Verdict with Ted Cruz - October 28, 2024


Showdown in Texas： Trump vs Kamala!


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Ted Cruz and Donald Trump both hit the campaign trail on the same day in the same state. What does that have to do with politics? And what does it mean for the upcoming mid-term elections? Plus, a look at what it's like to be a conservative in a blue state.

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00:00:00.000 This is an iHeart Podcast.
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00:00:05.460 Welcome.
00:00:06.140 It is Verdict with Senator Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you as well.
00:00:09.720 And Senator, I can't believe I'm going to get to say this.
00:00:11.560 We're like a week and a day away from Election Day.
00:00:14.780 It is finally here.
00:00:16.620 And the campaign is in full swing.
00:00:19.320 Harris and Donald Trump both coming on the same day to Texas in the same state.
00:00:25.220 Well, we had a showdown in Texas on Friday.
00:00:27.620 Donald Trump was in Texas.
00:00:30.720 Kamala Harris was in Texas on the same day.
00:00:33.900 They had competing rallies side by side.
00:00:36.800 A clear contrast with the two campaigns were about.
00:00:39.400 I was with Donald Trump in Austin.
00:00:41.140 I'm going to tell you all about it and what happened there.
00:00:43.700 Kamala Harris was in my hometown of Houston.
00:00:46.680 She brought along Beyonce. 0.98
00:00:48.140 She brought along Willie Nelson.
00:00:50.140 They had a fake concert.
00:00:51.720 We're going to tell you all about that as well.
00:00:53.820 Yeah, it's going to be really fun.
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00:02:39.620 So Friday, you were in Austin, Harris was in Houston, our hometown of Houston, and you
00:02:49.000 were with Donald Trump.
00:02:50.220 So let's just talk about the feel.
00:02:53.140 I think you can actually, there's always an X factor in elections, and that is just when
00:02:57.600 you're out in the campaign trail, when you're seeing the excitement, there's an X factor
00:03:01.740 there.
00:03:02.520 What was your assessment of being in Austin with Donald Trump?
00:03:05.720 And what did it look like from a, hey, conservative excitement point of view?
00:03:10.340 So I'm going to tell you that in a second, but I got to say, my heart had a warm little
00:03:14.000 pitter-pat when I hear a Memphis boy describe Houston as our hometown.
00:03:19.400 Could you just say that again, Ben?
00:03:20.880 I like that.
00:03:21.820 Our hometown.
00:03:22.980 Our hometown.
00:03:23.760 You know, once you get to Texas, it's hard to get it out of you.
00:03:26.860 That's all I can say.
00:03:29.220 Bask in that moment there, sir.
00:03:31.280 Are you willing to concede Texas barbecue yet?
00:03:33.900 No, I'm not.
00:03:34.500 I'm not there yet.
00:03:35.340 I can cook one hell of a brisket, sir.
00:03:37.420 But as you know, I still...
00:03:38.840 It's coming.
00:03:39.480 We are a cult, and we will take you and reprogram you. 0.79
00:03:44.360 Just know that it's coming.
00:03:46.680 I have a feeling this tape's going to be around for quite a long time.
00:03:49.740 My producer is laughing right now.
00:03:51.340 He's saving this and putting it on a gold CD just to make sure there's a backup copy of
00:03:56.760 this for sure.
00:03:58.020 So, all right.
00:03:58.680 Back to...
00:03:59.580 Let's just get down to Austin.
00:04:00.800 Let's move on past this quickly.
00:04:03.080 You're down there.
00:04:03.680 So, Austin, Texas.
00:04:05.840 Austin, Texas.
00:04:07.100 There's a big gathering in, like, an airport hangar.
00:04:11.700 And Trump comes in.
00:04:13.040 His plane lands.
00:04:13.940 He arrives.
00:04:14.760 And it was really striking.
00:04:16.260 He came to Texas, well, for two things.
00:04:19.040 Number one, he came to Texas because he was interviewing with Joe Rogan.
00:04:21.720 And he did a three-hour interview with Joe Rogan.
00:04:24.340 And let's start out by pointing out that Kamala Harris was invited to do Joe Rogan, and she
00:04:30.560 said no.
00:04:31.600 She was apparently frightened to do Joe Rogan.
00:04:34.720 The reporting that I've seen on it said the Kamala Harris campaign insisted on rules, 0.88
00:04:39.560 and Joe Rogan said, no, go jump in a lake.
00:04:41.880 If you're going to do the podcast, come on the podcast, and I'm going to ask you whatever
00:04:44.360 the hell I want.
00:04:44.960 And they're like, no, no, no, no, no.
00:04:46.380 We can't do that.
00:04:47.260 We don't know what Kamala will say, but it's going to be bad, so never mind.
00:04:49.780 And Donald Trump said, all right, let's go, and sat there for three hours.
00:04:53.360 So that initially is why Trump flew to Austin, is because he was headed to Rogan's to do
00:04:58.200 the three-hour interview.
00:04:59.620 But he chose to make that a rally to focus on the issue of illegal immigration, which I
00:05:06.560 think is the single most compelling issue in this race.
00:05:10.780 Now, the polls back me up.
00:05:11.940 Voters say either illegal immigration, border security is the number one issue, or the economy
00:05:16.660 slash inflation is the number one issue.
00:05:18.340 Those two pretty consistently are one and two.
00:05:20.620 They go back and forth as to which is one and two.
00:05:23.500 But this rally was really powerful.
00:05:25.660 So Trump comes in, and he's up on stage, and behind him, he is surrounded by Border Patrol
00:05:32.180 agents.
00:05:32.820 Paul Perez, who's the head of the Border Patrol Council, the union of Border Patrol agents,
00:05:38.080 who has endorsed Donald Trump.
00:05:39.940 Paul is a very good friend.
00:05:41.160 I've campaigned with Paul all over Texas.
00:05:43.460 I've spent hundreds of hours with Paul and with Border Patrol agents, out on midnight
00:05:48.400 patrol, on the border.
00:05:49.900 Paul was there.
00:05:51.200 Border Patrol agents were there.
00:05:52.880 And then multiple families of those who lost loved ones to violent criminals who were
00:05:59.640 illegal aliens were there.
00:06:00.860 And it really was a powerful contrast.
00:06:05.380 And we'll get in a minute to Kamala Harris, but Kamala Harris did her event in the big 1.00
00:06:09.480 stadium.
00:06:10.760 And number one, apparently Kamala was concerned she couldn't turn out a crowd.
00:06:15.020 So they told everyone it was going to be a free Beyonce concert.
00:06:18.900 They also told everyone it was going to be a free Willie Nelson concert.
00:06:22.100 Turned out Beyonce never performed.
00:06:23.380 And I understand there were some really some ticked off people, because if you go thinking
00:06:27.180 you're going to a Beyonce concert and she stands up and gives a political speech, you're
00:06:30.800 going, dude, like I went to a Beyonce concert.
00:06:34.580 I didn't even hear one verse.
00:06:37.200 But Kamala's entire rally was about abortion. 1.00
00:06:41.640 That is her entire message.
00:06:43.640 If you are all abortion all the time, Kamala is your candidate. 1.00
00:06:47.800 If nothing else matters to you but abortion every day, 365 days a year. 0.77
00:06:52.740 That is their message.
00:06:54.380 And they're hoping voters will disregard every other message, will say all I care about is
00:06:58.940 abortion.
00:06:59.460 I don't care about Venezuelan gangs invading my cities. 0.98
00:07:02.380 I don't care about them terrorizing my children.
00:07:04.600 I don't care about the fact that I can't pay the bills anymore.
00:07:07.340 I don't care about the fact that that I can't get the home that I wanted to buy.
00:07:10.900 I don't care about the fact that that my children's future looks bleaker right now.
00:07:14.460 I don't care about the fact that the world is on fire.
00:07:16.740 I don't care about the fact that anti-Semitism has consumed college campuses.
00:07:20.380 I don't care about the fact that the Democrats are cheering on the anti-Semites.
00:07:23.880 I don't care about the fact that the Democrats have given $100 billion to Iran that is funding
00:07:28.100 Hamas and Hezbollah. 0.99
00:07:29.200 I don't care about the fact that everything has gone to crap. 1.00
00:07:31.620 Nope. 0.99
00:07:31.980 All I care about is abortion, abortion, abortion. 1.00
00:07:34.360 So therefore, I'm a Democrat.
00:07:35.760 That was the contrast.
00:07:37.540 And I got to say, Ben, eight days out from an election, I'm pretty happy with that contrast.
00:07:41.800 If that's what the election is, I think it sums up both sides really well.
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00:08:17.240 Yeah, it was very interesting to see the maneuver by, I think, Harris just to come to Houston
00:08:25.400 and for this to be the message.
00:08:27.420 And I get there's this idea of, all right, we'll go there and we'll say Texas is bad and
00:08:32.520 what they've done in Texas is terrible.
00:08:35.040 And so you don't want the rest of the country to become Texas.
00:08:37.420 There's just a problem with that.
00:08:38.520 Isn't it like a thousand people a week that are a day?
00:08:41.620 I forget the number.
00:08:43.020 A day.
00:08:43.240 A thousand a day.
00:08:44.040 A thousand a day are moving to Texas on average.
00:08:49.140 That is not exactly going to work to your favor if everybody's coming to Texas for freedom
00:08:54.420 while you're saying Texas is bad.
00:08:56.360 Like, is that?
00:08:57.300 And not only that, like, aren't you supposed to be spending your final days in swing states
00:09:02.420 if you're running for president trying to win the presidency, not Texas?
00:09:05.680 You are, and it is amazing because I'm going to venture right now the odds that Donald Trump
00:09:11.520 wins Texas next Tuesday, I believe, are 100 percent.
00:09:15.800 Trump is going to win.
00:09:17.580 Trump knows that.
00:09:18.860 Kamala knows that.
00:09:19.700 So they were both in a state where everyone knows the outcome.
00:09:23.640 Trump will win.
00:09:24.260 Kamala will lose. 0.86
00:09:25.200 And so Trump was there for a very good reason, which is to drive a message.
00:09:29.240 To be honest, a big chunk of Trump being there was to talk to Pennsylvania, to talk to Michigan,
00:09:32.840 to talk to Wisconsin, to talk to Arizona, and to say, look, this is what's happening at
00:09:37.620 the border, and Texas is the front lines for the border.
00:09:40.020 So that was valuable to tell that story.
00:09:44.500 But Kamala is trying to create this bizarre narrative that Texas is like Mad Max and Thunderdome. 0.85
00:09:53.520 It is this horrible hellscape that people are trying to escape.
00:09:57.100 Or maybe it's escape from New York, and I'm actually referencing.
00:09:59.820 Are you old enough to have seen escape from New York, Ben?
00:10:02.120 Oh, yeah, I have.
00:10:03.120 I've seen it once.
00:10:04.440 All right.
00:10:05.080 Do you remember the name of the protagonist?
00:10:06.700 I do not.
00:10:07.820 Oh.
00:10:08.780 Oh, Ben.
00:10:09.860 Snake Plissken.
00:10:10.720 Come on.
00:10:12.000 Great, great movie.
00:10:14.040 But in Kamala's world, Texas is this dystopian hellhole.
00:10:19.460 That's the story she's trying to tell.
00:10:22.040 And as you pointed out, there's the rather inconvenient fact that for more than a decade, over a thousand
00:10:30.060 people have come to the state of Texas.
00:10:31.700 I was first elected to the Senate in 2012, 12 years ago.
00:10:35.500 When I was elected, there were 26 million Texans.
00:10:39.160 Today, there are more than 30 million Texans.
00:10:42.720 We've added 4 million Texans in just over a decade.
00:10:46.660 And it's worth noting also...
00:10:48.540 You're not counting illegal immigrants, right? 1.00
00:10:50.240 No, no, no.
00:10:50.820 I'm talking about...
00:10:51.900 I'm not counting illegal immigrants. 0.92
00:10:54.000 I'm just talking about the people in our state.
00:10:56.340 And they are coming...
00:10:57.340 It's not random where they're coming from.
00:11:00.520 They are coming overwhelmingly from blue states.
00:11:04.180 California is the number one biggest source of new residents to Texas.
00:11:08.500 They come from California in huge numbers.
00:11:11.200 They come from Illinois.
00:11:12.400 They come from New York and New Jersey and Connecticut.
00:11:16.060 They're all bright blue states that have the policies that Kamala says is wonderful.
00:11:21.220 And the people are packing up and moving out.
00:11:24.720 In fact, a joke that I tell on the campaign trail all the time.
00:11:27.820 I say, look, there's a headline in the Babylon Bee, which is Texas is building a wall in its southern border consisting of nothing but discarded one-way U-Haul trucks from California.
00:11:40.060 Yeah.
00:11:40.800 And look, the truth of that is enormously right.
00:11:44.920 The cost of a one-way U-Haul from California to Texas is more than 300% the cost of a U-Haul going the other way around.
00:11:56.560 And in fact, it's really striking.
00:11:58.300 The cost of a U-Haul from San Jose, from Silicon Valley to Austin, is 500% the cost of a U-Haul going the other way because nobody's going the other way.
00:12:10.640 Yeah.
00:12:10.920 And once they're here, those trucks are stuck.
00:12:13.640 Yep.
00:12:13.860 No, that's exactly right.
00:12:16.120 So Trump is here.
00:12:18.140 And I got to say, it was really, really powerful because one of the people who was at Trump's rally was Alexis Nungary.
00:12:27.880 And Alexis is the mother, as you know, of Jocelyn Nungary.
00:12:33.260 Jocelyn, the beautiful 12-year-old girl kidnapped, raped, and murdered by illegals that Biden and Harris released.
00:12:42.020 And I got to say, I've gotten to know Alexis quite well.
00:12:45.240 I spent a fair amount of time with her on Friday when she was in Austin.
00:12:49.900 I talked with her quite a bit.
00:12:51.820 You know, Alexis is just 27 years old. 0.98
00:12:55.480 And the strength she has to stand up and fight for Jocelyn.
00:13:04.240 Listen, we're both parents.
00:13:05.860 The worst nightmare any person can imagine is losing a child.
00:13:11.640 It's just the most hellish thing.
00:13:13.720 And if anything can be more hellish than that, it's to lose a child in the circumstances that Jocelyn was murdered.
00:13:20.340 To know the absolute hell that your baby went through.
00:13:25.700 Every time Alexis talks about Jocelyn, it brings tears to my eyes.
00:13:33.140 I want you to listen to Alexis at the rally talking about what she sees as the central issue in this race. 0.95
00:13:41.700 This past June, Alexis' 12-year-old daughter, her precious angel, as you say, Jocelyn.
00:13:52.900 And we all called her that.
00:13:54.820 We feel we know Jocelyn.
00:13:57.140 And she's had a big impact, Alexis.
00:14:00.460 You know that, right?
00:14:01.180 She's had a big impact.
00:14:02.780 Walked to a nearby convenience store.
00:14:05.620 Jocelyn was kidnapped.
00:14:07.540 Tied up, assaulted.
00:14:08.560 And I'm not going any further than that.
00:14:10.160 I'm standing with the mother.
00:14:12.200 And horrible things happened to her, to that young, beautiful, that young, beautiful girl.
00:14:17.780 And the animals arrested for Jocelyn's barbaric murder are two illegal aliens believed to be members of the savage Venezuelan prison gang known as Trende Aragua.
00:14:31.740 And they're all over the place now.
00:14:33.480 They're all over our country.
00:14:35.160 They were in Aurora, but Aurora is now the least of it.
00:14:37.880 They've taken over buildings in Aurora.
00:14:39.540 They're all over the government, a radical left Democrat, weak person, doesn't know quite what to do.
00:14:44.940 He's always got a big mouth when he talks about other things, but he has no idea what to do.
00:14:50.940 And they have weapons of military grade.
00:14:53.860 You say, how did they get those weapons?
00:14:55.560 These monsters were in Border Patrol custody, but under a program Kamala Harris created to abolish detention for fighting aged men, whatever that means, and give them free and automatic entry into the United States.
00:15:10.840 The killers were released into our country.
00:15:13.980 And, Alexis, we cannot begin to imagine your pain.
00:15:18.600 And if you'd like to say a few words, would you like to?
00:15:21.160 I thank everybody for Donald Trump, really, for the opportunity to be able to say my daughter's story.
00:15:31.860 I know everybody knows somebody that was like her.
00:15:35.600 She was 12.
00:15:37.120 She was going to be a 7th grader.
00:15:40.220 Pre-teens, they think they're invincible.
00:15:43.500 And she was just being a child.
00:15:45.880 And due to the Biden-Harris policies we have here, our wife, she's not here anymore.
00:15:54.560 She was taken from her vulnerability.
00:15:58.920 And they made her a target and ran with that. 0.85
00:16:04.820 And now I will forever be a grieving mother.
00:16:09.040 And my son will forever be a grieving brother who will no longer get to grow up with his sister.
00:16:17.400 Kamala Harris has never reached out to me, just even as a human, to give her condolences as a humane person running this country.
00:16:27.220 I think it's very sad that she can't even just give me an open apology, sincere apology.
00:16:39.720 She's attempted to apologize to me just days before this election.
00:16:44.300 I find it very inconvenient and convenient for her.
00:16:47.640 I appreciate everything Donald Trump, Senator Ted Cruz, has done for me.
00:16:54.940 They've been a tremendous amount of help for me and my family during this incredibly hard, hard journey for me.
00:17:03.360 I want to thank everybody for listening to my words.
00:17:06.420 Thank you.
00:17:06.900 I mean, Senator, it's when you look at, like you said, you talk about her age, you talk about what she's gone through.
00:17:18.020 You talk about the fact that this was definitely avoidable if we didn't have an open border.
00:17:23.160 She's been very clear that she believes this is the fault of the policies of Harris, the borders are, and Biden, and that her little girl should still be here.
00:17:34.200 Yeah, look, this is the direct result of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris and the Democrats' catch-and-release policy.
00:17:42.000 Both of these vicious killers were apprehended.
00:17:46.720 They were in federal government custody.
00:17:49.800 Had Kamala Harris simply followed the law, here's what she would have done. 1.00
00:17:53.740 They would have put both of them on a plane and flown them back to Venezuela. 0.54
00:17:57.800 And had that happened, Jocelyn would still be alive.
00:18:01.620 She'd be in seventh grade.
00:18:02.760 She'd be playing.
00:18:03.520 She'd be having fun.
00:18:05.340 She was joyful.
00:18:08.400 She wanted to be an actress.
00:18:10.640 She was a preteen on the verge of her whole life.
00:18:18.340 For that matter, even if they hadn't deported them, federal law says that they shall be detained.
00:18:26.520 Had Kamala Harris simply followed federal law, Jocelyn would still be alive. 1.00
00:18:34.440 But Kamala Harris released those murderers literally the same day they were apprehended.
00:18:42.280 Revolving door doesn't even begin to capture it.
00:18:46.280 As you know, I've introduced legislation called the Justice for Jocelyn Act.
00:18:50.200 The Justice for Jocelyn Act would mandate that when the federal government has illegal immigrants in their custody, that they must keep them in detention as long as there are bed spaces available. 0.77
00:19:00.860 And by the way, there were thousands of open beds.
00:19:03.240 They had plenty of detention capacity.
00:19:05.600 They just made a political decision.
00:19:07.940 They don't want to detain people.
00:19:09.220 They want to let them go.
00:19:10.760 And so they did.
00:19:11.880 And I will say Alexis has been very vocal.
00:19:14.540 She has spoken out in support of the Justice for Jocelyn Act.
00:19:18.280 And, you know, I will say as she stood up giving those remarks, I was right in front of her.
00:19:25.500 I was watching her.
00:19:27.540 She managed to do it without breaking down in tears, which I don't know how she does that. 0.81
00:19:33.020 I couldn't do that.
00:19:34.420 Look, a lot of us there were in tears or near tears, and yet she's got a strength that, you know, and some people have taken some shots.
00:19:46.960 Some Democrats have taken shots at her, and she just – she is a strong woman, and she says, listen, Jocelyn can't speak for herself anymore.
00:19:56.680 I am going to fight for Jocelyn.
00:19:58.880 And she recognizes that she can't bring Jocelyn back, but Alexis wants to do everything she can to stop another mother from losing her baby girl.
00:20:10.840 And I admire that because it would be so easy just to curl up in a ball and just be angry at God and angry at the world and say, how could this happen?
00:20:20.040 And the strength she has is amazing.
00:20:23.000 Now, Trump continued to point out that Kamala won't take any responsibility for her policies that resulted in Jocelyn's murder. 0.97
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00:22:43.600 Take a listen to Donald Trump.
00:22:45.600 In an interview last week, Kamala Harris was asked directly if she would apologize to Alexis for letting in the savage killer that took Jocelyn's life. 0.99
00:22:57.660 And Kamala Harris refused to take any responsibility whatsoever.
00:23:02.140 She refused to own up to the fact that open borders, open borders and totally unchecked.
00:23:08.320 It's not even open borders.
00:23:09.460 Open borders are horrible. 1.00
00:23:10.560 And how stupid are they? 1.00
00:23:12.080 How stupid? 1.00
00:23:12.600 We're the only country in the world that has this. 1.00
00:23:14.560 But they don't even check them.
00:23:16.420 They don't vet them.
00:23:17.140 They don't know who they are.
00:23:18.000 They don't know where they're going.
00:23:19.320 They just come in.
00:23:20.400 And then they fly them over.
00:23:21.820 You know, when the border got a little bit tougher because people were getting angry and just we had citizens standing at the border wanting to do.
00:23:28.360 And then they get in trouble because they want to do the job.
00:23:31.880 The federal government's supposed to be doing.
00:23:34.480 But she refused to own up to it.
00:23:37.640 And last night she said she wants to make strong borders.
00:23:41.100 I mean, what she did last night and the night before, the town hall with Cooper was just unbelievable.
00:23:49.620 Allison Cooper got so angry. 1.00
00:23:51.480 But think of it, think of it, never an apology, never a phone call to anybody, to anybody.
00:24:02.980 So thank you very much, Alexis.
00:24:05.500 You can tell it's sincere.
00:24:06.940 Yeah, no, no, look, look, and I got to say, one of the things that was really powerful seeing him was how he handled Alexis.
00:24:14.760 Listen, to be on the stage with a grieving mother like a minute ago where he like didn't get into the details of what happened to Jocelyn, like with the mom there.
00:24:23.740 Like he's got – you know, Trump is not always someone that people associate with empathy.
00:24:32.180 But I will tell you when he's dealing with grieving families, when he's dealing with whether it is families of soldiers who were killed abroad and whether it was in Afghanistan with a disastrous withdrawal or otherwise or dealing with families of those murdered by illegal aliens.
00:24:50.660 He, I think, demonstrates a real compassion that is powerful.
00:24:55.880 Now, one of the things that was striking, what we just listened there, do you know who agrees with Donald Trump when he talks about that not only do we have open borders, but they're not vetting anyone?
00:25:05.840 You know who agrees with him?
00:25:07.560 Who's that?
00:25:08.780 Bill Clinton.
00:25:09.720 And remember, we talked about this on a previous pod.
00:25:11.980 Here, play what Bill Clinton said about Lake and Riley, and you're going to hear that he agrees with what Donald Trump said.
00:25:18.180 Donald Trump just said they're not vetting him, and that's why they're being killed.
00:25:21.720 Listen to Bill Clinton just a couple of weeks ago making exactly the same point.
00:25:25.600 You had a case in Georgia not very long ago, didn't you?
00:25:28.020 They made an ad about a young woman who'd been killed by an immigrant.
00:25:33.700 Yeah, well, if they'd all been properly vetted, that probably wouldn't have happened.
00:25:39.180 But if they all properly vetted, that doesn't happen.
00:25:42.700 I love it, by the way, when Democrats actually tell the truth.
00:25:46.360 That was not what the Harris-Waltz campaign wanted from Bill Clinton, but he told the truth there, and that's why it went viral.
00:25:52.620 Yeah, look, when Bill Clinton is blasting Kamala Harris' open border policies for letting unvented violent criminals in who are raping and murdering Americans, that's a problem. 1.00
00:26:02.620 By the way, it's not just Donald Trump, it's not just Bill Clinton who are calling out the disasters of these open borders.
00:26:09.100 Paul Perez, the president of the National Border Patrol Council, the union of all the Border Patrol agents who's there, he spoke as well.
00:26:16.640 And I want you to listen to what the Border Patrol said about Kamala Harris, because this is powerful as well.
00:26:21.780 And if I could ask Paul just to come up and say a few words, and I appreciate very much the endorsement, Paul.
00:26:27.840 Thank you very much.
00:26:31.440 Thank you, President.
00:26:32.840 Thank you, President.
00:26:34.080 I really respect the fact that you came out to Texas to highlight migrant crime, illegal alien crime.
00:26:42.460 We've got some good people here in the front row that have been supporting the governor's efforts to do the federal government's job.
00:26:50.520 And so we really appreciate that. 0.94
00:26:51.940 But I want to talk about the person that's going to be coming to Houston tonight, not to apologize or highlight illegal alien crime, but to party like a fool on stage with celebrities. 0.93
00:27:04.400 Instead of apologizing to the families. 0.82
00:27:07.540 This is somebody who likes to brag about being a former federal prosecutor who prosecuted transnational gangs and cartel members.
00:27:17.220 So she knew President Trump.
00:27:19.700 She knew better than most exactly the threat that these people, these animals create.
00:27:27.120 The threat that they bring to our communities that will harm our families. 0.99
00:27:32.360 And these scumbags listed here on these pictures here are part of the Kamala crime wave. 0.95
00:27:39.600 And because of that, the Kamala crime wave has devastated cities. 0.99
00:27:45.060 President Trump strikes fear in the enemies of America.
00:27:52.380 That is the type of leadership that we need in this country.
00:27:56.700 Just recently, the criminal cartels have greenlit firing on Border Patrol agents.
00:28:03.280 They would have never done that under President Trump because they know he would send the message that if you touch a single hair on a Border Patrol agent, I will eradicate you.
00:28:16.480 That's the strength in leadership we need from President Trump. 0.97
00:28:19.800 Not the clowns that are running for President on the Democratic ticket. 0.96
00:28:27.920 My daughter can handle a shotgun better than Tim Waltz. 0.98
00:28:32.420 And he served in the military as he claims.
00:28:37.540 The Secretary of Homeland Security, also a former federal prosecutor.
00:28:41.440 They know better.
00:28:42.700 They should have stopped this invasion.
00:28:44.860 They did nothing.
00:28:45.720 They not only facilitated, but they encouraged it.
00:28:50.780 This border needs to be fixed.
00:28:53.040 And the only person that can fix this border is Donald J. Trump.
00:28:57.820 Yeah, this is, you know, these Border Patrol agents.
00:29:00.440 And I think this is a really important point that people need to understand.
00:29:04.160 They just want to do their job.
00:29:05.780 It's what they tell you all the time.
00:29:07.160 They just want to do their job, and they're not able to do their job and protect us with Kamala Harris as the president or Joe Biden as the president.
00:29:17.540 And that is exactly why they've endorsed Donald Trump.
00:29:20.460 Yeah, look, what Paul said there was really powerful, that President Trump strikes fear in the enemies of America.
00:29:28.280 And he also said that the Mexican drug cartels have greenlit firing on Border Patrol agents.
00:29:34.360 Listen, these heroes, they risk their lives to keep us safe.
00:29:39.520 And under Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, they are on their own.
00:29:43.000 And in fact, Kamala sides with the criminals, with the traffickers.
00:29:47.740 When the Border Patrol agents apprehend the bad guys, what happens?
00:29:53.860 Kamala orders, let them go. 1.00
00:29:55.260 And let them go the same day.
00:29:57.180 And the frustration, I'll tell you, when you go on Midnight Patrol with these guys and you encounter, say, little girls and little boys.
00:30:03.920 Last time I was there, we encountered one group that was mostly children.
00:30:08.440 And you could tell these are children who've been brutalized, who've been assaulted, who've been sexually assaulted.
00:30:13.480 And they're forced to just release them, release them into the hands of people who are abusing them.
00:30:21.760 It breaks the spirit.
00:30:23.640 It breaks the soul.
00:30:24.800 It is wrong.
00:30:25.860 And we need to listen to what they're saying.
00:30:28.320 You know, it's also, I think, very interesting to see how Donald Trump is putting together this campaign.
00:30:33.580 It's a little bit different than he did in 16, certainly.
00:30:36.380 And that is, he understands how important it is to have a team around him, whether it's Border Patrol agents.
00:30:44.960 But he also had some things to say about you.
00:30:47.800 You were obviously there with him.
00:30:49.560 And I want people to let them hear what he said about you and how he understands now, this is so important that we have a team together.
00:30:57.620 That can actually implement some of these ideas in Washington.
00:31:01.500 Because if you don't have team members, if you don't win the Senate, if you don't win the House, you're not going to get as much done as you want to.
00:31:08.820 And I think he understands this time, he needs a very tight team that can take these things that he's talking about on the road and put them into action in Congress.
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00:33:03.740 Take a listen.
00:33:04.880 Donald Trump talking about you, Senator.
00:33:07.340 I want to thank some of the special guests we have.
00:33:10.060 Senator Ted Cruz for being here.
00:33:12.380 Senator Ted.
00:33:18.360 It's hard to believe he's in a race because honestly, I don't know who would want to run against him because he's really a great senator.
00:33:26.040 He's a great senator.
00:33:27.320 He loves the country.
00:33:29.100 He's tough as hell.
00:33:30.400 He fights.
00:33:30.860 He's always fighting and, you know, and he's fighting for the state, but he's fighting more for the country than just about anybody.
00:33:37.680 And John Barasso would acknowledge that.
00:33:39.800 John is one of our leaders in the Senate and he's a fantastic man.
00:33:44.280 So, so, Ted, I know you're, I know your thing is going good.
00:33:47.180 I heard you were helped very greatly.
00:33:49.260 You got a big pop, right?
00:33:50.380 And I know you're doing great, but I just want to say he's got my complete and total endorsement.
00:33:55.560 He has always, always will have.
00:33:57.900 And you're going to have a great day and hopefully I'm going to have a great day and we're going to be celebrating together and we're going to make our country, as we say, or we'll make America great again.
00:34:09.400 We're going to make it great and it's going to go faster than you think, but it can't sustain this for another four years that I do believe.
00:34:15.260 You know, it's his mindset is just so different this time.
00:34:19.940 It's like, I got to get a group of warriors that are going to come together and fight for this country.
00:34:25.280 And I love the way he talks about people just like you, where he's like, look, we got to get this done together as a team.
00:34:31.640 Yeah, look, we got a lot of work to do.
00:34:33.660 And when Trump was president the first time, I was by far his strongest ally in the Senate.
00:34:38.580 And when he's reelected, I'll again be by far his strongest ally in the Senate.
00:34:42.920 And the job we have to do, I look back over these last four years, I've never seen so much damage done to our country in such a short period of time.
00:34:51.900 And so we've got a massive amount of work to do to secure the border, which we're going to do.
00:34:56.320 And we're going to do it early next year.
00:34:57.860 It's not going to take a year.
00:34:59.100 It's not even going to take six months.
00:35:00.320 We're going to secure the border in January and February of next year.
00:35:04.220 And it is going to be simply reversing the policy, ending catch and release, reinstating, remain in Mexico.
00:35:11.200 And once people discover that if you come, you don't get to stay, you get sent home, the numbers will plummet immediately.
00:35:19.680 We're also going to extend the tax cuts.
00:35:22.040 We're going to we're going to you know, the Wall Street Journal calls this election the six trillion dollar election,
00:35:26.940 because that's how much your taxes go up if Kamala Harris and the Democrats win or how much they go down and stay down if the Republicans win.
00:35:34.440 We're going to end the regulatory assault on small businesses.
00:35:38.660 We're going to end the regulatory assault on oil and gas and jobs in Texas.
00:35:43.040 And we're going to end the wars. 0.51
00:35:44.500 We're going to see both of the wars abroad come to an end.
00:35:46.800 And Israel's going to defeat Hamas.
00:35:48.240 There's a lot of upside.
00:35:50.020 And so that was very kind of Trump, what he said at the rally.
00:35:54.100 And he's focused on the job at hand, what we got to do.
00:35:57.160 And by the way, the contrast, the contrast is really striking.
00:36:01.660 Listen to come.
00:36:02.580 Listen to Trump talking about what Kamala was doing the very same day here in Texas.
00:36:07.220 But today, Kamala is here in Texas to rub shoulders with woke celebrities. 0.98
00:36:12.240 Isn't that exciting?
00:36:15.480 But she's not going to meet with any of the victims of migrant crime while she's here. 0.92
00:36:20.500 We have many of them right here.
00:36:22.560 The families with many of them.
00:36:24.040 And they're incredible people, what they've gone through, the hell that they've gone through.
00:36:28.820 And will continue to go through, unfortunately.
00:36:32.380 She'll not speak to the grieving mothers from whom she has stolen the brightest light in their life.
00:36:38.500 She was in charge of this border.
00:36:40.820 And she doesn't like being called BordersR anymore.
00:36:43.020 She didn't mind it almost four years ago.
00:36:45.800 But now she doesn't like it.
00:36:47.060 But you don't need that term.
00:36:49.340 She was in charge of the border.
00:36:50.620 She never came here and she never made one call to these people behind me or anybody in the group.
00:36:56.880 Not one call.
00:36:57.440 She's in charge.
00:36:58.240 She deals with Border Patrol. 0.60
00:37:00.260 She hasn't made, Paul, not even.
00:37:02.480 Not one call in four years.
00:37:05.620 Not one call in four years.
00:37:08.220 Wow.
00:37:08.480 Yeah, look, it's a striking contrast.
00:37:11.160 And then we saw, shortly after Trump's rally, we saw Kamala come to Houston.
00:37:17.460 And it was a rally.
00:37:20.320 It was in the Shell Energy Stadium.
00:37:22.820 And, you know, it was designed to get lots of headlines, which the corporate media, like bleeding sheep, completely gave, of huge crowd comes out to see Kamala Harris.
00:37:32.160 Now, of course, they told everyone it was a Beyoncé concert.
00:37:36.940 And Beyoncé is, by any measure, one of the five biggest musical stars on the face of the planet.
00:37:45.460 And so, you know, it was interesting to see all of the media gushing.
00:37:50.420 Oh, 30,000 people came out to see Kamala Harris.
00:37:52.820 Because what they really should have written is, smallest concert in a decade for Beyoncé.
00:37:58.080 Because I don't think Beyoncé has performed to anything as small as 30,000.
00:38:02.760 And particularly when it was free, they weren't charging you.
00:38:05.800 Free Beyoncé concert brings only 30,000 people.
00:38:08.900 I mean, that would be a headline.
00:38:11.020 But I got to say, it really was striking that they had to tell people they were coming to a free concert.
00:38:15.860 And then they got there, and they didn't even have her sing God Bless America.
00:38:18.980 I mean, they, like, she didn't even hum good morning.
00:38:22.760 Like, it was striking.
00:38:25.540 The ultimate bait and switch, as we call it.
00:38:28.460 It really was.
00:38:30.060 And listen, I think it's because they were afraid, if they just said a Kamala concert, that people wouldn't show up.
00:38:37.500 And so they had to have a reason to get people to come there.
00:38:40.680 And it was not to see Kamala Harris.
00:38:42.760 And I got to say, listen, I didn't watch the Kamala rally.
00:38:47.360 I have a limit to masochism and how much just prattling on I can endure.
00:38:55.300 So I don't really know what they said, because I, like, I think I went out and had to water my lawn instead.
00:39:00.640 I just, I know there was something else I had to do.
00:39:02.760 But I did see, because it's where I see an awful lot of things in life.
00:39:09.140 I did see on X a truly horrific snippet outside of this woman who's a Kamala Harris supporter, this young woman in her 20s,
00:39:19.860 who comes up to this toddler, maybe two, three years old, this little girl, in a stroller and begins screaming at the top of her lungs and cursing at this little baby.
00:39:32.600 And it was, I've never seen anything like this.
00:39:35.020 I mean, Ben, have you ever seen, and this is not her child.
00:39:38.160 Yeah, and this was, it went viral for a reason, because it was just so disgusting.
00:39:42.700 It was, it was a shocking, shocking moment.
00:39:45.040 Like, what are you doing?
00:39:46.520 And the fact that she knew people were recording it and didn't care.
00:39:49.960 And, and by the way, there was another Kamala Harris supporter next to her who actually intervened and got in her face. 1.00
00:39:56.180 And like, you can't quite tell what she's saying, but she's basically like, what the hell are you doing?
00:40:00.460 You don't do this lady. 1.00
00:40:01.700 Like, like, like kudos to the woman who intervened and, and stopped her and the dad reaches over and grabs his little girl and picks her up.
00:40:09.980 But, but I got to say, and I don't know, I don't know this woman's story.
00:40:14.380 She's, she's in her 20s and, and, you know, I, I just never say that.
00:40:21.160 Listen, I was forced to retweet it and just say, this is deranged because I, I have never in my life seen anyone do this to a little child,
00:40:30.660 a two, three year old little girl doesn't know what's going on. 0.85
00:40:33.860 Just this, this crazy stranger.
00:40:36.840 And we're not talking just one little comment. 0.95
00:40:40.420 We're talking screaming at the top of her lungs at a child in a stroller. 0.64
00:40:46.300 And, and, and listen, I, I think a lot of people online observed what was my reaction, which, which is there's a level of hate,
00:40:55.760 a level of radicalism that Biden and Harris and, and, and the modern Democrats have inculcated in their followers,
00:41:04.540 that, that they've convinced them, number one, that Donald Trump is Hitler.
00:41:08.820 That literally is their closing message that he's Hitler. 0.97
00:41:11.900 And they've also convinced them that anyone who supports Trump is evil, is a Nazi, is a Klansman. 0.91
00:41:20.340 And, and apparently that extends to a two-year-old in a stroller.
00:41:23.780 And, and look, I was horrified watching it.
00:41:29.320 But I was also just sad watching it.
00:41:31.640 Sad for our country.
00:41:33.440 That, that, that, that how have we convinced, look, this, I'm sure this young woman who screamed at this child,
00:41:40.660 I'm sure the whole world has pounded down upon her in, in the days since then.
00:41:45.200 And it, it, it has gone so viral.
00:41:47.460 Look, when you scream at a child, bad things happen to you.
00:41:50.240 But, but I, I just viewed it as a really sad sign of just how much hatred has infused.
00:42:00.540 And look, there are people on the right that feel that hatred as well.
00:42:04.920 But I got to tell you, the intensity of it, I, I haven't heard anyone on the right say,
00:42:10.680 Kamala's Hitler, it, it, it, it's only one side that is invoking the Hitler analogies that is,
00:42:16.360 and, and, you know, that kind of.
00:42:19.440 It's a closing argument.
00:42:20.300 This is it.
00:42:20.960 This is their last thing they want you to say is, hey, if you vote for him, you are a Nazi. 0.96
00:42:26.900 And he is Hitler. 0.84
00:42:28.220 And that is the closing argument for the American people.
00:42:31.100 I just don't see how that plays well on election day.
00:42:33.380 Yeah, and, and, and it just, if you're screaming at babies, you've really kind of lost, lost your footing
00:42:42.660 and lost your grounding and lost, you know, what it is to be a, a, a reasonable, compassionate, loving human being.
00:42:50.600 Amen to that.
00:42:51.660 Don't forget, we do the show Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.
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00:42:57.040 This week is going to be obviously very intense.
00:42:59.740 We're going to cover it all.
00:43:00.980 You'll also, don't forget to grab my podcast on those in-between days, the Ben Ferguson podcast.
00:43:06.880 I'll keep you up to date on the breaking news this week because there will be a lot of it.
00:43:11.160 And who knows what can happen in the next few days with the Democrats, what they may have up their sleeve.
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