Roger Stone and Troy Smith of Slingshot News join me to break down the latest political news and to hone in on the keystone state of Pennsylvania, which virtually everyone recognizes will be the absolute key to either winning the presidential election for either party in Tuesday s mid-term election. Join us to hear from Cliff Maloney of the Pennsylvania Chase, a good old fashioned ground game, grassroots get-out-the-vote operation, voter registration, identification, and identification efforts, and also chasing those crucial mail ballots which, of course, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court has upheld the validity of, even though many believe they are, in fact, unconstitutional. The Pennsylvania Chase has 120 full-time ballot chasers on the ground with the goal of knocking on 500,000 doors to try to close the gap with the Democratic National Party in Pennsylvania and make sure that the election is truly a referendum on Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton in November 2020. The Stone Zone, with Roger Stone, with legendary Republican strategist and political icon and pundit Roger Stone. Roger Stone has served as a senior campaign aide to three Republican presidents. He is a New York Times bestselling author and a longtime friend and advisor of President Donald Trump. As an outspoken libertarian, Stone has appeared on thousands of broadcasts, spoken at countless venues, and lectured before the prestigious Oxford Political Union and the Cambridge Union Society. He s appeared on countless public radio shows, and has lectured at countless events, including a recent lecture at Oxford and Cambridge. Roger Stone is a pop culture icon and has been described as a "pop culture icon." by Rolling Stone and a "political icon in the world of the world. - - a writer, a podcaster, and a frequent guest on conservative media outlets, including The Weekly Standard, and the New Republic a regular contributor to the New York Magazine, The Daily Mail, and many other publications among other publications. He has a book out in paperback and is a frequent contributor to conservative publications, including Playboy and Playboy, and an online presence on social media platforms. . He is one of the best-selling authors in the press and a regular presence on the internet, and he is a regular on the airwaves and radio show on the radio show of late-night talk show, and hosts a weekly podcast on the podcast Morning Joe on the Tonight Show with Rachel Maddow. and The View from the Morning Joe.
00:00:00.000The Stone Zone, with legendary Republican strategist and political icon and pundit Roger Stone.
00:00:07.820Stone has served as a senior campaign aide to three Republican presidents.
00:00:11.420He is a New York Times bestselling author and a longtime friend and advisor of President Donald Trump.
00:00:17.540As an outspoken libertarian, Stone has appeared on thousands of broadcasts, spoken at countless venues,
00:00:23.120and lectured before the prestigious Oxford Political Union and the Cambridge Union Society.
00:00:27.860Due to his four-plus decades in the political and cultural arena, Stone has become a pop culture icon.
00:00:33.860And now, here's your host, Roger Stone.
00:00:41.800Welcome, I'm Roger Stone, and yes, you are back in the Stone Zone.
00:00:47.200Our politics is moving at warp speed with new developments every day.
00:00:52.080Yesterday, what appeared to be some kind of chemical or gas attack on the people standing directly behind President Donald Trump during a rally.
00:05:47.840There was an Ipsos poll yesterday that showed Kamala Harris leading in Pennsylvania by five,
00:05:57.380speaking to a number of pollsters who have access to their own data.
00:06:02.200None of them believe that that is correct.
00:06:04.320The Trump campaign, I believe, also shows the president narrowly ahead in Pennsylvania in their own polling.
00:06:11.260Also told that pollsters who work for Governor Shapiro dispute that number and that they don't believe that Kamala Harris is ahead in the state.
00:06:22.480Last night, President Donald Trump was on with Gutfield on Fox,
00:06:28.600and he made an observation that gun owners specifically do not vote in the numbers that you would expect.
00:06:36.700Given the many challenges to the Second Amendment, you would think they would be highly motivated voters.
00:06:43.840Pennsylvania actually has more gun owners per capita than any state in the nation.
00:06:49.120Tell me about efforts in that area to get those who are Second Amendment supporters, gun owners, legal gun owners, to vote.
00:07:00.400Yeah, there's been different coalitions that I'll point to, Roger, one of them being gun owners or hunters in the state of Pennsylvania,
00:07:07.400another one being the Amish community, right?
00:07:09.320And so you have warriors like Scott Presser on the ground, and he's targeted both of these communities, among others, to try to get them to register,
00:07:17.340because it's, you know, 80-20, even 90-10 sometimes that any of them that register are going to vote Republican.
00:07:24.260And so Scott has been working around the clock with early vote action to register them.
00:07:28.540And you better believe when we pull our universe, the universe that we are chasing ballots in right now,
00:12:04.920More Republicans have registered using this motor voter than Democrats.
00:12:09.220And look, regardless of any polls that you look at, when you talk about momentum, for the Democrats to put in something that makes them think they're going to get a registration advantage and it swings our way, talk about momentum, right?
00:12:22.680Talk about people really being excited.
00:12:24.840Talk about something that's real that shows you how we're doing.
00:12:28.620And then you look at the registration numbers in PA.
00:12:30.700You know, remember, folks, back in 2020, the Dems had a registration advantage of over 700,000.
00:12:37.820We have shrunk that gap to 300,000 and change.
00:12:42.280We have cut the registration advantage in half.
00:12:45.900And so when people are asking me, you know, how do you feel about this?
00:12:56.100And by the way, if anybody wants to sponsor a full day of ballot chasing, it costs $175 and every penny goes to the ballot chaser's stipend, their housing, and their gas.
00:13:08.220You can do that at pachase.com, pachase.com.
00:13:13.560So I just encourage people, you know, get involved.
00:13:16.980And I think this is the time to do it.
00:13:22.480Traditionally, of course, there's always been in Pennsylvania greater intensity in the eastern, which is, although Democratic, the more conservative part of the state, than eastern Pennsylvania.
00:13:35.600Traditionally, the Democrats would get a huge margin out of the city of Philadelphia, but Republicans would close that gap in the counties outside of Pennsylvania, Bucks, Montgomery, and Chester.
00:13:49.560In more recent years, those counties have trended left.
00:13:54.480But now, based on, I think, economic issues, you see them coming back.
00:13:59.520First of all, you see an increase of Republican registrations in those counties, and in polling that I myself have seen, you see that Kamala Harris is not going to get the kind of margin out of the collar counties that they tell us Joe Biden got.
00:14:15.660I think this is going to be a key factor.
00:14:19.180Also, the central part of the state, which is probably the most conservative part of the state,
00:14:24.720One of the keys to victory in 2016, in virtually every state, was that rural voters turned out at numbers never before seen.
00:14:35.300Do you expect to see that again this year in Pennsylvania, in the central part of the state?
00:14:41.120Yeah, I expect rural numbers to be through the roof.
00:14:43.580I do think that is Trump's path to the White House.
00:14:46.240I think we're focused on a lot of these very heavy red counties where you had a 75 percent turnout rate.
00:14:55.400I mean, that's the Democrats' whole playbook.
00:14:57.220Go into Philly and Pittsburgh, and instead of having 70 percent turnout, make sure it's in the 90s.
00:15:01.940And you do that, it's very tough to compete.
00:15:03.800So I think we're focused on those red counties where we have tons of red mail-in ballots sitting there.
00:15:09.860The other thing I'll share with you, Roger, you're spot on when you have this analysis of the counties.
00:15:14.000So the good news is since 2020, in 66 out of the 67 counties in Pennsylvania, Republicans have outpaced Democrats on registration.
00:15:25.200So since that date, it doesn't mean we have a majority, right?
00:15:27.820But since that date, in 66 out of 67—now, my home county is the stain there, which is Delaware County, which is the only one where Democrats have led Republicans.
00:15:37.840But I think when you look at a lot of the numbers here, Democrats are hemorrhaging support in the inner cities like they've never seen before.
00:15:46.960This is not just them having lower—I mean, they are losing Democrats in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh at a rate they've never seen before, right?
00:15:55.260People unregistering as Democrats, either switching to independent or switching to Republican.
00:16:00.520You see the Teamsters news coming out that they're refusing to endorse Kamala Harris.
00:16:20.120And I think we see that not just in his policies, but in the people supporting him.
00:16:24.260And the last note I'll make on this, Roger, this is the first time I'd argue, since I've been involved in politics, I'm 33 years old, where the more people that turn out, I actually think in a state like Pennsylvania, it helps Trump.
00:16:40.000But these working-class individuals, they are not connecting with the elitist Democrat Party.
00:16:45.420And so I think you finally see this flip.
00:16:48.100And that means that the more people that show up, the more working-class, the more that turnout is up, instead of it hurting us, I think it actually helps us.
00:16:55.780And I think people are so tuned in to alternative media, folks like you at the Stone Zone, Joe Rogan.
00:17:04.580I just think people aren't buying the mainstream narrative.
00:17:08.400And I think that's very good for people who believe in civil liberties, protecting the Constitution, and rejecting this radical Kamala Harris to save the republic with Donald Trump.
00:17:18.740Cliff, we've talked a lot on this show about the significance of the political realignment that's going on in the country with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Tulsi Gabbard.
00:17:32.040Kennedy's still technically a Democrat, but who ran for president as independent.
00:17:36.860Tulsi, who's left the Democrat Party behind to become an independent.
00:17:41.000I'm hopeful she'll ultimately decide to become a Republican.
00:17:43.680Have you reached out to the Kennedy supporters, the Kennedy structure in Pennsylvania, to enlist those folks?
00:18:00.620Yeah, I think Kennedy joining Team Trump and really having a unity ticket is one of the most significant things that has happened in Pennsylvania.
00:18:59.240And this is what I ask a lot of people.
00:19:01.240When's the last time you can remember the Republican ticket didn't have a neocon on it, didn't have somebody who was drooling for more war across the country?
00:19:09.500I mean, you want to talk about a libertarian dream.
00:19:12.220And this is my my case, not just the RFK independents and Kennedy type Democrats, but the libertarians.
00:19:32.480Donald Trump and J.D. Vance stand for no new wars.
00:19:35.840They don't want to send our wives, our husbands, our daughters, our brothers overseas to fight in these horrendous, useless, endless wars.
00:19:45.020If that's not enough to get the libertarian folks and the people that care about actually being pro-peace and anti-war, this is the time to step up.
00:20:23.340He is a man that I think most Americans now realize drove us to a completely unnecessary war based on two complete lies.
00:20:32.500No, Iraq had no involvement whatsoever in the attack on America on 9-11.
00:20:37.620And no, as we have learned, Iraq did not have weapons of mass destruction, had not acquired yellow cake uranium, as Colin Powell was forced to say on the floor of the U.N.
00:20:51.460I don't think they understand where the American electorate stands at this point.
00:20:57.760The support of the Cheneys and of Adam Kinzinger, of the family of John McCain, this is not a plus.
00:21:07.040I will take the Kennedys and the Gabbards every day of the week.
00:21:12.140But war is becoming a central issue here.
00:21:15.500Kamala Harris would like abortion to be the only issue in this campaign, where even there she completely distorts President Trump's position, his long-held position.
00:21:26.740But I think war is very quickly going to supplant that as the driving issue of this campaign.
00:21:35.160We're going to put this up, but Cliff, tell folks one more time where they can go to support your important work and how much it costs to sponsor an on-the-ground operative, knocking on doors, getting out the vote.
00:22:51.380They're working themselves into the ground towards victory.
00:22:54.520And when we win, it will be due not just to the heroic efforts of Donald Trump and J.D. Vance and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
00:23:02.600and Tulsi Gabbard, but also due to the work of Cliff Maloney, Scott Pressler, Charlie Kirk, and so many others who understand this is a grassroots,
00:23:12.740bottom-up effort to win the Keystone State, which will be the key to victory.
00:23:19.720Cliff, thanks for joining us today in the Stone Zone.
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00:31:56.380There's nobody in the state of Alabama whose IVF rights are threatened in the slightest bit.
00:32:01.940They've actually been codified by the Republicans that are in power there.
00:32:06.320But yet, yet the Democrats put forth this bill and call the Republicans evil for not voting on it,
00:32:12.360even though it gives sweeping powers to the DOJ, to all these people to attack everybody as it pertains to abortion and IVF.
00:32:21.420So let's let's unpack this a little bit more because we have a clip of Kamala Harris talking about third term abortion during the debate.
00:32:30.460This was brought up by Kamala Harris because remember, folks, the Democrats want to run this election entirely on IVF and abortion.
00:32:37.880Let's roll the clip of Kamala Harris talking about post birth abortion, late term abortion.
00:32:43.300And then we will reveal the history of many, many years of the Democrats defending this and putting bills forth to make sure that it's legalized in nine states in this country.
00:32:55.080Let's roll that clip from the debate of Harris lying to the American people about the Democrats' radical position on abortion.
00:33:01.600They have abortion in the ninth month.
00:33:05.400They even have, and you can look at the governor of West Virginia, the previous governor of West Virginia, not the current governor, who's doing an excellent job,
00:33:12.780but the governor before, he said the baby will be born and we will decide what to do with the baby.
00:33:18.680In other words, we'll execute the baby.
00:33:20.580There is no state in this country where it is legal to kill a baby after it's born.
00:33:24.720Nowhere in America is a woman carrying a pregnancy to term and asking for an abortion.
00:34:35.420But understand, if Donald Trump were to be reelected, he will sign a national abortion ban.
00:34:41.280There's so many lies there, it's hard to pick them apart.
00:34:47.660First of all, Kamala's sorority sister saying there's no state in the country that allows late-term abortions.
00:34:55.620At least eight states, it may be nine, put no time limit whatsoever on late abortion, meaning that abortion could be performed after birth.
00:35:05.960Yes, there is a video, I think the president misspoke, and it's the president of Virginia, who happens to be an obstetrician,
00:35:14.180talking about the grisly prospect of post-birth abortion, also known as infanticide.
00:35:21.260In fact, Axios, and they are the source here, says that there are at least 10,000 abortions in the eighth or ninth month of pregnancy.
00:35:34.820Although you just heard the moderator in the debate say that there are no late-term abortions of this type.
00:35:41.540Then they throw in birth control, by the way, that's the other part of the trifecta.
00:35:47.180So they say, Trump will sign a federal ban on abortion.
00:36:27.340I act duplicitous, sleazy, sneaky, and completely dishonest.
00:36:32.420I really nailed the role of a Washington Post reporter in that little short walk-on cameo.
00:36:38.080But this is part of their entire falsehood.
00:36:42.960The truth is, in Alabama, when Donald Trump heard that some Republicans in the legislature were trying to block access to IVF, he started lobbying individual Republican legislators on the phone.
00:36:56.160Called the governor, called the governor, called the leaders in the legislature to make sure that access to IVF was maintained.
00:37:04.180So, once again, it is the exact opposite of what Kamala Harris says it is.
00:37:12.340This is a perfect example, of course, of the kind of coordination that we pretty much expected took place during the ABC debate.
00:37:22.540As you know, a whistleblower who I find credible has come forward to say that not only were the questions or at least the subject of the questions shared, but that Kamala Harris was guaranteed that there be no discussion of her record as a prosecutor, either as district attorney or as attorney general of the state of California.
00:37:45.660I think we're going to find out in the next 50, less than 50 days, why she wants no focus on her record as a prosecutor, because she was particularly vicious against people of color.
00:38:00.160She was particularly vicious against people in the African-American community.
00:38:04.840She would like us to forget all of that, but the facts are what the facts are.
00:38:11.200I have one obvious question, and that is, in 2016, we know absolutely that Donna Brazile, who is in that revolving door between being Democrat political operative and media talking head, I don't know any Republicans who can do that, was working at CNN.
00:38:31.400And she gave Hillary Clinton the questions for her upcoming debate with Donald Trump.
00:39:12.080I called the office of Delegate Kathy Tran, who put this bill in place, who was calling for children to be able to be aborted up until the moment of birth and even after birth.
00:39:22.440And they have refused to answer any questions.
00:39:25.680They refuse to talk about the bill at all.
00:39:28.180I guess, Roger, if I had played the part of a Washington Post reporter, maybe they would have answered.
00:39:32.860But we will continue to kind of go there.
00:39:35.040But let's play those two videos just to kind of sure up and show exactly what the president was talking about and show that this is a real issue and that the Democrats have been caught in radicalism as far as the issue of abortion is concerned.
00:39:48.900There was a very contentious committee hearing yesterday when Fairfax County Delegate Kathy Tran made her case for lifting restrictions on third trimester abortions, as well as other restrictions now in place.
00:39:59.060And she was pressed by a Republican delegate about whether her bill would permit an abortion, even as a woman is essentially dilating, ready to give birth.
00:40:07.880And she answered that it would permit an abortion at that stage of labor.
00:40:13.880Do you support her measure and explain her answer?
00:40:18.020And, you know, I wasn't there, Julie, and I certainly can't speak for Delegate Tran.
00:40:24.260But I would tell you, one, first thing I would say, this is why decisions such as this should be made by providers, physicians, and the mothers and fathers that are involved.
00:40:39.660There are, you know, when we talk about third trimester abortions, these are done with the consent of, obviously, the mother, with the consent of the physicians, more than one physician, by the way.
00:40:52.020And it's done in cases where there may be severe deformities.
00:40:56.280There may be a fetus that's non-viable.
00:40:59.500So in this particular example, if a mother is in labor, I can tell you exactly what would happen.
00:41:10.320The infant would be resuscitated if that's what the mother and the family desired.
00:41:15.380And then a discussion would ensue between the physicians and the mother.
00:41:19.220So I think this was really blown out of proportion.
00:41:22.700But, again, we want the government not to be involved in these types of decisions.
00:41:27.500We want the decision to be made by the mothers and their providers.
00:41:32.320And this is why, Julie, that legislators, most of whom are men, by the way, shouldn't be telling a woman what she should and shouldn't be doing with her body.
00:41:41.100And do you think multiple physicians should have to weigh in as is currently required?
00:41:45.780She's trying to lift that requirement.
00:41:46.960Well, I think it's always good to get a second opinion and for at least two providers to be involved in that decision because these decisions shouldn't be taken lightly.
00:41:56.480And so, you know, I would certainly support more than one provider.
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00:42:24.42013 News Now reporter Jacqueline Lee joins us in the studio with the latest on this.
00:42:28.840Janet, both Governor Ralph Northam and House Speaker Kirk Cox held press conferences today responding to the backlash surrounding Delegate Cathy Tran's bill, which would ease abortion restrictions in Virginia.
00:42:41.640The controversy first started from this video.
00:42:45.480Delegate Tran defending her bill that would loosen abortion requirements in the Commonwealth.
00:42:51.700The third trimester goes all the way up to 40 weeks.
00:42:54.000Okay, but to the end of the third trimester.
00:42:56.360Yep, I don't think we have a limit in the bill.
00:42:58.300Right now, late-term abortions are allowed under Virginia law if three physicians certify the pregnancy substantially and irremediably threatens the woman's life and health.
00:43:08.480Trans bill would only require one physician to certify the abortion and removes the substantially and irremediably requirement.
00:43:15.780Facing harsh backlash, Governor Northam went on a radio show stating that trans comments were blown out of proportion.
00:43:22.740He added that politicians shouldn't interfere with a woman's right to choose.
00:44:35.360The bottom line of this, of course, remains the same.
00:44:38.260Virginia's current law does allow late-term abortion, abortion right up until the time of delivery.
00:44:46.420And there is no question that the governor spoke openly about the baby being born, the baby being made comfortable before a decision is made whether to kill a live baby.
00:44:56.940That's what he said, and that's what the late Daniel Patrick Moynihan, U.S. senator from New York, a liberal Democrat, called infanticide.
00:46:17.740Then I have a short graph I want to show and get Roger's thoughts on the Democrats' rewriting history as far as housing prices are concerned.
00:46:23.920And what this new policy from Kamala Harris is she's putting out there, the damage that this could cause our economy.
00:55:32.700He set up the COVID-19 Compliance Task Force, which was basically a jackbooted group that went around terrorizing businesses and individuals in Palm Beach County.
00:55:45.540They set up an 800 snitch line, which was approved by Governor DeSantis, who criticized Governor Walz for letting that be done in Minnesota.
00:55:59.120Before the 2022 election, Mr. Kerner endorsed Republican Ron DeSantis.
00:56:06.680And then after the election, I believe in return for his endorsement, he was rewarded with an appointment as the executive director of the Florida Highway Patrol and the Department of Homeland Security.
00:56:19.420Now, he's not leading the investigation that the governor has ordered into the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, but he is participating.
00:56:29.940I would prefer if he was not involved at all because of his anti-Trump posts on X and his status as a Trump hater.
00:56:42.400Overall, by the way, I praise Governor DeSantis for having an independent investigation.
00:56:48.840As Steve Friend, the former FBI agent, told us yesterday, having concurrent federal and state investigations where most of the actual crimes, such as attempted murder, are under state law rather than federal law.
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