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Eight days to go, the all-important midterm elections.
White House finally persuaded a few Democrats to even invite Joey to campaign for them.
Boy, that is a real exciting campaign event, if ever I've heard one.
Joe Biden on the campaign trail.
Anyway, voters continue to trust Republicans more than Democrats eight days out of these all-important midterms, despite President Biden warning and what he dubbed his closing argument ahead of the midterm elections that GOP policies would worsen inflation and broaden and the broader economy.
Jen Saki actually said, well, we just need more time.
It's really not our fault.
We need more time.
That's why it's happening.
Kathy Hochl is actually trying to claim that crime is not at a record high in New York in spite of the numbers that prove her wrong that we've gone over again and again and again.
But, you know, the striking gap between the Democrats, their rhetoric, and voters' thinking comes as, you know, we now see what this election is about.
In eight days, this is going to be Americans asking themselves, since Joe Biden has become president, are you better off than you were, what, 21 months ago?
Because the answer is obviously you're not.
You know, the economy is not doing better.
We had a gross domestic product of 1.4%.
Now, months and months and months of a 40-year high.
It's transitory.
One day, inflation numbers come in.
Biden and Kamala Harris.
Zero percent.
Zero.
Zero.
So, you know, now they've gone back to, oh, they even brought out of retirement the anointed one, Barack Obama.
And, you know, he went back to his old, they're going to take away your Social Security.
They're going to gut Social Security.
They're going to gut Medicare.
This is what he said.
So inflation's a problem.
What is the Republican answer?
Look, I mean, if they had a great answer, that'd be one thing.
But you know what their big economic policy is?
They want to gut Social Security and Medicare and then give big tax cuts to the wealthy and some of the most successful corporations in the world.
That's their agenda.
And by the way, that's their answer for everything.
Debbie knows.
Gary knows.
Back in 2008, 2010, inflation was low and employment was high.
What was their answer?
Tax cuts for the wealthy and cut back on Social Security and Medicare.
It doesn't matter what the problem is.
No matter what.
Listen, if there was an asteroid heading towards Earth and we got everybody in the room, said, what are we going to do?
I think we should cut taxes for the wealthy.
No, that's not going to help you.
All right.
So what did I tell you in the beginning of this election year?
I said Democrats have three things that they're going to run on.
They're going to run on January 6th and hating Donald Trump.
Number one, number two, they're going to run on abortion.
Well, January 6th, the American people with a collective yawn knew that it was a partisan witch hunt from the get-go, a predetermined outcome.
And if Democrats really cared about rioting, they would have looked into and formed a committee on the 574 riots in the summer of 2020 that actually killed dozens of Americans that resulted in thousands of injured cops and billions of property damage.
They didn't lift a finger.
They only care about the one incident where they can bludgeon Republicans with it.
There's not a single Republican, not one, that is talking about, that is supportive of cutting Social Security or Medicare.
Not one.
You can't get over the failure of their record.
What was GDP?
What was the inflation number when Donald Trump left office?
It was 1.4%.
And then it was transitory, 8.5%, a 40-year record.
Now we're headed into month 10, 40-year record, 40-year record, 40-year record.
You know, in the middle of this, at one point, we have zero inflation.
They just make it up.
That's their record.
They're the ones that decided to abandon energy independence.
For some cockamany reason, Democrats have decided that domestic energy production, of which we have an abundance of, is bad.
But importing oil from Iran, that's fine.
Russia, fine.
Venezuela, fine.
OPEC, fine.
Saudi Arabia, fine, but not here.
And they abandon it.
And their net result is what?
It's, you know, a doubling of a price of a gallon of gasoline.
Then, of course, risking national security by depleting our strategic petroleum reserves, knocking that down in half, must be an emergency only in Democrats' minds because that's what those reserves are for, not losing an election.
So things are not going well for them.
And I told you the third thing that they would do is they go back to the old Democratic playbook.
Republicans are racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic.
And this is the same thing, that they want to cut Social Security.
They want to cut Medicare.
They want tax cuts for the rich and the wealthy.
Same old nonsense.
And they're not dealing with their situations.
Democrats caused record high inflation.
They caused the high price, record high prices in gasoline.
They caused the chaos at the border by abandoning Trump's policies of stay in Mexico and building the wall.
They're the ones that came up with this idea that building or producing energy domestically is bad, but it's okay to import it from countries that hate us.
All of these things were preventable.
They're the party of defund, dismantle, no-bail laws.
They're the party of woke education and CRT and transgenderism.
I'm watching all of this and I'm like, there's nothing that they're saying that can mitigate the failure of their policies.
Was Afghanistan's withdrawal a success?
How about Joe's leadership around the world?
He's laughed at.
He's mocked.
He's ridiculed.
He got exposed by the Saudis as trying to collude with them to not only would they not agree to his request, which is to increase production of energy and oil, they decreased it.
And then they went out publicly and said, no, we're not going to delay our decrease because you want to get past the midterm.
If any Republican did it, it would be called collusion.
Anyway, so Democratic candidates already, now we can see, are beginning to point fingers at Pelosi and Biden and Schumer as this day of reckoning hopefully occurs in eight days.
I'm not saying it with any certainty.
If I could tell you one thing that you must not allow to happen, don't let these polls make you think one way or the other that either the election's in the bag or my vote doesn't count because it has to count.
We have no choice but to get out there and give it everything you've got for the sake of our kids, for the sake of our grandkids.
There's too much at stake here.
You know, as hope is now increasingly bleak for Democrats, they're getting more shrill in their rhetoric.
You know, Democrats, you know, cries for new blood began with the rise of the party's left-wing members, the squad.
But the squad has pretty much controlled the agenda.
So, how did they make the case that they should be the replacement of Pelosi and Schumer and Biden, considering they're a party of one mind?
Anyway, so we'll see what happens here.
Anyway, Republicans head into the final week with leads in states, and voters feel that things are out of control.
This was a recent poll that came out by CBS News, a battleground tracker poll, and what it found is the election is already underway.
Millions have voted.
Tens of millions more will vote before November 8th, and that eight in ten likely voters now describe things in this country as out of control as opposed to under control.
Say what you will about Donald Trump.
He was in control.
The world feared him, and he made decisions, and he made good ones.
Anyway, so out comes Barack Obama, the anointed one to save the day.
And, you know, Republicans, they want to cut your Social Security.
No, they don't.
There's not one Republican advocating that.
They're not interested.
They're only interested in making you angry.
No, people have a right to be angry when the average family's paying $7,200 more for the same items they were buying when Donald Trump left the presidency.
Even the Washington Post called out the Democrats' false claim that Senate Republicans plan to end Social Security and Medicare.
You know, watching Stacey Abrams slam George's sheriff's good old boys club, you know, the same lady that says it's the worst state to live in.
You can't make this up.
Kathy Hochl, during an interview with Al Sharpton, is calling Republicans master manipulators.
When they talk about crime, they're data deniers.
No, they're not data.
They're actually doing a reality check.
You know, one thing that was interesting to me is they brought back Obama this weekend.
And some people said, do you think he's going to have any impact?
I said, no, none.
He can't overcome their crappy record.
Even the pro-Democratic Atlanta Journal Constitution now has Herschel Walker leading Raphael Warnock.
Now, it's 46.45.
If you don't win 50% plus one, there'll be a runoff on December 6th.
I think that would be an advantage for Herschel Walker.
And in the governor's race, it's 51.44, Kemp over Stacey Abrams.
But I was thinking as I'm watching Obama this week, and I'm wondering, does he really support the positions of Raphael Warnock?
I know he supports his position on Farrakhan and Jeremiah Wright.
Now, for eight years, they withheld the picture of Obama and Louis Farrakhan.
I suspected there had to be one at the time, but I couldn't find one.
Anyway, it came out after his presidency, and we know that he sat in the pews of Jeremiah Wright.
I don't know if he agrees with Warnock on his praise of Fidel Castro.
I don't know if he thinks that cops are thugs and gangsters the way that Raphael Warnock does.
I don't remember Obama ever pushing for energy independence, but I don't remember him ever going as far as Joe Biden and the new Green Deal Democrats.
I don't even remember Obama pushing critical race theory or gender identity theory.
So I'm watching as he's advocating for all these people.
Does he agree with Raphael Warnock that the opioid crisis is only a public health emergency because the faces of human tragedy are white and suburban?
Well, he did once say white folks' greed runs a world in need, so maybe he does.
I don't know.
I'd have to ask him.
If you look at the position, does he now support packing the courts?
Does he now support ending the legislative filibuster?
You know, does he, you know, on any of these positions, does he have any concerns campaigning for a guy that was accused of using his car as a weapon in a domestic dispute with his wife and tried to run over his wife, according to his wife's own testimony and own interview in the media, and that her foot was run over?
Does he care that Raphael Warnock was arrested for obstructing an investigation into his own summer camp in terms of child abuse?
Five cases of abuse, varying degrees found.
You know, just got to have, you know, interesting people want to know.
You know, he's out there campaigning, you know, with the likes of Mandela Barnes.
I love what Herschel Walker said.
It was pretty good.
He responded to Barack Obama and his attack.
And Obama had said, well, he's just a celebrity who wants to be a politician.
Anyway, Walker then, you know, kind of laughed at it.
And he said, you know, President Obama said last night, I'm a celebrity.
He got one thing wrong, didn't he?
I'm not a celebrity.
I'm a warrior for God.
And he got something else wrong.
Two years ago, he told us to vote for Joe Biden, didn't he?
He got that one wrong.
And he lost twice in Georgia already.
Hasn't he?
Maybe he should be sitting this one out, which I thought was a pretty good line by Herschel.
And then he's in Wisconsin.
He's supporting Mandela Barnes, another radical.
Anyway, the polls look good.
We'll go over some of these numbers as we continue throughout the day today.
But this is going to be a simple question that every American needs to ask: Are you better off than you were since Joe Biden has become president?
And if you are better off, call us.
Tell us where you think you're better off.
I'd love to hear from you.
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All right, as we roll along, 800-941, Sean, if you want to be a part of the program, our colleague at Fox News, Bill Melusian, according to TAD program, is reporting that from an ICE source that the suspect in the attack on Paul Pelosi, David DePoppy, is in the U.S. illegally as a long-time visa overstay.
I believe he is from Canada, from what I read at different points.
It's been interesting to watch the media's reaction to this.
It's sad, too.
For example, there's one article: Trump finally condemns Paul Pelosi attack, declares Democratic-run cities are far worse than Afghanistan.
And he went on, he was very clear about this.
You know, he said what happened is a terrible thing.
With all of them, with every incident of violence, it's a terrible thing.
And then he talked about the violence in Democratic-run cities.
Since 2009, on my television program, we've scrolled the names of people shot, shot, and killed, names you've never heard of in the city of Chicago.
You see record after record violent crime increases in cities with defund dismantled no bail laws.
You know, and then all the victims of crimes of people that they let out that are violent.
Now, Democrats are trying to push back.
You're a statistic denier.
No, we're not statistic deniers.
It is imbecilic.
It is idiotic.
It is insane for anybody to go along with the idea of releasing convicted murderers, for example, like John Fetterman wants.
But, you know, if you look at the Democratic Party, it's sad.
How come they're not interested in the 574 riots in the summer of 2020, but they only care about January 6th?
How is it they care about Paul Pelosi, but not the people killed and beaten every weekend in every major city?
25 to the top of the hour, eight days till the all-important midterms.
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I look at the polls.
This is how I'm looking at this election.
I'm looking at what we can't make the same mistake that we made last year.
And I'll speak for myself: a mistake I made last year.
I did not see, I did not feel, I did not sense, I did not know.
There was nothing in any way that indicated that the New Jersey gubernatorial race was in play.
Nothing.
There was no evidence at all.
There wasn't a single poll that showed, wow, this thing is a lot closer than we thought.
You know, we were paying an awful lot of attention to Glenn Young and his campaign and Terry McAuliffe's dumb, idiotic statements about parents should get out of their kids' education or something to that point.
So we're not letting anything ride here, but it doesn't mean that anything is in the bag either.
The only poll that's going to matter is going to be the results in the election.
That is the poll that is going to matter the most.
So I'm urging people that you've just got to, you've got to look at where the country's headed, and you got to decide whether or not you share the same sense of urgency that so many people I know do have.
And that is that this is America now at a tipping point.
You know, this is one of those moments where it's just, it's simply two competing visions for America that are just irreconcilable.
Either you believe in capitalism or you believe in new Green Deal radical socialism where everything's free.
You know, guaranteed pre-K, guaranteed government jobs, guaranteed free college, guaranteed tuition, loan forgiveness, guaranteed wage, guaranteed government health care, guaranteed government retirement, guaranteed government healthy food, whatever it happens to be.
And if you see that this is failing and failing spectacularly, then you're going to want to have to act.
I don't know how you reconcile those of us that believe in law and in order to keep safety and security for every American in every town and every city.
How do you reconcile that with no bail laws?
How do you reconcile that with defund the police and wanting to bring social workers in whenever there's a dispute that arises in a community?
It's some of the dumbest, you know, pop psychology that I've ever heard in my life.
It's not going to work.
It's never going to work.
How do you reconcile a belief that we need to, for national security reasons, to create high-paying career jobs, that we've got to be the masters of our own destiny economically, and the lifeblood of every economy is energy.
And the energy that we have now, that we rely on and need now is gas, oil, and coal.
You know, how do you reconcile that with those that don't want any energy production?
Those that canceled the Keystone XL pipeline, those that don't want new government leases out there, those that don't want any drilling in Anwar.
How do you reconcile these very competing different interests?
How do you reconcile those that want open borders?
We have, what, four and a half million people under Joe Biden's presidency entering this country, aided and abetted by Joe and his policies.
It's forget stay in Mexico.
It's, you know, welcome to America.
We'll give you preferential treatment, no COVID vaccine mandate, no COVID test.
We'll give you a free Biden phone and transportation to one of the 50 states, and you go enjoy your life.
And at some point, we'll probably give you amnesty and hope and pray that you vote for us.
Give something of great worth and great value.
So one side, one vision for the country has to emerge victorious because that's going to be the policies that are going to be pursued.
So far, the Democrats, they've done more damage in such a short period of time, you can't even make it up.
So we're not going to make the mistake that we made in 2009, and we're just going to assume that every race is winnable.
I don't think any of them are easy.
I don't think there's any doubt that we're a divided country.
I don't think there's any doubt that in spite of all of the empirical evidence that shows that socialism is a failure, that's going to convince socialists that their ideology is wrong and that somehow they need to change course or reverse themselves.
I don't see that happening with this Democratic Party.
I don't think there'll be an era of big government is over moment.
I don't think there'll be an end of welfare as we know it moment from Joe Biden and the new Green Deal climate alarmist cult.
I don't think that's happening.
So when I look at, for example, New York's governor's race and I look at the failed policies of a very, very weak governor that is so well, why do you care like about crime?
I don't understand.
Why do you care so much about that?
Maybe because people are dying.
Maybe because violent crime is out of control.
Maybe because we once had crime in New York under control and now it's getting worse every day and less safe every day.
I mean, even to ask that question.
So I think that there is a, if you're asking me my honest opinion, can Lee Zeldon win in New York?
He can.
It's going to be tough, but he can win.
I'm looking at other tough races, Tudor Dixon versus Gretchen Whitmer.
And if you watch the two debates in Michigan, I mean, it was Tudor Dixon just wiped the floor with Gretchen Whitmer.
Wasn't even close.
And Gretchen Whitman, frankly, looked silly by the end of both of those debates.
We now have a poll out of the state of Washington where Republican Tiffany Smiley is now dead even, 46-46.
This is a more information group poll just released today that Smiley is tied dead even with Patty Murray.
Nobody saw that as a possible pickup for Republicans, but now it's a possibility.
You know, you may remember years ago it was Congressman Foley that lost out there.
Nobody saw that coming.
Anything can happen in these elections.
You can't take anything for granted.
If I had, you know, my way, I would hope every American sees the importance, especially of the Senate.
I think the Republicans should do very well in the House, at least according to the polls.
I think it's good that they've been running on a positive agenda, which is their commitments to America.
I'm fully aware that if Republicans win the House and Senate, that doesn't mean that change will be automatic, but it will create an environment that when we get a Republican elected president again, that all of this can be fixed and resolved and we can get back to peace and prosperity and economic sanity.
I think you just have to face the reality of it.
And what I like to see, every race is important.
Am I taking it for granted that Marco Rubio wins re-election?
I'm not.
He's up by double digits.
I'm not taking it for granted.
Not taking it for granted that Ron DeSantis wins either.
It's going to take people in Florida getting out and voting.
I know the polls show, even the Atlanta Journal Constitution has Herschel Walker up now.
That's pretty fascinating.
But you got to remember, in Georgia, you got a Libertarian candidate, so you got to win 50% of the vote plus one.
And even Governor Kemp is, he might have a runoff December 6th.
Who knows?
But we just, for the people of Georgia who've been voting in record numbers, I hope you're voting for Herschel Walker.
I think he'll be a great senator from Georgia.
You know, I'm not worried about people like Senator John Kennedy in Louisiana.
I'm not worried that much about Senator Tim Scott in South Carolina.
Not that worried about Ram Paul in Kentucky.
Not that worried about Chuck Grassley in Iowa.
But I'm not taking those races for granted either.
We mentioned them just to make you aware, if you're in those states, that they're up for reelection.
And if you want to keep your good senator, you're going to have to go out and vote for your good senator.
I'm not four and a half point real clear politics average lead for Ted Budd in North Carolina, but I'm not taking that for granted.
I'm looking at the polls in the great state of New Hampshire, the live-free or die state of New Hampshire.
You got Governor Chris Sununa, who's up by double digits, like 15 points.
Don Bullduck, who's running for Senate, just got endorsed by President Trump over the weekend.
Bolduck is now winning, is now statistically dead even with Maggie Hassen.
Nobody knows who Maggie Hassen is.
You want to know why?
Nobody knows who she is because she hasn't done anything.
She's just a rubber stamp vote for Schumer and Biden, just a radical left-winger.
You know, Dr. Roz is now up in the state of Pennsylvania, but I'm not taking that race for granted.
Democrats have put another $20 million to prop up John Fetterman.
Is it because John Fetterman is, you know, this guy's record is so extreme, it's so radical, and it's just like Mandela Barnes in Wisconsin.
You know, no restrictions on abortion, moratorium on fracking, release as many convicted murderers as possible, open up the jails and let a third to half the prisoners out in Pennsylvania.
How crazy is that?
Heroin injection sites paid for by taxpayers.
Let's sue the oil companies and grocery CEOs.
Brilliant.
Let's make Pennsylvania sanctuary state.
You know, imagine a Republican ever chasing down the street an African-American, an innocent jogger, and according to the jogger, being held at gunpoint with a shotgun pointed at his chest.
Anyway, so this poll out in Washington state, Tiffany Smiley tied with Patty Murray.
To me, that is a state that can be won by Republicans if every Republican out in the state of Washington wants change.
This is your opportunity.
I mean, Joe O'Day is getting within the margin of error with Michael Bennett.
It's a long shot.
But if I'm in Colorado, I'm not staying home.
I'm going to vote.
You got Ron Johnson in Wisconsin.
I think they've dumped somewhere between $80 and $100 million to smear and slander him.
The latest smear and slander was from Obama there this week.
JD Vance, he's up by a comfortable margin, but I'm not taking Ohio for granted.
Mike DeWine is up by like 21 points.
I'd like to see JD Vance up by 21 points.
So if you're in Ohio, pay attention to JD Vance's campaign.
He's going to need your help.
And you go out west and you got Adam Laxalt.
It's been a back and forth race there.
He's up against a Democrat that nobody even knows because you have another rubber stamp for Democratic vote.
Out in the state of Arizona, Carrie Lake now has been pulling away from, I think Katie Hobbs is probably as bad as Kathy Hochl in terms of a gubernatorial candidate, but she's been pulling away.
Now Blake Masters is dead even with Mark Kelly.
That is absolutely a huge, massive pickup opportunity for Republicans.
I mean, if you vote for Mark Kelly, you are voting for, you're voting for Chuck Schumer.
He never deviates from the radical Democrats.
He's a reliable Democratic vote.
Why are they throwing all this money into Fetterman's campaign?
Because he's, what, going to be a leader in the Senate?
He's not going to be a leader in the Senate.
He's going to be a rubber stamp Democratic socialist vote.
The Democratic Party speaks with one voice.
Patty Murray will be a reliable new Green Deal radical socialist Democratic radical vote.
I see very little unique thought coming out of the Democratic Party.
So all these races, from my perspective, we've just got to assume that they are winnable.
And then you've got to go out and try and win them.
And the only way you win races is if you go out there and vote.
That's the only thing we have at our disposal.
The only opportunity we have.
By the way, what did Obama say we had 57 states, I think, at one point?
Anyway, Biden now has us up to, he claims the U.S. has 54 states.
And by the way, if they do, that means not a joke, everybody.
That's why we defeated them in 2018 when they tried to do it.
We went to 54 states.
Went to 54 states.
What are the names of the states, Joe?
I mean, it's so bad.
I think people are feeling this sense of urgency.
I hope so.
It's hard to convey on radio or TV the urgency that I'm feeling.
I'm just feeling like, wow, this could really happen.
This is not good.
On the Paul Pelosi issue, you know, I feel terrible for this man.
It's awful what happened to him.
Said it last week.
We, in real time, condemn what happened on January 6th on this program.
People don't remember that, but we have the tape.
We condemned it that night on television, too.
Just like we consistently condemned all through the summer of 2020, you know, all of the violent riots that took place all over the country, 574, dozens of dead Americans, cops pelted with bricks, rocks, bottles, Molotov cocktails, thousands injured, billions in property damage.
You know, why is it that Democrats seem to only care?
You know, when President Trump brought up, he felt bad about what happened to Paul Pelosi, but he also feels bad about what's happening in big towns and small cities across America because of the idiotic, imbecilic crime policies of the Democratic Party.
He feels sorry for everyone that's a victim of crime.
How come the Democrats only talk about instances of crime when they can advance a political agenda?
Because if they cared about victims of crime, they would have been talking about Chicago violence with us since we've been doing it in 2009, scrolling the names of people you've never heard of before shot and shot and killed in Chicago.
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