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GOP Panics as Trump's MAGA Base Starts to Slip

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MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Republican leaders in full panic mode as the MAGA voter base ditches Trump for good. Remember to subscribe to ALL the MeidasTouch Network Podcasts: MeidasT...

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GOP leaders are freaking out at the election results from this Tuesday, espec...

election in Pennsylvania's State House District 12, where a Democrat pulled off a massive upset in a district that was plus a teen Donald Trump in 2024. On Tuesday, that district swung 19 points in favor of the Democrat who went on to win. And these Republicans and these regulators are saying, if that trend holds, which we've seen in special election after special election over the past 18 months, this is going to be a wipeout in the midterms. So you have

magma jons in the Mago Republican Speaker of the House and other Mago leadership, they're running across the country and they're trying to do whatever they can to lie to the people of the United States and fear monger and talk about communism this and communism that and hope that people don't realize that the Trump regime has destroyed their lives. The problem magma, Mike, is when you're there, you just remind people about how you're so called big, beautiful build your disastrous budget

bill and Trump's never-ending wars and your cover-up of the Epstein files has disgraced the United

States and destroyed the lives of so many people. How you've ripped away health care from people have you destroyed jobs and how not only have you and Donald Trump not kept your promises, you've been exposed as total frauds, which Donald Trump has been his entire life, a fraud and a bankruptor. So magma jonson rushed to Lansing, Michigan, where he was there with the Mago Republican Congress member Tom Barred and magma Mike, just lie after lie. How do you know that magma

jonson is lying? Well, he opens up his mouth. Watch how pathetic this is as magma Mike's like, well, everything was going great. The economy was just booming but then we had to do the war in Iran. Of course, everyone knows we had to know we don't know that. Donald Trump rushed into

this catastrophic war with Netanyahu for no reason at all, never even gave any explanation to the

American people. But magma Mike's like, but now I'm going to say communism. I'm just going to say communism over and over again to try to scare you here. Play this clip. History will report this

will be one of the most successful productive congresses in history of the institutions in 1789. Why?

Because we did what we said we're going to do. We passed by the 800 pieces of legislation. We codified over 125 executive wars and we brought the biggest tax cuts and the biggest wage increases in generations. We mentioned the biggest tax refunds that Michiganers have experienced. But we also infused our legislation with pro-growth policies. We set the table for the U.S. economy to take off

like Iran. If you look at it, we were doing that the first quarter this year and then we got into

this conflict with Iran. Now look, we had to act. Iran was on the verge of having nuclear capability. A large state sponsor terrorism could not be allowed to do that. It was in America and the whole world of interest to make sure that it couldn't happen. We did it and now we got to resolve that. I'm convinced as the president is as soon as it happens that we will be able to get stability in

a gas prices and hold this down. But we're in the process of doing that. I believe we're in

70s of the election or not. People understand, you cannot turn the government over to radical Marxist communists, okay? Because they will take over everything. Your taxes will go through the roof. Your opportunity will go through the floor and it will leave the human suffering. Every single time, every single time in history. Socialism or communism has been tried. It's been an object failure and it's led to human suffering and famine and poverty.

We cannot go down that road. So you need hard work in America. Right. How utterly pathetic was that then? Magamikos. Okay. And if I haven't made my point clear, everything was great. But where was bad? It's Biden's fault. Okay. Let's just blame Biden. And this sweaty says again, we need to all blame Biden. I mean, how pathetic is this? Now we know prices are high right now. We're working every day to make sure they continue to

come down. Remember that we inherited from the Biden here's administration, the highest inflation

over four years. So it's taken a while to climb out of that. The Iran conflict is going to do them. That will help make sure that gas prices stay low. And that will bring down the prices of groceries as well because the transport possible in gas. But every day Republicans are working really hard. And then Magamikos. But I'm very bullish on the midterms. I think we're going to all win. I think we're going to look great. By the way, even the people next to him, I circled them,

are looking at him like, oh my god, how does this guy even lie like this all the time here? Play this clip. Bullish on the outcome of the election is 77 days from the day, but who's counting? Okay. It is true. We have to defy history. Only twice in 90 years has a sitting president picked up

Seats for his party and that first two years cycle.

combination of factors. Not only do we have a great record run on, we have much stronger candidates.

This is a contrast election. A contrast between commonsense, represented by a guy like Tom Vera,

and crazy. And that's what his opponent represents. Those policies are crazy. It would be terrible

for Michigan, terrible for America. And that's why we're very common. You know, we're here in from voters, from across this country as well. Take a look at this voter from Ohio playing this clip. Still a registered Republican. I am. Do you vote in Republican partners? I do. So you're just not happy with the way. I'm not happy with the party that I know doesn't exist. Hopefully, it finds its way. If you could say something to President Trump right now,

what would you say? Resign. You're destroying the country.

And so there's a Republican voter. Long time Republican voter still votes in the primary. Not going to vote for Max Miller. Obviously, very upset with President Trump. Wow. We're how about this three-time Trump voter expressing her disappointment over the Iran War

on MSNow play this clip. Could President Trump about this war would you tell him?

I would tell him enough. Bring our guys and girls home. And I don't want to see it. I don't like seeing war. That's all. We need to protect our borders and keep ourselves. Keep our family here safe. It's the fact that President Trump launched this war with Israel after campaigning on known you foreign wars. Is that bother you at all? Yeah, it does. He was a no-war president and now we're that war. So I'm not thrilled with that at all.

Or how about this 52-year-old man who said he has been voting in every election since he was 18

and never voted for a Democrat. But in Texas, he intends to vote for James Tallarico for the first time.

The first time he'll ever vote Democrat play this clip. And when you talk about corruption, there was a 52-year-old man. He did not want to be filmed on camera when we were inside. But I spoke with him afterwards. He said he has been voting every election since he was 18 years old. And he has never voted for a Democrat. He believes Ken Paxton is corrupt. He will not vote for him. And I said, so will you vote for James Tallarico? And he said, I'm seriously considering it.

He clearly was impressed that he came here listening to what people had to say and look, the polls are incredibly tight. But what I really noticed in the latest poll that came out today

is that in all of the key metrics, James Tallarico is ahead. He's ahead on the economy.

He's ahead on affordability. He's even ahead on keeping Texan safe. And so he's going to stay here tonight. He's going to do a rally on not far from where I'm standing. And he believes that if he goes and learns from things like this and takes the message that people are giving him to other parts of the state that it's part of the way to win. Not that he's not raising money. He's raising lots of money. But he thinks that this ground game, this one-on-one kind of aspect of his campaign,

could be the difference. Speaking about Texas as diesel price reaches record highs and gas prices are record highs. The diesel crack spread is over $102 a barrel. Regular gas prices $90 a barrel, $4 per gallon and more on average, average price of diesel is like $5.27. Something like that. This was just from every day the price is going up on diesel 10, 12, 15 cents. Let's take a look at some of these Texans with their experiencing. This is what you're probably

experiencing at home too. And you know, we need to spend a lot more attention talking about diesel. I know we talk a lot about gas as we should, but also diesel is what fuels our industries and agriculture and our freight and everything. And that's going to result in lots of other prices going up. And Donald Trump's just saying his new plan, I'm even a plan at all with Iran, it's just to do nothing. He goes, I'm just going to disengage and that will do it. That will

strangle Iran. I mean, so utterly pathetic here, play this clip. Well, you said a big 4.250 diesel and I had to get rid of it because the prices were too high. This seems like every day they go up. They'll go down for a couple of days and they shoot back up, you know, higher. And it's not sustainable. None of this is sustainable. Now we're getting some new polling out of Michigan. El Said is now leading Rogers amongst independence 44% to 46% and the latest

tip poll, what about regular, what about Michigan Statewide? 45 to 42% Abdul El Said leads in tip. The TIP poll is a top rated poll in Michigan. So in this poll, Abdul El Said leads by three

Points, Jocelyn Benson just destroying John James 53% to 37% right there amon...

Abdul El Said up 43% to 39% against Mike Rogers and Jocelyn Benson 48% to 34% and this is a

Republican sponsored poll. I might add as well. I think Abdul El Said is a good debate or also when you put him on stage next to Mike Rogers and Rogers is going to be like, "I love the big, beautiful bill. I love the, I love everything that data centers everywhere." I think you'll see the distinction. By the way, you saw Donald Trump's hand-picked senator in South Carolina, Darlene Graham. Did you see what went down there? I'll show it to you one more time just so you

can see Darlene Graham during the debate. You're a play this clip.

Senator, if you want to respond or we can move on, it's your choice. That's okay, we'll move on.

All right. On the national security question as well. Senator, our Taiwan and the South China Sea National Security issues for the United States. If so, why? I'm sorry. Could you repeat the question? Our Taiwan and the South China Sea National Security issues for the United States and if so, why or how? I'm just going to be honest to you. I'm not on national security that. I'm not that informed on national security. So, I do support the military. My brother was in the

Air Force for 33 years. So, I will do everything I can to support the military. My dad was in the Army. I'm not a Polish politician up here. I'm national security is not my thing. Not my area of expertise, but I do support the military. Cars not give you a chance to respond and I'm sure you recognize us that- No. Taiwan is a definite ally. And, you know, we have a trading relationship with them

that has beneficial to the United States, chips, being one of them and others. So, what the President is doing right is he's enabling Taiwan to defend themselves against China. But his piece through strength that he's showing with Iran that China, Russia,

others are looking at it so that they don't want to deal with America. And that's why they

haven't attacked Taiwan. If they had some weak democratic enough, it's like buying another Obama. Yeah, they take it over. But we can't let that happen. We've got to take a strong a piece through strength. It's working. Yeah, that was rough to see.

Then, she believed that there was 55 or 50 million people in South Carolina. There's like 5.5

here playing this clip. Well, I know how that feels. There's 50 million people in South Carolina. Half of them live paycheck to paycheck. I know right, absolutely brutal. And then, she and the opponent were fighting over who supported the big disastrous budget build more, like that's what I, you know, Lindsey Graham supported and you hesitated. You wavered in your support. People, the big, beautiful bill, ain't big and beautiful. It was disastrous.

Objectively, it has caused so much pain to the American people like the data is in and in good about the disastrous budget bill. But they want to brag about it. Here, you can listen to it for yourself, here play this clip. It's kind of ironic when you talk about the big, beautiful bill because it's my understanding that you were the whole doubt on the big, beautiful bill. And Trump had to call you in and convince you to sign it.

And then just watching these other mega Republican Congress members run around, like Brian masked, mega Republican Congress member from Florida, who's like, we're supposed to deplete our stock

piles of strategic petroleum reserves. That's why we have them in the first place. We're not

supposed to deplete him this low. I mean, could you imagine if this was anyone else other than Trump? I mean, these people are so damn pathetic. You're playing this clip. If this has gone on, and it does deplete US stockpiles, but those stockpiles, they exist for us to use for defense, for deterrence and for eliminating enemies that have been attacking us. And he laid that out as well, Iran has been attacking us for the last 30 years. But even if I gave you a number of the last 30

months, in the last 30 months before Epic Fury, they attacked us over 350 times killed three US service members, countless contractors, driving small boats into our big ships, flying ballistic

missiles and drones at us. This has been sustained. And Epic Fury is simply the first time

that the United States of America said, you know what? We're not going to take this anymore. And the

Only way we bring that forever war to an end is to end those that have been c...

And so that's what has to be done, no matter how long that takes. We're a mega Republican

Congress member, Pat Fallen, who claims that the family members of our courageous sailors and

Marines are just lying about the conditions that their family members are experiencing on the aircraft carriers here. Play this clip. There's been ear thoughts on your colleagues call for a congressional oversight. And some of these reports that we've gotten from the lengthen that

potentially several crew members tried to job. Well, Cheryl, good morning and thanks for having

me on. We have over as I currently, I'm sitting on the Armed Services Committee with my friend Don Bacon. And these reports are just that. I haven't heard anything personally from our office. And I trust the Navy to do this as well. So I don't make much of it to be honest. Okay, so you're not concerned about these reports. Is two to 60 days is a long time, you know, for deployment? Yeah, oh no, there's no that about it. I mean, look at our armed services.

You know, our folks, our soldiers, our sailors, our airmen, do a fantastic job. Of course,

we know what I served. I always prefer to be stateside if possible. But as part of the job

is to deploy. And they did that. I think they did an outstanding job on glad they're coming back.

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