The MeidasTouch Podcast - GOP Challengers POUND THE CRAP out of Trump in Primary Fight

Episode Date: November 20, 2023

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on the growing attacks by Donald Trump’s GOP opponents like Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis calling Trump out and letting voters know he will lose to President Biden. Thanks to GiveWell! To claim your match, go to https://givewell.org and pick PODCAST and enter MeidasTouch Podcast at checkout! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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presidential nominee, Ron DeSantis, saying that he is convinced Donald Trump would lose to President Biden in 2024. I'm Ben Micellis from the Midas Touch Network. There's some new polling out in New Hampshire that should raise big alarms in the Trump camp. I know legacy media isn't talking about it. I want to explain, but it's obvious to me that Donald Trump is actually very, very worried. Here's the new poll from CNN and UNH, and it says that Donald Trump in New Hampshire is polling at 42%, Nikki Haley's at 20%, Chris Christie's at 14%, Ron DeSantis is at 9%. The fact that Donald Trump doesn't have above 50% there, depending on the results of Iowa, you could see a situation where voters in New Hampshire will coalesce around the number two in Iowa. And then I think Donald

Trump could actually lose in New Hampshire. We can go back and take a look at this video if I'm right. But that data is indicative. If you look at past elections in New Hampshire, and it's obvious Donald Trump is worried and Donald Trump's opponents are now taking big swings at him, which they weren't before, because I think they see it in the data as well, including their own internal polling numbers. For example, fairly recently, here is Ron DeSantis saying that Donald Trump is to blame for inflation and the national debt because Donald Trump created about $8 trillion, $7.8 trillion in national debt when he was in office. Here, play this clip. And you know who else is missing in action?

Donald Trump is missing in action. He should be on this stage tonight. He owes it to you to defend his record where they added $7.8 trillion to the debt. That set the stage for the inflation that we have now. This was also echoed by Nikki Haley, and she said Donald Trump created about $8 trillion in debt. It's not Biden's fault. This came from Republicans and Donald Trump. Play the clip. I don't care about polls. What I care about the fact is that no one is telling the American people the truth. The truth is that Biden didn't do this to us. Our Republicans did this to us, too. When they passed that $2.2 trillion COVID stimulus bill, they left us with

90 million people on Medicaid, 42 million people on food stamps. No one has told you how to fix it. I'll tell you how to fix it. They need to stop the spending. They need to stop the borrowing. They need to eliminate the earmarks that Republicans brought back in. And they need to make sure they understand these are taxpayer dollars. It's not their dollars. And while they're all saying this, you have Ron DeSantis, you've got Tim Scott, you've got Mike Pence. They all voted to raise the debt.

And Donald Trump added eight trillion to our debt. And our kids are never going to forgive us for this. And so at the end of the day, you look at the 2024 budget, Republicans asked for $7.4 billion in earmarks. Democrats asked for $2.8 billion. So you tell me who are the big spenders. I think it's time for an accountant in the White House. And you can tell by Donald Trump's speeches recently with his focus on Nikki Haley and DeSantis, it's a little bit different, Donald Trump's attacks. You can tell he's worried. Here, Donald Trump calls Nikki Haley birdbrain and calls Ron DeSantis, DeSantis or whatever stupid name he calls him. And here he

is attacking them personally, the ad hominem attacks. But I think Trump realizes he's vulnerable. Watch Donald Trump right here, play the clip. The Iowa State poll came out recently, just now, I think. Trump is 54%, DeSantimonious is 18% and falling, and Birdbrain is 12%. Birdbrain. Nikki Birdbrain. Sir, I will never, ever vote against you. You are the greatest president in my lifetime. It's not that long. You know, she's not that old, actually.

I would have preferred if she said in generations, but what is she, 54 or something? I'll take the 54, right? But you are the greatest president. So I will never. She said it over and over again. I will never. They ask him, will you ever run again? No, I will not. He's been a great president. I will never, they ask him, will you ever run again? No, I will not.

He's been a great president. I will not do it. Two months later, ladies and gentlemen, I'd like to announce my candidacy. It's Birdbrain. I know her well. She's not up to the job. Going back to DeSantis, here DeSantis talks about how Donald Trump is apparently just running on things that he promised to do in 2016, but never actually accomplished. Play the clip. I have delivered on these principles in a way, quite frankly, if you look at Donald Trump's campaign in 16 and then compare his rhetoric now, he's campaigning on the things he promised to do in 2016 and didn't deliver. He said he would build a wall and have Mexico pay for it. That did not happen. Here's Nikki Haley talking about all of the chaos that always follows Donald Trump. Play the clip. The reality is I don't agree with that statement any more than I agree when he said Hezbollah

was smart or any more than I agree when he hit Netanyahu when his country was on its knees after all that brutality. It's the chaos of it all, right? And so I when he hit Netanyahu when his country was on its knees after all that brutality. It's the chaos of it all, right? And so I think he means well, but the chaos has got to stop. And over and over again, we feel it. And you look at the elections from last week or two weeks ago when we lost again. That's chaos. Have you ever wondered where your donation could have the

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saying that he's confident Trump will lose. Play the clip. And he'd be saddled with all these distractions that would be virtually impossible to get the job done. But are you and your campaign saying that he has lost his sharpness, his mental acuity, and are you saying he'll lose to Joe Biden? Well, I wouldn't be running unless I thought that the Democrats would beat Trump if he were the nominee. I mean, they're going very easy on him right now. I mean, they're not saying much. The minute if he were to be the nominee, I mean, you're going to see scorched earth.

You're going to see all the stuff brought up from the past. And the whole election will end up being a referendum on Donald Trump. Here's DeSantis recently saying that Donald Trump is in mental cognitive decline. Play the clip. I would say, go out, get rid of your teleprompter. Don't use that as a crutch. Go to debates. Show up in debate for two hours hours and then we'll be able to

see kind of where he's really coming from so we've seen over the course every interview every time he's gotten off the teleprompter for like the last two months they've had to clean things up for for what he's saying so i just want to say you know the donald for this is a different donald trump in 2016 he was freewheeling he's out there barnstorming the country doing all this. You know, now it's just a different guy. And that's just sad to see. And in fact, DeSantis' campaign released a video showing all of the times that Donald Trump refers to President Biden as Obama. Very recent kind of cognitive episodes that Donald Trump has to President Biden as Obama and very recent kind of cognitive episodes that Donald Trump has had play the clip.

You don't mind if I go off teleprompter like a lot, do you? Fauci became big in the Bush administration, in the, it's almost the same thing, in the Biden administration. Arrest their leading political opponent, leading by a lot, including Obama. I'll tell you what, you take a look at Obama and take a look at some of the things that he's done. This is the same thing. The country is very divided.

And we did with Obama. We won an election that everyone said couldn't be won. We beat Hillary Clinton. We built almost 500 miles of wall. Even the Obama administration says it in their stats. And I'm really shocked that the Obama administration can be out there saying, I hope they don't attack from the north. Brian, it's all coming through Iran. And Obama wants to, he doesn't want to talk about it. He doesn't want to mention, he doesn't even mention them in his statement.

Victor Orban. Did anybody ever hear of him? They were interviewing him two weeks ago and they said, what would you advise President Obama? The whole world seems to be exploding and imploding. And look, folks, it's perhaps, you know, if I'm giving you my own commentary, even though I know it's fact based and data based and I believe it to be on point, you can say, well, look, this has just been the host of the Midas Touch Network who feels a certain way. So that's

why he's saying these things. I want to show you what Donald Trump's opponents are saying. Just leave it at that. That's what Republicans are saying. People who came up in this MAGA movement like Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis. And that's what they are saying about Donald Trump. So we'll just leave it at that. Just show you what they said. Hit subscribe. We'll wait to 2 million subscribers here at the Midas Touch Network. So if you can, let's try to get there by December. Wherever you also get audio podcasts, subscribe to the Midas Touch podcast. And if you want to support the growth of this platform, check us out at patreon.com slash Midas Touch.

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