Trump Dominates Democrats + Stars Shine at Midterm Convention > Sen. McCormick, Sen. Thune, Sec. Burgum & more

Josh Holmes (0:00)

We are here live at a Day 2 convention.

Comfortably Smug (0:03)

It was historic, not only historic, you could feel the energy in the room. It's also funny, which I appreciate. I mean, some of the stuff Trump was doing on stage was incredible.

Michael Duncan (0:13)

But he ran a campaign to beat meat. He called it beat meat. I don't know what the hell he meant by that.

John Ashbrook (0:21)

There's a lot of skeletons in Talarico's closet. He's very familiar with that place. You know, a lot of questions of him saying that, like he doesn't like the meat.

Now he's saying he loves the meat. A lot of people are speaking back on how much he loves the meat. A lot of questions. I appreciate President Trump highlighting them.

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Welcome back to Dallas, Texas in the Ruthless Variety Program. We are here live at a day two convention, midterms first of its kind. We had a blast yesterday. We're here to provide you incredible content today. Aren't we, fellas?

John Ashbrook (2:21)

Yeah, I mean, there was a lot of action here at day one. The excitement is real. President Trump had an hour and 45 minute speech.

Everyone's talking about the moment where Senator Fetterman introduced Senator McCormick. There was a lot happening, a lot of news being broken. And we're here in the thick of it bringing it all to you folks.

Josh Holmes (2:40)

Michael?

Comfortably Smug (2:41)

It was historic. Not only historic, you could feel the energy in the room. It's also funny, which I appreciate.

I mean, some of the stuff Trump was doing on stage was incredible. So, I mean, just a dynamic event for sure.

SPEAKER_11 (2:55)

Trump is so good. I can't wait to get to these clips. I don't think one of the clips is when he points to the seat and he's like, you know what the New York Times is going to do? They're going to find a guy who goes to the bathroom and then they're going to take a picture of the empty seat. That's what they're going to do to me. I mean, just like that kind of stuff and just the riffing, the stuff he adds on, like we are going to miss this guy when he is gone.

Josh Holmes (3:14)

Oh, no question about it. I will have to say, if it's Ruthless, there is some hijinks involved. Oh, yeah.

We've had the good fortune, the Fox people have been absolutely terrific, but they've been following us around with cameras and we're like interacting with folks, which by the way, I mean, incredible. It's a good thing my wife and kids can't see this.

John Ashbrook (3:33)

Yeah, we love when folks come by and say that they enjoy the show. It's why we do this every day. It's wonderful meeting you folks.

Josh Holmes (3:40)

It's been terrific, but so we have a big security perimeter that we have to get through and there's many pieces you have to get in a bus, you have to go through several mags, you have to get into the building.

John Ashbrook (3:50)

There's mom dogs, you name it, because you have to have a secure area.

Josh Holmes (3:54)

Today, as we're walking in, we have two things that happen. Our friend, grandpa down there, reaches into his bag to pull out his credentials to get in the building and realizes the one thing. He could have worn a tube sock today, but he did have one thing and it was his credential. You didn't have it.