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Ben Misellis
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Jason Kelly
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Alex Rodriguez
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Ben Misellis
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Jason Kelly
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Benny
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Alex Rodriguez
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Ben Misellis
Game, set, match. That's a ball game folks. Democratic candidate from California's 13th congressional district, Adam Gray is officially declaring victory in his race against the MAGA Republican incumbent John Duarte. California's 13th congressional district is in the Inland Empire in California. This means it is official. California has flipped three mega Republican seats to Democrats. What this means folks, is that the final House composition is going to be 220 Republicans to 215 Democrats. But because of all of Donald Trump's Cabinet picks, including, including those accused of child sex trafficking, and I'm talking about Matt Gates, by the way, we released that ethics report as soon as this new Congress begins, it will actually only be about 217 to 215, maybe even 216 to 215, meaning that MAGA Mike Johnson is going to have a lot of trouble getting rules passed, getting legislation through, or getting anything done at all. Remember how chaotic it previously when MAGA Mike Johnson had a small but significantly bigger advantage in the House of Representatives. And folks, this comes as a big shock for MAGA Mike Johnson. He was previously telling Donald Trump, stop appointing these House Republicans to the Cabinet. You're killing me here, Donald. Is what he was saying. One of my theories, although I don't want to get conspiratorial though, but I'll say this, is that Donald Trump realizes that if he doesn't have opposition in the House, then he's going to get blamed for all of the screw ups. So he wants to find a way to try to blame people for something so he doesn't care that it's chaotic. But I won't, I won't go down that rabbit hole. I think for, I think for now, it's important to note that this is, these were three big flips and now it is official. As our friend Laksha Jane from Split Ticket says, this brings an end to the 2024 cycle for now, unless a recount reveals an error in the tabulation, we don't expect there to be an error in the tabulation. From the recount as the final component to our coverage of the cycle, we'll have our split ticket model post mortem released this week with statistical evaluations of performance. Now that it's done, Adam Gray put out the following statement. I'm honored to become the congressman elect for California's 13th congressional district. Let's go. The final results confirm this district is ready for independent and accountable leadership. That always puts the Valley's people ahead of partisan politics. But the work has just begun in Washington. I'll work every day to deliver the resources that the Valley needs. Clean water, better educational opportunities, stronger infrastructure, and more good paying jobs. And you can count on me to build bipartisan relationships to accomplish these goals. I am deeply grateful to all those who volunteered their time, chipped in to help our campaign or took a moment out of their busy day to learn about our race. And I am especially thankful for my campaign team, my friends and my family. Now let's get to work, folks. We're talking about a lead in votes of about 187 votes. It's why all votes matter. It's why we always tell people here, get out and vote. 107, 87 votes separated the winner here from the loser. And by the way, as I read that statement from Adam Gray, could you ever imagine a MAGA Republican putting together a statement like that that talks about these things? Clean water. Have you ever heard a MAGA Republican talk about clean water, better educational opportunities? All I hear about them is MAGA Republicans wanting to burn books. Stronger infrastructure. Yeah, the Infrastructure act by President Biden and more good paying jobs, jobs, jobs, jobs. MAGA Republican statements are always like, we're going after the deep state and Donald Trump's the greatest. And you know, and just like their cult worship of Donald Trump, we need to get back to talking about. And I know Democrats are doing it, but they gotta just message this consistently. Hit it over and over and over again. Jobs, jobs, jobs. Infrastructure, Infrastructure, Infrastructure. Healthcare, Healthcare, healthcare. Get the message out. Speak plainly and directly to the American people. And I wrote an article about this on Midasplus.com you can check it out. M E I D A S p l u s.com midasplus.com Stop letting Magas take credit for your accomplishments. It's baffling to me. The Infrastructure act that President Biden got through, the Inflation Reduction act, the PACT act, the CHIPS Act. President Biden delivered these things for the people who ended up not voting for Democrats. But Biden I think recognized that this group of people felt screwed because they are getting screwed. But they were not getting screwed by the Democrats. They're getting screwed by the MAGA Republicans and the billionaire oligarchy, starting with the Reagan policies. That's who's screwing these people. When all of this wealth is amassed by the 0.01%, how do you think you're getting screwed? They're getting screwed because of them. And they get corporate welfare, they get all the handouts in the world. And then every time we hear about raising the minimum wage to a living wage, we're told that's horrible for business. Businesses are going to crash. Okay, I understand. I could have a reasonable debate and discussion with you, but you never hear the concomitant argument about when the CEO's paper package goes to 30 million, 50 million, 100 million, a billion dollars. No one's like, oh my God, that's going to screw up the way the business never done that way at all. I digress, fellas.
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Tyler
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Ben Misellis
Robert Garcia, friend at the Midas Touch Network, Congress member Garcia goes congrats to Congressman Adam Gray. That's three California flips and one battleground hold. Well done. And we need people who talk about those issues. Unlike MAGA Mike Johnson, who's he's up there with. Sorry for the demonstration. He's up there with the, with the, with the mirror looking up at people in the bathroom stalls saying we're, we're just making sure there are no weirdos in the women's bathrooms are focusing on genitals and penises and vaginas. Although what are they doing, these MAGA Republicans? What are they doing? I said there were three flips. The other big flip, Democrat Derek Tran declaring victory in California's 45th U.S. house district three weeks after, after the election. I reported on that last week he beat the MAGA Republican incumbent Representative Michelle Steele again. That vote, that race was decided in the hundreds of votes as well. And then our friend George Whiteside, a NASA executive, flipped California's 27th congressional district from another MAGA Mike MAGA Mike Garcia, MAGA extremist here in Los Angeles. Trump is going to now take office with a razor thin House GOP majority. And look folks, I want to be very clear what these MAGAs are after, what they're doing, what are the things that they are talking about? Let's be very clear. For example, you've got MAGA Republican Josh Shriver posting make gay marriage illegal again. This is not remotely controversial nor extreme. That's what MAGA Republican saying pure hate over and over again. Or how about this MAGA Republican Representative Richard McCormick. They're saying the quiet part out loud because they always were saying it out loud. We just gotta listen to it. Here's representative Richard McCormick saying we got hard decisions to make when it comes to Social Security Medicaid and Medicare, those are. We gotta take those challenges head on. He's calling your Social. This is what Republicans are calling your Social Security, your Medicaid, your Medicare challenges we need to take head on. And Mag is talking about cutting veterans benefits. I did a whole story on this yesterday morning where they're like all of these lavish perks that our veterans are getting and attacking it like that. Democrats, you just need to speak to the American people directly, look him in the eye and tell them what's going on. Show them videos like this of MAGA Republican Representative Rich McCormick. Here, play this clip.
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MAGA Mike Johnson
The problem with the Democrats is they've, they've never run out of things that they can give away for free, quote unquote. When you talk about a trillion dollars in debt payment just on interest alone every year, we can't just talk about the military though. The military can do some things better. We can save some money just in the runaway contract. We're going to be careful that we don't decrease our abilities because China is right on our heels. However, if you talk about 75% of the budget, 75% is non discretionary. We're going to have to have some hard decisions. We got to bring the Democrats in and talk about Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare. There's hundreds of billions of dollars to be saved and we know how to do it. We just have to have a stomach to actually take those challenges on. But we can't just talk about our discretionary budget. That's 20, that's less than 25% of our budget. We have to have some real hard discussions.
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Ben Misellis
Well, we talk about this all the time if you don't want to believe him. This is what MAGA Mike Johnson was saying during the campaign. He said they're going to get rid of the Affordable Care act, which is Obamacare. Listen to MAGA Mike. Let's play it.
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Cameron
There's a lot of talk. I mean, health care reform is going to be a big part of the agenda. When I say we're going to have a very aggressive verse under his agenda. We got a lot of things on the table, but healthcare, that's part, it's the secret healthcare form, not a secret. There's some really important ideas on the table and we have a docs caucus, the physicians who serve in the House and they've got a menu of options about this thick. And I think this is part of it because if you take government bureaucrats out of the healthcare equation and you have doctor patient relationship, it's better for everybody. More efficient, more effective. That's the free market. Trump's going to be for free market. You heard a little sample of that last night. We want to take a blowtorch to the regulatory state, okay? I mean, these agencies have been weaponized against the people and it's, it's crushing the free market. It's like a boot on the neck of job creators and entrepreneurs and risk takers. And so healthcare is one of the sectors, but we need this across the board. And Trump's going to go big. I mean, he's only going to have one more term, right, Cameron? Pre election. And so he's going to be thinking about legacy. And we're going to fix no Obamacare. No Obamacare. Yeah. The ACA is so deeply ingrained. We need massive reform to make this work. And we got a lot of ideas on how to do that.
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Ben Misellis
There you have it, folks. I'm Ben Misellis. This is the Midas Touch. Did you check out Midasplus.com? check it out, I think you'll enjoy it. We got some grits. It's the sub stacked as well. Check it out. Thanks for watching. Love this video. Make sure you stay up to date on the latest breaking news and all things Midas by signing up to the Midas touch newsletter@midestouch.com newsletter.
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Alex Rodriguez
Marketing is hard, but I'll tell you a little secret. It doesn't have to be. Let me point something out. You're listening to a podcast right now and it's great. You love the host. You seek it out and download it. You listen to it while driving, working out, cooking, even going to the bathroom. Podcasts are a pretty close companion. And this is a podcast ad. Did I get your attention? You can reach great listeners like yourself with podcast advertising from Libsyn Ads. Choose from hundreds of top podcasts offering host endorsements or run a pre produced ad like this one across thousands of shows. To reach your target audience in their favorite podcasts with Libsyn Ads, go to Libsyn ads.com that's L I B S Y-N-Ads.com today.