Verdict with Ted Cruz - August 27, 2026


BONUS POD: Democrats say 'America Isn't #1 Anymore' plus El-Sayed's 'CARE'ing Political Rise


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00:00:55.220 Look, I think the president's dominance over the party is unquestionable.
00:00:58.200 But I also think that going into this election, I think he's very frustrated with the fact that House Republicans and Senate Republicans seem very bad at making the case for themselves.
00:01:07.820 They need a reset in the coming weeks in this RNC in Dallas where they actually come together and have a message going into the fall.
00:01:15.620 Or else we're going to see history prevail, I think, for a lot of these people.
00:01:19.940 You're listening to the 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson.
00:01:23.600 Good Thursday morning. It's nice to have you with us on the 47 Morning Update.
00:01:27.220 and we've got two big stories for you.
00:01:29.320 First up, Democrats double down on their message of hating on America.
00:01:34.740 And not only do they say you should be ashamed of this country,
00:01:37.660 but they have a foreign leader that they're now crowning,
00:01:41.180 the true leader of the free world that we should want to emulate.
00:01:45.320 Who have they named? I'll explain that in a moment.
00:01:48.000 Also, in a shocking move, we're now learning who is behind El Saeed.
00:01:52.920 And it is a super PAC that is linked to Hamas, you know, the terrorist organization
00:01:58.120 We also know that in their own internal emails
00:02:01.200 They're saying that they're building a movement in U.S. MAS to take over in government
00:02:07.100 That story as well
00:02:08.960 It's the 47 Morning Update and it starts right now
00:02:12.700 Story number one
00:02:14.080 There seems to be a real theme right now
00:02:16.260 And that is Democrats that are running for office or Democratic Socialists of America
00:02:20.520 and their supporters are pushing a new agenda item it is hate america take a listen to democratic 0.65
00:02:27.400 senator chris coons who says america is no longer the leader of the free world and then even more 0.64
00:02:34.900 shocking than that he tells you who you should idolize and you can guess it's not donald trump
00:02:41.660 at all i would say we are no longer the leaders of the free world in fact if anything volodymoor
00:02:47.600 Zelensky is the primary national leader who is putting his country's men and women on the line
00:02:54.880 for freedom. And we need to earn our place back as leader of the free world in the future.
00:03:00.640 So to be clear, unless you're a radical extremist, democratic, Marxist, socialist communist who's
00:03:06.680 leading America, then you should be ashamed of this country. And if their guy's not in charge,
00:03:13.700 Democratic Senator Chris Kuhn says America is no longer the leader of the free world. 0.92
00:03:18.100 In other words, the majority of Americans who voted for Donald Trump, well, we hate you. 0.54
00:03:23.300 And instead, we'd rather have Zelensky be our leader because, in his words,
00:03:28.080 Zelensky is the primary national leader and we're no longer the leaders of the free world.
00:03:33.300 That would be Zelensky.
00:03:35.240 Now, he also wasn't done there.
00:03:38.340 Democratic Senator Chris Kuhn went on to brag about depriving thousands.
00:03:43.180 of hardworking Americans, of their paychecks.
00:03:46.280 Why? 0.91
00:03:47.120 To protect illegal immigrants. 1.00
00:03:50.360 Again, they hate you. 1.00
00:03:51.920 And when they tell you, believe them.
00:03:53.680 I do not support using ICE as an ill-trained, masked, concealed, thuggish local force
00:04:02.560 that goes into churches and synagogues and mosques, into court buildings, into schools and hospitals.
00:04:09.760 These should be safe places.
00:04:11.560 And we had such a fundamental fight over this that my caucus, the Democrats in the Senate, shut the government down for several months last year because we were unwilling to vote to fund ICE.
00:04:24.880 so not only does he hate ice the men and women who are going out there and getting the gangbangers
00:04:31.620 and the cartel members and the fentanyl dealers and the human smugglers and the drug traffickers
00:04:38.300 and the murderers and the child rapists and the rapists and those that are abusing children right
00:04:43.400 like those are the people that ice are going after people that are real threat to society
00:04:49.360 and what you just heard there it was very clear you have a man who's high up in the democratic
00:04:57.320 party that says that well i hate them i don't want them involved i don't want them around
00:05:03.940 i don't want them doing any of these things that they are currently doing now again this is the
00:05:11.860 democratic party saying we hate america we hate american leaders we hate american voters we
00:05:18.580 He actually idolized leaders around the world like Zelensky.
00:05:22.460 Just so you know, Zelensky hasn't had an election there since the war broke out.
00:05:26.920 So much for, you know, free and fair elections and for actually listening to the people in
00:05:32.420 Ukraine.
00:05:33.620 But yet again, it's another example of how important the midterm elections actually are.
00:05:39.680 Democrats will tell you when they hate you and they will tell you that they hate your
00:05:44.600 values and they will tell you that you should look to Zelensky for the future.
00:05:48.580 of what America, I guess, should look like.
00:05:51.060 So get ready, folks.
00:05:52.340 You have a real decision to make come November.
00:05:55.280 And it's not just about showing up to vote.
00:05:57.900 It's also about getting out and supporting the candidates that you believe in.
00:06:01.460 Because one thing that is for certain is this.
00:06:04.320 The Democrats, the Socialists, and the Communists,
00:06:06.980 they are angry and they are fired up to win this election.
00:06:11.580 Now, story number two.
00:06:12.960 A super PAC linked to Hamas-friendly CARE is now taking credit for helping elect Abdul El-Sayed.
00:06:21.660 And even scarier than that, they're now saying they're building a quote-unquote movement in the U.S.
00:06:28.020 Where? Inside of mosques.
00:06:31.100 That's right. 0.98
00:06:31.760 The CARE-linked lobby arm also not only taking credit for boosting the campaign of Mandani,
00:06:37.980 as well as Adam Hamaway, a New Jersey Democratic nominee for Congress. 0.70
00:06:44.020 But they're saying this is all starting in their mosques. 0.66
00:06:47.900 The super PAC saying that they believe that we are building a victory
00:06:51.500 and showing we're building a movement in our mosques across the U.S.
00:06:56.820 The Unity and Justice Fund is a super PAC controlled and funded by CARE's lobbying arm,
00:07:03.660 known as CARE Action.
00:07:04.800 And they said in a fundraising email over the weekend that it helped mobilize tens of thousands of Muslims and Middle Eastern voters to turn out for El Saeed, who defeated the pro-Israel Democrat Stevens by one point in the August 4th primary.
00:07:23.320 So if you want to know who is behind these communist, socialist, Marxist candidates, these Democratic, quote, Socialists of America, well, look no further than the Muslim movement with care.
00:07:34.800 Quote, the Unity and Justice Fund helped elect Mandani, Dr. Hemaway, and now El Saeed.
00:07:41.700 We're doing more than just securing electoral wins across the country.
00:07:45.820 We're building a movement in mosques and communities across this country.
00:07:50.760 That is what the Unity and Justice Fund said in their own words.
00:07:55.080 They also claim to have, quote, knocked on more than 30,000 doors, specifically of Muslim voters.
00:08:03.380 Now, as of August 24th, the fund appears to have removed the phrase
00:08:07.240 a movement in mosque from the fundraising email
00:08:10.920 and have changed Muslim voters to Muslim and Middle Eastern voters.
00:08:16.500 I guess that's how you PC all of this.
00:08:19.280 Now, according to the campaign disclosures,
00:08:21.660 the Unity and Justice PAC, which is about two years old,
00:08:25.140 contributed more than $175,000 last month alone
00:08:29.320 to fighting for Michigan PAC, the largest outside group supporting El Saeed.
00:08:35.360 And the Unity and Justice Fund paid more than $40,000 to a consulting firm owned by the chief of staff
00:08:42.100 to the mayor of Dearborn Heights, Michigan, for quote-unquote canvassing services in support of El Saeed, the record show.
00:08:50.940 Now, that's not all. Again, it's all about follow the money.
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00:10:26.860 Now, let's get back to the shocking story about the amount of money that's being raised specifically 0.76
00:10:31.500 by care in the Muslim community to get out the Muslim vote. Unity and Justice Fund, for example,
00:10:37.260 is seeking to raise an additional $1.5 million ahead of the November elections. The super PAC's
00:10:43.840 support of El Saeed could further alienate moderate Democrats, as well as Jewish people
00:10:49.580 in michigan who are very concerned about al-said's link to anti-israel and pro-terrorist pro-hamas
00:10:55.920 activists devotion to sharia law is another issue and intellectual interest in some of the most
00:11:02.720 extreme corners of islam now again this is exactly where the money is coming from the radical extreme
00:11:10.180 left in the muslim movement we're talking about islamists now it also undercuts al-said's primary
00:11:16.480 campaign attacks on AIPAC. That is the pro-Israel group that heavily backed Stevens who he beat in
00:11:22.560 that midterm election. AIPAC has spent a record amount in this race to elect my opponent, El
00:11:28.340 Said said, because she'll be a reliable vote for a foreign government that is aiding, arming, and
00:11:34.680 abetting a genocide. That is the words of El Said just last month. Now let me just remind you about
00:11:40.660 CARE and who they are just for a moment they were designated as an unindicted co-conspirator
00:11:47.060 of a Hamas front group in 2008 and they have sought to distance itself from the unity and
00:11:53.560 justice fund and claims that it neither created nor funded the super PAC quote CARE has never
00:11:59.940 donated to any funds to any political campaign PACs or super PACs nor has CARE established any
00:12:07.320 PACs, nor has CARE ever endorsed any candidates. That is what the CARE Deputy Executive Director
00:12:12.860 Edward Mitchell said in a statement saying, quote, doing so would be illegal. Now that is true by a
00:12:19.460 narrow legal definition, but CARE two years ago openly created CARE Action, which immediately
00:12:26.000 established the Unity and Justice Fund. CARE and CARE Action shared board members and have shared
00:12:31.180 the same street address in the past as well care has also created a super pack and it's called
00:12:38.200 unity and justice fun that is what niad awad cares co-founder and executive director said
00:12:45.580 on a 2024 podcast awad who has donated 750 to elsaid's campaign has also come under intense
00:12:54.740 scrutiny in late 2023 for stating he was quote unquote happy to see those are his words Hamas
00:13:03.540 attack Israel on October the 7th quote my organization care the Council on American
00:13:10.680 Islamic Relations would like to share the good news that we are expanding our C4 lobbying and
00:13:17.380 PACS organization in the next few days that is what Awad said in a rally in DC in January of
00:13:24.120 2024. Now CARE's website also quotes a news article that refers to the Unity Injustice Fund
00:13:31.240 as a super PAC link to the Council on American Islamic Relations. CARE Action, by the way,
00:13:38.000 has contributed more than $185,000 to the Unity Injustice Fund so far this year. Now let me also
00:13:44.700 tell you about the CARE Action Executive Director Bassem Elkara, who has expressed support for a
00:13:51.180 terrorists promoted incitement and demonizing israel that according to canary mission and was
00:13:58.600 listed as the super PAC's first treasurer and signed the fundraising emails that the unity
00:14:04.860 and justice fund sent out this weekend care actions three board members all serve on care's
00:14:11.420 national board of directors i think you can pretty much connect the dots here of just how corrupt
00:14:16.780 all of this actually has become. Now, care officials and employees have contributed heavily
00:14:21.840 to the Unity and Justice Fund and directly to Elsa-Aid's campaign as well. According to Fox
00:14:27.640 News, current and former care employees have contributed more than $115,000 to Elsa-Aid's
00:14:34.480 campaign directly. Now, even Elsa-Aid's father-in-law donated $100,000 to the Unity and Justice Fund on
00:14:41.240 July 20th. Campaign records now show. He also serves on the board of directors of CARE's
00:14:47.140 Michigan chapter. The program's manager at CARE California also contributed more than a thousand
00:14:53.500 to the Unity Injustice Fund. Now, all of this is about following the money. And what we're now
00:14:59.920 learning is simply this. El Saeed is absolutely aided, supported, and backed by all of these
00:15:06.960 groups that are directly tied to Hamas. Yes, the terrorist organization. And CARE is saying it very
00:15:14.520 clearly in their own words. They're taking credit for helping elect El Saeed and building a movement,
00:15:21.480 a Muslim movement in the U.S. through their mosque organizations. Notice how after this has been
00:15:27.900 exposed, that is when they started, well, changing their words slightly. So if you want to know what
00:15:34.360 we're up against if you want to know who el saeed is actually representing it is not the citizens 0.59
00:15:40.200 of the united states of america it's clearly the special interest groups tied to care and those
00:15:45.800 groups are tied to hamas so welcome the democratic party in 2026 when they tell you what they believe
00:15:53.340 in and who they hate that includes many of us and especially those that are jewish you should 0.98
00:15:58.520 probably listen to exactly what they're saying because they're not holding back in their own
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