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Welcome back to a numbers Game with Ryan Graduski. I am your host. Thank you all for being here again this week. This week is a solo episode because this is a number game podcast and there was a ton of data that came out this week and I thought let's have a very autistic episode starring Just me, where I can give you everything that you're here for and then we'll presume with a guest come next week. But there's three topics I want to get to on today's episode, which is the Trump poll bounce. What is going on in New York State that I think is super interesting. And then data that came out about the 2024 election that is very, very vital. So let's start though with the Trump bounce for those who don't know. Now, a month ago, right, the media was loving it because Trump's numbers were down double digits in a number of very highly accredited public polls. Public polls are not usually as good as private polls, but they make cross tabs available, they work with media outlets, they get of coverage. So these polls were coming out showing Trump's numbers in the dumps. It was right after Liberation Day and fears of recession were at a huge high. And since then, well, we haven't had a recession. Actually, the numbers from the economy are doing pretty good. There was a reduction in prices, in wholesale prices. Wages are up over 3%, inflation is steady. Things are going well, fed the economy. The economy is fairly strong. And this has been very good news for Donald Trump. So I looked at the seven polls that had come out recently that also came out a month ago. They are Insider Advantage, Morning Consult, the Economist, the Daily Mail, who's who, who, who? James Johnson, who came on this podcast couple weeks ago, RMG Research, Qantas and Emerson. Qantas was the third most accurate pollster of the 2024 election cycle and I believe Insider Advantage was the second. And Emerson was probably the fourth. So highly accredited polling firms, but not the type of polling firms that get huge coverage like the New York Times does or like NBC News does or whatnot. But good polls, right? Their overall net approval for Donald Trump in on 4, 30 was about negative 4. 3.6. Right? The Economist and the Daily Mail having double digit losses and then RMG Research being at zero, Emerson being plus two, Insider Bandage being plus two, but overall negative four. If you look at the average of those of those seven polling firms now Trump has a one point approval rating, Net approval rating. That means people, you know, if the approval rating is 50, 49%, the negative is 48%. Right? A favorable rating of 1 point. He grew about 4.1 points in favorability over the last month. That is substantial. I did the deep dives in all the cross stabs that were publicly available to me. A big part of the bump seems to be coming from one men Men across the board, which would make sense if men felt like a recession was happening at any time, that it would be important to sit there and to that they would have fears and they'd have worries and that maybe their numbers would go down among men. But they're back up. Republicans are back up. Men across every racial line by the saw a bounce which was very, very important. But interestingly enough, the number among Democrats had increased, specifically minority Democrats. And what I wonder were were those pollsters tracking black men and Hispanic men who are still Democrats, but they voted for Trump and they were the ones having quasi buyers remorse for a period of time. And now they're back on the train because the recession that was the media said was going just never happened. I also wonder, and this is part of my analyst media brain working because the news of Joe Biden's health and the book that had come out with Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson called Original Sin was out. I wonder if the conversation being so heavily about Joe Biden is now feeding into people's like psyche. Oh yeah, this guy was in charge for four years. And he was not only wrecking the economy, causing runaway inflation, the egg prices were going up, but also he was not mentally acute or had mental decline. According to some people, he could have had cancer this entire time. Some doctors were on television sitting there and saying, there's no way this cancer diagnosis is recent. I don't know. I'm not a doctor. I barely passed high school biology. But this is, I think, part of the narrative because historically, in the 2016 election and the 2020 election and in the 2024 election, when the focus has not been on Trump, when that heavy media obsession and gaze has not been so focused on Donald Trump to the point that they're wondering if, you know, how many scoops of ice cream he eats. Does he have the channel of the apes fighting? This was an old news headline. But when that focus is not on him to a ridiculous standpoint where he's, you know, a fascist who's going and the world, people generally start thinking favorably of him. There's an unhealthy news cycle. So I think that that is when that is dimmed because we're focusing on Joe Biden's health so much and the recession that was supposed to happen never did happen, maybe people's feelings on Trump relaxed because the media fears never amounted to anything. That's what I think. If Trump can now come out of in the next few weeks with a deal, a trade deal, because he's got A couple, I guess, in the works with the EU and several other countries. And if he's able to maybe broker some kind of peace deal with either Iran or, you know, slow one of the wars down. Not that I don't think Americans care that much about it, but it would be a nice news cycle if either the Ukraine or Israel stopped fighting. That would be more positive praise in his direction and improve upon it at a critical time. We'll see. But overall for Trump right now, he's had a very, very good couple of weeks. Republicans need this improvement as they get their tax bill done, as they get the budget passed, and all the infighting around it kind of is very intense over spending limits and assault deductions and all the rest of it and no tax on tip. But as they get those things through the finish, to sit there and try to go to middle class voters and working class voters and say, and senior citizens and say, look what we delivered for you, please reelect us, give us the House majority again, which is on the tipping point in a number of polls. He needs not to seem like an existential threat. He needs people to be liking the job that he's doing. And right now they are. So this is a big one for him. The other thing that I wanted to talk about, there was another poll that didn't get any publicity whatsoever that I thought was very interesting. It came out of Siena College. Sienna College is a college in upstate New York. Never been there, but they do work with the New York Times a lot during the presidential cycles. They're considered a very accurate pollster. I think they've got an A rating by most analysts. They produced a report on the election coming up for governor that wasn't very interesting. But in the election, underneath the election of all, you're going to vote about the, it was all primary stuff. So Stefanik versus Lawler for the Republican side and Kathy Hochul for the reelection. None of it was interesting. The interesting thing, though, was when they asked them as the New Yorkers, how they feel on several issues, right? So, like New Yorkers still hate congestion pricing. That didn't change. But the issues that were very interesting was this. They asked New York state residents, right? New York state, liberal Democratic state, New York state residents, if the state government under Governor Kathy Hochul should be assisting the Trump administration in deporting illegal immigrants. A plurality of New Yorkers said yes, 45% of New Yorkers said that the government, the state of, of New York under Governor Kathy Hochul, should be working with Donald Trump to deport illegal immigrants. 38% said no, they shouldn't. 12% said they were somewhere in the middle. They didn't know how they felt about it. The interesting thing was not only was it basically universally yes, among Republicans, 25% of Democrats said they should be working with Trump to to deport illegal immigrants. And a majority of independents, 51% of independents said yes. Other groups that had a huge number, men, 50%, not shocking. But women, women were 41, 43, they were evenly split, which just says a lot. They also had almost majority of union members. They had 40% of residents of New York City. New York City, I think went 30% for Trump. So 10 points more than voted for him, wanted his deportation to happen. 50% of white residents, 27% of blacks, and among Hispanics, it was tied. It was 4143, which is tied in the Martian error. But 4143 said yes, 41% of Latinos. This is once again wall to wall negative mainstream news coverage of the Maryland man, of innocent people accidentally being arrested of, you know, terror and fear and white liberals losing their mind each and every single day. And all the ethnic lobby coming out and sitting there and saying this is terrorism. This is I think Governor Mike Waltz compared ICE agents to the Gestapo very, very much showing how much he support enforcement. Among among Catholics in New York State was 54% Jews. It was 47 to 42. They are one of the most liberal groups in New York, although the Hidics and Orthodox are not. But the majority population though is pretty liberal. Protestants. It was 55%, 50% of middle income earners. That is wild. This is New York state. The other part, the other question that there was was would you see support a total outright ban on transgender students playing in any school, in any girls sport? Transgender women being biological men playing in girl sports. A total ban in every school. Would you want the school districts to decide individually or would you want a total support like every school has to allow transgender, transgender girls, biological men to play in girls sports? Right? This is what New York residents said. 46% of New York residents wanted a full outright ban. They didn't want individual districts to decide. They wanted a straightforward ban, including a third of Democrats, 54% of independents, 50% of men, 44% of women, which is the biggest plurality of that group of women. Right. A plurality of Democrats set a full outright ban. A third of Democrats. It was higher than any other category. A third right, 40% of people in New York City, which was the plurality of Any of the other categories, other groups. A majority of the people in the suburbs, a majority of the people in upstate, 43% of black residents. This was a majority of Catholics, a majority of Protestants, a plurality of Jews. I'm looking at the numbers right now. That is incredible in my mind and here's why it is incredible. Those two questions in particular. New York State moved the most right of any state in the country in the last election. I have lived in New York basically my entire life. I know the state very well. I know residents very well. It is not that New York State is all of a sudden going to be a SW state, although I do believe it will continue to move several points to the right. If you look at all the other questions they asked about free lunches, about like more spending on social welfare policies, New Yorkers are overwhelmingly for it, right? They have a left wing, center left access to them that highlights why they vote so liberally. However, a big, big caveat is on these issues that people most associate with failed governance by the Democratic Party, even 25 to 30% of Democrats are willing to balk at them. A huge percentage of minorities are willing to sit there and say no. Catholics who historically were very Democratic, right? There's a lot of Hispanics in the Catholic Church in New York, but there's also a lot of ethnic whites in the Catholic Church, New York union members. These are people that should never be aligning with the Republican Party. And on these issues that are the most identifiable with a single party and their governance, you have overwhelming numbers on the side of the conservatives, which explains why these overall trends of working class people, of middle class, people of some younger people of ethnic minorities are moving away from the Democratic Party, even though despite they probably agree with them on most economic issues, they feel uncomfortable with mass immigration, they feel uncomfortable with illegal immigration, they feel uncomfortable with the transgender sports issue. There was another poll that came out earlier today. I'm recording this on Wednesday for the Thursday episode. It was from Wisconsin. And they asked, would you support a full deportation of illegal immigrants? And 66% said yes. This is after hyperbolic reactions from Democrats giving worst case scenarios over and over and over again. And yet Joe Biden so broke the back of the American people when it comes to the issue immigration. They do not care. The sympathy bank is completely empty. And there is something in our culture called, how do I put this toxic empathy where you are to feel bad for someone who is doing you harm that has been behind the main driver of many of our political decisions in our culture. Which had been very bad for a very long time. And it was surrounding our immigration choices for a while or allowing our immigration laws to be skirted for a while that is completely run dry. So very interesting. If the Democratic Party continues to be associated with these bad governing policies, if they don't make an abrupt U turn like the Labor Party, as we mentioned in the last episode about what's going on in England right now, then I would expect places like New Jersey, California, New York, where these issues are front and center because Democrats refuse to change ways on it to be moving more of their voters to the right. Maybe we'll make California or New York a swing state, maybe make a few more districts competitive. It absolutely will be making New Jersey a swing state. And I think that's very interesting. There's one more data stuff that I want to talk about with you guys. It is a blockbuster. You're not going to want to miss it. Stay tuned after these messages.

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Ryan Graduski (21:17)

All right, we are back. And the last thing that I wanted to bring up to you as far as the data goes, as far as my autistic, my autistic marathon goes, is there is. I know the election was like, you know, months and months ago and everyone's kind of passed it, but there is three organizations that do post election reviews that are super insightful for describing and analyzing what actually happened, what actually went through. I mean, the exit polls came out, but like the exit polls are wrong most of the time. So there's three organizations. There's David Shore, who is, you know, very smart, but I think he's a liberal. I don't think he wants to be on with like the Bieber guy, but who knows? I'm a big fan still. I think that he's a genius. His stuff came out a month ago. That's where I said that 75%, according to his analysis, 75% of 18 to 21 year old white men in this country voted for Trump. It was the largest group that voted for Trump of any demographic. That was his data that came out a few months ago. Then there's the Pew Research Research Center. It's coming out in a few weeks to months. I'm looking forward to that. I will talk about that. I know everyone will be done with it by that point, but I will talk about it because I can't get enough. And then the last is an organization called Catalyst Now. They have been doing this since 2012 and they are out with their report. It came out on Monday. It is a blockbust and it breaks apart a lot of what Democrats have excused for Kamala Harris's loss. So there's six points I want to go through. The first being Democrats said that they had a turnout problem. Right. You hear this over and over and over again. Oh, if Omar Pillars turned out, they would have. He would have won. He would have won. Shore said that was incorrect. What the Catalyst information says is that not only was turnout, yes, turnout was lower nationwide, but turnout was higher in the swing states. So he they got the turnout that they wanted in swing states. The swing state participation rate was over 70%, which was higher than the 64% nationwide. So there was this excessive higher amount of turnout in places like Georgia and Arizona and Nevada where they wanted to have massive turnout. They got there, but it didn't matter because Trump had won over persuasion. People wanted him because they were persuaded to vote for him, and they were not persuaded to vote for Kamala. Secondly, turnout wasn't the same everywhere. This is something that Democrats are right about, but it's not super coherent. Turnout was down nationwide from 2020 to 2024. Right. But it wasn't even across the board. Among white voters, it was down 1%. Among blacks, it was down 5.6%. Among Latinos, 3% and among as Asians, 6.7%. When you go into the swing states, however, black turnout was down 1.6%. Among black men, 2%. Now, I want you to go back to old media interviews in your head if you remember them. Like, there's Van Jones, who I was on CNN with a few times, and he was a very nice person. I'm not behind the scenes, gentlemen. But he would say all the time that there is this push to get black men to support Kamala, to get the first woman the finish line, the Charlemagne, the God did the same exact thing. They were all sitting there and saying, there's this push to get black men. We're going to get black men, we're going to get black men. Didn't get black men. In fact, in swing states, even where they did the solstice polls, everything, Black male participation dropped 2%. But guess what? Black female participation dropped as well. Black female participation dropped by 1% in swing states. Now, aside from Wisconsin, 1% wouldn't have made up the difference. I don't even think what black women make up 10 to make up the 1%. So it doesn't really matter. Black women weren't that interested in Kamala either. The narrative that black Americans were not sold on Kamala as like being a brown, a glass of shatterer, the same way they were over Obama, let's say, is true. Trump mentioned it was called a racist for it. But even like Janet Jackson was saying it, people were saying it all over the all over that there was a large percentage of black America who were not sold that she was part of their community and they were not needing to go vote for her. White Support was up 1.5%, but it was mostly driven by white women. White women did show up in big numbers. It was up for white men as well. Latinos showed up in increased numbers as well. Okay, that's, that's, that's important. Second point of the entire thing, the racial breakdown, because the white number had decreased the lowest amount nationwide and increased the highest in swing states, was unchanged from 2020. Now there's this constant notion that, oh, you know, we' whites are decreasing in every electorate. Didn't happen in 2020. It didn't happen in 2016 much either. It was basically the same in 2016, but it didn't happen in 2024. But the one thing that did happen with the racial and education breakdown that is extremely important is for the very first time ever, as far as I can go back, and this is especially of the Catalyst research, non college educated whites were no longer the largest voting in the Democratic coalition. They have been surpassed by college educated whites. Believe it or not, even though the spokespeople for the Democratic Party absolutely hate non college educated white people and trash talk them constantly, they were still about a third of all Kamala voters. But they were almost 40%. They were 37% of all Biden supporters versus 24%. Sorry, not Biden. Obama 2012. They were almost. They were 37% of all Obama voters and only 31% of all comma voters. Kamala and the Democratic Party, because of their aggressive attacks against working class white people, have shed 20% of their non college educated white voting base, 20% of the largest single demographic in the country. So while they increase their numbers among college educated whites and lost a lot of non college educated whites, they've also lost a lot of black support over time because of declining participation rates, especially going back to Obama. And they're stagnant with Latinos because as, even though Latinos are growing in population, they are not increasing their size and support for the Democratic Party. It's gone down significantly since Obama. One other caveat that I thought was really, really interesting, 20% of people who voted for Trump were non white. That is the biggest single Republican candidacy ever as far as a minority constituency. One in five. That's never happened before, not even for George W. Bush. It is, it is the multiracial working class that a lot of people have sat there and talked about. Okay, third point. There is this big notion that like white women are the end of the world and they're all Karens. This is an ocean among like the right. It's all white women who are, you know, the, the ones pushing all the progressive agenda and they are pushing the Democratic Party to the left. White women, however, voted more for Trump in this election than they voted for him in the last election. Trump won white women in this country by 52 to 48. We got catalyst, probably gets rid of all the third party things, so they make it even. 50, 50, 50 to 48. Among college educated white women, Trump actually improved by 1 point from 2020. He actually did better among college educated white women after I don't know how many times I was on the CNN panel hearing about fascism and abortion rights and abortion rights and abortion rights, and these were going to move all these women over. He did one point better. All of that rhetoric was nonsense. All of that rhetoric was complete and total nonsense among white men. Among white men without a college degree, Harris only got 30% of the vote. Now think about it. White men are. White people are about 60% of the country. White men are 30%. Whites without a college degree are 20%. The single largest block. Maybe whites. White women without a college degree are Also similar, but 20%, 1 in 5 voters, they've lost 20% of their support, more than 20% of their support with that voting base since 2012. Super significant in the white vote. And why the white vote has. The white vote has been basically flat though for the last couple of election cycles at 42% support for Democrats. And that is because college, college educated whites have typically been moving to the left, although in this last election they moved to the right. White men with a college degree moved six points to the right. I know I'm throwing out a lot of numbers. I will try to rein it back and get back to the narrative. Okay, minority men, this is where the popular vote win happened, right? It wasn't just. I mean, making a Republican president is like baking a cake. The batter is the white vote. You can't win with if you don't get large sport with the white vote. The minority vote is the cream filling. The, the, the, the. I don't know, the. What, what, what do you put on the cake? Everything. All the trimmings is the minority vote. You can have a cake, but you can't have the trimmings without the minority vote. Okay, so that's the pop thermo win. Among black men, 95% of whom voted for Barack Obama, almost 100% universal. 95% of black men voted for Barack Obama. 9% voted for Kamala Harris, 99%. Among battleground black voters, it was 84. So they did do a better job in the battlegrounds where they Spent more resources. But in the nation as a whole, 79. If it's 79 nationwide as a whole, and you're taking a place like Georgia and North Carolina, in other places like Mississippi, Alabama, probably Texas has a decent black population. You're talking about, you know, New York. It's probably, you know, maybe a third. Trump probably got a third of the black vote. If you take out that portion among black women, that vote was stagnant. That vote is, is very hardly cemented. It was 90% of the black women voted for Trump this time. 90% voted last time. Maybe he won, maybe won by half a point or less than half a point, but it wasn't significant. Black men, though, it is a gigantic drop, 95 to 79among black women from 2012. Always it's a seven point drop. But among black men, 16, 16 points. It is substantial. Among black men under the age of 30, it's 75%. One in four black men under the age of 30 voted for Donald Trump. That is not a small, insignificant, minor group of people. That is not a tiny fraction of a coalition. That's 1 in 4 of the Democratic Party's base. Among black women under 30, it was 88%. So it was so younger black people in general, but mostly younger black men. One in four versus. Go back 20 years ago, go back 10 years ago to Barack Obama. It was like one in 25 were voting for, for the Republican. Now it's one in four. This is a crazy, crazy, crazy shift. Okay, go to Latinos now, because this is wild. Trump won. This is the second time this has been confirmed. But this is. This proves it. This proves to be true. Trump won Latino men. I think George W. Bush may have won it, but the exit polling was really, really bad at the time, so you can't really trust it. But Trump won Latino men by six points. That is insane. He only lost the overall Latino vote by 8. This is a group. Once again. Hillary won them by 40 in the overall head to head. According to Catalyst. She won them 70, 30. Harris won them 54 to 46. And the craziest thing was they asked them across the ages, they said, among ages, right? How old are you? How are you voting among the ages? Young Latinos, millennial Latinos, Zoomer Latinos. 57% voted for Harris. It dips down to 52 for Gen Xers and early boomers and then goes back up to 57 when you got to late gen, sorry, late boomers and silent generation. So old Latinos and young Latinos at 57 all the middle of 52. What does that show you? That shows you that the reconfiguration, the realignment of minorities is universal. Now this isn't true for black voters. Black voters. There is a substantial drop when you get younger, right. You go to older black voters. It's still over 90%. They're immovable. The only way Republicans will win those voters. They can't. I'm just going to say something else, but they can't. Those voters will be Democrats till the day they die. It is the only. It is their natural born inheritance. There is no moving older black voters. We can just give up on trying to. Whoever we have is all we're going to have of the older black group. But at the younger group it's like a 13 point overall drop when you include men and women, right. Latinos, it's across the board. The only group that is getting substantially more Democratic as you get younger are Asians. And I want to get to Asians in one second. Among Asians still Democratic support for. Among Asians among. For Barack Obama 2012, 71% support for Kamala Harris 2024, 55%. Another 16 point drop. This is a male revolution. It's a male driven revolution. So those are the important things that it's the racial breakdown that I think is very important. It does substantiate Shore's earlier conversation. It substantiates what we thought that this was a male dominated movement and that the women are moving. But you have to go with the context of it's not all white women. In fact, the majority of white women still voted for Republicans still voted for Donald Trump and there is increased support among non white women who are not black. Black women are just immovable. And college educated women, college educated white women rather still move towards Trump although they gave the majority of their support to Kamala Harris. Let's. I'm gonna land this plane very soon, I promise. Stick with me if you're still with me. Right. They gave a demographic breakdown. The only group. Wait two things. One, one, for the first time in my lifetime, first time Catalyst has ever seen this or not my lifetime. I'm kind of old now, but first time that Catalyst has reported this. Republicans won non college educated voters by double digits. First time ever. Right? Huge. Among non college educated whites overall, they won them by 28 points. That's the same number he won them by in 2016. This is a general movement among a cementing of that base non college educated white voters that you have to have to have to Hear this point. It is so essential. Non college educated white voters were the only group in America demographically education and race based right to give a majority of their support for Donald Trump Trump. College educated whites didn't. Blacks didn't of any of any college education. Latinos didn't. Asians didn't. Others didn't. It was solely, solely based on the vote of the non college educated white that gave a majority of their support to Donald Trump. I say that not because I want to emphasize that one group is better than the other or more loyal than the other. I want to say that because when we have conversations around what could the Republican Party do more for black voters or Latino voters or this group or that group or women or whatnot, I think it's very important to understand and to remind ourselves who is bringing home the votes to get a Republican elected. It is non college educated white voters. What is the Trump administration? What are Republicans, Congressional Republicans? What are they? What are the Republican governors? What are they doing for them? For all the endless dribble we have to hear constantly about, what are we doing to sit there and shed 1 percentage more among black women? What are we doing to deliver support for our voters, whether that be tax cuts, whether that be opioid relief because their population has been devastated with the opioid effect. Pro family stuff. What are we doing for those voters on all those issues issues that should be the question Republicans should take from this is wow, these are the only people give us majority support. What are we doing for them has to be emphasized. Okay, landing the plane once again back to the age range thing. Kamala Harris lost support among every single age range in the country. I had said this a while ago that these polls were coming out New York Times, Sienna especially where Harris winning seniors by like 20 points in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin and she was going to win the senior. The number of polls that said she was going to win the senior vote were, were out of control. They were out of control. They were completely insane. And I didn't believe it for a second. Turns out it wasn't true. Senior citizens voted majority for Trump and actually increased their support for Donald Trump. Among Trump also won every age range of white voters. White voters between the ages of 18 to 29 voted for Trump by two points. This was a group that voted for Joe Biden. Biden. They had moved eight points to the right for Donald Trump. This is once again goes back to what David Shore was saying where he said young people under 21 who had lived during the worst of COVID were the most radical right wing. So maybe he was onto something right there. Double digit support and swing for Trump came from every bracket of Latino voters. Over 20 points among young Latinos, double digits among black voters under the age of 45 and a 20 point margin. A 20 point swing towards Trump among Asians in that category. That's also very important. And why it's important one is seniors are changing, right? People, people have come up to me a lot and say, what's going on with the senior? But why are seniors becoming more liberal? They are not becoming more liberal. The seniors you have in your head as seniors are probably like your grandparents or their friends who may or may not have passed away way Right. An increased likelihood. That's what comes with age. It's sad. I'm, you know, not wishing anything, but that is what the truth is. Archie Bunker has passed away. Meathead is a senior. Henry Fonda, Fonda has passed away. Jane Fonda is a senior. The liberal baby boomers are in their 70s and 80s. The greatest generation. The people who worked for Richard Nixon, the people who worked against the counterculturalists, the ones that you were probably were seniors in your mind in the early 2000s. If you were like me, you're a millennial and you know, you watch little giants growing up. Those people, the World War II veterans that you see in the stands who are rooting on the peewee football team, they're almost all gone. And it's the liberals who were middle aged at the time who are part of the counterculture that are like of the Joe Biden's era or a little younger, a little older, who are the ones who are seniors now nonetheless. And yet still they didn't vote for a majority for Kamala Harris, which was a narrative the media was pushing endlessly. It's a narrative that David Shore pushed, which I disagreed with his data. I agree with the Catalyst data. Those are the narratives worth dispelling, worth breaking down. I had to go into it. I know that was long winded. I know that that was probably a lot for people to listen to, but thank you for hearing all the numbers because it's a numbers game. Okay, so this is the part of the podcast where I talk about I do know questions, ask me anything segment. Ryan, email me. Ryan. Numbers game podcast.com ryanumbers plural numbers game podcast.com. you could tweet me. I'm going to put a pin tweet where I'll just take questions from Twitter if no one can take the time to email me. But it's fine. You guys send me questions. I love to answer them on literally anything. That's what I usually do. But this week I came across a piece of gossip that I have to tell you guys about. I haven't tweeted this. I haven't talked about it. I'm saving it specifically for you. It's about a member of Congress. It is some of the wild stories I've ever heard. It is George Santos on steroids. I'll be back with it after these messages.

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Use as directed. Okay, we are back for the final segment which is usually where I take questions and I want your questions. Email me Ryan numbers game.com right, Ryan and numbers game podcast.com sorry about that, guys. Okay, so there is a Republican member of Congress. Stories are in the works right now. So I don't want to burst anyone's bubble. Some have been published already. This is a member of Congress. I'm not going to say the name because it's going to come out publicly, but I will give you an offense where if you're in the know, you will know. This is somebody who was police had shown up at his house because he was having a domestic with his girlfriend even though at the time he had said he was married to another woman. This is a person who has said that he has over exaggerated his military service to the point where it could be possibly considered stolen valor. If you're in the military. I'm not. So I don't know what the, what the requisites for that are. But I've heard people in the military say it's to the degree that it's stolen valor. I have heard and I'm going to get the journalist on here who's been working on it. I have heard he, his, his dealings, his business dealings are to the millions and millions of dollars of debt, millions of dollars of debt. That it's extremely shady. And, and I'm not sure if the debtors, the people who are lending money are even American. This is somebody who has been trying to sleep with every single conservative influencer woman in the business saying repeated lies over and over and over again. And then this was the craziest thing. Multiple of these women told me me that he was trying to convert them to Islam. Now this is not a reported Muslim. This is somebody who says that he's a Christian who wears his religion on his sleeve. Stories had emerged that he was married by a very prominent imam in a mosque by the unindicted co conspirator of the 1993 World Trade center bombing. That all of his business dealings are extraordinarily shady and weird. That his military record is completely and totally fabricated, if not fabricated, over exaggerated. And there are multiple women speaking constantly with each other that he has created lies about the state of one his marriage where he says he's divorced when he's, when he wasn't at the time. I don't know, maybe now he's divorced but he wasn't at the time and then once he gets in these relationships with them, them, these precarious relationships, they find themselves in position where they feel like they are threatened and he spends time to sit there and say, I think the exact quotes that he was saying to them is how Islam and Christianity were close to the same thing. Even though I'm not a religious scholar, but I know that much, they're not. And he was Married by the 1993 World Trade center conspiracy co. Conspiracy conspirator. I am going to give it to the journalist. I'm going to invite him up. When this story is up and there's a woman too who's doing another story on this, I'm going to invite them both to talk about this. I know this is not technically a numbers game. It is the craziest, most salacious, most interesting news story about a person. If Donald Trump was not in office right now, this would be the front page of every single newspaper. This would be George Santos on crack. But you know, the media can only focus on Donald Trump. That is my dog snoring, by the way. Sorry about that. That's that little, little yelp that you hear. That's not me. It is a wild story. Not many people are covering it. I'm going to when this comes out because people's heads are going to explode. It is crazy. That's my little piece of gossip. Send me your messages. Ryanumbersgame podcast.com Please like and subscribe to this podcast and iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, Wherever podcast or where you ever get your podcast. I have some incredible guests coming up next week and the week after. You will not want to miss it. Please like and subscribe. Give me a five star review if you're feeling generous and I will see you guys next week.

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