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The 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson
Garbage Fallout: Trump's Campaign of Joy, Kamala's Campaign of Rage
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Ben Ferguson
Welcome. It is verdict with Senator Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you. And Senator, every time I think the Democrats can't get any worse at their closing argument for the American people, after, you know, calling all this garbage, they then figure out a way to insult even more people this time. Women that are supporting Donald Trump, you can't make it up.
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Senator Ted Cruz
Well, we are four days out from the election and in the closing messages, the world is inverted today. Kamala Harris and Joe Biden and the Democrats, they are angry, they are lashing out. They are insulting everyone. Donald Trump is Hitler. Anyone who supports Trump is garbage. Any woman who votes for Trump is stupid and weak. That's their closing argument. It really is astonishing. And I gotta say, on the flip side, the Donald Trump campaign, if I were to sum it up in one word right now, that word would be joy. Ironically, the word that the Kamala campaign tried to make their catchphrase, they've abandoned. They're just bitterly insulting the voters. But Donald Trump is having fun. He's having the most fun I've ever seen him have on the campaign trail. He is a joyful, happy warrior right now. And that contrast couldn't be clearer.
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Ben Ferguson
Yeah, it certainly is. And it's going to be very interesting to see how this closing argument plays with the American people. We're going to break down some actually funny moments from Donald Trump, a different side of him that we have never seen in just a moment. But first, let me tell you about our friends over at Chalk. If you are a guy and you are getting a little bit older and you feel like weakness and complacency have started to set in, maybe you want to go work out, maybe you want to play sports, maybe you just feel like you're fatigued all the time. You're not alone. Men's testosterone levels have dropped off a cliff historically and they're at an all time low. Well, that is why I want you to know about the patriots at Chalk Choq. They are helping real American men, just like you, take back your right to proudly maximize your masculinity. That'll irritate the left by boosting your testosterone levels up to 20% over 90 days. Now, a little over a year ago, I made a commitment that I wanted to lose weight. I want to get into shape. And without chalk, I would not have lost the 70 plus pounds I've lost over the last year in about a month and a half. It is amazing. The difference that is get that has been towards me being able to work out, to walk, to run, and to have more energy. So if you're like me and you're sick and tired of being, well, just tired all the time, you got to check out Chalk Grab their Male Vitality Stack. It's manufactured right here in the US Of A. Chalk's natural herbal supplements are clinically proven to have game changing effects on your energy, your focus and your mood. So use the code Ben for a massive discount on any subscription. For life go to choq.com that's chalk. Choq.com use the code Ben for lifetime savings on any subscription. Grab that mail Vitality Stack for a limited time offer and subscriptions are cancelable at any time. Choq.com promo code BEN for a massive discount on any subscription for life. So there's two things that happened since you and I sat down to do the show last time. President Trump, I think, actually did one of the greatest modern political moves that I've seen and that was just play into the insanity of the left while they're calling Trump supporters garbage. He says, hey, let's get a garbage truck. Let's throw Trump on the side of it. Give me a garbage man's vest and we're going to go out there and have a little fun with this. That is not what most people, I think, were expecting from Donald Trump.
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Senator Ted Cruz
Yeah, look, it's a very clear contrast. As I said, on the Democrat side, I think they're getting desperate. I think they're looking at the poll numbers. They feel like this is all slipping away from them and they're lashing out. They're in denial. They're angry. They're sitting there going, how could we possibly be losing to Donald Trump? And you see them just cracking up. You see Kamala losing it. I mean, her whole pretense at joy has disappeared. She's just lashing out. Now, Joe Biden, of course, stupidly said out loud what the radicals all believe, which is he said that if you're supporting Donald Trump, he thinks you're garbage. A floating pile of garbage. I'll tell you on the campaign trail across Texas today. Now, you know it's Halloween. I've been campaigning, but at every event I did today, there were people that showed up wearing garbage bags. The garbage bags are selling out at stores because that may be the most popular Halloween costume in the country as people. Kelly dressed in, in.
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Ben Ferguson
No. So, Megan Kelly, did you wear a garbage bag? So this is so funny. Tonight we went out trick or treating. I have never seen so many little kids running down the street in garbage bags. It was hysterical. They were wearing MAGA hats and they were running down the streets in garbage bags. And several of the parents that I did not know because, you know, we're on a street, there's hundreds of kids, they close off the streets in the subdivision where we get trick or treat to keep everybody safe. And I just, I asked a couple of them, I was like, I was like, this is amazing. And they're like, yeah, our kids were going to be Altuve. Our kid was going to be a football player, quarterback. And then they were talking about, they said at school, and it just went viral where all these kids are like, let's wear garbage bags tonight.
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Senator Ted Cruz
It is an amazing testament. I mean, what Joe Biden said really hit her nerve. It ticked people off. And then I think Trump handled it perfectly. And frankly, Trump's reaction was reminiscent of how he did the McDonald's thing, where rather than, you know, he could have gotten angry and, you know, how dare Kamala lie about working at McDonald's and why is the press such lying sobs? All of that would have been pretty reasonable to say, but it was much more effective just to go to a McDonald's and make some fries and serve in the drive thru. And that image, when you think of the iconic images of this election, I think Trump and the McDonald's will certainly be one of the iconic images. And Trump in the garbage truck. And truck. Trump giving his speech in the garbage vest will be another one. And take a listen to President Trump describing how that came to be.
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Donald Trump
So this outfit, you know, is when they, when he called us all garbage. How stupid. What a stupid word. That blows deplorable away, don't you think? Of course I thought irredeemable. When she said deplorable or irredeemable, I thought irredeemable was actually worse. But deplorable seemed to catch up. But this garbage stuff blows it away. So I'm in this beautiful plane, I'm enjoying myself, have a wonderful suit on. And one of my people came in and said, sir, you know, the word garbage is the hottest thing right now out there. The hottest thing out there. Sir, would you like to drive a garbage truck? Now we're about, you know, 30 minutes from landing. We had to do this pretty quick. I said, it's sort of cool, though, isn't it? Because, you know, and I said, you know, I think that's okay, but, you know, I don't feel comfortable wearing a suit. And they pulled up this garbage truck. I don't know how the hell they did it so fast. I have very capable people. They put a big sign of the truck. Did you see it? I think they showed us. And then they said, sir, we have a vest. I said, well, should I leave my suit on and put it over the vest? But that doesn't look very good, right? That doesn't look good. So I said, all right, look, let me take it off. And then I actually said, I climbed into the truck, but here's the. So I said, how the hell do you get into this truck? It's way up high. It's a big one. This was a beautiful. I said, you didn't have to buy it that big, right? You have to get it that big. They brought this brand new, gorgeous truck. Wonderful driver. He looked like Cary Grant in his prime. You know who that is? This beautiful driver. And he drove that big thing up. And I said, man, this is bad, because now I have all the cameras are all watched. Look. Look at all the fake news. They were. Most of them now. Most of. Many of them were there. And I'm saying, oh, boy, you know, one little mistake with these guys and your political career is over. You can't even. So I said, man, if I don't get up there, this is going to be very embarrassing. These stupid people. They'll say, he's cognitively and physically impaired. And I can't do that when I'm alongside of this great athlete. I got to get up to that. So. So look, so the stair. The first stair is, like, up. So. So I had the adrenaline going, and I made it. I made it. And then I gave a little news conference from the front of the. You know, they asked their wise guy questions and everything. And then we drove about two feet. I got out, got in the plane, and then I got in the car, and I'm driving over here, and I have this still on, and I come into the arena and I say, where's my jacket? I want to get out of this thing. And they said, it would be unbelievable if you could wear it on stage. I said, and I said, no way. I got 25,000 people standing outside. I got all these people here. There's no way I'm wearing it on stage. They said, oh, okay, sir. I said, get me my jacket. But if you did, you know, it actually makes you look thinner. I said. And they got me. I said, I want to wear it on stage. When they said I look thinner, I said, in that case, I'll wear it on. I may never wear a blue jacket again. I may go. I may go in this I said that that was my, that was the word, that was the key. Sir, you look thinner. So anyway, so we had a little fun about a very serious subject. We had a little fun about a time where our country is not having a lot of fun because we're, we're not doing well as a country, but we're going to be doing well very shortly, I promise you that.
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Ben Ferguson
I mean, Senator, this is just on so many different levels, so interesting to see. And I think a lot of this is after the assassination attempt. He made fun of himself. He laughed about maybe not being able to get up in the truck and what that would do and they'll ruin your career. He made fun about not being maybe the fittest guy in the world and it makes me look thinner. And they had me when they told me the vest made me look thinner, I may never take it off again. I may never wear a jacket again. And then at the very end, he brought it back home. We, and he said we had a little bit of fun, even after a very serious conversation that needs to be had about them having this much hatred towards us. This is a very different Donald Trump in his closing arguments to America, which is the guy that they said you're not supposed to like is extremely likable.
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Senator Ted Cruz
That's absolutely right. And I gotta say, it's powerful. It's powerful on a number of levels. Number one, the images, the image of him driving the garbage truck, the image of him wearing the vest was everywhere. It dominated the news, it drove the news. And that means even if somebody had been living under a rock, even if they didn't hear about Joe Biden calling every Donald Trump supporter in America a floating piece of garbage, they would ask, why is Trump driving a garbage truck? Why is he wearing a vest? And then they would find out, oh, because Joe Biden said you're a piece of garbage. That was really powerful and important. It extended the story, it drove the news, it made sure everyone knew. Listen. Driving on the bus tour, I stopped in a little town in Texas today, Hamilton, Texas, very small town. It's a beautiful, quaint town. And the kids downtown were all trick or treating. They were little kids were walking up and down downtown to the stores. And I went in an old drugstore that had an old time soda fountain and I got a root beer float and sat there with a little kid who was dressed up as a Tron guy. And it was really fun. And I sat there. But there were kids all throughout this little bitty town, Hamilton, Texas, dressed in garbage bags. I Mean, it penetrated everywhere. That's really powerful. But also the fact that he was relaxed, that he was cutting jokes, and that he was making fun of himself, that is not something usually in Trump's repertoire, to put it mildly. You remember the Al Smith dinner that he did, which was the humorous dinner hosted to support Catholic charities. Now, of course, Kamala Harris skipped the thing. Trump's speech was really funny. I gotta say, my favorite joke that he told, he's about two thirds of the way through the speech, and he says, okay, now's the portion of the speech where I'm supposed to be self deprecating.
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Ben Ferguson
I got nothing.
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Senator Ted Cruz
And it was. He waited just long enough. I mean, even the lefty journalist cracked up laughing. And listen, this is a good point. You know, when he's talking about, oh, you mean I look thinner? Okay. Oh, wow. I didn't think I'd get my foot up there. I mean, you're right. That's the sort of joke that it's real, it's funny, it's approachable. And the contrast to the angry hatred coming from the other side is really striking. It's why I said in the beginning of the pod that joy is coming to you. Combine this and McDonald's, and this is a joyful campaign in the final four days.
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Ben Ferguson
It is joyful. And he also is bringing it home. And Donald Trump in New Mexico was. Was really selling this point to the crowd when. When he reminded them of what this election is about.
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Donald Trump
Kamala and Joe, call them, all of them also. They're in your group now. She calls them garbage, and he calls them garbage. Oh, you can imagine their conversations. But I call you the heart and soul of America. I call you the people that built our country. You're the people that built our country.
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Ben Ferguson
I mean, that is. That is bringing home and reminding people, this is the election. I'm here fighting for you. I want you to succeed. I believe in you. You're the heart and soul of the country. You're more than. More important than government. They don't look at you as anything but garbage.
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Senator Ted Cruz
Yes, and there's also a double message in this. Look. It's the socioeconomic inversion that we have seen in the last decade remains the single most important shift in politics. For decades, the conventional wisdom was Republicans are the party of the rich and Democrats are the party of the poor and the working class. I don't know if that was ever the case, but that's what everyone believed it was. That was conventional wisdom that is now turned on its head. Today. The Democrats are the party of coastal elites. They look down on working men and women. And our party, we are a blue collar party. We are a party of truck drivers and steelworkers and cops and firefighters and waiters and waitresses. That's who's at a Trump rally. You and I have been to many Trump rallies. That's who's coming out now. This is something I've championed for a long time. Since the day I arrived in the Senate, I've been fighting for our party to be a blue collar party. That has always been my political base is working men and women. But one of the things I loved about his showing up in the garbage truck, not only does it highlight that Joe Biden thinks were garbage, but I gotta tell you, Trump is also representing and getting the votes of the garbage trucks drivers, the people that are working the basic jobs. And what he says there in New Mexico, I call you the people who built our country. It's the blue collar workers, it's the union guys who are the ones that are actually doing the hard work. And the Democrats look down on them as the dirty, unwashed masses. They think, you stupid people, vote for us, but keep your mouth shut and follow our orders because we know better. And that contrast, I think, is night and day and really powerful.
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Ben Ferguson
Well, J.D. vance, even hitting home on what you just said, and it went viral. He said a mother mourning her son who died of a fentanyl overdose is not garbage. A truck driver who can't afford rising diesel prices is not garbage. A father who wants to afford groceries is not garbage. Kamala Harris and Joe Biden ought to be ashamed of themselves. He took that more serious reminding role there. And look, Kamala Harris, she had to dodge questions when she was asked about this as she was getting on the airplane. She was asked about the comments by Joe Biden and she didn't clean it up very well at all. Listen, do you sympathize with any voters who do feel offended by or insulted.
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Senator Ted Cruz
By the garbage comments?
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Kamala Harris
I am running for President of the United States. I will be traveling to three states today to do what I have been doing throughout, which is talking with the American people about the fact that, first of all, I get it in terms of the concerns they have about challenges like the price of groceries. Second, my highest priority is to address that and to lift them up around their ambitions, their aspirations and their dreams, which is why I have a very specific and detailed plan about strengthening our economy. Leading economists have reviewed my plan and indicated it will strengthen the economy and that Donald Trump's plan will weaken the economy. So I'm going to be spending full time as I've been talking with the American people, whoever they voted for last time. And as I have said and will repeat over and over again, I am sincere in what I mean. When elected president of the United States, I will represent all Americans, including those who don't vote for me, and address their needs and their desires.
- [19:16]
Ben Ferguson
And then she does what she so well, she walked away. That was a bad response. In a moment where people were looking and even the mainstream media there, they were looking for a real response from her, like, hey, are you going to put this to bed? Are you going to say something to let people know that you don't actually hate half of America or agree with Joe Biden? She didn't fix it.
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Senator Ted Cruz
Well, and the shorter answer, do you sympathize with the Trump supporters who are offended that Joe Biden just called them garbage? Her shorter answer is no. I think the same thing. If you vote for Biden, I, Kamala Harris, think you're garbage. That's the real answer. And it's. But, you know, she also, she can't get off her script. I mean, think how Bill Clinton would have answered that question. He would have understood. He would have said, of course, he would have completely pivoted and said, you know, praise the American people. He had the instinct that you never attack the voters. You can disagree with your political opponents, but not the voters. The voters should not be the enemy. And the Democrats, as they get desperate, they're lashing out at the voters. How dare you vote for this guy we hate so much? And I'll tell you, it was a bad, bad problem that got worse this week. And it got worse because one of the very top surrogates for the Kamala Harris campaign is Mark Cuban. They're putting him everywhere. They're putting him on the View. They're putting him everywhere. He's like their front guy carrying the message. And so today, Kamala Harris, top surrogate, decided it's not enough to insult half of America and call them garbage. Let's go out of the way to really insult women. Let's go after women and say that if you're a woman and you're backing Donald Trump, then you are stupid and you're weak. I mean, it really is. Again, it's the same strategy of attack the voters. That is spectacularly foolish. But give a listen. And I want you to, to listen to Kayleigh mceny reacting to it because her reaction was really just, I Think. Exactly. Spot on.
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Ben Ferguson
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Donald Trump
Strong, intelligent women ever. It's just that simple. They're intimidating to him. He doesn't like to be challenged by them.
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Kayleigh McEnany
Kaylee Mark Cuban. Okay, I had to take a breath before this because this is so profoundly offensive. I worked for Donald Trump. I consider myself a strong woman. I consider those around me strong women. Kellyanne Conway, Brooke Rollins, Ivanka Trump, Hope Hicks, Sarah Sanders. That's before we get to the women that Donald Trump elevated to very high levels, like Nikki Haley, who still supports him, like Amy Coney Barrett, who he put on The Supreme Court or the women currently around him? Susie Wiles comes to mind. Caroline Levitt, that is so offensive. And you know why? Because it's not just about the women who worked for him. He said the women around Donald Trump. This comes right after the Joe Biden garbage comment. Okay, the women around Donald Trump. What about the women who vote for Donald Trump? Are they weak? Are they dumb? Did Mark Cuban just insult any woman who supports Donald Trump? Because it's a little, very small step from that. And this is an official Biden, excuse me, Harris campaign surrogate Mark Cuban. That is misogynistic in my view. Get out of here. Mark Cuban, Kamala Harris, he's your surrogate. I want to hear from you. Do you agree the women are weak and ineffective? Whatever he said, get out of here. And I can't wait to hear from.
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Ben Ferguson
You, Kamala, by the way, you're gonna be waiting a long time to hear from her on this. It is shocking, but as you and I mentioned a moment ago, and Kaylee just said their senator, this is their top surrogate, that is a non elected official and he's been flying around the country. He's been doing the biggest interviews on her behalf. The View is a great example that where he said this. And this is another moment of their closing argument. If it wasn't bad enough to call half of Americans garbage, now you're insulting women saying you're an idiot or stupid if you actually vote or support Trump.
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Senator Ted Cruz
Well, I can actually predict Kamala's response when she's getting asked about this. She's gonna say, look, I was raised in the middle class. That's what she's got.
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Ben Ferguson
I'm laughing because it's actually a legitimate chance. Like there should be a Vegas line on that, like if it's ridiculous, but it's actually not.
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Senator Ted Cruz
And by the way, once SNL started mocking her for that ridiculous line, does she not have anyone in her campaign that says Madam Vice President, please never say that again. Like just remove it from your repertoire because it is now every time you say it, it's a laugh line. Like nobody can listen to anything else you say cuz they're too busy laughing. That that's your response. Either her team won't tell her that or she is unable to resist. But of course she's not going to back away from it. And look, this is the attitude of, I think Kamala Harris, of Joe Biden, of Hillary Clinton, of Barack Obama. Remember, there is a steady line from, you're all garbage if you vote for Donald Trump, that's Joe Biden to Hillary Clinton. The only people voting for Donald Trump are deplorables to Barack Obama. The people voting on the other side, the people of America are bitter and angry and clinging to their God and their guns. There is the modern day left. They really do have this condescension where they look at garbage truck drivers like they are garbage, like they're just. But they also expect them to vote for him. I mean, it's the most amazing thing that they insult you, mind you. Likewise Kamala and Biden and Hillary. They expect every woman in America to vote for her, even while they insult you and say, if you're a woman and you're voting for Trump, you're stupid and you're weak. And it's. I gotta say that that is not the strategy of a winning campaign.
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Ben Ferguson
Well, let me ask you another question. And this is about people that are really concerned about the election coming up. And we have now got a headline. And there's two parts of this headline that will drive you insane. Number one, a Chinese foreign exchange student has been charged with multiple crimes. That's good news. For illegally voting in Michigan on Sunday. Now again, the headline there, you would think to yourself, well, this is great news. We had a guy that was illegally voting, we caught him, it's not gonna count. The problem is Michigan can't and won't disqualify in a legal vote cast by this Chinese national because, quote, it's already been put through a tabulator. So Michigan says, hey, it counts. So there is someone that's gonna show up and vote in Michigan and their vote is gonna be canceled out by a Chinese foreign exchange student that has been charged with multiple crimes for illegally voting. But it still gets canceled out. And yet Democrats are still sitting there saying it's racist. If you say you have to show an ID before you vote.
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Senator Ted Cruz
Well, it's infuriating. And understand why this happens. This happened because the Democrats in Michigan passed a law. Their voter ID law allows people to show a current student photo ID card from an educational institution in order to vote. Now, the only problem is you don't have to be an American citizen to get a student id. In this case, you had a Chinese national who was from China, he had a student id. He could be a student, that's allowed. But Chinese nationals are not allowed to vote in American elections. And yet this individual did. So he voted while it was illegal. Two charges against a 19 year old student. He was not identified, but he is not a U.S. citizen. And he's being charged. And the reason that this is happening is because Democrats don't want you actually to have to prove you're a citizen. You know, there was legislation called the Save Act. The Save Act. They voted on it in the House of Representatives. And the Democrats, on essentially a straight party line vote, Democrat after Democrat after Democrat voted no. The Save act was very simple. It said you have to demonstrate, you have to prove you're a citizen in order to register to vote. It's common sense. And yet part of the. One of the reasons the Democrats voted no is they claimed, oh, this is not a problem. No noncitizens vote. Well, tell that to the Chinese national who just voted in Michigan. And infuriatingly enough, the Michigan officials say, oh, and by the way, his vote's gonna cast. He's illegal. He can't vote legally. And yet we've already tabulated his vote. That's what the Michigan officials are saying. And I'll tell you, I'll bet you a large sum of money, Ben, that the candidate he voted for rhymes with homila carus. And yet, magically, that's gonna be included in the vote tallies for Michigan, one of the key swing states. And that's, sadly, an outcome I think the Democrats want.
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Ben Ferguson
Well, let's go back to the Save act for a moment, and this I've heard and had more people come up to me, and I'm assuming you have as well. But I'm interested to see where people say, man, I feel like we're gonna win this one. I feel like we're on good footing. I feel like momentum's this way unless they cheat. Unless something happens where they cheat. You get a story like this, and you see that the person was caught voting illegally. Everybody knows illegal, and they're like, sorry, it already went through the tabulator. We can't take it out now, so it's gonna count. This is why so many Americans, I think, now, have no confidence in our election system. And again, this goes back to what you guys try to do in Congress with a Save Act. Remind people of how simple that would have been for us to be able to protect the votes of American citizens.
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Senator Ted Cruz
It was a simple requirement that you have to demonstrate American citizenship to register to vote. And that's basic common sense, which is why the Democrats as a party are against it. If they don't want noncitizens to vote, why are they opposed to demonstrating you're a citizen before you register to vote? The answer is obvious. But look, here's here's the good news. The good news is, historically, voter fraud has only mattered at the margins. It's only mattered when it was close. Which means in states across this country, particularly swing states in Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, we gotta win by a big enough margin, they can't steal it. Will you see unscrupulous Democrats trying to steal votes? Absolutely. It has happened every election for as long as we've had elections. But the best way A, we should do what we can to fight it and prevent it, B, we should pass laws to make it more difficult. But we're four days out. The real answer now is that we need to turn voters out in every state in the country and win by such a big margin that nobody can steal the result. As Trump puts it, it make it too big to rig. That's gotta be at this point, that has gotta be the number one approach.
- [32:38]
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Senator Ted Cruz
Well, look, I think it probably varies state by state. And so I don't know the data in the swing states. I will say right now there is a real and meaningful gender gap in terms of the votes that, that if you look at it, Republicans right now are winning married men, Republicans are winning single men and Republicans are winning married women. However, Republicans are badly losing single women. That that is in terms of national polling that so, so one of the questions that I would have, and this is where it's hard to generalize from data without knowing specifics. But I would be very interested in the states where you're seeing a significantly larger number of women than men showing up early. I would be very interested in the breakdown between married women and single women because there's a significant difference in their voting pattern. I can tell you also, at least in the state of Texas where early voting is happening, we're not seeing a significant differential between women and men. We're seeing about equal numbers of both voting in the state of Texas. I don't know about the other states. I haven't studied the numbers there. But it is difficult to generalize. Look, it's possible if you get a bunch of single women who are voting Democrats showing up in large numbers, that is a good data point for Kamala Harris. I don't know if that's the case or not. It may be that you have a bunch of conservative women, you have a bunch of married women who are coming out to vote for Donald Trump. You were right that Republicans are voting early in significantly greater frequency than they did previously. And I think one of the big reasons for that is that Trump asked them to. And the Republican Party is making a very concerted effort to encourage people to vote early. So that one data point on, on its own, it's hard to generalize about. You really need to drill down more deeply into the data.
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Ben Ferguson
It's going to be a tight one. It's a reminder. Go out and vote. It is a very important election. Wherever you are in the country, do not wait to the last moment. Get out there and vote wherever you can. And what's crazy is we've just got one more show between now and Election Day. We'll be back with you on Sunday. If you miss anything that happened this week, we'll have the week in review on Saturday as well. Uh, and make sure you hit that subscribe auto download button and share this podcast on, on X, on Facebook, on Instagram, wherever you are on social media and the center. And I will see you with our final show before Election Day on Monday.