Trump’s Promise to End Israel Military Aid: Midterm Fallout & the GOP’s Future

Jack Moore: Welcome to More to Consider, Jack and Charles. It is November three, year of our Lord 2026. So today is election day. We're going to record this before the election, and we're running a a live stream at 7 p.m. Eastern Standard Time as the polls close here on the East Coast. So we're going to talk about what's in the news today and some of this, Once we do the live show on what the election results are going to be, might seem to be somewhat outdated, but we're doing a show on this because there's some interesting things. One, we did a piece the other day that we haven't released yet on the question of Trump making the comment, that we got to get out of the daycare business at the federal level because we have wars to fight. And Charles and I discussed, you know, how the voter hears that. Many people are hurting economically. Gas prices, all fuel prices, diesel gas are through the roof. It's having an overall net effect on people being able to live day to day. So are they going to take that out on the Republican Party, namely anything Trump here in 2026? So, interestingly enough, I hear this this morning on November third. I read this from ABC News. Trump says four billion dollars in Israel military aid will end. This year, citing political reasons. Trump on Tuesday said he made a deal with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

Charles: Yeah.

Jack Moore: that we'll see the U.S. cut off military aid to Israel this year because Republicans suffer the slings from Democratic candidates over this issue. The president's comment came as voters head to the polls for the last day of voting in the high-stakes midterm elections. The elections could ultimately determine how effective Trump's agenda will be in the back half of his second term. So, Brother Charles, is this too little, too late? Is this on the face of it, he seems like he's being he's making a political plea on on election day. So first of it, just

Charles: Yeah.

Jack Moore: what's your overall impression of this?

Charles: It is a little too late. It's a it's a little too little and is most certainly late. Because people have been calling for this for quite some time and he didn't want to have anything to do with it. But I'm assuming that they're looking at the polling as to what is what is really bothering people. Is it is it the money or is it Israel per se that that's the issue? No. It's the money going to Israel that's the problem. And when people are hurting, as you said earlier, when people are hurting here, they're asking questions as to why are we sending money to other people? And I've heard I've heard people say, well, why is it that you why are people really complaining about Israel all of a sudden when we get foreign aid to a whole bunch of other countries? Remember my response to that, and it's not just mine, it's other people's response to that, is we don't really see other people, other countries dragging us into wars. That's what it is. So if you're going to take our money like other countries do, don't highlight it by slapping us in the face by saying, not only are you going to give us money, but you're going to fight it fight our wars also. And people just like, no. And the polling is showing that.

Jack Moore: Well, here's another thing too. We've turned it into voting season, as we have the four seasons of the year. Voting

Charles: All right.

Jack Moore: goes on for so long. And isn't it sort of accepted that people that lean Democrat vote earlier? Don't they vote more like are Republicans more traditional in voting on the day of the election more so? Okay. So so what you have to consider is and I don't It it's the things we've we've been saying for some time. I think it's become folklore. Maybe it's true, maybe it's not. There seems to be this thirty-five to forty percent of people that are hardcore Democrat, hardcore Republican, making a 70 to 80 percent swing, and it's always the twenty to thirty percent that decide in the middle. They get swayed back and forth depending on the state of things. So we have talked quite a bit in the last six months about. Some I don't call the death of MAGA, but certainly 2024 Republican Party and how much of the party aligned with what they consider themselves to be MAGA has decreased, quite a bit.

Charles: For sure.

Jack Moore: Right. And most of this probably happened in the calendar year 2026. This has been the trigger of quite a bit of it. So if we accept that. And we try to get into the minds of voters throughout the country. And all of the House is up for grabs, it always is every two years. One third of the Senate is always, you know, it's 33, 33, 34. The Senate seats are always going to be in play. So these are the midterms. This is between two, you know, this is the two years in between, the four between the presidents, between the next presidential election and twenty twenty-eight. So Trump is lame duck. He's going to be. I just think what's going to happen is the Democrats are going to get enough votes. I mean, winning the House is not going to take much because it's always what's what has it been the last two years? One, two, five seats, tops, whatever I don't know. It's it's not been much of a gap.

Charles: Right. No, it hasn't been.

Jack Moore: And I think the Senate is what, fifty-three Republicans right now going into this? Yet I think the Senate.

Charles: that's about right. I I don't know exactly.

Jack Moore: Yeah. Okay. So we're going to play with that. We're going to definitely talk about it when we get into the live show, which nobody knows that when they're going to see this that we're going to be doing a live show, but they'll understand it in the context. So anyway, my point is I think we're going to get endless impeachments. They're going to impeach them for everything. And like I've said before, I don't know that there's not enough votes. There's I think what's conceivable is there's going to be a total restructuring of the Republican Party. Once Trump has been this level of neutered, he can't be reelected, that I think you're

Charles: Right.

Jack Moore: going to see people just diving off the ship. There's there's going to be all kinds of directions. And then the question would be can the House get the votes to impeach him? Yes, that will happen. and and this brings up an interesting point. I remember it was Gerald Ford, I think, that famously said, you can impeach somebody for wearing the wrong color tie. I remember that being in a Open discussion about this at a university in Virginia, not the University of Virginia, but a university in Virginia

Charles: Yeah.

Jack Moore: during the Clinton thing. And there was a guy for the Democrats that was saying, Well, that's the craziest thing I've ever heard. I said, Well, let me ask you something. If the members of the House were to get together and vote out articles of impeachment and said he wore the wrong color tie, and then they take it to the Senate and they have the political will to vote him out for that, isn't that sufficient? Well, it's still not a High crime or misdemeanor. I'm like, according to who? The thing is, there is no appeal of an impeachment if there's removal. It is

Charles: Mm-hmm.

Jack Moore: tried before the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. There is nowhere to appeal other than the political damage that you might receive if you remove a popular president. Well, he's not popular. So my point

Charles: Yeah.

Jack Moore: is they have to get, now we got to get this straight again. I think it's not just two thirds of the Senate. They've got it. it is two two thirds, right? It's got to be 67 votes, I think, for removal, if if we're not mistaken on that. Yeah.

Charles: Right. Gotta be a supermajority.

Jack Moore: Right. It's it's is not the 60 out of 100. It's gonna be 67. So let's say that the Democrats go to 52. They gain control of the Senate with 52. I don't know that there won't be 15 or so Republicans that won't say, you know, we got to restructure this whole party. Let's just go ahead and get them out. What's going to be the repercussions?

Charles: Well the the thing is is getting him out actually going to solve the problem? Because he's not on he's not

Jack Moore: Well yeah.

Charles: on the on the ballot right now. And because he's not on the ballot, I I guess somebody could say, Well, Trump even being there is dragging the the the party down. I seem to remember Trump saying a few times, everybody should vote like I'm on the ballot. Really? Okay. Well, if that's the case, then I'm voting against you. So

Jack Moore: Okay. Yeah, we're we're I I we're not trying to spin into two different discussions. And I just went off on something that really doesn't matter. I was just trying to make a point that I think what's going to be the fallout of this midterm is endless impeachments. And I'm not and all I'm saying is if you're part of the Republican Party, there was a cost to be anti-Trump. Fair, especially in 2024. Okay.

Charles: Yes. Right.

Jack Moore: And there's some people that were casualties from twenty twenty to twenty twenty four that went against Trump. there were casualties in that among Republicans. There's going to be another the other side of this. And for those that consider themselves Republican or want to be players in the Republican Party, I don't know that it won't become popular or at least by some analyst telling Republicans, you want to be on the front side of stepping over his grave on this. You want to be part. If you're gonna run in twenty twenty eight for for a congressional seat or for the Senate, or potentially you wanna be a presidential candidate, do you want to be on the side of the now gone Trump or do you wanna be part of this restructuring of the party?

Charles: But what does that mean? W what is restructuring actually mean when it comes to them?

Jack Moore: It means they're gonna have to okay. Here's what I'm saying.

Charles: Yes.

Jack Moore: I know I'm being a little bit murky here, but what I'm saying is there was Trump in twenty sixteen, took out seventeen establishment Republicans of varying degrees of establishment, but he took them all out. Fair. Okay, we know it. The

Charles: Yes. Yeah.

Jack Moore: party became him. The party became him, and then we went through whatever we did in twenty twenty, we went through January sixth, we went through a Biden administration, and he got a second life. After all the indictments, we know it, whatever happened in Butler, whatever happened on the golf course, whatever, there were attempts against his life, whatever all that was, he literally won the popular vote and won re-election. Stop in time right there, November 2024. Okay. He has gotten some people who were fringe Democrats, maybe. Maybe they're more libertarian, maybe they're more on the just decided appeared of sanity, kind of starting to flow with Trump. Then I think it that was the heightened if you were a Republican, you had to be Trump. That's unfair.

Charles: Yeah, that's that's fair. There's an issue with that.

Jack Moore: So there Well let me just set the premise and then we'll discuss it. But

Charles: The Okay.

Jack Moore: I'm saying all I'm saying is there was a heightened time of to be not Trump was not good, to be a Republican. That's all I'm asking. Is that fair? Don't you think that's a

Charles: Right. Yes, because they were considered establishment.

Jack Moore: Wait a minute, who was considered establishment?

Charles: If you for those who weren't Trump, you were considered establishment. Well, that's the problem that the Republicans about to run into. Well, not Ronos,

Jack Moore: Mm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Rhino rhino's r kind of a

Charles: but establishment. And that's the problem that the Republicans about to run into. Because people are going to be asking,

Jack Moore: Are you gonna okay, you're gonna have to before you go any further, you're gonna have tell me, like a Mitt Romney, would you have thought of him? Did he carry the label? I know he was out of the picture by this time, but was he one of those ones or Cheney, daughter Cheney? no, what can I think of her first name? Dick Cheney's daughter. come on, give

Charles: Less.

Jack Moore: me the f yeah, Liz Cheney. Were weren't those people considered establishment Republicans and also

Charles: Right.

Jack Moore: were they not referred to as rhinos by many?

Charles: No, no. Well,

Jack Moore: They were not.

Charles: know maybe maybe a small few, but the thing is it's the establishment Republicans like the Mitch McConnells, those those Republicans that has such an issue with Trump. so if that's the case, what do we

Jack Moore: But yeah, okay.

Charles: what are we going back to? We're going back to them. Well we don't want them either.

Jack Moore: I I'm saying, I'm saying something. Okay, you're you're right. I I okay, I gotta catch myself on how I'm I'm saying this. Okay. I'm saying this. Let me try to clarify. Clean up all aisle six, big cleanup. Trump became the party. I thought I heard a lot of people that said when they heard somebody anti-Trump within the Republican Party, that person is Republican in name only. They're rhinos, they're rhinos, they're rhinos. I don't know that McConnell

Charles: Okay.

Jack Moore: didn't even carry that label. But he worked

Charles: Wait, that's fine.

Jack Moore: with, but he but he worked with them. You got you got it, yeah. through that first. Well, they they got all the appointment, they got all the appointments on the Supreme Court. You're looking at you're giving me the look, but that

Charles: Yeah.

Jack Moore: was a big thing for Trump was to get the three members, and he did. He got the three members of the of the Supreme Court in, and they worked on some

Charles: That's about all we did.

Jack Moore: other thing. I'm not saying that in every news press conference, I didn't think McConnell hated Trump's guts. But I thought he herded the cats enough to get certain things done.

Charles: No, you're if you think about it, the the vast majority of things that that Trump got done is via executive order. Because the Republicans

Jack Moore: In the first term.

Charles: in the second term, especially in the second term, because the Republicans wouldn't do anything. That's why I'm saying, man, if the Republicans want to go back to how they were before Trump, they'll never win another nationwide election. Never. Because that's why he won. He won because

Jack Moore: I got ya. Yeah.

Charles: of that. So What we're gonna go back to establishment, we're gonna go back to Mitt Romney's. Good luck. Good luck. They're stuck between a rock and a hard place.

Jack Moore: Okay.

Charles: And actually, Trump did this to them because they the path that he was going down was fantastic until he started turning his back on his promises. And that's where people let him go. The Republicans, he was dragging Republicans along with him and they were they were d being dragged k kicking and screaming. They didn't want to do it. They didn't have a choice. But if they want if the Republicans are saying, Well, we're gonna get rid of Trump and then we're gonna go back to like it was when Bush was president. Yeah, okay. All right. Good luck.

Jack Moore: Okay. Trump may have destroyed what the old establishment was forever. It just it may not ever be going back to that. But what I'm what I'm saying is no matter what happens, whether he's brought before an impeachment trial and removed, there are going to be Republicans that are going to identify as other to Trump. And when they do that, when they do that. They could go back to try to be the party of the Bushes and, the McConnells and and the old school

Charles: The loser party.

Jack Moore: but I don't think that exists anymore.

Charles: Or that's kind well, it still exists, but they're losers. And that's why Trump

Jack Moore: Ri okay. But but many of are okay. And and I I just looked at this. Okay. W when was the last time at what point What is McConnell's status right now? He's no he he hasn't been the majority leader though. Right. So he's

Charles: He's he's not running. No

Jack Moore: yeah. So when you when you were saying to my memory, when we got back to twenty twenty five, he was not the impediment to Trump because he was no longer in the position. He's just been barely

Charles: Then was.

Jack Moore: hang right through exactly. So you were

Charles: He was an impediment.

Jack Moore: maybe so. May maybe so, but you you brought up McConnell and I'm just saying McConnell,

Charles: Yeah.

Jack Moore: while he was a thorn in Trump's side during the first term, seventeen to twenty one, they did I I think there was there was some kind of work and relationship there, especially as to getting through the nominees for the Supreme Court. Other than that, it was kind of a mess. You mentioned all the executive orders. I think he's been much more of an executive order president the second term when you agree than the first term.

Charles: Yes, for sure.

Jack Moore: Yeah. Okay. That okay. So we're on the same page there. Whatever McConnell is, though, he's 84 years of age, I think now, and he's not going to run again, or he's not running. And whatever happens, happens next with him,

Charles: Yeah.

Jack Moore: and he's an older man. Okay. So to try once again to clean up what I'm trying to say, I believe there's going to be Republicans. They might have in the past identified more as Rhino. They kept their powder dry. They kept their mouth shut. They didn't cut their own throat, as it related to Trump. They they just kind of stayed in the bushes. Or they weren't really rhinos, but they're a different Republican. Or they're kind of getting sent of something that's going to die out, and they're realizing they don't want to be a part of it as it sinks. So they'll reform it into whatever. But I think there's going to be a view. among maybe enough Senate Republicans that yeah, I'll jump on board to remove him because he's a sinking ship anyway. And when we come out the other side going into the elections of twenty twenty eight with again one third of the Senate up and all the House and the presidential election, they may want to more identify with, I wasn't with Trump all along anyway.

Charles: I listened to a podcast earlier today and it was with it was a Tucker Carlson podcast. Let me let me look

Jack Moore: Uh-huh.

Charles: find this lady's name. she is running for I my gosh. I think she's running for no, maybe it's governor of Wyoming. I think that's what it is. And one of the things she said I found awfully interesting, she was a she was a Republican, really, really deep in the Republican Party within within Wyoming. And the guy who she ended up running or is running against, this guy is a classic example of a rhino. And she's like, he's essentially a Democrat. That's that's what he is. But because the Democrats didn't have Snowball's chance in hell to win a a statewide election in in Wyoming, he just decided to run as a Republican. But he's bringing all the Democrat stuff with him. But the Republicans in Wyoming is like, yeah, but he's got an R behind his name. And she's like, But are you paying attention to what he's proposing? And it's like they're not. So, excuse me, her point was we we're gonna have a lot of Republicans who are truly Democrats. But because of the district or the states that they're running in, they have no choice but to run as a Republican. Now, you can take it to the opposite end of the spectrum and and think about Ron Paul. Ron Paul's a libertarian, but he didn't have a choice

Jack Moore: Yeah. Yeah.

Charles: but to run as a Republican.

Jack Moore: Nor did his dad pretty much. his dad is a member of the house, but right, he would often run. He did both. He

Charles: Well not not

Jack Moore: d he

Charles: not Rand, Ron.

Jack Moore: I said as his father, you s well, wait a minute, wait

Charles: I'm sorry.

Jack Moore: a minute. All right, back up. You said Rand, and I thought you were saying he ran for you were talking about Ron.

Charles: No. No, I'm saying wrong. Yes.

Jack Moore: okay, right, right, right, right, right. Okay, that's right. Okay,

Charles: Right. Ryan.

Jack Moore: but Rand has never run for anything other than as a Republican. But he is libertarian. He's very libertarian. Yeah. He's not he's not as

Charles: Correct, but the thing is when you look at he says he says he is.

Jack Moore: libertarian as his dad. Right, right.

Charles: Yeah, and a l some of the stuff that Ron I'm sorry, Rand is voting for and supporting is like no libertarian would ever support anything like that.

Jack Moore: Right. I I agree with he's a weaker libertarian, but isn't it also true that as a member of the House, Ron Paul Dad only won as a Republican. I think he was a registered libertarian at times, but I don't think he ever won the seat as a libertarian. Yeah.

Charles: That's that's right. For the fact that he got more money, if you want to call it that, and support from the Republican Party. Well, but again,

Jack Moore: Yeah. Mm-hmm.

Charles: on the opposite end of the spectrum, the Democrats are doing the same thing in heavily red places. So what do we get? And that's why I said the Republicans want to call it restructure their themselves. Restructure themselves to what? Something that we rejected in 2016? They want to go back to that.

Jack Moore: All right, the r here's where I think okay. I threw this bomb in the room and you're you're you're kicking it around. I like it. You're blowing up stuff. I like it. I know what you're you're doing, but I I know what you're saying, but all I was simply making the point is whatever what's gonna happen tonight is I think the Democrats are gonna win big in both houses of Congress. Okay? Full stop, done. Then it's going to be impeachment, impeachment, impeachment, bringing indictments against people. I think it's just going to be wide ass open after, open season on the Republicans. And all I'm saying is, I think that however, I'm not really getting into do they become rhinos, do they become whatever? I'm saying I think a lot of people instinctively that have had an R by their name are going to say, I don't want to be tied into Trump anymore. Which Is going to create a new Republican Party because the party for the last 10 years has been Trump. It has been Trump.

Charles: Yeah, it it has been. I I agree.

Jack Moore: And all I'm saying, I don't know what it's going to call itself. And I'm not getting into whether they're rhinos, truly rhinos, 37 and a half percent rhinos. I'm I'm not getting into that. I'm just saying that I think those who have called themselves and held office as Republicans are gonna kind of try to start running for the hills. They're they're and I don't and I'm saying some of them might think they're somewhat heroic in the eyes of the American public to be the one that does cast the vote for removal.

Charles: This is the Republican Party is going to resemble the Republican Party of the nineteen sixties and seventies. Essentially irrelevant. That's what's about to happen.

Jack Moore: Well, and I and let's think about something that, okay, historically and what might take. Okay, I'm just gonna go back in history. There were some Republicans in nineteen seventy-two as Watergate leaked, that were like, Well, the president, he's still a good guy and all that. Then he wins in a landslide. Remember, the break-in was in June of 72. So it was already leaked out. I was starting to get into the news that the Watergate break-in had happened. And then he goes on in November to win by a landslide. And then you get into 73, and now the controversy begins about what did he know? When did he know it? All this stuff. And then it takes until August of 74 for Nixon to resign because he realized at that point all the Republicans were were jumping ship on him. Okay, here's what happens. So now we get

Charles: W yeah, that's true. But why?

Jack Moore: into 70. Why what?

Charles: The whole the it is really coming out as of the past several years that that whole Watergate thing was a BS and it was all CIA. So okay. Yeah.

Jack Moore: I don't disagree. I don't I don't do no no, I don't disagree. The whole thing about Bob Woodward being no him being an a an intelligence officer in the Navy with no journalistic experience and all of a sudden he lands a job in the Washington Post and the first job he gets or the first story hey goes goes go snoop around the president. That seems kind of strange. No, no, I get and I've I've heard a lot or seen a lot, read a lot, and watched a lot that would suggest that maybe they ran a coup Nixon. But I'm saying

Charles: Yeah.

Jack Moore: what happened in the 76th election. Ford stuck with doing the pardoning of Nixon. So he's wearing that. Jimmy Carter comes in. I'm from Plains, Georgia. Now he's what, a nuclear physicist from the Naval Academy, and he's

Charles: Right.

Jack Moore: he's a pretty connected guy, to be this former j governor of Georgia. But the point is the Democrats win everything in a landslide. Landslide, landslide everywhere. And then Carter screws the pooch. Carter has one of the most unsuccessful administrations probably in history. And by 1980, that famous line, and many people have said, Reagan in 64 was a huge supporter of Goldwater. And he spoke out for Goldwater, which wasn't real popular to do. He was a Democrat who's converted to a Republican. And Barry Goldwater is really the forefronter of a libertarian thought guy that's in the US Senate's running for president. He gets landslided by Lyndon. Lyndon Johnson wins big. It's coming off the Kennedy assassination. Make of you well, but Johnson paid him as a warmonger because he was a World War II hero and he was going to escalate the war in Vietnam. Then Johnson went did that very thing, making on John making Johnson unpopular. By 68, he pulls out and says he won't run again. Then Bobby Kennedy shot. They throw Hubert Humphrey in there. And George Wallace splits the vote and Nixon wins in sixty-eight narrowly and then seventy-two by a landslide. Then the Republicans become unpopular. The way the press paints it, and I remember it vividly, all Republicans were crooks, and the re my point was the Republicans were all trying to scatter away from support of Nixon. So Carter wins, things start to go unpopular, and then Reagan asks the famous, Are you better off than you were four years ago? Then Reagan is about to tank out in 83, and the economy finally starts to turn. And then he wins in a landslide in 84. Then it seemed like the Republican Party was invincible. Bush forty one. Yeah.

Charles: no no well hold on hold on No the Republican presidency. The Republican

Jack Moore: Mm-hmm.

Charles: in Congress was irrelevant. That's what I'm that's my point. And that's why I'm I'm saying, so

Jack Moore: Well no, that's true. It wasn't until ninety four Okay okay, okay. But they did Okay.

Charles: what if they impeach Trump? Big deal. I don't really care, honestly, because right behind him is JD Vance, he's another Republican. It's Congress that's most important here because the con the House and the Senate are gonna be run by Democrats, period. They're not gonna be able to do anything.

Jack Moore: No, I don't I historically I don't disagree with that. I don't disagree with that. In eighty-two, the the Senate was taken over by the Republicans and they had a short stint there. And it wasn't until ninety-four with the Gingrich contract on America or contract with America, depending on, but Clinton had pushed things a little bit in the first, his first two years of the term. And that made it ripe for the Republicans to take charge. And then with that balance between Gingrich and the House. And Clinton in the White House, the nineties were pretty good because I think there was a tension between the two parties in control of everything. And I think people like that. Hey, have a Democrat president and have a a top guy. Go ahead.

Charles: And that's why tonight we're probably about to get the same thing. Which I that's why I think it's good. I think stalemate is great.

Jack Moore: I don't think so. Well no, you say that and that's true. No, you you say that and I was gonna say except for the fact of impeachment, but that's right, they did impeach Clinton. So they d they

Charles: Yeah.

Jack Moore: waited until n they waited until the re election and then they came after him again. Yeah. but everything we're talking about, it it's i it's almost like talking about, professional sports like teams and

Charles: Right, right.

Jack Moore: it yeah, and who all the play or villains, in some a, movie or something or a stream of movies. So the long and the short of it is what all I was saying from the start, I think Vance and Rubio were gonna wear Trump to a degree that might make them unpopular. They're gonna they're gonna wear it a little bit. I

Charles: Yes.

Jack Moore: don't know. Yeah. So if JD Vance becomes president through the removal of Trump, just play that out. Do you think he poops on Trump's memory or do you think he tries to defend Trump or what do you think he does? Or does he say then

Charles: The smartest thing for him to do would be would be distance himself from him.

Jack Moore: Yeah, but well I guess that's part of what I'm at let ask let me say ask you this too. What what per what

Charles: But

Jack Moore: percent of people in the United States do you think are still MAGA Trump? I'm talking total. I'm not talking about as

Charles: Mm.

Jack Moore: a percentage of Republicans, I'm talking about as a total of America.

Charles: Probably twenty.

Jack Moore: Yeah. I was gonna say between twenty and thirty.

Charles: Yeah.

Jack Moore: C 'cause when you gave that approval rating the other day, you said his disapproval was sixty four and his approval was thirty four, right?

Charles: yes.

Jack Moore: Right. So that would I would say if there's thirty four percent out there approving Donald Trump, it's gonna be MAGA. I don't think it's much more than MAGA. I there'd be it might have been thirty two and two percent there kinda I'd still rather have Trump than somebody else. But we would we would

Charles: And they're at a hundred percent approval.

Jack Moore: Well, we've talked

Charles: That's the thing.

Jack Moore: about yeah. Well, of MAGA, that's a hundred percent of MAGA is supportive of Trump. Right. But I'm saying we're trying to

Charles: Yeah.

Jack Moore: figure out what percent that was. And on the on the morning of the election in November of twenty twenty four, forty five percent of the country might have identified. Forty, forty five. I think it it might

Charles: Well

Jack Moore: have been that yeah.

Charles: the yeah, I agree with you. It it may have been forty five percent. But what they fail to realize is that it was the twenty percent of independence that pushed them over the top. They couldn't win without that twenty percent. And

Jack Moore: No, you've made that point, I agree.

Charles: and and that twenty percent is gone. Gone.

Jack Moore: Sure. Right. And they're going to be more directional voters. They're going to be they're going to be voting to on the direction the country's going. And I'll I'll be honest, in 2019, pre-COVID, and then as and people that have listened to the show for a while, I I st I still remember that the pretty guy and the pretty girl that were on CNN, or did I say CNN? Or it was one of these. I think it had three letters, but it was some type of network. And that's when Bright going into COVID, I'll never forget that the the lady says to the guy, gas prices are $1.91, I think it was, and there's no new wars and the stock market's booming. And I remember in the first two years of Trump, because when Trump got elected in 2016, I'm of an age, I was like, Can a guy that was doing what he did previously don't don't you have to be a career politician for no other reason than How would you know all the intel stuff if you haven't been on the inside? If you haven't been in the Senate, or you haven't been in some, or you haven't been a five-star general, or like Eisenhower. you have to know something from the inside, don't you? And then I was surprised in the first two years that things were going as well as they were. So back to this couple, she was like, good, good, good, check mark, check mark. And then she looks exasperated and she goes, How in the hell are we gonna get this guy out of office? And the guy does this kind of sinister laugh and he goes, What if there's a great economic catastrophe? And then boom. And I and I remember it was right Christmas twenty nineteen. I'm like, they're getting ready to do something. They're getting ready to do something because they got to get him out of office. So they got to make him unpopular. So boom, when COVID hit, I'm like, man, this all seems like orchestrated to get Trump out of office. Because here comes the election. Or, when the election comes up. So actually that had been almost the four years of his first term. But yeah, going into that period, I was kind of pleasantly surprised in his first two years in going into the second half. But then all the impeachment stuff started and that became a circus too. but on this time around, it wasn't deep it wasn't deep into this second term that I'm like, okay, the wheels are coming off the cart. And it doesn't feel doesn't feel the same.

Charles: It's pretty much for the same reason as in there's a a economic downturn, but this this was clearly avoidable.

Jack Moore: Well, this was more self inflicted, right? Whatever one

Charles: Yes.

Jack Moore: thinks of COVID and all that, many would say he didn't handle it correctly. That's the common line, but that's anybody that wants to blame him for everything is is going to say the well, he didn't handle it correctly. Like, okay, he didn't handle it correctly. He also didn't create it, but we get that. But this, whatever we're in right now in 2026, is self inflicted

Charles: Yes.

Jack Moore: to to some degree. Okay, anything else? so we've we started with where we started with is I just want to circle back in closing. Trump comes out and says that we, the Republicans, are paying a political cost to continue to give Israel the type of military aid, the kind of numbers in the dollars that have been given, and we stop it. It stops at the end of the year. And again,

Charles: Yeah.

Jack Moore: it seems to me to be a pretty blatant appeal to the voters on the way to the poll. We recognize this era, but too late.

Charles: Yeah, it's it's no different than if you vote for us we're gonna give you five thousand dollars.

Jack Moore: Yeah, that where did that go? I don't ever remember

Charles: Well I I guess.

Jack Moore: that really being visited again much.

Charles: Well, people people start calling BS on it from the start because the most logical question w would be, But you control the House and Senate now, why don't you just give us five thousand dollars now? And that was it. It disappeared when people start asking that one question.

Jack Moore: No question. Okay, what would you like to say in closing?

Charles: tomorrow's gonna be an interesting day. I'm gonna make sure to listen to all my local radio hosts to see how their heads are gonna be exploding. Yeah. It

Jack Moore: No question about it.

Charles: t a Twitter is going to X, whatever, is going to be on fire. There's gonna be a lot of people who are who are I can't believe this happened. how do we vote these people in? But not looking in the mirror. 'Cause that's how they got in.

Jack Moore: I'm with you on that. Okay. This has been more to consider. again, we're recording now for for later posting. So my plea to hey, watch our live streams not gonna really matter so much, but

Charles: Yeah.

Jack Moore: please go on all the different platforms and give us comments and give us a thumbs up and say nice things about us, hopefully, and subscribe. Okay. All right. So

Charles: Yes.

Jack Moore: this has been more to consider and come back and watch us again. Thank you very much. Thank you, Charles.

Charles: I do.