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The 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson
GOP Surging In The Polls As Americans Feel Biden And The Democrats Are Not Looking Out For Our Needs & Safety!
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Ben Shapiro
Just days away from the midterm elections. And there's a very good chance there could be a big red wave because of new poll numbers that have come out. Welcome to Verdict with Ted Cruz. Senator, these poll numbers have come out and it is really good for Republican candidates. There's a very interesting article in the National Review about the media's, quote, delusional midterm coverage. They're doing everything they can to overlook the Gallup new poll which finds that the public assessment of the U.S. economy and national satisfaction are the lowest they have measured at the time of a midterm election. This means, I think a red wave could be coming in a very, very big way all over the country.
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Ted Cruz
Well, Ben, I think that's exactly right. I expect on election day, an historic election. I've been saying for some time, I think Republicans are going to take both houses of Congress. I think we're going to take the House and the major majority could be as big as 30, 40, 50 seats. I think it will be on the order of magnitude of 2010. The Senate, I think we're likely to take 53 or 54 seats which, which would be a very, very strong pickup. One of the indicia that it's going to be a great Republican year is, is the corporate media is in a panic right now. They are spinning to their heart's delight, desperately trying to change the topic. The Gallup polls that came out this week. Let me, let me read from Gallup and this is a quote, the Democrats are especially vulnerable this year because the national mood is as bad, if not worse, than it has been in any recent midterm election year. And Gallup continues, quote, heading into election day, 40% of Americans approve of the job Joe Biden is doing as president. 17% are satisfied with the way things are going in the U.S. 49% describe the health of the economy as poor, compared with 14% saying it is excellent or good. And 21% approve of the job the Democratically led Congress is doing. Current ratings of the US Economy and national satisfaction are the lowest Gallup has measured at the time of the midterm election over the life of these polling Trends starting in 1994 and 1982 respectively, congressional and presidential job approval are near their historic low marks. That suggests a very bad election for Democrats and a very, very good election for Republicans.
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Ben Shapiro
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Ted Cruz
Well, that's right. And consistently this year three issues have topped the priorities for the voters. The number one issue has been inflation and in particular gas prices. The number two issue nationally has been crime and the number three issue consistently has been illegal immigration. If you look at those three issues, number one, all of them have gotten much Much worse over the last two years. Even someone not paying attention. It's not confusing that before Joe Biden was President, gas was $2.38 a gallon. And today in a lot of places, it's four or five dollars a gallon, it's gotten as high as six and seven dollars a gallon. That people feel every time they fill up their car, every time they fill up their truck, they look at the numbers and wait a second, this isn't a two digit number, it's a three digit number. That is real crime. People are saying crime everywhere in every major city, crime is skyrocketing. And the Democrats have leaned in on this. This is the party that embraced Black Lives Matter and antifa riots across the country. This is a party that thought it was a great idea to lean in on demonizing the police, advocating for abolishing the police, defunding the police. And I'll tell you, a lot of people, they get that. That really doesn't make any sense. And when you have these Democrats advancing things like cashless bail, basically you arrest a violent criminal, let's let them go. Well, people are discovering that when you let violent criminals go, they commit more violent crimes. And then illegal immigration, again, there's no ambiguity on who is to blame for illegal immigration. The last year of Trump's presidency, we had the lowest rate of illegal immigration in 45 years. Today we have the highest rate of illegal immigration in 62 years. That changed literally the day Joe Biden put his hand on the Bible. And Ben, I'll tell you, tell you that the differences are moving voters, not just just reliable traditional Republican voters, but new voters are shifting dramatically to Republicans. Let me read from the Wall Street Journal. Quote, the GOP has seen a shift in its favor among several voter groups, including Latino voters and women, and particularly white suburban women. That group, which the pollsters said makes up 20% of the electorate, shifted 26 percentage points away from Democrats since the Journal's August poll and now favors the GOP by 15 percentage points. If you want to do some real simple math, over the last decade, blue collar voters have moved significantly towards Republicans. And what gave Democrats a counterbalancing force force was suburban women move towards Democrats. What Joe Biden and Schumer and Pelosi have done is driven suburban women back to Republicans. And they've done done so. At the same time, they're driving Hispanics to Republicans as well. I think that all adds together to an historic election.
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Ben Shapiro
There's something shocking that's happening as well, Senator, and that is the media is being forced to cover how bad things are in the economy and the recession concerns amid high inflation. That Today show. And again, they won't connect the dots to the Democrats, but they did a segment this morning on gas prices and they referred to Americans being, quote, trapped in a vortex of bad economic news. Listen to this and then I want to get your reaction this morning.
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Shelly Conaway
America seems trapped in a vortex of bad economic news. Sky high food prices, pump prices at record levels, soaring rents up 16% in one year. COVID lockdowns in China, the world's manufacturing center choking the global supply chain. US Corporate profits sinking Russian oil under partial embargo. Ukrainian wheat exports at a standstill and all of it feeding 40 year high inflation that Americans are paying for every day. The front lines, shippers and truck drivers with diesel fuel prices up 75% in one year. In Indiana, Shelly Conaway is a full time truck driver who also runs a charity to rush supplies to those in need.
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Ted Cruz
We were looking at possibly buying trailers and a truck, another truck, but we won't be able to afford to put tires on it or put fuel in the tank.
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Ben Shapiro
I mean, Senator, you hear this. This is the Today show saying this, talking about fuel prices up, but diesel up 75%. This coming as there's new warnings on a shortage. US diesel suppliers are quote, warning businesses to prepare for shortages, higher prices for consumers. They believe that the price of a gallon of diesel could go to 8 to $10 a gallon, possibly by the end of the year.
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Ted Cruz
Well, look, anytime the Today show is leading with a, quote, a vortex of bad economic results, that's not exactly the reelection campaign the Democrats want. And part of the problem is they're in charge of everything. The Democrats have the White House, they have every cabinet agency. They have the Senate, they have the House. They've got the entirety of the federal government. That means their usual trick when they screw things up is to try to blame Republicans. It's really hard to do that when they've been in complete charge. And even again, look for people following it. It's obvious this has been a devastating two years in terms of bad legislation and bad policies. But for people not following it. And often elections are influenced by people who are living their lives not paying attention to politics. And then come election day, they come out and vote. Even for someone not paying attention, it ain't complicated. That life has gotten a lot crappier with Democrats in charge. And the sentiment that is being expressed all over the country is we want change. We want to change the road we're on. We don't like being afraid to walk down the street, being afraid that you might be mugged, even for those who aren't paying attention. And I think you combine that with the economic reality and also the utter chaos of illegal immigration, 4.4 million people, which in turn is also driving the crime rate. Many of these crimes that are carried out are being carried out by illegal immigrants. You remember a few weeks ago, the day the bus tour was in Vegas, there was a lunatic who at 11 in the morning committed a mass stabbing in front of one of the major hotels on the strip. Now look, you know, Vegas tries to market itself as a family friendly vacation place. If there are mass stabbings not at 3 in the morning by some drunk in a CD bar, but at 11am standing on the sidewalk in front of a major glitzy hotel, that is a problem. And of course, the criminal there was yet another illegal alien who'd been released from jail by the Democrats. This pattern keeps playing out, Senator, when.
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Ben Shapiro
It comes to the issue of crime. And this is something we're seeing not only at the border, but we're seeing it all across the country. Latino voters are now breaking for conservatives in a historic way which can certainly add to this red wave that I believe we're going to see on election day. New York City, for example, Latino grocers there actually came together on Monday night, last minute to raise $70,000 for Lee Zeldin after historically voting for Democrat. And this coalition of mainly Latino supermarket owners in New York City showed up to support the Republican gubernatorial candidate Lee Zeldin after having endured what they described as rampant shoplifting. Now why did this happen? Because in New York, if you, if you steal less than $1,000 of goods and that's a lot of groceries, you're not going to go to jail. You're going to maybe get caught and then you'll have a court date, but you will not spend a single night in jail. And 70 entrepreneurs operating mom and pop supermarkets met together, gave $1,000 each to Zeldin's campaign, saying they will not be able to survive if the criminals are continued to allow to target grocers and just walk in and steal whatever the hell they want.
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Ted Cruz
Well, look, that's exactly right. And it's not just shoplifting, although shoplifting and theft under Democrats has gotten worse and worse. But we all remember the bodega owner in New York who a criminal came in to rob him and was trying to rob him and the owner defended himself and the DA in Turn charged the bodega owner with defending himself. They treated him as the criminal because he defended himself from an armed robber. Now that, now that is a little bit crazy. In fact, that's a lot crazy. But it also, you combine policies that are really hurting people across the country with the Democrats are so wildly out of touch with the Hispanic community. Remember, Jill Biden gave a speech in San Antonio, number one, in front of a conference that was called a Latinx conference. And I'll tell you right now, here's a real great giveaway. If anyone uses the idiotic made up word Latinx, I promise you they are not Latino. They are awoke white liberal, because that's the only people who use it literally. If you look at the Spanish language, everything in the Spanish language is either masculine or feminine, ends with an O or an A, the entire language. And, and what do these folks do? They want to edit it out. And, and Jill Biden, famously, number one, she didn't know what a bodega was. She called it a baghdada, which I'm not sure what a bag is. Maybe, maybe it's the capital of Colombia. And that's also where she, she famously referred to Hispanics, said, said that you are as unique as breakfast tacos. And I got to tell you, people heard that and were pissed. And what's amazing, Ben, that was not an off the cuff gaffe. Listen, Joe Biden makes gaffes every day because who knows what he's going to say. She was reading from a teleprompter. That means a White House speechwriter typed that out and loaded it into the teleprompter. And they are that out of touch. Their attitude to Latinos is vote for us and shut up. And I gotta say, I think we're gonna see a huge shift. I've talked about this a lot. I think in particular South Texas is gonna turn red. We are gonna elect three Republicans in South Texas, all three of whom are Latina. All three of whom I'm supporting in a big, big way, have done multiple rallies for them. I'm getting ready to do a big rally in San Antonio in a few days for them. And I think we're going to end up those districts. All right, let's start with, with the special election. Remember a couple of months ago there was a special election in Texas. It is for a district that, that is along the Gulf Coast. It runs from just south of Corpus Christi all the way down to Brownsville, which is the southern tip of Texas, right on the border of Mexico. This is A district that has not had a Republican represented since 1871. That's a long damn time ago.
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Ben Shapiro
It's incredible.
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Ted Cruz
They had a special election. The voters elected Myra Flores, a Republican. She is the first woman elected to Congress who was actually born in Mexico. And by the way, she applied to be a member of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus and the Democrats rejected her. They said, nope, nope, if you're not Democrat, you don't count as Hispanic. So they threw her out. They said, you're not welcome. Myra is fantastic. The district next to her, Monica Dela Cruz, is running. Monica is fantastic. She's a single mom, she's a small business owner. She is. Two years ago she ran in that district and came within two points of beating the incumbent Democrat. And she had no money and no support whatsoever. I think Monica is going to win this year. The next district is Cassie Garcia. Cassie is someone I know incredibly well. She was on my staff for over seven years. She was my South Texas director and my deputy state director. She's running against Henry Cuellar, the incumbent Democrat. I think all three are going to win and you're going to end up with those three districts. None of them have had a Republican in over 100 years. I think all three of them are going to elect Republicans. They're all Latinas. And two of the three, Myron, Cassie, are both married to Border patrol agents. That is a big, big deal. It is a generational shift and I think it's going to change. Not just Washington, but change the Republican Party.
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Ben Shapiro
You mentioned this change and part of this is just safety, right? The economy is stumbling. You have interest rates that have more than doubled on home interest rates, 30 year mortgage since the beginning of the year. The realtors that I have spoken with and bankers that I've talked to have said that this is just shell shocking. What it's changed, how quickly it's changed. And to put it in perspective, this was a tweet that went viral. It said, this is crazy. If you secured a 30 year fixed mortgage on a $600,000 home at 2.6% interest rate in 2021, you have the same monthly mortgage payment as someone that just bought a house for $392,000 today with a 6.2% interest rate. I mean, Senator, this is 200 plus thousand of buying power that disappeared in the market. If you use that example. And Democrats keep looking at you, keep trying to tell you that the economy is in good shape, that we're not in a recession when we obviously are headed towards a recession. And now this is affecting the American dream.
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Ted Cruz
Well, you know, there was an old line that Reagan used where he said a recession is when your neighbor loses his job, a depression is when you lose your job, and a recovery is when Jimmy Carter loses his job. And I gotta say, that resonated the last time we faced inflation this high was a result of Jimmy Carter's disastrous policies. And it produced the Reagan revolution. I believe that the greatest outcome of Biden and Harris and Schumer and Pelosi is going to be a new Reagan revolution, a new generation of conservatives coming into office. And I got to say, on the economic piece, there's a double whammy here that most folks in the news don't focus on. So, yes, prices of everything have gone up. Prices of food, electricity, rent, mortgage, everything's gone up. Gasoline. But at the same time, and you touched on it a minute ago with your mortgage example, your savings and assets have plummeted. Your 401k has plummeted. The average nationally is $34,000. That means for seniors, if you're retired, you've spent 30, 40 years saving and you've seen your 401k in just two years under Joe Biden dropped 20%, 25%, 30%. A lot of seniors are scared. Look, that's what you rely on. You know, my mom is 87. She looks at what is in her retirement account and that's how she's paying her bills. And when it goes down, it worries her. For many people, their single biggest asset, their single biggest source of savings is their home. When mortgage rates skyrocket, it puts downward pressure on real estate because people can't afford to buy new homes. You're locked into a house. It not only reduces people's flexibility, meaning you can't get out of a house if you need to. It reduces the value of your underlying asset. And so the combination of your savings are worth a whole lot less and it cost a bunch more to live every week. That combination is really vicious. And it's a big part of why people are so ticked off and ready to throw the bums out.
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Ben Shapiro
Which brings me to the issue of the delusion with the media. And I do believe that the media is totally delusional right now trying to save the Democrats ahead of the midterms. Even on cnn, Kirsten Powers had this to say this morning about crime and the Democrats. And Senator, you're going to want to laugh because it is the most hysterical rewriting of history.
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Kirsten Powers
Fear works.
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Ben Shapiro
I mean, have Democrats done enough to.
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Kirsten Powers
Combat that, no, I think they've been very, they've been caught flat footed on the crime issue because the crime issue isn't something that's just happening in Democratic states. In fact, it's happening in Republican states, happening at very high rates. And Democrats have a pretty good record on, on crime. And yet they're not talking about it. And they, it's in the same way there's a lot of people in this country who believe the Democratic Party supported defund the police and they didn't.
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Ben Shapiro
Right.
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Kirsten Powers
And they just don't do a good enough job of explaining what they believe in part because they have a base that, you know, has opinions that actually does support defund the police or has differing opinions. So they're kind of trying to walk this line. But I do think that they should have been more aggressive about it because it is something that is a lot of people are very concerned about.
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Ben Shapiro
I mean, she says they should be more aggressive. Senator, she actually looks you straight in the face and says that the Democrats have a pretty good record on crime and the Democratic Party didn't support defund the police. Those are both lies and they go unchecked.
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Ted Cruz
Yeah, look, it really is striking when the corporate media is upbraiding the Democrats saying, look, we know how to lie. We're lying for you. Why don't you lie as much as we do? Her claim now she has to acknowledge, well, their base supports defunding the police. But what she doesn't acknowledge is, okay, defunding the police was not just a bumper sticker. It's something these idiots did. In Minneapolis, they slashed the funding for the police department. In New York City, they cut the funding for the NYPD by over 1 billion. Billion. This is not theory, this is practice. In Austin, Texas, they cut the funding for the police by over $150 million. They've done this over and over again. And by the way, it's not just the locals, although the locals are a real problem. It is at the national level. Joe Biden has nominated not one, not two, three of the leading advocates of abolishing the police hold three of the leading positions in the US Department of Justice. I detail this in my new book, justice how the Left has Weaponized the Legal System. I have an entire chapter on this that walks through chapter and verse. So Joe Biden nominated Vanita Gupta and Kirsten Clark. Vanita Gupta to be Associate Attorney General, the number three position at the Department of Justice. Kirsten Clark to be the head of the Civil Rights Division, one of the very Top positions of the Department of Justice. Both of them have been explicit, repeated advocates for abolishing and defunding the police. They've written about it, they testified in front of Congress for it. And when Biden nominated two of the leading advocates of defunding the police to senior DOJ positions, every single Democrat, all of them voted to confirm both of them. Now, you can't vote to put people in who are advocates of radical policies and then claim, oh, I don't know anything about the radical policies. And actually, the third nominee is one that deserves a little bit of focus. Rachel Rollins. Now, who is Rachel Rollins? Rachel Rollins was a George Soros prosecutor. Soros has spent millions of dollars electing left wing DA's. And he understood, look, if you want, there are two ways to abolish the police. One is you go after the cops. You take the cops off the street. The other way is you take over the DA's office. Why? Because if the DA refuses to prosecute the crime, it doesn't really matter if the cops arrest the criminals or not. If they arrest the criminals and then let them go because the DA won't prosecute them, you've effectively abolished the police. You've stopped the prevention of and the deterrence of crime. Rachel Rollins was a Soros DA in Suffolk, Massachusetts. When she came in, she put out a list of 15 crimes that she said her prosecutors were not allowed to prosecute. Things like trespassing, things like drug possession, things like resisting arrest, where her prosecutors were forbidden from prosecuting it. Which means if you want to take a swing at a cop when he's arresting you in her jurisdiction, that is a. Okay, well, what happened? Joe Biden promptly nominated, nominated her to be the United States Attorney for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. That is the top federal prosecutor in the state of Massachusetts. We had a vigorous battle in the Judiciary Committee and in the book Justice Corrupted, I walk through the arguments I made on the Judiciary Committee, the speech I gave on the Senate floor, walking through her record, chapter and verse, every single Democrat voted to confirm her. So when. When these folks lie, as the journalists are doing, and saying, oh, no, no, no, we don't support defunding the police. Well, if you didn't, one of you could have mustered the courage to say, let's not make the chief federal prosecutor someone who refuses to prosecute crime. But listen, the media is in overdrive. I'll give you another quote from the New York Times. On October 25, Nate Cohn of the New York Times wrote, quote, let's imagine that the polls are exactly right about the national political environment. If so, the race is in a very delicate spot. Everything from a Democrat hold in the Senate and a narrow House majority to a total Republican route becomes imaginable. Now, Ben, for Nate Cohn to write a week ago that a Democrat hold of the House is entirely imaginable despite the worst polling numbers in a midterm. Ever seen that? It's so ludicrous. Look, he knows he's lying. Presumably many of his readers know he's lying, but they're counting on someone, I guess, not knowing he's lying. It really is astonishing.
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Ben Shapiro
It truly is. And I think one of the big things now is Democrats are trying to act like they are angry and they have their feelings hurt and they're shocked that people are actually holding them accountable for what they believe in. There was a very interesting column that referred to the Paul Pelosi, Nancy Pelosi husbands. The attack on him which you condemned immediately, we talked about on this show. I condemned it as well. But there was an interesting column that came out from Karen Tumulty. She's a prominent op edder. I want to be fair about that. And her column is entitled I'm sorry I said nice things about Glenn Youngkin. She said, I'd like to take this opportunity to retract the nice things I said about Glenn Youngkin. A few months ago in July, I wrote a column when reports began to surface that Virginia's Republican governor, fresh and sunny political newcomer with proven bipartisan appeal, was already thinking about running for president. At the time, I expressed hope for that Youngkin, or someone like him, would seek the GOP nomination. Now she wants to take it all back because she's angry over the attack and the politics around the attack on Paul Pelosi. This might be one of the weirdest op EDS I've ever read.
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Ted Cruz
Yeah, well, one of the things, okay, if you look at the attack on Paul Pelosi, it was horrific. And I will say, listen, we're such a polarized, tribalized world that you've got right and left attacking on everything. And some of the things folks are saying on Twitter about it, I wish they wouldn't say you've got an 82 year old man who was hit in the head with a hammer and violence and political violence is real. It is something that there are threats against elected officials and their families. And what happened to Paul Pelosi never should have happened instantaneously. The media and the Democrats, though, seized upon this as a political opportunity and it was completely Concerted on almost every media outlet. They said okay this is Republicans fault, this is Donald Trump's fault, this is the fault of every, every Republican running. And so the answer is you got to vote for Democrats. They immediately politicized it. And listen, there are multiple elements of this. Number one look, I guess we'll learn more about this assailant but what we know about him is he was a hippie nudist in Berkeley, California who was an illegal immigrant who had overstayed his visa. This is not someone who easily fits into the bucket of MAGA right wing base. I don't know the guy's story. He appears to be a drug addled nut and unfortunately there are more than a few drug addled nuts who carry out acts of violence. But for the media and this is why this, this Karen Tumulty article is, is, is so ridiculous and it's so revealing. She goes on. The reason she's decided Youngkin is now Persona non grata is because Youngkin is campaigning for Republicans. And in fact Glenn and I, and Glenn is a friend, I endorse Glenn. When he ran for governor, I spent two days barnstorming Virginia with Glenn the two days before his primary. And I think very highly of Glenn. Glenn and I just over a week ago were campaigning together for yes, Lee Vega, who's a fantastic candidate running in Virginia. We did a rally together for Yeslee that was phenomenal. Well here's what, what Karen Tumulty writes as news was breaking Friday about the horrific attack on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband Paul by an intruder in their San Francisco home, Youngkin happened to be campaigning in Stafford, Virginia for yes, Lee Vega, the Republican running in a very tight race against Democratic Rep. Abigail Spanberger, quote, Speaker Pelosi's husband. They had a break in last night at their house and he was assaulted. There's no room for violence anywhere. Exactly right. Right thing to say. That's me speaking now. But now Tumulty keeps going. Alas, he didn't stop there, quote, but we're going to send her back to be with him in California. The governor said as the crowd cheered, Youngkin doubled down. That's what we're going to do. That's what we're going to do. For that reason, suddenly Karen Tumulty says I'm sorry I ever said anything positive about it. Now look what the media has tried to do. Literally saying defeat the Democrats, defeat Nancy Pelosi as Speaker of the House that is celebrating violence. What utter unmitigated horse crap. What Glenn said is what every Republican is saying across the country. When you elect Democrats, they implement bad policies and bad things happen to you and your family. And the absolute double standard. Look, a few years back when a crazed Bernie Sanders supporter shot and nearly killed Steve Scalise, you didn't see the Democrats being blamed for their rhetoric earlier this year when a crazed lunatic tried to kill Lee Zeldin on the campaign trail. You didn't see the Democrats being condemned for their rhetoric. Just a few months ago when a crazed lunatic went from California to D.C. trying to murder Justice Brett Kavanaugh. Again, the media didn't say, you know, the time has come for Schumer and the leftist to stop. They don't do that. But it is, I got to say.
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Ben Shapiro
Ben, Senator, they didn't even, the White House didn't even condemn it. They were silent. They had the opportunity, by the way, they were asked by the media and they purposely said nothing about the assassination attempt on a Supreme Court justice and putting out that hit list basically of where they lived. They wouldn't even condemn the people going to the houses of Supreme Court justices, which is supposed to be a felony to try to influence their vote.
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Ted Cruz
So it is a felony. And the Department of Justice Merrick Garland is so political that he still refuses to prosecute the people that are aggressively protesting in front of the justice's home. He simply decides, okay, certain portions of the criminal code I don't enforce because it is contrary to my partisan political interests and it is truly absurd. You know, I watched one of the Sunday shows where Tom Ammer, one of the House congressional leaders was on and Margaret Brennan was cross examining him. You know, do you regret saying fire Nancy Pelosi? And, and Tom's a fairly mild mannered guy. I, I, I wish he had looked at her and said, hell no. And, and I regret the fact that she's in office right now because her policies have been disastrous for people in this country. But what the media is trying to do, bizarrely, they're actually celebrating this horrific physical attack on, on Paul Pelosi because they see it as an excuse. It when they're done telling the story, it was Donald Trump wearing a red hat that was wielding the hammer instead of some crazed hippie nudist from Berkeley who's an illegal alien and who knows what views he has, maybe as some right wing views or left wing views, I don't know. But to claim that because some lunatic assaulted Pelosi's husband that it is now verboten to try to beat Democrats on election day. Even for the corrupt corporate media that is is the height of absurdity.
- [35:40]
Ben Shapiro
It certainly is. And Senator, you and I did a podcast, a deep dive just a couple days ago that I want to bring attention to the people that are listening about how to watch election night race by race. We will also be doing verdict on election night. We'll have a couple shows between now and then. We'll be down in Texas for that end of the bus tour coming up. So if you're in the San Antonio area, make sure you come and see us on Friday as and you can go online@tcbustour.com to get all the information. Don't forget grab the Center's new book that is out now as well and we will be with you in a couple days here. Make sure you share this podcast with your family and friends. Hit that subscribe or auto download button, write us a five star review and the center and I will be back with you in just a couple of days.