00:02:24.340Now, get in the zone. It's the Stone Zone. Here's Roger Stone.
00:02:31.460And I'm Jake Novak filling in for Roger Stone here on election night eve in America.
00:02:37.540The big midterm elections of 2026. By this time tomorrow night, we'll have some results already.
00:02:45.060Some of which could be very, very consequential.
00:02:48.220And of course, this is a national program. We're even on in some foreign countries.
00:02:52.980And if you have the WABC app or some of the other apps from some of our affiliate stations, you can listen to it in outer space if you want to.
00:03:00.220But I want to start by making an important point about our American political system, the brilliance of the founding fathers and what they understood about it.
00:03:10.780And how the way that people, especially in the news media, cover the midterm elections is contrary to some of the things that make America great and have always made America great.
00:03:22.980I think one of the greatest things about the American political system
00:03:27.780is that we don't have a parliamentary democracy.
00:03:30.140Parliamentary democracies are a mess and a half.0.70
00:03:32.920If you don't believe me, look at what's going on in Israel right now
00:03:35.960with their election, look at some of the other countries.
00:03:40.200The reason why we don't have a parliamentary government in this country
00:03:45.520is the Founding Fathers wanted individual members of Congress
00:03:52.020and our president to be individually recognizable individually accountable and didn't like the idea
00:03:57.820of political parties in the first place political parties came later after washington's presidency
00:04:04.080after the constitution was ratified and they didn't like the idea of people voting for parties
00:04:11.460instead of individuals who would be personally accountable
00:04:16.220and in a healthy american polity when our when our political system is healthy and i think even
00:04:23.720in healthy parts of other other parts of the world all politics thus becomes local when things are
00:04:31.260healthy when things are working right it was the great tip o'neill longtime speaker of the house
00:04:37.700who's who's who made that quote all politics is local that was his statement
00:04:42.100But if you turn on the news media, if you turn on the news stations, the cable stations, if you look at the websites, they keep trying to nationalize our midterm elections.
00:04:54.060Now, with presidential elections, even though we do also pick our president state by state, as you know, I can understand the nationalizing of the election.
00:05:04.280It's the president of the whole country, after all, and I don't blame the news media and other entities for doing that.
00:05:09.260But I do have a huge bone to pick with these people who continue to nationalize our midterm elections, and they're on the left and the right.
00:05:19.300At the end of the day, if you vote for a candidate in your state, in your congressional district, based on national policies, on national trends, you're making a mistake.
00:05:33.360And the only reason why you're seeing so many Democrats doing better in the polls and some of them will win in a lot of cases is because of the national hatred of Donald Trump that has been cultivated by the Democrats and the left since 2015 when he came down the escalator.1.00
00:05:55.040And if your vote tomorrow, or if you early voted, was based on your hatred of Donald Trump, you're a fool.0.99
00:06:03.280He's not a candidate in this election.0.99
00:06:05.800And no matter how many so-called Trump loyalists are on the ballot, and there really is no such thing, I'm sorry.
00:06:13.980It's not, at the end of the day, his decisions that you're going to be voting for.
00:07:23.220They didn't like the idea of these different parties that they had seen in Europe, particularly in England, where they were just fighting over which party had control, the actual governing and the personal responsibility, which is what the Founding Fathers wanted.
00:07:38.520The Founding Fathers dreamt of a world where there would be a king who would be accountable.
00:07:43.940Short of that, which they knew they couldn't have both, they created the office of the presidency.
00:07:48.720Because at the end of the day, they wanted one human being who could be personally known by the whole country to have these important decisions.
00:07:58.060They wanted it to have some checks and balances. They wanted the Congress to be there as well.
00:08:02.360But ultimately, they wanted a very powerful chief executive and a parliament that would do things like control the money and create certain decisions about approvals and, for example, the confirmation of judges and things like that.
00:08:44.360they need to scrap that system and don't think it is impossible israel was a very socialist
00:08:51.000country until relatively recently and they've mostly scrapped the socialist nonsense so they
00:08:55.300could do it if they wanted to they should because it's not working it's just not working folks
00:09:00.580now we've got a lot of things not working in our uh political culture as well but mostly because
00:09:06.800people are trying to move us away from this brilliant thought that the founding fathers had
00:09:11.920which should was create a non-parliamentary democracy one that still had elements of a
00:09:20.260parliament that's what the congress is but not in the way that we that you see in other countries
00:09:24.540and i and i think it's i think it's brilliant so if you're voting tomorrow or you already voted0.99
00:09:31.360based on what you think about trump alone you're a fool not only are you a fool not not really0.99
00:09:36.300looking out for your own locality's best interests because you're not and that includes people who0.99
00:09:43.500love donald trump there's some people who maybe will vote with donald trump if they make it to
00:09:50.340congress but they have no business running for office but for the most part i'm talking about
00:09:56.440the people who hate trump who not only vote that way whether he's running or not but act that way
00:10:02.320have their social interactions based on who who the president is take a look at some of these
00:10:09.440dating sites online if you ever want to a huge number of people the first thing they say is if
00:10:14.660you vote if you vote for trump i don't want to i mean honestly even if you hate trump and you
00:10:19.920choose whom to date first on their on their politics it's what a lousy um romantic person0.95
00:10:24.920you are this whole country has been dealing with a large amount of mental illness over donald trump0.78
00:10:31.940for a long time and I'm so sick of it and this hopefully will be the last vestige of it what
00:10:37.780we're seeing now if you don't believe me just look back think to yourself how many of the
00:10:43.160Democrats commercials have you seen on TV in the last couple of months and was there even one
00:10:49.160commercial for a Democrat in any election in America that didn't bash Donald Trump
00:10:53.940donald trump's not running and you're if your sole purpose in congress is to push back on
00:11:02.720donald trump when there's a lot of policies that even people who hate him should be able to
00:11:06.240understand could be good for your municipality for example like keeping illegal aliens and
00:11:11.880criminal illegal aliens out of the country which is good for everybody it's also really good for
00:11:16.380local budgets you know i grew up in a time in america where crime was a bipartisan issue0.79
00:11:23.680And by that, I mean by that, I mean Republicans and Democrats here in New York City when I was a teenager used to fight over who was better on crime.
00:11:31.660Now the Democrats have decided they don't want to fight crime at all.
00:11:34.980But in those old days, the idea that there would be a federal agency that would take violent criminals off of, for example, New York City's hands, maybe even go to Rikers Island and take them out of Rikers Island and put them in a federal facility and take them off our tax rolls would have been a godsend politically.
00:11:50.700Oh, my God, you're going to help us fight crime and literally take some of these scumbags out of the state, out of the city, and we don't even have to pay you?
00:12:02.500But now you have literal Democrats who are, because they hate Donald Trump, who are not only keeping some of these people in jail, but freeing them because, well, we're sticking it to Donald Trump.
00:12:11.360You're cutting off your nose to spite your face.0.99
00:12:13.220and the mental illness of hating donald trump has ruined the healthy aspect of our midterm0.99
00:12:22.880elections which should be even more local than our presidential elections are you should be0.67
00:12:27.000focused on your local issues who can make your state better who can make your congressional
00:12:32.060district better who's more qualified not who has got the nastiest snarkiest anti-trump ad0.96
00:12:36.820what the what the heck's the matter with you go ahead and hate Donald Trump all you want on your0.94
00:12:43.180own but you're going to vote for for example a crazed anti-semite in Michigan no one who's voting0.97
00:12:49.220for Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan is voting for him because they think he's got great policies
00:12:54.140they're voting for him because they hate Trump and they think that a guy like that who Trump
00:12:59.140doesn't like will make Trump feel bad it's not gonna make Trump feel bad okay he'll probably
00:13:03.180enjoy making fun of him for the next couple of years if he's elected you're not even right on
00:13:08.360that on that issue let alone being right for doing right for yourself in your state and i'll
00:13:13.720talk a lot more about that election after this break but i just wanted to set this up folks
00:13:17.800because we are dealing with midterm elections and this show should be much harder to do the
00:13:24.420news media should be working much harder explaining each state by state the issues in those state what's
00:13:29.900the biggest issue there instead because they're lazy and they're and they're disingenuous the
00:13:36.860news media tries to make every midterm election but especially this one a referendum on donald
00:13:41.360trump which is a great way to not inform the public and also a great way to contribute to the
00:13:48.580sickness in our political culture in this country because it's sick for so many reasons
00:13:53.540But one of the biggest reasons why is because we're moving away from, again, I have a little bit of an edit on the great Tip O'Neill quote, all politics is local.
00:14:03.580I would say in a healthy society, all politics is local.
00:14:08.300And right now, it's not healthy because too many people don't vote local.
00:15:10.980And I'm Jake Novak filling in for Roger Stone here on the Stone Zone the night before the midterm elections.
00:15:16.180Again, trying to make my point that you do not and should not vote in your midterm elections based on whether you like the president or not.
00:15:26.080If you do, you're making a huge mistake, one that is not in your own self-interest.
00:22:27.200But let's talk about the rest of us who don't live in Michigan and why we need to understand why this is indeed the most important election of all the midterms tomorrow.
00:22:37.000And I don't mean most important for you and your local issue.
00:22:39.180I mean most important for our national identity as a country and a culture.
00:22:42.540europe since the mid 1870s has had anti-semitic political parties not parties that were just a
00:22:55.660little bit more anti-semitic parties that had anti-semitism as their central as one of their
00:23:00.080central planks if not their central plank you all know about the nazis but the nazis were um
00:23:05.680there were parties well before the nazis 60 years before the nazis almost that had nazi-like
00:23:12.980ideologies and central planks that were anti-semitic started in germany which probably
00:23:18.240doesn't surprise you but they were in other countries as well so i'm talking about something
00:23:23.260that has been a fact of life in europe for over 150 years here in the united states despite the
00:23:30.320fact that we have had individual anti-Semitic politicians from time to time. We have never had
00:23:36.840an anti-Semitic political party nationally. We've never had one. Never had one that had an official
00:23:42.260anti-Semitic plank in its platform, the whole thing. Thank God. We've been immune to it.0.98
00:23:47.300But here's why there is a national importance for the rest of us watching this Michigan election
00:23:51.340to this election. If Abdul El-Sayed wins this Senate election tomorrow in Michigan,
00:23:57.940the democratic party will officially become an anti-semitic party not because i say so
00:24:03.580but because they will say so they will absolutely chalk up this victory maybe privately at first
00:24:09.600but i don't even think they'll be private at first but certainly eventually they will publicly
00:24:13.220basically chalk it up to the fact that they had an anti-semitic candidate in there who made israel
00:24:18.680the scapegoat for all the problems in the world and they will say this is the winning ticket this
00:24:22.840is what we've been missing this is what we didn't do in 2024 and in 2016 and now we're going to do
00:24:28.920it and it'll be very difficult to excise that from that party ever again what an ignominious thing
00:24:35.080for ignominious thing for and that means disgraceful embarrassing what a thing for a
00:24:39.740party that once was the standard bearer for slavery in this country and i know there's a
00:24:43.800lot of republicans that like to go around and say oh the democrats that's the party of slavery
00:24:46.840it's kind of a low blow i mean it's been a long time right since slavery has been a fact of life
00:24:51.480in this country but if i were a democrat i would think about maybe changing the name of the party
00:24:57.040why didn't they change their name to the new democrat party or something like that just to
00:25:01.140disassociate themselves from the old pro-slavery democrats during the during the the years leading
00:25:07.680up to the civil war that's another discussion but you have to understand why this is so important
00:25:14.700it's not because i'm just because i'm jewish and i don't want to see an anti-semitic party
00:25:18.140Although you don't have to be Jewish not to want that. You should not want that if you have even the smallest modicum of historical intelligence and education. Because every nation that has openly embraced anti-Semitism has gone into the ash can of history. It's a real, real red flag, to say the least.
00:29:26.640And the most important thing you can do is not try to protect a person from seeing a thing.
00:29:31.220It's about trying to make sure that as you coach your kid through the world, that you are engaging with them and saying, here's what I believe.
00:29:40.320You get to make your choices about who you're going to be in the world.
00:29:43.700But that's going to require us to make do.
00:29:46.620what a dope and i mean that of both of the people in that conversation
00:29:51.480yeah i understand that my children when they were younger could have seen something online
00:29:58.700like that like a naked man and do that easily where is this reporter ross do that this uh
00:30:06.220court you know who's supposed to be so smart he's the smart religious guy from the times
00:30:11.660And now he's at 60. Where is he to say the obvious? Sir, there's a difference between a picture your kid sees on the phone and an actual naked man standing three feet from their face. You incredible ignoramus. Or you incredible liar. A lot of times these days, I can't tell the difference.
00:30:30.28020 years ago, when someone said something really, really stupid, I could be really, really, really secure in knowing they were just stupid or uneducated.1.00
00:30:36.700Now I think people just push stupidity because they're disingenuous liars.1.00
00:30:44.480And Abdul El-Sayed is supposedly a devout Muslim.1.00
00:30:47.560I promise you he's not going to – he does not want men, naked men, in front of his children, whether they're boys or girls.0.94
00:31:14.520Well, I mean, are we literally going to have interviews one day where, you know, maybe someday soon where a candidate says, like, well, you know, I don't think you should wash your hands after you use the bathroom.1.00
00:31:23.240It's like, you're going to be exposed to those germs anyway.
00:31:27.620And is the interviewer going to say, like, oh, good point.0.92
00:31:31.120When I was working in local news, and one of the reasons why I left local news, I was in it for six years, is we put so much stupidity on the air that at least was the right answer to things.0.84
00:31:40.280We would literally put stories on the air about why you need to wash your hands after the bathroom.0.98
00:31:45.500But at least that was the correct advice, even though I was thinking to myself, like, oh, my God, do I really need to produce a story telling people to wash their hands after the bathroom?
00:31:58.800So I got into financial news and national news.
00:32:02.720But now they're going to do stories that say you shouldn't wash your hands because, you know, they're paid off by a bunch of anti-American, anti-human forces that float stories like this.
00:32:15.160I mean, in Michigan or anywhere else, you're going to vote for someone who says, well, it's OK to have a naked man in front of my little minor girl in a locker room because she'll see the same thing on the Internet.
00:34:05.320But they've been trying to be a little bit tongue-in-cheek about it or a little bit cagey about it.
00:34:10.080They won't be cagey anymore if El Saeed wins tomorrow.
00:34:14.460It'll be the first thing that they talk about.0.85
00:34:16.300It'll become a Momdani Democrat Party.0.91
00:34:20.400Because remember, the first thing that Mayor Mamdani did here in New York was to rescind the order that protected Jewish synagogues from being protested within a few feet of the doors of the synagogues.0.96
00:36:31.380A man who's gone through hell, but he's kept going, and he's smart, and he's strong, and people love him.
00:36:38.320Not everybody, but people love him and respect him.
00:36:40.840roger stone where's roger stone here's roger stone and i'm jake novak in for roger stone
00:36:47.240last few minutes here on the stone zone the night before election day uh all 50 states have some
00:36:52.780kind of an election going on some are bigger than others but um this is one of those years where
00:36:57.440there's a lot of governorships up for grabs so it's really a bigger midterm election than for
00:37:02.560example four years ago um where you'd had i think slightly fewer senate seats uh up you know because
00:37:09.640it's a 100-seat Senate that we have, for those of you who don't know. So every two years,
00:37:16.000it can't be 33. And one of those years, it's got to be 34, right? Because just for math purposes.
00:37:22.520So anyway, it's a bigger year than in the past. And a number of states and a number of elections
00:37:27.380that are toss-ups. That's another reason why it's a big deal. I wanted to spend just a couple of
00:37:32.500minutes talking about what's going on in Alaska. You've heard so much about it from me and others
00:37:36.360on this station and others over the last couple of days but it's also an important national election
00:37:42.660just because we're watching it nationally again the people of alaska i urge you to look at your
00:37:46.420issues i don't know how anyone in alaska can ever vote for a democrat when the oil industry
00:37:51.620is so important to that state and you have a democrat party that's very much against it
00:37:57.460and i would like to see petroleum get phased out as our number one fuel source as much as anybody
00:38:03.220I really do. But until then, we can't throw the baby out with the bathwater. Did you ever live with someone, maybe have a spouse who used to like, while you were in the shower, take the towels and put them in the wash and then not replace it? That's kind of like what the Democrats want to do with oil. Go ahead and replace the oil, but don't do it while we need it. Okay? And replace it with something viable, which they haven't been able to do, although we do have a lot of other options now, which can reduce the burden. Whatever, you know the story.
00:38:31.720Anyway, but the issue in Alaska is not that, unfortunately. It's this fraudulent campaign that the Democrats are running. And I say that now without saying the word allegedly because it was the Democrats controlled on paper in The New York Times, which exposed it, which just goes to show how egregious the process was.
00:38:46.920I hope you got a chance to read the story. It included allegations or basically depictions of members of Mary Peltola, the Democrat nominee for senator in Alaska, her staff going to bars and taverns, asking if they knew anyone named Dan Sullivan, literally recruiting someone with the same name.
00:39:04.920so um and everything else like that and now we can't find this phony dan sullivan we can't even
00:39:12.900find him the feds have gone and looked for his you know and talked to his donors they did find them
00:39:18.440and mary peltola is still even though alaska is a small state but population wise it's the largest0.92
00:39:24.380state geographically even though she has a small staff here she is denying any knowledge of
00:39:29.320anything going on here and it's not plausible cut six if there does prove to be any sort of
00:39:34.280trickery that either the federal or state government finds from a former member of your
00:39:37.920campaign what do you recommend the government ultimately does with that information well we'll
00:39:43.400have to see when we cross that bridge i know there's this just that all this information just
00:39:49.060came out it's as new to me as it is to you and so we're all trying to figure out what happened and
00:39:54.680where we go from here and finally yeah that does not it's not a plausible answer if her chief of
00:39:59.980staff was out there recruiting another Dan Sullivan, I'm supposed to believe that Mary
00:40:04.720Peltola knows nothing about it? If not, she should. She's either irresponsible or a liar.
00:40:13.760And these are the kinds of people that are running for office. Both parties have people1.00
00:40:17.360like this, I admit it, but my goodness. Politics is like a magnet for bad people. It just is.
00:40:24.240I like talking about it instead of being in it. Speak to you tomorrow.
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