Welcome. It is verdict with Senator Ted Cruz. Ben Ferguson with you. This is also going to be the Ben Ferguson podcast and many of you are going to hear this on radio stations as well.

This is moments after the presidential debate. Senator Cruz, I didn't think it could actually be this bad.

It was worse than even, I think, either of us could have imagined.

And now the Democratic Party is screaming, replace the president.

Well, you and I are sitting here.

It is 10.17 p.m. Texas time.

It is 11.17 p.m. East Coast time the night of the debate.

The debate just ended.

And I have to say, we have just witnessed what I believe is the most night of the debate. The debate just ended. And I have to say we have just

witnessed what I believe is the most consequential presidential debate in U.S. history.

Sometimes debates change things, sometimes they don't. I believe tonight's debate

change things fundamentally, and I believe the odds have now skyrocketed. I believe the odds are north of 80%

that the Democrat Party will remove Joe Biden from the ticket and replace him, and I believe they are likely to replace Joe Biden with Michelle Obama, because Biden did so disastrously badly tonight that Democrats across the country are in utter free fall and complete

panic. We're going to break all that down tonight. Yeah. And by the way, this was a prediction

that you made on this show back in September of 2023 that the Democratic kingmakers could bring in

Michelle Obama.

We'll break all that down.

I want to tell you real quick about our friends at the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews,

and as Israel's ground campaign against the Hamas terrorist is continuing,

the IDF announced that it expects to have complete control of the southern Gaza city of Rafa,

a Hamas stronghold within two weeks.

Tensions continue to rise in Israel's north as there are constant rocket attacks from Hezbollah

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