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They never stop. But I'm only going to play a couple clips because there's a moment I want to stop because it makes the point. Here we go. Would you advise someone, even if they're very angry, even if they don't like the laws, to insert themselves into the middle of an active law enforcement situation? If they see something wrong, absolutely. You would advise a person or a client of yours to literally engage in the middle of an active law enforcement matter? If they see something wrong, I would say yes. I would say definitely... That's a crime. I would say... I already wanted to try to be with him. I would say, you're advising people to commit crime. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. Wow. It's like walking into a pet adoption center with nothing but baby Chihuahua's. Oh my gosh. All right, this is really interesting as it comes from Mark Mitchell from Raspice reports, the Republican pollster. What? Didn't he meet with Trump? He met with Trump in December or November? Yeah, I was, I think it was in November. Yeah. And we're saying you got to get this. You've got to focus. Right. Yeah. And he yesterday, this is in the New York Post. And Trump may have lost the political plot, but here's how he can still win the midterms. And a lot of it mirrors exactly what we have said. Donald Trump did not win the 2024 election because America suddenly became meaningful, meaningfully more Republican. He won because many voters, many of them independence and crossover Democrats, many of them young had lost trust in the system and believed he was willing to confront it. I'm the head pollster for Raspice reports in our final 2024 polling, 42% of Trump's electorate came from independence and Democrats. This is not a mega mono culture. It is a fragile coalition built on one thing, accountability. Voters did not elect Trump to manage decline. They elected him to fix things that were not working. That's why doge mattered. For a brief moment, it validated with Americans, particularly younger voters already believe that the federal government has bloated corrupt, self-dealing and largely insulated from consequences under 40 voters. The most dissolution cohort by many measures were the most supportive of doge and most open to arrest for corruption and most likely to agree with the statement that he who saves the country violates no laws. Trump's approval among voters under 40 hit 60% almost exactly when Google search interest in doge peaked that alignment should have frozen Republican politics in Washington and placed instead doge was quietly sideline. And Trump's approval among younger voters has since fallen sharply into the low 40s. That is not a coincidence. It is a signal rather than doubling down on systemic accountability. The last few months have felt unfocused with counter signaling on affordability and jobs in fighting the Epstein saga renewed foreign entanglements and a governing posture that feels reactive rather than intentional voters are noticing. Despite Trump's unsurprising, a personal approval rating today net minus seven, the by the way his approval rating and raspison hit was tied for the low yesterday at 43%. The Democrat lead on the generic battle has steadily widened to Democrats plus six. That should set off alarms. The November 2024 election was about Trump not Republican and off cycle special elections continue to reinforce that reality momentum enthusiasm and tune turnout are not automatic for Republicans. The Republican party has not helped its legislative output is thin its ability to deliver tangible wins is questionable, even the bare minimum serious accountability investigations has largely failed to materialize. There is no clear path to a 2026 victory. If this continues, which is why what happened in Minnesota mattered so much the discovery of rampant alleged fraud in Minnesota was a gift. It offered a rare opportunity to shift the national conversation away from Republican dysfunction and towards something Americans overwhelmingly agree on three quarters of the voters are angry about the level of waste, fraud and abuse in the federal government. Treasury Secretary Scott Besson has cited figures as high as 300 billion to 600 billion annually. That is not budget trimming. That is empire fatal. This was the moment for a full scale anti blue state fraud push follow the money, subpoena everything, make examples, send every agency in even the 80,000 armed IRS agents we should have fired. If fraud is that widespread, maybe austerity is not the answer, maybe arrest our instead the focus of the administration shifted. Ice was surged into Minneapolis. What could have been a systemic fraud investigation became a performative deportation spectacle, predictable protest followed, then escalation, more ice presence, mask, tear gas, aggressive enforcement within days, the headlines were no longer about uncovering fraud. There were about clashes, optics and ultimately the tragic shooting deaths of true, true, true, excuse me, two protesters. The ice red meat might be cathartic for some, but politically effective. No. Our polling has been consistent for years on this point. Americans want illegal immigration stopped. That is not a dispute. They want criminals deported. They want the border enforced, but they also want fairness, not brutality and they recoil when enforcement looks indiscriminate, theatrical or excessive. A plurality of Americans now say ice tactics are too harsh, even while still supporting deportation, in principle, that tension is not ideological. It is emotional. We've covered all that. Evan, we. Yep. The Trump made matters worse by signaling unnarrowing of deportations to only the worst criminals, while simultaneously negotiating with Tim Walls, who reportedly has an active criminal referral at the Department of Justice. To many in Trump's coalition, this likely feels like a rug pull as my barrage of private ex-messages imply a betrayal of expectations, something uncomfortably close to read my lips. Here's what should worry the White House most voters trust big business almost as little as they trust the federal government itself. By a five to one margin voters say businesses have too much influence in the Trump administration, not too little. That Betwekisino Kelly Brook is our casino ambassador, and for all new customers, state 20 pounds and get 150 free spins. Download the Betwekisino app today! 18 plus season C's apply, bet the responsible way, gambleaware.org. Emers yourself in herbal essences new Moroccan-Argon oil elixir, infused with pure argon oil, just one drop. 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For this week, we brought that up. Yeah. Likewise, federal e-verify mandate is ridiculously popular. Why have the Republicans been unable to pluck this low hanging fruit? Is it donor pressure? Fear of the markets is Trump, the Tribune of the forgotten voter being restrained by corporate interest from the outside and increasingly looks that way. There is a clean path forward. Keep Doge front and center, launch relentless investigations into blue state hubs, hammer corporate law breaking and worker exploitation, restore trust through accountability. Instead, the administration chose the atrix over results and is paying the price politically. This can still be fixed, but only if Trump remembers why he was elected, not to manage the system, not to appease donors, not to chase viral moments, make the system fear consequences again. Americans are not asking for chaos. They're asking for justice and they're still waiting. Mark Mitchell. He also underestimated the, he mentioned it affordability. I think he underestimated that in this right here, in this article. He mentioned affordability, but he didn't focus it as much as he did other things, which I do believe had an impact without question. The Republicans, like I said, when it came to the fraud and everything else snatched, snatched defeat from the jaws of victory. Is that so? I don't know. Exactly. Yeah. Yeah. And that's the problem. You know, again, we're, and I don't know what has changed here in the last week. I don't know what's happened. That. Well, that affects. But there is something either a set of events or a set of meetings, a group of people, or maybe just one person. I don't know. Suzy Wiles. I don't know. Could be Mark Mitchell talking to him again. Mark Mitchell and Suzy Wiles sitting down. I mean, if Mark is there, Suzy's making that happen. But you have to look at what's going on. This president, this particular president as a person has always been known as the guy who is, yeah, he's a billionaire. But he gets along better with the common person, the guys wearing the construction hats. Then the people in the boardrooms. Part of that as president is knowing what's going on in their lives. Remember, he's a former McDonald's worker. The reason that didn't come off badly for him is because of the way that he was talking to people during that, you know, it was, it was a photo op. But sometimes those photo op's can go very wrong. Do caucus wearing a helmet? And there are things that you have to go way back for that. That's 1988, folks. There are things that you just, I mean, it's just that have to be in place and you have to know you don't have to be the common person. Again, he's probably one of very few billionaires who can get the attention and also relate to the everyday person. But on some of these issues, he hasn't done that. Well, when I heard, home in yesterday's speak, I went, well, that was actually should be Trump's message, which it is because he's, yeah, surrogate of Trump. But when I heard what he said, that should have been Trump's message all the time. And you and I talked about it here in the last week when it was like, well, we're only going to go after the worst criminals. That isn't the message. Your base, again, you're reacting instead of being proactive. You're reacting and then ticking off your own base. And on Doge, as we said, and even the Doge checks, the tariff checks and everything else, don't over promise. But still Mark Mitchell, even though he brings up affordability, I just, you know, I don't know what affordability is huge. And Mark Mitchell knows it. Yeah. And he seems to sideline that as a big issue. Right. Because you can accomplish all those things that Mark Mitchell's talking about and still lose big time in November because of affordability. Because you said you were going to fix it. Right. Well, he said, he said, and prices come down day one. Yeah. And they didn't. And as we're, as we have said, the whole reason maga means nothing anymore is because maga didn't elect the president. Independence and Democrats did. Well, that's how that's how he won. And they had specific things that they wanted. You lose them. You can have all of maga and get destroyed in an election. Yeah. Of course with you, but that it wasn't the core that put you over the tide. And Mitchell said what we have said over and over again for any Republican, what you need to do is you need to take conservative principles and convince independence to vote for you, which he did and then follow through on it. Don't over promise. Tell them the truth. Again, when he said prices will come down day one, we said it when he said it a number of times, we said, that's not happening. You promise that don't do it with the whole dose thing. The problem with those is you way over promised way over to the point where we know it was right. And we got pounded on it, but members of our own audience and we said, you, there is, you're not going to cut $2 trillion. You're not going to cut $100 trillion. You're lucky if you could cut 50 billion and you're not going to write doge checks to people. No, it's not going to happen. I said, but it's not because we're smart. Well, sort of, we, we understand the figures and what the budget is. It's that simple, right? And you cannot cut a trillion or two trillion and win an election for the next decade if you do that. Right. I mean, complete programs would go away. And now, by the way, we would love to see what happened. If you could make it happen, I will have a parade to celebrate how wrong I was, but it's not going to happen. And I'm not wrong. And bringing doge back today, I don't see that as a elective. That's, I just, that's not, yeah, that's, that's not going to do anything. 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You need your party for the second half of your term, Mr. President. Well, you need the independence too. Yep. More than your party. You're missing to Red Eye Radio from the UNIDAN America Studios. We are ready. He's our crony and I'm hearing McNamara. All right. Let's play some of our favorite audio of yesterday. Okay. All right. This 11 month soul was after last year's Oscars, but it was on stolen land that, you know, the Hollywood celebrities keep mentioning. And this was Bill Marr last year after the Oscars talking about it. You ready? Here we go. All right. And finally, we're all memo to Democrats. If you ever want to win an election again, the absolute most important first step is stop doing this. We gather in celebration of the Oscars on the ancestral lands of the Tongva, Tatavium and Chumash peoples, the traditional caretakers of this water and land. Yeah, I don't know. We're still saying cringe. I mean, it's like, but if we are, that's this. That is before I'll say it again. Either give the land back or shut the **** up. That's pretty much it. Haven't heard anything about her giving it back. I know that guessing she's not going to do that. They were reported from Great Britain. That went that went viral yesterday that we played that audio cut yesterday. We're standing outside our house. Billy, Billy. Hello, Billy. Yeah. You got walls up keeping people out. Yep. You've got a security fence and huge shrubbery out here. Yeah. We can't get in. Well, you know, they're often the ones on the left talking about, you know, guns. We must control guns while they have, of course, our, our security themselves. Then this story came out Bernie Sanders who crisscrossed the country last year on his fighting oligarchy tour with AOC spent $550,000 on private jet travel for himself using his campaign funds. There you go. Does he truly believe in climate change? No. Otherwise, he wouldn't have done that. He would have made it a, a electric bus tour. Well, it's like the first climate czar, John Kerry. Well, someone like me can't be expected to fly commercial. Lovey. A bunch of catch up eaters on a plane. You. I'm Mr. Hall. I can't do those. I can't be expected to fly commercial. All right. Here's, here's more. And by the way, Trump was perfect in his answer here, but this is a, a bread bear yesterday and and bread. I think it was yesterday the day before talking about photo ID here. Schumer and prison Trump on this issue. The save act is an abomination. It's Jim Crow 2.0 across the country. We are, we are going to do everything we can to stop it. We should have voter ID by the way. We should have a lot of the things that I think everybody wants to see who would not want voter ID. Only somebody that wants to cheat. Think of it. We don't have voter ID and the Democrats don't want it. And the reason they don't want it because they want to cheat. Brit, I mean, Jim Crow 2.0, we heard that again and again. Remember that Georgia election law that was going to be so, so bad. And then it turns out it really wasn't that bad for preventing. Yeah, what a, what a, what rubbish. That's right. What, what rubbish all that stuff is and, you know, I interesting to hear Chuck Schumer and Democrats saying there's an abomination they're going to do everything to stop it. The polling shows it's 71% of Democrats in favor of it. So I think it's a political loser for them. Whether it will be framed or brought up or presented to the public in such a way that everybody sees it and cares about it is unknown at this point. But the issue is there and the, and the feeling about it is obvious. So I think it's a political winner for Republicans and a good idea to boot. 76% of 71% of Democrats overall, 76% of minorities are for it. 81% of independence. Now, we've talked about independence and how important they are. So I think it's great that the way the Trump explained it, which was just say they want it in order to cheat. They want illegal immigrants to vote. That's it. We all know it. You know it. We all know it. And then this audio that we did play in the, in the, in the first hour, but I want to play it again because the Republicans need to pound this over and over and over again. Remember the Democrats look and say we can lie and as long as we stick to the lie and are repetitive with it over and over again, most of the time it works. Well it hasn't worked on voter ID at all. In fact, over the last 10 years, it's only moved in one direction. More people being in favor of voter ID were now it's up to remember I thought it was like 76, 77%. I was looking at some numbers yesterday. That's where it was a few years ago. And now it's up to 83%. And the Democrats pounding on it that it's racism, racism, Jim Crow 2.0 and glad that Brett Baer remember that the Georgia election. As you did on yesterday's show when you said, no, no, no, no, this is Jim Crow 3.0. That's right. If we've already had 2.0, that was Georgia, but this ad was was on social media and this ought to go viral and Republicans need to be playing this constantly over the next two weeks. Here it is. Democrats used to believe that border security and immigration enforcement were just common sense ideas. Don't believe it? Take their word for it. Americans are right to demand better border security and better enforcement of the immigration laws. We simply cannot allow people to pour into the United States undetected, undocumented, unchecked. We've had 5 million undocumented workers come over the borders. It has become an extraordinary problem. All Americans, not only in the state's most heavily affected, but in every place in this country are rightly disturbed by the large numbers of illegal aliens entering our country. And we must do more to stop them. Yes or no, would you allow the cities to ignore the federal law? No. Any city should listen to the Department of Homeland Security. The city made a mistake, not to deport someone that the federal government strongly felt should be deported. Just because your child gets across the border doesn't mean the child gets to stay. We do not think the comprehensive health care benefits should be extended to those who are undocumented workers and illegal aliens. We do not want to do anything to encourage more illegal immigration. People say, well, why can't you stop illegal immigrants from coming here? And the number one answer we give is when they come here, they can get jobs, get benefits against the law because of fraud. Illegal immigration is wrong, plain and simple. Open borders. You're doing the way with the concept of a nation's state. Our nation, like all nations, has the right and obligation to control its borders and no matter how decent they are, no matter their reasons. The 11 million who broke these laws should be held accountable. For decades, these weren't controversial or radical ideas. The only thing that changed is them. And then what they should say after that, the only thing that changed is them because they wish to cheat. They want illegal immigrants to vote. Yep. And you pound that over and over again as messaging matters, messaging how you message and the frequency of how you message, especially on topics that are so self evident that you've got over 80% of the American public on your side, landslide numbers of Democrats, minorities and independence. Oh my God, pound on it. Well, it's again, you're already there in the polls. It's going to sound repetitive, but it's something you have to do because you have to in on this issue, every issue and with every poll, you have to run like your 20, 40, 60 points behind. And you should be right now pressing this issue like you don't have even 20% of America on your side. It's a very simple equation. The math on this has never been hard. I can't remember a time in my career where this wasn't an issue where the Democrats clearly wanted an open border and they knew eventually they were going to get to it. But at some point, and you just heard the audio, they had to talk strong. They had to talk a certain game. And now they're full on with the radicals. Open the borders. Everybody come in. Everybody gets to vote. Yep. Hey, Democrats, does that mean Russians too? What about Russian influence? Yeah, apparently what they want is large potatoes compared to the 2016 election. 20s, wow. Yeah. And here's man. Yeah. Full back. With the, with the entire Facebook thing, right? Was it Facebook? Yeah. And depending 100 and 100 and 100,000, $100,000 in ads or on Facebook to like Trump or whatever it was. I mean, that was a nothing burger compared to all of them. And again, it's important to play what they have said their entire lives before they realized they can't convince the American public. They don't believe they can convince the American public on the issues where the Democratic Party stands so they wish to cheat. You know, that's and that's how you win that issue. Say they wish to cheat. They wish to cheat. They want illegal immigrants to vote. By the way, say cheat and follow that by illegal immigrants to vote. The whole point with Democrats is you need to close the door completely to any rebuttal. And you can do it on these issues. Because if you say we need, you know, they're only doing it because they wish to cheat. Well, cheat, huh? What do you mean cheat? Don't let him even ask that question. You finish that off. They want illegal immigrants to vote. And when they get the question of how, how do you know that process of elimination? Yeah, they were completely against illegal immigrants voting. Yep. They were completely against illegal immigrants being in the United States. What changed? They wish to cheat. Yep. And this one here, Colin Wright from the Manhattan Institute, the same day that the American society of plastic surgeons came out against quote, gender affirming end up quote, surgeries for minors, the American Medical Association now states that they agree with them that surgical interventions and minors should be generally deferred to adulthood. To adulthood, excuse me. The M.A. said in a statement in National Review that because the evidence for gender affirming surgical intervention in minors is insufficient for us to make a definitive statement. They may agree with the ASPS that surgical interventions in minors should generally be deferred to adulthood. What do they think that generally is going to save them with the fire left by putting generally in there? Should be generally deferred. Not absolutely deferred. They're trying to ride the fine line. Well, I'll tell you this, it's part of a very definitive shift. Yeah. And it's all happening now within a matter of days. It's not Republicans. Nope. It's civil suits. It's the victims. Well, and I said the other night. The medical community is going to have to come to terms on this. You can't keep doing this without it being a massive liability. We are Red Eye Radio. Get in touch with Red Eye Radio toll free at 866-Mighty Red Eye. We are Red Eye Radio. These are currently and I'm Gary McNamara. Wow. I mean, there's so much news that we cannot forget to talk about the entertaining Democratic primary in Texas for US Senate. He's between James Tallerico and Jasmine Crockett, my current representative in Congress. And the fact that the accusation that Tallerico said about, oh, what's his name? And Colin Alren that he is a mediocre black. That's the accusation from a woman who's a political, I think, podcaster influencer, whatever who also was black. He says that's a mischaracterization of it. But I'm telling you, when Tallerico came out, he's insistent on debating the fact that abortion is approved in the Bible. Yeah. And he's like, dude, you know where you are. Right. No, that was all over social media. No, an experts, you know, dude. Oh, my God. Historians on the Bible going, no, it's not. Stop that. But politically, you know, you are the Satexas. Right. This is Red Eye Radio on Westwood One. The Dan Banchino Show. Dan, I missed you all. I've got so much content bottled up in my head. I got a lot of stuff. This is the kind of stuff. It's real. May not hear this anywhere else. Hard truths. There's a lot of stuff to talk about that anything is going to open a lot of eyes and a lot of ignorantes are going to get shut down. And a bold perspective, no one else can offer. Then you are freaking out. It's the comeback everyone's been waiting for. Lovers, haters, friends, supporters, detractors, you're all welcome. I want to hear it all. The Dan Banchino Show. 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