GOP Gaining Midterm Momentum, Sen. Cruz Does A Deep Dive Into All The Major Races You Need To Watch!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
We're just days away from the biggest midterm election that
we've had in a long time when it comes to
fighting for America. Plus, the Senator called out some people
on the View, including Hillary Clinton and Chelsea's fighting back.
And finally, what do you need to do to get
ready for election day? And how are the races looking?
This is verdict with Ted Cruz, Senator. We're just days

(00:22):
away from a midterm election. You've been barnstorming the country
helping so many candidates, and we're going to talk about
how to really look at this Senate race and the
House and if we're going to flip in a moment.
But there was something special that happened. There is a
video that has been put out that is a montage
of the View lying about your appearance and Chelsea Clinton

(00:43):
coming after you. This had to make you laugh and
smile a little bit. See Chelsea Clinton try to rewrite
history and you got to bust her out. Well. Look,
as we talked about earlier on the pod, going on
the View was amazing. Fund They're not used to anyone
challenging them. They're not used to anyone presenting anything other
than the hard left partisan prop again, and they kind
of lost their mind and they couldn't let it go.

(01:07):
So even though we got into it a week ago,
the last few days they had Chelsea Clinton on and
they asked her about what I had said, and in
particular that Hillary Clinton had gone on their show and
it said that President Trump's election was illegitimate, and they well,
watch what Chelsea said, Hey, look at this, it's hysterical.

(01:28):
Senator Ted Cruz, who was here on the show when
we pressed him on the Maga Republican's election denial, he
did whip out some sort of prop and he argued
that your mother did the same thing. I do think
that he knows that he's an illegitimate president. What's your
last funny? So I'm pretty sure that I remembered that.

(01:49):
Next day, I was standing behind her when she conceded, yes,
he's an illegitimate president, and that she said while she
had campaigned very hard against President Trump, she hoped that
he would be a president for all Americans, illegitimate president.
You know, I think that Senator Cruz just might have
a slightly different memory of that. I do think that

(02:09):
he knows that he's an illegitimate president. They sat here,
yes and said it was Jill legitimate, and you guys,
we're fine with it. I do think that he knows
that he's an illegitimate president, and because of that, the
chairman of the January sixth committee objected to a prior

(02:31):
presidential election. Representative Raskin, the lead prosecutor for the impeachment,
objected to a prior presidential about hypocrisy. Anytime a Republican
is in front of a TV camera, try to say
the election was fair and square and legitimate. You know who,
y'all don't do that too. You don't do it to
Hillary Clinton, who stood up and said Trump, it's a fact.

(02:54):
There's the video. I hope everyone will share this video,
put it out on social media, share the pie cast,
wherever you get your podcasts. Please share this moment because
it's just a great example of where we are, not
only with the media, but also with a Democratic party.
They know they can go on these shows say whatever
they want to say, and they will always give them cover,
even if the lie was told on the same show. Well,

(03:17):
and look at it is interesting. Chelsea was lying on
behalf of her mother and the media host were trying
to help her. So what I said was Hillary Clinton
came on the View and said Donald Trump's selection was illegitimate,
and in fact the hosts agreed with it. Now, mind you,

(03:37):
when I said it last week, Whoopie Goldberg immediately chimes
in it was so they still think Trump's selection was illegitimate.
They don't back away from it at all. They're happy
to embrace their double standard. And what Chelsea answers a
non sequitor where she says, well, I was behind my
mom when she gave a speech. Okay, I didn't say
she gave a speech, or didn't I said she went

(03:59):
on the View and said the election was a legitimate
that he was an illegitimate president. And it is a
deliberate strategy of partisan Democrats to say things that are
just flat out false. Why because the fawning propagandists of
the media will amplify it. There is an objective answer.
Did Hillary Clinton say on the View to rapturous applause

(04:24):
and happiness from the left wing host that Donald Trump
was an illegitimate president? There is an answer. The answer
is yes, and no amount of spinning can change that.
Even this week concern me because we now know that
apparently the FBI is already looking into misinformation and disinformation
to affect the midterm elections. It's almost like they're getting

(04:45):
their game plan ready, which is if we lose the
House and we lose the Senate center that immediately it's
the fault of some sort of propagandists Russia or whatever
country they want to bring up now to say this
wasn't a legitimate election, and we're going to undermine the
victory of Republicans and undermine the votes of every American
that clearly seem to be leaning towards we want to change.

(05:07):
I think that's exactly right. They cannot accept election. Democrats
have challenged every Republican presidential election since the year two thousand.
That has been their pattern over and over again, and
Hillary setting the stage. When Democrats lose in twenty twenty two,
they're gonna say it's illegitimate. When Democrats losing twenty twenty four,
they're gonna say it's illegitimate, and all throughout they're going

(05:29):
to say it's the Republicans who are the election deniers.
We just think anytime we lose, it's illegitimate. I want
to do a deep dive, and I'm calling an audible
here because I think you just mentioned saying it's so important.
Is it the job of the DOJ, of the FBI
to spend as much time as they're spending as they
claim they're spending saying or claiming or looking into election,

(05:50):
you know, interference the way that they say that it's
out there. I mean, this has become an obsession. I
can't even imagine how much money they're spending on this.
We all know that foreign government try to interfere in elections.
I think it's pretty clear right now. The conversation we're
having in America is there's no third world country or
a major country that's influencing people's opinions right now. How
concerned are you that our actual government is spending this

(06:13):
much time involved in our elections. Well, I'm concerned enough
that I wrote a book that came out this last
week called Justice Corrupted. How the Left has weaponized the
legal system. And under Barack Obama now under Joe Biden,
the DOJ and the FBI and the IRS and the
CIA and the alphabet Soup of Washington has turned into

(06:34):
a partisan weapon for the Democrats. Look in the two
thousand election, we saw senior officials for the FBI go
to Facebook and ask them to pull down the Hunter
Biden laptop story. The Hunter Biden laptop story, which not
only wasn't misinformation, we now know what's true, so it
was literally they were political emissaries. Now it is a

(06:58):
special category of information online that Big Tech historically has
deeply disfavored. It's what I call true but bad for Democrats,
and true but bad for Democrats is their favorite category
of quote misinformation to suppress. And in that instance, you
literally had the FBI, mind you, the FBI while Trump

(07:21):
was president. So it's the deep state. It's the career,
senior career positions that have been infested with hard, vicious
partisans who viewed their job. We must take down the
elected president of the United States because we disagree with them,
and it's our job to topple the president. And Big
Tech was more than happy to salute and say, not

(07:43):
only will we take the content down, we will punish
any media outlet that reports on it. I mean, that's
the amazing thing is is the traditional media outlets have
completely handed their spines to Big Tech. Big Tech now
controls on the Hunter Boden laptop. Big Tech said, we
will ban you if you report on it and all

(08:05):
of the supposed you know, the Woodward and Bernsteins of
the world. Yeah, they are now just minor little employees
for Silicon Valley billionaires. And if you actually care about journalism,
that ought to trouble you deeply. But the left doesn't
care about journalism. No, they don't. And I think it's
very clear heading into the midterms how much water they're

(08:25):
willing to carry for Democrats, hoping that they can somehow
pull out some victories in some seats that they're desperate
to hold on too, so they don't lose total control
of the House as well as the sent at the
same time, and I want to get into how you
watch election night and what are the most important races
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code Verdict Center. I want to get into the midterms,
and there is a real concern now that we might
not be able to grab the Senate. I think there's
some confidence that we are going to be able to
grab the house. Let's start with your prediction on the

(10:14):
Senate and what are the races that people really need
to be focusing on. Yeah, so I am very confident
about this election. I think it's going to be a
really good election. In the House. I think we're going
to get a majority, and I think even potentially a
big majority of a majority that could be thirty forty
fifty seats. We'll talk about the House in a minute.
Let's talk about the Senate. I think we'll take the Senate,

(10:34):
and I think we'll get either fifty three or fifty
four seats in the Senate. Now that's gone up since
just a couple weeks ago. I was fifty three. I've
moved it. I'd say up fifty three or fifty four.
I'm probably fifty three and a half is where i'd
put it right now. And let me walk you through
because this is these races are specific, and most of
these candidates. I've been on the ground in the middle

(10:55):
of our seventeen state national bus tour, so I've been
campaigning in almost all these states. Let's break it into
three categories. Let's start with pickup opportunities, then let's start
with defense, and finally, I want to throw out a
couple of wild cards. Pickup, we have really six credible
pickup opportunities. Nevada is the number one pickup opportunity in

(11:18):
the country. I think we're gonna win Nevada. Adam lak
Salt is the nominee. Adam was the Attorney general. Adam
is a good friend. Adam is a conservative. He's running
against Catherine Cortes Masto. Nevada is historically a purple state.
Polling in that race is pretty consistently shown lack Salt
up three to four points. Not overwhelming, but it's been

(11:39):
pretty consistent. Cortes Mastow is vulnerable. She votes with Joe
Biden almost one hundred percent of the time. She does
not have much of a presence in the state. I
think Nevada is and lack Salt is also a really
good candidate. And I do think candidate discipline matters. Having
someone who knows how to run a campaign, knows how
to not say stupid things and blow themselves up, that matters.

(12:00):
I think Adam is bang on message, an amazing job
of staying on message in that race. Adam has also
done a really good job of unifying the hardcore Trump
supporters in the state and the Republicans who are not
as keen about Donald Trump, and that's just a difficult
dynamic for any candidate running because you've got different slices
of Republicans and to get to fifty you usually need

(12:23):
to get them all together. Adam's done a good job
of bridging that without without causing any internal battles. So
I think Nevada is the number one pickup opportunity in
the country. I think the number two pickup opportunity in
the country is Georgia. Georgia. Herschel Walker is running against
Raphael Warnock. Look, Walker has the reverend. Don't forget the
reverend guy that makes more money being a reverend at church.

(12:45):
He doesn't really go too very often than he does
in the US Senate. You know it is. I was
just with Herschel a couple of days ago. We did
a couple of big rallies on the ground in Georgia.
I was really encouraged the rallies. We had huge crowds,
incredible enthusiasm. I was talking to Herschel. He and I
grabbed some barbecue for lunch and we were talking about

(13:06):
how the crowds are markedly different from what the Georgia
crowds were in the runoff two years ago. So I
was there campaigning for Purdue and Leffler, and I have
to admit the results didn't surprise me because you could
see when you were there, you can feel it. They
were demoralized, they were pissed, they were depressed. You'd show

(13:31):
up with a Senate candidate in Georgia and the activists
are yelling at them like they were angry. And listen,
it is a reality. If your voters stay home, you
lose elections. And that Georgia runoff Republicans stayed home. It's
night and day. The energy and enthusiasm. And listen Herschel,

(13:51):
Herschel's or rock star. I gotta say also, I campaigned
with Herschel a couple of months ago. The difference between
a couple of months ago and now Hersch was on fire.
I was really impressed. He's gotten He's never you know.
Part of it is I think Warnock pissed him off
because it's gotten so nasty, it's gotten so personal. They've
gone after him, they've gone after his family. I think

(14:16):
Kerschel has responded, he's gotten angry, he's standing up. I
think he went after and debated Warnock effectively. Warnock came in.
Warnock maybe the candidate with the greatest divergence between his
voting record and the voters of that state. I think
George is a fundamentally read state and Warnock is a

(14:36):
hardcore leftist. He's one of the most liberal Democrats in
the Senate. At the end of the day, that divergence
is significant, and I think Walker wins. The question is
going to be does Walker break fifty percent, because we
could see an outcome there's a third party candidate. We
could see an outcome where Walker wins and say has

(14:58):
forty nine percent and Warnock has forty seven percent, which
sends us to another runoff. And so one possible outcome
that nobody wants to see is another Georgia runoff that
could conceivably decide control of the Senate. I hope that
doesn't happen. It is not certain whether Herschel will break
fifty this time around. I'd really like him to break

(15:19):
fifty and just be done with it. Sure, that's the
second best pick of opportunity. The next tier is two
other races, and that's Arizona and New Hampshire. Arizona's Blake Masters.
He's running against Mark Kelly, Mark Kelly is a very
effective candidate. He's a Navy Veteran's an astronaut. You know,

(15:40):
he looks like Captain America, and his campaign adds he
might as well be Donald Trump. He's running as a
conservative's Mark Kelly secures the border. Now, mind you, every
single time, one hundred percent without exception, when it comes
to a vote, Mark Kelly votes rope and borders like
it is the most But if it was bizarre thing

(16:02):
you've seen, and I got to give credit to his
campaign as political campaign. They figured out what the people
wanted to hear, and they have a candidate that's effective
at telling you that that's who he is, even though
that's not what his voting record actually is at all. Yep. Well,
that was something that Herschel and I were talking about
when I was campaigning with him, which is that Democrats
win when they lie effectively. Republicans win when we tell

(16:25):
the truth effectively. Because the policy views of Democrats are
wildly out of step with the voters. So the Democrats
that are really effective campaigners are the ones that pretend
they don't believe what they actually believe. Sure, on the
other hand, Republicans win when we effectively cut through the
media lies and explain what it is that we in

(16:46):
fact believe. Look, Blake masters, he went through a really
rough primary and then came out of the primary with
no money. And so a month ago Blake was down
probably eight ten points points, and there were some national
Republicans who were writing the race off and saying it
can't be one. The recent polling that we have shows

(17:08):
the race effectively tied. Now Mark Kelly has unlimited cash
and he's spent I think over sixty million dollars hammering Blake,
and it's incredible claiming to be someone he's not. I
think Blake has a real good shot at winning that race,
and I'm I've campaigned there, did a big rally with him.
One of the reasons that I think Blake is more

(17:30):
likely than not to win that race is Kerry Lake
is going to win governor and that's actually one of
the reasons I think Herschel is going to win and
both of those states you've got, Kemp is going to win.
In Georgia, he could win eight nine ten points if
that happens. I have a hard time envisioning who is
the Georgia voter who goes in and votes for Kemp,

(17:53):
And yeah, I would say that. And there's are two
totally polar opposite candidates at the same time, and you
have a hard time imagining that you would actually be
that deliberate and say Republican here for governor, liberal liberal,
hardcore democrat for Senate. You know, guy who's praised Fidel Castro.
I mean that that hardcore socialist. There is some risk

(18:16):
in Georgia there will be some voters who vote for
Camp and don't vote in Senate. Yeah, that's possible if
Kemp is winning eight nine ten points. I just don't
believe it's going to be eight nine ten points of
the electorate. Same thing in Arizona. Carry Lake is a
really strong candidate. I went and turned into rock star.
You've been around her, you spent time with her. I
think she's one of those candidates that you say, oh like,

(18:39):
not just oh as a governor, like, oh like, this
could be a new voice in the conservative movement. Yet
she is already a star. When she wins, she's going
to be a bigger star. I did a big rally
with both her and Blake. She's very impressive. The polling
there shows her pretty consistently up about four to five points.
I think if Lake wins by five points, Blake wins. Also,

(19:01):
if Lake only wins by two or three points, Blake
could lose that race. So it depends on movement. But
Arizona is a very winnable race. The next state that
we have a decent shot at is New Hampshire. New Hampshire.
The Republican nominee is General Don Buldock. He was a
retired general served thirty plus years of the military. New

(19:24):
Hampshire is a purple state. The incumbent Democrat, Maggie Hassan,
I think is quite vulnerable. Her approval rating is consistently
below fifty percent. Joe Biden's approval rating in the state
is terrible. I think it's in the thirties. I was
just saying in the thirties last week when I was
looking at that race. Bulldock doesn't have much money and

(19:48):
the National Republicans haven't been putting a whole lot of
money into it. Both Arizona and New Hampshire have been
on the short end of the stick with battles with
Mitch McConnell and his superpack. Not sure whether they're going
to invest or not. And so you know our number
three on number four pickup opportunity. We're sending our candidates

(20:09):
into fights where they're being out spent three to one,
five to one, ten to one. The money differential is massive.
But I think Bulldock could be one of the real
surprises on election night because he has not been given
the resources frankly needed to make that state fully competitive.
But I think it would not surprise me at all

(20:30):
to see General Bulldock win that race despite not having
the reinforcements he needed. When you see that, there's a
lot of people that are going to be listening and
watching and they're gonna say, there we go again the
Republican you know leadership screwing this up. How frustrating is
it when you see opportunities like this New Hampshire being
a sleeper race and having these you know kingmakers as

(20:51):
I call them, like, Nope, we've already said that one's
impossible to come back from. It's going to go to
the Democrats. We're moving on to these other races when
in reality they should have died there early on. Well
there's a reason for that, which is the single largest
funder of Republican Senate candidates as Mitch McConnell's superpack. Mitch
puts all of his money behind moderates and incumbents, and

(21:12):
conservatives get left alone. Conservatives get star for resources, and
Republican donors give to that superpack knowing that that's not
going to go to conservatives. And right now I'm trying
to fill that void in house races, and in house
races I'm backing conservatives because Republican leadership does the same thing.
They back moderates, they don't back conservatives with anywhere near

(21:34):
the same financial resources. And so look, part of the
reason why Arizona and New Hampshire not getting the funding
that they deserve is that both of those candidates are
strongly aligned with Donald Trump, and Republican leadership doesn't like that.
My view is, I want to win and have a
majority of strong conservatives, and I think it was a

(21:57):
mistake not to invest more vigorous slee in both Arizona
and New Hampshire. Look, Arizona, you had an added complication
in that Blake Master's main financial donors, Peter Teele, someone
I know very very well. Peter and Mitch McConnell were
each look eat each other going, you fund the race. No,

(22:18):
you fund the race, And for a long time they
left Blake out there gasping for air. I talked at
that point, right, I'm like, I don't care who funds
the race, but somebody fund the damn race, because let's
not give away a win. I think we could end
up winning both those states anyway, but there needs to
be a serious discussion about how to ensure that strong

(22:40):
conservative candidates actually have the funds to communicate our messages.
All right, Two more pickup opportunities that are long shots
but but not impossible, Colorado and Washington State. Colorado has
also been a purple to blue state, but in a
good year, a Republican can win in Colorado. Cory Gardner

(23:01):
in twenty fourteen was elected in Colorado. Joe O'Day, who's running,
I think, is a good candidate. I think Michael Bennett,
the incumbent, is very vulnerable. He's done nothing in his
entire time in the Senate. He is an empty suit.
He is not well known in the state. Colorado has

(23:23):
gotten bumpier because O'Day and Trump are in a pissing match,
and it, you know, it makes you want to just
just jump out a window. O'Day foolishly went on a
Sunday show and when asked about twenty twenty four, said, no,
Trump shouldn't run, and I will oppose him if he does. Now,

(23:45):
you might say, okay, if you're trying to appeal to
moderate independence, squish Colorado voters, Yeah, I understand why you
would say that. Still a bad move. Well, and it's
a bad move because if you understand the universe in
which we live, Donald Trump reacts to things like that,
and so Trump, I think, the next day, immediately came

(24:06):
out blasting O'Day and telling Republicans don't vote for the guy.
And you're just sitting there going, okay, great, So we're
going to elect the Democrat who votes pretty much one
hundred percent of the time with Schumer and Biden. You know,
O'Day would not be conservative in Texas, but in Colorado,

(24:28):
it'd be a great pickup in Colorado. I want people
to vote for Joe O'Day because I want Chuck Schumer
out of power. I wish O'Day had had the judgment
just not to poke the bear. Just don't don't piss
off Trump, because the races we lose are races where

(24:48):
there's a pissing match between the Republican candidate and Trump.
It's a seven inflicted wound almost every time when you
look at this map at this point, and do I
wish Trump would exercise the restraint not to take a
bat to him. Yes, but he's not going to, so
I might wish that all I want. He's not going to.
So that means a candidate ought to have the sense. Look,

(25:10):
it would have been very easy for a Day to say,
I'm not going to worry about twenty twenty four. It's
twenty twenty two. I'm on the ballot. The countries in crisis,
we've got to win. This is where anytime you have
first time candidates, you're rolling the dice. I talked about
Adam Laxalton, what I like about him. He's a discipline candidate.
Adam wouldn't have said that. It's a dumb thing for

(25:34):
a candidate to say, But first time candidates make that
mistake because they don't game gameplay through. Okay, if I
say this, what happens, what had caused and effect, that's
exactly right. So I don't think the chances in Colorado
are zero, But unfortunately it's gotten messier. I'm less optimistic

(25:54):
on Colorado now that I was two weeks ago. Still possible,
but it would take a really good, really good year,
and it would take a lot of Republicans being willing
to say, look, I'm going to overlook this fight between
him and Trump. Yeah, I will say, by the way,
I wish Trump was spending some of his money. Trump's

(26:15):
got one hundred million dollars and he's spending almost none
of it to support these candidates. That is not ideal
when Mitch McConnell only spends for the moderates of the
anti Trump candidates. It would be nice if Trump would
spend some of that one hundred million dollars to help
some of these candidates who Mitch is abandoning because they're
pro Trump. Those are the two pockets of money that

(26:35):
are there, and right now, neither of them are spending
in a number of these states. They're not all right.
So those are the six realistic pickup opportunities. Where are
we on defense? We're on defense in six states. So
these are states that are currently Republican but we could lose.
We're at fifty fifty, so we need a net of

(26:56):
plus one to take control of the Senate, the most
vulnerable incumbent Republican is Ron Johnson and Wisconsin, which is
shocking because he's a very conservative guy. He's been leading
on the issue of Hunter Biden and the Biden investigation
and some of the documents. We've been seeing more and
more come out about that in the last week or two.

(27:16):
I hope that helps him in that state. Why is
he so vulnerable though, because Wisconsin's a purple state. I mean,
Wisconsin is always a purple state. It's evenly divided. You've
got some very liberal voters there, You've got some very
conservative voters there. It's a very blue collar state. So
I think Ron's gonna win. And actually the current polling
shows him up four to five points. He's been pretty consistently.

(27:40):
The polling has been stronger both of Ron's previous elections.
He shocked the world by winning because the polsters and
the pundits at all City was gonna lose, and he
won twice in a row. I like Ron. Ron is
one of my closer friends in the Senate. He's a
strong conservative, He's a fighter. I've gone and campaigned with
Ron and Wisconsin. I think we're gonna win with consint.

(28:00):
It helps that Mandela Barnes, the Democrat, is really far
out there. He's been really vocal in favor of cash
less bail and abolishing the police. He's one of these
AOC socialists who the Democrats nominated, and I think that's
out a step with Wisconsin. So I feel pretty good
Ron will hold that seat. It's it's still seriously contested,

(28:23):
but I think we'll hold on to that. The next
most likely Republican seat for us to lose is Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania right now is held by Pat Toomey. It's a
Republican seat. Like Wisconsin, Pennsylvania is a purple state. It
can vote Republican, it can vote Democrat. Right now, it
has one Democrat senator one Republican senator. That race has

(28:47):
been bumpy. Doctor Oz, the Republican candidate, had a vigorous
primary with another candidate, Dave McCormick, who I supported the primary.
I think would have been a very strong nominee. But
ozwe Oz had for a couple of months a pretty
bumpy general election campaign against John Fetterman, and he was

(29:11):
down ten points over a month ago. The race right
now is basically tied, so Oz has had a very
good month and Fetterman has had a terrible month. You
mentioned Feederman having a terrible month. Part of it is is, yes,
he had this stroke. Part of it was the debate
that he had. We talked about that on a previous verdict,

(29:33):
which was why would you even debate if you're clearly
in that in that place cognitively having a very hard
time communicating. But now he's got another big problem, and
that is he's screwing up on issues, fracking being number one.
I want people to take a look at this video
because this may be why he loses this race. Take
a look. In a twenty eighteen interview, you said, quote,

(29:56):
I don't support fracking at all. I never have. But
earlier this you told an interview or quote, I support fracking.
I support the energy independence that we should have here
in the United States. I've always supported fracking, and I
always believe that independence with our energy is critical and
we can't be held you know, you ransom to somebody

(30:18):
like Russia. But there is that twenty eighteen interview that
you said, quote, I don't support fracking at all. So
how do you square the two. I do support fracking,
and I don't, I don't, I support fracking, and I

(30:38):
stand and I do support fracking. There's nothing worse than
a flip flop in politics, especially on an issue that's
so important in Pennsylvania and fracking. The only thing I
think now that I realize is worse than that is
an incoherent flip flop. And this was that moment in
that race where I was like, it's not just that
you can't communicate, it's literally a flip flop with bad

(30:59):
communication where it looks like he's incoherent and just not
in control. That had to have an impact on the voters. Yeah. Look,
I think that that moment is one of the worst
moments I've ever seen in a political debate, particularly that
second question on fracking when she asks it. The silence,

(31:20):
the confusion, the eyes darting around, that he clearly has
no idea what's been being asked or what to say,
and he just repeats the line. All he knows to
say is I support fracking, because presumably someone trained him
to memorize that, but he's not. From that video, he's
not able to actually engage in a conversation with another

(31:43):
human being about substance, which is kind of a problem
because the job of the Senate and in tales, engaging
in lots of conversations about substance and hearings and making
determinations and judgment. I think that debate is unbelievably damaging.
Prior to the debate, my handicapping of Pennsylvania was it

(32:03):
was essentially a coin flip. If we were going to
lose a seat, it was going to be Pennsylvania. I
think after the debate the odds have shifted significantly to
Republicans winning, to oswinning. I think Oz is likely to
win now. One downside, there were hundreds of thousands of
Pennsylvania votes that had been cast already before that debate happened.

(32:25):
They early voting, There is big early voting, there is
big They put in place universal mail in ballots, an
incredibly foolish decision, a decision that invites voter fraud. But
one of the reasons it's a bad idea to have
such early voting is you bake in votes before late
breaking developments happened. So for all the people who voted
before the debate, they didn't see this, They didn't know

(32:47):
that they just voted for someone who can't answer simple
questions and has clearly been deceiving the voters by saying
he's up to the task. I want to ask you
in a human level. I watched that debate and I
genuinely felt bad for Fetterman. I also think, even after
that debate, seeing the way his campaign is obsessed with

(33:10):
just getting him over the finish line, and the Democratic
National Committee, the Democratic leadership, that I feel like they're
almost taking advantage of him. They know that clearly something's changed,
that he's been incapacitated. I'm sitting there going as a
human being, I want him to get as much help
as he can to overcome this stroke that he's had.
And they're just propping this guy up, saying we're gonna

(33:31):
keep forcing you down this election road. I found it
just completely disheartening it as a human being to see
them out there saying, no, no, no, we're gonna he's fine.
Shut up, stop asking questions. He's fine. Clearly he's not fine,
and they want to win this seat so bad they
don't care what happens to him. Even well, you know,
if they're willing to do that, think what they would

(33:51):
do to try to win the White House in twenty twenty. Yeah. Look,
it's the same thing they've done with Joe Biden. In
both instances, You've got someone with severe mental impairments that
their partisan interests are so important they're willing to weaken it.
Bernie's them. Just put them up there and attach a
pully raise their hand when they want him to raise it. Now,

(34:12):
I will say this. You said you feel sorry for him.
I gotta say, listen, I feel sorry that he's having
the health impairments. I don't don't wish ill healthy anyone.
But before his stroke, John Fetterman was a socialist. He
was a radical left winger. He was someone who repeatedly
vote voted to release murderers and violent criminals into the community. Murderers.

(34:36):
I want people to understand that it's almost been overlooked
by people act like this is normal. This is a
guy that actually said people that had murdered people been
convicted murdering, with no controversy around the the the indictment
and the verdict of being guilty should be out on
the streets with the American He said repeatedly that that
that we could release a third of the people in

(34:57):
prison in Pennsylvania and there would be no harm to it.
That is a radical view if you want to empty
out the jail and release a third of the people immediately.
And we're not talking traffic offenses. We're talking murderers, we're
talking rapists, we're talking child molesters. I have less sympathy
for someone who is a true radical, who is a Marxist,

(35:22):
and like many Marxists, he's rich, rich people offense. Look,
he has a trust fund. He was a giant man baby,
living with his mommy and daddy till he was forty.
He didn't pay his own taxes, he didn't pay as
school taxes for thirteen consecutive years. People who inherit great

(35:43):
wealth and advocate for socialism because they feel guilty about
the great wealth and so they think socialism is the
right answer. I don't have a lot of sympathy for them,
and I think some of it is because my family
story in Cuba. I've seen what communism does, and I
don't have empathy for people that want to inflict that
kind of misery on Americans. I will say this, though

(36:08):
the Democrats are desperately telling themselves the Fetterman debate didn't
do any harm. Now quietly in Washington. They're freaking out,
but but they're trying to spend it otherwise. And in fact,
Chuck Schumer was caught in a hot mic. I was
just saying, I want to play this because he was
caught in a hot mic, and it was really telling
about where the Democrats are going into the election day.

(36:31):
Take a listen to this danger use the word danger

(36:57):
there well, and it's interesting. So what he says we're
in danger is of losing in Georgia. And he says
we're slipping in Georgia, and he's acknowledging. And actually the
debate made a difference there Warnock. The expectations were so high,
and he's a preacher, he's very smooth, he's very eloquent,
he's very slick, and Herschel Walker did a very smart

(37:19):
job of downplaying expectations. And you know, before the debate,
Herschel would say, well, you know, he's a very slick
preacher man. He knows he'll talk really, you know, really well.
And he said, you know, I'm just a country boy
from Georgia. That was very herschel knew exactly what he
was doing setting expectations. And I think the contrast there

(37:40):
Herschel won that debate, which was particularly damaging to Warnock
because it exposed just how extreme and radical his policies were.
And that's what Schumer is telling Biden is we're in
real danger. We're slipping. In Georgia, they're recognizing, Oh, he's
in trouble. He also tells Biden there the good news

(38:03):
is he doesn't think the debate hurt them in Pennsylvania.
So we'll see. Listen, with the hardcore Democrats, if you're
a hard partisan, if you're a socialist, you're gonna vote
for Fetterman, and you're gonna vote for Warnock no matter what.
He's probably right, and look you're hearing more and more chattered.
The Democrats plan is to try to get Fetterman elected
and then if he's completely unable to do the job,

(38:24):
have him resign and fill him with fill him in
with another Democrat. That this is all about power, and
he's just fill in the blank right here. I don't
think Schumer's right, though. I think he's right with his
hardcore partisans. But with the soccer Mom vote, you know,
the Philly suburbs, you've got a lot of voters that

(38:46):
have historically been swing voters that have been sometimes Republicans,
sometimes Democrats. They're the voters that elected Pat Toomey. I
don't think if you're a suburban mom and you watch
that you have any confidence about Federman. I think you
look at him and say, I've got real concerns there,

(39:08):
And so I think Schumer is wrong about that. All right,
where else are we on defense? We're on defense in
North Carolina, Republican retiring there. Ted Budd is the nominee.
I was campaigning with Ted earlier this week. I think
Ted's gonna win. I think he's a smart candidate. I
think he's running a good campaign. North Carolina is historically
a purple state. You can't take it for granted. Yeah,

(39:29):
you've got to fight hard there. Every time. It is
almost always a race that is decided by a couple
of points. So I actually worry about North Carolina. I
think Republicans are taking it a little two for granted
because Ted Budd is a good enough candidate. They're like, oh,
we're fine. Historically this has been a dangerous state, and
so I think we'll win, but we need to take

(39:50):
it seriously. Ohio jd Vance is the nominee. I spent
an entire day campaigning with JD. We did events all
over the state with huge crowd which which goes back
to when you're on the road, you can feel momentum.
And I've always said you can tell how election is
going to turn if it's a tight election based on momentum.

(40:11):
The momentum there seemed to be massive. I even I
think I texted you that I was having fomo fear
of missing out because it seemed like it was such
a raw, intense, grand debate that was happening, and an
amazing electric crowd when you were there with him. Yeah. No,
I think that's exactly right. I will say JD is
also running a smart, disciplined campaign. He's a first time candidate.

(40:34):
I was concerned when he started that that with first
time candidates they're prone to mistakes. That that it. I
was really impressed. He's doing a good job on the stump.
He's doing a good job with the grassroots. His messaging
is tight and disciplined, he's not screwing up, and the
polling there is pretty consistently showing it with him up

(40:57):
about four or five points. I think we'll be fine
and Ohio, it helps that dewined. The incumbent governor is
going to be reelected by double digits. So we've got
another another state where a governor has a big, big margin,
and that should help the Senate candidate as well. Two
more places were on defense Missouri Republican retirement Roy Blunt.

(41:20):
Eric Schmidt is the nominee. He's the attorney general. I
campaigned for him in the primary. Did events all over.
I think the primary really really mattered. The one candidate
who could have lost that race was Eric Gryden's. Eric
Gryten's was the former governor of Missouri. He resigned in

(41:41):
disgrace and scandal. There were a number of different scandals,
including a fundraising scandal, but the one that really stuck
in people's minds was that he was accused of having
an affair and tying up his mistress in his basement
and then taking a picture of her against her wishes
and using it to blackmail her. Pretty ugly stuff. Yeah,

(42:05):
and he resigned from governor in disgrace. I don't know
the truth or falsity of any of it. What I
will say I sort of joked, I said, look for Republicans.
I don't know that the bar for candidates needs to
be extraordinarily high. But is it asking too much that
our candidates not have tied a woman up in their

(42:27):
basement that that seems to me, Yeah, there should be
a standard above that. Yeah, it would should just be like, Okay,
that's a problem, let's not go with that. I think
if Gryton's had been the nominee, the Democrats would have
flooded money into that race and tried to make it
competitive With Eric Schmidt, He's the attorney general. He's a smart,
disciplined cannidy. He's a conservative. I think he'll be one

(42:49):
of the most conservative Republicans elected this cycle. So I've
done multiple events with Eric. I think Eric and Adam
Laxalt are the two most disciplined. This is not their
first rodeo, so they're running smart, careful discipline campaigns. Eric's
going to win that race, but it was one in
the primary. He's got a billionaire heiress, Trudy Bush, valentine

(43:14):
of Bush Beer. But at the end of the day,
Missouri is a red state and Eric is a good candidate.
He's gonna win that race. The final potential loss is Florida.
Marco Rubio's up again, Florida historically has been a purple state.
I think Marco's doing a good job, and this is

(43:37):
a pattern we're seeing a number of states. De Santis
is kicking ass and he's going to win I think
by a significant margin. And just like Georgia, just like Arizona. Like, yeah,
it'd be hard for you. Imagine you're walk in there
to vote for De Santis and you don't vote for
Marco Rubio. At the same time, well, now I will
say Marco's Democrat candidate is dangerous. They do a really

(43:58):
good job in can at its selection. His Democrat candidate
is val Demings. She's an African American woman. She was
a former police chief, and so one of the great
vulnerabilities Democrats have nationally is on crime, on abolishing the police,
on defunding the police. Val Demings is particularly able to
counter that attack because she was a cop for decades

(44:20):
and was a police chief, and that's just that attack
doesn't stick with her. Even so, Marco is a smart,
discipline candidate. Desanis has done a really good job as
governor of Florida. I think we'll be fine in Florida.
But those are those six are the universe of seats
we could lose. Now, let me throw two wild cards

(44:40):
in there. The two wild cards are Alaska and Utah.
So Alaska, you've got a weird race. You have Lisa Murkowski,
one of the two most moderate Republicans in the Senate
right now, and then you have Kelly Chebaca, who is

(45:01):
a challenger, a Republican, she is supported by Donald Trump,
she's a conservative, she's got a lot of grassroots support.
And then you've got a Democrat in the race. Now,
the polling right now between Murkowski and Chewbacca has been
back and forth and back and forth, and it appears
to be essentially tied. Mitch McConnell has put I think

(45:23):
seven eight million dollars into Alaska supporting McConnell. Mind you,
he's not spending that money in Arizona. He's not spending
that money in New Hampshire. He's spending it supporting Murkowski
in Alaska because he supports moderate Republicans and he doesn't
really want he knows it's going to be a vote
that that comes to Senate he can control. So I

(45:44):
will say in that race, the two of them appear
to be essentially tied. Alaska has this weird dynamic called
rank choice voting, which is you vote for your first
choice and you vote for your second choice, and if
your first choice doesn't finish in the top two, they

(46:05):
eliminate your first choice and they reallocate your vote to
your second choice. There is a danger we lose this seat,
that we elect the Democrat. And so I'm going to say, listen,
I have stayed out of the primary between Murkowski and Chewbacca.
In my entire time in the Senate, I have always

(46:26):
stayed out of primaries involving my colleagues because frankly, you
can't do the job. Yeah, involve that way if you
get involved, if you're primary your colleagues, it just makes
it impossible to actually, particularly in a close Senate, to
get the votes you need to advance the legislation you
need to fight for the thirty million Texans I'm elected

(46:47):
to fighting for. So I've stayed out of the primary.
I will say it follows the pattern of states where
we're in trouble, where Trump is in a battle with
the incumbent Republican. Of the Republican candidates, we talked about
that in Colorado. Trump and Murkowski hate each other's guts,
Trump blast Murkowski frequently, Murkowski voter doing peach Trump like

(47:11):
it's bad blood on both sides. Here's the one request
I'm going to make of Alaskans. If you vote for Chebaka,
put Lisa Murkowski as your second choice. And if you
vote for Murkowski, put Chebaka as your second choice. Now

(47:33):
that may be hard because they're beating the hell out
of each other and the sort of angry bad blood.
Here's what I don't want to have happened. They're both
at around forty and the Democrat is at around fifteen
to eighteen. If I don't want to see that, somehow

(47:55):
go to the Democrats. We'll see who wins. But I
don't want us to screw that up. It could easily
be screwed up. I want to wrap today by there
was a piece of audio that we played in an
earlier verdict, and and and by the way the way
it is screwed up. So look, we just saw this

(48:17):
happen in Alaska with ranked choice voting, which is the
incumbent Republican House member Don Young passed away. He was
the longest serving member of the House. He died died
on an airplane. Um died of old age. They had
a special election for you had a three person election,

(48:40):
Sarah Palin, Nick Begich, who was the son of actually
the Democrat senator, but the son is a Republican, and
then you had a Democrat. It was sixty percent of
the voters in Alaska voted for one of the two Republicans,
but for the Democrat. What happened, though, is when they

(49:03):
redistributed the votes, more of those votes got redistributed to
the Democrat than to Sarah Palin. And Alaska just elected
a Democrat to their one House seat. So it's the
same as the Senate. It's statewide. We just saw a
Democrat win because of ranked choice voting. For this to happen,
look if Murkowski and Chebaka are one and two, that's fine,

(49:27):
then it will be decided by the Democrats second choice
votes getting reallocated, and you have to assume almost all
of those go to Murkowski. The danger is if one
and two is either Murkowski and the Democrat or Chebaka
and the Democrat. That if one of the Republicans is third,

(49:52):
and if they hate the other Republicans so much that
they all put the Democrat as their second choice. We
could wake up and find out that we have a
Schumer Democrats Senate, because let's say we won Nevada and
lost Alaska. That would be a terrible outcome. We don't
want that to happen. The one other I want to
mention that we've talked about on this podcast before is Utah.

(50:14):
Utah is dangerous. It's typically a red state. Mike Lee,
who is a phenomenal Senator, a rock rib Conservative, a
constitutional conservativeh is my closest friend in the Senate. The
Democrats are running a profoundly dishonest campaign with a fake independent,
Evan McMullin. He is a Democrat, he's supported by the Democrats,

(50:34):
he's funded by the Democrats. He's going to vote with
the Democrats. He's going to support the Democrats. But he's
pretending to the Utah voters that he's an independent. And
the danger is there is no Democrat on the ballot.
This is sort of like the games in Alaska with
right choice voting. And by the way, Democrats love to
play games with democracy because they don't actually care about democracy.

(50:54):
They care about power. So whether it is electing a
John Fetterman who cannot process us and answer simple questions
in the English language, or using ranked choice voters voting
to elect a Democrat with sixty percent of the voters
vote for Republicans. Or fooling the voters of Utah by
not nominating a Democrat and having but endorsing the independent

(51:15):
who is their candidate. Yeah, the Democrat Party has formerly
endorsed him. He raises his money on Act Blue, which
is where all the socialists and liberals give their money,
and he's hired Democrat consultants to support him. He is
a Democrat, but their deceptive plan is get all the
deeds to vote for him, and just get five to
ten percent of the really moderate ours who say, gosh,

(51:36):
he seems like a nice young man and so we'll
go with him, and they could steal that seat, and
so Utah, Utah matters. I think Mike will win, but
the two wild cards in this or Alaska in Utah.
I want to end the podcast with something that I
think it went viral. We played a little bit of

(51:58):
a snip of the lies of the last year and
a half of the Democratic Party. And if you hear this,
share it with your family and friends. If you have
people that are on the fence, about what this election
is about. This montage that has been put together is
basically the big lies of the Democrats, the media helping

(52:19):
them sell these big lies. And I want people to
share this because it's so important that your family and
friends see this. This is what this race is about. It.
I'm talking about nation wide control, the House, control, the Senate.
We just broke down all these races. How important is
But if you want to remind people what Joe Biden,
Nancy Pelotian, Chuck Schumer have done to America, this is

(52:42):
that montage. Share it everywhere on social media. Share the podcast.
Take a look. You're not going to get COVID if
you have it. These vaccinations, vaccinated people do not carry
the virus, don't get sick. Getting those shots out for
five to eleven year olds is going to provide a
lot of comfort to American families. Is very running over
people being strapped, the horrific video of the CBP officers

(53:05):
on horse on horses using brutal and inappropriate measures against
innocent people. We have a secure border. The border is
in fact secure. The border is closed. The border is secure,
The border is secure, the border is closed. We've been
unequivocal in that on the issue of Afghanistan, and to

(53:26):
that end we have seen a successful drawdown of the embassy.
I think it's irresponsible to say Americans are stranded. They're not.
This is Jim Crow on steroids what they're doing in Georgia.
This is all about keeping working folks and ordinary folks
that I grew up with from being able to vote.
The Reconciliation package would cost zero dollars. The cost of
these bills in terms of value that the death is zero.

(53:49):
Some have expressed publicly that they're not comfortable with three
point five, even though zero costs zero dollars, zero, zero, zero.
This bill is fully paid for and will not raise
taxes on anyone making less than four hundred thousand dollars
a year. Let me say that again, be crystal clear.
No one making less than four hundred thousand dollars year

(54:12):
will pay a single additional penny in tax for all
these things that are in the and the Build Back
Better plan. If you're a husband and wife, school teacher
and a cop, you're paying at a higher rate than
the average person making a billion dollars a year. Is
my plans do not add to inflationary pressure. To build
back better agenda will help reduce inflation, will help cut

(54:34):
costs for the American people. If we pass the other
two things I'm trying to get done, we will in
fact reduce inflation. Inflation is going to come down next year.
Inflation will come down next year. These inflation rises will
be transitory that they will come back down next year.
There's nobody suggesting the noun checked inflation on the way,
no serious economists. We know a lot of folks are

(54:55):
struggling with inflation driven by Putin's war in Ukraine and
the global pen the greed of meat conglomerates, you could
call it corporate greed. Short, you could call it jacking
up prices during a pandemic. Even if we drilled as
much as we could, the price of oil is still
set globally. There's no amount of domestic production we can

(55:16):
do to reduce or eliminate our vulnerability as a country
to that volatility. We brought down the cost of energy.
Wages have gone up higher faster than inflation. We have
a lower inflation rate than most any nation in the
other nation in the world. The idea that two quarters
of negative GDP growth is a technical definition of a
recession is wrong. I don't expect a recession right now.

(55:38):
We don't see a recession right now. That is not
We're not in a recession right now. Virtually nothing signals
that this period in the second quarter is recession. Are
pre recession now? What we have seen over the course
of the last year plus in the United States is
a historically strong economic recovery and that has been supported
by this president's economic center. Those are the lies. That's

(56:03):
what this election is clearly about. And this is what
people need to sit back and think about and tell
their family and friends before they head to the ballot box,
before they go and show up to vote, before you're
doing your early voting. They've been lying to you on
all of these issues. They're three more that were not
included there that are really striking. Number one, Kareem John
Pierre said from the podium at the White House, nobody

(56:26):
is walking across the border. That simply isn't happening. That's
a flat outlie. Number Two, Kareem John Pierre said, again
from the podium of the White House, said it was
Republicans who wanted to shut down schools and its Democrats
have been working to open schools, which is such a
brazen gas lighting monstrosity. It made you wonder if lightning
was going to strike her as she stood there. And
number three just last week Joe Biden, who gave a

(56:49):
speech I assume written in the speech where he says
I've brought down gas prices, and he said when I
became president, gas prices were five dollars a gallon. Now
they're three thirty eight. Of course, when he became president,
gas prices were two thirty eight, and the idea that
they were five bucks at gallen even for the world
of democrats lying with the corporate media helping them. I

(57:13):
don't know how every quote fact checker in America didn't
fact check them, but of course they didn't. Yeah, it's
gonna be fun to see how many of these videos
get put up on Twitter now with Musk owning it,
and they start actually at least fact checking them, because
we saw a presidential tweet had missing context for the
first time I think ever this past week, as Musk
has taken over, that's gonna be fun. One last thing

(57:34):
for everybody, I've got it. It's here. The book is out.
Grab it wherever you get your books. It's one hell
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tell people quickly what's in it so they know what
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(57:54):
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the FBI, the CIA, the irs, how they're using them
as political enforcers, how they're going after their enemies. And
what this book does. It's really the same thing that
this podcast does, which is that it tries to take

(58:17):
people behind the curtain. It tries to take people to
understand what's really going on, and it tells stories. I've
always found that, look, the human mind memory, that we
exist in a world of stories. And so the way
I like writing books is to tell stories of this
is what's really going on. So, for example, on January sixth,

(58:38):
this is the first inside account of what happened on
January sixth, where I was standing on the Senate floor
leading the Senate objection to certification of the election, calling
for an election Commission. I lay out all of the
allegations of voter fraud. I lay out and explain the
different legal proceedings that were ongoing. I describe how President

(58:58):
Trump called and peronally asked me to argue the US
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and I agreed to do so. And you know, really,
what this book is about is when you're talking to
your friends, when you're talking to your family, when you're
talking to your co workers, and all of these issues
come up. Whether it is vote or fraud, whether it

(59:19):
is election integrity, whether it is crime and violence, whether
it is Black Lives Matter and Antifa riots, whether it
is George Soros prosecutors, whether it is affirmative action, whether
it is the FBI rating President Trump's home, the FBI
rating pro life activists, all of whether it is critical
race theory. We've got chapters in the book on every

(59:40):
one of those things that I just said. This book
is designed to give you the facts, to give you
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and families, you can know the truth and explain it
to them, because most of them are listening to the
lie in corporate media and So this is this book
is really a toolkit to prepare you to I'll pull

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