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contributor, Mark Thiessen, who joins us now. So obviously, a lot of people are feeling economic pain right now, but you've seen a drop in crime, you've seen a drop in inflation numbers, you've seen a border that has been closed, but that doesn't necessarily mean that people going to the polls feel all of that. No, that's exactly right. But I mean, think about this, think back to the '22 midterms. When Joe Biden, we had just had the Afghan withdrawal, the worst foreign policy debacle in our lifetime, we had the worst inflation in four decades, worst crime wave since the 1990s, the worst border crisis in American history, and he put in one of the best midterm performances of any president since JFK. So you know, those things, what matters really is candidate quality. And so if you think about the Senate, right, the Democrats need to gain a net of four Senate seats in order to take back the Senate and they have to hold on to Michigan, which is a blue seat, it's an open seat, but it's their seat, what do they do? They nominate an Islamic radical socialist who hates football in Michigan, right? They have to beat Susan Collins. So what do they do? They find Graham Plattner guy with a Nazi tattoo, and then they replace him with a guy who came in third in the gubernatorial race and has children with his cousin. So, you know, candidate quality matters a lot. Now, the bad news for Republicans is, if you look at the toss-up states, what are they? Alaska, Ohio, Iowa, you know, North Carolina, leaning down. So seats that used to be solidly red are in play this time around. Texas is a toss-up. That's insane. So a lot, it could go any way, any direction. Yeah, you know, I totally agree with you, candidates. That absolutely matters. And I see that. I think Vance's message is very good in that, you know, although as Charlie said, people are feeling the economic pain and I was just in the Midwest, spent a lot of time this summer in Wisconsin, and people are upset about the inflation. They also said their comments on the war were interesting. Their comments were wrap it up. I kept hearing that everywhere I went. He needs to wrap it up. So my question to you is, do you think it could wrap up before midterms? And what would that do to the midterms? Because as we pointed out here, everything else is going great. I'm a big advocate of wrapping it up and wrapping it up with a final hurrah that would really set this regime back a decade. Look, what Donald Trump did in Iran is one of the most important foreign policy decisions any American president has made in my lifetime. That regime has been at war with us for 47 years. He's the first president who fought back. But the problem is we stopped at the 20 yard line in April, right? We still had about 14 days of bombing that we had to do to take out their capabilities. And so what that means is it left them with the capability to hit Gulf oil infrastructure. It left them with the capability to hit American troops in the region. And what I'm really worried about is not just that the war is not wrapped up, but that there could be an October surprise in Iran. Yes, I read a column in the Washington Post about that, that the Iranians know the midterms are coming up. And they may want to affect the midterms by carrying it by raising the price of oil by attacking Gulf oil infrastructure right before the right before the midterm vote, causing some sort of chaos, forcing the president to go back to combat by killing some Americans right before the midterms. When what we should do, I think, honestly, is go back and just finish this thing, declare victory and end it and which we which we can do. What does that look like? What that looks like is finishing the last 14 days of the bombing campaign that was planned, hitting their economic infrastructure hard, taking out, you know, we've destroyed 85% of their defense industrial base, destroying 99% of it. They've got the plans on the table. Admiral Cooper has them. Execute that. And then you'd stop, you say, man, combat is over at the 20 yard line. Because I think he thought that we could get a deal. And he was it was suggested to him that a deal was possible. And President Trump always wants a deal rather than combat and we're and in killing people. And so that and that's an admirable quality about him. But we've and then what happened is we got into this cul-de-sac of negotiations followed by Iranian violations, followed by America having to retaliate, followed by more negotiations. And we've been stuck in this since April. And we could have this could have been done in April. I mean, the comp major to people who said midnight hammer. I thought we did it in midnight hammer. Why did we go in when we know that you talked earlier during the break, you said the threshold for pain in Iran is very high. Yes. But we kind of knew that before. Right. So midnight hammer was enormously important. Yeah. But what the audience were doing is they didn't they responded to midnight hammer not by saying, okay, this president's going to stop us from getting a nuclear weapon. They went on a barrage of building missiles, which what their plan was was to have a large enough missile capability that they could overwhelm any defenses that the U.S. had of its troops in the region or Israel had of its country. And then they could they'd have a shield by way behind which they could rebuild their nuclear program. And President Trump saw that and he had to stop them. I think I think just add to what you're talking about, which is so smart and so insightful is that we are looking at the administration unleashing an economic strangulation on Iran that has never before been seen. And the president mentioned that because it would cut off all energy transactions and financial dealings with all of the Gulf states. And that would be an economic impact that we would see certainly before the midterms. If that's coupled with an October surprise, does that settle this? So I think what the president is doing economically, it's been dubbed Operation Economic Fury, is one of the most effective military. So the Iranians are selling zero oil right now. And by the way, Admiral Cooper, the Ascent Comp, we've escorted 1,000 ships through the Strait of Hormuz. Not many people know that number. It's like 20 a day right now. We're sending about $10 billion of barrels of oil a day, a million barrels of oil a day. A thousand ships have gone through the Strait. The Iranians do not control the Strait of Hormuz. We control the Strait of Hormuz. So if you finish the military campaign and take that off the table, we're done. Open the strait, keep the blockade on. The Iranian regime will eventually collapse. But you can't predict if that escalates things. So that's a little bit, but we'll see what happens. I mean, I think people said wrap it up. So thanks for being here. Thank you.

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This is a great interview, by the way. I'm really enjoying watching this. I love that the president makes time to do these great chemistry. I'm just enjoying it. I love hearing from the president. I love that he makes the time to talk endlessly with the press and talk directly to the American people about this. And if you notice, the socialist candidates always come for law and order first, and that's by design. They have to get rid of police. They have to get rid of ICE. They have to get rid of the guardrails that keep society safe so that they can push through their agenda. And what we've seen is a lot of these socialist candidates, they're pretty slick talkers, right? We've seen the mom donnies. We've seen some of these socialist candidates. They're real slick, but you notice the stance that they all distance from when they're pressed on it is law and order. Anytime they have passed comments about defund the police, they try to score them away for those because they don't want to have to own that because they know how unpopular that is with the American people. The president also mentioned Michigan, you know? He won Michigan in 2024. Yeah, he said that. And he did that partly, I just wanted, because it's so important, historic win for him. He won it partly by winning Arab American Democrats. He flipped the endorsement of the Democrat mayor in Hamlet track, Michigan, America leave. We think Al Sayed is going to be, you know, our guy. President Trump has given Republicans the playbook on how to keep Michigan. It's interesting. We talk about this whole thing where there's crime and the Democrats are, I mean, the Democrats have become because they'd love to, you know, as part of the agenda to show how much they hate things, right? Oh, we low, though, it's Israel. We hate this. And they've a lot of hatred for a lot of things. But when you start breaking the law, they start to fall back in love again, and it's just kind of a weird dynamic. Well, it's not a winning message to defund the police. And yet they keep resurfacing this message. What did the DSA platform say? We want to defund the police, defund ICE, but they have to keep coming back. People want safe cities. President Trump has brought crime down to historic lows since like 1900. We're at 126 year low trace and people want this. So the socialist agenda is going to further detach them from the Democrat establishment. And the Democrat establishments are going to have to start saying, yes, we want ICE. Yes, we want police. Yeah. I'm wondering, Elizabeth Pipko, what you think about the trend here, the Democratic Socialist of America and the candidates being backed by the DSA like Al Sayed, I'm wondering what your take on this. You know, a lot of people say, oh, you was the Tea Party and they kind of they were a big thing and then they kind of fell apart and there's still parts of it still moving. What is your thought on the growing, I guess the growing popularity of the DSA? Well, look, I think they're going to continue to grow. I think we're going to see that tonight. We're going to see that next week with the primary in Wisconsin. And we're going to see it with the demise ultimately of the Democrat Party, which I think is exactly what they deserve. Considering Donald Trump warned about the socialist takeover back in 2015, long before he was ever elected to the Oval Office, he was laughed at. He was told he was wrong by several senior leaders in the Democrat Party. And like with many other things, Trace, he was proven to be 100 percent correct. But again, in our country, socialism, which is the easy way out, will always lose. There is a reason that to our capitalist society, thousands of people try to come every single year because they know that in our country, hard work and big ideas will always win a toy. Donald Trump was admired long before he was ever president and that's why socialism will always lose out to those who want to make the world a better place.

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Where do I even begin with this? So, let's start here. Nobody has done more to rebuild and save the Republican Party than Donald Trump since Abraham Lincoln himself. President Trump inherited a broken shell, a hollowed-out husk of a political party after the Bush years, after the Ryan years, after the sellout years, and he turned it into the working-class party, the middle-class party. And he took states that had been blue forever. He took the blue wall. He took states like Wisconsin, states like Ohio, states like Pennsylvania. He pulverized that blue wall. How many Senate races have we seen? Were President Trump won a state by eight points, nine points, 10 points, 11 points? And it was just enough to bring along the Republican senator by half a point or a point to build that Senate Republican majority. How many Senate candidates has he dragged along to victory? And how many rhinos has he forced out of the party to elect real, working-class, populist Republicans, people like, for example, Eric Schmidt, who represent the future of the Republican Party, where it is today? President Trump has raised more money for Republican candidates than any human in history. He has more enthusiasm and support from Republican voters than any candidate in history. I could keep going, Laura. The reality is, as he said, President Trump is dead on right here. What this comes down to is the Trump voter needs to show up in the midterm.

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