OVER THE LAST SIX MONTHS BECAUSE
OF INFLATION.
JOINING ME NOW, GUY BENSON,
TOWNHALL.COM POLITICAL EDITOR
AND A FOX BUSINESS CONTRIBUTOR.
GUY, WHAT DO YOU MAKE OF THIS
POLL, AND DOES IT MOVE THE
NEEDLE TOWARD REPUBLICANS AS WE
GET CLOSER TO THE MIDTERMS?
>> WELL, DAGEN, I THINK THE
COMPETENCE PROBLEM FOR BIDEN
REALLY TOOK HOLD LAST SUMMER
WITH THE AFGHANISTAN WITHDRAWAL
DEBACLE WHERE HE MADE ALL SORTS
OF ASSURANCES ABOUT HOW THAT WAS
GOING TO BE EXECUTED.
MANY AMERICANS SUPPORTED THE
UNDERLYING POLICY, AND WE ALL
WATCHED THIS HUMILIATING,
OUTRAGEOUS, LETHAL FIASCO PLAY
OUT BEFORE OUR EYES, AND BIDEN
HAS NEVER RECOVERED ON THAT
METRIC, ON THAT FRONT.
AND SHE SHOULDN’T HAVE.
IF YOU LOOK AT ISSUE AFTER
ISSUE, IT’S HARD TO PICK ONE
WHERE THIS ADMINISTRATION HAS
EXHIBITEDDED CONSISTENT
COMPETENCE, ESPECIALLY ON THE
CLOSE-TO-HOME, POCKETBOOK ISSUES
AND VARIOUS CRISES THAT
AMERICANS ARE WATCHING PLAY OUT
HERE IN THIS COUNTRY EVERY
SINGLE DAY.
THE ONLY SURPRISE ABOUT THAT
OUTCOME IS THAT THE NUMBERS
WEREN’T MORE CROOKED, MORE
UPSIDE DOWN FOR THIS
ADMINISTRATION GIVEN THEIR
PERFORMANCE.
DAGEN: ON THAT NOTE, THERE’S A
REPORT THAT WAS IN PUNCH BOWL
MUSE THAT CHUCK SCHUMER, THE
SENATE MAJORITY LEADER, HAD TOLD
FELLOW SENATORS EARLY THIS WEEK
THAT THE HOUSE IS GOING TO LOSE
ITS DEMOCRAT MAJORITY IN THE
MIDTERMS.
I WILL NOTE THAT IN THIS NEW FOX
NEWS FOX NEWS POLL IT DOES SHOW
THAT THE BALANCE, PEOPLE IN
FAVOR OF DEMOCRATS FOR CONGRESS
HAS TICKED UP A LITTLE BIT.
IT WAS KIND OF EVEN IN THE LAST
POLL, I THINK IT WAS 41-41, BUT
IT’S PICKED UP A LITTLE BIT IN
FAVOR OF DEMOCRATS, I BELIEVE TO
44%.
BUT IS THAT SURPRISING?
BECAUSE CERTAINLY DURING THE
SUMMER, IT SEEMED TO BE THAT
DEMOCRATS WERE TAKING ADVANTAGE
OF ABORTION ISSUE AND THE FACT
THEY DIDN’T HAVE TO TALK ABOUT
ANYTHING ELSE BUT PRESIDENT
TRUMP’S RAID ON MAR-A-LAGO.
BUT NOW WITH THIS INFLATION
REPORT THIS WEEK AND THAT MAMA
NEUROPICNIC THAT BIDEN -- MANURE
PICNIC AT THE WHITE HOUSE --
[LAUGHTER]
PEOPLE ARE FOCUSED MORE ON
WHAT’S HAPPENING WITH INFLATION
AND THE STOCK MARKET.
>> YEAH.
THAT TONE DEAF SPLIT SCREEN WAS
REMARKABLE.
I KNOW IT WAS JUST ONE NEWS
CYCLE, BUT I THINK IT SPOKE
VOLUMES.
IT’S THE TYPE OF THING THAT
MIGHT STICK IN THE MINDS OF
VOTERS WHERE HEIR GETTING
HAMMERED ON INFLATION EVERY
SINGLE DAY, AND THE WHITE HOUSE
IS CELEBRATING INFLATION
REDUCTION THE VERY DAY THAT THIS
HORRIBLE REPORT CAME OUT SHOWING
A LOT OF THESE ISSUES ACTUALLY
GETTING WORSE, CORE INFLATION
UP, GROCERIES UP ALMOST 14%.
IT WAS EXTREMELY FOOLISH OPTICS
FROM THE WHITE HOUSE.
IT IS THE NUMBER ONE ISSUE IN
AMERICA.
LOOK, THE POLLING -- IT’S
ROUGHLY, IF YOU LOOK AT THE
AVERAGE, THE GENERIC BALLOT IS
TIED.
WE’LL SEE WHERE THIS HINGE MOVES
OVER THE NEXT FIVE WEEKS OR SO,
I BUT EVEN IF DEMOCRATS HAVE A
SMALL LEAD OR IT’S A TIED
GENERIC BALLOT GOING INTO
NOVEMBER, TYPICALLY THAT
FORETELLS VERY GOOD NEWS FOR
REPUBLICANS.
I WOULD JUST POINT OUT QUICKLY,
DAGEN, THAT LAST OCTOBER -- SO
OCTOBER A YEAR AGO -- THE
DEMOCRATS WERE UP FOUR POINTS ON
THE GENERIC BALLOT ON AVERAGE
ACROSS THE COUNTRY.
WHAT HAPPENED IN NOVEMBER OF
LAST YEAR IN VIRGINIA AND NEW
JERSEY?
IF AN 11-12-POINT SWING IN THE
OTHER DIRECTION.
SO I’M KEEPING MY POWDER DRY, I
THINK, ON SOME OF THE POLLING
NUMBERS, AND I THINK CHUCK
SCHUMER’S NEWS FLASH TO FELLOW
SENATORS IS SOMETHING A LOT OF
PEOPLE HAVE BEEN EXPECTING FOR A
LONG TIME.
DAGEN: KAROL MARKOWITZ SAID
YESTERDAY ABOUT RANDI WEINGARTEN
WHO MADE AN APPEARANCE ON THE
CAMPAIGN TRAIL IN VIRGINIA RIGHT
BEFORE THE ELECTION, LIKE, HAVE
AT IT, DEMOCRATS, BECAUSE RANDI
WEINGARTEN WAS THERE AT THE
WHITE HOUSE FOR THIS INFLATION
CELEBRATION.
>> YEP.
DAGEN: LET THEM BRING HER OUT ON
THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL WHENEVER,
WHENEVER THEY SEE FIT.
ON THIS NOTE, WISCONSIN --
SPEAKING OF CAMPAIGNING, THE
DEMOCRAT SENATE CANDIDATE
AMERICA ENDELL BARNES SHARED HIS
METHOD TO COMBATING CLIMATE
CHANGE BACK IN 2018.
REASON TO THIS, GUY.
>> THE REASON WHY WE’RE IN THIS
MESS, IT’S CAPITALISM RUN AMOK.
THAT’S WHY WE’RE IN THIS
PREDICAMENT NOW.
THE SAME REASON WHY GUN VIOLENCE
IS SO RAMPANT IN THE UNITED
STATES OF AMERICA.
SO THE SIMPLE ANSWER IS GET
MONEY OUT OF POLITICS.
SECOND ANSWER IS STYMY
CAPITALISM THE WAY IT IS MANY
OUR -- IN AMERICA.
AND THE THIRD IS TO ORGANIZE.
DAGEN: UM, I COULD TALK ABOUT
THAT LITTLE NUGGET OF WISDOM FOR
ABOUT THREE HOURS, BUT WHAT DO
YOU SAY ABOUT THAT?
AGAIN, YOU’VE GOT TO GO BACK
SOMETIMES TO FIGURE OUT WHO
THESE CANDIDATES REALLY ARE.
>> STYMY CAPITALISM.
HE ALSO SAID WE’VE GOT TO GET
MONEY OUT OF POLITICS, VERY RICH
COMING FROM NOW THE DEMOCRATS
WHICH IS THE PARTY, THEY ARE THE
PARTY OF BIG MONEY IN POLITICS.
THEY’VE BEEN OUTRAISING AND
OUTSPENDING REPUBLICANS BY A
LARGE MARGIN IN MANY OF THESE
RACES INCLUDING, I BELIEVE, HIS
OWN RACE.
SO THEY TALK A GAME ON THAT,
THEY BELIEVE SOMETHING VERY
DIFFERENT.
BUT BARNES IS A RADICAL.
HE IS NOT JUST A SORT OF
LIBERAL, RUBBER STAMP BIDEN
DEMOCRAT WHICH WOULD BE BAD
ENOUGH FROM MY PERSPECTIVE, HE
IS WAY OUT THERE ON THE LEFT ON
BLM STUFF, ON DEFUND THE POLICE.
HE REALLY FOMENTED IN SOME WAYS
WITH HIS RECKLESS WORDS THE
RIOTS THAT DESTROYED KENOSHA,
WISCONSIN, BLAMING POLICE IN A
SLANDEROUS COMMENT THAT HE MADE
AS LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR.
THIS IS A VERY IMPORTANT RACE.
RON JOHNSON, THE REPUBLICAN, IS
THE INCUMBENT.
AND I THINK YOU’RE GOING TO BE
HEARING A LOT OF BARNES’ OWN
WORDS OVER THE NEXT COUPLE
WEEKS, AS THEY SHOULD, BECAUSE
THIS PERSON IS NOT A MAINSTREAM
DEMOCRAT FROM A PURPLE STATE.
DAGEN: OH, AND I FORGOT THE NAME
OF TERRY McAULIFFE ARE.
EASY TO FORGET, BUT THAT’S WHO
RANDI WEINGARTEN WAS RUBBING UP
AGAINST AT THE VERY END OF THE
GUBERNATORIAL RACE --
>> AND IT WAS GOVERNOR YOUNGKIN,
RIGHT?
THAT’S WHAT HAPPENED.
DAGEN: YES.
AND WINSOME SEARS.
INCREDIBLY DIVERSE LINEUP OF
REPUBLICAN LEADERS IN MY HOME
STATE AND WHERE YOU LIVE NOW
TOO, GUY, RIGHT?
>> BIG UPGRADE.
AND, I MEAN, IT WAS A
JUXTAPOSITION LOOKING BACK TO
LAST YEAR.
AND, BY THE WAY, I THINK
EDUCATION NEEDS TO REMAIN FRONT
AND CENTER FOR REPUBLICANS THIS
YEAR.
IT WASN’T A ONE-TIME THING WITH
YOUNGKIN.
BUT HE WAS OUT WITH A HUGE CROWD
THE NIGHT BEFORE THE ELECTION IN
LOUDOUN COUNTY.
I WAS THERE JUST TO OBSERVE, AND
TERRY McAULIFFE WAS
CAMPAIGNING, BASICALLY, IN
WASHINGTON, D.C. IN FRONT OF A
FEW DOZEN PEOPLE WITH RANDY
RANDI WEINGARTEN.
I THINK REPUBLICANS SHOULD FLY
HER TO ANY DEMOCRATIC CAMPAIGN
SHE WANTS TO GO TO FOR THE NEXT
TWO MONTHS.
I THINK REPUBLICANS SHOULD