Laura Ingraham shines a spotlight on everyday Americans and examines how their lives are affected by politics at the federal, state and local level. Midterms. That is the focus of tonights angle. Now you probably heard this, traditionally, parties in power loses seats in the midterm elections. According to the latest quinnipiac poll, there are some troubling signs for republicans. But all is not lost. Check this out. You have to understand what is at stake, among independents, a group that trump won by four points, republicans face a 17point deficit as of now versus the democrats. Among white women, a group trump won by nine points in 2016, they are now preferring Democratic Candidates by a 14point margin. Among voters, 65 and older, they prefer dems by a 14point margin. Look, there is no doubt that the left is energized and they are craving for power. But if the Democratic Party gains majority, either house of congress, they will try to
turn . Lets remember, should nancy pelosi repossess the speakers gavel, you can bet that she will mier the country in endless investigations of the trump administration, and plunge us into a daily impeachment drama. No doubt about it. Tonight, i have four recommendations to keep all of this from happening. Number one the republicans should be out, day in and day out, selling the trump economy. Go across your districts and remind people that for his administration, its promises made, promises kept. The Republican Congress helped him along the way. The president promise peace and prosperity and that is what he delivered. He promised to hold china accountable, make nato countries pay their fair share. Renegotiate nafta. And that is what he is doing. Republicans promised to cut taxes and rollback onerous job killing regulations. And they did that, too. Now this is why the democrats keep talking about other issues, talking about things like mueller or michael cohen, michael avenatti, stormy. By the democrats do that . Because they have zero answers. To trumps success. They have no alternative except to go to the tangential, unimportant issues. Now the president , because he gets out or tell a story, he understands the value of touting the economy as he did tonight in florida. We are Setting Records like never before, since the election, we have added 3. 7 million new jobs. We are in the longest positive Job Growth Streak in history. The africanamerican Unemployment Rate has reached the lowest level in History History sorry about this, women. But the Unemployment Rate has
elections and republicans grip . Educate voters on what the democrats have become. The democrats, lets face it, have gone totally nuts. Then i want to abolish i. C. E. They believe people should not be able to use things like normal gender pronouns, that is offensive to democrats. They prefer that i guess we go to war with russia rather than supporting trumps diplomatic overtures to russia. They want to Sanctuary Cities from Sea To Shining sea. One guy even wrote a column, a democrat, about how we should have no borders at all. At least they are honest. They have a world where where Illegal Immigrants are protected while our citizens become an afterthought. So on the campaign trail, emphasize how the democrats are on the margins. They are the fringe. They are the radicals. They threaten individual libert liberty. This is the party now of regulation and speech codes. Its a party that is intolerant of any view but their own. They want to turn our entire
trump was having that fun tonight and telling those stories. I was shaking hands with policeman in new york city and the first one came up to me and said, mr. President , i want to thank you so much. I said, what did i do . He said, my 401 k is up 44 and to my wife thinks i am for the first time a financial genius. She is giving him all the credi credit. She said, darling, i love you so much. And he said, yes, i am great financial wizard. Laura the audience is laughing and having fun. That is what politics is all about. Making peoples lives better. Connecting with the electorate. Personalizing the narrative. That is with the president did tonight. He is out explaining why his policies are working. Highlighting the results and the benefits for particular reasons of the country. I hope he goes to places, by the way, that he lost in the general
election, or the vote was kind of close. Dont be deterred by the protesters or their resistance mentality from traveling to places like california, illinois, colorado, and go back to wisconsin, go to michigan. To win over independent voters, and even some democrats, the president and the republicans have to take the wind out of the resistances sales. This is best done by focusing on your results and offering more solutions without the histrionics or the side issues that will just be used to caricature you later on. And finally, if the president wants to do something in congress before the midterms, hey, i would push for a middleclass tax cuts. I know they are considering another Capital Gains tax cut but how about another middleclass tax cuts . Make what you already passed, and is working, permanent, and expand the cuts you have in place. That puts the democrats totally on the defensive and on the
that would happen. As a political strategy im talking about winning at november to prevent the impeachment of this president dash i think it is really risky. Its really risky. Why is it really risky . Because with suburban women, with the independent voters, that is not really where they are. Results matter. Making their lives better matters. And with the president on the wall 100 , but if you will takeg down the government, the time to do that, that was last march when the whole Omnibus Spending Bill Debate was going on. Right . That was in the president had the good instinct, it was in the morning he voted on it, the good instinct to veto it. The republicans made him change his mind had not come he didnt veto it. That was a time to take the sand. Now it is too close to the election, the midterm election. It would also convey a sense of chaos. That is not with those independent voters want to see. They want a happy warrior president. They want the economic success is touted. They want to know who the democrats really are. They wanted steady as she goes. Mr. President , keep the focus on the economy, like you did tonight, and your party cannot lose. Remind voters that without a g. O. P. Congress, your booming economy isnt sure to unravel. And then when it does unravel, it is going to give way to daily impeachment warfare on capitol hill. As for you republicans, who still dont really fully embrace the president s record, i have to say this, frankly, you dont deserve to win. For the rest of you, make these midterms just the start of something phenomenal. And that the angle. Joining me now for reaction as john summers, a democrat and former communication director fy leader harry reid, and dan bongino, and every tv contributor and author of the forthcoming book, spygate the
attempted sabotage of donald j. Trump. Great to see both of you. All right, john, take it away. Where do you think i went wrong with my four steps to holding the house and senate and on Boarding Impeachment . Speaker you had a lot of stuff in there. You also had some stuff that i dont disagree with. I think when we talk about with the president needs to do, first of all, hes got to improve his Approval Rating. They are abysmal right now. His Approval Ratings are currently lower than Richard Nixons work at this point in his presidency. Hes got to take some steps to improve his Approval Rating. I would love to see the happy warrior tweet overnight. It would be a welcome change, i think laura he was having fun tonight, jon. Did you watch the rally . That he was having a great time. He was having a great time in front of his base. But the base isnt what hes going to need to enact. Its great hes got i believe 88 Approval Rating among his base but that wont win over as you are saying, independence and other people. What hes got to do is go back, and republicans need to do this, and democrats need to do it, we all need to be focusing on the people who the hardworking families, who Elected Trump into office. A notice where he has lost sigh. One way he can do that is to provide farmers relief from this Terrible Trade War that he started. Laura Terrible Trade War thats working. Republican members of congress are begging for relief. Laura of course they are. They are used to big money from big Lobbying Organizations that want to keep the globalist going. Dan bongino. The end, you know the drill. These were some of their predictions for the november elections coming up that weve been hearing on tv from the usual suspects. Lets watch. You see the makings of a democratic majority. Figure the democrats have to win 21 seats to take control. I think it is a better than even chance at this point that its going to happen. There is definitely a blue wave coming and weve got to get ready for it and stop lying to
ourselves. You are plugged into a lot of republicans. Were they releasing behindthescenes . Speaker they are saying, get off the beach. Laura okay, dan. First of all, most of those people hate trim, were wrong about the election in 2016, but now they are giving out the advice. Your reaction . Laura, these are the same people who printed in the Washington Post that trump had approximately a 0 chance of winning. That was an actual headline. One of the bylines. Why would you write something so absurd . He obviously didnt have a 0 chance of winning. He speaks more to your animosity toward the person then i does your political acumen. Now i just want to address something john says. I am always kind of weirded out by this, when people say trumps should focus more on the middle class when he just was responsible largely for tax cut that has filtered down to the middle class and now we are seeing the numbers. I get this a lot when i debate with democrats. They try to prod you with
emotion, but they lose all of the facts and data. We just had the employment cost index. 2. 8 . Barack obama hovered around 2. 2 present this entire time hes at 2. 8 trump is only been in office two years weve just seen an explosive growth, even an Income Tax Revenue toward the government. Weve seen 4. 1 gdp recovering from eight disastrous years of barack obama. I think the middle class gets donald trump and i think, jon, i respect your analysis, i think you are way off there. If anybody sent up with the middle class, it it is trump. Its bigger Approval Rating would be way higher. But its not. The middleclass tax cuts that you are talking about, yeah, some of them do trickle down to the middle class mother majority of those tax cuts actually benefit laura those of the people to take pay all the gases, jon. The billiondollar tax cut is pushing for today for rich people. Laura for everyone who has
investments. How many people are invested in the stock market . If you are smart, if you are interested in in the stock mar. Its important for the republicans to take the high road. I would go for a middleclass tax cuts. You agree with me, dan bongino . I would push even further for those families under 100,000 income with three or four kids. I would cut them further. Let the democrats be told that. They would support the middleclass tax cut, not another tax cut that would laura a winwon for the country. I would like to see a five or six percentage point cut in the Metal Brackets that would affect would affect middleclass married families, no doubt about it. Notice that jon spins it again. They do this all the time. They say, it will trickle down to the middle class. No, the middle class got an actual tax cuts. I know if you are i dont know if you are unfamiliar with how the tax cut works. Maybe you should take check the
data. Laura we are out of time. I will say this. The president gets about 55 approval on the economy. Well see. A lot more to get to. Ron desantis up next. Big rally tonight. What happened behindthescenes . Will tell you. Dont go away. At bayer, our roots run deep. So chances are, youve seen us around the house. Or. Around the yard. On the shelf. Or even. Out in the field. Your mom knew she could always count on us. And your grandma did too. Because for over 150 years, weve been right by your side. Advancing the health of the people, plants and pets you love. So, from all of us at bayer. Thank you for trusting in us. Then. And now. Laura President Trump headline a wild rally in tampa, florida, this evening. A lot of my friends were there. Making a push for his agenda and throwing his support, full throated support, behind florida congressman ron desantis gubernatorial bid. We are restoring american strength and american pride. This may be, in fact it probably is, the greatest movement in the history of our country. But you keep it going, we need to elect more republicans. We need more votes. And we need to elect ron desantis as your governor. Laura you wonder how you get chosen to sit behind the president . I want to know. [laughs] joining us now with more as congressman ron desantis. What an amazing night, congressman. I know you were on cloud nine because somehow, last month, when i was down there, you were down 15 points, and now you are
up 12 points. Again, poles can change. Im not saying we are not getting too confident here. But that is like a 27point spring. What could possibly account for that, congressman . Look, we had the president has been behind me but was more public toward the end of june. We had a big debate on fox news, which showed the distinctions between the two candidates, which was very important, not just the fact that i am supported by President Trump in my opponent was fighting trump during the election, but also on some of these substantive issues that you and i have discussed, things like everify, being tough on illegal immigration come a big distinction there. But tonight, i think was just taking it to another level. Laura, that whole arena was filled with people. There were thousands of people waiting outside that couldnt get in. There was a lot of electricity. Those folks are fired up, ready to go, and florida is going to i think we will do well in florida and the midterms this year. Laura a lot of people are
talking about, because of the horrible Natural Disaster in puerto rico, and a lot of people are moving into florida from puerto rico, a horrible situation. They have failed to personally deal with registering to vote, some of them werent, they were going to a registered democrat. Do you have a strategy for dealing with that because i understand that the democrats are moving on that front . Obviously moving past the primary. Visiting congresswoman from puerto rico has endorsed me. Shes a republican. Jennifer gonzalez. Shes a good friend. That community in Central Florida is receptive to projobs, promote Economic Growth, proeducation message. So we can do it. Governor rick scott, his Approval Rating amongst that community in Central Florida is, like, 70 because hes worked very hard. He managed the hurricane, aftermath as well, and the maria aftermath, when you had folks
that were leaving part of regular come to florida. We need to compete everywhere. Laura you just came out with an ad that you are getting some flack for. A lot of us think its pretty adorable. We have to play it. Lets watch. Ron loves playing with the kids. Build the wall. He reads stories. Its bigger than mr. Trump said, youre fired. I love that part for you hes Teaching Madison to talk. Make America Great again. People say ron is all trump but he is so much more. Bigly. So good. Laura some people dont have any sense of humor. What is your reaction tonight to that ad . Some people think its kind of goofy. I have already endorsed you, full disclosure. Id discourse to five years ago when you werent announced yet. But what about that . The response has been overwhelmingly positive because in this business, you have to be able to take a step back, poke fun at yourself, have fun at this, and part of what makes me i think effective is that i have
a wife that is my best friend and best supporter, we have a family, that is very important to both of us. We wanted to let voters know about that. We wanted to do it in a way that is not the typical cookiecutter add to that no one pays attention to. So people who were getting upset about it, they have no sense of humor. I think that some people, it is just, like, the trump derangement syndrome, it sets in so much that they lose the ability to reason and have a laugh at some of the stuff. Laura first of all, i think your wife should run in the future. Im already five steps ahead of you on that. She gave a heck of a speech tonight in the warm up, laura. Laura already heard about it. Congressman, congrats. Great night tonight. We really appreciate it. The final sprint to the midterms is on with 90 days to go can you believe it a critical question looms. How will bob mueller and the rush of probe impact voters, if at all . There is no sign of it wrapping up but will the surging economies sweep the investigation to the side of the ballot box . Joining us now, the polling
heroes. Frank lance and doug schoen. Great to be with you. Doug schoen, your reaction, you heard the angle tonight, four pieces of advice as to how to avoid impeachment. As a democrat and a conservative centrist democrat, sort of where she would keep your opinions to yourself. The rant was exactly right. Running on the economy, a middleclass tax cut, is the progrowth message that the republicans need. If they get distracted shutting down the government over immigration, that is the