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The 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson
Election Day Eve: Where Things Stand & What the Stakes Are for America
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I can't believe I'm getting to say this, Senator, but we are right there, one day before the presidential election. Welcome to Verdict with Ted Cruz. Ben Ferguson with you. It seems like we've been talking about this forever and yet we are finally at the doorstep of finding out who's going to be the next President, United States of America.
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B
Well, as they say, as at a monster truck rally. Tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow, dear God, this will all be over. This long, interminable, never ending election will be over, God willing, tomorrow. And what we're going to talk about today, the day before election Day is two things. Number one, the stakes. What happens if Trump wins? What happens if Kamala wins? And number two, the lay of the land, where the polls are, what to expect, what tomorrow's going to look like. Both of those will going to break down for you because everyone is waiting with bated breath to see what happens.
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A
We're also going to look at what the first hundred days are going to look like if there is a Trump administration or a Harris administration. And that will be the closing arguments for so many of your family members. Let me tell you real quick though, about something really important, and it involves your family being able to protect and defend yourself with a firearm. And being able to protect and defend your family is vitally important. And that's why over 800,000Americans are members of the USCCA. Because not only will you get access when you're a member to their protector academy, and that's where you learn vital skills like precision shooting and how to fortify your home against criminals, but you also get access to the 247 critical response team. And what does that get you? Well, that includes benefits of self defense, liability insurance to make sure that you and your family are prepared for anything. Now, I have had to use my firearm to protect and defend myself, literally to save my life. And I can tell you I wish I would have known about USCCA then because I needed someone looking out for my rights. After I pulled the trigger, I knew I was in the right. I knew I was defending myself. And I knew that, that I was going to be okay. But when the law gets involved, especially in 2024 with activist DA's out there that cannot stand people that carry a firearm, you need someone protecting your constitutional rights. And that is where the USCCA comes in. So if you carry a firearm, you need to join USCCA right now. And the other thing for a limited time you can do is you can text the word America to 87222. That's text the word America to 87222 to get the USCCA's free life saving concealed carry and family defense guide and a chance to win seventeen hundred dollars to buy any self defense gear that you need before it's too late. So text right now the word America to 87222 right now. Senator, you've been all over. You've been out on the road. I've been out on the road as well. I've been doing a lot of TV and radio over the last couple weeks. And if there's anything that people ask me, if they ask me once a day, it's a thousand times a day, it's this question. What do you think our chances are? How is it looking? Is there really a chance Kamala Harris could beat Donald Trump? I'm gonna ask you the question I've been getting every day times a thousand. Your thoughts on that to start with?
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B
Well, look, on the last question, yes, unfortunately, there is a chance that Kamala wins. You know, I will say a month ago I would have put the odds of the presidential at 50.
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50.
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B
I think the last two weeks have been really good. I think the momentum is with Trump. I think he's been doing a lot of things right. We talked about in previous podcasts how he's been joyful, how he's been having fun, things like going to McDonald's, things like driving the garbage truck. He has been behaving like a winning campaign. I think people can pick up on that. I also think the Kamala campaign is panicking. I think they feel like it's slipping away from them. If I were laying odds right now, I would put it at 60, 40 that Trump wins now. 60, 40, that actually scares the hell out of me because what I'm saying is I think there's a 40% chance that we wake up on Wednesday or maybe a month from Wednesday, if the knuckleheads in Philadelphia and Detroit, Milwaukee are still counting votes for a month. But whenever this is resolved, I think there's a 40% chance Kamala Harris is president. That is terrifying because the stakes for this country, I've never seen an election remotely this close. And so look, you were talking about first hundred days. Let's talk for a minute. If Trump wins, if Trump wins, which you and I both hope and pray is what happens, we're going to see a lot of things happen starting on January 20th. Number one, on the border, we will secure the border. And understand this is not going to take a year. I don't even believe it's. Going to take six months. This will happen in January and February of next year. Why? Because the single most important determinant of illegal immigration is one single question. It's a policy question. What happens when an illegal immigrant is apprehended? And if the answer is they're put on a plane and sent home, the numbers plummet. Understand, almost everyone that comes to this country carries a cell phone with them. So if they get here and suddenly they're flying back, they pick up the phone and call their friends and family and say, hey, don't come. They're not letting you stay. On the other hand, if when they get here, they do, what happens under Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, which is they let him go and they fly them to every city in America. Well, they've still got that cell phone. They call it, call home, and tell their friends and family, hey, come on to America. Once you get here, you get to stay. Trump will end catch and release on January 20th, and we will see the numbers plummet. That's number one, by the way. On the flip side, Kamala. So we've seen a decrease in illegal immigration over the last couple of months because, frankly, Kamala and Biden, they're really cynical. They think the voters are stupid. They know the press will dutifully report, oh, the numbers are down. It's all solved. If Kamala wins, God help us, the numbers will skyrocket. We have seen 11 and a half million people in the last four years. If Kamala is president for another four years, 11 and a half will become 25 or 30 million. That is their objective, to invade this country with what they see as future Democrat voters. And we will see it. It will only get worse. So just on immigration, the delta is massive.
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A
And not only that, but I also think we need to remind people that this administration made a deal with Mexico for them to help them get the numbers to go down temporarily heading up until election day. And that will all disappear if she wins, correct?
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B
Absolutely. No, no. The invasion continues full force. And I don't think we wait till January. The invasion starts going in mid November again. If Kamala wins, then they're like, all right, no need to pretend anymore. Let's go. Let's bring in. We brought in an 11 and a half. I bet you we can do much more than that. I mean, it will only escalate. Remember, the government of Mexico announced just a few months ago that they were paying for buses to take illegal immigrants from Mexico's southern border all the way through Mexico and drop them off at their northern border, at our southern border. By the way, the government of Mexico is putting soldiers that were armed police officers on those buses to take them up there. They're doing it because Kamala Harris took the CBP1 app, which enables an illegal immigrant to apply to come into this country illegally, and they expanded it to. Now it applies to all of Mexico. So this is. Kamala is trying to make the invasion of this country more rapid and more efficient. And Mexico will be eagerly complicit if, God forbid, she's president.
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A
Let me ask you another question before we get into the Senate races and the control of the Senate and the House and also some of the other big issues that I think people are gonna think about on election day, which include the economy. But the second most question I'm getting the most, and I want to know if you're getting this as well, is will this election be fair? And how do we not know who the winner is on election night? I think most people believe we won't know an election night who's going to win between Trump and Harris, just because that seems to be this insane Trend that in 2024, we can't count votes. What. What are the odds we don't know who the president is on election night?
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B
Look, I think they're quite high because Democrats are both incompetent and they are engaged in malfeasance. Listen, Texas. Texas is the second largest state in the country. It is smaller only than California. It's bigger than New York. It's bigger than Florida. We will be done on election night. On Tuesday night, I'm gonna predict by midnight, we will know the result in the presidential race. We'll know the result in my race in the Senate race. We will know the result in the. In the congressional races. There might be an individual state rep race where it is within a few hundred votes, where there has to be a recount that sometimes happens on an individual district. But we will have the results in almost every race, if not every single race, by the end of election night in Texas. Now, if in Texas we can count our damn boats, why can't they do that in Philadelphia? Why can't they do that in Detroit? Why can't they do that in Milwaukee? Why can't they do that in Atlanta? Why can't they do that in blue cities in swing states? And the answer, sadly, is that I think the Democrats running them, they want to delay it. And will there be voter fraud on election day? Yes. And there has been voter fraud in Every election as long as there have been elections. I've joked, if you went back to the cavemen, when they were electing the Grand Poobah, somebody stuffed the ballot box. That is human nature. Now, there are two things that are good news. Number one, in red states, in states like Texas, like Florida, like Georgia, we have seen those states pass serious voter integrity laws. So it is much harder to cheat. In red states, it's not impossible, but it's harder. We have things like photo ID laws, we have things like banning ballot harvesting that make it significantly more difficult to cheat. In blue states or purple states, they have not passed election integrity laws. And the reason they haven't is Democrats have decided voter fraud is good for them. And by the way, this is new. A decade ago, like when I first got to the Senate 12 years ago, you had Democrats who were willing to be reasonable on enhancing election integrity. This has happened in the last few years that Democrats as a party have all decided, we like voter fraud. The more of it, the better. And, and, and it is a very cynical decision. I think they've decided voter fraud is good for them politically. So blue states have done nothing, zero, to enhance election integrity. We talked about in the last podcast how in Michigan, a Chinese national voted illegally in the presidential election. The Chinese national came in and used his student id. And the idiot Democrats in Michigan have decided a student ID is acceptable to vote, even though you don't have to be an American citizen to get a student id. So in blue states and purple states, there will be fraud and there will be more fraud than there is in red states. Here's the second level of good news. Historically, voter fraud only matters at the margin. It only matters when it's close. What that means is we've got to win by a big enough margin, they can't steal it. As Trump puts it, we need to win too big to rig. And so I will say, especially in these battleground states, we need to show up. If it's a half point or a point margin, we could be in trouble. If we win by five points, we'll be fine. And so we just need to make sure people turn out in big enough numbers that the election cannot be stolen.
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You talk about turnout, and this comes back to the issues. I still think this election is economy, first nationwide, and then safety. And that obviously encompasses the border. What are your thoughts on what is driving people to polls? Because the early voting numbers nationwide are very, very big compared to what we've seen in the past.
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B
Yeah. If you look at the state of Texas, we are projecting north of 70%, maybe north of 75% of the votes have already been cast, have been cast in early votes. That's not true in every state, but we're seeing a lot of early votes being cast all across the country. Listen, it varies state by state. Almost every public opinion poll that is done, the top two issues are either illegal immigration slash border security, or economy, slash inflation. And they both tend to be at about 30%. And one or the other is one and the other is two, and they go back and forth typically. The third issue is crime, and that tends to be around 9 or 10%, although you could say crime and illegal immigration, they're certainly intertwined. So there's no doubt those are the two monster issues. On the border, voters that are voting on illegal immigration are overwhelmingly voting for Donald Trump or overwhelmingly voting for Republicans. On the economy, it's a little bit more mixed, but inflation is a real problem and it's hurting people. And let's go back to the first hundred days. If Trump wins, we will see the regulatory assault that has been launched over the last four years on oil, gas end immediately. And you might think, all right, if you're in Texas, you get oil and gas are intertwined with jobs. But if you're in another state, you may say, okay, what do I care about energy? You need to understand, assaulting American energy is a massive driver of inflation because energy costs are inputs to everything. Let's take food. You might think, well, what does energy have to do with food? Well, for one thing, the fertilizers that farmers use have natural gas as a major input in them, and it drives up the cost of fertilizer. Not only that, every tractor, every bit of farm equipment uses diesel. Not only that, once you have reaped your crops, you take trucks to take them to the warehouse, take them to the grocery store. And so the cost of energy kicks in at 8, every single level and drives it up. We will see again on January 20th, I believe, of next year, Trump will end that assault on energy that is going to result in significantly increasing American oil production, natural gas production that is going to result in driving down costs that will mean not only costs that you pay at the gas pump, not only costs that you pay for paying your heating bill, but also cost that you pay and everything else. And I think we will see beyond that. We will see across the board an effort to repeal job killing regulations. And that in turn, I believe will stimulate economic growth, which again brings inflation down. As you get growth moving forward, so on the economy, I think there's a big upside. If Trump wins, if Kamala wins, we're going to see more of the same. We're going to see the assault on American energy will only get worse. And listen, there's a big difference between Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. Joe Biden's a puppet. He is. Mentally, he's not there anymore. I think he is having his strings pulled by others. Kamala is a true believer. I think every bad policy of Joe Biden gets worse under Kamala Harris, no doubt.
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And I think that's the reason why we see these massive early voting numbers. That obviously is encouraging. Let me tell you, with this election, I've been burning the candle at both ends. And I'm not going to lie to you, I'm ready for this election to be over. But each and every day I get up inspired and ready to fight for this country. I start my show at 7am and I can tell you it has to start with a great cup of coffee. The world may be in flames and we know what's happening with our economy, but when I wake up, I know I'm getting a premium cup of coffee, a cup of coffee that is 100% America and 0% woke. Now, there's a lot of woke coffee companies out there, but I don't have to worry about using them anymore because blackout coffee is a brand that was made by conservatives that said, hey, let's get in the coffee space. Let's get rid of bad coffee by woke companies. And Blackout Coffee is 100% committed to Conservative values, from the sourcing of the beans to the roasting process. Now here's the other thing I love about blackout coffee. They accept no compromise on taste or quality, meaning you don't get an average cup of coffee. You don't get a good cup of coffee. You get a premium cup of coffee. As I say, it's the best cup of coffee I've had my whole life. So go to blackoutcoffee.com verdict I'm going to save you money. You use the coupon code verdict, you're going to get 20% off your first order. BlackoutCoffee.com verdict use coupon code verdict 20% off that first order. Blackoutcoffee.com vs verdict and get the best cup of coffee to start your day every day and without the woke agenda of those left coffee companies. Blackout coffee.com verdict promo code verdict 20% off your first order. Senator, let's get back to the first hundred days and this really Comes down to, I call it the closing arguments. There are a lot of people listening right now. They may have family members, they may have friends that are still on the fence deciding if they're going to vote or not on election day. Take the time to do it. And I think we gotta arm them with the important data of compare and contrast. So what are some of the other things that are gonna look very different in the first hundred days from a Harris campaign if she wins, to a Trump administration if he wins?
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Well, as I said on the border, Trump will secure the border. Kamala will open the borders even more on energy. Trump will end the war on energy, which will reduce inflation. Kamala will. Will only increase the war on energy, which will increase inflation on taxes. Now, this question depends on what happens in the House and Senate if Kamala wins and Republicans win the Senate. And I think there is a good chance right now Republicans win the Senate, although we need to take that deadly seriously. Because if the Democrats get the White House, the House and the Senate, the country, I think, could be irreparably damaged. But if we end up with Kamala in the White House and a Republican Senate, it means we will not see a massive tax increase. That's good. But if Trump wins and we have a Republican Senate in the House, we will see the 2017 tax cuts extended. Most of the 2017 tax cuts expire next year. Trump has said he wants to extend them. Kamala said she wants to let them expire. The Wall Street Journal calls this a $6 trillion election. That's the delta of how much your taxes are going up versus how much they're going down or staying down, depending on if the Democrats or Republicans win. If Trump wins, for example, and we have a Republican House and Senate, I think we'll see things like his proposal for no tax on tips. I think we'll pass that. As you know, I am the author of the no tax on tips legislation in the Senate. My legislation already has bipartisan, partisan support. I think we'll pass it into law. Uh, he is also advocating no tax on Social Security benefits. That's something I very much agree with. I think we'll get that done. That will impact. You want to talk about seniors. Seniors struggling with. With inflation. No tax on Social Security benefits will be a real benefit to seniors. Quickly. So on taxes, there's a big, big delta. But. But let's also touch on foreign policy. If Trump wins, I think both of the wars that are ongoing right now end next year. I think the war on Ukraine ends. The War in Ukraine ends, and I think Trump forces a negotiated settlement. I think Russia will lose. It will not be a victory for Putin. But Trump will also say, we're not going to write checks indefinitely. End this and be done. And I think we'll. We'll get it resolved. I think Putin is scared of Trump. Putin is not scared of Kamala Harris. So I think that will resolve. And on Israel, I think the war in Israel resolves as well. And I think it resolves with Israel defeating Hamas. What Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have done is undermine Israel consistently. That has extended the war. That has encouraged Hamas, that has encouraged Hezbollah, that has encouraged Iran. If Trump wins, we see the oil sanctions on Iran being enforced again, and their money suddenly plummets, the money going to Hamas and Hezbollah plummets. And I actually think America standing strongly with Israel accelerates the resolution of this war. So the upside on foreign policy is very high. But if Kamala wins, I think we would see a Kamala Harris administration undermine Israel even more. I think it extends the war. I think it encourages Hamas, it encourages Hezbollah. I think it encourages Iran. You see Kamala continuing to flow billions of dollars to Iran. You know, it was amazing, Ben, when Kamala Harris did the 60 Minutes interview, they asked her, what's the biggest threat to America? And she said, Iran. And apparently 60 Minutes doesn't actually employ real journalists because they didn't ask the obvious follow up. Well, wait, if. If Iran is the biggest threat to America right now, in your judgment, why did you flow a hundred billion dollars to Iran? Why are you funding the people who want to murder us? They didn't ask her that. And she has no answer to that. She can't give an answer to that. But if she wins, the hundred billion dollars that has gone to Iran becomes 200 billion or more. And that means Hamas gets more money, Hezbollah gets more money. More Israelis die, more Jews die, more Americans die, more of our allies die. The world gets more dangerous. So I will say on foreign policy, the consequences are massive and really frightening.
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You put this together, I call it the trifecta. You've got a security issue at home with an open border, the crime. You know, you've got inflation, the economy, and you have a foreign policy. And yet we're still having this real conversation, Senator, about there's a real chance Harris could win this thing. There is part of me that just steps back and goes, how is that even possible? And then I answer the question. It's because we become so tribal in this country, right? I mean, let's be honest. I think, I think 48%, 48.5% are hardcore Democrats. 48% are hardcore Republicans are fighting over 2 or 3% in the middle. And so it doesn't matter who the Democrats run. I think Harris is proof of that. Right. She was a terrible VP candidate or presidential candidate the first time around. She had one of the lowest approval ratings in history of a vp. And yet now, all of a sudden, it was a coronation no one voted for. Let's not forget that you have the corruption of the Biden family that should have been hanging overhead. Complete disconnect there. Because we are so divided as a country. And that concerns me as well.
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Yeah, look, I don't think we are that divided. I don't think it's 48. 48 in terms of tribalism. I think there are a number of people who are not very engaged in politics and who the media is deliberately deceiving. And we need to have people understand the stakes of it. I don't think they're. I don't think 48% of the country are hardcore Democrats. In fact, I think this country is solidly center. Right. But we need to move them. We need to persuade them. And it's where the media being corrupt is such a problem. And so listen, on the merits, we ought to be winning 65, 35 everywhere, but we're not. So let's break it down. Let's run through the swing states. Let's start with Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania is the most important swing state. It's the largest swing state. If you look at right now, the Real Clear Politics average, Trump is winning, but barely. The average right now is Trump at 48.3 and Kamala Harris at 48.0. So Trump is up.03 and, and to give you a sense, at this point, two days to the election, Biden was up 4.3 and Clinton was up 2.8. And by the way, Clinton was up 2.8 and Trump won in 2016. Now, if you look at the most recent polls. Let me just go through the most recent ones. The most recent one was New York Times Sienna. That was a tie, 48 to 48. The one before that was Trump was plus 1. The one before that was Trump plus 2. The one before that was Trump Plus 1. The one before that was Harris plus 2. The one before that was a tie. The one before that was Harris plus two. The one before that was Harris plus one. The one before that was Trump plus two. So the long and short of it is Pennsylvania is really Close. All right, let's go through the other swing states. Arizona. Arizona I feel better about. I think Trump is going to win Arizona. The current average is Trump + 2.6. Here are the last several polls. The most recent. Trump plus three. Before that. Trump plus four. The before that. Trump plus six. Before that. Trump plus one. Before that. Trump plus two. Before that. Trump plus eight. Before that. Trump plus two. Before that, a tie. Before that, Harris plus one. So it's been pretty consistent for a while that Trump's got a lead. I think we win Arizona. How about Nevada? Nevada? Trump's got a lead, but it's closer. The average in Nevada is Trump plus one. What are the most recent polls? And this is a lot more spotty. The most recent poll is Harris plus three. Before that, Trump plus six. Before that. Harris plus one. Before that. Trump plus six. Before that. Harris plus one. Before that, Trump plus two. Before that, a tie. So Nevada. It depends on the turnout. It's bumpy. I mean, we are leading in Nevada right now, but narrowly. All right, how about Wisconsin? Wisconsin is a really, really important swing state after Pennsylvania. Wisconsin and Michigan are the two most important swing states. The current Real Clear Politics average, Harris is up 0.3%. Here are the most recent polls. Harris plus 2. Before that, Trump plus 1. Before that. Harris plus 1. Before that, Trump plus 1. Before that. Harris plus 2. Before that. Trump plus 3. Before that, a tie. Before that, a tie. So Wisconsin is another one. That is razor thin. How about Michigan? Michigan. The average right now is Harris + 0.9. Here are the most recent polls. The most recent is a tie. Before that, Trump plus one. Before that, a tie. Before that, Harris plus two. Before that, Trump plus two. Before that, Harris plus one. Then Harris plus three. Then Harris plus one than a tie. Michigan is close, but according to the public polling, the Democrats have a slight advantage. Let's take North Carolina. North Carolina. I think we're going to win North Carolina. The current average is Trump +1.5. Here are the most recent polls. There was one that just came out, New York Times, Siena, that showed Harris +2. But that's an outlier here. All the previous polls. Trump plus 2. Trump plus 4. Trump plus 3. Trump plus 2. Trump plus 3. Trump plus 1. Harris plus 1. Tie. I think we'll end up winning North Carolina. But an open question in North Carolina is what is the impact of the hurricane? And many of the areas hit are redder parts of the state. Does that depress turnout? I certainly hope not, but. But that is an X factor that no One has a firm answer. All right, final swing state to talk about Georgia. I think we'll win Georgia as well. The current average is Trump +1.9. Here are the most recent polls. The New York Times Sienna poll showed Harris +1, but again, that was an outlier. Here are the previous polls before that. Trump plus one. Trump plus two. Trump plus five. Trump plus one. Trump plus 2. Trump plus 2. Tie Trump plus one. Trump plus six. At the end of the day, I think we win Georgia, North Carolina, Arizona and Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin. Damned if I know. Trump wins those he wins. But if we don't, we could be looking at President Kamala Harris.
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And that is the part that is obviously very scary. I want to ask you a final overview. What is the closing argument? What is your challenge to the listeners of Verdict? What is it that they really need to be focused on the last 24 hours? It's our final show before election Day. And before I get your answer on that, I want to tell you about Patriot Mobile. I tell you there are so many patriots just like you that are listening that have made the switch from liberal mobile, big Mobile to conservative mobile. And you're loving Patriot mobile. More than 10 years ago, Patriot Mobile did something that was amazing. They started cell phone company because they found out where your money was going when you paid your bill to big Mobile. It was going to Democratic causes, candidates and organizations at the local, state and national level, including radical organizations that were funding and paying for abortions. And that is exactly why they started Patriot Mobile. Now the number one reason why people don't change their cell providers because they're afraid of coverage issues. Guess what? You don't have to worry about that anymore in 2024 because they all use the same towers. They all use the same networks. I switched to Patriot Mobile, been using them now for years. And I have zero issues and I travel all over the country all the time. Now here's the best part about switching. When you switch to Patriot Mobile, not only do you keep your same number and you can keep your same phone or you can upgrade to a new one, but every time you make call or send a text, you're standing up for what you believe in. Because Patriot mobile takes about 5% of your bill every month at no extra cost to you. And they give it back to conservative causes and organizations that fight for first and our second amendment rights, fight for the rights of unborn children. And they stand with our military, our veterans, our first responders and our wounded warriors. That's just some of what they do now. They have a hundred percent US based customer service team that makes switching easy. And I want to give you a free month of service as well. Go to patriot mobile.com verdict that's patriot mobile.com verdict or call them 972 Patriot. That's 972-patriot right now. And you're going to get a free month when you use the offer code verdict. So join me and switch to America's only Christian conservative mobile provider, patriotmobile.com verdict or 972-patriot and get your free month of service today. Final question. Senator, closing argument to the audience, a verdict. This is our last show before election Day. What is your challenge to them?
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B
Listen, the question in every presidential election is are you better off now than you were four years ago? On the merits? It's not even close. You look at the economy, the economy is a train wreck. Inflation's a train wreck. The border is worse than a train wreck. National security, both public safety. We are seeing violent, criminal, illegal aliens being released every day. They are murdering Americans. They are raping women. They are raping and murdering children. Our safety is seriously compromised. We've seen the greatest, I think the greatest risk of a terrorist attack we've ever seen from our open border inviting terrorists in this country. And the world's on fire. Think back under Donald Trump and we had Donald Trump as president. A Republican Senate, a Republican House. We had peace, we had prosperity. We had booming economic growth. People's lives were better. Millions of people were coming off food stamps. Millions of people were moving into prosperity. Wages were going up. Safety and security was enhanced. The border was the safest it had been in 45 years. Those are the basic facts. That's the difference. And so I want to say, listen, the verdict listeners, I'm going to say a little bit selfishly. I think we have the smartest, best informed, most patriotic, most amazing listeners in the planet. You guys are part of this discussion. Listen, Ben and I, all right. It is right now, Sunday night. It is 1:04am so it actually is Monday morning.
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Yeah. You're not lying.
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It is 1.04am it is 1.04am I've spent the entire day on the campaign trail. I am bleary eyed and exhausted and I'm gonna spend all day tomorrow on the campaign trail. But Ben and I do this and Ben's gotta get up at like, I don't know, 2:30 in the morning or something to do his morning show. It's a little bit crazy. I don't, I don't actually Think Ben sleeps. But we, we do this for a reason. Amen. Which is that our listeners want to know the truth, wanna know what's happening, wanna be informed, understand how do we save America, how do we defend the Constitution, how do we defend freedom? How do we fight this country? I believe with all my heart is the greatest country in the history of the world. And I think our country is hanging by a thread. And so I want to say, look, I have every confidence that every Verdict listener has already voted early or is going to vote on Tuesday. So, so, so I'm not even going to insult you by telling you to vote. Because if you're listening to Verdict, if you're a regular listener, you're going to vote. You love America and you're going to vote no matter what. So I want to encourage you, of course you're going to do that. But get others to vote on Tuesday, seriously. Spend time, sit down and make phone calls. Drive someone to the polls. Call, you know, call somebody. Call your sister, your son, your next door neighbor, your co worker, call somebody and say, look, this election matters. If you get 2, 3, 4, 5 people to vote who wouldn't have voted otherwise, you can change the outcome. And so I just want to have a call to action across this country. I know you love our country. I'm really frightened about this election. I'm hopeful, I'm optimistic. I said I'm 60, 40, but that 40 scares the hell out of me. So I want to call on our Verdict listeners. Do not let the 40 come to pass. Spend your time Monday and Tuesday getting people to show up and vote on election day so that when we're sitting there Tuesday night, we are celebrating and we're not horrified and weeping for our country.
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Amen to that. We will be back with you in some capacity, hopefully on election night and we'll at least be able to talk more to you then. Don't forget, we do the show Monday, Wednesday, Friday. Share this podcast, please. Hopefully it'll inspire others to go vote. And make sure you grab my podcast. I'll keep you updated as well, the Ben Ferguson podcast as well on election day. I'll have that for you in the morning and the center, I will see you back here tomorrow.