March 18, 2021 - Bannon's War Room
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Well the virus has now killed more than 100 people in China and new cases have been confirmed around the world. | |
| So you don't want to frighten the American public. | ||
| France and South Korea have also got evacuation plans. | ||
| But you need to prepare for and assume. | ||
| Broadly warning Americans to avoid all non-essential travel to China. | ||
| This is going to be a real serious problem. | ||
| France, Australia, Canada, the US, Singapore, Cambodia, Vietnam, the list goes on. | ||
| Health officials are investigating more than 100 possible cases in the US. | ||
| Germany, a man has contracted the virus. | ||
| The epidemic is a demon and we cannot let this demon hide. | ||
| Japan, where a bus driver contracted the virus. | ||
| Coronavirus has killed more than 100 people there and infected more than 4,500. | ||
| We have to prepare for the worst, always. | ||
| Because if you don't, then the worst happens. | ||
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War Room. | |
| Pandemic. | ||
| Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon. | ||
| From the nation's capital, you are in the war room. | ||
| It is Thursday, the 18th of March, the year of our Lord 2021. | ||
| It is the 70th day of occupation. | ||
| We still haven't gotten a straight story because the Republican establishment over across the street has not been demanding, has not been banging on the tables every day to see where these intelligence reports are to keep this, quite frankly, disgraceful. | ||
| Wall up around the nation's capital in fact all of the central government compound in central Washington DC topped by razor wire and of course 3,500 to 4,000 up armored National Guard all the way from Guam as we know since they've been over in the in the house You know going to visit MTG the notorious MTG Marjorie Taylor Greene the congresswoman from Georgia, who's been our guest this week on the show. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| We're on the John Frederick's Radio Network nationwide on the app. | ||
| I want to particularly thank the new station we have, WMLB. | ||
| AM 1690 in Metro Atlanta for joining us. | ||
| It's been a great response from the folks there, and I really appreciate all the support and the shout-outs. | ||
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| Go to the app, the Real America's Voice app. | ||
| Make sure you get that. | ||
| G News and GTV in Mandarin, subtitled first, and then translated into Mandarin, and blown through the firewall into mainland China. | ||
| I want to thank everybody. | ||
| We're doing a special today. | ||
| We're going to obviously give you the news. | ||
| We're doing a special, The Road to 22. | ||
| We're going to be doing these periodically to go through exactly what's at stake in the midterm elections. | ||
| We want to start early because the predicate's been started now. | ||
| I'm going to be joined momentarily by Boris Epstein, one of the folks you know him as the lawyer on the campaign, but one of the folks that's been on the campaign in 16. | ||
| He was the head of the surrogates and he's also going to be He was in the 20 campaign also. | ||
| OK, we've got a lot going on today. | ||
| And as soon as I get it, as soon as I get known that Boris is up, we're going to cut to the program. | ||
| One thing to think about in this in the road to 22 is that, you know, they're meeting today in Alaska, in China, the CCP. | ||
| In the Biden administration, the first meeting on China is going to be one of the key things for the 2022. | ||
| I keep talking about this book, Chaos Under Heaven by Josh Rogin. | ||
| He's a Washington Post reporter. | ||
| He's a columnist for the Post as what it's called a reported column. | ||
| The book is Trump, Xi and the battle for the 21st century. | ||
| This goes through every aspect of what was happening in the Trump administration. | ||
| Interesting enough, it separates out the different categories of people that deal with the China situation. | ||
| Everything from super hawks, to hardliners, to realists, to the Wall Street faction, and to really what they call the axis of adults. | ||
| What's most interesting about this book… Is that before President Trump was even elected, President Trump was elected. | ||
| Election Day, as you remember, was Tuesday, the 8th of November. | ||
| And of course, it went over. | ||
| We found out we won by the Associated Press or designated we won by the Associated Press at about two thirty a.m. | ||
| in the morning on the 9th the next day. | ||
| But the previous week, I think it was on Thursday and Friday, I think was the first, second and third of November in the Palace Hotel in New York City. | ||
| They met the same team that's in Alaska today with the Biden administration, met with guess who? | ||
| John Kerry and Susan Rice. | ||
| Susan Rice at that time was, I think, National Security Advisor. | ||
| John Kerry was Secretary of State. | ||
| They met from the Obama team and actually talked about Talked about what a transition to power would be, how it would be, you know, the pivot to Asia that Obama had worked on and had deputized Joe Biden to be the head of, how there's going to be almost a seamless transition, a seamless transition to the A seamless transition to the Hillary Clinton administration. | ||
| And they talked about having stable relationships, spheres of influence, all of that. | ||
| Junior people, Jake Sullivan was the National Security Advisor for the Hillary Clinton campaign. | ||
| Later he was to tell people, hey, Bannon and those guys on the Trump campaign were right. | ||
| We're actually not the declining power. | ||
| They're not really the rising power. | ||
| The United States still holds all the cards. | ||
| We misplayed that. | ||
| But at the time, he was on the Clinton campaign. | ||
| Here's the shocking thing. | ||
| The Chinese felt that the managed decline of our country by the elites was going to be a continuity from the Obama campaign right into the Clinton White House. | ||
| And here's what's the amazing thing. | ||
| If you look at Alaska today, what's happening at this meeting? | ||
| What you've got, what you have is really an interregnum. | ||
| You've got now Tony Blinken and Jake Sullivan. | ||
| Jake Sullivan is now the National Security Advisor. | ||
| Tony Blinken, who was a junior guy over in Kerry's, not a junior guy, but was a guy in Kerry's State Department, is now the Secretary of State. | ||
| They're the ones flying to Alaska to meet with Tiger Yang and others of the high level of the Chinese Communist Party. | ||
| And remember, Tiger is, if you read the book, if you know what went on after President Trump took the call from From Taiwan, the Chinese Communist Party went absolutely crazy. | ||
| They flew over to see General Flynn, myself, Peter Navarro, and Jared Kushner, and to sit there and try to lecture us for two days about the territorial integrity and the sovereignty of the Chinese Communist Party and the CCP was not to be questioned. | ||
| Of course, President Trump immediately went into, really, I thought, a confrontation, but he was very open to work with them, but on the terms of the United States. | ||
| And what happened is that in the first hundred days, They had every opportunity to try to get into a different negotiating stance. | ||
| that thing was blown up because they wanted to play, they thought it was just going to be business as usual, business as usual that they had really done with every administration, whether that administration was the Clinton administration, whether that administration was Bush, Bush 42 or Bush 43, the Clinton administration, George W. Bush and Obama. | ||
| They thought it was going to be business as usual. | ||
| They found out it was not. | ||
| This is why it's important predicate when we talk about this road to 22. | ||
| Right now, what you see the Biden administration, here's the bet they're making. | ||
| They're making a bet that they just passed this $1.9 trillion COVID relief bill or CCP relief bill. | ||
| This is, as I said, one of the most radical pieces of legislation really in the history of the country, but certainly the last 20 or 30 years. | ||
| And it comes with $1.9 trillion attached. | ||
| They don't have to go back and kind of argue with the Appropriations Committee and really take the time to do that. | ||
| It comes with cash money today. | ||
| And as I think people are starting to deconstruct this, I would actually say too late. | ||
| They should have done this beforehand. | ||
| Now, as the Biden administration goes around and tries to sell it, the $1.9 trillion, they see that as a media cash infusion, a kind of the last bridging mechanism. | ||
| In this drop in aggregate demand, which is really the stimulus program, I think was already up to be up to like $5 or $6 million trillion dollars today. | ||
| That stimulus, coupled with the vaccines being rolled out, and they're going to start to open the schools now, right? | ||
| They're going to start to muscle the teachers unions, open the school, get the vaccines out, infuse this with $1.9 trillion in the fall using reconciliation. | ||
| What they intend to do is come back with not a $2 trillion, Not a $2 trillion second stimulus program, but a $4 trillion, $2 trillion of that to go to infrastructure, $2 trillion of that go to Green New Deal. | ||
| With that, with the $1.9 trillion today, the $2 to $4 trillion in the fall, the vaccines rolling out, the schools opening, what their plan is, is that in the spring and summer of 2022, The economy is going to be on fire. | ||
| They're anticipating today, and I think Wall Street agrees with them, there'll be 10% growth in the economy. | ||
| There'll be 10% growth in the economy today, or this year, and up to 6, maybe 8% growth in the economy next year. | ||
| Obviously, they have inflation concerns, they have overheating the economy, but that's a bet they're clearly prepared to make as they see the world. | ||
| As they converge in on 2022 to try to thwart any type of midterm letdown or particularly what happened to President Obama. | ||
| Remember this mantra you hear going on right now inside the Biden administration. | ||
| They say that Obama's biggest failure was not selling the $800 billion. | ||
| You know, bailout that he had for Wall Street and for the corporations in the spring, over the winter and spring of 2009. | ||
| Remember, they had the financial collapse, the financial implosion weeks before, in September, weeks before the election of Obama in 2008. | ||
| In fact, people forget on, I think it was September 15th, when Lehman Brothers went into bankruptcy. | ||
| Actually, Sarah Palin, Gallup Poll, I think had Sarah Palin and John McCain up one point. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| They were eventually to lose. | ||
| Obama came in. | ||
| Bush started it, but Obama came in and had the $800 billion stimulus package. | ||
| The Democrats believe he didn't sell it. | ||
| So it came time for the midterms. | ||
| The Tea Party was started immediately after that. | ||
| The Tea Party got traction. | ||
| It was talking about the bailouts. | ||
| It was talking about how we get a hold of spending, you know, who caused the financial collapse. | ||
| In the midterm election of 2010, I think there was 62 seats won by the Tea Party. | ||
| Many of the people you see today, Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, Tom Cotton, All came in on that Tea Party Sweep. | ||
| Sarah Palin and Michelle Bachman were some of the big leaders of the Tea Party Revolt in the spring and summer of 2010. | ||
| It started to get momentum, but that predicate was all laid in the spring of 2009. | ||
| And then the fall of 2009 and the winter of 2010, spring of 2010, it led. | ||
| To the biggest reversal in the House of Representatives, I think since 1932, since the depths of the Great Depression. | ||
| So if you look at the predicate today, how do we take back the House? | ||
| How do we take the Senate? | ||
| And this is what Boris Epstein is going to be here in a moment to talk about as we go through both the House, as we go through the Senate, as we go through every different aspect of this. | ||
| Remember, you've got to lay the predicate today. | ||
| So the first part of the predicate is this stimulus bill. | ||
| Let's be honest about it. | ||
| There was a lead story in Politico the other day. | ||
| The Republicans did not do it in the outside groups. | ||
| Hey, this is on the outside groups. | ||
| This is on others. | ||
| People did not do a great job at the time. | ||
| This is being put together of really what did this bill entail? | ||
| This bill is just not a direct cash payment or transfer to the American people. | ||
| This is really more than a COVID bill. | ||
| President Trump was on Maria Bartiromi that day. | ||
| What was his complaint? | ||
| This was somewhat the bill he had, but a different structure to it. | ||
| He had essentially one trillion dollars of direct COVID relief, okay? | ||
| He also had, put together by Peter Navarro, about a trillion dollars of infrastructure. | ||
| That was what they had in the summer of 2000. | ||
| And 20, that for a host of reasons didn't get pushed forward. | ||
| He didn't feel that Mitch McConnell pushed it hard enough. | ||
| Then after that fell apart, Mitch McConnell was not a big supporter of the bigger cash payments, the $1,400, I think, versus the $600 after the November election. | ||
| And this is one of the things that President Trump continues to blame him for, for this debacle in Georgia. | ||
| not just simply not supporting him, not supporting President Trump, but neither of the candidates really came out hard and supported what President Trump could have tried to get through then to save this. | ||
| So remember, this whole concept of what's gonna happen in the spring and summer of 2022 is absolutely important in setting the predicate. | ||
| That's why very early on, we're very proud to have our first special, The Road to 22. | ||
| And what we're gonna do is we're gonna talk about all this. | ||
| We're gonna talk about the House. | ||
| We're gonna talk about the Senate. | ||
| We're gonna talk about all the primaries because people are saying, hey, are we gonna have real MAGA candidates that are going to contest these House seats. | ||
| Are we going to have real MAGA candidates that are going to contest these Senate seats? | ||
| We're getting all this. | ||
| I really want to thank our sponsor, Mike Lindell. | ||
| Mike Lindell has been the warrior that's been out there. | ||
| He's been out in front of This voter fraud situation. | ||
| He's putting his own money where his mouth is. | ||
| He's obviously being sued by everybody in the world. | ||
| He's continuing to fight. | ||
| You see every state that's going on. | ||
| He's not just there defending his, he's just not there defending his lawsuits. | ||
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| I want to get down to the nitty-gritty of exactly what to expect. | ||
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Boris Epstein will join us after the break. | |
| Pandemic. | ||
| With Stephen K. Banham. | ||
| The epidemic is a demon and we cannot let this demon hide. | ||
| War Room. | ||
| Pandemic. | ||
| Here's your host, Stephen K. Banham. | ||
| OK, the one thing we know about this, about the COVID-19 or the CCP virus, as we call it, and regardless of whether you think it's a bioweapon that came out, leaked out of the Wuhan lab, or if you think this is a total and complete hoax and you're tired of hearing it, the one thing we have learned. | ||
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| Okay. | ||
| This is the Road to 22. | ||
| It's our initial kickoff special. | ||
| People going, Bannon, why are you doing this in March, man? | ||
| We got this two years, 18 months away. | ||
| It's two years away. | ||
| You're killing me. | ||
| I just got through the last election. | ||
| No. | ||
| As we said in the last segment, it starts now. | ||
| Remember, the Biden administration, the Democratic Party, they're already planning on it. | ||
| They're going to fuse with a $1.9 trillion infusion of cash today. | ||
| They're coming with $2 to $4 trillion, and they can do this by reconciliation. | ||
| You know, Manchin and everybody saying, oh, you know, we want to have the Republicans be part of it. | ||
| But they've got the opportunity here to not worry about the filibuster. | ||
| They anticipate, they're looking downrange, they think in the summer of 2022 they're going to have the vaccines out, they're going to have the schools open, the COVID-19 will be behind them, they'll have a white hot economy because it'll be on, it'll be with six additional, what, six trillion dollars of cash infusion since the end of President Trump's first term. | ||
| Okay, I want to bring in now Boris Epstein who was on the 16 campaign hit of circuits, also on the Uh, in the White House as Special Assistant to the President and the 20 campaign. | ||
| Boris, real quickly, we've got to convince, it's incumbent upon us in what I call setting the predicate, to convince MAGA Nation that we're on top of what happened on November 3rd and that's still, that's still being fought for. | ||
| Give us, you're with the tip of the spear then, just walk us through quickly, how can you convince MAGA Nation your vote's going to count? | ||
| Only legal votes are going to matter in 2022. | ||
| We're not going to have this thing stolen from us, right? | ||
| It's not going to happen again. | ||
| So you come out, knock on doors, you know, hit the campaign with a $5 bill, knock on doors, bring your polls. | ||
| It's not a waste of time. | ||
| What say you, sir? | ||
| Steve, great to be with you. | ||
| And I agree that it is vital to be having the show today because the 2022 campaign has already been going on for several months. | ||
| This notion that campaigns are only going on in the year that they're happening is Absolutely outdated. | ||
| We are in the midst of the 22 campaign, and I believe we're already in the midst of the 24 presidential campaign. | ||
| So in terms of voter irregularities, in terms of voter integrity, here's what's happening. | ||
| First of all, this was huge. | ||
| Came out in the last day or so. | ||
| The Caesar of the Democratic assault on voter integrity, their leader, is Mark Elias. | ||
| Mark Elias and his colleagues were sanctioned by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals for their assault on voter integrity, specifically a case in Texas. | ||
| They've been abusing the legal system and now they're being called out for it by a circuit court of appeals. | ||
| That is a big deal and a huge brushback to the leadership of Perkins Coie, which is the firm Elias is at, and this is the same firm that was behind the nonsense, the absolutely false Steele dossier, which was the birthing document of the Russia hoax, and the firm that's leading the voter fraud efforts, and I'll say it just that way, the voter fraud efforts of the Democrat Party. | ||
| So that's a big win. | ||
| That's one. | ||
| Two, look at Georgia. | ||
| You've got, in Georgia, legislation being passed, legislation being pushed forward that is going to push back on that consent decree, which is the reason, which is the reason that if President Trump did lose Georgia in 2020, which I'm not convinced of because they found a lot of ballots throughout that state and we never saw an audit, what we have seen is the Washington Post have to walk back their Lying about President Trump's phone call to their Secretary of State. | ||
| But, if President Trump did lose Georgia, it is because of that consent decree that Republican Governor Brian Kemp, Republican Secretary of State Raffensperger entered into with your favorite politician down there, and you know who I'm talking about. | ||
| So, that is what's happening in Georgia. | ||
| They are pushing back hard. | ||
| They are not allowing for themselves to be intimidated by the left in Georgia. | ||
| In Arizona, you've got the audit that's going to be happening in Arizona. | ||
| That is a big deal. | ||
| The Maricopa County 2.1 million forensic audit. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| That is a big deal, and that audit, I am told, is about to get underway in the next week or so. | ||
| They're choosing the right entity, the non-partisan entity, to take it on, and they are also going to be undeterred. | ||
| Just like Georgians are undeterred against Stacey Abrams, Arizona is undeterred against the RINO Democrats. | ||
| The RINO Republicans, I'm sorry. | ||
| Who have not done the right thing there and did not push for this audit early enough. | ||
| That's what we needed. | ||
| We needed that audit back in December, but it is going to happen now. | ||
| Okay, so let's say we convinced, for purposes of this discussion, let's say we've convinced MAGA that we're on November 3rd. | ||
| There's a lot of stuff that's going to blow up here. | ||
| I did it just in two minutes like that? | ||
| I'm so good? | ||
| Yeah, no, it's going to question the legitimacy of Biden and this administration every day. | ||
| How do you, let's go now to the, I want to go back to 2010. | ||
| I talked about the Tea Party Revolt and the 62 seats. | ||
| Let's start with the House. | ||
| The House is critical. | ||
| If we don't take back the House, we're in real, we got a real problem. | ||
| We came close. | ||
| Walk us through from redistricting every aspect of this potential House race on the road to 22. | ||
| So here, here's the map that's being thrown up right now. | ||
| That you're seeing of districts that flipped in 2020. | ||
| That's an important map from Ballot PD. | ||
| They do a good job over there. | ||
| And you're seeing a lot of red districts picked up. | ||
| Obviously, the Republican Party did great in 2020. | ||
| You know, we're supposed to believe that Biden got 80 million votes, but the Republican Party picked up 15 seats, okay? | ||
| So, to me, that stretches credibility, but I guess mainstream media is telling us we have to believe it. | ||
| So, that's 2020. | ||
| But as we look ahead to 2022, first of all, redistricting. | ||
| The redistricting information from the census was supposed to be out at the end of March of this year, March 31st. | ||
| Guess when it's going to be out? | ||
| Take a wild guess. | ||
| Have no idea. | ||
| When? | ||
| End of September. | ||
| Six months late. | ||
| Six months late. | ||
| In a two-year election cycle. | ||
| And this is the 10-year time when you're supposed to redistrict. | ||
| The state legislatures are supposed to be doing this. | ||
| Well now, Biden in control. | ||
| They're not going to release the information and it's going to be six months late. | ||
| When it does come out, you're going to have extra districts in places like Florida. | ||
| More districts in places like Texas. | ||
| You'll likely have less districts in places like New York. | ||
| So that is a benefit. | ||
| That is a benefit. | ||
| To the Republican Party. | ||
| Let's go beyond that. | ||
| Let's look at the so-called- Hold up, just one second. | ||
| I just want to make clear about this. | ||
| Is that absolutely a holy writ, or is that still to be contested, that they want to push this all the way to the fall? | ||
| Because I've heard both. | ||
| I heard they want to push it back as far as possible, but there's still a way to contest this, to force it out. | ||
| You can actually go to court and try to force this thing out in the timeframe it is. | ||
| You can go to court and fight state by state. | ||
| But as you know about the legal process in the United States of America, that doesn't really move at a breakneck pace either. | ||
| So he's saying very short races in some of these key states, very short races, particularly in Florida and Texas. | ||
| And Texas is definitely going to be in play this time. | ||
| I'm going to say it even deeper. | ||
| I'm going to go even deeper on this. | ||
| I think that that end of September date may be optimistic. | ||
| I could see the census information not come out until late this year, maybe even early next year. | ||
| And then in certain states, you're going to have, you're going to have Democrats go to court and say, well, this redistricting shouldn't apply to 22. | ||
| Let's apply it to 24. | ||
| Let's punt it. | ||
| You're going to, that's a battle. | ||
| You know, we always talk about right on your show, signal, not noise. | ||
| The signal, keep, keep in mind and keep attention. | ||
| On whether Democrats are attacking the process and saying, well you know what, now it's too late. | ||
| They're going to claim that President Trump quote-unquote messed up the census by wanting to have a citizenship question on there, which has been on the census in the past and should absolutely be on the census. | ||
| We need to know where the citizens are who are allowed to vote in this country. | ||
| Yes, that is the Constitution of the United States. | ||
| Yes, that is the law that citizens are the only ones allowed to vote. | ||
| So, The Democrats are going to claim that because of what happened with the census, because of that court case that went up to the Supreme Court that Chief Justice Roberts was totally wrong on, by the way, in ruling against the Trump administration, the citizenship question should be on the census. | ||
| But the Democrats are going to say, well, because of that, this got delayed, now we can't get the information out, and now let's push the whole thing back. | ||
| But hang on, before you leave that, I just want to make sure everybody out there, That you're hearing from people, oh we got this because we're within five seats and we can lean on our ranks because redistricting we're going to pick up ten. | ||
| That's a rumor that's going around. | ||
| Just remember, nothing's certain, okay? | ||
| You can't depend upon that. | ||
| It's nice, but to me it's going to be gravy. | ||
| You should assume nothing on redistricting. | ||
| Right? | ||
| Probably. | ||
| It could probably be good news, but you don't know. | ||
| So, Boris, we're going to take a short commercial break. | ||
| When we come back, I want to get more into the House. | ||
| We'll get into the Senate in the next segment. | ||
| We'll get more into the House because the House is obviously very, very important. | ||
| Boris Epstein was head of surrogates on the 2016 and then 2020, had a major role also, was in the White House. | ||
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| This is the initial special. | ||
| The Road to 22. | ||
| We're going to have these periodically. | ||
| We know we're starting early, but you got to start early. | ||
| The reason is the Democrats have already started this, okay? | ||
| They're already thinking through the summer of 2022, and we're going to put you in the seat next with the House. | ||
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| OK, the reason we're starting in March of 2021 is that the Democrats have already started and we're going to be here is another resource for this audience, the most powerful audience in all of media. | ||
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| We're just not going to cover horse races, right? | ||
| We're going to get below the surface of why it's a horse race. | ||
| And that's where we're starting today, Boris Epstein. | ||
| Let's go back to the house, Boris. | ||
| Go ahead, let's take the house, let it rip. | ||
| So the most interesting thing, and as we said in the last segment, The redistricting is really still up in the air. | ||
| As of now, the U.S. | ||
| Census Bureau is saying at the earliest, September 30th, is when they'll deliver the redistricting data. | ||
| I think it could go longer. | ||
| You could also see court cases from the Democrats pushing it back. | ||
| This is the 2020 map. | ||
| Now let's go to the 52% Club. | ||
| This is, I think, the most useful information on races you're going to see. | ||
| This is a list, the 52% Club, this is a list of Uh, of incumbents who won by 52% or less. | ||
| And there are 28 of these, as you scroll down. | ||
| There's 28 total. | ||
| The staggering information, the staggering fact is 24%, 24 of the 28, sorry, 24 incumbents who won by 52% or less are Democrats, only 4 Republicans. | ||
| are 24 incumbents who want a 52% or less are Democrats, only 4 Republicans. | ||
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So that's a 20, 20 net. | |
| Why is the 50, hang on, why is it 52%? | ||
| Rule of thumb, people hear, hey, if an incumbent continually polls below 50%, he's in the danger zone. | ||
| Why do you pick 52%? | ||
| 52% is what's been picked as a level that if you're an incumbent and you're under that level, you are viewed as vulnerable. | ||
| It's a level of vulnerability sort of like the Mendoza line in baseball, right? | ||
| If you're batting under the Mendoza line, you're not doing well. | ||
| If you're under 52% as an incumbent, you're not doing well. | ||
| So, 24 Democrats, 4 Republicans, net 20 seats. | ||
| That are going to be up in 2022. | ||
| Let's look at a couple of them, right? | ||
| You got Sherry Bustos there, Illinois 17th. | ||
| That wasn't even considered a battleground, but very interesting. | ||
| You got Chris Pappas in New Hampshire. | ||
| That's our friend Matt Mowers, who was on the 2016 campaign, then did a great job in the State Department, ran in that race. | ||
| And I think He may be looking at it again, a really, really good guy in New Hampshire first. | ||
| Then you go down, you look at Pennsylvania, of course you've got Conor Lamb there in the 17th. | ||
| So if you look at these races, these are the places where- That's our buddy Sean Parnell, right? | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| So these are places where if Republicans do what we can do, which is stay authentic, stay strong, stay MAGA. | ||
| We pick up those seats. | ||
| That is how we get to a big pickup. | ||
| It's not just the redistricting. | ||
| That's, as you said, the redistricting should be a free option. | ||
| It's look at the seats that are winnable now. | ||
| Say that the Republicans even lose, say we lose these four, but then we win the Democrat 24. | ||
| We're at that 20. | ||
| And then you've got a Republican majority in the House, and it's a whole new world. | ||
| And then we can talk about who the speakers should be, and so on and so forth. | ||
| But that is what to concentrate on. | ||
| That is what to keep your eyesight on. | ||
| Those races with the incumbent did not go over 52. | ||
| We're going to have that list. | ||
| We're putting it in the live chat. | ||
| Here's what I want to make sure people understand is that if you're thinking, I know a lot of people have been motivated by President Trump. | ||
| Some people have been motivated about what happened from November 3rd to January 6th, about what they saw go around the country. | ||
| They've been more motivated forever than ever. | ||
| I know people that listen to this show and watch it all the time, whether it's for county commissioner or becoming a precinct committeeman, which you go to precinctstrategy.com to find out, run it for the state legislature, or if your sites are on Congress. | ||
| We're not telling you not to do something. | ||
| We're going to try to empower you to go look at it. | ||
| Make sure you get the information. | ||
| Start off. | ||
| With these 24 Democratic districts where the guy's under 50, the person's under 52 percent. | ||
| If you're in one of those districts, that's where you really start rolling up your sleeves and say, hey, can I take a shot at this thing? | ||
| Do I have the ability to raise money? | ||
| Do I have a message? | ||
| Do I have something that can galvanize people? | ||
| Boris, real quickly, I want you to say, where do people go? | ||
| Where do you recommend people that want to get information and want to do more than just The normal person reading the newspaper, if they're so motivated to really say, hey, maybe I could take a shot at this, or maybe I have somebody in my community I think ought to take a shot at this, or maybe I just want to go work for a candidate. | ||
| How would you recommend people go about that in gathering information? | ||
| It's all about cutting through the noise. | ||
| It's all about getting to the signal. | ||
| So, I use Ballotpedia. | ||
| Ballotpedia's got a lot of great information going back a long way on races all the way back to the beginning of the 20th century. | ||
| And this information is on there. | ||
| Real clear politics. | ||
| Very smart on polling. | ||
| The Hill is also very good on these races. | ||
| And to those people who are at home and want to get involved and want to run, think about getting involved. | ||
| Think about the U.S. | ||
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House. | |
| Some of you may be thinking about the U.S. | ||
| Senate. | ||
| Others, think about the local state houses where Republicans are in the majority a lot all across the country. | ||
| Florida, Texas, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Arizona. | ||
| So important to have MAGA Republicans. | ||
| Let me say this again. | ||
| MAGA Republicans in the state houses as well. | ||
| Of course, along with the federal level in the House of Representatives and the Senate. | ||
| Get involved. | ||
| And a lot of you have already done this. | ||
| If you need to reach out to me and you want to talk, hit me on Twitter. | ||
| I'm there. | ||
| The DMs are open. | ||
| If you're really thinking of running, you've got somewhere with all. | ||
| Now, running for Congress is no joke. | ||
| You need to do several things. | ||
| You need to have a strong message. | ||
| You need to be able to raise money. | ||
| You need to be able to get a good team. | ||
| But if you think that you've got that ability, even if you have some background in politics, which would be in some ways a positive, but not a prerequisite, think about getting involved. | ||
| 2022 is going to be a huge, bellwether, watershed election. | ||
| Get involved. | ||
| Either go and think about running, or if you do not run, make sure you're supporting those MAGA candidates out there. | ||
| Just looking at Critical Path, I know some of the states have primaries that are later in the summer, up to August in 2022, a couple of the states, particularly out West. | ||
| But if you think about it, a lot of the primaries start in the early spring or late winter of 2022, all the way through June. | ||
| Basically, a year beforehand, you've got to actually have ready and pull the trigger that you're committed to go out and raise money. | ||
| You've got a team, all that. | ||
| So right now, if you have an interest, or you want to work for somebody, or you want to tell somebody in your area saying, hey, look, I think you can make a run for this thing. | ||
| Now's the time you've got to be having those meetings. | ||
| You've got to take the weekend, get people around the table, get a pot of coffee and say, hey, how do we do this? | ||
| What's the polling tell us? | ||
| What do we know about the analysis? | ||
| What does our data say? | ||
| Look back at these other races. | ||
| President Trump, as you know, he's committed to put his shoulder to the wheel here. | ||
| Uh, in this race. | ||
| Why don't you talk about how important that is for people that are planning on doing something in these primaries. | ||
| You're going to have Trump coming in right afterwards. | ||
| I mean, he's working right now, but he's going to be a big influence in 2022. | ||
| Is there any doubt in your mind on that, Boris? | ||
| No doubt. | ||
| President Trump is the force in the Republican party going into 2022 and 2024, which we talk about a lot. | ||
| I do hope the president runs for president and is the 47th president. | ||
| of the United States. For 2022, he is the largest looming figure. You can already see it. You see it from the visits down to Mar-a-Lago. You can see it in how hard the primary candidates are working to court President Trump. And you've got some of the establishment under Mitch McConnell who are choosing not to. But you know that the Republican Party, the lifeblood of the party, which is the MAGA movement, continues to look to President Trump for endorsements. | ||
| You've got some strong people. | ||
| You know, Sarah Huckabee Sanders received an endorsement. | ||
| Some others who are a little more establishment-type got them as well. | ||
| President Trump has already endorsed Max Miller in that race against Anthony Gonzalez in Ohio. | ||
| So you have a very, very involved, committed leader of the Republican Party who is there to push the MAGA candidates forward and then push them across the finish line. | ||
| You remember firsthand, Steve, how vital President Trump was in 2016 to winning a ton of seats in the House and the Senate. | ||
| How vital he was in 2020 to winning those 15 House seats and making sure that the Senate did stay 50-50. | ||
| And if anybody tells me that Georgia went the way it did for any reason except for Mitch McConnell not going to $2,000, you're kidding me. | ||
| That is exactly what happened. | ||
| If Mitch McConnell says it's 2000, he's still the majority leader and not crying Chuck Schumer. | ||
| Okay, also for the MAGA folks out there, immigration, you've seen what's happened to the border, immigration, the economy with this 1.9 trillion, the couple trillion coming, but where the balance sheet of the Federal Reserve is, where the economy is, and also China. | ||
| Those are looking to be three of the biggest elements, they're all MAGA elements, so make sure you study that day. | ||
| Let's pivot to, remember, in 16, on that weekend before the 16 campaign, Missouri, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, those four states look like they were gone as far as the Senate It was Donald Trump's great closing surge, as the closer he is, that pulled those guys across the line and really gave Mitch McConnell, the majority leader, to go already Speaker of the House then, Paul Ryan. | ||
| Let's flip to the Senate. | ||
| We've got a couple minutes here and then we'll go to the next segment. | ||
| The Senate. | ||
| One thing I like about the Senate already, Boris, I'm looking at states like Ohio and Missouri and places like that, you're seeing three and four Very viable candidates. | ||
| Some more on the MAGA scale, some more MAGA than others, but everybody that's preaching the gospel of Donald J. Trump, right? | ||
| Take us through these. | ||
| For sure. | ||
| Well, let's start with Missouri. | ||
| That's been in the news a lot, right? | ||
| Missouri's where Roy Blunt, who is one of the establishment Republicans, President Trump put out a nice statement after Roy Blunt announced that he's going to retire and will not be running. | ||
| So that is an open primary there. | ||
| And you look at the candidates, you've got the biggest name in Missouri is Eric Reitens. | ||
| No two ways about it. | ||
| He already won a statewide race, Purple Heart, Navy Seal, Rhodes Scholar. | ||
| He had a personal issue, he did, he has admitted to, but everything else was a complete railroading by the Soros funded attorney general there, Kim Gardner, who is the same woman who prosecuted the McCloskey. | ||
| So that's Missouri. | ||
| You've got Eric Greiden's looming large. | ||
| And there's other candidates who are potentially looking at it. | ||
| You've got Eric Schmidt, I think, the Attorney General. | ||
| You've got Keough, what, he's Lieutenant Governor right now. | ||
| You've got a Congressman that's kicking around. | ||
| That's a situation. | ||
| You can have three or four, in the scale of MAGA, you can have three or four pretty competitive candidates there. | ||
| So that's a primary that people are going to watch very closely, correct? | ||
| Yes. | ||
| Missouri is going to be a national news primary with a candidate who's got a national name in Eric Greinzett and others who have some level of a name in Missouri. | ||
| But Missouri is going to be a race very closely watched. | ||
| Again, signal not noise. | ||
| You're looking at strong candidates. | ||
| uh... strong candidates there i do think it's going to be hard for others to compete you know with with eric grintons and you had eric a lot of the governor grintons a lot on your show he is strong he's got that strong back and he's somebody who was able to win both in st louis but then he goes down to southeast and southwest missouri he did well down there as well that's an unusual combination to be put together to be put together | ||
| So I would keep a strong eye on Gritens as the MAGA champion, and I've tweeted about this as well, as the MAGA champion in Missouri. | ||
| Go beyond that. | ||
| Go to Ohio. | ||
| Talk about a place that's full of MAGA candidates. | ||
| J.D. | ||
| Vance, potentially. | ||
| You've got Timken. | ||
| You've got Mandel, who's already announced. | ||
| And you may have Gibbons. | ||
| You may have Gibbons, the investment banker that came from nowhere. | ||
| In Missouri, you've got three or four In Ohio, you've got four. | ||
| Mandel, who used to be more of a Koch libertarian, he's preaching the gospel of populist nationalism, and he's a decorated combat marine. | ||
| So you've got an intense race right there with a national figure already in J.D. | ||
| Vance, best-selling author. | ||
| Timken was chairman of the Trump campaign in 20. | ||
| We're going to take a quick break. | ||
| We're going to come back to the Senate, some of these Senate races, these primaries, with Boris Epstein, Stephen K. Bannon. | ||
| You're in the War Room. | ||
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| Calm. Do it. | ||
| Okay, Boris, a couple more defenses. | ||
| Because Ohio is going to be defending, Missouri is going to be defending a seat. | ||
| You've got Lara Trump, hopefully her, in the race to defend down in North Carolina. | ||
| There's Mo Brooks and some others down in Alabama. | ||
| That's another defend. | ||
| But then you've got Johnson up in the... | ||
| Pennsylvania, you're going to have a lot of guys that have not jumped in yet. | ||
| Maybe Sean Parnell, some other MAGA guys get in. | ||
| A big question in Wisconsin of whether everybody thought that Senator Johnson was going to do it, but of course they're pounding him every day on quote-unquote these racist comments he made on BLM. | ||
| They're all over him on that. | ||
| You see they're trying to drive him out of that race already. | ||
| But I want to go in the few minutes we've got left in our inaugural show of The Road to 22. | ||
| I want to talk about the potential flips. | ||
| You don't hear a lot of talk about this. | ||
| Give us the potential flips in the Senate. | ||
| Well, there's this narrative that, oh, it's a tough map for Republicans. | ||
| There are some Republican seats up, but it's also a tougher map, I'd say, for Democrats. | ||
| Now, go back to the defense real quick. | ||
| I think Lara Trump would absolutely crush it in North Carolina, to your point. | ||
| I think Parnell would be great in Pennsylvania. | ||
| I actually do. | ||
| I'll go on record now. | ||
| I hope Ron John in Wisconsin does stay and runs for another term. | ||
| I think we need him there in Wisconsin. | ||
| I think he's very strong. | ||
| You know, Mo Brooks in Alabama would be great for that seat. | ||
| So, I think we're going to defend these seats. | ||
| Missouri, Ohio, we talked about. | ||
| I think we're going to be defending these and we're going to keep them. | ||
| Now, let's go to the flips. | ||
| First of all, look at Georgia. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| That Warnock win was an absolute ludicrous result. | ||
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| And we talked about why. | ||
| Because Mitch McConnell didn't go to 2000. | ||
| You know, everybody talks about, oh, well, President Trump went down to Georgia and campaigned. | ||
| Also, the candidates didn't sit there and go, you've got to have a special session to get to the bottom of what happened on November 3rd. | ||
| Neither candidate defended President Trump. | ||
| It wasn't all in. | ||
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| And, you know, Warnock, let's be honest, I actually think the matchup really didn't favor us either. | ||
| I think David Perdue would have beaten Warnock. | ||
| And I think that Senator Loeffler would have lost her seat to Ossoff one way or another. | ||
| But I think the matchup really didn't favor her. | ||
| So the right candidate in Georgia would absolutely do the right thing. | ||
| And President Trump's already come out and talked about Hershel Walker potentially for that seat. | ||
| I think you have, and I've spent time with Hershel Walker, an NFL legend, somebody who's very strong. | ||
| I think he's a great potential for that seat. | ||
| But somebody like a Doug Collins would do great as well. | ||
| I'm keeping a close eye on Georgia. | ||
| Then let's go across the country. | ||
| Let's go to Arizona. | ||
| You've got Mark Kelly. | ||
| I actually think Mark Kelly is a weak candidate. | ||
| I think he beat Martha McSally. | ||
| McSally never really broke through. | ||
| She didn't break through in that race against Sinema. | ||
| She didn't break through in the race against Kelly. | ||
| I actually thought that her appointment by Doug Ducey was a bit of a mistake because generally why would you appoint somebody who just lost a race for another seat to then go up again so quickly? | ||
| So I think that put Senator McSally in a tough spot. | ||
| And Senator McSally is an American hero, a good woman, a great American, just really didn't break through on the campaign trail. | ||
| So I think the right candidate there could absolutely defeat Kelly. | ||
| Now, it's gotta be a good, smart, super strong MAGA candidate. | ||
| Arizona, I'm not giving up on Arizona. | ||
| I think Arizona could still very much be a red state. | ||
| So that's there. | ||
| In Nevada, you've got Cortez Masto. | ||
| Another place, you know, you've had Dean Heller there very recently in Nevada as a center from Nevada, so I think that's another place where you could play. | ||
| And then in Colorado, you've got Bennett, who's up. | ||
| And that's a place where Cory Gardner was just a Republican Senator. | ||
| So, those three out West, plus Georgia, I think could all be very, very strong potential pickups. | ||
| Then, let's not forget New Hampshire, with Maggie Hassan being up. | ||
| I think that's another place where the right MAGA candidate in New Hampshire, let's not forget, let's not forget, that Kelly Ayotte only lost her seat in New Hampshire by a thousand votes. | ||
| In 2016. | ||
| So the right candidate in New Hampshire could do a good job. | ||
| One I got to ask you about is President Trump's taking a particular interest in the primary in Alaska. | ||
| He's actually committed to go to Alaska to actually campaign against Murkowski. | ||
| What is your assessment of Murkowski? | ||
| Listen, Murkowski lost in a primary, in a Republican primary, ran in a general election as a right-end candidate and won. | ||
| Pretty powerful machine out there, the Murkowskis. | ||
| What's your assessment in Alaska? | ||
| They've been there a long time, but I think Murkowski made a huge mistake, just like the 10 Republicans did in the House. | ||
| I think Murkowski made a mistake voting for conviction of a Republican president. | ||
| The MAGA movement continues to be so strong. | ||
| So I think the right candidate in Alaska will give Murkowski a lot of trouble. | ||
| And I think both of you and I know who that right candidate could be. | ||
| It's somebody who I had the honor of working for in 2008. | ||
| It's former Governor Sarah Palin. | ||
| I think she still enjoys a lot, a lot of backing, a lot of support in Alaska. | ||
| Somebody like her, among others. | ||
| But let's not forget, let's go back to history. | ||
| We talked about 2010 in terms of the huge pickups in the House. | ||
| Sarah Palin, in a lot of ways, was the beginning of the current MAGA movement, of the populist nationalist movement, as you talk about. | ||
| She really cultivated it in a big way, and she brought out huge crowds. | ||
| Across the country. | ||
| She and the Tea Party movement also spawned from there. | ||
| So I think having Governor Palin back on the national stage will be a huge positive for the Trump movement, the MAGA movement. | ||
| Real quickly, in 30 seconds, about the House races, the 10 that voted against President Trump in this whole fiasco, in this bizarre and just ridiculous embarrassment that's second impeachment. | ||
| Do you think all 10 of those not just get primaries? | ||
| Your call right now and initial show that all 10 get beaten primaries. | ||
| 8 out of 10. | ||
| I'm going to say, I'm going to give it 80%. | ||
| I think a couple could hold on. | ||
| You're always going to have that. | ||
| Somebody could slip in by a narrow margin, but I think overall, at least 8 out of those 10 are no longer going to be in the House, led by, and I've had people who are establishment Republicans say this to me behind the scenes, led by Liz Cheney. | ||
| I think Liz Cheney is not going to be in the House come 2023. | ||
| Real quickly, your social media accordance got by 30 seconds. | ||
| People want to follow you, and particularly on the Road to 22. | ||
| How do they do that, Boris? | ||
| I love to be on the Road to 22. | ||
| I'm excited about it. | ||
| I love American politics. | ||
| There's nothing better to get involved in because you're affecting the discourse. | ||
| You're affecting the future of our country, for our children, our grandchildren. | ||
| At BorisEP on Twitter, Boris underscore Epstein, Boris underscore EPSHTEYN on Instagram, always blowing up on the gram, at BorisEP on Twitter. | ||
| Steve, thanks so much. | ||
| This has been a blast. | ||
| Let's keep doing it and bring the signal, not the noise, to the American people. | ||
| God bless. | ||
| Stay strong. | ||
| Okay, the Democrats are already working on this. | ||
| This is why we're setting the predicate right now, the road to 22. | ||
| We'll see you tomorrow morning, 10 a.m. |
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