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Bombshell Developments in Michigan & Alaska—One Day until Election Day · The 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson

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  Speaker 1: Welcome. It is Verdict with Senator Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson
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  Speaker 1: with you. Senator, I tell you, I get excited. This
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  Speaker 1: is our last show before Election Day. I also get
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  Speaker 1: nervous because you and I have done midterms before and
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  Speaker 1: I had those same feelings that I had before the
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  Speaker 1: last midterm you and I did with this show. You've
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  Speaker 1: been barnstorming the country. We're going to cover it all.
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  Speaker 1: And there's been some late breaking news in some of
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  Speaker 1: these big Senate races as well.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it is the day before Election Day. Tomorrow is
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  Speaker 2: the midterm elections. If you have not voted, if you've
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  Speaker 2: about turnout all over the country. I believe this is
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  Speaker 2: the most consequential midterm election of our lifetime. The state
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  Speaker 2: of Texas where you and I both live, it is
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  Speaker 2: neck and neck. We could end up facing a disaster
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  Speaker 2: five other people to vote with you. Turnout, turnout, turnout
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  Speaker 2: is the entire ballgame. And we've got a couple of
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  Speaker 2: big bombshell developments. Number one in Michigan, massive news just
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  Speaker 2: broke in the Michigan Senate race. an enormously consequential race.
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  Speaker 2: We also had massive news break in the Alaska Senate race.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to cover it all on today's verdict.
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  Speaker 1: so let's get to the breaking news and talk about
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  Speaker 1: what has happened in this El-Said race. No one saw
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  Speaker 1: this coming, and it has rocked that Senate race.
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  Speaker 2: Well, the big news is that Haley Stevens, who ran
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  Speaker 2: in the Democrat primary against Abdul Al-Sayed, who almost won,
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  Speaker 2: it was neck and neck, she came out and endorsed
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  Speaker 2: Mike Rogers, the Republican. She said she could not in
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  Speaker 2: good conscience vote for Abdul Al-Sayed. This is a big,
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  Speaker 2: big deal. The Michigan Senate race is neck and neck.
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  Speaker 2: I believe the two most important Senate races in the
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  Speaker 2: country are Michigan and Texas. Both of those races, they
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  Speaker 2: have the two most radical Democrat nominees, Abdul Al-Sayed in Michigan,
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  Speaker 2: James Tallarico in Texas. Both of those races are dead heats.
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  Speaker 2: And to have Haley Stevens, she is a sitting Democrat
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  Speaker 2: member of Congress. She almost won the primary. And to
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  Speaker 2: have her come out, it was a demonstration of courage.
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  Speaker 2: It was a demonstration of principle. It was putting country first.
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  Speaker 2: before party. And I got to say, that is rare.
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  Speaker 2: You do not see that very often in politics. I
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  Speaker 2: am immensely grateful that Haley Stevens is willing to stand
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  Speaker 2: up for what she believes, even though, and she's already
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  Speaker 2: seeing it, she's paying a real price in terms of pushback,
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  Speaker 2: in terms of hate from Democrat Party leadership. They are
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  Speaker 2: furious with her for standing up and speaking the truth.
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  Speaker 2: But here I want.
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  Speaker 1: To remind people, remind people of that primary. It was
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  Speaker 1: an intense primary and it was one after it was over.
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  Speaker 1: She said, I'll go with the Democratic nominee. And so
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  Speaker 1: there was clearly a watching this primary, this general election,
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  Speaker 1: you know, kind of run its course. there was a
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  Speaker 1: point where she just said, I can't stand with him anymore.
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  Speaker 1: That is why I say this is incredibly brave, because
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  Speaker 1: it would have just been easy to just kind of
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  Speaker 1: look the other way and just, you know, let this
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  Speaker 1: happen and just stay out of it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So on primary night, Abdul El-Sayed got 743,455 votes. Haley
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  Speaker 2: Stevens got 727,758 votes. So it was fewer than 20,000
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  Speaker 2: votes separated them. The margin was 48.5% to 47.5%. So
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  Speaker 2: it was just one point difference. And look, she, well,
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  Speaker 2: I can shed some color because this drama actually played
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  Speaker 2: out over the course of several days. Beginning while I
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  Speaker 2: was in Michigan, campaigning with Mike Rogers. So I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to bring you guys inside of that. But I just
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  Speaker 2: want you to listen to Haley Stevens. This is the
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  Speaker 2: video she put out on Sunday explaining her decisions.
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  Speaker 4: Hey, Michigan. As you may have seen, our Democratic nominee
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  Speaker 4: for U.S. Senate, Abdul, said that I was no longer
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  Speaker 4: welcome in his campaign and that I should stay away.
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  Speaker 4: And he's right. And that's why I am endorsing Mike
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  Speaker 4: Rogers for the United States Senate today. I don't belong
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  Speaker 4: in Abdul's campaign. I do not stand with Hasan Piker,
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  Speaker 4: who gets trafficked on our college campuses. a dear friend
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  Speaker 4: of mine, uh, earlier today, uh, was saying that education
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  Speaker 4: is on the ballot and she's absolutely right. And what
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  Speaker 4: our students see, what our children see and who we
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  Speaker 4: are as Michiganders is not hate and is not, um,
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  Speaker 4: what we are getting out from our democratic nominee right now.
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  Speaker 4: So I am just one person. Uh, I love this state.
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  Speaker 4: As some of you know, I've, uh, run a campaign
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  Speaker 4: saying that it was a love letter to Michigan, and
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  Speaker 4: I'm here to declare who we are as Michiganders. This
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  Speaker 4: is Phil Hart's seat for the U.S.
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  Speaker 5: Senate.
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  Speaker 4: This is the conscience of the Senate right now and
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  Speaker 4: our Michigan moment. And I'm just letting you know where
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  Speaker 4: I am. I'm still a very proud Democrat. I still
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  Speaker 4: very much believe in everything I voted for and said,
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  Speaker 4: and I've worked really hard and we'll continue to do
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  Speaker 4: so in all the ways life's opportunities afford. Godspeed and
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  Speaker 4: love you all so much.
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  Speaker 1: I also want to be clear about this for people
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  Speaker 1: that haven't been paying attention. She's not like a moderate
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  Speaker 1: in any capacity, Senator. I mean, she was a liberal Democrat,
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  Speaker 1: and as she said, she's a proud Democrat, but she
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  Speaker 1: now made it clear why she's making this switch.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, look, that's exactly right. Uh, Last week, I
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  Speaker 2: was up in Michigan and barnstormed the state with Mike Rogers,
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  Speaker 2: and we had huge rallies. I'll tell you, the energy
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  Speaker 2: on the ground is really strong. It is really positive.
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  Speaker 2: And we ended the night with a long program discussing anti-Semitism,
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  Speaker 2: discussing hate, discussing Israel, discussing Abdul Al-Sayed's record. And Mike
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  Speaker 2: and I both participated. There were between 500 and 700
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  Speaker 2: people at the event, and it was a fireside conversation.
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  Speaker 2: But one of the people who came to the event
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  Speaker 2: was Haley Stevens' fiancé, a gentleman named Jason Turkish. So
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  Speaker 2: Haley is not Jewish. She is Christian. She's Protestant. Her
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  Speaker 2: fiancé is Jewish. And actually, on the day of the
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  Speaker 2: event that I was there with Mike Rogers, her fiancé
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  Speaker 2: decided to publicly endorse Mike Rogers. And he did so.
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  Speaker 2: And so at the event, I had a chance to
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  Speaker 2: visit with him and a very good conversation. And by
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  Speaker 2: the way, he's a Democrat, has been a Democrat donor.
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  Speaker 2: Like he remains a passionate Democrat. But Abdul Al-Sayed is
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  Speaker 2: so radical, he's so dangerous, he's so extreme that Jason
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  Speaker 2: said he wanted to stand up and speak the truth
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  Speaker 2: and take on this evil. He doesn't want to see
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  Speaker 2: his party corrupted and turned into an Islamist party, turned
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  Speaker 2: into a Jew-hating party And so he was at the event.
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  Speaker 2: I visited with him. He's a very impressive guy. And
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  Speaker 2: he was talking to a lot of reporters. So he
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  Speaker 2: was publicly saying, I'm with Mike Rogers now. Now, that
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  Speaker 2: naturally produced a whole lot of intrigue and a whole
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  Speaker 2: series of stories. Well, wait, if Haley Stevens' fiancée is
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  Speaker 2: with Mike Rogers, does that mean she is? That she is. Well,
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  Speaker 2: she put out a statement the next day and said, look,
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  Speaker 2: couples can disagree, and my fiancée and I disagree. And
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  Speaker 2: she said, I'm still supporting Abdul Al-Sayed, which is what
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  Speaker 2: she said she would do after the primary. But there
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  Speaker 2: was also this, there's been so much hatred and bigotry
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  Speaker 2: on the part of the Abdul Al-Sayed campaign. And in particular,
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  Speaker 2: there was this TV commercial that was run in Michigan
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  Speaker 2: that was run by Cenk Unger, who is the uncle
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  Speaker 2: of Hasan Piker. Piker, yep.
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  Speaker 1: And he's like one of the core radicals of like
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  Speaker 1: the YouTube world when that got started of the radical left.
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  Speaker 2: These are all Turkish. radicals who are Israel-hating, Jew-hating, and
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  Speaker 2: at least with Piker, I don't know Unger well enough
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  Speaker 2: to know, but at least with Piker are America-hating as well.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, remember, Hasan Piker's the guy who said, America
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  Speaker 2: deserved 9-11. Yes. Well, Cenk, by the way, I do
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  Speaker 2: think it is an amazing irony that Cenk used to
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  Speaker 2: be like This big Internet personality is now going to
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  Speaker 2: go down in history as Hassan Piker's uncle, which which
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  Speaker 2: is humorous. By the way, you know, you know him,
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  Speaker 2: don't you?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So Sink has dropped the F-bomb on me on national
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  Speaker 1: TV more than anyone else in the history of the world.
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  Speaker 1: That's like that's that's another claim to fame. He has
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  Speaker 1: literally screamed the F-bomb at me as I was defending Israel,
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  Speaker 1: calling him an anti-Semite on Piers Morgan's show. Lost his
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  Speaker 1: mind to the point where he had to come back
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  Speaker 1: on and show he wasn't actually crazy and then went
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  Speaker 1: crazy again. It was it was a great moment.
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  Speaker 2: But keep going. Well, he ran this ad that was
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  Speaker 2: one of the most vicious Jew-hating ads I've ever seen.
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  Speaker 2: It was a husband and wife in the line, the
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  Speaker 2: checkout counter at the grocery store, discussing how groceries are expensive.
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  Speaker 2: And look, that's a real issue in this election. People
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  Speaker 2: are feeling the effects of inflation. Four years of Biden,
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  Speaker 2: we had massive inflation. Prices are still too high. Gas
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  Speaker 2: prices are too high. Diesel prices are too high. Food
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  Speaker 2: prices are too high. But they're sitting there discussing it
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  Speaker 2: and saying the reason prices are too high is because
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  Speaker 2: we give military aid to Israel. And it's all about
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  Speaker 2: the Jews. It's the Jews that, and you literally have
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  Speaker 2: a husband and wife saying, we can't afford bananas. And
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  Speaker 2: they put the bananas back away because of the Jews,
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  Speaker 2: damn it. And I mean, it's a hateful ad. And
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  Speaker 2: so Haley, Abdul El-Sayed invited her to come to a
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  Speaker 2: moment of unity, Democrat unity on Sunday. with Jim Clyburn,
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  Speaker 2: the Democrat congressman from South Carolina. And she said she'd
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  Speaker 2: be happy to come. She said, yes. And she said publicly,
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  Speaker 2: I disagree with my fiance. I'm still supporting Abdul. But
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  Speaker 2: she said, I do need him to disavow this hateful
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  Speaker 2: ad that is just Jew baiting and is nasty. And
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  Speaker 2: you know what he said? He said, no, I won't
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  Speaker 2: do it. And listen, there's a reason he won't do it,
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  Speaker 2: because that's who Abdul Alsaid is. That's what he believes.
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  Speaker 2: And then it got nastier and nastier. Not only would
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  Speaker 2: he not disavow it, he said, I don't want you
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  Speaker 2: to come to the event. Stay away from the event.
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  Speaker 2: And so it was very publicly like, get the hell
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  Speaker 2: away from me. If you're not a full-on Muslim Brotherhood-loving radical,
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  Speaker 2: you have no place in my party. And then Sunday morning,
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  Speaker 2: Sunday morning the news broke that she had gone to church.
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  Speaker 2: Instead of going with Abdul Al-Sayed, she went with Mike Rogers.
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  Speaker 2: And she was just sitting in the pews with Mike
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  Speaker 2: Rogers at church. And that was like, everyone was like, wow,
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  Speaker 2: is this what it seems like it might be? And
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  Speaker 2: then afterwards, she put out the video and made the
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  Speaker 2: full-on endorsement. I'll tell you, Ben, when she did, I'm
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  Speaker 2: going to read you what I tweeted. I tweeted, extraordinary
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  Speaker 2: and massively consequential. Something very rare in politics. A true
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  Speaker 2: profile and courage from Haley Stevens. She is putting country
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  Speaker 2: before party and rightly acknowledging that Abdul El-Sayed is too radical, hateful,
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  Speaker 2: and dangerous to serve in the Senate. Bravo. It is
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  Speaker 2: a big, big deal, and it took real courage to
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  Speaker 2: do what she did.
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  Speaker 1: It took not only real courage, but also then the
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  Speaker 1: bigger question becomes, Could this be enough to disrupt or
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  Speaker 1: change the outcome of that election there? How big of
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  Speaker 1: a boost? You were on the ground there with Mike Rogers.
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  Speaker 1: So what was momentum like? How much of a significant
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  Speaker 1: impact do you think this could have on Election Day?
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  Speaker 2: Look, I think this could have a very real impact.
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  Speaker 2: I think this could ensure that Mike Rogers wins. I
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  Speaker 2: obviously hope that's the outcome.
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  Speaker 4: Really?
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  Speaker 1: So in other words, this is one of those big moments.
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  Speaker 1: If you were running a campaign of Rogers... And someone
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  Speaker 1: brought this to you as an idea, you would say,
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  Speaker 1: oh my gosh, that could be huge.
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  Speaker 3: It is.
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  Speaker 2: Look, the race is basically tied in Michigan. So if
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  Speaker 2: you think of different groups of voters, number one for
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  Speaker 2: Jewish voters, and there's a substantial Jewish population in Michigan,
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  Speaker 2: her saying Al-Said is too radical, too Jew-hating, too bigoted,
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  Speaker 2: too embracing of the Muslim Brotherhood for me to support,
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  Speaker 2: that really gives a permission structure To lifelong Democrats. So
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  Speaker 2: if you're a Jewish voter, if you're a moderate voter,
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  Speaker 2: if you are a female voter, if you're a Democrat voter,
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  Speaker 2: if you're just someone who cares a little bit about
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  Speaker 2: national security and doesn't like seeing a candidate who's spent
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  Speaker 2: decades supporting the Muslim Brotherhood. And by the way, if
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  Speaker 2: you go back to last week's podcast. In Michigan, I
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  Speaker 2: laid out the evidence systematically, objectively the evidence, demonstrating that
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  Speaker 2: Abdul Al-Sayed has been a vocal, passionate, and public supporter
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  Speaker 2: of the Muslim Brotherhood for decades. His own sister said,
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  Speaker 2: our family has long supported the Muslim Brotherhood. He's written
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  Speaker 2: op-eds in support of the Muslim Brotherhood. He supports them.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, I have to note, Ben, you know,
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  Speaker 2: the Sunday shows took my comments about, given his many
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  Speaker 2: decades of demonstrated objectively proven support for the muslim brotherhood
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  Speaker 2: he'd be a national security risk to have a security
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  Speaker 2: clearance and and margaret brennan instead was was fuming it's
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  Speaker 2: bigoted i saw.
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  Speaker 1: This live and i was cracking up laughing because i
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  Speaker 1: didn't know that was going to happen i was you
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  Speaker 1: know watching the shows i'm laughing and my kids like
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  Speaker 1: dad what's so funny i'm like watch this watch watch
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  Speaker 1: this it was so good keep going.
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  Speaker 2: So what's interesting, Ben, is I think Margaret Brennan saw
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  Speaker 2: what a ridiculous fool of herself Kristen Welker made on
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  Speaker 2: Meet the Press. And Margaret Brennan said, hold my beer.
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  Speaker 2: So she literally plays on the show My Conclusion, which is...
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  Speaker 2: granting Abdul Al-Sayed a security clearance would endanger American lives,
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  Speaker 2: but she includes zero of the facts, none of the
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  Speaker 2: facts as to why that is, because apparently the networks
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  Speaker 2: don't cover facts. They're not in the news business. I
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  Speaker 2: laid out a systematic, detailed explanation of the evidence, and
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  Speaker 2: she included zero, and instead she just asked Bernie Sanders,
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  Speaker 2: and Bernie Sanders started screaming, they're all bigots, they're all bigots!
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  Speaker 2: With no discussion of, look, you know, Al-Sayed's defense is
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  Speaker 2: the Constitution protects my right to pray. I agree, and
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  Speaker 2: I will defend his right to pray till my dying breath.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not talking about his praying. I'm talking about an ideology.
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  Speaker 2: There's a big difference between Islam and Islamism. Islamism is
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  Speaker 2: a political ideology that seeks to establish a caliphate to
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  Speaker 2: use the force of law to force people to obey
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  Speaker 2: Sharia law and to subjugate non-believers. That is the ideology
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  Speaker 2: that Abdul Al-Sayed has defended for decades. And the Muslim
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  Speaker 2: Brotherhood is a viciously terrorist organization that Abdul Al-Sayed has
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  Speaker 2: defended for decades, and the media refuses to cover it.
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  Speaker 2: I want to go now So after she made her endorsement,
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  Speaker 2: Haley Stevens did an interview, a TV interview, standing alongside
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  Speaker 2: Mike Rogers. So I want you to listen to Mike
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  Speaker 2: Rogers because I think he did a really good job
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  Speaker 2: accepting this endorsement, but also trying to bring people together
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: and say, listen, we're not about hate. We're not about
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: the vicious anti-Americanism, the vicious bigotry that the Abdul Al-Sayed
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: campaign has embraced. Instead, Michigan and America are bigger. Give
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: a listen to Mike Rogers.
• 19:12
  Speaker 5: To have Haley Stevens support today, I'm honored to have
• 19:15
  Speaker 5: earned that vote. When I got the call this morning,
• 19:19
  Speaker 5: obviously it's probably not the day we anticipated going forward today.
• 19:24
  Speaker 5: But when we decided this would be good to worship
• 19:27
  Speaker 5: together today, I'll just give you a little bit of
• 19:30
  Speaker 5: flavor about this. We talked about America, what was better
• 19:33
  Speaker 5: for Americans, what was better for the future of our
• 19:37
  Speaker 5: state by bringing people together. Martin Luther King said you
• 19:41
  Speaker 5: cannot solve darkness with darkness. You have to solve it
• 19:45
  Speaker 5: with light. You can't solve hate with hate. You have
• 19:48
  Speaker 5: to solve it with light.
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: Love.
• 19:51
  Speaker 5: And I talked to Haley about that love letter to
• 19:54
  Speaker 5: Michigan that she wrote that I thought was very, very good.
• 19:58
  Speaker 5: And candidly, I'm glad I'm not running against Haley Stevens today.
• 20:03
  Speaker 5: But what we decided is sometimes the hate grows so loud.
• 20:09
  Speaker 5: that it jeopardizes some of our citizens in this state.
• 20:13
  Speaker 5: When young Jewish women have to hide their Star of
• 20:15
  Speaker 5: Davids to walk across University of Michigan campus, we have
• 20:19
  Speaker 5: gone too far. When young men have to wear ball
• 20:21
  Speaker 5: caps over their yarmulkes because they are getting harassed for
• 20:26
  Speaker 5: being Jewish, we have gone too far. This is more
• 20:30
  Speaker 5: a statement about standing together against hate and the future
• 20:35
  Speaker 5: of this state and this country than it is anything else.
• 20:38
  Speaker 5: And I just want you to know, she reminded me
• 20:40
  Speaker 5: at the end of the call, remember, I'm still a Democrat.
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: I love, by the way, the end there. Look, she's
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: still a Democrat, but this is outside of just being
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: a Democrat. This is about something bigger than that. And
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: I got to say, as you described earlier, This is
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: a very brave move, but it could have major consequences
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: for her political future as well.
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: No, that's right. And listen, she has been a Democrat,
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: an elected Democrat for years. She is very much a,
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: you know, she believes in the policy positions of the
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: Democrat Party consistently. But she also is a person of principle.
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: And I think she's been horrified by the extremism, by
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: the hatred that Abdul El-Sayed has demonstrated. And, you know,
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: some people will dismiss it. People will assume, oh, she
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: must be Jewish. No, she's not Jewish. She's Christian. She's Christian.
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: She just actually rejects Islamism and does not want to
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: see Michigan or America give in to that extremism. And
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: the reaction was immediate and it was ferocious. Her party leaders,
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: like she paid a real price. I want you to
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: read what Chuck Schumer tweeted right after she put this out. Quote,
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: This is a despicable betrayal from Representative Stevens. Senate Democrats
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: are united in our support for Abdul El-Sayed because we
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: know he will fight for the economic interest of working
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: families in Michigan, unlike Mike Rogers, who is a tool
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: of Donald Trump and billionaire donors. And I got to say, look,
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: just when I think Schumer could not be more hollow,
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: more empty.
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: I retweeted that statement and here's what I said. Disgraceful.
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: Schumer and Pelosi care only about power. Nothing else matters. Tragic.
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: Haley Stevens showed remarkable character and courage and principle. She
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: put America before party. And Schumer and Pelosi's savage attacks
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: on her for doing so shows who they are And
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: what they value. And I'll tell you, when I visited
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: with her fiancé in Michigan, I shared with him a story.
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: I said, look, I understand I'm a Republican and normally
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: both parties stand with their nominee. That's what the two
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: parties do in a two-party system. And that's usually the case.
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: But there are times when the line goes too far.
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: We saw that earlier this year with Graham Platner in Michigan.
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: maine the self-avowed communist who had a nazi tattoo on
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: his chest a totenkopf the the nazi uh ss symbol
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: of the death camps of auschwitz and the other death
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: camps on his chest and the only democrat senator in
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: the country there's only one john fetterman was willing to
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: say that's too far every other senator chuck schumer was
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: like hey nazi tattoo on your on your chest goodbye
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: me good to go yeah um The same principle is true.
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: And what I shared with Haley Stevens' fiance is I said, listen,
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: a couple of cycles ago, you may remember when Republicans
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: nominated Roy Moore to the Senate in Alabama. Yeah. Now,
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: I had not supported Roy Moore in the primary. But
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: once he was the nominee, I was being a loyal
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: Republican and I endorsed him because he was our nominee.
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: And then after that, Incredible allegations came out that he
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: had sexually abused teenage girls.
• 24:18
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: And these allegations were all over the news and I
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: saw them. I didn't know what was true or not,
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: but I was concerned about it. And so what I
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: did is I picked up the phone and I called
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: him and I said, Roy, I've seen these allegations. I
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: want to hear your response. Tell me why these are wrong.
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: What am I missing? What's the truth? And I spent,
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: I don't know, probably 15, 20 minutes on the phone
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: with him. And his answer was completely unsatisfactory. He basically
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: had no answer that I found persuasive. And I said,
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: you know what? I'm done. And so I publicly withdrew
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: my support of him. And that had a consequence, which is,
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: and other Republicans subsequently did the same thing. But Roy
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: Moore lost. And Doug Jones, a Democrat, was elected from Alabama.
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: Alabama is about as red a state as we got.
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: And we ended up electing a Democrat from Alabama because
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: I decided some things are more important than just sticking
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: with your party. And I will say, I shared that
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: story with Haley Stevens' fiancé. I don't know if that
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: was helpful or not in making this decision. But not
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: only did... Schumer attacked her. Pelosi attacked her, too. And
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: there's some irony because just a few days ago, Pelosi
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: had said very much the same thing.
• 25:33
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 25:33
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• 25:38
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• 26:39
  Speaker 2: Give a listen to what Pelosi said just a few
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: days ago about Abdul El-Sayed.
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: You know, when you say Israel doesn't have the right
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: to be a Jewish state, that's anti-Semitic as far as
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: I'm concerned.
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: Who says that?
• 26:49
  Speaker 6: Who says that?
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: Mandami has said that.
• 26:55
  Speaker 6: I can't account for it.
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: Al-Sayed has said that. That he doesn't believe that they
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: should be a Jewish state. That's concerning.
• 27:06
  Speaker 6: No, it's more than concerning.
• 27:07
  Speaker 4: It's wrong.
• 27:09
  Speaker 6: And it isn't a reflection of the Democrats in the
• 27:12
  Speaker 6: Congress of the United States. This new person in Michigan,
• 27:16
  Speaker 6: we'll see if he gets elected to the Congress, but
• 27:18
  Speaker 6: the mayor... Bless his heart. I hope he succeeds as mayor,
• 27:22
  Speaker 6: but I don't agree with some of the things he said.
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: I don't agree with some of the things that he said.
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: At that point, I'm like, please tell me more about that.
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: That's what a normal follow up would have been, Senator.
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: Well, and look, that's her talking about Mondami, but she
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: also is pretty dismissive of El-Sayed. I don't agree with him.
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: We'll see if he gets elected now. the Democrat Party,
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: it is all about power. It turns out, look, there's
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: a reason she's retiring after 40 years. When the Democrat
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: Party has gotten too extreme for Nancy Pelosi, that tells
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: you something. She's leaving and she's saying, listen, these Islamists
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: and communists that have taken over my party, I don't
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: agree with them. And in fact, what she said is
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: what they're saying is evil. That was her quote that
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: we just played. Yeah. Now, At the end of the day,
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: power matters more. So as soon as Haley Stevens says
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: basically the same thing Nancy Pelosi said last week, I
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: want you to read Nancy Pelosi's tweet. Quote, Haley Stevens
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: has chosen to dangerously betray Michigan families' health care, freedoms,
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: and future with her horrific endorsement of Mike Rogers. Abdul
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: El-Sayed must win because Michigan and our country deserve better.
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: Dash NP, as in Nancy Pelosi. So never mind what
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: I said. It's evil. Last week it was evil. Yeah,
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: forget that.
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: It's just all evil, but it's fine.
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: Today, standing up to evil is quote-unquote horrific. And is
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: there any line, is there anything that Schumer believes, that
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: Pelosi believes, that any of the Democrat senators, other than
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: John Fetterman, it's silence, it is crickets, From Democrat senators
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: who are saying, this is too far. Cory Booker's pushed
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: back a little bit.
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: But the rest of the Democrat senators.
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: Besides Fetterman, it's been just, yeah, onward, forward, who cares?
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: They've gone into witness protection. And the degree of partisan
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: hate from fellow Democrats directed at Haley Stevens is... I'm
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: just going to say, I admire Haley Stevens. I have
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: not met her personally. I don't know her. I've never
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: met her, but what she did, I admire. It was brave.
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: It was courageous. It was at a cost. and it
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: made a difference. That is a big, big deal.
• 29:42
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: Last week, the New York Times broke a bombshell story.
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: The title of it is Inside Democrats' Secret Efforts to
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: Stack Alaska's Ballot. It continues. Operatives aligned with Mary Patola,
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: the Democratic nominee for Senate, spent months recruiting candidates to
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: peel votes from Senator Dan Sullivan, the Republican. Let me
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: read the beginning of this article. In the summer of 2025,
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: a staffer for Mary Patola, the Alaska Democrat who was
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: eyeing a run for Senate, received unusual instructions from top
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: campaign aides. Find as many people named Dan Sullivan in
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: Alaska as you can. The staffer complied, combing through voter
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: records to produce a list of Dan Sullivans from across
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: the state. This was no random request. Dan S. Sullivan
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: is the name of the state's Republican senator. And if
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: the Patola campaign or its allies could track down or
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: persuade another Dan Sullivan to run for Senate, the confusion
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: could cost the senator crucial votes on the state's unusual
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: four-person ballot. The plan worked. This spring, a retired teacher
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: from a tiny fishing village along the Alaska Panhandle, reachable
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: only by air and sea, announced his candidacy for Senate.
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: His name was Dan J. Sullivan. The Patola campaign has
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: repeatedly denied any involvement in his candidacy, but the Times
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: has found, based on interviews and text messages, along with
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: documents prepared for a potential lawsuit against the campaign, that
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: not only did Ms. Patola's team work with the people
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: trying to recruit Mr. Sullivan to run for Senate, but
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: the effort was much broader. The group worked to coax
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: another would-be spoiler into the race to dilute the incumbent's
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: support and help catapult the Democrat to victory. The endeavor,
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: which was internally called the Ballot Composition Project, involved secret
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: trips to far-flung Alaskan communities and the appearance of a
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: mysterious Midwestern operative who traversed the state using a fake
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: name and made his pitch to would-be candidates over beers
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: at brewpubs. It also involves the Patola campaign's lawyers, as
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: well as senior aides at the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee,
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: which directs the party's campaign strategy and Senate races across
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: the country. From Washington to Anchorage, those advisors participated in
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: regular conversations about the effort and even considered forming a
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: new political party to draw conservatives into the ballot. This story,
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: so look, it was obvious. Fake Dan Sullivan is fake.
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: He's a Democrat. He has actually been a donor to
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: Mary Patola, the Democrat. He's given twice to Mary Patola.
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: His daughter is a staffer for a Democrat congresswoman from
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: Washington state. And he is on the ballot for one
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: reason and one reason only, which is to deceive Alaska voters.
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: And they're counting on that someone goes in and they say, hey,
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: Dan Sullivan's a good senator. I like Dan Sullivan. I
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: want to reelect Dan Sullivan. And they vote and they
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: get confused and they vote for the wrong Dan Sullivan.
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: And all they need to pick away is one, two, three,
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: four percent of the vote, just a tiny little bit.
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: And that could easily be enough to swing the outcome. Now, understand,
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: this was obvious from the beginning, by the way. Do
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: you know who wrote the press release for fake Dan Sullivan?
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: This is the best part of the story. As they
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: try to deny that they were ever involved.
• 33:18
  Speaker 6: Go ahead.
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: The political consultant for Mary Patola. But the consultant's not
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: very good because they left the metadata on there showing
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: that it was Patola's consultant who wrote the press release.
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: That being said, Mary Patola said over and over again,
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: I didn't do it. I knew nothing about it. We
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: had nothing to do about it. We're not the ones
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: lying to the voters. We're not the ones trying to
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: rig democracy and rig an election. It's not us. Chuck
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: Schumer said, no, no, no, it's not me. We're not
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: the ones doing this. And they were called out, not
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: by Republicans, not by conservatives, but by that rabid right-wing publication,
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: The New York Times. And the facts are clear. This
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: is in writing. These are in texts. And it goes back.
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: It's actually the same point as Schumer and Pelosi's reactions
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: to Haley Stevens, which is today's Democrat Party has one
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: value above all else, power. And it doesn't matter. Nothing
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: else matters. If someone is an open communist, goodbye them.
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: If someone has a Nazi tattoo on their chest, goodbye
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: Schumer and Pelosi. If someone is an Islamist who spent
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: decades supporting the Muslim Brotherhoods, goodbye them. And if there
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: is a scheme... to subvert democracy and literally to steal
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: votes from voters in Alaska and cause the result to
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: be the opposite of what the voters want. This is
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: not count every vote. This is steal some votes so
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: that the person who would otherwise get second might get first.
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: It's a bombshell and it really does show it. It's sad.
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: It's despicable. And they were caught red-handed.
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they really were. And remember, going into Election Day,
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: don't forget we'll be back with you, I promise, with
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: a recap of everything that happens on Election Day. Go vote,
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: go vote, go vote. Do not forget to vote. I
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: will say it again, over and over again, go vote.
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: And one thing, and one thing, and one thing, go vote.
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: Go vote, go vote, go vote, and bring somebody else.
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: Turnout matters, especially if you're in Texas. Please, save Texas,
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: save America. Come out and vote tomorrow.
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: Amen to that. Don't forget, we will be back with you,
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: I promise, with a recap after Election Day as well.
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: And the Senator and I will see you then. God
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: bless America. Go vote.