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| If you want to be a part of the program, you know, it is amazing the times that we're living in. | |
| And this goes back to the issue we had discussed earlier with Bill O'Reilly about the corruption of the media. | |
| And, you know, I tried to point this out with our debate with James Carville, but it's kind of a waste of time. | |
| And when you dig deep into these polls that show an incredible approval rating and how Donald Trump is doing, be it the new Harvard-Harris poll that was out this week, 52% approval rating, nine points above water. | |
| Voters more optimistic about the direction of the country and the economy up 10 points than where it was last month. | |
| Donald Trump outperforming Biden on every key issue, immigration, the economy, inflation, foreign affairs. | |
| He's hitting every single demographic group with the exception of 18 to 34-year-olds. | |
| But even there, he's in the 40-percentile range, which is a very high number for him. | |
| And then when you look at very specific handling of issues that he is now dealing with, what do we see? | |
| 77% of respondents think we need a full examination of all government expenditures. | |
| Well, if you listen to the media or, you know, say, all these Republican congressmen have been brutalized at town halls by angry constituents. | |
| Those angry constituents we find out were organized, according to the Washington Was it Free Beacon, organized by George Soros groups. | |
| Whoopsie-daisy. | |
| And then we find out, dig deeper into these polls because it's the RMG research poll. | |
| It's Trafalgar. | |
| It's Rasmussen. | |
| It is Insider Advantage. | |
| And they're all showing the same thing. | |
| And, you know, for example, the CBS poll that I brought up of Carville, he said he's in the 40s. | |
| No, he was at 53%. | |
| Then you look at that CBS poll shows 80% support deporting criminal illegal. | |
| 76% support a full-scale effort to eliminate waste, fraud, and abuse. | |
| 76% support closing the border. | |
| 70% support keeping men out of women's sports and declaring that there are only two genders. | |
| 65% support ending race-based hiring in government. | |
| This goes to the issue of DEI, 63% support a freeze and reevaluation of foreign aid. | |
| 61% support reciprocal tariffs. | |
| 60% support direct negotiations with Russia to end the war in Ukraine. | |
| Anyway, here to analyze all of this cumulatively and discuss his poll, particularly as our friend John McLaughlin of John McLaughlin and Associates. | |
| How are you, sir? | |
| I'm feeling pretty good because the Republicans did what they had to do with their narrow majority last night, and they were able to get their tax cut bill through the House, which is important because if we're going to succeed and defy history in the midterms like we did in 2002, | |
| where you had a growing economy and you had voter support, for President Trump to be able to win the midterm elections is we got to get that tax cut passed so that in effect we have a growing economy and we can pick up Senate and House seats. | |
| And last night they did what they had to do. | |
| The president, by the way, in the survey you were just talking about of 1,000 likely voters, people who vote next year modeled after last November's election. | |
| President Trump has 10% approval support from people that didn't vote for him last time, meaning among the whole electorate, besides the people he won the popular vote, and we had a strategy to win the popular vote because we based it on his job approval contrast to Biden, pulled up his favorable, so he was the most popular candidate on the ballot, not Harris, not Biden. | |
| Biden's still disliked in this poll, but he's 39 federal, 56 on payroll. | |
| But Trump has there's one in 10 voters that now support his policies who didn't vote for him in November. | |
| And they tend to be minorities. | |
| They tend to be younger. | |
| They tend to be more diverse. | |
| And they're coming to him because he wants to get this tax cut passed. | |
| Because when we ask the voters of the objectives that he's doing, 57% want to see the taxes cut for working middle-class Americans so that they get some relief from high prices. | |
| And the next second, you know, 57% said that only 24% said the next choice was securing the border. | |
| And after that, it was, you know, national defense gives us a peace, 8%, and increasing oil and gas production, only 5%. | |
| So the Republican numbers here, or Trump's support for his tax cut policies, it's actually with Democrats, it's 69%, Independents, 61%, with the moderates, it's 61%, with African Americans, 47%, and Hispanics, 64%. | |
| So last night was a very good night for the country and for Donald Trump. | |
| What do you make of the punditry class, the media and the Democrats? | |
| I mean, they've basically been reduced to, you know, he's a male body part and F off and FU and F-Elon and so on and so forth. | |
| And they seem to be clinging to the idea that they're going to fight for the right of men to play women's sports and they're going to fight for the rights of illegal immigrants over the safety of Americans. | |
| And they are clinging to this ridiculous waste, fraud, and abuse, the tens and tens, what will be hundreds of billions of dollars that is discovered that the American people clearly and overwhelm. | |
| It's nearly an 80-20 issue want resolved and finished. | |
| What do you make of their messaging at this moment and where they are and where the media is because they're right with them? | |
| Well, they're bankrupt in terms of ideas and in terms of the policy. | |
| Their policies put us in a hole for the last four years that allowed Donald Trump to get reelected by saying, you know, are you better off today than you were four years ago? | |
| And he won overwhelmingly. | |
| We swept the Battleground States. | |
| We won the popular vote. | |
| And now, when you're talking about spending, last month we asked about voters, do they feel the money's well spent in the federal government? | |
| Only 25%, 64% that it was mostly waste. | |
| When you ask them on average, this was done for the Committee on Least Prosperity, Steve Morse group. | |
| On average, what they thought, the percentage of the federal budget that's wasted, their perception was 38%. | |
| That was the average. | |
| They think 38 cents on every dollar the federal government spends is wasted. | |
| And the tax cuts, by the way, the tax cuts, in December, we had numbers where the voters want to make the tax cuts permanent, Trump's tax cuts permit, 70 to 17%, 58% among Democrats. | |
| They want no tax on overtime, 66.25, 59% among Democrats. | |
| No tax on TIP, 71.21, 64% among Democrats. | |
| And they support no tax on Social Security, 82 to 11, and 72% among Democrats. | |
| That was in the bill that was passed last night. | |
| The Democrats are really trying. | |
| I mean, public opinion is overwhelmingly on President Trump's side, whether securing the border, whether tax cuts and growing the economy, or, you know, ending the endless wars and trying to keep America safe and secure. | |
| So you've got a very strong president whose popularity is building, and he's building a broader coalition that in this poll, we had Republicans leading the generic ballot for Congress, 4841. | |
| If a third of the undecided voters side with the Republicans, we now have a majority vote for the midterm elections. | |
| And you'll easily get that with the tax cuts being passed. | |
| So the Democrats, the only thing they stand for is failure. | |
| And they can only hope, like James Carville said, let's just sit back and play possum until the Republicans mess up. | |
| And, well, that's what their strategy is because they're. | |
| Well, they'll play possum, but then they're going to revert to form. | |
| And what are the things they're going to advocate for? | |
| Open borders, they'll complain about that. | |
| The rights of illegal immigrants, they'll fight for that. | |
| The right of men to play in women's sports, they'll fight for that. | |
| I mean, the reckless spending, there's no Democrat that is joining the support of Doge and cutting out insane waste, fraud, and abuse because they want that radicalized agenda pushed worldwide. | |
| And somehow they view that as a constitutional crisis. | |
| The crisis is the fact that they did it in the first place, in my view. | |
| Right. | |
| But watch, I think what's going to happen is the Democrats aren't going to give us an inch. | |
| They're going to try to. | |
| Oh, they're going to hate Donald Trump. | |
| That's what they're going to do. | |
| That's all they know. | |
| Yeah, that's all they know. | |
| They're void of ideas. | |
| They literally don't have an agenda that is in sync with the American people. | |
| I've never seen a party so out of touch, and they've embraced their radicalism so deeply. | |
| I don't think they can, I don't think they can disconnect from it any longer because it represents who they are. | |
| Yes, I think you're right about that. | |
| And all their leaders are unpopular. | |
| Voters that know Hokeem Jeffries don't like them. | |
| Chuck Schumer is at 25 variable, 43 unfavorable, and getting worse. | |
| So, you know, so bring it on. | |
| This is a great. | |
| We will win. | |
| We will win. | |
| I mean, I feel like it's a 1960s redux with their chanting and they're singing and they're carrying on. | |
| And F Donald Trump, F Donald Trump. | |
| I'm like, okay, does that make you feel better? | |
| F Elon Musk. | |
| And meanwhile, Americans like the cutting. | |
| And every poll after the poll is showing it. | |
| That is overwhelming. | |
| You don't see many 80-20 issues, do you? | |
| No, no. | |
| And by the way, those numbers I read, overwhelmingly popular. | |
| The Republicans, they need to stick to their guns. | |
| I'll bet you like the Lake and Riley Act. | |
| At the last minute, when it looks like it's going to pass, you'll see Democrats voting for it because otherwise, what they did last night was every Democrat when they voted against the House budget, they voted for a $5 trillion tax increase. | |
| They voted for the biggest tax increase in the history of the United States. | |
| So what will happen is those Democrats who are in districts that Trump won, and there's 13 of them, those Democrats who are in districts where Trump came close within five points, they will actually start flipping their votes because when it looks like no tax on tips, | |
| no tax on overtime, no tax on Social Security, no, you know, against this $5 trillion tax increase that they're hoping for, when the Republicans get their backs to the wall on these Democrats, they will start flipping to Trump just like the just like just like the Democrats did with Reagan in the 80s, that they had to vote for his tax cuts. | |
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| visit puretalk.com for details continue now with john mclaughlin mclaughlin and associates examining uh president trump and democrats and their poll numbers democrats at the lowest point ever Let's talk about the generic ballot because right now Republicans have a significant lead. | |
| Usually in a midterm, the party in power in the White House loses seats. | |
| You mentioned earlier, and this is something Newt has been preaching from the rooftop, that the Republicans need to move expeditiously and get their economic plan in place so that we have time for a recovery because that will greatly impact the midterm elections. | |
| They seem to be on track to get that done. | |
| Thoughts? | |
| Exactly. | |
| Newt's right. | |
| And now, the Republicans, you could get cocky because you look at the survey that we just published. | |
| It's on our website, McLaughlinonline.com. | |
| Sets her up 4841. | |
| That's not the Republicans going over 50. | |
| That's the Democrats collapsing. | |
| Now, their vote could come back to them if the Republicans fail. | |
| But if the Republicans have it made up that they're going to succeed, that they're going to have a pro-growth tax cut, that they're going to help working-class middle Americans like they did, like President Trump did when he passed his first round of tax cuts in 2017 that we're looking to make permanent now. | |
| The problem was the president, I spoke to him after he did it after health care. | |
| And I said to the president, I said, why'd you do health care first? | |
| And he said, well, McConnell and Ryan told him he needed the savings for their tax cuts. | |
| I said, that's ridiculous. | |
| It's our money. | |
| Who are they saving? | |
| I mean, healthcare is like Stalingrad. | |
| So the health care effort failed. | |
| The tax cuts didn't get passed until December of 2017. | |
| Too late for the midterms to take effect. | |
| So we lost the House and we lost the Senate and President Trump got impeached. | |
| We cannot let that happen again. | |
| Newt Gingrich is exactly right. | |
| We need to move the tax cuts early this year, before the summer, before Memorial Day, before they leave to go on any vacation. | |
| These tax cuts need to be passed so that next year you have a growing economy. | |
| So we can do what we did in 2002, where President George W. Bush had a growing economy because he stimulated it after the tragedy of 9-11, had a growing economy. | |
| We picked up two Senate seats. | |
| We picked up eight House seats. | |
| And we also motivated the Bush 2,000 voters to come out in higher numbers than the Gore 2,000 voters. | |
| Trump got 77 million votes. | |
| There was in the midterms of 2022 only 112 million voters total. | |
| We need to have all these Trump voters motivated to come out a year for November and vote for Republicans for Congress against these failed Democrats who are just trying to stop us from succeeding. | |
| I think the biggest motivation for Americans is if this becomes a nationalized midterm, and that would be a referendum on President Trump and what he's doing and to not allow the Democrats to go through what would be predictable impeachments, but we're running out of time. | |
| Right. | |
| We can't go back to inflation. | |
| We can't go back to endless wars and we can't go back to open borders. | |
| So that's why we have to fight and win this and push and we'll attract Democrats when it's clear we're going to win. | |
| They'll be with us. | |
| All right. | |
| We appreciate you. | |
| John McLaughlin, McLaughlin and Associates. | |
| Thank you, sir. | |
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| All right, let's get to our busy, busy telephones. | |
| Ken in the United Socialist Utopia now known as California. | |
| Sean, hi. | |
| It's a pleasure to talk with you today. | |
| Pleasure is all mine. | |
| I wanted to talk briefly about the Doge. | |
| Some of the stuff you're seeing both in the media and things like YouTube, which supposedly is an independent person talking, you see somebody who's being fired or losing their job, and they're screaming and yelling at Musk and President Trump. | |
| And the whole point is that they're missing the point, rather. | |
| And they should be screaming at their bosses who screwed up their company. | |
| Think of the USAID as a corporation. | |
| They embezzled all the money, gave it away to these stupid causes, and then these people lose their jobs as a result of the company going bankrupt. | |
| Look, I don't want to be insensitive or callous or not concerning towards people that through really no fault of their own are going to end up hitting a pretty bumpy road and losing their job. | |
| That's not fun for anybody. | |
| But we're really, we're at a crossroads here. | |
| And it's going to be the entire country's economy will be hanging in the balance. | |
| We're now at a point where When you look at the percentage of GDP and the amount of money, debt to ratio, GDP, it is now at the highest level since World War II. | |
| If you look at the amount of money we're paying on interest on the debt every year, it's more than we pay for national defense. | |
| Then you face the reality that we've got to save Social Security, Medicaid. | |
| That is going to be expensive. | |
| The next generation of weaponry is not going to be cheap. | |
| An iron dome and that technology is not going to be cheap. | |
| Deporting all of the Biden-Harris illegals is not going to be cheap. | |
| Becoming energy dominant, which ultimately will pay huge dividends for us, is not going to be cheap. | |
| And so the question is: are we going to do what is right now for the long-term health of the entire country and economic prosperity opportunities for the entire country and deal with this nearly $40 trillion in debt and cut back on waste, fraud, and abuse and return to some sanity and constitutional order? | |
| And that means limited government, greater freedom, and eliminating this DEI wokeism, Green New Dealism, transgenderism abroad, or we're going to keep stealing from our kids and grandkids. | |
| That's the option. | |
| And in the short term, yeah, there will be adjustments to people's lives and they will get other jobs. | |
| Is it ideal for them? | |
| No, but these are jobs that people never should have been hired in the first place. | |
| Yep. | |
| But you know what? | |
| These people need to know that their collateral damage from being on the sacrifice to the altar of wokeness. | |
| They need to know that, and they need to be told that so that they can wake up. | |
| And I think that the younger people know this, like you were talking earlier, the 18 to 34 group, the more that's emphasized, the more they'll realize the importance of it. | |
| Well, it's their future. | |
| We're stealing their money. | |
| You know, I don't want their money. | |
| I don't want to put them in a hole. | |
| We have an obligation to leave this country in better shape than we inherited it. | |
| And we're not doing that right now. | |
| We need to be better stewards. | |
| And now we're in the middle of a course correction that has some short-term pain associated with it. | |
| But we're staving off, we're preventing a long-term disaster that would impact every single American for generations. | |
| And that has to be dealt with. | |
| Anyway, I appreciate your good call. | |
| Very thoughtful. | |
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| Joe in New York. | |
| What's up, Joe? | |
| How you doing? | |
| Sean, this is Joe from Rockland. | |
| We haven't spoken in over eight years, buddy. | |
| How you been? | |
| Man, oh, man, why do I remember you? | |
| You must have given me a hard time. | |
| I think that's what I remember. | |
| What's going on, Joe and Rockland? | |
| Hey, man, everything is good, man. | |
| I bet you missed me a little bit. | |
| Deep down in your heart, the good thing is, I'm still on, you know, the great AM710 WOR, so you can hear me every day, and our friendship continues through the radio, hopefully through TV. | |
| A lot of things you told me about, I sat back and I had to look, and I right now support Trump 100%. | |
| You've been hennetized. | |
| Well, first, I got to give you a lot of credit. | |
| Let me give you some props. | |
| There are liberals that I will debate with, have discussions with, and make great points, and they don't care. | |
| They just dismiss them. | |
| And then there are other people that, like, for example, if somebody makes a great point to me that I hadn't thought of and maybe points out that I'm wrong, I need to not be so prideful of my life that I can't accept the truth for what it is. | |
| I try to, you know, I can accept that point. | |
| That's a good, that's a good point. | |
| And I just think you're just you just have a lot more intellectual honesty than most Democrats. | |
| Most Democrats, the American people don't want their money wasted the way we've been describing on this program now since the beginning of the year, since Donald Trump was inaugurated. | |
| They just don't. | |
| And poll after poll shows that, but Democrats still cling to it. | |
| Can you explain why? | |
| Well, let me tell you, some of the problems that I had is, you know, Trump came out and he said when he first ran that black Americans should vote for him and said, what do they have to lose? | |
| And that really resonated in a lot of African Americans because for years we've been giving our vote to the Democratic Party and we've never really gotten nothing for it. | |
| So they know we're going to vote with them and people are breaking ranks from that right now. | |
| And most African Americans are Christians. | |
| And when you have things such as men can switch gender and want to swim against women, things like that, that's not fair. | |
| not right and look I mean look at all your deep blue cities right And let's look at predominantly minority areas in New York. | |
| How are your schools doing there? | |
| Because they tend to have predominantly minority areas tend to have some of the worst schools in the country. | |
| And yet, you're right. | |
| It's been a reliable, consistently reliable vote for Democrats. | |
| And what have you got to lose considering you've given them decades? | |
| People have voted for them for decades. | |
| And their cities are less safe, less secure, and their schools are horrible for their kids. | |
| And Donald Trump plans to fix the school problem. | |
| And we're going to give the money back to local authorities, and hopefully they'll better manage it. | |
| I'll tell you what I would do if I was a parent. | |
| If I would voucher the money, tell me if you like this idea. | |
| Let's say your kids are in a bad school district. | |
| Let's say 10 families, let's say they get vouchered 25 grand per student in New York. | |
| And if you have 10 families that decide, you know, they have kids the same age, and they're going to put all their money in a pot, all right, and they're going to hire the best teacher they can and create a class of 10 people. | |
| And they're going to spend some of the money on wherever the classroom is going to be, and the rest of the money is going to go to the best teacher that they can find. | |
| Who do you think is going to do better in reading, writing, history, math, and science? | |
| Those kids are the kids in the public school. | |
| Those kids, I'm going to tell you why. | |
| My son ended up going to the Hackley School in Terrytown. | |
| And it gave him such a phenomenal education that when he graduated, he had 150 college offers, including every single Ivy League school, Stanford at this point. | |
| So he went to University of Pennsylvania, same school Trump went to, and he graduated from there. | |
| People that can just tell. | |
| But before that, he was in a regular public school before he went to the Hackley School. | |
| And Hackley stretched him every way possible. | |
| Reading, math, the history class. | |
| He had to write a 30-page paper in the 12th grade before graduating. | |
| So that was the way to go. | |
| The schools have been failing over and over again. | |
| And the problem is, is the union for the school district. | |
| They vote Democratic. | |
| And at the end of the day, our kids are uneducated. | |
| I went through that system. | |
| I went to one of the worst high schools in New York City, you know, and I ended up going to Baruch College because of the SEEP program. | |
| And there, I met this Jewish professor, Professor Lebeski, that, you know, when I told him that my parents were killed two weeks apart, he took me under his wing. | |
| He made sure I graduated. | |
| He went above and beyond to help me with any class I had, not just the classes that I had with him. | |
| And it was able to change my life. | |
| So now me and my wife have four kids. | |
| Two went to Temple University, one went to Spelman, and my son went to the University of Pennsylvania. | |
| And you're such a good guy. | |
| You're such a good dad. | |
| Good for you. | |
| And whoever that teacher was, God bless him. | |
| What a cool guy. | |
| He cared. | |
| He did. | |
| There are good teachers, and they're great teachers. | |
| I wrote him. | |
| And that's one of them. | |
| What he did. | |
| I wrote him and told him what he did for me, but it's over 40 years. | |
| He didn't remember me, which means he was helping so many people that that's just what he does. | |
| He just helped people that need help. | |
| Yeah. | |
| I mean, there are really good souls in this world. | |
| God blesses us with the right people at the right time sometimes in the different seasons of our life, right? | |
| Anyway, what a great story. | |
| And what a great dad. | |
| But more importantly, your intellectual honesty shines through. | |
| And you know, the opportunity that you provided your children. | |
| My parents didn't have, they grew up very poor, didn't have much money, but and they worked civil service jobs. | |
| My mom, the prison guard. | |
| I've told the story a million times. | |
| My dad, probation officer, waiter. | |
| But they put a priority in sending their kids to Catholic schools. | |
| I went to Catholic schools for 12 years, right? | |
| Now, they didn't have money to send me to college, and I wasn't going to take it from them. | |
| And when they passed away, they had nothing. | |
| They had like next to nothing. | |
| And they gave everything that they had and every penny of overtime that they worked towards their kids' education. | |
| They put such a priority on it. | |
| And one of the things they taught me was with my kids, and they did go to pretty good schools. | |
| But I always supplemented that because of my work hours. | |
| I wasn't able to do it myself, nor was I inclined to do it because I just don't have the patience to be a very good tutor. | |
| And I don't remember how to do algebra, geometry, as sophisticated chemistry and physics. | |
| I'm just not the right guy to be, it's better when somebody else teaches your kids. | |
| I can't explain it. | |
| But I did invest heavily in providing them tutors when they needed it. | |
| And it was the best investment I made. | |
| I never thought twice about it. | |
| And I kind of did it because that's what my parents taught me. | |
| But you're a good dad. | |
| I really appreciate your call, Joe. | |
| Listen, don't wait eight years. | |
| All right, my friend. | |
| All right. | |
| Thanks, man. | |
| It's good talking to you. | |
| Good talking to you. | |
| Let's say hi to Tim, Washington State. | |
| Tim, we got about 90 seconds. | |
| They're all yours. | |
| Okay. | |
| Hi, Sean. | |
| Glad you're listening to me. | |
| I am a federal government worker. | |
| I spent, I'm a disabled veteran, 10 years in the Navy and 15 years in government service. | |
| And I'm on the side. | |
| I'm on the financial side in that government service. | |
| And I had no problem with answering the email from Elon. | |
| Yeah, over a million of you did. | |
| Yeah, I want to know what I do. | |
| I am a remote worker and I am going back to the office, which I don't mind. | |
| That bother me. | |
| And believe it or not, there's a lot more Republicans in the government like me and veterans, disabled veterans, than you think. | |
| We're not all lazy government workers. | |
| I am sure that's true. | |
| And with the work, especially with veterans, is essential. | |
| We made a promise to these guys, and we need to fulfill it. | |
| And I'm glad there are people like you that work in government. | |
| But on the other hand, there's a lot of waste, fraud, and abuse and redundancy and corruption that has to be weeded out. | |
| It's going to be hard. | |
| And Elon even said to me, We're going to make mistakes, but we'll fix them as quickly as we can. | |
| Well, I hope they can. | |
| And I hope one thing, too, is that if they do reduction in force, you know, veterans, we put on two uniforms. | |
| We put it on once and then we put it on again in government service. | |
| And I'm just hoping that they, you know, they take care of veterans when it comes down to it, like me and many other people that I talk to in the government are veterans. | |
| We have groups where we talk offline and, you know, we're all conservative. | |
| We all believe in being fiscally responsible with taxpayers' money. | |
| I've done that since the day I entered government service. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Well, then, you know what? | |
| What you're doing isn't a service to the people that served us. | |
| I applaud you. | |
| I really do. | |
| I've got a role, though, just because of the constraints of time. | |
| Please forgive me. | |
| And God bless you. | |
| Thank you for serving your country and thanks for what you do every day to help our vets, okay? | |
| Okay, you're welcome. | |
| And if you get more time, Sean, I have way more information I could give you. | |
| All right. | |
| Well, we'll hang on to your number, and we'd love to have you back. | |
| And that's going to wrap things up for today. | |
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