The Charlie Kirk Show - Bill O’Reilly Unloads on Democrats Ahead of Midterms with Adam Laxalt
Aired: 2022-10-03
Duration: 33:47


=== Killing The Legends (07:37) ===

[00:00:00]  Hey everybody, today on the Charlie Kirk Show, Bill O'Reilly joins us, makes some comments on where he thinks Trump should go.
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[00:01:31]  With us right now is the legendary Bill O'Reilly, who has a new book called Killing the Legends.
[00:01:37]  Bill, welcome back to the program.
[00:01:39]  Thanks, Emmy and Charlie.
[00:01:40]  What's up?
[00:01:41]  Doing great.
[00:01:42]  Congratulations on the new book.
[00:01:44]  I feel like you have one every six months.
[00:01:45]  It's pretty amazing.
[00:01:46]  Tell us about this new one, Killing the Legends.
[00:01:50]  Yeah, the subtitle is most important: The Lethal Danger of Celebrity.
[00:01:54]  And now that you are a celebrity, you need to read this book, Charlie.
[00:01:59]  So every famous person in this country has a target on him or her.
[00:02:06]  And the more famous you get, the bigger the target becomes.
[00:02:10]  Now, I wrote about Elvis Presley, John Lennon, Muhammad Ali.
[00:02:13]  They are the coverboys for killing the legends because each of those men changed American culture.
[00:02:22]  So American cultural history is not widely written about because most historians are snobs.
[00:02:30]  But if you look at what Presley Lennon and Ali actually did, their contributions to our history are enormous, yet underreported.
[00:02:40]  However, in the process of doing what they did, they all destroyed themselves.
[00:02:49]  So that, so elaborate on that.
[00:02:51]  So we have a younger audience.
[00:02:52]  They know a little about Elvis, a little about Lennon, not a lot about Ali.
[00:02:55]  So tell us, what do you mean by that?
[00:02:57]  All right.
[00:02:57]  So 1950s, after World War II, age of conformity.
[00:03:02]  Americans looked the same, talked the same, acted the same.
[00:03:06]  In the space of six minutes, on a program called the Ed Sullivan Show, biggest variety show in the world, Elvis Fresley gets up on stage.
[00:03:14]  You can Google it, young Americans.
[00:03:17]  He sings Hound Dog and blows up the entire culture.
[00:03:23]  The next day, pastors are screaming that Elvis is an agent of Satan.
[00:03:28]  Parents are telling their boys, you can't slick your hair back, you can't wear leather jackets, and sneer.
[00:03:34]  Everything changes.
[00:03:36]  Who wins the culture war?
[00:03:38]  Elvis wins.
[00:03:40]  A teenager from Mississippi single-handedly changes the culture into rock and roll rebellion.
[00:03:48]  1964, Beatles come across from England.
[00:03:52]  From 64 to 69, the culture changes again to what we have now.
[00:03:59]  Sex, drugs, rock, and roll.
[00:04:02]  The Beatles were the spear point.
[00:04:05]  Lenin was the most gregarious member of the Beatles.
[00:04:09]  They had an enormous impact on how we live today.
[00:04:14]  At the same time, Muhammad Ali refuses to go into the armed forces.
[00:04:20]  The protest movement explodes and gets involved in a civil rights movement second only to Dr. Martin Luther King in impact there.
[00:04:31]  These are three titans, historical titans.
[00:04:35]  And that's what you will learn and read about in Killing the Legends, as well as how they were all betrayed and destroyed.
[00:04:45]  That's fascinating.
[00:04:46]  And all three of them passed away in three separate ways.
[00:04:51]  But I suppose you tie them together with some similarities and some commonalities.
[00:04:58]  And there's three of the most important people to live in the 20th century.
[00:05:01]  Now, Bill, it's interesting.
[00:05:02]  They're not political, or were they?
[00:05:05]  Because tell us about that.
[00:05:07]  Ali was.
[00:05:09]  So Ali signed on with the Nation of Islam.
[00:05:12]  Do you know who the leader of the Nation of Islam is now, Charlie?
[00:05:15]  Louis Farrakhan, if I'm not mistaken, right?
[00:05:17]  Farrakhan.
[00:05:18]  So that tells you all you need to know.
[00:05:20]  So it's a radical organization based on skin color and black supremacy.
[00:05:26]  Ali signs on with them.
[00:05:28]  They run his whole life.
[00:05:29]  Now, Ali himself was not a hate-whitey guy.
[00:05:34]  I interviewed Ali.
[00:05:35]  Okay.
[00:05:36]  He wasn't.
[00:05:36]  He got along with whites and blacks, but he gave all of his power, handed it all over to Elijah and Hermit Mohammed, both of whom betrayed him.
[00:05:48]  In Lennon's case, he became a heroin addict, if you can believe it.
[00:05:52]  Insane.
[00:05:54]  Probably the most powerful pop star in the world withdraws from the world after he meets Yoko Ono, who's still alive today.
[00:06:02]  Beatles break up because of his drug use.
[00:06:07]  And with Elvis, he killed himself.
[00:06:09]  Absolutely killed himself at 42 by ingesting massive amounts of prescription drugs and having a lifestyle of dissolution.
[00:06:20]  So, Bill, that's a question that some people ask.
[00:06:22]  Why is it that people that seemingly have it all at the top levels of their industry then go into self-destructive behavior and drugs?
[00:06:30]  What do you think about these three people's stories, or at least in particular, Elvis and Lennon?
[00:06:35]  Because Ali lived a rather long life, obviously, with a battle with Parkinson's.
[00:06:39]  What do you think specifically in Elvis and Lennon can teach us to answer that question?
[00:06:43]  Why is it that people at the top levels go in such self-destructive behaviors?
[00:06:47]  Well, where's Justin Bieber right now?
[00:06:50]  How about what's this singer's name who's in Every Day?
[00:06:55]  They just can't handle it.
[00:06:58]  I'm not a psychiatrist, but when you are overwhelmed with fame where you can't go anywhere, a famous person walking out of his home today in America, he's got a cell phone on him or her every second they're in public.
[00:07:15]  Every second.
[00:07:16]  So the demands on you emotionally are so intense that many people want to numb themselves, so they go to narcotics.
[00:07:29]  But this is not a new phenomenon.
[00:07:31]  I mean, go all the way back to Marilyn Monroe and, I mean, Jimi Hendrix, Janice Doblin.
[00:07:35]  It never ends.
[00:07:36]  Never ends.

=== Pathway To Prosperity (08:10) ===

[00:07:37]  Okay.
[00:07:38]  And they're all superstars who are lonely and many of whom have been betrayed by people close to them for money.
[00:07:48]  And that's what happens.
[00:07:50]  It's well written.
[00:07:52]  I'm sure.
[00:07:53]  I can't wait to read it.
[00:07:54]  And it is killing the legends.
[00:07:56]  And so, Bill, I want to transition to shift gears here, kind of more for the news of the day.
[00:08:01]  It seems as if Republicans are looking better going into the November midterms.
[00:08:05]  You know, you've been through many of these election cycles, have a lot of wisdom.
[00:08:09]  What is your opinion on how the midterm landscape is shaping up?
[00:08:15]  Well, I'm a simple man, as you know, Charlie, right?
[00:08:18]  A simple man.
[00:08:20]  Two years ago today, America had the most vibrant economy on earth, on earth.
[00:08:28]  Now, our economy is a shambles.
[00:08:32]  And people who have to make a living are paying much, much more for the basic necessities of life.
[00:08:39]  One party did that, the Democratic Party.
[00:08:43]  That's it.
[00:08:44]  Now, I'm not a party guy.
[00:08:47]  I'm a registered independent.
[00:08:49]  I follow everybody.
[00:08:50]  I watch everybody.
[00:08:52]  I can't imagine, and I'm not being supercilious, word of the day, supercilious.
[00:08:58]  I can't imagine any American pulling the lever for a Democrat.
[00:09:03]  If you do that, you're voting for an even worse economy, an even worse border problem, even more violent crime.
[00:09:15]  You're voting for all of that.
[00:09:16]  Is that what you really want?
[00:09:18]  Does that help you?
[00:09:21]  So I can't imagine the Democrats get any votes.
[00:09:26]  No votes.
[00:09:28]  This is these two years of President Biden.
[00:09:31]  And I hope your viewers and listeners go to billoreilly.com because we fact-based it out.
[00:09:37]  We're not ideologues or emotion or anything.
[00:09:39]  It's just fact-based.
[00:09:42]  Next to James Buchanan, the president before Abraham Lincoln, who basically stoked the Civil War, Biden's been the worst president in his first two years in history.
[00:09:53]  There's been nobody worse than him.
[00:09:55]  Yet you're going to go and vote in the midterms for the Democrats?
[00:10:00]  Who's going to do that?
[00:10:02]  I mean, that's how simple I have this analysis down.
[00:10:06]  So Republicans should win fairly handily across the board.
[00:10:10]  What do you think, President Trump, what do you think his role in the midterms is going to be?
[00:10:15]  I mean, you're around him quite often.
[00:10:17]  You did a tour with him.
[00:10:18]  You know, there's whispers that he's going to announce for president soon.
[00:10:21]  How do you think he factors into this midterm election?
[00:10:23]  I hope he disappears because it doesn't do Republicans any good to have Donald Trump around the midterm elections.
[00:10:33]  It's an issue-oriented vote.
[00:10:37]  So the Democrats desperately want to make it about Trump, which is why the bogus January 6th Committee in the House will release their findings probably two weeks out before the vote to try to center independent voters on Trump again.
[00:10:54]  See, it's the independent voters, Charlie, that always make the difference now.
[00:10:58]  A lot of them don't like Trump.
[00:11:00]  And the more Trump is in the news cycle, the less the Biden administration, Democratic Party's failures are focused.
[00:11:09]  And of course, the media will pick up any Trump stuff because the media is allied, actively allied now with the Democratic Party.
[00:11:16]  So if I were Trump, I'd be down to Honduras or something and take a couple of weeks.
[00:11:22]  Get out of this cycle.
[00:11:25]  Yeah, I see it both ways.
[00:11:27]  I would also say, though, that there is a question of actually getting the base to turn out in Politico.
[00:11:31]  There's an article, weak rural turnout could hurt Republican Party in November.
[00:11:34]  So independent.
[00:11:35]  Why would there be a weak rural turnout?
[00:11:38]  The weak, what?
[00:11:39]  They don't have to eat there?
[00:11:40]  It's just in the country?
[00:11:42]  I'm just looking at the data, Bill.
[00:11:43]  I'm just saying that some people get apathetic and cynical, and they don't look at the Republicans.
[00:11:49]  Politico is a BS website that all they're in business to do is to advance the liberal cause.
[00:11:55]  That's just crap.
[00:11:57]  Rural people will turn out more than urban people.
[00:12:00]  What the Democrats have to watch out for, and what polling never takes into account is that African Americans might not come out for them.
[00:12:07]  That's true.
[00:12:08]  That is true.
[00:12:08]  Because they're getting hurt worse than anybody.
[00:12:10]  Well, and even worse than that.
[00:12:11]  Now, they're not going to vote for Republicans.
[00:12:14]  It's not like Hispanics who I think Hispanics will vote for Republicans in many places.
[00:12:19]  African Americans are not going to do that.
[00:12:21]  They just won't go out.
[00:12:22]  And that's not shown in any polling.
[00:12:25]  But I see this stuff on the websites all the time.
[00:12:28]  Axios, Politico, all that is garbage.
[00:12:32]  And how do they know?
[00:12:33]  Based on what?
[00:12:35]  You think people in Wyoming want to pay 100% more for their groceries than they did two years ago?
[00:12:43]  That's insane.
[00:12:45]  But that's what we have to go by because these people, this is what they do.
[00:12:49]  It's all speculation until the votes are counted.
[00:12:52]  Also, Bill, I want your thoughts here.
[00:12:53]  You mentioned a little bit.
[00:12:54]  Hispanics have made a 21-point shift to the Republican Party since 2012.
[00:12:58]  Why do you think that is?
[00:13:01]  Look, I'm generalizing now, and I don't like to do that.
[00:13:06]  But I hear where I live in New York, I hire a lot of Hispanics to do work for me.
[00:13:14]  I run two corporations, and we hire a lot of Hispanics.
[00:13:19]  Every single one works their butt off.
[00:13:23]  Okay?
[00:13:24]  I mean, these are people who want a pathway to prosperity.
[00:13:30]  They don't want socialism or corruption.
[00:13:34]  That's why they left their countries to come here so they could earn a buck and move on up, as the Jeffersons once sang.
[00:13:43]  But the socialist agenda that weighs the Democratic Party down takes away a lot of that in taxes and, of course, inflation.
[00:13:55]  So two years ago, Hispanic Americans were way ahead economically than they are now.
[00:14:00]  So we're blacks, which is my hypothesis that the Democrats are not going to get a lot of solace in those two areas.
[00:14:10]  I think you're right.
[00:14:11]  It's a huge shift.
[00:14:12]  Bill O'Reilly, thank you so much for joining us as always.
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[00:14:17]  Great analysis and always fun.
[00:14:18]  Bill, thank you so much.
[00:14:20]  Okay, Charlie, good luck.
[00:14:21]  We'll talk again.
[00:14:22]  I hope.
[00:14:22]  Thank you.
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=== Nevada Campaign Shifts (15:18) ===

[00:15:48]  One of the most exciting Senate races in the country is in Nevada, of all places.
[00:15:54]  Someone I've known for quite some time is running a great campaign up against the total zero in a state that is rapidly not becoming a red state, but it's fixing itself towards a center-right direction.
[00:16:07]  And it has a lot of national Democrats very worried that if Ron Johnson holds on and Ted Budd holds on and JD Vance holds on, that alone, with an Adam Laxalt flip, even without Herschel, even without Blake, even without some of these other ones, Senate goes Republican.
[00:16:23]  Adam Laxalt joins us right now.
[00:16:26]  Adam, congratulations.
[00:16:27]  I don't want to say congratulations yet, but I want to say keep going.
[00:16:30]  You're running a great race.
[00:16:31]  How does it feel on the ground in Nevada?
[00:16:34]  Yeah, look, I think we've been the most consistent campaign, and we've been at this since last August.
[00:16:40]  And all our hard work is coming to fruition here in the close.
[00:16:44]  You know, no one is on the ground more than I am.
[00:16:47]  No Republican candidate, certainly not my Democrat opponent, is in every single county in all of these communities.
[00:16:55]  And the enthusiasm is off the charts.
[00:16:59]  And despite the fact that Senator Masto and her leftist allies have spent gazillions of dollars attacking me starting in June, all the way through, it's just hardening our people.
[00:17:12]  Our people are furious.
[00:17:13]  They know these commercials are lies.
[00:17:16]  And as you just reported, Charlie, I mean, yesterday was the sixth consecutive poll with us ahead in this narrow swing state, which doesn't mean we're going to take our foot off the gas.
[00:17:27]  You know, we got to charge this thing.
[00:17:30]  They just put in more money.
[00:17:31]  She just put out that she raised $15 million in the third quarter, as I'm sure you cover a lot.
[00:17:38]  The Democrats are the party of the rich now.
[00:17:40]  They've got unlimited money to try to buy these races.
[00:17:44]  But we feel like we're exactly where we need to be.
[00:17:47]  Post-Labor Day, that's when we started spending and our allies started spending.
[00:17:52]  And I think this is when people are paying attention.
[00:17:54]  I think that they're getting to see who she is.
[00:17:58]  They're understanding that, you know, unlike Joe Biden, telling everybody that gas is under $3 in all 50 states, guess what?
[00:18:05]  It's 580 here right now and climbing, by the way.
[00:18:10]  That is the greatest Laxalt commercial advertisement is 580 gas in Clark County.
[00:18:16]  It's unbelievable.
[00:18:17]  Yeah.
[00:18:17]  Well, and look, we're all Nevada, it's over six bucks, and we have to drive everywhere in this state.
[00:18:24]  We're a large state, and so people are furious.
[00:18:27]  And, you know, in the end of the day, there was this great New York Times article this morning of all places, if you can believe it.
[00:18:34]  And they were embedded with the culinary union and they knocked a Democrat door.
[00:18:39]  And he said, no way, they've ruined our economy.
[00:18:43]  They're killing our state.
[00:18:44]  They don't have my vote.
[00:18:45]  And so things are looking really rough for them.
[00:18:49]  But again, they've got all this money and they're lying and they're trying to buy this thing.
[00:18:54]  So we need support from grassroots conservatives across the country at AdamLaxalt.com to try to match that spend.
[00:19:02]  I've known Adam for a while.
[00:19:03]  He's a true fighter.
[00:19:04]  He'll do a wonderful job.
[00:19:05]  Just curious, how are the national Republican groups backing you up?
[00:19:09]  I don't mean it, I'm accusing any way.
[00:19:11]  I'm just wondering, has McConnell come in with a serious number for you?
[00:19:15]  Yeah, look, I think in the end of the day, there's a limited pool on our side, and a lot of decisions started to be made in September.
[00:19:22]  And fortunately, since our race was tied or marginally ahead, the huge gap we had is being filled in by a lot of different Republican groups.
[00:19:33]  And so people understand that this is very likely the 51st seat.
[00:19:38]  I'm doing my job.
[00:19:39]  We've worked hard.
[00:19:41]  We have built this team in this state.
[00:19:43]  And so we were down something crazy like 39 million for the month of October.
[00:19:50]  And it's now 11.
[00:19:52]  So it's still a spending gap, but we'll take 11 over 39 million any day.
[00:19:58]  Yeah, I think that there's going to be some people coming up out of the woodwork soon.
[00:20:01]  There's been a lot of Republican donors on the sidelines for whatever reason.
[00:20:05]  Maybe the economy hit them or they're just tapped out.
[00:20:08]  The Democrats have the opposite, though.
[00:20:09]  They're more enthusiastic than ever, though.
[00:20:11]  The Democrats are spending money like wild, and they've really kind of become the party of Silicon Valley plutocrats in many ways.
[00:20:18]  One of the dynamics in your race, Adam, which is kind of a harbinger for things to come for Democrats, is the narrowing of the Hispanic gap.
[00:20:27]  And this is now, it's been kind of predicted for months, but now it's becoming real in the data.
[00:20:33]  Of course, not over till the votes are counted and anything can happen in Clark County, unfortunately.
[00:20:38]  Big surprises can always happen in Clark County.
[00:20:41]  Let's play cut three.
[00:20:42]  According to polling, Democrats lead has narrowed.
[00:20:46]  Let's start with three, and then I want to play the Latino clip after that.
[00:20:49]  Play cut three.
[00:20:50]  In August, I believe we had a big lead for Federman.
[00:20:53]  It is now shrunk to just four points, according to a Fox News poll.
[00:20:58]  Go to Wisconsin.
[00:21:00]  Our friends at Marquette had Barnes up seven in August.
[00:21:03]  Now he's down one in the most recent poll.
[00:21:07]  And even in Georgia, we've seen while Rafael Warnock still leads, his lead has narrowed.
[00:21:13]  So that one's narrowing.
[00:21:14]  It doesn't talk about your race, but it's talking just more generally about how the trend is narrowing.
[00:21:20]  And Herschel Walker is running a great race as well.
[00:21:23]  But I want to get to this one here, which is cut, let's say here, yeah, cut 22 about Latino voters, which factors into this narrowing poll gap.
[00:21:32]  Play cut 22.
[00:21:33]  And the switches have been taking place over the past five, 10 years.
[00:21:37]  You noted Donald Trump picked up far more Hispanic Latino vote than was anticipated.
[00:21:43]  Those numbers appear to be either stabilized or growing even more in the Republican Super.
[00:21:47]  There are certain states where different there are different Hispanic communities that will vote in different ways, so it's not a monolith.
[00:21:53]  But if you're looking at it from the broad picture, 30,000 foot lens, if you're a Democrat, this is troubling.
[00:21:58]  How do you feel on the ground, Adam?
[00:21:59]  Hispanic Latino voters.
[00:22:01]  Yeah, look, President Trump got a higher percentage of the Hispanic vote than anyone running for president in the last couple decades.
[00:22:10]  This working class message for us actually being for working and middle class is hugely important in my state.
[00:22:18]  The greater Las Vegas suburb is very working class.
[00:22:22]  And what Senator Masto and her allies represent right now is the urban elites.
[00:22:27]  We know that they represent these coasts and the Latin X talk.
[00:22:33]  You know, they're not having it.
[00:22:35]  They came to Las Vegas because they actually believed in the American dream.
[00:22:38]  And they believed, like it used to be, if you worked hard, you could actually create a small business and get ahead.
[00:22:44]  And then they got treated to shutdowns by Democrat governors.
[00:22:48]  They're getting treated to critical race theory.
[00:22:50]  The schools were, you know, were greatly harmed over COVID.
[00:22:54]  We have crime rising.
[00:22:56]  The border, of course, is out of control.
[00:22:58]  And so all these things are combining for a perfect storm.
[00:23:03]  And no question, the numbers are closing in our race.
[00:23:06]  We've seen under 10.
[00:23:08]  Masto, by the way, won by 42 with Hispanics in her last Senate race.
[00:23:12]  And so we think those numbers look very promising, not just for my race, but for the state.
[00:23:18]  Cortez Masto won Hispanics by 42 last time.
[00:23:22]  She did.
[00:23:22]  And then you're seeing it under 10.
[00:23:25]  We've seen three public polls under 10.
[00:23:27]  Well, then, I mean, what's her past?
[00:23:30]  I mean, I'm just being honest.
[00:23:31]  Like, if that's sub-10, you're cooking with gas at that point, right?
[00:23:36]  I mean, that's a tectonic shift.
[00:23:38]  She just can't make it up.
[00:23:40]  Unless I'm not trying to say it trying to preemptively celebrate here, but that's unbelievable.
[00:23:45]  That's a 30-point dip.
[00:23:48]  But, but, you know, these numbers have gotten so bad for them.
[00:23:51]  They're spending millions on Hispanic advertisement.
[00:23:55]  And, you know, we don't have the money to compete with all this stuff.
[00:23:58]  And so they're, of course, spinning yarns about how great she is.
[00:24:02]  And they're attacking me.
[00:24:03]  And, you know, look, in the end of the day, I think people are going to tune all this stuff out.
[00:24:07]  I think that it's got to be noise at this state of the game.
[00:24:10]  But again, we need support from conservatives across the country.
[00:24:14]  Every dollar we get, we're going to try to match these lies.
[00:24:18]  And hopefully they can't deceive voters because this is their record.
[00:24:22]  Their record is the highest 16% inflation in my state, almost $6 gas, record small business closures, rising crime, massive issues with the border.
[00:24:33]  I mean, this is their record that they can't escape as long as we get our message out.
[00:24:37]  So, Adam, can you talk about how Nevada has a little bit of a kind of a thirst for a little bit of revenge from these lockdowns?
[00:24:45]  The lockdowns were unpopular across the country, but Sisilac was so cruel and so draconian that it really hurt the gaming industry, really hurt restaurants, really hurt tourism, really hurt conventions.
[00:24:57]  That parts of Vegas are still trying to climb themselves out of this of dislocation and job loss that resulted in just suicide and depression and drug use.
[00:25:08]  I mean, I know a lot of people in Vegas, you and I know a lot of the same people there that are job that are owners of facilities, and they've just gotten completely crushed.
[00:25:17]  And a lot of the workers are saying, why couldn't we have done it the Florida way?
[00:25:21]  And so, can you talk about, Adam, how the lockdowns, probably in Nevada more than any other state, are a lingering political issue.
[00:25:27]  In most states, they've kind of entered a post-COVID political moment, but not in Nevada.
[00:25:32]  Is that right?
[00:25:33]  Yeah, look, let me first say this is an example where our media, I mean, where were they?
[00:25:38]  You know, they put on the blue jersey.
[00:25:40]  They never asked Sisilak why casinos were open, small businesses and churches were closed.
[00:25:46]  And if they did that, he, of course, wouldn't have had any science to back that up.
[00:25:50]  And we would have had the state open sooner.
[00:25:52]  We wouldn't have had our schools closed for so long.
[00:25:55]  And so people are pissed.
[00:25:57]  But, you know, the paradox, Charlie, is that the strip got opened up earlier.
[00:26:02]  And because they, you know, cut a lot of expenses and they found a different way to do business.
[00:26:07]  The strip and the people at the top of the strip are doing well.
[00:26:11]  You know what hasn't come back is the working class, our small businesses, the bars, the taverns, you know, the entertainment community.
[00:26:20]  I mean, those were the ones in the end of the day that were destroyed by COVID lockdowns, unnecessary COVID lockdowns.
[00:26:27]  And that's where I think you're going to see this huge movement of people.
[00:26:31]  They know they can't blame anyone else like they tried in 2020.
[00:26:35]  That's right.
[00:26:36]  This was a Democrat governor.
[00:26:37]  He's the one that's going to be a little bit more.
[00:26:38]  It was one of the worst lockdowns of the whole country.
[00:26:42]  And, you know, every state has dealt with it politically, a little bit on local and state levels.
[00:26:49]  But some of these Democrats have kind of escaped.
[00:26:52]  You saw Chris Murphy, for example, in New Jersey almost lose because of the lockdowns.
[00:26:57]  But Nevada is a very economically dependent tourist hub, especially in Clark County.
[00:27:04]  And you're right, MGM to City Center to Bellagio to Venetian, they got hit, but they were able to navigate some of it and they were able to cut deals.
[00:27:14]  But if you go to Summerlin or you go to those areas surrounding some of the small businesses, even less than Summerlin, which is obviously, you know, a little bit higher income, you logo to West Vegas.
[00:27:24]  They got destroyed.
[00:27:25]  They got decimated.
[00:27:26]  You go to Henderson, forget it.
[00:27:28]  And there's a huge lagging effect from Sisilac's heavy hand that I think is really, I think there's going to be a reckoning.
[00:27:34]  I think a lot of the Cortez-Masto negative polling is people that had their lives unnecessarily destroyed in Vegas because they said, oh, yeah, your restaurant has to close.
[00:27:45]  Or, you know, you have to wear three masks while I do this.
[00:27:47]  They said, this is insane.
[00:27:48]  And it was, I could tell you, Adam, I did a lot of traveling.
[00:27:51]  Vegas was by far the worst in the country of major cities that I went to.
[00:27:57]  Only worse would be New York and L.A.
[00:27:59]  And I don't think that's the spirit of Vegas.
[00:28:01]  It's a can-do attitude.
[00:28:02]  It's hardworking people.
[00:28:03]  It's entrepreneurial.
[00:28:04]  Check out adamlaxalt.com.
[00:28:06]  That is adamlaxalt.com.
[00:28:07]  We'll talk to you soon, everyone.
[00:28:08]  Check out adamlaxalt.com.
[00:28:10]  Thank you, Adam.
[00:28:11]  Thanks so much.
[00:28:12]  Appreciate it.
[00:28:13]  Okay.
[00:28:16]  As they say, what was it, Yogi Berra?
[00:28:18]  It's not over until it is over.
[00:28:22]  The great poll here from Ron DeSantis.
[00:28:26]  We got out of Florida Spectrum News and Sienna poll shows Ron DeSantis up eight points against Charlie Christ.
[00:28:34]  Charlie Christ is awful.
[00:28:36]  Eight points.
[00:28:36]  Marco Ruby up seven points.
[00:28:38]  I think there is a chance that Ron DeSantis wins by 10 points in a Florida gubernatorial race.
[00:28:46]  And I'm going to do a whole show on DeSantis and his leadership and how he has defied the media at every turn.
[00:28:52]  But if DeSantis is truly up eight points in Florida, then that shows a little bit of the tea leaves that there is a wave that is brewing here.
[00:29:01]  If DeSantis was up one point or two point, I'd say, I don't know about that.
[00:29:05]  But DeSantis up eight points, the great state of Florida is becoming a Republican deep red bastion.
[00:29:12]  And it has now, the question is, will that spread to other states?
[00:29:15]  I believe it will.
[00:29:17]  I want to continue to pick apart this article here from NBC News.
[00:29:20]  Democrats see signs of nightmare scenario, Latino voters staying home.
[00:29:25]  Democrats have held up their state as a national testing ground for how Latino voters are going to vote in 2024.
[00:29:32]  But only 37, it's really 36 days to the midterms.
[00:29:34]  There are warning signs at the doors, on the phones, on the streets.
[00:29:37]  Latinos are threatening to stay home.
[00:29:39]  And that is despite the presence of the first ever Latina elected to the U.S. Senate, Catherine Cortez-Masto.
[00:29:44]  They just don't care.
[00:29:46]  Melissa Morales, it's what keep me up at night, president of Somos PAC, which has spent millions of dollars on ads in English and Spanish for Cortez-Masto.
[00:29:54]  Where do they get all this money?
[00:29:55]  Well, they have a lot of plutocrats that want to spend a lot of money because they don't know what else they're going to do.
[00:30:01]  Honestly, these are people that have no purpose, no direction in their life, like Lorene Powell Jobs and Mackenzie Bezos.
[00:30:07]  They have billions of dollars, but they don't have joy.
[00:30:09]  I don't think Mackenzie Bezos has joy.
[00:30:11]  She's a very, I think she's doing a lot of damage to our country.
[00:30:15]  Let's put it that way.
[00:30:16]  What I'm looking at is this, says Melissa Morales.
[00:30:20]  Do Latinos actually turn out to vote this year?
[00:30:22]  If we see higher voter turnout, we win in Nevada.
[00:30:25]  But the fire alarm has been pulled.
[00:30:29]  It's a big test for Democrats, and Adam Laxalt is surging in every poll.
[00:30:33]  We just had Adam on the show.
[00:30:34]  Cut 22, we've played this before.
[00:30:37]  It's important to play again.
[00:30:38]  This is troubling for Democrats.
[00:30:40]  Play cut 22.
[00:30:42]  And the switches have been taking place over the past five, 10 years.
[00:30:46]  You noted Donald Trump picked up far more Hispanic Latino vote than was anticipated.
[00:30:52]  Those numbers appear to be either stabilized or growing even more in the Republican Sever.
[00:30:56]  There are certain states where there are different Hispanic communities that will vote in different ways, so it's not a monolith.
[00:31:01]  But if you're looking at it from the broad picture, 30,000 foot lens, if you're a Democrat, this is troubling.

=== Democrats Losing Ground (02:41) ===

[00:31:06]  It should be troubling.
[00:31:07]  Al Sharpton continues that Democrats aren't connecting with black and Latino voters.
[00:31:12]  Play cut 15.
[00:31:15]  And the concern throughout is how we're connecting the base to the message.
[00:31:21]  The Democratic Party and President Biden does have some things they could be using that they've done that has benefited clearly black and Latinos, but it's not connecting.
[00:31:34]  I think that that is the challenge they have in these last four or five weeks.
[00:31:38]  Clearly, they must connect the message to those that would be energized.
[00:31:44]  At this point, that is not happening.
[00:31:46]  The woke mind virus, the idea pathogen that says that we should have black-only dormitories, we should have equitable hurricane relief, which is a story I meant to touch on today.
[00:31:57]  We're going to have to do that one tomorrow.
[00:31:59]  That men can become pregnant and gender is just a construct and medically mutilate children keep our borders wide open.
[00:32:05]  It's deeply unpopular in lower-income minority communities.
[00:32:08]  And Al Sharpton is right.
[00:32:11]  About time he's bright about something.
[00:32:13]  It has been a long time since Al Sharpton has been right about anything.
[00:32:17]  Shows that Democrats are losing.
[00:32:21]  In fact, the Intercept shows it's not just white people.
[00:32:24]  Democrats are losing normal voters of all races from theintercept.com.
[00:32:30]  There is a chance, there is a chance, and we can see it brewing as long as the election systems hold and we have poll watchers and we look at the mules and all this stuff.
[00:32:39]  There is a chance this thing gets wildly out of control for Democrats.
[00:32:43]  And let me prove it to you.
[00:32:45]  Do you think in the next 36 days to the midterm election, the Democrats are going to win over new voters, a substantial swath of voters?
[00:32:57]  No.
[00:32:59]  Do you think Republicans can win over new voters?
[00:33:02]  Yes.
[00:33:02]  When there is a party out of power, the last 36 days are almost always in the benefit of the party out of power.
[00:33:11]  Always.
[00:33:12]  Unless there is a war or a big bill that is signed or the economy just resurges in such a big way.
[00:33:18]  All those trends, unfortunately, are going the wrong direction.
[00:33:20]  I pray we don't go to war.
[00:33:22]  Republicans have a very, very high ceiling.
[00:33:26]  Democrats have already hit their ceiling and they're cratering.
[00:33:29]  It's a simultaneous effect.
[00:33:31]  There's a chance this gets out of control for the Democrats.
[00:33:34]  Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
[00:33:35]  Email me your thoughts.
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[00:33:38]  Thank you so much for listening.
[00:33:39]  God bless.
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