Verdict with Ted Cruz - October 30, 2026


Barnstorming the Country—the Most Consequential Midterms of our Lifetimes

BONUS POD： Ballot Trickery in Alaska as Cheating Democrats have NO Ideas for Winning

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00:02:12.720 Welcome. It is Verdict with Senator Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you as well.
00:02:16.960 And it's nice to have you with us listening on radio stations all over the country.
00:02:20.880 We are just days away now from Election Day, Senator, and you have been barnstorming the country.
00:02:26.400 We've got a lot to talk about.
00:02:28.360 Well, the election is just a few days away.
00:02:30.680 And all across the country, there are Senate races that are incredibly close.
00:02:35.060 There are eight to ten Senate races across the country that are basically tied.
00:02:40.480 They're within the margin of error.
00:02:42.660 If we have a good night on election day, we could have a fantastic result.
00:02:47.380 We could end up with 53 Republicans in the Senate.
00:02:49.780 We could end up growing our majority in the Senate.
00:02:52.320 We could end up at 54, 55.
00:02:55.740 If we have a bad day, if those eight to 10 races we lose, we could wake up the day after
00:03:01.580 election day instead of 53 Republicans with 45.
00:03:07.240 That big a delta is at play.
00:03:09.460 Now, in the last several days, I have been all over the country.
00:03:13.740 I've been campaigning in Georgia, in Texas, in South Carolina, in North Carolina, in Michigan, in Iowa, in Kansas.
00:03:23.240 I've been on the ground campaigning with candidates in every one of those states.
00:03:27.340 I want to break down what is happening in those states, what to expect, and what we need to do to ensure that we do not lose the battle for the heart and soul of our nation.
00:03:37.040 It really is going to be intense
00:03:39.840 And we're going to break down each of these states
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00:04:52.120 All right, Senator, so let's go back to the campaign trail and walk us through it
00:04:56.780 Tell us what's happening, what does momentum feel like
00:04:59.500 And what is your gut about where we are right now in these closing days?
00:05:05.740 Well, overall, I am deeply, deeply worried.
00:05:09.620 And so my message to everyone listening, what we're seeing across the country is massive Democrat turnout.
00:05:17.700 Democrats are showing up.
00:05:19.080 They're energized. 0.98
00:05:20.380 They hate, hate, hate Donald Trump.
00:05:23.840 And I don't want to bury the lead.
00:05:25.400 I want to start with the bad news right now.
00:05:27.120 if the election were over today, if just the early votes that have been cast so far were counted,
00:05:35.120 Republicans would lose massively. It would not be close. We would lose both the House and Senate.
00:05:40.640 It would be a bloodbath. Now, the good news is there are Republican votes out there to turn
00:05:47.140 that around. And here's how you assess elections. You often look, you look at past voters and you
00:05:53.480 look at typically the way you do it is you look at what are called one r's two r's three r's and
00:05:58.340 four r's and and those are voters who they you look at the last four partisan elections and a
00:06:04.140 four r is someone who has voted in four of four republican primaries so a four r is a reliable
00:06:10.340 republican voter there's someone that you can count on them a three r obviously is someone
00:06:15.240 who's voted in three of the last four a two r two and a one r one and by the way you do the same
00:06:20.620 thing on the Democrat side. What we have seen to date is four D's. The reliable Democrat voters
00:06:29.680 are showing up in massive numbers. Their stalwarts are showing up enormously. That's why I say
00:06:38.380 if the election were over today, it would be really, really bad. Now we've got a lot of 4Rs, 1.00
00:06:45.020 but at least so far, our 4Rs are not showing up. Our turnout among 4Rs is much, much lower
00:06:52.920 than the turnout among the stalwart Democrats. Now, the good news is in most of these states, 0.98
00:07:00.280 if you do the math, there are more Republicans than Democrats. So if you add our 4Rs and 3Rs
00:07:05.600 and 2Rs and 1Rs together, they outnumber the Democrat primary field. And we're not seeing
00:07:11.440 a ton of new voters it's primarily massive democrat turnout among their their hardcore
00:07:16.980 passionate people now there is a skew historically republicans tend to be less likely to vote early
00:07:24.720 and more likely to vote on election day so normally republicans have a a heavier turnout
00:07:31.140 on election day that being said the imbalance is really really big so i want to speak uh this
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00:07:48.720 i i want to ask you i i want to just about beg and plead if you have not voted if it's still early
00:07:57.520 vote in your state come out in early vote if not the election day is tuesday no matter what is
00:08:06.040 going on if it's rain or snow or a pack of wild zombies depend descending on your town
00:08:14.880 please please please show up and vote if it's zombies bring a gun but show up and vote
00:08:22.760 because we need conservatives we need independents we need libertarians we just need
00:08:32.820 common sense regular voters to show up because right now the crazies are dominating the turnout
00:08:39.900 it is really really strong and and look you can understand why if you're hard left
00:08:46.340 what motivates you right now you hate with all of your heart donald trump and hate is a powerful
00:08:55.980 a motivator yeah hate gets people to show up gets people to work gets people to give money
00:09:02.940 gets people to to encourage others to vote and the left is energized and they're excited they
00:09:09.040 see an opportunity to fundamentally turn this country to to elect radicals and and in many 0.97
00:09:15.120 many of these candidates we're looking at at open communists and jihadists islamists it is 0.97
00:09:22.560 dangerous what we are facing. And on the right, one of the problems of being in power, we have 1.00
00:09:27.980 a Republican in the White House, a Republican Senate, Republican House. It's easy to be
00:09:33.060 complacent. It's easy to be like, well, we didn't do this. We didn't do that. And there's a
00:09:38.120 fundamental problem. Let's talk about Texas, for example. By the way, Texas is excruciatingly
00:09:43.540 close. Understand, we could lose Texas. Let me repeat that. We could lose Texas. And by the way,
00:09:48.500 not just the senate race we could lose every single statewide race in texas that's how close
00:09:55.660 these numbers are now some conservatives they say i don't trust the polls the polls are all wrong
00:10:00.740 well let me tell you that there is a bias in the polls they do skew left but i can tell you having
00:10:07.720 run a lot of campaigns have examined a lot of numbers these data are not fake the democrats
00:10:15.460 are massively out turning out the republicans we got to fix that and i don't want to wake up
00:10:24.460 in a world where texas is all blue where we've lost every statewide race where the democrats
00:10:31.100 have a massive majority in the senate a massive majority in the house and and and and once that
00:10:36.840 happens there's no turning back it's not like the day after election day you say oh no i didn't know
00:10:43.620 that was happening maybe i should have showed up so i'm pleading with you show up and vote it
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00:14:22.580 Senator, you said something a moment ago that I want to go back to,
00:14:25.360 and I think it's a really important point.
00:14:26.920 The voter turnout from the radical left,
00:14:29.440 The Democratic Socialists, the Marxists, the communists, it is really, I think, concerning.
00:14:37.980 We're seeing the early voting numbers that have come out, and you can kind of see who's voting, Republicans or Democrats.
00:14:44.620 The early voting numbers in Texas are very concerning.
00:14:47.480 There's several days early on that the Democrats were just straight up beating Republican turnout.
00:14:53.080 We've seen that trend that has continued, and a lot of times we'll see those numbers pick up on the weekend.
00:14:57.420 I was talking to one that said, hey, the weekend numbers did not give us the gains that we needed or we thought we were going to have in past elections.
00:15:06.120 And that is incredibly concerning, which is why you're explaining to people right now.
00:15:10.380 You've got to get out and vote.
00:15:12.540 Yeah. And here's the good news.
00:15:14.660 Because the Democrat, the hardcore, the four D's and three D's are voting in such big numbers.
00:15:20.560 Most of that pool has been exhausted.
00:15:23.080 Most of the loyal partisan Democrats have voted already.
00:15:26.240 That means on election day, they have a relatively small pool of passionate Democrats to draw from.
00:15:32.060 They may bring out some new voters, but their hardcore supporters, almost all of them have already voted.
00:15:37.620 On the Republican side, some of our hardcore supporters have voted.
00:15:41.980 But many, most of the four R's and three R's have not yet voted.
00:15:47.760 As I said, historically, Republicans, many Republicans, prefer voting on election day.
00:15:54.020 I always vote early. In Texas, it's pretty easy to vote early. You vote in person. You go to the
00:15:59.500 ballot just like you would do on election day. Usually, the lines are shorter. You can do it
00:16:04.700 pretty quickly, and so we have two weeks of early voting. I voted on, I think, the second day voting
00:16:08.480 was open, so I've already cast my vote. But I'll tell you, when I showed up, there was a huge line,
00:16:15.360 over an hour-long line, and at least from visual appearance, it looked like a pretty Democrat 0.98
00:16:21.540 turnout um that's who was showing up early that means we've got a big pool we've got three r's
00:16:29.320 and four r's hardcore republicans that are out there who haven't voted yet and the question is
00:16:34.620 every campaign and i've been i'm going to walk you through each of the states i've been in but
00:16:39.040 the question every single campaign is asking is are those voters going to show up if our people
00:16:46.000 show up we'll do fine but if they stay home it is katie bar the door a bloodbath and and we don't
00:16:55.340 know and many of the people who have stayed home so far have been the rural voters the the farmers 0.56
00:16:59.520 and ranchers and look let's take texas texas you've got west texas you've got east texas
00:17:05.660 they are very very conservative they tend historically to support donald trump at about
00:17:10.900 a rate of 70 to 30. If they show up in big numbers, there are a lot of Republican votes
00:17:16.660 in West Texas and East Texas. But if they stay home and you've just got the inner cities in
00:17:22.260 Houston and Dallas and Austin voting, well, then we are a very blue state because those parts of
00:17:27.900 the state are quite blue and you need the rest of the state to counterbalance it. And so the
00:17:33.060 question every campaign is asking is, are our people going to show up on election day or are
00:17:40.640 they gonna say i don't like this i don't like that and and look there are all sorts of challenges
00:17:44.980 across the country there are some conservatives who are frustrated that we haven't passed the
00:17:49.540 save america act look i'm frustrated we haven't passed the save america act i'm an original
00:17:53.280 sponsor of it i've been fighting tooth and nail we haven't had the numbers we haven't been able
00:17:59.080 to get to 50 can you remind that is a simple math problem yeah remind them why we can't get to 50
00:18:05.480 there's some disgruntled senators that are about to just be gone that's what's part of what's been
00:18:10.080 yeah listen listen we have 53 republicans in the senate and there are anywhere from four to six
00:18:16.620 republicans who are no and there are several republicans who have been beaten in primaries
00:18:21.060 who are unhappy about it who are not coming back to the senate and and who frankly don't really
00:18:26.120 care what president trump says to them and and it's been a math problem i don't like it
00:18:30.140 but i don't have the ability to turn 49 into 50 that at the end of the day there that there have
00:18:36.920 been senators who have been hard no so and by the way if you want to pass the save america act you
00:18:41.560 know the number one way to guarantee it never ever passes into law stay home on election day
00:18:47.520 and give us a 55 45 democrat senate and not only will you not get the save america act but you will
00:18:54.840 get radicals who end the filibuster who do the anti-save america act who pass federal legislation
00:19:01.180 eliminating every election integrity law in the country and outlawing photo ID.
00:19:06.740 And you might say, okay, Ted, that's too extreme.
00:19:08.860 They'd never do that.
00:19:10.620 That is a bill that is in every Congress for the last six years,
00:19:15.440 the first bill that Chuck Schumer files.
00:19:18.220 It is S-1.
00:19:18.980 The way they number Senate bills, they number them in order.
00:19:21.620 S-1 is the first Senate bill filed.
00:19:25.400 Every Democrat supports it.
00:19:27.380 so if you think save america acts matters then the single worst thing you could do
00:19:36.260 is stay home because you're mad because if you give democrats control they will change the law
00:19:42.340 so that not only do we not pass save america but the federal government strikes down in texas for
00:19:47.880 example we have photo id the democrats want to make that illegal yeah and so the stakes of that
00:19:54.580 are enormous. But in Texas, part of what's complicated is conservatives are grumpy about
00:19:58.740 that. But moderates are grumpy because we had a contentious primary and Ken Paxton beat John
00:20:04.880 Cornyn and more moderate voters supported John Cornyn. And there's some moderates that are
00:20:08.900 grumpy about it that say, OK, my candidate didn't win. And listen, I stand out of the primary. I'm
00:20:13.800 friends with both of them. I'm friends with Ken Paxton. I'm friends with John Cornyn. I've worked
00:20:17.800 with both of them for more than a decade. But once the primary was over, and to be clear,
00:20:23.240 paxton won by 28 points so the people that are like oh i don't like that outcome this was not
00:20:30.140 close the voters spoke resoundingly and the challenge is there's some moderates they're like
00:20:36.540 okay i i don't like the guy that won i don't like that my guy lost so i'm going to stay home or so
00:20:43.220 i'm not going to vote in the senate race or so maybe even i'm going to vote for the democrat
00:20:46.440 And you know what? That is how you take our state of Texas and you light it on fire.
00:20:55.000 You will not like what happens to Texas if we become a bright blue state.
00:21:00.180 And I'll tell you this, if we adopt the policies of California, we will end up with the outcomes of California.
00:21:09.320 One, when I was up campaigning in Michigan, one of the Republicans running there said, you know, part of me kind of hopes that you guys blow yourself up in Texas and turn all blue because then everyone will flee Texas and come to Michigan.
00:21:20.000 We can create jobs here instead of you're taking all our jobs and taking people from Michigan.
00:21:25.220 He was sort of joking, but not really.
00:21:27.520 Those are the stakes.
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00:22:51.820 All right, Senator, so let's talk about the momentum side of things and walk us through where all you've been.
00:22:57.440 you're one of those you've campaigned a lot you i believe you can tell uh and but through
00:23:04.340 enthusiasm some of the x factors at the very end uh is there real enthusiasm are the crowds
00:23:09.500 changing are they getting bigger are they getting smaller uh what were you seeing on the on the
00:23:13.840 campaign trail and walk us through it sure so i started this week in georgia and and we did a big
00:23:19.760 rally with rick jackson rick jackson is running for governor of georgia rick is someone who i
00:23:24.400 endorsed in the primary. It was a very contentious primary, and Rick won, and I think he was the
00:23:29.300 right candidate to win. Rick is a candidate who really impresses me. He inspires me.
00:23:34.760 His personal story is remarkable. So Rick was born into a home with an absent father. He never
00:23:42.620 knew his father. His mother struggled with alcoholism. He grew up in the projects in
00:23:49.160 atlanta really rough massive poverty and at a very early age he found himself in in foster care
00:23:56.100 and he went to five different foster homes every disadvantage rick jackson had he ended up coming
00:24:05.240 out of foster care and building a business he has now built a multi-billion dollar business an
00:24:11.800 incredibly successful business in georgia he employs thousands upon thousands of georgians
00:24:17.340 and and and if you look at his legacy not only has he had incredible business success
00:24:22.460 but he is also he he is he is a christian he he is a devout believer and and and he has a sense
00:24:30.200 of gratitude he recognizes that that that he's been able to overcome great obstacles with with
00:24:35.860 god's love and god's grace and so he's devoted enormous time and energy to giving back and and
00:24:41.500 in particular he has a heart for foster kids and and so he has over the years sponsored over 2,500
00:24:49.720 foster kids and helped them find foster families more than 400 of them have been adopted and these
00:24:56.340 foster kids he's also provided in Georgia college scholarships for more than 800 of those foster
00:25:03.460 kids at at more than 80 colleges and universities throughout Georgia so these are kids you know
00:25:09.400 often with parents who are alcoholics or drug addicts, parents who are in prison, parents who
00:25:17.520 have all sorts of challenges. And these are kids that are on their own, that are thrown into the
00:25:22.860 foster care system. And so often the foster care system, there's abuse, there's physical abuse,
00:25:26.980 there's sexual abuse. There can be enormous challenges. And Rick has a heart for these
00:25:33.660 kids. I'll tell you, we did a huge rally. There's real enthusiasm. Rick, I think, has a real shot
00:25:39.060 at winning the governor's race. And the enthusiasm at the rally, I mean, I saw multiple people came
00:25:45.400 up who'd come through the foster care system, who just would come up and hug Rick, and they'd hug
00:25:51.000 him with tears in their eyes. Rick has also founded orphanages in Iran, in China. He's founded and he
00:26:00.200 runs the only Christian orphanage in China. It's an amazing story. And I'll tell you, the governor's
00:26:05.760 race in georgia it is right now a dead heat the outcome is likely to be either rick wins by a
00:26:13.920 point or two or he loses by a point or two it's that close wow and and his democrat opponent 0.96
00:26:20.580 keisha lance bottoms was the mayor of atlanta she was a terrible mayor when she was mayor the 0.99
00:26:26.820 murder rate skyrocketed to record highs and she basically sat by while atlanta burned while 1.00
00:26:34.340 while angry mobs took over atlanta threatened innocent civilians and she ordered the police
00:26:41.920 to stand down and not stop the violence and her record was so bad she didn't run for re-election
00:26:47.280 but yet she is basically tied with a successful businessman who's running on a common sense
00:26:53.760 platform and right now brian kemp a republican is the the governor he's had a very successful
00:27:00.220 record. And the question in Georgia is going to be, are you going to continue with the success
00:27:04.680 we're having? Are you going to move to a failed mayor who's produced a disastrous outcome? I got
00:27:10.200 to say, if you're in Georgia, don't just show up on election day, get two, three, four other people
00:27:17.280 to show up because this race, it could come down. It would not surprise me to see this governor's
00:27:22.620 race decided by a couple thousand votes. That's how close it is. And it really makes a difference
00:27:27.980 who wins this all right senator so so where did you go from there what where let's let's walk
00:27:32.920 through these uh state by state yeah the next state i went to was texas and i joined president
00:27:38.360 trump in in two massive rallies in texas one in corpus christi one in lubbock both with ken
00:27:44.320 paxton we had thousands of thousands of people there uh corpus was important in south texas to
00:27:51.140 turn people out to energize them lubbock was important also because west texas as i said is
00:27:56.800 a lot of very conservative voters now look west texas has not shown up at the numbers we need
00:28:04.180 and so the rallies were great people were energized the people in the stadium were on fire
00:28:09.960 but there are a lot of other people who haven't shown up and and so listen i i want to underscore
00:28:15.020 we could lose texas and i run into people all over the country like this is not real we can't
00:28:20.420 lose texas i'm telling you it is i i don't believe it will happen but it is a very very real
00:28:28.920 possibility and i'll tell you this if conservatives if just regular texans stay home we will lose
00:28:35.420 texas and by the way not just the senate race we are at very real risk of waking up the day after
00:28:42.640 the election and seeing every single statewide election being democrats seeing texas suddenly
00:28:49.660 be california in terms of radical left-wing democrats in charge of the state and that's
00:28:56.680 not just a disaster for the 32 million people who live in texas that's a disaster for the
00:29:00.920 whole country texas is our biggest and and i immodestly think our most important red state
00:29:07.100 if we allow it to be destroyed those consequences are disastrous yeah they really are and you went
00:29:13.900 from texas obviously back with the president on the plane and then where from there uh went to
00:29:18.680 South Carolina. I was campaigning with Darlene Graham. Darlene is the sister of Lindsey Graham.
00:29:23.740 Look, South Carolina has been a reliably red state. I will tell you, Darlene is in a neck
00:29:28.620 and neck race. She is basically tied. She is anywhere from one to two points up to one to 1.00
00:29:34.340 two points down. It could end up either way. She could win that race. I think she will, 0.99
00:29:39.660 but she could lose that race. It is a very real risk. One challenge is one of the candidates who
00:29:45.400 ran against her in the primary guy named ralph norman i like ralph he's a conservative he has
00:29:50.660 decided he he's mad that he lost the primary and he's telling people don't vote for darlene vote
00:29:55.200 for me i i'm really frustrated by that i think that's irresponsible i think that's harmful
00:30:00.460 because what it will do is elect a left-wing radical a candidate named annie andrews who is
00:30:08.480 ostensibly a doctor but you know what she's been mostly this will take you off ben 0.92
00:30:12.540 a gun control lobbyist she's been paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to lobby for gun control
00:30:19.920 south carolina is potentially on the verge of a lefting electing a left-wing radical who supports 0.71
00:30:26.560 the extreme transgender agenda and who wants to restrict if not take away our second amendment
00:30:32.600 rights and yet because republicans are divided we could end up electing you now i don't think
00:30:38.320 that'll happen but to the people of south carolina i want to tell you this race matters and if you
00:30:44.000 don't show up it's a disaster for south carolina and for the country from there there's also some
00:30:49.700 very interesting races in north carolina let's talk about that well i campaigned with michael
00:30:54.680 whatley who's the senate nominee in in north carolina the north carolina race is rough the
00:30:59.880 polling has shown us down and down quite a bit uh and so it was it was a rally we had we had
00:31:05.520 great attendance at the rally we had enormous enthusiasm there but you can tell the people
00:31:09.700 are beaten down when you see polls of your candidate losing and losing by quite a bit
00:31:13.540 that discourages you i i don't know if we will win north carolina um the polling is the roughest
00:31:20.440 of these contested states but i went there to say look the media wants you to give up hope
00:31:27.040 and i'll tell you this it's a hundred percent if you give up hope we will lose that's the one way
00:31:32.920 to ensure we lose north carolina president trump has won it twice we've got two republican senators
00:31:38.200 there we have the ability to elect republicans in north carolina if we turn people out and and
00:31:43.520 michael whatley is campaigning hard he is fighting and so i was there on the ground telling people
00:31:47.700 listen let's defy the media let's defy what the polls are let's win north carolina when you're
00:31:55.460 when you're traveling around these these places and you see the different different states different
00:31:59.640 momentum what is your takeaway been overall i look at very state by state there's different
00:32:05.520 enthusiasm alaska i was encouraged i was in i was in alaska just a few days earlier there's real
00:32:10.700 momentum on the ground look in alaska i i traveled 1100 miles in 24 hours we flew in a prop plane
00:32:18.360 that was literally held together by duct tape i mean it was uh which is i love alaska i've
00:32:23.500 campaign three different times in alaska uh over the years and dan sullivan is is an incredible
00:32:29.360 friend he's a great senator but there was momentum on the ground but alaska is a very close race that
00:32:35.980 it could come down to the wire um some states it's surging other states people are scared
00:32:41.560 all across the country the same question i hear from every campaign the far left is showing up
00:32:49.020 Are our people going to show up? And that almost all comes down to Election Day.
00:32:53.580 And do the real principled conservatives, do they show up and do they bring their friends and family and others?
00:32:59.640 Yeah, before we get into more of that, the midterms, they're here, folks.
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00:34:06.220 Senator, we're talking about the midterms.
00:34:08.720 You're all over the country, that is, and working your tail off trying to help get Republicans elected.
00:34:14.360 there's three other states that we need to break down real quick that you've been to and let's do
00:34:18.820 that well just a couple of days ago i was in michigan and and i'll tell you i'm encouraged
00:34:24.880 by michigan michigan is a battleground state michigan's a swing state michigan voted for
00:34:29.820 donald trump but right on the edge it was very very close michigan right now has two democrat
00:34:34.980 senators i think it is our single best pickup opportunity in the country and i believe michigan
00:34:40.620 along with texas are the two most important senate races in the entire country and and a big part of
00:34:46.800 the reason is the democrat nominees in those two states are the most radical democrat nominees not
00:34:51.980 only in the whole country i think they may well be the most radical democrat nominees in history
00:34:56.760 and they're both profoundly dangerous james tallarico in texas we've talked a lot about how 0.78
00:35:00.700 extreme and radical he is we're at real risk of his winning we've got to stop that michigan you've
00:35:07.080 got abdul al-sayed and by the way if you did not listen to wednesday's podcast wednesday's podcast
00:35:13.280 laid out the objective evidence that is overwhelming that abdul al-sayed has for decades
00:35:22.620 been a vocal and passionate supporter of the muslim brotherhood the muslim brotherhood 0.98
00:35:26.860 is a terrorist organization that has murdered tens of thousands of people 0.94
00:35:31.680 and the objective evidence is compelling and and and so mike rogers is the republican nominee i
00:35:38.080 think mike is a really strong nominee really strong candidate he is an army veteran he served
00:35:42.760 in the fbi and in law enforcement he represented michigan for for for decades and and the energy
00:35:49.580 on the ground was palpable and i'll tell you people are really frightened about you know my
00:35:53.740 nickname for al-sayed was the jihadi leprechaun because he's a little bitty guy and and and
00:36:01.660 actually as i joked the the irish american society issued a cease and desist order to ask me to stop
00:36:07.440 saying that uh this guy if abdul al-sayed is the next senator from michigan and understand that
00:36:15.700 is a very real possibility this race is also if not tied it's either plus one or two or minus one
00:36:23.420 or two and and the polls are all over the map but they're very close if abdul al-sayed is elected
00:36:29.200 it will move the democrat conference significantly to the left and i've made a prediction
00:36:34.760 if abdul al-sayed is the next senator from michigan i believe the democrat nominee for 1.00
00:36:42.000 president in 2028 will be aoc the knock against aoc in the democrat primary is she's too extreme 0.95
00:36:48.880 to be elected in the general if michigan the quintessential swing state elects an open 1.00
00:36:55.680 communist and Islamist. I think that argument gets blown out of the water. And look, Republicans
00:37:02.200 might say, okay, that's great. If AOC is the nominee, we win. Listen, we are such a divided
00:37:06.860 country that if you think it is impossible for AOC to win the general, you have not been paying
00:37:12.540 attention. New York City on 9-11, could anyone have imagined that Zoran Mondami would be the
00:37:18.360 mayor of New York City? No. I don't want to see a Democrat nominee who is a radical communist who
00:37:24.680 America. And so Michigan, I think, matters enormously. I think we're going to win in
00:37:30.080 Michigan. The momentum on the ground, there was an enthusiasm on the ground in Michigan that I
00:37:35.480 actually think was greater than I felt in any of the states I was campaigning in. So Michigan,
00:37:40.020 I'm bullish on. I feel good about that. From there, I went to Iowa. And Iowa is an incredible
00:37:48.320 state. Ashley Henson is running for Senate there. I'm a big fan of Ashley. I think she's a great 0.90
00:37:53.100 Senate candidate. She's a young mom. She's got two teenage boys at home. She's a member of the 0.99
00:37:59.240 House right now. She's represented Iowa. She reflects Iowa values, common sense conservative
00:38:05.920 values. Her Democrat opponent, Josh Turek, has an extreme left-wing voting record. He's voted
00:38:15.120 repeatedly on immigration in favor of amnesty. He supports amnesty for illegal aliens who are
00:38:22.100 convicted of drunk drunk driving which is just horrific we were in a community where a young
00:38:28.140 woman 21 year old woman just graduated from college was killed by a drunk driver who was an
00:38:33.180 illegal alien who had been convicted of drunk driving previously and been released and then
00:38:38.160 then he drunk drove again and killed this young woman he wants to grant amnesty because he thinks
00:38:45.820 apparently drunk drivers if they're illegal that's who we want in this country i don't even understand 0.64
00:38:50.800 the reasoning behind that but that's who he is and i'll tell you on the transgender agenda josh
00:38:55.860 churek he's voted in favor of men in girls bathrooms in favor of boys and girls sports
00:39:01.660 he's voted in favor of government funding for transgender sex change surgeries for children
00:39:08.760 now he's doing what james tallarico has done james tallarico's voting record is almost identical
00:39:14.340 but both of them are running tv ads claiming to oppose everything they voted for they're trying
00:39:19.620 to lie to the voters i think ashley henson's going to win in iowa also but it is turnout
00:39:25.060 turnout turnout because what we're seeing in iowa like everyone else is a huge turnout of the
00:39:32.460 radical leftist and and the question is do the common sense iowans turn out as we wrap this up
00:39:39.720 we've obviously gone state by state what is the closing message to voters that are sitting there
00:39:44.600 maybe listening right now senator they're saying you know what i just don't i'm not that enthusiastic
00:39:49.140 about where we are i think you got to explain what's at stake here and why they should go out
00:39:54.340 and vote well let me finish the last state on this run which is kansas so i'm in kansas right
00:40:00.980 now i'm in wichita we're going to do a big rally tomorrow morning roger marshall's the incumbent
00:40:05.360 republican senator um this is an exceptionally close race if you look at republicans who have
00:40:12.100 a real possibility of potentially losing kansas is is near the top of the list now i like roger
00:40:18.200 he's a good friend of mine he's been a good senator he's a conservative and yet kansas you've
00:40:23.040 got farmers who who are unhappy they're unhappy because diesel prices are high they're unhappy
00:40:28.120 because fertilizer price is high uh they're just grumpy and and the democrats did a good job of
00:40:34.540 candidate recruiting they they recruited a very very liberal pastor of a mega church in in kansas
00:40:40.260 city uh now he is he is just about as much of a whack job as james tallarico who also is a
00:40:47.660 seminarian they both use um the the sort of vestige of christianity to cover extreme left-wing views
00:40:56.820 by this this liberal pastor has preached from the pulpit that that in heaven we won't just see
00:41:05.340 christians we'll see jews and muslims and people of all sorts of different persuasions
00:41:09.080 It doesn't matter if you actually believe in Jesus to whether you'll be saved.
00:41:13.780 Now, look, there are differences in denominations.
00:41:17.600 You know, baptism, you can believe, you and I are both Baptists,
00:41:20.960 you can believe in immersion or you can believe in sprinkling.
00:41:23.780 Those differences are okay.
00:41:25.380 I don't think those differences are the end of the world one way or the other.
00:41:30.160 There is nothing more fundamental to Christianity
00:41:33.080 than the understanding that Jesus is the path to salvation.
00:41:38.960 I am the way, the truth, and the life. No man comes to the Father but by me. That is what Jesus
00:41:43.440 said. And you've got a pastor who preaches against that, and yet this guy is tied or maybe even
00:41:50.040 leading. And so the question in Kansas, in Iowa, in Michigan, in North Carolina, in South Carolina,
00:41:57.600 in Georgia, and in Texas is turnout, turnout, turnout. I'm begging you, if you love America,
00:42:04.360 if you love the Constitution, if you don't want to see communists and Islamists taking over the 0.91
00:42:09.720 Democrat Party and taking over America, show up and vote and bring everyone you know. Amen to that. 0.99
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