Best of the Program | Guests: John Solomon & Jake Altman | 10/14/26

Glenn Beck (0:04)

So we got a lot on our plate today on The Best Of. We have El-Sayed and Why the Socialists Are Winning. I think everybody's looking at this race in Michigan the wrong way. We spent a lot of time talking about Muslim Brotherhood today, but is that what's going to change the election? I think the answer is no.

So we have that. Also, Jake Altman, he is a former DSA member. He was a Democratic Socialist of America. He left that membership just a few years ago because he said that it was becoming way too extreme.

He tells us the inside story and also about El-Sayed's bodyguard or chief of security that left and said the same thing. And John Solomon, he has the goods on what exactly happened with Ilhan Omar and what that story is all about, all on today's podcast.

Jake Altman (1:05)

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Glenn Beck (1:13)

All right, so I don't want to blackpill you because I don't think that this race is so close, but it should not be close. I've never seen a candidate in my lifetime like El-Sayed. Never.

The Muslim Brotherhood fingerprints are all over this guy. The guy is a total radical. He can't say that Iran is a bigger threat than Israel.

The fingerprints of the Muslim Brotherhood with his family seem to be everywhere.

How is he winning? How is he winning? How is he winning? Okay, so he's ahead, but not by much. Fox News has him up by one point over Mike Rogers. YouGov poll up one. CBS Detroit up five. Republican pollster has him up by five. Now, this is a man who campaigned with Hassan Piker.

And the Republicans have spent months tying him, showing Muslim brotherhood. In July, one poll had him seven points behind Rogers. He now leads. And every conservative I know is asking, how is this happening? How is this happening? What does this say about Michigan?

I think that's the wrong question. I wanna learn the right answers, you know what I mean? We have to ask the right questions. And I don't think that's the right question. What's wrong with those people in Michigan? I don't think that's the right question. What are we missing?

Well, what we're missing is what he says over and over and over again at every campaign stop. What is his slogan? Money out of politics, money in your pocket, Medicare for all. Now, let me translate this, because this is what voters are hearing and this is what a voter under 30 does the minute he hears those things. Money out of politics. What does that mean? What is that reaching towards? That is reaching towards the rich and the powerful always get away with it. Jeffrey Epstein. Ask yourself, what are the Republicans done on Jeffrey Epstein? What have they done about that? What have the Democrats done on that? Nothing. Both parties had Epstein in their Rolodex. Both parties didn't do jack on it. Now, I would argue Donald Trump did more to pry those files open than the Democrats ever did, but still it wasn't nearly enough. People didn't feel like it was satisfactory.

And it bleeds. It bleeds into Hunter Biden. This guy got away with murder. But then the other side will say, well, look at what Donald Trump's kids are doing. They're enriching themselves. So both sides are seeing money out of politics. I want money out of politics. I want the powerful and the rich to pay for what they've done. If I have to go to jail, you have to go to jail. That's what they mean. Okay? Now, we look at it as sides. Well, their side did this. Their side did that. Youth is not a side. A 25-year-old doesn't see Hunter's laptop and the Trump boys' deals as two separate stories. They don't. They see it as one. The children of powerful people get rich, and he gets a rent increase. So when El-Sayed says, money out of politics, remember, he's not offering a plan. This is the amazing trick. This is working without plans. All he's doing is naming everything that everyone already believes, but no one else will say it. And he's saying it over and over and over again. What was it with Bill Clinton when he won? It's the economy, stupid. That's what this is. Okay? He's got three things. The little guy goes to jail for a bad check. The connected gets a book deal.

You don't need a policy paper to know that. Okay? Somebody who's 25 years old just needs somebody to say it out loud. Then the next part of this is money in your pocket. This one is so clear. Okay? That's you at the gas station. That's you at the grocery store. Gas is averaging $4.33 a gallon in September, the highest September ever on record. People are struggling. Now, the Democrats caused it. Let me play sides. Democrats caused it. But you hired Donald Trump to fix it, and it doesn't seem like he's fixing it. Well, wait a minute. Inflation is running just north. Like 3.2%. So just north of 3%. And Washington calls that progress. Why would Washington call that progress? Because the target from the Fed for inflation is 3%. So that means inflation is only 1% over target. That's not bad inflation. But here's where it broke down. When you hired Trump, you expected prices to go back down. We watched, we know that the problem was caused by the Democrats and Joe Biden, okay? We watched prices go up 21%.