The Daily Signal - Israeli/Hamas Ceasefire Announced, Hakeem Jeffries Turns Down Obamacare Funding | Oct. 9, 2025

Starting point is 00:00:00 President Trump announces a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas. Democrat leader Hakeem Jeffries shuts down a Republican offer to subsidize Obamacare for a year to end the shutdown. And as races tighten in New Jersey and Virginia, Republican groups launch a blitz in the biggest midterm election campaign in the party's history. I'm Tony Kennett, host of the Daily Signals Tony Kennett cast, syndicated nationally at 7 p.m. Eastern. It is Thursday, October 9th, 2025. This is the Daily Signals. Top News in 10. Yesterday, in the middle of a roundtable on the domestic terrorism from Antifa,

Starting point is 00:00:41 with a lot of independent journalists, friends, The Daily Signal, and the Tony Kinnett cast, President Trump was handed a note by Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Criminal conspiracy. Okay. I'm just given a note by the Secretary of State saying that we're very close to a deal in the Middle East, and they'll get to need me pretty quickly. So I will take a couple of more questions. President Trump later put out this tweet on truth social. Quote, I am very proud to announce that Israel and Hamas have both signed off on the first phase of our peace plan. This means that all of the

Starting point is 00:01:17 hostages will be released very soon, and Israel will withdraw their troops to an agreed upon line as the first steps toward a strong, durable, and everlasting peace. All parties will be treated fairly. This is a great day for the Arab and Muslim world, Israel, all surround. nations and the United States of America. And we thank the mediators from Qatar, Egypt, and Turkey, who worked with us to make this historic and unprecedented event happen. Blessed are the peacemakers, end quote. According to the Saudi al-Haddaf news agency and confirmed by other outlets, Israel and Hamas are

Starting point is 00:01:48 set to enter a complete ceasefire agreement going into effect across the Gaza Strip on Thursday, October 9th at 12 p.m. Cairo time, which is 3 a.m. Eastern time. Hopefully by the time you were watching this, that ceasefire has gone into effect. The President of the United States is likely to travel to the Middle East, according to a statement from press secretary Carolyn Levitt yesterday. Quote, President Trump is considering going to the Middle East shortly after a trip to Walter Reed Medical Center for remarks with the troops and an annual checkup. And Democrat leader Hakeem Jeffries shut down an offer from New York Republican Mike Lawler, yesterday about funding Obamacare for a year in order to end the government shutdown,

Starting point is 00:02:37 a bill just for funding the subsidies from the Affordable Care Act or Obamacare. We've got a one-year extension. Why don't we sign on right now? Why don't we sign on right now? Did your boss Donald Trump? Did your boss Donald Trump give you from yesterday? No, he's not. By the way, why did you vote to shut the government down?

Starting point is 00:02:56 Why did you vote to shut down? Let me ask you a question. For years, you always structured about how we need to keep it. You're making a show of this to make yourself relevant. It's sad. You could easily sign on to this. You're embarrassing yourself right now. You could sign on to this.

Starting point is 00:03:07 The only embarrassing is your show. You're an embarrassment. You could sign on to the bills. Let me ask you a question. Let me ask you a question. It's a clean extension for one year. You voted for the one thing that we know, correct? I voted for a tax cut bill that gave the largest tax cut to Americans in history, including,

Starting point is 00:03:23 by the way, the average New York are getting a $4,000 tax cut. Are you against that? You're embarrassing yourself for it. Do you want to cut the standard deduction? The largest cut to Medicaid in American history, you voted for that. You voted for that. Tom Donapley, the Democratic controller of New York, let me ask your question. Pointed out that $1.2 billion would waste it.

Starting point is 00:03:43 You're not going to talk to me. Wasted on fraud and talk over me because you don't want to hear what I have to say. Oh, I'm listening. So why don't you just keep your mouth shut up? Is that the way to talk? You showed up. And as racist titan in New Jersey and Virginia, the New Jersey, the New Jersey gubernatorial election now at a dead heat, a 43% tie in recent polling,

Starting point is 00:04:07 as well as the Virginia Attorney General race with Democrat Jay Jones only one point ahead of Jason Mierrez, the incumbent Republican Attorney General after the horrific scandal for Jay Jones, in which multiple texts over a series of years were released showing him wishing for the death of a political member on the opposite side of the aisle, as well as his wife and children, alongside suggesting a few police officers might need to die in order to gain social change. As these races tighten up, there is a key series of Republican groups,

Starting point is 00:04:43 as well as the RNC itself, which are throwing more than ever seen in a midterm election campaign in Republican Party history. David McIntosh, president of Club for Growth, sat down to talk about a series of campaigns that not only starts with, a series of Virginia ads in the J. Jones Jason Miaris election, but a major redistricting effort that sweeps across a huge number of states in the country. You know, it's key that we win

Starting point is 00:05:12 these redistricting efforts in the state level. The House is very closely divided. Democrats for 10 years have been rigging the system in California, Massachusetts, Illinois, all of the deep blue states where they've totally gerrymandered, made it so that Republicans are virtually unrepresented from those states, even though they don't have a majority, but 40, 45 percent of their electorate are Republicans voting for President Trump, want to vote for Republican members of Congress. So now it's time Republicans really do the same thing. Texas led, and we're going to have five more seats there. Missouri also redistricted. We've got one seat there. Our home state of Indiana is looking at it.

Starting point is 00:05:56 I think we could get two seats there. Ohio has to redistrict. They've got a kind of strange redistricting law that if it's not bipartisan back in 2020, 2021, then they have to redo it now for 2026. And we think we can pick up two more seats there in Ohio. Well, that's actually, we'll put a pin in that one. I want you to give us the rest of them. but Ohio has just mentioned to me yesterday, turning out to be way more important in 26 than anyone thought,

Starting point is 00:06:26 but please continue. No, you're absolutely right. Definitely we should come back to it. And Kentucky is looking at it. That may be more difficult. And then Florida has said, yes, we're going to take it up next year when the regular session starts in January. And we're looking at some other states as well. But the goal here is to add anywhere from five to 10 more Republican seats by matching what the Democrats have

Starting point is 00:06:51 done for the last decade. And then conservatives and Republicans will be represented in Congress. But honestly, I think even without the additional seats, we're winning right now. Yesterday in Tennessee, we had a special election in the primary to replace Mark Green, who's retiring. Our guy, Matt Ben Epps, shout out to him. He's going to be a great new congressman, won handily with President Trump's endorsement and Club for Growth. Like you said, we came in strong, probably a million dollars in spending in that campaign. Jim Jordan also spent some of his resources. He's a great ally, and we won decisively. What that tells me is that President's approval rating is still very, very high, that Republicans are willing to come out and vote when he says it's important.

Starting point is 00:07:45 And so in the midterm, we all know if the Democrats get the majority, day one, they'll start impeaching him. They'll start impeaching his cabinet. They'll try to stop everything he's doing. They're already doing that. They just don't have the power to. And so the message that we're going to send voters in the midterms is we can't let the Democrats back in the door. All they'll do is try to stop the president, stop the progress, undo it, rewind it, go back to the battle Biden days. And so I think we could just win flat out, even without the redistricting, because the president's remained strong, remain positive. There's also, this gets into the nitty-gritty a little, Tony, but there's some structural advantages we have. As you know, there's only about 25, maybe 30

Starting point is 00:08:33 seats that end up being battleground seats in a close election. And of those seats, there are more Democrats sitting in a Trump district than Republicans' representatives. presenting a Kamala Harris history. So structurally, we also have a slight advantage going into that midterm. Well, that's what makes California so fascinating. Excuse me. That's what makes Ohio so fascinating to me. And this is, of course, we at the Daily Signal have just put in a special correspondent

Starting point is 00:09:01 into Ohio, Rebecca Downs, formerly of Town Hall. She's covering a ton of the, I didn't realize how intensive those campaigns were this time around because obviously Ohio has gone more red and kind of the presidential. over the last couple of elections, but it's congressional districts. And then, of course, that redistricting effort you mentioned, very highly contested. And this could be a big turning point, a big swivel point for the state of Ohio for the next 10, 20 years. Tell us about what you're seeing in the ground there. No, that's exactly right.

Starting point is 00:09:34 And it starts at the governor's race. Vivek, one of the swanee, is exciting Republicans and independence all over the state with his vision for the state. There's going to be a Senate race with the newly appointed Senator Hustead. Their Democrats recruited Sherrod Brown to come back and try to take back a Senate seat. With some rather lackluster results so far, but Sherrod still try and God bless him. I think Ohio turned the corner on that one and they realized he sounded like one of them, but he went back to Washington and he just voted with all these far left crazies who are. Yeah, there's a smell of some sour milk on some of the vote.

Starting point is 00:10:15 that actually hit the floor that I don't think are going to resonate this time. Yeah. We'll link the rest of that interview in the description below. Also, of note, Vice President J.D. Vance is set to be in Indiana to meet with a last couple of holdouts on a redistricting measure that could gain two Republican seats in the Indiana congressional delegation. Before you go, head down to the description and make sure you're subscribed to the Tony Kennedcast. And join us tonight at 7 p.m. for a roundup of the day's news.

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The Daily Signal - Israeli/Hamas Ceasefire Announced, Hakeem Jeffries Turns Down Obamacare Funding | Oct. 9, 2025

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