On Wednesday’s Mark Levin Show, between 2020 and 2024, the Democratic Party saw a significant drop in voter registration across all 30 states that monitor party affiliation, losing 2.1 million voters while Republicans gained 2.4 million. This change, amounting to a total swing of 4.5 million voters, took place in battleground states as well as in traditionally blue and red states. In addition, with many assuming malicious intent without substantial evidence. However, the narrative has faded as the extraordinary accusation failed to hold up under scrutiny. The shift highlights how quickly public perception can change when dramatic claims lack corroboration. Also, Jack Ciattarelli joins the show to talk about the deterioration of New Jersey under Phil Murphy, emphasizing that the state deserves a more capable leader. New Jersey has been plagued by overcrowding, soaring property taxes, antisemitism and the falsehoods propagated by Murphy, leaving the residents exhausted by the situation. Ciattarelli is running to replace Gov. Phil Murphy once and for all by not only addressing these pressing issues but by also committing to doing everything within his power to transform New Jersey into a better place. Jack For New Jersey
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Rough transcription of Hour 1
Segment 1
Hello America. Mark Levin here. Our number 877-381-3811. 877-381-3811. So much to do. 3 hours won’t be enough. So stick with us, though. By the way, word is Putin’s playing games again. He’s up to no good. Strung, throwing out impossible obstacles to securing Ukraine. He’s demanding that Russia and or China be part of the security forces for Ukraine. Imagine that, Mr. Producer. It’s what a moron. His territorial demands. Are severe and all the rest. In the end, as I’ve said from day one, the United States, we, President Trump, really have all the cards. And what do I mean by that? The sales of. Really top notch military equipment tornado, which in turn they can provide to. Ukraine. That’s number one. Number two, tariffs on China and India to choke off their. There’s supply, liquidity, that is cash for oil. And number three, a second level of severe sanctions that hit. Russia’s banks. It’s access to cash. Can drive that. That dictatorship into the dirt the way Reagan did. Gorbachev. In the old Soviet Union. Except Putin’s in worse, but in worse position than than the old Soviet Union. So we’ll see how this turns out. President Trump’s doing everything humanly possible to make it right. We’ll see how it turns out. And but for President Trump, you know, Russia might already be bleeding from this. So we’ll see. We shall see. It’s the right man in the right place in Donald Trump. And I’m going to get to this. This sentence or two or three that is being used by the media to attack the president. Well, you said, you know, I might be a hero to a war hero, too. And they’re all worked up about it. They didn’t run with any of the rest of what the president said, of course. But I want to make the case. That is exactly right. Now, this guy who writes for The New York Post, you know, one of my favorite newspapers, he used to write in National Review. He’s supposed to be conservative. And he’s been hired by media. And his name is Isaac Shaw. Isaac Shaw is hiring himself out to mediate. He, among others, apparently has the live in. Portfolio. And so whenever I post something. Excuse me. On social media. Say something. They have him comment on it. And of course, it’s always detrimental. I have a long memory. Guys like this who whore themselves out to the left. They don’t last. They don’t do very well. And usually they turn on conservatives. That’s what they do. People like Michael Steele or Bill Kristol. Tucker Carlson, Are people like that eventually? Eventually, they turn on red blooded Americans. So I’ve seen them come and I’ve seen them go. But that’s not what I want to focus on America. I want to focus on an unbelievable story in The New York Times. That’s right. You heard me. The New York Times. Now, after I read this, too, it’s going to take a little while over a few segments, but you’re going to want to hear it, I’m sure, because almost none of us subscribe to The New York Times. Why should we? Then I want to tell you why they’re publishing it. By Shane Gold, Masher, Wood, Jonah Smith, whatever that means. Jonah Smith is a data journalist focused on voter registration, election turnout data, they told us. Shane Gould Masher is a national political correspondent covering the rebuilding efforts of the Democratic Party, as they put it. Now they will use the word Democratic Party. I will use the word Democrat Party. There is nothing Democratic about the Democratic Party. The Democrat Party, they write, is hemorrhaging voters long before they even go to the polls. Of the 30 states that tracked voter registration by political party, Democrats lost ground to Republicans at every single one between 2020 excuse me, in 2024 elections, and often by a lot. Now that’s only 30 states, so it’s even worse. That four year swing toward the Republicans adds up to 4.5 million voters, a deep political hole that could take years for Democrats to climb out from. The sentence should be to climb out from under. But nonetheless, their stampede away from the Democratic Party, as they put it, is occurring in battleground states. The bluest states and the reddest states do, according to a new analysis of voter registration data by the New York Times. So in every state. The analysis used voter registration data compiled by L2, a non-partisan data firm. Few measures reflect the lustre of a political parties brand more clearly than the choice by voters to identify with it, whether they register on a clipboard in a supermarket parking lot at the Department of Motor Vehicles in the comfort of their own home. And fewer and fewer Americans are choosing to be Democrats. In fact, for the first time since 2018, more new voters nationwide chose to be Republicans than Democrats last year. All told, Democrats lost about 2.1 million registered voters during the 2020 and 2024 elections. In these 30 states. So it’s even worse, right, Because they’re not counting the other 20, because they don’t have the data along with Washington, DC, that allow people to register with a political party. And the remaining 20 states, voters do not register with a political party. Republicans gained 2.4 million in those in those 30 states. There are still more Democrats registered nationwide than Republicans, partly because of blue states like California allow people to register by party, while red states like Texas do not. But the trajectories troublesome for Democrats and there are growing tensions over what to do about it. Democrats went from nearly an 11 percentage point edge over Republicans on Election Day 2020. In those places with partisan registration to just over 6% in 2024. The swing helps to explain President Trump’s success. Last year, when he won the popular vote for the first time, swept the swing states and roared back to the White House. I’ll keep something else in mind, folks. We’ve talked about this. The census was wrong. Republican states like Texas. Florida. Tennessee were ripped off. In the census. So there should be more Republicans in the House of Representatives today. Just based on the mathematics. That’s number one. Number two, President Trump won a bigger Electoral College victory. And has been reported to him as a result of that as well. Let’s keep going, quote, the debt cycle of the Democratic Party. But there seems to be no end to this, said Michael Bruce, producer who tracks voter registration closely as the director of data science for Decision Desk Headquarters, an election analysis site. There is no silver lining or cavalry coming across the hill this month after month. Year after year. Their shifts also preview Democrats weakness. In 2024, the party saw some of its steepest declines in registration among men and younger voters, The Times analysis found to constituents that swung sharply toward Mr. Trump. All four presidential battleground states covered by the Times analysis. Arizona, Nevada, North Carolina and Pennsylvania showed significant Democrat erosion. In North Carolina, Republicans erased roughly 95% of the registration advantage that Democrats held in the fall of 2020, according to state records as of this summer. In Nevada, Democrats suffered the steepest percentage point plunge of any state but West Virginia between 2020 and 2024. The share of voters choosing to register with either party went down after the state adopted an automatic voter registration system. But the Democrat decline allowed Republicans to briefly surpass Democrats earlier this year. Now for many years, more and more voters have been registering as independents or unaffiliated, sapping both parties roles. More recently, however, that growth has come mostly at the expense of the Democrat Party. Democratic strategists say the party’s nationwide registration decline is hidden in plain sight crisis that must be reversed before the 2028 election. Consider this In 2018, Democrats accounted for 34% of new voter registrations nationwide, with Republicans only 20% by 2024. Six years later, Republicans had overtaken Democrats among new registrants. In six years, the GOP share rose by nine percentage points. That Democratic share dropped by eight. The Times compiled registration data from 1.2 compared it to state data excuse me, from Altoona, compared it to state records across the country. There show the scope of the registration decline for Democrats and interviewed more than two dozen party strategists, officials involved in registration efforts. Quote, We fall asleep at the switch, said Maria Cardona, a veteran party strategist and longtime member of the DNC. But Democrats are divided and flummoxed over what to do. For years, the left has relied on a sprawling network of nonprofits which solicit donations from people whose identities they need not disclose to register black, Latino and younger voters. This amazing story. Though the groups are technically nonpartisan, the underlying assumption has been that most new voters registering would vote Democrat. Mr. Trump upended that calculation with the inroads he made with working class non-white voters. Quote, You can’t just register a young Latino or a young black voter and assume they’re going to know that it’s Democrats that have the best politics, Ms.. Cardona said. Behind the scenes, a fierce fight is underway over how Democrats should address their sagging voter registration numbers and which groups should receive funding to do the work. It’s a battle with hundreds of millions of dollars at stake, pitting partisans against fellow philanthropists and some of the Democrats most important constituents against one another. You know, in a strange way, this was bound to happen because the Democrat Party is a cobbling together of disparate groups, ethnic identities, income identities, genitalia identities, and so forth and so on. That’s me, not The New York Times saying that, Of course, voter registration is an important barometer of a staged political tilt, even if it doesn’t necessarily predict the outcome in the next election. Experts sometimes call it a lagging indicator because people typically stop voting with party years before they formally register with a new one. Kentucky and West Virginia, for example, each flipped to a Republican registration advantage. Only in recent years, though, both states turned red in presidential contests long ago. Tom Bonier, one of the Democrat Party’s leading experts on voter registration trends, spent much of 2024 downplaying the seriousness of his party registration woes. He’s now come around, quote, I was wrong, he said in an interview. Clearly, in retrospect, we can say the Democrat Party had dug itself too deep a hole in the preceding four years for the Harris campaign to dig itself out in the last few months, added Bonior, referring to the 2024 bid by Kamala Harris. He now calls the registration figures, quote, a big flashing red alert, unquote. Grim milestones of Democrat decline have been piling up. Last summer, Bucks County, a competitive Philadelphia suburb, tilted Republican and registration for the first time since two. Thousandseven according to state records in the fall, Mr. trump became the first Republican presidential candidate to carry the current the county this century. That’s bucks county. This spring it was Miami-Dade county in Florida with a number of active republican voters in the county zoomed past Democrats. Just months after Mr. Trump became the first Republican presidential candidate to carry the county in decades, as recently as November 2020, Democrats outnumbered Republicans by 200,000 statewide. A 1.2 million voter flip, a swing, flipped Florida into the Republican column by registration, according to the Times analysis of Alta’s data. North Carolina could be the next battleground state to tip. State records show that Democratic edge there is down to less than 17,000 voters from nearly 400,000 just four years ago. And men in Pennsylvania may be on deck. Democrats hold a registration advantage of 517,000 among active voters there in November 2020, according to state records. That edge has dwindled down to 53,000 from 517,000 this summer. The Democrat Party’s diminished appeal to men and younger voters was evident in partisan registration data long before it became apparent to everyone in the 24 election not so long ago. In 2018, Democrats accounted for 66% of new voters under 45 who registered with one of two major parties. Yet by 2024, the Democratic share had plunged to 48%. The Times analysis of latest data found. In other words, Republicans went from roughly one third of newly registered voters under 45 to a majority in the last six years. You know, it’s annoying and frustrating, though. You have these organizations around. I did that. I read it. But no, you didn’t sit down and shut up. Now there’s more to this story, and I want to get to it. But I want to take a little break. This is really quite fascinating. We’ll be right back.
Segment 2
All right, folks, apologize. We had a technical problem there, but we’re all good. All good. I want to go on with this New York Times piece which basically says the Republicans are crushing the Democrats in voter registration over the last few years in every state. Blue, purple, red. The stories even bleaker for Democrats in some key states. They write in Nevada, which releases particularly detailed data. Republicans added nearly twice as many voters under 35 to the rolls as Democrats did last year. State records show the shifts among male voters tell a similar story. Nearly 49% of men newly registering with a major party chose the Democrats in 2020 and 2024. That figure was down to roughly 39%, the same time the Democratic edge. Among women, registering to vote has shrunk. The combination inverted a gender gap that in recent years had heavily benefited Democrats. Few states offer partisan registration data by race, but those that do reflect the Democrat Party’s fading allure to Latino voters, according to the Times analysis of L2 data. In Florida, a slim 52% majority of new Latino registrants who chose one of the two major parties had aligned with the Democrats in 2020. By last year, the party share of new Latino voters had collapsed to 33%. Democrats fared only slightly better in North Carolina. The party share of Latino registrants picking up of the two major parties, declined from 72% in 2020 to 58% last year. Within the small community of Democrat data and voter registration experts, a confidential memo circulated early last year was explosive. Aaron Strauss, a data scientist who has spent years studying how to elect Democrats, wrote that the old way of registering voters, working through nonprofit groups to enroll young people and people of color in general rather than explicit, explicitly seeking new Democrats might actually backfire in 2024. He said If we were to blindly register non-voters and get them on the rolls, we would be distinctly aiding Trump’s quest for a personal dictatorship. And in a moment, I’m going to explain. That’s part of the problem, the way these guys talk. That’s how Mr. Robert Mr. Strauss wrote it in a memo which the Washington Post reported at the time. Mr. Strauss argued that the left needed to target its new voters more surgically because Mr. Trump’s support was growing among traditional Democratic constituencies. Registering voters without regard to their political beliefs remain cost effective for Democrats only with black voters, with other demographic groups. Explicitly partisan groups ought to make explicitly partisan arguments in order to actually benefit Democratic campaigns. Quote, It would be naive to call 2020 for anything other than a reckoning on the Democrat brand, said Tory Guaido, the president of way to win a progressive donor network who argued that more spending on non-partisan registration was misguided. Quote, To solve a brand problem. You need people talking about the brand, and that requires partisan dollars. But that would be a huge shift, including for a politically mind minded donors who reap tax benefits from their gifts to some groups that register voters on a nonpartisan basis and that are considered charities. So what they’re saying there, if you give money to explicitly partisan PACs, that’s not tax deductible. If you give it to partisan nonprofit groups that pretend to be nonpartisan in the way they word stuff and so forth, that’s tax deductible. But this guy saying, well, we’re not going to register enough Democrats our way. We need to come up with something new. Every new sign up cost 30 to $80, One official involved in registering voters said. Now, this memo from Mr. Strauss, who declined to comment, estimated that netting extra Democrat votes by registering black voters cost $575 per vote in 2020. Hector Sanchez Barba, the president and chief executive of My Familia Vota, a nonpartisan group that registers Latino voters, said it would be a major mistake if progressive donors cut off organizations like his. He said it was the job of Democratic leaders to sell Latinos on the Democrat Party and that it would be short sighted to invest, expecting only short term gains. Now to finish this up, JP Bush, who heads the leading superPAC aligned with Senate Democrats and an affiliated nonprofit called the Shrinking Democrat Registration Margins, a distressing trend in recent years, He said it’s been lonely out there for the organization’s nonprofit ARM, which is an advocacy group rather than a charity when trying to lift registrations, especially in conservative states that Democrats must win have a chance at a majority. Mr. Bush called the debate between spending money to persuade or register new voters a false choice. He said, If we’re going to win, if we’re going to be competitive, we need to be investing in both. Any hope that the drift away from the Democrat Party would end organically with Mr. Trump’s election has been dashed by the limited data so far in 2025. There are now roughly 160,000 fewer registered Democrats than on Election Day 2024, according to Alta’s data, and 200,000 more Republicans. It’s going to get worse, Mr. Prosser, a decision DEC headquarters, said of the outlook for Democrats before it gets better. I mean, right there you have 2000 200,000 more republicans registered since Trump was elected, 160,000 less Democrats. That’s a 360,000 spread. So what’s going on? It must be Charlie Kirk. No, Charlie Kirk has nothing to do with it. Bless his soul. Oh, it must be Abbott. No, no, no. It must be. There’s really two things going on. The Democrat Party is embracing. Radical Marxist Islamist agendas. Which fly here and there, but fly nowhere else. How many Democrats do you know and I’m not talking about on TV or in entertainment, how many Democrats do you know who maybe you work with? Who believe. That men should be in women’s sports. How many Democrats do you know who believe that the borders should be wide open? And now that we shouldn’t be deporting illegal aliens, especially those who commit heinous crimes. Hmm. How many Democrats do you know who are jealous of billionaires who or more focused on their own way of life and sustaining that? In other words, the Democrat Party is the party, as I’ve said over and over again, of Marxism and Islamism. And now thoroughly anti Semitism and anti Christianity. They’re substituting Marxism and Islamism for Judaism and Christianity. American citizens. They’re substituting for illegal aliens. They’re substituting cops for criminals. In other words, is there an issue that they’re not on the wrong side of? Is there? The answer is no. Can you think of a single issue in which the Democrat Party is on the side of the American people? Wokeism. Wokeism is clearly a Marxist Democrat. Invention. Americans hate it. Americans hate it. See, here’s what’s fundamentally going on. The American people love their country. With certain exceptions, most of whom are leaders in the Democrat Party and in their media. But the American people love America. Americans. Republicans. Democrats. Unaffiliated. Who are young. They are prepared to fight for their country. And defend their country. They don’t hate their country. They don’t believe America was founded. In order to advance slavery. You don’t believe America was founded for billionaires? They don’t believe that if you don’t agree with them that you’re Hitler or neo-Nazis. The more your piercingly outrageous the Democrat Party is and their propaganda is and their candidates are. The more they’re turning off Americans, except for the die hard Democrats, they’re turning off Americans. Because unlike the Democrats. Listen to me. Unlike the Democrats who run their party, who make money raising funds for their party and all the rest, the American people put their country before party. They don’t put the party before a country. The Democrat Party is on the trajectory of Communist parties all over the world. The party comes first. The issues, the party power. Party authority. Well, bargains don’t think that way. They don’t give a damn about parties. Quite frankly, they’ll register with a party. They’ll have some allegiance, some more than others. They have some general appreciation for one party or the other. But it’s not a party. Party first. Have you noticed the Republican Party, to my knowledge, doesn’t have a flag. The Democrat Party doesn’t have a flag. If they do, we don’t even know what they are. But we don’t pledge allegiance to their flags. Even if they had them. We pledge allegiance to the American flag. In many ways, the Democrat Party is destroying itself. That’s number one. Number two is Donald Trump. I don’t know how many more times I have to say this. You are looking at a truly historic and an iconic figure. A historic. An iconic figure. Now you have some bird brains out there, some knucklehead, some boneheads out there saying, See isolationism? Populism. These people will fall by the wayside. They’re on record now. We will always know who they are. The Tuckers, the Bannon’s. He owns more and more than Megan Kelly’s and the Piers. What’s his name? Piers Morgan. They’re saddling up. In a way in which they’re missing. What’s taking place to. And they’re missing it badly. I’ve been observing these things and participating and involved in these things since I was 13 years old. I’ve seen people come, I’ve seen them go, I’ve seen movements come and I’ve seen them go. People don’t like it. They don’t like it when isolationists or Marxists and Islamists are talking about America, imperial America. People don’t like it. When these these elements are attacking our history. And World War Two. The fact that we took out Japan, the fact that we took out Hitler. People don’t like. The embrace of Hitler and the rejection of Churchill. People don’t like it. They don’t like it. They don’t believe it. Patriotism runs deeply. Deeply. People don’t like it when you side with terrorists like Hamas. And you go out of your way to trash Israelis and Jews. They don’t like it. Most of the people I’m around aren’t even Jewish. They’re Christian. Most of the organizations or organizations I speak to, which are few and far between, are Christian organizations. The fact is that a cabal of fake MAGA isolationist Jew haters is in a small minority. They live on the internet. They live in media. They live in the Drudge Report. They live on the fringes. That’s where they live. That’s where they get their clicks and their hits and their subscribers. And the Marxist Islamists. Their poison is spreading in this country. It’s spreading in academia. It’s spreading in the media. It’s spreading in the Democrat Party. But academia and the media are not driven by the popular will. They have no connection to the popular will, to we the people. They lecture us, they indoctrinate us. Or at least they try. And the Democrat Party. They’re a party of this Marxist Islamist ideology. Why? As I speak today, Chuck Schumer has never denounced the guy running for mayor in New York City. Hakeem Jeffries hasn’t either. And he may well win. But the country’s watching. The country is watching. And they don’t like what they see. We don’t like what we see. We’ll be right back.
Segment 3
Very excited. I’m getting very excited about this program, period. You know, the next hour, I want to have a discussion with you. When I was at the Reagan Library and other book signings, people said, you know, we love about your show other than you, of course. So what? The history lessons. Oh, your sense of humor and your passion and so forth. But the history lessons. That’s what we love the most. Well, that’s a good thing, because I love them the most, too, whether it’s the Constitution in American history, whether it’s ancient history, and we work together the the puzzle pieces and figure things out together, Where in the world else can that happen? Seriously? Nowhere in mass media except here. Nowhere. But, you know, it’s amazing. Mr. and Mrs. America. As this program gets bigger and more robust. We’re on terrestrial radio. That means AM and FM stations, wonderful affiliates, beautiful. We’re on satellite radio with our friends at Sirius XM. Fantastic. We’re on YouTube. We have our own channel. We’re live streamed in hundreds of places on hundreds of stations. We have our own app, the Mark Levine app. Our friends at iHeart who have partnered with the iHeartRadio App. And even more platforms than that. I refuse to buckle. The industry and trade publications. We don’t spend one penny on those publications. And so what they do is they take the show from number two and they make it number 13 or 14, or I have to expose this grift at some point of these phony trade operations and magazines have to expose it, or they do the podcast. Look at these podcasts. Levin is number 35. I don’t do a podcast. We podcast my radio show. If I did a separate podcast, we’d be near number one.
