Sarah Smith
speaker
3,783 appearances
44 recordings
2 series
first heard Jan 2026
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Sarah Smith’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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That if you've got a a tight Senate seat somewhere, maybe a presidential visit is not going to sway voters in your direction.
But Donald Trump is insisting he is going to visit at least thirty five different tight races.
Because he thinks he's the biggest asset the Republican Party have got.
That may or may not turn out to be true, but he is doing all he can because he knows how crucial these elections are going to be.
And just as he was describing this scenario last night in this very long and rather self-indulgent speech, we were a really good way into it when he suddenly tossed out this absolutely remarkable promise.
To pay every American adult, every American voter five thousand dollars if and only if Republicans retain control of both the House of Representatives and the Senate.
So that's a pretty unlikely scenario according to the polls at the moment.
But it was such an odd way of announcing such a very peculiar policy.
I thought he was joking at first, Justin, because we had been through a whole lot of familiar Donald Trump jokes about renaming New Mexico as New America.
He'd been talking about um renaming the Strait of Hormuz as the Strait of Trump and all this kind of stuff.
And then he just
drops into the conversation that everybody's gonna get a five thousand dollar Trump dividend if the Republicans win the midterm elections.
And he had to say it twice before I realized he was serious because this is not the way you go about announcing a big policy like that.
Oh, fascinating question that hadn't even occurred to me, Justin, because I am a US tax I'm living and working here.
I'm not a US citizen.
And there's so little detail about this policy, it's impossible to know whether it's only for citizens or whether it's for um resident taxpayers.
Because he didn't tell us how he was going to pay for this.
It will cost well in excess of a trillion.
dollars.
I mean, that's probably the biggest kind of spending promise that's ever been made in a speech like this at a time when the US deficit is absolutely enormous.
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