John McLaughlin, President Trump's pollster and leading Republican pollster joins the Great America Show to discuss the President's rally in New York City on Sunday night and his thoughts on what he saw at the massive pro-Trump rally.
00:02:04.460Thousands of people would wait five hours for him to be there.
00:02:07.720Well, and I've been to other rallies where President Trump, you know, I was the one in Nassau County where they had out there where people would wait all day.
00:02:20.520And, you know, this rally was the mother of all Trump rallies.
00:02:24.620It was like Willis Reed coming out there for the Knicks to win the championship.
00:02:30.460And I told President Trump, I said, you know, this is the it's New York is the media capital of the world, not just the United States.
00:02:39.600And here we are in deep blue New York, where the most famous arena in the world where presidents and champions have have, you know, held court.
00:02:49.340And and he was there and he's phenomenal.
00:02:52.980I mean, what's driving the Democrats crazy this week is President Trump is not coming off as a better president than Kamala Harris would ever be.
00:03:01.560You know, it's been by Biden's understudy for the past four years.
00:03:05.860He opened up the sale at Madison Square Garden.
00:03:08.900We're asking people, are you better off today than you were four years ago?
00:03:12.660And, you know, reminding them how high inflation is.
00:03:16.000And you want four more years of that with Kamala Harris.
00:03:34.960A lot of them are not waiting for Election Day and they're getting their friends and families out because this is such a historic election and historic choice.
00:03:42.020But but but that place was rocking full of patriotic Americans, full of people that you you got to see personally how, you know, they had lines of tens of thousands of people waiting to get in in Democratic New York City.
00:03:57.200And it was a diverse crowd. It was you know, we're not just talking about a country club Republicans.
00:04:02.720We're talking about working men and women who wanted to see their president because they know what the stakes are in this election.
00:04:09.120And they want Donald Trump to be president again.
00:04:11.740And, you know, for us, the polls right now, we've never been in such a good position, but it's close.
00:04:19.920So, you know, we've got a lesson back from 2012 where, you know, Mitt Romney was ahead in the national polls in the final week and he took it for granted, end up losing to Barack Obama.
00:04:37.640We've got to we've got to finish this out and get all the voters out there.
00:04:40.820We've got to every day if they have early voting, don't just vote yourself, but get your friends and family out.
00:04:46.900Get somebody who doesn't usually vote, who, you know, would vote for Donald Trump, get them to the polls, get them to vote early, get their absentee ballot, get it in the air, because we have to have the election, as President Trump says, where our win is too big that they can't rig this.
00:05:48.320I start texting with Trump's assistant.
00:05:49.960And I'm like, we're never going to get in this damn thing.
00:05:52.640And we were part of a special people line, which I was scared to imagine what the regular general admission line was because it was unbelievable.
00:06:04.600A lady who was sitting is sitting in front of us, an elderly lady.
00:06:07.480She was with her husband, you know, tells a story.
00:06:09.340She's married to her husband for 50 years.
00:06:11.500They got up and they left a little bit early.
00:06:14.940And I figured it was just, here's an elderly lady.
00:06:17.000You know, they wanted to get out and beat the rush.
00:06:19.400And one of the people, I guess it was one of her children she was with, looked back and said to us, she said, she's got six months to live.
00:06:27.740This elderly lady who was sitting in front of us, she has lung cancer.
00:06:30.780The only thing she wanted to see before she died was President Trump.
00:06:35.160And it brought a tear to my eye and sunk my stomach down.
00:07:43.660I said, no, I said, but this is historic because you beat the Republican establishment in 2016, and then you beat the Washington establishment.
00:07:54.080And they've never forgiven us for that because he represents the heartland of America.
00:08:00.060This is our blue-collar billionaire who's fighting for the working men and women against a system that's rigged against us where they exploit us.
00:08:08.300They lower our standard of living with inflation.
00:08:11.880They send our children to go fight these endless wars.
00:08:15.160And, you know, and he's the guy standing up for us and saying, no, it's enough.
00:08:19.660And, you know, he's building this coalition of working men and women in the heartland of America where they come from the Sun Belt and the Rust Belt.
00:08:28.820And we're winning record levels in the polls, but we've got to win it at the election of Hispanic voters for Republicans, of African-American voters for Republicans, Jewish voters for Republicans.
00:08:44.540We have to win the election because so much is at stake for the country, and it really is historic in terms of the levels of support that he has.
00:08:54.640And, you know, and that's what you're seeing with these people that are coming out from at these rallies.
00:08:59.960People, you know, they drive RVs, they camp out, they get there overnight.
00:09:06.220People in New York City were taking the trains and subways from all, you know, all the different boroughs to get in there.
00:09:14.560And, you know, what you saw was, you know, something that the Democrats can't replicate.
00:09:20.520I mean, they can fake it where they say Kamala Harris will go to Houston and say, oh, you know, she's got Beyonce there.
00:09:26.820And everybody takes her to sing when Beyonce doesn't sing.
00:09:36.360She didn't win a single primary or caucus.
00:09:39.020And she was handpicked to, you know, be the candidate of basically the Washington elites when they realized, you know, Joe Biden would lose.
00:09:56.060People came from everywhere because it was, I mean, it was, John, it was the most unbelievable thing I've ever seen in my life.
00:10:01.580There were some statistics and numbers that I saw that these people on Twitter, they do this analysis of people who go to Trump rallies and people go to Kamala rallies.
00:10:11.880I believe there was 100,000 people in the vicinity of Madison Square Garden.
00:10:18.940Apparently, only 20,000 were allowed in.
00:10:49.200When we come back, I want to talk about the media and how complicit they've been in causing violence and division in this country.
00:10:55.260They often say it's Donald Trump who's the violent one.
00:10:58.280And he's the racist, he's the xenophobe, he's this and that.
00:11:01.260But he's never shown any sort of trait like that that would exhibit any or exhibit any behavior that would suggest he's that kind of person.
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00:12:25.720We're talking with leading GOP pollster John McLaughlin.
00:12:28.200Great friend of President Trump, polls for President Trump, and he does an excellent job at doing so.
00:12:34.740John, if you weren't at the Trump rally this past Sunday and you were watching, let's say, MSNBC,
00:12:40.480let's take a listen of how they were covering the rally that we were at.
00:12:43.880But that jamboree happening right now, you see it there on your screen, in that place, is particularly chilling.
00:12:50.620Because in 1939, more than 20,000 supporters of a different fascist leader, Adolf Hitler, packed the garden for a so-called pro-America rally.
00:13:02.100A rally where speakers voiced anti-Semitic rhetoric from a stage draped with Nazi banners.
00:13:07.560When a Jewish protester rushed the stage, the Associated Press reported, quote,
00:13:13.400instantly, a dozen or more stormtroopers set upon him, knocking him down and beating him as he held his head in his arms.
00:13:21.180Most of his clothing was torn from his body.
00:13:24.140Later, he was booked for disorderly conduct.
00:13:27.380Now, against that backdrop of history, Donald Trump, the man who has threatened to use the military against opponents he calls enemies from within,
00:13:37.840who has threatened to use the troops to quell what he says are lawless cities,
00:13:43.400and to use those troops to carry out mass deportations of immigrants,
00:13:47.880is once again turning Madison Square Garden into a staging ground for extremism.
00:13:52.740I mean, I, I, John, that was unbelievable.
00:13:58.320You know, I didn't see many flags there.
00:14:00.220The only flags I actually saw there were Israeli flags.
00:14:03.060Correct me if you saw something different.
00:14:05.000But the only flags I saw flying anywhere on the, on the, the, the upper levels or in the crowd was Israeli flags.
00:14:11.300Explain to me what they're talking about, because maybe I fell asleep or something.
00:14:16.140By the way, you couldn't bring in flags because they have poles and stuff like that,
00:14:20.560and the Secret Service doesn't let you.
00:14:22.020Finally, they're protecting, they're stepping up and they're protecting Donald Trump.
00:14:25.580Precisely because of that deranged rhetoric that you just heard from the biased MSNBC people,
00:14:32.920because what they said, first of all, J.D. Vance put, destroyed Jake Tapper on that quote about using the military against the American people.
00:14:58.500And he was talking about, it says in a separate quote, he was talking about using the military to protect the United States,
00:15:04.660like from riots and the kind of Antifa stuff we went through.
00:15:07.920You know, he was the one, Trump on January 6th had recommended 10,000 National Guard to protect the Capitol and Schumer and Pelosi told them no.
00:15:19.880But these are, it's just so bizarre because they're losing on, you know, the, in the battleground states, more voters are favorable to Trump than Kamala Harris.
00:15:30.520More voters approve of the job Trump did as president than Kamala Harris.
00:15:34.200And what can you do when you're losing your argument has to resort to calling your opponents fascists and Nazis because they're patriotic Americans?
00:17:14.320You know, he's talking about, again, tariffs on China, tariffs on countries that take our manufacturing jobs in Michigan.
00:17:21.460We may win Michigan because it's down to a debate about who's going to protect the auto industry and the truck industry that Michigan survives on.
00:17:40.180Could you imagine Michigan without being the auto and truck capital of the world?
00:17:45.860I mean, you know, why would you have Ford based there or GM based there if you don't protect their jobs?
00:17:53.520And Kamala Harris is for the Green New Deal that would mandate electric vehicles that would come from China that would be assembled in Mexico.
00:18:02.160And it would just kill our auto industry to have that kind of government mandate.
00:19:16.600Jack Cittarella, a person nobody had ever heard of before, nobody outside the political realm, knew who the hell this guy was, almost beat Bill Murphy in deep blue New Jersey.
00:19:26.240So if President Trump thinks he can win New Jersey, I'd maybe give him a little bit of a chance.
00:19:31.700The guy's been pretty right about something.
00:19:33.620He was in New York on Sunday, for God's sake, and he thinks he may have a chance of that.
00:19:44.480I agree that he could win New Jersey against Joe Biden.
00:19:49.180It was a toss-up, and we were likely to win.
00:19:52.440But Kamala Harris, you know, they've given us the media, national media has done, you know, since she was handpicked, she's gotten 90% positive press from the mainstream media.
00:20:02.020We've gotten 90% negative press in spite of the fact that, you know, he survived an assassin's bullet, et cetera.
00:20:08.840But the voters in New Jersey appear to be pretty smart.
00:20:12.080And, you know, the early voting seems to be going our way.
00:20:15.280We might just produce an upset in New Jersey, but right now, you know, we've got to focus on getting voters out and proving our point.
00:21:20.320You know, it actually makes me think yesterday—on Sunday, rather—out of all the speakers, and I mean, it was a star-studded line.
00:21:27.640You had everyone from Hulk Hogan to J.D. Vance, Elon Musk—Elon Musk's mom was there, Melania Trump.
00:21:35.360The only person there who got any sort of boos or any backlash was none other than Mike Johnson.
00:21:41.960And I heard a lot of people yelling, rhino, rhino, rhino.
00:21:44.860The voters know what's going on, John.
00:21:46.600I think some of these politicians think they're a little bit smarter than they are.
00:21:51.020He was the only one who got any sort of backlash.
00:21:54.120And it made me sick sitting there behind Mike Johnson watching President Trump talk about policy and Johnson going like this.
00:22:00.880When I know damn well deep down in my heart and in my head that Mike Johnson's a rhino and he's going to stick to his rhino agenda.
00:22:09.220So I'm hoping President Trump puts the pressure on these people to do the right thing.
00:22:13.680We're going to take one more quick break here.
00:22:15.000When we return, I want to go into some of these polls, Senate races, congressional races, some final numbers from the presidential race, and one more divide.
00:22:24.360We obviously have the media divide in this country, and the Republicans have the divide with the rhinos.
00:22:28.540But it seems that there's a new divide brewing, and it's between the moderate Democrats—yes, I said moderate Democrats because there's not really that many anymore—and the Marxist Dems,
00:22:38.180and how they're sort of pushing these moderates to the right side.
00:22:41.600We're going to take this up with John McLaughlin. We're coming right back. Stay with us.
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00:23:53.640We're talking about a leading pollster, Trump pollster, John McLaughlin, does an excellent job.
00:23:58.140John, before we go into some of these polls and where we sit now just a week out to Election Day on all these races, Senate, House, and obviously presidential race,
00:24:06.900I want to talk about a divide that we see brewing.
00:24:09.300And it's between the Marxist Dems and the Democrats in their party, just as if the Republicans have the problem with the rhinos and the far-right guys, we'll call them, in the party.
00:24:20.880And by far-right, I mean people like Donald Trump, people with good ideologies and people who care about this country.
00:24:27.700Eric Adams at the rally on Sunday, President Trump praised him and said, you know, thank you to Eric Adams.
00:24:32.760Because Eric Adams was asked before the rally, you know, do you think Donald Trump's a – what did they ask him, a Nazi or whatever?
00:24:39.180They asked him to be – whatever the hell he was.
00:24:57.920He came out and the guy's been a criminal his whole life.
00:25:00.260He's only gotten caught twice, and it happens to be after he came out and did something against his own party.
00:25:06.460So we have a little bit of a trend here, but you've got now Mayor Eric Adams, and I think we're going to start seeing more Democrats who are going to speak out against their party.
00:25:16.080Because, John, there's only so far left you can go in this country before you literally push us off a frigging cliff.
00:25:21.700I mean, do you see what I'm saying that I think we'll be able to bring some of these Democrats more to the center so that we can pass a comprehensive tax bill, that we can pass a border bill and secure this country, that Trump will be able to get things done in this next term?
00:25:39.860Well, the key is winning the election on November 5th.
00:25:43.340And President Trump, the great thing about his candidacy is he's a foundation for these other Republicans to stand on, where we have close races for like Anthony D'Esposito, whose district went for 16 points for Joe Biden.
00:25:57.020And he won election two years ago as Lee Zeldin almost won the governor's race in New York State.
00:26:03.200And, you know, Hakeem Jeffries is making him a top target.
00:26:07.840But him, Mike Lawler in New York, Brandon Williams in New York, these Republicans are standing on Donald Trump's ability to do well.
00:27:13.440We'll lose, you know, the oil and gas jobs in western Pennsylvania.
00:27:17.300We'll lose manufacturing jobs in these states unless Donald Trump wins the election.
00:27:23.460Because, you know, Kamala Harris, she'll, you know, her campaign is being funded by these globalists who, you know, the minute they, the minute, if they were, God forbid, win the election, those jobs will be bye-bye.
00:27:36.340And you'll be, you know, it'll be Mexico or China or some other place because her donors, that's what they want.
00:27:43.100And, you know, you've got Carrie Lake.
00:27:47.300She could win in Arizona if Donald Trump or when Donald Trump wins in Arizona.
00:27:52.020Things are looking good there right now.
00:27:53.440So, it's a critical election that's going through November 5th that we have to have enough of a vote that they can't all of a sudden stop counting the votes and then go to try to manufacture phony votes to say that they've won.
00:29:31.340Ruben Gallego, as of right now, according to RealClearPolitics, polling up 6 points.
00:29:35.740So just a little bit outside the margin of error.
00:29:37.860Rick Scott looks to be holding his seat down in Florida.
00:29:41.000One that's interesting to me, and to be honest with you, I really don't care one way or another about this seat because I cannot stand the Republican running in this race.
00:29:49.420He's going to be just another Mitt Romney, and I'm sure you're wondering what state I'm talking about.
00:29:53.380It's none other than Maryland, which Mitch McConnell decided it would be a good idea to dump $100 million or so into this race for Larry Hogan.
00:30:02.740Like I said, it's going to be another Mitch McConnell, another Mitt Romney with Mittens leaving office.
00:30:08.720He needs a successor, and I think it's him.
00:30:11.040Is that a race that they can win in Maryland?
00:30:14.080I haven't done any of my own polling in Maryland, so I really can't tell.
00:30:18.500But in the meantime, a lot of those other races you're talking about, if Donald Trump wins, you could see that the Republican for Senate has a really good chance of winning.
00:30:28.260And that's what the Democrats are afraid of.
00:30:30.020So, you know, they're calling Donald Trump names, they're calling us supporters names, we're all fascists.
00:30:37.440And it's a shame that they got the final week, that's their closing argument, is to raise that kind of level of division and vitriol in the country.
00:30:46.700But, you know, when you look at Wisconsin, there you've got Eric Hubde in a neck-and-neck race with Tammy Baldwin.
00:30:54.560And there'll be over 3 million votes, and eight years ago, we won the state by 22,000 votes.
00:31:01.460Four years ago, we unfortunately lost it by 4,000 votes when there was a lot of, you know, stuff going on with the disabled voters who weren't.
00:31:14.100They're on the permanently disabled list, and they're not disabled and getting absentee ballots.
00:31:18.480Well, we've got to, a lot of that has ended, and we've got to make sure that we get people out, and we've got to, you know, make sure we have an honest and fair election, that we have enough of the vote out for the Republicans, whether it's, you know, you can have a race like 1980 where Ronald Reagan, when he won, he won 50 to 43 over Jimmy Carter.
00:31:38.740But he brought in 55 senators with him for the Republican column.
00:31:43.580So you need that kind of election where Donald Trump needs to win, and then, you know, whether it's for the Senate or for the House, Republicans can win under him and vote for an agenda that actually protects Americans from these globalists and from the people that exploit the working men and women of the country.
00:32:02.620So when you were looking at these numbers, John, I mean, your best guess on what happens, we'll start with the House.
00:32:09.640How many seats do the Republicans pick up?
00:32:14.540Well, two years ago, my brother Jim, who's my polling partner in the polling firm, we represented exactly five Republicans who beat Democrat incumbents.
00:32:25.840They would not have had a majority without those five.
00:32:29.200A lot of the Republicans thought they'd have a red wave.
00:32:31.740They were getting caught up in the national popular vote.
00:32:34.820They missed the district by district level.
00:32:37.400Our candidates ran on an agenda of hitting the Democrats on high inflation, open borders and unsecure borders, rising crime.
00:32:54.940It cost us the election for the Senate because if you're going to vote for trillions in new spending like Kamala Harris, you know, those Republicans that did that, you cost us the election.
00:33:07.620But worse than that, you cost working class Americans their wages.
00:33:12.340In effect, it's like, okay, we're being paid the same, but inflation is costing us 20 percent or more at the grocery store, at the supermarket, higher gas prices, higher rents.
00:33:24.340So the Republicans in the last two years have pretty much gone along with Donald Trump and stood their ground voting the right things in the House and also as a minority of the Senate.
00:33:34.940That will allow them to turn the inflation issue against the Democrats because Kamala Harris, he has the deciding vote for his trillions of dollars in inflationary spending, you know, and the open borders.
00:33:50.340Remember that bipartisan immigration deal, H.R. 2 or H.R. 1, was it?
00:34:10.620And that's the one they attacked Donald Trump over, saying, we had a border bill and you didn't support it.
00:34:15.280You called them and told them to quash it.
00:34:17.280I mean, you were letting thousands of illegals in a day and then you shut down the border, but that doesn't account for the people who are going to come through anyway.
00:34:25.400I mean, it literally makes, John, the craziest part about that.
00:34:28.520They weren't shutting down the border.
00:34:29.760They were legalizing it and hoping the crazy part about it is that they admitted the fact that they can shut down the border at a certain point.
00:34:38.520And then you say, you're like, wait, why do we need a bill to enforce the laws in this country and shut down the border?
00:34:44.800And Kamala actually goes out there and admits this.
00:34:48.740And Donald Trump's the bad guy because he called a few senators and said, kill this damn bill because it's I'm going to be back there in six months and we'll actually get a real bill.
00:34:55.940They would have put this bill in, John, it would have been for a year or two years, whatever the hell it was undoable.
00:36:59.800You can either keep working hard and rack up the votes by bringing your friends and family out to vote for Donald Trump, or you can become Mitt Romney, where you start cutting the pie before it's cooked.
00:37:10.760And all of a sudden, you know, the big media and big tech deliver a win for Barack Obama.
00:37:39.300Thank God Elon Musk has X so they can't censor us again like they did four years ago.
00:37:43.500We've got to tell our friends on Facebook, tell our friends on Instagram.
00:37:48.160You've got to tell them they have to get out and vote and leave no voter unturned in this election because, you know, we're ahead going into the weekend, but you want to be ahead on election day.
00:38:04.040And when they close the polls, we want to count votes where we're ahead.
00:38:06.900So it's like I said, it's a historic election, and it's one that we can't take anything for granted because, you know, Kamala Harris getting elected will be a disaster for the next four years, and we can't let that happen.
00:38:21.840You know, John, my background is actually in politics.
00:38:23.900I've ran political campaigns before, and I've never seen the Republicans going into election day this strong.
00:38:30.360And, you know, usually I'm not too confident watching the Republicans because of the early voting.
00:40:13.460The Democrats have managed to disenfranchise their voters, John, and alienate them to levels I've never seen before.
00:40:20.520I've worked for a lot of politicians, John, and they've always told me you take one side on one issue and you stay with it because you're always going to piss off 50%.
00:40:28.720John, the Democrats have managed to piss off like 75% or 80%, whether it be Gaza and Israel.
00:41:19.740And it wouldn't take – I mean, at Israel from Iran.
00:41:23.640It wouldn't take Iran, who's testing nuclear weapons right now, it wouldn't take them much time to get a missile aimed at Americans or military forces.
00:41:34.380So, you know, when you think about who you want as commander in chief, who that – whether it's Russia, China, Iran, North Korea, who our enemies would be most fearful of, you know, because if they don't like us or respect us, you want them to realize that they shouldn't do what they're doing.
00:42:28.320You know, you've got to treat this thing like, you know, it's no joke.
00:42:32.200And I think a lot of these Democrats, John, are starting to wake up and realize, I was reading the Wall Street Journal and Breitbart this morning,
00:42:38.840and they're saying that Democrats are planning for unrest in the streets if Trump wins, which means it's not just regular people doing this.
00:42:45.000It's obviously Antifa and these professional organizations.
00:44:48.480Thanks to John McLaughlin, great pollster, great American, and a great friend of this show.
00:44:53.300I got to see John over the weekend at the Trump rally.
00:44:55.860I spent a lot of time with him and his brother, Jim, talking about, you know, a lot of these issues that we face in this country each and every single day.
00:45:28.240We've got to get the two-point conversion.
00:45:29.740We've got to tie this thing up and ultimately push through and win this damn thing.
00:45:33.900And because America relies on it, our future relies on it, our children's future relies on it, national security, everything relies on what happens next Tuesday.
00:45:44.420And if Donald Trump doesn't win, you know, I fear bad things are going to happen in this country and around the world.
00:45:51.020Because if you look at what has happened under Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, whether it be the Afghan withdrawal, whether it be Gaza, the war in Gaza, whether it be Russia and Ukraine, a weak U.S. president around the world is no good because people think they can do whatever they want and they get away with whatever they want.
00:46:08.100And they're absolutely right because you look at what these people have gotten away with under this regime.
00:46:12.800So November 5th, folks, I mean, everybody you can possibly fit in your car, pick up and drive and go, get to the voting booths, folks.
00:46:23.460Get them to vote for every one person.