Senator Gillibrand on Trump's Midterm Challenges

He's deeply underwater among all groups here in the United States inflation continues to rise the never ending wars continue Donald Trump wakes up one day threatening more crimes against Iran

Then wakes up another day and says we're gonna de-escalate and we're just gonna leave Iran Can you please open the straightive or moves in Iran said nope you break it you fix it you started this catastrophic war You better pay us reparations and then Donald Trump's like I'm just gonna low-key it

“Okay, I'm just gonna do a semi negotiation and people are like what the heck are you even talking about people are suffering here?”

They can't afford anything and all Donald Trump is doing right now. We're trying to talk about the Communism boogie man, so let's take a look at what's going on. I want to show you the data Which shows Donald Trump losing among Non college educated white voters at this point mean we are at the home stretch or release getting to the home stretch right before the midterms But first I want to show you the reaction how are these Republican leaders responding and as noted?

They are panicking on why TV. Let's take a look at the chair of the RNC Joe grudders and his Responses kind of the typical mega response. It's kind of an a or b at this point right either say communism socialism Booky man and maybe boogie man and then maybe say Hassan Piker or put that in there That's kind of one route that the mega Republicans do and the other is blame Joe Biden And just say it's all Joe Biden's fault gas for dollars a gallon inflation rising GDP slow

Plain Joe Biden watched the RNC chair here on live TV. Let's play it But here's part of the record inflation three and a half percent that is now according to government figures Higher than the three point two percent For nationwide earnings gas not two dollars a gallon as we all know it's double that at four electricity prices haven't been cut in half as the

President talked about they continue to go up into the right and GDP is at 1.5 percent

Why do Republicans deserve to keep power in Washington if that's part of the score card? People have short memories and they can forget that Biden or Biden's economic But disaster is uh, you know rain Let us to the high much higher inflation higher gas prices and this president from day one has been working on Getting these things under control if it was for the inflation was 3% inflation was 3% when he took office

2.2% by the time voters went to the polls in November 24 and now what's higher than that Joe Inflation was at 9% under Biden though, but then I think there was a delayed feeling of all that pent up Price increases and now that we have to deal with it this is certainly Biden's price prices That we're still dealing with and we're still getting under control. This isn't the Biden economy then I mean if it's Biden's prices

It's it's Biden's disastrous economic record this president the working family tax cuts no tax on tips and over time has had an A big impact across this country He's been working at 19 trillion dollars worth of investments that you're not going to see right away

“This president's gone to work for the American worker. That's what the Republican part is. We are the working person's party now”

He has a lot of empathy for people that are paying the these high gas prices and he is doing everything he can to get these prices down Sometimes he's natural security issues come up Listen, he's he's a piece through strength guy. We've had eight different peace deals around the world He's going to get this under control. We're going to get prices back down But yeah, people need to have faith that the Republican party in this president

Here's about them and we're going to move this forward more from RNC chair Joe

Grudders right here and he's like look the bottom line is we all know

Donald Trump is super popular amongst the base super popular among Maga and that's why we're going to win this because of Donald when all of the data shows the exact opposite play this clip Does he need to look at work here a little bit? No, I think that the president's be loved by the base is matter of fact a reason why we're going to win an November is because of presence still super popular and probably the most popular present in the history

The country within our base we use the one person that we know could deliver these low-prepensory voters

“That's why we're having this midterm convention for the first time ever”

It's going to be a Trump up alusa and then we're going to go out there and I talked to him I was traveling with him. We're going to maybe do 30 rallies together Some of these districts to help try to drive turnout to make sure that people come on vote

Because time is on our side

Maga Republican Congress member Downin says each day Iran gets weaker and weaker and soon

“They're just going to collapse and they're going to break. Do you all remember what was it was it in April”

or may have been may have been may have been April may wear Donald Trump said in exactly three days He said Iran's oil Facilities are going to blow up because the blockade is working so great that they can't even hold the pressure anymore whatever that means with with in the oil production facility so they're going to just explode Doesn't it kind of remind you of with COVID where Donald Trump's like

One day it's going to go in two days. There's only going to be one case. That's it. It's all going away

Dude lies about everything but here's Republican Congress member Troy Downin you can see for yourself play this clip

Eventually they're just going to run out of resources and have no have no choice You know some of the Positives but again take this with a grain of salt is we've heard that The Iran has been talk in talks with Oman about opening the straight They're making some demands on

on the United States in terms of you know compensation for the cost of the of the war and some other things

“Which I think are non starters. I hope they're non starters for this administration and then on the other hand”

We just heard from Vice President Vance very recently that Iran is saying that they have no plans Imposing tolls in the straight which is obviously good because that's something that I don't think anybody On this planet is willing to do it's completely contrary to maritime and any kind of international law there So Really the the thing is just we've got them against the ropes and they're gonna continue to bleed out resources till they can't do this anymore

And I understand Americans are are concerned We've got Ford all the assets of the pumps right now that that's about the average and that will all come back to equilibrium Then you have mega Republican Congress member Emma

of the leaders in Republican Congress

He says look the bottom line is that our enemy China is trying to stop us from beating them in the AI war

By frustrating our ability to build data centers We need to build data centers everywhere but our enemy China is stopping us from what our goal is what Trump's goal is Data centers in everybody's backyard and on state regime media, she's Maria Bartaroma's like This is industrial revolution part two all of the CEOs I speak to all of these data centers

“That's what's making us rich. These are like some sick people. This is their message, though”

Here play this clip We believe in local control and I think people have to start reporting and talking about the fact that not only are we in a race with China When it comes to AI when it comes to computing we we're competing with China every day and you know what they're doing They're pumping money in with misinformation to this country. They're using our freedoms against us our enemy China is trying to stop us from beating them in the AI war by frustrating our ability to build data centers

Yeah, I mean it is an industrial revolution part two With the amount of jobs and and and build out from these data centers and it's certainly helping the economy as well Yeah, we're not buying that. We don't we don't want that. We don't want data centers in our backyard Trump and Maga, but that's what Trump say and so they got a goal in on it and so now let me just share with you some of the data as I promised I would

You have Harry and didn't over on CNN Showing that Donald Trump's approval with non college white voters and non college voters in general right now Look at this number with non come non college educated white voters. He's net negative eight non college educated voters in general net negative 19 so net negative eight to net negative 19 and then in the 2024 election

He was plus 13 with that group here. Watch what sentence says. Let's play this clip. Well, is the Maga movement was built Among the working class non college Americans and take a look at this trend line that we're looking at in the data here We go, okay, net favorability rate the Maga movement non college with those back in October of 2024 look at that on the plus side of larger positive plus six points Down we go into the Atlantic Ocean now look at this movement now minus 22 points that is a shift journey

They are shift in a way and saying we don't like maga anymore same question same poll here

This is really interesting to see these numbers move like that. Yes exactly right the same question same poll all right

“So how about what the the same group is saying about Donald Trump's specifically?”

Yeah, okay, so you know what the idea being okay, maybe they've powered on maga, but they haven't saved sour on maga, but maybe they haven't soured on me Donald Trump might be saying Ain't the truth take a look here. Okay non college voters on Trump. Hello, okay in the 2024 election He won him by 13 points right that was the reason he won he won among non college voters a very strong Performance amongst them and that of course was the reason he was able to win because college voters were against him

But look at this now mine is 19 points minus 19 points. We're talking around even bigger shift to you We're talking about what is this this is a 32 point shift away from the president of the United States when it comes to his key core political group This is why he's in so much trouble. It's not just that college voters are against Trump now It turns out that nine college voters the ones that he built this presidential bid on have way

“Adios goodbye CLA term is to Trump. We don't like you anymore. So what impact might this have on Republican house members?”

Okay Johnny B is asking the key question here because maybe they're abandoning president Trump, but you know what the midterm elections They may not like Democrats either well if you're congressional Republican you wish that to be true I have bad bad news for you because it turns out that the non college voters are turning on YouTube and it may in fact turn you out of power In the congressional elections come back up in the midterms choice for the house non college voters 2020 for election look at this

Republicans plus 13 points now Democrats Democrats actually lead among non college voters in an average of polls It's just a point, but you know it when it comes to a point and given how well the Democrats are doing among college voters These are the types of numbers in which blue waves are built and therefore we can say that the key group that But Donald Trump in the White House the key group that he built the magma movement upon is leaving him and it's leaving congressional Republicans too

hell then and as you see Donald Trump's polling crash like that I'm reminded by the incredible cross-examination of a very

Sweaty Pete Higgsith and a very equally disoriented Perk Rollins agriculture secretary Higgsith is the defense secretary unfortunately both unfortunately have cabinet level positions The cross-examination that was done to them by Democratic Senator Gillibrand it was one of the best cross-exams I've seen in a while now mind you with everything we know that just is taking place right now as Donald Trump's just saying I'm just gonna low-key

My negotiations with Iran. We're just gonna do semi-negotiations and we're just gonna walk out in Iran's like you and gonna walk out until you pay us Operations you lost the war. You think you're just gonna walk away and declare victory. We're not even gonna give you that I'm reminded by what took place three weeks ago when you had Higgsith and Rollins being cross-examined by New York Senator Gillibrand watch this Especially now with everything we know in the past three weeks. We've learned more about how

The Trump regime has depleted all of our weapons. We don't have interceptors. We don't have attackums We are military bases have been abandoned in the Middle East. So this cross-exam from three weeks ago takes on a new meaning right now here. Watch this And what would you say to them whore seeing their health care bills rise because Massive cuts to Medicaid

They've seen their grocery and gas bills rise and This unpopular and unauthorized war abroad is a higher priority to this administration than their ability to feed their families and provide health care to their loved ones who are sick Well Senator you're you're talking about political trade-offs in our jobs to to deliver for the United States military in the President United States and we we look at the cost of a nuclear Iran and we want to prevent that for future generations

“And that requires funding and supplemental and this budget and next generation capabilities and that's why we're here today to request some of that to ensure”

we can ensure that Iran never gets a nuclear war so you're essentially saying you're asking for literally

$1.5 trillion for a war that President Trump said he already won you're asking for $1.5 trillion Unlimited money for bombs but insufficient money in the American for the American people for their health care their food They're housing and our farmers Secretary Rollins Who we have cut snap program we are not funding the losses from

Emergencies that have happened in blue states particularly That's not true. That's not true. Falls you're not funding it but back to you Secretary hexeth and I would like to respond to the fertilizer and gas

Administration intends to defend those decisions to the American people

Not unlimited bombs Senator I'm asking for the right bombs at the right time to ensure we can deter our adversaries into the future

“And that's how I this is a generational investment and if the previous administration”

It didn't fund this to part that they did on why they are so upset with you and this administration is Because the words you have used in the past don't add up About Iran specifically you said that we had obliterated quote and quote Iran's ability to create nuclear weapons The president made the same client claim yet eight months later in February of 2020 six The president launched an act of war claiming Iran was within two weeks of having a weapon

So when you say to very different things the American people don't know who to believe or what to believe

They just know they can't afford their health care. They can't afford their food. They can't afford housing and our farmers are

Continuing to suffer so Which is true? Was it obliterated or wasn't it? What what's the status the nuclear sites under bin died hammer? We're obliterated but Iranians foolishly continued to attempt to pursue nuclear capabilities It's just why we destroyed their defensive dustfield base and how many of the other capabilities to ensure They can't get to a nuclear weapon. So we're staying laser focused on the objective and you're trying to make campaign commercials

No, we're not fine. So listen to this. You also say that you made the Missile program quote destroyed and made combat ineffective quote Iran's entire ballistic missile production Capacity every company that builds every component of those missiles has been functionally defeated and destroyed And that the missile program existing stockpiles were depleted and decimated almost completely ineffective

“So why are their missiles left to hit Jordan and and result in the loss of life of our brave men and women?”

As we stated from the beginning. The Iranian defense industrial base is effectively gone But they do have underground facilities facilities because they're the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism And they've spent 47 years trying to hide their missiles under mountains just like they're just like their nuclear capabilities Because they would like to get to know what to do with it against the war to believe because it's even over or it's not over It's within two weeks or it's not two weeks. We have no missiles or we have missiles and that

consternation is why so many New Yorkers are Perplexed stressed out and find this war to be incredibly unpopular because they don't understand the choices that the president's making They don't agree with those choices Secretary Rollins. So you have cut over 160,000 New Yorkers have been kicked off snap. What do you have against Hardworking New Yorkers children who needs snap and seniors who needs snap?

Well, first of all, diesel is down under Biden versus today 581 versus 48. Gas is down from Biden today from 484 to 386 today

Fertilizer is down 56% from Biden highs So this is higher than when you were in the office. Well, those prices are higher than when you took off So you are not that is not true. That is not true senator And let me tell you what New Yorkers stressed out about is the fact that your state is taking prime farmland And turning it into a solar farms that is absolutely inexcusable for the New Yorkers. I have, is that the New York Farm's two times

There's an upside. I want to bring in my interview with Senator Gillibrand from New York. Let's bring in that interview Senator Gillibrand great to see we were showing before you're cross-examination of Defense Secretary of Pete Higgs at that was back on July 21st Where you were calling him out where he showed up. He wanted $1.5 trillion after claiming they won the war four months Then now we're learning even more alarming information about the interceptor stocks being depleted

The Navy destroyers don't have the antibiotics our attackms have been Depleted Donald Trump announces fake negotiations with Iran They're just mocking us now. I mean as an American to see Iran mock these fake negotiations and I'm watching the fake negotiations And I'm like we're getting mocked by Iran like what is going on? It's it's him it's all very embarrassing But just as Trump bankrupted casinos, it seems like he's bankrupted our military now all so we're at

We're out of weapons and and Iran knows it everyone knows what what do you make of this? Well Trump has brought this country into a deeply unpopular unauthorized and illegal war and he has Literally unlimited money a blank check for bombs and he will is unwilling to pay for healthcare unwilling to pay for our seniors to get their prescription drugs unwilling to pay for Medicaid unwilling to pay for food stamps

“It's disgraceful and so he's making choices for the American people that they have no say in and I think that's what's making these elections”

As game-changing as they are because

The challenges we have here at home will care about the cost of groceries or

“Class of housing where the cost of healthcare which continues to rise under Trump a lot of people talk about how he's doing the golden ballroom”

He's doing the hell of port. He's gilding the statues gold is doing the reflecting play And you know when you talk about you know what what headset was asking for with one point five trillion dollars They're reporting that now they're building out these Trump class battleships because Trump likes the way

World war one battleships look like and so they wanted to put 200 billion and then it's 300 and then the numbers just keep on going up

To do nuclear battleships because he likes the way they look and you know, and it's like what what then they're lying all the time And to your point it's like that's where the trillions of dollars are going and while the American Americans are having their healthcare ripped away because dude like battleships the way they looked in World War one When we know that right now Strow and warfare unmanned submersives can knock out a Trump class battleship, you know, it's very easily

Balships, ballrooms, and bombs that is what Trump is fixated on not the cost of groceries or housing or our healthcare and it's a disgrace Let's talk about also, you know, Trump's also plan. I guess we can add a V there voting and trying to take away people's vote Talk about your campaign finance bill. It's a big deal and needs to be getting more attention There's too much money in politics and the people who have the money get to control everything and so we need money out to politics When in America today

100 billion air families are responsible for one in every six dollars. That's an outrage

It means that they have an outsized voice in our democracy and it means they set the agenda that doesn't respond to the needs of the American people

“We need the American people's voice to be heard and I think if you get rid of money in politics”

People will campaign differently instead of going to those fancy living rooms and asking for money They will be going to subway stops. They will be going to corner stores. They'll be going to community centers and talking to voters directly about what they care about And if their campaigns are funded through these democracy dollars of every day voters Mean investments buy every day voters as opposed to the wealthiest among us It changes everything and the communities communities that have had this done where they've actually used democracy dollars or other

Really good innovative campaign finance systems. It changes who votes. It changes who runs and changes who wins And I think that's meaningful I mean you see the contrast between an our system Trump propped up by the oligarchs and on the other hand in Canada you got someone like a prime minister Carney you know someone with his experience the diligent and articulate you know and and who has now

Kind of taken the mantle it seems of fighting for values and principles that I once thought you know the United States president

Would focus on international but I want to talk about that for second as well because

Canada obviously very close to New York Both in geographic location and economically and

“Relationship wise and I think one of the most damaging things Trump has done amongst many his constant attacks on Canada”

Canada just the other day he said they're nasty the nasty people you know and Tariffs for the wildfires versus normally we would help them they help us out We have might as Canada a whole Canadian division, you know and the people there are just live it They've gone elbows up after what they've seen Trump do you know to Canada talk about that from your perspective You know being a senator from New York given the proximity well we have a lot of

Businesses that were across border we have a lot of communities that benefit from Canadians coming down to go shopping to Come to lay placid to tour the Olympic center We have a lot of businesses in Buffalo that people come from Canada to come see Niagara Falls So we have a lot of tourism and economic engagement and Tanglement and Trump's reckless tariffs have resulted in a lot of those businesses suffering

Businesses costs have gone up people have not been able to go across the border in the way they used to go Because of these tariffs a lot of Canadians have just stopped coming to America because Trump has been so rude towards them And it's very hard for these border communities where they rely on visitors and they rely on tourism On top of that the tariffs on Canada affect are every day spending we import a lot of things from Canada things like lumber that make our Housing costs go down

Making lumber costs more and putting those tariffs on Canada. It means the cows doesn't and apartments can't be actually built for low cost And it costs everybody much more to afford it the same with food we get a lot of food from Canada We just do a lot and so his chaos his chaotic tariffs is creating just higher costs for New Yorkers and Americans and

Canada would just submit to the crazy 51st state They didn't they stood up and it seems like when people stand up he can't take it when you stand up to him

You know, but then then he always loves punching down. I mean, you know, it's like what's the latest stuff?

“He goes after endangered species like that's what we're gonna do. Let's go after the endangered like that's one of their big initiative”

What's the other thing Medicare part D? You know, it's like okay, wasn't enough just to rip away Medicaid from people and the Obamacare subsidies like what now can we do? Let's go after a very important thing Medicare part D And let's just screw over people. That's like what are you doing? And I know this is a big issue, you know for you to talk to us about Medicare patients because if they have part D and don't get that subsidy That could mean hundreds of dollars every month for them. It's real money that they will not be able to have to afford their prescription drugs

And if you have anybody that you know or love on Medicare, you know that These medicines is what keep them keep some comfortable alive functioning well

thriving and without access to medicine their life their lives will be lost their quality of life declines

It's just really callous and cruel to treat our parents in grandparents that way and ourselves I'm 59. I'm not quite 65, but boy, it's very hateful towards a lot of Americans who need those resources to live I want to before we go just get your perspective on these just the different hearings We've highlighted a lot of your cross examinations of people whether it's a headset or one of these Trump Stooges and it just kind of feels like an alternate reality to watch, you know in one hand

You know we've got you know you and people like that asking questions and then we've got these people here Who it would be parity you know, and it would be funny if it wasn't so dangerous to see these people show up and how they answer and they can't speak Consentances because they're thinking I need to say what's gonna make dear leader happy and then I watch some of your Republican colleagues who treat them with like kid gloves like I'm like watching this whole thing. I'm like to me This is not a political thing. I'm just watching this and I'm like

“I'm like and I wonder what goes to your mind when you ask these people questions. I'm like how are these real people?”

Like what the hell are they what the hell are they even talking about like what how is this America? What was this of headset he's complicit I mean he is He is literally just whatever Trump commands he does and he's not prepared for the job of secretary defense He's not focused on making sure our military strong You know when we started this war against Iran and they

Had insufficient information to make appropriate targets and hit a girl school in Iran I Grilled him on how was that targeting done and why are why are we putting in at risk civilians that is Against all wars the war it's against all human rights and we had a whole division in the military

“Whose job was to make sure we don't have civilian harm he fired all those people”

We have protections within the military to protect against cyber interference cyber crime cyber espionage and we had all these protections to make sure foreign countries didn't undermine our Elections he fired all those people every type of Senior person that is in place to protect our service members and make sure that when we do Do engagements we do them right he continues to fire them all under the auspices of we need to be more lethal

We don't have enough testosterone like these issues and ideas that he keeps bringing up our absurdities And he's leading us down a reckless path and we are much less safe because of the decisions that hexeth has made And the is unwilling is to stand up to President Trump when he's wrong Senator Gillibrand it's first time appearing on the minus touch network. We got to make sure you come back on more We we appreciate you finding I certainly appreciate your cross exams, you know

I I show them because you know you don't you a lot of people like to listen to themselves talk and they It's like you asked the questions and I and and put them on this spot and we need we need more of that. I appreciate

Thank you. Well, I'm going to keep fighting as hard as I can because I've never seen a more corrupt

Self-focused irrational Reckless administration and what they're doing is harming New Yorkers every day. Yeah, I appreciate and sometimes the language Doesn't even it's it's you doesn't even capture it like you know, it's just you look at you like What the f is what the hell is but what is this? Yeah, but this new is new idea that he wants to sell people on Truth social early access

He's basically offering insider information. He's actually Encouraging trading on non-public information and offering that for a hundred thousand dollars a pop

The senior administration officials nobody should be getting rich off of the access to the non-public information

“Their job is giving them and so we need to ban all stock trading and all access to markets because the truth is”

They have non-public information and Trump right now is selling it so going even the next degree of not only trading on it for himself

But that's selling that non-public information crap

“But your Republican colleagues and alumus and in a Scott they go we've never seen a more ethical”

They go we've never seen a more than what they said today. We've never seen a more ethical in ministries crazy stuff

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