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Aug. 3, 2022 - Bannon's War Room
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Episode 2049: MAGA Wave Sweeps Arizona And Michigan; The Count Continues In Washington
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boris epshteyn
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mike lindell
06:51
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steve bannon
16:25
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jim hoft
02:47
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joe hoft
01:20
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kari lake
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steve cortes
03:21
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ben bergquam
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unidentified
But tonight, it's not about any of us.
It's about the moms and dads across this state who lost everything these last four years.
It's about the parents in Grand Rapids whose kids Gretchen Whitmer locked out of their classrooms.
And it's about the moms in Flint who would have gone to bat for their children and tried to catch them up and watched them helplessly fall behind.
While Gretchen Whitmer vetoed reading scholarships for their children.
It's about the residents in Benton Harbor who Gretchen Whitmer ignored for years when they pleaded that their water was too contaminated for their children to drink.
It's about the young family in Sterling Heights who can't afford their groceries anymore because of Gretchen Whitmer and Joe Biden's inflation.
And it's about those union members in the Upper Peninsula who just want to go to work tomorrow to earn a paycheck, but they turn on the news every single night and they see Gretchen Whitmer's latest war on the energy that they need to do their job.
It's about every person from Traverse City to Monroe, from Alpena to St. Jude.
Joe, who filled up the gas tank this morning and wondered how they're going to pay the rest of their bills by the end of the week.
The truth is, this upcoming campaign, the next four years, they're not about Gretchen Whitmer, and they're not about Tudor Dixon.
They're about all of you.
They're about how, together, we can rebuild our state.
Tonight, I am so grateful for your support.
I'm grateful for the support of families across Michigan who've had enough and just can't afford one more blow.
But our work isn't finished.
My friends, we are just getting started.
kari lake
Our election system's being this messed up.
Can you believe it?
I got the numbers here.
We have barely any votes counted.
We won today 7 out of 10 election day votes.
Do you know that?
That is massive.
And those votes are not counted yet.
There is no path to victory for my opponent and we won this race.
Period.
But there's a ton of problems with the system.
You know what's going on in Pinelle County?
They knew we were going to have record turnout because we aren't going to take it anymore, and one hour into voting they ran out of ballots?
What the hell's going on?
What in the hell is going on?
This is why we're in this race.
This is why we have this movement right here.
This is why, everywhere we go, we drew a crowd.
This is why we have the biggest movement in Arizona politics.
And we are going to win this when the votes are counted.
unidentified
100%.
kari lake
They've only counted 13,000 Election Day votes, and that's where our people voted.
So I just want you to know, first of all, I appreciate y'all being here.
I know it's been a tough night, I know it's been a long year, I know we've battled through this.
I appreciate you.
I love you!
We have the ideas, we have the policies, and we are gonna win this.
unidentified
100%.
kari lake
I don't want any of you to not believe that.
When they count the votes, we are going to win this and there's no path to victory for our opponent.
And when we get into office, we are going to reform our elections for once and for all.
I wish that our election officials had their act together, don't we?
I wish they could count votes.
I wish they didn't give us the felt-tip pens that we know we don't like.
I wish it were all better, but we didn't have the people with courage last session to get anything done.
But I guarantee you, when we get into office, which we will January of 2023, we are turning it all around and we're fixing our election system for once and for all.
Thank you so much.
unidentified
An Arizona politics.
Thank you.
Oh my gosh. Look at this team.
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steve bannon
Welcome.
It is Wednesday, 3 August, year of our Lord, 2022.
A historic 24 hours.
Rocked the political world last night.
Tudor, Dixon in Michigan, Cary Lake in Arizona.
Two Trump-endorsed candidates in just blockbuster news.
Cary Lake, and I want to thank this audience.
Cary Lake down by 10 points earlier in the evening.
Katie Hobbs and the entire Democrat and Republican establishment apparatus out there.
Slow walking the vote, she was down by 10 points.
And game day vote from the War Room Posse and for everybody out there, Real America's Voice, the entire audience, 70%, historic, 7 out of 10 votes on game day coming in for Carrie Lake.
She's now pulled ahead.
It looks like every additional vote comes in as a game day vote, and her lead's only increasing.
We're gonna get to all of it.
We are absolutely packed today, and really wanna thank Charlie Kirk and Jack Posoba, Gorilla America's voice, incredible coverage last night.
Carey Lake there at 1 o'clock in the morning in Phoenix at 4 a.m.
East Coast time.
So we're going to get into all of it.
We're packed today.
I want to go to Boris Epstein.
I got the Hoff Twins.
I got Cortez.
We're going to bring in John Gibbs in Michigan.
I'm tracking down Chris Kobach.
Mark Fincham is going to join us.
It's going to be absolutely rocking and rolling because I got to tell you, this was absolutely historic what happened.
This is the biggest MAGA win to date.
Steve, honored to be with you, honored to be with the War Room Posse.
Trump essentially ran the tables last night, sir.
boris epshteyn
Steve, honored to be with you, honored to be with the War Room posse.
This was a massive, undisputed, irrefutable victory for President Trump, for MAGA, and And if you look at what happened, if you look at Arizona last night, it is President Trump won the Blake Masters race, Carrie Lake race, Abe Hamaday race for Attorney General, Mark Fincham race, Eli Crane, Biggs, Gosar, Hugo.
President Trump ran the table in Arizona, and I'm so proud I'm so proud of my adopted home state, the Grand Canyon State.
Steve, and as we've talked about time and time again, Arizona, since the early morning of 4 November 2020, has been the tip of the spear on pushing back on the rigging and stealing of our elections.
And it's come through once again, and now it's come through in spades.
And everything we've talked about now for almost Two years of MAGA being in control, MAGA being ascended in a state like Arizona, which had had the McCain history and the Ducey history, let's be honest.
Now it has been absolutely proven true.
Always signal not noise for the audience.
This was a President Trump win, this was a MAGA win, and undoubtedly for each and every single one of you watching, Who sent us the notes, who send us love on social media.
This is your win, the War Room Posse.
President Trump, MAGA, War Room Posse.
These are the winners, along, of course, with our amazing candidates.
Blake Masters, Carrie Lake, Mark Fincham, Abe Hamadeh, Eli Crane.
Hey, I just literally named the lineup for War Room, right?
Any given 48 hours.
That's what we're talking about.
steve bannon
Let me set the perspective.
In two of the most important battleground states in this nation, you've got Tudor Dixon, you've got Matt DiPerno, you've got Christine Karamo, okay?
All MAGA, all Trump, versus Gretchen Whitmer and her crew.
And then in Arizona, you've got Carrie Lake, you've got Fincham, you've got Habaday, you've got Blake Masters, you've got Eli, all the congressmen.
It's MAGA.
I gotta tell you, Tudor Dixon vs. Gretchen Whitmer and Carrie Lake vs. Katie Hobbs are two title fights.
These are gonna be the two galvanizing heavyweight title fights.
They're gonna be Michigan and Arizona.
We got the fights we want.
You got the teams you want.
Both sides got what they want.
Game on.
And I gotta tell you, The MAGA, just to put it in perspective, because I don't think people totally understand.
And Steve, don't forget Michigan.
boris epshteyn
Yeah, go ahead, go ahead.
Don't forget, in Michigan, a rabid Never Trumper, an impeachment voter in Meijer being crushed by MAGA Gibbs, okay?
And let's be honest, Gibbs is somebody who would have had no chance without the Trump endorsement, MAGA endorsement, and the posse piling in.
This was an unprecedented win last night all across the country.
They're still counting and figuring things out in Washington.
That jungle primary is total nonsense over there.
If not for that, you better believe Kent would have been walking away with it as well as all the other candidates.
steve bannon
Well, hold it.
We're going to have Joe Kent on.
I think there's still 40 percent.
They stopped counting the votes.
Joe Cunt and Culp, we don't know where that thing's playing out in.
They got the funky primary, right?
They got this funky primary, and now they stopped counting, going off Joe Cunt, and he's saying, hey, the roll vote, game day vote is coming in.
Game day vote is overwhelmingly MAGA, overwhelmingly Trump-backed.
These numbers in Arizona, ladies and gentlemen, are extraordinary.
When you get 70% of election day vote, a landslide in this nation today is 55.
It's unbelievable.
Also, Boris, far toss back to you.
Robeson put in $18 million, we know.
I think she put in another couple of million in the run-up.
So let's round up to $20 million.
She had another $8 to $10 million.
You have $30 million versus $3.5 million for Carrie Lake and the team.
Now, here's the point.
They're not debating policy.
That money is $30 million on the politics of personal destruction to try to get low-information voters, people that are not that engaged, and to try to flip them on personal attacks.
That's why War Room, John Frederick's radio, all the social media, you got to push it out because this is how we compete with it.
And we know the model works now.
That's why the establishment's in shock.
We know the model works because if you get real information out to people, right, you get real information out to people, people say, hey, I can compare and contrast and that's not looking at the attack ads.
Boris Epstein.
boris epshteyn
Steve, I hate to break it to the establishment.
I hate to break it to the RINOs.
In MAGA, in the Republican politics controlled by President Trump and MAGA, there is no more low-information voters, okay?
The low information voters are the people who are watching day in, day out, following their social media, whether it's Twitter, or it's Getter, or it's Truth, of course, or Instagram, whatever it may be, okay?
You've got now, the MAGA is as plugged in as any movement in history, okay?
There's never been, never been a grassroots, down-to-up movement, power, as we have now.
Big time.
But to the Democrats, hey, you have awakened a monster.
unidentified
Yes.
boris epshteyn
By rigging and stealing the 2020 election, you have only made us stronger.
Now there is a larger point here, always signal not noise.
We cannot allow for the Democrats to rig our elections with nonsense structures like the jungle primary in Washington state or uncorked, unlimited, unchecked mail-in voting, because that's all they're doing.
steve bannon
Look, look.
boris epshteyn
They're trying to steal it from us.
steve bannon
Katie Hobbs, Katie Hobbs, Katie Hobbs, Katie Hobbs did the reporting so that Carrie Lake would not have her time on primetime.
They wanted the Kansas abortion thing to be everything.
If you watched MSNBC and CNN, it was very obvious.
It's Kansas, Kansas, Kansas on this, on this amendment to their constitution.
They didn't want Carrie Lake up there in primetime.
I know you gotta bounce, Boris.
Give me two minutes on President Trump.
President Trump broke the algorithm last night.
He broke the algorithm in just running the tables on key races throughout the country.
Boris Epstein.
boris epshteyn
Steve, no doubt, no doubt, absolute dominance.
Absolute dominance of President Trump in Michigan.
Hey, Missouri, with the Erics, we know, we all know how that went down.
We know we were with Greitens.
Nevertheless, President Trump has got a candidate there now who did come out saying, in the waiting days, that he's going to vote against McConnell.
And then the biggest thing, the biggest thing, in Arizona, President Trump running the turn, running the table, as we've never seen before.
I'm going to, I've said this, I'm going to say it again.
Never in the history of not just America, but world politics and a democracy.
In an election-based system, has there been a power the likes of a President Trump endorsement?
President Trump is the most powerful political figure in the history of the world.
And the MAGA movement, with the War Room Posse being their beating heart, are the most powerful movements and groups of people we've ever had in world political history.
What we saw yesterday was absolutely... It wasn't shocking.
It was earth-shattering.
Hang on, I'm gonna hold you over because I gotta ask about how it worked out for Mike Pence.
Mike Pence, the coward, came into piling at the end.
of the establishment. 50 million bucks went against MAGA and boom MAGA won every single one in your face.
steve bannon
Hang on, I'm going to hold you over because I got to ask about how it worked out for Mike Pence. Mike Pence, the coward, came into Pylon at the end.
This is the end of the Mike Pence blip. Arizona is where it all melted down.
Short break, we got the Hoffs, we got Cortez, we got Boris.
unidentified
We're gonna have all the participants in Arizona all next in the war room.
Join President Trump, Sean Hannity, Steve Bannon, and a packed house of conservative all-stars.
With your help, we will take back the House.
steve bannon
We will win the Senate.
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It all starts at CPAC Texas.
Fire Pelosi.
Save America.
And then, a Republican president will return to the White House.
Who, who, who will that be?
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steve bannon
Okay, go to conservative.org right now, slash war room.
I want everybody in the Dallas area, North Texas, all around, come from Oklahoma.
We've got to be here.
We want the war room posse.
We're on a roll, okay?
Michigan, Arizona, fight on.
I'm telling you, this is historic.
We want to see everybody here.
Go to conservative.org right now, slash war room.
Get a day ticket.
Get a ticket for the whole event.
Come, we're going to be live.
Real America's Voice did a great setup for us today.
This is not the final setup.
We're going to move to the big studio tomorrow.
It's going to be audience participation.
I want to see everybody here.
We're going to have meet and greets.
You get to meet the entire team of the War Room.
A historic day.
By the way, myplot.com, the great Mike Lindell.
Arizona would not exist if it was not for the bravery and courage of Mike Lindell.
He's going to be on In a few minutes, I want to go back to Boris.
Boris, Christie, who is kind of irrelevant, but Mike Pence is trying to run against President Trump in the 2024.
And he decided, he picked Arizona to come in on back of the ropes and money, on back of Ducey, on back of the McCain apparatus and kind of pile on when they thought they're going to blow Kerry Lake and Mark Fincham and Abe Hamadei and all of them are going to blow out the whole ticket.
He came in at the last second.
The same gutless coward came at the last second.
How did it turn out for him, Boris?
boris epshteyn
How do you like me now?
That's how it turned out for him.
Mike Pence absolutely destroyed.
Absolutely destroyed in this primary.
Doug Ducey destroyed.
And by the way, just got some interesting information and perspective.
These huge wins yesterday.
This slate of dominance in Arizona makes it even more clear that there was something very disgusting going on in Georgia.
There's no way that the Georgia elections went the way we're being told, with President Trump dominating in Arizona yesterday.
steve bannon
100%.
boris epshteyn
100%.
unidentified
And, hey, here's the deal.
boris epshteyn
Right now, the biggest winner coming out of yesterday is President Trump and the MAGA movement with the war on posse as the beating heart of it.
And that's the bottom line.
Mike Pence, Chris Christie, Doug Ducey, anybody else out there who's still dreaming of the Republican Party of 2008, 2010, forget it.
2008, 2010, forget it, you're done.
steve bannon
Look, we gotta get to the bottom of George Sondland.
I gotta tell you, in Arizona, look, they're playing games there.
The War Room engine room has sent me an analysis, said, look, here's a question.
How can France, France, how can France count 32 million votes and have it done by 8 o'clock at night?
Their time, eight o'clock at night.
We can't count 2.7, 2.8, and we're there the next day.
This is not, this is Katie Hobbs, that entire apparatus of this stinks to high heaven, and this is why Carrie Lake and Fincham and Abe are gonna clean this thing up.
Boris, give me your social media.
I know you gotta, I know you're going to certain places in New Jersey today for key meetings, so we're gonna let you take off.
Give us your coordinates.
boris epshteyn
Vital meetings as we plan vital next steps to continue to making sure that America is strong and we are ensuring that MAGA is ascended and MAGA wins in 2022, Steve.
100 seats for 100 years and then as we hope and expect, President Trump runs and wins in 2024, dominates just as he dominated yesterday.
steve bannon
Amen.
boris epshteyn
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Stay strong, God bless, huge wins, and I'll see you tomorrow.
steve bannon
Okay, make sure you get the word.
Let's go now.
Let's stop the games.
Let's go now.
Time to get to work.
Let's roll.
Let's roll.
New Jersey should hear the comment from Arizona.
Let's move out, okay?
Let's move out smartly.
Boris Epstein, thank you.
I want to bring in Ben Bergkamp quickly from Real America's Voice.
Ben, I got to give a hat tap to Real America's Voice.
Charlie Kirk, Jack Posobiec, yourself.
Incredible coverage last night of Arizona.
You guys are doing it.
Set the stage for us before I go to the Brothers Hoft.
ben bergquam
It was an incredible night, Steve.
I mean, we went from you and I talking back and forth, like, what the heck is going on here, to the mainstream media discounting the entire race, to all of a sudden, an hour later, Kerry Lakes takes the lead and ultimately is the presumptive nominee.
Incredible night.
MAGA night.
You already heard it.
This was, they crushed The McCain cabal in Arizona last night and MAGA has taken over in full force.
It shows that we can outvote the fraud.
You just have to show up.
You know, it's a couple percentage points difference, but we can outvote the fraud across this entire country.
But the fight is just beginning.
It's time to put the floor, the pedal down on the gas.
steve bannon
By the way, game day vote, election day vote was 70 to 30.
That does not happen in modern American politics.
This shows you, MAGA turns out, the Trump movement turns out, it's huge, incredible.
Ben, hang on for one second.
I'm going to come right back to you.
Let's go to the Hoff brothers.
This would not have happened if it was not for platforms like the Hoff Brothers, Gateway Pundit, these other great places, Citizens Free Press, War Room, the John Frederick Radio Network, Charlie Kirk, what Charlie Kirk's doing, Human Events Day with Jack Posobiec.
Hoffs, put it in perspective.
Jim, let's start with you.
I'll go to Joe next.
Put it in perspective what happened last night, sir.
jim hoft
Steve, I gotta tell ya, it's no secret that Gateway Pundit is a huge fan of Carrie Lake in Arizona.
We love her beauty, her poise.
She's just always so courageous.
She doesn't back down.
She doesn't waver.
She doesn't flinch.
And so last night when I saw the results coming in and she was 10 points behind, I thought, oh my gosh, they're going to pull another Georgia.
And then this morning I get up and I have this text message from my friend.
It says, Carrie Lake is a beast.
And I'm like, oh my gosh.
So Steve, you wrote me this morning and I'm like, what happened?
And you go, she won 70% of the game day vote.
And I'm like, oh my gosh.
I mean, it's like Christmas in August.
And here we look at the results now.
She came back 10 points and it looks like if these numbers hold up and she continues to win 70% of the vote, then she's gonna be our presumptive winner.
So that was, Such good news, and I was so glad that you gave this news to me this morning.
It was such a nice way to wake up.
I also wanted to add quickly, and that is that Rusty Bowers, this dirty politician, this rhino, who was just in Washington DC testifying at that sham show trial, the January 6th committee, and getting hugs and kisses from Liz Cheney, he got shellacked last night.
The final result there is 60-some percent to 30-some percent.
Rusty Bowers is gone.
steve bannon
Amen.
jim hoft
Goodbye.
steve bannon
Hold it, hold it.
Rusty Bowers, a career politician out there, got blown out.
65-35.
I mean, his political career is over.
A message was sent by the great citizens of Arizona last night.
Joe, Joe Hoff, give me your perspective.
You guys, Gateway Pundit's been there.
You've been all over Michigan.
You've been all over Arizona.
And I got to tell you, Tudor Dixon and Carrie Lake, show me two better candidates in this country for poise, For class, for toughness, for grit, right?
No money, right?
These are grassroots operations bootstrapped off the leadership, personality, and character of the candidates themselves.
That's why, hey, Tuna Dixon vs. Gretchen Whitmer and Carrie Lake vs. Katie Hobbs, two heavyweight title fights coming in November.
MSNBC Yeah, Steve, thanks for having us on.
It's great to see you and Jim, and yeah, I saw that text this morning as well.
That was the beast one, so that was great.
Yeah, we're really excited about it.
Last night, though, at times, we were concerned.
joe hoft
What's going on?
What's going on in Arizona?
What's going on in Michigan?
And yeah, I saw that text this morning as well.
That was the beast one.
So that was great.
Yeah, we're really excited about it.
Last night though, at times we were concerned.
What's going on?
What's going on in Arizona?
What's going on in Michigan?
We heard of issues there as well.
We've written about a couple of these posts at the gate.
We punted overnight, but Overall, it just looks like the mega people showed up in huge numbers To vote and that's what they do.
We're the largest base maybe in in US history I would say no doubt and and it showed last night Mike Pence doesn't have much of a following at all.
We all know that and So it was a great night I guess the thing that really I was focused on and still am is really looking at At some of the activities, how broken are these elections?
At a point last night, I was actually a bit concerned, like, here we go again.
It's great news, the way the results turned out this morning.
I mean, it was just a massive turnout for Trump.
Jim and I have coined the term the Raffensperger special, and we were worried about that with Carrie Lake early in the evening, but it turned out that, no, it looks like she's coming through.
So overall, a great night for the Meghan movement and for the United States.
steve bannon
You guys are 100% correct.
It's still 18% of the, 20% of the vote.
How can that possibly be?
Like my engine room says, how can France count 32 million and be done at eight o'clock at night?
And we are sitting here in the most advanced nation on earth and you got them playing games again.
This is Katie.
You think Katie Hobbs should be governor when she can't even manage to be in secretary of state?
Mark Fincham is going to clean out that entire rat's nest.
Jim, give me a minute on where's Gateway Pundit's coverage going this.
You got Conradson out there.
You guys have been all over the country.
Walk me through where you guys go from here.
jim hoft
I have to give a shout out to our reporter, Jordan Conradson, who would be with us this morning, but he's in bed right now because he was up until about five in the morning after going to Carrie Lake's event, which went on and on and on, as you know.
So today we're going to be looking at these results.
We already have our friend Patty McMurray, who's been on your show from 100% fed up.
She was at the TCF center last night.
There was more shenanigans going on.
She wrote an article for Gateway Pundit this morning saying 50% of these ballots that were coming in didn't have the signature verification.
So there's, you know, Jocelyn Benson in Michigan is trying to steal this election.
She pushed in a bunch of last minute rules that people, the national audience probably haven't heard about, but it's disgusting what's happening there.
So we're going to be reporting on that and we'll of course be following these great wins in Arizona.
Blake Masters as you said, Kerry Lake, our friend Mark Fincham.
We're still following the race with Wendy Rogers and a couple others but it was a great day and so we'll be following that at Gateway Pundit today.
steve bannon
How do people get to your social media real quickly guys?
jim hoft
It's Gateway Pundit and Getter on Facebook, on Trump's social, also on Telegram, and we got kicked off Twitter as you know, and it's TheGatewayPundit.com.
steve bannon
The Brothers Hoff, Gateway Pundit, wouldn't have done it without them.
Cortez, Mike Lindell, Ben Berquam, next.
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We will win the Senate.
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steve bannon
Steve Cortez joins me.
By the way, go to conservative.org slash war room.
We want everybody to come.
We're going to have audience participation.
It's going to be intensive right in the Dallas area, North Texas, Oklahoma.
Come on down.
Great venue.
We're in the temporary studio.
We're going to move over to the Real America Voice studio tomorrow morning.
I want to thank all the team at RIV.
We're going to go back to Ben Berquam in a few minutes.
He got a great interview last night with Kerry Lake.
It's only Ben Berquam.
Because you've got to be there.
These guys, Kirk and Pasobic, Real America's voice team, and Burquam, up all night long in this historic day in Arizona.
But it was broader than that, wasn't it, Cortez?
You've been following this closely.
And I've got to tell you, brother, nobody talks about this, but I will.
Steve Cortez, I believe your record is Unblemished.
And Cortez never takes on the easy ones.
He's kind of like Lindell.
These guys like underdogs.
They're into the David and Goliath business.
Cortez, this is why I love you.
You're not a frontrunner.
You jump in at the hardest, and you put your shoulder to the wheel.
And correct me if I'm wrong, is your record on blemish right now in these primaries?
unidentified
Yes.
steve cortes
People who have decided to work with me in the primaries are undefeated, I'm very proud to say.
That's because of their work, because of their hustle, including John Gibbs last night.
They're fantastic candidates.
They are people of principle and substance and they've worked hard to earn the votes.
But yes, I'm thrilled to so far have an undefeated track record.
We can celebrate that for about a nanosecond and then move on to November because we need to be undefeated in November as well.
steve bannon
What was the message of John Gibbs last night?
Gibbs is another guy with no money.
Just character, grit, determination.
Perfect MAGA candidate against a billionaire's son.
It was an incredible race because, man, it went back and forth.
We were on tenterhooks.
I was going back and forth with you nonstop.
Tell me about John Gibbs.
steve cortes
Listen, you know, Steve, how hard it is to defeat an incumbent and particularly in this case, an incumbent who has a personal fortune and who has near unanimous name recognition in the district because of the Meijer superstores, which are ubiquitous.
In the state of Michigan.
So it's a very tall order.
Not to mention, as you mentioned, the money John Gibbs was massively outspent.
Now, the corporate media is going to try to excuse this loss for Peter Meyer by saying that the Democratic Campaign Committee did a very small ad buy, actually, in favor of John Gibbs.
However, that was less than 10% of what Meyer had on his side.
Okay, that's the reality.
So this was completely a David versus Goliath race.
But why did John Gibbs won?
He won because, number one, life experiences.
This is a young man who has accomplished An incredible amount, given that he is, in fact, a young man.
Graduate of Stanford, worked at the highest levels of Big Tech, but never bought into the worldview of Big Tech.
Christian missionary to Japan, learned that incredibly difficult language, came back to the United States, earned a master's at Harvard, got involved in politics, served the Trump administration.
He's a true America First warrior, and he was going up against somebody, Who had betrayed the values of his district.
That's the reality.
And John Gibbs now faces a tough but very winnable general election.
So now is not the time, though, in my view, for John Gibbs or anyone else to be disparaging of Peter Meyer.
Look, he ran a great race.
It was a competitive primary, and competitive primaries are good for the country.
They're good for our movement.
Now is the time for him to unite the party, to earn the support of those Meyer voters, and to go on and win.
And let me tell you one of the biggest reasons that he needs to win is t of Michigan, all of Ameri inflation explosion, of c of Michigan by many metr worse.
are suffering even worse.
you Steve why his race is as is tutor Dixon's even and a state that leans slightly blue.
Let me show you why they are winnable.
If we can pull up his chart number two, this is Biden approval in the state of Michigan.
If you look at that chart, OK, it looks like an alligator opening its mouth the wrong way for Joe Biden.
Let me give you the specifics on this number.
So when Joe Biden took office in the state of Michigan, he enjoyed a plus three favorable unfavorable ratio, 47% approved, 44% disapproved.
He was in positive territory in the Great Lakes state.
when he took office.
It has deteriorated continually ever since, and he is right now at 3,456.
3,456.
So he has gone 25 points net against him in this time frame, and that is the reality.
So Joe Biden is unbelievably unpopular in that state, and we need to make sure that Whitmer and that Hillary Shultz and Gibbs opponent that they are completely aligned with, because they are with Joe Biden.
steve bannon
No.
Let's get Joe Biden out there.
Gretchen, are you inviting Joe Biden out there to campaign with you this weekend?
We've got to force this.
By the way, Tudor Dixon versus Gretchen Whitmer and Carrie Lake versus Katie Hobbs, two heavyweight title fights in Michigan and Arizona.
Cortez, hang right there.
We've got more analysis, economic analysis to go through, but I've got to go to Mike Lindell.
This would not have happened.
This historic night would not have happened without, besides President Trump, two individuals of character.
And that is Mike Lindell and Rudy Giuliani.
I want to go now to Mike Lindell.
Mike, I got to tell you, you are the hardest working and the most giving person I have met in this country.
And I've met a lot of folks.
People don't understand that you, you, you are 24 seven to save your country.
You put your company in play.
Your personal life in play, the attacks on you, but what happened last night, the 7030 game day votes of average Americans, MAGA coming out with all this advertising spent against them and coming out is the work of what you've done to inspire people in places like Arizona, Michigan, Mike Lindell.
mike lindell
Well, it was, it was so awesome.
Uh, Carrie Lake, you know, everybody was the first person I ever endorsed in my life.
And I, I met her over a year ago at a little event.
I did a prayer event where I was speaking out, uh, Back talking about my journey back then and she was at that event and so it's like here was it's almost like you see everything at the seeds that took hold back then all coming to life and it was so so rewarding and they tried Steve they're trying to steal hers they're trying to steal Carrie Lake's and and I guess it's still not completely set but
We were watching from every angle and how about 65,000 votes?
They say, hey, we don't, we're 65,000 ballots.
We, we don't have enough ballots.
We ran out.
And then another place where people were getting there going, you've already, you've already voted.
You've already voted.
But like you said, Steve, the same day voting 70, 30, these are, these are the real votes rolling in everybody.
70, 30, all these candidates, all these America first candidates from Mark Fincham on down, they all get just completely, um, um, Overwhelm their opponents, and then all of a sudden you think these people didn't vote for Kerry Lake?
They tried, Steve, and they're still gonna try, but this is what we have to do this fall, everybody, too, is just overwhelm the machines, whatever ones we can't get rid of.
And it's just so exciting.
steve bannon
Mike, hang on for a second.
My engine room comes up to me and says, hey, ask Lyndell this.
How can France, I know we had Jerome Revere on here, how can France count 32 million votes in a country that's massive and finish it at eight o'clock at night?
And in Arizona, Katie Hopps should be in Arizona as we sit here today.
Eighteen percent of the vote is not counted, and we know why it's not counted, because it's game day vote.
It's 70-30.
This is MAGA.
This is the people with no money coming out to vote against the establishment of that state and the corrupt Democrats.
So, Mike, answer the question.
How can we not count all the votes?
How can they not be counted in Arizona?
mike lindell
Because they're corrupt.
They're, uh, they're trying to steal it.
This is the thing.
Everyone says, when you get the big arguments saying, Oh, we can't go to paper and hand counted because it's going to take so long.
We did it for decades and France did it in an hour and a half, two hours, 70 million people, Steve, I met with them and they did it in less than two hours.
And that's, you know, let's say we have double that here in the U S a little over double.
It's just a few more people.
And, uh, what they're doing, Because of these machines, it almost just reminds me of the 2020 election.
All of a sudden, they're not done counting now?
What?
I mean, I thought they were machines.
Boom.
Here's your winner, you know.
And it's disgusting.
This is called, when you override the algorithms, when you override this, you override the machine sheet, now they've got to figure out a way.
Is there a way we can backfill this?
Is there a way we can backfill?
Steve, this just happened to Peggy Hubbard in Illinois.
They stopped the count in Illinois three weeks ago, and they dumped 30,000 votes on her opponent, and she lost.
She was winning.
She had put in all this stuff.
steve bannon
Joe Kent and Lauren Culp are out there in Washington three and four right now.
They're out there three and four right now, running against these traitors in the Republican Party, and there's 40-some percent of the vote not counted yet.
Mike Lindell's crusade has to come to fruition.
By the way, the machines, and I'm not a machine guy.
Everybody knows that.
I've never been a machine guy.
I'm a mail-in ballot, and the phoniness of the mail-in ballots, and getting illegal people to vote, not non-citizens to vote.
Okay?
What we have here, though, Mike Lindell is absolutely correct.
We need a crusade to rip those machines out.
It is a disgrace that we're sitting here as an advanced nation in Arizona.
We're sitting here and you're telling Katie Hobbs to be governor of the state is a disgrace.
She can't organize or run anything and it's corrupt and crooked.
Mike, your fight in court to get those machines out is more important than ever, is it not?
mike lindell
Absolutely.
Remember the preliminary injunction, the judge is still looking at it in Arizona.
He's the first judge, everybody, to look at evidence.
Machine evidence.
First one in our nation.
Nobody looked at it a year and a half ago.
No judges looked at it.
So we're in a great place and we've got the great Moment of Truth Summit coming up on August 19th or 20th.
20th and 21st, and that's going to change our country forever.
Steve, I want to say one more thing before I forget.
How about the president, everybody?
Our great president, Donald Trump, endorsing Adam Steen against one of the biggest corruption people in this country, Robin Voss in Wisconsin.
This all happened yesterday.
Yesterday, it's pretty historical, everybody.
We beat the machines in Arizona and overran them because of everybody out there just Hold it, hold it.
steve bannon
Your biggest nemesis in Arizona has been Rusty Bowers.
Rusty Bowers got blown out.
This is a career politician got blown out.
65-35.
This is not close.
Blown out.
And if it was not for Rusty Bowers, we would have had decertified Biden electors in Arizona.
And you see it right now.
It's just as corrupt.
And by the way, Boris brought up the good point.
Georgia primary stinks to high heaven.
It is impossible to have what happened in Michigan and impossible to have what happened in Arizona and not have had the same thing in Georgia.
Georgia should be ashamed of themselves and Arizona puts a spotlight on the corruption of the Georgia Republican establishment, which is nothing but bought and paid for by the corporatists in Atlanta.
It's a disgrace.
Mike Lindell.
mike lindell
It really is.
And every state seems to have a Republican blocker.
Steve, I don't even call them RINO.
They're just plain criminal.
You've got your Rusty Bowers, your Brad Rausenbergers, your Robin Vosses of the world.
These guys are Republicans blocking everything.
They have blocked decertifications.
They have taken the races.
Look at Rausenberger over in Georgia.
He was pulled at 38%.
The next day of the election, he gets 51%.
What?
Well, we watched them all, Steve, and it comes down to, you know, catching them all in the act right now is so important, everybody, which we have.
Remember, everybody, I love telling you about that nice Democrat lady in Georgia, her and her husband on May 24th, three Democrats, she woke up in her own precinct and said, What?
We got zero votes?
Honey, did you vote for me?
Oh, Brad Rasenberger, Steve, should have given at least two.
They wouldn't have had a leg to stand on.
Sorry, nobody likes you, nice lady.
But you know what they did?
They did.
Brad showed the world.
Brad showed the country that you could open up the machines and do a two-day audit.
And they looked inside and they said, what?
There's 3,700 votes here, nice lady.
You went from third place to first place.
And this is happening all over our country.
steve bannon
Mike Lindell, hang on for a second.
Hang on a second.
We're going to take a short break.
We'll come back with Mike Lindell.
I think we got John Gibbs, Steve Cortez.
When we return, we're going to talk about the power of prayer and this entire process with the one and only Mike Lindell.
unidentified
I'll be back in a moment.
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steve bannon
Welcome back.
I want to go to Mike Lindell.
Mike, talk to me about the, uh, the power of prayer.
How important has that been in your personal journey?
Because folks, let's go back in history, really the momentum for all this after we had the audit in, uh, in, uh, in, uh, Arizona, the driving inciting incident.
This was in South Dakota a year ago, essentially this week.
I think it was a year ago this week at the symposium, the cyber symposium, it drove us momentum.
We got this huge summit coming up.
Mike Lindell, the power of prayer.
How did that reinforce what we were doing, sir?
mike lindell
Well, like I've told everybody, God's had his hand in all of this.
And if I take my life and I look back, I had so many reactionary prayers in my life, Steve.
And when I look back and I'm going to tell everybody here to get this peace, you know, when you're praying for this, like back then, oh, I wish, you know, I want Donald Trump in right now or whatever it may be.
Those are reactionary prayers, and it might not be God's will.
Everybody, really listen to this.
It might not be God's will.
Well, where is God's will?
God's will is found in the Word.
So if we stay in the Word, we can be proactive in prayer, and they line up beautifully, everybody.
They line up.
It's amazing.
So when you see all these things happening, we're gonna look back someday, Steve.
We're gonna look back and say, wow, that had to happen.
Even though it was bad at the time, it was meant to be.
It was part of God's big plan.
He's got a big plan, and we're all part of it.
We're put here for such a time as this.
So everybody, stay in the Word, stay in prayer, because it's working.
It's absolutely amazing.
Steve, I wouldn't be where I'm at today.
I look back in my life and say, you know what?
I was saved on February 18, 2017, everybody.
I always wanted to have that personal relationship with Jesus Christ, but God was always chasing me.
I was going, you know, show me more, show me more.
I think God's given us grace, everybody, and everybody, this is a time for the biggest revival in history, and just enjoy it.
This is historical, everybody.
We're winning, God is winning, and it's amazing.
Everybody stay in prayer, and stay in proactive prayer, and it's just gonna be great.
steve bannon
Mike Lindell, thank you very much.
Real quickly, the summit, how do people get there right now?
This massive summit is going to take place in Springfield, Missouri, but everybody can get there online.
How do they do that?
mike lindell
Yeah, yeah.
Go to get the Frank Speech app, everybody, and get the app.
It's the Moment of Truth Summit.
It's August 20th and 21st.
You'll be live streamed for 48 hours straight.
Go there, get signed up now, and it's going to be awesome.
This is going to be historical.
It's going to change our world forever.
I promise you it's going to be amazing.
Mike, your efforts and work have just been amazing.
steve bannon
The nation thanks you, and the war room posse thanks you.
Let's play the cold open.
Thank you, Mike.
Let's play the cold open for John Gibbs.
unidentified
That is excellent.
Yes sir, your endorsements have a really, really good record.
He really is.
He absolutely is, sir.
That's awesome.
That's great.
I'll see you soon.
See you soon, sir.
steve bannon
I'm very proud of you.
unidentified
That's a great job.
Thank you, President.
Thank you, sir.
We appreciate it.
Take care.
Cheers. Thank you.
steve bannon
An incredible come from behind victory last night.
John Gibbs joins us now in Michigan.
John, I've got to tell you, for a guy that walked away from a great corporate career to go preach the Word of the Living Christ in Japan as a missionary and then to come back and to do what you did last night is historic.
Tell us about it, sir.
unidentified
Well, Steve, it was a really great evening.
We were pretty far ahead in our polling going into this.
Uh, so we started to see the results come in and it was much closer than we expected.
Uh, they were counting the absentee ballots first, which are much less favorable to us.
Uh, so we knew that things would get better as I started counting in-person votes later on.
And sure enough, that did happen after a while.
They started counting those who actually went in and voted on election day, uh, who are much more for us.
And then, uh, we saw the, uh, margins turn around and we kept getting more and more.
And, uh, uh, then they called the race, uh, you know, outlet by outlet.
So.
Ended up being a long process, a bit longer than we inspected.
We saw the first call come in, I think, at 1230, one o'clock or so.
And then I think it was officially called maybe about 3 a.m.
We ended up leaving our party at 3.30 a.m.
But yeah, it was a great result.
Again, closer than we expected.
We're going to be taking a detailed look at everything that happened and where we were strong and where we were not and looking at demographics and things to make sure everything was on the up and up as well.
So, but yeah, I mean, I think this is an earthquake throughout the nation and perhaps throughout the world.
We were outspent on outside spending, probably $101 on hard cash, probably $10 to $1.
He was sending out two to three mailers a day for the past two weeks to voters.
Expensive TV ads, radio ads, everything.
It didn't work.
We were out there doing the thing that doesn't cost any money, meeting people.
We went to every single city and township in our new district.
We met folks there.
We talked to people face-to-face.
That's worth pure gold.
So, I think that we ran a really good operation efficiently.
And of course, we have the power of prayer undergirding us.
We actually have a prayer sign up.
People can go on and they can get updates from us and be praying for us.
So, that was the most important thing that made the biggest difference.
So, yeah, I mean, this is a historic result.
Power to the people.
The people cannot be bought, would not be bought.
This sends a very powerful message.
steve bannon
John, real quickly, tell us how to get to the campaign, how to get to the prayer.
You need prayers, but you also need support.
I want everybody to go to the other day, check it out.
John Gibbs is an American hero.
How do people get to your campaign?
unidentified
VoteJohnGibbs.com.
We're up against a Democrat who's going to be probably one of the most heavily funded in the country because of them saying they can flip this.
They're wrong about that.
So we're going to need all your support.
If you can chip in $15 or $20.
to help us beat this Democrat in November, it'd be great.
We also need your prayers.
You can sign up for a prayer list on votejohngibbs.com.
You can see all my social media there.
So that's where you can check out everything we're doing.
So votejohngibbs.com.
Please give if you can, we're gonna need it in November.
Please sign up to pray for us, or if you're in the area, sign up to volunteer at votejohngibbs.com.
steve bannon
John Gibbs, thank you very much.
A patriot.
We're going to look forward to having you back on here next week.
John Gibbs, historic win.
Cortez, give me 15 seconds before we go to break here and stay over on John Gibbs, American hero.
steve cortes
Listen, John Gibbs is a warrior and a fighter, and it's so gratifying to see somebody like him who worked so hard, worked the district so hard from the grassroots level, win it on hustle and principles.
steve bannon
Short break.
Cortez, we're going to go to Arizona.
We're going to get all the candidates.
All the winners are going to be in here next hour.
Strap in.
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