Gene Valentino Sounds the Alarm: 2026 Midterms, Gas Prices, Iran & America’s Future!
🇺🇸 2026 MIDTERMS, THE ECONOMY, IRAN & THE FUTURE OF AMERICA | GENE VALENTINO
What is at stake for America in the 2026 midterm elections? From political battles and Republican election strategy to rising concerns about the economy, gas prices, border security, and tensions with Iran, Gene Valentino shares his perspective on the critical issues shaping the nation’s future.
In this political discussion, Gene Valentino joins the conversation to examine the challenges facing the United States and the potential impact of the upcoming elections.
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🇺🇸 2026 Midterm Elections — Gene Valentino discusses the importance of voter participation, Republican campaign strategy, and the races that could shape America’s political future.
🗳️ Election Predictions & Voter Turnout—A look at competing predictions about the election and why encouraging more Americans to vote matters.
⛽ Gas Prices & The Economy—Exploring the relationship between oil markets, gasoline prices, energy policy, and the cost of living.
🌎 Iran & The Strait of Hormuz—A discussion about economic pressure, geopolitical tensions, and the importance of global oil supplies.
🛡️ Border Security & National Security—Examining immigration, border enforcement, and concerns about America’s security.
⚖️ The Supreme Court & Judicial Independence—A conversation about the Supreme Court, judicial power, and the constitutional system.
🇺🇸 America’s Future — Gene Valentino shares his views on political leadership, long-term national strategy, and the importance of civic engagement.
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Full Episode Transcript
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Relationships matter because people buy people. And that’s why I buy Eddie Xarin
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Insurance of the Xarin Insurance Agency in Pensacola, Florida. A family-owned business with over 50 years in the
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business, and they treat people the right way. from homeowners insurance to contractors’ insurance, condo insurance, commercial insurance, all the different
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coverages that are out there, and of course, auto insurance. They’ve got you covered. They worry about you first.
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You’re more than a policy number. You’re a person who they’re watching out for, not when the sun is shining, but after
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the hurricane has left. If you want real service with real savings, contact Eddie
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Zuran at the Eddie Xarin Insurance Agency. [Insurance website unclear in source.]
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, 2 secondsGive them a call today. You’ll be glad you did when you do.
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, 10 secondsGolden Rain. Golden.
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, 14 secondsThere’s two old-time country singers, Tammy Wynette and George Jones. We’ve got in their place right now two iconic leaders in the broadcast community.
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, 25 secondsYours truly. And of course, the man with the plan, the velvet hammer, Gene Valentino. Good morning, sir.
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, 33 secondsWith the diamonds and the rubies just a dripping off of me and a ring on every finger of my hand. I tell you what, good
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, 40 secondsmorning, Gene. I tell you what, one thing we can talk about that’s beautiful is the weather. We’ve had nothing but sunshine.
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, 47 secondsIt’s a blessing after the horizontal rain thrashing into the sides of houses at 130 miles an hour causing all sorts of water intrusion.
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as far west as where you are in Biloxi and Hattiesburg and back east towards Tallahassee and everything in
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, 8 secondsbetween, you’ve got yourself a big a big list of insurance claims that’ll be
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, 15 secondskicking in for this water damage if you have the coverage.
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, 20 secondsYou know, during the course of a week, I’ll run into somebody will question me about my political views or about what’s
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, 27 secondsgoing on. And in the back of my mind, I said, “Boy, I wish Gene was here. He would tear him up.” And I think that’s what we’re looking for today, Gene, is a little therapy about what’s going on.
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, 39 secondsThe election is a week from Tuesday. The Democrats, I’ve never seen them attack Mississippi as much. I mean, they’re sending heavyweight after heavyweight.
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, 47 secondsThey’re after Cindy Hyde-Smith, the senator that’s up for reelection. Scott Colom, who has a kind of unusual
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, 54 secondsbackground, is running against her, but they’re sending the heavyweights down here. And normally in years past, they’ve just given up and they say, “We
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, 2 secondsdon’t have a chance in Mississippi.” I don’t know that they have a chance now, but the time has come that everybody can’t sit on their laurels. They’ve got to jump up and get going, right?
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, 13 secondsYeah, that’s the message. In a word, you could start the show the way you want to end it, and that is we know it’s
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, 21 secondsbasically a conservative outlet for many people in the Pine Belt in the Gulf Coast of America. But
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, 30 secondsthe real issue is not what you’re going to do to vote, but drag 10 people with you. Each of us that hear this, drag 10
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, 39 secondspeople with you and get to the polls. this is that close a margin. You know,
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, 46 secondsTed, I have had on my Grassroots TruthCast podcast. Please subscribe folks if you can. WXI episodes are
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, 54 secondsthere as well. But on the Grassroots TruthCast, we’ve had we’ve had Mark
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, 1 secondMitchell. He used to be with Raz Mason polling. and great guy. I’d
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, 8 secondsconsider him a little bit more well, it depends on what day you’re talking to him. Sometimes I think he’s a conservative moderate, other days he
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, 17 secondscomes off as liberal. And I’ve had some disagreements with him on the polling as it relates to November 3rd. He seems to
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, 26 secondsthink Democrats have it by three to four points. To the contrary, I think Republicans have it by at least three to
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, 35 secondsfour points. He says, ‘Why do you say that?’ I said, ‘Look what happened in every blue state or blue region of the
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, 44 secondsnation when Donald Trump was on the ballot and ran for president for the second time. All of those areas that
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, 52 secondsthought Trump was going to lose in blue states and blue regions, he ends up walking away with it with three to five
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to eight points ahead. I predict the same here. Now, I’m on I’m on the fence
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, 8 secondsbecause Ted, you’ve the difference this year is that Donald Trump is not on the ballot, but every but he, you know, last
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, 16 secondsnight he was in Sioux City, Iowa. Today he’s over here in Cal in Florida. he’s stumping for candidates for office.
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, 28 secondsWould you tell me if Biden ever did that for his Democrats?
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, 33 secondsIn fact, he didn’t even know the why the Democrats turned away from him at the 11th hour in a non- primary,
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, 42 secondsputting Kamala in the forefront. That was another inside job that people ignore. the primary system was
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, 49 secondsignored completely. At least the Republicans vet their candidates through a
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, 58 secondsuh primary process. Back on point. I think we’re going to see a landslide of
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, 4 secondsRepublicans which will overturn or totally change the patterns of the past,
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, 13 secondsmeaning that midterm elections usually go against the incumbent. I think we will see midterm elections going in
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, 21 secondsfavor of the incumbent. In this case, Donald Trump on the federal level. Over here in Florida, we’ve got Byron
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, 28 secondsDonald’s. good conservative, strong, character, current congressman in the United States
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, 37 secondsCongress. I think he takes the governorship, you know, and that’s kind of an interesting thing to me, too. we’re
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, 45 secondswe’re so concerned about Congress, we seem to have forgotten that there’s races for governor and state representative and
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, 52 secondsjudges around the country. But the president and the Republican party seems to be full force to make it a sweep of
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all political office around the country, which is pretty critical, too, by the way.
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, 5 secondsYeah, we’re I’m really focusing in my commentaries on various shows between now and the end of the year on American
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, 15 secondspublic sentiment. We have concerns, don’t we? but we’ve
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, 23 secondsgot the we’ve just been talking about the midterm elections, but we’ve got an economy with oil prices in the
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, 29 secondsforefront. We’ve got scratching our head wondering what the heck is going to be the outcome over at the Strait of
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, 36 secondsHormuz off the shores of Iran. We’ve got farm relief that the fed that the American citizens are worried about
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, 45 secondsto keep prices down. And you know, boy, I wouldn’t want Donald Trump’s job
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, 52 secondsbecause he’s getting hit from 40 sides with different issues all at the same time, some unexpected.
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And here you have a Democrat party just yesterday in the news with a
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, 8 secondsHillary Clinton thinking the big thing out there is to talk about the Supreme Court and raising the justices raising the justice count from 9 to 13.
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, 21 secondsYou know, if the Dems don’t get it their way, they want to blow up everything. If the Republicans don’t get it their way,
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, 29 secondsthey wait for new justices and vote them in or nominate new people. Trump’s not happy. He’s got three he’s
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, 38 secondsappointed. They’re not voting. They’re not adjudicating his way in the Supreme Court, but he doesn’t suggest a
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, 47 secondsdemolition of the Supreme Court or taking down or removing justices or expanding the judicial system to
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, 56 secondsdilute their impact. No, he’s he’s mad because they’ve right or wrong, they’ve
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, 3 secondsexercised their independence in jud in judging various issues. You got to
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, 9 secondsrespect the system. Who in this democracy, in this constitutional republic, who the heck gets it 100%
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, 17 secondstheir way 100% of the time? Just ask my wife.
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, 23 secondsYeah, ask the wife, the chairman of the board. Yeah.
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, 27 secondsYou know, and I see this I see the president going all over the country and promoting, you know, I wonder sometime
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, 35 secondsI I grew up in Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia, but it was different back then. I love to live in a world of logic and it seems so logical
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, 44 secondsthat we’re better off with the borders are secure. And let me tell you people, I’m no retired military person, but I
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, 52 secondsspent two years in the army. And the fact if a country like Iran got nuclear weapons, they would have no qualms about
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blowing up Pensacola, Hattiesburg, Jackson, or Washington DC. And you just cannot allow it. And you know,
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, 7 secondsactually, we’re doing the world policing. We’re taking we’re saving everybody in the world at our expense or something like that. And I think about
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, 14 secondsDonald Trump sometime, you know, being hit from all areas in his speeches or whatever he’s doing to try to help
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, 22 secondsAmerica. And you know, I think sometime, man, if I were you, I tell these people, look, I don’t need this grief. I don’t even get paid for this.
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, 29 secondsWell, France is experiencing that now, aren’t they? They’re they’re getting a good dose of socialism and/or communism.
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, 37 secondsAnd rightfully so. We are more reticent, the American people and government are more reticent in reaching
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, 44 secondsacross the pond to help them out. And why should they? They spit on us and denigrate the American
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, 52 secondsculture, the American way of life. In some senses, they have a reason to feel that way when you consider 20 million
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illegals managing to get through our border. No, we’ve got our share of problems at home, but Iran and the
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, 8 secondsStrait of Hormuz and economic welfare for the for the nation and the world are at the forefront. Here’s the
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, 17 secondsangle. Is economic pressure forcing Tehran toward a deal or is it creating incentives for future escalation?
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, 26 secondsWhat constitutes victory if Iran is financially weakened? But the world’s oil supply remains the vulnerable issue, doesn’t it? What are we going to do?
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, 38 secondsWell, we have about 65% control now of the world oil. So you would ask yourself the question,
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, 45 secondsespecially with this relationship, what we did in Venezuela overnight, which didn’t drag on at all, did it? In fact, it’s underway. The refineries over there
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, 54 secondsare being built as we speak, or I should say retrofitted. but the real issue is with 65% of the oil in
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, 3 secondscontrol, the people are asking “How come my gas prices aren’t down?”. Let me
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, 8 secondsexplain. The expensive price per barrel of crude oil is inelastic
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, 17 secondsand has nothing to do with the retail gasoline providers’ pricing criteria.
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, 27 secondsThe pump price is not directly related to the crude oil price because
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, 34 secondsof the oil system in the past and how we’ve priced crude oil worldwide with
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, 41 secondsthe people. No, we have a new system that will be revealed now with all 60%
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, 48 secondsplus control of oil. Ted, the it’s called the slinky effect. The prices for
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, 54 secondsoil will come down. so radically along with the cost of living. But Donald Trump won’t be in office by then. And
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, 3 secondsjust think about it, we saved a world during World War II, but it took how many years? It didn’t happen overnight.
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, 13 secondsPeople in America are a little bit spoiled. They want they want instant gratification
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, 20 secondsto the issues of the day, pricing, oil, fuel, and a dozen other issues.
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, 28 secondsChina, they’ve got a 100-year plan. Their grandchildren are going to be the ones, continuing with the vision and the
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, 37 secondsmission. They don’t expect results in a week or two. They’re looking for a long-term
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, 45 secondsplan to take over America. We got about a minute left, Gene. Yeah, and they’re succeeding, Ted. They were succeeding.
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, 53 secondsI think America has finally awakened to the notion that the Ilhan Omars of the world who is now subject to deportation
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, 3 secondsand may lose her citizenship, these kinds of people who wiggled their way in the back door of the operation of this
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, 11 secondsnation are now front and center. The problem with America, we adjudicate and provide justice slower than I like.
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, 22 secondsBut it’s justice that lasts. We will say America’s too big to rig. That’s for damn sure. And not to mention the
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, 30 secondselection. So get out and vote. Save America this November 3rd.
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, 35 secondsWell, I appreciate those thoughts. I feel better already. Thanks. The check’s in the mail, by the way. I’ll take it.
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, 43 secondsGene, you have a great weekend. Enjoy this weather. God bless this great country of ours. I’m not giving up. And I know you’re not either.
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, 50 secondsMe neither. Amen, brother. Have a good one and talk to you again next week.
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, 54 secondsRelationships matter because people buy people. And that’s why I buy Eddie Xarin
[15:01]
, 1 secondInsurance of the Xarin Insurance Agency in Pensacola, Florida. A family-owned business with over 50 years in the
[15:08]
, 8 secondsbusiness, and they treat people the right way. from homeowners insurance to contractors’ insurance, condo insurance,
[15:16]
, 16 secondscommercial insurance, all the different coverages that are out there, and of course, auto insurance. They’ve got you covered. They worry about you first.
[15:26]
, 26 secondsYou’re more than a policy number. You’re a person who they’re watching out for, not when the sun is shining, but after
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, 33 secondsthe hurricane has left. If you want real service with real savings, contact Eddie
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, 40 secondsXerin at the Eddie Xarin Insurance Agency. [Insurance website unclear in source.]
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, 49 secondsGive them a call today. You’ll be glad you did when you do.












