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It is Verdict with Center, Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you.

It is election night in America.

I am in Israel right now.

It's about six fourteen in the morning in Israel.

I don't even know what time it is in Washington, d C.

Right now.

That's how jetlagged I am.

And we are doing a joint podcast today with Verdict with Ted Cruz, my show, the Ben Ferguson podcasts as well, to cover everything going on with the election and also some incredible moments in Israel.

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Well, listen, it is eleven to fourteen pm in Washington, D C.

And then I got to say tonight was a terrible night for Republicans.

It was a terrible night for conservatives, and it was a terrible night for America.

The damage in New York City, the damage in Virginia, the damage in New Jersey, the damage in California has been enormous.

We're going to break down this really disappointing and dangerous electoral result that happened tonight.

We're also going to talk about the fact that Ben is on the ground in Israel.

What is he seeing, who is he meeting with?

What is the dynamic.

Israel has just won a war.

They have just defeated Iran in a twelve day war.

They are still battling Hamas.

There's an historic peace steel that President Trump has negotiated, but Hamas is resisting and violating the peace steel.

We're going to talk about what Ben is seeing on the ground, all of that on today's verdict.

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So centator, as I sit here right now and many of you are going to get to watch this on YouTube, as we're also putting this up on YouTube.

This episode.

I am in Israel.

This is my first time.

So I've had five trips planned to come to Israel.

The first four got canceled, one from COVID, the other three because of wars that had broken out.

This dates back all the way in two thousand and four, thousand and five and the first time I'm supposed to go to Israel, and I cannot tell you you've been here.

Just being able to do simple things like going to the Whaling Wall, staying here in Jerusalem have been a spiritual journey that I would tell everyone listening to verdict right now it is safe to come to Israel right now.

That is the one thing that's very clear from the ceasefire.

There are lots of people coming back to see this incredible country.

But if you are a person of faith and you've experienced this, coming to Israel connects so many dots.

I was at the Sea of Galilee yesterday and getting to witness a historians and religious leaders were telling the stories of the Bible, where it was the Beatitudes, where there was walking on water, whether it was the fish that continued to feed, seeing the miracles of Jesus before your very eyes, overlooking this incredible country, while at the same time being moments away from where this war was taking place and people are being killed.

Was a somber but special moment.

So, Ben, have you been to Israel before?

Is this first trip?

This is my pilgrimage very first time ever?

Well, it is amazing.

I've been a number of times is and it is a breathtaking place.

It is a place all of history converges on.

It is the birthplace of Christianity, is the birthplace of Judaism.

In Israel and Jerusalem.

You walk down roads the city of David, which is this underground archaeological excavation under Jerusalem.

You walk down the road from from the Pool of Shiloh to the old Temple where Jesus most certainly walked, and you walk along it and there are platforms that a street preacher and itinerant preacher would stand and preach on, and you stand.

I've stood on those platforms, and it takes your breath away that Jesus Christ almost certainly stood on this particular piece of stone addressing the crowd of the Israelites who were there in Jerusalem, the Sea of Galilee.

You look at you imagine Jesus walking up to to Peter, walking up to fishermen and saying follow me and let me make you fishers of men and not just fishermen.

And it is it's a beautiful place.

It is a profound place.

So tell me when did you arrive and what have you done on the ground at Israel.

So arrived on Monday after delayed flight missed missed a flight because of actually the shutdown is what we're told with And then we had a time out with with with the with the air traffic controllers and also the crew on the plane.

So we sat on the tarmac for about five hours in Houston and then they said you got to get the plane.

We've lost our crew because of the rules.

And this is a TSA.

And it was at the very beginning of kind of the break.

Are you part of a broader group or like, what what's the reason for going to Israel?

Yeah, So I was asked to come over from the Israeli government and also came with the CEO of i f CJ, the International Fellowship of Christian Jews.

There is a a Christian Leadership conference happening here as well at the same time.

That is, it is one that's been postponed because of the war and so I was asked to speak at that.

This is a conference where bb is speaking, where you have the Mayor of Jerusalem is speaking, you have the US ambassador Mikuckabee as well, and it is bringing Christians together back to the to the Holy Land.

But then what also has happens.

They've set up these incredible moments and tours where I've been able to meet with some of the victims of the war and go and see where the war is taking placed.

So yesterday we actually went to the border with Syria and with Lebanon and went literally to where we could see Hesblah looking at us.

And we met with the parents of the kids who were killed on the soccer field.

Tell us about that.

Yeah, So last night I have and I will try not to get emotional, but it's hard not to.

I was asked to come and to meet with the families, some of the families who children.

There was twelve children that were killed while playing soccer on a soccer field.

It made international news.

We covered it on this show, and they asked me if I would meet with the families and hear the family stories.

And I was there and the parents were talking of this was one of the little girls.

You can see who died and her mother was the first one to speak, and she was the age of the kids wanted to tell the story.

They were all different ages.

They were very young to a seventeen year old if I remember correctly.

Some of it was through translation, but you can kind of see the different ages here.

Some of them are obviously most were younger, but you can see there someone's a little bit older and junior high.

You can see that's one of the oldest kids there.

And and that was you know, it's it's incredible.

But we sat there and we were hearing their stories, these kids, and at the very end, they said they'd like to present me with things.

I didn't know they were going to do this, and I put the picture of on social media, but the mother of this young girl said that they wanted to give me something.

And I did see the ball before they brought it out, but these pictures on this ball, so people understand their stickers, they're handmade.

And they said they wanted to say thank you for standing up for their kids and for telling their story to the world, because they they want people to understand what it's like to live in Israel and what was taken from them.

From by the way, these were children that were doing nothing.

They were they were playing on a soccer field.

There were being kids and suddenly Hesbala rocket came over and killed them all.

Yeah, and it was a the way that they described it was they didn't care who they killed.

There was there was a lot of media spend that well, this this soccer field maybe wasn't directly target.

Hesbla doesn't care who they killed.

They just want to kill Jews, one of the.

Other and one of the points men.

That's important with both Hesbela and Hamas.

Most of the rockets they fire have no guidance systems, so they literally a fire rocket in the air towards Israel, filled with explosives, many times filled with anti personnel shrapnel, ball bearings and nails and screws and things that would rip human flesh apart, and they just fire them towards Israel because they figure, you know what, they're Jews over there, so let's just kill as many of them as we can, and whether it kills little kids.

Normally, in the vast majority of the times, military targets are not the targets.

It's just fire it towards Israel and if we killed Jews, we celebrate.

And that tragically is what happened at the soccer field.

It's exactly what happened.

And not far from where that soccer field attack happened, we went to an orchard.

What's one thing that you learn so much from being here, But there is a lot of farming that has done in Israel.

Israel does an amazing job with water and turning saltwater into fresh water.

It is what is kept this country alive and not dependent on others, especially in war when people would shut off water to Israel.

It's the desert and what they've done is unbelievable.

We talked about that, learned about that, but we went to a basically a kabutz.

It's a neighborhood.

And in that neighborhood, you know what they you know what they.

In Northern Israel, southern Israel, where the where's the kabuts?

You went to the tip of northern on the opposite side of where the attack happened.

The initial attack happened in October.

This okay, so right by the Golong border.

With Lebedon and Hesbelah.

So if you're looking at the map, this would be in Syria hes Blah at the northern point, and they started us there because they said they wanted us to understand that the gold and by the way, for folks from both sides, for.

Folks at home to understand.

So Israel is a very small nation.

It's about the size of the state of New Jersey.

Yeah.

Where October seventh happened was in the southern part of Israel.

It's right by the Gaza Strip.

The Gaza Strip is along the Mediterranean in the southern part.

And Hamas, which is the terrorist major terrorist organization in the Gaza Strip, entered into southern Israel and murdered over twelve hundred Israelis, aped women and little girls, took over two hundred Israelis hostage.

It was also one of the worst American terrorist attacks ever, as we saw dozens of Americans murdered, dozens of Americans taken hostage.

Now northern Israel, which is up by Lebanon and Syria, what you have up there is Hesbela, hesbel As, a different terrorist organization.

Both Hesbela and Hamas their patron is Iran, and Iran funds over ninety percent of Hamas's budget.

Iran funds over ninety percent of Hesbel's budget.

When October seventh first erupted, Israel quite rightly declared we are going to utterly destroy Hamas.

There was an interesting period that extended for weeks and then even a couple of months where it wasn't clear if Hamas would be or rather Hesbela would be drawn into this.

Hamas was the restaurant October seventh, and Hesbela had the opportunity just to shut up and not engage, and then Hesbela pretty quickly decided, no, we want to raise our hand, we want to engage, and began just just firing rockets, a massive barrage of rockets in northern Israel.

About sixty percent of all the rockets on hand that Hesbla had in their arsenal were shot during this war.

Repeat that, that's a powerful.

Statement, sixty percent.

And as we had our briefing from the Israeli government, we actually went to this neighborhood, this kibbutz, and in this neighborhood, their sin for being targeted by Hesbla was that they that they farm pink lady apples that we eat in the United States of America.

And by the way, much of northern Israel was evacuated because the rocket attacks were so intense that the Israelis couldn't live there anymore, because you couldn't go into your own home without risk of rock blowing it up.

And so the.

Amazing thing is Hesbla literally volunteered and said, hey, we want to be part of this, and then the Israelis carried out the Pager attack, which remained means one of the most extraordinatory military and intelligence operations I think the world has ever seen.

Where I mean, I've joked, but this is not a joke.

If you wrote the Pager Attack as a script to a movie, nobody in Hollywood would buy it.

If you wrote it as a Jason Bourne movie, they say, this is ridiculous.

You're telling me.

Israel creates a shell company in Hong Kong.

Builds pagers advanced.

Years in advance, makes them heavy duty, kind of serious, hardcore pagers and in beds where the battery would be a tiny little explosive.

Then gets this shell company in Hong Kong to sell the pagers to Hesbela, Like, how the hell do you do that?

I don't know how you sell pagers to Hesbela, but the Masad does, Israel does sells them to Hesbela, and then this remains the single most targeted military and intelligence attack I think in history, because it was Hesbela leadership that decided, Okay, who is it that gets these pagers?

I'm going to give it to every crazy ass terrorist we have in lemanon the people that I want to be able to page and say, hey, would you go blow up a bus, would you go blow up at a mall?

Would you go murder children?

Take this pager?

And then Israel in a simultaneous moment, detonated all the pagers and took out every person that was injured, every person that was killed, with very minor exceptions of someone who was really close to a terrorist.

They were personally selected by the leaders of Hesbela.

Hesbela decided which terrorists died.

And by the way, within a day or two there was a second operation where Hesbela was using walkie talkies.

Those blow up and I say, yeah, by the end of it, I think every Hesbela terrorist, every Hamaster, every Iran IRGC terrorist, like every time a phone rang, they jumped.

It was extraordinary and it was a response to so what Hesbila literally volunteered and said we want to be decimated as bad as as Amas, and Israel said, well, happy to oblige.

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Right now, you go back to this neighborhood.

And as we went into this neighborhood, which the people have a lot of them have still not returned.

Some of the farmers are coming there to farm.

But Hesbelon knew the houses that they were blowing up in this neighborhood were farmers.

They knew that they were families.

And what they did would to justify their attacks early on was when the people had fled, the Israeli military would take back in to the husband of the home to go get some of their belongings before they would flee again, and they justified the military walking in the house is the reason to blow the house up.

And so I met with a farmer who had three children the exact same age as my kids.

Wow, and he was showing us his neighborhood and he was talking about how I had to come back to tend the fields because this is my home and I was literally under rocket barrage and would come to work knowing that Hezblah was targeting the houses.

And so finally after a few days that the homeowners said to the military, don't go back into my house, because as soon as you go in there, they blow up my home and everything is destroyed.

We went into a home.

The books of the children were still there, the stove was still there the way it was set.

That morning, the one of the homeowners offered me a piece of a broken pot of their home and a burner of the stove and said take it back, and a piece of their tile in their children's bathroom.

I'll put it on my desk for the rest of my life.

But to hear them talk about the brutality of Hesbla, knowing that you're blowing up a farmer's home who has never bothered you in your entire life for sport.

It was just for sport at that point, it was even killing a person pure They knew that they were, yeah, just pure sport and hatred, like we're going to blow up your neighborhood because you are Jewish.

We know you're not there, we know you have fled, but we want you to come back to destruction in ruins.

And so you've been in northern Israel.

Have you been in Tel Aviv?

Have you been in Jerusalem?

Where else have you been been in?

So?

Been in Tel Aviv as well, which is an incredible city.

I didn't realize how much it's like New York City or a major It's a very modern life city, thriving, modern city.

A lot of technology out of out of there that is actually exported to the rest of the world.

It's incredible the minds of the brilliant minds that are working in tel Aviv.

I'm staying in Jerusalem.

I do want to say.

One other things I know is.

That where you are Alice, Jerusalem?

Are you at the King David Hotel?

Yeah, I'm in Jerusalem.

I met not the King David.

I'm at the it starts with an A.

I can't remember the name.

I'd have to look around the room and find it.

But it's right at the entrance of the of the markets here, and it's a beautiful market.

That they have built this city to try to revive Jerusalem and make it even more for tourists.

It's incredible.

The people here are so kind.

But one other thing I want to mention about this trip so far is I met with the mother of one of the hostages that was taken that became unfortunately, she became famous.

If you remember the videos that came out, there is a girl that's been separated from her boyfriend.

She is in between two terrasts on a motorcycle and she's reaching out and screaming for her boyfriend who is being held with his arms and minds back by two terrasts and they're separating them.

And that video just went viral early on in the moments after he was held underground for two years without seeing sunlight and was star he was returned.

They just re reunited.

You may have seen that video of them in the hospital finally getting to see each other again and hugging and falling backwards as they hug on the hospital bed, and the mother was telling the story of her son and the trauma, the way that they were mentally tortured and lied to, that there was destruction of all of Israel, been destroyed, That they were told that their loved ones had been killed, their family members had been murdered, that no one had survived, that they were going to die, that they were going to dig their own grapes.

Some of them did to see the torment, and I think that's one of the things i will forever remember from this trip and I'm grateful for it.

Is when we talk about what this is like, the psychological warfare center and the evil of Hamas and Hezballah has no ends.

Whether it's blowing up farmers' homes for sport, whether it is killing children, is that the soccer ball and seeing these kids their only was being Jewish and playing sports, that's it looks I met.

So kill civilians are the embodiment of evil, and sadly we live in a world where where evil is plentiful.

It's incredible.

So today I'm going to be leaving with the government and going down to the side of the attack at the festival uh and I'm going to be meeting with some of the hostages there.

I'm going to hopefully tell those stories as well in one of our next episodes, because it's just telling their stories and letting people understand what happened that day, and going to go to the kibbutz that were attacked there and and tour the homes of the of the the children that were that were murdered in their cribs.

I'm going to meet with the families of the elderly that were killed, including Holocaust survivors.

I met with some Holocaust survivors that were had to are homeless in essence and had to move to Jerusalem to survive the war.

I met with them as well.

Incredible stories.

So we'll have more of that, I promise you coming up in other episodes.

But I want to say to everyone that is listening, if you are a person of faith, I I the pilgrimage to come here and to see, I think the hope of our faith and Christianity, to walk where Jesus walked, to walk where he carried the cross.

I did that the first day I was here.

Yeah.

Uh.

And to be able to just see the Sea of Galilee and witness where so much of our biblical eighty percent of the biblical history, uh, and in the in the Bible with Jesus, I got to witness from sending him one place one It's amazing to see.

And it spread to the ward where.

They believe Jesus was crucified, where they believe he was buried, and and and and where he rose again.

In Heaven.

I got to go to the tom Yeah.

Yeah, I mean standing in the tomb, I look as a believer, it takes your breath away.

Yeah.

The the the as I described it to family in a text, I said, the the level of feeling I would say the Holy Spirit in these places is something I've never felt before.

Uh.

The second closest I've ever spelt to that type of spiritual gathering of Christians was honestly Charlie Kirk's memorial and it was incredible.

Two of the biggest spiritual moments in my life have happened in the last sixty days, both in a weird way around tragedy, which also is why I think it's incredible when you're a Christian that you know that God is still a God of hope.

Amen, let's talk about bad news here at home Tuesday.

Yeah, the election, really bad election, all right, So let's start.

Let's start with Virginia.

So Virginia, we're sitting here, It's now eleven thirty six pm on the East Coast.

We have ninety five percent of the vote in and Abigail Spanberger the Democrat, has fifty seven point four percent of the vote.

When some Earl Seals has forty two point four percent.

So it's at this moment, Yeah, it is one million, nine hundred and five, four hundred and fifty two votes to one million, four hundred and twenty.

And I will say four years ago, Glenn Youngkin one and it was a great moment for American Glenn is a good friend.

Virginia turned red in this race.

Winsome and I went and helped do a fundraiser for wins a couple of weeks ago.

Winsome is an African American woman.

She's a strong conservative.

She was an immigrant from Jamaica.

She is a marine veteran.

She was a strong candidate.

She was massively outspent.

I think she was outspent more than two to one, maybe even three to one.

Yeah.

That being said, you go back to the debate between Abigail Spanberger and Winsom Earl Series.

I've never seen a more lopsided debate.

Abigail Spanberger stared ahead, refused to look at her Like you and I have both seen, I don't know, hundreds of political debates a lot.

I've never seen a political candidate refused to make eye contact with their opponent.

She literally her attitude was one of contempt, like you don't exist and you don't merit even my attention, and I got to say it makes me sad.

Look given the money.

Differentially, I'm not shocked that the Democrat won.

We're looking at right now a fifteen point win.

That is yeah, really really bad news.

It's also I think one of the things that was the most shocking about Virginia is we break this down, I'm not surprised Democrats won there.

I do think it was a left winning state.

Young and when he won, it was a perfect storm.

You and I, I think, are the first to admit that.

And I love doing this show with you.

Yeah, and I campaigned for Glenn all over Virginia.

I spent two days on the road with Glenn barnstorming the state.

We won it four years ago, but this is a different environment.

Yeah, it was a perfect storm.

And he was better funded than once.

More, no doubt about it.

But there was a perfect storm with the issue there with parents and rights and schools and the cover up of well, you're right ideology.

So it's worth remembering what happened in lowde County right before Glenn Youngkin's race, where you had a teenage boy in high school who went into a girl's bathroom in high school.

He was dressed as a girl, he was in a skirt, and he sexually assaulted He sexually assaulted a teenage girl, and the school covered it up.

They hid it, and the father of the teenage girl went to the school board confronted them and said, my daughter was raped in your school and you're you're not acknowledging this, and and and they yelled at him.

They said, no, there has never been a boy dressed as a girl who sexually assaulted anyone.

That was a lie.

By the way, this same sexual offender was transferred to another school where he sexually assaulted another girl.

Yeah, he did it again, but they ended up arresting the father of the girl, of the victim.

And that moment was such a clarifying moment.

You You also had the you know, Randy Winingarten, the head of the teachers unions campaigning with Cherry mcculluffe, the Democrat nominee, where mcculluff said, your kids are not yours to educate, we're in charge of your kids.

It was a perfect storm.

Now there was a state's property and the voters said, well, now at the same time tonight, and we're now at eleven forty pm.

Eleven forty pm with ninety four point six percent of the votes in Mikey Cheryl in New Jersey won fifty six point two percent and Jack Chittarelli won forty three point two percent.

So the it's very very similar.

The vote totals are right now, one million, seven hundred and seventy four hundred and seventy eight votes for MIKEL.

Cheryl the Democrat and one million, three hundred and sixty five and fifty two for Jack Chittarelly.

I gotta admit this is an even more surprising result for me than Virginia.

Of the three major elections tonight, I was most optimistic about New Jersey.

Chittarelli seemed an implementum that there were a bunch of Democrat mayors and elected officials that were endorsing him.

And you know, this is just that that's what a thirteen point differential as we sit here tonight, that is a massive, massive loss.

And what is disappointing is is that's not just a loss in Virginia and New Jersey, but Virginia New Jersey are historically the first off year election after a presidential election.

They are frequently a Canarian a coal mine.

So you go back to after Obama was elected, you had Virginia, New Jersey both elected Republicans and it proved a forerunner of a great Republican victory coming.

This ain't good to have double digit losses in both New Jersey and Virginia.

It is a really bad sign.

If you're a Democrat tonight, you're thrilled, you're encouraged, And if you're a conservative, you're someone who loves America.

This is a major warning sign.

And I'll say this, it's a warning sign.

But I also want to put it in perspective because these are states that are that are not Republican states, true, So I do want to put that in perspective.

I also want to say, and I want to give a little bit of hope here.

The amount of money that came in, and let's go back to Virginia for a second, was astronomical.

You had a candidate that won on the ballot in Virginia that had text messages came out saying he wanted his political opponents to die, including their children, and said in those text messages that it's only when Republicans are basically murdered, their children are killed, that then they will move to our ideology.

That is the same type of conversations that I've been having in Israel about what terrorists believe.

And yet that person also won in that race.

So I go back to Democrats are angry.

They are mobilized right now.

Mundani.

For example, in New York, which we're gonna move to in a second, and a straight up communist is now gonna be running the America's greatest city.

He just wrapped up his speech there in New York City.

But the amount of money that Democrats put into Virginia, which again is a Democrat state, we did not have a perfect storm on the issues this time like we did with Younkin last time.

I think young Kin was a better candidate.

I just want to be clear about that from a political perspective of which can it was better and Virginia we had some momentum there.

It's still a very liberal state.

Is New Jersey is a liberal state?

Yeah, But let me say a couple of things.

Number One, Virginia and New Jersey are both very liberal states.

Virginia has a ton of government workers, in northern Virginia.

The Democrats have just caused the longest government shut down in American history, and they nonetheless had any maazing on purpose victory.

It was on purpose.

So one of the things I said, the Democrats would not open the government before today because they believe the shutdown energizes their base.

I predicted we'll see the government open either later this week or early next week.

And yet apparently all of these government workers who are not getting paychecks, who haven't gotten paychecks for thirty five days, they all voted left wing.

They all voted Democrat, even the folks that Chuck Schumer and the Democrats purposely shut down their jobs, that their ideology mattered more than their own home mortgage.

And I gotta say, you under explained.

Let's also explain that the political side of Virginia for people that don't live in DC, or never have or never worked in DC.

So the majority of people that work in government in d C, and that's a lot of employees.

If you have kids, a lot of them don't live in DC.

District of Columbia is different, housing, different schooling.

A lot the majority of my friends that work in politics in DC live in Virginia.

So you talk about the jobs the.

Agree that I don't know that I would say the majority of the people, but a large percentage live in northern Virginia, a large percentage live in Maryland, and a significant percentage live in DC.

I want to take a moment and just talk to you real quick about an incredible opportunity for you to continue to expand your mind and learn, no matter what your age is.

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I mean, I think Virginia the ripple effect is maybe a better way of describing it, which is, if you live in Virginia, the chances that you are either a related or one of your very good friends is missing a paycheck right now is dreamly high.

And they didn't credits that.

They're so partisan and they wanted the governor.

They wanted it.

They're just angry, and I want to say, I want to underscore something you said.

Look, the governor's race is very disappointing.

The one that is frankly shocking is the Virginia AG race.

So j Jones the Democrat won.

He won with fifty two point nine percent.

He beat Jason Miarz.

Jason Millars is the incumbent Republican.

He's Cuban American.

Uh.

He got forty six point seven percent.

So it was as of right hand eleven forty seven.

J Jones got one million, seven hundred and three hundred and seventy votes and Millar has got one million, five hundred and thirty three, eight hundred and forty one votes.

That is truly shocking because J.

Jones is the one who texted that he wanted to see the children of the Republican Speaker of the House murder and it was at a time of political violence.

This sick, depraved psychopath.

And I'm sorry if you were wishing.

And by the way, he knew those children, that these were not abstract children.

He knew his colleague.

They were both serving in the state legislature.

He knew his colleagues children, and he said, I want to see them murdered.

He also said he wanted to see his colleague murder and at the time of glorifying violence.

And there was enormous discussion.

Now, Abigail Spangberger refused to condemn him.

And I will say the Democrats the degree of message discipline.

Not a single Democrat in Virginia that I'm aware of or nationally condemn J.

Jones for saying and writing he wanted to see the children of his political opponent murdered.

Look the Democrat Party.

The message disciplined.

If he were a Republican, they would have thrown him overboard.

In a heartbeat.

But the Democrats don't care.

Yes, they were just like, nope, we're on this team.

A little bit of murder of children doesn't matter.

We're in support it, I gotta say.

And there was a lot of polling.

Look, when some sears, the polling had shown for a fair amount of time that she was losing, millara Is, the polling had shown that he was winning.

And so this is a surprising result that we're looking at a five to six point victory.

That means they're Democrats that do not care.

I've got a candidate who wants children to be murdered.

That's my guy.

Like wow, that is a depressing and sad statement of where we are as a country.

It is and if you go from that to New York City, which look Mandani said in his speech moments ago, this is a clear victory for people wanting change.

This race center was really about class warfare, It was about Robin hood campaign.

For him, it was a straight up communism.

I mean, the red apple is literally a communist apple.

Now, a man that wants to take from the rich, give to the poor, push people out that are wealthy and successful, tax them into port to being poor, and run people out of the state that he says don't want to pay their fair share or they are fighting him.

He's all about giving away free stuff, whether it's free bussing or free food, free grocery store like.

This is full blown communism, is what he's an advocate for.

A guy that's never had a real job in his entire life, a guy that's a radical, his parents a radical as well.

He won overwhelmingly in New York City.

That is the biggest concern for me is that this cancer of socialism the Democratic Party is spreading, and I would say spreading rapidly to America's most biggest and most important financial city.

Look, comrade Mandami is now the mayor of New York.

That is incredibly distressing.

This man is a communist and he is a jihadist.

And those are not using those as empty epithetic.

It's plain the jihadis aspects, So people know what you mean by that.

So listen.

This is someone who has cheered for Hamas, he has called for the eradication of Israel.

He is he is an Islamist.

He believes in political Islam.

He had told the people of New York.

The police brutality in New York was trained and taught by the IDF, the Israeli Defense Forces.

That's psychotic.

He is a communist.

And I don't say that in the sense that like sometimes people say, oh, democrats are all communists.

No, know, this is someone that calls for seizing the means of production in society.

He is an explicit and this is something that's called the Red Green Alliance, which is the alliance between Jahadis and communists, and and Mamdani is the intersection of both of them.

There's some Republicans that are happy.

They're like, Okay, this is great.

We'll have great victories in twenty twenty six and twenty twenty eight because there's such a whack job as mayor of New York that in every other state will be able to campaign against comrade Mamdani.

I am not celebrating.

Look New York.

New York's not my favorite city in the world.

But New York is a crown jewel of America.

New York is the financial capital of the world.

New York is the media capital of the world.

By any measure, New York is one of the most important cities in America.

And to have New York now governed by a radical communist jihadis let me tell you what's going to happen.

More people are going to die in New York.

Comrade Mandani is going to wage war against the NYPD.

I'm in New York quite a bit, I can tell you.

I actually can't tell you how many New York cops have said they're terrified of what's going to happen.

If this guy wins, you're going to see the police.

Clear in the past, he wants to get rid of all police.

He said, he wants to abolish the police.

He believes there should be no police force in New York City.

Look, there's gonna be more murders in New York.

There's gonna be more rapes in New York.

They're gonna be more children attacked in New York.

We're going to see more with resources fleeing New York, coming to Florida, coming to Texas.

And the results as of eleven to fifty two PM, Mom Donnie fifty point four percent.

Andrew Cuomo, who was the governor of New York he's a Democrat.

He's not like a right wing guy.

He's Andrew friggin Cuomo forty one point six percent, and then Curtis Silwa seven point one percent.

Now, look, I would have liked to have seen Silva drop out.

Yeah, to give Qui TV, Yeah, to give to give Colomo a better chance of winning.

Seven percent is just a spoiler.

And but I'll tell you what's distressing.

As of right now, even if Silha dropped out, if you gave every bit one hundred percent of Silba's votes to Cuomo, and you wouldn't have there some people that would say, I'm not voting for Cuomo.

But if you gave one hundred percent, Silva as of right now had one hundred and forty six, one hundred and twenty seven votes.

Cuomo had eight hundred and fifty four thousand, seven hundred and eighty three.

If you add those two together, it's still less than what Mandani had of one million, thirty five thousand, six hundred and forty six.

So Mondami right now is at fifty point four percent, which means it means it didn't matter a majority of New Yorkers wanted a communist jahatist and I got to say, you know, a couple of days ago, like we saw some Jewish rabbis in New York endorsing Mandami.

I got to tell you a buddy of mine, I went to college with, very smart guy, brilliant guy.

He was a college debater, actually had debated with him.

But he is a liberal Democrat.

He is a Jewish New Yorker.

I was in New York three four weeks ago and we spent about an hour sitting around around a glass scotch where he was explaining he had voted from Amdami.

And I don't know what to say to that, Like, it is truly terrifying where the Democratic Party is going.

This is the future of the Democrat Party.

You might think, okay, that votes well for America because the rest of the country will move in the direction of common sense.

I got to say, at least New Jersey and Virginia are not encouraging that regard.

Yeah, no doubt about it.

Finally, want to get your quick thoughts.

It is official.

I'm looking at the numbers on the TV right now.

California has passed Proposition fifty.

Tell people what that is quickly and your reaction to that.

So California wants to redistrict.

They're going to redistrict to create five new Democrat seats.

California is already one of the most heavily gerrymandered states in the country.

I think eighty three percent of the seats are Democrat, even though only about sixty percent of the votes or Democrat.

They're gonna jack it up to over ninety percent Democrat.

They're just they're trying to eliminate Republicans.

They're telling Republicans in California, you have no voice.

And this is an example Democrats do not give a damn about democracy.

This is all about power.

Now you're gonna see other Republican states respond.

You're gonna see other Republican states redistrict.

They claimed they were doing this in response to Texas, but Texas was went from about sixty three percent Republicans to about seventy six percent Republicans.

Texas votes overwhelmingly Republicans, so by any measure, even under the new map, Texas is markedly less gerrymanner than California used to be.

And they decided eighty three percent is not enough.

We want to get north of This is pure power.

This show's Gavin Newsom has contempt for democracy and and and it is sadly typical of where democrats are Nashley, Yeah, it is, It truly is.

And they just said, if you're a Republican in California, you have a zero representation here, get out, leave the state and we will not listen to a word that you say.

It's amazing.

It is like you said, it was a rough night for Republicans.

I say it again, putting it in perspective.

These are all places that lean Democrat.

They had a lot of money, they had a lot of momentum, They wanted to show some victories against Donald Trump.

The government shutdown clearly had a big impact in the Virginia race there.

And and I'm still in shock by where we are in New York City, Uh with it with a full blown communist there.

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