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Steve Moore and EJ Antoni - November 28th, Hour 2
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So we're just flat out being lied to on a lot of issues.
For example, you have Kamala Harris, Joe Biden, uh you know, you have Majorcus Alejandro Mayorcus, the Department of Homeland Security Secretary.
And you have the entire administration, uh Karine Jean-Pierre, prior to her circle back, Chen Saki.
I'll circle back with you on that.
And what do we have them saying about the border?
The border is closed, the border is secure.
Not true.
None of it's true.
Uh Biden literally made the statement that the cost of food and groceries are down.
We gave you all of these numbers yesterday.
We'll give them to you again today.
But just listen to them just flat out lie.
It was a conversation at the kitchen table.
I mean, literally, not figure.
Those conversations have been going on.
Kitchen tables all across America for a while now.
A conversation, a conversation about whether we'd have enough left over at the end of the month.
For my dad to be able to used to say, have a little bit of breathing room.
Well, this past week, as Americans gathered around their own kitchen tables for Thanksgiving dinner.
That was our goal.
To get them a little more breathing room.
And together we made progress.
You know, uh, from Turkey to air travel to tank of gas, costs went down.
They went down.
And and when all else fails, by the way, if you're a Democrat, well, the next thing is let's let's claim Donald Trump.
Donald Trump's been out of office for three years.
This has been your economy.
You gave us two trillion dollars in debt.
You gave us high inflation, you gave us record gas prices.
That all happened on their watch.
But yet they don't seem at all to even want to face what is truth and what is reality.
Why do you think it is that when you say the economy is improving, and President Biden says the economy is improving, that a majority of Americans outside of this building are not buying?
So here's the thing.
When we walked into this administration, the economy was on a tail set, a tailspin.
That is the fact.
Because of the last administration, because of the Trump administration, because of how they dealt with uh dealt with COVID and the pandemic.
Because they didn't have a comprehensive plan.
All right, joining us now, Steve Moore, economist, author of the best seller Trump economics inside the America First Plan to revive our economy.
EJ uh Antoni is back with us research, uh fellow Regional Economics Center for Data Analysis.
Uh guys, welcome back uh both of you.
Great to hear from you.
Um so okay, all the reality shows the opposite.
So why are they just out flat out lying to the American people?
And when the Washington Post even says that they're uh lying and that they better get rid of and and just eliminate the term Bidenomics, I think that says a lot, uh Steve Moore.
Well, Sean, it's very simple.
When you have roughly 75 to 80 percent of Americans who say the economy is headed in the wrong direction, you better start getting very worried about things.
I mean, those are worse numbers, Sean, than you know, when Richard Nixon was president during Watergate and Jimmy Carter during the height of the 11 and 12 percent inflation we had in 1979 and 1980.
So this should be worrisome, and instead the Biden administration simply pretends like it isn't happening.
Now, it is true to give Biden some credit.
The inflation rate is down from 9.2% to about 4% now, although a lot of people think it's a lot higher than 4%.
But even still, the prices keep rising faster than people's incomes.
And that's why uh the I think Trump is in very positive position right now.
Why so many uh you know voters are saying I'm gonna give Trump a second look now because they see and feel the fact that they are poorer today than they were three or four years ago, and that is not a position the Democrats want to be in.
And to just pretend to live in fantasy land and say things are just fine, uh boy, that's a dangerous, dangerous line.
Well, it really is, and in every way imaginable here.
Um I gotta tell you, I mean, I think these are scary times for most Americans, at least that's my takeaway from this.
Um, but you know, Biden was slammed for bragging that he's bringing prices down, even though that they are up since he entered office.
Um, you know, if you if you look at the facts, airfare is up twenty-one percent, Thanksgiving dinner was up twenty-five percent.
Uh gas gas is almost a dollar more a gallon, which is insane.
Uh gas under Donald Trump never got to a national average of three dollars a gallon.
Uh your take, EJ.
Sean, I I think you're absolutely right here.
Things are much worse today than when Biden took office.
But if you go into the White House press briefing room, you know, there's a there's a very subtle sleight of hand there where uh the press secretary starts talking about not comparing today to when Biden took office, but comparing today to pre-pandemic, and they'll talk about real wagers or they'll talk about credit card debt, whatever the case may be.
And so they always have to include part of President Trump's term in order to try to make Biden look better.
But I mean, at the end of the day, there's just no way to make this situation look better.
We have over 1.1 trillion dollars in credit card debt right now, and consumers, because they've maxed out so many of their credit cards on Black Friday, they overwhelmingly had to use this buy now pay later option at retailers.
That went up by billions compared to the previous year.
Meanwhile, we're seeing all kinds of delinquency rates, whether it's on these credit cards or auto loans rising, and in fact, delinquencies right now, although the level is low because we're basically coming off a baseline of zero, uh the delinquency rate is rising at the fastest pace since the Great Recession.
So by no means is the consumer in good sh in good shape in Biden's economy.
You know, when I look at the number, Steve Moore that bothers me the most, I look at the number of, you know, the number of Americans now that you know can't make ends meet or that are living paycheck to paycheck.
That's that number's over 60% of Americans.
I've been there, I've lived there.
I don't want to go back to that.
Uh, but I remember the pressure of of having to, you know, make my monthly rent payments and and put food on my table, and I really didn't have a backstop.
And uh and that's how many Americans are now living, but how does the president get to be that out of touch?
Remember when George Herbert Walker Bush, you know, talked about one of those scanning machines at a grocery store and and the country went insane.
You talk about a guy out of touch.
This guy is not in touch with how Americans are suffering under his policies, or he's just delusional.
Yeah, what one of the big lies that I can't believe they even tried to get away with because it was so clearly false.
I don't know if you saw the one, Sean, where they said this was the fourth cheapest uh Thanksgiving dinner in history.
What are they talking about?
What planet are they on when they make those kind of claims?
Uh uh one of the ones that bothers me is is homeownership.
You know, the the part of the American dream for the middle class and for young people is to own your own home.
It's almost the very definition of the American dream.
Well, guess what?
The mortgage payments on a on a median uh value home now are twice as high as they were under Trump.
Twice as high, Sean.
So people can't afford to buy a home now.
Uh it it is a very dangerous situation for the country.
I think we could turn things around pretty quickly if we would just get back to the lower tax, less regulation policies.
I love what Trump said.
But it's never gonna happen with with this administration.
We we know that.
So now you know the irony by the way of the fact that you know you have sixty percent of Americans who are poorer now than they were when uh uh and those tend to be the poorest Americans who are losing the most ground, is all of Biden has done is try to redistribute income.
This has been a total redistribution, and yeah, even with all of those policies in place, the poor and the middle class and minorities are doing much worse today than they were under Trump.
And incidentally, you've looked at these polling numbers, Sean.
I know I've heard you talk about them.
Trump is doing much better with minorities than Republicans have ever done, at least in the last thirty years.
Do you think that that actually translates into real votes in 2024?
I think it sure could.
You know, we will see, but the approval rating that Trump has today with with minorities m especially Hispanics, I mean, Trump could conceivably win over half of the Hispanic vote.
I mean, that would be amazing, and and frankly, I've been waiting for years for African Americans to realize that the Democratic Party has not served them well.
I know they come calling every two and four years and and they look for their vote, but you know, what what have they done in predominantly minority neighborhoods?
How is policing, how are their school systems, how have you their lives improved, how's their economic condition improved?
Uh I I don't see the Democrats make progress, but they keep getting re elected and and seemingly by the lie that Republicans are racist and sexist and every other, you know, lie that is told every election season.
EJ.
Sean, I mean, I I think at the end of the day, people are not going to buy the lie uh when when it affects when the reality affects them so much.
In other words, you can only tell people the economy is good for so long before they say, you know what?
The economy that I feel, the economy that I deal with, you know, the amount of money I make and the amount of money I have to pay to live, that does not match the narrative.
And I think at that point, that's where voters will turn away.
I mean, Bill Clinton was right.
It it's the economy stupid.
You have a quarter of Americans today who are out trying to do holiday shopping and are still paying off bills from their holiday shopping from 2022.
I mean, we we just had data come out from the Social Security Administration showing that half of American workers are making less than 41,000 right now.
How on earth are these people getting by?
I mean, the answer is they're not.
They're having to to put all their expenses on credit cards because they can't make ends meet.
They're taking two or they're getting two or three jobs again because they can't make ends meet.
We have never had so many people uh working multiple jobs as we do today in the Biden economy.
And I think Americans eventually are going to get so sick of it that they're going to decide that it's time for a change when it comes to our leadership here in this country.
All right, quick break more on the economy with Steve Moore and EJ Antoni.
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You know, Steve, you were talking about home ownership the other day.
How is it going to ever be possible for somebody to ever want to give up a 3% 30-year fixed rate mortgage and move somewhere else and take on an 8% plus 30-year fixed rate mortgage?
You know, on a $500,000 house, how much more are you ultimately going to pay for that house?
How much more per month are you going to pay in terms of your monthly payment that people cannot afford?
It's just no wonder new home construction is basically come to a halt.
Sale of pre-existing homes are almost non-existent, except in certain price categories.
I mean, it's that bad.
And then what what options does that provide young people that are just starting out?
Well, EJ has run these numbers more than I have, but roughly, you know, the average more mortgage payment when Trump was president was roughly eighteen hundred dollars a month.
And now the average mortgage payment for a uh for a new home buyer is is about thirty-five hundred dollars a month.
That, you know, I have three kids that are in their mid-20s, early thirties.
They're just starting to think about, you know, buying a place, they can't afford it.
You know, and they're doing, you know, they're doing pretty well financially, but they just can't afford a house.
Well, I'm mentioned one other quick statistic, because I think this is one of the things having worked for Trump that we were most proud of.
You know, the black and Hispanic unemployment rate when Trump was president was the lowest in history.
And the black and Hispanic poverty rate was the lowest in history.
How in the world did the media and the Democrats get away with this claim that Trump was a racist president when you could argue that he did more for minorities than any modern president?
Well, I think that's the whole point.
EJ, what's your advice to people then?
Oh, goodness.
I I mean, uh unfortunately there people in in terms of the housing market today don't really have a lot of good options.
And as expensive as it is to rent right now, because rents have literally never been higher than they are today.
Uh uh unfortunately, home ownership is so far out of most people's grasp that for for the majority of Americans who don't yet own a home, you're better off continuing to rent, believe it or not.
I mean, right now it takes forty-four point seven percent of pre-tax median income to afford a median price home.
That's the national average.
You have to devote almost half of your income before taxes to own a home.
It's obscene.
There are literally only four major metros in the entire country where homes are considered uh affordable.
And and going back to your point earlier on on so many people who essentially have golden handcuffs.
They're locked in their home right now because of the difference in mortgage rates today.
You're looking at about a $13,000 jump just from moving to a lower interest rate to a higher interest rate today.
That's $13, $13,000 per year every year for the rest of a 30-year mortgage.
I mean, it's insane.
So if you buy a $500,000 home and you're paying 8% over, say 3%, how much more is that a month, and how much more would that be off the top of your head over the course of that loan?
Oh goodness.
I I I mean, again, you're looking at between $10 and $15,000 per year, and you're gonna do that every year for 30 years.
So you're looking at somewhere between an extra $300 to $450,000 just on interest payments.
You're not getting a newer home, a nicer home, or anything like that.
It's literally just the interest expense.
It's unreal.
I mean, I make it so unaffordable.
Um, I like to give people a reality check.
I wish, you know, in the days leading up to Christmas that maybe I had better news on the economy, but um, I don't like being lied to, and and that happens on pretty much every issue.
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We kill the ambassador just to cover something up.
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As a matter of fact, Tim, say hi to Ralph in California.
You both are on the same topic.
Uh Tim, uh, say hi to Ralph.
Ralph, say hi to Tim.
Ralph.
Tim, what's up?
Hey guys.
Hey, Tim, how are you?
Um, why don't we start with Tim in Arizona?
You want to talk about the Newsom DeSantis debate?
What's up?
Yeah, first of all, thanks for taking our call.
Appreciate the opportunity.
Um, this is a perfect opportunity to have side by side both views.
I've heard, you know, over a period of time now, ever since you announced this, callers call in and are afraid to have Gavin Newsom be putting out his information.
The thing is, you have to have the truth next to the lie to be able to distinguish the two.
This is a biblical uh way of thinking.
Um, God doesn't want to force us to anything.
He wants us to choose.
And he, like in the uh parable of wheat and the tears, you put both out together for a season and let them mature.
And then he takes away the good and destroys the evil.
Well, the same way with these debates and all this politics.
A lot of it is lies, and there's nothing better to show that than stick it right next to the truth.
And I commend you for doing this.
I just ask one favor.
What's the favor?
I cannot stand in these debates is these guys talking over each other.
Well, it might be I am going to try to minimize that.
The format is designed to minimize that.
Um, but I'm gonna also kinda when I can allow them time to breathe.
And in other words, once they get the schedule time, if if a natural discussion breaks out and it's you know, and it's understandable, I will be thinking about you, the audience the whole time.
I promise you.
I don't want bad it's bad television if they're talking over each other.
So uh believe me, that's in the forefront of my mind.
Um, that request I'm definitely gonna work on.
Uh Ralph, California, you you have a different view on this.
Well, I just think that uh the Democrats are going to use Gavin Newsom as a hitman here.
We all know that the guy's a magician.
I mean, we've seen what he did making the homeless and uh filtins in San Francisco disappear a week before the other dignitaries got there.
So that's the game that he plays.
He he will sit there and he'll say the things that he wants to say.
I hope Tim's right, and and these things are exposed.
I mean, um, the guy has just basically him and what I call his administration is the submission commission because what they've done is they've forced electric vehicles on people and force the climate change and force the the wokism and everything on everybody, and uh he'll sit there and and he's a good debater, Sean.
I I was impressed he held his own with you, and that's hard to do.
And well, uh we didn't have a debate.
My ours was an interview, and to secure that interview, I I had to give him certain assurances, and I'm a man of my word.
And one was I will ask you a question, and I promise you I will give you uninterrupted time, kind of what Tim is requesting to give an answer.
And I did challenge some of his answers, and we went back and forth.
I've known him for a long time, and what I'm telling Republicans is, especially when you look at the condition of Joe Biden and and then you look at Kamala Harris, whose poll numbers are lower than Joe's, and what I've been telling people is you better you better face reality that this guy is a force within the Democratic ranks,
and you better know what what who who these people are on the bench that may potentially even be on a 2024 ticket.
You have two very smart personable people up here, and I'm sure that the Governor DeSantis is gonna come in and he's gonna know Gavin Newsom's record, I would expect that he would know it backwards and forwards, and and I would think the same with Newsom on on DeSantis, and and they'll make their points, and I have enough faith in in the viewers that they're gonna be able to ascertain who they think has better policies for their states.
Well, I live in Gavin Newsom state, so I already know who has better policies.
That's not even a question.
But when I when I watch him talk, um and uh listen to the things he says, you know.
I mean, when they make bills in this state, they they use catchphrases like safety and things like that that have nothing to do with those types of things.
So they're constantly using these tricks to convince the people of California to vote for things that aren't good for them or aren't good for a lot of people.
And so I'm worried that they're just using Gavin Newsom to weaken Ron DeSantis, even though I'm a Trump guy.
But I just think that the whole team on the Republican side needs to be strong as a group, and because who knows what the Democrats are capable of doing with this Trump situation.
Well, we don't know how far they're gonna go, because I don't think there's a limit to it.
And if they I think we know how far they want to go.
They want to keep him in a courtroom all through 2024.
But I'll tell you, Joe Biden has his own issues, and that is the Biden family syndicate and the lies that he told and the amount of money and and did he take action as vice president that resulted in the enrichment of his family, like in the case of Barisma by withholding a billion dollars in loan guarantees.
So, you know, look, we're gonna see.
Um I appreciate the interest in it.
I totally get it.
You know, but we do have a phenomenon happening in this country.
That this is why I think this is such an important debate.
You know, why are people fleeing blue states in droves and going to red states?
Um it's a phenomenon we've never seen like this in our lifetime.
Uh Tim, thank you in Arizona, Ralph and California, thank you.
Scott is in the great state of Ohio, the Buckeye State.
Uh I will say it was a great game with Michigan over the weekend.
I'm sure it didn't come out the way you wanted.
It did not come out the way I wanted it.
But uh although although nothing was better than the Alabama Auburn game.
Nothing was better.
That that was uh that was a spectacular finish to that game.
What's going on?
Um so you were talking about the exodus from the blue states to the red.
I actually know several people that have left California and moved to Texas.
Uh and ironically, they still work in California.
They're firefighters, so they go to work for a week and they come home for a week and they fly back and forth.
The problem is that they're still some of them are still maintaining their uh democratic views.
Are Are you concerned with them watering down, you know, a red state?
Yeah, I'm very concerned about it.
And what I'm saying to people, if you're coming from one of these blue states to escape uh maybe tax policy and burdensome regulation and and crime or whatever it happens to be, and you move into a red state, uh, either leave your liberal policies at home, uh, don't wreck the new state that you're going to, please.
Yeah, you went there for a reason.
That that is exactly the what when I talk to these individuals, that's exactly what I press on them.
So uh one more thing.
I I just heard you talking about the the the Biden crime syndicate.
So Trump is I mean, fighting uh for his life in a lot of different areas, but one of them is that he's not eligible for the uh upcoming election because of some of the charges that have been brought against him.
If if one of those states comes through, if one of those states comes Well, they they they just won in in Colorado, and let me tell you that was a huge win and a loud message.
The argument that they're making that uh the I believe look uh that he should be ineligible to be on the ticket, it's not gonna fly constitutionally.
That will be challenged.
The Supreme Court would have to take it up, and there's no way that I ever see that happening.
Well, my my one question is if that does happen to go through in one state, if charges get brought up against Biden, wouldn't that also uh remove him from that same state?
Well, potentially, I mean, if you're looking, uh you can't charge a sitting president, so that's not gonna happen while he's running this election cycle.
Um I I I didn't realize that.
I guess you can't.
Yep.
So appreciate it, Sean.
Thank you.
Taking my call.
You bet, man.
Thanks, Scott and Ohio.
We appreciate it.
All right, quick break right back to our phones.
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Uh, let's say hi to is it uh Janelle Janelle in South Carolina.
How are you?
I'm doing well.
Thank you so much.
Um glad you I'm glad you called.
Thanks.
I'm I'm glad I called too.
Long time listener, first time caller.
I live in South Carolina and I'm 37 years old.
I listen to you every day, and I always hear callers call in and give false narratives about especially black women and and the way that they vote.
I am not a Kamala supporter.
If it was Kamala versus anybody, I'm voting for anybody.
I've never related to her.
I don't care that she's black.
Um, she hasn't done anything for her community, let alone the United States.
And then I think the way to turn over black voters is to stop pushing that narrative that we only are going to vote Democrat, we're only gonna support, you know, black people that have rose to that position.
It's not Danelle, let me interrupt you briefly here.
It's not just a narrative, it's also you know, every election we get to analyze demographics.
We can tell you demographically how people vote, and the African American vote in this country overwhelmingly goes democratic.
And it's happened for years, and I don't think Democrats have done a good job for minority communities at all.
I uh they basically show up every two and four years and ask for a vote and do nothing thereafter.
The way to get those it's the black people that will vote Republican, they just don't vote at all.
Those votes are out there.
But I would but the reason it's not Trump.
It's it's the constituents.
When you're when you're pushing away the black vote by saying, Oh, they don't care, I'd rather not vote at all.
I'm not gonna vote Democrat because I'm mad at a Republican, I'm just gonna not gonna vote at all.
So those people that aren't voting are are Republican.
They're gonna put in a Republican vote, but you have to welcome those people in.
You have to give them something to relate to.
It's hard.
I'm not gonna vote Democrat, but it's hard to say, oh, let me go vote Republican when they're set they're pushing me out.
You're telling me I'm not Republican, you're telling me it feels like I'm not wanted.
I I don't think Republicans are doing that.
I think this is a narrative.
Look, look at the way, for example, why in this day and age of political correctness and and you you you can't use the the wrong pronoun, why is it still socially acceptable to to say the most horrible things about African American conservatives?
Why is that phenomenon exist?
You know, look at the things said recently about Senator Tim Scott.
Look at what's been said about Clarence Thomas.
Look, you know, the long list of conservative, prominent conservative African Americans and the names that they have been called, it how is that even acceptable in an era where you know if you use the own the wrong pronoun, Jimmy Fallon is under fire for being nice to a guest, but but said, hey, bud, and I guess the person was transgender, and and he's under fire right now for that.
So it's a it's the insanity in which we live in.
The reality is I think that Republicans are close.
I I think if people once it becomes socially once it becomes more socially dominant that we we hear more from African Americans that are conservative, I think this whole this the that demographic shift will happen.
Um I think the policies of conservatism are better for everybody, not just African Americans, but every American.
Where do black conservatives fit?
Because there's a oh, they don't exist.
And when you're talking down on the population like that, then they're not want to, they don't want to show up at all.
That's what I'm saying.
And when you're doing it on at the level where you're talking to senators and calling them out like that, why but are you saying are you saying can you give me a specific example of Republicans doing that?
No, I haven't no, no, no, no, no.
That's not saying Republicans are doing that.
I'm voting for Republican.
I'm the I haven't met we're not with Democrats, and I'm tired of people grouping blacks and Democrats.
We're not with the we're not with the uh say your pronoun.
We don't follow in that.
We're not with the uh with the abortion, we're not with that.
That's something that the media pushes.
We're totally listening the the numbers of African Americans and recent polling showing support for Donald Trump is enormous.
And I do I I hope it translates in a general election vote because if those numbers were to hold or even hold, if you were able to hold half of where the numbers are now, he would be elected the 47th president of the United States for sure.
He gets there, and I'm gonna do what I can to help him get there, but we've have to have support from the constituents too.
Not it's not gonna be enough for Donald Trump can put all the money and ads out he wants, but you have to have the constituents in the community coming together on this.
You can't have people pushing people away because then you don't get a vote at all.
And that's what's keeping it.
What I call say.
You want them to vote, then welcome those people in.
Stop saying that they're not educated, stop saying that they're all Democrats, because that's that's not it.
That's not it.
I'm 37.
And then Republicans need to follow through.
They they need to deliver.
Um if if predominantly neglected areas in the country that are minority have been neglected, Republicans need to fix it.
They need to restore law and order and safety and security and fix the the failing edge educational system.
If they do those things, then they'll be rewarded with votes, you know, for generations, in my view.
But anyway, uh Janelle, we love having you.
Thank you so much for your kind words.
Thank you for calling.
Uh, please call off and we appreciate it.
Thank you.
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