The Great America Show - July 28, 2026


WOW! New Polling REVEALS What the American People REALLY WANT!


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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 another
00:00:06.060 beautiful day america thanks so much for being with us tonight live from the great america show
00:00:10.640 damage control is being done in the u.s senate by none other than john thune yeah he's talking
00:00:18.700 about the save america act all that good stuff but not giving us a solution it gives us a problem
00:00:25.720 but no solution. He is supposed to be the solution. He's supposed to be the fixer
00:00:29.700 to the problem. Here's what good old Senate Majority Leader John Thune had to say
00:00:34.440 about the filibuster and his damage control run. He's got a lot on his wish list. He does. I mean,
00:00:40.840 the main thing he wants, Sean, as you know, is the Save America Act. And that is something where
00:00:45.660 I, like I said, we've had multiple votes on it now. Not a single Democrat has voted for it. I
00:00:50.700 think we continue to put them on the record, but we've had five different votes on it already.
00:00:55.140 if we can get a chance to vote on it again, the best way to do that would be in a budget
00:00:58.760 reconciliation bill. And that would enable us not only to do, to get a vote on that in some form,
00:01:03.300 it's not going to be everything the president wants, but also do something with the military
00:01:07.380 where we desperately need to ensure that our military has everything they need to deter and
00:01:12.440 defend our country and particularly with what's going on in the Middle East right now. And there's
00:01:17.500 some stuff in there for agriculture. It's a bill the House passed and it's no easy feat. The Senate,
00:01:22.120 We don't have 50 votes for it today, but hopefully we can get there.
00:01:25.440 Getting rid of the filibuster, non-starter, you don't have the votes?
00:01:28.600 Well, we don't.
00:01:29.340 And I've actually told, I've had this conversation with the president many times, I think, as you know.
00:01:33.380 And I actually suggested at one point that his team come up and sit down and visit with some of my colleagues.
00:01:38.940 So they came up, met with about 20 Republican senators and 15 were no on getting rid of the filibuster.
00:01:45.780 The votes aren't there to do it.
00:01:47.040 I know he thinks he can persuade people, but there are a lot of folks who are very this is a this is a hard position for a lot of Senate Republicans.
00:01:56.940 What is your job as Senate majority leader if you're not like the number one whip in the world?
00:02:02.980 Why are you in that position if you have no interest in whipping up votes?
00:02:07.760 Who the hell does he think he is calling for the president to come to Capitol Hill to whip votes?
00:02:11.500 I think it's time for President Trump to tell John Thune that his stay has been overextended and it's time for him to be on his merry way.
00:02:21.380 I just don't get who this guy thinks he is and who he thinks he's talking to and what shots he thinks he's calling.
00:02:29.120 He works for President Trump.
00:02:30.680 He works for the American people.
00:02:33.020 President Trump doesn't work for him.
00:02:34.500 And those 15 people who don't want to lift the filibuster, release the names.
00:02:40.120 Tell us who they are.
00:02:42.180 No more of the secrecy BS, where everything's done behind closed doors.
00:02:47.060 You're not to know who voted for him as majority leader.
00:02:50.040 You're not to know who's not in favor of lefty.
00:02:53.200 Tell us.
00:02:54.000 Let the American people know.
00:02:55.560 We'll put the pressure on.
00:02:57.320 You have a problem with lobbying?
00:02:58.440 You have a problem with doing your job?
00:02:59.600 Let us know.
00:03:01.940 We'll ring the phones off the hook, as we have been doing for the last two years.
00:03:06.880 Tell us, unless you're, of course, lying.
00:03:09.120 unless of course you're not telling the truth unless of course you're not doing your job which
00:03:14.080 is of course very plausible things as expected from you the guy's a joke and i think he's really
00:03:25.320 i've said this many times overstayed his welcome he doesn't want to do his job he doesn't respect
00:03:32.740 president trump he doesn't respect maga and we're going to be taking this up in just a few moments
00:03:36.760 by President Trump's pollster, John McLaughlin,
00:03:39.960 among many other issues facing this country right now.
00:03:44.220 This will be one of them we're going to talk about with John.
00:03:48.080 I think we've all, as Americans, as patriots,
00:03:52.440 had enough of John Thune and his Mitch McConnell-like ways.
00:03:58.060 A lot of people in Washington, D.C. don't do their job.
00:04:00.400 We don't need another one.
00:04:01.540 But one person, we could tell you,
00:04:04.200 who I think is probably one of my favorite people
00:04:06.760 Top three cabinet picks by President Trump.
00:04:10.740 Health and Human Services Secretary RFK dropping a huge bombshell last night.
00:04:16.060 It's days after former White House COVID advisor Dr. Anthony Fouts' private thoughts during the COVID pandemic were revealed to the entire world.
00:04:24.480 The wicked doctor hit a life-threatening complication after publicly taking the COVID shot?
00:04:31.840 That's right.
00:04:32.100 Now, just a few years ago, you couldn't talk about this, by the way.
00:04:35.300 If you spoke about this on any podcast streaming platform or anything like that, you were immediately censored as COVID disinformation.
00:04:44.840 If we could thank President Trump, among the many other things, the freedom of speech has been restored in America under President Trump because of these outlets knowing they can't get away with doing what they've once done to us.
00:04:56.500 Anyway, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the guy who said stay six feet away, made everything up as he went along,
00:05:04.400 apparently was deathly sick after taking the vaccine. Take a listen.
00:05:08.080 There's this massive dichotomy between what he was saying privately and what he was simultaneously saying publicly.
00:05:17.160 He says in his diaries on January 30th that the Wuhan lab could not possibly be the source of the virus.
00:05:25.860 Oh, we know that was all. Well, we all know it. But now his diary, he says he knew that.
00:05:31.860 And yet for two years, he told us that he was given. He was given a pardon, prospectively, from the last administration.
00:05:39.580 We don't know if it was an auto pen pardon. It doesn't really matter for legality purposes.
00:05:44.520 But Americans want to know a lot of them. Is there going to be any accountability for trillions of dollars lost,
00:05:51.600 children's education destroyed and public health reputation and public health industry reputation
00:05:57.760 shattered. Yeah. And millions of people injured. You know, he lied about mass. He lied about social
00:06:04.920 distancing. He lied about the transmission. He lied about natural immunity. He lied about the
00:06:11.080 capacity, as you just said, of the vaccine to prevent infection. He got vaccinated. I'm very,
00:06:19.860 very public uh press conference in january of 2020 and then five months later he had and this
00:06:28.840 the first time that we knew this from the diary he had a pulmonary infarction which is one of the
00:06:35.720 adverse events that nih cdc and fda said are expected from the vaccine he never told anybody
00:06:43.560 he got treated for it privately by the best doctors in america at the same time he was telling
00:06:49.160 everybody that that was not an adverse event is there anything else we're missing from these
00:06:53.260 diaries that has not been released that you can share with us tonight i don't think i mean i have
00:07:00.280 to say a lot of this stuff is in my book um and but based upon other documents but there is something
00:07:07.740 very dramatic even for me of seeing him write it in his own in his own journal confessing to
00:07:16.600 you know being wrong to lying about also loving his own press i mean they're going on and i will
00:07:23.000 i'm the most imagine that talk about a sociopath deathly sick from the the woo flu shot as he's
00:07:32.920 out here pushing it on everyone else must have made a lot of money for selling those shots at
00:07:37.820 least allegedly turning now to some foreign policy polling out today turns out the american people
00:07:45.920 trust president trump on iran figure that one out a lot of people out there on twitter telling you
00:07:54.120 don't don't believe it don't believe it let's take a listen in on how cnn says the voters feel
00:08:01.120 about president trump and what he decides to do with iran so you think that democrats or you might
00:08:06.580 think the democrats in congress could see some kind of boost in the polls on this subject you
00:08:12.320 You might think that, but you'd be wrong with us this morning.
00:08:16.080 Seeing a chief dad, Elena, Aunt Dominic.
00:08:18.000 Whatever, man.
00:08:18.980 I'm tongue-tied because actually these numbers surprised me.
00:08:21.580 I was looking at them, and I am surprised that they are like this.
00:08:24.900 So who do the voters say they trust on Iran? 0.51
00:08:28.060 Johnny B is not the only one who's surprised.
00:08:30.380 You would be looking at all the news coverage.
00:08:32.560 You'd be looking at all the polling on President Trump.
00:08:34.260 And you would think that Democrats would be able to take advantage and be dominating Republicans
00:08:38.280 when it comes to who is trusted to handle the Iran war.
00:08:41.540 That, simply put, is not the case at all.
00:08:43.920 I mean, these numbers are quite surprising.
00:08:45.660 Trust Dems or Republicans on Iran.
00:08:47.360 According to CNBC earlier this month, you'd think, okay, that's one poll.
00:08:50.200 The Republicans trust it by two points.
00:08:51.460 But then CBS News comes out yesterday, and what do you see?
00:08:54.540 You see the exact same thing.
00:08:57.080 Trump and the Republicans take the cake.
00:08:58.900 They are trusted by two points on Iran.
00:09:00.740 Now, one poll is one thing, but you put the two of them together,
00:09:03.460 and you can see that the American people, simply put, are not buying what Democrats are selling on Iran.
00:09:09.280 They still trust Republicans more.
00:09:11.140 Even if you look at President Trump's approval ratings on the subject, and they're negative too, but yet Republicans and Trump still more trusted than Democrats are in Iran.
00:09:19.280 Has there been any change over time with that?
00:09:20.880 No, and this is even more surprising, right?
00:09:22.980 You might think, okay, as the war has gone on and on and on, you might think, hey, the Democrats would be gaining ground in terms of trust that the American people would give them on Iran.
00:09:32.800 If anything, it's the opposite.
00:09:34.900 It's the opposite. 0.64
00:09:35.600 Trust Democrats or Republicans more in Iran.
00:09:37.160 In April, according to a Washington Post-Ipsos poll, the Democrats were more trusted by two points.
00:09:41.740 Again, close margin, no clear leader.
00:09:43.500 But look where the shift has been.
00:09:44.820 If anything, the shift has been in the Republican direction.
00:09:48.900 Now the Republicans and Donald Trump are trusted more by two points on the run.
00:09:53.500 So, again, over the course of the war of anything, the Republicans have been the ones that have been gaining ground, which I think just goes so up.
00:10:02.920 You hear that panic?
00:10:03.960 And you hear that, Democrats? 0.97
00:10:05.140 it's all those trolls on twitter
00:10:07.720 take a listen to the polling
00:10:11.520 because it's when it fits your narrative
00:10:15.540 you look at it one way and when it doesn't fit your narrative
00:10:17.580 you look at it another we're going to take a quick break here
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00:10:27.540 of this quick break we're going to be told
00:10:28.640 joined by pre-eminent pollster
00:10:31.780 one of president trump's
00:10:33.320 longtime confidants and friends and pollsters and a pollster to many many others john mclaughlin
00:10:41.040 he's going to break down his latest monthly numbers on what people think about the iran war
00:10:46.320 the save america act congressional general generic ballot midterm elections we're taking it all up
00:10:53.080 on the other side of this quick break so don't turn that dial we're coming right back please stay with
00:10:56.540 us. Joining us now, folks, as promised, John McLaughlin. John, it's been a while. It's
00:11:07.360 terrific to have you back here on the show. I want to get to some of your numbers. I was going over
00:11:12.960 your polling. You put out your M&A every single month. But this month, I found it particularly
00:11:18.700 alarming. 55% of the American people believe this country is on the wrong track. Talk to me.
00:11:28.180 Well, actually, you know, it's a lot better than when Biden was president, where it was much higher.
00:11:34.500 And the difference is when you look at the direction in the country right now,
00:11:38.040 if you're a Republican, you say right direction, 70 to 20. So you got Democrats saying wrong track,
00:11:43.360 79-17. Independence, that's the key. 69-22. And the ones who are undecided for the House,
00:11:49.540 55-12. But also in the lower right-hand corner of this slide that you've got on the screen,
00:11:56.020 if they're in four or ten people that get right-of-center news,
00:11:59.600 pardon me, Fox News, Newsmax, listen to your podcast, I would say it's fair. You say right
00:12:08.980 direction, 6826. They hear that the economy is growing, inflation is being reduced, the border
00:12:14.160 is secure. They're hearing that strong things, positive things about America. If they're in
00:12:21.940 left of center news, which is CNN, they consume CNN, MSNBC, et cetera, they say we're on track
00:12:29.460 7325 because there's nothing that Donald Trump can do right that they agree with. If they don't
00:12:35.220 watch cable or they don't get news regular news sources and that's about three and ten voters
00:12:40.100 because there's a little overlap between left and right that they go to different different news
00:12:46.060 sources but if they don't watch cable regularly and they just really an entertainment kind of
00:12:52.440 sports and you know whatever entertainment you like to watch yes no but they say the
00:13:00.540 countries on the road track 7221 so where they get information really matters because there's a
00:13:08.080 there was a question that i had last month in the june survey at mclaughlin online we put it up
00:13:13.260 we're 51 and what we asked was from what you've read or heard read or seen do you uh uh you know
00:13:21.020 support or oppose the ceasefire agreement that president trump uh got with iran and only 5134
00:13:28.560 they supported it. And what it was, was if they went to left of center news, they disapproved the
00:13:35.840 ceasefire. And so here you are, the left of center news people who oppose, you know, stopping Iran 0.54
00:13:41.740 from getting nuclear weapons. At the same time, they're opposing a ceasefire. And you know what
00:13:46.720 it's all about? Donald Trump. America is totally polarized. In this survey, he has a 49 approval
00:13:52.180 rating. He's got a 47 disapproved. And everything is polarized in America, whether you like Donald
00:13:57.980 trump or whether you're not whether you don't like him and that's the way the mainstream media
00:14:03.720 the legacy media views them and that's what we were up against in the campaign and uh you know
00:14:08.940 now we're back into those into those modes so so you mentioned the midterms which are
00:14:14.720 those are people who don't work in elections and ever worked in elections and really
00:14:18.980 and i've been saying this john there's really like maybe a month to the midterm elections right
00:14:23.900 because we're we're in August pretty much now. People don't pay attention to what goes on in
00:14:28.260 August. And then the first two weeks of September are pretty much lost because kids are going back
00:14:31.680 to school and whatnot. So you've really got about a month and change till the midterm elections.
00:14:37.120 And you've got the general ballot at this is as tight as I've seen any pollster have it. So I
00:14:42.160 want to get your sense on this at forty four, forty four, forty six in a slight favor for the
00:14:48.520 Democrats. There's been pollsters who are saying it's at 11 to 15 points, which I don't believe
00:14:55.020 at a two point spread right here. I think it's probably in the margin of error favoring the
00:14:59.680 Republicans right now. Well, it's it's a thousand. Our poll is done of a thousand likely voters
00:15:05.060 nationwide. We do it every month consistently. We model it after after national turnout. So it
00:15:11.420 matches up with ironically, it'll match up with the CNN exit polls from 2024. It's the one poll
00:15:17.640 they can't get wrong. But the big difference is these other media polls, you got to read the
00:15:25.400 fine print. When they say adults, that means they're not even registered voters. They could
00:15:29.500 be illegal immigrants. Adults, and then you have registered voters. Well, not every voter votes, 0.89
00:15:37.180 particularly in midterms, because you had 155 million people go to the polls in 2024.
00:15:42.600 in 2018 uh trump's midterm during his first term 118 million people voted in 2022 only 112 million
00:15:52.700 people voted which was up from you know previous midterms but that's you know that's a significant
00:16:00.400 uh downturn and turnout you know because you look at the president trump's not on the ballot
00:16:05.860 and trump has a 49 approval on this and the republicans are only getting 44 so there's a
00:16:11.480 five-point gap and what you're also seeing is the republicans aren't getting it done in a lot of
00:16:16.980 ways where where they don't have a message but trump's bringing them together for a midterm
00:16:21.840 convention in dallas the beginning of september and what you're talking about where you know when
00:16:28.020 you say oh you really got a month well you're right because in september and october a lot of
00:16:33.980 states start voting early and and guess what the united states senate hasn't gotten around to
00:16:40.340 passing the Save America Act, even though in this current poll, 84 percent of all voters support
00:16:47.300 proof of citizenship to vote and 77 percent support photo ID in order to vote. So, you know,
00:16:55.640 you've got people are going to start voting, you know, in September and October in different states,
00:17:00.800 whatever their rules are, respectively. And by the time Election Day rolls around on November 3rd,
00:17:07.760 A lot of votes are going to be cast, just like they were in the presidential race.
00:17:11.580 Let's talk about the Save America Act, because you did some polling on that as well.
00:17:16.160 And we'll have it up here on the screen.
00:17:18.200 Fifty six percent of the people that you polled say which of the following statement do more closely align with.
00:17:25.840 The United States Senate should continue to work to pass the bill before this year's election or the United States Senate should give up on passing this bill.
00:17:32.920 Fifty six percent say they should work.
00:17:35.020 So there's a problem. And I think the problem is, is John, not me, not you, but John Thune.
00:17:41.720 And he's sort of got this FU attitude about him when it comes to President Trump.
00:17:46.580 It seems to me he has no respect for President Trump or the office of presidency, going back and forth with Caroline Levitt, telling them they're the ones who are supposed to be lobbying.
00:17:54.860 I mean, John, you've been in this business for a really long time.
00:17:57.740 His job is essentially to be the greatest lobbyist of all time and the second greatest fundraiser of all time to Mike Johnson.
00:18:05.400 That's why you're the majority leader. He's out here saying, well, you want the votes, you go get them.
00:18:10.160 Why is President Trump putting up with him?
00:18:13.040 Well, well, John, by the way, I've known John, but in 1996, John ran for Congress and we were losing the primary two to one.
00:18:20.360 And we ended up winning it two to one because he stood against tax hikes.
00:18:24.180 His opponent was for tax hikes.
00:18:25.980 And he was for term limits.
00:18:28.760 His opponent opposed term limits.
00:18:31.180 What year was that?
00:18:33.140 1996.
00:18:34.160 That was for Congress.
00:18:35.080 I guess the term limit thing didn't work out.
00:18:37.320 So, by the way, I once had a congressman, Pete King, from Long Island,
00:18:41.280 served 28 years in Congress.
00:18:43.360 And when I asked him in 1992, I said, where do you stand on term limits?
00:18:46.360 He says, I support them and I'll and I'll stay in Washington as long as it takes to get him passed.
00:18:52.760 He didn't keep his word. They didn't get it passed.
00:18:56.140 But the and he left. He retired.
00:18:58.520 But but but to your point, that question is really important because the majority of Americans want them to continue to work to pass the Save America Act.
00:19:06.940 And here you got 78 percent, 56 percent strongly agree that voters should be required to show photo ID when they cast a ballot.
00:19:18.080 And it's a big number. It's not a little number. It's a big number.
00:19:22.060 And last, well, back in May, we asked, should they pass the Save America Act or should they work to protect the filibuster?
00:19:34.580 only 28 percent of all voters said protect the filibuster 56 percent said pass the save america
00:19:40.680 act because they want fair elections you want election integrity americans know this there's
00:19:46.000 there's things going on that enable fraud and it's it's basically you want to say it's legalized
00:19:52.500 corruption but it's not really legalized it's allowed so in new york state when you when i go
00:19:57.800 to vote if you bring out your voter id they'll tell you put it back and you don't have to show
00:20:02.740 and you just have to sign on some electronic thing.
00:20:05.700 Do you ever sign those credit card things electronically with an electronic pen?
00:20:09.880 How do you know it's your signature?
00:20:11.220 They have no idea. 1.00
00:20:12.880 It's like these poor little old ladies that sit in the elections all day, 1.00
00:20:19.400 these nice people have to deal with that. 1.00
00:20:21.700 They don't know if somebody's a citizen or not.
00:20:23.840 In New Jersey, you just have, what, 6,000 illegal immigrants who are registered to vote.
00:20:29.220 6,000.
00:20:30.500 That's they've found so far.
00:20:31.940 yeah and the governor blamed it on trump she's great i mean it's just it's just but then in in
00:20:39.780 new york you have the motor voter law so motor voter uh you have you have green light uh licenses
00:20:47.000 so if you're no legal immigrant and you get a green light license you're put on the voter rolls
00:20:53.500 unless you decline that's such a joke yeah and they won't give the list to the clerks
00:20:59.840 the county clerks or the town clerks to purge the illegal immigrants so uh yeah i mean it's
00:21:06.160 kathy hochel's uh uh voter integrity plan for yeah i mean i mean i'm working for bruce blakeman and
00:21:13.660 bruce blakeman's doing great and uh we had a poll he was in nine within nine early march and now
00:21:19.200 he's there was a poll uh the early part of this month where uh the end of june where a coefficient
00:21:24.780 had him down six so so yeah she's got very high negatives taxes are too high utility bills are
00:21:31.080 too high crime is out of control i mean people are getting i have to see him up yeah i have to
00:21:38.140 see him i'm donnie win john i've lost so much hope for new york i mean if they voted this guy in it's
00:21:42.220 like i don't know how the hell do you get bruce blakeman across the i mean it would be amazing
00:21:46.420 it would be a godsend if you could but it's just it's so hard in such a place i don't know if you
00:21:51.740 also saw New Jersey, 77,000 people, John, were put on jury duty, illegals. I think it was 70,000
00:21:59.260 was the number to put on jury duty. People who don't know the laws of this country, don't know
00:22:03.300 the Constitution, don't know anything. Everything President Trump has spoken about for the last 10
00:22:07.320 years has in one way, shape or form come true. Now, there are people who have taken issue with
00:22:13.180 this so far. Let me ask you this. What, in your opinion, has changed from this election
00:22:18.120 coming up in the midterms, election integrity-wise, than what we saw in 2024, 2020, and 2016?
00:22:26.960 Well, I think, well, first of all, President Trump has really pushed hard for the Save
00:22:31.500 America Act.
00:22:32.620 Yeah, for sure.
00:22:33.560 And he's pushed hard for it.
00:22:34.960 So that's changed, because no one was pushing before.
00:22:37.380 Every state was allowed to do their own thing.
00:22:39.240 And when Democrats took over a state, they basically would have quietly abolished voter
00:22:44.080 ID, and they would change the laws to allow same-day registration, ballot harvesting.
00:22:50.940 And, you know, I mean, Steve Hilton appears to be a great guy running for governor, but
00:22:56.700 with that ballot harvesting law and same-day registration, I mean, they just, Spencer Pratt
00:23:02.280 obviously had made the runoff to run against Karen Bass, who's extremely unpopular.
00:23:09.240 But we had done some polling the week before for the California Post and Spencer, among Democrats, which are two thirds of L.A., Karen Bass was leading only 40 to 32 against Rahman.
00:23:22.440 But every but the batches of ballots that came in after Election Day that were counted after Election Day in L.A., Rahman was leading Bass so that she could play second.
00:23:34.720 They did not they did not want Spencer Pratt against Bass one on one because they were afraid they were afraid she could lose because she had a two thirds disapproval rating.
00:23:44.040 And they so, you know, and the Republicans, they don't do an audit.
00:23:49.120 It's really easy. All you got to do is you got to get some got to get some, you know, forensic analysts, maybe some private investigators do an audit of the ballots.
00:23:58.780 Just a sample of the ballots who voted for Rahman that came in after election day.
00:24:04.080 You get the copies of those, you know, get the ballots that came in.
00:24:08.000 You won't know who voted for who, but you'll know, you know, I would know that if John Fawcett voted, his ballot was counted after Election Day.
00:24:17.160 I won't know who you voted for, but I would know that you voted.
00:24:21.200 So I could go back and check that you voted.
00:24:23.680 So what governor, what mayor, what legislator, what judge, John, is going to allow that to happen in California?
00:24:31.740 Oh, they don't have to allow it.
00:24:33.380 federal judge you have to you have to well what would happen is a federal judge should but what
00:24:39.180 there's no judge involved right now you get the list you check the ballots that were counted after
00:24:44.260 election day if they don't give it then you got to go sue for it and then you look at them and
00:24:48.360 you just take a sample of a few thousand and if the people don't exist if the people's or if they
00:24:54.760 say they did not cast a ballot they chose not to vote say some of them were in that that fire in
00:24:59.760 l.a say their home burned down say they're not physically there say so they were all mail ballots
00:25:04.860 but if they say i didn't cast a ballot that means somebody did it for them that means there's fraud
00:25:09.980 so tom's been working on this i think for like 15 you know tom for like 15 years i mean he sued
00:25:16.840 and he sued i don't even know how many millions of dollars judicial watches spent getting voter
00:25:21.620 rolls and literally proving john these people are dead i lou dobbs had a story when he was back at
00:25:28.380 fox john about a cat voting in a pennsylvania election and laugh at it and it's like i remember
00:25:34.820 that yeah this stuff is true and it's like we could talk about it john we could do it but
00:25:41.640 when push comes to shove the republicans don't ever want to talk about it they don't ever want
00:25:45.180 to do anything about it you've got john thun in the senate who can't push forward a bill that
00:25:49.460 president trump has begged for i mean lobbied for uh i think pretty unprecedented for a president
00:25:55.260 to have to go to Capitol Hill to friggin' lobby for a bill.
00:25:57.780 It's what his people in Congress are for.
00:26:01.060 It's just been a total mess.
00:26:02.400 The filibuster, Thune won't get rid of filibuster.
00:26:05.320 As soon as the Democrats take over, it doesn't look like this time, hopefully,
00:26:08.400 but, you know, 2028, there's a lot of Republican seats open, John,
00:26:11.880 and they may get it then.
00:26:13.900 It's a mess.
00:26:15.660 Yeah, yeah.
00:26:16.600 No, it's definitely, I mean, but what has changed?
00:26:22.420 Donald Trump's president.
00:26:23.860 Donald Trump's pushing for it.
00:26:25.260 And in states like, you know, remember Georgia in 2022, they changed the election law.
00:26:32.840 My client, the late David Ralston, who was the speaker at the time, pushed a bill through so that you have to have voter ID when you vote early by mail, when you vote early in person, when you vote on election day, or if you vote via Dropbox.
00:26:47.060 And the drop boxes he put inside government buildings and spread around around the state so that they were not exposed to.
00:26:54.520 And you can only cast a ballot for one person, just yourself, a ballot artist.
00:26:58.940 So so the Zuckerberg drop boxes were eliminated and everybody had voter I.
00:27:04.500 So in 2022, when Brian Kemp got reelected and the statewide ticket of Republicans got elected, except for Herschel Walker, he lost the Senate race.
00:27:16.720 He lost a close Senate race. But nobody complained. It was an honest election because and people and Georgians had confidence in the electorate, even though Joe Biden had attacked them for being racist, supposedly Jim Crow laws or whatever.
00:27:30.280 and he took away the major league baseball all-star game they forced it out on them and which hurt a
00:27:36.940 lot of african-american businesses in atlanta uh because they would have been the beneficiary of
00:27:42.060 that small businesses and uh uh we took it away but uh the great revenge was they they passed the
00:27:48.900 law and it's still the law today and donald trump got elected again in georgia and that year the
00:27:54.340 atlanta braves won the world series so so it was i think trump was there too he went to one of the
00:28:00.800 games and uh yeah yeah he got a great reception yes yeah as he usually does with the exception of
00:28:07.220 new york john before we wrap i know you're tight on time i want to get to two uh final things here
00:28:17.640 i ran you did a great poll on it there's been a lot of disconnect on iran where do we go but
00:28:22.380 But before we get to that, 44 percent of the people in your latest poll say the economy is the number one issue, followed by 29 percent at social issues of health care, Medicaid, followed by 16 percent of security, border security, national security.
00:28:38.200 The Iran war only three or four percent said that's a top priority of them.
00:28:42.760 So it seems the economy is still a big issue.
00:28:44.980 what's the pitch? What's the elevator pitch to the voters who, you know, maybe say that President
00:28:52.560 Trump and the Republicans came up a little bit short in the midterms? Well, the when you go back
00:28:57.920 to how we worded that question, and we've been consistent with it for years, what's personally
00:29:02.880 most important to you? And most Americans are still concerned about inflation and cost of living,
00:29:08.400 etc and the economy large and jobs which is you know quite a i mean it's we're digging out of the
00:29:16.820 hole from from joe biden but on the other hand they can pay attention to to to various issues
00:29:23.240 in stereo so last month when we asked that question about you know if they supported trump's
00:29:29.340 memorandum of understanding with the ceasefire with iran and and they did 51 34 but then the
00:29:37.140 iranians didn't abide by it in the same poll we asked them parts about the memorandum of
00:29:42.160 understanding did you did you approve or disapprove of stopping iran from getting nuclear weapons
00:29:47.980 they absolutely approve 76 it's on the website and 75 uh approves of stopping iran from uh using
00:29:56.200 terrorism to attack our allies and so that's really the goals and president trump has been
00:30:02.960 consistent with that and he because he that's what he ran on in 2016 to stop iran from getting
00:30:08.120 nuclear weapons that's what he did as president during his first term and when joe biden you know
00:30:14.080 kind of let it slide again and iran was building nuclear weapons again last year when they were
00:30:20.560 weeks away from having 11 nuclear weapons what you know they they uh he bombed the sites but then
00:30:27.720 they started again so you you got you got we got a problem with these guys are chanting death to
00:30:33.460 america every day for 47 years and god bless you know your point about that question is god bless
00:30:42.600 our men and women in the military we have this all volunteer military and there's people out there
00:30:47.540 been out there on ships for months some of them probably on these aircraft carriers not touch land
00:30:52.680 for like a year or whatever um and i've got friends and family in the in the theater over
00:30:58.260 there it's their choice that's what they decided to do and god bless them for doing that because
00:31:02.200 they defend us and uh the iranians are shooting drones and missiles at them and they're hitting
00:31:07.960 our men they're killing americans again and if they had a nuclear weapon and this was in that
00:31:12.440 june poll 61 said they would use it against the united states so the so no american likes to go
00:31:21.180 to war we don't we don't want to go to war but on the other hand we don't want people that threaten
00:31:26.860 us to have nuclear weapons particularly iran because while mutually assured destruction has
00:31:32.220 has in a way contained china and and uh russia yeah um you know and trump did uh uh stop that
00:31:42.780 war between iran and pakistan because they both have nuclear weapons um if if iran had nuclear
00:31:48.480 weapons they'd use it and uh and and uh so so right now americans you know the most most americans
00:31:57.080 are inconvenienced by a hike in gasoline crisis but in that same survey you're talking about 0.98
00:32:02.440 seven out of ten americans say we should open up the stretch of homoos they agree with that 1.00
00:32:07.240 and uh and six out of ten say over six out of ten say we should finish the job 1.00
00:32:12.460 so it's not like we wanted to go where we wanted to do this but this country's been at war with
00:32:18.080 us killing thousands of americans whether it was afghanistan iraq uh lebanon um i have a friend
00:32:25.320 who's running for congress in wisconsin seven uh kevin hermaning and kevin was a marine 20 year
00:32:30.860 old marine embassy guard and he's held hostage for 444 days and if you personally talk to him
00:32:37.040 for what they did who these people are um you know they they i i feel sorry for the president
00:32:44.260 I talked to her and I said, you want to negotiate with them and you've got two types of people you're dealing with, the terrorists who are lying to you today and the ones who are going to lie to you in the future.
00:32:53.340 They just don't – they don't have any track record of keeping any agreements with the United States.
00:32:59.040 And the only thing they understand, unfortunately, is brute force.
00:33:02.940 And, you know, I agree with most Americans that the sooner we finish the job, the better off we'll be.
00:33:08.280 And finishing the job means opening up the straits because that's affecting the price of gas or building new pipelines so it doesn't have to go through there. 0.88
00:33:17.800 But making sure Iran can't be a threat to the United States or its neighbors that are our allies. 0.74
00:33:23.960 And it's not just Israel. It's also those Gulf states that sell us oil and rely on the United States to keep them safe from these terrorists. 0.66
00:33:34.920 So so it's it's it's it's a very uncomfortable position.
00:33:39.520 But you're right. Most Americans, we look at our own lives and say, I wish the economy was better.
00:33:44.740 I wish prices were lower. I wish mortgage rates were lower. I wish health care was lower.
00:33:48.220 And Donald Trump's made progress on all those fronts.
00:33:51.960 Prescription drugs, price of eggs are way down, food, you know, but still.
00:33:57.800 But the damage that Biden did with inflation doesn't go away.
00:34:01.420 The only way you get out of that is you let the economy grow.
00:34:05.820 That's what Ronald Reagan taught us.
00:34:09.460 You have to grow the economy.
00:34:11.020 Steve Forbes wrote a book about it, Inflation 2022.
00:34:14.800 The only way out of inflation is to grow the economy so people get better paying jobs.
00:34:19.020 And that's what he's trying to do.
00:34:21.060 The reason I want to wrap up with the Iran thing is because it's created such a divide in the party,
00:34:27.140 between pollsters, between everybody, that they're going crazy.
00:34:29.860 And it's they're all caught up in this thing. It's Donald Trump.
00:34:33.000 Now, you I want to ask this as a final question, because, you know, Donald Trump for a very long time, you know, Benjamin Netanyahu for a very long time.
00:34:38.640 And the premise you hear and if you stay off of Twitter, you're a lot smarter person than the average person.
00:34:45.260 But if you're on Twitter, the the the the consensus is, John, is Donald Trump ruined his legacy for the Jews. 0.60
00:34:50.900 He did it for the Jews. This was all done for Benjamin Netanyahu. 0.58
00:34:54.660 He owns him. He's got dirt on him. This is what he's done.
00:34:57.520 But the premise of it is 47 years ago, the conflict didn't start because of the Jews. 0.92
00:35:02.160 So it's like, you know, which one is it? 0.63
00:35:05.160 47 years ago, it wasn't started because of Israel, our conflict with Iran.
00:35:09.540 It's gone for 47 years.
00:35:11.160 And it's like anyone who knows Donald Trump knows that Donald Trump would not risk because by doing this, he's risk ruining his legacy for sure.
00:35:20.300 But he's not going to risk ruining his legacy unless it's a real imminent danger.
00:35:24.820 So that's what pisses me off with these people who say, well, he did it for the Jews.
00:35:29.140 By the way, it's blatant anti-Semitism and it's being fueled by people that are some of them are not even from the United States.
00:35:37.900 Donald Trump's base is rock solid and supports some of this.
00:35:40.620 And he has been crystal clear that he wants to stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons.
00:35:45.800 And it's been he's been elected and reelected every time.
00:35:48.480 And, you know, the strongest voters in the United States that support Israel are evangelical Christians, because, I mean, they've read the Bible, they understand.
00:36:00.760 The secular voters in the United States who gave us mandami, because there's a lot of them in New York City, who don't have any understanding of what's going on here with this religious, I mean, we're getting ready 25 years ago on September 11th.
00:36:17.340 I lost some very good friends like Father Michael Judge and Neil Levin was the head of the poor authority.
00:36:22.860 And there were different firemen for the community I lived in. 0.96
00:36:26.440 And those were radical Islamic terrorists. 0.95
00:36:30.620 And you've got radical Islamic terrorists going back at it with the United States, except they run a country called Iran. 0.92
00:36:38.140 And there is no division in Trump's base.
00:36:41.100 When you look at the primary, I mean, there's stuff on the Internet, because when Trump got elected, a lot of people understood, oh, he's got a coalition and it's a majority.
00:36:50.180 We've got to break apart the Trump base. And so you've had the Internet, Russia, China, Iran.
00:36:55.920 They're all active on the Internet, putting out things that aren't true.
00:36:59.400 Trump's base, when you look at if you could if you scroll up to that question about that, we've got to finish the job and the support, you know, opening up the Strait of Hormuz.
00:37:09.900 it's it's 80 90 percent uh they support him on this and what's even more important is people
00:37:17.760 like thomas massey who i did 11 polls in that race for the super PAC thomas massey was ahead
00:37:24.980 in the first poll but he wouldn't vote for us on tax cuts he wouldn't vote for us on spending
00:37:29.200 didn't vote for us on the wall he just got the president really upset because he was never with
00:37:34.240 And then he comes out and he says it's because of whatever he voted for in Israel.
00:37:41.220 But but it's like the base, the base is rock solid for Trump.
00:37:45.240 The problem is we have to win the middle. We have to do better among independents.
00:37:50.020 We have to do better among those one in 10 voters who are undecided for Congress.
00:37:53.880 So just like the campaign, except the difference is Trump's not on the ballot.
00:37:58.460 You've got all these Republicans who won't pass the Save America Act, who are done cutting taxes,
00:38:03.380 who don't have a real good message other than the other guys are big government socialists.
00:38:08.460 And by the way, when we frame the generic ballot question and we say you're more likely to vote for a Republican
00:38:14.920 who favors free market capitalism or a Democrat who favors big government socialism, 49-36.
00:38:21.840 So that two-point deficit becomes a 13-point edge.
00:38:26.660 so it's really we've got to get back on offense go after the democrats because i mean the democrat
00:38:34.840 socialist america want to change the constitution abolish the senate they really want to take away
00:38:40.520 the bill of rights they don't want you to have free speech freedom of religion they don't want
00:38:44.320 you to have you know you probably have to go for a government license to put this podcast on
00:38:49.660 I mean, bad chance, right?
00:38:52.800 It's like, they censor us.
00:38:54.320 They censored the president.
00:38:55.680 When he gave an address about election integrity, NBC, ABC, CNN did not carry it.
00:39:02.800 They censored the president.
00:39:04.140 And that's how Joe Biden got elected, because they censored the Hunter Biden laptop story.
00:39:09.340 So that's it.
00:39:10.600 That's it.
00:39:11.520 I think I've filled up.
00:39:13.200 I think I've, but the poll numbers are there.
00:39:16.000 So we've got a lot of work to do in the next 97 days.
00:39:19.660 It's like it's getting close, John.
00:39:22.720 Yeah.
00:39:23.280 Like I said, I put it out a month, a month and a half.
00:39:26.160 And to go back to the Massey thing, Massey lost because people were tired of the grandstanding.
00:39:30.920 He could have dumped – he says Israel spent this much money.
00:39:34.180 It didn't matter how much money could have been spent on the other side. 0.64
00:39:37.680 He was still losing the race.
00:39:38.760 And there was these pollsters out there who had him up. 1.00
00:39:41.900 And I'm not going to call anybody out, but they're idiots, and they know they're idiots. 1.00
00:39:45.920 And you want to ruin your credibility? 1.00
00:39:48.000 There's people out there who are putting out polls about this Iowa race,
00:39:51.300 a congressional race in Iowa, that the Republicans are only up by two.
00:39:56.080 What I tell people, John, if you think the Republicans are going to lose,
00:39:58.680 go to Calci and put a wager on it.
00:40:00.540 I put two wagers in on Calci, John.
00:40:03.560 Two wagers.
00:40:04.800 One of them that Keir Starmer was going to be ousted before July 1st
00:40:08.020 and before June 1st.
00:40:09.040 It hit.
00:40:09.720 My other wager I have, because I want everyone else to make money with me
00:40:12.440 or lose money with me, was that the Republicans hold the House.
00:40:15.180 I don't buy the panic and BS enough. John, you get the last word here, my friend.
00:40:20.900 I think you're doing a good, great job. You know, good luck. Just keep getting out the truth.
00:40:26.940 You're going to have a great time covering this election. And I agree with you.
00:40:30.400 Watch the convention in Dallas, the midterm convention. Watch the contrast between the Democrats and Republicans and get out the truth and we'll be able to win.
00:40:38.760 And we got to just like we did in 2024, we got the truth out to the to the voters and they elected Donald Trump president.
00:40:46.120 We have to do the same to make sure that good Republicans get reelected for the House and Senate.
00:40:51.460 Yeah. McLaughlin online dot com. McLaughlin online dot com.
00:40:55.140 You can see all John's polls. John McLaughlin. Always a delight to talk to my friend. We'll talk soon.
00:40:59.360 Thank you, John. Thanks to John McLaughlin, folks.
00:41:01.860 And thank you all for being with us today here on The Great America Show.
00:41:03.780 We'll see you back here tomorrow. Same time, same place. Until then, God bless you.
00:41:07.200 And God bless America, and may God bless the great.
00:41:09.680 The Dobbs have a wonderful night, everybody.
00:41:10.840 We'll see you tomorrow.