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And this year it's just the opposite. I'm seeing zero red signs and all blue signs and areas that typically, you know, I wouldn't expect to see them in. And so to me, that's, you know, let's tell me something. Somebody's out there and they've changed their mind. Now we did also speak to farmers who said they feel disillusioned by what's going on in Washington with one telling me that he feels his crop is being used as an negotiating chip in DC. Now Donald Trump can try to say things like this. That's what he posted last night. We have the best financial numbers ever and the fake news media refuses to report them. DJ, Tino, you're just a fraud. You are a crook and a criminal and a felon. You're also a sexual abuser and a predator. The American people have figured you out. They should have a long time ago. But everybody knows that you are a liar.

You are a loser and you are a fraud. Listen to what Sylvester Stallone just said in an interview. He did with the New York Times. Now he was a Trump supporter and now he's out there saying, I'm against war. I'm against this war in Iran. Really because you kind of aligned yourself at the hip with Donald Trump. But here's what Sylvester Stallone says. Play this clip. And now I realize all war is futile. It's stupid. It's a mechanism to make tons of money for the war department and manufacturers. And these kids just going out there into a grismole being chopped up. And then when they come back with no arms, oh, sorry, you're on your own. I hate it. I hate it. And I'm bitterly opposed to it. But at one time, I was truly gone home. Really gone home. And I don't know if I was just trying to go against the current in Hollywood.

There's a certain dynamic, as you know. But I can I admit it was. I think it's just not even tape really because I read a lot, especially after first blood. And I go, wow, this is brutal. This is horrible. There's no glory in war. None. None. When did you become anti war? It's it's it's a if you're if you're under attack, of course, you have to defend yourself. But I don't want to get into politics now, but all wars basically destroy both sides. I mean, it really creates this horrible history. And you know, don't get over it. They just don't it's grudges are held and you know, the continents are just I mean, the countries are destroyed and lines are retroned for what though.

And then we also learned this past week that Donna Ganger, the mother of Renee Good, voted for Donald Trump. Yes, Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by the Trump ice and mortar patrol Gestapo. Her mother was a Trump supporter. Here's what she said during a hearing that the Midas Touch Network covered this is from the C-SPANFeed. Here, play this clip. As a parent, it is our instinct and our honor to protect our children. Fast forward to today and is torture that as our mom and as a family, we could not protect Renee. But no one can protect against others who are determined to district art, our countries, constitutional rules and values. That is what happened on January 7th. Our family is a very American blend. We vote differently, but we love each other deeply. I'm a registered Republican. I voted for President Trump under the impression that these agents were here to protect the citizens of the United States.

Innocence like our family and the others here against terrorists. Certainly not to accuse those of us here of being terrorists and take precious lives. This is madness. You want to talk about another high profile Trump supporter calling him out in public on a podcast with the founder of a company that acquired Politico. Here you have Peter Teal. Don't get much more of a kind of Trump mega oligarch than Peter Teal. What he had to say about Trump, you're playing this clip. I think the two administrations kind of made opposite mistakes. The first administration brought in all these people who couldn't agree and it was just all the central fighting. The second administration, I think, had all these, they over corrected for the mistake of the first term with all these loyalty tests. They got sort of an administration staffed by not very smart but very loyal people.

There are all sorts of ways. It can be criticized. But it also reflected a way that things had reached a certain exhaustion and certainly on the Republican side. In this past week, we want to talk about other people who were Trump supporters. Nick Fuente, someone who's going to play a short clip of this, said that we need to burn the Republican party to the ground. And he said he wants to see Democrats destroy Republicans and hold hearings and impeach everyone here, play this clip. So no, this Republican party, I will continue to say it. The Republican party needs to be burned to the ground. They need to lose. I want it to happen. Please, I cannot wait for it to happen. I don't just want Republicans to lose. I want Republicans to be annihilated from the face of the planet. I want them to be destroyed. I want them to be emulated and literally burned into a pile of ashes.

These people are scum. They have betrayed us. They've enriched ourselves at our expense. I hope there's nothing left. I hope Democrats win 260 seats in the house. I hope they take the majority in the Senate. And I hope they impeach everybody in the cabinet. Not just Trump. I hope they impeach Vance. I hope they impeach. Pete Hague Seth. I hope they impeach everybody. And I hope they subpoena everybody else and depose everybody else. And I want it to happen because that's what needs to happen. Republican party has to be utterly destroyed. They have done nothing other than lose when they promise that they would win. Now, this is circulating as well. What Donald Trump was saying when he was running for office in 2016 and before that in 2011 about Xi Jinping and state dinners. And then Donald Trump had our service members, our Air Force personnel and our Army personnel get down on their knees for Xi Jinping and roll out the red carpet as Donald Trump.

And all of his cabinet and state regime media, Fox propaganda were faunting over Xi and the CCP. It was epic. They said so epic. These people are such drifters and traitors here play this clip. We have the president of China come and we give him a state dinner. Now when people is screwing you, you don't give him state dinners. I would not be throwing him a dinner. We've had this conference. I'd get him a McDonald's hamburger and what he's done is sucked all of our jobs. Melania and I are delighted to welcome you once again to the White House. You are truly outstanding, amazing people. I wouldn't give a state dinner like we do for China and all these other people that rip us off when we give these big state dinners. We shouldn't have dinners at all. We should be eating a hamburger on a conference table. You forget the state dinners that cost by the way a fortune. Now, Harry Enten broke down some of the numbers over here. How Trump has the highest strongly disapproved rating ever on record here play this clip.

We have been talking about how President Trump has historic unpopularity going into a midterm election. But I'm not quite sure that goes far enough when looking at the data. Because when we break it down the approval ratings by how strongly people feel President Trump has the highest strongly disapproved rating going into a midterm election on record. Look at this 50% of Americans now say that they strongly strongly disapproved of the job that President Trump is doing. That is they don't just dislike him. There's record hatred for the President of the United States going into a midterm. The previous record holder was Trump going into the 2018 midterm but then he was only at 45%. Before that it was George W. Bush going into the O6 midterm at 41%. Right now what we're seeing is President Trump with record hatred towards him going into this midterm election. No wonder Republicans at least some of them are running away from it. Is there a converse of this? Are we seeing any changes among those who say they really really approve of him politically? President Trump has been historically polarizing right? Yes, they're those people who really don't like him dare I say hate him.

But there've also been those people who really love him right and those two counteracting forces have sometimes worked with the President's benefit but not anymore. Why is that? Because take a look here. Okay. The strongly approved rating here strongly approve of the President of the United States. Apparently something doesn't want me to say it. Anyway, strongly approve of the President of the United States someone is clicking through here. Here we go. Strongly approve. Whoever whoever is in the system is playing with Harry's wall. Why would they please stop if you are playing with his wall right now on the internal computers stop. You could do it after we're done with that. Thank you very much. Okay. Strongly approve of the President at this point in a midterm election. What you see here is Trump look at this just 18% strongly approve of the job that President Trump is in. That's actually less than the average president going into a midterm at 27% it's less than Trump had going into the 2018 midterm at 27%. So Trump actually has fewer people loving him than what we see with the average president. So what's going on here is normally Trump is able to counteract that strong hatred which strong love but not anymore as that strongly approved number has actually dip below what we normally see for a President going into a midterm election.

An ever so provocative it can hardly stay on the screen. Apparently the number just want to jump off the screen. All right. What about the key swing group independence? Yeah. Okay. See you see this 18% right and you see the strongly approved and you see the strongly disapproved 50%. What about the independence? Look at these numbers. Look at this independence on Trump with strong feels 56% of independent strongly disapproved of Trump compared to just 9% who strongly approved among the group that determines elections in this country country. You see the hatred for the president of the United States. This is what the voters are saying. Now north of a north of 50% it's a majority of them and that is a difference what Johnny be of 47 points in the negative direction in terms of the strong feelings on Trump from independence. Now did you see this circulating as well? These videos are showing what the remaining Trump supporters look like and it's going mega viral here play this clip. My president, please I don't need to know what it is just give it to me. Beautiful plate nobody serves it like this nobody.

If you made it I know it's good. That's not dirt that seasoning don't explain it to me sir. I already. So with all of this going down state regime media Fox ultra desperate right now and so you have Laura Trump Donald Trump's daughter in law who host a show on Fox because this is North Korea crap right here. Actually North Korea is probably a little bit more normal than this to be clear what the hell this is. Laura Trump interviewing Nicki Minaj and if you read the Kiron it says pushing back on the pressure to vote blue some news here pushing back on the pressure to vote blue and then Nicki Minaj says the problem with Democrats right Nicki Minaj is like a Trump bootlegger. And she goes the problem with Democrats is they get too caught up in pop culture so they've allowed their relationship with artists to cloud their judgment and she's like lit it the projection here is outrageous here play this clip.

Well I think the Democrats have gotten way too caught up in pop culture for lack of a better term. I think that they've allowed their relationships with artists to to cause them to act like children and to be so petty and childish. But that's what I think they do they they allow people to in the music industry to influence them and these people clearly don't have their best interest at heart these people have their egos at heart. And then you just look at let's look at Michigan zoom in over there Donald Trump's approval net negative 28 in Michigan you take a look at the governor's race right there according to the Suffolk poll one of the top pollsters in Michigan.

Jocelyn Benson the Secretary of State leading mega Republican extremist John James 51% to 34% right there a commanding lead over there. And so you have Trump and John James people like that say you want me to give you $5,000 I promise you this time unlike those dividend checks and unlike Tara free made checks which we like we're really going to do it this time but you got to vote Republican it's so utterly pathetic. This Trump regime has caused so much pain to the American people with their tariffs against the world ripping to shreds the government catastrophic wars abroad it's one thing after another ripping away people's health care. We give you $5,000 and you're not going to give $5,000 and that's not a plan and you're just a bunch of liars and grifting frauds you know what I want to bring in Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson candidate for governor in the great state of Michigan let's bring in the interview I just did with Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson let's bring it in.

Now I want to bring in Michigan's Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson who's running for that important governor seat right now great to see you let's talk about Michigan under attack from the Trump regime it seems every day since Trump took power you're running again somebody John James a mega Republican extremist in Congress who's been aiding and abetting every step in this process of Donald Trump's attack on Michigan and attack on this country. Where do you see the race right now and just talked us generally about what the people in Michigan are facing as a result of Trump's catastrophic war the tariffs ripping away people's health care just about everything pretty much. Yeah well thanks for having me and it's really clear in here from Michigan that we're in the middle of a battle over the future of our economy and our democracy and the 2026 election is going to determine that future for generations to come our campaign is fundamentally about three thousand years ago. And definitely about three things cost down wages up and ending the corruption that got us here and yes every bad economic policy decision Trump has made has hurt Michigan more than any other states these this bizarre terror for with Canada our neighbor to the north has increased cost on Michigan households up to $5,600 each and that's more than any other state and then you add the war in Iran right driving up our gas prices so that they're close to or over $5 a gallon.

It's unsustainable in a state like ours where healthcare premiums are also on the rise. And yeah, my opponent has voted multiple times to increase those healthcare premiums. Herding Michigan families has supported Trump's tariffs, herding and costing Michigan's families and has voted six times to support the war in Iran, even though it's driving up the cost uniquely significantly on Michigan-ders. And that's the choice facing voters this fall. Who do you want the next governor of Michigan to work for? The people driving down costs and raising wages as I will or as my opponent has shown us, he'll work for Donald Trump and for himself. That's not the leadership we need in Michigan. Yeah, I mean, I think one of the really sick things also is is that Donald Trump and people like John James are saying, this is the golden age right now and that this is what everybody wanted and that things are amazing right now. You hear them repeat that over and over again. And they just blatantly lie about everything. And I think people are seeing it now for what it is, but that's their strategy is just everything.

You know, healthcare is cheap, everything's amazing. People have never been richer. Jobs are on the rise. Housing is a four. They're just saying it's like that's not happening. I don't know what world you live in, maybe in Club Mar-a-Lago or Golden Ballroom World, but that's not what people are experiencing and Trump told people in Michigan in 2024. Here's what I'm going to do on day one. It's all been a lie. Yeah, and everything they're saying is so out of touch with the people I talk to every day and to the point where I just want to say, have you not talked to any Michiganer that is struggling to pay higher bills because of your actions, because of your support of these economic policies? I live in Detroit and a neighbor of mine in Gwen has been diagnosed with cancer and she told me the other day that she has to look at her bills every month and choose. Does she pay for her chemotherapy or does she pay her electricity bill? What I found, first of all, gut-wrenching choice that she shouldn't have to be faced with,

but is faced with because of the failed leadership in Washington. Her story is not an anomaly. Every nurse I talk to, every doctor I meet with, every healthcare roundtable that I host, I hear very similar stories of these impossible choices that are life and death decisions people are having to make as a result of these failed economic policies, the big, beautiful bill that's designed to get people off healthcare and not make them healthier. They're doing everything wrong at the federal level, showing up everywhere we don't want federal government to show up here in Michigan, state leaders, and as governor, I can make sure government's showing up for our people, saving them time, saving them money, and then hopefully making their life a little bit easier. And then Trump's constant attack on Canada and how that's backfired. You look at our strongest allies, the bond, especially between Michigan and Canada, historically strong familial in a way. And Donald Trump just relentlessly attacking, and that has real implications on the economy

in Michigan, right? And so it's like just enough of like, what are we even doing here? Talk to us about how that's impacting Michigan. Yeah, significantly. I mean, I will say as governor on day one, I will begin talks with Canada to negotiate carve outs to these reckless tariff agreements and subnational agreements between Michigan and Canada that will go around Trump's reckless tariffs that are driving up costs more than any other state and make sure we can try to lower costs and save our jobs. And getting this right is critical to creating better paying jobs and raising wages. I was in Michigan a few months ago and someone who's building affordable housing there said the uncertainty that these tariffs have created have made it impossible for him to meet his deadlines and even know if he's going to actually complete this affordable housing development and provide housing for the residents of Michigan. These tariffs are driving up building costs from lumber to steel to copper in our state. And that is directly impacting citizens ability to afford to live in this state.

It's also impacting employers ability to recruit and build a workforce that is able to get higher wages in this state. So it's all because of these tariffs and again, the war in Iran, that big, beautiful bill, everything is combining to create an unsustainable situation for our economy, for our residents. And the only thing that we can do about it in this moment is elect state leaders who will fight back and will ensure that we are driving down costs with the tools we have in our toolbox here in Michigan. And that's what I'll do as governor. I know the person you're running against again, he's a Maggar Republican, extremist congressmember, John James, he voted for everything that Donald Trump did that hurt the state of Michigan and hurt the country. He was a cheerleader for it. And I was just trying to before this interview, I'm like, what's this guy running on? And basically he's saying that I'm the, I was the arsonist, but I'm the firefighter now who's going to put out the arson that I created. But then also I'll, you know, wrap my hands around Trump and I still support him, but

I'm running it. I don't really don't even understand what the message is. It's like, dude, you created the problems. You and like, and you had the chance, look, if things were great, like let's pull back for a second. If Donald Trump did the things that he said he was going to do, if electricity prices were half what, you know, what they are now, that's what he promised there, half what they were in 2024. If gas prices were $2 a gallon, if we actually brought in trillions of dollars, you know, if all these jobs are being created, okay, then you then run on that, but like you created like, you know, he created the problem. And so it's just very interesting to him. Yeah, this is his mess, right? This is his mess that we have to clean up for our economy and also for our democracy, because remember, my opponent was also on the ballot running for the US Senate back then in 2020. He lost that race and he denied the election results. So we're in a scenario where the path to future elections, the presidency and the like

run right through Michigan, we cannot have a governor who does not know what it takes to defend the vote and protect our elections, not in this moment. And not only his, my opponent shows he is no interest in protecting the vote, he has done everything he could to par it and repeat Trump's lies about our elections and our economy. Sure, every bad economic policy Trump promotes. He supports my opponent supports. And in addition to that, he denies election results as I defend them. And so the choice facing voters in Michigan in this critical battleground state couldn't be more clear. Who do you want the next governor of Michigan to work for? I will work for the voters. I will work for Gwen. I will work for the people and my opponent, he's already shown us who he'll work for. Donald Trump in the highest bidder. I mean, I can't even go golden when I can talk about golden ballrooms every day and hella pads in Michigan. And, you know, I mean, it's, it's, it's, it's not. So before we go, where can people learn more about your campaign and any final message to our seven million subscribers? JocelynBenson.com is where you can get all the information about my campaign.

And I mean, to me, our campaign is about driving down cost for residents and making sure Michigan's governor works for the people while my opponent is in it for himself and his governor, he'll do exactly what he's done in Congress. Raise our bills, get rich and do whatever Donald Trump asks. And so I'm, as governor going to drive down costs, increase our wages and corruption, fight to ensure our democracy remains secure and make Michigan. I hope the best place in the nation to call home. And I ask it, hope for the support of Michigan voters so that we can do that together. Michigan Secretary of State, JocelynBenson. Thanks for that governor's seat, elections, about five, five and a half weeks away, 39 days. Looking forward to seeing more from your campaign and the home stretch. So thanks for joining us. Thanks for having me. Everybody hit subscribe. Let's get to seven million subscribers. 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

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