And I really think it's an issue that is the wedge issue of the campaign.

Listen, I think he would be... possibly the best governor Wisconsin has had.

I'm throwing Scott Walker in that.

He'd be a close second if he can get this.

And I think he is pulling it out.

He does seem like the same one in the room.

And I think A lot of Republicans around the country do seem like the same ones in the room.

This is bread and butter stuff for the Democrats.

Jim, when you started watching some of these soundbites, I don't know if you watched this town hall or not, but when you start to see the highl- I almost fell out of my chair as I'm listening to Talarico

Oh, listen, what you just did is a very similar thing to, like, two or three commercials that Ken Paxton needs to make to show the lie.

James Talarico's been a liar all the time, and by the way, I don't know if he, for sure if he was in the mental institution.

Um, I, I, I, I had a conversation with Nick Sorter on this.

They feel like they got good information, but whatever that actually is, we know from his statements all the way through his two-week disappearance that he was lying.

But think about this for a second.

He was floundering and has been floundering more in recent days, and here's CNN.

All the leftists are still gonna vote for him, and he might pick up some of these idiots in the center

You said, "I reject this offer, effort." Why?

Ab- absolutely.

Because, well, because listen, w- we can argue about whether the war should've happened.

Certainly there's a political argument maybe against it in terms of you're going into a midterm election.

That actually is maybe a little bit more of a courageous substance in Donald Trump than brash, uh, you know, warmongering.

You, I think you and I agree, this has not been a warmongering war.

He's actually, he's followed the law.

Explain that.

Have you sensed that as well? Are we starting to build some momentum here for the final weeks?

Oh, I would say so, yeah.

I think, uh, I think I'm seeing ...

I mean, it's not, like, major, but what I'm noticing is that, uh, it is shifting a bit more for Republicans right now.

Um, and, and whatever momentum that Democrats were starting to see coming up to this point has been waning a little bit.

And, and there are a couple big reasons for that.

One, a- at the end of the day, people don't start deciding what they want to do in elections until they get closer to that time when they have to vote.

Is that really true, and is the DSA movement the future of the Democrat Party, do you think?

Mm-hmm.

But he is an expert on the history of Islam.

He has made what I think is a very valid case about the fact that the history of Islam is about overthrowing, initially overthrowing Christendom.

And I, I think we need to use that, I think he encourages it, and I, I think I agree with him.

We need to use the word, the word Christendom, w- uh, as opposed to the Christian West or the West.

The West, as it has developed and, and led ultimately to liberty and freedom, uh, in various countries, particularly American liberty and freedom under the Constitution, that was the last bastion of Christendom, the last one-third of Christendom that was not violently, uh, taking over the rest of the c- the Christian world, which was, y- from, uh, Anatolia and what is present-day Turkey and Asian Minor, all the way around past Jerusalem and Israel over through Northern Africa.

That was all solidly Christian countries for centuries prior to, uh, the emergence of Islam, which then subsequently, after the Battle of Yarmuk in, I think, 635, in the 7th century, um, uh, began to overthrow all those regions, all the way across Northern Africa and all the way up through Syria, and eventually, uh, some centuries after that, I think a- in the, in the, uh, uh, 12th century, when Constantinople was finally overtaken.

Um, but that could be pretty good news for prices going into the midterms as well.

But what the American people see is they see a Congress that's not working in the final days before an election to get forward the Trump agenda, the America first agenda, which largely has not been put forward.

And listen, for all whatever negative someone has about Donald Trump, the agenda that was there, there's there's certainly some things he could clearly have done better.

There's no doubt about it.

But the real problem with that agenda that Americans wanted so overwhelmingly in 2024 is Congress.

As I've said over and over again, the weak part of the Trump agenda is Republicans in Congress.

That has been the real problem here.

No focus there.

And

... you know, they're tr- they're, they try to be accurate if they can.

Yeah, you know, they have their inaccuracies too, but that said, listen, it, it, it...

There is alwa- there has always been a sense in my mind since the advent of Trump, and particularly the second time around here in 2024 and on, young people do get that maybe Donald Trump wants to, or at least this is what they thought in 2024, Donald Trump maybe wants to protect the future of the country.

There have been some things that Donald Trump has done that young people should be excited about, although they may not be spending much of their time thinking about.

But the other thing is that, um, uh, there really is something odd in the polling, in my opinion, not so much because all of them are so wrong, but because they're so inconsistent.

I look at district after district after district, and things are flying five, seven, eight points between results in the polls, and I think, I think there's still the pollsters are trying to figure out, how do we make sure that we have the turnout model right? They all have to adjust for turnout model.

I've done, I've even done private polls for things that we've done, and you'll get, you know, 60% of Republicans answering or, and, and maybe 30% of Democrats or vice versa, and that you have to adjust for that because that's obviously not how it's gonna turn out.

Nobody cares about her

... as far as I'm concerned with all that.

Well, I'm, I, I'm feeling pretty confident that the Senate stays in Republican hands.

It's harder to read, uh, what's going on in the House.

I mean, obviously, if you put a gun to my head and I had to put money on it, um, I'd, I'd say Democrats would, uh, take control of the House.

But, h- honestly, I'm seeing the tide rising slowly up for Republicans to be able to keep the House, and I do not think it's out of the question at all.

And, and by the way, I just saw some libertarian guy that has, uh, been going back and forth with me as I've put out some, uh, hu- contents on X recently saying, "You know, libertarians, I mean, if you're for limited government, stop supporting Democrats and stop being all hepped up about, you know, drugs and prostitution and porn and all this kind of stuff." And, um, he laid out a poll that said that the generic ballot has Dem- uh, Republicans 15 down from Democrats.

And, and the thing is, that's not even a true poll.

Okay

I

looked this up related to Michigan school funding for primary education, K through 12.

The total public school funding is about $21,300 per child.

Now, let me put some perspective on this.

I had the fortune of going to an elite private boarding school in Tennessee called the Webb School in Bellbuckle, Tennessee.

Today, to go to that school, you have to pay nearly $28,000 a year.

Now, there is no way that Michigan public schools can go from $21,300 for their crappy education, add $7,000 a year, and get to where that private boarding school is.

And you can't do business.

Where do we go from here with this?

Well, listen, I was reading through the agreement that they all signed.

By the way, nothing's perfect.

You still have Dario Amadei and Sam Altman, frankly, still want regulatory capture.

They're just they're playing the game right now because effectively, I mean, listen, everyone should listen to the all in podcast from time to time.

David Sachs, who was standing right there and was probably a main driver in putting this together, has made an effective case about we do not need any massive regulation on this.

Listen, the only purpose for regulation is to validate through the law that Companies will be responsible to not create, as J.D. Vance rightly said, Frankensteins.

What say Jim Fath?

How are you doing today? Good.

I went off on a big two-hour rant last night against libertarians that are attacking conservatives and seem intent, including my former boss, Thomas Massey, to get Democrats elected just to stick it to the man so that we can destroy our country.

It's just an absolute... absurdity while Donald Trump is getting Libertarian wins all over the place.

And interestingly, my friend, Austin Peterson, who ran for the Libertarian Party presidential nomination the year Gary Johnson got it and actually did pretty well, uh, in, in his attempt to do that.

I mean, he, he even made a list of, I think it was like 25 libertarian wins.

And the reason I'm talking about a lot of people that listen to us wouldn't count themselves as libertarian.

And I get that.

So I think we're going to be hearing more and more about Cuba in the coming months as things develop there.

Am I missing something?

No, not in the least.

In fact, we had a major media booth at the GOP midterm convention.

I was being asked this quite a bit and asking, talking to people about it.

Listen, Donald Trump did lay out so much of that messaging.

And my point is that all that Republicans had to do then and have to do now is just carry the Trump message and make sure everyone knows I'm going to fulfill the Trump agenda.

But something has to be done about the media just being able to lie to the American people.

Well, the thing to do is for us as a people to reject the lies.

And frankly, we're doing that in increasing numbers because the truth has come out.

I did not, as you know, I did not support on the facts, the kicking out of CNN and MSNOW and them.

But as I also said, I think Donald Trump knew that that would not pass even constitutional muster.

And he did it as a way to highlight, again, for people to understand.

that the fake news media is fake.

And she says that she would have had to do this if she wouldn't have left the country and come to America to get healthcare.

So it looks like President Xi is going to get a little bit of an education while he's here in America, Jim.

Donald Trump was taken to the private palace gardens in Beijing when he went a few months ago.

And Donald Trump, how perfectly he had B-2 bombers flying over yesterday.

at Andrews, and now he's going to be taking him to the two key documents that are the only documents ever created in human history, imperfect though they may be, are the most perfect, worst documents for forming a government ever created by a man.

It obviously does not rise to the level of Holy Scripture, but certainly does rise to a level that, frankly, if the message is taken, shames the communist system.

And this is one of the things I love about Donald Trump.

He does understand what America is about.

Allah was allowed to do, was revealed.

They're trying to take our tools.

And the second part of it, no doubt about it, the second part of it, she is being honest.

In the first part of it, she's being stupid.

There is no American citizen being taken off the voter rolls.

I just think of all the videos that I've seen where people are talking to black folks on the street and saying, hey, is it hard to get a driver's license? Well, no, I have one, but you don't need...

people in the Black community that you're aware of that have a problem getting a job? Well, no, I don't know of anybody like that.

Like, there are no Americans being taken off the rolls.

Well, again,

Why does a false citizenship claim turn up in a firearms case and a voting case at the same time? Time, anything to look into there?

Well, it's a combination of ineptitude confusing or unclear laws and rules, and real fraud being perpetrated by government actors, either bureaucrats or elected officials.

It's one of those three things, sometimes a combination of all those things.

That's really what we're looking at here.

And listen, what we do in the administrative aspects of our government clearly you're going to get human errors.

We all understand that.

The problem is that when you have stated principles, particularly amongst Democrats, by the way, some Republicans too.

Now, are these numbers even worth following anymore? And are they realistic or relevant as we enter this final stretch of the 2026 elections? Well,

The only

reason the Democrat Party in that county is disavowing her is for political reasons.

It is not because of moral reasons.

Let me explain why.

I do not claim that every Democrat is as violent as this woman is.

And let's be very clear.

She's pretty violent.

It's child abuse, Jim.

Those are tough ones.

Well, so in Alaska, even with the Dan Sullivan versus Dan Sullivan thing, which is really the reason that it's a close poll, I think people are going to figure out who's who, and I think he's going to be okay.

Okay.

Sherrod Brown's a different issue in Ohio.

Husted is not.

flashy uh you know kind of one-on-one-ish kind of person he's a good guy but he's not a one-on-one kind of person where sherrod brown really is that way he's a radical leftist but but he's a good campaigner and he's always proven himself good he does have a chink in his armor losing last time and hopefully that'll hold but that's one to look at by the way there's a sleeper though that no one's talking about which is kansas Roger Marshall is in danger when you look at the current polls.

Why do you

say that?

Obviously, Americans don't like to see their harder money getting stolen.

Yeah, and you need to add to that a very clear message of saying that Democrats create chaos in the way that they implement their policies.

You look at major cities around the country.

One of the great effects of the Trump administration is a massive reduction in crime, 70% reduction in murder around the country.

Like this is a really huge issue.

And if Republicans can make it very clear that actually we're the adults in the room.

You don't do it just by asserting that.

yeah yeah it's not a joke um this also plays into the midterms as we've talked about that the uh motivation here by canada may be to hurt president trump and the republicans going into the midterms as well correct

And hopefully the economic tolls will start start hitting Iran very soon.

Not only that, we need to get out, message out, how much oil is getting through the Strait, how much oil is coming out across the Strait through UAE on the other side of the Hormuz, and they are beginning to move some oil down through that way, and then also what Saudi Arabia is sending in through the Red Sea.

Those numbers are starting to come out a little bit, but that needs to be discussed firmly.

But here's the deal.

we're gonna have to get past kinetic action against Durand.

We're gonna have to move to some type of resolution.

Whether or not we remain in the posture that we're in, we're gonna have to get to where And a discussion on the economy is happening.

Why put them in huge trucks to go kill people, Jim?

I mean, what in the world?

Yeah.

L- everything that Democrats do, everything that anyone on the left does- Is chaos.

It's for the purpose of chaos.

Because w- they...

L- l- just take a look at, at how this has played out.

The homeless problem was not horrible, but it was starting to get a little bit bad about 16 or so years ago in California.

So I guess they're gonna see how the economic pressure turns out before they, uh, resume striking, Jim.

Jim, your thoughts.

Yeah, I lived in low country there in Charleston for a while, um, and so I know the state pretty well.

And, and the difference in the regions is that the low country, which is, uh, defined as Charleston down to Hilton Head and roughly up to Myrtle Beach from there, um, that, that's more your establishment Republican area.

In fact, it's kind of interesting, uh, Nancy Mace, uh, having that first district in the Charleston area.

She's, she's been pretty much a conservative rock star, but she's had to have a balance with the, uh, the folks, uh, uh, as we would always describe them, on the Battery that, um, are just, um, you know, they're just establishment RINOs where when they are Republicans.

There's a lot of Democrats down there on the Battery in Charleston as well.

Uh, North Charleston kind of goes both ways.

How do we do it?

Do you want to play a little bit of this clip, Jim?

No, there's a lot there.

I mean, people should go to my X profile to listen to it.

There's a lot to that.

Let me just summarize it because it's kind of long.

What's happening here? Canada has done a few things.

First of all, they keep pushing hard to expand trade with China.

threats on the culture.

What do you think of what Chad Connelly was just saying, saying there about kind of the wishy-washiness we sometimes see from, from many Republicans who are too moderate in, in what I was saying?

Well, listen, there, there is a very real battle taking place.

I mean, you played that Chris Van Hollen clip, and one of the things that I've observed, having spent so much time on Capitol Hill and in and around politics over the last 30 years, is you, you find out that, to be candid, there's a lot of hope for this election in the future in that the, the Democrats that are in there now feel like they have to embrace these DSA candidates because if they didn't, everything's gonna fall apart and they're gonna lose.

I mean, that's what they know.

They ...

And some of them don't want to do that, but they're doing it anyway.

But at fundamentally, though, what the DSA is promoting, most of it are the types of things that Democrats have been promoting for some time now.

The government created these problems, and now the way to solve them is not more government and more government spending and more regulations and government grocery stores and price fixes and taxes on the, the rich, like what we're seeing from the Democratic socialists, but it is less government and allow the free markets to actually work.

well going back to their signature move the misinformation they love using miss the word misinformation just about anything that contradicts them um but there you go it's being sent to governor

yeah just reminder everyone Free speech is designed specifically to protect misinformation, disinformation, and malinformation.

Why? Not because any of it's any good.

Lies are lies.

Or someone that hasn't done their research fully and gave every bit of accurate information...

That's not necessarily good, but it's also not necessarily evil.

The reason we have free speech is not to protect speech people like, but to protect speech generally that people don't like so that there can be a free interchange of ideas and people can find out the truth because there's no human being who's got all the truth.

Yeah,