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The Warning with Steve Schmidt

Why This Election Day is The Most Important In America's History

The Warning with Steve Schmidt

iHeartPodcasts

News, Politics, Government

4.8784 Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

On Election Day, it's more important than ever for Americans to make their voices heard and check the power of Donald Trump. Steve Schmidt explains the significance of this year's elections and how Trump has done everything to undermine our democracy.

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0:00.0

This is an IHeart podcast.

0:04.1

It is Tuesday, November the 4th.

0:07.3

This is the warning.

0:09.9

It's election day.

0:11.2

Let's talk about that.

0:12.7

One year from now, the American people will decide if Donald Trump has a check put on him,

0:20.5

not by Democrats, but by us, the American people, using

0:25.7

the institution of the Democratic Party to say, you're not a king, you're out of control,

0:33.9

and you're cabinet secretaries who come to the Congress with both middle fingers waving, preserve your records.

0:43.0

The choice that we get to make about who leads us is not accidental.

0:48.7

It just isn't because, and it just doesn't exist because either. We get to pick our leaders because of the blood

1:00.5

sacrifices of more than a million American patriots who died so that people not yet born

1:10.3

could live in freedom. Let's look at some laws, some things

1:15.2

that are commonplace that if they went away really wouldn't change things very much in America.

1:22.3

For example, let's say there was no more right on red. You lost that choice.

1:29.0

Would it mean you weren't free?

1:31.0

It would not.

1:32.0

It would just mean you needed to be more patient.

1:35.3

If you live in a country where the politicians decide who rules, the party decides who leads, and the leader decides what's real.

1:46.0

You don't live in a free country. You live in a despotic one.

1:49.0

In America, there are a couple of ideas that are foundational, and there's some of the best ideas that

1:57.0

have ever come up with, not just in the last hundred years,

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