November 28, 2025 • 32 mins
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Polling Data
- 51% of likely voters under 40 want a Democratic socialist to win the 2028 presidential election.
- Party breakdown:
- Democrats under 40: 82% support a socialist president.
- Republicans under 40: 65% oppose, but 24% support, and 11% are unsure.
- Independents: 37% support, 32% unsure, 31% oppose.
- Poll conducted by Rasmussen with ~1,500 respondents aged 18–39, margin of error ±3%.
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Influence Sources
- Parents: 27% cited parental influence as the reason for supporting socialism.
- Online videos/podcasts: 17%.
- Books: 10%.
- Grandparents: 7%.
- Traditional media and church leaders had minimal influence (under 6%).
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Author’s Perspective
- The Democratic Party is dominated by socialists, communists, and Marxists.
- The indoctrination in schools and universities, plus foreign funding (e.g., China), has shaped young voters.
- Conservatives need to engage younger generations or risk losing future elections.
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Cultural and Political Commentary
- This is a “long game” by left-wing ideologies.
- Class warfare narratives and anti-capitalist sentiment are driving youth toward socialism.
- Republicans need to counteract these influences.
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Additional Sections
- Trump’s Georgia case dismissed: Brief legal update on election interference charges.
- Economic notes: Gas prices falling, holiday spending projected to exceed $1 trillion, Thanksgiving meal costs down.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The majority of likely voters under the age of forty
say they want to see Democratic socialists when not the
next local election, when the next presidential election. I have
warned about this for a long time that if you
want to change an entire generation, the way that you
(00:21):
do it is actually pretty easy. You just go after
the youngest generation. When you go after the youngest generation,
this is what actually ends up happening. You end up
going after and changing the hearts and minds of one
generation that can change the entire future of a country,
of a nation. A majority now of likely voters under
(00:43):
the age of forty, and think about where the forty
year olds have been. They've been in doctrinating in our
colleges and doctrinating in our public schools and our high
schools and our middle schools. It's a lot of schools
that democrats completely own. We know about the anti Semitism
on college campuses. We know about the anti conservative, anti
ffe family, anti traditional values, anti Jewish in general. But
(01:05):
this is part of the reason why you see countries
like China flooding our public universities with money, literally billions
and billions and billions of dollars. Why are so many
foreign nations, our adversaries funding our colleges so that they
can turn Americans against our democracy. I've been warning about
(01:26):
this and telling you that the Democratic Party and the
Socialists and the communist and Marxists have been playing the
long game. Now they're seeing the fruits of their labor
pay off. They've got Mundani in New York. They just
elected another socialist in another major city, what a week ago,
And now you have the majority of likely voters.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Now likely means people that are actually going to vote.
So early on you may say, well, Ben like they
are right, they're pulling pep one or forty. How many
they're Mexal going to vote? Well, this is the reason
why this poll is really concerning. It is of likely
voters under the age of forty say they want to
see a quote democratic socialist.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
What does that mean? That means a socialist. Okay, it's
a socialist.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
When the next presidential election, and this is coming from
a legitimate poll ras Mussen polling, this should terrify every
one of you listening to me. The survey asked respondents
likely voters under the age of forty, quote, the next
presidential election is in twenty twenty eight, would you like
to see a democratic socialist can win? Not just be
(02:30):
on the ballot, but when, okay, when the twenty twenty
eight presidential election.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Across the board, fifty one percent.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Said yes that they would like to see a Democratic
socialist win the twenty eight presidential election. Only thirty two
percent of those forty and under said no, seventeen percent.
This is also very concerning, remain quote unquote unsure. Now predictably,
opinions are sharply divided on party lines. That's good news.
(02:58):
Eighty two percent of demoictocrats under forty said they would
like to see a Democratic socialist win the twenty twenty
eight presidential election. So I've been warning and saying this
for years. The Democratic Party is dead. The Democratic Party
is masquer rating as a Democratic Party, when really it's
filled with socialists, Communists, and Marxists. The socialists, the communists,
(03:22):
and the Marxists have taken over the Democratic Party. They
understood that the American people weren't ready to just straight
up say yeah, I'm a socialist. Voters weren't at a
point where they were ready to say yeah, I'm a socialist,
or yes, I'm a communist. Or yes, I'm a Marxist.
So they lie and they say they're still democrats. We
all know that's not true. They are not democrats, and
(03:42):
the polling now clearly shows that now in certain areas
of the country, you don't have to lie anymore. New
York City is a great example of this. Now they
still use the word democrat, right, because then it softens
what they actually are. Is Mandani a democrat or a socialist?
He's a socialist? Is he a democratic socialist? No, that's
a way to blend the two together, so it doesn't
(04:02):
seem as harsh. Okay, it's like saying, you know, bless
their heart before you then rip somebody a new one.
It's it's, you know, God, bless them, but that person's
an idiot. It's a way to just chill out and
kind of soften the blow of just straight up socialism.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
You look at these numbers.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Eighty two percent of Democrats under the age of forty
say that they are in favor of not just a socialist,
but want them to win the presidential election. That is
a number that's going to rise. It will not go down,
it's going to go up. Now, how did we get
here This is all about making people believe first and
foremost of America is somehow not a great country, that
(04:40):
somehow America is evil, that somehow America like stole something
from somebody, and that the system is rigged. This is
class warfare, where the rich get richer and the poor poor,
and therefore you should be against you know, people making
great money and incredible success in America. You turn anyone
that's successful into a person, and that's why you get
(05:02):
to where we are right now. Now, let's talk about
the Republican side of this. Sixty five percent of Republicans
under forty said they do not want to see that,
compared to twenty four percent who actually do an eleven
percent who remain quote unquote unsure. Okay, that scares me
(05:25):
more than the Democratic side, because what that means is
is that the plan to indoctrinate conservative kids on college
campuses has had an effect. They may come out and say, hey,
I'm not a liberal Democrat, all right, but I'm not
a hardcore gop MAGA conservative either. And if you have
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twenty four percent of those under the age of forty
who identify as a Republican who say they're in favor
of having a Democratic socialist win the twenty twenty eight
presidential election, an eleven percent that remain unsure and only
forty percent excuse me only a rephrase it, only sixty
(06:08):
five percent of Republicans under forty say they do not
want to see a socialist in the White House in
twenty twenty eight. That should scare you. Now I'm going
to break it down even further. Why if you are
a Republican and you're under forty and twenty four percent
of Republicans say they're fine with a Democratic socialist winning
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the White House, what that really means is they're probably
not going to vote for a Republican candidate. They're probably
going to vote for a Democrat. As this voting block
gets older and it's and gets the older voting block
gets more participation you have on election day. There has
been a lot of conservatives for years, and I warned
about this on the Bush campaign back in two thousand
(06:52):
and four. There was this thing called MTV Voter Die
Rock the Vote. You had John Kerry that was really
using celebrities and young people to win the election and
to try to give him the victory there, and it
was concerning for us, but there were some that diskind
of like, look, young people don't vote. I'm not worried
about it, so we don't have to worry about this
(07:13):
rock to vote.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
They're going to vote.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
The ones that do vote are going to vote three
to one liberal over conservative. We know that, but there's
not enough of them to really make a difference now.
And here's what I'm saying that is changing and changing quickly.
It also tells you about a real trend by Democrats,
by the socialists, Communists and Marxists to recruit young minds,
(07:37):
and they're changing those minds. What's also interesting is independent
voters are usually the way of the presidency goes right.
So if they feel like the countries on the right track,
independent voters will usually stick with you. And if the
majority of Americans or i should say independence, believe that
the economy is stagnant, or they're not being listened to,
or prices are getting too high, there's a long list
(08:00):
of different things, they will usually independence will go the
opposite of the.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Party that is in power. Well, let me tell you.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Where independence are in this breakdown, Independents are pre divided.
Thirty seven percent say they would like a democratic, Socialist
to win the twenty eight presidential election, followed by thirty
two percent who remain unsure and thirty one percent who
said no.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
What is the takeaway from that?
Speaker 1 (08:25):
What worries me is we just had Donald Trump win
a presidential election, and the majority of people under the
age of forty are now saying we don't even want
a Democrat, right, which is normally what it is that
you would say you'd want to go to if you
don't like the guy that's currently in office that is
a Republican, you'd be like, oh, I want a Democrat.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
No.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
No, they're saying, we'd like to skip over that. We
don't care about democrats. We want a socialist. Among democrats
that are independents, they're saying the same thing. Now, let's
talk about influence. Asked who has influenced them the most
to support democratic socialism, which is socialism, over a quarter
(09:06):
of respond it's twenty seven percent said something that scares
me even more. They said it was quote a parent.
So twenty seven percent of under forty you say, why
are you supporting a democratic socialis states coming from their parents?
What does that mean? It means that this is also
paying dividends in this country with a grand divide over
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what we see is the best path for our future.
There are a lot of parents who are lazy, who
want government handout and government cheese and government everything to
take care of all their problems, and they're indoctrining their
kids to believe the same thing. That should concern you
even more than any of the other data I've given
you so far tonight. That also that twenty seven percent
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of response said it was a parent who.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Inspired them to be a socialist.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Seventeen percent said online videos or podcasts are why they
are now democratic socialists, ten percent said it was books,
and seven percent who said a grandparent. So what are
we learning from that? Democrats doing a better job controlling
the classrooms. They're doing a better job of controlling the
(10:16):
algorithms and what you see online. They're doing a better
job of getting this out on podcasts. In other words,
they're doing a better job of going to where the
under forty crowd is to then indoctrinate them to believe
that capitalism is a good thing and capitalism is somehow evil.
They're doing a better job of saying to these individuals
(10:39):
that are forty and under that you need a government
to be your baby's daddy.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
You need the government to be your parent.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
You want to know how insignificant digital news publications and
print publications like magazines and newspapers have become. Only six
percent of respondents attributed their support for socialism to print
or digital news publications, five percent even lower for television shows,
five percent to a church leader, and four percent to
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a teacher in college or high school. So democrats have
done a great job and socialists and communists and Marxists
of finding the under forty crowd where they are. It's
clearly not in church, it's not necessarily in higher education.
It is in the schools below that, and it is
(11:28):
on social media online, videos, podcasts, And then the most
influential where they're getting it from is the parents of
the under forty crowd, who they say are socialists. Twenty
seven percent of those saying they want to be a
socialist leader because of their parents. Now, plurality of Democrats
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and Republicans who support Democrats socialism also attribute the influence
not only to their parents. The highest percentage of independence
eighteen percent, said it was books. Voters that read a
little bit more, they may seek a little more information
or knowledge before they quote make a decision. Now you
may ask yourself this question, Well, was this a bad poll?
I will tell you based on the polling data, it's not.
(12:14):
The survey was about fifteen hundred US likely voters between
the ages of eighteen and thirty nine and was conducted
October thirty first and remember the second and as a
margin of era plus or mist three percent.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
The survey follows the rise of Muslim socialists. Mundani, the mayor.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Elect of New York City, who has pushed radical ideas,
including city owned grocery stores, on the people there. He's
also suggested that mental health experts should respond to crimes
rather than police. In fact, he's been in favor of
abolishing the police. This also comes as democratic infighting has
become more prominent, where Democrats are not okay with their
(12:54):
leaders Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, and they want socialists,
they want communists, they want Marxist to lead their party.
So this is a massive fight that we are witnessing
right now. It is a fight that is one that
we should all be concerned and it's one where we're
gonna have to decide at some point when are we
(13:17):
going to start fighting for the hearts and minds of
young people. We used to dismiss them. We have dismissed
them for way too long. When you don't give them attention,
when you don't talk to the younger generation, they grow up,
they become voters, and those voters can destroy everything you built.
(13:39):
You have to understand, this is just what ten months,
eleven months removed, twelve months removed from people voting for
Donald Trump, basically a year now since election day. It
has been eleven months since he was sworn into office.
And now this red wave of socialists and communism are
(14:02):
coming at us at a rate.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
I've been saying it.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
I warned you over and over and over and over again.
This was coming, this was happening, It was real, It
is significant, and we are witnessing it right here. And
it is something that I mean this when I say this,
Wake up, pay attention. You better start fighting to protect
(14:30):
your kids in public schools, in private schools. You better
start having conversations about what they're learning at college, if
you're paying for it, if they're living under your roof,
you better get involved. Because the Democratic Party is coming
after the hearts and the minds of Democrats let me
just say that one more time, because I think it's important.
The Democratic Party is coming after the hearts and the
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Speaker 1 (17:20):
I think we can all agree on that, especially when
it's moral victories, victories that are really important, and one
of those big victories was a gift for Thanksgiving. A
Georgia judge has dismissed the election interference case against President
Donald Trump and his allies. In a simple one page order,
(17:44):
the Superior Court Judge mccaffee dismissed the racketeering case first
brought by the Fulton County District Attorney. You'll remember her name,
that activist radical Fanny Willis. More than two years ago.
Will had already been disqualified from prosecuting Trump and fourteen
(18:05):
of his allies for attempting she claimed to interfere with
the twenty twenty election in Georgia. Willis was removed over
an appearance of impropriety created by a romantic relationship with
a special prosecutor that she chose to lead the case.
Judge mccaffee agreed to kill the probe after the executive
(18:26):
director of the Prosecuting Attorney's Council of Georgia took over
the case from Willis last month filed a petition saying
the alleged criminal conduct amount to more of a federal,
not a state case. It was unlikely that legal action
against Trump could have moved forward while he was the president,
(18:47):
but fourteen other defendants still faced charges, including former New
York mayor and Trump attorney Rue Giuliani and former White
House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows. Steve set out Trump's
leaded tottorney in Georgia applied the case's dismissal, saying this,
the political persecution of President Trump by disqualified DA Fanny
(19:08):
Willis is finally over. This case should never have been brought.
A fair and impartial prosecutor has put an end to
this law fair now. After the Georgia Supreme Court in
September declined to hear Willis's appeal of her disqualification, it
fell to the Prosecuting Attorney's Council to find a new prosecutor.
(19:29):
That is when they appointed the new person, and last
month he reached out to several prosecutors, but they all
declined to take on the case. Mcaffee set a November
fourteenth deadline for the appointment of a new prosecutor, so
the man in charge chose to appoint himself rather than
allow the case to be dismissed right away. Now this
(19:50):
new prosecutor, said Willis's office, had only recently delivered the
case file one hundred and one boxes.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
And an eight terrible fight hard drive.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
That's a lot of data and he hadn't had a
chance to review everything yet. Citing the public's legitimate interest
in the outcome of this case, he said he wanted
to assess the evidence and decide on the appropriate next steps.
He also is an individual who has led the small
non parson Council since twenty eighteen, and said in a
(20:21):
court filing last month that he got no extra pay
for the case, but the Fulton County will reimburse expenses now.
He previously spent about twenty five years as the elected
Republican district attorney for a Calata judicial circuit southwest of Atlanta. Willis,
(20:41):
as you may remember, announced a sprawling indictment against Trump
and eighteen others in August of twenty twenty three, using
the state's anti racketeering law to allege a wide ranging
conspiracy to illegally overturn Trump's narrow loss to Democrat Joe
Biden in Georgia. Now, defense attorneys sought Willis's removal after
(21:03):
one revealed in January of twenty twenty four that Willis
in fact, had a romantic relationship with Nathan Wade, the
special prosecutor who she hired to lead the case. The
defense attorneys alleged the conflict of interest and said Willis
profited from the case when Wade uses earnings to pay
for lavish vacations that the pair took together. Now during
(21:26):
an extraordinary hearing the following month, Willis and Wade testified
about the intimate details.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
Of their relationship.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
They said the romance didn't begin until after Wade was hired,
and that they split the costs for vacations and other
outings if you actually believe them. The judge rebuked Willis
for a tremendous lapse in judgment, but found no disqualifying
conflict of interest rulings she could stay on the case
if Wade resigned, which he did hours later. Defense attorneys appealed,
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and the Georgia Court of Appeals removed us from the
case in December of last year, citing an appearance of impropriety.
The State Supreme Court declined to hear Willis's appeal, which
brought us to where we are today. The question now
is what will happen next to others that have been
attacked politically by this case, and what will the President
(22:20):
do from the White House. I say that to say,
pay attention and watch closely. It could be very, very
interesting moving forward. There's a word that a lot of
you may have heard, affordability. That is the obsession word
of the Democratic Party right now, something they never mentioned
(22:40):
when Joe Biden was President of the United States of America. Instead,
they lied to you and said that there was no
such thing as inflation, that it was transitory, and that
things were quote getting better, and gas prices really weren't
that bad.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
Well, now they're wanting.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Americans to believe that the economy is a disaster and
they're trying to blame Donald trum for everything. So let's
talk about the facts of where we were a year
ago compared to now, specifically around Black Friday and holiday
travel for Thanksgiving travelers.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
There's a bit of good news.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
Let me say that again, a bit of good news
for you at the pump. Gas prices are holding steady,
a far crime from the sticker shock of recent years.
Gas Buddy is now forecasting a national average three dollars
and two cents per gallon over the holiday, matching yes,
(23:35):
a low price that we needed desperately to help Americans,
and we also now know that there's other things that
are really exciting thanksgiving. Gas prices this is the lowest
we've had since the pandemic, when the national average hit
three dollars and thirty nine cents a gallon in twenty
twenty one and three dollars and fifty six cents a
(23:56):
gallon in twenty twenty two. Gas prices are coming down
and for many drivers, and national stability is showing up
locally as well. Nearly thirty states now boast average prices
of under three dollars a gallon, from Colorado to New
Hampshire to Georgia. According to Triple A, Oklahoma tops the
(24:20):
list with an average of just two dollars and fifty
cents a gallon. That is a welcome number on many
gas station signs for consumers. Now at the other end
of the spectrum, where liberals are in charge, you've still
got paint at the pump with overregulation and taxation. Let
me give you an example of that. California is now
(24:42):
topping the list as the most expensive state when it
comes to buying a gallon of gasoline. When you look
at Oklahoma, a conservative state with not a lot of
regulation to make prices skyrocket and certain blends a demand
to protect the environment right because of global warming. Well,
compare it to what they're paying in California. It is
(25:05):
four dollars and sixty three cents per gallon compared to
just two fifty a gallon in Oklahoma. Hawaii is actually cheaper,
and that's not something you hear about very often, as
Hawaii is one of the most expensive places to just
get gasoline. Two, it is now less expensive to buy
a gallon of gas in Hawaii than it is with
(25:28):
all the regulations on gasoline in California. Hawaii at four
dollars and forty seven cents a gallon compared to four
to sixty three in California. Washington state, another liberal bastion
of Wele socialism, they now are at four dollars and
eighteen cents a gallon, and rounding out the top ten
(25:49):
are Nevada at three eighty four a gallon, Alaska at
three seventy five a gallon, Arizona at three thirty seven
a gallon, and three states tied at three twenty nine Pennsylvania.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
Idaho, and Illinois.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
Meanwhile, The most affordable gas can be found in conservative
states Oklahoma at two dollars and fifty seven cents a gallon,
Mississippi at two sixty one a gallon, and Louisiana two
sixty five a gallon. Those states then follow other conservative
states Tennessee at two sixty six a gallon, Arkansas at
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two sixty seven a gallen, Texas at two seventy a gallon,
Kansas at two seventy one, Missouri at two seventy three,
Alabama two seventy three, in Kentucky at two seventy four
a gallon. You notice the trend here. Where there are
conservative states, there are lower prices. And when you have
the most radical liberals at what are their prices almost
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double what is being paid in conservative states. TRIPAA anticipates
at nearly eighty two million Americans will journey at least
fifty miles from home over the Thanksgiving holiday, one point
six million more than last year, marking a record high
for Thanksgiving travel. Now the revelation comes to the Trump
(27:09):
administration is pushing ahead on energy, dominance independence. It's a
key pillar President Donald Trump's economic and national security agenda,
and while Thanksgiving marks the year's busiest travel stretch. It
isn't the only time drivers have caught a break. This
Labor Day, motors saw the lowest gas prices in a
half a decade. So this is not just one blip
(27:32):
on the map. It's a clear trend because of the
President of the United States America putting Americans first, which
also brings us to what's about to happen with US
holiday spending. How do Americans actually feel about the economy
and where we are right now? US holidays spending, we're
(27:52):
now being told is expected to top one trillion dollars
for the first time ever. I want you to take
a listen to what they had to say about the
holidays and shopping patterns this year on Fox Business Channel.
Despite concerns about the economy, people are still looking to spend.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
Jerry Willis has the numbers. She joins us now, Hey, Jerry.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
Yeah, you know, it's interesting everybody asking just how generous
American consumers will be this holiday season. It's the question
still under debate. Both Price Waterhouse and Deloitte surveys of
consumers showing Americans tightening their purse strings with declines of
anywhere from five to ten percent. Gen Z the most cautious,
saying they plan to spend twenty three percent less than
(28:40):
last year, but the National Retail Federation sees sales rising
two point nine to three point four percent, breaking through
the one trillion mark for the first time.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
Matter now.
Speaker 3 (28:52):
Meanwhile, the big discounters like Walmart, TJ Max showing strong
early results. But what can consumers expect is they hit
them all. Some fire up their web browsers this holiday season.
One retail consultant says potential price hikes loom with the
elimination of the Dominimu's tariff, which allowed goods under one
thousand from offshore to enter the US duty free. She
(29:15):
says it could cost sticker shock for some consumers. Listen,
you need to buy now, because we don't know what's
going to happen. Tariffs could go up at any point,
in which case those prices will get passed on. The
price increase we will immediately get passed on to the
consumer now. Travel snaffoos could also make it difficult to
get your presence delivered on time, so Herzog is also
(29:37):
recommending shipping presents early by December seventeenth at the least.
Plus the big the best prices that is on big
ticket electronics will be available after the holiday season January
fifth and later. Bottom line, if you want to save
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Speaker 1 (29:59):
No, this is what also happening, as we're seeing something
else that's going to make you very happy, and that
is Thanksgiving meal costs have declined to the lowest level
in four years. Another example of affordability the Democrats are
trying to say is terrible, and actually it's running yet
again in the right direction. The costs of a traditional
Thanksgiving meal down sharply, falling to the lowest price since
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twenty twenty one, according to the American Farm Bureau. The
Farm Bureau's fortieth Anniel survey found that a classic Thanksgiving
dinner for ten people will cost fifty five to eighteen
that is down five percent from last year. Since nineteen
eighty six, volunteers across all fifty states in Puerto Rico
have been organized by the American Farm Bureau to record
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local prices for turkey, cube stuffing, sweet potatoes, dinner rolls,
frozen peas, fresh cranberry, salery, carrots, pumpkin pie mix, and
crust whipping cream and whole milk price is soared during
the presidency of Joe Biden, with inflation rising to.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
The worst pace in forty years.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
The price of a classic Thanksgiving meal searched fourteen percent
in twenty twenty one alone, Biden's first year in office,
then hitting a record high of fifty three to thirty one,
despite the administration's insistence that the price increases were transitory
or the result of a temporary supply shock. The following year,
what came to be called Biden inflation was even worse.
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The price of a Thanksgiving meal jumped another twenty percent
to a skyrocketing sixty four oh five. By Biden's final Thanksgiving,
the price of a traditional family holiday meal was twenty
four percent higher than it was when he took office, Yes,
almost a twenty five percent increase. This year's decline was
driven by a sharp fall in the price of turkey.
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A sixteen pound turkey will cost an average of twenty
one to fifty That is down sixteen percent from Joe
Biden's final year in office.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
So is the economy getting better?
Speaker 1 (31:59):
Yes? Yes, it's pricing getting better for you, yes? And
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The majority of likely voters under the age of forty
say they want to see Democratic socialists when not the
next local election, when the next presidential election. I have
warned about this for a long time that if you
want to change an entire generation, the way that you
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do it is actually pretty easy. You just go after
the youngest generation. When you go after the youngest generation,
this is what actually ends up happening. You end up
going after and changing the hearts and minds of one
generation that can change the entire future of a country,
of a nation. A majority now of likely voters under
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the age of forty, and think about where the forty
year olds have been. They've been in doctrinating in our
colleges and doctrinating in our public schools and our high
schools and our middle schools. It's a lot of schools
that democrats completely own. We know about the anti Semitism
on college campuses. We know about the anti conservative, anti
ffe family, anti traditional values, anti Jewish in general. But
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this is part of the reason why you see countries
like China flooding our public universities with money, literally billions
and billions and billions of dollars. Why are so many
foreign nations, our adversaries funding our colleges so that they
can turn Americans against our democracy. I've been warning about
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this and telling you that the Democratic Party and the
Socialists and the communist and Marxists have been playing the
long game. Now they're seeing the fruits of their labor
pay off. They've got Mundani in New York. They just
elected another socialist in another major city, what a week ago,
And now you have the majority of likely voters.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Now likely means people that are actually going to vote.
So early on you may say, well, Ben like they
are right, they're pulling pep one or forty. How many
they're Mexal going to vote? Well, this is the reason
why this poll is really concerning. It is of likely
voters under the age of forty say they want to
see a quote democratic socialist.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
What does that mean? That means a socialist. Okay, it's
a socialist.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
When the next presidential election, and this is coming from
a legitimate poll ras Mussen polling, this should terrify every
one of you listening to me. The survey asked respondents
likely voters under the age of forty, quote, the next
presidential election is in twenty twenty eight, would you like
to see a democratic socialist can win? Not just be
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on the ballot, but when, okay, when the twenty twenty
eight presidential election.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Across the board, fifty one percent.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Said yes that they would like to see a Democratic
socialist win the twenty eight presidential election. Only thirty two
percent of those forty and under said no, seventeen percent.
This is also very concerning, remain quote unquote unsure. Now predictably,
opinions are sharply divided on party lines. That's good news.
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Eighty two percent of demoictocrats under forty said they would
like to see a Democratic socialist win the twenty twenty
eight presidential election. So I've been warning and saying this
for years. The Democratic Party is dead. The Democratic Party
is masquer rating as a Democratic Party, when really it's
filled with socialists, Communists, and Marxists. The socialists, the communists,
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and the Marxists have taken over the Democratic Party. They
understood that the American people weren't ready to just straight
up say yeah, I'm a socialist. Voters weren't at a
point where they were ready to say yeah, I'm a socialist,
or yes, I'm a communist. Or yes, I'm a Marxist.
So they lie and they say they're still democrats. We
all know that's not true. They are not democrats, and
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the polling now clearly shows that now in certain areas
of the country, you don't have to lie anymore. New
York City is a great example of this. Now they
still use the word democrat, right, because then it softens
what they actually are. Is Mandani a democrat or a socialist?
He's a socialist? Is he a democratic socialist? No, that's
a way to blend the two together, so it doesn't
(04:02):
seem as harsh. Okay, it's like saying, you know, bless
their heart before you then rip somebody a new one.
It's it's, you know, God, bless them, but that person's
an idiot. It's a way to just chill out and
kind of soften the blow of just straight up socialism.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
You look at these numbers.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Eighty two percent of Democrats under the age of forty
say that they are in favor of not just a socialist,
but want them to win the presidential election. That is
a number that's going to rise. It will not go down,
it's going to go up. Now, how did we get
here This is all about making people believe first and
foremost of America is somehow not a great country, that
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somehow America is evil, that somehow America like stole something
from somebody, and that the system is rigged. This is
class warfare, where the rich get richer and the poor poor,
and therefore you should be against you know, people making
great money and incredible success in America. You turn anyone
that's successful into a person, and that's why you get
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to where we are right now. Now, let's talk about
the Republican side of this. Sixty five percent of Republicans
under forty said they do not want to see that,
compared to twenty four percent who actually do an eleven
percent who remain quote unquote unsure. Okay, that scares me
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more than the Democratic side, because what that means is
is that the plan to indoctrinate conservative kids on college
campuses has had an effect. They may come out and say, hey,
I'm not a liberal Democrat, all right, but I'm not
a hardcore gop MAGA conservative either. And if you have
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twenty four percent of those under the age of forty
who identify as a Republican who say they're in favor
of having a Democratic socialist win the twenty twenty eight
presidential election, an eleven percent that remain unsure and only
forty percent excuse me only a rephrase it, only sixty
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five percent of Republicans under forty say they do not
want to see a socialist in the White House in
twenty twenty eight. That should scare you. Now I'm going
to break it down even further. Why if you are
a Republican and you're under forty and twenty four percent
of Republicans say they're fine with a Democratic socialist winning
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the White House, what that really means is they're probably
not going to vote for a Republican candidate. They're probably
going to vote for a Democrat. As this voting block
gets older and it's and gets the older voting block
gets more participation you have on election day. There has
been a lot of conservatives for years, and I warned
about this on the Bush campaign back in two thousand
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and four. There was this thing called MTV Voter Die
Rock the Vote. You had John Kerry that was really
using celebrities and young people to win the election and
to try to give him the victory there, and it
was concerning for us, but there were some that diskind
of like, look, young people don't vote. I'm not worried
about it, so we don't have to worry about this
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rock to vote.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
They're going to vote.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
The ones that do vote are going to vote three
to one liberal over conservative. We know that, but there's
not enough of them to really make a difference now.
And here's what I'm saying that is changing and changing quickly.
It also tells you about a real trend by Democrats,
by the socialists, Communists and Marxists to recruit young minds,
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and they're changing those minds. What's also interesting is independent
voters are usually the way of the presidency goes right.
So if they feel like the countries on the right track,
independent voters will usually stick with you. And if the
majority of Americans or i should say independence, believe that
the economy is stagnant, or they're not being listened to,
or prices are getting too high, there's a long list
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of different things, they will usually independence will go the
opposite of the.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Party that is in power. Well, let me tell you.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Where independence are in this breakdown, Independents are pre divided.
Thirty seven percent say they would like a democratic, Socialist
to win the twenty eight presidential election, followed by thirty
two percent who remain unsure and thirty one percent who
said no.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
What is the takeaway from that?
Speaker 1 (08:25):
What worries me is we just had Donald Trump win
a presidential election, and the majority of people under the
age of forty are now saying we don't even want
a Democrat, right, which is normally what it is that
you would say you'd want to go to if you
don't like the guy that's currently in office that is
a Republican, you'd be like, oh, I want a Democrat.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
No.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
No, they're saying, we'd like to skip over that. We
don't care about democrats. We want a socialist. Among democrats
that are independents, they're saying the same thing. Now, let's
talk about influence. Asked who has influenced them the most
to support democratic socialism, which is socialism, over a quarter
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of respond it's twenty seven percent said something that scares
me even more. They said it was quote a parent.
So twenty seven percent of under forty you say, why
are you supporting a democratic socialis states coming from their parents?
What does that mean? It means that this is also
paying dividends in this country with a grand divide over
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what we see is the best path for our future.
There are a lot of parents who are lazy, who
want government handout and government cheese and government everything to
take care of all their problems, and they're indoctrining their
kids to believe the same thing. That should concern you
even more than any of the other data I've given
you so far tonight. That also that twenty seven percent
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of response said it was a parent who.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Inspired them to be a socialist.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Seventeen percent said online videos or podcasts are why they
are now democratic socialists, ten percent said it was books,
and seven percent who said a grandparent. So what are
we learning from that? Democrats doing a better job controlling
the classrooms. They're doing a better job of controlling the
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algorithms and what you see online. They're doing a better
job of getting this out on podcasts. In other words,
they're doing a better job of going to where the
under forty crowd is to then indoctrinate them to believe
that capitalism is a good thing and capitalism is somehow evil.
They're doing a better job of saying to these individuals
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that are forty and under that you need a government
to be your baby's daddy.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
You need the government to be your parent.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
You want to know how insignificant digital news publications and
print publications like magazines and newspapers have become. Only six
percent of respondents attributed their support for socialism to print
or digital news publications, five percent even lower for television shows,
five percent to a church leader, and four percent to
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a teacher in college or high school. So democrats have
done a great job and socialists and communists and Marxists
of finding the under forty crowd where they are. It's
clearly not in church, it's not necessarily in higher education.
It is in the schools below that, and it is
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on social media online, videos, podcasts, And then the most
influential where they're getting it from is the parents of
the under forty crowd, who they say are socialists. Twenty
seven percent of those saying they want to be a
socialist leader because of their parents. Now, plurality of Democrats
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and Republicans who support Democrats socialism also attribute the influence
not only to their parents. The highest percentage of independence
eighteen percent, said it was books. Voters that read a
little bit more, they may seek a little more information
or knowledge before they quote make a decision. Now you
may ask yourself this question, Well, was this a bad poll?
I will tell you based on the polling data, it's not.
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The survey was about fifteen hundred US likely voters between
the ages of eighteen and thirty nine and was conducted
October thirty first and remember the second and as a
margin of era plus or mist three percent.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
The survey follows the rise of Muslim socialists. Mundani, the mayor.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Elect of New York City, who has pushed radical ideas,
including city owned grocery stores, on the people there. He's
also suggested that mental health experts should respond to crimes
rather than police. In fact, he's been in favor of
abolishing the police. This also comes as democratic infighting has
become more prominent, where Democrats are not okay with their
(12:54):
leaders Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, and they want socialists,
they want communists, they want Marxist to lead their party.
So this is a massive fight that we are witnessing
right now. It is a fight that is one that
we should all be concerned and it's one where we're
gonna have to decide at some point when are we
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going to start fighting for the hearts and minds of
young people. We used to dismiss them. We have dismissed
them for way too long. When you don't give them attention,
when you don't talk to the younger generation, they grow up,
they become voters, and those voters can destroy everything you built.
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You have to understand, this is just what ten months,
eleven months removed, twelve months removed from people voting for
Donald Trump, basically a year now since election day. It
has been eleven months since he was sworn into office.
And now this red wave of socialists and communism are
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coming at us at a rate.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
I've been saying it.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
I warned you over and over and over and over again.
This was coming, this was happening, It was real, It
is significant, and we are witnessing it right here. And
it is something that I mean this when I say this,
Wake up, pay attention. You better start fighting to protect
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your kids in public schools, in private schools. You better
start having conversations about what they're learning at college, if
you're paying for it, if they're living under your roof,
you better get involved. Because the Democratic Party is coming
after the hearts and the minds of Democrats let me
just say that one more time, because I think it's important.
The Democratic Party is coming after the hearts and the
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Winning never gets old.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
I think we can all agree on that, especially when
it's moral victories, victories that are really important, and one
of those big victories was a gift for Thanksgiving. A
Georgia judge has dismissed the election interference case against President
Donald Trump and his allies. In a simple one page order,
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the Superior Court Judge mccaffee dismissed the racketeering case first
brought by the Fulton County District Attorney. You'll remember her name,
that activist radical Fanny Willis. More than two years ago.
Will had already been disqualified from prosecuting Trump and fourteen
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of his allies for attempting she claimed to interfere with
the twenty twenty election in Georgia. Willis was removed over
an appearance of impropriety created by a romantic relationship with
a special prosecutor that she chose to lead the case.
Judge mccaffee agreed to kill the probe after the executive
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director of the Prosecuting Attorney's Council of Georgia took over
the case from Willis last month filed a petition saying
the alleged criminal conduct amount to more of a federal,
not a state case. It was unlikely that legal action
against Trump could have moved forward while he was the president,
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but fourteen other defendants still faced charges, including former New
York mayor and Trump attorney Rue Giuliani and former White
House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows. Steve set out Trump's
leaded tottorney in Georgia applied the case's dismissal, saying this,
the political persecution of President Trump by disqualified DA Fanny
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Willis is finally over. This case should never have been brought.
A fair and impartial prosecutor has put an end to
this law fair now. After the Georgia Supreme Court in
September declined to hear Willis's appeal of her disqualification, it
fell to the Prosecuting Attorney's Council to find a new prosecutor.
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That is when they appointed the new person, and last
month he reached out to several prosecutors, but they all
declined to take on the case. Mcaffee set a November
fourteenth deadline for the appointment of a new prosecutor, so
the man in charge chose to appoint himself rather than
allow the case to be dismissed right away. Now this
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new prosecutor, said Willis's office, had only recently delivered the
case file one hundred and one boxes.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
And an eight terrible fight hard drive.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
That's a lot of data and he hadn't had a
chance to review everything yet. Citing the public's legitimate interest
in the outcome of this case, he said he wanted
to assess the evidence and decide on the appropriate next steps.
He also is an individual who has led the small
non parson Council since twenty eighteen, and said in a
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court filing last month that he got no extra pay
for the case, but the Fulton County will reimburse expenses now.
He previously spent about twenty five years as the elected
Republican district attorney for a Calata judicial circuit southwest of Atlanta. Willis,
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as you may remember, announced a sprawling indictment against Trump
and eighteen others in August of twenty twenty three, using
the state's anti racketeering law to allege a wide ranging
conspiracy to illegally overturn Trump's narrow loss to Democrat Joe
Biden in Georgia. Now, defense attorneys sought Willis's removal after
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one revealed in January of twenty twenty four that Willis
in fact, had a romantic relationship with Nathan Wade, the
special prosecutor who she hired to lead the case. The
defense attorneys alleged the conflict of interest and said Willis
profited from the case when Wade uses earnings to pay
for lavish vacations that the pair took together. Now during
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an extraordinary hearing the following month, Willis and Wade testified
about the intimate details.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
Of their relationship.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
They said the romance didn't begin until after Wade was hired,
and that they split the costs for vacations and other
outings if you actually believe them. The judge rebuked Willis
for a tremendous lapse in judgment, but found no disqualifying
conflict of interest rulings she could stay on the case
if Wade resigned, which he did hours later. Defense attorneys appealed,
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and the Georgia Court of Appeals removed us from the
case in December of last year, citing an appearance of impropriety.
The State Supreme Court declined to hear Willis's appeal, which
brought us to where we are today. The question now
is what will happen next to others that have been
attacked politically by this case, and what will the President
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do from the White House. I say that to say,
pay attention and watch closely. It could be very, very
interesting moving forward. There's a word that a lot of
you may have heard, affordability. That is the obsession word
of the Democratic Party right now, something they never mentioned
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when Joe Biden was President of the United States of America. Instead,
they lied to you and said that there was no
such thing as inflation, that it was transitory, and that
things were quote getting better, and gas prices really weren't
that bad.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
Well, now they're wanting.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Americans to believe that the economy is a disaster and
they're trying to blame Donald trum for everything. So let's
talk about the facts of where we were a year
ago compared to now, specifically around Black Friday and holiday
travel for Thanksgiving travelers.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
There's a bit of good news.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
Let me say that again, a bit of good news
for you at the pump. Gas prices are holding steady,
a far crime from the sticker shock of recent years.
Gas Buddy is now forecasting a national average three dollars
and two cents per gallon over the holiday, matching yes,
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a low price that we needed desperately to help Americans,
and we also now know that there's other things that
are really exciting thanksgiving. Gas prices this is the lowest
we've had since the pandemic, when the national average hit
three dollars and thirty nine cents a gallon in twenty
twenty one and three dollars and fifty six cents a
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gallon in twenty twenty two. Gas prices are coming down
and for many drivers, and national stability is showing up
locally as well. Nearly thirty states now boast average prices
of under three dollars a gallon, from Colorado to New
Hampshire to Georgia. According to Triple A, Oklahoma tops the
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list with an average of just two dollars and fifty
cents a gallon. That is a welcome number on many
gas station signs for consumers. Now at the other end
of the spectrum, where liberals are in charge, you've still
got paint at the pump with overregulation and taxation. Let
me give you an example of that. California is now
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topping the list as the most expensive state when it
comes to buying a gallon of gasoline. When you look
at Oklahoma, a conservative state with not a lot of
regulation to make prices skyrocket and certain blends a demand
to protect the environment right because of global warming. Well,
compare it to what they're paying in California. It is
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four dollars and sixty three cents per gallon compared to
just two fifty a gallon in Oklahoma. Hawaii is actually cheaper,
and that's not something you hear about very often, as
Hawaii is one of the most expensive places to just
get gasoline. Two, it is now less expensive to buy
a gallon of gas in Hawaii than it is with
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all the regulations on gasoline in California. Hawaii at four
dollars and forty seven cents a gallon compared to four
to sixty three in California. Washington state, another liberal bastion
of Wele socialism, they now are at four dollars and
eighteen cents a gallon, and rounding out the top ten
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are Nevada at three eighty four a gallon, Alaska at
three seventy five a gallon, Arizona at three thirty seven
a gallon, and three states tied at three twenty nine Pennsylvania.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
Idaho, and Illinois.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
Meanwhile, The most affordable gas can be found in conservative
states Oklahoma at two dollars and fifty seven cents a gallon,
Mississippi at two sixty one a gallon, and Louisiana two
sixty five a gallon. Those states then follow other conservative
states Tennessee at two sixty six a gallon, Arkansas at
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two sixty seven a gallen, Texas at two seventy a gallon,
Kansas at two seventy one, Missouri at two seventy three,
Alabama two seventy three, in Kentucky at two seventy four
a gallon. You notice the trend here. Where there are
conservative states, there are lower prices. And when you have
the most radical liberals at what are their prices almost
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double what is being paid in conservative states. TRIPAA anticipates
at nearly eighty two million Americans will journey at least
fifty miles from home over the Thanksgiving holiday, one point
six million more than last year, marking a record high
for Thanksgiving travel. Now the revelation comes to the Trump
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administration is pushing ahead on energy, dominance independence. It's a
key pillar President Donald Trump's economic and national security agenda,
and while Thanksgiving marks the year's busiest travel stretch. It
isn't the only time drivers have caught a break. This
Labor Day, motors saw the lowest gas prices in a
half a decade. So this is not just one blip
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on the map. It's a clear trend because of the
President of the United States America putting Americans first, which
also brings us to what's about to happen with US
holiday spending. How do Americans actually feel about the economy
and where we are right now? US holidays spending, we're
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now being told is expected to top one trillion dollars
for the first time ever. I want you to take
a listen to what they had to say about the
holidays and shopping patterns this year on Fox Business Channel.
Despite concerns about the economy, people are still looking to spend.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
Jerry Willis has the numbers. She joins us now, Hey, Jerry.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
Yeah, you know, it's interesting everybody asking just how generous
American consumers will be this holiday season. It's the question
still under debate. Both Price Waterhouse and Deloitte surveys of
consumers showing Americans tightening their purse strings with declines of
anywhere from five to ten percent. Gen Z the most cautious,
saying they plan to spend twenty three percent less than
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last year, but the National Retail Federation sees sales rising
two point nine to three point four percent, breaking through
the one trillion mark for the first time.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
Matter now.
Speaker 3 (28:52):
Meanwhile, the big discounters like Walmart, TJ Max showing strong
early results. But what can consumers expect is they hit
them all. Some fire up their web browsers this holiday season.
One retail consultant says potential price hikes loom with the
elimination of the Dominimu's tariff, which allowed goods under one
thousand from offshore to enter the US duty free. She
(29:15):
says it could cost sticker shock for some consumers. Listen,
you need to buy now, because we don't know what's
going to happen. Tariffs could go up at any point,
in which case those prices will get passed on. The
price increase we will immediately get passed on to the
consumer now. Travel snaffoos could also make it difficult to
get your presence delivered on time, so Herzog is also
(29:37):
recommending shipping presents early by December seventeenth at the least.
Plus the big the best prices that is on big
ticket electronics will be available after the holiday season January
fifth and later. Bottom line, if you want to save
money this holiday season, make a list, stick to it,
and start early.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
No, this is what also happening, as we're seeing something
else that's going to make you very happy, and that
is Thanksgiving meal costs have declined to the lowest level
in four years. Another example of affordability the Democrats are
trying to say is terrible, and actually it's running yet
again in the right direction. The costs of a traditional
Thanksgiving meal down sharply, falling to the lowest price since
(30:21):
twenty twenty one, according to the American Farm Bureau. The
Farm Bureau's fortieth Anniel survey found that a classic Thanksgiving
dinner for ten people will cost fifty five to eighteen
that is down five percent from last year. Since nineteen
eighty six, volunteers across all fifty states in Puerto Rico
have been organized by the American Farm Bureau to record
(30:44):
local prices for turkey, cube stuffing, sweet potatoes, dinner rolls,
frozen peas, fresh cranberry, salery, carrots, pumpkin pie mix, and
crust whipping cream and whole milk price is soared during
the presidency of Joe Biden, with inflation rising to.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
The worst pace in forty years.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
The price of a classic Thanksgiving meal searched fourteen percent
in twenty twenty one alone, Biden's first year in office,
then hitting a record high of fifty three to thirty one,
despite the administration's insistence that the price increases were transitory
or the result of a temporary supply shock. The following year,
what came to be called Biden inflation was even worse.
(31:24):
The price of a Thanksgiving meal jumped another twenty percent
to a skyrocketing sixty four oh five. By Biden's final Thanksgiving,
the price of a traditional family holiday meal was twenty
four percent higher than it was when he took office, Yes,
almost a twenty five percent increase. This year's decline was
driven by a sharp fall in the price of turkey.
(31:47):
A sixteen pound turkey will cost an average of twenty
one to fifty That is down sixteen percent from Joe
Biden's final year in office.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
So is the economy getting better?
Speaker 1 (31:59):
Yes? Yes, it's pricing getting better for you, yes? And
is this something we should all be excited? About you
better believe it, don't forget Share this podcast. Please with
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