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I love politics nerds.
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I'm a politics nerd. Gistler was talking to this politics nerd about, you know, lots of people who held their nose in Georgia and voted. I don't know why I did that. And voted for fun with this and voted for Donald Trump. They thought that they were getting affordability. But watch how Gistler describes what actually happened here. Play this clip.
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A lot of people who pulled the ballot for Donald Trump last year.
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They.
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Didn'T sign up for this, right?
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They voted for lower prices. They voted for lower taxes. They voted for traditional Republican values, smaller government, all those kind of things. They're not getting that. I mean, I just read that we passed the national debt passed $37 trillion in August past 38 trillion last week. That's a trillion dollars in two months, right? They're not getting a small government. I don't think they voted for militarized cities. I don't think they voted for extrajudicial killings off the coast or not even off the coast. 2,000 miles from the coast in Venezuela, right?
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So I think the MAGA wing of the Republican Party are overplaying their hands. And I think the only way we get past it is for them to start losing elections.
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And then Gisler gives this. This needs to be studied by Democratic candidates. Cuz, look, this Kissler guy, he's not flashy. He's not wow, wow, wow. You know, he's not doing a shtick, right? This is a guy from Georgia was like, look, I'm running for a state office. I'm gonna try to make your lives better. And let me explain to you what's happening here and what people are telling me. He's like, here's what people in Okani. In Okani are saying to me. Here's what people in Clark are telling me, here's what's happening to our school districts.
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Here's.
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Here's what's happening in our communities. Just listen to what he says. Here, play this clip.
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This is a state government position, right. If you pay attention to what's been happening at the state level for the last several years, there's a lot of things that have not gone well. Right. You know, we mentioned the abortion ban. I think most voters agree that that's not the right way to do it. We never expanded Medicaid. I think that's still possible. It gets a little weird because of this new bill that came out. I think it's still possible to do it. It's harder to do, and you don't expand quite as much, but it's still possible. And without it, we've seen rural hospitals closing all around the state. You know, we're looking at 750,000 Georgians are about to be priced out of insurance. January. In January. That's a crisis. That's on top of the. I think it's 1.2 million Georgians who don't have any insurance at all right now. You put those two together, that's 2 million out of 11 million Georgia citizens that have no access to health care. The snap stuff is 1.4 million Georgians. Would it be 1.4 million Georgians that were dependent on SNAP for nutritional assistance if the minimum raise had been raised a few years ago, probably not.
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Right.
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People would probably be able to make ends meet a little bit better. And we talked about how many Georgians are about to go without insurance. Those of us who have insurance through an employer, it's not that great either. I don't know about you, but I'm paying a pretty hefty premium every month and a $5,000 deductible. So, I mean, I'm paying thousands of dollars every year just to have insurance, and then thousands of dollars on top of that if I use it. Right. It's crazy. You look at car insurance. Georgia has one of the highest car insurance rates premiums in the Southeast, you know, higher than all of our neighbors housing. I mean, I've almost lost the question that you asked me at this point.
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You don't want things on your platform that you.
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That you are really passionate about. Housing. I know that's a big issue here in Athens. It doesn't seem like it's as big as one in Oconee, but the truth is housing prices going up and the supply not keeping up.
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Supply and demand, Economics 101. Right. If you don't have enough houses for the people, then the prices of those houses are going to go up. Right. We're seeing that in Athens. We need more supply at the end of the day. At the state level, we can. We can pass incentives for local governments to change their zoning or maybe incentivize them to approve more dense plans. You know, housing plan. People don't think that's impacting Oconee County. But you think about it. Why do most people move to Oconee County? You probably know, right? It's a school system. It's one of the best school systems in the state, if not the country. People like to move there. And who moves. Who. Who moves for school systems? It's young families. Well, if things keep going the way they are in Oconee county, young families aren't gonna be able to afford there to live there. And I think a lot of people out there don't even see it coming. But it's there. It's on the horizon.
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Now you contrast that to what Donald Trump has been saying. And Donald Trump says that, you know, it's, everything's an A with the economy and things are great. Here we have on cnn, Philip is fact checking him and saying Americans aren't giving this guy an A. Play this clip. Now, many Americans would disagree with that crate that he gave himself. A Fox News poll found 76% of voters have a negative view of the economy. Now, that's six points higher than how they felt at the end of the Biden presidency. That's really saying something. And then from Donald Trump's speech in Pennsylvania at a small casino he did a Mount Airy casino. He did in like a wedding reception area. That's what Trump's been reduced to. No offense. I'm sure it could be a nice wedding venue. But this is where Trump's rallies are and tiny wedding venues. Here's what Donald Trump says. He goes, they said prices are high, but they're going down substantially. Play this clip.
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You know, and I said it the other day and a lot of people misinterpreted. They say, oh, he doesn't realize prices are high. Prices are coming down very substantially. But they have a new word, word, you know, they always have a hoax. The new word is affordability.
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So they look at the camera and they say, this election is all about affordability. Now, they never talk about it. They never talk. Thank you very much. They say, I'm not allowed to run. I don't know what the hell that's all about. But that's okay. They said four more years. You see the new hat. We have four more years.
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Now, you'll also recall in Georgia, back when the blue tsunami hit in early November, do you remember that in Georgia, two of the statewide Georgia Public Service Commission positions flip. And it was one of the first times you saw a major statewide race flip like this in like decades. This was a big, big deal. And they were both nearly 30 point shifts. So the Public Service Commission C2 shifted from an R plus 2 to a D. Democrat plus 25. C3 flipped from an R plus 2 to a d plus 26. That was on the Tuesday in November when the, that blue tsunami hit as well. And folks, you know, I'm certainly no Marjorie Taylor Greene fan, even as she's reinvented herself as this anti Trump crusader. I think a lot of it is bs But I'M glad she's speaking out about Donald Trump, but she added to the toxicity in our politics. And I'm no Marjorie Taylor Green fan, but she knows Georgia. I mean, she's won a lot of elections there in her congressional district, and she sees what's going on there with Republicans. Here's Marjorie Taylor Greene talking about how Donald Trump bragging that the economy is doing well is the worst political move. And she talked about those Georgia statewide races back from the Tuesday in November where the blue tsunami hit. Here, play this clip.
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And so I think it's absolutely the worst move and it's the worst political move to have the House in recess and for us to not be here working.
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Do you believe right now as we talk about, you know, the situation that's.
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Taking place here with the shutdown, do.
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You believe that Republicans as a party right now are unified?
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Are Republicans fractured somewhere in between? What are your thoughts?
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Well, it seems like Republicans in Washington, D.C. may be unified, but I don't think they are across the country. I think there's a lot of disenfranchised 2024 voters. And, and I think that was clearly obvious in Tuesday's election. Now, there's pushback against me saying that, saying, well, we knew Virginia and New Jersey and New York would go Democrat. And of course that's true. I said the same thing. But I'm from Georgia, and we lost two statewide Public Service Commission seats, and we lost them heavily. Democrats won those seats at 60%. Republicans only got 40%. There's other races in Pennsylvania and Mississippi proving the same thing, that voters are not happy. But really, I'll, I'll push everyone to pay attention to the true financial hardship that Americans are facing right now. And this is, this is very much affecting my children's generation who are 22, 26 and 28. And that generation is looking towards the future with very little hope. And so for me, personally, I ran for Congress in 2020, criticizing Democrats and Republicans almost equally, that that Congress and Washington, D.C. always fails the American people. And I think the alarms are blaring right now.
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Now, finally, as I talked about this Miami mayor's race, where it was the first time in 30 years that the mayor's seat flipped blue. Here was Eileen Higgins at the debate with Gonzalez, the MAGA Republican candidate, Emilio Gonzalez. And this was a pivotal moment where Trump's endorsement of Gonzalez came up. And that proved to be the dagger that destroyed Gonzalez's campaign, because Trump is toxic right now. Play this clip of what went down.
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In that debate with the thing that has gotten you a lot of attention, the fact that you were endorsed by Donald Trump, was that something that you sought?
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It was something that came to me quite by surprise. I literally was resting, reading. My phone went off, and I thought, gee, what happened? Somebody died. What's going on here? And it was just people telling me, hey, you've just been endorsed by the President. I do know that the president, because he's a resident of state of Florida, and there's talk of putting a library here in Miami, he follows events in Florida. He follows events closely. And so I wasn't surprised, but it wasn't something that I called up there and said, hey, can you do this for me?
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All right? And given that Miami is a city of immigrants, yes, sir. You know when you accept Donald Trump's endorsement, when he tweets out and puts out on there that he believes in you because you agree with his vision when it comes to migrant crime and the rest of it. I'm curious, do you support the president's policies when it comes to rounding up immigrants? 60% of the residents of the city of Miami were born outside the United States. The vast majority of the people who are being detained, who are being picked up do not have criminal records. Are you supportive, and will you help Donald Trump enforce that policy?
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Well, you just said it. I support rounding up people who commit crimes. The president says that I support putting down migrant criminals. I cannot in good conscience fight the federal government and defend a rapist or a murderer like happens in other cities.
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But the majority of the people being picked up right now are not rapists.
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Yes, but the majority. What you're talking about is a federal issue. This is a federal issue that has to do with Homeland Security. This is not an issue that has to do with the mayor of Miami. Now, mind you, I know who to talk to. I've been the immigration director. I can advocate for our community, which I certainly will. I plan on adding an Immigration Services staff member to help guide us through this. But this is not a topic that you want to just take on the president for. It's ludicrous. The president sees Florida as very important. He sees Miami as very important, and he has backed me because he feels that I have the leadership qualities to bring the city forward.
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I want to bring Eileen in on this. Just on the issue of immigration policy and the next mayor of Miami. He's absolutely right. Mayor of Miami does not have say over a federal immigration policy. But there is a sense that if Donald Trump is supporting you, that there is A tacit agreement with the policy. Are you concerned by what's happening in the city of Miami?
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I'm very concerned with what's happening in the city of Miami for two reasons. First of all, they said they were going to go after criminals, but guess what? They're going after everybody. Every time I am out in our neighborhoods, people are telling me this story of someone they know, a friend, a relative that has had something happen to them, including going to Alligator Alcatraz. So in addition to being inhumane and cruel, it's also bad for the economy. Two weeks ago, our federal government, the president eliminated TPS for Venezuelans. It's almost 100,000 people who have TPS from Venezuela in Miami Dade County. So I was speaking to a gentleman has a health clinic. He received notification from the federal government that he had to fire 27 people. Let me ask you this, they lost their work status.
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Let me ask, do you think he should have rejected the endorsement?
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He's the President.
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I'm very glad the president did not endorse me.
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There you have it folks. Tying it all together. Do we see a theme here that we are reporting? Massive Democratic over performance, massive MAGA Republican drops. This bodes quite well for the midterms and I think there's an overwhelming momentum of people are sick and tired of this Trump regime. They're sick and tired of the pain. They're sick and tired of the authoritarian fascist behavior, the ripping away of our democracy, the stealing of our healthcare, the taking away of the future of people right now and from future generations. We'll keep reporting on it here in the Midas Touch Network as always hit subscribe help us get to 6 million subscribers and thank you so much so much for watching. Love this video. Support independent media and unlock exclusive content ad free videos and custom emojis by becoming a paid member of our YouTube channel today. You can also gift memberships to others. Let's keep growing together.