thank you. unfortunately that's all the time we have left this evening. thank you for being with us, thank you for making this show possible. don't forget, for news anytime all the time foxnews.com, hannity.com. in the meantime, let not your heart be troubled. laura's next. the ingraham angle. we'll see you back in new york tomorrow night. thanks for being with us. [cheers and applause] ♪ ♪ >> laura: i'm laura ingraham and this is the ingraham angle with a fox news alert from washington tonight. elon musk has officially taken control of twitter. and the house cleaning has already begun. in moments, we're going to bring you a live report about who he's already locked out of that san francisco headquarters and why. but first, who has the bad candidates now? that's the focus of tonight's angle. for months the regime media worked hard to build the narrative that the gop had lost its mojo that they had blown an

historic midterm opportunity all because their primary winners were just terrible. >> you do have republicans nominating, shall we say, flawed candidates. >> herschel walker in georgia, jd vance in ohio. dr. oz in pennsylvania. >> what looked like a whineout for democrats in the fall is maybe not going to be so bad because of the candidates republicans are nominating. >> walker can lose, oz can lose, johnson can lose. they're bad candidates. >> laura: so smug and so wrong. liberal super packs even helped boost the so-called election denier republicans in the primaries with the thought that they would be easier to defeat in the general elections. even our own senate minority leader joined the pig pile against his own party trying to tamp down his party's expectations by blaming the populous, the maga folks.

>> there's probably a greater likelihood the house flips than the senate. senate races are just different, they're state wide. candidate quality has a lot to do with the outcome. >> laura: he's a barrel of laughs, isn't he? just asthma conditional was wrong about voting for biden's so-call infrastructure bill, he was wrong to imply that republicans just chose lousy candidates. now we all know the gop establishment has been exposed for their mistakes on things like china trade and these endless wars. and i think it kind of makes them nervous when new faces appear on the scene who just aren't beholdened to the old guard and who aren't afraid of them, afraid to challenge them even. they hated trump for the same reason. thank god we have a system where the people, not washington dinosaurs get to choose who best to represent them every election cycle. but if we're talking weak candidates and we are talking weak candidates, the party that

has them in spades is the democrat party. i mean, jb pritzker in illinois? please. who in his right mind believes he should win reelection. what has he actually done to the state other than preside over a huge population loss. other than, you know, further wrecking education in the state by ordering schools to stay closed throughout the state through covid. no wonder so many families left illinois public schools. meanwhile, arizonians have a chance to elect kari lake as their governor, dynamic and bold and vowing to tackle the border and crime problems. but her democrat challenger katie hobbs, oh, my, she's horrible in every way. >> i've continued to meet with community leaders, and focus on how we cannot just build a campaign that's inclusive, but make sure that our government at every level of the administration, reflects the

diversity of the state of arizona. >> laura: oh, my goodness, she's as deadly boring and uninspiring but, well, no more said than democrat senator maggie hassan in new hampshire who debated bolden this week. instead of focusing on the fact that we could have heating oil rationing this winter, she went back to 2020. >> here's the thing about election deniers, right? he is working and has been working to conceal how extreme he is. don bolduc can ignore where more grant it staters are on those issues i just talked about, right, because he thinks he doesn't need to accept election results. >> laura: first of all, stop saying right. oh, my gosh, painful. and then in a category by herself is oregon's left wing loan tina kotek who's running for governor there. >> portland in particular in ad to making measure 110 work we need a meth stabilization center

in portland. we need a place for cops to take folks, not the emergency departments, when they are in a met-related psychosis. >> laura: meth stabilization centers. port lan needs law and order not ways to make drug use more comfortable for people. come on tina. they're so worried about the seat they sent chief princess running scared e liz beth warn out there to the troops there. but she scant spin it warning oregon is dangerously close to flipping red for the first time in 40 years. now pocahontas and her tribe should be nervous because kotek's challenger christine drazen is just what the state needs, calm, cool, and tough on crime. >> tina kotek is the original defund the police candidate. she did not support police, even when rioters were attacking a police station. it's stunning to me that she

would talk now like she supports law enforcement. >> laura: of course she doesn't. and, look, drazen is a notice nonsense republican. maybe not as conservative as i'd like but this is after all the pacific northwest, got to be realistic. again, which party here has the bad candidates again? now, as for that georgia match-up between liberal rafael warnock and herschel walker, the democrats may wish they hadn't revved up the smear machine, because if walker doesn't flinch and if the hits keep coming and he keeps going and then he goes on to win, he'll be a solid vote for sensible measures such as closing the southern border and opening new oil and gas pipe lines. now, with the nastiness, all of it thrown at him, walker will be battle tested for what the swamp will bring him. and last but not least, and i could go on and on, let's not forget the worst of them all, uncle john fetterman in an.

>> hi. good night everybody. i do support fracking, and i don't, i don't -- i support fracking and i stand and i support fracking. i don't ever recall in the statue of liberty did they ever say, you know, take our tired, huddled masses and put them on a bus. that's like, you know, he got his pennsylvania house from his own a dollar. that's typical. >> laura: fetterman's debate performance was the worst in modern american history no doubt about that. so this leaves democrats in a huge bind. they're left trying to do the worst kind of spin. >> the president has found him to be impressive, incredibly bright and talented person who's just as capable, as always, to carry out his office, the duties of his office, and has great ability and heart felt concern for the people of the commonwealth. >> what i saw last night, when i

saw john fetterman i think of courage. this guy stood up last night, god bless john fetterman. >> laura: do the voters of pennsylvania really appreciate what happened on wednesday? now, it was an insult to them what happened to them on wednesday. now, god bless everybody, but that's not what the pennsylvania voters need. they only get to send two senators to pennsylvania and this is the one the democrats chose as the best in the state to run. really? and the same people who lied about fetterman's condition were trying to tell us that dr. oz is supposedly the bad candidate in this match-up. a former heart surgeon and an entrepreneur from an immigrant family who achieved the american dream, that's the bad candidate? yeah, nice try. the race is so dire there that obama is swooping in. >> swooping into western pa to try to do the rescue attempt. and they're so freaked out that even biden and kamala are pairing together at a rare rally appearance for fetterman.

now that is truly desperate. now here's the reality. we shouldn't judge candidates by whether the press likes them or whether big business likes them or whether they will go with the flow in dc. we should judge them on whether they'll fight for the national interests and stand up for the american people. now, this year, all over the country, republican voters chose talented, self-made men and women who think for themselves and who will fight for you. the democrats, they mostly nominated establishment hacks who will do whatever pelosi and schumer tell them to do. and when a smart, independent thinker goes up against someone who just does what the handlers tell them, even the bias press can't help but recognize the difference in quality. we have better candidates, much better. and that is making a difference. and that's the angle. joining me now is tom bevin president and co-founder of real clear politics and brian kilmeade fox and friends cohost and author of the president and the freedom fighter now out in

paper back. he's also the host, of course, one nation airing saturdays at 8:00 p.m. tom, it turns out that these gop candidates with no experience, in many cases are connecting with the concerns of everyday americans in their states and districts, better than the democrats who may be the incumbents. >> yeah, and i think they've all acquitted themselves well in the debates they've had. if you think about jd vance in ohio and herschel walker outperformed expectations in his debate in georgia, blake masters certainly had a strongs debate performance in arizona. and so -- and you look at the democratic candidates, the one you didn't mention in your angle is manned la barnes in wisconsin, another, who is seen as a rising star in the democratic party, ron johnson is well up in the polls there now leading in all the polls extending his lead there, and so, you know, i think democrats are the whens are looking at

their candidates and thinking, oh, boy, maybe they weren't as good as we thought they were originally. >> laura: well, brian, chuck schumer was caught on a hot mic today talking about democrats chances in the midterms, check this out. >> >> laura: brian he said the debate didn't hurt much in pennsylvania? oz is up by 3. >> right. by the way how does he know? he's smiling and cheerleading. but it is interesting to catch the hot mic. no matter how experienced you are in politics they seem to never understand the microphone is always on. remember when he called peter doocy, the president of the united states a stupid blank. couple things on your monologue you nailed it in many respects.

another respect is this. there's a belief in washington that you have to have experience as a politician to be a successful politician. i think we screwed up the job description. the job description is seniors. i would like to execute for the people that put me there along with represent and on the best things in the interest of my country, okay, and party fits in. it doesn't mean you have to spend 30 years doing it. you can be in business, you can be in medicine, you can be in sports. you can be multifaceted in terms of herschel walker he has business as well. because he doesn't do it they say, well, inspeared. yeah, at what? kari lake is one of the most impressive candidates i have seen come out of the box. she has no political experience but 30 years doing what you do, an outstanding broadcaster. you could probably step right in, laura ingraham has no experience. at what? serving your country? doing what's best? understanding issues? and i think that donald trump is really -- i know he's pretty much not on the ballot definitely but he is kind of when you look at blake masters

and jd vance, when you look at herschel walker, when you look at even marco rubio he's stumping for surely these are candidates, kari lake, lot of people they didn't get behind and trump said that's my pick and they said we're in trouble and little by little these candidates ended up really proving themselves. >> laura: and the conventional wisdom, establishment conventional wisdom is wrong again in washington but tom the washington post revealed i think how desperate the democrats are getting, because on wednesday, they pumped about $6.3 million worth of ads into a trio of congressional districts in new york and new jersey. and first lady jill biden spent the afternoon in rhode island trying to help save a democrat running there in a district her husband carried by almost 14 points. and then i guess he's trying to shore up hochul in new york, they're worried about hochul getting enough turnout in new york city. in a politico piece tonight tom, this is getting very

interesting. >> yeah. it's -- the northeast is not looking good for the democrats. they have problems everywhere, across the board. there was a story earlier this week that democrats are pouring millions into washington state to shore up patty murray against tiffany smiley the republican candidate up there who's within striking distance. and you've seen these polls pop up. there was a poll in inn me that showed the governor's race there close, which was a bit shocking. so, yeah. look, i think the general consensuses and all the data is telling us that a republican wave is building across the country the generic congressional ballot you see the movement in the senate races and the house races and the governor's races and the question is, you know, we're still ten days away so how big will it be? will it crest early and not be as big as people think or will it build early and crash on election day? that remains to be seen but right now republicans on are on offense in states and districts that democrats didn't think they

were going to be playing defense. and they're up against it right now, the democrats certainly are. >> yeah, crime inflation and the border aren't going to be fixed in ten days. brian finally your book the president freedom fighters is out in paper back now. how does this and this story relate to service and the idea that the last thing you really want is a professional politician in washington. you want people with real world experience to relate to what's going to now in the lives of everyday people. >> absolutely, you know, we know the story most written about president, frederick douglass born a slave, don't tell me you have head wins if this guy can be born a slave and within seven years of freedom can be one of the most well respected people in the free world because he went to europe and established himself. about you the number two slot on every list is education. we are learning not to respect lincoln and douglas and american founding fathers and the average american family not politically oriented and not woke is outraged by this.

and this whole war on history. this is like a pushback, cold facts. and all i get from arranges, i just did a signing an hour ago, is my kids don't learn any of this. i have to tell them this. i read them in order to overcome the history they're not learning in school. and i think about youngkin, youngkin talking about education, thinking about the parents standing up. they're arguing for iconic figures in our past not to be torn off status so we don't become a nation of pedestals. and overall bigger picture with your theme, hibernating the way president biden did it is not the way it's going to work kathy hochul and john fetterman. republicans are having success outworking their opponents. >> laura: going out -- >> yeah. i drill my pro american message. >> laura: and going out and being with the pushability people need to see the candidates you can't cocoon yourself. brian i'm excited about your

book in paper back because gets what my kids will read it. great to see you both >> elon musk has officially taken the reigns at twitter, the new owner. and the freakout from the left is almost too delicious to put into words. but the names he fired tonight that are making the most waves. for the details on this we go to matt finn in our la bureau. matt, this is pretty exciting. >> hey laura, elon musk has reportedly completed his takeover of twitter and fired executives including the ceo and cfo and top legal and policy executive vijaya gadde a key executive in removing former president trump from the twitter platform. musk strolled into twitters head coaches in san francisco yesterday carrying a porcelain sink later tweeting entering twitter hq, let that sink in. musk first agreed to buy twitter in april for $44 million, then he later threatened to walk away from the deal after accusing

twitter of failing to provide enough information about how many of its users were real and how many were so-called fake bots. the uncertainty caused a month's long saga of questioning whether musk was going to buy one of the world's most prominent social media platforms but this week signs indicated mr. musk was getting ready to seal the deal. banks started sending money barking the purchase and musk has changed his twitter bio to, quote, chief at which time. musk said he acquired twitter because it's important for the future of civilization to have a common digital town square where a wide range of beliefs can be debated in a healthy manner without resorting to violence. laura? >> laura:. >> laura: matt big changes underway. thank you so much >> now it seems the gop has learned some lessons from the 2020 debacle. instead of waiting for the election, they have launched pre i have legal challenges from everything from appointment of poll workers to ballot securing.

senator ted cruz is here to what this means and react to the breaking news about elon musk and twitter. stay there. preempt i have, preemptive

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warning about the explosion of no excuse mail in ballots during the pandemic. we all know how 2020 turned out, especially the failed legal challenges that followed the election. now, this time the gop is not waiting. the ap noting that election days is november 8th but legal challenges have already begun. of course that has all the usual suspects crying foul. >> they could let the states start counting those early votes as they come in, but they don't want to do that because they want to sew doubts in the results. >> what the voters out there have to understand is what they guys didn't accomplish with bear spray and batons and bay nets on january 6th they're now trying to do with voter suppression. >> laura: they're upset because it's working. last year the rnc won a challenge against michigan democrat secretary of state overrules on how poll challengers can operate. they also won legal challenges in nevada and arizona over the appointment of poll workers.

in wisconsin they won on the issue of ballot curing which is a process where voters can fix problems with their ballots so they can actually be counted. wisconsin' high court also found the use of drop boxes to be illegal. yay. joining me now is texas senator ted cruz author of the appropriately titled justice corrupted how the left weaponized our legal system. senator congrats on the book. there's pending litigation also in pennsylvania where the secretary of the commonwealth there just announced it could take days to count all the votes. how are we still allowing this to happen in the united states of america? >> you know, it is really ridiculous and seems the places where it takes days to count the votes, they always end up being these bright blue cities where democrats are looking to get the votes they need to try to win an election. how come the rest of the country manages to actually finish our counting on election night and

get a result? you know, the book that i have that came out this week, justice corrupt ready goess into the history of voter fraud and how this goes into our democracy and what we're seeing now particularly in 2020 is democrats took advantage of the covid crisis to change the rules and change the rules in a way that encouraged more voter fraud. they did things like put in place universal mail-in ballots in some states, even though it is clear that mail-in ballots make voter fraud more likely. they did things like putting in place unmanned drop boxes which again invite voter fraud. they do so by doing things like facilitating ballot harvesting which readily invites fraud because it allows paid political operatives to handle other people's ballots, to influence vulnerable voters and if they don't like the way the voter votes to throw away their votes.

all of that is detailed in justice corrupted as well as the legal battles going forward. >> laura: senator, this may defy reality but kjp says that high voter turnout and voter suppression aren't really mutually exclusive. watch. . the president has been very clear that, based on the big lie, there have been a host of anti voter policies forced on states that challenge america's fundamental right to vote. high turnout and voter suppression can take place at the same time. >> laura: senator, they were trying to tag georgia with this that this was voter suppression to have verity integrity laws tuned up for times. and now we have record turnout already in the early voting there. >> yep. yeah, look, this is all gas lighting. this biden white house is the most dishonest white house we've ever seen. karin jeanne-pierre, she lies on a daily basis. what she just said -- and the

book gets into georgia's voter integrity law and texas voter integrity law and the lies this white house and justice department have told. this is soaring because when people have confidence in voter election they're more likely to turn out. i've been fighting voter fraud for two decades, whiffs the solicitor in texas i led before the supreme court defending photo ids for voting and went to the score 6-3 the court upheld veto ids for voting the opinion written by justice john paul stevens which as you know was one of the leading liberals on the court who said protecting the integrity of election enhances everyone's confidence in democracy because it prevents your vote from being stolen. but today's biden white house, they want a system where more fraud is possible. and what this book is all about is that, under barack obama and now even more so under joe

biden, they have politicized the department of justice, the fbi, the irs, the cia, the entire federal government, and they're using it as a weapon to target and attack their enemies. it's profoundly dangerous. and it is a fundamental threat to our liberties. >> laura: and i hope the senate, if it returns into republican hands, the senate -- the republican-controlled senate actually is able to do something about all this. senator, elon musk now takes the reigns at twitter, speaking of texas because he's moved his operation to texas, what do you think is going to happen now that all of this lunacy perhaps will end with the censorship with opposing viewpoints? >> look, i think elon musk's buying twitter is one of the most significant developments for free speech in modern times. big tech is the single greatest threat to free speech and to free and fair elections we have in america, and twitter was brazen about it, about silencing

and censoring conservetives. elon musk put a lot of money into it and he said he wants it to be a haven for free speech, for people to speak and debate and be a town square of public democracy. i think that is tremendous, he fired the top executives, that is incredibly important. he needed to clean house at the top level. and simply allowing free speech is incredibly important. next year, when republicans take a majority, and i'm right now in the middle of a nation-wide 17-state bus tour, i spent all day today campaigning with herschel walker in georgia. when we take the majority in both houses, which i believe we will, i'm next in line to chair the senate commerce committee and you can be assured we're going to have hearings examining big tech censorship and fighting to protect free speech. >> laura: all right senator we can't wait to watch that and congrats again on the book >> now a new disney film and taylor swift wrestle with fat

shaming while the president resist was the english language. seen and unseen with raymond arroyo is next plus only a couple days away from the show's fifth anniversary so let's see who our new surprise shout-out is from. >> wait, the ingraham angle is five years old? it seems like just yesterday, on the other hand it feels about a hundred years, in a good way. but either way congratulations laura. it's great. happy anniversary.

>> laura: it's time for our seen and unseen segment where we examine the cultural stories of the day and we turn to the contributing author of the best who found christmas raymond arroyo. a focus on body image and body acceptance. >> correct, and there's a disney short film called reflect. it's about a large ballet dancer forced to confront her body and breaking through the limitations. our producer jessica who was a ballet dancer told me moves like

this would be impossible for someone this size. but, look, body positivity is a good thing, great for young girls and boys to see themselves. here's the challenge. children are always naturally chubby. but it's great to see a heroine who's plus-size. what we don't want is plus-size hospitalizations where you have obesity celebrated glam arrived or somehow normal iced that's not a good thing and i would have liked to have seen this ballerina when she grows up to see the difference between the body she had as a child or young person and the body she eventually achieves through her work ethic. >> laura: so does she lots of big moves in this? >> her seems to be a few pirouettes. >> laura: the moves i saw anybody can do. >> maybe we can reenact that sometime. >> laura: come on. >> then a new taylor swift video for a song called anti hero. the album broke the record for the most streamed record in one

day on spotify but in the video swift wrestles with her insecurities and at one point she gets on a scale. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> i stare directly at the sun but never in the mirror. it must be exhausting always rooting for the end to hero ♪ >> some people said the word fat on the scale was fat shaming and taylor swift or at least her music company removed that video scene from apple music. now my problem is taylor swift had an eating disorder which she talked about. this is about her insecurities. she is an artist expressing what she saw there it wasn't a judgment. so i think people have to kind of look at this through the lens of the partial experience here. >> laura: she's writing to write what's important to her. she has every right to write what's important to her. >> artistic expression. >> laura: this is why she's the number one streamer in music. unbelievable. >> true. >> laura: what else. >> today the president was out

campaigning for kirsten chill brand. this could be called english shaming. >> the position americans, pugs, petition to win the economic 21st century and again that's not an exaggeration it's an accurate statement. we're joined by the ceo of micro for their commitment to invest $100 billion. this is the one thing they've said out loud. [laughter]. >> laura you've got chucky, freddy kruger and you have that voice. >> laura: that's scary. >> this is the stuff of nightmares. they said it out loud. right on the mic. it's frightening. and then it was time for the final midterm pitch, up is down, doin's up, and when it's down, it's really up. >> people's incomes went up last quarter more than inflation went up. so economic growth is up, the

price of inflation is down, real income's are ongoing, are up, and the price of gas is down. >> look it up, as, used to say, you can google it. >> laura: they used to say? >> they used to say. >> laura: in the olden days. >> you can google it. >> laura: you could google it. >> he could get a job as a diana ross singer, up side down you turn me inside out. he said the price of inflation was down. inflation was 1.4% when he came into office, it's 8.2% right now. how is that down. >> laura: they were trying to spin the gdp numbers as good today. even the washington post is like, this is ridiculous. >> the good news is, new york senator gillibrand became sort of a seeing eye senator for biden helping him to find his way to his seat at one point. >> laura: in the role of jill. >> right, in the role of jill biden and the president is very concerned about seats on planes. you know how you pay extra for

those seats, little extra room. the president says they're racist. >> some airlines if you want six more inches of room between you and the seat in front are more money p this hits low income folks and people of color. >> laura: does this mean we get better snacks? >> laura how about tall people and bigger people who are not people of color. it's as if people of color are the only one who need extra space. >> laura: i see what you're saying. >> this is why 21% of african-americans are voting for gop candidates. that's ridiculous comments from him. >> laura: let me tell you those junk fees raymond on the cell phone bills they're bad. >> go google it, i promise. >> laura: in the olden days they said google it. that's his big initiative the junk fees. they are bad, but come on. all right, they're telling me to wrap raymond. your fault >> just how bad are things for democrats? well races thought to be

impossible in any other year are now giving the left heartburn. republican senate candidate tiffany smiley in washington and republican candidate dan bailey out of illinois join us next.

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♪ >> laura: in another retaking america segment tonight we bring you the sleeper races that are pretty close here, few saw that coming. illinois governor jb pritzker has been for meanting his citizens for years now his lead has shrunk to single digits following rather tepid debate performances. >> let's talk about what's really destroying our state. governor pritzker you're incompetent and arrogant leadership is killing people. 36 of our patriots and our lasalle veterans home, your fault. nine children in the dcsf system your fault. over 600 deaths in chicago, your fault. it's time for change. >> laura: darren bailey pritzker's challenge joins me now. darren, they thought that you were going to be easy to beat, that pritzker has the money and the big operation and a lot of support from unions. so what are they getting wrong? >> well, laura, i want to remind

you, and thank you for two years ago in july, you had me on when i sued jb pritzker over his illegal and unconstitutional lockdowns and mandates and i won that lawsuit. and i've been pushing back ever since. and what they got wrong is exactly what i mentioned, his arrogant incompetent blind leadership. people are fed up because of his destroying illinois. >> laura: now, darren, this moment during your debate with pritzker could really sum up the kind of pauseity of issues during his entire campaign. watch. >> how have you improved the lives of chicago's black and brown residents? >> i want to point out at that bailey has surrounded himself with racist misogynistic homophobe i can xenophobic people and organizations including chasing after the chief among them donald trump. >> that's all you can talk about. >> laura: well, he's hangry again. darren this is just the go-to for democrats. they can't answer real questions. how have you improved the lives of your own citizens and he goes

to homophobic, racist, xenophobic. this is just a bumper sticker at this point. >> yeah, that's what makes illinois so unique because jb pritzker sits with the super minority in both houses and so does mayor lightfoot in chicago and we have to wonder why we're still having problems because if these people had the answers to crime, to high taxes to our failed education, they should be solving it. but they have no answers and instead every day they're making it worse. i'm telling you what, if a picture of chicago isn't the definition of corruption in the urban dictionary it should be. and that's what i've been standing up against, standing up, pushing back truly being among the people. i'm a farmer from southern illinois, i'm not a career politician and i love my family and i love my freedom. and i'm standing up for that. i'm telling you what, the people all across the state, especially in chicago and the suburbs, they've had enough. and i think we're going to send

shock waves across the nation on november 8th here in illinois. >> laura: well, darren, illinois has to save itself in this election and you give them that opportunity to begin saving the state. and we thank you for running. you're incredibly courageous and we love your campaign and what you're doing so far so we're cheering you on. everybody get out there and vote >> let's turn to the washington senate race, this is of course between incumbent democrat fossil senator patty murray and republican tiffany smiley, now smiley was down as much as 20 points in the summer but now she's closed the gap to just 8. now politico says the democrats are so panicked about this they're adding millions in tv spending to try to boost old fossil patty, take no chances approach apparently in what is a solidly blue washington. here now is tiffany smile republican senate candidate in washington state. tiffany, now, you have them running scared. what is the number one issue that you're hearing about from

voters right now? >> it's safety and crime. i was in seattle on saturday in a room of democrats and independents who are telling me they're honored that i'm the first republican that they will have ever voted for. people are feeling incredibly less safe every single day, senator murray fails to address this issue. she's never been downtown, she's never been to the homeless encampments. i have been in all 39 counties in washington state. washington's ready to elect someone who will go fight for washington state. senator murray's just a part of washington, dc. crime and safety is number one here in washington state, and, you know, i'm on my bus right now, i'm on my bus tour. our rooms are packed, laura, hundreds and hundreds of people are meeting me at events. democrats, independents and republicans. because we are more alike than we are different and when we drive our bus down the highway, cops are honking at us, waving at us. washington state is ready to turn the page. >> laura: i think, you know, you

never really see patty murray. she's not really a factor really, certainly in finding any solutions. but when she's forced to answer a question on inflation, well, this is what she says. >> i have been very focused on lowering costs for families as we get through this global challenge that we are facing. if we move to a clean new energy program and we lower our costs, that will help every family's pocketbook. >> laura: tiffany, the clean new energy future, how's that working out in new england or up in the pacific northwest where things are starting to get colder. >> yeah. how out of touch can you be? you know, just a few weeks ago i saw two little girls in a parking lot at the safe way. they were clearly living out of their car and it was as if the parking lot was their backyard, they had their dolls out and they were playing. the mom was inside trying to make ends meet to get food to get by for the night. that mom, those children, they don't need patty murray's

electric vehicle voucher. they need gas prices to be lower, the cost of living to be lower, they need a hand up and a shot at the american dream. patty murray is so out of touch and incompetent. she is the imamong and the face of big government in washington, dc that's destroying washington state. this isn't just about washington state. this is happening all over our country. this is about the united states of america and going forward. anyone can join us in this fight, laura, at miley for washington.com. we are fighting every single day. we have a road trip tour all the way through election to continue to share our message. voters are resonating with us, meeting us where we are, and ready for change. senator murray's so completely incompetent, full of dc. >> laura: tough any, i think it's really important, and i think we had you on first fox -- on fox before anyone else. >> yes. >> laura: but it's important for you to reach out to young people, too, students, newly graduated students, and i know you're already starting to do

that. we're watching this every step of the way, we're going to talk to you after you win this thing. tiffany thank you so much >> up next another shout-out surprise for the ingraham angle's fifth anniversary. i can't wait to see who it is next. - [narrator] if your business kept on employees through the pandemic, getrefunds.com can qualify you for a payroll tax refund

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. >> laura: the ingraham angle's fifth year anniversary is on sunday and we have another shout-out my team's surprising me with. here's the hint they're giving me. one was just a guest on the show. >> it all ended five years ago. laura ingraham used to get up early and come on our show then she got her own show and now she's thrown away her alarm clock. >> laura we are so proud of you we understand you're celebrating a big anniversary. >> yes, five years as your show anchor at 10:00 eastern time. we watch you twice, or i do. i watch you at 10:00 live and you're even better at 3:00 in the morning when i get up again. >> it's a rerun, it's the same show. >> it's a laura ingraham marathon and i learn more every day. great show great success the

best is yet to come. >> proud of you have laura congratulations. >> indeed. here's to five more. >> i love them and i think i was every tuesday or wednesday i would go on with fox and friends. i do miss that. i don't get enough sleep as it is. steve and ainsley, brian, love you back >> and, remember, we want you to dvr the show so you never miss an episode and greg gutfeld and everyone takes it from here. ♪ ♪ [cheers and applause] ♪ >> greg: beautiful. beautiful, beautiful. happy thursday, everybody. all right, control yourselves. my goodness. i'm not just a piece of meat. so i think we're finally realizing the secret truth about the woke, that the number of people who actually believe in this gar