Speaker 1: This is the morning happy Saint Patrick's day, as the
Speaker 1: legend holds Saint Patrick cast the snakes out of Ireland
Speaker 1: and into the sea. Whether true or not, there are
Speaker 1: no snakes in Ireland today, but many slither about in
Speaker 1: these United States. And if you were to turn on
Speaker 1: the television this morning on NBC News or to look
Speaker 1: at the Drudge Report, then you would have had a
Speaker 1: chill run down your spine when you heard the news
Speaker 1: today that Donald Trump is more popular than he has
Speaker 1: ever been, maintaining his apigy of forty seven percent approval
Speaker 1: as he degrades America's alliances, insults our allies, wages economic
Speaker 1: war on Canada, sells out Ukraine, assaults the government, treats
Speaker 1: government employees like insects, and rambles nonsensical idiocies from morning
Speaker 1: till night. But these numbers that celebrate Trump's strength should
Speaker 1: not make you look away. They should make you look
Speaker 1: more closely. So we're gonna do something this morning. I'm
Speaker 1: going to take you through the poll as if you
Speaker 1: were my client sitting across the table and we had
Speaker 1: to talk this morning at the meeting about the NBC poll.
Speaker 1: Now let's get into it. The number that's being sold
Speaker 1: to the American people as the news. In the poll
Speaker 1: is this one that shows Trump's approval strength, this number
Speaker 1: forty seven, and in fact, that is a high number
Speaker 1: for Trump. Now here's the way you have to read these.
Speaker 1: You have to connect two numbers in the poll. You
Speaker 1: have to connect on the negative side, those that feel
Speaker 1: very negative I would be one of those people about Trump,
Speaker 1: and those that feel somewhat negative about him. And then
Speaker 1: on the other side of that, there are people who
Speaker 1: are okay with Trump, kind of like them, and there
Speaker 1: are people that are really into them. When you add
Speaker 1: those numbers up, and you can do the same for
Speaker 1: Elon Musk and for JD. Vance for the Republican Party,
Speaker 1: you see what they are. You see what those negative
Speaker 1: numbers are added up, and you see what those positive
Speaker 1: numbers are added up. Now, the truth of the matter
Speaker 1: is that most of America's political media has no idea
Speaker 1: how to read a poll, has never read a poll,
Speaker 1: doesn't understand the statistical science behind public opinion research is
Speaker 1: easily manipulated by people who do. And those people who
Speaker 1: cannot read a poll do not comprehend what a poll is.
Speaker 1: Are also very very very limited in their travel around
Speaker 1: the country and exposure to the American people as a
Speaker 1: general proposition. Now, let's look at the Democratic Party's numbers
Speaker 1: in this Let's add up everybody that has a highly
Speaker 1: negative feeling and a negative feeling. Look at how big
Speaker 1: that number is, and look at the number of people
Speaker 1: that have a very positive feeling. And now compare that
Speaker 1: number to Trump, who people don't like, to Musk who
Speaker 1: people don't like, to the Republicans who people don't like.
Speaker 1: But it's the Democrats as an institution that are wrecked
Speaker 1: upon the rock. They are despised as an institution. And
Speaker 1: this does not mean, by the way, the millions of
Speaker 1: Democratic voters. It means the hundreds that run the institution
Speaker 1: from Washington, DC, And it means an awful lot of
Speaker 1: the Democratic governors who are in whisper mode lately, except
Speaker 1: for Gavin Newsom, who you can find on his new
Speaker 1: podcast with every right wing whack job, it seems on
Speaker 1: a new weekly basis. Congratulations, Governor Gav, You're doing terrific
Speaker 1: for me. It wouldn't be the path I would suggest
Speaker 1: if I was getting ready for a presidential campaign, But
Speaker 1: who am I to know? At any level? The Democratic
Speaker 1: Party is simply not in a position to criticize anything
Speaker 1: that Trump does effectively, because the only people that are
Speaker 1: more popular than are putin in Russia. The news this
Speaker 1: weekend was that Democrats all over the country understood very simply,
Speaker 1: it did not need it explained to them that Chuck
Speaker 1: Schumer had given away all leverage against Donald Trump in
Speaker 1: an act of surrender and appeasement. And this was the reaction.
Speaker 1: These numbers, the lowest in the history of the Democratic Party,
Speaker 1: are before Chuck Schumer's Friday appeasement that will live in
Speaker 1: infamy as the weakest day on bended knee in the
Speaker 1: entire history of the United States Senate that an opposition
Speaker 1: minority leader has ever spent abandoning all principle, all leverage
Speaker 1: for the proposition I did it for you to save
Speaker 1: you from Trump later. What Schumer is is a philosopher
Speaker 1: that holds, let me feed the crocodile first, so that
Speaker 1: I may be eaten last. Over to the Democratic House members. Now,
Speaker 1: what this poll really shows is the urgent and absolute
Speaker 1: necessity we're there to be an opposition that strikes back,
Speaker 1: that fights back, and it's simply cannot and will not
Speaker 1: form from Washington, d C. From the geriatric Democrats, from
Speaker 1: their failed leaders, from the corruptocracy that produced in a
Speaker 1: choice a result that elevated Donald Trump. The question is
Speaker 1: is did Donald Trump off the Democratic Party? Can it
Speaker 1: come back? Good news is, since it survives segregation and slavery,
Speaker 1: it probably will, and hopefully that will be soon. But
Speaker 1: until then, it's these numbers that point to the opportunity
Speaker 1: that Democrats have governors and a nascent forming grassroots opposition movement.
Speaker 1: The American people are experiencing Trump's tariffs, They're experiencing his economy.
Speaker 1: Look at these numbers. The American people don't like Trump's
Speaker 1: treatment of Ukraine. They don't like his treatment of Zelensky.
Speaker 1: Look at Zelenski's numbers. The American people understand that this
Speaker 1: man is a hero. They understand that Trump is a scumbag.
Speaker 1: So three things can be true at once. Zolensky's a hero,
Speaker 1: Trump's a scumbag, and the Democratic Party is completely ineffectual,
Speaker 1: which means the scumbag can attack the hero. But in America,
Speaker 1: the ineffectual party can't hit the scumbag. That's politics, and
Speaker 1: when a scumbag like Trump and all of his minions
Speaker 1: are given free reign and they face appeasement as opposed
Speaker 1: to iron opposition. The situation deteriorates. The good news for
Speaker 1: the Democrats is as that Trump number drops, they become
Speaker 1: the latent beneficiary of it, but not in the way
Speaker 1: necessarily that they think. What these numbers show everybody is
Speaker 1: that this is the year to run for office is
Speaker 1: that this Trump era is just beginning, and the issues
Speaker 1: that elected him, with the exception of immigration, where his
Speaker 1: numbers are strong, are in a state of collapse. Donald
Speaker 1: Trump ran saying he would end the Ukraine War on
Speaker 1: day one. Well that didn't happen. What he did was
Speaker 1: this in the oval, officeless, you don't know, God, bless
Speaker 1: You're not blessed, you don't know. Don't tell us what
Speaker 1: we're gonna feel. And now the American people evaluate the
Speaker 1: situation like this unhappily. So what this poll really shows,
Speaker 1: through all the bluster, through all the bs, through all
Speaker 1: the smoking mirrors of the coverage, is that Donald Trump
Speaker 1: is failing and the American people are anxious, and he
Speaker 1: is poised to be attacked, to be hit, to be
Speaker 1: struck politically, his head can very easily be driven underwater.
Speaker 1: But it requires a Democratic leadership to be completely changed out.
Speaker 1: It means that Chuck Schumer has to loosen his iron
Speaker 1: grip on power. But Chuck Schumer's part of the me Me, Me, Me, Me,
Speaker 1: Me Me caucus that will hold on for as long
Speaker 1: as they can, like Diane Feinstein and like Kay Granger
Speaker 1: of Texas who just went missing until she was found
Speaker 1: in the Alzheimer's clinic. Honest to God, true story. Here's
Speaker 1: the headline in this moment. When Donald Trump is meandering
Speaker 1: about the globe looking for trouble where none existed, trying
Speaker 1: his hand at international statesmanship and peacemaking, sending his real
Speaker 1: estate developer buddy all around the world to negotiate with
Speaker 1: Vladimir Putin on Ukraine. This will all end badly. The
Speaker 1: numbers show the American people into it the direction everything
Speaker 1: is going. The only thing missing is somebody to stand
Speaker 1: up and fight back and to say follow me inside
Speaker 1: the Democratic Party. Who will that person be? This poll
Speaker 1: says Trump is strong. It's not how I read it.
Speaker 1: The pole says Trump is vulnerable. He's leading with his chin,
Speaker 1: He's failing on the issues that elected him. People are patient,
Speaker 1: don't give him a chance. But What keeps him up
Speaker 1: isn't anything that Trump's doing. That's what's pulling him down.
Speaker 1: What keeps him up is how pathetic the Democratic Party
Speaker 1: is in Washington, d C. And because they're so bad,
Speaker 1: so smug, so ineffectual, they can't hit Trump even though
Speaker 1: he is a soft, giant target and people know he's failing.
Speaker 1: The loss to Trump remains mind blowing. And don't let
Speaker 1: anybody ever tell you that Trump was unbeatable. He was
Speaker 1: made unbeatable by Joe Biden's lying, by the gas lighting,
Speaker 1: but he was not unbeatable, and right now he's not
Speaker 1: on ole problem is not the American people who see
Speaker 1: what's going on is the impotence of the minority party
Speaker 1: in Washington, the laydown party, the we're winning party, the
Speaker 1: I'll bring my small paddle to a proverbial gunfight party.
Speaker 1: America has a fascist party, it seems, and a pathetic party,
Speaker 1: and it's not working out great for the country. But
Speaker 1: at any rate, that's what the poll says. This is
Speaker 1: the warning. I'm Steve Schmidt. This is the warning. I
Speaker 1: invite you to join this community where I promise to
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