Stephen K. Bannon opens WarRoom Battleground EP 1000 by declaring a campaign against media networks, transitioning to redistricting battles where Ohio's Marcel Sturbrich seeks $800,000 to challenge an incumbent, while Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry suspends primaries following the Supreme Court's gutting of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. Pedro Gonzalez alleges Congress fabricated a "Russia hoax" against Trump, and John Gardner cites 2% Q1 GDP growth driven by tariffs, though high material costs persist. Ultimately, these segments illustrate a Republican strategy to consolidate power through legal maneuvers and economic policies while confronting internal civil wars and external media narratives. [Automatically generated summary]
Right now, obviously, we're following what's taken on nationally.
You see this big decision, 6 3, and all of these states are going to need to be fortified with secretaries of states that are clear in their vision, their task, and purpose.
And for this candidacy, we're winning on the message, and that is same day in person voting, only excuse, valid, excuse mail in ballots, and pre printed hand markable ballots.
We're also going to re examine under my administration.
What is the role of third party voter registration groups and others that ballot harvest in Ohio?
Because that's still an issue, as you know, Steve, in our state.
So, yeah, this is going to be a really close race.
And I'm asking for all of Ohio MAGA to come out because this is the one chance that we can execute President Trump's agenda in a bellwether state.
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Again, this is a now or never moment for Ohio.
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You know, It's interesting, Gay, because in the aftermath of the devastating gutting of the Civil Rights Act that the Supreme Court handed down, Louisiana went about doing exactly what the Voting Rights Act was put in place to stop them from doing.
So it's really interesting that the Supreme Court says these things aren't needed anymore and they're out of time.
And the moment they do that, Louisiana, one of the states that was.
He in the rationale for having a Voting Rights Act, in fact, goes about doing exactly what the Voting Rights Act was trying to stop them from doing, and that is marginalizing the voices of people of color and really stripping away their voice and their political power.
So that's what Louisiana is all about right now.
And the thing is, Katie, at some point, you know.
The court aside, the voters of this country, like the mainstream American voters of this country, have to go, What's in that for me?
Am I going to get lower health care?
Am I going to get more affordable prescription drugs because you're now gerrymandering safe seats for your incumbents?
Because it hasn't led to any of that.
At some point, mainstream white Americans need skin in this white supremacy game that they're playing with this gerrymandering.
And they have to say also, This isn't working for me.
Making these incumbents safer and less accountable hasn't lowered my prices, hasn't given me better health insurance, hasn't given me cheaper pharmaceuticals.
None of it seems to be working for the working people.
What they did to Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act from a practical basis is not a complete win for Republicans because what Democrats can now do is take majority minority districts, which have tended to be Democratic districts.
And they could spread those Democratic voters among Republican districts in blue states and lower the Republicanness and the Republican voting tendencies of red districts.
So, you know, we're going to have to see how it works out.
It's not clear to me.
And there's going to be a flurry, Katie, of lawsuits.
Well, what marginalizes black people is putting them into districts that have no chance of Republican representation because then they never hear anything from the Republican Party about how our policies can help improve their lives because there aren't Republican candidates on the ballot in their districts.
And this comes down to the left is terrified to compete with us for black voters because they've taken advantage of them for decades.
President Trump made inroads with the African American community, and now we can finally build on this momentum that President Trump built.
And why it's important is theirs is the next upcoming, but you have several others coming up.
And so the governor should not use the excuse of, oh, it's too close to our primary.
Governor Landry blew that up by saying, hey, he did a, um, Declared a state of emergency in the state, which is the right thing to do, and said we have to suspend these primaries and postpone them until we redraw our maps and bring them into compliance with the Supreme Court's new ruling.
So, Mississippi, I didn't have on the chart earlier because their primaries already passed, but let me tell you, the governor, Kate Reeves, there has been extremely aggressive.
We talked earlier about Do states have a plan or not?
Oh my god, he was in court, and the state house and senate president have already filed motions, they've already set a date to go in for a special session.
So, I don't know what that means for a primary is already passed.
However, they'd be creating essentially a new district.
I think it could go from 3 1 to 4 0, is what is very likely.
And so they are certainly moving.
So, I'm putting that up on the board now.
And if the court's there or they do a special session that declares this unconstitutional and that they redraw the map, so they might have to just go back and redo those congressional primaries, which I would be very glad to see.
I thought actually we could have gone up to a 25 3 map, but there's really weird specific laws.
And Governor DeSantis was basing this off of population changes.
But I do think sometime in the future, in the next couple of years, that actually could even draw out more because you just had a flood of people moving to Florida because they're a red state.
So that's been good.
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The other states that have already redistricted are North Carolina, Ohio, and Missouri.
But I think actually, North Carolina, Ohio, and Missouri, they all three could go back and redraw further.
Missouri, definitely, they've already redrew to what would likely be a 7 1 map.
Well, that last congressional district is a majority minority, you know, VRA created district.
They should go get rid of that immediately.
And we've seen no statement from Mike Kehoe, the governor there yet, but we're watching it.
Ohio, you talked about it earlier, and I think they could potentially, there's a district in Cleveland that I think could definitely be challenged, and you could pick up one more there.
And in North Carolina, I think that, you know, we don't, it's not asked for that, but they were able to redistrict last year and they went from a 10 4 to a likely 11 3 map.
Whether or not they'll go to a 12 2 under this would be interesting to see, but that would have to go through court challenges.
How, let's, I want to go because Ohio and Missouri were very contentious when we were talking about them and they kind of basically leaned on their rake in Ohio.
Those are two we definitely could pick up and the folks there should be on fire.
How do we actually pull this off in North Carolina where you've got a Democrat governor?
Yeah, we've seen this for a while with inaction with these guys.
And so it is very frustrating for me to see.
The only thing I would have said, it's been now 24 hours.
So with a state like Alabama, the analyzing meant that your, you know, Secretary of State or AG was drafting like a massive lawsuit or putting forth a legal challenge.
I would understand that.
But in Georgia, it's just been silence.
And you've had every candidate running for dog catcher up to governor, Senate.
You've got all types of races in Georgia.
They're all calling for an immediate special session.
But Brian Kemp has not said one way or the other what he plans to do, other than, you know, a spokesperson saying he's analyzing it.
McMaster is one of my personal favorite governors out there.
And so he was actually the first statewide elected official to endorse Donald Trump.
And because that, remember, we got Governor McMaster because Trump.
Put Nikki Haley in the cabinet just so he could make Henry McMaster governor of South Carolina because Henry McMaster was the lieutenant governor at that time.
Since he was the first person out the gate to endorse Trump, Trump said, What do you want?
He'd always wanted to be governor.
Well, you know what?
Governor McMaster, now is the time.
This is a huge moment in your governorship, and we need you to do the right thing.
I would hope and pray that Governor McMaster and President Trump have been on the phone today.
We know that President Trump spoke to Governor Bill Lee of Tennessee, and just knowing how close Governor McMaster and President Trump are, I would hope that they have spoken and that we see some movement out of South Carolina very soon because that is an easy pickup there with Jim Clyburn's seat, and there's no reason why South Carolina can't immediately move from a 6 1 to a 7 0 state.
Pedro Gonzalez, Daily Signal, had a fantastic story the other day.
I want to take a couple of minutes.
And by the way, so what we're going to do in this second part of the show, we were going to show all of Pete's the hot parts, I think, because we got.
Pedro, and I want to get John Gardner up.
We're going to have more truncated, but you're going to get a lot of Pete Hegseth in the next segment.
Pedro, you did a very thoughtful piece.
I want you to take a few minutes and walk people through.
I think people are lost sometimes because it happened a few years ago, and some of the terms get confusing of what Tulsi Gabbard has been doing about this grand conspiracy against President Trump.
Can you walk us through your reporting?
I want to make sure that Grace and Mo, Elizabeth, push this out to the chat right now, this great article on Daily Signal.
So basically, Tulsi Gabbard uncovered the congressional plot to overthrow Trump.
And she was able to prove through, you know, countless investigations that Congress literally fabricated, the congressional Democrats literally fabricated this Russia hoax that we heard about from legacy media for years and years and years, and ultimately even got Trump impeached by House Democrats several times.
You know, the Democrats here, they didn't only fabricate a lie that they pushed.
They didn't only manipulate the media to go after Trump and on this Russia collusion lie, but they also left out key details from the informants that they interviewed, that they received testimony from.
They completely phased them out to be able to craft their own narrative about how Trump was colluding with Russia in our election system.
And ultimately, it was just kind of like the Democrat playbook to.
That is what I found and what Tulsi Gabbard and her department have been able to find since.
Assuming office at the beginning of last year is that throughout the testimonies that were given, the congressional Democrats pick and chose the parts of the testimony that match their narrative.
So, for example, if an informant came up to them and told them, you know, President Trump didn't really do this, then what the Democrats would do is that they would phase that part out and only include the part where they said, well, maybe President Trump did this.
So it was completely fabricated from the beginning to the end.
And it's something they, unfortunately, they're still running on.
John Gardner is also going to join us in the second part.
Here's the question you can answer when you get back.
Is it in your article?
This is why it's a good starter.
Now that Tulsi's been able to put more information out, is it easier to understand the narrative given that we don't have to just go through the filter of the Democratic Party?
Why don't you hang on?
Folks, this is important.
I think Pedro's piece is very important because as John Solomon is telling us, More is coming out.
And you can see from Todd Blanch and the team at Maine Justice, accountability to the deep state is very high priority for Blanch and kind of the new leadership over there.
Pam did get a lot of things started.
They're going to bring them to conclusion.
I think this is why you saw Comey arraigned yesterday.
So a lot going on over at Maine Justice.
And this is why Pedro's analysis, his story, is, I think, Fundamental for people to read and understand this.
We're going to take a short commercial break.
We're also going to get John Gardner's very good news on our exports, capital equipment.
That means people making things as John Gardner said President Trump was going to do.
We're going to get to that.
Also, you're going to see an amazing highlight reel of Pete Hegseth.
And this is what was so disturbing is that the Senate Republicans really didn't, particularly the leadership, did not provide air cover for Pete.
They let him get blasted for hour after hour by some of the most ridiculous things you've ever heard.
And I think Pete and General Kane did a very good job of presenting the case of the administration for the $1.5 trillion defense budget, which I'm not totally crazy about, and the war in Iran, but they had their day.
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Pedro, is there ability, your article, you got places you can click through.
Is there ability to the war impasse and just citizens out there?
To actually understand the reality of what happened here and not have to play by the New York Times, Washington Post, MSMEC playbook, sir?
Well, my article lays it down pretty clear and it just tells you the most important facts.
But you can also visit the DNI website and find the same exact thing.
And that's that basically there were three examples that disprove the entire Russia lie that was pushed on us by the Democrats and the legacy media in the last couple of years.
The first one, Is that the person who testified in front of the Congressional Committee, specifically testified in front of Schiff and Nancy Pelosi?
Well, that person had no firsthand knowledge about the call that allegedly occurred between Trump and Zelensky.
But even though she had no firsthand knowledge, she still went to corroborate the story in front of the Congressional Committee.
So, you know, the witness is not credible.
Right.
The second example is that those documents that were held by that congressional committee, specifically by the House Intelligence Committee under Nancy Pelosi, those documents, the full transcripts of all of the closed-door testimonies and whatnot, were kept under lock and key.
And they were only exposed to the public, and in this case, to Gabbard herself, after the chairman of the committee, the Republican chairman, You know, forced a vote to release those files that were under lock and key since 2017.
So, for 10 years, pretty much, we don't really know the full story about this so called Russia collusion hoax, right?
Or this so called Russia collusion.
But, you know, that lie is still perpetrated by the media.
And then the third one, and probably one of the most important ones, is, you know, this entire thing was clearly fabricated because the documents show.
Where the Democrats decided to pick and choose what to actually run with.
And it's, you know, the American people deserve an apology because we've been lied to for the last 10 years by the legacy media and the Democrats.
And certainly President Trump definitely deserves an apology because he was impeached twice over this.
Without a doubt, tariffs are all ships rise with the tide, and the tariffs are lifting up manufacturing broadly across North America.
What's interesting to me is how Canada is, President Trump, we need more refining capacity.
The number one weakness in hemispheric defense strategy is North American refining capability.
And what President Trump is doing that I really like is he's telling Canadian steel and aluminum refineries, hey, move your production here.
And that is in the process of happening.
And I agree with you, Steve.
I think there's a lot of things behind the scenes that American manufacturers and the American public don't know that's happening that is drawing manufacturing here and building it up.
And I would love to see that communicated to them more directly, particularly on a chart that came out today.
Now, you know, the first reaction would be well, imports and Wall Street Journal could spin this in a poor way.
I see it as massively positive because capital goods rather than consumer goods, capital goods are CNC machines to make more things.
We used to import a lot of consumer goods.
Now we're getting to importing the machines to make stuff.
And to be honest with you, America has CNC machines that make stuff, but our American manufacturers don't have the machines of Japan, Germany.
You know, at Switzerland, those machines, we don't make machines as good as that.
And so we're importing them in.
And let me tell you why this is so important to a manufacturer.
What that does is we're building massive manufacturing capacity.
You only build manufacturing capacity when you have confidence.
I know I'm a manufacturer, I have machines in my machine shop.
I only buy a machine if I know that that five year loan that I took to get that machine, I'm going to be able to get the business to pay that loan off.
And so that's why I see this chart that you have up on the screen right now, this big leap.
In imported capital goods, as a matter of fact, and next, what we're going to see next year and the year after is the trade deficit shrinking and exports going up in response to this.
As these CNC machine manufacturers and capital goods manufacturers are building in the process of building their factories here on American soil right now, as Peter Navarro said, you know, these factories be opening up in two to three years.
This is the green shoots of American manufacturing being planted.
So, this chart, I could see Wall Street Journal spinning it poorly, but from someone, How I see the manufacturing industry for the audience is through the lens of being on the phone every day with small manufacturers and big manufacturers, manufacturers of every size.
That's what I do all day and for 21 years.
And so that's why I feel that I can speak to what's happening here because I follow all the economic indexes into Steve.
All the PMI and ISM manufacturing industries have been blowing through the roof since January.
Okay, I want to hit reset on this for a second because you're my small manufacturing guy.
We got all the big manufacturing, but you're sitting there going the heart and soul.
Of American manufacturing and the way to return us to be a manufacturing hegemon, which we used to be, is those smaller companies employing under 100 people or under 50 people.
How has it been?
And people, you have to look at time horizon and duration.
The Liberation Day was last April, the first, it was the second day of April, right?
So just over a year ago.
And of course, you had all the perturbations, you had to go to the Supreme Court.
President Trump has kept, you know, the teams of, uh, Of Besant and Jameson Greer and Navarro fully engaged in this and cutting deals with South Koreans, Japanese, etc.
You've had all the court challenges, but that was just a year ago.
The big, beautiful bill was not, I don't think, passed until mid to late July, early August.
And that takes a while to kick in.
We are only at the very beginning of this kind of Trump revolution to bring manufacturing back here to the United States and return us to a manufacturing hegemon.
Given that timeframe, John Gardner, how do you think we're doing?
I think it's incredible to me after living through the recession as a manufacturer and the oil crash in 2014 15 and through COVID.
It's incredible to me to see how quickly President Trump is moving and pushing on this stuff.
Directionally, we're doing incredible.
I think that there's a lot of positive things the administration is doing that is not being communicated to the public that even manufacturers don't know that's going on.
One of the challenges manufacturers have right now, specifically, again, 48% of US manufacturers are five employees or less.
75% of US manufacturers are 20 employees or less.
90% of US manufacturers are 50 employees or less.
And Kelly Loeffler was visiting a manufacturing company, Lehigh Valley Plastics, in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania last month.
They've been a client of mine since 2015.
John Sensinger, Chris England, I know those guys.
I'm deeply embedded in this 90% of the manufacturing in America.
I call them my people, the working class, the middle class.
And so the biggest challenge we have is the price of materials because we have a lack of refining capacity.
But what the administration is tackling this head on tungsten carbide is something that is used to cut metal.
You don't have manufacturing without tungsten carbide.
It also goes in munitions, and we burned a lot of those in Iran.
So there's a tungsten carbide spike way high from $350 a unit to over $3,000.
But what's not being talked about is all the moves the administration is doing to address this.
They're working with all, opening two mines here in America, a third one, Australian mines, Portuguese mines, Uzbekistan mines, Canadian mines.
They're working very hard to address these things.
And as I speak to small manufacturers, I hear, hey, my material costs have gone up, or, you know, hey, you know, the steel is high right now, but they're busier than they've ever been before.
But their material costs are high.
And I'd like to see it communicated more to the public, all the moves on the back end that are being done, because I watch them because that's what I do.
But I think there's a real opportunity there for the administration to communicate the fantastic things they're doing.
That will take time.
Tariffs cause short term pain as there's an adjustment for long term gain.
And we're seeing, I think, in my opinion, of 21 years, a much faster return than I would have expected.
So, overall, you're saying, and since 90% of the jobs, manufacturing jobs, are in shops 50 or less, 48% is under five or less, and what 75% you said are 10 or less or 20 or less?
So, as you talk to your client base, they are generally happy with the direction of this and see President Trump making positive moves, although obviously the tariffs, it takes a while.
To get the tariffs to kick in.
Obviously, we got issues with oil right now.
President Trump is trying to refine, trying to, because we're an energy superpower, but you have to have the refining capacity.
Generally, directionally, are folks happy with the direction they see this going in?
That's where that chart, let's get it back up from the Wall Street Journal, Capital Goods.
One day in the not too distant future, John Gardner's dream of having those factories under 50 people that are doing precision manufacturing will replace the Germans and the Japanese, at least somewhat.
But at some point in time, You got to do it.
But that capital goods coming into the country means that we're building a manufacturing base.
And that's the important thing.
John Gardner, where do people get all your writings?
Where do they follow you on social media?
Because you're one of the most upbeat guys I know.
And one of the reasons is you believe in American manufacturing and the little guy.
And of course, the little guy is coming through with flying colors.
And yeah, I believe so much in American manufacturing because it can rebuild the working class and middle class and provide the American dream for them.
And that's really what my book is about my dad's journey through the American manufacturing industry and my own journey through the American manufacturing industry to be able to live a middle class.