Sept. 29, 2022 - Bannon's War Room
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Well the virus has now killed more than a hundred people in China and new cases have been confirmed around the world. | |
| So you don't want to frighten the American public. | ||
| France and South Korea have also got evacuation plans. | ||
| But you need to prepare for and assume. | ||
| Broadly warning Americans to avoid all non-essential travel to China. | ||
| That this is going to be a real serious problem. | ||
| France, Australia, Canada, the US, Singapore, Cambodia, Vietnam, the list goes on. | ||
| Health officials are investigating more than a hundred possible cases in the US. | ||
| Germany, a man has contracted the virus. | ||
| The epidemic is a demon and we cannot let this demon hide. | ||
| Japan, where a bus driver contracted the virus. | ||
| Coronavirus has killed more than 100 people there and infected more than 4,500. | ||
| We have to prepare for the worst, always, because if you don't and the worst happens, War Room, Pandemic. | ||
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Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon. | |
| It's Thursday, 29th September, the year of our Lord, 2022. | ||
| We've got a lot to get to today. | ||
| There's a live event that's taking place on Capitol Hill right now by the mics where the Republican leadership in the House are holding a Fire Pelosi event. | ||
| Kevin McCarthy, the whip, Steve Scalise, the conference chair, Elise Stefanik, We're going to go to that and cut into that live, if we can pull that off here momentarily. | ||
| But I want to start with Alex DeGrasse, also trying to track down Mark Mitchell, who is the head pollster for Rasmussen. | ||
| Alex, quickly, because we're getting some of your charts in this Yahoo story from John Ward about the Democrats, the smart money, the inside baseball is expecting a big surge. | ||
| What is this event today and why are we here? | ||
| Is this different than what happened in Pittsburgh the other day with the commitment to America when they rolled out these kind of, I think, nine or ten general principles of directionally where they're going to go once they win the houses? | ||
| Is this Fire Pelosi event something different? | ||
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Yeah, so this is a little bit different, but the Republicans will be with everyone, so we should have about 100 members of Congress in unity standing on the steps. | |
| And we're gonna be making the case of American people as the Democrats put up their last bill, you know, they're getting ready to fund the government, they've got, it's a massive boondoggle, billions to illegal immigrants, all types of money grab, you know, grab bag situation. | ||
| We're gonna be contrasting with the Democrats and showing United Front as we prepare to leave DC, essentially tomorrow and focus in on the October campaign. | ||
| You know, we've got a plan, the Democrats have no plan and they have a record of massive failure. | ||
| And so, just like we spoke about, Steve, I think if you look at what our ads are, our ads are on substance, the issues, talking about Democrats' votes and their policies that have caused a destructive crisis in our country. | ||
| And our agenda is going to cut costs, cut spending, drive down inflation, support police, build the wall, and all that good stuff that we support. | ||
| Alex DeGrasse is the head of Team Elise, works very closely with the NRCC, and is kind of the go-to guy for the analytics and a lot of the strategy. | ||
| Alex, I just want to make sure people have the critical path here. | ||
| The CR, which we've been talking about, because the Democrats in charge of the House didn't get the appropriations bill done. | ||
| So we've gone through the same fiasco we always go through. | ||
| Tomorrow night at midnight on the 30th, the fiscal year runs out for the government. | ||
| So we don't have the appropriations bill. | ||
| None of the committees put forward anything. | ||
| So we're going to go back to the same old, same old, which is a CR with trillions of dollars committed, if you did it for the whole year, of basically you have to print more money and you have to blow through the debt ceiling. | ||
| But this CR, the disturbing thing is there, I think there was unanimity, if I'm correct, or maybe just Kinzer, I think it was unanimity to vote against the CR from the House. | ||
| Now the Senate has agreed to, one of the key things was that the point of this was to give When the Republicans take the gavel, and leadership is actually in there, the point that we were trying to drive home was that we wanted this to be a CR that kicked into early January so that the Republicans actually had the ability to do the appropriations. | ||
| This is only going to go into mid-December, I think, and the Senate essentially rolled over on that, which really gives Shelby and these guys in the Senate working with Democrats in the House Yeah, I believe it's still mid-December, though, and I apologize, I'm not exactly sure. | ||
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I've just seen it come across my desk. | |
| We've got, you know, money to illegals, zero funding for the border as it stands right now, and obviously it's a total disaster. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| But we'll be contrasting, you know, our position with them. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| But I believe mid-December. | ||
| Right. | ||
| And so when people, when you say people leave, this is what Pelosi, tomorrow is really the last day that the House is around. | ||
| You guys depart and you're really out on the hustings for the entire month of October because the Democrats are in panic mode to defend these seats. | ||
| If they weren't, they would hold everybody here and pass more stuff. | ||
| They're actually going. | ||
| So from tomorrow all the way to the election day, essentially the House is out campaigning. | ||
| Is that correct? | ||
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That's right. | |
| Although we are expecting that there's the possibility, I believe the Senate is coming back, possibly to try to jam through judges in a last desperate attempt while they hold the Senate. | ||
| So that's something for the posse to kind of watch out for. | ||
| But as of right now, yes, tomorrow would be the last day the House is in session, unless they're going to call us back and do something crazy. | ||
| Okay, just hang on for a second. | ||
| We're trying to go live. | ||
| We're going to come back to you. | ||
| You've got a bunch of analysis to go through in these house races. | ||
| I want to bring in Mark Mitchell from Rasmussen. | ||
| Mark, thank you for joining us. | ||
| I had a chance to watch that YouTube of you the other day. | ||
| It was very impressive. | ||
| But can you tell the audience about Rasmussen, how you guys go about things? | ||
| I mean, you're kind of revered. | ||
| Yeah, I think independence and transparency are really important for us. | ||
| We're not taking money from the big political parties. | ||
| the Trump movement and can really do polling that's pretty accurate. Can you walk us through just the structure of Rasmussen and what you guys, what separates you from other, you know, maybe even bigger brand names that don't often get it right, sir? Yeah, I think independence and transparency are really important for us. We're not taking money from the big political parties. We don't have big secret backers. And so that means that we have to, you know, hang our track record on accuracy. | ||
| And we've been accurate for the last 20 years. | ||
| We're always in the top couple of pollsters for every one of the horse races. | ||
| And we do it with, you know, being really methodical and transparent. | ||
| We have a methodology that's been tested. | ||
| We don't mess around with it. | ||
| We don't fidget with our weightings and we tell you what our weightings are. | ||
| If you look at some of these mainstream polls that the mainstream media uses to push these headlines, They're not transparent. | ||
| They don't tell you what the methodology is. | ||
| They don't tell you what the weights are. | ||
| They could be messing around with it. | ||
| They don't tell you how they answer their questions, ask their questions. | ||
| Every one of the stories we write, you can see how the question was asked, how big the sample was, how accurate it was, what the demographic breakdown is. | ||
| And we've always done that and always will. | ||
| And so that makes us a great place for people to come to know what America really thinks. | ||
| One of the things that got me was this poll, I guess you did on Democrats or had Democrats respond about COVID. | ||
| But let me ask you, we have Alex on here talking about the House races. | ||
| And one of the reasons is you're seeing some of the smart, some of the smartest people, like the John Wards, start talking about the Democrats took their best shot in July and August. | ||
| It didn't really lay a glove. | ||
| And now you're seeing a surge, not just with the money that the NRCC and others held back and withstood the fire, but now are unloading. | ||
| in these battleground districts, but also just a surge post-Labor Day of the interest of the Trump movement, MAGA, all of it, volunteering, people going door to door. | ||
| So you've seen a surge, but you're still seeing headlines every day. | ||
| It was just one in the Hill last night that the Democrats are up on a generic ballot on a nationwide poll. | ||
| Where, right now, from Rasmussen's perspective, just where do you guys see this thing turning out, you know, directionally? | ||
| mixed signals. | ||
| So I will say that starting last year when we began polling on the generic ballot, we saw the biggest Republican lead we'd ever seen in our polling history. | ||
| 13 points. | ||
| And as of last week, I think we had Republicans up plus two, but it's essentially a dead heat now. | ||
| And so, you know, the top line there is the Republican Party blew a historic lead in the generic ballot. | ||
| Will the pendulum swing back? | ||
| Maybe. | ||
| We haven't seen it yet. | ||
| That's not also the only thing you would look at. | ||
| We polled last week. | ||
| On voter enthusiasm and Republicans had an eight point edge over Democrats in enthusiasm to go vote in the midterms. | ||
| So that's a totally different signal. | ||
| And also, I'd say that Biden had really low approval ratings, lowest they've ever been in July. | ||
| And then they swung back and forth like a pendulum. | ||
| And in August, settled up to the highest he's been for a while, 45 percent. | ||
| That's starting to erode now, but there's no doubt that there was wagon circling that happened in August. | ||
| You know, a lot of the Democrats came back to the party. | ||
| He picked up eight or nine points more support of independents, and he's starting to lose those again. | ||
| But his approval rate's still pretty high for him. | ||
| So, hard to say exactly what's going on and a lot can change. | ||
| Also, polling's often a little spotty in the summer, so now that we're getting into election season, I think you should pay more attention to the polls. | ||
| But for us, it's a dead heat and a generic ballot. | ||
| Republicans have to do something if they want to keep up the momentum. | ||
| If on the issue set, what is the issue set that you're looking at that the American people mean? | ||
| What is top of mind, Republican, Democrat, and then independents? | ||
| Where do you see people really focusing as we're now within six weeks of election day? | ||
| I think we're a couple of days away from early voting. | ||
| It really, it's kitchen table. | ||
| I mean, we've been tracking this really closely all year. | ||
| It's something that we take great pride in. | ||
| And one of the interesting trends we've noticed is that when you ask all these issue questions and stack them up, there's a real divide between what voters care about and what you would hear on a given night on the mainstream media news. | ||
| So, you know, for most of the spring and summer, there was all these topics in the news, topics like COVID, the war in Ukraine, the Capitol riot investigation. | ||
| You know, voters didn't care about any of that stuff. | ||
| It was always inflation, gas prices. | ||
| But now what's interesting, the very number one top of the list is violent crime. | ||
| And it's always been up there, but it is now, you know, top of mind for all voters. | ||
| But the rest of the top five are just kitchen table, energy policy, high gas prices, inflation, the economy. | ||
| What gets interesting is below that, where you'd think maybe big things like national security. | ||
| But no, the very next one is legal immigration. | ||
| And then below that, election integrity. | ||
| So I think you'll appreciate that one. | ||
| By party, Republicans and Independents look pretty similar, though I will say Republicans are just 10% more concerned about things than everybody else. | ||
| For Republicans, inflation, gas prices, violent crime, and illegal immigration. | ||
| For Independents, it's gas, inflation, energy policy, and violent crime. | ||
| Democrats are a little bit different than everybody else, but they do care about these issues. | ||
| Energy policy is number one for them, but then it's abortion rights. | ||
| With those issues set, and given the spreads that the Republicans have, even with independents, How do you work through in your mind they closed the generic ballot? | ||
| Because you would think that the generic ballot may not be 13, but it would be, I don't know, four or five at least, given the fact that this issue set seems to play to Republicans. | ||
| What's your theory about why the generic ballot closed so much? | ||
| The advertising that was done in July and August? | ||
| Yeah, I hesitate to get too deep into the analytics and stay back and look at the numbers. | ||
| But look at the question, if the midterm elections were held today, would you vote for the Republican candidate or for the Democrat candidate for Congress? | ||
| And, you know, when somebody loses a lead like that, it's a referendum on the party, right? | ||
| So people are very concerned about all these topics. | ||
| They look around, they see a lot of problems with the economy, they're worried about being able to make The rent payment or whatever. | ||
| But they're less likely to vote for Republicans. | ||
| I think that's a very clear signal than they were a year ago. | ||
| Much less likely than they were a year ago. | ||
| We're going to have Alistair Grass on here in a minute, but just quickly, we only got a minute or so left, but the YouTube I saw on you, I think it was polling or talking to Democrats about COVID and about COVID response. | ||
| It seemed like it had some pretty harsh, some pretty harsh, some pretty harsh things to say. | ||
| What was your polling on that and what should that be a warning to the American people? | ||
| I mean, this one was our biggest poll of the year. | ||
| It got picked up everywhere. | ||
| We just started our YouTube channel. | ||
| Your viewers should check it out. | ||
| It's a place where you could see an honest deep dive into polls and topics that other people won't poll on. | ||
| Next Monday, we're dropping a video about LGBT issues in schools, and I haven't seen any of those questions asked. | ||
| But this one, you know, most of the COVID polls were pretty muddled. | ||
| Republicans Didn't hold that much different than Democrats. | ||
| And, you know, it was typical questions like, you know, masks, do you support, you know, Fauci favorability, that kind of thing. | ||
| And then we just did this one with the Heartland Institute where we asked these escalatingly fascist anti-COVID measures. | ||
| And the results were very stark. | ||
| Democrats, you know, three to four times more than Republicans or independents favored doing things like putting unvaccinated in COVID camps. | ||
| And imprisoning people who question vaccine efficacy. | ||
| That one, for instance, only 14% of Republicans and 18% of Democrats, but near a majority of Democrats. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| It's shocking. | ||
| We're going to link to all of it in your YouTube channel. | ||
| Real quickly, what's your social media? | ||
| How do people get to you, Mark Mitchell? | ||
| Yeah, Twitter is really great. | ||
| Rasmussen underscore poll at Twitter, but we're on Gab Getter and True Social. | ||
| And we're on Facebook as well. | ||
| And, you know, come check us out on YouTube. | ||
| We can really use the subscribes. | ||
| We just started it last month and it's been fun. | ||
| We're going to push the YouTube channel. | ||
| Mark Mitchell, thanks for joining us from Rasmussen. | ||
| Alex DeGrasse, and we're going to Capitol Hill next in the War Room. | ||
| We will fight till they're all gone. | ||
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We rejoice when there's no more. | |
| Let's take down the CCP. | ||
| Clear, the American people are looking for a new direction, and House Republicans have a plan. | ||
| Our commitment to America fights back against the Democrats' radical agenda. | ||
| It will rein in reckless spending to combat inflation. | ||
| It will end Joe Biden's open border policies and secure our southern border. | ||
| We will roll back Democrats' soft-on-crime policies, supporting our law enforcement. | ||
| We will unleash American energy dominance and defend our constitutional freedoms. | ||
| Americans cannot afford to live under Democrats' failed rule anymore, and help is on the way. | ||
| In just 40 days, House Republicans will fire lame-duck speaker Nancy Pelosi once and for all, hold Joe Biden accountable for his failed leadership, and save America. | ||
| In a new Republican majority, we will create an economy that's strong, a nation that is safe, a future that's built upon freedom, and a government that's accountable. | ||
| This is our commitment to America. | ||
| And I'm honored to introduce our colleague, Congresswoman Ashley Hinson from Iowa. | ||
| Okay, uh, that is Elise Stefanik, and that is now, uh, it's the last day that the House is going to be there. | ||
| Okay, thank you. | ||
| I can get that, uh. | ||
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Thank you, Denver. | |
| I can get that. | ||
| Thank you Denver. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| That was Elise Stefanik. | ||
| She's the conference chair. | ||
| You just had McCarthy. | ||
| You had the whip, Steve Scalise. | ||
| This is the last day the House is going to be there, 40 days to the election. | ||
| So they're throwing down hard on walking through the Fire Pelosi program. | ||
| Let's bring in Alex DeGrasse. | ||
| Alex, first off, the Rasmussen guys are as good as you get, right? | ||
| And Mark and those guys do a terrific job. | ||
| And we have seen obviously some softening in these overall generic polls when you talk about the generic and particularly nationwide. | ||
| I want to make sure people understand that when you're including Los Angeles and New York City in these massive metropolitan areas, you guys have taken it down one notch. | ||
| But I want to put in context, put in context, given how much you guys think of Rasmussen, just put it in perspective of the difference between when we talk to Mark and then when you talk to what you guys do are really the Not just strategy, but you're also tacticians of how you actually win seats. | ||
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Absolutely. | |
| So the national polls, like you said, Steve, it's sort of, you know, all across the country. | ||
| And it is very important, because you can kind of see the macro trend, you kind of see, like he said, we're up by 13, out by two, obviously, something happened, Steve, right. | ||
| And so that is where it's very useful. | ||
| But I do want to say, and they are the best pollsters, I will say that, you know, we were actually down on generic ballot, both in our own internal polls, as well as public polls last cycle, and then we flipped 15 seats. | ||
| And so we feel very good. | ||
| Hold it. | ||
| I want to make sure people understand. | ||
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Hang on. | |
| I want to make sure people understand that in 2020, where miraculously you won 15, net 15 seats or won 15 seats, you, uh, which people were expecting Nancy Pelosi pick up a couple, your last polling, even the internal showed you guys down six on the generic. | ||
| Okay. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| Yep. | ||
| That's right. | ||
| And that's the MAGA cert. | ||
| And that's what they're panicking about now, because now we're in a stronger position. | ||
| And I think if we, if you've got the chart on that Yahoo News headline, I think I sent it over, but if not, you know, one thing we haven't talked about. | ||
| If we pick up, yeah, we got the John, let's do that. | ||
| We got it up for you, Alex. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| So if you look at definitely a good read, give it a read, guys. | ||
| And it goes into something we haven't talked about. | ||
| I know it's been talked about in the show, but you see the Republican primary turnout. | ||
| These numbers are monsters. | ||
| For example, in Pennsylvania, 1.3 million Republicans cast their ballots. | ||
| That's an 85% increase, nearly double the 730,000 that voted in the statewide primary in 2018. | ||
| In Georgia, it's nearly double. | ||
| it in the statewide primary 2018. In Georgia, it's nearly double in Nevada. It's up 60% 50% in Arizona. This stuff is And it's the same playbook you saw in Virginia, where we surged about 500,000 additional Republican primary voters and then won by about 63,000 in the general election. | ||
| And that surge of our people coming out in the primary sort of balloons into the general election. | ||
| And we're kind of riding the wave right now. | ||
| Everything's converging. | ||
| Governor races, Senate races, down ballot, those state houses that are so important. | ||
| Everyone's coordinating at the highest levels of the party. | ||
| And we are opening up on all fronts. | ||
| And numbers are moving, but things are really tight though, Steve, so I do want to say that. | ||
| We feel great. | ||
| There's like 50, 60 very tight races, whether we're either up by a little bit, down by a little bit, tied. | ||
| And those are in deep Biden plus 10, plus five areas. | ||
| But if we think the Democrats are going to roll over, you know, there is a level of desperation we've probably never seen before since 2020, I guess. | ||
| Since the last time. | ||
| The voter intensity, even at even at Rasmussen, the voter intensity now is plus eight Republican. | ||
| Is that translate to what the surge is? | ||
| Is that the number that you see that goes back to the primaries? | ||
| It goes back to the massive turnout. | ||
| Is that what it goes? | ||
| And he said, hey, electoral and election integrity, all that we're saving democracy is not really getting any traction. | ||
| Their J6 stuff's not getting any traction. | ||
| But our election integrity. | ||
| And I think you've said before that the most intense voters are the ones that still feel that 2020 was stolen from the president. | ||
| Is that one of the numbers we should look at is voter intensity? | ||
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Yeah, absolutely. | |
| It's actually one of the most key factors in midterm, because you have a little bit less of a reason to go out to vote in a midterm as opposed to a presidential election, which has higher turnout. | ||
| So one way that we can sort of change the course of history and the posse can play a big role is when you do these big polls, right? | ||
| Like we talked about, you get, you know, you break out the electorate, you try to predict what the electorate is going to look like. | ||
| And so you've got some of these polls that the media runs where it's like 8% more Democrats than Republicans and this, that or the other. | ||
| But if Republicans control our own destiny and turn out at a much higher level, none of these polls are going to matter, Steve. | ||
| Instead of being possibly a 35 percent Republican electorate, we could be at a 40 percent electorate, then ballooning our margins by an additional 5 percent, if that makes sense. | ||
| We control our destiny. | ||
| All of work's been done. | ||
| The strategy's been done. | ||
| The people made, I think, smart decisions to take the incoming over July and August when it was just these personal attack ads and the ads on abortion. | ||
| As you said, there was no knockout punch. | ||
| Save the money till Labor Day. | ||
| Get everybody focused post-Labor Day and then drive and surge and converge everywhere. | ||
| We're going to spend time with you going through these individual districts, but I just want to go and make sure that Posse understands this about turning out and volunteering to become an election official, a poll worker, election judge, canvassing, all of it. | ||
| Also the precinct strategy. | ||
| Everything now is about getting involved and getting, becoming a force multiplier and getting the vote out. | ||
| Owning your vote and also people around you. | ||
| Make sure they own their vote and actually build up, you know, build this thing up from your own personal grassroots level. | ||
| In these 74 districts that you're talking about, if we change the electorate from a 35% Republican with the electorate now to a 40% on that margin, what difference is that in just number of House seat pickups roughly in your mind? | ||
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15 to 20 additional on top of everything else. | |
| That's why it's so important that people... Go ahead. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| Go ahead. | ||
| No, you go ahead. | ||
| I'm just saying it's so important. | ||
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The most important thing that we've been saying is get a piece of paper, get 10 friends and family, write them down. | |
| Trusted Republicans that you know that are our voters in the bank. | ||
| Check in with them now. | ||
| Make sure they have a plan. | ||
| Make sure they know they got to vote, what the deal is. | ||
| Check in with them. | ||
| Check in with them on election day. | ||
| Get them to put down 10 people on a list. | ||
| Call them, bring them to the polls. | ||
| If everyone on this call was writing down 10 family and friends, checking with them, ensuring they vote, we could really change the course of history. | ||
| This is the thing. | ||
| We understand money is very tight, and we're going to have Cortez and Brett in the second hour. | ||
| We've got Lou Dobbs up next. | ||
| We're going to go through all of that. | ||
| So we understand money's tight, and it's about to get tighter, okay, until the way you stop that is to take control of the House of Representatives. | ||
| Let me be just brutally frank, right, about this appropriation. | ||
| This thing on the CR that the Democrats did is outrageous, okay, and some collaborationist Republicans in the Senate, but we'll leave that for another day. | ||
| The key is you must take it. | ||
| If you want to stop it, you have to stop it. | ||
| And the way to stop it is we overwhelm with the polls. | ||
| Right now, what Alex just said is basic and fundamental. | ||
| Besides volunteering, get a list and just get 10, okay, of people that you're going to assist them in owning their own vote. | ||
| They're going to add 10. | ||
| They're going to add 10. | ||
| If you have a marginal surge here of 5% of turnout at the polls, we can pick up, not just take control of the house, you pick up another 10, 15, 20, 25 seats. | ||
| Alex DeGrasse, I just want to go back through that again. | ||
| Why this is all within the hands of this audience, right? | ||
| This is, everything's been lined up. | ||
| It's now just about delivering. | ||
| Alex DeGrasse. | ||
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Yeah, absolutely. | |
| Steve. | ||
| I mean, the, the reality is it's just very tight races. | ||
| We're going to be, we're raising, Record money, we've got money coming online. | ||
| You know, some of the more wealthy Republicans are jumping into the game that have been sitting on the sidelines. | ||
| There's gonna be a lot of news about that in the coming weeks. | ||
| So that's great. | ||
| But most important thing is, you know, giving to the candidate, giving to those candidates directly to the candidates, because as I explained, the candidates can buy it, they get, they buy ads at the cheapest rate by law, right? | ||
| So a TV station has to give them the cheapest rate. | ||
| And We're able to match them in a coordinated or hybrid buy at the party. | ||
| And so if you can donate, if not volunteer, absolutely. | ||
| If you hit, by the way, everybody should volunteer. | ||
| If you hit people with a five or 50, that's your own decision, understanding what your solution is. | ||
| But remember too, you're volunteering and showing up and becoming active in this army. | ||
| It also makes big donors say, Hey, I see something here. | ||
| I'm not putting good money after bad money. | ||
| I see the possibility of this energized base turning out. | ||
| It's a huge, trust me, it's something that people watch closely. | ||
| And as we continue to surge, as Alex said, the Democrats are going to start getting despondent. | ||
| There's an inflection point here. | ||
| Three weeks out, trust me, three weeks out where they're going to turn on each other. | ||
| Start pointing fingers at Pelosi, start pointing fingers at everybody, and that's when you get them. | ||
| That's when you can pick up that 40 or 50 seats. | ||
| Alex, we thank you for coming on. | ||
| How do people get to you? | ||
| Team Elyse to get all the information. | ||
| If they need to talk to NRCC, we want to make sure everybody in this audience has full access to you guys. | ||
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Absolutely, Steve. | |
| So I'm on Twitter, Degrassi81, Getter at Degrass, Truth, I think at Degrass. | ||
| We're on Facebook. | ||
| You go to NRCC.org. | ||
| And this is just the house race. | ||
| We did have some people comment to me on Getter. | ||
| They said, where's Blake Masters? | ||
| NRCC is on the house, Senate, NRSC. | ||
| But if you're focusing on the house, we've got all the races there for you to go down. | ||
| Volunteer, get organized, or give us a call on the website. | ||
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| Great presentation. | ||
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| Thank you so much for taking your time. | ||
| And great speech by Elise. | ||
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| The great Lou Dobbs joins us next. | ||
| Also, we're going to go to the border. | ||
| Jeff Rainforth is down tracking the cartels' takeover of our southern border. | ||
| Short commercial break. | ||
| We're gonna be back with Lou Dobbs for his commentary and analysis on all of this in The War Room. | ||
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| I want to go to the great Lou Dobbs. | ||
| Lou, since 1862, I don't think a midterm election, people don't understand the importance of the midterm election in 1862, which really definitely changed the direction and course of the Civil War. | ||
| How important is this? | ||
| You've been at this a long time. | ||
| You've been through a couple of three of these. | ||
| Where would you put this in the spectrum of importance to this republic, sir? | ||
| I would say very simply, it's beyond hyperbole. | ||
| There is no way to exaggerate the importance of this, Steve, as you well know. | ||
| We're either going to have a republic that survives this election, or we're not going to have a republic, and every subsequent election will be meaningless. | ||
| It's that straightforward, that simple, and that urgent and critical. | ||
| I truly believe that. | ||
| Nancy Pelosi, we were talking earlier about firing Pelosi, I've heard That mantra, I think, in every midterm election, whichever party is out of power wanting to fire the Speaker. | ||
| Most of those, by the way, they were exactly right about firing whoever the Speaker was. | ||
| But this Speaker, if we don't fire, I assure you that the Marxist Democrats will, because she simply isn't left-wing enough. | ||
| She isn't sufficiently Marxist to lead this host of Marxists That now are the Democrat Party. | ||
| There is no exaggeration here. | ||
| What you think is a left-wing government, a Marxist government right now, is moderate by comparison to what will be unfolding over the course of the next year, just the next year, if the Republicans are denied the majority in the House of Representatives. | ||
| Lou, you really rose to fame because you had a unique show on CNN for a while and then Fox Business that combined understanding of markets, political economy, government's interaction with that, with politics. | ||
| It was unique. | ||
| Nobody really did that. | ||
| Put it in perspective, the markets are in meltdown today, and we've got Dave Brat from Liberty University, Dean Brat, and we've got Steve Cortes coming on at the top of the hour. | ||
| We're going to go through some additional capital markets numbers. | ||
| As we said yesterday, the bailout, and it was a bailout of the Bank of England, of this really disastrous proposal from the Tory government. | ||
| Was driven, as we know now from the background coming out in the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, Bloomberg, all of it, the pension funds were literally, some pension funds, bond portfolios were off 50%. | ||
| And you were going to have a collapse of the British pension system when somebody said, hey, we got to do a unique bailout. | ||
| Well, that was like a one day event. | ||
| That event didn't happen. | ||
| You had all this kind of happy talk, thinking maybe the Fed's going to do another Greenspan put. | ||
| That's all gone. | ||
| Markets are in a dive today. | ||
| As you look forward, With this Biden radical, you know, they just announced all three of them. | ||
| They're going to replace Yellen. | ||
| They're going to replace Deese is going to go back to BlackRock, the head of NEC, the Economic Council, the chief economist, Rouse. | ||
| Dr. Rouse is going to leave and go back to her thing in the spring. | ||
| They're getting rid of the top three economic and financial, you know, players. | ||
| You combine Biden with Nancy Pelosi. | ||
| But just forecast out, if we don't remove these people, what is Lou Dobbs' forecast as far as the American economy and the global economy, sir? | ||
| You've just identified a triad of incompetence, misplaced alignment in jobs. | ||
| Brian Deese, a chief economics advisor and a lawyer who doesn't even understand The basic price theory. | ||
| He has no concept in the world of what he's talking about other than what is put on his desk by some staffer who may, may have a PhD in economics. | ||
| I couldn't attest to that. | ||
| But this is just absurd what we're watching. | ||
| These are all activists. | ||
| They're all ideologues. | ||
| They are Marxist Dems driving an agenda which is fundamentally to destroy capitalism, to destroy the family, To destroy God, you name it. | ||
| If it's American, they are against it. | ||
| And every policy, Steve, every policy that they articulate, every policy that they pursue, is against the interest of the nation, whether it's an open border, whether it is rampant illegal immigration. | ||
| When we know full well, they brought in four to five million illegal immigrants In the first two years, almost two years of this administration, and distribute them at night in planes and buses and whatever they could to communities that don't even know they've arrived. | ||
| And they are being supported by a network of NGOs and nonprofits in this country, soaking up federal funds to support those who are violating federal laws. | ||
| I mean, you can, this is beyond imaginings, pre-Biden, Pre-Obama. | ||
| This is a government working against law and order at its most fundamental, the sovereignty of the nation. | ||
| And we are headed in my view of what can only be a tragic outcome if we don't take control of this government. | ||
| You know, we're going to go, right after your segment, we're going to go to the border with Jeff Rainforth. | ||
| We've had an investigative reporter down there that started in California, he's gone across the border, he's now in El Paso, Texas, right across from Juarez, to talk about cartel, the cartel control. | ||
| Lou, there's been a lot of controversy over the last couple days. | ||
| We had Gates on here the other day talking about it. | ||
| Do you believe, in your perspective, do you think that there are, after investigation and doing everything, not like Trump, not like the impeached President Trump, and kind of these kangaroo courts, but actually after investigations and to go through, That there are at least two articles of impeachment on Biden. | ||
| One is the invasion on the southern border and turning the southern border over to the cartels. | ||
| And for the, for the, for the fentanyl and opioids that could push through here and also the human trafficking. | ||
| And in addition, the laptop from hell, all the, you know, all the confirmed financial compromise that the Biden family's had with the Chinese communist party, would you support Uh, individual committees after we win starting to actually do the type of investigative work you need in hearings. | ||
| You need to have to actually then move if, if it, if it pans out and there's actual facts there to back it up, which we strongly believe there is to go forward with an impeachment of Joe Biden, sir. | ||
| I probably, my first instinct is probably not because I believe Joe Biden to be mentally incapacitated, impaired. | ||
| He is not fit to be President of the United States, and I don't think that under our system of law, it would be appropriate to prosecute a person who is mentally incapacitated. | ||
| It's fundamental to our law, and I know that disturbs some, but I would say that. | ||
| Hold it. | ||
| That may be the greatest response I've ever heard. | ||
| Let me hear that again. | ||
| You don't think he's at a level of competence mentally right now? | ||
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| I have never been one to appreciate the mental gymnastics of Hobson's choices. | ||
| Do you think that there's a article, was it Article 25 or whatever, that 25th Amendment, that the Democrats are under legal obligation and fiduciary responsibility to remove him as president and make Kamala Harris the president? | ||
| I have never been one to appreciate the mental gymnastics of Hobson's choices. | ||
| I don't see a significant benefit to replacing Biden with someone who is also incapacitated, not mentally, I presume. | ||
| It seems to be more by choice that she doesn't read, she doesn't comprehend, and she doesn't articulate. | ||
| That's unfortunate, and I don't think that we would be doing the Republican any favors. | ||
| I believe what the Republicans can do is to put real leadership forward in the House of Representatives, strong, emphatic, and directed, committed leadership. | ||
| to the Republic to determine how it is that this government, this government has been financing NGOs, nonprofits that are working against the very laws that the government is in place to execute, to implement and enforce. | ||
| There are huge stories to be unraveled here. | ||
| What is the role of corporate America in all of this corruption? | ||
| What is the role of academia in the indoctrination rather than the education? | ||
| of our young people. | ||
| How is it that two unions control American public education, K through 12? | ||
| How is it that we don't have more understanding of what is unfolding here? | ||
| And why does our Congress and our Senate not already be asking? | ||
| They should have been answering these questions, frankly, 20 years ago. | ||
| How is it that corporate America can dictate Through its HR departments and through its advertising money, it is, after all, advertising nationwide in every form, is the voice of business. | ||
| And they are helping in this left-wing Marxist pursuit of the minds and the hearts of our young people, while too many of us sit idly by and just watch it and bemoan it, but do absolutely nothing to stop it. | ||
| We have that opportunity on November 8th. | ||
| And let's be clear, why do we have This great republic's existence and its sustenance depended upon three voting companies, electronic voting companies, that carry the results of 92% of the voting public. | ||
| How could we possibly do that without knowing what are in those little black boxes, how they operate, and what the reality is in our elections? | ||
| We know that 2020, for example, was corrupt. | ||
| We still don't know entirely how. | ||
| And I would hope that the Republicans would make certain that we accept nothing more or less than a realistic understanding, irrespective of the politics, the ideology. | ||
| Let's find out how this government is working and why and what role massive corruption plays in it all. | ||
| Because, you know, you were mentioning my program when I started it years ago on CNN. | ||
| I've written a half dozen books on the issue of the political economy. | ||
| This is all about politics. | ||
| It's all about economics. | ||
| And we have to understand this runaway inflation. | ||
| We've got a doubleheader going here. | ||
| Biden has presented us runaway inflation and a certain and now present recession. | ||
| And no one is, on the Republican side, whispering the words. | ||
| It's the economy, stupid. | ||
| It's far more than that now. | ||
| It's about the existence of this republic because of the inroads the Marxist stems have made into our society, our institutions, and the control they've taken of our government. | ||
| We now have a government that has been under the control of the Marxist stems in this country. | ||
| Forget about Nancy Pelosi. | ||
| Think AOC and all of her friends. | ||
| They now control this government. | ||
| Now there's a cabal of very powerful, very strong, and I mean very talented people running this puppet president. | ||
| Luke, can you just hang on for a second? | ||
| We just want to go through commercial break and bring back the great Lou Dobbs. | ||
| We also have Jeff Rainforth at the border on his and continuing investigations of the cartels controlling the southern border of the United States of America. | ||
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| Okay, we're going to get back to the great Lou Dobbs in a moment. | ||
| I want to go to Jeff Rainforth, the investigative reporter who's been taking this tour of the southern border from California and Yuma all the way now. | ||
| He's down in El Paso, really where New Mexico comes to the Rio Grande and meets with El Paso right across from where I was where we built the first leg of the wall right up the side of that mountain to stop the cartels. | ||
| We got Lou Dobbs on. | ||
| You're doing an investigative report that basically shows by documentation how we're not even protecting the southern border anymore. | ||
| The border patrol guys, because Biden's telling them to do this, are really processing and that the cartels now absolutely control our southern border, not just the northern border of Mexico. | ||
| They control the southern border of the United States. | ||
| Jeff Rainforth, what has your investigation shown you to date, sir? | ||
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So Steve, hey Steve, last night I talked to some Border Patrol agents out here in near El Paso in Sutherland Park. | |
| I was in Yuma just a couple days ago and it just there's like five to eight hundred people coming across. | ||
| The cartels got them just every night on regular like clockwork. | ||
| Over here it's more the Border Patrol tells me the cartels are flooding the zone not like with eight Or 500 people, but a smaller group of 20 to 40 to 50. | ||
| And the big difference is in Yuma, those were people who were giving up to the border patrol. | ||
| The cartels are making tons of money on these people because at 500 to 800 people a night in that one section of Yuma alone, they're making bank here in this area near El Paso. | ||
| The people don't want to give up. | ||
| That's what Border Patrol stressed to me. | ||
| They are the ones who are the criminals into narco-trafficking, human trafficking, sex trafficking, etc. | ||
| These are people trying to get away from Border Patrol, not get caught, so they can get into the interior. | ||
| One of the little-known facts the DEA reported a couple years ago is that the cartels or their Operations in the United States, they use Mexican nationals, not U.S. | ||
| citizens. | ||
| These are Mexican nationals who they get inside, just like these ones who don't want to get caught, to run their operations inside from various large cities in the United States. | ||
| So that's like the big difference over here that's happening in El Paso. | ||
| Lots and lots of people who are trying not to get caught And that's expanding the cartel's control on our side of the border, because they're fully in control of the other side. | ||
| When the Border Patrol representatives came to us and said, hey, can you think about building the first leg of the wall right beside the mountain? | ||
| One of the things that the team noticed was the horrific people, what they had dropped because of all the sex trafficking, right? | ||
| And the drug trafficking. | ||
| It was absolutely horrific. | ||
| And you're saying that's still going on, that still this is the human trafficking, which a lot of that is sex trafficking, and the drugs, obviously the fentanyl, that that is still the focus of the cartels in the El Paso, what they call the El Paso Juarez sector. | ||
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Yes, that's their primary focus still. | |
| And I think I told you yesterday, an officer here with the police force A few years ago when we were building this wall, the cartels control half of the businesses in El Paso. | ||
| That's what I was told by, I don't want to say who this person is or endanger them, but that was in 2019 when we were putting up this wall. | ||
| But yeah, still the same. | ||
| Jeff, just hang on. | ||
| We're going to come back to you. | ||
| I want to go to Lou Dobbs. | ||
| Lou, how could this have happened? | ||
| I mean, we've given up not just our sovereignty, but we've given up our sovereignty into a criminal organization, a paramilitary criminal organization that is an active partner With the Chinese triads, with the Chinese criminal gangs who are partners with the CCP, and they've been a part of the CCP since Mao Zedong cut a deal with them in 1949. | ||
| How can any administration regime, how can anybody that purports to be the control of the government of the United States of America, not just allow this to happen, sir, but to exacerbate this? | ||
| As you suggest, President Biden is actually inviting these illegal immigrants in. | ||
| And on one level, you could say, well, that might be a humanitarian impulse that's just out of control. | ||
| But the reality is, it is an invitation to the Mexican drug cartels to make even more money, because even Joe Biden comprehends that the cartels control everything that crosses that border. | ||
| And by the way, in both directions. | ||
| And we should have, and as Jeff was just pointing out about the The number of businesses owned by the cartels. | ||
| I don't know what the number is today, but I can assure you that the cartels are in absolute control of the northern Mexico region along that border and the southern region along the U.S. | ||
| border. | ||
| That southern border is controlled absolutely and without question or equivocation by the drug cartels, and that is the result of Biden policies, the Marxist party, and anyone who votes for a Democrat on November 8th is supporting the cartel, because that's who the Democratic Party is representing. | ||
| And we're looking at the dissolution. | ||
| It isn't simply that we're not projecting and protecting our sovereignty on our southern border. | ||
| We're in dissolution there. | ||
| We are permitting the Chinese and the Mexicans to poison every American if they want. | ||
| Every American? | ||
| And they bring across enough fentanyl to do that every week. | ||
| And we've got to—I don't know what more to say to the Americans, either, because if they don't understand how urgent, how critical it is that we take this impaired president and the Marxist cabal that represent his masters We're going to be in very big trouble. | ||
| We're already in very big trouble, but we're going to be in an untenable position and face, I truly believe, the possibility of the destruction of this republic. | ||
| Because we have seen these forces insinuated into every aspect of our society. | ||
| Whether it's business, whether it's education, whether it's government, you name it, we are facing a force. | ||
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That is more powerful than anything we ever met. | |
| Lou, how do people get to The Great America Show? | ||
| How do they get to your podcast? | ||
| Well, The Great America Show is on Spotify. | ||
| It is on, obviously, Apple, iHeart. | ||
| You can get me on Lou Dobbs on Twitter, Getter, Truth, and Facebook as well. | ||
| So there it is. | ||
| Thank you, sir. | ||
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