The MeidasTouch Podcast - Trump Faces Growing Midterm Warning Signs Across Key States (with Brian Poindexter)

Episode Date: September 13, 2026

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on warning signs for Donald Trump and Trump-backed Republican candidates emerging from Kansas, Texas, and Ohio as voters react to recent developments and the approaching midterm elections. Meiselas then interviews Brian Poindexter, the Democratic nominee challenging Republican Congressman Max Miller in Ohio’s 7th Congressional District, about the state of the race, recent polling, and what Poindexter is hearing from voters across the district. Get up to 50% OFF at https://BuyLarine.com/meidas Remember to subscribe to ALL the MeidasTouch Network Podcasts: MeidasTouch: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/meidastouch-podcast Legal AF: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/legal-af MissTrial: https://meidasnews.com/tag/miss-trial The PoliticsGirl Podcast: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-politicsgirl-podcast Cult Conversations: The Influence Continuum with Dr. Steve Hassan: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-influence-continuum-with-dr-steven-hassan The Weekend Show: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-weekend-show The Ken Harbaugh Show: https://meidasnews.com/tag/the-ken-harbaugh-show Majority 54: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/majority-54 On Democracy with FP Wellman: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/on-democracy-with-fpwellman Uncovered: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/maga-uncovered Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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mega sycophantic senator who's running for re-election Roger Marshall got booed off stage and it's not just in Kansas folks it's also in Texas it's also in Ohio it's also in Alaska it's also in Pennsylvania frankly there is no safe Republican seat anymore, as Republican has gone full Trump MAGA, and the American people are fed up and done with it. As Donald Trump tries to defraud the American people yet again, I'm going to give you $5,000. I'm not lying this time. Just like I spoke with the Houthis, just like I spoke with Hamas, just like I spoke with Iran, the Ayatollah. Trust me, trust me, it's all going to be good, everybody.

Lies, lies and more lies. So Roger Marshall, it's a very interesting fact. He's running against somebody by the name of Adam Hamilton, who's a United Methodist pastor, first-time candidate, not a political guy. He won the Democratic nominee for the United States Senate seat in Kansas. He's running against Marshall and an individual who's just out there,

speaking from the heart right now, not a politician. Now, Roger Marshall's background, before he was a Maga Republican senator, Roger Marshall was a former obstetrician gynecologist, and the New York Times just did an expose. Did you see this? That court records found that Marshall sued 700 of his former patients over outstanding bills that range from several thousand down to as little as $101. This practice routinely applied an 18% annual interest rate. Collection methods included wage garnishments, bank account garnishments. In 81 cases, patients were arrested after missing court dates.

Marshall's lawyers sought warrants for the arrests in 13 additional cases. Some collection efforts continued even after. Marshall entered Congress in 2017. This is as MAGA as you get, folks. So let me set the stage for us right now. The Kansas State Fair. Why the Kansas State Fair? That's where there is a debate taking place.

And at this debate between Roger Marshall, the MAGA Republican Senator, and Adam Hamilton right over here, the crowd went absolutely living. on Roger Marshall. This guy, he actually really lives in Florida. He doesn't even live in Kansas at all. And shame on you. The crowd screamed, shame on you, shame on you. The chance broke out as Roger Marshall made excuses for his medical debt collection practices. Here, play this clip. Those are common, common business practices. We would go a year before we would ever send somebody over.

Ladies and gentlemen, Let me show you more of what was going down over here. Roger Marshall then speaks to the Kansas State Fair audience and says, who do you want solving this problem? And everybody's like, not you, not you. Watch this. Here, play this clip. Yeah, I guess I just asked the audience,

who do you want solving this problem? The kid. Ladies and gentlemen, ladies and gentlemen, ladies and gentlemen, ladies and gentlemen, If you could please calm down and let this senator answer. Crowd was saying you don't even live here. Get out of here. Carpetbagger. Get the hell out of here. Here play this clip. And I spent about 135 days back in this state as well. Our state busts our tails for this state. This is all a social media myth made by the social media Nazis as well.

Lifetime, Kansen, fifth generation Kansen. Thank you. Mr. Hamilton. Then you had to have the Kansas State Fair moderator for the Senate debate had to tell the crowd, calm down because they were booing Trump's bootlicker in Kansas so much. Here, play this clip. Ladies and gentlemen.

Now what I found very interesting about this race also is there hasn't been a lot of polling on it. of polling on it, but now we're starting to see more polls, and it's neck and neck. The Democratic candidate, Adam Hamilton, seems like he could potentially win this Senate seat and the MAGA candidate can lose. I think with the right momentum and the overperformance we've been seeing in the special elections thus far, I think the Democrat's going to win in Kansas. By the way, don't sleep on the Democratic candidate in South Carolina.

I think she is also going to beat Darlene Graham, Lindsay Graham's sister, who doesn't know anything about anything other than I'm going to do what Donald Trump tells me to do. Sorry, back to the Kansas State Fair for a moment over here. Let me show you what went down as Roger Marshall says, you know where I stand, and then the crowd started booing him. Play this clip. But you're going to know what I like to protect you and these traditional Kansas values. Thank you so much and God bless everybody. Thank you.

Chorus of Boo continues. Here, play this clip so you can see for yourself what went down. Just last weekend my wife and I were chatting and she suggested I shared with this crowd why we moved to Great Bend. Now I don't know about you. Now I don't know about you. The difference between Magu Republican Senator Marshall and Adam Hamilton couldn't be clearer when it comes to price hiking tariffs. Watch for yourself over here. Mr. Hamilton, you have 90 seconds to respond. The tariffs are a disaster for everyone across the state of Kansas, whether you realize it or not. More from Hamilton pointing out that Roger Marshall supports Donald Trump and everything,

which means 1,500 bombardier workers could lose their jobs as a result of what Donald Trump's doing and Trump's attack on Canada. Here, play this clip. 1500 jobs. They can lose those due to tariffs. Farmers are talking. And by the way, Bombardier uses so many American parts. Bombardier uses more American parts than Gulfstream does. Donald Trump doesn't understand how supply chains work. And those American parts don't just employ people at the Bombardier factory. They employ people at all different factories in Kansas and throughout the country. And Bombardier employs thousands of people in the United

States. Now let me just show you. This is an incredible supercut of what went down you can see for yourself. And then I've got a surprise for you. Here, play this clip. The Republican incumbent, Dr. Roger Marshall. I guess I just asked the audience, who do you want solving this problem? The tariffs are a disaster for everyone across the state of Kansas, whether you realize it or not. Look, these tariffs are working. We are expanding our export markets because of them. We love Kansas. We will live here. After I'm elected Senate, I'm not going to sell my house and move to Florida as you did. All a social media myth made by the social media Nazis as well.

That the average cost of gasoline has been less under President Trump than it was under Joe Biden. You can look it up. You can fact check me as well. If you love $6 a gallon diesel fuel, you can thank Roger Marshall. He supported this. He told us to tighten our belts because, This was the cost of being safe in America. We were supposed to be out of this war after four weeks, maybe six weeks.

We're six months in. With all the people in the room that I ran, one I ran to have a nuclear weapon, raise your hand for me. Does anybody in this room when I ran to have a nuclear weapon? Well, last year, when you voted for the one big beautiful bill, you gave $30 billion in tax cuts to data centers. You may not agree with me on everything, but you're going to know exactly where I stand. Whose SNAP benefits are being taken away by you. and you're saying they all have fraud. We're talking about 18,000 children in Kansas

who've lost their staff benefits under his leadership. And I've worked hand in hand with Bobby Kennedy to help bring these Make America Healthy again. Topics back. Encourage is when you stand up to your president and your party and you say, this is hurting people back home. And you say it, even if your president's going to bully you,

pick on you, primary you, and call you names, you still say, this is not okay. Thank you. All right, pretty incredible footage right there, right? Seeing that supercut, now let me bring you, I'm just going to show a short clip of it because it's football and so I just don't want to show too much of it because it's on ESPN, but I'll just give you enough to know. So Ted Cruz, Magu-Republican senator, was in Austin for college game day watching Texas football. and Ted Cruz got booed ruthlessly while he was there. Watch for yourself.

Here, play this clip. Now, I will share with you as well what is going down in, I'll show you what's going down. Why don't we go to Ohio right now? How about not only do we go to Ohio, I have a surprise for you. I want to bring in the Democratic candidate in Ohio right now. Poynexter. He's running against Max Miller. You know, Max Miller who has those heinous allegations, Max Miller who runs from his constituents, Ultramaga extremist Max Miller. The latest polling has Brian Poindexter at 47 percent to Max Miller 33 percent. So this looks like this district can

flip Democrat. Also, Poindexter, he's got a really compelling story. He did this incredible incredible ad called Daughters featuring his three children, Ashley, Michaela, and Taylor, telling stories about their dad as they sit in front of family photos. Obviously, there's a clear contrast between him and the vile individual, Max Miller, who's currently the Congress member from that district. But I just interviewed Brian Poindexter. Let me bring him in because as we're seeing Donald Trump crash out in Kansas and Texas, in Ohio, in Pennsylvania.

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And we even have the senator of Ohio saying that Max Miller needs to, a Republican senator, who's former father-in-law, saying he needs to resign. And lots of Magu, Republican senators saying Max Miller needs to resign. And we'll talk about that. But I want to talk about you, Brian, because you've got a very compelling story. Father, your union iron worker, apprenticeship and structure, council member. And you've been running a very compelling campaign. and I think we're seeing people in Ohio saying,

you know what, we gave this maga thing a shot, we gave them the power. Republicans are controlling a lot of things, and they've lied to us, and they've failed, and we want to go in another direction. And so talk to us about what you're seeing. You know this area. Well, you've won elections in the area.

Are you seeing a shift? Talk about what you see is going on in this area. Yeah, well, you know, election time, voters always ask themselves two questions. One, why should we fire the guy that's in there now? And we know all the reasons why obviously the allegations are serious, but the policies he supported have put us in a world of hurt, especially as far as workers are concerned here in my district.

So we know why we need to fire him, but why hire me? And, you know, I'm showing people what a real representative looks like. I'm showing up at events. I'm showing up, you know, door to door. I, you know, cut my political teeth in Brook Park. Brooke Park is a scrappy city where you have to knock on every door if you're going to get the vote of the people in the city of Brook Park. And I told people when he got into this, I'm going to run a Brook Park style campaign where I'm going to meet people where they are. You know, we're averaging 2,000 doors a week and that's ramping up.

And, you know, just, you know, I have the lived experience of the average person in our district. And I resonate with them on a level that they can understand because I'm just like the guy. next door and that's given us real strength and built real momentum in this race. Talk about that lived experience because people are getting crushed right now across this country and you zoom in on areas like Brook Park and you know you see a story of an American dream quite literally stolen and I you just like like literally ripped apart you know whether it's their health care being ripped apart you know their their money being ripped apart, you know, taken out, you know, and going to Trump and Trump's friends and

his rich oligards, you know, and, you know, you hear Donald Trump and people like Max Miller, we promise you this time, we know we've been saying we're going to give you $5,000 the last time if you vote for us, and we didn't do it. And then we promised you it again. We didn't do it. But this time, this, we're not even going to talk about policy. We're just going to straight up bribe you. Okay, we're going to give you $5,000 if you vote for us this one time. And it's like you stole people's bread. Now you're dangling the bread crumbs that you're not even going to give them right now. And that's their closing message, basically, is that we're going to defraud you again, Ohio.

We're going to talk about the shared experience though of what people are seeing. What do you see when you knock on doors? What are people experiencing? What are the pain points there? I'm sure there are many. Oh, there's so many. And, you know, they're all economically driven. You know, people are working harder and harder and getting less for it.

you know, I'm old enough to remember time where one income could support entire your whole family. And, you know, now two incomes aren't even enough to make ends meet in that family. And, you know, it's, it, it all ties back to the corruption at the federal level. You know, the wealthiest and well connected among us are living a great, having a great time at our expense. You know, all the tax breaks go to them, to the wealthy, to the corporations. and it's it you know working people are are left paying the tab for that you know we see it in rising gas prices we see it arising grocery prices we see it in stagnating wages and people are tired of politicians in Washington not hearing them and you know that you brought up the $5,000 promise

you know it just shows that you know they're finally hearing the pleas that that that people need relief. Unfortunately, you know, people don't want that one-time handout. They want to be able to make a living doing the work they do enough to support their family. And, you know, I'm going to support that at every opportunity. Talk about this ad that you just released. And I saw the TMZ report about how Max Miller's dodging questions about this ad. You pointed out when you released it, here's my first ad. And you were saying how, you know, you did this for all. of the running for Congress to fight for my daughters and yours. So in my first ad, I decided to turn my mic over to them.

It was a great, I mean, it's a great piece. And to me, with all of this gamified politics that happens before an election and people just throw in all this nastiness out there to try to obscure and confuse, I always like to say, at the end of the day, this is about like your family. This is about, you know, how are we living our lives? and what's and pull back and be like, what's the point of all of this? Is the point of all of this

so that we can wake up and then be non-consensual extras in some dystopian reality show with some psychotic maniac in Washington behaving like a crazy person. And oh, do you see the crazy thing he did? Oh my God, is he screwed with our gas prices or is he screwing with our health care?

I'm like, it's about our daughters, my daughter, your daughters. It's about our family. It's about our future generations, about hoping to make humid connections. Like, that's life. Like, and we have to get out of this bizarre, freaking world. And to me, that's what, you know, why your ad resonated with me. So talk to me about that.

Well, you know, my daughters had fun with that ad. And, you know, they make fun of their dad all the time. So why not do it on camera, right? But it really was just a good opportunity to give people a window into my life, you know, what I've been fighting for, what I've been working for all these years. and the type of representative I'll be. You know, I'm literally the guy next door, the guy down the street, helped the old lady with his, with the garbage.

And, you know, I wanted to highlight that, you know, and people were like, well, you made this ad to put a mirror up to Max Miller. And like, no, I didn't. I did it to give people a view of my daily life and the love I have for my daughters and how much they love their dad. If it holds a mirror up to Max Miller, that's something he's got to worry about. You know, I didn't, you know, my whole. campaign is built on a message of positivity, built on a message of uniting people, because the only

way we're going to get out of this mess is together. We can continue to chase the chaos of the day from the administration and from this Republican held legislature. But at the end of the day, people long for a community again. People are tired of turning their backs on family over politics, turn their backs on friends over politicians. And I hope to show people a different way. And that's kind of what that ad speaks to. Right. And I think here's the moment that we're in. I think people know that Donald Trump is an awful putrid, fraudulent, felon, horrible human being. I mean, I think that it's revealed even to his former base. I think they look at him. This is in my view. I think they look at him and they go, you betrayed us. I think they look at someone like a Max Miller and they go awful

human being, just awful human being. But then they look at the Democrats. And they're saying, okay, do not bring us back, though, to just the status quo before this, because you're just going to bring in Trumps and Max Millers. So don't bullshit me right now and tell me what you're going to actually do that moves us forward and actually fights for these things because we were promised a whole bunch of things from these MAGAs and they didn't deliver.

But if there was lower gas prices, if we could afford homes, If we could have no more never-ending wars, some of that stuff appeals to us. We like that. So can we do that? Can you actually fight for us and move us in a direction forward versus the seesaw cycles that you and I were around the same age? We know how we got here. Trump's awful, but he's a vessel from a lot of what we're seeing.

Just like you see in Ohio, you know, over time, it's just gotten worse and worse and worse to the point where people like, All right, we got to change it. But what does that mean directionally, right? And so I think we're in, what are you going to do for me? You know, people are saying, you know, Brian, how are you going to change the game? So I'll let you deliver that final message before we go, which is, you know, what are you going to do? You know, how is this going to be different? How is this not just a return to politics as usual?

And we get rid of an awful Max Miller. We get a family man, Brian. But, you know, it's still politics in D.C. How can you assure the voters this is different? Well, the first thing I'm not going to do is I'm not going to, you know, win this race and go on a revenge tour for all the crazy things that we've seen over the past few years. You know, because there's a lot of people that, you know, that voted for Trump and voted for Miller who are, you know, who are hurting under the policies that they brought forward. It's almost like an ex-girlfriend, right? You just kind of move forward. Don't live in the past. So, and what I want to do is I want to help lower costs day one by fighting to get us out of the war that's driven up costs on families. I want to end the blanket tariffs that's driven up the cost on families.

And I really want to end the corruption that has enabled all of it. You know, the dark money in politics, the members of Congress trading stocks, you know, Max Miller has partake and all that. And, you know, we got to get back to the basics. You know, there's a lot of things, a lot of fires burning. And, you know, in my life, when things are getting overwhelming, I kind of focus on the basic, you know, I got to pay my mortgage first. I got to, you know, make sure my car payment's paid. And that's what we needed, that's the approach I'm going to bring to

Congress. We need to, you know, strengthen collective bargaining rates so workers can make a good wage and benefits again. We need to lift the minimum wage up so people are actually making a real living. You know, we got to save Social Security so our retirees can retire with dignity. And I think if we get to the basics, allow, give some relief to people in their pockets and their personal life, then we can, a lot of the other issues will kind of solve themselves because people will have the means to fight for them. Brian, where can people learn more about the campaign pretty close to, you know, we're getting closer to election day. I mean, I'm looking at the calendar and it's it's right around the corner. If people want to learn more about you, where do they go?

Real easy. You can go to pointexter for congress.com and you can read my backstory, read my bio, see my policy positions, watch our videos. But we're also. also on every, every platform on social media. You can find us on anyone. Just type in Brian Point Extra for Congress. It'll come right up. But I really encourage you to, you know, take a real good, hard look, volunteer if you can, donate if you can because, you know,

while we have a lot of momentum in this race, my opponent did drop a million dollars of his own cash to try to buy his way out of his troubles. And I can use all the help I can get. When you watch the ad, you'll see their great ads, but we need help keeping them up on the air all the way through the cycle. So hopefully you're willing to do that. Yeah, look, the ads are great. I do want to say this, though.

I mean, the campaign you've been running is an inspired campaign, and it's worker focused and it's different. It looks different. It feels different than other campaigns that in a good way, you know, and connecting it and rooting it in family and common core values and principles is something that we talk a lot of. about here. And so I definitely wanted to have you on to talk about that. I'm glad we got to meet. We'd love to have you back on before the election. So thanks so much, Brian. Absolutely, happy to do

it. And I just want to, you know, say thank you for having me. And, you know, people's support for me is not taken in vain. And that's why we're running the campaign. We're running because there's a lot of people counting on me to get in there and be a voice for them. And, you know, with your help, we'll be able to do that. So thank you. Brian Poindexter, everybody. Everybody hit subscribe. Let's get to 7 million subscribers thanks for watching want to stay plugged in become a subscriber for a sub stack at midasplus.com you'll get daily recaps from ron philipkowski add three episodes of our podcast and more exclusive content only available at midasplus.com before you go our book wtf america is available for

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