The Dan Bongino Show - Are We In For An Election Night Surprise? (Ep. 2609)

Episode Date: October 5, 2026

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All America all the time. Sit down, buckle up, and get ready for the Dan Bongino show. Hey, Guy, you know what I need to do before the, we got about, what, 29 days, 30 days to the election? Right, about right, we got about a month to go, all right? On Friday or Thursday, once a week before the election, we have to play that Rush Limbaugh clip. Vince had about never giving it.

We just got to play. Folks, do not forfeit this election. The numbers, actual numbers, receipts, I'm not asking about anybody's personal feelings. I'm not even asking about that. I am obviously a conservative. I am obviously a Trump supporter. I am a MAGA guy. Put that all aside.

Pretend you don't know me from Adam and I'm the tabula rossa, the blank slate, okay? The numbers do not look great for the Dems. So why would you forfeit this election? I'll show you what I mean coming up. You don't remember public enemy back in the 90s? Don't believe the hype. Don't believe the hype. Look at the actual.

If this was going to be a massive blue tsunami and the Democrats are about to wipe us out in the election, hence the title of the show, are we in for an election night surprise? It could be a blue wave. If you don't show up, it will be. But the numbers, actual numbers of people who are enthusiastic about voting, the actual early voting numbers, do not look good for the Democrats. I'm not telling you to look amazing for Republicans. I'm just saying, like, do not forfeit this election. don't do it you are going to go back to massive inflation impeachments again high taxes they're openly talking about i got video coming up in a minute senator mark kelly from arizona just admitting what are you going to do to make life more affordable for americans we're going to raise taxes how that what are you talking about we're going to steal more of your money and flush it down to

government toilet ball yeah that makes sense folks the hedging is already beginning by the dems too they know they've got a turnout problem they are not popular either a lot of republican senators congressman i get it you know the save act did a lot of damage in that we didn't get it passed we would have got that past i think enthusiasm would have been through the roof i get it but nobody's stoked about the democrats impeachment high taxes crappy obamacare health care either i'm not forfeiting anything and i think from now to the election we got to play russia's thing to it right is iconic never give up, never give up, never, ever give up. Folks, you know, I, you know, growing up, I was a huge L.A. Oakland Raiders, now

Las Vegas Raiders, they've been all over the place. L.A., back to L.A., Oakland, I've been all over the place. Or back to Oakland, I should say. Remember Kenny Stable or the snake? Who remembers Kenny Stable? Lefty quarterback? What was his line? You remember his line? Throw deep, baby. Just throw deep. Throw it deep every time. Throw deep, baby. Go for it. Freaking story of my life.

How do you think some kid from Queens live in above an apartment wind up here? You got to throw deep. You got to throw deep. I was a quarterback on a local wreck team in high school. It was terrible. I threw deep all of them.

A lot of times of your interceptions. But whatever. I got a lot of show for you today. A lot going on. Auburn, you got to help me out, man. I love you guys. But the Tigers this weekend. I'm war damn eagle.

all the way. But congrats to all the Tennessee fans. You know, I love all the SEC folks. You've always been good to me. But man, we're up at halftime. We got to, man, we got to pull one out. We got to put it's ripping my heart out. My wife's like, you just got to leave it alone. You're going to go crazy. Gee, I know what you're thinking? You know what else make you go crazy? If you don't take care of your out of your weight. Don't let your weight get out of control. Many Americans try weight loss shots, but they quit due the cost and side effects. I chose lean for Brickhouse Nutrition, work for me. No needles, no prescriptions.

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Duma Slop narrative. I actually back stuff up. That's why this show remains, incredibly popular with people because we bring the freaking receipts every time. Put up this post from Wright, W.I., right Wisconsin, whatever it's short for. This is a really interesting post. It's an ex-account I saw. The hedging continues. Everyone can clearly see the early vote data. Data, data.

Right, W.I here is not talking about an opinion. The early voting has actual data now. Dems are behind in the early vote relative to. to 2024 and 2022, outside of a few exceptions like Virginia, which is explainable. Government workers shrink in the government workforce. Rather than admit this, the media now says, and there's a quote tweet here, that Democrats are rethinking their male voting strategy as voters grow weary to avoid discouraging their dem base.

If this was truly a D plus 10 national environment, i.e. like a blue tsunami, that would be reflected in the early voting data. It's not. So Democrats are now hedging by saying, we're voting on election day. Maybe they are, folks. I'm just telling you, like, public enemy style, whether you like them or not. Don't believe the hype, believe the freaking data. Politico, Democrats are rethinking their mail-in voting strategy as voters grow weary.

It's a data point. It's not a good data point. If you show up and vote, we can actually. actually hold both houses and not have to deal with Democrats sky high inflation, Democrat impeachments, Democrats war on the education system, DEI back, all of the identity, politics, crap, cancel culture we already dealt with. I'll get to it in a minute, but you see what happened with like the trailblazers? You think cancel culture is gone like we defeated the Democrats and it's over? I've told you this over and over. Nobody's been defeated. People are policy.

The second we lose, if we lose, God forbid. The presidency, either house, all of this stuff is going to come roaring back. Socialism, communism, leftist identity politics, there islamo fanaticism they're in love with now. All this other stuff never went anywhere, folks. It's only a beach ball underwater. I thought they told you it was over. Everybody told you forget it. Donald Trump said zero percent approval. The Democrats are at 100 percent approval. Race is over. Blue tsunamis stay home. Do not stay home. The data does not back that up. here we go again. CNN polling. You think CNN covering polling to benefit Donald Trump? They can't stand Donald Trump. Here is Harry Ant and one of their pollsters over there talking about enthusiasm

to vote. It looks to me like the exact same number on Democrats or Republicans. That can't be, Justin. That can't be. That's not what we heard. That's not what we heard. We heard enthusiasm was through the roof for the Democrats, blue tsunami and nobody on the Republican side wants to vote. They're just ready to piss away their whole country and forfeit. Really? I know what I see, what I see at all. Here's some actual data and polling, along with the early voting data that should tell you, this is still winnable.

This is still winnable. Receipts matter. Check this out. 71% of Democrats say they are certain, in fact, to vote in 2026. And look at this. MAGA Republicans, the same. It's simpatico. It's simpatico.

So MAGA Republicans are not just saying that they are still supporting Trump. Maga Republicans aren't just saying they're going to, if their choice for Congress is, fact, Republicans at basically the same level they voted for Trump, but they're also saying they are going to turn out in very high numbers, at least comparable to Democrats. Folks, we always bring receipts on the show. And when I'm telling you it's an opinion or

speculation, like I'm going to tell, or a single subject anecdote that's not really scientific and it's polling, but still matters, I'll tell you, which is what I'm going to tell you right now. I was in a church this weekend and, By the way, I ran into someone really super, like famous, the sports side. I'm not going to say who, but I was kind of like blown away. I'm like, is that? It was like the weirdest thing. And he was like, crazy.

Just like sitting there. These guys know what I was. It was just like the weirdest thing that we ran into each other outside. And it was just crazy. So, but folks at church were coming up to me afterwards and chatting. And they're all enthusiastic to vote. Again, I'm not telling you that's a, I live in a pretty conservative county, so I'm not telling you like that's expandable to the rest of the country and analyzing election trends.

I'm just saying the Harriet and Polly just covered about voter enthusiasm, early voting turnout, I'm not ready to forfeit this race. And I don't know why anyone else would be either. If it was an early voting lead like we had back in, you know, the Bush years when they got destroyed, I don't know, Dems won like, I don't know, 40, 60s, it was crazy. The seat, it was like a really, that was a legit blue wave. Then I still wouldn't tell you to give up, but I'd say, hey, man, we got a serious problem. The problem we have now is I just heard someone in the chat say, is this doomer slop stuff,

which is like, when I say dumber slopp, I'm not in any way diminishing people's concerns about gas prices and affordability. I'm simply saying to you that whatever solution you think the Democrats will bring, if the past is prologue, it will only get worse for you. The inflation numbers under Biden were far worse. Gas prices under Obama and Biden were far worse. At least the president is trying to do stuff about it. It's just constant distractions by people who I'm telling you want us to lose. They want us to lose so they can run their own president.

presidential candidate coming up in 2028 and they can say, you see, we told you so, Donald Trump and his administration suck. It's all they want. It's all about a grift and money, all of it. No, Dan, it's about principle. It is not about principle. I've met these people. They are clowns. They are the exact opposite of what you think they are. I'm really sorry to disappoint you. Here are the numbers. Here's Steve Moore on Fox. Stephen Moore, really good economist. I've been following Steve for a long time. You know, he doesn't agree with President Trump on everything. He's not a huge tariff guy or else.

But he's been a truth teller for a long time. Here he is on Fox talking about the economy, economic growth. I'm going to show you in a second. Again, even Axios, a left wing, I wouldn't say radically left wing, but pretty left wing outlet, put out this morning, this morning Monday on their email list like, hey man, the economy's really good, but the Trump administration has an issue here in that they don't want to seem insensitive to people who are struggling. There are some, but we don't want to lie either. Like the economic numbers are pretty badass right now. Here's Steve Moran, just check this out.

I'm hoping for closer to 75 to 100,000 jobs, but there has been a realignment of the economy over the last year and a half or so. And that's been a decline, a big decline in government employment and a nice bump up in private sector employment, which by the way was almost the opposite of what we were seeing throughout Biden's first four years in office, where you may recall every time we do this report, you know, we'd get, say, 150,000 jobs and like half of them were government jobs. Did you know, by the way, the federal employment in Washington, D.C. is lower today than it's been in 50 years. So Trump is draining the swamp. This is the crazy thing about even numbers that are considered, you know, not great. Like the GDP numbers really look good.

The business investment in the United States, the manufacturing-based building factories, again, building things here in the United States look amazing. Gas prices, not great, we can agree, but nowhere near where they were under the Democrats, it'll make your gas like $200 a gallon. Inflation numbers, not great, but again, nowhere near Biden. We were handed all of his COVID payouts and all this other, you know, inflation production act crap that we got to deal with. And it's been two years.

and it's far better than it was before. But some of the numbers really are great. And the numbers that came out, they were like, well, the jobs numbers were only 29,000. Well, they were only 29,000 because President Trump is shrinking the federal workforce, something Republicans, Republicans have promised for decades now and have never followed through on. This is what we want, right? President Trump could have easily, easily, just hear me out on this, easily juiced the jobs numbers by doing a Democrat,

Dipsy-Doo, Flipperoo, we haven't done what it knows a month. And the Democrat dipsy-do is this. They just hire a bunch of government workers. USI-I-D, they'll bring back and spend all this money, but blow out jobs numbers, $150,000. The president doesn't want that. He understands that the government is a drain on your resources to pay for this, that it's way bloated, that we need to get rid of some federal workforce employees.

It's just too bloated at this point. And it's, of course, is going to have an impact on jobs. numbers. Even like I told you, like the not great news still has a silver lining. Here's Axios this morning. Again, I'm trying to give you CNN and Axios. Why, Dan, you're promoting their... I'm not promoting their outlets. I'm trying to tell you, giving you a wide breadth of receipts and information that you can vote on if you're still undecided about where you want to go, that even opponents of the president like Axios are starting to acknowledge that the economy is pretty damn good overall. Really good. Axios, Trump's dilemma. This is really important.

It's a critical piece. This is why we can't minimize people who are struggling out there. Because there are some. President Trump's economic data keeps getting stronger. Again, this is Axios. His economic polling keeps getting worse by the day, which is the weirdest thing. It's like the doomer slop is kicked in. It may be too late to change that. But it's also not clear anyone has much of a plan to try. Why it matters. The midterms are less than a month away and the administration is circling the drain on voters' number one issue. Because the media and doomers have told you the economy's bad, people are believing it. But even axios is like, hey man, these numbers are really good. Kevin Hassett, the National Economic Council Director,

said on CNN, there's your problem. This is the dilemma they're talking about. If I say, oh, people are wrong, the economy's great, then it looks like I'm insensitive, which we're not. And then if I go into why the economy is great, then it looks like I'm insensitive. But the numbers are staggering. GDP numbers, the PMI numbers, the numbers for the, when you look at rebuilding our factory and industrial base in the United States, when you look at the unemployment rate, one of the lowest in U.S. history, the poverty rate, the lowest in decades, median household income, expanding the highest it's ever been.

You look at the equities markets, which are now 45 percent of the entire. global equity market. It's insane. Like the economic numbers are light years ahead of where they were with your other choice, the Democrats. It's a binary choice, man. And it's not just that. There is a ton of other good, positive things happening. I want to play this one for you. There are a lot of people concerned about the immigration situation in the United States, dealing with 20 million plus, you know, illegals in the country. Maybe more we don't know about. Folks, the numbers here are pretty dramatic too. You've got a bunch of people lying to your face telling you nothing's happening.

And then they keep coming out with things happening. And they just changed the story to another thing they invented that tell you isn't happening is happening too. Here's a Fox report on deportations, violent criminals and elsewhere over this weekend. And how the Supreme Court and sending people off to third party countries, you know, countries are like, oh, we don't want them back. Well, too bad. They're going somewhere. They're not staying here. That's not happening.

Really? Check this out. largest deportation hub. Now, today alone, ICE says about a thousand illegal migrants were deported on 21 flights headed to countries like Guatemala and El Salvador. On the flight to Guatemala, there were 136 deportees. ICE says 70 of them are criminal aliens or facing criminal charges for offenses like rape, sexual assault, and domestic violence. Now, DHS secretary Mark Wayne Mullen, he was on the ground as these flights took off, telling us that DHS is also focused on the cost, and he says the alternative would cost taxpayers much more.

Well, it's much more expensive to keep them here and have to allow them to be a leach off of the American society when they shouldn't be here anyways. And they're joining our social programs. Fifty percent of these individuals board these planes every day, 365 days a week, have committed crimes. And there's 20 percent are the most serious heinous crimes. So I don't know how you put a price on the life, but the taxpayers are paying for them anyways. Thousands of terrorists locked up. We got another one, counterintelligence, alleged spy this weekend. You got cash locking up in 10 out of 10 now on the most wanted list.

It's gotten to the point out where the FBI, DHS, they do things under the president's direction. And you've got doomerism and domer slop on our own side telling you, no, no, don't believe you're lying. And I was like, you're not really seeing what's happening. What are you talking about? Folks, I got more good news coming up, too. More, like a lobmore. Because you've got an election in just about a month. That's it.

That is going to change the course of history. And as I told you, with redistricting and everything else in the census count, if we can hold the House and Senate, this may be one of the last times you have to vote in a country where Democrats have a structural advantage due to illegal immigration. We've got to get through this one. You know, you've told us before. It's the most important election.

Because it is. And every other time it's been right, too. I only can live in the now. Past already happened. Future hasn't happened yet. Quick break, and I want to show you, I'm going to give you some more, including a really interesting tweet about church attendance.

What does that have to do with politics? Folks, there is a natural conduit from religion, fate, to politics. I know it's not always like the coolest thing to talk about. Some people like to distance the two. they are related and I think you know where I'm going with it quick break we'll get right back to it hey have you ever thought I should really be doing something to help protect myself from stalkers scammers and hackers online but you're not sure where to start here's we got to do go to join

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You've got 30 days to do it. You've got to email 10 people and make 10 social media posts on how to vote. Do you have a way to vote? Do I need to drive you to vote? If we do this, we will win. If we don't, we will lose. It's that simple.

There's no cheat sheet to politics. That's only for the Democrats. You have to show up. What else should we be voting on? Well, ladies and gentlemen, energy prices are a concern, no doubt. However, the way to mitigate energy prices is to go on a national agenda of increasing gas production in the United States. I'm asking you a question. I'm not making an assertion.

Serious question. I'm not jerking you around. Do you really believe that the California energy plan of leave it in the ground and tax the hell out of it? Do you really believe that's going to make your gas price bill go down? That's insane. Or do you believe the Donald Trump administration, which is focused like a freaking laser on increasing gas, natural gas production, refinery capacity in the United States? Do you believe that's a long-term plan?

I think the answer is obvious. That is a long-term plan for a manageable electricity and fuel bill, home heating and elsewhere. Here's the receipts again. Receipts matter. It's not my opinion. It's just true. U.S. natural gas production reached a record, high in July of 2026. It's right there. It's right there. Look at the charts. You think we're making

this up? That will crater. That will crater under a Democrat-led House and Senate. And it will be even worse under a Democrat presidency. Because ladies and gentlemen, we have receipts about what they did. Their gas prices were far higher. They hate the energy industry. Matter of fact, there's a Supreme Court case going on right now. They opened up a session today. Follow this case. It's about the city of Boulder in Colorado, basically suing a bunch of energy companies. If this is allowed to stand, your energy prices are going to go through the roof. They're going to go through the roof. These lawsuits will be baked into the price of you filling up your tank,

and you can thank liberal Democrats and so-called global warming hysteria groups for doing it. It's there right now, the Boulder case. It is a huge case, huge in its impact. Here's the White House again. last week you like safe streets. If you don't, vote Democrat. They hate the cops. They want to defund the police. They hate the military. They want to impeach Hegsaf. It's ridiculous. They've actively read. We saw what happened with the George Floyd riots. Here's the White House pushing this out last week. Operation Summer Heat 2.0. President Trump is bringing back

law and order in America after years of rampant crime under the Biden administration. America will law enforcement will stop in nothing to keep America safe. Again, Operation Summer Heat 1.0. Air. 2.0 is going on now. 8,900 arrest, 5,000 firearms C, 680 kilos of fentanyl, 27,000 kilos of cocaine, 2,700 federal indictments, 1,400 child victims located, 6 more wanted fraudsters captured, six alleged cybercriminals, extra-added. That's just three months. It's just the Trump administration's leadership. I thought the Dumer's told you nothing's happening. Of course they did. They want you to lose, get smoked, your gas prices to go up so they can blame President Trump. No.

No, yes. Yes. Here's another piece of good news. Again, it's a cultural shift going on right now. You are seeing a revival, a renaissance of faith in America again as people go back to church. It was there this weekend. It was amazing. The place was packed. Packed. I'm not making that up. I've been there during, you know, when attendance was a little slow. I've been there during COVID when it was empty. Remember COVID, Justin? It was like nobody there. You had to sit rows apart. I think the craziest thing ever. United States is experiencing a rise in church attendance for the first time in 25 years. I'm not telling you people of faith aren't Democrats. There are a lot of, you know, working class Democrats who are people of faith.

I'm just telling you, if I'm a betting man, and I'm rolling the dice, and you tell me you're a churchgoer, you're probably voting for conservative values, sanctity of life, bill of rights, protections for everybody out there. Those are like conservative values. This is a good sign of a cultural shift. And again, even if you're voting for the other side under some mistaken belief that they're going to fix your problems with gas prices and inflation, despite the fact that they cause the problems, you've got people like Mark Thesson who, listen, I like Mark, but he's not, I'm considered like a huge MAGA guy. Here's Mark Deason over at the Washington Post. 80% of the higher prices Americans are paying today are due to Biden your inflation. That's a fact.

prices have gone up at a slower pace under President Trump, but they have not returned to pre-Biden levels. People are angry about the cumulative effect. I understand how we got here, though, matters. We got here because of Biden's Inflation Production Act, his spending blowout, this modern monetary theory Democrat thing, and a lot of Republicans in Congress who didn't check them right, I get it. But at least you've got a president out, cutting federal jobs,

we had Doge, we're at least making an effort and we're trying to grow the economy to marry it up. This inflation was caused by them. And then this is what disturbs me the most. If you want a return to cancel culture, which hasn't gone anywhere, I had this conversation, I think I was chatting last week with someone you and I both know. And very prominent guy. And he's like, hey, I thought this stuff went away. I said, went away.

this cancel culture is like a beach ball being held underwater by tyrannical weaponized government leftists who the second they get back in power we're all going to get banned again and folks again the dumers and all these people who've never fought they're like new to the movement and they just think that you know that they can crap all over everyone after we built everything we've been through these fights me and you we were banned from youtube you can look at the articles yourself for telling you masks don't work to stop COVID. Oh, I didn't know that. Yes.

Yes. The Twitter files where they were suppressing people on Twitter. Who do you think was in that first batch of releases? This guy, I don't need any lectures from people about cancel culture fights. I've invested my money and time in free speech platforms. A lot of the people on these platforms go out and crap all over us. That's fine. You're allowed to have an opinion?

I put my money where my money. mouth is in my efforts. We've been a victim of this stuff. But you're seeing it creep back now. Don't disregard these little stories. You see this ridiculous Portland Trailblazers thing, the basketball team? This guy, they have an announcer, as broadcaster, so they fire this guy for ex post. He made when he was a teenager, a teenager.

Why do I bring this up? Who cares about the Portland Trailblazers? And here's their ridiculous crap statement by the, the way, which you can just throw out. They have zero tolerance for racist, sexual, or harmful comments. And they say, oh, a clear violation of team and league pals. Oh, really? Portland Trailblazers are like against racism and sexism and misogyny and all that stuff.

Oh, good. I'm against that, too. Seems kind of weird, though, coming from an organization where there's an actual Netflix show about the Portland jail, were they the jailblazers? Oh, look. this is an actual, I actually watched this one. Netflix, untold, the Portland jailblazers. What I told you guys were all against this stuff.

You're now all of a sudden you were all principal. The guy wrote this stuff as a teenager, ladies and gentlemen. Why do I bring this up? You vote the Democrats. And by the way, it got community noted into the phantom zone, this stupid post by the trailblazers claiming they're all of a sudden taking a high road. The Portland Trailblazers have a history of employing players who use racial slurs while employed by them.

have hired players with previous violent felony sex convictions. They do not have zero tolerance for racist or sexist comments. Community notes from the top ropes for the dub. For the dub. Sometimes community notes get weaponized, but overall, big fan. I like fact checking, even when sometimes it goes right. You know some of the people who weaponizing you, but that comes along with the turf sometimes. Folks, I bring this up because a lot of you, folks in the chat, many of you have kids,

your parents, yes, in the chat. Yeah, you have kids, parents. We're all either children or parents, correct? Anyone here not? Anyone here a product of an immaculate conception? I don't think so. If your name isn't Jesus, it's not you, okay? So, yeah, parents too, but you know they get the point.

Actually, more married, but you get to the theological stuff, but you know we're talking about. Everyone here's a kid or a parent, correct? Everybody. Your kids have posted something on TikTok, Snapchat, X, or Facebook. or Instagram meals. I promise going to come back to haunt them. No, not my kid. Yes, your kid.

I know. I know because sometimes I get to be like, did you just post that? Do you want your kids to live in a world like this? Hey, I just got offered a job by whatever the, the Defense Department of War. This is so great. I can't believe it.

And in some Democrat administration and oh, listen, when you were 13, you know, you posted about your friends smoked a joy to say, I don't know, you failed. This is the future you want your kids to live in this Democrat future. Not me. Not me. I don't want that. I don't want it.

Sorry. No good. I'm not doing that. And I'm not going to let anyone else do it either. I've been a victim of this stuff. I've been on the other side of it. Ladies and gentlemen, it was not fun. I don't care what anyone tells you.

Guy, Justin, and I, these guys weren't here yet, the rest of the crew. We went through this. Every single, remember every episode we did, there was some stupid fact check. Remember, and we got our videos suppressed. We talked about COVID being a lab leak. They'd be like, ah, there's no evidence of that. We'd be like, what do you mean? There's no evidence.

We just cited the article. We're not going back to that. And if you think the Democrats are getting elected, by the way, to fix affordability and are going to make your life better, what the hell have any Democrats done at a national level over the last 40 years to make your life better? I can make a small case that at least second term Bill Clinton, who gave the State of the Union speech, the era of big government is over,

that he brought some sanity, a mild degree of sanity on government spending back. There is nothing Democrats have done since then at all that has benefited your life. DEI, men in the women's room, confiscatory taxation, the Bernie Sanders health care plan to cancel your private insurance.

None of this is good, keeping your kids in crappy schools, impeaching the president over BS twice, you know, trying to arrest everyone they don't like, canceling everyone on social media platforms. This all happened, man. This all happened. Oh, they're not going to do that again. They're not going to hike our taxes and impeach the president if we get elected. They're telling you they're going to do it. And I'm really sorry if you're

falling for this. We're only going to tax the evil rich people, but not you middle class folks. They always say this. And it always turns around and kicks you in the gonads too. Here's Senator Mark Kelly, Democrat, Democrat, potential president. presidential candidate in 2028 Democrat telling you that if they get elected, they're going to push to hike your taxes. Don't listen to me. Listen to them. Check this out. Costs for the American people. We've got to win the House and or the Senate. Well, how will we do this? I have legislation with Chris Van Holland. We've got to get Republicans on board. It raises taxes for people who make over a million dollars a year in income. And it provides tax cuts

for people, individuals, and even couples up to, who make up to about $160,000 a year, that's some relief. Holy Moses, how many times are we going to fall for this freaking scam? We're only going to raise the taxes on the rich people. They do this every time. Here's the hard truth. You ready?

Everybody take a seat who's not ready to hear this, who's an independent, doesn't know what the Bongino Army is all about. Folks, these evil rich people you speak of are typically people who founded businesses. How do you think they got rich? They created a value-added product people chose to buy. A lot of middle-class, upper-middle-class, Americans and people cracking into the middle class

are working for people who created businesses. I know that's not cute and easy to say because the Democrats live in this envy politics culture where they've always got to hate someone, the white male patriarchy, the evil rich guy. Just stop worrying about everyone else's wealth and worry about your wealth. We want you wealthier. And the way to do it is not to tax the hell out of people who create businesses and wealth

and create jobs that has never worked. They just tried this in L.A. We just added this right before the show came there and go, you know what? Producer receipt, Dan. Okay, I'll give you a recent one. They've tried these taxes a thousand times. Everywhere from France to the state of Maryland, let's just tax the rich people.

And then they leave. And they stop creating businesses. And they hide their money. L.A., Los Angeles, for the liberals listening. They tried this mansion tax. Everybody was like, this is great. Double-barreled middle finger to these rich people. You own a mansion?

We're going to hit you with taxes. New York Post. L.A.'s mansion tax backfires spectacularly. As thousands of homes and jobs vanish. It's how many times are we going to go through this, dude? Receipts. What happened? All the evil rich people who realized they would be taxed the hell out of their wallet

if they built new apartments for people to live in just didn't build them. The construction jobs disappeared, rents one up because no new apartments were being built. How many times? Someone just put it in the chat. I just said, kick me in the gym. This is like Beavis and Butter, the coach guy. How many times you're going to get killed? in the nads. How many times you're like, man, that hurt? Yeah, it hurts. That's not just a movie myth.

That hurts, okay? Guys, no, Justin hurts. Yeah, it hurts. It hurts. Other people in and I don't know. I tell you, it hurts. It hurt. How many times you're going to get kicked in the nads? My, hit me into your. How many times, man? How the hell is taxing people more going to make their lives more affordable. It's less money for people to spend in the economy and to spend on their businesses, but it's somehow going to make you wealthy or how is that going to happen, man? How? Oh, they're not going to impeach President Trump again. That went nowhere. They impeached them twice, and he won re-election. Clearly that backfired. Folks, you're missing. Kick-Me in the Jimmy politics. The Democrats will do the same stupid thing over and over again.

Even if it involves kicking people in the nads because they know suckers will fall for it. No, they won't. Yes, they will. Here's President Trump warning people. He's asked the question. It sounds like Peter Ducey. Like, hey, the Democrats are now hinting around at impeachment again for the third time. They kick me into Jimmy politics.

How do you feel about this? And this is, by the way, a Trumpian answer. Only Trump can pull this. I love this answer. Okay, I'm getting really good at this at this point. Let's check this out. Now that if Democrats win control of Congress, they will impeach you. But you've already been impeached twice.

No, what the third time? Well, I don't know, but I'm getting good at it. And it's a fake impeachment. And we could have done that with Sleepy Joe, but we didn't do it because it would have been appropriate. I could have done that with Hillary Clinton. As you know, I got the chance to do it if I wanted. And I said that would be inappropriate. But with me, they like to do it. folks okay listen Trump always has a soundbite he's better the snapshots and soundbites and contrast no one does it better they just haven't no one does it better at the national level like he does

nobody but he's bringing up an argument that's a very serious one I need you to strongly consider right now you have a choice there are no perfect choices in a fallible world full of human beings who run it who folks we're human beings are we're we're very fallible. We're sinners. Thank God for Jesus helping us out. But we all screw stuff up every day. I know I believe in salvation too, but can anybody here just admit a very simple axiomatic tautological truth that human beings are fallible and will screw things up given the opportunity, even the best among us. We're not dealing with a perfect choice. I cannot emphasize this to you enough. You are dealing with two imperfect choices, one more imperfect than the other.

You have an incredible two-year record. President Trump was handed a sandwich full of, you know what, and it didn't taste good. Inflation out of control, borders out of control. Just please think back to two years ago the mess we were in. Fox News had a drone up at the border with Bill Malugian, hundreds of thousands of people a month, if not more, crossing the border. You can go look this up. This was just two years ago. It was not light years ago in a galaxy far, far away for the Star Wars fans out there.

that was for you guys. This was just two years ago. The Biden administration averaged 5% inflation. It's hovering around three. Not what we needed to be, but nowhere near Biden. Biden peaked out, by the way, at 9% inflation. At 9% inflation, prices double in about six years. Double. That's how bad it was. We had to, you had again this, this defund the police. You have these, some people did some things, people. to Rashida Talibes, the Bernie Sanders. Bernie Sanders health care bill, the Democrats are talking about passing if they get elected. President Trump won't sign it.

He's your only bulwark against it. However, the Bernie Sanders bill will cancel your private health care. Please look it up. I'm begging you as a friend. Please look this up. Bernie Sanders bill, this government health care for all, cancels your private insurance. It is now illegal.

No, it is. Look it up. Get back to me tomorrow. Folks, you're not dealing. in the world of perfect choices. They will impeach this president again. I thought they were going to focus on affordability. They will not.

There is no evidence that's true. None. The party has been hijacked, shockingly, by people even crazier than the Hillary Clinton Democrats. Folks, these Democrats make Hillary Clinton look like Richard Nixon, and she was crazy. She was nuts. She was that.

And Hillary Clinton makes Bill Clinton look like Reagan. She was nuts too. These Democrats are crazy. You got Ro Kana, AOC, attacking Chuck Schumer, who's like a freaking communist because he's not a big enough communist. Folks, you have a two-year record, I could argue, given everything this president, the administration, more handed, that, you know, I can't say things like, well, we couldn't have done something. things different. No one's ever going to, of course, again, in a world full of fallible people, mistakes are made, but you move on. But however, you put this two-year record up against any two-year first two-year term of a president. I get it's the second term, but there was this break here.

There's nothing like it. And the hits just keep on coming. Again, you've got a federal law enforcement apparatus now finally cracking down on China. You saw this alleged spy, of course, locked up this weekend. Check this out from the FBI rapid response. China's spy game just hit a wall. They arrested an alleged PRC agent at a Los Angeles airport before she could board a flight to Shanghai. Then you see this. Ten most wanted. They got all ten now. And the left side complaining about that. I can't believe they got the most wanted. Maybe they're just too good. It's such ridiculous complaints about these people. And then you've got people on our side or pretending to be on our side,

who 30 days from an election, 30 days from election, are going on 60 minutes and crapping all over the administration. Pete Heggsath, President Trump, who told you this was appropriate? Here's supposedly Republican Senator Tom Tillis on 61 minutes.

The Sir Network. Everyone remembers 61 minutes? Here's supposedly Republican Senator Tom Tillis. Besides, it's a good idea to go on 60 minutes and start trashing Hegson. Now, dirty days from an election. Republican voters gave you a career. And man, I haven't seen that. There's a, what do you call it?

There's a, what do you call it? I miss that. It's been so long. Why would you do this? The answer is there are people who cannot get there. A cranial rectatotomy. In other words, taking your head and removing it from your caboose, There are people who can't do this.

They are so obsessed with President Trump, even on supposedly our side, that they wait for the most opportune time to tell you all the things they hate in an imperfect election. Instead of just shutting your mouth 30 days out and saying, hey, my time is up. I'll leave that. What do they do? And by the way, maybe he missed the memo on the Straits of Hormuz, how we now control it again. Maybe he missed that. Here's tell us on 61 minutes. Again, total doomer, crap, slop, garbage junk.

30 days out. Really, bro? Check this out. I said that you supported the initial decision to go to one end. You know, I think that they got so caught up after the immense success of the first strike that Hegsef probably didn't listen to his best military advice and say now we should probably move to a different posture. He's calling for Hegsef to resolve.

He's calling for a Hegset to what? Folks, now? Again, for anyone confused out there who may hate this show and likes to troll the chat, whatever's welcome. I'm not telling Tom Tillis that his free speech rights aren't there, that he can't do these interviews. Clearly, that's not what I'm saying. I'm just saying, why now?

We finally turned a corner in Iran. We finally get a bit of a lid on oil prices. We finally figured out how to control the streets. The Iranian economy is unquestionably collapsing. They have five and six hour energy lines. Their currency is worth effectively nothing. And you wait 30 days before an election from a party that did the door knocks for you and everything. Because your diaper is full and you're upset at President Trump and Pete Higgs.

Dude, come on, man. getting so exhausted with this crap. Now is the time? Really? Folks, we got serious issues to handle right now. And it's time for serious people. This guy is... All right, quick break and I want to get to this.

So, election security, free and fair elections, number one concern of my audience by far. Number one. Number one concern, there's no topic I get more emails about than election security. None. It's not even close. Even the famous death penalty show.

It pales in comparison to election security. This president takes that seriously, too. There was a really, really important appearance this weekend by Attorney General Todd Blanche on this. And the Democrats are melting down about this, too, about election security. Why? If you don't like election security, it's because you want to cheat. It only makes sense. Good for the administration for taking a stand and not back and down.

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They just announced thousands of ongoing investigations. What about diamonds? They just announced the indictments last week for people who shouldn't have voted but did. This is still happening right now. The Dumer Slop is, oh, nothing's happening ever. Here's Attorney General Blanche about a really important initiative to basically just make sure the elections are free and fair. The Democrats freaked out about this.

Why? Because they want to cheat. They love cheating. It's in their DNA. Check this out. The DOJ planning to send out a thousand monitors to the polls during the midterm elections. Democratic Senator Tammy Baldwin has said this about the upcoming election. She says, our democracy demands or depends on Americans being able to show up at the ballot box and have their voices heard.

But that's all at risk this November as President Trump openly weighs sending in armed federal agents to our schools, churches, fire stations, and other polling locations. So what exactly is the plan? Who are these monitors going to be? And how do you answer critics who say it's about intimidation? I wish that the senators that are in the congressmen that are saying this fear, fear-mongering, false statements would just not do that. It's not fair to the American people.

Since the 60s, the Department of Justice has monitored elections. every single election has been monitored. And so we're doing, we meeting this administration, President Trump is doing the same thing that every single administration is done in our generation, multiple generations, okay? And we're making sure that federal law is being enforced appropriately.

What these senators should be saying is thank God, is thank God that we have a government that's ready to show up and have voluntary, we're hoping to have a thousand or more. They are not going to Republican states, they're not going to Democrat states, they're going to every state to make sure that our elections are carried out

legally, fairly, and appropriately. And again, this happens in every single election. And of course we're going to do it. Of course we're going to make sure the law is followed. And election integrity is so important in this country. And it's something that we're all talking about as we should. Who are these people going to be? Though the accusation is going to be armed federal agents.

Is that? I mean, that is completely false. They're going to be election monitors as they are every single time. Folks, there is nothing about this story that is even remotely controversial. if you're interested in free and fair and accurate elections. Nothing. Why would you not want people from our government making sure there's not voter intimidation, cheating?

The answer is because you want to cheat. Now, let's paint the contrast here. You have an administration led by President Trump. Does anybody dispute President Trump cares about free and fair elections? He talks about it all the time. No serious person. and disputes that. Wipe out the liberals because I said serious people, okay?

President Trump and his DHS has something in the neighborhood of 100,000 plus investigations. They're on a massive effort to clean up voter rolls. They just announced a huge number of indictments for cheating last week. We played the cut. President Trump pushed strong for the Save Act. I get it. That's probably the one black guy that I think cost us the most. But you want to vote for the Democrats?

the solution to that. Like, that's insane. The Democrats' election, their electioneering election bill that they tried to push under Joe Biden was one of the most destructive bills I've ever seen in my life. Folks, I want you to understand what you're voting for if you're voting for Democrats and you're even remotely interested in election integrity and actually picking your own political representatives. The Democrat bill would have basically codified national mail-in balloting. Everyone in their mother would get a mail-in ballot. You would have no control over where they went. They don't want to do any kind of verification for this. You would mail in balloting. You would mail out a ton of ballot, millions of ballots, okay? Sean Davis, a friend of mine at the Federalist,

once said, you know, ballots win elections, not votes. He's correct. If you mail out millions of ballots and then the Democrat Party and their organized interests go out and harvest those votes, which is what they want to do. It doesn't matter if you've John Smith voted or Jane Smith voted. They're just going to take your ballots, fill them out for a bunch of people in nursing homes and elsewhere and illegals. And they're going to win elections, not because people actually chose their candidate, but because the system is rigged that way.

This is what they want to install as our national model. They want the California model all across the country. Folks, you have a choice in this election. President Trump is doing what he can within the executive branch. I really, listen, I get it. I get it. I'm with you. Nobody, we could go over a library of material we covered on the SAVE Act in this.

At least 20 shows or more on it. I don't have a vote in the U.S. Senate. I did not have a vote as your deputy director of the FBI. I was not elected. I was chosen for the position. We pushed hard. We had Senator Mike Leon. We didn't get it.

I wish we had. President Trump pushed really hard for it. The solution is not to punish his party. I get we have to do better. We just have to do better than the Democrats. And their solution for this election is an absolute freaking nightmare. Mass mail and balloting will be the downfall of the United States election system. Free and fair elections will be finished.

or you could have a system like we have in Florida, where folks, there is a people in Florida where I live, right, Justin? People are, even though we have mail-in-balloting here, it's done with signature verification. It's actually at the application step. There's a bunch of verification mechanisms. I don't love mail-in-balloting. I wish it weren't a thing.

But if it is a thing, at least do it like you do it in Florida. They don't want that. They don't want that. Florida, the elections close at 9.01, you've got a winner. And we're in two time zones here, too, and they still figure it out. They don't want that. They want the California model. You know what else we do good here in Florida?

We're all Florida residents here. One thing about the state of Florida, can I give you a piece of advice? Can I do with Dan Bongino Public Service announcement? This is really important. I strongly recommend, if you would, were a bad guy, a life loser, or a zero, do not break into or attempt to burglarize a home in the state of Florida. Don't do it. It's not a good idea. They have to stand your ground law. And a lot of people in Florida happen to own firearms, which is a really good thing. Some people would call it

the gunshined state. I'm just telling you, like, behind a door is probably someone who's going to be really pissed off you try to break in. Someone should have told these kids that thing. Before they tried to break into this house, apparently a guy popped out with a Kalisnikov 7-6-2, and, you should just see. And the sheriff's statement afterward is absolutely priceless. Check this out.

This you don't need remember. You only know what it is there. It can't, bitch. Oh, God, I miss that. I see your ass. This is a home invasion. Three men. home invaded. The victim runs to a back room where he had a third gun. He picked up that gun,

an AK-47 style gun, and he started shooting for his own protection to get them out of his house. So those of you who might ask a question, is the homeowner going to be charged for shooting at these people? Absolutely not. The homeowner is protecting himself, and in Florida, in Escambia County, you can protect yourself. I'm just telling you, just about every sheriff in the state of Florida. Just about every single one with few exceptions has the exact same policy on this. Do not burglarize a home in the state of Florida. Because the number one rule of the Dan Bongino show, what is it in the chat? Don't get dead.

You are running a significant chance of getting dead. The second you crack that door open, there is somebody on the other side who is going to help you get dead really fast. Just right. F-A-F-O. You're damn right. I'll bet you've got a lot of this in Texas and other red states too. However, I love me to stay to Florida. It goes down here, people don't mess around,

and the sheriffs don't mess around either. This is not the place to try out your burglary skills. It is not. Don't try them out anywhere else either, but this is definitely not. There's a tutorial. Do not try to kick in a door in the state of Florida. You know, we have our 1776 contest. If you want to see the official rules,

go to bungeido.com slash 1776. Once a week, we give away $1,776 to a lucky viewer. You just have to join the chat live every day at 10 a.m. And we pick a comment of the day. I believe we have a winner. What week is this, Justin? We have to 10, 11, a week 11 winner. So congratulations to this lucky winner.

Fireworks in the studio. Deactivate the fire extinguisher system. High heat up. You're doing something right, Dan. You're a bot magnet. Oh, are we ever? congratulations high heat up we will get you your $1,776. Yeah, we are.

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