Verdict with Ted Cruz - November 02, 2022


GOP Surging In The Polls As Americans Feel Biden And The Democrats Are Not Looking Out For Our Needs & Safety!


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37 minutes

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162.02434

Word Count

6,005

Sentence Count

361

Misogynist Sentences

23

Hate Speech Sentences

20


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00:00:00.000 This is an iHeart Podcast.
00:00:02.500 Guaranteed human.
00:00:04.560 Just days away from the midterm elections,
00:00:08.140 and there's a very good chance there could be a big red wave
00:00:11.720 because of new poll numbers that have come out.
00:00:14.800 Welcome to Verdict with Ted Cruz, Senator.
00:00:17.580 These poll numbers have come out,
00:00:19.440 and it is really good for Republican candidates.
00:00:24.440 There's a very interesting article in the National Review
00:00:26.980 about the media's, quote, delusional midterm coverage.
00:00:31.000 They're doing everything they can to overlook the Gallup new poll,
00:00:34.600 which finds that the public assessment of the U.S. economy
00:00:37.580 and national satisfaction are the lowest they have measured
00:00:42.540 at the time of a midterm election.
00:00:45.440 This means, I think, a red wave could be coming in a very, very big way
00:00:49.960 all over the country.
00:00:51.820 Well, Ben, I think that's exactly right.
00:00:53.400 I expect on election day an historic election.
00:00:56.260 I've been saying for some time,
00:00:58.020 I think Republicans are going to take both houses of Congress.
00:01:00.600 I think we're going to take the House,
00:01:02.060 and the majority could be as big as 30, 40, 50 seats.
00:01:05.340 I think it will be on the order of magnitude of 2010.
00:01:10.620 The Senate, I think we're likely to take 53 or 54 seats,
00:01:15.460 which would be a very, very strong pickup.
00:01:18.040 One of the indicia that it's going to be a great Republican year
00:01:23.780 is the corporate media is in a panic right now.
00:01:26.720 They are spinning to their heart's delight,
00:01:29.880 desperately trying to change the topic.
00:01:31.940 The Gallup polls that came out this week,
00:01:34.300 let me read from Gallup, and this is a quote.
00:01:36.600 The Democrats are especially vulnerable this year
00:01:40.200 because the national mood is as bad, if not worse,
00:01:44.780 than it has been in any recent midterm election year.
00:01:49.060 And Gallup continues, quote,
00:01:50.660 current ratings of the U.S. economy and national satisfaction
00:02:19.080 are the lowest Gallup has measured at the time of the midterm election
00:02:24.480 over the life of these polling trends,
00:02:28.480 starting in 1994 and 1982, respectively.
00:02:33.520 Congressional and presidential job approval
00:02:35.760 are near their historic low marks.
00:02:39.900 That suggests a very bad election for Democrats
00:02:43.520 and a very, very good election for Republicans.
00:02:46.940 Senator, I want to go into the media
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00:04:21.640 You know, you look at the media
00:04:22.800 and how they're covering this,
00:04:24.480 and they went through the top election issues,
00:04:27.560 and Senator, I want to go through each one of these
00:04:29.480 one by one,
00:04:30.740 and you explain to everybody listening
00:04:33.240 why this is connecting with voters,
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00:04:51.100 And one of the things, Senator,
00:04:52.620 that I think is,
00:04:53.480 and it's the number one issue.
00:04:54.700 It goes back to Ronald Reagan.
00:04:56.340 It's the economy, stupid.
00:04:58.440 49% of respondents say
00:05:01.620 the economy is the number one issue,
00:05:03.160 and when asked who they believe
00:05:04.880 can fix the problem with the economy, Senator,
00:05:07.260 there is a massive lead for Republicans
00:05:09.780 with 31% advantage
00:05:12.200 over the Democrats on the economy.
00:05:15.120 Well, that's right,
00:05:16.360 and consistently this year,
00:05:17.960 three issues have topped
00:05:19.480 the priorities for the voters.
00:05:21.380 The number one issue has been inflation,
00:05:23.520 and in particular, gas prices.
00:05:25.300 The number two issue nationally has been crime,
00:05:28.600 and the number three issue consistently
00:05:30.580 has been illegal immigration.
00:05:31.840 If you look at those three issues,
00:05:34.200 number one, all of them have gotten
00:05:35.820 much, much worse over the last two years.
00:05:39.660 Even someone not paying attention,
00:05:42.740 it's not confusing
00:05:44.080 that before Joe Biden was president,
00:05:47.540 gas was $2.38 a gallon,
00:05:50.260 and today, in a lot of places,
00:05:52.120 it's $4 or $5 a gallon.
00:05:53.620 It's gotten as high as $6 and $7 a gallon.
00:05:56.420 That people feel every time
00:05:58.420 they fill up their car,
00:05:59.500 every time they fill up their truck,
00:06:00.880 they look at the numbers,
00:06:01.980 and wait a second,
00:06:02.700 this isn't a two-digit number,
00:06:04.420 it's a three-digit number.
00:06:06.040 That is real.
00:06:07.980 Crime.
00:06:08.560 People are seeing crime everywhere.
00:06:11.040 In every major city,
00:06:12.900 crime is skyrocketing,
00:06:14.360 and the Democrats have leaned in on this.
00:06:16.880 This is the party that embraced
00:06:18.540 Black Lives Matter and Antifa riots
00:06:20.800 across the country.
00:06:21.700 This is a party that thought
00:06:22.720 it was a great idea
00:06:23.740 to lean in on demonizing the police,
00:06:26.700 advocating for abolishing the police,
00:06:28.400 defunding the police,
00:06:29.960 and I'll tell you,
00:06:30.620 a lot of people,
00:06:31.840 they get that that really
00:06:33.520 doesn't make any sense,
00:06:35.000 and when you have these Democrats
00:06:37.280 advancing things like cashless bail,
00:06:39.600 basically, you arrest a violent criminal,
00:06:41.540 let's let them go.
00:06:42.720 Well, people are discovering
00:06:43.920 that when you let violent criminals go,
00:06:46.260 they commit more violent crimes,
00:06:47.800 and then illegal immigration.
00:06:49.580 Again, there's no ambiguity
00:06:50.940 on who is to blame
00:06:52.700 for illegal immigration.
00:06:54.160 The last year of Trump's presidency,
00:06:56.520 we had the lowest rate
00:06:57.680 of illegal immigration
00:06:58.520 in 45 years.
00:07:00.520 Today, we have the highest rate
00:07:02.140 of illegal immigration
00:07:03.040 in 62 years.
00:07:04.940 That changed literally
00:07:06.660 the day Joe Biden
00:07:07.920 put his hand on the Bible,
00:07:09.860 and Ben, I'll tell you
00:07:10.840 that the differences
00:07:12.620 are moving voters,
00:07:13.880 not just reliable,
00:07:16.400 traditional Republican voters,
00:07:17.980 but new voters
00:07:19.180 are shifting dramatically
00:07:20.420 to Republicans.
00:07:21.220 Let me read from
00:07:21.720 The Wall Street Journal.
00:07:22.640 Quote,
00:07:22.880 The GOP has seen a shift
00:07:25.000 in its favor
00:07:25.620 among several voter groups,
00:07:27.800 including Latino voters
00:07:29.340 and women,
00:07:30.880 and particularly
00:07:31.780 white suburban women.
00:07:33.980 That group,
00:07:34.940 which the pollster said
00:07:36.200 makes up 20% of the electorate,
00:07:39.600 shifted 26 percentage points
00:07:42.220 away from Democrats
00:07:43.660 since the journal's August poll,
00:07:46.140 and now favors the GOP
00:07:48.240 by 15 percentage points.
00:07:50.100 If you want to do
00:07:51.080 some real simple math,
00:07:52.300 over the last decade,
00:07:54.100 blue-collar voters
00:07:55.320 have moved significantly
00:07:57.060 towards Republicans,
00:07:58.580 and what gave Democrats
00:08:00.140 a counterbalancing force
00:08:01.680 was suburban women
00:08:04.420 move towards Democrats.
00:08:06.480 What Joe Biden
00:08:07.560 and Schumer and Pelosi
00:08:08.540 have done
00:08:09.040 is driven suburban women
00:08:11.160 back to Republicans,
00:08:13.220 and they've done so
00:08:14.680 at the same time
00:08:15.620 they're driving Hispanics
00:08:17.340 to Republicans as well.
00:08:18.780 I think that all adds together
00:08:20.900 to an historic election.
00:08:22.380 There's something shocking
00:08:23.700 that's happening as well,
00:08:25.000 Senator,
00:08:25.460 and that is the media
00:08:26.560 is being forced
00:08:27.900 to cover
00:08:28.580 how bad things are
00:08:30.520 in the economy
00:08:31.140 and the recession concerns
00:08:32.780 amid high inflation.
00:08:34.520 The Today Show,
00:08:35.800 and again,
00:08:36.420 they won't connect the dots
00:08:37.660 to the Democrats,
00:08:38.800 but they did a segment
00:08:40.800 this morning
00:08:41.560 on gas prices,
00:08:43.000 and they referred
00:08:44.500 to Americans
00:08:45.440 being, quote,
00:08:46.200 trapped in a vortex
00:08:47.540 of bad economic news.
00:08:50.420 Listen to this,
00:08:51.300 and then I want
00:08:51.700 to get your reaction.
00:08:53.020 This morning,
00:08:54.160 America seems trapped
00:08:55.300 in a vortex
00:08:56.020 of bad economic news.
00:08:58.000 Sky-high food prices,
00:08:59.680 pump prices at record levels,
00:09:01.540 soaring rents
00:09:02.420 up 16% in one year,
00:09:04.580 COVID lockdowns in China,
00:09:06.080 the world's manufacturing center,
00:09:07.820 choking the global supply chain,
00:09:09.840 U.S. corporate profits sinking,
00:09:11.280 Russian oil under partial embargo,
00:09:13.860 Ukrainian wheat exports
00:09:15.200 at a standstill,
00:09:16.300 and all of it feeding
00:09:17.520 40-year high inflation
00:09:18.860 that Americans are paying
00:09:20.040 for every day.
00:09:21.440 On the front lines,
00:09:22.760 shippers and truck drivers
00:09:24.060 with diesel fuel prices
00:09:25.460 up 75% in one year.
00:09:28.380 In Indiana,
00:09:29.340 Shelly Conaway
00:09:30.020 is a full-time truck driver
00:09:31.640 who also runs a charity
00:09:33.160 to rush supplies
00:09:34.260 to those in need.
00:09:35.560 We were looking at possibly
00:09:37.200 buying trailers
00:09:38.500 in a truck,
00:09:39.820 another truck,
00:09:41.840 but we won't be able
00:09:44.080 to afford to put tires on it
00:09:47.020 or put fuel in the type.
00:09:49.500 I mean,
00:09:50.120 Senator,
00:09:50.420 you hear this.
00:09:51.060 This is the Today Show
00:09:52.020 saying this,
00:09:53.120 talking about fuel prices up,
00:09:55.200 but diesel up 75%.
00:09:56.680 This coming,
00:09:57.820 as there's new warnings
00:09:58.880 on a shortage,
00:10:00.380 U.S. diesel suppliers
00:10:01.440 are, quote,
00:10:02.020 warning businesses
00:10:02.720 to prepare for shortages,
00:10:04.580 higher prices for consumers.
00:10:06.200 They believe that the price
00:10:09.060 of a gallon of diesel
00:10:10.280 could go to $8 to $10 a gallon,
00:10:12.880 possibly by the end of the year.
00:10:15.960 Well, look,
00:10:17.340 any time the Today Show
00:10:19.280 is leading with a, quote,
00:10:21.380 a vortex of bad economic results,
00:10:24.860 that's not exactly
00:10:25.840 the re-election campaign
00:10:27.060 the Democrats won.
00:10:28.440 And part of the problem is
00:10:29.660 they're in charge of everything.
00:10:31.760 The Democrats have the White House,
00:10:33.540 they have every cabinet agency,
00:10:35.600 they have the Senate,
00:10:36.880 they have the House.
00:10:37.960 They've got the entirety
00:10:39.180 of the federal government.
00:10:41.380 That means their usual trick
00:10:43.340 when they screw things up
00:10:44.720 is to try to blame Republicans.
00:10:46.540 It's really hard to do that
00:10:49.100 when they've been in complete charge.
00:10:51.700 And even again,
00:10:53.180 look,
00:10:53.460 for people following it,
00:10:55.160 it's obvious
00:10:56.000 this has been a devastating two years
00:10:57.980 in terms of bad legislation
00:10:59.600 and bad policies.
00:11:01.240 But for people not following it,
00:11:03.080 and often elections
00:11:03.960 are influenced by people
00:11:05.360 who are living their lives,
00:11:06.480 not paying attention to politics,
00:11:07.820 and then come election day,
00:11:09.520 they come out and vote.
00:11:10.480 Even for someone
00:11:11.220 not paying attention,
00:11:12.980 it ain't complicated
00:11:13.960 that life has gotten
00:11:15.220 a lot crappier
00:11:16.320 with Democrats in charge.
00:11:18.540 And the sentiment
00:11:19.940 that is being expressed
00:11:21.440 all over the country
00:11:22.300 is we want change.
00:11:23.500 We want to change
00:11:24.360 the road we're on.
00:11:26.080 We don't like
00:11:27.080 being afraid
00:11:29.240 to walk down the street,
00:11:31.160 being afraid
00:11:31.780 that you might be mugged.
00:11:33.180 Even for those
00:11:34.140 who aren't paying attention,
00:11:35.660 and I think you combine that
00:11:36.840 with the economic reality
00:11:38.060 and also
00:11:38.880 the utter chaos
00:11:40.760 of illegal immigration,
00:11:42.080 4.4 million people,
00:11:44.020 which in turn
00:11:44.860 is also driving
00:11:45.880 the crime rate.
00:11:46.640 Many of these crimes
00:11:47.600 that are carried out
00:11:48.400 are being carried out
00:11:49.960 by illegal immigrants.
00:11:51.360 You remember a few weeks ago,
00:11:52.600 the day the bus tour
00:11:53.820 was in Vegas,
00:11:54.940 there was a lunatic
00:11:56.020 who at 11 in the morning
00:11:57.400 committed a mass stabbing
00:11:59.760 in front of one
00:12:00.420 of the major hotels
00:12:01.420 on the Strip.
00:12:02.100 Now look,
00:12:03.080 Vegas tries to market itself
00:12:05.720 as a family-friendly
00:12:06.900 vacation place
00:12:08.000 if there are mass stabbings,
00:12:10.760 not at 3 in the morning
00:12:12.080 by some drunk
00:12:12.980 in a seedy bar,
00:12:14.460 but at 11 a.m.
00:12:15.900 standing on the sidewalk
00:12:17.260 in front of a major
00:12:18.620 glitzy hotel.
00:12:20.660 That is a problem,
00:12:22.140 and of course,
00:12:22.920 the criminal there
00:12:23.680 was yet another
00:12:24.420 illegal alien
00:12:25.180 who'd been released
00:12:26.600 from jail
00:12:27.200 by the Democrats.
00:12:28.180 This pattern
00:12:28.900 keeps playing out.
00:12:30.700 Senator,
00:12:31.280 when it comes to
00:12:31.920 the issue of crime,
00:12:33.080 and this is something
00:12:34.020 we're seeing
00:12:34.540 not only at the border,
00:12:36.120 but we're seeing it
00:12:36.800 all across the country,
00:12:38.740 Latino voters
00:12:39.840 are now breaking
00:12:40.900 for conservatives
00:12:41.820 in a historic way,
00:12:43.620 which can certainly add
00:12:45.020 to this red wave
00:12:46.080 that I believe
00:12:46.540 we're going to see
00:12:46.940 on Election Day.
00:12:48.320 New York City,
00:12:50.080 for example,
00:12:51.200 Latino grocers there
00:12:52.740 actually came together
00:12:54.000 on Monday night
00:12:54.820 last minute
00:12:55.720 to raise $70,000
00:12:58.080 for Lee Zeldin
00:12:59.740 after historically
00:13:01.400 voting for Democrat,
00:13:02.780 and this coalition
00:13:03.700 of mainly Latino
00:13:04.720 supermarket owners
00:13:06.140 in New York City
00:13:07.340 showed up to support
00:13:09.120 the Republican
00:13:09.660 gubernatorial candidate
00:13:10.540 Lee Zeldin
00:13:11.180 after having endured
00:13:12.720 what they described
00:13:13.520 as rampant shoplifting.
00:13:15.080 Now, why did this happen?
00:13:16.200 Because in New York,
00:13:17.240 if you steal less
00:13:18.440 than $1,000 of goods,
00:13:20.540 and that's a lot
00:13:21.040 of groceries,
00:13:22.140 you're not going
00:13:22.940 to go to jail.
00:13:23.920 You're going to maybe
00:13:24.660 get caught,
00:13:25.320 and then you'll
00:13:25.820 have a court date,
00:13:26.980 but you will not
00:13:27.660 spend a single night
00:13:28.860 in jail.
00:13:30.040 And 70 entrepreneurs
00:13:31.480 operating mom-and-pop
00:13:33.260 supermarkets
00:13:34.080 met together,
00:13:35.640 gave $1,000 each
00:13:36.940 to Zeldin's campaign
00:13:37.980 saying they will not
00:13:39.500 be able to survive
00:13:40.800 if the criminals
00:13:42.720 are continued
00:13:43.580 to allow to target
00:13:45.160 grocers and just
00:13:45.980 walk in and steal
00:13:46.740 whatever the hell
00:13:47.220 they want.
00:13:48.180 Well, look,
00:13:48.940 that's exactly right,
00:13:50.120 and it's not just
00:13:50.940 shoplifting,
00:13:51.620 although shoplifting
00:13:52.400 and theft
00:13:53.320 under Democrats
00:13:54.080 has gotten worse
00:13:54.820 and worse,
00:13:55.280 but we all remember
00:13:56.700 the bodega owner
00:13:58.220 in New York
00:13:58.920 who a criminal
00:13:59.700 came in to rob him
00:14:00.860 and was trying
00:14:01.860 to rob him,
00:14:03.240 and the owner
00:14:05.120 defended himself,
00:14:06.220 and the DA
00:14:06.840 in turn charged
00:14:08.260 the bodega owner
00:14:09.280 with defending himself.
00:14:10.900 They treated him
00:14:11.680 as the criminal
00:14:12.320 because he defended
00:14:13.160 himself from an
00:14:14.540 armed robber.
00:14:15.480 Now, that is a little
00:14:16.720 bit crazy.
00:14:17.880 In fact,
00:14:18.120 that's a lot crazy,
00:14:19.780 but it also,
00:14:21.140 you combine policies
00:14:22.460 that are really
00:14:23.400 hurting people
00:14:24.260 across the country
00:14:25.180 with the Democrats
00:14:27.040 are so wildly
00:14:28.480 out of touch
00:14:29.280 with the Hispanic
00:14:29.920 community.
00:14:30.420 Remember,
00:14:30.740 Jill Biden
00:14:31.300 gave a speech
00:14:32.520 in San Antonio,
00:14:34.300 number one,
00:14:35.480 in front of a conference
00:14:36.440 that was called
00:14:36.980 a Latinx conference,
00:14:38.000 and I'll tell you
00:14:38.700 right now,
00:14:39.220 here's a real
00:14:39.860 great giveaway.
00:14:41.140 If anyone uses
00:14:42.020 the idiotic
00:14:42.760 made-up word
00:14:43.360 Latinx,
00:14:44.520 I promise you
00:14:45.480 they are not Latino.
00:14:46.980 They are,
00:14:47.660 a woke white liberal
00:14:49.520 because that's the only
00:14:50.320 people who use it.
00:14:51.280 Literally,
00:14:51.560 if you look at
00:14:52.060 the Spanish language,
00:14:53.900 everything in the
00:14:54.660 Spanish language
00:14:55.400 is either masculine
00:14:56.300 or feminine.
00:14:56.900 It ends with an O
00:14:57.620 or an A.
00:14:58.220 The entire language,
00:14:59.940 and what do these
00:15:00.740 folks do?
00:15:01.200 They want to edit it
00:15:01.940 out,
00:15:02.300 and Jill Biden
00:15:03.860 famously,
00:15:04.580 number one,
00:15:05.640 she didn't know
00:15:06.160 what a bodega was.
00:15:07.140 She called it a
00:15:08.060 bagada,
00:15:08.980 which I'm not sure
00:15:09.820 what a bagada is.
00:15:11.180 Maybe it's the
00:15:11.840 capital of Colombia,
00:15:13.420 and that's also
00:15:14.820 where she famously
00:15:16.120 referred to
00:15:17.180 Hispanics said
00:15:18.180 that you are
00:15:20.020 as unique
00:15:21.220 as breakfast tacos.
00:15:23.940 And I've got to
00:15:24.440 tell you,
00:15:24.760 people heard that
00:15:25.680 and were pissed.
00:15:27.100 And what's amazing,
00:15:28.220 Ben,
00:15:28.580 that was not
00:15:30.360 an off-the-cuff
00:15:31.360 gaffe.
00:15:31.860 Listen,
00:15:32.120 Joe Biden makes
00:15:32.860 gaffes every day
00:15:33.820 because who knows
00:15:34.640 what he's going to
00:15:35.100 say.
00:15:36.060 She was reading
00:15:36.860 from a teleprompter.
00:15:38.640 That means a
00:15:39.520 White House
00:15:39.960 speechwriter
00:15:40.560 typed that out
00:15:41.400 and loaded it
00:15:42.980 into the teleprompter,
00:15:44.680 and they are
00:15:45.160 that out of touch.
00:15:46.680 Their attitude
00:15:47.400 to Latinos
00:15:48.420 is vote for us
00:15:51.200 and shut up.
00:15:52.420 And I've got to say,
00:15:53.420 I think we're going
00:15:53.920 to see a huge shift.
00:15:55.540 I've talked about
00:15:56.260 this a lot.
00:15:56.960 I think in particular,
00:15:58.180 South Texas
00:15:58.860 is going to turn red.
00:16:00.680 We are going to elect
00:16:01.420 three Republicans
00:16:02.520 in South Texas,
00:16:03.760 all three of whom
00:16:05.920 are Latina,
00:16:06.800 all three of whom
00:16:07.860 I'm supporting
00:16:08.660 in a big,
00:16:09.540 big way,
00:16:10.200 have done multiple
00:16:11.380 rallies for them.
00:16:12.280 I'm getting ready
00:16:12.840 to do a big rally
00:16:13.680 in San Antonio
00:16:14.440 in a few days
00:16:15.200 for them.
00:16:16.240 And I think we're
00:16:16.920 going to end up
00:16:17.640 those districts.
00:16:19.900 All right,
00:16:20.180 let's start with
00:16:20.960 the special election.
00:16:22.340 Remember,
00:16:22.500 a couple of months
00:16:22.940 ago,
00:16:23.120 there was a special
00:16:23.660 election in Texas.
00:16:25.340 It is for a district
00:16:26.940 that is along
00:16:28.060 the Gulf Coast.
00:16:29.480 It runs from just
00:16:30.880 south of Corpus
00:16:31.820 Christi all the way
00:16:33.540 down to Brownsville,
00:16:34.480 which is the southern
00:16:35.100 tip of Texas,
00:16:35.740 right on the border
00:16:36.400 of Mexico.
00:16:37.720 This is a district
00:16:38.720 that has not had
00:16:39.880 a Republican
00:16:40.720 represented since
00:16:42.440 1871.
00:16:44.800 That's a long
00:16:45.380 damn time ago.
00:16:46.680 It's incredible.
00:16:47.680 They had a special
00:16:48.440 election.
00:16:49.800 The voters elected
00:16:50.800 Mayra Flores,
00:16:52.280 a Republican.
00:16:53.800 She is the first
00:16:54.800 woman elected to
00:16:55.760 Congress who was
00:16:56.440 actually born in
00:16:57.560 Mexico.
00:16:58.560 And by the way,
00:16:59.360 she applied to be
00:17:00.260 a member of the
00:17:00.740 Congressional Hispanic
00:17:01.620 Caucus,
00:17:02.820 and the Democrats
00:17:04.200 rejected her.
00:17:04.920 They said,
00:17:05.240 nope,
00:17:05.580 nope,
00:17:05.840 if you're not
00:17:06.340 Democrat,
00:17:06.900 you don't count
00:17:07.440 as Hispanic.
00:17:08.020 So they threw her
00:17:08.640 out.
00:17:08.860 They said,
00:17:09.160 you're not welcome.
00:17:09.880 Um,
00:17:12.520 Mayra is fantastic.
00:17:15.240 The district next
00:17:16.540 to her,
00:17:18.140 Monica De La Cruz
00:17:18.980 is running.
00:17:19.600 Monica is fantastic.
00:17:20.760 She's a single mom.
00:17:21.760 She's a small
00:17:22.240 business owner.
00:17:23.500 She is,
00:17:24.040 is two years ago
00:17:26.300 she ran in that
00:17:27.180 district and came
00:17:28.480 within two points
00:17:29.700 of beating the
00:17:30.480 incumbent Democrat
00:17:31.320 and she had no
00:17:32.460 money and no
00:17:33.100 support whatsoever.
00:17:34.160 I think Monica
00:17:34.640 is going to win
00:17:35.160 this year.
00:17:36.200 The next district
00:17:37.420 is Cassie Garcia.
00:17:38.660 Cassie is someone
00:17:39.520 I know incredibly
00:17:40.260 well.
00:17:40.980 She was on my
00:17:42.220 staff for over
00:17:43.460 seven years.
00:17:44.220 She was my
00:17:44.600 South Texas
00:17:45.180 director and my
00:17:46.580 deputy state
00:17:47.220 director.
00:17:47.580 She's running
00:17:48.080 against Henry
00:17:48.680 Cuellar,
00:17:49.180 the incumbent
00:17:49.600 Democrat.
00:17:50.520 I think all
00:17:51.560 three are going
00:17:52.200 to win and
00:17:52.720 you're going to
00:17:53.300 end up with
00:17:53.880 those three
00:17:54.480 districts.
00:17:55.520 None of them
00:17:56.360 have had a
00:17:56.800 Republican in
00:17:57.520 over a hundred
00:17:58.400 years.
00:17:59.040 I think all
00:18:00.240 three of them
00:18:00.920 are going to
00:18:01.240 elect Republicans.
00:18:02.240 They're all
00:18:02.840 Latinas and
00:18:04.000 two of the
00:18:04.540 three,
00:18:05.540 Myra and
00:18:06.000 Cassie,
00:18:06.820 are both
00:18:07.480 married to
00:18:08.120 Border Patrol
00:18:08.660 agents.
00:18:09.320 That is a
00:18:10.420 big,
00:18:11.320 big deal.
00:18:12.040 It is a
00:18:12.680 generational
00:18:13.860 shift and
00:18:15.320 I think it's
00:18:16.280 going to
00:18:16.600 change not
00:18:18.500 just Washington
00:18:19.400 but change the
00:18:20.280 Republican Party.
00:18:21.700 You mentioned
00:18:22.720 this change and
00:18:24.420 part of this is
00:18:25.440 just safety,
00:18:26.320 right?
00:18:26.480 The economy
00:18:27.100 is stumbling.
00:18:28.720 You have
00:18:29.060 interest rates
00:18:29.700 that have more
00:18:30.040 than doubled
00:18:30.500 on home.
00:18:31.420 Interest rates
00:18:31.960 30-year mortgage
00:18:32.620 since the
00:18:33.040 beginning of
00:18:33.980 the year.
00:18:35.420 The realtors
00:18:36.320 that I have
00:18:36.760 spoken with and
00:18:37.520 bankers that
00:18:38.100 I've talked to
00:18:38.680 have said that
00:18:39.180 this is just
00:18:39.860 shell-shocking
00:18:40.740 how quickly
00:18:42.440 it's changed.
00:18:43.160 And to put it
00:18:43.880 in perspective,
00:18:45.100 this was a tweet
00:18:46.160 that went viral.
00:18:46.940 It said this is
00:18:47.500 crazy.
00:18:48.120 If you secured
00:18:48.860 a 30-year fixed
00:18:50.140 mortgage on a
00:18:51.420 $600,000 home
00:18:52.660 at 2.6%
00:18:53.820 interest rate in
00:18:54.500 2021,
00:18:55.160 you have the
00:18:56.560 same monthly
00:18:57.340 mortgage payment
00:18:58.160 as someone
00:18:58.760 that just
00:18:59.140 bought a
00:18:59.560 house for
00:19:00.000 $392,000
00:19:01.680 today with
00:19:02.800 a 6.2%
00:19:03.660 interest rate.
00:19:04.540 I mean,
00:19:04.720 Senator,
00:19:04.940 this is 200
00:19:05.580 plus thousand
00:19:06.460 of buying
00:19:06.960 power that
00:19:07.440 disappeared in
00:19:08.060 the market
00:19:08.480 if you use
00:19:09.580 that example.
00:19:10.940 And Democrats
00:19:11.520 keep looking at
00:19:12.600 you,
00:19:12.820 keep trying to
00:19:13.340 tell you that
00:19:13.900 the economy
00:19:14.540 is in good
00:19:15.280 shape,
00:19:15.940 that we're
00:19:17.100 not in a
00:19:17.860 recession when
00:19:18.860 we obviously
00:19:19.980 are headed
00:19:20.600 towards a
00:19:21.200 recession,
00:19:21.580 and now this
00:19:22.420 is affecting
00:19:23.000 the American
00:19:23.640 dream.
00:19:24.160 Well,
00:19:26.140 you know,
00:19:26.360 there was an
00:19:26.780 old line that
00:19:27.600 Reagan used
00:19:28.700 where he said
00:19:29.780 a recession
00:19:31.460 is when your
00:19:33.260 neighbor loses
00:19:33.880 his job.
00:19:35.180 A depression
00:19:36.120 is when you
00:19:37.500 lose your job.
00:19:39.080 And a recovery
00:19:40.080 is when Jimmy
00:19:41.640 Carter loses
00:19:42.360 his job.
00:19:43.560 And I got to
00:19:44.700 say that
00:19:45.340 resonated.
00:19:46.620 The last time
00:19:47.640 we faced
00:19:48.320 inflation this
00:19:49.300 high was a
00:19:50.840 result of Jimmy
00:19:51.700 Carter's disastrous
00:19:52.760 policies and
00:19:53.720 it produced
00:19:54.560 the Reagan
00:19:55.240 revolution.
00:19:56.240 I believe
00:19:57.200 that the
00:19:59.500 greatest outcome
00:20:00.800 of Biden and
00:20:01.620 Harris and
00:20:02.160 Schumer and
00:20:02.620 Pelosi is
00:20:03.260 going to be
00:20:03.940 a new
00:20:04.960 Reagan revolution,
00:20:05.980 a new generation
00:20:06.960 of conservatives
00:20:07.660 coming into
00:20:08.240 office.
00:20:08.720 And I got to
00:20:09.160 say on the
00:20:09.500 economic piece,
00:20:10.580 there's a
00:20:11.680 double whammy
00:20:12.360 here that most
00:20:13.280 folks in the
00:20:13.840 news don't
00:20:14.300 focus on.
00:20:15.220 So yes,
00:20:16.080 prices of
00:20:16.540 everything have
00:20:17.000 gone up.
00:20:17.480 Prices of
00:20:17.900 food,
00:20:18.300 electricity,
00:20:19.000 rent,
00:20:19.400 mortgage,
00:20:19.880 everything's
00:20:20.320 gone up.
00:20:20.660 Gasoline.
00:20:22.260 But at the
00:20:22.820 same time,
00:20:23.760 and you
00:20:24.160 touched on it
00:20:24.780 a minute ago
00:20:25.240 with your
00:20:25.540 mortgage example,
00:20:27.460 your savings
00:20:28.440 and assets
00:20:29.280 have plummeted.
00:20:30.880 Your 401k has
00:20:32.540 plummeted.
00:20:33.100 The average
00:20:33.600 nationally is
00:20:34.280 $34,000.
00:20:35.520 That means for
00:20:36.120 seniors, if
00:20:37.640 you're retired,
00:20:38.480 you've spent
00:20:38.880 30, 40 years
00:20:39.760 saving, and
00:20:41.620 you've seen
00:20:42.340 your 401k in
00:20:43.620 just two years
00:20:44.360 under Joe
00:20:44.880 Biden, dropped
00:20:46.240 20%, 25%,
00:20:48.060 30%.
00:20:49.100 A lot of
00:20:49.780 seniors are
00:20:50.260 scared.
00:20:50.760 Look, that's
00:20:51.160 what you
00:20:51.500 rely on.
00:20:53.240 My mom is
00:20:54.080 87.
00:20:54.780 She looks at
00:20:55.900 what is in
00:20:56.460 her retirement
00:20:57.140 account, and
00:20:57.620 that's how she's
00:20:58.120 paying her
00:20:58.500 bills, and
00:20:58.980 when it goes
00:20:59.460 down, it
00:21:00.840 worries her.
00:21:03.940 For many
00:21:04.820 people, their
00:21:05.540 single biggest
00:21:06.600 asset, their
00:21:07.560 single biggest
00:21:08.260 source of
00:21:08.780 savings is
00:21:09.320 their home.
00:21:10.460 When mortgage
00:21:11.240 rates skyrocket,
00:21:13.040 it puts
00:21:13.680 downward pressure
00:21:14.680 on real estate
00:21:15.460 because people
00:21:16.540 can't afford to
00:21:17.420 buy new homes.
00:21:18.080 You're locked
00:21:18.560 into a house.
00:21:20.100 It not only
00:21:21.540 reduces people's
00:21:22.360 flexibility, meaning
00:21:23.220 you can't get out
00:21:23.940 of a house if
00:21:24.460 you need to, it
00:21:26.200 reduces the value
00:21:27.560 of your underlying
00:21:28.320 asset.
00:21:28.980 And so the
00:21:29.360 combination of
00:21:30.320 your savings are
00:21:31.520 worth a whole lot
00:21:32.260 less, and it
00:21:33.760 costs a bunch
00:21:35.260 more to live
00:21:37.900 every week, that
00:21:39.040 combination is
00:21:40.060 really vicious, and
00:21:41.160 it's a big part of
00:21:42.140 why people are so
00:21:42.960 ticked off and
00:21:44.280 ready to throw the
00:21:45.460 bums out.
00:21:45.980 Canadian women
00:21:47.800 are looking for
00:21:48.480 more, more out of
00:21:49.500 themselves, their
00:21:50.320 businesses, their
00:21:51.260 elected leaders, and
00:21:52.360 the world around
00:21:52.920 them.
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00:22:15.760 podcasts.
00:22:17.900 Which brings me to
00:22:19.020 the issue of the
00:22:19.740 delusion with the
00:22:20.820 media.
00:22:21.460 And I do believe
00:22:22.480 that the media is
00:22:23.180 totally delusional
00:22:23.960 right now, trying to
00:22:24.800 save the Democrats
00:22:25.580 ahead of the
00:22:26.020 midterms.
00:22:26.960 Even on CNN,
00:22:28.440 Kirsten Powers had
00:22:30.260 this to say this
00:22:31.740 morning about crime
00:22:34.020 and the Democrats.
00:22:36.260 And Senator, you're
00:22:37.120 going to want to
00:22:37.620 laugh because it is
00:22:38.940 the most hysterical
00:22:40.180 rewriting of
00:22:40.860 history.
00:22:41.700 Fear works.
00:22:42.180 I mean, have
00:22:42.560 Democrats done
00:22:43.340 enough to combat
00:22:44.480 that?
00:22:44.860 No, I think
00:22:45.180 they've been caught
00:22:46.460 flat-footed on the
00:22:47.460 crime issue because
00:22:48.440 the crime issue
00:22:49.780 isn't something that's
00:22:50.660 just happening in
00:22:51.540 Democratic states.
00:22:52.340 In fact, it's
00:22:52.740 happening in
00:22:53.200 Republican states.
00:22:54.160 It's happening at
00:22:54.580 very high rates.
00:22:55.720 And Democrats have
00:22:56.840 a pretty good record
00:22:57.660 on crime, and yet
00:22:59.720 they're not talking
00:23:00.580 about it.
00:23:01.240 And it's in the
00:23:02.180 same way there's a
00:23:03.660 lot of people in
00:23:04.180 this country who
00:23:04.700 believe the Democratic
00:23:05.520 Party supported
00:23:06.280 defund the police,
00:23:07.080 and they didn't.
00:23:07.820 Right?
00:23:08.080 And they just don't
00:23:09.040 do a good enough
00:23:09.780 job of explaining
00:23:11.240 what they believe,
00:23:13.100 in part because
00:23:13.700 they have a base
00:23:14.760 that, you know,
00:23:15.540 has opinions that
00:23:16.640 actually does support
00:23:17.640 defund the police or
00:23:18.520 has differing opinions,
00:23:19.780 so they're kind of
00:23:20.440 trying to walk this
00:23:21.960 line.
00:23:22.460 But I do think that
00:23:23.720 they should have been
00:23:24.160 more aggressive about
00:23:25.280 it because it is
00:23:26.080 something that a lot
00:23:27.440 of people are very
00:23:27.960 concerned about.
00:23:28.800 I mean, she says they
00:23:30.120 should be more
00:23:30.580 aggressive, Senator.
00:23:31.680 She actually looks you
00:23:32.780 straight in the face
00:23:33.440 and says that the
00:23:34.800 Democrats have a
00:23:35.820 pretty good record on
00:23:36.760 crime, and the
00:23:37.540 Democratic Party didn't
00:23:38.860 support defund the
00:23:39.780 police.
00:23:40.040 Those are both lies,
00:23:41.800 and they go unchecked.
00:23:43.460 Yeah, look, it really
00:23:44.860 is striking when the
00:23:45.920 corporate media is
00:23:47.120 upbraiding the
00:23:48.100 Democrats, saying,
00:23:49.340 look, we know how
00:23:50.180 to lie.
00:23:50.760 We're lying for you.
00:23:51.960 Why don't you lie as
00:23:53.100 much as we do?
00:23:54.520 Her claim, now she
00:23:55.780 has to acknowledge,
00:23:56.720 well, their base
00:23:57.240 supports defunding
00:23:58.080 the police, but what
00:24:00.060 she doesn't acknowledge
00:24:00.980 is, okay, defunding
00:24:02.060 the police was not
00:24:03.180 just a bumper sticker.
00:24:04.840 It's something these
00:24:05.900 idiots did.
00:24:06.880 In Minneapolis, they
00:24:08.980 slashed the funding
00:24:10.060 for the police
00:24:10.660 department.
00:24:11.160 In New York City, they
00:24:12.200 cut the funding for the
00:24:13.120 NYPD by over $1 billion.
00:24:17.000 This is not theory, this
00:24:18.460 is practice.
00:24:19.460 In Austin, Texas, they
00:24:21.500 cut the funding for the
00:24:22.740 police by over $150
00:24:24.500 million.
00:24:26.020 They've done this over
00:24:27.220 and over again, and by
00:24:27.960 the way, it's not just
00:24:28.920 the locals, although the
00:24:30.040 locals are a real
00:24:30.840 problem.
00:24:31.840 It is at the national
00:24:32.960 level.
00:24:33.300 Joe Biden has
00:24:34.700 nominated not one, not
00:24:35.880 two, three of the
00:24:37.280 leading advocates of
00:24:38.400 abolishing the police
00:24:39.520 hold three of the
00:24:41.340 leading positions in the
00:24:42.440 U.S. Department of
00:24:43.240 Justice.
00:24:43.680 I detail this in my new
00:24:45.580 book, Justice
00:24:46.240 Corrupted, How the Left
00:24:47.320 Has Weaponized the
00:24:48.060 Legal System.
00:24:48.940 I have an entire
00:24:49.660 chapter on this that
00:24:50.640 walks through chapter
00:24:51.880 and verse.
00:24:53.140 So, Joe Biden
00:24:54.120 nominated Vanita
00:24:55.300 Gupta and Kirsten
00:24:57.220 Clark, Vanita Gupta
00:24:58.300 to be Associate
00:24:59.200 Attorney General, the
00:25:00.160 number three position
00:25:01.020 at the Department of
00:25:01.720 Justice.
00:25:02.060 Kirsten Clark to be
00:25:03.740 the head of the Civil
00:25:04.520 Rights Division, one of
00:25:05.640 the very top positions
00:25:06.600 of the Department of
00:25:07.320 Justice.
00:25:08.460 Both of them have
00:25:10.280 been explicit, repeated
00:25:12.400 advocates for abolishing
00:25:14.120 and defunding the
00:25:15.120 police.
00:25:15.700 They've written about
00:25:16.760 it.
00:25:16.920 They testified in front
00:25:17.880 of Congress for it.
00:25:19.240 And when Biden
00:25:20.280 nominated two of the
00:25:21.500 leading advocates of
00:25:22.360 defunding the police to
00:25:23.320 senior DOJ positions,
00:25:25.580 every single Democrat,
00:25:27.260 all of them, voted to
00:25:29.040 confirm both of them.
00:25:30.060 Now, you can't vote to
00:25:32.520 put people in who are
00:25:33.740 advocates of radical
00:25:34.860 policies and then
00:25:35.780 claim, oh, I don't know
00:25:37.000 anything about the
00:25:37.740 radical policies.
00:25:38.580 And actually, the third
00:25:39.920 nominee is one that
00:25:40.900 deserves a little bit of
00:25:41.760 focus.
00:25:43.000 Rachel Rollins.
00:25:43.900 Now, who is Rachel
00:25:44.620 Rollins?
00:25:45.120 Rachel Rollins was a
00:25:46.160 George Soros
00:25:46.920 prosecutor.
00:25:48.100 Soros has spent
00:25:48.940 millions of dollars
00:25:50.160 electing left-wing
00:25:52.300 DAs.
00:25:53.000 And he understood,
00:25:53.940 look, if you want,
00:25:54.900 there are two ways to
00:25:55.720 abolish the police.
00:25:56.660 One is you go after
00:25:57.460 the cops, you take
00:25:58.160 the cops off the
00:25:58.860 street.
00:25:59.760 The other way is you
00:26:01.000 take over the DA's
00:26:02.020 office.
00:26:02.460 Why?
00:26:03.720 Because if the DA
00:26:05.080 refuses to prosecute
00:26:06.480 the crime, it doesn't
00:26:08.160 really matter if the
00:26:09.000 cops arrest the
00:26:09.740 criminals or not.
00:26:10.500 If they arrest the
00:26:11.120 criminals and then let
00:26:11.860 them go because the
00:26:12.640 DA won't prosecute
00:26:13.680 them, you've
00:26:14.520 effectively abolished
00:26:15.720 the police.
00:26:16.260 You've stopped the
00:26:17.700 prevention of and the
00:26:18.740 deterrence of crime.
00:26:19.740 Rachel Rollins was a
00:26:21.420 Soros DA in Suffolk,
00:26:23.380 Massachusetts.
00:26:23.920 When she came in, she
00:26:26.960 put out a list of 15
00:26:28.560 crimes that she said
00:26:30.520 her prosecutors were
00:26:31.900 not allowed to
00:26:33.460 prosecute, things like
00:26:34.540 trespassing, things like
00:26:35.720 drug possession, things
00:26:37.200 like resisting arrest,
00:26:38.860 where her prosecutors
00:26:40.020 were forbidden from
00:26:41.300 prosecuting it, which
00:26:42.700 means if you want to
00:26:43.700 take a swing at a cop
00:26:44.720 when he's arresting
00:26:45.540 you, in her
00:26:46.660 jurisdiction, that is
00:26:47.900 A-OK.
00:26:49.200 Well, what happened?
00:26:51.220 Joe Biden promptly
00:26:52.420 nominated her to be
00:26:54.260 the United States
00:26:54.980 Attorney for the
00:26:56.660 Commonwealth of
00:26:57.660 Massachusetts, that is
00:26:58.720 the top federal
00:26:59.720 prosecutor in the
00:27:01.060 state of Massachusetts.
00:27:02.800 We had a vigorous
00:27:04.300 battle in the
00:27:04.880 Judiciary Committee
00:27:05.580 and in the book
00:27:06.360 Justice Corrupted, I
00:27:07.360 walked through the
00:27:09.160 arguments I made on
00:27:10.600 the Judiciary Committee,
00:27:11.560 the speech I gave on
00:27:12.900 the Senate floor,
00:27:13.680 walking through her
00:27:14.800 record, chapter and
00:27:16.640 verse, every single
00:27:18.960 Democrat voted to
00:27:19.840 confirm her.
00:27:20.320 So, when these folks
00:27:22.180 lie, as the
00:27:24.640 journalists are doing
00:27:25.580 and saying, oh, no,
00:27:26.300 no, no, we don't
00:27:27.000 support defunding the
00:27:27.960 police, well, if you
00:27:28.660 didn't, one of you
00:27:30.920 could have mustered the
00:27:31.860 courage to say, let's
00:27:33.360 not make the chief
00:27:34.120 federal prosecutor
00:27:34.960 someone who refuses to
00:27:36.240 prosecute crime.
00:27:38.580 But, listen, the media
00:27:40.200 is in overdrive.
00:27:41.100 I'll give you another
00:27:41.600 quote from the New York
00:27:42.740 Times.
00:27:43.660 On October 25th, Nate
00:27:46.120 Cohn of the New York
00:27:47.100 Times wrote, quote,
00:27:48.100 let's imagine that the
00:27:50.380 polls are exactly right
00:27:51.720 about the national
00:27:52.420 political environment.
00:27:53.960 If so, the race is in
00:27:56.480 a very delicate spot.
00:27:58.960 Everything from a
00:28:00.300 Democrat hold in the
00:28:02.500 Senate and a narrow
00:28:04.480 House majority to a
00:28:06.960 total Republican route
00:28:08.460 becomes imaginable.
00:28:09.820 Now, Ben, for Nate
00:28:12.100 Cohn to write a week
00:28:13.240 ago that a Democrat
00:28:15.280 hold of the House is
00:28:16.440 entirely imaginable,
00:28:17.660 despite the worst
00:28:18.460 polling numbers in a
00:28:19.300 midterm ever seen.
00:28:21.440 That, it's so ludicrous.
00:28:24.460 Look, he knows he's
00:28:25.420 lying.
00:28:27.320 Presumably, many of his
00:28:28.820 readers know he's lying,
00:28:29.960 but they're counting on
00:28:31.000 someone, I guess, not
00:28:32.320 knowing he's lying.
00:28:33.820 It really is astonishing.
00:28:36.380 It truly is.
00:28:37.640 And I think one of the
00:28:38.580 big things now is
00:28:39.600 Democrats are trying to
00:28:40.760 act like they are angry
00:28:42.400 and they have their
00:28:43.700 feelings heard and
00:28:44.620 they're shocked that
00:28:45.320 people are actually
00:28:46.000 holding them accountable
00:28:46.740 for what they believe
00:28:47.700 in.
00:28:48.200 There was a very
00:28:49.100 interesting column that
00:28:50.740 referred to the Paul
00:28:51.840 Pelosi, Nancy Pelosi
00:28:52.860 husbands, the attack on
00:28:54.760 him, which you
00:28:55.500 condemned immediately.
00:28:56.620 We talked about on
00:28:57.460 this show.
00:28:57.880 I condemned it as well.
00:28:59.500 But there was an
00:29:00.200 interesting column that
00:29:01.220 came out from Karen
00:29:02.200 Tumulty.
00:29:02.700 She's a prominent op-ed
00:29:04.960 her.
00:29:05.180 I want to be fair about
00:29:06.200 that.
00:29:06.520 And her column is
00:29:07.320 entitled, I'm sorry, I
00:29:08.900 said nice things about
00:29:10.280 Glenn Youngkin.
00:29:11.860 She said, I'd like to
00:29:12.760 take this opportunity to
00:29:13.960 retract the nice things
00:29:15.720 I said about Glenn
00:29:16.460 Youngkin a few months
00:29:17.420 ago.
00:29:17.920 In July, I wrote a
00:29:18.820 column when reports
00:29:19.960 began to surface that
00:29:20.920 Virginia's Republican
00:29:21.880 governor, a fresh and
00:29:22.960 sunny political
00:29:23.600 newcomer with proven
00:29:25.480 bipartisan appeal, was
00:29:26.780 already thinking about
00:29:28.200 running for president.
00:29:29.260 At the time, I expressed
00:29:30.020 hope for that Youngkin
00:29:31.180 or someone like him
00:29:32.900 would seek the GOP
00:29:34.080 nomination.
00:29:35.220 Now she wants to
00:29:36.320 take it all back
00:29:37.460 because she's angry
00:29:39.000 over the attack
00:29:40.840 and the politics
00:29:42.460 around the attack
00:29:43.920 on Paul Pelosi.
00:29:45.120 This might be one of
00:29:46.260 the weirdest op-eds
00:29:47.040 I've ever read.
00:29:49.000 Yeah, well, one of
00:29:50.240 the things, okay, if
00:29:51.400 you look at the attack
00:29:52.800 on Paul Pelosi, it
00:29:53.940 was horrific.
00:29:55.300 And I will say,
00:29:57.840 listen, we're such a
00:29:58.800 polarized, tribalized
00:30:00.360 world that you've got
00:30:01.700 right and left
00:30:02.660 attacking on
00:30:04.140 everything.
00:30:04.840 And some of the
00:30:05.600 things folks are
00:30:06.320 saying on Twitter
00:30:06.980 about it, I wish
00:30:08.120 they wouldn't say.
00:30:09.380 You've got an 82-year-old
00:30:10.840 man who was hit in
00:30:12.060 the head with a hammer
00:30:12.900 and violence and
00:30:15.460 political violence is
00:30:16.560 real.
00:30:17.100 It is something that
00:30:18.320 there are threats
00:30:19.500 against elected
00:30:20.240 officials and their
00:30:20.920 families and what
00:30:23.160 happened to Paul
00:30:24.200 Pelosi never should
00:30:25.420 have happened.
00:30:28.080 Instantaneously, the
00:30:29.920 media and the
00:30:30.620 Democrats, though,
00:30:32.400 seized upon this as
00:30:34.780 a political
00:30:35.460 opportunity.
00:30:36.380 And it was
00:30:36.940 completely concerted
00:30:38.540 on almost every
00:30:39.760 media outlet.
00:30:41.240 They said, okay,
00:30:43.140 this is
00:30:43.860 Republicans' fault.
00:30:45.100 This is Donald
00:30:46.040 Trump's fault.
00:30:47.060 This is the fault
00:30:47.980 of every Republican
00:30:49.540 running.
00:30:50.380 And so the answer
00:30:51.100 is you've got to
00:30:51.640 vote for Democrats.
00:30:52.460 They immediately
00:30:53.200 politicized it.
00:30:54.320 And listen, there
00:30:55.280 are multiple
00:30:55.740 elements of this.
00:30:56.680 Number one, look,
00:30:58.220 I guess we'll learn
00:30:59.180 more about this
00:31:00.120 assailant.
00:31:01.000 But what we know
00:31:01.940 about him is he
00:31:02.920 was a hippie
00:31:03.960 nudist in Berkeley,
00:31:05.700 California, who
00:31:07.160 was an illegal
00:31:07.920 immigrant who
00:31:08.540 had overstayed
00:31:09.520 his visa.
00:31:11.480 This is not
00:31:12.580 someone who
00:31:13.420 easily fits into
00:31:14.660 the bucket of
00:31:15.860 MAGA right-wing
00:31:17.380 base.
00:31:19.520 I don't know the
00:31:20.520 guy's story.
00:31:22.080 He appears to be
00:31:23.620 a drug-addled
00:31:24.680 nut, and
00:31:25.580 unfortunately,
00:31:26.300 there are more
00:31:27.260 than a few drug-addled
00:31:28.980 nuts who carry out
00:31:30.340 acts of violence.
00:31:31.360 But for the
00:31:32.600 media, and this
00:31:34.480 is why this
00:31:35.120 Karen Tumulty
00:31:36.140 article is so
00:31:38.640 ridiculous and
00:31:40.140 it's so
00:31:40.520 revealing.
00:31:43.020 She goes on,
00:31:44.140 the reason she's
00:31:45.000 decided Youngkin
00:31:45.820 is now persona
00:31:46.640 non grata is
00:31:48.220 because Youngkin
00:31:48.920 is campaigning
00:31:49.580 for Republicans.
00:31:50.640 And in fact,
00:31:51.720 Glenn and I,
00:31:52.280 and Glenn is a
00:31:52.780 friend, I endorsed
00:31:53.600 Glenn when he ran
00:31:54.300 for governor.
00:31:54.820 I spent two days
00:31:55.820 barnstorming Virginia
00:31:57.580 with Glenn the
00:31:59.020 two days before his
00:31:59.920 primary, and I
00:32:01.540 think very highly
00:32:02.300 of Glenn.
00:32:03.360 Glenn and I,
00:32:04.120 just over a week
00:32:04.860 ago, were
00:32:05.380 campaigning together
00:32:06.360 for Yesley Vega,
00:32:07.340 who's a fantastic
00:32:08.380 candidate running
00:32:09.680 in Virginia.
00:32:10.620 We did a rally
00:32:11.460 together for Yesley
00:32:12.540 that was phenomenal.
00:32:14.020 Well, here's what
00:32:17.880 Karen Tumulty
00:32:18.720 writes.
00:32:19.940 As news was
00:32:20.860 breaking Friday
00:32:21.560 about the horrific
00:32:22.200 attack on House
00:32:22.940 Speaker Nancy Pelosi's
00:32:23.920 husband, Paul, by an
00:32:24.880 intruder in their
00:32:25.500 San Francisco home,
00:32:27.100 Youngkin happened to
00:32:27.700 be campaigning in
00:32:28.400 Stafford, Virginia,
00:32:29.140 for Yesley Vega.
00:32:29.780 The Republican
00:32:30.340 running in a very
00:32:31.080 tight race against
00:32:31.940 Democratic Rep
00:32:33.160 Abigail Spanberger.
00:32:35.960 Quote,
00:32:36.940 Speaker Pelosi's
00:32:37.940 husband, they had a
00:32:38.640 break-in last night
00:32:39.460 at their house, and
00:32:40.140 he was assaulted.
00:32:41.420 There's no room for
00:32:42.680 violence anywhere.
00:32:43.760 Exactly right, right
00:32:44.600 thing to say, that's
00:32:45.340 me speaking now.
00:32:46.920 But, now Tumulty
00:32:48.380 keeps going.
00:32:49.740 Alas, he didn't
00:32:51.700 stop there.
00:32:53.860 Quote,
00:32:55.020 but we're going to
00:32:56.040 send her back to be
00:32:57.300 with him in
00:32:57.860 California, the
00:32:58.720 governor said, as
00:32:59.580 the crowd
00:33:00.180 cheered, Youngkin
00:33:01.520 doubled down.
00:33:02.700 That's what we're
00:33:03.520 going to do, that's
00:33:04.680 what we're going to
00:33:05.520 do.
00:33:08.080 For that reason,
00:33:09.280 suddenly Karen
00:33:09.920 Tumulty says, I'm
00:33:11.140 sorry I ever said
00:33:11.940 anything positive
00:33:12.600 about it.
00:33:12.900 Now look what the
00:33:13.420 media's trying to do,
00:33:14.260 literally saying,
00:33:15.740 defeat the Democrats,
00:33:17.200 defeat Nancy Pelosi as
00:33:18.640 Speaker of the
00:33:19.140 House.
00:33:19.920 That is celebrating
00:33:21.260 violence.
00:33:21.980 Democrats, what
00:33:22.640 utter, unmitigated
00:33:24.920 horse crap.
00:33:26.920 What Glenn said is
00:33:27.940 what every Republican
00:33:28.880 is saying across the
00:33:29.760 country, when you
00:33:30.660 elect Democrats, they
00:33:32.440 implement bad policies
00:33:34.500 and bad things happen to
00:33:35.820 you and your family.
00:33:36.660 And the absolute double
00:33:38.680 standard, look, a few
00:33:40.300 years back when a
00:33:41.460 crazed Bernie Sanders
00:33:42.620 supporter shot and
00:33:44.560 nearly killed Steve
00:33:45.680 Scalise, you didn't
00:33:47.480 see the Democrats
00:33:48.440 being blamed for their
00:33:50.640 rhetoric.
00:33:51.440 Earlier this year,
00:33:52.820 when a crazed
00:33:53.900 lunatic tried to kill
00:33:55.900 Lee Zeldin on the
00:33:56.940 campaign trail, you
00:33:58.340 didn't see the
00:33:58.940 Democrats being
00:33:59.780 condemned for their
00:34:00.880 rhetoric.
00:34:01.240 just a few months
00:34:02.780 ago, when a crazed
00:34:04.180 lunatic went from
00:34:05.140 California to D.C.
00:34:06.380 trying to murder
00:34:07.160 Justice Brett Kavanaugh,
00:34:08.420 again, the media
00:34:09.000 didn't say, you know,
00:34:10.800 the time has come for
00:34:12.080 Schumer and the leftist
00:34:13.020 to stop.
00:34:13.520 They don't do that,
00:34:14.840 but it is, I got to
00:34:16.260 say, Ben, it's
00:34:16.980 Senator, they didn't
00:34:17.520 even, the White House
00:34:18.320 didn't even condemn it.
00:34:19.320 They were silent.
00:34:20.320 They had the
00:34:20.740 opportunity, by the
00:34:21.680 way, they were asked
00:34:22.420 by the media and they
00:34:23.940 purposely said nothing
00:34:25.320 about the assassination
00:34:26.580 attempt on a Supreme
00:34:28.320 Court justice and
00:34:29.300 putting out that hit
00:34:30.340 list, basically,
00:34:31.060 of where they
00:34:31.560 lived.
00:34:32.220 They wouldn't even
00:34:33.040 condemn the people
00:34:33.900 going to the houses
00:34:34.780 of Supreme Court
00:34:35.500 justices, which is
00:34:36.720 supposed to be a
00:34:37.420 felony to try to
00:34:38.200 influence their vote.
00:34:39.680 So it is a felony
00:34:40.860 and the Department of
00:34:42.640 Justice Merrick Garland
00:34:43.680 is so political that
00:34:44.780 he still refuses to
00:34:46.220 prosecute the people
00:34:47.380 that are aggressively
00:34:48.420 protesting in front of
00:34:50.020 the justices' home.
00:34:50.900 He simply decides,
00:34:52.180 okay, certain portions
00:34:53.160 of the criminal code
00:34:54.020 I don't enforce because
00:34:55.160 it is contrary to my
00:34:56.760 partisan political
00:34:57.560 interests.
00:34:58.880 And it is
00:35:00.920 truly absurd.
00:35:02.900 You know, I watched
00:35:04.220 one of the Sunday
00:35:04.920 shows where Tom
00:35:06.800 Amher, one of the
00:35:07.700 House congressional
00:35:08.960 leaders, was on
00:35:09.840 and Margaret Brennan
00:35:11.920 was cross-examining
00:35:13.040 him.
00:35:13.320 You know, do you
00:35:13.980 regret saying,
00:35:15.080 fire Nancy Pelosi?
00:35:16.820 And Tom's a fairly
00:35:17.920 mild-mannered guy.
00:35:19.000 I wish he had looked
00:35:20.080 at her and said,
00:35:20.620 hell no.
00:35:21.600 And I regret the
00:35:22.700 fact that she's in
00:35:23.400 office right now
00:35:24.140 because her policies
00:35:25.280 have been disastrous
00:35:27.380 for people in this
00:35:28.320 country.
00:35:28.660 But what the media
00:35:29.280 is trying to do,
00:35:31.000 bizarrely, they're
00:35:32.940 actually celebrating
00:35:34.360 this horrific physical
00:35:35.700 attack on Paul
00:35:37.360 Pelosi because they
00:35:38.820 see it as an excuse.
00:35:41.040 When they're done
00:35:41.960 telling the story,
00:35:42.920 it was Donald Trump
00:35:44.040 wearing a red hat
00:35:45.520 that was wielding
00:35:46.200 the hammer instead
00:35:46.980 of some crazed
00:35:48.860 hippie nudist from
00:35:50.280 Berkeley who's an
00:35:51.180 illegal alien.
00:35:52.260 And who knows what
00:35:53.060 views he has.
00:35:53.720 Maybe he has some
00:35:54.300 right-wing views or
00:35:54.980 left-wing views.
00:35:55.580 I don't know, but
00:35:57.600 to claim that
00:35:58.700 because some lunatic
00:36:00.080 assaulted Pelosi's
00:36:02.840 husband, that it is
00:36:04.180 now verboten to
00:36:06.800 try to beat
00:36:07.640 Democrats on
00:36:08.480 Election Day, even
00:36:10.260 for the corrupt
00:36:10.940 corporate media,
00:36:12.000 that is the height
00:36:14.060 of absurdity.
00:36:15.240 It certainly is.
00:36:16.460 And Senator, you
00:36:17.040 and I did a
00:36:18.180 podcast, a deep
00:36:19.180 dive, just a
00:36:20.500 couple days ago
00:36:21.180 that I want to
00:36:21.620 bring attention to
00:36:22.560 the people that
00:36:23.680 are listening about
00:36:24.520 how to watch
00:36:25.320 election night,
00:36:26.080 race by race.
00:36:26.980 We will also be
00:36:27.780 doing verdict on
00:36:28.800 election night.
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00:36:29.840 shows between now
00:36:30.720 and then we'll be
00:36:31.220 down in Texas for
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