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Just the News No Noise with John Solomon and Amanda Head, November 4th, 2025
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Amanda Head
This is an I heart podcast. Every now and then I rinse it out and I need jelly rinse tonight and I need it more.
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John Solomon
My kid wears a bed and the smell never leaves. I don't know what to do I'm always in the dark the sweat and D sure smells like a dark.
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Chairman Jason Smith
Downy rinse Fights stubborn odors in just one wash when impossible odors get stuck in.
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John Solomon
Good evening, America, and welcome to this election night 2025 edition of just THE News. No noise. I'm your host, John Solomon to you as always from the Nation's capital, Washington, D.C. we're going to have a lot of coverage for you on all of tonight's big elections tonight all the way through to midnight here on Real America's Voice. But the ones we're focusing on the most are the New York City mayor race, New Jersey race for governor, and Virginia's governor in attorney general's races. Many people on both the left and right will be watching the outcome of New York City's mail race, which is widely believed will be ended up being a big win for Zohran Mondame. Yep. Think about it. A socialist could be in charge of the capitalist capital of America in just 24 hours. Amanda's going to have a little more on that for you when we get to her in just a minute. Is Mondami and his policies the future of the Democrat Party? That's a question we'll attempt to answer tonight. And of all the other races we're watching, New Jersey seems to be the place where Republicans have the best shot at an upset. The deep blue state has seen Republican Jack Citarelli keeping it very close with Democrat candidate Mikey Sherrill. You can tell the Democrats were panicked this weekend. They brought a lot of their big guns out. Have much more on that for you throughout the show, including whether the outcome of tonight's races will have any bearing on the midterm elections in 2020. We'll also have more tonight on James Comey and those explosive emails and documents we reported to you last night. Comey's been playing the victim card as of late when it comes to his indictment on charges of misleading Congress. But a ton of new evidence has been released painting a picture of the former FBI director in well, that's a flattering alight. He it looks like the government has the goods showing that he would that he did in fact help anonymously have information routed to the news media contrary to what he testified. He also seemed to be thinking that Hillary Clinton was going to be the next president in 2017 and was hoping she'd be pleased with him. And there's a whole lot more. Lots of other contradictions. We're going to get to that. One other note before I turn things over to my amazing co host Amanda Head tonight. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan just sent a note to Verizon and AT&T demanding information on why Jack Smith sought members of Congress's records in the Arctic frost January 6th investigation and whether the phone companies had any concern about those requests. We'll keep you up to speed that@justindews.com all right, Amanda, big night. Will Zoran Mandami be the face of the Democratic Party tomorrow morning? I'm curious what you think.
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Amanda Head
Oh, what Mo runs on Dami. I mean, yeah, the race. Everyone, as you said, is watching tonight. That is in New York City where Zo run, Mamdani is posed to become the next mayor of the Big Apple. Now, we don't want to completely rule out the possibility that Andrew Cuomo or I guess even Curtis Lewa may win. Some crazy things have happened in American politics. But Mamdani's chances are overwhelmingly high that he is going to be the winner. And that has many people in inside both the Republican and Democrat parties talking, is he the future of Democrat politics? He can't run for president. But can his brand of so called Democrat socialism capture the entire party's apparatus? And if it does, what does that mean for Democrats on a national level? He's for unilateral rent freeze in that city as well as for, quote, free busing and free universal housing and government run grocery stores. And national Democrats are not really shying away from these policies. In fact, Democrat Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal, she praised the policies even though Mamdani doesn't have the power to enact them. Here's what she said when she was asked about that specifically. What I really believe is that Zoran Mamdani has shown that when you stand up and fight for people and when you commit to getting something done, that you can build a winning campaign and do the work to actually deliver those results. Now, I know there's a lot of times when people tell us that the ideas that we have aren't possible. But I think what you are seeing is people across New York City and across the country in races across the country, people are saying we need you to stand up and fight for us and deliver for us. So it sounds like some national Democrats at least don't mind Mamdani at all. And if this election is indeed a blowout win tonight. I would look for his brand of politics to continue expanding inside of the Democrat Party. Now, in some more election news, several polling places in New Jersey ended up having to be moved earlier today because of bomb threats. Now this as voters were casting their ballots in New Jersey's governor race between Democrat Mikey Sherrill and Republican Jack Ciarelli. Now, Zohran Momdani was asked about these threats, and guess who he somehow ended up tying them to? Yeah, of course. President Trump's. All Trump's fault. Check it out.
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Mark Mitchell
Incredibly concerning. And I think that it is an illustration of the attacks we're seeing on our democracy. Sometimes they're blatant and explicit in the manner of these bomb threats. And we have to understand this as part of the general approach the Trump administration has taken to trying to intimidate voters.
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Amanda Head
John, it's not even if all else fails, blame Trump. It's just blame Trump is what you're.
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John Solomon
Going to see in the next couple days. Yeah, the bullying Trump thing has been going on for 10 years, and they just get more crazier by the day. People like Ayanna Pressley and others are going to start moving in and saying, hey, if Mamdani can do this in New York City, I can do this in Massachusetts. The Civil War that I've been talking about and you and I have been talking about for a year, I think it's starting to play out. Mamdani could be the catalyst for it. It could be the shot heard around the world for the socialist, Marxist, communist part of the Democrat Party to make their power move. Next year. We're going to see. Well, we were very lucky just a little bit ago to have some time with the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee. He's got a completely different idea about how to do taxes in America. Not tax more, tax less. Give Americans more freedom. Mom. Downey wants to take more freedom away. We had a great conversation with Chairman Jason Smith. Take a watch. All right. We're very lucky to be kicking off this election night coverage with the man who actually changed the course of the Hunter Biden criminal investigation. He's also changed the course of tax law. He's the chairman of the House and Ways Committee and one of the most important people when it comes to getting our economy right. He is Chairman Jason Smith. Sir, good to have you on the show.
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Chairman Jason Smith
It's always great to be with you, John.
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John Solomon
I think of all that has been accomplished in the last year under President Trump, your leadership, the tax bill the big beautiful bill. But there's another thing you've been working on and that is beginning to force these nonprofits to do things in the public interest. And if they're really doing politics to get them out of the business. Today, some big news. New Georgia project associated with Stacey Abrams shutting down. I think you think that's probably a good win for the American people.
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Chairman Jason Smith
It's a huge win and a right win for American people. This was an organization that we looked into as the Ways and Means chairman. The Ways and Means has jurisdiction over the entire tax code. And when you look at these non for profits that's abusing their tax exempt status, that's a problem. And we, we had numerous examples of the fraud that was going on there and glad they're dissolving. It's the right place, right outcome.
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Amanda Head
Absolutely, sir. As we are on what day 34, 35 of this government shutdown? You know, the Democrat Party of my childhood said that they stood for lowering taxes. That doesn't seem to be the case anymore. You look at what's happening in New York, Zoran Mamdani openly admitting that he wants to raise taxes is there. But even with this government shutdown, the implications of that of $1.5 trillion rammed into the CR it just doesn't seem like Democrats are the party of lowering taxes anymore, does it?
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Chairman Jason Smith
They absolutely are not the party of lowering taxes. There's not a tax that, that the Democrat Party does not support. They believe they know how to spend your money better than what you do. And that's all about having control over the lives of all. And that's in fact what they're doing. They wanted, they wanted all of the 2017 successful Trump tax cuts to expire. And that would have affected every single American on average. Every American would have faced a 21% tax increase. And they were advocating for that.
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John Solomon
It's just mind boggling. And yet you may have a taxer in chief be the mayor of New York tomorrow. A socialist in charge of the capitalist capital of the world. As you head into the 2026 election, it seems like the new faces of the Democratic Party are going to be pretty concerning to middle America. The Missourians and the Wisconsins and the others who decide races. What does this look like tomorrow morning if the Democrats win in the places we think they win?
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Chairman Jason Smith
You know, I think without a doubt Mamdani is going to win the mayor's race in New York. And that is scary. That is really sad to know that this has become the Democrat, the socialist and Communist wing. And without a doubt, he knocked off a Democrat, Governor Cuomo in the primary. And that's why Cuomo is running as an independent. And it's scary whenever you look at Governor Cuomo and saying that he is the best choice within the Democrat Party. But unfortunately, this is the voice, the reflection of what the values of the Democrat Party have become. It's very similar to my colleagues in Washington. The, the aoc, Talib's, Omar's of the world control the House Democrat agenda.
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Amanda Head
And Mr. Chairman, it seems like such a Machiavellian mentality because Democrats, as we were just saying, they're willing to tax the American people more if it's for their favorite pet project, if it's for an LGBTQ issue, if it's foreign aid, if it's, you know, gender changing surgery in Pakistan, if it's, you know, something social. Do the Democrat voters feel that as long as their money is going towards something like that, then the taxation, the extra taxation is justified? Because it seems like even if it works in New York, the rest of the country is moving in a different direction.
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Chairman Jason Smith
It's really hard for me to calculate and, and predict their, their thought process and, and what they're mo. But I think it boils down to one simple thing that I said earlier is they just want command and control over your lives and they want to tell you how best to live and what to agree with and how to spend your money. Like they virtually want to take away your money so that they can spend it themselves for their, their priorities, their projects. But it's about command and control. That's what it boils down to.
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John Solomon
I want to talk about some of the oversight work you're doing. So there's going to be more nonprofits that lose their nonprofit status. And when that happens, that's going to return some money to the Treasury. I think you're also looking at ways to reduce fraud in places like SNAP and Medicaid and other places. Talk about the potential savings that just getting rid of fraud in taxpayer funded programs could potentially make in the next couple of years.
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Chairman Jason Smith
Without a doubt, we should be looking at every aspect of government to root out waste, fraud and abuse. You can save billions of dollars in doing that. We did that in the one big beautiful bill with numerous examples of cleaning out waste, fraud and abuse and making sure that illegal immigrants aren't receiving welfare programs and welfare subsidies. But we can't rest on those accomplishments. There's so much more to do. And when you look into the 501Cs that we were asking that were investigating. We've called on eight just as soon as October 7th to lose their tax exempt status because these eight different entities were funding terrorism. That's crazy to think that 501Cs tax subsidized entities are funding terrorism.
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Amanda Head
Crazy when it comes to what our federal tax dollars actually fund. I mean, we've been hearing this talking point from Democrats that the 1.5 trillion that, you know, because you have these state programs like medical, that administer health coverage for people in California, they say, well, it's not federal dollars. But we know that that does actually come from federal funding. What's happening in New York, these government funded grocery stores and things like that, could that, even though that's a New York mayoral thing, could that ultimately end up getting funding from the federal government?
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Chairman Jason Smith
I think that President Trump will be very mindful and looking at dollars that go to the state of New York are being spent appropriately. I think he's been pretty, pretty clear about that, in fact, just recently. And I mean, all lawmakers are going to have to pay attention. You know, unfortunately, states are able to swap funds, or at least they do swap funds in and out. We're just going to have to be very mindful.
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John Solomon
I want to talk a little bit about what happens when the government finally does reopen. It does seem like Democrats are starting to waver quickly after that happens. There are strong signals that Obamacare, which is really broken without hundreds of billions of dollars of subsidies, it has just raised everybody's insurance costs and the insurance companies just get richer. Talk a little bit about what you and your colleagues are working on behind the scenes to fix it, replace it, make health care more affordable for the everyday American.
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Chairman Jason Smith
You know, we have to look at ways to, to create more competition, more transparency, more access for all Americans, not just a handful of Americans. That's what's so wrong with what the Democrats are, are advocating for only talking about 24 million Americans that are on the Obamacare exchanges. There's 347 million Americans that care about health care. However, the Democrats aren't talking about that outside of the 24 million. We need to lower the cost of health care for all Americans. And the way you do that, create more competition, less regulation, less red tape, and that's in fact will thrive. Republicans have several, several different solutions on to fix the healthcare system. But the healthcare system is so big, so broken, so complicated. But we're going to have to do it piece at a time. And that's what we're, that's what we're engaging in right now.
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John Solomon
Yeah. It'll be historic and game changing. When that happens, Mr. Chairman, it's a great honor. History will look back and say you actually got justice for the American people, for those IRS whistleblowers, for Hunter Biden and of course, for all of us in the tax code. Great to have you on the show today.
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Chairman Jason Smith
Always great to be with you, my friend. Thank you.
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John Solomon
Yeah, thanks so much. That's a great conversation. All right, folks, a quick commercial break. When we come back, Trafalgar Group chief pollster Robert Kahaly. He always brings the receipts when he comes. He's going to give us his best thoughts on what will happen in tonight's election. We'll have that right after these messages. Hey, folks, did you know high blood pressure is the number one risk factor for mortality? A stunning one in two adults have high blood pressure, meaning there's a 50, 50 chance you could be affected. Taking control of your blood pressure is crucial for your health and longevity. And there's a new way you can just do that by using 120Life. And 120Life is not just for high blood pressure. It's also beneficial for those with diabetes because managing high blood pressure can help with diabetes, making 120Life a valuable tool for overall health. Endorsed by over 1,000 doctors, 120Life is trusted by healthcare professionals with hundreds of doctors recommending it to help manage blood pressure naturally. For a limited time, try 120Life and get 20% off. Just use the promo code JTN at checkout at 120Life.com. That's 120Life because it offers a risk free trial with a full refund. If you don't see lower numbers in just two weeks, go to 120life.com and use that code jtn to save 20%. There's nothing to lose except your high blood pressure numbers.
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Amanda Head
Every now and then I rinse it out and I need yummy rinse tonight.
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John Solomon
And I need it more. My kid went so bad and the smell never leaves.
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Amanda Head
I don't know what to do.
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John Solomon
I'm always in the dark, the sweat.
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Amanda Head
And that short smells like a dark.
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Chairman Jason Smith
Downy rinse fights stubborn odors in just one wash. When impossible odors get stuck in.
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John Solomon
Welcome back, America. A big event tomorrow, the day after the election at Auburn University with TP USA and our next guest. I'm supposed to call him Senator because that's his official title. But I gotta tell you, I like to call him Coach. He is Alabama Senator Tommy Temperville, sir. Good to have you on the show.
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Senator Tommy Tuberville
Thank you, guys. Thanks for having me on.
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John Solomon
Yeah.
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Senator Tommy Tuberville
It will be a big night tomorrow night in Auburn. There'll be standing room only. Probably thousands of people outside trying to get in. They're already standing in line as we speak. And I'm looking forward to, you know, this Turning Point event was scheduled back in July and I was supposed to introduce Charlie and we all know what happened a couple months ago. He lost his life to a, to mad murderer and here we are. But his legacy goes on. It's growing as we speak. And as I said, we'll have thousands of people there tomorrow night.
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John Solomon
That is amazing. It's amazing how quickly the chapters have grown. Your thoughts a little bit about the assassin actually creating the opposite effect of what he probably evenly was thinking of doing.
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Senator Tommy Tuberville
Yeah. Charlie was teaching the truth to young kids on college campuses and that's what this was all about. They didn't want him to tell the truth. And he was breaking a lot of these young people out of this indoctrination syndrome that a lot of these universities have caused. And this one young man took it that, you know, he needs to be stopped. And so unfortunately this happened. It's, it's a, it's a tragedy. But again, J.D. vance and Erica last week were Ole Miss. This week it'll be myself, Benny Johnson, Erica, I mean, Lara Trump and Eric Trump. So we'll have a great, we'll have a great program and hopefully it'll be very lively and have a great discussion.
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Amanda Head
Absolutely, Coach. I'm obviously just a little bit biased because of my alma mater being Auburn, but I was interested to see in the last few years, as we have seen Ivy League campuses ramp up with anti Semitism, universities like Auburn and all, a lot of the SEC schools frankly, really, really pushed down and clamped down and stomped it out very, very quickly. Do you think that schools like Auburn and some of these schools who responded in a different way than the Ivy Leagues will, will benefit from that?
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Senator Tommy Tuberville
Yeah. And it's also about moral values. While these kids are Christians, they were brought up in a two parent home, going to church, understand the difference between right and wrong? You have a lot of these kids up in the Northeast that have never heard anything about Christianity other than just the word. They never participated. And so at the end of the day, that's the situation we're in in this country. It's easy to indoctrinate people into something that they can cling their hands to. And again, that's what Charlie was doing. Charlie was going into these places and reaching out to people that had never been reached out to before. He was changing minds. He was telling the truth. And people were saying, oh my gosh, there's another side to this.
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John Solomon
He was able to really, really get that discussion about truth. Just having a conversation made such a difference. I want to turn a little bit to elections. You're the leading candidate for governor next year in Alabama. People super excited about that. Tonight's elections will set the stage for what the Democratic Party's face will look like going into those elections. What's your take on what we're seeing in the Democratic Party and also what we see in the Republican Party?
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Senator Tommy Tuberville
Well, of course, being in Washington D.C. we see everything that happens over in Virginia in the governor's race. And Glenn Youngkin won it last time because of education. The Democrats had actually absolutely taken the parent out of the classroom and out of the kids lives. But I think now they've had a good chance to put it back. There's not been a lot of talk about that. But one thing you have to remember too about all these elections, most of them that, that are high profile. New York, New Jersey and Virginia, they're blue states. Okay. And it's going to be hard for anybody to break through like Glenn Youngkin did. I never dreamed in my lifetime I'd see a socialist communist be elected as mayor of the biggest city in our country, maybe the number one city in the world. But they'll learn their lesson. He hadn't won yet. I'm keeping my fingers crossed. But that could happen. And the guy's trying to cover up. I mean, you know, you can't put lipstick on a pig. I mean, the guy is absolutely socialist communist. And we'll find out pretty quick he gets elected. The things he's going to change with law enforcement, free giveaways, you know, all those things he's promised. It'll, it'll be an interesting time in New York and it will.
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Amanda Head
Sir. We've already seen Democrats on Capitol Hill say the quiet part out loud. They have admitted that during this shutdown that, that provides leverage for them. Was, is tonight's election leverage for them as well? And then after the election is over, then maybe they're going to be a little bit more amenable to coming up to the table and doing what they did 13 times under Joe Biden, signed the CR.
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Senator Tommy Tuberville
Yeah, it'll all change after tonight. They're starting to squirm. They know that they're on the wrong, wrong side of the polling on this, and they want to get back to putting the pressure on, on us is the one big beautiful bill. But at the end of the day, we can't afford all these things that they want to put in this bill. $1.5 trillion American taxpayer. You know, we went over 38 trillion in debt this week. 38 trillion. And that's one of the things I'll talk about tomorrow night in the Turning Point opening is, you know, how far we're in debt. And it's going to be these young people that Turning Point will talk to over the years about, hey, you have to take control of this debt and you're going to be the one that's going to be paying 60, 70, 80% of your paycheck to pay for this debt down. And so we got to come to realization that something has to change. And, but it's just so unfortunate. They, they, they punish the American people. It's America last for the Democrats. It's America first for MAGA and the Republicans. And it's just totally different.
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John Solomon
I want to turn quickly to the issue of accountability and the weaponization machinery that lived under James Comey and Chris Wray. We continue to learn so much about Chris, about James Comey. Yesterday, these new documents clearly showing he was working to anonymously influence the media through his top aide. He had notes about the Clinton intelligence plan, the plan to hijack the election, but told Congress it didn't ring a bell with him. What do you think should be the ultimate outcome for a guy like James Comey? Maybe Chris Wray as well.
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Senator Tommy Tuberville
Yeah, you know, President Trump won on the fact that, hey, we're going to find out what happened. We're going to put people in jail, we're going to hold them accountable. We cannot have a lawless country. Now we talk about lawlessness on the streets, about law, lawlessness in the federal government. I mean, these people, as you well know, John, you followed it, and I followed it myself. I've read a lot of stuff. I hear this and that. You know, James Comey's been a crook for a long time, and a lot of his assistants were involved in this, you know, trying to unseat a sitting President of the United States and weaponizing, you know, fake dossiers, doing all the things that they needed to do to try to get him out. Because why were they doing this? They were doing it because they were, they were implicated, they were going to be implicated in this if President Trump got elected. And so that's what's going to happen. Christopher Wray. I'm a little bit surprised of the things now that coming out Christopher Wray, but I think he was playing a rock and hard place because he knew what was going on with Comey and he didn't stand up and say listen enough and enough of this nonsense. And so he obviously hit some things and hopefully he'll pay also pay the price.
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Amanda Head
Sir, I want to close, kind of close to where we started with the NIL and the transfer portal. There are we talk about so much corruption on this show and I think about one of the few things left that was still pure and that was NCAA sports. And now it seems like even that's getting corrupted. Do you anticipate that it will be amended in the future to try to bring it back to that camaraderie and that original pureness that existed?
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Senator Tommy Tuberville
Something's got to happen. It's out of control now. There is a lot of parody out there now. You're seeing Indiana and you're seeing Vanderbilt and smu. Some of these schools in the past, you know, couldn't, couldn't hold up, you know, in the structure of the ncaa. I don't think you'll ever take the money back. But I do think that we have to do something about the transfer portal. The last time I, I looked, this is supposed to be about education, not, not supposed to be about making money and going to playing football and not worrying about your education. So I've, I've worked with the president. President wants to do something about it. I don't know what we can get done, but if we stay down this same path, you're going to have a. You know, we thought there was a lot of rule breaking back in the day when you couldn't give any money. Now you're having people going around certain supposedly rules breaking rules. We have these agents that are not certified that are taking money. I know of one school a couple of weeks ago that a kid got to the bus going to an away game to the airplane. He said, I'm not going unless you pay me $50,000. I've already spent my 500,000 you gave me four or five months ago. I mean, this is out of control.
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John Solomon
Wow.
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Senator Tommy Tuberville
And yeah, and so it's, it's not about education anymore. You're ruining the lives. These kids, they'll never make this much money again. And then they got to go to work and when they get out, they're not. Most of them are not going to be in the NFL and or NBA. Just a very small percentage. So the parents, hopefully trust funds are being put up. But again, a lot of these kids aren't paying taxes. I know for a fact that they're getting money and they're spending it and going, oh, wait a minute, I had to pay taxes on that. I mean, it's, it's. I mean, you can't make it up. What's going on right now. There's no leadership from the ncaa. Somebody should be standing up going, hey, we have to stop this and give some guidance to these kids. You know, the money's out there. Okay, go ahead and. Go ahead and the money's there. Fine. I don't mind players making money, but there has to be some structure to it. There has to be some structure to getting a degree. It's just an absolute disaster.
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John Solomon
One of the things we learned about you, coach and senator, is that you put the man first. Even before winning football, you cared about those students. And that's what we got to return to college football. We gotta return that to Washington. Much more than that. It is today. It's a great honor to have you on. We're all going to be tuning in to tomorrow night's tpusa event featuring you. It's going to be a fun time. Thank you for joining us, sir.
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Senator Tommy Tuberville
Thank you, guys. Talk to you soon.
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John Solomon
Yeah. Well, what a great interview, guys. We're gonna take a quick commercial break before we do two breaking headlines that happened during that interview. First up, a plane has crashed in Louisville. A UPS plane. Big fire on the ground, some injuries. We're keeping a close eye that@justthenews.com and then a little while ago, congressman Brandon gill submitted impeachment articles, no doubt against our president, against judge boasberg, the judge that kept ruling against him and now we know was involved in all of those phone subpoenas. They have that up for you also@justinnews.com all right, quick commercial break. When we get back, we're going to get to that promised interview we're going to have with pollster Robert gahaly right after these messages.
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Amanda Head
Welcome back, everybody, to this special election coverage during just the news no noise polls are set to close pretty soon here next to us in Virginia at 7pm and the rest follow soon thereafter. So are we in for any big surprises or do things look like they're pretty close to settling where we thought they were in the polling? So joining us now to break it all down, chief pollster at the Trafalgar Group, Robert Kahaly. Robert, thanks so much for being with us tonight again on another election night.
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Robert Kahaly
Well, I appreciate it. A little disappointed that I'm not going to get talked about college football. I saw that Mr. Tuberville got to do that and that's very disappointing. I'd like to talk about the nil myself because I hate it.
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Amanda Head
I do, too. I do, too.
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Robert Kahaly
I think it ruined a great sport and I'm a half with a Gamecock and I want there to be a system where we can win and apparently this isn't it.
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John Solomon
So it is not like that's not.
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Amanda Head
I think you're right. And as we said with him, you know, it has ruined the pureness of the sport. But I'll have to tell you offline what we talked about when we weren't on air because that was the exciting part. But I want to tell you or I want to ask you about Virginia because we're looking at the top of the ticket, obviously, Abigail Spanberger with winsome Earl Sears. And we've all seen the polling that shows pretty strongly that Abigail Spanberger is is going to walk away with it tonight. But could there be any other surprises?
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Robert Kahaly
You know, that one got a little bit close, but I would tell you I think the scandal with the attorney general came too early. There's that's part of politics is the timing of the scandal and but the benefit I think we may still see is the attorney general race because there were a lot of ballots cast when the attorney general was up significantly by 4 and 5 points. So even though the race is tightened now, the ballots cast at that point tell me there may be a possibility that he wins. And you know, lieutenant governor, I'm not really sure. I think, I think the Republican gentleman doesn't do quite as well as Miaris, but I don't think he does as bad as Sears does.
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John Solomon
Yeah, maybe in the middle of the two. Robert, I want to talk a little bit about New Jersey. Citarelli gained some recognition. He came awful close last time. Handicap for us. What you're going to be watching tonight when the numbers come in, what we'll be telling about whether Republicans pull off an upset there.
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Robert Kahaly
I'll be Looking at some of those counties in New Jersey that Trump won, that he won in 24 and he lost in 2020, and looking at especially some of those that have Democrat representation. And I'm going to be looking at, you know, there, there's not. Some of. It's amazing. For all the criticism, especially, you know, some of the Southern states always get from the northern states about early voting and all this, you'd be surprised how strict the rules are up there to vote early. And so it is not the huge effect that we see in so many other elections. So I think a lot is going to kind of depend on how, how this closed and like the city really, really close very, very strongly. And I think that close is going to matter a lot more than it's going to matter in Virginia when so many votes were cast.
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John Solomon
Yep.
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Amanda Head
Well, something that John mentioned earlier, you know, the, the fact that Cittarelli did not really embrace President Trump and create that relationship, as you said, in a lot of these counties that President Trump may not have won in 2020, but he won in 2020. And a lot of these areas are areas of New Jersey where you've seen a pretty significant swing in the direction of a popular president. Why didn't he embrace that?
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Robert Kahaly
Well, you know, every campaign is surrounded by the people who as, as we land the business have got it all figured out. And I think there's a lot of people surrounding Ms. Sears who have it all figured out. And I think that you probably will see a little bit of the same thing with Chitta Rally. It's just sometimes people really don't understand what the cause and effect is going to be. And you know, there's also the talk of the shutdown and having that weaponized against Republicans. I mean, remember where the Republican strength came has come from a lot of blue collar workers and many of which, you know, may very well. Some of them, you know, we talk about the waitresses made to her for Trump. You know, a lot of those people might be getting some government aid. And so the idea that the Republicans are in the way of them getting that aid and maybe they're on Obamacare. I mean, like all that can be weaponized against Republicans. I mean, that is what the fear is in developing so many people who are dependent upon the government for money or some assistance in some way is that can always be weaponized against the party that can be seen to put in jeopardy of it. I mean, the better Americans are doing and the less they need government aid, the more likely they are to vote for People who, you know, say empower yourselves. And the more Americans who are getting aid, no matter what sort it is, get a check from the government and can have that held against them, the more dangerous it gets.
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John Solomon
I want to turn, Robert, to what Republicans should be talking about that sometimes they don't talk about enough. We've talked a lot about Nick Fuentes. No one knows who the heck that guy is, but most Americans don't. A lot of talk about the internal fighting in the party. A lot of talk about foreign affairs because President Trump scored a lot of victories overseas. It seems to me Americans want more talk from the Republican Party about the accountability, affordability, getting the dinner table issues resolved. Like Donald Trump spent relentlessly talking about the campaign. Have they been a little off script the last few months?
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Robert Kahaly
Well, they might have been a little off script, but here's what you have to remember. The benefit to the economy that will come from a lot of the tariffs and things that Trump has pushed are not instant. Now, the instant benefit to the economy is the lower price of energy, which filters all the way down. He is not getting credit for that. I think Walmart was talking about the average price for Thanksgiving Day dinner is actually going to go down, down this year versus last year. And it's, and it's going to take a little while. The other thing is a lot of Americans that are kind of in the middle, you know, they feel a little like stuck because they can't sell the house they're in because they like the rates they're getting and they don't want to, you know, get something different. When, when, when we have the Fed starts to rotate, the ones that are troublemakers start to rotate off. And I think we know what we're talking about and they start lowering rates, you're going to see it. And frankly, if you're looking at, from a Republican perspective, you would much rather that economy be hot and rolling in the fall of 2026 than the fall of 2025.
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John Solomon
Yeah. Don't crest too early.
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Amanda Head
Absolutely. That's a great, great point, Robert and Haley, you always have so many great points.
- [37:50]
Robert Kahaly
Virginia, the scandal came too early. Timing is everything.
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Amanda Head
Yeah, absolutely. Robert Kahaly, always a pleasure having you here with us, especially on nights like tonight. Take care.
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Robert Kahaly
Well, it's always a pleasure to be on the show. I think the world of what y' all do and certainly I think a lot of your audience you have, whenever I'm on your show, I get this feedback from, from the kind of people who, like, I know the quality people who watch your show. And so that's why I like being on.
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Amanda Head
Thank you.
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John Solomon
Thank you, thank you.
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Amanda Head
We do. And the feelings mutual about you, my friend. Thanks so much for being here.
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Chairman Jason Smith
Yes.
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Robert Kahaly
Take care.
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Amanda Head
All right, Same to you. All right, everybody. And next we are on to another pollster, Mark Mitchell from Rasmussen Reports. He's going to be here to further break down some of these races. We'll be back on the other side.
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Amanda Head
Welcome back, everybody. Polls are closing very, very soon. Our coverage here on RAV is going to continue throughout the show and all the way until midnight. So make sure you stay right here for all of that. But joining us now to break down what we are likely to see tonight is head pollster over at Rasmussen Reports, Mark Mitchell. Mark, thanks so much for being here.
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Mark Mitchell
Yeah, really great to be here. I don't think there's going to be any surprises, to be honest with you. I really don't.
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Amanda Head
Yeah, I don't think so. And you know, we hit a lot on Virginia and New Jersey with Robert Kahali. So what the heck. Let's go up to New York. So President Trump, kind of a last minute endorsement of Andrew Cuomo. He's a native New Yorker. He cares what happens in that city. We all should. It's the capital of our country as far as finances go. But too, too little, too late.
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Mark Mitchell
Yeah, I mean, this is what Democrats want. This is what New York wants. It's what young people want. You look at the polling and he's winning by like 50, 60 points with the younger age brackets. And it's sad to see the Republicans throw their values out the window to endorse Cuomo because I think there's still a lot of questions about what happened with COVID that people should go after and you know, really kind of sick if Donald Trump is what puts Cuomo over the finish line. But I don't think so. And in my opinion, it was kind of coincidental to see banks like Morgan Stanley and come out today and say, well, you know, there might be turmoil in the stock market in the future. The very same day that a socialist about to take over the banking capital of the world. It's pretty dark. And unfortunately, this is the direction. And the polling on zoomers like tells us this. Everybody likes to say that they're more conservative than in any generation, and it's just not true. Even the ones that voted for Trump, people under 40 in my polling, three quarters of them support nationalizing major industries. Almost 60% of them support excess wealth confiscation. So in my opinion, the young vote for Donald Trump was not an endorsement of Republican traditional conservative values. It was a vote to burn the system down because they think it's unfair. And unfortunately, if the Republicans can't play ball and offer them that, they're going to go into the arms of Democrat socialists, even if they are Trojan horses for Sharia law. That's just a fact.
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John Solomon
A fascinating dynamic and one that I'm not sure a lot of Republicans fully understand in their districts or even in the national poll. I want to ask what Republicans do if Mamdani becomes socialist communist, chief of the capitalist capital of the world. In some ways, it could be a political gift, an education moment right in the middle of our 250th birthday celebration. What's your best advice to Republicans on how to counter Mondani and not get tricked into a dangerous argument?
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Mark Mitchell
Well, first they need to understand that the future of the Republican Party can only survive and be relevant if it A, understands the online culture and how people are consuming news, and B, that its entire being needs to be focused on economic populism. And after hearing J.D. vance's speak at Turning Point USA, I think he gets it. But I also think what you're seeing now is an establishment Republican Republican Party that's trying to reassert itself right now. And Donald Trump is, quite frankly, at the weakest of his term. His approval was negative 8 net approval yesterday, the lowest of this term.
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Robert Kahaly
Not horrible.
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Mark Mitchell
But that's when this whole thing is bubbling up where you have these people trying to, like gatekeep what the true conservative movement and Republican Party stand for. And we all know that there's still a very big donor class that's coming from big business Republicanism that doesn't want to see things like less legal immigration. It doesn't want to see massive deportations. It actually wants amnesty. And so unless it can, Republican Party can figure out a way to separate itself from that and give a plausible pragmatic response to Generation Z about what the future looks like with the Republican Party. I think you're going to continue to see what I think we're going to see. In New Jersey, which is Jack Cittarelli loses because he's been down in every single poll. And Donald Trump did better than people thought he would in New Jersey. But it's a blue state and Republicans don't have an answer for these people in a blue state. They kind of like their blue state socialism, to be honest with you. And Republicans I don't think have a plan for that. Now if Gen Z, if actually under 40s weren't voting in New Jersey, Jack Chitterelli would win, believe it or not. And so they can't. Like this is the future. These people are going to age into leadership. The millennials and Gen Z. You know, you look at things like Israel and the age signal is absolutely, absolutely stunning. Only 21% of 18 to 29 support Israel over Palestine, but it's 59% of 65 and older. And that's what the Republican Party is blowing up over right now. So on every single one of these issues you look at like the housing market, even Gen Z and boomers are on the exact opposite of that. And I think Republicans have no answer like what are you going to do? Housing prices is a crisis for the them. So they're not relevant. They're proving themselves not relevant. And quite frankly the government shut down. And in my opinion they're mia and it was cute to see them try and blame it on Democrats and the illegal alien stuff. But it's the Republican Congress and the Republic. And the ratings of Congress right now are absolutely horrifying. Only 3% of independents say Congress is doing excellent, 65% of them say poor. And they need the independent vote like Donald Trump won because of independents and crossover Democrats, Democrats and the Republican Party like pretends those people didn't exist. They pat themselves on the back for a good job in November. Nope, sorry guys, the bill's coming due. Donald Trump is only got a 35% approval rating with 18 to 29. He was in the mid-50s back in February. And independents went from negative 6 on Trump approval down to negative 27 yesterday. That's what's happening. Too much focus on domestic policy and not enough, quite frankly, sweat in Congress. What have they done? And now Donald Trump is calling for the nuclear option. I've been calling for that for a year. Like pass good laws, one page bills, give us voter id, give us, you know, all of Trump's executive orders. They're not doing any of it.
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Amanda Head
Yeah, and those judicial nominees would be very, very easy. And I agree, you know, the zoomer generation, I think they did Vote more to burn the system down than they did for anything else. Mark, you're always so wise on all of this stuff. Mark Mitchell, head pollster over at Rasmussen Reports, thanks so much for being with with us on this special election night.
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Mark Mitchell
Great to be here.
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Senator Tommy Tuberville
Thanks.
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Amanda Head
Absolutely. All right, everybody, one more break to get to and then we've got a few things to wrap up before we head out.
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John Solomon
Yeah, I don't think that's gonna be a good night for Republicans and for all the reasons that they didn't do this time that they did in 24. They didn't talk about the economy during the close, which is what people still care about. Winston Sayers ran on Youngkin's four year old school parents rights thing which in Virginia a lot of people think is fixed in many ways. So you're leaning in. She wasn't a strong candidate, quite frankly. Mars was a better candidate for governor but. But they did the next woman up instead of the best candidate. And then I think in Citarelli there's not the get out the vote operation yet that I could see. And I saw some early data on polling this afternoon and it looks like young people, which would have been a Citarelli booster, didn't as Mark mentioned to us, didn't get out. You know, it's possible Jack Citarelli might squeak out something if Democrat turnouts a little lower than we expected. Maybe Jason Mearez wins. But I think, I think Sears tanked the entire state and sort of created a negative buzz effect. And so we'll see. But you know, Maris could squeak it out. It's going to be Mamdani in New York and it's going to be the proposition in there. I think you're going to have the socialist like mayor in Seattle. And the one thing I'll be watching as an unexpected bellwether will be whether the Pennsylvania Republicans steal back one or two of the Supreme Court races which could have a huge effect on the 28th election. That's my current role, just doing reporting the last couple hours heading into this.
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Amanda Head
Yeah, John, I mean you've been covering politics for a few years now. Have we ever come this close? I mean with, with these pairs of elections in California, like you said, Prop 50, that's going to turn congressional lines into spaghetti basically. And then in New York, zo run Mamdani. It does feel like we are so incredibly, dangerously close to the one party in this country, the Democrat party, tipping over the edge for socialism. Has it ever been like that?
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John Solomon
I mean, listen, I think you see Ayanna Presley come out tomorrow and run in the Senate race and you know, challenge Ed Markey, which is hard to call anything but a liberal. He's a liberal. But I mean she's going to be to the left of him. You got to be pretty far left to be left of Ed Markey. He used to be the far left of the party and now he's barely in the center. He hasn't changed. The party's gone there. Listen the country. A generation of people went through school and were trained to hate their country. And then these socialist populists have filled the void of populism that Donald Trump so closely filled. And most Republicans don't know how to talk like Donald Trump. And so they're squandering their chances. This was such an obvious economic race. And I'll tell you, I went back and looked at what everyone was talking about and they just weren't talking about the economy. Said really a little bit about affordability in New Jersey. I think he leaned did a little bit more. The rest I don't know. And so a socialist, a murderous dreaming attorney general in my home state. I mean just think of what could be tomorrow morning. But I want to go back to what I think is the big problem. Republicans just forgot how they won the 2024 election. They won it by getting early vote out. I haven't seen the early vote. This happened press it this year. They won on the populism and economic message. There wasn't an economic message going into this. And I think a third thing that they got to come to grips with, any consultant that says you should run from your president when your president just won the election a year ago and by the way, he's doing pretty historic things, is a bad consultant. You got to embrace Donald Trump even in blue states. And I think the too cautious turned out to be too stupid.
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Amanda Head
Yeah. And I think that for a lot of these candidates, they also thought that, you know, just the mention of Donald Trump in their campaign would be enough to drag them over the line. But Donald Trump's busy. He's, he's, he spent, you know, six days in Asia last week swinging bat after bat after bat for these deals.
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John Solomon
And he would have been in New Jersey. Second, if Citadelli come in, he would have been in Virginia if Sears came in. And I just, I don't understand this dynamic. But those consultants who made that advice should be thrown out and go work election line next year because they don't.
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Amanda Head
Know much of it is miseducation. Because I'm looking at these videos online where they asked Mamdani voters between Venezuela, Cuba and the Soviet Union, what's your favorite one? And they say Cuba. I really think there's a disconnect when it comes to socialist policies. And I know the idea of government run grocery stores sounds good, but somebody's got to pay for it.
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John Solomon
Teachers unions and the leftist school boards romanticized the evil part of the world and demonized the good part of America and they created a whole generation program for the AOC political rise. It can be fed, but it's got to be done with brute force and a little bit more sophistication than I saw in the 25 election run up.
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Amanda Head
Yeah, well, I happen to know one lady in the federal government on Trump's cabinet who has a great. Who has great ideas on turning around education in this country. So we'll see how that goes. All right, everybody, we're actually sticking around because we're going to help post election night coverage. That's right. We're going to be here for a few more hours, so we're going to take a quick break and we'll be back in a bit.
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