I Can't Believe This Happened...

All right, folks, I want to give you a major update on something. I am currently traveling, as you can see, the background is not what it normally is in my videos, and that's because I'm in the Republican state of Mississippi in the deep south, a very red state. I was at the Ole Miss College campus today for the Ole Miss Auburn College football game I was at the tailgate talking to voters, hoping to convince people to vote for Democrats in this very Republican state. And let me tell you, I was shocked, really stunned. At the amount of people who told me they're voting for Democrats in this state. This is a state that Donald Trump has won comfortably, three times in a row. It's a very Republican state. But people said they're fed up with Donald Trump. They're fed up with the Republicans. They're fed up with the failures. The economy, the gas prices, war, the Epstein files. They're done. And it was really a shocking experience, and some of the data actually backs this up. I want to start here with the Donald Trump approval rating in Mississippi. It's now hit a record low as the Iran War has continued to rage on. Nobody wants this, and even in Republican states, Donald Trump is getting underwater. And so I started looking into the voting data, and I was pretty shocked also to see this. Right now, Democrats are outvoting Republicans in Mississippi. Outvoting Republicans in Mississippi. According to NBC News, 62,000 mail-in and early votes have been cast. 49% of those votes are registered Democrats. 45% of those votes are registered Republicans. That doesn't even count for the Republicans who may cross party lines to vote for a Democrat. Scott Column, the Senate candidate here in Mississippi, the Democrat, is a prosecutor, a lifelong Mississippi, and seven generations of his family have been in this state. And he is running to unseat Cindy Hyde Smith, a Republican that's been there for 10 years has done nothing. Literally, she's introduced a bunch of bills. Zero of them have become law. So people are obviously fed up. And then I was on the campus today with my friend, Chris Mauri, who we're going to talk to in just a moment on the show as well, who's here with me, right over there. We spoke to Republican voters, and one guy came up to us and said, he's been in this state for a long time. He left for Florida, came back, and the state of Mississippi has gotten worse because of the current leadership, and he is actually voting for Democrats. Watch this. For a lifelong Mississippi, what have you seen improve in this state? What have I seen improve in this state? Look, I've been gone from this state for four years, moved to Florida, right? The state is still god-awful. The only thing good about Mississippi, you've got Axford, you've got Starkville, and you've got Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Do you think it might be a change, time for a change in leadership? I'm voting the-- Scott Colombo. Scott, let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Good, dude. Cindy, she needs to get out of office. All she's doing is taking money for herself. She's not helping the community. And she's not putting money back into Mississippi. And I think that's what we need as the political leaders, as we need to put money back into our state, and support the people that supported you through the run. And Cindy just wants it all for herself. We're going to go Scott Colombo for Senator, and that's what I like to hear, guys. Hey, bro, thank you so much. This guy's a legend. I appreciate it, man. You boys have a great-- Yeah, enjoy the game. See, that guy knows what's up. He knows what's up because, as he said, and we've heard from so many people in Mississippi, which is, I've lived in Mississippi. Nothing has gotten better. And Cindy Hyde Smith has done absolutely, positively. Nothing for the state. So as you saw, Chris and I were both in that video. We were both talking to voters today. And I was just telling everybody that I was shocked at the amount of people who said that they're voting for Democrats. Now, let's be clear. There were still people who came up to us and they were like, I like Trump. I like the Republicans. I'm going to be voting for them. There were people at a state who told us they voted blue or red in their respective states. But on a campus like Ole Miss, in a state like Mississippi, the amount of people who came up to us said, I voted Republican previously. I'm now voting blue. We're shocking for me. No, I agree 100%. And I told Harry this after we left. I tend to be-- you know, I'm lucky enough to be able to call politics, content creation, whatever, my job. But I tend to be a little more pessimistic about some races. Sometimes don't want to get my hopes up, especially after 2024. I was just saying it was very, I think, hard for a lot of us. But after leaving Ole Miss, I am more confident than ever in the midterm elections. I mean, realistically, if we were on Ole Miss's campus, an SEC campus, you know, in 2024, or at a time when Donald Trump was significantly more popular, I think that people would have been far more aggressive, a lot of mega hats. Like, there would have been a completely different vibe. But we were out there for hours talking to people and what I came to over and over and over again was people who, either, again, voted Republican their entire life. A lot of younger men who came up to us and said, "Look, like, Diesel, I had one guy." He said, "Disels at record highs. I can't do this anymore." I had another guy who said, "The Iran War was, I don't like either political party. I did vote for Trump, but the Iran War was so stupid. I think I might vote for Scott Cologne, the Democrat candidate in Mississippi. And so I'm with you, 100%. I was shocked, but in a really good way. I walked out of that saying, I think that the blue tsunami that is coming could be a lot bigger than any of us expect. Obviously, you got to make sure you get out there and vote to make that happen. But I was pleasantly surprised. - Yeah, and I talked about this on the show earlier today report that Republicans are really at the height of their panic. The reason being, they're now not preparing for a blue wave, they're preparing for a blue tsunami. And that's like, sometimes they read that reporting and I'm like, "That feels really good as a Democrat. I would love for that to be true," and then we get burned. And then we think we're gonna win and then we get burned. And going into this campus experience we had today, that's what I was thinking. And it was just the exact opposite. It almost kind of like reaffirmed that reporting that even if we don't win in the state of Mississippi, it may be closer than we've seen Mississippi in many, many years. And what was interesting is, you know, there's been a lot of conversation in the past two years about young men. Young men, straight white guys look like us. You know what I mean? We look like every white dude on that campus today. We talked to a lot of those fat guys. And again, a lot of them were like, you know, I voted for Trump in 2024. I'm gonna vote for Republican again. It's not to say that we didn't speak to any Republicans, but many of them are following this trend we're now seeing in polling, where a lot of young men are turning on the Republican party. They said I voted for Trump. Now I'm thinking something different. And to be clear, the Democratic Party has a major branding problem. These young men are not under the perspective that now we're like super sick and cool and everybody likes the Democrats and we do everything perfectly. But they are so fed up with Donald Trump. And so the young men demographic is often misunderstood. Young people generally in politics are often misunderstood. It could be a demographic that in politics the Democrats can really tap into. If we're doing stuff like this, if we're going to college campuses and having these honest conversations. - No, I agree with 100%. And I actually saw polling that that's his sub, which is that a lot of the Democrats are making a headway with a lot of demographics, including young men. But that headway looks like they really, really disapprove of Donald Trump and are done with their Republican brand. But they haven't quite said, you know, we're Democrats. There's a lot, I think there can be a misperception sometimes where there's a lot of people who say we don't, I don't like Donald Trump anymore. People who say I'm fed up, I'm done. That doesn't obviously then mean that they are Democrats or voting. So there is a whole 'nother step and I agree that, you know, we've gotten burned, you have to get out there and make sure that you vote. And I think that after the midterms there's going to be a lot of work to do for Democrats branding was. But I also think that all of this combines with, although we don't want to get burned, I was thinking a lot about the reality on the ground that we say, okay, polling might say this, but we've gotten burned before. But when you're talking to these voters on the ground for hours, you come quickly to the realization that there is truly no good argument for voting for Republicans. Whether that's in Mississippi and a state that struggled for a long time with Cindy Hyde Smith, who's literally been in office for a decade and has done nothing, nothing. She has introduced, or excuse me, not a single bill that she has introduced to Congress has passed. She has done nothing. She voted to cover up the Epstein file. She voted for the Iran War. So what, but whether it's in a state like this or in Michigan or Georgia or any other state, there is not a good reason to vote for Republicans. And that's when you start to realize, like, wow, I think a lot of this polling is actually right. I mean, I went to Athens, Georgia, talked to voters on the ground last week. I'm here in Mississippi. And I don't really have, I can't really debate anybody because the only things I hear are things that for most people land flat. Like the only thing I hear consistently, I had one guy today who told me, he ran away. I didn't want to talk 'cause that's normally what happens. It's hard to argue. But he said, oh, I don't like socialism. Like, again, this is ridiculous stuff. We're like men in women's sports or whatever. Like stuff that most people roll their eyes at. It's dumb. Like, we're not socialists. You know what I'm saying? The Democratic Party is not coming to take your kids. There is no good argument to vote for Donald Trump. You have to be a excuse, just being honest. You have to be a special kind of stupid to watch gas prices explode. When Donald Trump promised the end of inflation on day one and promised no new wars and we're in a new war. So if you are feeling a little hesitant, I do think it's important to remember that truly, when you are on the ground, when you're talking to voters, there is no good argument left. There's not a single one. It's all on the defense. And I think when you see that type of environment on the ground, it really gives me confidence that the polls that are showing this massive blue wave could be correct. And the final point I want to make, actually, is something touching on what you just said, which is something you and I experienced a lot today and got really frustrated with. None of the Republicans wanted to talk to us. They all, we would like, say, hey, can briefly you want to talk about who you're voting for. They'd say Republicans and keep walking. And we're not going to follow them and harass them. They're going to the game, fine. But none of them wanted to talk to us. And the few people that did all use those explanations of communism, socialism, something along those lines. They didn't want to speak. One hundred percent, I was in Athens and I ran into double digit. I will say the most people I ran into, voting for Jon Oshoff. Like it was really, really good to see in Athens, Georgia. I was born and raised in Georgia. Jon Oshoff's going to kill it. But I ran into double digit people who suggested at some level, I'm voting for microaggers, or said, I'm voting for microaggers. I'm a Republican F. Jon Oshoff. not a single one of them wanted to talk me. I tried for hours and I couldn't get even one person. There's a point I got very fed up. I said, can you just give me, I don't want to debate you. Just give me one reason. Nobody has a reason. And again, it comes back to the point of, I truly believe that that's happening because you can't argue it. Like even if you think you can subconsciously, you know that you're full of shit. Like you're just still somehow ingrained in the cold. And so you have nothing to argue. So I 100% agree. I think the reason people walked away today is so much because there's just nothing to defend anymore. Yeah, and I think they don't want to do it on the record. Yeah, exactly. They don't want to be tied to it. Like, you know, we go up and we like, okay, great. So you're a Republican. You're like doubling down on this. You're voting for Republicans again. The Senator you're voting for, voted to not only extend the Iran War, but voted to cover up the Epstein files. Please explain. Nobody would. Yeah, and they don't want to. And so it's an interesting thing. But it was a really interesting experience eye-opening and with the midterms just four days away at the time of filming this three for the most part, we will see what happens. I don't think either of us are saying that we're gonna win Mississippi. That'd be great if we expand in the map like that. It's still a tough state, tough environment. But the point is, like, I went in today thinking, like, there's no chance. I actually come out of today thinking, like, if the right things happen, something could happen. I'm 100% the same vote. 100%. Thank you all so much for watching. I appreciate you all. Please make sure to subscribe down below. Drop a like on the video. Comment, subscribe to Chris Marry as well. He's on every platform that I'm on as well. Show him some love. And we appreciate you all very much. And we will talk soon. Last thing, really quickly. This guy works harder than anyone else I know. He won't say he's very humble, but he is just non-stop recording posting videos and doing things for the betterment of the country. This guy cares so much about making this country a better place, ending Magga, ending Donald Trump and moving on as a country. And so it would mean a lot to me. 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