Walker Wildmon: Welcome to At the Core here on American Family Radio. We are just over seven days out from the election, eight days to be exact. The midterm election is Tuesday, November 3, 2026. You should plan to vote, vote, vote, and yes, vote once. Vote your values. Make sure you get your family and friends to vote and know what you're doing when you go to the ballot box. When you listen to American Family Radio, we provide all the tools, including iVoterGuide, which we'll talk about on this program. We'll talk to one of the leading get-out-the-vote organizations in the country, Turning Point Action. We'll talk to one of their spokespersons shortly about their work to get out the vote, chase ballots, and ensure that as many people as possible get out to vote on November 3rd. That's coming up in just over a week from today. Be educated, and make sure you vote. Disengagement isn't an option. That's what I like to say. Disengaging is not an option on the checklist. Let's turn our attention to Scripture. Acts chapter 24 is where we are this week. Here, Paul is giving a defense. Paul is not just giving a legal defense before the high priest, but he is also giving a spiritual, faith-based defense for why he is a follower of what was called the Way, according to Scripture. The Way is the way of Christ, the way of Jesus, capital W, the Way. Paul clearly does a very good job, not only with his knowledge of Roman law and Roman customs and his rights as a Roman citizen, but also with his theological and biblical defense for the fact that Jesus is the Son of God and that Paul is called to be an apostle and to help establish the early church. What we can take from Acts chapter 24 is that we, too, ought to be knowledgeable of Scripture and knowledgeable of our civil rights, our rights as citizens of whatever country we reside in, whatever country we're a citizen of. We should know our rights and know how to defend them in civil court and before civil government as well. That's where the term civil rights comes from. Acts chapter 24, the entirety of the chapter, is Paul's defense before the high priest Ananias. You can go and check that out. Operation Christmas Child is something I want to make sure I get to before we jump into the news and the content for today's program. We've been partnering with Operation Christmas Child for well over a decade, probably closer to two decades. You can go to samaritanspurse.org/OCC to find out all you need to know about packing a shoebox, donating to have a shoebox packed on your behalf, what can go in the shoebox, and when the deadline is. National Collection Week is November 16th through the 23rd, 2026, the week before Thanksgiving. We encourage you to participate in Operation Christmas Child. Let's jump into the news of the day. Pretty much what you're going to hear from me between now and November 3rd is midterms, midterms, midterms, because this is a very important election. We want to ensure our listeners are the most educated voting block in the country, because it's good to be educated and to know what's going on in our country so that we can do, as Scripture says, be salt and light. I tell people who are talking about whether they should vote, whether they're motivated, and whether they should participate in elections, that Christians are called to be salt and light, and there isn't a caveat there. There's no only being salt and light when you're at home, only being salt and light in the church when you're gathered with fellow believers, or only being salt and light when you go to work. We're called to be salt and light everywhere and at every opportunity given. Secondly, this is a matter of stewardship. Thankfully, in this nation, at this point in time, we've been blessed with the opportunity to choose our leaders. Generations past and previous civilizations would have loved the opportunity to choose their leaders, but they weren't afforded that opportunity. In America in 2026, we've been given that right and opportunity to choose our leaders. We should not sit on the sidelines. It would be neglectful to sit on the sidelines and ignore and disregard the stewardship opportunity we've been given when it comes to civil government. President Obama is making his rounds on the campaign trail. I would say a little late, but better late than never. As I've frequently said, President Obama was the biggest gift to the Democrat Party, and I'm not being sarcastic there. I'm being serious. When President Obama came onto the scene, obviously he was coronated by the Democrats, but he pretty much captured the Democrat voting base, had them on lock, and was even pulling over independents. His communication style is somewhat effective. His storytelling is somewhat effective. He does come off as more relatable than some of the other Democrat candidates in more recent history, let's say over the last five to ten years. President Obama coming on the scene for the midterms, for the Democrats, is good for them, although I think he should have come on the scene a little sooner. We're a week out, and he's now showing up in some of these states. I've got two topics when it comes to President Obama. The first one is President Obama's view on the Iran war and how President Obama, who was very soft on Iran and actually sent them billions in cash, is now trying to criticize President Trump for not being effective enough when it comes to the Iranian regime. Let's play the clip, and then I'll pick this argument apart. President Obama: Seven months later, how's that war going? Our allies and bases have been attacked. American soldiers have been killed. Hundreds of Americans have been wounded. We've run down our stock of missiles dangerously low. Iran now has veto power over the Strait of Hormuz, where oil goes through to get to the world. So they're in a stronger strategic position now than before the war started. That was a decision this administration made, and that is the reason that the price of oil is up, the price of diesel is up, and the price of just about everything is up. And by the way, it's not over. It's still going on. Walker Wildmon: I love how President Obama starts his speech, or starts that portion of his speech, talking like he's in Georgia, and then he ends that portion of the speech talking like he's in Chicago. I just can't figure it out. It is humorous how, whether it's Vice President Harris, President Obama, or even President Biden, they change the way they talk and their accent based on where they're speaking. President Obama shifted mid-sentence. He was in Georgia, and then he was in Chicago. Rick Green: Yeah, he started out with a drawl and ended up being very punctual, plain to the base, as it were. Walker Wildmon: That's what he's doing in this clip. He's not really making the case. If you want to get his track record on Iran, like you already touched on earlier, he sent $1.4 or $1.5 billion in cash on a military aircraft that he gave to them. He did nothing to enforce that treaty. It was absolute garbage. It wasn't worth the paper it was written on. It has come back to us in full strength because you look at the terrorism that Iran has spread worldwide ever since and name a faction. It all relates back to Iran, which he had the chance to mitigate and did nothing about. Rick Green: Exactly. He sent them pallets of billions of dollars in cash. And, President Obama, might I remind you, undermined Israel, our chief ally in the Middle East. Walker Wildmon: Folks, here's what I appreciate about President Trump that I don't think gets enough airtime. President Trump is not singularly focused on reelection. Of course, now he's a lame-duck president, or he's in his last term, but President Trump is not singularly focused on politics, reelections, and campaigns. Here's why I know that, and this is what differentiates him from previous politicians and even current ones. If President Trump were singularly focused on the midterms, the majority in Congress, politics, 2026, and even 2028, guess what? He wouldn't have gone after Iran. He would have sat on his hands, made excuses, changed the subject, neglected the seriousness of it, and handed it off for someone else to deal with. You can only do that for so long. You can only neglect an issue of foreign policy and national security for so long before someone will be forced to deal with it. Do you want President Gavin Newsom to be the one holding the nuclear football, holding the military secrets, and holding the commander-in-chief title when Iran finally does get a nuclear weapon? President Trump always takes the hard path, both politically and otherwise. I think there's some respect there, because we can have politicians come in and out of the White House, and they can all kick the can around on some of the hardest issues of our day and never actually deal with the issues. That's what people like about President Trump. It's not all politics, it's not all campaigning, and it's not all talk. He actually does things. President Obama is the final one to talk when it comes to dealing with Iran. The last thing I'll say on this is that President Trump has handled this, considering the circumstances, very well. If you would have asked analysts and war hawks how an Iran war would play out, they would have said $200-a-barrel gasoline or more. They would have said a stock market crash and Great Depression levels. They would have said ballistic missiles in Tel Aviv and thousands of civilian and military casualties. The list would go on. Before this conflict, we would have looked at that and said, "Wow, that's just terrible." Don't get me wrong, there have been negative effects of the war, whether economically, militarily, or otherwise. But the fact that President Trump has been able to handle this in a manner that, relatively speaking, has kept things pretty stable here is significant. Oil is now under $100 a barrel, depending on what day of the week it is. Diesel seems to have settled down a little bit and leveled off. This criticism and Monday-morning quarterbacking of President Trump from President Obama is quite laughable. President Obama enabled Iran to get to the place that they are. The Iran deal was an absolute joke. Rick Green: An absolute joke. Radical Islam, including ISIS, surged under President Obama. President Trump 1.0 had to come in and clean up the mess. Walker Wildmon: The JV team. Rick Green: Yes, what President Obama called the JV team in ISIS. Walker Wildmon: The Democrat track record of dealing with serious threats like ISIS and Iran is terrible. President Trump comes in, does the adult thing in the room, and takes care of the threat. The last thing the Democrats can do is criticize President Trump when it comes to foreign policy and military decisions. Walker Wildmon: Welcome back to At the Core here on American Family Radio. I appreciate you joining us today. As a brief reminder, we would greatly appreciate it if you subscribe to the podcast wherever you listen to podcasts. Just type in the name of the program, At the Core with Walker Wildmon and Rick Green, click the subscribe button, and the show will be queued up in your library each and every afternoon. I want to introduce our next guest, our first guest for today, and our next guest on the program. That is Brooke Besinger. Brooke is public relations manager with Turning Point Action. Turning Point Action is the 501(c)(4) affiliate of Turning Point USA, which was founded by the late and great Charlie Kirk. Brooke is with us now to talk about their work at Turning Point Action. Hey, Brooke, welcome to the program. Brooke Bessinger: Yes, happy to be here. I'm happy to be here. Walker Wildmon: I'm glad to have you on. I've been tracking the work of Turning Point Action for the last year or two, and it's good to have someone on to actually talk about the work that you're doing there. Before we jump into some of the daily nuts and bolts of what you're doing at Turning Point Action when it comes to the midterms coming up very soon, just next week, give our folks a little bit of history and background on how Turning Point Action began and some of the work you do. Brooke Bessinger: Absolutely. We were founded in 2019 by the late Charlie Kirk. We are now run by our chief operating officer, Tyler Boyer. In 2019, there was a need to have a political arm from the Turning Point side to chase ballots and really focus on low-propensity Republicans who were not voting in the 2020 election. Unfortunately, we did see that in 2020, Biden won the presidency. In 2024, we launched the Chase the Vote program to really ask why Christian people and voters were not voting, why Republicans were not voting, what was driving them not to go to the polls, and to talk with people face-to-face and have that neighborly interaction. We wanted to have conversations about what life looked like from 2020 to 2024, what people would like it to look like moving forward, and what the American dream, or the America, was that they would like to live in. Essentially, our mission is to talk with everyday Americans and everyday voters to ensure that we are showing up to the polls, because we technically are the silent majority, and we get the silent part for a reason. Our mission is to change that and to essentially double, if not triple, voter turnout in 2026. We had a landslide in 2024. I'm sure you remember what that map looked like when it was released. The entire country was essentially red. We want to keep that momentum going in 2026. Those are the efforts we're engaged in right now, and we're really hopeful. Walker Wildmon: I have a lot of respect for Turning Point and Turning Point Action because you and the team there are really about getting stuff done, hence the name Turning Point Action, instead of just talking a big game or running ads on social media, which are all fine. The fact that you have boots on the ground and actually have people working with voters on the ground is a big deal, and it's somewhat of a lost art. The Democrats have almost completely given up on the ground, door-knocking type of campaigning, which they did pretty well during the Obama days but have since kind of stopped. Now they're pumping tons of money into media, and the Republican Party has had seasons of doing it better and worse when it comes to boots on the ground. Talk about the importance of that, because the human experience, the face-to-face interaction, the handshake, and the door knock are an art that will always be relevant. Brooke Bessinger: Absolutely. You mentioned media. In the 2024 election, I'm not going to denounce how much social media assisted in the Republican win in 2024. Charlie was on campus all the time traveling, and there were Republican influencers talking about the importance of Trump's election. I see where media could be beneficial, but like you said, the handshake and the neighborly conversations are important. At the end of the day, America is supposed to be this melting pot of so many people. We're supposed to meet new people, embrace new people, and say hi to our neighbors. If someone needs flour, they can come over and knock on your door, and you can give them flour or salt or a gardening tool if need be. I think that, as you said, is a lost art. Especially with people being so social-media-focused and phone-focused in today's society, they miss and crave that face-to-face conversation. I think this also promotes hope for humanity. The more conversations you have, the more the news loves to post and put out this narrative that liberal ideology is winning and all these things, but that's not what we're seeing in these neighborhoods and with the people we're having conversations with. It is a lost art, and it's something we're really fine-tuning and trying to refine. We have ballot chasers on the ground who get to know these people. We have incredible stories of people knocking on doors. It may be an elderly woman who is 90 and still wants to have her voice heard, but she no longer has the opportunity to drive. So we're even giving these people rides to the polls and having these intimate relationships with them. At the end of the day, we all want to have a sense of community. If we're very proud and remain proud of our political party, I think that's a secret weapon that we will fine-tune and continue to use for the foreseeable future. Walker Wildmon: What you're doing is very effective. Turning Point Action is one of the best organizations currently in the conservative movement, and broadly in the political movement, at getting out the vote. The 2024 results bear that out undoubtedly, and I think others could take note from what you're doing. I don't want to get too far into the weeds on the methodology and how you identify congressional districts, but give us a little bit of behind-the-scenes information, at a very high level, as to what goes into choosing which states and counties to focus on. Then, even identifying what I believe you call precinct leaders and things like that, give our folks a glimpse as to what goes into an election like the midterms. Brooke Bessinger: We have looked at the results from 2024 to see which parts of which state have a higher turnout rate. We're not necessarily focusing on low-propensity voters, but on areas that have less focus in a heavily red-populated area that we don't necessarily worry about too much. When we're seeing on our maps that things are purple and could be leaning more to the right, voter registration is public, so we're able to determine who these people are in these purple areas and whose doors we can knock on. We have a phenomenal strategic and data team on site working tirelessly around the clock to ensure our numbers are up to date. We're also able to endorse people we are confident could potentially win the election, whether that means Christian values, wanting a closed border, or things like that. Then we determine which states to focus on. For example, we have Andy Biggs running in Arizona, and that's a huge campaign that we're backing and pushing. A seat was just opened up in New Hampshire, and we would love to have that red wave come through in every state possible. I'm not saying that's going to be the full outcome, but anything that's up for grabs, we are taking full initiative and diving deep into ensuring that as many of those seats can be red as humanly possible. Walker Wildmon: New Hampshire is a place where a lot of folks listening might hear "New Hampshire" and "Republican" or "conservative" and say, "What?" Most of the Northeast is very blue, or if you get into Pennsylvania, it's more purple. Nonetheless, New Hampshire actually has a pretty consistent Republican or conservative trend. It's not like a Texas conservative trend, but there's a lot of potential there, to your point, and that's why you're running operations there. Let me ask you about the lack of turnout and the number of eligible voters sitting on the sidelines. This gets hammered, I feel like, every election cycle when we talk about the number of Christians sitting out elections or not even being registered to vote. There are millions of people who either are registered and don't vote or aren't even registered to vote. If we could just get a couple of percentage points of them out, you're talking about flipping entire states. Brooke Bessinger: Absolutely. I think a lot of Christians unfortunately don't believe in mixing their faith with politics. I would advise heavily against that because, at the end of the day, you're voting for a policy that will promote the ideologies you believe in. As Christians, we align more on the right side: pro-life, conservative values, and maintaining the traditional home. If you sit back at home and let these liberals take over, you're going to see the exact opposite of the country in which you would prefer to raise your children and your family. I think it's very important for Christians to turn out and vote. It's also very sad when you see people assuming that their vote does not matter. We live in a society where we, the people, get to decide how our governments run, and that's the most beautiful thing I think the Founding Fathers were able to provide for us. A lot of people forget that elected officials work for us and not vice versa. If we have a problem, I think especially the upcoming generation is not taking as much initiative as it should. If you could just get 5% more of these people out, we could flip things like that. There's a lot of discouragement that comes with mixing faith and politics and having the idea that, if I show up to the poll today, does my vote really matter? That's something we're really trying to eradicate, especially in 2026. Federal elections are promoted much more than the midterms. A lot of people forget about the midterms, and that's why we typically see them flip. It typically goes in the opposite direction of whatever the current leadership is. We're having conversations about why it has to flip. There's no reason why it has to flip. We can keep it red if we take the initiative to talk to these people and turn them out. We're very hopeful. We're seeing a lot of hunger to save the country. Unfortunately, the media is reporting things from the completely opposite perspective, but when you're talking to people and having everyday conversations with them, they're actually hopeful and wanting to save America. We don't want to look like France. We don't want to open our borders. We love closed borders. The last thing I want is for my home to look like Michigan. I don't want to instill fear in people, but these things are very real. If all other religions are voting, Christians should be able to as well. There's no reason why there should be a difference in that. Muslims are voting, Buddhists are voting, atheists are voting, and you're seeing these things in blue cities, where there is a surge of homelessness and violent crime. Then you see people fleeing to conservative cities and screwing up our systems. I think we have to agree that it's time to knock it off and put our foot down to save America, regardless of what you think in a broad spectrum of foreign policy or everything else. Shut out the noise, get yourself to the voting polls, and vote red. Walker Wildmon: Absolutely. We have to vote, and we should be engaged voters, getting our family and friends out to vote as well. Your point about Michigan and California is another great example. If we don't push back and stop this Marxist march on our states, then they're going to come for the state next door. Another example, not necessarily a neighboring state, is the amount of tech migration from California to Austin, Texas, and the greater Austin area. If those folks are bringing their liberal values with the companies moving to Texas, that's a problem. Many of them are fleeing Democrat states because of high taxes and high crime, as you mentioned. We just can't allow these failed states and failed cities to send their residents to our states and then continue voting in this liberal manner. If they want to move and vote conservatively and for common sense, I'm all for it. But we have to protect the conservative belt, if you will, and the conservative states that are still upholding common sense and all the policies you mentioned. We've been talking to Brooke Bessinger. She's public relations manager with Turning Point Action, and we've been talking about the great work of Turning Point Action. Brooke, will you mention your website for Turning Point Action before we let you go? Brooke Bessinger: Absolutely. You can find us at tpaction.com. Please download our app at tpaction.com/app to stay in the loop. You can chase ballots from your couch if you would like to, and you're able to sign up there. Our Commit 100 initiative is currently active to chase 100 ballots per person. That can be found at tpaction.com/commit100. We encourage every single person to vote red in the midterms in the election next Tuesday. Walker Wildmon: All right, Brooke. Thanks so much for coming on the program. I appreciate it. Brooke Bessinger: Thank you for your time. Walker Wildmon: She's public relations manager with Turning Point Action. The URL she gave out is tpaction.com. There you can find all the information you need. They have the Chase the Vote, or Chase 100, project ongoing. They're in the final week of that for this election cycle, but nonetheless, they're doing phenomenal work. They're doing work that just isn't being done much anymore in this age of social media, digital content, and digital reach. Turning Point Action is actually on the ground, educating voters and turning out voters, and they should be credited for that. In 2024, they made a huge impact thanks to the work of the late Charlie Kirk and the team that continues on with Turning Point and Turning Point Action. We appreciate Brooke coming on the program. We've got one segment left, folks. Stick around. Walker Wildmon: Welcome back to At the Core here on American Family Radio. I'm Walker Wildmon. Glad to be with you on this last segment of today's episode of At the Core with Walker Wildmon and Rick Green. We're going to be having election night coverage on Tuesday, November 3rd, beginning at 6 p.m. Central here on AFR and AFR.net. Of course, we'll be livestreaming the video as well at AFR.net. We've got a great team and a great lineup coming to you live on election night, November 3rd, 2026. We'll be here with you for a couple of hours minimum, maybe later. We'll see how it goes. We'll be bringing you the election results live here on American Family Radio. Put that on your calendar, and we'll see you on the evening of Tuesday, November 3rd. Meanwhile, let's continue our discussion. I want to make you aware of a tool that we have available. Obviously, we have iVoterGuide.com. We need thousands of you, if not tens of thousands, going over to iVoterGuide.com and using it. Get your personalized ballot, see where the candidates stand on the issues, and vote, vote, vote. Another tool available at AFAAction.net, just published today, is our ballot measure guide. If you're watching on some of our social media channels or YouTube, we have ballot measures in 24 states that we've published information on, including AFA Action's voting position. For example, I printed off Alabama. We've got all 24 states on our website at AFAAction.net, right there at the top. Click on the ballot measure tab. A PDF will open up, and all the states are in alphabetical order. For the sake of showing this to you, I printed off Alabama. Here in Alabama, not here, because I'm in Mississippi, but on the sheet of paper for Alabama, there are two ballot measures. You can see what the topics are, what the measure involves, a summary of what's on the ballot, and what AFA Action's recommended voting position is. This is fully legal and up to par when it comes to churches and nonprofits, because American Family Radio is a 501(c)(3). We're not endorsing candidates. We don't endorse candidates. This is a ballot measure, which we can fully give you our opinion on. AFA Action published this at AFAAction.net. Twenty-four states have ballot measures on a variety of topics. Some of them have eight or ten ballot measures on topics like pro-life, recreational marijuana, and school choice. All of these topics are on the ballot in certain states, so you need to go over to AFAAction.net, click on the ballot measure tab, and print off or save a PDF on your phone of your state's ballot measures. Share that with family and friends. We're going to be circulating this on social media, but this is a great tool that you can use on election day to know about the ballot measures in your state. Let's talk more about the midterms and play a couple of newsworthy clips. Senator Ted Cruz, speaking of President Obama, recently complimented President Obama for his good communication skills, which I tend to agree with, but also cast shade on his record with Iran when he was president. This is Senator Ted Cruz. Senator Ted Cruz: I would not dismiss what Obama is doing there. I think it's important to remember Obama may be the most effective Democrat politician of our lifetime. It's either Obama or Bill Clinton, and the two of them literally stand head and shoulders above every other Democrat we've ever seen. Head and shoulders above Joe Biden, above Kamala Harris, above John Kerry, above Al Gore. His ability to communicate is really powerful. It's really dangerous, to be honest. If we didn't have the 22nd Amendment, it wouldn't surprise me if Obama spent the rest of his life in the White House. The guy is a political force, and he gives you a preview of what to expect both in January of 2027 and in the 2028 campaign if the Democrats take one or both houses of Congress. You can expect hearing after hearing after hearing with a central focus on corruption. Corruption will be the major theme that the Democrats push. They're going to push corruption targeted at the president. They're going to push corruption targeted at the president's family. They're going to push corruption targeted at the Cabinet and sub-Cabinet, everyone working in the administration. Part of their narrative that they're already laying out is that they're going to push corruption tied to data centers and tied to cryptocurrency and try to loop all of that in. Walker Wildmon: I agree with Senator Cruz that President Obama is the best communicator for the Democrats in our lifetime, definitively the best presidential communicator on behalf of the Democrats. Pretty much you've got him and Clinton in the running there. Biden's not even close. That's good for the Democrats. The problem is, as I mentioned earlier in the program, President Obama was about two months too late. He's just now showing up. He should have been showing up in July or August. Nonetheless, he's on the campaign trail on behalf of the Democrats, trying to turn out the vote. That validates what Senator Cruz said about the Democrats' hopes to impeach Trump administration officials, launch investigations, and absolutely harass the Trump administration. If we're going to be honest, they would probably harass folks like American Family Association if they can, using their investigation and subpoena power. This is Hakeem Jeffries not denying the fact that they are interested in investigating and removing Trump officials. Hakeem Jeffries: When I was listening to you speak at the rally just now, you said, "We're going to run Pete Hegseth out of town." What does that mean in practice? It means that we're going to hold him accountable in the same way that we held Pam Bondi and Kristi Noem accountable. They were pushed to the side by the president, and Pete Hegseth needs to be pushed aside by the president, or we're going to have to deal with that situation if he is not. There's an impeachment resolution that's going to come up in the immediate days after you get back from the elections. How are you thinking about that? We haven't had an opportunity actually to talk about it because it was short-circulated when Speaker Johnson and House Republicans literally ran out of town so that they didn't have to take up that resolution that was brought by a Republican member from Kentucky. Are you inclined to support it? What I'm inclined to do is act consistently with what I've said relative to Pete Hegseth from the very beginning. I called for Pete Hegseth to be fired by Donald Trump in the spring of 2025. He is deeply unqualified. Walker Wildmon: What he's really trying to do there is not answer the question. So let me answer it for him, folks. They're going to use impeachment. Mark my word, if Democrats get the House, they're going to use impeachment. The reason they're not telling you this is that they're somewhat pulling from Obama's playbook, which is not to tell voters the truth until after you're elected. That's what President Obama did on a variety of issues. They're pulling from his playbook, which ought to concern us. Hakeem Jeffries is not telling you that they will deploy impeachment processes and impeachment in full, 100%, in January. They'll start talking about it on Wednesday, November 4th, and they will do it in January. This party is not trending toward the middle. Nothing about this party is trending toward the middle. Every single candidate who wants to be a so-called moderate in the Democrat Party today in 2026 is running for the hills, and they're nowhere to be found. I can't find one. They're all anti-Israel, pro-abortion, pro-transgender ideology, pro-socialism, pro-taking over the means of production, anti-wealth, in favor of taxing the wealthy and the rich, and expanding Medicare. That's across the board. I just can't find a moderate one. The ones who are so-called moderates are run out of the party. They become independents or, in some instances, Republicans. They better watch out for Senator Fetterman in Pennsylvania, who's up for reelection in 2028, because he's about an inch away from becoming a Republican or an independent. He is not jiving well with the Democrat Party. He's not even conservative. Maybe he's moderate, but he is just not one of them. That's starting to come out over the last few years during his time in office. That's Hakeem Jeffries not saying the I-word. Why? Because using the impeachment word a week out from the midterms would be turned on them quickly, and it should be. But that is what they'll do, no doubt. This is the party of obstruction, and ultimately the party of destruction of Western civilization. They're trying to play it as moderate and trying not to answer the questions. They've been told by the political advisers and the pollsters, "Don't mess this thing up." They think they've got it locked up in the bag. "Don't say anything you shouldn't say. If you need to not answer the questions, that's fine. Just play it vanilla, play it mild." That's why you're getting non-answers from people like Hakeem Jeffries. Mark my word: once they're sworn in, once they're elected, they will immediately revert back to their old habits of going left, left, left, impeachment, impeachment, impeachment, and investigate, investigate, investigate. This is a clip of President Trump in Michigan at a campaign rally within the last 24 hours. President Trump is going pretty hardcore here. He's not holding back in exposing the Muslim Brotherhood and radical jihad ties of the main Democrat U.S. Senate candidate there, Mohammed El-Sayed, and his familial ties to groups like the Muslim Brotherhood. Listen to this from President Trump. President Trump: Sayyad's father-in-law is the leader of a front group from the Muslim Brotherhood, a terrorist organization banned in eight Muslim countries because they are so sinister and severe that some Muslim countries don't want them. This is the father-in-law. His sister-in-law was placed on the terror watch list and only got off it because she had a good lawyer. You know, you do that. When somebody hires a lawyer and you're a government and you've got enough problems, you take them off, which he shouldn't have been taken off. Mohammed El-Sayed himself signed a letter supporting the Muslim Brotherhood, urging them to "purge the journalists and the police." In other words, let's get the journalists. That's bad. Walker Wildmon: There you have it. That's President Trump exposing the ties of the Democrat candidate in Michigan to the Muslim Brotherhood and radical jihad, including quoting a record of the father and the sister-in-law and a letter in 2012 that the candidate himself signed. This connection, this alliance between the Democrats and Islam is quite concerning because El-Sayed is a Muslim and is now campaigning in mosques openly over the last 48 to 72 hours. He's a second-generation immigrant, which means his father immigrated from Egypt to America. He's a second-generation immigrant who was born in Michigan. Ilhan Omar, on the other hand, is a first-generation immigrant, meaning she was not born in America. Her parents immigrated through a refugee program to America. She later got her citizenship, or her naturalization, through her father, which is under investigation. We'll talk briefly about that in the two minutes we have left. My point in bringing up both of them, their family history, where they're from, and where their parents are from, is that this is a pretty common occurrence where you have foreign-born nationals, or at least people whose parents were foreign-born, legally immigrating to America with their radical Islamic views and then running for public office. This is a concerning trend that voters need to pay attention to. Who is immigrating to the country legally, in this case, and what is their worldview? What are their positions? Should they serve in public office? Should they be our elected representatives? All of this needs to be examined. Regarding Ilhan Omar's citizenship and her record as a congresswoman, as I mentioned last week, this is being investigated by the Department of Justice right now. Her phone and passport have been seized. I want to read to you this recent report from Jim Geraghty on X. He's a National Review senior political correspondent. We'll link to this in the show notes. He said, "Congresswoman Ilhan Omar writes in her memoir, 'I was eight years old when the Civil War broke out in Somalia. One day, everything was okay. In the next, there were bullets piercing not only buildings, but also people.'" While Somalia has suffered several civil wars, the chapter is entitled "War, 1989 to 1991 in Somalia." In her own words, according to her autobiography, Omar was eight when this occurred in 1989. Then she was born in 1981. That means she would have been 19 years old in the year 2000, when her father purportedly obtained his citizenship, not 1982, as she currently claims. Basically, according to her own autobiography, she was an adult over 18 and ineligible for naturalization. That's what this DOJ investigation is centrally about.
Walker Wildmon: Welcome to At the Core here on American Family Radio. We are just over seven days out from the election, eight days to be exact. The midterm election is Tuesday, November 3, 2026. You should plan to vote, vote, vote, and yes, vote once. Vote your values. Make sure you get your family and friends to vote and know what you're doing when you go to the ballot box. When you listen to American Family Radio, we provide all the tools, including iVoterGuide, which we'll talk about on this program. We'll talk to one of the leading get-out-the-vote organizations in the country, Turning Point Action. We'll talk to one of their spokespersons shortly about their work to get out the vote, chase ballots, and ensure that as many people as possible get out to vote on November 3rd. That's coming up in just over a week from today. Be educated, and make sure you vote. Disengagement isn't an option. That's what I like to say. Disengaging is not an option on the checklist. Let's turn our attention to Scripture. Acts chapter 24 is where we are this week. Here, Paul is giving a defense. Paul is not just giving a legal defense before the high priest, but he is also giving a spiritual, faith-based defense for why he is a follower of what was called the Way, according to Scripture. The Way is the way of Christ, the way of Jesus, capital W, the Way. Paul clearly does a very good job, not only with his knowledge of Roman law and Roman customs and his rights as a Roman citizen, but also with his theological and biblical defense for the fact that Jesus is the Son of God and that Paul is called to be an apostle and to help establish the early church. What we can take from Acts chapter 24 is that we, too, ought to be knowledgeable of Scripture and knowledgeable of our civil rights, our rights as citizens of whatever country we reside in, whatever country we're a citizen of. We should know our rights and know how to defend them in civil court and before civil government as well. That's where the term civil rights comes from. Acts chapter 24, the entirety of the chapter, is Paul's defense before the high priest Ananias. You can go and check that out. Operation Christmas Child is something I want to make sure I get to before we jump into the news and the content for today's program. We've been partnering with Operation Christmas Child for well over a decade, probably closer to two decades. You can go to samaritanspurse.org/OCC to find out all you need to know about packing a shoebox, donating to have a shoebox packed on your behalf, what can go in the shoebox, and when the deadline is. National Collection Week is November 16th through the 23rd, 2026, the week before Thanksgiving. We encourage you to participate in Operation Christmas Child. Let's jump into the news of the day. Pretty much what you're going to hear from me between now and November 3rd is midterms, midterms, midterms, because this is a very important election. We want to ensure our listeners are the most educated voting block in the country, because it's good to be educated and to know what's going on in our country so that we can do, as Scripture says, be salt and light. I tell people who are talking about whether they should vote, whether they're motivated, and whether they should participate in elections, that Christians are called to be salt and light, and there isn't a caveat there. There's no only being salt and light when you're at home, only being salt and light in the church when you're gathered with fellow believers, or only being salt and light when you go to work. We're called to be salt and light everywhere and at every opportunity given. Secondly, this is a matter of stewardship. Thankfully, in this nation, at this point in time, we've been blessed with the opportunity to choose our leaders. Generations past and previous civilizations would have loved the opportunity to choose their leaders, but they weren't afforded that opportunity. In America in 2026, we've been given that right and opportunity to choose our leaders. We should not sit on the sidelines. It would be neglectful to sit on the sidelines and ignore and disregard the stewardship opportunity we've been given when it comes to civil government. President Obama is making his rounds on the campaign trail. I would say a little late, but better late than never. As I've frequently said, President Obama was the biggest gift to the Democrat Party, and I'm not being sarcastic there. I'm being serious. When President Obama came onto the scene, obviously he was coronated by the Democrats, but he pretty much captured the Democrat voting base, had them on lock, and was even pulling over independents. His communication style is somewhat effective. His storytelling is somewhat effective. He does come off as more relatable than some of the other Democrat candidates in more recent history, let's say over the last five to ten years. President Obama coming on the scene for the midterms, for the Democrats, is good for them, although I think he should have come on the scene a little sooner. We're a week out, and he's now showing up in some of these states. I've got two topics when it comes to President Obama. The first one is President Obama's view on the Iran war and how President Obama, who was very soft on Iran and actually sent them billions in cash, is now trying to criticize President Trump for not being effective enough when it comes to the Iranian regime. Let's play the clip, and then I'll pick this argument apart. President Obama: Seven months later, how's that war going? Our allies and bases have been attacked. American soldiers have been killed. Hundreds of Americans have been wounded. We've run down our stock of missiles dangerously low. Iran now has veto power over the Strait of Hormuz, where oil goes through to get to the world. So they're in a stronger strategic position now than before the war started. That was a decision this administration made, and that is the reason that the price of oil is up, the price of diesel is up, and the price of just about everything is up. And by the way, it's not over. It's still going on. Walker Wildmon: I love how President Obama starts his speech, or starts that portion of his speech, talking like he's in Georgia, and then he ends that portion of the speech talking like he's in Chicago. I just can't figure it out. It is humorous how, whether it's Vice President Harris, President Obama, or even President Biden, they change the way they talk and their accent based on where they're speaking. President Obama shifted mid-sentence. He was in Georgia, and then he was in Chicago. Rick Green: Yeah, he started out with a drawl and ended up being very punctual, plain to the base, as it were. Walker Wildmon: That's what he's doing in this clip. He's not really making the case. If you want to get his track record on Iran, like you already touched on earlier, he sent $1.4 or $1.5 billion in cash on a military aircraft that he gave to them. He did nothing to enforce that treaty. It was absolute garbage. It wasn't worth the paper it was written on. It has come back to us in full strength because you look at the terrorism that Iran has spread worldwide ever since and name a faction. It all relates back to Iran, which he had the chance to mitigate and did nothing about. Rick Green: Exactly. He sent them pallets of billions of dollars in cash. And, President Obama, might I remind you, undermined Israel, our chief ally in the Middle East. Walker Wildmon: Folks, here's what I appreciate about President Trump that I don't think gets enough airtime. President Trump is not singularly focused on reelection. Of course, now he's a lame-duck president, or he's in his last term, but President Trump is not singularly focused on politics, reelections, and campaigns. Here's why I know that, and this is what differentiates him from previous politicians and even current ones. If President Trump were singularly focused on the midterms, the majority in Congress, politics, 2026, and even 2028, guess what? He wouldn't have gone after Iran. He would have sat on his hands, made excuses, changed the subject, neglected the seriousness of it, and handed it off for someone else to deal with. You can only do that for so long. You can only neglect an issue of foreign policy and national security for so long before someone will be forced to deal with it. Do you want President Gavin Newsom to be the one holding the nuclear football, holding the military secrets, and holding the commander-in-chief title when Iran finally does get a nuclear weapon? President Trump always takes the hard path, both politically and otherwise. I think there's some respect there, because we can have politicians come in and out of the White House, and they can all kick the can around on some of the hardest issues of our day and never actually deal with the issues. That's what people like about President Trump. It's not all politics, it's not all campaigning, and it's not all talk. He actually does things. President Obama is the final one to talk when it comes to dealing with Iran. The last thing I'll say on this is that President Trump has handled this, considering the circumstances, very well. If you would have asked analysts and war hawks how an Iran war would play out, they would have said $200-a-barrel gasoline or more. They would have said a stock market crash and Great Depression levels. They would have said ballistic missiles in Tel Aviv and thousands of civilian and military casualties. The list would go on. Before this conflict, we would have looked at that and said, "Wow, that's just terrible." Don't get me wrong, there have been negative effects of the war, whether economically, militarily, or otherwise. But the fact that President Trump has been able to handle this in a manner that, relatively speaking, has kept things pretty stable here is significant. Oil is now under $100 a barrel, depending on what day of the week it is. Diesel seems to have settled down a little bit and leveled off. This criticism and Monday-morning quarterbacking of President Trump from President Obama is quite laughable. President Obama enabled Iran to get to the place that they are. The Iran deal was an absolute joke. Rick Green: An absolute joke. Radical Islam, including ISIS, surged under President Obama. President Trump 1.0 had to come in and clean up the mess. Walker Wildmon: The JV team. Rick Green: Yes, what President Obama called the JV team in ISIS. Walker Wildmon: The Democrat track record of dealing with serious threats like ISIS and Iran is terrible. President Trump comes in, does the adult thing in the room, and takes care of the threat. The last thing the Democrats can do is criticize President Trump when it comes to foreign policy and military decisions. Walker Wildmon: Welcome back to At the Core here on American Family Radio. I appreciate you joining us today. As a brief reminder, we would greatly appreciate it if you subscribe to the podcast wherever you listen to podcasts. Just type in the name of the program, At the Core with Walker Wildmon and Rick Green, click the subscribe button, and the show will be queued up in your library each and every afternoon. I want to introduce our next guest, our first guest for today, and our next guest on the program. That is Brooke Besinger. Brooke is public relations manager with Turning Point Action. Turning Point Action is the 501(c)(4) affiliate of Turning Point USA, which was founded by the late and great Charlie Kirk. Brooke is with us now to talk about their work at Turning Point Action. Hey, Brooke, welcome to the program. Brooke Bessinger: Yes, happy to be here. I'm happy to be here. Walker Wildmon: I'm glad to have you on. I've been tracking the work of Turning Point Action for the last year or two, and it's good to have someone on to actually talk about the work that you're doing there. Before we jump into some of the daily nuts and bolts of what you're doing at Turning Point Action when it comes to the midterms coming up very soon, just next week, give our folks a little bit of history and background on how Turning Point Action began and some of the work you do. Brooke Bessinger: Absolutely. We were founded in 2019 by the late Charlie Kirk. We are now run by our chief operating officer, Tyler Boyer. In 2019, there was a need to have a political arm from the Turning Point side to chase ballots and really focus on low-propensity Republicans who were not voting in the 2020 election. Unfortunately, we did see that in 2020, Biden won the presidency. In 2024, we launched the Chase the Vote program to really ask why Christian people and voters were not voting, why Republicans were not voting, what was driving them not to go to the polls, and to talk with people face-to-face and have that neighborly interaction. We wanted to have conversations about what life looked like from 2020 to 2024, what people would like it to look like moving forward, and what the American dream, or the America, was that they would like to live in. Essentially, our mission is to talk with everyday Americans and everyday voters to ensure that we are showing up to the polls, because we technically are the silent majority, and we get the silent part for a reason. Our mission is to change that and to essentially double, if not triple, voter turnout in 2026. We had a landslide in 2024. I'm sure you remember what that map looked like when it was released. The entire country was essentially red. We want to keep that momentum going in 2026. Those are the efforts we're engaged in right now, and we're really hopeful. Walker Wildmon: I have a lot of respect for Turning Point and Turning Point Action because you and the team there are really about getting stuff done, hence the name Turning Point Action, instead of just talking a big game or running ads on social media, which are all fine. The fact that you have boots on the ground and actually have people working with voters on the ground is a big deal, and it's somewhat of a lost art. The Democrats have almost completely given up on the ground, door-knocking type of campaigning, which they did pretty well during the Obama days but have since kind of stopped. Now they're pumping tons of money into media, and the Republican Party has had seasons of doing it better and worse when it comes to boots on the ground. Talk about the importance of that, because the human experience, the face-to-face interaction, the handshake, and the door knock are an art that will always be relevant. Brooke Bessinger: Absolutely. You mentioned media. In the 2024 election, I'm not going to denounce how much social media assisted in the Republican win in 2024. Charlie was on campus all the time traveling, and there were Republican influencers talking about the importance of Trump's election. I see where media could be beneficial, but like you said, the handshake and the neighborly conversations are important. At the end of the day, America is supposed to be this melting pot of so many people. We're supposed to meet new people, embrace new people, and say hi to our neighbors. If someone needs flour, they can come over and knock on your door, and you can give them flour or salt or a gardening tool if need be. I think that, as you said, is a lost art. Especially with people being so social-media-focused and phone-focused in today's society, they miss and crave that face-to-face conversation. I think this also promotes hope for humanity. The more conversations you have, the more the news loves to post and put out this narrative that liberal ideology is winning and all these things, but that's not what we're seeing in these neighborhoods and with the people we're having conversations with. It is a lost art, and it's something we're really fine-tuning and trying to refine. We have ballot chasers on the ground who get to know these people. We have incredible stories of people knocking on doors. It may be an elderly woman who is 90 and still wants to have her voice heard, but she no longer has the opportunity to drive. So we're even giving these people rides to the polls and having these intimate relationships with them. At the end of the day, we all want to have a sense of community. If we're very proud and remain proud of our political party, I think that's a secret weapon that we will fine-tune and continue to use for the foreseeable future. Walker Wildmon: What you're doing is very effective. Turning Point Action is one of the best organizations currently in the conservative movement, and broadly in the political movement, at getting out the vote. The 2024 results bear that out undoubtedly, and I think others could take note from what you're doing. I don't want to get too far into the weeds on the methodology and how you identify congressional districts, but give us a little bit of behind-the-scenes information, at a very high level, as to what goes into choosing which states and counties to focus on. Then, even identifying what I believe you call precinct leaders and things like that, give our folks a glimpse as to what goes into an election like the midterms. Brooke Bessinger: We have looked at the results from 2024 to see which parts of which state have a higher turnout rate. We're not necessarily focusing on low-propensity voters, but on areas that have less focus in a heavily red-populated area that we don't necessarily worry about too much. When we're seeing on our maps that things are purple and could be leaning more to the right, voter registration is public, so we're able to determine who these people are in these purple areas and whose doors we can knock on. We have a phenomenal strategic and data team on site working tirelessly around the clock to ensure our numbers are up to date. We're also able to endorse people we are confident could potentially win the election, whether that means Christian values, wanting a closed border, or things like that. Then we determine which states to focus on. For example, we have Andy Biggs running in Arizona, and that's a huge campaign that we're backing and pushing. A seat was just opened up in New Hampshire, and we would love to have that red wave come through in every state possible. I'm not saying that's going to be the full outcome, but anything that's up for grabs, we are taking full initiative and diving deep into ensuring that as many of those seats can be red as humanly possible. Walker Wildmon: New Hampshire is a place where a lot of folks listening might hear "New Hampshire" and "Republican" or "conservative" and say, "What?" Most of the Northeast is very blue, or if you get into Pennsylvania, it's more purple. Nonetheless, New Hampshire actually has a pretty consistent Republican or conservative trend. It's not like a Texas conservative trend, but there's a lot of potential there, to your point, and that's why you're running operations there. Let me ask you about the lack of turnout and the number of eligible voters sitting on the sidelines. This gets hammered, I feel like, every election cycle when we talk about the number of Christians sitting out elections or not even being registered to vote. There are millions of people who either are registered and don't vote or aren't even registered to vote. If we could just get a couple of percentage points of them out, you're talking about flipping entire states. Brooke Bessinger: Absolutely. I think a lot of Christians unfortunately don't believe in mixing their faith with politics. I would advise heavily against that because, at the end of the day, you're voting for a policy that will promote the ideologies you believe in. As Christians, we align more on the right side: pro-life, conservative values, and maintaining the traditional home. If you sit back at home and let these liberals take over, you're going to see the exact opposite of the country in which you would prefer to raise your children and your family. I think it's very important for Christians to turn out and vote. It's also very sad when you see people assuming that their vote does not matter. We live in a society where we, the people, get to decide how our governments run, and that's the most beautiful thing I think the Founding Fathers were able to provide for us. A lot of people forget that elected officials work for us and not vice versa. If we have a problem, I think especially the upcoming generation is not taking as much initiative as it should. If you could just get 5% more of these people out, we could flip things like that. There's a lot of discouragement that comes with mixing faith and politics and having the idea that, if I show up to the poll today, does my vote really matter? That's something we're really trying to eradicate, especially in 2026. Federal elections are promoted much more than the midterms. A lot of people forget about the midterms, and that's why we typically see them flip. It typically goes in the opposite direction of whatever the current leadership is. We're having conversations about why it has to flip. There's no reason why it has to flip. We can keep it red if we take the initiative to talk to these people and turn them out. We're very hopeful. We're seeing a lot of hunger to save the country. Unfortunately, the media is reporting things from the completely opposite perspective, but when you're talking to people and having everyday conversations with them, they're actually hopeful and wanting to save America. We don't want to look like France. We don't want to open our borders. We love closed borders. The last thing I want is for my home to look like Michigan. I don't want to instill fear in people, but these things are very real. If all other religions are voting, Christians should be able to as well. There's no reason why there should be a difference in that. Muslims are voting, Buddhists are voting, atheists are voting, and you're seeing these things in blue cities, where there is a surge of homelessness and violent crime. Then you see people fleeing to conservative cities and screwing up our systems. I think we have to agree that it's time to knock it off and put our foot down to save America, regardless of what you think in a broad spectrum of foreign policy or everything else. Shut out the noise, get yourself to the voting polls, and vote red. Walker Wildmon: Absolutely. We have to vote, and we should be engaged voters, getting our family and friends out to vote as well. Your point about Michigan and California is another great example. If we don't push back and stop this Marxist march on our states, then they're going to come for the state next door. Another example, not necessarily a neighboring state, is the amount of tech migration from California to Austin, Texas, and the greater Austin area. If those folks are bringing their liberal values with the companies moving to Texas, that's a problem. Many of them are fleeing Democrat states because of high taxes and high crime, as you mentioned. We just can't allow these failed states and failed cities to send their residents to our states and then continue voting in this liberal manner. If they want to move and vote conservatively and for common sense, I'm all for it. But we have to protect the conservative belt, if you will, and the conservative states that are still upholding common sense and all the policies you mentioned. We've been talking to Brooke Bessinger. She's public relations manager with Turning Point Action, and we've been talking about the great work of Turning Point Action. Brooke, will you mention your website for Turning Point Action before we let you go? Brooke Bessinger: Absolutely. You can find us at tpaction.com. Please download our app at tpaction.com/app to stay in the loop. You can chase ballots from your couch if you would like to, and you're able to sign up there. Our Commit 100 initiative is currently active to chase 100 ballots per person. That can be found at tpaction.com/commit100. We encourage every single person to vote red in the midterms in the election next Tuesday. Walker Wildmon: All right, Brooke. Thanks so much for coming on the program. I appreciate it. Brooke Bessinger: Thank you for your time. Walker Wildmon: She's public relations manager with Turning Point Action. The URL she gave out is tpaction.com. There you can find all the information you need. They have the Chase the Vote, or Chase 100, project ongoing. They're in the final week of that for this election cycle, but nonetheless, they're doing phenomenal work. They're doing work that just isn't being done much anymore in this age of social media, digital content, and digital reach. Turning Point Action is actually on the ground, educating voters and turning out voters, and they should be credited for that. In 2024, they made a huge impact thanks to the work of the late Charlie Kirk and the team that continues on with Turning Point and Turning Point Action. We appreciate Brooke coming on the program. We've got one segment left, folks. Stick around. Walker Wildmon: Welcome back to At the Core here on American Family Radio. I'm Walker Wildmon. Glad to be with you on this last segment of today's episode of At the Core with Walker Wildmon and Rick Green. We're going to be having election night coverage on Tuesday, November 3rd, beginning at 6 p.m. Central here on AFR and AFR.net. Of course, we'll be livestreaming the video as well at AFR.net. We've got a great team and a great lineup coming to you live on election night, November 3rd, 2026. We'll be here with you for a couple of hours minimum, maybe later. We'll see how it goes. We'll be bringing you the election results live here on American Family Radio. Put that on your calendar, and we'll see you on the evening of Tuesday, November 3rd. Meanwhile, let's continue our discussion. I want to make you aware of a tool that we have available. Obviously, we have iVoterGuide.com. We need thousands of you, if not tens of thousands, going over to iVoterGuide.com and using it. Get your personalized ballot, see where the candidates stand on the issues, and vote, vote, vote. Another tool available at AFAAction.net, just published today, is our ballot measure guide. If you're watching on some of our social media channels or YouTube, we have ballot measures in 24 states that we've published information on, including AFA Action's voting position. For example, I printed off Alabama. We've got all 24 states on our website at AFAAction.net, right there at the top. Click on the ballot measure tab. A PDF will open up, and all the states are in alphabetical order. For the sake of showing this to you, I printed off Alabama. Here in Alabama, not here, because I'm in Mississippi, but on the sheet of paper for Alabama, there are two ballot measures. You can see what the topics are, what the measure involves, a summary of what's on the ballot, and what AFA Action's recommended voting position is. This is fully legal and up to par when it comes to churches and nonprofits, because American Family Radio is a 501(c)(3). We're not endorsing candidates. We don't endorse candidates. This is a ballot measure, which we can fully give you our opinion on. AFA Action published this at AFAAction.net. Twenty-four states have ballot measures on a variety of topics. Some of them have eight or ten ballot measures on topics like pro-life, recreational marijuana, and school choice. All of these topics are on the ballot in certain states, so you need to go over to AFAAction.net, click on the ballot measure tab, and print off or save a PDF on your phone of your state's ballot measures. Share that with family and friends. We're going to be circulating this on social media, but this is a great tool that you can use on election day to know about the ballot measures in your state. Let's talk more about the midterms and play a couple of newsworthy clips. Senator Ted Cruz, speaking of President Obama, recently complimented President Obama for his good communication skills, which I tend to agree with, but also cast shade on his record with Iran when he was president. This is Senator Ted Cruz. Senator Ted Cruz: I would not dismiss what Obama is doing there. I think it's important to remember Obama may be the most effective Democrat politician of our lifetime. It's either Obama or Bill Clinton, and the two of them literally stand head and shoulders above every other Democrat we've ever seen. Head and shoulders above Joe Biden, above Kamala Harris, above John Kerry, above Al Gore. His ability to communicate is really powerful. It's really dangerous, to be honest. If we didn't have the 22nd Amendment, it wouldn't surprise me if Obama spent the rest of his life in the White House. The guy is a political force, and he gives you a preview of what to expect both in January of 2027 and in the 2028 campaign if the Democrats take one or both houses of Congress. You can expect hearing after hearing after hearing with a central focus on corruption. Corruption will be the major theme that the Democrats push. They're going to push corruption targeted at the president. They're going to push corruption targeted at the president's family. They're going to push corruption targeted at the Cabinet and sub-Cabinet, everyone working in the administration. Part of their narrative that they're already laying out is that they're going to push corruption tied to data centers and tied to cryptocurrency and try to loop all of that in. Walker Wildmon: I agree with Senator Cruz that President Obama is the best communicator for the Democrats in our lifetime, definitively the best presidential communicator on behalf of the Democrats. Pretty much you've got him and Clinton in the running there. Biden's not even close. That's good for the Democrats. The problem is, as I mentioned earlier in the program, President Obama was about two months too late. He's just now showing up. He should have been showing up in July or August. Nonetheless, he's on the campaign trail on behalf of the Democrats, trying to turn out the vote. That validates what Senator Cruz said about the Democrats' hopes to impeach Trump administration officials, launch investigations, and absolutely harass the Trump administration. If we're going to be honest, they would probably harass folks like American Family Association if they can, using their investigation and subpoena power. This is Hakeem Jeffries not denying the fact that they are interested in investigating and removing Trump officials. Hakeem Jeffries: When I was listening to you speak at the rally just now, you said, "We're going to run Pete Hegseth out of town." What does that mean in practice? It means that we're going to hold him accountable in the same way that we held Pam Bondi and Kristi Noem accountable. They were pushed to the side by the president, and Pete Hegseth needs to be pushed aside by the president, or we're going to have to deal with that situation if he is not. There's an impeachment resolution that's going to come up in the immediate days after you get back from the elections. How are you thinking about that? We haven't had an opportunity actually to talk about it because it was short-circulated when Speaker Johnson and House Republicans literally ran out of town so that they didn't have to take up that resolution that was brought by a Republican member from Kentucky. Are you inclined to support it? What I'm inclined to do is act consistently with what I've said relative to Pete Hegseth from the very beginning. I called for Pete Hegseth to be fired by Donald Trump in the spring of 2025. He is deeply unqualified. Walker Wildmon: What he's really trying to do there is not answer the question. So let me answer it for him, folks. They're going to use impeachment. Mark my word, if Democrats get the House, they're going to use impeachment. The reason they're not telling you this is that they're somewhat pulling from Obama's playbook, which is not to tell voters the truth until after you're elected. That's what President Obama did on a variety of issues. They're pulling from his playbook, which ought to concern us. Hakeem Jeffries is not telling you that they will deploy impeachment processes and impeachment in full, 100%, in January. They'll start talking about it on Wednesday, November 4th, and they will do it in January. This party is not trending toward the middle. Nothing about this party is trending toward the middle. Every single candidate who wants to be a so-called moderate in the Democrat Party today in 2026 is running for the hills, and they're nowhere to be found. I can't find one. They're all anti-Israel, pro-abortion, pro-transgender ideology, pro-socialism, pro-taking over the means of production, anti-wealth, in favor of taxing the wealthy and the rich, and expanding Medicare. That's across the board. I just can't find a moderate one. The ones who are so-called moderates are run out of the party. They become independents or, in some instances, Republicans. They better watch out for Senator Fetterman in Pennsylvania, who's up for reelection in 2028, because he's about an inch away from becoming a Republican or an independent. He is not jiving well with the Democrat Party. He's not even conservative. Maybe he's moderate, but he is just not one of them. That's starting to come out over the last few years during his time in office. That's Hakeem Jeffries not saying the I-word. Why? Because using the impeachment word a week out from the midterms would be turned on them quickly, and it should be. But that is what they'll do, no doubt. This is the party of obstruction, and ultimately the party of destruction of Western civilization. They're trying to play it as moderate and trying not to answer the questions. They've been told by the political advisers and the pollsters, "Don't mess this thing up." They think they've got it locked up in the bag. "Don't say anything you shouldn't say. If you need to not answer the questions, that's fine. Just play it vanilla, play it mild." That's why you're getting non-answers from people like Hakeem Jeffries. Mark my word: once they're sworn in, once they're elected, they will immediately revert back to their old habits of going left, left, left, impeachment, impeachment, impeachment, and investigate, investigate, investigate. This is a clip of President Trump in Michigan at a campaign rally within the last 24 hours. President Trump is going pretty hardcore here. He's not holding back in exposing the Muslim Brotherhood and radical jihad ties of the main Democrat U.S. Senate candidate there, Mohammed El-Sayed, and his familial ties to groups like the Muslim Brotherhood. Listen to this from President Trump. President Trump: Sayyad's father-in-law is the leader of a front group from the Muslim Brotherhood, a terrorist organization banned in eight Muslim countries because they are so sinister and severe that some Muslim countries don't want them. This is the father-in-law. His sister-in-law was placed on the terror watch list and only got off it because she had a good lawyer. You know, you do that. When somebody hires a lawyer and you're a government and you've got enough problems, you take them off, which he shouldn't have been taken off. Mohammed El-Sayed himself signed a letter supporting the Muslim Brotherhood, urging them to "purge the journalists and the police." In other words, let's get the journalists. That's bad. Walker Wildmon: There you have it. That's President Trump exposing the ties of the Democrat candidate in Michigan to the Muslim Brotherhood and radical jihad, including quoting a record of the father and the sister-in-law and a letter in 2012 that the candidate himself signed. This connection, this alliance between the Democrats and Islam is quite concerning because El-Sayed is a Muslim and is now campaigning in mosques openly over the last 48 to 72 hours. He's a second-generation immigrant, which means his father immigrated from Egypt to America. He's a second-generation immigrant who was born in Michigan. Ilhan Omar, on the other hand, is a first-generation immigrant, meaning she was not born in America. Her parents immigrated through a refugee program to America. She later got her citizenship, or her naturalization, through her father, which is under investigation. We'll talk briefly about that in the two minutes we have left. My point in bringing up both of them, their family history, where they're from, and where their parents are from, is that this is a pretty common occurrence where you have foreign-born nationals, or at least people whose parents were foreign-born, legally immigrating to America with their radical Islamic views and then running for public office. This is a concerning trend that voters need to pay attention to. Who is immigrating to the country legally, in this case, and what is their worldview? What are their positions? Should they serve in public office? Should they be our elected representatives? All of this needs to be examined. Regarding Ilhan Omar's citizenship and her record as a congresswoman, as I mentioned last week, this is being investigated by the Department of Justice right now. Her phone and passport have been seized. I want to read to you this recent report from Jim Geraghty on X. He's a National Review senior political correspondent. We'll link to this in the show notes. He said, "Congresswoman Ilhan Omar writes in her memoir, 'I was eight years old when the Civil War broke out in Somalia. One day, everything was okay. In the next, there were bullets piercing not only buildings, but also people.'" While Somalia has suffered several civil wars, the chapter is entitled "War, 1989 to 1991 in Somalia." In her own words, according to her autobiography, Omar was eight when this occurred in 1989. Then she was born in 1981. That means she would have been 19 years old in the year 2000, when her father purportedly obtained his citizenship, not 1982, as she currently claims. Basically, according to her own autobiography, she was an adult over 18 and ineligible for naturalization. That's what this DOJ investigation is centrally about.
Walker Wildmon examines a reported Department of Justice investigation involving Rep. Ilhan Omar’s citizenship history, citing questions raised by her memoir and commentary from National Review correspondent Jim Geraghty. He also discusses President Trump’s handling of the Iran conflict and responds to Barack Obama’s criticism of the administration’s foreign policy.
Earlier, Brooke Bessinger, Public Relations Manager with Turning Point Action, explains the group’s Chase the Vote and Commit 100 initiatives, its door-to-door ballot-chasing strategy, and its effort to increase Christian and conservative turnout in the 2026 midterm elections. Walker also reviews ballot-measure resources, Senator Ted Cruz’s assessment of Obama’s political influence, and Hakeem Jeffries’ comments that Walker interprets as signaling possible impeachment and investigations if Democrats win control of Congress.
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