The Stone Zone (10-13-25) defends rural hospitals and Columbus Day, framing Trump’s stance as a bulwark against "woke revisionism," while praising Italian Americans’ legacy. It pushes for Trump’s Nobel Peace Prize, citing his conflict mediation, and accuses CIA operatives of suppressing Hunter Biden’s laptop to rig 2020. The episode slams judicial overreach in Portland, celebrates Trump’s border crackdown, and exposes NY AG Letitia James’ mortgage fraud—tying her indictment to DOJ conflicts. Virginia/NJ races are dissected as GOP upsets loom, with scandals like Jay Jones’ violent texts and Sherrill’s insider trading fueling momentum. The show ends by touting conservative victories amid Democratic vote-suppression fears. [Automatically generated summary]
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Each year, America's over 5,000 hospitals care for millions of patients, providing 24-7 emergency care, delivering babies, cancer treatments, and other life-saving care that patients rely on.
Behind every one of those patients are doctors, nurses, and caregivers working tirelessly to keep people healthy and safe.
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Today we are celebrating Columbus Day because it falls on today as the legal holiday.
President Donald Trump only days ago made it clear that we would continue to observe Columbus Day as a federal holiday, rejecting those places like the People's Republic of California and New York State that have renamed it Indigenous Peoples Day.
President Trump's resolute commitment to observe Columbus Day is not just a perfunctory nod to antiquity.
It's a clarion affirmation of America's genius, its destiny, and the indelible imprint of Italian Americans upon the very sinews of this republic.
In an era where revisionist iconoclasts now seek to obliterate monuments and expunge history, this administration's refusal to capitulate to the nihilistic woke mob is both patriotic and essential to the preservation of our national soul.
Christopher Columbus was not merely a seafaring adventurer with a dream.
He was a visionary whose audacity defined the trajectory of human civilization.
Born in Genoa in 1451, Columbus possessed an unyielding faith and an insatiable curiosity that propelled him into the unknown.
In 1492, under the auspices of the Spanish crown, he traversed perilous and uncharted waters to open a gateway to the new world, a continent that would one day give rise to these United States of America, the most luminous beacon of liberty and prosperity in all human history.
Columbus inaugurated an epoch of exploration, culture exchange, and geopolitical transformation that reshaped the course of humanity.
His courage, his perseverance, and his unwavering conviction epitomize the quintessential American ethos, bold, defiant, and eternally undaunted.
To honor Columbus' Day is to honor the very inception of our national narrative.
To repudiate him is to mutilate the prologue of the American story and to desecrate the memory of the men and women whose great contributions set the stage for this republic to become so great.
The Italian contribution to America does not begin or end with Christopher Columbus.
Think of important Italian figures like Mother Frances Cabrini, one of the most indomitable missionaries in American history, born of immigrants, or Amerigo Vespucci, the Florentine navigator whose meticulous observations and cartographic precisions corrected prevailing misconceptions about the new world.
It was his revelation that was so profound that it has bespoke his very name on our country, America.
So without Fespucci's sagacity, the concept of the Americas as a distinct hemisphere might never even have materialized.
Then of course there's Cesar Beccaria, the Milanese luminary whose philosophical treatise on crimes and punishment revelize criminal jurisprudence.
You see, his advocacy of proportional punishment, due process, and the abolition of torture profoundly influenced the intellectual architects of our own American founding fathers.
So an Italian guy informed Jefferson, Adams, and Madison, imbibing his ideas as they drafted our Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
Just another example of a great Italian contribution to the greatness of America.
This is something I feel very strongly about.
It's why I helped found the Italian American Civil Rights League.
If you're interested in fighting to maintain our proud cultural heritage and our Italian American values, I urge you to join the Italian American Civil Rights League.
You find them at iacrl.org.
That's iacrl.org.
This is a nonprofit organization.
It has no overhead.
Everybody involved is a volunteer.
But we are fighting to preserve Italian culture.
If the next mayor turns out to be Ma'am Dami and there is an effort to remove the statue of Christopher Columbus, which he's essentially already announced, we will be there to fight that legally in the courts and to demonstrate against it in public.
So you might want to check us out at IACRL.
The Italian influence in America is not confined to just exploration, science, politics, military history, or theology.
It's omnipresent in our cultural, aesthetic, and our culinary life in this nation.
The Italian culinary tradition with its emphasis on simplicity, authenticity, and excellence actually revolutionized the American palate.
On this very show, I have many times given you the recipe that was my mother's recipe for Sundae gravy, also known as sauce.
This could be the greatest single contribution Italian Americans have made to America, a great Sunday sauce.
Italian artistry, also very big when it comes to fashion, infusing it with sophistication, craftsmanship, and some flair.
I'm thinking about designers like Giorgio Armani, Gianni Versace, Miucci Prada, and others.
I don't like their politics, but the Italian tailoring and design brought in a whole new vocabulary of elegance and innovation that still dominates in the world's most influential fashion capitals.
And of course, there's the area of entertainment.
Stars like my friend Robert Adavi, the great Frank Sinatra, Enrico Caruso, Francis Ford Coppola, who hasn't seen all of the Godfather trilogy, Martin Scorzese.
So in every sphere, really, science, art, cuisine, music, politics, fashion, jurisprudence, Italian Americans have enriched and elevated the entire American experience.
They have been innovators and statesmen, artists and scientists, dreamers and builders.
Their contributions are not just ornamental, but they are foundational, embedded into the lifeblood of the beloved nation we love.
So I'm glad to see the president say he loves his Italians and for standing up for this vitally important holiday to commemorate Italian Americans' contribution to this nation.
Now, in my opinion, after yesterday, there is no question whatsoever that Donald Trump should be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize by that panel of Norwegian globalists who make this decision.
He has been nominated by many, including Baby Netanyahu of Israel, but also Marshall Priate, the chairman of the Tunica Biloxi Native Indian American Tribe of Louisiana, as well as a number of other nations.
In the meantime, the board at the Nobel Peace Facility chose Marina Corina Machado, Maria Corina Machado, who is essentially the head of the resistance in Venezuela, and clearly a staunch anti-communist, a very clever choice.
She is, of course, propped up by our CIA.
She's our favored resistor in that struggle.
But I admire her opposition to Maduro.
Maduro is evil and he needs to go.
We should give no quarter in that regard.
But after Donald Trump's record, it's very hard to see how you deny him this award.
I mean, not only did he get the hostages back from Gaza and get essentially a workable peace between Israel and Gaza, and Hamas, pardon me, but he got a ceasefire between Iran and Israel.
He ended the hostilities between India and Pakistan.
He ended the war between Congo and Rwanda, which was a particularly long and bloody affair.
He ended the border clashes between Thailand and Cambodia.
He ended the hostilities between Armenia and Azerbaijan.
In his first term, he brought the Saudis, the Syrians, Lebanese into the Abraham Accords.
Once again, they said he couldn't get that deal done, but he did.
This was resting on something President Nixon said that during his days, he was a staunch defender and friend of Israel, but he chose to go ahead and develop individual relationships with the United States with the Saudis, the Syrians, and the Lebanese, which at the time our Israeli friends were not happy about.
Trump has done that in spades in his first term in the historic Abraham Accords, and now he's done this deal.
So here's how I think this could be made equitable.
The Nobel Peace Prize Committee can award the Nobel Peace Prize to Maria Corina Machado.
But she, by all rights, should then give it to President Donald Trump and admit that he is the one who has earned this award.
That's how Donald Trump can still get the Nobel Peace Prize.
And frankly, I'm hopeful that that will happen.
Meanwhile, a shocking new release of emails proving yet again that a group of deep state actors, including CIA Director John Brennan, were behind the famous effort to have 51 former or current intelligence officers insist that Hunter Biden's laptop was not real, that it was Russian disinformation.
Newly released emails obtained by that great investigative journalist John Solomon, Just the News, show that former CIA director Mike Morrell lobbied another former CIA director, John Brennan, asking if he would join in the effort to topple the United States government during the November 3rd, 2020 election.
Brennan not only agreed with Morrell, but he also expressed his gratitude that Morrell was making the effort.
These guys actually colluded together on a list that claimed that Hunter Biden's email scandal was false, inferring to the public by co-signing this letter that it was Russian disinformation.
Morel made it clear that these intelligence agents were operating to give Joe Biden a talking point he could use against Trump during an upcoming debate.
It is really amazing.
He basically refers to Biden in his email as a dysfunctional vegetable.
So even then, they knew.
Morel says to Brennan in the release documents, can I add your name to this list?
I will be adding Leon Panetta, Sue Gordon, Jed Johnson, George, I'm not sure who that is, Lisa Monaco, and Mike Rogers.
That's Mike Rogers, the congressman from Michigan, and lots of other IC career folk rights, trying to give the campaign, particularly during the debate on Thursday, a talking point and a pushback on Trump on this issue.
It's very clear what their motive is.
Brennan, the mastermind of the Russian collusion hoax, responds by saying, Add my name to the list.
Good initiative.
Thanks for asking me to sign on.
Look, it's abundantly clear that these CIA spooks were not interested in what was best for the country.
They weren't interested in truth.
They were interested in using their clout and their connections to push a partisan agenda to oust President Trump from office.
And they created a reason why, for example, Twitter refused to post the New York Post revelations about Hunter Biden's laptop.
That's outrageous.
The censorship is outrageous.
27% of voters who voted for Biden said in a post-election poll that had they known about Hunter Biden's laptop, they would not have voted for the vice president.
So this yet again shows that these people, these deep state operatives, know no bounds when it comes to breaking the law or the Constitution.
They had a continuing seditious conspiracy born in the Oval Office in 2017.
It takes you all the way through the 2020 elections, the famous documents case on Mar-Lago, the raid on Mar-Lago, the impeachments, the New York show trials.
These people are evil.
And now that they've been caught and there's talk about prosecuting them for the laws they violated, they say this is about revenge and retribution.
No, it is about accountability and justice.
Those who are not guilty of crimes have nothing to fear.
But this is not Donald Trump weaponizing the judiciary to go after his enemies.
This is Donald Trump demanding accountability and justice for the many people who were destroyed by these lunatics in their effort to steal back the 2016 election.
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Last weekend, President Donald Trump was blocked by a federal judge named Emmergut saying that he could not send National Guard troops to restore order in the city of Portland that is almost virtually today under Antifa occupation.
This is yet another example of judicial tyranny.
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These are left-wing liberal judges who don't want to recognize the mandate won by President Trump in the last election and the legality of his authority to deport dangerous people who are in the country illegally.
The governors of these left-wing states call it authoritarian, although there's great historical president, different iconic presidents have actually ignored the courts in these kinds of times of crisis.
President Trump may have to consider doing so.
President Jackson refused to enforce the Supreme Court of the United States decision of Worcester versus Georgia because he believed that states' rights were being impeded by the ruling in favor of Native American Indian tribes.
The iconic, quite popularly attributed Jackson quote goes, John Marshall just made his decision.
Now let him enforce it.
President Lincoln's also had his running with the courts.
It came also as a result of his unilateral suspension of habeas corpus.
He did so in order to detain individuals suspected to be Confederate sympathizers found among military routes between Philadelphia and Washington, D.C., in the midst of the Civil War.
Now, when Chief Justice Roger B. Taney found Lincoln's actions to be unconstitutional and ordered a prisoner to be free, Lincoln actually refused to comply.
He testified it to Congress by saying, Are all laws but one to go unexecuted?
And the government itself goes to pieces, lest that one be violated.
Virtually every great leader throughout our history has faced the situation which the president now faces.
Republicans have failed to conserve anything because they never exercise the authority to help the common people.
It's a very sad story.
Never underestimate the stupidity of the great Republican Party.
Sometimes they found the firing circle, firing squad in a circle, but they just lacked the killer instinct that you see among Democrats and those in the deep state.
This is just another story when it comes to monolithic corporations and military-industrial complex that the Republicans have historically hidden behind procedure excuses to justify their lack of action on behalf of the people.
Donald Trump has changed all that, at least as far as our executive branch, to defy the courts and to repel Antifa from cities President Trump would show the medal that defined great historic leaders.
I'm not an attorney.
I'm not advising him on this.
I think he has to think very carefully about his pledge to put America first.
The idea that the National Guard would not defend the men in Chicago who were endangered, indeed, who were threatened by a violent mob that had cornered these ICE agents, cornered by Antifa thugs, that they would not have the backup of the National Guard as ordered by the mayor of Chicago and the governor of Chicago is shocking indeed.
Donald Trump is going to be the law and order president, just as he promised.
And this continued deportation, the largest peacetime deportation in American history, continues apace, although left-wing judges and Democrat attorney generals tried to get in the way.
God bless Donald Trump.
If you don't have borders, you don't have a nation.
Illegal border crossings under Donald Trump have dropped by 93%.
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New York Attorney General Letitia James, a woman who campaigned on a platform pledging to, quote, get Trump, woman who also famously said, no person is above the law, was indicted herself last week for mortgage fraud and bank fraud.
This story began when Bill Pulte, the head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency and the fraud office at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, flagged these public documents that prove that Letitia James, the same year Donald Trump was on trial in Manhattan, within weeks of that,
signed a power of attorney that allowed her to obtain a favorable mortgage rate on a home in Virginia.
But she says in the power of attorney, which is not some blank form to which she assigned her name, it is a draft by her attorney, witnessed by another lawyer in the New York Attorney General's office, that she would owner-occupy, that she would live in the property in Virginia in order to get the lower mortgage rate.
Of course, were she to actually do so, she would be ineligible to be governor of the state of New York under the New York State Constitution.
The New York Times did their very best to airbrush this away this weekend in a pathetic defense.
What they don't seem to recognize is that this is not just a first instance.
In the case of Letitia James, you have a 43-year one-woman crime spree.
In getting her very first mortgage 43 years ago, she falsely claimed that her father was her husband in order to use his balance sheet to apply and be approved for the mortgage.
Then, some decades later, she buys an investment property and gets a HAMP loan, which specifically requires that the investment property be four units and under.
She says in her applications for the mortgage that the facility is four units when in fact it's five and ineligible.
Mortgage fraud.
Then we learn that she has mortgages that are not reflected at all on her file forms with the state of New York.
It was Sam Antar, the great fraud investigator, who figured out that the property in Norfolk, Virginia, which had a value ascertained and appraised at between $100,000 and $150,000, had two mortgages, one for $150,000 to under $250,000 and a second national mortgage for $100,000 under $150,000.
So the total mortgages are somewhere between $250,000 and $400,000 on a property with a value that is estimated to be $100,000 to $150,000.
In other words, Letitia James did exactly what she falsely accused Donald Trump of doing.
She complains today in an interview with Joy Reed that mortgage fraud prosecutions are rare, that she herself did two of them and she posted about them to brag about it on Twitter.
And speaking of rare, the law under which she charged Donald Trump, claiming that he falsely inflated the value of his assets in order to secure real estate development loans, for which the lenders made $40 million in interest, every one of whom would have said they would have lent to the Trump organization again, except for the judge wouldn't let any of them testify at this sham of a trial.
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The stage was set for the prosecution of New York Attorney General Letitia James when the president fired the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia.
That's where this home was located.
But he fired him not over Letitia James' case, but over his handling of the case of former FBI Director James Comey.
You see, Eric Siebert, the U.S. attorney, never disclosed that his father-in-law, that is his wife's father, was James Comey's daughter's godfather.
That's an extraordinary conflict of interest.
Eric Siebert, the deep state prosecutor approved by the two Democrat senators from Virginia, originally recommended by Governor to President Trump by Governor Glenn Young, instead had prepared a 51-page memo outlining all the reasons why James Comey should not be prosecuted.
Evidently in league with some at the Department of Justice.
President Trump basically fired Siebert.
Siebert technically resigned, but he resigned just ahead of being fired.
And the president appointed one of his personal attorneys, Lindsay Halligan, as the interim U.S. attorney.
Now, without any assistance from the Department of Justice or the cooperation of the department she now headed, and despite an illegal leak last week that was meant to discredit or derail this indictment,
both NBC and the UK Daily Mail reported that a woman named Usi, who was a department head and a career prosecutor, therefore a Democrat, had planned to tell the U.S. Attorney, in this case Lindsay Halligan, who, by the way, is a smokeshow.
She's extraordinarily attractive, that there was insufficient probable cause.
That is in itself an illegal leak meant to disrail this indictment.
Commenting at all or leaking information regarding an ongoing investigation in which no determination had yet been made about prosecution is specifically against the law.
And even with that attempt, Halligan, essentially without so much as a laptop from the DOJ, went before a grand jury of Letitia James Pierce, and she got an indictment for mortgage fraud and bank fraud.
Sources tell me that there will be superseding indictments, meaning that Letitia James is likely to be charged with additional downstream crimes.
It's very common, lawyers tell me, in these kinds of cases.
So I think we'll be looking at tax-related charges, maybe other fraud charges.
This is a slippery slope.
But the efforts to try to discredit Halligan have been almost laughable.
She did an incredible job winning an indictment that the career prosecutor said couldn't be won.
Of course, the case has not gone to trial yet.
This is a very tough jurisdiction for anyone who is a Republican.
The Eastern District of Virginia is very much like D.C.
So both James Comey and, in this case, Letitia James are likely to benefit from a liberal Democrat judge handling their case, a trial jury that is mostly composed of liberal Democrats.
We shall see.
But this is an ongoing effort by the president, who has made it very Very clear to the Department of Justice that he wants to see those who broke the law in their legal and extra-legal efforts to get him to destroy him prosecuted.
That's not about revenge or retribution.
That's about accountability and justice.
Whether it is Jack Smith, or whether it is Robert Mueller, or whether it was John Brennan in the CIA, or whether it was Barack Obama in the White House.
There was a seditious conspiracy now proven by Tulsi Gabbard to have begun in July of 2017 in the Oval Office, carrying you all the way through the 2020 election, where Tulsi Gabbard is now looking at the integrity of the electronic voting machines, all the way to the 2024 campaign and the raid in Mar-Lago.
And now, when you talk about those people in terms of holding them accountable and indicting them, the radical left screams that Trump is using and weaponizing the criminal justice system to attack his political enemies.
In other words, that's an almost exact explanation and description of what they themselves did.
Do they think we have amnesia?
Do they think we do not recall their efforts to destroy Donald Trump and his family, their efforts to destroy me, their efforts to destroy General Michael Flynn, George Papadopoulos, and others?
So this is, and the tactics of Jack Smith, not only do they spy on Donald Trump during his presidential campaign, making up evidence, fabricating evidence to satisfy the FISA court in order to get a warrant to spy on Trump's campaign, for which Leslie Stahl still has not apologized to Donald Trump for their famous 60 minutes dust up over this.
But they later on, Jack Smith is actually spying on eight Republican members of the U.S. Senate.
You can't make this stuff up.
Jack Smith actually gets a D.C. judge to rule that Donald Trump's attorneys in the so-called papers case have to testify against him and have to turn over all their work materials.
A complete violation of the Sixth Amendment.
And then they make up this idea that having an alternative slate of electors prior to the certification of the Electoral College is somehow a crime, even though it actually has a rich tradition in our American politics.
In the campaign of 1877, specifically, also in 1960, it is not criminal when there is a dispute over the outcome of an election to file an alternative slate of electors in the event that you are successful in court and those electors are seated.
They were anticipating a legal challenge, but that was turned into a crime.
I famously wrote a letter to the president and I said, everyone who has protested the outcome of this election should get a universal pardon.
Every Republican senator, every Republican congressman, every member of your staff, every one of the advocates on your behalf.
And the left said, oh, Roger Stone just wants a second pardon for what he did on January 6th.
No, I didn't do anything wrong on January 6th.
I wasn't at the Capitol on January 6th.
The FBI proved that I knew nothing about the events at the Capitol on January 6th.
I suggested correctly that the Democrats would claim that just disputing the election of 2020 would in itself be a crime.
And Jeff Clark, for example, who was the Justice Department lawyer advising the president on the contour of the Electoral College and what's permissible, they virtually destroyed him.
They've done everything humanly possible to disbar him when all he did was to give good, sound, and accurate legal advice to his client.
It was just advice that they hate.
Jeff Clark is struggling to keep his law license.
The good news is he's working today inside the Trump administration in the Office of Management and Budget, where hopefully he is quite helpful in the efforts by Russ Vogt to cut the size and scope of government during this tremendous shutdown.
The shutdown, do you know anyone whose life has been changed material by the federal shutdown?
I do not.
Now, the government does pay for essential services like Social Security checks and the military get their pay and so on, but it just demonstrates to you the real little impact the federal government has on your everyday life.
And this is one of those shutdowns where the Republicans are not taking the blame.
This is very clear that the Republicans were prepared to move forward at current levels of spending, so-called continuing resolution.
Leaves everything the way it is, just funds the government at the current levels.
We all know spending needs to be cut, but for the time being, to keep the government open, that's a reasonable position.
The Democrats insisted that they would only sign on to a continuing resolution if it includes $1.5 billion for health insurance, essentially, for illegal immigrants.
This is Schumer's shutdown.
That is the nub of the issue, as much as the Democrats say it is not.
Meanwhile, the president has the authority to shut entire departments of government, to fire hundreds of thousands of employees who no longer show up to work and whose job is ill-defined.
And Russ Vogt, the director of the Management Budget Office, is an extraordinarily smart, capable guy who's been planning to downsize the government since Donald Trump's first term.
So I think that the shutdown is good for America.
I don't think the Republicans are going to suffer for it at the ballot box because the average American does not feel the impact at all.
And Chuck Schumer, who knows better, is essentially folding to his progressive left wing.
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He's deathly afraid of AOC, Jasmine Crockett, Bernie Sanders, and the radical ilk of his party.
And he knows that they will topple him in a primary if he does not toe the Marxist progressive line.
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Here we're obsessed with politics, and therefore we're very closely watching the only two off-year gubernatorial races, one in the Commonwealth of Virginia, the other in New Jersey.
Both races are becoming more and more exciting.
It was originally thought that Lieutenant Governor Winsom Sears would be easily defeated by Congresswoman Abigail Spanberger.
But a new poll shows that Sears has surged to 45% of the vote.
Spanberger, who previously had a solid double-digit lead, now at 47% of the vote.
It's very clear that Sears is coming on strong, particularly on the basis of a very strong debate performance.
You see damning text messages from the Democrat candidate for Attorney General, a fellow named Jay Jones, where he actually advocated for political violence against Republicans, is causing the ticket in Virginia to sink like a stone.
None of the Democrats stuck on the ticket with Jay Jones will denounce his radical musings.
The poll shows that Jones is now trailing his Republican opponent, Jason Maares, by a margin of 43 to 48 with the Republican head.
And then there's the upcoming race across the river in New Jersey, Chack Chitterelli, on the basis of a very strong debate performance and a series of unforced errors by Congresswoman Mikey Sherrill, clearly closing in on the real possibility of victory in what is normally a very, very blue state.
Turns out that Mikey Sherrill tripled her net worth in insider trading dealings based on information she received as a member of the House Committee on National Defense.
That is a problem when faced with the question.
She said she couldn't remember whether she'd made the $7 million trade.
Whether you're a Republican, a Democrat, or an Independent, you don't like corruption, and this is epically corrupt.
Cheryl also tries to fudge on the issues of men playing in women's sports.
Once again, she, like Chuck Schumer in New York, is captive of the more left radicals within her party.
But Republicans are coming on very strong in both races.
Interestingly enough, Cliff Maloney, who we've had right here in the Stone Zone, the father of the Pennsylvania Chase, the amazing grassroots door-to-door effort to identify and turn out voters for Donald Trump in the Keystone state in the last election, was incredibly successful, has now swung into action into New Jersey.
They have over 150 people on the ground knocking on doors, identifying Republicans who haven't voted recently and other potential supporters for Chitterelli.
So you see a real grassroots shoe leather campaign in both states.
I'm going to caution those who may be celebrating too soon.
The Democrat machines in places like Camden and Essex, that's Newark and in Bergen County, are adept at vote stealing, manipulation of the vote.
So Republicans are going to have to be certain they get an honest count.
But if they get an honest count, I think Jack Chitterelli could very well be the next governor of the Garden State.
Once again, New Jersey, once a swing state, now choking in high taxes and soft on crime policies, which have really affected the quality of life, creating that rare opportunity for a Republican.
Combine that with the fact that the Democrats nominated an elitist congresswoman who knows more about events in Washington than she does in Trenton.
And I think you could have the makings of an upset.
New Jersey is a state that I know well, having handled the election of Thomas H. Kaine in 1981.
He won by 1,209 votes out of over 2 million cast, and proud to have run the state for Ronald Reagan in multiple campaigns.
Yes, I do think New Jersey could go red.
That's it for us today on the Stone Zone.
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