The Great America Show - WE’RE WATCHING A REBELLION IN THE HEARTLAND

00:00:00.000 Hello, everybody. I'm Lou Dobbs, and the Great America Show is officially rolling on this beautiful day in America.

00:00:07.700 Welcome to the show. Delighted to have you with us.

00:00:10.440 The radical Dems are having some fun now, just like they have for the past six years.

00:00:16.380 FBI investigations, special counsel investigations, two presidential impeachments,

00:00:22.500 and years and years of wasted time with phony charges against President Trump,

00:00:27.880 one hoax after another, and we learned one thing for sure.

00:00:32.740 It doesn't matter how many times the Marxist Dems lie and try to frame people,

00:00:38.060 including President Trump and his National Security Advisor, General Michael Flynn.

00:00:43.200 It just doesn't matter at all, so long as the FBI and the Justice Department pretend it's all real

00:00:50.500 and keep straight faces whenever they're in front of cameras lying, lying to Congress,

00:00:56.020 lying on TV, or wherever.

00:00:58.980 And here we go again.

00:01:00.700 The so-called January 6th Committee.

00:01:03.800 Solemn proceedings, serious business, or so they say, so they pretend.

00:01:09.960 So let's see what they're not saying.

00:01:12.540 They're not saying why Pelosi and the gang refused President Trump's recommendation

00:01:17.160 to bring in as many as 20,000 troops, the National Guard, to protect the demonstrators

00:01:23.660 and to keep order on Capitol Hill.

00:01:27.020 Why did she disband the social media intel group in the Capitol Police Department

00:01:32.460 that monitored tweets and posts and messages on social media?

00:01:36.680 A group that kept track of kooks and crazies,

00:01:40.340 and they would have at least been an early warning operation for the police on January 6th.

00:01:46.680 Instead, she got rid of them.

00:01:49.040 Why weren't the Capitol Police ready for the big demonstrations that day?

00:01:53.540 Why weren't they prepared to secure the Capitol?

00:01:56.980 Why?

00:01:58.060 Why didn't they have police reserves ready in case there was any kind of incident?

00:02:02.820 Where were the backups to the police officers around the Capitol?

00:02:07.740 No one is even asking the questions, let alone getting answers from the radical Dems.

00:02:14.180 I'm sure those questions won't be answered anytime soon, but they should be.

00:02:19.980 And no one is insisting the Marxist Dem leaders of the Democrats answer those questions.

00:02:25.580 And until we get those answers, there's nothing, nothing the Dems have to say

00:02:30.540 that means a thing, certainly to me.

00:02:33.880 That's my opinion.

00:02:34.840 And all they're trying to do, in fact, is distract the public from the Biden disaster,

00:02:41.500 the economy, runaway inflation, skyrocketing prices of gasoline,

00:02:46.780 soaring interest rates and markets in turmoil.

00:02:49.780 It's all the Biden economy, the Biden disasters, Afghanistan, energy prices, wide open borders,

00:02:57.280 millions of illegals pouring into the country,

00:02:59.560 while Vladimir Putin is seizing more Ukrainian territory without penalty.

00:03:06.000 And President Xi threatens all of the Indo-Pacific region and the United States as well,

00:03:12.220 while we have a commander-in-chief who is so weak, so obviously impaired, 0.93

00:03:16.900 and a White House national security team that is simply inept and woefully untalented. 0.95

00:03:22.640 That's a lot to overcome.

00:03:25.640 But facing an historic landslide defeat at the polls in November,

00:03:30.380 these desperate Dems are trying anything and everything, 0.96

00:03:34.520 including a Soviet-style show trial featuring leftist partisans and ideologues

00:03:40.200 and their spurious antics and vile rhetoric.

00:03:43.740 The Dems are facing what could be Armageddon for them at the polls this November,

00:03:48.420 and they're hoping against hope that they can at least, at least diminish their losses.

00:03:55.820 And here with us now to assess their chances,

00:03:59.100 with us is leading Republican strategist and pollster, John McLaughlin.

00:04:04.160 John, great to have you back with us here on The Great America Show.

00:04:08.620 The headline in the Daily Mail is,

00:04:11.420 Biden is twisted.

00:04:12.900 His approval below Trump's lows, as new poll has him below 50% in 49 states.

00:04:23.120 And incredibly, that includes California and New York.

00:04:26.860 He's down to 19% in West Virginia, 23% in Tennessee.

00:04:32.300 You know, you've been telling us that this man has collapsed,

00:04:36.260 but I have not seen numbers this devastating for this president and the radical Dems.

00:04:44.120 Absolutely, it's been coming.

00:04:45.940 We've been saying this since last year, where for us, for the last four months,

00:04:51.300 his job approval had hung at 41%, and his discipline was at 57%.

00:04:56.780 People said, could it go lower?

00:04:58.460 And I was like, yes, because he's cracking up in the Democratic base.

00:05:02.560 And when he starts losing a quarter of the people that voted for him in 2020,

00:05:11.600 now disapprove of the job he's doing.

00:05:14.000 And you've got, you know, a fifth of the Democrat party disapproves,

00:05:18.220 and you've got large shares of African-Americans, the majority of Hispanics.

00:05:22.480 I mean, he's not doing the job in my life.

00:05:25.140 And constantly, sooner or later, you hit someone in the media that will say,

00:05:29.660 while he's doing this, do you think his numbers will get better?

00:05:32.220 And I say, yes, until you have to buy gas and food.

00:05:35.580 And when you do either one of those two things, his disapproval will go up.

00:05:40.140 And he's not reversing any of his policies that are absolutely fueling inflation.

00:05:45.660 He won't increase oil and gas production, which would instantly drop the cost of a barrel of oil,

00:05:54.260 which would reduce the prices at the pump,

00:05:56.620 which would allow inflation to ease for a lot of people.

00:06:01.360 And he just won't do it.

00:06:03.520 John, that's important.

00:06:04.880 I'd like you to repeat that equation that's available to the president right now,

00:06:11.840 if you wouldn't mind, because everybody needs to hear this.

00:06:15.120 All he would have to do is increase the price of oil, not price, production of oil and gas

00:06:21.720 that would lower the price that we pay at the pump because you'd have more supply.

00:06:26.860 It's simple supply and demand.

00:06:28.980 I mean, you know, certainly he is decreasing the value of the dollar because of inflation,

00:06:34.560 which is what you use to buy oil.

00:06:36.640 But just increasing production to where Donald Trump had it as president would lower the price

00:06:43.440 of gas dramatically.

00:06:45.000 So instead of paying $117 a barrel of oil, it might go down to $60 or $50, like when Trump

00:06:53.340 was president, which would cut the price of gas in half, really reduce inflation for the

00:06:58.340 country.

00:06:58.920 But he's an ideologue.

00:07:00.440 He's captive by the climate change, you know, woke greenies that won't let him do it because

00:07:06.540 they'd rather punish the American middle class and working class for some ideological purpose

00:07:14.580 than actually help people.

00:07:17.100 And we're seeing it in our polls all the time.

00:07:19.600 By the way, I'm doing polls for campaigns where we ask a simple question, are you, are

00:07:25.960 you, you know, has inflation impacted you?

00:07:28.600 And roughly a quarter of the voters say no, but a quarter of the voters to maybe 30% in most

00:07:33.360 places are telling us they are struggling to pay for basic things.

00:07:37.720 And another roughly 40% are telling us that they've made significant changes, but they're

00:07:43.640 not struggling, but they're cutting back on vacations.

00:07:46.020 They're cutting back on purchases.

00:07:48.100 The children may have to go to a state school rather than a private school, you know, private

00:07:52.700 university.

00:07:53.340 I mean, so two thirds of the American public is making significant changes.

00:07:58.540 But the scary part is the quarter that says they can't afford basic necessities like food,

00:08:04.800 like electricity, gas, like their own, you know, rent.

00:08:11.240 I mean, housing has gone up.

00:08:13.200 So, you know, this is really bad for the president and for the Democrats because the voters, as

00:08:19.060 you've seen in the primaries this year, and the 13 states have primaries so far, the Republican

00:08:24.440 turnout in the primaries is up 38% while the Democrat turnout is not up.

00:08:30.280 So people are coming in to nominate Republicans to beat these Democrats.

00:08:35.300 And we're seeing it.

00:08:37.560 By the way, if I may, I'll talk about a survey that we just got back yesterday, the May survey

00:08:43.760 of 500 small business employers that we conducted, that our firm conducted with Scott Rasmussen for

00:08:50.380 the Job Creators Network.

00:08:51.540 It's their small business index portion.

00:08:55.460 We'll take that up in just a minute.

00:08:57.160 But I want to get to something, too, in what you're saying, which is, again, very important.

00:09:03.900 The impact of inflation, we're hearing various polls that are quantifying this pain for so

00:09:12.940 many of our fellow citizens, our working men and women and their families, the middle class.

00:09:18.380 But the people who are not getting any real attention by either economists or by the corporatist

00:09:27.020 media are retired Americans, older Americans who are living on fixed incomes, who are living

00:09:35.140 really from, you know, one paycheck to the next and trying desperately to find some way to

00:09:46.120 generate income, we know that people are deferring retirement because of the impact of inflation.

00:09:52.620 Many are coming out of retirement to find work because of the pressure.

00:09:57.380 People are not paying a lot of attention in the corporate media, John, to the plight of these

00:10:03.600 tens of millions of Americans who are retired and right now just simply cannon fodder in this

00:10:10.920 battle that the administration says it will wage against inflation.

00:10:17.140 Absolutely true.

00:10:18.180 And it's affecting seniors and those who are retired on a fixed income.

00:10:22.260 And most of them, a lot of them don't have savings.

00:10:25.800 These working class voters, these older voters.

00:10:28.520 And, you know, those with savings, their 401ks are now going down significantly.

00:10:34.140 So the ones without savings, you know, I'm sure you got an increase in your Social Security,

00:10:40.980 but the prices are beyond the increases.

00:10:43.020 However, it's not just seniors and those who are retired on fixed incomes.

00:10:47.620 It's also where it spikes up is among younger voters.

00:10:52.840 I mean, they can't, those that went to college are coming out of college and they're finding

00:10:56.400 they're taking jobs that can't keep up with the costs that they have to deal with in terms of

00:11:00.920 most of them will have to buy a car, commute to work.

00:11:04.340 The prices are going up.

00:11:06.020 A lot of them are finding that, you know, they're, they're finding that they thought they got a good

00:11:10.320 job, but their housing, they can't afford the apartments. 0.72

00:11:13.540 They can't afford, they can't afford to buy a home one along the house.

00:11:16.720 Of course, the housing is way up.

00:11:18.820 And so, so you have, you know, you, you have it on both ends of, of the age groups where it's

00:11:26.820 not just older voters, it's younger voters who've never dealt with inflation before.

00:11:31.520 We're now finding, uh, the cost of gas going up, the cost of, uh, uh, the cost of basic

00:11:37.720 necessities like food are going up and housing and rent.

00:11:40.900 And, uh, it's, it's not what they, you know, were told to imagine what they were going to

00:11:47.020 do with their lives.

00:11:48.120 So it's, it's, it's a serious problem.

00:11:50.680 A very serious problem.

00:11:52.320 And again, to reiterate, uh, this is a choice by president Biden.

00:11:59.200 This is a choice about where pain will be felt, who will be, uh, feeling this pain, uh, the

00:12:07.100 most severely.

00:12:08.220 He has decided not to boost production.

00:12:11.620 He has decided not to open a pipeline.

00:12:14.620 He has decided not to drill.

00:12:17.000 He has called all of this, a transition.

00:12:19.940 This is a plan to devastate America and he is succeeding.

00:12:26.260 It is the only thing in which he is succeeding, devastating America.

00:12:32.520 Just to add on to what you're saying, he not only is not expanding it, he's cut back.

00:12:37.580 His first act was to kill Keystone.

00:12:40.140 He's, he's revoked, uh, drilling in oil and gas leases in Alaska and the Gulf of Mexico.

00:12:46.000 And he's killed all the pipelines that were supposed to be built.

00:12:49.440 And I'll tell you what, I have European clients in, uh, uh, in democracies over there that are

00:12:55.160 part of the EU.

00:12:56.640 And he has lobbied for a ban on Russian oil and gas that will further increase the price

00:13:03.920 of oil and gas to go up in the world.

00:13:06.360 And at first he was telling them, don't do it till after the midterm elections.

00:13:10.500 Cause it's going to hurt them, but they just enacted that this week.

00:13:15.260 Uh, and there's exemptions for certain countries that have pipelines with Russia, but I, you

00:13:21.780 know, the Europeans could be headed for a situation where they could be rationing, uh, what they

00:13:26.940 call petrol, which is what we call gas.

00:13:28.940 And, uh, they're going to have, they're going to have big problems because, uh, Joe Biden

00:13:34.380 was not strong enough to deter Vladimir Putin from going into the Ukraine, into Ukraine period. 0.94

00:13:40.940 He was also stupid enough to encourage, uh, Ukraine to join NATO in the first year of his 0.99

00:13:50.120 presidency and the run-up to February 24th. 1.00

00:13:53.440 The man actually, it was encouraging it knowing full well that it was a red line for Vladimir

00:13:59.880 Putin.

00:14:00.900 Yeah.

00:14:01.100 That's very bad for the country, but going back to the job creator serving now, small

00:14:05.000 businesses have been the engine of economic growth and job creation for decades in the

00:14:10.100 United States.

00:14:11.000 So the job creators network does a poll since last year of the, uh, uh, 500 small business

00:14:17.760 owners.

00:14:18.080 They have to have at least two employees.

00:14:19.720 The average is, uh, basically 16 employees for these small businesses.

00:14:25.020 And, uh, uh, we do 500 a month across the country and the, and these businesses are the

00:14:31.800 survivors of the pandemic where they got through that and it's scientifically done.

00:14:36.740 Uh, it represents, uh, you know, represents those who currently are in business.

00:14:42.980 And what's scary is only 25% of those, these small business owners, uh, uh, they expect to

00:14:50.200 break even another 7% of losing money.

00:14:52.500 They're saying, they're saying that, uh, um, 20% of them may never fully recover from the

00:14:57.740 pandemic.

00:14:58.620 Uh, when they asked about, would you say the United States economy is getting better, staying

00:15:02.980 the same or getting worse?

00:15:04.480 56% say worse.

00:15:06.380 Only 24% said better.

00:15:08.340 Um, these are people who are in business every day, helping our economy.

00:15:13.180 I mean, generating the American economy.

00:15:15.820 Um, it's the backbone of the economy.

00:15:18.280 It really is.

00:15:19.200 How would you rate the business climate and conditions for small businesses like yours in

00:15:23.220 the United States today?

00:15:24.020 63% say only fair or poor, uh, only 37% say excellent or good.

00:15:30.140 Um, and, uh, uh, you know, high inflation, high prices, when you give them a choice of two

00:15:37.260 top issues, it's 41% of all the answers.

00:15:40.720 And, uh, uh, you know, you have gas prices, 23%, supply chain disruptions, 15%.

00:15:46.220 Uh, you know, the Biden's plan to increase taxes.

00:15:51.440 They think 59% will hurt their business.

00:15:54.100 When you ask them about, uh, do you think the Biden administration is doing enough to

00:15:58.240 combat inflation?

00:15:59.300 73% say no.

00:16:01.120 Do you think the Biden administration is doing enough to help supply chain problems?

00:16:04.600 71% say no.

00:16:05.960 A supply chain problem is having a negative impact on your business.

00:16:09.920 61% say no.

00:16:11.640 And do you support or oppose increasing domestic oil and natural gas production?

00:16:16.700 Uh, 76 to 15, they support.

00:16:19.540 So they get it.

00:16:20.660 They understand what has to be done.

00:16:23.020 Um, and, uh, uh, the Biden administration just seems to be doing the opposite.

00:16:28.360 So, you know, if, if we've seen it in the voter surveys where last month when we asked,

00:16:34.100 you know, if they thought the American economy was getting better or worse, uh, they told

00:16:38.640 us that it was, it was getting worse 67 to 25 among all voters.

00:16:43.660 So, uh, uh, I think the Democrats are just doubling down on failure headed into November

00:16:48.400 election. 0.82

00:16:49.040 They are, and this is one of the things I think we need to take up as inept, uh, as, uh, terrible 1.00

00:16:59.760 as this administration is, they can't have such pervasive, complete stupidity that there 1.00

00:17:07.140 isn't someone's there saying to the president, if we don't want, if we want to avoid a wave 0.99

00:17:14.400 election, a tsunami election, uh, in which the Republicans have a landslide for both the

00:17:20.040 house and the Senate, we have got to bring down prices for food, for energy, uh, for the

00:17:26.620 cost of living in this country.

00:17:28.400 And we've got to do it now. 1.00

00:17:29.880 And dramatically, even if it means you walking out there and saying you were an idiot and 1.00

00:17:34.620 you've got to open up the pipelines and you've got to get the petrochemical industry in this 1.00

00:17:40.800 country roaring again, that's not happening.

00:17:44.260 And the only reason I can think that it's not happening is these Republicans, uh, are sort

00:17:52.560 of staring at it and watching it while the Democrats in the back rooms of the white house.

00:17:58.300 And I'm going to mention Susan Rice, the head of the domestic, uh, policy council are preparing

00:18:04.360 something special for us once again, as they did in 2020, but this time using federal money.

00:18:11.740 What do you think?

00:18:14.480 Um, I, I absolutely believe, I mean, what's worse is I've heard, I've heard, and you've

00:18:20.500 seen stories.

00:18:21.060 I've heard, uh, discussions about the Democrats are talking about putting price controls on

00:18:26.080 oil and gas in the country, which would require what the EU is considering where you go back

00:18:31.400 to, okay, you're going to have to set your thermostats in the summer when it's hot, you

00:18:36.080 won't be able to have it, uh, air conditioning at a certain temperature in the winter when

00:18:41.380 it's cold, you won't be able to have home, uh, home heating at a temperature where you feel

00:18:46.700 warm.

00:18:47.200 But the worst is when they say, you know, that, you know, you'll go back to gas that where

00:18:53.160 you'll have to buy it on odd and even days where you, you won't be, I mean, in certain

00:18:58.340 parts of Europe, they ration gas to, like in Poland, they were purchasing, uh, only 10

00:19:03.060 gallons of gas.

00:19:04.780 So they go by liters, but in fact, it was like 10 gallons of gas they could buy per visit

00:19:09.800 to a gas station because Poland was being cut off by Russia.

00:19:12.800 Right.

00:19:13.400 And, uh, um, so now you're, you're thinking they might do this for the United States and

00:19:19.280 they do that.

00:19:20.340 You're going to see that Biden job approval go through the floor because, uh, uh, the, you

00:19:26.720 know, there's no reason for this.

00:19:28.260 It's, it's, you know, the United States is basically natural gas.

00:19:32.760 I mean, in New York state, they're cutting off all new natural gas hookups.

00:19:37.060 I mean, they're crazy because the working people in New York who try to can't afford 1.00

00:19:40.800 to rent these apartments are now going to be forced to pay higher electric rates for

00:19:44.980 utilities.

00:19:46.120 And, uh, um, you know, and it's an, and it's an ideologically driven extremist thing

00:19:51.780 where, you know, I, I, full disclosure, I work for Lee Zeldin, who's running for governor

00:19:56.540 in New York against Kathy Hochul, but this is what Hochul and Democrats are talking about

00:20:00.840 doing.

00:20:01.220 And it's, as you know, that's why Lee Zeldin, the last general election poll we had, he

00:20:06.580 was in a dead heat with Kathy Hochul and there's been other polls that he's in a dead

00:20:09.760 heat and she's afraid of losing to him because it's not just crime.

00:20:13.920 It's not just high taxes, but it's also this kind of foolishness where in Pennsylvania,

00:20:19.720 they can drill for oil and gas, but in the Southern tier of New York, where they have

00:20:24.020 plenty of it, they're not allowed to.

00:20:26.740 And, uh, you know, so New York is a pain, a penalty, paying a penalty.

00:20:31.020 And the country is paying a penalty at large because we have, uh, Kathy Hochul's, uh, in

00:20:38.240 various other States as well. 1.00

00:20:39.940 We have California to match New York stupidity for stupidity after stupidity, uh, and deceit 1.00

00:20:47.300 after deceit, there is no way in the world that this transition that Biden is, uh, articulating 1.00

00:20:55.380 that could come to pass without any, a wrenching pain in the economy, dislocations of all sorts

00:21:03.960 as they try to accelerate toward a, an electrical nirvana without understanding all of that electricity

00:21:13.300 is being generated right now, not all of it, but most of it through fossil fuels.

00:21:19.900 Uh, and, and the madness goes on and on and the left is so captured by their own delusions

00:21:25.420 and their lies that they're perpetuating this, uh, this ignorance in the form of public policy.

00:21:32.640 It's, it's going to be a disaster, whether it's a disaster this year or right after the elections,

00:21:38.740 it will be a disaster.

00:21:41.780 It'd be interesting to see how they blame the blackouts they're going to have this year

00:21:45.240 on Trump.

00:21:47.240 And we know they will try, right?

00:21:50.120 But they will have in California.

00:21:52.180 I saw a report today.

00:21:53.340 It's like, so the pictures of the gas station, they're charging $8 a gallon for gas.

00:21:57.100 Yeah.

00:21:57.720 Yeah.

00:21:58.020 And, and middle classes leaving that state and, you know, New York city, by the way, there

00:22:02.660 was a report out today in New York that, uh, New York city, uh, um, over 300,000 people

00:22:08.540 left one in three were out of Manhattan and they've gone to the suburbs in New Jersey

00:22:12.720 because they can't afford to live in Manhattan.

00:22:14.600 They can't afford to live in Brooklyn and Queens, which is, you know, you know, the people

00:22:20.020 that are stuck there in California, New York, these other, you know, liberal bastions, they've

00:22:25.260 become the working class people and they're going to end up driving, you know, Hispanic 1.00

00:22:29.960 and African-American boats to the Republicans.

00:22:32.000 So, you know, that's great.

00:22:34.380 It is great.

00:22:34.880 And it's good for the, for the future of the country.

00:22:37.080 Uh, but right now, uh, the country is facing one threat after another, one danger after

00:22:46.080 another, this, this man in the white house is putting the entire, it's an X.

00:22:51.040 I believe his presidency is an existential threat to the survival of the Republic.

00:22:56.600 It's that straightforward.

00:22:57.620 Uh, and I can't see any way to think about it in any other terms because of all of the,

00:23:04.360 the madness that he is generating, the policies that are perverted, uh, and the outcomes that 0.96

00:23:10.680 are completely unexpected that result from that kind of moronic policymaking. 0.85

00:23:16.540 It's, uh, it's up to me. 0.99

00:23:18.760 It's disgusting.

00:23:19.400 I want to turn to now, uh, what you see, if I may, in, in the opportunity for the Republicans

00:23:28.540 right now, has it changed any, uh, and I know this is dependent by the way, on what we earlier

00:23:34.780 mentioned, and that is whether the elections are coming up with a new strategy, uh, to,

00:23:40.240 to decide this 2022 midterm election, but all things being equal and they never are.

00:23:47.440 So what, what do you see, uh, have things improved for the Republicans or is it too early to quantify?

00:23:54.280 No, it's actually improved.

00:23:55.660 The Democrats are desperate, desperate to change the subject, but, but as you know, we're,

00:23:59.720 we're known for polling in campaigns and we have, we, we have candidates that we work for

00:24:04.600 and I have candidates who are doing very well where, by the way, the generics last month,

00:24:10.360 when we took our national survey, it was 40, 48% Republican, 43% Democrat for generic unnamed

00:24:17.560 Republican for Congress versus an unnamed Democrat.

00:24:21.420 Um, that's a really bad sign for them because the 8% that was undecided also three quarters

00:24:28.780 thought the country was on the wrong track and the majority disapproved of Biden and Pelosi.

00:24:33.100 And so we would get five or six points out of the, out of the undecideds.

00:24:38.060 And all of a sudden you're at 52, 53%, 56, 4% of the vote nationally, which would be a

00:24:45.760 landslide where in Congress, we'd pick up 40, 50, maybe 60 seats if the Republicans don't

00:24:51.780 blow it by then.

00:24:52.900 But on the other hand, it's creating these opportunities where in the individual races,

00:24:56.600 uh, like we're working for Jim Lehman, who was a businessman in Arizona running for U S

00:25:01.880 Senate against Mark Kelly.

00:25:02.920 Now they had a unique situation with the border down there.

00:25:05.960 They're on the front and Arizona's want to shut that border. 0.98

00:25:09.720 And Jim Lehman's been endorsed by the border patrol union.

00:25:13.460 Um, and, and, but Brandon John and law enforcement down there, and he's come out of nowhere to be

00:25:19.740 leading in the Senate race over Blake masters and the attorney general, uh, Brnovich.

00:25:24.180 And, uh, uh, so he's doing well and, and he can beat, you know, uh, uh, more Kelly there.

00:25:30.420 Is he America first?

00:25:32.660 Oh, yes, absolutely.

00:25:34.040 He funded a lot of the, uh, a lot of the election challenges, uh, personally, because he's a

00:25:39.420 successful businessman who's, who's been out there supporting Republicans, but he supported, uh, uh,

00:25:45.480 a lot of the election challenges and, and, uh, a lot of the efforts to, uh, um, he absolutely

00:25:52.260 embraces the MAGA, uh, and president Trump has yet to endorse in that.

00:25:56.400 Uh, but we'll see.

00:25:57.740 And, um, but he's moved out of nowhere into first there.

00:26:01.340 And then, uh, I mentioned Lee Zeldin.

00:26:03.680 I worked for him in New York.

00:26:04.720 He, if he's running dead, even Kathy Hochul, and he's ahead in the primary, he's got 41%

00:26:09.340 of the vote as of last Wednesday versus Andrew Giuliani at 18, Rob Astorino at 17, Harry

00:26:16.360 Wilson at 13, and the primary is, uh, uh, the end of June, and Lee's been endorsed by

00:26:21.940 the Republican and conservative parties, and you need the conservative party to win in

00:26:26.060 New York.

00:26:26.900 Yeah.

00:26:27.180 Um, how good are his chances?

00:26:29.240 How good are his chances?

00:26:30.200 Because he's a, he's a, he's a good man.

00:26:32.200 Uh, he's served in Congress.

00:26:33.920 He's, uh, uh, uh, he's a, uh, a veteran.

00:26:37.780 Uh, yes.

00:26:39.340 He's an Iraq veteran and he's very principled.

00:26:43.160 He's got very good chances because if you combine the Republican conservative party and

00:26:47.320 also they filed for an independence party, he has a very good shot against Kathy Hochul

00:26:51.600 because she's been catering to the, the radical left and the socialists in her party, the AOC.

00:26:58.360 So she's, she's got a primary.

00:27:00.000 She's worried that she could lose to Javani Williams.

00:27:02.620 So she has refused to repeal cashless bail.

00:27:06.080 She's refused to fire Alvin Bragg, the DA in Manhattan, who doesn't enforce the law.

00:27:11.240 Um, and, and she's, she's basically enacting all these radical policies. 1.00

00:27:17.620 She's gone left.

00:27:18.660 I mean, she's gone left.

00:27:20.080 When she was a Congresswoman, she had an A rating from the NRA.

00:27:24.280 And today she, you know, she wants to ban guns for legal gun owners in New York, but she doesn't want to take the guns out of the criminals' hands and put them in jail. 0.97

00:27:34.860 I mean, there's no penalties for like committing a crime.

00:27:38.380 And, uh, it's sad, but in that tragic Buffalo shooting, the, uh, the, uh, the shooter had threatened to shoot up his school where he lived and nobody put this guy away.

00:27:50.360 I mean, he should, he needed mental health help and nobody took care of it.

00:27:53.900 And she's not looking into that.

00:27:55.420 So, uh, you know, uh, they want, they want to take guns.

00:27:58.680 They don't want to, they don't want to deal with the real issue here.

00:28:00.860 And the real issue folks is mental illness and how we're dealing with it.

00:28:05.760 Our public schools are a joke when it comes to security.

00:28:09.600 And that has to be fixed.

00:28:11.060 That's on the school districts.

00:28:12.900 It's on the public schools themselves.

00:28:15.320 There is no excuse to send $50 billion to Ukraine and not spend money to harden security at every school in the country.

00:28:25.780 It is just that simple.

00:28:27.920 And we should be spending a significant amount of money on our young people who, for whatever reason, this young man in, uh, in Texas, he had two parents who were convicted felons.

00:28:39.560 His grandfather was a convicted felon.

00:28:42.000 The, he had a history of mental illness, uh, and the school did nothing.

00:28:48.940 The teachers did nothing.

00:28:50.120 His family did nothing.

00:28:51.260 It's outrageous.

00:28:52.500 And we've got to do better than that for young people and for our society.

00:28:58.120 Absolutely.

00:28:59.160 Absolutely.

00:28:59.600 Absolutely.

00:29:00.220 But because of that, you've got situation, you know, uh, you've got situations where the Republicans, I'm working from, uh, Bob Stefan asking in Connecticut for governor against Lamont.

00:29:10.140 So he's in a dead heat, they're in a dead heat for governor, according to our, our, our internal polls.

00:29:16.180 And, uh, uh, you know, if all of a sudden you start winning races in New York and Connecticut, um, you're going to have this red wave across the country where, um, you know, it's, it's for the Democrats.

00:29:28.020 It's like, I don't work for them, but Adam Laxalt's ahead in Nevada in polls.

00:29:31.560 I've seen Maggie has Hassan in, in New Hampshire, the center up there, she's under 50 and, you know, the primary is not until later, but she could lose.

00:29:40.940 And then you've got, um, Herschel Walker won his primary decisively against Ralph Warnock in, uh, what was it, 65% or something?

00:29:50.960 He got it even more.

00:29:52.360 And with the Republican primary, now he'll face Ralph Warnock, who's really radical in Georgia.

00:29:57.520 And, uh, you know, if Herschel Walker gets, you know, he'll get over 70% of the, of the white vote, but then when he takes 15, 20% of the African-American vote, he'll win decisively. 0.83

00:30:10.860 And, and he's, you know, he, he's doing very well because it's, you know, they're trying to say, oh, he needs to bone up on this and all that kind of stuff.

00:30:17.960 No, there's a big difference between voting.

00:30:19.560 I mean, Warnock may know the ins and outs of government, but Herschel Walker is going to vote right and Warnock votes wrong.

00:30:28.980 So, uh, uh, by the way, I don't believe for a moment that Warnock knows anything about government.

00:30:35.520 Uh, he's not exactly a, a, an executive, uh, he's, uh, he, he's a, he's a Marxist when you get right to it.

00:30:44.340 And, uh, if that's, it's the people of Georgia, that's their choice, but I'll tell you, it's all, it's a choice.

00:30:50.040 Uh, I mean, it sickens me.

00:30:52.960 Yeah.

00:30:53.400 But I think you're seeing a rebellion in the heartland where it's, it's, it's coming, it's coming, it's showing its signs in, uh, in the Republican primaries where all of a sudden, you know, particularly open ones when you, in Georgia, we work for the, uh, the Republican majority in the house.

00:31:09.000 They changed the election law last year, finally, but they changed it, uh, when the governor, you know, the governor wouldn't call a special session, but when they went back into regular session, you know, you still have no excuse absentees.

00:31:22.760 You still have, uh, uh, early voting in the state.

00:31:26.820 No one was denied their civil rights, but you also have secure drop boxes that, that are being launched and you can't have ballot harvesting anymore.

00:31:35.240 And everybody, when they vote, whether it's absentee or in person, you need to have voter ID.

00:31:41.260 So what do you have down there?

00:31:42.660 You have record turnouts and the Republicans winning and Hershel Walker won big.

00:31:48.320 And, uh, uh, the turnout was up significantly over, uh, you know, four years ago.

00:31:54.240 So you're seeing this around the country where independents are coming into Republican primaries where they can to support Republican candidates.

00:32:02.560 You're seeing registered Republicans come out of record levels and the Democrats, there's no excitement there.

00:32:08.780 And they're going left.

00:32:10.260 I mean, Connor Lamb, who was a moderate in Pennsylvania, uh, for Seneca crushed two to one by Fetterman, who's a socialist.

00:32:17.640 So the Democrats are doubling down on their socialist left wing.

00:32:21.580 And like I mentioned, Kathy Ockel, when she was in Congress, she had an A rating for the NRA. 0.97

00:32:26.540 I was like, she's, she can't run faster. 0.97

00:32:29.880 I think, I think the word that president Obama used, uh, talking to media, the then president of, uh, of, uh, Russia was, he can be more flexible after the election.

00:32:42.000 Um, I love that flexibility in, in politicians.

00:32:45.020 Don't you, I just, they don't, they don't mean it.

00:32:48.280 Of course they don't mean it.

00:32:49.820 Mark Kelly, Mark Kelly will be for an open border.

00:32:52.160 I mean, Warnock's for an open border.

00:32:54.540 I mean, I mean, New York city, they want to have 800,000 non-citizens vote.

00:32:59.020 How does Mark Kelly get elected in a border state?

00:33:03.720 How he, he, he's, by the way, he's trying to say that they shouldn't back up on title 42, which is like the COVID protection.

00:33:11.140 But he can't, he can't run away from that issue.

00:33:14.940 And cause you got crime, you got, you got drugs coming in, you got people being threatened.

00:33:19.780 I mean, it's just, it's, it's, uh, I mean, it's a security issue for the United States and, and he's failed.

00:33:26.200 And, uh, you know, so you got somebody like Jim Lehman who, you know, was airborne army airborne in the, in the eighties where he defended the country.

00:33:35.080 And that, you know, since then he's, he totally sides with the border patrol and to, and once that border closed the wall built and he wants, uh, he wants us to be secure again.

00:33:45.120 And, and anybody who does not want our borders secure and our people safe, uh, and drugs stopped and sex trafficking ended human smuggling ended, you know, they're not Americans. 1.00

00:33:58.320 They're damn fools. 1.00

00:33:59.500 And, uh, we don't need to, we don't need that view. 1.00

00:34:02.580 We've got it permeating every part of the white house and Congress and the Senate.

00:34:08.880 This is sickening for me to watch for every American who cares about this country.

00:34:14.380 It is just sickening.

00:34:15.840 I want to ask you, Mike Lindell, we were talking about trying to get, uh, these elections secure Mike Lindell, who's working hard, as you know, to get rid of electronic voting, to, to replace what we're doing with paper ballots.

00:34:30.220 And by the way, he's got some great reasoning in it.

00:34:32.700 And I think, uh, I think what he's saying is right.

00:34:36.460 Um, and I think we should have people right now working to get to where he's, where he's speaking.

00:34:42.520 Uh, but in Alabama and Georgia, he says he has proof that the, the Democrats use the same tactics again in the primaries there.

00:34:52.100 Uh, and cheated.

00:34:53.640 Uh, and what do you think?

00:34:56.020 Well, I think in, in Georgia, they, uh, I, I, I'd be surprised in Georgia because nobody was complaining, you know, about their civil rights being denied and you had a record turnout and it was, and it was heavily on the Republican side.

00:35:10.500 The only one who was complaining was Stacey Abrams said, you know, you know, Georgia was a bad place to live, but she has multiple homes there now. 1.00

00:35:17.520 So she's getting ready to run for governor again. 1.00

00:35:20.140 But, um, but as far as, as far as the last election, absolutely.

00:35:25.280 Those, those, you had over 300,000, uh, Dropbox votes that were cast that you had no chain of custody records for that Mark Zuckerberg provided the grants and paid for the, you know, paid for them to be delivered.

00:35:39.620 I mean, let's just stop Mark Zuckerberg from doing it all over again.

00:35:44.200 Oh, by the way, they are, they are moving to other nonprofits and away from the ones he used last time.

00:35:50.240 And Mark Elias is, is outlining it.

00:35:52.280 And the Republicans were asleep.

00:35:53.920 It's a switch.

00:35:54.620 Like fortunately certain Republicans like Ken Paxton, who, who won his runoff in Texas.

00:36:00.120 Right.

00:36:00.600 He defended the law as the attorney general, the laws in Texas for, for honest voting, North Carolina, they fought the changes.

00:36:07.920 And, and, and president Trump won that Texas president Trump won Florida.

00:36:12.600 They have, you know, ballot watchers on the drop boxes and they monitor everybody can track their vote because they were embarrassed in 2000 and they fixed the laws and they improve the laws so that you have ballot integrity.

00:36:25.240 Even in New York state, the conservative party, we won, I was working for them.

00:36:31.780 We won three ballot propositions in November in a two to one election turnout for the Democrats where they still had their 50% statewide.

00:36:41.180 You had over 3 million votes.

00:36:42.480 It was the same day as the mayor's race in New York city.

00:36:44.740 And guess what New York has voted for?

00:36:46.680 They voted against the redistricting commission that was going to be partisan with the Democrats and prop one 56 to 44.

00:36:55.940 We won.

00:36:56.560 They were going to count illegals in counting the, and just, you know, deciding the new districts.

00:37:02.920 Proposition three was same day voter registration in a state that does not allow their inspectors to ask for voter ID.

00:37:09.820 We won that 58 to 42 and in a state, in a state that what, uh, they don't, New York does not allow the election inspectors to ask for voter identification.

00:37:21.480 All they do is verify your signature.

00:37:23.720 The little old ladies are very nice people. 1.00

00:37:25.900 Nice gentlemen.

00:37:26.720 They, they work the election polls and all they have, all you have to do is sign and they look at it and say, Oh, I guess it's you.

00:37:32.780 So that's a very, and it's like, but the Democrats wanted same day voter registration.

00:37:37.900 The last time you had stuff like that, you had, or even they never had it legal, but we've had felons go around and registered.

00:37:46.280 It's like 200 felons registered thousands of times in the Bronx during a primary.

00:37:50.960 Well, the Marxist Dem leadership of the democratic party, they're driving it.

00:37:56.160 Yeah.

00:37:56.280 And they wanted same day absentee ballots, uh, not absentees, not same day absentee, no excuse absentees.

00:38:03.040 So you could go to a portal, apply for a ballot so they could do ballot harvesting.

00:38:07.460 And the voters in New York voted that down 56 to 44 because of the conservative party stood up to them, which allowed us to win the redistricting case this year that the Republicans and the conservative party saw it.

00:38:21.900 And instead of being cut from 27, you know, eight Republicans to four out of the 27, now we only got 26.

00:38:29.620 We lost the seat because we lose population.

00:38:31.900 There's 12 competitive congressional races in New York, more so than any state.

00:38:36.940 Plus they had to redraw the state Senate lines because of Democrat partisan gerrymandering.

00:38:42.020 So for publicans fight, we win, but you know, the Democrats laid out David Plouffe, who was Obama's campaign manager, laid this out in 2020.

00:38:50.440 He had, he had a book that he published in March before the pandemic, where he says the citizen's guide to defeat Donald Trump.

00:38:57.100 They were going to register more Hillary Clinton type of voters in a handful of counties that decided the swing states. 0.98

00:39:04.520 And then they were going to make it easier for people to vote, which they did on this drop boxes and ballot harvesting.

00:39:11.240 Well, if people don't have the sense to get rid of drop boxes and just clean this thing up, by the way, it's not going to happen because of anything the Republican Party does.

00:39:22.640 I will say it again. 0.96

00:39:24.200 Ronald McDaniel and the NRC are useless. 0.98

00:39:27.080 They're not even very good fundraisers, truth be told. 0.95

00:39:29.880 But they sure as hell don't know anything about politics and can't play at a level, anything approaching the level that the Democrats, the Democratic National Committee and their law firms play at.

00:39:44.400 Do you disagree?

00:39:46.220 I don't.

00:39:46.660 I have.

00:39:47.520 Unfortunately, I have to agree because a lot of the conservative nonprofits have had to go into this space because, I mean, there's two complaints should have been filed by the RNC.

00:39:58.840 One is they should have filed a complaint against Mark Zuckerberg for the $400 million he spent with the IRS.

00:40:06.200 It was tax-exempt money.

00:40:08.760 He didn't pay taxes on that money.

00:40:10.280 He had a C3 nonprofit.

00:40:12.220 He got a tax deduction for that money to undermine President Trump.

00:40:16.140 Sure.

00:40:16.340 And nobody's filed a complaint with the IRS that that was partisan money and basically it was funding a partisan effort.

00:40:23.760 It should not be tax-exempt.

00:40:24.920 The second thing was there should have been an FEC complaint because what they did was highly partisan and it should have been counted towards whatever Biden was doing, et cetera.

00:40:35.940 And they proved it in Wisconsin.

00:40:37.840 They proved it in Georgia.

00:40:39.340 I mean, the drop boxes are all in Democrat areas that they had.

00:40:42.180 And they're coming back and they're trying to do it again.

00:40:44.740 In Georgia, because they now have secure drop boxes in a government building that are being watched, that you can only put in one ballot, not hundreds of ballots by the same people.

00:40:54.940 In Georgia, the Democrats are suing to get the drop boxes out of the government offices because they say it's hard for handicapped people to get to the drop box.

00:41:05.060 Sure.

00:41:05.600 I mean, all these government buildings are mandated to have handicapped access.

00:41:10.980 So it's like it's just.

00:41:13.300 And the list, I mean, it just goes on and on.

00:41:16.320 And it's one thing to vote Republican.

00:41:18.420 It may be another thing to have the strength to be a Republican with this kind of leadership in the RNC.

00:41:25.340 I, you know, I think Ronna McDaniel is an extremely nice person.

00:41:29.280 I think she's a rhino. 1.00

00:41:31.100 I think she's indifferent.

00:41:32.420 And I think she isn't enough of a fighter to amount to much. 1.00

00:41:36.040 And it's time for real leadership.

00:41:37.700 And this president made a huge mistake when he permitted her to stay as the chair of the RNC.

00:41:43.880 And he will chew me good for that.

00:41:48.840 You know what?

00:41:49.700 So be it.

00:41:50.420 I mean, that's the truth.

00:41:51.420 And that's a fact.

00:41:52.460 And the country depends on getting rid of these rhinos. 0.94

00:41:56.820 I mean, the Republican Party can't stomach much more of this nonsense. 0.60

00:42:00.040 We just have to.

00:42:00.660 We just have to fight harder.

00:42:01.980 I mean, this is like those of us.

00:42:04.140 I grew up in New York.

00:42:05.320 And it's like, if you tell me the Democrats don't cheat in elections, I'm like, you've got to be kidding me.

00:42:10.380 It's like.

00:42:11.280 So it's one of those things where it's one of those things where my friend Pat Cadell, the light gray pollster, who worked for President Trump.

00:42:20.020 And also years ago, worked for Jimmy Carter.

00:42:22.580 He had a saying. 1.00

00:42:23.400 He said, the Democrats are the crooked party and the Republicans are the stupid party. 1.00

00:42:29.500 And we need to stop stupid right now. 1.00

00:42:33.020 I want to just close with a very, I just a really bright note, if I may. 0.98

00:42:40.000 You may not have heard this, but President Biden has acknowledged some responsibility in the White House for runaway inflation and for the mistakes that have been made.

00:42:53.100 And he's very upset, of course, about being corrected all the time.

00:42:56.920 But you'll be pleased to know that the president is actually now blaming his staff for high inflation, 40 year high inflation.

00:43:06.360 He's now landed on his own his own staff in the White House.

00:43:11.980 And by the way, you know, he's right.

00:43:15.100 He could be more right by starting with the very top, though, at the White House.

00:43:19.240 But he for some reason gave himself a bit of a pass.

00:43:22.780 But I thought you would be mightily encouraged is with our audience to learn that Biden finally taking some form of responsibility for runaway hyperinflation.

00:43:33.240 You get the last word here, John McLaughlin, as usual.

00:43:36.100 Well, the untold story is that they don't balance the budget anymore.

00:43:42.040 And in his first year in office, he raised the national debt from twenty one trillion dollars to thirty trillion.

00:43:50.300 And so every American has to now pay more of that in taxes over time.

00:43:56.980 And the budget he put in over time raises our national debt to forty five trillion.

00:44:04.160 This money doesn't exist.

00:44:06.100 So the dollar is going to continue to sink.

00:44:08.960 Our standard of living is going to continue to sink.

00:44:11.400 And the dollar may not be the international currency because of Joe Biden, because China or cryptocurrency or the Russian ruble may be more.

00:44:22.520 And the damage he is doing, putting every listener on this on this podcast and every American on the hook for this increased national debt is ridiculous.

00:44:33.700 And until he stops that and goes back to a balanced budget, which he can't because they're spending too much.

00:44:39.680 Yeah, that's that's not in the cards.

00:44:41.700 It's not going to end.

00:44:42.660 And and the only way we're going to change it is to is to vote them out in December or November, pardon me, November in November.

00:44:51.020 And then in December, we've got to start coming up with the plans to restore fiscal discipline and basically protect American standard of living in the dollar.

00:45:00.520 You know, you know, there's only one leader who could do that, too.

00:45:04.240 Boy, number forty seven has a ring to it, doesn't it?

00:45:07.580 It certainly does.

00:45:08.860 And the buyer's remorse is growing.

00:45:11.520 But anyway, I do want to thank you, John McLaughlin, for being with us.

00:45:16.480 Appreciate it.

00:45:17.100 As always, a fascinating talk.

00:45:19.460 Thanks so much, John.

00:45:20.680 God bless you.

00:45:21.500 Appreciate it.

00:45:22.600 Lou, thank you.

00:45:23.260 And thanks for thanks for getting the truth out.

00:45:26.420 Thanks, everybody, for being with us today.

00:45:28.420 Tomorrow, our guest will be the dean of political strategists in this country, Republican strategist Ed Rollins.

00:45:35.020 Among his legendary accomplishments, leading the 1984 Ronald Reagan presidential campaign to an overwhelming landslide victory, winning 49 of 50 states in that election.

00:45:49.260 That's one of the reasons we call Ed the savant of presidential politics.

00:45:54.000 Here tomorrow, hope you'll be with us.

00:45:57.020 Until then, God bless you and God bless America.

The Great America Show - June 10, 2022

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