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Episode 1,830 – JD Vance: Come From Behind Victory In Ohio; The Power Of Trump And MAGAEpisode 1,830 – JD Vance: Come From Behind Victory In Ohio; The Power Of Trump And MAGA
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steve bannon
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steve cortes
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jd vance
To Matt Dolan, okay?
Matt Dolan, a lot of disagreements with Matt Dolan, let's just be honest, but Matt Dolan had a very professional, a very well-resourced campaign.
One of the things I want to say about Matt is that he could have ran an ugly campaign, but instead he ran a campaign about issues, about substance.
He's been a great public servant for this country and I think our party was better for the campaign that Matt Dolan ran.
So thank you, Matt.
I want to say something about Mike Gibbons, who, one of the great business leaders in Northeastern Ohio, a person who's given a lot to our party, given a lot to charities all across the state of Ohio.
Mike ran a campaign as a normal guy from Parma, Ohio, who just wanted to make the lives of Ohioans better, and again, he did a great job.
Thank you, Mike.
Mike, thank you for the campaign that you ran, and God bless you.
Jane Timken, a state party chairman for years who dedicated her, not just the past few years, but really the past 20 years of her life to electing Republicans up and down the ballot all across the state of Ohio.
Jane ran a spirited campaign.
She ran a campaign focused on the grassroots.
And there's something to learn there, ladies and gentlemen, that it is important to put the people first when you're running a campaign.
Jane's lesson stands out.
Thanks to Jane Timken for running a great campaign.
And finally, Josh Mandel, a long...
No, no, no.
Ladies and gentlemen, please.
A long time and dedicated public servant from the Marine Corps to the State Treasury's office.
And not just Josh Mandel's, I think, public service himself, but has some of the best supporters, I think, in the state of Ohio.
People who are dedicated, values voters who are dedicated to protecting life, To ensuring that children grow up in stable homes.
Some of the best people in the state of Ohio voted for Josh Mandel tonight.
I hope to earn your support.
I don't expect to be given it.
I hope to earn the support of Josh Mandel and all the other candidates who ran.
Thank you to those candidates and especially thank you to the people who ran those campaigns.
steve bannon
A stunning come-from-behind victory in Ohio of immense importance.
We're going to get into it for this hour.
We've got J.D.
Vance going to join us in a second.
We've got Carrie Lake, Steve Cortez, Philip Patrick from Birch Gold, the great Boris Epstein, Dave Brat from Liberty.
There's so much happening.
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Right there was smart and gracious, smart and savvy.
To consolidate everybody into and to say I'm going to earn your support.
Okay.
I can't emphasize enough how important the Senate race will be in the state of Ohio.
Announced this morning, Cortez is going to come in about 20 minutes to talk about this in depth.
Announced this morning, ladies and gentlemen, the first time in American history.
In one month, the month of March, 109 billion dollar trade deficit.
If you're under 40 years old, everything I say about the Federal Reserve, everything, by the way, Federal Reserve is going to announce today quantitative tightening, which we've been arguing for now for over a year, like President Trump did in the first year of his administration.
Everything we talk about easy money and what's happened here, the manufacturing base, we are not the country we were back in the 1980s, that Volcker and Reagan had the tools.
They had a balance sheet.
Right?
We were a creditor nation and we had a massive manufacturing base.
We were a manufacturing superpower.
Of one hundred, and the numbers don't lie, one hundred and nine billion dollar trade deficit in one month.
The first time in the history of this republic we have ever cracked a hundred billion dollars.
That means we're on track to do over a trillion dollars this year.
A trillion dollars last year, we're over a trillion dollars this year.
And this is serendipity that J.D.
Vance, J.D.
Vance is the first Individual ever take on the club for growth a mano a mano JD Joins us by phone JD. Welcome. I gotta tell you people don't understand Club for growth with the big donors They have they I don't think people fully appreciate they literally came after you with millions and millions of dollars Because they hate your policies, but they went after and just trash you on stuff. That just wasn't important anymore Not given the fight we're in today
Talk about that and talk about your stunning come from behind victory and what this trade deficit means to the people in Ohio I'm particularly a phony like Tim Ryan You know, it's Tim Ryan, it's the illegitimate regime of Biden and Tim Ryan in the support of these radicals in Congress that that kowtow to the oligarchs on Wall Street and these world corporations that are manufacturing base has been stripped away and there's no better place to look at than the Buckeye State.
J.D.
Vance.
jd vance
Yeah, Stiebel, thanks for everything, and of course, thanks to the War Room audience that came out in a big way, and I think a lot of them voted for me, probably not everybody, but I appreciate all the support, and I hope to earn the support of those I haven't had it from yet.
I mean, look, I think the Club for Growth came after me because they realized that winning races like mine is how you turn the Trump candidacy into a durable Trump movement.
Of actually bringing American manufacturing jobs back from China, making us an industrial powerhouse again.
And they just don't want it, Steve, because the people who donate to the Club for Growth have gotten very wealthy from globalism.
They've gotten very wealthy from managing American decline instead of fighting back against it.
So we had to fight them, and it was a fight worth having.
And I'm glad that I had the President on my side, because when you go against guns that big, you need some guns of your own.
And the President was the biggest gun of them all in this race, and really, really happy that we came through.
As much as I wanted to win this race for my own reasons, the fact that they were coming after me so hard meant that we needed to win this race for much, much bigger reasons.
People all across the state of Ohio, but having a Republican Party that actually stands, once again, for the American worker.
You know, Tim Ryan, you used the word fraud.
That's absolutely right.
This guy is trying to run as a Trump Democrat, and in reality, he's voted for the Joe Biden administration 100% of the time.
He's been a congressman in Youngstown, which has been more devastated By our manufacturing policies in any region of the country, and for 20 years he's failed to do anything to push back against this insanity, and now he wants a promotion from the entire state of Ohio.
This guy is the ultimate wolf in sheep's clothing.
He has pursued 100% the pro-inflation, anti-manufacturing policies of the Biden administration.
He's going to run away from that because he's a smart politician, but he's been a terrible leader and we can't send him to the Senate in Ohio.
I don't think we will, Steve.
steve bannon
J.D., I know you're in a hurry and we've got to let you go.
You've got other things to do, but for the posse, what did you learn?
Because this was, of all the tough ones we had, Ohio was the toughest.
And by the way, we've got some tough ones coming up.
I don't think anything's on top.
The personal viciousness of Ohio, let's just say like it was.
What did you learn about yourself?
What did J.D.
Vance learn about J.D.
Vance?
What do you know today that you didn't know when you started this process a year ago?
jd vance
You know, I think you never know how you're going to take a punch in the face until you actually take one.
We took a few from the Club for Growth and others, and we came out stronger.
We came out ready to fight.
And frankly, I came out inspired and a little pissed off about what these people have done to our country, man.
Politics at its best can actually be about reversing this decline in the country.
That's probably what I learned about myself, and I certainly learned that my wife is a hell of a trooper.
Uh, and and that was, you know, I guess I always knew it, but I really learned it the hard way over the past year as they came after us.
But man, it feels very good.
But now we've got the important part.
steve bannon
J.D., we're at halftime.
I tell people in these primaries, we're at halftime.
You won at your halftime and you're up, but we've got a long way to go.
How do people find out more about you?
And particularly, I found it very moving last night when you took time away from your speech and really spent time and gave details about the other people and said you're there to earn their supporters' support, right?
How do people find out more about J.D.
Vance and how they find out more about your campaign?
jd vance
Jdvans.com is where we have most of the information on all social media networks, Steve.
Truthkitter, social, Twitter and so forth.
I will say also, we're going to keep on doing our town hall tour all across the state of Ohio.
We're going to keep on working for the votes of everybody.
But man, the amount of money, I'll make this pitch to the War Room audience, the amount of money that's going to come against us is going to dwarf anything, maybe in any state race, Yeah, no, I absolutely agree, JD.
Thank you so much.
fear me and they fear what I represent.
So if people are able to support our campaign with resources, I know you work hard for it, especially now, that would be very helpful and I hope people will because this is a fight we have to win, Steve.
steve bannon
Yeah, no, I absolutely agree, JD.
Thank you so much.
Thank you so much for joining us and we'll make sure everybody goes to the site and checks it out.
jd vance
All right.
unidentified
Thanks, Steve.
Take care.
steve bannon
Boris, this is going to be the most expensive.
This is going to be the most expensive campaign I think there is.
They have to win Ohio.
Sherrod Brown and Tim Ryan have to win that.
Give us your assessment.
Where do we stand right now, J.D., with this massive trade deficit?
Talk to us about what's happening.
boris epshteyn
Steve, the trade deficit is a huge boon for J.D.
There's no two ways about it, because it's what J.D.' 's been running on.
The fact that our country's been sold down the river by, not just by the Democrats, but also by the mainstream country club, khaki Republicans.
So, the news that comes out today, just a few hours after J.D.
pulls off that stunning historic win, and we cannot underestimate Just how much the power of Donald J. Trump, President Donald J. Trump, went through and showed itself, showed itself in this primary.
J.D.
was, you know, about 6, 7, 8 percent, and now he wins with 30 percent?
After just, what, two and a half weeks of the endorsement from President Trump?
It is historic, it's unprecedented, and it speaks to how Unbelievably powerful, the War Room Posse, the American movement, and the leadership of President Trump are.
Again, today's a day not just for J.D.
to celebrate and to get ready for the next half, as you said, and Steve let's be honest, the next half is going to be more brutal than the first, but it is a day for the War Room Posse To look in the mirror for just a few seconds, take a pause, just one breath, and give itself an attaboy.
Because the War Room policy put it short of the wheel and said it is vital for us to show strength for MAGA to come out on top, and that is why J.D.
Vance is the Republican nominee for Ohio Senate against Tim Ryan, who's not going to be easy to beat.
And as J.D.
said, you better believe the Dems are going to throw all kinds of money at this race because They think that guys like Tim Ryan are their last hope.
The establishment Democrats think they're their last hope because they know that most of their party is far-left, deranged, woke radicals.
unidentified
Having said that... But hold it, he's a wolf in sheep's clothing, he's absolutely correct.
steve bannon
Remember, Tim Ryan sounds okay.
Hang on, he's a wolf in sheep's clothing, he's absolutely correct.
No doubt.
Remember, Tim Ryan sounds okay, he mouths the words, but Tim Ryan's record is terrible.
It's terrible.
unidentified
Terrible.
steve bannon
And we're going to hang that record on him.
People in Ohio are smart.
They get it.
There's not going to be a spin this with CNN and Morning Mika.
It goes on Morning Mika.
Everything you need to know about Tim Ryan, he goes on Morning Mika today and that's his opening salvo.
Morning Mika.
There's nothing more progressive or left-wing in this country than Morning Joe, Morning Mika.
unidentified
Was there not a local Ohio show that he could have gone on?
steve bannon
That's, I mean, come on, give me a break.
This guy's a total phony.
He aspires to be a Trump populist.
It's all phony.
His record shows you are.
Let me ask you this question.
What did Parcell say?
You are what your record says you are.
Don't give me your talk.
Show me your action.
Boris Epstein.
boris epshteyn
No doubt.
Let me ask you this question.
If it was opening salvos to go on Morning Mika and Crying Joe, okay?
First of all, the show gets about 400,000-500,000 viewers.
And Tim Ryan screams that he's for the manufacturing, the middle class of Ohio.
How many members of the middle class of Ohio are watching Morning Mika and crying Joe on MSNBC?
steve bannon
How many working class?
How many people that shower at the end of the day, not the beginning of the day, right?
How many watching Morning Mika?
Zero.
unidentified
Okay, less than zero.
boris epshteyn
How many could relate to Morning Mika and crying Joe and everybody else sitting around there?
With their fancy suits and, you know, gallons of cologne on.
So, here's God's honest truth, right?
Tim Ryan is trying to tack to the middle.
We all know that he's far left.
But nevertheless, that attempt to tack to the middle is what's going to make a lot of the... And it's not just, again, it's not just the establishment Democrats.
I could see Koch Industries and, you know, people like that coming in and opposing GDV because he scares them.
J.D.
is against China.
unidentified
J.D.
boris epshteyn
is against selling our country abroad.
unidentified
J.D.
boris epshteyn
is against overextension around the world.
So, this is going to be a race, truly, in a lot of ways for the soul of America, of J.D.
Vance versus Tim Ryan.
But, today, just again, for one second, the War Room Posse gets a ton of credit.
The MAGA movement gets a ton of credit.
And frankly, President Donald J. Trump, he went 22 for 22 yesterday in his endorsement.
22 for 22 in Ohio and Indiana.
President Trump has the level of political power, the level of political clout that has never, and let me say that again, that has never before been seen in the history of America.
steve bannon
Okay, Boris, hang on.
You're gonna hang with us.
Carrie Lakes from Mar-a-Lago.
They had a big event down there last night, another event tonight.
She's gonna join us.
unidentified
We got Cortez, we got Phillip Patrick, we got all the necks in the world.
All through Hong Kong, we will fight till they're all gone.
We rejoice when there's no more, let's take down the T.T.D.
mika brzezinski
Us.
About the rights.
The 50 years of rights.
The decades of precedent that has just been spit on and thrown away in this draft opinion.
Might be tweaked a little bit, but the bottom line is this is setting women back.
In so many different ways, with so many different consequences, and you're going to tell us that the story is the leak.
Really?
The leak is fascinating.
It's historic.
It's never happened before.
And whoever did it, it's interesting, because I think we're going to find out who did it.
I think some people already know who did it.
And I think a lot of people are already alluding to who did it.
And it's not who you think, Mitch.
But even if it is, that's not the story we care about.
Okay?
The story that women across America and the men who love them or the men who might like sex care about is our fundamental right to abortion that this draft opinion overturns.
And that's the story.
Just to give you a sense of news judgment and what people care about, that's what they care about.
I just had to say that.
I'm sorry.
That was disgusting.
That was sickening to watch.
To tell us what the story is.
To tell the press what the story is.
To tell us, women, who are at the focus of this story.
Our rights.
What happens to us, our healthcare, our daughters, our sisters, our mothers?
You're going to tell us what the story is?
It's a leak in the Supreme Court?
It's fascinating, it's unprecedented, and there is a fantastic trail to be followed there, and it should be.
Because that shouldn't happen.
Chief Justice John Roberts even said that.
steve bannon
How would you like to wake up and have morning coffee?
Okay, I digress.
Women and the men who love them and want to have... I can't even say it because we're so many homeschoolers.
Moms and dads.
She's in full meltdown there, that's Moni Mika.
There's actually a story, I think it's in Politico or Zero Hedge or somewhere, I got it up on my Getter account.
If we can pull it up in Denver, just want to get a chance.
It says, it shows that the Democrats know internally this is a marginal issue.
It helps them on the margins, but that's it.
It's not, it doesn't match up to inflation, it doesn't match up to the southern border, all of it.
We're going to get back to Boris in a second.
Talk about Ohio, the implications of Ohio and the importance of Ohio, but I had to ask Kerry Lake.
Kerry's actually down in Mar-a-Lago for one of the big events down there to join us.
Kerry, first off, you were a television professional, I think, for 20 years as the number one anchor in the Phoenix area, one of the biggest TV markets in America.
uh... morning me come melting down and saying you can't tell us what the story i mean i don't even know how to deconstruct itself that's why i should come on out ask you to deconstructed morning morning mika carry lake i think i do want me to be a psychologist here and try to figure out what's going on at break uh...
uh... they will move on to the part of my room around this in the politics of it is it is the death That's too hard to ask.
Tell me, why are these super progressive women who are so entitled and so wealthy, why are they leading this meltdown?
Because you've seen it all over the nation now, from Los Angeles to Washington D.C.
to New York City.
You know these Karens that are entitled and wealthy that this issue for some reason has triggered them Beyond all others and they lie about it.
It's like after this it goes away It's like you can't get an abortion here in the United States.
It's like it's a penal colony.
Carrie Lake?
unidentified
Well, they're carrying the water to the far left in the Democrat Party and you know, they're not covering the story that Millions upon tens of millions of American women are very happy with this court ruling or what appears to be a This is just bringing it back to the state.
And it's all about our representation at the state level.
So we elect state representatives and they come up with laws for our state.
There's going to be some states where nothing changes.
There's going to be some states where it becomes more restrictive.
And there's going to be some states where we just put the life of the unborn first and foremost.
We believe in Arizona.
And they write for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness for all Arizonans, including the unborn.
So Mika just, she needs to have her temper tantrum and move on because the people in this country that she saw last night with this huge victory, I call it a President Trump victory because America First is the way to go and people are looking at the America First policies where their life was better, way better under President Trump.
kari lake
Even the people who didn't like his tweets will admit now that life was better under President Trump.
unidentified
And we're going to see a massive red wave across the country no matter how many meltdowns we get to have.
steve bannon
By the way, just announced this morning that March, for the first time in American history, a $109 billion trade deficit triggered by a massive amount of imports.
It shows you we've got our manufacturing base under these Democrats who are tied to Wall Street.
Last night, really the come-from-behind victory for J.D.
Vance, you're the Trump-endorsed candidate in Arizona.
How will this play, how will this affect the race in Arizona, do you think, man?
unidentified
I want to tell you something about last night, because I was actually having dinner, President Trump was sitting right next to me, and his phone was buzzing all night.
People calling him and congratulating him.
I went over and talked to him and just told him congratulations.
He has the most powerful endorsement in, I believe, the history of politics.
And it's really endorsement candidates saying, I know this candidate cares first and foremost about her constituents, about America First policy.
It's massive.
I'm endorsed by President Trump.
I'm expecting a red wave in Arizona.
And I suggest that the other Republicans in the race, wherever you may be, get behind the Trump-endorsed candidate.
I mean, I'm running against somebody who was a sellout to China.
I'm running against another person who's a McCain rhino trying to talk the voters into the fact that she's not.
People are onto it.
They know who's legit.
They know who loves America.
And they know who's going to put the interests of the American people first.
above the CCP, above the globalists, and such.
So I really suggest that people in other states look at what happened last night, look at Trump's victory right now, 55 and 0, and start to get behind the America first.
steve bannon
There's a gathering of eagles down in Mar-a-Lago around the release of the film 2000 Mules and the top people in voter integrity, including Kerry Lake, who's running for governor in this very tough Republican primary.
Other Tina Peters, Mark Fincham, so many people down there.
This film's going to be big and we're going to push it out everywhere.
Carrie Lake, how do people find out more about you and how they find out more about your campaign, ma'am?
unidentified
We can go to karilake.com.
K-A-R-I-L-A-K-E.com.
Really quickly, this film is so important.
It's like a punch to the gut, to be honest, when we see how terribly the left, I believe, and even some on the right, work to corrupt our elections.
We've got to get everyone to see this, and we must demand change.
And America First, by the way, is not just for Republicans.
If you're a Democrat who's fed up, if you're an Independent who's fed up, and you want a better life for your family and for yourself, You are welcome as America's first leader.
steve bannon
Terry Lake, thank you.
Honored to have you on.
Thanks for taking time away today.
unidentified
Thanks, Steve.
steve bannon
Boris, last night you have in Ohio this come-from-behind victory of J.D.
Vance with President Trump's.
And it's just not simply the endorsement.
It's what the endorsement brings, right?
The Trump movement understand there's other good people and people they like and people they support it.
But, you know, at some point in time you got to get focused on victory.
You see it in Cary Lake.
And last night, also, you've got a gathering of, you know, Fincham and Cary Lake and Tina Peters and others down there.
Brian Kennedy, our good friend, good friend of the show, was down there.
You see the gathering down at Mar-a-Lago of all these people about 3 November.
It just seems like you're seeing a convergence of forces.
We talked about the 60 days of pain.
And these primaries are going to be painful.
And people's feelings are going to be hurt.
At the end of the day, that's also not going to matter.
We just have to plow through this, right?
boris epshteyn
You've got to get through it.
steve bannon
We have to.
And these primaries are good, and even the contentious, nasty ones are good, because it makes people better candidates.
First off, it's Darwinian in the fact that they've got to be strong to win.
The survival of the fittest.
And that's what you saw in J.D.
unidentified
J.D.
steve bannon
is a much better candidate today than when he first started off.
And part of that was running the gauntlet.
Of what Club for Growth, we also in this, in this, you know, in the campaign so far, we've been able to identify Club for Growth as somebody that's anti the policies that Cortez and Navarro and President Trump stand for as far as trade goes.
I mean, Club for Growth is one of the reasons we've got the $109 billion.
And that, and people that claim to be Republicans are just going to come to the understanding that those policies just don't work anymore.
And you're not going to sit there and get MAGA votes and then support those policies.
The days of fooling people are over.
And I take pride that it's the War Room, but there's others.
There's so many other great show and great voices and getter and people on Twitter putting up reports.
You could go in there and get tremendous financial information, tremendous economic information.
People are not dumb anymore.
They have so many information sources they can go to on every type of topic.
We try to make it an immersive experience.
That's why we're doing these webinars now, to make sure people can go for free and immerse yourself in a topic of your interest.
But the momentum, you can feel it, Boris.
You and I know from 16, right?
And from 20, you can feel when things start to come together.
I do, Steven.
I actually think it goes back further.
I think it goes back to Virginia in November of 21.
boris epshteyn
time you get to come out for the you know take a break come out for the second half but do you feel the same momentum across the board? I do Steven, I actually think it goes back further I think it goes back to Virginia in November of 21, New Jersey in November of 21 where I believe Cittarelli beat where I believe Cittarelli beat Murphy but either way came within a point which was not expected by They thought that was going to be a 20-30% blowout win.
We had Ed Durr beating the longest-seating state senator in New Jersey history.
Longest-seating state senator in New Jersey history.
So you had Virginia, you had New Jersey, you had the huge MAGA wins in Texas and Michigan, and now President Trump going 22 for 22.
on his endorsements in Ohio and Indiana yesterday.
Max Miller, Madison Giazzotto, so many others.
Wins, wins, wins, and of course led by Jay DeVance, because that's where all the eyes were yesterday.
And, and, Keir Lake is right.
President Trump deserves the congratulations that he's getting.
He deserves the credit he's getting all across.
Even the haters in the mainstream media, they're writing it up, right?
They have to.
Because they have no, they have absolutely no choice.
You have Bill Kristol, absolute whack job neocon rhino, saying as the Republican Party, as Trump goes, so does the Republican Party goes.
As Trump goes, so does the Republican Party goes.
And guess what?
Now that the haters are seeing it, the mainstream media are seeing it, Reiners are seeing it, we've been saying it on this show non-stop.
President Trump is the leader of MAGA. He's the leader of the Republican Party proven again yesterday.
steve bannon
Boris gonna hold you over for a few minutes into the next block. Boris Epstein, Steve Cortez, Philip Patrick, all next in the War Room.
unidentified
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Boris, we're going to have Charlie Herbster in the 11 o'clock hour.
Charles is, I think, doing an interview with CNN right after that.
He will call in.
That is next Tuesday.
It's the next big event.
Boris Epstein.
We got Pennsylvania.
You've got, of course, May 24th is Georgia.
Give us a couple of minutes on this momentum coming off the great come from behind victory of J.D.
unidentified
Vance.
steve bannon
We're going to have Cortez who's going to join us here momentarily.
Cortez was out there on the hustings with J.D.
with the War Room Posse audience for a couple of days last week.
He'll update us.
But Boris, where do we go from here?
boris epshteyn
Steve, the momentum that's been building, really, let's be honest, since 2016, now continues and is at full pitch.
That win yesterday by J.D.
Vance and 21 other Trump-endorsed candidates takes you right into Nebraska, that's coming up on Tuesday, and then it's going to take you to Pennsylvania, and from there it takes you into the 24th, which is Georgia and Alabama.
And in Georgia, that's where there's a true firefight.
Now, you've got George W. Bush going down to help Brian Kemp.
Which is an absolute statement from Kemp that he's all against Magna.
steve bannon
No, no, no, no, no.
Hang on.
Hang on.
Ho, ho.
Don't bury the lead.
Kemp is going to Texas, isn't he, to go get the money?
He's going down to Bush country to kiss the ring, I think, isn't he?
I think it's a Texas thing.
My point is he's genuflecting to the Bush apparatus.
He's genuflecting to the Bush apparatus.
The same Bush apparatus that gave you Roberts that's too gutless.
Ladies and gentlemen, you must read Alito's opinion.
Even if you have no interest in the topic, read it.
Because it's muscular, it is in your face, it's so well tightly argued.
The Left last night is melting down, even Lawrence Tribe is melting down on MSNBC because this thing is so relentless and it doesn't give them any room to maneuver.
They're actually saying now that they don't think the legislatures can maneuver because the thing's such a hammer.
It's a take-no-prisoners.
Judge Roberts is sitting there saying mealy-mouthed.
This is the problem.
We've won more elections.
You got the mealy-mouthed Bush apparatus.
The Karl Rove Bush apparatus that wants to take your money, have you knock on doors, win elections, and then continue to surrender.
The reason is they're in the same clubs with these guys.
They're in the same country clubs with these guys.
They're never going to stand up.
They're petrified about being called a racist.
They're petrified about being called xenophobe.
They're petrified about being called a nativist.
All of which are lies.
And we sit there and go, hey, we don't give two F's about that.
We don't care.
We don't care what you call us.
We're going to do what's necessary to save this republic.
And that's what they refuse.
And this is why they hate, hate, hate Donald J. Trump.
They hate him with a burning passion.
The establishment Republicans hate Trump worse than progressive Democrats.
unidentified
Of course.
steve bannon
And I will say that every day of the week.
They hate him more than that because Trump has led a... He threatens him more because we're putting him out of business.
And for Kemp to kowtow to the Bush apparatus.
And then did he not hire Mark Short last night?
The Hills tell me he hires Mark Short.
So, Steve... You've got to take it away, Boris.
boris epshteyn
So here's what's happening.
Kemp is going to Texas 100% right for a fundraiser with Bush.
I'm also here... Thank you, Mr. Bannon.
steve bannon
Thank you, Mr. Bannon.
boris epshteyn
I also hear that Bush, of course, Bannon's got all the best contacts, no doubt about it, okay?
And then, you know, maybe that's why you got the tan.
You were getting... Oh, you're about to top me.
steve bannon
Hold it, audience.
Hang on, hang on.
This is a Boris move.
I'm about to get topped right here.
Yeah, Bannon, you read what was in...
The morning playbook.
I got real insider information.
So give me the scoop.
boris epshteyn
You're going to scoop me right here.
While you were getting tan over the weekend, I was working my contacts.
So from what I understand, not only is Kemp going to Texas to collect some money from Bush and the genuflect to the Bushes, as you said, but from what I understand, Bush is also considering coming to Georgia and actually stomping for Kemp on the ground.
unidentified
Oh my God.
boris epshteyn
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
It's not a thunderbolt.
He's up in your grill.
He's up in your face.
unidentified
Go ahead.
boris epshteyn
He's up in your grill.
He set up a thunderbolt that he's against MAGA.
And if anybody in Georgia...
steve bannon
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
It's not a thunderbolt.
boris epshteyn
He's up in your face.
steve bannon
Go ahead.
He's up in your grill.
Go ahead.
So I know you're fired up.
unidentified
It's not a thunderbolt.
It's that Warpath coffee, okay?
steve bannon
I started drinking it to back off Boris.
Boris is starting to dominate.
He's got like Navarro.
It's cutting me off.
Go ahead, sir.
boris epshteyn
No, never like Navarro.
My shirts are too big for that, you know?
By the way, the coffee is unbelievable.
It gets you going in a way that Red Bull never could.
So everybody's got to hit that Warpath.coffee.
Brian Gibson, you grill.
And you say, hey, you know what, MAGA?
F you.
I have no interest in you.
I'm not with you.
I'm all in on Country Club Republican.
So that is why everybody—and you've got that full-on MAGA bus tour right now going on in Georgia.
Everybody who's MAGA, every member of the War Room Posse, you know President Trump's all in.
He's done rallies in Georgia.
Just did a tele-rally this week for David Perdue.
You've got to come out and support Purdue.
And don't believe the nonsense polling saying, oh, Brian Kemp's up by 30.
That's nonsense, okay?
This race is tightening and it's tightening fast.
And if MAGA piles in for David Perdue, as it piled in for Yunkin and Virginia, which is the only reason Yunkin won, and is a piled in for J.D. Vance under the leadership of President Trump.
David Perdue will make it to a runoff, and then from there he's going to win against Brian Kemp.
You heard it here loud and clear.
All MAGA has got to come out for David Perdue on May 24.
steve bannon
J.D., and we'll get to Kordeski at the details.
unidentified
J.T.
steve bannon
was about 8, and I think Mandela and Dolan were up at 23, 24.
It was 16, 16 points down.
And Gibbons, they had three guys ahead of him.
This is so doable with Purdue.
But you gotta stick to the script.
You gotta get there and hammer it, hammer it, hammer it.
boris epshteyn
The Purdue win is more doable than the J.D.
unidentified
win.
boris epshteyn
Look.
I agree.
The Purdue win right now is a more straight shot than JD.
Because JD had to overtake three other guys.
Mandel, Dolan, and Gibbon.
unidentified
Purdue all we got to do is brush over the wheel.
steve bannon
Two of them were MAGA, aspired to MAGA.
That was hard.
That was not easy.
boris epshteyn
And even Dolan.
Dolan never came out against President Trump.
He's like, yeah, I voted for the... He actually tried to kind of tie himself to the president.
We know that Dolan's not MAGA, but he didn't come out and punch MAGA in the face like Brian Kemp's doing.
So we've got to have our eyes focused on that.
But also, not forget, we need big wins for Herbster.
And yes, some of the posse, you know, they've got their own opinions.
But President Trump has weighed in.
He's with Dr. Oz.
We need to continue winning for MAGA.
So we need Herbster in Nebraska, Oz in Pennsylvania.
And yes, we've got to go all in for David Perdue in Georgia on May 24.
And then you've got Alabama, too, where Mike Durant has said we need more McCains, less Trumps.
Katie Brett is The MAGA candidate there in that, you know, really two-person face-off now that Mo Brooks has faded from the scene in Alabama.
But it's all about MAGA wins.
Herbster, Nebraska.
Aza, Pennsylvania.
And David Perdue in Georgia.
And I believe Katie Britt, who I'm supporting in Alabama.
steve bannon
Yeah, I think Katie's got some work to do there, but we'll deal with that another day.
Mike Durant definitely not MAGA.
He's not a friend of President Trump.
boris epshteyn
Not MAGA.
steve bannon
I don't care how he tries to spin it.
Not MAGA.
He's a McCain guy.
McCain-Romney.
What's your coordinates on how they get to your newsletter?
boris epshteyn
Steve, we had a hot one go out this morning.
We put it out early at 8 a.m.
I wanted to go out before I was on the show, so the War Room Posse got the rundown of the great news and also saw the clip of us yesterday talking about how great I was at law school in Neil Katyal's classes.
He's still crying about abortion, probably crying two days in a row over Roe v. Wade while we're celebrating the MAGA wins.
And by the way, just 10 seconds, Steve.
Think about the 36 hours that MAGA has had.
The news that Roe v. Wade is going to be struck down by Donald Trump-appointed justices, and now the MAGA wins led by J.D.
Vance.
MAGA is on the rise.
BorisCP.com is the website, super hot.
At BorisCP on Getter, coming in hot on Getter all day long.
At BorisCP on Twitter, at Boris on Truth Social, and the hottest ever on the Gram, Boris underscore Epstein.
Stay strong, God bless, and I'll see you this evening.
steve bannon
Boris, thank you very much.
Let's go ahead.
We got the call open.
The Chalk Talk from Steve Cortez.
Let's go ahead and play it.
steve cortes
Ohio is a huge moment for the America First cause.
The citizens of this country are rallying to the movement of America First populist nationalism.
For the data on Ohio, let's get to a Chalk Talk.
Brought to you by Getter.
I want to focus on Trumbull County, northeast corner of the state, the north side of Youngstown.
It is a working class constituency that used to be reliably Democratic.
In 2012, Obama won it easily by double digits.
Trump flipped it massively in 2016.
He then added to his gains in 2020.
And last night in the primary, J.D.
Vance won Trumbull County running away.
Let's also look at turnout in Trumbull.
Four years ago in the 2018 midterm, the Dems had a 9,000 vote advantage in Trumbull.
This time around, Republicans with a 3,000 vote advantage.
Here's the takeaway.
The combination of cultural conservatism and economic populist nationalism in favor of workers is the winning formula both for policy as well as politics and winning elections.
steve bannon
Okay, Steve Cortez, you were there with JD.
You were out there.
You saw the War on Posse.
Give us your assessment last night.
steve cortes
Listen, it was a huge night, not just for J.D., it certainly was for him, but I think for the America First movement, because President Trump, let's face it, he risked something on this endorsement.
This was not an easy endorsement when he made it, but he identified a candidate, a young man who is a stalwart and fighter for the America First movement, who has what it takes not just to win the primary, but then also to win in the fall and to go to the Senate and fight the Republican establishment.
So, President Trump took some risk, The resources that were allayed against J.D.
Vance were vast.
He was outspent by at least five to one.
When you look at people and organizations like the Club for Growth, which really should be called the Club for Chinese Growth, the Republican establishment put massive resources in and frankly put their credibility on the line, whatever they have left of their credibility, on the line in this race in Ohio.
And the great news is The citizens of Ohio, the deplorables in Ohio, they repudiated, once again, the Republican establishment.
And in places like Northeast Ohio, in working-class constituencies like Trumbull County and next door in Mahoning County, I campaigned there physically with J.D.
Vance.
The people there, Steve, they were informed, they were motivated, and they were fired up to vote.
And by the way, they can't stand the Republican establishment because they view it every bit as much as their opponent as the Democrats.
And they're right.
And by the way, that's also Tim Ryan's Home turf, a place where he is not very liked in his hometown because of what his globalism has wrought upon this country.
And again, to get to data and evidence, we need look no further, you mentioned it already in the show, than the news we got out just this morning about the trade deficit disaster.
And Steve, to put that in context, the trade deficit number that came in at $109 billion against America, it's never been above $100 billion before.
And if we look in historical context, for about the decade pre-pandemic, it was around 40 billion.
steve bannon
Just hang on.
Short commercial break.
Philip Patrick, Steve Cortez got a lot of economics to go through.
next in the War Room.
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steve bannon
Okay, by the way, MarketWatch is reporting, I just got to Steve Cortez, MarketWatch reporting a $125 billion trade deficit.
$125 billion.
Ladies and gentlemen, Philip Patrick Jones here momentarily, this action at the Fed, we don't have the tools we had back in the 1970s and 80s.
Back then we were a creditor nation, a creditor nation.
I think we're the largest creditor nation on Earth, and we had the largest manufacturing base.
We were a manufacturing powerhouse, and we were a creditor nation.
Now we're one of the biggest debtor nations in the world, and we've shipped all of our manufacturing base to basically China.
Wall Street did it because the CCP uses the slave labor of the Lao-Beijing.
It's pretty simple.
Not that complicated when you walk through it, but that's what happened.
We don't have the tools.
We are in such a mess.
The actions that have to be taken have to be so, with such steely resolve, and they have to have buy-in by the American people.
Remember, Deplorables, you on this show, you're the creditor, you're the creditor's committee.
For this restructuring of the United States of America.
You're the creditors committee everything will run by you and make sure that you guys sign off on and we explain it to you because we know if we explain it to you in your common sense or say, okay, it's not great.
But that's what it's got to be.
It's got to be Steve Cortez want to go before we get back to the economics of axios.
The great Jonathan Swann had a brilliant piece this morning saying how The people that were most upset and most disturbed about J.D.
Vance's win would turn out not to be Democrats.
It was Mitch McConnell and the Republican establishment in the United States Senate.
Sir, your thoughts?
steve cortes
Isn't it wonderful?
That's my first reaction.
Amen, Jonathan.
Thank you.
I think if that's intended to be a hit on J.D.
Vance, the deplorables, the America First movement, we regard it as the exact opposite.
To say that the Republican, I'm quoting, the Republican establishment privately regards J.D.
Vance with the same disgust Well, good, because here's the reality.
The ruling class of America has constructed a rigged system, particularly in regards to the economy, that works for its benefit, to the benefit of C-suite executives of the permanent political class, lobbyists, big media, big tech, big pharma, to the detriment of working-class Americans.
And we've had quite enough of it, and the people of Ohio have had enough of it.
And to put a number on that, to put some data on that, the state of Ohio, Between 2001, when China was led into the World Trade Organization on terms that were incredibly generous to the Chinese Communist Party, from 2001 to 2015, until the election of Donald Trump, Ohio lost 120,000 manufacturing jobs just to Chinese trade alone.
Not because they couldn't compete, but because Ohio workers were abused by an unfair and unreciprocal trade, abusive trade relationship, With the CCP.
Donald Trump came in and said no more.
Thankfully, the workers of America got a much-needed respite.
Real wages started to gallop higher before the CCP virus.
But now, with Biden in the White House, unfortunately, we have given all of that back and more.
Real wages are crashing.
Joe Biden, at a time of nightmarish trade deficits, is talking right now about reducing tariffs on the abusive Chinese Communist Party and Steve.
Here's the other kicker to all of this, talking about financial markets just today.
We hit a terrible milestone today during the show.
3%, 3.0% on 10-year treasury yield.
Steve, we hit 2% to the upside just in February.
And we thought that was a big deal.
And it was a big deal, a big bad deal because inflation is surging in this country.
We went from 2% to 3% in just a matter of weeks.
And Steve, the way the math works there, going from 2% to 3% is massively different from going from say 9 to 10 percent, right? Because it's a 50 percent increase in interest rates going from 2 to 3. It is massive for this economy. So here's the thing, normally, theoretically, if you ran this kind of trade deficit, it should keep inflation down because one of the only benefits you get out of this abusive trade relationship with China is we get a lot of cheap crap, right, sent to the United States that kept somewhat of a lid on inflation.
So now we have all of the abuse from the CCP without the benefits of keeping inflation in check.
It's the worst of all worlds right now.
And the American people know it.
The good citizens, the deplorables of Ohio know it.
And they know that J.D.
Vance is the person gutsy enough to stand up to the establishment of both parties Including the Club for Growth, including Republican leadership on Capitol Hill, if need be.
He will be their advocate, particularly when it comes to matters of trade, because inflation and bad trade deals are killing, they're crushing prosperity for middle-class Americans right now.
steve bannon
Cortez, you've got to go back to the pits in Chicago.
Go back to the hedge funds.
You called the three.
You called that the 10-year treasury.
Remember, the 10-year treasury, ladies and gentlemen, the most important financial instrument in your life.
Forget the stock market.
Focus on the 10-year treasury.
Philip Patrick from Birch Gold.
Philip, finally, they're heeding your advice and Cortez's advice and the War Room's advice.
Today, the Fed's meeting.
I hear they're talking about shrinking the balance sheet.
We've got about a minute.
Explain to people why this is such an important meeting today on both interest rates And the kind of free, easy money they've been putting onto the balance sheet of the Federal Reserve?
phillip patrick
Yeah, look, I think they've been, quite frankly, behind the curve on tightening the money supply for months now.
They're having to raise interest rates as well.
As Steve said, importantly, they're likely going to raise half a point at 2 p.m.
Eastern today.
But as Steve said, importantly, the 10-year Treasury is now at 3%.
That doesn't bode well for the markets.
Historically, the markets have always performed much better when the Treasury yield has been below 3%, so I think this is significant.
Obviously, you mentioned the trade deficit as well.
It jumped 22% in March alone, topped $100 billion for the first time ever in history.
It is a disaster, and I think you factor all of these things in.
What we're starting to see now is the unwinding of the Fed sponsored everything bubble, right?
And quite frankly, I'm starting to feel sorry for Powell because he's in a very, very tough position, right?
He's been seeking the proverbial soft landing.
And I use the word proverbial because I don't think it's been done before.
And it's going to be an almost impossible challenge.
It's like he's trying to land a plane without an engine.
It's possible, but there's a lot of things out of his control.
So I think it's going to be very, very tough to achieve.
unidentified
Did I hear in the war room somebody say I feel sorry for Pal?
phillip patrick
Yeah, I know.
steve bannon
Hang through the break.
90 second break.
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