The StoneZONE with Roger Stone - November 08, 2025


The Stone Zone ｜ 11-05-25

Topics
polling volatility Cittarelli governor race Mamdami election & policies thimerosal in vaccines
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Roger Stone Troy Smith Jake Novak
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Donald Trump Zoran Mamdani Andrew Cuomo Elise Stefanik Kathy Hochul Zoran Mandami Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Robert Tucker Jack Cittarelli Gavin Newsom Caroline Levitt Mikey Sherrill Rudy Giuliani Chuck Schumer Rental Family Katie Porter Mario Cuomo Earl Sears Councilwoman Ina Vernikov Imam Siraj Wahaj and 29 more
The Stone Zone ｜ 11-04-25 The Stone Zone ｜ 11-10-25

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In this special episode of the Red Apple Podcast Network's newest show, host Alex Blumberg reacts to the results of the Democratic primary and primary election, and takes a look at the impact on the upcoming mid-term elections.

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00:00:00.220 The Stone Zone, entertaining and informative on the Red Apple Podcast Network.
00:00:07.480 You are now entering the Stone Zone.
00:00:11.020 Well, there's no denying it.
00:00:13.260 It was a tough night for Republicans across the country.
00:00:17.300 But as expected, radical socialist Zoran Mamdami relatively easily won his election for mayor of New York City.
00:00:25.640 The disgraced former Governor Andrew Cuomo was ultimately unsuccessful in upending Mamdami. 1.00
00:00:33.460 I think the story was written in the Democrat primary, in all honesty.
00:00:38.360 And the substantial demographic changes in New York City since the days when Rudy Giuliani was elected mayor manifested themselves last night.
00:00:49.200 Now, some Republicans, including President Trump at the very last minute, to my surprise, rallied around Cuomo as the only hope of stopping Mamdami's reign of terror in New York City. 0.94
00:01:02.420 I've never agreed with that political calculus.
00:01:06.000 The idea that if Republican candidate Curtis Lee, who won the Republican primary and headed a ticket of city council candidates and civil court judge candidates, had dropped out of the race.
00:01:21.240 The idea that all of his votes would have redistributed to Cuomo is simply untrue, particularly given the fact that he was a Republican nominee and was maintaining most of the Republican base.
00:01:34.540 These are people who historically have some animosity for Cuomo, particularly after Cuomo said that if you believed you needed to own a gun or you didn't support the right to an abortion, there was no place for you in New York State.
00:01:52.480 Looking at this as a professional, one observation I would make is that polling has become even more unreliable in the age of mass communications, in the age of the Internet.
00:02:08.480 When I began working on political campaigns 100 years ago, all polling was done on hard line home phones.
00:02:18.320 Before that, Gallup and Harris, who were the leading pollsters in the country, actually conducted their polls on a door to door basis, finding voters who they checked against the voter rules.
00:02:31.060 Then they moved, of course, to telephone polling using the home, the phones that were in people's homes or businesses.
00:02:39.860 And of course, today, with the rise of the cell phone and Internet polling and the fact that in this atmosphere, many voters, both left and right, don't want their opinions to be known because they don't want to be targeted and abused.
00:02:56.020 I think polling has become far more volatile.
00:03:00.740 So keep this in mind and take a grain of salt or whenever you look at all of the polling going into any of these races.
00:03:10.080 Polling is a snapshot in time.
00:03:12.540 It is technically outdated by the time it's tabulated and reported.
00:03:17.660 That's because the volatile volatility of the voters.
00:03:21.900 But also look at the sample size and also take a look at the track record of the pollster, whoever that may be.
00:03:30.420 Republicans lost the governorship in New Jersey and Virginia by double digits.
00:03:35.300 This really is not surprising.
00:03:38.560 Both of those states are reliably blue states.
00:03:42.040 They have trended blue.
00:03:44.160 Both of them were swing states.
00:03:46.540 New Jersey was always a swing state.
00:03:48.360 General Ford carried it in 1976 over Jimmy Carter.
00:03:51.940 Reagan carried it in 1980.
00:03:54.140 And of course, in 1984, George Bush carried it in 1988.
00:03:59.440 But after that, it began to shift democratic and it had substantial changes in its demographics as well.
00:04:10.080 I think that the fact that Cittarelli, Jack Cittarelli, who I think waged a valiant fight, came so close in the governor's race last time was really due to the unique time of the COVID-19 pandemic.
00:04:24.700 And as you may remember, one of Phil Murphy's top aides mistakenly blurted out that after the election, he would put in place even more draconian COVID-19 lockdowns.
00:04:38.660 An event like that can skew a race, particularly at the last minute.
00:04:44.240 And I think it explains the close finish that Cittarelli had last time, which I think raised the expectation levels that he might be able to win this time.
00:04:55.280 I do think he put on a spirited campaign.
00:04:58.120 I thought he bested his opponent, Mikey Sherrill, in the one debate that I watched.
00:05:04.500 It's kind of amazing to me that Mikey Sherrill, as a member of the House of Representatives, engaged in three different stock transactions in which she tripled her net worth for a net gain of about $7 million.
00:05:19.100 And she paid a fine for this, I believe.
00:05:21.560 She was a member of the House Defense Appropriations Committee.
00:05:26.600 But when she when she was confronted with all this, she said that she couldn't remember.
00:05:31.220 I thought that was a that was a key moment in the debate.
00:05:35.560 I thought that it might be a turning point, but I was incorrect about that.
00:05:41.140 Also, Virginia had been a red state only after the surprising victory of Glenn Youngkin.
00:05:47.960 In Virginia, by the way, the governor is allowed by Constitution to serve but one term.
00:05:52.760 And now Virginia is going back to the trend of turning blue.
00:05:56.660 You want to know how blue Virginia is?
00:05:59.360 Well, you can run for attorney general there. 0.99
00:06:03.000 You can get caught threatening to shoot your opponent in the head and kill all the members of his family, as Democrat candidate Jay Jones did. 0.99
00:06:13.040 And you can still win. 0.55
00:06:15.160 So anybody who says this was a referendum on Trump or this was a referendum on Trump's policies, I've seen this movie before, had Republicans won one or either of those seats.
00:06:28.980 Republicans would be saying that this was a referendum on Trump.
00:06:32.080 But because the president, as is tradition and historical, both of these Democrat states went Democrat.
00:06:39.540 I don't believe it is a measure on how Trump is doing.
00:06:43.400 It's also worth noting that neither Earl Sears or Jack Cittarelli were MAGA Republicans.
00:06:50.180 Both had in the past made public comments critical of President Trump, with with Earl Sears demanding that President Trump remove himself from politics after the 2024 election that he ended up winning.
00:07:02.460 So the public didn't reject MAGA on Tuesday.
00:07:06.240 They rejected mainstream Republican politics, perhaps.
00:07:10.820 Republicans need to put forward candidates who will win over disaffected, independent voters.
00:07:16.360 They need political figures who will authentically embody the MAGA spirit.
00:07:23.320 I would point out that in all of his races for president, in the urban areas of states like Wisconsin and Michigan and Pennsylvania and Ohio, Donald Trump has always consistently been able to reach candidates that Mitt Romney and John McCain were never able to reach.
00:07:43.660 And that was the margin of difference in the two races he won.
00:07:48.360 Let's put the 2020 race aside, because I think there are still reasonable questions about the anomalies and irregularities in that particular race.
00:07:59.240 If those kind of candidates, though, Republicans who are who are rhinos, who don't support Donald Trump's pro growth, pro law and order, low tax, pro tariff policies are on the ballot, I think we won't lose again. 0.91
00:08:21.300 So yesterday's election will be a dark omen for the establishment Republicans, but I don't think it tells us anything about who will win the 26th election.
00:08:33.160 Again, in politics, a week is a lifetime.
00:08:38.400 While we're at it, let's dispense of one other very common theory, and that is the theory that somehow if Curtis Sliwa, the Republican nominee, had dropped out, that all of his votes would have gone to Andrew Cuomo, who would have then have beaten Zoran Mandami.
00:08:54.160 Once again, as a professional, I've never seen any empirical evidence or any polling that that supported that theory.
00:09:04.620 It is true that some of those votes would have moved to Cuomo, but certainly not all of them.
00:09:09.700 And most of the surveys I saw showed that in a two way race, Governor Cuomo, because he was carrying very high negatives, probably would have lost anyway.
00:09:19.320 I do think there is a silver lining for Republicans in New York State.
00:09:24.860 Congresswoman Elise Stefanik, who is one of President Trump's most vocal supporters in the U.S. House, is expected to announce her run for governor of New York any day now.
00:09:34.860 One of Stefanik's top allies, GOP Councilwoman Ina Varinkova, said,
00:09:41.100 We have a governor's race coming up, and I think we can win that race, especially if Mamdami is the mayor.
00:09:46.960 I'm going to be working my butt off, she said, to make sure that if it's Elise Stefanik, she wins.
00:09:52.400 She's supposed to announce right after the mayoral election.
00:09:55.160 I think that there's a pathway for her to win the governorship, and I think that we can change a lot if she's governor.
00:10:00.860 I could not agree more with that analysis.
00:10:04.560 I must tell you, in the over 50 years that I have worked on political campaigns, and in the literally thousands of pages of polling that I have studied,
00:10:16.380 and cross tabs of polling that I have studied, I've never seen a candidate with a higher unfavorable rating and a lower job approval rating than Governor Kathy Hochul.
00:10:28.700 My great fear, if I were Elise Stefanik and the Republicans, would be that a candidate as yet to emerge beats Hochul in the Democrat primary.
00:10:39.080 It didn't go without being noticed that Hochul endorsed Mamdami, but Mamdami refused in the debate to endorse Hochul.
00:10:48.320 That's proof that Hochul, like Chuck Schumer, who said yesterday that he voted but wouldn't say who he voted for, 0.88
00:10:55.100 refused to say he voted for the Democrat nominee, of fear the rise of power in the party's most progressive and radical socialist wing.
00:11:06.360 So the silver lining, if there is one, and I feel badly for my many friends who live in New York City,
00:11:12.920 is that it will make it, I think, possible for a strong Republican, like Elise Stefanik, to get elected.
00:11:20.740 The Emerson College poll, which is a very credible poll, only has her trailing Hochul today by five points.
00:11:29.320 That's an extraordinary finding.
00:11:32.060 So if the socialist schemes laid out by Mamdami are actually enacted,
00:11:37.940 if he, in fact, raises taxes on, as he put it, white people,
00:11:42.920 if he defunds the police, which is something he tried to get away from during the campaign,
00:11:48.580 but Elon Musk posted a brilliant kind of composite of all the many times Mamdami said he would do that.
00:11:57.020 If, indeed, he opens Rikers Island and lets all of the inmates out,
00:12:02.760 because he said the only purpose for incarceration of dangerous criminals is to please their victims.
00:12:09.000 If he tries to grab and control the grocery stores so that they are state-run,
00:12:16.800 if he insists on giving free everything to anyone but raises taxes on the working families and the businesses of New York,
00:12:26.740 the results of that in New York City are going to reverberate throughout New York State, particularly in the suburbs.
00:12:33.940 So New York may be at that moment.
00:12:38.160 We've seen it before when George Pataki beat Mario Cuomo.
00:12:42.140 We saw it in New Jersey when Chris Christie, who ran as a reform candidate, beat the Democrat incumbent there.
00:12:51.560 These northeastern blue states have a saturation point.
00:12:56.380 When taxes get so high, when crime gets so bad, when the quality of life descends to the point that it transcends partisan politics.
00:13:07.440 Democrats still control the state and have an enormous voter registration edge.
00:13:13.360 But I think if Mamdami is elected, he's made it clear that he's deadly serious about enacting his agenda.
00:13:20.880 This will result in the wealthy and those in the middle class fleeing New York City.
00:13:26.660 Tax revenues will drop.
00:13:27.900 Businesses will shutter.
00:13:29.120 I think crime will spike.
00:13:30.760 And there are all kinds of unforeseen negative consequences yet to be determined.
00:13:35.180 The voters who got duped will be running back to the Republican Party for some shred of normalcy outside of New York City.
00:13:42.400 Stefanik could be the perfect candidate to hold the banner as someone who's undoubtedly MAGA, but also has the right temperament to win over moderates and disaffected Democrats.
00:13:54.240 As the Lord tells us, sometimes we need to go through trials and tribulations in order to wake up and see the light.
00:14:00.500 Mamdami will certainly provide many trials, but the rise of Elise Stefanik, which I predict here and now,
00:14:06.780 could help mitigate this damage and keep New York City from falling into complete ruin.
00:14:13.640 If you understand how New York City is funded, you understand that the governor has an enormous influence on New York City.
00:14:22.320 It has been traditional for New York governors to fight with New York mayors.
00:14:26.340 Nelson Rockefeller fought with John Lindsay.
00:14:29.540 Mario Cuomo fought with Mayor Ed Koch.
00:14:32.860 That has always been a natural tension.
00:14:36.100 But it's very clear that Kathy Hochul will not put the brakes on the radical agenda of Mamdami. 0.94
00:14:41.280 Indeed, she will embrace it in an effort to save herself in her own Democrat primary.
00:14:48.400 I've been watching Empire State Politics for, well, over 50 years.
00:14:53.720 Once lived in Lewisboro, New York, and was a member of the Lewisboro, New York Republican Town Committee.
00:15:00.040 Those days, up the northern part of Westchester was a heavily Republican area.
00:15:06.060 That is no longer the case.
00:15:08.440 But New York State is one of the few states where your name can appear on the ballot in multiple places and you get the cumulative vote.
00:15:15.520 And I think Mamdami essentially gave the finger to the Democrat Party yesterday when he announced that he had voted for himself,
00:15:21.700 not as a Democrat, but on the radical socialist left working families line.
00:15:29.160 Take that, Democrats.
00:15:30.700 I'm Roger Stone.
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00:16:07.480 Well, after the election losses of yesterday, President Trump addressed the nation this morning,
00:16:13.860 urging Republican senators to get rid of the filibuster in order to reopen the government as soon as possible.
00:16:20.080 The filibuster would essentially lower the number of votes required to pass the continuing resolution as proposed by Republicans
00:16:28.880 that would continue to fund the government at current levels.
00:16:32.560 The Democrats, you will call, under Chuck Schumer, demanding $1.5 trillion in new spending.
00:16:39.800 But the president conceded now that this is beginning, for the first time, to appear to be a negative factor for Republicans.
00:16:47.080 Actually, the polling I've seen indicates that it is a negative factor for both parties,
00:16:51.380 that people are disgusted with government, politics, and politicians.
00:16:56.020 But we're in the midst of this disastrous Democrat-created government shutdown.
00:17:02.120 I think it's officially now the longest shutdown in government history.
00:17:06.320 It's clear the Democrats are like kamikaze pilots who will take the country down.
00:17:10.440 When we come back, I want to talk about Zoran Mamdami's Victory Night speech.
00:17:14.740 He quoted the socialist Eugene V. Debs.
00:17:19.200 I was a little surprised.
00:17:21.060 I thought he might have quoted Joseph Stalin.
00:17:24.500 I'm Roger Stone.
00:17:25.660 You're listening to The Stone Zone right here on the Red Apple Audio Networks
00:17:30.020 where we talk politics and we bring you the inside skinny on politics.
00:17:34.660 We'd love to talk business.
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00:19:25.580 Our elect of New York City, as I predicted consistently on this program,
00:19:31.100 and in his victory speech last night, rather than being conciliatory,
00:19:34.620 he essentially reiterated many of the socialist messages that he espoused on the campaign trail.
00:19:41.140 The one that stuck out to me is when he said,
00:19:43.580 we chose hope together, hope over tyranny, hope over big money and small ideas.
00:19:50.540 Let's stop right there.
00:19:51.940 As the investigative reporter Sam Antar has more than proven,
00:19:57.180 Mandami's election was not fueled by small donors in some kind of grassroots uprising,
00:20:04.120 although New York City does have an eight-to-one campaign finance matching program.
00:20:10.040 Mandami's election was financed by a very intricate series of 501c3 nonprofit organizations,
00:20:18.820 501c4s, NGOs. 0.82
00:20:22.560 These are charitable organizations, theoretically,
00:20:25.040 working in tandem with political parties like the Working Families Party.
00:20:28.760 I think in flagrant violation, by the way, of the IRS regulations,
00:20:33.580 and their tax statuses.
00:20:35.580 But the idea that Mandami's election was fueled by small donors and average people is simply not true.
00:20:46.440 Mandami reiterated his plans to freeze the rent for all rent-stabilized apartments,
00:20:52.560 which, of course, will make it impossible for landlords to make improvements,
00:20:56.740 to do upgrades, or, in the end, to actually make any profit,
00:21:02.240 in which case they'll probably take those apartments off the market,
00:21:06.280 make buses faster and free.
00:21:09.740 Hmm, I wonder who's going to pay for that.
00:21:11.860 And deliver universal child care now that he's in office.
00:21:16.400 He didn't mention his plans to defund the police,
00:21:19.940 but he's certainly said it enough times.
00:21:23.160 And, of course, New York is already suffering from the cashless bail system
00:21:28.340 that was put into place by none other than, well, Governor Andrew Cuomo.
00:21:34.620 He promised, essentially, a totalitarian, nanny-state bureaucracy
00:21:39.140 that would be involved in the lives of all New York City residents.
00:21:42.940 Mandami said last night,
00:21:44.600 This new age will be defined by a competence and a compassion
00:21:49.020 that have too long been placed at odds with one another,
00:21:52.180 and we will prove that there is no problem too large for government to solve
00:21:56.060 and no concern too small for it to care about.
00:22:00.120 What he doesn't seem to understand is, in many cases,
00:22:02.280 government is the problem, not the solution.
00:22:06.180 I still think that he benefited greatly from the hope and change phenomenon.
00:22:11.180 I think many, many younger voters were attracted to the insurgent theme of his campaign
00:22:19.860 and the idea that they were a part of history
00:22:23.140 without really focusing on the impact of the policies that he was putting forward for New York.
00:22:30.080 The great political humorist of the 20th century, H.L. Mencken, once said that
00:22:34.880 democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want
00:22:38.900 and deserve to get it good and hard.
00:22:42.520 I kind of feel that way.
00:22:44.960 I feel badly for my friends who live in New York City,
00:22:48.880 but those Democrats who voted for these policies,
00:22:53.460 I think are going to be surprised with what they get.
00:22:56.340 And I do think by 2028, if New York City is, as I think it will be,
00:23:02.560 the flaming wreck that it will be based on the soft-on-crime,
00:23:07.400 high-tax, redistributionist policies of Mamdami, 0.67
00:23:11.260 it will be a showcase for voters across the country
00:23:14.680 of what happens when you actually choose communism.
00:23:19.680 The people of New York City will certainly be getting it good and hard
00:23:22.760 for the next couple of years, in my view.
00:23:25.160 New York City Commissioner Robert Tucker has submitted his resignation
00:23:29.940 following the election of Zoran Mamdami for New York City Mayor.
00:23:34.700 Tucker, who is Jewish, is not willing to work for a boss 0.99
00:23:38.320 who has vehemently expressed his opposition to the state of Israel.
00:23:43.360 Fire Commissioner Tucker said,
00:23:45.280 it's been an honor of a lifetime to serve as the 35th City Fire Commissioner.
00:23:51.140 He thanked Mayor Eric Adams for his trust and confidence in doing this job.
00:23:55.160 We empower the brave men and women who keep our city safe,
00:23:59.320 bringing fire-related deaths to a historic low.
00:24:03.400 I will leave this crucial role on December 19, 2025.
00:24:08.340 Between now and then, I will continue to lead the greatest fire department in the world,
00:24:13.380 and I will ensure an orderly transition.
00:24:16.040 We salute the fire commissioner, Robert Tucker, for his public service.
00:24:23.520 Tucker's resignation is not an overreaction, in my opinion.
00:24:27.660 Mamdami has defended the use of anti-Semitic,
00:24:31.500 genocidal, globalized, intifada sentiment
00:24:35.200 that endorsing wiping Jews out of the Holy Land. 0.51
00:24:38.800 It was very disturbing that he also campaigned with Iman Siraj Wahaj,
00:24:45.940 who was named as an unindicted co-conspirator of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing
00:24:53.860 that was, of course, a precursor to the September 11 attacks.
00:24:59.580 Expect more of the same.
00:25:00.980 I think competent and rational people will leave positions of authority
00:25:04.600 within the New York City government in the weeks to come.
00:25:07.380 They'll be replaced by Islamists, socialists, cronies, and other jihadis. 0.93
00:25:15.080 New York City may have a situation that's even worse than Portland on their hands
00:25:18.620 before as long as the inmates run the asylum.
00:25:22.940 It would be nice if there were a Rudy Giuliani figure
00:25:26.700 who could lead New York City out of peridition after Mamdami, 0.79
00:25:30.840 but I think the demographic changes in New York City
00:25:34.040 make it extraordinarily difficult for that to happen.
00:25:39.280 I pray for my friends who live in the Big Apple.
00:25:43.220 Meanwhile, voters in California passed the Congressional Redistricting Plan
00:25:50.000 of Governor Gavin Newsom.
00:25:52.680 California used to have an independent, nonpartisan Congressional Redistricting Commission
00:25:58.880 that had worked very well for decades,
00:26:01.160 but now Gavin Newsom has grabbed control of that process
00:26:05.980 in an effort to add five new House seats,
00:26:10.280 which would be held by Democrats, to that state's redistricting.
00:26:15.380 President Donald Trump is preparing an executive order
00:26:18.460 to deal with election fraud in California
00:26:20.660 as their mail-in voting system is besieged by accusations of fraud after yesterday.
00:26:25.880 On Tuesday, California voted to approve Proposition 50.
00:26:30.740 This is a measure that ends the state's independent redistricting commission.
00:26:34.800 As I say, it will allow Gavin Newsom to gerrymander congressional districts
00:26:38.760 for the intent of removing seats of Republicans.
00:26:40.740 President Trump believes this result was fraudulent.
00:26:44.020 In a true social post, he wrote,
00:26:46.080 the unconstitutional redistricting vote in California is a giant scam
00:26:51.060 in that the entire process, including the voting itself, was rigged.
00:26:56.140 All mail-in ballots, where the Republicans in the state are shut out,
00:27:00.940 is under very serious legal and criminal review.
00:27:05.640 Remember, California has this odd jungle primary system 1.00
00:27:09.300 in which all candidates of all parties run in one election,
00:27:14.280 and then the two top vote-getters run off against each other.
00:27:19.240 Those can often be two Democrats.
00:27:21.520 On the other hand, Katie Porter, I don't know if you've seen her,
00:27:25.420 she's another one with those wild eyes like AOC. 1.00
00:27:28.480 Katie Porter is thought to be the front-runner for governor. 0.97
00:27:32.060 She actually said that on election night,
00:27:34.520 when Donald Trump was elected president,
00:27:36.700 her daughter cried because she was afraid that she would become pregnant 0.84
00:27:40.960 and need an abortion and not be able to get one. 1.00
00:27:45.760 This is really astounding to come out of the mouth of any politician. 0.97
00:27:50.800 White House Secretary Caroline Levitt, she's a spitfire, 1.00
00:27:55.240 elaborated on President Trump's comments,
00:27:57.240 saying the White House is working on an executive order
00:27:59.220 to strengthen elections in this country
00:28:01.460 and to ensure that there cannot be blatant fraud,
00:28:05.280 as we saw in California with their universal mail-in voting system.
00:28:09.740 Levitt also stated that fraudulent ballots are being mailed
00:28:13.980 in the names of other people,
00:28:15.820 in the names of illegal aliens who shouldn't be voting 0.99
00:28:18.380 in American elections, and so on.
00:28:21.160 It's interesting to me that Attorney General Bill Barr,
00:28:24.360 in an interview on CNN,
00:28:27.420 actually said to Wolf Blitzer, I believe it was,
00:28:31.580 that mail-in ballots were an open invitation for voter fraud.
00:28:36.320 He said that as Attorney General,
00:28:39.560 but later, when shown hard evidence of mail-in ballot voter fraud
00:28:45.540 in the state of Pennsylvania,
00:28:47.860 he told the U.S. Attorney in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh
00:28:51.560 to ignore that evidence and not to pursue those matters.
00:28:57.380 President Trump really does need to crack down on voter fraud
00:29:00.280 before 2026 midterm elections.
00:29:02.640 The entire early voting, mail-in voting needs to be replaced with paper ballots
00:29:11.720 and an election that takes place on one day, not over three weeks.
00:29:16.980 Democrats have shown this propensity to cheat.
00:29:20.060 They love mail-in ballots and absentee ballots
00:29:22.540 because it opens up countless avenues for fraud.
00:29:25.260 When I was in Nevada before the last presidential election,
00:29:30.140 giving a speech out there, a man approached me,
00:29:32.320 and he had five ballots, all sent to the same address,
00:29:36.220 but to five different people, five different names.
00:29:40.160 Only one of those was his name.
00:29:42.780 The other four were people who had rented his apartment
00:29:46.320 prior to his renting it.
00:29:49.200 I asked him what he was going to do about this.
00:29:51.220 He said, well, first of all, I'm going to vote in person
00:29:53.300 because I'm not even sure if I mail in this ballot that it will be counted.
00:29:56.740 But when I did some basic research on the other four people
00:30:01.640 who got absentee or mail-in ballots at my address,
00:30:05.720 two of them were dead.
00:30:07.640 One of them who had moved out of state,
00:30:10.900 and the fourth one still lives in Nevada
00:30:12.940 but had a ballot sent to him at an alternative address.
00:30:16.920 This is precisely the kind of anomaly and irregularity
00:30:21.580 that we have to clean up in our election systems
00:30:24.640 if we are to have any chance of maintaining a MAGA majority.
00:30:30.260 The Democrats love mail-in ballots and absentee ballots.
00:30:33.280 As I say, they hate mandatory voter ID laws, however,
00:30:37.360 because they fear that that will prevent illegals,
00:30:40.140 criminal felons, and other core parts of their constituency
00:30:42.820 from being able to vote.
00:30:44.340 California is their oyster because it's a state 1.00
00:30:47.460 run by far-left lunatics with a malignant narcissist 1.00
00:30:51.680 as governor, Gavin Newsom. 0.98
00:30:53.800 This guy's got great hair, but that's about all you can say about him.
00:30:57.480 He is, of course, from one of the wealthiest families in the country,
00:31:01.480 but he tries very hard to come across as a common man,
00:31:05.140 which, frankly, I don't think he pulls off.
00:31:08.340 This guy will say and do anything to promote his national profile
00:31:12.480 with a clear presidential run in mind for 2028.
00:31:17.740 President Trump actually needs to impose elected integrity on California
00:31:22.100 and the entire country until the vote can be secured,
00:31:25.800 results cannot be trusted, and democracy will be illegitimate in the country.
00:31:30.320 I point out that the Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard,
00:31:34.560 is now heading a task force to study the integrity
00:31:38.120 and the history of electronic voting machines.
00:31:41.880 I think this is a vitally important investigation,
00:31:45.300 and we need to get answers, not theories, not supposition,
00:31:50.420 not charges, not claims, but hard evidence to determine once and for all
00:31:56.240 whether these electronic voting machines can, in fact, be manipulated
00:32:02.220 both within the system or from outside.
00:32:06.020 We were told repeatedly that they were not connected to the Internet,
00:32:09.280 yet in multiple states it has proven that they were.
00:32:13.160 So we need to go back to good old-fashioned paper ballots
00:32:16.700 in an election on one day, and yes, voter ID, meaning photo ID,
00:32:24.040 in order to be able to vote.
00:32:26.240 Since the government is committed to real ID,
00:32:30.000 and a real ID can only be given to a U.S. citizen,
00:32:34.100 although I'm not a big fan of the real ID program,
00:32:38.040 because I don't particularly like the government having a database
00:32:40.920 on every American citizen,
00:32:43.720 still, I would be satisfied with checking real ID against the voter list
00:32:49.220 to determine that those who are voting are actually legally eligible to vote.
00:32:54.980 Until we clean up our election system, our elections will always be in doubt,
00:33:00.880 and this leaves me some sleepless nights.
00:33:04.500 I believe that there is still a solid majority out there from the country for Donald Trump
00:33:09.360 and the coalition he built with Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
00:33:13.180 And when we come back, we're going to talk about RFK's latest program,
00:33:20.160 calling for mercury to be banned from all vaccinations throughout the world.
00:33:26.820 I'm Roger Stone.
00:33:28.180 You're listening to The Stone Zone.
00:33:29.660 Here we talk politics, history, news,
00:33:32.960 and I try to give you the inside analysis based on 50 years
00:33:37.140 in the corroded rectum of the two-party system.
00:33:40.800 I'm a veteran of over 13 national presidential campaigns
00:33:44.880 and over 700 campaigns at all levels.
00:33:49.220 If you cut me, I think I would bleed politics.
00:33:52.480 I eat, sleep, and breathe politics.
00:33:54.700 It is my passion.
00:33:56.960 And I try to bring you the nonpartisan, unvarnished opinion
00:34:01.900 right here on The Stone Zone.
00:34:03.980 Don't go away.
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00:34:17.080 Welcome back into The Stone Zone.
00:34:19.260 HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.,
00:34:22.580 who is, of course, the son of New York U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy,
00:34:27.680 who was brutally assassinated on the eve of his greatest political triumph
00:34:33.220 when he won the 1968 California Democrat primary,
00:34:37.460 is calling for mercury to be removed from vaccinations throughout the world
00:34:41.200 following the example from the United States.
00:34:43.900 RFK Jr. said this while appearing on a video feed
00:34:47.860 at the Minamata Convention on Mercury in Geneva, Switzerland.
00:34:53.520 He explained the importance of the convention
00:34:55.580 and how, although mercury was removed from over-the-counter products
00:34:59.840 here in the United States and across the world,
00:35:02.300 it somehow incomprehensibly remained in vaccinations.
00:35:05.620 So those who have for years said that RFK's anti-vaccination are incorrect,
00:35:10.240 what he is opposed to is some of the dangerous and toxic ingredients in vaccinations,
00:35:16.720 what he is now essentially given scientific proof of their danger and toxicity.
00:35:24.160 So we have to ask why.
00:35:25.900 Why do we have this double standard for mercury?
00:35:28.280 Why do we call it dangerous in batteries?
00:35:30.560 We call it dangerous in over-the-counter medications and makeup,
00:35:34.400 but we find it acceptable in vaccinations and dental fillings.
00:35:38.960 Why, indeed, thimerosal's own label requires it to be treated as a hazardous material
00:35:46.760 and warns against ingestion.
00:35:48.840 There's not a single study that proves that mercury is safe.
00:35:52.740 That's why in July of this year, the United States closed the final chapter
00:35:56.420 on the use of thimerosal, which is mercury, as a vaccine representative,
00:36:03.640 something that RFK says correctly should have happened years ago.
00:36:07.460 Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has worked diligently to create common-sense rules regarding vaccinations.
00:36:14.340 No longer does the federal government deny that there can be significant health risks
00:36:19.880 in taking a vaccination.
00:36:21.440 This must be a matter of personal choice.
00:36:24.340 No longer does the federal government work with Big Pharma to coerce people
00:36:28.120 into taking vaccinations against their will.
00:36:30.880 The people of America, once again, will have the freedom to choose,
00:36:35.440 and the people across the country should have the same rights.
00:36:38.940 They should not be compelled to take a vaccination with harmful mercury in it,
00:36:43.120 and they certainly should not be forced to inject their children with a vaccination
00:36:47.320 that may harm their children's cognitive functions.
00:36:50.820 Hopefully, more countries throughout the world will follow America's example,
00:36:55.100 except by the Trump administration and the incredible work being done by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
00:37:01.520 Meanwhile, U.S. Steel has announced a $14 billion investment partnering with Nippon Steel of Japan
00:37:09.980 that will bring in over 100,000 additional jobs to America.
00:37:14.440 This is the result, of course, with President Donald Trump's recent meeting in Japan
00:37:20.520 with the newly elected Japanese prime minister.
00:37:26.680 She, of course, was elected in the upset within their parliament 0.94
00:37:32.040 in which the conservative party joined with a small libertarian party
00:37:37.000 to create a new pro-Western, pro-United Street, pro-Trump majority.
00:37:44.520 This, I think, shows how President Trump's policies are revitalizing America's more abundant industrial base.
00:37:51.260 U.S. Steel plans to invest $11 billion into growth by the end of 2028,
00:37:56.700 believing that they, working with Nippon Steel, can create $3 billion in new value.
00:38:02.720 They will be focusing on creating a more productive, effective sector
00:38:06.620 that will make U.S. Steel into the greatest the world has ever known.
00:38:11.480 Donald Trump understands when it comes to 2026, while he has an envious role of creating peace around the world,
00:38:21.000 and I still argue that it's he who deserves the Nobel Peace Prize, 0.99
00:38:25.140 it is still the economy stupid. 0.99
00:38:28.200 And those who keep, as Chicken Little, screaming about the 2026 elections based on yesterday's results, 0.99
00:38:33.700 I say yet again, until we know what the rate of inflation is, until we know what the state of the economy is,
00:38:40.780 until we know what the unemployment rate is, until we know what the interest rates are in 2026,
00:38:47.160 it is impossible to say what will happen,
00:38:49.240 but I predict today that there will be an increase in the Republican margins in both the House and Senate when the smoke clears in 2026.
00:38:58.380 You heard it here first on The Stone Zone.
00:39:00.460 I'm Roger Stone.
00:39:01.640 Until we meet again, God bless you and Godspeed.
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