The MeidasTouch Podcast - Election Night 2025

Episode Date: November 5, 2025

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Conditions and exclusions apply. This is a special edition of the Midas Touch podcast. Election night is here and we already have a call to make in the Virginia governor's race, Abigail Spanberger can now be called to be the winner of the Virginia governor's race there. Also, the lieutenant governor's race as well. Ghazala Hashmi, who I interviewed recently on the Midas Dutch Network, will go on to win the lieutenant governorship. She is a state senator there.

Also, we're seeing Decision HQ make a big call in Georgia the first time this race has been won by a Democrat. Alicia Johnson's going to go on to become the Public Service Commissioner number two, and then Public Service Commissioner 3, Peter Hubbard. So these are the early calls we can make right now, but from the exit polling data that we are seeing, people are pissed at Donald Trump and this regime. People are showing up today to let the Trump regime know the suffering and pain that they feel. And it seems that people are showing up to send a resounding message right now. Could it be a night of a blue tidal wave coming?

Stay tuned. We will be reporting all night with guests along the way. Soon we'll have some senators, we'll have some Congress members. We will have some familiar Midas faces here as well. Our coverage will be going on all night. I look forward to making the call soon. What's going to happen in the New Jersey governor's race with Mikey Cheryl versus Jack Chittarelli? We will talk about that race as we get data coming in.

We'll be talking about the New York City mayoral election right there with Zoran Mamdani versus Cuomo. We will be giving you the results there. And we know that Donald Trump has been making erratic post after post after post. And we're showing you the graphic right now of California where Prop 50 is expected to pass. The yes, folks, this mid-decade redistricting is looking like it's going to going to take place, allowing the voters to determine the congressional maps right there. We've got various screens across the country right now that you see there.

Our team has been working on making this night a special experience for you all. And I'm honored to be joined by my brothers, Brett and Jordy, and to be joined by all the mightest, mighty out there. Brett and Jordy, a big night. Brett, what are you seeing right now on election night? It's big. It's a huge night tonight. Election night.

I always love the energy of election night. and today, if I am the GOP, I am looking out, and in my opinion, as of this moment, I am seeing a blue tsunami heading in my direction. We are seeing the data coming in. Yes, it is early, but it is looking very good as of this moment for the Democrats out there and very, very bad for Donald Trump and the Republican Party. We are already seeing signs of a major repudiation, a full on rejection of Trump, Trumpism, and everything. the Republican Party stands for voters are saying, we trusted you, we voted for you, we regret it, you let us down. How dare you do what you're doing with immigration? How dare you do what you're

doing with all the federal layoffs and all the chaos and everything that is going on? We are sick of it. No more. You are destroying our lives. You are destroying the economy. And we will not stand for it. As Ben said, a major call happening very early in the night, a closely watched, highly contested raised Democrat Abigail Spanberger winning that Virginia gubernatorial race with Decision Desk HQ first making the call. Now all the major networks are starting to make this call for those who maybe need a little bit of a catch-up on what happened here. She faced off against Republican Winsome Earl Sears. Winsome Earl Sears is currently the lieutenant governor of the state. This means that Spanberger will be the first woman to serve as governor of the Commonwealth.

This was one of the most closely watched race of the night. A huge race. We all know that Virginia is a bellwether state, and Virginia is also heavily impacted by Donald Trump's actions, being a place where there are so many federal workers. They have been heavily impacted by these layoffs, by Donald Trump's erratic behavior. Then you have Spanberger coming in, Spanberger, a representative in the House from 2019 through 2025, a former intelligence officer. She ran a campaign that was inspiring, a campaign that was disciplined against a very highly erratic MAGA candidate and brother. If you remember, we here at Midas Touch broke one of the major stories about Winsom Earl Sears earlier this year. It was our exclusive reporting. We obtained a leaked recording of her downplaying the doge cuts in Virginia.

She made some sort of comments saying, you know, people lose jobs all the time. Who cares that you all are losing jobs? I'm supposed to feel bad that you're losing jobs. I mean, who cares? Shouldn't be that big of a deal that Trump is doing all these firings. She literally said that we had it on tape. It was a big Midas touch exclusive, and I bet that did not sit well with the people of the Commonwealth of Virginia. Hey, it's early yet.

I don't want to get ahead of myself, but this is the start of what could be a massive night for the Democrats and a massive, massive, massive rejection of Donald Trump from everything we are seeing thus far at this point. You know, I got to toss it over to Jordy. Jordy, what are you seeing? How are you feeling? What is up, Midas, Mighty. What's up, brothers? I am ready for a big night. I am ready for a big night. Vibes are feeling. Vibes feel like a nice little high right now,

but let's not get ahead of ourselves. Let's everybody lock in. I'm excited to get into tonight's special edition here, Ben. Mightest mighty. We have a lot of folks joining this live tonight. If you aren't already, please hit that subscribe button. Totally free to subscribe. We're on our way to six million subscribers. And also throughout the night, as Brett mentioned, there'll be a lot of surprises, like emojis that are hitting the chat for our members. So we have a a Spanburger emoji that's going live right now. Feel free to spam the chat with the Spanburger emoji. Ready to go tonight, Ben and Brett, might as mighty.

Everybody lock in. It's going to be a long night, but it's going to be a good night. I feel it. Benji, where you want to lead off? You're on mute there, Big. And Ben's on mute, but it's all good. We all have, you know. And the candidate wins, you get.

And I was so excited about the emojis that I got ahead of myself there. I was going to say, when a candidate wins, you get an emoji. So we just launched the governor-elect Abigail Spanberger emoji for the big victory in Virginia. Also in the lieutenant governor's race, a big win for the Democratic candidate there as well. Gazala Hashmi, who we had here on the Midas Touch network. We interviewed her end of last week heading into this big week right here. Also, we have the House of Delegates, the entire Virginia lower house, delegates is up for re-election right now.

And so what we're focused on here and we can take a look is what type of election is this going to be? We'll start to see signs of if indeed this will be a blue wave based on some of these races. This is where Dave Wasserman actually does pretty good stuff here where he highlights this stuff right here rather than when he makes his predictions. I like when he just sticks with the data and sticks with the facts. But, you know, that's just me right there. You take a look right here.

He goes, here are the eight GOP held Virginia House of Delegate seats, one by Harris in 2024, that Democrats have a great chance to flip. And you see them right there. He says, here's the next stack of six GOP held Virginia House of Delegate seats. Trump won by zero to five points in 2024. That could indicate a Democratic wave. Then he goes, here are the seven GOP held Virginia House of Delegate seats. Trump won by five to ten points.

If Democrats win any of these tonight, watch out its tsunami territory. Now, what we've been covering here at the Midas Touch Network in all of these special elections is we've seen a democratic overperformance thus far of around 10 to 15 percent, in some cases 15 to 20 percent. You'll recall our reporting in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, in the mayoral race in Omaha. We covered other state Senate races in Iowa, right? And they were all reported as shockers, big shock, another Democratic overperformance. And we started seeing that early on as well, about two months into this regime.

And we've seen that overperformance grow and grow and grow. And so the question is, is are we going to see data that is consistent with the overperformance that we've seen? It's why we've been covering it this way on the Midas Touch Network being very data-focused, everybody. All right. So let's show you some California voters who are very fired up, excited to vote on Prop 50 and send a big message as captured recently by MSNBC. Let's play this first clip, Salty. How are you doing? Oh, my God.

Wait, hold on. What's on? Hi, I'm so excited to vote. It's giving Election Day. It's giving Election Day. It's giving Election Day. If Prop 50 is only one item on the ballot, what is it? Why are you here? What's the motivating factor? No, it's giving yes on Prop 50. It's giving hot people vote yes on Prop 50.

There you have it. But let's take a look at some of these voters who in the past were Democrat voters, who switched over to Trump and are now regretting their votes in the New Jersey governor's race in Virginia, also captured by our friends at MSNBC, play this claim. Okay, so that's a voter who sat out 2024, but it's coming out now over the issue of immigration. I also spoke to a voter who in the past had vote for Democrats. He voted for Trump in 2024. He's coming out today to vote for Mikey Cheryl. Take a listen to what he told to me. His name is Romaldo. You voted for the Democrat, for Mikey Cheryl.

Yes. Why did you vote for Mikey Cheryl? I vote for Trump before, but now I look at Trump is different. The economy, I don't look good. That's a vote for democracy. You said the economy. Also, when we spoke earlier, you mentioned immigration. What is it about his immigration action?

Well, I'm very sad for this. Because some people, okay, but a lot of people working good, the family is the more important in the life. So these are a lot of the voters. I'm going to have my eyes on tonight, Nicole. Voters who are coming out, who may be considered. are low propensity voters, but they are voting uncharacteristically in what is not even an off-year election. And some of these voters who in the past have been Democrats switch to Trump

and are now regretting those votes. I think it's going to tell us a lot about whether or not Mikey Cheryl is able to cut into Trump's gains with Latino voters, potentially proving a path forward for Democrats, or if Chittarelli is able to hold on to some of those gains. You know, at what point, though, Brett and Jordy, do we stop saying uncharacteristically or a shocker or a massive surprise? Because as we've been following this data, we know that Donald Trump is deeply unpopular. I mean, the latest CNN poll had his disapproval at 63%. The worst of any CNN poll in both Trump term one and Trump term two, his approval was at 37 percent. But this was consistent with the tip poll, the UGov poll, the NBC poll across all

demographics. He's underwater with white people at this point as well. Negative 74 with black Americans, negative 38 with Hispanic Americans right now on every issue, whether it's the economy, inflation, the trade war against the world. Are we better off right? And on every issue, he's deeply underwater there on his signature issues like immigration people are all saying dude you've gone way too far into fascism so we've seen these votes in a generic ballot democrats would crush republicans if there were to be the midterms that would be held even if they did this gerrymandering right now so brett and jordy at what point do we stop saying uncharacteristic uncharacteristic and just say this is the reality stop corporate media acting like Trump is this popular guy. He's loath, despised, vile, trash. People hate this guy. And as Governor Newsom said, it's not even weakness masquerading as strength anymore. It's weakness as weakness and fraud. That's what it is. Brett. Yeah, and it's not even that he's just despised. He is the most despised in American history. And I get it that the Republicans want to put on this act, right?

They want to come out every day. Speaker Mike Johnson, Maga Mike wants to come out there. He wants put on the show, gaslight, say all this bullshit, right? That's what Maga Mike likes to do. What I don't understand is why you see the corporate media going along with the charade. Like, why go along with the charade that this guy is invincible? If there's anything that we are already starting to see tonight, it's that that cloak of invincibility is vanishing before our eyes. The entire narrative could be shifting right now. This is a seismic day in American politics. Donald Trump is probably having the worst day of his life right now.

As Ron Filipkowski, our editor-in-chiefer, I might as touch, said, these elections really should be easy Republican wins. Since Trump said his approval ratings are at record highs, prices are down. He's ended 29 wars. There's no inflation. Nobody likes Democrats, and everything is better than it ever has been before. We're in a golden age. Right, brothers?

No, obviously not. And the voters feel it. They see through the propaganda because the voters actually feel what is going on. And now we are getting yet. another major projection here from Decision Desk. This is big news, folks. Buckle up Decision Desc. H.Q. is now projecting that Mikey Sherrill will win the New Jersey gubernatorial election.

Another major, major victory for Democrats here. That is right, folks, for those just tuning in Democrat. Mikey Cheryl projected to win the race for New Jersey governor. This was a hotly contested race, a very close battle in all of the polls. The fact that it is being called this early in her race against Jack Chitarelli shows you right now the momentum that is out there. I'm sure the other networks will start to catch up with us on this call very soon. But another major W in the blue column right now, a huge win for Democrats, yet another state flip, well, another state going blue right now during these elections. Ben, real quick, real quick.

Like, a mask you over your little brother. It's all good, Jay. Yeah, Brett, we have a rhythm. It's Ben, you, me. I mean, it's every single time. That's exactly what. It drives me crazy when you guys do that. Brett is all into flipping right now as we see this.

I didn't even know what you guys are talking about if I'm being honest. You skipped over me. It always goes, Ben, you, anyway, immaculate vibes right now, immaculate vibes. So we're going to keep the vibes high because they're immaculate right now. Shout out Mikey, man. By the way, I think we have a Mikey Cheryl emoji that just hit the member chats So definitely spam the chat with that. But also to that, I want to say this.

If you have been watching the Midas Touch Network and the Midas Touch podcast, you all know one of the things that I urge all the time is do not be gaslit by corporate media. Do not let yourselves be gaslit by corporate media into thinking that any of this of what you're seeing Trump and this administration do, this regime do is normal, right? The sanewashing of the regime is so out of touch with how the American people actually feel at large. And tonight again already, as we see again, the American people are voting this way, too, that we are fed up of being gasslet, that what's happening is actually happening and we're not going to be told otherwise. So shout out to all the voters out there, man. Let's go. Let's keep doing this thing.

Now, Benji, what's up? I think we have a special guest I'm going to bring in. We're going to have special guests throughout this evening. There he is. Let's go. Adam Kinsinger, former Congress member and the subject of the last Republican. documentary that's made by the great team Kinsinger that worked with you on. And then the Midas Touch Network is distributing this.

So everybody, make sure you download the Last Republican right now. I got to say, judging by the results that are coming in right now, it looks like Adam Kinsinger might in fact be the last Republican standing. This is not looking good for the Republican Party tonight. But sorry to interrupt, Ben, as Ben said, watch the last Republican Apple TV, Amazon, Google Play, YouTube. make sure you check it out if you've already seen the movie we have a lot of people right now in the chat let them know how you feel about the movie encourage others to watch because this movie is a must watch it's never been more important to watch than right now adam thank you for

your service welcome to the show then i'll let you take it kinsigo we made some big calls already we see abigail spamburger winning virginia mikey sherel winning new jersey lieutenant governor's race also going blue in virginia we've seen some joy Georgia, local races, flip to blue the first time in decades. We've seen those seats. So how are you thinking about this evening, Kinsinger, as now we wait to see Prop 50? These results have been called pretty early, man. Yeah, listen, I'm in California right now, in fact, in San Fran.

Don't believe me, there's the airport. I'm like right here. But, yeah, I mean, Prop 50 is going to win here. I think that's pretty much everybody's saying it's going to happen. It should happen. These results tonight, the fact that they're called this early, is big. Now, my hope is what I'm going to be watching for is, is this a five point victory, which is good? Or is it a 10 or 12 point victory, which is a blowout? So that'll be interesting

to watch there. But it's a great night for Democrats, and Republicans ought to be a little worried. But you know what, though? They're not going to be worried because Donald Trump's going to refuse to accept the reality of it, and that's probably good for Democrats in the long run. I mean, you saw Trump this morning. It was the votes are all rigged in California. and that it's, you know, it's all fake. And then they had Caroline Levitt. And like, it just, you know, as you see that with then Maga Mike's press conferences in the morning. It's just this broken record.

And I think Americans want to send a message that this guy is loath, that people view them as a vile piece of trash. They view this regime that did a great Datsby freaking themed roaring, 20s party. What was the slogan? A little party never killed nobody while they're starving Americans to death, half-naked women in martini glasses dancing around while Americans are getting their snap taken away, while Americans are getting their health care ripped away. I mean, just he doesn't give a shit about, you don't hear this by the way on cable news, he doesn't give a shit about the people. And I think the people want to let him know, we don't want no golden ballrooms or triumphal

arches. We want a functioning government. We want an America that works, Kinsinger. Yeah, look, this is why I'm convinced, well, I'm convinced he's not going to run again anyway. I think it's all a troll. But this is another additional thing is he's not acting like a guy that's concerned about running again and winning. And, you know, anybody else would be like, if you're president, you'd be like, well, I still want to leave here popular because I want my party to win after me. That's not him. He doesn't give a shit about the Republican party. He cares about himself. And one of the things that has just stood out, which The Great Gaspi Party, as terrible as that was, it's the perfect visual, is the level of corruption, right?

The fact that he can sue the federal government and then find in favor of himself. By the way, everybody should want to become president if you can do that, because you can just write your own ticket. You know, the ballroom, the $400 million guitar jet, all of this is coming together for people to say. And plus, by the way, all the no king stuff, right? That's a strong message that we want checks and balances. So it's a great night. And this bodes well for 2026. We can't rest, but it's a good sign for day.

It's funny to say that. You know, one of the things that I like Kinsinger, sorry, Brett, I'll go to you before I hog. I got Kinsinger. I'll stop hugging. Oh, I'll give a shout out quickly to MCDC Productions. They were involved with the, they were the ones who produced with you. They're great. That whole team is incredible.

I was at a loss of words. MCDC productions, great work by them who made the last Republican possible. Brett. And the movie is called The Last Republican. and it's available on all streaming platforms in the United States, like Apple TV, Amazon, Google Play, and YouTube. Be sure to check it out. If you've seen the movie, let folks know in the comments.

We've got more than 20,000 people watching live and hundreds of thousands more that will be watching this after the fact. So make sure that you let people know how much you love the movie and check it out. And one of the most powerful parts of the movie and like the saddest parts that really ripped my soul out was, first of watching like your relationship with McCarthy and how you guys were actually like buddies kind of back.

of the day and how you watch that evolution, how he kind of got entranced by this MAGA thing and got taken over by it. But now I think you've really seen this transformation of your party from Kevin McCarthy that day after January 6th or on January 6th, I forget exactly when it was, but when he actually stood up to Donald Trump and accused him and blamed him rightfully so for instigating the attack on our capital. And then you spoke about how we went down to Mar-a-Lago. there was that infamous photo of McCarthy and Donald Trump in Maralago in that really horrific golden room that looked like a Gaddafi palace or something. And you knew at that moment that your party had changed. You knew at that moment that they were going to go full on and begin to lie about

literally everything imaginable. But then McCarthy got kicked out of his party. You know, he was a victim of the monster that he created. Mike Johnson comes in and now things to me seem even worse than ever. So I just, could you just walk folks through briefly? I know it's a lot, but you watching that transformation from kind of the old days of the Republican Party to McCarthy being captured by this MAGA movement to now where we're at with Speaker Johnson, where he gets up there every morning in these briefings and just lies to the American people. Yeah, look, it's been a slow progression. I mean, my whole time in Congress leading up to Donald Trump, most of my battles were against the far right in the party. I was fighting to kind of keep

him out. And then we do it. Donald Trump came, basically embraced him, and that became the party. So watching that was disheartening. And then on top of that, Kevin McCarthy, look, no matter what you think of him, you have to admit he is a good politician. And he was only in his third term when he became like the number three guy in the House of Reps, you know, in the Republican Party. That's unthinkable. but you can tell in his eyes and in his soul that he's a hollow man who needs titles to feel like he's important so January 6 happens actually really quickly

January 1st I warn and this is in the movie I warn Kevin that like there's going to be violence I'm like if you convince a third of the country that the election was stolen there's going to be violence right that's like our country was founded on that and he's just dismissive of it Anyway, January 6 happens.

And there's like a four-week silence. There's a really powerful part of the film where I talk about this. Like a four-week silence where the party is trying to figure out what it is. And I thought there was a good chance we were going to vomit Trump out of our soul. But it's the moment that Kevin McCarthy went to Mar-a-Lago. He made a very public statement with that picture that I am embracing Maga again because I want to become speaker. And that changed everything. The party pivoted on a dime.

And I think it's less than 50%. But I really think without that meeting with Donald Trump, there was a chance that we could have saved the GOP from Donald Trump. But that's just history. We'll never be able to live. Yeah, there was that moment in the film that I thought was just poignant and powerful where you spoke about kind of what could have been and your regrets during that moment when you finally saw these corporations pulling their money away from the MAG movement, from anybody. involved with January 6th, then you feel like if you could go back, maybe you could have done more. But I really think you've done a lot. I know you say in the movie that I'm not a hero, everybody else was just weak, but I do think

that you're a hero and you're deserving of all the respect that you're getting. I guess my one last question before I turn it back to either Ben or Jordi is just what do you think it is? Like we kind of liken it to here at the Midas Touch Network to like we're in a world of like vampires. Like you just see these people get bit and like fall under. this spell. How do you think so many people get captured by this movement? Are they afraid? And I'm sure you got the pressure like crazy at that time. Is it coming from the politicians? Is it coming from

the voters? Is it mob like threats from Donald Trump? Like what transforms these people into these hollow versions of themselves? I mean, it's all of it, but it's Donald Trump's capturing of the Republican base, right? He captured the Republican base. And that Republican base, instead of just saying like, hey, we wish you'd support Trump more, they became rabid. It becomes a religion to them. Donald Trump is a Messiah figure. We have to understand that. And he's built a cult. And he's done that over 10 years. Like he descended the golden escalator 10 years ago, basically. And over that time, anybody that stood up to him, you know, either decided not to run again, lost reelection, didn't want to deal with it or completely capitulated. The other superpower Donald Trump has, and I think this is a lesson for us as we build this pro-democracy coalition, is if I would get on TV tomorrow and say, you know, guys, I was wrong. I love Donald Trump. I'm back. I would be at the Oval Office the next day. He's willing to forgive, but you can only forgive you once, right? As the pro-democracy coalition, that's why I think it's important for us to embrace people that come out of MAGA today. And there

are people doing that if, like, Rich Lodges from leaving MAGA really runs that. Who works with us here? And we have to embrace them. Yeah, we have to embrace them if we want to win. And so, yeah, I mean, for me, it's just, they're in a cult now. And when your identity is that threat, I'll say this lastly, you know, we belong to tribes. We're tribal creatures. I've come to believe that people are more likely. They're more scared of being kicked out of their tribe or losing their identity than they are even of death. I think nine out of ten adults would step in front of a train to save a child, but they're unwilling to rip their identity from them because it's just the core of who they are.

And every week, spineless Republican is that. Yeah, well, I so appreciate your insight. I know you got to run. Ben, do you have anything else to say to Adam? we got him here. I want to remind people quickly to watch the last Republican. Another big call I think we're able to make, as Adam Carlson says, stick a fork in it. It looks like Jay Jones will be defeating the incumbent Jason Myers for Virginia attorney general Democrats sweeping all three races in the Commonwealth of Virginia. This is a tsunami, folks.

This is a big news there to report. Bring out the Jones is the only one. Jay Jones is going to happen there. But it's shaping up to be a great night. Kinsinger, an honor to spend it with you. Everybody watch the last Republican. Check it out in connection with media courthouse, MCDC. Great to be worked with you.

Kinsinger. Everybody, check it out. Chat with you guys soon. Take care. Chat with you tomorrow. Talk to in the morning. Talk to Kinsinger all the time. My old day is spent talking to Kinsinger now since we're promoting this film.

It's great to see Kinsinger there. A big call, as we just mentioned, with Jay Jones going on to defeat the incumbent Jason Mioris there. I think the voters are sending a freaking message, the type of message that they sent with no kings. I want to bring in now. It looks like Abigail Spanberger is about to speak, but I want to bring in Senator Tim Kane, Virginia Senator Tim Kaine. It's shaping up to be a great night. Senator. It's definitely a great night in Virginia. You've got the governor's race. You've got the AG's race, the lieutenant governor's race, the hat trick, as they called it. We're looking at the

House of Delegate results. What do you make of this evening so far, Senator? Well, look, I'm just so proud of our team. We ran hard. We rejected Trumpism. We stood for affordability, jobs, and education when the Republicans were, you know, tilting an offbeat cultural windmills that didn't matter to anyone. And I like to say that just since we finished the World Series, Virginia was the lead-off battle in this battle, the lead-off batter in this battle for democracy, and we just smoked one over the fence. I love it. And as a Dodgers fan, I'm not trying to offend others in other geographic regions, but let's hope that there's a World Series win this evening by the Democrats. It seems though that the World Series message that Americans want to send

right now is enough of this Trumpism crap, enough of the Gatsby parties and golden ballrooms while starving Americans to death and getting rid of Americans' health care, enough of the war crimes in the Caribbean, enough of this baffling fool walking around, making us look stupid on the international stage? Enough is enough. That seems to be a message. Do you think that that's what we're seeing with this overperformance? I think we're seeing that, but, you know, it's funny.

Abigail Spanberger, you know, youthful, progressive, super practical, might be different than some of the other Dems running tonight, but focused on affordability, the affordability focus. I mean, Donald Trump said, elect me and I'm going to bring down inflation. Everything's up. Healthcare is up. Energy is up. Building supplies are up. Clothing is up. Back to school is up. Halloween is up. Thanksgiving's going to be up. Christmas and the holidays are going to be up. Trump is focused on everything but what people care about. Everything but what he promised. And Abigail said, listen, I'm running on bread and butter. If you guys like bread and butter, affordability, jobs education vote for me. If you want to go on offbeat cultural diatribes, vote for the other guys. And I, like I've said, since July 5, 1776, the Virginia state motto has been sick, semper, tyrannis. Tyrants will always lose to virtue. And we are showing that virtue will be tyranny. And that's, you know, that's what it says about

who we are in Virginia tonight. And I hope it's going to send us. same message in a bunch of other races. You know, Donald Trump had been ranting and raving like a lunatic all day with his usual stick, that this is rigged, that's unfair, kill the filibuster, whatever it was. It just feels very tired. But if you're okay with this, Senator, you want to hear Abigail Spanberger's victory speech with us? I absolutely, my wife is there in the crowd with her.

I'm in D.C. because we're trying to work through government funding and drop a war in Venezuela, but I want to hear this. Well, let's see if it's honor. The Midas Middies hanging with Senator Kane. Let's go into Abigail Spanberger, the new governor of Virginia. Let's hear it. Happy, happy, happy, happy, happy, happy! Thank you.

Thank you. Thank you. Avery. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Happy, Abby, Abby, Abby! Thank you.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you all so much. My... My fellow Virginians, tonight we sent a message. We sent a message.

We sent a message to every corner. every corner of the Commonwealth, a message to our neighbors and our fellow Americans across the country. We sent a message to the whole world that in 2025, Virginia chose pragmatism over partisanship. We chose our Commonwealth over chaos. You all chose leadership that will focus relentlessly on what matters most, lowering costs, keeping our communities safe and strengthening our economy for every Virginian. Leadership that will focus on problem solving, not stoking, division, you chose, we chose leadership

that will always put Virginia first. And Virginia, I cannot wait to get to work for you. Tonight we turned a page. We turned that page by listening to our neighbors, focusing on practical results, laying out a clear agenda and leading with decency and determination. To everyone who helped us achieve this win from the body of the body of the body of the bottom of my heart, I thank you. I thank you for the trust that you have placed in me,

and it is the honor of my lifetime to be elected the 75th governor. I would like to thank you. I would like to thank my opponent for a hard-fought race. The lieutenant governor's story, her military service, and her years of of service here in Virginia deserve our respect and our gratitude, and I ask that you join me in wishing her and her family well. I also know that those who were supporting my opponent are disappointed today, and to those Virginians who did not vote for me, I want you to know that.

that my goal and my intent is to serve all Virginians. And that means that I will listen to you, I will work for you and with you. That is the approach that I've taken throughout my entire career. I have worked with anyone and everyone, regardless of political party to deliver results for the people that I serve. And that's because I believe in this idea

that there is so much more that unites us as Virginians and as Americans than divides us. And I know, I know in my heart that we can unite for Virginia's future, and we can set an example for the rest of the nation. Our founders understood this from the very beginning. They didn't choose to call Virginia a commonwealth by accident. They chose it to signify that our government would be based on the power of the people

united for a common good, not for a political party, not for a president, not for a president, not for a monarch, but for a common good together. And tonight, Virginia proved that that tradition is alive and well. We are still a commonwealth in every sense of the word. We are built on the things we share, not the things that pull us apart. And I am proud that our campaign earned votes

from Democrats, Republicans, independents, and everyone in between. That's the Virginia I know. That's the Virginia I love, and that's the Virginia. I will have the honor of serving as your next governor. I want to thank so many people for the support that they have given to our campaign. Thank you for your work. Thank you for your support, to our tireless volunteers, to those who believed in me. Thank you. and your conviction to this campaign.

Thank you for braving the weather, the heat, and then the cold, and then the rain, and then the sun. It's Virginia, after all. Thank you. Thank you for talking to your neighbors about the importance of this race. Thank you for recognizing that when we went person-to-person engaging, that we could bring people not just into supporting our campaign,

but into engaging in our democracy. Thank you. We won this race because of you. To our campaign team, you're the best in the country. Every single member of our team, every single member of our team, every single member of our team, every single one of you that you work tirelessly for the change, the progress, the policies, the connection, and the respect that you want to see in our communities. Thank you for working so hard. Thank you for giving people hope. Thank you for knocking on doors in the sweltering heat. Thank you for showing kindness. Thank you for showing up in every corner of Virginia. Thank you for diving deep on policy.

capturing moments and the essence of our campaign, thank you for reaching voters everywhere. And thank you for believing that Virginia could and would send a hopeful and joyful message tonight. Thank you for giving everything, everything to this campaign and then some. And thank you to my family. To my, to my husband, Adam.

My partner and everything, I love you with my whole heart. I am grateful for you. It is very strange to declare my love for you in front of millions of people. But every adventure we have ever been on has been worth it because you have been by my side. I love you. I'm grateful for you. And I cannot wait to see what the next couple of years bring.

To my daughters, Claire, Charlotte, and Catherine, you inspire me and motivate me every single day. Everything I do, I do to build a better future for you and for all of Virginia's children. proud of you every single day I am lucky to be your mother and Catherine you did not clean your room today as you promised me she's working on it if I was working on it we wouldn't have won this election okay To my sisters, my dearest and earliest friends. I love you. I love you, I love you, I love you.

To my friends who have traveled from around the world to be here with me today, thank you. Thank you for making me who I am, and thank you for always believing in me. And to my parents, I love you. Thank you for leading by example every day. And I know that today is a day that you all could have never imagined. But you taught me the importance of service to others and relentless hard work.

And, Mama, when I think about your life and the time spent in foster care to putting yourself, through nursing school and the challenges along the way you made clear to us that to whom much is given much is expected and you you have given me so much and your own challenges and I know much is expected and dad thank you for your exam of service and tireless devotion to family and country, nothing has made me prouder than to follow in your footsteps, so many steps along the way. I love you.

I've talked a lot throughout this campaign about the importance of service and how it shaped my life and my approach to public office, and that all came from my parents. from my parents. But this commitment to service, it is not unique to my family. It's ingrained in so many of Virginia's families. It is part of Virginia's story. Here in Virginia, this is where American democracy was born and where we are still working to perfect it today, where James Madison built the framework for our Constitution to protect us from tyranny, where Washington and Jefferson fought to establish a government of by and for the people.

It is also the place where Barbara Johns, a 16-year-old student from Farmville, led a walkout of students that became part of the Brown versus the Board of Education case to integrate public schools. Barbara Johns never gave up, and she showed us that no matter your age, you can be part of the change and the progress that you want to see here in Virginia and across the nation. We are a nation founded on ideas, but we are a country where it is up to us, the citizens who must put those ideas into action. It is us, the citizens who work to make the change and progress and build upon the foundations laid out over so many years. And Virginia, now it is our time to lead.

Tonight, it's hard not to reflect on the nearly two-year journey that we've taken together on this campaign. And just a few minutes ago, Adam said to our daughters, your mom's going to be the governor of Virginia. And I can guarantee those words have never been spoken in Virginia ever before. It's a big deal that the girl's a big deal that the girls and the young women I have met along the campaign trail now know with certainty that they can achieve anything.

It's a big deal to the women older than I am who forged the path in dreams, hard work, and in a belief that change in progress would be possible so that so many of us could follow in their footsteps, in any career, in any role, in any challenge. The history Virginia is making tonight, it is yours. And I thank those who have come before me and Mary Sue Terry in particular.

She was the first woman elected statewide in Virginia. And because of her and the continued work of so many, there will be many more women to come for generations to come. So now that the campaign is over, the real work begins, because this was never about just winning an election, it was about what comes next. It's about the governing. Virginia voters made our choice tonight, and that choice was loud and clear. We are going to work to lower costs of renting, buying, or staying in your home.

home. We are going to cut red tape and build homes. Families can actually afford. We're going to lower health care costs. We're going to crack down on predatory, pharmaceutical practices, and surprise billing. And we're going to produce more energy. And we're going to produce more energy. And we are going to lower costs, and we're going to do it by producing more energy here in Virginia, and we're going to make sure that large utility users make sure that they pay their fair share. We're going to grow Virginia's economy by investing in apprenticeships and job training of the future. We're going to leverage AI and cutting-edge manufacturing to bring more capital investment in. to our Commonwealth. We are going to take politics out of our schools. We're going

to make sure that teachers are well paid and well respected. Thank you. We are going to make sure we are well-paid and well-respected. so that our students can focus on actually learning and so that parents know that their children will succeed. And we are going to make our communities safer by providing the training pay and support that our law enforcement community needs and deserves. They are actionable policies that I am ready to implement starting on day one.

And starting now, that work begins. So as we begin this transition to a new administration, I want to be absolutely clear about a couple things. First, Virginia is the only state in the South that hasn't restricted women's reproductive rights since Since the Dobbs decision, and under my watch, it will stay that way. In Virginia, health care decisions about contraception, fertility treatments, and reproductive care will continue to be made between women and their doctors, not politicians. That's a promise I've made and a promise I intend to keep.

Second, I will always stand up for Virginia workers always. And right now, our federal workforce is under attack. And the chaos coming out of Washington is killing Virginia jobs and creating economic uncertainty for tens of thousands of families, government employees, government contractors, small business owners who are impacted by the chaos coming out of Washington.

Virginia's economy doesn't work when Washington treats our Virginia workers as expendable. To those who have to those who have been impacted by the mass layoffs, by furloughs, by the hardships that you are experiencing, please know that I will direct the full power of the governor's office to support you.

And to those across the Potomac who are attacking our jobs and our economy, I will not stand by silently while you attack Virginia's workers. I will fight every single day for every single Virginia jobs the ones we have now and the ones we will bring to our Commonwealth into the future.

I will stand up to anyone who tries to harm our economy or the livelihoods of our Virginians. As governor, my job will be to put Virginia first full stop. And tonight, as the governor elect, I call on Congress, Republicans and Democrats, and our president to make real progress on bringing this shutdown to an end. The Virginians, the Americans who work tirelessly for their fellow citizens deserve nothing less. I know we're living in a time filled with chaos.

We live in a time marked by uncertainty, and along the way we do our best to try and explain it to our kids. I know the list of challenges that we are facing is long, but I also know that the only way we're going to solve these problems is by tackling them together, Democrats, Republicans, independents, all of us. Because that embodies the message that we sent tonight. That is what being a commonwealth is all about, standing united for our future. That is what.

Virginia is about so let's show the world what we're made of let's get to work thank you all so very much and I'm so excited we got this party started a little earlier than expected Abby, Abby, Abby, Abby! Abby, Abby, Abby! Abby, Abby, Abby, Abby, Abby, Abby. A powerful speech there by Governor-elect Abigail Spanberger.

Hitting on all of the major, major subjects. I want to bring in right now, Virginia Senate, Senator Tim Kane, if we could bring him in a bit. I'd love to get his reaction to the speech by Governor-elect Abigail Spanberger. Senator Kane, what did you make of that powerful speech by Governor-elect Spanberger? You know, Midas Touch guys, she hit the notes. I mean, it was youthful, it was energetic, it was practical, and it was progressive. I mean, Virginia is the single best red to blue turnaround in the last 25 years. And we've done it by being, I call us pro-growth progressives. We're very practical, but we're also very progressive. And

that's how we've turned this thing around. And Abigail ends up with a sweep tonight by all accounts, Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Attorney General. It looks like our House of Delegates is coming in strong, which will give our history-making speaker, Don Scott, the ability to really help be a wonderful partner for Spanberger's progress going forward. So I'm really, really excited. You know, her campaign was about three pillars. It was about affordability, jobs, and education. The bread and butter, she put the economy front and center.

That's the issue that always matters the most to the most people. So often Democrats don't put that front and center. They talk about other things. Abigail may help us with her strategy, you know, get to a place where the Democrats win the economic argument. She certainly won it in this campaign. You talk about the House of Delegates. We obviously know the kind of big races that everybody's talking about. Governor-elect Spanberger, Democrat wins, Lieutenant Governor-elect Gazzala Hashmi. She wins. Attorney General, Jay Jones, Democrat wins that. Big races there. But then in the House of Delegates, we've seen some

major flips as well. Three major flips so far, and I know more are coming in. Virginia House Delegate seat 57, 22, and 82, all flipping thus far. And we're focused on a lot of these seats as well to see you mention Speaker Scott, who we were fortunate enough to have here on the Midas Touch Network. It was incredible. He made me laugh and inspired me. What an incredible person. I want to get your final message to the Midas Mighty. It's incredible having you here as the senator of the Commonwealth of Virginia to give us your perspective. But before you go, I know you've got a busy night ahead of you as well. What message do you want our audience currently?

And then if I could just remind our audience also, 70th governor of Virginia from 2006 to 2010, the 38th lieutenant governor of Virginia from 2002 to 2006. So we are speaking with somebody who knows what it's like to campaign for this position. We are speaking with somebody who knows what it is like to do the job and do it effectively. So now I will give the final word. Did I undersell you, Senator? Did I give you? You don't know if you undersold me.

I've been mayor, governor, senator, DNZ chair, vice presidential candidate. I can't keep a job. But I have been in office when Virginia has gone from deep, deep red to blue. And I played my part in it, along with my wife, Anne, Mark Warner, and Jim Webb, and, you know, Terry McAuliffe. I mean, we have been in the vineyards, folks, for the last 25 years. We are the best red to blue turnaround in the United States. And sometimes people want to ask, you know, what are the Democrats doing wrong? Ask what Democrats are doing right and go to some states where we're turning it around and ask how we're doing it.

In Virginia, we win by always putting the economy first in campaigns and then always delivering economic results. when we have the privilege to govern. A lot of Dems in this country, they campaign on other issues and they see the economic argument to the Republicans. We kick the Republicans asses on economy in Virginia. And even at the national level, we've got the goods, we've got the evidence,

but folks don't focus on the economy. So Abigail Spanberger, again, affordability, jobs, education, which is an economy argument because it's about the workforce, you know, focus on the bread and butter and we kick tail on the Republicans who focus on the offbeat, stupid cultural issues that very few people care about. Do me a favor, Senator. Just don't take that LSU coaching job because it seems that Louisiana Governor Landry, he's obsessed with that instead of the people there because you do the contrast to your point, though. Like, what are governors focus on? What are these

Democratic governor's focused on. What were you focused on? It's the people. It's not these culture war issues. It's fighting for the people. And, you know, you see the stark contrast of that speech that Governor-elect Spanberger gave there. Then I think about the speech two days ago that Landry gave where he was interfering with the athletic director of LSU. It's like, what are you even doing, man? What are you doing? Anyway, we appreciate you so much, you know, how valuable your time is. And thanks for being here with us on this very historic night, Senator. Yeah, you guys that might as touch you do a great job of spreading the word. So just keep putting it out there and I'll look forward to coming back. Amazing. Senator Tim Cain, everybody, on election night, the clean

sweep right there in Virginia, the governorship, the lieutenant governorship, Jordy's got the broom right there, the attorney general seat right there, three flips, the House of Delegates, many flips there as well. And Brett, thank you for stepping in there because I was not. doing the senator justice. I should have, I should, you know, I always, I got to say, I always feel bad to interrupt Ben, especially when he's in the middle of his flow, but we had, you know, perhaps like the most accomplished politician on the planet who has held every job, including the jobs that we were speaking about right now. So I thought it was important to, to bring up that context that Governor Tim Kane had held all those positions, Lieutenant Governor, Governor. So like I said,

he is somebody who knows what it is like to run for these seats. He is somebody who knows what it is like to win a gubernatorial race to actually be governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia. And I think that is so fantastic. I'd love having his insight here. And I got to say, you know, you see right now the discipline of the Democratic messaging, you know, gone are the days. And I think you could kiss that goodbye of people saying the Democratic messaging sucks, the messaging sucks, the messaging. We are seeing consistent messaging across the country right now and the success of that messaging when Democrats rally around affordability, when they rally around these issues that affect people's everyday lives.

And I think we are seeing the results of that right now. We are continuing to see some major calls, Justin Ben. I don't know if we want to call this one. Do we want to call this one just yet? Of course I want to call it. Decision Desk. HQ calling the New York City mayoral race, Zoran Mamdani, to be the next mayor of New York City. Wow.

New York. There we have it. Zoran Mamdami called right now Decision Desk HQ early in the night, folks. We'll get you more data there. But Decision Desk HQ has been on point. They wouldn't be making this call so early on if they didn't think that Zoran would go on to win. Big call for Decision Desk HQ. And this would be a big win for Zoran Mamdani.

Should he continue to go on this path? He is the projected winner of the New York. mayoral race. This would be a massive, massive victory for Zoran Mamdani, somebody who won the Democratic primary after launching this incredible campaign, unlike what we've really seen before, focusing on these very issues that we've been speaking about, focusing on issues of affordability, really meeting people where they are. And when I say meeting people where they are, I mean meeting them where they are. This guy was in the clubs this weekend. He was on the streets with the taxi, with the people driving the taxi cabs. He was everywhere. I don't know where he got the energy. He was at the club

till 2 a.m. 3 a.m. and then he was there the next morning at the taxi stand. I'm like, listen, you're only a year younger than me. Huh? Every club. Every club. Every club. He's a bunch of you went club hopping. I'm here. I'm only a year older than mom, Donnie. I'm like, I'm tired just watching the guy. I don't want to go. I can't leave my. That sounds like a lot. That's he's doing a lot. But, you know, it shows you the power of these campaigns when you meet people where they are. When you speak to these issues, this is a big night. And oh, my God, Ben Jordy, we said it when we logged onto this stream, when we were just beginning, that we are looking out right now. And if those Republicans are looking out, it is not even necessarily a blue wave that is coming towards them, but a gigantic blue tsunami.

And this is exactly, exactly what we are seeing right now. now. Holy cow folks. I mean, I see everybody in the comments right now, a lot of excitement, a lot of energy. I think it's matching the energy that we saw at the polls. And like Ben has said multiple times during the stream, this, you know, you never want to take anything for granted. You never want to count your chickens before they hatch. But the idea that this is some massive surprise, the idea that this is something unexpected, how could anybody have ever seen this before that's how the kind of cable networks are framing this how where did this come from what do you mean where did this come from have you been watching the data have you been looking at the polls have

you been seeing how hated and reviled donald trump is or have you been buying the republican trump propaganda hook line and sinker i think the latter and i don't know why maybe it's time to stop buying that fs to start looking at what the american people are telling you loud and keep clear they are sick of this maga crap they want people who are actually going to do stuff for them and dangling these BS culture war issues every day. What's going on on these algorithms with Elon Musk boosting all this crap. It's all fake. There's a real world out there. The people are speaking. The people are rising up. We are seeing it with our own eyes right now. We've had such a great slate of guests tonight as well on this stream. Was so great to have the junior senator

from the Commonwealth of Virginia, Tim Kain on. It was so great to have Adam Kinsinger on the show. We're going to have many more guests joining us soon. I want to remind everyone. everybody, make sure you go out and watch the new Midas Studios documentary, The Last Republican. It actually be a great watch tonight after these election results to show you exactly what we are fighting for here. Adam Kinsiger was on with us before former Republican congressman who refused to go along with this maga toxicity, refused. He stood the line. He held the line. He said, hell no. And I want you to go check out the movie Apple TV, Amazon, YouTube, all the various streaming platforms. If you're in the U.S., if you see in the movie,

Let us know in the comments, a big night. I think we're seeing right now, Jordy's got the broom out. We're seeing the Mamculate Vibe. We are seeing immaculate, immaculate vibes be. Yeah, what we're seeing right now is in the Madami. This is the Mamadani. And, Jordy, we got Ron Filipkowski, our editor-in-chief here. So I'd love to bring him in, sorry to interrupt you.

We'll get back to him just a second. Ron Philikowski, might as touch, editor-in-chief, Ron. I read one of your tweets earlier on the show. the Donald Trump most popular guy ever according to him was solved 29 wars inflation is where he's actually given people money I guess now I don't know how could this have possibly happened Ron you know to me I was just writing down like my take takeaways from this and I thought I'd have like two or three and I have like nine you know I mean I think that there's so many things that you can take from the results I mean just the first one is this is not a

just tonight. I mean, we can go all the way back to January. This is every single special election except for like four. I mean, there's been like 48 special elections. And in like 44 of them, Democrats have outperformed what Harris or the or the Democratic candidates did in 24. So this has been a longstanding trend line here that's only increasing. I mean, the gaps continue to widen. And I think also, you know, you had Mike Johnson and all the Republicans for the last few weeks about talking about no kings, you know, and saying, these are all paid protesters. These are Marxists.

These are, you know, Antifa. And I went out there, and it was the biggest crowd of people I've seen since I've lived in Maine. And it was all peaceful, nice people of all ages, of all races. Nobody sounded like a Marxist to me. It sounded like a lot of people that were really, really pissed off and wanted to do something and wanted to take action and weren't going to wait for political leaders. They wanted to do it themselves at the grassroots level.

And I think that a lot of them felt like what Republicans were saying about them and about their anger and their frustrations only made them more mad calling them paid protesters and Marxist and Antifa. I mean, that only, I think that doubled the turnout of No King. So, you know, they just, the question now becomes, are Republicans going to, what are they going to learn from this? Especially the ones in Congress, especially the ones in those swing districts who have been silent, who have refused to stand up to.

Trump and refuse to say anything about all of his abuses, whether it's his pardons or his tax breaks for the billionaires or you name it. One thing after another, one abuse after another, threatening media companies, threatening universities, threatening Democrats, withholding funding from Democratic states, withholding disaster aid. We can go on and on and on. Will they now speak up? Because they have to look at these results and say, I'm thinking,

about people like Mike Lawler in New York. They have to be who's in a district that I think Harris won or certainly Biden won it in 2020 and say, I could be next. I have got to separate myself from Mike Johnson, who is in a super safe district in Louisiana, who has never even had an opponent and run against them. And I've got to stop listening to people like Donald Trump and Stephen Miller and Mike Johnson because they're leading me to disaster. You know, hopefully all it would take is six or seven of Republicans in the house

to start having that mindset and a lot of things can turn around. Ron, you look at every single county in Virginia shifted blue, just the way I need to shift to fit straight into the camera and learn how to stand still for a second. You take a look at this post. You don't get this stuff on cable news, everybody. know how to stand still apparently you take a look right but we've got the data you take a look right here every single county whether it's 12 points 16 point eight points four points six points nine point three points

four point four point six point three points 15 points etc etc every single county massive shifts blue and is not just in virginia mike cheryl we called winning the governor's race there in new jersey in the pennsylvania supreme court Democrats holding all three seats there, flipping some of the local races in Georgia as well that we've been covering, big, you know, the House of Delegates in Virginia, we're seeing Democrats pick up more seats. So it's across the board. And to your point, Ron, what's Donald Trump saying? It's rigged. It's all a lie. It's all fake. I mean, I just think Americans are sick and tired of it. By the way, Zoron, Mom, Donnie. has dropped. It's there in the chat. When somebody wins, Ron, in case you want to know the organization that you're the editor-in-chief of and our level of maturity, Ron. If this persuades you to be the editor-in-chief still, we drop emojis here on the YouTube video when somebody wins. You don't get this on cable. I just have one question. What's an emoji? No, I'm just kidding.

I got to say, I got scared. I got scared for a second there, Ron. As much as Ron in our chats makes one of our Gen Ziers for not knowing a very famous figures from the 70s and 80s. I almost had to pull an Uno Reverse on you. Ron knows the motto. Before going back to you, I'm saying Ron knows the motto here. It's brick by brick, emoji by emoji. It's the foundation of this network. Shout out to all of the 40,000 viewers watching this live and growing.

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They do an incredible podcast for our members only. It's called Ask the Editor with Ron and Ben. It's a fabulous segment if you're a member of this channel and you could give memberships to other folks if you're so inclined and able to. You could watch that. And so awesome stuff. I am stiked, psyched about tonight and what we're seeing. As I started this, the vibes are high.

The vibes remain high. What we're seeing is just a clean sweep right now. The chat's feeling great. Everyone's feeling great. Let's keep the momentum up here. Let's not get sidetracked, but I'm feeling really good about the direction that the night's heading and more good news ahead. So Benji, B, where are we going from here?

I want to go back to Philip Kowski on. I wanted to build on your. point there, Ben, if I could for a minute, the point you made about the margins, you know, it makes me think of these mid-decade gerrymanders. And let me, let me explain to you why a lot of Republicans have been hesitant to do these in a lot of states, like Indiana, North Carolina, is because there's a risk involved in these for Republicans. What they are doing with these gerrymanders is they are taking safe Republican seats, moving. moving Republican voters out of those seats into Democratic districts

and making those districts either toss-ups or lean ours. And what that does is it makes, okay, now we have a bunch of toss-up seats, maybe where they used to be safe Democratic seats. But now we also have a lot of toss-ups and lean ours that used to be safe Republican seats that are now competitive. And if you have an environment like this, where nationwide Republicans are going to out poll or outscore, where Democrats are going to out score or out vote Republicans by plus five or plus six, you're not talking about a blue wave. With these redistricting, you'd be talking about a blue tsunami. I mean, and I heard a lot of consultants in Texas warn about this when they were doing the Jerry.

They said, look, we have to be careful here what we wish for because, sure, if it's a solid year for Republicans and the economy's great and everything, this will pay off for us and we'll gain seats. But if this is a bad year for Republicans, we could be shooting ourselves in the foot with this redistricting. We could end up losing more seats than we gain. And that's the other problem for them now that they need to start thinking about. It is truly, truly incredible, a seismic shift. And we keep going back to that phrase, Ron, that I know, you know, we said at the beginning that this is not only a blue wave, this is a blue tsunami that we are seeing here. I want to give everybody another massive update right here.

This is a projection coming in about the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. let's pull that up if we got it. That's right. Pennsylvania voters have approved to retain three of the Democratic state Supreme Court justices. This means, Jordy is sweeping it up again. This means that the Democrats will retain control of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. Another very, very, very important race in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Jordy, I know this is a big deal for you living in Pennsylvania. Absolutely massive momentum. I mean, if you just look across the board right now, not so sure there is a single election that we've seen that Democrats have lost it at this moment. This is just a a total clean sweep at this moment, a total and complete repudiation of the MAGA

movement. And Ron, as I was reading your tweets before, I couldn't help. But I agree with you. Like, will the Republicans learn anything from this? I just am not so sure that they will. They've tried all the propaganda. They tried to push everything. And I think ultimately, one of the things that we've seen is they completely misread the 2024 election in so many ways. They viewed it as they had this crushing mandate that they won by incredible margins. And when you looked at the data even of that election that we saw, there were more people who voted against Trump that voted for Donald Trump in that election, despite the fact that Trump won the election.

So they tried to take that, tried to claim this massive mandate, try to project this idea that they were completely invincible, that nothing could stop them whatsoever, that they had the right to do whatever they want. They became incredibly aggressive with these ice raids and militarizing cities and Donald Trump withholding snap and the government shut down and just day after day after day, it's just kind of traumatic action after traumatic action inflicted on the American people. And these are things that the people feel at the end of the day. I mean, there are certain things that, you know, you could argue, do the American people care about X or Y? or this issue or that issue. People care if they're able to afford putting food on the table.

People care about these issues that people care when they go outside their door and they see the military on the streets, gassing protesters, gassing people, manhandling people the way that they are. Americans don't like that. Americans like freedom. Americans like not really being told what to do. I used to think that conservatives used to pretend that that was their value of having the government off your back. But Donald Trump has just gone ahead with this authoritarian mindset of he wants to control every level of government. He wants to be so intimately involved in everybody's life at every level. And I think it just really turned the people off. I mean, what do you think, Ron? I mean, you know, we Democrats who pay

attention to cable news, social media, et cetera, we knew that Project 2025 was their agenda. But the average American voter had no idea. You know, if they had even heard about Project 2025. And I would say 80% or more did not know what it was. If they even heard about it, a lot of them listened to Donald Trump who said, that's not me. I have nothing to do with that. That's not my agenda. And they gave them the benefit of the doubt. I'm talking about like your swing independent, low information voters. People don't who don't watch the news. You know, they watch sports. They raise their kids. They don't, you know, they watch cooking shows. They don't pay attention of politics. That's what I'm talking about. And, you know, Donald Trump ran on two issues.

I mean, he spent 90% of his campaign money on ads for two issues. The first one by far was immigrants, deportations, secure the border. By far spent the most money. And the second was trans athletes in sports. He spent 90% of, you know, his campaign money campaigning on those two issues. So even though we knew that he planned on doing all this horrible stuff that's in Project 2025, the general low information voter thought he's going to secure the border, you know, he's going to deport criminals and they believe that's who he was going to deport, you know, rapists and murderers, not not the guy who owns the restaurant down the street,

you know, not the guy working on a farm, not the guy at the construction site. You know, that's not who they thought he was going to deport. They heard criminals and they thought, you know, what Donald Trump says when he means criminal is all of them. They're all criminals, you know, but that's not what the average voter thought. And so what happened is Trump takes office and, you know, him and the Republicans and all his minions say, we have, we wanted a huge landslide. We have this huge mandate to radically transform American society and American government. and the voters immediately recoiled. And that's what's happening now.

They're saying, what? This isn't what we thought. We didn't think you were going to be trying to get Jimmy Kimmel fired. And we didn't think you were going to set up a crypto company where UAE is funneling $2 billion into your pocket or Qatar is giving you a jet. Like this isn't what we signed up for, dude or the Department of Justice, you know, rampaging, firing everybody, the FBI, Cash Patel flying around. the country seeing his girlfriend i mean this isn't what they voted for and so the question is

are republicans going to pull back from some of this stuff and go man let's just focus on you know keeping our tax cuts and rolling back some of these tariffs nobody thought they were voting for all these tariffs he didn't campaign on that so you know are they going to roll back some of this stuff and pull back or are they going to plow ahead i have no doubt that the people inside the Trump administration are going to plow ahead full steam ahead. Stephen Miller and Russ vote are not going to be slowed down by this. Pete Heggseth isn't. Pam Bondi isn't. But the question is, are the Republicans in Congress going to be willing to take a beating next year and go down with this fool? Or are they finally going to stand up to him and speak up for

themselves and say enough is enough? And Ron, you do such a great job here as our editor-in-chief, man. I just, we're so grateful for everything you bring to the network. One of the thing that infuriates me with corporate media these days is just the gaslighting on the American people into making it seem like what we're all collectively witnessing is anyone normal. And just like the sanewashing of this regime drives me absolutely bonkers at times. What's your thoughts on that? And how have you been able to sort of manage that and sort of guide the ship forward with

all of that nonsense happening on the corporate media side? you know, I try not to be somebody who just like complains about the media all the time, you know, because that's like, I really don't want to. Like, and part of the reason is because like I like a lot of like a lot of them and I respect a lot of them. And, you know, I know that they try and do the right thing, you know, for the most part, you know, but watching them day in and day out. And I probably follow more reporters than anyone in America. I mean, just like reporters all over the country, not just the ones in D.C., not the ones you see on TV, but the ones that are in state houses, local communities, local governments, out there covering courthouses, just grinding every day. Those are the people I follow, and they follow me. So I'm very plugged into, you know, really the reporting that's happening out there. And you do get just so furious and so frustrated. at some of these people.

I mean, the perfect example, I can give you thousands of examples, but the perfect example was today, you know, where Trump gets asked about the crypto guy pardon, you know, Zao, that he partners his crypto partner. And Mike Johnson comes out the following morning for his press conference and says, I didn't see that. I didn't know anything about it. And I tweeted out, knowing that so many of these congressional reporters follow me on social media. I tweeted out, you know, the reason why Mike Johnson gets away with this is because

nobody ever asks him that the following day, the same question and says, okay, Mr. Mr. Speaker, now that you've had 36 hours to think about it and after we asked you about it yesterday and you told us you would get back to us, here we are the next day. So let's, let me ask you again now that you've learned what do you think about this pardon but did one reporter ask mike johnson today about the crypto dude not one it's it's absolutely infuriating but uh that's why we appreciate you ron because uh you force their hand you actually focus on the narratives that people want to be hearing i want to remind everybody to check out ron's daily political news bulletin it is the single best political news bulletin you will read ever in the union

universe, bar none. Check it out every day at Midasplus.com. Go to Midasplus.com, M-E-I-D-A-S-P-L-U-S.com. Make sure you sign up. It's free to sign up. There are extra perks if you do one of the paid tiers, and you're also supporting the growth of this network. But you can sign up completely free. You'll get these in your inbox every day. They are so valuable. There's always a bunch of stories, too, that I think I'm following the news closely. And then I'm like, how does Ron catch all of this stuff? It's wild. I want to bring in another one of our guests, another great individual. The many people call him the Walter Cronkite of our time. Some people call him the breaking news guy.

I like to call him Aaron Parnas. Aaron, welcome to this live coverage on Midas Touch of Election Night, 2025. A big night, Aaron. How you feeling right now? Aaron's been busy, man. I've been checking out TikTok and Instagram. He's been going all night. Feeling good.

People will see the creation of a live TikTok, live on the air. Yeah, I mean, maybe. And the sausage is made, you know. Mom, Donnie just won. So big news, big news. It's a great night. Democrats are winning across the board. I mean, even in races where you didn't think Democrats would overperform, they're overperforming.

They went in Georgia statewide. They haven't won in 20 years. J.D. Vance's half-brother just lost in Cincinnati. Pennsylvania, they retained a five-two majority on the Supreme Court. New Jersey, obviously, Cheryl wins. And then you had a trifecta in Virginia, not just on the statewide races, but the House of Delegates and the Virginia Senate all are going to be blue. in the House of Delegates, they may even have 60 seats by the end of the night. Michelle Wu just won in Massachusetts.

And if I had to guess, you're going to have Prop 50 pass shortly. So huge night tonight, huge night tonight. Aaron, you kind of just glanced over that one. Did you say J.D. Vance's brother lost in Cincinnati? Yeah, his half brother lost big time. He was a Republican running against the Democratic incumbent. I think he lost by like 40 or 50 points. Yeah, it's so funny because there was that primary, you know, the way they do it,

there was like the primary earlier in the year. And he got smoked in that primary also. I remember covering that over here. And then he decided to, I guess, had insult injury and then try it again in the general and see what would happen. And he got rejected. I mean, if there's anything I could say about this night, it's been a complete and total rejection and repudiation of Trump and MAGA.

You see Fox right now. And I know that Ron loves to follow, you know, all the networks, see the kind of right-ring reaction to everything. We got Aeson who works for us who's vigorously clipping everything right now, including the reaction on Fox, which is quite the sight to behold, they are trying to figure out in real time right now, how do we spin this? How do we tell our viewers what's happening here? So right now, their whole thing is they're saying, oh, but these are all blue states. Of course, everyone knew that this was going to happen. They're trying to make this about Trump and the Republicans. It's nothing about Trump and the Republicans. But as Aaron just said, and as we reported earlier, that's not even true. We saw what happened in Georgia, the first win for those seats in 25 years. And the energy, and the enthusiasm that we are seeing nationwide right now. I mean, it is legitimate, it is real, and they could try to ignore all the signs all they want, but it's not going to help them in the future at all.

You saw it with the No Kings protests. What did they try to say? The crowds were fake. Oh, no, that's not a clip from this No King's protest. It's a clip from 2019. They tried to throw everything at us, every single lie, all of the gaslighting. And rather than actually reflect internally and realize maybe people actually don't like us, people actually don't like being tortured by us.

We are, once again, for those just tuning in, we are tuned in. We are looking right now at the Zoran Mamdani. Looks like their celebration room right there. We expect New York City mayor elect Mamdani to speak shortly. We will see what happens there. But across the board right now, I'm not so sure there is a single election that the Democrats did not win tonight. I mean, this thing was a wipeout, a sweep, whatever you want to.

call it. This right here is a major moment. Now, my question, and I would love to get both Ron's perspective and Aaron's perspective on this, is does this shift the narrative? We've seen a narrative over the past few months since Donald Trump was elected. The corporate media at least has tried to project this era of invincibility over Donald Trump, like I said earlier, like they had this incredible mandate. Is that illusion shattered right now? Do people start to now think the Democrats are actually the ones with the momentum and that this is actually a collapsing regime that we are watching right now. I'll let I'll let Ron chime in first. Well, you know, a couple of things on that, you know, Republicans have never done well in the Trump era when he's not on the ballot.

And the reason for that is because Donald Trump brought in a lot of voters into the Republican party. People who were never Republicans before 2016. Many of them, were not ever registered to vote, had never voted before. He brought them in. And what we have seen, whether it is 2022, 2018 or now, is a lot of them have no loyalty to the Republican Party. They have no loyalty to Ted Cruz or, you know, any of these people, Marco Rubio, you know, whoever, at least Stefanic.

And when Trump, when Trump is on the ballot. they show up and they vote for Trump and they also vote for these other Republicans that are on the ballot and and they've done fairly well in presidential election years but in the off years when Trump is not on the ballot Maga stays home they don't care they don't care about these candidates they don't care about winsome Earl Sears they don't care about Jack Chittarelli I mean I'm talking I'm not talking about your loyal Republican diehards I'm talking about MAGA you know the people who who are not, who don't bleed the Republican Party.

And so that's another problem for them. I mean, where was Trump? Trump didn't campaign for any of these people. He never went to New Jersey. He didn't campaign for winsome Sears. He didn't even endorse her. You know, he said vote, vote for the Republican ticket in Virginia. That's as far as it would go.

I mean, so, I mean, Trump didn't campaign at all for any of these people. So, but, you know, on the. other side, on the Democratic side, you know, you have to say that this is entirely grassroots because every single campaign is totally different. You know, you have a moderate traditional establishment, Dem and Spanberger, and even Cheryl, but then you have a Mandami, you have the California referendum, you have the candidates in Georgia, you have progressives, you have moderates, you have white, you have ethnic, male, female. And this wasn't an effort that was led by the party leaders.

I mean, this wasn't Hakeem Jeffries leading the way or Schumer leading the way. They didn't even support Mandami. You know, this was a bottom-up campaign-driven, grassroots-driven movement, no kings was part of it. And, you know, Donald Trump, after all the heartbreak and the disappointment coming out of 2024, we can always count on Donald Trump being a great uniform. fire for the Democratic part. He is perhaps maybe the single best campaigner for the Democrats, although I have to give credit to all these campaigns. I mean, Spamberg or Cheryl, Mom, Don,

like all these candidates did incredible jobs. And I think like he said, you know, diversity, ideological diversity, but all focused on affordability, all focused on meeting people where they are and doing what's best for the people in their cities or their districts or their states. And I think that's something that I think the Democrats can take from it is you don't have to go in any single direction or whatnot. You got to fight for what the people you are representing want to see. And so I think it's an interesting thing that we are seeing this. And also, I just want to note before we go to Aaron here, what you highlighted really represents, I think, one of Donald Trump's ultimate scams where he likes to tout this massive percentage of, look at my

success at endorsing candidates. Wow, I have a 90 whatever percentage rate for winners. It's because he comes in at the very end and only picks the people where he basically knows that they're going to win the elections. I think Donald Trump's kind of silence on these elections is kind of refusal to really get in, which think about Donald Trump. He's not a guy who really like shutting up much about anything, right? He really was kind of out of this whole thing. He steps in, you know, with his, I'm going to, you know, look at criminal charges about Prop 50 and fake votes and all that kind of BS. But never really went out there and stuck his neck out for any of these candidates because I think at the end of the day, he knew these were losers and he didn't want to endorse them and that his endorsement really

I guess at the end of the day isn't what puts them over the edge he picks people who are already going to win in these races and then tries to claim the victory Aaron he did endorse Cuomo and he did say that he would withhold money from New York City if Cuomo lost so yeah good job yeah quomo last night Cuomo probably be many much highly coveted endorsements of Don that Stephen Miller on that I don't know I predict this. You're going to have Republicans for the midterms beg Trump not to endorse him, not to endorse them, like Mike Lawler. He is going to say to Trump, I know you might want to endorse me. Please don't. Don't send out any truth social posts. Don't mention my name. Don't come near my

district. I predict that. That is a very interesting point. And I could definitely see that, you know, bearing out as we see those elections. There's going to be a Donald Trump stent. that people don't want to have anywhere near them come the next elections. All right, Aaron, we've kept you waiting. You've been following the news, obviously, for a while. I don't think there's a single update on breaking news that you've ever missed in your entire life. You're on top of everything. So what's your feelings on this?

And you've also seen, you know, the news coverage. There's a reason why people come to you, Aaron, for the news and why they don't go to the legacy media. And so what do you think about? Do you think it's going to shift the narrative here that's been out there? this idea that the Republican Party, that Trump, that they're invincible, that this country is shifted, that Gen Z has shifted and it's never going to come back. There were all these narratives that just seem like BS when they said it, but they're still running with it. So I'm curious to get your thoughts. I also want to remind everybody, Aaron Parnas is on YouTube

and his channel is absolutely crushing it. He's delivering amazing news updates here. You may know him from TikTok. You got to check out his YouTube channel. I believe it's YouTube.com slash at Aaron Parnas one, YouTube.com slash at Aaron Parnas one, or just search Aaron Parnas and YouTube. You'll find it. Make sure you subscribe to Aaron's channel. He's doing news updates right here on YouTube every day. Aaron. Yeah, no, go subscribe right now. But I think that tonight's elections should not surprise anyone. I mean, if you looked at all of the special election results over the past nine months, every single time there was a special election, it got increasingly worse for the president and for the White House. And so tonight should come as not as a

surprise to no one. But what surprised me about tonight personally was that Jay Jones is winning and not just winning just by like a point. He's winning pretty convincingly now over three points. That's a race that I thought would be a bit of a toss up. Maybe the Republicans would pull it out. That didn't happen. And all of these elections are being called early in the night. I mean, Zoron winning three minutes after polls closed. That's pretty nuts. Mikey Cheryl winning 17 minutes after polls close. No one thought it would be that much of a blowout. As far as the future goes, though, I agree with Ron. I think that Republicans are going to run from the Trump endorsement because Trump's

approval rating right now is just at 37%. His disapproval rating is at 63%. That's two-thirds of the country right there practically. Most independents disapprove of Trump. The only people that approve of Trump right now are in these deep red states. And even then, you have fractures within the Republican Party. And it's not just between Donald Trump and his voters. I mean, you have a major debate about what the future of the Republican Party is going to

look like. The Heritage Foundation is falling apart in real time. Republicans can't pass any legislation in Congress, as we see. House of Representatives hasn't been in session since September 19. And right now, I will say this. After tonight's results, Democrats in Congress have no motivation, in my opinion, to reopen the government and cut a deal with Republicans. It's got to be Democrats way or the highway.

You've got to make sure that you fully extend Affordable Care Act subsidies. That's the kind of the bottom line for Democrats right now. tonight's results, complete bloodbath for Trump and for Republicans. And it's only going to get worse, I think, with Prop 50. Yeah. One of the things, you know, I know both of you guys, you know, you're obviously, you're in tune with the conversations that are happening on the internet, which have shaped our politics in a way that I think people even a few years, like, I think all you guys have seen it. But I really caught, I think, the legacy media by surprise in the 2024 election when they're like, holy crap, like people are getting their information from podcasts. and they're getting their information from Twitter and Blue Sky and all these various places.

Maybe we need to make platforms there. Maybe we need to be talking to people there. But I think there's also an element of some of those platforms, especially the ones that are kind of captured by people like Elon Musk, where people kind of fall into these algorithmic kind of spirals, especially on a platform like X, where they think that the country believes a certain thing, even when all the data tells them otherwise.

And especially on Twitter, where you see all of these kind of right-wing. MAGA propagandists, many whom Marjorie Taylor Green, of all people, was going after on the view today, calling them paid propagandists saying that they're paid a lot of money to make these posts. That's Marjorie Taylor Green saying that. But, you know, I think what do you guys make of this kind of echo chamber that's developed on the right, especially in regards to platforms like X, where you have the kind of Benny Johnson's,

the cat, you have these people kind of pushing a certain narrative. Do you think that it's helping them right now? or do you think it's actually backfiring them because it's lolling them into this kind of false sense of complacency? Do you think they're living in like a false reality at the moment? They're living in an echo chamber. Complete echo chamber. A complete echo chamber.

I mean, and Marjorie Taylor Green put it best on the view today. They're literally being paid to push these narratives, right? They're being paid thousands of dollars a month, pretty much, to push narratives. They don't have to ever disclose it because the FEC hasn't cracked down on it. So they're pushing these narratives in an echo chamber designed to only reach the same exact people that they've been reaching now for nine months. They get their 100,000 likes, but this country's a lot bigger than just 100,000 likes and doesn't actually translate to the

rest of America. When you look at a platform like Twitter, most of the people liking these people's posts, they're not even from America. They're being posted by people out in India, in Israel, and Russia, I mean, all over the world. They're not in America. And so, I mean, I just think that they're living in their kind of own delusion. Yeah, I think that that's a really good question that you brought up there, Brett, too. And you're right, Aaron, absolutely about the echo chamber aspect of it. I mean, I've been following the right-wing MAGA echo chamber podcast, you know, podcasters, that whole world for so long now.

And I can tell you that in 2020 and in 2022, I was extremely frustrated with the Democrats. Party because I saw what Republicans did, especially in the wake of their deplatforming after January 6th. I mean, you have to realize a lot of them were comfortable on Twitter like the rest of us, and they were kicked off Twitter. And they had to create their own platforms. And they had to create their own podcasts because a lot of them couldn't even get on YouTube. You know, they were all kicked off YouTube too. And they were kicked off Facebook. And so they had to create this alternate media ecosystem and look let's face it charlie kirk was a big part of uh building a lot of that i mean he was in there with a lot of others and and my frustration was that democrats had nothing you know

i mean democrats relied on like mainstream media they relied on msnbc to like d nc to like debunk or or they were they were looking to the dnc to do it you know or the biden administration like what and i you know why don't you push back on all these lies and all this disinformation and I was looking at it like these guys were like like a running back who breaks into the secondary in football like there's nobody there like they were just living the dream because they were just running wild pushing lies and there was nobody there to push back and I will say that over the last two years Democrats not from the top down you know this wasn't Joe Biden didn't didn't give us guy

on this. Chuck Schumer didn't. Jeffries didn't. Pelosi didn't. It was us. You know, we did it ourselves at the, not just us, Midas. We were a big part of it. But many other groups said, you know, enough is enough. We need to get in this arena. And we need to fight back and push back. And now every time they post something false, I used to get furious because it would go for two, three days and nobody would fight back. Nobody would push back. Now you have groups like us who jump all over the lies and we're pushing back and we're community noting them and we're all over their lies. And now we have groups like us have so many members of Congress that follow us, governors that follow us, senators and they chime in and they pile in with us. We get the pushback

started, but then they come in behind us. And man, that never happened in 2022. That never happened in 2020. Democrats were completely disarmed in this arena. But now I think not only are we equal to them, we're in many ways better than them at it. And I think that that's an important shift as well. Yeah, I agree. I think this is a, as I said before, I completed total repudiation of Trump and MAGA, it's also a complete and total vindication, I think, for the work that we're doing at Midas Touch and the work that all the grassroots organizations are doing, all the people who helped organize the No Kings protests, and all the people who are watching these streams right now and who share these videos and share these podcasts. I think it's so important and it's been such a big help in getting out the message. You know, I remember No Kings. We saw so many signs of folks who said, I get my news from Midas Touch. I get my information from Midas Touch. I'm a member of the Midas Mighty. I met. so many people at my local No King's protest here when they saw me said, I get my news from two people, Midas Touch and Aaron Partners, Midas Touch and Emmer. And when you see that, you see the impact of this sort of thing. And it's really validating. And not just because,

oh, it's cool, it's us, you know, whatever. I'm happy that the message is ultimately getting out there. That to me is always the most important thing. And I want to deliver also some other breaking news right now coming in from Virginia, Virginia House of Delegate Seat 66, Nicole Cole, has been an incumbent Bobby Oric, the dean of the House of Delicates. That is the 11th flip of the night to the Democrats in the Virginia House. I mean, folks, this is the numbers, the data speaks for itself right now. Troy is bringing out the broom again. That looks like a bigger broom.

You got to get a bigger broom now. It gets bigger. It actually gets bigger each time another Democrat win. Are you pulling it out? Yeah, no, absolutely. And then B, I just want to jump in here. So we always talk about the collective we and I really, you know, want to give flowers to the community, the Midas Mighty, all 50,000 people watching right now, everyone who goes out to

the No Kings protest, everyone who's having your voice is heard every single day. This is exactly what you guys see. You guys understand that what we're witnessing, what corporate media is trying to normalize and none of this is normal. So shout out to y'all. And this gets me super excited too here as we head into the midterms, quite frankly. And look, I don't want to get ahead of ourselves here. I used to have a boss. He would say, everybody wants a six-pack, but nobody wants do the crunches. One, I know we all love doing the crunches here, the Midas Touch Network, the collective. We hear the Midas Mighty everyone. There's still a lot of work to happen between now and the midterms. I am excited. Ron, Aaron, I just want to get your guys's point of view here

before we bring Ben back in. How are you guys feeling based off of tonight? Is tonight an indicator of things to come? Aaron, I'll start with you. Oh, Lord, I don't know. I mean, I think it's still early. It really is. Midterm, midterm elections are unique. And this midterm of a midterm is very unique. I mean, I think tonight was a repudiation of Trump. I agree with Brett. I think that it was a complete rebuke of everything. Donald Trump stands for everything the White House is pushing in terms of policy. But as we know in this news cycle, it's not even a 24-hour news cycle. It's a minute-by-minute news cycle. And things change very fast. So if you don't keep your eye on the ball now, who knows what will happen in 2026 with gerrymandering and so much more.

So I think that this is major momentum for Democrats. But Democrats need to make sure that they don't they don't lose the momentum heading into the new year. Love it. Ron, how about you? I think Brett made a good point earlier that the Democrats have really been very disciplined about sticking to kitchen table stuff right now. You know, the cost of living increases. I mean, just what Mondami was asked yesterday, you know, Donald Trump tried to play his fool games and bait him.

You know, I'm better looking than Mandami. So some reporter comes up, sticks a microphone in Mandami's face, you know, says, what's your comment on Trump saying he's better looking than you? And he said, I'm focused on the cost of living crisis in New York City. So smart. I mean, that that's the democratic discipline on the messaging, which we're not used to. Let's face it. Democrats aren't always the most disciplined on messaging, but they were this time. And so that's really what it's going to come down to. What does the economy look like three months out of the midterms? Because, you know, that's really what that's really the whole ball of wax you know if the republicans and donald trump were banking on

this economy kicking humming on all cylinders you know the big tax cuts all that there they believe and the tariffs they believe that there was going to be this manufacturing boom no inflation chicken in every pot everybody was going to be happy and making money right and so if that was true and if that is true somehow then uh you know then this isn't going to be a blue wave but what we're seeing is the opposite. You know, the economic news continues to get worse and worse and worse. And there's no sign that Trump understand. I mean, the Supreme Court might actually do Trump a favor if they rule against him on tariffs because he's wrecking the economy and he's wrecking Republicans' chances in the midterms with these tariffs. And you have to

believe that if the Supreme Court doesn't bail him out and take away this authority, Republicans and Congress will. They might go, hey, man, we're done with all this. stuff you know we're taking back our tariff authority which they should have from the beginning because it's in the constitution but they're just letting him run wild and so uh you know that's really what it comes down to i think it all going to come down to economic issues you know the trans in sports stuff doesn't work winsome sears built their whole campaign around you know men and women's bathrooms it doesn't play anymore the migrant issue doesn't play anymore because trump is overplayed his And it's all going to come down to the economy, I think.

Yeah, I could not agree more with you. And I think worse than not delivering on those promises, Ron, that Donald Trump laid out, that everything is going to be great. We're going to live in a golden age. There's no inflation. It's the fact that he continues to lie about it when people know that their grocery bill is higher. When people go outside and they see the military on their streets and it frightens them. And when they see people in their family whisked away by ICE and federal agents, people feel this administration. I don't think it's never really a good thing when you're feeling the actions of the administration in such a negative way.

And so it's not only that things are not good. It's that Donald Trump is trying to gaslight people and tell them everything's amazing when they know damn well that it's not. I think that adds another layer of resentment onto what we are seeing from voters and why voters are so fired up. Ron, Aaron, I want to thank both of you, both for your contributions to the Midas Touch Network at large and for joining us here on this stream. We're all so grateful for you. I want to remind everybody as well, Ron Filipkowski, some incredible work on the Midas Dutch Network. Obviously, our editor-in-chief oversees everything.

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Aaron Parnas, incredible YouTube channel. Go check out the YouTube channel, YouTube.com slash at Aaron Parnas 1. Aaron also is a substack. You all know him, TikTok, all that. And also, Ron Filipkowski has an amazing podcast called Uncovered right here on the Midas Touch Network. He does it every Wednesday at 4 p.m. Eastern, 1 p.m. Pacific time with Anthony Davis. It's an incredible show. They break down everything that's going on in the MAGA world.

It's so insightful. You watch that show. I think you know what's going on before anybody else knows what's going on. you get the best insight. So check it out. Thank you, Ron. Thank you, Aaron. So grateful for both you. A big night for democracy tonight. Huge night. Ben come in live from a courtroom. Courtroom, Ben. Ben, Ben isn't a courtroom. A lot of people, a lot of people go, is this a green screen that Ben's a no, Ben is in an actual courtroom here. This is a legit. This is real. Look, he's proven it. Real. That's real. That's real. I figured, let me,

find the most random location to deliver election coverage from. Normally from my living room, I'm just going to do it in a courtroom right now. No, I needed to have some additional space because my brothers keep yelling at me from my Wi-Fi situation at home. Spectrum, I can't be having the largest audience right now in digital watching this stream for me to only be like, why is my Spectrum Wi-Fi now? Call it, call on the Wi-Fi out by name. they won't be a sponsor on the show. That's that. I should stop my talks with them. Okay. Good to know.

You could include me in on that. I've lost a spy. It's all right. It's all right. That's what independent media is about Parnas. It's great to see you. Ron, it's great to see you. This was the night I've been looking for, you know, where a lot of our hard work together, this community pays off and that we could share this joy together through difficult times, beginning with that horrific inauguration where we focused on our puppy and kitten inauguration. Everybody remember that to where we are here now. It was not a foregone conclusion we would be here. Donald Trump and Elon Musk wanted to destroy us. They wanted to destroy the resistance. They thought in a matter of weeks that they would have suppressed all opposition the way they had corporate news showing up at Mar-a-Lago and kissing

the gangster ring. It's what they thought was going to happen. But we rallied together. And then leaders emerged. California Governor Gavin Newsom. We've seen the fight the oligarchy rallies with Bernie Sanders and AOC. Mamdani emerge. We saw Democratic leaders who were timid and not meeting the moment at first,

finally fighting back and we're like, okay. And they got their energy from you. from the people, right? The No King's protest emerged organically. Incredible groups like Indivisible, move on, 50-51, unions coming together. And when corporate news refused to show the protests, what did we do right here on the Midas Touch Network? We showed the protest. We showed the shadow hearings.

We knew that's where the people were. We were always talking about the Epstein files and Donald Trump's cover up. And now all of that is front and center because of you. I know we're moments away from Mikey Cheryl's victory speech in New Jersey. Of course, we're going to bring that to you live as soon as she takes the stage any moment now. But I wanted to just take the time to celebrate this joy and this moment with you. Let's bring you live to Mikey Cheryl, the governor elect of New Jersey. And I think there will be sound there shortly. No sound yet, but we will be bringing you the sound there shortly.

As soon as that hits, I can't wait to bring everybody. Mikey, Cheryl, the speech really hasn't begun yet. But Brett, I thought that was an important moment while our sound engineers figure out the sound situation right there. But Brett, a big moment, but no sound yet, guys. Let's get that sound in soon. Brett. Yeah, it's possible they don't even have the sound yet on the feed. And so that should be coming in soon. But no, a big night.

We are seeing the celebrations across the country. And I want to remind everybody also, just because we said it so quickly before, that J.D. Vance's half-brother, Corey Bowman, got blown out in his election for mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio. It lost by, like, 64 points. And J.D. endorsed him. So J.D. Vance thinks he's going to have some sort of massive pull over this party, a massive pull in the future. I think he's got another thing coming for him right there. We're going to check in shortly now with Mikey Sherrill. We hope to get her speech soon.

I want to check in with our team. Do we have sound on that yet? Can we pull her up, at least on the side? We could watch. Okay, not yet. We don't have sound. We should be getting the sound very soon. but just a massive blowout across the board for Democrats, just a complete repudiation of Trump and MAGA, we're seeing this from Virginia to New Jersey, to Georgia, to New York City, all over the place. And soon we are going to be seeing the results here in California. I expect that to be called pretty soon as well on Prop 50. And I think one of the things that tells you the direction I'm not going to make any sort of call or projection or prediction right now.

But I think something that gives you a little bit of insight into what's been going on here in California is originally this Prop 50. I want you to just think back to that when Governor Gavin Newsom announced this, how derided he was by the legacy media, how Republicans thought this would never work, this would never pass. You saw all those kind of pollster types. Ron knows who I'm talking about. The people on the Internet had tried to go,

oh, this is doomed from the start. Governor Newsom has no chance passing this proposition. These always fail all the time. And then what did you see? Governor Newsom took the lead. He took charge. He got ahead of the messaging, which is something that we really haven't seen a lot of Democrats do in the past.

He set the narrative, set the tone. Republicans ended up pouring in so much money, tens of millions, millions and millions of dollars to try to fight this thing. And what happened? They ultimately, a few weeks before, the Republicans, all the people who were putting in money for this thing decided, actually, we're not going to spend anything anymore. We're done. We're out. We give up. Mercy. We're waving the white flag. I think that tells you where this race stands. Salty, do we have sound yet for Mikey Sherrill, the governor-elect of New Jersey? You let me know. I'd like to bring you her speech very shortly.

But once again, a very, very, very, very big night for the Democrats. We're also hearing a lot of sadness and depression over at Fox News. We're seeing that they are sitting around the table. They don't know what to do. They're doing everything they can right now to try to spin this thing and tell their viewers, because they've been telling viewers everything was great. Everything is awesome. People love Trump.

People love everything. But clearly, the people thought otherwise. made their voices heard tonight on this pivotal election night. We are going to check in shortly with Mikey Cheryl, but we're just getting more data. And I think one of the things we're also seeing shift is just a huge momentum shift across various demographics. And these are demographics just months ago that all the pundits were saying it was impossible Democrats have lost these voters forever. For example, exit polling on young men 18 to 29 in Virginia, New Jersey, in New York City. Spanberger was plus 14, 18 to 29. Cheryl plus 10, Momdani, plus 40. I mean,

we are seeing just the total impact right now, the big shift that we are seeing right now in the electorate that I think Republicans counted their chickens before they hatched. They completely misread the results of the 2024 elections. And that is coming back to bite them tonight. then you got any of their updates take a look right here the 12th flip of the night to democrats in the virginia house hd 69 mark downy has beaten the incumbent there chad green so we've seen 12 flips there a wipeout from agor republicans in the house of delegates and as i mentioned literally every county shifted in major ways towards the Democrats there in Virginia. And we saw the trifecta there with the governor's race, the lieutenant governor's race there,

the attorney general's race, the House of Delegates there as well. Then you go to New Jersey, Mikey Sherrill, winning the gubernatorial race there. Then you go to New York City with Zoran Mamdome. winning the mayoral race there. Then you go to Pennsylvania, where the Democrats kept control of the Supreme Court, the three seats that were up for re-election. Democrats kept those. Then we go to California, which is really the last and final thing.

We're looking at this evening, right? And it's Prop 50, where, again, Brett, to your point, it was not a foregone conclusion that Prop 50 was going to pass by huge margins. you know also i saw photos of the lines out in california i mean people were so motivated to vote for prop 50 as a californian it's like nothing i'd ever seen before now this photo right here was by a family member my brother-in-law chevo sent this to me who lives in huntington park and this is a 98% Latino neighborhood um right here it is one of the local locations where we see ice raids over and over again. It's where my wife's family lives right

there. This is what it looks like in Huntington Park. I think it's an important thing to talk about, right? With all of the harassment and intimidation directed at that community to see the community show up like we just showed you in that photo, and it's deeply personal to me, you know, because that's where my family lives. And to see the ice attacks. in my family's neighborhood over and over again, the ice attacks in the elementary schools. It's just so horrific what's going on there. In the parking, a lot of those videos you see, it's in their neighborhood. You know, and to hear the stories from, you know, my mother-in-law, my wife's mom,

who, you know, is scared to walk. She's a citizen, but she's scared to walk to church in the area, scared to go to the gym, you know, in the area. people are terrified in that community, but they showed up to vote. And so I think it's a really big deal to highlight that. And thank you to my brother-in-law, Chavo, for sending us that photo when he showed up to vote. That's Huntington Park, California, and you can see just how motivated people are there. But I remember, Brett, to your point, everybody's saying in California, everybody saying in California,

Prop 50 wasn't going to work. Remember, they tried to set up the dynamic. It's Newsom versus Schwarzenegger. Okay, really? Remember, the corporate media tried to push that narrative right there with all of the money coming in. And I'll tell you what, Newsom fought back with his moral authority, his formal authority, and he showed how you lead the way. And by the way, everybody who's watching this, I hope that you will get to watch the interview that I did with Governor Newsom, he interviewed me. You talk about me having imposter syndrome when I showed up there.

I'm like, you sure you want to interview me, governor? For real. I showed up at the studios when they were recording. And I was like, okay, you know, I'm very proud of the network, but I'm being interviewed by the governor, who many believe, could be the next president of the United States. And I'm thinking, what's this guy going to ask? me. But we had a great conversation. It's on Governor Newsom's channel. If you want to watch it after

the coverage tonight, I encourage everybody, watch that interview I did with Governor Newsom. We talked about all of the issues. We got very personal about how Midas Touch took off. Yeah. It was really great. You could check that out. This is Gavin Newsom podcast. It's on Governor News Newsom's podcast. It's on YouTube here. So make sure to check it out. And we got some more big news to break for you right here. Oh my God. Things just continue to get worse for the Republicans in Virginia. I cannot believe what I, well, I can believe what I am seeing, but it is stunning to see Americans reject authoritarianism in this way.

In Virginia, House District 69, Mark Downey has beaten incumbent Chad Green. It's the 12th flip of the night to Democrats in the Virginia House. We got Mikey Cheryl, the governor-elect of New Jersey speaking now. Let's pull her in, Mikey Cheryl. especially after this election, where we chose, we're going to follow Lady Liberty's beacon. We're not going to give in to our darker impulsive. Here in New Jersey, we know that this nation has not ever been, nor will it ever be ruled by kings. We take oaths to a constitution, not a king.

liberty, the very foundation of democracy, and we've chosen prosperity necessary to create opportunity for all. So New Jersey, to quote the boss, the future is now, roll up your sleeves, let your passion flow, the country we carry in our hearts is waiting. Thank you, New Jersey. You see, we only bring you the best part to this picture. We give you the Cliff Notes version of the speech. No Kings, pro-democracy, great leadership. That's great. That's your speech wrap up in under one minute or less.

But a big win by Mikey Cheryl there. Now, all eyes finally turn to California where we expect a huge night for Prop 50. Jordy, how are you feeling there? little brother. Hold on, hold on, hold on. Jardy, I want to, I want to, we got Donald Trump's first statements of the night. He's been very silent all night. So I do want to pull this up. Oh, this is sad. It should be good. I'm sure it's very classy and very, this is a sad one. Is he posting AI images of himself pooping on polling places for it? Oh, he's not yet posted any AI videos of himself. Is he posting images of great Gatsby parties with

half naked women in martini glasses brett not not yet no half naked very great gatsby but let me let me let me tell you what he actually is posting honestly like this is trump at his most pathetic and weak donald trump writing just moments ago a quote that says trump wasn't on the trump right can you read the post oh no can you read the read the post man course of course well well okay i want i want to sell out what i was doing i was waiting for our people to get the graphic made but but but go go go and throw me under the bus as i try to get help our editors um okay the quote right here trump wasn't on the ballot and shut down were the two reasons that republicans lost elections tonight and that's a quote he put in and then he wrote according to pollsters now i see ron hysterically laughing at this post from

Donald Trump or Ron, what are your thoughts? I got to get you. I mean, you know, they just spent like three weeks every single day saying like Democrat, everybody's blaming the Democrats for the shutdown. Like Mike Johnson has had press conferences with House leadership every morning at 10 o'clock saying that. Trump's been saying that. And now, now Trump is saying, oh, the shutdown is why we lost We're blaming Republicans for the shutdown. It's like, okay, I'm interested. So now what's going to happen? Mike Johnson is going to come out tomorrow morning, right?

He's going to give his press conference and they're going to say, Mike, what did you think about Trump's tweet where he said the shutdown is the reason why we lost? And Mike Johnson is going to say, I didn't see it. I don't know what you're talking about. What tweet? Right. I mean, that's unbelievable that post. This is Mike Johnson.

You know, well, I haven't seen it yet. I'm going to have to, I'm going to have to process it. But we're certainly, we're surely not covering up the Epstein files. I like, I love when the guy just like brings up the Epstein files on his own now. And it's like, yeah, we didn't ask about Epstein, but it's interesting. It's such a nervous. I just want to let you all know that we're not covering it up. Okay.

You know what I always say. As a reminder, the Epstein thing, that's a red herring. I didn't ask you. One of the funniest things about this post that's, underrated is the My Pillow ad underneath right there for $17.98 that you get. I mean, the whole thing is a freaking down, by the way. What did you say, Ron? I said the prices, he keeps lower in the prices, Lindell.

You know, he's like giving these things away now. Smack you in the face with a pillow. That baggage is going to hit you with a freaking pillow and give it to you and give it to you for free. Jordy, vibes are high, B. Thanks for tossing it to me. Vives remain high. The chat is, we're at an all time high right now. This is, this is some really incredible stuff.

I'm glad that we, this community, we get to watch this together unfold in real time. Really epic. As, as House Republicans have worked, what is it, Ron, 12 days now in the last three and a half months. This is absolutely insane. And for Donald Trump to put out that truth social. I mean, can we just stop and pause and just reflect on how weird it is that he has his own social media platform that he's called truth social. that runs these My Pillow ads that we were just talking about.

We live in just absolutely insane times. And I'm so glad, though, that we're living it together to keep our heads on straight because it's maddening. I mean, it is absolutely maddening what we're seeing. And that's why I'm so excited about tonight because folks are able to put their votes where their mouth and their frustrations are. And like I said, I'm going to keep bringing this out, Ron, because every time Brett gives us an update, I mean, it's another sweep.

here. This is unbelievable. And for those of you who really enjoy that that Schadenfreude, as Brett mentioned earlier, the exact opposite of the vibes of what's happening right here on this screen and this chat, that's what's happening on Fox News right now. I mean, they are spiraling, absolutely. I'm shocked that they're so surprised about what happened. And look, again, I just want to also ground ourselves here because the midterms are a ways away. And I don't want to necessarily, you know, be like, oh, we're going to now take this all the way to the mid. No, there's still so much work that has to be done. You cannot take your eyes off the ball here as we continue to. But you should be able to celebrate tonight that pro-democracy

is seemingly winning the night by a landslide. And that is all thanks to to all of you here at the Midas Touch network, the editors behind the scenes here, everyone that's in the chat, the Midas Mighty. And again, once again, all of those who take to the show, streets who have your voices heard peacefully. This is all, this is everything that you guys have been talking about now, living out before our eyes. And I know I'm excited and the chat is excited, but again, I don't want to get ahead of ourselves here. We could appreciate what's happening right now. Isn't that right, Ben? For sure, it's a big night. It's a big night. And, you know, it's a good night for democracy. And at the end of the day, for me, it's not about political party.

I don't care about political parties. I don't care if you have a D next year name and our next year. I don't care. What I do care right now is that one of our political parties has been co-opted by an authoritarian movement, a movement that threatens the, it's an existential crisis to our very nation and everything that it stands for. And that's what troubles me so much. And that's why it is a, you know, a great thing to see these results. And it's a great thing to see the American people rising up and standing against this and going back to what this country actually stands for, the freedom and liberty and justice for all. And so it's great to. see all of that. And we've seen this just, this transformation of the Republican Party over the

past past few years that has just been so grotesque and disheartening, how they turned into this cult of Donald Trump have just put aside all pretense and embraced this kind of weirdo, bizarreo identity that just does not resemble anything close to being American at all. And I want to remind everybody, we have a new documentary out there that follows Adam Kinzinger, a patriot, a Republican who stood up against this. It's called The Last Republican, the documentary. We did it with MCDC Productions. It's a fantastic movie available in the United States on Apple TV, on Amazon, on YouTube, on Google Play,

on any of those kind of big major streamers where you could kind of rent movies. Go check it out. If you've seen the movie already, let us know in the comments. I think it is powerful. I think it is so of this moment. And it's so important as to where our country is, where it was, where it is. is where we are heading for people to watch this and for people to share this movie. I'm so proud of it and the producing team behind it.

It's such an incredible job. Steve Pink, the director, who also directed one of my favorite movies, Hot Tub Time Machine, directed this. It is a fantastic documentary film with a lot of heart. It follows Adam Kinsinger and his family and his personal story,

his professional struggles, him basically getting thrown out of Congress the way he was with the redistricting, and replaced by MAGA extremists, such a powerful movie. I hope you all have a chance to watch, Ben. Let's take inventory of where we are right now. East Coast 1020, West Coast, 720. We're waiting for Zoran Mamdani to give his victory speech. We've seen the victory speech of Mikey Cheryl in New Jersey,

of Abigail Spanberger in Virginia. Virginia, we saw the trifecta pulled off where Democrats won the governor. race, lieutenant governor's race, even the attorney general's race there, which some didn't expect. We've seen 12 House of Delegate seats flip, which is a major, and I think we're going to see more flip. It could be as many as 20, maybe more. And every single county in Virginia shifted by massive amounts from red to blue, whether it was on the low end, 5% to 16%, but a massive blue way there. As I mentioned, New Jersey. Mikey Cheryl goes on to win the gubernatorial race there.

In Pennsylvania, Democrats win all three Supreme Court seats keep control there. Zoran Mamdani wins in New York City. And he won pretty early on. We were able to call it. So now our attention goes to California, really the last big one, right? Prop 50, which we expected to be called as soon as the polls close in California. We shared with you the massive line. in California of people who are voting, yes, I mean, the amount of enthusiasm out here in California is just absolutely incredible. I think the passion that we all have here on this stream, we're seeing not just in digital spaces, but on the streets as embodied by the No King's protests, but also the enthusiasm to go out to vote, to get involved. I think people realize

now more than ever just the importance of civic engagement that, government is kind of like a garden. You can't just ignore it or you can't just destroy it the way Donald Trump destroyed the Rose Garden and built Club Rose Garden or destroyed the East Wing of our house, the people's house to build a golden ballroom while they throw great Gatsby Roaring 20s themed parties with the slogan, a little party never killed nobody as Americans are starving to death and having their health care ripped away. One thing I want to mention that we do here on this stream is we release emojis the moment a candidate wins. So we've got the Spanberger emoji, the Mikey Cheryl emoji, the Zoran Mamdani emoji. And coming soon, hopefully, is that

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You may not be. So check it out. Subscribe to this YouTube channel. Help us build this unapologetically pro-democracy movement, brick by brick. Ron Filipowski, your take right now, 1025 Eastern, 725 Pacific. What do you make of this evening, Ron? I want to go back to what you said about Newsom and build a little on that, just in the Democratic party generally because I think that we went through a long period of time, several cycles

where the party leaders picked our candidates for us and told us what to do. And we largely followed those instructions. You know, Joe Biden told us he was going to run again. And there were many Democrats who did not want him to run again, but they didn't say anything. You know, they kept silent. And then we were told he was going to drop out. And a lot of people didn't want him to drop out. But a lot of party elites wanted him to drop out.

And then we were told Kamala Harris was that we had to back Kamala Harris. You know, we had no primary. We had no convention, you know. And the same thing happened around the country, you know, where, you know, the party leadership said, you know, this is who we're getting behind. This is our nominee. And I think after November 24, the grassroots of the Democratic Party said, enough of that. You know, we're not listening to you anymore.

We're not listening to the consultants. the talking heads, the people who get paid lots of money to tell us what we should do. And we are going to go our own way. We're going to pick our own people this time. We're going to get behind the candidates that we believe in, that we connect with. And this is going to be a bottom up party now. We're not going to vote for who Schumer tells us to vote for or who the DNC tells us to vote for in the primaries. We're picking our own people.

And then Gavin Newsom, you know, really I think didn't read the room for a few months. You know, he thought after in the wake of the 2024 election and that the smart play was to understand MAGA, understand Trump's appeal, started a podcast in his first, two of his first three guests were Steve Bannon and Charlie Kirk. And what happened? He heard from us. He heard from the grassroots. He heard from me.

He follows me. He heard from a lot. of us who said, no, man, this is not the way, brother. This is not where we're going. You better get with the program or forget about 2028. And you know what? You know, after a little bit of Heming and Han, I think he finally got the message because he went from interviewing Charlie Kirk to interviewing Ben. So I think that that sent a powerful message. I mean, Mandami is not the choice of the Democratic establishment. Graham Platner is not the choice right but all over the country we're hearing like we don't care who you want us to pick we're

picking who we want and i think that that is an extremely healthy thing for the democratic party and you're seeing a lot of the old guard retire as they should and it's like it's time for them to move on it because it's not a situation where we hate them or we dislike them or we don't appreciate them it's that we're looking at so many young stars in the party and we're saying And we want to elevate these people. We think they're great. We want them in leadership. Give them a chance.

Get off the stage. And that is happening. That is happening this cycle. And that is an extremely healthy thing for the Democratic Party. We are seeing the grassroots rise up for sure and say this is what we want to see as the future, not only for the Democratic Party, but for the United States of America. And I love seeing the energy that we're seeing right now and all of these. states and all these districts and all these cities. And I got another breaking news update right here

for everybody. Like I said, total bloodbath. Get the broom because in Virginia right now, the 13th flip of the night, 13th flip of the night for Democrats in the Virginia House of Delegates. In House District 86, Virgil Thornton, the Democrat has just been in the incumbent AC Cordosa, the Republican, the 13th flip in the Virginia House of Delegates. And Virginia, of course, a major bellwether state that a lot of people say, you know, is indicative of the way the rest of the country is going. This is a major, major, major update. And when you saw, you know, I remember those maps that we all saw after the 2024 election that were gutting when you saw those red arrows, you know, those long red arrows on the map, which showed how all these districts

across the country, how they went to the right. Now we're seeing the complete opposite of that. We're seeing a springback because I think personally, and I feel like, maybe a lot of you out there agree with me that these Republicans overplayed their hand, that Donald Trump overplayed their hand. They viewed they had this seismic mandate to do whatever they want. That was not the case. And they have psychologically tortured Americans. They have made their lives hell. And the people are feeling it. They're feeling it in all the issues that Donald Trump said he was going to solve. They're not solved. They're way worse. And in fact, the only people that are getting rich right now in this Donald Trump economy are Donald Trump and

cronies from these various crypto schemes and shady foreign deals, the American people see exactly what is going on right now and they are reacting to all of it. Think about the closing message, Democrats on message talking about affordability, affordability, affordability. Donald Trump and Maga partying at Maraago in the great Gatsby themed Roaring 20s party. And what was the slogan? A little partying never killed nobody. And Donald Trump's message today. is that he's going to block snap from 42 million Americans after the court order saying, no, you have to administer this program. And then Trump's own Department of Agriculture had to go into court and say,

yeah, don't listen to that guy. Don't listen to what he's saying. We'll follow the court order. But that was their closing message going into the election. I mean, those images, a lot of which were captured by our editorial team here, Ron, of the half-naked women in the martini glasses dancing around while Trump's like grotesque, rich male oligarch, right when guys were out there like, like looking at them, you know, and look, Mara Lago, in my opinion, I think it's an undisputed fact, was used for

Epstein sex trafficking. I mean, that's where Virginia Jewfrey was found, as Donald Trump said, and taken from him using a direct quote from Donald Trump and where Epstein found her underage to use Donald Trump's own terminology and to see that grotesque Moralago where Trump hid the nuclear secrets and other classified information

all throughout the floor and then you see what they were doing it was like they were giving us all the middle finger it was like they were mocking us all and they thought we were all stupid and they seemed to relish and enjoy our suffering and that was screwed up and the people showed up and the Midas Mighty showed up and people across

the country showed up and said no no kings no to this but not just no to this here's what we're for and you know you look at obviously Spanberger is a very different type of candidate than Mondami but to me Ron Brett Jordy might as much that's great I'd like to see that in their own ways young candidates in Virginia in Spanberger doing it her way. Mom Donnie doing it his way in New York City. Mikey Sherrill doing it her way in New Jersey. And how they get there is their own way. But affordability, affordability, affordability,

affordability, such an important message. And Ben, let me just add to that exactly because all the candidates you just mentioned did do it, in fact, their own ways. But one of the things that that connective through line through all campaigns is that they were talking to the people, right? these candidates were having conversations, real legitimate conversations, and actually listening. And I think that is just so powerful. And it might sound obvious, but sometimes do the obvious.

Talk to people. People want to be listened to. Okay. And I just want to go back to what we were talking about with Donald Trump and his closing message at Mara Lago, the Gatsby themed Halloween party. That is a choice. Ladies and gentlemen, that is a choice. Maga Mike said it was obligatory. Halloween for the Halloween is already a theme. So now to have a Halloween themed party to be great Gatsby, that is a choice. That is a slap in the face to the American people as federal workers go unpaid. As Snap is running out for 42 million Americans, they had a great Gatsby themed Halloween party. And I don't want this one to be overlooked.

And I think we should actually have the governor. Pennsylvania, Josh Shapiro on the show relatively soon, brothers, that Democrats, that we retained control of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court here, that means that they maintained the five to two majority here. I mean, that is absolutely massive. I would love to hear Shapiro's thoughts on that and what that can mean for the Commonwealth going forward. Again, I am stoked, might as mighty. I mean, this, again, and it's not because I'm a Democrat or I like I like when people are heard. I like when people's voices are heard. And that is what is happening right now. That is what we are seeing across the country play out is that is that people are being

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but every time I touch this thing, man, I just get more excited. So the bit stays. The broom stays all night so long as the vibes remain high. Ron, what do you think about that? You want the broom to stay? I think you got to get a bigger one. I really do. Like, you got to get one of those industrial, you know, things.

Because that doesn't really capture the full magnitude of the night. I mean, that broom right there talks about, you know, a solid sweep. But this is really like a, you almost need like a street sweeper. You know, like a truck. I mean, you know, I'm going back to the Marilago thing, because I want to talk about that for a second, because think about this, you have the nightly news, right, news broadcasts, whatever it is, CBS, ABC, and they got Sean Duffy on there talking about chaos in the airports, you know, flights are being grounded.

And then they're talking about snap, people are going without food. People are getting notices from their insurance companies at the, They're going to lose their health insurance. Oh, let's check in on the president. And he's down there, you know, on a golf course in Palm Beach. Or he's, you know, he went, he literally went from China where he's begging Xi to buy soybeans. You know, please, hat in hand, you know, I'm going to lose Nebraska. I'm going to lose Iowa.

I'm going to lose Kansas. Please buy my soybeans. Bail out my farmers for me. They love me. He goes straight from there to Palm Beach for two days of golf. And then this Gatsby-style Halloween party in the middle of a shutdown. I mean, like, he's just basically putting his middle finger up, not only to the country, but to his own candidates.

As we said, he did not go to California. He did not go to New Jersey. He did not go to Virginia. He didn't campaign for any of these people. people. He did nothing to help them. Not that they really wanted his help, but the point is, I think this guy is checked out. I think I don't, you know, I don't think we're going to see him doing a bunch of rallies in the midterms. Well, Ron, you say checked out. I got some breaking news for you right here. We have a second statement from Donald Trump just released on his social media

platform, truth social. And I think checked out hits the nail on the head with this one. Donald Trump bragging about his 60 Minutes ratings in his latest post. This is Donald. This is real. I'm not making this up, folks. Donald Trump's new post, just out the 60 Minutes interview of Donald J. Trump on CBS Sunday night was the highest rated 60 minutes in years. I mean, you cannot make this shit up, folks.

I mean, how pathetic first, his first message, Trump wasn't on the ballot and shut down and were the two reasons that Republicans lost election tonight, naming the quoting unnamed what is what is the what is what is the what is the image right under what do that dude dude let me just tell you so i don't add there why i advise you're taking down what is that listen i advise people not to get here yeah brett whatever that looks take it down take it down but what even is it what am i don't know i don't know i don't think i want to know salty please scroll up here's it here don't get closer i don't get closer it's a name that's what i mean like They have all these miracle cures and drugs on True Social.

It could have went in either direction. That could have been anything. I thought it was not a knee, I will say. But no, when you go on truth social as people. What are they serving? What's the, what's his ad? What is? Let's look at this.

Let's look at this. Pathetic person. Yeah. What the hell are they selling? List the president of the United States, the most pathetic, vile human being on the planet. This is his website. You go to it. At first, it spams you with a million pop-ups of, like, all of this bullshit, all this grifty nonsense.

And you have to scroll through it all to even get to a single post. Then you finally get to the post. And then underneath it, you have all of these other various scams and the My Pillow ads and the weird, we'll call it a knee. I guess it was a knee. I don't know. And like weird pills and med beds that are going to cure you and all the bizarre things that they put on this website. I mean, has this individual, Donald Trump, ever looked smaller? than he looks right now. I mean, what a weak, infantile individual. What a pathetic human being

that we are seeing right now. And when he is on the defense like this, when he is losing, when he is repudiated and rejected in such a way by the American people, he really just looks like a very tiny, small little human. You know, most people when they lose, they do some soul searching. You know, we did, right? After the 2024 election, I remember, You know, after like three days of depression, you know, I had to write a column on like what went wrong. And those are like really hard, man. I mean, everybody had their own different take, you know, and everybody's coming at it from a different direction. But we all did it. You know, we're all like, what went wrong and what can we do to fix it? Maga doesn't do that. You know, when they lose,

it's rigged. You know, when they lose, it's some, I got screwed. It was the, media it was somebody else you know they never they never look at themselves and go what did we do wrong and what what can we do better they they never perform that exercise it's not in their DNA so you have trump who makes everything about himself you know in the wake of this disaster for the republican party tonight you know is talking about his ratings this is a guy who goes to funerals and makes funerals about himself i i can remember you know, just make me think of this one speech where he only went to one Christmas church service during the four years he was out of office. He went one time to church on Christmas

and the pastor was in Dallas, Texas, and the pastor at Mega Church, asked him to come up and share some messages of faith with the congregation on Christmas. And he ranted and raved about his, you know, poll results and how he won the election. It was stolen from him. I mean, that's who this guy is everything is about himself well big big repudiation of maga all around this evening i don't really want to hear quamos does anybody want to hear from quomo i know to be honest to be honest i'm actually most looking forward to seeing what that loser says but but that's right salty says they're booing him okay we could hear quomo getting booed but we'll probably get him off by his own crowd he's getting booed by and that's what i'm saying you don't know what's about to go down on

this one oh oh oh oh oh oh oh the mom donnie people are booing oh okay okay that's that's that's that's that's that's that's what we're going to hear quomo but what we could do is um if we get a clip and there's anything interesting from them we'll we'll hear it but that's a good one shout out asin by the way shout out of all team we we've got the we've got the best team and then we've got you know 50 000 people watching right now. Reminder to go right now. Apple Podcasts, Amazon music, Iheart, Spotify, whatever app you use for podcasts, go and check out the Midas Touch podcasts on audio. Be sure to check out Ron's podcast as well uncovered that he does with Anthony Davis. Add those right now. Get new episodes. I know if you're loving our coverage tonight that you're going to love it.

We are waiting, Zoran Mamdani, to come out and speak. I'm sure he's waiting for Andrew Cuomo to get his speech before as is customary on nights like this. But, I think the one of the thing that sticks out to me about tonight is that this wasn't a late night. You know, we're waiting on the Prop 50 results because it's California and we're here in California. It's still early by us here in California. But the fact is that these elections were called very quickly, which is a sign that they are blowout elections, that these things weren't even particularly close at the end of the day. There was a reckoning tonight.

There was a seismic shift in our political system as something that I think we, we've seen brewing now over the past few months, and now the country and the world is seeing it for themselves. And that's why I just think it's so short-sighted and shameful that we've seen so many of these companies capitulate to Donald Trump, that we've seen all these companies right away, you know, try to, they pretended to have all these various values over the past few years and that they cared about certain issues. And all of a sudden they either went dead silent or completely cut those issues loose the second they became a little inconvenient for them. And I hope they're seeing tonight that it's a mistake to tie your anchor down, to

or to be anchored down by somebody like Donald Trump, a certified loser and somebody who has taken our country in the wrong direction and how hated these people truly are. And I hope now that the Democrats use the power that they're gaining in these various states and cities and they use it for good. They use it to better people's lives to fight back against the authoritarianism that we're seeing to truly focus on these issues of affordability and make lives better for the American people because I think winning is great, but at the end of the day, governing is the job. The job is about helping the American people. That's what politics is all about, and that is the most interesting thing about politics for me. It's the fact that we actually get an

opportunity here to help people, uplift people out of poverty, make sure that food is on the table for them. And so I look forward to that aspect of this as well. I see Ben's got a lot going on in his brain. A dozen. I mean, I'm just trying to look at this data like and I'm just double-clicking to see if it's real. Like, if you go to New Jersey and you go to Gloucester County, okay, which Chittarelli won in 2021 by plus 11, Mikey Cheryl won Gloucester County. I mean, that's, it's wild and won it convincingly. And so you said this, Ron, if you're a MAGA Republican Congress member like Mike

Loller. I think it's what New York's 17th congressional district. And you're sitting there in like Rockland County or whatever it is or ROC. And you're looking at the margins that you've won before with some incredible candidates in that primary on the Democratic side who remind me a lot of the Mikey Sherrill's and the Abigail Spanburgers. They're very kind of similar candidates like that. We've interviewed them here. Whoever comes out of that primary is going to be very, very impressive. You got to be thinking, I'm toast. I'm toast. You know, what am I going to do? And if you're any, I mean, just again, go think about Virginia where there have been, what, 13 House of Delegate seats that have already flipped. And I think that number will probably get

closer to like 20. Does everybody remember where we started this evening when I was showing all of those graphics that, what's his name, Dead Wasserman, whatever the guy's name is? posted, where he talked about, here are eight GOP held House of Delegate seats, one by Aris in 2024. Dems have a great chance of flipping them, right? And I think Dems will flip those. Then you go to the next group, and there are some additional ones right there. So Democrats are already reaching into these seats, which Wasserman said would be a wave election if you got there, and potentially tsunami territory as well. So how many of these seats right now are Democrats going to flip. And I think as the story is written tonight,

it's going to be most of them. Like it's going to be most of them. And again, if you, and Ron, you were saying this, if you're getting bullied by Trump now to redistrict in Texas or redistrict in Indiana, they did Texas, Indiana, Indiana, and you now have to make the races a little bit closer to try to open up a seat maybe for a Republican. These close races rely upon Latino voters still voting for you, young voters moving to you the way they did in 2024, white voters moving the way they did, women voters. And we're seeing across all demographics on every issue.

Trump is underwater. Is this the latest post from Donald Trump? Republicans terminate the filibuster, get back to passing, legislation and voter reform, DJT. And I think he's just going to continue to spiral more and more out of control this evening. Let me make this prediction. When Prop 50 comes back and it's a massive victory, expect his post there saying that

it's all fraud and fake and he'll make that a big issue, by the way, because, you know, it's kind of like, Jordy, you remember, you know, as a basketball player, when there's a person who really only has one move you know they can only dribble right and then you like go they only go one move they only go in one direction trump's got one thing it's whining it's saying it's all rigged and voter fraud you know the direction that he is going in that's quomo heading off the stage right there the end of his political career so getting it is getting in the bronco getting in the oj bronco ron what's going on you know i what i think is gregg abbott might be calling back the Texas legislature to twitch back some of those districts and undo some of the redistricting

because yeah, I mean, you think about it. You're asking, what are you asking? What is Trump asking a lot of these Republicans to do? In safe seats, you know, if I'm a Republican, I won my district last time by 10, 12 points. And he's asking me now to take six or seven percent of my Republican voters out of my district and put it into a Democrats district. So now my margin of victory is projected hopefully to be instead of

a safe 12, 13 points. Now I've got to work my butt off to win by five or six. And in a blue wave year, five or six doesn't look so good. So you're asking these Republicans all around the country to give

up their cushy safe seats. And and to put themselves in jeopardy. Why? So Trump can pick up a few more seats in other places? They don't care about that. They care about themselves. They care about their own seats.

So I think that the redistricting thing is going to be a much harder sell. Two things I think are going to, are going to be immediate results of this election tonight. One is the shutdown is going to end. Republicans are going to make a deal now. There's no, I wrote that this morning. and I stick by that. This election ends the shutdown.

There's no way that Republicans are going to continue with the playbook of hoping that the American people are just going to blame Democrats when they control the House and the Senate, the presidency, and the Supreme Court. So this election is going to help resolve the shutdown, I predict very soon. And the other thing it's going to do

is dump cold water on this redistricting stuff. Because instead of, you know, I think Trump might want to go, the other way and say, we need to redistrict harder, a lot of these Republicans in safe seats going, I'm not giving up my Republican voters to other districts. And so I think, I think what, what is Trump going to do? Here's what I think he's going to do in reaction to this. He is going to go after mail and balloting and early voting. That's what he's going to do. He's, he is going to, he's always talked about wanting same day election voting terminate mail

and he's talked about doing this by executive order which would be completely illegal but they he and mike johnson and john thune are going to make a big push i think to to federalize national elections and to outlaw early voting and mail-in voting which is the preferred method of voting by democrats traditionally and and that's going to be i think his solution to this it's going to shift from gerrymandering to doing away with early voting and absentee ballots and and and um i think that the democratic party has to be ready for that i think they are we have better lawyers um we typically do better in court so but that that's what i expect the next push to be that's why i've been to you know it was so frustrating for me in general just to see all again like the corporate medias of the

world, but also these billionaires out there. And, you know, I'm not one to give favor to these billionaires, but to just capitulate to Donald Trump in this regime as quickly as they did this time around, it's just a really bizarre thing because it's so short-sighted, right? Because when the American people are listened to, the American people, they don't like what's happening, okay? Just to put it plainly, what this regime is doing, disappearing people off the street, this government shutdown that continues. Remember, the Republicans control all three branches of government right now, as Ron literally just stated too, they could end this shutdown with the snap of a finger should they choose to. And they've just been holding out. It's a really strange thing. And that's why

it was so frustrating to me early on, you know, even those that maybe share similar spaces, right? Consider themselves pro-democracy. They're out there getting dinner with the guy and just really just bending the knee. Why? So you all don't get called bad names? Like you're really that concerned about these truth social posts? And Salty, can you very quickly bring up that last truth social post that we just played before? Because when you look at this post, again, it's totally unhinged. And we got another weird ad here for the Patriot phone. What do we do? And just like, I just want to live in a reality where our leaders are leaders. And people can just depend on the president to actually be a human being, someone who has strong convictions,

and morals and really upholds what that office is supposed to uphold. And again, I think tonight is just a complete, a complete rejection of what the Donald Trump regime is bringing this time around, Ben. The California polls close in 10 minutes or 10 minutes. Yeah, about 10 minutes from now. So five minutes from now, I should look what 10 minutes ago means when I get the message. And then rather than just assume everything means 10 minutes, it will be closing in five minutes. We're going to hear soon from California Assemblyman Isaac Brian, who will be joining as well when those polls close. He represents the South Central area, who I think is a real rising star in the Democratic Party. And I want to highlight him as well when he comes in.

I want him to be here when the news breaks. Zoran Mamdani expected to speak soon. So we're going to have a lot coming our way. I expect Zoran to be speaking right around the same time that we get the results of Prop 50. Why don't I bring in Isaac Bryan right now a California assemblyman representing California's 55th district, which includes much of the south central area of Los Angeles. Oh, it says he's not ready. I thought he was in. When he comes in, let me know.

Brian is ready. Just give us the word, which I assume means he's ready. He's in the green room. Let's let him in before Zoron gets in. I'd love to speak with him right now. It shipped him from that room into this room. And then I think we're going to have a resounding victory for Prop 50. I'm getting roasted, by the way, from our producers right now in the chat room.

And they don't realize I'm not Gen Z guys, okay? I was originally Gen X. They called me a millennial. I'm not really, I'm not really a millennial even. I'm like, I'm like mid-80s. Just to let, so the chat understand. So we have two different streams happening. right now we have a green room stream and then we move the people into this room.

It's a lot for me to handle. And Ben, I'm sticking up for you because I saw the directions that you received as well. I would have thought that I was in the chat and ready to go too. So I got your back, big bro. Even though you got your back. But let me say this, that this is not possible without our incredible steps, right? From Salty to Jeremy to Sydney to Ben Pee to Hayden to everybody behind the scenes to Joe, Shout out Joe, shout out to the entire crew.

I mean, they're working around the clock dealing with Terps. Shout out, Terps. Shout out to the crew. By the way, I got Salty a shout out from Governor Newsom during the interview that Newsom did of me. Saltie's like, yo, just say my name. And Governor Newsom gave a special shout out to Salty. And Salty's too cool, apparently, to even play it on his stream. The audience like, Ben, we don't care about that.

Bring in Assemblyman Isaac Brian. that we let's bring him in assemblyman isaac brian rising star in the democratic party i'm excited to see what the future holds for you but i won't glaze all that much on this episode i want to hear from you right now about prop 50 we're expected to get the results soon it was not a foregone conclusion that prop 50 was going to be popular in this way or that today was going to happen but you and others the community came together what do you make of this evening so far assemblyman I think the early results are looking good. The polling is looking strong.

But remember, they told us at the beginning, by a two-thirds majority, we were going to lose, that this was not possible. And we hit the ground because we knew that everyday Californians and everyday people across this country were looking for their voice. And out here in California, that voice is Prop 50 tonight. I remember you were standing shoulder to shoulder with the governor at some of the initial announcements when the Trump regime sent their ICE Gestapo to arrest and intimidate people, you know right there bovino showed up with the with the military there and and you all rallied you

stick with the people and they're still trying to knock us down here in california like we see in chicago in so many scenes across the across the country but it seems that there's real perseverance on the part of the people real people power tonight yeah you can't silence the people you're not going to bully the people of california or chicago or new jersey or virginia people are getting organized. We are tired of them taking food out of the mouths of children. We're tired of them taking health care away from our seniors. We're tired of stripping them stripping vulnerable families from our communities without due process, without legal representation. We are tired of this authoritarian power grab and we're going to stand up and we're going to

fight back. That's what you were seeing in Democratic cities across California and across this country and when Prop 50 passes in about an hour. I think the first results, when they drop, we're going to see a dramatic landslide victory for Prop 50. And it's because every California knows this is our moment to send a message to the entire country. Right. And that'll really connect it coast to coast. We saw the results in Virginia. We saw the results in New York City. We saw the results in New Jersey. And I think we'll see the results soon in California. We saw it in the Supreme Court in Pennsylvania. What I like, and I'd love to hear your view about this, is that these candidates are very different people, Spanburgers, different from a Mamdani, who's different from a Newsom, even though he's not on the ballot, prop 50 is. who's different than a Mikey Cheryl,

but everybody was talking about affordability, and they all had their own way of doing it. And I like Big Tent. I like uplifting, you know, as long as the messaging is there about fighting for the people, that's kind of my view about this network. What do you think about that? It kind of feels like we've spent so much time

putting each other through litmus tests, trying to find the differences among us, that we forgot what real harm looks like. And the return of the Trump administration has shown us just how fragile our democracy is, just how many people can get hurt by failed policies, just what's at stake. And we've got to be a big tent. We've got to look for commonality. We have so much more in common than we have differences. But even in those differences, if we're truly listening with love and compassion and solidarity, we can rise above those two,

and they make us stronger. That's what we're seeing tonight. Different candidates across the spectrum, across the party, across the country, making the entire party stronger. how about our governor here in California stepping up in such a big way you know and and we saw that early on and we saw him you know I remember that first handshake with Donald Trump on the tarmac kind of looking him you know and I and it seemed also that Newsom was looking at just how the right wing flooded the zone with lies and disinformation about the wildfires here in Southern California and then it seemed like it hit him and it's like shit i gotta figure out i got to be not just the governor operationally but from a comms perspective

i have to flood the zone with the truth because they're flooding the zone with lies to bend reality i got to re bend it um into the truth and then it seemed he's like got it and he was saying where do i you know what's that voice look like but he's found it and he's led the way and it's i'm so proud to see the governor of california exercising his moral authority and formal authority. And I think leading the way, it's a great thing to see the fourth largest economy

of the world, California, showing what an America could look like. What do you make of our governor? I think the governor has been incredibly courageous and brave. I mean, for me, this clear moment started when he came to Los Angeles during the peak of the ice raids and said, look, if you want to arrest me, arrest me, but I'm going to stand with the people.

And you've got to give yourselves a lot of credit here at Midas Touch, and all of the viewers who are turning in when Elon Musk bought Twitter and then utilized it to push for this authoritarianness. in the white house we all had to go back to the drawing board we had to find new means of communicating new means of organizing new means of getting the truth out getting a message out and that is what's happening now we're building that infrastructure and the governor is the tip of that spear but but don't get a twist it might as touch is right up there with them so thank you

guys for all that you do and all the folks who are tuning in tonight we appreciate you assemblymen before you go any final words that you want to bring to the 50 000 plus people who are watching this the largest digital stream right now across all networks more than ABC and NBC and blah blah blah. We're beating them right now. And I've told everybody I think you're the future of our Democratic Party here in California. But I love to hear from you about what message do you want to leave our viewers with here at the Midas Mighty? Man, this isn't a beautiful day for politics. It's not even a beautiful day for the Democratic Party. It's a beautiful day for the people.

For everyday people across California who believe in one another, who love one another, who support one another, who see a country that includes all of us, one where every community can thrive, be invested in, be whole, be kept safe. That is an America that I believe in. I think the Democratic Party holds the principles and holds the keys to unlocking that future, but that power and potential is in you. It is in the viewers of this stream. It is in the people across the country who are exercising

their right to vote tonight is it is in the grassroots organizers who stand on the front lines every time there is a crisis and it's the people who know that tonight is a day for celebration but tomorrow we've got to get back to the work so I'll see you on those front lines we're just getting started you're on mute there Benji we will make that call right now with you here assemblymen California's Proposition 50 redrawing the congressional math to make five districts more Democratic leaning. We'll pass. We can call on the Midas Touch network. One minute after the polls closed, we can make that official call right here, right now. Prop 50 will pass. Assemblyman, let me get your reaction to it right now that it's official.

Prop 50 has passed. The people of California are very clear about who we are and what we stand for. and we are tired of seeing this power grab coming out of D.C. We've turned the other cheek for far too long. We're ready to squabble up. We're ready to fight fire with fire. We're ready to get down in the trenches. If that's what it takes to save democracy and to protect vulnerable communities, there's nothing we won't do.

And Prop 50 is an example of that. I'm proud of California. I'm proud of Democrats across this country. But again, we're just getting started. We've got so much more work to do together. Assemblyman Isaac Brian from the 55th district. it's great to see you good to see you ben later fellas right there one of the things i love highlighting on this network i think are the future leaders of this party as well you saw one right

there in isaac brian um who's going to go on i mean he's doing great things as an assemblyman it's a very important job he's a very humble guy but what's going to happen in the future with him is um meteoric rise i see happening you know one of the things for us too is we have had Zoran Mamdani on before the primary. We had them on five months ago. We had Graham Platner on many, many months ago. You know, we want to connect with the base and where people are, you know, and following the fight, the oligarchy rallies.

We streamed everyone. I know very soon we're about to see the Zoran Mamdani speech. Why don't we bring you live right now, New York City, Zoran Mamdani's victory speech. Thank you so much for joining us this evening and for making this event possible. Before I begin, let's give a big thank you to the venue staff who have made this night such a celebration. Now, Zoran is about to join us on stage, but before he does, I want to say a few quick words of reflection and thanks and introduce a very special member of our team. So first, let's hear a round of applause for our day one endorsers,

those who helped build this movement into what it's become. New York City, DSA. Caval voice. Young Beats, New York Communities for Change, and Jewish Voice for Peace Action. And please give it up for our friends at the New York Working Families Party who have been such a leader in our long fight for an affordable, livable city. Now, do we have labor in the House? Throughout this campaign, we have stood shoulder to shoulder with our brothers and sisters in organized labor at 1 a.m. in Queens, at 4 p.m. and we will be bringing you that shortly. It seemed to be some technical difficulties right there, which boom. We intercepted it very quickly. Let's figure out what happened with that stream. We'll bring you back when Zauron Mamdani speaks. One of the things.

Craig, we're doing a little music. All right. One of the things we're seeing as well is that the Democrats have seized the majority in the Minnesota Senate as well. So as we wait for Zora and Mamdani to take the stage, figure out whatever the technical things are there, Democrats have seized the majority in the Minnesota Senate. So we just take a step back and let's reflect on what's happened. Coast to post. Prop 50, yes, passes in California. Let's just go a little east. Minnesota, Democrats seize the majority in the Minnesota Senate right there. Pennsylvania Democrats take control or keep control of the Supreme Court there. In Virginia, the trifector, the governor's race, the lieutenant governor's race, the AG race. Democrats win there. In New Jersey, Democrats win the governor's race there as well. So big wins all around.

I think we hear the audio. It's a little low, but we can hear it. Let me zoom in on that. And care for our people has infused every part of this campaign from top to bottom and without whom we would not be here tonight. El Biscard Church. Now,

we have all been inspired by Zoran as a candidate, but I also want to speak to his strength as a person. He has led our team and this movement with grace, curiosity, good humor, and thoughtfulness. And this race has been difficult. He has been the subject of attacks and threats, but he has truly risen above it all to give us hope. So please join me in giving Zeran, our friend, a round of applause. too many supporters to name, so I want to speak to everyone directly. Please raise your hand if you have given to this campaign, whether that is time, labor, knocking a door, hosting an event, creating art.

And if you are one of the tens of that, this is beautiful, and if you are one of the tens of thousands of people who contributed but cannot be with us tonight, this is for you as well. You have made history, you set unreachable goals and then exceeded them. You believed in this city and believed in each other. And you achieved something that people will speak of for decades to come. You led with kindness and compassion. And most importantly, during a time of despair and rising fascism, you decided to fight for someone that you don't know.

So thank you. this campaign was truly unprecedented. We had hundreds of thousands of conversations with our neighbors and trained leaders who will help us deliver our agenda for the next four years. But this record-breaking program did not come out of nowhere. It was the product of years of organizing and leadership development by New York City, DSA, and so many of our movement partners. And we were so fortunate to be led on this campaign by someone who has been a part of this work from the beginning.

And we're going to wait until Zoran Mundani goes on the stage. This is a great speech, but I want to just continue to give people more data as it continues to come in here. Jordy, Ron, we haven't heard from you in a while, Ron. I gave the lay of the land, California, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Supreme Court, New Jersey, Minnesota, Senate, big. I mean, I mean, you know, we're still seeing these Virginia House of Delegate seats flip. I mean, you couldn't have had a bigger wipeout against them. If you're Trump and MAGA Republican than this big night for Democrats. I think is Zorn coming out now?

I don't want to. Oh, no, somebody else. Yeah, you know, I want to talk about the assembly man there that you had on. I mean, you know, that guy's a talent. And I think that that's something that we really have tried to do, you know, for the last, over the last year, is identify future stars of the party. And, you know, I follow almost every member of Congress for both parties on social media. but, you know, we've had so many people on this network that I've never seen before on TV. I follow them on social, but I don't know what they sound like. I never hear them speak up in committee hearings or on the floor.

They're not on MSNBC or on CNN. They're on this network. And that's something that the Republicans did for a long time, that Democrats really didn't do. They put their young future stars on alternate media platforms and promoted them and built them up and built up their social media following. And that's what we're trying to do for Democrats. And all of us all the time, I mean, I'm constantly saying, hey, we should get this guy or we should get her or we should get this person on because this person's interesting.

This person has some fresh things to say that I haven't heard before. So we're not just putting on, you know, the old guard, the same old tired people that you see on CNN and MSNBC, the same seven people. over and over again, speaking for the Democratic Party, we're bringing out the stars of tomorrow, the people that we think should be elevated, that we like. Some of them we're not even necessarily voting for, but we just think that they offer a fresh perspective. So that is the role that we try to play. And that's why I also tell so many of these members of Congress, I heard for so long, we need the next Joe Rogan we need to build the next you know democratic platform and I say when was I say them when was the last time you went on a podcast as a guest when was the last time you helped promote one of these platforms oh well I never yeah it's up to you too you've got to help build these platforms not just ours that has a big audience but I tell them go on a small podcast that only has a thousand viewers because

That's how you build a grassroots following. And that's how you help out the alternate media ecosystem. We help you. You help us. And the audience is a big part of it too. You know, because without the numbers, you know, if you build it, they'll come. They see the number of viewers that we have, the number of subscribers. And that's why they want to be on our network.

And so, you know, that's why we're all in this together. The audience and us and the politicians themselves and the candidates. We all have to help each other out to be able to do this. And I think we've really tried to lead the way on that over the last couple years. And I think other organizations are kind of following our lead on that and doing a lot of the same things that we do. And that's a good thing. You know, the more the merrier. Remember when everyone wanted me to be like Joe Rogan?

And they're like, that was the dumbest thing ever. There was a stretch where Democrats were always trying to like create this artificial thing, you know? there was a stretch where we would do a lot of hits coming out of the election and ben would get asked for for anyone new to the stream so do you consider yourself the left are you going to be the left's jo rogan ben mysellis and we would just say like look at you think i'm left trying you know like the corporate media the corporate media framing is so out of touch and again ron to your point exactly to It's everybody here right now in the chat, the Midas Mighty, this pro-democracy coalition that we've all been able to foster here, the collective we, that is paving the way forward, that is going to decide the future elections in this country, that are going to have the candidates that they want and truly have their voices heard.

And not just someone who is, you know, shoveled down their throats, for lack of a better term there. Like, these are folks now that truly get to have their voices heard because there is a media entity or entities now that exist to uplift their voices. That's why one of the most proud, the thing I'm most proud of of the network is when we get to to highlight the protests Ben and Ron that go down when we got to live stream the No Kings. I mean, I just love the power to the people mentality all the way. And that's why we always say, this isn't, this isn't a me, Brett, Jordi, Ron movement, right? This is a Midas Touch network,

the community movement. This is everything that you all have built. If we could be the megaphones to get the voices of the people heard, then so be it. Let us be exactly that. And that's all we want to be is we just want to make sure that the people are being heard. So thank y'all, again, who are in the chat right now. If you haven't already, there's 50,000 people watching this. Please hit subscribe to the YouTube channel if you're not subscribed. Some people told me that they were subscribed, but then all of a sudden that said they

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right here with the Midas Touch community, with the Midas Mighty, with y'all. And I'm just excited to keep the party going. Two big speeches were waiting for this evening. And then I'll be able to cook the videos for the morning. So it could be a late night for me as well. So we're waiting to hear from Zoran Mamdani, his victory speech in the New York City mayoral race, then California Governor Newsom's victory speech on Prop 52 big speeches before we close down this stream. So we're waiting for Zoran Mandani to take the stage. He's taking the stage right now. The new mayor of New York City, Goran Mandani, everybody.

Thank you, my friends. Thank you, my friends. The sun may have set over our city this evening. But as Eugene Debs once said, I can see the dawn of a better day for humanity. For as long as we can remember, the working people of New York have been told by the wealthy and the well-connected that power does not belong in their hands. Fingers bruised from lifting boxes on the warehouse floor, palms callous from delivery by candle bars, knuckles scarred with kitchen burns. These are not hands that have been allowed

to hold power. And yet over the last 12 months, you have dared to reach for something greater. Tonight, against all odds, we have grasped it. The future is in our hands. My friends, we have toppled a political dynasty. I wish Andrew Cuomo only the best in private life. But why tonight be the final time I utter his name? on a politics that abandons the many and answers only to the few. New York, tonight you have delivered.

A mandate for change. A mandate for a new kind of politics. A mandate for a city we can afford. And a mandate for a mandate. for a government that delivers exactly that. On January 1st, I will be sworn in as the mayor of New York City. And that is because of you.

So before I say anything else, I must say this, thank you. Thank you to the next generation of New Yorkers who refused to accept that the promise of a better future was a relic of the past. You showed that when politics speaks to you without condescension, we can usher in a new era of leadership. We will fight for you

because we are you. Or as we say, on Steinway, anaminkum, wailaykum. Thank you to those so often forgotten by the politics of our city who made this movement their own. I speak of Yemeni bodega owners and Mexican abuas. Senegalese taxi drivers and Uzbek nurses.

Trinidad and Lymecooks and Ethiopian aunties. Yes, aunties. To every New Yorker in Kensington and Midwood and Hans Point, know this. Yes, this city is your city and this democracy is yours too. This campaign is about people like Wesley. An 1199 organizer I met outside at Elmhurst Hospital on Thursday night. A New Yorker who lives elsewhere, who commutes two hours each way from Pennsylvania because

rent is too expensive in this city. It's about people like the woman I met on the BX 33 years ago, who said to me, I used to love New York, but now it's just where I live. And it's about people like Richard, the taxi driver I went on a 15-day hunger strike with outside of City Hall. who still has to drive his cab seven days a week. My brother, we are in City Hall now. This victory is for all of them. And it's for all of you. The more than 100,000 volunteers

who built this campaign into an unstoppable force. Because of you, we will make this city one that working people can love and live in again. With every doorknought, every petition signature earned, and every hard-earned conversation, you eroded the cynicism that has come to define our politics. Now I know that I have asked for much from you over this last year. Time and again, you have answered my calls, but I have one final request.

New York City, breathe this moment in. We have held our breath for longer than we know. We have held it in anticipation of defeat. Held it because the air has been knocked out of our lungs too many times to count. Held it because we cannot afford to exhale. Thanks to all of those who sacrificed so much, we are breathing in the air of a city that has been reborn. To my campaign team who believed when no one else did.

and who took an electoral project and turned it into so much more, I will never be able to express the depth of my gratitude. You can sleep now. To my parents, Mama and Baba, you have made me into the man I am today. I am so proud to be your son. And to my incredible wife Rama, Hayati, there is no one I would rather have by my side in this moment and in every moment.

To every New Yorker, whether you wrote it for me, for one of my opponents or fellow too disappointed by politics to vote at all. Thank you for the opportunity to prove myself worthy of your trust. I awake each morning with a singular purpose to make this city better for you than it was the day before. There are many who thought this day would never come, who feared that we would be condemned only to a future of less, with every election consigning us simply to more of the same. And there are others who see politics today as too cruel for the flame of hope to still burn.

New York, we have answered those fears. Tonight, we have spoken in a clear voice. Hope is alive. Hope is a decision that tens of thousands. Thousands of New Yorkers made day after day, volunteer shift after volunteer shift, despite attack ad after attack act. More than a million of us stood in our churches, in gymnasiums, in community centers, as we filled in the ledger of democracy. And while we cast our ballots alone, we chose hope together.

Hope over tyranny, hope over big money and small ideas, hope over despair. We won because New Yorkers allowed themselves to hope that the impossible could be made possible. And we won because we insisted that no longer would politics be something that is done to us. Now it is something that we do. Do. Standing before you, I think of the words of Jawal al-Neru. A moment comes but rarely in history when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends and when the soul of a nation long suppressed finds utterance. Tonight we have stepped out from the old

into the new. So let us speak now with clarity and conviction that cannot be misunderstood about what this new age will deliver and for whom. This will be an age where New Yorkers expect from their leaders a bold vision of what we will achieve, rather than a list of excuses for what we are too timid to attempt. Central to that vision will be the most ambitious agenda to tackle the cost of living crisis that this city has seen since the days of Fiora, LaGuardia. An agenda that will freeze the rents for more than 2 million rent-stabilized tenants.

Make buses fast and free. And deliver universal child care. across our city. Years from now, may our only regret be that this day took so long to come. This new age will be one of relentless improvement. We will hire thousands more teachers. We will cut waste from a bloated bureaucracy. We will work tirelessly to make lights shine again in the hallways of NYCHA developments where they have long flickered.

Safety and justice will go hand in hand as we work with police officers to reduce crime and create a department of community safety that tackles the mental health crisis and homelessness crises head on. Excellence will become the expectation across government, not the exception. In this new age we make for ourselves, we will refuse to allow those who traffic in division and hate to pit us against one another. In this moment of political darkness, New York will be the light. Here, we believe in standing up for those we love. Whether you are an immigrant, a member of the trans community, one of the many black women that Donald Trump has fired from a federal job, a single mom still waiting for the cost of groceries to go down,

or anyone else with their back, against the wall, your struggle is ours too. And we will build a city hall that stands steadfast alongside Jewish New Yorkers and does not waver in the fight against the scourge of anti-Semitism, where the more than one million Muslims know that they belong. Not just in the five boroughs of this city, but in the halls of power. No more will New York be a city where you can traffic in Islamophobia and win an election. This new age will be defined by a competence and a compassion that have

long been placed at odds with one another. We will prove that there is no problem too large for government to solve and no concern too small for it to care about. For years, those in City Hall have only helped those who can help them. But on January 1st, we will usher in a city government that helps everyone. Now I know that many have heard our message only through the prism of misinformation. Tens of millions of dollars have been spent to redefine reality and to convince our neighbors that this new age is something that should frighten them.

As has so often occurred, the billionaire class has sought to convince those making $30 an hour that their enemies are those earning $20 an hour. an hour. They want the people to fight amongst ourselves so that we remain distracted from the work of remaking a long broken system. We refuse to let them dictate the rules of the game anymore. They can play by the same rules as the rest of us. Together, we will usher in a generation of change. And if we embrace this brave new course, rather than fleeing from it, we can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves.

After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him. And if there is any way to terrify a despot, it is by dismantling the very conditions that allowed him to accumulate power. This is not only how we stop Trump, it's how we stop the next one. So Donald Trump, since I know you're watching. I have four words for you. Turn the volume up.

hold bad landlords to account because the Donald Trumps of our city have grown far too comfortable taking advantage of their tenants. We will put an end to the culture of corruption that has allowed billionaires like Trump to evade taxation and exploit tax breaks. We will stand alongside unions and expand labor protections because we need to know. Just as Donald Trump does, that when working people have ironclad rights, the bosses who seek to extort them become very small indeed. New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants,

powered by immigrants. And as of tonight, led by immigrants, led by immigrants. immigrants. So hear me, President Trump, when I say this, to get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us. When we enter City Hall in 58 days, expectations will be high. We will meet them. A great New Yorker once said that while you campaign in poetry, you govern in prose. If that must be true, let the prose we write still rhyme and let us build a shining city for all.

And we must chart a new path as bold as the one we have already traveled. After all, the conventional wisdom would tell you that I am far from the perfect candidate. I am young despite my best efforts to grow older. I am Muslim. I am a democratic socialist. And most damning of all, I refuse to apologize for any of this. And yet, if tonight teaches us anything, it is that convention has held us back. We have bowed at the altar of caution and we have paid a mighty price.

Too many working people cannot recognize themselves in our party. and our party. And too many among us have turned to the right for answers to why they've been left behind. We will leave mediocrity in our past. No longer will we have to open a history book for proof that Democrats can dare to be great. Our greatness will be anything but abstract.

It will be felt by every rent-stabilized tenant who wakes up on the first of every month. Knowing the amount they're going to pay hasn't soared since the month before. It will be felt by each grandparent who can afford to stay in the home they have worked for. And whose grandchildren live nearby because the cost of child care didn't send them to Long Island. It will be felt by the single mother who is sick. who is safe on her commute and whose bus runs fast enough that she doesn't have to rush school drop off to make it to work on time and it will be felt when

New Yorkers open their newspapers in the morning and read headlines of success not scandal most of all it will be felt by each New Yorker when the city they love finally loves them back. Together, New York, we're going to freeze the... Together, New York, we're going to make buses fast and... Together, New York, we're going to deliver universal... Let the words we've spoken together. The dreams we've dreamt together become the agenda we deliver together.

New York, this power, it's yours. This city belongs to you. Thank you. powerful, powerful speech there by Soranamani. I was just, I had to take a, you know, I had to take a step back right there. I mean, when he looked at the camera and said, so Donald Trump, since I know you're watching, I have four words for you. Turn the volume up. And then when he said, so hear me, Donald Trump, when I say this, to get to any of us, you will have to go through all of us. I mean, he was not.

not shine away there on that speech at all. Jordy, let me get your reaction, then Ron, your reaction. And then soon we should be hearing from California Governor Gavin Newsom, the big victory on Prop 50. Let me just throw up these graphics, though, Jay, before going to you right here. Just look at the New Jersey governor, VA governor, and California Prop 50 where it stands right now. New Jersey Governor Mikey Cheryl right now leading 56. The election, of course, is called, but beating Chittarelli, 56.2% to 43.2% right there.

Spanberger won 57.4% to 42.4%. And then right now, prop 50, 64.4% to 35.6%. It's not even close right there. I mean, you look at the exit polling of young men. Also, right? now, Virginia Spamberger plus 14 amongst young men, Mikey Cheryl, plus 10 against young men. And they had a MAGA male candidate there in New Jersey who tried to do the MAGA male stick there in Chittarelli, Mom Dani, young men, plus 40, plus 40. Casual. Casual. Casual.

Right there. And you saw on that speech. So, Jordy, let me hear from you first. Then let's go to Ron. Absolute banger of a speech. Heater. I mean, that honestly, truly, I'm not just saying. I'll never just say it.

That was an all-time speech right there. I can't wait for after the stream to rewatch that speech. And Ben, I know you're going to do a recap. I can't wait to watch your videos on this as well. That's what the people want right there. That is someone who is talking to the soul of New York right there and talking to the people having a conversation. alongside with them, not talking at them.

That's the, you see the distinction there? That's the distinction. That was an all-time historic speech. I had the goosebumps as that was going down. A couple, you know, lines here and there, two nice mic drops. But again, from start to finish, really, truly, honestly, incredible. Ron, what's your take? And yet, so many Democratic politicians, establishment politicians,

didn't want to go anywhere near this guy. You know, despite his obvious talent, despite his obvious skills as a retail campaigner, the best since Obama, you know, clearly. That's hands down. Despite the fact that he has brought in so many new voters to the party, which there isn't anybody else out there really doing that so much, you know, bringing in new people.

young people, the establishment wanted nothing to do with Mondami. Schumer never endorsed him. Schumer today would not even say who he voted for. Jeffreys halfway endorsed him at the last minute. You know, you had Hockel endorsed him late, you know, but across the country. And I think that that was for two reasons. Number one, the donor class, the big donors, the PAC people. people don't like Menhami. They don't like his message. They don't like his anti-billionaire stuff and all of that. And they also are worried that he's going to fail. Not as a politician, but as a governor of a big city. And they're worried that if he isn't successful, that that's going to hurt the Democrats nationally because they're going to make him the poster child for the Democratic Party.

right? And Republicans have already said that, that they want to make him the face of the of the Democratic Party because they think he's going to fail. But if this guy can marry success as a mayor with economic success, people happy, crime, not being out of control, all of the things that a mayor has to do, if he can put that together with his political skills, You're now going to have a guy that none of the establishment Democrats wanted to go anywhere near. So they're going to be begging him to come to their districts and campaign for them. This guy could become the most popular politician out there, you know, besides Obama, that other Democrats want to get to help them out, fundraise for them, campaign for them, all of that.

but it's really all going to come down to how successfully he is as a mayor. If he's successful as a mayor, he's going to be a superstar. There's no question about that. And we know that Donald Trump is going to go after him. And when he gave that line, by the way, when he said, you know, to get to you, I really believe that he was going to say what every other, what we expect every other politician to say, what Donald Trump would say, which is to get to you, they got to come through me.

That's what politicians typically say. But the magic of Mandami is he said, they got to come through all of us. His campaign was so inclusive. He made people feel like it wasn't about him. It was about all of them because he was consistent about that message. And you can tell it comes from the heart.

He's not just reading some crap speech that somebody wrote for him. He's speaking from the heart there. And that really connects with people. So, I mean, he can't run for president because he's not from the one born in the United States, but he could be a force in American politics outside of New York City. I've said this before and let me reiterate it again, especially as we see these victories in Virginia, New Jersey, New York City, California. I want to see the Democratic Party be a big tent. I think it's a good thing that you can have an Abigail Spamberger, you can have a Mikey Cheryl,

you could have a Governor Newsom, and you can have a Zoran Mamdani. And I think that they're all speaking about affordability. And I think that the Mago Republicans and the establishment would love to see the Democratic Party pointing fingers at each other, divide and conquer, trying to take each other down. but what I always wanted to use this network for is uplift us with your ideas. You know, I don't want to try to platform people who rip each other down, who are trying to find solutions, who are solution-oriented. It's why I never like the idea even on this network of the way corporate and cable news does

it with the split screens and the yelling, yelling, and no one even knows the issues. Do you want to do a fight show, be? I don't want to do a fight show because. I want to empower people with the data and the information to make informed decisions. And of course, I'm a human being, so I'm going to have an opinion on certain things. But I'm not viewing my opinion from the perspective of I'm rooting for the Democrats. So let me figure out what the Democratic position is. Not at all.

It's what's the human being position? How do we help human beings live in this complex world better lives? and then from there where political parties meet the moment, we can make informed decisions. That's why I don't like the term, you know, when people always ask me, you know, and they use the term, you know, influencer. I go, I'm not like, I'm not saying it's like a bad thing of somebody calls themselves an influencer. I just go, I don't use that term to describe myself because the only thing I'm trying to influence

is the truth and democracy and not to persuade you like in anything other than I think here's the facts, the logic. I don't like seeing whether it was Donald Trump or a Cuomo or a whoever. Like, no matter who you would be, I don't want to see you doing great Gatsby roaring 20s parties while you rip away health care from 20 million Americans and deprive 42 million Americans on snap. I don't think that should be a politic. Why should that even be a thing about political parties shouldn't we all agree regardless as human beings that that that that is bad and that we should be uplifting human beings i loved when zora mandami says i don't want government to be a thing that like inflicts pain on people i want government to be used as a tool to uplift and to and to help people

and to me it's it's always it should be that simple so a long-winded way of saying tonight where we see a Mikey Cheryl win and Abigail Spamberger win, a Zorn Mamdani win and a big prop 50 win and the Minnesota State Senate flipping Democrat and a big win there and the Democrats winning in the Supreme Court in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania there. Also, J.D. Vance's brother got absolutely smoked in Cincinnati. And I just love that J.D. Vance's brother's name is not Vance and it reminds people that J.D. Vance has changed his identity like three different, like imagine just being three different human beings in the course of 40 years of life we all know everyone knows like the jd vans story that he grew up and he said he was gay and then he was

anti-gay then he was appalachia j d vans and like his names have changed multiple multiple times it looks like we're going to have all the governor gavrimson taking well good evening everybody and uh let me underscore it's been a good evening um for everybody not just the democratic party but what a night for the democratic party a party that is in its ascendancy, a party that's on its toes no longer on its heels, from coast to coast, sea to shining sea. But it was not just a victory tonight for the Democratic Party. It was a victory for the United States of America,

for the people of this country and the principles that our founding fathers lived and died for. And so we're proud. We're proud here in California to be part of this narrative. this evening. We're proud of the work that the people of the state of California did tonight to send a powerful message to an historic president. Donald Trump is an historic president. He is the most historically unpopular president in modern history. In every critical category, Donald Trump is underwater. He promised to make us healthier. He promised to make us wealthier. We're sicker and poorer, and he fundamentally understands that.

Why else? Why else would he call Greg Abbott saying he's entitled to five seats? Why else is he trying to rig the midterm elections before one single vote is even cast? He understands his position at this moment in the United States of America. One thing he never counted on though was the state of California. Instead of agonizing over the state of our nation, we organized in an unprecedented way, in a 90-day sprint. People from all over the United States of America contribute their voices and their support for this initiative.

We stood tall and we stood firm in response to Donald Trump's reckless. And tonight, after poking the bear, this bear roared with an unprecedented turnout in a special election with an extraordinary result. None of us, however, are naive. This is a pattern. This is a practice. Donald Trump's efforts to rig the midterm election continue to this day. And I'll reinforce that in just a moment. a moment. You're seeing him take action all across this country, not just in Texas.

You saw what they were successful able to do in Missouri, what they did in North Carolina, what they're trying to do in Indiana and inevitably in Florida. They are not screwing around. In June of this year, we saw 4,000 National Guard federalized in the state of California. We saw 700 active duty Marines not sent overseas, but sent to the second largest city in the United States of America to militarize our streets. We said in June this was a preview of things to come. What more evidence do you need than what happened in Washington, D.C., what's happening up in Portland, cities like Chicago. When we kicked off this campaign just 90 or so days ago in Little Tokyo in Southern California and LA at the Democracy Center, Donald Trump sent Greg Bovino.

He sent his private police force. That increasingly appears to have taken an oath of office to Donald Trump, not to the Constitution of the United States. He sent them to our kickoff rally to chill for. expression, to chill free speech, to intimidate people from participating. Just today, in Los Angeles, Donald Trump called up the Border Patrol, sent them to Dodger Stadium, and threw a fastball at free speech, right at their head, free expression, to suppress the vote in America's second largest city.

Just did that today, people in tactical gears sent out to intimidate a community that is all ready on edge. But you see, as we speak, people are still in line, people waiting up three hours to cast their vote, to send a message to Donald Trump. No crowns, no thrones, no kings. That's what this victory represents. It's a victory for the people of the state of California and the United States of America. And this is a victory that's punctuated with a sober reminder that it's not just the actions that Donald Trump has taken to federalize our guard to begin the process of militarizing American cities,

to intimidate free expression and speech by utilizing ICE and Border Patrol in American cities, but he also announced today right when polls were opening that this election was rigged that this election was rigged. Of course those are familiar words. It's exactly what Donald Trump said after January 6th, that day of love

where he tried to light democracy on fire, he tried to wreck this country and he called in to the Secretary of State in Georgia, calling up for 11, 12,000 votes, just like he called Greg Abbott saying he's entitled to those five seats. He said this election was rigged and he's moving to look for criminal prosecution and investigations at the Department of Justice. He is not screwing around. So tonight I'm proud, but I'm very mindful and sober of the moment we are living in.

Donald Trump does not believe in fair and free elections, period and full stop. This is not complicated, and it's self-evident to anyone paying attention. You start to stack up all of these actions that continue to this moment and will continue in moments to come. If you think I'm exaggerating, consider his announcement just a few weeks ago to send rapid response teams all across the United States and all 50 states, tens of thousands of members of the military prepared for urban deployment, a preview of things to come. But back to this state, our state of mind was resolute. Our state of mind was resolved to stand firm and to stand tall, to not be intimidated, to not be humiliated, to not fall prey to cynicism, to not fall

prey to fear and the anxiety of someone that believes in only one thing, shock and awe, to intimidate and exhaust us. But we're seeing all across this country, seven million people strong standing up, not just for themselves, but for each other, and for these enduring and historic principles of our founding fathers. end on that. Next year is the 250th anniversary of the best of Roman Republic, the best of Greek democracy, this fundamental notion of a system of checks and balances, of popular sovereignty, the rule of law, Mr. President, the rule of law, not the rule of dawn. And I hope it's donning on people. The sobriety of this moment.

What's at stake? Tonight, as I said, is an extraordinary moment for our party. But again, it's an extraordinary moment affirming those principles. Yeah, baby. This republic and our democracy that Donald Trump is trying to perpetuate. And so my call tonight in the spirit of Whitman, we talked about the powerful play, goes on. we all must contribute a verse. And so we need the state of Virginia.

We need the state of Maryland. We need our friends in New York, in Illinois, in Colorado. We need to see other states with the remarkable leaders that have been doing remarkable things meet this moment head on as well to recognize what we're up against in 2026. And let me make this crystal clear. We can de facto end Donald Trump's presidency as we know it. The minute Speaker Jeffreys gets sworn in as Speaker of the House of Representatives.

It is all on the line, a bright line in 2026. And so I want to thank everybody that stood up not just. for our democracy, but stood up for those that have feel bullied and intimidated, stood up for this notion of co-equal branches of government and a system of checks and balances. And I want to thank my wife who reminds me every single day that this is about those that feel alone, those that feel isolated, those that feel an anxiety. and a stress that they never could have imagined in their lives. This was about saying to them, we have your back, we see you, you matter, we care.

And I'll just say this, I'm confident as we move forward into 2026 in this country. The best is yet to come. Thank you very much. It's California Governor Gavin Newsom with a powerful speech right there. You got Ron Filipkowski. You got Jordy right there. We're going to bring in a bit Anthony Davis as well. Anthony Davis is our closer.

You're like the guy we bring in in the ninth inning when, you know, the bags under my eyes start to form. When I'm live streaming for four hours, you bring in Davis. He throws a bet. He brings the heap. You bring in Davis, the closer. I want to hear from everybody in a second, but I want to just do a few things. Number one, when I have heard all of the speeches, Zoran Mamdani, New York City's new mayor, Abigail Spanberger, Virginia's new governor, Mikey, Cheryl, New Jersey's new governor, California Governor Gavin Newsom, California's governor who pushed Prop 50, not just over the finish line, but so far ahead of what everybody thought months ago. Just to hear intelligent, thoughtful, empathetic,

adults speak in full sentences. Let's start with that premise. But talk to the greater good of what our Constitution is about, talk about helping people. And they all have their different styles. I mean, that's for sure. But I hope also with the world watching this, that they know that America is not just Donald Trump and this corrosive, destructive, vile, despicable trash maga movement that there is a brighter day for America that's out there and there are leaders like this from coast to coast that truly represent the good in our country and America is a country of all of these contradictions and that's been embedded in us from our founding and no more pronounced is a contradiction of seeing

and Obama to Trump, to Biden, to Trump phase. And I hope tonight, with these massive victories, this tidal wave today, I think we can call it what it is right now, hopefully what we'll see in the midterms, portends to the greater good of what our country can be aspirational in the future. and that while America seems like it's been lost, we haven't fully lost it. And there is hope around the corner. And it's not just around the corner. It's here.

And so today to me, as I reflect on it before turning it over to our closer, Anthony, it is a night that I've been waiting for this to have this joyous moment. with our audience, with our community, it's been exhausting but worth it, and it's going to be more exhausting and more worth it in the future. This isn't just a spike the football moment. It is a celebratory moment for sure. We all have a lot of work to do. Trump and these magas are going to get crazier and nastier and much worse. But we are, we the people, are going to show them what we're made of as well peacefully with hope with love with empathy and that's what i want this network to stand for as well i want to remind everybody if you have the opportunity whether it's

later tonight or tomorrow check out the interview that i did with california governor gavin usum on his show where he interviewed me i was like the biggest case of the imposter syndrome for me when i was sitting there and i was getting questioned by the governor uh you know in future presidential candidate but it was such an honor and an honor on behalf of this whole community and all of our hosts. He interviewed me for about 80 minutes and we spoke about the origin of Midas, the values of this network. And so it's on his YouTube channel and it's his interview of me. It's out now.

So take a watch of that. And so on behalf of me, my brothers, thank you to everybody. And let me pass over the baton right now to the great hosts of this network like Anthony. And I know our future is bright here at the network because of our great hosts like Anthony, Ron, Jordy, it's a given Jordy. But let me pass it over to you, Anthony Davis. Thank you, Ben, and thank you and well done for the coverage tonight. Quite amazing. I mean, I'm feeling, because I mean, I've been very clear with people that I've been a bit depressed for the last few months and I'm sure you have too.

and yet here we are seeing a glimmer of hope, but it's in no small amount. This is a significant win with more than 50% of the vote in New York. Zoran Mamdani has been elected as the 111st mayor of New York City, defeating former disgraced governor Andrew Cuomo. 34 years old,

Mamdani becomes both the youngest person to lead the city in more than a century and the first Muslim to hold the office. and historic moment in New York's political landscape. I should say, just as an Englishman, that we elected in London the first Muslim mayor nearly 10 years ago, and he's still holding that position right now, that's Sadiq Khan. So I'm very interested to know kind of how everybody is feeling tonight,

and please continue to put your messages on the live chat and continue these conversations amongst the Midas Touch community in the various locations that you do. But this is, I mentioned hope. This is a feeling that I think is buoying everybody, giving us a great sense that actually what is to come is hopefully the snowball effect. And, you know, Donald Trump posted, hi, Ron, by the way,

Donald Trump posted just a few minutes ago on Truth Social, and so it begins. Ron, what have a, think about this because, you know, you can translate it in so many ways. I translate this stuff as just racism, right? Pure racism and bigotry and prejudice because they've made Zoran Mamdani out to be a communist, to be a terrorist, all theists, the fascist in this cast of characters is Trump himself. So my fear is that they will try to demonize him to such an extent. I mean, Trump even said today that he can't imagine funding

New York City, something that illegally can't pick and choose what funding goes to New York, New York. But he's basically saying, you know, if Mamdani wins, then I can't see myself giving any money to that state. I mean, this kind of talk is just pure fear-mongering and racism. So what do you think, and so it begins, means, Ron? Yeah, I actually thought he meant something else, but I think you're right, actually, now that you say it. I think he was probably responding to Mandami. But I think in the broader context, I think he means other things, too. I think it means that he's going to shift gears from spending all of his time on this gerrymandering stuff to really going after the mail-in.

validing, the early voting, all the things that Democrats like and all the, you know, that's what he's going to go after, either through executive order, lawsuits, you know, at the state level, he's going to do everything he can to try and change voting. But, you know, I also want to talk about the line that Newsom, you know, has been using lately, which is this line where he says, um, the, the Trump presidency, like for all intents of purposes ends when Speaker Johnson is sworn in, you know, I mean, I think that probably goes a little too far. I know what he's trying to say there, but I would say a couple things. First of all, one, think about this. If Democrats had control of the House, so much of, I mean, Trump is still going to

be able to do a lot of terrible stuff, especially DOJ stuff. I mean, Democrats aren't going to be able to stop him from everything. But there are so much that they could do. I mean, think about it this week, we could be having hearings if Democrats controlled the House on Trump's crypto scam, on his pardon of the guy. We could bring witnesses to testify about how that all went down from the administration. We could be having a hearing this week on Cash Patel's jet, you know, flying to see his girlfriend and spending millions of dollars to do that. The only thing I would change, so I understand what he's saying. The only thing I would say I would change about that line is when he says Speaker Jeffreys.

Because I think that people hear that and they kind of go, okay, well, we want a Democratic majority, but we're not necessarily committing right now to Jeffries being Speaker. So I might want to tweak that line to say a Democratic Speaker. Right. Because Hakeem Jeffries is hugely unpopular with a lot of people, partly because of his very gentle style. And the weird thing is, you know, he has moments of, there was that moment where he had that altercation in the, in the hallway outside of his office with the Republican congressman recently.

And I was like, yeah, you know, he kind of went up to him and they were, they were really kind of facing off. And I was like, where's, where's that Hakeem Jeffries at a press conference when you need him? So I often think that there is this desire by a lot of politicians to kind of play by the protocols of Congress. But the gloves are off baby kins, you know, and that's why Mamdani has done so well, because he's effectively stepped outside of the four walls that is this production. And he's gone, look, there's that stuff over there, but there's also us. And Jeffreys hasn't got that quite yet. So I'm looking forward to maybe a new kind of communication going forward.

The communication that Zoranamdani has instigated, this more authentic, genuine truth that comes from the heart. And I mean, Bernie's been doing it for years. AOC obviously does it. We need more. You know, where are the other governors right now? I understand that we've got Gavin Newsom in California and, you know, Prop 50's been very successful tonight. But where's the other governors doing the same thing in their states? You make a good point because I saw, I saw West Moore today. You know, Westmore gave a little press conference from Maryland you know and what did he had this big announcement about redistricting and I'm like oh great you know now you could say well Maryland only has one Republican seat

but who is that Republican it's Andy Harris the Freedom Caucus chair the guy who's the head guy for the wing nuts the far right in Congress that's the Maryland Republican seat that could be drawn out yeah I mean how great would it be to wipe to respond to redistricting in Texas by wiping out the seat of the Freedom Caucus chair. And so he has this big announcement. And I'm like, oh, I like Westmore. You know, this sounds good. I don't like Harris.

This is going to be good. And he says, big announcement, we are going to form a commission, a bipartisan commission, bringing in Republicans to formulate a plan to make recommendations on redistricting. I'm like, come on, man. Yeah. wake up because it's already happening. Contrast that with what Gavin Newsom did. 100%.

Yeah with the program. 100%. And I mean, this even goes to Kamala Harris with her interview. We discussed it on Uncovered the other day. She did an interview with the BBC last week. And she's just talking in a very kind of gentle but suggestive fashion. And I'm like, I just don't know that that style is going to wash right now and going forward. So there needs to be a shift or,

energy and also authenticity in any candidates or certainly democratic leaders that step up in this moment because I think that Mamdani has set a standard now and you've either got to meet it or beat it in order to get this this kind of groundswell to propel this movement forward and the movement is huge I mean let's not forget Donald Trump tells us how popular he is. But he really isn't that popular. He does not represent the majority of Americans. His views and also the kind of far right nationalists that he associates with are very much the minority in the U.S. But because he is a propagandist and a marketeer, he will tell you that everything he's doing is hugely popular and everybody's thrilled

about it and the price of gas is $2 and none of it is true. And you and I have exposed when he was doing those kind of random stops at Chick-fil-A. And, of course, the whole thing was fake. No different to his rallies where they have to move everybody to, you know, in front of the camera, just to fill out the space. He is not popular. And he also hasn't brought in $22 trillion worth of investment. I mean, remember, even when he worked at the McDonald's, we found out that he closed the McDonald's. They closed it down for the day.

I mean, it wasn't even. And he was acting like he was like working a shift at the fry. Yeah, it was there for. It was a closed restaurant. Yeah, he was there for one minute. Contrived, you know. 100%. And then as another example, when he went to Washington, D.C., to the restaurant, that chain restaurant to supposedly have dinner and the protesters are there, the guy is a coward.

He basically sees some real people, some actual members of the general public, not terrorists, not activists, just people who were demonstrated. peacefully in front of him, how they got that close to him, is further proof that he's, that he's, you know, it's amateur hour with a secret service right now. But he freaked out, literally saying that they should be prosecuted. And so whenever he's pushed. And the secret service supervisor got in a lot of trouble, by the way. Yeah. For that, for that night. I'm not so, I'm not surprised.

But it's just so nice that people recognize that this free speech. and this free protest is an essential foundation of the democracy. And democracy will hold provided people exercise that right. And that right has been seen tonight in this massive vote, 50.4% of the vote to Zoran Mamdani. And the victory caps to a remarkable rise for the Queen's Assemblyman, who just months ago was a relatively obscure state legislator. And he first shocked the political establishment in June

when he won the Democratic primary against Cuomo, took quite a while for senior leadership in the Democratic Party to actually endorse him. Hakeem Jeffries only woke up to that last week. Chuck Schumer hasn't bothered at all. But his campaign has drawn national attention for the grassroots energy, this unapologetically progressive message.

Ron, I wanted to ask you, because I was thinking about Cuomo, moment. This is a very, this is another example of where the Democratic Party is failing. How on earth does a disgraced former mayor kind of get to have another go? This is what I don't understand. You know, 11 women had allegations of harassment against him and he resigned a week before the report came out, and yet he still manages to get 40-odd percent of the vote. Like, I just don't understand. There is no shame in this country, the idea that, you know, in any other civilized nation, that behavior would just count you out of ever getting elected

to office again. And he was allowed to be on the ballot. I mean, let's not forget, a few short months ago, he was the choice of the Democratic Party establishment right this was the guy that they basically recruited to run for mayor of new york city and all the big donors were back in him and uh you know it was it's a situation where yet again the party leadership the big donor class the consultant class is not connected right now to the base of the party

to the grassroots and the grassroots have had enough they played ball in the last past few election cycles they did what they were told they voted for who the party leaders told them to vote for in the primaries who they they say that this is the person that's going to give us the best chance to beat the republican so okay i'll i'll trust that they know what they're talking about that's all out the window i mean and you're seeing this with the platinum guy, you know, in Maine, you saw it with Mondami. You know, it's, it's now the grassroots are saying, we are not listening to you people anymore. We are picking the person who connects with us, who speaks to us, who speaks to the

things that we care about. We are not listening to the donor class anymore. And I'm rooting for this Mondami guy because I think that of all the elections tonight, that his, his election is the one that could help the Democratic Party nationally more than anybody else because if he's successful, every Democrat, because of the new voters that he brings in and the young voters that he brings in, every Democrat in the country is going to be begging this guy to campaign for them if he is successful as a mayor. I'd like to coin a phrase. I don't know if you would be prepared to join me in this. We had it in England in 1997, the Labor Party. party was rebranded new labor with Tony Blair.

But the new left, to me, rings really quite well with this because it's not communism and it's not socialism. You know, to be a kind of, he calls himself a democratic socialist, but you know, it's social, a social democracy is basically where we're at here. And there's nothing extreme about it. It's completely normal in most civilized countries in the world and giving free, uh, child care and just giving people who need it a little bit of support, it's hardly radical in any shape or form. But rather than call it the far left, which is something that, it's a phrase that I

hate because I don't believe the far left really exists. But to call this the new left kind of speaks to what you're saying, that it is time to recognize that the left has been reborn in the election of somebody who is young and energized and is unapologetic about, A, using the word socialist because it's totally misunderstood. I mean, Trump couldn't define socialist or Marxist or communist if you asked him the question. But then again, unfortunately, a lot of Americans in the country can't either. And that's simply because the language has been misused over and over again, and it's confusing. I mean, China uses the Chinese Communist Party. And again, it's kind of confusing, but they do that on purpose.

So I think owning the new left would be a great way to drive support for what is happening, what is clearly happening tonight. And that's what the establishment is afraid of. You know, they're afraid of the new left. They're afraid of grassroots, you know, radicals, as they would probably term them. Right. Because they can't control them. They can't control the grassroots and they can't control people like Mandami.

And he's not the only, I mean, I think Platner and Mandami are saying very similar things. They're very different people with very different backgrounds, you know, but their messages are very similar if you compare the two of them. And so, and I don't think that they're going to be the only ones. I think that we're going to see across the country because I think Pelosi probably announced, I think tonight or she was going to, that she's not running again. I think across the country, you're seeing a generational change. The baby boomer generation is moving out, Jerry Nadler, others are all Durbin.

They've all announced they're leaving. And I think that that's going to be a really, really healthy thing because, look, the Democratic Party is way older than the Republican Party as far as representation in Congress. They have the average age is much higher. The average tenure is much higher than the Republicans among the Democrats. And it's time for the old guard to move out. I mean, a lot of them are still sharp. A lot of them are still useful.

But the thing is, you can pick up the phone and call Nancy Pelosi. She'll take your call. I mean, you know, she'll give you some good advice. She doesn't need to be in D.C. Right. You know, she doesn't be a consultant. I think that she doesn't want to be the next, you know, Diane Feinstein. And I think that she's making the right move.

And she's leaving at the top of her game. Yes. Well, even Diane Feinstein didn't want to be the next Diane Feinstein. But she didn't know what day it was, unfortunately, towards the end and kept showing up for work when she was really shouldn't have been there. But the fact that nobody stepped up to kind of draw a line under that, there was almost too much respect for the fact that she'd been doing the job for hundreds of years, right? And so no one was. That's been the problem. I think Democrats have been too respectful.

You know, I was talking about this with the guys. I mean, it's like, you know, Joe, a lot of them didn't want Joe to run, you know, but Joe said he wanted to run. nobody said anything. Even the people who didn't want to run didn't say anything. You know, they just quietly kind of see. And then, and then we're told, okay, well, now we're going to push Joe out. And then there was a lot of people who didn't want Joe to drop out, but they didn't say anything. They were just like, oh, you know, and then they were all told, now we have to all support Harris. And all the Democrats said, okay, all right, we'll support here. Like, there was literally like everybody just did what they were told. And it didn't work out

so well. So I think people are like, We're not doing that anymore. We're not going to, we're not looking to the RNC chair. We're not looking to Schumer. You know, we're going to make these decisions now. You know, and I think that that's a good thing. Let's just talk about the Muslim aspect of this, because this is another thing that frustrates me enormously,

partly because I'm, you know, from a city that is as mixed as New York. And New Yorkers don't really care who's Muslim and who's not. I mean, it's kind of irrelevant. but the national press find this whole kind of Muslim thing to be a real issue. Now, of course, in terms of breaking the glass ceiling, it is kind of brilliant. But I personally think it's more brilliant that he's only 34 years old rather than the fact that he's a Muslim. That's kind of amazing to me. And it's just so interesting that the media can't really drop this.

They seem to think that in some way it's like a... Not that it's just a great achievement that a Muslim gets this position, but that in some way it's a step change. And it isn't, if you look at the makeup of New York, and if you look at how people live in New York and how people are so integrated in New York. And obviously there's always religious and cultural tensions, but that's any metropolis. It's not specific to New York. And that's why Mamdani represents them so well by nature of the fact that he has an interesting background and that he sounds like a New Yorker and speaks like a New Yorker. It's only really Donald Trump and the Maga Republicans that are so desperate to kind of to them anyone whose Muslim is a terrorist. Well, if that's not the most racist thing you've ever heard, I mean, the fact that there's a Muslim ban that is expanded from Trump's original Muslim ban last time around and no one seems to really talk.

about it, apart from all the Muslims that can't get into America. It's just so profoundly racist. And yet here we are. This is what we're going to be hearing from Trump for the coming weeks and months and years, is this whole thing about all Muslims are terrorists and they're not to be trusted. And how can it be safe in New York if you've got a terrorist running the city? I mean, it just makes my brain hurt, Ron. Well, I think this is, you're right that, you know, I've paid a lot of attention to what Republicans have said about this issue. And, you know, and playing on the fears. And I think back to Obama, you know, in 2018, who, you know, had a Muslim sounding name.

And, you know, Republicans were trying to suggest he was a seat, you know, a closet Muslim who just pretended to be a Christian. And, you know, Barack Hussein Obama and, and even Donald Trump, who wasn't. even a presidential candidate back then was out there running around calling him a Muslim. We had the guy at the McCain Town Hall who stood up and said he was a Muslim, right? And so, you know, Barack Obama felt like he needed to take great pains to go out of his way to prove he was a Christian. And I remember that very well from 2008 about, you know, him insisting over and over again. No, no, no, I'm a Christian.

I go to this church, this is my pastor, and he would quote Bible verses. he really felt like he had to disprove that. It was important to him, you know, for people to believe that he was a Christian, you know. And so here we are, you know, this many years later. And the issue, here we have a guy who's unapologetically Muslim. And the thing is, it's not just an issue with Christian Republicans. It's also an issue with Jewish Democrats. And let's face it, you know, those.

have been the Democrats who have not supported, a lot of them who have not supported Mandami have been Jewish Democrats. And that is a Muslim Jewish thing that is a religious, it's a religious division. And as far as the Christian right goes, look, they don't view the Muslim religion as a legitimate religion. They don't view it as a peaceful religion. They don't view it as a religion of love. They view it as a, as a dark, terrible thing, as a bad thing, as something that, in other words, they don't just look at it as like, it's another religion. No, they don't look at it that way. They look at it as a, as a source of evil in the world. So when he says, I'm a Muslim, they view it, you know,

a lot of Republican, you know, rural voters, white voters, they view that as he's a bad guy. You know, he's against God. He's against Jesus. You know, and so it goes that much to the core of this, but I think that obviously, you know, there's no place in the Republican Party for Muslims. There's not. They, they, they don't, they don't hide that fact. And so I think that this is a, this is a great opportunity for somebody who's young, well spoken, good looking, scandal free, largely, except for some things he said in the past that he's disavowed, you know, and I think this is a great opportunity to expand the tent here and embrace it. And we know what Fox News, News is going to do. This guy's going to be on Fox News more than Trump. You know, they're going to make him the poster child of Fox News. So that's why I'm rooting for him. I want him to be successful. I want him to prove the racist and the bigots wrong. And he can do that. I mean, he went on Fox recently and he absolutely nailed it. And this is what's important is not being frightened to step outside of those compartments that the media like to put you in.

And he's much smarter than any host at Fox. He really is. And so he can outsmart people. He can he can bring the cut through the noise with the truth. And that's what I'm looking forward to because you have to remember that the viewers of Fox, including Donald Trump, who's one of them, they have been listening to lies for 20 or, you know, since Roger Ailes, right? So it's 25 years. So they've just been brainwashed with the. these lies about who Democrats are.

And I think that Mamdani might be the first Democrat that has the confidence to step up and actually deconstruct those lies one at a time on a far-right network such as Fox. And you simply have to do it because they can't cut you off. It's not like when they're showing a Trump speech and Trump's being crazy

and they end up just like cutting away from it and going, okay, well, yeah, we'll come back to that later and they never do. If they've got Mamdani there in the studio, they're going to engage with him. And this is the new left. The idea that we're done with the lies now. It's enough already.

And I really feel like he's the man to move this movement, as you say, nationally forward. That's why this mayor election was so important. It's not just about New York. It is giving the movement, the confidence, to change their, change their way. Well, think about it. What demographic shifted the most for Trump between 20 and 2024 was Latino voters, right?

So, and people, a lot of Democrats thought, well, how is that, how's that possible when Trump's central message of his campaign was deportations? Because what they heard was when Trump said, I'm going to deport the criminals. You know, I'm going to deport the rapists and the murder. and the drug dealers, I mean, I think a lot of the Latinos were, we're good with that. You know, they said, well, these are people who make our community look bad. And so if that's who he's going to go after, you know, these handful of bad apples. Yeah. Then we support that.

You know, we're good with that. And so then when he gets in office and then, oh, no, no, when he was saying criminals, he means all of them. He means everyone who crossed the border after they were born is a criminal. Yeah, well, his criminalized asylum. And so I think that reality is setting in with these Latino voters. He's talking about us and our neighbors. He's not talking about somebody in prison.

Yeah. I think that if anyone's having buyers remorse, it's the kind of Latinx community because, and through no fault of their own, they were lied to. And, you know, Trump was buying ads on Latino radio network. and really kind of infiltrating the community in kind of with Spanish-speaking coverage. And also, I mean, we don't have time to get into this, but there is a lot of racism even amongst Latinos where once they're across the border, they don't want anybody else coming. And so there's a whole other conversation.

But I think, like I say, there is a line in the sand now almost. And it's like you're either with the Mamdani movement or you're going to get left behind. And I think this result tonight is testament to all of the no kings protesters, to everybody who knocked on doors, to people that did flyers and leaflets and posters and, you know, got on the phones and did all of that grassroots work. Because big money in politics has always been the problem. This movement came from individual donations, from people that couldn't even afford it, but felt that, a few bucks was going to make a difference. Well, tonight it really did make a difference. And with the latest count, 97% of the vote is in. Zoran Mamdani's. His victory is decisive. He's received 1,030,000 votes, more than all the other candidates combined. And people will

argue for weeks and maybe for years to come about whether Curtis Sliwa dropping out would have helped Andrew Cuomo win. But the votes show that that's a movement. you're telling you know and i saw that and i saw slewis speech tonight yeah you know i think this guy's hilarious i don't know if i've told you that but the guy's in it in the chat room you know the mic's i just yes i think the guy is comedy as a comedy show you know and and his speech tonight he says he's you know what does he say he doesn't gradually um and not no no no no he gets he he starts screaming and somebody somebody behind him is trying to pull him off the stage because there's like hands on the back of his shoulder and he's like got the

mic and he won't he won't leave and he's ran and rave and he says we're going to organize we're going to mobilize yeah and we are going to be mandami's worst nightmare okay that's what he said fine i'm just like this guy man i thought the guardian angels were on the side of goodness but apparently not um so i i just want to kind of extend some heartfelt gratitude to everybody who has played a little part in this campaign tonight, not just in New York, but right across the U.S., where special elections have been taking place. There has been a resounding movement heard, and Donald Trump is pissed.

I mean, he is not happy about this stuff because, remember, he operates in a bubble. He's surrounded by people that tell him that he's the best, the most handsome. I mean, you heard that when he was asked? in 60 minutes about Mam Darni, and he goes, but I'm better looking. My told he never been better. I think he's like, thinks that that's true. Right. He believes. I think they're giving him like fake polls. A hundred percent run. I've been saying this, but I had it confirmed in that 60 minutes interview, which is incidentally the most edited episode of 60 minutes in history. Must be a lawsuit waiting to be had there. But,

yeah, Trump genuinely thinks, whether it be dementia or just narcissistic personality, disorder or just ego that he thinks that he is on a winning streak. And that's why he maybe, I mean, in hindsight, maybe that's why he's always like, the election was rigged, the election was rigged, because he cannot imagine that people don't think that he is God's gift when he is anything but. And that's why this is even better that this is happening in New York, a city that Donald Trump thinks he owns, that this is really putting the boo Putin to his idea of how the city should be run and who should be running it. And if it's not the disgraced Giuliani or the disgraced Andrew Cuomo, no, let it be

a 34-year-old Muslim called Zoran Mamdani. Well, you know, when he was on trial, he said that if he was convicted, everybody, all the rich people were going to leave New York, right? That's what he predicted. Yeah. Everybody was going to leave and New York was going to go bankrupt. And, you know, of course that didn't happen. But he predicted it again, you know, if Mandami wins, he says they're all going to leave again.

You know, there's going to, Ron DeSantis was saying that on Fox today. Yeah. You know, we're going to get all these rich New Yorkers. They're all going to flee the city. Well, you know, I guess, I guess we'll just see about that. It didn't happen the last time he predicted it. I tend to think that there's so much money to be made, so much culture, so much food. You know, I don't think that we're going to see this.

Mass exodus that's been predicted, but, you know, I guess we'll see. Well, predicted by who, though? It's just a confidence trick. Are they going to lose, like, eight billionaires? They're going to go to Florida. No one's going to leave, you know, because they're going to see this as an opportunity to... Yeah, there's going to be new ones. Yeah.

There'll be new billionaires being made that are 25 years old right now. Right. Huge growth. And Mamdani's speech was, I mean, he didn't pull any punches tonight, no subtleties. he referenced a great New Yorker and that great New Yorker's son do you hear him say that? And so I think this is the skill of Mamdani. You know, he can speak at a level that is speaking to multiple people

at once. You know, let me tell you what impressed me. Halloween night. So while Trump is down there having his gilded, you know, great Gatsby gala with dancers and all that. What was Mondami doing Halloween night? He went to six nightclubs. He was out, he went to like three gay bars.

He was out till two in the morning at clubs. Went home, went to bed. Then at 6 a.m., he was out meeting the sanitation guys, the garbage men. 6 a.m. at their trucks. After partying, I mean, party and he's had

the mic, he's up there in the DJ booths at clubs all night. I mean, who else can do that? Name me a name me any any Democrat. I mean, who can who can do six clubs, hit gay bars, have everybody cheering him on, then go meet the garbage guys down at the sanitation department at 6 a.m. Can Schumer do that? Can Jeffries? No. I mean, I mean, Mamdani was saying that, you know, the, the thing about New York is that the the night shift workers are responsible for waking the city up and that if you didn't have the night shift workers, then you wouldn't have the city as it is in the morning. And it was just beautiful. I mean, you know, there is a whole community at night that exists while most people

sleep and tapping into that, especially the cab drivers, you know, looking through the yellow cab windows and shaking people's hands, everybody knew who he was. He's natural. I think he's better than Obama. I mean, you know, as far as that goes retail the pawn you know the hand-to-hand stuff yeah he's better than obama you know maybe obama is the master of the speech you know he gives the great speech but and mandami gives a damn good speech too but as far as just the man on the street stuff i don't know that i've seen anybody better uh than than mandami interestingly obama's speech that he gave the other night was was great but it was quite staccato and this has you know

This is the way Obama operates. He is kind of slow and he does these kind of moments. And you can really kind of look at the pentameter of his delivery. And you can predict it. I can't predict Mamdani's speech patterns. And you know, the perfect example that was tonight. I mean, he fooled the hell out of me with that one line where he said, you know, to get, he said, if they want to get to you, if Donald Trump wants to get to you,

he's going to have to. And I thought for sure what any politician would have said right there is they're going to have to come through me. That's what Donald Trump, that was any, almost any politician in America would, would close that line. Any speechwriter would close that line with if they want to get to you, they're going to have to come through me. I'm your champion, right?

But what does he say? I mean, he says they're going to have to come through all. of us. Right. Very, very clever. It's not about me. Yeah. And I thought that's where Cuomo got it right. That surprised me. I mean, I never expected him to say that. But I thought, wow, what a great line, you know. Yeah. But it's more than a line. It's a, it's an authentic feeling about how his movement is all of us. It really isn't just him. And maybe that's been the problem in, in U.S. politics, is that we put too many eggs in the basket of leadership. And, and, and, and, and really the definition of representative is somebody who just leads us all.

And, you know, I thought it was fortuitous that this happened on the same day that Dick Cheney passed away. I don't know if you thought that too. I was like, maybe a few viral tweets about that. Right. Like, Dick, Dick didn't want to be alive to see a Muslim. And then I heard, I saw some Muslims tweeting like, this is the greatest day in the history of, like Muslim America. Dick Cheney died and Montaubby's elected mayor of New York City.

It's like a Quinella. It's like a, you know, bookend. Yeah. It's quite meta in many ways. And I'm, you know, and I was, you know, all respect to the Cheney family, of course, but I recognize that somebody was telling us something. And because, you know, obviously 9-11 has a huge significance for New York. And Trump basically, or not even Trump, I mean, going back to to Bush.

and basically, you know, blaming 9-11 on all Muslims and then going to war with Iraq and Afghanistan and the rest is history. But it's just very interesting that in this moment, that it's Zoran Mamdani, who is the one who has stepped up. And I'm really grateful that it is him because I really didn't want to see a kind of another old white guy. What would the vibe be like tonight if that was Cuomo, who just wanted?

So depressing. This would be a whole different vibe, wouldn't it? But also for women as well. Yeah. It'd be like the Democratic Party sold out, you know, again. They sold out to the establishment and, you know, they just wanted to win. And, you know, and this is who we ended up with this very flawed person who really, you know, you think about his life. I was thinking about this last night.

Very similar to Donald Trump. I mean, Mario, his dad wasn't as wealthy as Fred Trump, certainly not, but you think about it. I mean, famous name, privilege, you know, the prep schools. I mean, Cuomo had, you know, everything laid out for him. His political career was set when he was in high school. Right. You know, it was almost like a phone with business. A faux mafia family.

Yeah. So there's a sense of entitlement and privilege that, you know, is here to serve me. I got that vibe from Cuomo always, even years ago. Yes. And it's the same vibe you get from Trump. It is interesting. I've always seen those two as cut from the same cloth. And when Trump was asked whether he, you know, about who he was supporting, he said, well, you know, I don't want to support a Democrat. But if Cuomo is like the best of the two, then I will reluctantly support Cuomo. And I just thought, well, yeah, because you basically are both terrible to women. So you have that in common.

And you know, they're jerks, they're megalomaniacs. Yeah. There's a lot of sim. I mean, they're not exactly the same, of course, but there's a lot of similarities between the two, I think. It's also generational. And I think that, you know, that that age group, especially people that grew up in New York and kind of went through that period, I think, you know, they're like men from the 80s. And it's- You could argue they both screwed up the pandemic in different ways. A hundred percent. You know, so I mean, there's a lot of parallels right there, you know,

famous fathers or pretty well-known fathers. Right, they're a dinnest, they're part of dynasties. And I think that this is, it's just really unhealthy. And so America and New York especially has rejected those dynasties tonight. And I think that the celebrations, I can certainly feel it, that there is a great sense, just from reading people's messages and getting a sense of how the reactions are being felt, that this is an opportunity to fight fascism head on. And I love that Mamdani doesn't hold back in describing Trump as an authoritarian and as a dictator and as a despot,

because that's the type of explicit language that is accurate, but B, is essential in this moment. You can't go dancing around it. The other line that surprised me is goes to that, which is when he said, he said, Donald Trump, turn the volume. I thought he's going to say turn the volume down. I thought that he was, that's what he was going to say.

I thought he was going to be like, it's time to tone down the rhetoric. And, you know, it's time to, you know, bring thing, turn down the temperature. I thought that that was, that's what he was going to say.

We need to have a truce. We need to get along, blah, blah, blah. said the opposite yeah said turn the volume up he's saying bring it man yeah you want to come after new york city you want to come after me i'm ready for it bring throw your best at at me throw your best at us we'll give it to you right back and i again that was a line that really surprised me i didn't think that's what he was going to say he zigged when i thought he was going to zag i also love that like he met his partner on hinge and i was i saw an instant Instagram last night. There was like pictures of them hanging out in New York and having a kiss and a cuddle. And it was like so real and so cute. Just like Trump and Melania. Oh yeah, that's right. Just the same. No Einstein visas necessary. The irony of the Einstein visa in that particular scenario is not to be underestimated. Okay, we have to finish.

Yeah, it's 1 o'clock in the morning here in Maine. Right. Like 30 degrees out. You and I are going to come back later on. and do an uncovered, a special Zoran Mamdani edition of Uncovered. That's 4 o'clock Eastern later on today or tomorrow for those on the West Coast. I'm so grateful to everybody for joining us tonight. We've literally had tens and tens of thousands of people watching the Midas Touch coverage tonight, which is extended throughout the night. Of course, the coverage doesn't stop on the Midas Touch network, and we're very grateful to you for your support as well as your comments and your interactions as part of this Midas Mighty community.

The line I kind of want to finish with is when Mamdani said in this moment of political darkness, New York will be the light. And it's that light that I think is going to guide this pro-democracy movement, both here at Midas Touch, but also right across the country in facing off. fascism head on. And it's, tonight is a kind of springboard moment for that. So well done is all I can say. Congratulations to Zoran Mamdani, to all of those candidates that have been involved in special elections across the U.S. and the amount of success and wins, I think a kind of a full score for Democratic candidates across the board tonight. And that really speaks volumes. Thanks to everybody who voted today. Yeah. Very, very important.

The whole country thanks you. Yeah, yeah. Voting is almost the last bastion that Americans have left. So don't waste it. Okay, thanks again. We'll see you on the other side and enjoy the rest of your night wherever you are. Bye for now. Love this video?

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