🚨BREAKING: Federal Election Commission Hacking Attempts, Fight at the UN, New Eric Swalwell Raid

[0:00] good evening and welcome to the tony kenneth cast here in the on the daily signal nationally [0:05] syndicated first on 93 wibc a whole cuban commotion shook the united nations today when [0:14] a regime diplomat official uh tried to rush u.s ambassador mike waltz over at the podium [0:22] say why do i care about this over the last couple of weeks the president of the united states from [0:27] the presidential podium in these campaigning stops all around the country has been saying maybe we'll [0:33] drop off marco he'll you know take over cuba and the cuban regime has already had a rather rough time [0:39] of it because communist regimes tend to do that and when the hypocrisy of the cuban regime was [0:46] pointed out today by u.s ambassador to the united nations mike waltz regarding you know fidel castro's [0:53] sexual exploits and not to mention his rolex collection um this caused a guy who i'm i'm [1:01] legally required to tell you is not hassan piker although kind of a situation uh started yelling [1:09] at least he didn't throw a shoe i'll give him that and then rushed the podium so to as a kind [1:15] of a setting here it's the yearly general assembly debate on ending the u.s embargo of cuba now the [1:22] vote set for tomorrow waltz has said that there's no technical blockade and that u.s companies [1:26] exported more than 876 million dollars worth of goods to cuba in the first eight months of 2026 [1:33] which by the objective data is correct that's not according to me that's according to the united [1:39] nations itself so he holds up photos of fidel castro wearing rolexes that he put at about 40 000 [1:45] which he said that uh essentially would pay for 55 years of an average cuban wage and then showed [1:51] pictures of current president diaz canal also uh you know living that high life and then when he [1:57] pointed out that castro sent quote gay people christians and afro cubans and others to concentration [2:02] camps and quote um which is true by the way the cuban delegates started slapping their hands on the [2:10] desks and um screaming here you go reagan's warning about corrupt cuban elites still holds true and it [2:18] started many decades ago let's start with castro's two rolexes that he proudly wore you're looking at [2:29] the great revolutionary what's on his wrist two rolexes worth forty thousand dollars in today's money [2:36] according to the regime's own statistics that so again you have the individuals at again the cuban [2:44] regime start slapping the desk with their forearms which by the way you have this really cool thing [2:49] called a palm you don't have to do like the the overweight lady at the grocery store like hitting [2:54] with your wrist you don't have to do that by the way you can just slap the desk you know get yourself [2:58] a hammer and a gavel if you want to play judge and jury so bad uh but anyhow i would pay for 55 years [3:03] of an avon of an average so then they i love it i like the the in in like the together you know you [3:11] got a little bit of a bounce to it and you're you're you're out clubbing page then there's one lady [3:17] doing either time out or up yours or uh i i don't know it's kind of like the tower of babel happens [3:24] right between the first and second row it didn't just start with castro this is the current cuban [3:30] president also with a role again a lot of the slapping and the all of the other various shades [3:36] of nonsense then foreign minister bruno rodriguez walks toward the podium again this is in new york it is [3:43] in new york city and diplomatic immunity be damned here i'm sorry if you are a foreign official and [3:48] you rush a member of the united states government you should be thrown in prison our prison preferably [3:54] guantanamo bay so you feel close to home but anyhow some yelling this individual needs to back away [4:08] from this podium he's not going to intimidate me in the united states of america like he tries to [4:14] intimidate political prisoners and i'm the representative of the united states of america [4:21] back up now in the united states house and senate we have this really cool thing called a sergeant at [4:32] arms and the sergeant at arms is supposed to have arms and hands which you catch if you get a little [4:36] frisky now again in the canadian parliament in the united kingdom parliament where anything goes and [4:42] everyone just screams and bleats like sheep and gets a little tough you don't exactly have the same [4:48] procedure uh but in the united nations again diplomatic immunity means you can park wherever [4:52] you want and essentially again rush the podium at the united nations so he uh again waltz says he's not [5:00] going to intimidate me like he tries to intimidate political prisoners i'm a representative of the u.s of [5:05] america the united states of america back up and then riguez answers you're a liar and uh then waltz says [5:12] this isn't your communist dictatorship you cannot silence me and that's according to andalu a turkish [5:17] state outlet general assembly president hallelujah rahman excuse me star wars names paused the session [5:23] briefly and it resumed later rodriguez gives his speech wednesday so i'm sure that's going to be nice [5:28] and a good healthy amount of fireworks uh and then this uh waltz kind of closes it up with this there's [5:33] a reason we're leading with this because what it goes into is rather interesting and i hope everyone [5:39] is listening i hope everyone observed this today this is in a room in a free country with cameras [5:47] with ambassadors with diplomats imagine what happens if you dare to speak out under the iron fist [5:55] of this regime imagine what happens now uh what gets really interesting is that later on and this [6:02] video has been shared quite a bit the daily wire i believe and the new york post with the initial [6:07] report um a staffer was assaulted by one of these cuban delegates so again comes forward the slap [6:15] by the way public territory in the united states including the un you are allowed to film anyone [6:21] anywhere anytime in this room it does kind of the care and slap and the assaults not legal not allowed [6:29] and again the reason that you're seeing some of this now is that there is a a kind of a pushing [6:34] to see if the united states is going to continue allowing diplomatic immunity of individuals that [6:40] are here that are providing aid and direction to those who are antagonistic to the united states [6:45] so again a a beautiful mess over on that side speaking of the foreign intervention in american [6:54] processes and systems one week before the midterm elections uh the federal election commission uh was [7:01] forced to a shutdown of its electronic filing system just days before next week's november 3rd [7:07] midterm so this is the key federal system that tracks campaign money and it has gone dark so an email [7:14] obtained by reuters from an fec electronic filings officer stated quote we have a bad actor attempting [7:19] to breach fec systems and as a result we've had to temporarily shut down our web-facing services [7:25] the fec confirmed in a statement that its electronic filing system is in fact offline and then things get a [7:33] little bit interesting they didn't admit to the general public uh that this is down because of [7:39] a hacking attempt they just say that it's down at the moment now this blocks campaign super packs [7:43] other groups from filing required 24 hour and 48 hour spending reports that disclose last minute [7:51] spending on specific races the timing here is incredible now there are some reports that suggest that this [8:00] hacking maneuver has come from outside sources some indicators suggest that the communist uh uh [8:07] chairman ship excuse me the communist government of china in beijing is responsible now past reports [8:14] remain searchable on the fec website but again right now there are a lot of individuals who throw a lot [8:20] of last minute funding into various campaigns around the united states and there's no way right here and [8:25] right now for campaigns to electronically file so this was around 10 p.m eastern yesterday uh october the [8:34] 26th today october the 27th that is still a service that is down now dara lindenbaum has been running out [8:43] as quickly as she can and i mean as quickly as she can dara lindenbaum is the fec commissioner running out [8:51] to say this has nothing to do with the election itself this is just the the campaign finance stuff and i mean [8:56] like three rapid fire tweets essentially to say initially uh you know it's currently down we're working [9:02] quickly to resolve the issue it has nothing to do with voter files or voter registration those are maintained [9:06] by the states this is about finance filings she says it like twice more understandably so you get to [9:12] right around the midterms things get a little bit sketchy really really quickly now what else is going on [9:18] right up close to the midterms some fbi raids and also some felony filing deliveries now [9:26] there are 43 democrats facing legal and ethics scrutiny that are either in office or running [9:32] for re-election we're going to cover some of that with our very own virginia grace mckinnon here in [9:36] just a second radio crew i have to send you guys over to the commercial break because i don't want to [9:40] find from the fcc it's the tony kennett cast here on the daily signal we'll continue on the live stream [9:46] in the meantime all right with the radio crew away we'll move over to our very own virginia grace [9:53] mckinnon great to have you i know you've been doing a lot of reporting on another [9:57] developing story out of north carolina uh glad to have you this fine uh tuesday october 27th [10:04] evening how's it going good thanks so much for having me tony glad to be here well let's dive [10:09] right in so there's a situation developing in north carolina's 14th now i know that this happened [10:14] back on uh the 10th i believe um yes october 11th yes october 11th thank you break it down i know that [10:23] this involves uh the congressional nominee lakeisha womack give us a bit of the breakdown here yes so [10:29] back in 2019 2020 lakeisha womack rented a car and she failed to return that car essentially um we still [10:39] don't really know where the car is she has declined to comment um but she was sent a felony summons when [10:47] the car did was not returned um and that summons never reached her we still don't really know why [10:53] it never reached her she is now saying that it was because she was homeless at the time um so maybe it [11:00] was sent to a wrong address we still don't really know hold on hold on hold on hold on i i and i'm [11:05] going to ask producer daniel over on on the tech side of things to clarify i believe doesn't the state [11:12] of north carolina require you to have a residential address in the state in order to run for office [11:18] is she running for office homeless she is running for office now she is no longer homeless however [11:24] she does not live in the district that she is running on so i think it was last time i joined the [11:29] show and we were talking about a member of congress who does not live in the district that she [11:34] is running in and we have that again in north carolina's 14th district so there there's a lot [11:38] happening here so they couldn't get the felony summons to her regular address excellent thrilling [11:46] wonderful times there so they what was the next step here what did they actually do to get the [11:51] felony summons to her so i guess the felony summons kind of just was waiting around in some courthouse [11:59] court filing maybe a police uh police station we don't really know where the filing was for the past [12:05] few years but it was a it arrived to her at a campaign rally last on october 11th she finally [12:12] got it she was served at her very own campaign rally whoa this federal i'm sorry that that's not [12:20] very that's not very news professional and appropriate getting served felony summons at your own [12:26] rally is is special the the court date though so obviously felony summons comes with a court date [12:31] when is the court date for again this this not paid for car stolen car uh that we absolutely just [12:37] can't seem to magically find at this point the court date is for a week after the election so that's [12:44] another thing that she is getting um she's expressed frustration with is that she would like to be proven [12:52] innocent before the election um she's but they can't find the car we we do not she has not commented on [12:59] the location of the car so oh it's to be determined if it's been if it's going to be returned they have [13:06] placed the value of the car at twenty thousand dollars um so we don't know if she has paid any [13:13] damages thus far um she we don't know where the car is i guess that would be the first step to find the [13:20] car thrilling excellent exciting stuff indeed i i do want to pivot slightly here because i want to [13:26] make sure that we're doing our due diligence here uh did you get a chance to talk to i know that you [13:30] reached out to her campaign you know for for comment i'm guessing you didn't get anything back no i have [13:36] not heard from lakeisha womack um she was making comments about um all of this a little bit last week [13:44] she was she had said she said that um she was upset about the date of the of the hearing she would [13:52] have liked it to be before she was trying to blame that on her opponent tim moore um he does not have [13:57] any say in when those judicial hearings are i do want to ask what did representative tim moore said you [14:05] reached out i'm assuming given our standard electoral practices here for the tony kinnett cast in the daily [14:09] signal what did tim moore's uh officer did you get a chance to talk to the representative i did [14:14] get a chance to talk to the representative today and i just want to go over here to my notes to [14:18] make sure i'm quoting him directly here before you do that let me welcome the radio crew back from [14:23] commercial sorry fcc fun and shenanigans uh for sure quoting representative tim moore on this [14:29] particular i mean your opponent getting smacked with felony summons in a rally that's that's certainly [14:35] that's a banner day it is it is and tim moore really he he was adamant that this is this [14:42] has been a local north carolina story um this has not gained traction from national news quite yet [14:49] this did happen well it's been happening over the past few years now um she was summoned with [14:54] this federal summons at her at her rally in polk county on the 11th but it really hasn't reached [15:01] national headlines yet um and he he feels the need for for voters to know about this and for the nation to [15:09] know about this um he told me that if she can't manage her own personal affairs any better than [15:15] that how does she think that she can make decisions for the good of this district um he said i think it [15:22] shows that the lack of ability to serve as a member of congress and he thinks that the voters of his [15:29] district do see that um he didn't seem too worried about voters knowing who he really is and who she [15:36] really is um he called her not a serious candidate in a winnable district for a democrat good to know [15:44] well virginia grace mckinnon thanks for giving us a bit of an update we've got uh 42 other uh democrat [15:50] officials that we need to kind of pivot into discussing here of course then the the fbi raid [15:54] on the connection with eric swalwell uh today so virginia grace appreciate you as always our [16:00] correspondent uh we'll swing everyone over to your midterm market uh wonderful madness here over in [16:06] just a little bit thanks again thanks so much well having a correspondent such a nice thing i tell you [16:14] what it's just a thrill well let's dive into some other candidates who are having some rather bad days [16:18] by their own accord there are 43 democrats by our uh math over on this side of things who [16:26] have well found themselves in either a very serious series of allegations investigations or criminal [16:33] charges since january of 2025. now some of these cases like the three in mississippi and the four [16:40] in massachusetts include mayoral level candidates who have been caught taking all kinds of funds from [16:48] for example covid relief projects in fact the majority of these particular [16:54] uh allegations investigations and then of course criminal charges involve either fraud or fraud [17:03] so either embezzlement kinds of fraud or whether we're talking about wire fraud mortgage fraud [17:09] and various other kinds of federal either corporate and municipality benefit or whether we're talking about [17:16] local and individualized grant program fraud and it is creating a significant issue for the democrats [17:22] when we are going into the midterms because one of the issues at the top of list for voters when [17:28] they would talk to some of the pollsters and we'll talk about some of this a little bit later in the [17:31] show one of the key issues that voters suggested was a concern was corruption but when a lot of [17:38] individuals in the media the legacy media corporate media side of things suggested that corruption as a [17:44] story model said oh well they must be aggravated about donald trump in the white house and based on some of the early [17:50] voting numbers that doesn't seem to be playing out at all it seems that there are a lot of [17:55] individuals and we've of course talked uh with more than a few on the official side and also on the [18:01] ground up in minnesota who are suggesting that ilhan omar whose situation is getting worse by the day [18:07] worse by the day on her own writings her own memoirs is driving people away from coming out to vote in [18:15] minneapolis now there's a lot to discuss but i want to move to a past official who is getting yet [18:22] another fbi raid problem today eric swalwell is a quick reminder he's the seven term california congressman [18:30] and failed gubernatorial candidate became a central figure back earlier this year after multiple [18:35] allegations of sexual misconduct surfaced when he was running for governor now he resigned from congress [18:40] back in april of 2026 earlier this year and it marked the beginning of a series of brand new [18:47] investigations so for example john solomon reporting uh that the fbi had evidence that swalwell got illegal [18:54] donations from a suspected chinese spy according to several bombshell memos that came out on august 17th [19:00] we're not just talking about fang fang here we've covered this on the show extensively the california [19:06] electoral system and by that i mean the officials is rife with corruption from the chinese communist [19:12] party and i'm not suggesting that that that the california representatives although there have [19:17] been a couple of elected officials in california found to have been peddling chinese communist [19:22] influence by running and operating chinese state media inside the united states but i mean staffers galore [19:29] who you would think elisa slotkin would be you know going after for michigan given that she wants to [19:34] target staffers no she doesn't care about those um it appears now that the individuals in swalwell's [19:40] greater network not just again due to him you know forcing himself on young women in hotel rooms [19:50] uh but now various other individuals in his kind of larger i don't know what you would call it enterprise [19:57] network are also being raided by the fbi and this is where things get a little bit more interesting [20:04] so this morning the fbi raided the former well like hold on one other final little bit here as [20:12] a quick reminder swalwell's electronic devices uh were taken from him at i believe the uh los angeles [20:19] international airport um by federal officials so sorry that little last bit here because [20:25] the raid that we're going to get to here involves this beverly hills mansion raided this morning [20:30] linked to swallow so fbi officials early in the morning there for quite a while now again as exciting [20:45] as fbi rating footage is uh matthew seedorf he's over at i i believe i want to make sure i get this [20:54] right let's see yes matthew seedorf uh he's over with um affiliate media in los angeles rated the home of [21:06] billionaire donor steven klubeck um this is an individual that matthew was able to interview earlier in april [21:14] very very very bizarre bizarre stuff this is a major donor to swalwell billionaire this is the guy whose [21:21] house was raided today your relationship with eric are you guys still friends eric who is that clear [21:33] don't bust the trust that's a weird thing to say that's a very very weird thing to say so again back [21:42] in april when he was interviewed about swallows oh eric who don't bust the truck i'm not sure here what it [21:48] is that that's supposed to imply but again klubeck arrested earlier this year and charged with three [21:55] felony counts related to witness intimidation and one misdemeanor harassment that's a case related to [22:02] his fiancee adva levy who's charged with a string of burglaries god california is a mess described as [22:07] a long-running romance scheme involving older men so this is a guy who hosted eric swalwell several times [22:15] and later cut ties after the sexual misconduct and just straight up abuse and rape allegations [22:23] so again this follows a series of device and home search seizure investigations and raids as well [22:29] no arrests were reported during the raid it's just very very bizarre and in a lot of these cases right [22:34] here as we get up to the midterm there are those who are on the wealthier donor class that are being [22:40] found in a series of raids in a series of allegations alongside the candidates or officials [22:46] in this particular midterm cycle who are trying to avoid controversy now the last little bit here [22:53] kind of brings us over to some general shenanigans and as a an indiana native this kind of shenanigan [23:01] stuff isn't just on the candidate side and the donor side at the local election level as well things are [23:09] just getting weird right here before the election and today in marion county indiana so there is a big [23:17] secretary of state election we have a a not very good secretary of state right here right now diego morales [23:25] um a republican um who i've always found remarkably untrustworthy uh long story short he got replaced [23:32] because he was very bad at his job and and allegations of being rather unethical uh so he was replaced by [23:38] a uh max engling and then greg ballard a former indianapolis republican mayor started another party to run against him [23:45] and then bo by who has a a famous family came back from virginia to run for secretary of state for the [23:52] democrats so he shows up to to vote uh after moving to indianapolis excuse me opening an address a [23:58] residence in indianapolis he shows up to cast his ballot today at the city county building in indianapolis [24:04] according to local journalist nikki kelly and uh then we get some electioneering problems so the local [24:10] election workers otherwise known as the judges uh they start cheering when he arrived and he starts like [24:16] taking photos with people inside the polls yeah that's illegal you're not allowed to do that you [24:24] are not as as jacob stewart uh who's the uh assistant opinion editor over at the indianapolis star points [24:32] out um you can't do that indiana code title three election sections uh 3 14 3 16 make it clear you're [24:40] not allowed as a as an electoral like an election judge at a precinct when a candidate shows up to [24:45] start cheering and clapping and issuing vocal statements of support now there are some who are [24:50] really really don't like the republican candidates even those who are friends of mine who are trying to [24:55] say well as a cheer really like a vocal statement of support that's not that's dumb don't don't do [25:03] that radio and tv craft is sending you the commercial break we're going to continue on the live stream [25:06] lots to talk about tonight it's the tony kinnett cast here on the daily signal so there's just weird [25:14] very high tense stuff going on all around the country all around the country where this midterm [25:19] is is starting to be a point of pause and problems for a lot of people including internal fighting and [25:25] squabbles michigan is not going well for abdul el saeed at all and not just in some of the early voting [25:31] numbers not just in the mail-in voting numbers so far but internal fighting in the democrat party [25:38] so hassan piker who you know is doing little little campaign you know little interview exciting stuff [25:44] with ilhan omar of the brother marrying variety uh his uncle chink leaguer chank eiger uh the guy who [25:53] founded the young turks um you know operating as a foreign asset for the nation of turkey in the united [26:00] states chank eiger has a political ad that was run for abdul el saeed that we called out again earlier [26:08] this week as being very very bizarre strange you may remember this is the grocery store we can't buy [26:14] bananas because we're killing children in palestine eggs are expensive because mike rogers is looking [26:22] kind of jewish like really really retarded stuff uh well now the democrats are eating their own because [26:33] jewish support for abdul el saeed was already next to nothing in michigan now abdul el saeed's campaign [26:40] is backpedaling as fast as they can and the reporting on this being from you know van jones and the cnn [26:46] crew just makes this all the sweeter for yours truly the el saeed campaign distancing itself from [26:52] a commercial that was theoretically produced in support of his candidacy roll it you're gonna have [26:59] to put those eggs back they don't like eggs anymore no they like eggs but we have to set that seven [27:05] dollars aside for killing palestinians what i mean don't give israel four billion dollars a year [27:11] anyways excellent and now we're giving them another 26 billion dollars do you know how much that is per [27:18] american taxpayer no it's like 161 dollars per person apparently it's costing us a lot of money to drop [27:25] bombs on gaza okay theoretically for el saeed when i saw it i said to myself wait a minute this must be a [27:32] campaign trick there's going to be blowback this must be a mike rogers commercial did anybody else have [27:37] that reaction no yes look i i i'm trying i want to be very consistent here i don't like hate i don't [27:44] like hate i don't like hateful rhetoric i don't like it when it's against the muslims i don't like [27:49] it when it's against the jewish people or when it's against uh our ally in the middle east okay so the real [27:55] issue with this and you know van jones saying that van jones again being the voice that a lot of people [28:00] are like yeah i don't like this i don't care for this fair true i hear you the real issue for the ad is [28:05] that it sucks it is a sucky ad it is very very very unpopular again appealing to the youths like [28:15] the anti-israel youths guys the youths aren't coming out in this election they're just not [28:20] the early voting in every single state and commonwealth the mail-in voting numbers for [28:25] every single state and commonwealth in the best of cases the youths are turning out between 18 and 29 [28:32] maybe three and a half to four percent maybe in many cases it's between 0.3 percent in some cases [28:41] in some alaska precincts all the way to an average of about three and a half that is wildly underperforming [28:48] for the left wildly underperforming this isn't doing it it's just not doing it now uh chuck ross over at [28:54] the washington free beacon broke this particular thing down this from the rebellion pack so again [29:02] released this with the young turks and uh again everyone came out and roasted this at the end [29:08] said mike rogers is for they them abdul el saeed is for you a little trump throwback for the kamala thing [29:14] it's it's just it's just bad it's just bad and uh again when you have elisa slotkin now radio crew [29:20] tv crew welcome back from the commercial break here's how to tell if your election is not going very well [29:27] when you've got the other senator from your state saying that the ad is really really really freaking [29:37] awful so i don't i i just i just don't know what it is that people want me to say the numbers look bad [29:50] just because some morning consult poll says that a lot of people are still undecided the numbers do [29:56] not show that at all and by the way the the abdul el saeed campaign has now tried to come out and [30:01] backpedal and say well i don't really have a whole lot to i don't really know a whole lot about that [30:06] as seth mandel points out i mean he's out here saying quote we're paying five dollars for gas [30:12] we're paying more for groceries because we're fighting at the behest of whom the government of [30:17] israel so i mean you know you you do it to yourself they're quoting you habibi he's not the only [30:27] candidate that is really really struggling right now again we already went over earlier this week [30:33] that the the numbers for black support are just not there at all but it's uh not just there down in [30:42] texas this evening in lubbock james tallarico and president trump are doing kind of a dueling banjos [30:49] dual rally that's not the most important rally of the day the most important rally of the day for [30:54] the president was down in corpus christi that's in southern texas where it just so happens that there [31:00] are a lot of very serious house races coming up now again you you have some individuals saying [31:06] well it was really about mike rogers no nope mike rogers spoke for like 20 seconds in total at this [31:13] particular rally by the way i'll actually have that clip readying up for you here isn't he amazing mr [31:25] president i am so great paxton not roger i'm so i'm sorry about that i i've had i've had a bit of a [31:31] kerfluffle in saying rogers too much today ken paxton uh was on stage for only 20 seconds excuse [31:36] me cool to have you here in texas you are making a difference not just for texas but he's traveling [31:41] the country i've never seen anybody work harder and i am so appreciative we are gonna win get your [31:47] friends out to vote get your family out to vote let's go win this god bless you and then that's all [31:56] he's on stage now the reason that this matters a few people out there are suggesting right here and [32:01] right now that this is a a sign that oh man donald trump is really really scared and nervous and [32:10] and paxton can't speak for himself i do not think so at all there are several texas districts texas 28 [32:17] for cuellar texas 34th gonzalez texas 37 33rd 30th 29th 20th 18th 16th 7th when the president of the [32:26] united states went down to corpus christi he was pitching to the southern chunk of texas in a house [32:31] race now up in lubbock he's fencing off against talarico but talarico's got his own problem right [32:39] now and the reason that talarico's got his own problem i was on a debate today opposite a daily [32:43] mail reporter and the daily mail reporter told me and told us on the air said that well actually [32:50] there are all i've been speaking to all of these republicans in texas who have called me up on the [32:54] phone and said hey i'm a republican and i'm gonna vote for republican candidates but i'm voting for [33:00] talarico in the senate absolutely no i do not believe it i show me i will say this yet again [33:14] for the record my email contact c-o-n-t-a-c-t at tonykinett.com you reach out to us you show that you [33:23] have been a republican voter in texas for a while not any of this i just moved from california and i i [33:31] i once shook kevin mccarthy's hand no no no no you show me you are a texas republican who all of the [33:38] sudden is voting for james talarico instead of ken paxton i will bring you on the show and i will give [33:43] you the microphone for 10 minutes it's all yours because i don't know where any of these people [33:49] are i haven't seen it i haven't seen any of the pictures of the ballots on social media where people [33:54] are saying here's my ballot i'm in the early voting booth here we go click there's the the ballot for [33:59] you all to see it's not happening i'm seeing a lot of wish casting the republican areas for turnout so [34:06] far again because texas doesn't do basic they register primary turnout they don't do general [34:12] election party affiliation turnout in the early numbers from the secretary of state's office [34:18] so far the republican heavy precincts are turning out in droves and again the reason is that talarico [34:23] has a history in the texas state legislature of hating oil hating guns and hating meat so when he comes [34:30] out now and says oh i'm a gun tooting redneck shooting you out here with my meat and my drum [34:35] stick out no one believes it because they've known him he's been in texas media flaunting around like [34:40] a gayer beto o'rourke for years ken paxton deserves to be the next senator the other guy [34:48] uh not stand for texas values nothing nothing from get rid of the oil get rid of the guns and get rid of [34:56] the meat between the three things it's ridiculous yeah it's a culture issue it is it is a culture [35:01] issue that the voters who have been down there being interviewed have said for them it's a culture [35:06] issue now i want to pivot a little bit further from this because talarico again is trying very very hard [35:12] to portray himself as kind of rough and tough tex in this instance some of his own early voting [35:19] watchers some of his own campaign staff have been expressing a little bit of concern [35:23] and by the way same with amy acton's staff up in ohio even with vivek ramaswamy releasing an ad [35:29] that was dumb and shot himself in his own feet and then later saying well my mom was insulted so [35:35] everyone's i just it i really don't see the numbers that suggest this is going to cost john [35:40] houston the race but that is a much closer race at this point than texas for the record now i i want [35:47] to pivot just a little bit further just a little bit further to a a last moment kind of on this corpus [35:56] christi rally from the president on venezuela because while the president was down in southern [36:01] texas he announced that venezuela was going to be ahem giving us billions of barrels of oil it's a lot [36:08] of oil marco it's a lot of oil isn't it's quite a lot of oil that kind of a thing and he floats the [36:13] 51st state thing like he always does when talking foreign policy i want to thank venezuela where our [36:19] relationship has become very very good a great one a great one it's very good indeed it's some would [36:26] say bueno in the uh hispanic dialect and billions and billions of dollars are being invested now by [36:34] the biggest oil companies many of which come from texas all over the world and jobs are happening in [36:40] venezuela that nobody would have thought even possible just one year ago and we're bringing [36:46] out a lot of oil for ourselves a lot it will become a prosperous country and who knows maybe someday soon [36:53] it will become a prosperous 51st state that's possible let's make it let's make it the 51st [37:01] state trump doing the trump thing as he always does now we do have some foreign policy news uh not [37:08] regarding venezuela as much as uh the situations in haiti with el salvador the situation with brazil and [37:16] then we'll get to the middle east because that's its own mess i do want to pivot back to some of the data [37:20] real quick in a hustle hurry so three things are gaming the midterm so far number one one side of [37:27] a disapproval poll i've said this from the very very beginning people who believe that because [37:33] one disapproval rate goes up means that the approval rate for the other side must go up are ridiculous [37:39] that's not how it works and so far what it appears is that you have a lot of people coming out on the [37:45] republican side of the aisle to vote for at least in senate elections i don't have the data on the house [37:49] stuff yet we're looking into it as close as we can but i'm not going to lie and tell you well the [37:53] house districts all look amazing because we don't do that here all right the president of the united [37:58] states though kind of going around and doing his general rally stuff during the early voting period [38:03] some of it is near house districts some of it appears to be more senate focused [38:08] the democrat approach of we want the health care and also the ai is going to kill you and then the [38:13] whole ai is going to kill you message did you notice that that all evaporated like it's all gone [38:17] it stopped being a thing unless you're seeing ads in michigan or in ohio everywhere else though [38:22] we've all forgotten it because it didn't latch on like the how dare you climate change argument [38:26] thing that was going to kill us all and drink all of the water and poison our crops or whatever [38:32] well tom tillis i've been meaning to play this clip for ages people sitting down with politico and [38:38] saying it's all over and we're all gonna die i i gotta tell you i'm i'm getting the giggles already [38:44] radio crew we'll see you on the other side of your commercial break we've got a lot more news to [38:48] cover tonight it's the tony kinnett cast here on the daily signal okay tom i just okay through [38:57] but when the comes policy that's problematic you get this november this thing that's going to happen [39:04] 20 days from now which i have on my countdown clock is what was it i gotta say that uh well because [39:15] i mean again so is it in a diner look it looks like a normal diner like perfectly fine diner [39:22] uh and and i don't know why again no no offense to politico everybody's gotta have a gimmick so you [39:28] know you had jerry seinfeld with his comedians and cars getting coffee you know like the that that [39:34] classic series um all of the podcastery interview people are looking for the next big thing um and [39:41] politico does this one where they go and eat in noisy restaurants or also really awkwardly dark buffets [39:47] with the other you know with the person that they're interviewing um i just want to make this [39:52] clear uh if i ever do this i'm going to pick the most obnoxious restaurant of all time to do this [39:57] interview in but that's that's neither here nor there and thompson's like oh it's we're going to [40:01] get destroyed we're going to get wrecked we're going to get obliterated i'm just not seeing it in the [40:05] numbers and again he's in a rather rough place because he's refusing to play ball in the same way that [40:13] alaska is only on sketchy ground because lisa murkowski is rather refusing to play ball and what's on the [40:21] other side of this is what i guess he believes to be him being lionized in the history like we'll [40:27] all look back and and remember how good tom tillis was that's also not the case whatsoever here it's [40:32] right there where there you go calendar yeah 20 days and we gotta be yep yeah i i said big bad cuss words [40:42] and i have a countdown that says we're all gonna die in this amount of time relax just a little bit [40:49] homies now on the other side the play ball on the left side has people like governor gavin newsom of [40:56] california saying the socialists are the wave of the future yeah uh this clip posted by town hall [41:05] just free free free for the right side of the aisle that is wondering because i'm a younger voter and a [41:12] lot of us like we're we want to see the democratic party move forward you know we don't want more [41:16] kamala harris we want you know more i guess democratic socialist policies like where do you [41:22] see i guess the democratic party going i think it's i mean i think no one is arguing to manage the [41:28] status quo and fail more efficiently so i think that the the dsa the energy and the desire and demand for [41:37] bold change non-incremental change is very much going to be dominant i mean that's going to be a [41:43] mainstream democratic absolutely no question about that you can't play in the margins anymore [41:49] the whole the system's broken it's completely unbalanced and he can't we can't manage the decline [41:57] we have to completely reimagine okay so that's what we're gonna go with i just i don't i don't think [42:06] that it plays when you have as far to the left as you can go and you get like an angie nixon or the [42:11] abdul el saeed voters are turning away from it and it kind of boils down to the the two pitches [42:16] believe it or not not based on the economy but based on of all things security and that's where [42:22] things get pretty interesting one of these clips on this particular note from tonight welcome back [42:29] radio crew representative brandon gill tonight in texas and lubbock with kind of the rights message [42:34] and with the tom tillis is kind of out of the party now this seems to be the more prevailing [42:40] narrative even among the the moderate side of the republican party and i don't know about you [42:47] but i am so sick of democrats trying to sell my country to foreigners all right so you have that [42:59] side and then you have the hassan piker line which is it actually not only are migrants like super [43:04] amazing republicans are all terrorists they started also saying that migrants were national security [43:12] threat and that's unacceptable migrants are not a national security threat they are our neighbors [43:18] they are our allies they work alongside us there are neighbors and allies and they work alongside us [43:24] well they don't work alongside me you know because my employer follows federal labor laws [43:29] they are not a burden but a benefit they are in fact a burden they are the the data shows that [43:36] migrants do in fact take more in federal benefits per capita and it's not even remotely close not even [43:45] remotely close so as far as the the federal benefit data here that we're looking at in in this the year [43:53] of our lord 2026 the majority of immigrants to the united states in the first generation are in fact on [44:00] at least one form of federal welfare or benefit package system and the average citizen family is not so [44:09] that's that's not true that's not going to work they are what make this country strong and they're [44:13] what make this country great and any democrat any democrat that refuses to recognize that in my [44:24] opinion is un-american i'm not even going to bring up the republicans because they are the most un-american [44:30] force in this country they're terrorists great so we're going to go with like deplorables 3.0 excellent [44:37] i'm sure that will be a massive success and that again going after all of your opponents are terrorists [44:44] this brings us once again back to senator elisa slotkin of michigan now she's trying to play a [44:48] little miss moderate she had her little stance of i'm just a poor widow would she do i'm just a [44:53] poor widow woman who they're going after because i said i want to lock up all children and young people [45:00] who might work for republican administrations as a deterrent and then people called her ridiculous [45:06] and then she said i'm just a woman why do they want to attack me again because when she was at the [45:11] university of chicago she made the decision not me not you she made the decision to say that they [45:17] were going to use the full force of the law to go after and intimidate youth from working in various [45:22] political administrations and then there was a young man who filed a an ethics complaint in the [45:32] united states senate on elisa slotkin which is making a significant amount of progress may i say [45:38] good to be joined by michael bixell the guy who's uh not exactly daunted by senator elisa slotkin [45:45] going after anyone who wants to work in the trump administration or government at all if you're on [45:50] the right side of the aisle that is michael good to see you good to see you too so let's dive right in [45:55] what on earth is she doing coming to your university and uh i guess issuing jaded threats how did you [46:03] guys take it over there yeah well thanks again for having me um it was really ironic having her come [46:09] to the institute of politics like the entire goal of the institute of politics is to encourage political [46:13] participation among young people um so for her to do that and then say actually that only works for [46:19] you on one side of the aisle and if you're a republican or a conservative it doesn't apply to you [46:22] um it was pretty ironic it was also ironic because she's you know touts herself as a defender of [46:26] democracy and i'm really curious senator slacken do i have a place in that democracy like to me and my [46:30] friends have a place in the democracy that you envision i don't i don't know i don't think so [46:34] maybe do a compromise where we only get three fifths of a vote or you know what is it you've [46:38] got in mind elisa i'm not entirely sure what she's what she's imagining um but whatever the case yeah [46:45] whenever she said that it it was we immediately took it as a threat like there was no other way to [46:49] take that and if you listen to the full clip she talks about how she wants to send a deterrence [46:53] message to young people interested in serving in government um the host goes on to talk about making [46:59] young people who want to serve in government a pariah politically socially even legally [47:02] um it's pretty clear what she meant it was crazy that nobody else in the audience batted an eye like [47:07] to them if this was just business as usual right this would have flown under the radar had we not [47:11] been there um so that's why i think it's so important to have student journalists even if you're [47:15] a conservative even if you're in the minority one of these schools i'm going to these events and um [47:20] you know speaking truth to power it's a little cliche but no no hey i mean i'm a former lone [47:25] conservative uh alumni when it comes to kind of youth uh and those in the college sphere writing [47:31] in in policy and in politics reporting that kind of stuff is very very important what i wanted to [47:35] focus the the attention on here filing an ethics complaint how did that come about who reached out [47:41] to whom yeah so it was sort of all of this was snowballing um and we were getting a lot of attention [47:49] uh there was a lot of attention coming to the issue uh we didn't really expect it all of a sudden [47:54] president trump was talking about it senator mike lee was talking about it you had all these you know [47:58] major political officials talking about it right um so we started to think is can we do something [48:03] more is there a way that we can actually do something tangible to fix this situation um and [48:09] that's whenever i thought an ethics complaint that's the way to go um because at its core the [48:14] senate is a collegial body right um it's we're not looking for censorship absolutely not um in fact i think [48:20] it's actually better if we have the opposite so that way you know what these politicians really think [48:23] and correct you can take that to the ballot absolutely but but as it pertains to the ethics [48:28] complaint um if it is such a collegial body the entire point of having the ethics committee is to [48:33] sort of outline what should be encouraged and what should be discouraged and i think it's really [48:37] important that you have uh the senate say this is the sort of thing that we don't want senators [48:41] talking about you can still say it but it's it's unbecoming of a member of this body absolutely and [48:48] this is one of the things that i think is rather important when we're looking at the framing of [48:52] consequences i don't want elisa slotkin to shut up i want her to talk as much as humanly possible [48:58] i just want the scorn that follows to be the appropriate amount of scorn for an action that [49:04] is unseemly of a united states senator and again you know that if the shoe was on the other foot [49:09] as much as a tired cliche as this happens to be these days if it was someone working in [49:14] ilhan omar's office uh that this would be well those are just poor volunteer staffers who all come from [49:21] families with disabled mothers and immigrant fathers who are all paraplegic it's terrible [49:26] how could you do like we all know that's exactly how this would turn out but you know because someone [49:32] might want to work for the trump administration or any conservative member of the house or the senate [49:37] who we also know they're not above tracking the locations and phone records of [49:41] i mean the pariah situation's a bit on the nose for for this last couple of years yeah and i and i want [49:47] to talk just a little bit more about what would happen if the shoe were on the other foot [49:50] because we've been saying this whole time if the shoe were on the other foot we would want to have [49:54] the exact same consequences um i went on news nation i had a a piece out in fox this morning [49:59] actually that says that exactly if a republican senator said i want to discourage uh so many [50:04] young people from joining uh the staff of another member that that like because out of fear of [50:10] future consequences legally and politically and socially and all those sorts of things [50:15] chuck schumer should file um for them to be censured or expelled or at the very least some sort of ethics [50:21] investigation whoever's working for the abdul el saeed campaign who keeps putting him in these [50:25] goofy cringy commercials where he's steve from blues clues or he's like a little theater kid [50:30] i want that staffer to continue working in politics because good lord what a train wreck give him the red [50:35] carpet i say no censoring involved you keep on keeping on young lad or they them or whatever you are [50:42] yeah i agree completely i mean it's it's so important that we know exactly what these [50:45] politicians are thinking absolutely but but we also need to have standards and say like these are the [50:50] sorts of things that we want and these are the sorts of things that we don't want and i think on [50:54] november 3rd here in just a week we're going to hear the american people come out in droves and say [50:58] actually we don't want people like senator slack in an office of course she's not running but a lot of [51:02] people who she's endorsed are including abdul el sayed um and not to mention her former opponent [51:07] yeah exactly exactly mike rogers is back running again so hopefully we see a lot of those democratic [51:13] candidates who are on the same terms as senator slotkin because over the last you know week and [51:17] a half two weeks none of them have disagreed with what she was she said in fact some have actually [51:21] escalated it senator mark kelly escalated it if you saw that well he's he's very very short and angry [51:26] and bald and so what do you i didn't want to say it i i will that's what i'm here for everyone else will [51:33] think it i'll say it and then you know what if my foot also goes in my mouth so be it michael bixell [51:38] can't uh thank you enough for giving us a couple of minutes here we'll be touching back in as this [51:42] ethics complaint goes on um i know that if uh there is a certain committee hearing watching you [51:48] testified likely be just as entertaining as whatever c-span 2 throws on next to espn 8 the ocho thanks [51:53] again man thanks so much and if you can find me at michael bix on x if you want to follow any more [51:57] of our reporting on this we've already got that in the chiron take care bud thanks all right so we do [52:03] have some developing stories also on again political interference and intimidation so what we're [52:09] looking at right here and right now uh at least as far as the brazilian presidential election is [52:14] concerned is a case in which when you are allowed to simply do whatever it is that you want in order [52:22] to stifle political dissent when you're able to do whatever it is that you want via the political arm of [52:28] the left what you do in fact get is a political almost a a left-wing junta state and that is what's [52:37] going on right now so flavio bolsonaro he's the son of uh former president yar bolsonaro he has now [52:44] fled the country of brazil after losing the october 2020 uh excuse me the october 25th 2026 runoff election [52:53] and i say losing things are really really sketchy you may remember in this case again the supreme [52:59] court justice cristiano zanin who was formerly lula's uh personal attorney lula da silva uh his personal [53:07] attorney who was appointed to the supreme court he authorized an additional two hours of voting from [53:12] 5 pm to 7 pm local time but only in locations where voting had not ended yet which meant in very very [53:20] left-wing areas so then lula ended up magically you know winning reelection with approximately 51.8 percent [53:30] of the vote and apparently defeated bolsonaro by roughly 4.4 million votes which again those on the [53:39] left side of the aisle down in south america have pointed out is rather sketchy so on monday brazil's [53:45] supreme court then ordered bolsonaro to surrender his passports and barred him from leaving the country [53:53] so you lose an election and you're barred from leaving the surrender your passports he failed [53:59] to comply with tuesday's deadline and good for him so this was claimed to be a part of an ongoing [54:06] investigation into alleged money laundering now again bolsonaro denies the accusations here [54:14] it should be noted again the entire family has been personally politically prosecuted by the lula [54:21] administration flavio's brother eduardo has been convicted of coercion related to efforts to [54:28] pressure brazilian judicial authorities through u.s sanctions and by the way those particular the [54:34] coercion conviction there were not even allowed to be documents admitted to the court case exonerating [54:41] him based on internet and phone records those weren't allowed like i wasn't even where you said i was [54:46] to do this thing wasn't even allowed in the court kangaroo trials to the extreme in brazil his father [54:53] yar bolsonaro is currently serving 27 years and three months and is currently under house arrest [54:59] now multiple sources are now reporting uh that again the uh candidate for president flavio bolsonaro [55:08] had fled brazil with his wife and two daughters for the united states defying travel restriction [55:14] now a senior state department official and here's where it gets spicy a senior state department official [55:20] has confirmed that the u.s department of state will issue visas to flavio and his family and allow [55:25] them entry into the united states that is very very good now federal deputy gilmar tato uh of the [55:37] chamber of deputies said today uh that they're just going to go after anyone who are called quote [55:44] bolsonarista bolsonaristas now the the original clip here which is of course in portuguese [55:52] lula ganhou eleição agora é o seguinte quem deve i ain't got time to listen to that babble from [56:00] individuals with star wars names uh so anywho um we actually have a jar jar tato's uh uh little [56:06] speech here a very fascistic speech may i add here um 11 labs coming in clutch yet again as we do here on [56:13] the tony kennedy cast we don't make you read little subtitles here's the speech translated lula won the [56:18] election so here's the deal whoever's guilty has got to go to jail the father is already in jail we [56:24] thought the son was going to be right there with him was going to be right there with him by the way [56:29] someone needs to check if the father really still has gout if he still has hiccups so so he's questioning [56:37] the medical exemption for yarbo scenario being put on house arrest they want to see any political [56:42] opponents suffer again when elisa slotkin gets in front of the university of chicago and says very [56:49] very plainly before everyone and i want to make this clear she said it so plainly to the entire room [56:57] that she wanted to go after the trump administration in a way that made it impossible for any youths to [57:07] go into work for a republican administration without fear of legal trouble so that's what i'm saying i want [57:13] to look at these signature cases and not just focus on the president but on the people who enabled him [57:19] i want young people coming out of school to say should i go work for the trump administration like [57:24] that sounds fun i might get an opportunity i want them to be like again as we pointed out with michael [57:29] correct you might get an opportunity that's part of working foreign administration that's the point [57:36] i interned for governor scott walker's office when i was in college and i worked with people alongside [57:42] those who when i was interning with governor walker's office who did not agree with me politically [57:46] but they did their job very very well and they got opportunities based on it as they should that's how [57:52] internships were internships are supposed to be about networking the idea that the left gets to play this [57:57] game where like they're allowed all of the opportunities and you have to suffer and and and [58:02] essentially you're not allowed to know anyone see anyone hear anyone unless you pass their [58:07] dei and and social stigma marxist tests is ridiculous lord that might be buying myself [58:15] a ton of problems that the fruition to this from the former cia officer is is this is the finished [58:22] product because that stuff clears up that stuff cures fast because he has to go back behind bars he [58:29] can't just live the good life house with a pool barbecue pit yeah home gym right there at his place in [58:36] that mansion here in brazilia what kind of prison is that house arrest i think it's about time he goes [58:42] back and a lot more people are going to get locked up i have info from the federal police that they're [58:48] going to arrest a lot of bolsonaristas i have oh oh excuse me information that they're going to arrest [58:54] a lot or just anyone who's even associated with a political movement prison in brazil ladies and [59:00] gentlemen now it's not clear just yet by the way i want to make this explicitly clear there have been no [59:07] open statements from the uh u.s embassy in brazil uh or from the uh brazilian embassy in the uh united [59:18] states well you know what i just want to make extra sure give me just a a hot second here so this uh [59:26] from uh dictator lula down excuse me presidente uh lula down in brazil quote i've had many invitations to [59:35] leave brazil and i've had many invitations to seek refuge in an embassy i decided to stay here in brazil i [59:40] decided to surrender myself to the federal police because i wanted to unmask my accusers and prove my [59:45] innocence and here i am being elected for another term because of you political prosecution for the [59:51] enemy hilarious hilarious indeed so again good for the state department issuing uh visas very good the [1:00:01] president also in corpus christi uh called this pattern of behavior out today decimate texas oil [1:00:10] and gas mutilate your children and give 25 million illegal aliens amnesty and the right to vote what [1:00:18] they're doing with the you know for years i would i just couldn't believe because they cheat so well i [1:00:23] figured they didn't have to do this they're the greatest cheaters of elections i think in history [1:00:28] although uh brazil's doing a pretty good job also aren't that did you see that one that was that [1:00:32] nice i mean i was i didn't take sides but i didn't like it didn't look too good or you can just by the [1:00:39] way the reason that he's he's the president saying that he's not taking sides here for those of you who [1:00:44] are like wow could he not trump has started doing something in the last six or seven months that i think [1:00:48] you need to know if you haven't picked up on it yet it's not something that he's always done but it's a [1:00:52] very good thing there was a day that either marco rubio the secretary of state the national security [1:00:56] advisor the chief capital architect the national archivist the coach of the miami dolphins sat down [1:01:02] or suzy wiles the chief of staff sat down with the president and said hey when you haven't been [1:01:08] briefed on everything because you're focusing on everything on planet earth and you have to know [1:01:12] everything at once you just say i haven't chosen a side and i'm going to look into it that's and by [1:01:17] the way great answer politically great answer politically now it doesn't work when it's like [1:01:22] the person that i i went to egypt with on camels sexually assaulted young girls [1:01:28] ruben gallego trying to say i didn't know i know i have never heard anything you can't do it then [1:01:33] but for elections around the world if you haven't looked into it yet and rubio's like we're looking [1:01:38] into it hold on mr president there will be a time that that would be on on that particular side so [1:01:45] before we get into some of the uh mail time questions for tonight by the way have a question [1:01:50] for mail time down in our description there's a link to the discord highly recommend joining us over [1:01:54] 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don't wanna i don't wanna get over to there let's talk about some of the [1:02:52] israeli election stuff so israelis uh israel's national election ended in a deadlock exit polls [1:02:59] showing that neither benjamin netanyahu's block nor the opposition uh secured the 61 seats that were [1:03:04] needed for a majority in the parliament parliamentary multi-party systems are awful they're awful for a lot [1:03:11] of reasons this would in fact be one of them you don't have definitive you just have gridlocky chaos [1:03:16] that makes it worse for everyone uh but anywho the the exit polls from earlier today essentially [1:03:24] netanyahu's block is at 50 seats the jewish opposition to netanyahu is at 52 and then the [1:03:29] arab-led parties are at 18. no camp has a 61 seat majority say well hey well the the jewish opposition [1:03:35] at 52 can ally with the arab-led parties at 18 and they can oust netanyahu right nope uh one of the [1:03:42] main promises of the quote opposition block was that they would never in any way shape or form [1:03:49] ally with the arab party officials so there was a record turnout [1:03:57] um very very significant here we're keeping an eye on it there's just coalition uncertainty right [1:04:03] now now there are people people think that the issue is that like netanyahu is really really on [1:04:07] the far right in israel no in a lot of ways netanyahu is the moderate in israel there are those in the [1:04:15] opposition who just want israel to say screw it and just take gaza and take the west bank which by the [1:04:21] way the correct that is uh the correct answer but politics is a rough game the international diplomacy [1:04:27] is a rough game you can't always just go through stomping boy big boy style unless you're the us of [1:04:31] a and then you should quit listening to everyone calling you names and just do the stuff um waging [1:04:38] war the old testament way wins wars waging wars the nikki haley way loses wars but again israeli politics [1:04:47] is its own special the reason i bring all of this up to you because again we're still waiting on the [1:04:53] this kind of negotiated coalition government it's going to take weeks maybe compromises smaller [1:04:58] parties all other kinds of nonsense the prediction markets polymarket and kalshi had oh man netanyahu [1:05:06] losing by just an absolute time 80 bajillion seats against him he was going to have no seats at all the [1:05:12] people put their money on it that means it's very serious that means it's re it's very important [1:05:18] gambling doesn't confirm legitimacy to anything oh how many people's lives have been ruined because [1:05:27] they had the best of information that said that this horse or that this team was going to pull away [1:05:32] and it was going to be amazing no following public sentiment is retarded populism is not a measure of [1:05:43] actual political momentum it can be a bellwether it can be a useful add-on it can be mixed in and then [1:05:50] baked at 350 until golden brown betting markets are not at all a great measure case in point the [1:05:57] midterms and you know what if i'm wrong well then you know i'll be eating crow at that point the israeli [1:06:03] stuff's not over it's not i was expecting at least some public statements of significance at this point [1:06:09] and yeah i'm i'm just not seeing it right here and uh and and right now um so that all said and aside [1:06:20] now it's time for a little bit of the good old-fashioned mail time [1:06:24] so as a quick reminder for the mail time section of the show you head down to the link in the [1:06:37] description now again some of you leave your questions here in the live chat and you can [1:06:41] but sometimes the live chat moves so freaking quickly we don't have the ability to get all of [1:06:46] the questions that are sent in so for better and for worse for the good questions and the really [1:06:52] awful stinkers let's head to some of those beautiful mail time questions we had a lot of them come in [1:06:58] over the weekend as well um so a lot of people have been asking me to go into detail on all of these [1:07:06] constitutional amendments on different ballots around the country some of them local some of them [1:07:12] statewide kind of constitutional amendments and propositions and things i will try before the [1:07:18] midterm coverage to go over some of those with y'all but i don't have a list of them ready yet [1:07:24] and some of them are a little complicated because gee a lot of people didn't learn from virginia [1:07:29] and they've written very convoluted constitutional amendments and proposals for people to vote on [1:07:34] which by the way i despise i hate proposition ballot stuff i hate that i don't think that's you [1:07:41] we're a republic you're supposed to elect people to make the laws you're not supposed to just say hey [1:07:46] do you want things and stuff and then people say yeah i want some things and stuff that's [1:07:51] not how it's supposed to work so um democracy by the people and for the people but the people are [1:07:58] retarded as the the one imam once said more accurately than he knew uh so that said let's go [1:08:06] to some of the really good and the really really awful questions tonight um and there there are a lot of [1:08:12] them uh so one person says hey uh let's talk about kushner and the recent allegations uh the vanity [1:08:20] fair and the new worker i do not care very much about allegations on on jared kushner and donald trump [1:08:26] jr for this reason and this reason alone i've already said here and on the show yeah i think that both [1:08:31] of them should probably likely get a little bit of a senate investigation yep and i've never been a [1:08:36] person who said they should be involved with a ton of stuff i don't like it i don't like the crypto [1:08:40] crap i don't like the real estate crap i don't care for it so new little allegations also if the [1:08:45] new yorker and vanity fair didn't have to retract something every five minutes i'd probably use the [1:08:49] more sources so if you ever start hearing me issue a bunch of like praise for elected officials [1:08:55] and then they start getting hit with stuff and i don't report on it that's the point that you should [1:09:00] be concerned little ambassadary people that are sent places i don't i don't really i don't i i [1:09:07] don't care for it but is if kushner is taking on the docket checks from the united states [1:09:14] then yeah we'll we'll i'll care about it a little bit more um on that side again i don't think that [1:09:19] you should be anywhere near it i don't think the crypto stuff should have been happening either [1:09:23] but again i you know those things already have been you know said and kind of stated [1:09:29] um one from a user named old enough to know better uh can people who participated in prediction [1:09:34] markets file a class action lawsuit against fraudulent polling companies nope nope you bet money my dude [1:09:42] that's on you you bet that the weather's gonna be sunny tomorrow and the meteorologist sucks that's [1:09:48] on you gambling is really dumb sorry i know a lot of you do it it doesn't change it it's dumb [1:09:56] now virginia grace we're gonna pitch to her in a little bit here uh she's got uh some mid-market [1:10:01] coverage that is really really really excellent and i i do want you guys to get a chance to check some [1:10:06] of that out uh before we are done for the evening um but i'm getting a little bit ahead of myself right now [1:10:14] next excellent mail time question here um the polls this is from denver dean the polls show [1:10:21] democrats are ahead in a lot of states well how does that benefit them in the election i remember [1:10:26] in 2016 that hillary clinton was way ahead in the polls but then donald trump he came around and he [1:10:32] won very bigly so the answer is that it is demoralizing to hear that you are behind a tsunami [1:10:40] so there there is the bandwagon effect um there's a for example you know the betting markets and a lot [1:10:48] of the polls are trying very very very hard to flip iowa blue virginia grace is going to talk about that [1:10:53] on the midterm market here in in just a minute however just because you can kind of get people [1:11:01] out and suggest the demoralization the american people don't really trust these polls as an institute [1:11:06] anymore so it doesn't do as much as it used to the the real answer is getting for example um janet mills [1:11:14] to drop out of the uh senate primary against graham platner in maine that was the purpose of that [1:11:21] um so let's see let's keep looking through here um um a couple of other key questions um for this [1:11:35] evening how close were how close are we to have riots in the usa like in london uh i don't think as [1:11:43] much because of the current administration you we have seen some riots like that but just not as [1:11:47] much because also we haven't imported as much of the third world and this administration has in [1:11:51] fact deported a lot of individuals who are problems and the trump administration doesn't [1:11:56] seem to be all that miffed about sending in the national guard um one says do i think that omar will [1:12:04] resign from her minneapolis seat from the u.s house of representatives i doubt it i think that she's [1:12:09] going to try to make them arrest her um a very kind uh high on fiber felting says uh 20 super chat uh [1:12:16] help uh keep up the great work keeping us informed that's very kind one person recently asked hey [1:12:20] where does the super chat money goes that goes to youtube and then to the daily signal now [1:12:24] theoretically you could go to dailysignal.com donate if you are so itching to donate and [1:12:30] donate there directly and it may be a tax write-off but you didn't hear that from me so um one user [1:12:39] by the name of endo asks if i do in fact bother to put pants on uh yes tonight it's jeans i don't do [1:12:46] the whole no pants thing under the desk although uh my my what i'm wearing doesn't always necessarily [1:12:51] match up top um i don't wear like black with brown i'm not a heathen um my dumb question of [1:12:58] the day is there any truth to the data republican coup or is it just another conspiracy theory there [1:13:08] is a user on social media by the name of data republican she is a very nice lady um she got [1:13:13] caught in a very stupid leak mole email catch and then she shared that with the public so the state [1:13:20] department has its own contractors and then the department of war has its own contractors uh data [1:13:28] republican is a social media user who was contracted and there are a very special group of government [1:13:35] contractors who are let's call them personalities kurt schlichter was one of them i have alluded to [1:13:41] others who have done some kind of contracting work for the government at certain times for things that [1:13:47] are way less cool than they sound and uh some people think that they're very very important and there [1:13:54] was a big coup against them to get them out of places nope don't fall for mole catching emails [1:14:00] would be my personal advice also drawing attention to special government contractors [1:14:07] because you're mad you got caught is really sad and petty despite the fact that data republicans pretty [1:14:12] good on numbers and a lot of stuff again i met her she's nice but she stepped in that bear trap herself [1:14:19] sorry now that's my that's my answer to i didn't think it was a dumb question either [1:14:23] um holstein heifer asks tony could you categorically answer this about political power hierarchy which [1:14:30] federal judges or courts supersede supreme court decisions well the answer to that is is obviously [1:14:34] the supreme court technically supersedes all congress technically supersedes the federal judges they can [1:14:41] bring in the judges and impeach them unfortunately the founding fathers made it really really difficult [1:14:45] to get rid of federal judges yeah i i think the senate threshold of of two-thirds is and was at the time [1:14:53] ridiculous now again there was a time that was also direct appointees by the states and that made a lot [1:14:57] more sense but alas um mark he asks uh tony who do you think will reach the moon in 2028 first the us [1:15:05] or china or will neither reach it by 2028 depends on who wins the midterms if republicans win the midterms [1:15:10] we do have some kind of jamestown-esque a little for all mankind reference for you something on the [1:15:14] moon by 2028 i don't think china is going to be able to pull it off there's too much internal discord [1:15:21] um this an earlier one a five dollar super chat from scott cohen said hey i voted uh in georgia [1:15:27] this is a couple of days ago now said i live in a very republican area and the line was very long [1:15:30] that's true um from uh telts sir uh 51 3d uh said uh hey i saw potus in michigan the other day vote [1:15:42] red vote often i have no comment on the the voting often thing um i'm keeping through some of the questions [1:15:54] here uh okay here's a pretty here's a pretty excellent one what do i think from a user by the name of [1:16:08] kitty tony what do you think about some of the liberals uh the liberal endorsing bush clan members [1:16:14] like barbara and neil um i could care less what neil says about anything and as for barbara i have [1:16:20] said this time and time i'll say it again i don't care about the first lady of the united states when [1:16:25] she's the first lady you being slept with by the president means nothing to me that means nothing to [1:16:31] me i don't care what jackie kennedy did i don't i don't care i never cared about nancy reagan i didn't [1:16:40] care i i you know the hillary clinton stuff was what she had a purpose because she was a senator [1:16:47] michelle obama never cared never once cared never cared about barbara bush never once cared about [1:16:52] melania trump i i don't she's nice sure i don't care they should have no power whatsoever the first [1:16:58] lady you being slept with should not mean that you're special at all i'm sorry should she be respected [1:17:04] yeah i mean again having met usha vance the second lady of the united states once phenomenal [1:17:09] lady very very nice very kind could tell by one glance looking at me that i hadn't eaten all day [1:17:15] that's a mom right there lovely lady if i met melania extremely gracious first lady of the united [1:17:20] states so respect for the position shouldn't have any political power don't really care what it is [1:17:24] they do or don't do whenever they're a first lady of the united states that's my that's my take [1:17:29] i don't care what their political their political opinions i don't i don't care about what [1:17:34] someone's mother of a campaign says about them i don't care about second cousin i don't care what [1:17:39] the pope's brother thinks about the pope i don't i don't care relatives mean nothing when it comes to [1:17:45] that again the blood born in battle is thicker than the water of the womb that is the shakespearean [1:17:53] quote it is not blood is thicker than water that's a misquote that's a very big difference from the [1:17:58] millennials from earlier generations is that just because you have family ties to something [1:18:01] unless you're ilhan omar and you're marrying those family ties that means little to me it means a lot [1:18:05] less unless you're talking about financial ties and then that's a little difference um uh one thing [1:18:18] i've been so one guy by the name of okie kev says hey one thing i've been wondering today is how likely [1:18:23] do you believe it might be for folks to see the tanker coming into corpus christi today and realize [1:18:28] this administration is doing everything they can to mitigate the adverse impacts of the war in iran on [1:18:32] our bottom line at the household i just don't think i look y'all i just i just don't think that i i think [1:18:46] it's a little too late at this point for people to change their minds people have made up their [1:18:50] minds already they have i don't think like last minute rallies are making a huge difference on [1:18:55] that side other than getting people out who may not have come out to vote we're just kind of going [1:18:59] to sit at home anyway that's my take on it maybe i'm wrong i could be i think it's a little late to [1:19:03] be changing minds trump has been office or in the political realm so long now that the political [1:19:08] sections of this country have crystallized um you know that's my my personal take um also i see another [1:19:17] super chat one person very kindly said a donation for your church tony the super chats guys i don't [1:19:22] have access to those to like grab and donate now i will take five dollars and um throw an extra five [1:19:28] in the plate that you've listed as a donation to my church in newcastle that's very very kind of you [1:19:33] i will i will transfer that as it were um but i don't that that goes to the daily signal not to me [1:19:39] i don't have a way that you can just put money into my pocket right now i want to make that clear [1:19:42] and i'm okay with that keep your money i really appreciate it genuinely seriously that's very very [1:19:48] kind of you you don't need to do that again dailysignal.com donate it'll get your tax write [1:19:53] off and you don't have to worry about me we're fine all right i'm just happy you guys have tuned in at [1:19:58] all really i'm not joking i'm not saying that to be modest either uh so um from zilla rating tony how [1:20:06] do you know what the voting numbers are excellent question absolutely excellent question allow me to [1:20:12] give you my example so there is there are a couple of accounts on x you can set up things called [1:20:18] lists and i have different lists for things one of them are from those who post and analyze the direct [1:20:23] electoral data so on this side of things um warren county ohio this is according to a guy who goes [1:20:31] by the name of at tonorus his uh his actual name is latinx adjacent doctor phd uh and it's a a an [1:20:41] electoral voting data analysis account who was very very correct in 2024 very like very very [1:20:47] correct so he just posts like for example um oh i accidentally zoomed in i feel very boomer-esque [1:20:53] please forgive me for the joke here uh warren county 2026 in-person voting numbers behold it's the [1:21:00] numbers for warren county beautiful magical in fact that's warren county ohio by the way um republicans [1:21:11] doubled their vote yesterday compared to democrats yesterday in warren county ohio florida did the [1:21:17] same throughout the state that's where i'm getting my data i'm actually pulling numbers and there are [1:21:23] two reasons why number one if i'm wrong you could fact check me at any time any way any place any shape [1:21:27] you sure could um however i i just like having the receipts that means that when i'm wrong i can say i [1:21:35] read the data wrong that's much better than source i made it up that's retarded and if i ever start doing [1:21:40] that leave immediately if i start going it was revealed to me in a dream leave because i've [1:21:46] become a black lesbian if i ever start saying well i mean you just have to think about it [1:21:52] then leave immediately and if i ever get botox leave because i've become jennifer welch [1:21:57] everything jd vance's kids or leave if that's the case all right so but hopefully that hasn't happened [1:22:05] uh just yet now moving on and uh on to some of the the last of the mail time questions here um tony [1:22:15] i live in a blue county in kansas there's a lot of optimism that adam hamilton will win [1:22:19] how likely do we think that royal kansas will show up to keep marge roger marshall in office [1:22:23] i think that so far the numbers are i don't see the flipping of canada and iowa [1:22:29] yet we'll we'll let virginia cover that here in just a second um is there any chance we can get [1:22:36] some kind of printout for your picks next week just to follow along maybe make bingo cards there is [1:22:44] a channel in our discord uh that has a drinking game for i guess whenever i pick up pearls or take [1:22:50] off my glasses or pull out crayons or say the things i say all the time because i have those [1:22:55] same adhd ticks if you want to call them that and i believe we have placed the three prediction charts [1:23:03] for the senate and the house seats and things over in those channels but for our election night coverage [1:23:09] we've got all kinds of stuff coming i mean it's it's we've got some fun tools and things for you [1:23:14] um so let's uh thoughts on nikki minaj being interviewed by stephen cheng to have a chance [1:23:22] to be the white house press secretary again i don't i think it's hilarious i think nikki would [1:23:27] not be a great press secretary for obvious reasons the funniest thing that i think is that donald trump [1:23:33] got up on stage and he's like have you ever looked at have you ever looked at uh who is it is it john [1:23:39] houston's ass looked at it look at his derriere it's so it's there it's a nice it's a nice ass and then [1:23:45] right after that he gets up on stage drawing and goes nikki minaj she's got quite the caboose [1:23:55] this election is something else i mean good lord i i don't care i mean it whatever whatever [1:24:02] i don't care about the press secretary i think that it should be someone who knows what they're [1:24:06] doing i think that they're not i think they just gave her an interview for the fun of it [1:24:09] the the reaction to things as often as entertaining as the thing itself [1:24:14] um now do i think by the way that data republican is correct about the riots and the mob discontent [1:24:20] that's allegedly planned yeah i mean of course i i mean i absolutely do think so i think it's [1:24:26] planned by china she's right there by the way she's right i just disagree with the the conspiracy thing [1:24:30] on her being fired as to like the the elect the like the uh her take on um you know you know as to [1:24:40] her take on the the the planning of the migrants and the socialist writing i mean yeah i think she's [1:24:46] right she's very smart i just i have personal odd against her on the the contracting thing [1:24:51] am i still confident with my republican holding on to the house in the senate prediction [1:24:55] uh my answer to that is i'm very confident that republicans hold the senate now i am [1:24:58] very very confident republicans hold the senate i am moderately confident republicans gain a seat [1:25:03] in the senate i am pretty confident republicans keep the house pretty i i'm still unsure but i've [1:25:11] already told you why i don't know about the house voting numbers for districts yet which is why i [1:25:15] said i don't have the data for that yet so i'm still kind of wondering again the trump [1:25:19] administration holding a rally in corpus christi that's what that was for do i think that we're [1:25:24] heading for a color revolution no not yet the left moves way too fast and way too early and they're [1:25:28] retarded um oh barbara the daughter bush yeah i don't care about that either um ipone kyle asks [1:25:37] hey tones would you rather always be itchy or always be sticky always be sticky i hate being itchy i [1:25:42] hate it more than anything on planet earth i freaking hate it um okay for preppers uh [1:25:51] our government's in court encouraging people to store a bunch of stuff because they believe war [1:25:55] this is a social media like rumor that's just gone way way way and above and no no i don't i [1:26:04] wars and rumors of wars the rumors of wars are really sexy for people that's my that's my little [1:26:08] extra um my little extra take on that all right let's see any last uh last little mail questions here [1:26:17] uh when did you start being a puppet for putin well um given that i have called russia a fascist [1:26:26] country as it is um just because i say that i think that ukraine is a corrupt country doesn't [1:26:33] mean that i want russia to win anything i want that crew to have a pretty bad time again i said that [1:26:43] in 2025 the lines were going to solidify where they were as victor davis hansen said and everyone [1:26:48] should go ahead and call it quits i also wish for putin to fall from a very tall building [1:26:54] um just because i don't talk about the russo ukraine war every day doesn't mean that i don't [1:26:59] follow it or that i'm pulling for anyone that's my answer there i i love the who am i who am i in [1:27:05] the pocket of um i wear this blazer more than any other blazer on the show combined and it's not [1:27:12] because i'm rolling in the dough homie so you know that side of uh that that side of uh you know you [1:27:21] know that particular point um one other user uh asked why i was using the term eskimo yesterday [1:27:27] because that's very very very very um i i'm very very offensive so i want to make this clear i guess [1:27:37] you know it's time to issue an apology or or something so let's you know let's let's do this [1:27:43] right make sure we do this right i said eskimo yesterday um and to that person i'd like to make [1:27:51] this you know very very clear um she says that is an insult to them either use alaska natives or in [1:28:00] upiat or afka baskin or eluute or hyundai or to pipsy pipsy men uh as an actual card-carrying native [1:28:10] and not an old uh left-leaning white lady in a sweater i don't care i don't care i i will sit in [1:28:18] my actual not elizabeth warren cherokee what tp on my buffalo hide or something and i will [1:28:27] wave to eskimos and their igloos i don't care that age is over um to quote the vice president [1:28:33] i really don't care margaret so hoping you have a lovely evening and that whoever your family is [1:28:39] gives you a big eskimo kiss before you go to bed um so those things all said and aside hopefully [1:28:48] y'all have a very fantastic very fantastic evening i'm gonna pivot you over to the excellent uh [1:28:55] virginia grace midterm market report real quick here and hey we'll catch you soon after that it's [1:29:00] the tony kennedy cast here on the daily signal nationally syndicated first on 93 wibc a week [1:29:05] out from the midterm election which could upend the balance of power for republicans in washington [1:29:11] all eyes are on iowa to see if farmers will break the norm and vote blue or stick with republicans on [1:29:17] today's midterm markets let's dive into this emerging battleground state from the senate and [1:29:21] governor's race to three key house races this state still can't seem to make up its mind let's see what [1:29:27] the betters think in one of the most watched races this cycle sitting congresswoman ashley hinson is [1:29:32] looking for a promotion to the senate and she's up against democrat josh turek over 6.3 million dollars [1:29:38] is riding on this race in calci with millions more spent by candidates and outside groups primarily [1:29:44] attacking the other side instead of supporting themselves the prediction markets have seriously [1:29:49] narrowed since they opened back in 2025 but nearly every day the bets are up and down as betters [1:29:55] continue to pour money into this race right now the polls and markets are actually telling a similar [1:29:59] story with hinson at 59 percent and turek at 41 in the prediction markets recent polling also has [1:30:05] hinson up by a few points which as we've seen by now is unusual for a competitive republican candidate [1:30:11] now over in the governor's race bettors are seriously favoring democrat state auditor [1:30:16] rob sand over maha republican zach lon sand is at 83 percent while lon is sitting down at 18 percent [1:30:23] polls also favor sand did republicans pick the wrong candidate in lon should they have gone with trump's [1:30:28] pick or will the anti-pesticide farmer pull through tomorrow rfk jr and former trump maha advisor [1:30:35] cali means will be in iowa campaigning with lon at a make iowa healthy again rally in a final push just [1:30:41] a week out now let's get into the house races in iowa's first congressional district incumbent [1:30:45] republican marionette miller meeks is in a 2024 rematch against democrat christina bohannon whom she [1:30:52] narrowly beat by fewer than a thousand votes two years ago starting in september the prediction market [1:30:57] lines began to diverge as bohannon has held a significant lead ever since now they sit almost as far [1:31:04] apart as they can possibly get with miller meeks at just over nine percent and bohannon at a whopping [1:31:10] 92 percent there's another interesting signal here earlier this month mike johnson's congressional [1:31:15] leadership fund pulled planned ad spending from the district but miller meeks's campaign told the [1:31:21] daily signal quote it has the resources to win end quote and predicted that on november 3rd she'll [1:31:26] beat bohannon for a third time then there's iowa's second district republican joe mitchell 29 is vying [1:31:32] to become one of the youngest members of congress running against democrat lindsey james it's the [1:31:37] smallest prediction market we've seen but betters still have over a hundred thirty thousand dollars [1:31:42] riding on the race mitchell took a big dip in the markets this week when a vulgar video of him in [1:31:47] college was leaked in a last minute october surprise and the timing couldn't have been much more dramatic [1:31:52] the video was leaked as trump came to iowa to help republicans win the president will be back in the [1:31:58] state november 1st finally iowa's third district the polls have the district leaning democrat but the [1:32:03] prediction markets show an even bigger gap republican incumbent zach nunn has a 15 chance of winning [1:32:09] according to the prediction markets while sarah tron garriott is up at 84 percent but watch these [1:32:15] numbers we could see them move tonight when the two finally face off in a debate and speaker mike johnson [1:32:20] will be in iowa the very next day to campaign with none