TRUMP IS THE REPUBLICAN PARTY
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Roger Stone, political strategist to President Trump and former presidential advisor to President Nixon joins Lou Dobbs on the Great America Show to discuss the Democratic Party's obsession with keeping President Trump off the ballot in 2020 and why it's time to elect a Republican presidential candidate who can defeat Hillary Clinton.
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Hello, everybody. I'm Lou Dobbs and welcome to The Great America Show. Thanks for joining us.
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We have a big week ahead of us. Congress is finally back to work, or maybe I should just say they're
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back. And they're supposed to be preparing the way to hold Hunter Biden in contempt of Congress
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and to refer the president's son to the Justice Department for criminal prosecution.
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You know, America's at a crossroads when even some Marxist Dems are beginning to realize the vast
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damage their Democrat party has caused this country. Former Obama advisor David Axelrod on CNN
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saying what the Democrats are doing to President Trump in trying to keep him off the ballots in some
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states will, quote, rip the country apart, end quote. Here is Democrat Axelrod on the madness of the
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Marxists. All of this is strengthening him in the Republican primary. We've run this experiment.
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You know, he's only gained since he started getting indicted. You know, what you thought might be
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kryptonite for him has turned out to be battery packs. And this is a big one for him. Presumably,
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the Supreme Court will deal with it fairly quickly. And I expect that they will leave him on the ballot.
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And yes, Brianna, I have very, very strong reservations about all of this. I do think
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it would rip the country apart if he were actually prevented from running because tens of millions of
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people want to vote for him. I think if you're going to beat Donald Trump, you're going to probably
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have to do it at the polls. And now the Supreme Court has taken up the issue of states removing
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President Trump from their ballots, whether it's legal, constitutional or not. And President Trump
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has also predicted that bad things, as he put it, will happen if the justices should bow to the
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Marxist Dems' intimidation. Personally, I can't imagine the court failing to take down any state's
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refusal to keep President Trump off the ballot. We'll know more soon, in early February, when the
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court rules on the issue. President Trump is dominating all the primary election polls and
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the establishment Republicans' favorite candidate, that is Nikki Haley, is almost 30 points behind
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Trump in Iowa. And that gap, in my opinion, will likely widen as she makes mistake after mistake,
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including the mistake of permitting voters to see just who and what she really is.
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A newly resurfaced video from 2015 that reveals why the RINOs and Uniparty really like her.
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She's all in for amnesty for illegal immigrants, all 10 million that would be. 10 million that Biden
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has brought into the country since stealing the election of 2020. Just listen to Haley tell us how we
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have to protect the illegals coming into the country. We are a country of immigrants. I am the proud
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daughter of Indian parents that reminded us every day how blessed we were to live in this country.
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They resent when people come here illegally. But let's keep in mind, these people that are wanting
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to come here, they want to come for a better life, too. They have kids, too. They have a heart, too.
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So we don't need to be disrespectful. We don't need to talk about them as criminals. They're not.
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They're families that want a better life, and they're desperate to get here.
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I guess that's exactly what we should expect from a globalist like Haley. The latest polling has her
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down almost 30 points to President Trump in her own home state of South Carolina. It's not looking
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good for her, and it won't get looking any better, in my opinion. Our guest today is the great Roger
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Stone, political strategist, former advisor to President Trump, Reagan, and Nixon. Great to have
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you with us, Roger, and great always to talk with you here. A lot going on. The establishment
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continues to try to push Nikki Haley. They had a misadventure early with Governor DeSantis.
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As we all know, it looks like they are right in the midst of another similar result.
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Well, first of all, Lou, thank you for having me again, and Happy New Year. I'm always glad to be
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here on The Great America Show. I think you're absolutely right. The never-Trump wing of the
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Republican Party, which still exists not so much at the voter level, particularly the primary voter
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level, but exists at the leadership levels of the party, are really flogging the candidacy of Nikki
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Haley. She has taken in $70 million from special interests in just the last couple weeks.
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She may or may not pass Governor DeSantis in Iowa. And if she does, here's my prediction. Headline,
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Haley beats DeSantis in Iowa in upset. Subhead, Trump comes in first as expected.
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You can't make this stuff up. I mean, even if Nikki Haley does manage to get by Governor Ron
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DeSantis for second place, it'll be a distant second. I mean, it could be a gap of as many
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as 30 points. Nobody's ever won the Iowa caucuses by more than 20. Trump in 2016
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had a very ragtag, pasted together operation on the ground, but he was a phenomena. He came in a
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very strong second considering that he really wasn't organized. Caucuses are different than
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primaries. Primary, you walk in, you vote, you leave. At least that's the way it's supposed to be.
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A caucus is a meeting that you have to show up and stick around for a while. A very cold night,
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January 15th. You could be there 45 minutes to cast your vote. If there's a lot of people,
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you're going to be there longer to cast your vote. So in this case, having a structure,
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having a well-oiled machine to turn out your supporters is crucial. So it's just kind of two
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steps. One, you have to reach and identify enough supporters to win. Trump has done that in spades.
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I think he's sitting on a data bank of 90,000, close to 100,000 people who have affirmed recently
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that they will, without any question, vote for Donald Trump. And I have high regard for Chris
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LaCivita, who's his co-campaign manager. He's probably a great strategist. He's also a great
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technician, a great political mechanic. He knows what he's doing. I think the Trump campaign is
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superbly well-organized. Ron DeSantis has spent tens of millions of dollars, remains to be seen yet.
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Whether he's reached enough people, is there a pool large enough to even bring him in second?
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And of course, Nikki Haley's depending on broadcast television, wall-to-wall cable news advertising,
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digital advertising. She has no structure on the ground that I can see.
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So the real contest for the media will be not a huge victory by President Trump,
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because I do think he's going to win. Winning is defined as coming in first, by the way,
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but who comes in second and how that impacts New Hampshire.
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Yeah, that's quite a rundown. And I think that everybody is benefiting from your analysis of it
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and the layout. How important is it, in your opinion, now because of the caucuses, how important
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is New Hampshire? We're sitting here getting very close to that as well.
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I think it's very important, as it was in 1980, for example, when George Bush won the caucuses,
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but lost the New Hampshire primary or in 2016, when Ted Cruz very narrowly won the Iowa caucuses,
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perhaps as the result of a dirty trick, because somebody put out a blast text message to every
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registered Republican primary voter telling them that Dr. Ben Carson had dropped out of the race
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when Ben Carson, in fact, had not dropped out of the race.
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No one ever learned who actually was responsible for that act of chicanery.
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But New Hampshire is going to be important. It's a little different in that independents can vote
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in the Republican primary. And there is no Democratic primary because they wouldn't let
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Robert Kennedy Jr. compete there. He, as you know, bolted the party to perhaps draw independence.
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Now, how many independents are going to cross over into the Republican Party to vote for Nikki Haley?
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That remains to be seen. But if, as I expect, DeSantis falls short in Iowa, he doesn't win Iowa.
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When does Define just come in first? It's interesting, as his candidacy collapses, whatever votes he does
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have, Trump gets eight out of ten of them. So his actually losing Iowa, folding his tent before New Hampshire
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would be beneficial for Trump, although most of his votes would leave whether he's still competing or not.
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And Nikki Haley, it would be in her interest if Chris Christie would drop out.
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It's only three percent of the vote, but those votes, I can tell you, are more likely to go to Haley.
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I don't think that's likely to happen either. So I think Trump will win both contests.
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Then I think he will roll through South Carolina if he dispatches Nikki Haley in her home state,
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which he most definitely can do. But then I think it's the end of the line for her.
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We're talking with Roger Stone. We're going to talk some more. And if we may, Roger, I'd like to talk a
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little more about New Hampshire because there's some fascinating issues there. And we've got it coming at us.
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Very quickly, as 2024 is underway. Roger Stone, we'll be right back. Stay with us.
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We're back now with Roger Stone. And Roger, you were analyzing New Hampshire.
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My interest in New Hampshire has been heightened because I watch Sununu, Governor Sununu,
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hawking Nikki Haley every day and every way, a straightforward push by the establishment.
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I don't know how much it's costing the donors to have Sununu being a 24-7 cheerleader for Nikki Haley.
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I've never seen a governor go quite to the extent he has in attacking an opponent, in this case,
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President Trump and ballyhooing what to me is obviously a second-rate candidate.
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Well, I must tell you, I had a bad experience with Governor Chris Sununu's father, John Sununu.
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I was working at that point for Congressman Jack Kemp, but I also had served on the Senate staff
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of Senator Bob Dole, with whom I was also still quite friendly.
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John Sununu lied to both Bob Dole and Jack Kemp for almost 12 months,
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insisting that he had no antecedent commitment to Vice President George Bush, when in fact he did.
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So I think that this kind of political chicanery runs in the family.
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First of all, he's a never-Trumper, but secondarily, I think his major effort is to pull independence into the primary.
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Endorsements, generally speaking, in my 45 years of experience in American politics, with one exception,
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endorsements don't mean that much unless it's Donald Trump doing the endorsing.
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People don't say, well, I'm for Smith because Jones is supporting them.
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The one exception to that rule is Donald Trump.
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We saw in Florida in 2018 when he lifted an obscure and unknown congressman named Ron DeSantis out of obscurity,
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catapulted him to the Republican nomination for governor of Florida,
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then changed his own schedule to return to Florida three times the last two weeks of the 2018 campaign
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to literally drag DeSantis over the finish line, also dragged in Senator Rick Scott.
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The Trump endorsement, I've seen it in poll after poll after poll.
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I don't think that Governor Sununu can deliver a victory over Donald Trump for Nikki Haley.
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And then her missteps, Lou, have been extraordinary.
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And to think that someone said the other day that Nikki Haley is exactly who she appears to be
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Now, as we look at the president's numbers, he's just dominating.
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Have you ever seen this level of domination for a man who, you know, I mean, we know he's
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the strongest and best candidate, but there's something going on here.
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I really honestly believe that the main reason that President Trump appointed Nikki Haley
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to the U.N. was so that the lieutenant governor, Henry McMaster, could become governor, because
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Henry McMaster is not only a good man who I've known back to the Reagan days, but a very solid
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early Trump supporter, which, of course, Nikki Haley was not.
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In fact, when the Republican leadership chose a spokesperson to answer Donald Trump early in
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So I remember Trump specifically saying, I'd like to give Nikki Haley a job.
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I want to send her someplace where she can do the least damage.
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Where can we send her where nothing whatsoever really happens?
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Like you, I'm a Trump supporter, but I'm also a realist.
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And I can spot a trend or an uptick or an anomaly in the polling.
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It's the level of intensity of his support, meaning his voters are rock solid, meaning
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almost nine out of ten, eight and a half out of ten will tell you, I'm not changing my mind.
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These same people, I really believe in a general election, if Trump were not the nominee, they
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would not vote Republican, particularly since many of them do see the DeSantis candidacy as
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an act of treachery, given Trump's role in catapulting the career of DeSantis to the
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So those who try to tell me that, you know, Trump can't win, I would argue that he's the
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That's why, for example, Trump wins Michigan and Wisconsin and Pennsylvania when Mitt Romney
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They're not comfortable in the country club Republican Party, but only Trump can reach those voters.
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When you add those people to his party base, he's stronger than he's been in 2016.
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His political strength at this moment has never been matched.
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And then I must tell you, I was with him New Year's Eve, and he looks great.
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For a man carrying around the burdens, a man they're trying to lock up for 600 years, a man
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who's very successful presidential campaign they are intent in interfering in, he remains
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Above all, he remains extraordinarily confident of victory.
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Well, as he should be, and the country is grateful for that.
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He, as you alluded, no one has ever taken this kind of incoming as he has.
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We're with the extraordinary Roger Stone, and we're coming right back in just one moment.
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We'll find out about an expanding map for the Trump candidacy.
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And we'll also be talking about a unique plan to deal with the illegal immigrant crisis in
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We're back with Roger Stone, and Roger just laid out the president's effective appeal to
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And I really, I think you've said it just correctly.
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These are, without question, Trump Republicans.
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And unfortunately, many of the rhino Republicans don't quite understand the party to which they
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President Trump now planning, I was shocked to hear today, an expanded map looking to blue
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states like New York, New Jersey, Virginia, Minnesota, New Mexico.
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And for this America First icon, who is right now the likely president on Election Day 2024.
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Well, Lou, I'd have to tell you, it's all data-based.
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So, I mean, obviously, Donald Trump would love to carry his native state of New York.
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Realistically, in the last two elections, there was no polling that showed that it was within his grasp.
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And therefore, to spend time and resources there, instead of spending it in a swing state like, say,
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Pennsylvania or Michigan or Wisconsin, would not have been a good use of resources or time.
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Now, one of my concerns, of course, is that the tsunami of lawfare that is being waged against Donald Trump is designed to relegate him to a courtroom where, in a criminal case, he must be present, if there's a court proceeding, when he should be out campaigning in swing states or in target states.
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I think it becomes less likely, but still not out of the question, that there may be a trial before the 2024 election.
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When CNN and The New York Times both report that Jack Smith is politically motivated in his efforts to get the Supreme Court to expedite the proceedings so he can have a trial, that's saying an enormous amount.
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But if you study the polling, and I do, and you never look at any one poll, you go look at a series of polls taken within the same time period with a comparable sized sample, neutrally worded questions, the proper order of the questions so there's no order bias, and they all show the same thing, then it's a pretty good bet that you've spotted a trend.
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And the trend we have seen is that Donald Trump is making inroads into normally, habitually, and traditionally Democratic voter groups, such as African Americans and Hispanic Americans and younger voters.
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That is reflected in the state polling in New York, New York, New Mexico, and Minnesota.
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Now, that could change, but as of this moment, all of them are at least theoretically within his grasp.
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Now, in the end, I still think that the presidency will come down to Arizona, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Georgia, and Michigan, and it'll actually come down to a handful of counties within those states.
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And as you know, politics can change in a lifetime, a week in a lifetime, it can be a lifetime.
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But as of today, I think he could justify, based on the data, an expansion of the electoral map.
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Well, it's going to be exciting to watch, and this is going to be some year, as you well know.
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I think everybody in this country knows it's going to be quite a year politically and perhaps in all sorts of other ways as well.
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Well, President Trump, making an important announcement and an op-ed, he is going to deal straight up, straightforwardly, with the illegal immigration crisis that President Biden has created,
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using a 200-plus-year law that FDR used to remove thousands of Japanese and Germans during the Second War.
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And he vows to cancel every single Biden policy that has contributed to what has been a, as he put it, a catastrophe of historic proportions.
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And I don't see any hyperbole at all in that statement about a catastrophe of historic proportions.
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Well, first of all, President Dwight Eisenhower used the exact same law to justify the deportation of 1.3 million illegals
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You see this phenomena in our cities and in our states and in our counties where the requirement to provide social services for illegal migrants,
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in many cases over the needs of American citizens, is bursting the budgets, bankrupting the cities and the counties.
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The mayor of Chicago, he's a real piece of work anyway.
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He came out the other day and said, this is just not sustainable.
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The answer, he said, is to give these people citizenship.
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That's the answer for you because you'd like them to be able to vote, perhaps.
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When Anthony Blinken, the secretary of state, met with the president of Mexico a week ago to discuss the crisis on our border,
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they didn't have much to say in their joint statement other than hinting that maybe the answer is to give all these illegals citizenship.
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So don't blame me if I see a political agenda here because I do.
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Why would Secretary Mayorkas continue to insist that the border is secure when Carrie Lake tells me that there's 318 gates on the Arizona-Mexico border
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that are welded open, allegedly, so some rare species of antelope can roam back and forth.
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It is bringing us a fentanyl epidemic, a crime epidemic, an economic ruin where even mayors like New York City Mayor Eric Adams,
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who, while running for mayor, said he was proud that New York City was a sanctuary city,
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He is trying to stop Texas Governor Greg Abbott from bussing or flying illegals from Texas to New York,
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but I think the governor has every right to do that.
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Almost 100,000 illegal immigrants shipped to various cities and states.
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And one other development, Roger, and that is an absolute statement of solidarity,
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the entire House Republican leadership agreeing on one thing, that President Trump should be president in 2025.
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I think it is a recognition that at the grassroots of the Republican Party,
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this is no longer the country club party of the Bushes.
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This is now the America First Party of working Americans, as exemplified by Donald Trump.
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He is the only candidate who can bring the Republicans' victory next fall.
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Some of those folks who have endorsed him, we know, Lou, they don't particularly like him.
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2024, as many have said, I think this election is existential for the republic.
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And it's very, it's critical that President Trump win it.
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Always enjoy our conversations and my tutorial.
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And thanks, everybody, for being with us today.
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