Speaker 1: Out with the birds. The Eagles are in town tonight.
Speaker 1: Every high school football game imaginable is going to be played,
Speaker 1: including yours truly, will be at the Deer Park Madeerra game.
Speaker 1: Flipping the coin get things started. And the coin that
Speaker 1: will flip was given to me by Colonel brad Winstrip
Speaker 1: after twenty five years of service. He has retired, and
Speaker 1: we're going to use that coin tonight and so much more.
Speaker 1: But as we continue, Brian Entton is the senior correspondent
Speaker 1: to senior national correspondent for News Nation. He's won every
Speaker 1: award the news media can give someone, including Emmys, etc.
Speaker 1: And he was given a special assignment the last few
Speaker 1: days by News Nation and Sean Compton to go into
Speaker 1: certain battleground states and elsewhere to get the temperature of
Speaker 1: the American people on the ground. Polls are interesting. I
Speaker 1: don't trust polls anyway. Nonetheless, Brian Entton, welcome again to
Speaker 1: the Bill Cunningham Show. And first of all, Brian Nton
Speaker 1: of News Nation, what was your mission as given to
Speaker 1: the last several days by Sean Compton.
Speaker 2: Yeah, thanks for having me, Bill. So it's actually two
Speaker 2: weeks driving across the entire country, Bill, which is so cool.
Speaker 2: We're starting in New Jersey and we're gonna work our
Speaker 2: way all the way across and end in California. It's
Speaker 2: gonna take about two weeks. We're about almost halfway in,
Speaker 2: and you know, the mission was Look, I mean, I
Speaker 2: was just sick of following the political campaigns around. You
Speaker 2: go to the rallies on both sides. You know exactly
Speaker 2: what you're going to hear from the people. You hear
Speaker 2: the same thing over and over again. And we were like,
Speaker 2: why don't we just get out, hit the road, get
Speaker 2: on I eighty and just talk to real voters, not
Speaker 2: planned too much, and just see what real Americans think.
Speaker 2: And it's just been so cool too, just like getting
Speaker 2: out into real America and getting off the campaign trail.
Speaker 2: It's been awesome.
Speaker 3: And you get paid for this.
Speaker 1: I would love to be with a buddy or too,
Speaker 1: have my employer pay me simply to travel, have some
Speaker 1: nice lunch, nice dinner, and talk to people.
Speaker 3: Not a bad gig, would you agree.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Someone joked with me on X and said, and you
Speaker 2: get to put all this on your expense report, because
Speaker 2: I mean, you know, we've been having cony dogs. We
Speaker 2: stop at dairy queen. We you know, get donuts everywhere,
Speaker 2: so we're trying to make the best of it. You know,
Speaker 2: it's been really fun.
Speaker 1: All right, let's get down to work. You had a
Speaker 1: posting the other day about New Jersey JP tries to
Speaker 1: flip state to red. I perceive in the Midwest, I
Speaker 1: love it as you know in Cincinnati, and I perceive
Speaker 1: New Jersey like New York and Connecticut, lost, dysfunctional, high taxes,
Speaker 1: citizens unhappy, lots of crime, especially in and around Newark,
Speaker 1: et cetera. What did you find in New Jersey when
Speaker 1: the Republicans try to flip that state to normalcy?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was interesting. In New Jersey, we really focused
Speaker 2: on suburban women because there's a lot of them outside
Speaker 2: the cities, and so we met up with a bunch
Speaker 2: of women a couple of days and a couple interesting things.
Speaker 2: You know. We met one life long Democrat who for
Speaker 2: the very first time is going to vote Republican for Trump,
Speaker 2: and the reason is parental rights. You know, she's really
Speaker 2: concerned about things happening in her kids school. You know,
Speaker 2: they've got these laws there where you know, you they
Speaker 2: can put your kid in counseling and do all sorts
Speaker 2: of stuff and they don't have to tell the parents
Speaker 2: in New Jersey, which really upsets some of these moms
Speaker 2: to the point of you know, their they're Democrats, but
Speaker 2: they're like, what is going on? Why how can this happen?
Speaker 4: Like these are our kids.
Speaker 2: So for that reason, there's there were a lot that
Speaker 2: we spoke to that said, you know, they're gonna they're
Speaker 2: gonna switch over. On the contrary, you know, there were
Speaker 2: there were some lifelong Republicans who are really fired up
Speaker 2: about the abortion issue and are considering voting Democrats for
Speaker 2: the first time. So we kind of saw it go
Speaker 2: both ways.
Speaker 1: There and in New Jersey has among the most liberal
Speaker 1: abortion laws in the country as I speak, So abortion
Speaker 1: is not on the ballot anywhere as far as a
Speaker 1: national issue, because it's a state's issue in New Jersey,
Speaker 1: by the way, much like Ohio. Ohio has uh the
Speaker 1: most liberal abortion law in the country.
Speaker 3: We voted for that.
Speaker 1: Not me, but fifty seven percent of us said that
Speaker 1: killing unborn babies is fine. From the moment of conception
Speaker 1: through birth, it's okay. And I think people vote yes
Speaker 1: or no an abortion. But there's so many gradations and
Speaker 1: so many different kinds and at what point six weeks
Speaker 1: there is a heartbeat, and can you do it at
Speaker 1: ten weeks? For Ohio went all the way up to
Speaker 1: the moment of birth, and as did New Jersey. Let's
Speaker 1: talk briefly about a report you filed in about Michigan. Now, Michigan,
Speaker 1: unlike New Jersey and Ohio, I think, is one of
Speaker 1: those battleground states. And it's a heavily unionized state. It's
Speaker 1: like Pennsylvania's heavily unionized. But also fracking is a big issue.
Speaker 1: What were the big issues in Michigan. I see you're
Speaker 1: posting about Michigan union workers still undecided tell the American people.
Speaker 2: The mission was, Yeah, it was fascinating, and you know,
Speaker 2: it's close there, and like you said, it's one of
Speaker 2: the big swing states that really is going to have
Speaker 2: an impact. So we went out to the different auto plans,
Speaker 2: which you know, you've got the union that have these
Speaker 2: rallies and they're behind Harris, and they want you to
Speaker 2: believe that all of the workers support Harris, and if
Speaker 2: you try to coordinate through them, it's like you kind
Speaker 2: of get a slanted view. So we decided, I said,
Speaker 2: we kind of keep it unplanned. We're like, let's go
Speaker 2: out at shift change to some of these plants, because
Speaker 2: that's when everybody comes out and goes to their cars
Speaker 2: in the parking lot and then leaves and then new
Speaker 2: people come in. So we had to sneak into the
Speaker 2: parking lot. We went to the Ford Plan just to
Speaker 2: try to get like a pulse with the regular workers,
Speaker 2: and it was interesting. A lot of them are Trump supporters,
Speaker 2: which the union doesn't really want you to know. And
Speaker 2: then there were a lot of undecided, a lot which
Speaker 2: surprised me, who said they still haven't decided. There were
Speaker 2: a couple of women we spoke to African Americans who
Speaker 2: like Harris, who said, look, I like her. I really
Speaker 2: like the idea of you know, the first black president,
Speaker 2: female president, black female president, but said, you know, at
Speaker 2: the same time, I've got five kids. I can't afford
Speaker 2: my grocery bills. I made more money when Trump was
Speaker 2: an office, I got more overtime here at the Ford plant.
Speaker 2: And they were struggling with like not they don't really
Speaker 2: like Trump, but they were kind of leaning towards voting
Speaker 2: for him just based on their paychecks.
Speaker 1: Kind of like who do you dislike the least or
Speaker 1: dislike the most. And I can't imagine you and I
Speaker 1: have been involved in this for a long time, but nonetheless,
Speaker 1: I can't imagine some undecided voter a few days before
Speaker 1: the election. How can you be how can you be undecided?
Speaker 2: Listen? You know you would be surprised. And I think
Speaker 2: that's one of the kind of fascinating things that's come
Speaker 2: out of this road trip is you watch the news
Speaker 2: and you think everybody's decided, there really are a lot
Speaker 2: of undecided and you know in some of these states
Speaker 2: like Michigan, Pennsylvania, and in Pennsylvania we went you know,
Speaker 2: we focused on black men because you know, Harris is
Speaker 2: having issues with them. We went to a bunch of barbershops.
Speaker 2: You know, it's not going to take that many people
Speaker 2: to possibly swing some of these states. So yeah, people
Speaker 2: are under side again. There's people that like Trump's policies
Speaker 2: but don't like his personality and are still sort of
Speaker 2: wavering over you know, how they're going to go. But
Speaker 2: back to Michiganville. I don't know if you've ever been
Speaker 2: to the auto plants, just the side note, I mean,
Speaker 2: it was I'd never been. It's so cool to think
Speaker 2: that you know, you've got these Americans that I meant
Speaker 2: that are making the cars there, and they have so
Speaker 2: much pride.
Speaker 3: I mean, everybody drives.
Speaker 2: A Ford that works at the Ford plant. You see
Speaker 2: just like thousands of Fords in the parking lot. It
Speaker 2: was again, it was a neat experienced politics aside just
Speaker 2: getting to do this.
Speaker 1: It's kind of like a thing in the auto workers.
Speaker 1: If you work at a Ford plant or a Chevy plant,
Speaker 1: don't come in with a Honda. It's like, yeah, that
Speaker 1: does not happen. Correct, No, And we I.
Speaker 2: Luckily we've got a Ford Expedition rental that we're driving
Speaker 2: like DoD And I told my photographer, I'm like, thank
Speaker 2: god we've got this car, because I don't think they
Speaker 2: would have led us in the parking lot.
Speaker 1: And literally now. Brian Anton of News Nation, Pennsylvania's another
Speaker 1: another terribly important state. Did you have a sense what
Speaker 1: role fracking has because tens of thousands of jobs ancillary
Speaker 1: jobs critical in Pennsylvania, plus working staffs large numbers in Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin.
Speaker 1: What was your sense of driving through Pennsylvania.
Speaker 2: You know, we didn't focus much on fracking. We were
Speaker 2: we were really focused on the blackmail vote. That was
Speaker 2: kind of our focus, just because the polling has shown
Speaker 2: that Harris is having issues. And again, you know, people
Speaker 2: just assume in inner city Philadelphia that you know, all
Speaker 2: the African Americans are going for Harris. And we went
Speaker 2: into a couple of these barbershops. It was fascinating, and
Speaker 2: I would I mean, at least half of the men
Speaker 2: we spoke to were Trump supporters. They felt abandoned by
Speaker 2: the Democratic Party. They felt like they hadn't been investing
Speaker 2: in their communities, they were taking them for granted. And
Speaker 2: then crime, I mean, crime is I don't know if
Speaker 2: you've been to Philly lately, Bill, they're homeless people everywhere.
Speaker 2: There's these motorcycle gangs driving around. I mean, it feels
Speaker 2: lawless in a lot of areas. And in some of
Speaker 2: these places where these barbershops that you know, they get
Speaker 2: broken into over and over again. It's a real problem.
Speaker 2: And they're just like, you know, they believe that Trump
Speaker 2: is the one who's going to crack down on it.
Speaker 3: So quality of life.
Speaker 1: I was in Philadelphia one time, and this was like
Speaker 1: ten years ago. It was somewhat functional and practically and
Speaker 1: you've been in many more American, large American cities than
Speaker 1: I've been recently. And I would think that homelessness and
Speaker 1: motorcycle gangs, especially illegal immigrants, and crime and the cost
Speaker 1: of insurance. Many of these small black businesses can't afford
Speaker 1: insurance because it's through the roof, and the fact that
Speaker 1: taxes were high, protection is low, especially among women. Did
Speaker 1: you hear much, Brian about a big issue that Democrats
Speaker 1: want to run on again, which is abortion, which is
Speaker 1: the killing of unborn babies. Was that brought up by
Speaker 1: anyone that you spoke.
Speaker 2: With, you know, in silly I would say the crime
Speaker 2: was the bigger issue, and you hit the nail on
Speaker 2: the head. I mean, it impacts the minority areas more.
Speaker 2: And you know, they've got these businesses that are getting
Speaker 2: broken into over and over again. So that was that
Speaker 2: seemed to be the bigger issue right in the inner
Speaker 2: city there. Trying to think back to what some of
Speaker 2: the folks were telling us, just I mean, you know,
Speaker 2: it's hard to live there in some of the areas
Speaker 2: when you know you've got people throwing rocks through your window,
Speaker 2: coming in, grabbing your cat, you know, your register with
Speaker 2: your cash, you got home with people that camp out
Speaker 2: outside your your business, and then your customers don't want
Speaker 2: to come in, and the police are so busy in
Speaker 2: the short staff that if you call, they're not going
Speaker 2: to come because you've got a homeless person outside. They're
Speaker 2: dealing with murders and stuff. So that seemed to be
Speaker 2: more of the concern right there in the inner.
Speaker 1: City right anton the issue of Donald Trump. Some said,
Speaker 1: why did the trump Ster go to a barber shop
Speaker 1: in the Bronx in New York?
Speaker 3: And that is exactly the kind of hand to hand, eyeball.
Speaker 1: To eyeball contact that Donald Trump is wonderful with. And
Speaker 1: I watch repeatedly on one of your competitors, Fox News,
Speaker 1: about him sitting there, and I know that Cuomo also
Speaker 1: dealt with it, as that Leland vintert about hand to hand,
Speaker 1: eye to eye going in there. That angered many Democrats
Speaker 1: because I dare Donald Trump to go into the black
Speaker 1: community and sit down. And is the reaction that you
Speaker 1: saw with Cuomo and vittered in the black barbershop similar
Speaker 1: to the kind of reaction you got in Philadelphia that
Speaker 1: we'd love to have Donald Trump come in here and
Speaker 1: sit with us.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think again, the reason I'm so glad we
Speaker 2: did this series. Is because when you watch the news
Speaker 2: and you see the people on the extreme on either side,
Speaker 2: it looks so divisive and it looks like everyone on
Speaker 2: the right hates Harris and everyone on the left hates Trump,
Speaker 2: and it's just this just combative you know, they want
Speaker 2: to beat him up, and you go out into just
Speaker 2: talking to regular people. I just don't think it's that extreme.
Speaker 2: Like I don't think people think that like Trump is
Speaker 2: an awful guy the people in the middle, you know,
Speaker 2: and and same for Harrit. So you know, like when
Speaker 2: you it's like, oh my gosh, Trump went in the barbershop,
Speaker 2: how crazy is this? Like I mean when we went
Speaker 2: to the barbershop in Philly, half the the African American
Speaker 2: men were voting for Trump. I would say maybe more
Speaker 2: than half. So I think it's sort of this picture
Speaker 2: that you get when you watch the mainstream news. They
Speaker 2: want you to think that it's more divisive than it
Speaker 2: really is. Like most of these Americans we're talking to
Speaker 2: are just trying to afford daycare for their kid. They're
Speaker 2: just want a bigger paycheck. They just want to feel
Speaker 2: like when they call nine to one one the police
Speaker 2: are going to come, you.
Speaker 3: Know, and that doesn't happen.
Speaker 1: It does not happen that the place say, well, deal
Speaker 1: with it yourself, and that is so you pay so
Speaker 1: much in taxes, rules and regulations, and they're hit nine
Speaker 1: to one one saying, hey, I got two homeless guys,
Speaker 1: I'm jostling my patrons, or there's a rock through my window,
Speaker 1: which is a disaster.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like, there's no big deal.
Speaker 1: But if you've had your car broken into, and you
Speaker 1: have to deal with your car being broken into. Here
Speaker 1: in Cincinnati, there was a report last night that there
Speaker 1: were hundreds of car breakings and a part of the
Speaker 1: city of Cincinnati, which is a regular event, and the
Speaker 1: place generally don't show up because car break ins are
Speaker 1: no big deal. But when your window is shattered or
Speaker 1: your car a Hyundai or a Kia is stolen to
Speaker 1: an individual, that is a really big deal, and the
Speaker 1: place aren't responding in many big cities, correct.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, And in Philly, like we went to this
Speaker 2: little macaroni shop downtown at these two women own really
Speaker 2: just a cute little place, you know, and it's very popular.
Speaker 2: People love their macaroni, and they have had their window
Speaker 2: broken two or three times in the front, like a
Speaker 2: big store front window and it's just these two women.
Speaker 2: It's a small business.
Speaker 4: Like that's a really big deal.
Speaker 2: It's very expensive to fix those big windows in the front.
Speaker 2: And like you said, I mean, you might just hear that,
Speaker 2: oh they had a broken window, But think about it. If
Speaker 2: you have a small business they pay a couple of employees,
Speaker 2: you know, they're not making a lot of money. That
Speaker 2: really sets them back, and it also just makes them
Speaker 2: feel unsafe there, you know, and that no one really
Speaker 2: cares all right. Now.
Speaker 1: Lastly, in Ohio, we have a big Senate race between
Speaker 1: Bernie Marino and Shared Brown. I would anticipate that unless
Speaker 1: something dramatic occurs, that the Republicans are going to seize
Speaker 1: control of the Senate with fifty one votes because of
Speaker 1: Montana and West Virginia. But if this race flips and
Speaker 1: then it's completely different, and the only ads being run
Speaker 1: by Shared Brown is against Bernie Marino. On abortion in Ohio,
Speaker 1: which we voted, as I said a year ago, to
Speaker 1: have the most liberal, much more liberal than Roe versus Wade,
Speaker 1: and we voted fifty seven percent to allow abortion up
Speaker 1: through birth. But that's still a big issue in Ohio.
Speaker 1: According to Shared Brown, I sense among voters and is
Speaker 1: not that big of an issue because other ones take presidents.
Speaker 1: What did you sense about the race between Bernie Marino
Speaker 1: and Shared Brown and the issues?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, look, it was interesting. You would know
Speaker 2: way more about Ohio than me. We made two a
Speaker 2: couple of stops we drove through the state. There were
Speaker 2: some Republicans we met who were big Trump supporters who
Speaker 2: seemed to still like Brown, which I thought was interesting,
Speaker 2: Like felt like he was looking out for Ohians in
Speaker 2: a sense. Right, Just a bigger picture of Ohio that
Speaker 2: we focused on was and I don't think a lot
Speaker 2: of people remember. I mean then it was a really
Speaker 2: big swing state, you know, twenty twenty and that there's
Speaker 2: been this shift there, right, So there were a lot
Speaker 2: more Democrats in Ohio just what five six years ago?
Speaker 2: I mean it was like a Pennsylvania, Michigan, North Carolina.
Speaker 2: You guys weren't play And it's almost like Florida because
Speaker 2: I'm from Florida. You know, it used to be the
Speaker 2: same here and it's really gone much more.
Speaker 3: Red, Brian.
Speaker 1: It used to be Iowa, Ohio, and Florida. Those were
Speaker 1: the swing states in fact, no republic and president in
Speaker 1: history other than Donald Trump one Iowa, Ohio and Florida
Speaker 1: and lost the general election. But now as American society advances,
Speaker 1: are regrades one way or another. Uh now the swing
Speaker 1: states are different. One of the next few days, next
Speaker 1: few days. Where are you going the next few days?
Speaker 3: Brianan.
Speaker 2: By the way, we went to Center of the World.
Speaker 2: Have you ever heard of this place outside Cleveland. It's
Speaker 2: like this little town that they call the center of
Speaker 2: the World. Just thinking about it. We passed through there.
Speaker 2: That was cool.
Speaker 4: So that was the cool part of OHIW.
Speaker 2: Next few days so we're doing Omaha, the Blue Dot
Speaker 2: district there in Omaha.
Speaker 4: That could be really pivotal.
Speaker 2: And then we're just working our way across. We're going
Speaker 2: to go through We're going to go through Utah, We're
Speaker 2: going to end up in California. We're going to Nevada
Speaker 2: of course stake swing Steak and to talk to Latinos there.
Speaker 2: So it's like I said, I mean, I can't complain
Speaker 2: right now. You know, it's pretty cool. It's people don't
Speaker 2: realize how cool America is. When you drive across the
Speaker 2: stay the old and I know your friends with Sean Compton.
Speaker 2: The only thing I might need your help with, that's
Speaker 2: my boss, Bill, is I've been blowing through these tolls
Speaker 2: like it's nobody's business. This this rental does not have
Speaker 2: a transponder, and you just I mean, I'm gonna have
Speaker 2: bills from every state. I don't know how much it's
Speaker 2: gonna be, but I might need your help on that.
Speaker 1: Well, keep your keep your receipts, and I will guarantee
Speaker 1: you your boss and my friend Sean Compton will pay
Speaker 1: for those tolls.
Speaker 3: What a job you have. Keep going.
Speaker 1: Maybe next Sunday or maybe the next few days. I'll
Speaker 1: check with you to see what's going on with Brian Nton.
Speaker 1: When you get on the ground and talk to Americans,
Speaker 1: what a great country we have. And when you watch
Speaker 1: most of the media, it's an awful place, but wonder
Speaker 1: and you get out there among the real people, it's fabulous.
Speaker 1: And once again, Brian Nton, thank you for coming on
Speaker 1: the Bill Cunningham Show. With your permission, we'll do it again.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Brian, Thank you, Bill, appreciate you.
Speaker 3: God bless America. Let's continue with more.
Speaker 1: So if the truth doesn't work, dissuade typical voters that
Speaker 1: something else is more important, and forget what's relevant in
Speaker 1: your life and call somebody a fascist, call somebody a hitler.
Speaker 1: I call somebody a Nazi, and pretend as if abortion
Speaker 1: is on the ballot when it isn't trick people into
Speaker 1: believing lies because the truth doesn't work. Let's continue with
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Speaker 3: Nope, we decided to call it off.
Speaker 4: But why you were both so excited to go?
Speaker 3: We were until we ran into this weirdo playing the banjo.
Speaker 4: But there are benjo players throughout being tented forest.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but this one said we had Purdy mails.
Speaker 4: Oh that guy. I guess he's out of jail.
Speaker 1: We figured it was better to get back to the
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