Kudlow

Kudlow 10-21-2026 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Pollster friends of mine are telling me Republicans are gonna lose the House and maybe the Senate, because not enough traditional Republicans are gonna come out and vote. In other words, Mr. Trump has always had the support of MAGA Republicans, but the mistake at the Dallas Convention was not wooing so-called traditional GOPers. Well, I’m not sure what a traditional Republican is, or why any Republican, or for that matter any sane person, would want to vote in a bunch of Democratic party big government socialists. With Miranda Devine, Ben Domenech, Newt Gingrich, David Malpass, Christina Skinner, John Carney and Hogan Gidley Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Newt Gingrich and I have been talking about so-called Democratic affordability, and the big government socialist mantra of medicare for all, which basically means if you like your healthcare plan, you won’t be able to keep it. $160 million some odd workers have employer-based healthcare and they like it, but they will lose it under the socialist proposal to nationalize the healthcare system. The Council of Economic Advisers estimates that to cost roughly $50 trillion over 10 years. With Joe Concha, Charlie Hurt, EJ Antoni, General Keith Kellogg and Jordan Ricciardi.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Slotkin's point is to bring political prosecution to young Republican staffers working for the president. With Katie Miller, Chloe Trapanotto, Art Laffer, Rep. Claudia Tenney (R-NY), Rebeccah Heinrichs, Roger Zakheim, and NJ GOP Senate Candidate Justin Murphy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Run your finger down the key races in the Real Clear Politics average. What you see is seven toss-up races, well within the polling error margin. One tie in Kansas. One big GOP win in Florida. And one Democrat win in Georgia. Again, the toss-ups are well inside the error margin. This does not spell a Democratic blue wave in the Senate. With Newt Gingrich, Robert O'Brien, Ben Domenech, Ben Ferguson, Marc Sumerlin, Douglas Holtz-Eakin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The reason the Bruce Blakeman-Kathy Hochul race for governor is so important, is because a Blakeman victory will not only knock out a far-left blue state governor, it will also knock down New York’s socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani. In other words, if you take out Hochul, you basically call a halt to all of the damage, be it antisemitism, woke culture, insane tax increases, of course the pied-a-terre tax, and all of the other crazy stuff Mamdani and his merry band of Democratic socialists of America are trying to inflict on what should be the greatest city in America and the world. With Liz Peek, John Carney, Mark Simone, Victor Davis Hanson, General Jack Keane and Marc Thiessen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Affordability is likely to be a defining issue in the 2026 midterms, as voters continue to face higher costs for everyday necessities. Is the GOP doing enough to tout the Trump economic boom? Plus, President Donald Trump doubled down on his decision to allow Russian diesel imports amid growing backlash, calling it the "right choice". Guest host David Asman with Dan Brouillette, Art Laffer, Steve Forbes, Mike Rogers, Miranda Devine, Rich Lowry and Roger Zakheim.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

President Trump is once again caught between a foreign policy rock and a hard place. He announced an “energy ceasefire” between Russia and Ukraine, but Zelenskyy posted Sunday that Russian drones have been pounding Ukraine “all day,” adding, “A power plant in Kharkiv was attacked this evening.” Trump is simultaneously locked in a war of words with Zelenskyy, suggesting he should be replaced after demanding Ukraine stop hitting Russian refineries — and blaming him for high diesel prices. Now, to bring those prices down, Trump is cutting a deal for Russia to supply hundreds of thousands of tons of diesel fuel, drawing opposition from several GOP lawmakers. And another front is flaring. Trump says the U.S. “may” join the fight against the Iran-backed Houthis after a new Riyadh airport attack and more hits Sunday. Guest host Edward Lawrence with Rebecca Heinrichs, Richard Goldberg, Phil Flynne, Michael Faulkender, Christina Skinner, Byron York, Hogan Gidley and Sen. Marsha Blackburn Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Trump touts the 'Golden Age of America' and once again tells midterm voters to pretend he's on the ballot. Guest Host Charles Payne with Newt Gingrich, John Carney, Tim Doescher, Ben Domenech, Ben Ferguson, Mike Sarraille, and Dario Gil. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

President Trump is returning to Texas Wednesday for a political rally in San Antonio ahead of the midterm elections. He is joining Republican Senate nominee Ken Paxton, who faces a tight race against Democratic nominee James Talarico, according to recent polling. Guest host Edward Lawrence with Art Laffer, Douglas Holtz-Eakin, Tala Goudarzi, Marc Thiessen, Liz Peek, Joe Concha and Roger Zakheim Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

You just have to love it, while these Democratic candidates are out there tweeting and chirping and criticizing Mr. Trump and the GOP on the issue of affordability. Hahaha. In the first place, Trump way back in 2016 invented the term affordability, amidst much derision as he successfully ran in his first term. Now with a temporary gasoline spike from the Iran war, Democrats have latched on to the term affordability as some kind of midterm election life raft. With Conrad DeQuadros, Christina Skinner, Jason Katz, Daniel McCarthy, Miranda Devine and Caroline Downey. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

President Trump stumping in Nebraska today in his latest push for Republican candidates. But is it too late for the GOP to sell their message to voters ahead of November. Meanwhile, Kevin Hassett says it's time for Jerome Powell to leave the Federal Reserve Board.  Guest host Edward Lawrence with Keith Sonderling, Alex Gray, Michael Faulkender, EJ Antoni, Byron York, Rich Lowry and Dan Brouillette.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Of course, you wouldn’t know it from the media, but today’s job report for September was actually quite strong; it continues the economic boom that I’m now calling the greatest story that should be told. Here’s some factoids you’re not gonna read about in the legacy media: the household employment survey from which the unemployment rate is derived, that survey shows a whopping gain of 406,000 jobs. There’s a 1.1 million increase in new entrants and a 975,000 increase in jobs. With Hogan Gidley, John Carney, Jim Thorne, Charlie Hurt, David Zervos, Wilbur Ross and Rebeccah Heinrichs Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mr. Powell may not have done anything criminal in the Fed building fiasco, but he was certainly complicit in the disaster known as big government socialism during the Biden years. It's time for him to resign. With Art Laffer, Douglas Holtz-Eakin, Dan Brouillette, Matt Pottinger, Ben Domenech, Ben Ferguson, and Bruce Blakeman. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Things happen when you least expect it. How about the dissolution of Iran? We know their currency is worthless. It’s now 2.5 million per dollar. And Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent basically is saying that Iran’s gonna run out of cash in two weeks. With General Jack Keane, Mohamed El-Erian, Joe Lavorgna, Marc Thiessen, Mary Katharine Ham, Ashley Hayek and Anthony Pompliano Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

For those doomsters who believe the GOP is going to get clobbered in the midterm election, you ought to listen to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. He is the best Treasury Secretary since World War II. He is a tremendous proponent on the economy, trade, and China, and an imminent end to the Iran war. I interviewed him this past weekend on Sunday Morning Futures and he talked about the acceleration phase of the economy. In other words, it’s really taking off. With General Keith Kellogg, Ken Fisher, Sen Tommy Tuberville, Miranda Devine, Byron York and Frank Bisignano.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

British police said on Monday they were investigating whether individuals acting for a foreign state were involved in an apparent plot to attack an airbase used by ​the United States but said five suspects they had arrested would be released on bail.Gingrich Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Bet you didn’t know this, but core business investment shipments, known as CapEx on Wall Street, think companies that make machines, metal products, computers, electronics, cars, anyway, new orders are up 16.4% annually, for the past 3 months. And 14.1% year-on-year. We haven’t seen numbers like this in several decades. When businesses are healthy, and producing, and purchasing, it is a great sign of economic health. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stood at the podium of the United Nations General Assembly hall and absolutely tore into all of the multiplying progenitors of antisemitism around the world. It was a remarkable speech. He regards himself as the leader of world Jewry, and no one can deny him that platform. He has basically governed Israel for nearly 30 years through thick and thin, through the wars and the massacres.  With Michael Faulkender, Robert Greenway, Sen Mike Lee, Steve Forbes, Liz Peek, Ben Domenech, Ben Ferguson, and Brent Sadler.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Price controls are always a bad idea. They create shortages, profit losses, and eventually much higher prices when the controls are finally lifted. So this administration idea of a diesel export ban, is a problem if it really goes through. KeithDouglas Holtz-Eakin, Marc Sumerlin and Walter Russell Mead Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices