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BIDEN'S REVENGE: Bombshell Report Claims Joe is SABOTAGING Kamala's Campaign | Trump SURGES 📈
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I also want to get to this with you.
Axios is reporting tensions are rising between the Biden and Harris teams nearly three weeks from Election Day.
They write, quote, Has been increasingly fraught in the final weeks before Election Day.
Ten people familiar with the situation tell Axios.
Biden's team wants Harris to win the election, but many senior Biden aides remain wounded by the president being pushed out of his re-election bid and are still adjusting to being in a supporting role on the campaign trail.
And Joe, tensions may continue to rise because NBC News is reporting that Kamala Harris is weighing where to put more distance.
Between her and Joe Biden after she said that she wouldn't do anything differently over the past four years.
She said that on The View, of course.
So is she going to have to criticize an administration that she's been a part of?
That's the tightrope, right?
Like, hey, you know, I'm going to do a lot of things different than I did while I was vice president when I signed off and broke more ties in the Senate in terms of putting things forward, like the Inflation Reduction Act, which actually increased inflation.
It's almost impossible for her to say, vote for me because we've done so many great things here, the Biden-Harris team, but then again, vote for me because I'm going to do things different than the same team that I was a part of.
It hurts my hair just to kind of say this.
And I think in the end, Carly, the tensions are rising because Democrats know that Kamala Harris is losing right now and could even be on the precipice of a landslide loss.
You saw one poll come out yesterday where Donald Trump is up nationally in an NBC News poll by one point.
If he's even tied nationally, that means in the Electoral College, if you look at any model, he's winning all the key swing states of Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Arizona, Nevada, Georgia, North Carolina.
Her path has to be that she at least sweeps those blue wall states of Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania.
And right now, it's all slipping away.
The trends are all behind Donald Trump because the more Kamala Harris speaks, Carly, The more her polls go backwards, as we saw in 2019, that's what we're seeing here again.
Yeah, there were a lot of reports over the weekend about how worried Democrats are right now.
used to be good vibes and now it feels a lot like angst.
I was just like, are we doing?
benny johnson
We're doing Kung Fu Week, Jerry!
Jerry!
Are we doing Kung Fu Week?
You need to alert me to these things.
I'm excited for Kung Fu Week.
I thought we were in Donald Trump Western Week, but we're doing Kung Fu Week, ladies and gentlemen.
Kung Fu is what we did on the hurricane this last week, baby.
It was awesome here in Florida, but we are still...
Out of the Benny studio, because the Benny studio is in the middle of a disaster zone right now.
I thought I'd be heading home this weekend, but ladies and gentlemen, unfortunately, today, Monday, October 14th, 2024, we're going to have to make do inside of the Benny cabin, okay?
Just letting you know exactly how Florida man I've become.
There you go.
We've got a giant fish that is in our studio with us here.
Everyone's having a climb.
Killer Klein's applauding, saying, you know what, maybe we should move the fish to the studio permanently.
Maybe we should do that.
Ladies and gentlemen, I'll do anything.
Maybe I should stay here, because the longer that we stay out here in the middle of sticks, rural Florida, panhandle, the better things get for Donald Trump.
Maybe there's some aura going on.
Maybe something magical has happened.
Bombshell reports indicate that Joe Biden is sabotaging Kamala's campaign.
Donald Trump surges in polls.
It's never been a better day to be a Trump supporter.
Never.
Never in the history of being a Trump supporter, of Donald Trump running for office, which has been a decade now.
It's hard to think about that.
But Donald Trump announced he's running for president.
He started running for president in 2014, okay, to the major announcement in 2015.
Donald Trump's been running for president for a decade, okay, in multiple contests.
There has never been a single better day to be a Trump supporter than today, okay?
So maybe I'll just stay here, all right?
We're going to talk about the polls with Rasmussen.
Head pollster Mark Mitchell, and live in the Little Florida cabin, Little Florida fishing cabin that we're in, Air Force Command Controller, Master Sergeant, Florida State Guard Special Missions Unit, Jonathan Howard, will be joining the program.
He's going to be walking through the door.
It's going to be great.
He has inside information about Kamal Harris, and we look forward to hearing it.
He has some inside hot tea about the way that Kamala Harris has behaved during these hurricanes.
And we're going to get to all of it today.
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Here, by remaining, this is what my street looks like in Tampa.
The issue is that these downed power lines, okay, this is a photo of my street in Tampa.
These are big trees, right?
Big old trees in Florida.
Big old honking trees.
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Big old honking trees.
Big old honking trees.
Big old honking trees.
benny johnson
Okay.
Well, well, well.
Here we are.
Okay.
Let me know.
We back?
Goodness gracious.
I cannot wait to get back into our studio.
Boy, that is annoying!
It's so annoying!
This hurricane's been obnoxious for all of us.
Okay.
We back?
Producers?
Okay.
All right.
Press F in the chat.
Jeez.
So, it's been...
Annoying last week, we evacuated our family.
Because my street looks like this, we have downed power lines and power all over the place.
Here's what the map looks like right now currently for my area.
You can see earlier last week, the area of Tampa right there, sort of that little carve out there.
Yeah, chat is joking about the big old honking trees.
Okay, well, big old honking trees got me.
Maybe they just got our show.
I'm not sure.
We shouldn't have any power outages here.
But for some reason, we had a slight technical glitch.
My apologies.
So, best production team in the world.
Still online.
Still rocking and rolling.
Let's let it rip.
So, this is what the power outages look like.
Here's what they look like now.
I'm not sure why we're cursed.
But that little red county is still my county.
So, we have difficulty with the power.
And it creates difficulty with the show.
And so, it seems like we're just going to have difficulty no matter where we are.
I'm in the blue area!
So what the hell's going on?
I'm not sure.
So that little red dot right there, that's where I live.
So we've decided to let them officially restore the power before I bring my kids back and clean up all the downed power lines that have all the sparking electric death that exists all over my neighborhood.
So you don't want that when you have kids, obviously.
You don't want, also, you don't want to, like, live inside of a home without power.
I mean, listen, I get that homesteading is a big-time trend right now, and I get that being a trad, like, being trad and, like, going out and living in a cabin.
I understand.
And you know what?
There may come a day where I'll get there, all right?
Not today.
My wife's, like, not with three little kids.
My wife's, like, not with three little kids.
Trump should have y 'all at his place.
Big enough.
That's right.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
You want to put that up?
You can throw that up.
That's another thing.
So right now, and I'm not sitting here to complain.
In fact, I'm here to give compliments to Ron Santos and to the Florida National Guard.
A member of the Florida National Guard will be in the studio with us today.
And so here you go.
This is what the gas lines look like in Tampa right now.
So I got these three little kids and I got a pregnant wife.
And I'm not going to bring my wife and kids back to no groceries, gas lines, and no electricity.
I get it, Benny.
Go live off the grid.
Go homestead, right?
Go be like Thomas Massey.
Thomas Massey's a great bro who does this.
I would love to do that.
In fact, we've talked as a team.
We want to go do a big piece on Thomas Massey.
I want to do a big show with Thomas Massey.
Thomas Massey lives completely off the grid.
Here you go.
This is what my neighborhood looks like right now.
Gas lines, no groceries, no electricity.
So we're spending a day or two here.
I don't know.
I cannot wait to get back into the studio.
I want to get back into the studio.
I just have to be able to bring my family home to a place that's, well, operational, right?
You're a bad father if you dump my pregnant wife and all three kids off at Little House on the Prairie.
And I married a farm girl, okay?
I married a nurse, married a farm girl.
I know Kate can take care of herself, but I gotta work up to my Pratt husband, okay?
I gotta work up to it.
I would love a place off the grid.
Do you live in a place off the grid?
Well, you're probably not streaming the show, actually, if you live in a place off the grid.
But here's what it looked like.
This is Rhonda Sanders giving police escorts to gas tankers.
To fill up the gas.
There's so much gas.
There's Robbie, producer Robbie, I had to wait in line.
Producer Robbie, hop on.
How long did you wait in line, dude?
How long did you wait in line to get gas coming back to Tampa?
Robbie was in Miami.
What's up, bro?
robbie myers
It was about, I got in at about 1230 last night, went to about a half a dozen gas stations, and it took about 45 minutes to find gas.
And I'm about 45 minutes north of downtown Tampa.
It's a mess.
A lot of power down.
But I worked for the state of Florida under Governor DeSantis.
And I'll tell you, the response here has just been absolutely amazing.
When you see 50,000 linemen pulling in and you know that the power is going to be on.
I grew up in Florida.
This used to be something that would take...
I remember when Katrina actually came through Florida before it went to New Orleans.
And then we had Wilma just a month later.
It took over a month for the Fort Lauderdale, Miami area to get gas and electricity back at that time.
Now, it seems like a long time, but we're less than a week, and I predict that by the end of the week, gas and electricity will be almost fully restored.
benny johnson
My neighbor said that he was cleaning up all the debris.
And in the yard, because there's this big, there's this giant tree that fell down that was blocking the road into our house.
And my neighbor said that the problem with the cleanup was that all the snakes had been flushed out of their holes.
And so his entire yard was snakes, like Indiana Jones.
And Indiana Jones Raiders of the Lost Ark, like inside the sarcophagus, there's like nothing but snakes everywhere.
And so he got his jeep and he just started running over all the snakes in his yard.
Maybe too much information, but not where I want snakes.
I hate snakes.
Yes.
Killer Klein, can you grab that?
There's got to be an image of that from Raiders of the Lost Ark.
So he said it was like Raiders of the Lost Ark with all the snakes because there's too much water.
They get flooded out.
So they all come running in the yard.
My wife heard that story.
She's like, we're not going back to Tampa.
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Until we get the snakes off this plane!
benny johnson
I'm sick of these MFing snakes on this MFing plane, my wife said.
She's going to kill me when she sees this clip.
But yeah, I mean, it's technically what she said.
So anyway, so this is why...
There you go.
Pop that up.
That's perfect.
Yeah, that's exactly right.
Why does it always have to be snakes?
Now, that one, this would have been me cleaning up my yard right here.
There you go.
That's me coming home to my yard.
robbie myers
We live in the tropics.
benny johnson
That's right.
robbie myers
Well, Benny, I'll let you get back to our next segment and greet our guests.
Thank you for having me.
benny johnson
Yeah, okay.
Robbie's like, we got Mark Michel on.
Well, baby, there's nothing better.
Okay, so enough about me.
I just wanted to explain what's up here.
Some people are interested.
It's also very interesting, the difference in the way this is being handled here in a red state versus a blue state, and the only reason we call North Carolina a blue state is because they have a blue governor.
North Carolina, isn't it a swing state?
Could it possibly be won by Kamala Harris?
What's going on in the recent polls has been some massive, massive series of nightmares this weekend for Team Kamala.
Best bro to talk about it is Mark Mitchell from Rasmussen, who has some brand new numbers for us.
Mark Mitchell joins the show live now.
We're not have Mark Mitchell.
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We're not have Mark Mitchell.
benny johnson
No?
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benny johnson
Whoa, guys.
Holy smokes.
They left me cooking here, Mark.
Jeez.
If you think it was bad enough, I got a hurricane, hit my hometown, and then they leave me hanging.
I'm in here in the Florida fishing cabin, Mark.
Look at this.
mark mitchell
Oh, nice.
Yeah.
Good digs.
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That's cool.
mark mitchell
I'm in my basement, so you're doing better than I am.
benny johnson
Okay, so let's talk about dead fish.
Let's talk about Kamala Harris' polling from this weekend.
Not great when NBC News says Trump is winning the popular vote.
That's like a bad sign, I think.
mark mitchell
No, this was so predictable, though, because nobody thought that she had the substance to get past the DNC all the way to Election Day on literally...
Inauthenticity and media production.
And I saw it coming and she's absolutely crashed.
The crazy thing is, is that all these pollsters that were out there on the left, like supporting her, have all of a sudden started running for the hills.
ABC News is not the only one.
They hit Harris up five.
Now it's a tie.
Like Newsflash, she didn't just all of a sudden, the race didn't move five points to the right.
That's just them trying to not be inaccurate in the numbers that actually count.
But ABC News Ipsos is doing it as well.
New York Times, Siena, I think is going to start doing it.
CBS News is doing it.
They're all coming to the right.
And that's because I think this kind of loser narrative is creeping into the press that she might actually lose and people need to start preparing their viewers for that.
benny johnson
Mark, I was credibly informed that Megan Thee Stallion, twerking on stage, was going to save Kamala.
And that's what Americans want right now.
Like, at war, Ukraine's at war, Taiwan's at war, the whole Middle East is on fire, that our currency is worthless, that the border's open.
But you know what?
Megan Thee Stallion, she twerked her ass on stage, and that's what Americans need right now.
That's what we've been looking for.
So you're telling me that didn't work?
mark mitchell
No, I mean, it's like they're playing into the media.
They're playing into the electorate they think that we had 10 or 15 years ago, where corporatized glossy crap is what people respond to.
Stephen Colbert, like, after embarrassing himself on the world stage dancing with the vaccines, is not going to help you pick up new voters.
Tim Waltz even, like, listen, this guy probably knows how to operate a shotgun.
I think he was probably on whatever, right?
benny johnson
No way.
mark mitchell
The point is, look at how they're using Twitter, though.
They're putting out these corporatized tweets that just look like what Twitter was 10 years ago, and they think that's going to help them win, and it just absolutely isn't.
And now they have three weeks left, and it's all coming crashing down.
Now, I think the big news is, I just finished, I stayed up really late last night, finished our state polling of Pennsylvania, and we have Trump up three.
The crosstabs aren't out yet.
They're coming out in the next couple hours.
Is a move to the right for us.
We had Trump tied back in September, but we did a poll right after the presidential debate.
But that's massive.
That's at the margin of error.
That's Trump winning Pennsylvania.
A lot of other pollsters agree with us, even the New York Times, and we could get into that.
But we've never been here before in October with Trump winning in Pennsylvania, which is the key to all of this.
benny johnson
Here you go, bro.
All right, so Trump plus three.
This is Rasmussen.
This is your poll.
This morning.
And it aligns with, what, Trafalgar and Atlas?
And the New York Times?
What?
Bro!
mark mitchell
Yeah, pretty incredible.
Well, the New York Times had Harris plus three, but the point is that they're oversampling Democrats by like seven points in there.
They have a Biden 2020 recalled vote at plus eight when he only won the state by one.
So if you corrected that, it becomes, you know, a Harris plus three to a Trump plus four.
They just don't want to take credit for it.
That's what it ultimately comes down to.
benny johnson
So can you talk me through, like, what is the path exactly now for Kamala Harris?
I don't see it.
Where exactly does she win Ohio?
I don't understand what the path is.
She ain't winning Florida, I can tell you that.
mark mitchell
I mean, that's what you have people trying to make these arguments that, well, you know, in 2014, the polling said that Romney was going to do better.
And this is nothing like the 2012, sorry, the 2012...
benny johnson
Boys, we've lost...
Hey, Mark, we've lost audio, buddy.
Hey, Mark.
If you can hear me, if you can hear me, man.
You muted yourself, my friend.
We're going to pop them off.
Our producers are going to check in with Mark.
Let's rock and roll, boys.
Okay.
While we check in with Mark, I'm sorry, we've been vamping this morning.
I didn't want to do story time, but why not?
We've got to explain why we're in a studio with Dead Fish.
I did want to talk through one of the more interesting pieces of news to break from this weekend.
While we get Mark reset up.
And while we await our incredible in-studio guest that we're very excited to talk to, actually, a man who's made a lot of news recently, I want to talk through this Axios piece, okay?
So, guys, put Mark on hold real quick.
We're going to talk through this Axios piece.
Tensions rise between Harris and Biden teams as electioneers.
Look at this.
The relationship between McConnell Harris and Joe Biden's White House has been increasingly fraught in the final weeks of Election Day.
Ten people familiar tell Axios, this ain't good.
There's like 20 days until everyone votes.
Biden's team wants Harris to win the election, but many senior Biden aides remain wounded by the president being pushed out.
Duh, right?
They threw the guy into the mouth of an open volcano in a wheelchair.
We're too much in their feelings, one close Harris ally said of the president's team.
Sentiment shared by some White House aides driving the news.
Some on the Harris team say the top White House aides aren't sufficiently coordinating.
Biden's messaging to align with what's best.
What do you mean?
Of course they're coordinating Biden's messaging.
When Kamala has a big event, Joe Biden goes on TV to Bigfoot her.
To like big dick swinging, like come in and swagger jack all of Kamala's press.
It's incredible.
You saw it happen yesterday.
You saw it happen two days ago.
You saw it happen two weeks ago.
Biden gave an impromptu press conference at the White House.
Briefing room on Friday, just as Harris was about to do an event in Michigan, ensuring that the event would get less TV coverage.
When Harris criticized Geron DeSantis for not taking her call, which is like the cattiest Regina George mean girl.
Can you imagine having a president that when a world leader misses her call, she has to go and do some type of locker room?
Rage hate?
She goes and draws mean pictures of them and then prints them and puts them up on the lockers in the locker room?
I don't know.
Cyberbullies them?
Is this cyberbullying?
Kamala Harris is cyberbullying.
She's guilty.
Look at this.
She goes after Ronda Santas and then Biden steps right on top of her.
Boot on her neck and says, no, no, no, Ronda Santas is a G. Ronda Santas is my boy.
I got his number.
This is not good.
Here's what happens.
Producers, tell me if we got Mark Mitchell again.
Tell me if Mark's all set up.
Okay, yeah, sorry about that.
Mark, we lost your audio for some reason, but I want to get into this with Mark.
Dude, success is unifying.
Failure splinters all movements.
That's why they want MAGA to fail so badly.
Success brings everyone together.
What you're seeing here is the beginning stages of the collapse.
Atomization of whatever fake thing they built.
And this is the important thing.
Everything built on fraud, everything built on fraudulence, like it always collapses like this.
The Soviet Union, everything built on corruption, it never actually lasts.
None of it actually maintains the test of time.
You can bring the America First movement back to like our founding.
All the way through Richard Nixon, through Lincoln, through Reagan.
There's little pieces of it that have pre-existed us and our great-grandparents.
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are pushing.
It's built on nothing.
And so it will splinter to the ages.
Here we go.
Mark Mitchell, back on, boys.
mark mitchell
Yeah, sorry about that.
Compensated business involving Jack Russell.
benny johnson
It's in the water.
Okay, so what's up, man?
So this is very interesting.
So Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, they're going after each other now.
Because what Joe Biden's going to say is my last press conference I gave at NATO, I said, I haven't seen any polling that says Kamala's going to do any better.
And yo, I'm not here to say Joe Biden's right, but Joe Biden would at least be winning Michigan and getting union support, wouldn't he?
mark mitchell
Listen, this is not the kind of thing, the healthy things that you would be seeing if they thought they were winning, and it was so predictable.
In my opinion, this is all about lies, and I have some numbers I want to go into from the Pennsylvania Swing State poll, but you can only lie so much until there's blowback, and the problem is that everybody's so insular, everybody's politicized, everybody gets their news from the idiot box, and there's more and more lies, and the blowback's going to get bigger and bigger, but listen, what they could have done is just have an open convention.
Go through the democratic process.
Everybody, you know, they would have probably been in a lot more unified situation.
Instead, they did all these backroom dealings and blackmailed people and there was all this backbiting and backstabbing and Pelosi ostensibly turning on Biden.
What do you think was going to happen here in October when it all of a sudden looked like, in a very predictable way, you weren't going to win the race?
This is exactly what you're seeing.
And, you know, I think Newt Gingrich probably put his, this is just conjecture, but Newt Gingrich put his finger on it when all of a sudden he said, Biden probably looked around and said, well, you know, I could keep my legacy of being the only person to beat Donald Trump.
And now he threw her under the bus.
I think that's what I probably have.
benny johnson
Oh, that is malevolent, man.
Yeah, that's a really good point.
Okay, so let's talk through some of these projections really quickly.
Can you walk us through this weekend's polls leading up to your poll here in Pennsylvania?
But there are some big corporate media polls who you came on our show, Mark, pre-hurricane, and you said, the Kamala collapse, give it a week or two, is exactly what you said.
That was probably two weeks ago.
And here we are, with multiple corporate media polls coming out this weekend.
I'd love for you to do a little bit of a roundup, but NBC News was the one that shocked me, showing that Trump may win the popular freaking vote.
It's nuts.
mark mitchell
Right, after putting out Harris plus five.
Again, let's not forget how absolutely in the tank NBC News was.
So again, when I polled Pennsylvania in September, I hit a tie.
But that really was, you know, some of these major events they get a lot of press coverage on, they do get a juice for about two or three weeks.
I think it's more what pollsters call a response bias than anybody actually changing their mind.
It's like somebody saw Kamala Harris do well on the idiot box and they're like, oh yeah, I'll pick up this phone call.
But there hasn't really been anything like that.
And when we went into the field, we got Trump plus three in Pennsylvania.
Now, we could do a roundup for all the states, but what you just showed was Trump winning, and it all hinged on Pennsylvania.
And all of these numbers here, if you look at Real Clear Politics, there are some blue things in the Pennsylvania aggregate.
But for instance, the biggest lead besides Bloomberg Morning Consult, who just sucks and we shouldn't even consider them, is New York Times-Siena.
But they oversampled Biden 2020 supporters, like I said, by eight points.
So that's a Trump plus four.
So you have us, Trump plus three.
Them, Trump plus four.
Insider Advantage, Trump plus two.
The Hill Emerson, Trump plus one.
Trafalgar, Trump plus three.
Rich Barris is coming out with another Trump lead.
It's done.
Trump's winning Pennsylvania.
The only question is, is he going to win by more?
And is he going to drag McCormick over the finish line?
I mean, there's...
But this has kind of looked like this for a month or two.
Trump's up by 0.1 now.
That's because Morning Consult and New York Times-Siena are dragging that number down.
But anybody could have looked at this page a month ago and said, well, you've looked at the numbers at the top, too, like Clinton plus 8. No way.
She lost.
Biden plus 7. No way.
He won by 1. So there's going to be polling error again to the left.
Trump's going to have maybe a blowout in Pennsylvania, just depending on whether or not the Postal Service shows up for him.
benny johnson
Man, okay.
So they're saying, I saw this panic clip this weekend.
They're like, we can't depend on Philadelphia anymore.
That's a really scary situation, right?
They're like, we got to go out into the rural communities and get rural people to vote for Kamala.
Yeah, good luck, man.
I got all these videos of...
Amish people with Trump flags on their horse and buggy.
I don't think they're going to convince those people to vote for Kamala Harris.
mark mitchell
I have Trump down 20 points in Philadelphia.
19 points.
That's probably what I'd expect to see.
Harris is only winning by 5 in the Philly suburbs.
Northeast PA is Trump plus 8. Central PA, all the rural, central, and western.
Western PA is Trump plus 4. That's going to include...
You know, Pittsburgh and stuff.
I mean, all these numbers here make sense to me, and it's a Trump plus three.
And like the internals, I really want to kind of get at this because we talked a bit about lying.
And we went, I think we talked before about how MSNBC viewers exhibited different behaviors and they thought different issues were important, like protecting democracy and abortion.
Well, we threw a new question in, which is how likely in the next couple of years America is going to...
Experience another civil war or revolution.
And the number now is 46% of voters in Pennsylvania who think it's at least somewhat likely.
That's the highest number I've ever seen.
So we've looked at that at a national level.
It's been 41% recently in the last couple of years.
This is how politically divisive swing states are now.
15% very likely.
31% at least somewhat likely.
Only 14% say not at all likely.
And the real sad one for me is 18 to 29-year-olds who I think are going to turn out big and who I think are going to break more towards Trump than everybody expects.
72% of them.
Civil War likely in the next few years.
benny johnson
Man, must be some Tim Pool listeners there.
Okay, so talking through North Carolina and Georgia.
North Carolina and Georgia, they were hit hard.
I think a lot of people are scared that those communities get decimated.
Nobody shows up to vote because they have no power.
Down in Tampa, we've got no power.
They're saying Thursday we'll have the power back on.
My family's not going to go down there, snakes in the yard, no groceries, gas lines.
Is that going to affect the vote?
Do you have any concerns about that in swing states like Georgia and North Carolina?
mark mitchell
Yeah, that's a tough one because the way pollsters operate, especially North Carolina, is that they're just going to have quotas for different regions in the state, and they're just going to leave the quotas open until the quotas are filled.
So you're not necessarily going to get a read on whether people are going to turn out or not because they're affected by the storm.
I think DeSantis did a pretty good job laying out what emergency voting looks like.
I hope that the governors of Georgia and North Carolina respond in kind.
But I think it's very realistic to be concerned about those states because in the Real Clear Politics aggregate, they're only up by a half a point for Trump.
Now, again, I think that they're massively too left because of all the polling errors.
But you did see Democrats come out and start talking about North Carolina.
I mean, Axelrod said something horrifying.
I forget his No exact words, but it was essentially, yeah, let's just fix the blue areas and let the red areas squander because it's going to hurt our odds of winning.
So I'm going into the field.
The polling's done.
I haven't processed it yet.
For North Carolina, I expect to see, based on my PA plus three, is something plus four or plus five for Trump.
But what we'll be able to do is look by region and say, okay, now what does it look like if that has a 10% or a 20%?
Less turnout.
I really think it's important to get as much data from Georgia and North Carolina as possible before this election because right now, according to real-world politics, I think the states are tighter than they should be.
But again, with Pennsylvania going Trump plus three, Georgia and North Carolina should not be on the table.
benny johnson
Yeah, you're not going to get a plus 10, plus 18 in Iowa and then lose Michigan and Wisconsin.
That's not how the Midwest works.
I'm from the Midwest.
Bro, it's like, that's not how, we're all like, it's a melted pot.
Like, this is not how those states work.
Do you see a path for Kamala Harris?
mark mitchell
No, not at all.
You know, maybe I'll have to eat my words, but I do think, like, listen, you're putting this on YouTube, and I don't want to talk too much about it.
There is massive and distributed problems with elections, and I think voters are really concerned about it.
In this poll, 70% of Pennsylvania voters are at least somewhat likely that the outcome will be affected by cheating.
So that's a horrifying number.
And of course, they all live through 2020.
But no, I absolutely don't.
Because I think, again, with Trump on the ballot, all of the polling leans left.
And if the numbers are moving to the right, as we all predicted, I don't think we've seen that in the battleground states yet, too.
So I think people are going to start to move right there.
These are all going to look like unwinnable situations for Kamala Harris in the next week or two.
And, you know, that's like tough luck, right?
benny johnson
Trump has never been leading in the Do you think that right now, like today, as we talk, that this is the best, mathematically, this is the best time to be a Trump voter in Trump's political history?
mark mitchell
In October, yeah.
I mean, Trump would have loved to have had the election back in the middle of July, right after the week he got shot.
But yeah, every single one of these states, you'll see the same pattern.
There wasn't as much polling error in Georgia, and we could talk about that.
But I think on the aggregate, in every single one of these states, Trump is outperforming where he has.
Four years ago and in eight years ago, the polling industry is not fixed.
You're hearing it from me.
And everything between now and then, I think, is just more of what you're going to see now, unless an act of God happens.
More Democrat backbiting.
More of the places that actually want viewers coming out and easing their viewers into the potential that Trump is going to be the president.
Everybody except MSNBC, essentially.
And yeah, I think probably a lot of positivity, a lot of good video out of Trump.
And I think you're already seeing news stories about how Kamala Harris is rejiggering her campaign with the help of former Obama staffers, but he didn't exactly come out and help the campaign any with his little segment that he had last week either.
So it's all a mess.
I don't know how they're going to get it together with this little time left to the election.
benny johnson
Oh, so you're saying Barack Obama showing up, looking like Slender Man?
All dusty and broken and sad and gray.
The guy looks rough, okay?
The guy looks like he really could use a Big Mac.
And he's showing up and he's talking in the lamest possible way.
The body language is incredible here.
The dudes are like, I'm bored behind him.
They're like, I'm bored.
Shut up.
I'm bored.
And he's sitting there being like, you gotta support Kamala Harris.
Because she grew up in the same neighborhoods as you.
Bro, she grew up in Montreal!
Like, she didn't grow up in the same neighborhoods as these guys.
He's talking to dudes, he calls them the brothers, in Philadelphia.
Like, everyone knows she grew up in Montreal.
She grew up in Canada.
Like, they're like, no, she didn't grow up like us.
And this seems to have backfired.
I mean, we were able to pick up a bunch of TikTok videos of black Americans being like...
Saying things to Barack Obama, I'm not allowed to say on the stream, but they say it, so their voices matter, right?
And it's like, this seems like a huge political backfire.
Have you seen anything in the polling that this has helped Kamala Harris?
mark mitchell
No, no, no.
I'll give you exact numbers of why I think it hasn't.
I mean, the real polling, like post-Barack Obama, we're not going to see anything.
By the time we get data back, it's going to all blend into the noise.
The fact is that this is a president.
The presidential administration that Kamala Harris is attached to, right?
She is.
Voters think she is.
Who had stadiums around the country chanting FJB just three years ago.
It's an unpopular administration.
And then this is the same administration that put us through COVID lockdowns and shut everybody's business.
So we put into the field, and we'll get it from the other states too, but this is Pennsylvania numbers.
Do you trust the United States federal government?
53%.
Only 31% say yes.
Only 28% of 18 to 29-year-olds say yes.
Only 30% of Black voters say yes.
15% of Republicans, only 23% of independents say yes.
59% say no.
And it's like, they're going to think that a Dick Cheney endorsement is going to move the needle?
Like, how does that work?
How are you going to trot out George W. Bush and Barack Obama and say, see, guys?
These authority figures who put you through hell say that they want you to consume this product candidate.
It's just not a totally different situation.
benny johnson
Don't ask questions.
Consume product.
Don't ask questions.
Consume more product.
mark mitchell
And it worked for them for a bit.
My theory was it just was never going to get them to election day.
Literally, I did the charts.
I have charts showing the 18 to 39-year-old support, and they absolutely did flood back to Kamala Harris.
In August.
And they're already starting to peel back off.
benny johnson
Real quickly, here you go.
You're friends at the New York Times.
You're favorites.
You're such huge fans.
Black voters drift away from Democrats imperiling Kamala Harris.
Ooh, boy.
Donald Trump doing potentially better than any Republican in my lifetime.
I didn't live through Nixon.
With Hispanics and Blacks, do you see that in your numbers?
mark mitchell
Oh, 100%.
100%.
It's all a matter of degrees.
Now, I feel sorry for Nate Cohn at the New York Times, to be honest with you.
I think he's really trying hard to be accurate.
And I think looking into that Pennsylvania number, some managing editor somewhere said, no, there's no way we're running with a Trump.
There's no way we're doing that.
Go back to the drawing board.
And then he puts out an article that's apologetic.
But yeah, over the last three cycles now, we have polling on Donald Trump on the ballot.
And the black vote, the Hispanic vote, and the 18- to 39-year-old vote has been increasingly, every single cycle, moving towards Donald Trump.
We have him taking home about 25-ish percent of the black vote right now, reliably in almost every single one of the polls.
Now, New York Times-Siena says 15. There isn't a real, like, measuring stick we could compare it to because I think the exit polling also isn't necessarily accurate on every single demographic.
But the point is, is that in our polling, we only had upper single digits.
For Trump in the black vote with Hillary Clinton.
And now here he is getting almost 30%.
The same directional movement as New York Times-Siena is.
benny johnson
You just can't win when you're...
I mean, Kamala Harris this weekend at like 50% with Latino voters?
Wait, what?
Talk about panic time.
When your margins look like that with black voters and when you're tied with Trump with Latino voters...
You're talking about the opposite of what they want, which is a majority to rule forever.
You're talking about a non-functional Democrat party that can't win.
mark mitchell
Yeah, 100%.
Hispanic vote, I've seen the same kind of thing.
In fact, some of my polls, I have Trump actually winning the Hispanic vote.
And in Pennsylvania, it was Harris plus 15. So that's like...
And again and again, this is all predictable.
Hispanic population leans more Catholic.
Catholic voters go Trump by almost double digits.
And we had a question here where I believe the number was almost two-thirds of the electorate in Pennsylvania.
I think it's at least somewhat important that the President of the United States exhibit religious values.
I mean, just incredible.
And the number for Trump supporters was about 20 points higher than Kamala Harris supporters.
So they can call his behavior anti-Christian or crass all they want.
But ultimately, what it comes down to is the type of America that Donald Trump is painting.
And that's one where you can afford your food and have a job and not have everything focused on lies and divisiveness and single issues like abortion that, quite frankly, don't represent what people are concerned about right now.
benny johnson
Mark, I got a tough one for you.
Everyone hates the hypotheticals, but you actually have the math to back it up.
Is Kamala Harris going to win some of these swing states?
How are you going to pull them off?
What are you going to do here when I'm walking the street?
So you have real math.
I have just anecdotal evidence.
But every state I go to and every street I walk in, including but not limited to Barack Obama's neighborhood in the south side of Chicago, a mile from his...
I couldn't find a single Kamala voter.
In fact, every one of those homies were like, I want Trump now.
Malik Obama shared that video this weekend.
I find that there is this big, untapped, probably tens of millions of Americans that can't be polled that are voting for Trump.
And so when I see these polls, I just add a couple extra points to Trump based on that silent Trump vote.
And I'm looking at everything tied, and then I put in...
Anecdotally, what I know, which is that these voters, right?
This is that young man is too young to vote, but they probably are not being polled correctly.
And so I add Trump plus three or five to these swing states.
I'm like, can Kamala Harris even win any of these swing states?
mark mitchell
I think so.
And I think a lot of it comes down to how hard it really is to poll the states and how big a margin of error.
Really is.
I had Nevada really tight.
I had Trump down in Wisconsin and Michigan.
Again, I haven't gotten those numbers back yet from this cycle.
I expect to see Trump margins.
They're going to be really thin.
But again, what you're asking me to do is I have my numbers.
They say the race is tight.
Just statistically speaking, Harris might pick up some of those states.
I don't think she's going to pick up Pennsylvania now.
I don't think she was ever going to pick up North Carolina.
I also think that if those two states go, Georgia goes.
And then the other one's like, I honestly don't know.
But you have to also understand the reality of, you know, post-2020 world.
I think that if you ask a pollster how many real Democrat voters there are, that's a really tough question to answer.
It really is.
After 2020, because what happens after every cycle when a pollster is surprised about the outcome?
And listen, our polling was actually pretty close in a national popular vote.
The difference is that our polls were...
You know, way too left-leaning in the states, but other people, you know, you come back and you look at that kind of cycle and you say, well, you know, in 2018 and 2022, also the Democrats overperformed.
Every time a pollster's off, they'll reweight their polls to what they miss by.
So if suddenly a couple million Democrat votes miraculously show up, they will say, oh, look, the electorate turned out more Democrat than I thought it would be.
So there could be that kind of surprise again, and I have no idea where that surprise comes from.
It could be all the polls were just lying.
It could be people were lying in the polls and Trump's going to perform better.
It could be there's a very energized 18 to 29-year-old base that's breaking hard right that shows up that doesn't answer polls.
Or it could be there's a bunch of ballots being stuffed somewhere and being muleed around by people.
Those are all the surprises.
And again, I think they matter a whole lot less when Trump's up three in Pennsylvania and almost everybody agrees about it.
But my understanding is that there have been some things the RNC is doing to get out in front of some of those surprises.
I guess we'll see how effective those are.
And also, I would say just...
Again and again, everything I see in my polling shows that the country has shifted massively to the right.
I looked at numbers in New York and New Jersey as well and saw the same kind of thing.
We had in New York a Biden plus 23 electorate go to plus 11. So every single time I look in my polling, I see the country has moved massively to the right.
I don't think the polling reflects it yet.
I think Trump's going to outperform his polling like he has the last two cycles.
And we're probably going to be surprised about some stuff.
Maybe Kamala Harris wins a swing state or two, especially if they break all the machines and give people magic markers or whatever for the ballot.
But if those things happen again, I think the Republicans have nobody but themselves to blame ostensibly.
benny johnson
Mark, I want to extend an offer to you in closing here.
And please toss up Mark's X page.
I want everybody to follow Mark.
You should get accurate information.
But I want to extend an offer to you.
When Trump wins Pennsylvania.
When Trump wins Pennsylvania.
I have regularly on the show called for a ride in one of these horse and buggies.
I want a ride in one of the Trump horse and buggies.
And you are welcome to come with me, Mark.
And you can ride in the Amish horse and buggy with the Trump flags.
And we're going to do that to celebrate Trump's victory in November.
It's going to be really exciting.
And so I think you should come along.
You're one of the few guys predicting this accurately.
I just want to extend the offer here live.
mark mitchell
Yeah, I'll take you up on that for sure.
Absolutely.
Go get some raw milk and some smoked ring bologna and hang with the Amish.
Let's do it.
benny johnson
You're in Jersey, homie.
It wouldn't be too far of a trip for you.
Everybody follow Mark Mitchell.
Rasmussen reports the best.
Sorry for the technical difficulties this morning, Mark.
You're the man.
mark mitchell
Yeah, sorry for that.
It's complicated.
benny johnson
That's all right, homie.
That's all right, homie.
And it is an opportunity to say bye to the dead fish in the studio.
There you go.
We've got to get a nickname for the fish.
We've got to get a nickname for the fish.
We're going to work on it.
Thank you, Mark.
God bless you, man.
unidentified
Thanks again.
benny johnson
you you you Chat, what's the nickname for our fish?
What's our fish name?
We got a fish.
We're in the fishing cabin in Florida.
We're in the panhandle.
What's the fish's name?
Ooh, baby.
Okay, so I want to, like, buckle in.
Mark talked about all the poles.
Poles were nightmarish.
Kamala Harris is collapsing.
And multiple new national polls just 23 days away from the election.
CNN is straight up, like, punching the panic alarm, being like, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding.
It's all going south here.
The collapse, ladies and gentlemen, collapse-tober is what we're going to call it, is here.
Here's CNN having a panic attack on air.
harry enten
All right, so party ID nationally.
You go to October, November of 2016, Democrats had a three-point advantage.
You go four years ago, Democrats had a six-point advantage.
Look at where we are today, Manu.
Republicans with a one-point advantage.
A very different picture, very much mirroring what we see in the party registration numbers in those key battle-bound states and Pennsylvania in particular.
unidentified
And it actually just shows you, too, why Harris is doing what she's trying to do.
benny johnson
She's trying to moderate a little bit on these issues.
She's trying to reach those very voters because...
unidentified
The party registration is changing, and the demographics of the voters are changing.
benny johnson
Those are the people who seem to attract.
harry enten
Absolutely.
And you know the GOP leads by a point in party identification right now.
The average one the Republican Party loses is the Democrats ahead by eight.
When the Republican Party wins, the average party advantage for Democrats is three.
Republicans right now, Manu, are doing even better than the average when they win.
If there's one little nugget that I think Republicans are really hopeful for, it's this party ID and this party registration data.
It really points in a good direction for them and for Donald Trump.
unidentified
Rob.
benny johnson
So we want to, like, establish something here.
And this is why it's so important to do these shows from an optimistic perspective, which is you have to make it too big to rig.
You have to make this environment, an ecosystem.
Where you're saying, wait a second, if Republicans are winning on party ID, registration, enthusiasm, voter registration, if you're flipping all the voter registration, because those are public numbers, you can't rig those numbers.
If you're flipping voter registration, then you're making it mathematically impossible to do the finite on the edges rigging that's done.
Because their capacity to rig the election is finite.
You can't just dump a million ballots into Arizona.
Indian Reservation.
You can't do that, right?
It's not possible.
You have to squeeze the margins.
And also, a number of these states are red states, right?
Like red legislatures.
Arizona's one.
North Carolina's another.
Georgia's another.
Where you look into these things.
A place like Florida, where we are, boom!
Election results 9 p.m. at night.
Like clockwork.
So this is what you want, right?
Put up the Daily Mail article, please, guys.
Here we go.
Kamala National Polling.
Look at that.
Collapsing through the floor.
NBC News.
I know I've muleed on about this.
I don't mean to, like, be annoying.
But I've got to establish, when NBC News is saying that it is, here we go, NBC, ABC, when they're all saying it's tied, you're cooked.
You're done.
You can't win a tied rate.
This is the best day to ever be a Trump supporter.
This is what we said.
Here's NBC News saying, like, okay, the joy is gone.
Go.
unidentified
I mean, the top line is the five-point advantage that Kamala Harris had in our last poll is gone.
What's behind that shift?
Yeah, exactly, Sven.
I mean, just look at them side by side and you can see it.
Remember that poll we took a month ago that you see here?
It was just after that first Trump-Harris debate.
Since then, we've had the VP debate.
There have been some campaign activities, some interviews, some things that have changed in that time.
I think this might be the biggest for Harris.
We just asked the basic image perception people have.
Is it positive or negative of these candidates?
Trump number's always been somewhere in this territory.
In fact, this is a little bit high for him, believe it or not.
43% positive.
But look at Harris.
43% positive.
49% negative.
The significance.
We polled this a month ago.
She was 48% positive and 45% negative.
She was above water, as they say.
That's completely reversed.
It now looks very similar to Trump's.
That's a pretty big shift when you're talking about a race this close.
And then there's the weight of the fact she's the VP in an unpopular...
We asked about President Biden's policies.
Are they helping or hurting your family?
Just a quarter of voters said they're helping.
Nearly half said they're hurting.
And then here's the interesting twist.
We also asked folks, think back to when Donald Trump was president.
Did his policies help or hurt your family?
And look at the difference.
44% helping, 31% hurting.
The retrospective, you would say, opinion of Trump's presidency among voters, arguably higher now than when he was president.
benny johnson
This is so awesome.
I love the ending point there.
And Steve Kornacki at MSNBC is a very interesting pollster because he does end up giving black pills to the MSNBC audience, just like Harry Anson and CNN.
They're giving these black pills because they just can't lie about the numbers.
Trump looks great in retrospective.
Trump looks like he helps America.
And oh, by the way, when Donald Trump got an opportunity to go and help hurricane victims in Georgia and North Carolina, he went and did that.
He went to cities that were blue.
I mean, Asheville, North Carolina is a big Democrat stronghold.
And like the Trump team's there helping out their fellow Americans.
That's what America First looks like.
That's why you see Trump's pollsters saying the numbers look so good in retrospective.
Everyone's missing the Trump years.
Bring back them Trump gas prices once we get gas in Tampa.
Once we get the gas, we'll bring back the Trump gas prices.
Okay, ladies and gentlemen.
There's one man that has made a...
Huge amount of news as of late, calling out from the inside what's actually happening with this hurricane relief effort.
Are Democrats slow-walking the carnage that occurred to our fellow Americans that is actively occurring here, right?
We feel that.
Are Democrats actually slow-walking that?
Are they just staging props for propaganda?
Well, here's something that we know.
We know that Kamala Harris posted a propaganda photo where her AirPods weren't even plugged into her phone, right?
Her headphones weren't even plugged in.
She wasn't even writing anything.
She was like writing on a blank piece of paper.
We know that Kamala Harris has already staged propaganda photos for the hurricane.
That she's done propaganda phone calls where she had to bark and scream at her staff.
Do you have the Kamala Harris photo?
Kamala Harris, it's so rage-inducing.
Like, she's staged fake photographs.
She's like, I'm helping!
And it's Kamala Harris.
She doesn't even have her headphones plugged into her phone.
She's writing halfway down a blank piece of paper.
Well, what is the military actually doing to help out?
The interesting thing about traveling to different places in this great state is that we get outreach from people that we've never spoken with.
Jonathan Howard is one of those people.
Jonathan Howard made a huge bit of news on the Sean Ryan Show.
unidentified
Great show.
benny johnson
Great channel.
Saying that it goes way beyond the photo op on Air Force Two.
Here's the clip from the Sean Ryan Show.
This is Jonathan Howard.
He's the Impact Operations Lead Aerial Recovery, former Air Force Combat Controller and Master Sergeant in the Florida State Guard, saying, This Kamala Harris helping out the hurricane victims, it is not what it seems.
Here we go.
jonathan howard
I started getting a lot of messages to my Instagram from actual aircraft commanders, like squadron commanders.
unidentified
No kidding.
jonathan howard
I had a squadron commander from North Carolina reach out to me.
They had to load a C-17 full of supplies just to take a photo op for Kamala, and they never sent the bird.
unidentified
Wait a minute, what?
jonathan howard
They loaded an entire C-17 full of supplies for the hurricane victims just for Kamala to go there, take a photo, take a video, and they never sent the C-17.
Are you serious?
That was a National Guard, North Carolina National Guard unit.
That was an 06 that reached out to me.
And then I had another...
unidentified
He reached out to you to tell you that they did a photo op and...
With the intention of never sending VA?
jonathan howard
Never sending.
It was just a photo op.
And then also from that video, I started getting a lot of messages to my Instagram from actual aircraft commanders, like squadron commanders.
unidentified
No kidding.
jonathan howard
I had a squadron commander from North Carolina reach out to me.
They had to load a C-17 full of supplies just to take a photo op.
benny johnson
So close climb.
You were so close, buddy.
Really.
You got to give him the actual stinger.
unidentified
Come on.
benny johnson
What happened there, Klein?
I'm looking at the chat.
What happened?
Did two of you try to hit the stinger at the same time?
We're going to work on this system.
Ladies and gentlemen, joining us, the double click, the dreaded double click from Butterfingers Klein.
Joining us, Jonathan.
jonathan howard
Yeah, appreciate it.
benny johnson
What's up, man?
You went thermonuclear viral with that clip.
jonathan howard
Yeah, that one did go kind of crazy.
That wasn't the first video that went kind of crazy on that one.
That one was pretty interesting because they kind of debunked that story in like 24 hours after it aired.
benny johnson
That's pretty fast.
jonathan howard
And I was just kind of like, oh, that's the one you guys want to die on the hill with that one.
But I'm like, why aren't you debunking other stories?
But when I started looking into it...
It brings up a lot of other questions being prior Air Force with that.
Like, one, when they actually posted the article of the flight logs of that plane, the first flight for that plane going to Asheville was October 3rd.
And that was, I think, a Thursday.
And the hurricane hit on Friday night or Saturday.
Saturday, I think it was.
So it's like, why are we just now sending one C-17?
Which I didn't even know the tail number, but apparently they knew.
I can tell you from being in the Air Force, we have a lot of C-17s.
So it's like, why is there one C-17 going?
And then they said the first time, the reason it didn't take off was because of a pressurization issue.
Well, if you go on flight radar, which they attached to the article, it never went above 10,000 feet.
You don't need to be, you don't even need oxygen until 12,500.
I know this because I'm a pilot.
I've been flying for 10 years.
I'm also an air traffic controller, skydiver.
I have a degree in aeronautics.
So I know what I'm talking about here.
I fly my own plane.
That's not pressurized.
So I never go above 12,500.
And even on flight radar, from Charlotte to Asheville, it's either a 22-minute flight or about a 30-minute flight.
So I'm like, okay, maybe there's just some kind of rule where they can't take off because of the maintenance issues.
But then they unloaded that plane, put it in another C-17, and then that one had a fuel problem.
So then they had to reload to another plane.
So they obviously have multiple C-17s there, but it's like, why only sending one?
And why aren't we sending the entire Calvary dropping off supplies?
benny johnson
You've already explained to Sean Ryan sort of the setup here, but I want to very quickly explain the setup.
First off, you're an expert in all of this.
You're a veteran yourself.
You work in the Florida National Guard.
State Guard.
jonathan howard
Yeah, not National Guard.
benny johnson
We wish.
You should nationalize the Florida Guard.
So you work in the State Guard.
You know these operations.
You've flown these operations before.
So you have an incredible pedigree and have established a lot of sources inside of this community.
And so what happened?
Somebody reached out to you and said this Kamala Harris photo op with a C-17 filled with a bunch of hurricane relief?
That that's fake.
That Kamala faked it, and that relief never got to Americans.
That's what happened?
jonathan howard
Yeah, so I got a message on Instagram, and I will say I did get this part wrong.
I did get his rank and position wrong.
It was not the squadron commander, but I probably received about 100,000 messages.
And when I received that message about a week ago, it was about a week until I actually talked about that on the show.
But he was a very high-level officer in that unit specifically, and he was like, we...
Loaded that C-17.
It disrupted all the operations.
They loaded it the day she was coming there just for her to take a photo opportunity.
And he said, that plane is never going to depart to Asheville.
And he was very upset about it.
So I actually do believe that individual really did believe it was not going to go.
And it comes up to another thing, it's leadership.
It's like, why wasn't the command, I guess, telling their people, hey, this is not just a photo opportunity.
This is going to depart.
And then the other part is like, If we had two C-17s break down, why is our military fleet not in good order to respond to something?
Like, what if we actually had to respond to a war crisis or something, you know, immediate like this?
Maybe we're sending too much money overseas and not putting it into the maintenance of our own aircraft.
So it's just like, how did two C-17s break down?
And oh, finally, we got a third one that made it there.
Just seems kind of strange to me.
unidentified
So what is the, so that clip, we played it, we covered it.
benny johnson
That went crazy.
You had a source telling you about this.
So that was accurate, though, in the sense that that plane didn't take off.
Kamala Harris did stand in front of a plane that didn't deliver the material she was loading onto it.
I don't know exactly what they were loading.
jonathan howard
At the time, it was accurate.
After I did re-speak to him further on, he did confirm the plane did depart.
But, I mean, it kind of goes back to all those questions I had.
Why did it take October 3rd for the first time for that plane to go?
Why didn't it leave on Sunday, Monday, or Tuesday?
It only left after Kamala went there to go get her photo op.
And I can tell you from working at multiple airfields, people are like, oh, you're only working at one airfield.
I was probably going to about four to five different airfields a day.
And yeah, there was a lot of military there, a lot of National Guard, but I can't tell you how many civilian birds were flying in supplies there.
And it's just like, okay, well, if we were bringing all these supplies in from the government...
Why is there such a need for civilians to bring in that many supplies?
Why am I going out there in a civilian helicopter dropping off food to people, dropping off insulin, EpiPens?
So it's just like, and I do want to make this clear and give a shout out to Terry Neal.
He's the air boss for the North Carolina National Guard out there.
And he was running around the clock operations with his crew.
I mean, they were busting their butt out there.
All the National Guard guys were.
There just weren't enough of them.
Because the level of mass destruction that this hurricane brought wasn't just one river, one lake.
It was widespread.
So there just wasn't enough for them to cover the entire ground, even though they were running basically 24-7 ops out there.
So you had to bring in civilian helicopters.
And good on Americans, they're not going to wait around for the government to send in the cavalry.
We sent our own cavalry in and went and rescued these people.
And I think a big part people really need to think about is like...
Why did the government not activate 82nd Airborne there on Sunday or Saturday?
They have all their units there.
I mean, JSOC, the Tier 1s, the best of the best, Delta Force, DevGroove, the 2-4STS, PJs.
I had my friends from the 2-4.
They're like, we can't get authorization to go there.
I had PJs sitting in Asheville Airport on Blackhawks waiting for Title X orders, and they flew all the way from Arizona.
Like, you're telling me we can't get that authorized?
Another big thing I thought about, it's crazy.
We kept running into...
Like, search and rescue teams out there from out of state, and they were there for profit.
And I asked them, like, how does this work?
North Carolina put out a notice that we needed help, and then they would bid on the job.
Like, this is how much it's going to, like, we'll charge to come do these jobs.
So North Carolina has time to put out bid notices to do search and recovery, but not enough time to request Title X orders or activate more national card.
So their priorities are just all jacked up.
And it's like, to me, I would think someone's probably getting a nice kick back there.
unidentified
Wow.
jonathan howard
But it's just like, how do you have time for that, but not enough time to activate your entire military that's right there in North Carolina?
benny johnson
Yeah, Fort Bragg, right?
jonathan howard
There's massive.
How many 82nd Airborne troops are there?
Tens of thousands.
benny johnson
Wow.
jonathan howard
So they could have established command and control.
They could have said, hey, no civilians are allowed in this area.
Military or government is taking full authority.
We're bringing in 100,000 troops, 300 helicopters.
Civilians stay out.
We got it handled.
That never happened.
When I was up there, there'd be a pocket here.
We're in control here.
We're in control here.
There wasn't a centralized nervous system where everything was just operating functionally.
And that's kind of how we do it in Florida.
I just got done doing Helene and Hurricane Milton.
Everything flows to the top.
Everything flows out from the top.
Everyone works together.
There's no power grab.
And that's what was going on there.
People were trying to like, oh, I'm establishing authority.
I'm establishing authority.
It's because there was no command and control.
There was no leadership there in North Carolina.
benny johnson
It remains a mystery to me.
Why would they do for-profit when there already is something that we all paid for called the American military?
Why would they be running for-profit operations and so much military is based, again, in that state?
Presumably, the governor could call upon it at any time.
I know how this works, right?
You're going to need state.
The president can't order the military into a state, right?
This is unconstitutional.
But the governors can call for it.
The governors can request it.
And typically, it's a political suicide if a governor's like, we've had a horrible disaster, please send in the military.
Here's a good example.
Katrina.
The governor of Louisiana said, please, and the mayor of New Orleans said, please send in the 82nd Airborne.
In 24 hours, man, you had like 10,000 well-trained, we-paid-for-them operators that were able to help and save people in Katrina.
What the hell didn't that happen?
It's a much shorter trip to go to Asheville than to go to New Orleans.
jonathan howard
It's a failure of leadership.
I mean, like, I don't know where the governor of North Carolina was, and I kept hearing that from a lot of people.
I actually heard that they say, I think it was on Tuesday, they're like, the governor and his staff have been AWOL for like three days.
unidentified
Wow.
jonathan howard
You know, and there was just no leadership.
There was no command and control.
Nothing was really being done.
And that's why I made that first video, because I was just so disgusted with the politics, because...
I kept seeing the video that we posted of we rescued this 11-day-old premature baby.
And it was being shared all over for just dog and pony shows.
And I was just like, you guys got time to post all that and write articles on it, but you don't have time to establish command and control and bring in more troops in here and bring in more government services.
And I was just like, that's why I was so just irritated by it.
And I was like, you know what?
I'm going to put this out there.
Probably going to catch a lot of heat for it.
Glad I didn't.
Other than some stupid people that don't believe me.
It brought in so much support.
I think after I posted that video, I had more civilians up there with helicopters.
I had so many military commanders reaching out to me, actual commanders, friends from the military that I knew.
And they were just like, we can't get access in there.
They're like, we're just being denied.
I'm like, this just doesn't make sense.
Why can't we get these people in here?
But after that video, things started changing.
And then I think when Joe Biden arrived, I think on that Thursday, He announced, like, oh, we're going to activate, like, another, don't quote me on this, I think he said another 1,000 troops or something like that.
And I'm like, man, it's been, like, a week, and 1,000 troops, like, that's it?
The first time I actually started seeing, besides the National Guard birds that were doing all the rescues, and they were doing a ton of rescues, when I actually started seeing, like, 82nd Airborne come in there, I think that was on Saturday, and I would chat with them, and I even chatted with this one guy, 82nd Airborne Black Hawk crew.
And he was kind of reluctant to talk to me at first, but then we started chatting.
And his only mission there was to fly colonels and VIPs.
And he was mad about it because he was from that area.
He was like, these are my people.
I want to go help them.
And he's like, my only job is to fly VIPs around.
And it was just like, you can't make this stuff up.
And to the audience, if it all sounds crazy, it doesn't make sense.
benny johnson
Exactly.
jonathan howard
It doesn't make sense.
Like, nothing was making sense there.
benny johnson
So I've lived in one active National Guard deployment zone, which was on Capitol Hill after January 6th.
The National Guards took over all of Washington, D.C. They did so also during the Antifa riots, Antifa BLM riots that summer.
There was rampant attacks on memorials and attacks on people outside the White House.
And they just ordered in the National Guard.
I've seen them deployed because they set up a camp right next to the armory, which is where my house was.
And I've seen these guys get on the ground and completely militarize all of D.C. All of D.C. was under total and complete martial law.
And there's curfews, and there were tanks, armored vehicles rolling through my neighborhood.
And I saw the activation.
It was really impressive.
And you could see the full capabilities of the American military up close in deployment.
And I've never seen that before.
And I said, man, this is impressive.
All of the...
All of those issues aside of why they were deploying, okay, so set all that aside, the American military is very, very impressive up close and also maintains great order, right?
You're never going to step to these guys.
All of the vandalization with BLM and stuff, that stopped instantly as soon as, like, the National Guard was protecting Lincoln Memorial.
The graffiti stopped, right?
And I was sitting there wondering, like, Democrats clearly can call for the National Guard to be mobilized in very impressive ways because I watched it happen in my front freaking yard in D.C. They can call for the National Guard to be mobilized when it's politically convenient for them.
But it seems like this just isn't politically convenient for them.
jonathan howard
They could have done it.
I mean, they activated, I think, a few thousand, and they activated a bunch of National Guard assets.
But I'm like, why wouldn't you just activate everything within the area?
And if you have too much, then pull them back.
unidentified
Sure.
jonathan howard
Like, go activate every unit you can, get everything there.
Because, I mean, when I showed up there on Sunday, we didn't stop doing rescues until...
I think it was Wednesday was our final rescue of people we actually did.
But even on that Friday, I remember flying out to one town where we were the first contact for those people.
And so basically, I think it was like six days.
And they were like, we're the first people to reach us.
And I was like, really?
And we were just bringing like food and supplies.
And I was just like, I was so shocked by it.
But it's just like, why wouldn't you bring in everything?
It's literally one phone call for these people to do it.
Of course.
Like, I see how we respond in Florida.
I mean, like.
Even when I was just going down I-75 the other day, there was thousands of linemen.
I think thousands of sheriff's department.
There was one airfield where I was at.
There was thousands of linemen there.
And I'd go to North Carolina.
I would see a lot of linemen out there, and they were working.
They were working their butts off.
But I'm like, why am I not seeing tens of thousands of linemen out here?
I think it's because they just were not requested.
I did hear that the governor of North Carolina never requested federal assistance or something initially.
And that's why, I guess, they couldn't activate, like, I don't know, Title X or whatever.
I don't know how that works, but it should have just been a simple phone call from a governor saying, cut all red tape.
We need help.
We need everyone here.
People are actually dying if we don't get these people out.
And then we'll figure out all the paperwork later on.
They didn't do that.
benny johnson
It creates conspiracy theories.
I'm saying that what it does, by not doing that, makes people think that they want these predominantly red Trump areas to suffer.
And the governor I want to name in shame, his name's Roy Cooper.
He's a Democrat in North Carolina, and it couldn't be any different than what we saw here in this state during the hurricane.
Now, I live in Tampa.
Tampa is known as one of the areas that Democrats still have a marginal slight edge on Republicans in this state, although that, I think, is receding actually quite swiftly.
But it's not like DeSantis let Tampa drown or burn because it has a Democrat mayor, right?
Was ready, and I saw it, bro.
I took a video for three straight minutes of personnel carriers, of armored units, of National Guard, rolling State Guard, presumably, and National Guard, rolling towards Tampa on my way of evacuating.
Linemen, there was miles of them.
Miles of those trucks.
Heavy movers, heavy lifters, all heading towards the fire, right?
All heading towards the sound of the gunfire, into the hurricane before it even hit.
When everyone thought it might have hit, like, a Cat 5, and it could wipe the city off the map entirely, they were all on their way.
And you're saying that none of that happened in North Carolina?
jonathan howard
No, literally.
It was almost like the government was non-existent.
I think we kept saying the term.
We felt like we were in, like, Walking Dead.
We were like, we would just, like, roll up, and people were like, yeah, we're in charge here.
And he rolled to another place, and we're in control here.
And it was just, like, it was so weird.
It's like you were in another country.
I would run to a bunch of former soft guys at Harley-Davidson.
They were running an awesome operation out of there.
And they were like, yeah, we're just going out here doing missions.
We're doing airdrops.
We're bringing generators, chainsaws, fuel, food.
And you're just like, it's just crazy.
But without those people, these people would have been dead.
benny johnson
Do you think that this last hurricane that hit five days ago in Florida, do you think that that could have been like North Carolina had we not had leadership of Ron DeSantis in the state?
jonathan howard
Oh, 100%.
Yeah.
You talk about how the state guard was rolling out.
We left here in the panhandle, I want to say like 4 or 5 o 'clock, like the day before the hurricane was hitting.
And we were staged in Gainesville.
And then around, I want to say midnight, we were already pushing toward Tampa.
And we were staying outside the eyewall.
I think we were in Brooksdale or something, somewhere north of Tampa.
And like literally as soon as that eye passed and we knew it was safe enough, we were already going into St. Pete and Tampa.
Like me and my very senior combat controller.
Ken Heumann, me and him actually went to St. Pete Airfield and cleared it at, I think, 2 in the morning.
So we cleared the whole airfield.
It was good to bring operations in, like emergency aircraft, medical supplies.
And then me and him went to all the hospitals in St. Pete and Tampa and cleared all the helicopter pads, the landing pads on top of the hospitals.
And then from there, we went down to Sarasota, cleared that airfield all before sunrise.
Now, I remember when we sent that information up to the state, they were just like, we didn't know you guys even had that capability.
And they were just like, this is so impressive.
But that's what happens because DeSantis is so good at this.
He's like, let these operators do operator stuff.
Let them off the leash.
These guys will go find work.
They want to find work.
And that's what we did.
We just went out there and we were just like a bunch of pirates just spread and good command and control.
But we're like, hey, we're going to go task this.
We're going to go task this.
This team go here.
This team go here.
And that's what we did.
And we just went out there and made stuff happen.
But in addition to that, all the agencies that we were working with, sheriff, police, National Guard, military, You name it, we were all working together in sync.
We all had one centralized command and control.
That way, if I reported a downed power line here, everyone saw that.
We actually have an app system for that.
There's a downed tree here on the road here.
There's a downed power line here.
And everyone, the linemen see it.
The police see it.
No one was asking me for my orders.
I'm literally running around in an unmarked police vehicle in Tahoe with a gun on my hip, and it just says Florida State Guard.
And police weren't like, hey, give me your papers.
Where's your badge?
It was just like, hey, thank God you guys are here.
Let's go do work together.
And we all work together as like one big team.
And North Carolina, it was not like that at all.
I had people asking me from my papers, how are you authorized to be here?
And I'm just like, I'm here to try to save people.
What is wrong with you?
This is what you're worried about?
benny johnson
I thought this was America.
jonathan howard
Do I look like me and my team are a bunch of looters?
Like we came up here in the middle of late Lord, like, let us in.
We want to do work.
And again, failure of leadership.
Everything comes down to leadership.
We got strong leadership here in Florida.
And I mean, so good that they sent us up to North Carolina to go rescue trapped Floridians in the mountains.
That's actually why we went there.
Because there was no Florida residence there.
And DeSantis wasn't going to wait around for North Carolina to figure it out.
He's like, I'm going to send my guys to go get my people out.
That's what we did.
unidentified
That's incredible.
benny johnson
Like on a miniature level, like on a state level, like America does that when Americans are trapped in some type of natural disaster or war zone.
But you're doing it because Floridians, a lot of Floridians go and chill in the mountains during the hot.
Weeks of the summer here.
And so you're going up there to save Floridians.
jonathan howard
That was our mission up there was to get the Floridians out and then just assist anybody that we saw.
Because a lot of the people out there, like the command centers that were established out there, they can only give you what they know, like missions.
So a lot of these people are so remote in the mountains.
There's no cell phone service to even begin with.
Now there's no Wi-Fi.
They don't have Starlink.
The only way they can communicate with you is by literally...
Carving SOS in the mud or painting SOS on the ground.
That's how we'd find these people.
We'd literally just fly the helicopters in the middle of nowhere and look for distress signals or people waving at us in SOS.
And then we would just drop down and pick them up.
unidentified
Wow.
jonathan howard
Because there's no way for them to say, hey, I need help.
benny johnson
So what were the operators saying on the ground there, right?
Don't have to name names.
Don't have to tell me who.
But what was the mood on the ground there for people who you...
Understand how they work.
You understand how it works.
In the best scenario, which is what you had during the Florida hurricane, what were the operators on the ground in North Carolina saying?
They must be incredibly frustrated.
jonathan howard
Like the military operators?
unidentified
Yeah.
jonathan howard
I never saw any active military operators.
Everyone was former soft operators.
And they were just taking over to help the people.
There was no military special operators.
benny johnson
You didn't see any of them?
jonathan howard
No, no.
benny johnson
Do you see any FEMA?
Do you see anything like that?
jonathan howard
I personally never saw FEMA.
I saw a FEMA security team.
They were at one of our staging locations.
They're all former soft guys, but I would see them.
They're wearing body armor, long guns.
I was just kind of like, what are you guys doing?
You about to do a hit?
And they're like, oh, we're here for security.
They're like, FEMA brings us to every disaster.
And I was like, okay.
They were cool.
benny johnson
Security for who?
jonathan howard
I guess for what FEMA people?
benny johnson
So like against their fellow Americans?
Like they're there to protect like against the mountain people?
jonathan howard
I think they were there to like protect maybe like food storages and those kind of things.
But I never saw FEMA personally.
A couple of my teammates did.
They had some very bad interactions where one of my teammates actually threatened to detain one of them.
He was like, I'm actually going to put you in like flex cuffs and throw you in that helicopter because I don't want to give that whole story because I don't have...
I don't remember all the details, but I remember he was telling me about it.
And he was just like, I literally thought I was going to arrest these FEMA people and throw them in a helicopter because they were trying to either stop them from doing something or kick them out.
And they were just not happening.
And then the former Green Berets working out of Harley in Nashville, FEMA came over to them, I guess was trying to shut down their operation.
And they were all just hands on guns and not going to happen.
benny johnson
So these rumors are true.
About the federal government stepping in to try and stop private operations that are helping people.
jonathan howard
I say those two stories.
I did not witness those two, but those are from people I know that are, one of them is my teammate, and the other one, very credible Green Beret, former Green Beret.
benny johnson
So the federal government's pointing guns at people trying to help, saying stop helping people.
jonathan howard
I don't know if they're pointing guns.
I've been getting a ton of messages about FEMA stopping supplies and stopping this.
I think a lot of that is probably happening in the city of Asheville.
We didn't really do a lot of operating in Nashville because most of the disaster was outside, and the people that can't even drive to Asheville get supplies, they're the ones that actually need the supplies.
So I'm sure there was a whole different picture of what was going on in Nashville, but I would just tell people, hey, bring supplies to this airport, this location.
Don't even worry about trying to contact FEMA or the government.
Just bring it to these private citizens, and they'll push it out from there.
benny johnson
What an incredible fit.
Do you think it's on purpose?
It's hard to put this amount of incompetence together and not say that there's some malevolence.
At some point, gross incompetence actually equals malevolence no matter what your intentions are.
It's almost like this was designed to fail.
jonathan howard
I think if this would have happened in a very blue city, you would have seen all the response there to hell.
benny johnson
If this was Philadelphia, they would have called the United Nations for a binding resolution.
jonathan howard
I think our government is just that dumb.
That incompetent.
And like, I mean, if you just look at them, everything they do is a reflection of them.
And they're horrible.
They destroyed this country.
I think the day I was flying up to North Carolina, I think they announced like $8 billion for Ukraine, $8 billion for Israel, I think $127 billion for Lebanon.
All I've heard from North Carolina is $750 if you file a claim.
And I went on the news and talked about this, but I'm like, these people have no way to even access that $750.
They're in the middle of nowhere.
What are they going to buy?
They can't Instacart food to their house.
20 miles is the nearest road.
benny johnson
How are they going to file a claim online when they don't have internet?
jonathan howard
And they'll probably have to pay taxes.
They'll probably have to put on a tax return like, oh, I received $750 and paid 25% tax on it.
But it's just like, I don't know if the government just hates its own people that much.
Or if they're trying to kill them, I hear there's lithium in the mountains.
unidentified
I don't know.
jonathan howard
If they open up a lithium mine there next month, maybe that's true.
But it's just like, they're so bad at their job, it's mind-blowing.
When I tell people the story, they're just like, none of this makes sense.
I'm like, exactly.
None of it makes sense.
Because they just don't know what they're doing.
Then you go to a state like Florida, and you're just like, wow, everything that's being done that can't be done.
And even beyond what I could even imagine to put together for a plan.
I don't know.
I don't have the right answer for that, but if these people still vote for that governor of North Carolina, you just can't fix stupid.
He literally let these people die out there.
We ran into one lady that had one day left of fuel in her generator to run her oxygen machine.
We were her last hope to get her out.
It's just like, how is this happening?
How is the entire military, government, the cavalry not here boots on the ground?
And that's what the people of North Carolina and people around the nation, they got to think about, like, why is this happening?
Why aren't we helping our fellow Americans?
Why are we so concerned about sending money to other countries?
Why aren't we putting that into our own military to fix our planes to keep them at a ready state?
Why aren't we sending more troops?
Why is this happening?
And why aren't we hearing more about it?
And that's what people got to figure out.
I can't figure it out for you, but I can tell you what I saw on the ground up there, and that's what I'm doing.
benny johnson
Most honorable thing you possibly can do.
We've been working with Corey Mills to send supplies up there.
So we've been sending vans every single day to work with Corey Mills to send supplies up there from our show.
I don't have an operator background.
I'm not sure if I'd be more of a hindrance than anything.
But we're doing whatever's asked of us, but you're like actually getting into the shit and being...
I mean, this is real hero shit.
I know you're going to say it's not, but from the rest of us, everyone in the audience is always asking.
We've been covering this for weeks.
Everyone's always asking, what can we do?
What can we do?
What can we do?
Can you answer that question?
jonathan howard
Yeah, there's so much you can do.
I'll tell you a great example.
I posted this on my post yesterday, but I had this female attorney named Elizabeth out of Charlotte.
Amazing.
And she texted me and she was like, I want to help use my resources.
She's like, I know I'm connected very well.
And the first time I was like, okay, appreciate it.
And then she texted me again.
She's like, I want to help you.
I want to bring you food.
So I was like, okay.
Bring food for all the first responders up here.
And she brought, like, a whole buffet of hot food and coffee, which is just amazing when you're not getting that.
But I had this, like, ear issue going on where I think I was having, like, an ear squeeze from changing the altitudes in the helicopter.
So I was like, if you have an ear doctor, I know it's out there, but I was like, if you've got an ear doctor, like, my ear is actually hurting.
And I messed up my lower back during Helene and Florida movement of both.
My sciatic nerve would, like, hit sometimes.
So I was like, do you got a chiropractor?
Literally, like in 10 minutes, she was like, food's coming.
I got an ear doctor.
Standby on chiropractor.
And about six hours later, she's like, I have you a chiropractor.
And this guy met me on a four-wheeler at a helicopter landing zone and adjusted me in about two minutes on the ground.
I got back in the helicopter and went out and ran missions.
I posted it on my actual post.
But that's what I'm saying.
You don't have to be an operator to go help these people.
You don't have to have a military background, a law enforcement.
You could just literally...
Help out first responders by getting hot coffee food.
I got a buddy actually from St. Pete, Savage Coffees.
Amazing coffee.
The guy's originally from Naples.
His boys live in St. Pete.
And they have a coffee farm in Panama.
And he messaged me and he was like, I want to help you.
How can I help?
And I was like, man, can you just send some of your good coffee, like instant coffee up here?
Because I was like, I'm just drinking like horrible quality coffee.
And he was like, done.
And he sent like 700 packs of instant coffee and like just tons of coffee beans.
So there's always a way for people to help.
I mean, even that 13-year-old kid I post a lot in my feed, he was helping his dad run the airfield at Rutherford Airport.
He was the one that was helping us get the planes refueled.
And just, there's always something you can be doing, whether you're just donating money, donating toys for kids.
Now we're kind of going into cold weather season.
They're going to need jackets.
They're going to need, you know, socks.
There's something, there's always something for, everyone has a role to play.
So maybe it's just a connection of like, I can get you a chiropractor.
I know that sounds so silly, but when you're running operations all day and I'm getting a little older, I'm 36 now, things start to hurt a little bit more.
When I came off that chiropractic table, I was just like, my God, I feel brand new.
I just felt refreshed because whenever I'd be moving, I was just hurting.
That nerve was just hitting and it was driving me crazy.
Even my wife came up.
My wife came up and was just unloading supplies from civilian planes, setting out food, just anything she could do.
So there's something for everybody to do.
benny johnson
That's what America First is.
You can also vote Trump.
You can also, like, vote for a guy that would probably have sent the military in, like, before the storm even hit.
Would probably have been ready to go.
Trump had a couple of big old hurricanes during his term as president.
And, like, they were well managed, right?
They wanted to crucify Trump if he had, like, messed things up.
And he did a good job, you know?
Very good.
Like, you did a good job.
You think Trump would have sent in the military?
jonathan howard
Oh, absolutely.
unidentified
He would have.
jonathan howard
He wouldn't have played a round.
There'd be no red tape.
That's kind of like what Governor DeSantis did for Florida.
I think we started, the hurricane hit, I think, Friday night here at Helene.
We were already prepping that Monday.
Like, we were already prepping everything.
We were making our game plan.
If the hurricane moves here, if it moves here, we were getting all of our assets ready.
So we were very well prepared.
And then we're staged, like, literally within, like, an hour.
Like, we were staged in Tallahassee.
And then we went right into parity.
We went past you.
Yeah, we were literally, like, just everything was set, ready to go, no red tape, no restrictions, just do what you got to do to save life.
And then you go to North Carolina, and then I even hear from military people, they're like, oh, we were on alert the day before the hurricane, and still this day had never been activated.
But there was, like, it didn't seem like there was an alert plan.
I will say the National Guard talking to those guys, they were doing rescues the morning right after the hurricane, so they were getting after it.
And they saved a lot of lives.
But still, it's like, where's the rest of the government?
Why aren't we getting more of these people out here?
Where's the response?
Why do you guys have time to put out bid notifications to bring in companies?
Why are you paying companies to come here to clean up the rescue when you have the entire military national guard here?
That's a big one I really kind of want answered.
I really want that.
I want people on the internet to go dig around on that one.
It's just like...
Why are they putting out bid notifications?
Why aren't they using their own state resources?
Why aren't they using other state resources?
Why are they hiring private companies to come in here and do the work?
Is someone getting a 20% kickback?
benny johnson
That's how it works, bro.
jonathan howard
I'm sure those vids were not cheap.
I don't think these task forces were coming up there for $50,000.
benny johnson
Probably Liz Cheney.
jonathan howard
Probably seven figures, I would think.
benny johnson
Liz and Dick!
jonathan howard
I was running into so many guys from Alabama, fire to fire, awesome guys from Alabama, firefighters out there working.
I'm like, what are you guys doing up here?
They're like, oh, we're up here working.
I'm just like, roll tide.
I couldn't believe it, but there was just so many of them and so few North Carolina government.
It's a weird situation, but I say it's weird.
It's not weird.
I do believe it was intentional because they had all the time to fix it.
Like, they literally had like a week to fix it.
And it took them a week to be like, oh, we're finally doing everything.
Honestly, once I started posting my videos, that's when all this whole misinformation campaign came back out.
Like, I guess I activated it.
I mean, I even got Hillary out of her closet to come online and start talking about misinformation.
But like, I mean, I actually have the real videos.
I'm posting this stuff.
I'm talking to the locals.
And locals would even ask me, they're like, what's the North Carolina government?
Literally, people in the middle of nowhere, they'd be like, what's the North Carolina government doing about this?
And I think it's another good point.
These people in North Carolina did not realize the level of destruction.
So when we would fly to them, they would say, just bring me like fuel for a week from my generator and bring me food for a week and then I'll be good when they get the roads up.
And I'd be like, what do you mean?
And they're like, well, isn't the government like doing the roads and power lines right now?
And I'm like, I just flew over four washed out bridges and probably 10 or 20 miles of washed out roads.
Like you probably won't have a road here for the next two to four months.
And they'd be like, what are you talking about?
And I would show them videos like when I'm over flying and they're just like, oh, I did not know it was that bad.
I'm like, this isn't just your river, your area.
It's like all of North Carolina, Georgia, I think Virginia, Tennessee.
And they had no idea because they had no way to like look at the internet.
So they were just thinking the government was going to come save them like in a week and everything would be fine.
benny johnson
And all these guys are sitting around and they're not even activated.
jonathan howard
Literally just sitting there waiting for either title 10 orders or Waiting to actually be called up by the governor.
So I think a lot of people, they don't understand how National Guard and military work.
A commander of a National Guard unit can't just be like, hey, we're going into North Carolina.
Politicians have to make that order.
The governor has to request.
So as much as my boys and gals in the National Guard and military just want to say, hey, we're going into North Carolina, you can't do that.
It has to come from the top.
Down.
And they request that.
So all these people are requesting to go and they're just crickets.
They're not getting anything for it.
benny johnson
Just photo ops.
And then shutting down all the flight patterns like when Joe Biden does fly over.
jonathan howard
And then blasting me for misinformation.
Like, those guys, misinformation.
I'm just like...
I mean, okay, yeah.
I got one little part wrong.
I have like a hundred other parts.
Why don't you go fact check the other stuff?
unidentified
Yeah, bro.
benny johnson
We have to come up with new conspiracy theories because all the old ones came true.
jonathan howard
Oh, you know what?
While I'm on here...
WRL News and Raleigh.
I'm still waiting for my interview.
They blasted me.
They fact-checked my own video, this news reporter.
I won't say his name because he'll probably try to sue me.
But this dude fact-checked my own video, took my own video down.
I fought it, and Instagram put it back up.
But they asked me to do a news interview.
I was getting like 1,000 messages a day.
I didn't respond to them.
So I guess that's why they fact-checked me.
But he was a news reporter for WRL, and he's also a fact-checker on Facebook.
And I blasted him on social media.
He still hasn't responded to me.
And I even text them.
So yeah, WRL News, if you want to correct that story, let me know.
I will fly to you in my own plane, on my own dime.
I'm ready.
benny johnson
Bros, let's toss up Jonathan.
Let's make sure that Jonathan gets a bunch of new subs today.
unidentified
Let's toss up.
benny johnson
Is it your IG?
jonathan howard
IG is what I'm on.
I don't have...
unidentified
My wife says I'm on TikTok now.
benny johnson
My wife says I'm on Instagram now.
jonathan howard
No, that's my Instagram.
Instagram is where I'm really active.
I do have an X account.
I've never posted on it.
I follow 10 people.
I'm never on it.
I'm going to have to start being on X because I'm being censored all over Instagram and Facebook right now.
benny johnson
Get on X!
jonathan howard
You can put it up there.
I sent it to your producer.
That way people know it's not a fake profile or whatever.
Yeah, no, it's...
benny johnson
Pop in there.
Give him a sub.
Give him a follow.
There we go.
Make sure that you're following.
And then when you start next, we'll blast it out too.
jonathan howard
I apologize about the Instagram name.
It's like an inside joke, the thick 30A broker.
It's like a joke real estate thing.
It's like a gym thing.
So that's...
People are just kind of like, what?
I didn't know I was going to be...
benny johnson
Is this you on X?
jonathan howard
There you go.
unidentified
All right.
benny johnson
Fantastic.
jonathan howard
I'll start posting stuff on there just because social media says I'm fake news.
unidentified
Bro, we can get you your first followers on X. We've done it before, baby.
benny johnson
We've done it before.
jonathan howard
I don't think I have any followers.
benny johnson
The great ALX.
jonathan howard
Yeah, I got no followers on X because I've never posted.
benny johnson
Producer Killer Klein is your first follow-up.
jonathan howard
I only made an X account just so I could follow Trump, so I knew he wouldn't be censored.
That was literally the only reason why.
He actually retweeted my video.
I was pretty shocked by it, but he got the info out there, and that's what needed to happen.
I do want to say this.
This is very, very important to me.
benny johnson
We're watching your follower account grow in real time.
Come on, man.
Seven followers!
jonathan howard
Oh, yeah.
Made it.
I do want to make this point, though.
My only intention of doing these news interviews and why I made these videos was to help these people because I literally felt it was a matter of life or death for them, and I was watching them out there.
Some people have made accusations like, oh, you're just trying to make a bunch of money.
I'm already rich.
I'm already a multi-multi-millionaire.
I sold my business here in 38 two years ago.
I flew my own private plane to North Carolina to give you a level of where I'm at, so I don't need money.
I've actually lost money by doing this.
I've had to hand everything off to my business partners and people below me to run.
So this isn't a financial thing.
This isn't like an Instagram thing.
I don't care about social media.
Definitely not trying to be a politician.
I will never be a politician.
I hate politicians.
There's only like five of them I like.
benny johnson
That sucks, bro.
jonathan howard
Anna is a great one.
She's a good friend.
But I have no thing trying to be Instagram famous.
None of that.
My only reason why I posted so many videos of this.
Was to help these people because they were literally forgotten about and they were dying.
And that was my only intent and still my only intent, even while you even come on your show and reach out to people.
It's just to bring awareness to these people because I even kind of feel like as of right now, the focus is kind of leaving Western North Carolina with everything else going on in the world.
And these people are still months and months away from the recovery.
And I mean, I'm actually going to go back up there probably this weekend or next week, me and Charlie.
And Zeb, our buddy with the helicopter, we're going to start putting in more work up there.
But, I mean, I think from the time I was activated until the time I was done activated, it was 20 days of work.
So that's why people think I'm just trying to make a quick Instagram video.
Like, man, I just did 20 days of work out there.
Like, I mean, I'm dwindling away.
I've lost like 15 pounds and been eating like Little Caesars pizza and hot dogs and whatever I get my hands on.
So, yeah, I just want to make that very clear.
My only intent is to help these people because these are our fellow Americans and these are good people.
And it's really sad and disgusting what has happened to them.
benny johnson
Yes.
Okay.
So this is what the America First movement is all about.
Everybody follow Jonathan.
Everybody make sure.
Okay, good.
You have 104 followers now.
unidentified
All right.
There you go.
benny johnson
Hey, man.
This is what we can do.
jonathan howard
All right?
benny johnson
So this is what we can do.
And then I want to go on one of these trips with you.
I want to go on one of these trips.
We got to stick through the elect.
We've got to lock in for the election, and then I want to go up there.
I want to go up there and do a full bit.
jonathan howard
I would like to.
I'd like you to come up there with me and actually talk to these people.
benny johnson
The hurricane hitting Tampa sent us off because we were going to go with Corey.
We were going to go with Corey Mills.
jonathan howard
When you talk to the actual locals that have been living there on the ground the entire time, you're just going to be so shocked at what they say to you.
Now it's not just me repeating.
You're hearing from the people that are living through this on a daily basis.
Where's my government?
What's not being done?
It's disturbing, really.
benny johnson
Now that you and I are connected, I'm going to go maybe before the election.
unidentified
We'll see.
benny johnson
We've got to sort it out.
I've got to get back into our studio.
Maybe before the election, we go out there and we do Benny on the Block and actually tell that story.
This is what we can do.
What we can do...
They try and shut you down by calling you misinformation.
It's a lot harder to do when you have a million subs, right?
It's a lot harder to do that when you have a following that you can speak directly to, right?
And that's how then, those little, these little, like, shitty reporters, those little shitheaded reporters, like, for the local news stations.
jonathan howard
WRL.
benny johnson
Like, when you have a bigger, when you have a bigger following than them, then you just shadow box, man.
You just, like, destroy them, right?
And then you can get them to delete things, right?
Delete their misinformation.
So that's what we're going to help.
That's what we're going to help you.
jonathan howard
Yeah, I appreciate that.
And then, like, also just for donations and helping out, Aerial Recovery, I'm a part of.
They're spending an entire month up there, so they have about three more weeks as of now, and they'll probably even extend it beyond that.
So they're up there working.
You can get with them.
unidentified
Is this it?
Right here?
jonathan howard
Aerial Recovery.
Yep, yep, that's it.
Aerial Recovery.
unidentified
Okay, cool.
jonathan howard
Amazing group.
Ran by a former Green Beret and his wife, Brittany, and Charlie, my friend.
He's, like, second in command there.
But you can donate to them.
The money's definitely going there to help the people.
You can bring supplies up to them.
They'll get it out to the right people.
And then also, like, people don't usually...
They kind of believe me now, but bird photography is kind of like my happiness.
So that's like my shirt and stuff like that.
But I've always done this.
I've never made a dollar for my bird photography.
It's just a passion I got into last year.
Oh, I like being nature.
I know.
I don't look like the guy, right?
But the reason why I got...
One of the reasons why I got into it is I work with a lot of...
Local charities here in Santa Rosa Beach, like Surf Brigade, and I work with one of Naples called Waterfront Warriors.
And as much as I appreciate people who would just be like, here's a $10,000 check, here's $1,000, here's $20, I always felt kind of bad.
They weren't really getting anything in return.
So I do nice prints, t-shirts, coffee mugs, whatever, and I give these prints to people that donate.
Or if they buy from the store, every dollar.
Every dollar.
There's no salary for me.
There's nothing.
Every dollar that they use to buy that print, it goes right to charity.
What I did for this one was anything that's sold from basically last week to the end of the year, everything is going to the victims in North Carolina to help them out.
This one right here.
This is a reflection.
People think I mirrored it, but I took this in May when I was in Chile in Argentina.
This is actually on a saltwater lake up at 8,500 feet elevation in the Atacama Desert.
This is actually the reflection off the water.
It's not a mirrored image.
I auctioned one of these off for a friend here in Navarre.
They had a flood damage to their house and we auctioned that friend off.
Everything I do for that is for charity.
If you want to support while also getting something, this is a great way to do it.
I think a t-shirt is like $18.
It's nothing crazy.
benny johnson
Can you show the people?
jonathan howard
What's that?
The shirt.
Oh, the shirt?
Yeah.
benny johnson
Yeah, look at that.
jonathan howard
You can even get it on a phone case if you want.
unidentified
There you go.
jonathan howard
This is one of my more popular ones, but it's just my way of saying thank you to people that donate money and give back to them because I appreciate them being so generous.
unidentified
I don't think it's a real fish.
benny johnson
Fish and the birds get along.
Up here in Panhandle, man, it's like great energy.
It's been so awesome to like actually have so many people reach out to me, incredible people like come on the show and maybe we'll do this more often.
I would love to do a mission with you.
I would love to make that happen.
jonathan howard
I mean, it's all about bringing awareness because I can tell you from the time I posted that very first video, the amount of support we got from Even just government and civilian was like night and day difference.
Like the amount of supplies that were coming up there.
Even people that just lived like in Charlotte were not aware of how bad it was because they just weren't reporting what was actually going on.
I even should say this is another good conspiracy.
It's not a conspiracy.
Aerial recovery was actually escorting CNN up there at Late Lure.
And they were, the sheriff denied CNN to videotape the bad areas.
Like they would not allow them to videotape the really bad areas.
And that's why I'm like, man, you know things are bad when CNN can't even actually report the real news.
benny johnson
Chat, that's shady as hell.
jonathan howard
I'm very shady.
And I should also say this, there was people throwing Republican congressmen under the bus.
I think they were purposely trying to sabotage their election.
I think his name is Tim Moore, Speaker of the House of North Carolina.
When we were getting there, everyone was telling us the Speaker of the House was denying aerial recovery access into Lake Lord.
And nothing was making sense.
Tim Moore actually reached out to us and was like, that was not me.
Like, I don't know who is saying that.
And so it's like, but in other groups, it's like, who is saying that?
Why are people saying the Speaker of the House is doing that?
I think people were literally intentionally trying to sabotage that guy running for re-election.
unidentified
Dude.
Yeah.
jonathan howard
So there's a lot of weird things going on over there.
benny johnson
It's demonic, man.
jonathan howard
It's very demonic.
This government is demonic.
They're evil.
They're a bunch of pedophiles.
I hate them all.
Okay, never mind.
benny johnson
America first versus America last.
America first versus America last.
jonathan howard
I was about to go off, but I mean...
benny johnson
Hey, you got next now.
You got next.
unidentified
Put it up.
benny johnson
Free speech, baby.
Take me on one of these.
Let's go.
unidentified
Let's go.
benny johnson
And then we'll bring more eyeballs to what you're doing and show people what America first actually looks like.
unidentified
Yeah.
jonathan howard
And also, if I wind up dead, I'm not suicidal.
I did not hang myself.
So I would never do that.
benny johnson
Yes.
Mint it.
Put it up.
It's rock and roll.
Oh, interesting.
jonathan howard
It's probably my shot blocking out there.
unidentified
Oh, okay.
benny johnson
Yeah, that's probably you.
Okay, that's your call.
jonathan howard
Security show.
benny johnson
Thank you, Benny.
jonathan howard
Here we go.
benny johnson
Okay, Jonathan.
See you, baby.
See you, baby.
unidentified
See you, baby.
benny johnson
What's up, guys?
What's up, guys?
Later, Jonathan.
You're the man.
What's up, chat?
Okay, that's great.
Dude, you've got like 500 followers now.
On X. Post on X right now.
Post on X. A selfie.
Take a selfie.
Yeah, yeah.
Take a selfie.
This will prove to you guys that the show's actually live.
Oh, gotta get the fish in there.
jonathan howard
Gotta get the fish in there.
benny johnson
This is gonna be his first post.
That selfie's gonna be the first post, okay?
There we go.
Alright.
Fantastic.
All right.
Later, Jonathan.
jonathan howard
Yeah, absolutely.
Take an aerial recovery hat.
Spread awareness for those people.
They're good people.
Real good people.
benny johnson
Hat chat.
jonathan howard
See you, bro.
benny johnson
Okay.
Later, homie.
Saving America.
These people are saving America.
They're saving America.
Hold on.
There we go.
Okay.
unidentified
All right.
jonathan howard
What's up?
benny johnson
Got the mic.
Got the show.
Rock and roll.
This is our streamer.
This is our streamer setup.
We even moved the camera.
unidentified
You guys can see our little fish cabin.
Our little fish cabin here.
benny johnson
With these curtains.
Now we're doing a hunt show!
I'm Kamala Harris!
Here's my new accent!
I'm Kamala!
unidentified
Here's my new accent!
benny johnson
Bunch of wood oven shopping!
Look, chat!
It's new Banny!
Country Banny!
Simple Jack!
Yeah, alright.
We're not Kamala Harris.
That's the point, right?
Kamala Harris actually does this.
Kamala Harris actually does code switching, changes her accent, because she thinks people are that stupid!
Oh, it's so annoying.
Oh, our political class.
They're so despicable.
Kamala Harris.
She's talking to a black audience and she's talking to a Latino audience.
She changes her accent.
It's so bad.
You've seen this happen before, right?
You take out your mother-in-law and she's like this kept, insecure, suburban woman.
Who has live, laugh, love in her kitchen and the olive oil with the fruit inside of it.
It's a big thing of olive oil and it has leaves and stuff and lemons shoved into it.
You're like, what the hell is that?
And she has a kitchen like that?
She's never worked a day in her life.
And you take her out to Chili's?
You take her out?
To Chili's, and she starts, and she says, Chili relleno, right?
Can I get the, can I get the, can I get the nacho, nachos?
Right?
She starts saying, nachos?
Southwestern egg rolls?
You take her to the Chinese restaurant, and she starts speaking in a Chinese accent.
Mukugai pan.
Like, it's, like, these are, this is Kamala Harris.
This is who they want.
To lead the country.
We have the clips.
We have the clips of Kamala Harris code switching.
Where she does the different accents.
Do you have the one from Univision?
Just give me the one from Univision.
Are you okay?
Are you okay?
It's like your mother-in-law who lives in some suburb and you take her out to Chi-Chi's.
And she starts speaking.
In a Mexican accent.
And she's ordering her food.
unidentified
Are you okay?
benny johnson
Like, the waiter comes and says, would you like the Southwestern egg rolls?
And the mother, and then your mother-in-law goes, your mother-in-law's like, oh, gracias.
I would love that.
unidentified
Okay.
benny johnson
Do you have the clip?
Put that, put that up.
You gotta hear this.
This is so, so embarrassing.
I'm kind of a person.
You don't want somebody this insecure running all the nukes.
You don't want it.
Pop them up, Klein.
unidentified
In terms of relief for families affected by healing, what would your administration do differently in the case of Milton?
kamala harris
Well, first of all, thank you for the question.
I hope your family is okay and your home is okay.
Okay.
There has been a lot of misinformation about what we have been...
benny johnson
Do you hear her go in on misinformation?
She's talking about Jonathan.
She's talking about Jonathan.
He just left.
You hear her talk about misinformation?
This is the PSYOP.
unidentified
Are you okay?
Are you okay?
Kamala.
benny johnson
Oh, do you have that accent switch Kamala video?
Grab me that one.
Oh, man.
Here she's doing it one more time.
She's speaking to the Congressional Hispanic Caucus.
She's speaking to the Congressional Hispanic Caucus.
And she does the same thing.
I love you back.
unidentified
I love you.
benny johnson
Now please bring me my queso blanco.
I'm hungry.
Stop playing Feliz Navidad.
Right?
Stop singing Feliz Cumpleaños for the table next to me and bring me my margarita.
unidentified
Right?
benny johnson
Here, here you go.
kamala harris
I love you back.
benny johnson
Hello to all my- The famous, the famous Mexican Montreal accent.
It's a special accent.
All the kids are doing it.
All the rappers are doing it.
It's called the Mexican Montreal accent.
It's very deep.
It's very rich.
You can almost hear the French in it.
You can almost hear it.
It's part Mexican, part French-Canadian.
I love you back.
I love you back.
Dude, it's so, it's really, it's bad.
They want this.
She's the worst.
She's just the worst.
They Portnoy went off on this.
They Portnoy went off on this.
Colin Harris saying there's nothing, there's nothing that she would change about.
There's nothing she would change about the Biden administration, yet she's running on a new way forward.
Look at that in the background.
A new way forward.
It's so cringe.
This went viral over the weekend.
Here we go.
Accent switch Kamala!
unidentified
Who needs personality when you can switch who you are at the push of a button?
Oh, hello, young lady.
Quite a marvelous day, isn't it?
Why does she talk so weird?
Let me play with her.
Well, hey there, little nugget.
I'm going to be the first black female president of the United States of America.
Man, this doll sucks.
Accent Switch Kamala can emulate any accent you like, as long as it grants her credibility.
Oh, bonjour.
You have a croissant.
Merde American.
Guten Tag.
Sie lieben, I brought worst.
Oof-da, oof-da, oof-da-da.
Luke, I am your...
But wait, there's more!
All new Accent Switch Kamala comes with two bags of campaign money, a blind eye for illegal immigration, and her own multi-laugh 3000 generator.
Laugh in every way possible.
*laughter* You, you, you, you, you, you...
*makes noise* Let Accent Switch Kamala turn your life into a complete circus.
When you give me more money, like Uncle Joey did.
Don't you wear a little mask?
The money's coming.
I don't understand.
Oh, excuse me, honey.
I meant to say, uh, the money is coming.
I love ice cream, Kamala, Mav.
It's Accent Switch Kamala, and brand new Tampon Tim.
You know, my grandma always used to say, Kamala, Jono, please wash your hands so we can eat our chicken masama.
*music* *laughter*
benny johnson
Amazing.
I think they had a stinger on the end of who made that.
We posted it.
My favorite is the Joe Biden accent.
My favorite is the Joe Biden accent.
unidentified
Oh, wait.
Hold on.
benny johnson
And then Zelensky gets it.
Then Zelensky can understand.
What a clown car we live in.
What a clown show.
Snick.
Snick.
Snicklink.
Who made that?
Way to go.
Hold on.
Here's the account.
Here's the account.
unidentified
What's up, guys?
What's up?
Thank you for the hilarity there.
benny johnson
Okay, ladies and gentlemen.
Fun show.
Why not?
We got a giant fish.
unidentified
Got a giant fish in the studio.
benny johnson
Okay, so speaking of in the studio, Donald Trump confirms that he's going on Joe Rogan's podcast.
That's going to be really, really big.
Rampant speculation.
Well, you got 20 days.
Bro, you got 20 days.
Use your time wisely.
Donald Trump saying, yep, I'm going on the Rogan podcast.
That's going to be probably the biggest podcast episode to ever be published anywhere.
Have they already recorded it?
You know what I mean?
Like, do they already record it?
I'm not sure.
Joe Rogan's been posting about it too, so apparently it's actually happening.
It's pretty freaking awesome.
Ladies and gentlemen, we have such a great Sunday.
It's such a great Monday.
Sunday Gunday too.
Every day can be Gunday.
Such a great Monday Gunday for you.
Something that caused us more tears than accent switch Kamala is Tim Walls blowing his balls off this weekend.
I mean that.
Here we go.
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Okay, what do we got?
We got Tim Walls.
Speaking of code switching, we got code switching.
These people.
They're such frauds.
They're such unbelievable frauds.
They don't know how to speak in the accent.
Because they're ashamed of themselves.
This is where it all comes from, right?
It's human shame.
They're ashamed of who God made them.
And so much of, like, actually the root of, like, the corporate Democrat Party is just shame in who, like, we were created.
Like, how you were created.
And they're ashamed of that for some reason.
And that leads to huge embarrassments on the national stage.
And there's nothing worse than what happened this weekend with Tim Walz and his shotgun.
Tim Walls came out.
He went pheasant hunting this weekend.
Now, this is a guy who...
I only see one clip here.
No way.
Get me those memes.
Get me those Tim Walls loading tampons into his shotgun memes.
No, no, no, no.
You're not getting away with one clip here.
All right?
Tim Walls decided to...
Try and load his shotgun.
So he says, we're going to go pheasant hunting with my shotgun.
All right?
This is what it looked like.
unidentified
This is what it looked like.
It never fits quite right.
Never fits quite right.
Just not quite right.
How do you give it back?
Governor, what kind of gun is it?
benny johnson
This is a Beretta 8. Okay, I want to begin by saying, why are you...
Why are you trying to load?
I mean, first off, he's failing at loading his own firearm.
He's failing at loading his own shotgun.
Why are you loading it with the butt of the gun in your nuts?
That's a surefire way.
That's a surefire way to make sure that you ain't never having any more kids.
What are you doing?
unidentified
Who loads their gun like that?
Dude.
benny johnson
You've never fired that gun, have you?
You've never actually fired that shotgun.
Because it's not your shotgun.
That was handed to you.
You've clearly never touched it before.
And you're on your way to one of the most painful vasectomies in human history.
unidentified
Who loads their gun like this?
benny johnson
Bro, like, I'm trying to help you.
I don't like you, and I'm trying to help you.
So watch him struggle.
Watch this struggle session of him trying to get around, trying to get a shell into that shotgun.
unidentified
Governor, what kind of gun is it?
This is a Beretta A400.
I bought it when I was shooting a lot of trap because it has a kind of their patented thing, a kickoff, so when you get old, it doesn't hurt your shoulder as much.
benny johnson
Yeah, it's gonna hurt something very differently as you load your gun in your crotch.
And he can't load it.
unidentified
Watch this.
benny johnson
So what he's doing there is he's chambering and cycling through the shells and he can't get the shells out.
So this guy's a gun grabber.
Is this gonna convince you, hunters?
Is this gonna convince you, bros?
Convince young hunters?
So, get me the stats on Tim Walls.
Tim Walls went hunting.
There's a reporter who posted that video, but she says, they went hunting for a pheasant.
Three-hour hunt.
Walked three and a half miles.
unidentified
Shot zero pheasants.
benny johnson
Chat, is that a good hunting trip for you?
This hunting trip is not to, like, you know, go put a dip in and sit around like...
Drink beer with your buddies.
They're trying to prove that he's a hunter.
One pheasant shot, no carcasses recovered.
So they didn't even get the bird.
Pheasant ain't great eating in the first place.
Sorry if there's pheasant lovers out there.
I'm not a huge pheasant fan.
I've been pheasant hunting a bunch of times.
ALX has been pheasant hunting.
ALX, why don't we have your pheasant hunting photo in here?
Hold up, hold up.
ALX got a pheasant hunting photo.
ALX pheasant.
You want to see the great ALX pheasant hunt?
unidentified
Check this out.
benny johnson
ALX pheasant hunting.
We were plugging birds like freaking crazy.
Those birds were dropping like flies when we went pheasant hunting in South Dakota.
ALX, show the people you're pheasant hunting.
Hey, look at that boy!
ALX did more.
ALX probably got a bird in like three minutes.
You have pheasant hunting with ALX.
It's a good shot.
ALX, are you going to come on the show and talk about this?
You want to come on the show and talk about it?
Is ALX going to come on the show and talk about it?
It's up to you.
It's up to you, dude.
alex lorusso
Yes, let's talk about it.
There you go.
I will say my first...
benny johnson
I'm not going to put you on blast here and not invite you on to defend yourself.
You did way better than Tim Walsh.
alex lorusso
Yeah.
So my first field, my first shot, it was funny.
And actually, they did this completely all wrong.
You're supposed to walk in lines, you know, the dogs.
Go in front and scare the pheasant.
It comes up and you shoot it.
If you play Tim Walz's video, they're just wandering.
He doesn't even fire his gun.
My first shot was there was a pheasant right in front of me.
The dog was running backwards to scare it.
I had to turn around like this and then shoot it.
It was right there.
There was a massive explosion of feathers.
That was my first pheasant.
That was on my first field.
benny johnson
I think I was in that group with you.
I can't remember.
alex lorusso
Yep, you were in that.
benny johnson
Very impressive shot.
Everyone was, like, very impressed with it.
They're like, wow, that's a tough shot.
alex lorusso
Yeah, they asked me, and they were like, oh, do you, like, hunt a lot?
I'm like, no, that's, like, the first time I've fired, you know, a shotgun at a pheasant ever.
So that was my first time hunting.
benny johnson
This is a personal issue, and I don't want to get too personal here, but I doubt that you loaded your gun by putting the butt of your gun in between your legs.
I don't think so.
alex lorusso
It was, yeah.
I mean, it's pretty straightforward to load a shotgun, too.
It's not complicated at all.
benny johnson
Why would Tim Walz do this?
It's so fraudulent.
It's embarrassing.
There's no good headlines that came from this.
There's just the Elmer Fudd comparisons.
Do we have those?
Hey, Ashley and Jerry, grab me some of those great memes.
There's a bunch of tampon memes, a bunch of Elmer Fudd memes.
alex lorusso
We should have them in there now.
But yeah, the Elmer Fudd comparison is pretty spot on.
benny johnson
Why would they do this?
Why would you try and be so...
Why would you knowingly commit fraud?
It's so fraudulent.
He clearly doesn't know what the hell he's doing with that shotgun.
alex lorusso
Yeah.
Well, and the thing is, it's like, you gotta be like...
That's the thing.
Authenticity is the biggest thing with voters.
I'm not running for any office, but I entered the field when we went on the pheasant hunt and said, I've never done this in my life.
Just be honest with people.
It's like, hey, I'm trying something new or whatever, or this isn't my gun.
I'm unfamiliar with it or whatever.
Oh, no, this is my gun, and clearly he's fumbling with it.
It's like, yeah, totally, man.
You really look authentic.
But no, I really don't understand why they would do this if he's just clearly not familiar with it.
Go through a little practice run off camera if you're going to try and do this.
But yeah, it's really confusing to me.
benny johnson
What's the deal with getting only one bird?
Dude, we got a lot of birds.
When we went hunting, we got a lot of birds.
And I will admit to all of you, I'll admit to everyone, this is what we do for a living, right?
Like ALX and I are in the studio cooking, and I'm not out hunting a lot.
And so we are not experienced.
I would never call myself an experienced hunter.
Maybe later in life I will be.
I'd never call myself an experienced hunter.
But we got tons of birds, man.
alex lorusso
Yeah, yeah.
Within the first hour, we got a bunch of birds.
Never mind three hours.
That's insane.
I don't know.
I don't know, man.
It's humiliating how they said.
Did they say that he didn't even fire his gun once?
I think I saw that as well.
Yeah, so they supposedly shot one, but then didn't even recover the carcass.
So it's like, what kind of dogs are they hunting with?
Usually the dogs are all over that thing.
They're fighting for the carcass, so how did they not recover it?
I don't understand that.
benny johnson
Those dogs are incredible.
Dogs are amazing.
I don't know.
You don't have a dog, do you?
alex lorusso
I do not, no.
But I'm a dog lover, though.
benny johnson
I'm a dog lover as well.
alex lorusso
Those hunting dogs are crazy.
benny johnson
You know, there's an interesting clip.
Robbie, you grab it.
There's an interesting clip.
Robbie or Danny, grab it.
unidentified
This is probably my favorite.
benny johnson
Tim Walz being incapable of the first level of duck hunt, which is true, actually.
You know, those dogs...
So there's this video of the dog that can't stand Tim Walz.
And Tim Walz is trying to grab it and hug it, and the dog's like, get the hell away from me.
Right?
alex lorusso
Yeah.
benny johnson
Like, here it is.
This is perfect.
The dog, like, clearly is...
unidentified
Give me that dog.
How are you?
benny johnson
When the dog, when dogs snap their necks and start spinning, that's a dog's way of, like, get away from me, right?
The dogs, no.
Dogs are pure.
Dogs are pure animals.
They know good and bad.
unidentified
Okay?
benny johnson
They know good from bad.
And when a dog, like, behaves like this, you know it's a bad person.
alex lorusso
He wants nothing to do with Tim Walsh.
You can tell.
benny johnson
Those dogs are amazing.
The hunting dogs, those professional hunting dogs that we went hunting with, they're incredible.
alex lorusso
They're intense.
And that's what my point is.
It's like the ones that we were hunting with were all fighting for the carcass.
How did they not recover it?
I don't get it.
benny johnson
Yeah, I mean, maybe they lied.
ALX, of course, is an internet genius.
I can't believe that they actually leaned into this troll from J.D. Vance.
J.D. Vance published this before the hunt, a couple weeks, of him buck hunting.
Here we go.
unidentified
Hey, guys.
alex lorusso
J.D. Vance here.
mark mitchell
Played a little buck hunter before a rally in Eau Claire, Wisconsin.
unidentified
Also known as the closest Tim Walsh has ever gotten to real combat.
benny johnson
Have fun out there.
Hey Alex, how is that on the level?
alex lorusso
Yeah, I love that.
It's A-level trolling from J.D. Vance here.
He's learning from the master himself, Donald Trump.
So it's just gold.
And like you said, I guess they're kind of trying to lean into it.
It's like, oh yeah, that's a good idea.
Why don't we send him off hunting?
I don't understand.
And then he can't even load his gun and he can't even shoot a bird.
Good job.
Good job, Kamala and Waltz.
benny johnson
Alex, give me a preview of some of the hunters in Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania is a swing state, not too far away.
We were in Pennsylvania at Butler.
Close us out by giving me the state of play.
There are tons of gun owners in Pennsylvania.
Scott Pressler was talking with us at the rally.
He was sitting right in front of us.
We were at the Butler rally, and Scott Pressler was like, gun owners aren't registered to vote.
He's got problems.
alex lorusso
There's massive voter registration efforts underway in Pennsylvania.
The last day to register is actually a week from now.
So there's going to be actually a voter registration event before the Steelers game next weekend as well.
So there's going to be massive voter registration efforts up until the last day.
And yeah, it looks like there's good numbers coming out of Pennsylvania.
You know, more Republican registrations.
I think last week it was like two to one we were outnumbering Democrats in new registrations.
So, yeah, and it looks like they're going to focus near Pittsburgh and Allegheny County area rather than the Philly area.
But like we saw this morning, they're panicking.
They're like, we can't rely on just Philadelphia because it looks like Republicans are...
Getting energized in other counties like Bucks and Luzerne and Allegheny.
It's going to be nuts for the next seven days there.
benny johnson
Scott Presser putting in work.
Breaking right now, Alex, I hate to do this to you, but breaking right now, there's a new photo of Tim Walls hunting that just crossed the wire.
Here we go.
That's a tough look, man.
alex lorusso
Tough look.
benny johnson
Hunting for elves is actually what?
Hunting for elves.
They're catching them, baby.
They're catching the elves.
alex lorusso
Classic.
benny johnson
Alright, the great ALX.
Everyone follow ALX.
800,000 Americans plus!
Can't be wrong.
I actually don't know.
What's the new number?
alex lorusso
Yeah, we're at 805.
Yeah.
benny johnson
That's right.
alex lorusso
Hopefully a million soon.
We'll see.
benny johnson
On its way.
ALX, an actual...
Accurate photograph of ALX surveying X. And the ALX, ALX is one of the very few people, I guess, is a stinger on this program.
Here we go.
unidentified
See you, buddy.
benny johnson
Wouldn't that kick ass if we had specialized stingers for every guest?
That would be very cool.
unidentified
We're going to have to work on that.
benny johnson
We're going to have a capacity build.
We are running, baby.
We are running through November.
We're going to be traveling.
We're going to be doing a bunch of trips.
They're going to restore power in Tampa this week, so I'll be back either tomorrow into our studio.
I know.
I'm sad, too.
I'm sad, too.
Say goodbye.
Did we come up with a nickname?
For the fish chat.
Come on, put the nickname for the fish.
Donald Trout is what I came up with right there.
Okay, so that's what I got.
Donald Trout.
Okay.
Barracuda Benny.
It probably is a barracuda.
It's not a trout, right?
Okay, yeah.
All right.
Joe Bobbin.
I'm done!
Done.
Won't do it anymore.
Let's do it.
I know the amazing Ashley is probably thinking of one.
Ashley, you got one?
You got a fish nickname for me?
I got a good crew here, but not enough fish nicknames.
Danny's typically good with the nicknames.
What's the nickname for the fish?
I'm going to say bye.
We got to say bye.
We're going to say bye either today or tomorrow to the fish, and we'll be back in Tampa, and we'll be rock and roll.
Eric, that's not a fish.
That's not a nickname.
unidentified
Oh, Codmala.
benny johnson
Oh, okay.
I said it wrong.
Codmala.
At least he's trying.
All right?
At least Eric's trying.
Danny's absent in the chat.
All right.
Okay.
All right.
So we'll be letting her rip, you know?
In-studio guests and everything.
From the fist chanting.
Maglodon!
Love that!
Finny Johnson.
Look at those two.
Those are great.
From Dobby1593 and Jay Knight.
Okay.
Maglodon.
I love that.
unidentified
Okay.
Good.
benny johnson
Okay.
What else we got?
unidentified
Okay.
benny johnson
All right.
Whoa.
All right.
People are hitting on ALX.
Chat's hitting on ALX.
Chat.
All right.
ALX is a single man.
He's a successful man.
All right.
And so go for it.
Fair game.
I'm not going to...
I'm not going to go after people for coming for ALX in the chat.
No.
ALX is single.
All right?
So go for it.
Striped based.
Striped based.
Good.
unidentified
Okay.
benny johnson
Oh, yeah.
People.
All right.
Well, ALX, you're going to have some new followers and maybe some new fans on OnlyFans.
So, you know what?
Good for you, buddy.
Alright, so here we go.
We are at our verse of the day.
What a fun little, like, roll for today.
We launched our Benny Brews channel, by the way.
Put up our first interview with Mike Bent.
Had to do it a little bit.
unidentified
Had to do it with a little bit of, like...
benny johnson
Urgency from the road here, okay?
So probably not what, like, all of them are going to finally look like.
We want to, like, build out a whole set for Benny Brews, but we want to start loading up, like, long-form interviews, you know?
Because you can really, like, get into stuff with long-form interviews, and you can't if you're time-limited, you know, if you're all stuck and, like, sign out of a time box.
So we're letting it rip with Mike Benz, who's breaking down the deep-stage assassination plots on Donald Trump.
Go ahead and check that out.
It's a freaking awesome interview.
That guy's a genius.
Verse of the day.
Verse of the day from Psalms 40. I waited patiently for the Lord.
He turned to me and he heard my cry.
The Lord hears us and delivers us.
And, well, we feel like that, quite frankly.
Even though we're up here in the panel, we feel delivered.
And once the power flips back on, we're rocking and rolling.
A lot of big things coming, and a lot of great energy, and we thank you for joining us here, and we'll let the Benny Kuda take us out for the show today.
jonathan howard
See ya!
benny johnson
It's your boy, Benny!
This is a bit of fun one.
unidentified
*laughs*
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