The Dan Bongino Show

@thedanbonginoshow · Podcast

Latest segments

• Acton's mother ad, 2026-10-30
  Plays Acton clip and hedges on sobriety
  Plays a clip of Amy Acton at a UAW event and, with heavy hedging, suggests she sounds intoxicated, tying it to the Ramaswamy ad backlash. The substance is reaction and opinion built on a video already circulating, not a new development in the ad story.
• Trump's Kansas rally, 2026-10-30
  Reports Trump saying Iowa and Kansas rallies are back on
  Plays the exchange in which Trump, asked by a Reuters reporter whether illness kept him from Kansas, calls the reporter a sick guy and tells him to get in shape. Bongino then says the Iowa and Kansas rallies are back on, a reversal of the cancellation the card already records.
• Musk's Senate tweet, 2026-10-30
  Reads Noonan column and pairs it with Musk
  Reads Peggy Noonan's Wall Street Journal column 'The case for a historic wave' and works through its call for a rebuke, a rebellion and a rout, then pairs it with Musk's warnings about court packing and statehood. Retells the Noonan column already on the record.
• DOJ fake student fraud bust, 2026-10-30
  Breaks down the ghost student aid scheme
  Plays Colin McDonald's announcement of Operation Ghostbusters and walks through the scheme: stolen identities of non-college Americans turned into ghost students drawing federal aid, with the money vanishing overseas. Pairs it with the 18 new North Carolina voting charges as proof the DOJ is acting.
• El-Sayed's Michigan Senate bid, 2026-10-30
  Adds a claim about El-Sayed's father's charity board
  Pushes the Michigan Senate race through a New York Post article, urging swing voters to Rogers and adding a claim about El-Sayed's father sitting on the board of an Islamic charity accused of funneling cash to Saddam Hussein.
• Texas early voting record, 2026-10-30
  Reports Texas early voting at 5.5 million
  Plays a Mark Halperin clip putting Texas early voting at 5.5 million, against 4.5 million early in 2022 and 7.3 million in 2024, and notes three rural GOP counties and two rural Democratic counties are turning out at about the same pace. Bongino's own contribution is the secret-ballot caveat.
• Musk's Senate tweet, 2026-10-30
  Reads Musk's tweet on a one-party state
  Reads Musk's tweet in full and frames it as a businessman warning voters about what a Democratic sweep would bring: D.C. and Puerto Rico statehood, open borders, a packed Supreme Court. Pairs it with a Peggy Noonan column and treats both as emotional rather than results-based.
• Hegseth impeachment push, 2026-10-30
  Predicts Democrats would impeach Trump and Hegseth
  Bongino predicts Democrats will impeach both Trump and Hegseth if they win, framing it as punishment for Hegseth doing his job right, and plays a clip of Trump praising Hegseth and calling the impeachment talk terrible. Prediction and reaction, no new development.
• California governor debate, 2026-10-29
  Adds the Rice story attacking Becerra
  Reads a New York Post story on Susan Rice's treatment of Becerra and plays a clip of him saying he was born and raised in Sacramento, mocking it as a fake working-class origin story. A new line of attack on the same candidate, not the debate itself.
• El-Sayed's Michigan Senate bid, 2026-10-29
  Plays the clip of Stevens on her fiance
  Plays the CNN interview with Haley Stevens in full and pulls out a line the earlier coverage did not have: her fiance is voting for Mike Rogers. Bongino reads the clip as a ready-made Rogers ad and stays inside the electability frame.
• Times ties Peltola to Dan Sullivan…, 2026-10-29
  Recaps the Times story on the Alaska scheme
  Recaps the Times story on the Alaska ballot scheme between other stories, framing it as proof of a weak Democratic slate. Stays inside the reporting already on the record, adding only the aside that the Times had a named source from the Peltola campaign.
• Q3 GDP first look, 2026-10-29
  Reports the 3.4 percent GDP print
  Leads the show with the just-released third quarter GDP print, 3.4% against 3.2% expected, and frames it as a pre-midterm boost for Trump's agenda. The math on doubling the economy in 18 years is Bongino's own framing, not new reporting.
• France fuel riots, 2026-10-28
  Plays Trump's France contrast video
  Plays a video Trump posted contrasting old footage of France with the current protests and riots, then makes the domestic pitch: well-funded left-wing groups are trying to create anarchy, so why vote for that here. The new element is Trump's own post, not the riots themselves.
• Waltz suspends Cuba meeting, 2026-10-28
  Adds Rubio's persona non grata move
  Plays the video of Ambassador Mike Waltz denouncing the Cuban regime at the UN and suspending the meeting, then reports that Rubio is declaring the Cuban diplomats persona non grata. Uses it as a launch pad for midterm attacks on Nixon, El-Sayed and Talarico.
• Axios: economy remarkably strong, 2026-10-28
  Recaps the reindustrialization case with new headlines
  Recaps the reindustrialization argument with a Wall Street Journal headline on manufacturing adding jobs and the data center electrician pay figure already on the record. Stays inside the show's standing case for the economy.
• FBI raid on Klubeck mansion, 2026-10-28
  Lists the raid report among races to defend
  Mentions the Fox News report on the Beverly Hills raid in a list of stories Republicans should vote to keep going, then moves to BJS crime numbers. No new detail on the search itself.
• Paxton-Tallarico Texas Senate race tightens, 2026-10-28
  Reacts to Trump's Texas rally jab
  Plays a clip of Trump at a Texas rally saying Tallarico is too liberal for Illinois and New York, then argues Tallarico is a poor fit for the state and could be a deciding vote on guns, farming and social issues. Reaction to the rally, not new reporting.
• Nixon's Cuba comments, 2026-10-28
  Works the Miami angle on Nixon's Cuba clip
  Plays the Nixon Cuba clip and works the Miami angle: the Cuban and Venezuelan neighbors who fled Castro and Maduro, and a warning that she would be a deciding Senate vote. Retells the Ruthless clip without adding to it.
• Kirk honored, one year on, 2026-10-28
  Plays a viral poem mocking Kirk's death
  Plays a clip, posted by the X account Christian Collins, of a woman at what looks like a Turning Point event reciting a poem mocking Kirk's death around the anniversary, and uses it to argue against sitting out the midterms. A second viral celebration clip, distinct from the Piker song already on the record.
• Halperin's midterm polling report, 2026-10-28
  Argues polls are a psychological operation
  Argues the midterm polls are a psychological operation and that regional issue polling - no tax on tips, drug prices, Social Security, border control - could produce upsets in New York, Minnesota and Kansas. Stays inside the midterm-map frame already on the record.