The Great America Show - October 26, 2026


This is what the polls AREN'T TELLING YOU!

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00:00:00.000 hello everybody and welcome to the great america show it's great to have you with us on yet another
00:00:06.800 beautiful day in america thanks so much for being with us here live tonight for the great america
00:00:11.120 show i hope you all had a great weekend i hope your weeks are all off to a good start uh and as
00:00:16.120 it sits every monday we get back here uh it feels like we've got some big news to bring to you and
00:00:22.040 we've got a lot of news to bring to you today among some of the top stories we'll be covering
00:00:25.940 tonight and we're going to be joined by a very special guest um in just a few moments to talk
00:00:31.140 about where this race sits right now where we're at in the midterms and what she's uh you know
00:00:35.340 feeling on the ground and uh what the pulse is uh but among some of the stories we're gonna be
00:00:39.720 covering tonight obama judge rules that james comey's daughter was unlawfully fired imagine 0.69
00:00:46.300 that this woman who um corrupt as hell horrible horrible horrible attorney um must be giving her 1.00
00:00:55.140 job back with back pay. Brazil's stock market is crashing as we speak right now. The currency is 1.00
00:01:00.740 plunging after the not so smart voters of Brazil or the stealing of an election in Brazil. Give
00:01:09.000 Lula another term. Imagine that. The Democrats are furious with Elon Musk and they're coming 1.00
00:01:14.900 after him with fire. They want to hurt him any way possible, folks. Unrelenting. Absolutely
00:01:22.640 unrelenting. We're covering all that tonight and much, much, much more. So let's get right
00:01:29.440 into it. And like I said, we are live tonight for the Great America Social. Be sure to hit that
00:01:33.400 like, subscribe, follow button. Let us know where you're tuned in from. So I don't know if you saw
00:01:39.240 over the weekend, Obama was out doing some campaigning and he had some not nice things
00:01:44.700 to say about President Trump. He's been doing that a lot lately. I don't appreciate it from
00:01:49.100 Barack Hussein Obama, who is probably one of the most corrupt low life presidents this country has 0.93
00:01:53.820 ever seen. Barack Hussein Obama. And he thought he was going to go off on a little tangent. And 0.96
00:01:59.740 he had some, like I said, not nice things to say about President Trump and the upgrades that he's
00:02:04.080 done to the Oval Office. So Obama, Barack Hussein, and I don't think his wife was there, by the way,
00:02:09.880 said that President Trump has upgraded the White House to look like a cheesecake factory
00:02:18.140 versus al-Hussein it was something like that let's take a listen and and let's be honest
00:02:23.740 does anybody really think this guy in the white house right now is spending all that time thinking
00:02:30.020 about these issues i i mean i i don't know if you've noticed but he seems very focused on home
00:02:38.540 renovations. He should be on HGTV. The guy's building a ballroom that's bigger than the
00:02:49.380 White House. It's paved over the Rose Garden, put a helicopter pad on the south lawn, and
00:02:55.980 there's gold everywhere. What's up with the gold? Everything, more gold. He's got the
00:03:04.880 White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened a cheese cake factory. 0.95
00:03:10.340 It's gold everywhere, gold.
00:03:16.400 So, he's clearly not focused on lowering prices for you.
00:03:24.300 That's one who should be talking, Barack Hussein Obama.
00:03:27.680 Really?
00:03:28.800 You want to talk about lowering prices?
00:03:30.340 He's crying about a helipad?
00:03:31.680 I mean, the Democrats have zero ideas, zero ideology on anything, don't truly believe in anything. 1.00
00:03:39.480 So they go off on these little ridiculous tangents about stupidity and nonsense. 1.00
00:03:43.980 Now, coincidentally, Scott Besson had lunch this afternoon at the Cheesecake Factory. 1.00
00:03:49.480 Let's hear what he had to say. One question.
00:03:51.820 Hi, Mr. Secretary. It's an interesting lunch choice today. What did you order?
00:03:56.820 I always had the French dip cheeseburger.
00:04:01.080 Excellent.
00:04:01.480 And so, recent news, we've got former President Obama comparing White House decorations or construction to the Cheesecake Factory,
00:04:09.580 saying it looks like Saddam Hussein opened the Cheesecake Factory.
00:04:12.160 Any reaction to that?
00:04:12.920 Well, two things.
00:04:14.140 This is the man who built the museum.
00:04:17.000 It looks like Darth Vader's tomb.
00:04:20.120 And I would just tell the, I eat a great meal, always have a great meal,
00:04:24.440 and I would tell the Martha's Vineyard set to give it a try.
00:04:28.680 Okay.
00:04:29.040 And what are your thoughts on the midterms thus far and how Republicans are faring?
00:04:33.920 I've been out on the campaign trail with the president, and there's great enthusiasm.
00:04:39.040 Excellent. Thank you so much.
00:04:40.320 Thank you.
00:04:40.780 Thank you.
00:04:45.300 He should take some time to leave his Martha's Vineyard castle.
00:04:51.820 Speaking of Cheesecake Factory and food, by the way, Cheesecake Factory is one of the great Lou Dobbs' favorite restaurants.
00:04:56.440 You love that place. Pretty good food.
00:04:59.040 But didn't Obama's chef drown in like four feet of water on a paddleboard outside of his Martha's Vineyard estate?
00:05:06.180 I still find that story so insane.
00:05:09.520 So insane.
00:05:11.780 That poor man, whatever happened to him, I don't know.
00:05:16.460 But the story just never made sense to me.
00:05:19.980 This physically fit, excellent condition, chef drowning on a paddleboard in four feet of water.
00:05:29.040 The story never made sense. I think Obama should be spending less time talking about the upgrades and improvements Trump's doing in the White House. And tell us what happened to that man, because we all, all of us, Barack Hussein, all of us want to know just what happened.
00:05:43.260 President Trump this afternoon, offering to pay a million dollars to anyone who reports voter fraud upon arrest and conviction of the fraudsters writing on True Social.
00:05:53.480 Anybody reporting voter fraud in the past election or the upcoming 2026 midterm elections will be paid a million bucks upon the arrest and conviction of those who created the fraud.
00:06:03.480 Thank you for your attention to this matter, President Donald J. Trump.
00:06:06.780 President Trump's announcement comes after the Justice Department began notifying counties about election monitoring.
00:06:12.940 Armie Dillon, the head of the DOG's civil rights division,
00:06:15.320 said 1,000 observers will be deployed nationwide during the midterm elections
00:06:19.460 coming up in just over a week now.
00:06:23.580 Just over 10 days, I guess.
00:06:25.960 Where hopefully they'll get on board with stopping this deal,
00:06:30.380 which the Democrats don't care.
00:06:33.560 They're all on board with however you gotta win.
00:06:37.320 So the Democrats are all hyped up that they think they're going to hold the House.
00:06:40.240 They're going to take the House, rather.
00:06:41.880 and Todd Blanch
00:06:44.040 was on with Margaret Brennan this weekend
00:06:45.320 who believes the Democrats will take the House
00:06:47.600 and she's terrified
00:06:49.260 terrified
00:06:50.440 that President Trump and his campaign
00:06:53.800 officials and his administration officials
00:06:55.360 are going to defy subpoenas
00:06:57.020 should they be subpoenaed if the Marxist 0.53
00:07:00.020 Dems take over, which of course
00:07:01.760 they will be because the impeachments will come and the subpoenas
00:07:03.700 will come, make no mistake about it 0.98
00:07:05.580 let's listen to Margaret Brennan, terrified 1.00
00:07:07.540 officials for not adhering to that 0.99
00:07:09.140 for wait so you just say the vice president says of course we're going to comply with the subpoena
00:07:16.040 and then ask me if i was if i'm going to prosecute somebody who doesn't i have no idea what the facts
00:07:20.960 are around that i have no idea i mean you're talking about hypothetical after hypothetical
00:07:25.160 if a crime has been committed the vice president answered the question and said he would but but
00:07:30.200 for for those who defy congressional subpoenas should the democrats go ahead who's defying a
00:07:37.460 subpoena? Who's defying a subpoena? I'm saying, would you be open to it? The vice president was
00:07:43.700 very clear in his remarks. Would you like to be as clear as the vice president was?
00:07:48.000 Of course we comply with subpoenas. That we will comply with subpoenas as we always have?
00:07:53.460 Of course. Yes. Is there any subpoena you can identify in this administration that we haven't
00:07:58.340 complied with? Has there been any allegation or any contempt of Congress finding? No, no,
00:08:04.300 of course not. So I very much agree with the vice president and we're not here to not defy
00:08:08.460 subpoenas. Of course, we comply with subpoenas. Attorney General Todd Blanche, thank you for your
00:08:14.100 time today. Face the national. I don't know why he wastes his time, but I do think, by the way,
00:08:21.040 I think that Trump and anybody who is subpoenaed by this next Congress, should the Democrats take
00:08:27.500 control. I think 100% they should absolutely defy every single subpoena possible. Just as a slap
00:08:38.280 in the face to them. Who the hell do they think they are? Get over yourselves. Now, Mike Johnson 0.99
00:08:45.240 seems to think that it's going to be a different outcome this time around. He's not entirely sold
00:08:54.320 that the Marxist Dems are going to take back control.
00:08:58.200 He's not entirely sold.
00:09:00.360 Now, with the media, we remember everything.
00:09:03.900 We remember everything everybody says.
00:09:06.000 So you're on the record at this point,
00:09:08.480 especially when you go on national television
00:09:10.460 and you make the claim that you believe X, Y, and Z.
00:09:15.600 So Johnson says that he thinks the polls are wrong,
00:09:20.460 and he thinks that they're all based on a faulty analysis.
00:09:24.320 take a listen. So is it a messaging problem? Why do you think Americans tell us over and over again
00:09:28.760 in the polls, they are worried about all kinds of things that are tied to the economy. They don't
00:09:33.420 like the direction the country is moving in. They feel very pessimistic. Is something lost in
00:09:39.160 translation? Is there more work to be done? Well, look, it's a hostile media environment. Most of
00:09:45.300 the mainstream media, of course, is advancing the false narrative of the other side, the Democrats
00:09:49.260 and the Marxist, the insurgent left that is taking over the Democrat Party. They're on the other team.
00:09:53.900 and they can completely and constantly repeat that message.
00:09:58.340 Gas prices are too high. We know that.
00:10:00.020 And, of course, we have much more work to be done.
00:10:02.380 But in a contrast election, the American people have a very simple choice.
00:10:05.960 Do you want to turn the government over again to the people who opened the border,
00:10:10.580 want to ban fossil fuels?
00:10:12.160 What's that going to do for gas prices?
00:10:13.700 The people that don't believe in the rule of law,
00:10:15.980 the people that brought you the unsafe streets and the terrible economic conditions?
00:10:20.120 We have set the ship of state on the right course,
00:10:23.240 And it's got to be continued. And if you look in these.
00:10:27.840 Continued, it does. This afternoon, a federal judge ordered Maureen Comey, James Comey's Marxist damn daughter with Trump derangement sent on TV, reinstated after President Trump fired her as a New York federal prosecutor last year. 0.94
00:10:39.860 She was among many botched cases, but most recently the Luigi Mangione one. 0.97
00:10:46.160 Absurd. U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman, Obama appointee, said the Trump administration broke the law in firing Comey.
00:10:52.140 First, Comey was removed without authorization of any statute. To the contrary, it violated the CSRA, the Civil Service Reform Act. Judge wrote in his ruling, yes, the attorney general is authorized by law to remove any attorney in the U.S. desk, but the attorney general or anyone whom the attorney general delegates to the authority is also limited by law, namely the CRSA, to solely, in a particular manner,
00:11:21.860 and only for certain reasons.
00:11:23.720 Since when was this a thing where you can't fire anybody?
00:11:27.580 But I guess if your last name's Comey, you're above the law.
00:11:32.320 Brazilian financial markets plunged this afternoon
00:11:34.720 following the apparent re-election of left-wing radical Marxist President Lula.
00:11:42.520 The country's stock market was forced to suspend trading
00:11:44.660 after suffering devastating losses.
00:11:46.400 It's been reported that the benchmark index there collapsed 10%
00:11:50.100 And shortly after opening, triggering an automatic 30-minute trading halt
00:11:53.220 designed to prevent further panic.
00:11:56.260 Meanwhile, Brazil's currency, the real, plunged approximately 12%
00:11:59.300 against the U.S. dollar.
00:12:00.760 Stock indexes tumbled at least 15%.
00:12:03.600 The dramatic sell-off followed Lula's victory against Bolsonaro's son,
00:12:07.720 former President Jair Bolsonaro, in the Sunday presidential runoff.
00:12:11.880 Lula is said to have secured 52% of the vote against Bolsonaro's 48%,
00:12:15.980 mysteriously defying polls and first-round voting trends.
00:12:20.100 And there was probably some issues going on there, including elections that were voting places that were allowed to stay open past the same problems we have here in America.
00:12:31.120 I don't have to tell you guys, we all went through it in 2020.
00:12:33.920 We're taking a quick break here, folks.
00:12:35.420 On the other side of this quick break, we're getting an update from the president of America First Works, Ashley Hayek, on what's going on.
00:12:42.940 Am I being too pessimistic about the midterm elections?
00:12:47.220 Can the Republicans possibly hold on to the House, the Senate?
00:12:50.460 Give President Trump one more chance.
00:12:52.260 We're going to get an update on the other side of this quick break, so please stay with us.
00:12:54.900 And we are live tonight, so please be sure to hit that like, subscribe, and follow button.
00:12:58.240 We're coming right back in less than 30 seconds.
00:13:00.720 Please stay with us. We'll be right back.
00:13:08.600 Thanks for staying with us, folks, on tonight for The Great America Show.
00:13:11.140 In just a few moments, we're going to be joined by a very special guest.
00:13:13.540 to get a pulse about what's happening on the ground.
00:13:18.420 Are the Republicans in as bad of trouble as we think they are?
00:13:21.920 Are they outperforming the early voting numbers?
00:13:23.880 What's going on?
00:13:24.760 President Trump, for one, seemed cautiously optimistic over the weekend.
00:13:29.320 Here's what he had to say about how he believes the tables are turning a little bit
00:13:33.640 in favor of the Republicans with the midterm elections just a few days away.
00:13:38.800 First of all, I hear that we've turned the whole thing around.
00:13:41.000 and you know for whatever reason presidents don't win almost never the midterms and i think we've
00:13:49.340 really turned it around and you know i think the rallies have turned it frankly just to be honest
00:13:54.540 and every senator feels the same way you look at ohio look at texas he's in pretty good shape now
00:14:00.820 i think uh ohio is amazing you know john is going to do john houston looks like he's he's a great
00:14:08.900 hero he's a great one of the best ever i mean what he did he was a all-american football player
00:14:15.120 nobody even knew that except for football fans they knew it and he's been uh turned if you look
00:14:21.980 at nebraska he's in great shape i mean you could go through so many of them that were
00:14:26.760 down i think uh other than the problem we have with respect to the daniel sullivan name being
00:14:34.940 put on the ballot. This is Senator Dan Sullivan. They've made it very unclear. And I think it's
00:14:41.140 very unfair. And then you have ranked choice voting, which is crooked as can be. So we
00:14:46.400 shouldn't have ranked choice voting. But on his own, Dan Sullivan would win easily. But they've
00:14:51.980 the Democrats have put another guy named Dan Sullivan, in this case, Daniel Sullivan on the
00:14:57.660 ballot. And that's very unfair. That's just outright cheating. So we're before the court
00:15:04.260 to see what you can do but people are totally confused they shouldn't be confused when voting
00:15:09.020 at least let him president trump talking about what's going on up in alaska so i'll wait and
00:15:14.980 see what uh what happens out there according to real clear politics averages the uh the democrats
00:15:20.360 hold a slight edge as it sits right now about eight percentage points on the uh house generic
00:15:26.020 ballot no toss-ups they have a prediction of plus five in the senate but of course that's according
00:15:31.760 to the polling. And we all know how the polling has worked out in the past. I want to bring in
00:15:36.080 the president of America First Works, Ashley Hayek, to get a better sense on what she thinks
00:15:40.720 is happening right now. And if she's more optimistic than me, Ashley, it's great to
00:15:44.400 have you with us. Thank you so much for having me. So let's talk a little bit about the midterms
00:15:49.380 and your pulse right now on how you feel. Well, I want to comment first on that clip that you
00:15:55.860 played from the president when he's talking about how the Democrats put another Dan Sullivan on the
00:16:01.540 ballot, they're confusing the voters because they don't have a policy that wins the voters over.
00:16:06.800 We actually have seen this in Nebraska. I don't know if you've heard they created an America
00:16:10.620 First party to run against the governor and other candidates in Nebraska. They're not necessarily
00:16:15.600 America First candidates, but they're portraying them to be. And they didn't form this party until
00:16:20.800 July of this year. So rather than try to sell their ideas to the American people, they're creating all
00:16:26.460 these gimmicks and games in order to confuse the voters. Now, when you look at the polling,
00:16:30.860 I'm glad you brought that up. I want to take a step back and go back to 2025 for a second.
00:16:36.080 The media was so negative and has been, continues to be so negative against the president, his policies and the administration.
00:16:42.360 And so we did a little test case in Omaha. There was a mayor's race.
00:16:46.900 And so we started messaging. We took a test group and a control group.
00:16:51.980 And we just started messaging great things about the administration to that test group.
00:16:56.060 And what we saw was by election day, never mentioning the election, never mentioning a candidate, just good news about the administration.
00:17:03.100 Our test group turned out three percent higher than the control group.
00:17:06.800 So this idea that the media could be used to suppress or demotivate voters is a very real thing.
00:17:13.060 So now you have the media that's working against the president, the administration, the policies.
00:17:16.840 Then you have the fake polling. Right.
00:17:18.840 So all of this really terrible polling that then is out there to help candidates like Tallarico say, hey, like I actually have a shot.
00:17:27.740 I can win or Abdul El-Sayed or a candidate in South Carolina or a candidate.
00:17:33.580 I'm within the margin of error. And then we find out that these polls are actually not very good, but they use those polls to raise money.
00:17:39.800 So now Tallarico has been raising money or the candidates in Iowa, Michigan, anywhere else.
00:17:44.540 So you have the bad news, the polling, then you get the money.
00:17:48.820 And then now let's talk about early vote.
00:17:50.700 So this morning, my team and I sat down and we started going through all the early vote numbers.
00:17:55.100 And let me tell you what we're seeing.
00:17:56.700 The Democrats, they are showing up.
00:17:59.400 It's their high propensity Trump derangement syndrome voters that are that are showing up early.
00:18:04.760 This is not low prop. This is not mid prop.
00:18:07.180 This is their super high prop.
00:18:08.680 But when you look at the share of votes, they're actually down in places like Iowa a little bit.
00:18:13.620 And they're down a little bit compared to 2022 in Michigan.
00:18:17.780 So if you think about I actually think this is a larger, bigger plan to build momentum to make our side feel like there isn't a shot.
00:18:25.700 The media is against us. We need to stay home. What does it matter if I vote when the reality is we're actually on track?
00:18:31.460 And if our voters show up, we win. These are very close elections.
00:18:35.100 Yeah, I always use the example, Ashley, about Dr. Oz against John Fetterman in Pennsylvania, where Oz, I think, went into Election Day down a million votes in early votes.
00:18:45.060 So where we're at right now, I will give you that the Republicans are far better off now than they have ever been in any election as it pertains to early voting.
00:18:52.320 You can't go in. I don't care what consultant, however much money they want to get paid, is going to tell you that you can go into Election Day down a million votes on early voting and that you'll still be able to win it back.
00:19:02.100 It's just not possible. Now, Republicans are historically known to go out on Election Day because that's what we've always done.
00:19:08.280 I mean, the cheating method hasn't really ever been in place for the Republicans early voting.
00:19:12.200 The mail-in ballots and all the scams that they do was never a thing for Republicans.
00:19:15.640 But Republicans now, due to some great groups like the one that that you represent and some other ones, have really driven up the early voting, which I think is is massive.
00:19:25.320 What do you make of the numbers in Texas for for that freak Tallarico and the race he's running down there against Paxton?
00:19:34.540 I mean, it's going to be a close, a close race.
00:19:36.960 However, if you go back and look at by how many votes, you know, Abbott won last cycle in 2022 is 11 percentage.
00:19:44.380 So being being this close is not this is not apocalypse.
00:19:48.420 And the other thing is our our organization is not just pushing our voters to early vote.
00:19:53.400 ours is getting those low and mid propensity voters, the ones that usually sit out and don't
00:19:57.820 want to participate in midterms. That is our full focus. That was our focus in the 2024 election.
00:20:03.160 And then how do you get those people that only showed up just for President Trump?
00:20:06.740 He's barnstorming the country, which is definitely helps us in a lot of ways.
00:20:10.980 But it's going to I mean, this is literally just going to be driving our people to the polls
00:20:15.800 as much as possible, early if possible. Michigan just opened this weekend, right? Like,
00:20:20.320 We still have several lifetimes between now and Election Day, and the numbers every day look better in Michigan and in Texas, too.
00:20:29.180 Yeah, I don't know if you remember what they told President Trump in 2016, the day before the election.
00:20:33.500 He said, I'm going to Michigan. You have no chance. Look what he did.
00:20:35.980 He showed up to Michigan, trekked through, I mean, storms and muds, and look what, you know, the history he was able to make in Michigan.
00:20:44.920 The polls are horrible. I mean, we had the story last week about this company that literally started a fake polling organization just to see how they can manipulate people and laughed in the faces of everybody that they literally, I mean, fooled MSNBC, CNN and everybody who covered their polls.
00:20:59.640 New York Times, Nate Silver, everyone has fallen for it.
00:21:03.140 Do you think that this is just another mainstream media polling psyop and the Republicans are actually really ahead?
00:21:10.640 I'm not saying we're ahead right now. I'm saying that it is incredibly competitive.
00:21:14.100 But I think this is another tool that they're using in their toolbox in order to help with their fundraising, in order to help with their turnout, in order to demotivate our side to say it's not worth showing up.
00:21:24.860 I want to take you back to 2024, the weekend going into the final push, the final GOTV weekend for the presidential election.
00:21:32.100 And the pundit said in the Kamala Harris campaign said, you know, liberal women, Democrat women are turning out in droves.
00:21:38.740 The American women love Kamala Harris and they're showing up to vote for her.
00:21:41.980 We pulled the numbers and actually more conservative women were showing up in the battleground states than liberal women were. 0.96
00:21:48.860 And in fact, by hundreds of thousands of voters showing up on the conservative side than Democrat women. 0.56
00:21:55.380 And so these are the types of games. Remember the poll in Iowa in the last in the 2024 cycle.
00:22:00.640 Remember the poll in Wisconsin in 2016. There was a poll in Wisconsin in 2020.
00:22:06.560 So this is a tactic that is used to try and, you know, demotivate our base.
00:22:11.060 but our base has to show up. You have 43% of Christians who stay home in midterm election 0.76
00:22:16.160 cycles. That's a problem. That's half your church sitting home. And we saw what happened in 2022
00:22:21.440 when Democrats had control of Congress and they literally went after faith organizations after
00:22:26.880 their tax status. So if you want to spend the next two years in a hearing room, instead of
00:22:31.580 passing good policies that will continue to help drive prosperity, we can do that. The choice is
00:22:36.140 up to our voters. How big of a fact do you think it played on this Iran war? I mean, you look at
00:22:42.940 and I'm speaking very, you know, frank and very honest. You look at gas prices. They're not where
00:22:47.120 we want them to be. Obviously, you look at where they were, you know, a few years ago when President
00:22:52.220 Trump or even when President Trump came back in office, gas prices are extremely high. Diesel
00:22:56.260 prices are extremely high. Texas, you know, you've got a lot of truckers down there. You've got a lot
00:23:00.200 of blue collar workers who are doing a lot of driving. I have a lot of friends up here in New
00:23:03.080 York who are blue collar workers. And, you know, the price to fill up their diesel is 60 percent
00:23:07.480 more than it was a year ago. How do you convince the voters that, listen, you know, this is what
00:23:12.700 it is for right now and this is not what it's going to be, because actually, as you and I both
00:23:16.580 know, people like to vote with their wallet. They like to see their 401ks through the roof. They
00:23:21.360 like to see the stock market through the roof and they like to see their their groceries and
00:23:24.580 their gas prices low. How do you convince the voters that a year later, you know, gas prices
00:23:30.360 are still through the roof and diesel prices are still through the roof. And I'm just trying to
00:23:33.280 play devil's advocate here. No, I appreciate that. And again, let's go back to 2022 when
00:23:39.320 inflation was 9% and gas and egg prices were double what they are today. And the media was
00:23:45.560 using the term affordability 700% less than they are today. And instead we were told everything
00:23:51.380 was transitory. The difference is you had an administration that told you to shut up and
00:23:55.360 deal with it while they're shutting down our pipelines. And today we have an administration
00:23:58.940 that's making us trying their hardest, their damnedest to undo the Biden regulation
00:24:04.140 and bring energy back into the United States to allow us to pursue prosperity.
00:24:09.440 And we're seeing markets of that across, you know, across the board.
00:24:12.660 The other thing I'll say on the Iran war is, you know, we've had, what, Bush, Biden, Obama, 0.51
00:24:19.760 all these presidents, all these world leaders that have said, you know, we have a problem with Iran. 0.98
00:24:24.900 We've got to deal with Iran. They're a great threat and have done absolutely nothing. 0.98
00:24:28.560 Now we have a president with, excuse me, the testicular fortitude to actually do something and take on this adversary and protect the American people.
00:24:35.940 And everyone wants to criticize him for that. I get the gas prices.
00:24:39.420 I think that's one of the things that I heard I hear from the president.
00:24:42.700 That's why he's trying to address that every single day.
00:24:45.340 I don't remember one day that Joe Biden said, you know what, you're right.
00:24:48.080 Let me see what we can do to try and correct this for the American people.
00:24:51.120 In fact, every single Democrat that's running right now, that's an incumbent voted against, you know, eliminating tax on tips and tax on overtime.
00:25:05.580 You know what I think the issue is with this?
00:25:07.480 And this is just from, you know, reading polls.
00:25:09.520 My good friend Mark Mitchell, who's done a lot of polling.
00:25:12.340 I think the issue was and Trump pulled in 2024.
00:25:15.100 I don't think a lot of people realize this.
00:25:16.440 A lot of the young social people who identify as socialists, people identify as like 80 percent of them say they would vote for a socialist voter for Donald Trump because they thought it was change.
00:25:26.280 You know, so I think the blowback, I think most of it is coming because, you know, Trump said he wouldn't start any new wars.
00:25:33.080 And people are like, well, you said you weren't going to. And you did. Now, you're absolutely right.
00:25:37.120 Look at what Bush did. I mean, Bush can single handedly take the blame for destabilizing the entire Middle East.
00:25:42.280 So these people don't get the blame that they absolutely deserve.
00:25:45.660 And Obama did, too. And nobody talks about Joe Biden in his defense.
00:25:49.460 I don't think he called a single shot himself. He barely knew he was alive.
00:25:53.240 And the fuel crisis on him was all self manufactured. He came in.
00:25:56.800 He killed every single new land lease deal on oil, killed any existing ones.
00:26:01.860 And then a month before the election, they drain the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to bring down fuel prices.
00:26:07.540 A month before the election, Jerome Powell went out there and tried to save the hell out of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.
00:26:12.980 So it is different because the Republicans play a far different game.
00:26:16.420 They play by the rules. They play by the edge.
00:26:18.680 I don't know. I don't know how you beat the Democrats when all they do is it's lie, it's gaslight and manipulate.
00:26:24.640 And people literally fall for it, Ashley.
00:26:27.440 Well, and one of the things I always try to take in perspective, and this is why we have such such an obligation right now to make sure that we are drawing that contrast, especially for young voters.
00:26:36.700 If you look at a voter today who's 26 years old, 25 years old, that voter that did show up for President Trump and you look at their worldview.
00:26:43.900 So these are people that were not alive during 9-11.
00:26:46.520 So there may be hearing about it in their schools, depending upon what type of school system they're in.
00:26:51.600 Their parent may have lost a job when they are eight or nine years old.
00:26:54.740 They're getting ready to graduate high school. They're in high school. They're going through college.
00:26:59.240 They're not they can't go to classes because of covid. They're watching cities burn due to peaceful protests.
00:27:04.200 They may have missed their high school prom.
00:27:05.940 They're getting ready to enter the workforce.
00:27:07.880 And now they're dealing with Biden, inflation, unaffordability, unable to buy a home.
00:27:12.820 And that is that person's worldview.
00:27:15.440 And so, yeah, they did buy into the dream that the president has offered.
00:27:18.880 And I think you have to continue to give the president a chance because we are so much better today than we were, you know, in the very beginning of his administration, what he was able to do, whether it's the men and women's sports, expanding school choice, the Trump accounts.
00:27:32.340 Cost of eggs is down 70 percent.
00:27:34.480 We're starting to rebuild the herd that affects your beef prices.
00:27:38.140 All of those things add up.
00:27:39.660 But you're right.
00:27:40.440 It's hard to sell in a quick soundbite when you have Abdul El-Sayed say, I'll give this to you for free.
00:27:46.800 Well, I don't see anyone going to Canada for health care, and I don't see people traveling to China or Russia for freedom.
00:27:52.940 So with all of that being said and done, we have an obligation to make sure we're sharing the good news and turning out our voters, because that's what this is going to come down to.
00:28:00.240 Yeah. And it's one bad apple upsets the entire card. And it's the same thing. You know, it's like President Trump could have cured cancer throughout this entire, you know, second term around. But because an Iran war started it, you know, it completely defeats the entire purpose of it. So you're absolutely right. It's hard. You know, a lot of people don't realize actually people think I'm crazy. Some people think I'm crazy. The talking points that some of these socialists run on are a lot of the talking points that President Trump ran on. Some of them.
00:28:27.960 OK, lowering the price of housing for everybody, lowering the cost of living, making things more affordable for people, which is why President Trump was able to pull out these votes.
00:28:36.360 Now, the difference between President Trump saying it and these other people saying it is they add a little bit more of entitlement programs and they forget to tell you who's going to pay for it.
00:28:45.220 And it's always the same old we'll just tax the rich an extra one percent, not realizing that the numbers don't ever balance and the numbers don't ever make sense.
00:28:53.160 You can tax the rich all you want. It still won't pay for all the free handouts you want to give.
00:28:58.400 I want to turn to something that I think a lot of voters are still a little bit upset about President Trump.
00:29:03.220 And it's the lack of arrest. It's the lack of election integrity stuff.
00:29:09.900 You know, President Trump was robbed in 2020. No doubt they stole the election from President Trump.
00:29:14.800 So many people paid the price. Actually, I was at Fox News at the time.
00:29:17.920 They were sued into an oblivion. Lou Dobbs was sued.
00:29:20.300 And these these these this litigation still still prevails. Right. These people have never had to open up anything for discovery.
00:29:28.040 The whole thing was a total sham. But now we sit here almost six years later, actually, and we still don't know what happened in the 2020 election.
00:29:36.660 We still have no arrest from these people. What's stopping the Democrats from literally doing it again in just over a week?
00:29:44.480 That's a great question. So first of all, I want to come in. So John Solomon was he was put into a power into the position of chairman of the government oversight and looking at the weaponization of government.
00:29:57.120 And that's how we were able to get those documents that showed China's involvement and all the data that was taken, all the manipulation that had occurred because of his leadership and the power that the president had put into him by executive order.
00:30:08.420 And he continues to make those discoveries. And I think that they are working tirelessly on how do we address that? How do we make sure that this never happens again? I was on the 2020 campaign. I will never forget those moments and just, you know, how demoralizing that was for so many people and just completely took away the trust that we have in our election system.
00:30:32.800 And what's so rich to me is that if you look now, the Democrats are literally telling their voters, this is why they're swarming the vote for early vote, is that you can't trust Trump's mail ballots.
00:30:45.360 So you need to make sure you vote early.
00:30:47.120 So they're the election deniers now, right?
00:30:49.280 Like, where's the outrage over that?
00:30:51.980 But that doesn't exist because they view their high propensity Trump derangement syndrome voters as being complicit.
00:30:58.940 And they can turn them on and turn them off whenever they want.
00:31:01.260 It's actually insane.
00:31:02.800 I do think there's been a lot of progress that has been made and we have a lot more to go, but we're not going to be able to do any of that in the next two years.
00:31:10.860 Again, if we're in hearing rooms and we're not able to govern and that's something that we need to make sure I have to give Mike Johnson some credit to given that he's been able to accomplish what he's what he has done with a small, small, small majority.
00:31:25.400 We need the Senate to start taking some action as well.
00:31:28.560 Yeah, I mean, make no mistake. And people also get, you know, a little upset when you say he's going to be if the Democrats win the House, there is a hundred percent chance.
00:31:36.200 I will bet any amount of money he's impeached again. Guarantee it. I mean, just go look at what they're saying right now and look what they've done in the past.
00:31:43.200 Doesn't matter what he does. He is going to be impeached. And people have to realize that, you know, like I say, it's always you look at it both ways.
00:31:53.340 I mean, if you had Kamala Harris or you had Donald Trump, regardless of how upset people are with Trump, it's still 100 times better than it would have been under Kamala Harris.
00:32:02.640 But these next two years, it's going to be a dead stalemate.
00:32:05.620 He will be impeached. The country will be laughed at on the world stage and he won't be able to do anything.
00:32:10.580 So it is tough. I think Mike Johnson does have a very tough job.
00:32:13.480 I think Johnson has done a commendable job with what he's got to work with.
00:32:18.080 On the other side, though, actually, I think John Thune has been the biggest I'm going to try to keep it PG, but he's been just the biggest disappointment I think the Senate has ever seen.
00:32:27.840 He's tried to undermine President Trump at every given point.
00:32:30.480 I don't think he likes President Trump.
00:32:31.860 I don't think he respects President Trump yet.
00:32:34.840 People out there look at this and they say, well, why does Trump allow him to get away with this?
00:32:38.620 What do you why do you think?
00:32:40.340 Well, I think the president right now is, well, first of all, we've got to get to this election.
00:32:43.560 And going back to your point about the impeachment, it's not just President Trump.
00:32:46.500 If you look at. So if you go back to twenty nineteen, I believe there was that we know about about eight hundred different subpoenas that was issued to the administration during that first year.
00:32:59.180 And then if you look at organizations, faith organizations, it was almost two hundred subpoenas.
00:33:05.300 So I don't know if you remember. I'm sure you do. In twenty twenty four, when the president said they're not coming after they're coming after you, I'm just in the way.
00:33:12.620 This is the exact same thing. Like that is 100. They're going to go after every cabinet official.
00:33:17.940 You heard Alyssa Slotkin talk about how, you know, we need to make, you know, young staffers fear.
00:33:22.800 They're going to go after young staffers. This is a very real thing that we need to take into consideration.
00:33:28.740 And again, like to what end? Let's continue the progress that we have made so far.
00:33:33.940 Let's continue pursuing prosperity and undoing a lot of the Biden, you know, regulation and continue to advance America's agenda.
00:33:42.320 That has to be done.
00:33:43.640 I think that the president does his absolute best to work with the Senate.
00:33:47.060 I know that your sentiment is my sentiment and the frustration with Senator Thune.
00:33:53.300 And I do think at some point that's going to be addressed probably sooner than later.
00:33:56.760 But at this point, you know, we also have to remember there are some senators that also weren't particularly helpful beyond Thune that will no longer be serving, which is also a very good thing, which is even more of a reason why we have to go out and make sure that we're supporting those individuals as well.
00:34:11.980 I think the thing that upsets me and my audience a little bit actually is the fact that and by the way, I agree with President Trump going to war with Marjorie Taylor Greene. 0.98
00:34:18.560 I think she's a loser. And the rest of these Republicans he's gone after. 0.92
00:34:23.220 But you've also got to go after the people who are stymieing your agenda.
00:34:26.880 And I think John Thune has been one of the biggest ones.
00:34:30.100 But, you know, I think it upsets a lot of people.
00:34:32.560 And it's a slap in the face to a lot of people when they see President Trump, you know, respecting him when he has no respect for him.
00:34:37.280 before I got to ask you this what do you think the give me percentages what do you think the
00:34:42.560 percentages are right now about people who have made up their mind both independents I had on
00:34:47.300 Victor Marks the other day he's running for governor in Colorado I think he's a great great
00:34:51.500 guy but he just is you know it's such an uphill battle with people with the Trump derangements
00:34:55.760 you know especially out in Colorado I think the drugs have gotten to their head but what would
00:34:59.920 you say the percentage of voters are right now on the Republican and independent side who have
00:35:04.440 already made up their mind in other words there's nothing trump could say or do no amount of rallies
00:35:09.440 he could hold right now that's going to change my mind i don't support him versus how many people
00:35:13.220 uh who say i'm already for trump versus how many people say well i'm on the fence and i can go
00:35:17.800 either way where would you put most people yeah i would say i would almost say like 99 percent of
00:35:23.460 the people have made up their mind on where they are with this administration this is a turnout
00:35:27.720 game at this point and i keep telling you know we talk internally amongst our team like this is
00:35:32.440 turnout. This is a matter of who can bank the most votes at this point. It's not convincing
00:35:37.580 anyone anymore. It's like getting our people to the polls to go and vote. And I would say like,
00:35:43.480 to the point that you made about the socialists and their agenda, you know, they might say,
00:35:48.600 you know, oh, we want housing. Well, they want to give you government housing. They're going to put
00:35:53.060 you with the bill. Whereas the president's like, how do we deregulate? How do we incentivize? How
00:35:58.640 do we build more homes how do we actually offer the american dream not how do we take it and shove
00:36:03.140 it down the toilet and then give you communism um it's very different solutions to very similar
00:36:09.480 problems that we're facing so it's just a matter of will our people show up to make sure that we
00:36:15.360 have an american dream to fight for every two years we say it's the most important election
00:36:18.560 cycle of our life because it is because it is right it's what we control in this moment and
00:36:23.860 It's what's going to affect our children in the Constitution.
00:36:26.880 It says, you know, to pursue the virtue of liberty for ourselves and our posterity, that's our kids.
00:36:33.560 How do we make sure that we pursue liberty for our children and our children's children?
00:36:38.300 Yeah, to the people I say, actually, you know, give Trump one more chance.
00:36:41.800 Was it Hillary Clinton who said, what do you got to lose?
00:36:43.800 I mean, you know, at this point, it's like, you know, give the guy one more shot to, you know, we're stuck between a rock and a hard place.
00:36:51.900 And I just hope that everybody who is on the fence, if it is hopefully only one percent, you know, they make the right decision and say, you know, giving Trump one more shot to fix Iran, give Trump one more shot to settle a war in Ukraine and Russia, which I think he's probably going to do very soon.
00:37:09.280 Give him one more chance to get fuel prices down and the cost of living.
00:37:12.680 And I think I think he won't disappoint.
00:37:15.100 I think after the midterm election, should should the voters go out there and do that, things will will start to turn.
00:37:21.040 And Ashley Hayek, you get the last word here.
00:37:24.120 Where can people go to support your organization and how could they help?
00:37:28.340 We're at AmericanFirstWorks.com.
00:37:30.340 And the best thing you can do to help is go out to vote, get your friends to go vote,
00:37:34.620 go get your family to go vote, vote early.
00:37:37.540 If our Democrats say go vote early and vote often, but we'll follow the rules.
00:37:42.040 So I'm all for it.
00:37:44.900 Go out and vote as many times as you possibly can.
00:37:47.420 Of course, I'm just kidding.
00:37:48.240 because the FBI, Ashley, will be at yours and I's door.
00:37:51.260 That's right.
00:37:52.260 Not theirs.
00:37:53.420 Ashley Hayek, thanks so much.
00:37:54.500 It was great to have you.
00:37:55.180 Thank you.
00:37:56.020 Thanks to Ashley Hayek, folks,
00:37:57.000 and thank you all for being with us here today
00:37:58.180 on The Great America Show.
00:37:59.160 We'll see you back here tomorrow.
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