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What is a post-debate analysis of the Republican primary debate from last night?
You know, I thought it would be a better idea because I interviewed a lot of the candidates in the spin room after the show last night.
So I know where their take is on the night.
You know, what do the people in America think?
Polster John McLaughlin, McLaughlin and Associates, Matt Towery, Insider Advantage, did something really innovative, interesting last night.
He was sending me data all throughout the night as the debate was going on.
Very, very interesting reactions, real-time reactions from people.
And anyway, welcome both of you back to the program.
Thank you.
Happy to be with you.
All right, Matt, let's start with you.
Let's talk about what you were sending me last night to the extent you can.
I know you probably don't want to make a full announcement of where you're going with this, but I think you're willing to talk a little bit about it.
I hope.
If not, let's just ignore what I just said.
No, I'm happy to.
We tried out our new AI system, which working in tandem with a group very experienced at scraping data from social media all over the country.
We were getting live feeds of who was dominating social media during the debate.
And I found it ironic.
You know, Sean, you and I have been through several debates together, texting and talking.
And last night, I listened to the debate, but I was looking at this data.
The data showed Vivek Ramaswamy absolutely dominating the debate most of the time.
The second place individual was Ron DeSantis in terms of social media content.
And then you have this sort of rise of Nikki Haley and a little bit also from the former governor of New Jersey, Chris Christie.
But the others really weren't landing any blows at all.
And so I've read today some commentary on some of the conservative websites.
People say, oh, the big loser was Vivek Ramaswamy.
No, he wasn't.
We're polling today.
I can guarantee you he's in first place somewhere.
I think Ron DeSantis is still in the race.
I think the new emerging person in this contest is going to be Nikki Haley.
But I also think Donald Trump probably won above all of them because he had more social media going on than the entire debate put together.
Isn't that what we kind of expect?
I mean, you know, I know some people on the stage, well, why isn't Donald Trump here?
And he's stuck in the debate.
They should have been doing backflips over the fact that he didn't show up because he absorbs so much oxygen from any room that he's in.
It's just a fact.
Absolutely.
And they were able to get their points across.
And you can see this diagram.
We're posting more on insideradvantage.com.
Anybody can go to it.
We're going to have updates tonight, and then we're going to have a poll out tomorrow.
And we're going to correlate that poll with this data.
I think we have a new way of looking at America and how they feel in real time, Sean.
John McLaughlin, your take.
I find what Matt has is really interesting because we posted a new poll today, and it was done before the debate.
But Trump leaves the field with 51%.
Vivek had moved in second place at 13%.
By the way, I said Vivek for a long time.
It's Vivek.
And I said to him last night.
I said, why didn't you ever correct me?
I mean, I don't purposely want to get people's names wrong.
I wouldn't either.
But Ramaswamy is at 13%.
I always say, just call him Ramaswamy.
Everyone seems to get that one now.
DeSantis is in third.
He's falling.
He's at 9%.
In January, DeSantis was at 31%, and Trump was in a multi-candidate deal at 42%.
Now, one-on-one, Trump against DeSantis, in January, we had it nationally.
Trump 52, DeSantis 40.
It's now 72 to 28, the most ever.
There's no, I mean, Trump is so dominant.
And the key thing is Trump is beating Joe Biden 47 to 43 among 1,000 likely voters across the country, which is why he's being indicted again and arraigned today.
I mean, when we ask voters, hey, I stand correct.
I stand correct that the poll is going to show Donald Trump in first place.
I didn't want you to think that, John.
Way ahead.
I'll just say Ramaswamy will be in first place of those who debate it.
So I'm glad you made that point.
Yeah, but you know the thing is, but man, our polls, a lot of times, they're the same, and you're looking at this.
And Donald Trump is so dominant.
And when we ask voters if they thought politics has played a role in the fact that he's been indicted four times in the last five months, 74 to 19, they say yes.
And as Joe Biden played a role in these indictments, 60 to 29, they say yes.
55% to 34, they say it's a diversion away from Hunter and the corruption scandals.
59, 29, they say it's a double standard.
And 56 to 34 among all voters, they want to decide the election with their votes and not in the courts.
So, you know, all these candidates who were at the debate last night, one of them should have said, I'm going to fly to Atlanta and stand next to Donald Trump when he's arraigned because what's going on is undemocratic.
It's anti-free speech.
It's denying him his civil rights.
This is corruption, Biden Corruption gone wild, and I'll stand with Donald Trump, just like the civil rights leaders used to stand with Martin Luther King when he was being arrested and indicted.
And now you got Joe Biden trying to make Donald Trump the Nelson Mandela of America.
I mean, they are serious.
They want to try him and put him in jail so they don't have an election because Donald Trump is beating Joe Biden like a drum.
Well, it certainly defies all conventional political gravity.
And if you would have told me that we'd have a situation where a presidential candidate, former president, indicted four times, now will be arraigned four times after tonight, and that each time his poll numbers go up, I would look at you and I would have laughed at you.
But there's something else going on here.
And I think America is really, you know, their eyes have opened to this dual justice system, the weaponization of our FBI and the DOJ.
And, you know, starting with 2016 and the FBI and their treatment of Hillary Clinton, the fact that no reasonable prosecutor would prosecute.
She didn't have her Chappaqua home raided.
She deleted 33,000 subpoenaed emails.
Nothing happens.
Joe Biden has top secret classified information in four locations.
There's no raid.
You know, he has a special counsel that nobody even knows the name of.
We never hear from the guy compared to the one going after Donald Trump.
And I just, I think the American people see the unfairness of this, and it's gone way beyond a prosecution.
And I think in most people's minds, it's a persecution.
Well, and let's put some icing on top of that miserable cake.
Now the DA in Georgia wants to try this case in two months.
This is, listen.
Okay, she has two and a half years to build her case, and now you're going to tell the defendant will give you two and a half months.
That's not going to fly.
This is a Twilight Zone election.
That's what it is.
It's going to be like an episode out of the Twilight Zone.
They're going to try to put this man in prison.
He's going to run.
He's probably going to get the nomination.
And it's going to be a really tight election with a man who may actually be serving time or house detention or on trial all the time.
Well, I mean, it's clearly these are uncharted waters, and we all can agree on that part.
To the extent when these trials, whatever trials are going to begin, I can't imagine, even the New York Times could not lay out any type of timeline where it would be possible to have four trials in a year and simultaneously run for the nomination of your party.
And then if you win it, you run for president.
It's just, it's physically, it's impossible.
So something is going to have to give here because, you know, Jack Smith, he wants his trial to begin January 2nd.
Fanny Willis wants hers to begin the day before Super Tuesday.
You know, if it started January 2nd in D.C., excuse me, but one of the big problems there is we've got Iowa caucuses a week and a half later.
John.
Well, Congressman Jordan said today he's going to open an inquiry into collusion between Fannie Wills' office and the Biden White House.
And we've already seen that the New York Times reported last year and this year that Biden urged Merrick Garland to indict Donald Trump.
He wants to see him in jail.
I mean, we have the most corrupt president ever in the history of the United States, so they're trying to rush these cases because, you know, first of all, they're bleeding our campaign.
Donald Trump is spending over $60 million in lawyers so far and not TV ads and not even polls.
But in effect, they're trying to basically win the election by taking away our civil rights.
And voters see this back in June.
We had a question that Newt Gingrich had me ask where 62% of all voters agree that if the Justice Department, FBI can do this to President Trump, they can do it to any political opponent.
And plus.
Well, what are we going to have grand juries and prosecutors and DAs deciding our presidential candidates now forevermore?
Yep.
Yep.
And 58% say that the Justice Department, FBI, and IRS, if they're allowed to prosecute political opponents, they could go after any average citizen.
So people are afraid.
Joe Biden's turned into not just be corrupt, but a corrupt tyrant.
But does Donald Trump, as the cases move forward, and especially the case in Georgia, if that case is televised, I believe tonight will be televised.
If that happens and the American people see this, you know, I'm not talking about Donald Trump's base, which is rock solid and strong and big, but I'm talking about the independence that he will need to win states like Georgia and North Carolina and Pennsylvania and Wisconsin and Michigan and Arizona.
Is that going to have an impact on their thinking?
Because independents will decide this election.
It's not going to be the base.
Well, you know, Sean, I was a Georgia, I am a Georgia lawyer living in Florida and a former Georgia legislator.
I know Georgia politics pretty well.
My feeling is this.
The independents right now in a state like Georgia are very much in flux because they've got a little bit of Trump fatigue.
But I believe the fatigue might flip the other way because as that trial continues to develop, it's going to dominate the news day after day after day.
And then they're going to see all these other trials coming.
And I think there's a point at which there may be a boomerang in which it looks like this is going to really be bad for Donald Trump.
And all of a sudden, people start saying enough of this stuff, which I think is where we're headed with this.
It's piling on.
If this was an NFL game, they'd thrown the flag five times over again for just a minute.
Well, it's interesting.
I don't know if you saw the Washington Post columnist that said this might be one indictment too many.
In other words, this could be the straw that breaks the camel's back.
This could alert America to the fact that this is unprecedented.
We have never in our history had a former president or a top presidential candidate have to go through anything like this.
This is the stuff of a banana republic, and I think people will see that.
All right, quick break.
We'll have more with our pollsters.
Matt Towery, John McLaughlin on the other side.
Senator Rick Scott at the bottom of the hour.
And your calls coming up.
All right, we continue.
Our pollsters, examining last night's debate, Matt Towery and our friend John McLaughlin, well, they're both our friends as we continue with them.
I do believe now that Joe Biden's massive lie, when he said I never talked to Hunter or my brother or anybody for that matter, about their foreign business dealings, evolve into Joe was actively involved in meeting these foreign business partners, oligarchs from Moscow at Cafe Milano, for example, and the sheer number of dollars involved that went into Biden family coffers.
Nine Biden family members by name, according to James Comer, identified as having benefited financially.
And beyond that, also, there's plenty of evidence, a plethora of evidence that Joe Biden himself benefited from these deals.
Now, we also have a timeline.
December 5th, 2015, Joe Biden talks to Hunter, who's in Dubai with barisma executives that are begging for D.C. help.
Five days later, he's in Ukraine.
That's when he lectures Ukraine on the issue of corruption.
However, we now know other documents existed that the Obama administration's official policy was that they felt that corruption was under control and Joe's job was to deliver the billion in loan guarantees, but instead he leverages it and demands the firing of a prosecutor investigating his son and the company paying him massive amounts of money for something of which he has no experience.
And son of a bee, the guy gets fired and Hunter continues to get paid.
Now, that sounds to me like that would meet the standard in the bribery statute.
What do you think, Matt Tower?
You're a lawyer.
Yeah, I think it would.
You know, what I would say about that, though, Sean, that's more important than any of the legal stuff is you saw a debate last night, okay, if people want to be elected president.
How much did you hear them talk about any of that?
Did you hear it?
I didn't hear them say much at all.
And so I'm not.
Well, look, I think it's a double-edged sword for these candidates in some ways.
Don't you?
Well, it may be a double-edged sword, but they don't understand that the rest of America doesn't understand what you just laid out.
They don't yet.
However, last weekend, Matt, Politico, the Washington Post, the New York Times advanced this story.
Now, that could be the canary in the coal mine that if they want to get rid of Joe, they could very likely use this scandal to do it.
Well, I tell you what they're going to have to do.
They're going to have to alert their brethren into three networks, broadcast networks, to that news.
And also Yahoo News and all the other groups that we're going to do.
MSDNC and fake news, CNN, yes.
How about the Google news they receive every day and the Apple news they receive every day that's sorted out?
I'm telling you right now, it's not penetrating.
I see it in the polling.
It's not there.
And I was shocked.
It's not in the political bloodstream yet.
No.
However.
And why do you think I keep hitting it so hard?
I want every American to know completely and understand completely what's going on.
And, you know, we stand on an island as usual, but I don't think between, I think I can get this into the political mainstream bloodstream of consciousness, if you will, of the American people before November of 2024.
That's my goal.
You better get the Republican Party and their candidates to get on board and get the message out.
Oh, yeah, they always listen to me.
Everybody listens to me.
Trump listens.
Everybody listens to me.
Do you believe that, Matt?
No.
Exactly.
All right, John McLaughlin, Matt Towery, thank you both.
Appreciate it.
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Anyway, so Senator Rick Scott is here.
I want to get his take on last night's debate.
And more importantly, he's going to be running in the 2024 cycle.
Last time, I think they might have thrown like $6,000 trillion at him in negative ads in his campaign.
How are you, sir?
I am great.
Yeah, I think the voters won last night.
I think they got to hear from each of the candidates what their vision is.
I think that, you know, I think they did a great job.
And so I think this is exactly what these debates are for.
Let people tell who they are and let the voters get to have a better idea of what they're going to do if they're president.
So what do you think about President Trump not going?
Now he's going to be at his fourth arraignment, four indictments already.
Was it the right choice for him not to go?
Would it have been better if he did go?
I mean, considering the massive lead that he's built up.
You know, he's got such a great lead.
He's running like an incumbent president.
So, you know, it's almost like it's better for him and better for the other candidates because for him, you know, he's pretty well defined.
Think about it.
The economy was great.
The border was secure.
We weren't at war.
And for these others, the fact that he was not there gave him more airtime to go talk about what they're doing.
So I think everybody won last night.
You know, and for the candidates that were complaining he's not going, I'm like, are you guys really that dumb?
Because any room that he enters, he kind of sucks up all the oxygen.
And I mean, for them, it was at least an opportunity for a night that they got the attention.
Did you think anybody in particular stood out last night to you?
I think clearly the individuals that got to, I think one, they're all better than Biden, right?
They're all better than Biden.
But I think the people that got to talk the most got to at least give people an idea who they are.
So I think that was positive for them.
But every one of them is better than Biden.
Look at the inflation.
Look at food prices, gas prices, the border, the war in Ukraine, the Afghanistan debacle.
So every one of these individuals is better.
But I think it's great.
I mean, they got to talk about how they were different.
And clearly, there's differences.
There's differences on Ukraine.
There's differences on a lot of things up there.
You know, if I had to pick the three that probably have the best night, it would be your fellow Floridian Ron DeSantis of a Vaik Ramaswamy, I thought, had a very strong night and introducing himself.
You know, he's got a very pleasant way about him.
I think it resonates with a lot of people.
Nikki Haley, though, in a little bit different way.
I thought she was a little contrarian and took on positions and staked out positions that were different than everybody else.
What do you think?
How does this all going to play out?
Because, and we've been discussing this all day, is that, you know, it defies all conventional political thought, wisdom, history, where if a candidate is involved in any massive controversy, usually that results in a precipitous decline in their popularity.
It's just the opposite with Donald Trump.
Every time they arrest him, and tonight they'll be arraigning him, this is the fourth time his poll numbers go up.
I mean, can you explain that?
Because that's a phenomenon.
I cannot think in history of something like that having happened before.
Well, I think, first off, everybody knew that the Russian gate was a complete lie.
By the way, not at the time.
I was like a sole voice out here in the wilderness, to be honest, Senator, breaking down every single night, you know, tearing this thing apart and finally being vindicated by Horowitz and by Durham.
Right.
And now everybody knows the two impeachments were a joke.
I mean, they impeached and decided if they could prove something.
So I think what people are seeing is that they don't trust the IRS anymore, the FBI, the DOJ.
They think it's clearly biased.
And it looks like this is just the Biden administration trying to get rid of their biggest political opponents.
So I think that's why it's helping Trump.
And Trump's, you know, he's sold himself as a fighter, and this shows that he's a fighter.
So I think that's why he's continuing to do well in the polls.
The way I look at it, if you're going to run against Donald Trump, you have to say, I've got a better idea how to fix the economy.
I've got a better idea how to secure the border.
I have a better idea how to make sure we have a lethal military that scares the crap out of people.
So I think that's the challenge everybody has.
You know, I think about this in terms of this being as unprecedented as it is.
And I'm not really sure how all of this is going to play out.
Is it just going to be the year of Donald Trump in a courtroom?
Is there any consideration?
Because we've never had a past president indicted like this.
We've never had a former president indicted four times.
And all of this now and the leading candidate on the Republican side.
And I just wonder, you know, you have, for example, the special counsel wants a January 6th start.
I'm sorry, January 2nd start date for the first trial.
And then the day before Super Tuesday, you have Fannie Willis down in Fulton County, Georgia.
She wants that trial to begin.
We've heard from the judge in your great state, your free state of Florida, wants to start this thing in and around the same timeframe.
How does somebody run for president and then end up in a courtroom every day?
Well, first off, I think the public is just completely disillusioned with the DOJ and FBI.
I think Chris Ruray and Merrick Garland ought to go on television, and these prosecutors should go on television and take all questions and they have to explain why it was okay for Hillary to eliminate 33,000 emails, tear up phones when she was under a federal subpoena.
Why was it okay for Hunter Biden to do all the things he's been alleged to have done?
Why is it okay forget about Hunter?
Isn't this more about Joe?
Isn't this about the then vice president who lied to the country repeatedly, saying he never even talked to his son or brother or anybody for that matter?
He repeated it as president, as a candidate.
And now we find out he's up to his eyeballs meeting with these oligarchs, many from our top geopolitical foes, and meetings at Cafe Milano and phone calls, dozens of phone calls to close these business deals for Hunter and more evidence than we ever thought that Joe was benefiting financially.
Look at the emails between Eric Sherwin and Hunter Biden about which account should I pay dad's home repair bills here?
Or complaining that Pops takes half his income or 10% for the big guy.
You know, that's a lot of damning evidence, Senator.
And what did Stacey Abrams do when she continued to say that the election was stolen in Georgia?
But then whatever Trump does, there has to be some indictment for him.
But what Stacey Abrams did, that was okay.
So you look at every bit of this.
It sure looks like it's all biased.
It looks like we're a banana republic with the way the sitting president is using law enforcement to go after his political opponent.
So I think that's what a lot of people, they don't trust the FBI anymore, DOJ.
It's really bad for our country.
I think Christopher Ray and Merrick Carlin got to go talk about this, explain it.
And if they can't, stop.
Well, I think stop.
I mean, do you believe our Department of Justice is politicized and weaponized, Senator?
Oh, absolutely.
I don't think there's any question about it.
Well, then we're living in a post-constitutional America, aren't we?
And we don't have equal justice and equal application of our laws.
What does that say about the state of our country?
Sean, what makes you so mad is I worked a lot with the FBI when I was governor.
We had the terrorist attack.
We had the shooting at the Parkland School.
We had these things.
And so the people I worked with at the FBI in the state of Florida, these are wonderful, hardworking FBI agents.
I always talk about the 90%.
I used to be 98%, 99%.
No, I'm down to 90, 92% that are good people that serve our country and obey the laws.
But look at what these whistleblowers are telling us here, the IRS whistleblowers, the FBI whistleblower, favorable treatment for the Bidens.
I mean, I've never seen anything like this.
And Sean, when you hear this, it's incumbent upon the IRS, the FBI, DOJ to say, that's not true.
Let me explain it to you.
They can't say that.
I mean, James Comey offered a million dollars.
He sent agents over the pond to meet with Christopher Steele, offered him a million bucks to prove any part of his dossier was true.
He couldn't collect because none of it was true.
Even Durham has now concluded that.
And what did they do?
They ended up using the dossier anyway to apply for not one but four FISA warrants, in part that helped them spy on candidate Trump and later President Trump.
But they knew it wasn't true, and nobody was held accountable, Senator.
That's the other thing about all this.
No one gets held accountable for people doing the wrong thing.
I mean, it's like under Pfizer, when they've gone after Americans, they've surveilled Americans, and now they want to extend the 702 so they can continue to do that with nobody, nobody, nobody been held accountable.
And if they are, they're not going to tell us.
Our government, this makes me so mad.
This is our government.
It's not the FBI's government.
It's not the Biden administration's government.
It is all of our government.
We deserve all the answers.
I'm a sitting U.S. senator, and it's a black hole of getting any information out of the Biden administration agencies.
It's wrong.
All right, quick break.
We'll have more with Senator Rick Scott.
Great state of Florida, free state of Florida on the other side.
We'll also get to your calls next hour, 800-941 Sean, if you want to be a part of the program.
Also, our friend Sean Davis, CEO, co-founder of the Federalist, will join us.
All right, we continue with Florida Senator from the free state of Florida, Senator Rick Scott, is with us.
You know, let me ask you this.
All right, so you've got a campaign.
I don't know what it is.
Every time that you run for office, they throw an awful lot of money at you.
You and Ted Cruz seem to be two of the biggest targets every time you're up for reelection.
And my understanding is that Chucky Schumer is already committing like, what, $65 to $100 million to your opponent, whoever that opponent is?
Yeah, they've got three failed Democrat congressional candidates now running.
And here's the deal.
They're going to spend a fortune and the press does not once ask, oh, by the way, Democrat candidate, what do you think about the Biden economics, the inflation, the high gas prices?
How about that border?
All the people getting killed with a federal.
Tell us about what you think about the Afghanistan withdrawal.
But the media sits there and never pushes them to have to explain how the Biden policies are so bad.
They never want to run on what Biden did.
They just want to attack Republicans.
And that's all that Chuck Schumer is going to do.
You think that Joe Biden cognitively, physically, is up to this job?
Because I don't.
It sure doesn't look like it.
I mean, you look at it, but think about this.
If you work in the Biden administration, you're going to do everything you can to keep him in power because once he's out of power, you lose your job.
And by the way, when you're out of that job, nobody's going to want to hire you because they know how incompetent the Biden administration is.
All true, but, you know, I mean, I think his handling of what happened out in Maui is a disgrace.
Oh, God.
I mean, I had hurricanes.
You know what you're supposed to do?
Show up, show compassion.
If somebody asks you, do you have a message for Hawaii?
You mean you're not supposed to say no comment?
And when you have nothing but devastation and desolation, you're going to make the excuse that you're getting in the way when there's nothing to get in the way of?
No.
You know why?
You show up within hours?
Because you can rally the resources.
You can make people feel comfortable that the federal government, or in my case, when I was governor of Florida, the state government's going to be there to do everything we can to take care of you and your family.
That's what the president should be there and he should stay and work his blood off and make sure all the resources are there and make sure he's part of making sure everybody knows what's going on and everybody shows up.
But, you know, he's above it.
These people that don't want to show up, they're above it.
That's not important enough for Joe Biden to show up and care about people.
It just makes you mad.
Well, it makes you mad.
And let me ask you in terms of leadership.
You've been one to be outspoken and challenging Mitch McConnell.
He didn't look particularly well when he had that moment at the podium just going back a few weeks.
Have you spent any time with him?
Is he okay?
No, I mean, I don't think he's forgiving me for running against him.
I'm the only Republican that had the guts to run against him for Republican leader.
And look, we have to have a change.
If we're going to be the party that stands up for fiscal responsibility, stands up for holding the federal government accountable, then we are going to have to have a change in the leadership of the Republican, you know, the Republicans in the Senate.
We have to change.
If you look at what Mitch McConnell's been doing, he's been voting with the Democrats for all of Biden's bad stuff.
All of it.
The omnibus, the Green New Deal.
Sorry, what they did in December of last year when I was on vacation, you know, it just disgusted me.
And Nikki Haley pointed that out last night, and she was right.
Yeah, I mean, $1.7 trillion, $7,500 E-marks, and Republicans voted for that.
Unreal.
Ted Cruz didn't.
Ron Johnson didn't.
Mike Lee didn't.
Mike Bond didn't.
We didn't do it because we know that we can't live.
We cannot continue these trillion-dollar deficit year after year.
That's what causes your mortgage rates to go up, your interest rates on your mortgage, your car payments, your interest on your credit cards, inflation.
It's causing all these problems.
And we've got to get our fiscal house in order, and we've got to get new leadership to get that done.
All right, Senator Rick Scott, great state, free state of Florida.
Thank you, sir.
Always great to have you on.
We'll follow your race closely.
I'm not that worried about it.
I think you're going to do great.
Appreciate your time, as always.
All right.
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