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| Well, Creepy Joe is back. | |
| I mean, and it's getting creepier than ever. | |
| I'm not sure if you notice this, Linda. | |
| Well, we'll get to it later in the show today, but this creepy exchange at a dinner Sunday, honoring service members and their families, and Biden approaches this young girl and declaring. | |
| I love your ears. | |
| Uh I mean, everything about this guy is creepy. | |
| It just is he's so bizarre. | |
| Everything that he said, just the lines that come out of his mouth, lying dog face, pony soldier. | |
| I mean, it's weird. | |
| Well, you ain't black. | |
| Crazy stuff that just keeps coming out. | |
| I mean, like all the blunders during the Apex Summit last week, we'll play some of the highlights letter, uh lay letter later. | |
| Uh, I like kids better than people. | |
| I wish I could watch Wonka with you, but I can't. | |
| Confusing Taylor Swift and Brittany Spears at the Turkey Turkey Pardoning event. | |
| I mean, he can't even get the turkey pardoning event right. | |
| Anyway, so he mixed up Britney Spears, Taylor Swift, made a bizarre reference to a heat wave that is believed to have killed a fan at Miss Swift's concert. | |
| I I I mean, it's just so embarrassing. | |
| I don't know why why do I feel this sense of embarrassment? | |
| It's not me. | |
| I'm just embarrassed for our country. | |
| A lot of people have been referring to this political earthquake that took place over the weekend in Argentina. | |
| I don't I don't know much about the new president. | |
| I just know that he ran on a uh populist libertarian agenda and an agenda to just literally wipe out the current the government as it currently is and rebuild it from top to bottom, they're suffering what in Argentina somewhere near 124% inflation rate, which does raise the the all-important election year question for 24. | |
| And and I've always made the case and I stand by it today that peace and prosperity are what ultimately decide elections. | |
| On the issue of prosperity, I can't name a single thing Joe Biden has done to make the economy better. | |
| You know, we're now paying a trillion dollars in debt every single year. | |
| Joe took on two trillion more dollars this past fiscal year as president. | |
| We cannot afford it. | |
| So we're gonna spend a trillion dollars before we spend one punt penny on any one government program. | |
| We've first got to pay back the one trillion dollars in debt that that this country, these politicians have now burdened not only us, but our children, our grandchildren, and future generations with. | |
| And Republicans need to know that if they bring this case to the American people, and Marjorie Taylor Green will be on later in the program, You know, and if these Republicans in the House, if they can find some way to unite on this issue of spending and balancing budgets again. | |
| I mean, we used to have the Connie MacPenny plan. | |
| You cut a penny out of every dollar every year for seven years, you balance the budget. | |
| Maybe now we probably need a nickel plan, but it's certainly manageable that way, but it would take fiscal discipline, and that's not uh something that we see often at all in Washington, D.C. But you know, it's now beginning to hit home, even, and I'll play it later. | |
| I won't play it now, but even NBC News is just look their brand new poll, the first one that they ever had, Donald Trump beating Joe Biden. | |
| Joe Biden had his lowest approval rating. | |
| He was down a 36% in one poll last week, 37 in another uh poll that came out last week. | |
| Just awful numbers for Joe Biden. | |
| Uh there is a new Harvard uh Harris poll that came out. | |
| I guess I should say it the right way, Havid. | |
| Uh, but anyway, when Trump ran against Hillary Clinton in 2016, the overwhelming majority of polls taken that year showed Hillary in the lead, usually by a significant margin on election night. | |
| Rasmussen, he came the closest to getting the result right, but its final poll still had Hillary defeating Trump by two points. | |
| Today, a brand new Harvard Harris poll shows Donald Trump beating Joe Biden by an eye-popping seven points. | |
| That's massive. | |
| The only Republican president my lifetime where polls showed him with a large lead over a Democratic opponent, and we've gone back to look at this. | |
| I I our research is pretty good here, I believe, but that was 1984. | |
| And that was Ronald Reagan who went on to win re-election, defeating Walter Mondell in a 49-state landslide. | |
| Now, that's not going to happen in 2024. | |
| America is a far different country demographically than it was 40 years ago. | |
| I don't think a Republican has a shot in hell in states like New York or California. | |
| Maybe they do. | |
| Maybe at some point they will. | |
| But as of now, I don't think the odds are with them for sure. | |
| But besides Reagan versus Mondale, I can't think of another presidential campaign where any poll showed a Republican candidate leading the Democratic opponent, especially an incumbent by seven points. | |
| So this this could get very, very interesting, especially over time. | |
| By the way, Donald Trump did visit the Texas Mexico border. | |
| He picked up Greg Abbott's endorsement down there. | |
| Also uh, I think spent a lot of time with the border patrol agents and and spent a lot of time helping them, talking to them, learning more about what's really going on on the ground there. | |
| Um the White House, uh, by the way, this is not as big a deal to me. | |
| Linda, you're gonna probably disagree with me on this. | |
| That Joe Biden, and this was in the UK telegraph, apparently has sleep apnea. | |
| It now it potentially it's serious for anybody that that has it. | |
| I have friends of mine that have had it. | |
| I have friends of mine that use what's called a CPAP machine, uh, which is a motorized medical device which prevents interruptions in in breathing during the night. | |
| But a sleep disorder can potentially be serious, depending on what medications he's on, for example. | |
| And of course, age is one of several factors that increases any associated risks with sleep apnea, and it can leave sufferers feeling tired even after a full night's sleep. | |
| So it's not it's not a good thing to have. | |
| And however, people that I know that have used the CPAP machine, it's kind of this weird helmet thing. | |
| The last time I've seen one or an air mask to treat the sleep apnea, I'm I just don't think it's that big a deal. | |
| You give oh, you're finally agreeing with me. | |
| You're not thinking it's that big a deal. | |
| I mean, I think his cognitive decline is worse, don't you? | |
| I mean, I I wonder how much uh of that is even true, to be honest with you. | |
| I mean, I don't know what they're feeding them through that CPAP machine, but I don't know if it says oxygen, I'll tell you that. | |
| I wonder what it is. | |
| Whatever it is, you don't want it because it ain't working. | |
| It's definitely not working. | |
| Or you need something stronger. | |
| The battle between this is interesting to me, between uh David Axelrod, who was kind of the mastermind behind Barack Obama's two uh elections, uh, is getting worse than ever. | |
| I I guess he didn't like Joe Biden's use of the P word to describe him after he made some remarks that were not particularly comforting uh to Joe Biden. | |
| Uh, but now anyway, now Axelrod, who and and I must add this, he was a big part of Joe getting elected twice as vice president. | |
| He's now saying publicly that he thinks Biden's chances of winning a second term as president are 50-50 at best, and adds Axelrod, they could even be worse than that. | |
| Anyway, he made that prediction to Maureen Dowd on Saturday. | |
| You know, Biden, by the way, it's his birthday, is turning 81 today, will be 86 at the end of a second term if he got one. | |
| And Axelrod's direct comments were I think he has a 50-50 shot here, but no better than that, maybe a little worse, and he thinks he thinks he can cheat nature here, and it's really risky. | |
| And they've got a real problem if they're counting on Trump to win it for them. | |
| I remember Hillary doing that too. | |
| So there's likely to be no love loss between the two men because uh Axelrod uh affectionately called a P word. | |
| How would I describe that as a form of male genitalia? | |
| Would that be a fair description? | |
| You know, of course, only certain things I can say on radio on the radio show. | |
| Uh no democratic donor complained that the White House has no strategy to combat. | |
| I'm sorry, Democratic donors are complaining that the White House has no strategy to combat Biden's age issue. | |
| Well, what strategy could you possibly come up with? | |
| Think about this. | |
| That would be effective. | |
| Because you would have to basically tell people that what they see with their own eyes is deceiving, and that their own eyes are lying to them. | |
| There are certain conditions that people have where their mind might tell them, you know, A, B or C is true when in fact A, B, and C are not true. | |
| Understand how that can happen. | |
| However, I think the country that the consensus in the country is pretty clear that Joe Biden is weak and frail and a cognitive mess, and that everything Sean Hannity said and the lead up into the 2020 election uh has been been has been proven true almost on a daily basis, | |
| or let's put it this way, it's been proven on a daily basis when Joe actually has to speak, because it's now almost, if not every single time he speaks, he screws it up. | |
| Uh and you know, how do you possibly overcome that? | |
| So uh anyway, that's that's not a good thing. | |
| But these donors are now complaining. | |
| Politico wrote this, interviewing more than a dozen Biden donors and fundraisers, Democratic strategists, party officials revealing that they have deep concerns, and this was Axelrod's original point that he's hearing from everybody in the Democratic Party and Democratic ranks that the campaign's approach to his age isn't enough to quell voter fears about it. | |
| One Biden donor said they recently raised concerns about the president's age with DNC officials, but they just refused to acknowledge it was a problem. | |
| Quote, I think the strategy is not to even address it. | |
| Well, wasn't that kind of the strategy in all of 2020 to hide him in the basement and not let him campaign? | |
| And because of COVID and the media mob that was so friendly towards him, they let him get away with that strategy. | |
| How is this year going to be any different? | |
| If you ask the question, if the if this coming election becomes a referendum on the horrible job that Joe Biden has done on the state of the world and the state of the country, you know, borders, energy, economy, inflation. | |
| Ask yourself, what has Joe Biden done that you would identify as successful? | |
| Because I can't think of a single thing. | |
| If you can and you want to call in, we will we'll put you right at the top of the list. | |
| Because I don't think there's much there. | |
| I don't think I can't identify one thing, not much, nothing. | |
| Uh anyway, so the New York Post today, in typical New York Post fashion, has birthday birthday blues, a picture of a very old-looking Joe Biden. | |
| Trump takes a lead in a new poll. | |
| Democrats hit the panic button as Joe turns 81 today, so happy birthday, Mr. President. | |
| The problem is uh it's not a very good birthday when you're looking at a poll numbers like that, and you are an incumbent president. | |
| There are more and more uh reports coming out that in fact Joe Biden is furious At Joe Biden's staff for his low approval ratings. | |
| And then you have Kamala Harris out there saying we're gonna have to earn a second term. | |
| Well, I think you've earned the right to be fired at this point. | |
| So anyway, uh one of the things that came out of another poll is by a massive number, Joe Biden is losing the youth vote in the country, which is really, really significant, considering I think he beat Trump by about 24 uh percentage points. | |
| And now Donald Trump is now winning this very key demographic. | |
| For example, among voters aged 18 to 34, Trump is on top 4642 over Biden, but Biden won that in 2020 by 26 points. | |
| We've also had poll after poll showing with all these other demographics, with women uh voters, uh likely voters, with African Americans, Hispanic Americans that at least in the polls, uh Trump is doing dramatically better than he did in 2020. | |
| Uh, if you look at some of the other demographics, only 31% of young voters approve of the job that he's doing, down from 46% in September. | |
| And feeding this trend appears to be the backlash over the you know, older commander-in-chief and his handling of Israel in the Hamas War, an issue that has splintered the Democratic Party. | |
| A staggering 70% of younger voters now said they disapproved of Biden's handling of the conflict. | |
| Again, I ask, are you better off than you were four years ago? | |
| Is anybody better off? | |
| And if you are, tell me where. | |
| I'd like to know. | |
| Linda, are you better off in any way? | |
| I'm not. | |
| Not one. | |
| Yeah, you have to put your mic on, but that's okay. | |
| Oh, I apologize. | |
| I thought that was one of those rhetorical moments. | |
| You know what I mean? | |
| Do I think anybody's better off on to Biden? | |
| No, I don't think there's an ant on the ground that's better off. | |
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| Joe is very, very young, 81 years old. | |
| 81 is what, the new 30? | |
| Is that what we're supposed to believe? | |
| I don't think so. | |
| Anyway, Joe Biden turns 81 today, born in 1942. | |
| By the way, the same year the film Casablanca premiered. | |
| And by the way, the same year that Adolf Hitler ruled Germany is giving you historical context here. | |
| Uh his birthday has prompted another round of bad headlines for about what a liability the age is. | |
| It's not just about the age issue. | |
| The age issues, you know, is transparent. | |
| It's also about why aren't they saying Bidenomics anymore? | |
| Why are Democratic donors scared to death every time he does say Bidenomics? | |
| Because everybody knows the economy is a disaster. | |
| Everybody sees the high price of gasoline. | |
| Everybody sees Biden inflation. | |
| Everybody's living it. | |
| Everybody sees the highest amount of credit card debt that we've had in generations. | |
| Everybody sees the highest interest rates we've had in decades. | |
| Everyone sees the record debt that we've had. | |
| Everyone sees that we have now passed the one trillion dollar in uh interest on the debt payment every single year that we've got to pay out before the government can spend a single dime. | |
| Uh and everybody knows that two-thirds of the country at best are living paycheck to paycheck. | |
| So why call it Bidenomics? | |
| Anyway, we'll get to the latest on this. | |
| We'll get to your calls, 800-941 Sean. | |
| Later on, John Solomon with an investigative report and Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Green as we continue. | |
| Um, one thing that is getting interesting to me is the what part will these third party candidates, what part might they play? | |
| Joel Stein, Cornell West, Robert F. Kennedy uh Jr. | |
| Uh, and now reports out today that Joe Manchin seems to be inching closer to a third-party presidential run himself, as he's been out blasting both Donald Trump and Joe Biden for their quote, visceral hatred. | |
| Anyway, so one of the biggest signs that he might do this, and that it means make a third-party presidential bid on Sunday, uh, when he was claiming that he's seeking to mobilize the radical middle. | |
| I don't know if there is a radical middle. | |
| I mean, I think that's one of the things that is defining of this moment, which is what kind of organically led to the state versus state red versus blue debate that we have with with Gavin Newsom versus uh Governor Gavin Newsom versus Governor Ron DeSantis is I don't really see a lot of middle Ground here. | |
| I don't care if it's COVID policy, their policies on immigration, uh, the issue of sanctuary state or city status, energy policies. | |
| I mean, I can't think of a single thing that they actually agree on abortion, crime, law and order, safety security. | |
| And I I just don't I I don't even see middle ground. | |
| Where is the middle ground? | |
| Oh, okay, we'll have fund the police department. | |
| Oh, we'll control half our borders, we'll we'll secure half of the border and not the other half. | |
| Or uh, okay, we might allow what the Keystone XL pipeline to continue. | |
| I don't even see Democrats ever opening their mind to that. | |
| Anyway, so I think Manchin, and I've known Manchin for a lot of years, always got along with him personally. | |
| Um he was riding higher. | |
| Linda, remember during the inflation reduction act debate, and he was opposing it, and we saw polls out of West Virginia. | |
| His poll numbers were what, 70 some odd percent? | |
| Listen, and he's doing with the will of the people. | |
| Well, obviously that's a big issue for the people in West Virginia, and he was representing the people of a state. | |
| But then when he made that deal with Biden and Schumer, that there would be a special two, I think there was not one but two pipelines that they would sign off on, and then they were nicked on that promise. | |
| I think and his poll numbers began to dive. | |
| And I think his big the biggest mistake was you know, believing Biden or believing Schumer. | |
| Anyway, so he's out there. | |
| First he said that he's not going to seek reelection to the U.S. Senate. | |
| Okay. | |
| All right, young guy, obviously looks like he's in pretty good health. | |
| Obviously he's pretty sharp. | |
| All right, so that's a big deal. | |
| Then slamming Biden for going too far to the left and then slamming former President Trump for quote, stooping to a level that he's normalized this visceral hatred. | |
| It sounds like a guy that's thinking about the presidency. | |
| And then he's saying that everyone is sick of and tired of divisive politics. | |
| Everybody says that, but everybody, if you poll people, if they like negative ads, they all say no. | |
| Every everybody, every focus group, every single poll will show you that Americans are sick and tired of negative ads. | |
| Well, if they really were, why do they continue? | |
| They continue because lying and negative ads simply work. | |
| That's why they continue to use them. | |
| Now, do Americans say that they they they want everybody to get along and they want middle ground, sure. | |
| Okay, so propose to me what the middle ground is on securing the border or not securing the border and enforcing the laws of the land. | |
| How do you how do you come to consensus? | |
| How do you come to consensus with those that want abortion even up to the moment of birth, late-term abortion, and those that maybe only want it for six weeks or 12 weeks or 15 weeks? | |
| Where's the middle ground there? | |
| I actually think that the DOPS 15-week decision probably is the middle ground, in my opinion. | |
| If if you want my read on the American electorate and where they are, I'm not giving you my personal view. | |
| I'm just giving you an analysis of this. | |
| You know, he's out there saying, you know, enough's enough. | |
| They want you to pick a side. | |
| And anyway, he says Washington wants you and I to be divided and the rest of the country to be divided because it's a better business model for him. | |
| I I just don't see, tell me where he's going to win over independence or Republicans. | |
| Um he might win independence because he was one. | |
| The Democratic Party hates him. | |
| They've hated him now for a long time. | |
| For them to make a special deal with him and then turn around and stab him in the back like that, I think was you know, tells you everything you need to know about radical Democrats. | |
| Um, but what impact would he have on a general election if he's, let's say if he's running on this no labels party ticket. | |
| I mean, I don't know. | |
| Who would he pick for VP? | |
| Tulsi Gabbard? | |
| I don't know. | |
| I could see that happening. | |
| I could see Tulsi maybe getting in a primary against Manchin. | |
| A lot of people have asked me what I think that Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s impact is going to be. | |
| I I think I may be wrong. | |
| There are three issues. | |
| I don't think most conservatives and Republicans that have been favorable to RFK Jr. know his full record. | |
| He has been different, and he deserves all the credit in the world for it on Issues that part ways with his fellow Democrat, but he's hardly a conservative. | |
| And where most people, most conservatives, most Republicans, what they refer to when they say they like Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is, okay, they liked his position on vaccines, especially the COVID vaccine. | |
| They like his position on immigration because he's been talking about securing the border. | |
| By the way, these are not insignificant issues. | |
| Um, but they're but this this these are the only three issues that I have seen where he has any bit of conservatism in him, and he has spoken out against transgender and the issue of sports and athletics. | |
| I can't think of a single other issue where I would say that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is even leaning conservative, and if you look at all the people that he has supported politically over the years and some of the the deeper positions and things that he said and some of the organizations that that he has worked with and for and the amount of sheer money that he's taken in over his environmentalism, | |
| I that those are all going to be issues, not that Sean Hannity necessarily brings up, although I w I'll talk about everybody's record, but those are issues that I I don't think those conservatives, if because polls have shown well, he seems to hurt Trump versus if it's Trump versus Biden, it's he seems to hurt Trump more than he's hurting Biden. | |
| I think most conservatives, when they get to know his entire record, I think their minds will change. | |
| That's my take. | |
| Linda, you agree with that part? | |
| You were shaking your head or you're nodding or you're giving me an amen or something in there. | |
| Listen, I got a lot of Hallelujahs and amens. | |
| I think the biggest problem that Americans have right now is, you know, there's only everybody's uh lies. | |
| It's like who do you trust? | |
| And they just tell you what you want to hear. | |
| There's only one man telling the truth. | |
| Yeah, well, you know, let's see what happens. | |
| So I don't really see that as a problem. | |
| Jill Stein, now I think that's obvious that that could only hurt Biden. | |
| Uh Cornell West, in my view, could only draw votes from Biden. | |
| Um Cornell West, I'll tell you, if you underestimate his desire to fight, I think you're underestimating him. | |
| I've known him for many, many years. | |
| Actually, have a very good rel working relationship with him when I interview him. | |
| He always calls me Brother Sean. | |
| I always say Brother Cornell, and then we usually end up just disagreeing on at the highest level on whatever the issue happens to be. | |
| But let's go back to what I said earlier. | |
| What drives elections? | |
| Peace and prosperity historically drive elections. | |
| Ask yourself this question. | |
| Do you think Vladimir Putin and President Chi and the mullahs in Iran and North Korea would be as close as they are today if Donald Trump were president? | |
| I think the answer is absolutely no. | |
| Do I think that all of these leaders of other countries, hostile regimes towards the U.S., do I think they fear Donald Trump? | |
| Do they have a mindset that thinks he might be, quote, crazy enough to do it? | |
| Yes, I think they all have that same thought. | |
| You know, was uh was Vlad how is it that in 2014, was it 2014 or 15 when Crimea was annexed? | |
| That was during Obama's term and Biden's term. | |
| How come during the four years Donald Trump was president, Vladimir Putin made no had no aggressive action like this? | |
| Why is it that he did it? | |
| It was 2014. | |
| Why is it that Joe Biden allowed the buildup of troops along the border with Ukraine and didn't even want to believe that Putin would would ever dare do it? | |
| Do you think that if President Trump were in office, ask this question? | |
| Do you think the unfair trade practices of China? | |
| Do you think the intellectual property theft of China? | |
| Remember, Trump was the first guy to ever put massive tariffs on China because of their unfair trade practices, I think to the tune of what was it, $500 million, maybe more? | |
| Is the only president in history ever to do that or confront them? | |
| So there is a certain respect that I think Donald Trump was able to get from these these hostile world actors. | |
| You know, would the communist Chinese be flying, making these hostile maneuvers with their fighter jets against American fighter jets in international airspace if Trump were president. | |
| Would the Chinese Navy be making these uh hostile maneuvers against our Navy in international waterways if Donald Trump were president? | |
| Would in fact the mullahs in Iran be so openly supporting these attacks against Israel? | |
| I don't, I personally don't think so. | |
| I think there was this. | |
| Now, there's this unpredictability factor as it relates to Donald Trump. | |
| The one story that I have corroborated from sources is very true. | |
| And Donald Trump has confirmed it to me on air himself. | |
| And that is before he ever had any discussion with the Taliban about ever doing any type of withdrawal, he first spoke to the leader of the Taliban. | |
| And what he said to me and what others confirmed to me is that he was very clear. | |
| It wasn't just one discussion, it was a number of discussions. | |
| Is that he kept telling the leader of the Taliban if you make if you move one inch from where you are right now? | |
| I will decimate you. | |
| And it was said clearly and ambiguously, in no uncertain terms. | |
| And then at some point, easier vis-a-vis or a text or an email during a discussion he was having with the head of the Taliban. | |
| President Trump sent over the exact location of where the Taliban leader was at the time that phone call was taking place. | |
| Now, and then the guy apparently asked, Well, why did you send me a picture of where I live or where I am? | |
| Just because I wanted you to know I know. | |
| What what is the message behind that? | |
| And do you think it's an accident that for the last 18 months of Donald Trump's presidency that the Taliban didn't kill a certain single American? | |
| Do you think that was an accident? | |
| Because I don't. | |
| By the way, I'm looking at this. | |
| Um, look at the hype. | |
| Linda, why do people, when I go grocery shopping, maybe you can explain this to me. | |
| Why do people always ask me, what are you doing here? | |
| And I'm like, I got a shopping cart. | |
| It's full of food, and I'm obviously buying food to eat it. | |
| It's clear that I like to eat like everybody else. | |
| I'm not, I always find that a strange question. | |
| But I think I think it's probably because they assume every firm moment that you have here in the dojo, getting ready to be, you know, a human killer. | |
| No, I think people think that, oh, he must have people that do that for him. | |
| No, I actually like to do my own grocery shopping. | |
| I prefer, although someone's not going to be able to do that. | |
| Oh, I don't think that's true. | |
| I don't think they think that. | |
| I think that they really do think that in every free moment you have, you know, you're doing an eclectic blend of martial arts, perfecting your Krav Maga and getting ready for your next attacker. | |
| Are you being a wise ass? | |
| That's all you do. | |
| Of course I'll be in a wise ass. | |
| It's Monday. | |
| You're welcome. | |
| Your karate sourdough bread. | |
| All right, there you go. | |
| Eggs are up 46.8%. | |
| Coffee's up 37%. | |
| If you eat white bread, which I don't recommend, 33.3%. | |
| Cheese is up dramatically. | |
| If you want to hold chicken per pound, that's up 22.15%. | |
| Housing, wow. | |
| Monthly mortgage is up a whopping 42.9% under Joe Biden. | |
| That's why they don't want to call it Bidenomics anymore. | |
| Uh, if you buy a new car, it's up 17%. | |
| Gas per one gallon up 56.5%. | |
| You want me to keep going? | |
| You know, if you want ground beef, I call chopp meat. | |
| Some people think that's the wrong way to say it. | |
| Anyway, it's up 27% if you want ground uh chuck per pound. | |
| Uh bacon's up 26%. | |
| Sterloin steak is up 31%. | |
| A gallon of whole milk is up 16%. | |
| Well, actually 17. | |
| Ice cream is up 22.5%. | |
| Potato chips, if you eat that crap, that's up 32.54%. | |
| Uh I mean, who can afford this? | |
| Nobody could afford it. | |
| That's the point. | |
| So if peace and prosperity drive elections, Joe should lose by a landslide. | |
| All right, John Solomon has an investigative report at the top of the hour. | |
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| There's been so much talk about this populist libertarian winning in Argentina. | |
| Well, when inflation is, what, 140%, which it is in Argentina, that. | |
| I think that's a sign of discontent. | |
| Anyway, I don't know the full impact of third party candidates, but I don't think they're gonna hurt Trump as much as people think. | |
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