The Great America Show - August 19, 2026


Wednesday Headlines： August 19, 2026


Episode Stats


Length

5 minutes

Words per minute

159.29

Word count

799

Sentence count

40

Harmful content

Misogyny

3

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Transcript

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00:00:00.000 Hello everybody, I'm John Fawcett with this Great America Show midday update for Wednesday, August 19th.
00:00:04.940 Happy Wednesday, folks.
00:00:06.560 Some big elections happening last night across multiple states, but most notably happening in Florida,
00:00:14.420 where President Trump continuing his pretty successful record when it comes to endorsements.
00:00:20.840 Last night we saw about an 87% win rate for President Trump.
00:00:24.640 He went 20-3 in Florida, three losses, Corey Mills, Florida's 7th District.
00:00:32.000 Also in Florida, Catalina Loff, Florida's 19th Congressional District.
00:00:36.340 That is the seat that will be vacated by Byron Donalds, who handily won his gubernatorial primary.
00:00:43.260 And lastly, over in Wyoming for the gubernatorial race, Megan Dennefelder being defeated there.
00:00:50.440 So President Trump's 87% record for last night.
00:00:53.860 As for the Socialists, or the Democratic Socialists of America, as they like to call themselves,
00:01:00.760 you had one winner, one loser.
00:01:02.520 The loser, Oliver Larkin, lost in Florida's House District 25, losing to Jared Moskowitz.
00:01:09.140 Larkin was nationally endorsed by the Democratic Socialists of America.
00:01:13.380 The big socialist winner, beating out a familiar household name, Alexander Vindman, 0.91
00:01:19.940 was Angie Nixon, winning the Florida U.S. Senate.
00:01:23.860 Democratic primary. Good luck to her in any sort of election she thinks she's possibly going to 1.00
00:01:31.780 win. Not sure. We're going to see that happening any time soon, folks. The national debt has 0.95
00:01:37.800 officially topped $40 trillion after doubling in less than a decade, according to new Treasury
00:01:43.260 data. $40 trillion, folks. That's right. According to new data out today, the Treasury Department's
00:01:49.400 Daily financial report shows that the nation's debt, just over $40 trillion, 40.05 on August 18th, more than double its level in 2017.
00:01:59.740 Federal debt has ballooned because our politicians continue and continue and continue to borrow more money to cover the shortfall of debt that they continue to run on.
00:02:10.000 As the government continues to borrow, interest rates and interest payments are consuming a larger share of the nation's spending, creating compounding effect that further fuels the debt
00:02:19.840 The U.S. government now spends more on servicing its debt than on the national defense or on Medicare
00:02:26.640 That's pretty scary stuff, folks
00:02:30.200 Speaking of the government, speaking of the economy
00:02:33.920 President Trump revealing this afternoon that tariffs that were set to go into effect on Canada this week
00:02:40.320 are being put on a little bit of a hold because he's managed to reach a deal with Canada to protect our farmers.
00:02:47.080 Take a listen to President Trump earlier today.
00:02:50.000 Yeah, we had a very good conversation with the Prime Minister last night, and we've come to a deal with Canada.
00:02:55.920 As you know, the 50% tariffs across the board were going on against Canada today,
00:03:01.360 and they called yesterday and they gave us the points that we had to have a very fair deal for
00:03:06.740 both. The tariffs will be non-existent for our farmers. Our farmers were paying tremendous
00:03:12.840 tariffs into Canada and those tariffs are going to be totally eviscerated, down to zero.
00:03:23.100 We're doing certain things. We've got to give something and we're doing certain things. They
00:03:27.400 paying a high number we're reducing it a little bit it's good for everybody but our farmers are
00:03:32.600 going to be thrilled our manufacturers are going to be thrilled and basically we have no tariffs
00:03:37.880 going into canada anymore canada was charging us tremendous tariffs we no longer have any
00:03:42.360 tariffs and what i was able to do is uh we put as you know under the new tariff uh
00:03:49.400 i guess you'd call it the news tariff schedules that we came out with
00:03:52.440 they were going to get a 50 percent tariff on everything starting today and we've held it back
00:03:58.840 three days it's all subject to finalization of documents so subject to the finalization of
00:04:04.380 documents we have a deal with canada and i think it's a very good deal for both both parties it's
00:04:09.940 great for our farmers our farmers will no longer be held up because they were being hurt very badly
00:04:14.760 president trump has long talked about protecting our farmers protecting america's wages and not
00:04:20.680 getting taken advantage of by anybody let alone canada so president trump keeping his promise
00:04:27.560 on that and americans i think should be happy as uh one less trade war uh has been started
00:04:34.520 with canada folks please be sure to join us tonight and each and every night for the great
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00:04:56.980 I'm John Fawcett with this Great America Show midday update.
00:05:00.080 Have a great day, folks.