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Trump Faces Growing Midterm Warning Signs Across Key States (with Brian Poindexter)

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MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on warning signs for Donald Trump and Trump-backed Republican candidates emerging from Kansas, Texas, and Ohio as voters react to recent developments and the approaching midterm elections. Meiselas then interviews Brian Poindexter, the Democratic nominee challenging Republican Congressman Max Miller in Ohio’s 7th Congressional District, about the state of the race, recent polling, and what Poindexter is hearing from voters across the district. Get up to 50% OFF at https://BuyLarine.com/meidas Remember to subscribe to ALL the MeidasTouch Network Podcasts: MeidasTouch: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/meidastouch-podcast Legal AF: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/legal-af MissTrial: https://meidasnews.com/tag/miss-trial The PoliticsGirl Podcast: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-politicsgirl-podcast Cult Conversations: The Influence Continuum with Dr. Steve Hassan: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-influence-continuum-with-dr-steven-hassan The Weekend Show: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-weekend-show The Ken Harbaugh Show: https://meidasnews.com/tag/the-ken-harbaugh-show Majority 54: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/majority-54 On Democracy with FP Wellman: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/on-democracy-with-fpwellman Uncovered: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/maga-uncovered Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Talk to your doctor or pharmacist today. Sponsored by GSK. Ladies and gentlemen. Oh my, Donald Trump just got a chilling message in a place that he least expected in Kansas. Not just in Kansas. At the Kansas State Fair, where a Donald Trump MAGA SICKA FANTIC CENTER, who's running for re-election, Roger Marshall got booed off stage. And it's not just in Kansas, folks. It's also in Texas. It's also in Ohio. It's also in Alaska. It's also in Pennsylvania, frankly. There is no safe Republican seat anymore. As Republican has gone full Trump MAGA and the American people are fed up and done with it. As Donald Trump tries to defraud the American people yet again,

I'm going to give you $5,000. I'm not lying this time. Just like I spoke with the hoodies. Just like I spoke with Hamas. Just like I spoke with Iran. The Ayatollah. Trust me. Trust me. It's all going to be good, everybody. Lies, lies, and more lies. So Roger Marshall, it's a very interesting fact. He's running against somebody by the name of Adam Hamilton, who's a United Methodist pastor. First time candidate, not a political guy. He won the Democratic nominee for the United States Senate seat in Kansas. He's running against Marshall and an individual who's just out there speaking from the heart right now. Not a politician. Now Roger Marshall's background. Before he was a MAGA Republican senator, Roger Marshall was a former obstetrician, gynecologist. And the New York Times just didn't expose a, did you see this?

That court records found that Marshall sued 700 of his former patients over outstanding bills that range from several thousand dollars down to as little as $101. This practice routinely applied an 18% annual interest rate. Collection methods included wage garnishments, bank account garnishments, in 81 cases. Patients were arrested after missing court dates. Marshall's lawyers sought warrants for the arrest in 13 additional cases. Some collection efforts continued even after Marshall entered Congress in 2017. This is as MAGA as you get folks. So let me set the stage for us right now. The Kansas State Fair. Why the Kansas State Fair? That's where there is a debate taking place. And at this debate between Roger Marshall, the MAGA Republican Senator,

and Adam Hamilton right over here, the crowd went absolutely livid on Roger Marshall. This guy actually really lives in Florida. He doesn't even live in Kansas at all. And shame on you. The crowd screamed shame on you. Shame on you. The chance broke out as Roger Marshall made excuses for his medical debt collection practices. Here, play this clip. Those are common, common business practices. We would go a year before we'd ever send somebody over. J. J. Ladies and gentlemen. Let me show you more of what was going down over here. Roger Marshall then speaks to the Kansas State Fair audience and says, who do you want solving this problem? And everybody's like, not you, not you, watch this here play this clip. Yeah, I guess I just asked the audience.

Who do you want solving this problem? The kid. Ladies and gentlemen. Ladies and gentlemen. Ladies and gentlemen. Ladies and gentlemen. If you could please calm down and let this Senator answer. Ground was saying you don't even live here. Get out of here carpet bagger. Get the hell out of here. Here play this clip. It's been about 200 days voting. And I spent about 135 days back in the state as well. Our state bussortails for this state. This is all a social media myth. Made by the social media not just as well. Lifetime Kansas fifth generation Kansas. Thank you. Mr. Hamilton. Then you have to have the Kansas State Fair moderator for the Senate debate.

Had to tell the crowd calm down because they were booing Trump's boot liquor in Kansas so much here play this clip. And I work hand in hand with Bobby Kennedy to help bring these make America healthy again. Topics back as well. Ladies and gentlemen. Now what I found very interesting about this race also is there hasn't been a lot of polling on it. But now we're starting to see more polls and it's neck and neck. The Democratic candidate. I'm Adam Hamilton seems like he could potentially win this Senate seat and the mag a candidate can lose I think with the right momentum and the overperformance we've been seeing. In the special elections thus far I think the Democrats going to win in Kansas by the way. Don't sleep on the Democratic candidate. In South Carolina I think she is also going to beat Darlene Graham, Lindsey Graham's sister

who doesn't know anything about anything other than I'm going to do with Donald Trump tells me to do. Sorry back to the Kansas State Fair for a moment over here. Let me show you what went down as Roger Marshall says you know where I stand and then the crowd started booing him play this clip. You you're family and these traditional Kansas Kansas values. Thank you so much and God bless everybody. Thank you. Corissa Boo continues here play this clip so you can see for yourself what went down. Just last week in my wife and I were chatting and she suggested I share it with this crowd. Why have we moved to great bend? Now I don't know about you. Now I don't know about you. The difference between Magga Republican Senator Marshall and Adam Hamilton couldn't be clearer

when it comes to price hiking tariffs. Watch for yourself over here. Mr. Hamilton you have 90 seconds to respond. The tariff surre disaster for everyone across the state of Kansas whether you realize it or not. More from Hamilton pointing out that Roger Marshall supports Donald Trump and everything which means 1500 Bambardi A workers could lose their jobs as a result of what Donald Trump's doing in Trump's attack on Canada. Here play this clip. 100 jobs they can lose those due to tariffs farmers are talking books and by the way Bambardi A uses so many American parts. Bambardi A uses more American parts than Gulf Stream does Donald Trump doesn't understand how supply chains work and those American parts don't just employ people at the Bambardi A factory.

They employ people at all different factories and Kansas and throughout the country. And Bambardi A employs thousands of people in the United States. Now let me just show you this is a incredible supercut of what went down you can see for yourself and then I've got a surprise for you here play this clip. It's the Republican incumbent Dr. Roger Marshall. Now I guess I just asked the audience who do you want solving this problem? The tariffs are a disaster for everyone across the state of Kansas whether you realize it or not. Look these tariffs are working we are expanding our export markets because of them. We love Kansas we will live here after I'm elected Senate I'm not going to sell my house and move to Florida as you do. All a social media myth made by the social media Nazis as well. But the average cost of gasoline has been less under President Trump than it was under Joe Biden.

You can look it up you can fact check me as well. If you love $6 a gallon diesel fuel you can thank Roger Marshall. He supported this he told us to tighten our belts because this was the cost of being safe in America we were supposed to be out of this war after four weeks maybe six weeks were six months in. With all the people in the room that I ran one I ran to have a nuclear weapon raise your hand for me. Does anybody in this room want I ran to have a nuclear weapon? Well last year when you voted for the one big beautiful bill you gave $30 billion in tax cuts to data centers. You may not agree with me on everything but you're going to know exactly where I stand. Who's snap benefits are being taken away by you and you're saying they all have fraud. We're talking about 18,000 children in Kansas who lost their snap benefits under his leadership. And I work hand in hand with Bobby Kennedy to help bring these make America healthy again. Topics back. And courage is when you stand up to your president and your party and you say

this is hurting people back home and you say it even if your president is going to bully you pick on you primary you and call your names you still say this is not okay. All right pretty incredible footage right there right seeing that super cut now let me bring you I'm just going to show a short clip of it because it's football and so I just don't want to show too much of it because it's an ESPN but I'll just give you enough to know so Ted Cruz, Maga Republican Senator was in Austin for college game day watching the Texas football and Ted Cruz got booed ruthlessly while he was there. Watch for yourself here play this clip. I will share with you as well.

What is going down in I'll show you what's going down why don't we go to Ohio right now how about not only do we go to Ohio I have a surprise for you I want to bring in the Democratic candidate in Ohio right now Brian point Dexter he's running against Max Miller you know Max Miller who has those heinous allegations Max Miller who runs from his constituents ultra magick streamess Max Miller the latest polling has Brian point Dexter at 47% to Max Miller 33% so this looks like this district can flip Democrat also a point Dexter he's got a really compelling story he did this incredible ad called daughters featuring his three children Ashley Michaela and Taylor telling stories about their dad as they sit in front of family photos obviously there's a clear contrast between him and the vile individual Max Miller who's currently the congress member from that district but I just

interviewed Brian point Dexter let me bring him in because as we're seeing Donald Trump crash out in Kansas and Texas in Ohio and Pennsylvania in Ohio seventh right here Brian point Dexter looks poised to win this rights let's bring in my interview with the Democratic candidate for Ohio seventh congressional district Brian point Dexter you're not going to want to miss this you've heard me talk about the rain the gum I've been showing that actually strengthens my tooth enamel I love Lorraine's gum and now they're launching something I'm really excited about a nicotine free pouch the rain co pouches are pouches that swap out the nicotine and give you clean focus and support your enamel the whole time that they're in it works like pouches you've seen before you talk one in and go about your day each pouch has 50 milligrams of caffeine which is about half a cup of coffee plus althienine and alpha gpc for a smooth steady focus with no energy crash and because this is Lorraine every pouch also has nano hydroxyapatite the mineral your teeth are

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Brian is currently a council member at Brook Park cities running against Maga Republican extremist Max Miller the Maga Republican leadership is still behind Max Miller after allegation after allegation and some of the most disgusting and future things I've ever heard that against him and we even have the senator of Ohio saying that Max Miller needs to Republican senators former father in law saying he needs to resign and lots of Maga Republican senators saying Max Miller needs to resign and we'll talk about that but I want to talk about you Brian because you've got a very compelling story father your union iron worker apprenticeship and structure council member and you've been running a very compelling campaign and I think we're seeing people in Ohio saying you know what we gave this Maga thing a shot we gave them the power Republicans are controlling a lot of things and

they've lied to us and they failed and we want to go in another direction and so talk to us about what you're seeing you know this area well you've won elections in the area are you seeing a shift talk about like what you see is going on in this area yeah well you know election time voters always ask themselves two questions one why should we fire the guy that's in there now and we know all the reasons why obviously the allegations are serious but the policies he supported have put us in a world of hurt especially as far as workers are concerned here in my district so we know why we need to fire him but why hire me and you know I'm showing people what what a real representative looks like I'm showing up at events I'm showing up you know door to door I grew you know cut my political teeth in Brook Park Brook Park is a scrappy city where you have to knock on every door if you're going to get the vote of the people in the city of Brook Park and I told people when he got in this I'm going to run a Brook Park style campaign where I'm going to meet people where they are

you know we're averaging two thousand doors a week and that's ramping up and you know just you know I have the lived experience of the average person in our district and I resonate with them on a level that they can understand because I'm just like the guy next door and that's given us real strength and built real momentum in this race talk about that lived experience because people are getting crushed right now across this country and you zoom in on areas like Brook Park and you know you see a story of an American dream quite literally stolen and I you know it's like literally ripped apart you know whether it's their healthcare being ripped apart you know they're money being ripped apart you know taken out you know and go into Trump and Trump's friends and this rich oligarchs you know and you know you hear Donald Trump and people like Max Miller we promise you this time we know we've been saying we're going to give you five thousand dollars the last time

if you vote for us and we didn't do it and then we promised you it again we didn't do it but this time this we're not even going to talk about policy we're just going to straight up bribe you okay we're going to give you five thousand dollars if you vote for us this one time and it's like you stole people's bread now you're dangling the bread crumbs that you're not even going to give them right now and that's their closing message basically is that we're going to defraud you again oh hi we're going to talk about the shared experience though what people are seeing what do you see when you knock on doors what are people experiencing where do the pain points there I'm sure there are many oh there there's so many and you know they're all economically driven you know people are working harder and harder and getting less for it you know you know I'm old enough to remember time where one income could support entire your whole family and you know now two incomes aren't even enough to make ends meet in that family and you know it's it it all ties back to the corruption at the federal level you know the the wealthiest and well connected among us are living a great having a great time

at our expense you know that all the tax breaks go to them to the wealthy to the corporations and it's it you know working people are left paying the tab for that you know we see it in rising gas prices we see it in rising grocery prices we see it in stagnating wages and people are tired of politicians in Washington not hearing them and you know that you brought up the five thousand dollar promise um you know it just shows that you know they're finally hearing the pleas that that that people need relief um unfortunately you know people don't want that one time handout they want to be able to make a living doing the work they do enough to support their family and you know I'm going to support that at every opportunity talk about this ad that you just released and I saw the TMZ report about how Max Miller's dodging questions about this ad you pointed out when you released it here's my first ad and you were saying um how you know you did this for all of the uh running for congress to fight for my

daughters and yours so in my first ad I decided to turn my mic over to them it was a great I mean it's a great piece and you know to me with all of this gamified politics that happens before an election and people just throw it all this nastiness out there to try to obscure and confuse I always like to say at the end of the day this is about like your family I think this is about you know how are we living our lives and and what's and pull back and be like what's the point of all of this is the point of all of this so that we can wake up and then be non-consensual extras in some dystopian reality show with some psychotic maniac in Washington behaving like like a like a crazy person and oh dude see the crazy thing he did oh my god is he screwed with our gas prices or is he screwing with our healthcare I'm like it's about our daughters my daughter your daughters it's about our families it's about our future generations about hoping to make human connections

like that's life like and we have to get out of this bizarro freaking world then to me that's what you know why your ad resonated with me so talk to me about that well um you know my my daughters had fun with that ad and um you know they make fun of their dad all the time so why not do it on camera right um but it really was just a good opportunity to give people a window into my life you know what I've been fighting for what I've been working for all these years and and the type of representative I'll be you know I'm I'm literally the guy next door the the guy down the street helped the old lady with his with her garbage and um you know I wanted to highlight that you know and people were like well you made this ad to put a mirror up to max Miller and like no I I didn't I did it to give people a view of my daily life and the love I have for my daughters and how much they love their dad um if it holds a mirror up to max Miller that's something he's got to worry about um you know I didn't you know my whole campaign is built on a message of positivity built on a message of uniting people because the only way we're going to get out of this mess is together um we

can we can continue to chase the chaos of the day from the administration and from this Republican held legislature but at the end of the day people people long for community again uh people are tired of of of turning their backs on family over politics turning their backs on friends um over politicians and and I hope to show people a different way and that's kind of what that ad speaks to right and I think here's the moment that we're in I think people know that Donald Trump is an awful putrid fraudulent felon horrible human being I mean I think that it's revealed even to his former base I think they look at him this is my view I think they look at him and they go you betray us I think they look at someone like a max Miller and they go awful human being just awful human being but then they look at the Democrats and they are saying okay do not bring us back though to just the status quo before this because you're just going to bring in Trump's and max Miller's so don't

bullshit me right now and tell me what you're going to actually do that moves us forward and actually fights for these things because we were promised a whole bunch of things from these magas and they didn't deliver but if there was lower gas prices if we could afford homes if we could have no more never-ending wars that some of that stuff appeals to us we like that so can we do that can you actually fight for us and and and move us in a direction forward versus the sea saw cycles that you and I were around the same age we know how we got here Trump's awful but he's a vessel from a lot of what we're seeing just like you see in Ohio you know over time it's just gotten worse and worse and worse to the point where people are all right we got to change it but what does that mean directionally right and so I think we're in what are you going to do for me you know people are saying you know Brian what how are you going to change the game so I'll let you deliver that final message before we go which is you know what are you going to do you know how how is this going to be

different how is this not just a return to politics as usual and we get rid of an awful max Miller we get a family man Brian but you know it's still politics in DC how can you assure the voters this is different well the first thing I'm not going to do is I'm not going to you know when this race and go on a revenge tour for all the crazy things that we've seen over the past few years you know because there's a lot of people that you know that voted for Trump and vote for Miller who are you know who are hurting under the policies that they they brought forward it's it's almost like an ex-girlfriend right you just kind of move forward don't live in the past so and what I want to do is I want to help lower costs day one by fighting to get us out of the war that's driven of costs on families I want to and the blanket tariffs that driven up the costs on families and I really want to end the corruption that has enabled all of it you know the the dark money and politics the members of congress trading stocks you know max Miller has partake partake and all that

and and you know that's we got to get back to the basics you know there's a lot of things a lot of fires burning and you know in my life when when things are getting overwhelming I kind of focus on the basic you know I got to pay my mortgage first I got to you know make sure my car payments paid and that's what we needed that's the approach I'm going to bring to Congress we need to you know strengthen collective bargaining rates so workers can make a good wage and benefits again we need to lift them in and wage up so people are actually making a real living you know we got to save social security so our retirees can retire with dignity and and and I think if we get to the basics allow give some relief to people in their pockets in their personal life then we can a lot of the other issues will kind of solve themselves because people have the means to fight for them Brian working people learn more about the campaign pretty close to you know we're getting closer to election day I mean I'm looking at the calendar and it's it's right around the corner if people want to learn more about you where do they go real easy you can go to point dexter for congress dot com and you can read my backstory read my bio see my policy positions watch our videos

but we're also on every every platform on social media you can find us on anyone just type in a Brian point extra for congress it'll come right up but I really encourage you to you know take a real good hard look volunteer if you can donate if you can because you know while we have a lot of momentum in this race my opponent did drop a million dollars of his own cash to try to buy his way out of his troubles and I can use all the help I can get when you watch the ad you'll see their great ads but we need help keeping them up on the air all the way through the cycle so hopefully you're willing to do that yeah look the ads are great I do want to say this though I mean the campaign you've been running is an inspired campaign and it's worker focused and it's different it looks different it feels different than other campaigns that I in a good way you know and and connecting it and rooting it in family and common core values and principles is is something that we talk a lot about here and so I definitely wanted to have you on to talk about that I'm glad we got to meet

would love to have you back on before the election so thanks so much Brian absolutely happy to do it I just want to you know say thank you for having me and you know people support for me is not taken in vain and that's why we're running the campaign we're running because there's a lot of people counting on me to get in there and be a voice for them and you know with with your help we'll be able to do that so thank you Brian point dexter everybody everybody hit subscribe let's get to seven million subscribers thanks for watching want to stay plugged in become a subscriber for a sub stack at mightisplus.com you'll get daily recaps from Ron Phil Kowski add three episodes of our podcast and more exclusive content only available at mightisplus.com before you go our book WTF America is available for pre-order now it's the story of how we got here and how we fight our way back to pre-order scan the QR code or click the link in the description let's do this

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