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Hi friends, Jean Valentino and welcome to another episode of Gene Valentino’s Grassroots Truthcast. As always, we’ve
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got interesting guests on each and every week. And uh we’d be remiss not to do a
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deeper dive. As loyal and as committed as we are to the merits of the Trump
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administration, there are Donald Trump nonetheless is
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held hostage to some of those around him. I hopefully fear that it wasn’t as
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bad as his first term where he had conspiring efforts underway behind his
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back even within his cabinet. Instead, um there seems to be a real uh human
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cry, a rallings of support for Donald Trump almost to the other extreme. Everyone seems so loyal and committed to
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his his cause. Um, but uh, we’re going to pour a little water on it today and
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still be respectful of the Trump administration. With me is Mark Mitchell
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from the Ras Mucen Reports. Hello, Mark. How you doing? Great to be here. You can be respectful,
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but I might not be. I don’t know. Like, you know, I’ve already said a lot of stuff that it puts me not on the
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Christmas card list. Let me tell you that. Well, I’m you may not be on the Christmas card list, but I suspect
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you’re still being viewed or watched by the Trump administration because what I have determined is they respect your
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friends, welcome back to the Grassroots Truth Cast. You think I know the word by now. Uh we’ve got a lot to cover with
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Mark Mitchell from Rasmusen Reports. Welcome Mark. Uh we were just talking in
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the breaks about about how uh people are probably anxious to see some uh juice
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for the squeeze, huh? Uh in this Trump administration. Uh while many respect
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his initiative and his the perils he’s subjected himself and his family to
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nonetheless uh he’s um is a delivery issue, isn’t there?
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That’s the understatement of the millennia. Remember Trump won who recall
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he was surrounded by DC scumbags and liars and grifters and even Trump won
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throughout the first year they got a lot accomplished and they were publishing lists of all the things that Trump did.
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Everybody remembers that Trump won is like wow we got this outsider in and all this all of a sudden all this stuff happened and objectively there are no
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lists like I I struggle to name accomplishments.
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You know, you could say what he focused his energy on. We had like Iran, the one big beautiful
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bill, some overseas stuff, the peace deal,
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the border, the border, the fentinol issue, the economic incentives, and now a lot of
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rebates on different levels. He’s talking about uh but was he not hamstrung? I’ve referred, let me answer,
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let me give you a comment and then you run with it. The comment is Donald Trump
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has won the 440. He sprinted to the finish line and miraculously won and he does so
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regularly. What makes him unbelievable is that he did it carrying a ball and
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chain. and the ball and chain were the incumbrances of the the Democrats in the
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House and Senate that even though they’re the minority, they they claim uh
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to have some control and that the Republicans being more civil than the Democrats allow for the Democrat um
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injection of opinion and thought. And um and what it does is it often seems to
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gridlock the Republicans from getting anything done. Trump says, “I’ve had enough. I’m turbocharging this.” Even
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getting rebuked by the the courts as to overreach of his authority, and he’s
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trying to turn this mountain, move this mountain overnight. What say you?
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uh he moved the mountain a heck of a lot better back in February and March than he has at any point since. Remember the
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way that there was this feeling of shock and awe. And a lot of this, remember, I’m a pollster. I’m a public opinion
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guy. So the objective truth doesn’t matter. It’s only what people think. And when I say Trump’s accomplished nothing,
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where’s the list? I’m literally saying he’s not talking about a list of things that he accomplished. And he isn’t
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talking about a list of things he’s going to accomplish over the next year. Now, back in the beginning of his
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administration, he was it was scorched earth, you know what I mean? Like, he was kicking people out of the country.
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He was busting down doors at USID. He was going to audit the Fed and go tour
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Fort Knox. And everybody loved it. His approval rating was absolutely soaring,
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especially with 18 to 39 year olds. They had a 60% approval rating the same week
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that search volume for Doge peaked. So these young people, you got to
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acknowledge that Trump’s coalition in the fall of 24 was almost 40% independents and Democrats, many of them
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young people, many of them politically homeless, who were giving Republicans a chance for the very first time. And then
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they got all of their feelings validated because that election, in my opinion, was a referendum on institutional trust.
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And what happens? He opens up his presidency with a scorched earth attack on institutions. And then he got rid of
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Do and I think it happened because they wanted to pass spending bills that Elon thought were bad. And so DC won and they
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is he gave away the biggest gift he ever gave the Republican party which was Doge. Yeah. Is it Well, I’m glad you
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brought up Doge because is it is it his success or his performance or is it his
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messaging? you’re the master of messaging and and analyzing the transparency of polling. Uh I’m
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concerned that maybe his message could have been more refined, but no one can
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argue his performance. What do you think? No, I think the messaging was very clearly the best part of it. 100%. The
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optics are very important and people do not want a comfortable Washington DC.
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This was a again a referendum on institutional trust. And the reason I say that is that you can point to the
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Democrats and say socialism is bad. Kla Harris is a bad candidate. And yet they
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were able to get almost half the country to vote for her, but when you ask, well, do you trust the federal government?
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Only 30% say yes. Do you trust Congress? Only 20% say good or excellent. Right? And so people hate Washington DC
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pulpably. And they know it. It’s because they’re getting like screwed over royally. The the music has stopped. the
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wealth concentration is really at all-time highs. Corporations have power over them. They tell me all this stuff
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in their polls and nobody really talks about that because we know how DC operates. And so for them to come down
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there, everybody on the internet was laughing about like increases in searches for suicide helplines in
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Washington DC on the internet and laughing about the fact that criminal defense attorney searches in DC were
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higher than they’ve ever been. So people were very much wanted on the internet. Washington DC burned to the ground and
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they really don’t care which party does it which is puts us in a dangerous situation because I think all of these
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people are probably not going to give Republicans another chance and Republicans in my opinion have
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Yeah. Yeah. That that’s my concern. I mean don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater. If I’m giving you the bad
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news that doesn’t mean I’m the I’m the bank robber that stole your money. I mean, I if you’re going to be upset, uh,
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how about how about all of us in the nation? Here’s a poll I’d like to do someday. Find out how much
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responsibility individual voters take for whom they voted for.
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They don’t care. They will. They don’t care at all. Everybody is aligned. How do you blame? My problem is I’m not
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defending Trump, but how do you blame Trump for the things that came before him that he has not fixed yet, some of
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them, but that are in fact underway that he’s working on uh in an unprecedented
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way? That’s my concern. Yeah. Like Republicans don’t really get three parts of the government very often
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in both houses, Congress, and the they don’t want to hear excuses because they
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think we’re in an ex existential crisis. I could just rattle off a just list of ridiculous things. 90% are concerned
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about political violence. 72% think we’re living in a police state. 64% think the CIA sends talking points to
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the mainstream media. 60% says the media is the enemy of the people. Like I could go on and on. Weaponized polit political
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justice system. And so they don’t want excuses. And for them to say, well, it’s
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like hard or we have rules. That enrages them. And the thing is quite frankly
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that the Democrats have answers for this and the Republicans don’t. The the number one issue we have right now is
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that young people are upset that their future has been stolen from them and sent overseas and they can’t buy houses
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because of all the old people who have concentrated wealth. That’s the number one issue. Okay. But if you look at where that came
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from, it was the breakdown in our educational system that preceded even the first
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the institutions of education pulled um pulled attention towards okay no why why
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not uh that is a very establishment response that shifts responsibility and these
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people are sick of having responsibility shifted and being blamed. that is the educational system has no role in
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this. They kind of see it more like well this is the educational system that you trained us with bro like that is really
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the the viewpoint that because the kind of arguments they’re hearing is you just have to work harder and you have to like
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pull yourself up by the bootstraps. But the thing is is that Republican and Democrat parties worked together and I
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understand there was NAFTA and blah blah blah but you also have to acknowledge that the Republican party is the party
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of big business. It is bought and paid for by the Chamber of Commerce, Club for Growth, blah blah blah. You know, the
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Koch money, the Ken Griffin money. These are the forces behind the Republican party. Those people really want amnesty
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and they like illegal immigration. And they also really like offshoring and globalization and globalization and
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offshoring and the H-1B scam are all things that have hollowed out the middle class. This isn’t about to H1B scam. I
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think that’s we’re talking about, but what about the equivalent? How about the George Soros money and the millions of
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dollars of NOS’s that are funding uh the Democrats?
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Yeah, I like agree it’s a problem, but I think that the right pointing at the left and calling them boogeymen when the
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right like kind of loses on purpose, that’s what people see. You know what I mean? Like they had a chance, they’re
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going to lose. They have done nothing. They really have done nothing. Uh and they’re completely MIA. You have to
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understand this election and again people will say oh it’s blue state offcycle election it doesn’t matter what
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matters is that Chidarelli wasn’t able to convert 700,000 Trump voters and Mikey Cheryl was almost able to get the
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same number as Kla Harris so that is the wakeup call is that crossover Democrats
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and independents in New Jersey did not care. They were let down by Republicans because, and I’ll tell you, Republic uh
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Donald Trump’s approval rating didn’t really crash all the way through the shutdown until the very end. People
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actually like wanted the shutdown, but they expected a plan. And what happened is Congress went MIA was just being
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performative. Donald Trump flew all over the world and everybody watched this coming snap defunding and did nothing
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about it. And then it was election day. And then what what do people do? They look they look on the internet and this
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Republican party eating itself alive over Israel which has nothing to do with the election that we had last week. And
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so I think people were really mad and punished them and uh they don’t that’s my point is that not everybody knows
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what you and I know about NOS’s and George Soros but what they see with their eyes is that they’re not being
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represented and they have the Democrats have a very authentic message for the Democrats have already embraced their
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youth vote. their youth vote wants UBI, Democratic socialism, singlepayer health
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care. And if the Democrats get in, they’re going to get it. And the
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Republicans are going to help them. That’s what’s going to happen. And so, at least from the young people’s
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perspective, their problems get solved. Is it a bad solution? You and I know, yes, it’s very bad. But the young people
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look at the Republicans and say, “That’s not a solution.” Folks, we’re talking uh with Mark Mitchell from Rasmucin
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Reports. Great insight, different different spin uh on um on the Trump
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administration’s uh performance to date. What do you think of Mr. Epstein and the
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Epstein files? I won’t say any more than that. Throw me your Let me just throw you a bone on that one.
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Everybody called me a panic and I lost 3,000 followers and I still screamed about it. I sent clips to the White
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House and they didn’t do they didn’t listen to me at all and they exactly
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what I predicted is exactly what happened. So Epstein is not the biggest issue, but it’s got a lot of lore.
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People on the right have been talking about it for 10 years. People have been saying, “Oh, we’re going to find out about Bill Clinton and Bill Gates. It’s
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going to be great. We’re going to release these things.” Cash Patel helped run on this stuff, right? Like let’s not
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ignore that. And so when the Pam Bondi case closed, clip on Fox dropped,
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everybody had just gotten one big beautiful bill. They came back from July 4th weekend and they’re like, “Okay,
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what’s next, Republican party? What do you got for me? What are you going to give me? Let’s see the next accomplishment.” Wait, case closed. And
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everybody’s like, “How how can that be? How can that be? The case isn’t closed.”
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And so I went immediately into the field and I pulled and I found that yes, only 16% of America thought the case was
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closed. and that like 60% of them thought that, you know, there are still wealthy and powerful people that
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sexually abuse minors and that they need to go to jail. And I sent that to the White House. And what happened the very
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next day, Trump attacked his followers. And so what they did was they didn’t
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care about public opinion. They tried to brute force public opinion. And they don’t even understand why it didn’t
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work. And it’s because people thought that this was a litmus test of future accountability. It’s a representation of
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two-tier justice, which is the least popular thing in America. 95% of people don’t like two-tier justice. Like, I
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mean, it’s obvious, but it’s like, if you want to piss off Americans, you show them that the system is unfair. And so,
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that’s what this represented, and it represented Trump trying to brute force reality and you can’t you can’t brute
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force public opinion. So, I tried to help him. I screened Bloody Murder. I thought it was the biggest mistake after
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Doge that he made, and they didn’t listen. And I said, “This is going to create an evergreen issue for the
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Democrats. They’re going to run on this in 26. They’re going to impeach Trump and have an Epstein commission.” And I
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was 100% I have all the clips. 100% right. And nobody listened to me. All he had to do was say, “Hey, you know, we
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have an FBI. Let’s investigate.” And it would have gone away. It would have gone
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away. They could have focused on some other issue. And I don’t even know what to tell. He He permanently lost probably
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about 5% of independence with the Epstein thing. And uh do you think switching slightly uh over
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to Doge and Elon Musk um Elon in his just few weeks on that job uh finds his
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own business Tesla under attack and the dealerships and the cars. He finds uh I
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remember being in a debate with someone saying his stock at $220 a share is
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going to climb. My opponent suggested it was going through down the drain. Well, sure enough, within 30 to 40 days later,
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the stock now, as you know, is over $300 a share, and it’s growing like a weed.
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Uh, but he, more importantly, Elon presented, I think he opened Pandora’s
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box and brought to the administration’s attention some things even more egregious than were first thought. And
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uh uh all of a sudden there’s this concern I have as to how and why uh Doge is
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being shut down. Did they find too much under the under the uh the the covers as
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they say? Um, I have my theory and I don’t know
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and I’ll explain what I think the theory is, but people might not appreciate like how bad
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things are. Like with a trillion dollars of just interest payments and 38 trillion in debt and it’s getting worse
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and worse, we’re like, you know, maybe two downgrades away from like complete insolveny. Uh, it’ll shoot up to like
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two trillion in debt. And just to give you an example, if we had gone back in 1970 and capped Medicare and Medicaid at
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a percent of GDP, then our debt would only be like 18 trillion right now. It
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would be way way way way less. So just our promises to pay for people’s health care have basically bankrupted us. And
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if you look at what we got for it, we spent all that money and we maybe extended li lives a couple years, but we
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did it by turning every single state almost top employer into healthcare industry. And now 19% of our GDP is
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healthcare. Probably like half of it comes from the government. So we basically nationalized an entire
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industry and it’s completely corporate capture. And so there’s a lot that we could do within Medicare being smart
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about let’s clean up all the fraudulent payments. Let’s take a look at things like I I asked Rock and I said I I had
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sleep apnnea. I went to a sleep study. They told me I was going to die and I had to get a CPAP. Long story short, I didn’t believe them. So I started
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sleeping on my side and my apnea went away. And so it’s like well the health industry loves to create a problem and
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then solve it with an expensive chronic fix. If we took just half the people who had CPAPs in America and were able to
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like get them a firmer mattress, change their pillow, whatever, it was $850 billion over 10 years
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according to Grock. So, it’s like the guy that would have been able to identify those things is gone. And the
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reason I think he’s gone is because the Republicans said, “Listen, Trump, here’s how it’s going to be. Debt ceiling’s
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coming due. we’ll be able to get a clean CR, but we have to pass all of your stuff through reconciliation.
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And they could have used nuclear option. I was calling for the nuclear option. Turns out we found out recently they only have nine votes. They’re really
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clinging to that. This again, this is like forth turning. I think that’s a very like old traditional establishment
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Republican value that the youth don’t care about at all. And so in order to
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get the one big beautiful bill, Elon Musk was really upset that it was locking in spending. And I think he got
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a tap on the shoulder and said, “We need this one, bro.” The they’ve been writing that bill. The lobbyists have been
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writing that bill for four years. It’s packed full of 3,000 pages of stuff. It’s like, you know, probably some
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favors in there that are doing payable and some receipts that have come due. And Washington DC wanted its bill and
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they got rid of Doge. They literally had their own George Soros and they got rid of him because they wanted to pass a bill and Trump was like, “Okay, we need
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this win.” And they they didn’t even get a bounce for the reconciliation bill.
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There was no pick up. Yeah. Yeah. I’m interested to uh compare how
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crime was the initial uh strength of the platform for the Republicans and uh
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during this reconciliation process, it pivoted by the Democrats to healthc care
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and health reform and it’s as if crime wasn’t an issue anymore. Uh all that
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going on while National Guard starts to slip into blue cities and states around
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the nation. What’s your take on the um on the overall focus of health care in
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this nation as it compares to the way Donald Trump is maybe suggesting a
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solution? He should have one pending because he’s now looks like he’s getting the votes.
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Yeah, I don’t know. I would say that Democrats win on the issue of health care, especially with older people, and
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that’s just because they want to vote for other people’s money. And so my politics, again, I’m not a Republican or
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a Democrat. I just I’m independent and I want voters to get what they want. And then the the follow-up to that is unless
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it’s stupid. And so having an entire healthcare industry built with complete regulatory capture on other people’s
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money is insane. And that’s the Democrats plan because they can plunder the treasury. And so the Republicans
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have to have an alternative of that. And they haven’t been able to come up with one. The best they’ve come up with is they’re going to convince America that
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they will repeal Obamacare, but they can’t articulate what that means and how it can change. Now, what they could do
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is lay out a way in which they roll back regulatory capture, understand the
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spending, and push back on these costs in a way that’s anti-corporate, but
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they’re not going to do it. And so I think if people think large corporations have too much power, it’s like 70 to 20.
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And we the antitrust polling is off the chart. And we have all the right people. We have the best people we’re going to
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have ever to challenge the regulatory healthcare state. And it would be it would be brutal. It would reduce GDP.
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There would be a recession. A lot of people would lose their jobs, but it would also put more money back in
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people’s pockets. And there we’re at a point where there’s no easy answers. And I think that actually like Republicans
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and Trump were given a really big blank slate. A lot of leeway to do this. I’m telling you, like looking at the
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polling, Gen Z really would have probably appreciated it if Trump had just ignored
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those judges back in March. I don’t think they really care because they look at they don’t care about the Constitution like you or I do. and they
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look at the left and they say, “Well, the left is ignoring the Constitution and the right treats it like a suicide
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pact and neither are working out for me and they don’t know who to to vote for and they just want results, right? And
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so they are going to still we are on track for them to be handed a hollowedout society. It has not changed.
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You you don’t hear any Republicans talking about uh you know wealth inequality measures and that’s how they
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should measure their success. They measure their success with the stock market and the Democrats, you know,
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measure their success with votes. So, you know, votes, I hope they’re all
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legitimate votes. That’s the only comment I’d throw in. Yeah. Uh the the fact of the matter is is um Trump’s guy,
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we’re recording this on Wednesday, November 12th, and tonight in the uh
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Donald Trump is hosting a bunch of um uh elite business leaders from around the
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nation, bankers and financeier experts. Uh uh that uh you know, and when I liked
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him the most was when he was handing out fries at McDonald’s. He was um he was, you know, in touch
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with the guy. I think that’s what you were saying. I think that’s what you were saying. And the the people don’t
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want to lose that guy. And um uh on the other hand, you know, um if he can pull
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some strings with major financeers in the nation to steer business and
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therefore jobs and incentives, um then the issues like the H1B visa
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issue and other issues become less of an argumentative issue because we’re
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relying more on our own talent in the United States again, which was a topic we opened on before we go for a break.
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You want to comment on that? I mean, just like think about what you just said like after the last two days
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where Donald Trump yelled at people for being concerned about affordability,
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conflated the economy with bringing down turkey prices, dained to solve the
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housing crisis with a probanker, pro-ousing uh industry uh pro- boomer
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quite frankly economic solution. and then defended big corporations on H-1B.
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After that string of events, he’s going to meet with powerful and wealthy billionaires. Like maybe that should
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have been a secret meeting, you know, like I’m just saying he’s completely lost. Like they have lost the plot. All
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they had to do was smash the oligarchy and he is the oligarchy and so we’re going to have the Democrat oligarchy. I
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don’t I don’t know what to like. That’s that’s as a as a pollster that’s what I see out of it. He’s not standing up for
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Americans. And he might talk about things with them where they lie to him and say this will help Americans. But
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you and I both know it’s going to be like amnesty. It’s going to be more H-1Bs because we need innovation. And
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it’s all with these sweet little lies that sound good to people in Washington DC. And uh I don’t know. I’m sorry. I’m a
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little jaded about this, but yeah. Well, me too. You know, I was jaded about being able to have your own
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doctor, right? Um, I mean, it’s the I I don’t I don’t want
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While I’m anxious to be objective and neutral about the benefits and
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shortcomings of Donald Trump’s administration, I’m cautious not to throw the bomb in his lap and just let
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it reside there when there were issues that preceded him. In fact, your methodology and your your your sense of
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analytics on these polls is what drew me to you. I it’s it’s pretty unique and I
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consider in insightful. Um uh but you
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know that doesn’t mean you throw the baby out with the bathwater. I I see a guy trying to put the right structures
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in place so that economics of individual entrepreneurs like you and me can in can
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be on the front line with new new business opportunities in the area of
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AI, a structure that works. uh uh uh uh the cryptocurrency making sure that
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we’re not screwed like Samuel Bankman Freed did is now serving time in jail because of a lack of regulation over the
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crypto uh um neutralizing or cooling the
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excitement in that industry. I do believe there’s a place for government to come in with some level of regulation
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and oversight, but not to impugn or impede yeah what would be economic um
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prosperity and creative competition uh entre the entrepreneurial spirit.
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I just I just I mean I the guy’s eating drinking out
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of a fire hose. Um I before before I worry about how many how jaded people
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might feel about him being with certain corporate executives, how many have we forgotten how many um uh events, his
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rallies around the nation with hundreds of thousands of people that was face to
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face and uh oneon-one. Now, you know, uh I guess I could find some reason to be
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be upset with the guy. I mean, I ran for Congress this past year. I um took a
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shot at um Matt Gates’s seat in District 1 in Florida and um uh I came in second
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out of about 10 Republicans, but it’s because M Donald Trump supported my
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opponent. You know, I guess I could feel I have a grudge towards the guy. I don’t. He He was listening to
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He was listening to some people and not me. So, so you know, I I kind of understand
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firsthand I what you’re saying. It’s just that I’m I’m not Well, let me put it to you this
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way. Think of what the think of what the alternative would have been. Yeah. But the voters aren’t thinking
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that way. That’s the problem. They’re looking at the alternative being like, “Well, maybe these people will do what they say.” And I don’t have allegiance
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to any party, but I have like four children and I don’t want them drafted into a NATO war to clear away banker
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debt. And so I am completely unencumbered to say my mind as loudly as
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I think I need to when an error is being made. I’m not This isn’t some like PR campaign I’m doing. I literally am
30:08
screaming because he’s making the worst mistakes right now. And if he doesn’t fix it, he’s cooked. And I’m looking at
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the clock. We got 356 days till the next election. If he loses that election, there’s they’re going to impeach him and
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the Republicans are probably going to work with him. They’re going to pack the courts. They’re going to do Epstein commission. They’re going to do
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literally everything because I think they look at Yeah. No. Mr. Pollster, based on what you just
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said, are you saying that the midterm election in 2026,
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he loses a majority in either the House or the Senate? Of course, 100%. And without
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That’s that is the beginning of the end for him. Yeah, of course. I the writing’s on the
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wall. The Republicans did nothing, just got repudiated and are still doing
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nothing. There’s no wakeup call. They are literally they are they want to go back to old right and they are going to
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win because they are in charge. DC is like occupied territory at this point. The voters should be mad. And I’ll tell
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you like all I’m not being histrionic. I’m saying that measures of concerns
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about political violence are through the roof. People think a civil war is coming. 43% of them they think that like
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we’re on an unsustainable path and they think that all these politicians are lying to them. I I have like 70% of
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America thinks that most politicians are using the system for illotten gains. I
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don’t know agree with you. Yeah. But that’s and what’s obvious in your face though
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NOS’s or no NOS’s controlling this nation. The fact is there’s um only the
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Republicans are getting shot and killed or attacked in in pretty aggressive
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ways. Uh I don’t know any Democrat that’s been shot other than John F.
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Kennedy and I’m not sure he was shot by an American. Um let me let me rebut that with one point,
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please. If I give a dollar to the Democrats, 97% will be spent for their ideological
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causes. If I give a dollar to Republicans, 50% will be stolen by
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Grift, by consulting classes. And so it’s like, you know what I mean? It’s I know that because I talked to these
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people. And uh I don’t think you don’t think that money is being stolen on the Democrat side either
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to pay for all of these people at these different Here’s the thing. Uh uh
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protest every week. The amoral left is not going to be able to be beat with an amoral right. It’s
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not going to work. Like iron needs to sharpen iron here. And uh it’s clearly not like I I I’ve heard of all of the
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MAGA people all around the country who get shut out by the establishment Republicans. They get forced the you got
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to use the establishment vendors. Oh, the vendors waste money on in inefficient things. Then they run
32:54
campaigns distancing themselves from Trump even though Trump outperformed everybody because our state’s different
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and they’re going to come after me in the press. like just so much cowardice. I’ve just seen it over and over again
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and then the money gets directed. You know, people make connections with the NRCC. They they get Trump’s ear. The
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endorsement goes to the wrong person. The money goes to the wrong person. The person with ties to industry is the one
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that gets preferentially selected. It’s an oligarchy and Trump has to smash it
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because the left is going to steal it. and the oligarchy the oligarchy he’s accused of being part of right
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he looks like he is I mean I’m just saying when the the the kids cannot be
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the median home buyer firsttime home buyer age is now 40 years old which means average person graduating from
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college has to work 18 years before they can get a house and Trump’s solution was pay interest for 50 years bro like
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that’s not that’s the oligarchy it is and again Bill Py might be a really nice guy, but he’s getting laughed at online.
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They’re making jokes about leasing turkeys for Thanksgiving. I mean, it’s
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like, okay, catch your breath. Grab a sip. I’m going to sip my coffee, too. Folks, this
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is a great conversation with Mark Mitchell, the Rasmusen Reports. He’s uh
34:17
up in New York right now, and he’s been contributing on other major podcasts and networks. And uh we’re going to have him
34:24
back as well if I can get him. He’s um he’s a nice guy that has an um uh an
34:30
edge and a different opinion, but it is insightful and it’s based on fact and
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reason and that’s what I like most about Mark Mitchell. Let’s have more with Mark
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episode of Gene Valentino’s Grassroots Truth Cast. I’m here with Mark Mitchell from the Ras Mucin Group and boy he’s
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got my attention today on some of the issues facing us. While many of us on the far right seem to be uh enthralled
35:45
with Donald uh Trump’s performance, and I might think that somewhere in the back
35:52
there, Mr. Mark Mitchell thinks a lot of Donald Trump too, but I really what I do
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think is he’s bringing to the table, hey guys, wake up because we’re about to
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lose it if you don’t clean house here and fix it. Um the for example tonight
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he’s uh going to be with a bunch of billionaires and major national u uh
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financial institution. Is that a flaw that he’s putting that on after working
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so hard with so many people at the grassroots level or is that a benefit
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Mark that he’s trying to stimulate bigger policy positions for the American
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economy through Scott Bessant? Uh I I I’m an I’m a CEO of a few companies and
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I know there’s policy positions and then there’s grassroots strategy, but you got
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to have the policy position first to send the ball mo moving down the right
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side of the hill. Sure. And I would say like
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the modern political uh environment has no idea how different things have gotten
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just in the last two years because remember we’ve only had a free Twitter for like two and a half years now. And
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what you can see is that it’s like, okay, Twitter is not the real world, but the Twitter narrative is a real
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discussion. There’s actually good faith people like trying to work out logically
37:20
the right answer to things. And if they find a wrong answer or inauthenticity or lying, they will brutally, brutally
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attack it. And just, you know, like three, four years ago, there Twitter was still like a CIA sock puppet basically,
37:33
right? So now what do you see is like, well, all of a sudden Chuck Schumer gets
37:38
completely eaten alive by radical Democrats who can call him out now.
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People like Mark Levvin get radically like completely eaten alive by the radical right because they’re out of out
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of touch and don’t understand. And so it’s very important that whoever is leading us is plugged into this national
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dialogue. And it’s quite clearly obvious that Donald Trump is not because he is getting brutally made fun of right now
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in a way that in my opinion is going to result in even worse numbers. His number
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he’s9 net approval today. It’s probably going to drop and uh he’s probably going to lose a lot of core people because I’m
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getting texts from people who are like burning their MAGA hats even though they supported this guy for 10 years. And uh
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and so the the response is like uh message control, right? Like let’s be
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very deliberate about what gets put out there. And in order to do that, you have to understand like what people’s major
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considerations are. It doesn’t mean you can’t meet with billionaires. Maybe just do it in secret and not put
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it all over the press. Uh you know what I mean? like maybe don’t have an interview where you just go in and
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freeball it and you completely embarrass yourself. And so if I were Trump, what I would be doing
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Yeah. Go ahead. Yeah, go ahead. Yeah. Yeah. No, I wanted I wanted to interrupt only to say that catches the
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attention and people are offended by that when you had a previous president
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using an autopen system hundreds of times by a deliberate staff allegedly
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to authorize things that our president didn’t even know about allegedly. And
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now that gets a pass. And we’re talking about how Donald Trump’s spending his
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time trying to put some bigger issues in motion. I’m telling him how to win. And people
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don’t care that Biden did that anymore unless you’re going to arrest. They don’t care how they they don’t
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care. I mean, is is there no criminal wrongdoing that Well, they don’t care
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anymore, but we don’t have all the evidence placed because it was Well, when the evidence comes out, when
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do the prosecutions and indictments start? That’s what I’m saying is they don’t care unless you arrest people
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because they assume that politicians are corrupt. Now, that’s just the basic state of things. So, if you’re saying,
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“Well, that guy was super corrupt,” then they’re like, “Okay, well, why didn’t you arrest him?” And so, that doesn’t really work. Now, I think if they
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arrested people that were doing that, it would be awesome optics and the youth would really love it, especially because
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they’re the ones following the autopen scandal the closest. But since that’s not happening, what I would do is I
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would say, “All right, if Trump’s going to do some publicity stunts, go to the American rancher, uh,
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Merryweather Farms, who employs only Americans and makes American beef, and
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all of a sudden our DOJ is going after antitrust in the meatacking industry.” or go to the new go to the farm that now
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is employing Americans who are coming out of uh high school with no jobs and they don’t have to go to the college
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industry anymore and so we don’t need Chinese CCP members to support our college industry because we deported
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people like that would be a really good one too. Uh or you know you could put out a weekly roundup of here’s who got
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fired in the FBI today. You know what I mean? Like why aren’t we not doing that? And they haven’t. It’s like Cash Patel
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is all over the internet now because of the allegations against his girlfriend and he’s suing and they haven’t fired
41:07
people who raided Mara Lago. Like how does this happen? And so they either
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need to do stuff or at least put out optics that show that they intend to. But when he comes out and says no, don’t
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talk to me about affordability and that’s the only optics for a week, then it’s like we’re cooked. Like I I don’t
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know what to tell you. I and I don’t know who’s running things, but they need a shakeup immediately and they better
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have some young people in there. They’re getting destroyed. Okay. In in the last 5 to 8 minutes we
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have uh a rapid fire. Let me hit you with some questions in and out. Um
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what’s the the Rasmusen reports poll polling goes on constantly. I know. What
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what’s one of your hot topics in the polls that are coming out that and uh
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what you think it will trend? Where will it head? Uh well, I think Donald Trump’s probably
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going to kick around at like a neg five to a -10 approval rating. And the other thing that has happened is that Right
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Direction was setting records. We had the highest Right Direction polling we’ve ever had. Uh once 50% which is
42:16
like unbelievable. And then we had 37 weeks straight of right direction polling above 40. Well, two weeks ago it
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went below 40, wouldn’t you know it, right before the election. And uh really what we’ve been digging into is this
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idea of like economic populism and that the economy is not fair to young people? And has Trump administration been doing
42:35
enough to make the economy better for young people? And I don’t care what he’s done, but I asked America and they said
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no. 18 to 29 year olds, only 20 20% of them said yes. 69% of them said no. And
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so let’s Here’s here’s where here’s where you get me. You’re giving me those numbers on
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the very day the Dow Jones Industrials have hit an all-time high.
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And that doesn’t And that’s not And that doesn’t impact Suzie and Joe Smith down
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in the corner trying to pay their light bill this week. I Exactly. In fact, Trump uses it as an
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excuse to ignore them when it’s really the measure. What do you mean by that? I I don’t find
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him to be I know Joe Biden had a tone of ignoring people and insulting people and
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in a way that Trump did not. The reality is I’ve never seen a guy give his salary
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and put up a ton of money on this new wing on the White House uh that uh no
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one cares to compare to what Biden’s antics were. I mean, this is what’s
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driving me crazy. But they didn’t arrest Biden. They didn’t arrest Biden. And what’s going to happen? The fix was in for Trump.
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I know what I’m just telling you. When the Democrats take control of the 120th Congress, they are probably going to go
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after Trump and his orbit for enriching themselves at the expense of the
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taxpayer. And I don’t know if it’s true or not. I’m just telling you that’s what they’re going to do, right? We both know
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it. And so Trump isn’t doing that to them. And he unfortunately talks a lot
44:12
about the stock market. And the stock market, the people who care about the stock market are people with portfolios,
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overwhelmingly older Republicans, people who are billionaires, right? And very
44:24
few other people. And so when people literally can’t buy houses, you have to
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work 18 years to maybe buy a house, and people aren’t procreating and finding partners because they have to work, then
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they don’t want to hear about the stock market. They want the stock market to crash to screw over the billionaires.
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And Trump is like, “Oh, the stock market’s great. There is an economic populism wave. Even Republicans want economic populism and
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Trump has to win by being the pragmatic voice of economic populism. You can’t do
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that without measuring things like firsttime home buyer age going down,
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marriage is going up, uh first time job incomes going up. Like
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you can’t and they’re not they’re not measuring those things. He should be talking Yeah. Go ahead. Yeah. I I keep interrupting because I
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think there’s a delay. I apologize. Um the the Scott Besson, Secretary of Treasury, I get the sense from him that
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the interest rates going up uh is um is a patch on the tire or uh I should say
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this interest this 50-year amortization of a mortgage is a patch on the tire to
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transition back to making uh home purchasing more affordable for
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individuals. I think it’s crazy. I mean, I I paid off my mortgage because I
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worked twice as hard. I worked very hard to make my money and I paid off my
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mortgage. I have no mortgage. But, you know, uh that doesn’t mean everyone can
45:58
do that. And I So, mortgages are in place to help those who really can’t do it totally on their own. And and and I
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think not good enough. It’s it’s Yeah. Yeah. So, okay, let me rapid fire you. But what’s the prediction for
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the um midterm elections? Well, I haven’t pulled generic ballot
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since the election, but the real clear politics aggregate is Democrats up four and a half. Seems like Republicans
46:23
picked their redistricting fight and aren’t going to win it, and they are running on literally no work product. Uh
46:31
they’re not even talking about their legislative agenda for the next year. And they’re probably not going to make very many risque a votes over the next,
46:38
you know, 12 months either. Uh, and so I suspect that you’re gonna walk into election day with Democrats plus eight
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or nine and it’s probably going to be a really big blue wave and it doesn’t have to be that.
46:49
Yeah. Can you run a poll on term limits? What’s the nation feel about term limits for Congress?
46:55
Uh, I forget. I think it’s like, you know, 60 70% probably is my guess. Uh, I
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think term limits is probably like score is less important than getting rid of Citizen United or stuff
47:09
like that, like getting the money out. Um, but the voters don’t know that stuff. And I also think they assume that
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it doesn’t matter. But we had like open criminality in the Biden administration, like naked open criminality. And now the
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right What do you mean? I think I know what you mean, but for the public, what do you mean? Oh, laptop to hell. Cocaine in the white
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h laptop from hell. Cocaine in the White House. Uh we had like numbers of like almost 60% of people like thought that
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Joe Biden was taking money from China and half Ukraine.
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Sure. Uh like 75% of Republicans wanted Joe Biden impeached going all the way
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back to 2022 and MTG is the only one that even tried. So, it’s like complete
47:56
complete Washington DC capture by the Republican party is the only way I can assume that most people are going to
48:01
feel in a very like subtextual way. The and people say, “Oh, look at the
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Democrat party. People hate the Democrat party.” Well, no. Folks are using fake polls. When I poll on people, uh,
48:14
they’re pretty equal. They are pretty equal about whether they like the Republican or Democrat party. But when
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you have numbers like the congressional ratings of the Republican Congress going
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into this election day among independents, 3% excellent, 6% good. And
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Republicans did that to themselves. And they are going to lose elections because people expect results now. They
48:36
literally they’re giving up on capitalism. People are giving up on capitalism and conservatism because Republicans suck.
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That’s just what’s happening. We’re going to and and you can tell me, well, capitalism’s the best principle, and
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they’re they’re going to say, well, it hasn’t worked for me. And we both Let me change your comment just a smidgen. How about how about Republican
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leadership sucks? And I think that’s what it was under the Mitch McConnell era. Uh that’s why I go back to term
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limits. Uh you know, term limits wouldn’t have Mitch McConnell or um
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Chuck Schumer around to not to mention Nancy Pelosi. uh Maxine Waters and Adam
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Schiff and two or three others. You’d have you’d have a more and more inexperienced.
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Admittedly, we open ourselves up to neophites, but um it certainly changes
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the complexion and the status quo of how we look at legislating in the United
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States Congress. Let let me push back on one thing. Sure. And this is my unique vantage point.
49:41
We’re probably the cheapest pollster in the industry and certainly the most accurate. You can see what happened in
49:47
the fall. Definitely the most independent because I go scorched earth on both sides and the the biggest
49:54
footprint media footprint. If people pulled with us, we could do a lot of media reach. We have a 620,000 Twitter
50:00
profile, right? And we poll on everything, especially the things people care about. Like you can probably just
50:06
tell from what we’ve talked about that I have a lot of unique research that would be very valuable to people in the Republican party, right? You know how
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many Republican legislators or offices came to me in the last four years?
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Not not a clue. Two. They don’t.
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But they don’t buy my subscription. They don’t ask me to run questions. They
50:29
don’t care. They don’t want to know. They don’t want to know what voters think. The two were like Eric Schmidt
50:34
and I think Ron Johnson and one was about election integrity and the other one was I think asking about uh vaccine
50:42
stuff. And then they’re like, “Oh, you have all this abortion stuff.” I’m like, “Yeah, you guys are really bad at abortion messaging. I have all this
50:48
stuff.” And I sent it to them and like it’s so clear the path forward on
50:54
abortion, how to message it and they don’t want to win because they probably get bought off by the abortion industry.
50:59
I’m sorry. It’s something like that. And in fact, you know who is the only person on the Republican party that has
51:06
messaged effectively on abortion in my opinion? Meaning like they used a message to get an outcome.
51:13
It’s when Ron DeSantis’s paid followers were trying to undermine Trump so Ron Ron could win the the GOP primary. They
51:21
literally tried to blow up Trump’s support by saying Trump wasn’t pro-life enough. That’s the only time anybody used abortion. So they don’t care about
51:28
the issue at all. They just absolutely don’t. And so it’s not Republican leadership. It’s the entire Republican
51:33
party. And that’s not even talking about the donor harvesting that’s going all on all the way up and down how they push
51:38
out MAGA candidates. And I I’ll just give you an example. Like look at a place like Colorado, right? And it’s
51:44
like well it’s blue and they’re not going to win, but maybe in 10 or 20
51:49
years they could move the state more Republican, right? And acknowledge that Trump has one of the more popular
51:55
platforms. Drain the swamp. Get rid of legal aliens. focus on the middle class. Like it’s stuff that we can all agree is
52:02
effective. So there’s a MAGA candidate. They paid to for me to poll and what I
52:08
found is that because of their MAGA situation, they would 100% win the primary. They would uh people don’t want
52:16
a traditional Republican. They want a MAGA Republican. Okay. And then I was like, okay, here it is. You’re going to
52:22
lose the general, but you will win the primary. What is it? Well, I can’t get to the Trump team. They’re not going to
52:27
give me an endorsement. The RGA doesn’t want to talk to me. The NRSC is going to cut me out. They’re throwing money
52:33
against my They’re throwing money to my establishment opponent. And so the establishment is going to run terrible
52:40
Republican candidates in a state and lose even worse. So what’s the America
52:47
first plan to lose in states that are close so that you can at least explain the value of your positions in a way
52:54
over time? There’s none. There is not a single dollar in this country being spent to move the Overton window to the
53:00
right and fight out back against leftism. There’s just none. None at all because there’s no personal interest in it. They can’t harvest that money. They
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don’t care what voters think. And so I want them to win.
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I do not want to be a communist. I I if if they don’t push back, I agree
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with you there. And the Overton window is getting back to the normaly of
53:24
Republican conservatives on the Republican side. It’s not at all. Not at all. But no, no, the problem is they’re going
53:29
to try to swing further right to the um far-left element. The Overton window
53:35
says that there’s something acceptable or not as egregious in the middle, which
53:41
is a right. It’s the same thing on the left side. The extremists of the left
53:46
are going to be neutralized possibly by something that you and I would consider
53:52
far right a few years a far left a few years ago but now seems to be the
53:58
normaly on the left side as well. You see extreme positions accepted
54:03
ubiquitously on the left and you see extreme positions bottled up on the
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right. Like that’s what happens. And the reason the Overton window is moving left on almost every issue, you got to look
54:15
issue by issue is because there’s no equal and opposite force. And so when the Democrats say, “Okay, from a border
54:21
perspective, we’re just going to open it up and flood the country.” The the right position can’t be no. It has to be
54:29
something equal and oppositely uh extreme. It needs to be something like, “Well, we need to root out every illegal
54:37
immigration immigrant and deport them and then salt the earth.” like I don’t even know what it is. It’s like maybe
54:42
maybe like actually like denaturalize people and you don’t hear the word
54:48
denaturalization, you get called a xenophobe. But that’s how you keep the Overton window in place. You have to
54:53
have an opposite, right? And so there is no opposite on the right. And so on all these things, the Overton window is
54:58
moving left. And this one might surprise you. Even on LGBT stuff, the Overton window is moving left. And it’s because
55:03
the left still overwhelmingly supports it. Now in the public discourse, you’re allowed to make fun of them again. And
55:09
so at least organically there’s somebody pushing back. But what’s happening is
55:15
that more and more people are into the trans stuff still even though Bud Light
55:20
got boycotted. And when the right looks at that because it’s traditional,
55:26
because it’s still got sort of this like boomer value kind of thing, they’ll look at that and they’ll say, you know what,
55:32
I’m going to ban that. And that is their alternative. Right? So the Overton window might be checked, but the new
55:39
problem, the the warfare, they don’t understand is that the zoomers are going to look at that banning LGBT stuff and
55:45
they’re going to say, “Well, so what? I like why would you do that? Just fix my economy.” And so if they’re like the rep
55:51
the Republicans are so hopelessly outmatched and unable to understand the shifting
55:56
outmatched or outfunded, not outfunded. Republicans raised a ton of money. Now, I will say we we need to
56:05
so good $1.5 billion dollars for Camala’s campaign.
56:12
Yeah. Well, when you add the ACL blue money, I think it’s like three. So, they do have ACL blue, but then you look at
56:17
the RNC and DNC war chests. The RNC war chest is bigger u by a lot. So, I think
56:25
it’s like why didn’t why haven’t we arrested act blue people? You know what’s weird is that we’re going to hand
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them the opportunity to come at win red in a year when we didn’t do anything about act blue. So, you know what I
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mean? It’s like, but if the Republican party stood for what people wanted to, they would win small dollar donations.
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Who wins the smaller dollar donations? Bernie Sanders. Why is it he’s a populist? If the Republicans were
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pragmatic populists, they would win. And pragmatic populism, it would be a return
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to free market capitalism. Do you know what capitalism is? It’s an independent government that is brutal to
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corporatists in order to look out for the the needs of the people. That means just making sure they do they don’t do
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anti-competitive stuff. Well, we don’t have that. We either have more regulations that the left uses as a
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shakedown or we have less regulations that we have that allow corporatists and corporate welfare
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queens to run wild. Well, how about like the right regulations that say no, like
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maybe 70% of our business in retail should not be Amazon selling Chinese crap. And nobody’s going to do that
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because they want Jeff Bezos’s money. Like it’s and the right has to be the ones that say, you know what, maybe it’s
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not right to be the party of Jeff Bezos. Well, they were the party, they were the
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grouping, including Zuckerberg and Gates and the rest of them that stood strong
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behind Democratic initiatives and Biden when it was thrown down their throat. It
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wasn’t um it wasn’t Republicans they went for and now they got their tail
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between their legs and they’re coming back into the White House hoping to befriend Donald Trump under this
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and he hugged them like, you know what I mean? Like he hugged them. Oh, great. We
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have the billionaires now. That’s You know what? They just they just uh uh uh what’s the
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word? They cancelled you from being on social media and now they’re your new
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best friend. It’s like I have a little bit of gallows
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humor, but we are in a pretty bleak spot. Hey folks, we’re with we’re with Mark Mitchell. Raz Muen reports. Mark, we
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could go on another hour and out of respect for your time, I I want to invite you back or come on with you at
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some other point in the future. Mark um folks is a very renowned pollster. Keep
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your eye on him uh this winter, the spring of 2026 and the fall of 2026 for
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the midterm elections. uh he will be on national news uh reporting on some of
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the things he was talking about today. Uh we’ll see we’ll see how those uh
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results fare. Um we’ve covered a lot of ground from Epstein to uh finance in the
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administration to some of the politics and uh in the last 60 seconds. Mark,
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would you like to give us a recap of what’s hot for you and give us your contact information that is your um your
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website and where we can subscribe? Yeah, 100%. So there’s so much going on,
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but this is like the pivotal moment in MAGA and so people need to watch Trump very closely and what his numbers do and
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how he responds to I think he’s getting a lot of forceful feedback right now. I went scorched earth on Infowars right
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before this and I’m pretty sure that Alex Jones is meeting with the president tomorrow. So hopefully that’ll work. Uh
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if you’re not on Twitter though, you have to get on Twitter. It’s probably the most important thing for the republic right now. We need a lot of
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people on there pushing on the boulder. And by that I don’t mean like standing in ranks behind Donald Trump when he
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makes mistakes but like understanding the actual national discussion and being a part of it. And if you want if you
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want to start you can at least start with my account at honest pollster and you know just engage but like use your
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head use logic don’t use like histrionic uh logical fallacies and you’ll you’ll
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have a good time on me. I’ll debate people uh with and then Rasmuson pole is the main account. We have a YouTube
1:00:30
channel, Rasmuson_pole, as well. And uh depending on when this comes out, I’m
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gonna have a war room interview coming up soon, too. So, more making uh winning more hearts and minds for President
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Donald Trump. Yeah, I noticed you’re on with Steve Bannon a few times as well. Well, um
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we’re talking to a guy who um uh he he challenges the polling industry status
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quo, and that’s why he’s on today. This narrative is not to pile on to any one
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issue but to make sure we as an Americans, we as voters uh take a hard
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look at all sides of the issue. If you are called to provide um polling data
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and you recognize the source, please give it um your polls will be uh
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published where Mark on your website as well. Yeah, rasmussreports.com.
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You can tell that I’m not funded by either party. Uh, and so we are literally 100% advertiser and subscriber
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uh, focused. And this is again, this is not my personal like longtime views.
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Like this isn’t I’m not a Trump basher. I’m a person that is trying to say what’s happening so that there can be
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feedback and a response. And when Trump’s doing well, I’m like, look at this. He did well. His numbers are
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record breaking. Isn’t it great? He is not doing well right now. Uh so rasmusreports.com there’s like a reader
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or concerns shoot them to me regardless. Uh, I’ll make sure uh Mark uh gets them
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from you. Uh, I’ll forward it to him. Uh, and Mark, thank you so much for
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joining us here today. What a treat. We’ve had a chance to cover a lot of ground. Kind of tells me we got a lot
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more to cover, but that’s enough for one that’s enough over one cup of coffee. I’m going to I’m going to kick back and
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see how all the elitists are doing tonight after Donald Trump’s meeting. And um any parting thought?
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Yeah, I get on Twitter and watch everybody make fun of it. I mean, just wa That’s the most predictable thing in the world.
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Thanks for joining us, Mark Mitchell. Great to be here. Best to you and and we look forward to
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