Verdict with Ted Cruz - November 05, 2025


Election Disaster： Wipeouts in VA, NJ & NYC plus Ben on the ground in Israel


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Ted Cruz is in Israel and Ben Ferguson is on the ground in Tel Aviv covering the results of the election and what's going on in the Middle East. Ted and Ben discuss what they are seeing and hearing from the ground.

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00:00:00.000 This is an iHeart Podcast.
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00:00:05.360 Welcome.
00:00:06.020 It is Verdict with Senator Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you.
00:00:09.480 It is election night in America.
00:00:11.940 I am in Israel right now.
00:00:13.580 It's about 6.14 in the morning in Israel.
00:00:16.280 I don't even know what time it is in Washington, D.C. right now.
00:00:18.980 That's how jet lagged I am.
00:00:20.840 And we are doing a joint podcast today with Verdict with Ted Cruz,
00:00:24.840 my show, the Ben Ferguson podcast as well,
00:00:26.680 to cover everything going on with the election
00:00:28.800 and also some incredible moments in Israel.
00:00:32.400 Senator, it is official.
00:00:34.520 New York is turning red, communist red. 0.78
00:00:39.300 The big red apple is now a communist red apple.
00:00:41.820 Let's start with that.
00:00:43.880 Well, listen, it is 11.14 p.m. in Washington, D.C.
00:00:48.040 And I got to say, tonight was a terrible night for Republicans.
00:00:53.080 It was a terrible night for conservatives.
00:00:54.800 And it was a terrible night for America.
00:00:57.560 The damage in New York City, the damage in Virginia, the damage in New Jersey,
00:01:05.160 the damage in California has been enormous.
00:01:08.060 We're going to break down this really disappointing
00:01:11.720 and dangerous electoral result that happened tonight.
00:01:15.480 We're also going to talk about the fact that Ben is on the ground in Israel.
00:01:19.700 What is he seeing?
00:01:20.880 Who is he meeting with?
00:01:22.320 What is the dynamic?
00:01:23.660 Israel has just won a war.
00:01:25.940 They have just defeated Iran in a 12-day war.
00:01:29.460 They are still battling Hamas.
00:01:31.840 There is an historic peace deal that President Trump has negotiated.
00:01:35.860 But Hamas is resisting and violating the peace deal.
00:01:39.240 We're going to talk about what Ben is seeing on the ground.
00:01:41.120 All of that on today's verdict.
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00:03:30.240 So, Senator, as I sit here right now, and many of you are going to get to watch this on YouTube,
00:03:34.620 as we're also putting this up on YouTube, this episode,
00:03:37.880 I am in Israel.
00:03:39.740 This is my first time.
00:03:41.280 So I've had five trips planned to come to Israel.
00:03:44.720 The first four got canceled, one from COVID, the other three because of wars that had broken
00:03:49.820 out.
00:03:50.080 This dates back all the way to 2004, 2005, and the first time I was supposed to go to Israel.
00:03:54.360 And I cannot tell you, you've been here.
00:03:56.780 Just being able to do simple things like going to the Wailing Wall, staying here in Jerusalem, 1.00
00:04:02.520 have been a spiritual journey that I would tell everyone listening to VERDICT right now.
00:04:08.300 Now, it is safe to come to Israel right now. 0.78
00:04:11.180 That is the one thing that's very clear from the ceasefire.
00:04:13.780 There are lots of people coming back to see this incredible country.
00:04:17.660 But if you are a person of faith, and you've experienced this, coming to Israel connects
00:04:23.380 so many dots.
00:04:24.340 I was at the Sea of Galilee yesterday, and getting to witness, as historians and religious leaders
00:04:30.600 were telling the stories of the Bible, whether it was the Beatitudes, whether it was walking
00:04:34.960 on water, whether it was the fish that continued to feed, seeing the miracles of Jesus before
00:04:41.440 your very eyes, overlooking this incredible country, while at the same time being moments
00:04:48.080 away from where this war was taking place, and people were being killed, was a somber but
00:04:53.060 special moment.
00:04:54.600 So, Ben, have you been to Israel before, or is this the first trip?
00:04:58.160 This is my pilgrimage, very first time ever.
00:05:01.100 Well, it is amazing.
00:05:02.380 I've been a number of times to Israel, and it is a breathtaking place.
00:05:07.480 It is a place all of history converges on.
00:05:11.660 It is the birthplace of Christianity.
00:05:14.720 It is the birthplace of Judaism.
00:05:17.140 In Israel, in Jerusalem, you walk down roads, the City of David, which is this underground
00:05:23.260 archaeological excavation under Jerusalem.
00:05:26.740 You walk down the road from the Pool of Shiloh to the old temple, where Jesus most certainly
00:05:34.940 walked, and you walk along it, and there are platforms that a street preacher, an itinerant
00:05:43.040 preacher would stand and preach on, and you stand, I've stood on those platforms, and it
00:05:48.020 takes your breath away that Jesus Christ almost certainly stood on this particular piece of
00:05:54.360 stone, addressing the crowd of the Israelites who were there in Jerusalem.
00:06:02.340 It is the Sea of Galilee.
00:06:04.580 You look at, you imagine Jesus walking up to Peter, walking up to fishermen and saying,
00:06:10.020 follow me, and let me make you fishers of men, and not just fishermen.
00:06:15.400 And it is, it's a beautiful place.
00:06:17.920 It is a profound place.
00:06:19.160 So tell me, when did you arrive, and what have you done on the ground in Israel?
00:06:23.300 So I arrived on Monday after a delayed flight, missed a flight because of actually the shutdown
00:06:29.460 is what we were told, and then we had a timeout with the air traffic controllers and
00:06:34.840 also the crew on the plane.
00:06:36.280 So we sat on the tarmac for about five hours in Houston, and then they said, you've got
00:06:40.640 to get off the plane.
00:06:41.280 We've lost our crew because of the rules, and this is a TSA, and it was at the very
00:06:45.820 beginning of kind of the breakdown.
00:06:46.900 Are you part of a broader group, or like, what's the reason for going to Israel?
00:06:51.520 Yeah, so I was asked to come over from the Israeli government and also came with the
00:06:56.220 CEO of IFCJ, the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews.
00:07:00.080 There is a Christian leadership conference happening here as well at the same time.
00:07:06.280 It is one that's been postponed because of the war, and so I was asked to speak at that.
00:07:12.740 This is a conference where Bibi is speaking, where you have the mayor of Jerusalem is speaking.
00:07:17.460 You have the U.S. ambassador, Mike Huckabee, as well, and it is bringing Christians together
00:07:23.440 back to the Holy Land.
00:07:25.520 But then what also has happened is they've set up these incredible moments and tours where
00:07:29.700 I've been able to meet with some of the victims of the war and go and see where the wars
00:07:36.380 hang in place.
00:07:36.860 So yesterday, we actually went to the border with Syria and with Lebanon and went literally
00:07:42.320 to where we could see Hezbollah looking at us.
00:07:46.900 And you met with the parents of the kids who were killed on the soccer field.
00:07:51.160 Tell us about that.
00:07:52.180 Yeah.
00:07:53.360 So last night, I have, and I will try not to get emotional, but it's hard not to, I
00:07:58.160 was asked to come and to meet with the families, some of the families who children, there was
00:08:03.400 12 children that were killed while playing soccer on a soccer field.
00:08:06.400 It made international news.
00:08:07.560 We covered it on this show.
00:08:09.400 And they asked me if I would meet with the families and hear the family stories.
00:08:13.920 And I was there, and the parents were talking of, this was one of the little girls you can
00:08:20.240 see who died, and her mother was the first one to speak. 0.73
00:08:24.440 And she was telling them, they want to tell the story.
00:08:27.780 They were all different ages.
00:08:29.060 They were very young to a 17-year-old, if I remember correctly.
00:08:33.120 Some of it was through translation, but you can kind of see the different ages here.
00:08:37.560 Some of them are obviously, most were younger, but you can see there, someone's a little bit
00:08:41.500 older, and junior high, you can see that's one of the oldest kids there.
00:08:45.860 And that was, you know, it's incredible.
00:08:48.040 But we sat there, and we were hearing their stories, these kids.
00:08:51.260 And at the very end, they said they'd like to present me with something.
00:08:54.000 I didn't know they were going to do this.
00:08:55.940 And I put the picture on social media, but the mother of this young girl said that they
00:09:02.620 wanted to give me something.
00:09:03.920 And I didn't see the ball before they brought it out.
00:09:06.300 But these pictures on this ball, so people understand, they're stickers.
00:09:09.560 They're handmade.
00:09:10.220 And they said they wanted to say thank you for standing up for their kids and for telling
00:09:16.040 their story to the world, because they want people to understand what it's like to live
00:09:21.020 in Israel and what was taken from them.
00:09:24.420 And by the way, these were children that were doing nothing.
00:09:27.340 They were playing on a soccer field.
00:09:28.980 They were being kids.
00:09:30.520 And suddenly, Hezbollah rocket came over and killed them all. 0.96
00:09:34.300 Yeah.
00:09:34.440 And it was a – the way that they described it was they didn't care who they killed.
00:09:40.380 Yeah.
00:09:40.480 There was a lot of media spin that, well, this soccer field maybe wasn't directly
00:09:45.240 target.
00:09:45.780 Hezbollah doesn't care who they kill. 1.00
00:09:47.100 They just want to kill Jews. 0.99
00:09:48.240 One of the other things that was talked about yesterday. 0.97
00:09:51.580 And one of the points, Ben, that's important, with both Hezbollah and Hamas, most of the 0.96
00:09:56.380 rockets they fire have no guidance systems.
00:10:00.040 So they literally just fire a rocket in the air towards Israel filled with explosives, many
00:10:06.180 times filled with anti-personnel shrapnel, ball bearings, and nails, and screws, and things
00:10:11.860 that would rip human flesh apart.
00:10:13.360 And they just fire them towards Israel because they figure, you know what, they're Jews over 1.00
00:10:18.640 there, so let's just kill as many of them as we can. 1.00
00:10:21.500 And whether it kills little kids, normally, in the vast majority of the times, military 1.00
00:10:27.200 targets are not the targets. 0.99
00:10:28.700 It's just fire it towards Israel, and if we kill Jews, we celebrate. 1.00
00:10:32.900 And that, tragically, is what happened at that soccer field. 0.99
00:10:36.080 It's exactly what happened.
00:10:37.420 And not far from where that soccer field attack happened, we went to an orchard.
00:10:42.360 What's one thing that I, you learn so much from being here, but there is a lot of farming
00:10:48.700 that is done in Israel.
00:10:49.820 Israel does an amazing job with water and turning salt water into fresh water.
00:10:54.220 It is what has kept this country alive and not dependent on others, especially in war,
00:10:58.620 when people would shut off water to Israel.
00:11:00.940 It's the desert, and what they've done is unbelievable.
00:11:04.120 We talked about that, learned about that.
00:11:06.520 But we went to basically a kibbutz.
00:11:08.200 It's a neighborhood.
00:11:08.720 And in that neighborhood, you know what they...
00:11:11.960 In northern Israel, southern Israel, where's the kibbutz you went to?
00:11:15.680 The tip of northern on the opposite side of where the attack happened, the initial attack
00:11:20.100 happened on October the 7th.
00:11:21.040 Okay, so right by the Golan Heights.
00:11:22.720 And it was border with Lebanon and Hezbollah.
00:11:25.360 Yeah.
00:11:25.480 So if you're looking at the map, this would be in Syria, Hezbollah, at the northern point.
00:11:29.860 And they started us there because they said they wanted us to understand that the goal...
00:11:34.640 And by the way, for folks at home to understand...
00:11:35.500 ...was actually to attack from both sides.
00:11:37.420 For folks at home to understand.
00:11:39.380 So Israel is a very small nation.
00:11:41.720 It's about the size of the state of New Jersey.
00:11:44.580 Yeah.
00:11:44.840 Where October 7th happened was in the southern part of Israel.
00:11:48.560 It's right by the Gaza Strip.
00:11:50.060 The Gaza Strip is along the Mediterranean in the southern part.
00:11:53.500 And Hamas, which is the major terrorist organization in the Gaza Strip, entered into southern Israel
00:12:00.200 and murdered over 1,200 Israelis, raped women and little girls, took over 200 Israelis hostage.
00:12:08.400 It was also one of the worst American terrorist attacks ever, as we saw dozens of Americans 0.90
00:12:14.720 murdered, dozens of Americans taken hostage.
00:12:17.420 Now, northern Israel, which is up by Lebanon and Syria, what you have up there is Hezbollah. 0.86
00:12:23.760 Hezbollah is a different terrorist organization, both Hezbollah and Hamas.
00:12:28.160 Their patron is Iran, and Iran funds over 90% of Hamas's budget.
00:12:33.900 Iran funds over 90% of Hezbollah's budget.
00:12:37.320 When October 7th first erupted, Israel quite rightly declared, we are going to utterly destroy Hamas.
00:12:44.260 There was an interesting period that extended for weeks and then even a couple of months,
00:12:49.060 where it wasn't clear if Hamas would be—or rather, Hezbollah would be drawn into this.
00:12:54.420 Hamas was the aggressor on October 7th.
00:12:57.240 And Hezbollah had the opportunity just to shut up and not engage. 0.58
00:13:01.760 And then Hezbollah pretty quickly decided, nope, we want to raise our hand, we want to engage, 0.69
00:13:07.540 and began just firing rockets, a massive barrage of rockets into northern Israel.
00:13:13.600 About 60% of all the rockets on hand that Hezbollah had in their arsenal were shot during this war.
00:13:20.380 Repeat that. That's a powerful statement.
00:13:22.600 60%.
00:13:23.880 And as we had our briefing from the Israeli government, we actually went to this neighborhood, this kibbutz,
00:13:29.700 and in this neighborhood, their sin for being targeted by Hezbollah was that they farm pink lady apples 0.52
00:13:37.460 that we eat in the United States of America.
00:13:39.080 And by the way, much of northern Israel was evacuated because the rocket attacks were so intense
00:13:45.720 that the Israelis couldn't live there anymore because you couldn't go into your own home 0.90
00:13:49.620 without risk of rock blowing it up.
00:13:52.240 And so the amazing thing is Hezbollah literally volunteered and said, hey, we want to be part of this.
00:13:57.700 And then the Israelis carried out the pager attack, which remains one of the most extraordinary military 1.00
00:14:07.420 and intelligence operations I think the world has ever seen.
00:14:11.060 Where, I mean, I've joked, but this is not a joke.
00:14:13.680 If you wrote the pager attack as a script to a movie, nobody in Hollywood would buy it. 0.79
00:14:22.460 If you wrote it as a Jason Bourne movie, they'd say, this is ridiculous.
00:14:26.220 You're telling me Israel creates a shell company in Hong Kong, builds pagers. 0.71
00:14:32.320 Years in advance.
00:14:33.140 Years in advance.
00:14:35.360 Makes them heavy-duty, kind of serious, hardcore pagers, and embeds where the battery would be
00:14:41.580 a tiny little explosive.
00:14:43.700 Then gets this shell company in Hong Kong to sell the pagers to Hezbollah.
00:14:48.820 Like, how the hell do you do that?
00:14:50.080 I don't know how you sell pagers to Hezbollah, but the Mossad does. 0.82
00:14:53.640 Israel does. 0.92
00:14:55.240 Sells them to Hezbollah. 0.98
00:14:57.080 And then this remains the single most targeted military and intelligence attack, I think,
00:15:02.660 in history, because it was Hezbollah leadership that decided, okay, who is it that gets these
00:15:10.340 pagers? 0.99
00:15:11.520 I'm going to give it to every crazy-ass terrorist we have in Lebanon. 1.00
00:15:16.840 The people that I want to be able to page and say, hey, would you go blow up a bus? 1.00
00:15:21.100 Would you go blow up a mall? 0.97
00:15:22.860 Would you go murder children? 0.91
00:15:24.260 Take this pager, and then Israel, in a simultaneous moment, detonated all the pagers and took out 0.90
00:15:32.680 every person that was injured, every person that was killed, with very minor exceptions
00:15:39.180 of someone who was really close to a terrorist.
00:15:42.040 They were personally selected by the leaders of Hezbollah.
00:15:46.900 Hezbollah decided which terrorist died.
00:15:49.180 And by the way, within a day or two, there was a second operation where Hezbollah was
00:15:53.860 using walkie-talkies.
00:15:55.800 Those blew up.
00:15:57.520 And I've got to say by the end.
00:15:58.620 Which they also infiltrated.
00:15:58.980 Yeah, they blew those up as well.
00:16:00.700 Yeah.
00:16:00.980 By the end of it, I think every Hezbollah terrorist, every Hamas terrorist, every Iran IRGC
00:16:06.660 terrorist, like every time a phone rang, they jumped.
00:16:10.020 It was extraordinary, and it was a response to what Hezbollah literally volunteered and 0.90
00:16:17.220 said, we want to be decimated as bad as Hamas. 0.98
00:16:20.360 And Israel said, well, happy to oblige. 0.53
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00:18:30.500 You go back to this neighborhood and as we went into this neighborhood, which the people
00:18:35.980 have a lot of them have still not returned.
00:18:38.740 Some of the farmers are coming there to farm.
00:18:41.440 But Hezbollah knew the houses that they were blowing up in this neighborhood were farmers. 0.60
00:18:47.020 They knew that they were families.
00:18:48.740 And what they did to justify their attacks early on was when the people had fled, the
00:18:55.680 Israeli military would take back in to the husband of the home to go get some of their
00:19:01.620 belongings before they would flee again.
00:19:04.100 And they justified the military walking in the house as the reason to blow the house up. 0.63
00:19:08.980 And so I met with a farmer who had three children the exact same age as my kids.
00:19:13.940 Wow.
00:19:14.140 And he was showing us his neighborhood.
00:19:17.060 And he was talking about how I had to come back to tend the fields because this is my
00:19:21.140 home.
00:19:21.740 And I was literally under rocket barrage and would come to work knowing that Hezbollah was 1.00
00:19:27.040 targeting the houses.
00:19:28.920 And so finally, after a few days, the homeowner said to the military, don't go back into my
00:19:34.240 house because as soon as you go in there, they blow up my home and everything is destroyed.
00:19:39.240 We went into a home.
00:19:40.600 The books of the children were still there.
00:19:43.100 The stove was still there the way it was set that morning.
00:19:45.840 The one of the homeowners offered me a piece of a broken pot of their home and a burner
00:19:52.220 of the stove and said, take it back. 0.79
00:19:55.780 And a piece of their tile in their children's bathroom, I'll put it on my desk for the rest
00:20:01.000 of my life.
00:20:01.580 But to to hear them talk about the brutality of Hezbollah, knowing that you're blowing up
00:20:07.680 a farmer's home who has never bothered you in your entire life for sport.
00:20:12.900 It was just for sport at that point.
00:20:15.160 It was for hatred, killing a person, pure.
00:20:17.140 They knew that they were billions, hatred.
00:20:19.860 Yeah.
00:20:20.020 Just pure sport and hatred. 1.00
00:20:21.460 Like we're going to blow up your neighborhood because you are Jewish. 1.00
00:20:25.680 We know you're not there. 1.00
00:20:27.000 We know you have fled, but we want you to come back to destruction and ruins.
00:20:31.840 And so you've been in northern Israel.
00:20:33.780 Have you been in Tel Aviv?
00:20:35.060 Have you been in Jerusalem?
00:20:36.160 Where else have you been?
00:20:38.060 Been in Tel Aviv as well, which is an incredible city.
00:20:42.420 I didn't realize how much it's like New York City or a major city.
00:20:45.720 Yeah, it's a very modern city.
00:20:46.940 It's a nightlife city.
00:20:47.660 Thriving modern city.
00:20:50.360 A lot of technology out of there that is actually exported to the rest of the world.
00:20:54.200 It's incredible.
00:20:55.260 The mines, the brilliant mines that are working in Tel Aviv.
00:20:59.840 I'm staying in Jerusalem.
00:21:02.200 I do want to say one of the things.
00:21:03.600 Is that where you are now, is Jerusalem?
00:21:05.180 Are you at the King David Hotel?
00:21:06.760 Yeah, I'm in Jerusalem.
00:21:08.820 Not the King David.
00:21:09.840 I'm at the, it starts with an A.
00:21:11.340 I can't remember the name.
00:21:12.180 I'd have to look around the room and find it.
00:21:13.560 But it's right at the entrance of the markets here.
00:21:18.480 And it's a beautiful market that they have built this city to try to revive Jerusalem and make it even more for tourists.
00:21:24.660 It's incredible the people here are so kind.
00:21:27.060 But one other thing I want to mention about this trip so far is I met with the mother of one of the hostages that was taken that became, unfortunately, she became famous.
00:21:37.200 If you remember the videos that came out, there is a girl that's been separated from her boyfriend.
00:21:42.300 She is in between two terrorists on a motorcycle.
00:21:45.780 And she's reaching out and screaming for her boyfriend, who is being held with his arms behind his back by two terrorists, and they're separating them.
00:21:54.280 And that video just went viral early on in the moments after.
00:21:58.460 He was held underground for two years without seeing sunlight and was starved.
00:22:04.880 He was returned.
00:22:06.340 They just reunited.
00:22:07.740 You may have seen that video of them in the hospital finally getting to see each other again and hugging and falling backwards as they hug on the hospital bed.
00:22:15.180 And the mother was telling the story of her son and the trauma, the way that they were mentally tortured and lied to, that there was destruction of all of Israel, been destroyed, that they were told that their loved ones had been killed, their family members had been murdered, that no one had survived, that they were going to die, that they were going to dig their own graves.
00:22:37.260 Some of them, some of them did, to see the torment.
00:22:40.440 And I think that's one of the things I will forever remember from this trip, and I'm grateful for it, is when we talk about what this is like.
00:22:47.540 The psychological warfare, Senator, and the evil of Hamas and Hezbollah has no ends, whether it's blowing up farmers' homes for sport, whether it is killing children at the soccer ball, and seeing these kids who were—their only crime was being Jewish and playing sports. 0.83
00:23:06.360 That's it. 0.93
00:23:06.860 Look, psychopath terrorists who kill civilians are the embodiment of evil. 0.91
00:23:12.900 And sadly, we live in a world where evil is plentiful. 0.95
00:23:17.400 It's incredible.
00:23:18.540 So today I'm going to be leaving with the government and going down to the site of the attack at the festival, and I'm going to be meeting with some of the hostages there.
00:23:27.260 I'm going to hopefully tell those stories as well in one of our next episodes, because it's just telling their stories and letting people understand what happened that day.
00:23:35.900 I'm going to go to the kibbutz that were attacked there and tour the homes of the children that were murdered in their cribs.
00:23:43.380 I'm going to meet with the families of the elderly that were killed, including Holocaust survivors.
00:23:47.460 I met with some Holocaust survivors that were—had to—are homeless, in essence, and had to move to Jerusalem to survive the war.
00:23:54.420 I met with them as well.
00:23:55.640 Incredible story.
00:23:56.480 So we'll have more of that, I promise you, coming up in other episodes.
00:23:59.360 But I want to say to everyone that is listening, if you are a person of faith, the pilgrimage to come here and to see, I think, the hope of our faith in Christianity, to walk where Jesus walked, to walk where he carried the cross.
00:24:14.740 I did that the first day I was here.
00:24:17.000 Yeah.
00:24:17.180 And to be able to just see the Sea of Galilee and witness where so much of our biblical—80% of the biblical history in the Bible with Jesus, I got to witness from standing in one place.
00:24:30.100 One place.
00:24:30.600 And it's amazing to see—
00:24:31.580 And it spread to the world.
00:24:32.480 To see where they believe Jesus was crucified, where they believe he was buried, and where he rose again in heaven.
00:24:39.540 I got to go to the tomb, yeah.
00:24:40.560 Yeah, I mean, standing in the tomb, look, as a believer, it takes your breath away.
00:24:48.900 Yeah.
00:24:50.620 As I described it to family in a text, I said the level of feeling, I would say, the Holy Spirit in these places is something I've never felt before.
00:25:00.960 The second closest I've ever felt to that type of spiritual gathering of Christians was honestly at Charlie Kirk's Memorial.
00:25:07.600 And it was incredible.
00:25:10.560 Two of the biggest spiritual moments in my life have happened in the last 60 days, both in a weird way around tragedy, which also is why I think it's incredible when you're a Christian that you know that God is still a God of hope.
00:25:22.700 Amen.
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00:25:53.140 Let's talk about bad news here at home.
00:25:57.620 Tuesday was a really, really bad election.
00:26:01.920 All right.
00:26:02.060 So let's start.
00:26:03.220 Let's start with Virginia. 0.79
00:26:05.040 So Virginia, we're sitting here.
00:26:07.860 It's now 11.36 p.m. on the East Coast.
00:26:10.260 We have 95% of the vote in.
00:26:11.840 And Abigail Spanberger, the Democrat, has 57.4% of the vote.
00:26:20.580 Winsome Earl Seals has 42.4%.
00:26:23.440 So it's at this moment, it is 1,905,452 votes to 1,408,220.
00:26:32.840 And I will say four years ago, Glenn Youngkin won.
00:26:36.200 And it was a great moment for America.
00:26:38.180 Glenn is a good friend.
00:26:39.780 Virginia turned red. 1.00
00:26:41.840 In this race, Winsome and I went and helped do a fundraiser for Winsome a couple of weeks ago.
00:26:50.300 Winsome is an African-American woman.
00:26:52.060 She's a strong conservative.
00:26:53.480 She was an immigrant from Jamaica.
00:26:55.040 She's a Marine veteran.
00:26:57.240 She was a strong candidate.
00:26:58.780 She was massively outspent.
00:27:00.440 I think she was outspent more than two to one, maybe even three to one.
00:27:06.220 That being said, you go back to the debate between Abigail Spanberger
00:27:09.780 and Winsome Earl Sears.
00:27:12.720 I've never seen a more lopsided debate.
00:27:15.680 Abigail Spanberger stared ahead, refused to look at her.
00:27:19.500 Like, you and I have both seen, I don't know, hundreds of political debates, a lot.
00:27:25.580 I've never seen a political candidate refuse to make eye contact with their opponent.
00:27:32.480 She literally, her attitude was one of contempt, like, you don't exist and you don't merit
00:27:40.260 even my attention.
00:27:42.060 And I've got to say, it makes me sad.
00:27:44.220 Look, given the money differential, I'm not shocked that the Democrat won.
00:27:47.900 We're looking at right now a 15-point win.
00:27:52.840 That is really, really bad news.
00:27:57.360 It's also, I think, one of the things that was the most shocking about Virginia as we break this down.
00:28:02.660 I'm not surprised Democrats won there.
00:28:04.600 I do think it was a left-leaning state.
00:28:06.280 Youngkin, when he won, it was a perfect storm.
00:28:09.080 You and I, I think, are the first to admit that.
00:28:11.040 And I love doing this show with you.
00:28:12.460 Yeah, and I campaigned for Glenn all over Virginia.
00:28:15.060 I spent two days on the road with Glenn barnstorming the state.
00:28:20.020 We won it four years ago, but this is a different environment.
00:28:23.260 Yeah.
00:28:24.720 It was a perfect storm with-
00:28:26.100 And he was better funded than when someone was.
00:28:29.540 No doubt about it, but there was a perfect storm with the issue there with parents and
00:28:32.940 rights and schools and the cover-up of-
00:28:34.700 Well, in Loudoun County, you're right.
00:28:36.360 ...work ideology.
00:28:37.000 So it's worth remembering what happened in Loudoun County right before Glenn Youngkin's race.
00:28:42.460 Where you had a teenage boy in high school who went into a girl's bathroom in high school.
00:28:49.000 He was dressed as a girl. 0.95
00:28:50.760 He was in a skirt. 0.97
00:28:52.200 And he sexually assaulted a teenage girl. 0.95
00:28:56.940 And the school covered it up. 0.94
00:28:59.140 They hid it.
00:29:00.380 And the father of the teenage girl went to the school board, confronted them, and said,
00:29:05.100 My daughter was raped in your school, and you're not acknowledging this.
00:29:09.820 And they yelled at him. 0.99
00:29:12.000 They said, No, there has never been a boy dressed as a girl who sexually assaulted anyone.
00:29:18.620 That was a lie.
00:29:19.560 By the way, this same sexual offender was transferred to another school where he sexually assaulted 0.97
00:29:24.820 another girl. 0.96
00:29:25.500 And did it again.
00:29:26.660 Yeah.
00:29:27.040 He did it again.
00:29:27.860 But they ended up arresting the father of the girl, of the victim.
00:29:33.900 And that moment was such a clarifying moment.
00:29:37.160 You also had Randy Weingarten, the head of the teachers' unions, campaigning with Terry
00:29:45.620 McAuliffe, the Democrat nominee, where McAuliffe said, Your kids are not yours to educate.
00:29:51.820 We're in charge of your kids.
00:29:53.500 It was a perfect storm.
00:29:55.040 In other words, it's a state's property.
00:29:57.180 And the voters said, Enough is enough.
00:29:59.420 Rick Cannon, as well.
00:30:00.920 Now, at the same time tonight, and we're now at 11.40 p.m., 11.40 p.m. with 94.6% of
00:30:09.520 the votes in.
00:30:11.380 Mikey Sherrill in New Jersey won 56.2%.
00:30:16.040 And Jack Cittarelli won 43.2%.
00:30:20.320 So it's very, very similar.
00:30:23.580 The vote totals are, right now, 1,774,178 votes for Mikey Sherrill, the Democrat, and 1,365,952
00:30:36.900 for Jack Cittarelli.
00:30:39.260 I've got to admit, this is an even more surprising result for me than Virginia.
00:30:46.580 Of the three major elections tonight, I was most optimistic about New Jersey.
00:30:51.900 Cittarelli seemed to have momentum.
00:30:54.480 There were a bunch of Democrat mayors and elected officials that were endorsing him.
00:30:59.200 And, you know, this is just, that's what, a 13-point differential as we sit here tonight.
00:31:07.540 That is a massive, massive loss.
00:31:11.420 And what is disappointing is that's not just a loss in Virginia and New Jersey.
00:31:18.160 But Virginia and New Jersey are historically the first off-year election after a presidential
00:31:23.740 election.
00:31:25.160 They are frequently a canary in a coal mine.
00:31:28.000 So you go back to, after Obama was elected, you had Virginia and New Jersey both elected
00:31:36.620 Republicans.
00:31:37.840 And it proved a forerunner of a great Republican victory coming.
00:31:43.820 This ain't good.
00:31:45.280 To have double-digit losses in both New Jersey and Virginia is a really bad sign.
00:31:51.140 If you're a Democrat tonight, you're thrilled.
00:31:53.780 You're encouraged.
00:31:54.940 And if you're a conservative, if you're someone who loves America, this is a major warning sign.
00:32:01.000 And I'll say this.
00:32:02.180 It's a warning sign, but I also want to put it in perspective because these are states
00:32:06.120 that are not Republican states.
00:32:08.720 True.
00:32:08.940 So I do want to put that in perspective.
00:32:10.800 I also want to say, and I want to give a little bit of hope here.
00:32:14.780 The amount of money that came in, and let's go back to Virginia for a second, was astronomical.
00:32:18.560 You had a candidate that won on the ballot in Virginia that had text messages that came
00:32:23.880 out saying he wanted his political opponents to die, including their children, and said
00:32:28.780 in those text messages that it's only when Republicans are basically murdered, their children 0.92
00:32:33.000 are killed, that then they will move to our ideology.
00:32:36.380 That is the same type of conversations that I've been having in Israel about what terrorists
00:32:40.800 believe.
00:32:41.200 And yet that person also won in that race.
00:32:45.420 So I go back to, Democrats are angry.
00:32:48.540 They are mobilized right now.
00:32:50.540 Mandani, for example, in New York, which we're going to move to in a second, and a straight
00:32:54.280 up communist is now going to be running America's greatest city.
00:32:57.140 He just wrapped up his speech there in New York City.
00:33:00.840 But the amount of money that Democrats put into Virginia, which again is a Democrat state,
00:33:05.500 we did not have a perfect storm on the issues this time like we did with Youngkin last
00:33:08.720 time.
00:33:09.000 I think Youngkin was a better candidate.
00:33:11.000 I just want to be clear about that from a political perspective of which candidate was
00:33:15.600 better.
00:33:16.440 And Virginia, we had some momentum there.
00:33:18.780 It's still a very liberal state.
00:33:21.180 It is, New Jersey is a liberal state.
00:33:23.920 Yeah, but let me say a couple of things.
00:33:25.460 Number one, Virginia and New Jersey are both very liberal states.
00:33:30.660 Virginia has a ton of government workers in northern Virginia.
00:33:33.860 Virginia, the Democrats have just caused the longest government shutdown in American history.
00:33:40.460 And they nonetheless had an amazing victory.
00:33:42.460 And that was on purpose.
00:33:43.860 It was on purpose.
00:33:45.080 So one of the things I said, the Democrats would not open the government before today
00:33:50.060 because they believe the shutdown energizes their base.
00:33:52.720 I predicted we'll see the government open either later this week or early next week.
00:33:57.820 And yet, apparently, all of these government workers who are not getting paychecks, who
00:34:04.560 haven't gotten paychecks for 35 days, they all voted left wing.
00:34:08.300 They all voted Democrat.
00:34:09.220 Even the folks that Chuck Schumer and the Democrats purposely shut down their jobs, that their ideology
00:34:16.780 mattered more than their own home mortgage.
00:34:19.680 And I've got to say, you underscored this.
00:34:21.460 Let's also explain the political side of Virginia for people that don't live in D.C.
00:34:26.480 or never have or never worked in D.C.
00:34:28.580 So the majority of people that work in government in D.C., and that's a lot of employees, if you
00:34:36.040 have kids, a lot of them don't live in D.C.
00:34:38.020 District of Columbia is different housing, different schooling.
00:34:41.360 A lot, the majority of my friends that work in politics in D.C. live in Virginia.
00:34:45.960 So when you talk about the government jobs.
00:34:48.440 In the aggregate, I don't know that I would say the majority of the people, but a large
00:34:52.280 percentage live in Northern Virginia, a large percentage live in Maryland, and a significant
00:34:57.000 percentage live in D.C.
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00:37:13.720 I mean, I think, Virginia, the ripple effect is maybe a better way of describing it, which
00:37:26.480 is if you live in Virginia, the chances that you are either A-related or one of your very
00:37:32.200 good friends is missing a paycheck right now is extremely high.
00:37:36.720 And they didn't care.
00:37:37.400 The governor's race knew that.
00:37:37.900 They're so partisan.
00:37:39.140 And they wanted the governor to be shut down.
00:37:40.860 Yeah, they wanted it.
00:37:41.940 They're just angry.
00:37:42.960 And I want to say, I want to underscore something you said.
00:37:46.040 Look, the governor's race is very disappointing.
00:37:48.780 The one that is frankly shocking is the Virginia AG race.
00:37:53.380 So Jay Jones, the Democrat, won.
00:37:56.780 He won with 52.9%.
00:37:59.180 He beat Jason Meares.
00:38:02.200 Jason Meares is the incumbent Republican.
00:38:04.260 He's Cuban-American.
00:38:05.960 He got 46.7%.
00:38:08.040 So it was, as of right now, 1147.
00:38:12.680 Jay Jones got 1,740,370 votes.
00:38:16.840 And Meares got 1,533,841 votes.
00:38:20.360 And that is truly shocking because Jay Jones is the one who texted that he wanted to see
00:38:27.280 the children of the Republican Speaker of the House murdered. 0.99
00:38:31.700 And it was, at a time of political violence, this sick, depraved psychopath. 0.98
00:38:38.880 And I'm sorry if you were wishing. 0.98
00:38:41.060 And by the way, he knew those children.
00:38:42.920 These were not abstract children.
00:38:44.880 He knew his colleague.
00:38:45.940 They were both serving in the state legislature. 0.99
00:38:47.440 He knew his colleague's children, and he said, I want to see them murdered. 0.92
00:38:52.380 He also said he wanted to see his colleague murdered.
00:38:55.600 And at the time of glorifying violence, and there was enormous discussion.
00:38:59.640 Now, Abigail Spangberger refused to condemn him.
00:39:02.660 And I will say the Democrats, the degree of message discipline, not a single Democrat in
00:39:08.340 Virginia that I'm aware of or nationally, condemned Jay Jones for saying and writing he wanted to
00:39:14.720 see the children of his political opponent murdered.
00:39:19.320 Look, the Democrat Party, the message discipline, if he were a Republican, they would have thrown him
00:39:24.320 overboard in a heartbeat.
00:39:26.500 But the Democrats don't care.
00:39:28.140 Yes.
00:39:28.320 They're just like, nope, we're on this team.
00:39:31.440 Little bit of murder of children doesn't matter.
00:39:34.280 We're in support of it.
00:39:35.580 I got to say, and there was a lot of polling.
00:39:37.800 Look, Winsome Sears, the polling had shown for a fair amount of time that she was losing. 0.88
00:39:45.580 Miyares, the polling had shown that he was winning.
00:39:48.420 And so this is a surprising result that we're looking at a five, six-point victory.
00:39:57.000 That means there are Democrats that do not care. 0.96
00:40:00.840 I've got a candidate who wants children to be murdered. 0.99
00:40:04.320 That's my guy. 0.95
00:40:06.600 Like, wow, that is a depressing and sad statement of where we are as a country.
00:40:13.240 It is.
00:40:14.160 And if you go from that to New York City, which, look, Mandani said in his speech moments ago,
00:40:20.860 this is a clear victory for people wanting change.
00:40:24.860 This race, Senator, was really about class warfare.
00:40:28.360 It was about Robin Hood campaign for him.
00:40:31.680 It was a straight-up communism.
00:40:33.600 I mean, the red apple is literally a communist apple now, a man that wants to take from the rich,
00:40:39.380 give to the poor, push people out that are wealthy and successful, tax them into being poor,
00:40:45.620 and run people out of the state that he says don't want to pay their fair share or that are fighting him.
00:40:50.580 He's all about giving away free stuff, whether it's free busing or free food, free grocery store.
00:40:55.700 Like, this is full-blown communism is what he's an advocate for,
00:40:59.280 a guy that's never had a real job in his entire life, a guy that's a radical, his parents are radical as well.
00:41:05.120 He won overwhelmingly in New York City.
00:41:09.220 That is the biggest concern for me is that this cancer of socialism in the Democratic Party is spreading,
00:41:15.800 and I would say spreading rapidly, to America's biggest and most important financial city.
00:41:21.000 Look, Comrade Mondami is now the mayor of New York.
00:41:27.100 That is incredibly distressing. 0.97
00:41:29.540 This man is a communist, and he is a jihadist. 0.83
00:41:33.640 And those are not—I'm not using those as empty epithets.
00:41:37.040 Explain the jihadist aspect so people know what you mean by that.
00:41:40.340 So, listen, this is someone who has cheered for Hamas.
00:41:45.620 He has called for the eradication of Israel.
00:41:49.180 He is an Islamist. 0.94
00:41:53.120 He believes in political Islam.
00:41:55.600 He had told the people of New York that police brutality in New York was trained and taught by the IDF,
00:42:03.180 the Israeli Defense Forces. 0.73
00:42:05.120 That's psychotic. 0.82
00:42:06.380 He is a communist, and I don't say that in the sense that, like, sometimes people say, 0.90
00:42:13.220 oh, Democrats are all communists.
00:42:14.540 No, no.
00:42:15.100 This is someone that calls for seizing the means of production in society.
00:42:20.040 He is an explicit—and this is something that's called the Red-Green Alliance, 0.97
00:42:24.840 which is the alliance between jihadists and communists,
00:42:28.660 and Mondani is the intersection of both of them.
00:42:33.600 There are some Republicans that are happy.
00:42:36.440 They're like, okay, this is great.
00:42:37.920 We'll have great victories in 2026 and 2028 because there's such a whack job as mayor of New York
00:42:44.400 that in every other state we'll be able to campaign against, comrade Mondani.
00:42:49.660 I am not celebrating.
00:42:51.720 Look, New York—New York's not my favorite city in the world,
00:42:55.580 but New York is a crown jewel of America.
00:42:58.480 New York is the financial capital of the world.
00:43:01.860 New York is the media capital of the world.
00:43:05.100 By any measure, New York is one of the most important cities in America.
00:43:10.520 And to have New York now governed by a radical communist jihadist,
00:43:15.520 let me tell you what's going to happen. 0.97
00:43:17.680 More people are going to die in New York.
00:43:20.300 Comrade Mondani is going to wage war against the NYPD.
00:43:23.840 I'm in New York quite a bit.
00:43:24.880 But I can tell you—I actually can't tell you how many New York cops have said they're terrified
00:43:30.480 of what's going to happen if this guy wins.
00:43:33.620 You're going to see the police—
00:43:34.840 Well, he's made it clear in the past he wants to get rid of all police.
00:43:37.320 He said he wants to abolish the police.
00:43:39.340 He believes there should be no police force in New York City.
00:43:41.840 Look, there's going to be more murders in New York.
00:43:44.380 There's going to be more rapes in New York. 1.00
00:43:46.300 There are going to be more children attacked in New York.
00:43:49.040 We're going to see people with resources fleeing New York, coming to Florida, coming to Texas.
00:43:56.920 And the results, as of 11.52 p.m., Mamdani, 50.4 percent.
00:44:05.380 Andrew Cuomo, who was the governor of New York.
00:44:08.100 He's a Democrat.
00:44:08.820 He's not like a right-wing guy.
00:44:10.240 He's Andrew friggin' Cuomo, 41.6 percent.
00:44:14.040 And then Curtis Silva, 7.1 percent.
00:44:17.000 Now, look, I would have liked to have seen Silva drop out to give Cuomo a better chance of winning.
00:44:27.400 7 percent is just a spoiler.
00:44:30.720 But I'll tell you what's distressing.
00:44:33.100 As of right now, even if Silva dropped out, if you gave every bit, 100 percent of Silva's votes to Cuomo,
00:44:39.980 and you wouldn't have, there's some people that would say, I'm not voting for Cuomo.
00:44:43.380 But if you gave 100 percent, Silva, as of right now, had 146,127 votes.
00:44:50.280 Cuomo had 854,783.
00:44:53.780 If you add those two together, it's still less than what Mamdani had of 1,035,646.
00:45:01.260 So Mamdani, right now, is at 50.4 percent, which means it didn't matter. 0.92
00:45:07.040 A majority of New Yorkers wanted a communist jihadist.
00:45:11.100 And I got to say, you know, a couple of days ago, like we saw some Jewish rabbis in New York endorsing Mandami.
00:45:19.960 I got to tell you, a buddy of mine I went to college with, very smart guy, brilliant guy.
00:45:25.320 He was a college debater.
00:45:26.380 Actually, I debated with him.
00:45:28.260 But he is a liberal Democrat.
00:45:30.400 He is a Jewish New Yorker.
00:45:32.640 I was in New York three, four weeks ago, and we spent about an hour sitting around a glass of scotch where he was explaining he had voted for Mamdami.
00:45:42.460 And I don't know what to say to that.
00:45:45.640 Like, it is truly terrifying.
00:45:49.120 This is where the Democrat Party is going.
00:45:50.300 This is the future of the Democrat Party.
00:45:55.600 You might think, okay, that votes well for America because the rest of the country will move in the direction of common sense.
00:46:02.620 I got to say, at least New Jersey and Virginia are not encouraging that regard.
00:46:08.240 Yeah, no doubt about it.
00:46:09.580 Finally, want to get your quick thoughts.
00:46:11.660 It is official.
00:46:12.680 I'm looking at the numbers on the TV right now.
00:46:15.360 California has passed Proposition 50.
00:46:18.780 Tell people what that is quickly and your reaction to that.
00:46:23.920 So California wants to redistrict.
00:46:25.940 They're going to redistrict to create five new Democrat seats.
00:46:29.520 California is already one of the most heavily gerrymandered states in the country.
00:46:34.960 I think 82, 83 percent of the seats are Democrat, even though only about 60 percent of the votes are Democrat.
00:46:42.900 They're going to jack it up to over 90 percent Democrat.
00:46:46.060 They're trying to eliminate Republicans.
00:46:50.440 They're telling Republicans in California, you have no voice.
00:46:54.260 And this is an example.
00:46:56.700 Democrats do not give a damn about democracy.
00:47:00.400 This is all about power.
00:47:02.760 Now, you're going to see other Republican states respond.
00:47:05.480 You're going to see other Republican states redistrict.
00:47:07.620 They claimed that they were doing this in response to Texas.
00:47:11.120 But Texas went from about 63 percent Republicans to about 76 percent Republicans.
00:47:22.300 Texas votes overwhelmingly Republican.
00:47:24.840 So by any measure, even under the new map, Texas is markedly less gerrymandered than California used to be.
00:47:31.480 And they decided 83 percent is not enough.
00:47:34.340 We want to get north of 90.
00:47:36.100 This is pure power.
00:47:38.440 This shows Gavin Newsom has contempt for democracy.
00:47:43.260 And it is sadly typical of where Democrats are nationally.
00:47:47.280 Yeah, it is.
00:47:49.540 It truly is.
00:47:50.220 And they just said, if you're a Republican in California, you have zero representation here.
00:47:55.640 Get out, leave this state, and we will not listen to a word that you say.
00:47:59.500 It's amazing.
00:48:00.780 It is like you said.
00:48:01.960 It was a rough night for Republicans.
00:48:03.800 I say it again, putting it in perspective.
00:48:06.620 These are all places that lean Democrat.
00:48:10.180 They had a lot of money.
00:48:11.400 They had a lot of momentum.
00:48:12.700 They wanted to show some victories against Donald Trump.
00:48:15.420 The government shutdown clearly had a big impact in the Virginia race there.
00:48:19.780 And I'm still in shock by where we are in New York City with a full-blown communist there.
00:48:25.360 We're going to keep talking about it.
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00:48:28.080 And we'll also, I will be giving you the stories coming up in two days about seeing where this massacre took place on the October 7th attack in Israel.
00:48:37.720 And the victims I'm going to meet with, we'll have all that for you on the next verdict.
00:48:41.240 Also, this one is we're doing a dual podcast with my show, the Ben Ferguson podcast as well.
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00:48:51.220 Senator, get some sleep.
00:48:52.320 I'm awake and we'll see you soon.
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