Day: January 7, 2026
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#632 – Dave Smith
Dave Smith is a comedian, podcaster and political commentator. Check out his shows “Part of the Problem” and “Legion of Skanks”. Dave returns to talk about what comes next after the regime change in Venezuela, what President Trump got right and wrong in 2025, and what journalism means in the wake of the Minnesota fraud
Trump has an ‘iron grip’ on the Republican Party, says CNN analyst — even with minor dissent on Venezuela
While a few Republican politicians are dissenting on the issue of strikes in Venezuela, a CNN analysis found that President Donald Trump has an “iron grip” on the party.
Harry Enten said that polling showed there was no “rift” in the party and that a large majority supported the president. He made the comments during a segment on CNN Tuesday.
‘The vast, vast majority of Republicans are with Donald Trump on this issue.’
“Let me be very clear: There is no rift in the Republican Party!” Enten said forcefully.
“Yes, there are some folks like Marjorie Taylor Greene and Thomas Massie who are quite skeptical of this,” he added. “They are very much in the minority.”
Enten pointed to an Ipsos poll that found 65% of Republicans supported the ouster of Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro, while only 6% opposed the action. A Washington Post poll found that 74% of Republican respondents supported the action and only 10% opposed it.
“The vast, vast majority of Republicans are with Donald Trump on this issue,” he added. “Massie and Marjorie Taylor Greene are very much in the minority. Very few Republicans are with them.”
He pointed to a Reuters/Ipsos poll that showed Republican support for the president actually increasing slightly from 84% six months ago, to 85% currently.
“The bottom line is this: Donald Trump has had an iron grip, an iron grip on that Republican base for a long period of time,” he added.
Video of Enten’s comments were widely circulated on social media.
Enten went on to say on social media that support for the Venezuelan strikes had increased among all Americans, likely because it was such a successful operation.
“Trump has to like the dramatic change in the polls on Maduro’s ouster,” Enten wrote. “Support for it is through the roof (up 16 pts) vs. pre-ouster. We saw a similar rise in support over time for the Iran strikes in mid-2025. Americans like what they deem as successful military operations.”
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Glenn Beck: Why Trump’s capture of Maduro IS ‘America First’
President Donald Trump’s capture of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has shocked the world, but Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck believes that Trump’s true motive is much bigger than the speculation surrounding it.
“I want to give you a completely, I think, different perspective on what happened in Venezuela. Let me just say this: It is not about the oil. It’s not about drugs. It’s not about terrorism. It’s not about China. It’s not about communism, Marxism, or socialism,” Glenn says. “It’s about all of those things.”
“So, if anybody tells you that this is really all about the oil, just listen to them, because they might have a very good point on the oil thing, and go, ‘OK, well, that’s cute.’ But that’s not all it’s about,” he continues.
What Glenn believes Trump is really doing with this move is “playing to win.”
“And I mean win all of it. Never have I seen this before. Donald Trump has been saying, ‘America First,’ ‘America First’ his entire life. It hasn’t been a slogan. … It’s his worldview, and it always has been,” Glenn says.
“This is truly about who sets the table and the agenda for the next 100 years. Who’s it going to be? A global government, the Chinese government, AI, some technocratic government, or the American government?” he continues, pointing out that Trump’s latest move is making it much more likely that the ruler will be the last on that list.
“We’re going to look back at this time, assuming that it works, and we’re going to say, ‘That was brilliant.’ Do you know that because of Venezuela, we don’t need the oil? I’m going to get into this here in a second. We don’t need the oil,” Glenn says.
“Do you know that this is the first time since FDR that the world’s resources are now back under American, not control, but in friendly territory, that we’re the ones that dominate not just our oil but the resources?” he continues.
“It wasn’t like that two years ago. A year ago, it wasn’t like that,” he adds.
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Jasmine Crockett melts down on ‘The View’ over ‘racist’ jab from JD Vance — and claims Republicans are disturbed by her
Democratic Rep. Jasmine Crockett of Texas lashed out at Vice President JD Vance over comments he made ridiculing her “street-girl persona” as fake.
Crockett was asked by Joy Behar to respond to Vance’s comments when she appeared on “The View” on Tuesday.
‘Let me be clear: I understand what happens in the streets, but I don’t have to, quote, unquote, be a “street girl!”‘
“She wants to be a senator, though her street-girl persona is about as real as her nails!” Vance said to loud applause from a Turning Point USA audience.
“So, first of all, my nails are real!” Crockett replied to laughter from the studio crowd.
“But I will say, what a lot of people don’t understand … is that Republicans are a lot better at doing focus groups. Right?” she added. “And so Democrats, we rely on poll, poll, poll, but focus groups allow you to kind of get down to the nitty-gritty of why people feel a certain way about certain things.”
Crockett is running for a U.S. Senate seat from Texas after Republicans redrew their congressional district lines to increase their odds of winning the midterm elections.
“Well, I can tell you that right now, what disturbs them is that I am able to get at a demographic that Democrats have been losing. Consistently in third-party polls, as well as my internal polling, it shows that those that don’t have a college degree, by over 70%, choose me,” she continued.
“Well, that’s a demographic that we’ve been losing — so now he’s like, ‘No no no, it’s all fake. Don’t believe that.’ No, the reality is that I was a criminal defense attorney. I was a public defender. I am somebody who walked into plenty of jails and dealt with real killers,” Crockett said.
“So let me be clear: I understand what happens in the streets, but I don’t have to, quote, unquote, be a ‘street girl,'” she concluded.
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“Don’t you think that that’s racist? What is it?” Behar asked.
“Joy, you know it’s racist!” Crockett replied. “We know that, right?”
Video of Crockett’s comments were posted to social media.
Crockett is ahead of her competitor for the Democratic nomination, according to a recent poll.
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‘Massive betrayal’: Republicans, pro-life groups push back on Trump’s call to loosen key abortion restriction
President Donald Trump urged Congress to loosen up on a key Republican amendment that prevents taxpayer-funded abortion.
Trump said Republicans need “to be a little flexible on Hyde” in order to make health care a winning issue for the GOP. Notably the Hyde Amendment prevents tax dollars from funding abortion services but makes exceptions for cases of rape, incest, and to protect the life of the mother.
‘I’m not flexible on the value of every child’s life.’
“You have to be a little flexible on Hyde. You know that. You got to be a little flexible,” Trump said Tuesday. “You got to work something. You got to use ingenuity. You got to work.”
These remarks were quickly met with pushback from prominent pro-life groups as well as Republican lawmakers who called the amendment a nonnegotiable.
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Republican Sens. James Lankford of Oklahoma and Roger Marshall of Kansas both stood firmly against watering down or giving up on the Hyde Amendment despite the pressure from the president.
“I’m not flexible on the value of every child’s life,” Lankford told Huffington Post.
“I certainly understand where the president’s coming from, but I’m unapologetically pro-life,” Marshall added.
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Pro-life groups like Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America pointed to Trump’s past support for the amendment, calling it a “minimum standard” for the Republican Party.
“The voters sent a GOP trifecta to Washington, and they expect it to govern like one,” SBA President Marjorie Dannenfelser said in a statement. “Giving in to Democrat demands that our tax dollars are used to fund plans that cover abortion on demand until birth would be a massive betrayal.”
“President Trump has consistently supported the Hyde Amendment. He pledged repeatedly to make it permanent law, including in health care coverage, and one of his first actions upon taking office last year was prioritizing the reversal of President Biden’s Hyde violations.”
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