Benny Johnson guest: “America is rebelling on Donald Trump”
Pollster Mark Mitchell: “This is a knife's edge. 41% approval.”
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From the February 9, 2026, edition of The Benny Show, streamed on YouTube
BENNY JOHNSON (HOST): Is the Save Act. You know, this seems like something that is obviously -- you know, we've talked polling before on voter fraud, voter issues, voter ID, and that seems like such a no-brainer. Republicans, however, are so cucked, and are such little babies, such children, that they can't even get behind, like, trying to get this done. Although, people do love that there's finally a piece of legislation that's getting something done that they wanted and voted for. So where we at on the Save Act? What are the chances of this thing moving?
MARK MITCHELL (GUEST): You know, I'm not behind the doors in Congress, and I don't know what the political calculus is, but I know that, obviously, fundamentally, any, like, core principle that increases accountability and rule law and fairness in America is going to be overwhelmingly supported by the mass majority of people as is every election integrity measure. You know, we've covered this with you in the past. Everybody thinks the elections are stolen. Most people think the machines are connected to the Internet. Everybody wants voter ID. And it's like, this was the Trump that had the election stolen from him such that it even changed his movement's news consumption patterns. Right? Like, everybody dumped cable on November 3, 2020. And it's like, politically, anything around election integrity is the lowest hanging fruit that Republicans could ever be offered. Vastly bipartisan, you know, the zeitgeist of reforming a broken system, and it's like if we can't even do this. Like, I don't wanna be too cynical and black-pilled and and stuff about this.
Like, there's an aspect of Donald Trump has not been handling the Republican Party correctly and has diluted his endorsement and hasn't been building, a pro-MAGA Republican Party like he could have potentially. And then I look at your elected Republican leaders, and I say, well, they most of them will just ditch MAGA as soon as they can, because they're just looking for whatever, like, sort of cynical short-term trend that they can hitch their wagon to in order to increase fundraising. And that's negative, but, you know, I try to give Trump, like, a positive path forward, which is like, hey. Like, back in November. Again, very -- like, the what, the what do we do should not be hard. Brutal visible government reform and restore the American middle class through economic populism. Like, those are the two targets. Very big, very easy to hit at. Right? But it's like when you're fighting with your own party, people don't think you're aiming at the target. They think you're shooting somewhere else. Right? And so the goal is, like, how can Trump partner with the Republican Party in order to, like, get big wins that don't fix things -- everything. Right? But that show that there's two hands on that dial turning the temperature down. That's what America wants to see. Trump and Republicans with both hands turning that dial in the correct direction. And this is the biggest and best opportunity. And there has to be a case made. And, again, like, fighting with the Republicans visibly outside where everybody can see it is not like this stuff we're fighting with -- like, I want the filibuster nuked just as much as anybody else, if not more. I've been calling for forever, and I don't care what the Democrats are gonna do with it. When you nuke the filibuster and pass the laws Americans want, the point is that then they vote for you again. And so the idea of Democrats using the nuked filibuster against America shouldn't even be part of the discussion. And by bringing it up, you're telling us all, like, that you're not gonna do what we all want you to do. Right?
JOHNSON: Great point.
MITCHELL: But it's like we can't have these fights out in the public. And it's like if there's a conservative at all, if there's a person at all within John Thune and Mike Johnson who care about the future of this country and winning, then they need to get at least one win like this. Just show us you can do it. America's -- it's literally like the Shia LaBeouf meme. Like, just do it. Like and if they will be punished 100%, they will be punished. And I'm telling you right now, America is rebelling on Donald Trump not because they don't like what he's doing, they want him to do more, and we just saw it. Like, the numbers out today. When you come up -- we just we just asked, is America gonna remember Joe Biden as a good president or as a bad president? And people say bad president 47 to 38. But then we say, is Donald Trump better than or worse than Joe Biden? And 56% of America says the same or worse than Joe Biden. And so, again, this is the guy that won with maybe not potentially a mandate, but a mandate for his platform. And every single thing that he's promised is significantly more popular than Donald Trump is. We just have to do that. And, I mean, a vision of the future. Fighting with the Republican Party viscerally visibly in the near-term to get long-term wins doesn't paint a compelling vision of the future of Republican conservative governance. That's the catch-22. That's the situation we're in, and that's how Trump's got to figure out how to figure out how to do that with leadership. And it's like, make that halftime show. Look at Epstein. Right? What's the Epstein equivalent of what you guys did with the halftime show? Trump needs to do that now immediately.
JOHNSON: Yeah.
MITCHELL: Or he could be like -- this is a knife's edge. 41% approval.
JOHNSON: Mark Mitchell, who brings good and bad news, but always brings clear eyes to this and, along with, of course, a pedigree of being the most right pollster in all of America.