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

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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. 1.00

00:04:56.340 It's the economy, stupid. 1.00

00:04:58.440 49% of respondents say 1.00

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, 1.00

00:07:30.880 and particularly

00:07:31.780 white suburban women. 1.00

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 1.00

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 0.99

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 1.00

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 0.97

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, 0.94

00:11:54.940 there was a lunatic 0.95

00:11:56.020 who at 11 in the morning 0.99

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 0.55

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 1.00

00:14:42.020 the idiotic 1.00

00:14:42.760 made-up word 1.00

00:14:43.360 Latinx,

00:14:44.520 I promise you 0.89

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 0.93

00:15:16.120 referred to

00:15:17.180 Hispanics said 0.99

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 1.00

00:15:51.200 and shut up. 1.00

00:15:52.420 And I've got to say, 0.99

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 0.79

00:16:45.380 damn time ago. 0.63

00:16:46.680 It's incredible. 0.98

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 0.84

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 1.00

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. 0.89

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. 1.00

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 0.64

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 0.69

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 1.00

00:21:45.460 bums out. 0.99

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.

00:21:53.320 And that's why we're

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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 0.94

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 0.63

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 1.00

00:24:05.900 idiots did. 1.00

00:24:06.880 In Minneapolis, they 1.00

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 0.60

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 0.96

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 0.81

00:26:09.740 criminals or not.

00:26:10.500 If they arrest the

00:26:11.120 criminals and then let 0.53

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 0.99

00:26:30.520 her prosecutors were 0.66

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 0.92

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 0.68

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 0.72

00:27:51.720 about the national

00:27:52.420 political environment.

00:27:53.960 If so, the race is in 0.94

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. 0.88

00:28:21.440 That, it's so ludicrous. 0.82

00:28:24.460 Look, he knows he's 0.97

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 1.00

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 0.64

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 1.00

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 0.99

00:31:38.640 ridiculous and 0.99

00:31:40.140 it's so 1.00

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 0.99

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 0.98

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 1.00

00:33:24.920 horse crap. 0.99

00:33:26.920 What Glenn said is 1.00

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 0.98

00:33:44.560 nearly killed Steve

00:33:45.680 Scalise, you didn't 0.99

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 0.85

00:33:53.900 lunatic tried to kill 0.97

00:33:55.900 Lee Zeldin on the 0.99

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. 0.98

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 0.97

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 0.94

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? 0.99

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 1.00

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 0.94

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 0.97

00:35:48.860 hippie nudist from 0.98

00:35:50.280 Berkeley who's an 0.98

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 0.98

00:35:58.700 because some lunatic 0.88

00:36:00.080 assaulted Pelosi's 0.95

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

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00:36:23.680 are listening about

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