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00:02:04.600 Welcome. It is Verdict with Senator Ted Cruz. Ben Ferguson with you as well.

00:02:08.740 Senator, we've got a big election night in America, and the socialist Marxist-Communists in New York,

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00:02:16.540 Well, it is election night in America, and we've got disparate results.

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00:04:06.780 So it is a very weird election day.

00:04:09.340 I love election days.

00:04:10.580 You're heavily involved in the one that's happening right now.

00:04:12.840 You got into some races, and we're going to talk about those in a second.

00:04:15.800 But I want to talk about the takeaway of what we're witnessing in New York City.

00:04:18.880 mandani went out there endorsed some people and he got all them uh elected he's very excited about

00:04:24.020 this this is full communism and socialism combined with some marxism it is flourishing in new york

00:04:30.220 uh what what is your takeaway from this it is really shocking to see how quick uh america one

00:04:36.620 of america's greatest cities is going to fall look it is tragic but the democrat party has lost its

00:04:43.220 ever-loving mind. In the age of Trump, they hate Trump so much. You know, there used to be moderate

00:04:49.320 Democrats. There used to be Democrats who could see reason, who could find common ground. Today's

00:04:56.180 election is the latest illustration that the base of the Democrat Party is radical. It is socialist.

00:05:02.660 It is Marxist. It is extreme. And so we had today three primary victories for the socialists. This

00:05:10.960 is not me calling them socialists they call themselves socialists so you had number one

00:05:15.780 and all of these were pushed by comrade mandami yeah number one brad lander who was the city's

00:05:22.000 comptroller defeated incumbent representative dan goldman now look dan goldman was a left-wing

00:05:28.160 democrat but he was not totally insane yeah it turns out democrat primary voters want totally

00:05:35.560 insane and so they just threw him out of office beyond that daria lisa avila chevalier bested 0.77

00:05:43.960 representative adriano espelot in the 13th district which is upper manhattan and parts of 1.00

00:05:49.240 the bronx so again an incumbent beaten by an open socialist marxist lunatics and then the third

00:05:57.200 mandami endorsed candidate claire valdez won the primary for an open house seat representing the

00:06:04.000 7th District, which includes neighborhoods in Brooklyn and Queens, and the incumbent,

00:06:08.880 Nydia Velasquez, currently represents the district, is not seeking re-election. And the

00:06:14.960 Democrat Socialists of America backed Chevalier and Valdez. Now, this is the reality of where

00:06:25.800 the Democrat Party is. And understand, this is not just New York, although New York is ground

00:06:31.600 zero for this you want to know who represents the heart of the democrat party today it is mandami

00:06:39.140 it is bernie sanders it is aoc it is ilhan omar and and the results tonight with three socialist

00:06:47.860 victories in the democrat primaries in new york is every democrat in congress they're already

00:06:53.220 terrified of the radical left they will now be more terrified of the radical left and i'm going

00:06:59.100 repeat a prediction that i made uh several months ago in this podcast i believe in 2028

00:07:05.360 the top two democrat front front runners for president are gavin newsom and aoc i believe

00:07:13.000 aoc will run for president and she will be a top tier candidate because that's where the base of

00:07:20.520 the party is by the way the charter member of the aoc for president committee will be chuck schumer

00:07:25.640 who is utterly, utterly terrified that AOC will primary him and beat him in a Democrat primary.

00:07:33.200 But here's my second prediction, which I've made before, but I want to repeat.

00:07:37.180 AOC will run for president, and Mondami is going to run against Chuck Schumer for the Senate,

00:07:43.320 and Mondami will beat Chuck Schumer for the Senate.

00:07:45.960 Both of those predictions, I think you can take him to the bank.

00:07:49.600 I like this prediction.

00:07:51.080 By the way, you go back to how radical the Democrats are, especially in New York City.

00:07:55.380 Let me let me stop and say one of the things about this podcast. Yes, we're usually right. Yeah, I make lots of predictions and I make bold, aggressive. I don't know anyone. There are some people saying AOC is going to run for president. I have not heard anyone say Mondami is going to run for Senate and beat Schumer. I believe that's right.

00:08:13.800 To be clear on this podcast, we predicted a year before Joe Biden dropped out of the race that Joe Biden was going to drop out of the race. 0.75

00:08:22.100 We predicted that we also in the height of covid, we laid out the facts that covid escaped from a Chinese lab and likely was manufactured a Chinese lab at the time that that was being suppressed all over the place. 0.80

00:08:36.180 So I will say we don't get every prediction right. 0.94

00:08:38.940 But look, you know, you take no risks and you get no reward.

00:08:43.440 I don't know that that's right, but I'm on the record.

00:08:47.400 When people ask me, why does Senator Cruz do this podcast?

00:08:49.120 And I said it's because he likes doing predictions.

00:08:51.400 This is where he gets to take the jacket off and be like,

00:08:54.880 all right, I get to geek out on this in a great way,

00:08:57.660 and this is my prediction.

00:08:59.580 And by the way, if I'm wrong, we'll play this segment,

00:09:05.360 and I'll admit it.

00:09:06.120 So if it doesn't happen, I'll be like, all right, look,

00:09:09.260 i i i don't bat a thousand you know ted williams and ty cobb didn't bat a thousand if you bat 400

00:09:16.420 you're doing pretty damn well and we bat north of 400 yeah it ain't a thousand but just want to be

00:09:21.820 clear that's hall of fame numbers yeah so so but look that's that's part of what makes this i hope

00:09:27.900 makes this podcast interesting is is we could say the well we don't know what's going to happen so

00:09:32.980 something will happen and we'll tell you after it happens but we don't do that we actually like say

00:09:36.800 all right, here's my best judgment, and, you know, I've done this a little while and know a little bit about it.

00:09:42.760 Yeah.

00:09:43.260 All right, you go back to the local elections in New York, and you and I have a good friend, Larry Kudlow.

00:09:47.920 We were talking about this.

00:09:48.940 He's there in New York, and I was on his show.

00:09:51.600 We were talking about this election, what this means, and I said if Mondani's guys win,

00:09:56.180 what this means is it's open season on capitalism and success.

00:10:01.040 It is open season on businesses and small businesses.

00:10:03.300 These are the same people that hate Elon Musk and want to confiscate all his wealth.

00:10:06.800 Right, correct. That is the heart of the Democrat Party. Every other Democrat is terrified. And by the way, Dan Goldman was about as mainstream a Democrat as you could have. And he is now roadkill because the radical left said that's not enough.

00:10:24.600 By the way, we are also very quickly heading to a world, I believe we're maybe a couple years away from a world where zero Democrats will accept a dollar from AIPAC.

00:10:35.900 and and that's a big shift look when i showed up in congress

00:10:39.560 a pack which is the american israeli political action committee are americans

00:10:44.840 most of them are jewish they support a strong america-israel relationship

00:10:50.060 and and they're assiduously bipartisan obsessively bipartisan

00:10:55.060 many of the leaders of a check to ted cruz are going to check to chuck schumer that's how

00:10:59.800 bipartisan they are right many of the leaders of a pack most of the leaders of a pack have been

00:11:04.060 democrats and we're facing a world where if you look at these incumbents that were beaten one of

00:11:10.720 the major reasons they were beaten is that they had taken they'd been willing to accept funds

00:11:15.920 from americans by the way look this effort to to stigmatize apac i believe is actually an effort

00:11:22.760 to drive jews out of public life to say if you're american and you're jewish your contribution to a

00:11:28.820 candidate are on is unacceptable and and we are really really close to every single democrat

00:11:35.900 saying i don't accept apac funds and by the way that puts apac in a position where they they are

00:11:42.520 not a republican organization at all and yet the democrat party is very quickly it is but by the

00:11:52.380 way dan goldman i don't know if you watched online he went in the past couple of days to a coffee

00:11:58.300 shop in new york in his district he was there with his seven-year-old daughter to a coffee shop he

00:12:02.920 bought a a nine dollar coffee because it's new york that's how much a cup of coffee costs is nine

00:12:07.560 dollars and the coffee shop i think it was like called poetic or something like that

00:12:12.800 they saw that he was there afterwards and they said you're an israel loving apac accepting

00:12:19.940 genocide supporting nut and so they refunded him as nine dollars and said we won't take your money

00:12:26.860 so there's so much hate that this lefty woke coffee shop said by the way you bought the coffee 0.87

00:12:36.340 and drank it but we're returning your money because we hate you we hate israel and really 0.81

00:12:44.000 what they're saying we hate jews so much that your money is not acceptable in our shop that's

00:12:50.680 where the democrat party is right now yeah and i think this is i i i think what we learned from

00:12:56.280 this election in New York tonight is this.

00:12:58.320 This is going to be a large

00:13:00.480 portion, as you mentioned earlier,

00:13:02.700 of what the presidential Democratic

00:13:04.380 primary is going to look like. There is

00:13:06.460 now not just space

00:13:08.340 on the main stage. I'm going to make another prediction.

00:13:09.960 It's at the center of the stage for

00:13:12.300 communism. Yes, I'm going to make another

00:13:14.160 prediction. So, in a normal world,

00:13:16.880 one of the frontrunners for the

00:13:18.200 Democrat presidential primary would be Josh

00:13:20.220 Shapiro. Yeah. Josh Shapiro

00:13:22.180 is the incumbent governor of Pennsylvania,

00:13:24.100 the largest swing state in America.

00:13:26.280 He is perceived as a relatively moderate, successful, popular governor.

00:13:31.980 Shapiro, in any normal, sane world, would have been Kamala Harris's natural choice as VP.

00:13:38.200 Yeah. 1.00

00:13:38.620 Because if she wins Pennsylvania, her chances of winning the presidential rise dramatically.

00:13:44.180 Obviously, Shapiro did not get the nod.

00:13:46.220 I believe if Josh Shapiro's name were Josh Smith, he would have been the VP nominee.

00:13:52.220 It would have been Harris Smith.

00:13:54.280 Kamala refused to pick him because he was Jewish.

00:13:59.120 I think in the Democrat Party, being Jewish is now a disqualifier. 1.00

00:14:04.460 You are not acceptable. 0.67

00:14:05.820 And so another prediction, Josh Shapiro probably runs.

00:14:09.620 By the way, Andy Bishere, the governor of Kentucky, I think he's going to run.

00:14:14.880 In a general stage, in a general, someone like an Andy Bishere, if he were the nominee, could be formidable.

00:14:21.700 He's a Bill Clinton type character, elected in a red state, perceived as moderate.

00:14:26.740 I think Shapiro and Bashir have zero chance, 0.0 chance of being the Democrat nominee because they don't want moderate.

00:14:36.160 They don't want reasonable. They want full on foam coming out of the mouth.

00:14:42.760 Israel hating America hating Marxist. That's where their party is. 0.94

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00:17:48.920 Let's talk about South Carolina.

00:17:51.220 South Carolina, also a very important state.

00:17:53.340 You got involved, not just a little bit, you went all in in South Carolina for a couple of different candidates.

00:17:58.460 Explain what happened there, and your endorsements clearly meant something.

00:18:01.680 Yeah. And let me step back. Let me step back 10 days ago. So 10 days ago, I made a couple of

00:18:07.800 endorsements in two big races, the Georgia gubernatorial race and the South Carolina

00:18:12.220 gubernatorial race. In Georgia, I endorsed Rick Jackson. And in South Carolina, I endorsed Alan

00:18:23.560 Wilson. Now, it so happened, this was not by design, but it happened that President Trump

00:18:30.240 had endorsed against both of those candidates now now listen if you make an endorsement in a

00:18:36.700 republican primary and the president is on the other side that is inherently bumpy that is

00:18:41.220 inherently challenging um in both races president trump had made the endorsements really early in

00:18:49.080 georgia he had endorsed the lieutenant governor early before rick jackson was even in the race

00:18:54.360 And so he didn't know that Jackson was running.

00:18:58.280 But he had made those endorsements a while ago.

00:19:00.840 I looked at both races.

00:19:02.700 And I have a philosophy in terms of making endorsements in races, which is I endorse the most conservative candidate who can win.

00:19:12.300 And I'm interested in both.

00:19:13.580 Give me a proven record that you're a real conservative.

00:19:16.480 And show me a path to victory.

00:19:18.080 This is not we're not playing around.

00:19:19.440 We're not playing a game.

00:19:20.280 We're trying to save America.

00:19:21.220 So I want to see how you can win and give me the best evidence that you're going to be a real conservative in office.

00:19:27.740 Rick Jackson, we talked about this on an earlier podcast, an amazing personal story.

00:19:34.580 Grew up in the projects in Atlanta, in utter poverty, raised by a single mom who faced serious substance abuse issues.

00:19:42.140 He ran away from home. He ended up in foster care. He had five different foster families.

00:19:46.920 He started with every disadvantage, nothing, and he ended up building this amazing business.

00:19:53.420 He's worth several billion dollars.

00:19:56.000 It is an incredible story, by the way.

00:19:57.820 It's an American success story, and he has also been incredibly charitable,

00:20:03.460 in particular taking care of foster kids in Georgia because he came from that environment,

00:20:09.180 doing things like covering their expenses in college.

00:20:11.800 He's also been incredibly generous to Christian ministries.

00:20:16.440 He funds a Christian orphanage in China.

00:20:19.620 I'm told the only orphanage in China that is actually allowed to preach the gospel to the kids.

00:20:24.640 That's incredible.

00:20:25.740 And so I looked at him and I said, listen, this guy is going to be a real conservative.

00:20:30.920 He's pledging to abolish the income tax in Georgia.

00:20:34.260 And he is an incredible general election candidate.

00:20:38.740 He's already put $100 million of his own money into the primary.

00:20:41.940 And he's going to put at least that into the general.

00:20:44.140 And so my view was this guy can win the general. But not only that, with Rick Jackson as the nominee in Georgia, I think our chances of winning the Senate seat in Georgia go way, way up, because if he puts another hundred million into the general, if he's got a huge turnout operation, if he's telling an inspirational story that wins crossover votes in Atlanta, that's how you win not just the gubernatorial race, but the Senate race.

00:21:09.400 So I endorsed him. And I will tell you, after I endorsed him, Donald Trump Jr. endorsed him the day before the election.

00:21:19.620 I was encouraged by that. And I think that was a statement that that was done with the blessings of the White House.

00:21:26.260 I went a week ago Monday and campaigned with Rick just outside Atlanta, had a big rally and Rick ends up winning.

00:21:34.760 then this week alan wilson same dynamic alan uh president trump early on had endorsed the

00:21:44.320 lieutenant governor yeah i i don't know the lieutenant governor i have no no issues against

00:21:49.140 her i've said nothing negative about her but i've known alan for more than a decade he's the sitting

00:21:54.360 attorney general when he was elected he was the youngest attorney general in the country he's been

00:21:59.100 reelected repeatedly. He has a strong conservative record over and over and over again. And so as I

00:22:05.760 look at the two candidates, I think Allen clearly had the stronger conservative record. And so I

00:22:12.180 endorsed him. And by the way, at the time I endorsed him, it was not at all clear what was

00:22:17.720 going to happen. Well, I'm very happy to say that after I endorsed him, shortly thereafter,

00:22:23.460 President Trump came out and endorsed him as well. So he'd endorsed both candidates. And I'm

00:22:27.880 grateful for that and the reporters all tried to make this into a thing well gosh aren't you

00:22:32.520 endorsing against trump and isn't that like a thing and i sort of laughed i said listen i've

00:22:37.560 spent a decade as president trump's strongest ally in the senate i'm proud to be so i think

00:22:43.800 president trump has been an extraordinary president and he and i agree on the vast majority of races

00:22:49.900 the overwhelming majority of races he and i are on exactly the same side yeah it so happens in

00:22:55.500 these two races i got involved much later than he did and at the stage in the race where i got

00:23:01.320 involved i thought there was a clear difference and i thought rick and i thought alan were the

00:23:06.180 two stronger candidates um what ended up happening look once i endorsed president trump endorsed and

00:23:13.140 then actually tim scott endorsed alan as well and he ended up winning by as okay we're sitting here

00:23:19.120 right now it is 11 58 let me look at the numbers as of right now as of right now uh with 99 of the

00:23:30.260 vote in uh alan has 68.6 uh and yvette his opponent has 31.4 yeah that's a beat down just

00:23:41.500 for just for people that don't know that's a beat down in politics a 27 point victory and and listen

00:23:48.460 That's a beat down. I actually think it has some similar dynamics to the Paxton Corden race in Texas, where I think Paxton was was likely going to win the runoff.

00:23:59.880 All of the numbers I'd seen showed him about eight to 12 points up.

00:24:05.580 So I think he was likely to win. And then at the end, President Trump endorsed Paxton and he won by 28 points.

00:24:11.680 And I actually talked to the president and I said, look, I think your endorsement was worth about 20 points.

00:24:15.480 So, I mean, it had a real impact. It turned what was going to be a victory into a blowout.

00:24:21.160 And I think in South Carolina, the president's endorsement did the same thing.

00:24:24.780 I think Allen was going to win. And it may have been in that same range.

00:24:30.320 I'm less confident. But my guess is the sort of eight to 12 point range is where he was.

00:24:35.120 And when the president came in, it again was worth about 20 points and drove it up to 27 points.

00:24:40.640 So that look, I think that is a good outcome. And and I think it's important. You and I care deeply about the elections in November. Part of the way we have a good election day is nominating the strongest candidates who have the most conservative record, but also have a path to victory.

00:25:01.120 And I think in both Georgia and South Carolina, that's exactly what we did.

00:25:05.580 Yeah, no, it absolutely is.

00:25:07.300 I want to get to this other issue, and that's the election database, activist, judges, and a shocking, really, it came down.

00:25:13.420 But before we get to that, Senator, I just have to tell you something funny that happened today.

00:25:16.860 So you know there's a new Air Force One, right?

00:25:19.740 I do.

00:25:20.440 You know that, right?

00:25:21.120 Now, here's the thing that matters.

00:25:22.920 You've not been on that Air Force One, correct?

00:25:25.160 I want to make that very clear.

00:25:26.280 I have not.

00:25:27.700 Has anybody, is it flying yet?

00:25:29.740 It's flying.

00:25:30.360 so my kids the new one is in the air it's it's in the air from the report i saw on tv earlier today

00:25:36.720 i believe you i just hadn't seen that so it was on tv the kids look at me and they're like hey dad

00:25:41.620 have you ever been on air force one i'm like i have and they're like well have you been on the

00:25:44.740 new one i'm like no like it just started like that's one that's on the news today like you're

00:25:47.900 dealing with seven and nine they're like you know figuring it out and i'm like no and they're like

00:25:50.700 they look at me they're like well has senator cruz is like no he hasn't either so actually

00:25:55.520 I didn't know it was in the air.

00:25:57.020 At this moment in time, you and I are the same.

00:25:59.520 We've both been on the old Air Force One.

00:26:01.280 Neither of us have been on the new Air Force One.

00:26:02.900 I just want to make that very clear for all the kids out there.

00:26:05.080 We're on the same right now.

00:26:06.320 I want to clarify that, Ben.

00:26:08.800 That will change soon.

00:26:09.800 What you are saying is on the tennis court, you and I are the same.

00:26:14.700 That's what I heard.

00:26:15.880 I just want to throw that bit of humor out there because it felt good today.

00:26:19.720 I admit, I think you and I are equally matched at tennis.

00:26:22.900 Never mind that you were a Division I varsity tennis player and I can barely hit the ball.

00:26:28.200 But I heard you and I are the same.

00:26:28.880 So if we're going to play the game, when was the first year you were ever on Air Force One?

00:26:33.220 Because I think I'm going to beat you in this one.

00:26:35.260 Of course you are, because you were on with Bush.

00:26:36.860 I was never on with Bush. 0.96

00:26:38.220 You're a big Muppet. 0.99

00:26:38.720 Okay, so there you go. 0.81

00:26:39.200 So I got the longest tenure of being on an Air Force One.

00:26:42.820 I'm loving this game right now.

00:26:44.740 I'll tell the kids in the morning.

00:26:46.260 I like this.

00:26:46.880 Now, I was on the campaign.

00:26:48.500 We're not going to say how many times have you been on.

00:26:50.540 That would change the scale, obviously.

00:26:52.120 I was on the campaign plane with Bush in 1999, so I beat you on the campaign plane.

00:26:58.320 You do. You beat me on that one.

00:26:59.420 But I never rode on the Air Force One with Bush.

00:27:04.760 Have you done Marine One?

00:27:06.320 I have not done Marine One. I have Marine One envy. I really do.

00:27:10.140 I've done the Beast a bunch of times, and the Beast is really cool, but Marine One, I want to get on Marine One, and I just haven't been on it.

00:27:16.860 And look, first time I went on on Air Force One, I mean, listen, during most of Bush's presidency, I was back in Texas.

00:27:23.400 I was the SG of Texas. So you were in the White House while I was back, you know, actually in the heart of America.

00:27:34.000 Hold on. Lightning's about to get I've got to dodge these bullets coming in here.

00:27:37.940 Man, we're going to lose the connection here.

00:27:40.460 Do you want to hear the even more depressing thing? Do you know the first time I went on Air Force One?

00:27:45.660 yeah i'm ready that would be with barack obama no yeah that's a buzz kill i i got elected to

00:27:53.060 the senate in 2012 and so obama was president and and i think i believe the first time i was on air

00:27:59.020 force one was we went back to dallas do you remember when five police officers were shot

00:28:05.480 in in a horrible mass shooting by this black lives matter radicalists and and obama the white

00:28:11.800 House said, hey, Obama came back

00:28:13.720 to speak at the funeral, and he offered

00:28:15.780 for me to ride on the plane. I'm like,

00:28:17.820 yeah, sure. And I was coming to the

00:28:19.780 funeral, and oddly enough, he seated me

00:28:21.780 next to Nancy Pelosi.

00:28:23.920 And it was the first time I'd met Nancy Pelosi. 0.88

00:28:25.760 You actually think these folks in

00:28:27.760 Washington all hang out together.

00:28:29.760 Do you know I've never met AOC? I've never

00:28:31.760 met Ilhan Omar.

00:28:34.120 I've never met Hillary Clinton.

00:28:36.120 Count your blessings, by the way, on that 1.00

00:28:37.800 one. Count your blessings. I've met

00:28:39.700 two of the three in green rooms at

00:28:41.660 tv count your blessings so i will say like pelosi and i i this is the only time i really met her but

00:28:48.500 she and i were seated next to each other for a three-hour flight and she was very pleasant and

00:28:53.880 gracious to her credit we were talking and she's got a child that lives in houston and grandkids

00:28:58.640 that are in texas and we were talking about family obviously we agree on very little substantively

00:29:04.240 but it was to her credit she could be a nice gracious civil person which which i didn't know

00:29:09.940 And and and it was interesting. Obama, the entire flight, like did not come out of his office at all.

00:29:17.880 He came out for like two minutes at the end of the flight and he was so aloof.

00:29:23.040 Whereas Trump and I've been on Air Force One a ton with Trump.

00:29:27.280 Trump like hangs out with you for hours and you just like and you can get a lot of work done.

00:29:33.020 Separate himself off. Yeah, he does not separate himself off.

00:29:35.060 and he's going nonstop and you're going and i'll typically bring like three or four note cards in

00:29:40.800 my pocket of issues that i want to raise with the president because like being on air force one

00:29:44.460 can be really productive and you can raise issues and get things done but the contrast like obama was

00:29:51.880 so aloof that he didn't use that time but i have not been on the new air force one now do you know

00:29:57.620 what trump said the first time i was on air force one with him what'd he say so this was like i think

00:30:03.040 march of 2017 so just a couple months into the presidency and he and i don't remember if only i

00:30:07.860 wouldn't have been born you could have been on this plane it'd be you as president that's what

00:30:10.980 i would that was the line i would have used just imagine yeah i just i would have thrown that line

00:30:15.900 if i was trump i would have like man just imagine if i wasn't born this would be your plane right

00:30:20.480 now that would have been that would have been my life you're a much meaner guy than donald trump

00:30:24.260 um so so i'm on the plane with him and it's like pretty cool i think it was the second time i'd

00:30:30.280 been on air force one so i'm like geeking out um and and i'm looking around and i i said uh

00:30:36.060 nice nice plane mr president and his immediate response is he said yeah my old one was nicer

00:30:41.320 and then my response was was yeah but it didn't have missiles which which he laughed at but i

00:30:49.600 will say i have also been on trump's personal plane and he's not wrong his personal plane is

00:30:55.020 nicer than the old air force one the qatari one may be nicer than both of them i assume i'll

00:31:00.220 probably be honored at some point and so i'll when i get on it i'll give you a report give me a report

00:31:05.140 well i can't wait to see the new the new one looks amazing that's why that's why it was it was a funny

00:31:09.260 topic because they were like have you been on like i've not been on that no i've not but when i do

00:31:13.240 i promise the boys i said when i get on there i will bring you back the m&ms because that that

00:31:17.240 is a true sign you've been on air force one okay by the way the m&ms thing like like members of

00:31:22.960 congress will kill somebody i got it right here so that's that's the box like that's the presidential

00:31:28.100 by the way the mms have the president's uh signature on it yeah so there's the m&m and

00:31:32.820 then there's his famous signature there and by the way trump makes very good use of air force one he

00:31:38.460 puts people on and he like whips votes and and he uses it one of the things i was grateful 0.89

00:31:44.840 was obama was so damn aloof and arrogant that he didn't actually use air force one he could 0.86

00:31:52.740 have accomplished much more damage to america if he would just woo house members or senators 0.96

00:31:59.940 look democrat senators he never used the house and senate to his advantage at all when he became

00:32:05.180 president he thought he was above everyone democrat senators privately when obama was

00:32:10.760 president would bitch non-stop that he wouldn't talk to them he ignored them that they were they 0.73

00:32:16.080 They were barely people. 0.99

00:32:18.220 And it's to Trump's credit.

00:32:20.640 Look, Trump spends a ton of time.

00:32:23.580 If I call Trump, he either answers or he calls back usually within the day.

00:32:28.360 And that's true of most senators.

00:32:33.300 That's true of many House members.

00:32:35.180 I mean, he spends hours a day on the phone.

00:32:37.960 I try not to abuse that, by the way.

00:32:39.980 I mean, I end up talking to him probably once a week.

00:32:42.780 But it's funny.

00:32:43.620 My staff is like, oh, you ought to call the president more often.

00:32:46.000 And I'm like, I don't want to bother the guy.

00:32:47.780 Like when I call him.

00:32:49.200 He's the president of the United States of America, yeah.

00:32:50.360 Yeah, he's got a lot of demands on his time.

00:32:52.600 So I don't call him just to like shoot the breeze and be like, you know, aren't I cool?

00:32:57.580 I call him when there's like a topic that I need a decision, that I need something.

00:33:04.520 But it is his responsiveness is actually phenomenal.

00:33:12.100 And unlike, certainly unlike any president I've ever known.

00:33:15.440 And that is one of the keys of his strength.

00:33:19.280 You look at something like the working families tax cut, also called the one big beautiful bill.

00:33:25.100 Yeah.

00:33:25.620 There were tons of House members and senators voting no, and Trump just spent a ton of time, sometimes with honey, sometimes with vinegar, sometimes just, you know, being nice and conjoling and other times just taking a two by four to them.

00:33:41.780 but but it's how he got the votes and and it's very very potent like one box of m&ms

00:33:46.720 can get you the vote you need and and trump has given out a lot of m&ms all right i want to take

00:33:53.400 a moment i want to talk to you for just a second honestly about how an act of compassion really

00:33:59.120 feels a few years ago i made the choice to partner with compassion international to sponsor a child

00:34:05.320 who is in desperate need now it was a great idea right that's what most people say all right it's

00:34:10.700 nice sure but you really have no idea just how much that simple act can actually change a life

00:34:17.940 and i'm not just talking about the child i'm talking about my life now i sponsored nadia and

00:34:22.720 got to watch her life change right in front of my eyes going from starving alone on the street 0.58

00:34:28.220 to getting the health care and education that she needs to reach her god-given potential i got to be

00:34:34.800 a part of that change and the light of that compassion not only illuminated her it illuminated

00:34:40.060 me. That's the power of compassion, and it's something I'm trying to teach my children about

00:34:45.480 as well. Now, the light of Christ shines on all of us, and you can feel this for yourself and for

00:34:52.640 your children. You can sponsor a child and have them involved. That's what I love so much. So not

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00:35:11.160 compassion.com i want to get to this before we run out of time and that is election database 1.00

00:35:17.700 and this activist judge uh explain this this this judge what she has done here in a simplistic way 1.00

00:35:26.960 what they were trying to do is make sure that people that were not american citizens and those

00:35:31.660 are not eligible to vote would not be able to eligible to vote that doesn't seem controversial

00:35:36.620 the majority of americans are in favor of the save act it's 75 80 percent depending on what

00:35:40.660 poll you look at and this judge said hey you guys can't cross check in different groups like social

00:35:45.880 security can't work with others and and and you guys know we're not going to allow this to happen

00:35:50.780 that was shocking yeah so i'm going to read from the associated press a federal judge on monday

00:35:57.140 ruled that a recently revamped

00:35:59.100 version of a federal tool central to the

00:36:01.160 Trump administration's effort to nationalize

00:36:03.380 elections can no longer be

00:36:05.220 used. U.S. District

00:36:07.100 Court Judge Sparkle

00:36:09.180 L. Suknanan

00:36:11.000 I want you to stop and think. 0.97

00:36:13.260 There's a friggin' judge in America 0.99

00:36:14.980 named Sparkle 1.00

00:36:17.100 L. Suknanan.

00:36:19.220 By the way, she was a clerk 0.91

00:36:20.620 for Sonia Sotomayor.

00:36:23.040 She's a radical leftist. I voted against 0.96

00:36:25.120 her confirmation, but she is

00:36:27.040 a district judge in Washington, D.C., and Judge Sparkle sided with the advocacy groups that argue

00:36:33.600 that the recent upgrades to the program, called the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements,

00:36:39.500 or SAVE, aggregated Americans' sensitive personal data in a way that could result in voters being

00:36:45.680 wrongly purged from voter rules. Quote, all in all, the federal government has knowingly trampled

00:36:51.720 on the privacy rights of American citizens in a manner that threatens the sacred right to vote.

00:36:57.040 Sukunen said in an order explaining the decision this court cannot stand idly by while that happens

00:37:05.060 she says congress had expressly prohibited the government from centralizing americans personal

00:37:10.080 identifying information and the federal agencies that created the save program

00:37:13.680 quote knew that the database violates these statutory protections now this is a liberal

00:37:21.340 activist decision. It is also a decision that doesn't make sense under the statute.

00:37:29.820 The statutes that she was looking at, number one, the statute is the Social Security Act,

00:37:36.980 and the Social Security Act requires, quote, Social Security account numbers of record that

00:37:42.480 are obtained or maintained by persons pursuant to any provision of law shall be confidential,

00:37:47.760 and no authorized person shall disclose any such Social Security account number or related record.

00:37:53.140 Well, you know what?

00:37:53.620 The Trump administration didn't disclose anyone's Social Security number.

00:37:57.200 Exactly.

00:37:57.540 If they released your Social Security number, that would be a violation of the Social Security Act.

00:38:05.480 They didn't do that.

00:38:07.380 The Social Security Act doesn't say the federal government can't look at Social Security numbers.

00:38:11.560 Like, the government is one entity, and it is a bizarre system that says, you have records that show if people are illegal aliens or not.

00:38:21.940 You, the federal government, are not allowed to look at those records because a law says you can't publicly disclose them to others.

00:38:28.840 They didn't.

00:38:29.540 There's another law called the Privacy Act.

00:38:33.100 And the Privacy Act, they claim, it violated this as well.

00:38:39.060 But again, the Privacy Act does not prohibit the federal government from looking at its own records.

00:38:46.360 I mean, understand this is a ruling from a radical judge who's saying even though the federal government and initially the save database was set up to stop the federal government from giving government benefits, giving welfare to illegal aliens.

00:39:03.000 Now, mind you, it is illegal to give government benefits, to give welfare to illegal aliens.

00:39:08.160 Congress has passed that law over and over and over again, and Democrats, when they're being completely split personality on this, they will say repeatedly, well, we don't give welfare benefits to illegal aliens.

00:39:21.560 They'll say that over and over again, and they'll simultaneously say, dear God, we've got to give welfare benefits to illegal aliens.

00:39:27.420 What a monster would deny them. 0.71

00:39:29.000 So they say them both. 0.80

00:39:30.580 Remember when every Democrat running for president in 2020 was asked, should we give free health care to every illegal in America? 0.64

00:39:36.000 and they all raise their hand yep yep yep every one of them right down the line

00:39:40.360 but at the end of the day congress has passed repeated laws saying do not give welfare benefits

00:39:47.540 to illegal aliens and judge sparkle and and and look by the way i i think it is really impressive

00:39:54.340 that my little pony is now a federal judge uh but but i just wish my little pony was not a

00:40:00.880 not a marxist you would think that judge sparkle would would recognize something beautiful like

00:40:07.000 like the constitution or federal law it is insane to say that the same congress that says you cannot

00:40:15.180 give government benefits or welfare to illegal aliens somehow said but you're not allowed to

00:40:21.820 look to see if anyone's an illegal alien nope you're the government is blindfolded from looking

00:40:26.680 at your own databases. I'm going to make another prediction in this show. I was going to say this

00:40:31.800 decision will be reversed. It will be when and how quickly? I don't know how quickly it might

00:40:38.940 be reversed by the D.C. Circuit. If it's not reversed by the D.C. Circuit, I think it will

00:40:45.060 be reversed by the U.S. Supreme Court. What I don't know is if it gets reversed in time for

00:40:50.120 the election part of the strategy of the litigants is delay and generally speaking

00:40:55.900 these decisions can take a lot of time now the department of justice

00:41:01.440 likely will seek emergency relief from the dc circuit now it will depend on what panel of

00:41:07.380 judges you get you get three random judges on the dc circuit um and then if the dc circuit

00:41:14.240 the problem probably the biggest danger is they seek emergency relief in the dc circuit and they

00:41:20.680 get a bad draw of left-wing judges in the dc circuit and what i predict they would do then

00:41:26.020 is just try to delay it till after the elections they just slow walk it and it's and that's so

00:41:31.600 they can make sure that they don't have any that's implemented for election day so you can have more

00:41:35.760 people that can vote illegally yes and so if you get a good panel on the dc circuit i i am

00:41:43.800 quite confident this will be reversed. And by the way, if the D.C. Circuit upholds this decision,

00:41:49.560 I think the Supreme Court would take the case and reverse it. But in the normal course of things,

00:41:55.400 that would take a couple of years. So that would not impact the 26th election. It would probably

00:41:59.440 be in time for the 28th election. My hope is they take an emergency appeal and the D.C. Circuit

00:42:05.360 overturns it quickly. Or even if the D.C. Circuit rejects the appeal, I want them to make a decision

00:42:10.960 fast because then they could appeal that to the Supremes. I think the Supremes would act quickly.

00:42:15.900 The danger is the D.C. Circuit slow walks it for another six months. I tell you what, this has been

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Verdict with Ted Cruz - June 24, 2026

Election Night： Socialists win in NYC, Conservatives win in SC & GA plus Radical Judge Bars Trump from Preventing Illegals from Voting

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