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If you want to be a part of the program, I've been saying over and over again in 209 days on Election Day that if the election is about Joe Biden's policies, if it's about the disaster at our border, the record inflation, the unbelievable, horrific state of the economy, 60% of Americans, Bidenomics, they've tried that line.
Even David Axerod said it's stupid and he can't stand when Biden does it anymore because it's not reality.
We know that prices are up in the last four years, 39% on average for almost everybody.
We know the inflation CPI numbers went up last month, 3.2% higher than the year before.
And similarly, wholesale prices up from a year before.
And they just keep touting the economy and lying about the economy, acting as if the economy is doing great.
We got the warning from Jamie Dimon, J.P. Morgan Chase CEO, saying that interest rates can now top 8% or more, which would send the economy into a tailspin.
We have stories about skipping meals, working overtime, the sacrifices Americans are making to afford housing, the top 50 metro areas in America now.
It's cheaper to rent than for people to actually buy a home.
The American dream for so many is just literally withering on a vine.
Biden has a massive pile of loan money for his energy revolution.
He's going to spend $6 billion that he's going to give to this guy that ran Solyndra.
You got to be kidding me.
You can't even make that part up, but he's doing it.
And then, of course, he's now using all of this new Green Deal energy money in swing states basically to buy votes.
They're trying to force electric vehicles that cost more down Americans' throats.
So I don't care if it's law and order, crime in small towns and big cities.
I don't care if it's immigration.
I don't care if it's the economy.
Joe Biden, what is he going to point to that he's been successful at?
Now for political expediency, he's stabbing Israel in the back at a time they're trying to win their war on terrorism, but political expediency obviously is more important to them.
What does that say about Joe Biden?
War in Europe, war in the Middle East, now pressuring Israel at a time where they're fighting for their very survival, threatening to withhold any military support at all, even selling weapons to Israel.
Nancy Pelosi didn't want that.
And what's happening in the polls?
Well, in every swing state, but one, Donald Trump in the Wall Street Journal poll was leading Joe Biden.
I know it's a snapshot.
It's a picture in time.
Election day isn't today.
And, you know, you can only put so much clout in where we are at this moment.
But what is he going to do in the next 209 days that's going to change people's minds and perceptions about him?
How is it he's bleeding over 22% of African Americans from where he was in 2020?
He's losing massive amounts of Hispanic Americans as well.
I mean, you have the Hispanic Americans gave Donald Trump a 22-point edge over Biden on the economy, 11-point edge on fighting crime.
He's winning on all of these issues, and everybody's gotten cold.
He's losing young people, basically the entire demographic base of the Democratic coalition, losing all of it.
But he's out there just, you know, he has this history of pandering to whatever group he's in front of.
Oh, yeah, I was raised by Puerto Rican parents, et cetera.
Listen.
I think every Greek American in Delaware voted for him.
So I acquired the nickname Andre Proudo.
I am Joe Bidenopoulos.
I've spent more time in the Bethlehem E Church in Wilmington, Delaware than I have than most people I know black or way to spend that church.
Because that's where I started a civil rights.
No, I'm serious.
I started a civil rights movement.
The Persian culture is amazing as a student of the Persian culture, not a practitioner, but a student.
With his predecessors, Rabbi Kraft and Rabbi Geffen, that's where I received my education.
I probably went to Shul more than many of you did.
I was sort of raised in the Puerto Rican community at home politically.
My background and the background of my family is Irish American.
And we have a long history of not fundamentally unlike the Palestinian people.
So let's see.
That's Greek American, African American, Persian American, Jewish American, Puerto Rican American, Irish American.
I mean, whatever group he's standing before, he just tries to relate everything to himself.
But the bottom line is these numbers, if they hold, and there might be a tendency as we get closer to the election for people to go back home, as they say, and return to the party that they usually associate with.
However, there's never been numbers this large of a base of any candidate that I can think of in the modern era of the presidency where they're losing and bleeding so much of their base support, which is why Joe Biden is trying to shore up his base.
That's what the State of the Union was about with Jack Dub Joe.
It was a speech you'd expect at the Democratic National Convention, not at a State of the Union.
That's why Kamala Harris is now going to abortion clinics.
That's why they are now pandering, you know, to they didn't like the vote.
18.9% of Democrats in Michigan, over 100,000, voted for anybody but Joe.
That's in the Democratic primary.
Over 50,000 in Wisconsin did it just last week.
Anyway, joining us now is Caroline Levich.
She's President Trump's national press secretary.
Welcome back to the program.
I see you guys have had great fundraising success over the weekend, over $50 million haul, and doubling what Joe Biden was able to raise with both Bill Clinton and Barack Obama while President Trump, by the way, was out in Long Island at the wake of the slain officer.
Welcome back to the program.
Do you see this holding for the next 209 days, people abandoning the base, abandoning Joe Biden?
Yes, we absolutely do, Sean, and thank you for having me.
As you mentioned, President Trump made history on Saturday night, raising $50.5 million, doubling Biden, and he needed to bring in Obama, Clinton, Queen Latifah, Lizzo.
They had a RIPSI fundraiser in New York City.
And since President Trump has become the nominee in March, between our campaign and the RNC, we have raised more than $100 million.
And we know that the Democrats and Joe Biden will continue to be owned by the limousine liberals and the Silicon Tech Valley entrepreneurs and the Hollywood elite.
But we are most proud of the fact that we are supported by grassroots patriots across this country.
Our average donation online is four bucks.
And that tells us that hardworking patriots who are struggling because of Bidenomics are still chipping in to support President Trump because they believe in him and they believe in his message.
And as you just so perfectly laid out, Sean, it's because they remember just how much better their lives were under his leadership a few years ago, whether it was his historic economy, his secure border, peace around this world.
All of that has been unraveled and destroyed by Joe Biden's weakness and his incompetence.
And that's why we see President Trump's never been in a stronger position to win.
He is winning with men.
He's winning with women.
He's winning with Hispanic Americans.
He's winning with young people.
And we are focused on making sure all of these demographics continue in support in their President Trump.
They are signing up to join our campaign and that we're turning them out to vote on November the 5th.
So the biggest challenge that I see is that for Joe Biden and the Democrats is they can't run on answering the question, are you better off than you were four years ago?
So that leaves them only one other option.
Now, the historical playbook of Democrats is that Republicans are racist, that they're sexist and misogynist, that they're homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic, now add transphobic, that they want dirty air and water, and they want grandma and grandpa to die and be thrown over a cliff by a prominent Republican.
That's the old book.
Add to that now, they flat out lied even after Donald Trump gave his very detailed position on vitro fertilization and abortion.
They said he doesn't really mean it.
I mean, okay, where do you get the evidence for that?
At number one, and then it's going to be January 6th, January 6th, January 6th.
Then it's going to be Democracy in Peril, ironically, by the party that is perfectly comfortable with one elected official taking off the name of one presidential candidate, their opponent.
That's a little ironic.
And then, of course, we have the weaponization of the Justice Department.
Here's a scheduled trial to begin next week in New York.
And this about Stormy Daniels and, quote, hush money payments that goes back to 2015.
Perfect timing, I guess, to have it during the election year, not any time in the interim.
Exactly right.
This is the Democrats' entire strategy to shuffle Joe Biden over the finish line in November.
It is to weaponize our justice system to try and confine President Trump to a courtroom.
And unfortunately, President Trump is going to have to sit there in the midst of this sham trial brought on by Alvin Bragg, who is a far-left district attorney who spent more time and money in the formerly great city of New York prosecuting President Trump than real violent criminals who are running free in the streets.
But unfortunately for the Democrats, they picked the wrong guy to mess with.
As you know very well, Sean, and I know well too, President Trump is tenacious and he is tough.
He has the best legal team in the business.
And unfortunately for the Democrats, he has a very nice, big, beautiful plane that we will continue to use to fly him all around this country after court and on Wednesdays when court is out, on the weekends as well, so he can continue to get out there on the campaign trail and make his winning message known to every voter in every corner of this country.
Their law fare is not going to work.
People see right through it.
And it hasn't had an impact thus far.
It's not going to.
And it's a failing strategy and it will continue to fail.
All right, quick break.
We'll come back more with Caroline Levitt is with us, President Trump's National Press Secretary.
Then your call's coming up, 800-941-Sean, our number, if you want to be a part of the program as we roll along.
We continue now with President Trump's National Press Secretary, 209 days till Election Day.
Carolyn Levitt remains with us.
There are a couple of things I'd like the president to do more of.
One, and I've had long conversations with a lot of people about this.
And one is to, in every speech, urge Republicans and conservatives to vote early and vote by mail.
There's a lot of reluctance and resistance among conservatives and Republicans on that front.
I've talked to Laura Trump on air about the issue of matching, hopefully surpassing the legal ballot harvesting efforts of the Democrats.
I think that is also very, very important.
It's not the system I would choose.
However, it is what it is.
And I think the president really does need to educate every Republican.
They better be prepared to be lied about on the issue of abortion, because I think that played a very big role in the red wave not becoming reality in 2022.
Yes, and as you saw this week, President Trump put out a very strong statement on the issue, deferring it to the states.
He wants we, the people, to be able to decide.
And for those closest to us in our state legislatures and all of our respective states to make the decisions on this issue.
That's where he stands.
That's where he'll continue to stand.
And that's a common sense position that the majority of Americans agree with.
And we'll continue to call out Joe Biden and the Democrats for their radical position on the issue of abortion.
They are out of touch.
They support abortions up until the moment of birth.
They support forcing taxpayers to fund abortions, which recent polling shows that 80% of Americans don't want to have to fund abortions.
Joe Biden stripped the Hyde Amendment out of his budget, which is a long-standing, a bipartisan policy that would ensure taxpayers don't have to fund abortion.
So President Trump actually aligns with the majority of Americans on this issue.
We'll continue to go on offense with it.
And as for your point on early voting, yes, the president is all in.
Look, if it were up to us, we'd have one day of voting, paper ballots, no early voting.
But the reality is we've got to play by the rules of the game we are given.
President Trump is fully on board with that.
So is the RNC.
We are so excited to be working with them hand in hand.
This is not two separate entities now.
We are one team, one lean and mean machine, and we have one goal, and that's winning.
And we're focused on educating voters in every single state on the voting laws within their state and encouraging them to cast their ballot early if their state's laws allow them to.
I'd add voter ID, signature verification.
I would add chain of custody controls, updated voter rolls, and I would add partisan observers actually observing, which didn't happen in most states in 2020.
They made absolutely no accommodations for COVID, and you can't be an observer of the vote counting or the voting if you're 1,000 feet away.
And that was the situation.
Anyway, Caroline Levitt, President Trump's national press secretary, 209 days to go.
We appreciate you updating us.
Thank you.
Thank you, Sean.
We appreciate you.
I see that Joe Biden, well, I get instructions from my wife.
Isn't that great to know that the president is in full control?
And even Democrats have been highlighting Biden's weaknesses.
Listen.
And Madison Mayor, thank you.
Where is she?
There you are.
Stand up.
I get instructions from my wife, who's a school teacher.
She said, make sure you say hello to the mayor.
I really like being with her.
I wouldn't go out there and extoll the miracle of the Biden economy.
It just drives me crazy when he does that.
President Biden doesn't talk about the wars very often, should he?
Absolutely.
Not just in Israel, Ukraine.
We have superpower.
He is the commander-in-chief.
Absolutely.
He should speak out more.
And also, we should cover what he's saying because often when he speaks, nobody listens.
Wow.
Unbelievable.
Nobody listens.
She's not wrong.
All right.
Let's get to our busy phones.
Let us say hi to Bob in South Carolina.
Bob, hi, how are you?
Glad you called.
Hey, Sean.
Good to talk to you.
Got a question.
Your opinion.
When Trump wins this election and we gain a little bit in the House and the Senate, how long is it going to take him to straighten out all the stuff that Joe Biden has messed up?
Well, let me put it this way.
It's a great question you're asking.
For example, and let me just give you a little history, then I'll answer it directly.
If you go back to Reagan, remember, he inherited an economy, 21.5% interest rates, inflation, double-digit inflation, unemployment out of control, and literally it took a lot longer because he had to put tax cuts in place.
They had to actually be cemented into the economy before they took place.
So he went through a two-year period where things almost on paper looked worse, and then a dramatic shift took place.
And what happened was we ended up eight years later with the longest period of peacetime economic growth in our country's history.
21 million new jobs at that time was a record that he had created.
We dropped down interest rates dramatically and inflation went away and we had a booming, thriving economy and every American benefited.
On a lot of the issues that we're talking about, there's a lot that President Trump can implement almost from day one.
He can bring back immediately the state of Mexico policy.
He can bring back building the wall.
Remember, they put every obstacle in front of him.
They didn't want to fund the wall and he was able to maneuver money away and he did it anyway.
And all legal, unlike Joe Biden giving out money for student loan forgiveness, things like that.
So he could fix things like that.
Republicans could very quickly get back to the issue of law and order and safety and security.
That would be good.
On the issue of the economy, probably take a little bit longer for things to start turning around.
He could start immediately by opening up America's vast energy resources and the literally trillions of dollars underneath our feet if we'd only tap into it and take away the restrictions that Biden had taken away with a stroke of a pen.
Trump could use a stroke of a pen there.
We probably would see a little bit quicker progress than maybe in the Reagan years.
So I think there's a lot that can be done.
I think on the world stage, things will change immediately.
I think that he is a known entity to these hostile regimes, and people didn't like it when he said, I get along fine with Putin or I get along fine with Kim Jong-un or I get along fine with President Xi.
But he also blasted Xi with the biggest tariffs that anybody has ever put on China.
He did the same thing with Mexico and Mexico complied.
I don't think Mexico will be lecturing us about our policies in Venezuela and Cuba anymore or demanding we spend $20 billion on countries that are hostile to us.
And I think that'll change immediately upon his arrival.
If you look at, for example, even the summits that he had with Kim Jong-un, what did Donald Trump end up giving Kim Jong-un?
He gave him one thing.
He gave him his time.
That's it.
That's all that he gave him.
We got remains back from the Korean War, which gave finality to families that had lost loved ones.
We ended up not having little rocket man stop firing his rockets, and things got relatively stable in the DMZ zone, et cetera, et cetera.
And I think you would see that type of strength and respect returned.
America will once again take on the mantle of being the leader in the free world.
That's a role that's been abdicated by Joe Biden.
So I think there'll be dramatic changes on day one.
And I think the way the world sees America, I think a lot of things are going to change very quickly.
Now, there's been a lot of speculation about what Trump would do with Ukraine.
I think he would immediately try to negotiate a settlement and end war in Europe so that NATO would not be engaged further with Vladimir Putin and his geographic ambitions.
I think any threat that is now real, very real for Taiwan, I think if China does not invade Taiwan during the Biden years, I don't think they're going to do it during the Trump years.
That's for sure.
And I think things will begin to settle down.
And I think that Americans will be at the top of the list once again.
And putting America first will be the agenda that drives this country.
And America needs a lot of support.
I hope the president can get a hold of spending.
Taxes are scheduled.
The Trump tax cuts are scheduled to expire in 25.
And if Donald Trump's not there, you're going to see the largest tax increase in the history of this country.
And all that's going to do is drive the economy further into a ditch.
So a long, long about way to answer your question.
I hope I gave you the answer you were looking for.
Well, you did.
I appreciate it.
Long-winded answer.
Let's put it that way.
Anyway, thank you, my friend.
I do appreciate the call, Bob.
800-941-Sean, if you want to be a part of the program.
It's been nearly, what, six months now since this brutal terrorist attack, the worst in Israel's history by Hamas.
And literally since then, the attacks on Israel have only increased.
They're now fighting a two-front war with Hezbollah out of Lebanon in the north as well as Gaza in the south.
And of course, Joe Biden now has put a knife in Israel's back at a time they're battling this war on terror.
Anyway, thank God there are groups like the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews.
They've been on the ground from the get-go, and they're addressing all the needs of hundreds of thousands of Israelis.
They're also providing bomb shelters in areas in Israel that need it the most.
In other words, a lot of places in Israel, and I've been there and I've seen it with my own eyes, a siren goes off, and you have 15 seconds or less to get to safety.
So the IFCJ has been able to help renovate and install 3,000 bomb shelters.
The cost of one of them is 15 grand.
The goal for April is five new bomb shelters.
Now, look, if 300 of you would just give 50 bucks, we're going to have a new bomb shelter installed.
That's what it's going to take.
And it's saving the lives of even children that are waiting for the school bus in the areas of Israel where schools are still open.
Now, whatever you can donate is desperately needed.
You have hundreds of thousands of displaced Israelis.
They need your help more now than ever.
Please go to the website one word, supportifcj.org.
That's supportifcj.org today.
All right, quick break right back to our phones.
James Comer of the House Oversight Committee at the top of the hour coming up.
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Let's say hi to Mike is in Connecticut.
Mike, hi, how are you?
Glad you called.
Hey, Sean.
Last time I was able to get you was 10 years ago.
So it was just thanks for sticking with me for 10 years.
What did we talk about 10 years ago?
Well, it's hard to remember, but I'm always full of complaints, so I'm easy.
But anyway, I got to tell you, I'm a Costco shopper, right?
I love Costco's.
You get the hot dog.
I'm a member.
Do you get the hot dog and Coke or the pizza and the Coke?
Pizza and the Coke.
But when you're shopping, right, we have our same list.
Every six weeks we go there with the same list.
Three and a half years ago, that list was consistently $350.
Okay?
Last year, the same exact list, $520.
We went last week, $650 for the exact same list.
And I looked at the meat stuff.
I couldn't even put it in the cart.
It was $90, $85 for a chunk of meat.
So that's my Costco story.
Second.
Yeah, I usually order my meat.
If I'm going to do an Instacart, you can do Instacart.
I kind of like to go directly to the store.
I go to a Publix in Florida.
I used to use a stop-in-shop when I was in New York.
I like to actually see the meat, look at it, and make the determination myself.
With that said, I mean, you know that the portions are always much bigger at Costco's.
And I understand you buy in bulk, you're going to save a lot of money.
But you're basically telling me that from four years ago, your food bill has doubled.
And I'm sure that means that you're not buying the same stuff you used to buy.
Well, like I said, we stopped the meat now with chicken and fish people.
You know, you're just not going to do meat, right?
So I'll be looking for roadkill pretty soon if it keeps up.
But anyway, can I go on?
I'm going to tell you something.
It's interesting you say that.
I have a friend of mine.
He lives down south.
And he now, and he used to be a more avid hunter than he is now.
But now he is literally, he's getting venison, and he'll get one or two deer a year, and he'll send it to a butcher, and they'll have it all wrapped up for him.
And he's saving a fortune on meat by doing it that way.
And now I've not actually eaten venison in my life.
Well, that's not true.
I've had like venison meatballs, but have I had like a slice of meat?
No, I've not.
I'm a beef person like you are.
Okay, but the venison, if you do the cutlets off the back leg, you can't tell the difference between that and veal.
If you do veal cutlet parmesan, you'd do the same thing with venison.
You wouldn't know the difference.
I'm sorry.
Are you a hunter?
I mean, is that an option for you?
Listen, okay.
I did that all when I. Doesn't mean you can't be an doesn't mean you can't be.
I hope you're a healthy 80.
I mean, you're still getting around okay?
I got to work.
I'm an electrician.
I still go to work every day.
Wow.
You're between New York and Connecticut, back and forth all the time to jobs.
So you're constantly on the phone, or I have my small radio on a job site or something.
So it's a given.
My pension from a long time ago from the cops is nothing from the 60s and 70s.
So that doesn't pay for much.
I enjoy being active and being around construction people all the time.
Yeah, that keeps your mind sharp, too.
You always got to be on top of your game.
But I could tell you emphatically, I did a job for Trump years ago, and I got paid every dime that I had coming to me.
Of course, we did everything like we were supposed to.
And he's exactly the same way at a job meeting as he is when you see him talk.
First hit.
I can tell you, in the nearly 30 years I've known him, or however it's been a long time, he's not changed at all.
And yeah, I've heard those stories too.
And it's interesting that I've heard from people like you that said, no, if you did the job right, you got paid.
And however, if there were issues, then there would be problems on his end.
And he's a fighter.
We know he's a fighter, right?
Yes.
And he told me at the job meeting, he tells the guy what you did wrong.
And you're not getting paid till you straighten it out.
Period.
Right up front.
No fooling around.
I love the guy.
No, by the way, it's so hard to get good contractors.
I used to do it, and I realized now I really was an exception to the rule because I took great pride in my work.
But anyway, I appreciate the call, my friend.
Thank you.
Linda, we did get the number we followed through on this poor woman.
I think she was, where is she from?
She was from Ohio yesterday.
And I mean, Cindy.
It was right, Cindy.
And she called in and she said to us, Well, I used to be able to go to dinner once a month, and I can't do that anymore.
And she's having a hard time making ends meet.
I mean, it kind of broke my heart listening to her.
I said, Let me let me help you out a little bit here.
And I did follow through, and hopefully, she'll be happy when she gets something in the mail, probably sooner than later.
And I mean, it's terrible.
I've lived that way.
You've lived that way, Linda.
I mean, this is not something that we can't relate to.
And I remember.
Well, everybody's living that way now.
It's expensive to pay for all these illegals.
Well, it's expensive to pay for the illegals.
It's expensive, you know, to pay for this Green New Deal madness.
It's expensive, you know, to run the government the way they're running it into the ground.
I mean, all of this is.
But I mean, really, I mean, you got to think about it this way, right?
Like, illegal immigrants are getting credit cards, phones, three meals a day, hotel rooms.
I mean, you really get down to it.
We get rid of aid to Ukraine.
We get rid of illegal migrants living off the American dole.
And let me be very honest, and I think we've talked about this a thousand times.
There aren't a lot of Americans that are all paying their taxes.
You know, half the country's living off the dole, too.
So you got a bunch of people not paying their taxes.
Then you got a bunch of people that are not paying the majority of the taxes.
And then you got a small group of people hustling and working all the time and working most of their life and paying for a bunch of people who are more than well-bodied and able who just don't want to work because they don't have to.
Unfortunately, for somebody like me, that's not a luxury I could ever frankly, I wouldn't ever want to.
I don't have a problem paying my taxes.
I really don't.
Anyway, 800-941-Sean, our number.
If you want to be a part of the program, Congressman James Comer at the top of the hour.
We'll continue.
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