Laura Ingraham shines a spotlight on everyday Americans and examines how their lives are affected by politics at the federal, state and local level. Market in decades. By the way, we have 375,000 Manufacturing Jobs that did come back to the United States president obama. According to marketwatch today wage and benefits are rising at the fastest pace in the decade. The Employment Cost Index rose. 6 percent in the second quarter, a tick below the marketwatch estimate of 7. 4 . More important, the cost of worker compensation, pay and benefits, edged up 2. 6 percent to reach the biggest gain since mid2008. In other words, workers are making out better. You bet. The argument for every republican candidate goes Something Like this. Economyant to get this going, if you want to keep this job market thriving, see your Investment Accounts growing vote republican. Number two, a way to avoid impeachment, keep the midterm elections in republicans grip . Educate voters on what The Democrats have become. An The Democrats, lets face it have gone totally nuts. They now 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 worldview 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 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 country into, like, one big
college campus, where every expression is controlled by them. Number three argue that a life democrat Congressional Rule is merely going to be the nation will be locked into two years of relitigating the 2016 election. In other words, any real hope of solving our immigration, our spending, entitlement, our Infrastructure Problems it is all going to evaporate. With this economy roaring, right now, we can focus on those things, because of trump and his big victory, we are finally out of the post9 11 crisis mentality. Remember, it wasnt so long ago that we were either mired in the middle east or dealing with fallout from the Housing Bubble the financial crisis, or essentially just allowing china to dominate us with impunity. But thanks to trump, we can now as a nation, have a real
conversation, a debate would be nice, about the role that the United States will play in a world where the limits off globalization have frankly become pretty obvious. But lets not forget, The Democrats are loathe to even begin considering that. They dont want to debate. They want to personalize demonize, isolate trump from his base. The fourth way to win in the midterms and avoid impeachment be happy warriors have fun on the Campaign Trail. It is a great time to be an american. I cant think of a better time frankly, in my lifetime, and this economy, then right now. You kids out there watching these are the good old days. Because of the efforts of republicans and this white house, more americans will be able to pursue happiness. Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Sometimes we forget the latter part. People can realize their Dreamsr Trump was having that fun tonight and telling those
stories. I was shaking hands with policemen in new york cityie 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 my wife thinks i am for the first time a financial genius. She is giving him all the credit. She said, darling, i love you so much. And he said, yes, i am great financial wizard. Laura Thee 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 what the president did tonight. Nn he is out explaining why his policies are working. Highlighting the results and the benefits for particular regions 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 backm 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 sails. This is best done by focusing on your results and offering morece 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 spot. That means they are going to have to vote against their own constituents economic wellbeing. Thats a great idea. On midterm strategy, there was something of the president said about his wall and the desire for the wall that caught my attention. We are going to have tremendous Border Security that will include the wall we have started large portions of the wall but we are going to need even the way we e negotiate, we are going to need more, we will get more, and we may have to do some pretty drastic things, but we are going to get it. Laura all right, well, i hope by drastic things, hes not referring to a Government Shutdown. And a lot of You Conservativesot are like, yeah, Government Shutdown. I get it. Its tantalizing. Its, like, the Skeleton Crew works the government and functions just fine for a time being and it might force congress to fund the wall before the midterms, although im not sure that would happen. As a political strategy er im
talking about winning in november to prevent the impeachment of this president . I think it is really risky. Its really risky. Why is it really risky . Becauseur with suburban women with the independent voters that is not really where they are. Results matter. Making their lives better matters. Im with the president On Ther Wall 100 , but if you will take a risky gamble on shutting 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 on it, he didnt veto it. That was a time to take the ngstand. 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 successei touted. They want to know who The Democrats really are. They want it 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 is 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 thdeserve 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 is jon summers, a democrat and former Communication Director for Senate Majority leader harry reid, and dan bongino, and every tv contributor and author of the forthcoming book spygate the attempted sabotage of donald j. J. Trump. Both of you. All right, jon, take it away. Where do you think i went wrong with my four steps to holding the house and senate and avoiding impeachment . You had a lot of stufff 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 tos 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. And that is where he has lost sight. 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. Ey dan bongino. Dan, you know the drill. These were some of their predictions for the novemberer elections coming up that weve been hearing on tv from the usual suspects. Lets watch. You see the makings of a democratic majority. 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 trump, 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 oo 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. It speaks more to your animosity toward the person then it does your political acumen. Now i just want to address something jon says. I am always kind of weirded out by this, when people say trump 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. Ou we just had the Employment Cost Index. 2. 8 . Barack obama hovered around 2. 2 present this entire time hesis at 2. 8 trump has only been in office two years weve just seen an explosivep growth, even an incomewo 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 is trump. His 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, the majority of those tax cuts actually benefit laura those of the people that pay all the taxes, 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 invested in the stock market. 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 winwin for the country. I would like to see a five or six percentage point cut in the middle brackets that would affectoi would affect middlecls 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 j 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 taxow ct 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. Thwell see. A lot more to get to. Ron desantis up next. Big rally tonight. What happened behindthescenes . Well tell you. Dont go away. Including nasal congestion, which most pills dont. And all from a gentle mist you can barely feel. Flonase sensimist. Headline a wild rally in tampa florida, this evening. A lot of my friends were there. U making a push for his agenda and throwing his support, full throated support, behind Floridg 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 to keep it going, we need th 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 is 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, polls can change. Im not saying we are not a
getting too confident here. But that is like a 27point swing. 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 getpl 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 in 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 horriblee situation. They have failed to personallyda 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. The sitting congresswoman from puerto rico has endorsed heme. Shes a republican. Jennifer gonzalez. Shes a good friend. That community in Central Florida is receptive to projobs, proEconomic 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
of puerto rico to 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. Then mr. Trump said, youre fired. I love that part. Hes Teaching Madison to talk. Make America Great again. People say ron is all trump but he is so much more. T 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. I endorsed you 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