.060 How do you overcome that?

00:33:32.700 How does President Trump overcome that?

00:33:34.960 How does the Republican Party overcome that in time for November 5th?

00:33:39.340 Well, the interesting thing from my last national survey, Trump was ahead by four points, 49-45.

00:33:48.040 The Republican generic vote for Congress, for the House, was ahead 47 Republican, 43 Democrat.

00:33:54.200 Same four-point margin.

00:33:55.880 The way they're going to keep the House is by aligning with Donald Trump.

00:33:59.720 And you can see it in the primaries.

00:34:01.260 I mean, Trump endorses a candidate.

00:34:03.600 It just blows out the other candidate.

00:34:05.600 Like I had Brad Knott, North Carolina 13, who were ahead by seven going into a runoff.

00:34:11.640 Trump endorsed him.

00:34:12.420 All of a sudden, we're ahead by 29 points.

00:34:15.200 So the base is there, plus you're winning in the center.

00:34:19.380 So you're winning among independents.

00:34:21.360 You're attracting working-class voters, plus some college grads to these candidates.

00:34:27.000 So if Trump wins the presidency, and he wins decisively in the popular vote, he's going to have a Republican House.

00:34:35.160 And right now, there's a one-seat majority.

00:34:37.900 And the last thing that, you know, those of us associated with the president, we don't need Hakeem Jeffries as Speaker of the House and derailing all the investigations of the Bidens, plus, you know, coming back after Trump or changing the election laws.

00:34:53.180 We need to hold up the majority.

00:34:54.520 Do you shudder, then, when you hear Mike Johnson say that he's got more in common with Hakeem Jeffries than anyone would suspect?

00:35:03.620 I mean, the man—there's another issue here.

00:35:07.040 And that's that Republican study group that decides they want to hit the third rail of American politics.

00:35:12.320 You know, 50 years apparently wasn't sufficient evidence for them to ascertain what the consequences are when political parties try to change Medicare.

00:35:23.660 They changed Social Security.

00:35:25.900 They're toast.

00:35:26.900 And the entire study group of Republicans in the House come out and say, you know, we want to raise the retirement age. 1.00

00:35:33.660 Can somebody shut these idiots up and tell them to forget it? 1.00

00:35:37.700 By the way, Nikki Haley, she said it on tape. 1.00

00:35:41.080 We had that audio.

00:35:42.620 That was—now, granted, in South Carolina, we got outspent on TV $18 million to one.

00:35:47.480 In New Hampshire, we got outspent.

00:35:50.220 But we had her saying on tape that the age of retirement was way too low.

00:35:56.280 I don't know what it is when the Republicans get inside the beltway.

00:35:59.760 The one thing that the middle class—they felt they've paid into with the payroll tax is Social Security and Medicare.

00:36:07.200 And the government needs to honor that obligation.

00:36:10.940 And the smart economists like Larry Kudlow, Steve Forbes, Art Laffer, Steve Moore, they'll tell you the only way to fix Social Security and Medicare is with economic growth.

00:36:22.240 So—

00:36:22.940 You know, it's not that simple.

00:36:25.400 I mean, it really isn't.

00:36:26.900 1983, the Greenspan Commission did a marvelous job of fixing Social Security.

00:36:33.720 That is the template for what anyone should do here, you know, almost 41 years later.

00:36:41.900 This is not complicated.

00:36:43.640 You don't need a bunch of pseudo-wonks, you know, who get elected every two years suddenly deciding they know economics.

00:36:50.440 They don't, or otherwise, we wouldn't have these deficits and this national debt that's piled high.

00:36:55.420 He said gently and, you know, calmly.

00:36:59.880 I'm going to practice calm when I talk about the House of Representatives.

00:37:04.480 I hope that they come to their senses because there's only one man they should be listening to, and that's Donald Trump, period.

00:37:12.300 And America first, make America great, and shut up. 0.84

00:37:16.600 So, last word.

00:37:18.720 By the way, I think we've proved that point in the primaries quite clearly.

00:37:22.140 Yes.

00:37:22.400 And we're going to prove it on November 5th.

00:37:24.240 We've got, you know, 170 days to go.

00:37:28.160 Hopefully, if they stop counting on election day, as they should.

00:37:32.020 So, right now, the polls are looking very good for Donald Trump, but we've got a long way to go.

00:37:36.680 And the one thing we're going to do is we are going to start voting in every state the day that they open up early voting.

00:37:44.620 I predict this year they'll have long lines on the first day of early voting, whatever state it is, because Trump voters are going to come out and they're going to vote in person, just like they do in Florida, just like they do in North Carolina, just like they do in Texas.

00:37:59.720 We are going to see a Trump invasion of voters who want to throw Joe Biden out, and we are going to be the ones who drive the early voting, and we're going to be the ones that make sure we win on election day, and that Donald Trump's the next president, and he brings with him a Republican Senate and a Republican House.

00:38:17.220 Yes.

00:38:17.500 That's the way we straighten out the country.

00:38:19.580 That's the only way.

00:38:21.180 We appreciate it, John.

00:38:22.440 Thanks for being with us, as always.

00:38:24.020 John McLaughlin, great America, and God bless you.

00:38:28.480 Thank you.

00:38:28.940 Thanks, everybody, for being with us today.

00:38:31.280 Be sure to join us tomorrow for The Great America Show.

00:38:33.820 Our guest will be Jeff Clark, former Assistant Attorney General of the Civil Division he was in charge of for years.

00:38:41.240 He's also one of the former Trump administration officials being persecuted by the Biden Department of Justice.

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The Great America Show - May 19, 2024

The Great America Sunday Show： May 19th, 2024

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