00:05:01.380As of today, Mike Lindell has not publicly demonstrated fraud sufficient to explain anything resembling a 45,000 vote deficit.
00:05:10.220And I have to admit there's something almost comically predictable about all of this. If Mike Lindell entered a contest to determine America's favorite pillow and finished second, I suspect we'd be hearing by breakfast about irregularities in the pillow counting machines.
00:05:26.040This is, after all, a man who spent years making election fraud allegations, paid millions of dollars to supposedly former intelligence agents, but has never been able to present the proof.
00:05:39.680So when he loses his own election and immediately begins questioning the count, nobody exactly falls out of their chair in astonishment.
00:05:47.560But underneath the humor here is a serious point. Election integrity matters too much to become an automatic explanation for losing.
00:05:56.040If Mike Lindell has evidence, well, let's see it.
00:05:59.520If there are genuine discrepancies, investigate them.
00:06:02.660If ballots were mishandled, document it.
00:06:05.440If election law was violated, identify that violation.
00:06:09.240Americans should insist on transparent elections and aggressively investigate credible evidence of wrongdoing.
00:06:15.380But the burden is on the person making the accusation to produce actual evidence,
00:06:20.760particularly when we're talking about a double-digit defeat
00:06:24.200rather than a razor-thin recount situation.
00:06:28.340There's another political story here that shouldn't be overlooked.
00:06:31.600Trump's endorsement wasn't enough, or rather Mike undid that endorsement
00:06:35.860by coming out for amnesty for illegals.
00:06:38.640That does not mean that Trump's influence in Republican primaries has suddenly disappeared.
00:06:43.180The president remains enormously influential within the Republican Party.
00:06:46.760My phone is ringing off the hook with various Florida candidates at all levels seeking the president's endorsement index Tuesday's Florida primary, but endorsements aren't magic wands.
00:06:58.040Minnesota Republicans had their own statehouse speaker in Lisa DeMuth, and enough of them apparently decided she represented a stronger choice for November.
00:07:05.980The result is particularly striking because Lindell's national profile, of course, dwarfed hers.
00:07:12.380And November is where this gets much harder.
00:07:14.660You see, DeMuth, the Republican, will now face U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar, who easily won the Democrat farm labor gubernatorial primary and begins a general election with formidable statewide name recognition.
00:07:29.680Republicans haven't won a statewide contest in Minnesota since 2006, so DeMuth's task is considerable.
00:07:36.440She has to unite the Republican electorate after the primary.
00:07:39.920She has to attract independents and persuade voters that after years of Democrat control, Minnesota needs a change of direction.
00:07:47.880As for my friend Mike Lindell, he has every right to examine the results.
00:07:52.160He has every right to request information available under Minnesota law.
00:07:55.700And if he discovers genuine evidence of wrongdoing, he should produce it.
00:07:59.660But until then, the scoreboard says that his opponent won and Mike Lindell lost.
00:09:56.620Well, she finished nine points ahead of Norman, despite being a political newcomer thrown into a statewide campaign on extraordinarily short notice.
00:10:05.920She also has the most valuable endorsement available in South Carolina in a Republican primary, that of President Donald Trump.
00:10:14.140And Trump isn't merely leaving his name on a press release.
00:10:17.760He said Tuesday night that he intends to go to South Carolina to campaign for him.
00:10:22.480But Norman can look at exactly the same returns and make a very different argument.
00:10:27.28067% of Republican voters voted for someone other than Darlene Graham,
00:10:33.040the sister of the late Lindsey Graham.
00:10:36.140So Norman, Fry, and Stanford together accounted for nearly 60% of the vote.
00:10:41.260Of course, you can't simply add those numbers together and hand them to Norman.
00:10:45.120Politics doesn't really work that way.
00:10:47.560But in a two-person runoff, those voters suddenly became the entire ballgame,
00:10:51.820and Norman only has to find enough of them
00:10:54.420to erase a nine-point first-round deficit.
00:16:27.400President Trump put out a statement. His statement said our wonderful White House press secretary and one of my most trustless aides, Caroline Leavitt, will be departing her role at the end of the month so she can spend more time with her beautiful young children and family, a decision I totally understand and respect.
00:16:45.780Caroline will now be one of my top outside advisors and an influential voice within the Republican Party
00:16:51.120as we work to defy history and conclusively win the midterm elections.
00:16:56.800Caroline has been a real leader in the White House and has done a phenomenal job0.90
00:17:00.680fighting for justice, liberty, and freedom since 2018, including our historic re-election campaign in 2024.
00:17:09.700Caroline Levin has been one of the best White House press secretaries in the history of the office.
00:17:13.520Thank you, Caroline, for a job well done, signed President Donald Trump.
00:17:19.920This comes on the heels of the White House counsel, David Warrington, also tendering his resignation to go back to private business.
00:17:28.640Dave Warrington and I have been friends since we were in Young Americans for Freedom together.
00:17:34.760And named as his replacement is Will Scharf.
00:17:38.360Will Scharf is one of the sharpest young lawyers I know, actually supported his unsuccessful campaign for the attorney general's office in his native Missouri.
00:17:51.420By the way, my general experience in politics, in which I have quite a bit, is that candidates who run and lose are always better the second time around.
00:18:01.520The very best candidates are those who learn from that first experience.
00:18:05.340I think of Tom Kane of New Jersey, who ran for governor in 1977, lost that contest, lost the Republican primary to a state senator, Ray Bateman, who went on to lose to Brendan Byrne.
00:18:19.540In 1981, Tom Kane came back and ran again.
00:18:23.460This time he ran a much better campaign, and he was a much better candidate.
00:18:27.480In every case, candidates who have run and lost have profited if they view it not as a defeat, but as a building experience.
00:18:37.580As my mentor, Richard Nixon, said, a man is not finished when he is defeated.
00:25:49.380And that's where I put this race tonight.
00:25:51.680Hochul is still the leader, but Blakeman has a plausible path to making it competitive.
00:25:56.440The Senate poll doesn't establish what New York is about to elect a Republican governor,
00:26:00.540but what it does establish is something more modest, but more politically significant.
00:26:05.800Blakeman is closer to Hochul at this stage than Zeldin was in Siena's August 2022 survey,
00:26:11.460and Zeldin subsequently turned that race into a six-point contest.
00:26:15.660If Blake can dominate the suburbs, remain competitive upstate, or actually increase his position upstate, improve Republican performance in New York City only slightly, and make the election a referendum on Hochul rather than national politics, then New York could once again give us a Republican governor's race worth watching all the way to election night.
00:26:39.280Meanwhile, there's a remarkable story coming out of President Trump's trip to Turkey,
00:26:43.600and naturally, much of the coverage has concentrated on the cloak and dagger aspects of it.
00:26:48.520See, last month, after the NATO summit in Ankara,
00:26:52.320Trump publicly boarded the familiar Presidential 747.
00:26:56.160But intelligence indicated a credible Iranian threat against President Trump,
00:27:00.860so the Secret Service and the military did something extraordinary.
00:27:05.180Trump was quietly taken off that aircraft,
00:27:07.440moved across the airport, concealed in a catering vehicle,
00:27:11.740and put aboard a smaller Air Force C-32A.
00:27:16.580The big presidential jet took off without Trump.
00:27:23.400This wasn't Hollywood. This was presidential security.
00:27:27.120Now, the controversy is that the White House staff and members of the press
00:27:31.020remained aboard the other aircraft without knowing that Trump had left it.
00:27:35.360Critics are calling them human decoys and asking whether they were unnecessarily in danger.
00:27:41.380Those are legitimate questions for the Secret Service.
00:27:44.000To answer our guests, before we succumb to the breathless suggestion that using deception to protect an American president is somehow a Trump invention,
00:27:53.140there's a rather inconvenient piece of presidential history here worth remembering.
00:31:23.460But spare me the manufactured astonishment of the idea that the Secret Service
00:31:27.320might switch airplanes and employ a decoy to protect a president.
00:31:31.480Bill Clinton did it more than a 40-century ago,
00:31:33.840complete with an unmarked plane, a decoy aircraft, and a presidential lookalike, and multiple limousines.
00:31:40.260There's a serious story here about the continuing threat against the American president,
00:31:44.600but the tactic itself, no, it's not unprecedented.
00:31:48.240That's presidential security, and history has a remarkably inconvenient memory.
00:31:55.000For there are some people whose lives have seemed almost impossible when you describe him.
00:31:58.560Jack Kemp was one of them before he became one of the most consequential Republican thinkers of his generation, before 18 years in Congress, before he was in the cabinet, before he became the Republican nominee for vice president.
00:32:12.820Jack Kemp was a professional quarterback and not some politician who happened to play a couple of seasons of football.
00:32:18.820Jack Kemp was one of the defining quarterbacks of the American Football League.
00:32:22.820When you actually examine his record, I think there's a compelling case that Jack Kemp belongs in the Professional Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio.
00:32:31.820His football story is wonderfully American because it began with rejection.
00:32:36.240Kemp came out of Occidental College, bounced around professional football, eventually found his opportunity in the American Football League.
00:32:44.280With the Los Angeles and then the later San Diego Chargers, Kemp became one of the AFL's original stars.
00:32:50.240He took the Chargers to an AFL championship game in both 1960 and 1961.
00:32:57.700Then came one of the great personnel mistakes in football history.
00:33:01.780In 1962, the San Diego Chargers put the injured Kemp up on waivers.
00:33:07.080Buffalo claimed him for a waiver price of $100.
00:33:10.900That $100 quarterback would help change the history of the Buffalo Bills.
00:33:16.180And here's where Kemp's record becomes remarkable.
00:33:18.580He took Buffalo to the 1964 AFL Championship game, where the Bills defeated their former team, the San Diego Chargers, 20-7 to win the championship.
00:33:30.400Then Kemp did it again in 1965. Buffalo again met San Diego for the AFL title. This time, the Bills demolished the Chargers 23-0.
00:33:40.400Jack Kemp was named quarterback to back-to-back championships in 1965.
00:33:45.280Jack Kemp was named the American Football League's most valuable player.
00:33:49.300Not Buffalo's most valuable player, not an all-state game award, the MVP of the entire AFL.
00:33:56.720He was also recognized as the outstanding player in that 1965 championship game.
00:34:02.360Then in 1966, Kemp took Buffalo to the AFL championship game again, this time losing to the Kansas City Chiefs.
00:34:12.800Trump appeared in AFL championship games in 1960, 61, 64, 65, and 66, five championship appearances, two championships, and as the league's most available player award in 1965.
00:34:27.720This was a league that had existed for only 10 seasons before completing its merger with the NFL, and Jack played quarterback in half of the championship games.
00:34:37.380My friends, it is time to put Jack F. Kemp in the Professional Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio, to preserve the history of professional football and to tell the story of one man's determination to succeed on the field of sports.
00:34:54.340before he became one of the most influential congressmen
00:34:57.000and one of the most influential conservatives in the Republican Party
00:35:22.840Pardon me while I eat the olive out of my martini.
00:35:27.780President Donald Trump is leaving open the possibility of declaring a national security emergency over the nation's election system
00:35:34.780if Congress fails to enact the Save America Act, which would simply require photo identification and proof of citizenship for federal voting.
00:35:44.420President Trump noted that stranger things have happened when the press broached the question,
00:35:50.240very intelligently not showing his hand, in the lead-up to the crucial midterm elections.
00:35:55.480The president's hysterical liberal critics have warned that such an action would exceed the president's authority
00:36:00.580because states retained constitutional responsibility for administering elections.
00:36:05.180We've seen how that's worked out with sophisticated ballot harvesting
00:36:08.980and outright rigging operations emerging in Democrat-dominated slums across America.
00:36:15.060When the mainstream media tells you that there's no evidence whatsoever of voter fraud
00:36:19.500and it's very rare in America, they're lying.
00:36:22.240The evidence is, in fact, overwhelming and irrefutable.
00:36:27.360But you won't hear that on CBS or NBC or ABC or CNN.
00:36:32.720Now, I don't get my news from CNN for the same reason I don't drink out of the toilet.
00:36:38.220Recent events have given President Trump grounds to call a national emergency to protect our elections.
00:36:43.340In New Jersey, for example, Democrat Governor Mikey Sherrill disclosed that the Motor Vehicles Commission software error
00:36:50.880improperly registered roughly 6,600 people who had indicated they were not U.S. citizens.
00:36:57.400We found out today that number is actually 8,100, a substantial number of those people voted.
00:37:04.240Federal prosecutions have also documented illegal voting.
00:37:07.460In June, three non-citizens pled guilty in Florida to no-leg voting in federal elections,
00:37:12.620while Justice Department cases in New Jersey have charged multiple non-citizens with illegally registering and voting.